No, the current type of War in Iraq is a war that almost no army has ever _won_. Plenty of countries have _fought_ wars like this. Sure, IEDs are new(ish), but most of the rest of it is entirely familiar. It's not so different from the Russians in Afghanistan, or the French in Algeria, or even the US in Vietnam.
This is all based on the idea that the 'problems' he sees are actually problems. I think I'd be more comfortable if he were the sort of guy that CAN'T get things done.
I agree that the quality of photos from the rebel is every bit as good as the 30D, but the controls are _way_ more ergonomic on the 10/20/30D's. Being able to set everything "in a second or two" is too slow, especially if something is happening quickly and you want to capture it with different depths of field, amounts of motion blur, focal points. Given that basically all light metering systems are somewhat iffy (unless you have $4K to spend on a pro dSLR), it's good to be able to experiment quickly. Personally, I'd definitely choose to get a used 20D over a new rebel XTi, just for the better controls.
I think it depends less on the individuals in the field than it does on what _opportunity_ for cheating exists in the program. As an engineering undergrad, cheating on assignments (other than in-class exams) was rampant because there was almost always a clear 'right' answer. Sure, you'd fudge things a bit so that intermediary steps were different, or falsify a data point, but you'd want to get more or less the same answer as the guy sitting next to you.
As a social science grad student, each assignment was unique. I might be doing a paper on X while my friend wrote something up about Y. Professors always vetted paper topics to make sure that no two students were working on the same subject. Aside from comparing class and reading notes, there wasn't much we could do to help each other out.
Hell yeah. Whenever *I* send pictures of my tender bits to total strangers, I use my favorite creative commons license:
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I'm sure if you just turn on your computer and let it sit there running a torrent, it's perfectly stable. However, when you do stuff that gets the processor hot and uses up all the RAM and some swap space for hours on end, it's going to crash from time to time...unless you've got some really expensive hardware.
Every computer I've ever had, whether running windows, mac os, linux or freebsd has crashed periodically. On the other hand, a crash every couple of weeks isn't the end of the world for most people. I'll gladly take a nice OS that lets me be productive over one that never crashes.
And for what it's worth, what counts as a 'crash' for slashdot folk is not what counts as a 'crash' for most people. My mom probably has to restart her computer all the time to fix problems, whereas you and I might be savvy enough to restart the Finder/Explorer and keep on doing our thing.
I don't think Parallels/Bootcamp is an admission that they're lacking in ports of software, so much as it is an easy way to ween people off of windows. A lot of the stuff that you might think you need to run on windows has a decent alternative on the Mac, but if you're not an OS X user you probably don't know that. The office where I work is just starting to roll out iMacs running Parallels. Before Parallels, it didn't make any sense to use Apple computers, because basically everyone here has one or two windows apps that they need to use. Life is really nice now that I can do my basic GIS work without even rebooting the computer into XP. Plus, running XP side by side with OS X really does make you hate windows even more.
The thing that surprises me is how many people here have never even _seen_ an iMac. I can't tell you how many people have come into my office, looked at my 20" iMac and said, "Where's the computer?" They usually make all sorts of googly, gushing cooing sounds when I tell them it's inside the monitor. Being able to get Macs into a real, non-academic workplace is going to give a lot of people their first exposure to apple, and judging by the reactions of the 40-something women in my office, it might sell them a few computers.
I think the grandparent is right. I don't think Apple's strategy is to release a full-on media PC all at once, but rather make incremental improvements to existing products and link them together with Front Row. With Front Row standard on all their computers (except the Mac Pro, I guess) they're a hop skip and a jump away from being where they need to be. As things now stand, I can plug my Macbook into my TV, add some symlinks in my ~/Movies directory that point to samba shares on my BSD box where I keep all my video files and voila: instant remote-control access to everything I want to watch. They don't need huge storage space on the Mini, since most people using it as a media box would probably already have another Mac or PC somewhere in the house. With simpler networking so I can read/write to my main computer (hello, Bonjour), Movies via iTunes and some sort of tivo-like functionality, they'd have everything in place.
I think we'll see Front Row gradually evolve into something much more useful, and as it improves people will gradually start using it for all their entertainment. If they were trumpeting it right now as the-ultimate-solution-to-all-your-needs they'd just alienate everyone and ruin their "It Just Works" image.
"20/20 Communications is no stranger to wireless projects - it set up a wireless system in Saline, as well as Sylvan and Scio townships, in what Woolf called smaller versions of Wireless Washtenaw. The company, and not the county, is planning to pay the estimated $42 million cost to set up the service and provide the free access within county borders."
Given the relatively well-heeled demographic of our (Washtenaw) county, I suspect that _most_ households will be taking advantage of this once the system is up and debugged. There's not a lot of love for Comcast in these parts.
Oh, and ahem:
"The company, and not the county, is planning to pay the estimated $42 million cost to set up the service and provide the free access within county borders."
I suspect that even if the county were heavily subsidizing the system, it'd be a net gain for people here.
With modern cars driving around city streets, I think a good bit of the noise is coming from the tires and wind. Engine noise seems to be something you really only hear from inside the passenger compartment or BEHIND the car. With some big, sticky tires on this thing, it's going to be plenty loud.
I got a chance to drive a hydrogen fuel cell powered focus a few weeks ago. While it was really quiet inside the car, there was still plenty of road noise outside the car even with the low rolling resistance tires and fancy carbon fiber bits to make it more aerodynamic. It was a nice car, but that part about having to gown up in an anti-static uniform and safety glasses just to refuel? That kinda sucks.
Is there something that says talent and diversity are somehow at odds? Let me pose a hypothetical question: Imagine a large group of mostly white, middle class, under-socialized males decide that the current crop of, I dunno, coffee makers are crap. They decide they want to put a better product together. The product they design grinds coffee faster and never breaks down.
Unfortunately, you have to recompile the coffee grinder's kernel every time you want to use a different roast. And rather than a button you press to turn it on, there's just a bare wire that you touch to a terminal to select your grind. And you have to keep another grinder around so guests have something to use and because it doesn't work with some commercial coffees. And the thing is built into a shoe box, so it's too ugly for most people to tolerate. These guys generally don't switch roasts very often, don't care about drinking more than one type of coffee, don't have friends to worry about, and haven't got an aesthetic bone in their bodies. They're happy with it just the way it is. In fact, they're so happy, they don't even finish the coffee grinder and instead move on to designing a better microwave.
Don't you think it's possible the product would be better if they brought in some people who drank coffee in a different way? Someone who maybe cared about how user friendly, or attractive, or easy to learn the coffee maker might be? Maybe a woman or two? Or a guy from some other continent where they might use a different type of bean?
I'd love to see some stats to back up your "motorcycles can be safe" assertion. Of course, that depends on what your definition of safe is. For argument's sake, how about we say "safe" is 4x as dangerous as a regular old passengar car per hundred million VMT.
Motorcycles are fun, convenient, cheap, fast and sexy. If they were safe, we'd all be riding 'em.
http://www.iii.org/media/hottopics/insurance/motor cycle/?table_sort_739024=7
Everything you're saying here may have ALREADY been used against you. In fact, I'm surprised they allowed me to warnnaasdd!!!@###@^V4545FSBfbffgf+++ATH NO CARRIER
Do you really think that people 20 years ago were able to handle cars without ABS? I mean, this article kind of implies that drivers today aren't able to brake at the absolute limit of adhesion w/o abs, but that people back in the 'good old days' knew how to control lift-throttle oversteer, countersteer through a power slide and use trail braking to get around grandma before she enters that next set of corners.
Please.
Last I looked, the accident rate per hundred million VMT had been steadily declining since the late 1980's(well, even longer), in spite of busier roads.
I don't know if this is something to worry about. IMO, if the government wants to track you, they'll just go ahead and do it with or without having 'sanctioned' access to this data. Hell, they probably ALREADY use this method to track people, so we might as well get some good out of it. They can subpoena this stuff without your knowledge anyway.
In general, I think there's a good deal of security through obscurity when it comes to the threat of government surveillance. If they want to watch you they're already doing it, but since there are a limited number of people to go over the data, they probably don't have the time to worry about you speeding or whatever other illegal things all the geeks on here are doing.
Both lead to some of the worst couples you'll ever meet.
There are a lot of entirely disfunctional people out there, and sometimes you just wind up in a relationship with one. Knowing when to cut your losses is the first step to richness in gambling AND everything else.:) That's not to say that people often give up way to early, but we like to think that our high divorce rate is some deep sickness in our society without ever stopping to think that there might be an upside.
Or maybe it's living in a culture where a single woman (always the woman, isn't it?) is unemployable, an outcast from her family or even from society at large. That'd probably be at least a contributing factor in a few places.
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No, the current type of War in Iraq is a war that almost no army has ever _won_. Plenty of countries have _fought_ wars like this. Sure, IEDs are new(ish), but most of the rest of it is entirely familiar. It's not so different from the Russians in Afghanistan, or the French in Algeria, or even the US in Vietnam.
This is all based on the idea that the 'problems' he sees are actually problems. I think I'd be more comfortable if he were the sort of guy that CAN'T get things done.
I agree that the quality of photos from the rebel is every bit as good as the 30D, but the controls are _way_ more ergonomic on the 10/20/30D's. Being able to set everything "in a second or two" is too slow, especially if something is happening quickly and you want to capture it with different depths of field, amounts of motion blur, focal points. Given that basically all light metering systems are somewhat iffy (unless you have $4K to spend on a pro dSLR), it's good to be able to experiment quickly. Personally, I'd definitely choose to get a used 20D over a new rebel XTi, just for the better controls.
As a social science grad student, each assignment was unique. I might be doing a paper on X while my friend wrote something up about Y. Professors always vetted paper topics to make sure that no two students were working on the same subject. Aside from comparing class and reading notes, there wasn't much we could do to help each other out.
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* to make derivative works
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Every computer I've ever had, whether running windows, mac os, linux or freebsd has crashed periodically. On the other hand, a crash every couple of weeks isn't the end of the world for most people. I'll gladly take a nice OS that lets me be productive over one that never crashes.
And for what it's worth, what counts as a 'crash' for slashdot folk is not what counts as a 'crash' for most people. My mom probably has to restart her computer all the time to fix problems, whereas you and I might be savvy enough to restart the Finder/Explorer and keep on doing our thing.
I don't mean to imply that cancer is funny. Just that maybe you should be more careful with the shemales.
16432953 blood in stools 2006-05-11 20:53:34 http://www.cancer.org/
The thing that surprises me is how many people here have never even _seen_ an iMac. I can't tell you how many people have come into my office, looked at my 20" iMac and said, "Where's the computer?" They usually make all sorts of googly, gushing cooing sounds when I tell them it's inside the monitor. Being able to get Macs into a real, non-academic workplace is going to give a lot of people their first exposure to apple, and judging by the reactions of the 40-something women in my office, it might sell them a few computers.
I think we'll see Front Row gradually evolve into something much more useful, and as it improves people will gradually start using it for all their entertainment. If they were trumpeting it right now as the-ultimate-solution-to-all-your-needs they'd just alienate everyone and ruin their "It Just Works" image.
"20/20 Communications is no stranger to wireless projects - it set up a wireless system in Saline, as well as Sylvan and Scio townships, in what Woolf called smaller versions of Wireless Washtenaw. The company, and not the county, is planning to pay the estimated $42 million cost to set up the service and provide the free access within county borders."
Oh, and ahem: "The company, and not the county, is planning to pay the estimated $42 million cost to set up the service and provide the free access within county borders."
I suspect that even if the county were heavily subsidizing the system, it'd be a net gain for people here.
I got a chance to drive a hydrogen fuel cell powered focus a few weeks ago. While it was really quiet inside the car, there was still plenty of road noise outside the car even with the low rolling resistance tires and fancy carbon fiber bits to make it more aerodynamic. It was a nice car, but that part about having to gown up in an anti-static uniform and safety glasses just to refuel? That kinda sucks.
What about in space ship?
Unfortunately, you have to recompile the coffee grinder's kernel every time you want to use a different roast. And rather than a button you press to turn it on, there's just a bare wire that you touch to a terminal to select your grind. And you have to keep another grinder around so guests have something to use and because it doesn't work with some commercial coffees. And the thing is built into a shoe box, so it's too ugly for most people to tolerate. These guys generally don't switch roasts very often, don't care about drinking more than one type of coffee, don't have friends to worry about, and haven't got an aesthetic bone in their bodies. They're happy with it just the way it is. In fact, they're so happy, they don't even finish the coffee grinder and instead move on to designing a better microwave.
Don't you think it's possible the product would be better if they brought in some people who drank coffee in a different way? Someone who maybe cared about how user friendly, or attractive, or easy to learn the coffee maker might be? Maybe a woman or two? Or a guy from some other continent where they might use a different type of bean?
Step 1: Write about how Mac users are lemmings and get it posted to Slashdot Step 2: ????? Step 3: Profit!
I'd love to see some stats to back up your "motorcycles can be safe" assertion. Of course, that depends on what your definition of safe is. For argument's sake, how about we say "safe" is 4x as dangerous as a regular old passengar car per hundred million VMT. Motorcycles are fun, convenient, cheap, fast and sexy. If they were safe, we'd all be riding 'em. http://www.iii.org/media/hottopics/insurance/motor cycle/?table_sort_739024=7
Everything you're saying here may have ALREADY been used against you. In fact, I'm surprised they allowed me to warnnaasdd!!!@###@^V4545FSBfbffgf+++ATH NO CARRIER
Please.
Last I looked, the accident rate per hundred million VMT had been steadily declining since the late 1980's(well, even longer), in spite of busier roads.
I don't know if this is something to worry about. IMO, if the government wants to track you, they'll just go ahead and do it with or without having 'sanctioned' access to this data. Hell, they probably ALREADY use this method to track people, so we might as well get some good out of it. They can subpoena this stuff without your knowledge anyway. In general, I think there's a good deal of security through obscurity when it comes to the threat of government surveillance. If they want to watch you they're already doing it, but since there are a limited number of people to go over the data, they probably don't have the time to worry about you speeding or whatever other illegal things all the geeks on here are doing.
Yeah, because they did all the development on those motorola and ibm chips they've been using. Now they're just buying solutions.
Both lead to some of the worst couples you'll ever meet. There are a lot of entirely disfunctional people out there, and sometimes you just wind up in a relationship with one. Knowing when to cut your losses is the first step to richness in gambling AND everything else. :) That's not to say that people often give up way to early, but we like to think that our high divorce rate is some deep sickness in our society without ever stopping to think that there might be an upside.
Or maybe it's living in a culture where a single woman (always the woman, isn't it?) is unemployable, an outcast from her family or even from society at large. That'd probably be at least a contributing factor in a few places.
Maybe you should be paying attention rather than watching me play solitare.
Uh, yeah. That's exactly what religion is.