I could see the portable music marketing heating up where you get a full music catalog when you buy a player. Much like the U2 edition iPod.
The U2 edition iPod does not come with a full music catalog from U2. It does come with a coupon for $50 off The Complete U2 Digital Boxed Set. It's priced at a $50 premium over the regular 20GB iPod so, in addition to the coupon, that extra coin gets you:
the fancy black and red color scheme
an exclusive U2 poster
the signature of all 4 lads on the back
If you were planning on buying the box set anyways, it all evens out; otherwise, you're better off getting the standard 20GB model.
Somewhat tangentially, how do you have a "box set" for a collection of music that is only distributed digitally?
But don't tell my boss. I showed him that, and he liked it so much he's buying me an iPodPhoto just so we can add that export functionality to the app I'm building:)
Beautiful! I should have thought of that. I gues I'm just a cotton-headed ninnymuggins. Time to go fill out a P.O. Thanks for the tip!
OsiriX is undeniably cool but how many people do you know that even recognize the acronym DICOM, let alone know what do do with it? And besides, the iPod photo is just 16 bit color and I haven't seen any DICOM conformance statements coming out of Apple lately.:)
Well, except for the fact that TeX is about three million years behind the state of the art in typography.
And if you think QuarkXPress is worth using, no offense, but you're about three million years behind the state of the art, too. It's InDesign or nothing today.
You do realize that InDesign's typesetting engine is based on TeX, don't you?
While tkgamma is a nice start and roughly equivalent to Adobe Gamma, it isn't even remotely good enough to get accurate color reproduction from screen to print. They even admit so on their page and link you to one of the better hardare calibration systems out there. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be very good support for color management hardware in Linux quite yet.
It's not like 10 years ago when you could pick up a $99 copy of Turbo C++ and write a decent win31 program from it.
It's funny you should bring up Turbo C++ since Borland still has inexpensive development tools that are perfect for a shareware developer. Delphi 7 Personal is under $100 and is very capable for Win32 GUI development. If C++ is more to your liking, you can pick up C++ Builder 6 Personal for around $65.
My father and I used to go to our local Radio Shack back in the late sixties, and it was really an impressive place. Parts galore, electronic kits of all kinds, big tube tester in the corner
I'm not sure that tube testers were all that exclusive. I remember drug stores with tube testers up through the mid-eighties.
Radio Shack policy was to take it back, no questions asked.
I remember when Radio Shack had a very restrictive return policy and practically ran a credit report on you just to buy a 9v battery back in the '80s. I'm wondering whether you're referring to the era before or after this.
How could somebody prove where the number came from? It is just one 32-bit number. It could have been generated using a psuedo random number generator.
I'm sure this has been brought up before but couldn't you take a pseudo random number generator, a seed value and a length value to define any possible digital content? How long before we have processors fast enough to make this a reality?
Digital cameras these days are 10 bit in RAW mode.
Most cameras that offer RAW mode have 12 bit sensors so you get 4096 possible levels at each sensor. The problem with JPG is that those 12 bits of information are squeezed into 256 levels of an 8 bit image. As a side effect, you end up needing to convert the RAW images to 16 bit TIFF files to edit without losing information. That means you need to use Photoshop or CinePaint to be able to edit the photo and see any benefit beyond the initial conversion from RAW to a raster format.
As an aside, why is it that CinePaint doesn't get more publicity? The Gimp is nice and all but CinePaint takes The Gimp and makes it a truly useful tool for professionals.
Oracle for "mission-critical"? I don't see how any one could feel comfortable putting the life of their company in the hands of another company like that.
So they should code their own RDBMS and put the life of their company in their own, likely non-RDBMS-expert hands? Maybe I missed your point but I don't see how your post make any sense?
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For example, most cheese is made with animal-based rennet.
I hear that they sometimes use animal-based milk as well.
Unless you are absolutely sure that you have completely sanitized it.
That's where Autoclave comes to the rescue. Your data is as sanitized as you want it to be. It's open source so if you don't trust Josh Larios or the University of Washington web server then you can go ahead and build it yourself.
Of course non-x86 based machines need to look for other solutions but for the vast bulk of business or personal computers, this little program is an outstanding solution to a possibly serious problem.
Well, there are only two countries where the teams actually are based but Major League Baseball players have been born in the following countries:
United States, Australia, Bahamas, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Curacao, Dominican Republic, England, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Panama, Scotland, South Korea, Virgin Islands, Venezuela, W.Germany, Norway, Wales, Sweden, Afghanistan, Spain , Greece , Taiwan, Philippines, Russia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Jamaica, Poland, Aruba, Okinawa , Russia , South Vietnam, Denmark, Switzerland, Singapore, China, Austria, Belgium, British Honduras, Finland, Spain, Netherlands , American Samoa, Honduras,
And there have been, what, three summer Olympics where baseball was a medal sport and not exhibition?
Well, it will be 4 in a few months, assuming the Greeks can pull things together. Also, it would have become a medal sport back in 1940 during the scheduled games in Japan but there was this World War going on at the time and it kind of got lost in the shuffle.
My mechanic would never lie to me! He always charges me a fair price for my weekly fill-up of "blinker fluid".
I hope you don't let him use just any old blinker fluid when you can get KaleCo High Quality Synthetic Blinker Fluid for just $5.99. Help save wear and tear on your flash-synchros while saving our petroleum reserves at the same time.
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Here's a flaw. It's a pain in the ass to use. Where's my $327.68?
That's what LaTeX and ConTeXt are for. If you're more of a FrontPage/Dreamweaver guy than a vi/Emacs/Notepad guy then check out LyX
Point to a piece of software that has no flaws.
TeX
If you can find a flaw, it's worth $327.68 but there hasn't been one reported since 1994 or 1995.
I could see the portable music marketing heating up where you get a full music catalog when you buy a player. Much like the U2 edition iPod.
The U2 edition iPod does not come with a full music catalog from U2. It does come with a coupon for $50 off The Complete U2 Digital Boxed Set. It's priced at a $50 premium over the regular 20GB iPod so, in addition to the coupon, that extra coin gets you:
- the fancy black and red color scheme
- an exclusive U2 poster
- the signature of all 4 lads on the back
If you were planning on buying the box set anyways, it all evens out; otherwise, you're better off getting the standard 20GB model.Somewhat tangentially, how do you have a "box set" for a collection of music that is only distributed digitally?
I on the other hand can draw Mickey Mouse smoking a joint AND disseminate it. God Bless Australia.
Is this the same Australia where copying music from a CD for personal use is against the law, a right codified in the United States as "Fair Use"?
I can see the propaganda now:
Use an iPod, go to jail.
Yes, I know it isn't currently being enforced but thw way the law is written, it could just be a matter of time.
But don't tell my boss. I showed him that, and he liked it so much he's buying me an iPodPhoto just so we can add that export functionality to the app I'm building :)
Beautiful! I should have thought of that. I gues I'm just a cotton-headed ninnymuggins. Time to go fill out a P.O. Thanks for the tip!
This is the best reason to have an iPodPhoto:
http://homepage.mac.com/rossetantoine/osirix/
OsiriX is undeniably cool but how many people do you know that even recognize the acronym DICOM, let alone know what do do with it? And besides, the iPod photo is just 16 bit color and I haven't seen any DICOM conformance statements coming out of Apple lately. :)
Well, except for the fact that TeX is about three million years behind the state of the art in typography.
And if you think QuarkXPress is worth using, no offense, but you're about three million years behind the state of the art, too. It's InDesign or nothing today.
You do realize that InDesign's typesetting engine is based on TeX, don't you?
Ahh, the delicious irony.
tkgamma - a monitor calibration util for XFree86.
While tkgamma is a nice start and roughly equivalent to Adobe Gamma, it isn't even remotely good enough to get accurate color reproduction from screen to print. They even admit so on their page and link you to one of the better hardare calibration systems out there. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be very good support for color management hardware in Linux quite yet.
It's not like 10 years ago when you could pick up a $99 copy of Turbo C++ and write a decent win31 program from it.
It's funny you should bring up Turbo C++ since Borland still has inexpensive development tools that are perfect for a shareware developer. Delphi 7 Personal is under $100 and is very capable for Win32 GUI development. If C++ is more to your liking, you can pick up C++ Builder 6 Personal for around $65.
My father and I used to go to our local Radio Shack back in the late sixties, and it was really an impressive place. Parts galore, electronic kits of all kinds, big tube tester in the corner
I'm not sure that tube testers were all that exclusive. I remember drug stores with tube testers up through the mid-eighties.
Radio Shack policy was to take it back, no questions asked.
I remember when Radio Shack had a very restrictive return policy and practically ran a credit report on you just to buy a 9v battery back in the '80s. I'm wondering whether you're referring to the era before or after this.
How could somebody prove where the number came from? It is just one 32-bit number. It could have been generated using a psuedo random number generator.
I'm sure this has been brought up before but couldn't you take a pseudo random number generator, a seed value and a length value to define any possible digital content? How long before we have processors fast enough to make this a reality?
Why are Bill Clintons so rare?
I think you misspelled Ronald Reagan
Gambas has become the first Visual Basic-style environment for Linux to enter release candidate status.
I guess Kylix doesn't count since it far exceeds Visual Basic.
Digital cameras these days are 10 bit in RAW mode.
Most cameras that offer RAW mode have 12 bit sensors so you get 4096 possible levels at each sensor. The problem with JPG is that those 12 bits of information are squeezed into 256 levels of an 8 bit image. As a side effect, you end up needing to convert the RAW images to 16 bit TIFF files to edit without losing information. That means you need to use Photoshop or CinePaint to be able to edit the photo and see any benefit beyond the initial conversion from RAW to a raster format.
As an aside, why is it that CinePaint doesn't get more publicity? The Gimp is nice and all but CinePaint takes The Gimp and makes it a truly useful tool for professionals.
I used Firefox and still got 10/10 without seeing the links. I just figured they wanted to make the quiz especially hard.
Then again, I'm a skeptical bastard. . .
Small: SqlServer, PostgreSQL. (+ Oracle and DB2 if you like to toss around the $$).
Don't forget that Oracle Standard Edition One is less expensive than SQLServer.
Oracle for "mission-critical"? I don't see how any one could feel comfortable putting the life of their company in the hands of another company like that.
So they should code their own RDBMS and put the life of their company in their own, likely non-RDBMS-expert hands? Maybe I missed your point but I don't see how your post make any sense?
For example, most cheese is made with animal-based rennet.
I hear that they sometimes use animal-based milk as well.
Unless you are absolutely sure that you have completely sanitized it.
That's where Autoclave comes to the rescue. Your data is as sanitized as you want it to be. It's open source so if you don't trust Josh Larios or the University of Washington web server then you can go ahead and build it yourself.
Of course non-x86 based machines need to look for other solutions but for the vast bulk of business or personal computers, this little program is an outstanding solution to a possibly serious problem.
Well, there are only two countries where the teams actually are based but Major League Baseball players have been born in the following countries: United States, Australia, Bahamas, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Curacao, Dominican Republic, England, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Panama, Scotland, South Korea, Virgin Islands, Venezuela, W.Germany, Norway, Wales, Sweden, Afghanistan, Spain , Greece , Taiwan, Philippines, Russia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Jamaica, Poland, Aruba, Okinawa , Russia , South Vietnam, Denmark, Switzerland, Singapore, China, Austria, Belgium, British Honduras, Finland, Spain, Netherlands , American Samoa, Honduras,
And there have been, what, three summer Olympics where baseball was a medal sport and not exhibition?
Well, it will be 4 in a few months, assuming the Greeks can pull things together. Also, it would have become a medal sport back in 1940 during the scheduled games in Japan but there was this World War going on at the time and it kind of got lost in the shuffle.
So curling is a major world sport by that metric? Ice dancing too?
Come on now, that's the Winter Olympics. Additionally, since cricket and baseball are at least similar, it's a relevant comparison, unlike yours.
Baseball's only a fairly minor sport in world terms.
Quick, name the countries that have won Olympic gold medals in cricket.
My mechanic would never lie to me! He always charges me a fair price for my weekly fill-up of "blinker fluid".
I hope you don't let him use just any old blinker fluid when you can get KaleCo High Quality Synthetic Blinker Fluid for just $5.99. Help save wear and tear on your flash-synchros while saving our petroleum reserves at the same time.