This Mega Pixel label drives me mad. Time and time again I am asked what mega-pixel camera a friend should buy. It seem to be the only metric that people use when buying a camera.
Case in point. A friend went a bought a 4 Mega Pixel camera over the 3.2 one I recommended, because 'it was better 'coz it has more pixels'. Firstly why f**king ask me if you don't follow my advice. Second, if you are tempted by a different model at least come back and ask before buying it! Well guess what the next question was? "Why do my pictures look crap when printed?" "I'll tell you why: You bought a camera with no optical zoom, only ditigal zoom and you're now understanding why I told you to ignore digital zoom - you got what you deserved."
When I look at cameras I look firstly at the Lens and the quality of some sample pictures. More often than not its the Lens which determines if a camera is any good or not. Thats why I use a Canon 350D with 3 different lens. People are blown away by the quality of my pictures.
I've not seen the source but placing an ASSERT(0) is a very valid thing to do.
All software is full of assumptions that a particular path can never be taken. By placing ASSERT(0) in these places it alerts a developer running debug code that there is either a problem in their code or more likely a device driver is behaving badly.
It's a technique used by experienced mature developers..
Clinton didn't unite the world against the US as Bush has. He's single handedly created more potential terrorists than Osma could dream of by bombing and killing innocent people.
For every 'action' the American Gov. takes, be it invade a country using lies, employing weasel words to duck out of the truth they're torturing people or locking people up indefinitely without trial or access to family or proper representation they are uniting the world against them. Where will it end? Who knows but the more America acts like an Empire the more likely they are to suffer the fate of Empires - and they will be no less deserving.
America has entered a phase where they have very few real friends left. Israel cannot believe their luck!
You're as bad as Microsoft! Windows (XP/2003) does not crash unless there is a buggy device driver. If you think it does state your verifiable, FUD free source please. Otherwise take your Windows FUD elsewhere. What's good for the goose....
Couldn't agree with you more. -1, FlameBait means you hit a raw nerve with the 16 year old school kids who think content created should be free of charge.
Anyone who wants to distribute content can do so now. They are free to use DVD's (sans DRM anyone can do so without hindrance), they can post their creation to the internet. Hell they can even snail mail VHS videos, 8mm or whatever to anyone.
I wonder why I come here when a comment as on the mark as your is -1,FlameBaite'd
Do you really think that when you call a cell phone every transmitter IN THE GPS WORLD transmits a 'ring' request for you? No, the phone constantly communicates with its local cells to say where it is. You cannot operate a cell phone without it transmitting. And its this that is used to track you.
If this kind of thing were allowed it would stop all history being recorded and published.
What they may be able to claim is the version of history they compiled is copyright in whole by themselves. So long as you don;t use them as a source for you information I don't see the have a leg to stand on.
'... it also turns out most drivers can't even name the high tech safety systems that are continually saving their butts'
Why is this a problem? There are plenty of things my Mum doesn't understand about her PC but it doesn't stop her getting enjoyment from using it.
I bet most of the youngsters her don't understand what double-declutching is, why it was needed and what invention came along that made it unnecessary?
Do you understand how the electronics in the ECU that drives the engine works? I'd bet half the geeks here don't know that a cam shaft and a crank rotate at different speeds.
I say 'Reward the guy who manages to get his submission published with the link.'
I've never submitted a story, as I really cannot be arsed, I'm lazy and selfish. These people who do submit them are giving their time in order that we may be entertained/informed.
There is nothing stopping YOU submitting the same quality or quantity or stories as bug-bug does, except for either your low intellectual ability or dare I say laziness.
So to fix this problem the answer is simple - submit better quality stories so that yours get pyublished, not theirs and use your link to point to something like savehtewhale.org
>> Where has J K Rowling ever stated that forgotten all about the idea of Harry Potter if copyright law didn't exist in its current form?
Where has she stated either she would or wouldn't? A worthless comment.
>>They wouldn't need to just print them they'd also need to ship them around the planet and get book sellers to buy outside their usual channels. The profit margins with books tend to be too small for "book piracy", at least when it comes to fiction books.
A lot of books are currently made in China so that sods that arguement.
Address the issue. Why should someone invest time and money in creating a 'product' only to have someone else profit from it and thus deny them the fruits of their labour? I'll tell you why: Because you just don't want to pay.
What you are saying here is: someone like ABC publishing company should spend 2 years paying JKR to write a book, publish it and then sit back and watch the Chinese print off a gazzilion copies of the work they paid an employee to wite a week later without profiting one cent.
Which ever way you cut it, if you are not prepared to give the copyright owner a period of exclusive copyright there will be less works available.
Why should someone who has no production costs, places no effort in the creation of a work stand to make a profit off it? And if your idea is such a good one then why do only a tiny proportion of artists choose to release their works directly into the public domain?
What a load of crap. What you are saying here is: someone like JKR should spend 2 years writing a book, get it published and then sit back and watch the Chinese print off a gazzilion copies of her work a week later without her profiting one cent.
The guy who supplies a cable to your house has fixed costs and variable costs associated with supplying it.
The fixed costs are the physical line, maintenance, exchange equipment etc.
The variable costs are basically the calls, or are they? It costs them a fixed amount for the infrastructure to enable you to make calls. Once the mainly fixed costs of providing the infrastructure is met then profit starts. I know this is a simplistic description but it mostly hold water. So in effect the business is built around mainly fixed costs.
However if you take away the revenue associated with the making of calls then something has to give to meet these costs which remain largely the same.
This can either be reduced profit, reduced costs or an increase in the fixed charge.
Reducing profit is something companies are unlikely to want to do. In SBC's case their profit $1.2 billion from $10.3 billion represents 11% profit. Not bad and they can afford to lose some from that. But get much below say 6-7% and alarm bells will start ringing. Not least they won't be keen on investing speculative money on a high risk, low margin business like say next gen. ADSL.
Reducing costs. I dare say there could be some of this going on in a business of this size but after not too long they would have to reduce their infrastructure costs. And reducing infrastructure costs would eventually mean reducing service.
The third option is to move the fixed costs onto the fixed costs the customer pays. IE The line rental and the Broadband supply.
Doubtless there are other ways of looking at it but any way must address the issue of fixed costs being paid for.
People seem to think that if someone decides to switch search engine advertising that automatically the viewers switch as well. Not so.
Google spend their time thinking about how to keep their users using their service and realise the advertising bucks will roll in as a 'by-product'. MS don't get it even now and still think about how they can 'screw' their users.
Relax people. When did u ever hear someone say they used MSN for search?
Our company uses MS Office period. After reading about OpenOffice on Slashdot I thought I'd try it out for myself. So I thought I'd see how it handled our system spec doc. About 250 pages with graphics, nothing too clever in there but in MS Word format.
Well, I fired OO up and loaded the file. What normally takes say 10 seconds with Word took over 15 mins! I assumed that this was a one time hit converting from MS Office format, so I saved the document in OO native format so I would subsequently time opening from the native format. Took 15 mins to save the bloody thing and the same to open it again.
For us this product isn't an option. Its pathetic at loading/saving when compared to Office.
Might be OK for small doc but for us it just doesn't cut it.
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Remember, you DO have a choice in which OS you want to install. If you don't like this then don't subscribe to it.
This Mega Pixel label drives me mad. Time and time again I am asked what mega-pixel camera a friend should buy. It seem to be the only metric that people use when buying a camera.
Case in point. A friend went a bought a 4 Mega Pixel camera over the 3.2 one I recommended, because 'it was better 'coz it has more pixels'. Firstly why f**king ask me if you don't follow my advice. Second, if you are tempted by a different model at least come back and ask before buying it! Well guess what the next question was? "Why do my pictures look crap when printed?" "I'll tell you why: You bought a camera with no optical zoom, only ditigal zoom and you're now understanding why I told you to ignore digital zoom - you got what you deserved."
When I look at cameras I look firstly at the Lens and the quality of some sample pictures. More often than not its the Lens which determines if a camera is any good or not. Thats why I use a Canon 350D with 3 different lens. People are blown away by the quality of my pictures.
I've not seen the source but placing an ASSERT(0) is a very valid thing to do.
All software is full of assumptions that a particular path can never be taken. By placing ASSERT(0) in these places it alerts a developer running debug code that there is either a problem in their code or more likely a device driver is behaving badly.
It's a technique used by experienced mature developers..
I bet it will be but lets face it, 99.99% of users don't use it - they use .XLS Its no great surprise.
Does this mean that when I buy a CD I need a further licence to rip this to an MP3 player or an iPod? If I have two iPods do I need to licences?
Clinton didn't unite the world against the US as Bush has. He's single handedly created more potential terrorists than Osma could dream of by bombing and killing innocent people.
For every 'action' the American Gov. takes, be it invade a country using lies, employing weasel words to duck out of the truth they're torturing people or locking people up indefinitely without trial or access to family or proper representation they are uniting the world against them. Where will it end? Who knows but the more America acts like an Empire the more likely they are to suffer the fate of Empires - and they will be no less deserving.
America has entered a phase where they have very few real friends left. Israel cannot believe their luck!
>> Unlike Windows, crashing on UNIX is not normal
You're as bad as Microsoft! Windows (XP/2003) does not crash unless there is a buggy device driver. If you think it does state your verifiable, FUD free source please. Otherwise take your Windows FUD elsewhere. What's good for the goose....
Couldn't agree with you more. -1, FlameBait means you hit a raw nerve with the 16 year old school kids who think content created should be free of charge.
Anyone who wants to distribute content can do so now. They are free to use DVD's (sans DRM anyone can do so without hindrance), they can post their creation to the internet. Hell they can even snail mail VHS videos, 8mm or whatever to anyone.
I wonder why I come here when a comment as on the mark as your is -1,FlameBaite'd
Do you really think that when you call a cell phone every transmitter IN THE GPS WORLD transmits a 'ring' request for you? No, the phone constantly communicates with its local cells to say where it is. You cannot operate a cell phone without it transmitting. And its this that is used to track you.
If this kind of thing were allowed it would stop all history being recorded and published.
What they may be able to claim is the version of history they compiled is copyright in whole by themselves. So long as you don;t use them as a source for you information I don't see the have a leg to stand on.
But INAL
'... it also turns out most drivers can't even name the high tech safety systems that are continually saving their butts'
Why is this a problem? There are plenty of things my Mum doesn't understand about her PC but it doesn't stop her getting enjoyment from using it.
I bet most of the youngsters her don't understand what double-declutching is, why it was needed and what invention came along that made it unnecessary?
Do you understand how the electronics in the ECU that drives the engine works? I'd bet half the geeks here don't know that a cam shaft and a crank rotate at different speeds.
This is soooo much of a non-story.
I say 'Reward the guy who manages to get his submission published with the link.'
I've never submitted a story, as I really cannot be arsed, I'm lazy and selfish. These people who do submit them are giving their time in order that we may be entertained/informed.
There is nothing stopping YOU submitting the same quality or quantity or stories as bug-bug does, except for either your low intellectual ability or dare I say laziness.
So to fix this problem the answer is simple - submit better quality stories so that yours get pyublished, not theirs and use your link to point to something like savehtewhale.org
Oh, and need I say 'Don't feed the trolls'
Some of the previous winners:
1938: Adolf Hitler
1939: Joseph Stalin
This award can mean both good and bad.
Er No. Ghandi was dead against the idea. He was forced into it by the threat of civil war.
>> Where has J K Rowling ever stated that forgotten all about the idea of Harry Potter if copyright law didn't exist in its current form?
Where has she stated either she would or wouldn't? A worthless comment.
>>They wouldn't need to just print them they'd also need to ship them around the planet and get book sellers to buy outside their usual channels. The profit margins with books tend to be too small for "book piracy", at least when it comes to fiction books.
A lot of books are currently made in China so that sods that arguement.
Address the issue. Why should someone invest time and money in creating a 'product' only to have someone else profit from it and thus deny them the fruits of their labour? I'll tell you why: Because you just don't want to pay.
I cannot think of a single bok I would have spent £20 on if waiting a few weeks would have got it for £0.95
Why shouldn't artists have a period where they have exclusive rights to benefit from their works?
Ok, so lets see how your system works now...
What you are saying here is: someone like ABC publishing company should spend 2 years paying JKR to write a book, publish it and then sit back and watch the Chinese print off a gazzilion copies of the work they paid an employee to wite a week later without profiting one cent.
Which ever way you cut it, if you are not prepared to give the copyright owner a period of exclusive copyright there will be less works available.
Why should someone who has no production costs, places no effort in the creation of a work stand to make a profit off it? And if your idea is such a good one then why do only a tiny proportion of artists choose to release their works directly into the public domain?
You need to take a 101 in business.
What a load of crap. What you are saying here is: someone like JKR should spend 2 years writing a book, get it published and then sit back and watch the Chinese print off a gazzilion copies of her work a week later without her profiting one cent.
There has to be reward for work.
Unless I can type www.google.com to get there is has no hope ;)
'..but by using DRM which allows some limited copying, it is hoped that people won't feel the need to bypass the DRM entirely.'
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The guy who supplies a cable to your house has fixed costs and variable costs associated with supplying it.
The fixed costs are the physical line, maintenance, exchange equipment etc.
The variable costs are basically the calls, or are they? It costs them a fixed amount for the infrastructure to enable you to make calls. Once the mainly fixed costs of providing the infrastructure is met then profit starts. I know this is a simplistic description but it mostly hold water. So in effect the business is built around mainly fixed costs.
However if you take away the revenue associated with the making of calls then something has to give to meet these costs which remain largely the same.
This can either be reduced profit, reduced costs or an increase in the fixed charge.
Reducing profit is something companies are unlikely to want to do. In SBC's case their profit $1.2 billion from $10.3 billion represents 11% profit. Not bad and they can afford to lose some from that. But get much below say 6-7% and alarm bells will start ringing. Not least they won't be keen on investing speculative money on a high risk, low margin business like say next gen. ADSL.
Reducing costs. I dare say there could be some of this going on in a business of this size but after not too long they would have to reduce their infrastructure costs. And reducing infrastructure costs would eventually mean reducing service.
The third option is to move the fixed costs onto the fixed costs the customer pays. IE The line rental and the Broadband supply.
Doubtless there are other ways of looking at it but any way must address the issue of fixed costs being paid for.
Looks like Windows 3.1 did - you call the progress? Maybe this is a project to take us back to the console? Good progress already made.
And I the only one that thinks that MS offering anti virus software is very similar to the mafia offering 'protection'?
People seem to think that if someone decides to switch search engine advertising that automatically the viewers switch as well. Not so.
Google spend their time thinking about how to keep their users using their service and realise the advertising bucks will roll in as a 'by-product'. MS don't get it even now and still think about how they can 'screw' their users.
Relax people. When did u ever hear someone say they used MSN for search?
Our company uses MS Office period. After reading about OpenOffice on Slashdot I thought I'd try it out for myself. So I thought I'd see how it handled our system spec doc. About 250 pages with graphics, nothing too clever in there but in MS Word format.
Well, I fired OO up and loaded the file. What normally takes say 10 seconds with Word took over 15 mins! I assumed that this was a one time hit converting from MS Office format, so I saved the document in OO native format so I would subsequently time opening from the native format. Took 15 mins to save the bloody thing and the same to open it again.
For us this product isn't an option. Its pathetic at loading/saving when compared to Office.
Might be OK for small doc but for us it just doesn't cut it.