Precisely. For under $400 these days you can get a really impressive camera that will get shots that were previously only attainable with pro gear and not have to worry about being robbed or it being too heavy to carry around.
As much as I love my old 10D and my Canon 70-200mm F2.8L IS, it's just a lot of gear to lose and more importantly just to carry around. With tripod, I'm looking at something like 30lbs., just to walk out the door.
When I got my new camera I was shocked at how well it did with normal tasks. It takes forever to focus and the manual controls aren't as good, but most people aren't going to get better results with a more expensive system.
That used to be a lot more true than it is today. My current travel has a ~5x crop factor and does quite well in terms of light sensitivity and noise reduction. Yes, it's not going to compete with a full sensor or one with a less severe crop, but ultimately it's easier to bring with me and for most amateurs it's going to be just fine.
These days I use a Canon Powershot SX40 HS and I never would have thought that I could get that kind of image quality and size out of a P&S camera. It's definitely more than enough for most people. Plus, it allows one to get used to how to make pictures before committing to one lens system or another.
Right, which is precisely why I got a second camera to complement my dSLR. I love my dSLR for the reasons you list, but ultimately, the best camera is the one that you have with you. I've already gotten a few shots that I wouldn't otherwise have gotten because of the long lens and it being actually on me at the time.
Personally, I'd pair it up with a good quality monopod for best results.
dSLRs aren't really appropriate for travel, which is precisely why I bought myself a Canon Powershot sx40 HS a while back. I personally love my dSLR and wouldn't trade it for anything, but lugging around 30lbs., worth of gear to make the most of it isn't particularly viable for travel. Well, unless your whole point is going for photography.
The camera has an impressive zoom range and gives usable results in all but the darkest conditions. I've had the ISO up to 3200 and it still produces shots that are worth having, albeit with some degredation.
My main complaint with it is that the focus is a bit slow and it's a bit hard to use the manual settings for more than one thing at a time.
I disagree with you strongly there. It doesn't do a corporation any good to have millions of new customers if the government says you can't make money on it. And that's effectively what's happened. The health insurers are allowed to make at most 20% profit on premiums and 15% for group plans and that's assuming that they have no overhead. But, they do have overhead, they have to pay for sales costs out of their overhead, same goes for administrative fees and the salary of the CEO and other execs. In practice I doubt very much if they'll be willing or able to compete with non-profit health insurers.
In general yes, but it really depends upon the cause. I walked off the job on a previous site because they weren't paying me all the money they were required to, that didn't hurt me at all finding more work.
Future employers worth working for are going to understand if the company wasn't issuing timely paychecks covering all the hours worked or if there were an excessive number of safety violations. OTOH, walking off the job just because you didn't feel like going any more is probably not going to be well looked upon.
Generally executives in the US are "made to quit." They aren't literally forced to quit, but it is made clear to them that they will be fired if they don't and that their golden parachute would only be there if they "quit."
As for the matter at hand, is the UK not at will employment typically? Around here they can fire employees for any reason or no reason provided that the reason isn't included on the short list of reasons that an employer isn't allowed to use. Posting a resume of that sort definitely wouldn't be prohibited in the US.
This is the UK, but I have a hard time believing that it's that much different in this case than it is here.
Not really as others have noted there are registry issues as well as how things are installed that make Windows more of a PITA than Linux or *BSD would.
If your installer put home under root, it's trivial to remedy at a later date, assuming that you can take the machine down for a couple minutes. And quite frankly if you can't be bothered with the downtime then you should be paying more attention during the install process anyways.
When I do a reinstall on *BSD or Linux the process is trivial compared with the process on Windows as things are much more clearly laid out there than with MS' crap profile system.
I've never had any trouble with that on Linux. Mostly because I'm not installing those sorts of applications on my desktop.
So, yes, it is exactly that clear cut, if it's not you're going to know that ahead of time as no serious system admin is going to attempt that sort of in place upgrade anyways.
It takes 3 hours if you're lucky. It does take about 45 minutes for the initial install, then it takes most of the rest of the day, or longer, for all the reboots and updates that you're having to install. You can slipstream the updates or use something like ctupdate to install them more efficiently, but when all is said and done it's going to take at least a day to install the OS. That is unless you're using enterprise tools which aren't really useful until you start dealing with a larger number of machines.
It's been possible since at least XP, I've been doing it for years, but it's a real PITA and as you noted it's not necessarily going to be respected by programs. On top of that, you have to make the decision up front and monkey around in some installation settings to get it to work.
I know you're joking, but it's worse than that. MS has chosen to use a system of profiles that's both byzantine and difficult to work with. A button like that on Linux probably wouldn't be that big of a deal as it could just work on all the partitions except for/home.
With Windows due to incompetent architecture it's a PITA to properly separate the user profile from the install and by default it's there on the same partition with no particularly convenient way of moving it from one computer to another other than the authorized tools. Suffice it to say that the tools are imperfect and are easily corrupted.
I mostly agree. The main problem that math text books have is in terms of format. The concepts haven't changed much if at all in many decades, at least for the courses most folks take.
The bigger issue tends to be format, and an open source textbook could definitely deal with that in a way that you could have several different books in use in the same course that all use the same examples, problem sets and solutions, but were slightly different in organization. As in larger print or explanations next to the example or different coloring for those with learning disorders.
First off, do you have any credible evidence that CA pushes a left wing agenda in the classrooms via text book selection? Or are you bitching because they don't teach creationism, that climate change is a lie or the frequently popular rethinking of US history to make white people not look like the monsters that would enslave people?
Secondly, my mother taught out of an open source text book for a while and it was significantly cheaper than the ones she had been using. The students were on the hook for about $24 a book. And yes, she receives her salary from the state.
While we're at it, nice straw man argument with Sallie Mae, Sallie Mae wasn't the problem, the tax cuts for the rich were. Education was a lot less expensive for students back before funding was cut by the government.
Textbooks are always subject to approval, just because you write a textbook doesn't mean that it has any hope of being used. There are committees and the materials are gone through for accuracy and for areas that are thin. The results aren't always correct, but it's not like books get approved without any consideration. With the possible exception of stand alone courses that don't need to move students to the next course, those may or may not be particularly well reviewed.
Mistakes do happen, for instance the local school district decided to choose discovering math or some bullshit like that to replace the also completely incompetent integrated math books that they had been using for the previous couple decades.
But when all is said and done, just because the books are open source doesn't mean that they're going to be worse or less reviewed. In all likelihood they'll be a net gain as they can remove or fix material. Even if they don't chances are that they'll be looking more closely at it for the reasons you outlined.
What's even worse is that since TX is one of the largest buyers of textbooks in the US, those changes don't just stay in TX making Texans stupid, they wind up in schools across the country making students stupid.
It might be the only thing that matters, but Romney did win, using margin for error for this sort of thing is not really appropriate. Romney did win more of the precincts than any of the other candidates did, just because it's a small enough number not to register in the delegate count doesn't make it any less real.
Indeed, same group of people that think that it's an unacceptable situation for the government to force them to have affordable quality health coverage and are outraged whenever the government threatens to step in and help them out.
Some people are just arrogant, self centered, jack asses that can't be helped no matter how hard you try, and they'll spit in your face for even trying. And people wonder why America is seemingly in decline.
It's worth noting that in his previous race that Obama's monetary base was made up hugely of small donors. It's not surprising that he's getting a larger amount of money from corporations this time, considering how successful the GOP has been at stymieing attempts at fixing really anything. That and his willingness to put private insurers out of business and his audacity to actually appoint somebody to run the new consumer protection agency.
Right and Ron Paul manages to look completely nuts even in a field of nutty candidates. Romney at least manages to look sane, time will tell whether or not he is.
It astonishes me how much leeway people are willing to give Ron Paul because he doesn't sell out. Well, when your message is racist, homophobic, xenophobic as well as likely to result in the final destruction of the middle class, perhaps selling out isn't such a bad thing.
There is no media conspiracy against Ron Paul, it turns out that if you're completely nuts and most people know it that you have very little chance of being elected to the Presidency.
Except that they only interceded because they found a result that they liked, specifically stated that it wasn't to be counted as precedent and further investigations by newspapers found that Bush did in fact not have enough votes to carry the state.
On top of that we had a constitutional amendment to handle such situations which was ignored by SCOTUS in large part because it didn't give them the resort that they wanted.
What's worse is that there were similar irregularities in Ohio during the 2004 Presidential election as well which were never addressed because SCOTUS had already ruled that they don't have to count all the votes if they don't want to.
Not really, if we're going to lynch filesystems we should be lynching EXT3/4 for being so bloodly unreliable. I've never lost as much data as I have using those filesystems. In fact the only saving grace was that the data loss occurred so rapidly, quickly and thoroughly that I didn't have the chance to create any files that I missed when they were corrupted beyond recognition.
It looks like they finally bothered to provide an fsck for EXT4, which took way too long, considering that the install program allows you to choose it as a filesystem for installing to.
It's not the only answer and appealing to slippery slope and false dilemma arguments isn't going to win you the argument.
Sure they probably will slide back to where they are, but the benefits in the mean time would be significant and in the future they could always slide them right back to where they were pre-1978.
Slashdot Mirror
Precisely. For under $400 these days you can get a really impressive camera that will get shots that were previously only attainable with pro gear and not have to worry about being robbed or it being too heavy to carry around.
As much as I love my old 10D and my Canon 70-200mm F2.8L IS, it's just a lot of gear to lose and more importantly just to carry around. With tripod, I'm looking at something like 30lbs., just to walk out the door.
When I got my new camera I was shocked at how well it did with normal tasks. It takes forever to focus and the manual controls aren't as good, but most people aren't going to get better results with a more expensive system.
That used to be a lot more true than it is today. My current travel has a ~5x crop factor and does quite well in terms of light sensitivity and noise reduction. Yes, it's not going to compete with a full sensor or one with a less severe crop, but ultimately it's easier to bring with me and for most amateurs it's going to be just fine.
These days I use a Canon Powershot SX40 HS and I never would have thought that I could get that kind of image quality and size out of a P&S camera. It's definitely more than enough for most people. Plus, it allows one to get used to how to make pictures before committing to one lens system or another.
Right, which is precisely why I got a second camera to complement my dSLR. I love my dSLR for the reasons you list, but ultimately, the best camera is the one that you have with you. I've already gotten a few shots that I wouldn't otherwise have gotten because of the long lens and it being actually on me at the time.
Personally, I'd pair it up with a good quality monopod for best results.
dSLRs aren't really appropriate for travel, which is precisely why I bought myself a Canon Powershot sx40 HS a while back. I personally love my dSLR and wouldn't trade it for anything, but lugging around 30lbs., worth of gear to make the most of it isn't particularly viable for travel. Well, unless your whole point is going for photography.
The camera has an impressive zoom range and gives usable results in all but the darkest conditions. I've had the ISO up to 3200 and it still produces shots that are worth having, albeit with some degredation.
My main complaint with it is that the focus is a bit slow and it's a bit hard to use the manual settings for more than one thing at a time.
I disagree with you strongly there. It doesn't do a corporation any good to have millions of new customers if the government says you can't make money on it. And that's effectively what's happened. The health insurers are allowed to make at most 20% profit on premiums and 15% for group plans and that's assuming that they have no overhead. But, they do have overhead, they have to pay for sales costs out of their overhead, same goes for administrative fees and the salary of the CEO and other execs. In practice I doubt very much if they'll be willing or able to compete with non-profit health insurers.
In general yes, but it really depends upon the cause. I walked off the job on a previous site because they weren't paying me all the money they were required to, that didn't hurt me at all finding more work.
Future employers worth working for are going to understand if the company wasn't issuing timely paychecks covering all the hours worked or if there were an excessive number of safety violations. OTOH, walking off the job just because you didn't feel like going any more is probably not going to be well looked upon.
Generally executives in the US are "made to quit." They aren't literally forced to quit, but it is made clear to them that they will be fired if they don't and that their golden parachute would only be there if they "quit."
As for the matter at hand, is the UK not at will employment typically? Around here they can fire employees for any reason or no reason provided that the reason isn't included on the short list of reasons that an employer isn't allowed to use. Posting a resume of that sort definitely wouldn't be prohibited in the US.
This is the UK, but I have a hard time believing that it's that much different in this case than it is here.
Not really as others have noted there are registry issues as well as how things are installed that make Windows more of a PITA than Linux or *BSD would.
If your installer put home under root, it's trivial to remedy at a later date, assuming that you can take the machine down for a couple minutes. And quite frankly if you can't be bothered with the downtime then you should be paying more attention during the install process anyways.
When I do a reinstall on *BSD or Linux the process is trivial compared with the process on Windows as things are much more clearly laid out there than with MS' crap profile system.
I've never had any trouble with that on Linux. Mostly because I'm not installing those sorts of applications on my desktop.
So, yes, it is exactly that clear cut, if it's not you're going to know that ahead of time as no serious system admin is going to attempt that sort of in place upgrade anyways.
It takes 3 hours if you're lucky. It does take about 45 minutes for the initial install, then it takes most of the rest of the day, or longer, for all the reboots and updates that you're having to install. You can slipstream the updates or use something like ctupdate to install them more efficiently, but when all is said and done it's going to take at least a day to install the OS. That is unless you're using enterprise tools which aren't really useful until you start dealing with a larger number of machines.
It's been possible since at least XP, I've been doing it for years, but it's a real PITA and as you noted it's not necessarily going to be respected by programs. On top of that, you have to make the decision up front and monkey around in some installation settings to get it to work.
I know you're joking, but it's worse than that. MS has chosen to use a system of profiles that's both byzantine and difficult to work with. A button like that on Linux probably wouldn't be that big of a deal as it could just work on all the partitions except for /home.
With Windows due to incompetent architecture it's a PITA to properly separate the user profile from the install and by default it's there on the same partition with no particularly convenient way of moving it from one computer to another other than the authorized tools. Suffice it to say that the tools are imperfect and are easily corrupted.
I mostly agree. The main problem that math text books have is in terms of format. The concepts haven't changed much if at all in many decades, at least for the courses most folks take.
The bigger issue tends to be format, and an open source textbook could definitely deal with that in a way that you could have several different books in use in the same course that all use the same examples, problem sets and solutions, but were slightly different in organization. As in larger print or explanations next to the example or different coloring for those with learning disorders.
First off, do you have any credible evidence that CA pushes a left wing agenda in the classrooms via text book selection? Or are you bitching because they don't teach creationism, that climate change is a lie or the frequently popular rethinking of US history to make white people not look like the monsters that would enslave people?
Secondly, my mother taught out of an open source text book for a while and it was significantly cheaper than the ones she had been using. The students were on the hook for about $24 a book. And yes, she receives her salary from the state.
While we're at it, nice straw man argument with Sallie Mae, Sallie Mae wasn't the problem, the tax cuts for the rich were. Education was a lot less expensive for students back before funding was cut by the government.
Textbooks are always subject to approval, just because you write a textbook doesn't mean that it has any hope of being used. There are committees and the materials are gone through for accuracy and for areas that are thin. The results aren't always correct, but it's not like books get approved without any consideration. With the possible exception of stand alone courses that don't need to move students to the next course, those may or may not be particularly well reviewed.
Mistakes do happen, for instance the local school district decided to choose discovering math or some bullshit like that to replace the also completely incompetent integrated math books that they had been using for the previous couple decades.
But when all is said and done, just because the books are open source doesn't mean that they're going to be worse or less reviewed. In all likelihood they'll be a net gain as they can remove or fix material. Even if they don't chances are that they'll be looking more closely at it for the reasons you outlined.
What's even worse is that since TX is one of the largest buyers of textbooks in the US, those changes don't just stay in TX making Texans stupid, they wind up in schools across the country making students stupid.
It might be the only thing that matters, but Romney did win, using margin for error for this sort of thing is not really appropriate. Romney did win more of the precincts than any of the other candidates did, just because it's a small enough number not to register in the delegate count doesn't make it any less real.
Indeed, same group of people that think that it's an unacceptable situation for the government to force them to have affordable quality health coverage and are outraged whenever the government threatens to step in and help them out.
Some people are just arrogant, self centered, jack asses that can't be helped no matter how hard you try, and they'll spit in your face for even trying. And people wonder why America is seemingly in decline.
It's worth noting that in his previous race that Obama's monetary base was made up hugely of small donors. It's not surprising that he's getting a larger amount of money from corporations this time, considering how successful the GOP has been at stymieing attempts at fixing really anything. That and his willingness to put private insurers out of business and his audacity to actually appoint somebody to run the new consumer protection agency.
Right and Ron Paul manages to look completely nuts even in a field of nutty candidates. Romney at least manages to look sane, time will tell whether or not he is.
It astonishes me how much leeway people are willing to give Ron Paul because he doesn't sell out. Well, when your message is racist, homophobic, xenophobic as well as likely to result in the final destruction of the middle class, perhaps selling out isn't such a bad thing.
There is no media conspiracy against Ron Paul, it turns out that if you're completely nuts and most people know it that you have very little chance of being elected to the Presidency.
Except that they only interceded because they found a result that they liked, specifically stated that it wasn't to be counted as precedent and further investigations by newspapers found that Bush did in fact not have enough votes to carry the state.
On top of that we had a constitutional amendment to handle such situations which was ignored by SCOTUS in large part because it didn't give them the resort that they wanted.
What's worse is that there were similar irregularities in Ohio during the 2004 Presidential election as well which were never addressed because SCOTUS had already ruled that they don't have to count all the votes if they don't want to.
IIRC weren't they not using ext4 because it was missing some crucial features like fsck support?
Not really, if we're going to lynch filesystems we should be lynching EXT3/4 for being so bloodly unreliable. I've never lost as much data as I have using those filesystems. In fact the only saving grace was that the data loss occurred so rapidly, quickly and thoroughly that I didn't have the chance to create any files that I missed when they were corrupted beyond recognition.
It looks like they finally bothered to provide an fsck for EXT4, which took way too long, considering that the install program allows you to choose it as a filesystem for installing to.
You're better off using one of the more recent source ports. eduke32 is particularly impressive with HRP and polymer.
It's not the only answer and appealing to slippery slope and false dilemma arguments isn't going to win you the argument.
Sure they probably will slide back to where they are, but the benefits in the mean time would be significant and in the future they could always slide them right back to where they were pre-1978.