seriously now, just use the windows explorer rename function (though bactch renames are fun in irfanview
when you import from your camera try this:
select all files in the folder
make sure the first file is the active one (even if you have to ctrl-deselect it and then ctrl-click it again
hit F2 (for rename)
rename the file wedding photos (001)
hit return
now you should have them all renamed wedding photos and at least they're sequence will be correct. you can complain that the numbering is all in brackets which does make for a pain when you're posting them to the web, but this is the least fuss involved, doesn't even involve opening anything different or new cheers
fine. i don't mind if there should be proof of harm or not. if you're talking about redress (which was one of the key medieval foundations of common law) the key was that a person felt that they'd been grieved.
in fact5 the very idea of redress comes from the fact that a person felt they'd suffered at the hands of someone in the commons. someone with their sheep out grazing in the fields (which before the Enclosure acts were considered as belonging to no-one) and they were somehow attacked by someone's dogs for example. suffering damage through the actions/inactions of another they had cause to seek that redress. well baldric, your dog killed that man's sheep, you'd better replace it. don't you have a old date you can drum up?
but these laws were unwritten, agreed upon in principle without ever having been debated. this stuff predates king john let alone any of your magna cartas or consitutions or bills of rights. this was always just edmund telling baldric to make it up to the fellow.
then royalty & nobility came along and said who's queen? and all of a sudden replacing one sheep didn't seem like recompense enough if it was one of the royal sheep. (sorry that word is a little more 15th century than 14th) so of course they write them down, and becaues they've been written down, they get a little more severe.
then lawyers, then colonisation, a couple of republics, more lawyers (more than even ancient greece). and pop stars. can't forget about them.
the idea of redress is something rooted in common law, but in this case we're not talking aobut common law. we're talking a law that was founded beyond common law, and has progressively empowered corporate entities (and their lackeys) with the nominitive rights of a person but with bigger budgets.
so poor Mr. RIAA was walking through the meadow with his herd of 9-digit-income, platinum-wool-sheep and spots some kid snatching wool from a pile that another kid has previously dared to snatch from those sheep. granted maybe enough to make a nice cable-knit sweater sure- hell at 150,000$ her clump of yarn, it better be a damn nice sweater. [or maybe the math is more like 11 Million Dollars for every year old a person is]
the thing is, back in the day, the redress would be something like: well geez megan, could you make us a nice sweater or sing us a few songs?
but this, this is closer to reparations. like all of Asia asking Japan to repay war crimes. or Germany trying to pay off its karmic debt to Holocaust survivors
maybe the price is a little steep -- i know we're no longer talking about a sheep for a sheep, but maybe they're trying to help a certain eighties star with his legal fees...
yah art supply is the only way to go. if you've got a ham-fisted grip i can see that a fat-bottomed pen would be nice, and they are comfy to hold onto. but that's not addressing the issue.
if you're writing not typing, and i say this as someone who only writes if it's important enough, i wouldn't use anything other than a proper art pen.
currently i'm using a set of pens from Faber-Castell in sepia ink. to be honest, i've got fine, spidery, close-knit writing so i tend to use a super-fine pen just because i can cram a lot more information on a page that way.
if you will write, then you will discover how you write. some people jab and attack a page as if it were a mortal enemy (or even a gasp! terrorist). but if you actually want to be articulate, the point is no to cram everything onto the page like some paranoid collegiate copying everyword (what? the prof said the best photocopier was in which room?)
a pen should be something that makes you want to doodle intricate designs. big berthas are good for signatures. super-fine makes sure you actually write. and if you have time, an actual brush pen will slow you down so that you're paying attention not just to composing the actual mechanics of writing. it's the difference between epic orson welles and "epic" tv miniseries.
and the reason i use brown ink? well aside from a copule of real and important reasons, the main reason i'd tell people is that practically no-one uses brown ink and hence if someone stole your pen, frankly everyone around would go, "hey doesn't ____ write in brown ink too?"
Okay well i have to disagree that this iws very impressive. for one thing, the fact that it took them so long to reach a million downloads is practically laugahable. i'm looking at my KaZaa and apparently there are over four and a half million users currently online (in the middle of the workday). if every one of them downloaded just one song today, well i'm sure you can do the math.
But more to the point, i'm not the least bit impressed with their so-called business model. it's still the same digital rights management muck that everyone else tries. worse still it's horrendously integrated into an entire product line. you're supposed to shell out for the cost of an iPod to carry them, you have to use iTunes (which frankly is not even close to the best mp3 player on the mac). OH wait. not only that, but they're only offering you some obscure new format (AAC) that they developed specifically so that they could embed DRM in every song. so now if you want other people to have the same song, you can only give it out three times before it's locked. yikes, i couldn't even give a copy to every member of my family with whom i share music?
has anyone tried recording off the sound card (what you hear from it) and ripping that as an mp3?
Okay i know i'm a day late on this discussion. But i just noticed that no-one mentioned the all-time best movie about cannibalism. i mean funny enough because it's cannibalism, but it's also a 70's sex farce which in it's own way is extra-pathetic.
backdoors? are you kidding? all the time. i even have a class prewritten that includes a debugger for variables, a debugger for key-trapping, a backdoor using a standard backdoor password, and a generic easter egg using the Desidoreplicator story from the Bastard Operator From Hell. i wrote a complete class for java and for VB, and have slimmer versions in C++ and PERL. yes it goes in every program i write, before anything else, a little tweak to fit the appropriate functions and we're off. as well, i've got a script that will insert an uber-administrator password into Access or. Filemaker databases. don't ever give me the slightest bit of administrative control. even if you delete the user account at the operating system level, i'll work my way around the damn thing.
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when you import from your camera try this:
select all files in the folder
make sure the first file is the active one (even if you have to ctrl-deselect it and then ctrl-click it again
hit F2 (for rename)
rename the file wedding photos (001)
hit return
now you should have them all renamed wedding photos and at least they're sequence will be correct. you can complain that the numbering is all in brackets which does make for a pain when you're posting them to the web, but this is the least fuss involved, doesn't even involve opening anything different or new
cheers
fine. i don't mind if there should be proof of harm or not. if you're talking about redress (which was one of the key medieval foundations of common law) the key was that a person felt that they'd been grieved.
in fact5 the very idea of redress comes from the fact that a person felt they'd suffered at the hands of someone in the commons. someone with their sheep out grazing in the fields (which before the Enclosure acts were considered as belonging to no-one) and they were somehow attacked by someone's dogs for example. suffering damage through the actions/inactions of another they had cause to seek that redress. well baldric, your dog killed that man's sheep, you'd better replace it. don't you have a old date you can drum up?
but these laws were unwritten, agreed upon in principle without ever having been debated. this stuff predates king john let alone any of your magna cartas or consitutions or bills of rights. this was always just edmund telling baldric to make it up to the fellow.
then royalty & nobility came along and said who's queen? and all of a sudden replacing one sheep didn't seem like recompense enough if it was one of the royal sheep. (sorry that word is a little more 15th century than 14th) so of course they write them down, and becaues they've been written down, they get a little more severe.
then lawyers, then colonisation, a couple of republics, more lawyers (more than even ancient greece). and pop stars. can't forget about them.
the idea of redress is something rooted in common law, but in this case we're not talking aobut common law. we're talking a law that was founded beyond common law, and has progressively empowered corporate entities (and their lackeys) with the nominitive rights of a person but with bigger budgets.
so poor Mr. RIAA was walking through the meadow with his herd of 9-digit-income, platinum-wool-sheep and spots some kid snatching wool from a pile that another kid has previously dared to snatch from those sheep. granted maybe enough to make a nice cable-knit sweater sure- hell at 150,000$ her clump of yarn, it better be a damn nice sweater. [or maybe the math is more like 11 Million Dollars for every year old a person is]
the thing is, back in the day, the redress would be something like: well geez megan, could you make us a nice sweater or sing us a few songs?
but this, this is closer to reparations. like all of Asia asking Japan to repay war crimes. or Germany trying to pay off its karmic debt to Holocaust survivors
maybe the price is a little steep -- i know we're no longer talking about a sheep for a sheep, but maybe they're trying to help a certain eighties star with his legal fees...
Okay well i have to disagree that this iws very impressive. for one thing, the fact that it took them so long to reach a million downloads is practically laugahable. i'm looking at my KaZaa and apparently there are over four and a half million users currently online (in the middle of the workday). if every one of them downloaded just one song today, well i'm sure you can do the math. But more to the point, i'm not the least bit impressed with their so-called business model. it's still the same digital rights management muck that everyone else tries. worse still it's horrendously integrated into an entire product line. you're supposed to shell out for the cost of an iPod to carry them, you have to use iTunes (which frankly is not even close to the best mp3 player on the mac). OH wait. not only that, but they're only offering you some obscure new format (AAC) that they developed specifically so that they could embed DRM in every song. so now if you want other people to have the same song, you can only give it out three times before it's locked. yikes, i couldn't even give a copy to every member of my family with whom i share music? has anyone tried recording off the sound card (what you hear from it) and ripping that as an mp3?
Okay i know i'm a day late on this discussion. But i just noticed that no-one mentioned the all-time best movie about cannibalism. i mean funny enough because it's cannibalism, but it's also a 70's sex farce which in it's own way is extra-pathetic.
backdoors? are you kidding? all the time. i even have a class prewritten that includes a debugger for variables, a debugger for key-trapping, a backdoor using a standard backdoor password, and a generic easter egg using the Desidoreplicator story from the Bastard Operator From Hell. i wrote a complete class for java and for VB, and have slimmer versions in C++ and PERL. yes it goes in every program i write, before anything else, a little tweak to fit the appropriate functions and we're off. as well, i've got a script that will insert an uber-administrator password into Access or. Filemaker databases. don't ever give me the slightest bit of administrative control. even if you delete the user account at the operating system level, i'll work my way around the damn thing.