6 megapixel image ought to be 18 megs, if stored uncompressed. Ask any digital photographer and he would tell you that JPEG compression is evil, and only uncompressed tiff is acceptable for true artist.
Of course there is loseless compression, but it wouldn't give so much space gain.
It is only hundred 18meg tiffs which can be stored on 2Gb flash. Just about three 36-films.
Ask any film photohrapher how much time he need to spend three films. Probably you'll learn that this is less than one day.
So, I expect that professional digital photographer would need 4Gb flash for just one day of work even with 6 megapixels and 24 bits/pixel.
But professionals would want ten megapixels and 48-bit color.
It is the thing we need most of all - decreasing number of silly programmers which write silly programs. Especially monster ones, which are not written, but rather drawn in different visual environments.
It means that industry moves from baby state into mature state. Century ago aviation was in such state as IT now - everyone who can buy a plane was a pilot. No qualification testing, no regulation.
Now they teach to fly and make you pass an exam to allow you to fly a plane. Not mention to take a job of commercial pilot, who flies other people.
But every arrogant fool can come and take job of programmer, who write business critical software.
And when each plane needs a pilot, not each computer needs a programmer. One good programmer (say Donald Knuth) can create a program which millions of people would use.
I think a programmer should be more like fiction writer. No editor publish job advertinsment like "we need ten qualified writers with 5-years experience in SF and fantasy". They hunt a particular person, who have already made a name, or just review texts send by numerous anonymous newbies in hope to discover new name.
I can. Hunting penguins is strictly prohibited on all Antarctic bases. I don't know how biologists got warrants if they want to study penguin's food cycle and such, but I've read that it usially cost station dog a life, when it is caught hunting penguins.
I also read a story when dog was saved from this fate by bringing it from coastal base Mirny to intracontinental base Vostok, which should be counted as severe punishment becouse it is very hard to breathe at the altitude 3000m in the Central Antarctida.
Note that they have much more heavy planes and helicopters than RV-4.And they DO keep fuel reserves for them. If this guy have landed few miles away from their airfield, they would have to search him and burn much more than 400 liters of fuel in the helicopter.
Of course, shipping everything to Antarctic is expensive. That is why they sail one fuel tanker a year there and store several hundreds tons of fuel in McMurdo.
These a scientific bases. That is why it is science and why it is matters.
US bases are run by military forces, Russian bases are run by Arctica & Antatrcica Scientific Research Institute, but both do the same things, and both practice exchange of researches since their founding in 50th.
I don't remember however, which authority runs New Zealand base, but I think it is not Army.
I'd hardly consider US military base an accomodation where Russian researcher can work for monthes in the middle of Cold War.
These are actually well planned terrorist attacks...
These terrorists have headquarters in Redmond, Fleetstreet, Hoolywood and whereever else there are people who sell you intellectual property.
They do there best to teach people not to think, and rely on somebody in big software company or political party to make decision for them. Generation of ignorant have grown up.
It wasn't noticed immediately, but when previously installed equipment worn up, or was replaced by something "new, cool and cheaper", thunder strikes.
No, in Russia, no matter under which rule, blackouts cause increase of alcohol consumption.
BTW, blackouts are very rare in Russia, because cybernetics was outlawed that times when most of power grid was build. So, all the switching designed using very robust mechanical relays.
So, I never heard about blackout which affected more than 5 millions of people.
We now typically have switch-offs rather than blackouts, because many people don't pay for electricity, and circuits allow to switch off only entire districts, not individual consumers.
This is of cource a problem, but it is better than blackout half of country becouse entire grid cannot cope with some disbalance in one power station
You don't realise that since fifties there is the killer (how double-sensed word) app for certain kind of suborbital vehicles.
These vehicles are named intercontinental ballistic missiles, and their application is to carry several tons of cargo accross the ocean order of maginitude faster than jet planes can do.
Ther is other almost as murdereous application of the same vehicles - delivering same several tons of goods to the given point of globe with several meters accuracy.
If techology can do something with acceleration and make thing launch and land in the common airport, it can be economically feasable.
I disagree; that's like saying I need to desalinate the water in the ocean; it's an impossibly hard task.
There are so much people you trust? Or they are so hard to educate? In both cases only thing you have to do - to choose ones you trust more carefully.
While I'm not a big believer in "technical solutions to social problems,
Educationg is social solution,
Yhe first, biggest problem is that we can't reliably trace messages back to their source,
It seems that you have first to educate yourself.
There is reliable way to trace originating host using Recieved lines. Only thing we need is universal internatinal law which would punish spammers with big fines. So owner of computer shown last in the Recieved line would either have to pay or to prove (via logs) that he is not responsible for this particular spam.
I.e if spam comes from dialup IP range provider would have either to pay fines himself or to disclose who of his clients have used this IP at given time.
This poses minimal penalty for people with open relays - they only have to give evidence of origin of spam message (but it is enough to force them to fix this setup), but held owners of computers, infected by virii and worms responsible.
Any teenager seeking self-approvement in Linux world can do something more useful than virus - fix, or at least report bug in some popular package and recieve kind response from developer, start kewl project on sf.net which can either grow into something useful when our teenager grows into adult, or just be forgotten few weeks later, etc, etc.
In commercial software world, it is much harder to prove oneself in constructive way. So people try to prove theirselves in destructive way.
They would tax your lan with 9% of its bandwidth and use this bandwidth for BigBrother purposes.
I think that Russian FSB should sue Florida State for stoling its Intellectual Property. They invented an idea to tax providers with their bandwidth about six years ago
Note that 1GHz is one-nanosecond clock circle. Given the speed of light is 300 0000 km/s, you cannot transfer a signal more than 30 cm during one ns. And several times less if it is not light in vaccuum, but voltage in wire. Now look how long it takes for your CPU bus to run from CPU to memory chip, and you'll see that 1GHz is close to theoretical limit. And with 80Ghz you would have troubles to transfer signal from one side of chip to other.
But users can be educated. Linux requires considerable knowledge from user just to do basic things. And if one has that knowledge, he is able to distinguish things.
One of best approaches to balance usability and safety I've seen, is in Pine E-Mail client. (and this come from University of Washington, which is almost as famous for preference of usability over security as Microsoft).
Pine has a lot of potentially dangerous features like piping, automatically invoked filters and so on. Most dangerous is "Pass control characters as is" when it runs on terminal with programmable keys. But they are all disabled by default.
One has to come into lo-o-ongconfiguration menu, read the help and understand what this thing does to switch it on.
Problem with windows is not technical, it is social.
It is just like Ford advertized their cars as being so safe that no one need drivers license to drive it, and it then turns out (after several millions of cars have been sold to people without driving licenses) than actually you can easily cause traffic incedent if you don't know how to drive.
And this only become known after several thousands of people was killed in such incedents
Microsoft adveritizes Windows as system which need no special knowledge to use.
But it still general purpose OS which lets one to do clever things. And while it allows to do clever things, it cannot block you from doing evil things.
Those guys rummaged through the 911 subpoenas to compile a list on a spreadsheet, they let you download it for FREE, and not only did you show a token of appreciation, but you bitched about the formatting?
It is exactly what whe can do for them. Teach them how to do their statistical analyzis better. Next time they would take our comments into account, and do something, which they would able to sell.
How much would they ask for shipping into Selizharovo, Tver region, Russia?
It is that very problem, which fabricators are ought to solve. Old Russian proverb (in adapted translation to English) says "The calf overseas costs farting, but pound for shipping"
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So big gun and only 9-feet range?
I think that 9-foot pole would be as much non-lethal as this thing, lighter, easer to handle and three orders of magnintude cheaper.
Also with proper handling pole can be used as lethal weapon as need arises.
And no human rights advocate would complain if beaten with 9-feet pole, because use of clubs and poles by police is very old tradition.
This is why I don't keep any of my web resources on the servers I don't have root access to.
Try + - plus sign between user name and tag. .procmailrc to trash letters with unwanted tags.
Later you have to setup your
I always thought that McDonalds is much like Microsoft - produces completely unedible product, but is obvois market leader and is known to everone.
6 megapixel image ought to be 18 megs, if stored uncompressed. Ask any digital photographer and he would tell you that JPEG compression is evil, and only uncompressed tiff is acceptable for true artist.
Of course there is loseless compression, but it wouldn't give so much space gain.
It is only hundred 18meg tiffs which can be stored on 2Gb flash. Just about three 36-films.
Ask any film photohrapher how much time he need to spend three films. Probably you'll learn that this is less than one day.
So, I expect that professional digital photographer would need 4Gb flash for just one day of work even with 6 megapixels and 24 bits/pixel.
But professionals would want ten megapixels and 48-bit color.
It is the thing we need most of all - decreasing number of silly programmers which write silly programs. Especially monster ones, which are not written, but rather drawn in different visual environments.
It means that industry moves from baby state into mature state. Century ago aviation was in such state as IT now - everyone who can buy a plane was a pilot. No qualification testing, no regulation.
Now they teach to fly and make you pass an exam to allow you to fly a plane. Not mention to take a job of commercial pilot, who flies other people.
But every arrogant fool can come and take job of programmer, who write business critical software.
And when each plane needs a pilot, not each computer needs a programmer. One good programmer (say Donald Knuth) can create a program which millions of people would use.
I think a programmer should be more like fiction writer. No editor publish job advertinsment like "we need ten qualified writers with 5-years experience in SF and fantasy". They hunt a particular person, who have already made a name,
or just review texts send by numerous anonymous newbies in hope to discover new name.
What legitimate need does a single person have when downloading 40 gigs of data over a short period of time?
mirror Debian Linux for all eleven architectures, both unstable and testing + dozen of unofficial repositories.
Why would person need all eleven architectures?
You don't know which hardware he have. May be he have old UltraSparc or M68K Mac in the attic.
I can. Hunting penguins is strictly prohibited on all Antarctic bases. I don't know how biologists got warrants if they want to study penguin's food cycle and such, but I've read that it usially cost station dog a life, when it is caught hunting penguins.
I also read a story when dog was saved from this fate by bringing it from coastal base Mirny to intracontinental base Vostok, which should be counted as severe punishment becouse it is very hard to breathe at the altitude 3000m in the Central Antarctida.
Note that they have much more heavy planes and helicopters than RV-4.And they DO keep fuel reserves for them. If this guy have landed few miles away from their airfield, they would have to search him and burn much more than 400 liters of fuel in the helicopter.
Of course, shipping everything to Antarctic is expensive. That is why they sail one fuel tanker a year there and store several hundreds tons of fuel in McMurdo.
These a scientific bases. That is why it is science and why it is matters.
US bases are run by military forces, Russian bases are run by Arctica & Antatrcica Scientific Research Institute, but both do the same things, and both practice exchange of researches since their founding in 50th.
I don't remember however, which authority runs New Zealand base, but I think it is not Army.
I'd hardly consider US military base an accomodation where Russian researcher can work for monthes in the middle of Cold War.
Next time you'll be eating rice try to pour little
LH2 there. You'll see it has much more effect than curry.
wouldn't http://wew.webarchive.com do?
These are actually well planned terrorist attacks...
These terrorists have headquarters in Redmond, Fleetstreet, Hoolywood and whereever else there are people who sell you intellectual property.
They do there best to teach people not to think, and rely on somebody in big software company or political party to make decision for them. Generation of ignorant have grown up.
It wasn't noticed immediately, but when previously installed equipment worn up, or was replaced by something "new, cool and cheaper", thunder strikes.
No, in Russia, no matter under which rule, blackouts cause increase of alcohol consumption.
BTW, blackouts are very rare in Russia, because cybernetics was outlawed that times when most of power grid was build. So, all the switching designed using very robust mechanical relays.
So, I never heard about blackout which affected
more than 5 millions of people.
We now typically have switch-offs rather than blackouts, because many people don't pay for electricity, and circuits allow to switch off only
entire districts, not individual consumers.
This is of cource a problem, but it is better than blackout half of country becouse entire grid cannot cope with some disbalance in one power station
You don't realise that since fifties there is
the killer (how double-sensed word) app for certain kind of suborbital vehicles.
These vehicles are named intercontinental ballistic missiles, and their application is to carry several tons of cargo accross the ocean order of maginitude faster than jet planes can do.
Ther is other almost as murdereous application of the same vehicles - delivering same several tons of goods to the given point of globe with several meters accuracy.
If techology can do something with acceleration and make thing launch and land in the common airport, it can be economically feasable.
I disagree; that's like saying I need to desalinate the water in the ocean; it's an impossibly hard task.
There are so much people you trust? Or they are so hard to educate? In both cases only thing you have to do - to choose ones you trust more carefully.
While I'm not a big believer in "technical solutions to social problems,
Educationg is social solution,
Yhe first, biggest problem is that we can't reliably trace messages back to their source,
It seems that you have first to educate yourself.
There is reliable way to trace originating host using Recieved lines. Only thing we need is universal internatinal law which would punish spammers with big fines. So owner of computer shown last in the Recieved line would either have to pay or to prove (via logs) that he is not responsible for this particular spam.
I.e if spam comes from dialup IP range provider would have either to pay fines himself or to disclose who of his clients have used this IP at given time.
This poses minimal penalty for people with open relays - they only have to give evidence of origin of spam message (but it is enough to force them to fix this setup), but held owners of computers, infected by virii and worms responsible.
And I think this is correct.
If we are talking about OSS project, second reason doesn't apply
Creating click'n'run software requires considerable qualification.
Person who is qualified enough to write such thing couldn't have a personal need for it. There can be only two cases
In first case it is simplier to manually install and tune up, say Debian.
For second case FAI is invented.
Any teenager seeking self-approvement in Linux world can do something more useful than virus - fix, or at least report bug in some popular package and recieve kind response from developer, start kewl project on sf.net which can either grow into something useful when our teenager grows into adult, or just be forgotten few weeks later, etc, etc.
In commercial software world, it is much harder to prove oneself in constructive way. So people try to prove theirselves in destructive way.
What happens when the spammers start using worms and viruses to create open relays on people you trust?
Supposing that these people also trust you, you have to educate them how to protect themselves from viruses and worms.
They would tax your lan with 9% of its bandwidth and use this bandwidth for BigBrother purposes.
I think that Russian FSB should sue Florida State for stoling its Intellectual Property. They invented an idea to tax providers with their bandwidth about six years ago
See Moscow Libertarium for details.
Note that 1GHz is one-nanosecond clock circle.
Given the speed of light is 300 0000 km/s, you cannot transfer a signal more than 30 cm during one ns. And several times less if it is not light in vaccuum, but voltage in wire. Now look how long it takes for your CPU bus to run from CPU to memory chip, and you'll see that 1GHz is close to theoretical limit. And with 80Ghz you would have troubles to transfer signal from one side of chip to other.
Problem is obvoisly with users.
But users can be educated. Linux requires considerable knowledge from user just to do basic things. And if one has that knowledge, he is able to distinguish things.
One of best approaches to balance usability and safety I've seen, is in Pine E-Mail client.
(and this come from University of Washington, which is almost as famous for preference of usability over security as Microsoft).
Pine has a lot of potentially dangerous features like piping, automatically invoked filters and so on. Most dangerous is "Pass control characters as is" when it runs on terminal with programmable keys. But they are all disabled by default.
One has to come into lo-o-ongconfiguration menu, read the help and understand what this thing does to switch it on.
Problem with windows is not technical, it is social.
It is just like Ford advertized their cars as being so safe that no one need drivers license to drive it, and it then turns out (after several millions of cars have been sold to people without driving licenses) than actually you can easily cause traffic incedent if you don't know how to drive.
And this only become known after several thousands of people was killed in such incedents
Microsoft adveritizes Windows as system which need no special knowledge to use.
But it still general purpose OS which lets one to do clever things. And while it allows to do clever things, it cannot block you from doing evil things.
Those guys rummaged through the 911 subpoenas to compile a list on a spreadsheet, they let you download it for FREE, and not only did you show a token of appreciation, but you bitched about the formatting?
It is exactly what whe can do for them. Teach them how to do their statistical analyzis better. Next time they would take our comments into account, and do something, which they would able to sell.
How much would they ask for shipping into Selizharovo, Tver region, Russia?
It is that very problem, which fabricators are ought to solve. Old Russian proverb (in adapted translation to English) says "The calf overseas costs farting, but pound for shipping"