I love the comment that your entire wallet goes away. Everything about you can be stored in your phone!!!
I've never lost my wallet, but my cell phone I have.
Besides all the cell phone companies are constantly trying to get us to change phones, or providers. If you change your phone every year, how do you migrate the data from one phone to the other. How do you purge your data from your old phone so you can sell it to someone else?
etc... etc... And the last thing I want is to get spam on my cell phone from a movie poster!!!
And what's this about sports shoe lasting only 3 months? ARHHHH!!!!
Only 12 states recognize California's CCW permit.
So even he or his bodyguards traveling armed to other states would probably be in violation.
And good luck getting an out of state permit. Those are almost nonexistant.
Sorry, but point and shot cameras aren't money makers. Consumer demand has driven down the price to almost nothing. The amount of features you have to have just to sell don't justify the cost of the development of a new camera. Especially when you have replace the model every 6 months.
If you read the article, only their film cameras are going away, not the film!!! Matter of fact new film is being developed.
I'll agree film is dead when I can get the same quality photo for LESS than what it costs me now to use my film cameras.
I'm curious though as to how many photographers are just consumer photographers who never look at their prints. Essentially, only take photos to take photos. They don't DO anything with them. They don't appreciate the beauty of the subject, its not framed. Its point, click, done, and never seen again.
Actually this is quite a brilliant idea... next comes the laser that cuts bread and toasts it for you!!! Better patent that idea before Amazond does.
The funny part, most asians are lactose intolerant!!! Definitely can tell they've been influenced living in Wisconsin!!!
If I had to do it all over again, I'd start with a decent auto exposure / manual focus camera. Don't gimp on your lense. You'll appreciate it later. The better your F stop, the happier you'll be later when you experiment. Also manual focus lenses tend to be cheaper.
You'll start off taking lots of photos, so get cheap film to start, ala Costco. Pick up a couple of good photo technique books. A good book will discuss The Rule of Thirds, lighting and bracketing, and picture composition.
Always critique your photos. Learn what you can do better.
Get in close, get intimate with your subject.
Keep all your photos so you can compare. Plus its a big ego boost when you see how much you've grown.
Talk to your local camera shops. Not the big box stores. They won't know jack.
Take lots of photos. That's the only way to learn.
The big difference between professional photographers and amateurs: The amateur takes a few photos and shows a lot. The pro takes a lot of photos and shows only a few.
You'll soon learn what your camera and lense are capable of and won't be wasting a lot of film.
My current: Minolta 700xi with a 50mm f1.4. I prefer it over my Minolta 450si with 28-200mm. That is until I get my 200mm APO. To each camera a different purpose though.
One of the most popular: a Nikon FM2. Lots of lenses and been around for a long time. Good workhorse for wedding photographers who aren't using a medium format SLR.
I've noticed that most big box retailers, especially Best Buy and CompUSA do not have real sales.
The advertisements they send out in the papers are not sale prices, and no where does it say "On sale".
The point of the Sunday advertisements for these companies is to annouce products and their prices. People assume that the price is a sales price.
Think of it this way, the Sunday print ads are most spam. You have to filter out what is on sale and what isn't.
I keep a mental note roughly of the regular prices for certain items. If it shows up in the weekly ads, I'll know whether or not its on sale.
What drives me nuts though is getting a coupon for BB and not being able to use it cause its only valid on nonsale price items (10% on home theater, good for this weekend only!!!), which is nothing, cause they've put everything on sale!!!!
I love it when the sales staff is trying to tell me the 6% discounted sales price is worth more than the 10% discount.
First, I oppose MS pushing down these updates. The last thing I want is my computer doing something I don't want it to do. It does that enough, with BSOD, and some other lock ups.
Heck, if the OS isn't compatible with half the hardware out there already, how are they going to garunatee pushing patches down won't hurt more?
Comparing using a computer to driving a car is not equal comparisions. Driving a car has lots of responsibilities and accountabilities. There is an impact to society on a whole. Using a computer in your home, is just you and whatever you want to do. And don't anybody start comparing the Internet as a Superhighway mumbo jumbo.
Start taking away rights of the people, and you're playing with fire. The last thing I want to do is join the NCA, National Computer Association, to protect our rights to bare computers.... err... wait a second...
Anywho, but what bothers me most is that WE are debating the wrong issue. MS has cleverly shifted the burden of responsibility to the users. If MS had designed the OS a little more secure in the first place, we wouldn't be in this pickle.
Ok, so back to curing symptoms and not the actual problem. How do you force users to do their updates? Like Norton where you get a regular reminder? Isn't that Critical Updates.
Users need a tool to educate why the updates are necessary. Why do I need to download this 19MB file and how the heck am I going to do that over a 56k modem. They do not need to read a 6000 line. If the patches are 19MB, shouldn't MS be sending out the patches on cd? If you register your software, you can get the patches on cd. Maybe then MS will understand making buggy software.
Stupid users want it in clear and concise English / Spanish / Japanese / Australian / Martian, whatever. Why the heck don't they make a friggin multimedia tutorial??? Oh right, cause its not a Mac.
If the users choose to not to install patches that have been out for x number of months, then bullox for them, don't whine about MS. But a patch is out one month, and MS expects the whole world to be patched??? Get real.
They're just making PR statements to shift our conscious thinking. They're shifting the focus of the main problem by pointing out another problem. Taking the car analogy. Its like saying that the Exploder rollsover cause the driver goes to fast, and not that the vehicle has design flaws.
Anywho, I could be wrong, but that's just my opinion.
Since you mentioned the blackouts in New York, I see two things happening.
1. Someone will make a song about it, probably a rip off of Billy Joel's Miami 2017.
2. In about 36-40 weeks, population along black out areas will experience a proliferation of births; experts will be baffled.
Workout early in the morning, even if it is just 15 miutes.
Get a healthy breakfast in the morning.
Cut down on the caffeine.
Smaller lunch.
Take walking breaks instead of smoking breaks. Ask a coworker to join you too.
Always use the stairs.
Healthy snacks instead of vending machine snacks.
It requires a whole change in attitude. Start bit by bit.
Losing weight is a different issue. You will need to add an excercise program to the whole thing. Take a sporting class at the college. Because you're paying for it, you'll go. I take a hockey class at the college, and joined a hockey team. This way, I'd get the exercise twice a week.
After hockey games, we tend to drink in the locker room. So I still get my beer.
Its a matter of what you are willing to commit yourself to do.
Imagine having to find powder ingredentes, mix and test the powder, find spent casings, form the bullet, pack the casing, and finally, insert the bullet. That, to me, would be too much work for a criminal to go out and "gang bang".
So lets remove firearms. Then these gang bangers won't be using guns but knives, baseball bats, tire irons, and what not.
You say that's not too bad... well add another 20 years, and then they start outlawing these things.
The Supreme Court has already ruled that the police are not responsible for your safety. Nothing against the people who will put their life on the line for me.
The National Gaurd is called upon by the President to handle both foreign and domestic situations. They don't protect your interest.
In the end, the only one who can protect you and your family, is you.
Oh, and lets forget that a portion of the ammo sold in the US, is actually manufactured outside the US, and that anything outlawed just becomes more expensive, and the criminals have the money to do it.
If they don't turn off the tag after the purchase, someone's going to come up with a scanner that will decode the tag.
Old pickup line: "I love that red dress."
New pickup line: "I love that purple Victoria Secrets Wonderbra, 32C, with front hooks you're wearing... etc...."
Why don't the people who developed the benchmark software go after NVIDIA and threaten them with a DMCA lawsuit violation?
Their going in and tweaking the parameters of the test... Isn't that a violation?
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If you don't take an active role in politics, voicing opinions, contacting your representative, etc. Then yes, you are volunteering your money for whatever projects OTHERS deem necessary.
Why not go after these people for real crimes and send them to the slammer, confiscate their equipment, and all that other stuff the FBI loves to do? Also gotta figure if these guys are making any money, their probably violating some IRS law, so send more feds after them.
Bah... until judges and politicans actually grow up around this stuff, or have to answer their own emails, they'll never pursue it.
I bet when Bill Gates kids start getting spam, we'll see some radical solutions.
I hate to come up with a plausible excuses for MS to use against others...
Parts of Asia aren't exactly known for following licensing agreements.
Could one of the reasons they didn't do the upgrades is the fear that the Service Pack would detect a pirated version?
Which would you be more afraid of MS shutting you down, or a possible security problem? One company wouldn't think anything of it. Get a whole bunch of these "Not Me's" companies and then you've got a big problem.
From the sounds of it, the Slammer / Sapphire Worm was a combination of flukes that caused it to grow as fast as it did, 2 orders of magnitude faster than Code Red. Very interesting reading... http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/sapphire/
but I see something a little different about this.
First, if Microsoft's EULA already prevents them from being sued, software is as-is, why do they release patches in the first place?
This isn't a question about whether or not a user can sue, but a more basic matter of accountability and responsibility. These are the most fundamental issues in selling anything to the public.
Microsoft is responsible for this snafu, but they have never been held accountable. Their bugs, their glitches, their crashes. Its become a running joke with techies. It shouldn't.
When Slammer first hit, people said installing the patches required taking down the servers, running several patches, and praying it still worked. No garunatees about anything. What's the justification? Time wasn't available. Who could afford to do this? How high was it on MS list of things that had to be done?
But no one is mentioning those same arguments now. Its South Korea's fault for not doing the updates.
As I recall weren't the patches buggy enough to cause another major security hole?
We know Microsoft is responsible. We know who should be held accountable. But MS throws in a disclaimer and all is good. The disclaimer is not a silver bullet. There must be accountability for faulty software, no matter who wrote it.
Will it stifle open source development? Probably scare off crap coders is what it will do. If everyone working together reviews, checks, and verifies, they are going to catch most of the bugs before it goes out the door. The remaining bugs are fixed with patches.
I honestly don't see anything wrong with suing them. The EULA is not a catch all. The EULA should be thrown out, and rewritten. Users have the right to hold developers accountable.
Has anyone else noticed that this is a little more far reaching impact.
MS has effectively been able to disable an application suite that has been purchased, based on a date.
It won't take much more for them to figure out how to make it so that its part of an application service pack update.
And how much harder would this be to tie into an OS. Instead of a blue screen of death, you'd get nothing. Heck, imagine trying to boot your system and getting nothing.
Some say MS would never do this, that it would hurt the market too much.
But how many people don't rush out to get the new OS, who stay 2 or more versions behind, who really don't care about upgrading.
The next update you get from MS could render your system inoperable after a few years. ***wisecracks left out***
"Hmm... we need to disable Win2k systems so that we can drive market sales for our next OS we release in 2005."
I was wondering when they political manuevering would begin around this.
Its not a question of if a terrorist attack will occur, but when. Knowing that, the Republicans are making something so absurd, that the Democrats have to oppose it. The result is Dems will look like the good guys now, but incompetants in the future. Reps will look like they had foresight and vision. If nothing bad happens, it looks like it did it's job. If there is finally enough political backlash regarding civil rights, only then will the Reps be in a little trouble.
Why a little? How much does an individuals privacy weigh against the sense of security and stability of society?
Looking back, the Japanese interiment during WW2 wasn't illegal at the time. It was defined as necessary for the security of the nation, as well as for their own well being.
In retrospect, we think differently. Society's perceptions of the situation have changed.
Hindsight and second guessing don't accomplish anything in the future. It only proves that we make mistakes.
Are they making the right decision now? Who's to say. Figure they have prevented one terrorist attack, saving the lives of 300 people, and returned a somewhat sense of security that we have forgotten, is it right?
Individuals are smart. Society as a whole is stupid.
In all honesty, this is the photographers fault. His real mistake was taking bad photos. His attempt to fix this created an even bigger mistake.
I take a lot of photos, and learn from them. This is how you get better. You missed the shot, you get another. But you keep your eyes open for The Shot cause its going to be there. You learn to anticipate it. You see it, you get it, you've got it. And your good.
My whole point is that the photographer made mistakes and is accountable for it. The fact is he tried to cover up his mistake and got caught. Suck it up and learn.
I'm guessing he caught the before and after shots, and missed the middle shot that had what he was trying to compose.
Of course no photographer wants to admit missing the shot and having his/her work made the laughing stock. So you doctor the photo.
Here's my question to you though. If he's worked for them for this many years, how many other important photos has he doctored?
It brings his whole history into play.
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I love the comment that your entire wallet goes away. Everything about you can be stored in your phone!!! I've never lost my wallet, but my cell phone I have. Besides all the cell phone companies are constantly trying to get us to change phones, or providers. If you change your phone every year, how do you migrate the data from one phone to the other. How do you purge your data from your old phone so you can sell it to someone else? etc... etc... And the last thing I want is to get spam on my cell phone from a movie poster!!! And what's this about sports shoe lasting only 3 months? ARHHHH!!!!
Only 12 states recognize California's CCW permit. So even he or his bodyguards traveling armed to other states would probably be in violation. And good luck getting an out of state permit. Those are almost nonexistant.
If you read the article, only their film cameras are going away, not the film!!! Matter of fact new film is being developed.
I'll agree film is dead when I can get the same quality photo for LESS than what it costs me now to use my film cameras.
I'm curious though as to how many photographers are just consumer photographers who never look at their prints. Essentially, only take photos to take photos. They don't DO anything with them. They don't appreciate the beauty of the subject, its not framed. Its point, click, done, and never seen again.
2. CD prices will go up to an outrageous $30 per cd, even if there is no copy protection.
3. CD sales will plummet.
4. Record labels will blame the decrease on Napster, Kaaza and everything else.
5. Cycle will repeat again.
Actually this is quite a brilliant idea... next comes the laser that cuts bread and toasts it for you!!! Better patent that idea before Amazond does. The funny part, most asians are lactose intolerant!!! Definitely can tell they've been influenced living in Wisconsin!!!
Someone else needs to make a book called Scams for Dummies, which identifies all the scams.
You'll start off taking lots of photos, so get cheap film to start, ala Costco. Pick up a couple of good photo technique books. A good book will discuss The Rule of Thirds, lighting and bracketing, and picture composition.
You'll soon learn what your camera and lense are capable of and won't be wasting a lot of film.
My current: Minolta 700xi with a 50mm f1.4. I prefer it over my Minolta 450si with 28-200mm. That is until I get my 200mm APO. To each camera a different purpose though.
One of the most popular: a Nikon FM2. Lots of lenses and been around for a long time. Good workhorse for wedding photographers who aren't using a medium format SLR.
The advertisements they send out in the papers are not sale prices, and no where does it say "On sale".
The point of the Sunday advertisements for these companies is to annouce products and their prices. People assume that the price is a sales price.
Think of it this way, the Sunday print ads are most spam. You have to filter out what is on sale and what isn't.
I keep a mental note roughly of the regular prices for certain items. If it shows up in the weekly ads, I'll know whether or not its on sale.
What drives me nuts though is getting a coupon for BB and not being able to use it cause its only valid on nonsale price items (10% on home theater, good for this weekend only!!!), which is nothing, cause they've put everything on sale!!!!
I love it when the sales staff is trying to tell me the 6% discounted sales price is worth more than the 10% discount.
First, I oppose MS pushing down these updates. The last thing I want is my computer doing something I don't want it to do. It does that enough, with BSOD, and some other lock ups.
Heck, if the OS isn't compatible with half the hardware out there already, how are they going to garunatee pushing patches down won't hurt more?
Comparing using a computer to driving a car is not equal comparisions. Driving a car has lots of responsibilities and accountabilities. There is an impact to society on a whole. Using a computer in your home, is just you and whatever you want to do. And don't anybody start comparing the Internet as a Superhighway mumbo jumbo.
Start taking away rights of the people, and you're playing with fire. The last thing I want to do is join the NCA, National Computer Association, to protect our rights to bare computers.... err... wait a second...
Anywho, but what bothers me most is that WE are debating the wrong issue. MS has cleverly shifted the burden of responsibility to the users. If MS had designed the OS a little more secure in the first place, we wouldn't be in this pickle.
Ok, so back to curing symptoms and not the actual problem. How do you force users to do their updates? Like Norton where you get a regular reminder? Isn't that Critical Updates.
Users need a tool to educate why the updates are necessary. Why do I need to download this 19MB file and how the heck am I going to do that over a 56k modem. They do not need to read a 6000 line. If the patches are 19MB, shouldn't MS be sending out the patches on cd? If you register your software, you can get the patches on cd. Maybe then MS will understand making buggy software.
Stupid users want it in clear and concise English / Spanish / Japanese / Australian / Martian, whatever. Why the heck don't they make a friggin multimedia tutorial??? Oh right, cause its not a Mac.
If the users choose to not to install patches that have been out for x number of months, then bullox for them, don't whine about MS. But a patch is out one month, and MS expects the whole world to be patched??? Get real.
They're just making PR statements to shift our conscious thinking. They're shifting the focus of the main problem by pointing out another problem. Taking the car analogy. Its like saying that the Exploder rollsover cause the driver goes to fast, and not that the vehicle has design flaws.
Anywho, I could be wrong, but that's just my opinion.
Since you mentioned the blackouts in New York, I see two things happening. 1. Someone will make a song about it, probably a rip off of Billy Joel's Miami 2017. 2. In about 36-40 weeks, population along black out areas will experience a proliferation of births; experts will be baffled.
It requires a whole change in attitude. Start bit by bit.
Losing weight is a different issue. You will need to add an excercise program to the whole thing. Take a sporting class at the college. Because you're paying for it, you'll go. I take a hockey class at the college, and joined a hockey team. This way, I'd get the exercise twice a week.
After hockey games, we tend to drink in the locker room. So I still get my beer.
Its a matter of what you are willing to commit yourself to do.
So lets remove firearms. Then these gang bangers won't be using guns but knives, baseball bats, tire irons, and what not.
You say that's not too bad... well add another 20 years, and then they start outlawing these things.
The Supreme Court has already ruled that the police are not responsible for your safety. Nothing against the people who will put their life on the line for me.
The National Gaurd is called upon by the President to handle both foreign and domestic situations. They don't protect your interest.
In the end, the only one who can protect you and your family, is you.
Oh, and lets forget that a portion of the ammo sold in the US, is actually manufactured outside the US, and that anything outlawed just becomes more expensive, and the criminals have the money to do it.
Old pickup line: "I love that red dress."
New pickup line: "I love that purple Victoria Secrets Wonderbra, 32C, with front hooks you're wearing... etc...."
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/sector.asp? CID=N00009869&cycle=2002
Sector Total PACs Indivs
Agribusiness $115,550 $51,750 $63,800
Communic/Electronics $498,097 $257,197 $240,900
Construction $78,600 $35,000 $43,600
Defense $52,750 $51,500 $1,250
Energy/Nat Resource $128,110 $83,500 $44,610
Finance/Insur/RealEst $755,739 $404,879 $350,860
Health $768,560 $350,970 $417,590
Lawyers & Lobbyists $629,157 $134,368 $494,789
Transportation $164,868 $94,252 $70,616
Misc Business $503,374 $229,572 $273,802
Labor $12,950 $12,750 $200
Ideology/Single-Issue $113,679 $62,929 $50,750
Other $259,640 $5,000 $254,640
Can a /. article be flagged TROLL???
A) an algorithm to modify baseline testing parameters
B) an algorithm to modify video display results
Further refinements on the patents to follow.
Why don't the people who developed the benchmark software go after NVIDIA and threaten them with a DMCA lawsuit violation? Their going in and tweaking the parameters of the test... Isn't that a violation?
If you don't take an active role in politics, voicing opinions, contacting your representative, etc. Then yes, you are volunteering your money for whatever projects OTHERS deem necessary.
Why not go after these people for real crimes and send them to the slammer, confiscate their equipment, and all that other stuff the FBI loves to do? Also gotta figure if these guys are making any money, their probably violating some IRS law, so send more feds after them.
Bah... until judges and politicans actually grow up around this stuff, or have to answer their own emails, they'll never pursue it.
I bet when Bill Gates kids start getting spam, we'll see some radical solutions.
Parts of Asia aren't exactly known for following licensing agreements.
Could one of the reasons they didn't do the upgrades is the fear that the Service Pack would detect a pirated version?
Which would you be more afraid of MS shutting you down, or a possible security problem? One company wouldn't think anything of it. Get a whole bunch of these "Not Me's" companies and then you've got a big problem.
From the sounds of it, the Slammer / Sapphire Worm was a combination of flukes that caused it to grow as fast as it did, 2 orders of magnitude faster than Code Red. Very interesting reading... http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/sapphire/
First, if Microsoft's EULA already prevents them from being sued, software is as-is, why do they release patches in the first place?
This isn't a question about whether or not a user can sue, but a more basic matter of accountability and responsibility. These are the most fundamental issues in selling anything to the public.
Microsoft is responsible for this snafu, but they have never been held accountable. Their bugs, their glitches, their crashes. Its become a running joke with techies. It shouldn't.
When Slammer first hit, people said installing the patches required taking down the servers, running several patches, and praying it still worked. No garunatees about anything. What's the justification? Time wasn't available. Who could afford to do this? How high was it on MS list of things that had to be done?
But no one is mentioning those same arguments now. Its South Korea's fault for not doing the updates.
As I recall weren't the patches buggy enough to cause another major security hole?
We know Microsoft is responsible. We know who should be held accountable. But MS throws in a disclaimer and all is good. The disclaimer is not a silver bullet. There must be accountability for faulty software, no matter who wrote it.
Will it stifle open source development? Probably scare off crap coders is what it will do. If everyone working together reviews, checks, and verifies, they are going to catch most of the bugs before it goes out the door. The remaining bugs are fixed with patches.
I honestly don't see anything wrong with suing them. The EULA is not a catch all. The EULA should be thrown out, and rewritten. Users have the right to hold developers accountable.
Its about time someone figure out how.
MS has effectively been able to disable an application suite that has been purchased, based on a date.
It won't take much more for them to figure out how to make it so that its part of an application service pack update.
And how much harder would this be to tie into an OS. Instead of a blue screen of death, you'd get nothing. Heck, imagine trying to boot your system and getting nothing.
Some say MS would never do this, that it would hurt the market too much.
But how many people don't rush out to get the new OS, who stay 2 or more versions behind, who really don't care about upgrading.
The next update you get from MS could render your system inoperable after a few years. ***wisecracks left out***
"Hmm... we need to disable Win2k systems so that we can drive market sales for our next OS we release in 2005."
Its not a question of if a terrorist attack will occur, but when. Knowing that, the Republicans are making something so absurd, that the Democrats have to oppose it. The result is Dems will look like the good guys now, but incompetants in the future. Reps will look like they had foresight and vision. If nothing bad happens, it looks like it did it's job. If there is finally enough political backlash regarding civil rights, only then will the Reps be in a little trouble.
Why a little? How much does an individuals privacy weigh against the sense of security and stability of society?
Looking back, the Japanese interiment during WW2 wasn't illegal at the time. It was defined as necessary for the security of the nation, as well as for their own well being.
In retrospect, we think differently. Society's perceptions of the situation have changed.
Hindsight and second guessing don't accomplish anything in the future. It only proves that we make mistakes.
Are they making the right decision now? Who's to say. Figure they have prevented one terrorist attack, saving the lives of 300 people, and returned a somewhat sense of security that we have forgotten, is it right?
Individuals are smart. Society as a whole is stupid.
I guess that means your running M$? =)
In all honesty, this is the photographers fault. His real mistake was taking bad photos. His attempt to fix this created an even bigger mistake. I take a lot of photos, and learn from them. This is how you get better. You missed the shot, you get another. But you keep your eyes open for The Shot cause its going to be there. You learn to anticipate it. You see it, you get it, you've got it. And your good. My whole point is that the photographer made mistakes and is accountable for it. The fact is he tried to cover up his mistake and got caught. Suck it up and learn. I'm guessing he caught the before and after shots, and missed the middle shot that had what he was trying to compose. Of course no photographer wants to admit missing the shot and having his/her work made the laughing stock. So you doctor the photo. Here's my question to you though. If he's worked for them for this many years, how many other important photos has he doctored? It brings his whole history into play.