That's why you do not join the association when you buy property, and you give the association members the finger as you put up your flagpole, your HDTV antenna or satellite dish, paint your house a different shade of yellow than the association-approved shade, and put up solar collectors and also put in a woodburning stove.:)
We did learn that the CBSA knows that 500 megabytes is roughly equivalent to 'a pickup truck full of books,' and use Windows-only software called ICWhatUC to scan for images.
Nice try to relate to us slashdotters but that is not one of our standard units of measure. I mean, what kind of pickup is it; a subaru Brat/Baja, a Chevrolet El Camino, a Ford Ranger, or a Ford F-350 - and is it long bed or short bed, fleet side or step side? Is there a cap over the bed and is the space filled to the top?
Better yet, please convert the amount in the unit of either "volkswagens' or "libraries of congress." Other units of measure confuse us.
Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.
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Apple’s iPhone products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Apple, and Apple has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, App availability, etc. While Apple’s iPhone products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Apple and available only from Apple. By almost any definition, iPhone is a closed system, and so are iPhone applications because Steve Jobs prohibits open source apps from being offered via the app store.
My Samsung "Sync" is thinner than the Motorola and yet it's constructed far better, fwiw - and reception was better than the moto as well.
The Nokia was a 6120 or 6210 (I don't remember the model # but it was not the navigator - I don't know why Nokia is recycling old model numbers) but was not very big - it was quite small (especially for its time), about as thick as the motorola v400 was when the motorola was folded closed.
Now, as far as labor being expensive - it's still cheaper to repair a $1500-$2000 LCD television than to replace it.
Now as far as the cost of labor to manufacture; it is unfair to factor that in considering that slave labor (or what amounts to slave labor, or indentured servitude at best) in China and other far-east countries is something no one can compete with. We've sold our souls to get cheap big-screen televisions, cheap sneakers, etc. and honestly the bulk of it is built cheaply (alternate meaning of cheap) to match the price with little regard to making something maintainable/repairable. We've developed a disposable culture here and it's disgusting.
Consider that this is not a technical issue but an anti-competitive stance (and I want flash on my iPhone, bloat and all thankyouverymuchstevejobsyoumegalomaniac), along with no bash shell, no multitasking (funny, works very, very well on my jailbroken phone via backgrounder and sbsettings!), no ssh client, unable to use it as a mass storage device, the complications introduced in corporate deployments. Unfortunately, even Windows Mobile/WinCE, the OS from the king of anticompetitive tactics (Microsoft) is much more "open" and easier to deploy and manage, or even simply use.
Jobs comes across similar to one of those looney treehuggers who wants to stop all use of fossil fuels NOW because it's possible to build wind farms, solar farms, and in 20+ years, Mr. Fusion reactors. In the meantime, if we kill all fossil fuel use, we'll be limited to cars with a 200 mile range or less (so a cross-country drive, or even a cross-state drive in most states, would be a multi-day trip due to 8+hour charge times), the economy would collapse hard, and there would be little to no way to manufacture the "green" technologies. Jobs is putting the cart before the horse here. If HTML5 were fully supported by the major browsers TODAY and there were mainstream HTML5 sites TODAY he would have a legitimate point. But it isn't, there aren't, and he doesn't. It is purely an anti-competitive tactic.
I want to be able to use my iPhone as a mass storage device so I can manage the phone from Linux, and so I can carry one less device (no more jump drive or external drive to carry to a client site for examp;e).
I use crond, the bash shell and ssh for monitoring servers.
I use backgrounder and have had ZERO problems with performance, nor with apps "randomly" closing when memory gets low.
I jailbroke my phone, and figured out the method to "downgrade"[sic] from 3.1.3 to 3.1.2 to get my jailbreak back, and I do not have so much as a single pirated app on my iPhone. In fact I've probably spent $250 on apps via the apple store, and probably $15.00 on music (why do I need to buy music when I've ripped my entire CD collection to MP3? Be glad I bought ANY music from you Apple). All the other software I've installed (via cydia, or compiling/installing via bash, etc.) has been either open source or freeware. And yet, zero stability problems, and I keep sshd turned off when I am not actively using it.
Now, Flash may increase the memory footprint of some web sites, but I don't give a crap while watching videos via hulu or crackle; it's not like I'd want to run a game at the same time. Give me flash! Preaching HTML5 is fine and dandy, but right now 99% of sites that would run the more advanced HTML5 features are now running flash (or silverlight *gag*).
I would like to recognize the movie "Wargames." It wasn't perfect (the AI is certainly exagerrated), but it's definitely one of the most realistic computer films to ever come out of Hollywood. If they remade that today, they would probably show Joshua blowing up buildings and sending robotic minions after David.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Recycle is a last resort, but the first two hurt china's economy, so they are not encouraged.
[insensitiveclod] I fixed your typo. [/insensitiveclod]
What helps the economy more: better appliances and consumer devices that are actually repairable, keeping $40K-$80K/yr service technicians employed and service parts sold, where hundreds of dollars per day are pumped back into the AMERICAN economy per technician, or a store selling an appliance at a $20 to $200 markup and the rest of the profits going to China?
I don't buy Sony products any more because they make their products difficult to repair (who the heck uses resistors as fuses?!?! Talk about obfuscation) and they price their replacement parts ridiculously high. I like products that last and are designed to be serviceable - even if they have a higher up-front cost. I am no treehugger, but I hate waste and the disposable mentality people have nowadays. Back when I had a Nokia phone, when I broke I was able to repair it. My Motorola phone? Not so much - the volume controls are so chinsy that you practically need a whole new case to repair the buttons when the volume buttons go bad (and every motorola phone I encountered during that time had one or more side buttons that didn't work at all). When the volume control buttons on my Samsung "Sync" (The A707 IIRC, a more expensive phone than the Motorola replaced) failed, they were very easy to repair. That phone still works to this day. It was my backup phone in case my iPhone breaks (or if I brick it like I almost did when I was working out a way to upgrade from 3.1.3 back to 3.1.2 when I didn't have the SHSH blobs backed up) but I've since given it to one of my roommates when his phone failed.
. Granted, they only really sell plasma TVs and not computer monitors,
That is not exactly true; you need to check manufacturers "industrial" display lines, not their computer monitor lines. Due to the incredibly heavy weight of plasma displays, they are not marketed as PC monitors for the desktop and workstation market, but they are indeed computer monitors. If you go plasma, make sure you have 1-2 people around to help you each time you move it.
First off, it isn't 1998, and none but the very cheapest off-brand screens exhibit those characteristics anymore.
Secondly, if the colors are overly saturated (the term isn't bright) you need to calibrate your screen (or graphics card drivers where applicable).
The ONLY thing I miss from CRTs is the vertical resolution; going to 1920x1200 was a large step backward for me, but now my primary machine is a laptop with an RGB-LED backlight and the color purity, clarity, brightness, and responsiveness are phenomenal. Gone are "ghosting" issues you get with CRTs when bright objects move on a dark background, gone are the "never focused" fuzzy screens (because CRTs don't really have a native resolution and the electron "beams" never really accurately hit the phospors), and regained is a TON of desk estate. On top of all that a good CRT is invariably very heavy. I HATE moving the 21" P815 monitors around but I have no problem at all moving or even hanging up 46" and 52" LCDs all by myself.
You can keep your CRTs. Until three or four years I'd have agreed with you regarding LCD monitors, but the technology has advanced SO MUCH I willingly abandoned my Viewsonic P815 monitors (and 2048x1536 or 1920x1440 resolution - the max resolution is NOT the oft-published 1880x1440).
That's the problem with good shows where continuity is important and functional neurons are required to enjoy the show - especially on Fox. This is even more true of shows that cost a bit more to produce (Arrested Development, Firefly, Futurama, Family Guy, etc.) Networks like lowest-common-denominator shows, and unfortunately, People Magazine-styled "reality"[sic] shows because they are cheap to produce. When a show costs a lot to produce and is a concept that wins over a programming director's idea, they engage in corporate politics and sabotage show ratings by playing musical timeslots, and picking timeslots where they are usually preempted by "special events" or sports, which will of course kill ratings (or they air the show opposite well-established same-genre shows on other networks so it never gains a large following. Prime example: Firefly). Then, they claim the ratings were lousy (of course they were - you air episodes out of order, it doesn't air when scheduled, etc) and then cancel the show. Several have been brought back after DVD sales proved the demand was there despite "low" ratings: Firefox (Serenity - and unfortunately Serenity sucked so it flopped), Arrested Development (being continued as a feature film), Family Guy (started back initially on Comedy Central then before it even aired, Fox decided to put it back on their broadcast schedule), Futurama (I expect this will make it back to the Fox broadcast schedule because it absolutely dominated its timeslots when Adult Swim had it - now everyone has seen all the episodes 5 times by now and own the DVDs so ratings have understandably stopped), etc. In some cases Fox has tried to kill shows only to find that demand forced its continuation.
I've lost interested in following more-engaging shows, especially on Faux, for precisely those reasons. Chances are. if the show is well-produced, well-scripted, and clever, it costs a lot to produce and won over someone else's new bland "reality"[sic] show idea, so it will be killed off one way or another. If a show makes it a few seasons, I'll catch them on reruns (or online) and then start watching it on the network. Example: House M.D.
Broadcast networks are almost as bad as the RIAA in trying to manipulate viewer selections to their preferred low-cost productions.
It's also added to milk on occasion, and it's often used as the medium for carrying anatto color. It lurks in shampoos and body washes and so forth. On time I decided to take a bubble bath, was relaxing and within about 20 minutes my whole body started burning (think about the worst sunburn you've had - and imagine that over EVERYWHERE from the neck down - EVERYWHERE). Well I jumped out of the tub and drained it, took a very cold shower and downed some benedryl. Then, I checked the ingredients - sure enough, hydrolized soy protein and vegetable oil. Fun stuff. Soy is everywhere you look, and also everywhere you didn't think to look.
Oh by the way I found the best soy sauce substitute that tastes almost identical to soy sauce; coconut liquid aminos. The stuff is amazing. I just used it for a party this weekend and people could not tell the difference between that and soy sauce. Great stuff.
End users complaining to Sony makes little difference unless it's hundreds of end users each day.
End users are not whom Sony considers their customer; they consider the resellers to be their customers.
What it will take to break sony is end users pissing of resellers, so the resellers in turn get pissed off at Sony with RMAs and threats to stop carrying the product line.
What GP did will hurt the reseller a bit (after all, they are only the reseller) but that is the way to hit Sony.
On a routine flight the chances are now higher the pilots will grow fatigued from boredom and start making bad mistakes. Besides, overshooting the airport isn't a big deal when you consider that any landing you walk away from is a good landing.
Someday the Earth will be much, much warmer than it is now. And, eventually 2/3 of the Earth will be blanketed with ice. It's inevitable because as you've said, it's happened before. Extending the pattern forward, it's going to happen again and there is nothing we can do to stop it.
In other words, a high end camera with no lens will have significantly better color and contrast, and as a result better detail and clarity, than a cellphone camera even if they have the same number of megapixels.
A high-end camera with no lens will give you grey or black, or occasionally multi-colored blurry, fuzzy blobs at the very best. I think you meant "a high end camera with the most basic kit lens"
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That's why you do not join the association when you buy property, and you give the association members the finger as you put up your flagpole, your HDTV antenna or satellite dish, paint your house a different shade of yellow than the association-approved shade, and put up solar collectors and also put in a woodburning stove. :)
How can this compete on price? Haven't they priced out inkjet cartridges lately? WTF!! ;)
Nice try to relate to us slashdotters but that is not one of our standard units of measure. I mean, what kind of pickup is it; a subaru Brat/Baja, a Chevrolet El Camino, a Ford Ranger, or a Ford F-350 - and is it long bed or short bed, fleet side or step side? Is there a cap over the bed and is the space filled to the top?
Better yet, please convert the amount in the unit of either "volkswagens' or "libraries of congress." Other units of measure confuse us.
Thanks!
No Flash for android?!
http://www.pcworld.com/article/194465/adobe_announces_flash_for_android_beta_testing.html
http://mashable.com/2010/04/27/android-flash/
Or hell, just a few days ago here on slashdot, with the typical slashdot-delayed reports ;) :
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/05/01/1426209/Flash-Support-Confirmed-For-Android-22?from=rss
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My Samsung "Sync" is thinner than the Motorola and yet it's constructed far better, fwiw - and reception was better than the moto as well.
The Nokia was a 6120 or 6210 (I don't remember the model # but it was not the navigator - I don't know why Nokia is recycling old model numbers) but was not very big - it was quite small (especially for its time), about as thick as the motorola v400 was when the motorola was folded closed.
Now, as far as labor being expensive - it's still cheaper to repair a $1500-$2000 LCD television than to replace it.
Now as far as the cost of labor to manufacture; it is unfair to factor that in considering that slave labor (or what amounts to slave labor, or indentured servitude at best) in China and other far-east countries is something no one can compete with. We've sold our souls to get cheap big-screen televisions, cheap sneakers, etc. and honestly the bulk of it is built cheaply (alternate meaning of cheap) to match the price with little regard to making something maintainable/repairable. We've developed a disposable culture here and it's disgusting.
Consider that this is not a technical issue but an anti-competitive stance (and I want flash on my iPhone, bloat and all thankyouverymuchstevejobsyoumegalomaniac), along with no bash shell, no multitasking (funny, works very, very well on my jailbroken phone via backgrounder and sbsettings!), no ssh client, unable to use it as a mass storage device, the complications introduced in corporate deployments. Unfortunately, even Windows Mobile/WinCE, the OS from the king of anticompetitive tactics (Microsoft) is much more "open" and easier to deploy and manage, or even simply use.
Jobs comes across similar to one of those looney treehuggers who wants to stop all use of fossil fuels NOW because it's possible to build wind farms, solar farms, and in 20+ years, Mr. Fusion reactors. In the meantime, if we kill all fossil fuel use, we'll be limited to cars with a 200 mile range or less (so a cross-country drive, or even a cross-state drive in most states, would be a multi-day trip due to 8+hour charge times), the economy would collapse hard, and there would be little to no way to manufacture the "green" technologies. Jobs is putting the cart before the horse here. If HTML5 were fully supported by the major browsers TODAY and there were mainstream HTML5 sites TODAY he would have a legitimate point. But it isn't, there aren't, and he doesn't. It is purely an anti-competitive tactic.
I want to be able to use my iPhone as a mass storage device so I can manage the phone from Linux, and so I can carry one less device (no more jump drive or external drive to carry to a client site for examp;e).
I use crond, the bash shell and ssh for monitoring servers.
I use backgrounder and have had ZERO problems with performance, nor with apps "randomly" closing when memory gets low.
I jailbroke my phone, and figured out the method to "downgrade"[sic] from 3.1.3 to 3.1.2 to get my jailbreak back, and I do not have so much as a single pirated app on my iPhone. In fact I've probably spent $250 on apps via the apple store, and probably $15.00 on music (why do I need to buy music when I've ripped my entire CD collection to MP3? Be glad I bought ANY music from you Apple). All the other software I've installed (via cydia, or compiling/installing via bash, etc.) has been either open source or freeware. And yet, zero stability problems, and I keep sshd turned off when I am not actively using it.
Now, Flash may increase the memory footprint of some web sites, but I don't give a crap while watching videos via hulu or crackle; it's not like I'd want to run a game at the same time. Give me flash! Preaching HTML5 is fine and dandy, but right now 99% of sites that would run the more advanced HTML5 features are now running flash (or silverlight *gag*).
It's not open source; it is "shared source."
What is shared source?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source
IIRC a number of products were made "shared source" in this manner, such as Windows Mobile 5 and earlier.
I fixed your typo.
Reference:
http://slashdot.org/story/10/04/21/1735211/McAfee-Kills-SVCHostexe-Sets-Off-Reboot-Loops-For-Win-XP-Win-2000
http://slashdot.org/story/10/04/23/1411223/McAfee-Retracts-Lowball-Bug-Damage-Estimate
http://slashdot.org/story/10/04/26/1338222/McAfee-To-Pay-For-PC-Repairs-After-Patch-Fiasco
And, that was not the first incident!
http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/03/13/1322215.shtml
It also does that for Superman I & II and Highlander.
For some reason, IMDB claims there was more than one Highlander film. How can that be, when there can be only one?
I didn't see it, but perhaps the 2008 remake will give you what you want? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0865957/
Squirting water in a near-vacuum environment will result in what; either water vapor (instant evaporation) or ice chunks, right?
[insensitiveclod] I fixed your typo. [/insensitiveclod]
What helps the economy more: better appliances and consumer devices that are actually repairable, keeping $40K-$80K/yr service technicians employed and service parts sold, where hundreds of dollars per day are pumped back into the AMERICAN economy per technician, or a store selling an appliance at a $20 to $200 markup and the rest of the profits going to China?
I don't buy Sony products any more because they make their products difficult to repair (who the heck uses resistors as fuses?!?! Talk about obfuscation) and they price their replacement parts ridiculously high. I like products that last and are designed to be serviceable - even if they have a higher up-front cost. I am no treehugger, but I hate waste and the disposable mentality people have nowadays. Back when I had a Nokia phone, when I broke I was able to repair it. My Motorola phone? Not so much - the volume controls are so chinsy that you practically need a whole new case to repair the buttons when the volume buttons go bad (and every motorola phone I encountered during that time had one or more side buttons that didn't work at all). When the volume control buttons on my Samsung "Sync" (The A707 IIRC, a more expensive phone than the Motorola replaced) failed, they were very easy to repair. That phone still works to this day. It was my backup phone in case my iPhone breaks (or if I brick it like I almost did when I was working out a way to upgrade from 3.1.3 back to 3.1.2 when I didn't have the SHSH blobs backed up) but I've since given it to one of my roommates when his phone failed.
That is not exactly true; you need to check manufacturers "industrial" display lines, not their computer monitor lines. Due to the incredibly heavy weight of plasma displays, they are not marketed as PC monitors for the desktop and workstation market, but they are indeed computer monitors. If you go plasma, make sure you have 1-2 people around to help you each time you move it.
First off, it isn't 1998, and none but the very cheapest off-brand screens exhibit those characteristics anymore.
Secondly, if the colors are overly saturated (the term isn't bright) you need to calibrate your screen (or graphics card drivers where applicable).
The ONLY thing I miss from CRTs is the vertical resolution; going to 1920x1200 was a large step backward for me, but now my primary machine is a laptop with an RGB-LED backlight and the color purity, clarity, brightness, and responsiveness are phenomenal. Gone are "ghosting" issues you get with CRTs when bright objects move on a dark background, gone are the "never focused" fuzzy screens (because CRTs don't really have a native resolution and the electron "beams" never really accurately hit the phospors), and regained is a TON of desk estate. On top of all that a good CRT is invariably very heavy. I HATE moving the 21" P815 monitors around but I have no problem at all moving or even hanging up 46" and 52" LCDs all by myself.
You can keep your CRTs. Until three or four years I'd have agreed with you regarding LCD monitors, but the technology has advanced SO MUCH I willingly abandoned my Viewsonic P815 monitors (and 2048x1536 or 1920x1440 resolution - the max resolution is NOT the oft-published 1880x1440).
That's the problem with good shows where continuity is important and functional neurons are required to enjoy the show - especially on Fox. This is even more true of shows that cost a bit more to produce (Arrested Development, Firefly, Futurama, Family Guy, etc.) Networks like lowest-common-denominator shows, and unfortunately, People Magazine-styled "reality"[sic] shows because they are cheap to produce. When a show costs a lot to produce and is a concept that wins over a programming director's idea, they engage in corporate politics and sabotage show ratings by playing musical timeslots, and picking timeslots where they are usually preempted by "special events" or sports, which will of course kill ratings (or they air the show opposite well-established same-genre shows on other networks so it never gains a large following. Prime example: Firefly). Then, they claim the ratings were lousy (of course they were - you air episodes out of order, it doesn't air when scheduled, etc) and then cancel the show. Several have been brought back after DVD sales proved the demand was there despite "low" ratings: Firefox (Serenity - and unfortunately Serenity sucked so it flopped), Arrested Development (being continued as a feature film), Family Guy (started back initially on Comedy Central then before it even aired, Fox decided to put it back on their broadcast schedule), Futurama (I expect this will make it back to the Fox broadcast schedule because it absolutely dominated its timeslots when Adult Swim had it - now everyone has seen all the episodes 5 times by now and own the DVDs so ratings have understandably stopped), etc. In some cases Fox has tried to kill shows only to find that demand forced its continuation.
I've lost interested in following more-engaging shows, especially on Faux, for precisely those reasons. Chances are. if the show is well-produced, well-scripted, and clever, it costs a lot to produce and won over someone else's new bland "reality"[sic] show idea, so it will be killed off one way or another. If a show makes it a few seasons, I'll catch them on reruns (or online) and then start watching it on the network. Example: House M.D.
Broadcast networks are almost as bad as the RIAA in trying to manipulate viewer selections to their preferred low-cost productions.
Follow the KISS principle. The whole point of computers is to make work easier, not complicate it by eighteen quadrillion times.
It's also added to milk on occasion, and it's often used as the medium for carrying anatto color. It lurks in shampoos and body washes and so forth. On time I decided to take a bubble bath, was relaxing and within about 20 minutes my whole body started burning (think about the worst sunburn you've had - and imagine that over EVERYWHERE from the neck down - EVERYWHERE). Well I jumped out of the tub and drained it, took a very cold shower and downed some benedryl. Then, I checked the ingredients - sure enough, hydrolized soy protein and vegetable oil. Fun stuff. Soy is everywhere you look, and also everywhere you didn't think to look.
Oh by the way I found the best soy sauce substitute that tastes almost identical to soy sauce; coconut liquid aminos. The stuff is amazing. I just used it for a party this weekend and people could not tell the difference between that and soy sauce. Great stuff.
End users complaining to Sony makes little difference unless it's hundreds of end users each day.
End users are not whom Sony considers their customer; they consider the resellers to be their customers.
What it will take to break sony is end users pissing of resellers, so the resellers in turn get pissed off at Sony with RMAs and threats to stop carrying the product line.
What GP did will hurt the reseller a bit (after all, they are only the reseller) but that is the way to hit Sony.
Right. It's usually:
aviate, navigate, communicate
Now it'll have to be:
stay awake (now requiring conscious effort), aviate, navigate, communicate
On a routine flight the chances are now higher the pilots will grow fatigued from boredom and start making bad mistakes. Besides, overshooting the airport isn't a big deal when you consider that any landing you walk away from is a good landing.
Someday the Earth will be much, much warmer than it is now. And, eventually 2/3 of the Earth will be blanketed with ice. It's inevitable because as you've said, it's happened before. Extending the pattern forward, it's going to happen again and there is nothing we can do to stop it.
And holding everything locked down tight as a "state secret" is so much better. Oh wait, right, there's China. Yes, I see how that is so much better.
The pope is either an idiot, or a budding tyrant with ambitions of bringing the world back to the dark ages under dominion of the vatican.
found != stolen
finder != thief
finders keepers, losers weepers.
That is technically a lens.
A high-end camera with no lens will give you grey or black, or occasionally multi-colored blurry, fuzzy blobs at the very best. I think you meant "a high end camera with the most basic kit lens"