Whether or not it's film or digital, you can take your photos to a photo shop with a minilab, and they can produce for you the prints. During the printing or developing, they still can make color and density corrections to the photos. Thus a developer can still end up seeing whatever it is that you photographed.
What's the matter with 95+ deg F weather? I guess I must be in the minority if I like it hot.
Heck, I used to live about 1.5 km from the south eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and never owned an air conditioner. And yes, in August when the Hamsin (the winds off of the Arabian deserts) would blow in, you'd want to levitate at night so you don't touch a thing... But during the day I loved the heat.
Even more important, how much of that $1 billion do you think they'd even win in the lawsuit? Converters for MS LookOut (Outlook) are nothing new, and I find it extremely hard to believe that there is a $1 billion market for this software.
Maybe next they should sue Mozilla because Thunderbird can convert email from Outlook...
Maybe I am incorrect about this, but I thought that the key itself is what provided the encryption, and that the certificate provided a means to verify the key. This entails having "somebody else" vouch for you, in this case it would be a CA. If I'm incorrect, please correct me.
I never wanted to be just sitting for 20 minutes at the end of the test, and I was one of the highly advanced children in my class. I was not allowed to do anything except sit still at my desk by my 2nd grade teacher. I was not allowed to doodle, read a book, or anything.
I was sick of being taught how to do simple addition and subtraction by time I was halfway through 2nd grade that I started to refuse to do the same bull over and over again. Maybe a lot of the people in the world only remember things if it's been pounded into their heads with a metaphorical sledgehammer, but I wanted to move on. The problem is that my refusal to do work was taken by the school board to be reflective of my not being ready to move on because I was being insubordinate, and they even wanted to put me in the behavioral disorder program because I had started causing trouble in class for the teachers.
Interestingly enough, I've read studies about the behavioral disorder program at public schools in the USA, and most show a high percentage of male students in the program. This percentage is very disproportionate - I believe the average was said to be between 70-90% of the students in the average BD program were boys. I've also read that the average boy is characterized as being more likely to be insubordinate and require justification for doing work than the average female student, and this is interpreted by the educators as something abnormal instead of something that is inherent and normal.
In the end, my parents fought tooth and nail with the school board and kept me out of the BD program. Unfortunately, they could not get the school to shoot me up a grade because I refused to do my homework. (A vicious cycle that perpetuated until I finished high school. I didn't do redundant homework year after year, but they wouldn't advance me because I didn't do my homework. Test scores were inconsequential to them.)
The public school system in Illinois, and quite probably most (if not the rest) of the USA, is the factory mentality. Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall Part II (from the movie version of The Wall) makes me think a lot about our school system here. Send the kids down the conveyor belts and turn them into hamburger meat. One size does not fit all; it never has, and it never will. The problem with Honors classes and *some* "gifted" programs is that they entailed more work, but not more thought and learning. Work does not necessarily equate learning.
I was lucky that at the same time I was having problems with most of the teachers in my normal classes, the "gifted" program at my grade and junior high schools did provide new material for us. We learned a bit about chemistry already in grade school such as titration and chemical properties of common compounds that we use on a day to day basis. In 7th and 8th grades we were already dissecting frogs, fetal pigs, and sharks and learning about the anatomy in far more detail than the rest of our classmates. The classes that I behaved the best in were the classes that I was most challenged in. I rarely if ever gave my "gifted" program teachers any problems at all.
Since I'm many years out of k-12, and because of stupid laws such as NCLB, I fear that in many places these programs for the advanced students have been cut in order to use more resources on the remedial students. If so, the dumbing down of America continues...
Actually, the corporate shield doesn't provide complete immunity. This being a criminal offense being committed by the company, I highly doubt that the heads of the company could simply say "oh gee, so and so wanted us to do it, and we have this agreement with them that absolves us of all wrongdoing." IANAL but my lawyer has advised me of such in the past when I was asked by previous employers to sabotage clients' networks to generate more income for the company - I would have no legal shield saying "my boss said to do it so I did like a robot." He also reiterated that the same goes for the officers and board of a corporation along with its employees.
The more likely scenario is that they had some patsy of theirs perform this attack, and they'll feed him straight to the feds to save their asses.
But I don't think that many airport vendors sell items like baby formula and prescription medications... so I don't think that it's really a conspiracy of the airport convenience shop owners... it's just something as stupid as laws in some states banning non-missionary style and/or non-vaginal sex...
I especially loved it when I had to dump out my water (not my bottle, I was keeping my bottle to refill it beyond the checkpoint) at Newark. The funny thing is I just got off an international flight with said water bottle... Then one of the TSA agents copped an attitude of "I'm your father, you don't pour out water in a trash can, that's what sinks are for...". Let me think about this one - my laptop and other belongs are already going through the lousy x-ray machine, I'm going to walk all the way back to the nearest bathroom to be a nice little boy and not get a lollipop as a reward? Oh and continuing my rant, about 2 years ago I flew from Chicago to Houston and back, and *both* times I had a rather large set of wire cutters in my carry-on by mistake, and nobody said a peep about it. I think that's more dangerous than dihydrogen monoxide.
Or even more specifically... No liquids. Did the agents get the memo? MacGyver is retired, the toothpaste + water + mouthwash + baby formula bomb won't work unless you allow nail clippers aboard too. How else are you going to ignite it?
Honestly, what's the bullshit with no bottles of water allowed? Isn't it time that somebody sue the TSA to get them to drop this ass-in-9 practice?
Especially since they couldn't replicate a McGyver insti-mix explosive suitable for an airplane with toothpaste, water, baby formula, and prescription drugs...
But how DARE you bring a bottle of water to the security checkpoint... You can make that sooooo explosive, if you have the right equipment and electrodes (not to mention a suitable power source)...
How the parent is marked as "insightful" is beyond me. There's sales & use tax that exist in many if not all states. This isn't a matter of whether or not you're taxed, it's a matter of if a) the tax is enforceable, b) if the tax is applicable, and c) whose responsibility it is to collect/pay the tax.
Additionally, if you think that greed is only a product of the past 12 years, you are extremely naive. This country (USA) and people in general tend to be greedy. Perhaps the state is what is too greedy and needs to stop taxing on every breath of air we inhale or exhale. The fact that this nation has sunken in status has nothing to do with taxes.
For reiserfs v3.x, I certainly agree with you that it is not as much of a win anymore. But then again, I scarcely have a system that still has it running either.
XFS is a decent filesystem, I agree, but there's a little problem here... We have no idea what your server hardware or network hardware is. It'd be great if you could provide that and perform the same task locally on the server so we can at least get more of an apples-to-apples comparison.
As a sidenote, I like to use XFS whenever I'm dealing with very large files, such as on my MythTV backends or external backup HD's.
Even reiserfs isn't that slow on unlinks. But since I'm not using reiserfs on my maildir, I can only give you the example of reiser4.
My current machine is a Via C7 1GHz with 1GB of RAM and a 300 GB SATAII drive (the old PIII-733 was replaced about 2 1/2 months ago). Currently there are 137,139 files in this maildir.
running find./cur -type f -print0 |xargs -0 rm takes this amount of time:
real 1m13.505s
user 0m2.257s
sys 0m46.564s
Doing it by time rm -Rf cur/ produces slightly different results:
real 1m4.477s
user 0m0.217s
sys 0m39.617s
So I suppose it's not exactly a week to do the unlinks, and I do know that between 1/3 and 1/2 of the system load was simply IO wait.
The blog even mentions NTFS as potentially a default FS for linux distros? I almost thought that this was april fools again. In fact, perhaps the author of the blog should see comments that Hans has made about NTFS. (I believe they were something to the effect of "WTF was Microsoft smoking?")
Reiser4 has been great especially in applications such as maildir storage, where we have thousands of files in each directory. Can NTFS do tail packing? What about treeing instead of bitmapping the filesystem? I think not. Hell, I bet ext3 would choke as well with a dir of 15,000 files. I have no problems with reiser4.
From a PIII-733 w/384MB RAM and a simple IDE 30GB HD:
time ls -l >/tmp/bah.lst
real 0m20.071s
user 0m5.873s
sys 0m6.518s
That's on a directory with over 120,000 small files in it (it's from a maildir). I somehow doubt that NTFS or ext3 would be even half this fast at something as trivial as ls on this dir.
I honestly don't care whether or not he killed his wife. I only care about having the filesystem. I don't know how much Edward Shishkin is going to continue maintaining the code base now. I will greatly lament the loss of Reiser4.
Woops! My bad! You're right. Also, the DHS plugins were written well above budget too. But what does the tax payer care anyway? They're fighting "terrists" selling pirated software on eBay to fund their "terrist" activities!
I suspect that there might be some legal difference between the traffic light camera tickets and a moving violation. The traffic light ticket generally shows the car committing the offense, but not usually the driver. So it sounds like the traffic light ticket has the same weight as a parking ticket: get 3 in the city of Chicago and they'll boot you, but I doubt that they could get your driver's license suspended for failure to pay.
Standard disclaimer: IANAL, just somebody who tries to think in a logical manner
Not to be pedantic, but the USPS is no longer a part of the federal government. They are regulated by the federal government. However, the laws on the books still treat the USPS as if it is a part of the federal government. The population of civil servants still working at the USPS is dwindling rapidly. The rest of the employees are no longer government employees.
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Whether or not it's film or digital, you can take your photos to a photo shop with a minilab, and they can produce for you the prints. During the printing or developing, they still can make color and density corrections to the photos. Thus a developer can still end up seeing whatever it is that you photographed.
Pssh, Cook County (where Chicago is located) has higher sales tax than that... And it's going up sometime this month...
What's the matter with 95+ deg F weather? I guess I must be in the minority if I like it hot.
Heck, I used to live about 1.5 km from the south eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and never owned an air conditioner. And yes, in August when the Hamsin (the winds off of the Arabian deserts) would blow in, you'd want to levitate at night so you don't touch a thing... But during the day I loved the heat.
Suddenly I have the scene of Dr. Evil demanding One Hundred Beelyon Dollars going in my head...
Even more important, how much of that $1 billion do you think they'd even win in the lawsuit? Converters for MS LookOut (Outlook) are nothing new, and I find it extremely hard to believe that there is a $1 billion market for this software.
Maybe next they should sue Mozilla because Thunderbird can convert email from Outlook...
Maybe I am incorrect about this, but I thought that the key itself is what provided the encryption, and that the certificate provided a means to verify the key. This entails having "somebody else" vouch for you, in this case it would be a CA. If I'm incorrect, please correct me.
I never wanted to be just sitting for 20 minutes at the end of the test, and I was one of the highly advanced children in my class. I was not allowed to do anything except sit still at my desk by my 2nd grade teacher. I was not allowed to doodle, read a book, or anything.
I was sick of being taught how to do simple addition and subtraction by time I was halfway through 2nd grade that I started to refuse to do the same bull over and over again. Maybe a lot of the people in the world only remember things if it's been pounded into their heads with a metaphorical sledgehammer, but I wanted to move on. The problem is that my refusal to do work was taken by the school board to be reflective of my not being ready to move on because I was being insubordinate, and they even wanted to put me in the behavioral disorder program because I had started causing trouble in class for the teachers.
Interestingly enough, I've read studies about the behavioral disorder program at public schools in the USA, and most show a high percentage of male students in the program. This percentage is very disproportionate - I believe the average was said to be between 70-90% of the students in the average BD program were boys. I've also read that the average boy is characterized as being more likely to be insubordinate and require justification for doing work than the average female student, and this is interpreted by the educators as something abnormal instead of something that is inherent and normal.
In the end, my parents fought tooth and nail with the school board and kept me out of the BD program. Unfortunately, they could not get the school to shoot me up a grade because I refused to do my homework. (A vicious cycle that perpetuated until I finished high school. I didn't do redundant homework year after year, but they wouldn't advance me because I didn't do my homework. Test scores were inconsequential to them.)
The public school system in Illinois, and quite probably most (if not the rest) of the USA, is the factory mentality. Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall Part II (from the movie version of The Wall) makes me think a lot about our school system here. Send the kids down the conveyor belts and turn them into hamburger meat. One size does not fit all; it never has, and it never will. The problem with Honors classes and *some* "gifted" programs is that they entailed more work, but not more thought and learning. Work does not necessarily equate learning.
I was lucky that at the same time I was having problems with most of the teachers in my normal classes, the "gifted" program at my grade and junior high schools did provide new material for us. We learned a bit about chemistry already in grade school such as titration and chemical properties of common compounds that we use on a day to day basis. In 7th and 8th grades we were already dissecting frogs, fetal pigs, and sharks and learning about the anatomy in far more detail than the rest of our classmates. The classes that I behaved the best in were the classes that I was most challenged in. I rarely if ever gave my "gifted" program teachers any problems at all.
Since I'm many years out of k-12, and because of stupid laws such as NCLB, I fear that in many places these programs for the advanced students have been cut in order to use more resources on the remedial students. If so, the dumbing down of America continues...
Actually, the corporate shield doesn't provide complete immunity. This being a criminal offense being committed by the company, I highly doubt that the heads of the company could simply say "oh gee, so and so wanted us to do it, and we have this agreement with them that absolves us of all wrongdoing." IANAL but my lawyer has advised me of such in the past when I was asked by previous employers to sabotage clients' networks to generate more income for the company - I would have no legal shield saying "my boss said to do it so I did like a robot." He also reiterated that the same goes for the officers and board of a corporation along with its employees.
The more likely scenario is that they had some patsy of theirs perform this attack, and they'll feed him straight to the feds to save their asses.
But I don't think that many airport vendors sell items like baby formula and prescription medications... so I don't think that it's really a conspiracy of the airport convenience shop owners... it's just something as stupid as laws in some states banning non-missionary style and/or non-vaginal sex...
Oh my oh my, that's quite a site! ;-)
Remind me to print that out next time I fly and show it to the TSA monkeys and say "you guys are doing a great job of protecting us"!
If you juggle, it must mean you're a clown. And we all know that clowns are evil.
I especially loved it when I had to dump out my water (not my bottle, I was keeping my bottle to refill it beyond the checkpoint) at Newark. The funny thing is I just got off an international flight with said water bottle...
Then one of the TSA agents copped an attitude of "I'm your father, you don't pour out water in a trash can, that's what sinks are for...". Let me think about this one - my laptop and other belongs are already going through the lousy x-ray machine, I'm going to walk all the way back to the nearest bathroom to be a nice little boy and not get a lollipop as a reward?
Oh and continuing my rant, about 2 years ago I flew from Chicago to Houston and back, and *both* times I had a rather large set of wire cutters in my carry-on by mistake, and nobody said a peep about it. I think that's more dangerous than dihydrogen monoxide.
I wanna buy me one of those toys!
Or even more specifically...
No liquids. Did the agents get the memo? MacGyver is retired, the toothpaste + water + mouthwash + baby formula bomb won't work unless you allow nail clippers aboard too. How else are you going to ignite it?
Honestly, what's the bullshit with no bottles of water allowed? Isn't it time that somebody sue the TSA to get them to drop this ass-in-9 practice?
Especially since they couldn't replicate a McGyver insti-mix explosive suitable for an airplane with toothpaste, water, baby formula, and prescription drugs...
But how DARE you bring a bottle of water to the security checkpoint... You can make that sooooo explosive, if you have the right equipment and electrodes (not to mention a suitable power source)...
After you've been laughed at, aren't you supposed to up the price to ONE HUNDRED BEELYON DOLLARS ?
How the parent is marked as "insightful" is beyond me. There's sales & use tax that exist in many if not all states. This isn't a matter of whether or not you're taxed, it's a matter of if a) the tax is enforceable, b) if the tax is applicable, and c) whose responsibility it is to collect/pay the tax.
Additionally, if you think that greed is only a product of the past 12 years, you are extremely naive. This country (USA) and people in general tend to be greedy. Perhaps the state is what is too greedy and needs to stop taxing on every breath of air we inhale or exhale. The fact that this nation has sunken in status has nothing to do with taxes.
For reiserfs v3.x, I certainly agree with you that it is not as much of a win anymore. But then again, I scarcely have a system that still has it running either.
XFS is a decent filesystem, I agree, but there's a little problem here... We have no idea what your server hardware or network hardware is. It'd be great if you could provide that and perform the same task locally on the server so we can at least get more of an apples-to-apples comparison.
As a sidenote, I like to use XFS whenever I'm dealing with very large files, such as on my MythTV backends or external backup HD's.
Even reiserfs isn't that slow on unlinks. But since I'm not using reiserfs on my maildir, I can only give you the example of reiser4.
./cur -type f -print0 |xargs -0 rm takes this amount of time:
My current machine is a Via C7 1GHz with 1GB of RAM and a 300 GB SATAII drive (the old PIII-733 was replaced about 2 1/2 months ago). Currently there are 137,139 files in this maildir.
running find
real 1m13.505s
user 0m2.257s
sys 0m46.564s
Doing it by time rm -Rf cur/ produces slightly different results:
real 1m4.477s
user 0m0.217s
sys 0m39.617s
So I suppose it's not exactly a week to do the unlinks, and I do know that between 1/3 and 1/2 of the system load was simply IO wait.
The blog even mentions NTFS as potentially a default FS for linux distros? I almost thought that this was april fools again. In fact, perhaps the author of the blog should see comments that Hans has made about NTFS. (I believe they were something to the effect of "WTF was Microsoft smoking?")
/tmp/bah.lst
Reiser4 has been great especially in applications such as maildir storage, where we have thousands of files in each directory. Can NTFS do tail packing? What about treeing instead of bitmapping the filesystem? I think not. Hell, I bet ext3 would choke as well with a dir of 15,000 files. I have no problems with reiser4.
From a PIII-733 w/384MB RAM and a simple IDE 30GB HD:
time ls -l >
real 0m20.071s
user 0m5.873s
sys 0m6.518s
That's on a directory with over 120,000 small files in it (it's from a maildir). I somehow doubt that NTFS or ext3 would be even half this fast at something as trivial as ls on this dir.
I honestly don't care whether or not he killed his wife. I only care about having the filesystem. I don't know how much Edward Shishkin is going to continue maintaining the code base now. I will greatly lament the loss of Reiser4.
Woops! My bad! You're right. Also, the DHS plugins were written well above budget too. But what does the tax payer care anyway? They're fighting "terrists" selling pirated software on eBay to fund their "terrist" activities!
I'm sure those hardware requirements are due to all those NSA plugins the browser has and needs to support...
I suspect that there might be some legal difference between the traffic light camera tickets and a moving violation. The traffic light ticket generally shows the car committing the offense, but not usually the driver. So it sounds like the traffic light ticket has the same weight as a parking ticket: get 3 in the city of Chicago and they'll boot you, but I doubt that they could get your driver's license suspended for failure to pay.
Standard disclaimer: IANAL, just somebody who tries to think in a logical manner
Not to be pedantic, but the USPS is no longer a part of the federal government. They are regulated by the federal government. However, the laws on the books still treat the USPS as if it is a part of the federal government. The population of civil servants still working at the USPS is dwindling rapidly. The rest of the employees are no longer government employees.