Sssshhhhh... They might start putting the road fuel tax on my already expanding electric bill.
I think the point is that the oil companies have such a stranglehold on the political scene because of the money they inject, that they use a few cases like this against small fry to try to discourage anyone from thinking about alternate fuels.
They should think about repealing the road fuel tax rather than spending thousands of dollars to prosecute someone for a $1000 fine. Maybe that would give us some relief.
As someone alluded to in another post, something said without a source is probably not true. So since the site proclaiming there to not be another version coming out, does not have a source - therefore there must be a new version coming out. Maybe it is just the off the wall, kind of using several paragraphs to proclaim that what never was, will not happen, is enough for the collective groan.
Imagine a story such as: In breaking news, Microsoft has just released Microsoft Linux. However, this rumor is false. Sorry to waste your time, folks.
That was my thought as well. However, you've got to keep providing adequate service to your existing infrastructure in the meantime. On the other hand, why doesn't Verizon just roll out fiber as a direct replacement to copper? As the FIOS network takes over one segment, it would seem to make sense to transition that entire segment entirely to Fiber and drop the copper altogether.
I was kind of considering the practical max of 802.11g, which usually is about 20Mbps, which works out to about 2.5MB/sec. You are right, with a 2GB buffer I don't suppose you would have any trouble keeping up unless you were taking an insane amount of shots.
My point on the automatic transfer is that you've still got to have the PC as the intermediary. No direct communication with Flickr, etc. because the Camera is oblivious to the wifi.
I should have known, if you don't bash IE on/., you get modded troll. Anyways...
I'm not a full time dev and I haven't been for years. But whenever I run into bugs it's rarely happening on IE, and that goes for not only my work but most web sites that I visit. Like the previous poster here, when I code something, I need to make sure it looks right and works right in IE first, then tweak it to fit FF, Opera, Safari, and whatever else because 85% of my target audience is using IE. Consider that I'm not writing code from scratch in Notepad, I'm usually using Dreamweaver, and if the code that comes out of my preferred wysiwyg tool looks great 98% of the time in IE and 90% of the time in FF, I'd say most of my tweaking is done to get FF to display correctly. That said, usually stuff looks fine in either browser, but 5 or 6 years ago, it was much easier to code for IE vs Netscape, Opera, or more recently, FF.
Another poster in this thread stated something about Microsoft being involved in the creation of standards - of course, this is a bunch of malarky; if MS was involved, it was at the level of "here's how we are doing things, we'd like you to make our standard your standard". At which point the w3c said, screw you, we're going to make things better our way. So when you talk about standards, it's really MS's standard vs. the w3c standard, and all the competing browsers decided to support the w3c rather than go along with the big gorilla and try to maintain compatibility. Every time the w3c comes up with the new standard, MS usually has their own version ready and waiting to go. So in effect, the whole "standards" debate comes down to whether you want to code for what MS does, or go entirely with the w3c and try to fix bugs for the 85% of people who use IE.
That's funny, I see more value in this for the casual shooting.
The article didn't have alot of details, but despite what everyone is talking about here, it doesn't sound like the card has the capability of uploading content without initializing the transfer via software on a laptop or other computer. Unless cameras start being manufactured with support for wifi (and at that point, why not just integrate the wifi into the camera, not the SD card), I don't think you are going to see anything very automatic. I can sure see the value of uploading to the computer before removing the card, though.
Another consideration is the speed. 802.11g isn't particularly fast. If a professional photographer is taking 20-30 shots per minute with a 10MP camera, the wifi might have a bit of trouble keeping up.
Every camera I've seen that was studio type level uses CF cards. I suppose it would be even easier to build cards like this for CF, since there are already wifi cards using this interface.
Hmm... in my experience, coding to IE was much easier because it was much better at interpreting how you wanted something to look like without worrying about being 100% 'standards compliant'. If a site didn't work in FF and worked fine in IE, that was more due to FF not knowing what to do with your code unless you put it together perfectly. Either way, the only reason the 'standards' got put together was because the minorities needed some way to differentiate themselves from IE. More power to them, we need the competition, but I don't think it's fair to bash IE for not complying.
If nothing else, the revelation of these so called "administrative fees" proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that SoundExchange is not in place to benefit the artists. They are attempting to line their pockets as thick as they can now that they have been given the opportunity. They are trying to get paid for song plays for artists that they do not represent and pay no money out to.
What prevents me from creating my own organization and start billing radio stations and internet sites for song plays, because I represent at least one artist (myself)? And if there is a legal reason for me not to be able to do this, how the heck did these theiving creeps at SE get the gig?
Have they tried the same cards on MacOS, on Linux, on XP? This doesn't sound to me to be a Windows or MS problem at all - if the hardware isn't talking correctly to the cable company, that's got to be a 3rd party software or hardware issue. Simple way to find out would be to hook it up to OTA antenna.
So you are going to call up Dell tech support, get routed to India, and they are going to tell you to insert a bootable disk with diagnostic tools? Frankly, I doubt they want to support that either, considering the wide variety of hardware configurations and the lack of worthy generic tools for any given component. Heck, even ultimate boot CD with all it's utilities doesn't diagnose every hardware issue. It might work fine for an onsite tech, who should have that in his toolkit anyways.
The real issue is that Dell doesn't have any techs trained in Linux, and if you sent out a Tech with the average knowledge that the Windows techs have, the end user would probably be more knowledgable than the tech. They really have no way to solve software issues, which makes it extremely difficult to determine whether an issue is a hardware or a software problem. So rather than retrain or recruit thousands of onsite techs, and pour millions of dollars into creating new Linux checklists for India, they would just assume offer only limited support.
In order to be affected, doesn't one first have to go to the shady site that has this stuff scripted in the page? Yes, this may be a bug, but like a web page-bound virus, is one that the user has to inflict upon himself by going to a site he probably shouldn't be going to in the first place.
At last check, AutoCAD still does not support Linux and it seems that Autodesk has no plans to. Same for Solidworks. I've not seen an engineering or design shop using anything but those two in a long time. I guess I haven't looked in a couple of years, it looks like a few have started marketing Linux versions of their software in the past 2 years. Kudos to them.
Sources in Washington DC claim to have found a way to power 73% of the nation's capitol while nearly completely reducing the greenhouse emissions from the capitol building. Within a few years, planners expect this new energy source to power the entire city as well as the capacity to sell energy to surrounding areas.
Also keep in mind that there's other stuff than games that needs the power of a proper graphics chip with loads of ram.
Unless you're doing 3D CAD on your laptop I don't see any other application of this. And last I heard most if not all of the major 3D CAD softwares don't run natively on Linux. I don't ever expect Intel to take over the graphics market - they simply want something they can use for cheap onboard use that doesn't require exorbitant licensing fees, and does a decent job for the average user.
piratebaytabs.com. All we need is somebody in Sweden to step up to the plate, seed all this stuff on BitTorrent, and away we go.
Yes it is the publishing that is the source of concern. The other way to solve this issue is to just make it a pay site and charge a nominal fee of $.25 a song or so to license the music to the song.
In reality your bosses "Windows" box is not really a windows box at all, its just an ordinary PC without the special chip on the motherboard that says 'you can install Mac OS'. To me, the equipment is the same, the capabilities are the same, it's just the software needs that determine the OS necessary. If parallels can produce a virtual Windows install that compares favorably with native Windows, I think that benefits every Mac user out there who uses more than a word processor and web browser, because it opens his system up to running a wide variety of software that is not available without going through the hassle of multibooting. You're not going to draw the hard core PC gamer any more than Linux does anyways.
Is just how much diamond it takes to achieve this. Are they working with microparticles of diamond shavings, or with larger pieces. If they are using some kind of diamond dust, how do you arrange this to get any kind of usable array for storage?
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Sssshhhhh... They might start putting the road fuel tax on my already expanding electric bill.
I think the point is that the oil companies have such a stranglehold on the political scene because of the money they inject, that they use a few cases like this against small fry to try to discourage anyone from thinking about alternate fuels.
They should think about repealing the road fuel tax rather than spending thousands of dollars to prosecute someone for a $1000 fine. Maybe that would give us some relief.
As someone alluded to in another post, something said without a source is probably not true. So since the site proclaiming there to not be another version coming out, does not have a source - therefore there must be a new version coming out. Maybe it is just the off the wall, kind of using several paragraphs to proclaim that what never was, will not happen, is enough for the collective groan.
Imagine a story such as:
In breaking news, Microsoft has just released Microsoft Linux. However, this rumor is false. Sorry to waste your time, folks.
Yeah. Groan.
Boy, I can hear the collective groan from the millions of Monkey Island fans on /.
On second thought, it's awful quiet in here...
That was my thought as well. However, you've got to keep providing adequate service to your existing infrastructure in the meantime.
On the other hand, why doesn't Verizon just roll out fiber as a direct replacement to copper? As the FIOS network takes over one segment, it would seem to make sense to transition that entire segment entirely to Fiber and drop the copper altogether.
I was kind of considering the practical max of 802.11g, which usually is about 20Mbps, which works out to about 2.5MB/sec. You are right, with a 2GB buffer I don't suppose you would have any trouble keeping up unless you were taking an insane amount of shots.
My point on the automatic transfer is that you've still got to have the PC as the intermediary. No direct communication with Flickr, etc. because the Camera is oblivious to the wifi.
I should have known, if you don't bash IE on /., you get modded troll. Anyways...
I'm not a full time dev and I haven't been for years. But whenever I run into bugs it's rarely happening on IE, and that goes for not only my work but most web sites that I visit. Like the previous poster here, when I code something, I need to make sure it looks right and works right in IE first, then tweak it to fit FF, Opera, Safari, and whatever else because 85% of my target audience is using IE. Consider that I'm not writing code from scratch in Notepad, I'm usually using Dreamweaver, and if the code that comes out of my preferred wysiwyg tool looks great 98% of the time in IE and 90% of the time in FF, I'd say most of my tweaking is done to get FF to display correctly. That said, usually stuff looks fine in either browser, but 5 or 6 years ago, it was much easier to code for IE vs Netscape, Opera, or more recently, FF.
Another poster in this thread stated something about Microsoft being involved in the creation of standards - of course, this is a bunch of malarky; if MS was involved, it was at the level of "here's how we are doing things, we'd like you to make our standard your standard". At which point the w3c said, screw you, we're going to make things better our way. So when you talk about standards, it's really MS's standard vs. the w3c standard, and all the competing browsers decided to support the w3c rather than go along with the big gorilla and try to maintain compatibility. Every time the w3c comes up with the new standard, MS usually has their own version ready and waiting to go. So in effect, the whole "standards" debate comes down to whether you want to code for what MS does, or go entirely with the w3c and try to fix bugs for the 85% of people who use IE.
That's funny, I see more value in this for the casual shooting.
The article didn't have alot of details, but despite what everyone is talking about here, it doesn't sound like the card has the capability of uploading content without initializing the transfer via software on a laptop or other computer. Unless cameras start being manufactured with support for wifi (and at that point, why not just integrate the wifi into the camera, not the SD card), I don't think you are going to see anything very automatic. I can sure see the value of uploading to the computer before removing the card, though.
Another consideration is the speed. 802.11g isn't particularly fast. If a professional photographer is taking 20-30 shots per minute with a 10MP camera, the wifi might have a bit of trouble keeping up.
Every camera I've seen that was studio type level uses CF cards. I suppose it would be even easier to build cards like this for CF, since there are already wifi cards using this interface.
Hmm... in my experience, coding to IE was much easier because it was much better at interpreting how you wanted something to look like without worrying about being 100% 'standards compliant'. If a site didn't work in FF and worked fine in IE, that was more due to FF not knowing what to do with your code unless you put it together perfectly.
Either way, the only reason the 'standards' got put together was because the minorities needed some way to differentiate themselves from IE. More power to them, we need the competition, but I don't think it's fair to bash IE for not complying.
If nothing else, the revelation of these so called "administrative fees" proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that SoundExchange is not in place to benefit the artists. They are attempting to line their pockets as thick as they can now that they have been given the opportunity. They are trying to get paid for song plays for artists that they do not represent and pay no money out to.
What prevents me from creating my own organization and start billing radio stations and internet sites for song plays, because I represent at least one artist (myself)? And if there is a legal reason for me not to be able to do this, how the heck did these theiving creeps at SE get the gig?
Have they tried the same cards on MacOS, on Linux, on XP? This doesn't sound to me to be a Windows or MS problem at all - if the hardware isn't talking correctly to the cable company, that's got to be a 3rd party software or hardware issue. Simple way to find out would be to hook it up to OTA antenna.
Hmm. I just assumed it was just assummed. Thanks!
So you are going to call up Dell tech support, get routed to India, and they are going to tell you to insert a bootable disk with diagnostic tools? Frankly, I doubt they want to support that either, considering the wide variety of hardware configurations and the lack of worthy generic tools for any given component. Heck, even ultimate boot CD with all it's utilities doesn't diagnose every hardware issue. It might work fine for an onsite tech, who should have that in his toolkit anyways.
The real issue is that Dell doesn't have any techs trained in Linux, and if you sent out a Tech with the average knowledge that the Windows techs have, the end user would probably be more knowledgable than the tech.
They really have no way to solve software issues, which makes it extremely difficult to determine whether an issue is a hardware or a software problem. So rather than retrain or recruit thousands of onsite techs, and pour millions of dollars into creating new Linux checklists for India, they would just assume offer only limited support.
In order to be affected, doesn't one first have to go to the shady site that has this stuff scripted in the page? Yes, this may be a bug, but like a web page-bound virus, is one that the user has to inflict upon himself by going to a site he probably shouldn't be going to in the first place.
Also while UGS NX supports linux now, SolidEdge still does not.
At last check, AutoCAD still does not support Linux and it seems that Autodesk has no plans to. Same for Solidworks. I've not seen an engineering or design shop using anything but those two in a long time.
I guess I haven't looked in a couple of years, it looks like a few have started marketing Linux versions of their software in the past 2 years. Kudos to them.
Sources in Washington DC claim to have found a way to power 73% of the nation's capitol while nearly completely reducing the greenhouse emissions from the capitol building. Within a few years, planners expect this new energy source to power the entire city as well as the capacity to sell energy to surrounding areas.
Unless you're doing 3D CAD on your laptop I don't see any other application of this. And last I heard most if not all of the major 3D CAD softwares don't run natively on Linux.
I don't ever expect Intel to take over the graphics market - they simply want something they can use for cheap onboard use that doesn't require exorbitant licensing fees, and does a decent job for the average user.
piratebaytabs.com. All we need is somebody in Sweden to step up to the plate, seed all this stuff on BitTorrent, and away we go.
Yes it is the publishing that is the source of concern. The other way to solve this issue is to just make it a pay site and charge a nominal fee of $.25 a song or so to license the music to the song.
In reality your bosses "Windows" box is not really a windows box at all, its just an ordinary PC without the special chip on the motherboard that says 'you can install Mac OS'. To me, the equipment is the same, the capabilities are the same, it's just the software needs that determine the OS necessary. If parallels can produce a virtual Windows install that compares favorably with native Windows, I think that benefits every Mac user out there who uses more than a word processor and web browser, because it opens his system up to running a wide variety of software that is not available without going through the hassle of multibooting. You're not going to draw the hard core PC gamer any more than Linux does anyways.
Is just how much diamond it takes to achieve this. Are they working with microparticles of diamond shavings, or with larger pieces. If they are using some kind of diamond dust, how do you arrange this to get any kind of usable array for storage?
Or perhaps over the clearly readable license plate on the car parked right in front of the place.
Right now linux is more like an empty house. No one bothers to break into the house because they know there's not enough in it for them to do so.
Windows is more like the house with a simple lock on the door. Plenty of other ways to get in, but it's up to the homeowner to implement the security.
I wouldn't want to have to go through all the text files to configure that 'touchscreen' driver.