That's an insane amount of images - and all in RAW format? That's a pretty big database to store and catalog them.
From the article:
SI's photo department currently burns and stores DVDs using two Disc NSM 7000 DVD jukeboxes, each of which holds more than 500 discs. Jache says he will have two more jukeboxes by year-end. In all, the magazine uses more than 100 servers and possesses 30 terabytes of hard drive storage capacity as well as 24 terabytes of near-line DVD storage.
Real fans will remember who won Super Bowl 38 (New England). Moreover, by the end of the year, the nipple incident will have long faded from memory. But New England will be listed as the Super Bowl winners for a long time.
Staff photographer Bob Rosato's collection of gear is fairly typical. To a football game he takes four or five EOS-1D bodies and 600mm f/4, 400mm f/2.8, 300mm f/2.8, 70-200mm f/2.8, and 50mm f/1.4 lenses. For basketball, he adds five or six EOS-1Ds cameras and dispenses with the 400 and 600mm lenses. Of the ten or so camera bodies that he takes to a basketball game, many are of course mounted overhead or around the basket for remote operation.
You need lenses too. L series telephotos are far from cheap. At least 1000 each. And each photographer probably had multiple lenses and/or multiple bodies.
50GB. About time. Now I might actually get an iPod. That's what I don't get about the 4 GB mini iPod. I have MP3s from just one artist that take up 4 GB.
So what if the graphics card lasts half as long. You can buy a 9600 now for $150. Then replace it in two years for another $150 when Doom 4 comes out. Still cheaper than buying a $300 card now. Besides a 9800 is overkill until Doom 3/Half-Life 2 come out anyway, unless you have a 21" monitor running at 1600x1200. Anything less, and a 9600 can run perfectly fine (again, until Doom 3/Half-Life 2.) It will certainly run GTA fine, which I ran on my GeForce 4200 and 1Ghz Athlon without any problems.
Plus, original poster said that he was using a 4 year old card. After 4 years, any card is an improvement.
People who say graphics cards are too expensive spend too much effort looking at top of the line cards instead of mid-line cards. Yes, a Radeon 9800 costs $300-400. But a 9600 only costs $150. Even a Radeon 9000 would be a vast improvement over a Geforce 2.
As for age, he's entitled to his opinion, but I play games in my late 30's. I know people in their 40's and 50's who regularly play PS2 games and PC games. To use his belabored Hollywood comparison, most people seem to realize that, just as there are movies for children and adults, there are also video games for children and adults.
His point was that adults don't have the time to play games that high school and college guys do. I agree. I'm 32 with a wife, kid, and job. Everytime I read a great review of a game, I'm tempted to buy it. Then the logical part of my brain says to me, "you have maybe 2 free hours a week. How are you ever going to finish the 40 hour game?" The reality is that I won't. I'll buy a game and it'll sit in the drawer for weeks until I finally have a free 30 minutes to play. I don't have the free time to play RPG games or pretty much anything other than sports games. And even sports games, I don't have the time to become really good at a game, so I'll never play it on-line.
If I didn't have a wife and child, I'm sure that I would be playing games hours at a time like I did 10 years ago. But I don't. And the same is true of many adults.
There are so many responses here comparing Kodak with SCO. But here's a novel idea--wait until you actually read the patents before making a judgment as to their obviousness. Since the patent numbers weren't even listed in the articles, I think everyone here is jumping the gun.
That was one of the largest patent verdicts ever. According to this article, not only did Kodak have to pay over $900M to Polaroid, they had to buy back all their product. In total, it cost them over $3B.
Once I had to go on travel for 2 weeks, come back home for a week, then go back for 1.5 weeks. Total charges (including air fare) were over $6000. I don't know about you, but I don't normally keep $6000 cash laying around.
The problem is caused by the credit card companies being overzealous in protecting themselves. (Cardholders are automatically protected against fraud, so credit card companies are only protecting themselves when they turn your card off because of suspected fraud.) The problem (in my case) was solved by calling customer service to explain to them that it is you who is on travel. I wasn't stuck without a roof over my head. I had a half hour of inconvenience.
In general, I agree with you and use cash for the majority of my purchases. However, both instances I talked about, I was on business travel. I don't like using "my" money for business travel, even though I get reimbursed. If I use a credit card instead, I never pay for it at all--by the time I get billed by the credit card company, I already have my reimbursement check and can pay for the charges.
Grandparent post said, "No one company should be the producers
of a commodity which so many other companies depend upon to sell their
product." That argument applies to Apple even moreso than Microsoft because Apple controls hardware as well as the OS.
"The bank noticed this (Gamestop is a popular place for stolen CCs), noticed it was way outside of their normal spending, and instantly froze the card and called them."
There's a trade-off to be taken into consideration before credit card companies freeze your card. If you are legitimately using your credit card in an "abnormal" manner, you can be stuck with a frozen card. This has happened to me twice. The day after I received a new AMEX card, I went out of state on business travel. Naturally, AMEX thought it was suspicious that a card mailed to AZ on a Monday was being used in CA on a Thursday. It took me a long time to convince them that I was on the level.
Later, after not using my AMEX card for months, I charged a lot of money in CA. Next thing you know, my card is being declined and I can't even fill up my gas tank anymore.
Cox and ESPN had a similar type of battle. Both sides would take out ads for their side. I don't think it got to the point of scrolling messages on the channels, though. They settled their differences a few weeks ago. Good thing for Cox. ESPN is one of the most watched cable channels and I bet a lot of sports fans would have jumped to DirecTV if Cox lost ESPN.
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I guess you could call that database "big".Real fans will remember who won Super Bowl 38 (New England). Moreover, by the end of the year, the nipple incident will have long faded from memory. But New England will be listed as the Super Bowl winners for a long time.
The picutres being "shit" has nothing to do with the camera being a Canon. He was criticizing the photographers, not the cameras.
You need lenses too. L series telephotos are far from cheap. At least 1000 each. And each photographer probably had multiple lenses and/or multiple bodies.
The Verizon stores near me usually have at least 1-2 phones that are actually operable. Not all phones, unfortunately.
50GB. About time. Now I might actually get an iPod. That's what I don't get about the 4 GB mini iPod. I have MP3s from just one artist that take up 4 GB.
$40/month for a cable modem.
So what if the graphics card lasts half as long. You can buy a 9600 now for $150. Then replace it in two years for another $150 when Doom 4 comes out. Still cheaper than buying a $300 card now. Besides a 9800 is overkill until Doom 3/Half-Life 2 come out anyway, unless you have a 21" monitor running at 1600x1200. Anything less, and a 9600 can run perfectly fine (again, until Doom 3/Half-Life 2.) It will certainly run GTA fine, which I ran on my GeForce 4200 and 1Ghz Athlon without any problems. Plus, original poster said that he was using a 4 year old card. After 4 years, any card is an improvement.
People who say graphics cards are too expensive spend too much effort looking at top of the line cards instead of mid-line cards. Yes, a Radeon 9800 costs $300-400. But a 9600 only costs $150. Even a Radeon 9000 would be a vast improvement over a Geforce 2.
How do we know that someone didn't falsify the meta data, then forwarded it to Wired, knowing that Wired will look at the meta data?
Tell that to AL Queda.
If you don't know that the Pentagon is considered a military target, you must be pretty damn stupid.
His point was that adults don't have the time to play games that high school and college guys do. I agree. I'm 32 with a wife, kid, and job. Everytime I read a great review of a game, I'm tempted to buy it. Then the logical part of my brain says to me, "you have maybe 2 free hours a week. How are you ever going to finish the 40 hour game?" The reality is that I won't. I'll buy a game and it'll sit in the drawer for weeks until I finally have a free 30 minutes to play. I don't have the free time to play RPG games or pretty much anything other than sports games. And even sports games, I don't have the time to become really good at a game, so I'll never play it on-line.
If I didn't have a wife and child, I'm sure that I would be playing games hours at a time like I did 10 years ago. But I don't. And the same is true of many adults.
Shouldn't you have asked this question before you bought the $500 iPod?
There are so many responses here comparing Kodak with SCO. But here's a novel idea--wait until you actually read the patents before making a judgment as to their obviousness. Since the patent numbers weren't even listed in the articles, I think everyone here is jumping the gun.
That was one of the largest patent verdicts ever. According to this article, not only did Kodak have to pay over $900M to Polaroid, they had to buy back all their product. In total, it cost them over $3B.
The problem is caused by the credit card companies being overzealous in protecting themselves. (Cardholders are automatically protected against fraud, so credit card companies are only protecting themselves when they turn your card off because of suspected fraud.) The problem (in my case) was solved by calling customer service to explain to them that it is you who is on travel. I wasn't stuck without a roof over my head. I had a half hour of inconvenience.
SCMS doesn't control access to the CD. It only prevents second generation copies. OTOH, CSS does prevent access to the contents of the DVD.
In general, I agree with you and use cash for the majority of my purchases. However, both instances I talked about, I was on business travel. I don't like using "my" money for business travel, even though I get reimbursed. If I use a credit card instead, I never pay for it at all--by the time I get billed by the credit card company, I already have my reimbursement check and can pay for the charges.
Grandparent post said, "No one company should be the producers of a commodity which so many other companies depend upon to sell their product." That argument applies to Apple even moreso than Microsoft because Apple controls hardware as well as the OS.
There's a trade-off to be taken into consideration before credit card companies freeze your card. If you are legitimately using your credit card in an "abnormal" manner, you can be stuck with a frozen card. This has happened to me twice. The day after I received a new AMEX card, I went out of state on business travel. Naturally, AMEX thought it was suspicious that a card mailed to AZ on a Monday was being used in CA on a Thursday. It took me a long time to convince them that I was on the level.
Later, after not using my AMEX card for months, I charged a lot of money in CA. Next thing you know, my card is being declined and I can't even fill up my gas tank anymore.
So should there be another company selling OS X? After all, Apple has a Monopoly on Apple Operating Systems.
Cox and ESPN had a similar type of battle. Both sides would take out ads for their side. I don't think it got to the point of scrolling messages on the channels, though. They settled their differences a few weeks ago. Good thing for Cox. ESPN is one of the most watched cable channels and I bet a lot of sports fans would have jumped to DirecTV if Cox lost ESPN.
I used to have to listen to instrumental music to work. But now I realize that I usually filter out the words anyway, so words are fine.