Yeah, I wonder why an anonymous poster is the only one to mention Pure-FTPd. I use it everywhere I need to serve files to the outside world (print shops and designers exchange a lot of files and FTP is quite common in those industries) and I would recommend it any day. Easy to set up, multiple ways to authenticate (LDAP, PAM, SQL, you name it), chrooting, ability to use TLS for both authentication and file transfer (separately configurable) etc etc. Cool stuff.
You are mistaken. It is you who show a lack of education. Specifically in the use of language. We are in the 21st century in the same way that I am in my 40th year. That being said, I am 39 years old. See how that works?
Yes, yes, we do, but do you? It's quite easy, see. You just have to think of years not as "year one" or some such, but "first year" (as in "20th century", not "century 20"), because that's what it boils down to. When you think about "year 2000" as the "2000th year", then you understand. When you've managed to wrap your head around the concept (which, by the way, is how years are counted in many languages), then you'll realise that all pseudo-logical mumbo jumbo just fades.
Many people who like number magic point to the ruler as your first point of reference: "See, it begins with a zero!" But what they don't realise is that between 0 and 1, there's the first centimetre.
Same applies to cases of beer, if that is any easier to understand. Let's assume there are 20 bottles in a case. Unless you're terminally stupid, you do not think that you started on a new case when you open the 20th bottle.
So if confiscation of life, liberty and property is unconstitutional, it denies Congress authority to pass unrelated laws. Also, taxing and prisons should be abolished. Did I get it right? Or did you say "due process" and by doing so, negated your argument quite elegantly? Oh, well.
I had to replace a perfectly adequate and almost new Canon LBP-1120, because no 64 bit Windows would acknowledge its existence and Canon ignored all requests to provide a 64 bit driver. There were quite a few requests filed around the globe, as I found out while I googled for a solution. Canon gave in halfway and finally released a 32 bit Vista driver (even Vista was unsupported), but 64 was seemingly beyond their expertise. The printer had to go (although I tried all kinds of tricks with partially reverse-engineered CUPS drivers) and was replaced by an el cheapo Samsung, because their printers seem to work with CUPS (which shares it) *and* all kinds of Windows. Nice.
As it is, the Greeks really have no business telling any other country what name they should be using, especially when the ancient Macedonia is pretty much evenly divided between Greece and Macedonia. It's not as if Macedonia is calling itself Greece...
Here's an idea: let's listen to North and South Korea bicker over who has a legitimate right to use the name Korea.
You can't remember and it was "probably" Germany, so it's in any case known and by extension all kinds of government agencies are abusing said hole, the existence of which you, well, "proved". Nice FUD.
When did they last show it to you? It's not 1995 anymore. It can be used as a desktop OS without knowing how to code and it has been this way for quite some time now. There can be problems with it, but they can definitely not be reduced to the lack of coding abilities. For most people, it's more like "too many varieties to choose from" and that applies to distributions, desktop environments and software.
What the fuck does that mean, really, when "bare minimum 4GB RAM" was a requirement for 8.0 to get it even remotely stable (some tuning required)?
I really do not know what kind of orifice you are pulling it from. I set 8.0 up with ZFS on a machine with 3 gigs of RAM, did not tune anything and there were zilch problems with neither stability nor speed. Yes, it is "works for me", but hell, it does work for me. In many configurations and with hardware over three years old. And single core processors.
* "decreased memory use for ZFS". It's not even doing deduplication in 8.0 RELEASE yet using 3GB of RAM at an idle load is not unheard of.
For some odd reason then it's been working for me in my home server with 2 gigs of RAM (single core, DDR), no tuning and with extra to spare for daemons and no problems with speed that could be attributed to the file system. It even worked with a single gigabyte, but I must admit that it was a lot on the slow side. In another machine I have 4 gigs of RAM, no tuning, prefetch enabled and I've yet to see memory usage top three gigs under load. Maybe there's not enough load. With prefetch off, memory usage is not even worth mentioning. I think I have been deploying some other FreeBSD.
I doubt you've even seen the output of a modern digital camera. The color accuracy, saturation and dynamic range far exceeds that of film.
Oh, I've seen them all right. However, if by "modern" you meant "top of the line, state of the art equipment that costs so much that you will not break even before the next one makes it obsolete", then no.
Good lenses are. That's why we pay the big bucks. And the lenses are still getting better with modern optical design.
Point taken.
I admit that at the end of the day, it still boils down to cost efficiency. You could squeeze quite many megapixels out of a 35 mm Fuji Velvia shot if you shoot with a Leica lens that costs mondo dineros and scan the film with some horribly expensive drum scanner. The data would be there, but at what cost?
Now, I do realise that I may come off as a bit schizophrenic here. Let me clarify. I do prefer slide film and maybe will always have a soft spot for it, I still think its colours beat digital, but I can no longer afford the time and the expenses it takes to mess around with it. I've all but given up on photography, until there is a good enough and affordable enough digital replacement to my film camera. So far, good enough has been well out of my price range and affordable stuff is still not up to par.
...and I still haven't got around to scanning some rolls I shot in 2005.
Which is probably what the poster was talking about: 60MP high end digitals mid-format, like those made by hasselblad and phaseone.
He did only mention the 35 mm format, five times. He also said high-end digitals destroy 35 mm film. It's fair to assume he was talking about 35 mm across the board, since why would he want to compare 60x90 mm digital to 35 mm film?
Resolution, maybe, but I've still yet to see a digital camera produce colours as well and vividly as slide film. Besides, there isn't really much point in having that many megapixels with 35 mm, the lenses aren't that sharp. Mid-format and bigger, maybe.
Yeah, as it is almost infinitely better to watch somebody's ten times as long digital slideshow from a computer screen. You see, the problem with film was that people would think twice before taking the shot, there weren't many films packed in the bag etc. With digital, you can take as many pictures as you want! What's not to like? Anybody want to see 20 identical pictures of a hotel in Sarajevo? Sorry, the shots are pretty badly lit and out of focus, but still. I never delete anything.
100 terabytes is 5000 times more than 20 gigabytes and a trip from China is considerably shorter than 5000 F-1 races. A regular F-1 race is about 300 kilometres long, which makes the trip from China about 43 times longer. (8000 miles being approximately 13000 kilometres.) So they are getting way, way more data than from F-1, about 60 times more per car kilometre.
Our exams (political science) were mostly your garden variety, but every once in a while, a professor would ask the students whether they'd prefer the exam with "open" or "closed" study materials. Students almost always preferred the "closed" variety, because they knew that if they are allowed to use their notes, books and what not, the questions would involve way more preparation work, more familiarity with the topics discussed, more creativity and often good indexing skills (which means comprehensively working through all the mandatory literature etc). There would be no multiple choice questions and everything would be in the form of a mini-essay.
No, it's a 9% markup. You can't blame Apple for different sales taxes.
Your maths is better than mine, but it still does not explain how the prices can be 8% lower 80 km away in Finland where VAT is 22% (as opposed to 20% in Estonia), shipping is arguably more expensive, and rents and wages higher. It could be that Apple's hardware is more expensive to resellers so that they could never compete with official Apple stores in the same area. I don't know. I am not even complaining much, since the premium stays in the country. I was merely pointing it out that two-tier pricing does exist. Some countries just don't get the Apple love and therefore must pay extra for the hardware and be without the iTunes store.
MacBook White 2.26GHz/2GB/ 250GB/GeForce 9400M/SD — 15 690 kroons (VAT included, of course), appr 1 003 euros, i.e. 1 278 dollars.
With the New York sales tax (8,25% according to Google), the same object would cost 999 + 8,25% in NY, which amounts to about 1 081 dollars.
I still see an almost 200 dollar difference from the customer's point of view. It's an almost 20% markup. And it isn't as if the rents or wages are much higher here to justify such a premium, quite the opposite in fact. Of course, it's not Apple itself doing business here, it's all done through an authorised reseller. However, it only further proves the claim that Eastern Europe is not really on Apple's radar. Okay, one might say that shipping stuff to Estonia costs money. No argument there. But the same item costs 929 euros in Apple Store Finland, VAT included. Free shipping. Now, Finland is geographically just as far in the east (and farther in the north) than Estonia. There's a sea between between Finland and the rest of Europe. For some reason, stuff still costs less there than 80 km in the south.
In the nineties, Apple stuff was so expensive here that people actually saved money by flying to the States, buying their tech over there and flying back. It was still cheaper than buying it locally. Granted, it was a different time back then, but still, way over the top.
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North Koreans have at least four times set out to liberate the South this way.
Oh, the aggravation that people put up with to get some poontang.
Newsflash: the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 26 December 1991 and there were no ATMs to be found anywhere in the region back then.
Yeah, I wonder why an anonymous poster is the only one to mention Pure-FTPd. I use it everywhere I need to serve files to the outside world (print shops and designers exchange a lot of files and FTP is quite common in those industries) and I would recommend it any day. Easy to set up, multiple ways to authenticate (LDAP, PAM, SQL, you name it), chrooting, ability to use TLS for both authentication and file transfer (separately configurable) etc etc. Cool stuff.
You are mistaken. It is you who show a lack of education. Specifically in the use of language. We are in the 21st century in the same way that I am in my 40th year. That being said, I am 39 years old. See how that works?
Yes, yes, we do, but do you? It's quite easy, see. You just have to think of years not as "year one" or some such, but "first year" (as in "20th century", not "century 20"), because that's what it boils down to. When you think about "year 2000" as the "2000th year", then you understand. When you've managed to wrap your head around the concept (which, by the way, is how years are counted in many languages), then you'll realise that all pseudo-logical mumbo jumbo just fades.
Many people who like number magic point to the ruler as your first point of reference: "See, it begins with a zero!" But what they don't realise is that between 0 and 1, there's the first centimetre.
Same applies to cases of beer, if that is any easier to understand. Let's assume there are 20 bottles in a case. Unless you're terminally stupid, you do not think that you started on a new case when you open the 20th bottle.
It's not as if people have not been craving for smart card support (pkcs#11) for ages... But Opera just keeps ignoring the issue.
Perhaps there should be a Lite version of Adobe Acrobat for people who just want to view PDF files... we could call it "Adobe Acrobat Reader"
And somewhere along the way, like in 2003, we could drop "Acrobat" from the reader's name to make the product even leaner and lighter.
So if confiscation of life, liberty and property is unconstitutional, it denies Congress authority to pass unrelated laws. Also, taxing and prisons should be abolished. Did I get it right? Or did you say "due process" and by doing so, negated your argument quite elegantly? Oh, well.
I had to replace a perfectly adequate and almost new Canon LBP-1120, because no 64 bit Windows would acknowledge its existence and Canon ignored all requests to provide a 64 bit driver. There were quite a few requests filed around the globe, as I found out while I googled for a solution. Canon gave in halfway and finally released a 32 bit Vista driver (even Vista was unsupported), but 64 was seemingly beyond their expertise. The printer had to go (although I tried all kinds of tricks with partially reverse-engineered CUPS drivers) and was replaced by an el cheapo Samsung, because their printers seem to work with CUPS (which shares it) *and* all kinds of Windows. Nice.
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You spelt "atention" rong.
As it is, the Greeks really have no business telling any other country what name they should be using, especially when the ancient Macedonia is pretty much evenly divided between Greece and Macedonia. It's not as if Macedonia is calling itself Greece... Here's an idea: let's listen to North and South Korea bicker over who has a legitimate right to use the name Korea.
You can't remember and it was "probably" Germany, so it's in any case known and by extension all kinds of government agencies are abusing said hole, the existence of which you, well, "proved". Nice FUD.
When did they last show it to you? It's not 1995 anymore. It can be used as a desktop OS without knowing how to code and it has been this way for quite some time now. There can be problems with it, but they can definitely not be reduced to the lack of coding abilities. For most people, it's more like "too many varieties to choose from" and that applies to distributions, desktop environments and software.
What the fuck does that mean, really, when "bare minimum 4GB RAM" was a requirement for 8.0 to get it even remotely stable (some tuning required)?
I really do not know what kind of orifice you are pulling it from. I set 8.0 up with ZFS on a machine with 3 gigs of RAM, did not tune anything and there were zilch problems with neither stability nor speed. Yes, it is "works for me", but hell, it does work for me. In many configurations and with hardware over three years old. And single core processors.
* "decreased memory use for ZFS". It's not even doing deduplication in 8.0 RELEASE yet using 3GB of RAM at an idle load is not unheard of.
For some odd reason then it's been working for me in my home server with 2 gigs of RAM (single core, DDR), no tuning and with extra to spare for daemons and no problems with speed that could be attributed to the file system. It even worked with a single gigabyte, but I must admit that it was a lot on the slow side. In another machine I have 4 gigs of RAM, no tuning, prefetch enabled and I've yet to see memory usage top three gigs under load. Maybe there's not enough load. With prefetch off, memory usage is not even worth mentioning. I think I have been deploying some other FreeBSD.
I doubt you've even seen the output of a modern digital camera. The color accuracy, saturation and dynamic range far exceeds that of film.
Oh, I've seen them all right. However, if by "modern" you meant "top of the line, state of the art equipment that costs so much that you will not break even before the next one makes it obsolete", then no.
Good lenses are. That's why we pay the big bucks. And the lenses are still getting better with modern optical design.
Point taken.
I admit that at the end of the day, it still boils down to cost efficiency. You could squeeze quite many megapixels out of a 35 mm Fuji Velvia shot if you shoot with a Leica lens that costs mondo dineros and scan the film with some horribly expensive drum scanner. The data would be there, but at what cost?
Now, I do realise that I may come off as a bit schizophrenic here. Let me clarify. I do prefer slide film and maybe will always have a soft spot for it, I still think its colours beat digital, but I can no longer afford the time and the expenses it takes to mess around with it. I've all but given up on photography, until there is a good enough and affordable enough digital replacement to my film camera. So far, good enough has been well out of my price range and affordable stuff is still not up to par.
...and I still haven't got around to scanning some rolls I shot in 2005.
Which is probably what the poster was talking about: 60MP high end digitals mid-format, like those made by hasselblad and phaseone.
He did only mention the 35 mm format, five times. He also said high-end digitals destroy 35 mm film. It's fair to assume he was talking about 35 mm across the board, since why would he want to compare 60x90 mm digital to 35 mm film?
Resolution, maybe, but I've still yet to see a digital camera produce colours as well and vividly as slide film. Besides, there isn't really much point in having that many megapixels with 35 mm, the lenses aren't that sharp. Mid-format and bigger, maybe.
Yeah, as it is almost infinitely better to watch somebody's ten times as long digital slideshow from a computer screen. You see, the problem with film was that people would think twice before taking the shot, there weren't many films packed in the bag etc. With digital, you can take as many pictures as you want! What's not to like? Anybody want to see 20 identical pictures of a hotel in Sarajevo? Sorry, the shots are pretty badly lit and out of focus, but still. I never delete anything.
100 terabytes is 5000 times more than 20 gigabytes and a trip from China is considerably shorter than 5000 F-1 races. A regular F-1 race is about 300 kilometres long, which makes the trip from China about 43 times longer. (8000 miles being approximately 13000 kilometres.) So they are getting way, way more data than from F-1, about 60 times more per car kilometre.
Our exams (political science) were mostly your garden variety, but every once in a while, a professor would ask the students whether they'd prefer the exam with "open" or "closed" study materials. Students almost always preferred the "closed" variety, because they knew that if they are allowed to use their notes, books and what not, the questions would involve way more preparation work, more familiarity with the topics discussed, more creativity and often good indexing skills (which means comprehensively working through all the mandatory literature etc). There would be no multiple choice questions and everything would be in the form of a mini-essay.
Isn't that called burglarized?
No, he clearly meant "robberized".
No vertical tabs? Will that help you in any way?
No, it's a 9% markup. You can't blame Apple for different sales taxes.
Your maths is better than mine, but it still does not explain how the prices can be 8% lower 80 km away in Finland where VAT is 22% (as opposed to 20% in Estonia), shipping is arguably more expensive, and rents and wages higher. It could be that Apple's hardware is more expensive to resellers so that they could never compete with official Apple stores in the same area. I don't know. I am not even complaining much, since the premium stays in the country. I was merely pointing it out that two-tier pricing does exist. Some countries just don't get the Apple love and therefore must pay extra for the hardware and be without the iTunes store.
Situation in Estonia:
MacBook White 2.26GHz/2GB/ 250GB/GeForce 9400M/SD — 15 690 kroons (VAT included, of course), appr 1 003 euros, i.e. 1 278 dollars.
With the New York sales tax (8,25% according to Google), the same object would cost 999 + 8,25% in NY, which amounts to about 1 081 dollars.
I still see an almost 200 dollar difference from the customer's point of view. It's an almost 20% markup. And it isn't as if the rents or wages are much higher here to justify such a premium, quite the opposite in fact. Of course, it's not Apple itself doing business here, it's all done through an authorised reseller. However, it only further proves the claim that Eastern Europe is not really on Apple's radar. Okay, one might say that shipping stuff to Estonia costs money. No argument there. But the same item costs 929 euros in Apple Store Finland, VAT included. Free shipping. Now, Finland is geographically just as far in the east (and farther in the north) than Estonia. There's a sea between between Finland and the rest of Europe. For some reason, stuff still costs less there than 80 km in the south.
In the nineties, Apple stuff was so expensive here that people actually saved money by flying to the States, buying their tech over there and flying back. It was still cheaper than buying it locally. Granted, it was a different time back then, but still, way over the top.