Yeah, "pioneering" ain't what it used to be. There's a big difference between being the first to go somewhere, vs. being the first to do so on a pogo stick. It's too bad space didn't turn out to be more useful.
I just wish they'd add a view finder, even if it's really basic.
It's worth mentioning there is an add-on viewfinder for the LX5, which even got decent reviews. (I know it says it's for the GF1, but it's also for the LX5).
For cameras that are supposed to be compact, I think an add-on viewfinder for the hotshoe makes some sense, since you wouldn't normally need an external flash (darker scenes) and an optical viewfinder (daylight) at the same time.
While we are at it, I have an LX3 and getting a bounce flash for the hot shoe makes a BIG difference for indoor shots. I do get teased because the flash is as big as the camera, but the photos look good. So, narrow your search for compacts to those with a hot shoe and compatible TTL flash.
That depends entirely on how usage of the term "Internet" evolves in the future - it may (and I think, probably will) continue to be used to refer to "all 'online' data" irrespective of any of the technologies that currently constitute the Internet. None of the protocols or hardware that originally constituted the Internet (when that word first came into use) are still in use today. (You will say, "sure they are, they're just later versions!" Well, yeah.)
I don't place much stock in good-for-the-gander arguments when it comes to employers vs employees, because it is a false equivalence. Yes, you can imagine an economy of voluntary exchanges among peers, where a farmer pays a neighbor to milk his cows one day, but the neighbor pays the farmer to help him with the harvest the next. But is that representative of the modern economy? No. It is almost always the collective vs. the individual, and those are two different things - a very asymmetric interaction. It is like trying to govern a cell with the same laws as an entire person.
Oh boy, are they rolling dedup into WinFS? Wow, just look at the timeline in that article if you want to get discouraged about Microsoft delivering a new filesystem.
an example of this would be find all new files since the last run, checksum them and compare this to the checksum of all previously examined files
Block-level (rather than file-level) de-duplication would be drastically better for virtual machine images, which are most of the largest files I back up. Email spool files (or pst files) are another example of large files that tend to change only in portions of them.
Ok, let's assume you connect, allow consciousness to transfer, then sever the connection but *don't* destroy the biological part. Who am I? I'd wager I'd still be the biological one, albeit the sillicon part may be a perfect copy.
No, the correct answer is, both the biological you and the silicon you are absolutely convinced that they are the real one, and both perceive continuity starting from childhood, and both beg to be preserved even if at the expense of the other.
Government sucking up to business isn't based on the notion that the businesses are loyal to the nation. It's based on the fact that the businesses have the money that nations need to thrive. It's based on the fear that if we are not business friendly, business will simply flow to more business-friendly nations, and we'll be an economic backwater. I say, there is at least some truth to this. The economy has become global, whereas governments are stil only national.
At this rate, they're set to outdo Microsoft in the number of obsoleted APIs and services that they use to pull the rug out from under people.
Oh, you don't think Microsoft maintains ENOUGH legacy support? Wow. I don't think there's anybody out there who supports as much legacy hardware and as many legacy APIs as Microsoft. In fact I think that's the key to their niche in marketplace - it takes tens of thousands of programmers to carry as much cruft as they do, which is hard to duplicate.
Hmm, I was going to say, look into government contractors. A lot of the posts here are saying HR will screen out older applicants. HR in government and government contractors know that age discrimination is a big no-no.
The mp3 player market itself only lasted about 4 years, so there wasn't enough time for "try try again." I would guess the "mobile" market will probably continue much longer, since it incorporates mp3 players almost as an afterthought, plus cellphones, cameras, and most productivity functions of the PC itself.
I hope and think you are right. And yet, brinksmanship is a dangerous game. You get both sides thinking, "they couldn't possibly be crazy enough to call my bluff, it would be a disaster!" Look at WWI. What a pointless, disastrous war that was.
I agree, and it's not just remorse over the $1, it's the time wasted. When you need ONE good app and search results give you 20 hits, what do you do? Spend all weekend playing with 20 apps? Then you ask on a forum and some joker says, "what's wrong with you, I just googled and there are 20 hits!"
you can be sure that if a company was fined so much, it is usually because they knew the law and were breaking it on purpose as a means to making extra profits.
Good post, except $1.2M is chump change for Apple. The company just awarded bonuses totaling an estimated $400M to 7 top executives. 7 guys, $400M. That's how much money Apple has to burn. $1.2M isn't even a week's pay for any of these guys.
The first x86 processor, the 8086, only had 29,000 transistors total, whereas this new chip uses over 34,000 times that many (a billion) just for DRAM, so how much complexity can x86 really be adding? Too many other architectures have come and gone - 68K, PowerPC, SPARC, ARM on the desktop... whatever advantage they gained from more elegant architecture wasn't enough to overcome x86s' 30 years of refinement and Intel's lead in process and design. With Itanium, even Intel itself massively blundered over-estimating what they could get from a redesign.
The point of Medfield is to integrate the external chipsets. They aren't there any more, so I don't see where system power consumption would be at any disadvantage to an ARM chip.
It's hard to imagine how Intel could not win this, now or soon. They have the best chip designers and process.
Well, sort of. The top GDP nation in that graph, at $58K, has the same HDI as some other nation with a GDP of under $20K! That is really striking. Above $30K, I see no overal trend of increased HDI at all.
So.. why DO so many families need two full-time incomes just to make ends meet, or even to live in a modest amount of comfort?
I'm not saying this is the whole answer, but remember, both parents always worked. Women at home weren't contributing to the GDP since no money was exchanged, but they were still doing stuff that needed done. So the economic benefit of stopping that, paying other people to do it, and getting some outside job to do instead isn't as much as we might assume, particularly if that outside job isn't very high-paid. Daycare is tax-deductible, which helps to hide this fact by shifting the balance for many families, but it doesn't shift the balance for society overall (since it is shifting the costs rather than eliminating them).
I am not saying we can or should go back in time, much less that anybody should be forced to do anything. Definitely people should have their own choice, and besides many people don't want a huge bunch of kids (and it's not sustainable for everybody to have so many).
The difference (ha!) here is that the flapping wings didn't work for powering manned flight while the Babbage machines would have.
But even if we go ahead and give Babbage full credit for his invention (pretending he'd marshaled the resources to build a working copy), would computers as we know them have occurred any sooner? Here's the crux of the article in my view:
In addition the need to build more and better machines would have caused a rapid development in materials science. With better, stronger, lighter materials the speed of the future Analytical Engines could have been increased yet further.
Admittedly, with moving parts involved, the Analytical Engine would have reached a point where making it go faster would have been difficult.
IMO, mechanical computing was a dead end. Babbage was ahead of his time, but mechanical computers did get a fair shake eventually, and proved to be a dead end. The theory of computation owes more to pure mathematics, and the mechanism of computation owes more to those who came along a little later and explored electricity. IMO.
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Yeah, "pioneering" ain't what it used to be. There's a big difference between being the first to go somewhere, vs. being the first to do so on a pogo stick. It's too bad space didn't turn out to be more useful.
It's worth mentioning there is an add-on viewfinder for the LX5, which even got decent reviews. (I know it says it's for the GF1, but it's also for the LX5).
For cameras that are supposed to be compact, I think an add-on viewfinder for the hotshoe makes some sense, since you wouldn't normally need an external flash (darker scenes) and an optical viewfinder (daylight) at the same time.
While we are at it, I have an LX3 and getting a bounce flash for the hot shoe makes a BIG difference for indoor shots. I do get teased because the flash is as big as the camera, but the photos look good. So, narrow your search for compacts to those with a hot shoe and compatible TTL flash.
That depends entirely on how usage of the term "Internet" evolves in the future - it may (and I think, probably will) continue to be used to refer to "all 'online' data" irrespective of any of the technologies that currently constitute the Internet. None of the protocols or hardware that originally constituted the Internet (when that word first came into use) are still in use today. (You will say, "sure they are, they're just later versions!" Well, yeah.)
I don't place much stock in good-for-the-gander arguments when it comes to employers vs employees, because it is a false equivalence. Yes, you can imagine an economy of voluntary exchanges among peers, where a farmer pays a neighbor to milk his cows one day, but the neighbor pays the farmer to help him with the harvest the next. But is that representative of the modern economy? No. It is almost always the collective vs. the individual, and those are two different things - a very asymmetric interaction. It is like trying to govern a cell with the same laws as an entire person.
Are you telling me this survey is by number of domains hosted, irrespective of number of pages served? That would be absurd.
So does google. Apparently the best place for corporate HQ and the best place for a data center are somewhat opposite.
Oh boy, are they rolling dedup into WinFS? Wow, just look at the timeline in that article if you want to get discouraged about Microsoft delivering a new filesystem.
Block-level (rather than file-level) de-duplication would be drastically better for virtual machine images, which are most of the largest files I back up. Email spool files (or pst files) are another example of large files that tend to change only in portions of them.
If you were right, they'd go ahead and built the phone even though it doesn't work.
You should watch The Prestige. (Although I may have just spoiled it by recommending it in this context).
No, the correct answer is, both the biological you and the silicon you are absolutely convinced that they are the real one, and both perceive continuity starting from childhood, and both beg to be preserved even if at the expense of the other.
98% of the atoms on your body are replaced ever year, whether or not you take a ride in a transporter. So, "you" are not a certain set of particles, but rather a self-propagating pattern.
Government sucking up to business isn't based on the notion that the businesses are loyal to the nation. It's based on the fact that the businesses have the money that nations need to thrive. It's based on the fear that if we are not business friendly, business will simply flow to more business-friendly nations, and we'll be an economic backwater. I say, there is at least some truth to this. The economy has become global, whereas governments are stil only national.
Oh, you don't think Microsoft maintains ENOUGH legacy support? Wow. I don't think there's anybody out there who supports as much legacy hardware and as many legacy APIs as Microsoft. In fact I think that's the key to their niche in marketplace - it takes tens of thousands of programmers to carry as much cruft as they do, which is hard to duplicate.
Hmm, I was going to say, look into government contractors. A lot of the posts here are saying HR will screen out older applicants. HR in government and government contractors know that age discrimination is a big no-no.
The mp3 player market itself only lasted about 4 years, so there wasn't enough time for "try try again." I would guess the "mobile" market will probably continue much longer, since it incorporates mp3 players almost as an afterthought, plus cellphones, cameras, and most productivity functions of the PC itself.
I hope and think you are right. And yet, brinksmanship is a dangerous game. You get both sides thinking, "they couldn't possibly be crazy enough to call my bluff, it would be a disaster!" Look at WWI. What a pointless, disastrous war that was.
"The Media" didn't create the 2-party system, our Constitution did, because we have winner-takes-all elections instead of proportional representation.
I agree, and it's not just remorse over the $1, it's the time wasted. When you need ONE good app and search results give you 20 hits, what do you do? Spend all weekend playing with 20 apps? Then you ask on a forum and some joker says, "what's wrong with you, I just googled and there are 20 hits!"
Good post, except $1.2M is chump change for Apple. The company just awarded bonuses totaling an estimated $400M to 7 top executives. 7 guys, $400M. That's how much money Apple has to burn. $1.2M isn't even a week's pay for any of these guys.
The first x86 processor, the 8086, only had 29,000 transistors total, whereas this new chip uses over 34,000 times that many (a billion) just for DRAM, so how much complexity can x86 really be adding? Too many other architectures have come and gone - 68K, PowerPC, SPARC, ARM on the desktop... whatever advantage they gained from more elegant architecture wasn't enough to overcome x86s' 30 years of refinement and Intel's lead in process and design. With Itanium, even Intel itself massively blundered over-estimating what they could get from a redesign.
It's hard to imagine how Intel could not win this, now or soon. They have the best chip designers and process.
Well, sort of. The top GDP nation in that graph, at $58K, has the same HDI as some other nation with a GDP of under $20K! That is really striking. Above $30K, I see no overal trend of increased HDI at all.
I'm not saying this is the whole answer, but remember, both parents always worked. Women at home weren't contributing to the GDP since no money was exchanged, but they were still doing stuff that needed done. So the economic benefit of stopping that, paying other people to do it, and getting some outside job to do instead isn't as much as we might assume, particularly if that outside job isn't very high-paid. Daycare is tax-deductible, which helps to hide this fact by shifting the balance for many families, but it doesn't shift the balance for society overall (since it is shifting the costs rather than eliminating them).
I am not saying we can or should go back in time, much less that anybody should be forced to do anything. Definitely people should have their own choice, and besides many people don't want a huge bunch of kids (and it's not sustainable for everybody to have so many).
But even if we go ahead and give Babbage full credit for his invention (pretending he'd marshaled the resources to build a working copy), would computers as we know them have occurred any sooner? Here's the crux of the article in my view:
IMO, mechanical computing was a dead end. Babbage was ahead of his time, but mechanical computers did get a fair shake eventually, and proved to be a dead end. The theory of computation owes more to pure mathematics, and the mechanism of computation owes more to those who came along a little later and explored electricity. IMO.