But really, that's just inviting an offtopic flame fest isn't it? Just goes to show, Chrichton is a better author* then scientist (he's utterly useless as a scientist, and only marginally better as an author).
, and the recently released major update, Aperture 1.1, addresses many of these
Yes, it appears to have addressed many of those problems. However, it also appears to have introduced a major new flaw - the White Balance tool is now completely broken. Quoting the Apple forums:
White Balance tool used on a standard gray card, gives these results:
R: 153 G: 131 B: 111
Whoopsie - I think Apple need to 'reorganise' their QA team as well....
I think you've accidentally replied to the wrong post.
I didn't say "Aperture's output isn't as pretty as Photoshop's" or mention the speed problem - the only bug I specifically mentioned was the thumbnailing one.
This application is designed to speed processing of thousands of photos. If the thumbnails don't match the picture then it is unusable.
I note that I am the only Mac Fanboy in this discussion who's mentioned that particular bug. Everyone else seems to be concentrating on Aperture's other shortomings.
The only example of popular fiction that I can think of that contains a believable depiction of an IT system is Jurassic Park - the novel, not the movie.
Oh yes, Michael Chricton is just the person I'd point to for realistic portrayals of science in popular fiction.
The line in the summary "The full text of the code reads 'smithcodeJaeiextostpsacgreamqwfkadpmqz' if you want to have a go at cracking it." seems to be contradicted by the linked article
Italicised letters in the first few pages spell out "Smithy Code", while the following pages also contain marked out letters.
I would not have a go at cracking what's in the slashdot summary (if it's missing one letter who know's what else is wrong)
Offtopic: For those unsure about whether Dan Brown is a fool or a genius, I offer a quote from Digital Fortress:
"We've got a five-tier level of defense," Jabba explained. "A primary Bastion Host, two sets of packet filtersfor FTP and X-eleven, a tunnel block, and finally a PEM-based authorization window right off the Truffle project. The outside shield that's disappearing represents the exposed host.It's practically gone. Within the hour, all five shields will follow. After that, the world pours in. Every byte of NSA data becomes public domain.
If a country had a totally free healthcare system where each person gets the medical aid they need. What need would that country have of an ID system for medical care.
To ensure that you're not getting subsription after subscription for morphine / valium / pseudoephredrine & selling them to on the street at huge profits? (or to speed manufacturers)
Without such a card you would be unable to access ANY medical services in Australia.
That is simply not true. If you want to pay for medical services yourself, you don't need the card.
My post was also more of a reaction to/.'s misleading summary - its not a "compulsory Photo ID smartcard", as you don't have to carry it around with you anymore then you have to carry around a medicare card now.
I'm also very concerned to see whether or not the Aboriginal peoples [hreoc.gov.au] of Australia will be forced to carry this card.
A few points:
1) Aboriginal means "Original inhabitant." If you're going to use that term, please prefix it with "Australian" (lest we think you're talking about the Orang Asli, Samis or other aboriginal cultures.
2) Noone is being forced to carry the card (at least noone is suggesting that yet - you will just need to possess this card to access certain government provided services.
Try not to rely on slashdot summaries - they're frequently extremely misleading.
I'm not particularly opposed to ID cards (They've been compulsory for sometime where I am in Europe - with no loss to my freedom that I can discern). However, statements such as:
The Prime Minister, John Howard, said the Government had considered a national identity card after last year's London bombings but in the end it "was not predisposed to adopt a national ID card".
Are just plain stupid. Perhaps the Prime Minister, John Howard is unaware that the London Bombers were all British citizens and would have been eligible for identity cards had Britain been using them. More likely however he is a typical Western fear mongering politician.
Oh - and the summary headline "Australians to Get Compulsory Photo ID Smartcard" seems to be incorrect. Quoting the linked article:
From 2010 people will not be able to receive government health and welfare payments without a card.
My understanding is that Australia does have a reasonable health & welfare system, so thats a big carrot (stick?) to wave. But it's still not compulsory.
Hard to set up in a way that doesn't actually fuck with the user's programs. let's block outbound traffic! apart from port 80, and port 443, and whatever MSN messenger uses, and however google earth talks to the servers, and smtp but ONLY to the isp, and pop3 and imap and pop3-ssl and imap-ssl and...
Sounds like a great way to encourage many apps developers to use port 80 where they can (just like Google Earth)
As for apps that need outbound & can't use port 80, they can just prompt the user. Its not rocket science.
If windows had a firewall that blocked outbound connections by default, the problem's caused by botnets (the vast majority of spam, phishing & scam sights, ddos attacks, etc) would cease to exist.
Understand now? Its to protect the rest of the internet, not MS's customers.
First thing first - I wouldn't say that the firewall, is going to have "half its protections turned off" - it blocks inbound by default which is where most attacks come from.
Blocking outbound by default is mostly going to protect the rest of the internet from your owned box spamming/ddosing/etc them. (I guess you're outbound connection could get hosed too).
On a side note, from TFA
Microsoft claims that configuring the Vista firewall to block outgoing connections from rogue applications and malware will require a varying degree of technical knowledge, depending on each user's security requirements.
Yes MS, its hard to setup properly - thats why you have to have it turned on by default
At least it's better then Apple's Firewall (turned off by default, PITA to block outbound traffic).
I don't think they are trying to single out homosexuals.
I think you're completely wrong - consider the full text:
"Sexual conduct" means acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or, if such person be a female, breast;
vs this
"Sexual conduct" means acts of masturbation, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or, if such person be a female, breast;
The second statement covers all sexual acts, be they gay, straight or inbetween.
The first statement also covers all sexual acts, gay, straight or inbetween and further, covers non-sexual acts between homosexuals. It is inflamatory language, designed to provoke a reaction in those who hate/fear homosexuality.
However, I'd like to echo somebody elses sentiment: What does all of this have to do with violence?
The bill is about guidelines covering products considered harmful to minors - the sexual stuff I quoted allready existed & the violent games is the addition.
could someone link me to some project that require such high bandwidth over long distances?
Check out this page -one of the best examples from it:
Researchers are now using remote control facilities to peer through the world's largest telescopes, without traveling thousands of miles. The high-speed connection that Internet2 offers make it unnecessary for researchers to make the trip to the telescopes, and also provides real time alerts of when to log on for optimal stargazing. For example, at the University of Florida, Astronomer Charlie Telesco uses an Internet2 link to view the eight-meter telescope at the top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii via a video conferencing application on his office computer.
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True, true,
But really, that's just inviting an offtopic flame fest isn't it? Just goes to show, Chrichton is a better author* then scientist (he's utterly useless as a scientist, and only marginally better as an author).
Yes, it appears to have addressed many of those problems. However, it also appears to have introduced a major new flaw - the White Balance tool is now completely broken. Quoting the Apple forums:Whoopsie - I think Apple need to 'reorganise' their QA team as well....
I think you've accidentally replied to the wrong post.
I didn't say "Aperture's output isn't as pretty as Photoshop's" or mention the speed problem - the only bug I specifically mentioned was the thumbnailing one.
This application is designed to speed processing of thousands of photos. If the thumbnails don't match the picture then it is unusable.
I note that I am the only Mac Fanboy in this discussion who's mentioned that particular bug. Everyone else seems to be concentrating on Aperture's other shortomings.
There's a good list of bugs at ars's review of aperture
The one people complained about most is the thumbnails not matching the actual image (and there's reports of this happenning in iPhoto too).
The only example of popular fiction that I can think of that contains a believable depiction of an IT system is Jurassic Park - the novel, not the movie.
Oh yes, Michael Chricton is just the person I'd point to for realistic portrayals of science in popular fiction.
Offtopic: For those unsure about whether Dan Brown is a fool or a genius, I offer a quote from Digital Fortress: You cannot make this stuff up
If a country had a totally free healthcare system where each person gets the medical aid they need. What need would that country have of an ID system for medical care.
To ensure that you're not getting subsription after subscription for morphine / valium / pseudoephredrine & selling them to on the street at huge profits? (or to speed manufacturers)
To limit abuse of a system in other words.
Without such a card you would be unable to access ANY medical services in Australia.
/.'s misleading summary - its not a "compulsory Photo ID smartcard", as you don't have to carry it around with you anymore then you have to carry around a medicare card now.
That is simply not true. If you want to pay for medical services yourself, you don't need the card.
My post was also more of a reaction to
Um, I said "Aboriginal peoples of Australia,
:-)
Whoops - my apologies, the [url] quoting broke my parsing
Why did you reply as AC btw?
I'm also very concerned to see whether or not the Aboriginal peoples [hreoc.gov.au] of Australia will be forced to carry this card.
A few points:
1) Aboriginal means "Original inhabitant." If you're going to use that term, please prefix it with "Australian" (lest we think you're talking about the Orang Asli, Samis or other aboriginal cultures.
2) Noone is being forced to carry the card (at least noone is suggesting that yet - you will just need to possess this card to access certain government provided services.
Try not to rely on slashdot summaries - they're frequently extremely misleading.
Oh - and the summary headline "Australians to Get Compulsory Photo ID Smartcard" seems to be incorrect. Quoting the linked article:My understanding is that Australia does have a reasonable health & welfare system, so thats a big carrot (stick?) to wave. But it's still not compulsory.
The Summary said "widely popular office suite" not "wildly popular office suite"
I can understand your confusion however - that is what I read at first too.
Passed to a subsidiary of Applix called VistaSource.....
;-)
I hadn't heard of a subsidiary of Applix called VistaSource.
But a quick google finds that VistaSource is 60% imcomplete
Thank you, thank you - try the salmon.
Hard to set up in a way that doesn't actually fuck with the user's programs. let's block outbound traffic! apart from port 80, and port 443, and whatever MSN messenger uses, and however google earth talks to the servers, and smtp but ONLY to the isp, and pop3 and imap and pop3-ssl and imap-ssl and ...
Sounds like a great way to encourage many apps developers to use port 80 where they can (just like Google Earth)
As for apps that need outbound & can't use port 80, they can just prompt the user. Its not rocket science.
I don't understand the complaint here.
If windows had a firewall that blocked outbound connections by default, the problem's caused by botnets (the vast majority of spam, phishing & scam sights, ddos attacks, etc) would cease to exist.
Understand now? Its to protect the rest of the internet, not MS's customers.
Blocking outbound by default is mostly going to protect the rest of the internet from your owned box spamming/ddosing/etc them. (I guess you're outbound connection could get hosed too).
On a side note, from TFAYes MS, its hard to setup properly - thats why you have to have it turned on by default
At least it's better then Apple's Firewall (turned off by default, PITA to block outbound traffic).
Can you tell me how the law would change if it was:instead of (And how many 14 year olds do you know could even spell turgid, let alone use it correctly?)
Plenty (but I live in a country with a decent education system).
1. Sexual intercourse (contact between opposites sexes)
2. Homosexual (contact between same sexes)
You have to be kidding right? Sexual intercourse is sexual intercourse regardless of whether its between people of the same or opposite sexes.
I think you're completely wrong - consider the full text:vs thisThe second statement covers all sexual acts, be they gay, straight or inbetween.
The first statement also covers all sexual acts, gay, straight or inbetween and further, covers non-sexual acts between homosexuals. It is inflamatory language, designed to provoke a reaction in those who hate/fear homosexuality.
However, I'd like to echo somebody elses sentiment: What does all of this have to do with violence?
The bill is about guidelines covering products considered harmful to minors - the sexual stuff I quoted allready existed & the violent games is the addition.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I found some of the definitions extremely amusing. Selected quotes:hahaha - turgid (sounds like its written by a 14 y.o - why don't they just say 'erect'). Also we have:Thanks guys - I would never have guessed! - here's a scarier one:wtf? Does this mean you can't have two guys holding hands in a game? *shakes head*
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this OFS sound very much like the (also missing) WinFS? From your linked article:
No need to correct you - you're completely right.
14 years & NTFS is still the best they can deliver.
Check out this page -one of the best examples from it:Also check out UMD's page: What kind of computing jobs are best paralellized with such network?
Anything easy enough for casual programmer to start working on?
Its not so much for computing jobs as use for researchers who require high bandwidth & low latency, or are conducting advanced network research
Gosh, you *really* do need to post using my name!
*slaps forehead*
/yoda
Indeed.
Trolled successfully I was.
Soooo... 3.1. The first usable version of Windows was 3.1 also. Coincidence?!
:-)
You have a different defintion for usable then me