Because the RAW format contains information that is lost using the software to convert it to TIFF or JPEG. And directly reading RAW format does not. This is a deal killer for digitial photographers using this package.
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And Me too. I use Photoshop EVERY day to do images of ER diagrams, that are then written as Acrobat files. Does GIMP have the auto tool to allow me to batch together as many as 50 diagrams into one command of the tool and save myself time? Some of these diagrams are measured in FEET across, too.
I've been using Photoshop since version 2.3, when I actually bought a full blown copy. I recently upgraded to CS2. Still the leader of the pack. Upgrading was only about $100, so it didn't break the bank. I have one copy at work (company pays for that) and one at home - mine. And the big reason for Photoshop - compatibility with my scanners - which GIMP isn't.
I also managed to finally get a full blown copy of Acrobat, using a student discount. (Even as a working professional, I still have a current student ID at a local college). With the correct plug-in, I set up 9 hour runs from my case tool thru Acrobat. This by automating the process, including Photoshop and Acrobat. Let's see GIMP do that.
Since we are down 3 bodies in the total DBA group right now, and I am trying to handle the job of what was 3 DBAs while we hire new ones, then what do you think?
Besides, I have seen the developers working on it. It isn't saving them any time, and the software is no better than without rapid development.
I currently hold a BSCS and an MBA. You know what the MBA is really good for? It gets my resume in the door when I am looking for a new job.
It turns out that I like being a DBA and a data analyst, and don't like leading people, so the MBA didn't give me any skills I really wanted, but since I got it paid for by the company, well I just lost some time studying.
As for getting invited to speak, well guess what? I got invited to speak at a recent conference, because I invented a new way of doing something technical. And could explain it and demonstrate it.
You know why I don't go back after a technical Phd? the current company I work for won't pay squat toward sit, and I can't afford $40K on my own.
years ago. The managers were saying the same things then. They say it because they don't understand the complexities of what we do, and can't (otherwise they would be in IT). We can understand them, and most of us ignore these ignoramouses, who mouth off with this stuff. Business analysts work with the business, technical types do technical, cause it is a full time career just to understand all the technical stuff.
And what you don't understand is that the "Rapid Development" (or proto typing, as we used to call it years ago), only works well when your developers can plan ahead.
Otherwise, the rapid development pushes MORE work down on your tech support staff, like your DBAs, who now do 3 and 4 times the work to add columns one at a time, instead of all at once.
The company I am currently at is doing this now, and as a DBA, I haveto put up with the crap from the increased workload, so bottom line, it is a net LOSS for the company.
Our version of Role playing has been available in PDF format since 2000. And it is not DRMed, and it is discounted in that format, since most of the cost of the paper version was always printing costs.
Yahoo acted under the letter of the law. They are not to blame for this, rather the government of China is. No matter what else, some of the data that the government of China does not want it's people to see is leakign past, so it si better for them to be there in the long run.
Another case of liberals going overboard. Nothing to see here, move along.
If you have a linked list and you want to copy the linked list to a new location (i.e., the parent name changes), then you have to copy the parent record, retrieve child one, the change current to parent 2, store child 1. Now return to parent 1, move forward thru the linked list to child 2 and retrieve child 2. Now change to parent 2 and read past child 1 to store child 2 (2 I/os). As you add each child, your i/o string gets longer, and it works out to be x! i/os
If, on the other hand, you move backwards thru the list, then each store is done at parent 2, eliminating reading thru the second linked list to do the store. (And if you just store at the parent, eliminating a sort each time you store the new record by going backward thru the list) Each sort takes longer than the one before and so forth.
This all happens when you have a sorted set in a Network DBMS.
Even a mainframe can feel the i/os when you get any distance into a factorial. I could see the performance difference at 10 records in the linked list.
You can doubt, but the algortihm is x! Where the number of I/os is: x * x-1 * x-2.... * 1 And this is I/Os which is why you must be so careful in that case to walk the set linkage backwards.
And an API is just the form that data is passed back and forth. It is the underlying I/O s that will kill you. And those you need to know what is going on under the hood, usually with a mind towards assembler.
Or another example. Years ago, consultants didn't know about commits. Their code ran fine in test, and then the first thing I know they are running prod. After 5 HOURS they got worried. Of course the system lock table was almost full by then. At 6 hours, the table filled, the job abended and spent 6 hours rolling back.
You can know all the high level language int he world, but the underlying items will KILL you.
>"Laptop drives die between 2.5 and 3 years after use, it's normal"
Since when? My Toshiba laptop drives are: 18, 6, 3, and 1 year(s) old. Not a drive failure yet. Plus one more that I got used. Still running after 6 years SINCE I bought it.
And yes, I do still have an 18 year old laptop, and it still runs, and I still use it for one program. Now I only use it once or twice a year, but it is still running and good.
>I would argue though, that all applications that I've encountered in my career that have been slow have been slow due to using a stupid design.
Then you have never run into some of the things that the rest of us have. Why do you walk a set backwards when copying it to a second structure (like when renaming a parent record)? Because walking forward uses x! (That's x factorial) extra reads to achomplish the task, where x is the number of children.of the most costly mistakes I have seen come from not understanding how the underlying system works.
>It's like telling an architect that he needs to learn how to make bricks to be a good architect.
No, it's suggesting that you have to know how strong bricks are to build a building that won't collapse. And the Dean of the school of architecture where I went to school was there because a building he designed collapsed.
Anyone that suggests that you DON't need assembler is fooling themselves.
If you look at the data structures involved, the Relational model is a subset of the Network model. Thus, if you want to work in ALL the industry, you need a knowledge of the network model. It is easier to translate that DOWN to the Relational model than the other way around. And do you know how many IDMS shops are still out there?
And how do I know this? I've been around long enough that I wrote some DDL translators. (And had them marketed as well, by AT&T and Bachman Information Systems.) The Relational model requires you to duplicate n-1 key columns into the row, when you are n levels deep in the structure.
And finally, the Network model is more closely related to reality, and is still very closely aligned with ER diagrams, which is how you design a database.
Look. Start by learning a procedural language, and then learn the 5 structure diagrams. Then proceed from there to non-procedural languages.
Finally, learn Assembler. Yes, Assembler. It will teach you how things work. NOW you can learn ANY programming.
Next a course in Data Structures is good. Follow up with a course in database management. Especially if you can get a good one that teaches Network DBMS structure, not just Relational.
Operating systems are LAST, and only if you want to be systems programmer.
Oh, and so it comes with Google, just one more hunk of junk software to remove after the machine arrives. You want a clean install? Pay for a clean disk and a copy of the OS to install yourself.
The laws allowed for moving one's hand to operate the vehicle, but not for doing anything BUT driving. Go look it up. That's why I laugh so hard at these stupid politions.
Using a cellphone while driving violates a law about having both hands on the wheel IN ALL 50 STATES PEOPLE. Enforce the laws we have, and it's over.
I used to have a hands free console unit in both cars. Can't even BUY the things anymore, for the newer digital phones. What does that tell you about the marketplace people?
1. The music from my favorite artists comes from Australia. I've had to buy some of it thru Australian web sites.
2. The people that work on a particular hardware / software project come from Germany, Switzerland, England, and Japan. I do beta testing for the guys from Germany and Switzerland. The guy from England and I did a password crack together. The guy from Japan got some info on the thrid party data file from me.
3. I've bought e-bay items from England.
No, regionalizing the internet just seems like a stupid idea to me.
Some of his stuff is ok, some of it is just plain wrong.
Just for the list. I was diagnosed with Malignant Large Cell Lymphomia, medium to high grade, stage IV. By the time of diagnosis, I was already in the hopsital, and had thrown temperatures of 103.9, along with other fun symptoms, like losing 60 pounds in 60 days.
There was no way of shielding it from my employer, I went out on disability for 6 months. While I was out, word filtered around the company (consulting firm) that I was already DEAD.
I reached 10 years clear last year, and the Onocologist threw me out of his office, telling me never to come back again (With a big ole smile on his face!).
In the meantime, I have prevailed in an ADA suit against my former employer (they settled out of court) as they let me go just after I came back. For a while I did not tell employers, at least not right away. Now it doesn't matter anymore.
As for the "tips" on coding, well, I always coded that way.
Where I am now, I could get hit by a bus. The other people in my group would have to work harder to pick up the slack, but they know where everything is.
LOL, they can check me out all they want. I have held security clearance before, as has my father before me, and his parents before him, who held VERY high clearances during WWII. (Had to do with his job, he HAD to know some very secret information - all the radio frequencies in use by the military, as he was grinding the radio crystals for them.) Some of the last crystals he ever ground wer ethe crystals for the Vanguard satellites, just before his death.
After 911, I was probably checked out again, as I took Scuba lessons shortly before that, including a course in MINE diving, and had bought a dive computer with rebreather capability the year before.
First, last year, I went into the bank and handed them a check for $10K. The year before, same thing, but paid off the other credit card. Paid off my one remaining crdit card this year, put the rest in savings, then took out a new car loan. Now today, my income tax return check came in and I have to deposit that ($3K). They are going to wonder what is going on......
Seriously, they didn't even ask questions. Of course, I have been a customer at this bank for 25+ years now.
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Because the RAW format contains information that is lost using the software to convert it to TIFF or JPEG. And directly reading RAW format does not. This is a deal killer for digitial photographers using this package.
And Me too. I use Photoshop EVERY day to do images of ER diagrams, that are then written as Acrobat files. Does GIMP have the auto tool to allow me to batch together as many as 50 diagrams into one command of the tool and save myself time? Some of these diagrams are measured in FEET across, too.
I've been using Photoshop since version 2.3, when I actually bought a full blown copy. I recently upgraded to CS2. Still the leader of the pack. Upgrading was only about $100, so it didn't break the bank. I have one copy at work (company pays for that) and one at home - mine. And the big reason for Photoshop - compatibility with my scanners - which GIMP isn't.
I also managed to finally get a full blown copy of Acrobat, using a student discount. (Even as a working professional, I still have a current student ID at a local college). With the correct plug-in, I set up 9 hour runs from my case tool thru Acrobat. This by automating the process, including Photoshop and Acrobat. Let's see GIMP do that.
Since we are down 3 bodies in the total DBA group right now, and I am trying to handle the job of what was 3 DBAs while we hire new ones, then what do you think?
Besides, I have seen the developers working on it. It isn't saving them any time, and the software is no better than without rapid development.
Net loss, you better believe it.
This particular product was only able to be downloaded if you have WGA installed. Since none of us have / want that, what is the problem?
How do I know? I went to try and download it and it required me to install WGA before I could even download the patch.
So I said "F.CK YOU MS" and left it alone.
I currently hold a BSCS and an MBA. You know what the MBA is really good for? It gets my resume in the door when I am looking for a new job.
It turns out that I like being a DBA and a data analyst, and don't like leading people, so the MBA didn't give me any skills I really wanted, but since I got it paid for by the company, well I just lost some time studying.
As for getting invited to speak, well guess what? I got invited to speak at a recent conference, because I invented a new way of doing something technical. And could explain it and demonstrate it.
You know why I don't go back after a technical Phd? the current company I work for won't pay squat toward sit, and I can't afford $40K on my own.
years ago. The managers were saying the same things then. They say it because they don't understand the complexities of what we do, and can't (otherwise they would be in IT). We can understand them, and most of us ignore these ignoramouses, who mouth off with this stuff. Business analysts work with the business, technical types do technical, cause it is a full time career just to understand all the technical stuff.
And what you don't understand is that the "Rapid Development" (or proto typing, as we used to call it years ago), only works well when your developers can plan ahead.
Otherwise, the rapid development pushes MORE work down on your tech support staff, like your DBAs, who now do 3 and 4 times the work to add columns one at a time, instead of all at once.
The company I am currently at is doing this now, and as a DBA, I haveto put up with the crap from the increased workload, so bottom line, it is a net LOSS for the company.
to follow thru with the suite? Maybe he can sue his lawyer next for incompetent representation.
Our version of Role playing has been available in PDF format since 2000. And it is not DRMed, and it is discounted in that format, since most of the cost of the paper version was always printing costs.
h illgames.com/description.php?II=1082&UID=200606160 823464.21.222.125FRP Made Easy: A Real Fantasy
https://secure.slickwebsitedevelopment.com/bunker
A complete game system in 1 volume at 10$, what more could you ask for?
First time this happened to me was in 1997. Since there was no severence pay, as soon as I had a new job lined up, poof!
Yahoo acted under the letter of the law. They are not to blame for this, rather the government of China is. No matter what else, some of the data that the government of China does not want it's people to see is leakign past, so it si better for them to be there in the long run.
Another case of liberals going overboard. Nothing to see here, move along.
If you have a linked list and you want to copy the linked list to a new location (i.e., the parent name changes), then you have to copy the parent record, retrieve child one, the change current to parent 2, store child 1. Now return to parent 1, move forward thru the linked list to child 2 and retrieve child 2. Now change to parent 2 and read past child 1 to store child 2 (2 I/os). As you add each child, your i/o string gets longer, and it works out to be x! i/os
If, on the other hand, you move backwards thru the list, then each store is done at parent 2, eliminating reading thru the second linked list to do the store. (And if you just store at the parent, eliminating a sort each time you store the new record by going backward thru the list) Each sort takes longer than the one before and so forth.
This all happens when you have a sorted set in a Network DBMS.
Even a mainframe can feel the i/os when you get any distance into a factorial. I could see the performance difference at 10 records in the linked list.
Been 15+ years since I did one of these.
You can doubt, but the algortihm is x! Where the number of I/os is: x * x-1 * x-2 .... * 1 And this is I/Os which is why you must be so careful in that case to walk the set linkage backwards.
And an API is just the form that data is passed back and forth. It is the underlying I/O s that will kill you. And those you need to know what is going on under the hood, usually with a mind towards assembler.
Or another example. Years ago, consultants didn't know about commits. Their code ran fine in test, and then the first thing I know they are running prod. After 5 HOURS they got worried. Of course the system lock table was almost full by then. At 6 hours, the table filled, the job abended and spent 6 hours rolling back.
You can know all the high level language int he world, but the underlying items will KILL you.
>"Laptop drives die between 2.5 and 3 years after use, it's normal"
Since when? My Toshiba laptop drives are: 18, 6, 3, and 1 year(s) old. Not a drive failure yet. Plus one more that I got used. Still running after 6 years SINCE I bought it.
And yes, I do still have an 18 year old laptop, and it still runs, and I still use it for one program. Now I only use it once or twice a year, but it is still running and good.
>I would argue though, that all applications that I've encountered in my career that have been slow have been slow due to using a stupid design.
Then you have never run into some of the things that the rest of us have. Why do you walk a set backwards when copying it to a second structure (like when renaming a parent record)? Because walking forward uses x! (That's x factorial) extra reads to achomplish the task, where x is the number of children.of the most costly mistakes I have seen come from not understanding how the underlying system works.
What it comes down to is that many
>It's like telling an architect that he needs to learn how to make bricks to be a good architect.
No, it's suggesting that you have to know how strong bricks are to build a building that won't collapse. And the Dean of the school of architecture where I went to school was there because a building he designed collapsed.
Anyone that suggests that you DON't need assembler is fooling themselves.
If you look at the data structures involved, the Relational model is a subset of the Network model. Thus, if you want to work in ALL the industry, you need a knowledge of the network model. It is easier to translate that DOWN to the Relational model than the other way around. And do you know how many IDMS shops are still out there?
And how do I know this? I've been around long enough that I wrote some DDL translators. (And had them marketed as well, by AT&T and Bachman Information Systems.) The Relational model requires you to duplicate n-1 key columns into the row, when you are n levels deep in the structure.
And finally, the Network model is more closely related to reality, and is still very closely aligned with ER diagrams, which is how you design a database.
Look. Start by learning a procedural language, and then learn the 5 structure diagrams. Then proceed from there to non-procedural languages.
Finally, learn Assembler. Yes, Assembler. It will teach you how things work. NOW you can learn ANY programming.
Next a course in Data Structures is good. Follow up with a course in database management. Especially if you can get a good one that teaches Network DBMS structure, not just Relational.
Operating systems are LAST, and only if you want to be systems programmer.
Overpriced and underpowered.
Oh, and so it comes with Google, just one more hunk of junk software to remove after the machine arrives. You want a clean install? Pay for a clean disk and a copy of the OS to install yourself.
The laws allowed for moving one's hand to operate the vehicle, but not for doing anything BUT driving. Go look it up. That's why I laugh so hard at these stupid politions.
Using a cellphone while driving violates a law about having both hands on the wheel IN ALL 50 STATES PEOPLE. Enforce the laws we have, and it's over.
I used to have a hands free console unit in both cars. Can't even BUY the things anymore, for the newer digital phones. What does that tell you about the marketplace people?
1. The music from my favorite artists comes from Australia. I've had to buy some of it thru Australian web sites.
2. The people that work on a particular hardware / software project come from Germany, Switzerland, England, and Japan. I do beta testing for the guys from Germany and Switzerland. The guy from England and I did a password crack together. The guy from Japan got some info on the thrid party data file from me.
3. I've bought e-bay items from England.
No, regionalizing the internet just seems like a stupid idea to me.
Some of his stuff is ok, some of it is just plain wrong.
Just for the list. I was diagnosed with Malignant Large Cell Lymphomia, medium to high grade, stage IV. By the time of diagnosis, I was already in the hopsital, and had thrown temperatures of 103.9, along with other fun symptoms, like losing 60 pounds in 60 days.
There was no way of shielding it from my employer, I went out on disability for 6 months. While I was out, word filtered around the company (consulting firm) that I was already DEAD.
I reached 10 years clear last year, and the Onocologist threw me out of his office, telling me never to come back again (With a big ole smile on his face!).
In the meantime, I have prevailed in an ADA suit against my former employer (they settled out of court) as they let me go just after I came back. For a while I did not tell employers, at least not right away. Now it doesn't matter anymore.
As for the "tips" on coding, well, I always coded that way.
Where I am now, I could get hit by a bus. The other people in my group would have to work harder to pick up the slack, but they know where everything is.
LOL, they can check me out all they want. I have held security clearance before, as has my father before me, and his parents before him, who held VERY high clearances during WWII. (Had to do with his job, he HAD to know some very secret information - all the radio frequencies in use by the military, as he was grinding the radio crystals for them.) Some of the last crystals he ever ground wer ethe crystals for the Vanguard satellites, just before his death.
After 911, I was probably checked out again, as I took Scuba lessons shortly before that, including a course in MINE diving, and had bought a dive computer with rebreather capability the year before.
First, last year, I went into the bank and handed them a check for $10K. The year before, same thing, but paid off the other credit card. Paid off my one remaining crdit card this year, put the rest in savings, then took out a new car loan. Now today, my income tax return check came in and I have to deposit that ($3K). They are going to wonder what is going on......
Seriously, they didn't even ask questions. Of course, I have been a customer at this bank for 25+ years now.