A better lense isn't going to be the solution to my problem - no matter how good the lense, when you zoom in on a 1 inch by 1-inch square of an image (note: I'm saying image, NOT shot in the camera) that needs to actually be at least two to four times that size, then megapixels matter.
Sure, there are other factors, but the subject of debate in the parent is megapixels. While the average consumer does well with 8, or even 5, some of us need more.
However, I neglected to note that the article states "Compact" cameras, which would be consumer end. Still, it'd be great if I could get a quality 16 MP shot out of my cell phone:)
As a professional graphic designer and artist, I feel that we'll still need a bit more in order to say "we've got enough pixels." For instance, I do a lot of texture photography - shots of various objects, capturing as much of a surface as I can. I want my stock textures to be as high-res as possible, because there are times where I need to isolate very small areas and blow them up to an extreme. Same goes for regular stock photography; I need to be able to isolate and blow up certain parts to an extreme, and I can't always set up a nice macro shot (with a random occuring event, such as a drop of water).
I personally hate HUDs. I wish games had a less obtrusive manner of letting us know our health, or ammo count. I feel any sort of HUD detracts from the experience itself. I want to feel like I'm in a movie or actually experiencing what I'm doing, and I can't do that with a HUD. I want to check my ammo count by weighing the magazine in my hands - I want to know how hurt I am by looking at my wounds.
Does it call fed up employees who are just looking for someone to talk to, exploiting the conversation and getting valuable information necessary to break into the network?:)
Cool concept, but I wonder about how effective it'll be without good admins who know how to watch logs, set up honeypots when necessary, and train employees to shut up. Still, it could have it's uses.
It's more reliable, as far as I know, compared to SATA. SATA is good enough for desktop performance, but I have yet to hear any glowing reviews of it in the server market.
I couldn't tell you the number of times I was asked to do peoples' homework in college; from Intro to Word work, to HTML, to VB.Net/C++/PHP programming (and this wasn't hard stuff - our school is far from having any good programming instruction, and only covers basics).
The pay would have been pretty good, too, but most of the instructors recognize my work (I was the among the few good programmers on campus - which doesn't say much for the campus:)), and I felt certain moral obligations.
The point is, it doesn't matter how they do it, people WILL cheat. Instructors need to devise better testing methods - for instance, we had a "programming olympics" where students would have to complete a practical programming exam on their computers, with random selections from a problem bank. This included simple algorithms, syntax familiarity tests, and smaller programs, as well as code commenting and debugging.
While not the end-all solution to the cheating problem, it could be a good step in the right direction. Of course, you have to worry about the security of such testing methods, but at least it offers SOME degree of assurance that the student might actually posess some knowledge.
I've used it for testing and whatnot, as well as running on dedicated servers (had to have it running in our techlab at college, which is Windows only). In both environments it performs fairly well, however, I must say that we weren't really putting much load on it.
Newegg is great for personal stuff, but this is a business issue; you can't wait a couple days for something to come, usually. Plus, when stock runs out on Newegg, they are sometimes slow at getting replacements (my experience).
Dell service plans weren't too bad when we used them back at college, but other than that, I'm not really sure. I've also been a fan of having backup gear on hand just in case; why build (or buy) one when you can build two for twice the price? (from "Contact" or something like that):)
I'm not excluding any social subculture:P People of all types fall victim to the same problem - However, in my area, I am surrounded by racist hicks with no ambition for life. Hence why I cited what I did - plus, it the most easily identifiable stereotype.
Yet another issue in the age of information - the chance of offending a reader, therefore negating any validity to your words in the reader's mind. Of course, this issue isn't exactly unique to modern times, now is it?:)
I just started theorizing a short while back on the idea that American social/political conflicts stem partially from too much information being available; there are so many differing opinions available, and so little available criticism of each, that we find it difficult to analyze it properly. When you compound this with the inherit laziness of Americans in certain populaces (backwater hick towns, for example), a huge problem begins to rear it's head, and begets conflict.
It is great to have it so readily available to us, and that we are free to share our own, but breaking down the information in order to determine it's validity becomes an incredible chore due to the sheer amount of conflicting opinions.
I still develop for 800x600 desktops, mainly because I know not everybody runs a browser with max width. As well, you can also consider fluid layouts, which are usually harder to develop artistically, but they flow well.
The big issue I've run into is font sizes, especially with images; I wish all browsers had Opera's zoom feature. I've had people preach em sizings to the masses, but sometimes it is better aesthetically to define sizes in px (especially in non-fluid layouts).
Still, you also have to consider font scalings in other font rendering engines. One of my biggest headaches has been developing text-focused layouts that work properly in Windows and Linux. - If you hit Security Engine, you'll notice that in certain font rendering systems, the book reviews box has a spillover issue, which I have neglected to work on for some time.. The joys of running an entire network by yourself with no real financial while trying to make a living as an independant web designer.
I just wish we could get more standardization in place for all these issues.
If we had this about 7 years ago, back when I had my bike wreck as a kid, I could have bled to death! My mother rushed me to the hospital herself because it was faster. I would have then had the choice to bleed to death in her truck on the way there, or bleed to death waiting for an ambulance to show up!
I've been using an orinoco-based Enterasys Roamabout DS for quite a while now, and am pretty satisfied with it. No issues getting it working, and Kismet works well with it. I just plug it in and go.
Yeah, but I'm just more worried about system resource usage. That is why I'm recommending a stripped-down distro.
You all have valid points, though. I'm just a bit of a stuck-in-the-mud, really:)
Oh, and I don't live in my parent's basement. I actually live in a college dorm, and, in 32 days, an apartment (with luck - I'm graduating from college).
I don't see any reason why they couldn't take a nice bare-essentials distro, and build to it from the ground up. I've set up Slack boxes to work rather pain-free for computer illiterate users. No worrying about having to use bundled crap.
There was a time when NIN was the hit band to listen to.. Then the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Before that we'd have Clapton and The Beatles.. Is that accounted for, as well?
"But the 14-year-old teenage girl could care less, as long as her friends are listening to it." - Lovely.
I'd say do your major classes in the classroom, but pursue your gen eds elsewhere. I decided to take some online classes over the summer to speed things up, and man, am I thankful. First off, the online model of classes is usually MUCH better, especially for summer courses. Second, it is great to be able to do it in your own time. As for taking your CS courses online.. I'd suggest you drop that idea. You should be learning more than the concepts in a classroom - you should also be spending time working with others in the class, especially on programming projects. You can't always be a loner, and the classroom experience shows that you might actually be able to work with a team.
I haven't done large scale soundtracks for games, only smaller stuff (and not on anything that became a big completed product), but based on my experience, and what I've seen in the industry, he's on the right track with just doing plays and whatever he can. I've done scores for a couple theatrical productions, and having that on your resume will prove your ability to write music to supplement drama and action better than a CS degree.
My advise: don't get the CS degree. Keep doing music. Participate in small projects on the side of your regular occupation.
I've also heard that starting out just running mail and doing intern work is a great way to get your foot in the door at game dev shops.
I'd suggest Jedit for any platform with Java support, or HTML-Kit if you use Windows, and want some different features.
Handcoding is the way to go, in my opinion. You can supplement your work with IDEs such as dreamweaver, but do NOT rely on them. If you can't develop a website in an efficient manner by hand, you need practice.
If he wants to keep a wardriver/leech out, then he isn't going to do it with a hotel-style system. If ping is open, there will always be room for leeches. If SSH is open, even moreso.
Things like that aren't guaranteed - if you need to ensure that no user is using it for bittorrent, or anything like that, you might as well give up:)
For instance, if you leave port 22 open, your users will be able to set up a socks proxy through SSH (requires a box available on the 'net with SSH tunneling privs, but that isn't hard to get). If you have that blocked, but have ping open, well.. They'd have to have another box on the outside with admin privs, but they could also tunnel all the traffic through ping (I've seen it done before, never tried it myself).
You probably won't have to worry about the tenants doing this, but always be wary of wardrivers who are looking to leech some wifi.
Another vote for the waveguide cantenna, here. I've been building and using em' for almost a year now, and they are great little devices. No idea about using them on a built in device, but that is actually a pretty bad idea; Most connectors on cards already are pretty breakable, and reattaching/unattaching an antenna will break a wireless card after a while of use. You'd have to get a separate pigtail for a nicer connection, which means dangly thingies. I'd just suggest getting a nice wireless card (such as an Orinoco) - those suckers are great.
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A better lense isn't going to be the solution to my problem - no matter how good the lense, when you zoom in on a 1 inch by 1-inch square of an image (note: I'm saying image, NOT shot in the camera) that needs to actually be at least two to four times that size, then megapixels matter.
Sure, there are other factors, but the subject of debate in the parent is megapixels. While the average consumer does well with 8, or even 5, some of us need more.
However, I neglected to note that the article states "Compact" cameras, which would be consumer end. Still, it'd be great if I could get a quality 16 MP shot out of my cell phone :)
As a professional graphic designer and artist, I feel that we'll still need a bit more in order to say "we've got enough pixels." For instance, I do a lot of texture photography - shots of various objects, capturing as much of a surface as I can. I want my stock textures to be as high-res as possible, because there are times where I need to isolate very small areas and blow them up to an extreme. Same goes for regular stock photography; I need to be able to isolate and blow up certain parts to an extreme, and I can't always set up a nice macro shot (with a random occuring event, such as a drop of water).
In short? No, 8mp isn't enough for me.
I personally hate HUDs. I wish games had a less obtrusive manner of letting us know our health, or ammo count. I feel any sort of HUD detracts from the experience itself. I want to feel like I'm in a movie or actually experiencing what I'm doing, and I can't do that with a HUD. I want to check my ammo count by weighing the magazine in my hands - I want to know how hurt I am by looking at my wounds.
Then again, I'm a fan of realism games :)
Does it call fed up employees who are just looking for someone to talk to, exploiting the conversation and getting valuable information necessary to break into the network? :)
Cool concept, but I wonder about how effective it'll be without good admins who know how to watch logs, set up honeypots when necessary, and train employees to shut up. Still, it could have it's uses.
It's more reliable, as far as I know, compared to SATA. SATA is good enough for desktop performance, but I have yet to hear any glowing reviews of it in the server market.
Second time I've posted my guide this week.
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Thanks! I'll look into your suggestions and update the article accordingly.
I couldn't tell you the number of times I was asked to do peoples' homework in college; from Intro to Word work, to HTML, to VB.Net/C++/PHP programming (and this wasn't hard stuff - our school is far from having any good programming instruction, and only covers basics).
The pay would have been pretty good, too, but most of the instructors recognize my work (I was the among the few good programmers on campus - which doesn't say much for the campus :)), and I felt certain moral obligations.
The point is, it doesn't matter how they do it, people WILL cheat. Instructors need to devise better testing methods - for instance, we had a "programming olympics" where students would have to complete a practical programming exam on their computers, with random selections from a problem bank. This included simple algorithms, syntax familiarity tests, and smaller programs, as well as code commenting and debugging.
While not the end-all solution to the cheating problem, it could be a good step in the right direction. Of course, you have to worry about the security of such testing methods, but at least it offers SOME degree of assurance that the student might actually posess some knowledge.
I have a guide on setting up a secure proxy through SSH here. I use this whenever I'm out on insecure wireless networks.
I've used it for testing and whatnot, as well as running on dedicated servers (had to have it running in our techlab at college, which is Windows only). In both environments it performs fairly well, however, I must say that we weren't really putting much load on it.
Newegg is great for personal stuff, but this is a business issue; you can't wait a couple days for something to come, usually. Plus, when stock runs out on Newegg, they are sometimes slow at getting replacements (my experience).
Dell service plans weren't too bad when we used them back at college, but other than that, I'm not really sure. I've also been a fan of having backup gear on hand just in case; why build (or buy) one when you can build two for twice the price? (from "Contact" or something like that) :)
-Will F.L.
I'm not excluding any social subculture :P People of all types fall victim to the same problem - However, in my area, I am surrounded by racist hicks with no ambition for life. Hence why I cited what I did - plus, it the most easily identifiable stereotype.
Yet another issue in the age of information - the chance of offending a reader, therefore negating any validity to your words in the reader's mind. Of course, this issue isn't exactly unique to modern times, now is it? :)
I just started theorizing a short while back on the idea that American social/political conflicts stem partially from too much information being available; there are so many differing opinions available, and so little available criticism of each, that we find it difficult to analyze it properly. When you compound this with the inherit laziness of Americans in certain populaces (backwater hick towns, for example), a huge problem begins to rear it's head, and begets conflict.
It is great to have it so readily available to us, and that we are free to share our own, but breaking down the information in order to determine it's validity becomes an incredible chore due to the sheer amount of conflicting opinions.
I still develop for 800x600 desktops, mainly because I know not everybody runs a browser with max width. As well, you can also consider fluid layouts, which are usually harder to develop artistically, but they flow well.
The big issue I've run into is font sizes, especially with images; I wish all browsers had Opera's zoom feature. I've had people preach em sizings to the masses, but sometimes it is better aesthetically to define sizes in px (especially in non-fluid layouts).
Still, you also have to consider font scalings in other font rendering engines. One of my biggest headaches has been developing text-focused layouts that work properly in Windows and Linux. - If you hit Security Engine, you'll notice that in certain font rendering systems, the book reviews box has a spillover issue, which I have neglected to work on for some time.. The joys of running an entire network by yourself with no real financial while trying to make a living as an independant web designer.
I just wish we could get more standardization in place for all these issues.
If we had this about 7 years ago, back when I had my bike wreck as a kid, I could have bled to death! My mother rushed me to the hospital herself because it was faster. I would have then had the choice to bleed to death in her truck on the way there, or bleed to death waiting for an ambulance to show up!
I've been using an orinoco-based Enterasys Roamabout DS for quite a while now, and am pretty satisfied with it. No issues getting it working, and Kismet works well with it. I just plug it in and go.
Yeah, but I'm just more worried about system resource usage. That is why I'm recommending a stripped-down distro.
You all have valid points, though. I'm just a bit of a stuck-in-the-mud, really :)
Oh, and I don't live in my parent's basement. I actually live in a college dorm, and, in 32 days, an apartment (with luck - I'm graduating from college).
Besides, my parents don't have a basment.
I don't see any reason why they couldn't take a nice bare-essentials distro, and build to it from the ground up. I've set up Slack boxes to work rather pain-free for computer illiterate users. No worrying about having to use bundled crap.
Oh well, I'm biased. Grain of salt ;)
There was a time when NIN was the hit band to listen to.. Then the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Before that we'd have Clapton and The Beatles.. Is that accounted for, as well?
"But the 14-year-old teenage girl could care less, as long as her friends are listening to it." - Lovely.
I'd say do your major classes in the classroom, but pursue your gen eds elsewhere. I decided to take some online classes over the summer to speed things up, and man, am I thankful. First off, the online model of classes is usually MUCH better, especially for summer courses. Second, it is great to be able to do it in your own time. As for taking your CS courses online.. I'd suggest you drop that idea. You should be learning more than the concepts in a classroom - you should also be spending time working with others in the class, especially on programming projects. You can't always be a loner, and the classroom experience shows that you might actually be able to work with a team.
I haven't done large scale soundtracks for games, only smaller stuff (and not on anything that became a big completed product), but based on my experience, and what I've seen in the industry, he's on the right track with just doing plays and whatever he can. I've done scores for a couple theatrical productions, and having that on your resume will prove your ability to write music to supplement drama and action better than a CS degree.
My advise: don't get the CS degree. Keep doing music. Participate in small projects on the side of your regular occupation.
I've also heard that starting out just running mail and doing intern work is a great way to get your foot in the door at game dev shops.
I'd suggest Jedit for any platform with Java support, or HTML-Kit if you use Windows, and want some different features.
Handcoding is the way to go, in my opinion. You can supplement your work with IDEs such as dreamweaver, but do NOT rely on them. If you can't develop a website in an efficient manner by hand, you need practice.
If he wants to keep a wardriver/leech out, then he isn't going to do it with a hotel-style system. If ping is open, there will always be room for leeches. If SSH is open, even moreso.
Things like that aren't guaranteed - if you need to ensure that no user is using it for bittorrent, or anything like that, you might as well give up :)
For instance, if you leave port 22 open, your users will be able to set up a socks proxy through SSH (requires a box available on the 'net with SSH tunneling privs, but that isn't hard to get). If you have that blocked, but have ping open, well.. They'd have to have another box on the outside with admin privs, but they could also tunnel all the traffic through ping (I've seen it done before, never tried it myself).
You probably won't have to worry about the tenants doing this, but always be wary of wardrivers who are looking to leech some wifi.
If the benefits outweight the risks, go for it.
Another vote for the waveguide cantenna, here. I've been building and using em' for almost a year now, and they are great little devices. No idea about using them on a built in device, but that is actually a pretty bad idea; Most connectors on cards already are pretty breakable, and reattaching/unattaching an antenna will break a wireless card after a while of use. You'd have to get a separate pigtail for a nicer connection, which means dangly thingies. I'd just suggest getting a nice wireless card (such as an Orinoco) - those suckers are great.