If your boss works from home she/he already know how to guage the quality and quantity of your work...so it's no different for them...
If they aren't working from home, they will most likely consider you a "slacker" and whenever there's a problem in your division, you will be blamed for it...
Apple doesn't have to do anything to kill the PDA market. The cell phone market is already doing a good job of it. Most cell phones come with a builtin calendar, alarm/appointment reminder, calculator, e-mail in the form of messaging, and builtin Java. Anything not already being done by cell phones can simply be bought fairly cheaply.
Further down the line (probably a long ways out), we will start seeing cell phones with hard drives (like the iPod) that replace stand-alone iPod-like devices.
There will always be custom applications for PDAs (like using the Zaurus as a network tool), but the PDAs days have long been numbered...I would actually say the PDA is dead already...just noone's bothered to tell it yet.
I would actually like to see a comparison of a P3 optimized Firefox (Moox) against Opera. My guess is that Opera uses speed optimizations for higher end processors that would not be available in the vanilla distro of Firefox.
Another question is, did they test the free "Adware" version of Opera or did they use the $40 "Commercial" version (I know Opera 8 was the Beta, so that one is obvious)?
I would personally like to see if Firefox could beat Opera with processor specific speed optimizations and some fairly standard performance tweaks to the about:config...remember, these optimizations would not be available on Opera...
I would also like to see how the much used Adblock extension slows down or speeds up Firefox in rendering some basic pages.
You'll probably get your question answered, but watch him say something about "TCO" and how Microsoft is really beating Linux on TCO and that is the "real price"...of course you won't get an honest answer from him on this...
The more you read into this, the more it looks like Google did the right thing in this case.
The guy posted corporate strategy and financial information to his blog. This is something that could cause the company real money if it falls into the wrong hands.
The guy started working there less than a month ago and already he's posting corporate financial data to his blog. The fact that he posted it in a way that was clearly traceable back to him and was willing to post what seems like any new data related to Google probably made the company nervous.
If you look at his job (Google AdSense)...the fact that he devulged this information so freely was also a red flag...he was put in a position where he was destined to know every new product Google was developing and here he was posting it in a public forum.
Maybe he was trying to feed information to M$ through this blog...it's obvious they must have seen it by now...or maybe he was just so stupid as to not realise how much he was hurting the company by posting this information.
Depending on your contract with Novell, you may want to pick SUSE, but any of the RedHat professional distros (RHAS/RHES) is probably your best bet.
If you don't have a contract with Novell or you are going to have to pay a load of cash to use SUSE, go with RedHat...
The first reason to stick with RedHat is that RedHat is one of the oldest of Linux server distros which means that RedHat has pretty good support, and the second one is that outside of the Linux world...RedHat is synonymous with Linux....The perfect example of this is going to a hardware manufacturer's site looking for a device driver and seeing a page that says some thing along the lines of... "We support Linux 7.3, 8.0, 9.0..."...
That's also why you should choose EXT3 as your Journaling Filesystem...forget Riser, JFS, XFS, etc...all of the Linux rescue utilities and admin CDs support EXT2/3...
IMHO, there's a time for preferences and fanboy-ism, but that's not when it comes to your data or your job. Stick with tried and true technology.
As a side note, don't go with WhiteBox...for some reason the legal departments don't like it:)
In a few years, hopefully you will be able to add Pro Mepis to that, but it's still in beta stages and current debian distros leave alot to be desired when it comes to administering professional machines...mainly, there's noone I can get on the phone and yell at till it's fixed...and 3rd party support don't cut it...3rd party support for OSes is for sunset systems...
There are a lot people saying that extensions like AdBlock will destroy the revenue stream of sites that we visit...Why don't they complain about those of us that use Lynx??? With a site like slashdot, Lynx is not that bad...the other option is to turn off images all together. That is also a viable option for sites like slashdot...
As far as ads go, I wouldn't mind looking at an alt tag or even a google ad if it was something besides the "[Click Me]" that most use...
If these advertisers would give me an option to select the types of ads I'ld like to see then maybe I wouldn't mind seeing them...
What I would really like to see incorporated into the adblock extension is some sort of html rewriting engine...something like privoxy...
Actually it's very simple...and it was mentioned on a PBS documentary about the accident...the saboteur perished as a result of their actions. The documentary even went down to the point that they said it must without a doubt be this person (not mentioned by name...it was a person responsible for the maintenence of the area surrounding the tanks...they knew who should be working and who should be allowed in the area)...the reason the person is not mentioned by name is that all of their family did not perish in the accident...
In reality, the reason it happened was simple...lack of training. The Indian group that origonally took control of the facility was trained in the US and there was no effort on the part of the Indian management to remain up-to-date...through attrition, the core group (and subsequently, their only really competent workers) were gone by the time of the accident. It was assumed by the Indian management that the new workers would learn from the workers that were leaving the plant...and Union Carbide DID train some extra personel, but it was obviously not enough...
In the end, lack of proper training is probably the real reason for the accident...and while the US operations of Union Carbide probably had some fault, most would have to rest on the management responsible for the daily operations in India.
I don't know how many will see this...the thread is over a week old, but the plans I mentioned all include free long distance within the US and the national plans treat the whole US as your local calling area, so night and weekend minutes still don't count even if you're on the other side of the country.
Try Mepis. It installs from a single live CD, it's got exactly 1 thing to do each task and it tries to do it well. It is also tied to the debian tree, so most software installs easily and without a hitch.
If you find it too difficuly to install without a manual, you can get Point & Click Linux which comes with a version of Mepis. It also includes comparisons between Windoze and provided Linux apps.
I can't see much of an advantage to the Skype-to-Landline service as opposed to a cell phone...except for cheap international calls...
In the US, most cell phones come with unlimited nights and weekends. $45/month on a national plan with Cingular/AT&T (one of many that offer the same kind of plans) will get you about 300 minutes of daytime minutes per month. And some companies are already offering free incoming calls...
Most people are either working or in school during the day, so the limited daytime minutes are never going to be a big problem...
So, while I can see the IP-to-IP thing, I simply don't understand the advantage of IP-to-Phone for the average person...businesses maybe, but not home phones...
Anyone with even a brief knowledge of IBM's past should know that IBM would never in a million years be able to buy out SCO. IBM had to split the company back in the 80's to end anti-trust litigation.
IBM would never buy SCO because of the outcry from folks like HP and Sun...they would claim that it was an attempt by IBM to gain a monopoly on the UNIX OS market.
"IBM could just switch to another distro, or roll their own"
I've said it before. The biggest fear of every major Linux vendor has to be that IBM will roll their own distro. The big reason IBM has not done this is the same reason they are trying to leave the proprietary UNIX market...they are happy making the hardware. IBM makes big money on support and as long as they keep making the hardware, they can make just as much money supporting a Linux machine as they can supporting an AIX machine.
But if IBM were to roll their own distro and REALLY market it, no company would want any other distro on their servers.
This only works until they find out the Netscape is a dead company.
I have explained to folks that Netscape = Mozilla (just ask em to type about: into their URL)...and then I explain the fact that Netscape 6+ = Mozilla + AOL Marketing...
I already have my boss using Firefox and a few folks (parents and friends) using Firefox because of the recent exploits. Telling them that "it's their patriotic duty" isn't a bad idea either:)
Here's an idea. Themes are generally not much bigger than 256k. There's already one included with Firefox. Why couldn't the Mozilla group include say the top 4 or 5 themes and extensions. That way, you would get Qute, WinStripe, Noia, maybe a version of Orbit and a Modern theme. They could also install few extensions like AdBlock, SingleWindow, etc...the default for these would be OFF, but this would certainly help folks trying to convert IE users over...
How will their return policy deal with defective merchandise???
If the disks work on how long it has been since the disk has been exposed to air, then 8 hours would hardly be enough time to get the disk back to the store you purchased it...I imagine one of the advantages of this format is that stores not likely to rent DVDs could sell at a competitive price. The only problem is, most people play DVDs at night (after they get home)...you pick up one of these disks from a local store and open it at 10pm...by the time the store opens in the morning, the disk is already dead.
And the other method is to base it on hours of actual play (i.e. the laser destroys part of the disk as it reads)...this too would be a bad idea, as most defective disks don't show problems until somewhere around the layer change. On some movies, this isn't for an hour or so into the movie. Some cheaper DVD players (Apex players specifically) exhibit similar problems when the player needs to be reset. You would certainly be asked to try reseting the player first (at which time you'ld probably already be at least half way through the 8 hours).
How does the technology work with fast forward??? slow motion??? If I run a film in slow motion, could the disk actually die before I get to the end??? If I run it in fast forward, could it die within an hour??? Do intro trailers and such count??? (they shouldn't...that's not what I bought) And what about Enhanced DVD-ROM content??? Probably none. These will likely be bare bones DVDs with little more than a few trailers. Which means they probably won't even compete with DVDs...
And lastly, what will this technology do to people's DVD Players??? Harsh chemicals and electronics don't always mix well...
What do you mean??? You mean recovering a CD? I didn't say that they can recover the whole thing...in most cases, it's enough to just recover a few files (are you willing to bet they can't recover the file with your bank accounts???). If you think about how much data is on even a standard CD, you could recover quite a bit of data from even a single shard. Not to mention that all moden filesystems have error correction built in...you just have to be able to exploit that data.
If you are talking about the hard drive thing, hard drives store bits as magnetic fields. Those magnetic fields tend to keep their properties...they also effect bits close to them...they simply look at the substrate and find the variations in the magnetic field. It also helps that modern OSes tend to have that error correction and there is an increasing amount that do journaling.
Why isn't someone making laptops that are designed to be lightweight, durable, cool running, easy on batteries, and snappy (not blinding fast, just fast enough)???
One of the last notebooks that was like this was the Thinkpad 600...they are fairly lightweight, durable, about 366MHz, and the harddrives were around 10G...
I understand that wireless cards create most of the heat in todays laptops, but if this is the case, why hasn't someone designed a laptop where the wireless card fits into the back of the screen???
I started out with a Pentax K-1000, taking photos for Journalism in High School and developing my own B&W film.
I still have the K-1000, but I got rid of my Kodak Color Lab a while back. Chemicals are expensive...if I don't take any photos for a year, I have to buy all new chemicals (certainly a major cost problem). Film (I mean good film) really costs. Photoshop is so much easier/cheaper than having to buy new filters/equipment.
In the digital darkroom there is no real cost for film, and not much trade off for Color vs. B&W, so all of your pictures can be taken in color and changed via Gimp/Photoshop to set the "mood".
I currently own (and use as my primary camera) a Canon Powershot A70. You don't need a SLR to take good photos, if you're just taking photos of a skyline, trees, etc...you can still get good results with a well built snapshot camera.
The things to remember are the following:
Learn the limitations of your camera. Know how to get the best photos using the manual settings. A good start is generally setting the ISO Rating to ISO 50, set a fast shutter speed and a higher aperture. Set the highest resolution and quality setting. Turn off the flash unless it's absolutely necessary (your subjects will look "dead" otherwise) and don't get too carried away with zoom (digital or otherwise)...
Now, why am I using a snapshot camera and not an SLR??? Some people want you to belive that because they spent $1000 on their camera, they somehow take better photos than those of us spending $300 for a camera. Despite what others would have you belive, you can still take bad photos with an SLR and you can certainly take great photos with a snapshot camera.
Don't belive that good photos can be taken with "cheap" cameras...Look at this site...where all of the photos have been taken with an Aptek PenCam (earlier shots were taken with the $30 PenCam VGA)...
Agreed, I would love to see an extension that would incorporate the functionality of Adblock with this style sheet. I have used it for a while in conjunction with Adblock and have found that it is a good combination, but I find it lacks the configurability of Adblock.
Umh, I know that folks will complain that I'm taking money away from the sites that I visit, but I've been using Adblock with FireFox for at least the past year and I couldn't be more happier.
It's simple to fix most ads...just block "*/Ads/*", "http://ad.*", "*.doubleclick.*", etc...then when you come onto a new page, look and see if there's anything out of place (like a page serving something from a server at an "internet marketing" company)...
Sure it takes some time, but I have found that it makes pages load way faster. The only real way for any place to market to me is to use small, unobtrusive text ads (google adwords).
The message this sends to companies is simple...if you want me to listen to what you have to say, then don't be too annoying or I'll shut you out.
I suspect that eurogamer might be under pressure to "big up" its hands-on review. I've heard from a couple journos at some respected magazines that prior to even getting a look at the game they have to agree to write Good Things(tm) about it. They've even written so much on this forum.
As is generally the case with "exclusives"...
Were Reflection really part of "Pig noses"? I though that it and DMA were both simple developers that had titles published by the mighty Owl/Pig.
Yes, Reflections and DMA were just development houses, but if you belive for one second that Psygnosis didn't have a hand in the games being made, you're mistaken.
Psygnosis would call for sequels to "good" games, define "how far to take it" with violence, sound, music, etc... Psygnosis would generally be footing the bill for all or most of the development, so their say in the thing was huge.
Think of the relationship that Psygnosis had with them like the one a Producer or a director has with ILM. ILM works to do what the producers/directors want them to do...they have "creative control" over certain things, but they are generally kept in line with what the guys with the money want...
Reflection were of course formerly responsible for the graphically rich but gameplay-vapid "Shadow of the Beast"
Yes, but let us not forget the horror of Shadow of the Beast 3.
And DMA Design created Blood Money, Hired Guns, Walker, and of course Lemmings...As a matter of fact, the DMA Design logo can still be seen on the box of GTA3...no DMA logo is visible on the Vice City box...
Let me just go on record saying that I'm pissed off that DMA/Rockstar didn't finish the Hired Guns 2000 update...
As for Team17, I have it on very good authority that they are working on some very nive new stuff!
Kewl...I just hope they break free of the Worms mold. It's still kinda kewl and funny, but I'ld just like to see some origonal stuff from them...like I said before, I loved the Alien Breed series (these would make great Cell Phone/Handheld games now)...and call me crazy, but I really liked the Body Blows series as well...
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Adblock works with regular expressions. So, it's pretty trivial to "whitelist" sites. However, a more user friendly interface would be nice.
Proxomitron only works under windows and it's not being developed anymore. What we need is an extension for Firefox that does the same thing.
If your boss works from home she/he already know how to guage the quality and quantity of your work...so it's no different for them...
If they aren't working from home, they will most likely consider you a "slacker" and whenever there's a problem in your division, you will be blamed for it...
Apple doesn't have to do anything to kill the PDA market. The cell phone market is already doing a good job of it. Most cell phones come with a builtin calendar, alarm/appointment reminder, calculator, e-mail in the form of messaging, and builtin Java. Anything not already being done by cell phones can simply be bought fairly cheaply.
Further down the line (probably a long ways out), we will start seeing cell phones with hard drives (like the iPod) that replace stand-alone iPod-like devices.
There will always be custom applications for PDAs (like using the Zaurus as a network tool), but the PDAs days have long been numbered...I would actually say the PDA is dead already...just noone's bothered to tell it yet.
I would actually like to see a comparison of a P3 optimized Firefox (Moox) against Opera. My guess is that Opera uses speed optimizations for higher end processors that would not be available in the vanilla distro of Firefox.
Another question is, did they test the free "Adware" version of Opera or did they use the $40 "Commercial" version (I know Opera 8 was the Beta, so that one is obvious)?
I would personally like to see if Firefox could beat Opera with processor specific speed optimizations and some fairly standard performance tweaks to the about:config...remember, these optimizations would not be available on Opera...
I would also like to see how the much used Adblock extension slows down or speeds up Firefox in rendering some basic pages.
You'll probably get your question answered, but watch him say something about "TCO" and how Microsoft is really beating Linux on TCO and that is the "real price"...of course you won't get an honest answer from him on this...
The more you read into this, the more it looks like Google did the right thing in this case.
The guy posted corporate strategy and financial information to his blog. This is something that could cause the company real money if it falls into the wrong hands.
The guy started working there less than a month ago and already he's posting corporate financial data to his blog. The fact that he posted it in a way that was clearly traceable back to him and was willing to post what seems like any new data related to Google probably made the company nervous.
If you look at his job (Google AdSense)...the fact that he devulged this information so freely was also a red flag...he was put in a position where he was destined to know every new product Google was developing and here he was posting it in a public forum.
Maybe he was trying to feed information to M$ through this blog...it's obvious they must have seen it by now...or maybe he was just so stupid as to not realise how much he was hurting the company by posting this information.
Depending on your contract with Novell, you may want to pick SUSE, but any of the RedHat professional distros (RHAS/RHES) is probably your best bet.
... "We support Linux 7.3, 8.0, 9.0..."...
:)
If you don't have a contract with Novell or you are going to have to pay a load of cash to use SUSE, go with RedHat...
The first reason to stick with RedHat is that RedHat is one of the oldest of Linux server distros which means that RedHat has pretty good support, and the second one is that outside of the Linux world...RedHat is synonymous with Linux....The perfect example of this is going to a hardware manufacturer's site looking for a device driver and seeing a page that says some thing along the lines of
That's also why you should choose EXT3 as your Journaling Filesystem...forget Riser, JFS, XFS, etc...all of the Linux rescue utilities and admin CDs support EXT2/3...
IMHO, there's a time for preferences and fanboy-ism, but that's not when it comes to your data or your job. Stick with tried and true technology.
As a side note, don't go with WhiteBox...for some reason the legal departments don't like it
In a few years, hopefully you will be able to add Pro Mepis to that, but it's still in beta stages and current debian distros leave alot to be desired when it comes to administering professional machines...mainly, there's noone I can get on the phone and yell at till it's fixed...and 3rd party support don't cut it...3rd party support for OSes is for sunset systems...
There are a lot people saying that extensions like AdBlock will destroy the revenue stream of sites that we visit...Why don't they complain about those of us that use Lynx??? With a site like slashdot, Lynx is not that bad...the other option is to turn off images all together. That is also a viable option for sites like slashdot...
As far as ads go, I wouldn't mind looking at an alt tag or even a google ad if it was something besides the "[Click Me]" that most use...
If these advertisers would give me an option to select the types of ads I'ld like to see then maybe I wouldn't mind seeing them...
What I would really like to see incorporated into the adblock extension is some sort of html rewriting engine...something like privoxy...
Actually it's very simple...and it was mentioned on a PBS documentary about the accident...the saboteur perished as a result of their actions. The documentary even went down to the point that they said it must without a doubt be this person (not mentioned by name...it was a person responsible for the maintenence of the area surrounding the tanks...they knew who should be working and who should be allowed in the area)...the reason the person is not mentioned by name is that all of their family did not perish in the accident...
In reality, the reason it happened was simple...lack of training. The Indian group that origonally took control of the facility was trained in the US and there was no effort on the part of the Indian management to remain up-to-date...through attrition, the core group (and subsequently, their only really competent workers) were gone by the time of the accident. It was assumed by the Indian management that the new workers would learn from the workers that were leaving the plant...and Union Carbide DID train some extra personel, but it was obviously not enough...
In the end, lack of proper training is probably the real reason for the accident...and while the US operations of Union Carbide probably had some fault, most would have to rest on the management responsible for the daily operations in India.
I don't know how many will see this...the thread is over a week old, but the plans I mentioned all include free long distance within the US and the national plans treat the whole US as your local calling area, so night and weekend minutes still don't count even if you're on the other side of the country.
Try Mepis. It installs from a single live CD, it's got exactly 1 thing to do each task and it tries to do it well. It is also tied to the debian tree, so most software installs easily and without a hitch.
If you find it too difficuly to install without a manual, you can get Point & Click Linux which comes with a version of Mepis. It also includes comparisons between Windoze and provided Linux apps.
Not convinced...look at this review.
I can't see much of an advantage to the Skype-to-Landline service as opposed to a cell phone...except for cheap international calls...
In the US, most cell phones come with unlimited nights and weekends. $45/month on a national plan with Cingular/AT&T (one of many that offer the same kind of plans) will get you about 300 minutes of daytime minutes per month. And some companies are already offering free incoming calls...
Most people are either working or in school during the day, so the limited daytime minutes are never going to be a big problem...
So, while I can see the IP-to-IP thing, I simply don't understand the advantage of IP-to-Phone for the average person...businesses maybe, but not home phones...
Anyone with even a brief knowledge of IBM's past should know that IBM would never in a million years be able to buy out SCO. IBM had to split the company back in the 80's to end anti-trust litigation.
IBM would never buy SCO because of the outcry from folks like HP and Sun...they would claim that it was an attempt by IBM to gain a monopoly on the UNIX OS market.
Here's a hint... IBM "recommends" M$ products because they are getting money from M$ to recommend a specific product...
That's where the M$ marketing budget goes...they know that commercials are fairly useless, but what really counts is the time of purchase...
The time of purchase is when someone decides to upgrade from Works to Office or from the Home edition to the Professional edition.
"IBM could just switch to another distro, or roll their own"
I've said it before. The biggest fear of every major Linux vendor has to be that IBM will roll their own distro. The big reason IBM has not done this is the same reason they are trying to leave the proprietary UNIX market...they are happy making the hardware. IBM makes big money on support and as long as they keep making the hardware, they can make just as much money supporting a Linux machine as they can supporting an AIX machine.
But if IBM were to roll their own distro and REALLY market it, no company would want any other distro on their servers.
This only works until they find out the Netscape is a dead company.
:)
I have explained to folks that Netscape = Mozilla (just ask em to type about: into their URL)...and then I explain the fact that Netscape 6+ = Mozilla + AOL Marketing...
I already have my boss using Firefox and a few folks (parents and friends) using Firefox because of the recent exploits. Telling them that "it's their patriotic duty" isn't a bad idea either
Here's an idea. Themes are generally not much bigger than 256k. There's already one included with Firefox. Why couldn't the Mozilla group include say the top 4 or 5 themes and extensions. That way, you would get Qute, WinStripe, Noia, maybe a version of Orbit and a Modern theme. They could also install few extensions like AdBlock, SingleWindow, etc...the default for these would be OFF, but this would certainly help folks trying to convert IE users over...
How will their return policy deal with defective merchandise???
If the disks work on how long it has been since the disk has been exposed to air, then 8 hours would hardly be enough time to get the disk back to the store you purchased it...I imagine one of the advantages of this format is that stores not likely to rent DVDs could sell at a competitive price. The only problem is, most people play DVDs at night (after they get home)...you pick up one of these disks from a local store and open it at 10pm...by the time the store opens in the morning, the disk is already dead.
And the other method is to base it on hours of actual play (i.e. the laser destroys part of the disk as it reads)...this too would be a bad idea, as most defective disks don't show problems until somewhere around the layer change. On some movies, this isn't for an hour or so into the movie. Some cheaper DVD players (Apex players specifically) exhibit similar problems when the player needs to be reset. You would certainly be asked to try reseting the player first (at which time you'ld probably already be at least half way through the 8 hours).
How does the technology work with fast forward??? slow motion??? If I run a film in slow motion, could the disk actually die before I get to the end??? If I run it in fast forward, could it die within an hour??? Do intro trailers and such count??? (they shouldn't...that's not what I bought) And what about Enhanced DVD-ROM content??? Probably none. These will likely be bare bones DVDs with little more than a few trailers. Which means they probably won't even compete with DVDs...
And lastly, what will this technology do to people's DVD Players??? Harsh chemicals and electronics don't always mix well...
DivX by any othe name is still DivX.
What do you mean??? You mean recovering a CD? I didn't say that they can recover the whole thing...in most cases, it's enough to just recover a few files (are you willing to bet they can't recover the file with your bank accounts???). If you think about how much data is on even a standard CD, you could recover quite a bit of data from even a single shard. Not to mention that all moden filesystems have error correction built in...you just have to be able to exploit that data.
If you are talking about the hard drive thing, hard drives store bits as magnetic fields. Those magnetic fields tend to keep their properties...they also effect bits close to them...they simply look at the substrate and find the variations in the magnetic field. It also helps that modern OSes tend to have that error correction and there is an increasing amount that do journaling.
Why isn't someone making laptops that are designed to be lightweight, durable, cool running, easy on batteries, and snappy (not blinding fast, just fast enough)???
One of the last notebooks that was like this was the Thinkpad 600...they are fairly lightweight, durable, about 366MHz, and the harddrives were around 10G...
I understand that wireless cards create most of the heat in todays laptops, but if this is the case, why hasn't someone designed a laptop where the wireless card fits into the back of the screen???
I started out with a Pentax K-1000, taking photos for Journalism in High School and developing my own B&W film.
I still have the K-1000, but I got rid of my Kodak Color Lab a while back. Chemicals are expensive...if I don't take any photos for a year, I have to buy all new chemicals (certainly a major cost problem). Film (I mean good film) really costs. Photoshop is so much easier/cheaper than having to buy new filters/equipment.
In the digital darkroom there is no real cost for film, and not much trade off for Color vs. B&W, so all of your pictures can be taken in color and changed via Gimp/Photoshop to set the "mood".
I currently own (and use as my primary camera) a Canon Powershot A70. You don't need a SLR to take good photos, if you're just taking photos of a skyline, trees, etc...you can still get good results with a well built snapshot camera.
The things to remember are the following:
Learn the limitations of your camera. Know how to get the best photos using the manual settings. A good start is generally setting the ISO Rating to ISO 50, set a fast shutter speed and a higher aperture. Set the highest resolution and quality setting. Turn off the flash unless it's absolutely necessary (your subjects will look "dead" otherwise) and don't get too carried away with zoom (digital or otherwise)...
Now, why am I using a snapshot camera and not an SLR??? Some people want you to belive that because they spent $1000 on their camera, they somehow take better photos than those of us spending $300 for a camera. Despite what others would have you belive, you can still take bad photos with an SLR and you can certainly take great photos with a snapshot camera.
Don't belive that good photos can be taken with "cheap" cameras...Look at this site...where all of the photos have been taken with an Aptek PenCam (earlier shots were taken with the $30 PenCam VGA)...
Agreed, I would love to see an extension that would incorporate the functionality of Adblock with this style sheet. I have used it for a while in conjunction with Adblock and have found that it is a good combination, but I find it lacks the configurability of Adblock.
Umh, I know that folks will complain that I'm taking money away from the sites that I visit, but I've been using Adblock with FireFox for at least the past year and I couldn't be more happier.
It's simple to fix most ads...just block "*/Ads/*", "http://ad.*", "*.doubleclick.*", etc...then when you come onto a new page, look and see if there's anything out of place (like a page serving something from a server at an "internet marketing" company)...
Sure it takes some time, but I have found that it makes pages load way faster. The only real way for any place to market to me is to use small, unobtrusive text ads (google adwords).
The message this sends to companies is simple...if you want me to listen to what you have to say, then don't be too annoying or I'll shut you out.
I suspect that eurogamer might be under pressure to "big up" its hands-on review. I've heard from a couple journos at some respected magazines that prior to even getting a look at the game they have to agree to write Good Things(tm) about it. They've even written so much on this forum.
As is generally the case with "exclusives"...
Were Reflection really part of "Pig noses"? I though that it and DMA were both simple developers that had titles published by the mighty Owl/Pig.
Yes, Reflections and DMA were just development houses, but if you belive for one second that Psygnosis didn't have a hand in the games being made, you're mistaken.
Psygnosis would call for sequels to "good" games, define "how far to take it" with violence, sound, music, etc... Psygnosis would generally be footing the bill for all or most of the development, so their say in the thing was huge.
Think of the relationship that Psygnosis had with them like the one a Producer or a director has with ILM. ILM works to do what the producers/directors want them to do...they have "creative control" over certain things, but they are generally kept in line with what the guys with the money want...
Reflection were of course formerly responsible for the graphically rich but gameplay-vapid "Shadow of the Beast"
Yes, but let us not forget the horror of Shadow of the Beast 3.
And DMA Design created Blood Money, Hired Guns, Walker, and of course Lemmings...As a matter of fact, the DMA Design logo can still be seen on the box of GTA3...no DMA logo is visible on the Vice City box...
Let me just go on record saying that I'm pissed off that DMA/Rockstar didn't finish the Hired Guns 2000 update...
As for Team17, I have it on very good authority that they are working on some very nive new stuff!
Kewl...I just hope they break free of the Worms mold. It's still kinda kewl and funny, but I'ld just like to see some origonal stuff from them...like I said before, I loved the Alien Breed series (these would make great Cell Phone/Handheld games now)...and call me crazy, but I really liked the Body Blows series as well...