Yeah, I just sold my old Nikon FE and lenses. Didn't get much for the camera, but did well on the lenses. There are plenty of people out there still into it. Not me. If I ever get back into photography, I'll be all digital. I'm content to let the darkroom days be a fond memory. (I worked in color, and not the "easy" Cibachrome stuff, required some real precision with temps & timing...)
I couldn't find a phrasing that fit and carried the intended meaning, and I assumed that people who read the summary would grasp that it referred to the thing Google have that music videos might actually be on.
I wasn't talking about the headline. There was plenty of room in the summary to be clear about what video-sharing service was the subject.
There's a reason everybody in Colorado who doesn't live there calls it "the peoples republic".
No, only about 1/3. Some call it "the Berkeley of Colorado." While others call it "25 square miles surrounded by reality";-)
I sometimes just snort and refer to it as "the bird sanctuary". (Really, it is. City council passed ordinance against harassing pigeons and made Boulder officially a sanctuary for flying rats.)
You just have some weird hate for prius owners* so your observation bias kicks in.
Sorry, you're wrong. Now this may be specific to Boulder, but bad parking is way more common with Prius than any other car in the lot, including both other hybrids, and giganto SUVs.
And, they're running out of room in the Whole Foods parking lot, where things are getting real, man.
If the fucking self-absorbed head-up-the-ass Prius drivers would learn to park their dinky little toy cars in one space instead of straddling two, the parking problem would be greatly relieved.
I am not kidding. Tour the Boulder (Pearl St) Whole Foods parking lot some time and see how many Prius drivers cannot get their cars into one space. Bunch of passive-aggressive trust-fund-baby fuckers.
Python, Ruby, scsh--but the latter doesn't really have relevance to the web, while the first two have popular and well-designed web-app-serving frameworks built on them.
The summary doesn't claim HFS caused the bitrot, you read that into it.
The summary's first sentence ends: "about data loss suffered under Apple's venerable HFS+ filesystem" and shortly thereafter it continues with: "HFS+ lost a total of 28 files over the course of 6 years." So the chosen wording most certainly does imply that HFS is at fault. One has to click the link to the article, then read all the way through the frickin' footnotes before one encounters anything to explicitly disavow that implication.
Anyone who owned a Mac since the 80s remembers having to use Norton Disk Doctor and later DiskWarrior at least once per month to repair the filesystem. Entire folders could go randomly missing each time you booted up your Mac, and if you accidentally lost power to your hard drive, the use of one of those was mandatory.
Oh yes. I remember those days well. Journaled HFS+ fixed that, and for about the last decade the only times I have encountered a corrupted file system on a Mac, that discovery was followed shortly by total failure of the hard disk.
In a footnote he admits that the corruption was caused by hardware issues, not HFS+ bugs, and of course the summary ignores that completely.
So, for that, let me counter his anecdote with my own anecdote: I have an HFS+ volume with a collection of over 3,000,000 files on it. This collection started in 2004, approximately 50 people access thousands of files on it per day, and occasionally after upgrades or problems it gets a full byte-to-byte comparison to one of three warm standbys. No corruption found, ever.
Are you sure they aren't handing you a pre-made card? If you are opening a new account, they could give you any card (because your card number is not associated with your account number anymore) I agree the equipment isn't that expensive... but printing flat cards with the photo of your choice attracts more customers than embossed cards do. The cost of catering to the masses I'm afraid.
a) My name is embossed on the card.
b) What makes you think they couldn't print a photo on an embossed card?
My credit union prints their own cards... which don't have a relief on the printed data... so they can issue them directly from the branch.
Uhmmm, my credit union prints their own cards right in the branch and hands them to you when you open an account. With raised numbers like a normal card. The card printers for making properly-embossed cards are not that expensive.
This whole situation assumes a government having access to and data-mining your online activities is inherently more dangerous than the same behavior by large, multinational, profit driven corporations.
Large multinational corporations do not (yet, at least) have the ability to storm your house with heavily armed troops, kick in your door, throw you face down on the floor, tear apart your house, and shoot you dead if you so much as give any hint of resistance. So yes, government is more dangerous.
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The lenses for a Nikon FE will work fine on a current Nikon DSLR. If they were prime lenses, the optics are about the same as with modern lenses.
They will work, but I suspect that your definition of "work fine" differs from most peoples' ;-)
Longer focal length, different f value, no auto-focus, no auto-aperture, I'm not sure the DSLR will even read the current aperture...
While that might have been whizbang decades ago, today it's utterly commonplace for a photographer to get the same...
Translation: you have never had the experience of seeing any of his original prints.
Digital photography should be seen as a compliment...
Digital photographers' subjects everywhere thank you ;-)
Yeah, I just sold my old Nikon FE and lenses. Didn't get much for the camera, but did well on the lenses. There are plenty of people out there still into it. Not me. If I ever get back into photography, I'll be all digital. I'm content to let the darkroom days be a fond memory. (I worked in color, and not the "easy" Cibachrome stuff, required some real precision with temps & timing...)
I couldn't find a phrasing that fit and carried the intended meaning, and I assumed that people who read the summary would grasp that it referred to the thing Google have that music videos might actually be on.
I wasn't talking about the headline. There was plenty of room in the summary to be clear about what video-sharing service was the subject.
I suppose you mean "or be removed FROM YOUTUBE"???
The fear is that unscrupulous manufacturers will substitute inferior inputs...
They absolutely do that every chance they get. The key is that the big experienced companies don't give them any chance.
...if it manages to convince buyers that its cars built in China are just as good as those currently built in Europe...
Talk about a low bar!
Why did it have to be Microsoft?
Well, at least it will keep crashing, and maybe humanity will figure out a way to defeat it during one of the reboots.
There's a reason everybody in Colorado who doesn't live there calls it "the peoples republic".
No, only about 1/3. Some call it "the Berkeley of Colorado." While others call it "25 square miles surrounded by reality" ;-)
I sometimes just snort and refer to it as "the bird sanctuary". (Really, it is. City council passed ordinance against harassing pigeons and made Boulder officially a sanctuary for flying rats.)
It's because not eating meat ruins your spatial vision.
First I laughed. Then I started to wonder. Maybe you're right for real...
You just have some weird hate for prius owners* so your observation bias kicks in.
Sorry, you're wrong. Now this may be specific to Boulder, but bad parking is way more common with Prius than any other car in the lot, including both other hybrids, and giganto SUVs.
And, they're running out of room in the Whole Foods parking lot, where things are getting real, man.
If the fucking self-absorbed head-up-the-ass Prius drivers would learn to park their dinky little toy cars in one space instead of straddling two, the parking problem would be greatly relieved.
I am not kidding. Tour the Boulder (Pearl St) Whole Foods parking lot some time and see how many Prius drivers cannot get their cars into one space. Bunch of passive-aggressive trust-fund-baby fuckers.
IOE 6, 7, and 8 were universally hated disasters.
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Python, Ruby, scsh--but the latter doesn't really have relevance to the web, while the first two have popular and well-designed web-app-serving frameworks built on them.
The summary doesn't claim HFS caused the bitrot, you read that into it.
The summary's first sentence ends: "about data loss suffered under Apple's venerable HFS+ filesystem" and shortly thereafter it continues with: "HFS+ lost a total of 28 files over the course of 6 years." So the chosen wording most certainly does imply that HFS is at fault. One has to click the link to the article, then read all the way through the frickin' footnotes before one encounters anything to explicitly disavow that implication.
Anyone who owned a Mac since the 80s remembers having to use Norton Disk Doctor and later DiskWarrior at least once per month to repair the filesystem. Entire folders could go randomly missing each time you booted up your Mac, and if you accidentally lost power to your hard drive, the use of one of those was mandatory.
Oh yes. I remember those days well. Journaled HFS+ fixed that, and for about the last decade the only times I have encountered a corrupted file system on a Mac, that discovery was followed shortly by total failure of the hard disk.
So, what was your fucking point?
Sun open sourced ZFS under a permissive license.
And NetApp claims that Sun & Oracle violated their patents.
In a footnote he admits that the corruption was caused by hardware issues, not HFS+ bugs, and of course the summary ignores that completely.
So, for that, let me counter his anecdote with my own anecdote: I have an HFS+ volume with a collection of over 3,000,000 files on it. This collection started in 2004, approximately 50 people access thousands of files on it per day, and occasionally after upgrades or problems it gets a full byte-to-byte comparison to one of three warm standbys. No corruption found, ever.
Are you sure they aren't handing you a pre-made card? If you are opening a new account, they could give you any card (because your card number is not associated with your account number anymore) I agree the equipment isn't that expensive... but printing flat cards with the photo of your choice attracts more customers than embossed cards do. The cost of catering to the masses I'm afraid.
a) My name is embossed on the card.
b) What makes you think they couldn't print a photo on an embossed card?
My credit union prints their own cards... which don't have a relief on the printed data... so they can issue them directly from the branch.
Uhmmm, my credit union prints their own cards right in the branch and hands them to you when you open an account. With raised numbers like a normal card. The card printers for making properly-embossed cards are not that expensive.
...and even 5% of them are as smart as Saurabh.
Dream on. I'd bet this kid is at least in the top 0.3%, and maybe higher.
This whole situation assumes a government having access to and data-mining your online activities is inherently more dangerous than the same behavior by large, multinational, profit driven corporations.
Large multinational corporations do not (yet, at least) have the ability to storm your house with heavily armed troops, kick in your door, throw you face down on the floor, tear apart your house, and shoot you dead if you so much as give any hint of resistance. So yes, government is more dangerous.
That doesn't seem like a very profitable plan.
If it wasn't for legal reverse engineering, most of us would be sitting in front of $2000 IBM PCs.
Don't forget the IBM v Phoenix lawsuit. IBM wanted it that way, and thank goodness, they lost.