Last I heard, the Shake developers are still mostly down in Santa Barbara, right where they were when Apple acquired their company. The product is certainly not abandoned, and I'm not aware of any of the Shake guys being involved in Aperture at all.
That's somewhat valuable, but unfortunately it doesn't provide very usable results if the processed images look poor, as you suggest.
You've missed the point here, that Aperture didn't set out to show "processed" images. Aperture's workflow was intended to let the user, not the author of a RAW converter, decide what post-processing should be done.
We were talking about the government, not just the congress. The republicans hold just over half the seats in the congress, but the bureaucracy is overwhelmingly populated with democrats.
Of course, beyond the code-level measures that Rosyna mentions, there is also the fact that the Mac, as shipped, is vending NOTHING. Rather hard to get the runaway propagation typical of a windows virus outbreak, when each user has to explicitly open each port.
If they can't be easily persuaded that Jobs Is Right, they are marginalized or chased out.
Nope.
The people who have been most successful working with SJ are those who are quite capable of pushing back. If you're right, and Steve is wrong, you speak up and prove it.
That depends on the customer. You may notice that the griping about Aperture came primarily from people who were not the pro photographers that the app was intended for.
I know two of the engineers who wrote Aperture. They have both moved to other groups, one to Application Frameworks, and one to CoreImage. In each case, their new job is a higher-profile position. If there had been a round of firings of the Aperture developers, I would have heard about it.
The fact is, RAW data doesn't look very good, but Apple showed it with as little alteration as possible, because customers had said that's what they wanted. The RAW importer in Aperture 1.0 showed what was really there, without the prettying-up that the cameras do when they convert to JPEG, or that Photoshop does when it coverts RAW to TIFF.
Several reviewers, including the clown at ARS technica who is admittedly not a pro photographer, and had probably never seen RAW data in his life, complained that it didn't look like images that had been through Adobe's converter.
Johnathan Schwartz has been in a position of power within Sun for some time now, and one would expect that if he were going to make an impact on Sun's behavior, he'd have done it already.
He's had a massive impact on Sun. It hasn't been positive.
Dude, I don't know what your issue is with me signing a post, but i'm not going to change that habit just because some anonynut on/. bitches about it. Try to work it out in therapy.
The word "Terroism" became such a convenient word to use as a wild card in order to gain voters' attention toward a congress person.
At the same time, it seems that the media scrupulously avoid using the word "terrorist" to describe actual terrorists. If I hear about Hamas or Al-Queda "militants" one more time, I'm going to hurl.
it should only be upheld if it helps foster progress
Unfortunately, this is not a dependent clause. It's a stated intention of the purpose of granting patents and copyrights, but it doesn't subject them to a test of whether they do in fact promote progress.
Well, when I joined Apple, my experience was very different. The HR people all put me in touch with the hiring managers after one call in which they described the job to me, and asked if I'd be interested in it. I did interview for three positions before the one I got, but I can't say they were wasting my time in any of the earlier instances.
When I joined Apple WWDR though, I was very impressed with the way my recruiter pushed the process through to get an offer to me before the holiday break. He got me an interview with the division's VP, and a director in a different division, with about two days' notice.
Oh, that always bugged the hell out of me. Makes you just want to scream: "Well, you're not qualified to judge me then, are you? Put me in touch with someone who is, or quit wasting my time!"
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It is impossible to run OS X as root.
No, it's not.
-jcr
Last I heard, the Shake developers are still mostly down in Santa Barbara, right where they were when Apple acquired their company. The product is certainly not abandoned, and I'm not aware of any of the Shake guys being involved in Aperture at all.
-jcr
That's somewhat valuable, but unfortunately it doesn't provide very usable results if the processed images look poor, as you suggest.
You've missed the point here, that Aperture didn't set out to show "processed" images. Aperture's workflow was intended to let the user, not the author of a RAW converter, decide what post-processing should be done.
-jcr
We were talking about the government, not just the congress. The republicans hold just over half the seats in the congress, but the bureaucracy is overwhelmingly populated with democrats.
-jcr
Of course, beyond the code-level measures that Rosyna mentions, there is also the fact that the Mac, as shipped, is vending NOTHING. Rather hard to get the runaway propagation typical of a windows virus outbreak, when each user has to explicitly open each port.
-jcr
Actually, it's over half
Nope.. Corruption isn't confined to members of the major parties, by any means.
-jcr
I'd pay for a signed copy of the GPL and some of his other essays.
You really need to get out more.
-jcr
That's not quite half the job..
-jcr
If they can't be easily persuaded that Jobs Is Right, they are marginalized or chased out.
Nope.
The people who have been most successful working with SJ are those who are quite capable of pushing back. If you're right, and Steve is wrong, you speak up and prove it.
-jcr
Apple needs a leader, not a cheerleader.
-jcr
Customers don't really know what they want.
That depends on the customer. You may notice that the griping about Aperture came primarily from people who were not the pro photographers that the app was intended for.
-jcr
Have you seen pure RAW data?
Yes I have, and I'm also quite aware of how aperture makes it viewable.
-jcr
I know two of the engineers who wrote Aperture. They have both moved to other groups, one to Application Frameworks, and one to CoreImage. In each case, their new job is a higher-profile position. If there had been a round of firings of the Aperture developers, I would have heard about it.
-jcr
The fact is, RAW data doesn't look very good, but Apple showed it with as little alteration as possible, because customers had said that's what they wanted. The RAW importer in Aperture 1.0 showed what was really there, without the prettying-up that the cameras do when they convert to JPEG, or that Photoshop does when it coverts RAW to TIFF.
Several reviewers, including the clown at ARS technica who is admittedly not a pro photographer, and had probably never seen RAW data in his life, complained that it didn't look like images that had been through Adobe's converter.
-jcr
Happen to know, say empirically, if is in fact will happen?
You might be able to get away with it, but you would be doing so at your own risk.
-jcr
Johnathan Schwartz has been in a position of power within Sun for some time now, and one would expect that if he were going to make an impact on Sun's behavior, he'd have done it already.
He's had a massive impact on Sun. It hasn't been positive.
-jcr
Schwartz is a PR genius
If he were a "PR genius", he'd be attracting positive attention.
-jcr
Dude, I don't know what your issue is with me signing a post, but i'm not going to change that habit just because some anonynut on /. bitches about it. Try to work it out in therapy.
-jcr
If you change that setting, and you cook your machine, it's your own fault.
-jcr
Gray text on a black background!
Looks fine to me on an Apple cinema display. Maybe you need to adjust your monitor gamma.
-jcr
imagine all the extra time they need not spend on system administration
Sure, but will they use that time to attack more people, or tweak their kernel and drivers for suicide geek cred?
-jcr
The word "Terroism" became such a convenient word to use as a wild card in order to gain voters' attention toward a congress person.
At the same time, it seems that the media scrupulously avoid using the word "terrorist" to describe actual terrorists. If I hear about Hamas or Al-Queda "militants" one more time, I'm going to hurl.
-jcr
it should only be upheld if it helps foster progress
Unfortunately, this is not a dependent clause. It's a stated intention of the purpose of granting patents and copyrights, but it doesn't subject them to a test of whether they do in fact promote progress.
-jcr
Well, when I joined Apple, my experience was very different. The HR people all put me in touch with the hiring managers after one call in which they described the job to me, and asked if I'd be interested in it. I did interview for three positions before the one I got, but I can't say they were wasting my time in any of the earlier instances.
When I joined Apple WWDR though, I was very impressed with the way my recruiter pushed the process through to get an offer to me before the holiday break. He got me an interview with the division's VP, and a director in a different division, with about two days' notice.
-jcr
a "I'm not really a techical person" line.
Oh, that always bugged the hell out of me. Makes you just want to scream: "Well, you're not qualified to judge me then, are you? Put me in touch with someone who is, or quit wasting my time!"
-jcr