Adobe's DNG (Digital Negative) format seems to be to be a much better deal than OpenRaw. "Ah!", you think, "DNG is still the Man smacking us down".
Not true. Adobe's published the spec and will let anybody use it for free. My money's on Adobe swaying the camera companies to support DNG. Free for you, free for me, free for everybody and support from a company that seems to get it.
It took me two hours and four phone calls to cancel my DSL subscription after two weeks of delays and getting the runaround from MSN and Qwest up here in Boise, Idaho. It's a long story, but two weeks, 12 phone calls to 4 different numbers and finally finding out that my order had been partially misplaced (we're talking entries in a computer, how can you be 'partially misplaced') and I'd have to buy a new DSL router - I went with Cableone. Cableone took me approximately 10 minutes of face time with a representative to get setup and acquire my modem with another five minutes to get setup in my home office. This of course made me that much more disgusted with Qwest so I canceled my phone service now and exclusively use my cellphone.
I've never been happier.:-)
The problem is that most companies, despite the prevaling evidence that it prevents repetitive stress injuries, do not inform their employees of the risks of sitting for 10 hours a day with no breaks working at a computer with a shitty keyboard and mouse. They know about the problems but don't have somebody come in and evaluate the work area, inform their employees of the need for correct posture, frequent breaks, exercise and stretching. Want to see something scary, look at the kids in grade school these days with their wrists all bent up hunched over a computer. By the time they turn 18 they'll be crippled. Oh, and to the asshole that thinks that people with carpal tunnel syndrome are a bunch of whiners and should aspire to be the head fry salter at McDonald's instead. Whatever. With severe carpal tunnel you can't even wipe your own bottom, much less do normal everyday things like hold a fork, open a catsup bottle or jar, etc. You definitely can't flip burgers with those wrists.
wise the following:
"The only reason most large companies require a degree, and don't just interview you for what you know and your experience, is because most of those people have degrees. If they had to suffer through 4-6 years of college, and the time and monetary commitment involved in doing that, you damn well are going to suffer just like they did. It's called 'revenge on the rest of humanity'."
I've found most companies that required a degree to get anywhere (as opposed to basing everything on experience" are companies I don't want to work for anyway.
Kind of related to this is overall security for those remote servers. If you have a site that you depend on (say a service provider hosting a shopping cart because you lack the infrastructure to do it yourself) and it's security sucks then you expose yourself to all kinds of heartache. I'm aware of a site with an outsourced e-commerce section (thankfully no account information, simply an online store) that had that e-commerce section go away when the service provider's server got Nimda.
I find it amazing that Microsoft's corporate security officer would respond this way in relation to the huge XP bug: Just last week, Microsoft's corporate security officer, Howard Schmidt, expressed frustration about continuing threats from overflows. "I'm still amazed that we allow these things to occur," he said at a conference of technology executives. Schmidt is expected soon to resign from Microsoft to work for President Bush's top computer security adviser.
I can see it now, "I'm still amazed that we let a product like Visual Basic out that allows 10 year old kids to write worms".
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Adobe's DNG (Digital Negative) format seems to be to be a much better deal than OpenRaw. "Ah!", you think, "DNG is still the Man smacking us down".
Not true. Adobe's published the spec and will let anybody use it for free. My money's on Adobe swaying the camera companies to support DNG. Free for you, free for me, free for everybody and support from a company that seems to get it.
Here's more info on DNG: http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/main.html
It took me two hours and four phone calls to cancel my DSL subscription after two weeks of delays and getting the runaround from MSN and Qwest up here in Boise, Idaho. It's a long story, but two weeks, 12 phone calls to 4 different numbers and finally finding out that my order had been partially misplaced (we're talking entries in a computer, how can you be 'partially misplaced') and I'd have to buy a new DSL router - I went with Cableone. Cableone took me approximately 10 minutes of face time with a representative to get setup and acquire my modem with another five minutes to get setup in my home office. This of course made me that much more disgusted with Qwest so I canceled my phone service now and exclusively use my cellphone. I've never been happier. :-)
The problem is that most companies, despite the prevaling evidence that it prevents repetitive stress injuries, do not inform their employees of the risks of sitting for 10 hours a day with no breaks working at a computer with a shitty keyboard and mouse. They know about the problems but don't have somebody come in and evaluate the work area, inform their employees of the need for correct posture, frequent breaks, exercise and stretching. Want to see something scary, look at the kids in grade school these days with their wrists all bent up hunched over a computer. By the time they turn 18 they'll be crippled. Oh, and to the asshole that thinks that people with carpal tunnel syndrome are a bunch of whiners and should aspire to be the head fry salter at McDonald's instead. Whatever. With severe carpal tunnel you can't even wipe your own bottom, much less do normal everyday things like hold a fork, open a catsup bottle or jar, etc. You definitely can't flip burgers with those wrists.
wise the following: "The only reason most large companies require a degree, and don't just interview you for what you know and your experience, is because most of those people have degrees. If they had to suffer through 4-6 years of college, and the time and monetary commitment involved in doing that, you damn well are going to suffer just like they did. It's called 'revenge on the rest of humanity'." I've found most companies that required a degree to get anywhere (as opposed to basing everything on experience" are companies I don't want to work for anyway.
Kind of related to this is overall security for those remote servers. If you have a site that you depend on (say a service provider hosting a shopping cart because you lack the infrastructure to do it yourself) and it's security sucks then you expose yourself to all kinds of heartache. I'm aware of a site with an outsourced e-commerce section (thankfully no account information, simply an online store) that had that e-commerce section go away when the service provider's server got Nimda.
I find it amazing that Microsoft's corporate security officer would respond this way in relation to the huge XP bug: Just last week, Microsoft's corporate security officer, Howard Schmidt, expressed frustration about continuing threats from overflows. "I'm still amazed that we allow these things to occur," he said at a conference of technology executives. Schmidt is expected soon to resign from Microsoft to work for President Bush's top computer security adviser. I can see it now, "I'm still amazed that we let a product like Visual Basic out that allows 10 year old kids to write worms".