"Die im Moment in den deutschen Medien verbreiteten Meldungen Dr. Christian Koch würde Katzenkadaver zu Diesel verarbeiten sind absolut falsch und entbehren jeden Bezug zur Realität.
Juristische Maßnahmen gegen diese Behauptungen wurden bereits unternommen. "
(The news currently spread in the German media that Dr. Christian Koch processes cat-cadavers into diesel-fuel is absolutely wrong and has no connection whatsoever to reality.
Judicial measures against these accusations have been taken already.)
Using an ordinary scanner, I scanned something in full colour, and compared that with the same (photograph) scanned in full color using the primary colors and combining those afterwards. I got very clear differences in the final scan when I combined the R+G+B channels with Photoshop to a full-color photo. The combined (3-pass) RGB channel scan produced at least 2 times more resolution than the (1-pass) full-color scan.
If you want very good color reproductions, try it sometimes - could prove interesting - ofcourse your scanner does have to support scanning separate RGB channels...
Using a 4200F with a Pixma 4000. Used HP with blank-mark scanners, can't say I was too happy about them. Canon is the way to go (if you're not using Linux, ofcourse, there always is a negative catch).
Blu-ray or other high density standards are not "a new format" perse, in the sense that they force people to get the same thing on a new medium. It will actually enhance the experience of the viewer through extra content, and in the future could add a promising new backup-solution for the home-user.
Sure, the video quality won't get any better. But there are plenty of multiple-DVD packages out there that could use a nice 1-disc solution.
I looked up mamboportal.com, and saw the following:
...During the last month more and more users registered at our website. Since today we had more than 100,000 registered users. ...
Why? Mambo's user management is very simple and has not changed much since the early days. For example Mambo uses a drop down menu in the content items to select the creator of an article.... I gues you can imagine how long it takes to load a page with a 100,000 entrys drop down menu. ...
However as I want to move forward with Mamboportal.com and the new team I decided to clear the whole userdatabase today. Every of the 100,000 registered users will be informed about that via Email the next days.
I guess open source really does matter in this respect : if it doesn't work, change it yourself. Opensource will really help to mature this product even further.
If an article is to be freezed, ie. only for complete articles, why not only allow certified people to edit it ? The certificate could be simply a verified thawte (freemail) certificate, that should provide enough proof that the author is not going to vandalize the article. Or let wikipedia make their own certification program. Through social contacts between wikipedia editors, all authors can be verified and allowed to edit those particular articles.
Ofcourse, for new additions no certification should be put in place ; that would only scare people off.
Supposing a hypothetical situation (apart from the fact that it could be already there):
A new GNU/Linux player arrives at the market that delivers a top-notch (open-sourced) desktop solution for GNU/Linux in direct competition to Microsoft's Windows.
Given a predefined set of options, what would be your choice, and why would you choose it:
A. I'll put some of my (teams) time in carefully reviewing the features it delivers and document that ; a chapter in my confidential monthly report, nothing more.
B. I stop what I'm doing, crank up my human-resources and put my complete team on documenting all the ins-and-outs of the sourcecode and the user interface design. I'll dedicate a complete confidential monthly report to it.
C. I put some of my (teams) time in getting together with the developers that made the product, and try to learn the product better by giving advice to the developers on how to improve their product.
D. This is not in my job description, I will not look into that product at all.
... isn't what big companies find logical. Remember that large companies bring with it large solutions to large problems. Large solutions are hardly ever 'simple'. They need to be created by one manager, thought over by 10, then thought over again by 100, then finally rejected because of (name your possible risk here).
A bit like the Vogons, really:)
Even if this idea of open sourcing an OS seems like a hit to Microsoft, there are probably 100 managers feeling they would be giving in and go in (ignore every wise opinion)-mode.
So, this will probably never happen, even though we think or not think it's a neat idea.
As it seems they are using these slashdot comments as editorial reviews of their animations:).
(comicbookguy mode)
So, while the first 5 seconds of the movie were mildly interesting due the fact that there were a volumous number of orange beings present watching the same sequential movement of the, presumed, leader of the enemy rebels, I feel that the seconds after that where highly uninspiring to me. Now off you go, back to ordering my collection of Battlestar Galactica Behind the Scenes Cast Character cards.
(/comicbookguy mode)
...are already doing that. Or there must be another explanation why they can launch their stuff (which is rebuild each time) properly on time ? Not to say nasa should disregard safety, just that there are other ways to solve the problem - by dumping the shuttle for instance.
Lets see, simple calculation, probably not completely correct but it shows the advantage:
Take one canon printer with 5 ink-pods. Define one 'cycle' as the complete usage and refill of all ink-pods.
Take it that the printhead keeps working for 10 complete cycles, quite pessimistic but ok.
One ink-pod costs approximately 12 euros. For one cycle you thus pay approximately (12*5) 60 euros.
One printhead costs approximately 100 euros. The total amount of money spent on the basis of 10 cycles thus comes to (100+(60*10)) 700 euros.
Take one HP printer with a black and a color cartridge. Define one 'cycle' as with the canon: the complete usage and refill of both ink-cartridges
Printhead is included in the cartridge, so no costs there. One color cartridge costs approximately 40 euros, as does one black cartridge.
For one cycle you thus spend 80 euros. But, as HP cant separate the colors in the cartridge, say you throw away 10% of color each time you replace the cartridge...
For a total of 10 cycles you thus come to an amount of (80*10 + (10*3.9)) 839 euros. You can buy a new printer for the money you keep in your pocket now:)
And no, I didn't take into account the volume of ink you get, but I expect it to be more prosperous on the seperate ink-side.
No, not a troll, but an honest opinion by an EX HP user.
I once bought HP because they gave excellent support with the (back then) HP Deskjet 500 series printers. 5 years after purchase, they would still send cleaning material to customers so the rollers could be fixed, for free nonetheless.
I first got the deskjet 640c which I used quite happily. I still didn't really see the huge price I payed for the cartridges until I got my 940c. With 20 ml content in the black cartridge, it would last 2 months top and I had to buy a new one! Never talk to me about the color cartridges - they didn't last half of that simply because the "one color runs out, buy a new cartridge" problem. I got so dissatisfied that my last hope was to hack the HP 40 ml cartridges (970c...) by taping them so they could be used in a 40 euro cheaper 940c.
And now, I sold it and buyed a Canon.
An eye opener it was: the sheer number of possibilities my Pixma offers just by default. And the ink cost: Affordable. That is a word that is not in the HP vocabulary, which starts and ends with the letter P for Profit...
So I say screw HP once more, now you know what I mean with it.
...well, it ain't that "secret" anymore now is it ?
In all honesty, I think the real power of such a channel only comes to light in a contingency that directly hits regular communication lines like telephone etc. In that case, an extra "hidden" link could actually have value. Now, it was primarily a human tragedy where communication was not directly at risk. Maybe they should have kept it a secret a while longer.
..the older people get, the more they tend to feel insecure and unsafe. When a population ages as a whole, it's insecurity feeling rises, even though the actual crimerate lowers.
That's probably why older people are more intent on voting on a conservative party that has "safety" and "security" as keywords. And ofcourse why people buy these products.
Not to say younger people are immune. I myself have bought 1 alarm system and 2 in-home camera systems in the last 3 years alone. But I am happy to say I don't vote conservative:=)
Slashdot Mirror
"Die im Moment in den deutschen Medien verbreiteten Meldungen Dr. Christian Koch würde Katzenkadaver zu Diesel verarbeiten sind absolut falsch und entbehren jeden Bezug zur Realität. Juristische Maßnahmen gegen diese Behauptungen wurden bereits unternommen. "
(The news currently spread in the German media that Dr. Christian Koch processes cat-cadavers into diesel-fuel is absolutely wrong and has no connection whatsoever to reality. Judicial measures against these accusations have been taken already.)
...until we hear someone screaming:
Soylent Shell is People !
Using an ordinary scanner, I scanned something in full colour, and compared that with the same (photograph) scanned in full color using the primary colors and combining those afterwards. I got very clear differences in the final scan when I combined the R+G+B channels with Photoshop to a full-color photo. The combined (3-pass) RGB channel scan produced at least 2 times more resolution than the (1-pass) full-color scan.
If you want very good color reproductions, try it sometimes - could prove interesting - ofcourse your scanner does have to support scanning separate RGB channels...
Using a 4200F with a Pixma 4000. Used HP with blank-mark scanners, can't say I was too happy about them. Canon is the way to go (if you're not using Linux, ofcourse, there always is a negative catch).
I would love to betatest this GPL V3. Just on one of my projects, just to see how well it holds out in the real world.
I wonder if there is a draft somewhere which I can already stamp on my product ?
What about the The Posse Comitatus Act ?
I see soldiers being deployed in the area, but isn't that forbidden by that act ?
Cletus: Stranger! You're tresspassin' on my dirt farm!
Man: Ah, do you happen to need a mesiah?
Cletus: No, but I'll take them sacks of money from ya.
Yup:
Blu-ray or other high density standards are not "a new format" perse, in the sense that they force people to get the same thing on a new medium. It will actually enhance the experience of the viewer through extra content, and in the future could add a promising new backup-solution for the home-user. Sure, the video quality won't get any better. But there are plenty of multiple-DVD packages out there that could use a nice 1-disc solution.
They're called "Dr. Evil"...
I looked up mamboportal.com, and saw the following:
...During the last month more and more users registered at our website. Since today we had more than 100,000 registered users.
... ... I gues you can imagine how long it takes to load a page with a 100,000 entrys drop down menu.
...
Why? Mambo's user management is very simple and has not changed much since the early days. For example Mambo uses a drop down menu in the content items to select the creator of an article.
However as I want to move forward with Mamboportal.com and the new team I decided to clear the whole userdatabase today. Every of the 100,000 registered users will be informed about that via Email the next days.
I guess open source really does matter in this respect : if it doesn't work, change it yourself. Opensource will really help to mature this product even further.
...sunglasses I just got of the blackmarket are nothing but a hoax ? My brain does that already ?
Arthur, give me back my money !
If an article is to be freezed, ie. only for complete articles, why not only allow certified people to edit it ? The certificate could be simply a verified thawte (freemail) certificate, that should provide enough proof that the author is not going to vandalize the article.
Or let wikipedia make their own certification program. Through social contacts between wikipedia editors, all authors can be verified and allowed to edit those particular articles.
Ofcourse, for new additions no certification should be put in place ; that would only scare people off.
Supposing a hypothetical situation (apart from the fact that it could be already there):
A new GNU/Linux player arrives at the market that delivers a top-notch (open-sourced) desktop solution for GNU/Linux in direct competition to Microsoft's Windows.
Given a predefined set of options, what would be your choice, and why would you choose it:
A. I'll put some of my (teams) time in carefully reviewing the features it delivers and document that ; a chapter in my confidential monthly report, nothing more.
B. I stop what I'm doing, crank up my human-resources and put my complete team on documenting all the ins-and-outs of the sourcecode and the user interface design. I'll dedicate a complete confidential monthly report to it.
C. I put some of my (teams) time in getting together with the developers that made the product, and try to learn the product better by giving advice to the developers on how to improve their product.
D. This is not in my job description, I will not look into that product at all.
Thanks.
I'm still looking for the part in the article that says "Too Many Secrets" or "Setec Astronomy", Mar... what you say his name was again ?
... isn't what big companies find logical. Remember that large companies bring with it large solutions to large problems.
:)
Large solutions are hardly ever 'simple'. They need to be created by one manager, thought over by 10, then thought over again by 100, then finally rejected because of (name your possible risk here).
A bit like the Vogons, really
Even if this idea of open sourcing an OS seems like a hit to Microsoft, there are probably 100 managers feeling they would be giving in and go in (ignore every wise opinion)-mode.
So, this will probably never happen, even though we think or not think it's a neat idea.
Highspeed (400+Mbit) or Fullspeed (11Mbit). I gather the last, which is practically completely compatible to USB 1.1 - same slow speed.
As it seems they are using these slashdot comments as editorial reviews of their animations :).
(comicbookguy mode) So, while the first 5 seconds of the movie were mildly interesting due the fact that there were a volumous number of orange beings present watching the same sequential movement of the, presumed, leader of the enemy rebels, I feel that the seconds after that where highly uninspiring to me.
Now off you go, back to ordering my collection of Battlestar Galactica Behind the Scenes Cast Character cards.
(/comicbookguy mode)
...are already doing that. Or there must be another explanation why they can launch their stuff (which is rebuild each time) properly on time ?
Not to say nasa should disregard safety, just that there are other ways to solve the problem - by dumping the shuttle for instance.
Lets see, simple calculation, probably not completely correct but it shows the advantage:
:)
Take one canon printer with 5 ink-pods. Define one 'cycle' as the complete usage and refill of all ink-pods.
Take it that the printhead keeps working for 10 complete cycles, quite pessimistic but ok.
One ink-pod costs approximately 12 euros. For one cycle you thus pay approximately (12*5) 60 euros.
One printhead costs approximately 100 euros. The total amount of money spent on the basis of 10 cycles thus comes to (100+(60*10)) 700 euros.
Take one HP printer with a black and a color cartridge. Define one 'cycle' as with the canon: the complete usage and refill of both ink-cartridges
Printhead is included in the cartridge, so no costs there. One color cartridge costs approximately 40 euros, as does one black cartridge.
For one cycle you thus spend 80 euros. But, as HP cant separate the colors in the cartridge, say you throw away 10% of color each time you replace the cartridge...
For a total of 10 cycles you thus come to an amount of (80*10 + (10*3.9)) 839 euros. You can buy a new printer for the money you keep in your pocket now
And no, I didn't take into account the volume of ink you get, but I expect it to be more prosperous on the seperate ink-side.
No, not a troll, but an honest opinion by an EX HP user.
I once bought HP because they gave excellent support with the (back then) HP Deskjet 500 series printers.
5 years after purchase, they would still send cleaning material to customers so the rollers could be fixed, for free nonetheless.
I first got the deskjet 640c which I used quite happily. I still didn't really see the huge price I payed for the cartridges until I got my 940c.
With 20 ml content in the black cartridge, it would last 2 months top and I had to buy a new one!
Never talk to me about the color cartridges - they didn't last half of that simply because the "one color runs out, buy a new cartridge" problem.
I got so dissatisfied that my last hope was to hack the HP 40 ml cartridges (970c...) by taping them so they could be used in a 40 euro cheaper 940c.
And now, I sold it and buyed a Canon.
An eye opener it was: the sheer number of possibilities my Pixma offers just by default.
And the ink cost: Affordable.
That is a word that is not in the HP vocabulary, which starts and ends with the letter P for Profit...
So I say screw HP once more, now you know what I mean with it.
Hrm... I guess the number 107 wasn't chosen without a hidden meaning.
...well, it ain't that "secret" anymore now is it ?
In all honesty, I think the real power of such a channel only comes to light in a contingency that directly hits regular communication lines like telephone etc. In that case, an extra "hidden" link could actually have value.
Now, it was primarily a human tragedy where communication was not directly at risk.
Maybe they should have kept it a secret a while longer.
..the older people get, the more they tend to feel insecure and unsafe.
:=)
When a population ages as a whole, it's insecurity feeling rises, even though the actual crimerate lowers.
That's probably why older people are more intent on voting on a conservative party that has "safety" and "security" as keywords. And ofcourse why people buy these products.
Not to say younger people are immune. I myself have bought 1 alarm system and 2 in-home camera systems in the last 3 years alone.
But I am happy to say I don't vote conservative
Microsoft announced that its anti-spyware solution will be handed over to Claria for further improvements...
Seriously, look for alternatives to be on the safe side (English version out soon).