FYI Also Digital Camera Owner, 4,423 pics, about 15 GB (I like large pics)
Agreed, I also keep photos based on how they came in - i.e. When the memory card got full, I dump the photos.
e.g.
Date Description\1,2,3, etc jpg
It seems logical to me that pictures are arranged in a more or less chronological fashion. at the same time though, I use
2000\WYD2000 Trip\Rome
I'm slowly putting dates on the directories, but it doesn't really matter because the photos themselves are time/date stamped. It just seems akward to name directories by category (i.e. family, beach), but instead by a short description like 2000\WYD2000 Trip\Rome.
Just wondering, do you delete a lot of pics or keep most?
Have you ever seen the SP250 in retail stores anywhere? It seems that _everywhere_ the SP250 is out of stock / backordered / not available (C4S.com is out of stock)
Damn I want one.
BTW, does the LCD have smaller letters / finer resolution than the SP100?
Don't.
It looks like shit. You can't copy / paste, the UI is enormous and unless you are running at 1280x1024 or higher. Fuckit, you want mine? $40 or offer - Damn near mint quality, retail box, mine only goes to 1996 (they offered 1 year updates for $40, which is 2x the cost of the paper edition)
And it doesn't have every map (or any), thats a seperate product and costs about $75 and is about 20 CDs.
Be aware that NGS isn't making it, it is another shitty company (mindscape).
There is also a 4 DVD version which takes up a lot less room.
I'm assuming a good DMZ would take care of problems such as these, as you might just as well assume that the local machine has been compromised.
Although sometimes the dmz machine gets hacked - personal experience here.
I still don't know how the machine got hacked, I restored from backups as soon as shit started going weird.
First question - anybody have some real good links for setting up a DMZ (I got hacked and I know I followed the directions exactly on one site)
Now, assuming the story is not bullshit, how would one defend against such an attack. I've heard several good ideas, such as boot/run from a cdr, creating a zip image of the HDD and restoring from it if something changes, etc...
A software solution would be really great, especially if it was an open source program.
Right. And there are no known vunerabilities in any other operating systems. I'm not a linux basher, but there are plenty of well know vunerabilities running on _all_ of the os'es out there.
Good funny tho.
They claim that the desktop is dead etc, etc. I'm not so sure. Shit, I swear I saw a picture of MS Bob (enhanced) there, that was weird (the MS gallery interface). Anyone remember the hacked version of that called MS Bubba (trailer park motif, shotguns, malt liquor etc, funny as hell)?
Anyways, I think the problem is this. We all have a shitload of files - on my 100gb drive, I have 85,120 files taking up about 80GB. This is my "extra storage" drive, I got 45,920 files on my C drive. Ok, perhaps I'm extreme, I have a shitload (about 40,000) of text files, books in pdf, etc etc..
Now, how the hell are you going to make it easy for me, or anyone, to access a good 120,000 files, preferably within less than 5 user interactions (clicks, speaking something, etc..)
OK, a new gui, cool, but if it is going to succeed it will essentially be a sytem based on "Organisational units that hold things" i.e. Folders / directories / objects.
A Chronological system won't work for a situation like this, it'd take too much of a mental effort -answer this - what did you have for dinner 1 week ago? I think that would be a perfect question, because things on the computer tend to be "routine" - did I work on this or this? It doesn't take a psyc major to tell you that humans suck at remembering what happened in the past.
With a hierarchical structure, it is painfully easy, and it scales well.
i.e.
e:\asdf (ok, ok, its easy to type and a throw-back to my 286 days, wee didnt have no stinkeen gooey)
e:\asdf\music
e:\asdf\music\Rock
e:\asdf\music\Rock\Prodigy - minefields.mp3
Moreover you can actually communicate the location to someone else, not "a file from sometime last week", or "the file in the Blue gallery on the right wall in the clipboard". Ever try to explain over the phone how to get to your house? Ever get lost becuase the directions sucked?
I can't argue with the article too much though - clippy the annoying mother fucker gets bashed on:)
So now terrorists won't be able to get access to the information that was freely available years prior to this.
Oh.
Ok.
I feel so safe now, knowing that the people in charge of so-called homeland security are a bunch of idiots.
It reminds me of the whole "STOP DECSS" thing.
I take offense to this not because these documents are being lost to the memory tubes, but that the administration is showing their incompetence / ignorance.
Yeah. This week. Next week we will expand it to . . . Drug dealers, because we know that they are all scumbags. Two weeks from now, muslims in general, then "brown skinned people". Perhaps not as drastically, but if something like this goes unchallenged . . .
And national security shouldn't be handled by the monkeys that do it now.
Thank You for so clearly pointing out the new policy of the United States Government.
Mindless "Rah, rah, rah, kill 'em all" American sheep such as yourself believe that all people who are arrested are guilty.
Due process is now dead. We just need to rename the country to something with "Democratic" or "People's" in front of it (a la DDR,PROC).
Well, considering that under the new rules, under certain situations, the goddamn prosecution has the ability to listen in . . .
Not only do federal prosecuters get to lie in front of juries, but they also get to listen your substandard cousel.
The Michigan Militia, etc.. are going to have a field day with this, as they rightously should.
It feels great to be living in the DDR^B^B^BUSA
Yes, I see. Access to drugs for prisoners has been completely cut off.
BTW, nothing is stopping people from whipping out their pistol of choice and creating holes in the security people before running inside, screaming "Ahalu Akbar" (or whatever they want) and blowing themselves (and others) up.
And as George Carlin said, "You can probably beat a guy to death using a Sunday New York Times"
The Disney Pacific Hotel uses (or used, this was 2 or 3 years ago) magnetic striped cards as door access. I accidentally (wrong floor, slightly drunk. OK, more than slightly) walked into a room. 2 asian businessmen, 2 laptops, portable printers, one of those super nice japanese video camers, a hooker (well, maybe not, but it was kinda suspicious, she wasn't wearing much, neither were they) etc.
Next day, tried about 50 rooms, got green lights on 12 of them.
I haven't stayed at a hotel that used magnetic card locks since. Realistically, how hard is it to get a maid's master key....
Personally, I'd think that the policy makers are not idiots, but a bunch of assholes who snort too much fucking cocaine, but whatever.
I never saw a suicide bomber holding a bag. They usually have explosives (gasp) taped to their bodies. And ball bearings and other nasties.
This, as with most of the bullshit that is being implemented is security through stupidity. It is a herd mentality that makes everyone feel that they are safe.
You're not fucking safe.
Imagine this: 4 men walk into comdex with Glocks (shoulder holster). 20 rounds in a clip, 4 shooters have time to cycle through 4,5,6 clips before the cops get there (easily). This ain't CS or Scarface, you shoot someone, they go down, aim and they stay down. (Give the shooters angel dust for the hell of it.)
Nice fuckin massacre if you just do that. Take a MAC-10 to discourage hero's. . .
4x6x20 = 480 people, lets call it 400, wasted bullets, fat fuckers that take 2 shots to go down, you know - All in less than 5 minutes.
A shooting massacre of 400 people would certainly make people hesitant to goto any tradeshows, or even the mall. It's fuckin' scare the shit out of the public, but thats the idea.
Combine that with ebola (flood the fire system with a solution, which will be dispersed when you set off the alarms, so that when the fuckload of ems people come in, they get infected, which infects the doctors, the hospitals, and so on. You got at least 12 hours (very, very conservative) before _anyone_ shows symthoms. . .
There you go - guide to 20,000 deaths, a VERY conservative estimate. Shit, culture strep bacteria for a week, dry it out and then mortar and pestle the result - disperse that and see how many people get sick - nearly half of the strains are drug resistant.
Look. Right now, all the security is based on the "Good citizens, please do not bring your bad things into here. If you do, we will ask you to leave" principle. Moreover, if you're security guards are unarmed 65 year old men, younger, fatter men, or well past middle aged women the only security they provide is subtracting one bullet from what may of have been allocated for you. I'm not being dark, only realistic, if someone wants to go apeshit and start a massacre, there is nothing that can be done about it.
(Case in point, the school shootings, esp Columbine - where the fucking coward police and SWAT sat outside while people were being shot inside.)
The only thing this will change is that a shitload of laptops will get stolen from hotel rooms, the vending mother fuckers who charge $3 for a coke will make more money, the terrorists, should they desire to come, will carry fake id's and walk in with their "bad things" in the vendor supplied bags that they got the day before.
Oh.
That and fucking sheep will feel safer and the wanna-be police will get their jollies because they have some power and get to strip search the booth babes.
It's been out for over a month. WTF?
I really dislike the gameplay, although it has potential. The crosshairs on the sniper rifle suck and the engine is slow.
Oh well..
re: my sig.
It's intentional - easy to search for a string when looking for my past comments. If it was totally correct, other people's stuff would come up in the search (perhaps). It's good enough for my purposes.
But Charlie Rose is a NPR / PBS journalist (among other things). Even though it is on the cisco site, has anyone seen the interview in audio format (or even video?)
I'm not going to argue about whether the o/s is good or not - but you mention that MS had time to speed up their code.
Think about this for a sec:
What incentive does a software manufacturer have to make their code run faster? Especially a large o/s manufacturer like MS.
People are going to buy your o/s anyways, if they don't have a fast enough computer, they will upgrade for the software, possibly even buying a new box.
Corporate upgrades of software, at least in my experience, always come with upgrades of hardware.
And people in TV shows should drive exactly what around? I'm not arguing that product placement isnt fucking annoying, but to a certain degree, it makes the shows more realistic, honestly, duff beer ain't going to fly.
And Qwest (being sued) has known about xp for a long time too. 260,000 customers of theirs have the "intel series" of modems, which also do not work with WIN XP as of yet. Intel, being the lazy fucks that they are, haven't written the drivers for the 2200 / 3200 yet. I don't blame them, a 2100 goes on ebay for a whopping five bucks, but manufacturers that dont write drivers for old hardware really, really piss me off.
Ironically, the intel 3200 does not work (period, it's not unsupported, it simply doesn't work) with VIA chipsets, but thats a conspiracy theory for another day.
FYI, some of the/.'ers here keep on spouting about 36 exposures to a roll. First off, if you do professional photography, you don't use 35mm - even so you can fit nearly 80 frames into a standard film canister - assuming you are not using a motor drive, which can hold a crapload more. 35mm is enough for most things, hell, most pictures in newspapers are of pathetically low quality, same thing for webpages.
Anyways, thats just a FYI
I realize that her point is more about the deletion of photos than the manipulation of photos, but even a begining photography student will understand that regular photos can be modified very easily. Hell - Manipulation of a photo is essentially required to win a photo competition.
I'd have to say that, to a certain extent, regular photographs are more suceptible to editing - when you develop a picture yourself (i.e. not at costco [which btw kicks ass]) you develop it with your own, unique touch - assuming you even bother to enlarge it (you make a contact sheet before you begin enlarging, deciding which photographs you will develop, and which ones you will not, and the majority will never be developed past the contact sheet stage because it takes a nice chunk of time for each frame that you blow up) Anyways, each person develops the frame in their own way, even depending on how they feel. This process is essentially editing - whether be it cropping, color balancing, over / underexposing, dodging / burining sections, et cetera. Every image is edited.
In all the frames I've developed, there is not one picture that I have tweaked to make it look "better".
Face it - the accurate recording of history is a naieve dream. Photography, like anything else, is subjective.
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FYI Also Digital Camera Owner, 4,423 pics, about 15 GB (I like large pics)
Agreed, I also keep photos based on how they came in - i.e. When the memory card got full, I dump the photos.
e.g.
Date Description\1,2,3, etc jpg
It seems logical to me that pictures are arranged in a more or less chronological fashion. at the same time though, I use
2000\WYD2000 Trip\Rome
I'm slowly putting dates on the directories, but it doesn't really matter because the photos themselves are time/date stamped. It just seems akward to name directories by category (i.e. family, beach), but instead by a short description like 2000\WYD2000 Trip\Rome.
Just wondering, do you delete a lot of pics or keep most?
Have you ever seen the SP250 in retail stores anywhere? It seems that _everywhere_ the SP250 is out of stock / backordered / not available (C4S.com is out of stock)
Damn I want one.
BTW, does the LCD have smaller letters / finer resolution than the SP100?
Don't.
It looks like shit. You can't copy / paste, the UI is enormous and unless you are running at 1280x1024 or higher. Fuckit, you want mine? $40 or offer - Damn near mint quality, retail box, mine only goes to 1996 (they offered 1 year updates for $40, which is 2x the cost of the paper edition)
And it doesn't have every map (or any), thats a seperate product and costs about $75 and is about 20 CDs.
Be aware that NGS isn't making it, it is another shitty company (mindscape).
There is also a 4 DVD version which takes up a lot less room.
I'm assuming a good DMZ would take care of problems such as these, as you might just as well assume that the local machine has been compromised.
Although sometimes the dmz machine gets hacked - personal experience here.
I still don't know how the machine got hacked, I restored from backups as soon as shit started going weird.
First question - anybody have some real good links for setting up a DMZ (I got hacked and I know I followed the directions exactly on one site)
Now, assuming the story is not bullshit, how would one defend against such an attack. I've heard several good ideas, such as boot/run from a cdr, creating a zip image of the HDD and restoring from it if something changes, etc...
A software solution would be really great, especially if it was an open source program.
Right. And there are no known vunerabilities in any other operating systems. I'm not a linux basher, but there are plenty of well know vunerabilities running on _all_ of the os'es out there.
Good funny tho.
They claim that the desktop is dead etc, etc. I'm not so sure. Shit, I swear I saw a picture of MS Bob (enhanced) there, that was weird (the MS gallery interface). Anyone remember the hacked version of that called MS Bubba (trailer park motif, shotguns, malt liquor etc, funny as hell)?
:)
Anyways, I think the problem is this. We all have a shitload of files - on my 100gb drive, I have 85,120 files taking up about 80GB. This is my "extra storage" drive, I got 45,920 files on my C drive. Ok, perhaps I'm extreme, I have a shitload (about 40,000) of text files, books in pdf, etc etc..
Now, how the hell are you going to make it easy for me, or anyone, to access a good 120,000 files, preferably within less than 5 user interactions (clicks, speaking something, etc..)
OK, a new gui, cool, but if it is going to succeed it will essentially be a sytem based on "Organisational units that hold things" i.e. Folders / directories / objects.
A Chronological system won't work for a situation like this, it'd take too much of a mental effort -answer this - what did you have for dinner 1 week ago? I think that would be a perfect question, because things on the computer tend to be "routine" - did I work on this or this? It doesn't take a psyc major to tell you that humans suck at remembering what happened in the past.
With a hierarchical structure, it is painfully easy, and it scales well.
i.e.
e:\asdf (ok, ok, its easy to type and a throw-back to my 286 days, wee didnt have no stinkeen gooey)
e:\asdf\music
e:\asdf\music\Rock
e:\asdf\music\Rock\Prodigy - minefields.mp3
Moreover you can actually communicate the location to someone else, not "a file from sometime last week", or "the file in the Blue gallery on the right wall in the clipboard". Ever try to explain over the phone how to get to your house? Ever get lost becuase the directions sucked?
I can't argue with the article too much though - clippy the annoying mother fucker gets bashed on
So now terrorists won't be able to get access to the information that was freely available years prior to this.
Oh.
Ok.
I feel so safe now, knowing that the people in charge of so-called homeland security are a bunch of idiots.
It reminds me of the whole "STOP DECSS" thing.
I take offense to this not because these documents are being lost to the memory tubes, but that the administration is showing their incompetence / ignorance.
If you don't get this, please, please, see monty python and the holy grail. (just had to explain it to some nitwit who has never seen it)
Yeah. This week. Next week we will expand it to . . . Drug dealers, because we know that they are all scumbags. Two weeks from now, muslims in general, then "brown skinned people". Perhaps not as drastically, but if something like this goes unchallenged . . .
And national security shouldn't be handled by the monkeys that do it now.
Thank You for so clearly pointing out the new policy of the United States Government.
Mindless "Rah, rah, rah, kill 'em all" American sheep such as yourself believe that all people who are arrested are guilty.
Due process is now dead. We just need to rename the country to something with "Democratic" or "People's" in front of it (a la DDR,PROC).
Well, considering that under the new rules, under certain situations, the goddamn prosecution has the ability to listen in . . .
Not only do federal prosecuters get to lie in front of juries, but they also get to listen your substandard cousel.
The Michigan Militia, etc.. are going to have a field day with this, as they rightously should.
It feels great to be living in the DDR^B^B^BUSA
Yes, I see. Access to drugs for prisoners has been completely cut off.
BTW, nothing is stopping people from whipping out their pistol of choice and creating holes in the security people before running inside, screaming "Ahalu Akbar" (or whatever they want) and blowing themselves (and others) up.
And as George Carlin said, "You can probably beat a guy to death using a Sunday New York Times"
The Disney Pacific Hotel uses (or used, this was 2 or 3 years ago) magnetic striped cards as door access. I accidentally (wrong floor, slightly drunk. OK, more than slightly) walked into a room. 2 asian businessmen, 2 laptops, portable printers, one of those super nice japanese video camers, a hooker (well, maybe not, but it was kinda suspicious, she wasn't wearing much, neither were they) etc.
Next day, tried about 50 rooms, got green lights on 12 of them.
I haven't stayed at a hotel that used magnetic card locks since. Realistically, how hard is it to get a maid's master key....
Personally, I'd think that the policy makers are not idiots, but a bunch of assholes who snort too much fucking cocaine, but whatever.
I never saw a suicide bomber holding a bag. They usually have explosives (gasp) taped to their bodies. And ball bearings and other nasties.
This, as with most of the bullshit that is being implemented is security through stupidity. It is a herd mentality that makes everyone feel that they are safe.
You're not fucking safe.
Imagine this: 4 men walk into comdex with Glocks (shoulder holster). 20 rounds in a clip, 4 shooters have time to cycle through 4,5,6 clips before the cops get there (easily). This ain't CS or Scarface, you shoot someone, they go down, aim and they stay down. (Give the shooters angel dust for the hell of it.)
Nice fuckin massacre if you just do that. Take a MAC-10 to discourage hero's. . .
4x6x20 = 480 people, lets call it 400, wasted bullets, fat fuckers that take 2 shots to go down, you know - All in less than 5 minutes.
A shooting massacre of 400 people would certainly make people hesitant to goto any tradeshows, or even the mall. It's fuckin' scare the shit out of the public, but thats the idea.
Combine that with ebola (flood the fire system with a solution, which will be dispersed when you set off the alarms, so that when the fuckload of ems people come in, they get infected, which infects the doctors, the hospitals, and so on. You got at least 12 hours (very, very conservative) before _anyone_ shows symthoms. . .
There you go - guide to 20,000 deaths, a VERY conservative estimate. Shit, culture strep bacteria for a week, dry it out and then mortar and pestle the result - disperse that and see how many people get sick - nearly half of the strains are drug resistant.
Look. Right now, all the security is based on the "Good citizens, please do not bring your bad things into here. If you do, we will ask you to leave" principle. Moreover, if you're security guards are unarmed 65 year old men, younger, fatter men, or well past middle aged women the only security they provide is subtracting one bullet from what may of have been allocated for you. I'm not being dark, only realistic, if someone wants to go apeshit and start a massacre, there is nothing that can be done about it.
(Case in point, the school shootings, esp Columbine - where the fucking coward police and SWAT sat outside while people were being shot inside.)
The only thing this will change is that a shitload of laptops will get stolen from hotel rooms, the vending mother fuckers who charge $3 for a coke will make more money, the terrorists, should they desire to come, will carry fake id's and walk in with their "bad things" in the vendor supplied bags that they got the day before.
Oh.
That and fucking sheep will feel safer and the wanna-be police will get their jollies because they have some power and get to strip search the booth babes.
/finger
yes people do. _2_
1 was out about 3-4 months ago.
I guess I had a special copy.
It's been out for over a month. WTF?
I really dislike the gameplay, although it has potential. The crosshairs on the sniper rifle suck and the engine is slow.
Oh well..
re: my sig.
It's intentional - easy to search for a string when looking for my past comments. If it was totally correct, other people's stuff would come up in the search (perhaps). It's good enough for my purposes.
Hey, you never know /.
Just mention Linu s|x and we will all flock over.
BTW, you can still get your subs cut the old way if you ask for it (his sig). Kick ass site btw. The V is the path to nirvana. Fuck the new Cut!
But Charlie Rose is a NPR / PBS journalist (among other things). Even though it is on the cisco site, has anyone seen the interview in audio format (or even video?)
I'm not going to argue about whether the o/s is good or not - but you mention that MS had time to speed up their code.
Think about this for a sec:
What incentive does a software manufacturer have to make their code run faster? Especially a large o/s manufacturer like MS.
People are going to buy your o/s anyways, if they don't have a fast enough computer, they will upgrade for the software, possibly even buying a new box.
Corporate upgrades of software, at least in my experience, always come with upgrades of hardware.
And people in TV shows should drive exactly what around? I'm not arguing that product placement isnt fucking annoying, but to a certain degree, it makes the shows more realistic, honestly, duff beer ain't going to fly.
It's ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
If you're going to make references to a movie . . .
And Qwest (being sued) has known about xp for a long time too. 260,000 customers of theirs have the "intel series" of modems, which also do not work with WIN XP as of yet. Intel, being the lazy fucks that they are, haven't written the drivers for the 2200 / 3200 yet. I don't blame them, a 2100 goes on ebay for a whopping five bucks, but manufacturers that dont write drivers for old hardware really, really piss me off.
Ironically, the intel 3200 does not work (period, it's not unsupported, it simply doesn't work) with VIA chipsets, but thats a conspiracy theory for another day.
What will we do when cookie monster is removed from the cast of Sesamee Street?
FYI, some of the /.'ers here keep on spouting about 36 exposures to a roll. First off, if you do professional photography, you don't use 35mm - even so you can fit nearly 80 frames into a standard film canister - assuming you are not using a motor drive, which can hold a crapload more. 35mm is enough for most things, hell, most pictures in newspapers are of pathetically low quality, same thing for webpages.
Anyways, thats just a FYI
I realize that her point is more about the deletion of photos than the manipulation of photos, but even a begining photography student will understand that regular photos can be modified very easily. Hell - Manipulation of a photo is essentially required to win a photo competition.
I'd have to say that, to a certain extent, regular photographs are more suceptible to editing - when you develop a picture yourself (i.e. not at costco [which btw kicks ass]) you develop it with your own, unique touch - assuming you even bother to enlarge it (you make a contact sheet before you begin enlarging, deciding which photographs you will develop, and which ones you will not, and the majority will never be developed past the contact sheet stage because it takes a nice chunk of time for each frame that you blow up) Anyways, each person develops the frame in their own way, even depending on how they feel. This process is essentially editing - whether be it cropping, color balancing, over / underexposing, dodging / burining sections, et cetera. Every image is edited.
In all the frames I've developed, there is not one picture that I have tweaked to make it look "better".
Face it - the accurate recording of history is a naieve dream. Photography, like anything else, is subjective.