Did she have a dark bag, or did she have to wait for a dark room before reloading? She would have to open and rewind in the dark. (Or open and prewind in the dark, depending on which way the camera wound.) That must've taken some lights-on practice and a ruined roll or two.
I knew it was possible to reuse those, but I've never done it. My dad was a bit of a shutterbug and I've always had at least one 35mm camera. I have about 5 or so right now (OM-2n, Eos Rebel Sx, Stylus and some crap cameras) plus a 6mmx9mm Rapid Omega w/120 and 220 backs. Don't get me started about my lenses.
(Sadly, it turns out I'm more of a gadget guy than an actual photographer. Oh well.)
I'm trying to figure out what keeps the user from permanently "renting" this camera
The current 'disposable' film cameras have some reusable innards (I think), some breakable innards and a cardboard outer shell. From the pic at Technogadgets it looks like this camera has a molded plastic shell, but perhaps it is molded shut and has to be broken to get to the interface. That could be one control to discourage 'permanent renting'. Perhaps the breakable shell holds the lens in place or maybe if the shell is broken too much light will leak and ruin the picture quality of future pics.
Or, maybe the I/O interface is proprietary and/or the processing lab has a device that contacts the chip package leads directly. Sure, a few web pages would go up describing how to read from it, but look at Xbox and Playstation. They're cracked, but it doesn't seem to be significantly impacting their business plans.
Why do people buy books that claim to be aimed at dummies?
One of my theories is that it appeals to non geeks, because they often feel stupid when dealing with computers, and I'm fairly sure the "for Dummies" series began with computer topics.
It was a bit hard to get used to buying... for Dummies books, but I got over the stigma. However I never could bring myself to buy a "Complete Idiot" book. Sorry, I can't go that far. Then there would be "effing dumbass" books, and we just can't have that.
Way back when I got Corel Draw 3 new the included docs weren't helping me much. I browsed through several at the booksore and found _Corel Draw for Dummies_ book to be the best, so I bought it. I really really liked it; it was way more helpful than the included manual and videotape.
After that I always checked the Dummies series when I was looking for a book, and early on they were great, and it was helpful that if you knew how one was laid out you knew how the others were laid out. Also, while they were mostly beginner information they often had some fairly techie stuff in the sidebar articles.
At some point either I outgrew the series (the computer topic ones, at least) or they dropped in quality. I think it was a bit of both.
My big disappointment was _Java for Dummies_. God I hated that book. First of all, I thought I was getting a programming book, but no, this one was just by some hyperactive cheerleader-like guy who thought Java was taking over the world. And the book just told you how to include pre-existing applets into web pages. There was a whole separate _Java Programming for Dummies_ book.
Actually I think I quit buying computer Dummies books after that and stuck almost exclusively with O'Reilly books. Those are awesome, and I don't recall being disappointed with one yet. Wrox books seem really good and technical, too.
I have bought some non-computer Dummies books fairly recently, like Managing Your Career fD, Personal Finance fD, Wine fD (as in fermented grapes) and such. Their formula seems to be to find an established and respected author and have him/her write a book in their format, and for the most part I like it; it's a good starting point. But they are all about publishing new books under the same old beaten horse like the Chicken Soup series, so sometimes I think the quality suffers.
By the way, there is a satire book Complete Idoit's Guide for Dumies that I found on the shelf once. It wasn't very funny inside, but it took me several minutes to figure out how they got away with publishing that. ("Idiot" and "Dummies" are misspelled.)
While I'd love to have my own foam-rubber/prop/whaterver facehugger from Alien(s)... Could you really sleep, I mean really really sleep well, knowing that thing was in your house?
I was thinking more along the lines of how cool that would be except that I'd never get laid while that thing was in my apartment.
This is what I keep wondering. If US companies succeed in legally tarpitting open source in the US I'm fairly sure the rest of the world will laugh at us and our corporations as they innovate beyond us with open source.
What incentive do you think GNU/Linux and other free software offerings give these entities to use free software? What functionality does it enhance in practical terms for both governments and corporations?
With free software your data can't be hijacked as easily. MS keeps changing the.doc format (for example) enough so that a company with mixed MS Office versions have problems with version creep, especially when a manager takes a file home to his home PC with yet another version of Office.
Outlook is another example. You can import almost anything into Outlook, but have you tried to export? Damn hard, and it's not a human readable format. Your best bet is to set up an IMAP server and use Outlook to copy from its local folders to the IMAP server. (Speaking from a company with POP3 servers, not Exchange.)
You can't continue to buy Office 95 or Outlook 98, even if that's what the rest of your company has. If you expand and add Office 2000 into the mix you start having troubles that tempt you to upgrade everything to the latest version.
I think that avoiding this kind of data hijacking will eventually bring quite a few companies over to open source. The absolute, most hardest part will be prying Word and Excel out of users' hands. IE is trying to embed itself in a similar way, but it's not there yet.
I don't know what I'm talking about, but that doesn't stop many of us on Slashdot.
If I understand correctly, they're using an optimization technique where they pre-hash the dictionary database, in this case for no salt. With a 12 bit salt (your example) the pre-hash database would have to be 4096 times as large and presumably be available on every node in your cluster, or you would have to hash the whole dictionary at each node (not optimized) for every password hash/salt combination you try to crack.
If this doesn't make sense, read the subject line again.
I don't think capitalism is the problem, it's greed. Ambition or efficiency is one thing, greed is something else.
We're still in the early evolution of megacorporations. Up until the 1950's it wasn't practical to manage a company as large as they come today. They haven't figured everything out yet.
They think they're making more money, but at some point they'll have taken all the good jobs--along with all the spending money--away from their most loyal customers. That's when they'll start reconsidering how they run their business.
But it could get really ugly for us U.S. workers between now and then.
America (the U.S.) doesn't have a monopoly on odd lawsuits. Our neighbors to the north can get odd, ay?
This is an article about a woman suing for "wrongful birth", and she is the one that was wrongfully born. I wonder what the remedy would be if she won?
Yeah, micropayments sound great to content providers. "Everyone will pay me for only what they use and all of what they use!" But it sounds awful to users.
Let's look at some real-world examples:
Take-a-penny trays
All-you-can-eat buffets
Free refills on non-alcholic drinks everywhere
6 packs, 12 packs, 24 packs (you don't just buy only as many bottles/cans as you want)
Unlimited local calls on home phones
600-minute & 1200-minute cell phone plans
Maybe these aren't all completely relevant, but I just don't see paying a little bit for each click being of value to consumers. I see it as being a huge pain in the rear, even if it is all automated and trusted. (cough, Paypal, cough)
I think the real problem is that much of the internet's content just isn't worth any money to us. We can get a lot of content for 50 cents per day from the local newspaper. We can get content faster from TV at no incremental cost (but arguably less convenience). The internet can be great, but I ain't paying for Slashdot. The Motley Fool already lost me when they went subscription; they just aren't worth it.
If most everything interesting went pay I think there would be enough people volunteering news/info sites and discussion boards that we could still get our free internet. We may have to move to a p2p distribution model since running a centralized site as busy as Slashdot, for example, costs a pretty penny in bandwidth.
Slashdot Mirror
Did she have a dark bag, or did she have to wait for a dark room before reloading? She would have to open and rewind in the dark. (Or open and prewind in the dark, depending on which way the camera wound.) That must've taken some lights-on practice and a ruined roll or two.
I knew it was possible to reuse those, but I've never done it. My dad was a bit of a shutterbug and I've always had at least one 35mm camera. I have about 5 or so right now (OM-2n, Eos Rebel Sx, Stylus and some crap cameras) plus a 6mmx9mm Rapid Omega w/120 and 220 backs. Don't get me started about my lenses.
(Sadly, it turns out I'm more of a gadget guy than an actual photographer. Oh well.)
Well, that leaves out any GPL code on the t-shirt. Kinda like a cone without ice cream.
Or:
"Download NOW. Ask me how!"
Yeah, but you may also get a legal minefield: "where did that clip art come from again?"
Ya'll are funny.
I'm trying to figure out what keeps the user from permanently "renting" this camera
The current 'disposable' film cameras have some reusable innards (I think), some breakable innards and a cardboard outer shell. From the pic at Technogadgets it looks like this camera has a molded plastic shell, but perhaps it is molded shut and has to be broken to get to the interface. That could be one control to discourage 'permanent renting'. Perhaps the breakable shell holds the lens in place or maybe if the shell is broken too much light will leak and ruin the picture quality of future pics.
Or, maybe the I/O interface is proprietary and/or the processing lab has a device that contacts the chip package leads directly. Sure, a few web pages would go up describing how to read from it, but look at Xbox and Playstation. They're cracked, but it doesn't seem to be significantly impacting their business plans.
Why do people buy books that claim to be aimed at dummies?
... for Dummies books, but I got over the stigma. However I never could bring myself to buy a "Complete Idiot" book. Sorry, I can't go that far. Then there would be "effing dumbass" books, and we just can't have that.
One of my theories is that it appeals to non geeks, because they often feel stupid when dealing with computers, and I'm fairly sure the "for Dummies" series began with computer topics.
It was a bit hard to get used to buying
Way back when I got Corel Draw 3 new the included docs weren't helping me much. I browsed through several at the booksore and found _Corel Draw for Dummies_ book to be the best, so I bought it. I really really liked it; it was way more helpful than the included manual and videotape.
After that I always checked the Dummies series when I was looking for a book, and early on they were great, and it was helpful that if you knew how one was laid out you knew how the others were laid out. Also, while they were mostly beginner information they often had some fairly techie stuff in the sidebar articles.
At some point either I outgrew the series (the computer topic ones, at least) or they dropped in quality. I think it was a bit of both.
My big disappointment was _Java for Dummies_. God I hated that book. First of all, I thought I was getting a programming book, but no, this one was just by some hyperactive cheerleader-like guy who thought Java was taking over the world. And the book just told you how to include pre-existing applets into web pages. There was a whole separate _Java Programming for Dummies_ book.
Actually I think I quit buying computer Dummies books after that and stuck almost exclusively with O'Reilly books. Those are awesome, and I don't recall being disappointed with one yet. Wrox books seem really good and technical, too.
I have bought some non-computer Dummies books fairly recently, like Managing Your Career fD, Personal Finance fD, Wine fD (as in fermented grapes) and such. Their formula seems to be to find an established and respected author and have him/her write a book in their format, and for the most part I like it; it's a good starting point. But they are all about publishing new books under the same old beaten horse like the Chicken Soup series, so sometimes I think the quality suffers.
By the way, there is a satire book Complete Idoit's Guide for Dumies that I found on the shelf once. It wasn't very funny inside, but it took me several minutes to figure out how they got away with publishing that. ("Idiot" and "Dummies" are misspelled.)
I hate that little fucker.
Twiki says: "Beeble-beeble-beeble-beep. Fuck you."
You think that's bad. Look at the Erin Gray or the BG g-suit costumes. The model looks like a ho in every auction!
While I'd love to have my own foam-rubber/prop/whaterver facehugger from Alien(s)... Could you really sleep, I mean really really sleep well, knowing that thing was in your house?
I was thinking more along the lines of how cool that would be except that I'd never get laid while that thing was in my apartment.
YES! YES! YES!
This is what I keep wondering. If US companies succeed in legally tarpitting open source in the US I'm fairly sure the rest of the world will laugh at us and our corporations as they innovate beyond us with open source.
Maybe a GPL'ed fork of one of the BSDs.
Already in progress.
Debian GNU/FreeBSD is trying to decide whether it's giong to be glibc-based or libc5-based.
Debian GNU/NetBSD
I don't see the licenses, but I'm assuming they're GPL since it's Debian and has a GNU userland.
What incentive do you think GNU/Linux and other free software offerings give these entities to use free software? What functionality does it enhance in practical terms for both governments and corporations?
.doc format (for example) enough so that a company with mixed MS Office versions have problems with version creep, especially when a manager takes a file home to his home PC with yet another version of Office.
With free software your data can't be hijacked as easily. MS keeps changing the
Outlook is another example. You can import almost anything into Outlook, but have you tried to export? Damn hard, and it's not a human readable format. Your best bet is to set up an IMAP server and use Outlook to copy from its local folders to the IMAP server. (Speaking from a company with POP3 servers, not Exchange.)
You can't continue to buy Office 95 or Outlook 98, even if that's what the rest of your company has. If you expand and add Office 2000 into the mix you start having troubles that tempt you to upgrade everything to the latest version.
I think that avoiding this kind of data hijacking will eventually bring quite a few companies over to open source. The absolute, most hardest part will be prying Word and Excel out of users' hands. IE is trying to embed itself in a similar way, but it's not there yet.
Where do you see Linux in 10 years?
The Linux has you, suwain_2. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Linux is. You have to see the source code for yourself.
Well, not all of us can live in Arkansas.
Ok, let me say first I hate all that Microsoft stands for.
That's not very fair. They make nice mice and keyboards!
The catcher will now need to cryptographically hash the signal with a 64-bit salt.
(I couldn't decide whether to post the above or the below, so you get a two-liner post for the price of one!)
Or you could just have someone in the outfield hand signal the signs back to the dugout.
I don't know what I'm talking about, but that doesn't stop many of us on Slashdot.
If I understand correctly, they're using an optimization technique where they pre-hash the dictionary database, in this case for no salt. With a 12 bit salt (your example) the pre-hash database would have to be 4096 times as large and presumably be available on every node in your cluster, or you would have to hash the whole dictionary at each node (not optimized) for every password hash/salt combination you try to crack.
If this doesn't make sense, read the subject line again.
Forget that crap. We all know that isn't practical. Just use smaller fonts. That works today.
Services. Preferably personal services; that is to say something you actually have to be there for. They can't ship that overseas.
Also look into small businesses. They won't ship your job overseas, either.
I don't think capitalism is the problem, it's greed. Ambition or efficiency is one thing, greed is something else.
We're still in the early evolution of megacorporations. Up until the 1950's it wasn't practical to manage a company as large as they come today. They haven't figured everything out yet.
They think they're making more money, but at some point they'll have taken all the good jobs--along with all the spending money--away from their most loyal customers. That's when they'll start reconsidering how they run their business.
But it could get really ugly for us U.S. workers between now and then.
America (the U.S.) doesn't have a monopoly on odd lawsuits. Our neighbors to the north can get odd, ay?
This is an article about a woman suing for "wrongful birth", and she is the one that was wrongfully born. I wonder what the remedy would be if she won?
Let's look at some real-world examples:
- Take-a-penny trays
- All-you-can-eat buffets
- Free refills on non-alcholic drinks everywhere
- 6 packs, 12 packs, 24 packs (you don't just buy only as many bottles/cans as you want)
- Unlimited local calls on home phones
- 600-minute & 1200-minute cell phone plans
Maybe these aren't all completely relevant, but I just don't see paying a little bit for each click being of value to consumers. I see it as being a huge pain in the rear, even if it is all automated and trusted. (cough, Paypal, cough)I think the real problem is that much of the internet's content just isn't worth any money to us. We can get a lot of content for 50 cents per day from the local newspaper. We can get content faster from TV at no incremental cost (but arguably less convenience). The internet can be great, but I ain't paying for Slashdot. The Motley Fool already lost me when they went subscription; they just aren't worth it.
If most everything interesting went pay I think there would be enough people volunteering news/info sites and discussion boards that we could still get our free internet. We may have to move to a p2p distribution model since running a centralized site as busy as Slashdot, for example, costs a pretty penny in bandwidth.
You have it backwards. It's more like Dad yelling "Son! What the hell is an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error?!?!"
I am also speaking out of my ass, but I believe the kernel interface is open source, but the Nvidia specific portions are binary.
However I'm not sure because I buy ATI since there are open source drivers available for SCO/Linux. (SCO/Linux...that'll be the day...)