That "distance selling regulation" is a local implementation of a EU directive. We all have pretty much the same provisions.
As an off-topic note, and not particularly aimed at parent poster : Folks, contrarily to what you have been lead to believe, the EU does a great deal of nice things for you and only costs a tiny fraction of national budgets.
Who runs a critical server like DNS on a version of the OS that is 5 years old?
SMEs using a local DNS cache ? Well, of course they shouldn't do it considering the OS is not maintained anymore. But this does not make their desire to do it any less legitimate.
You can't blame SMEs wanting to use an asset that still has value in their books. Depreciating a server over a 5 years lifespan doesn't even seem all that unreasonable.
As much as I love Apple, it bothers me that they do not release security patches for versions earlier than n-1 (where n is the current release).
Mac OS X 10.3 server dates back to October 2003 (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/oct/08pantherserver.html), so it's just short of 5 years. It's not THAT old, especially for a server products that's likely to be used in some SMEs.
Musician's right to retirement is pretty much the same as anybody else's : * Public (state) welfare if existing in country of legal residence (and usually paid for with taxes on Musician's incomes during working years). * Any sort of private savings.
I'm an IT consultant. When I retire I'll be paid according to the rules above. Why should it be different for other professions ?
Or shall I invoice, 40 years from now, "maintenance fees" for systems I installed in the last years.
Let's see, there are many ways to backup your Aperture files : * OS X Time Machine (system-wide incremental backup). * Aperture Vault (Aperture's own incremental backup). * Manually copying the Aperture Vault directory (yes it's a directory, no it's not an evil black box). * Selecting ALL files from ALL projects in Aperture and exporting the master (raw) files to a "flat" directory. It's kind of a bummer that, according to you, Aperture overwrites similarly named files when doing this although I find it hard to believe. But Aperture lets you decide the exported file names so using something like %originalname%_%dateandtime% would probably have been enough.
I am amazed that of all these methods you have chosen the most tedious one, and certainly one that is not put forward by the software developer (Apple in this case).
As you say "You don't buy a product like that to worry about filenames" and I would even broaden this to "You don't buy a product like that to worry about files". But still, you decided you'd worry about files anyway, and failed to make sure that you were doing it properly, and only found out about it the hard way. Too bad, I can understand that you're mad, but don't blame others...
Nowadays some ISPs will sell you an internet service through a Belgacom line (as far as I know, Mobistar does this for example), but even then we're talking about two different layers of services (the line and the internet connection at the end of said line).
Other ISPs will work completely independently using their own hardware on the raw twisted-pair (Scarlet does that). Of course, twisted pair belongs to the incumbent operator (which in this case is Belgacom) but that's the way it is in most places over the world as far as I know.
Other providers use other infrastructures for providing their service, such as tv cable (Telenet and Cello come to mind) or even WiMax (Clearwire, I believe).
Well I do use Aperture on a 15 months-old dualcore PowerMac G5 (2.3 Ghz) with 2.5 GB RAM and a 7800 GTX (512 MB) and it's still quite slow. This is not cutting edge anymore, but I wouldn't call it "out of date" either. It probably packs more power than the current Apple lineup except for MacPros with X1900 or better video options.
Note that the OpenGL drivers under OSX/PPC are known to be quite bad performance-wise.
Despite my config, I'm looking into Lightroom because of this performance issue.
What Apple DRM are you talking about ? Technically, you can install Mac OS X from an Apple CD on an unlimited number of systems. There is no control whatsoever. As a software vendor, Apple uses no DRM preventing you from installing its software on Apple hardware, as far as I know.
Oh, you were talking about not installing OS X on non-Apple hardware. As a hardware vendor, yes, Apple prevents you from using other hardware. But then, look at their marketshare as a hardware vendor, compared against others (Lenovo, Dell, Fujitsu, etc), they're not doing that bad.
The wide plate looks very French to me. The truck has three speed limit signs stickers (NOT country stickers), which is quite common in Western Europe (I think they show the max speed for this truck on small-, medium- and large-sized road, or something like this).
- Nikon D70s is a barely upgraded D70 - Canon 30D is a barely upgraded 20D - Canon Digital Rebel XT is the US name of Canon EOS 350D
Yeah, I'd have to agree with you on the 350D and D50 being "cheap" consumer-level cameras, although they do produce great images, using pretty much the same sensors than the mid-range 20D/30D and D70/D70s. Most differences are in the control interface (better ergonomics for manual or semi-auto modes on the mid-range models than on the consumer ones, slower shutter). Given the same lens and ordinary conditions, however, I believe a D50 will yield pretty much the same results as a D70s.
Now don't take me wrong here, the extra ergonomics on the mid-range models (and on the pro models as well) can probably be of a great help while shooting in difficult conditions. For example, the distinct aperture and speed dials as well as the LCD-backlight on my D70 would be sorely missed if I were to use a D50. And I certainly miss the lack of a D200-like selector on my D70 to switch from AF-S to AF-C (although I can switch, I have to browser 2 or 3 levels in the menu, a real pain).
Meanwhile, MS has also released "Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs" to its corporate customers. This apparently is a "Windows XP embedded"-based release that includes a few client applications (presumably IE and a couple of accessories/desktop games) as well as a terminal service client.
The whoel point is to get customers not willing to upgrade their hardware to at least buy a small server and keep using their old machine under a MS-sanctioned OS.
LTSP would have been a nice option, but I suspect the marketing machine will win again...
You say Look at these Velvia sky images scanned at 3200 dpi (about 15 Mpixel); if I saw that degree of noise in my digital camera at ISO 50 or 100, I'd send it to the repair shop. But gave you read the comment above these pictures ?
A tiny section of sky was scanned at 3200 dpi and then sharpened heavily twice in succession. The resulting images showed Velvia skies scan with more texture than Provia 100F.
The point was not "look how noisy all these films are" but more "once we artificially increase noise, we see that such film picks up more noise than such other film". A fair comparison would be to apply the same "heavy sharpening" filter, twice, to a digital picture... and see how it comes out.
It's not "houses", it's "branches" of government ! Modern democraties are supposed to have three branches mutually controlling one another. Of coursie THIS IS A MODEL.
One first branch is called the legislative branch. It's generally an assembly of directly elected people, called the parliement. Sometimes the parliement is composed of two different houses. It's the case in the U.S. with a Senate and a House of Representatives. They are mostly supposed to "make" the laws (i.e. write them, and vote them).
A second branch is the executive branch (i.e. ministers and president/king/ruler/head of state, also known collectively as "The Government" which is confusing). Sometimes these people are designed by the legislative branch, sometimes they are directly elected by the people. They are mostly supposed to apply the laws. It is often the case that they write the laws and submit them for voting to the legislative branch.
The third branch is the judiciary branch, with its network of courts and tribunals. Some of their members are often designated by the executive branch, although they also have their own internal designation systems. They are responsible for checking that the laws are correctly applied (i.e. the executive power does not violate the law) and correctly written (i.e. a lesser law is not un-compatible with a higher law).
This being said, Bush is not so powerful because he has "two houses" but because the Republicans are in power in both legislative houses (House of reps AND Senate) as well, of course, as in the executive branch. Added bonus : the longer a party remains in power, the more judges they will appoint at various levels of power in the judiciary branch, thus tainting for a long time the judiciary with their ideas.
Also note that the press is sometimes reffered to as "the 4th branch of power" because normally they should constantly check on the 3 real ones.
I use the following devices in "out of the box/default" configuration : - 1 computer running Mac OS X - 1 computer running Ubuntu Linux - 1 ISP-provided router/NAT box I have software update on a weekly (Mac) or daily (Ubuntu) basis. I have two levels of firewalling. I always run as simple user and my passwork is asked whenever I need root/admin privileges.
So yes, I believe that the problem has been solved for the home user !
"The man prediciting "the end of the world will come tomorrow" each and every night will have it right some day... that being said, he had it wrong last night".
In French, they changed it to Dark Vador, but I suspect it was more for pronouciation issues.
Although I'm a netive French speaker, I was introduced to the Dutch language while still fairly young. So it's always been obvious to me that Darth Vader was just meant to be "Dark Father".
Things ARE going to get worse, as Europe as decided a little while ago that the name chocolate would be allowed for products containing other vegetal oils than cocoa butter (i.e. soy bean, etc). Until then, in some countries chocolate HAD to contain only cocoa butter.
In reaction, Belgium has created a new label "Ambao" which identifies chocolates containing only cocoa butter. I suppose (and hope) that similar initiatives have been taken in other countries where chocolate is taken seriously;-)
You have no right to call the non-americans who died primitive just because they were not the "main" target? Your view matches the main complaint from the Kenyans then, that the Americans were more interested in getting their nationals out of the danger zone and did not care about the locals.
OK, I agree with you, but I think you're up in arms with a non-issue here... Read again : What were the other 90%? Primitive black savages who did not count in the larger scheme of things?
Notice the question mark. I read this whole sentence as a rethorical question meaning exactly what you said : we don't have the right to disregard other victims because they're not Americans, like their nationality made them less important.
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That "distance selling regulation" is a local implementation of a EU directive. We all have pretty much the same provisions.
As an off-topic note, and not particularly aimed at parent poster : Folks, contrarily to what you have been lead to believe, the EU does a great deal of nice things for you and only costs a tiny fraction of national budgets.
I think you're talking about Flanders here ;-)
Who runs a critical server like DNS on a version of the OS that is 5 years old?
SMEs using a local DNS cache ? Well, of course they shouldn't do it considering the OS is not maintained anymore. But this does not make their desire to do it any less legitimate.
You can't blame SMEs wanting to use an asset that still has value in their books. Depreciating a server over a 5 years lifespan doesn't even seem all that unreasonable.
As much as I love Apple, it bothers me that they do not release security patches for versions earlier than n-1 (where n is the current release).
Mac OS X 10.3 server dates back to October 2003 (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/oct/08pantherserver.html), so it's just short of 5 years. It's not THAT old, especially for a server products that's likely to be used in some SMEs.
Or is 10.3 not affected ?
Musician's right to retirement is pretty much the same as anybody else's :
* Public (state) welfare if existing in country of legal residence (and usually paid for with taxes on Musician's incomes during working years).
* Any sort of private savings.
I'm an IT consultant. When I retire I'll be paid according to the rules above. Why should it be different for other professions ?
Or shall I invoice, 40 years from now, "maintenance fees" for systems I installed in the last years.
Let's see, there are many ways to backup your Aperture files :
* OS X Time Machine (system-wide incremental backup).
* Aperture Vault (Aperture's own incremental backup).
* Manually copying the Aperture Vault directory (yes it's a directory, no it's not an evil black box).
* Selecting ALL files from ALL projects in Aperture and exporting the master (raw) files to a "flat" directory. It's kind of a bummer that, according to you, Aperture overwrites similarly named files when doing this although I find it hard to believe. But Aperture lets you decide the exported file names so using something like %originalname%_%dateandtime% would probably have been enough.
I am amazed that of all these methods you have chosen the most tedious one, and certainly one that is not put forward by the software developer (Apple in this case).
As you say "You don't buy a product like that to worry about filenames" and I would even broaden this to "You don't buy a product like that to worry about files". But still, you decided you'd worry about files anyway, and failed to make sure that you were doing it properly, and only found out about it the hard way. Too bad, I can understand that you're mad, but don't blame others...
Win98 did not support SMP.
Win2k did, but remember that there was no Win2k "home", only Win2k Pro and Server, from which SMP was pretty much expected.
Win NT 4 (WS and Server) actually supported SMP as well.
Give a try to old console and arcade emulators. My wife is into SNES Mario and similar stuff.
Although it's usually played with a mouse, the old Worms series is great fun as well.
I read a book every two YEARS, you insensitive...
As a Belgian, I can only agree with this...
Have you been living under a rock ?
Nowadays some ISPs will sell you an internet service through a Belgacom line (as far as I know, Mobistar does this for example), but even then we're talking about two different layers of services (the line and the internet connection at the end of said line).
Other ISPs will work completely independently using their own hardware on the raw twisted-pair (Scarlet does that). Of course, twisted pair belongs to the incumbent operator (which in this case is Belgacom) but that's the way it is in most places over the world as far as I know.
Other providers use other infrastructures for providing their service, such as tv cable (Telenet and Cello come to mind) or even WiMax (Clearwire, I believe).
My problem with Evonet is that they do not have a proper English website (i.e. so-called English pages are in Dutch).
Well I do use Aperture on a 15 months-old dualcore PowerMac G5 (2.3 Ghz) with 2.5 GB RAM and a 7800 GTX (512 MB) and it's still quite slow. This is not cutting edge anymore, but I wouldn't call it "out of date" either. It probably packs more power than the current Apple lineup except for MacPros with X1900 or better video options.
Note that the OpenGL drivers under OSX/PPC are known to be quite bad performance-wise.
Despite my config, I'm looking into Lightroom because of this performance issue.
What Apple DRM are you talking about ? Technically, you can install Mac OS X from an Apple CD on an unlimited number of systems. There is no control whatsoever. As a software vendor, Apple uses no DRM preventing you from installing its software on Apple hardware, as far as I know.
Oh, you were talking about not installing OS X on non-Apple hardware. As a hardware vendor, yes, Apple prevents you from using other hardware. But then, look at their marketshare as a hardware vendor, compared against others (Lenovo, Dell, Fujitsu, etc), they're not doing that bad.
The wide plate looks very French to me. The truck has three speed limit signs stickers (NOT country stickers), which is quite common in Western Europe (I think they show the max speed for this truck on small-, medium- and large-sized road, or something like this).
As far as I know :
- Nikon D70s is a barely upgraded D70
- Canon 30D is a barely upgraded 20D
- Canon Digital Rebel XT is the US name of Canon EOS 350D
Yeah, I'd have to agree with you on the 350D and D50 being "cheap" consumer-level cameras, although they do produce great images, using pretty much the same sensors than the mid-range 20D/30D and D70/D70s. Most differences are in the control interface (better ergonomics for manual or semi-auto modes on the mid-range models than on the consumer ones, slower shutter). Given the same lens and ordinary conditions, however, I believe a D50 will yield pretty much the same results as a D70s.
Now don't take me wrong here, the extra ergonomics on the mid-range models (and on the pro models as well) can probably be of a great help while shooting in difficult conditions. For example, the distinct aperture and speed dials as well as the LCD-backlight on my D70 would be sorely missed if I were to use a D50. And I certainly miss the lack of a D200-like selector on my D70 to switch from AF-S to AF-C (although I can switch, I have to browser 2 or 3 levels in the menu, a real pain).
Meanwhile, MS has also released "Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs" to its corporate customers. This apparently is a "Windows XP embedded"-based release that includes a few client applications (presumably IE and a couple of accessories/desktop games) as well as a terminal service client.
The whoel point is to get customers not willing to upgrade their hardware to at least buy a small server and keep using their old machine under a MS-sanctioned OS.
LTSP would have been a nice option, but I suspect the marketing machine will win again...
You say Look at these Velvia sky images scanned at 3200 dpi (about 15 Mpixel); if I saw that degree of noise in my digital camera at ISO 50 or 100, I'd send it to the repair shop. But gave you read the comment above these pictures ?
A tiny section of sky was scanned at 3200 dpi and then sharpened heavily twice in succession. The resulting images showed Velvia skies scan with more texture than Provia 100F.
The point was not "look how noisy all these films are" but more "once we artificially increase noise, we see that such film picks up more noise than such other film". A fair comparison would be to apply the same "heavy sharpening" filter, twice, to a digital picture... and see how it comes out.
OK, I use digital by the way...
It's not "houses", it's "branches" of government ! Modern democraties are supposed to have three branches mutually controlling one another. Of coursie THIS IS A MODEL.
One first branch is called the legislative branch. It's generally an assembly of directly elected people, called the parliement. Sometimes the parliement is composed of two different houses. It's the case in the U.S. with a Senate and a House of Representatives. They are mostly supposed to "make" the laws (i.e. write them, and vote them).
A second branch is the executive branch (i.e. ministers and president/king/ruler/head of state, also known collectively as "The Government" which is confusing). Sometimes these people are designed by the legislative branch, sometimes they are directly elected by the people. They are mostly supposed to apply the laws. It is often the case that they write the laws and submit them for voting to the legislative branch.
The third branch is the judiciary branch, with its network of courts and tribunals. Some of their members are often designated by the executive branch, although they also have their own internal designation systems. They are responsible for checking that the laws are correctly applied (i.e. the executive power does not violate the law) and correctly written (i.e. a lesser law is not un-compatible with a higher law).
This being said, Bush is not so powerful because he has "two houses" but because the Republicans are in power in both legislative houses (House of reps AND Senate) as well, of course, as in the executive branch. Added bonus : the longer a party remains in power, the more judges they will appoint at various levels of power in the judiciary branch, thus tainting for a long time the judiciary with their ideas.
Also note that the press is sometimes reffered to as "the 4th branch of power" because normally they should constantly check on the 3 real ones.
I use the following devices in "out of the box/default" configuration :
- 1 computer running Mac OS X
- 1 computer running Ubuntu Linux
- 1 ISP-provided router/NAT box
I have software update on a weekly (Mac) or daily (Ubuntu) basis. I have two levels of firewalling. I always run as simple user and my passwork is asked whenever I need root/admin privileges.
So yes, I believe that the problem has been solved for the home user !
"The man prediciting "the end of the world will come tomorrow" each and every night will have it right some day... that being said, he had it wrong last night".
Loosely based on Ph. Geluck's "Le Chat".
Either are correct. It depends on how you split the problem... Think about it.
You're calculating the average (50,5) and multiplying it by the number of items (100). 50,5 * 100 = 5050.
The other way is to add 1 + 100 = 101, then 2 + 99 = 101, etc, up to 50 + 51, hence 50 * 101 = 5050.
Vader means father in Dutch...
In French, they changed it to Dark Vador, but I suspect it was more for pronouciation issues.
Although I'm a netive French speaker, I was introduced to the Dutch language while still fairly young. So it's always been obvious to me that Darth Vader was just meant to be "Dark Father".
Things ARE going to get worse, as Europe as decided a little while ago that the name chocolate would be allowed for products containing other vegetal oils than cocoa butter (i.e. soy bean, etc). Until then, in some countries chocolate HAD to contain only cocoa butter.
;-)
In reaction, Belgium has created a new label "Ambao" which identifies chocolates containing only cocoa butter. I suppose (and hope) that similar initiatives have been taken in other countries where chocolate is taken seriously
See this article for details...
You have no right to call the non-americans who died primitive just because they were not the "main" target? Your view matches the main complaint from the Kenyans then, that the Americans were more interested in getting their nationals out of the danger zone and did not care about the locals.
OK, I agree with you, but I think you're up in arms with a non-issue here... Read again : What were the other 90%? Primitive black savages who did not count in the larger scheme of things?
Notice the question mark. I read this whole sentence as a rethorical question meaning exactly what you said : we don't have the right to disregard other victims because they're not Americans, like their nationality made them less important.