Please vectorize my dog. Thx.

Next election, they should keep them in a rolodex.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a beowulf cluster of self-driving station wagons full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

emacs releases have been on a downward arc since 19.34b. Unfortunately that version won't build on any recent versions of Linux.
I said this on /. back in 2008, and things have not improved.
The problems are a mix of bloat and changes to the default behaviors.

The moth that burns twice as bright burns for half as long.

Remember when you'd go to a Radio Shack, Kmart, etc, and they'd have "personal computers" on display? Atari 400's, TRS-80's, etc. Oddly, they were often sitting at the basic prompt.

10 print "Kmart sucks!!!!!!"
20 goto 10
run

Balmer's next innovation will be to patent copying search results. Then they'll sue Google for infringing on Microsoft's copy. Profit!

Fortunately, where I sail on the ocean, we don't yet have to worry about pirates. But there is a real challenge in identifying actual pirates vs. people who are merely on the water. Add visibility problems, language barriers, and that pirates probably want to remain stealth for as long as possible.

Not every non-tanker is a pirate. Ships aren't always easy to avoid. They turn, and not always in predictable ways. Someone may try and move out of the path of a ship and inadvertently move into the soon to be path. Targeting some family who is out fishing, a disabled vessel, or telling Lance to open up with the forward fifties at a merely suspect target a mile way, is not acceptable. And yet, you don't want to let actual pirates get close.

Attacking someone with any sort of weapon just because they're within a half mile or mile is not reasonable. This isn't like CCW, where the threat tends to be closer and more obvious.

Bollywoodnix

Coal is so old fashioned.

Chair throwing is the new coal.

boasts a ridiculous resolution of 13,280 x 9,184 pixels

My 6x7 cm film images are already 11,023 x 9,448 when scanned at 4000 dpi.
And there are no artifacts from Bayer interpolation.

30x36" prints, and even larger, are spectacular. But you need good lenses, a good tripod, and good technique; otherwise you won't resolve the detail.

And with 20x30" prints only $9 at Costco (on profiled printers), I *am* enlarging my prints to poster size, thankyouverymuch.

I look forward to digital catching up.

..., but a citizen wants to start his own enforcement. Yeah, I see this working out.

Go Goetz 'em!

This seems to be yet another one of those "look at my new patent (on an old idea)!" type of PRs.

BFG race tires featured asymmetric sidewall construction in the 90's specifically to increase effective negative camber in situations where it was limited by race rules and the chassis.

Mechanics of the Aysmmetric Construction

So bye-bye, Java goodbye
Drove my Dalvik to the levee,
but the levee was dry
And them Oracle boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Larry Ellison was obviously really high
Singin', "this'll be the day that java died..
"this'll be the day that java died."

Kodachrome died for a few reasons, but in large part because better films came along. Fuji's Velvia being one of them. I LOVE shooting film. It's also interesting how long some of the best engineered films will last, compared to dvds or hard drives.

I shoot medium format film (6x7 cm, about 9000x11000 at 4000dpi, 550MB 16 bit compressed tiff). And while I love digital for some things (spray and pray, and low light action), interpolated digital doesn't come anywhere close to what is captured on a transparency. Though getting all that greatness off the transparency is difficult. But when done right, even a $10 20x30" print from costco or elcocolor can be spectacular.

I currently scan with a Nikon 9000. I'd kinda like to get together with some folks to work on an open source drum scanner project. Drum scanning with a photomultiplier tube (or similar) is a great alternative to the deficiencies of CCD sensors.

I also like prints. While it is nice to view images on a screen, they don't become tangible until they are embodied in a print.

And, btw, digital images archived on common photo sharing services rarely have enough resolution even for a good 8x10" print (300dpi). So I don't think that is viable.