I've recently gone back to film as well. I got a ten year old Ricoh all-manual 35mm camera off eBay for about $AUS70 (~$US50) and I'm learning to use it well. I originally got it for two reasons. Firstly, film can do long exposures much more easily than digital. My dad's Olympus C-750Z can only go up to 16s, and even then it has lots of dead/stuck pixels that have to be fixed with the built-in noise reduction option. I have seen other people doing really long exposures with their digitals, so maybe it's just this camera, I don't know. Secondly, I got the camera for the Pentax K lens mount so I can change lenses. Sure, there are digital cameras with interchangable lenses but they cost serious money. I've been unemployed for a while now and I can't afford them, but I can afford this film camera. The cost of film and processing might one day add up to more than a good digital, but it'll be a while (several hundred rolls at least) and the film cost is in small payments over that long period.
Medium and large format film will last longer. Basically, 35mm is being killed by automatic digitals being used to take 'snaps'. That's what almost everyone used them for, and digital is perfect for that purpose. But medium and large format is still the domain of professionals and people interested in serious photography. Hopefully this means it will stay around much longer than 35mm. By the time 35mm fully 'dies', I'd like to have a nice refurbished 'Kiev' medium format camera from Arax. As long as Fuji keeps making film, I'm happy.
BTW, for anyone doing comparisons; A typical 35mm frame (36x24mm) works out to about 8.6 'MegaPixels'. A medium format 6x4.5 frame is about 24MP, and a 6x7 is 39MP. A large format 5x4" frame is perhaps 129MP. These figures are all assuming 50 lp/mm (i.e 100 dots per mm or 2540dpi), which AFAIK is pretty much the max that can be obtained with a good film, lens, and good focus. With digital though, you have to compensate for the bayer pattern, so you may need more than 8MP to produce the same quality as a 35mm photo. Depends on the film and lens used with the 35mm camera.
I had thought that maybe FFmpeg could encode WMA's (even an older version), but alas I was wrong. It seems we can only decode them. Oh well. If MS doesn't want everyone to be able to use their format then that's their concern. It does however reveal their motivation behind creating their own format and codecs...
Another neat trick to try with Flash drives is to fill them with a bunch of itty bitty files - it literally takes forever to do so!
It literally takes forever does it? Then I take it you're still waiting for those itty bitty files to copy? Better hope you don't have a power outage...
The spec page lists the ARM940T as a "video coprocessor", so in a way it is a GPU. It might not have very high performance compared to a real GPU, but it uses very little power. And it can probably be used for other things as well. Sound perhaps.
And the MMU-less uClinux looks to be doing well, with the uCsimm and uCdimm devices. I agree there's not much point in having an MMU and modern multi-user OS in a gaming platform that's only going to be running one thing at a time. But the hardware is becoming ever more capable and the OS features are certainly very nice, saving development time. So why not use an OS like Linux?
So why don't web servers count when 'entire operating systems' do? Web servers are always connected to some sort of network, if not the Internet. They wouldn't be much use otherwise. They often have all sorts of modules/plugins loaded, some third-party. They often have to run all sorts of interpreted languages (Perl, Python, PHP, ASP, etc) with scripts written by all sorts of people. They can also run other executables on the host system. They often have to access a database, either on the same machine or over the network. They often send email and even receive it (e.g confirmation emails).
Most importantly, they're often very public machines (not including intranets). And they can be holding (or have access to) very valuable data e.g banking details, email addresses, passwords. Web servers may be out-numbered by desktop machines, but they're still very attractive targets.
So, would you like to have another try at explaining why Apache HTTP server has been the most used web server for almost ten years now, but is not the most attacked?
Graphic Manipulator? That's as bad as Microsoft's naming scheme: Internet Explorer, SQL Server, Windows Media Player, MSN Messenger, Paint, Notepad, Word, Windows Guardian. Have some creativity for gods sake!
But we're long past "coulds". Considering Bush's past of abuse of drugs and alcohol, it's very likely he's schizo in the ways I've indicated. And -- oh yeah -- as the OP implied, we are swimming in an ocean of evidence that Bush acts like a fox on one hand, and then a retard on another.
Are we so sure Bush does both? I personally see him as a kind of puppet. He is out and out an absolute moron. He has trouble constructing and completing a coherent sentence and seems to be firmly in the elitist/Republican/right-wing mindset. But he has all sorts of "advisors" and lobbyists around him, not to mention known Straussian neo-cons in his own administration like Wolferwitz and Rumsfeld. IMHO, I think they're the ones actually pushing a lot of the draconian legislation and matters of foreign policy. Not Bush. I think that's how he can appear to be both sneaky and dumb at the same time.
I would think that consistency would be a good thing in an encyclopedia. That is after all what Wikipedia is. It's not a discussion forum like Slashdot. If someone doesn't like it, they can take the MediaWiki software, take a recent dump of the Wikipedia data (it's GFDL licensed) and start their own encyclopedia.
You can already do that with simple Javascript. So what's the difference? The browser could choose to ignore the information in the same way that FireFox allows the user to disallow Javascript from changing the status bar text.
God, what an asshat. This is from the same guy who wrote qmail and seems to consider himself god's gift to programming. He totally ignores (or doesn't know about) 6-in-4 tunnels, IPv4 mapped addresses, or dual-stack solutions. A lot of thought has been put into IPv6 and the process of transitioning to it. It won't be fast or easy. There will be problems, but not the smug alarmist ones that DJB came up with.
Uh, what previous versions of IP? The Wikipedia article on the Internet Protocol says "Versions 0 through 3 were either reserved or unused". And even if there were versions before IPv4, the deployment would have been what? a dozen machines? We're talking multi-user mainframes and mini-computers at universities, not home PC's. Nothing like the hundreds of millions of hosts using IPv4. Why would the designers of IPv1 through IPv4 have made the addresses a superset of the previous version, when so few hosts actually exsisted? Why go to that trouble when it wasn't really a problem?
I'll tell you what's happened. A 66 year old Prime Minister and his cabinet/cult of arrogant, elitist yes-men (and women) now have control of both houses of parliament. John Howard has been PM for almost ten years, but the Labor-controlled senate always kept his coalition government in check. Now they're free to make all the changes they want, and we're seeing them clearly for the elitist right-wing facists that they are. Many have already mentioned the industrial relations amendments (hello US-style minimum-wage part time jobs!) and the "anti-terror" laws. I'm afraid that this is only the beginning of what will be some really nasty laws. Now if only the other parties could get their shit together for the next federal election in 2007. *sigh* Both major parties are pretty screwed up at the moment.
Why link to some guys blog with inane comments, when you can link to the page he refers to? Lots more information there.
What is it with blog pages that link to another blog, which links to another blog, and so on? If this is how things are done in the blogosphere, then my already low opinion of bloggers just slipped a little. Just provide a link to the original f**king information!</rant>
Bah, you Kiwis! Over this side of the Tasman our government is still trying to sell off the previously government-owned telecommunications carrier, Telstra. It's not only a near-monopoly in many markets and owns a lot of the national infrastructure (paid for by our taxes!), but the government is letting it off easy on issues like dismal service to "the bush", because they want to get the best price at sale. How screwed up is that? And don't get me started on ADSL! Several private ISP's are now installing their own DSLAM's into Telstra exchanges in order to roll out ADSL2/2+ years before Telstra gets off their sorry arses. And of course Telstra is obstructing the process of hooking up customers to these non-Telstra DSLAM's.
It's just such a load of BS. Telstra's service (not just to regional areas) has already been going downhill pretty quick the last several years, ever since the government sold off the first 49%. It's still government controlled, but it's also (half) responsible to shareholders now. They've been posting record profits, which makes the shareholders happy. But they've done it by cutting back on R&D and infrastructure. Their consumer internet branch "Bigpond" is an absolute joke. Their ADSL service is way overpriced and very unreliable. Their big email meltdown last year got a lot of attention, although I can't seem to find the story here on Slashdot. There's no way the situation will get any better if/when the government sells the rest of Telstra.
Dang. I've got "47th Street Photo" on my eBay favourite sellers list (nothing bought yet, just bookmarking them). They don't look so flash anymore. *sigh*
Actually, it sounds very similar to what this Utah idiot is proposing. These "Internet channels" are just ports. They claim:
The endless battle of changing IP addresses, shifting domain names and redirected links would end.
Right. Try getting all the porn web sites around the world to switch from port 80. How dumb. And they suggest legislation as well. Yet another US group thinking their laws apply everywhere.
The proper thing to do in that case would be to post a link to the article. That is not what he's doing. He's copying someone elses *comment* from another forum and passing it off as his own. He's providing no indication whatsoever that he's doing this. No link, nothing. He's presumebly doing this to gain karma. And he obviously doesn't like me pointing this out, since he's just made me his foe.
Note to moderators: the user "5, Troll" likes to cut and paste posts from other sites to gain karma. This one was found on the DeveloperWorks site with a quick google search.
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How the fuck can this be called spyware? I would have thought that spyware is, by definition, software that spys on your behaviour. This is a wiki, a web page. It doesn't run on your machine, and users have to wilfully input the information. There's nothing secretive about this at all. If Amazon want to search your contributions for keywords or something, then fine. But then it's called data mining. Not spyware.
While C doesn't really have namespaces (look to C++ for that), at least the compiler will throw an error when you try to redefine a function or variable. Plus it also has proper scoping. I can't believe a modern programming language still gets around without that. All variables are global, oh except within functions. Another poster told a story of cleaning up a heap of PHP code he inherited. He moved some repetitive code into a function and the code initially didn't work because he forgot to declare global $something; in the function. My god PHP is a backward language!
Pressing Ctl-Alt-E doesn't do anything here. But it's the Ctrl-Alt-Fn combo that switches virtual terminals, not the number keys. Weird. I imagine the sight of a text-mode login screen would indeed startle a Windows user. And anyone not familar with Linux's multiple virtual terminals would not be able to find their way back to X and their work.
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The "changes" document appears to just list the added features, changes in ABI, and changes in the language parsers. The GCC homepage has two links to their bugzilla system: serious regressions and all known regressions. Your bug *should* be in there somewhere.
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I've recently gone back to film as well. I got a ten year old Ricoh all-manual 35mm camera off eBay for about $AUS70 (~$US50) and I'm learning to use it well. I originally got it for two reasons. Firstly, film can do long exposures much more easily than digital. My dad's Olympus C-750Z can only go up to 16s, and even then it has lots of dead/stuck pixels that have to be fixed with the built-in noise reduction option. I have seen other people doing really long exposures with their digitals, so maybe it's just this camera, I don't know. Secondly, I got the camera for the Pentax K lens mount so I can change lenses. Sure, there are digital cameras with interchangable lenses but they cost serious money. I've been unemployed for a while now and I can't afford them, but I can afford this film camera. The cost of film and processing might one day add up to more than a good digital, but it'll be a while (several hundred rolls at least) and the film cost is in small payments over that long period.
Medium and large format film will last longer. Basically, 35mm is being killed by automatic digitals being used to take 'snaps'. That's what almost everyone used them for, and digital is perfect for that purpose. But medium and large format is still the domain of professionals and people interested in serious photography. Hopefully this means it will stay around much longer than 35mm. By the time 35mm fully 'dies', I'd like to have a nice refurbished 'Kiev' medium format camera from Arax. As long as Fuji keeps making film, I'm happy.
BTW, for anyone doing comparisons; A typical 35mm frame (36x24mm) works out to about 8.6 'MegaPixels'. A medium format 6x4.5 frame is about 24MP, and a 6x7 is 39MP. A large format 5x4" frame is perhaps 129MP. These figures are all assuming 50 lp/mm (i.e 100 dots per mm or 2540dpi), which AFAIK is pretty much the max that can be obtained with a good film, lens, and good focus. With digital though, you have to compensate for the bayer pattern, so you may need more than 8MP to produce the same quality as a 35mm photo. Depends on the film and lens used with the 35mm camera.
I had thought that maybe FFmpeg could encode WMA's (even an older version), but alas I was wrong. It seems we can only decode them. Oh well. If MS doesn't want everyone to be able to use their format then that's their concern. It does however reveal their motivation behind creating their own format and codecs...
It literally takes forever does it? Then I take it you're still waiting for those itty bitty files to copy? Better hope you don't have a power outage...
The spec page lists the ARM940T as a "video coprocessor", so in a way it is a GPU. It might not have very high performance compared to a real GPU, but it uses very little power. And it can probably be used for other things as well. Sound perhaps.
And the MMU-less uClinux looks to be doing well, with the uCsimm and uCdimm devices. I agree there's not much point in having an MMU and modern multi-user OS in a gaming platform that's only going to be running one thing at a time. But the hardware is becoming ever more capable and the OS features are certainly very nice, saving development time. So why not use an OS like Linux?
So why don't web servers count when 'entire operating systems' do? Web servers are always connected to some sort of network, if not the Internet. They wouldn't be much use otherwise. They often have all sorts of modules/plugins loaded, some third-party. They often have to run all sorts of interpreted languages (Perl, Python, PHP, ASP, etc) with scripts written by all sorts of people. They can also run other executables on the host system. They often have to access a database, either on the same machine or over the network. They often send email and even receive it (e.g confirmation emails).
Most importantly, they're often very public machines (not including intranets). And they can be holding (or have access to) very valuable data e.g banking details, email addresses, passwords. Web servers may be out-numbered by desktop machines, but they're still very attractive targets.
So, would you like to have another try at explaining why Apache HTTP server has been the most used web server for almost ten years now, but is not the most attacked?
Graphic Manipulator? That's as bad as Microsoft's naming scheme: Internet Explorer, SQL Server, Windows Media Player, MSN Messenger, Paint, Notepad, Word, Windows Guardian. Have some creativity for gods sake!
Are we so sure Bush does both? I personally see him as a kind of puppet. He is out and out an absolute moron. He has trouble constructing and completing a coherent sentence and seems to be firmly in the elitist/Republican/right-wing mindset. But he has all sorts of "advisors" and lobbyists around him, not to mention known Straussian neo-cons in his own administration like Wolferwitz and Rumsfeld. IMHO, I think they're the ones actually pushing a lot of the draconian legislation and matters of foreign policy. Not Bush. I think that's how he can appear to be both sneaky and dumb at the same time.
I would think that consistency would be a good thing in an encyclopedia. That is after all what Wikipedia is. It's not a discussion forum like Slashdot. If someone doesn't like it, they can take the MediaWiki software, take a recent dump of the Wikipedia data (it's GFDL licensed) and start their own encyclopedia.
You can already do that with simple Javascript. So what's the difference? The browser could choose to ignore the information in the same way that FireFox allows the user to disallow Javascript from changing the status bar text.
Flash also doesn't let me middle-click to open a link in a new tab. Along with the issue you mentioned, they're my biggest complaints against Flash.
God, what an asshat. This is from the same guy who wrote qmail and seems to consider himself god's gift to programming. He totally ignores (or doesn't know about) 6-in-4 tunnels, IPv4 mapped addresses, or dual-stack solutions. A lot of thought has been put into IPv6 and the process of transitioning to it. It won't be fast or easy. There will be problems, but not the smug alarmist ones that DJB came up with.
Uh, what previous versions of IP? The Wikipedia article on the Internet Protocol says "Versions 0 through 3 were either reserved or unused". And even if there were versions before IPv4, the deployment would have been what? a dozen machines? We're talking multi-user mainframes and mini-computers at universities, not home PC's. Nothing like the hundreds of millions of hosts using IPv4. Why would the designers of IPv1 through IPv4 have made the addresses a superset of the previous version, when so few hosts actually exsisted? Why go to that trouble when it wasn't really a problem?
I'll tell you what's happened. A 66 year old Prime Minister and his cabinet/cult of arrogant, elitist yes-men (and women) now have control of both houses of parliament. John Howard has been PM for almost ten years, but the Labor-controlled senate always kept his coalition government in check. Now they're free to make all the changes they want, and we're seeing them clearly for the elitist right-wing facists that they are. Many have already mentioned the industrial relations amendments (hello US-style minimum-wage part time jobs!) and the "anti-terror" laws. I'm afraid that this is only the beginning of what will be some really nasty laws. Now if only the other parties could get their shit together for the next federal election in 2007. *sigh* Both major parties are pretty screwed up at the moment.
Why link to some guys blog with inane comments, when you can link to the page he refers to? Lots more information there.
What is it with blog pages that link to another blog, which links to another blog, and so on? If this is how things are done in the blogosphere, then my already low opinion of bloggers just slipped a little. Just provide a link to the original f**king information!</rant>
Bah, you Kiwis! Over this side of the Tasman our government is still trying to sell off the previously government-owned telecommunications carrier, Telstra. It's not only a near-monopoly in many markets and owns a lot of the national infrastructure (paid for by our taxes!), but the government is letting it off easy on issues like dismal service to "the bush", because they want to get the best price at sale. How screwed up is that? And don't get me started on ADSL! Several private ISP's are now installing their own DSLAM's into Telstra exchanges in order to roll out ADSL2/2+ years before Telstra gets off their sorry arses. And of course Telstra is obstructing the process of hooking up customers to these non-Telstra DSLAM's.
It's just such a load of BS. Telstra's service (not just to regional areas) has already been going downhill pretty quick the last several years, ever since the government sold off the first 49%. It's still government controlled, but it's also (half) responsible to shareholders now. They've been posting record profits, which makes the shareholders happy. But they've done it by cutting back on R&D and infrastructure. Their consumer internet branch "Bigpond" is an absolute joke. Their ADSL service is way overpriced and very unreliable. Their big email meltdown last year got a lot of attention, although I can't seem to find the story here on Slashdot. There's no way the situation will get any better if/when the government sells the rest of Telstra.
Dang. I've got "47th Street Photo" on my eBay favourite sellers list (nothing bought yet, just bookmarking them). They don't look so flash anymore. *sigh*
Actually, it sounds very similar to what this Utah idiot is proposing. These "Internet channels" are just ports. They claim:
Right. Try getting all the porn web sites around the world to switch from port 80. How dumb. And they suggest legislation as well. Yet another US group thinking their laws apply everywhere.
Mod parent Funny! It's satirical :)
The proper thing to do in that case would be to post a link to the article. That is not what he's doing. He's copying someone elses *comment* from another forum and passing it off as his own. He's providing no indication whatsoever that he's doing this. No link, nothing. He's presumebly doing this to gain karma. And he obviously doesn't like me pointing this out, since he's just made me his foe.
Just do a simple google search and you'll find this plagarised post on the ZDnet forums.
Note to moderators: the user "5, Troll" likes to cut and paste posts from other sites to gain karma. This one was found on the DeveloperWorks site with a quick google search.
How the fuck can this be called spyware? I would have thought that spyware is, by definition, software that spys on your behaviour. This is a wiki, a web page. It doesn't run on your machine, and users have to wilfully input the information. There's nothing secretive about this at all. If Amazon want to search your contributions for keywords or something, then fine. But then it's called data mining. Not spyware.
While C doesn't really have namespaces (look to C++ for that), at least the compiler will throw an error when you try to redefine a function or variable. Plus it also has proper scoping. I can't believe a modern programming language still gets around without that. All variables are global, oh except within functions. Another poster told a story of cleaning up a heap of PHP code he inherited. He moved some repetitive code into a function and the code initially didn't work because he forgot to declare global $something; in the function. My god PHP is a backward language!
Pressing Ctl-Alt-E doesn't do anything here. But it's the Ctrl-Alt-Fn combo that switches virtual terminals, not the number keys. Weird. I imagine the sight of a text-mode login screen would indeed startle a Windows user. And anyone not familar with Linux's multiple virtual terminals would not be able to find their way back to X and their work.
The "changes" document appears to just list the added features, changes in ABI, and changes in the language parsers. The GCC homepage has two links to their bugzilla system: serious regressions and all known regressions. Your bug *should* be in there somewhere.