Kodak is NOT getting out of the film industry. The review you mention says they are dropping about 4 or 5 specific films. Well so what? They are replacing them with new ones that are better. It's called progress.
As for you cost comparisions. Whoops, you messed up there.
>I've taken 5000 pictures with my digital camera. >Development costs: $0 >Experience: priceless
>What if I had a film camera? >5000 pictures / 24 pictures per roll ~ 208 rolls. >208 rolls at $8 for developement = $1666 >Experience: Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Hmm. First, if you are shooting that much film, then use 36 exposure rolls. Or bulk load. But at 36 exposure rolls, your "cost" goes to about $1000, instead of $1666. Plus 8$ a roll? Where are you getting robbed for that much?
Anyway. You forgot that in order to get print from your digital camera, you need a printer. For the sake of arguement, lets assume on that prints from the camera, to save costs. Printer: $100-$150. Paper to print only 1000 prints (assume that you "throw" away the others) $160. Ink for your printer: $200. So far for your 5000 shots we are at: $460
Now lets add in storage of the shots (remember film is stored on negatives or slides, included in your $1000 estimate). Lets see 200 frames per CD(3MP?) 25 CD @ 2$ per = $50 more. And how about The computer and CD writer to support it?
Lets see, without the computer we are at $510. No that big a savings anymore, is it?
I've done that, and I have a truely bueatiful 20x30 hanging over my fireplace - shot with film. Detail is in it that you can't capture with digital. The reflections in the water of the railing, for example.
For example: I have an 8x10 on the wall next to me. (Film based print). I scanned that image at about 5MP a while back and it is a great shot. However, I noticed some small blobs on the one edge. Since it is an underwater shot, I assumed backscatter. Later, I had the film 8x10 printed. Not backscatter at all! A school of tiny fish is plainly visible in the print.
I also had a shot optioned for printing by a national magazine. At 5mp, it could not be scanned. It would only show a bunch of colored blobs. The subject? The Space shuttle Columbia - night launch, lit only by the flames. (At 8x10, the orbiter is about 3 inches tall, along the 10 axis. The full shuttle about 6 inches tall.)
I once ran into a "professional" photographer doing an ad shoot. She asked if she could borrow a 24mm lens from me. I said well, you would have to use my spare body and flash as well, due to lens mounting differences. She declined, because she didn't know how to use a manual flash - but she was a professional!
So, your wife's customers may be happy, but that doesn't mean that the shots are great.
When digital gets to 10MP, then try experimenting with digital SLRs, in the meantime forget it.
That's assuming that by decent size prints you mean 8x10 or larger.
A good all manual SLR (yes there are some around, especially used ones, which will save you lots of money) will last for YEARS on one set of batteries (my Dad went 22 years on one battery a while back, my best is only 12 years on 1 battery).
Plus, lenses can be had cheap by all the people bailing out of film who don't know any better. If you chose the right system to go with, you can take those lenses forward to digital later too. (Nikon and Canon come to mind, but I think Pentax as well). Or any T-mount lens can be brought forward.
We had a shared id, and I set up a timed job to install a new..init file (equivalent to a DOS autoexec.bat file, but on a Honeywell mainframe.) at the stroke of 11:59:59 the night before.
Every user that logged on started to run this program. If you asked it to list your files, it showed a blank list. If you asked for mail, it said no mail, etc. Of course, I installed a secondary password to allow me to get out and eventually delete it, but that's just planning.
from a web site. I saw the website when I was researching the topic and copied the pages fro my information. Later I was copying from the article as another source. As I copied the 2 together I realized I had the same paragraphs.
I reported same to the editor of the magazine. I eventually got an e-mail from the author apologizing for the error and a promise that he was going to apologize to the owners of the website as well. (A non profit organization). Apparently, he did just what I was doing, copying the data into his computer to rewrite, and the wrong version of the article got submitted.
I don't know about any further follow up from that incident.
>Fire Berman and his team and hire some REAL writers (DC Fontana, Diane Duane, Diane Carey, Peter David, all old Trek hands who "got it"), and maybe Trek will start not-sucking again.
While I can agree with DC Fontana, The other 3 I don't agree with.
At least Diane Duane needs to do some more homework on how things work in the current military before transposing it forward. It isn't the "overall" picture, but some of the little things that she misses.
And one in particular which she based a whole book upon was contradicted in TNG, just as I told her it would be (via Fidonet, back in the 90s).
After 20+ years of wroking with DBMSes, including 10+ as a DBA, I can tell you that you want your business logic in the DBMS - EVERY TIME YOU POSSIBLY CAN DO IT. This is especially true of RI in the DBMS.
If you think that application developers are going to implement the business logic in the application, you better think again. I have watched many systems over the years, and NOT ONCE has the application group implemented the business logic in the application and gotten it right.
In one shop (RI not available in the DBMS, thank you to THAT vendor) we had 1 guy whose job it was to fix data errors. I tracked usage, and he was responsible for 1/3 of the resources used day in and day out just fixing errors in the data every day.
Who waits for the end of the line to "fill out" a check? And legal tender is legal tender - no matter how you do it.
And if you had internal knowledge of the computer systems that Walmart uses, you wouldn't use any form of electronic payment there.
As for Interac, that happens to be some form of payment that isn't available anywhere I have ever been, so once again you show your ignorance of the problem.
First it is the technology to convert your checks into a electronic draft of your checking account, now this.
And the problem with the electronic draft of your checking account is the lack of controls that prevent them from drafting your account AS MANY TIMES AS THEY WANT TO!
Don't think it can happen? Well I got news for you. Not only can that be done, but they can also modify the amounts and draft it again.
It happened to me, which is why I don't shop at Wal-mart any more, or anywhere else that uses said technology. I got lucky, in that my bank ended up covering the difference because the base mistake that caused the merchant in question to modify the draft was the bank's mistake (a supposedly invisible to the users conversion of their checking system).
Beware, Wal-mart doesn't care about the customer and never has.
was after I foundout who I was replacing. We had worked together about 10 months earlier at another employer. He called me later that night and told me why he was leaving and to tell me not to take that job.
The big thing is to get a feel for whether or not the company is even going to be ther elong term.
In 2000, I was sent to a site as a consultant. Within a few weeks it became really apparent how screwed up they were. I got out of there while I could control the exit. A year later, they laid off over 2000 people (which accounted for more than the entire rest of the IT staffs in the rest of the city). Three years later, adn the IT in the area still isn't back up to what it was.
No, true geeks wrote their own system, using the ver 1.0 books, articles in Dragon magazine, and original copies of Chainmail.
Anyone ever wonder who Greg A. Baker was, and why he needed to contact Mirel?
Let's just say it was another incident that would have added to the Satanic cult rumors. Greg's mother held a book burning of all his books that she could get hold of, except for several he had stored with friends, after he turned up missing for a while.
In those books were many science fiction classics, and some of his D&D stuff.
I managed to save his best work, and we did find him a while later. He disappeared to one of the places I told the police to check, but of course, why would they listen to someone that knew him well.
When was the last time you bought shoes made in America?
Turns out that shoes used to be a standard measure for any given size. That is no longer the case, and shoes are getting thinner for a given measure of width.
I went to 4 stores in the mall and could not fit ANY shoes to my feet in any store.
Today I finally went to a small specialty store and paid 3 times as much to get a good pair of shoes.
The alternative is numb toes, and down the road loss of same.
We must make it clear to these dim witted managers that the product built in the foriegn coutries is NOT the same product. If they can't even get simple measurements the same, how can we trust them with a complex infrastructure?
Years ago, I hacked the hardware for 4 Atari Paddles to run off the IBM PC Joystick port. (the 15 pin one).
Add a 15 pin to USB adapter (I think Radio Shack sells them) and there you go.
I only needed 3 plugs and some wire to make the converter. I did write a test program and it worked, but never got around to doing any games. I wrote up the pin outs and released them years ago on my then BBS.
The ones made by chproducts were the best. Unfortunately they were the msot expensive, so ch products got out of that business. I still have one on an older machine and it is still working after about 10 years of use.
I really got into these when I was helping a parapelegic work out how to use his computer. He had pencils that were strapped to his hands to work with. A mouse was horrible for him to use, but a simple change to one of these trackballs worked great.
If you see any of these on e-bay with the PS/2 plug on it, let me know, I could use 2 more!
I just went to the lsited site and registered a complaint against a site that has:
1. Invalid Whosis data 2. Use of copyrighted images without permission 3. Use of copyrighted text without permission 4. Slander or libel (whichever one is written) 5. Sends spam but claims not to 6. Works with others to support them harming the environment 7. Works with others who threaten people via e-mail (I was one so threatened).
With this new ruling, maybe we can finally get them shutdown and/or sued out of existance.
I have been thru this scenario. My Mother-in-law is now 76 years old. I originally bought her a used laptop to use e-mail, due to certain phone bills that were killing us. (The laptop was 1/2 the cost of a particular month's phone bill.)
She is interested in the machine, but due to her lack of formal education, afraid of looking foolish because she doesn't know how to do something on the computer.
Find a particular program that she doesn't already use that interests her, and you can add to what she knows how to do.
Whatever machine you get her or help her to get, make sure you can support it over the phone, because you will.
Every time I am over there now, I run utilities to defrag the disk and so forth, because I do not expect to teach her that stuff.
Talk to her, and show her that she can not hurt the machine with software. Then get her to experiment.
But, whatever you do, suppport her. If you don't it is a no win situation.
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Since there is no such thing as a secure website, then don't put secure information on the web. QED. Then using the same password for many sites isn't a problem.
The protion that became Lucent originally started as Western Electric and other companies, way back when. These companies were split out to be a supplier of hardware, while AT&T was supposed to supply service.
Bell Labs was thrown in to balance the three way split.
What was fun was splitting the payroll system (I was the Lucent side DBA)
With the big downsizing then. Then come back for the split in 1996 and watch it happen again. AT&T and Lucent were doomed in each of these downsizings, becuase the method they used to downsize encouraged the BEST workers to leave with incentives.
In the 1994 downsizing, I could have stayed around, but ended up finding a new job 1 week after notification that I was at risk. I collected a total of 11 weeks pay to go somewhere else and take a raise.
In 1996, I left Lucent to another downsizing and realized a doubling of my pay.
So, each time, the people that stay are the deadwood, and they repeat the process.
I looked at the device, and like and computer, what will make or break is "killer" aps.
For the PDA I have now, the killer ap is the blood meter add-on module. Combine this sucker with the sweat based blood meter device I read about a year ago or so, and you might have a rela interesting device.
Make the casing waterproof to 300 feet, and add a sensor and it might replace several radio dive computers (Like the Aladin Air Z O2 that I already have). (www.uwatec.com)
At the very least, it would almost surely need a screen protector, to protect it from getting clobbered.
I think I'll reserve judgement until I get more data on it.
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Kodak is NOT getting out of the film industry. The review you mention says they are dropping about 4 or 5 specific films. Well so what? They are replacing them with new ones that are better. It's called progress.
As for you cost comparisions. Whoops, you messed up there.
>I've taken 5000 pictures with my digital camera.
>Development costs: $0
>Experience: priceless
>What if I had a film camera?
>5000 pictures / 24 pictures per roll ~ 208 rolls.
>208 rolls at $8 for developement = $1666
>Experience: Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Hmm. First, if you are shooting that much film, then use 36 exposure rolls. Or bulk load. But at 36 exposure rolls, your "cost" goes to about $1000, instead of $1666. Plus 8$ a roll? Where are you getting robbed for that much?
Anyway. You forgot that in order to get print from your digital camera, you need a printer. For the sake of arguement, lets assume on that prints from the camera, to save costs. Printer: $100-$150. Paper to print only 1000 prints (assume that you "throw" away the others) $160. Ink for your printer: $200. So far for your 5000 shots we are at: $460
Now lets add in storage of the shots (remember film is stored on negatives or slides, included in your $1000 estimate). Lets see 200 frames per CD(3MP?) 25 CD @ 2$ per = $50 more. And how about The computer and CD writer to support it?
Lets see, without the computer we are at $510. No that big a savings anymore, is it?
I've done that, and I have a truely bueatiful 20x30 hanging over my fireplace - shot with film. Detail is in it that you can't capture with digital. The reflections in the water of the railing, for example.
For example: I have an 8x10 on the wall next to me. (Film based print). I scanned that image at about 5MP a while back and it is a great shot. However, I noticed some small blobs on the one edge. Since it is an underwater shot, I assumed backscatter. Later, I had the film 8x10 printed. Not backscatter at all! A school of tiny fish is plainly visible in the print.
I also had a shot optioned for printing by a national magazine. At 5mp, it could not be scanned. It would only show a bunch of colored blobs. The subject? The Space shuttle Columbia - night launch, lit only by the flames. (At 8x10, the orbiter is about 3 inches tall, along the 10 axis. The full shuttle about 6 inches tall.)
I once ran into a "professional" photographer doing an ad shoot. She asked if she could borrow a 24mm lens from me. I said well, you would have to use my spare body and flash as well, due to lens mounting differences. She declined, because she didn't know how to use a manual flash - but she was a professional!
So, your wife's customers may be happy, but that doesn't mean that the shots are great.
When digital gets to 10MP, then try experimenting with digital SLRs, in the meantime forget it.
That's assuming that by decent size prints you mean 8x10 or larger.
A good all manual SLR (yes there are some around, especially used ones, which will save you lots of money) will last for YEARS on one set of batteries (my Dad went 22 years on one battery a while back, my best is only 12 years on 1 battery).
Plus, lenses can be had cheap by all the people bailing out of film who don't know any better. If you chose the right system to go with, you can take those lenses forward to digital later too. (Nikon and Canon come to mind, but I think Pentax as well). Or any T-mount lens can be brought forward.
I once set this up for April Fools day:
..init file (equivalent to a DOS autoexec.bat file, but on a Honeywell mainframe.) at the stroke of 11:59:59 the night before.
We had a shared id, and I set up a timed job to install a new
Every user that logged on started to run this program. If you asked it to list your files, it showed a blank list. If you asked for mail, it said no mail, etc. Of course, I installed a secondary password to allow me to get out and eventually delete it, but that's just planning.
from a web site. I saw the website when I was researching the topic and copied the pages fro my information. Later I was copying from the article as another source. As I copied the 2 together I realized I had the same paragraphs.
I reported same to the editor of the magazine. I eventually got an e-mail from the author apologizing for the error and a promise that he was going to apologize to the owners of the website as well. (A non profit organization). Apparently, he did just what I was doing, copying the data into his computer to rewrite, and the wrong version of the article got submitted.
I don't know about any further follow up from that incident.
>Fire Berman and his team and hire some REAL writers (DC Fontana, Diane Duane, Diane Carey, Peter David, all old Trek hands who "got it"), and maybe Trek will start not-sucking again.
While I can agree with DC Fontana, The other 3 I don't agree with.
At least Diane Duane needs to do some more homework on how things work in the current military before transposing it forward. It isn't the "overall" picture, but some of the little things that she misses.
And one in particular which she based a whole book upon was contradicted in TNG, just as I told her it would be (via Fidonet, back in the 90s).
After 20+ years of wroking with DBMSes, including 10+ as a DBA, I can tell you that you want your business logic in the DBMS - EVERY TIME YOU POSSIBLY CAN DO IT. This is especially true of RI in the DBMS.
If you think that application developers are going to implement the business logic in the application, you better think again. I have watched many systems over the years, and NOT ONCE has the application group implemented the business logic in the application and gotten it right.
In one shop (RI not available in the DBMS, thank you to THAT vendor) we had 1 guy whose job it was to fix data errors. I tracked usage, and he was responsible for 1/3 of the resources used day in and day out just fixing errors in the data every day.
Who waits for the end of the line to "fill out" a check? And legal tender is legal tender - no matter how you do it.
And if you had internal knowledge of the computer systems that Walmart uses, you wouldn't use any form of electronic payment there.
As for Interac, that happens to be some form of payment that isn't available anywhere I have ever been, so once again you show your ignorance of the problem.
First it is the technology to convert your checks into a electronic draft of your checking account, now this.
And the problem with the electronic draft of your checking account is the lack of controls that prevent them from drafting your account AS MANY TIMES AS THEY WANT TO!
Don't think it can happen? Well I got news for you. Not only can that be done, but they can also modify the amounts and draft it again.
It happened to me, which is why I don't shop at Wal-mart any more, or anywhere else that uses said technology. I got lucky, in that my bank ended up covering the difference because the base mistake that caused the merchant in question to modify the draft was the bank's mistake (a supposedly invisible to the users conversion of their checking system).
Beware, Wal-mart doesn't care about the customer and never has.
The last of the Nikonos cameras were discontinued in 2002. However, many fine examples can be had on e-bay or other used camera stores.
was after I foundout who I was replacing. We had worked together about 10 months earlier at another employer. He called me later that night and told me why he was leaving and to tell me not to take that job.
The big thing is to get a feel for whether or not the company is even going to be ther elong term.
In 2000, I was sent to a site as a consultant. Within a few weeks it became really apparent how screwed up they were. I got out of there while I could control the exit. A year later, they laid off over 2000 people (which accounted for more than the entire rest of the IT staffs in the rest of the city). Three years later, adn the IT in the area still isn't back up to what it was.
No, true geeks wrote their own system, using the ver 1.0 books, articles in Dragon magazine, and original copies of Chainmail.
Anyone ever wonder who Greg A. Baker was, and why he needed to contact Mirel?
Let's just say it was another incident that would have added to the Satanic cult rumors. Greg's mother held a book burning of all his books that she could get hold of, except for several he had stored with friends, after he turned up missing for a while.
In those books were many science fiction classics, and some of his D&D stuff.
I managed to save his best work, and we did find him a while later. He disappeared to one of the places I told the police to check, but of course, why would they listen to someone that knew him well.
Go figure, he works as a postman now.
Mirel
D&D since 1978
Presided over the outsourcing there as well. When will companies learn that some people are NOT good leaders?
I have copies of prior art on the 1995 patent from 1984, when I implemented it in a production system. Said production system is STILL running.
Now, I'm not stating I was the first person to come up with it, but I did create it indepenantly 11 years before the patent holder.
When was the last time you bought shoes made in America?
Turns out that shoes used to be a standard measure for any given size. That is no longer the case, and shoes are getting thinner for a given measure of width.
I went to 4 stores in the mall and could not fit ANY shoes to my feet in any store.
Today I finally went to a small specialty store and paid 3 times as much to get a good pair of shoes.
The alternative is numb toes, and down the road loss of same.
We must make it clear to these dim witted managers that the product built in the foriegn coutries is NOT the same product. If they can't even get simple measurements the same, how can we trust them with a complex infrastructure?
Years ago, I hacked the hardware for 4 Atari Paddles to run off the IBM PC Joystick port. (the 15 pin one).
Add a 15 pin to USB adapter (I think Radio Shack sells them) and there you go.
I only needed 3 plugs and some wire to make the converter. I did write a test program and it worked, but never got around to doing any games. I wrote up the pin outs and released them years ago on my then BBS.
We can't spam you using your system anymore, we might have to go develop a REAL business model.
Pay attention you. The people have spoken adn we don't want you.
49 states to go.
The ones made by chproducts were the best. Unfortunately they were the msot expensive, so ch products got out of that business. I still have one on an older machine and it is still working after about 10 years of use.
I really got into these when I was helping a parapelegic work out how to use his computer. He had pencils that were strapped to his hands to work with. A mouse was horrible for him to use, but a simple change to one of these trackballs worked great.
If you see any of these on e-bay with the PS/2 plug on it, let me know, I could use 2 more!
I just went to the lsited site and registered a complaint against a site that has:
1. Invalid Whosis data
2. Use of copyrighted images without permission
3. Use of copyrighted text without permission
4. Slander or libel (whichever one is written)
5. Sends spam but claims not to
6. Works with others to support them harming the environment
7. Works with others who threaten people via e-mail (I was one so threatened).
With this new ruling, maybe we can finally get them shutdown and/or sued out of existance.
I have been thru this scenario. My Mother-in-law is now 76 years old. I originally bought her a used laptop to use e-mail, due to certain phone bills that were killing us. (The laptop was 1/2 the cost of a particular month's phone bill.)
She is interested in the machine, but due to her lack of formal education, afraid of looking foolish because she doesn't know how to do something on the computer.
Find a particular program that she doesn't already use that interests her, and you can add to what she knows how to do.
Whatever machine you get her or help her to get, make sure you can support it over the phone, because you will.
Every time I am over there now, I run utilities to defrag the disk and so forth, because I do not expect to teach her that stuff.
Talk to her, and show her that she can not hurt the machine with software. Then get her to experiment.
But, whatever you do, suppport her. If you don't it is a no win situation.
Since there is no such thing as a secure website, then don't put secure information on the web. QED. Then using the same password for many sites isn't a problem.
The protion that became Lucent originally started as Western Electric and other companies, way back when. These companies were split out to be a supplier of hardware, while AT&T was supposed to supply service.
Bell Labs was thrown in to balance the three way split.
What was fun was splitting the payroll system (I was the Lucent side DBA)
With the big downsizing then. Then come back for the split in 1996 and watch it happen again. AT&T and Lucent were doomed in each of these downsizings, becuase the method they used to downsize encouraged the BEST workers to leave with incentives.
In the 1994 downsizing, I could have stayed around, but ended up finding a new job 1 week after notification that I was at risk. I collected a total of 11 weeks pay to go somewhere else and take a raise.
In 1996, I left Lucent to another downsizing and realized a doubling of my pay.
So, each time, the people that stay are the deadwood, and they repeat the process.
I looked at the device, and like and computer, what will make or break is "killer" aps.
For the PDA I have now, the killer ap is the blood meter add-on module. Combine this sucker with the sweat based blood meter device I read about a year ago or so, and you might have a rela interesting device.
Make the casing waterproof to 300 feet, and add a sensor and it might replace several radio dive computers (Like the Aladin Air Z O2 that I already have). (www.uwatec.com)
At the very least, it would almost surely need a screen protector, to protect it from getting clobbered.
I think I'll reserve judgement until I get more data on it.
My mother-in-law, though it is a fine line.
That still leaves 5 accounts counted that are duplicates. Oh, and 4 of those didn't exist last year, so there is your growth.