Many geeks (who are not also photo geeks) don't realize that color print film and color slide film don't have the longest life unless you take very good care of them. Black and white film and prints that are washed to archival standards will last longer than you, but color film and prints can degrade quickly. Acid (in non acid-free papers, UV, light and heat are the enemy of photos. If you want your negatives to last, store them sealed in plastic (like ziplock) in a freezer.
If you're looking to make prints on an inkjet printer, be aware that MOST of the inks sold for inkjets will fade VERY quickly. Accidently leave them in the car on the passenger seat and they'll be totally washed out when you leave work. Several printers are starting to have archival inks, which when combined with archival paper will last as long as color prints and some will last longer.
Prints from digital are decent from places like ezprints.com, ofoto.com, adorama.com (my favorite), snapfish.com and others.
For people who normally would shoot 35mm or APS and get nothing but 4x6's and an occasional 5x7, the consumer digital cameras are a replacement. Not because 3 megapixel is equivalent to 35mm, but because most consumers don't take advantage of even the resolution that 35mm uses, much less medium or large format film.
I consider the storage and organization of a photo archive a sort of separate problem from web and print albums and photo sharing. An archiving solution will let you find a file or negative easily and make a decision based on some sort of thumbnail or contact sheet. From an archive, photos can be pulled to be shared in albums, sent in email, posted to a website, printed for framing etc.
Let me guess, based out of California? I've said it before: California is not the be all and end all of technology jobs. In many other parts of the country, you can have a tech job, only work 40 hours, buy a 2 bedroom house with a backyard for $100,000 in a decent sized city, breathe the air and actually enjoy life.
Just wait until they start tieing it to your health insurance and life insurance. Right now, they just ask if you smoke or drink. If they tie this stuff together, your indication that you don't smoke combined with your carton a week purchasing of cigarettes will result in an increase in premiums.
My prediction is that the above will edge toward reality as the percentage of people over 65 increases and insurance companies look for ways to handle the risk better. You buy HoHo's? Take a hit on your cardiovascular coverage. Bought 6 cases of beer this week? Good luck with your liver coverage.
It already happens with home and auto insurance. The 25 and male car insurance penalty is well known and State Farm recently stopped issuing new policies in many states with high chances of natural disaster.
Then we may have a Bob Dylan-esque "shifting background" kind of thing going on. I based my comment off of a speech I heard Rasmus give. His "history of" focused on building the C programs at work for others to use.
Of course. Because we know that EVERY website gets 100s of simultaneous connections per second. As a matter of fact, all websites NEED 3-tier load balanced solution with an enterprise database in order to pull SELECT * FROM content WHERE id = $content_id out of that database 100 times per day.
And WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP) is a lot more popular than most Linux users will admit. It's a great solution for small intranets. With the improvements in Apache 2 to make it more stable on Windows, it's works well when OS isn't a variable in the equation, but a constant.
7 days a week for all shows before 6 or so in the evening. Stadium seating with fold up armrests, free refills on soda and popcorn. Showplace 16 in Inver Grove Heights, MN.
If I ever get around to finishing my novel and publishing it, I guarantee you I'd be thrilled to see a copy of my book beat up. It means someone integrated the reading of it into their lives at least once.
After 3000 downloads? I wouldn't count on it. My project cleared 1.5 million downloads before I shut it down and I got almost no offers to help and those offers fell apart shortly after being made. It's still getting 2000+ downloads/day after I stopped supporting it.
My wife (also in HR) says that their policy is not to answer that one, though they've been asked. She said the company lawyers indicate that it opens them up to just as much liability as commenting on work performance.
Shoehorning mismatched content into an existing license for another type of content, ie photography covered by a software license like GPL is just as bad as hand-writing your own without a lawyer. The GPL is filled with software specific terminology and concepts that don't fit things like visual arts well. Please, people, choose a license that at least matches what you're trying to cover. The OPL (opencontent license) does a decent job of covering a pretty wide range of non-software content.
Exactly. Read the GPL. It's full of software-specific terminology and concepts. I'm a photographer in addition to geek work. The real source code to my photo work is a 35mm HP5 negative. I'm not making copy negatives for everyone who wants to use the image. I will, however, give out high-res scans of that image for use.
There are those who say that you can apply the GPL to anything that's covered by copyright. I prefer to use the correct tool for the correct job. That, at the very least, requires rewriting the GPL to apply directly to the domain in question. In my case that's photography. That would mean that sections like, "If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run" don't apply and shouldn't be in the license. However, the general concepts in the GPL would apply, ie, if you use my images, you had better share the results just like I shared the original.
"...for every concept, there exists a horribly confounded background story..."
That attitude is all over pseudo-intellectual discussion of almost everything. I decided it was crap once and for all in my fiction and poetry classes in college. Most of them were done workshop style with the group discussing your work. You weren't allowed to comment on it as they discussed: just take notes. It was unbelievable the amount of sheer BS that those groups read into my work (and everyone else's as well). Those subtexts may have been there, but I sure didn't intentionally put them in.
"...when the author wishes to avoid assessing blame..."
I'd say that constitutes the VAST majority of overuse of passive voice, particularly in business writing. Especially when the author is seeking to avoid the blame being pointed at themselves. While understandable, I wouldn't call using that particular writing crutch "good writing" by any stretch. "Effective"? Yes, but only if the goal was avoiding blame instead of clear communication.
I do agree though that passive voice can be used in good writing effectively and use it myself when necessary. I just find myself wondering about the culpability of the author when the entire document is written passively.
If you're looking for a beverage that contributes to general alertness without the jitters, nervousness, irritation and general ill health that accompanies regular coffee and tea, you should take a look at drinking yerba mate.
For the current Alpha release of PHPTriad, I added an "administrative" Apache service listening on port 1005. It has a completely separated configuration so the user can't screw it up. A control panel uses that to run PHP scripts for starting/stopping Apache/MySQL and other admin tasks. The current implementation is done with HTTP GET/POST. I'm now starting on an XWT version that will provide a more native look/feel with added functionality instead of routing it through a web browser.
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Many geeks (who are not also photo geeks) don't realize that color print film and color slide film don't have the longest life unless you take very good care of them. Black and white film and prints that are washed to archival standards will last longer than you, but color film and prints can degrade quickly. Acid (in non acid-free papers, UV, light and heat are the enemy of photos. If you want your negatives to last, store them sealed in plastic (like ziplock) in a freezer.
If you're looking to make prints on an inkjet printer, be aware that MOST of the inks sold for inkjets will fade VERY quickly. Accidently leave them in the car on the passenger seat and they'll be totally washed out when you leave work. Several printers are starting to have archival inks, which when combined with archival paper will last as long as color prints and some will last longer.
Prints from digital are decent from places like ezprints.com, ofoto.com, adorama.com (my favorite), snapfish.com and others.
For people who normally would shoot 35mm or APS and get nothing but 4x6's and an occasional 5x7, the consumer digital cameras are a replacement. Not because 3 megapixel is equivalent to 35mm, but because most consumers don't take advantage of even the resolution that 35mm uses, much less medium or large format film.
I consider the storage and organization of a photo archive a sort of separate problem from web and print albums and photo sharing. An archiving solution will let you find a file or negative easily and make a decision based on some sort of thumbnail or contact sheet. From an archive, photos can be pulled to be shared in albums, sent in email, posted to a website, printed for framing etc.
Let me guess, based out of California? I've said it before: California is not the be all and end all of technology jobs. In many other parts of the country, you can have a tech job, only work 40 hours, buy a 2 bedroom house with a backyard for $100,000 in a decent sized city, breathe the air and actually enjoy life.
Just wait until they start tieing it to your health insurance and life insurance. Right now, they just ask if you smoke or drink. If they tie this stuff together, your indication that you don't smoke combined with your carton a week purchasing of cigarettes will result in an increase in premiums.
My prediction is that the above will edge toward reality as the percentage of people over 65 increases and insurance companies look for ways to handle the risk better. You buy HoHo's? Take a hit on your cardiovascular coverage. Bought 6 cases of beer this week? Good luck with your liver coverage.
It already happens with home and auto insurance. The 25 and male car insurance penalty is well known and State Farm recently stopped issuing new policies in many states with high chances of natural disaster.
State Farm. They're not taking new owners in several more states than that. In many of the remaining states, the rates are going up.
This "rule" is one that most Americans use as well.
It is if you're using a 6+ megapixel digital camera and each RAW shot takes up 7.5MB. The only way the D60 gets to 1GB today is through a microdrive.
You mean like the eBay subsidiary half.com?
Then we may have a Bob Dylan-esque "shifting background" kind of thing going on. I based my comment off of a speech I heard Rasmus give. His "history of" focused on building the C programs at work for others to use.
Of course. Because we know that EVERY website gets 100s of simultaneous connections per second. As a matter of fact, all websites NEED 3-tier load balanced solution with an enterprise database in order to pull SELECT * FROM content WHERE id = $content_id out of that database 100 times per day.
And WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP) is a lot more popular than most Linux users will admit. It's a great solution for small intranets. With the improvements in Apache 2 to make it more stable on Windows, it's works well when OS isn't a variable in the equation, but a constant.
PHP has an experimental .NET extension and I'm sure several of the others if not all will have one soon if not already.
PHP didn't start out as a Perl script it was a series of little C programs.
7 days a week for all shows before 6 or so in the evening. Stadium seating with fold up armrests, free refills on soda and popcorn. Showplace 16 in Inver Grove Heights, MN.
If I ever get around to finishing my novel and publishing it, I guarantee you I'd be thrilled to see a copy of my book beat up. It means someone integrated the reading of it into their lives at least once.
After 3000 downloads? I wouldn't count on it. My project cleared 1.5 million downloads before I shut it down and I got almost no offers to help and those offers fell apart shortly after being made. It's still getting 2000+ downloads/day after I stopped supporting it.
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My wife (also in HR) says that their policy is not to answer that one, though they've been asked. She said the company lawyers indicate that it opens them up to just as much liability as commenting on work performance.
Shoehorning mismatched content into an existing license for another type of content, ie photography covered by a software license like GPL is just as bad as hand-writing your own without a lawyer. The GPL is filled with software specific terminology and concepts that don't fit things like visual arts well. Please, people, choose a license that at least matches what you're trying to cover. The OPL (opencontent license) does a decent job of covering a pretty wide range of non-software content.
Exactly. Read the GPL. It's full of software-specific terminology and concepts. I'm a photographer in addition to geek work. The real source code to my photo work is a 35mm HP5 negative. I'm not making copy negatives for everyone who wants to use the image. I will, however, give out high-res scans of that image for use.
There are those who say that you can apply the GPL to anything that's covered by copyright. I prefer to use the correct tool for the correct job. That, at the very least, requires rewriting the GPL to apply directly to the domain in question. In my case that's photography. That would mean that sections like, "If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run" don't apply and shouldn't be in the license. However, the general concepts in the GPL would apply, ie, if you use my images, you had better share the results just like I shared the original.
"...for every concept, there exists a horribly confounded background story..." That attitude is all over pseudo-intellectual discussion of almost everything. I decided it was crap once and for all in my fiction and poetry classes in college. Most of them were done workshop style with the group discussing your work. You weren't allowed to comment on it as they discussed: just take notes. It was unbelievable the amount of sheer BS that those groups read into my work (and everyone else's as well). Those subtexts may have been there, but I sure didn't intentionally put them in.
"...when the author wishes to avoid assessing blame..."
I'd say that constitutes the VAST majority of overuse of passive voice, particularly in business writing. Especially when the author is seeking to avoid the blame being pointed at themselves. While understandable, I wouldn't call using that particular writing crutch "good writing" by any stretch. "Effective"? Yes, but only if the goal was avoiding blame instead of clear communication.
I do agree though that passive voice can be used in good writing effectively and use it myself when necessary. I just find myself wondering about the culpability of the author when the entire document is written passively.
(Passive usage intentional in this post).
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For the current Alpha release of PHPTriad, I added an "administrative" Apache service listening on port 1005. It has a completely separated configuration so the user can't screw it up. A control panel uses that to run PHP scripts for starting/stopping Apache/MySQL and other admin tasks. The current implementation is done with HTTP GET/POST. I'm now starting on an XWT version that will provide a more native look/feel with added functionality instead of routing it through a web browser.
I wondered if you'd pop up in this discussion. :)