The City of Portland, Oregon will be extremely disappointed when they find out that holding down the shift key and typing "fund" doesn't work like it did in SimCity Classic.
I've seen nearly-identical "deals" for photography packages on Groupon before. To be a successful commercial photographer, you need 1) equipment 2) a measure of skill and talent and 3) enough business smarts to make enough money for your time.
The move to digital has significantly lowered requirement #1, equipment. Until an photographer starts building a portfolio and eliciting feedback from others (preferably experienced photographers), they won't have a clue as to requirement #2, their skill level. That lack of understanding hurts requirement #3, knowing what to charge.
So here's how the scenario above will play out. 300 Groupon users will call and make bookings in the near future. The photographer will accept a handful of them at first, and quickly realize what he/she's gotten him/herself into. The photographer will then try to weasel out of the rest of the coupons; pushing available dates into the distant future, cancellations, attempting to disqualify the coupon, attempting to change the terms, stalling, and finally flat our ignoring them. Groupon users will then complain the Groupon, who will eventually get the money back, and everyone will walk away unhappy.
People will be quick to blame Groupon in this case. But its wholly the photographers fault. If you, as a business owner, overcommit your product, your resources, your services, or yourself, you only have yourself to blame.
Disclosure: I've done some work as a commercial photographer, mostly because I enjoy the occasional change from the usual 9-5 IT work. Feel free to hit up the link in my sig.
Doh. Just realized I wasn't logged in and posted that as Anon. Link in sig is below:
Rayotek CEO Bill Raggio: "You can hire some giant squid to come over with a sledgehammer and just start bashing away on that glass sphere. And it won't hurt it."
I'm sold. If there's anything I fear more while in my personal sub than sharks with head-mounted-lasers, it's hired squids wielding sledgehammers.
Also those homeless sperms whales that approach your sub at the intersection and want to squeegee your front porthole for spare change are annoying too.
I can't believe this was modded [mod]. You're obviously another rabid [OS] fanboy worshiping at the feet of [Tech CEO]. The summary was horribly written, but what do you expect from [Slashdot Editor]? Why is this even filed under [Slashdot category, not 'Idle']? I should have been filed under [Slashdot category, use 'Idle']. While IANA[letter], I do know about [random subject] from reading [website] and you'll notice I have a [number from 1 to 100] Slashdot ID. What needs to be done is [personal opinion]. Of course, it'll never work because [conspiracy theory]. Finally, in [political organization] [country], [object] [verb] YOU!
Not quite. The photographer holds the copyright. People in the pictures have a right to publicity, but its considered separate from the actual copyright on the photo. Like in the Virgin Mobile case, they legally had the copyright but did not have consent from the model, aka "right to publicity".
Funny, I thought the law was quite clear about needing explicit permission to use one's likeness for advertising. I believe it's referred to as personality rights, or more specifically in the US, right to publicity. Failure to do so can result in a lawsuit for invasion of privacy through misappropriation of name or likeness and/or violation of the right of publicity.
Though I'm sure FB is already prepared to update its terms of use to allow this kind of use, no doubt by dangling useless "Facebook credits" in front of the users to get them to sign...
(IANAL, but have worked enough with commercial photography to know you always need a release for this kind of use in advertising)
I'm not going to talk heavily about whether or not Windows Phone 7 is a good consumer phone. Only time will tell what kind of market adoption it will have verses the iPhone, Android, and Blackberries already present in the market.
I will, however, bemoan the complete lack of enterprise-ready features. Support for Exchange and and Office are good, but it's still a step backward from Windows Mobile 6.5. There's no support for 3rd party or enterprise apps. No mention of tethering or security certificates. Enterprise features such as have been promised at a future date, but I need a enterprise ready phone now. Maybe the Windows mobile 6.5 platform can be stretched to cover this need another year or two. But at this point, they're very little reason not to accept the reduced set of enterprise features and move to Android or the iPhone.
In its rush to grab a chunk of the consumer market, Microsoft may lose what market it had in the enterprise world.
Sorry, I should have wrapped that comment in facetious tags. Of course doing that would land oneself in jail faster than you can say the words "contempt of court".
Then again, we are talking about an average FaceBook user here, so maybe the judge should just be happy it isn't typed in all caps.
I bought a used 3DO with a number of games really cheaply. The game I loved the most was Return Fire, mostly for the crazy multi-player matches I had with my friends and/or brothers. I tried the sequel for the PC some years later but it wasn't the same.
Twisted: The Game Show was fun for parties too, but eventually got old. I still have my lifetime supply of nothing that I won by spinning a zero.
I've had just about enough of this "Sun". First, we've learned it's to blame for global warming, now it's setting fires throughout the world. Why, why does it hate our liberties? How many innocents must die of skin cancer before someone acts? How many children must we let it burn on metal playground equipment? When will it strike you with sunburn in your very own backyard?? The world must stand up to this terrorism! We must strike fast and we must strike hard! All good men must stand up and demand the world governments strike with the biggest atomic - no, hydrogen bomb and wipe this great evil from the sky above!!!
Urge your leaders to act now before it is to late! Think of the children!
About a year ago I was invited and signed up with Getty through the initial program with Flickr. I had many discussions with friends who are professional photographers about whether or not I should sign up, and most echo what is being said here: the royalty rates are too low. This is a fair assessment; Getty pays between 20% to 30% commission for photos(depending on the license type), far below what most stock and micro-stock agencies will pay. For me however, the other advantages far outweighed the lower royalty rates. Having Getty handle everything is for me worth the fat cut they take. They are a large agency, and do attract a huge amount of customers, most being corporate-use type who are use to paying high amounts for photos. They will go after cases of infringement of photos licensed through them. Finally, I get bragging rights to be able to say I contract with Getty (this makes my pro photographer friends very mad. Now we have an understanding not to mention the "G" word). Basically, once I sat down, counted the cost and the other options, I decided it was worth signing up for. I've made enough money to keep me happy and be able to support my expensive photography habit.
Getty itself is in a interesting position here. For the longest time, stock photography was the domain of professional photographers. With the advent of digital photography, there's a new wave of pro-amateurs that have flourished in sites like Flickr. At the same time, traditional photographers worked themselves into a conformable niche shooting increasingly cliche photos. Creative professionals eventually started noticing they could find more creative photos on sites like Flickr and negotiate dirt-cheap rates directly with the photographer cutting out agencies like Getty out altogether. The deal between Getty and Flickr was smart play from Getty to keep themselves relevant in the changing market. There's still a need for a photo agency to do the middle-man work of contracts, licensing, releases, research, etc., at least for now.
So, in summary, this move is good for Getty, good for non-professional photographers, and not good for existing professional photographers.
They used a farm of PS3s running Linux to crack the encryption. This is why Sony, acting in behalf of the US DOD, removed the "Other OS" installation option and randomly bricked consoles through last week's firmware update, (albeit too late to prevent the video from being released).
Also, as documented in FCC filings, Apple's iPad has a secret built-in front camera used to spy on the American people to find the person who leaked the data. That's why the wifi connection is so poor, most of it is saturated sending live video to DHS.
Finally. Microsoft is also involved somehow. I'm not sure how, but I'm sure the OOXML file format is somehow involved.
Seriously. You're probably going to want a separate server(s) for this job. You didn't specifiy what you're indexing, how often, or where, however I'll make some assumptions and point you towards an enterprise search appliance or product. Many will probably point you to Google Enterprise Search. I've worked with the search functionality withing Microsoft Sharepoint 2007, and it's (ostensibly) free spin-off, Microsoft Search Server. Again, you'll probably need to dedicate some hardware to this. In addition to crawling all the content, the search product will also need to index and present it to the user. This requires a front-end crawling role, back-end indexing role, and a database to keep all the data in. Dealing with several hundred gigs mean you'll want to have separate servers for all 3 (again, basing this off of my knowledge of MS products. YMMV). The nice part is that your users will work through a webpage, and the workstation won't be tied up doing any crunching of it's own.
I have no idea about the modding on my comment. And I tried to keep my comments as to the event as neutral as possible. However, after the use of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube with the riots and demonstrations in Iran, I would suspect world governments would takes these sites much more seriously; blocking them when possible to prevent their own people from organizing and DOS'ing them outright to prevent others (or if they don't have effective filtering already in place).
Some people didn't like what was posted to twitter in the past 24 hours and had other people take it down. It's a distraction. Scrutinize what happened before it down and not the distraction of it going down and you'll have your answer.
Wasn't yesterday the anniversary of the Russian military incursion in South Ossetia in Georgia? Perhaps after Twitter's widespread involvement with the events in Iran, certain political elements didn't want it happening there as well?
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Only if you wear it in an ironic, hipster fashion.
The City of Portland, Oregon will be extremely disappointed when they find out that holding down the shift key and typing "fund" doesn't work like it did in SimCity Classic.
I've seen nearly-identical "deals" for photography packages on Groupon before. To be a successful commercial photographer, you need 1) equipment 2) a measure of skill and talent and 3) enough business smarts to make enough money for your time.
The move to digital has significantly lowered requirement #1, equipment. Until an photographer starts building a portfolio and eliciting feedback from others (preferably experienced photographers), they won't have a clue as to requirement #2, their skill level. That lack of understanding hurts requirement #3, knowing what to charge.
So here's how the scenario above will play out. 300 Groupon users will call and make bookings in the near future. The photographer will accept a handful of them at first, and quickly realize what he/she's gotten him/herself into. The photographer will then try to weasel out of the rest of the coupons; pushing available dates into the distant future, cancellations, attempting to disqualify the coupon, attempting to change the terms, stalling, and finally flat our ignoring them. Groupon users will then complain the Groupon, who will eventually get the money back, and everyone will walk away unhappy.
People will be quick to blame Groupon in this case. But its wholly the photographers fault. If you, as a business owner, overcommit your product, your resources, your services, or yourself, you only have yourself to blame.
Disclosure: I've done some work as a commercial photographer, mostly because I enjoy the occasional change from the usual 9-5 IT work. Feel free to hit up the link in my sig.
Doh. Just realized I wasn't logged in and posted that as Anon. Link in sig is below:
From the article:
Rayotek CEO Bill Raggio: "You can hire some giant squid to come over with a sledgehammer and just start bashing away on that glass sphere. And it won't hurt it."
I'm sold. If there's anything I fear more while in my personal sub than sharks with head-mounted-lasers, it's hired squids wielding sledgehammers.
Also those homeless sperms whales that approach your sub at the intersection and want to squeegee your front porthole for spare change are annoying too.
It's only creepy if you haven't yet welcomed our self-aware software overlords.
I had no idea I was self-aware.
I can't believe this was modded [mod]. You're obviously another rabid [OS] fanboy worshiping at the feet of [Tech CEO]. The summary was horribly written, but what do you expect from [Slashdot Editor]? Why is this even filed under [Slashdot category, not 'Idle']? I should have been filed under [Slashdot category, use 'Idle']. While IANA[letter], I do know about [random subject] from reading [website] and you'll notice I have a [number from 1 to 100] Slashdot ID. What needs to be done is [personal opinion]. Of course, it'll never work because [conspiracy theory]. Finally, in [political organization] [country], [object] [verb] YOU!
Please mod this comment [cardinal direction]
Don't freak out that there's now an opening in the corona. Freak out when a celestial lime slice gets wedged it.
Not quite. The photographer holds the copyright. People in the pictures have a right to publicity, but its considered separate from the actual copyright on the photo. Like in the Virgin Mobile case, they legally had the copyright but did not have consent from the model, aka "right to publicity".
Funny, I thought the law was quite clear about needing explicit permission to use one's likeness for advertising. I believe it's referred to as personality rights, or more specifically in the US, right to publicity. Failure to do so can result in a lawsuit for invasion of privacy through misappropriation of name or likeness and/or violation of the right of publicity.
Though I'm sure FB is already prepared to update its terms of use to allow this kind of use, no doubt by dangling useless "Facebook credits" in front of the users to get them to sign...
(IANAL, but have worked enough with commercial photography to know you always need a release for this kind of use in advertising)
Empire Fulton Ferry Park is right down the street from where I live. There's only so many places it could be hid.
I think I need to fire up my spare laptop with a LiveCD and find it.
For science
I'm not going to talk heavily about whether or not Windows Phone 7 is a good consumer phone. Only time will tell what kind of market adoption it will have verses the iPhone, Android, and Blackberries already present in the market.
I will, however, bemoan the complete lack of enterprise-ready features. Support for Exchange and and Office are good, but it's still a step backward from Windows Mobile 6.5. There's no support for 3rd party or enterprise apps. No mention of tethering or security certificates. Enterprise features such as have been promised at a future date, but I need a enterprise ready phone now. Maybe the Windows mobile 6.5 platform can be stretched to cover this need another year or two. But at this point, they're very little reason not to accept the reduced set of enterprise features and move to Android or the iPhone.
In its rush to grab a chunk of the consumer market, Microsoft may lose what market it had in the enterprise world.
No thank you to the surveillance state... we have all seen Metropolis, and as cool as it was, we don't want to live there.
Yes, but without surveillance, how else would Joh Fredersen know about the explosion at the M-Machine and the workers gathering? Rely on Josephat?
Sorry, I should have wrapped that comment in facetious tags. Of course doing that would land oneself in jail faster than you can say the words "contempt of court".
Then again, we are talking about an average FaceBook user here, so maybe the judge should just be happy it isn't typed in all caps.
The Judge demanded she write a 5 page paper, but didn't make any mention of what size font was required.
I'd write that 5 pages...
in 72pt...
comic sans
Just sayin'...
I bought a used 3DO with a number of games really cheaply. The game I loved the most was Return Fire, mostly for the crazy multi-player matches I had with my friends and/or brothers. I tried the sequel for the PC some years later but it wasn't the same.
Twisted: The Game Show was fun for parties too, but eventually got old. I still have my lifetime supply of nothing that I won by spinning a zero.
I've had just about enough of this "Sun". First, we've learned it's to blame for global warming, now it's setting fires throughout the world. Why, why does it hate our liberties? How many innocents must die of skin cancer before someone acts? How many children must we let it burn on metal playground equipment? When will it strike you with sunburn in your very own backyard?? The world must stand up to this terrorism! We must strike fast and we must strike hard! All good men must stand up and demand the world governments strike with the biggest atomic - no, hydrogen bomb and wipe this great evil from the sky above!!!
Urge your leaders to act now before it is to late! Think of the children!
About a year ago I was invited and signed up with Getty through the initial program with Flickr. I had many discussions with friends who are professional photographers about whether or not I should sign up, and most echo what is being said here: the royalty rates are too low. This is a fair assessment; Getty pays between 20% to 30% commission for photos(depending on the license type), far below what most stock and micro-stock agencies will pay. For me however, the other advantages far outweighed the lower royalty rates. Having Getty handle everything is for me worth the fat cut they take. They are a large agency, and do attract a huge amount of customers, most being corporate-use type who are use to paying high amounts for photos. They will go after cases of infringement of photos licensed through them. Finally, I get bragging rights to be able to say I contract with Getty (this makes my pro photographer friends very mad. Now we have an understanding not to mention the "G" word). Basically, once I sat down, counted the cost and the other options, I decided it was worth signing up for. I've made enough money to keep me happy and be able to support my expensive photography habit.
Getty itself is in a interesting position here. For the longest time, stock photography was the domain of professional photographers. With the advent of digital photography, there's a new wave of pro-amateurs that have flourished in sites like Flickr. At the same time, traditional photographers worked themselves into a conformable niche shooting increasingly cliche photos. Creative professionals eventually started noticing they could find more creative photos on sites like Flickr and negotiate dirt-cheap rates directly with the photographer cutting out agencies like Getty out altogether. The deal between Getty and Flickr was smart play from Getty to keep themselves relevant in the changing market. There's still a need for a photo agency to do the middle-man work of contracts, licensing, releases, research, etc., at least for now.
So, in summary, this move is good for Getty, good for non-professional photographers, and not good for existing professional photographers.
btw, if anyone is interested, here's my small catalog on Getty and a shameless plug for my site on Flickr
They used a farm of PS3s running Linux to crack the encryption. This is why Sony, acting in behalf of the US DOD, removed the "Other OS" installation option and randomly bricked consoles through last week's firmware update, (albeit too late to prevent the video from being released). Also, as documented in FCC filings, Apple's iPad has a secret built-in front camera used to spy on the American people to find the person who leaked the data. That's why the wifi connection is so poor, most of it is saturated sending live video to DHS. Finally. Microsoft is also involved somehow. I'm not sure how, but I'm sure the OOXML file format is somehow involved.
Is there currently a set of programs that does this in some automated fashion that will generate a list of discrepencies to parse through?
I believe RootkitRevealer does, although it does it by comparing the files as shown through Windows to a raw read of the file table.
Seriously. You're probably going to want a separate server(s) for this job. You didn't specifiy what you're indexing, how often, or where, however I'll make some assumptions and point you towards an enterprise search appliance or product. Many will probably point you to Google Enterprise Search. I've worked with the search functionality withing Microsoft Sharepoint 2007, and it's (ostensibly) free spin-off, Microsoft Search Server. Again, you'll probably need to dedicate some hardware to this. In addition to crawling all the content, the search product will also need to index and present it to the user. This requires a front-end crawling role, back-end indexing role, and a database to keep all the data in. Dealing with several hundred gigs mean you'll want to have separate servers for all 3 (again, basing this off of my knowledge of MS products. YMMV). The nice part is that your users will work through a webpage, and the workstation won't be tied up doing any crunching of it's own.
Try starting here: http://www.google.com/enterprise/
or here: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/en/us/search-server-express.aspx
Ralph Lauren's response was also obviously disproportionate
Suddenly I foresee these becoming much more popular, and then much less legal (if they even are to begin with).
Businesses suing over Global Warming science? I'm starting my new book now, and it's gonna be called Inherit the Hot Wind: The Scopes Money Trial.
I have no idea about the modding on my comment. And I tried to keep my comments as to the event as neutral as possible. However, after the use of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube with the riots and demonstrations in Iran, I would suspect world governments would takes these sites much more seriously; blocking them when possible to prevent their own people from organizing and DOS'ing them outright to prevent others (or if they don't have effective filtering already in place).
Some people didn't like what was posted to twitter in the past 24 hours and had other people take it down. It's a distraction. Scrutinize what happened before it down and not the distraction of it going down and you'll have your answer.
Wasn't yesterday the anniversary of the Russian military incursion in South Ossetia in Georgia? Perhaps after Twitter's widespread involvement with the events in Iran, certain political elements didn't want it happening there as well?