I know about the 'view'. See reply to previous post. The 'view' is young enough to be my kid, but shallow and uninteresting. Besides, my interface is proprietary to my wife.
No children, raised and gone. I need a better class of coffee shop out here in the newly minted burbs (ten years ago was the deep sticks), because the crowd at the coffee shop is made up of kids that I would have strangled as a parent.
Maybe I'm square, but at home, the coffee is cheaper (but just as good-I get the beans from them), the chairs are more comfortable, and when I tire of it all, I can lay down and nap. I never understood sitting in a coffee shop with a laptop for an hour, much less several.
The one thing that I don't see in this discussion so far is the realization that the corporate world is not the place to be. Those companies suck the life out of you (see Dilbert).
The best jobs are with the small brick and mortar firms. Be the best that you can be by being the only one. Well, maybe an assistant or two. I get to do sysadmin, netadmin, user support, app development, security, telecom, spec/purchase, and all the rest (and I don't have to beg to put Linux on our servers). I hope I never go back to the land of insufferable politics, bloated bureaucracy, PHBs, reorgs and layoffs.
Companies want to reduce our ranks at every opportunity and do everything they can to reduce our salaries
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Work...
Here it is your boss's duty to get as much work as possible from you for as little pay as possible. It is your duty to do as little work as possible for the largest amount of pay that you can get.
I just used pit bull as an example because of the notoriety the attacks get.
Oh yes, very few pets go off without cause. Usually some human has stirred the pot and set in motion some baser instincts. Then these and other dogs jump the fence, pull away leash intact, drag somebody down like a gazelle and start chewing.
Well... ...around here we have to be content just mowin' 'em down with our vehicles (the dog packs from the dumped and rouge pets do their part as well). Too many crowded subdivisions to allow hunting with guns or bows. Keeps the body shops and collision repair centers humming though. Insurance companies are raking in the cash, too. And occasionally a human dies to kinda' even up the score.
White balance can make a major difference to the file and image. Adjustment during the RAW import makes reworking the image quick and easy. PhotoShop's histogram and sliders for adjusting WB during import are great. To not have that tool and info is fairly crippling.
PhotoShop 7 did not a well developed RAW plugin. CS does. It makes it hard to go backwards.
I was thinking of more recent works--Warhol, Picasso, those who works still have the copyright protection and are not public domain. Do you think that there is an RIAA/MPAA equivalant out looking for violaters? If I sell the physical art object have I sold the copyright protection?
I don't know...after all--IANAL, I only watch Law and Order on TV.
I haven't looked at the law in that regard. I wonder if you can make copies of art that you have bought and sell the copies without paying the original artist or the artist's estate. Think of all those people selling prints of famous works...who are they paying for the rights to make images?
... I did paint the picture, carve the sculpture, and draw the sketch. You can buy it if you want to, and you own it for all time. You can do whatever you like with it except claim that you produced it. You can resell it for a huge gain over the original investment (if you're lucky), destroy it, or give it away for free. I have no more control.
How did it come to be that my art form is a product, and other art forms are temporarily licensed?
That's what whacked Apple's market share way back when. Jobs killed the clones, I guess so he could have all the money, and cheap IBM compatibles with a sucky OS took over.
... when I worked for a German owned plumbing fixture manufaturer's US subsidary, we had to have all faucets certified for lead contanimation (leaching from the solder and brass compounds). As it turned out, a lot of what we were already selling in the US market would not come close to passing. The Fatherland offered to send faucets that were garanteed to pass. All we had to do was tell them what levels that they needed to meet for a particular model (has a lot to do with the length of the flow chamber).
They seemed quite upset that the units had to be pulled at random from stock. Maybe they were just to use to cheating.
Very few businesses have competitive pressures. Most have shareholder/board pressures that usually mean cut everything (labor costs, quality) except the amount of money that they receive.
I had access to DSL for three years before I finally decided to spend the money. No cable TV, Adelphia wants $500 to run a half mile of line on utility poles that are already there. No satellite TV, got a dish in an unopened box from Christmas four years ago. I just can't fathom paying for more useless channels to surf through. I'll read my programming books, use my broadband, or just get drunk instead.
Why not the government? Might actually have tech support on this shore, maybe even in town!
The only difference between government services/ products and privatized is that private employees make less money/benefits with less job security and some exec somewhere is raking in cash on the bogus notion that the exec took all the risk. Quality and cost to the consumer is about the same (except for natural gas!).
At least with public employees you can arrest the corrupt ones sooner. In the corporate world they get book deals, movies and jobs as lobbyists(sp?).
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I know about the 'view'. See reply to previous post. The 'view' is young enough to be my kid, but shallow and uninteresting. Besides, my interface is proprietary to my wife.
No children, raised and gone. I need a better class of coffee shop out here in the newly minted burbs (ten years ago was the deep sticks), because the crowd at the coffee shop is made up of kids that I would have strangled as a parent.
Maybe I'm square, but at home, the coffee is cheaper (but just as good-I get the beans from them), the chairs are more comfortable, and when I tire of it all, I can lay down and nap. I never understood sitting in a coffee shop with a laptop for an hour, much less several.
The best jobs are with the small brick and mortar firms. Be the best that you can be by being the only one. Well, maybe an assistant or two. I get to do sysadmin, netadmin, user support, app development, security, telecom, spec/purchase, and all the rest (and I don't have to beg to put Linux on our servers). I hope I never go back to the land of insufferable politics, bloated bureaucracy, PHBs, reorgs and layoffs.
Small business forever!
Companies want to reduce our ranks at every opportunity and do everything they can to reduce our salaries
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Work...
Here it is your boss's duty to get as much work as possible from you for as little pay as possible.
It is your duty to do as little work as possible for the largest amount of pay that you can get.
Oh yes, very few pets go off without cause. Usually some human has stirred the pot and set in motion some baser instincts. Then these and other dogs jump the fence, pull away leash intact, drag somebody down like a gazelle and start chewing.
However dogs have been bred for some genes that make them friendly to people
Tell that to a three year old child who has been mauled by a pit bull.
Well...
...around here we have to be content just mowin' 'em down with our vehicles (the dog packs from the dumped and rouge pets do their part as well). Too many crowded subdivisions to allow hunting with guns or bows. Keeps the body shops and collision repair centers humming though. Insurance companies are raking in the cash, too. And occasionally a human dies to kinda' even up the score.
Second, it's only white balance information
White balance can make a major difference to the file and image. Adjustment during the RAW import makes reworking the image quick and easy. PhotoShop's histogram and sliders for adjusting WB during import are great. To not have that tool and info is fairly crippling.
PhotoShop 7 did not a well developed RAW plugin. CS does. It makes it hard to go backwards.
A bush in the hand is greater than two birds on the wing!
I was thinking of more recent works--Warhol, Picasso, those who works still have the copyright protection and are not public domain. Do you think that there is an RIAA/MPAA equivalant out looking for violaters? If I sell the physical art object have I sold the copyright protection? I don't know...after all--IANAL, I only watch Law and Order on TV.
I haven't looked at the law in that regard. I wonder if you can make copies of art that you have bought and sell the copies without paying the original artist or the artist's estate. Think of all those people selling prints of famous works...who are they paying for the rights to make images?
... I did paint the picture, carve the sculpture, and draw the sketch. You can buy it if you want to, and you own it for all time. You can do whatever you like with it except claim that you produced it. You can resell it for a huge gain over the original investment (if you're lucky), destroy it, or give it away for free. I have no more control. How did it come to be that my art form is a product, and other art forms are temporarily licensed?
"Joe Sixpack" rarely, if ever reinstalls an OS. They get that "geeky kid" to do it for them. Or just buy new.
Cue the violins, it's a sad story.
That's what whacked Apple's market share way back when. Jobs killed the clones, I guess so he could have all the money, and cheap IBM compatibles with a sucky OS took over.
... when I worked for a German owned plumbing fixture manufaturer's US subsidary, we had to have all faucets certified for lead contanimation (leaching from the solder and brass compounds). As it turned out, a lot of what we were already selling in the US market would not come close to passing. The Fatherland offered to send faucets that were garanteed to pass. All we had to do was tell them what levels that they needed to meet for a particular model (has a lot to do with the length of the flow chamber).
They seemed quite upset that the units had to be pulled at random from stock. Maybe they were just to use to cheating.
Maybe it is a multi-boot machine.
We also get overtime and have a union. And where we don't have a union we still get close to union benefits and pay.
Other than heat and overclocking--how do you kill these things?
DR-DOS!
Sounds exactly like my Linux loaded laptop!
Very few businesses have competitive pressures. Most have shareholder/board pressures that usually mean cut everything (labor costs, quality) except the amount of money that they receive.
I had access to DSL for three years before I finally decided to spend the money. No cable TV, Adelphia wants $500 to run a half mile of line on utility poles that are already there. No satellite TV, got a dish in an unopened box from Christmas four years ago. I just can't fathom paying for more useless channels to surf through. I'll read my programming books, use my broadband, or just get drunk instead.
The only difference between government services/ products and privatized is that private employees make less money/benefits with less job security and some exec somewhere is raking in cash on the bogus notion that the exec took all the risk. Quality and cost to the consumer is about the same (except for natural gas!).
At least with public employees you can arrest the corrupt ones sooner. In the corporate world they get book deals, movies and jobs as lobbyists(sp?).