But I'm not fond of Wal-Mart and based on news articles and experiences in my area alone with going into a store you could be trying to do something 'cute' and 'artistic' with an infant and have them report you to social services. We had a student doing a 'freedom of speech' civics project get reported to the secret service because he took a picture of himself standing next to a picture of the current President with his thumbs down and a red thumbtack through the presidents face on the picture. His project was 'right to protest' yet the Wal-Mart in Kitty Hawk, NC thought otherwise and reported him.
A family lost their five month old son for six months because a father kissed him on his tummy while he was giving him a bath and mom snapped a digital picture and took it in for printing. This was here, in my home town of Raleigh, NC.
So printing at home works for that reason as well.
I need 2 4x6's. Sure, they're $0.14 online, but add $4.95 in shipping and off you go.
I use Mpix.com for all my large printing needs. They are actually exposing the digital exposure to Kodak film paper which can be common among some people. Their price and service can't be beat either. 8x10s for $2.
However if I need a 4x6, or a 8x10, a home printer is a decent deal. I recently picked up the Kodak 1400 dye sub printer for just this reason. There was a $100 rebate so it's a $343 printer, and the paper size of 8x14 lets me print 4 4x6s, 2 5x7s, 2 6x8s, or one 8x10 or 8x12 per page. I won't be printing out a 'major event' like my son's 2nd birthday portrait or the disaster that was the attempt at my daughters 4th birthday portrait because I usually want a ton of wallets, a good amount of 4x6s, and 5x7s and 8x10s for the grandparents, my desk, what not.
But for quick and easy home prints, a decent (but not outrageous) printer works for me. I've got a bad taste in my mouth for inkjet because the Canon S9000 I got when I got my first digital SLR in 2002 fades pretty badly unless you frame it. It doesn't stand up to my 'fridge test' where you print it, take a magnet, and pin it to the fridge for all eternity.
Fotki.com and the Kodak Easyshare Gallery have so far withstood that test rather well. However Kodak keeps making me sign a release form for every order for copyright reasons. Mpix does not, because there is no copyright displayed on my images. Apple has the same issue in iPhoto, but Kodak is their print engine. Fotki has been on the fridge for over a year now with no fading, next to a S9000 4x6 that is about as faded as it gets.
Not to mention the Audi Q7 hybrid effort that coupled a 200nm torque boost into the system on their new SUV.
An interesting idea. Can't wait to see what they come out with. I've been waiting for the Q7 for my family, as most cars aren't big enough for carrying all of us.
I grew up in Lawrence, KS and graduated from Lawrence High School in 1989.
There was a rather 'brusque' teacher by the name of Mr. Roth. he taught biology.
in 1997 he was fired for berating a student who asked him why he didn't teach creationism. Reports vary but he probably reacted to the bating of a little shit of a student.
Mr. Roth was a teacher to be feared if you goofed off, but if you did your work he was a good, solid teacher. He was famous during my tenure for shooting any sleeping / dozing kid with a fire extinguisher.
It was a very sad day when a lifelong dedicated educator is terminated over this. It was at that point I knew my kids (who didn't even exist yet) wouldn't be going to the USD 497 school district.
...I've searched the FAQ and stuff on the worldcommunity web pages but I can't figure out what I'm supposed to do next after installing it? I'm running it from a command line, no GUI available and can't find any local DOC file on how to install it.
It runs, did a benchmark of the cpus, then sits there.
At the moment to my knowledge there isn't a power version, so we can't support it. I'm aware of only a porting effort caled 'portaris' that is in work, but it's more community based to my knowledge and not something Sun is working on.
Our OS support is based on customer demand, right now the demand was for Intel and AMD Based systems, not Power. If the demand changes and there is a supported OS from Sun available that could always change in the future.
Sun 'leaked it out' via a blog post on Mr. Schwartz weblog. Official support from IBM as far as being posted on the NOS Cert site will be December.
Update 1 is needed to support the BladeCenter's USB DVD-ROM drive for a local install, however you can PXE boot install it and it works fine. Update 1 is coming out shortly which is why IBM hadn't published anything about their intent to support it as an OS. Software and Utility support (RAID Manager, Systems Management software drivers) will be coming forward over the course of the 1H of 2006. If you have a BladeCenter, or are interested in one, feel free to contact your local IBM person and they should be able to give you more information.
The reason your rep was probably caught by surprise when you called them is that we hadn't told them we were working on it yet as it was under non-disclosure.
You might try talking to your IBM rep again as more information has been given out internally, we're just not advertising it officiall until later this month, with the support posted in December.
Your three concern points, well, i don't know about the EVA portion but I thought HP supported Solaris. However I'd assume if Solaris supports SAN Boot and MP Failover as it is, the hardware in the BladeCenter wouldn't affect it any and allow it to work. The big one though would be EVA support though because if their multipath driver isn't done/working/whatever the rest might be a moot point.
Our intentions deep within the bowels of IBM was not to support Solaris 10 as a 'publicity stunt', but more as we are getting requests to support it on the platform from customers. Our intent is to support both Intel architecture as well as AMD Architecture processors, but not Power.
FWIW, my day job is:
Tom Boucher IBM Americas xSeries BladeCenter/x3 Architecture Product Manager tboucher at us dot ibm dot com
As a CYA I'm not posting this for my employer, more because I'm as interested in technology as the rest of us that view this site. Views expressed are my own, etc. etc.
OK So that broad over-generalization fell flat. I was trying to come up with some examples, and Yahoo and other auction/search engine sites getting sued/fined/whatever by the German goverment popped into the head. My file system table in my head doesn't always retreive data 100% accurately.
The last PDA I bought was a Palm T3 to replace my Treo 300 that I was furious at sprint with because the flip top lid thing snapped off after about eight months of use and the prick told me it was misuse. I am 'careful' with my devices and being told I chucked it at a wall in hopes of an upgrade really made my day.
Anyway, a PDA while decent to do lots of stuff, it doesn't do lots of stuff well.
There are things out there to improve the experience, but most of the time they cost money.
A iPod works out of the box, you don't have to jiggle here, tweak there, poke here. That's why the Pocket Windows devices appeal more to geeks but not to the rest of the world. On a lot of things I want them to Just Work (TM) and it seems when there is a device out there that 'does more stuff and costs the same' it doesn't Just Work(TM) you gott a dick with it. I don't get paid to dick with little devices to listen to music or look up my calendar so I'm not gonna waste my time and look for something that just works (TM)
So do we decide which countries get to have a say? I mean do you want China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia deciding what can/can't be done with the internet? I dont'.
The word Nazi would be stricken from the record if Germany got their way. We'd never know about what really happened in World War II because their so ashamed of their history.
Heaven forbid you look at pr0n again, you'd be executed if some countries had their way. Phone sex could get you stoned (and the bad kind, not the good kind)
Granted the US could go nutso too if the jesus freaks get their way. I'm still shocked they weren't 100% behind the.xxx domain because then they could get a convention of them together to convince AOL or some other big time ISP to block the entire TLD and they'd be 'safe' from Porn. I know it sure finds its way around my firewalls to get onto my hard drive.
I stare at computers all day, I do all sorts of crap with Windows, Linux, and what not. When I get home I don't want to dick with my computer, I want to use it. I dick with computers all day long. At home, I want something that just works and does what I want to do. With linux I had to carry a tool kit with me to install the simplest of things and god forbid you ask for help in doing it.
It just works. Windows didn't for me without spending money every year on anti-virus crap or my wife managing to get some malware emailed to her by her un-educated computer friends. It'd not shut down right, it'd take forever to come up, it'd blow up or need a new device driver for the next software package every time I tried to install something new.
It doesn't on my Mac. That's what happens when you trust a company that controls the hardware and the software, they don't have to work on the lowest common denominator because they control all ends of the spectrum. If you don't like it, don't buy it. But don't assume those of us who were building computers in a local computer store 15 years ago like to do it every year when we get home. It gets boring after a while and I'm not into the neon & blinky lights thing, I'm into the OS not getting in the way and a decent set of applications. I don't need 50,000 ways to read RSS, I need a good one. On the Mac I seem to find that more than on Windows.
I use Windows all day at work on my laptop, I use linux on my servers, and at home I get away from it all and run on my Mac.
With each bucket of water Kenny can bail 2 gallons, he can do 15 buckets per minute.
Four Armed Henry can bail 1.5 gallons, and can do 30 buckets per minute.
Who's faster?
Now granted, the scheduler (the brain) needs to provide enough workload (threads) to each processor to get the best performance out of Henry's extra arms, but if it's a MP aware os/application already it will see an immediate benefit. If it's a single threaded app, well, there you go
Right above that (in the store portion) you have the 'bare minimum' specs
Power Mac G5 with 1.8GHz or faster PowerPC G5; 17- or 20-inch iMac G5 with 1.8GHz or faster PowerPC G5; or 15- or 17-inch PowerBook G4 with 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor
For those of you who are new, or don't care, or don't use RAW workflow it's about the post processing that most enthusiast, semi-pro, and pros doin once the pictures are taken and before they're edited in Photoshop (if needed).
Photoshop has something included that has been showing up in the last few versions, they call it adobe camera raw but it is rasterized out of camera RAW and then you edit it like you would any other image.
What Aperture, and the others let you do is 'pre-process' your image to do lossless corrections to things such as white balance, color cast, cropping, etc. If you make any of these types of changes inside photoshop once you import in the RAW file you are doing it with data loss.
This is a step before photoshop, not a slap in the face and replacement.
This is condiments to the burger. The burger is much more filling than just the condiments, but the condiments aren't all that by itself
The two I get are Popular Photography and Imagaing, and Shutterfly. Shutterfly is borderline on the ads, Pop Photo at least has an online forum and interaction with the staff.
They are both more on the 'how to' side of photography in the form of technical aspects, but not the creative side.
As a hobbiest photographer I like to try and subscribe to magazines. However there are a few of them that are basically 75% ads. They don't even try and mix content among the ads, just about 1/4 the way through it's nothing but ads until the back cover, and then there is an ad on it as well.
It's pretty frustrating, there is a few (Popular Photo & Imaging) that while still heavily laden with ads at least it's about a 60/40 split vs. 25/75.
And 10 - 15 years from now you're going to have a permanent hunch in your back from leaning forward and squinting at that tiny screen, of course your coke-bottle glasses to fix your nearsightedness from staring at tiny tiny text for so long might on a good day let you see a person across the room.
User interfaces to these things have *got* to improve. The people that use these things are in their late teens, and early to mid 20s. Once that thing called 'age' kicks in those tiny ass screens are a huge pain in the ass.
Since I was in my twenties my eyesight has gotten worse thanks to keratoconus. A condition where your corneas are sagging. Right now I have my choice of hard contacts, or so-so general vision with glasses. I guess I could try for a cornea transplant to fix it but that's not on my top 10 list of things to do.
There are other people above 30 like me, or above 40 and 50 who are a large portion of computer users/potential computer users. Unless something is done to help their vision these tiny little devices without a dock/interface of some kind to a much larger screen aren't going to be able to enjoy what you do.
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But I'm not fond of Wal-Mart and based on news articles and experiences in my area alone with going into a store you could be trying to do something 'cute' and 'artistic' with an infant and have them report you to social services. We had a student doing a 'freedom of speech' civics project get reported to the secret service because he took a picture of himself standing next to a picture of the current President with his thumbs down and a red thumbtack through the presidents face on the picture. His project was 'right to protest' yet the Wal-Mart in Kitty Hawk, NC thought otherwise and reported him.
A family lost their five month old son for six months because a father kissed him on his tummy while he was giving him a bath and mom snapped a digital picture and took it in for printing. This was here, in my home town of Raleigh, NC.
So printing at home works for that reason as well.
I need 2 4x6's. Sure, they're $0.14 online, but add $4.95 in shipping and off you go.
I use Mpix.com for all my large printing needs. They are actually exposing the digital exposure to Kodak film paper which can be common among some people. Their price and service can't be beat either. 8x10s for $2.
However if I need a 4x6, or a 8x10, a home printer is a decent deal. I recently picked up the Kodak 1400 dye sub printer for just this reason. There was a $100 rebate so it's a $343 printer, and the paper size of 8x14 lets me print 4 4x6s, 2 5x7s, 2 6x8s, or one 8x10 or 8x12 per page. I won't be printing out a 'major event' like my son's 2nd birthday portrait or the disaster that was the attempt at my daughters 4th birthday portrait because I usually want a ton of wallets, a good amount of 4x6s, and 5x7s and 8x10s for the grandparents, my desk, what not.
But for quick and easy home prints, a decent (but not outrageous) printer works for me. I've got a bad taste in my mouth for inkjet because the Canon S9000 I got when I got my first digital SLR in 2002 fades pretty badly unless you frame it. It doesn't stand up to my 'fridge test' where you print it, take a magnet, and pin it to the fridge for all eternity.
Fotki.com and the Kodak Easyshare Gallery have so far withstood that test rather well. However Kodak keeps making me sign a release form for every order for copyright reasons. Mpix does not, because there is no copyright displayed on my images. Apple has the same issue in iPhoto, but Kodak is their print engine. Fotki has been on the fridge for over a year now with no fading, next to a S9000 4x6 that is about as faded as it gets.
Not to mention the Audi Q7 hybrid effort that coupled a 200nm torque boost into the system on their new SUV.
An interesting idea. Can't wait to see what they come out with. I've been waiting for the Q7 for my family, as most cars aren't big enough for carrying all of us.
So if they wanted to know about Xenu and a teacher responded the same way you'd still agree?
The problem is, teachers that react badly to 'creationism' or the new oxymoron of 'intelligent design' get fired
I grew up in Lawrence, KS and graduated from Lawrence High School in 1989.
There was a rather 'brusque' teacher by the name of Mr. Roth. he taught biology.
in 1997 he was fired for berating a student who asked him why he didn't teach creationism. Reports vary but he probably reacted to the bating of a little shit of a student.
Mr. Roth was a teacher to be feared if you goofed off, but if you did your work he was a good, solid teacher. He was famous during my tenure for shooting any sleeping / dozing kid with a fire extinguisher.
It was a very sad day when a lifelong dedicated educator is terminated over this. It was at that point I knew my kids (who didn't even exist yet) wouldn't be going to the USD 497 school district.
Never mind. Found it, underneath the 'self extracting archive' is really a link telling you what to do.
...I've searched the FAQ and stuff on the worldcommunity web pages but I can't figure out what I'm supposed to do next after installing it? I'm running it from a command line, no GUI available and can't find any local DOC file on how to install it.
It runs, did a benchmark of the cpus, then sits there.
At the moment to my knowledge there isn't a power version, so we can't support it. I'm aware of only a porting effort caled 'portaris' that is in work, but it's more community based to my knowledge and not something Sun is working on.
Our OS support is based on customer demand, right now the demand was for Intel and AMD Based systems, not Power. If the demand changes and there is a supported OS from Sun available that could always change in the future.
Sorry I wasn't clear, I meant you can PXE TFTP Install it, not software-cdrom install it. Your'e right, that part doesn't work.
In Other words -
It's like putting 93 octane gas in a 87 octante tuned car. You waste your money and get nothing out of it but maybe a check engine gas light.
Sun 'leaked it out' via a blog post on Mr. Schwartz weblog. Official support from IBM as far as being posted on the NOS Cert site will be December.
Update 1 is needed to support the BladeCenter's USB DVD-ROM drive for a local install, however you can PXE boot install it and it works fine. Update 1 is coming out shortly which is why IBM hadn't published anything about their intent to support it as an OS. Software and Utility support (RAID Manager, Systems Management software drivers) will be coming forward over the course of the 1H of 2006. If you have a BladeCenter, or are interested in one, feel free to contact your local IBM person and they should be able to give you more information.
The reason your rep was probably caught by surprise when you called them is that we hadn't told them we were working on it yet as it was under non-disclosure.
You might try talking to your IBM rep again as more information has been given out internally, we're just not advertising it officiall until later this month, with the support posted in December.
Your three concern points, well, i don't know about the EVA portion but I thought HP supported Solaris. However I'd assume if Solaris supports SAN Boot and MP Failover as it is, the hardware in the BladeCenter wouldn't affect it any and allow it to work. The big one though would be EVA support though because if their multipath driver isn't done/working/whatever the rest might be a moot point.
Our intentions deep within the bowels of IBM was not to support Solaris 10 as a 'publicity stunt', but more as we are getting requests to support it on the platform from customers. Our intent is to support both Intel architecture as well as AMD Architecture processors, but not Power.
FWIW, my day job is:
Tom Boucher
IBM Americas xSeries BladeCenter/x3 Architecture Product Manager
tboucher at us dot ibm dot com
As a CYA I'm not posting this for my employer, more because I'm as interested in technology as the rest of us that view this site. Views expressed are my own, etc. etc.
OK So that broad over-generalization fell flat. I was trying to come up with some examples, and Yahoo and other auction/search engine sites getting sued/fined/whatever by the German goverment popped into the head. My file system table in my head doesn't always retreive data 100% accurately.
The last PDA I bought was a Palm T3 to replace my Treo 300 that I was furious at sprint with because the flip top lid thing snapped off after about eight months of use and the prick told me it was misuse. I am 'careful' with my devices and being told I chucked it at a wall in hopes of an upgrade really made my day.
Anyway, a PDA while decent to do lots of stuff, it doesn't do lots of stuff well.
There are things out there to improve the experience, but most of the time they cost money.
A iPod works out of the box, you don't have to jiggle here, tweak there, poke here. That's why the Pocket Windows devices appeal more to geeks but not to the rest of the world. On a lot of things I want them to Just Work (TM) and it seems when there is a device out there that 'does more stuff and costs the same' it doesn't Just Work(TM) you gott a dick with it. I don't get paid to dick with little devices to listen to music or look up my calendar so I'm not gonna waste my time and look for something that just works (TM)
My $0.02
So do we decide which countries get to have a say? I mean do you want China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia deciding what can/can't be done with the internet? I dont'.
.xxx domain because then they could get a convention of them together to convince AOL or some other big time ISP to block the entire TLD and they'd be 'safe' from Porn. I know it sure finds its way around my firewalls to get onto my hard drive.
The word Nazi would be stricken from the record if Germany got their way. We'd never know about what really happened in World War II because their so ashamed of their history.
Heaven forbid you look at pr0n again, you'd be executed if some countries had their way. Phone sex could get you stoned (and the bad kind, not the good kind)
Granted the US could go nutso too if the jesus freaks get their way. I'm still shocked they weren't 100% behind the
I stare at computers all day, I do all sorts of crap with Windows, Linux, and what not. When I get home I don't want to dick with my computer, I want to use it. I dick with computers all day long. At home, I want something that just works and does what I want to do. With linux I had to carry a tool kit with me to install the simplest of things and god forbid you ask for help in doing it.
It just works. Windows didn't for me without spending money every year on anti-virus crap or my wife managing to get some malware emailed to her by her un-educated computer friends. It'd not shut down right, it'd take forever to come up, it'd blow up or need a new device driver for the next software package every time I tried to install something new.
It doesn't on my Mac. That's what happens when you trust a company that controls the hardware and the software, they don't have to work on the lowest common denominator because they control all ends of the spectrum. If you don't like it, don't buy it. But don't assume those of us who were building computers in a local computer store 15 years ago like to do it every year when we get home. It gets boring after a while and I'm not into the neon & blinky lights thing, I'm into the OS not getting in the way and a decent set of applications. I don't need 50,000 ways to read RSS, I need a good one. On the Mac I seem to find that more than on Windows.
I use Windows all day at work on my laptop, I use linux on my servers, and at home I get away from it all and run on my Mac.
With each bucket of water Kenny can bail 2 gallons, he can do 15 buckets per minute.
Four Armed Henry can bail 1.5 gallons, and can do 30 buckets per minute.
Who's faster?
Now granted, the scheduler (the brain) needs to provide enough workload (threads) to each processor to get the best performance out of Henry's extra arms, but if it's a MP aware os/application already it will see an immediate benefit. If it's a single threaded app, well, there you go
This has nothing to do with adobe and photoshop.
This has everything to do with companies like Bibble Labs, Phase One, iView Multimedia who all make 'raw workflow' software.
For those of you who are new, or don't care, or don't use RAW workflow it's about the post processing that most enthusiast, semi-pro, and pros doin once the pictures are taken and before they're edited in Photoshop (if needed).
Photoshop has something included that has been showing up in the last few versions, they call it adobe camera raw but it is rasterized out of camera RAW and then you edit it like you would any other image.
What Aperture, and the others let you do is 'pre-process' your image to do lossless corrections to things such as white balance, color cast, cropping, etc. If you make any of these types of changes inside photoshop once you import in the RAW file you are doing it with data loss.
This is a step before photoshop, not a slap in the face and replacement.
This is condiments to the burger. The burger is much more filling than just the condiments, but the condiments aren't all that by itself
Rendering a monster ape that has millions of tiny hairs on his body takes a bit more work than NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The two I get are Popular Photography and Imagaing, and Shutterfly. Shutterfly is borderline on the ads, Pop Photo at least has an online forum and interaction with the staff.
They are both more on the 'how to' side of photography in the form of technical aspects, but not the creative side.
As a hobbiest photographer I like to try and subscribe to magazines. However there are a few of them that are basically 75% ads. They don't even try and mix content among the ads, just about 1/4 the way through it's nothing but ads until the back cover, and then there is an ad on it as well.
It's pretty frustrating, there is a few (Popular Photo & Imaging) that while still heavily laden with ads at least it's about a 60/40 split vs. 25/75.
And 10 - 15 years from now you're going to have a permanent hunch in your back from leaning forward and squinting at that tiny screen, of course your coke-bottle glasses to fix your nearsightedness from staring at tiny tiny text for so long might on a good day let you see a person across the room.
User interfaces to these things have *got* to improve. The people that use these things are in their late teens, and early to mid 20s. Once that thing called 'age' kicks in those tiny ass screens are a huge pain in the ass.
Since I was in my twenties my eyesight has gotten worse thanks to keratoconus. A condition where your corneas are sagging. Right now I have my choice of hard contacts, or so-so general vision with glasses. I guess I could try for a cornea transplant to fix it but that's not on my top 10 list of things to do.
There are other people above 30 like me, or above 40 and 50 who are a large portion of computer users/potential computer users. Unless something is done to help their vision these tiny little devices without a dock/interface of some kind to a much larger screen aren't going to be able to enjoy what you do.
He decided that the 'P' was 'getting in the way between him and his fans'
At first glance, it doesn't look any different to me, so you must have done something right.
Except then I hit reply and the post a comment dialog looks a bit different but not bad.
Must have been quite the effort, congrats.