Funny, I bought that Kodak you linked to (not exactly, I got the CX6230), and I've been really happy with it. It blows my crappy film camera right out of the water, but then again I'm just your average joe-schmoe hobbyist photographer.
Basically, when I bought this camera, I went to the store and said "gimme the best digial camera I can get for $200", and they showed me this one. It was actually $180 because it was the boxing day sale.
Did I say that windows is inherently crashy because of it's hardware support? No, I said that it was a common argument, put forth by other people.
Remember the early 90's? People who would argue about the relative merits of Windows/Macintosh would say that MacOS is more stable because of Apple's tight control of the hardware, while windows lost stability because it needed to support such a wide range of configurations. It was like common knowledge, or something.
I mean, think about how versatile the code really is, even if it does crash. Take that requirement out of the picture - that the OS has to run on Nteen thousand different hardware configurations, just one, your superblender - and it might not be the worst choice one could make.
I dunno, that sounds a lot like the old argument "windows is crashy because it supports so much hardware, MacOS is stable because the hardware is tightly controlled" -- then linux came along and provided much stability, and greater hardware support than windows (more processors than just x86, anyway).
No rich text controls, no pop up ads, no viruses, just pure web browsing bliss. They haven't looked back.:-)
Man, I wish I could get my mom using firefox/thunderbird. She has a burning hatred for the word "mozilla", and I do truly mean the word, because she's been using mozilla for a few months, I just disguised it to look like Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. She loves it, but she's convinced that mozilla is the devil or something.
That's strange, because right now I'm loving KDE 3.2, but I can't stand surfing with Konqueror, it's an ugly browser with way too much UI clutter (I mean, come on, it adds three useless entries to every folder in my bookmarks). Not to mention the huge menubar with a ton of crap on it.
I much prefer Firefox for surfing, though I admit Konq is a good file manager.
That's because Nautilus is simultaneously GNOME's file browser, and desktop manager.
It probably also gave you a swack of desktop icons, right?
The solution is to launch nautilus as 'nautilus --no-desktop' when you're not using GNOME. Then it'll just open the file manager and it won't try to take over your desktop.
I find that to be overly redundant. Do you really need the year twice? I'd do something like this:
C:\photos\1997\01\05
But then again, I like directories:)
Here's how I store my photos, however, it works great so far:/home/rbpark/Galleries/Title/100_####.JPG
The idea is, I leave the raw filename from the camera intact, just so that an alphabetical sort will put them into the order that I took them, and the "Title" is just something to help me identify what the pictures are.
Then I use digikam, and it puts an xml file into each directory with various metadata about the pictures, like comments for each pic, etc. I just started using it a couple of days ago, but I think it's a pretty cool program so far.:)
Trivia: Most digital cameras roll over after 9999 photos, it gets annoying.
Yeah, I figured that's what would happen after it got to 9999. I'm at 0700 or so right now, so I should be fine for a while.
Yep, and the funeral homes are killing people, and the weight loss programs are making people fat, and dentists are making your teeth bad, and, and and...:)
I'm not a big chess player, but I can say that, while most sports do involve amazingly complex strategy, it's not something you really think about. I play checkers, which as a complicated a game as any, and I don't really think about what I'm going to do - I just instinctively do it. While I'm sure there are many smart chess players, it's not an intellectual game on the same level as something like Go.
Yeah, I loved it when they released a new edition of my calculus textbook at the start of my course, meaning I couldn't buy any used ones, and at the end of my course, meaning I couldn't sell the one I had. It's so important for them to get a new edition out there, what with all the radical earth-shattering changes that have been made to mathematics in the last few years. [/sarcasm]
Slashdot is a large site, and it has many categories. Sometimes stories from a given category aren't seen as terribly interesting, so they don't make it to the front page (they're not front page news). These stories you'd only see if you were browsing the individual categories.
I personally hate this behavior, so I have that little checkbox turned on in my prefs, you know, the one that says something along the lines of "dump all stories onto the front page". I always laugh at the people who wonder why a given story wasn't on the front page, because the link I clicked to come here was from the front page, just like all the other stories...;)
And don't forget that three different sports called "football" in the English speaking world.
Three?
What the brits call football, the americans call soccer, and the americans have a different sport under the name of football. That's two sports. What am I missing?
I think your analogy is backwards. I think cheering this worm would be like cheering the destruction of all rectangles because you don't like the world trade center...
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Funny, I bought that Kodak you linked to (not exactly, I got the CX6230), and I've been really happy with it. It blows my crappy film camera right out of the water, but then again I'm just your average joe-schmoe hobbyist photographer.
Basically, when I bought this camera, I went to the store and said "gimme the best digial camera I can get for $200", and they showed me this one. It was actually $180 because it was the boxing day sale.
This is definitely an argument for another new moderation option: +1, Explaining the Joke.
:-/
Actually, I think that falls nicely into the "Informative" category.
Myself, I'm still trying to figure out why I now get M2 twice a day, but haven't had M1 in months...
Welcome to the club
The method works for only about half of all e-mails received - but in all of those cases, it sorts the mail into the right category.
... half of the time, anyway.
This spam filter has 100% accuracy!
Did I say that windows is inherently crashy because of it's hardware support? No, I said that it was a common argument, put forth by other people.
Remember the early 90's? People who would argue about the relative merits of Windows/Macintosh would say that MacOS is more stable because of Apple's tight control of the hardware, while windows lost stability because it needed to support such a wide range of configurations. It was like common knowledge, or something.
I mean, think about how versatile the code really is, even if it does crash. Take that requirement out of the picture - that the OS has to run on Nteen thousand different hardware configurations, just one, your superblender - and it might not be the worst choice one could make.
I dunno, that sounds a lot like the old argument "windows is crashy because it supports so much hardware, MacOS is stable because the hardware is tightly controlled" -- then linux came along and provided much stability, and greater hardware support than windows (more processors than just x86, anyway).
No rich text controls, no pop up ads, no viruses, just pure web browsing bliss. They haven't looked back. :-)
Man, I wish I could get my mom using firefox/thunderbird. She has a burning hatred for the word "mozilla", and I do truly mean the word, because she's been using mozilla for a few months, I just disguised it to look like Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. She loves it, but she's convinced that mozilla is the devil or something.
That's strange, because right now I'm loving KDE 3.2, but I can't stand surfing with Konqueror, it's an ugly browser with way too much UI clutter (I mean, come on, it adds three useless entries to every folder in my bookmarks). Not to mention the huge menubar with a ton of crap on it.
I much prefer Firefox for surfing, though I admit Konq is a good file manager.
So if the four basic principles of good design are CRAP, does that mean that a well-designed page is crappy?
Here at Slashdot, we use a special kind of evidence, called "anecdotal evidence". It's like normal evidence, but better!
;)
I guess it is just a case of "the squeaky wheel gets the oil". It is probably not good to encourage this, though.
In my experience, the squeaky wheel gets replaced!
That's because Nautilus is simultaneously GNOME's file browser, and desktop manager.
It probably also gave you a swack of desktop icons, right?
The solution is to launch nautilus as 'nautilus --no-desktop' when you're not using GNOME. Then it'll just open the file manager and it won't try to take over your desktop.
C:\photos\1997\1997_01_05
:)
/home/rbpark/Galleries/Title/100_####.JPG
:)
I find that to be overly redundant. Do you really need the year twice? I'd do something like this:
C:\photos\1997\01\05
But then again, I like directories
Here's how I store my photos, however, it works great so far:
The idea is, I leave the raw filename from the camera intact, just so that an alphabetical sort will put them into the order that I took them, and the "Title" is just something to help me identify what the pictures are.
Then I use digikam, and it puts an xml file into each directory with various metadata about the pictures, like comments for each pic, etc. I just started using it a couple of days ago, but I think it's a pretty cool program so far.
Trivia: Most digital cameras roll over after 9999 photos, it gets annoying.
Yeah, I figured that's what would happen after it got to 9999. I'm at 0700 or so right now, so I should be fine for a while.
Yep, and the funeral homes are killing people, and the weight loss programs are making people fat, and dentists are making your teeth bad, and, and and... :)
It's not dead, it's... uh... resting!
... it was a joke, jeez.
I'm not a big chess player, but I can say that, while most sports do involve amazingly complex strategy, it's not something you really think about. I play checkers, which as a complicated a game as any, and I don't really think about what I'm going to do - I just instinctively do it. While I'm sure there are many smart chess players, it's not an intellectual game on the same level as something like Go.
;)
BTW, if you're wondering, the books are currently in a pile on my desk next to my books from last semester. I've currently got a 3.9 GPA.
Well yeah, what were you expecting? If you don't use your textbooks, you'll fail!
(At my uni, grades are from 1 to 9, and 4 is the minimum pass mark)
Yeah, I loved it when they released a new edition of my calculus textbook at the start of my course, meaning I couldn't buy any used ones, and at the end of my course, meaning I couldn't sell the one I had. It's so important for them to get a new edition out there, what with all the radical earth-shattering changes that have been made to mathematics in the last few years. [/sarcasm]
...or the other less well known proverb: Give a man a blanket and he is warm for a night; set him on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life. :-)
You borked that a little bit.
Give a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Ehhh, ok, it works like this:
;)
Slashdot is a large site, and it has many categories. Sometimes stories from a given category aren't seen as terribly interesting, so they don't make it to the front page (they're not front page news). These stories you'd only see if you were browsing the individual categories.
I personally hate this behavior, so I have that little checkbox turned on in my prefs, you know, the one that says something along the lines of "dump all stories onto the front page". I always laugh at the people who wonder why a given story wasn't on the front page, because the link I clicked to come here was from the front page, just like all the other stories...
And don't forget that three different sports called "football" in the English speaking world.
Three?
What the brits call football, the americans call soccer, and the americans have a different sport under the name of football. That's two sports. What am I missing?
Just be happy that he's not calling it Great Britian ;)
My servers don't care that you're doomed.
This is not insightful.
;)
You're right, it's informative.
(it must be true! It was modded that way!
I think your analogy is backwards. I think cheering this worm would be like cheering the destruction of all rectangles because you don't like the world trade center...