This also happened in Iowa when ethanol blended gasoline was introduced. Mamy people complained that gasahol was dirty, when in fact the gasahol was just washing out all the accumulated crud from the fossil fuels.
Shooting direct to Cibachrome sound cool, I never thought of that... if you can make a contact print look soft, I am quite impressed. I guess every processing step is a chance for distortions, so eliminating film can only help.
Get me a 5lbs vacuum back and I'll pay attention.
A Contax RTS III has a vacuum back on a 35 mm camera. And it does acutually make a difference if you are shooting with an 85 mm f/1.4 lens.
There are medium format vacuum packs as well. I'm pretty sure I could make a vacuum back that would be only a couple of pounds, the biggest trick would be making sure that the pump cannot vibrate.
I must envy myself; I'm a Dutch American. There is a great deal we Americans need to learn from the 'live and let live' attitude of the Dutch. Well eductated and and fiendly are not the only advantages of Holland. Tall blondes that ride bicyles are more fun to watch than fat Americans riding in SUVs.
Sidewinders are rattlesnakes. OpenBSD's Puffy is a blowfish, which has a much more effective posion than snake venom. Go Puffy! Down with rattlesnakes.
Hey, why do you want to perpetuate the acne/geek stereotype? I had some severe acne as a teen; it diqualified me from military service. There are better things to joke about.
Jeeze, I guess you must be right because you know how to swear. Did you read the article carefully? Langa was running Windows 95 on a virtual PC. That means that the VPC needs to have the hardware driver. The VPC then provides a genric virtual driver with a vanilla Soundblaster enterprise. Langa says all of this on page 2. This means that the OS doesn't have to have a driver.
Langa wrote about VPC last week ( http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.j html?articleID=18600449 ), To quote Mr. Langa
A virtual PC is a standard desktop computer emulated in software. You can install an operating system, applications, or utilities on a virtual PC and use it the same way you do on a standard PC. The installed software thinks it's running on a normal, physical system, but it's not: Instead, it's running inside a protected memory space on a host system, with special emulation software masquerading as a separate and standalone BIOS, motherboard, hard drive, floppy, CD drive, display adapter, network card, and so on. A virtual PC provides all the normal hardware of a standard PC, created entirely in software.
I find this statement completely at odds with his inflamatory claims in this weeks article. It would be interesting to see what would happen if Langa has intalled Win 95 without the VPC software.
I installed Win XP on an old Compaq Deskpro & it locked up within 15 minutes. I installed OpenBSD and KDE 3.1 & it ran fine. Do I conclude that XP drivers are crap & OpenBSD has all of the world's driver issues resolved? No, not at all. I have been trained that you don't base statisics on a single data point.
This article is not a legitimate crticism of Linux. Mr. Langa claims that Windows 95 works great with a BRAND NEW sound card. How on earth does a CD burned a decade ago have a driver for a chipset from 2003? Easy, it doesn't. In the article, Mr. Langa states that he is running Windows under VPC softare - that is to say, he is running Windows 95 on a virtual PC. The virtual PC has the driver for his hardware & provided a 'vanilla Soundblaster' driver for Windows. Does Mr. Langa extend the same standard to Linux? No, he runs Linux on 'bare metal'. All he has deminstated is that the author of the virtual PC has access a working sound card driver & that the manufacturer didn't share the needed information with the open source volunteers writing Linux driver. Big deal.
Langa is most certainly a troll. His study is almost as 'scientific' as the experiments that proved Communist seed corns were superior to decadent Capitalist seed corns in the Stalinist USSR.
Once again, we have a coward showing his colors. Where do you find anything remotely 'red' in the US? I have worked under one Communist (in France) and he was a most reasonable fellow. The French Resistance was largely 'Red', and I respect them for resisting the Fascist Nazis - it was the convervative Vichy that I find repugnent. You might be able to find socialists (pinkos to you) in the US, but finding Reds is quite difficult. There is nobody of significance that suggests that Communism is a viable economic system.
If you are going to claim that there are Reds (Communists) parading around as Greens, I hope you will provide me with some evidence.
Many graduate schools have teaching and research assistanceships. You don't need to to be rich to get into grad school. Being a 'grad student' is the entry job into a research position. The next step is 'post-doc', then you get to be a junior faculty. There is a very clear career path for research.
They should use this in a catalytic converter... Rather than using an expensive reduction catalyst to produce gas, they could use the TiO to produce a little nitric acid (or salt if you add the Calcium carbonate). IF this would work, it might save some money... Platinum is not cheap.
The Titaninum oxide is a catalyst, so it is not consumed. The calcium carbonate is just there to neutralize the acid that is produced on the catalyst. So, the paint will never get sauruated with acids. I'll bet that they catalyst will keep working without the calcium carbonate & that the resulting nitric acid will just wash off, probably into some nearby concrete, which aso has a lot of calcium carbonate to neutralize the nitric acid. Besides, a little nitric acid isn't all that bad as a pollutant... you can safely wash it down the drain.
The best counter arguement to the 'but its only because MS has a bigger market share than your luser OS' is Apache. Apache is much more popular than IIS (as you can verify with a trip to netcraft), but SANS has more IIS incidents than Apache incidents. Both servers have vulnerabilities and sites can be defaced with either server. But IIS is the more vulnerable. Why is that?
So look at the FreeBSD web site and browse the packages at http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/index.html If you find yourself guessing on *nix, its a pretty good clue to RTFM... if only you can figure out with FM to read. I can never rember if its PyQt or py-qt or pyqt or whatever, so I agree that guessing the name is a chore.
Get real. Pearl Harbor killed many flesh and bones people. Until we have deadly consequences of an Internet virus, we have nothing like Pearl Harbor, global thermonuclear war or a Mongol invasion.
We have experienced a bunch of hooligans that take control of boxes but do not even do anything nasty. For example, what if SQL Slammer had propogated, slept for a few minutes and then tried to log in as dbo/dbo and then walked the sysobjects table blowing database tables away, or worse, randomizing non-key data. They would have manage to get into an appalling number of business databases (where security really can be lax enough to use default databases. Even the safe used for sensitive papers in the Manhattan Project used the default combination - see Surely Your Joking, Mr Feynmann.) This sort of attack would have caused huge monetary losses. And even this sort of attack would probably not kill people, unless said database was in a hospital. That would be akin to a 'digital Pearl Harbor'
I do make a habit of calling local and even national news offices. I will not be an 'audience'. There was one news report at breakfast time in which the news anchors discussed how a murderer preferred to canablize his victim with asparigus. This was during breakfast with children present. I called the local station and complained directly to the producers. Just becuase they say they say you are an audience doesn't mean you have to act like sheep.
If you have a Beowulf cluster in Soviet Russia, you seem to have a working time machine. In step 2, ??? = invest heavily in tech stock and dump it before the bubble bursts.
Yes, but they did get an F for computer security from the House of Representatives. Getting security advice from the class dunce doesn't strike me as a great idea. If the DOD, another F recipient, doesn't like OpenBSD, perhaps we should have a second look at it too.
Well I guess it was inevitable that someone would resort to name calling:-( At least this troll can' t be accused of being pro-open source. It is important that Jewish and Israeli remain separate, if related, adjectives. Israel's complaints are purely over price - the State of Israel does have better things to do with its money than pay a monopoly tax to a foreign corporation. In that they are not alone, the world is full of countries that are less wealthy than those of us lucky enough to be born in the West.
While I would not like to overstate this, an open source project could be an small opportunity to bring Jewish and Muslim developers together. They share a common goal of wanting software that can handle text that reads right to left. Anything, even something as small as an open source project, that can help bring people together in the Middle East has to be a good thing. While open source is not a magic elixir for world problems, working together is always a useful step.
I've wondered about this, but I don't think this is much of an issue. Its not like your average slashdotter is more competent than IBM lawyers or IBM's experts on Unix internals. It may well be that IBM can find a few useful gems on Groklaw or Slashdot, but that could actually be useful.
I don't think that David Boise will be spending too much time searching Slashdot to prepare to counter claims in posts that begin IANAL. Perhaps Groklaw is more useful, but I still think that Boise and coworkers will spend thier valuable hours with experts from industry and acadamia. I think that the S/N ratio on Slashdot is just to low to be useful. We can have a lot of fun on Slashdot, and we can learn quite a bit on Groklaw. I say we go on learning and having fun. The lawyers will go on nicely without us.
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This also happened in Iowa when ethanol blended gasoline was introduced. Mamy people complained that gasahol was dirty, when in fact the gasahol was just washing out all the accumulated crud from the fossil fuels.
Shooting direct to Cibachrome sound cool, I never thought of that ... if you can make a contact print look soft, I am quite impressed. I guess every processing step is a chance for distortions, so eliminating film can only help.
Get me a 5lbs vacuum back and I'll pay attention. A Contax RTS III has a vacuum back on a 35 mm camera. And it does acutually make a difference if you are shooting with an 85 mm f/1.4 lens. There are medium format vacuum packs as well. I'm pretty sure I could make a vacuum back that would be only a couple of pounds, the biggest trick would be making sure that the pump cannot vibrate.
I must envy myself; I'm a Dutch American. There is a great deal we Americans need to learn from the 'live and let live' attitude of the Dutch. Well eductated and and fiendly are not the only advantages of Holland. Tall blondes that ride bicyles are more fun to watch than fat Americans riding in SUVs.
Sidewinders are rattlesnakes. OpenBSD's Puffy is a blowfish, which has a much more effective posion than snake venom. Go Puffy! Down with rattlesnakes.
Hey, why do you want to perpetuate the acne/geek stereotype? I had some severe acne as a teen; it diqualified me from military service. There are better things to joke about.
Langa wrote about VPC last week ( http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.j html?articleID=18600449 ), To quote Mr. Langa
I find this statement completely at odds with his inflamatory claims in this weeks article. It would be interesting to see what would happen if Langa has intalled Win 95 without the VPC software.I installed Win XP on an old Compaq Deskpro & it locked up within 15 minutes. I installed OpenBSD and KDE 3.1 & it ran fine. Do I conclude that XP drivers are crap & OpenBSD has all of the world's driver issues resolved? No, not at all. I have been trained that you don't base statisics on a single data point.
Langa is most certainly a troll. His study is almost as 'scientific' as the experiments that proved Communist seed corns were superior to decadent Capitalist seed corns in the Stalinist USSR.
If you are going to claim that there are Reds (Communists) parading around as Greens, I hope you will provide me with some evidence.
Since our CPU's are getting hotter every year, we can actually use them to make the S'mores ... Its only wasted energy if you don't use the heat!
Many graduate schools have teaching and research assistanceships. You don't need to to be rich to get into grad school. Being a 'grad student' is the entry job into a research position. The next step is 'post-doc', then you get to be a junior faculty. There is a very clear career path for research.
Important Stuff: Please try to keep posts on topic. ..nuff said
Well, they may say 'can't trust this', but their web site run IIS on Windows 2000. Actions speak louder than words...
They should use this in a catalytic converter ... Rather than using an expensive reduction catalyst to produce gas, they could use the TiO to produce a little nitric acid (or salt if you add the Calcium carbonate). IF this would work, it might save some money ... Platinum is not cheap.
The Titaninum oxide is a catalyst, so it is not consumed. The calcium carbonate is just there to neutralize the acid that is produced on the catalyst. So, the paint will never get sauruated with acids. I'll bet that they catalyst will keep working without the calcium carbonate & that the resulting nitric acid will just wash off, probably into some nearby concrete, which aso has a lot of calcium carbonate to neutralize the nitric acid. Besides, a little nitric acid isn't all that bad as a pollutant... you can safely wash it down the drain.
The best counter arguement to the 'but its only because MS has a bigger market share than your luser OS' is Apache. Apache is much more popular than IIS (as you can verify with a trip to netcraft), but SANS has more IIS incidents than Apache incidents. Both servers have vulnerabilities and sites can be defaced with either server. But IIS is the more vulnerable. Why is that?
Now I finally understand Neo's clerical collar - he didn't want his PC flapping about.
So look at the FreeBSD web site and browse the packages at http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/index.html If you find yourself guessing on *nix, its a pretty good clue to RTFM... if only you can figure out with FM to read. I can never rember if its PyQt or py-qt or pyqt or whatever, so I agree that guessing the name is a chore.
How about OpenYourWalletBSD ... so you can pay Theo $40 hard earned dollars :-)
We have experienced a bunch of hooligans that take control of boxes but do not even do anything nasty. For example, what if SQL Slammer had propogated, slept for a few minutes and then tried to log in as dbo/dbo and then walked the sysobjects table blowing database tables away, or worse, randomizing non-key data. They would have manage to get into an appalling number of business databases (where security really can be lax enough to use default databases. Even the safe used for sensitive papers in the Manhattan Project used the default combination - see Surely Your Joking, Mr Feynmann.) This sort of attack would have caused huge monetary losses. And even this sort of attack would probably not kill people, unless said database was in a hospital. That would be akin to a 'digital Pearl Harbor'
I do make a habit of calling local and even national news offices. I will not be an 'audience'. There was one news report at breakfast time in which the news anchors discussed how a murderer preferred to canablize his victim with asparigus. This was during breakfast with children present. I called the local station and complained directly to the producers. Just becuase they say they say you are an audience doesn't mean you have to act like sheep.
If you have a Beowulf cluster in Soviet Russia, you seem to have a working time machine. In step 2, ??? = invest heavily in tech stock and dump it before the bubble bursts.
Yes, but they did get an F for computer security from the House of Representatives. Getting security advice from the class dunce doesn't strike me as a great idea. If the DOD, another F recipient, doesn't like OpenBSD, perhaps we should have a second look at it too.
While I would not like to overstate this, an open source project could be an small opportunity to bring Jewish and Muslim developers together. They share a common goal of wanting software that can handle text that reads right to left. Anything, even something as small as an open source project, that can help bring people together in the Middle East has to be a good thing. While open source is not a magic elixir for world problems, working together is always a useful step.
I don't think that David Boise will be spending too much time searching Slashdot to prepare to counter claims in posts that begin IANAL. Perhaps Groklaw is more useful, but I still think that Boise and coworkers will spend thier valuable hours with experts from industry and acadamia. I think that the S/N ratio on Slashdot is just to low to be useful. We can have a lot of fun on Slashdot, and we can learn quite a bit on Groklaw. I say we go on learning and having fun. The lawyers will go on nicely without us.