I can see how spreadsheets can lead to lost revenue and bad decision making.
Huh. I, on the other hand, can see how over-dependence on a swamped and backlogged IT department can lead to lost opportunities, lost revenue, and bad decision making.
First, it was "Most of the pros you see are GIVEN Nikon equipment."
Now it's, "Nikon GIVES AWAY some gear to high profile professionals."
Next it will be that your brother's uncle's friend told you that he heard that someone had gotten a free camera.
Sigh. Maybe if you're James Natchwey or someone of that caliber you might get a Nikon sponsorship. But the other 99.9% of the all the other working professionals are not so luckey.
So again, Most [your words] of the pros you see are NOT given Nikon equipment."
And that's not anecdotal? (grin) Seriously, how deep into the workings of the industry do we need to go?
How about the technology companies hired by the clients to bring the latest H1 and Phase One back, along with all the needed power and computer support, to a job? Of course, the technology companies own their own gear. Not free.
Or PJs who use cameras provided by the news organization? Of course, that's slowly going away as well, but again, as they owned the gear that's not "free" either.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO SUCH THING. Most of the pros you see are GIVEN Nikon equipment. That's why.
What planet do you live on? EVERY working pro I know has paid for his equipment. You may get a demo of a new camera, but after the demo period is over the camera goes back and you buy your own.
Besides, if you're a top tier professional (whom you seem to be ranting about) a $5,000 camera is pocket change, and a $25,000 MF digital back is not much more so.
I don't think Nikon ever imagined this would cause such a fuss...
Probably true, but they did it deliberately in their new cameras an attempt to lock out third-party image processing software; dollars they thought should be going to them. The orginal D1-series cameras were not so encumbered.
Which completely ignores the fact that if Adobe where to include the SDK in a commercial product Adobe would have to license it.
It also ignores the fact that the SDK generates jpeg/tif from RAW. Which wouldn't be bad except the main reason to use Adobe ACR is to use THEIR raw image processing routines. Who wants to waste time decoding the file twice?
Finally, it ignores the fact that Nikon basically wants you to spend $5000 for a camera... and then pay an additional $100 to get their software to process your images.
Stop bashing Adobe and check a few facts. Nikon doesn't want people using ANY third-party image processing software.
Stop playing word games. Someone spends their time, effort, and money creating a work and offers it for sale. You, however, feel "entitled" to it, don't pay for it, and as such you benefit from the result and they don't.
In essence, you stole their time, their effort, and their money.
The litmus test is to introduce them to something new that may potentially change the way they live or work, or something new...
In that aspect, Puritanism has nothing to do with it. Anytime you introduce uncertainty into an equation, and the outcome is in doubt, the natural reaction is fear, and the instinctive reaction to resist the change.
but totaly bloated with features a end user doesnt need
One of the weaknesses of FOSS is that in a great many cases no one is working on (and testing) the interface design, and no one is attempting to constrain the feature set to something cohesive and understandable.
It's much cooler to add the new "merge-and-invert-multiple-paragraphs-and-strip-lf/cr-at-the same-time" function.
I think you missed his point...
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Because he pretty much said three times, "given the same qualifications".
In that case, and given a choice, I'd also consider how they'd fit into a team, their apparent people skills, how they present themselves, communication skills, and so on.
For one thing, and again, given the same qualifications, I refuse to hire someone who even can't write a coherent paragraph.
Also, why the FUCK can't I watch a DVD that has deleted scenes in it in place where they were deleted,
It would depend greatly on WHEN they decided to delete the scene, as many deleted scenes are not up to the post-processing standards of the rest of the movie. Why spend dollars adding a cgi background or effect to a deleted scene?
That's a solution, but now you have evil third-party cookies, and evil third-party images and web-bugs. All things that the average "I have the right to block everything"/.er will kill on site... er, sight.
My.02...screw CA. One cannot show "concern" for the direction of FOSS. It goes where it goes, and that is that.... Fuq 'em.
Nice. That's exactly what every business who's hanging their hats (and systems) on FOSS wants to hear.
I suppose, however, that to a geek it is more important to save a half microsecond on a game driver call than it is to have a common, small, stable kernel.
With municipal WiFi, we, the people, actually get to control it.
No, with municipal WiFi the majority of the people get to control it. Though there's an equally good chance a highly vocal minority gets to do so as well.
Either way, if they don't like what you like, you're screwed...
There is a good reason why people drive 75 on most 65s, and that is because it's the limit you can consistently drive at without doing anything special.
Or, equally likely, it's the maximum speed they think they can do without standing out and getting a ticket.
to justify charging $18+ for one good song. Way back when CDs first came out, at about 1.5 times the cost of a LP vinyl record, they said prices would go down as production costs went down.... But the industry didn't pass any of those savings on to us, and we know it.
Actually, most new discs at Amazon are in the $11-$15 range. Calculate inflation rates from when they were introduced against today's dollars and you'll see that they did pretty much what they said.
No politician in there right mind wants to give Nasa the huge amounts of money it'd take to develop these new technologies.
Too bad. I'd much rather have the government burn my tax dollars putting engineers to work building the next space system than simply handing out unemployment and welfare checks.
At least then we'd have something for our money...
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Huh. I, on the other hand, can see how over-dependence on a swamped and backlogged IT department can lead to lost opportunities, lost revenue, and bad decision making.
Now it's, "Nikon GIVES AWAY some gear to high profile professionals."
Next it will be that your brother's uncle's friend told you that he heard that someone had gotten a free camera.
Sigh. Maybe if you're James Natchwey or someone of that caliber you might get a Nikon sponsorship. But the other 99.9% of the all the other working professionals are not so luckey.
So again, Most [your words] of the pros you see are NOT given Nikon equipment."
And watch your fucking language.
And that's not anecdotal? (grin) Seriously, how deep into the workings of the industry do we need to go?
How about the technology companies hired by the clients to bring the latest H1 and Phase One back, along with all the needed power and computer support, to a job? Of course, the technology companies own their own gear. Not free.
Or PJs who use cameras provided by the news organization? Of course, that's slowly going away as well, but again, as they owned the gear that's not "free" either.
Thereby negating one of the primary reasons for buying a professional body in the first place.
What planet do you live on? EVERY working pro I know has paid for his equipment. You may get a demo of a new camera, but after the demo period is over the camera goes back and you buy your own.
Besides, if you're a top tier professional (whom you seem to be ranting about) a $5,000 camera is pocket change, and a $25,000 MF digital back is not much more so.
Probably true, but they did it deliberately in their new cameras an attempt to lock out third-party image processing software; dollars they thought should be going to them. The orginal D1-series cameras were not so encumbered.
It also ignores the fact that the SDK generates jpeg/tif from RAW. Which wouldn't be bad except the main reason to use Adobe ACR is to use THEIR raw image processing routines. Who wants to waste time decoding the file twice?
Finally, it ignores the fact that Nikon basically wants you to spend $5000 for a camera... and then pay an additional $100 to get their software to process your images.
Stop bashing Adobe and check a few facts. Nikon doesn't want people using ANY third-party image processing software.
As such worth every penny paid...
In essence, you stole their time, their effort, and their money.
Anything else is just a rationalization.
So by your own admission half would have been sales.
And in all cases the creative work was stolen.
In that aspect, Puritanism has nothing to do with it. Anytime you introduce uncertainty into an equation, and the outcome is in doubt, the natural reaction is fear, and the instinctive reaction to resist the change.
One of the weaknesses of FOSS is that in a great many cases no one is working on (and testing) the interface design, and no one is attempting to constrain the feature set to something cohesive and understandable.
It's much cooler to add the new "merge-and-invert-multiple-paragraphs-and-strip-lf /cr-at-the same-time" function.
In that case, and given a choice, I'd also consider how they'd fit into a team, their apparent people skills, how they present themselves, communication skills, and so on.
For one thing, and again, given the same qualifications, I refuse to hire someone who even can't write a coherent paragraph.
It would depend greatly on WHEN they decided to delete the scene, as many deleted scenes are not up to the post-processing standards of the rest of the movie. Why spend dollars adding a cgi background or effect to a deleted scene?
That's a solution, but now you have evil third-party cookies, and evil third-party images and web-bugs. All things that the average "I have the right to block everything" /.er will kill on site... er, sight.
Nice. That's exactly what every business who's hanging their hats (and systems) on FOSS wants to hear.
I suppose, however, that to a geek it is more important to save a half microsecond on a game driver call than it is to have a common, small, stable kernel.
No, with municipal WiFi the majority of the people get to control it. Though there's an equally good chance a highly vocal minority gets to do so as well.
Either way, if they don't like what you like, you're screwed...
Or, equally likely, it's the maximum speed they think they can do without standing out and getting a ticket.
And I'd say in both cases sleeping through English class was the more probable cause...
And there's a very good chance it only supports the features they thought they'd use...
Forget it. The only thing your logic is going to prove to anyone else here is that you're obviously a Microsoft plant... ;)
Actually, most new discs at Amazon are in the $11-$15 range. Calculate inflation rates from when they were introduced against today's dollars and you'll see that they did pretty much what they said.
You just don't want to know it.
I guess that depends on whether or not you want misconceptions propagating as facts...
Too bad. I'd much rather have the government burn my tax dollars putting engineers to work building the next space system than simply handing out unemployment and welfare checks.
At least then we'd have something for our money...
Wow. Still, I guess that's a step up from '60s - '70s technology... UNIX. ;)