Yeah, but it matters a lot less for LCD screens since the pixels (or more accurately, the dots) will stay on until they get their new value. Interpolation is a nice feature and there are some LCD's that can do 100 Hz, which is great for moving pictures (action movies, sport games). But I read the December issue of the C'T (German/Dutch computer magazine) and all implementations of the interpolation were pretty bad. So even if interpolation is interesting, I would wait a bit.
On the other hand, with the scaling and resolution of this screen, you might be better off buying this screen and use it as a television set together with a digital tuner and a good hifi set.
That's enough of a burden really. I've got an offline computer that I need to update now and then. For many open source products this is easy enough. Just download the latest version and be done with it. Not so with MS, try downloading the latest IE from an internet browser. It is enough of a nag that you cannot run multiple versions of that software on a single PC for testing.
Oh, that's nothing. I have this company laptop that I had to get ready for a.NET course. 512 MB RAM, P4 processor. It ran Win2K (now XP). Now to install the IDE: it took me from 1900 to 0300 to install the stuff. Install MSDN, failure, install IE, install runtime environment, update system components etc. etc. The number of reboots? I don't know, more than 7 at least. Of course, most was CD based, so count in all the hassles with that. I myself program Java. Install SDK (no reboot needed) and unzip eclipse. Doubleclick eclipse.exe. Oh, and download the documentation for the Java SDK, because I've got no direct internet connection (because of security reasons).
Of course you would need Win XP for IE 7, and I would be very surprised if IE 7 was not a requirement for the latest.NET. Hell, no more, I'll stick to Java for the installation issues alone. Fortunately, it was no server, so the downtime only left me severely out of sleep. Which was enough of a problem due to the long number of training hours.
That's the reason I bought a Canon IXUS. It uses SD cards which I can use in my PDA, Notebook, PC and MP3 player without any problems. Now I bought a new one (hint: IXUS cannot take sand, buy a sleeve and put it into a plastic bag when you go into hazardous environments). No lest compatibility of course - it's a compact - but the battery and memory cards were fully compatible. Now I've got two batteries for the thing, sweet.
If I ever buy a SLR, it needs to support common lenses and, of course, SD cards.
Interesting, but after the MOOXML debate here on slashdot, I don't trust him anymore. If he's not an outright Microsoft shill, he's at least severely crippled by the love of anything M$.
7) Don't go and design your own framework. Try to rely on platform features as much as possible; people are used to those. And don't try and reinvent the wheel, use pre-build components when and if they are available. Don't forget keyboard input, and make sure that you can tab go the widgets in a non-obstructive way.
All these advises are really nice, but don't let your users learn everything from scratch. Unfortunately, even M$ and Apple sometimes forget this part. In most UI books, there is no distinction between creating platform widgets and creating an application. This seems to be a big oversight in my opinion, normally an application developer should not have to create everything from scratch.
Don't forget i18n if you are catering for a world wide audience.
The only thing on the brightness I could find was this snippet:
"In the demo at Digital Experience, PicoP cast a vibrant image of Disney's Finding Nemo on a common piece of 8.5-by-11-inch white paper. The image was clear, but the amount of light in the large conference hall did not offer an optimal viewing environment."
Yes, yes, I know, clicking on a link within the article *and* reading to the end of that article is not considered fair within the slashdot crowd:)
Why not use an Etmopterus perryi, aka the dwarf lantern shark? Don't yer believe, the picture is of a real sized, mature shark. Right, I'm going to ready my cage to catch this brute.
I don't think the T-1000 was made of foam. It's been a while since I last saw the movie, but I cannot remember anything about a killer robot cuddling people to death.
I presume it is. The kernel, in all earnest, won't be. But that's alright. That's the stuff that you test again and again. The thing is that you are less likely to encounter buffer overruns when you are running any software or services on it. I mean, what percentage of code of Vista will be really part of the kernel? Even on monolithic kernels, the amount of kernel side code will not be that huge. Of course, graphic card drivers and security scanning software are clear attack vectors that reside (at least partly) at kernel level.
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Calories? You think *calories* are the problem? Healthy food is the problem. Calories are wide and rich. Fortunately, we'll have plenty of pills to choose from, lets hope they contain the spectrum we really need, and that they will be accepted by our bodies at the right time.
"In other words, this is semi-religious conservative populist BS from someone that does not understand a thing about the internet."
Which, I admit, is very strange coming from a labour minister for broadband communications. Please remove the semi-religious then, since this is NZ, we can leave the rest I suppose.
Some problems with this scheme: - who is going to determine what is acceptable and what isn't - those not listed will probably sue - if a site is not compliant and becomes compliant again, when will it be included? - sites that allow content upload by users could be in trouble - content scanning does not work, there are too many false negatives, and more importantly, way too many false positives - how will opting in/out work, who is going to do the registration? - ooh, the poor ISP infrastructure. Just saving DNS requests or URL's is something, but man, this will cost big bucks - parent wants to view porn; now child can too, and vice versa - certain to kill of small ISP's, and therefore any true innovation within the internet structure of the country
Anyway, the guy clearly shows that he's talking bullshit. I mean, how can a structure that allows opt-out work against child porn? This is a scheme to disallow children to watch porn, it won't do anything against child porn. In other words, this is semi-religious conservative populist BS from someone that does not understand a thing about the internet.
Now I'm off to buy McAfee stock - worst software on the planet, but it seems to strike a chord with idiots.
I'm just wondering how much of a backlash Vista will have on the open source operating environments.
The most different thing about Vista and XP is the off-take of.NET. This means that most of the operating system, and in short time - the applications - will be managed software. This will mean that, in general, software will indeed be safer to run - e.g. no more buffer overruns. I don't see any movements within the Linux environment towards this direction. Somehow, just playing the NX-bit game doesn't really cut it.
On the other hand we have the more fine-grained security model. Yes, this means more popup boxes. But if I'm running Ubuntu, it's much worse. I'll have to type my passport so many times that it isn't even funny anymore. Just clicking a popup box seems more user friendly to me.
Not to nag, but even though Vista is a bit of a pain to work with, are we sure we (yes, we, I'm not a Microsoft fan boy, far from it) should keep discrediting Windows? Lets play the technological game and innovate instead. We can do better than MS, both at security, speed, and UI design. Now let's show what we're made off instead of screaming foul.
This only works if you have enough people with an open mind on your team. Especially when you are doing innovation, this requirement should be on top. So the problem is: getting enough people with an open mind that are willing to let go of some - even basic - principles. If the team does not comply to that; well, forget it. It is very important that this free thinking is supported by the company you work for (at mine, I've got the feeling that it isn't anymore). On top of that you need a good control structure so that projects don't get out of hand, and beneath it you need people with less creativity, but strong work ethics. After you've set up the structure, then you can think about introducing "strangers" to the design team, not before. After that: think of use cases and work from there.
Yeah, probably, although the list was about why males being more likely to create an offense. Then again, the main article was about convicted sex abusers. Anyway, we're side-tracking I suppose.
"There's even a report of a girl getting the sex offender label for having sex with a younger boyfriend."
There are, in my mind, three main reasons why males are more prone to sex "offenses": - high hormone levels - strength - age difference (in general, males fall for younger girls, and vice versa) But in these cases, just having sex with a boy/girl, only the last reason plays a role, and it's just a rule of thumb. So I don't see why females (why call them girls when the sex offender label is for adults) would be exempt from this ridiculous law.
Meh, not that I know of. Maybe for motherboard connections to the front panel (for desktops), but that's about it. If they ever had, it's a long way back.
After a google search, it definitely looked like one to me. Sony has had BD in laptops for a while now, I would be very surprised if they couldn't make drives sized for the standard laptop unit.
I've been using Ubuntu on a VIA C3 for a while now and it runs fine. You should not do too much with high def video and 3D though. But remarks that you cannot run Windows software on it makes me highly suspicious of the review. I mean, at least point to the high number of packages that can be easily installed for free. The number of stars it gets after the very shallow review is another suspicious point. Complaining about speed and recommending a much slower Eee PC is a third. The list goes on. So no, I don't think the author was unbiased. Of course, some points like the screen resolution is valid. Playing around with video drivers is (still) a hard thing on Linux, and it shouldn't be.
Yeah, well, this seemed to be the winner. It actually fades the lights as well, and it seems that the whole yard is completely filled with lights. But bugger, if I was one of the people living near during rehearsals, I definitely would have bought some candles and killed the electricity.
Oh well, you can bet it doesn't show artifacts as did all the pictures (foreground, background and logo) of the website of the company I work for. That cost a lot of cash as well.
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Yeah, but it matters a lot less for LCD screens since the pixels (or more accurately, the dots) will stay on until they get their new value. Interpolation is a nice feature and there are some LCD's that can do 100 Hz, which is great for moving pictures (action movies, sport games). But I read the December issue of the C'T (German/Dutch computer magazine) and all implementations of the interpolation were pretty bad. So even if interpolation is interesting, I would wait a bit.
On the other hand, with the scaling and resolution of this screen, you might be better off buying this screen and use it as a television set together with a digital tuner and a good hifi set.
That's enough of a burden really. I've got an offline computer that I need to update now and then. For many open source products this is easy enough. Just download the latest version and be done with it. Not so with MS, try downloading the latest IE from an internet browser. It is enough of a nag that you cannot run multiple versions of that software on a single PC for testing.
Oh, that's nothing. I have this company laptop that I had to get ready for a .NET course. 512 MB RAM, P4 processor. It ran Win2K (now XP). Now to install the IDE: it took me from 1900 to 0300 to install the stuff. Install MSDN, failure, install IE, install runtime environment, update system components etc. etc. The number of reboots? I don't know, more than 7 at least. Of course, most was CD based, so count in all the hassles with that. I myself program Java. Install SDK (no reboot needed) and unzip eclipse. Doubleclick eclipse.exe. Oh, and download the documentation for the Java SDK, because I've got no direct internet connection (because of security reasons).
.NET. Hell, no more, I'll stick to Java for the installation issues alone. Fortunately, it was no server, so the downtime only left me severely out of sleep. Which was enough of a problem due to the long number of training hours.
Of course you would need Win XP for IE 7, and I would be very surprised if IE 7 was not a requirement for the latest
That's the reason I bought a Canon IXUS. It uses SD cards which I can use in my PDA, Notebook, PC and MP3 player without any problems. Now I bought a new one (hint: IXUS cannot take sand, buy a sleeve and put it into a plastic bag when you go into hazardous environments). No lest compatibility of course - it's a compact - but the battery and memory cards were fully compatible. Now I've got two batteries for the thing, sweet.
If I ever buy a SLR, it needs to support common lenses and, of course, SD cards.
Interesting, but after the MOOXML debate here on slashdot, I don't trust him anymore. If he's not an outright Microsoft shill, he's at least severely crippled by the love of anything M$.
7) Don't go and design your own framework. Try to rely on platform features as much as possible; people are used to those. And don't try and reinvent the wheel, use pre-build components when and if they are available. Don't forget keyboard input, and make sure that you can tab go the widgets in a non-obstructive way.
All these advises are really nice, but don't let your users learn everything from scratch. Unfortunately, even M$ and Apple sometimes forget this part. In most UI books, there is no distinction between creating platform widgets and creating an application. This seems to be a big oversight in my opinion, normally an application developer should not have to create everything from scratch.
Don't forget i18n if you are catering for a world wide audience.
The only thing on the brightness I could find was this snippet:
:)
"In the demo at Digital Experience, PicoP cast a vibrant image of Disney's Finding Nemo on a common piece of 8.5-by-11-inch white paper. The image was clear, but the amount of light in the large conference hall did not offer an optimal viewing environment."
Yes, yes, I know, clicking on a link within the article *and* reading to the end of that article is not considered fair within the slashdot crowd
Why not use an Etmopterus perryi, aka the dwarf lantern shark? Don't yer believe, the picture is of a real sized, mature shark. Right, I'm going to ready my cage to catch this brute.
(look ma, I can Google)
I don't think the T-1000 was made of foam. It's been a while since I last saw the movie, but I cannot remember anything about a killer robot cuddling people to death.
I presume it is. The kernel, in all earnest, won't be. But that's alright. That's the stuff that you test again and again. The thing is that you are less likely to encounter buffer overruns when you are running any software or services on it. I mean, what percentage of code of Vista will be really part of the kernel? Even on monolithic kernels, the amount of kernel side code will not be that huge. Of course, graphic card drivers and security scanning software are clear attack vectors that reside (at least partly) at kernel level.
Calories? You think *calories* are the problem? Healthy food is the problem. Calories are wide and rich. Fortunately, we'll have plenty of pills to choose from, lets hope they contain the spectrum we really need, and that they will be accepted by our bodies at the right time.
"In other words, this is semi-religious conservative populist BS from someone that does not understand a thing about the internet."
Which, I admit, is very strange coming from a labour minister for broadband communications. Please remove the semi-religious then, since this is NZ, we can leave the rest I suppose.
Some problems with this scheme:
- who is going to determine what is acceptable and what isn't
- those not listed will probably sue
- if a site is not compliant and becomes compliant again, when will it be included?
- sites that allow content upload by users could be in trouble
- content scanning does not work, there are too many false negatives, and more importantly, way too many false positives
- how will opting in/out work, who is going to do the registration?
- ooh, the poor ISP infrastructure. Just saving DNS requests or URL's is something, but man, this will cost big bucks
- parent wants to view porn; now child can too, and vice versa
- certain to kill of small ISP's, and therefore any true innovation within the internet structure of the country
Anyway, the guy clearly shows that he's talking bullshit. I mean, how can a structure that allows opt-out work against child porn? This is a scheme to disallow children to watch porn, it won't do anything against child porn. In other words, this is semi-religious conservative populist BS from someone that does not understand a thing about the internet.
Now I'm off to buy McAfee stock - worst software on the planet, but it seems to strike a chord with idiots.
I'm just wondering how much of a backlash Vista will have on the open source operating environments.
.NET. This means that most of the operating system, and in short time - the applications - will be managed software. This will mean that, in general, software will indeed be safer to run - e.g. no more buffer overruns. I don't see any movements within the Linux environment towards this direction. Somehow, just playing the NX-bit game doesn't really cut it.
The most different thing about Vista and XP is the off-take of
On the other hand we have the more fine-grained security model. Yes, this means more popup boxes. But if I'm running Ubuntu, it's much worse. I'll have to type my passport so many times that it isn't even funny anymore. Just clicking a popup box seems more user friendly to me.
Not to nag, but even though Vista is a bit of a pain to work with, are we sure we (yes, we, I'm not a Microsoft fan boy, far from it) should keep discrediting Windows? Lets play the technological game and innovate instead. We can do better than MS, both at security, speed, and UI design. Now let's show what we're made off instead of screaming foul.
This only works if you have enough people with an open mind on your team. Especially when you are doing innovation, this requirement should be on top. So the problem is: getting enough people with an open mind that are willing to let go of some - even basic - principles. If the team does not comply to that; well, forget it. It is very important that this free thinking is supported by the company you work for (at mine, I've got the feeling that it isn't anymore). On top of that you need a good control structure so that projects don't get out of hand, and beneath it you need people with less creativity, but strong work ethics. After you've set up the structure, then you can think about introducing "strangers" to the design team, not before. After that: think of use cases and work from there.
Yeah, probably, although the list was about why males being more likely to create an offense. Then again, the main article was about convicted sex abusers. Anyway, we're side-tracking I suppose.
"There's even a report of a girl getting the sex offender label for having sex with a younger boyfriend."
There are, in my mind, three main reasons why males are more prone to sex "offenses":
- high hormone levels
- strength
- age difference (in general, males fall for younger girls, and vice versa)
But in these cases, just having sex with a boy/girl, only the last reason plays a role, and it's just a rule of thumb. So I don't see why females (why call them girls when the sex offender label is for adults) would be exempt from this ridiculous law.
Meh, not that I know of. Maybe for motherboard connections to the front panel (for desktops), but that's about it. If they ever had, it's a long way back.
After a google search, it definitely looked like one to me. Sony has had BD in laptops for a while now, I would be very surprised if they couldn't make drives sized for the standard laptop unit.
A picture is over here (may resize your browser):
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I've been using Ubuntu on a VIA C3 for a while now and it runs fine. You should not do too much with high def video and 3D though. But remarks that you cannot run Windows software on it makes me highly suspicious of the review. I mean, at least point to the high number of packages that can be easily installed for free. The number of stars it gets after the very shallow review is another suspicious point. Complaining about speed and recommending a much slower Eee PC is a third. The list goes on. So no, I don't think the author was unbiased. Of course, some points like the screen resolution is valid. Playing around with video drivers is (still) a hard thing on Linux, and it shouldn't be.
Phew. Imagine the license fee.
"Oh, and have you seen Las Vegas? Maybe we should shut them down too."
Well, in two words: YES PLEASE.
Yeah, well, this seemed to be the winner. It actually fades the lights as well, and it seems that the whole yard is completely filled with lights. But bugger, if I was one of the people living near during rehearsals, I definitely would have bought some candles and killed the electricity.
Oh well, you can bet it doesn't show artifacts as did all the pictures (foreground, background and logo) of the website of the company I work for. That cost a lot of cash as well.