I draw the line at profiting from warez, but I don't see much morally wrong with helping out a few friends. Next thing I won't be able to lend books to people (yes, I know this is also technically illegal, but who's ever been prosecuted for it?).
11MP is actually nowhere near enough, but we're getting there. 11MP is enough for about a 16" x 12" print, on the rule of thumb that you need 8 pixels per mm on the final print. A "slow" 35mm film has about 35MP equivalent and can be blown up to 30" x 20". Even at smaller sizes the film image will have smoother tones.
Having said all that, the move to a standard 35mm frame size is EXCELLENT for existing lens compatibility and creativity reasons (try restricting depth of field with a normal digital 8mm lens - you can't).
OK, they might have a crappy FPU and be well behind Intel and AMD at the moment, but surely this is a chance for VIA to stick it to The Man (as they have done with DDR mobos) and clean up?
Try and give secondhand PCs to charity and they don't want them because they can't afford to pay the high price demanded for Windows and Office (even if they can find Win95/Office95, or whatever the machine is capable of running, in the shops). The Windows licence is normally "tied" to the hardware for an OEM machine,so this would be OK, but most corporations with a large turnover of PCs will be on a Select agreement with M$, so the software is rented.
The upshot is that the donor firm has to pay an extra $500 or whatever for licences to get the charity to take the old stuff away, or just heaves the whole lot into a skip. Accountants aren't usually swayed by nice warm feelings inside;-)
One solution could be for M$ to offer registered charities free or very cheap licensing. A more elegant solution would be to give the charity a Linux distro (what the hell, push the boat out and spend $30 on a proper manual and CDs) and show them how to use it, or where else they can learn. So, what is the relative market share of Linux and OpenOffice among the voluntary sector? I suspect they're all Windows junkies like the rest of the world:-(
Our local council in England gave Internet voting as one of the options this year, and I took them up on it. Apparently they had no problems with people haX0ring the system. At least, the Mozilla Party only got 5 seats;-)
...The RIAA can't ban them in every country throughout the world, can it? Look at all the cheap Chinese DVD players where both region coding and Macrovision can be disabled with a few presses of the remote control, for an example.
And who ever heard of storage capacity going down over a 20 year period? Perhaps in an effort to improve the quality ratio, the recond companies will offer us albums with two good songs and four crap ones, instead of two good songs and eight crap ones as we get on CD;-)
The proprietary software model has certainly worked well for Bill, but what good does it do everyone else?
It can be argued that Microsoft doesn't actually generate wealth at all, it just sucks it in from the rest of the economy in the form of a tax on PCs. Windows and Office together now, incredibly, cost more than the hardware cost of a reasonable computer, and therefore probably account for a significant drag on PC sales to people who don't currently own one (MS would like you to believe that they stimulate hardware sales with new versions of their stuff - a tacit admission of bloatware if ever I heard one!)
Does Bill's business model really have a bright future, or is he just milking it for a few more years until he sells all his shares? One day the world will wake up and realise it's being shafted.
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Makes sense. Magnolia paint is the builder's standard choice for a new house, and it's a pretty good match for a computer case. Anyway, the colour of the monitor is more important than the system unit as most home users now have tower cases, which are stashed away under the desk.
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I insisted that we do it for our site (a large financial services company). It's a very large piece of work if done properly, but we're getting there.
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I draw the line at profiting from warez, but I don't see much morally wrong with helping out a few friends. Next thing I won't be able to lend books to people (yes, I know this is also technically illegal, but who's ever been prosecuted for it?).
Having said all that, the move to a standard 35mm frame size is EXCELLENT for existing lens compatibility and creativity reasons (try restricting depth of field with a normal digital 8mm lens - you can't).
OK, they might have a crappy FPU and be well behind Intel and AMD at the moment, but surely this is a chance for VIA to stick it to The Man (as they have done with DDR mobos) and clean up?
Try and give secondhand PCs to charity and they don't want them because they can't afford to pay the high price demanded for Windows and Office (even if they can find Win95/Office95, or whatever the machine is capable of running, in the shops). The Windows licence is normally "tied" to the hardware for an OEM machine,so this would be OK, but most corporations with a large turnover of PCs will be on a Select agreement with M$, so the software is rented.
The upshot is that the donor firm has to pay an extra $500 or whatever for licences to get the charity to take the old stuff away, or just heaves the whole lot into a skip. Accountants aren't usually swayed by nice warm feelings inside ;-)
One solution could be for M$ to offer registered charities free or very cheap licensing. A more elegant solution would be to give the charity a Linux distro (what the hell, push the boat out and spend $30 on a proper manual and CDs) and show them how to use it, or where else they can learn. So, what is the relative market share of Linux and OpenOffice among the voluntary sector? I suspect they're all Windows junkies like the rest of the world :-(
Our local council in England gave Internet voting as one of the options this year, and I took them up on it. Apparently they had no problems with people haX0ring the system. At least, the Mozilla Party only got 5 seats ;-)
And who ever heard of storage capacity going down over a 20 year period? Perhaps in an effort to improve the quality ratio, the recond companies will offer us albums with two good songs and four crap ones, instead of two good songs and eight crap ones as we get on CD ;-)
It can be argued that Microsoft doesn't actually generate wealth at all, it just sucks it in from the rest of the economy in the form of a tax on PCs. Windows and Office together now, incredibly, cost more than the hardware cost of a reasonable computer, and therefore probably account for a significant drag on PC sales to people who don't currently own one (MS would like you to believe that they stimulate hardware sales with new versions of their stuff - a tacit admission of bloatware if ever I heard one!)
Does Bill's business model really have a bright future, or is he just milking it for a few more years until he sells all his shares? One day the world will wake up and realise it's being shafted.
Makes sense. Magnolia paint is the builder's standard choice for a new house, and it's a pretty good match for a computer case. Anyway, the colour of the monitor is more important than the system unit as most home users now have tower cases, which are stashed away under the desk.