I'm a photographer and i had a bride ask me if i could photoshop her father into one of the shots....
only problem....
he died 3 weeks before the wedding.
i did it, and it looks good... but it's creepy as hell.
this isn't about someone using a fake name on myspace for chuckles getting busted.
this about an adult woman... a parent....
signing onto myspace, pretending to be a teenage boy to gain the trust of, and then ruin the life of an innocent teenage girl.
who then hung herself.
unfortunately there's no law against driving someone to commit suicide....
so the only thing she *could* be charged with was this BS myspace fraud thing.
hopefully she'll get raped to death in prison by big bertha.... we can only hope...
it's just another tax on the stupid....
if you're stupid enough to use a mac,
and if you're stupid enough to not know how to maintain your own machine....
then you pay more....
personally i think stupidity should be painful.. and not just to the wallet...
yeh fewer and fewer labs are processing E6, it's a tough line to manage if you don't have the volume...
i picked up a minolta scanner for 35mm a few years back, but... the lab has a $100,000 scanner that does up to 4X5 sheet film... so... i'd rather use theirs;)
for now i just use my darkroom for alternative processes.... cyanotypes.. liquid light, that sort of thing....
where a lot of photographers are tripping up in the switch to digital is that their used to shooting negatives.... which are very forgiving...
digital is more like slide shooting with the narrow dynamic range... RAW helps, but a sloppy film shooter is going to be a worse digital shooter...
well, the great thing about computers and photography, is that once your film is out of the soup and scanned... you're digital...
i shoot digital and use an RB67.... and though the look of digital images has kinda spoiled me on film... pretty much anything i can do to a digitally captured image, i can do to a film image, editing-wise...
the lab i use does C41, they also do B&W by hand... and they have software that i can use to upload my digital images directly from home....
their program "LabPrints Digital Studio" also has an online storefront for putting jobs online and taking orders...
no need to re-invent the wheel....
www.tricolorlab.com
ok, first mistake was listening to tech support....
that's just some clown typing things into a browser that *may* remotely describe your issue, and if they can't find an answer, they tell you to reinstall, because it's easy...
the second mistake was buying a gateway... my university had labs full of them.... nothing but issues...
yup, pro photographer, laptops are no good because you can't calibrate the monitor, no color correction.... good call looking for the external monitor. go with a lacie or an eizo, if you get an Eizo, go with the CG line, not the CE line....
it'll hurt buying one of those more as someone on disability.... but so will buying a decent DSLR, the photography business isn't cheap to get into if you're going to do it the right way.... and photographers are going out of business left and right because everyone and their mother has a little point n shoot digital camera and they think that makes them ansel adams....
"constantly having to reinstall windows...."
you're doing it wrong.
my wife has a vista pc (ugh) and an XP-SP2 machine...
we use her XP machine *just* to watch DVDs, and TV and DVR some TV programs....
it's uptime.... UPTIME mind you.... is over 30 days...
i have two XP SP2 machines on my desk, as well as two linux boxes, a RAID 5 NAS embedded system running linux, and an old dual celeron running BeOS just because i'm an ass like that... and the iBook G4 (because its small 12" form factor is perfect for carrying to on location photo shoots...)
and before XP i had 98SE and 98 before that, and 95 before that....
i've run nearly every flavor of linux since slack 1.2 way back in '95.
so maybe i know a thing or two about computers (still have my first computer.. a TI99/4A AND it still runs)
and i've *never* had to "constantly" reinstall windows.... ever...
'95 through 98SE i used to do fresh install from ghost backups every 8 months.... not out of necessity...
so if you're having those kind of issues with windows... then maybe you should be using a MAC.
nah, you can call microsoft a lot of things, but i don't think "desperate" is one of them...
they just want their fingers in every pie... (i'm sure they turned a nice profit on the 18.2 million shares of AAPL they sold off back in the 90's, i would've held though)
they're just doing the same thing they always do, gain market position by buying the competition....
it's what companies do (Adobe did it by buying out RawShooter Pro before releasing their own program Lightroom, pissed me right off as RSpro, was a kickass program.... and LR stunk to high heaven in it's first few.1 releases)
that's what businesses do....
let's see, over 07 apple gained 15%, m$ about 9%...
not too bad...
M$ is probably fair value, apple is over valued....
it's 5 year average P/E is something like 60 times it's earnings. M$s is only about 30 times...
M$s gross margine is about 90% per year... apple is doing 30... and ipods have pretty much hit saturation....
yah i always do that... get BSD and Debian confused.... they look so much alike.
don't know why i have this OSX = debian mental block...
must be the D in BSD....
right, the only reason apple sells hardware is because their OS is tied to their hardware....
they can't compete with micro$oft in the software game, and they can't compete in the x86 hardware market.... so they take their own hardware and software and create a nice little niche for themselves...
remember when bill gave apple that 180 million dollar bail out?
at the time he was making 180mil in four 8-hour work days....
as for kit PCs, i've built all my PCs (except the iBook)
hey, want a bigger harddrive for your iBook? oh what do you mean i have to remove 40 screws and take the thing down to it's bare frame to swap a harddrive....
yah, way to go apple.... wonderful design and customer friendly experience....
can't wait to get one of those Airs where you need to remove 20 screws just to change the battery....
yah? big deal, Dell is shit too....
i can go to tigerdirect.com or a million other suppliers and put together a machine that will pee all over the mac pro.... and not only cost CONSIDERABLY less, but be upgradable to a degree that macs never CAN be....
because apple engineers and coders are too dumb to figure out how to get "their" (stolen from debian) software to work with every random piece of hardware joe schmoe decides to put in his box....
no, instead they make the hardware and they write the software to work with that set of hardware specifically... and then their marketting team comes in and points to the non-mac x86 market machines' biggest advantage as it's biggest flaw....
and brainless mindless sheep will still flock to apple because they make a laptop that uses a magnet to stay closed rather than a latch... ooo ahhh....
much like the political parties in this country apple is nothing but style over substance.
FYI, i own an iBook and 6 "PCs"
(who said macs aren't PCs? jobs needs a dictionary)
gee...
sudo apt-get upgrade
one little command line, and i don't even have to quit everything i'm doing for it to work.....
does it all in the background while i do what i gotta do.....
if it's taking you hours, get off the dial-up and join the 21st century Black-Man-slowsky
The web itself isn't free to use nor is the internet.
while you could argue that "free" internet access at libraries and such is paid for by tax dollars and donations, the web itself is free to use.
the web originally ran on CERN's internal network, before being released to the wild, you can still use it to share data that way, at home, on a non-internet connected network.
thereby using the web, for free, without paying any access fees to anyone. and any access fees we pay aren't web fees, they're internet fees.
i wouldn't think so...
i can send an email to a friend in Oregon, and she'll get it in a matter of seconds, if not quicker.
a standard first class letter would take about 4 or 5 days (UPS ground takes 8 days)
the infrastructure behind electronic mail has been in place for decades, and (hopefully) gets updated periodically, but it serves other purposes as well.
it is not dedicated just to the sending of electronic mail, unlike the post office whose only purpose is handling mail. (ok, they process the occasional passport request)
the email infrastructure probably uses more energy, but it is more efficient in terms of speed and volume. it would take MUCH more energy to send a "snail mail" to Oregon from Massachusetts in the same few seconds it takes an email to get there.
right, they restructured the licensing requirements, for the entry level license you do not need the code, but to get on the lower frequency longer range bands, you need to know code at 5WPM, that's the only requirement...
me, i have no desire to dih dah dit..... it'd be nice to know... but... it's like my high school french... i'm never going to use it...
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I'm a photographer and i had a bride ask me if i could photoshop her father into one of the shots.... only problem.... he died 3 weeks before the wedding. i did it, and it looks good... but it's creepy as hell.
stealing an MP3 is different, you're taking money from the pockets of rich studio execs.... stealing my images takes money out of MY pocket.....
this isn't about someone using a fake name on myspace for chuckles getting busted. this about an adult woman... a parent.... signing onto myspace, pretending to be a teenage boy to gain the trust of, and then ruin the life of an innocent teenage girl. who then hung herself. unfortunately there's no law against driving someone to commit suicide.... so the only thing she *could* be charged with was this BS myspace fraud thing. hopefully she'll get raped to death in prison by big bertha.... we can only hope...
it's just another tax on the stupid.... if you're stupid enough to use a mac, and if you're stupid enough to not know how to maintain your own machine.... then you pay more.... personally i think stupidity should be painful.. and not just to the wallet...
the mac! she's gone from suck to blow!
sharpies aren't archival, get a steadtler Lumocolor "F" pen
yeh fewer and fewer labs are processing E6, it's a tough line to manage if you don't have the volume... i picked up a minolta scanner for 35mm a few years back, but... the lab has a $100,000 scanner that does up to 4X5 sheet film... so... i'd rather use theirs ;)
for now i just use my darkroom for alternative processes.... cyanotypes.. liquid light, that sort of thing....
where a lot of photographers are tripping up in the switch to digital is that their used to shooting negatives.... which are very forgiving...
digital is more like slide shooting with the narrow dynamic range... RAW helps, but a sloppy film shooter is going to be a worse digital shooter...
well, the great thing about computers and photography, is that once your film is out of the soup and scanned... you're digital... i shoot digital and use an RB67.... and though the look of digital images has kinda spoiled me on film... pretty much anything i can do to a digitally captured image, i can do to a film image, editing-wise... the lab i use does C41, they also do B&W by hand... and they have software that i can use to upload my digital images directly from home.... their program "LabPrints Digital Studio" also has an online storefront for putting jobs online and taking orders... no need to re-invent the wheel.... www.tricolorlab.com
ok, first mistake was listening to tech support.... that's just some clown typing things into a browser that *may* remotely describe your issue, and if they can't find an answer, they tell you to reinstall, because it's easy... the second mistake was buying a gateway... my university had labs full of them.... nothing but issues... yup, pro photographer, laptops are no good because you can't calibrate the monitor, no color correction.... good call looking for the external monitor. go with a lacie or an eizo, if you get an Eizo, go with the CG line, not the CE line.... it'll hurt buying one of those more as someone on disability.... but so will buying a decent DSLR, the photography business isn't cheap to get into if you're going to do it the right way.... and photographers are going out of business left and right because everyone and their mother has a little point n shoot digital camera and they think that makes them ansel adams....
"constantly having to reinstall windows...." you're doing it wrong. my wife has a vista pc (ugh) and an XP-SP2 machine... we use her XP machine *just* to watch DVDs, and TV and DVR some TV programs.... it's uptime.... UPTIME mind you.... is over 30 days... i have two XP SP2 machines on my desk, as well as two linux boxes, a RAID 5 NAS embedded system running linux, and an old dual celeron running BeOS just because i'm an ass like that... and the iBook G4 (because its small 12" form factor is perfect for carrying to on location photo shoots...) and before XP i had 98SE and 98 before that, and 95 before that.... i've run nearly every flavor of linux since slack 1.2 way back in '95. so maybe i know a thing or two about computers (still have my first computer.. a TI99/4A AND it still runs) and i've *never* had to "constantly" reinstall windows.... ever... '95 through 98SE i used to do fresh install from ghost backups every 8 months.... not out of necessity... so if you're having those kind of issues with windows... then maybe you should be using a MAC.
nah, you can call microsoft a lot of things, but i don't think "desperate" is one of them... they just want their fingers in every pie... (i'm sure they turned a nice profit on the 18.2 million shares of AAPL they sold off back in the 90's, i would've held though) they're just doing the same thing they always do, gain market position by buying the competition.... it's what companies do (Adobe did it by buying out RawShooter Pro before releasing their own program Lightroom, pissed me right off as RSpro, was a kickass program.... and LR stunk to high heaven in it's first few .1 releases)
that's what businesses do....
let's see, over 07 apple gained 15%, m$ about 9%... not too bad... M$ is probably fair value, apple is over valued.... it's 5 year average P/E is something like 60 times it's earnings. M$s is only about 30 times... M$s gross margine is about 90% per year... apple is doing 30... and ipods have pretty much hit saturation....
yah i always do that... get BSD and Debian confused.... they look so much alike. don't know why i have this OSX = debian mental block... must be the D in BSD.... right, the only reason apple sells hardware is because their OS is tied to their hardware.... they can't compete with micro$oft in the software game, and they can't compete in the x86 hardware market.... so they take their own hardware and software and create a nice little niche for themselves... remember when bill gave apple that 180 million dollar bail out? at the time he was making 180mil in four 8-hour work days.... as for kit PCs, i've built all my PCs (except the iBook) hey, want a bigger harddrive for your iBook? oh what do you mean i have to remove 40 screws and take the thing down to it's bare frame to swap a harddrive.... yah, way to go apple.... wonderful design and customer friendly experience.... can't wait to get one of those Airs where you need to remove 20 screws just to change the battery....
yah? big deal, Dell is shit too.... i can go to tigerdirect.com or a million other suppliers and put together a machine that will pee all over the mac pro.... and not only cost CONSIDERABLY less, but be upgradable to a degree that macs never CAN be.... because apple engineers and coders are too dumb to figure out how to get "their" (stolen from debian) software to work with every random piece of hardware joe schmoe decides to put in his box.... no, instead they make the hardware and they write the software to work with that set of hardware specifically... and then their marketting team comes in and points to the non-mac x86 market machines' biggest advantage as it's biggest flaw.... and brainless mindless sheep will still flock to apple because they make a laptop that uses a magnet to stay closed rather than a latch... ooo ahhh.... much like the political parties in this country apple is nothing but style over substance. FYI, i own an iBook and 6 "PCs" (who said macs aren't PCs? jobs needs a dictionary)
gee... sudo apt-get upgrade one little command line, and i don't even have to quit everything i'm doing for it to work..... does it all in the background while i do what i gotta do..... if it's taking you hours, get off the dial-up and join the 21st century Black-Man-slowsky
lock your tools in a secure closet, set an RFID lock on the closet door, have a subcutaneous RFID tag implanted in your arm or hand....
while you could argue that "free" internet access at libraries and such is paid for by tax dollars and donations, the web itself is free to use.
the web originally ran on CERN's internal network, before being released to the wild, you can still use it to share data that way, at home, on a non-internet connected network.
thereby using the web, for free, without paying any access fees to anyone. and any access fees we pay aren't web fees, they're internet fees.
i can send an email to a friend in Oregon, and she'll get it in a matter of seconds, if not quicker.
a standard first class letter would take about 4 or 5 days (UPS ground takes 8 days)
the infrastructure behind electronic mail has been in place for decades, and (hopefully) gets updated periodically, but it serves other purposes as well.
it is not dedicated just to the sending of electronic mail, unlike the post office whose only purpose is handling mail. (ok, they process the occasional passport request)
the email infrastructure probably uses more energy, but it is more efficient in terms of speed and volume. it would take MUCH more energy to send a "snail mail" to Oregon from Massachusetts in the same few seconds it takes an email to get there.
"and after that: == = ="
my meaning was that equivalence and assignment will be incorrectly interchangeable as the words "internet" and "web" have become.
right, as we all know.... academy and nobel award winner Al Gore invented the internet and the Internet
and after that: == == = keep your greasy fingers off my interwebs!
" Name For a Community-Owned Fiber Network?" COFiN
no doubt apple will sue over the name, thereby bankrupting the project.....
that's why i bought the iBook, in case i ever need to sneak aboard one of their ships and hack their network....
right, they restructured the licensing requirements, for the entry level license you do not need the code, but to get on the lower frequency longer range bands, you need to know code at 5WPM, that's the only requirement... me, i have no desire to dih dah dit..... it'd be nice to know... but... it's like my high school french... i'm never going to use it... 73's N1NJI