If the system is really locked down well, such that you can't make significant changes to the OS, it may be resistant to being infected. If someone with very low income is going to buy a PC, they're not going to be able to afford to have it serviced every time it gets a worm on it. I suspect these machines may be more resistant to that than a standard Windows install.
Hell, there are still a heck of a lot of Z80's being made. Embedded systems. There are a lot of systems running x86 and that don't want fans and such moving parts that can break.
I doubt the photographer was there. It was an automated camera, probably tethered to a computer. I've set up my Canon S30 to just sit and take photos every 5 seconds all day long when doing time-lapse work.
This is whats commonly known as a ''sun dog'', or lens flare
Careful, sun dogs and lens flares are two completely different things. Lens flares are caused by internal reflections inside the lens. Sun dogs are caused by the sun's light hitting ice crystals in the atmosphere and are visible to the eye.
Nope, CCD blooming happens primarily vertically, sometimes horizontally. Never on an angle. That flash isn't bright enough to cause that massive of an overexposure, and blooming causes the overexposure to bleed into the rest of the column/row, so it would be brighter, not darker. Also, blooming is typically symmetrical from the event, this image has the line going out only in one direction.
Certainly it ran faster than it did on the powerbook. That's because the Digital ICE is implemented in software, which wasn't happening under Linux. And Digital ICE is the whole reason you pay the premium for a Nikon scanner. It's practically magic. But it does slow things down.
My Nikon is a bit of a pain to get running sometimes, but it's worth the time. Sorry about your experiences, though.
I'm not sure that paying $1 a slide for something like 8000 slides and negatives is "saving myself expense" - nor time, for that matter, since I can't make money as fast as Kodak could burn it (IE I can save money by buying the scanner and hiring myself to do the scanning, versus hiring Kodak to do it).
Since I did the scanning by putting the scanner and a laptop in the corner of my office and scanning while working, the net time investment was really fairly small; most of the time the scanner was scanning and I was working; only for about 15 minutes a day total was I feeding it new negatives.
Sorry, that's several THOUSAND negatives. I think I scanned about 4000 negatives, and so far about 1000 slides (lots more to go, they're not fun to scan in an LS30).
...is a joke. If you want any kind of decent results, you need a REAL film scanner. Check eBay. I wound up buying a Nikon LS30 for the several negatives images in my collection.
The specs on a real film scanner as opposed to a flatbed are night and day. When a film scanner says it does X resolution, it's real. When a flatbed says it, it's probably some kind of interpolated crap marketing hype.
The ratio of black to white on the scanned image is also vastly larger with a film scanner - this makes a big difference, particularly with slides. You're going to lose a lot of data if you don't have as wide a bit lattitude as you can get.
In short, you're going to put a lot of time into scanning those slides. Don't sell short the value of your time. It's stupid to spend 500 to 1000 or more hours of your life using a piece of junk. Better off just not doing it until you have access to the proper equipment.
Ask around. There may be people who can lend you a proper scanner. I've lent mine to several friends, since it's not like I use it all the time; I'm now completely digital. My scanner sits in its box for 6 months to a year at a time. It's possible you could find someone similar who might let you borrow it for a few months.
I'm sure that the engineers have good simulation software for this. I would like to hear from someone knowledgable; what are the parameters? They'd have to vary from region to region as we all know that people drive differently in different parts of the country.
Anyone got guesses as to the parameters? Here are mine:
int PctManiac;/* drives at least 20 MPH over, slams on brakes in heavy traffic when radar detector goes off */ int PctAssholes;/* will cause any amount of risk to others in order to gain 0.1 seconds - cuts off everyone regardless */ int PctGranny;/* drives 10 MPH under limit */ int PctGrampa;/* drives RV at limit, changes lanes without looking */ int PctConstruction;/* Pct of roadway under construction - increases everyone's irritability and irrationality. */ int PctDrunk;/* self explanatory */
Obviously the values are going to be different in Florida, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, and at different times of the day.
Seriouly, I bet this is a pretty interesting simulation to work on. Anything that must try to predict human behavior, and which is readily researched in the field would be fun.
The generally accepted rule on the bicycle discussion forums is that if the light does not change for your vehicle, it's generally legal to treat the light as defective and proceed through as though it was a stop sign. However, in general the cops don't know 100% of the law, especially with regard to non-traditional vehicles (AKA anything but a car/truck).
Check your state's laws. I'd personally fight such a ticket especially I'd complained to the highway dept and they hadn't fixed it properly.
There must be some provision in the law for defective lights, otherwise every time a light stopped working, there'd be backups for miles until a cop got there to direct traffic.
I've found that if I know where the loops are, I can get my bike to change the light. However, if it's been paved over and not marked where the loops are, good luck. In those cases if there are no cars about, I proceed through with caution.
I went to a smaller university, not state-college level, but not huge either; 10K students. I've talked to the people who interview here where I work, and they put hardly any stock into WHERE you went to college. Experience and GPA get you past the HR department, and being able to act like you know what you're talking about gets you in with the people who'll make the final recommendations.
Every once in a while you'll hit some nutjob who went to a big university and was in a frat or something, and he'll try to give preference to an alumni, but most people are buying a person, not a cookie cut with some specific cutter.
LaCie has a 1tb unit based on 4x 250GB drives, and it acts just like a normal firewire hard drive, so it's compatible with anything. I'm sure they'll have a 1.6TB version if they don't already; they just need to drop in 4x seagate 400GB drives instead and they're done.
They may already have this, but their site is nearly unusable right now for me.
You want me to put a message in the status bar explaining why everything that's greyed is greyed? There could be dozens of greyed items. If you just mean what the mouse is hovering over, then that's a good idea, and is basically what the article talks about.
That's true, too. There's actually at least one scope that, with the aid of adaptive optics and other tricks, is actually slightly out-performing the Hubble.
Of course, that just makes you yearn for what we could do with a space telescope with CURRENT technology, not the early-80's (at best) stuff in the Hubble.
Well, that's true of some menu options, but I'm a programmer and there are plenty of times when I can't figure out why a button is greyed on the program I work on. Not all actions have one cause; we have controls that may be greyed for a large number of reasons, some of them complex, like "you can't view the depreciation summary on that asset because it was brought into service after Jan 17, 1993 and you have choosen the MACRS depreciation method." (this is a bogus reason I just made up, but it's not out of line with reality). I've seen many that are even worse than that to understand.
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Depends. TCO may be lower.
If the system is really locked down well, such that you can't make significant changes to the OS, it may be resistant to being infected. If someone with very low income is going to buy a PC, they're not going to be able to afford to have it serviced every time it gets a worm on it. I suspect these machines may be more resistant to that than a standard Windows install.
Hell, there are still a heck of a lot of Z80's being made. Embedded systems. There are a lot of systems running x86 and that don't want fans and such moving parts that can break.
I doubt the photographer was there. It was an automated camera, probably tethered to a computer. I've set up my Canon S30 to just sit and take photos every 5 seconds all day long when doing time-lapse work.
This is whats commonly known as a ''sun dog'', or lens flare
Careful, sun dogs and lens flares are two completely different things. Lens flares are caused by internal reflections inside the lens. Sun dogs are caused by the sun's light hitting ice crystals in the atmosphere and are visible to the eye.
According to the EXIF data the exposure was 1/20 second at f/5.6. For some odd reason, the flash fired.
Nope, CCD blooming happens primarily vertically, sometimes horizontally. Never on an angle. That flash isn't bright enough to cause that massive of an overexposure, and blooming causes the overexposure to bleed into the rest of the column/row, so it would be brighter, not darker. Also, blooming is typically symmetrical from the event, this image has the line going out only in one direction.
Certainly it ran faster than it did on the powerbook. That's because the Digital ICE is implemented in software, which wasn't happening under Linux. And Digital ICE is the whole reason you pay the premium for a Nikon scanner. It's practically magic. But it does slow things down.
My Nikon is a bit of a pain to get running sometimes, but it's worth the time. Sorry about your experiences, though.
I'm not sure that paying $1 a slide for something like 8000 slides and negatives is "saving myself expense" - nor time, for that matter, since I can't make money as fast as Kodak could burn it (IE I can save money by buying the scanner and hiring myself to do the scanning, versus hiring Kodak to do it).
Since I did the scanning by putting the scanner and a laptop in the corner of my office and scanning while working, the net time investment was really fairly small; most of the time the scanner was scanning and I was working; only for about 15 minutes a day total was I feeding it new negatives.
Sorry, that's several THOUSAND negatives. I think I scanned about 4000 negatives, and so far about 1000 slides (lots more to go, they're not fun to scan in an LS30).
...is a joke. If you want any kind of decent results, you need a REAL film scanner. Check eBay.
I wound up buying a Nikon LS30 for the several negatives images in my collection.
The specs on a real film scanner as opposed to a flatbed are night and day. When a film scanner says it does X resolution, it's real. When a flatbed says it, it's probably some kind of interpolated crap marketing hype.
The ratio of black to white on the scanned image is also vastly larger with a film scanner - this makes a big difference, particularly with slides. You're going to lose a lot of data if you don't have as wide a bit lattitude as you can get.
In short, you're going to put a lot of time into scanning those slides. Don't sell short the value of your time. It's stupid to spend 500 to 1000 or more hours of your life using a piece of junk. Better off just not doing it until you have access to the proper equipment.
Ask around. There may be people who can lend you a proper scanner. I've lent mine to several friends, since it's not like I use it all the time; I'm now completely digital. My scanner sits in its box for 6 months to a year at a time. It's possible you could find someone similar who might let you borrow it for a few months.
Cool, very interesting. Thanks.
I don't know about whether speed causes accidents to happen, but as far as once the accident is occurring, I'd add:
what part of F=MA don't you understand? There IS just a bit of scientific evidence backing that up.
I'm sure that the engineers have good simulation software for this. I would like to hear from someone knowledgable; what are the parameters? They'd have to vary from region to region as we all know that people drive differently in different parts of the country.
/* drives at least 20 MPH over, slams on brakes in heavy traffic when radar detector goes off */ /* will cause any amount of risk to others in order to gain 0.1 seconds - cuts off everyone regardless */ /* drives 10 MPH under limit */ /* drives RV at limit, changes lanes without looking */ /* Pct of roadway under construction - increases everyone's irritability and irrationality. */ /* self explanatory */
Anyone got guesses as to the parameters? Here are mine:
int PctManiac;
int PctAssholes;
int PctGranny;
int PctGrampa;
int PctConstruction;
int PctDrunk;
Obviously the values are going to be different in Florida, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, and at different times of the day.
Seriouly, I bet this is a pretty interesting simulation to work on. Anything that must try to predict human behavior, and which is readily researched in the field would be fun.
me driving *only* 5-10 MPH over speed limit.
What part of the phrase "speed limit" is confusing to you? It's not a LOWER limit.
The generally accepted rule on the bicycle discussion forums is that if the light does not change for your vehicle, it's generally legal to treat the light as defective and proceed through as though it was a stop sign. However, in general the cops don't know 100% of the law, especially with regard to non-traditional vehicles (AKA anything but a car/truck).
Check your state's laws. I'd personally fight such a ticket especially I'd complained to the highway dept and they hadn't fixed it properly.
There must be some provision in the law for defective lights, otherwise every time a light stopped working, there'd be backups for miles until a cop got there to direct traffic.
I've found that if I know where the loops are, I can get my bike to change the light. However, if it's been paved over and not marked where the loops are, good luck. In those cases if there are no cars about, I proceed through with caution.
I thought maybe they'd gotten eBooks on the thing. Screen's a bit small for that.
I went to a smaller university, not state-college level, but not huge either; 10K students. I've talked to the people who interview here where I work, and they put hardly any stock into WHERE you went to college. Experience and GPA get you past the HR department, and being able to act like you know what you're talking about gets you in with the people who'll make the final recommendations.
Every once in a while you'll hit some nutjob who went to a big university and was in a frat or something, and he'll try to give preference to an alumni, but most people are buying a person, not a cookie cut with some specific cutter.
Yup, LaCie did it months ago.0 13/
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C3
LaCie has a 1tb unit based on 4x 250GB drives, and it acts just like a normal firewire hard drive, so it's compatible with anything. I'm sure they'll have a 1.6TB version if they don't already; they just need to drop in 4x seagate 400GB drives instead and they're done.
They may already have this, but their site is nearly unusable right now for me.
Only half in each sperm. They're all there somewhere, you just have to do some recombining.
You want me to put a message in the status bar explaining why everything that's greyed is greyed? There could be dozens of greyed items. If you just mean what the mouse is hovering over, then that's a good idea, and is basically what the article talks about.
You want 45 messages on the screen for the 45 greyed buttons? That's going to get a little crowded.
Anything (everything?) with the Fruit Fucker in it. The first strip was probably the best.
That's true, too. There's actually at least one scope that, with the aid of adaptive optics and other tricks, is actually slightly out-performing the Hubble.
Of course, that just makes you yearn for what we could do with a space telescope with CURRENT technology, not the early-80's (at best) stuff in the Hubble.
Well, that's true of some menu options, but I'm a programmer and there are plenty of times when I can't figure out why a button is greyed on the program I work on. Not all actions have one cause; we have controls that may be greyed for a large number of reasons, some of them complex, like "you can't view the depreciation summary on that asset because it was brought into service after Jan 17, 1993 and you have choosen the MACRS depreciation method." (this is a bogus reason I just made up, but it's not out of line with reality). I've seen many that are even worse than that to understand.