Thank you. The unchallenged assumptions about the distributions of various things have troubled me since the stats classes we were forced to take back in college.
This started years ago when Java and Flash came out. Applications have proven to often be dependent on versions, and platform inter-operability has not proven to be as advertised.
It's hard to predict what will/won't take off. I never thought Amazon would grow to the giant are today rather than being a steady but niche company. More recently, who the heck would have predicted the absurd valuation that GroupOn seems to have?
Also:
o The slot would require a significant amount of physical space and probably another chip to interface with it
o Many users are utterly and completely clueless regarding media types. I know a guy who's a CSO/FE manager at a software company who can't wrap his head around the idea that there's more than one flash format. He didn't understand why the CF card from my camera wouldn't work in the SD slot in his new TV, or why attaching the camera to the TV with a micro-USB cable wouldn't work either. In other words, the above products are designed to be uncluttered and Just Work. Complexity and potential to confuse customers who just want to use the thing are counter to that design philosophy. Personally, since I have no use for removable media in for my telephone, I don't give a shit.
Unfortunately, most affordable NAS boxes suck hard, and the ones that don't (eg. Synology) are expensive. I'd love to get a Synology box and hang all my storage off of it, but I don't have the $$$$ to spare, so my disks remain inside of and firewired to my MP/MBP.
Raw is still an adjective, not an acronym.
There's nothing magical about NEF or CR2 or other raw files - they're akin to a glorified TIFF. Processing software appears to sometimes have subtle differences in how it goes about demosaicing, but I don't see where there's anything unused -- hence the term "raw".
There exists freeware raw processing software. The ACR people are friendly with the dev, and have collaborated at times.
"Interesting" discoveries? Perhaps. "Faked"? For sure. There are so many faked fossils being contrived by China that I'm skeptical that *any* of their reports are real.
On a term'nal
On a twenty
I sit, waiting for a line
And my tty (not too pretty)
Is a crufty Hazeltine
Oh, my crufty
Oh, my crufty
Oh, my crufty Hazeltine
You have lost my job forever
You're pathetic, Hazeltine
Hacking MIDAS
(Don't deny this!)
When the load hits forty-nine
Nothing happens for an hour
On my crufty Hazeltine
Oh, my crufty
Oh, my crufty
Oh, my crufty Hazeltine
You do not help my endeavor
You're a sad sight, Hazeltine
To get help
When hacking EMACS
Type control-shift-underline
But you must go control-shift-O
If you're on a Hazeltine
Oh, my crufty
Oh, my crufty
Oh, my crufty Hazeltine
You were never very clever
You're outdated, Hazeltine
? It's common knowledge around here that his ho^H^Hwife is 100% behind his pseudo-philanthropy. It's also common knowledge that her^H^H^Htheir Foundation is run exactly like Microsoft.
Surely he'll increase the flamingo quotient at Google.
When Gosling was at CMU, he was known for his affinity for flamingos. They showed up in the Andrew project, and on the roof of the UCC outside of his window. He also produced an EMACS to run on Unix and VMS, saving us from vi and EDT, and for that I thank him.
Three degrees of separation: for a while I worked with someone who was friends with his wife.
Wow. My high school had five computers -- Apple ]['s. Four in the physics classroom where the asshole teacher only let them be used once a year, and one in a math classroom where the hoods camped on it playing games.
Oh, yeah the attached Vo-Tech had an IBM 360 that a former teacher had run FORTRAN card jobs on.
At CMU in the early 1980's, the intro programming course, 15-111, started off using a bizarre thing called Karel, with a horrid captive editor called ALOE -- championed by a widely-hated prof who was the spitting image of country star Lee Greenwood. It progressed to PASCAL, again with the ALOE (A Language Oriented Editor), which really hummed along with 20 users on each of two 11/780's.
Subsequent courses assumed that one had picked up C on one's own.
I honestly don't know how one *doesn't* get out of jury duty. I've received the thing in the mail 3-4 times, and each time when I call the given number, I'm told that I'm not needed.
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I'm with you there, brother.
Thank you. The unchallenged assumptions about the distributions of various things have troubled me since the stats classes we were forced to take back in college.
This started years ago when Java and Flash came out. Applications have proven to often be dependent on versions, and platform inter-operability has not proven to be as advertised.
Thank you - I was about to post the same observation
It's hard to predict what will/won't take off. I never thought Amazon would grow to the giant are today rather than being a steady but niche company. More recently, who the heck would have predicted the absurd valuation that GroupOn seems to have?
Also: o The slot would require a significant amount of physical space and probably another chip to interface with it o Many users are utterly and completely clueless regarding media types. I know a guy who's a CSO/FE manager at a software company who can't wrap his head around the idea that there's more than one flash format. He didn't understand why the CF card from my camera wouldn't work in the SD slot in his new TV, or why attaching the camera to the TV with a micro-USB cable wouldn't work either. In other words, the above products are designed to be uncluttered and Just Work. Complexity and potential to confuse customers who just want to use the thing are counter to that design philosophy. Personally, since I have no use for removable media in for my telephone, I don't give a shit.
Unfortunately, most affordable NAS boxes suck hard, and the ones that don't (eg. Synology) are expensive. I'd love to get a Synology box and hang all my storage off of it, but I don't have the $$$$ to spare, so my disks remain inside of and firewired to my MP/MBP.
Raw is still an adjective, not an acronym. There's nothing magical about NEF or CR2 or other raw files - they're akin to a glorified TIFF. Processing software appears to sometimes have subtle differences in how it goes about demosaicing, but I don't see where there's anything unused -- hence the term "raw". There exists freeware raw processing software. The ACR people are friendly with the dev, and have collaborated at times.
"Interesting" discoveries? Perhaps. "Faked"? For sure. There are so many faked fossils being contrived by China that I'm skeptical that *any* of their reports are real.
On a term'nal
On a twenty
I sit, waiting for a line
And my tty (not too pretty)
Is a crufty Hazeltine
Oh, my crufty
Oh, my crufty
Oh, my crufty Hazeltine
You have lost my job forever
You're pathetic, Hazeltine
Hacking MIDAS
(Don't deny this!)
When the load hits forty-nine
Nothing happens for an hour
On my crufty Hazeltine
Oh, my crufty
Oh, my crufty
Oh, my crufty Hazeltine
You do not help my endeavor
You're a sad sight, Hazeltine
To get help
When hacking EMACS
Type control-shift-underline
But you must go control-shift-O
If you're on a Hazeltine
Oh, my crufty
Oh, my crufty
Oh, my crufty Hazeltine
You were never very clever
You're outdated, Hazeltine
? It's common knowledge around here that his ho^H^Hwife is 100% behind his pseudo-philanthropy. It's also common knowledge that her^H^H^Htheir Foundation is run exactly like Microsoft.
Surely he'll increase the flamingo quotient at Google. When Gosling was at CMU, he was known for his affinity for flamingos. They showed up in the Andrew project, and on the roof of the UCC outside of his window. He also produced an EMACS to run on Unix and VMS, saving us from vi and EDT, and for that I thank him. Three degrees of separation: for a while I worked with someone who was friends with his wife.
Wow. My high school had five computers -- Apple ]['s. Four in the physics classroom where the asshole teacher only let them be used once a year, and one in a math classroom where the hoods camped on it playing games. Oh, yeah the attached Vo-Tech had an IBM 360 that a former teacher had run FORTRAN card jobs on.
... or drop a whole $30 on a copy of VMWare Fusion to let her run MS-OS stuff on OSX, and maybe over time she'll gravitate toward native apps.
How friggin big was your high school that it had more than 254 computers??
I don't understand what the people who produced Space 1999 have to do with imports. :confused:
At CMU in the early 1980's, the intro programming course, 15-111, started off using a bizarre thing called Karel, with a horrid captive editor called ALOE -- championed by a widely-hated prof who was the spitting image of country star Lee Greenwood. It progressed to PASCAL, again with the ALOE (A Language Oriented Editor), which really hummed along with 20 users on each of two 11/780's. Subsequent courses assumed that one had picked up C on one's own.
Same here -- this one's as bad as half the game-theme ones, assuming that the reader is intimately familiar with all manner of obscure shit.
*Blush*
Fewer than ten, not less than ten. A grammar cop's job is never done.
Said cameras would be capturing pictures of meteors, not meteorites. I can't believe that some non-digest-reading pedant hasn't beat me to this.
I honestly don't know how one *doesn't* get out of jury duty. I've received the thing in the mail 3-4 times, and each time when I call the given number, I'm told that I'm not needed.
Sure, you just have to go back in time to before the crash and turn on sshd.
You totally don't understand Tesla's target market, do you?
There's a picture in one of my toddler's books that looks just like a cheela. My wife gives me teh_look when I mention that.