If anyone knows (otherwise I'll go to the gentoo forums) when you install the PPC version does it give an option to install a bootloader (like GRUB/LILO etc.) to dual boot OS X, or is this something they expect you to do afterwards?
Very familiar with linux on PC's, just a bit of a newbie to my powerbook.
if you find the time to come up with a proper reply rather than a moronic childish comparison, I'm all ears. Until then I'll keep doing what I'm doing - and doing it better than the guys who spent 25 years of their life getting educated.
Really? So that 4-6 years that people I know were going to Uni each day, that 4-6 years I actually spent on the job, learning Unix & networking were wasted because I could have "learnt so much more"?
I basically went to high school, and then went straight into computers whilst those others went to Uni. By the time they came out of Uni I was earning 4 times as much as they were and had so much more knowledge and experience in the work related areas it was almost silly.
In addition, I've given (quite a few) job interviews to guys recently out of University for IT jobs (i.e. networking, unix style jobs). These guys are CLUELESS! I haven't met a good one yet. These kids really annoy me, they just turn up out of uni and expect to walk into a high paying job.
Why weren't they working their butt off at home learning unix at night like I was when I was doing crappy helpdesk jobs at the age of 18? They think Uni is their ticket, WRONG!!!
If it's just a lot of hearsay and you've never owned one, why are you ranting about it and spreading FUD?
It is certainly not a high iso camera, but in it's intended environment (studio, or well lit environments), the Kodak 14N & SLR/N are really in class of their own, they resolve some serious detail with quality rivalling medium format at their low iso's (say, 320 and below).
Soft images? It's the opposite - the camera does not have an anti alias filter so the images come out a lot sharper than the rest - in fact Canon is the company that should be accused of having soft images, with their cmos sensors relying on strong AA filters and heavy in camera noise reduction, they need a significant amount of sharpening in post processing to meet the same sharpness levels the kodaks give.
Ergonomics is personal but I find it quite good, it's basically a beefed up N80.
Batttery life - well remember it's 14mp and the 400 shot battery life is fine. Kodak intended it to be tethered in a studio. 400 is still fine though.
I don't own one, but I did eval one very recently for my wedding business. In it's intended bracket, it's stunning.
*QUOTE*
Ever met anyone who uses one? Nope, me neither, and I hang out with a lot of professional modelling/sports/commercial photographers. It's by all accounts a horrible camera. It cannot do long exposures, it cannot do moderate or high ISO sensitivies, the images are badly softened, it's built about as ergonomically as a brick, and the battery life sucks. Of course, I've never owned one, that's all just hearsay from people who have.
You need to be careful though with dealing with michael recichmann.
photog's i work with call his website "the ludicrous landscape".
remember this is the same guy that said that canon's 3mp D30 was better than 35mm film. He then later retracted that and removed the story from his website.
And when the 6mp D60 came out he then stuck with that one and said that was better than 35mm:)
For what it's worth I think the strength of digital over film is it's high iso benefits (i.e. 1600 iso on my Fuji S2 whips 1600 speed film) rather than outright resolving power.
I had the Kodak slr/n on the weekend as an eval from a shop...At low iso it is incredibly impressive, the detail and colour rendition is absolutely outstanding, and the full frame is nice.
The noise above 400 iso is a bit of a downer though.
I agree. It frustrates me that my 2+ year old Fuji S2 (a Nikon N80 body with Fuji sensor + electronics stuffed inside it) is still the best in terms of noise, and the new cameras coming out don't look like they are improving noise wise.
The Fuji S2 at ISO1600 absolutely hammers 1600 speed film.
*QUOTE* In fact, I think that time would be better spent reducing noise in digital cameras than in increasing resolution *QUOTE*
You obviously haven't used a digital slr then. You have probably just used prosumer digi cams.
sheesh
The speed has been there for YEARS not weeks.
I'm most familiar with the Nikon line. I hope you are as well.
The Nikon D1 series (D1, D1h, D1x) all had the same shutter release speed as the equivalent film cameras (F100). They are fast - instantaneous actually, something like 70ms from the time you press the shutter.
The Nikon D2h was the first to *exceed* the previous speed set by these digital cameras and the old but still brilliant Nikon F5. It is a extraordinarily fast camera.
Do you really think that the tens of thousands of sports photographers are putting up with massive shutter lag and are manually focussing to work around the deficiencies of their camera? There are very few sports guys using film now.
Hell, even the consumer level dslr's have response equal to their film cameras, i.e. D100, D70.
If you want to see it, go to a camera store and ask to try a nikon d2h or d1x, or a Canon 1D or 1D MKII, or even a 10D/20D for that matter.
Oh, and I for one welcome our new 16.7mp overlords.
*QUOTE* I have yet to see a digicam that has the responsivity necessary for action shots. While the Canon boasts a 4 fps "continuous" shooting rate, that says nothing about the delay between pressing the shutter release and acquiring the first image. And that's the spec that's most important for sports photography. Perhaps by using the camera's manual focus, one can speed up this process adequately; but I'd have to see it to believe it. *QUOTE*
Sorry if I'm missing something very obvious, but I can't see any reference to an OS X version on their site. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Well, I'm a photographer and I take 4 x 4gb cards with me wherever I go. I rarely use them all, my record on one day is filling up 3 and a half cards, but theres no way in hell I'd use 1gb cards.
I use 2 x Fuji S2's which outputs a RAW file that is 12mb in size - thats a fair bit of storage. I've never had a problem losing photos, though I am very careful and as soon as I get home I start dumping them to my fileserver. I only relax after that is done:)
As the next batch of cameras come out, these 4gb and 5gb cards will become more common. The Fuji S3 (a nikon based DSLR body with a Fuji sensor) outputs a raw file that is 24mb on the microdrive, and other upcoming cameras such as Canon's 1Ds II and Nikon's D2x probably won't be far off that kind of file size.
"Most pros don't use anything over 1GB. Why? Because 1GB is almost 120 photos for a 10D- a shitload. "
I was always a big fan of SNES games but never played them on the PC as I like using a hand controller and I like playing it on the TV whilst sitting on the lounge like I did as a kid - rather than sitting in front of the computer.
When I bought a Xbox and modded it, that was all solved. There are tons of great emulators on the xbox, and much to my wifes disgust I've been rediscovering the legend of zelda (she hates the corny music).
What a lot of absolute crap that is. Cisco products are incredibly flexible and beautifully engineered. They are reasonably complex devices though, and are not designed for simpletons.
These bloody worms caused us so much bother, our customer terminating (ethernet) routers (Cisco 7206 NPE300 VXR's) really suffered CPU wise against these because the ethernet based services are procssed switch unlike ATM/POS etc unfortunately. And the netflow accounting tables were just out of control.
AND the old legacy routers we have that still ran snmp based ip accounting, the cpu on them went ballistic. It was a big pain in the butt and took a lot of stuffing around to fix/block etc.
Unfortunately just blocking the traffic doesn't help as you have to recieve the traffic in order to block it, so I was dumping netflow tables and getting the support guys to call infected customers. Many hours of work just because some little shit script kiddie/newbie programmer thought it'd be funny.
On the bright side though, it promped management to give me a lot of money to get some more grunty gear so we are now better prepared for the next time it happens, and I'm sure it will.
With Digital SLR's, they generally deliver a fairly flat file from the camera that lacks sharpness and contrast straight out of the camera.
Just by adjusting the contrast and sharpness in your fave graphics program will immediately improve your results.
You still need to know how to take a shot, but post processing makes the difference between a good shot and a great shot.
I'm not suggesting you radically modify the photo in Photoshop, just do the basic post processing and you'll see what I mean.
Have a look at my photos at www.gavincato.com (especially the bikini clad girlies) - notice how most are nicely sharp, with great colour & contrast. Most amateur guys don't seem to make this step up, and I wish they would as it's so easy to do.
Lenses are of course important, I'm lucky enough to
have a nice selection o f/2.8 zooms and f/1.4 primes.
Though Australia "officially" actively supports America's stance on recent issues such as Afghanistan/Iraq - the people on the street generally don't, and more to the point they regard USA as *THE* place full of whacko's full of cults, school children with guns, snipers hunting the streets, death row full of hundreds of guys waiting for the chair, countless murders and robberies, areas where it isn't safe to go at night (or day) - and plenty more.
And lets not forget Jerry Springer.
Your message said;
"This isn't to say that I think everyone in Saudi Arabia is some kind of crazy religious zealot, but if you grow up in that kind of environment, a lot of it would probably rub off on you. "
What if I wrote;
"This isn't to say that I think everyone in USA is some kind of crazy zealot and kills/robs, but if you grow up in that kind of environment, a lot of it would probably rub off on you. "
Is that necessarily accurate? I don't believe so - but it's a common belief. I bet you wouldn't like to be associated with all the elements I wrote above, so conversely you should not point a finger at Saudi's with the same blanket outlook,a accusing them of having ties to the Taliban's outlook on life. What the hell would you know? How many Saudi's do you personally know? I'd bet zero.
No it's not full frame, Nikon haven't made any full frame digital slr's yet - it's a 1.5x crop factor CCD.
This is why my 2.7mp digital SLR is still great.
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A lot of people see the prints from my digital SLR, a gracefully aging Nikon D1h and are astonished to learn it's from digital. Most then refuse to believe it's only a 2.7mp camera.
Near all my pictures at www.gavincato.com in the photography section are with the Nikon D1h.
The Nikon D1h has only a 2.7mp sensor, but the output is fantastic. The pixels are large, and the noise is pretty low. It's pretty much noiseless until you hit 800 ISO, and even at 1600 ISO it's significantly better than 1600 speed film.
NASA is very correct in saying the lens & sensor are important, for example most of my lenses are ludicrously expensive (often more than the camera body) and the majority of them are fixed length lenses and thus have incredible optics.
I've previously owned a Nikon D100 which had 6mp, but I found to my surprise that I preferred the output & prints from the D1h. I originally bought the D1h to complement the D100 (the D1h is a crazy fast camera designed for sports), not replace it, but after a while I ended up selling the D100.
The guys in the Canon camp have said the same thing, they much prefer the output of the 4mp Canon 1D vs the 6mp Canon 10D.
A G4 500 will _not_ outperform a 1000mhz x86 processor you dimwit. I guess you are looking at the benchmarks on apples site, hmmm lets try some real life scenarios then we'll see which one wins. Pity the G4 is not in a capacity to scale up easily to larger speeds. And pity the "primitive CISC" athlon will be about as quick as the G4 once it gets on-die L2 cache.
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hiya,
If anyone knows (otherwise I'll go to the gentoo forums) when you install the PPC version does it give an option to install a bootloader (like GRUB/LILO etc.) to dual boot OS X, or is this something they expect you to do afterwards?
Very familiar with linux on PC's, just a bit of a newbie to my powerbook.
cheers
Gav
if you find the time to come up with a proper reply rather than a moronic childish comparison, I'm all ears. Until then I'll keep doing what I'm doing - and doing it better than the guys who spent 25 years of their life getting educated.
Really? So that 4-6 years that people I know were going to Uni each day, that 4-6 years I actually spent on the job, learning Unix & networking were wasted because I could have "learnt so much more"?
I basically went to high school, and then went straight into computers whilst those others went to Uni. By the time they came out of Uni I was earning 4 times as much as they were and had so much more knowledge and experience in the work related areas it was almost silly.
In addition, I've given (quite a few) job interviews to guys recently out of University for IT jobs (i.e. networking, unix style jobs). These guys are CLUELESS! I haven't met a good one yet. These kids really annoy me, they just turn up out of uni and expect to walk into a high paying job.
Why weren't they working their butt off at home learning unix at night like I was when I was doing crappy helpdesk jobs at the age of 18? They think Uni is their ticket, WRONG!!!
thanks a ton for that, I'll give it a shot. much appreciated
Gav
Could anyone point me in the direction of showing how to upgrade 5.3-RC2 to 5.3-Stable?
There a world of difference between the resolution of the apple lcd's and the tv's with vga inputs.
"Why would I pay Apple $1,300 for a 20" LCD when you can get a 27" LCD TV for less?"
If it's just a lot of hearsay and you've never owned one, why are you ranting about it and spreading FUD?
It is certainly not a high iso camera, but in it's intended environment (studio, or well lit environments), the Kodak 14N & SLR/N are really in class of their own, they resolve some serious detail with quality rivalling medium format at their low iso's (say, 320 and below).
Soft images? It's the opposite - the camera does not have an anti alias filter so the images come out a lot sharper than the rest - in fact Canon is the company that should be accused of having soft images, with their cmos sensors relying on strong AA filters and heavy in camera noise reduction, they need a significant amount of sharpening in post processing to meet the same sharpness levels the kodaks give.
Ergonomics is personal but I find it quite good, it's basically a beefed up N80.
Batttery life - well remember it's 14mp and the 400 shot battery life is fine. Kodak intended it to be tethered in a studio. 400 is still fine though.
I don't own one, but I did eval one very recently for my wedding business. In it's intended bracket, it's stunning.
*QUOTE*
Ever met anyone who uses one? Nope, me neither, and I hang out with a lot of professional modelling/sports/commercial photographers. It's by all accounts a horrible camera. It cannot do long exposures, it cannot do moderate or high ISO sensitivies, the images are badly softened, it's built about as ergonomically as a brick, and the battery life sucks. Of course, I've never owned one, that's all just hearsay from people who have.
You need to be careful though with dealing with michael recichmann.
:)
photog's i work with call his website "the ludicrous landscape".
remember this is the same guy that said that canon's 3mp D30 was better than 35mm film. He then later retracted that and removed the story from his website.
And when the 6mp D60 came out he then stuck with that one and said that was better than 35mm
For what it's worth I think the strength of digital over film is it's high iso benefits (i.e. 1600 iso on my Fuji S2 whips 1600 speed film) rather than outright resolving power.
I had the Kodak slr/n on the weekend as an eval from a shop...At low iso it is incredibly impressive, the detail and colour rendition is absolutely outstanding, and the full frame is nice.
The noise above 400 iso is a bit of a downer though.
I agree. It frustrates me that my 2+ year old Fuji S2 (a Nikon N80 body with Fuji sensor + electronics stuffed inside it) is still the best in terms of noise, and the new cameras coming out don't look like they are improving noise wise.
The Fuji S2 at ISO1600 absolutely hammers 1600 speed film.
*QUOTE*
In fact, I think that time would be better spent reducing noise in digital cameras than in increasing resolution
*QUOTE*
You obviously haven't used a digital slr then. You have probably just used prosumer digi cams.
sheesh
The speed has been there for YEARS not weeks.
I'm most familiar with the Nikon line. I hope you are as well.
The Nikon D1 series (D1, D1h, D1x) all had the same shutter release speed as the equivalent film cameras (F100). They are fast - instantaneous actually, something like 70ms from the time you press the shutter.
The Nikon D2h was the first to *exceed* the previous speed set by these digital cameras and the old but still brilliant Nikon F5. It is a extraordinarily fast camera.
Do you really think that the tens of thousands of sports photographers are putting up with massive shutter lag and are manually focussing to work around the deficiencies of their camera? There are very few sports guys using film now.
Hell, even the consumer level dslr's have response equal to their film cameras, i.e. D100, D70.
If you want to see it, go to a camera store and ask to try a nikon d2h or d1x, or a Canon 1D or 1D MKII, or even a 10D/20D for that matter.
Oh, and I for one welcome our new 16.7mp overlords.
*QUOTE*
I have yet to see a digicam that has the responsivity necessary for action shots. While the Canon boasts a 4 fps "continuous" shooting rate, that says nothing about the delay between pressing the shutter release and acquiring the first image. And that's the spec that's most important for sports photography. Perhaps by using the camera's manual focus, one can speed up this process adequately; but I'd have to see it to believe it.
*QUOTE*
Sorry if I'm missing something very obvious, but I can't see any reference to an OS X version on their site. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
cheers
Well, I'm a photographer and I take 4 x 4gb cards with me wherever I go. I rarely use them all, my record on one day is filling up 3 and a half cards, but theres no way in hell I'd use 1gb cards.
:)
I use 2 x Fuji S2's which outputs a RAW file that is 12mb in size - thats a fair bit of storage. I've never had a problem losing photos, though I am very careful and as soon as I get home I start dumping them to my fileserver. I only relax after that is done
As the next batch of cameras come out, these 4gb and 5gb cards will become more common. The Fuji S3 (a nikon based DSLR body with a Fuji sensor) outputs a raw file that is 24mb on the microdrive, and other upcoming cameras such as Canon's 1Ds II and Nikon's D2x probably won't be far off that kind of file size.
"Most pros don't use anything over 1GB. Why? Because 1GB is almost 120 photos for a 10D- a shitload. "
I was always a big fan of SNES games but never played them on the PC as I like using a hand controller and I like playing it on the TV whilst sitting on the lounge like I did as a kid - rather than sitting in front of the computer.
When I bought a Xbox and modded it, that was all solved. There are tons of great emulators on the xbox, and much to my wifes disgust I've been rediscovering the legend of zelda (she hates the corny music).
What a lot of absolute crap that is. Cisco products are incredibly flexible and beautifully engineered. They are reasonably complex devices though, and are not designed for simpletons.
I'm a network engineer at a reasonable size isp.
These bloody worms caused us so much bother, our customer terminating (ethernet) routers (Cisco 7206 NPE300 VXR's) really suffered CPU wise against these because the ethernet based services are procssed switch unlike ATM/POS etc unfortunately. And the netflow accounting tables were just out of control.
AND the old legacy routers we have that still ran snmp based ip accounting, the cpu on them went ballistic. It was a big pain in the butt and took a lot of stuffing around to fix/block etc.
Unfortunately just blocking the traffic doesn't help as you have to recieve the traffic in order to block it, so I was dumping netflow tables and getting the support guys to call infected customers. Many hours of work just because some little shit script kiddie/newbie programmer thought it'd be funny.
On the bright side though, it promped management to give me a lot of money to get some more grunty gear so we are now better prepared for the next time it happens, and I'm sure it will.
Who gives a crap where Linus lives. I mean really FFS.
Give the man a break.
With Digital SLR's, they generally deliver a fairly flat file from the camera that lacks sharpness and contrast straight out of the camera.
Just by adjusting the contrast and sharpness in your fave graphics program will immediately improve your results.
You still need to know how to take a shot, but post processing makes the difference between a good shot and a great shot.
I'm not suggesting you radically modify the photo in Photoshop, just do the basic post processing and you'll see what I mean.
Have a look at my photos at www.gavincato.com (especially the bikini clad girlies) - notice how most are nicely sharp, with great colour & contrast. Most amateur guys don't seem to make this step up, and I wish they would as it's so easy to do.
Lenses are of course important, I'm lucky enough to
have a nice selection o f/2.8 zooms and f/1.4 primes.
cheers
Here's a newsflash for you.
;
;
Though Australia "officially" actively supports America's stance on recent issues such as Afghanistan/Iraq - the people on the street generally don't, and more to the point they regard USA as *THE* place full of whacko's full of cults, school children with guns, snipers hunting the streets, death row full of hundreds of guys waiting for the chair, countless murders and robberies, areas where it isn't safe to go at night (or day) - and plenty more.
And lets not forget Jerry Springer.
Your message said
"This isn't to say that I think everyone in Saudi Arabia is some kind of crazy religious zealot, but if you grow up in that kind of environment, a lot of it would probably rub off on you. "
What if I wrote
"This isn't to say that I think everyone in USA is some kind of crazy zealot and kills/robs, but if you grow up in that kind of environment, a lot of it would probably rub off on you. "
Is that necessarily accurate? I don't believe so - but it's a common belief. I bet you wouldn't like to be associated with all the elements I wrote above, so conversely you should not point a finger at Saudi's with the same blanket outlook,a accusing them of having ties to the Taliban's outlook on life. What the hell would you know? How many Saudi's do you personally know? I'd bet zero.
No it's not full frame, Nikon haven't made any full frame digital slr's yet - it's a 1.5x crop factor CCD.
A lot of people see the prints from my digital SLR, a gracefully aging Nikon D1h and are astonished to learn it's from digital. Most then refuse to believe it's only a 2.7mp camera.
Near all my pictures at www.gavincato.com in the photography section are with the Nikon D1h.
The Nikon D1h has only a 2.7mp sensor, but the output is fantastic. The pixels are large, and the noise is pretty low. It's pretty much noiseless until you hit 800 ISO, and even at 1600 ISO it's significantly better than 1600 speed film.
NASA is very correct in saying the lens & sensor are important, for example most of my lenses are ludicrously expensive (often more than the camera body) and the majority of them are fixed length lenses and thus have incredible optics.
I've previously owned a Nikon D100 which had 6mp, but I found to my surprise that I preferred the output & prints from the D1h. I originally bought the D1h to complement the D100 (the D1h is a crazy fast camera designed for sports), not replace it, but after a while I ended up selling the D100.
The guys in the Canon camp have said the same thing, they much prefer the output of the 4mp Canon 1D vs the 6mp Canon 10D.
likewise a hell of a lot of australians have NO interest in heading to America.
A G4 500 will _not_ outperform a 1000mhz x86 processor you dimwit. I guess you are looking at the benchmarks on apples site, hmmm lets try some real life scenarios then we'll see which one wins. Pity the G4 is not in a capacity to scale up easily to larger speeds. And pity the "primitive CISC" athlon will be about as quick as the G4 once it gets on-die L2 cache.
What a load of bullshit that is.
I agree with John C's comments, but your statement borders on ludicrous.
Hopefully this will inspire vortex to release code for their A3D chipset, instead of having to pay OSS for a driver