If you make a big deal about pre order being available for a product on day X, and knowing full well there will be amazing demand, manage to fuck it up anyway, it's incredibly obnoxious. That's why people care, it's not a big deal, but it's stupid.
That's certainly part of it in the professional world.
I've logged way more hours (as a hobbyist) in GIMP than I have in photoshop. I still dislike it mostly for the window management (which i've heard is better or at least changeable recently, but I haven't had a reason to go check) but a lot of other things (eg the file saving process) strike me as clumsy.
On a non-UI note, I wish it'd use multiple cores the way Lightroom (and I presume photoshop) happily will.
Handset competition in Europe is a lot fiercer I imagine, what with less (none?) of that silly stuff about 2 year contracts and subsidizing phone costs that carriers and manufacturers in the US love.
I would guess part of it is that some systems are modular, so changing connectors or storage means that the new iteration of your machine won't work with controller stations that it otherwise would, or vice versa. Also lots of new code additions to deal with USB or ethernet and so forth. It just isn't worth the cost when the current approach works.
"I know if some unauthorised person was in the office of the person in charge of computer security after hours pulling out their hard drive I'd want to know what they were doing as well, and if that is read as harrassment so be it."
I feel as if you're using a peculiar definition of "cause" that to me comes across as one would use it (Not saying you are specifically) to remove responsibility from the situation.
Gravity causes things to fall to the earth. Slashdot does not cause me to waste time at work, even though i waste time at work reading Slashdot.
I personally love the look of film (particularly the tonal range of BW film and the crazy colors of expired stuff) but I work exclusively in digital (for a couple of reasons, film cost being high on the list) I would like to get to that point someday, but not in the foreseeable future.
This seems like a neat thing to me because Hasselblads are awesome cameras, although I think the film "feel" is a big part of the reason shots from them are highly regarded (at least it seemed so in the discussions I've been a part of) and emulating particular film in digital processing is still imperfect (Although a Lightroom guru can do some amazing things)
The only people I know who shoot a lot of film still are either doing so for a specific artistic reason (e.g., amazing black and whites as I mentioned) or are following a trend (e.g., hipsters and their holgas and photography)
I'm not a pro, fwiw, just an enthusiastic amateur.
Just because it's a hospital doesn't mean it has an IT department much more elaborate than a server admin and 2 techs, or that it has budget for the kind of stuff you're talking about.
"unless they want to live a lie for the rest of eternity."
They (among vast numbers of other people) don't seem too bothered in general by it now! Insular societies of any type tend to create people perfectly happy to stick with what they know.
I think I may be missing something from the FCCA link. Perhaps I didn't read carefully enough but:
1) While the idea of multiple currencies is interesting on the face of it, what stops me from being forced to deal in ones I don't care to because at the whim of my employer, or a monopoly service provider?
2) What keeps gold producers (or any entity with gold reserves really) from manipulating value by controlling supply in a way that reinforces their interests? As a parallel, suppose I transact business in oil based currency and demand drops, flooding the market and dropping the value like a stone? Or a massive new reserve could be uncovered, etc.
3) It seems like the last thing we need is more financial middlemen, and this would create a whole new market for currency-changers.
True story. I'd be surprised if the rest of the world hasn't figured out that the majority of the US public are too dim to realize if something is a benefit if it has the slightest hint of inconvenience.
My experience in retail was that 5s always seem to run low.
The last two places I worked a register, the boss rarely had many 10s in the drawer, so dropping (for example) 2 20's on a 22 dollar puchase would get 3 fives back. That purchaser would likely be annoyed to get 15 ones so that's where the fives go first
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If you make a big deal about pre order being available for a product on day X, and knowing full well there will be amazing demand, manage to fuck it up anyway, it's incredibly obnoxious. That's why people care, it's not a big deal, but it's stupid.
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out for use at home. Looks pretty interesting
Knowing PS implies fuckall about general computer competence
That's certainly part of it in the professional world.
I've logged way more hours (as a hobbyist) in GIMP than I have in photoshop. I still dislike it mostly for the window management (which i've heard is better or at least changeable recently, but I haven't had a reason to go check) but a lot of other things (eg the file saving process) strike me as clumsy.
On a non-UI note, I wish it'd use multiple cores the way Lightroom (and I presume photoshop) happily will.
Interesting, thanks for the info!
Largely for the same reason that nerds prefer to wrestle with shitty UIs in the name of free software.
Handset competition in Europe is a lot fiercer I imagine, what with less (none?) of that silly stuff about 2 year contracts and subsidizing phone costs that carriers and manufacturers in the US love.
When I can plug a flash drive into my car without aftermarket additions we'll talk about not buying CDRs anymore :)
I would guess part of it is that some systems are modular, so changing connectors or storage means that the new iteration of your machine won't work with controller stations that it otherwise would, or vice versa. Also lots of new code additions to deal with USB or ethernet and so forth. It just isn't worth the cost when the current approach works.
I've always though putting a portfolio on one of those cut down business-card format mini CDs would be a nice tough
"I know if some unauthorised person was in the office of the person in charge of computer security after hours pulling out their hard drive I'd want to know what they were doing as well, and if that is read as harrassment so be it."
And you wouldn't simply call the police...why?
I feel as if you're using a peculiar definition of "cause" that to me comes across as one would use it (Not saying you are specifically) to remove responsibility from the situation.
Gravity causes things to fall to the earth. Slashdot does not cause me to waste time at work, even though i waste time at work reading Slashdot.
I think there should be a version of Godwin's law as applied to "but what if child porn was involved"
The vandal did what he or she did out of free will. The accusation caused NOTHING.
The skill of a photographer can only go so far to correcting technical shortcomings in the hardware. Work with them or around them? Sure.
I personally love the look of film (particularly the tonal range of BW film and the crazy colors of expired stuff) but I work exclusively in digital (for a couple of reasons, film cost being high on the list) I would like to get to that point someday, but not in the foreseeable future.
This seems like a neat thing to me because Hasselblads are awesome cameras, although I think the film "feel" is a big part of the reason shots from them are highly regarded (at least it seemed so in the discussions I've been a part of) and emulating particular film in digital processing is still imperfect (Although a Lightroom guru can do some amazing things)
The only people I know who shoot a lot of film still are either doing so for a specific artistic reason (e.g., amazing black and whites as I mentioned) or are following a trend (e.g., hipsters and their holgas and photography)
I'm not a pro, fwiw, just an enthusiastic amateur.
No one can resist a fart joke
Just because it's a hospital doesn't mean it has an IT department much more elaborate than a server admin and 2 techs, or that it has budget for the kind of stuff you're talking about.
"unless they want to live a lie for the rest of eternity."
They (among vast numbers of other people) don't seem too bothered in general by it now! Insular societies of any type tend to create people perfectly happy to stick with what they know.
Don't be a jerk. Snakes aren't anything like that (plenty of experience talking)
I think I may be missing something from the FCCA link. Perhaps I didn't read carefully enough but:
1) While the idea of multiple currencies is interesting on the face of it, what stops me from being forced to deal in ones I don't care to because at the whim of my employer, or a monopoly service provider?
2) What keeps gold producers (or any entity with gold reserves really) from manipulating value by controlling supply in a way that reinforces their interests? As a parallel, suppose I transact business in oil based currency and demand drops, flooding the market and dropping the value like a stone? Or a massive new reserve could be uncovered, etc.
3) It seems like the last thing we need is more financial middlemen, and this would create a whole new market for currency-changers.
When economists say save more i believe that it's implied "save more in a bank/investment"
That's different than socking it away because financial institutions can do things with it in the meantime and you earn interest.
Could be wrong.
True story. I'd be surprised if the rest of the world hasn't figured out that the majority of the US public are too dim to realize if something is a benefit if it has the slightest hint of inconvenience.
My experience in retail was that 5s always seem to run low.
The last two places I worked a register, the boss rarely had many 10s in the drawer, so dropping (for example) 2 20's on a 22 dollar puchase would get 3 fives back. That purchaser would likely be annoyed to get 15 ones so that's where the fives go first
I don't get it personally, but plenty of people carry large bills because they transact daily personal and work business with it.