Minolta is showing once again how to mess with its customers and is teasing a Minolta DiMage A2, even though the A1 is barely more than half a year old. Very future-proof, I think.
At PhotographyBLOG you can find the original article.
The biggest critics of the moose were themselves once - camels?
Can the difference between the donation declines and solid financing be divided evenly by black briefcases?
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
An interesting report by the author of QImage about the effect of mosaic CCDs (CCDs with Bayer pattern) on image sharpness. He describes a filter that applies different levels of sharpening based on color differences, thereby compensating for the sharpness differences between color ranges that result from color interpolation. Unfortunately, there is no software available for Mac OS X that offers a filter of this type. The original article can be found here.
Actually depressing when visions regarding war see the exchange of humans for machines, but not the abolition of war itself...
Particularly depressing when you think about the fact that these combat robots will certainly only exist on the side of high-tech states - and today they don't fight against their equals, but against technically much less equipped countries. Since no domestic soldiers would be endangered, there would certainly be another inhibition threshold removed for waging wars. It only costs the lives of the enemy.
At Megawatt: The Last Latent Appliance Fetishist you can find the original article.
... that it's really great that the Powerbooks also work with an external keyboard, monitor and mouse plugged in and the display closed
Anyone like me who has a calibrated CRT monitor knows the problem: when you're not doing image editing, the monitor is set way too bright, especially as it gets darker. But you can't adjust the contrast control or especially the brightness setting — the calibration only works correctly if the luminance is set properly!
This little utility comes to the rescue: just start it and you get a small graphical slider with which you can adjust the screen brightness. Works splendidly. And as soon as you're working with images, you can stop it beforehand (and give your eyes some time to adjust, so your brain can adapt and everything doesn't look wrong).
The mud-slinging continues ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
The Commission for Orthography would thus be the only instance of the executive branch to be removed from political control – it had never allowed for societal control from the outset.
And this in a matter that affects everyone's life. Is it stupidity, ignorance, or cunning scheming that is on display here? Were the spelling reformers, driven by a diffuse anticapitalism, not once set out to break the monopoly of a private enterprise, the "Duden" editorial office?
Well. For the political failures for whom there are no serious tasks one could entrust to them, there is always spelling to botch ...
Jo, let the old lens keep spinning successfully for a few more years ...
At WDR: Landing on Mars you can find the original article.
That's annoying. Do some people never learn? This stupid advertising clause has been causing endless trouble in the original BSD license when combined with other licenses. What's the point?
And that surprises anyone?
At heise online news there is the original article.
I can't think of anything to say about this either. Except that fortunately I wasn't standing nearby.
Original quote from the knowledge base article: The most effective way to protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is simply not to click on them. Instead, you should manually enter the URL of the destination into the address bar. This way you can ensure that Internet Explorer uses the correct URL to get to the website you want. Enter the URL in the address bar and press [ENTER]. - Microsoft really nailed it. Sure, we all just stop clicking on hyperlinks, completely absurd idea. The best way to protect yourself from evil hyperlinks is to use a different browser than IE.
I also want a sister who is a lawyer
And once again a company wants to take action against a blog hoster because allegedly something legally relevant is supposedly posted in a blog. I'm not going to summarize that for you, read the posts under the link yourself. It seems to me that a company is puffing itself up quite vigorously here. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Dirk that he gets through this unscathed.
However, I would say that a publication of the company name by Dirk would be useful - because only then is publicity also public. And only then can appropriate pressure be exerted. But probably the company already sees the mere mention of its name as something worth warning about...
Update: The Schockwellenreiter has more information.
I want more upstream at last!
At heise online news you can find the original article.
And once again politicians are harnessing themselves to the dirty carts of industry. This time it's the EU Council - even against the explicit wishes of the European Parliament. And then politicians wonder why European elections aren't taken seriously?
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Um. Yeah. So. Um.
Somehow confusing when the keyboarder of one of the bands you've always enjoyed listening to is suddenly now the keyboardist
Just a small example of what exactly happens. Let's take the following HTML code:
And PIL once stood for rebellion and protest for us. But in the end it's probably always just about the money ...
At Megawatt: The Last Latent Appliance Fetishist there's the original article.
Well, I had to solve it myself after all (and to be honest, VMware with Windows NT is a way to run IE 6 under Linux, but it really hurts - and it's incredibly slow).
What was it? Well, IE 6 doesn't support child selectors. That was it. I replaced the child selectors with descendant selectors, and it works. Child selectors express an exact and direct dependency: an A tag that sits directly inside an H2 tag is selected by the selector H2>A. Descendant selectors express a relative dependency: an A tag that sits somewhere inside an H2 tag is selected by H2 A. But there can certainly be more between H2 and A in the HTML code. A code like
In this case I could easily change it, since I generally want all links within the headings in white anyway, not just the direct links - so to speak my stylesheet wasn't correct, because if I had ever introduced a span or something, it would have broken.
Still, it's annoying when a browser simply doesn't implement a feature ... All defined selector forms are documented at the W3C. Bugs with IE regarding selectors can be found for example in this bug list.
The egg dance of the Union will put satirists out of work in the long run if this continues like this
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
And surely this provides many good reasons why the markup on a member of parliament's salary must be higher than the average monthly wage of a worker ...
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
That's making me more scared than courageous now ...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
A pretty nice introduction to color management and what it means. In typical Petteri style, a bit cheeky and humorous. My personal highlight: If you're shooting or converting to Adobe RGB. Adobe RGB pictures displayed on a non-colorspace-aware application or badly color-managed system will look wrong, wrong, wrong. The colors will be flat and gray. If you like them that way, fine -- but remember they'll come out bright and vivid if you send them to a competently run photo lab that prints from digital originals. To ensure flat and gray prints, use sRGB and make them flat and gray in your image editor instead.
Ok, I'm going to buy heart medication later
At RP-Online: Science I found the original article.
Interesting thoughts on the difference between manager and entrepreneur.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
The man made sacrifices for his film: lived on McDonald's for an entire month. And the result? Liver damage.
Bon appétit.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
And I demand a law against stupid politicians who — ignoring the interests and rights of citizens — allow themselves to be harnessed to the wagon of whatever industrial interests.
At heise online news there is the original article.
I'm just saying: black helicopters!
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
Specifically, it's because of my current layout. As I was told in the comments, IE 6 on the PC is no longer displaying the headings. All other browsers I test with (Safari, Camino, Firebird, IE 5.2 Mac) display everything correctly. I don't have IE 6 for Windows (I don't have Windows to begin with), but surely someone out there has one and knows what I can do to get IE to display it properly. I'd like to keep the layout as it is and preferably not have to use too many perverse CSS hacks. But of course IE users should still be able to read something here – I'm not trying to be that mean to them, even though they do have to use the devil's operating system.
Wow. So the flash memory is causing Spirit to constantly reboot. When it uses RAM instead of flash memory, it works. I'm repeatedly amazed at the ways NASA technicians can analyze remote equipment and restore its function from a distance.
I found the original article at NASA: News Highlights.
That's a record, albeit a negative one: Luminous Landscape publishes a review of the Contax N Digital, which was discontinued in June of last year.
The test results are quite mixed, as they are with almost all other reviews of this camera. The main drawbacks are the AF system, power consumption, and image quality when using RAW format (noise and moiré) - however, image quality in TIFF or JPG is surprisingly said to be better.
At Irene's there are matching links to the garbage from Metzger (who truly lives up to his name and wants to slaughter the welfare state), to a response in the Zirbel (with ideas for higher education reform and a critique of Metzger's drivel), to an appropriate link about the economy in National Socialism and a link to a brochure from the Federal Agency for Civic Education about the role of women in recent German history. For the sake of your blood pressure, I recommend reading the Zirbel response first, as the more heated Metzger statements are already torn apart there. The concentrated dose of Metzger's drivel could otherwise lead to more severe physical reactions ... An example: "After all, we all sense that our demographic development – the strike against childbearing that has been ongoing for more than 30 years and has now become self-reinforcing, affecting an entire generation of women (and the men involved) – is destroying the collective economic foundation of our society. The individual economic thinking of DINKs (double income, no kids) undermines, as a mass phenomenon, our social security systems, because ever fewer young active workers must finance ever more and ever older people in retirement with their economic output." - yes yes, the evil, childbearing-striking women are to blame. Somehow one almost expects nothing more now but the condemnation of contraception and babble about holes in condoms, and then you could propose Metzger as Pope ... At Irene // Antville there's the original article.
If you like to use Python frequently for shell scripts, this module will interest you. A module for very simple processing of directory names and filenames, which is much more elegant than os.path. Additionally, it combines the functions of the glob module and the shutil module.
What normally looks like this with os.path:
# with os.path DIR = '/usr/home/guido/bin' for f in os.listdir(DIR):
if f.endswith('.py'): path = os.path.join(DIR, f) os.chmod(path, 0755) # Assume it's a file
Looks like this with the path module:
# with path dir = path('/usr/home/guido/bin') for f in dir.files('*.py'): f.chmod(0755)
A farce of courts and corporate interests that weigh more heavily than the truth: Covenance manages to get two injunctions through court. On one hand, an injunction against video surveillance (an injunction that would at least be acceptable under the argument of employee privacy rights - animal welfare aside, employees have rights too) and one that simply establishes that the video footage shown in Frontal21 (broadcast from 9.12.2003 and from 16.12.2003) was illegally recorded and therefore may not be shown again. The latter is the point where my acceptance of the court ends: since when is press freedom suddenly worth nothing? When private individuals suffer from paparazzi harassment, the public interest is placed higher. But when a company operates one of the largest animal testing laboratories and demonstrably - the video footage exists and proves it - mistreats animals, is the company's interest greater than the public interest?
Absurd. Simply absurd. And one feels ashamed as a resident of Münster that both Covenant and the court ruling in Münster are...
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
Ok, if you want to have your mind blown, just follow the title link and check out the linked images there. Ouch. By the way, I'm disclaiming any responsibility for the aftereffects.
This here is really perverse.
Then he should start in his own store. Or is this constant talk of God, the mission to order the world, and the lying about weapons of mass destruction by the US administration not enough ideology of violence?
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
Water, water - I only hear water everywhere. And where's the beer? (but there are nice pictures!)
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
And we're all being fooled ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
His landscape photographs were more to my liking than his female nudes. But there was no denying that he was one of the great photographers of our time.
... wasn't actually a Mac, but an emulator on the Atari ST. However, only for a very short time, it just wasn't fast enough. My first real Mac was a PowerBook 5300c, which I bought after my PC notebook had been causing quite a bit of trouble back then. The PC notebook has since been sold as scrap, but the PowerBook still works flawlessly. With MachTen I already had a Mach Kernel back then, even though it only ran as an application under OS Classic.
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
Let's see how much longer he can hold up; right now his entire fantasy world is falling apart around his ears again.
I found the original article at RP-Online: Wissenschaft.
That's just great. Once again we're supposed to pay for the stupidities of the Union government at the time of reunification. And of course the solidarity surcharge is supposed to be used for it again.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
That's great. So once again they're fiddling around, so that according to Mehdorn the unreasonable routes over 4 hours become more expensive. The shorter routes will admittedly become minimally cheaper in some cases, but remain more expensive than before the last price reform. Somehow I get the feeling that the railway doesn't work for itself but for the airlines, because with higher prices on long-distance routes the railway certainly won't roll up the market there, after all it already has the disadvantage of longer travel times (and no, dear Mr. Mehdorn, just because you now call an IC an ICE and charge more money for it doesn't automatically make it go faster!).
The only positive thing is the elimination of reservation fees for online bookings, but that still has the disadvantage of train binding even with BahnCard 50 - with counter purchases only the reservation is bound, not the card. And automatic machine sales require that the machines actually work ... (and that the route can even be booked via them)
So once again not a great achievement. Of course the railway management's idiotic decisions are never responsible for market failure, only the employees (who can then be laid off) or the customers (whom you apparently want to actively drive away as well).
|KK| In Belgium, the Cardinal seems to have lost his mind: "I am prepared to sign here in my blood that of all those who say they are lesbian or gay, at most five to 10 per cent are effectively lesbian or gay. All the rest are sexual perverts," said Cardinal Gustaaf Joos on Wednesday. "I demand you write this down. If they come to protest on my doorstep, I don't care. I'm just speaking out on what thousands of people are thinking but never get a chance to say," he told the Belgian soft-porn P-Magazine.
If that's not strong enough for you, here's another one: "Politics, democracy. Don't make me laugh. The right to vote, what is that all about? I find it strange that a snot-nosed 18-year-old has the same vote as a father of seven. One has no responsibilities whatsoever, the other provides tomorrow's citizens," he said.
Also interesting is his view on women, especially prostitutes: "If a man thinks he needs sex or is going to explode, it is better to find a prostitute than seduce or rape a girl. At least there are no innocent victims involved," he said.
You don't really need to comment on this crackpot anymore, the gross nonsense speaks for itself ...
Finally!
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Wow! That's really a speedy success for Mars Express!