Thanks for the pointer. This looks really great None of my searches on Google turned that up. I'm going to be trying this out. This may get me to switch from photoshop for part of my workflow. Now if only there was some good printing software. Maybe I should write some... Time to check out the Epson drivers I guess.
Well there are a few things that keep me from using the gimp for my own work, but the UI isn't one of them. It's pretty good, good enough for most people, and looks like a serious piece of software which makes it good for the "See, open source, free ( in both senses ) software can be very sophisticated." demo.
Unfortunately for my own work the Gimp has some pretty serious shortcomings. You are limited to only 24 bits, and I really want to work in at 48 bit from 36 bit source. If there is color management or matching in this or any other program available on Linux I'd like to know about it. I'm not sure if the gamma and curve control is adequate, although given the first two limitations, it doesn't really matter. Windows just plain sucks except that you can run photoshop and some scanners on it, and printer support is pretty good. OSX looks pretty nice, maybe I'll buy a Mac.
But back to the subject. People who want to buy Photoshop buy the hardware to match the software , as in " I want to keep 3 8k by 8s images open at once and do unsharp masks on them in about a half second. Sell me some hardware that will do that. "
For everybody else, the gimp is fine. BTW, is anybody working on a deep color rewrite of the gimp?
Well there was an attempt to inject some humor into the comment, note the riff on the numbered lists which show up in Slashdot with the second to last item being "?????" and the last item "Profit!!!!!" And there was an attempt to grossly simplify the whole idea. But mostly it was a reaction the the comment it was commenting on, which had a link to an example contract that was more or less the opposite of what I had in mind. The smart contractor frames the whole exercise as bending over backwards to accommodate the customer, thereby saving the customer's ass, and only asking for reasonable compensation for the time the contractor is taking away from other billable projects. This gets you a steady stream of jobs, because you are flexible, reasonable, and can get the job done, even if you have to make a lot of changes. I should also point out that usually the person I was dealing with had had the changes dumped on them by their boss. The subtle form of "you can make changes in the middle of the project work to your benefit" didn't seem to get the point across.
A simple "changes will be billed on a time and materials basis" buried in the bid is all you need, and it doesn't scare anybody.
Actually , that protects the client more than it protects the contractor who could otherwise renegotiate the entire job if the changes are big enough.
Oh, and one more thing, don't get conned into writing the spec yourself.
1. Wewill do the work specified by the date specified for the amount specified.
2. If you change the specifications of the work, or the schedule, we will change the price on a time and materials basis.
3. stuff happens ( because the spec was bad, and the spec is always bad, or there is a management change at the client, or they just change their mind, or their competition does something and they need to respond... )
This reminds me of the welding shop ( think roll cages ) that used to paint their sign on the bottom of the cars they sponsored at a local oval track when I was a kid. Made a great impression every time there was picture in the paper showing the bottom of a car crashing end over end.
So if I'm flying from San Francisco to LA, or NYC to Buffalo, how is this relevant? I think it's the getting into a 500 mph flying fuel container with a bunch of other nervous people part that the security folk are thinking about , not the crossing state lines part.
Of course the security you see around is seems like someone who never heard of the Maginot Line implemented it. The WTC had excellent security every time I went there as a contractor. After Sept 11 the 58-floor building I work in set up very tight security in the lobby. I kept thinking that what they really needed was a sign saying "absolutely no airliners will be allowed into this building"
Advertisers want to know about the demographics of the people who will be visiting the site.
How about "people who can afford a wireless adapter on their laptop or pda who are less than 300 feet away right now and can probably see and or smell your restaurant"
"Hey you running mozilla wearing the green parka, Come in , sit down, plugin and here is our lunch special. Order now and it'll be ready by the time you get here. There are two tables available now"
Geez A couple of years ago I had a tiny 8 line or so text mangling perl script that I would carry around on a floppy with a copy of a perl.exe on it. Just the script and the perl.exe and it ran fine. It wasn't the active state one either IIRC. Isn't there a perl source out there that you could build and distribute, or do you need all the Active state bells and whistles?
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That seems way too hot, more that 400 degrees , the flash point of paraffin is 450, the same as for paper.
Wham-o made theirs with silicone. Here is a nice page that goes into the details
>4cyl engines that red-line at 3500rpm (totally >guessing... I had an old 1986 Civic that I gave to one of my coders ( cheaper than junking it ) that was quite happy to rev to 6500 rpm for minutes at a time. 7000 between shifts. I could not blow it up if I tried, and I _did_ try. I heard he drove it from NYC to Maine every weekend for a couple years after I gave it to him. Some new Hondas go up to 9000 rpm.
I however am quite happy with my Volvo turbo wagon. The only thing faster than the Honda engine was the rust on my Honda.
I had no idea that there was any need to connect anything to British Navels. I had an English girlfriend 20 years ago and don't remember anything about any _electrical_ connections anywhere. Seemed like a pretty standard bellybutton to me. It this part of some new broadband in the womb initiative?
The Seamaster is a diver's watch, but some of them are also chronographs. I bought a Seamaster chronograph in 1970 because it was about $180 and the Speedmaster was about $250. It still works fine but it is unpleasantly heavy on the wrist when you are using a keyboard. I wanted the speedmaster because it was the "moon watch" but they were hard to find then. The best thing about the Accutron was the cool sound they made. My grandfather had one, and I keep looking for one of the early ones.
And the last time I drove past the Empire State Building with the car radio on (listening to an AM station broadcasting from the ESB ) the reception was lousy.
You probably meant to reply to SWPadnos , but the way you calculate the exposure so that double-flashing the same area doesn't cause it to wash compared to the rest of the image is by double flashing. What I always did was set the flash on automatic, but for about one stop less exposure than the aperture and film combination called for. Then I would walk around the area I was photographing flashing each part of it about twice. The idea was to keep moving so that each flash would overlap, and everything would get about two flashes worth of light. I'd over expose or underexpose some areas. The really neat part of this technique was that if got in the picture accidentally in one of the exposures, I wouldn't show up in the photo. This is easier than it sounds.
Hmm I never saw one without the other, so I assumed they were one product. I was too cheap to rent the wheel, but I faked a similar effect.
The 283 is nothing. I once had an ancient norman , the big heavy ones with a transformer in it from the 60s . It had a switch that was on the capacitor side of the circuit. Every so often it would arc, and either weld the switch solid or blow it up. One of the scariest things I ever owned
I traded it in on an p800D in 1979 that I still have.
The Hosemaster spun a set of filters sequentially in front of the lens and would set off a different flash for each filter. By lighting different parts of a scene with different flashes, and using different filters with each flash, the photographer could effectively apply different filters to different objects in the scene. For instance you could have two people standing next to each other with one of them shot through a diffusion (fuzzy) filter and the other person sharp. In the late eighties there was a cliché to do portraits with a diffused backlight and the rest sharp. That's how all those pictures of CEOs standing in a murky foggy environment were done.
There is also a fiber optic bundle light source involved, hence the "hose" in the name.
I used to do lots of time exposures outdoors at night using hundreds of flashes from a small vivitar 283 strobe to illuminate things
I'm playing with something similar now using a digital camera
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Thanks for the pointer.
This looks really great
None of my searches on Google turned that up.
I'm going to be trying this out.
This may get me to switch from photoshop for part of my workflow.
Now if only there was some good printing software.
Maybe I should write some...
Time to check out the Epson drivers I guess.
Well there are a few things that keep me from using the gimp for my own work, but the UI isn't one of them.
It's pretty good, good enough for most people, and looks like a serious piece of software which makes it good for the "See, open source, free ( in both senses ) software can be very sophisticated." demo.
Unfortunately for my own work the Gimp has some pretty serious shortcomings.
You are limited to only 24 bits, and I really want to work in at 48 bit from 36 bit source.
If there is color management or matching in this or any other program available on Linux I'd like to know about it.
I'm not sure if the gamma and curve control is adequate, although given the first two limitations, it doesn't really matter.
Windows just plain sucks except that you can run photoshop and some scanners on it, and printer support is pretty good.
OSX looks pretty nice, maybe I'll buy a Mac.
But back to the subject. People who want to buy Photoshop buy the hardware to match the software , as in " I want to keep 3 8k by 8s images open at once and do unsharp masks on them in about a half second. Sell me some hardware that will do that. "
For everybody else, the gimp is fine.
BTW, is anybody working on a deep color rewrite of the gimp?
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)
>They have little to no influence in our internal
>affairs and their opinions don't have much use or >weight.
But an opinion + boxcutter + airline ticket...
Well there was an attempt to inject some humor into the comment, note the riff on the numbered lists which show up in Slashdot with the second to last item being "?????" and the last item "Profit!!!!!"
And there was an attempt to grossly simplify the whole idea.
But mostly it was a reaction the the comment it was commenting on, which had a link to an example contract that was more or less the opposite of what I had in mind.
The smart contractor frames the whole exercise as bending over backwards to accommodate the customer, thereby saving the customer's ass, and only asking for reasonable compensation for the time the contractor is taking away from other billable projects.
This gets you a steady stream of jobs, because you are flexible, reasonable, and can get the job done, even if you have to make a lot of changes.
I should also point out that usually the person I was dealing with had had the changes dumped on them by their boss.
The subtle form of "you can make changes in the middle of the project work to your benefit" didn't seem to get the point across.
A simple "changes will be billed on a time and materials basis" buried in the bid is all you need, and it doesn't scare anybody.
Actually , that protects the client more than it protects the contractor who could otherwise renegotiate the entire job if the changes are big enough.
Oh, and one more thing, don't get conned into writing the spec yourself.
Why is that submit button so closed to the preview button?
"Wewill" get an extra "4. Profit !!!!!" I guess
Hmm...
Naw...
... )
What you want it something like this.
1. Wewill do the work specified by the date specified for the amount
specified.
2. If you change the specifications of the work, or the schedule, we will
change the price on a time and materials basis.
3. stuff happens ( because the spec was bad, and the spec is always
bad, or there is a management change at the client, or they just change
their mind, or their competition does something and they need to respond
4. Profit !!!!!
4. Profit !!!!!
>and frequently give in to clients when they
want to change the spec halfway through.
If they are smart they have a clause in the contract for a "change order"
and bill for it.
When I was freelancer , a poorly written spec and a change order clause
was like the client forcing you to take extra money.
Today is Octembruary 40th ?
This reminds me of the welding shop ( think roll cages ) that used to paint their sign on the bottom of the cars they sponsored at a local oval track when I was a kid. Made a great impression every time there was picture in the paper showing the bottom of a car crashing end over end.
P-GLAND ?
So if I'm flying from San Francisco to LA, or NYC to Buffalo, how is this relevant?
I think it's the getting into a 500 mph flying fuel container with a bunch of other nervous people part that the security folk are thinking about , not the crossing state lines part.
Of course the security you see around is seems like someone who never heard of the Maginot Line implemented it. The WTC had excellent security every time I went there as a contractor. After Sept 11 the 58-floor building I work in set up very tight security in the lobby. I kept thinking that what they really needed was a sign saying "absolutely no airliners will be allowed into this building"
Advertisers want to know about the demographics of the people who will
be visiting the site.
How about "people who can afford a wireless adapter on their laptop or
pda who are less than 300 feet away right now and can probably see and or
smell your restaurant"
"Hey you running mozilla wearing the green parka, Come in , sit down,
plugin and here is our lunch special. Order now and it'll be ready by the
time you get here. There are two tables available now"
Works for me
Geez
A couple of years ago I had a tiny 8 line or so text mangling perl script that I would carry around on a floppy with a copy of a perl.exe on it.
Just the script and the perl.exe and it ran fine. It wasn't the active state one either IIRC.
Isn't there a perl source out there that you could build and distribute, or do you need all the Active state bells and whistles?
That seems way too hot, more that 400 degrees , the flash point
of paraffin is 450, the same as for paper.
Wham-o made theirs with silicone. Here
is a nice page that goes into the details
Hmm.. I forgot it's only on the homepage, not on the page I use http://www.google.com/search
At age 6 he was stealing hardware
to listen to free music
Nice story if you haven't seen it before, a little overblown though
>CAT5 and snip the write cables
you mean clip the #1 and #2 wires at the computer end ?
I'll have to try that
>4cyl engines that red-line at 3500rpm (totally
>guessing...
I had an old 1986 Civic that I gave to one of my coders ( cheaper than junking it ) that was quite happy to rev to 6500 rpm for minutes at a time.
7000 between shifts. I could not blow it up if I tried, and I _did_ try. I heard he drove it from NYC to Maine every weekend for a couple years after I gave it to him.
Some new Hondas go up to 9000 rpm.
I however am quite happy with my Volvo turbo wagon. The only thing faster than the Honda engine was the rust on my Honda.
I had no idea that there was any need to connect anything to British Navels. I had an English girlfriend 20 years ago and don't remember anything about any _electrical_ connections anywhere. Seemed like a pretty standard bellybutton to me. It this part of some new broadband in the womb initiative?
The Seamaster is a diver's watch, but some of them are also chronographs. I bought a Seamaster chronograph in 1970 because it was about $180 and the Speedmaster was about $250. It still works fine but it is unpleasantly heavy on the wrist when you are using a keyboard.
I wanted the speedmaster because it was the "moon watch" but they were hard to find then.
The best thing about the Accutron was the cool sound they made. My grandfather had one, and I keep looking for one of the early ones.
And the last time I drove past the Empire State Building with the car radio on (listening to an AM station broadcasting from the ESB ) the reception was lousy.
You probably meant to reply to SWPadnos , but the way you calculate the exposure so that double-flashing the same area doesn't cause it to wash compared to the rest of the image is by double flashing.
What I always did was set the flash on automatic, but for about one stop less exposure than the aperture and film combination called for. Then I would walk around the area I was photographing flashing each part of it about twice. The idea was to keep moving so that each flash would overlap, and everything would get about two flashes worth of light. I'd over expose or underexpose some areas. The really neat part of this technique was that if got in the picture accidentally in one of the exposures, I wouldn't show up in the photo. This is easier than it sounds.
Hmm
I never saw one without the other, so I assumed they were one product.
I was too cheap to rent the wheel, but I faked a similar effect.
The 283 is nothing. I once had an ancient norman , the big heavy ones with a transformer in it from the 60s . It had a switch that was on the capacitor side of the circuit.
Every so often it would arc, and either weld the switch solid or blow it up. One of the scariest things I ever owned
I traded it in on an p800D in 1979 that I still have.
The Hosemaster spun a set of filters sequentially in front of the lens and would set off a different flash for each filter. By lighting different parts of a scene with different flashes, and using different filters with each flash, the photographer could effectively apply different filters to different objects in the scene. For instance you could have two people standing next to each other with one of them shot through a diffusion (fuzzy) filter and the other person sharp. In the late eighties there was a cliché to do portraits with a diffused backlight and the rest sharp. That's how all those pictures of CEOs standing in a murky foggy environment were done.
There is also a fiber optic bundle light source involved, hence the "hose" in the name.
I used to do lots of time exposures outdoors at night using hundreds of flashes from a small vivitar 283 strobe to illuminate things
I'm playing with something similar now using a digital camera