that the shutter life on consumer digital cameras is about the same as consumer film cameras.
some numbers: look at 50,000 clicks - that's a touch more than 2000 rolls of 24exp film. if you took one roll of 24exp photos every *week* (52 rolls/year, which i would consider a lot for a non professional), that *40* years to make hit 50k clicks
if you are not paying for film, processing, printing, etc, i can see how you might burn through that many clicks a lot faster.
i have done a fair amount of event photography where my limit was how much film i wanted to carry. i got a 2gb cf card and in a canon digital rebel, that's about 650 photos. about 18 rolls. almost a brick of film.
i suspect that the 'good' ($1500 and over) have more robust shutters.
that tmax was (mostly) a 35mm film. and while you may have a 35mm camera now, after a while it will not be cost effective to make/process film except as a specialty item. and that will make it expensive.
work for the university. my father was an undeclared advisor for a while at the university in which he was a full prof. he had people come to him with an ACT of 3. yep, this fine institution let people in with the lowest ACT you get get...
it was against university policy to tell people to drop out (and try to get their money back). there was remedial this and remedial that. as long as you had money.
i know why you ask people at random. it's worth talking to persons that have no vested interest in one answer over the other. i have found it amazing that people will not pay attention to that one concept and then follow the advice of a person (or persons) that really doesn't have your best interest at heart.
All jokes aside from the horrible english that americans sometimes use, I (and many people I know) have had it with trying to communicate with people whose first language is not english. They may have had the crash course in english, but it's still hard to understand.
It's my understanding that one of the benefits of buying Dell stuff from the business unit (maybe only large bus) is that the tech support speaks real english. Maybe people are learning that sometimes a lower price is not all that it's cracked up to be.
i would expect that the database is not that extensive. what the hidden serial number lets law enforcement do is to verify that *this* is the printer that printed the bogus dollars. i would expect that the same tools they have had for tracking counterfeiters before still works, this gives them more evidence.
of course that means that you have to look at security on your color laser printers, since you don't want john q. public posssible printing anything 'bad'...
we were talking about a 14 year copyright. if copyright expires, the source becomes available.
it is my understanding that they only way to protect a resource from becoming public domain is to try and protect it as a trade secret (the formula for coca cola, etc).
ms might try to keep the source under wraps, but once copywrite expires, copies are *legal*.
extended period copywrite protects microsoft in two ways:
first, would be valuable code in window 3.1 that would help the people writing windows emulation write better stuff. even though it's win16, it would still help to understand where ms started and give clues to where it went.
second, i would expect that there is a lot of source code out there (not just ms) that would have evidence of wrong doing. patent infringement would still be an issue for several more years and trademark/servicemark infringement (not as likely) would be an issue for a lot longer. while the statute of limitations might have run out, it would give ammunition to organizations claiming copywrite infringement.
i would also expect other bad things to be found is source code.
the motion picture industry has just come to the conclusion that their paying customers are tired of junk. the tv industry is suffering also, largely due to junk. people are walking away from movies and tvs to computer (and other) entertainment. and these industries are so entrenched that rather than adapt to what people want, they are alienating their customers.
it's not just money. it's power also. many years ago (before vcrs), the television industry was proud that they could make people be in a chair in front of a tv at a specific time. when vcrs were introduced, people could set their own schedules and tv lost a lot of power. there was not much dollars to be lost in 1980 with vcrs. they weren't selling a lot of tv shows on tape at that point. but the industry was losing the ability to control people. i beleive that's what the broadcast flag is about about. if you can't record it, i can make you be in *that* chair at *that* time. unless people give up on the programming altogether.
every once in a while there is a new color process created. the current color print film process is c41. the one before that is c22 (i am not aware of any c's from 23-40). besides each process having it's own processing chemicals and steps (boy are you in trouble if you have unprocessed c22), they have their own color balance.
most color printers have several channels with a channel devoted to a particular brand and speed of c41 process film. i took some old (1970s?) negatives in and couldn't get good prints. why? they didn't want to spend the time and paper to create a color balance for a handful of photos. i don't blame them. that was the first c22 stuff they had ever seen. i had to send it to a specialist to get it printed. and it was not cheap.
i also feel sorry for people who have negatives that are not 35mm. there are a lot of labs that can't print from 110, disk, 126 (it's close) and other small sizes.
first of all, let me preface this by saying that i am i certified trainer (ms and novell) in addition to an cne, mcse, etc, etc, etc...
several times i have been dragged into helping someone look for technical people. almost always the first question they want to know is what certifications should they be looking for. usually after explaining what's what in the alphabet soup, i try to make this point: certifications are one part of this process. i like to see paper that they took classes. i like to see paper that said they passed the appropriate tests. and i like to see experience.
let me give you an interesting point of view on this. one of the things that i do when i'm not teaching is do stuff for a little computer place in the town where i live. i worked with a guy that had 'experience', but had not taken the first class or passed the first test. and he did a lot of work for a lot of customers. and then he left. over the next several years, i would find all sorts of brain-dead things that he had done because he didn't know any better. it worked, but barely, or perhaps it looked like it worked.
when you just learn from experience and only from experience, you miss a lot of very important things that are not 'in-front-of-you' obvious.
i did this myself with windows nt 3.x. did a lot of learning on my own and then took the class. wow. there were things that i learned that would have been impossible to learn just by experience.
let me wrap this up by also saying that i have had students that don't know what-the-(fill in the blank) they're doing, asking about what questions will be on the test, etc, etc. i cringe and hope they get washed out.
this is the kind of action that not only opens the door to 'regular users', but it should help people understand how microsoft had sooo much popularity with certain softare (i.e. office).
microsoft had some design standards and then they got a lot of feedback on usability. outlook may be full of security holes, but a lot of people find it amazingly intuitive to use.
even *if* this is just about 911, i'm all for a warning label on the box explaining that you can't be automagically found using that particular wireless phone. if that's a problem, find something else.
it ties you to subway. if you discount the sandwich today, it doesn't bring them back tomorrow. if i give them a stamp that is not worth anthing without 7 more, there is some incentive for coming back.
it's a fight for people who only see what's cheapest or most convenient *today*.
remember a certain university that was trying to restrict use of wireless network communications? the fcc knocked on the the door and said, 'ahem, this is our business' and the university said 'oops, sorry'
i would almost believe that some county or city passed an ordinance and the fcc will probably be knocking on their door.
novell dropped server licenses. you pay per user, get your first server license in the box that the user license came in and download extra server licenses for free.
5 users and one server costs (software wise) the same as 5 users and 20 servers!
as i've taught technical material (novell, microsoft, cisco) i've gotten a a deeper understanding of how things work. from doing labs, building demos for students, having students provide a different way of looking at things, this knowledge builds. a degree in computer science helps also.
understanding something completely is the best way to break it, compromise it, protect it. you must also have some creativity and/or intuition.
It's partially driven by software that won't install as a regular user (i can kinda live with that) and/or won't run as a regular user (unacceptable except for system utilities).
I can't even count right now how many clients I have running users with admin membership because of crappy software.
And the kicker is, it's not that hard a programming task to make software run in the regular user context! argh!
i look at about 5 news sites (drudge, abcnews, newsmax, cnn, foxnews).
this was an interesting event as i saw this first about a day/day-and-a-half ago on one site. sometimes a news item will maybe hit 2 or three of these sites. one by one, this became a major news item on all five.
don't forget the cost of upgrading hardware. if longhorn requirements don't get pared back a lot, the ability to run an operating system on existing hardware (maybe added memory, memory is cheap) will be an important factor.
i think they have much less time than that. if the don't get a new business model, it may take 10 years for it come crashing down, but they probably have 2-3 years before they have problems that a very hard to correct.
there is a possibility that longhorn is their last chance to change their model. i've wondered if that hasn't contributed to the delays.
if ms ever gets to the point where they put the guns to peoples heads and say windows 2000 is gone and you can't use is (via technology, licensing, non-available options, etc), i think there will be a lot of people (especially med/large business), that will have to balance xp/longhorn on one side versus linux on the other side.
the other place where ms has this problem is vb6/vs6. ms wants to move developers from a (largely) ms only developement platform to something bigger/better. so now the developers have to lookat vs.net and can also look at alternatives.
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that the shutter life on consumer digital cameras is about the same as consumer film cameras.
some numbers: look at 50,000 clicks - that's a touch more than 2000 rolls of 24exp film. if you took one roll of 24exp photos every *week* (52 rolls/year, which i would consider a lot for a non professional), that *40* years to make hit 50k clicks
if you are not paying for film, processing, printing, etc, i can see how you might burn through that many clicks a lot faster.
i have done a fair amount of event photography where my limit was how much film i wanted to carry. i got a 2gb cf card and in a canon digital rebel, that's about 650 photos. about 18 rolls. almost a brick of film.
i suspect that the 'good' ($1500 and over) have more robust shutters.
eric
that tmax was (mostly) a 35mm film. and while you may have a 35mm camera now, after a while it will not be cost effective to make/process film except as a specialty item. and that will make it expensive.
e
work for the university. my father was an undeclared advisor for a while at the university in which he was a full prof. he had people come to him with an ACT of 3. yep, this fine institution let people in with the lowest ACT you get get...
it was against university policy to tell people to drop out (and try to get their money back). there was remedial this and remedial that. as long as you had money.
i know why you ask people at random. it's worth talking to persons that have no vested interest in one answer over the other. i have found it amazing that people will not pay attention to that one concept and then follow the advice of a person (or persons) that really doesn't have your best interest at heart.
All jokes aside from the horrible english that americans sometimes use, I (and many people I know) have had it with trying to communicate with people whose first language is not english. They may have had the crash course in english, but it's still hard to understand.
It's my understanding that one of the benefits of buying Dell stuff from the business unit (maybe only large bus) is that the tech support speaks real english. Maybe people are learning that sometimes a lower price is not all that it's cracked up to be.
eric
i would expect that the database is not that extensive. what the hidden serial number lets law enforcement do is to verify that *this* is the printer that printed the bogus dollars. i would expect that the same tools they have had for tracking counterfeiters before still works, this gives them more evidence.
of course that means that you have to look at security on your color laser printers, since you don't want john q. public posssible printing anything 'bad'...
eric
we were talking about a 14 year copyright. if copyright expires, the source becomes available.
it is my understanding that they only way to protect a resource from becoming public domain is to try and protect it as a trade secret (the formula for coca cola, etc).
ms might try to keep the source under wraps, but once copywrite expires, copies are *legal*.
extended period copywrite protects microsoft in two ways:
first, would be valuable code in window 3.1 that would help the people writing windows emulation write better stuff. even though it's win16, it would still help to understand where ms started and give clues to where it went.
second, i would expect that there is a lot of source code out there (not just ms) that would have evidence of wrong doing. patent infringement would still be an issue for several more years and trademark/servicemark infringement (not as likely) would be an issue for a lot longer. while the statute of limitations might have run out, it would give ammunition to organizations claiming copywrite infringement.
i would also expect other bad things to be found is source code.
eric
is how short-sighted can these industries be?
the motion picture industry has just come to the conclusion that their paying customers are tired of junk. the tv industry is suffering also, largely due to junk. people are walking away from movies and tvs to computer (and other) entertainment. and these industries are so entrenched that rather than adapt to what people want, they are alienating their customers.
it's not just money. it's power also. many years ago (before vcrs), the television industry was proud that they could make people be in a chair in front of a tv at a specific time. when vcrs were introduced, people could set their own schedules and tv lost a lot of power. there was not much dollars to be lost in 1980 with vcrs. they weren't selling a lot of tv shows on tape at that point. but the industry was losing the ability to control people. i beleive that's what the broadcast flag is about about. if you can't record it, i can make you be in *that* chair at *that* time. unless people give up on the programming altogether.
eric
uhmmm, film *can* become obsolete...
every once in a while there is a new color process created. the current color print film process is c41. the one before that is c22 (i am not aware of any c's from 23-40). besides each process having it's own processing chemicals and steps (boy are you in trouble if you have unprocessed c22), they have their own color balance.
most color printers have several channels with a channel devoted to a particular brand and speed of c41 process film. i took some old (1970s?) negatives in and couldn't get good prints. why? they didn't want to spend the time and paper to create a color balance for a handful of photos. i don't blame them. that was the first c22 stuff they had ever seen. i had to send it to a specialist to get it printed. and it was not cheap.
i also feel sorry for people who have negatives that are not 35mm. there are a lot of labs that can't print from 110, disk, 126 (it's close) and other small sizes.
eric
we can blame this on the french?
first of all, let me preface this by saying that i am i certified trainer (ms and novell) in addition to an cne, mcse, etc, etc, etc...
several times i have been dragged into helping someone look for technical people. almost always the first question they want to know is what certifications should they be looking for. usually after explaining what's what in the alphabet soup, i try to make this point: certifications are one part of this process. i like to see paper that they took classes. i like to see paper that said they passed the appropriate tests. and i like to see experience.
let me give you an interesting point of view on this. one of the things that i do when i'm not teaching is do stuff for a little computer place in the town where i live. i worked with a guy that had 'experience', but had not taken the first class or passed the first test. and he did a lot of work for a lot of customers. and then he left. over the next several years, i would find all sorts of brain-dead things that he had done because he didn't know any better. it worked, but barely, or perhaps it looked like it worked.
when you just learn from experience and only from experience, you miss a lot of very important things that are not 'in-front-of-you' obvious.
i did this myself with windows nt 3.x. did a lot of learning on my own and then took the class. wow. there were things that i learned that would have been impossible to learn just by experience.
let me wrap this up by also saying that i have had students that don't know what-the-(fill in the blank) they're doing, asking about what questions will be on the test, etc, etc. i cringe and hope they get washed out.
eric
this is the kind of action that not only opens the door to 'regular users', but it should help people understand how microsoft had sooo much popularity with certain softare (i.e. office).
microsoft had some design standards and then they got a lot of feedback on usability. outlook may be full of security holes, but a lot of people find it amazingly intuitive to use.
eric
even *if* this is just about 911, i'm all for a warning label on the box explaining that you can't be automagically found using that particular wireless phone. if that's a problem, find something else.
eric
it ties you to subway. if you discount the sandwich today, it doesn't bring them back tomorrow. if i give them a stamp that is not worth anthing without 7 more, there is some incentive for coming back.
it's a fight for people who only see what's cheapest or most convenient *today*.
eric
remember a certain university that was trying to restrict use of wireless network communications? the fcc knocked on the the door and said, 'ahem, this is our business' and the university said 'oops, sorry'
i would almost believe that some county or city passed an ordinance and the fcc will probably be knocking on their door.
eric
novell dropped server licenses. you pay per user, get your first server license in the box that the user license came in and download extra server licenses for free.
5 users and one server costs (software wise) the same as 5 users and 20 servers!
eric
as i've taught technical material (novell, microsoft, cisco) i've gotten a a deeper understanding of how things work. from doing labs, building demos for students, having students provide a different way of looking at things, this knowledge builds. a degree in computer science helps also.
understanding something completely is the best way to break it, compromise it, protect it. you must also have some creativity and/or intuition.
just some thoughts.
eric
trolls are *large* and gnomes are *small*.
ick.
eric
It's partially driven by software that won't install as a regular user (i can kinda live with that) and/or won't run as a regular user (unacceptable except for system utilities).
I can't even count right now how many clients I have running users with admin membership because of crappy software.
And the kicker is, it's not that hard a programming task to make software run in the regular user context! argh!
eric
what do you get when you cross Lee Iacocca with a Vampire?
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i look at about 5 news sites (drudge, abcnews, newsmax, cnn, foxnews).
this was an interesting event as i saw this first about a day/day-and-a-half ago on one site. sometimes a news item will maybe hit 2 or three of these sites. one by one, this became a major news item on all five.
this is starting to capture peoples attention.
eric
but it's gonna take a lot of work to tell if you were looking for it by examining the browser cache. unless looking for it is all you do.
don't forget the cost of upgrading hardware. if longhorn requirements don't get pared back a lot, the ability to run an operating system on existing hardware (maybe added memory, memory is cheap) will be an important factor.
eric
i think they have much less time than that. if the don't get a new business model, it may take 10 years for it come crashing down, but they probably have 2-3 years before they have problems that a very hard to correct.
there is a possibility that longhorn is their last chance to change their model. i've wondered if that hasn't contributed to the delays.
eric
if ms ever gets to the point where they put the guns to peoples heads and say windows 2000 is gone and you can't use is (via technology, licensing, non-available options, etc), i think there will be a lot of people (especially med/large business), that will have to balance xp/longhorn on one side versus linux on the other side.
the other place where ms has this problem is vb6/vs6. ms wants to move developers from a (largely) ms only developement platform to something bigger/better. so now the developers have to lookat vs.net and can also look at alternatives.
eric