Defendant actually distributed the 11 sound recordings listed on Exhibit A to Plaintiffs' Complaint from the KaZaA shared folder on his computer to Plaintiffs' investigator, MediaSentry. (Decl. of Doug Jacobson 6, attached as Exhibit A hereto.) The "systemlog.txt" file showing the proof of Defendant's distribution of these 11 sound recordings is attached as Exhibit 1 to the Declaration of Doug Jacobson.2
Sadly most pro photographers won't think about the consequences of adopting proprietary formats until it is too late. For example, some legacy proprietary raw images as provided by the camera manufacturers are not backward compatible. I've read it in the mailing lists already.
As a professional photojournalist, I disagree. Most of us -- well, those of us who when through the film to digital transition -- are very sensitive to changes in formats. Often the consequences of using a proprietary format are recognized, but there is little you can do about it. It is getting better as more imaging software supports various flavors of Camera RAW, for example. But, I'm still wondering how to get photos from a Super Bowl shot with a Nikon NC2000 off the Syquest disks we stored them on...SCSI reader, too.
In the meantime, I still shoot photos of my little boy & girl on film with the assumption that shining light through the negative will work 40 years from now to create a print/scan/holograph...
I think the iSight (non built-in) generates a pretty good image. It has a rudimentary auto-focus and handles less than optimal lighting.
The amount of compression applied -- which I imagine is a product of the bandwidth available -- is probably a bit factor in image quality as is image size.
The camera built into the MacBook, iMac and Mac Book Pro also performs pretty well.
All in all, like everything else, there are alot of variable that will affect your mileage.
"Perhaps the most surprising thing about the MacBook is its price. Despite Apple's reputation for charging more, the MacBook is actually less expensive than its closest major Windows competitor. That would be the Sony Vaio VGN-SZ240, which also has a 13.3-inch screen with the same resolution, includes a built-in camera, and is available with the same processor and the same memory and hard-disk capacity as the MacBook.
When configured to match the major specs of the base model of the MacBook, the Sony costs $1,629, over 60% more than the MacBook's $1,099 base price. But the MacBook is much heavier than the Sony. It weighs 5.2 pounds, 37% more than the Sony's 3.8 pounds."
>Or at least, as a taxpayer I should be getting a kickback.
Public Broadcasting gets about about $600 million from the federal and state governments via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which includes PBS, NPR, PRI, other entitites, indepenednet progam producers and such.
So, what do you think that Big Kickback is going to amount to for T.V. stations sharing out some bandwith?
I think part of the problem is expectations. I don't think I'm being too much of a fanboy to say that Apple's major product releases are highly anticipated by Mac maniacs (present company included.) Add to that the "it just works" marketing that Apple applies and you tend to get very vocal minorities sounding off about any imperfection.
Granted, Apple's had it's share of legitimate Q/A issues, laptop batteries, iBook logic boards, the aforementioned nano scratches, thermal past and such, but I think these things get blown a bit out of proportion to their severity and frequency.
On the flip side, does anyone ever not expect to have ooodles of issues with most (cough...ALL...cought) Microsoft products?
By "replace completely" do you mean REMOVE and replace or just stop using? I think you could -- depending upon who you are -- replace all those components (e.g. stop using them) with relative ease. Just download some free apps and off you go.
I've pretty much "replaced" Dashboard with Konfabulator (aka Yahoo! Widgets) I use Locate or Find instead of Spotlight and am trying to get used to using Quicksilver instead of the Dock. I've never used Mail in favor of Eudora.
So far nothing in OS X has broken because of this nor does the system try to get me to return to using those by jumping in the way of my choice.
I know there is video and all, but the beta isn't even posted yet. Also, if you close the lid on a Powerbook/MacBook it goes to sleep, will the app remain operable and detect movement with a sleeping machine? Seems like a bright idea, but sort of fades on closer examination without actual examination (see also first sentence.)
There are a lot of newspaper and wire service photographers who's only machine is a laptop as they are out in the field all the time and working images on deadline . For them, the faster the better because using a desktop machine isn't an option. I imagine there might be folks in other industries with the same issues regarding needing the fasting laptop they can get because they can't use a desktop.
As a rule, "journalists" will and should cite the source of their material. If they don't they're not journalists, but editoralist/columnists or just plain hacks. Same is true for bloggers.
Second, they print portions of press releases or use "video footage" (file video, you mean?) for various reasons. Usually it is because that release is the only information available at the time (remember most journalism is done under very tight deadlines; it is the nature of the beast.) Often a release is more a more coherent statement than one can get via a quote and so on. Relying solely on a press release is truly poor reporting, but sometimes it is the only way to get the "other side" of a story included.
More onerous, is when reporters or bloggers don't properly disclose sourcing. They don't not deserve our attention. I would argue the same is true for purely opinion pieces or blogs. We all know that basic facts need to be established before a discussion can productively take place and revealing the source of one's facts is a fundemental element of that process.
I'm stunned by how often I see posting here that show a very, very unsophisticated view of how journalism and news organizations operate. From folks who are generally in the upper end of the gene pool and who will argue to the hilt over nuances differences in how code should be written or some such, this is disappointing. There are good bloggers, bad bloggers, good newspapers and bad, good scientists and bad. When the South Korean cloning scandal broke, did any of you throw all stem-cell researchers into the same pot? Probably not, but it seems Slashdotters are very quick to do the same to journalists.
If you're a newspaper/news service trying to figure out how to compete in this crazy Interwebs age, you have a couple of choices.
You can let Google put your content on their aggregator for free and count on possibly, maybe, hopefully getting some revenue generated from people visiting your site via news.google.com...
or
you can get paid by a Google competitor to be part of their news service and likely have a whole lot more control over how you content is served up or whatever the Hell those partnerships deliver and get paid.
What would suck would be for the other search engine to see... well you get the idea.
Hmmmm....how can you be sure this crazy "fair use" idea won't cut ruin everyone's fun? How, oh how?
We had at least 20+ iBooks come through our paper in the last 3 or so years and among those there were only two or three that failed for any "mechanical" reason. (Had several fail due to impact damage.) Those that died were related to the logic board recall and Apple fixed them extraordinarily fast.
Keep in mind that these were machines used by photojouranlists and subject to a lot of hard use -- wildfires, Iraq, the Olympics, daily beatings. (One of our guys was blown out of a Humvee by an IED and while he wound up with a mild concussion and broken hand, the iBook was undamaged. )
We've since rotated them out for 15-inch Powerbooks to provide enough CPU/GPU umpf vs large digital files. I only hope these PBs do as well as the the iBooks.
Drinking age limit (& buying tobacco) Voting age limit Driving age limit Joining the military Child labor law include age limits child support ends (usually) at 18
Teens have some rights. When you're a teen, it sucks. When you're an oldster responsible for teens, notsomuch.
I'm skeptical of Rosetta, too, but what if it works?
Apple's making a push for serious imaging with Aperture. I'm wondering if Aperture is a Photoshop killer for those who using Photoshop is overkill? We (large newspaper) changed our workflow to tap into more of PS's power, but for the longest time, we were using Photoshop for about five features that the run-of-the-mill imaging apps didn't provide. It was like using an A-bomb to squash a mouse.
If they throw a decent spreadsheet into iWork, THAT would be enough to pull us off Word, too. I don't know that the cupboard is that bare for MacIntel Powerbooks without MS or Adobe.
Slashdot Mirror
What the RIAA claims:
Yes, exactly! A BIG difference.
The aluminum ALLOWS the waves into your brain.
That's why there is no TIN foil around any more.
As a professional photojournalist, I disagree. Most of us -- well, those of us who when through the film to digital transition -- are very sensitive to changes in formats. Often the consequences of using a proprietary format are recognized, but there is little you can do about it. It is getting better as more imaging software supports various flavors of Camera RAW, for example. But, I'm still wondering how to get photos from a Super Bowl shot with a Nikon NC2000 off the Syquest disks we stored them on...SCSI reader, too.
In the meantime, I still shoot photos of my little boy & girl on film with the assumption that shining light through the negative will work 40 years from now to create a print/scan/holograph
Odd, my tin foil hat made it through...
Ear wax?
I know it goes exactly like this: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
> A Microsoft-sponsored study found
...oh, look "Measuring the Energy You Use..."
Next!
huhhuhuh...I bet his cord glows while Monkey Dancing...huhuhhhuhh... cord.
(Oh, and Apple: Build me my iPhoneCameraPDApod now!)
I think the iSight (non built-in) generates a pretty good image. It has a rudimentary auto-focus and handles less than optimal lighting.
The amount of compression applied -- which I imagine is a product of the bandwidth available -- is probably a bit factor in image quality as is image size.
The camera built into the MacBook, iMac and Mac Book Pro also performs pretty well.
All in all, like everything else, there are alot of variable that will affect your mileage.
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
No, no, no. It's when they try to put the CSS on a truck. Damnit, Beavis, the interwebtubes is not a truck.
"Perhaps the most surprising thing about the MacBook is its price. Despite Apple's reputation for charging more, the MacBook is actually less expensive than its closest major Windows competitor. That would be the Sony Vaio VGN-SZ240, which also has a 13.3-inch screen with the same resolution, includes a built-in camera, and is available with the same processor and the same memory and hard-disk capacity as the MacBook.
When configured to match the major specs of the base model of the MacBook, the Sony costs $1,629, over 60% more than the MacBook's $1,099 base price. But the MacBook is much heavier than the Sony. It weighs 5.2 pounds, 37% more than the Sony's 3.8 pounds."
From review by Walt Mossberg/Wall Street Journal [didn't need a subscription to reach the page. ymmv.]
So, that leaves you with some cash to buy paper...
Accuracy, smaccuracy. SUPERsonic combat after LASER surgery sounds so much cooler than subsonic maneuvers after PRK.
C'mon, this is SLASHdot not slashDOT.
>Or at least, as a taxpayer I should be getting a kickback.
Public Broadcasting gets about about $600 million from the federal and state governments via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which includes PBS, NPR, PRI, other entitites, indepenednet progam producers and such.
So, what do you think that Big Kickback is going to amount to for T.V. stations sharing out some bandwith?
Yep, enjoy that $1.00 now.
Source (sort of): CPB.org FAQ/Budget Breakdown 2003
I think part of the problem is expectations. I don't think I'm being too much of a fanboy to say that Apple's major product releases are highly anticipated by Mac maniacs (present company included.) Add to that the "it just works" marketing that Apple applies and you tend to get very vocal minorities sounding off about any imperfection.
Granted, Apple's had it's share of legitimate Q/A issues, laptop batteries, iBook logic boards, the aforementioned nano scratches, thermal past and such, but I think these things get blown a bit out of proportion to their severity and frequency.
On the flip side, does anyone ever not expect to have ooodles of issues with most (cough...ALL...cought) Microsoft products?
By "replace completely" do you mean REMOVE and replace or just stop using? I think you could -- depending upon who you are -- replace all those components (e.g. stop using them) with relative ease. Just download some free apps and off you go.
I've pretty much "replaced" Dashboard with Konfabulator (aka Yahoo! Widgets) I use Locate or Find instead of Spotlight and am trying to get used to using Quicksilver instead of the Dock. I've never used Mail in favor of Eudora.
So far nothing in OS X has broken because of this nor does the system try to get me to return to using those by jumping in the way of my choice.
I know there is video and all, but the beta isn't even posted yet. Also, if you close the lid on a Powerbook/MacBook it goes to sleep, will the app remain operable and detect movement with a sleeping machine? Seems like a bright idea, but sort of fades on closer examination without actual examination (see also first sentence.)
There are a lot of newspaper and wire service photographers who's only machine is a laptop as they are out in the field all the time and working images on deadline . For them, the faster the better because using a desktop machine isn't an option. I imagine there might be folks in other industries with the same issues regarding needing the fasting laptop they can get because they can't use a desktop.
As a rule, "journalists" will and should cite the source of their material. If they don't they're not journalists, but editoralist/columnists or just plain hacks. Same is true for bloggers.
Second, they print portions of press releases or use "video footage" (file video, you mean?) for various reasons. Usually it is because that release is the only information available at the time (remember most journalism is done under very tight deadlines; it is the nature of the beast.) Often a release is more a more coherent statement than one can get via a quote and so on. Relying solely on a press release is truly poor reporting, but sometimes it is the only way to get the "other side" of a story included.
More onerous, is when reporters or bloggers don't properly disclose sourcing. They don't not deserve our attention. I would argue the same is true for purely opinion pieces or blogs. We all know that basic facts need to be established before a discussion can productively take place and revealing the source of one's facts is a fundemental element of that process.
I'm stunned by how often I see posting here that show a very, very unsophisticated view of how journalism and news organizations operate. From folks who are generally in the upper end of the gene pool and who will argue to the hilt over nuances differences in how code should be written or some such, this is disappointing. There are good bloggers, bad bloggers, good newspapers and bad, good scientists and bad. When the South Korean cloning scandal broke, did any of you throw all stem-cell researchers into the same pot? Probably not, but it seems Slashdotters are very quick to do the same to journalists.
If you're a newspaper/news service trying to figure out how to compete in this crazy Interwebs age, you have a couple of choices.
You can let Google put your content on their aggregator for free and count on possibly, maybe, hopefully getting some revenue generated from people visiting your site via news.google.com...
or
you can get paid by a Google competitor to be part of their news service and likely have a whole lot more control over how you content is served up or whatever the Hell those partnerships deliver and get paid.
What would suck would be for the other search engine to see... well you get the idea.
Hmmmm....how can you be sure this crazy "fair use" idea won't cut ruin everyone's fun? How, oh how?
We had at least 20+ iBooks come through our paper in the last 3 or so years and among those there were only two or three that failed for any "mechanical" reason. (Had several fail due to impact damage.) Those that died were related to the logic board recall and Apple fixed them extraordinarily fast.
Keep in mind that these were machines used by photojouranlists and subject to a lot of hard use -- wildfires, Iraq, the Olympics, daily beatings. (One of our guys was blown out of a Humvee by an IED and while he wound up with a mild concussion and broken hand, the iBook was undamaged. )
We've since rotated them out for 15-inch Powerbooks to provide enough CPU/GPU umpf vs large digital files. I only hope these PBs do as well as the the iBooks.
"...can't discriminate on the basis of age."
Yes, they can and do.
Drinking age limit (& buying tobacco)
Voting age limit
Driving age limit
Joining the military
Child labor law include age limits
child support ends (usually) at 18
Teens have some rights. When you're a teen, it sucks. When you're an oldster responsible for teens, notsomuch.
Cheers,
Cranky McOldster
I'm skeptical of Rosetta, too, but what if it works?
Apple's making a push for serious imaging with Aperture. I'm wondering if Aperture is a Photoshop killer for those who using Photoshop is overkill? We (large newspaper) changed our workflow to tap into more of PS's power, but for the longest time, we were using Photoshop for about five features that the run-of-the-mill imaging apps didn't provide. It was like using an A-bomb to squash a mouse.
If they throw a decent spreadsheet into iWork, THAT would be enough to pull us off Word, too. I don't know that the cupboard is that bare for MacIntel Powerbooks without MS or Adobe.
Yes, the power of The Collective.
Refactoring is Futile.
nano tube? No it is not, it is called shrinkage!