Uh, the Hubble after the first servicing mission was way more capable than its design. The corrective lens they installed fully corrected the spherical abberation in the MIRROR (not a lens), so that is NOT an issue; improved instruments through the years have improved it a lot; as it stands right now it's a much better instrument than what was originally designed.
The reality is, some people (like me) just don't use that kind of organizing tool and it's just a gadget. I know a lot of people who don't/won't use any such critter. I figure except for a small fraction of people, most people simply do not need this kind of thing.
I like PDAs but not enough to carry one just for the organizer part. I now do carry one because I have a Tungsten that plays MP3s and RAs, and has a good enough screen that I can read books and view photos on it. Just the PDA functions weren't enough to keep me carrying one.
I personally disconnected my cell phone a few months back, I just don't use a phone that much so I wouldn't want an integrated phone/pda, but a PDA with more than just PDA is good for me. If I wanted a phone, I'd want it all in one. Less crap to carry is good.
As an amateur astronomer, I get bugged when I have a night of observing planned and aurora pops up.
Now, a *nice* aurora show is one of the most wonderful things around, and I will NEVER complain about that. Most of the time, however, it's not a nice show, just a general glow that just wrecks night sky viewing without being worth watching of its own merit.
Every few years someone drags up some form of sky advertising; lunar, satellite, now aurora. It never comes to pass, and I hope it never does.
Most people now live in places where they never get to see the night sky; some areas are so bad you can't see anything beyond the moon and maybe Venus and Jupiter/Saturn. They've been robbed of one of the sources of wonder that initially sparked humanity's imagination. This would be another step down the path of turning our minds to mush and our civilization to crap.
legislation should not protect it, just as "horseless carriages" shouldn't be required to carry horse whips to keep horse whip manufacturers in business
An apt analogy, because one of the biggest buggy whip manufacturers actually saw the change coming and is now one of the largest suppliers of parts to the automotive industry.
This is the same thing happening to the entertainment industry. We'll see whether they adapt as the buggy whip manufacturer did, or die trying to protect an outdated product.
This has been covered countless times before. The Mac is actually a very good deal if you equip a PC with comparable software. I've never owned a Mac, but I would buy this if I didn't already have more computers than I need.
I alone donate infinitely more money per year to hunger relief and other programs than I make on my open software efforts. I'm a very minor author, with 3 projects released. I've made $0, and I donate a couple thousand a year to world relief of some sort or another.
So add $2000/$0 to the total so far for the open source community. I think if you take it as a percentage of earnings, the open source community will do quite well.
Sure. They reveal that you can "prove" anything you want with carefully modelled questions and statistics. Any desired outcome can be supported. You have to look at who's doing the survey, who's PAYING for the survey, and what their agenda is.
There's no such thing as an unbiased survey. There is such a thing as a survey which is carefully crafted to balance biases to produce a statistically valid outcome given the right analysis (but even then, the raw data from such a survey shoudn't be interpreted by people who aren't familiar with the survey's methodology).
Dude, it's only been down to 10 below or so. Hell, I've still been riding my bike 10 miles to work once in a while. Stop being a sissy.
Besides, I have to assume that you realize that your statement is silly. Global warming means there's more energy in the weather system, not that we're all going to be sun bathing in December. More energy feeding into a chaotic system just means more chaos.
I gave up on HP years ago. Moved through Epson, am now using Canon (for inkjet). Nothing wrong with the Epson except they chip their carts. Canon is a breeze to refill; the ink tanks are just plastic boxes full of ink. You uncap them, squirt in more ink, recap them and put them back in the printer. 2 minutes per cart.
I like inkjet, but I'm not going to buy into this ink vending machine market. I paid more for my Canon than what I could have gotten an equivalent HP for, but I save several hundred bucks a year in cartridges.
Not necessarily. You can get external chargers 3rd party if you have to.
I like the LiIon because they last so long. In a digital SLR, a hell of a long time. I've taken over 500 shots on a battery, and it still wasn't dead, I was just done for the day. A friend ran his dead on a pro shoot, he had to change batteries around exposure 700.
If you shoot more than 700 exposures per day and don't want to carry a separate battery, then I guess having AA's instead of LiIons is good.
You don't get out much then. I've seen a lot of hacks, particularly in the cheaper cameras. There have been entire articles here on slashdot about hacking disposable digitals.
Doesn't sound like the camera had a virus, just a virus infected file was in the memory. Same as a floppy or a thumb drive or a hex printout on paper could have a virus.
only all the time. I've flashed the firmware on digital cameras a dozen times.
Hell, half the products I get, whether cameras or DVD-ROM drives or printers have new firmwares out before I get them out of the box.
The first thing that I do when I buy a new product is check the website for new firmwares. I've gotten some nifty new features in devices by upping the firmware, and that's not even including flashing up the Digital Rebel's firmware to the russian hack version.
Then buy a Canon and shoot in RAW mode. It's data directly off the CCD with no processing.
FYI there is at least one piece of software, I forget the name right now, that does WAY better at certain kinds of exposures, particularly long time exposures, than Canon does. You shoot in RAW mode and then use that software to do the postprocessing that the camera would normally do, and the results are astoundingly better. Googling for the phrase "digital workflow" might help, or not, I'm brushing cobwebs from my mind... check out photo.net of luminous-landscape.com
Yes, but that was mainly possible because the firmware had the features, they were just disabled. He only changed a few bytes. Of course, the secret is knowing which bytes to change.
I've been running the hacked firmware for most of a year. It's been great.
If apple sell more ipods than creative, then creative would lose market share
Uh, no. If A sold 990 units last year and B sold 10, then A has 99% market share and B has 1%. If this year A sells 600 units and B sells 400, A still has sold more than B but A's market share has dropped from 99% to 60% while B's has gone from 1% to 40%.
If you're talking about total market penetration of players in the field, then at the end of last year, A had 99% in the field. At the end of this year, A has 990+600/2000=79.5% of the number of widgets in the field.
Either way, A's market share has decreased even though they've still sold more units than B.
Dude, you must have a really messed up power supply or something. That is NOT typical.
I have a 40, an 80, and 2 160's in the machine I'm typing on now, plus a 200 in an external box, a 250 in my wife's machine, and a 160 in the linux server. All these drives are at least a year old, most are 2+, the 40 is going on 5 years old. Most of my machines stay on all the time, though this one (with the 4 drives) goes on and off daily because it's noisy and in the bedroom.
I've had exactly one drive die in the last 5 years, a 120 that was about 2 years old at the time and had been in and out of many machines as a temporary setup drive, and may have been dropped. That's out of at least a dozen in pretty much full time use, and that one developed bad sectors which was caught by SMART monitoring, so I didn't lose any data.
Seriously, consider getting a better power supply. That's always a good idea anyway.
Yeah, the hosting center that they've been at for years has a power failure 3 days after a new place buys LJ. Must be Six Apart's fault, they're not "ready to handle this." Or, maybe it's a coincidence?
How many people care enough about this to repaint their house with pretty darn expensive paint, but don't care enough to actually turn on the encryption or MAC filtering in their WAPs? For what that paint probably costs, you could hire someone to come lock down your network.
No kidding. Why the hell do we need MORE pictures of Paris Hilton? It's not like the world hasn't already seen every square millimeter of her body, and it's not like it's the best thing to look at anyway.
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Uh, the Hubble after the first servicing mission was way more capable than its design. The corrective lens they installed fully corrected the spherical abberation in the MIRROR (not a lens), so that is NOT an issue; improved instruments through the years have improved it a lot; as it stands right now it's a much better instrument than what was originally designed.
The reality is, some people (like me) just don't use that kind of organizing tool and it's just a gadget. I know a lot of people who don't/won't use any such critter. I figure except for a small fraction of people, most people simply do not need this kind of thing.
I like PDAs but not enough to carry one just for the organizer part. I now do carry one because I have a Tungsten that plays MP3s and RAs, and has a good enough screen that I can read books and view photos on it. Just the PDA functions weren't enough to keep me carrying one.
I personally disconnected my cell phone a few months back, I just don't use a phone that much so I wouldn't want an integrated phone/pda, but a PDA with more than just PDA is good for me. If I wanted a phone, I'd want it all in one. Less crap to carry is good.
As an amateur astronomer, I get bugged when I have a night of observing planned and aurora pops up.
Now, a *nice* aurora show is one of the most wonderful things around, and I will NEVER complain about that. Most of the time, however, it's not a nice show, just a general glow that just wrecks night sky viewing without being worth watching of its own merit.
Every few years someone drags up some form of sky advertising; lunar, satellite, now aurora. It never comes to pass, and I hope it never does.
Most people now live in places where they never get to see the night sky; some areas are so bad you can't see anything beyond the moon and maybe Venus and Jupiter/Saturn. They've been robbed of one of the sources of wonder that initially sparked humanity's imagination. This would be another step down the path of turning our minds to mush and our civilization to crap.
legislation should not protect it, just as "horseless carriages" shouldn't be required to carry horse whips to keep horse whip manufacturers in business
An apt analogy, because one of the biggest buggy whip manufacturers actually saw the change coming and is now one of the largest suppliers of parts to the automotive industry.
This is the same thing happening to the entertainment industry. We'll see whether they adapt as the buggy whip manufacturer did, or die trying to protect an outdated product.
This has been covered countless times before. The Mac is actually a very good deal if you equip a PC with comparable software.
I've never owned a Mac, but I would buy this if I didn't already have more computers than I need.
I think you mean the S2N ratio is too LOW.
If you use a good pay server, the noise largely goes away. Newsguy's Spam Hippo pretty much does away with spam. Text groups are quite bearable there.
I alone donate infinitely more money per year to hunger relief and other programs than I make on my open software efforts.
I'm a very minor author, with 3 projects released. I've made $0, and I donate a couple thousand a year to world relief of some sort or another.
So add $2000/$0 to the total so far for the open source community. I think if you take it as a percentage of earnings, the open source community will do quite well.
Sure. They reveal that you can "prove" anything you want with carefully modelled questions and statistics. Any desired outcome can be supported. You have to look at who's doing the survey, who's PAYING for the survey, and what their agenda is.
There's no such thing as an unbiased survey. There is such a thing as a survey which is carefully crafted to balance biases to produce a statistically valid outcome given the right analysis (but even then, the raw data from such a survey shoudn't be interpreted by people who aren't familiar with the survey's methodology).
Dude, it's only been down to 10 below or so. Hell, I've still been riding my bike 10 miles to work once in a while. Stop being a sissy.
Besides, I have to assume that you realize that your statement is silly. Global warming means there's more energy in the weather system, not that we're all going to be sun bathing in December. More energy feeding into a chaotic system just means more chaos.
I gave up on HP years ago. Moved through Epson, am now using Canon (for inkjet). Nothing wrong with the Epson except they chip their carts. Canon is a breeze to refill; the ink tanks are just plastic boxes full of ink. You uncap them, squirt in more ink, recap them and put them back in the printer. 2 minutes per cart.
I like inkjet, but I'm not going to buy into this ink vending machine market. I paid more for my Canon than what I could have gotten an equivalent HP for, but I save several hundred bucks a year in cartridges.
Not necessarily. You can get external chargers 3rd party if you have to.
I like the LiIon because they last so long. In a digital SLR, a hell of a long time. I've taken over 500 shots on a battery, and it still wasn't dead, I was just done for the day. A friend ran his dead on a pro shoot, he had to change batteries around exposure 700.
If you shoot more than 700 exposures per day and don't want to carry a separate battery, then I guess having AA's instead of LiIons is good.
You don't get out much then. I've seen a lot of hacks, particularly in the cheaper cameras. There have been entire articles here on slashdot about hacking disposable digitals.
Doesn't sound like the camera had a virus, just a virus infected file was in the memory. Same as a floppy or a thumb drive or a hex printout on paper could have a virus.
only all the time. I've flashed the firmware on digital cameras a dozen times.
Hell, half the products I get, whether cameras or DVD-ROM drives or printers have new firmwares out before I get them out of the box.
The first thing that I do when I buy a new product is check the website for new firmwares. I've gotten some nifty new features in devices by upping the firmware, and that's not even including flashing up the Digital Rebel's firmware to the russian hack version.
Then buy a Canon and shoot in RAW mode. It's data directly off the CCD with no processing.
FYI there is at least one piece of software, I forget the name right now, that does WAY better at certain kinds of exposures, particularly long time exposures, than Canon does. You shoot in RAW mode and then use that software to do the postprocessing that the camera would normally do, and the results are astoundingly better. Googling for the phrase "digital workflow" might help, or not, I'm brushing cobwebs from my mind... check out photo.net of luminous-landscape.com
Yes, but that was mainly possible because the firmware had the features, they were just disabled. He only changed a few bytes.
Of course, the secret is knowing which bytes to change.
I've been running the hacked firmware for most of a year. It's been great.
we all learned back in elementary school that the Romans used letters instead of numbers
And they had no zero. That's why when the Romans wanted to get some math done, they kidnapped an Arab.
Or at least, that's what my high school calc teacher told me.
If apple sell more ipods than creative, then creative would lose market share
Uh, no. If A sold 990 units last year and B sold 10, then A has 99% market share and B has 1%. If this year A sells 600 units and B sells 400, A still has sold more than B but A's market share has dropped from 99% to 60% while B's has gone from 1% to 40%.
If you're talking about total market penetration of players in the field, then at the end of last year, A had 99% in the field. At the end of this year, A has 990+600/2000=79.5% of the number of widgets in the field.
Either way, A's market share has decreased even though they've still sold more units than B.
Dude, you must have a really messed up power supply or something. That is NOT typical.
I have a 40, an 80, and 2 160's in the machine I'm typing on now, plus a 200 in an external box, a 250 in my wife's machine, and a 160 in the linux server. All these drives are at least a year old, most are 2+, the 40 is going on 5 years old. Most of my machines stay on all the time, though this one (with the 4 drives) goes on and off daily because it's noisy and in the bedroom.
I've had exactly one drive die in the last 5 years, a 120 that was about 2 years old at the time and had been in and out of many machines as a temporary setup drive, and may have been dropped. That's out of at least a dozen in pretty much full time use, and that one developed bad sectors which was caught by SMART monitoring, so I didn't lose any data.
Seriously, consider getting a better power supply. That's always a good idea anyway.
Yeah, the hosting center that they've been at for years has a power failure 3 days after a new place buys LJ. Must be Six Apart's fault, they're not "ready to handle this." Or, maybe it's a coincidence?
How many people care enough about this to repaint their house with pretty darn expensive paint, but don't care enough to actually turn on the encryption or MAC filtering in their WAPs?
For what that paint probably costs, you could hire someone to come lock down your network.
Both copper and aluminum are nontoxic, and the link between aluminum and Alzheimer's has been discounted for years.
What are cherrios? Some kind of cereal made from cherries? I like Cheerios myself.
(OK, I know the ORIGINAL story beat the papers, but...)
There was an article with pictures in our NEWSPAPER yesterday. Sheesh.
No kidding. Why the hell do we need MORE pictures of Paris Hilton? It's not like the world hasn't already seen every square millimeter of her body, and it's not like it's the best thing to look at anyway.
Umm, how about a company that was under orders by a law enforcement agency, and thus legally bound to NOT disclose that information?