Just wondering. Obviously Solaris, IRIX, Linux, AIX, Mac OS X and whatever other UNIX flavors are out there (well, except for maybe SCO...) have had 64-bit support for some number of years now.
Is Windows the last major commercial OS to add 64-bit support, or are there others I'm missing?
(Even if it is the last one, I'm sure Microsoft will tout this as supremely innovative.:)
I thought the syntax of mine made it clear mine was also anecdotal (if first-person).:)
And yeah, the "camera owned by the news organization" is definitely fading. The small-town paper where I live has a photog who, every time I see him, has incremented the number of DSLRs around his neck - and a buddy says he's actually buying them himself. Sheez. Has a Mark II and a DRebel and I forget what-all else. At this rate, he'll need a Sherpa soon.
The folks I shoot for were seriously considering letting their photogs buy their own gear and just paying us a little extra, instead of dealing with the expenses and problems of having DSLRs making a few laps around the world, per camera, per year, often in the hands of non-photographer staff "delivering" them to users at events. As one of the shooters, it sucks bigtime to land somewhere 5000 miles from home and have someone who knows jack about cameras give me one that was last used by someone who's now literally on the other side of the planet, only to discover that various things are wrong, and that whoever noticed they were wrong didn't report them to anyone.
But alas, after making various promising noises last fall about letting us use our own gear... nothing's happened. I've actually started taking one of my old all-in-one digitals (same resolution as a D1) to events, "just in case." At times I've shot with it most of the day.
Looking on dabs.copm I see they have only one over 1000 pounds, the D2X dSLR 12.4MP.
Eh... so has the D2H dropped below 1000 pounds now? I know Nikon dropped its price a bit back, but that was to about 1300 pounds, and I didn't think it'd have dropped below 1000 already. (Mind you, as a D2H user, I certainly don't think it's worth 1000 pounds...) Of course, if it is below 1000 pounds, good riddance, as it's growing old. Not as old as most other Nikon digitals (D100, D70), and do they still make the D2?) but old enough. And yes, I know, the lower-end models are getting a much-needed revision.
Nikon is used by maybe 80% of pro photographers with Cannon at about 15%. There is a reason for this. Brutaly strong pro level cameras 'that just work';) and the best and most affordable lens system there is.
I'm not sure which definition of "pro photographers" you're using here - film only? digital only? film and digital combined? Please clarify.
Also... Nikon has the most affordable lens system? Where have you been shopping that sells Nikkor lenses for less than Canon lenses? In my experience, lenses for Nikon's autofocus mount are consistently more expensive than equivalent lenses for Canon's.
Nikon has been in business producing extremely high qualty products since before Mr Bill was born. They didn't get, or stay, there by good fortune or by annoying their very demanding customers.
Agreed. But if they want to continue staying there, customer-annoying acts like this are probably not the way.
Most of the pros you see are GIVEN Nikon equipment.
EVERY working pro I know has paid for his equipment.
Thank you for your anecdotal viewpoints. I'll add a third. There are people out there (I know, because I'm one of them) doing serious photo work out there with cameras that were paid for - but not by them. I'm sure I'm not the only person who lugs around a D1 or a D2H that was "given to" me by the folks I'm shooting for, but belongs to them, not me, not Nikon.
Oh, and there are also the folks who rent what they need. I ran into one such guy last month. He had a Canon 1D Mark II body, which I suppose belonged to someone... and some nice L glass he'd rented for the occasion - $75 a week or something, I forget.
I don't even have a DSLR for personal use... yet. But I've never been a fan of manufacturer-specific software for image processing, and along with various other moves Nikon's made lately, this one isn't likely to make me buy one of theirs.
Yep! Bananas have a lot of thermal mass, so we haven't yet taken the time to chill one properly for that particular trick. (Graham crackers are a lot easier.)
When "outreach events" like international astronomy day come up, a few of the "younger" (read thirtysomething) and "not quite as professional-looking" (read: myself included) sorts at the Institute are deposited behind a pair of tables with a dewar of liquid nitrogen and... hmm. Our current list includes flowers, tennis balls, pennies (and a metal block, plastic bags and ball-peen hammer), graham crackers, wire springs, balloons, and... hmm. I don't think the marshmallows worked. They got crunchy, but did nothing else interesting. The gummi bears at least shattered interestingly.
As the one who first brought the graham crackers, I have a bit of a reputation now. Of course, this past week one of our eager young participants was on the news statewide, appearing to exhale clouds of smoke while to munching an unusually cold cracker.:)
The hard part arises when we're asked to explain the scientific relevance of this. We can, of course, but we're more getting the kids interested in astro as a field where they can do crazy weird cool stuff.:)
I still have to learn to run an instrument or two on the scope I operate, so I can get some actual images of stuff in the very rare spare moments.
Hmmm. GarageBand can record up to 9 tracks (8 real instruments and 1 software instrument) at once, according to its help. It can, I think, have as many tracks as your system can handle.
Why does "the Windows equivalent of Garageband" cost frickin' $300? The whole iLife suite - Garageband, iPhoto, iMovie and some other stuff - is $79. And that's if you have an older Mac and have to buy it - I think it comes standard on most or all of their new ones.
Dangit! I've been having that problem a lot lately. I get the "3" right, but then type "199" instead of "200." And it's always when I'm talking about the G5. Maybe I'm subconsciously trying to make myself feel like it's in my past.
Well, think about it this way: If you install 10.3.9 the same day as 10.3.8, your uptime results start incrementing sooner than they would if you'd waited. And by not installing 10.3.8 until 10.3.9 came out, maybe you had some extra uptime before, as well.
By the time Longhorn ships, according to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, PCs will have 4GHz to 6GHz processors, more than 2GB of memory, at least a terabyte of storage, and graphics accelerators three times more powerful than those offered by ATI and Nvidia today.
In 1993, my Mac had a pair of PPC970 chips, each about as fast as a 3GHz Xeon, for an amount of processing power that would certainly compare to a "4GHz to 6GHz" processor on the PC side.
It had the capacity for 8GB of RAM (16GB once folks got around to making 2GB modules of the appropriate speed, etc.)
It came with only 500GB of storage, but I suppose I could have hung a good bit more off it on FireWire 800...
At that point in time, Microsoft was forecasting that a 128MB video card would be necessary. The Mac had one of those, too.
I love how their search is somehow better simply because you can "organize and view the results" in different ways.
Well, obviously.
Different things are better. For example:
Linux is better than Windows or Mac, because it's different. Mac is better than Windows or Linux, because it's different. Windows is better than Linux or Mac, because it's different.
Aren't those small and non-ferocious? I suppose ocelots could nibble at the remains of the cow after the tiger's had its fill.
Maybe we need a product named "Jackal" or "Vulture."
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High on the list of features are security enhancements, improved desktop searching and organizing, and better methods for laptops to roam from one network to another.
None of which we'll see until 2006.
*ponders* Dunno, most of that stuff sounds like OS X 10.3 Panther to me, and I think that came out in 2003. Maybe there are eddies in the time-space continuum or something.
OS X has image thumbnail icons as well, although the feature can be turned off. (When you're working with 12,000-pixel-wide panoramic images, thumbnails just aren't that helpful.)
Actually, if you look closely, you can see that "Longhorn" was written in on that strategy document after something else was erased... I think it says something about "NT"... no, wait, there was something else... "Windows 95"... no, wait, "Windows 3.0"... but I see some other letters too... what's that? MS-DOS 6? Goodness. That strategy seems to have served them very well over the years.
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I could see this being remotely useful if the flow of text (in the thumbnail) made it easy to tell what kind of file it was - for example, the text flows differently in a resume than in an article (or, well, it had better!) - and one had no other way of figuring things out.
So if, for example, the user has a habit of naming all their files things like AAAAAAAA.DOC, AAAAAAAB.DOC and so on (which, honestly, some Windows user out there is probably crazy enough to do) they'll think this is great.
This is hardly a replacement for a well-implemented desktop search with the ability to look for words within common document formats, though.
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I don't know, one just told me he ran his server on Longhorn, I was like, "why?"... never got a reply.:(
It was a beta. Did you seriously expect Microsoft to have implemented complex functionality like a "reply" button in a beta?;)
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Yes... but the number of cards just increased exponentially.
Just wondering. Obviously Solaris, IRIX, Linux, AIX, Mac OS X and whatever other UNIX flavors are out there (well, except for maybe SCO...) have had 64-bit support for some number of years now.
:)
Is Windows the last major commercial OS to add 64-bit support, or are there others I'm missing?
(Even if it is the last one, I'm sure Microsoft will tout this as supremely innovative.
I thought the syntax of mine made it clear mine was also anecdotal (if first-person). :)
And yeah, the "camera owned by the news organization" is definitely fading. The small-town paper where I live has a photog who, every time I see him, has incremented the number of DSLRs around his neck - and a buddy says he's actually buying them himself. Sheez. Has a Mark II and a DRebel and I forget what-all else. At this rate, he'll need a Sherpa soon.
The folks I shoot for were seriously considering letting their photogs buy their own gear and just paying us a little extra, instead of dealing with the expenses and problems of having DSLRs making a few laps around the world, per camera, per year, often in the hands of non-photographer staff "delivering" them to users at events. As one of the shooters, it sucks bigtime to land somewhere 5000 miles from home and have someone who knows jack about cameras give me one that was last used by someone who's now literally on the other side of the planet, only to discover that various things are wrong, and that whoever noticed they were wrong didn't report them to anyone.
But alas, after making various promising noises last fall about letting us use our own gear... nothing's happened. I've actually started taking one of my old all-in-one digitals (same resolution as a D1) to events, "just in case." At times I've shot with it most of the day.
I'm not sure which definition of "pro photographers" you're using here - film only? digital only? film and digital combined? Please clarify.
Also... Nikon has the most affordable lens system? Where have you been shopping that sells Nikkor lenses for less than Canon lenses? In my experience, lenses for Nikon's autofocus mount are consistently more expensive than equivalent lenses for Canon's.
Agreed. But if they want to continue staying there, customer-annoying acts like this are probably not the way.
Oh, and there are also the folks who rent what they need. I ran into one such guy last month. He had a Canon 1D Mark II body, which I suppose belonged to someone... and some nice L glass he'd rented for the occasion - $75 a week or something, I forget.
I don't even have a DSLR for personal use... yet. But I've never been a fan of manufacturer-specific software for image processing, and along with various other moves Nikon's made lately, this one isn't likely to make me buy one of theirs.
Yep! Bananas have a lot of thermal mass, so we haven't yet taken the time to chill one properly for that particular trick. (Graham crackers are a lot easier.)
When "outreach events" like international astronomy day come up, a few of the "younger" (read thirtysomething) and "not quite as professional-looking" (read: myself included) sorts at the Institute are deposited behind a pair of tables with a dewar of liquid nitrogen and... hmm. Our current list includes flowers, tennis balls, pennies (and a metal block, plastic bags and ball-peen hammer), graham crackers, wire springs, balloons, and... hmm. I don't think the marshmallows worked. They got crunchy, but did nothing else interesting. The gummi bears at least shattered interestingly.
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:)
As the one who first brought the graham crackers, I have a bit of a reputation now. Of course, this past week one of our eager young participants was on the news statewide, appearing to exhale clouds of smoke while to munching an unusually cold cracker.
The hard part arises when we're asked to explain the scientific relevance of this. We can, of course, but we're more getting the kids interested in astro as a field where they can do crazy weird cool stuff.
I still have to learn to run an instrument or two on the scope I operate, so I can get some actual images of stuff in the very rare spare moments.
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1. Catchy slogans ending in -ks strangely tend to already be in use by other people. And no, I'm not talking about Apple here. How about Autodesk?
2. Words ending in -ks can easily be altered on billboards. "It just sucks" is going to be just as easy as this one was...
Apparently Microsoft is suppressing its memory of these past events.
With the original launch date, I wasn't sure whether I should watch the launch, or go see Revenge of the Sith.
Hmmm. GarageBand can record up to 9 tracks (8 real instruments and 1 software instrument) at once, according to its help. It can, I think, have as many tracks as your system can handle.
Only $70 is better than $300, though. Thanks.
Acid Xpress looks like crippleware, but thanks for pointing it out!
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I use GarageBand too.
Is it because Acid Pro has such an impressively busy interface and Garageband doesn't?
Dangit! I've been having that problem a lot lately. I get the "3" right, but then type "199" instead of "200." And it's always when I'm talking about the G5. Maybe I'm subconsciously trying to make myself feel like it's in my past.
Well, think about it this way: If you install 10.3.9 the same day as 10.3.8, your uptime results start incrementing sooner than they would if you'd waited. And by not installing 10.3.8 until 10.3.9 came out, maybe you had some extra uptime before, as well.
Well, obviously.
Different things are better. For example:
Linux is better than Windows or Mac, because it's different.
Mac is better than Windows or Linux, because it's different.
Windows is better than Linux or Mac, because it's different.
Arby's is different. Different is good.
Aren't those small and non-ferocious? I suppose ocelots could nibble at the remains of the cow after the tiger's had its fill.
Maybe we need a product named "Jackal" or "Vulture."
*ponders* Dunno, most of that stuff sounds like OS X 10.3 Panther to me, and I think that came out in 2003. Maybe there are eddies in the time-space continuum or something.
OS X has image thumbnail icons as well, although the feature can be turned off. (When you're working with 12,000-pixel-wide panoramic images, thumbnails just aren't that helpful.)
Actually, if you look closely, you can see that "Longhorn" was written in on that strategy document after something else was erased... I think it says something about "NT"... no, wait, there was something else... "Windows 95"... no, wait, "Windows 3.0"... but I see some other letters too... what's that? MS-DOS 6? Goodness. That strategy seems to have served them very well over the years.
I could see this being remotely useful if the flow of text (in the thumbnail) made it easy to tell what kind of file it was - for example, the text flows differently in a resume than in an article (or, well, it had better!) - and one had no other way of figuring things out.
So if, for example, the user has a habit of naming all their files things like AAAAAAAA.DOC, AAAAAAAB.DOC and so on (which, honestly, some Windows user out there is probably crazy enough to do) they'll think this is great.
This is hardly a replacement for a well-implemented desktop search with the ability to look for words within common document formats, though.