That's because you're looking at them on a computer monitor. Try seeing the actual output on a 40" print.
If you think you can get an image equivalent to a 6x9 film using a digital camera, you're on crack.
As others have pointed out, the linked article is unreadable, barely informative, and likely to damage the environment and one's health. So here's a better idea: if you want to reinvigorate an aging LCD monitor, why not just remove the back altogether, and mount the panel on a nice white LED lightbox? It seems like it would be a big improvement.
No, I expect a retailer to carry and sell quality goods, and I expect that if they sell me something defective they will provide me with a working replacement or a prompt refund.
Look, I'm not just making shit up here. The implied warranty is codified in US law in UCC Article 2. When goods are sold at retail to the general public, the seller automatically warrants that the goods are fit for the ordinary purpose for which the goods are customarily used or advertised.
Especially important in today's crap retail market are the claims made on the package. See UCC Section 2-314 2(f):
"(2) to be merchantable must be at least such as... (f) conform to the promise or affirmations of fact made on the container or label if any."
Normally the retailer is responsible for the implied warranty on the items they sell. So if you bought an Xbox at Best Buy and it crashes, your beef is with Best Buy, not Microsoft. If the product is genuinely dangerous, sets your house on fire, and disembowls your children, then you have a case against the manufacturer.
Until recently, that is. These days it seems fashionable to directly take your complaint to the manufacturer. I think that's lamentable because in some ways it takes the retailer off the hook.
Obviously you failed to read the article. Aperture imports raw data very poorly. The results look much worse than Camera Raw in Photoshop. Aperture is sold as high-fidelity imaging but actually it's much worse than existing products.
This guy seems to have his notion of the customer backwards. Google isn't a BellSouth customer. BellSouth's customers are the users who buy their DSL lines. Duh.
Anyway, the really big picture is this: Google could take over BellSouth with the spare change in their couch. Does anyone who pays attention to the stock market think that Google would have a hard time raising 50 billion dollars if they wanted it? I don't.
Yeah sorry, I was only thinking about single-threaded performance. I too would like to see the MT Turion compared, but I believe there's no 2.0GHz part in that line (yet). You'll hear no argument from me about Intel's 65nm process and wonderfully low power consumption. It's obviously going to make from great mobile Macs.
Why should we be impressed again? AMD's top mobile CPU, the Turion 64 ML-37, is equivalent to the Athlon 64 X2 3800+, which is the CPU that beats Yonah in all these tests. So the only thing to be happy about here is that Powerbook and iBook battery life will probably be pretty good. And of course those models are currently using ass-slow G4 chips, so anything is an improvement.
But for iMac and Powermac buyers what this means is being stuck with Intel CPUs that really can't hang with AMD's offering. I mean seriously, AMD currently offers FIVE models that are faster than this Yonah thing, all of which are also faster than the best of the Pentium 4 line.
Er, the 2.0GHz Yonah in these tests is slower in nearly all cases than the Athlon 64 X2 3800+, which is the slowest CPU in AMD's lineup. The _top_ of AMD's line would be the Opteron Model 880. The best CPU they market for the desktop is the Athlon 64 X2 4800+, which has double the cache and runs at a 20% higher clock speed than the 3800+. So, Intel's upcoming chip/barely/ hangs with AMD's bottom of the line. Compared to AMD's current best, Yonah would be left standing in the dust. And Yonah hasn't even been released yet.
About the only good thing I can say about Yonah is it will run MacOS X.
Synopsis: unreleased Intel CPU gets ass handed to it by competing CPU released 4 months ago. If that's all Yonah has going for it, I forsee bad sales in Intel's future. I guess Yonah has that nice low power consumption, but it must really pain Intel to be so far behind in performance.
Don't implement this yourself. Call up Speakeasy. They will set you up with the phones (or you can buy them yourself) and will configure, host, and operate the service. The price is very low and I haven't had the first problem with the service. It's 1000 times better and 100 times less expensive than my old Lucent PBX with WorldCom T1 service.
According to the book Freakonomics, drug dealers make less than the minimum wage, on average. It would not be hard to beat that level of productivity in any undertaking, criminal or not.
As for the phishing problem, I really don't understand why people fall for those. Your bank, or eBay, or Paypal, will never, ever, ever, ever, ever send you an email asking you to disclose any account information. If those people want to contact you for an important reason, they will either call or send you actual mail. This seems like a simple rule to remember, doesn't it?
Like many readers here, I used to run Linux on machines with much lower specs than these. I ran X (with Netscape), irc, and irc bot, an FTP site, and a web site off a Pentium 60 with 24MB memory and a 540MB hard drive, only a third of which was partitioned for Linux. Nothing has happened in the intervening decade to make this computer run less well than it ever did. You can still do all those things you used to do. Why couldn't you?
Similarly, this computer still works great with Windows NT 3.51, or Windows 95, or even DOS or Windows 3.11. As a matter of fact Windows 3.11 runs like a greased pig even on this old hardware.
As long as you choose your software carefully to match your hardware, there's no need to treat a 266MHz Pentium MMX with 64MB of memory as if it were an ancient relic. It's a perfectly good computer.
Some of us use laptops with 1xRTT or EVDO cards and would benefit from 1xRTT or EVDO service. Face it, wide-area Wi-Fi is just not practical, and BART is a very large system. 1x and EVDO and GPRS are designed from the beginning to provide continuous uninterrupted wide-area data service.
BART is loud because it is a wide gauge with light vehicles and designed by a bunch of incompetent boobs who had never worked on railroads before. Halfway through the project they had to hire _real_ railroad engineering firms to come save their bacon, but unfortunately the non-standard gauge and custom cars were already locked into the design.
Anyway the German ICE is a mainline railroad and BART is regional, so it's a poor comparison. The New York subway (MTA), the Paris Metro, London's Underground, and the D.C. Metro are better comparisons. Some of those are loud (especially the MTA), some are quite.
Actually, both thread creation and process creation are much faster on Linux than Windows. However the margin is smaller for threads.
I agree that the report is meaningless for the purposes suggested in this slashdot write-up. If anything, it tells us that something coming out from MS Research has the potential to kick the asses of both Windows and Linux.
I agree. Web browsers (and AJAX) lack two crucial features needed for GUI development. The most important by far is a packing system. There is no way to tell the browser you want one element to be as compact as possible, and you want the element next to it to be as large as possible. This stuff has been in GUI APIs for decades, because it's a requirement. If you could get at the APIs that Mozilla uses to draw its GUI, and use those in the content area, that would be a start. But right now you just have to guess at element sizes.
Secondly, you, as the AJAX programmer, have to re-implement all the useful things the browser does to tell you what's going on. An example: a few weeks ago Google launched a javascript RSS reader. On the first day their server system was completely overwhelmed with requests. Because of the AJAX implementation, the user couldn't tell what the hell was going on. The elements of the UI would click and move around and animate and do all sorts of things, but the data wasn't coming in from the server, so it was useless. And because of the architecture the browser was not giving messages like "server could not be contacted" or what-have-you. Someone needs to come up with a way to inform the user that something dreadful is happening behind the curtain.
With the two above improvements, AJAX might be of some use. As it currently stands, AJAX is just an Even Bigger Hack.
Whoops I forgot to mention the main point: Brasilia is a disaster because Le Corbusier was a moron of the highest order. It is not sufficient to simply have a plan, one must also have a GOOD plan.
CIties don't necessarily need to be planned down to the corners of the mailboxes. They can be allowed to grow with rules and restrictions to achieve the original goals and allow creativity and innovation. Having a plan does not imply a "planned city".
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That's because you're looking at them on a computer monitor. Try seeing the actual output on a 40" print. If you think you can get an image equivalent to a 6x9 film using a digital camera, you're on crack.
As others have pointed out, the linked article is unreadable, barely informative, and likely to damage the environment and one's health. So here's a better idea: if you want to reinvigorate an aging LCD monitor, why not just remove the back altogether, and mount the panel on a nice white LED lightbox? It seems like it would be a big improvement.
That's actually an IIS "feature". Hotmail did the same for years: it would return a 302 response as soon as the connection was open.
No, I expect a retailer to carry and sell quality goods, and I expect that if they sell me something defective they will provide me with a working replacement or a prompt refund.
... (f) conform to the promise or affirmations of fact made on the container or label if any."
Look, I'm not just making shit up here. The implied warranty is codified in US law in UCC Article 2. When goods are sold at retail to the general public, the seller automatically warrants that the goods are fit for the ordinary purpose for which the goods are customarily used or advertised.
Especially important in today's crap retail market are the claims made on the package. See UCC Section 2-314 2(f):
"(2) to be merchantable must be at least such as
Normally the retailer is responsible for the implied warranty on the items they sell. So if you bought an Xbox at Best Buy and it crashes, your beef is with Best Buy, not Microsoft. If the product is genuinely dangerous, sets your house on fire, and disembowls your children, then you have a case against the manufacturer.
Until recently, that is. These days it seems fashionable to directly take your complaint to the manufacturer. I think that's lamentable because in some ways it takes the retailer off the hook.
Ha wow. Good catch.
Obviously you failed to read the article. Aperture imports raw data very poorly. The results look much worse than Camera Raw in Photoshop. Aperture is sold as high-fidelity imaging but actually it's much worse than existing products.
<apple> Math is hard.
This guy seems to have his notion of the customer backwards. Google isn't a BellSouth customer. BellSouth's customers are the users who buy their DSL lines. Duh. Anyway, the really big picture is this: Google could take over BellSouth with the spare change in their couch. Does anyone who pays attention to the stock market think that Google would have a hard time raising 50 billion dollars if they wanted it? I don't.
Yeah sorry, I was only thinking about single-threaded performance. I too would like to see the MT Turion compared, but I believe there's no 2.0GHz part in that line (yet). You'll hear no argument from me about Intel's 65nm process and wonderfully low power consumption. It's obviously going to make from great mobile Macs.
Why should we be impressed again? AMD's top mobile CPU, the Turion 64 ML-37, is equivalent to the Athlon 64 X2 3800+, which is the CPU that beats Yonah in all these tests. So the only thing to be happy about here is that Powerbook and iBook battery life will probably be pretty good. And of course those models are currently using ass-slow G4 chips, so anything is an improvement.
But for iMac and Powermac buyers what this means is being stuck with Intel CPUs that really can't hang with AMD's offering. I mean seriously, AMD currently offers FIVE models that are faster than this Yonah thing, all of which are also faster than the best of the Pentium 4 line.
Er, the 2.0GHz Yonah in these tests is slower in nearly all cases than the Athlon 64 X2 3800+, which is the slowest CPU in AMD's lineup. The _top_ of AMD's line would be the Opteron Model 880. The best CPU they market for the desktop is the Athlon 64 X2 4800+, which has double the cache and runs at a 20% higher clock speed than the 3800+. So, Intel's upcoming chip /barely/ hangs with AMD's bottom of the line. Compared to AMD's current best, Yonah would be left standing in the dust. And Yonah hasn't even been released yet.
About the only good thing I can say about Yonah is it will run MacOS X.
Synopsis: unreleased Intel CPU gets ass handed to it by competing CPU released 4 months ago. If that's all Yonah has going for it, I forsee bad sales in Intel's future. I guess Yonah has that nice low power consumption, but it must really pain Intel to be so far behind in performance.
Don't implement this yourself. Call up Speakeasy. They will set you up with the phones (or you can buy them yourself) and will configure, host, and operate the service. The price is very low and I haven't had the first problem with the service. It's 1000 times better and 100 times less expensive than my old Lucent PBX with WorldCom T1 service.
According to the book Freakonomics, drug dealers make less than the minimum wage, on average. It would not be hard to beat that level of productivity in any undertaking, criminal or not.
As for the phishing problem, I really don't understand why people fall for those. Your bank, or eBay, or Paypal, will never, ever, ever, ever, ever send you an email asking you to disclose any account information. If those people want to contact you for an important reason, they will either call or send you actual mail. This seems like a simple rule to remember, doesn't it?
Like many readers here, I used to run Linux on machines with much lower specs than these. I ran X (with Netscape), irc, and irc bot, an FTP site, and a web site off a Pentium 60 with 24MB memory and a 540MB hard drive, only a third of which was partitioned for Linux. Nothing has happened in the intervening decade to make this computer run less well than it ever did. You can still do all those things you used to do. Why couldn't you?
Similarly, this computer still works great with Windows NT 3.51, or Windows 95, or even DOS or Windows 3.11. As a matter of fact Windows 3.11 runs like a greased pig even on this old hardware.
As long as you choose your software carefully to match your hardware, there's no need to treat a 266MHz Pentium MMX with 64MB of memory as if it were an ancient relic. It's a perfectly good computer.
Some of us use laptops with 1xRTT or EVDO cards and would benefit from 1xRTT or EVDO service. Face it, wide-area Wi-Fi is just not practical, and BART is a very large system. 1x and EVDO and GPRS are designed from the beginning to provide continuous uninterrupted wide-area data service.
BART is loud because it is a wide gauge with light vehicles and designed by a bunch of incompetent boobs who had never worked on railroads before. Halfway through the project they had to hire _real_ railroad engineering firms to come save their bacon, but unfortunately the non-standard gauge and custom cars were already locked into the design.
Anyway the German ICE is a mainline railroad and BART is regional, so it's a poor comparison. The New York subway (MTA), the Paris Metro, London's Underground, and the D.C. Metro are better comparisons. Some of those are loud (especially the MTA), some are quite.
Most of them are above ground and already well-served with wireless.
Actually, both thread creation and process creation are much faster on Linux than Windows. However the margin is smaller for threads.
I agree that the report is meaningless for the purposes suggested in this slashdot write-up. If anything, it tells us that something coming out from MS Research has the potential to kick the asses of both Windows and Linux.
I had no idea that you could serve XUL into the browser and have it work. That's a great tip. Thanks!
I agree. Web browsers (and AJAX) lack two crucial features needed for GUI development. The most important by far is a packing system. There is no way to tell the browser you want one element to be as compact as possible, and you want the element next to it to be as large as possible. This stuff has been in GUI APIs for decades, because it's a requirement. If you could get at the APIs that Mozilla uses to draw its GUI, and use those in the content area, that would be a start. But right now you just have to guess at element sizes.
Secondly, you, as the AJAX programmer, have to re-implement all the useful things the browser does to tell you what's going on. An example: a few weeks ago Google launched a javascript RSS reader. On the first day their server system was completely overwhelmed with requests. Because of the AJAX implementation, the user couldn't tell what the hell was going on. The elements of the UI would click and move around and animate and do all sorts of things, but the data wasn't coming in from the server, so it was useless. And because of the architecture the browser was not giving messages like "server could not be contacted" or what-have-you. Someone needs to come up with a way to inform the user that something dreadful is happening behind the curtain.
With the two above improvements, AJAX might be of some use. As it currently stands, AJAX is just an Even Bigger Hack.
NYC is the most-moved-to city in the world. It is admired by the greater part of humanity. I supposed you are going to tell us why it sucks?
Whoops I forgot to mention the main point: Brasilia is a disaster because Le Corbusier was a moron of the highest order. It is not sufficient to simply have a plan, one must also have a GOOD plan.
CIties don't necessarily need to be planned down to the corners of the mailboxes. They can be allowed to grow with rules and restrictions to achieve the original goals and allow creativity and innovation. Having a plan does not imply a "planned city".
Please explain how the US controls the current name server system.