Sorry, brain fart. 18MB images. And you apparently don't know what serious/professional photographers do. There's more to HDR than creating garish colors...
Well, it's mostly opinion, but while this user thinks there are MANY reasons to be dismissive of Adobe and Lightroom, the fact that Lightroom is monolithic isn't one of them--that's a pro, not a con. If I shoot a 5 shot HDR that's 90GB of RAW files before the working TIFF is generated. I'm going to store and manipulate them by pulling and pushing every byte to the cloud? Who's the winner there? Apple with more people paying for iCloud storage? Comcast and the cell phone carriers with data overages? This might be geared to a casual snapshotting, but the numbers don't add up to make it a substitute for a pro-level package. The serious/professional photographer is the loser here.
"With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, enabling you to safely store all of your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere"
I'm going to have my 70GB Aperture library in the cloud? I'm going to replicate a RAW workflow in the cloud? I've NEVER had a desire to access that on my iPhone, nor can I imagine anyone did. If one had the desire to export to iCloud they could; no one was forced to. There's got to be something else going on here that we're not privy to, but based on what I've heard they'd be better off selling the product to Nik/Google than letting it die (and trust me, that was hard to type).
But computer scientist Charlie Catlett said the planners have taken precautions to design their sensors to observe mobile devices and count contact with the signal rather than record the digital address of every device.
That may be how it is designed now, but without (actually enforced) laws about the data collected and the legal uses thereof, tracking phone addresses and individuals is only a firmware update away.
How will they actually count without some unique identifier to tell the signals apart?
For example systems on Ubuntu 13.04 didn't get the heartbleed fix because 13.04 is at end of support, necessitating to first upgrade to 13.10 before getting the fix..
End of life'd after just a year. Just wow. That would really want me to put Ubuntu into a production environment. Not.
...he says that data won't be shared with anyone, including Google, without a customer's permission....
What he actually says is:
...Like Nest customer data, Dropcam will come under Nest’s privacy policy, which explains that data won’t be shared with anyone (including Google) without a customer’s permission....
What Nest's privacy policy actually says is:
We pledge to:... Ask your permission before sharing your Personally Identifiable Information with third parties for purposes other than to provide Nest’s services,
Notice how, we won't share your data with anyone without your permission in the article suddenly morphs into we won't share your personally identifiable information with anyone in the actual privacy policy statement?
What about the other non-personally identifiable data, like when my house is empty? Or how many people are in the house? etc, etc.
I've read their policy, and I've been keeping an eye on it because I'm so wary of Google (I have a Nest thermostat, and some Protects all acquired before the purchase so my concern is a bit more than theoretical). That being said, their privacy policy says, We may share your aggregated and anonymous information in a variety of ways, including to publish trends about energy use and conservation, to help utilities provide demand-response services and to generally improve our system. We’ve taken steps to ensure that the information cannot be linked back to you and we require our partners to keep all information in its anonymous form so what's the big deal if the information is aggregated saying A house somewhere is empty between 1 and 5pm and the temp has risen to 81 degrees, etc? As long it's anonymous, I don't care.
Don't trust the article. Read the privacy policies and they are consistent. The next version might be different as that'll be the first post-Google one.
Nah, I think the local government should review the contract to confirm that the provider is meeting their obligations. If they are not, then a simple contract cancellation due to non-performance of the provider should be all it takes to clean up the mess.
If drivers violate the permitting rules, seize their vehicles and sell them at auction. Make the companies compelled to share that info with every driver so no one can claim "But I didn't know...."
After the first few, the rest will get the message.
Actually, if enough people use "decimate" to mean "blue" such that it's commonly understood that when you say "decimate" you mean "blue", then it would indeed make it right! Likewise, if someone were to say that "decimate" means "reduce by a tenth" when it is almost never used that way, that person would be incorrect. Language is defined by usage.
I mean, unless you value language more for its ability to serve as a class/racial/national marker than its ability to facilitate communication.
And if half the people mean "blue" and the other half don't? What does that do for communication?
People could say "decimate" means "blue" but that still doesn't make it right, nor contravene its etymological origins. Hard to get around "deci" in there.....
... the fact that you can do this with a telephone is pretty scary.
Just recently I saw a massive police overreaction (closing off a block of downtown DC in front of a university hospital, complete with police abusing citizens) just because some student left her backpack lying around. If this is all it takes to provoke this sort of reaction, and if a few phone calls can get someone "swatted", then why the hell does al-Qaeda bother with bombings and flying planes into things? Send over a few sleeper cells with nondescript bags and boxes and watch the panic fly.
If the purpose of terrorism is to terrorize, the terrorists have won.
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You only have a 70GB library? Hell, I usually shoot 30 - 90GB each and every shoot I do. And I'm probably on the low end in my studio...
That's the working library size.
Sorry, brain fart. 18MB images. And you apparently don't know what serious/professional photographers do. There's more to HDR than creating garish colors...
If you are working with raw images you are no longer in the market Apple is interested in.
Apparently.
Well, it's mostly opinion, but while this user thinks there are MANY reasons to be dismissive of Adobe and Lightroom, the fact that Lightroom is monolithic isn't one of them--that's a pro, not a con. If I shoot a 5 shot HDR that's 90GB of RAW files before the working TIFF is generated. I'm going to store and manipulate them by pulling and pushing every byte to the cloud? Who's the winner there? Apple with more people paying for iCloud storage? Comcast and the cell phone carriers with data overages?
This might be geared to a casual snapshotting, but the numbers don't add up to make it a substitute for a pro-level package. The serious/professional photographer is the loser here.
"With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, enabling you to safely store all of your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere"
I'm going to have my 70GB Aperture library in the cloud? I'm going to replicate a RAW workflow in the cloud? I've NEVER had a desire to access that on my iPhone, nor can I imagine anyone did. If one had the desire to export to iCloud they could; no one was forced to. There's got to be something else going on here that we're not privy to, but based on what I've heard they'd be better off selling the product to Nik/Google than letting it die (and trust me, that was hard to type).
Buy an iPhone then.
And good luck updating all the Android devices.
Especially sense most of them are abandoned shortly after release and can NEVER be upgraded.
If you'd added "by the carrier" that'd be more accurate.
"Secular decline" is sometimes used to describe a long-term trend of overall decline. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
I'd never heard that before. Thanks! I do wonder what the etymology of that is, though.
As opposed to a holy increase as in "Holy shit, we're actually making money with these ads?"
Spectacular, perhaps?
But computer scientist Charlie Catlett said the planners have taken precautions to design their sensors to observe mobile devices and count contact with the signal rather than record the digital address of every device.
That may be how it is designed now, but without (actually enforced) laws about the data collected and the legal uses thereof, tracking phone addresses and individuals is only a firmware update away.
How will they actually count without some unique identifier to tell the signals apart?
For example systems on Ubuntu 13.04 didn't get the heartbleed fix because 13.04 is at end of support, necessitating to first upgrade to 13.10 before getting the fix. .
End of life'd after just a year. Just wow. That would really want me to put Ubuntu into a production environment. Not.
They also say "may."
From the summary:
...he says that data won't be shared with anyone, including Google, without a customer's permission. ...
What he actually says is:
...Like Nest customer data, Dropcam will come under Nest’s privacy policy, which explains that data won’t be shared with anyone (including Google) without a customer’s permission....
What Nest's privacy policy actually says is:
We pledge to: ... Ask your permission before sharing your Personally Identifiable Information with third parties for purposes other than to provide Nest’s services,
Notice how, we won't share your data with anyone without your permission in the article suddenly morphs into we won't share your personally identifiable information with anyone in the actual privacy policy statement?
What about the other non-personally identifiable data, like when my house is empty? Or how many people are in the house? etc, etc.
I've read their policy, and I've been keeping an eye on it because I'm so wary of Google (I have a Nest thermostat, and some Protects all acquired before the purchase so my concern is a bit more than theoretical).
That being said, their privacy policy says, We may share your aggregated and anonymous information in a variety of ways, including to publish trends about energy use and conservation, to help utilities provide demand-response services and to generally improve our system. We’ve taken steps to ensure that the information cannot be linked back to you and we require our partners to keep all information in its anonymous form so what's the big deal if the information is aggregated saying A house somewhere is empty between 1 and 5pm and the temp has risen to 81 degrees, etc? As long it's anonymous, I don't care.
Don't trust the article. Read the privacy policies and they are consistent. The next version might be different as that'll be the first post-Google one.
Nah, I think the local government should review the contract to confirm that the provider is meeting their obligations. If they are not, then a simple contract cancellation due to non-performance of the provider should be all it takes to clean up the mess.
LOL, you must be new to this country.
If drivers violate the permitting rules, seize their vehicles and sell them at auction. Make the companies compelled to share that info with every driver so no one can claim "But I didn't know...."
After the first few, the rest will get the message.
yeah it's weird in that regard that they went for opening that pandoras box..
They had to do something to distract people from the story that they're sabotaging Cisco routers coming out of the U.S.
It's the South Park "Look! A wookie!!" defense.
Actually, if enough people use "decimate" to mean "blue" such that it's commonly understood that when you say "decimate" you mean "blue", then it would indeed make it right! Likewise, if someone were to say that "decimate" means "reduce by a tenth" when it is almost never used that way, that person would be incorrect. Language is defined by usage.
I mean, unless you value language more for its ability to serve as a class/racial/national marker than its ability to facilitate communication.
And if half the people mean "blue" and the other half don't? What does that do for communication?
Not necessarily.
People could say "decimate" means "blue" but that still doesn't make it right, nor contravene its etymological origins. Hard to get around "deci" in there.....
This incidental landscape protection came to a swift end, however, after diseases brought by Spanish colonists decimated the local population
Can't be too bad since decimate means reduce by a 10th....
Which just steals secrets from the states, vs corporate secrets and giving them to GM, Apple, General Electric, etc.
Two companies I refused to do (any more) business with trying to become one company I won't do any business with.
How long til we end up with just ATT&T and Comcast as players?
Kind of sounds like a snake eating its tail....
... the fact that you can do this with a telephone is pretty scary.
Just recently I saw a massive police overreaction (closing off a block of downtown DC in front of a university hospital, complete with police abusing citizens) just because some student left her backpack lying around. If this is all it takes to provoke this sort of reaction, and if a few phone calls can get someone "swatted", then why the hell does al-Qaeda bother with bombings and flying planes into things? Send over a few sleeper cells with nondescript bags and boxes and watch the panic fly.
If the purpose of terrorism is to terrorize, the terrorists have won.
...is the only person in the Senate who seems to have not been bought and sold by lobbyists.
. . . because there was no reasonable chance of this happening with Lucas. Man, how do you mess up Star Wars?!
Forgotten about JarJar Binks, have you?