I work for a medium-sized newspaper in Finland. At least there disappearance of archives is true.
First of all, usually the photographers send just a couple of pictures to the newsdesk. They've gone through the 128 MB selection of pictures, select maybe a dozen, then cut that down to two or three, edit them into shape and pass them on.
Then they erase rest of the photos. Short-sighted, maybe, but they simply don't have time or resources to save every one of those shots. At least with film you always got the pictures.
Then there's the archive. Not all the pictures that are passed on to the newsdesk are necessarily saved. They have to be commented, checked and so on.
I don't know how they coped with this a couple of years back when shooting film. Probably the same way they did with the news stories - the archives weren't that sophisticated, and maybe not even as complete.
But at least they were there.
It is easy for someone who doesn't shoot pictures for a living five days a week, sometimes doing 12-hour days, to say that digital storage is cheap and all the pictures should be saved.
When you're a news photographer, the cost and capacity of the medium is somewhat unimportant. It's all the other stuff that contributes to less digital photos being stored.
I was just wondering: the guy stresses the importance of having an easy install (no messing around with XFree or audio) and then proceeds to tell how he managed to get the development tools installed by a small amount of scripting trickery.
I'm a bit baffled. So it's important to have a nice install but it's not important that you have to loop-mount a couple of things to install devtools? (Yes, I know they're now available in a bit easier way.)
"You seemingly never fail to rail upon atheism in each of your posts here. I haven't read them all, but more than likely this is the case. My question is... why? Did you have a bad experience with atheism as a young child? Do you think the vocal minority of atheists in the public eye are obnoxious?
Thanks for your time. At least reading your posts lets me see just how far the extreme conservatist right-wing Christians would like to take things."
Not that I don't think of Christianity as a default philosophy on life for everyone ("bad experience... as a young child") or that voicing one's ideology isn't sucking up to the audience ("another way to pander").
It's good that we're not running out of right- (or maybe s/right/one/ ?) minded people anywhere in the near future.
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I work for a medium-sized newspaper in Finland. At least there disappearance of archives is true.
First of all, usually the photographers send just a couple of pictures to the newsdesk. They've gone through the 128 MB selection of pictures, select maybe a dozen, then cut that down to two or three, edit them into shape and pass them on.
Then they erase rest of the photos. Short-sighted, maybe, but they simply don't have time or resources to save every one of those shots. At least with film you always got the pictures.
Then there's the archive. Not all the pictures that are passed on to the newsdesk are necessarily saved. They have to be commented, checked and so on.
I don't know how they coped with this a couple of years back when shooting film. Probably the same way they did with the news stories - the archives weren't that sophisticated, and maybe not even as complete.
But at least they were there.
It is easy for someone who doesn't shoot pictures for a living five days a week, sometimes doing 12-hour days, to say that digital storage is cheap and all the pictures should be saved.
When you're a news photographer, the cost and capacity of the medium is somewhat unimportant. It's all the other stuff that contributes to less digital photos being stored.
I was just wondering: the guy stresses the importance of having an easy install (no messing around with XFree or audio) and then proceeds to tell how he managed to get the development tools installed by a small amount of scripting trickery.
I'm a bit baffled. So it's important to have a nice install but it's not important that you have to loop-mount a couple of things to install devtools? (Yes, I know they're now available in a bit easier way.)
"You seemingly never fail to rail upon atheism in each of your posts here. I haven't read them all, but more than likely this is the case. My question is... why? Did you have a bad experience with atheism as a young child? Do you think the vocal minority of atheists in the public eye are obnoxious?
Thanks for your time. At least reading your posts lets me see just how far the extreme conservatist right-wing Christians would like to take things."
Not that I don't think of Christianity as a default philosophy on life for everyone ("bad experience ... as a young child") or that voicing one's ideology isn't sucking up to the audience ("another way to pander").
It's good that we're not running out of right- (or maybe s/right/one/ ?) minded people anywhere in the near future.