Not to nitpick but motherboard dot com is just a random ad/parking page. Not sure if/. editors or some automatic system gave the wrong attribution, but it's definitely misleading.
Other than the quality of the sensor and the photographer, there are two things that contribute to a photo looking "good": lens diameter (collects more light) and number of lens elements (fewer is better). Going from a pinhole-sized smartphone lens to just about anything else is going to be a major improvement.
Personally, I use a Canon DSLR (mostly because I like Canon, and it fit all of the lenses from the 35mm system it replaced), but I also carry a Panasonic Lumix "super zoom" point/shoot. It takes great photos (and video), and still fits in a pocket (it was better than the point/shoot Canons of the time). Their micro-4/3 systems with interchangeable lenses are also good. These systems (I've also heard good things about Sony's) offer a pretty nice quality/price balance between traditional point/shoot cameras and DSLRs, too.
But as others have said, you should probably bulk up on your photo knowledge, too. Understanding stuff like shutter speed, aperture, depth of field, rule of thirds, etc. can go a long way to making better photos, even with a smartphone camera.
I didn't have to create an iCloud account to use my iPhone. I don't sync my location, contacts, mail, etc. with iCloud. I back my phone up to my own computer. I struggle to see how this is more intrusive than Android, which required that I sync everything with Google.
Granted, I *do* sync everything on my iPhone with Google, but that's another question entirely.
Maybe CPUs are so cheap these days that it doesn't matter, but I really like to see speed/performance as a metric when evaluating the technology that runs my website.
My wife is a huge fan of the show (probably more than me), and decided to honor the finale by making up a batch of mandala-inspired cupcakes. We were both happy to see the mandala make a short cameo toward the end.
For those of you intending to actually publish your work (but not having actually sold it yet), be very careful about what you do online. Many publishers will not even glance at a manuscript if it has been published in any part before, and online forums (even private ones) and document sharing services are still a very grey area.
C-Band is still in fairly active use in the US and around the world -- you could (gasp!) use it for what it was built for. It's the only way to get truly ala carte TV service, and usually costs a lot less than the alternatives (not to mention all of the free stuff out there). You'd probably need a new receiver to get digital channels, but I've spoken with plenty of MythTV users who have C-band setups.
the site hasn't been responding any time I've tried recently.
That would be because SixApart got the registrar/dns host to point bluesecurity.com to localhost (127.0.0.1) so unless you're running a webserver on your own box, you won't get anything.
The main news behind this story isn't that a spammer is attacking SixApart, but that bluesecurity, which claims to be a consumer-friendly anti-spam service, in its time of crisis chose not to just take the hit, but instead shared their misfortune with a huge community of unrelated people. Their solution was to repoint the DNS entry for bluesecurity.com to their blog. They did not ask, the didn't even inform SixApart that it would be happening. They completely took out the network of an uninvolved company for 4 hours, and until SixApart got the bluesecurity DNS record changed, service for their customers was minimal at best.
I don't care what the motives were behind bluesecurity's stunt. Anyone dumb enough to pull a trick like this deserves whatever they have coming to them from SixApart's lawyers.
I gave up. I switched to moneydance last week, and other than having to get used to the new UI, it's great. The ability to auto-download my credit card and bank info is totally worth the $30.
Since when does tying a modified napkin tightly around my neck indicate my skill at my job? I cut off my pony tail when I became a manager -- that's plenty for me. If I'm going to sit at a desk all day and write code, I want to be comfortable. I may even put on a polo shirt with a collar. But a suit and tie? I'm a programmer, not a salesman. I don't need to impress any PHB's.
Personally, I just assumed that the "casual web culture of the '90s" changed the dress culture, rather than just being a blip on the radar of people who think choking themselves with brightly colored napkins and inflexible fabrics is a good thing.
Granted, it sounds like this new stuff may actually be transparent, but please don't take the title away from Aluminum oxide ceramics, which were written about over 3 years ago.
Sorry, Christianity as we know it comes from (S)Paul, not Jesus. Jesus' teachings spread many directions and took on many different forms, most of which are now completely gone. Ask any Muslim -- Jesus was a prophet like Moses; they blame Paul for screwing up his message.
As for Jedi, there's one important distinction between Lucas and Jesus: Lucas came up with Jedi-ism(?) for entertainment, Jesus really did believe what he said was real (whether it is or not is obviously up for debate).
(oh, I'm neither Christian nor Muslim -- or Jedi, for that matter)
Granted, I just skimmed the article, but isn't this exactly how Razor works? (simplified) Communities of people flag messages, senders, etc. as spam, and the mail server (or in my case, spamassassin) compares the messages to the community spam archive for matches before delivery.
I think it's probably because most of us still don't really know what's going on. Donavan knows because they hired him, but he's under some tight NDA's for a lot of their stuff that hasn't been announced publicly yet. A few of the core devs will be getting free accounts on lxmsuite.com, and I'm sure that when they show up a few of us will post some info (I will, anyway -- I want to get the movie listing stuff put into mythweb). But seriously, I think it's just too new to know what it's really going to be like.
You get more than bounty points with the subscription, too. As I understand it, about 40-50% of the subscription fee will be given back to the community in the form of bounties (the rest goes to cover the costs of the extra features you get, like movie times).
The bounty system isn't in place yet, but I'm personally looking forward to it. It'll let me make a little extra money on projects I already invest a lot of my time in, as well as hopefully bring in more help for those things I won't have time/desire to implement myself.
My only concern is how this third-party company will run the bounties, and what will happen if a feature is rejected upstream (say, someone sends me a crappy upgrade to mythweb, which I've been cracking down on lately). Either they end up maintaining their own branch, and people get credit for crappy patches that developers have to fix on their own time, or the user-request bounty system will break down if devs will only accept features that they like. But I have hope -- they're working very closely with the core development team to make sure that everything is ok.
The problem is that some children would be walking to school in the dark in the winter months.
In northern states (like WA), this happens with or without DST. In the winter, the sun doesn't rise until 8 or 9, and many kids are going to school at 6 or 7. Same in the evenings, when it gets dark around 4:30. For people with a 9-5 job like myself, it means that I don't actually get to see the sun/sky on workdays except for the occasional glance out my window (shades drawn to prevent glare).
Jet-based injections are nothing new. I know a number of people who got some sort of vaccination in the 70's this way, and it left a nasty 3/4" (or so) scar on your arm. Wasn't that bad the first time, but what about when you go back for your 3rd installment of Hep A/B shots, or that 10th annual flu shot?
Unfortunately, I see nothing in the article that even mentions the issue of scarring, which imho should be a pretty big deal.
doing it yourself does not void the warranty unless you damage something
I've always wondered about this policy of Apple's. If you open the case to install RAM, how do you prove that you didn't touch the hard drive, so you can get it repaired under warranty if it breaks a month later? If you open the case, you don't void the warranty, but if the machine breaks, and you've opened the case, they can pretty easily void your warranty. How is this different from just saying that opening the case voids the warranty?
Personally, I tend to use pricegrabber for comparing prices, but usually end up going to newegg or zipzoomfly (with occasional bits from buy.com). But when in the market for a full machine, I would just pick the parts up from work.
On the note of full machines (and yes, this is somewhat of a shameless plug for silicon mechanics), most of our customers come back because of the quality of service. Our prices tend to be reasonable, but every one of our customers (especially the small ones like wikimedia and livejournal) will tell you that customer service and support is what keeps them coming back. If you're not building machines in-house, no matter where you buy your machines, as a business, a large part of the equation must include the quality of support you get if/when something goes wrong (because something will always eventually go wrong if you have enough hardware).
As someone else said earlier, smaller companies tend to be willing to go the extra mile to keep their customers happy, and that's worth a lot.
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Not to nitpick but motherboard dot com is just a random ad/parking page. Not sure if /. editors or some automatic system gave the wrong attribution, but it's definitely misleading.
Other than the quality of the sensor and the photographer, there are two things that contribute to a photo looking "good": lens diameter (collects more light) and number of lens elements (fewer is better). Going from a pinhole-sized smartphone lens to just about anything else is going to be a major improvement. Personally, I use a Canon DSLR (mostly because I like Canon, and it fit all of the lenses from the 35mm system it replaced), but I also carry a Panasonic Lumix "super zoom" point/shoot. It takes great photos (and video), and still fits in a pocket (it was better than the point/shoot Canons of the time). Their micro-4/3 systems with interchangeable lenses are also good. These systems (I've also heard good things about Sony's) offer a pretty nice quality/price balance between traditional point/shoot cameras and DSLRs, too. But as others have said, you should probably bulk up on your photo knowledge, too. Understanding stuff like shutter speed, aperture, depth of field, rule of thirds, etc. can go a long way to making better photos, even with a smartphone camera.
I didn't have to create an iCloud account to use my iPhone. I don't sync my location, contacts, mail, etc. with iCloud. I back my phone up to my own computer. I struggle to see how this is more intrusive than Android, which required that I sync everything with Google. Granted, I *do* sync everything on my iPhone with Google, but that's another question entirely.
Maybe CPUs are so cheap these days that it doesn't matter, but I really like to see speed/performance as a metric when evaluating the technology that runs my website.
Bit of a difference there...
My wife is a huge fan of the show (probably more than me), and decided to honor the finale by making up a batch of mandala-inspired cupcakes. We were both happy to see the mandala make a short cameo toward the end.
For those of you intending to actually publish your work (but not having actually sold it yet), be very careful about what you do online. Many publishers will not even glance at a manuscript if it has been published in any part before, and online forums (even private ones) and document sharing services are still a very grey area.
Some of us have been waiting a lot longer for flash9 and still don't have it for wii, iphone, and I believe even the Opera web browser.
C-Band is still in fairly active use in the US and around the world -- you could (gasp!) use it for what it was built for. It's the only way to get truly ala carte TV service, and usually costs a lot less than the alternatives (not to mention all of the free stuff out there). You'd probably need a new receiver to get digital channels, but I've spoken with plenty of MythTV users who have C-band setups.
Well, considering that the data URL will have to change, there's not much that we (devs or schedules direct, of which I am both) can do about this.
That would be because SixApart got the registrar/dns host to point bluesecurity.com to localhost (127.0.0.1) so unless you're running a webserver on your own box, you won't get anything.
The main news behind this story isn't that a spammer is attacking SixApart, but that bluesecurity, which claims to be a consumer-friendly anti-spam service, in its time of crisis chose not to just take the hit, but instead shared their misfortune with a huge community of unrelated people. Their solution was to repoint the DNS entry for bluesecurity.com to their blog. They did not ask, the didn't even inform SixApart that it would be happening. They completely took out the network of an uninvolved company for 4 hours, and until SixApart got the bluesecurity DNS record changed, service for their customers was minimal at best.
I don't care what the motives were behind bluesecurity's stunt. Anyone dumb enough to pull a trick like this deserves whatever they have coming to them from SixApart's lawyers.
I gave up. I switched to moneydance last week, and other than having to get used to the new UI, it's great. The ability to auto-download my credit card and bank info is totally worth the $30.
Personally, I just assumed that the "casual web culture of the '90s" changed the dress culture, rather than just being a blip on the radar of people who think choking themselves with brightly colored napkins and inflexible fabrics is a good thing.
Granted, it sounds like this new stuff may actually be transparent, but please don't take the title away from Aluminum oxide ceramics, which were written about over 3 years ago.
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http://www.rense.com/general20/transparentalum.ht
Pity they completely overlooked Open-Xchange and its free open source cousin.
Neither did Jesus. "Son of Man" != "Son of God"
As for Jedi, there's one important distinction between Lucas and Jesus: Lucas came up with Jedi-ism(?) for entertainment, Jesus really did believe what he said was real (whether it is or not is obviously up for debate).
(oh, I'm neither Christian nor Muslim -- or Jedi, for that matter)
Granted, I just skimmed the article, but isn't this exactly how Razor works? (simplified) Communities of people flag messages, senders, etc. as spam, and the mail server (or in my case, spamassassin) compares the messages to the community spam archive for matches before delivery.
I think it's probably because most of us still don't really know what's going on. Donavan knows because they hired him, but he's under some tight NDA's for a lot of their stuff that hasn't been announced publicly yet. A few of the core devs will be getting free accounts on lxmsuite.com, and I'm sure that when they show up a few of us will post some info (I will, anyway -- I want to get the movie listing stuff put into mythweb). But seriously, I think it's just too new to know what it's really going to be like.
The bounty system isn't in place yet, but I'm personally looking forward to it. It'll let me make a little extra money on projects I already invest a lot of my time in, as well as hopefully bring in more help for those things I won't have time/desire to implement myself.
My only concern is how this third-party company will run the bounties, and what will happen if a feature is rejected upstream (say, someone sends me a crappy upgrade to mythweb, which I've been cracking down on lately). Either they end up maintaining their own branch, and people get credit for crappy patches that developers have to fix on their own time, or the user-request bounty system will break down if devs will only accept features that they like. But I have hope -- they're working very closely with the core development team to make sure that everything is ok.
In northern states (like WA), this happens with or without DST. In the winter, the sun doesn't rise until 8 or 9, and many kids are going to school at 6 or 7. Same in the evenings, when it gets dark around 4:30. For people with a 9-5 job like myself, it means that I don't actually get to see the sun/sky on workdays except for the occasional glance out my window (shades drawn to prevent glare).
Pretty sure it's a matter of the jey gun, but I may be wrong. I just remember meeting a lot of people with that scar on their arm.
Unfortunately, I see nothing in the article that even mentions the issue of scarring, which imho should be a pretty big deal.
I've always wondered about this policy of Apple's. If you open the case to install RAM, how do you prove that you didn't touch the hard drive, so you can get it repaired under warranty if it breaks a month later? If you open the case, you don't void the warranty, but if the machine breaks, and you've opened the case, they can pretty easily void your warranty. How is this different from just saying that opening the case voids the warranty?
On the note of full machines (and yes, this is somewhat of a shameless plug for silicon mechanics), most of our customers come back because of the quality of service. Our prices tend to be reasonable, but every one of our customers (especially the small ones like wikimedia and livejournal) will tell you that customer service and support is what keeps them coming back. If you're not building machines in-house, no matter where you buy your machines, as a business, a large part of the equation must include the quality of support you get if/when something goes wrong (because something will always eventually go wrong if you have enough hardware).
As someone else said earlier, smaller companies tend to be willing to go the extra mile to keep their customers happy, and that's worth a lot.