If you really cared about the pictures, you'd buy a drum scanner or send them off to a company like West Coast Imaging or Nancy Scans that will give you the highest possible scan quality. If you want "good enough" quality, get an Epson 4490 or 4990. The 4490 can scan legal-sized reflective media and 6x12cm medium format, two strips of 6 frames of 35mm, or four mounted slides. I'd recommend SilverFast Ai Studio for bulk scanning.
Eclipse is just plain annoying. Behind the pretty shiny interface is, well, just an icky IDE. Oh, it's modular and open source. How nice. Heck, with software written in Java, it's almost impossible to write something that isn't modular. I'll take the sanity of IntelliJ IDEA, thanks.
I was quite happy that the folks over at Jetbrains had a nice $250 personal license special a few weeks back. It's the only decent IDE I've used.
Back in the early 90's, the department my father was in held a funeral for the ampersand in their Lotus Notes email addresses. Yeah, they were the hardcore nerds of the company... dealing with Generation and Transmission at a large power company. Unfortunately it was also a sign that the entire department was about to be laid off.
One of the worst uses of RFID is for use when taking inventory, or scanning bulk boxes of some item. Just because your crate has the proper weight and the correct number of the appropriate RFID tags doesn't mean you're really getting a case of pretzels. When money is on the line, you can't put your trust in some little chips that have no requirement to be attached to what they should identify. One can't put blind faith on the tags. A manual count would still be necessary. For automated checkouts, it places too much trust on the customer. How do you know that the tag they're scanning is really the tag that it should be?
If RFID only causes more problems and solves none, other than to enrich companies selling RFID products, why would anyone use it?
An SUV is a gas-guzzling minivan. A UV (utility vehicle) is a real work horse. The primary test is if the beast is made for comfort or if it is more of an enclosed pickup?
The ICANN root only has as much authority as you give it. If somebody decides to run an alternate dns root, then that's there thing. Nobody can complain when ICANN creates a TLD in its root, which just happens to be the one most use.
Seriously, grab gnat, go to http://www.adahome.com/ and read a tutorial or two, and start writing reliable, readable, and reusable code in the amount of time it takes to read through the tutorial.
A barber is licensed to make sure they don't do something silly while styling hair, such as use liquid nitrogen to frost an old woman's hair or something.
A mechanic is licensed because if screws up and forgets a couple of bolts here and there, he could cause a 50 car pileup and have a couple hundred people killed, giant fireballs, and all sorts of great Hollywood special effects that shouldn't happen in real life.
As it is cheaper to replace whole components rather than repair them, a computer repair guy can be a total buffoon and do his job successfully. Look at your local CompUSA if you don't believe me. If they screw up, some college student has to retype his or her research paper over again.
It came with my laptop, which I use as my main machine. Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware, and SuSE wouldn't run on the thing. Neither would OpenBSD and NetBSD. Of course, being a FreeBSD fan I stuck FreeBSD on there, and it worked like a charm, except for my wireless card. However, I didn't feel like giving up XP completely. Over a long period of time, say, a week, I realized one OS wasn't getting much use, so I nuked that FreeBSD partition and XP became my only desktop OS.
I've been designing fonts for a little while now. It is probably one of the hardest things I've done. Little nuances have to be kept just so, or the font comes out looking like crap. Several hours can go into designing just a single character.
What's truly difficult is making a design look good on screen. Think about it. Your monitor is probably around 100 dots per inch. Your printer is probably 600dpi or better. When you see it on screen, it looks like a speck of dirt. That's where True Type instructions come in. Let's just say that can take a while. Fifty years later, you finally have something that looks good on paper and on screen. It's enough to make you want to quit after the first letter.
For those that want to start designing fonts, check out FontLab. It isn't cheap, but for what it does, it is the best available right now. For somebody that just wants to toy around, High Logic's Font Creator Program will probably do. It only does truetype fonts and you can't do instructing, but it is only $50. My personal opinion of pfaedit is that it is crap, but you can't beat the price.
1. A homo sapien attached to a communications device consisting of a computer, a display device, and multiple input devices for interfacing with a communications system for the purpose of troll creation, posting and display.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein outputs a troll posting consisting remarks about a nude and petrified Natalie Portman, hot grits, links to goatse.cx, and/or the penis bird.
3. A server system for the purpose of accepting troll postings as specified in claim 1.
Desciption:
The present invention provides a method and system for troll posting in a client-server environment over an internetwork. When a troller wants to post a troll, the troller uses the method in claim 1 to do so.
They need to hire a few tech people to review tech patents. Patents can be a good thing, as they are supposed to inspire others to make something better so they don't have to pay royalties to that other guy. They are also there to keep that other guy from stealing your work. However, when they are used to bully people, that is just not good.
Well, some places, DSL or cable is not available. Also, ADSL that is run to most residential areas, from what I've seen are over ATM, and have an unspecified bit rate. On top of that, DSL tends to be rather flakey at times.
A t1 is classified as a business circuit, even if being run to a house. If a T1 goes down, chances are, they can get it repaired within 4 hours, usually faster, even if it goes down at 3:30 in the morning. On the other hand, if you 1500k x 256k residential ADSL goes down, there is a good chance it could be a few days before it gets repaired.
Sure, there is business class DSL, but it doesn't cost that much less than a T1! Why? It is a business circuit, so it costs more. And why is that? Simple! When it goes down (since it is DSL, it will go down, trust me), the telephone company will get it repaired much faster than residential DSL. Also, well, atleast BellSouth's implementation of DSL, has a set bit rate, as well, which why it costs more.
For me, I live in a place that will most likely never get DSL, and cable service will probably never materialize. Although I would be happy with ISDN, that is unavailable as well, due to the fact that my local telco can't justify the money that would be spent to upgrade equipment to support ISDN. What is left for a person like me? Get a T1. Fortunately, I work for an ISP, and won't have to pay for service, but just for the line.
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If you really cared about the pictures, you'd buy a drum scanner or send them off to a company like West Coast Imaging or Nancy Scans that will give you the highest possible scan quality. If you want "good enough" quality, get an Epson 4490 or 4990. The 4490 can scan legal-sized reflective media and 6x12cm medium format, two strips of 6 frames of 35mm, or four mounted slides. I'd recommend SilverFast Ai Studio for bulk scanning.
unpatentable: "some random thing"
patentable: "some random thing when done using a computer"
Eclipse is just plain annoying. Behind the pretty shiny interface is, well, just an icky IDE. Oh, it's modular and open source. How nice. Heck, with software written in Java, it's almost impossible to write something that isn't modular. I'll take the sanity of IntelliJ IDEA, thanks.
I was quite happy that the folks over at Jetbrains had a nice $250 personal license special a few weeks back. It's the only decent IDE I've used.
S-expr's and xml are interchangeable, for the most part. Congratulations, you can now be a total degenerate and program in xmlisp.
I know a pizza delivery person, he was robbed at gun point. The thief stole the pizza and not his cash!
Back in the early 90's, the department my father was in held a funeral for the ampersand in their Lotus Notes email addresses. Yeah, they were the hardcore nerds of the company... dealing with Generation and Transmission at a large power company. Unfortunately it was also a sign that the entire department was about to be laid off.
That's why you do this thing called "HAVE A SPARE ON HAND." Sure, it costs more money, but you *are* going for the highest reliability aren't you?
One of the worst uses of RFID is for use when taking inventory, or scanning bulk boxes of some item. Just because your crate has the proper weight and the correct number of the appropriate RFID tags doesn't mean you're really getting a case of pretzels. When money is on the line, you can't put your trust in some little chips that have no requirement to be attached to what they should identify. One can't put blind faith on the tags. A manual count would still be necessary. For automated checkouts, it places too much trust on the customer. How do you know that the tag they're scanning is really the tag that it should be?
If RFID only causes more problems and solves none, other than to enrich companies selling RFID products, why would anyone use it?
An SUV is a gas-guzzling minivan. A UV (utility vehicle) is a real work horse. The primary test is if the beast is made for comfort or if it is more of an enclosed pickup?
PMC-Sierra's MIPS-based RM9000x2GL's are really neat. It's been out for some months now. I'd love to see a machine with several dozen of these.
It proves you can make it through college. All you have is a piece of paper and quite possibly a load of debt you will never be able to repay.
The ICANN root only has as much authority as you give it. If somebody decides to run an alternate dns root, then that's there thing. Nobody can complain when ICANN creates a TLD in its root, which just happens to be the one most use.
That the climate change that killed off dinosaurs was caused by greenhouse gasses from American SUVs.
Even in the backwards technology-fearing place I live in, a competent techie can find a job in no time at all.
The thousands of twits running open-relay Exchange servers to fix their machines?
Seriously, grab gnat, go to http://www.adahome.com/ and read a tutorial or two, and start writing reliable, readable, and reusable code in the amount of time it takes to read through the tutorial.
He received financial compensation for something via dishonest means... fraud is fraud is fraud.
A barber is licensed to make sure they don't do something silly while styling hair, such as use liquid nitrogen to frost an old woman's hair or something.
A mechanic is licensed because if screws up and forgets a couple of bolts here and there, he could cause a 50 car pileup and have a couple hundred people killed, giant fireballs, and all sorts of great Hollywood special effects that shouldn't happen in real life.
As it is cheaper to replace whole components rather than repair them, a computer repair guy can be a total buffoon and do his job successfully. Look at your local CompUSA if you don't believe me. If they screw up, some college student has to retype his or her research paper over again.
As long as I get to be the ruler, I don't mind totalitarian control.
It came with my laptop, which I use as my main machine. Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware, and SuSE wouldn't run on the thing. Neither would OpenBSD and NetBSD. Of course, being a FreeBSD fan I stuck FreeBSD on there, and it worked like a charm, except for my wireless card. However, I didn't feel like giving up XP completely. Over a long period of time, say, a week, I realized one OS wasn't getting much use, so I nuked that FreeBSD partition and XP became my only desktop OS.
I've been designing fonts for a little while now. It is probably one of the hardest things I've done. Little nuances have to be kept just so, or the font comes out looking like crap. Several hours can go into designing just a single character.
What's truly difficult is making a design look good on screen. Think about it. Your monitor is probably around 100 dots per inch. Your printer is probably 600dpi or better. When you see it on screen, it looks like a speck of dirt. That's where True Type instructions come in. Let's just say that can take a while. Fifty years later, you finally have something that looks good on paper and on screen. It's enough to make you want to quit after the first letter.
For those that want to start designing fonts, check out FontLab. It isn't cheap, but for what it does, it is the best available right now. For somebody that just wants to toy around, High Logic's Font Creator Program will probably do. It only does truetype fonts and you can't do instructing, but it is only $50. My personal opinion of pfaedit is that it is crap, but you can't beat the price.
We claim:
1. A homo sapien attached to a communications device consisting of a computer, a display device, and multiple input devices for interfacing with a communications system for the purpose of troll creation, posting and display.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein outputs a troll posting consisting remarks about a nude and petrified Natalie Portman, hot grits, links to goatse.cx, and/or the penis bird.
3. A server system for the purpose of accepting troll postings as specified in claim 1.
Desciption:
The present invention provides a method and system for troll posting in a client-server environment over an internetwork. When a troller wants to post a troll, the troller uses the method in claim 1 to do so.
They need to hire a few tech people to review tech patents. Patents can be a good thing, as they are supposed to inspire others to make something better so they don't have to pay royalties to that other guy. They are also there to keep that other guy from stealing your work. However, when they are used to bully people, that is just not good.
Each virtual host for ProFTPd requires its own IP address. Please take a look at the config file, read documentation, and enjoy.
Well, some places, DSL or cable is not available. Also, ADSL that is run to most residential areas, from what I've seen are over ATM, and have an unspecified bit rate. On top of that, DSL tends to be rather flakey at times.
A t1 is classified as a business circuit, even if being run to a house. If a T1 goes down, chances are, they can get it repaired within 4 hours, usually faster, even if it goes down at 3:30 in the morning. On the other hand, if you 1500k x 256k residential ADSL goes down, there is a good chance it could be a few days before it gets repaired.
Sure, there is business class DSL, but it doesn't cost that much less than a T1! Why? It is a business circuit, so it costs more. And why is that? Simple! When it goes down (since it is DSL, it will go down, trust me), the telephone company will get it repaired much faster than residential DSL. Also, well, atleast BellSouth's implementation of DSL, has a set bit rate, as well, which why it costs more.
For me, I live in a place that will most likely never get DSL, and cable service will probably never materialize. Although I would be happy with ISDN, that is unavailable as well, due to the fact that my local telco can't justify the money that would be spent to upgrade equipment to support ISDN. What is left for a person like me? Get a T1. Fortunately, I work for an ISP, and won't have to pay for service, but just for the line.