My home is already heated solely by the electrics active within. Its Winter in Mi, and I have yet to turn on the heat.
72 degree at moment by PowerPC, Athlon, Sparc, Intel power.
Went and saw Matrix III on monday. Special effects are still awesome, fights scenes were not bad. Battle tactics of the squids was pretty cool, but in my opinion this was the weakest of the matrix movies.
Have you tried the products listed to accomplish professional quality photo editing? While not an Adobe lover, I find myself hard pressed to find equivalent pieces of software that does what theirs do in convenient bundles.
I have tried the tools that you mentioned and more. None of them stack up to Photoshop and illustrator.
If you are doing light weight editing the applications you list will do, but the serious stuff at the moment requires Adobe products.
Maybe Somday The Gimp will have a enough features to be useful, until then I will be handing Adobe money for an upgrade.
I have a digicam that has that annoying button latency problem (Nikon 5000). The secret to using that camaera is to use the LCD, and keep your finger hovering over first button pressing it down the first stop, vs the second, thus keeping the camera energized and focused.
With my canon 10D it has a lesser latency and the ability to change the iso so I can keep the shutter speed between 1/30-1/4000 so it becomes easier to capture a shot then 1-1/30.
I can do the same with the Nikon cp5000, but the latency seems to be more of a problem then the shutter speed.
As a 10D user, shooting raw. I currently consume about 4 512MB cards during a shoot.
After the first two cards, I find myself slowing down in the picture taking, which is not necessarily a good thing.
If I had 4GB, I would use it.
I also use these cards to transfer data between work and home, or between friends computers and mine. The size of the data transferred frequently exceeds my capacity.
Now all we need to do, is to have them work on the price. If that price was for 40Gb then I may consider it, but as it is, I'll buy 4 1GB cards and save a few bucks.
Communication is the key. Never fear change. Use it as an opportunity for yourself.
I always like the opportunity a crisis can cause. Identify the issues before they are impacting you. Then approach the proper management in charge and provide a detailed solution at resolving the issue. Then present a detailed plan on how to implement your solutions complete with cost analysis, savings, pay back periods, as well as justifications.
After the presentation(s), collect their comments and if its a go-ahead, don't be shy with stating the rewards you seek up front.
You say Employees like sheep, I disagree, they like employees that look at for the company and are willing to help it in times of need.
As a person that has survived and prospered well during lay-offs and times of corporate crisis, I can assure you thismethod works and works well. Just be prepared to put the effort in to design a proper solution before approaching management.
In the recent news, Slashdot has been found to have an Evil bit. This Evil bit was activated whenever the month of March rolled over to April and the Bit went to 1.
Lets see, I currently have 1.4TB of storage and always looking to add more.
On that storage I have my DVD electronic jukebox, (not-pirated), my mp3's, images of my various computers builds (past, present, and future) Archives of all my computer CD's, over 20,000 5mp digital images, a ton of food recipes, complete with digital images, 6 years of archived non-spam email, and tons of other stuff.
You know what I definitely need more space, for my Digital video's, my Oracle instances, More digital images, my archive of my older Atari, amiga, apple software, my automotive repair manuals and videos, my home repair books and videos, my index for all the info, and tons of other things I haven't thought of.
Don't think you'll ever need this stuff? Well, once you've played with having much of the stuff you need online, the need for it increases. Yea, today large amounts of data may be a lunatic fringe, but tomorrow it will be normal.
I also want less spinning disks, when you have TB of data on scsi and ide drives, failure of drives becomes more common
Now I just need to scrape up enough $$$ to purchase an EMC SAN.
A great movie once said, nerds are the people that are different, different enough to not fit the norm, everyone of us is a nerd, just some show it more than others.
Myself, I was born different. Physical defects albeit slight, always visable to the youth amongst us.
While other kids grew up playing ball, I was sitting in a hospital reading books and learning, because it separated me from my physical pain. So when school started from me, my physical and educational differences separated me too far from the pack
This is not bad! It is a part of what makes us different. During my school years did I like the ridicule? Did I like the beatings?
The answer is no. Did I let it stop me from helping out the others? Being charismatic in school, being active in the community during school? Being respected in the school? No!
Each challenge issued was a new force to reconcile. Find out what those that torture you need, miss, or percieve as the reason of ridicule. Address them. Not as an adult, but in your youth.
The jocks see you not playing sports, join them, make them know you as a person, share some of their pleasures. The popular folks, don't know you, be active in the community, approach them, understand them and sell yourself. You will grow for what you try.
People remember people that have a name and they can relate too. People will torment those that remain victims. You can stop being a victim and take care of your life.
Gather some half-baked systems requirements, which mean usually translate into something like...
I want a system that does everything that all these systems do, but differently, cheaper, and more.
Then spend 15 minutes of quality design time, 2 hours of presentation creation time, 4 hours of review time, 4 hours of quality correction time.
Repeat process above for the entire systems life cycle, tollgates,etc, with every further iteration requiring less quality time, and more presentation and discussion time
Deliver system that does some of the stuff one of the previous systems did, looks pretty according to the newest trend, and angers half of the old users
Skills required:
Looking pretty.
Acting smart.
Talking like an expert.
Schmoozing.
and maybe some systems knowledge(not really, you can get the vendors to provide if you really can huckster them like a used car salesman)
In other news, slashdot users all agree, The Bork edition makes MSN usable.
Opera, the Bork Edition does what MSN editors have failed to do, make MSN a site that people want to visit.
Joe M Soft said, "Wow after the Bork Edition was released, web hits increased over 10000%. I can't believe all of the positive comments I have recieved."
In other news, Microsoft signs the Swedish Chef to be Editor at Large.
Dissention tempers ideas. Without hearing the other views of the world, how can anyone appreciate or even change what others see as wrong?
Sometimes an opposing view can even strengthen the resolve of the community it opposes. Heck, Microsoft may even drive more nails in their coffin.
How many of you out there haven't enjoyed a good argument with a Pro-Microsofty? Sometimes its just plain fun. So let them speak and have that fun on a bigger scale.
Taxes taxes taxes.
Add shipping charges, taxes, and whatever else some stores add in the fine print, the prices now may not look attractive online any more.
Guess will be do the Ebay search thing.
Oops, paypal, bidpay, shipping. Hope those fees don't add up to be more than the taxes.
If these producers where trying to be serious of these commercials. Shouldn't they have chosen more random backdrops to capture that impromptu in terview feel?
Come on how many Farscape fans wander alongside of you white siding of your home?
At least the plaza that was way overused looked neat.
WOW! A microsoft solution capable of recording all our actions for a year!
We all knew it was going to happen someday, Microsoft would own our memories. Can you imagine the DCMA violations trying to break the compy protect to view your own memories? What type of lawsuits are we going to get into when we just claim to remember doing it, and no we didn't reference the MyLifeBits database?
The media would have fun with this. We could have "Truman Shows" playing back the MyLifeBits database files 24x7. Imagine the pirated copies of the next serial killer, or thrill seeker.
Sounds like you are in the condition many students find themselves in. A degree in hand, no (or minimal) experience, and all doors closed to you.
How do you get experience, to get that job?
Well the answer to that question is around every community. Charities! Donate you skills and time to local non-profit ventures. Yes, it doesn't pay (much), but experience comes with its own set of perks and benefits.
There are many charities out there. From helping with a politcal campaign, to church based, to drug rehab. Each requires skills that employers are seeking and usually the charities are willing to accept all help offered. Charity work will gain you your experience, help the community, and provide valuable networking.
I have recommended students try this approach for over 15 years and have had a 100% placement rate in well paying positions many of which resulted directly from the networkign gained in the charity work.
Jobs are out there, you just need to be creative to capture them.
Wow, I remember Creative Computing. Was a GEM of a magazine. Heck I still have about 5 years of issues still in my parents attic.
Creative Computing and David H. Ahl got me started in computing. I remember in the late 70's Reading the magazine, typing in the basic (that didn't work right out of the magazine on a TRaSh-80) and having the time of my life making the stuff work.
The Ahl benchmarks were my favorite. I'd type them into everthing and submit the results religiously. My highpoint was when David Ahl sent me a letter thanking me for my contributions. A few years later a bad review of the PCjr killed Creative Computing and David joined one of the Atari Rags.
I made the trip to an Atari show in DC to meet him and loved listening to him. Heck my Atari ST's, portfolio's, 800's, XL's and Stacy were great toys of there era, but it really disappointed me to see my past hero, whoring for a single vendor rag.
Its really sad to hear of David as an insurance sales man. Heck he started me rolling on the Computer path, and now he's off it.
At least these sites bring up memories. Now I guess its time to go dig up my old Atari's and see if they work. Then revisit some of the programs in these journals.
Slashdot Mirror
A Big Black Monolith, 1x4x9.
I bet this poor soul was expectign to get a Digicam friendly CF card out of his autopsy.
$249 for a 4GB microdrive isn't a bad price, too bad it didn't work.
My home is already heated solely by the electrics active within. Its Winter in Mi, and I have yet to turn on the heat. 72 degree at moment by PowerPC, Athlon, Sparc, Intel power.
Must buy a G5. Must have Most Powerful Personal Computer (TM). Must believe advertising. They wouldn't lie to me.
By the time the ad was out, it was no longer the most powerful computer.
I often get private screenings of movies prior to their public release dates. Monday was the day of the private screening.
Went and saw Matrix III on monday. Special effects are still awesome, fights scenes were not bad. Battle tactics of the squids was pretty cool, but in my opinion this was the weakest of the matrix movies.
Was rather disappointed with the ending.
Have you tried the products listed to accomplish professional quality photo editing? While not an Adobe lover, I find myself hard pressed to find equivalent pieces of software that does what theirs do in convenient bundles. I have tried the tools that you mentioned and more. None of them stack up to Photoshop and illustrator. If you are doing light weight editing the applications you list will do, but the serious stuff at the moment requires Adobe products. Maybe Somday The Gimp will have a enough features to be useful, until then I will be handing Adobe money for an upgrade.
I have a digicam that has that annoying button latency problem (Nikon 5000). The secret to using that camaera is to use the LCD, and keep your finger hovering over first button pressing it down the first stop, vs the second, thus keeping the camera energized and focused.
With my canon 10D it has a lesser latency and the ability to change the iso so I can keep the shutter speed between 1/30-1/4000 so it becomes easier to capture a shot then 1-1/30.
I can do the same with the Nikon cp5000, but the latency seems to be more of a problem then the shutter speed.
As a 10D user, shooting raw. I currently consume about 4 512MB cards during a shoot.
After the first two cards, I find myself slowing down in the picture taking, which is not necessarily a good thing.
If I had 4GB, I would use it.
I also use these cards to transfer data between work and home, or between friends computers and mine. The size of the data transferred frequently exceeds my capacity.
Now all we need to do, is to have them work on the price. If that price was for 40Gb then I may consider it, but as it is, I'll buy 4 1GB cards and save a few bucks.
Communication is the key. Never fear change. Use it as an opportunity for yourself.
I always like the opportunity a crisis can cause. Identify the issues before they are impacting you. Then approach the proper management in charge and provide a detailed solution at resolving the issue. Then present a detailed plan on how to implement your solutions complete with cost analysis, savings, pay back periods, as well as justifications.
After the presentation(s), collect their comments and if its a go-ahead, don't be shy with stating the rewards you seek up front.
You say Employees like sheep, I disagree, they like employees that look at for the company and are willing to help it in times of need.
As a person that has survived and prospered well during lay-offs and times of corporate crisis, I can assure you thismethod works and works well. Just be prepared to put the effort in to design a proper solution before approaching management.
Follow the parent posts instructions and be guaranteed never to get promoted.
In the recent news, Slashdot has been found to have an Evil bit. This Evil bit was activated whenever the month of March rolled over to April and the Bit went to 1.
Next thing they will try to ban are Catapults
:)
Lets see, I currently have 1.4TB of storage and always looking to add more.
On that storage I have my DVD electronic jukebox, (not-pirated), my mp3's, images of my various computers builds (past, present, and future) Archives of all my computer CD's, over 20,000 5mp digital images, a ton of food recipes, complete with digital images, 6 years of archived non-spam email, and tons of other stuff.
You know what I definitely need more space, for my Digital video's, my Oracle instances, More digital images, my archive of my older Atari, amiga, apple software, my automotive repair manuals and videos, my home repair books and videos, my index for all the info, and tons of other things I haven't thought of.
Don't think you'll ever need this stuff? Well, once you've played with having much of the stuff you need online, the need for it increases. Yea, today large amounts of data may be a lunatic fringe, but tomorrow it will be normal.
I also want less spinning disks, when you have TB of data on scsi and ide drives, failure of drives becomes more common
Now I just need to scrape up enough $$$ to purchase an EMC SAN.
I am a Nerd! Come on and say it we are NERDS!
A great movie once said, nerds are the people that are different, different enough to not fit the norm, everyone of us is a nerd, just some show it more than others.
Myself, I was born different. Physical defects albeit slight, always visable to the youth amongst us.
While other kids grew up playing ball, I was sitting in a hospital reading books and learning, because it separated me from my physical pain. So when school started from me, my physical and educational differences separated me too far from the pack
This is not bad! It is a part of what makes us different. During my school years did I like the ridicule? Did I like the beatings?
The answer is no. Did I let it stop me from helping out the others? Being charismatic in school, being active in the community during school? Being respected in the school? No!
Each challenge issued was a new force to reconcile. Find out what those that torture you need, miss, or percieve as the reason of ridicule. Address them. Not as an adult, but in your youth.
The jocks see you not playing sports, join them, make them know you as a person, share some of their pleasures. The popular folks, don't know you, be active in the community, approach them, understand them and sell yourself. You will grow for what you try.
People remember people that have a name and they can relate too. People will torment those that remain victims. You can stop being a victim and take care of your life.
If you don't try, only you suffer.
Remember in the words of Friedrich Nietzche.
Was machet mir nicht umbringt, macht mir starker.
Gather some half-baked systems requirements, which mean usually translate into something like
I want a system that does everything that all these systems do, but differently, cheaper, and more.
Then spend 15 minutes of quality design time, 2 hours of presentation creation time, 4 hours of review time, 4 hours of quality correction time.
Repeat process above for the entire systems life cycle, tollgates,etc, with every further iteration requiring less quality time, and more presentation and discussion time
Deliver system that does some of the stuff one of the previous systems did, looks pretty according to the newest trend, and angers half of the old users
Skills required:
Acting smart.
Talking like an expert.
Schmoozing.
and maybe some systems knowledge(not really, you can get the vendors to provide if you really can huckster them like a used car salesman)
In other news, slashdot users all agree, The Bork edition makes MSN usable.
Opera, the Bork Edition does what MSN editors have failed to do, make MSN a site that people want to visit.
Joe M Soft said, "Wow after the Bork Edition was released, web hits increased over 10000%. I can't believe all of the positive comments I have recieved."
In other news, Microsoft signs the Swedish Chef to be Editor at Large.
Of course they should let Microsoft speak.
Dissention tempers ideas. Without hearing the other views of the world, how can anyone appreciate or even change what others see as wrong?
Sometimes an opposing view can even strengthen the resolve of the community it opposes. Heck, Microsoft may even drive more nails in their coffin.
How many of you out there haven't enjoyed a good argument with a Pro-Microsofty? Sometimes its just plain fun. So let them speak and have that fun on a bigger scale.
Taxes taxes taxes. Add shipping charges, taxes, and whatever else some stores add in the fine print, the prices now may not look attractive online any more. Guess will be do the Ebay search thing. Oops, paypal, bidpay, shipping. Hope those fees don't add up to be more than the taxes.
In the future how will these entities answer this question?
Mouse?
Man?
Moun?
Mause?
Meep?
If these producers where trying to be serious of these commercials. Shouldn't they have chosen more random backdrops to capture that impromptu in terview feel?
Come on how many Farscape fans wander alongside of you white siding of your home?
At least the plaza that was way overused looked neat.
WOW! A microsoft solution capable of recording all our actions for a year!
We all knew it was going to happen someday, Microsoft would own our memories. Can you imagine the DCMA violations trying to break the compy protect to view your own memories? What type of lawsuits are we going to get into when we just claim to remember doing it, and no we didn't reference the MyLifeBits database?
The media would have fun with this. We could have "Truman Shows" playing back the MyLifeBits database files 24x7. Imagine the pirated copies of the next serial killer, or thrill seeker.
Don't you love technology.
Sounds like you are in the condition many students find themselves in. A degree in hand, no (or minimal) experience, and all doors closed to you.
How do you get experience, to get that job?
Well the answer to that question is around every community. Charities! Donate you skills and time to local non-profit ventures. Yes, it doesn't pay (much), but experience comes with its own set of perks and benefits.
There are many charities out there. From helping with a politcal campaign, to church based, to drug rehab. Each requires skills that employers are seeking and usually the charities are willing to accept all help offered. Charity work will gain you your experience, help the community, and provide valuable networking.
I have recommended students try this approach for over 15 years and have had a 100% placement rate in well paying positions many of which resulted directly from the networkign gained in the charity work.
Jobs are out there, you just need to be creative to capture them.
Wow, I remember Creative Computing. Was a GEM of a magazine. Heck I still have about 5 years of issues still in my parents attic.
Creative Computing and David H. Ahl got me started in computing. I remember in the late 70's Reading the magazine, typing in the basic (that didn't work right out of the magazine on a TRaSh-80) and having the time of my life making the stuff work.
The Ahl benchmarks were my favorite. I'd type them into everthing and submit the results religiously. My highpoint was when David Ahl sent me a letter thanking me for my contributions. A few years later a bad review of the PCjr killed Creative Computing and David joined one of the Atari Rags.
I made the trip to an Atari show in DC to meet him and loved listening to him. Heck my Atari ST's, portfolio's, 800's, XL's and Stacy were great toys of there era, but it really disappointed me to see my past hero, whoring for a single vendor rag.
Its really sad to hear of David as an insurance sales man. Heck he started me rolling on the Computer path, and now he's off it.
At least these sites bring up memories. Now I guess its time to go dig up my old Atari's and see if they work. Then revisit some of the programs in these journals.
I was expecting so much more than just an apparently poorly attended fragfest with RC robots, techno bands, and fan driven gumbies.
Maybe it was just the videographer, but I doubt iy. The presentation of the circus seemed lame.
Where are the Gee-Wiz things? Virtual Reality, Biometrics, intelligent robots, etc.
With Circus in the name, at least they could have added pizzazz to the existing presentations. This looked more like a geek user group presentation.
This show has a good premise. We need to excite the youth and the community with technology. Present it in a way that non-geek people want to stay.
Hopefully the next show will be better.