Apple went without Jobs twice. During the first run, they came up with innovative things like the digital camera and the PDA. Only thing was they were too far ahead of their time. When Jobs returned, he dumped the innovative projects and started selling Macs in fancy colors. He had timing and flare, not necessarily innovation. He made people want the products. Technically, the iPhone wasn't any more innovative than what Palm had already created. But it combined the right things at the right time to make people want to buy it.
These are symptoms of becoming a large company. Size makes it difficult to change. Size must be paid for. It is easier to rely on cash cows than it is to take a risk to that may pay off later. People who manage the routine start to rise to the top. Many companies have survived the change and thrived, others run into a brick wall and it's over.
There is far more to processing than lightening the image. The big problem is you want to eliminate the stray light in the image brought on by sky glow and light pollution, while not losing the real image.
1. It handled the 32bit images that cameras create, other programs didn't for a long time. 2. The 400 or so extensions people wrote for PS to automate many of the tasks that don't work in other products. 3. The hundreds of books and tutorials and youtube videos that help you learn it are written only for PS. Once you sink that much effort into one product, it's hard to switch.
When taking deep sky pictures of the sky, you are often taking an image that, to the camera, is just barely brighter than the background. Almost like taking a picture of something dark gray on black. Photoshop is the most common tool to bring out the data so you can actually see the object. Emission nebula are also very monochrome. Not white on black, but mostly just red from hydrogen emission. Photoshop is critical to bring out the details. The problem with Adobe license is that this work is often done in remote locations without connectivity. It's a great idea to design a software license that won't work in the very place you are trying to use it. It's hard to get away from the product, since so many specialized tools have been written for it over the years. When one company has a virtual monopoly in one area, you get trapped into that product.
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Hey, it worked on my Tandy 100, I don't see why it can't work again.
I want an iPhone that runs on AA batteries. It will run for days and recharge by just replacing the batteries.
How about Compuserve.com? Particularly if their address is still in 7xxxx,xx format.
Nobel prize for the person who can figure out how to implement these. It will probably be won by an AI.
3) ???
4) Profit
Apple went without Jobs twice. During the first run, they came up with innovative things like the digital camera and the PDA. Only thing was they were too far ahead of their time. When Jobs returned, he dumped the innovative projects and started selling Macs in fancy colors. He had timing and flare, not necessarily innovation. He made people want the products. Technically, the iPhone wasn't any more innovative than what Palm had already created. But it combined the right things at the right time to make people want to buy it.
These are symptoms of becoming a large company. Size makes it difficult to change. Size must be paid for. It is easier to rely on cash cows than it is to take a risk to that may pay off later. People who manage the routine start to rise to the top. Many companies have survived the change and thrived, others run into a brick wall and it's over.
They filled a international court motion to get their land back.
It's hosted on a community network, so you can only expect so much.
Since they charge for their use, I don't think they are going to give away the source code.
While he was waiting for the end of the universe.
There is far more to processing than lightening the image. The big problem is you want to eliminate the stray light in the image brought on by sky glow and light pollution, while not losing the real image.
1. It handled the 32bit images that cameras create, other programs didn't for a long time. 2. The 400 or so extensions people wrote for PS to automate many of the tasks that don't work in other products. 3. The hundreds of books and tutorials and youtube videos that help you learn it are written only for PS. Once you sink that much effort into one product, it's hard to switch.
When taking deep sky pictures of the sky, you are often taking an image that, to the camera, is just barely brighter than the background. Almost like taking a picture of something dark gray on black. Photoshop is the most common tool to bring out the data so you can actually see the object. Emission nebula are also very monochrome. Not white on black, but mostly just red from hydrogen emission. Photoshop is critical to bring out the details. The problem with Adobe license is that this work is often done in remote locations without connectivity. It's a great idea to design a software license that won't work in the very place you are trying to use it. It's hard to get away from the product, since so many specialized tools have been written for it over the years. When one company has a virtual monopoly in one area, you get trapped into that product.
I've noticed that the Sun is the same all year round. It is traveling through more air at sunrise and sunset, so it is less intense, not more.
Is this why Sydney, Australia is undergoing the the most extreme heat wave on record?
More Americans get their news from the Daily Show than any other nationality.
Like running into Mars?
Windows outhouse. The only way to support it.
Forget moving the runways. Move the whole airport to the appropriate place.
That's what is in a nuclear bomb.
It's being renewed, it existed throughout the entire 8 year Obama presidency, too.
Burr...
It would be more useful for future AI to develop the next generation of AIs.
That's why I use High Fructose Bee Vomit.