And if they refuse to certify the capture cards, the capture card manufacturers can sue them for denying a perfectly valid product entry to the market.
Now that is what we need...a captcha for READING spam.
Even better, the spammers could create their own captchas by stealing them from other sites with captchas. Make the user fill them out and then they get both someone reading their mail AND someone crunching catchas for them.
I love my cool and quiet combined with the Asus Speedfan and a zalman cooler on my windows box. With cool and quiet, it both underclocks AND undervolts the CPU down to 800mhz at ~1.3v (as opposed to 2000mhz at 1.5V). With Speedfan enabled, the fan only spins when the CPU reaches a certain temp threshold which happens less often when it is throttled down and with the zalman cooler, it is fairly good at cooling with only the case airflow so the fan has to spin up even less often. Overall this saves electricity and creates a quieter computer.
It's ALASKA for god's sake. They would deny anything put forth by the alaska democratic party simply because it was put forth by democrats. They would probobly deny tax cuts and an increase in oil payments just so that they could push through a version with their name on it.
I dunno...my computer is by no means top of the line but the only thing I change when I go and game is I cut down the upload so that I dont saturate my connection when playing games.
The wallet guide omits the crucial step of making the inner portion of the wallet cut slightly angled ( like this:/--\ ) so that it holds the proper shape when fully loaded. Additionally, this means that wallet will "pop" slightly open when you open it for ease of adding and removing its contents.
Also, commercially produced inserts can be integrated into the wallet for excellent multiple card/picture storage and acetate can be combined with ducttape to create a clear pocket.
I have a duct tape wallet that I have had for a little over a year (got its first patch last night) and it is literally the best wallet I have ever owned. It is much slimmer than my previous wallet--with my average amount of stuff, it is actually the same thickness as the empty old wallety--and still has every feature I wanted: an ID pocket viewable from the outside, a card/photo holder insert, and a snap closure pouch thats handy for two quarters. I no longer use the pouch or the outer ID pocket (I used to have a card that needed the face barcode scanned several times a day, so it was nice) but I still love the wallet.
Now really, I see no reason for an RFID blocking wallet. The chicago public transit system (CTA) uses RFID fare cards linked to a credit card. I am able to sucessfully disable them simply by carrying them around for a while. I have literally gone through 2 or 3 (still trying to decide if the last one is really dead) of the damned cards...they seem fine until one day I try to get on a bus or train and they simply stop working (this is especially painful now that they do not give cash transfers). The cards are carried with magnetic cards that still worl and are in good condition with nothing that wouldnt be considered minor cosmetic damage on a credit card. Unfortunately a minor dent in the right place seems to be enough to toast the RFID antenna.
It many not be related (I admit, I didnt actually read the whole article) but recently I was trying to ghost a system with spybot and it seemed to copy all of the files (they were on both drives) but it would always hang on bootup with the new drive (it would get to right before the windows login screen and just stop). I went and did the same clone with UltimateBootCD and Ranish, resized the partition with partitionmagic and it worked perfectly.
I do happen to know a fair amount about the subject matter as well as knowing a fair amount of professional photographers (my father being one of them). I think that one thing you are missing is that Professional photographer (especially in the realm of advertising) does not equal "Art" photographer. Art photographers, even if they work professionally have a different set of requirements. The vast majority of pro photograper's work is not produced into a large format and often when it is, it is done with much lower than photo-quality printing (think store displays and the such, even if they are nice and glossy, they are not the same as a photo) and compare that to artists who are actually making prints that are that size. The pro's goal is to meet the requirments of thier buyer which can be done with a 1ds mkII almost all of the time. If it cant be (or the buyer really wants film), it wont be done on 35mm film, it will be done on 4x5 film as it is fairly standard in the advertising industry (fashion is different, most shoots are done 35mm for speed and now digital).
A 25MP scan of 35mm film is NOT equivalent to a 25mp digital photo. The film grain overlaps pixels and makes things messy at 100% so that resolution is needed to clear this up. Also, pros dont shoot with "an 8 or 10 megapixel camera." The 1Ds mkII shoots at 16.7 (and even the mk1 shot at more than 10) and if you truely are a pro, you will have the top end to keep your clients happy (you also wouldnt be using an N90s, you would be using an F5/6 or an EOS-1V or more realistically a medium format view-camera). As to the Rolleiflex, give it up, there have been some advancements in the last 30 years (especially in glass) and there are reasons they arent used for real pro work (I have one, I've used it, it doesnt compare to a view-cam or even lots of photos taken with 35mm or digital...a lot of it is in the hands of who takes the picture).
For professionals (those taking the pictures and those who are recieving the pictures), digital really IS the best thing since sliced bread. The process gets the customers exactly what they want and streamlines the prepress work. It makes distribution easier and results more accurate and consistant (in a studio, you are capturing directly to computer and can instantly view the image at 100% on a color-calibrated monitor...no more poloroids and bike messengers). It's strange that nikon would stop so suddenly and you are correct that it is because of market forces but those market forces arent because some ill-informed joe shmoe decides he doesnt need film SLRs--it is because he really doesnt need film SLRs.
Besides, there is always Canon and they make better cameras anyways;-)
I'm not sure quite why you shouldnt trust zillions of reviews. If there were that many it woudl mean each person on earth has said more than several times that digital is comparable/better. Or maybe you should trust the professional photographers who have switched. The ones who no-longer have darkrooms in their studios and always sway their clients towards digital (and thats not because its less work for them, when you shoot digital, YOU do all of the post processing in photoshop rather than the pro lab you send it to). The time has come, cameras are outdoing film grain (especially at high speed). You may need a scanner of higher resolution than a camera to get a good scan but that is because the grain does not match up to pixels so you have to go higher resolution. It sounds pretty hard-core for Nikon to drop film this early but it will eventually get to the point where the only people who use 35mm are people who dont need the added features next years body would provide (they can still use new lenses, at least for a while) as they are changing the settings themselves and dont need a computer to do it for them.
After a terrible experiance with CI Host where I got slow speeds and didnt get features that they said I would get (like IMAP) I finally quit (after finding my email getting blacklisted because it was from a CI Host mailsedrver).
I switched to Dreamhost who have been absolutely great at only about $7 a month for a ton of services/bandwidth/storage. If you sign up with this link (or use the promo code 7BACKNOW) you get $7 off...so basically your first month free. There may be better deals but for 20GB storage and a TB of bandwidth, its not so bad at all.
No, it was a microATX Tower. Fairly large for a microATX but still does a good job on saving space (it was a lot less deep if I remember correctly). I cant recall the brand but it was bought off of newegg without a PSU for $39 or so. Black case, silver accents and blue LED's up front (that flashes red for HDD activity).
Oh, dont worry its not a monsterous beheamouth of ugly like one of those Xaser cases or something. It's a quite attractive little black case with clean lines and smooth styling. The optical drives are behind some false-fronts to help them blend in but no such thing exists for the floppy. Instead of having a completely bare floppy drive (it was pulled from an OEM system that builds the bezel into the) ruin the clean (clean==sexy IMHO) look of the case, we simply stuffed it inside.
Beige isnt exactly an attractive color on everything and would probobly make those ugly-assed cases look even worse...can you imagine seeing this done in beige spraypaint?
When we built my friends computer, we installed the floppy drive backwards in the case (it had no bezel and would have made the sexy case look pretty ugly) so that the blanking plate could stay in place. Sure you have to slide off the side of the case to insert a disk but the last THREE times I can remember using a floppy on my system, it was to do something that already required me to have the side of the case open.
Our CS department even offers a course called "Free Software Practicum" and its course description is as follows : Students who are already proficient in programming are provided with the experience of working on real software and the opportunity to collaborate with distributed teams of developers. The course work consists entirely of one or more programming tasks, which must produce freely distributed code. Course work may be chosen from the bug lists and to-do lists of well known free software projects, such as Gnome, KDE, Hurd, Mozilla. Students may work individually or in groups. To earn credit the work of the student must be incorporated into the chosen project's distribution.
Even the dorm printservers show some level of commitment to F/OSS. They all run FreeBSD with a WM written by a student for the purpose that can be found in the ports tree.
expensive? Data here is insane (its like they dont want anyone to use it). 1c per kb, plans range from $5 for 1mb to $20 for unlimited. SMS messages are 10c to send AND 10c to recieve (sucks rather much on a family plan).
People would be so much more likely to run up huge bills like they do in other parts of the world if the barrier to entry wasnt so high. Even if you manage to run out of minutes, its cheaper to call someone and pay overage than it is to use SMS.
Geek Squad however did not start as a best buy entity (and is still seperate...the best buy part is mostly the same best buy techs with a different nametag and a smarter manager). They were a Minneapolis tech support house catering very much to business users of the size where they dont have their own full IT department but it isnt some guys computer sitting at home filled with junk. Their average fees were far more than the average home-user was willing to pay (though you always got a free shirt with a repair) and they really were the best. They eventually expanded to california and some other places and were running a great shop when they were brought into best buy. The best buy version is decent for people who just need the spyware cleaned off of their computer(and are willing to drive it over to BB and leave it for a while) but it is nothing compared to calling up the real geek squad and paying for a real tech to come out immediately and have your computer fixed as fast as possible.
It's too bad you live in a bad area as verizon's practices and pricing is really near the bottom of the barrel--in the two markets I live in (Minneapolis and Chicago), there is decent GSM coverage and people are much better off with Cingular (hey...free talk time with every customer on the nations largest network) or even T-mobile than the spotty verizon service. The post though, really wasnt meant for you. It was meant for the guy who was going through 2-3 phones a year because he obviosly didnt want just a phone, he wanted every single new feature there is.
That's why we need more people to just shove the better solutions in peoples faces (though even then it isnt perfect) to get rid of the shit.
At my university, Every student is given a connectivity CD which configures their computers for the network and installs firefox/thunderbird (even adds putty and an SFTP client). Next year it will also include gaim/adium as they are currently beta-testing a jabber server. If you want to get online when you show up at school, all you have to do is plug the CD in and it will do it all for you. Most people figured it out right away and became more thrilled when people showed them stuff like tabbed browsing and how much better thunderbird was than the shitty webmail but there were still some people who managed to get by without switching, they still torture themselves with webmail and have problems with IE AND they somehow managed to configure their network settings without using the CD (you would think that people who knew how to do that would know better). If only it was more possible to force people completely to not use IE but unfortunately it is so entrenched that you cant just block or disable it.
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And the electrician/telecom work isnt even that bad and is often interesting to anyone with a degree in something like engineering.
Just fucking suck it up and sign up already. You will never have to do it again and its the fricking new york times...they arent going to try to steal your identity or report you to the FBI for reading to many terrorist articles. It's not like its a link to some unknown source thats not worth your time. Think of it as what you need to do for the priveledge of reading one of the premier papers free...if you dont agree, walk down the street and buy a copy (dont even think about subscribing, then you not only give them your email and some bogus info but you give them your real address and credit card number...GASP)
Those are pretty much all Verizon problems. They are a crap company and they love to make you buy phones from them (that they have crippled with inferiour OS and disabled many functions). None of those problems exist on GSM phones. If you stay with the same provider, you can switch SIM cards no matter what. If you switch providors, usually your old provider is willing to unlock your phone after about half of your contract period and half of the time they are unlocked anyway and thus accept ANY valid SIM card so you could switch phones every day of your life and they couldnt stop you.
Stop using verizon and you will be happy.
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just wait, there'll be a renaissance in the trades for a career
Many plumbers and electricians already make damn good money with nothing more than an apprenticeship/trad school. They are in heavy demand in many areas in part due to suburban sprawl (new buildings) and in part do to modernization of homes people buy in preexisting areas. Sure their job is regarded as low-class but they are in demand and payed well for it. I knew a plumber who has a Poli-Sci major from an excellent university but he decided to become a plumber since the Poli-Sci degree certainly wasnt bringing in six figures. These jobs area also fairly secure from being outsourced as they require physical presense and licensing/local knowledge.
Now if only the same were true of auto-techs who are in many ways very similar to mechanics and plumbers but get payed a pittance.
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And if they refuse to certify the capture cards, the capture card manufacturers can sue them for denying a perfectly valid product entry to the market.
Even better, the spammers could create their own captchas by stealing them from other sites with captchas. Make the user fill them out and then they get both someone reading their mail AND someone crunching catchas for them.
I love my cool and quiet combined with the Asus Speedfan and a zalman cooler on my windows box. With cool and quiet, it both underclocks AND undervolts the CPU down to 800mhz at ~1.3v (as opposed to 2000mhz at 1.5V). With Speedfan enabled, the fan only spins when the CPU reaches a certain temp threshold which happens less often when it is throttled down and with the zalman cooler, it is fairly good at cooling with only the case airflow so the fan has to spin up even less often. Overall this saves electricity and creates a quieter computer.
It's ALASKA for god's sake. They would deny anything put forth by the alaska democratic party simply because it was put forth by democrats. They would probobly deny tax cuts and an increase in oil payments just so that they could push through a version with their name on it.
I dunno...my computer is by no means top of the line but the only thing I change when I go and game is I cut down the upload so that I dont saturate my connection when playing games.
just buy some more RAM...100mb for java isnt that much when you have 2 gigs total
Also, commercially produced inserts can be integrated into the wallet for excellent multiple card/picture storage and acetate can be combined with ducttape to create a clear pocket.
Now really, I see no reason for an RFID blocking wallet. The chicago public transit system (CTA) uses RFID fare cards linked to a credit card. I am able to sucessfully disable them simply by carrying them around for a while. I have literally gone through 2 or 3 (still trying to decide if the last one is really dead) of the damned cards...they seem fine until one day I try to get on a bus or train and they simply stop working (this is especially painful now that they do not give cash transfers). The cards are carried with magnetic cards that still worl and are in good condition with nothing that wouldnt be considered minor cosmetic damage on a credit card. Unfortunately a minor dent in the right place seems to be enough to toast the RFID antenna.
It many not be related (I admit, I didnt actually read the whole article) but recently I was trying to ghost a system with spybot and it seemed to copy all of the files (they were on both drives) but it would always hang on bootup with the new drive (it would get to right before the windows login screen and just stop). I went and did the same clone with UltimateBootCD and Ranish, resized the partition with partitionmagic and it worked perfectly.
A 25MP scan of 35mm film is NOT equivalent to a 25mp digital photo. The film grain overlaps pixels and makes things messy at 100% so that resolution is needed to clear this up. Also, pros dont shoot with "an 8 or 10 megapixel camera." The 1Ds mkII shoots at 16.7 (and even the mk1 shot at more than 10) and if you truely are a pro, you will have the top end to keep your clients happy (you also wouldnt be using an N90s, you would be using an F5/6 or an EOS-1V or more realistically a medium format view-camera). As to the Rolleiflex, give it up, there have been some advancements in the last 30 years (especially in glass) and there are reasons they arent used for real pro work (I have one, I've used it, it doesnt compare to a view-cam or even lots of photos taken with 35mm or digital...a lot of it is in the hands of who takes the picture).
For professionals (those taking the pictures and those who are recieving the pictures), digital really IS the best thing since sliced bread. The process gets the customers exactly what they want and streamlines the prepress work. It makes distribution easier and results more accurate and consistant (in a studio, you are capturing directly to computer and can instantly view the image at 100% on a color-calibrated monitor...no more poloroids and bike messengers). It's strange that nikon would stop so suddenly and you are correct that it is because of market forces but those market forces arent because some ill-informed joe shmoe decides he doesnt need film SLRs--it is because he really doesnt need film SLRs.
Besides, there is always Canon and they make better cameras anyways ;-)
I'm not sure quite why you shouldnt trust zillions of reviews. If there were that many it woudl mean each person on earth has said more than several times that digital is comparable/better. Or maybe you should trust the professional photographers who have switched. The ones who no-longer have darkrooms in their studios and always sway their clients towards digital (and thats not because its less work for them, when you shoot digital, YOU do all of the post processing in photoshop rather than the pro lab you send it to). The time has come, cameras are outdoing film grain (especially at high speed). You may need a scanner of higher resolution than a camera to get a good scan but that is because the grain does not match up to pixels so you have to go higher resolution. It sounds pretty hard-core for Nikon to drop film this early but it will eventually get to the point where the only people who use 35mm are people who dont need the added features next years body would provide (they can still use new lenses, at least for a while) as they are changing the settings themselves and dont need a computer to do it for them.
I switched to Dreamhost who have been absolutely great at only about $7 a month for a ton of services/bandwidth/storage. If you sign up with this link (or use the promo code 7BACKNOW) you get $7 off...so basically your first month free. There may be better deals but for 20GB storage and a TB of bandwidth, its not so bad at all.
No, it was a microATX Tower. Fairly large for a microATX but still does a good job on saving space (it was a lot less deep if I remember correctly). I cant recall the brand but it was bought off of newegg without a PSU for $39 or so. Black case, silver accents and blue LED's up front (that flashes red for HDD activity).
Beige isnt exactly an attractive color on everything and would probobly make those ugly-assed cases look even worse...can you imagine seeing this done in beige spraypaint?
When we built my friends computer, we installed the floppy drive backwards in the case (it had no bezel and would have made the sexy case look pretty ugly) so that the blanking plate could stay in place. Sure you have to slide off the side of the case to insert a disk but the last THREE times I can remember using a floppy on my system, it was to do something that already required me to have the side of the case open.
You insensitive clod... they are also given to monkeys...you humanist bastard
Our CS department even offers a course called "Free Software Practicum" and its course description is as follows : Students who are already proficient in programming are provided with the experience of working on real software and the opportunity to collaborate with distributed teams of developers. The course work consists entirely of one or more programming tasks, which must produce freely distributed code. Course work may be chosen from the bug lists and to-do lists of well known free software projects, such as Gnome, KDE, Hurd, Mozilla. Students may work individually or in groups. To earn credit the work of the student must be incorporated into the chosen project's distribution.
Even the dorm printservers show some level of commitment to F/OSS. They all run FreeBSD with a WM written by a student for the purpose that can be found in the ports tree.
People would be so much more likely to run up huge bills like they do in other parts of the world if the barrier to entry wasnt so high. Even if you manage to run out of minutes, its cheaper to call someone and pay overage than it is to use SMS.
Geek Squad however did not start as a best buy entity (and is still seperate...the best buy part is mostly the same best buy techs with a different nametag and a smarter manager). They were a Minneapolis tech support house catering very much to business users of the size where they dont have their own full IT department but it isnt some guys computer sitting at home filled with junk. Their average fees were far more than the average home-user was willing to pay (though you always got a free shirt with a repair) and they really were the best. They eventually expanded to california and some other places and were running a great shop when they were brought into best buy. The best buy version is decent for people who just need the spyware cleaned off of their computer(and are willing to drive it over to BB and leave it for a while) but it is nothing compared to calling up the real geek squad and paying for a real tech to come out immediately and have your computer fixed as fast as possible.
It's too bad you live in a bad area as verizon's practices and pricing is really near the bottom of the barrel--in the two markets I live in (Minneapolis and Chicago), there is decent GSM coverage and people are much better off with Cingular (hey...free talk time with every customer on the nations largest network) or even T-mobile than the spotty verizon service. The post though, really wasnt meant for you. It was meant for the guy who was going through 2-3 phones a year because he obviosly didnt want just a phone, he wanted every single new feature there is.
At my university, Every student is given a connectivity CD which configures their computers for the network and installs firefox/thunderbird (even adds putty and an SFTP client). Next year it will also include gaim/adium as they are currently beta-testing a jabber server. If you want to get online when you show up at school, all you have to do is plug the CD in and it will do it all for you. Most people figured it out right away and became more thrilled when people showed them stuff like tabbed browsing and how much better thunderbird was than the shitty webmail but there were still some people who managed to get by without switching, they still torture themselves with webmail and have problems with IE AND they somehow managed to configure their network settings without using the CD (you would think that people who knew how to do that would know better). If only it was more possible to force people completely to not use IE but unfortunately it is so entrenched that you cant just block or disable it.
And the electrician/telecom work isnt even that bad and is often interesting to anyone with a degree in something like engineering.
Just fucking suck it up and sign up already. You will never have to do it again and its the fricking new york times...they arent going to try to steal your identity or report you to the FBI for reading to many terrorist articles. It's not like its a link to some unknown source thats not worth your time. Think of it as what you need to do for the priveledge of reading one of the premier papers free...if you dont agree, walk down the street and buy a copy (dont even think about subscribing, then you not only give them your email and some bogus info but you give them your real address and credit card number...GASP)
Stop using verizon and you will be happy.
Many plumbers and electricians already make damn good money with nothing more than an apprenticeship/trad school. They are in heavy demand in many areas in part due to suburban sprawl (new buildings) and in part do to modernization of homes people buy in preexisting areas. Sure their job is regarded as low-class but they are in demand and payed well for it. I knew a plumber who has a Poli-Sci major from an excellent university but he decided to become a plumber since the Poli-Sci degree certainly wasnt bringing in six figures. These jobs area also fairly secure from being outsourced as they require physical presense and licensing/local knowledge.
Now if only the same were true of auto-techs who are in many ways very similar to mechanics and plumbers but get payed a pittance.