And how did they shorten those waiting lists you ask? Often, by lying to patients, refusing to offer critical treatment and in many cases forcing people to go abroad to get treatment.
As someone who has spent the last 4 weeks in the 'care' of the NHS and looks like spending the next 3 in the same said 'care', all I can say is that for the sake of Canadians, god I hope that's not true!
Any solution that uses a combination of tools has completely missed the point of Aperture and Lightroom. The amount you can do just within these apps is what makes them so great.
My old workflow used to consist of the following tools / processes: - Adobe Bridge (tagging, selecting, correcting RAW) - Adobe Photoshop (curves, colour correction, sharpening, print sizing, etc.) - Noise Ninja if required
Every single photograph went through at least the first two steps, and I had to manually manage files so as to have originals to revert to - none of the above gave me non-destructive editing. This meant that creative fiddling took so much longer.
Today, my workflow consists of - Lightroom (tagging, stacking, levels, curves, exposure, colour correction) - Photoshop (selective sharpening, creative bits)
This isn't even getting into the timesaving issues of having presets to match my camera settings available for Lightroom.
My average time to process a standard image for stock use has gone from about 10 minutes to around 3, just by purchasing lightroom. That means I can process 3 images in the time it used to take 1. That's worth a couple of hundred pounds to me !
How many years did we have to sit around listen to Americans explain that "America isn't all bad, it's the government, see?"
Everytime I exlpained that you people ARE your government, I was told how much better things would be when the mid-term elections were over and the Democrats had the house. And now!? Same shit different day!
So I say again - America has gone soft, corrupt and scared - it's time you all faced up to your shame. You cannot get better until you admit you're sick.
And before you all trot out the usual 'yeah but your lot are worse', remember, being the second fattest girl in the bar does NOT make you skinny! With your land of the "free, home of the brave" attitude it should not be enough to be slightly less corrupt than the other evil bastards.
The world needs better of you. We need a Free America as an example of how things should be done. You are the ones trying to export democracy by bomb and preaching about freedom at every given opportunity, and you need to be better than this!
What, like the Terrorism Act in the UK? Yeah, they'd never just use that against people they don't like.
I try to refrain from personal attacks, but you are exactly the kind of person that let's fascism grow. It's no good complaining when it's too late.
We already have example after example after example proving that every government will in some way abuse the laws we let them have. The only, ONLY rational response to that is to limit the tools we give them.
Once a law is on the books, you've given it to the current and all future governments and you cannot control what they do with it. Today requests may be denied. Next year they may not.
That explains why you saps pay for calls, but doesn't explain why you pay for incoming texts - why is this? Are there a lot of landline owners who think they are texting another landline for free?
You might want to rethink that... non-internet related loss recently led to the potential release of quarter of the UK population's details into the wild. That's names, national insurance numbers, addresses and banking details - all on a couple of DVDs.
I don't know of a single internet heist that could net me all of that data in one go!
I saw that not long after making this post, and I was blown away. I'm pretty sure he's got it in the bag, but I can see this turning into a phenomenal campaign.
I will be sending a letter of congratulations on being one of the few MPs to survive the spine removal operation that the NHS normally requires before you can enter Westminster, as well as a cheque.
A lot of people are complaining about this law. Why do you hate our country so much? Why do you want to make things easy for scumbag terrorists who want to kill us all in our beds or on our world class public transport?
There will be checks and balances in place for this to make sure that the police do not abuse these powers and that no innocent people suffer from the outcomes. I mean, lets be honest here - why would you want to WALK on a cycle path? (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article579334.ece) That's just dodgy!
As for the bloke who kept all of his belongings close to him on the tube, he did look a little odd and he had far too much techy stuff on him. (http://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html).
The 82 year old who got arrested under the terrorism act at the labour conference (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4293502.stm) was a known trouble maker having already evaded one lawful regime's attempts to bring him to justice under their current laws back in the 40's, so he probably deserved what happened.
And the bloke who recently spent 6 days in a cell (http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2282045,00.html) for trying to print a document freely available on the Internet should have known better - why do you REALLY need to print stuff these days? That's killing trees, that is, and deserves this kind of punishment!
In all of the above cases, these people were set free. And it's not like just being arrested can fuck up your life or anything. Or end up with your DNA on file for life. And I'm sure that most of the MPs voting for this bill know what it's like to spend a night or 6 in prison, so they'd never do that to an innocent person, knowing how badly you can come out of that experience.
We actually NAILED on terroristwith this law already - that uppity bitch won't go writing any more bad poetry in the near future, now will she!?
I mean, you have to understand that in a post 9/11 world, things are _different_ now. Al Kayeeda is really really really scary! Ok, sure, there have been fewer attacks than during the IRA years, but that's not the point here! We need this law so that... uhm...
Hang on a sec... This is the UK right, not Iran? Fuck:(
I wrote my MP both before and after this vote pointing out among other things the flagrant abuses of the law already.
He wrote back on the one before the vote telling me that "for security reasons, we cannot share the information that we have that makes this extension a requiement, but we only have the public's best interests at heart". I don't expect a reply to my letter post vote.
I also got both of my neighbors to do the same, and they were quite blown away to learn about http://www.writetothem.com/
Nothing changes and until we learn to make a noise in the streets, the politicians won't listen to us.
There will be no unlocked phones sold by O2 - all phones will be locked to them as is the case with the current first gen phone. Unlocking may or may not be possible, but this is not known yet as no-one has a phone to test on.
That's only true if you don't plan to use the phone for anything. The original phone also had a cost to make it useful, either PAYG or a contract to a vendor.
Also, the point of a mobile phone is that you might use it in places other than where you live. Some of these may be 3G. At home, I use Wifi so the lack of 3G coverage isn't an issue for me.
I'm not sure what kind of lock it is, only that it can be defeated with software run against the iPhone. I've had similar things with my Nokia's on UK carriers.
The first gen iPhone has that same SIM tray and you can swap SIMs in it. That doesn't mean they'll work though - you have to jailbreak and unlock the network lock to make another SIM work.
Try the northern line (bank to angel) or the DLR (lewisham to bank). I've not made it a single journey without seeing an iphone in my carraige on one of those links.
Yeah? Where in the UK are you? I only ask because I haven't been a full day in London without seeing _someone_ with an iPhone. That's a lot more than I can count on one hand!
The fact that they can't secure a conviction doesn't stop them from arresting you, getting your DNA on file forever, causing you some grief and angst, then letting you go and marking the case No Further Action.
Just because you're not convicted, doesn't mean the law isn't abused.
Actually, most CCTV in London is privately owned. All CCTV outside stores, malls, etc. is owned and operated by the private entity that owns the property. They generally cooperate with the police when footage is requested.
This is one of the things that is so scary about CCTV here - most of it is in the hands of private induhviduals, far away from any proper oversight, but combined with the fact that the authorities can get at it at any time.
How did this get modded insightful? Oversubscription it the IP supply space is absolutely common. I do not know of a single ISP at any tier that does not sell more bandwidth than they have.
Most ISPs sell a connection that will reach up to Mb/s. In my neighborhood, the common number is 8Mb/s. But does that mean that the ISP has enough upstream bandwidth so that every single one of their 8Mb/s customers could download stuff at 800k/s at the same time? Not a chance in hell! In most cases, the ISP will have a couple of hundred Mb/s connection dedicated (if that!) and peering agreements to the tune of a few gig - even with these, they won't be anywhere _close_ to being able to allow all of their customers to download stuff at 800k/s from servers beyond their infrastructure!
Regardless of whether that is really happening or not (I've not seen any credible proof), this bill is still WRONG.
This bill goes way past that, provides no real recourse to artists and is unsuitably vague to become the law of the land.
Much like the violent porn bill passed here, this is simply another government exercise in imposing their morals on the nation at large, and much like the violent porn bill, it's just flat out wrong. But no-one will vote against it, because in their next election campaign, their opponent can point to this and say "Look, he supports kiddie porn"
Hopefully Lords can try and stop this foolishness:(
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And how did they shorten those waiting lists you ask? Often, by lying to patients, refusing to offer critical treatment and in many cases forcing people to go abroad to get treatment.
As someone who has spent the last 4 weeks in the 'care' of the NHS and looks like spending the next 3 in the same said 'care', all I can say is that for the sake of Canadians, god I hope that's not true!
Any solution that uses a combination of tools has completely missed the point of Aperture and Lightroom. The amount you can do just within these apps is what makes them so great.
My old workflow used to consist of the following tools / processes:
- Adobe Bridge (tagging, selecting, correcting RAW)
- Adobe Photoshop (curves, colour correction, sharpening, print sizing, etc.)
- Noise Ninja if required
Every single photograph went through at least the first two steps, and I had to manually manage files so as to have originals to revert to - none of the above gave me non-destructive editing. This meant that creative fiddling took so much longer.
Today, my workflow consists of
- Lightroom (tagging, stacking, levels, curves, exposure, colour correction)
- Photoshop (selective sharpening, creative bits)
This isn't even getting into the timesaving issues of having presets to match my camera settings available for Lightroom.
My average time to process a standard image for stock use has gone from about 10 minutes to around 3, just by purchasing lightroom. That means I can process 3 images in the time it used to take 1. That's worth a couple of hundred pounds to me !
Then what ?
How many years did we have to sit around listen to Americans explain that "America isn't all bad, it's the government, see?"
Everytime I exlpained that you people ARE your government, I was told how much better things would be when the mid-term elections were over and the Democrats had the house. And now!? Same shit different day!
So I say again - America has gone soft, corrupt and scared - it's time you all faced up to your shame. You cannot get better until you admit you're sick.
And before you all trot out the usual 'yeah but your lot are worse', remember, being the second fattest girl in the bar does NOT make you skinny! With your land of the "free, home of the brave" attitude it should not be enough to be slightly less corrupt than the other evil bastards.
The world needs better of you. We need a Free America as an example of how things should be done. You are the ones trying to export democracy by bomb and preaching about freedom at every given opportunity, and you need to be better than this!
See, I'd hire you based on that comment - well put.
What, like the Terrorism Act in the UK? Yeah, they'd never just use that against people they don't like.
I try to refrain from personal attacks, but you are exactly the kind of person that let's fascism grow. It's no good complaining when it's too late.
We already have example after example after example proving that every government will in some way abuse the laws we let them have. The only, ONLY rational response to that is to limit the tools we give them.
Once a law is on the books, you've given it to the current and all future governments and you cannot control what they do with it. Today requests may be denied. Next year they may not.
That explains why you saps pay for calls, but doesn't explain why you pay for incoming texts - why is this? Are there a lot of landline owners who think they are texting another landline for free?
You might want to rethink that... non-internet related loss recently led to the potential release of quarter of the UK population's details into the wild. That's names, national insurance numbers, addresses and banking details - all on a couple of DVDs.
I don't know of a single internet heist that could net me all of that data in one go!
I saw that not long after making this post, and I was blown away. I'm pretty sure he's got it in the bag, but I can see this turning into a phenomenal campaign.
I will be sending a letter of congratulations on being one of the few MPs to survive the spine removal operation that the NHS normally requires before you can enter Westminster, as well as a cheque.
A lot of people are complaining about this law. Why do you hate our country so much? Why do you want to make things easy for scumbag terrorists who want to kill us all in our beds or on our world class public transport?
:(
There will be checks and balances in place for this to make sure that the police do not abuse these powers and that no innocent people suffer from the outcomes. I mean, lets be honest here - why would you want to WALK on a cycle path? (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article579334.ece) That's just dodgy!
As for the bloke who kept all of his belongings close to him on the tube, he did look a little odd and he had far too much techy stuff on him. (http://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html).
The 82 year old who got arrested under the terrorism act at the labour conference (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4293502.stm) was a known trouble maker having already evaded one lawful regime's attempts to bring him to justice under their current laws back in the 40's, so he probably deserved what happened.
And the bloke who recently spent 6 days in a cell (http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2282045,00.html) for trying to print a document freely available on the Internet should have known better - why do you REALLY need to print stuff these days?
That's killing trees, that is, and deserves this kind of punishment!
In all of the above cases, these people were set free. And it's not like just being arrested can fuck up your life or anything. Or end up with your DNA on file for life. And I'm sure that most of the MPs voting for this bill know what it's like to spend a night or 6 in prison, so they'd never do that to an innocent person, knowing how badly you can come out of that experience.
We actually NAILED on terroristwith this law already - that uppity bitch won't go writing any more bad poetry in the near future, now will she!?
I mean, you have to understand that in a post 9/11 world, things are _different_ now. Al Kayeeda is really really really scary! Ok, sure, there have been fewer attacks than during the IRA years, but that's not the point here! We need this law so that... uhm...
Hang on a sec... This is the UK right, not Iran? Fuck
I wrote my MP both before and after this vote pointing out among other things the flagrant abuses of the law already.
He wrote back on the one before the vote telling me that "for security reasons, we cannot share the information that we have that makes this extension a requiement, but we only have the public's best interests at heart". I don't expect a reply to my letter post vote.
I also got both of my neighbors to do the same, and they were quite blown away to learn about http://www.writetothem.com/
Nothing changes and until we learn to make a noise in the streets, the politicians won't listen to us.
Uh, where is the mod option for "-1: Wrong"
There will be no unlocked phones sold by O2 - all phones will be locked to them as is the case with the current first gen phone. Unlocking may or may not be possible, but this is not known yet as no-one has a phone to test on.
That's only true if you don't plan to use the phone for anything. The original phone also had a cost to make it useful, either PAYG or a contract to a vendor.
Also, the point of a mobile phone is that you might use it in places other than where you live. Some of these may be 3G. At home, I use Wifi so the lack of 3G coverage isn't an issue for me.
You're wrong about that. A number of countries will have two providers for the iPhone.
I'm not sure what kind of lock it is, only that it can be defeated with software run against the iPhone. I've had similar things with my Nokia's on UK carriers.
The first gen iPhone has that same SIM tray and you can swap SIMs in it. That doesn't mean they'll work though - you have to jailbreak and unlock the network lock to make another SIM work.
Try the northern line (bank to angel) or the DLR (lewisham to bank). I've not made it a single journey without seeing an iphone in my carraige on one of those links.
Yeah? Where in the UK are you? I only ask because I haven't been a full day in London without seeing _someone_ with an iPhone. That's a lot more than I can count on one hand!
Off you go then. Please keep us posted with regular updates.
I'm one of those people putting work into OS X applications and I plan to keep doing so until someone makes it as easy for me to do something else.
The fact that they can't secure a conviction doesn't stop them from arresting you, getting your DNA on file forever, causing you some grief and angst, then letting you go and marking the case No Further Action.
Just because you're not convicted, doesn't mean the law isn't abused.
Actually, most CCTV in London is privately owned. All CCTV outside stores, malls, etc. is owned and operated by the private entity that owns the property. They generally cooperate with the police when footage is requested.
This is one of the things that is so scary about CCTV here - most of it is in the hands of private induhviduals, far away from any proper oversight, but combined with the fact that the authorities can get at it at any time.
How did this get modded insightful? Oversubscription it the IP supply space is absolutely common. I do not know of a single ISP at any tier that does not sell more bandwidth than they have.
Most ISPs sell a connection that will reach up to Mb/s. In my neighborhood, the common number is 8Mb/s. But does that mean that the ISP has enough upstream bandwidth so that every single one of their 8Mb/s customers could download stuff at 800k/s at the same time? Not a chance in hell! In most cases, the ISP will have a couple of hundred Mb/s connection dedicated (if that!) and peering agreements to the tune of a few gig - even with these, they won't be anywhere _close_ to being able to allow all of their customers to download stuff at 800k/s from servers beyond their infrastructure!
Regardless of whether that is really happening or not (I've not seen any credible proof), this bill is still WRONG.
:(
This bill goes way past that, provides no real recourse to artists and is unsuitably vague to become the law of the land.
Much like the violent porn bill passed here, this is simply another government exercise in imposing their morals on the nation at large, and much like the violent porn bill, it's just flat out wrong. But no-one will vote against it, because in their next election campaign, their opponent can point to this and say "Look, he supports kiddie porn"
Hopefully Lords can try and stop this foolishness
The government has acknowledged that paedophiles may be circumventing (Emphasis mine)
So we're passing a law because of something that _may_ be happening. Not is. Not has proven to be. May.
Niiiicccceeeee!