Depends what you mean by "Pro", they dont all shot things for product catalogues or billboards. If you're doing a sports event you certianly wouldnt drag along a 4x5, A digital would be the best bet, as it would reduce your "film" changes, esp if there is lots of action happening. Even in a wedding a digital would have its uses, esp with impromtu shots. Different tools for different jobs. Even most amatuers will have more than one body and experiment with different styles and techniques.
I'd re-evaluate tapes... a HDD depends on both the magnet medium and the conected electronics. With a tape, the medium is seperated from the physical components that make it go (The other advantage is that tapes can be read in by anyone to recover data, where as a HDD would need a clean room). Tapes are slower to read data back from, but if the HDDs are stored offline like you are, then this isn't an issue. By the sounds of it, once it's on your offline HDDs you are removing it from your servers. I'd be pretty nervous about that and recomend that you make at least two copies in case one fails. If you want to be serious about you should use an off-site storage facillity, and a comercial storage facility would probably only deal with tapes.
I tend to swap backtick (`) and esc, and turn caps into a second ctrl, so no caps lock for me at all. I hate hitting caps accidentally in vi. I might try a second esc where caps lock is though.
Give up, or at least, stop posting about it to Slashdot. Please.
[sarcasm] Yeah, who could posibly be interested in this? post another dupe about iPods instead! I don't want to "think different", heck, I don't even want to think.[/sarcasm]
What is it with you people? All the top posts are full of whiny stuck in the mud mentalities, refusing to even think about something new: qwerty is good enough for me cause i can't change, so everyone should use it! In my day... etc
me must outlaw cameras at school sports events to protect kids from the evil paedophiles
Recently heard that qantas is not setting older men next to children as he could be a paedophile! Sounds good to me, i don't want to sit next to the brats anyway.
btw, if you have trouble get a copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. It really helped me to talk to people I didn't know very well.
I would leave if I could. I guess I need more real life friends closer to home and less online.
Well, you pretty much gave your own answer there. How do you think you make IRL friends? By spending time with people, going out with them, doing things with them, getting to know them and they you. If you keep going back to online friends then that's all you end up having. It's a balance between IRL and online. A good way to start is get involve with local events that you would enjoy, like LUGs or LANs. It takes practice but I'm sure you'll get the hang of it.
It's always the first one I add, He also has another one that goes for about 5 minutes. I think it's linked from ABC somewhere. If there's any interest I can find the link when I get home.
I downloaded TheOpenCD and make a copy for friends stuck on dial up and limited connections. You're right, having a Google logo on it would really give it cred, but people might think that they wrote all this cool software by themselves.
Wasn't complaining, was answering a question about why dl size matters. I also said "most" people in my post. How many OOo CDs do you see at your local PC shop? How many for MS Office?
Most people buy MS Office CDs, whereas they download OOo. I'd like to see an option to have a base install of, 5-10mb and the rest is dl'ed as it's installed.
Well, since I moved to a cave on the southern slopes of Mt. Kosciusko *I* haven't had a call or asingle visitor in 3 months! It's a long hike to the nearest internet cafe to post to slashdot, but well worth it!:-) and best of all, no more personal grooming for me!!
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If reading is better then not reading does that apply to any kind? What about reading a KKK book?
"Books are patient where we are slow to understand, allow us to go over hard parts as many times as we wish, and are never critical of our lapses. Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society." -- Carl Sagan
Because with books you can read, stop and think, re-read and allow you to form opinions. TV does allow you to do that (as much), it's just a continual stream that doesn't stop and let you question it. It's a lot easier to manipulate your views with TV.
Also most bookshops don't sell KKK books, so it's harder for people to get that sort of thing. Watch TV (and movies) and you'll come across many popular shows that use race issues (and violence) as a theme: CSI, Law and Order, Cops etc.
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Depends what you mean by "Pro", they dont all shot things for product catalogues or billboards. If you're doing a sports event you certianly wouldnt drag along a 4x5, A digital would be the best bet, as it would reduce your "film" changes, esp if there is lots of action happening. Even in a wedding a digital would have its uses, esp with impromtu shots. Different tools for different jobs. Even most amatuers will have more than one body and experiment with different styles and techniques.
Well, apologised is also the commonwealth accepted spelling.
I'd re-evaluate tapes... a HDD depends on both the magnet medium and the conected electronics. With a tape, the medium is seperated from the physical components that make it go (The other advantage is that tapes can be read in by anyone to recover data, where as a HDD would need a clean room). Tapes are slower to read data back from, but if the HDDs are stored offline like you are, then this isn't an issue. By the sounds of it, once it's on your offline HDDs you are removing it from your servers. I'd be pretty nervous about that and recomend that you make at least two copies in case one fails. If you want to be serious about you should use an off-site storage facillity, and a comercial storage facility would probably only deal with tapes.
I was hoping you'd mistyped that as ...And when it comes to software, Apple has no pear.
True, no one I know drinks the stuff. On the article, what a troll, they could have written it without the trollish attitude.
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And if wishes were horses we'd all be eating steak.
That's a good point, I don't like having backtick/tilde so far away. It'd be good to move caps lock over to scroll lock, but that's getting crazy :)
I tend to swap backtick (`) and esc, and turn caps into a second ctrl, so no caps lock for me at all. I hate hitting caps accidentally in vi. I might try a second esc where caps lock is though.
[sarcasm] Yeah, who could posibly be interested in this? post another dupe about iPods instead! I don't want to "think different", heck, I don't even want to think.[/sarcasm]
What is it with you people? All the top posts are full of whiny stuck in the mud mentalities, refusing to even think about something new: qwerty is good enough for me cause i can't change, so everyone should use it! In my day... etc
pff, call yourself geeks? Give me a break.
that's way it's called weight of evidence. Of course, on the moon you need a lot more mass to get the same weight compared to earth (boom boom :)
Doesn't show up if you have your language set to english - UK, only English - US.
Recently heard that qantas is not setting older men next to children as he could be a paedophile! Sounds good to me, i don't want to sit next to the brats anyway.
Here's a summary: http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-f riends.html
Well, you pretty much gave your own answer there. How do you think you make IRL friends? By spending time with people, going out with them, doing things with them, getting to know them and they you. If you keep going back to online friends then that's all you end up having. It's a balance between IRL and online. A good way to start is get involve with local events that you would enjoy, like LUGs or LANs. It takes practice but I'm sure you'll get the hang of it.
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I'm with you, they have to match what the other box sets are going for. Anymore and they're just going for extra profits.
It's always the first one I add, He also has another one that goes for about 5 minutes. I think it's linked from ABC somewhere. If there's any interest I can find the link when I get home.
I downloaded TheOpenCD and make a copy for friends stuck on dial up and limited connections. You're right, having a Google logo on it would really give it cred, but people might think that they wrote all this cool software by themselves.
Wasn't complaining, was answering a question about why dl size matters. I also said "most" people in my post. How many OOo CDs do you see at your local PC shop? How many for MS Office?
Most people buy MS Office CDs, whereas they download OOo. I'd like to see an option to have a base install of, 5-10mb and the rest is dl'ed as it's installed.
This is why the major papers in .au always give away "free" stuff with their weekend papers. The latest trend is Music CDs.
Well, since I moved to a cave on the southern slopes of Mt. Kosciusko *I* haven't had a call or asingle visitor in 3 months! It's a long hike to the nearest internet cafe to post to slashdot, but well worth it! :-) and best of all, no more personal grooming for me!!
"Books are patient where we are slow to understand, allow us to go over hard parts as many times as we wish, and are never critical of our lapses. Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society." -- Carl Sagan
Because with books you can read, stop and think, re-read and allow you to form opinions. TV does allow you to do that (as much), it's just a continual stream that doesn't stop and let you question it. It's a lot easier to manipulate your views with TV.
Also most bookshops don't sell KKK books, so it's harder for people to get that sort of thing. Watch TV (and movies) and you'll come across many popular shows that use race issues (and violence) as a theme: CSI, Law and Order, Cops etc.
These aren't the droids you're looking for.