A photographer hired to shoot an event is producing a work for hire unless specified otherwise in the contract. The author of this article should check the language of his contract with the photographer. If there is no language specifically contradicting the work-for-hire status, he owns all rights to the original photographic negatives.
As always, it pays to read the contract. I had to pay a high sum for the photography at my wedding, but I also got all the negatives, high-quality proofs, and high-resolution scans to distribute and reproduce as it pleases me. All I had to do was negotiate a work-for-hire.
If you don't read the contract, you are almost certain to get screwed.
The advisory at Symantec advises the reader to update their virus definitions and run a full system scan. Presumably they are talking about Symantec anti-virus products, but if they make such a product for Linux/x86, I could not detect it on their website.
I know I've pimped it here before, but I don't mind doing it again. VueScan is the best scanning software for Linux, Mac OS, and Windows. It supports all Epson USB, SCSI, and IEEE-1394 flatbed scanners, and a SCSI film scanner. The program is shareware, and registration costs $40.
You can cause a lot of problems by replacing a part in a working system with the manufacturer's new and improved part. Often the new part has faster outputs, which can change your PCB layouts from working to marginal.
Given the above, I still don't see why they would not reimplement the whole thing in a slightly newer logic family and requalify it.
That's the amazing thing about this disk. If the report at Storage Review is to be believed, the 15k.3 is as quiet as the Western Digital 1200BB, a 7200 RPM ATA disk.
That's a damn bad warranty. My next drive will be a Seagate 15k.3, as soon as a retailer can get them in stock. It's $900 for 72GB, but I don't need more than that, the Seagate is fast as fuck, and the warranty covers five years.
I think you are pointing out only superficial differences. AltiVec has 32 registers. Pentium4 has 8 SSE2 registers. If you wrote a program that exercises 20 AltiVec registers, you have some changes to make to jam it into the Pentium4. Also the PPC74xx has a dedicated unit for AltiVec, which means the programmer can issue instructions on the scalar FP unit and the AltiVec unit in parallel. The Pentium4's FP unit is the SSE2 unit, so any super-optimized AltiVec code needs to change. Nevermind that SSE2 still doesn't have a satisfactory analog to the vec_permute on AltiVec.
My only point is that anyone who took the time to really exploit AltiVec for that nifty iDCT routine is going to have to do it again for SSE2.
I'll believe Apple has an x86 port of OS X. But, the OS is not the main problem. Apple can't switch to the x86 because their app vendors would be in hell trying to port their AltiVec optimizations to MMX/SSE/3DNow!/SSE2. Nevermind that Apple would suddenly be just another PC vendor.
It is much more plausible that Apple is switching the 64-bit IBM Power4 CPU. IBM is presenting this new desktop version of the CPU at Microprocessor Forum on October 15th. The CPU has a mystery vector unit with 160+ instructions, just like AltiVec. There was a post to the gcc-patches mailing list proposing a patch to enable altivec support on the powerpc64 target, and this patch originated from Alan Modra at IBM's Linux Technology Center.
All evidence indicates that IBM will produce a desktop CPU with an AltiVec unit. Apple has hit the wall with Motorola, and are now selling overclocked G4 miracle CPUs just to stay in the game. I think Apple will switch to Power4.
That has nothing to do with the statement of the problem. The problem statement is "how to dispose of a monitor". This implies that the monitor exists, was manufactured in the past, and is currently owned by some entity. So you have to get rid of it somehow, you can't just wish it hadn't been built that way. And as I said, it is much better to have the parts concentrated at a toxic waste center than to chuck it in the trash. CRT monitors are full of lead and other toxic chemicals, and it is also very difficult and dangerous to crush them. The job is best left to a dedicated facility. A recycling center can also reuse the glass for metal smelting operations.
The problem of waste electronics is already being addressed. CRTs are already less favored than LCDs. LCDs generate less waste because they contain less material, and do not use a giant leaded glass tube. They do not have high-voltage, high-current power supplies, and thus need less fireproofing. Further an LCD can be expected to last practically forever if the backlight can be replaced. That of course reduces waste tremendously.
Finally, there are movements afoot to phase out lead, mercuryt, cadmium, chromium, and other dangerous chemicals from electronics products. Lead-free soldering processes are already available, but not widely deployed. The EU has proposed to phase out these dangerous chemicals in electronics by January 2008. Other nations have similar proposals. Google for WEEE to find the EU proposal.
The proper way to dispose of a working monitor is to give it to someone who needs one. The proper way to dispose of a non-working or obsolete monitor or television is to take it to a computer recycling center, who can safely crush the CRT and dispose of the toxic plastic and electronics.
My undergraduate mechanical engineering program required more credit hours than any other program at the university, so of course most mechanical engineering students didn't take a lot of outside coursework. I once made the mistake of taking a significant elective in history, whereupon I realized that an engineering student doesn't really have the time to read 20+ history books per semester. For the rest of my stay at university I made sure to take Survey of Modern American Politics and other fluff courses to fulfill my out-of-major requirements.
I think that particular program would benefit by making room for serious out-of-major study.
PowerPC is a line of CPUs with similar instruction sets and architectures. It is developed by IBM and Motorola, and formerly by Apple. It is related to IBM's Power line. It has nothing to do, and is incompatible with, x86 CPUs. The PowerPC 60x, 750, and 74xx models are and were used in Apple computers.
You are certainly right about the risk, and decreasing reward of shorting something priced that low. The best you can do -- as with any short -- is 100% profit. But the worst that can happen is really, really bad. Even if the stock pops to $1, you just lost 125%. $4 means real trouble, etc. The downside is huge.
WTF are you talking about? This is misinformation, moderated up as informative. You can short whatever stock you want, as long as a shareholder is willing to loan it to you. Perhaps your broker limits you based on your limited investment experience, but there is no limit built-in to the (US) stock markets, below which you cannot sell something short.
No, but I was just installing Windows 2000 Pro into a VMWare device. To install Service Pack 2, I had to accept the EULA for the control that checks to see what updates you need, the EULA for the widget that downloads the SP2 installer, the EULA for the SP2 installer, and the EULA for SP2.
Then I went down to the local burrito stand and somehow they forgot the EULA for my burrito! Ignorant bastards.
It is because the DVD software writes the video stream to the video card's scaling and colorspace conversion engine, not directly to the framebuffer. Nothing nefarious.
Airlines are a private industry the same way I'm the Queen of England. Airlines rely on the public to build their airports or public land. They rely on the government to control traffic in the air. They rely on Congress to give them tens of billions of dollars when profits aren't quite what they hoped. Back in the 80s when you were still shitting your pants, the government even regulated airline routes, schedules, and prices.
Weird that they barely mention Apple and the PowerBook. Last year at the O'Reilly Open Source convention, basically everyone was packing a PowerBook or iBook.
Uh, your $2,000 "high-end" peecee seems to be lacking a 17" digital TFT display and mouting arm. The only other machine with a widescreen TFT display is the Fujitsu C815-T, which lists for $3299. A 4:3 display of like kind and quality, like the Samsung 170T, will run you $700, and a mouting arm from Ergotron will run $300.
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As always, it pays to read the contract. I had to pay a high sum for the photography at my wedding, but I also got all the negatives, high-quality proofs, and high-resolution scans to distribute and reproduce as it pleases me. All I had to do was negotiate a work-for-hire.
If you don't read the contract, you are almost certain to get screwed.
The advisory at Symantec advises the reader to update their virus definitions and run a full system scan. Presumably they are talking about Symantec anti-virus products, but if they make such a product for Linux/x86, I could not detect it on their website.
I know I've pimped it here before, but I don't mind doing it again. VueScan is the best scanning software for Linux, Mac OS, and Windows. It supports all Epson USB, SCSI, and IEEE-1394 flatbed scanners, and a SCSI film scanner. The program is shareware, and registration costs $40.
Given the above, I still don't see why they would not reimplement the whole thing in a slightly newer logic family and requalify it.
That's the amazing thing about this disk. If the report at Storage Review is to be believed, the 15k.3 is as quiet as the Western Digital 1200BB, a 7200 RPM ATA disk.
That's a damn bad warranty. My next drive will be a Seagate 15k.3, as soon as a retailer can get them in stock. It's $900 for 72GB, but I don't need more than that, the Seagate is fast as fuck, and the warranty covers five years.
My only point is that anyone who took the time to really exploit AltiVec for that nifty iDCT routine is going to have to do it again for SSE2.
It is much more plausible that Apple is switching the 64-bit IBM Power4 CPU. IBM is presenting this new desktop version of the CPU at Microprocessor Forum on October 15th. The CPU has a mystery vector unit with 160+ instructions, just like AltiVec. There was a post to the gcc-patches mailing list proposing a patch to enable altivec support on the powerpc64 target, and this patch originated from Alan Modra at IBM's Linux Technology Center.
All evidence indicates that IBM will produce a desktop CPU with an AltiVec unit. Apple has hit the wall with Motorola, and are now selling overclocked G4 miracle CPUs just to stay in the game. I think Apple will switch to Power4.
Guess you are just ignorant, dude. IBM RS/6000 workstations
Yeah it's $20/lb retail. I use it for everything. Melts at 217C. I highly recommend it, if you build or repair electronics.
The problem of waste electronics is already being addressed. CRTs are already less favored than LCDs. LCDs generate less waste because they contain less material, and do not use a giant leaded glass tube. They do not have high-voltage, high-current power supplies, and thus need less fireproofing. Further an LCD can be expected to last practically forever if the backlight can be replaced. That of course reduces waste tremendously.
Finally, there are movements afoot to phase out lead, mercuryt, cadmium, chromium, and other dangerous chemicals from electronics products. Lead-free soldering processes are already available, but not widely deployed. The EU has proposed to phase out these dangerous chemicals in electronics by January 2008. Other nations have similar proposals. Google for WEEE to find the EU proposal.
The proper way to dispose of a working monitor is to give it to someone who needs one. The proper way to dispose of a non-working or obsolete monitor or television is to take it to a computer recycling center, who can safely crush the CRT and dispose of the toxic plastic and electronics.
I think that particular program would benefit by making room for serious out-of-major study.
PowerPC is a line of CPUs with similar instruction sets and architectures. It is developed by IBM and Motorola, and formerly by Apple. It is related to IBM's Power line. It has nothing to do, and is incompatible with, x86 CPUs. The PowerPC 60x, 750, and 74xx models are and were used in Apple computers.
You are certainly right about the risk, and decreasing reward of shorting something priced that low. The best you can do -- as with any short -- is 100% profit. But the worst that can happen is really, really bad. Even if the stock pops to $1, you just lost 125%. $4 means real trouble, etc. The downside is huge.
WTF are you talking about? This is misinformation, moderated up as informative. You can short whatever stock you want, as long as a shareholder is willing to loan it to you. Perhaps your broker limits you based on your limited investment experience, but there is no limit built-in to the (US) stock markets, below which you cannot sell something short.
Why wait?
dpkg -l
No, but I was just installing Windows 2000 Pro into a VMWare device. To install Service Pack 2, I had to accept the EULA for the control that checks to see what updates you need, the EULA for the widget that downloads the SP2 installer, the EULA for the SP2 installer, and the EULA for SP2.
Then I went down to the local burrito stand and somehow they forgot the EULA for my burrito! Ignorant bastards.
It is huge, heavy, and doesn't run as long on the batteries as an ipod. Also ugly.
It is because the DVD software writes the video stream to the video card's scaling and colorspace conversion engine, not directly to the framebuffer. Nothing nefarious.
Airlines are a private industry the same way I'm the Queen of England. Airlines rely on the public to build their airports or public land. They rely on the government to control traffic in the air. They rely on Congress to give them tens of billions of dollars when profits aren't quite what they hoped. Back in the 80s when you were still shitting your pants, the government even regulated airline routes, schedules, and prices.
Weird that they barely mention Apple and the PowerBook. Last year at the O'Reilly Open Source convention, basically everyone was packing a PowerBook or iBook.
Uh, your $2,000 "high-end" peecee seems to be lacking a 17" digital TFT display and mouting arm. The only other machine with a widescreen TFT display is the Fujitsu C815-T, which lists for $3299. A 4:3 display of like kind and quality, like the Samsung 170T, will run you $700, and a mouting arm from Ergotron will run $300.
VueScan is a really great scanning package for Linux GTK, MacOS, or Win32. Cheap, too.