And What This article is forgetting is that Nikon Has A plugin that does the same thing as the adobe plugin
Thats irrelevant. The plugin doesn't function exactly like ACR. Some people may just use the raw converter to do a quick conversion with minimal tweaking, and for them the Nikon plugin may work fine.
However, there are also a lot of people on the other side of the equation. People who do a LOT of tweaking with ACR. People who have mastered exactly how ACR works, and how to do precise adjustments to everything. People who have developed custom ACR camera profiles that they use (either fully, or as a starting point) which are custom tailored to all kinds of settings (one for each ISO, one for each type of lighting environment, etc). There is even at least one entire book devoted to mastering the ACR plugin.
So, just because Nikon provides some sort of ACR replacement for their cameras doesn't make it any more acceptable. That not much better than saying that (if it were to include it's own photo editing software...not sure if it does) there is no reason why you would have to load it up in photoshop.
Give it a few years an people will be asking you, whats your google search string?
That won't happen, for at least one reason. When you buy a domain, as long as you keep paid up, that domain is yours (aside from the slim chance of registrars screwing up and letting someone hijack it). Google (or any search engine) search strings, on the other hand, are only valid as long as someone doesn't manage to work their way to the top of the search results, above even your own company.
Right now, Maxwell House can confidently tell their customers to go to their site at http://www.maxwellhouse.com/ but what happens when they tell their customers to google for Maxwell House? This: http://www.google.com/search?q=Maxwell+House
Instead you have to google for Maxwell House Coffee, but how long can that result be guaranteed?
And of course, when Company X tells someone to google for their website, they have to hope and pray that, not only do they continue to stay the #1 result, but that if they do get displaced, it's NOT by the "Company X Sucks" website.
I always hate replying to myself, but in case anyone doubts that these people are not stayiing in line the entire time, check out the rules on their site: http://www.liningup.net/getinline/rules.php
In particular, rule #6:
"In order to accumulate Hours in Line, you must Sign In and Sign Out when you come and go."
If you think this story is hilarious...just wait until I answer your question. When I clicked on the link and RTFA, I noticed the followinging:
"Their other reason is that it'd be more difficult to raise money for their charity Starlight Starbright if they weren't on Hollywood."
Once I read this, I immediately knew who this article was about. This morning on 101.1 WRIF radio in Detroit, talk hosts Drew & Mike called these people up and bashed them on the radio to no end...and for what reason? Well, it turns out that these people's idea of "waiting in line" is to show up at the theater for a couple of hours a day and then go home. No amount of reasoning or ridicule could get it through their skulls that that is NOT "standing in line" but mearly standing around for charity.
These people want the geek prestige of saying "I stood in line for 2 months to see Episode 3" without actually doing any of the hard work.
So to answer your question...yes, they are still waiting, but they're not waiting in line.
I know you're being funny (hence the +5) but the truth is, you don't have to google for "child pornography". In the example cited, googling for "jew" brought up sites on anti-Semitism. I don't know what keywords would cause it, but it's just as likely that some other seemingly innocent keyword could bring up a high ranked site containing child porn.
That "explanation" only works for those who don't think critically. Try thinking about these 2 points:
1) If a cashier can't be bothered to make sure the name printed on the front of the credit card matches the name printed on the ID, what makes you think they are going to put any more effort into checking ID.
2) Even if you are to assume that the cashier will check the signature but not the name, it won't be an issue anyway. A thief who steals an unsigned credit card isn't going to write "See ID" on the back in the signature line. That is just going to open them up to the possibility that the cashier WILL check the names and catch them. No...what the thief will do is make it as uncomplicated as possible: make up some phony signature, sign that on the back of the credit card, and then sign the same phony signature on the receipt.
look at the screenshot, then read his post again. He's talking about merging the menu bar (ie: File, Edit, etc) into the caption bar (ex: "BetaNews | Inside Information; Unrele...")
Your point is true, but you completely missed MY point. People have been ripping movies off of hacked TiVo LONG before TiVo ever introduced TTG, so it's not like TTG opened any can of worms.
What else is there to do on this thing that developers are really going to tap into to get my mom, dad, sister and in-laws to buy a TiVo? I've said this before, but I am dead serious: they need more porn.
I'd say you are a little short sighted. You answered your own question in the very next sentence. The TiVo Porn Plugin. Download porn pictures/movies and makes them easily available for one-handed remote controlled viewing. Sure, it may not sell TiVo to your mom or sister, but your dad just might buy in to it.
So what. Maybe 1% of users will figure out how to transcode it to remove the DRM. The instructions are out there, but let me tell you that it isn't exactly easy. You can go the GraphEdit route, which means installing the DirectX9 SDK, installing the correct codecs (which have to be paid for) and figuring out how to configure all the filters (the instructions out there aren't idiot proof). Or you can go the Nero transcoding route, but then youve got the bugs in loading the videos, Nero splitting the output into multiple files, etc. Or you can go the Sonic route, burn it to DVD, the rip it back off. I've found methods that work great for me, but it's too much trouble for the average user to figure out. Maybe one day there will be an application that makes it easy for users to do this, but right now I liken it to the warez scene...most users couldn't figure out how to get past the crap to find the real stuff.
And even before TTG was released, people figured out ways to hack the TiVo and download the video. So now you have the feature available to 100% of users, and maybe 1% will abuse it. Before, the feature was available to 0% of users, and STILL 1% abused it. Which scenario is better for TiVo?
Except that, for Yahoo, it's not on them by default - but their main competitor.
Yeah, but to switch to Yahoo, which of the following is easier: 1)Go to the Yahoo site, install the Yahoo toolbar, click on the couple of dialogs that come up, reboot Firefox, use it OR 2) Select "Yahoo" from the search drop down, and use it.
Both steps require user interaction, but #2 is so much easier. Oh, but that's right. I forgot Yahoo has found a way even easier than both
3) Bundle the damn thing in with Shockwave and Flash so that when you install them you get the Yahoo toolbar unless you unchecked the right box.
Yeah!!!!! At last!!!!! Unnecessary bundling comes to Firefox!!!
The Yahoo! Toolbar does more than just searching, you know. Yeah, so true. For instance, it takes up a whole nother row on the toolbar, making my viewing area for web sites that much smaller. Oh yeah...and if it's anything like the IE version, it will try to install itself when you install/upgrade flash or shockwave unless you make sure to uncheck the right box. Both are features I desperately miss since switching from IE to Firefox.
This is an issue dear to my heart. As an avid lighthouse photographer (http://www.pbase.com/ldkronos/lighthouses) I really hate to see these things being abandoned. I think their different styles and architectures are quite interesting. However, some of them are beginning to disappear. Non profit organizations have formed to try to preserve and restore the bigger and more popular ones, but then there are those that have just been left for their own, several of which have collapsed or been torn down and replaced with simple (boring, IMHO) light beacons (for example, this lighthouse: http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/sanduskypierhead.JPG has been replaced by this: http://www.us-lighthouses.com/displaypage.php?Ligh tID=138 )
Well, yeah. I think it might be believable. After all, it was only 2 weeks ago, after an episode of 24 revealed the nuclear plant plotline, that the government came out and SUGGESTED that it might not be a good idea to allow remote access into power plants.
BTW...with all these slashdot stories on nuclear plant announcements following after related episodes of 24, I'm now half concerned that slashdot is going to pull a Lone Gunmen and give away spoilers for the rest of this season.
Slashdot Mirror
She's just sharpening her claws. Watch out.
That must mean my cat is sharpening his nose.
I'm less concerned about that blip than I am about the giant bird that apparently took a monster crap on one of the houses in my neighborhood:
9 3&spn=0.007939,0.008583&t=k&hl=en
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.345632,-83.3058
Have we learned nothing. Calling it a nuclear (or nucular) battery will only ensure it's complete and total failure.
Ironicly, the only way that will ever pass is if they vote on it without reading it.
Sales of the S controller, though, were substantially higher than sales of the ginormous controller
Well I wonder why? When I bought mine a few years back, most places I looked were selling the S controller for $5 less than the original style.
And What This article is forgetting is that Nikon Has A plugin that does the same thing as the adobe plugin
Thats irrelevant. The plugin doesn't function exactly like ACR. Some people may just use the raw converter to do a quick conversion with minimal tweaking, and for them the Nikon plugin may work fine.
However, there are also a lot of people on the other side of the equation. People who do a LOT of tweaking with ACR. People who have mastered exactly how ACR works, and how to do precise adjustments to everything. People who have developed custom ACR camera profiles that they use (either fully, or as a starting point) which are custom tailored to all kinds of settings (one for each ISO, one for each type of lighting environment, etc). There is even at least one entire book devoted to mastering the ACR plugin.
So, just because Nikon provides some sort of ACR replacement for their cameras doesn't make it any more acceptable. That not much better than saying that (if it were to include it's own photo editing software...not sure if it does) there is no reason why you would have to load it up in photoshop.
Give it a few years an people will be asking you, whats your google search string?
That won't happen, for at least one reason. When you buy a domain, as long as you keep paid up, that domain is yours (aside from the slim chance of registrars screwing up and letting someone hijack it). Google (or any search engine) search strings, on the other hand, are only valid as long as someone doesn't manage to work their way to the top of the search results, above even your own company.
Right now, Maxwell House can confidently tell their customers to go to their site at http://www.maxwellhouse.com/
but what happens when they tell their customers to google for Maxwell House? This:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Maxwell+House
Instead you have to google for Maxwell House Coffee, but how long can that result be guaranteed?
And of course, when Company X tells someone to google for their website, they have to hope and pray that, not only do they continue to stay the #1 result, but that if they do get displaced, it's NOT by the "Company X Sucks" website.
I always hate replying to myself, but in case anyone doubts that these people are not stayiing in line the entire time, check out the rules on their site:
http://www.liningup.net/getinline/rules.php
In particular, rule #6:
"In order to accumulate Hours in Line, you must Sign In and Sign Out when you come and go."
Hilarious. ... so wait, are they still waiting?
If you think this story is hilarious...just wait until I answer your question. When I clicked on the link and RTFA, I noticed the followinging:
"Their other reason is that it'd be more difficult to raise money for their charity Starlight Starbright if they weren't on Hollywood."
Once I read this, I immediately knew who this article was about. This morning on 101.1 WRIF radio in Detroit, talk hosts Drew & Mike called these people up and bashed them on the radio to no end...and for what reason? Well, it turns out that these people's idea of "waiting in line" is to show up at the theater for a couple of hours a day and then go home. No amount of reasoning or ridicule could get it through their skulls that that is NOT "standing in line" but mearly standing around for charity.
These people want the geek prestige of saying "I stood in line for 2 months to see Episode 3" without actually doing any of the hard work.
So to answer your question...yes, they are still waiting, but they're not waiting in line.
Never thought I'd say this, but thank you Americans for making my country free
If you think you're free now, just wait until bush declares that were liberating you from your oppresive democracy.
A wipe may take some time, but for most users, an unconditional format is just as effective and is almost instant.
I know you're being funny (hence the +5) but the truth is, you don't have to google for "child pornography". In the example cited, googling for "jew" brought up sites on anti-Semitism. I don't know what keywords would cause it, but it's just as likely that some other seemingly innocent keyword could bring up a high ranked site containing child porn.
That "explanation" only works for those who don't think critically. Try thinking about these 2 points:
1) If a cashier can't be bothered to make sure the name printed on the front of the credit card matches the name printed on the ID, what makes you think they are going to put any more effort into checking ID.
2) Even if you are to assume that the cashier will check the signature but not the name, it won't be an issue anyway. A thief who steals an unsigned credit card isn't going to write "See ID" on the back in the signature line. That is just going to open them up to the possibility that the cashier WILL check the names and catch them. No...what the thief will do is make it as uncomplicated as possible: make up some phony signature, sign that on the back of the credit card, and then sign the same phony signature on the receipt.
Apparently, he's suing them over profits. rings.reut/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/02/film
look at the screenshot, then read his post again. He's talking about merging the menu bar (ie: File, Edit, etc) into the caption bar (ex: "BetaNews | Inside Information; Unrele...")
Dark galaxy? Did they perhaps find this:t .html
http://www.candydirect.com/bars/Milky-Way-Midnigh
Your point is true, but you completely missed MY point. People have been ripping movies off of hacked TiVo LONG before TiVo ever introduced TTG, so it's not like TTG opened any can of worms.
What else is there to do on this thing that developers are really going to tap into to get my mom, dad, sister and in-laws to buy a TiVo?
I've said this before, but I am dead serious: they need more porn.
I'd say you are a little short sighted. You answered your own question in the very next sentence. The TiVo Porn Plugin. Download porn pictures/movies and makes them easily available for one-handed remote controlled viewing. Sure, it may not sell TiVo to your mom or sister, but your dad just might buy in to it.
So what. Maybe 1% of users will figure out how to transcode it to remove the DRM. The instructions are out there, but let me tell you that it isn't exactly easy. You can go the GraphEdit route, which means installing the DirectX9 SDK, installing the correct codecs (which have to be paid for) and figuring out how to configure all the filters (the instructions out there aren't idiot proof). Or you can go the Nero transcoding route, but then youve got the bugs in loading the videos, Nero splitting the output into multiple files, etc. Or you can go the Sonic route, burn it to DVD, the rip it back off. I've found methods that work great for me, but it's too much trouble for the average user to figure out. Maybe one day there will be an application that makes it easy for users to do this, but right now I liken it to the warez scene...most users couldn't figure out how to get past the crap to find the real stuff.
And even before TTG was released, people figured out ways to hack the TiVo and download the video. So now you have the feature available to 100% of users, and maybe 1% will abuse it. Before, the feature was available to 0% of users, and STILL 1% abused it. Which scenario is better for TiVo?
Except that, for Yahoo, it's not on them by default - but their main competitor.
Yeah, but to switch to Yahoo, which of the following is easier:
1)Go to the Yahoo site, install the Yahoo toolbar, click on the couple of dialogs that come up, reboot Firefox, use it
OR
2) Select "Yahoo" from the search drop down, and use it.
Both steps require user interaction, but #2 is so much easier. Oh, but that's right. I forgot Yahoo has found a way even easier than both
3) Bundle the damn thing in with Shockwave and Flash so that when you install them you get the Yahoo toolbar unless you unchecked the right box.
Yeah!!!!! At last!!!!! Unnecessary bundling comes to Firefox!!!
The Yahoo! Toolbar does more than just searching, you know.
Yeah, so true. For instance, it takes up a whole nother row on the toolbar, making my viewing area for web sites that much smaller. Oh yeah...and if it's anything like the IE version, it will try to install itself when you install/upgrade flash or shockwave unless you make sure to uncheck the right box. Both are features I desperately miss since switching from IE to Firefox.
No, that lighthouse was on a cliff (this is just on a breakwater). Not sure which one it was.
This is an issue dear to my heart. As an avid lighthouse photographer (http://www.pbase.com/ldkronos/lighthouses)S /sanduskypierhead.JPG h tID=138
I really hate to see these things being abandoned. I think their different styles and architectures are quite interesting. However, some of them are beginning to disappear. Non profit organizations have formed to try to preserve and restore the bigger and more popular ones, but then there are those that have just been left for their own, several of which have collapsed or been torn down and replaced with simple (boring, IMHO) light beacons (for example, this lighthouse:
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSE
has been replaced by this:
http://www.us-lighthouses.com/displaypage.php?Lig
)
Nit-Nit-picking: its 103 reactors (the issue was discussed in a recent slashdot story)
Well, yeah. I think it might be believable. After all, it was only 2 weeks ago, after an episode of 24 revealed the nuclear plant plotline, that the government came out and SUGGESTED that it might not be a good idea to allow remote access into power plants.
BTW...with all these slashdot stories on nuclear plant announcements following after related episodes of 24, I'm now half concerned that slashdot is going to pull a Lone Gunmen and give away spoilers for the rest of this season.