I did the same thing. In fact I had data rotated to 5 different network drives. But guess what happened? The database got somewhat messed up such that daily tasks worked fine, but when we ran some critical reporting scripts about 40 days later, things were hosed. Of course my backup scheme didn't have incremental history to more than a couple weeks because I had assumed any problems would be detected quickly. Big mistake I'll never make again.
The worldwide demand for beef and dairy products will rise by something like 60% in the next few decades. Cloning is a way to meet this demand by increasing the output per head of cattle.
I was hunting with a friend 15 years ago in Wisconsin. We were driving down a road, saw a large buck standing about 100 yards away...its head had a slight movement. My friend got out and shot the thing about 10 times before getting back into the truck. 5 minutes later a DNR officer was writing a $1000+ ticket!
There comes a point where working on open-source software can no longer be a hobby done in spare time. I would think that lots of open-source coders reach this point. Then either you find a company to pay you (e.g., Redhat), or you stop doing it. Software is getting more and more complex requiring more lines of code and more development. Unless one is rich and is doing it for a hobby, people need to get paid for their 8+ hours of work a day. Can complex software really be done in your spare time?
Ideologically, I support Microsoft rather than Linux because Microsoft allows people like myself to make a living. Granted lots of people do get paid to work all day on an open-source project...companies wouldn't do this unless it gave them a competitive advantage (i.e., Redhat can sell an OS by leveraging the work of others).
Primetime commercials for the Zune are just starting to appear in the last few days. It seems that Microsoft is just starting to ramp up the marketing. Contrary to the opinion of many Slashdotters, television commercials will make a bigger difference in sales rather than any technical shortcominings or religious anti-DRM fervor.
SQL Server is Microsoft's best code. It is clean and well-designed. This is well-known in Microsoft's circle of internal developers. The current incompatibility on a desktop OS probably stems from performance optimizations. It is often said that operating systems just get in the way of DBMS systems.
MOD PARENT UP. Population density is also why U.S. carriers did not want to adopt GSM back in the early 90s. Because GSM is a time-multiplexed technology, the maximum size of a cell has a fairly small limit. Cells can be bigger with CDMA to support very small population densities (and of course they can be tiny for New York City).
You're either uninformed or a moron. I use my cellphone maybe 5 minutes a week. With Virgin Mobile's pre-paid plan, I pay $20 every 90 days. That comes out to $7/month. I keep my unused minutes, my account is automatically refilled, and Virgin Mobile operates on Sprint's network.
Now tell me how I'm getting "reamed with prepaid"?
I rarely used my cellphone. Virgin Mobile pre-paid is perfect. Requires you to spend $20 every 90 days...less than $7/month! However you don't lose your money if it isn't used (unused minutes roll over), it automatically refills if you want, and the service uses Sprint's network.
it's interesting that they say apple isn't...interested in initiating lawsuits except in self defense from other lawsuits.
Not really. This is how things are done nowadays...especially in the BioTech sector. Its called "Mutually Assured Patent Destruction". Since it isn't really feasible to do anything without infringing on some company's patent, the best defense against lawsuits is a counter lawsuit. In the BioTech area, you will not get any kind of venture capital funding without a portfolio of patents for defensive purposes.
I saw this on the news this morning, why the hell would anyone release a warning that says your under attack and in the same sentence say there is no evidence to support it? uh, maybe you should find out first.
Because various U.S. government agencies got wind of an impending attack in August of 2001. However they had no real evidence to support it besides some "intelligence chatter". The rest is history. People are covering their asses this time.
The term "cellular" originally implied frequency reuse in terms of space. WiFi does the same exact thing-- frequencies are reused. But WiFi doesn't support seamless hand-offs from one cell to the next (your TCP/IP connections will drop). And then the FCC refers to "cellular" as the 800MHz spectrum allocated for cellular phones, as opposed to the "PCS" spectrum at 1900MHz.
You hit the nail on the head. I make maybe a couple hundred serious exposures a year. I carefully set up each shot on a tripod. This is how I do photography. I am not a click-happy photographer who takes 1000s of snapshots of everything. For me, digital doesn't make sense.
Plus I mostly do fine art B&W. Color is a rarity. I have my own darkroom and enlarger. I got a large-format enlarger for $75. For fine-art B&W prints, it can't be beat. Expensive ink-jet with specialty inks is getting decent, but it can't beat a Fiber-based silver halide print toned in selenium.
I did a family portrait session recently with my Mamiya C220 medium-format camera. 100 shots is about 8 rolls of 120 film...figure $2.50 each. My local lab will develop the roll for $1.50 each. So that is $4/roll ($32 total). I scan the film at home using my Epson 4990 flatbed scanner. It is good enough for up to 11x14" prints. Then I get them printed by www.mpix.com. With my large-format camera, I make about 100-150 exposures a year if lucky. With medium-format, the number is slightly higher. I'm not a pro. I get professional quality results from 30-year old medium and large-format equipment without paying $3000+ for a professional digital camera.
True. I shoot with a Minolta SRT 101. Load that 40-year old camera with Velvia on a tripod and it takes as well as any $1500 dSLR!
Regarding backs for medium-format and large-format: they are really only practical for studio work. I would never take a BetterLight 4x5" scanning back out in the field. Bulky, power-hungry, and simply not worth the effort when sheets of film are cheap.
My 4x5" field camera delivers megapixels in the hundreds. A 2400dpi scan of 20" inches of area is equivalent to 115 megapixels. Fuji Velvia film has at least 4000dpi of usable resolution. Large-format optics easily deliver 4000+ dpi of sharpness.
In order to create a quality11x14" print at 300dpi, you need 13+ megapixels (11*300*14*300). Your Nikon D80 and Canon 20D just doesn't cut it. Sure, you can print at 200dpi or less, but the results will not be as sharp especially for fine-detailed landscape photos.
For small prints, digital is great and beats 35mm film in most cases.
Concentrate on getting into college and earning money if needed. Absolutely continue to dabble in programming...teach yourself Java, Python, C++, or whatever floats your boat, but only in your free time. Until you are accepted into a college that satisfies your goals, don't put a lot of time into anything that doesn't help this effort.
Do not be tempted to bypass college. It would be a huge mistake.
Contrary to what many people believe, a college education is not meant to teach you practical job skills. It is meant to educate you about life. It is a way for employers to weed people out and to put yourself in a better pool. If you don't have a B.S., 9/10 places will throw away your resume.
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I did the same thing. In fact I had data rotated to 5 different network drives. But guess what happened? The database got somewhat messed up such that daily tasks worked fine, but when we ran some critical reporting scripts about 40 days later, things were hosed. Of course my backup scheme didn't have incremental history to more than a couple weeks because I had assumed any problems would be detected quickly. Big mistake I'll never make again.
You don't need to convince me. I completely agree and I like the "Mom Factor" way of explaining it.
Yup. The color of the box makes more of a difference than the ISA.
MOD PARENT up. A Well-informed post.
#12: Designers of Supercomputers will realize that the Cell is 10x slower when doing double-precision arithmatic (used by most scientific codes).
The worldwide demand for beef and dairy products will rise by something like 60% in the next few decades. Cloning is a way to meet this demand by increasing the output per head of cattle.
I was hunting with a friend 15 years ago in Wisconsin. We were driving down a road, saw a large buck standing about 100 yards away...its head had a slight movement. My friend got out and shot the thing about 10 times before getting back into the truck. 5 minutes later a DNR officer was writing a $1000+ ticket!
There comes a point where working on open-source software can no longer be a hobby done in spare time. I would think that lots of open-source coders reach this point. Then either you find a company to pay you (e.g., Redhat), or you stop doing it. Software is getting more and more complex requiring more lines of code and more development. Unless one is rich and is doing it for a hobby, people need to get paid for their 8+ hours of work a day. Can complex software really be done in your spare time?
Ideologically, I support Microsoft rather than Linux because Microsoft allows people like myself to make a living. Granted lots of people do get paid to work all day on an open-source project...companies wouldn't do this unless it gave them a competitive advantage (i.e., Redhat can sell an OS by leveraging the work of others).
Primetime commercials for the Zune are just starting to appear in the last few days. It seems that Microsoft is just starting to ramp up the marketing. Contrary to the opinion of many Slashdotters, television commercials will make a bigger difference in sales rather than any technical shortcominings or religious anti-DRM fervor.
SQL Server is Microsoft's best code. It is clean and well-designed. This is well-known in Microsoft's circle of internal developers. The current incompatibility on a desktop OS probably stems from performance optimizations. It is often said that operating systems just get in the way of DBMS systems.
MOD PARENT UP. Population density is also why U.S. carriers did not want to adopt GSM back in the early 90s. Because GSM is a time-multiplexed technology, the maximum size of a cell has a fairly small limit. Cells can be bigger with CDMA to support very small population densities (and of course they can be tiny for New York City).
You're either uninformed or a moron. I use my cellphone maybe 5 minutes a week. With Virgin Mobile's pre-paid plan, I pay $20 every 90 days. That comes out to $7/month. I keep my unused minutes, my account is automatically refilled, and Virgin Mobile operates on Sprint's network.
Now tell me how I'm getting "reamed with prepaid"?
I rarely used my cellphone. Virgin Mobile pre-paid is perfect. Requires you to spend $20 every 90 days...less than $7/month! However you don't lose your money if it isn't used (unused minutes roll over), it automatically refills if you want, and the service uses Sprint's network.
it's interesting that they say apple isn't...interested in initiating lawsuits except in self defense from other lawsuits.
Not really. This is how things are done nowadays...especially in the BioTech sector. Its called "Mutually Assured Patent Destruction". Since it isn't really feasible to do anything without infringing on some company's patent, the best defense against lawsuits is a counter lawsuit. In the BioTech area, you will not get any kind of venture capital funding without a portfolio of patents for defensive purposes.
Anyone who buys DRM'd music is either an idiot or ignorant
I buy DRM music because I like iTunes and I don't give a rats ass about some geek religion. Nor am I arrogant enough to put this in my sig.
P.S., everything I buy on iTunes gets burned onto an Audio CD.
I saw this on the news this morning, why the hell would anyone release a warning that says your under attack and in the same sentence say there is no evidence to support it? uh, maybe you should find out first.
Because various U.S. government agencies got wind of an impending attack in August of 2001. However they had no real evidence to support it besides some "intelligence chatter". The rest is history. People are covering their asses this time.
Where XXXXXXX is replaced with a random first name. I get dozens a day! Started about a week ago.
Does the rest of the world have seven super carrier groups? The U.S. owns the sea.
The term "cellular" originally implied frequency reuse in terms of space. WiFi does the same exact thing-- frequencies are reused. But WiFi doesn't support seamless hand-offs from one cell to the next (your TCP/IP connections will drop). And then the FCC refers to "cellular" as the 800MHz spectrum allocated for cellular phones, as opposed to the "PCS" spectrum at 1900MHz.
You hit the nail on the head. I make maybe a couple hundred serious exposures a year. I carefully set up each shot on a tripod. This is how I do photography. I am not a click-happy photographer who takes 1000s of snapshots of everything. For me, digital doesn't make sense.
Plus I mostly do fine art B&W. Color is a rarity. I have my own darkroom and enlarger. I got a large-format enlarger for $75. For fine-art B&W prints, it can't be beat. Expensive ink-jet with specialty inks is getting decent, but it can't beat a Fiber-based silver halide print toned in selenium.
I did a family portrait session recently with my Mamiya C220 medium-format camera. 100 shots is about 8 rolls of 120 film...figure $2.50 each. My local lab will develop the roll for $1.50 each. So that is $4/roll ($32 total). I scan the film at home using my Epson 4990 flatbed scanner. It is good enough for up to 11x14" prints. Then I get them printed by www.mpix.com. With my large-format camera, I make about 100-150 exposures a year if lucky. With medium-format, the number is slightly higher. I'm not a pro. I get professional quality results from 30-year old medium and large-format equipment without paying $3000+ for a professional digital camera.
True. I shoot with a Minolta SRT 101. Load that 40-year old camera with Velvia on a tripod and it takes as well as any $1500 dSLR!
Regarding backs for medium-format and large-format: they are really only practical for studio work. I would never take a BetterLight 4x5" scanning back out in the field. Bulky, power-hungry, and simply not worth the effort when sheets of film are cheap.
My 4x5" field camera delivers megapixels in the hundreds. A 2400dpi scan of 20" inches of area is equivalent to 115 megapixels. Fuji Velvia film has at least 4000dpi of usable resolution. Large-format optics easily deliver 4000+ dpi of sharpness.
In order to create a quality11x14" print at 300dpi, you need 13+ megapixels (11*300*14*300). Your Nikon D80 and Canon 20D just doesn't cut it. Sure, you can print at 200dpi or less, but the results will not be as sharp especially for fine-detailed landscape photos.
For small prints, digital is great and beats 35mm film in most cases.
Concentrate on getting into college and earning money if needed. Absolutely continue to dabble in programming...teach yourself Java, Python, C++, or whatever floats your boat, but only in your free time. Until you are accepted into a college that satisfies your goals, don't put a lot of time into anything that doesn't help this effort.
Do not be tempted to bypass college. It would be a huge mistake.
Contrary to what many people believe, a college education is not meant to teach you practical job skills. It is meant to educate you about life. It is a way for employers to weed people out and to put yourself in a better pool. If you don't have a B.S., 9/10 places will throw away your resume.
Bard's Tale baby. Mangor's Castle??