Shouldn't you be comparing the price of the tapes not the drives? How much does a terabyte of tape and a drive compare to a terabyte of hard disks ?
Photographers need a storage medium that is good for write once read occasionally once a year or so that is cheap and reliable. What's the aphorism? cheap, fast, reliable? When you generate a few gig of data a day (on average, a few gig an hour isn't trying very hard), you can do without fast.
Quote "We are QA, not testing! We do QA, we don't test"
My suggestion that random banging on the keyboard, pushing buttons, and unexpectedly closing windows would be a good thing was not appreciated because there was no way to write it up as a test plan, or describe it as a repeatable bug.
When I worked at Cisco on a project that was written in Java we used an automated unit testing tool that would test each method and report on what would break , for instance if you passed a particular value to a method it would fail, maybe you should fix the code to deal with that possibility. It was either Junit or Jtest ( one of them costs $3000 a seat, we used that one. ) It was good thing since QA categorically refused to "test" the software by trying to break it, they would only tested to see if it could work if the customer did everything right.
Anyway, even if you aren't using Java you might look at the documentation of Junit for ideas about building test fixtures for components of your code.
I got the impression that the black ops teams suspected of a kidnapping of a terrorist suspect in Italy left a conspicuous trail so that they could claim that they somehow thought that they were within the law. The law of what or where is open to question I suppose.
Yes, consider Robert Novak for instance. The press was originally in the opinion biz, the fact stuff came later. I believe that opinions have higher first amendment protection than statements of fact.
I used a keyskin keyboard cover when I was commissioned to do an art project that involved an Amiga and a video capture system that had to be rain and Coca Cola proof.
The Video camera got cast in a block of concrete, and the Amiga keyboard lived in a
keyskin like ones that can be found here.
Sonny Bono's other former wife ( the congress critter ) would probably be more likely for that.
Anyway, I think the cosmetic surgery industry has Cher "sewn up" as their spokeswoman.
Umm literally. Literlay would be like I lay on the floor after drinking a liter of beer playing Tempest. Wait a second, did I just get a first post? Probably screws up my karma or something.
Look for a Porta Brace DC-3 Director Case with Pocket for Laptop Computer. or a DC-2 or DC-1 if you want a really big bag
I carry 2 laptops and a wireless router/access point in one all the time. Porta Brace makes cases for film crews and they know how to make great gear to carry heavy loads. They are also pretty well padded. Most film gear makes a laptop look like a happy meal toy in terms of cost.
I won't get into what Photoshop does that GIMP doesn't, but probably the main thing that keeps photographers from considering Linux is the lack of color management software. I realize that patents are involved, but any field that depends on people agreeing on the way something looks ( separated by space or time ) can't use Linux as it stands. Sure you can create or edit content on Linux, but if you need a Windows box or a Mac or maybe a SGI or Sun to look at it or print it, what's the point? I'm on the verge of moving from Windows to Apple for photography, and I'd love to at least consider Linux. If someone can show me I am full of shit ( about color management on Linux ), I'd be ever so grateful.
Ok, here is a thought experiment Imagine a filter that only passes blue light, say a filter that passes light with a wavelength between 380 NM and 500 NM with a peak at 450 NM Imagine a filter that only passes yellow light, say a filter that passes light with a wavelength between 550 NM and 650 NM with a peak at 600 NM Imagine a sandwich of the two filters. What do you think gets passed?
Now imagine mixing a beam of light that passes through the blue filter with a beam of light that passes through the yellow filter. It will look to you (assuming you are a human male without inherited red green colorblindness, or you are a human female) like it is green, even though there is no "green" light whatsoever.
This is something that painting or photography students learn the first week they use color.
"So why is it so hard to put a yellow glass in front of a blue glass? Who's telling people to believe it makes black? "
Photographers most likely. It's called photoshop because it behaves like the world as known by photographers, who manipulate (3 colors of) light. Painters have a different model of the world and manipulate it with paints which behave in both subtractive and additive combinations. In addition, two paints which look identically colored can behave very differently when mixed with a third color. That's why painters use hundreds of pigments and refer to them by their material (often chemical) name rather than by their color.
I studied both painting and photography at the graduate level, and you have to think about them differently. It's sort of like thinking about light waves in some contexts and photons in others when you talk abought light.
Management didn't do anything criminal in that instance, it was a surprise and sort of an embarrassment, because the project had changed direction by the time the review was out there. Later however, the employees "fired" the boss by threatening to quit at which point the major investor replaced him. Eventually we got bought by a company that got bought by a major manufacture of high end router equipment painted Slashdot green. We got paid in millions of dollars worth of Big Green Router Company stock when it was worth about $65 a share, then it went to $10 before we could sell but the IRS taxed it at the $65 value so that we all owed way more in taxes than it was worth. Then the Big Green Router Company outsourced the project to India and laid off the most senior people on the project. The bright spot is that my accountant says I'll be able to take $3000 off of my income tax for the next 92 years.
I worked at a small software company that made an corporate email management program. We sent out a press release with screen shots of a very colorful GUI that we abandoned before we ever got actual working code. Months later we sent out copies to various PC magazines to review. A bit later we won some sort of comparison test ( I think we had a longer list of features than anyone else , thus more bullet points ) including praise for how easy it was to install. The funny thing was, the installation instructions were something like 1. Install IBM DB2. 2. click on install icon and wait for authorization key window to open. 3. Call xyz-tech for an install key. At that point we would talk them through some godawfull install and configuration process that could go on for days. But the reviewer never called, never got a key, and presumably never installed it, and the review was illustrated with the press release screen shots.
That's pretty close to what I'm doing now, except that when a customer wants a big file I ftp it to my hosting service, email them, and they http it from the hosting service. The customers think something is broken when it takes them more than a half hour to get a photo over their fast connection.
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If you read the original post, it sounds like what he wants IS an archive not a backup.
Shouldn't you be comparing the price of the tapes not the drives? How much does a terabyte of tape and a drive compare to a terabyte of hard disks ?
Photographers need a storage medium that is good for write once read occasionally once a year or so that is cheap and reliable. What's the aphorism? cheap, fast, reliable? When you generate a few gig of data a day (on average, a few gig an hour isn't trying very hard), you can do without fast.
Quote "We are QA, not testing! We do QA, we don't test"
My suggestion that random banging on the keyboard, pushing buttons, and unexpectedly closing windows would be a good thing was not appreciated because there was no way to write it up as a test plan, or describe it as a repeatable bug.
When I worked at Cisco on a project that was written in Java we used an automated unit testing tool that would test each method and report on what would break , for instance if you passed a particular value to a method it would fail, maybe you should fix the code to deal with that possibility. It was either Junit or Jtest ( one of them costs $3000 a seat, we used that one. ) It was good thing since QA categorically refused to "test" the software by trying to break it, they would only tested to see if it could work if the customer did everything right.
Anyway, even if you aren't using Java you might look at the documentation of Junit for ideas about building test fixtures for components of your code.
Thankfuly I don't work there any more.
Well UCLA is thought by some to be something of a party school.... I can imagine that there is some Liver Augmentation there in Westwood.
University of California Bone?
I think someone from U.C. Berkeley pulled a fast one on the University of California Los Angeles.
I got the impression that the black ops teams suspected of a kidnapping of a terrorist suspect in Italy left a conspicuous trail so that they could claim that they somehow thought that they were within the law. The law of what or where is open to question I suppose.
So the question is, are most criminals stupid or just the ones that get caught?
"An editor would have asked the reporter who their source was"
No, consider that the Washington Post editors never knew who deep throat was.
Yes, consider Robert Novak for instance.
The press was originally in the opinion biz, the fact stuff came later. I believe that opinions have higher first amendment protection than statements of fact.
I used a keyskin keyboard cover when I was commissioned to do an art project that involved an Amiga and a video capture system that had to be rain and Coca Cola proof. The Video camera got cast in a block of concrete, and the Amiga keyboard lived in a keyskin like ones that can be found here.
Sonny Bono's other former wife ( the congress critter ) would probably be more likely for that.
Anyway, I think the cosmetic surgery industry has Cher "sewn up" as their spokeswoman.
Umm literally. Literlay would be like I lay on the floor after drinking a liter of beer playing Tempest.
Wait a second, did I just get a first post?
Probably screws up my karma or something.
the only game I ever spent money on.
I literlay played it untill my hands were bleeding.
would not power on due to a bad battery. Even with the battery removed it would not power on.
That is a leading cause of Amiga death as well.
Look for a Porta Brace DC-3 Director Case with Pocket for Laptop Computer. or a DC-2 or DC-1 if you want a really big bag
I carry 2 laptops and a wireless router/access point in one all the time. Porta Brace makes cases for film crews and they know how to make great gear to carry heavy loads. They are also pretty well padded. Most film gear makes a laptop look like a happy meal toy in terms of cost.
I won't get into what Photoshop does that GIMP doesn't, but probably the main thing that keeps photographers from considering Linux is the lack of color management software.
I realize that patents are involved, but any field that depends on people agreeing on the way something looks ( separated by space or time ) can't use Linux as it stands.
Sure you can create or edit content on Linux, but if you need a Windows box or a Mac or maybe a SGI or Sun to look at it or print it, what's the point?
I'm on the verge of moving from Windows to Apple for photography, and I'd love to at least consider Linux.
If someone can show me I am full of shit ( about color management on Linux ), I'd be ever so grateful.
Oh right, UL is unordered list, and U is underline, which slashdot doesn't support.
Talk about increased cognition being a welcome change...
Don't get out much do you?
Diminished cognitive ability is what most bars are based upon. Either that or the opportunity to
- act
like an idiot with a plausible excuse / scapegoat.Quite fun actually.
Coffeehouses on the other hand...
Ok, here is a thought experiment
Imagine a filter that only passes blue light,
say a filter that passes light with a wavelength between 380 NM and 500 NM with a peak at 450 NM
Imagine a filter that only passes yellow light,
say a filter that passes light with a wavelength between 550 NM and 650 NM with a peak at 600 NM
Imagine a sandwich of the two filters.
What do you think gets passed?
Now imagine mixing a beam of light that passes through the blue filter with a beam of light that passes through the yellow filter. It will look to you (assuming you are a human male without inherited red green colorblindness, or you are a human female) like it is green, even though there is no "green" light whatsoever.
This is something that painting or photography students learn the first week they use color.
It's called photoshop because it behaves like the world as known by photographers, who manipulate (3 colors of) light.
Painters have a different model of the world and manipulate it with paints which behave in both subtractive and additive combinations. In addition, two paints which look identically colored can behave very differently when mixed with a third color. That's why painters use hundreds of pigments and refer to them by their material (often chemical) name rather than by their color.
I studied both painting and photography at the graduate level, and you have to think about them differently. It's sort of like thinking about light waves in some contexts and photons in others when you talk abought light.
Management didn't do anything criminal in that instance, it was a surprise and sort of an embarrassment, because the project had changed direction by the time the review was out there.
Later however, the employees "fired" the boss by threatening to quit at which point the major investor replaced him. Eventually we got bought by a company that got bought by a major manufacture of high end router equipment painted Slashdot green.
We got paid in millions of dollars worth of Big Green Router Company stock when it was worth about $65 a share, then it went to $10 before we could sell but the IRS taxed it at the $65 value so that we all owed way more in taxes than it was worth. Then the Big Green Router Company outsourced the project to India and laid off the most senior people on the project. The bright spot is that my accountant says I'll be able to take $3000 off of my income tax for the next 92 years.
I worked at a small software company that made an corporate email management program. We sent out a press release with screen shots of a very colorful GUI that we abandoned before we ever got actual working code. Months later we sent out copies to various PC magazines to review. A bit later we won some sort of comparison test ( I think we had a longer list of features than anyone else , thus more bullet points ) including praise for how easy it was to install.
The funny thing was, the installation instructions were something like 1. Install IBM DB2. 2. click on install icon and wait for authorization key window to open. 3. Call xyz-tech for an install key.
At that point we would talk them through some godawfull install and configuration process that could go on for days. But the reviewer never called, never got a key, and presumably never installed it, and the review was illustrated with the press release screen shots.
Only on /. would a post about a post about nether-monkey-flight be modded to +5, Insightful.
That, my friends, is the beauty of free speech.
That's pretty close to what I'm doing now, except that when a customer wants a big file I ftp it to my hosting service, email them, and they http it from the hosting service.
The customers think something is broken when it takes them more than a half hour to get a photo over their fast connection.