Honestly I'm not a huge Adams fan. My favorite photographer is Lucas Samaras, whom I doubt has any problem with digital photography, and who is nothing at all like Adams. I just think that Adams was a master of the Art of printing, and wouldn't expect him to use today's digital technology any more than I would expect to see a highly-regarded concert pianist showing up to a performance with a digital keyboard.
I should have qualified my statement however. I am in the end confident that digital technology will one day rival analog photographic techniques. But folks, we ain't there yet, not by a long shot.
I'll see your blind hero worship and raise the folks on this board a blind technology worship:-)
Still a highly analog process, and doesn't take away from things like the overall tonal range of a print. It's not about being able to manipulate an image or not. It's about GIGO.
Okay, I'll say this: If there was such a think as a 10gigapixel digital camera back that could do 128-bit or better images, oh and an output method that didn't blow, he might have used it. And I'm sure such things will one day exist. But would Adams use the digital technology that exists today? I really don't think so.
People have used the Polaroid example, but Polaroid is still an analog medium, and is actually capable of producing stunning prints with the right film. Some of the black-and-white peel-apart (pack) films are legendary for the luminous quality of the output.
Ansel Adams was all about the integrity and subtlety of the medium. In his day, he railed against the use of resin-coated photographic papers (which he referred to as "plastic papers"), because they didn't produce an image with the same purity and subtlety as one printed on fibre based paper (as any photographer can tell you).
Everyone has seen Adams coffee table books, but one has only to stand in front of an actual Adams print to see that there is a quality to his prints that cannot be reproduced by even the highest quality methods of reproduction. Even if you're jaded by overexposure to Adams books and calendars (as I am), it is breathtaking to see his work in person.
Richard LoPinto is trying to sell digital SLRs for Nikon. Frankly, I think it is a disrespect for him to speculate that Adams would have anything to do with a digital camera, or any digital process.
Interesting point, but what in the world has this to do with tort reform? What tort reform would you suggest that would mitigate the use of such a tactic?
Aside from that, I don't think the theory passes the sniff test. I've seen the theory advanced in a few places that this debacle emerged as the result of an incompetent admin covering his/her tracks by claiming an outage was the result of an attack. SCO mgmnt would of course be eager to latch on to such a theory for the PR mileage to be gained, but I think if they were going to fabricate something like this out of whole cloth, they would have done a better job of it.
It's strange to me how everyone is jumping on RedHat about Fedora. First how RedHat "abandoned the community" when they EOL'ed RedHat Linux, and how crying betrayal because what amounts to the 1.0 release of a new distribution has a few bugs? Take a breath, folks!
Fedora represents a shift to a new development model which is more community centric; of COURSE there are going to be problems with the 1.0 release. Is that a reason to bag the whole thing and declare it dead? Please!
I'm running Fedora 1.0 on a couple of machines. While there are a couple of quirks, I'd say that overall it's a fine distribution, and an improvement from RH 9.0. I'm certainly going to give it more than a week before I condemn the whole project! Meantime I'm going to reflect on the fact, that people seem to like to forget, that the whole OSS community owes a debt of gratitude to RedHat. RedHat has consistently failed to live up to conspiracy theories about "betraying the community".
AFAIK, there are preliminary injunctions preventing them from making claims in some other jurisdictions, notably Germany. SCO has essentially had to cease operations in Germany, and has had to shut down their German website due to such an injunction.
Not off-topic at all, IMO. It's a dangerous piece of propoganda that lets a young man or woman imagine that they're taking part in the military while safely ensconced in their home. As the old saying goes, too bad there isn't a reset button in real life. Too bad we think it's "cool" that this is running on Linux, or anywhere else. Too bad that the one time we see a violent video game that is SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO INSIGHT YOUNG PEOPLE TO REAL VIOLENCE, we celebrate it. Wake up people, and don't go die and kill for oil.
One thing that really bugs me is how everyone assumes that Mac users carry around an air of superiority. Funny that at the same time, there is a tacit acknowledgement that creativity is a trait that makes one "superior" (a viewpoint I don't agree with). Pay attention folks: Macs are a great platform to use if you are a creative professional since 1) there are a wide variety of creative tools available for the platform, and 2) the Mac platform is the de-facto standard for creative professionals, so it's just easier to do your work on a Mac if you're a creative type (much like it's easier to use Win32 if you work in a corporate environment). Therefore, there is a correlation between Mac users and creative types. I don't think anyone (even an arrogant Mac user) would try to demonstrate causality there. If you don't like the Mac platform, fine. Don't use it. You don't have to feel like there's a personal conflict between you and those who choose MacOS.
I started at age 26 after majoring in Art and getting into the industry through web design. My advice; find a small shop (5-10 people) that supports a few Linux/UNIX systems, and doesn't mind you learning on the job. That's the best learning environment you'll ever have. Usenet and a million other web-based resources are out there if you run into a brick wall on a problem.
Y'know, since we're picking nits here, "American" can technically refer to just about anything and anyone in the western hemisphere (at least on the continents of North America and South America, which does include Canada).
It bears pointing out that the Salon article (did you read it?) doesn't complain about Lara Croft in particular, and I don't think anyone is complaining about video games featuring attractive characters (however unrealistic) Most games feature unrealistic representations of the male body as well.
The problem is the overriding culture, which is like a frat house without the educational tie-in. Women don't have a voice in the industry, because male gamers and game developers have such hostility to anything or anyone that may spoil the party.
My office has a 1U Penguin Computing box that I think retails more toward the $1000 end of the spectrum, and we've been very happy with it. The Netra X1's have IDE drives, I have not had great experiences with Sun gear running IDE in production (YMMV). I don't know what the bus looks like on an X1, but I know other Netras are I/O monsters, so that's probably worth considering as well.
Just don't do VA. They have had severe quality control problems with every product I've seen from them. I saw an order of about a hundred boxes from them come in at a client site with a nearly 50% DOA rate.
The recommended install procudure (lynx -source http://go-gnome.com|sh) does not work, presumably due to server load.
I found I was able to get the install working by downloading the red-carpet RPM from ftp.ximian.com, and using that to install the rest of the packages. YMMV.
Or, wait, I guess I should be saying:
Everyone who is not me is unduly taxing the servers! You should wait until I'm done downloading before you try to install! Show some consideration!:P
I read this story at 16:30 yesterday, and had the thing up and running by 18:00 (that includes downloading it and burning to CD). While I'll probably end up spending some time configuring things from the command line, the web interface is very usable, and would even be to a relative neophyte. This is a great solution for small datacenters that don't want to spend a lot of time messing around with monitoring. As for relying on email to send pages:
1: Install qpage
2: Hook up a modem
3: Stride briskly away
I'd much rather do that than hand over monitoring to a third party. Very cool system.
Point 1: Was OS/2 free? No. It still isn't. In fact, it's more expensive than Windows 95.
Point 2: Linux cannot "go under within two years", since "Linux" is not a commercial entity. If all the commercial Linux vendors dissapeared today, there would still be distributions available, and there would still be Linux users.
Point 3: Are you seriously saying that Linux is endangered because IBM may refocus the emphasis of the platform toward the geek community? Have you ever met a Linux user?
I've used NetApp as the message store for Sendmail and I love it. The only problem is now I'm moving to an enterprise class MTA (we're choosing between SIMS and InterMail), and neither work with NFS-mounted message stores. You should bear that in mind before commiting to NAS.
Welll.... If you count the M$ tax that was for so long imposed on OEM's and their customers, people really were forced to by M$ products (remember Windows refund day?).
Technically, OEM's don't have to _install_ the MS OS on every machine, but they do have to _pay_ for it, no? ZD seems to have missed that little detail.
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Honestly I'm not a huge Adams fan. My favorite photographer is Lucas Samaras, whom I doubt has any problem with digital photography, and who is nothing at all like Adams. I just think that Adams was a master of the Art of printing, and wouldn't expect him to use today's digital technology any more than I would expect to see a highly-regarded concert pianist showing up to a performance with a digital keyboard.
:-)
I should have qualified my statement however. I am in the end confident that digital technology will one day rival analog photographic techniques. But folks, we ain't there yet, not by a long shot.
I'll see your blind hero worship and raise the folks on this board a blind technology worship
Still a highly analog process, and doesn't take away from things like the overall tonal range of a print. It's not about being able to manipulate an image or not. It's about GIGO.
Okay, I'll say this: If there was such a think as a 10gigapixel digital camera back that could do 128-bit or better images, oh and an output method that didn't blow, he might have used it. And I'm sure such things will one day exist. But would Adams use the digital technology that exists today? I really don't think so.
People have used the Polaroid example, but Polaroid is still an analog medium, and is actually capable of producing stunning prints with the right film. Some of the black-and-white peel-apart (pack) films are legendary for the luminous quality of the output.
Ansel Adams was all about the integrity and subtlety of the medium. In his day, he railed against the use of resin-coated photographic papers (which he referred to as "plastic papers"), because they didn't produce an image with the same purity and subtlety as one printed on fibre based paper (as any photographer can tell you).
Everyone has seen Adams coffee table books, but one has only to stand in front of an actual Adams print to see that there is a quality to his prints that cannot be reproduced by even the highest quality methods of reproduction. Even if you're jaded by overexposure to Adams books and calendars (as I am), it is breathtaking to see his work in person.
Richard LoPinto is trying to sell digital SLRs for Nikon. Frankly, I think it is a disrespect for him to speculate that Adams would have anything to do with a digital camera, or any digital process.
Interesting point, but what in the world has this to do with tort reform? What tort reform would you suggest that would mitigate the use of such a tactic?
Aside from that, I don't think the theory passes the sniff test. I've seen the theory advanced in a few places that this debacle emerged as the result of an incompetent admin covering his/her tracks by claiming an outage was the result of an attack. SCO mgmnt would of course be eager to latch on to such a theory for the PR mileage to be gained, but I think if they were going to fabricate something like this out of whole cloth, they would have done a better job of it.
It's strange to me how everyone is jumping on RedHat about Fedora. First how RedHat "abandoned the community" when they EOL'ed RedHat Linux, and how crying betrayal because what amounts to the 1.0 release of a new distribution has a few bugs? Take a breath, folks!
Fedora represents a shift to a new development model which is more community centric; of COURSE there are going to be problems with the 1.0 release. Is that a reason to bag the whole thing and declare it dead? Please!
I'm running Fedora 1.0 on a couple of machines. While there are a couple of quirks, I'd say that overall it's a fine distribution, and an improvement from RH 9.0. I'm certainly going to give it more than a week before I condemn the whole project! Meantime I'm going to reflect on the fact, that people seem to like to forget, that the whole OSS community owes a debt of gratitude to RedHat. RedHat has consistently failed to live up to conspiracy theories about "betraying the community".
Now be fair. A google search only yields the joke being told twice before, and only once on a Slashdot thread.
Not that it isn't a lame joke, but I'm in a pedantic mood today.
AFAIK, there are preliminary injunctions preventing them from making claims in some other jurisdictions, notably Germany. SCO has essentially had to cease operations in Germany, and has had to shut down their German website due to such an injunction.
That wasn't just the first post, it was also the first post pointing out that the article was a dupe! Congrats on the double-score.
Not off-topic at all, IMO. It's a dangerous piece of propoganda that lets a young man or woman imagine that they're taking part in the military while safely ensconced in their home. As the old saying goes, too bad there isn't a reset button in real life. Too bad we think it's "cool" that this is running on Linux, or anywhere else. Too bad that the one time we see a violent video game that is SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO INSIGHT YOUNG PEOPLE TO REAL VIOLENCE, we celebrate it. Wake up people, and don't go die and kill for oil.
One thing that really bugs me is how everyone assumes that Mac users carry around an air of superiority. Funny that at the same time, there is a tacit acknowledgement that creativity is a trait that makes one "superior" (a viewpoint I don't agree with). Pay attention folks: Macs are a great platform to use if you are a creative professional since 1) there are a wide variety of creative tools available for the platform, and 2) the Mac platform is the de-facto standard for creative professionals, so it's just easier to do your work on a Mac if you're a creative type (much like it's easier to use Win32 if you work in a corporate environment). Therefore, there is a correlation between Mac users and creative types. I don't think anyone (even an arrogant Mac user) would try to demonstrate causality there. If you don't like the Mac platform, fine. Don't use it. You don't have to feel like there's a personal conflict between you and those who choose MacOS.
I started at age 26 after majoring in Art and getting into the industry through web design. My advice; find a small shop (5-10 people) that supports a few Linux/UNIX systems, and doesn't mind you learning on the job. That's the best learning environment you'll ever have. Usenet and a million other web-based resources are out there if you run into a brick wall on a problem.
Good luck, and you're never too old!
Y'know, since we're picking nits here, "American" can technically refer to just about anything and anyone in the western hemisphere (at least on the continents of North America and South America, which does include Canada).
Who on Earth modded this up as "insightful"???
It bears pointing out that the Salon article (did you read it?) doesn't complain about Lara Croft in particular, and I don't think anyone is complaining about video games featuring attractive characters (however unrealistic) Most games feature unrealistic representations of the male body as well.
The problem is the overriding culture, which is like a frat house without the educational tie-in. Women don't have a voice in the industry, because male gamers and game developers have such hostility to anything or anyone that may spoil the party.
My office has a 1U Penguin Computing box that I think retails more toward the $1000 end of the spectrum, and we've been very happy with it. The Netra X1's have IDE drives, I have not had great experiences with Sun gear running IDE in production (YMMV). I don't know what the bus looks like on an X1, but I know other Netras are I/O monsters, so that's probably worth considering as well.
Just don't do VA. They have had severe quality control problems with every product I've seen from them. I saw an order of about a hundred boxes from them come in at a client site with a nearly 50% DOA rate.
The recommended install procudure (lynx -source http://go-gnome.com|sh) does not work, presumably due to server load.
:P
I found I was able to get the install working by downloading the red-carpet RPM from ftp.ximian.com, and using that to install the rest of the packages. YMMV.
Or, wait, I guess I should be saying:
Everyone who is not me is unduly taxing the servers! You should wait until I'm done downloading before you try to install! Show some consideration!
I read this story at 16:30 yesterday, and had the thing up and running by 18:00 (that includes downloading it and burning to CD). While I'll probably end up spending some time configuring things from the command line, the web interface is very usable, and would even be to a relative neophyte. This is a great solution for small datacenters that don't want to spend a lot of time messing around with monitoring. As for relying on email to send pages:
1: Install qpage
2: Hook up a modem
3: Stride briskly away
I'd much rather do that than hand over monitoring to a third party. Very cool system.
Point 1: Was OS/2 free? No. It still isn't. In fact, it's more expensive than Windows 95.
Point 2: Linux cannot "go under within two years", since "Linux" is not a commercial entity. If all the commercial Linux vendors dissapeared today, there would still be distributions available, and there would still be Linux users.
Point 3: Are you seriously saying that Linux is endangered because IBM may refocus the emphasis of the platform toward the geek community? Have you ever met a Linux user?
I've used NetApp as the message store for Sendmail and I love it. The only problem is now I'm moving to an enterprise class MTA (we're choosing between SIMS and InterMail), and neither work with NFS-mounted message stores. You should bear that in mind before commiting to NAS.
Welll.... If you count the M$ tax that was for so long imposed on OEM's and their customers, people really were forced to by M$ products (remember Windows refund day?).
Technically, OEM's don't have to _install_ the MS OS on every machine, but they do have to _pay_ for it, no? ZD seems to have missed that little detail.