Photoshop may be mature, but it is not feature complete. Some things that have been included in PS CS have been long awaited. 16-bit editing has been very poor in PS before CS and now it looks like you can actually apply filters without having to go down to 8-bit.
Someone mentioned non-destructive filters and better digital camera RAW support (even than what's in CS) would be appreciated.
Besides, no one is forcing you to upgrade PS. I'm still using 5.5 and 7.0 on various locations on client sites and I'm not telling they must upgrade, or even should upgrade.
Why not form a trust for this? Get a lawyer, and everyone who's willing to buy this game put up their $50 in said lawyer's trust, and Valve will get the $$ when it's released in X timeframe. If not, people get a refund. Lawyer may even do it based on the interest alone.
That way, people can put up or shut up, and the company can be guaranteed of a certain amount coming in from a Linux port.
Sheesh, all this bitching and no real solution. Just remember this is a social and technical issue, not necessarily a legislative issue.
Just introduce a standard that allows for the response to a 'suppression' gateway that automagically turns down/off the phone upon entering areas that need peace and quiet. Libraries, theatres, hospitals etc. Kind of like the robot exclusion rule for web crawling bots.
He was caught modding the machines and selling pirated software out of his store. I don't think you can get busted for modding unless they can prove the intent was for pirating and not backup. Well, having and selling pirated software with your mods counts as copyright infringement.
It's like saying he had a lockpit set and was caught using it to steal goods from cars. Guess what? It's not the possession of the lockpit set that got him busted.
That truck thing is going to happen in one way or another.
The DirecPC FAP seems way too low. My idea of high bandwidth hogs would be in the range of 60-100GB down per month, moderate under 20 GB and anything under 5 GB would be low usage. Figure about 1/10 those amounts for upstream.
Instead of limiting programs and ports, ISPs should implement another scheme that monitors your traffic amounts and limits the speed in inverse proportion to the amount that you've transferred.
That way they can run uncapped cable modems. Infrequent users get maximum speed and transfer rates, moderate users get moderate transfer rates, and heavy users (eventually) get slow transfer rates.
To avoid a congested high speed consumption situation, resets of the rates are done on a rolling basis so everyone has a different monthly reset. A web page should give you your current stats (up, down traffic, current speed cap, amount transferred, reset date etc.)
That way everyone can be happy, running servers or p2p apps, and if they want to use up all their high speed bandwidth they can be stuck with modem like speeds for the rest of the month without suspension of service. I think you'd find that people who are serving without concern for bandwidth will all of a sudden monitor their own traffic a lot more.
This also takes the ISP out of the content monitor police service and relegates them to a bandwidth metering service, which is all they and everyone else wants them to do.
http://www.coolchips.com/technology/overview.sht ml
What is Cooling with Electrons?
"Hot" and "cold" are words we use to describe the presence (or absence) of heat. Heat is best described as energy contained within something else. So a cup of hot coffee has more energy than that same cup an hour later, after much of the heat has dissipated.
The energy which makes up "heat" is the kinetic energy of the atoms which carry the heat. So if the atoms in the cup of coffee are very active, the coffee is "hot". If the atoms become less active, the coffee is "cold". And if the atoms get cold enough so that the atoms are no longer in a fluid form, the coffee freezes into a solid.
While atoms in a solid themselves tend to be pretty immobile, the sub-atomic particles within them are always moving. At any temperature above absolute zero, electrons are constantly in motion, spinning around the atom, but also (especially in metals) swapping places with the electrons of surrounding atoms.
Of course, some electrons have high energy, while some electrons have low energy. The low energy electrons are cold, while the high energy electrons are hot.
Cooling with electrons involves encouraging the high energy electrons to escape, bringing in low energy electrons to replace them. It is analogous to removing the loudest people from a party: the party gets quieter.
What makes Cool Chips special?
There are other technologies which use electron migration to reduce heat. These fall under the rubric of "thermoelectrics". These technologies all use special materials and geometries to move the hottest electrons to one side, keeping the coldest electrons at the other.
The biggest problem with thermoelectrics is that while electrons are used to carry heat in one direction, the material itself returns most of that heat through conduction!
Cool Chips are special because the electrons move across a gap -- and that gap, since it is not a solid, is an excellent insulator. Once heat is trapped on one side, it cannot easily return.
How do we get the electrons to move across the gap?
The difficulty in getting lots of electrons to flow across a gap is that electrons do not naturally leave their atoms to go into space. Electrons do jump around a lot (it is called tunneling), but those jumps are pretty short, from one to ten nanometers, or just a few billionths of a meter long.
Researchers at Cool Chips plc have figured out how to get two materials very close to each other so that electrons can tunnel from one material to the next, carrying their heat with them. With the addition of a voltage bias, which encourages the electrons to move in a given direction, the heat is then transferred from one side to the other. And because there is a gap between the two materials, the heat cannot simply flow back!
Why hasn't this been done before?
Thermotunneling has not been done before because nobody imagined that it was possible to get large surfaces areas close to each other without making occasional contact. Cool Chips' scientists not only imagined a way to do it, but we have accomplished this goal and are currently refining our patented process.
Once these devices become commercially available, they will not only revolutionize the industries of refrigeration and cooling, but all of those industries that depend on them.
But why doesn't someone do this deliberately? That is, create a domain for the sole purpose of receiving spam only, and automating a banned email list to other servers.
Of course the true domain name would have to be kept secret, but it should cut down on a significant amount of spam to the other servers, and reduce the workload on email admins.
Man, before you flame a company and product, you should get your facts straight.
Disclaimer 1: I know the guys at Bioware personally, and they're good guys.
Disclaimer 2: I played Baldur's Gate, and I thought it was slow and plodding with poor graphics w.r.t. Diablo.
Check out this site: http://www.avault.com/reviews/review_temp.asp?game =icewd
You'll find that Black Isle produced the content, not BioWare. They provided the engine for Icewind Dale, and that's probably about the extent of it. Knowing BioWare, they're not into sequels at all...they prefer to do new things instead of churning out sequels (ie. they're not money pigs, although they are doing quite well as a company).
Clearly a less advanced society, when the politicians have to do their own punching and kicking.
They should follow more advanced countries like the United States and Colombia and Brasil, and use police combined with the military and death squads to rid themselves of dissent.
Heh, this reminds of the Fight Club scene where Jack is trying to convince the lower ranking police officers not to cut off Jack's balls.
Jack: "You're making a big mistake, fellas." Officer: "You said you'd say that." Jack: "I'm not Tyler Durden!" Officer: "You told us you'd say that too." Jack: "I am Tyler Durden. Listen to me, I am giving you a direct order: we are aborting this mission, right now." Officer: "You said you would definitely say that."
If you thought you liked it because of these articles...you should see the prices we pay. You should pack your bags and come on over.
There are two major providers of broadband here in Edmonton (one of two major cities in Alberta). Cable modem (www.shaw.ca) is $40 per month, and DSL is $50 per month (www.telusplanet.com). What's so special about that? If you factor in the prices I mentioned are in Canadian dollars (about 63 cents US), you'll realize that Albertans pay just a little more than dial-up users in the US.
Even better is that my provider (Shaw) doesn't care how many machines I've got hooked up to my cable modem. I've got 10 different machines here without needing NAT or DHCP servers of my own.
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The sad part is I actually understood that joke and worse yet I found it funny.
Back to the basement with my pizza stained shirt from 1985.
Photoshop may be mature, but it is not feature complete. Some things that have been included in PS CS have been long awaited. 16-bit editing has been very poor in PS before CS and now it looks like you can actually apply filters without having to go down to 8-bit.
Someone mentioned non-destructive filters and better digital camera RAW support (even than what's in CS) would be appreciated.
Besides, no one is forcing you to upgrade PS. I'm still using 5.5 and 7.0 on various locations on client sites and I'm not telling they must upgrade, or even should upgrade.
There's a review of PS CS on dpreview.com
Too lazy to link, sorry.
Why not form a trust for this? Get a lawyer, and everyone who's willing to buy this game put up their $50 in said lawyer's trust, and Valve will get the $$ when it's released in X timeframe. If not, people get a refund. Lawyer may even do it based on the interest alone.
That way, people can put up or shut up, and the company can be guaranteed of a certain amount coming in from a Linux port.
Sorry mate, but Labatt's has been an Interbrew company for some time now. Interbrew is Belgian.
Molson would be a better choice. It's only 20% owned by Miller and another 20% by Phillip Morris.
The Newton 2x00 series used the StrongARM series of processor, predecessor to the xScale, running at 162MHz.
It's an ARM derivative from Digital and it is not a graphics processor but a genuine CPU.
Obviously they didn't come up with this themselves...so who's lobbying them and putting up soft money for their campaigns.
I can think of one big company who'd stand to gain from this type of legislation...
The Canon EOS 1D does not use a CMOS sensor. Only the D30 (discontinued) and the D60 use a CMOS sensor.
Sheesh, all this bitching and no real solution. Just remember this is a social and technical issue, not necessarily a legislative issue.
Just introduce a standard that allows for the response to a 'suppression' gateway that automagically turns down/off the phone upon entering areas that need peace and quiet. Libraries, theatres, hospitals etc. Kind of like the robot exclusion rule for web crawling bots.
Sheesh, did you read the article?
He was caught modding the machines and selling pirated software out of his store. I don't think you can get busted for modding unless they can prove the intent was for pirating and not backup. Well, having and selling pirated software with your mods counts as copyright infringement.
It's like saying he had a lockpit set and was caught using it to steal goods from cars. Guess what? It's not the possession of the lockpit set that got him busted.
That truck thing is going to happen in one way or another.
The DirecPC FAP seems way too low. My idea of high bandwidth hogs would be in the range of 60-100GB down per month, moderate under 20 GB and anything under 5 GB would be low usage. Figure about 1/10 those amounts for upstream.
Instead of limiting programs and ports, ISPs should implement another scheme that monitors your traffic amounts and limits the speed in inverse proportion to the amount that you've transferred.
That way they can run uncapped cable modems. Infrequent users get maximum speed and transfer rates, moderate users get moderate transfer rates, and heavy users (eventually) get slow transfer rates.
To avoid a congested high speed consumption situation, resets of the rates are done on a rolling basis so everyone has a different monthly reset. A web page should give you your current stats (up, down traffic, current speed cap, amount transferred, reset date etc.)
That way everyone can be happy, running servers or p2p apps, and if they want to use up all their high speed bandwidth they can be stuck with modem like speeds for the rest of the month without suspension of service. I think you'd find that people who are serving without concern for bandwidth will all of a sudden monitor their own traffic a lot more.
This also takes the ISP out of the content monitor police service and relegates them to a bandwidth metering service, which is all they and everyone else wants them to do.
You forgot to include the number of people who watch Ep. I by bootleg and DVD as well.
I didn't want to see Ep II on opening weekend but my buddy made me go for his birthday. Love Starwars, hate Lucas.
which is getting /.ed.
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http://www.coolchips.com/technology/overview.sh
What is Cooling with Electrons?
"Hot" and "cold" are words we use to describe the presence (or absence) of heat. Heat is best described as energy contained within something else. So a cup of hot coffee has more energy than that same cup an hour later, after much of the heat has dissipated.
The energy which makes up "heat" is the kinetic energy of the atoms which carry the heat. So if the atoms in the cup of coffee are very active, the coffee is "hot". If the atoms become less active, the coffee is "cold". And if the atoms get cold enough so that the atoms are no longer in a fluid form, the coffee freezes into a solid.
While atoms in a solid themselves tend to be pretty immobile, the sub-atomic particles within them are always moving. At any temperature above absolute zero, electrons are constantly in motion, spinning around the atom, but also (especially in metals) swapping places with the electrons of surrounding atoms.
Of course, some electrons have high energy, while some electrons have low energy. The low energy electrons are cold, while the high energy electrons are hot.
Cooling with electrons involves encouraging the high energy electrons to escape, bringing in low energy electrons to replace them. It is analogous to removing the loudest people from a party: the party gets quieter.
What makes Cool Chips special?
There are other technologies which use electron migration to reduce heat. These fall under the rubric of "thermoelectrics". These technologies all use special materials and geometries to move the hottest electrons to one side, keeping the coldest electrons at the other.
The biggest problem with thermoelectrics is that while electrons are used to carry heat in one direction, the material itself returns most of that heat through conduction!
Cool Chips are special because the electrons move across a gap -- and that gap, since it is not a solid, is an excellent insulator. Once heat is trapped on one side, it cannot easily return.
How do we get the electrons to move across the gap?
The difficulty in getting lots of electrons to flow across a gap is that electrons do not naturally leave their atoms to go into space. Electrons do jump around a lot (it is called tunneling), but those jumps are pretty short, from one to ten nanometers, or just a few billionths of a meter long.
Researchers at Cool Chips plc have figured out how to get two materials very close to each other so that electrons can tunnel from one material to the next, carrying their heat with them. With the addition of a voltage bias, which encourages the electrons to move in a given direction, the heat is then transferred from one side to the other. And because there is a gap between the two materials, the heat cannot simply flow back!
Why hasn't this been done before?
Thermotunneling has not been done before because nobody imagined that it was possible to get large surfaces areas close to each other without making occasional contact. Cool Chips' scientists not only imagined a way to do it, but we have accomplished this goal and are currently refining our patented process.
Once these devices become commercially available, they will not only revolutionize the industries of refrigeration and cooling, but all of those industries that depend on them.
But why doesn't someone do this deliberately? That is, create a domain for the sole purpose of receiving spam only, and automating a banned email list to other servers.
Of course the true domain name would have to be kept secret, but it should cut down on a significant amount of spam to the other servers, and reduce the workload on email admins.
Man, before you flame a company and product, you should get your facts straight.
e =icewd
Disclaimer 1: I know the guys at Bioware personally, and they're good guys.
Disclaimer 2: I played Baldur's Gate, and I thought it was slow and plodding with poor graphics w.r.t. Diablo.
Check out this site: http://www.avault.com/reviews/review_temp.asp?gam
You'll find that Black Isle produced the content, not BioWare. They provided the engine for Icewind Dale, and that's probably about the extent of it. Knowing BioWare, they're not into sequels at all...they prefer to do new things instead of churning out sequels (ie. they're not money pigs, although they are doing quite well as a company).
check out smb browse...
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http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=
I think that's a 2.5" drive wrapped in a simple case. The iPod uses a PC Card sized HD which costs significantly more.
1. Was this asteroid known before it came past us, and how come it wasn't plotted with a trajectory before if it was known.
2. How has coming so close to the Earth affected its orbit/period?
Mentioned at the end of the trailer. Whois reports owned by Lucasfilm. Lots of background stuff into ep. 2. Check it out.
So you're saying that Microsoft's derailing of DR-DOS with Windows 3.1 warnings are a natural acceptable tactic in a maturing industry?
Clearly a less advanced society, when the politicians have to do their own punching and kicking.
They should follow more advanced countries like the United States and Colombia and Brasil, and use police combined with the military and death squads to rid themselves of dissent.
Heh, this reminds of the Fight Club scene where Jack is trying to convince the lower ranking police officers not to cut off Jack's balls.
Jack: "You're making a big mistake, fellas."
Officer: "You said you'd say that."
Jack: "I'm not Tyler Durden!"
Officer: "You told us you'd say that too."
Jack: "I am Tyler Durden. Listen to me, I am giving you a direct order: we are aborting this mission, right now."
Officer: "You said you would definitely say that."
If you thought you liked it because of these articles...you should see the prices we pay. You should pack your bags and come on over.
There are two major providers of broadband here in Edmonton (one of two major cities in Alberta). Cable modem (www.shaw.ca) is $40 per month, and DSL is $50 per month (www.telusplanet.com).
What's so special about that? If you factor in the prices I mentioned are in Canadian dollars (about 63 cents US), you'll realize that Albertans pay just a little more than dial-up users in the US.
Even better is that my provider (Shaw) doesn't care how many machines I've got hooked up to my cable modem. I've got 10 different machines here without needing NAT or DHCP servers of my own.
what you've described is passive. This is an active system that will make you warmer, especially when combined with the layers you mentioned.
Unpractical as you may think it is, people up here (Edmonton, Canada) up further north will find this development to be a godsend.