Sadly, Linux support has been something Citrix engineering has pushed for (and has had working internal demos) for years, but it's repeatedly blocked for political reasons (Citrix is in bed with MS and incredibly gutless when it comes to anything it perceives as even slightly risking that relationship).
Cloud Platforms other issue is lack of engineering resources. It simply doesn't have enough dev/qa for the task at hand, and the product quality shows this.
No, reflex does not have ANYTHING to do with the shutter.
SLRs have always had a mirror on front of the shutter, the only real different is more modern systems automatic drop the mirror after the shot, whilst early systems had to do this manually. Some systems still allow you to manually lock the mirror out of the way, to reduce vibration when taking the shot.
In TLR, reflex refers to the mirror used for viewing, again, nothing to do with the shutter. TLRs don't even use the same shutter system (leaf type) versus focal plane shutters used by SLRs.
SLR (single lens reflex) has a mirror, with either a pentaprism or pentamirror (where you stick your eyeball) to show you the view as it is through the lens.
SLR = Single Lens Reflex
Technically, this does not signify the requirement of a mirror or not. It just specifies that the picture is exposed using the same lens that is used for framing..
Not so sure about that... depends on how you define the meaning of 'reflex'.
The 'reflex' can refer either to the use of a mirror (as in reflection and is the meaning for a TLR) or the automatic removal of the mirror (as in reflex action) when taking the shot. Probably both for SLR and DSLR.
Take the mirror out of the equation and you just a SL without the R.
Not sure any shaking is actually taking place here. I'm currently studying psychology and we've already come across examples of cultural affects on results in experimentation in the first year (and the experiments we've studied go back to the 60s/70s).
Mind you, in ecomonics, doing some actual science would be ground breaking (you know your 'science' must be soft when psychologists think you're a bunch of light weights).
No it isn't, but we do have issues here... the biggest issues in my area (a new town town miles for the nearest city) is that there is nothing for the teens to do... nothing. The local youth centre is closed by 7pm, there is no sports centre, cinema, bowling alley within 10 miles, public transport sucks in the evenings... and then the local council wonder why there are bored teenagers causing problems?
The problem is no one wants to try to sort this out, because it involves spending money, proper policing, better scools, better parenting, and it will take time. Why do all that when you can attach a noise maker to a building, and shift the problem elsewhere.
"As for why this didnt get caught by QA, they don't reboot their machines." then they deserve sacking... I'm a software tester and this is an obvious thing to check for, patches can screw systems in all sorts of way...
Of armour versus anti-armour weapons...
We'll now be seeing anti-tank missiles dispensing chaff or with multiple warheads (like this http://www.army-technology.com/projects/starstreak /images/star2.jpg) or built in jamming technology.
Well, it keeps some geeks gainfully employed at least.
Matt
Even still, Valid SSL certificates and whatnot don't mean shit against a true savvy user who knows better.
Dude, they're not targeting the true savvy user. In fact they love to avoid him or her. They are much more interested in the non-savvy, don't know what to look for, heres-my-creditcard-number-date-of-birth-mothers-m aidenname-password-thankyou-very-much user.
In my experience (on my mini-mac) it not quite as rosy as this... I've had problems mounting windows shares where the share doesn't appear in the finder but is listed when you run the mount command in the terminal... A reboot fixed the problem, but still. I also dislike the fact that when you run the software update, when it completes the only choice you get is shutdown or reboot, no reboot later. I want to reboot when it's convenient for me, not the mac, and I hate odd windows floating around on the desktop, while I work. I also find the finder to be unresponsive.
To be honest, sitting here working in KDE I cannot think of a must have feature of OS X that I miss when using linux/kde.
So for me, OS X is nice, but it doens't 'just work'. It does some things well, it does some things not so well.
Ah, the trusty vic-20... my first computer as well.
I remember spending 3 days typing in basic commands to get a game which was something like Horice Goes Skiing... put me of programming for life...
I then upgraded to a Spectrum 128k+2, oh the joy of a floppy disk rather than a god aweful tape drive. Spent hours coding basic to generate interesting graphic functiony stuff all whilst going slow blind from staring at those farking tv based displays.
Then was a 486sx25 with 4mb ram and 512k of graphics memory running windows 3.1. Oh the pleasure of spending 1.5 hours installing Office Pro off 30 floppy disks praying none of them was corrupted. Spending 100 quid on another 4 mb of ram and 200 quid on a dual speed cd drive and soundblaster 16. Oh the joy of doom and doom 2 with sound:D
Then went for an AMD k6 300mhz with a whole 64mb ram and a naf ati rage (dodgy driver hell) and my first modem, 33.6k of pornographic bliss;0). All running windows 95.
Next was my first home built system. An abit bp6, running two 350mhz celeries, then the joy of running them at 500mhz. It was at this time I discovered I had a lot more fun messing about with the hardware than with the software. Anway, add in NT 4, and Nvidia TNT (16mb version) and some quake action.
Next was an AMD k7 (slot loading beast with a heatsink the size of a house brick) 550mhz, overclocked to 750mhz, and an Nvidia TNT Pro (32mb of gaming joy), a humongous 128mb of ram, Windows 98 and the pleasures of half-life and CS:D all connected to that there intraweb by a blazingly fast 56k modem.
After that was a whole variety of xeons, athlons, athlon XPs, and now an athlon x2 and now I play half-life 2 and cs:source, with some mta madness.
And it's all the fault of that crappy little vic-20... I could of have had a life instead of being a overclocking gameplaying slashdot reading geek!
Yes, but you can buy some "cool" apple stuff for not much cash, the price of an ipod would just about get you an SGI mouse mat;0)
I did get myself an indigo2, off ebay, which was cool. Nice os, nice chunk of hardware, and can still do some nice 3d (for a 1995 machine). Maybe I'll treat myself to an octane2 this year...
1)NUBUS - at the time, it was a faster, more advanced bus type than PCI - they went with it. Don't know much about it, so can't comment... 2)PPC - faster, very bleeding edge and theoretically much more scaleable than the x86 chips. But PPC didn't scale... 3)SCSI - very anoying, but capable of implimenting everything USB2 does now only 20 years ago. Well it's still used if you want large fast disk arrays, however USB is cheaper and easier to use than scsi for peripherals and portable disks (no termination or addressing issues on usb).
I think the main reason Apple didn't make it super easy for windows or linux is that they don't care about windows or linux. Just as they didn't care about linux on G5/G4/G3. If it works then fine, but there is no reason why they should go out of their way to make it easier than it is.
I'm already using my mini-mac as a pvr. Mini-mac, plus eyeTV (via firewire) plus 21" lcd = pvr. It does recording, live pause thingy, editing, plays dvds and music. I use an external 160 usb drive for recording, and can archive to dvd. The eyetv software gets listings from the internet.
Not bad for a quite little box.
Matt
Nice to see a fellow buddhist out and about.
I can also recommend 'Being Good - Buddhist Ethics for everyday life - By Master Hsing Yun' to the above books.
And you right, it is hard to live by on a day to day basis, but the feeling of calmness at the end of the day, and the lack of stress in my life is so much better than before.
Cheers
Matt
Can't say I've found it to be a problem. Played bf:vietnam, farcry, ut2004, and breed, and also video editing with no problems. On the other hand, some of the large screen lcd tv's I've see do seem much more blury... you just need to find an lcd with a sub 16ms response time.
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Sadly, Linux support has been something Citrix engineering has pushed for (and has had working internal demos) for years, but it's repeatedly blocked for political reasons (Citrix is in bed with MS and incredibly gutless when it comes to anything it perceives as even slightly risking that relationship). Cloud Platforms other issue is lack of engineering resources. It simply doesn't have enough dev/qa for the task at hand, and the product quality shows this.
No, reflex does not have ANYTHING to do with the shutter. SLRs have always had a mirror on front of the shutter, the only real different is more modern systems automatic drop the mirror after the shot, whilst early systems had to do this manually. Some systems still allow you to manually lock the mirror out of the way, to reduce vibration when taking the shot. In TLR, reflex refers to the mirror used for viewing, again, nothing to do with the shutter. TLRs don't even use the same shutter system (leaf type) versus focal plane shutters used by SLRs.
Sigh.
SLR (single lens reflex) has a mirror, with either a pentaprism or pentamirror (where you stick your eyeball) to show you the view as it is through the lens.
SLR = Single Lens Reflex Technically, this does not signify the requirement of a mirror or not. It just specifies that the picture is exposed using the same lens that is used for framing. .
Not so sure about that... depends on how you define the meaning of 'reflex'. The 'reflex' can refer either to the use of a mirror (as in reflection and is the meaning for a TLR) or the automatic removal of the mirror (as in reflex action) when taking the shot. Probably both for SLR and DSLR. Take the mirror out of the equation and you just a SL without the R.
Not sure any shaking is actually taking place here. I'm currently studying psychology and we've already come across examples of cultural affects on results in experimentation in the first year (and the experiments we've studied go back to the 60s/70s). Mind you, in ecomonics, doing some actual science would be ground breaking (you know your 'science' must be soft when psychologists think you're a bunch of light weights).
Since when has the technobabble of Star Trek been hard sci-fi?
No it isn't, but we do have issues here... the biggest issues in my area (a new town town miles for the nearest city) is that there is nothing for the teens to do... nothing. The local youth centre is closed by 7pm, there is no sports centre, cinema, bowling alley within 10 miles, public transport sucks in the evenings... and then the local council wonder why there are bored teenagers causing problems? The problem is no one wants to try to sort this out, because it involves spending money, proper policing, better scools, better parenting, and it will take time. Why do all that when you can attach a noise maker to a building, and shift the problem elsewhere.
Well they knew about the agreement and license fee when they bought the patent... tough luck to them.
"As for why this didnt get caught by QA, they don't reboot their machines." then they deserve sacking... I'm a software tester and this is an obvious thing to check for, patches can screw systems in all sorts of way...
Hey, it could be worse. You could have the British rail system, where a 1 hour delay and a missed changeover is considered 5 star service...
Of armour versus anti-armour weapons... We'll now be seeing anti-tank missiles dispensing chaff or with multiple warheads (like this http://www.army-technology.com/projects/starstreak /images/star2.jpg) or built in jamming technology.
Well, it keeps some geeks gainfully employed at least.
Matt
In my experience (on my mini-mac) it not quite as rosy as this... I've had problems mounting windows shares where the share doesn't appear in the finder but is listed when you run the mount command in the terminal... A reboot fixed the problem, but still. I also dislike the fact that when you run the software update, when it completes the only choice you get is shutdown or reboot, no reboot later. I want to reboot when it's convenient for me, not the mac, and I hate odd windows floating around on the desktop, while I work. I also find the finder to be unresponsive.
To be honest, sitting here working in KDE I cannot think of a must have feature of OS X that I miss when using linux/kde.
So for me, OS X is nice, but it doens't 'just work'. It does some things well, it does some things not so well.
I remember spending 3 days typing in basic commands to get a game which was something like Horice Goes Skiing... put me of programming for life...
I then upgraded to a Spectrum 128k+2, oh the joy of a floppy disk rather than a god aweful tape drive. Spent hours coding basic to generate interesting graphic functiony stuff all whilst going slow blind from staring at those farking tv based displays.
Then was a 486sx25 with 4mb ram and 512k of graphics memory running windows 3.1. Oh the pleasure of spending 1.5 hours installing Office Pro off 30 floppy disks praying none of them was corrupted. Spending 100 quid on another 4 mb of ram and 200 quid on a dual speed cd drive and soundblaster 16. Oh the joy of doom and doom 2 with sound :D
Then went for an AMD k6 300mhz with a whole 64mb ram and a naf ati rage (dodgy driver hell) and my first modem, 33.6k of pornographic bliss ;0). All running windows 95.
Next was my first home built system. An abit bp6, running two 350mhz celeries, then the joy of running them at 500mhz. It was at this time I discovered I had a lot more fun messing about with the hardware than with the software. Anway, add in NT 4, and Nvidia TNT (16mb version) and some quake action.
Next was an AMD k7 (slot loading beast with a heatsink the size of a house brick) 550mhz, overclocked to 750mhz, and an Nvidia TNT Pro (32mb of gaming joy), a humongous 128mb of ram, Windows 98 and the pleasures of half-life and CS :D all connected to that there intraweb by a blazingly fast 56k modem.
After that was a whole variety of xeons, athlons, athlon XPs, and now an athlon x2 and now I play half-life 2 and cs:source, with some mta madness.
And it's all the fault of that crappy little vic-20... I could of have had a life instead of being a overclocking gameplaying slashdot reading geek!
Yes, but you can buy some "cool" apple stuff for not much cash, the price of an ipod would just about get you an SGI mouse mat ;0)
I did get myself an indigo2, off ebay, which was cool. Nice os, nice chunk of hardware, and can still do some nice 3d (for a 1995 machine). Maybe I'll treat myself to an octane2 this year...
Didn't Nvidia license or buy up some IP? I'm sure they used some SGI knowhow for their Geforce stuff...
He did say you couldn't stack anything on the top, so could be an octane...
1)NUBUS - at the time, it was a faster, more advanced bus type than PCI - they went with it.
Don't know much about it, so can't comment...
2)PPC - faster, very bleeding edge and theoretically much more scaleable than the x86 chips.
But PPC didn't scale...
3)SCSI - very anoying, but capable of implimenting everything USB2 does now only 20 years ago.
Well it's still used if you want large fast disk arrays, however USB is cheaper and easier to use than scsi for peripherals and portable disks (no termination or addressing issues on usb).
I think the main reason Apple didn't make it super easy for windows or linux is that they don't care about windows or linux. Just as they didn't care about linux on G5/G4/G3. If it works then fine, but there is no reason why they should go out of their way to make it easier than it is.
I'm already using my mini-mac as a pvr. Mini-mac, plus eyeTV (via firewire) plus 21" lcd = pvr. It does recording, live pause thingy, editing, plays dvds and music. I use an external 160 usb drive for recording, and can archive to dvd. The eyetv software gets listings from the internet. Not bad for a quite little box. Matt
And then a nice stress free day of murdering with axes, chainsaws and nailguns...
Nice to see a fellow buddhist out and about. I can also recommend 'Being Good - Buddhist Ethics for everyday life - By Master Hsing Yun' to the above books. And you right, it is hard to live by on a day to day basis, but the feeling of calmness at the end of the day, and the lack of stress in my life is so much better than before. Cheers Matt
"There's one Solaris box hanging on by its fingernails, but hopefully that'll go away soon too."
:0)
Just install linux on it
Matt
Can't say I've found it to be a problem. Played bf:vietnam, farcry, ut2004, and breed, and also video editing with no problems. On the other hand, some of the large screen lcd tv's I've see do seem much more blury... you just need to find an lcd with a sub 16ms response time.