My film based pictures will be viewable for decades even hundreds of years. As is my 85 yro father's pictures as a 5 year old in his mothers arms.
How do I store digitals images that 1) Will last (CDs last 10 years max) 2) In a technology that will be available to read it in 100 years. I don't even expect CD players to be available in 20 years!
No body has answered this question. Which is why I shoot film.
When the majority of the best and brightest in the country all lean
I have more then a few University degrees, but the problem I have with the above statement is that imparts a degree of importance on people who actually don't matter all that much.
By and large Professors do very little that affects life outside of Academia. (I am excluding biology, science departments in general, the above topic is dealing with social and political matters.)
You can observe that in Academica they tend to lean left, but I can observe that the Captains of Industry lean right. From my point of view the Captains of Industry have more gravitas then those who shelter in Academia and talk about it.
Academics are well informed, well read and well discussed on issues of the day, but at the end of the day, they make nothing, their capital is talk and it's cheap and rarely spent. They have influence, but in my opinion their influence is too great.
I think tenures time has passed and it shelters those whose time has passed.
Yes, I had left-wing-nut profs but never in engineering only in Soc/Phys/Anthro/English,.... "a tale full of sound and fury and signifying nothing."
rant on...
But what really frost my buns are profs whose write their own textbooks and force me to buy them. Many times of which the book consists of copied pages in a binder, which is very expensive to make consequently priced high to me. So I get the honor of proofing the new author's work and bonfire material at the end of the year.....rant off
Does anybody have any stats or links on abandonment of domains? I googled it, but for something the article stated was at a record high, I can't find a link on it.
I for one, am sick and tired of finding all the domains I want being squatted and filled with "Important Links". And "This domain for sale", starting bid, $5,000.00 USD, right! Let me get my checkbook.
I would not mind seeing a "use it or lose" reg.
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That is funny. Maybe there is a business here?
Third party buyer?
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When I was young, we made mistakes and thankfully most of them are buried in unwritten-history and with college buddies I don't see anymore.
Nowadays everything you have written on-line or maybe every site you ever visited is recorded.
Gods know how the Star Wars collectible will come back to haunt you, but I can imagine a scenario during a local election where your opponent shouts, "he collects dolls and plays with them in his bedroom!".
Reminds of how Representative Claude Pepper of some southern state, lost an election when he opponent charged, "he practises nepotism with his niece in his office".
But we all have heard the stats that the average household watches TV something like 8 hours a day. How that is possible escapes me.
The original comment by me was trying to make the point that the internet crosses boundaries and hence passing laws which inherently stop at boundaries is futile. And like water running down hill, any restrictions on content delivery will simply encourage other delivery systems that are free(er) of restrictions. And I added a personal note, which everybody seems to be keying on.
I freely grant watching a movie on TV is vastly superior to anything offered on-line, right now. But give it time, past history would seem to indicate we seen nothing yet.
What arguements I make have little effect.
It's money that talks, the have nots, by definition don't have it, can't make money selling stuff to people who don't have it.
FAT pipes may not look like cable/DSL in the future, bandwidth will grow, no doubt about it. Might be satelites, I am not smart enough to see that far.
I said TV is dead, because is sucks. I hardly watch any TV. It is on their schedule which is never my schedule and it is what they want to broadcast, not what I want to see.
I do worry about the digital divide, I think it is dangerous for a couple of reasons, which is the subject of a book. later...
Watch what Yahoo is up too, short video clips on various subjects, it is a start.
TV is dead, this is a last gasp attempt to hold on to a passing technology.
It will just speed up it's final rattle.
The internet and fat pipes with international access is the future.
The internet knows no boundaries, there will always be countries that will sell you/us what we want, and with the internet as a delivery system, who can stop them?
Movies hit the internet within hours of their first screening! If you can't control that, what can you control?
I am a techie. My wife has a Phd in Childhood Ed. My wife is a school adminstrator. All comments below are valid (in my mind) to Kindergarden through 6 grade.
1) Teachers are liberal arts majors and they do not inherently know how to use tech. 2) Recent studies have shown kids pick up computers use methodologies very quickly when they need to, without adult help. 3) Computer labs need constant care, oddly enough viruses run virtually unchecked through schools, computer ones that is. I often call my wife and tell her that her computer has a virus, after an email from her. 4) It has not be shown yet that kids learn their ABC's, writing, reading or basic math better using computers. It just has not been shown.
Visual Studio appears to actually be the killer app to my system. I have a fairly decent system, but VS drives to incredible slowness. When I exit I have to re-boot to get the speed back. Does any one else have this issue? Seriously I'd like to know.
This is not about "George Bush", it is about a fanatical group who want to impose their will without any of the usual niceties, such as a democratic process.
Tell me want is your plan? Roll over?
Get your head out of your butt and realize if these people win your ability to make stupid statements could quite likely get you flogged in the town square.
The company paid him to write code that they fully expected to be company Intellectual Property. If they can not fully exploit this IP then the company has not received full value and has been harmed. How the company chooses to react to this loss of value is up to them. Personally if I knew a SW engr of mine was using tainted code, I'd blow a gasket.
I am not trying to pass judgement if they have been harmed or if the code is viral or whenever, I personally can not figure the GPL, I've tried and read multiple intrepertations, I am at the point where I avoid GPL'd code, and I have recommended to my boss the same. I can not imagine asking the corporate lawyers to review the GPL!!! Surely a "what the hell are you thinking?" type of move.
A word about IP. If I midnight engineer a device or code that has market value and is not in the company's market, the device/code is mine and the company can not expect to profit from it. If I for example design a toy and I work for a toy company that is a conflict of interest and the company has a right to profit from my midnight engineering. If you sign a agreement that states everything you dream up is the company's, typically that does not hold up and is usually unenforceable. It is my understanding company's have been moving away from the "everything is mine mine mine" type of agreements for at least the last 30 years.
I have rarely (actually never) seen a second degree in another field enhance a career. A second degree in an other field is good (in my opin) for switching careers.
Even if you get a MBA, in a sense you are looking to switch careers. I have a low opin of MBA who MBA in fields not of their expertise, I have rarely (actually never seen it work, experience counts!!!). But people hire them. Look at the UTC website they have special programs for MBAs. Go figure.
Actually I like the CPA thing. Every company needs them, and you can open your own shop or work for a company or both! Remember, 99 for you, 1 for me. As I grow old (I'm old gimme gimme!) I realize flexibility is very important.
Well, I'm a lawyer. Generally I find that when you study the system carefully for several years, you find that it's designed pretty sensibly, and that numerous alternatives tend to be considered and if rejected, for a good, if perhaps subtle, reason.
I've used a similar logic thread when describing the FAA's system. I can buy that.
I work in a company (aviation) that gets sued a lot, about 50 to 60 times a year. The result of this is to force jobs and companies overseas. This is real. We compete against companies who are based offshore (USA shore that is, I realize it's a relative term) and those companies many times have no US assets. I am a "little" sensitive.
Anyways, we in Connecticut are watching this land grab by the Town of New London with interest. For a state rich in Revoluntionary War history it really seems surreal. No doubt in my mind the politico's state and local are watching the public reaction very closely.
I'll defer to you on the methodology of the numbers, but you seem to have a rather positive view of the legal system. But it seems to me that it is subject to upfront agreements and forgive me if I'm somewhat jaded as to what reasonable means.
Say the state offers you 1.7Mil$ for your waterfront property. You feel it's worth 2Mil$ because the Smiths down the beach got 1.7Mil$ and their sand is not as nice as yours. You sue. The court agrees your beach is nicer and sets the price at 2Mil$. The lawyer gets 300K$ and you get 1.7Mil$. Also the lawyer gets office expenses, so he/she gets more than 300K$. The price differential has to be as high as your example or it's not worth it. Plus the riskier the case the higher the lawyer's %.
I live near New London and this case is receiving a lot of attention on the TV and Radio. The city of New London is trying to take the land and turn it over to a private developer so the city can increase it's tax revenues. That is exactly the arguement the city's lawyer made to the US Supreme court.
To us this is very scary. New London is in Connecticut which is one of the original 13 colonies that rebelled against England. This seems to me to be a revolutionary war type of cause.
The concept of private property is very dear to us and this seems to smack of unjust confiscation. If this case is allowed to stand who of us will be safe? All of our houses and land would draw more in taxes if developed. These people have been on this land a long long time. The coast of New England is pretty damm well populated, they will not be able to replace what they have now.
Just compensation is a tricky term, the state decides and they have NO reason to make it fair or just. If you do not like that figure then you can always sue, sue the state that is. The cost of a suit with lawyers quickly convince most people to take the second offer made by the state. Not a fair fight.
The state politicians have been very quiet on this issue and the papers mute. Two hundred years ago this would have been pitchforks and torches.
Oh, where is a muckracking politico when you need one?
I built an HMD for the Army back about 16 years ago. Hmmm maybe more. Called the HELMID program. Helmet Mounted Infantry Display. The results were shall we say less than acceptable. It was weight, weight, weight and weight. And the helmet is a not so good mounting platform, moves too much. The idea was to rifle mount a TV and let the user shoot around corners and over fences without sticking their head out.
You see a display can not allow any light to escape, if it does then you have lit up the user and he/she is a well lit target for any one else using night vision gear. Very bad. A bullet in the face does not make for an effective soldier.
This appears to be see through, which means the combiner only reflects a percentage of the image. Which also means the image has to compete with the Sun as in Solar, very tough to do. This display is probably only viewable when the user is looking at a dark surface. The image will be washed out against the sky. You'll need to use stroke graphics for sky viewing.
A couple of years ago a company started selling one eyed head mounted HUDs for the general aviation market. I asked the salespeople at Oshkosh about all your points, and if they have been getting headaches like the Apache pilots do. Their reaction was interesting, and mixure of "oh my god, some one knows about this and what is he talking about?", I gave them my card and told them I was available for consulting, never heard from them.
As Bill M used to say, "That eyeball boy ain't changing". The issues are the same, the head can only carry soooo much weight, the sun is bright, and our eyeballs/brain interface is millions of years old and it don't handle mulitple images well.
Interesing work when you can get it.
This system is stereo so it should be easier on the eyes/brain. However it'll never see combat if it lights up the user's face.
On the face of it the statement,"I was hoping Kerry would get in office so I could get an Engineering job back home in Texas", is absurd.
Hmmm the ONLY job YOU could find was in the midwest, two scenarios come to mind, 1st: The mindless midwesterners are the only ones dumb enough to create jobs. 2nd: You are virtually unemployable. And the midwesterners took pity on you.
Nothing reveals Kerry's inane platform more then his doublespeak on "Benedict Arnold" companies.
The United States is in a global economy. Our economy would collapse without global trade. The flip side of that is people outside the US have to be able to sell to us.
It's a two way street, if people want to work for less and provide an acceptable product. There is nothing wrong with that.
Kerry's record in the Senate is virtually nonexistent. I live next door (statewise) to Kerry and I know virtually nothing about him. And I am very politically aware.
Did you know Bush was born in Connecticut? Did you know Bush's grandfather was a US Senator from Connecticut?
Close but no cigar. I have been on the look out for:
A industrial/school/company PC, with: NO CDROM, NO DVD, No floppy, 128M ram, very small Hard drive, 10 gig would do, couple of USBs would be nice, browser, built in wireless, video port, keyboard port, mouse port. And that's it.
I don't care what OS, just as long the brower can do javascript.
I want a really thin client, for $150, less monitor. If I want it, others do too!
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My film based pictures will be viewable for decades even hundreds of years. As is my 85 yro father's pictures as a 5 year old in his mothers arms.
How do I store digitals images that 1) Will last (CDs last 10 years max) 2) In a technology that will be available to read it in 100 years. I don't even expect CD players to be available in 20 years!
No body has answered this question. Which is why I shoot film.
When the majority of the best and brightest in the country all lean
....rant off
I have more then a few University degrees, but the problem I have with the above statement is that imparts a degree of importance on people who actually don't matter all that much.
By and large Professors do very little that affects life outside of Academia. (I am excluding biology, science departments in general, the above topic is dealing with social and political matters.)
You can observe that in Academica they tend to lean left, but I can observe that the Captains of Industry lean right. From my point of view the Captains of Industry have more gravitas then those who shelter in Academia and talk about it.
Academics are well informed, well read and well discussed on issues of the day, but at the end of the day, they make nothing, their capital is talk and it's cheap and rarely spent. They have influence, but in my opinion their influence is too great.
I think tenures time has passed and it shelters those whose time has passed.
Yes, I had left-wing-nut profs but never in engineering only in Soc/Phys/Anthro/English,.... "a tale full of sound and fury and signifying nothing."
rant on...
But what really frost my buns are profs whose write their own textbooks and force me to buy them. Many times of which the book consists of copied pages in a binder, which is very expensive to make consequently priced high to me. So I get the honor of proofing the new author's work and bonfire material at the end of the year.
Does anybody have any stats or links on abandonment of domains?
I googled it, but for something the article stated was at a record high, I can't find a link on it.
I for one, am sick and tired of finding all the domains I want being squatted and filled with "Important Links". And "This domain for sale", starting bid, $5,000.00 USD, right! Let me get my checkbook.
I would not mind seeing a "use it or lose" reg.
That is funny. Maybe there is a business here? Third party buyer?
When I was young, we made mistakes and thankfully most of them are buried in unwritten-history and with college buddies I don't see anymore.
Nowadays everything you have written on-line or maybe every site you ever visited is recorded.
Gods know how the Star Wars collectible will come back to haunt you, but I can imagine a scenario during a local election where your opponent shouts, "he collects dolls and plays with them in his bedroom!".
Reminds of how Representative Claude Pepper of some southern state, lost an election when he opponent charged, "he practises nepotism with his niece in his office".
Yes, I am irrelevant, invisible also.
But I don't think I'm totally off the bell curve.
But we all have heard the stats that the average household watches TV something like 8 hours a day. How that is possible escapes me.
The original comment by me was trying to make the point that the internet crosses boundaries and hence passing laws which inherently stop at boundaries is futile. And like water running down hill, any restrictions on content delivery will simply encourage other delivery systems that are free(er) of restrictions. And I added a personal note, which everybody seems to be keying on.
I freely grant watching a movie on TV is vastly superior to anything offered on-line, right now. But give it time, past history would seem to indicate we seen nothing yet.
What arguements I make have little effect. It's money that talks, the have nots, by definition don't have it, can't make money selling stuff to people who don't have it. FAT pipes may not look like cable/DSL in the future, bandwidth will grow, no doubt about it. Might be satelites, I am not smart enough to see that far. I said TV is dead, because is sucks. I hardly watch any TV. It is on their schedule which is never my schedule and it is what they want to broadcast, not what I want to see. I do worry about the digital divide, I think it is dangerous for a couple of reasons, which is the subject of a book. later... Watch what Yahoo is up too, short video clips on various subjects, it is a start.
TV is dead, this is a last gasp attempt to hold on to a passing technology.
It will just speed up it's final rattle.
The internet and fat pipes with international access is the future.
The internet knows no boundaries, there will always be countries that will sell you/us what we want, and with the internet as a delivery system, who can stop them?
Movies hit the internet within hours of their first screening! If you can't control that, what can you control?
The more you tighten you grip the more starsystems...errr users will slip through you fingers.
Or sometime like that.
Quite frankly we are doing quite nicely with Win98 and Office98, I know MS calls us dinosaurs, and quite frankly I find it offensive.
Talk about unholy alliances! Why don't we just not show up to this party.
I am a techie.
My wife has a Phd in Childhood Ed.
My wife is a school adminstrator.
All comments below are valid (in my mind) to Kindergarden through 6 grade.
1) Teachers are liberal arts majors and they do not inherently know how to use tech.
2) Recent studies have shown kids pick up computers use methodologies very quickly when they need to, without adult help.
3) Computer labs need constant care, oddly enough viruses run virtually unchecked through schools, computer ones that is. I often call my wife and tell her that her computer has a virus, after an email from her.
4) It has not be shown yet that kids learn their ABC's, writing, reading or basic math better using computers. It just has not been shown.
Visual Studio appears to actually be the killer app to my system.
I have a fairly decent system, but VS drives to incredible slowness.
When I exit I have to re-boot to get the speed back.
Does any one else have this issue?
Seriously I'd like to know.
This is not about "George Bush", it is about a fanatical group who want to impose their will without any of the usual niceties, such as a democratic process.
Tell me want is your plan? Roll over?
Get your head out of your butt and realize if these people win your ability to make stupid statements could quite likely get you flogged in the town square.
This is like my worst nightmare.
It took years to recover from learning snakes could climb trees.
A walk in the woods has never been the same.
The company paid him to write code that they fully expected to be company Intellectual Property. If they can not fully exploit this IP then the company has not received full value and has been harmed. How the company chooses to react to this loss of value is up to them. Personally if I knew a SW engr of mine was using tainted code, I'd blow a gasket.
I am not trying to pass judgement if they have been harmed or if the code is viral or whenever, I personally can not figure the GPL, I've tried and read multiple intrepertations, I am at the point where I avoid GPL'd code, and I have recommended to my boss the same. I can not imagine asking the corporate lawyers to review the GPL!!! Surely a "what the hell are you thinking?" type of move.
A word about IP. If I midnight engineer a device or code that has market value and is not in the company's market, the device/code is mine and the company can not expect to profit from it. If I for example design a toy and I work for a toy company that is a conflict of interest and the company has a right to profit from my midnight engineering. If you sign a agreement that states everything you dream up is the company's, typically that does not hold up and is usually unenforceable. It is my understanding company's have been moving away from the "everything is mine mine mine" type of agreements for at least the last 30 years.
I have rarely (actually never) seen a second degree in another field enhance a career. A second degree in an other field is good (in my opin) for switching careers.
Even if you get a MBA, in a sense you are looking to switch careers. I have a low opin of MBA who MBA in fields not of their expertise, I have rarely (actually never seen it work, experience counts!!!). But people hire them. Look at the UTC website they have special programs for MBAs. Go figure.
Actually I like the CPA thing. Every company needs them, and you can open your own shop or work for a company or both! Remember, 99 for you, 1 for me. As I grow old (I'm old gimme gimme!) I realize flexibility is very important.
Well, I'm a lawyer. Generally I find that when you study the system carefully for several years, you find that it's designed pretty sensibly, and that numerous alternatives tend to be considered and if rejected, for a good, if perhaps subtle, reason.
I've used a similar logic thread when describing the FAA's system. I can buy that.
I work in a company (aviation) that gets sued a lot, about 50 to 60 times a year. The result of this is to force jobs and companies overseas. This is real. We compete against companies who are based offshore (USA shore that is, I realize it's a relative term) and those companies many times have no US assets. I am a "little" sensitive.
Anyways, we in Connecticut are watching this land grab by the Town of New London with interest. For a state rich in Revoluntionary War history it really seems surreal. No doubt in my mind the politico's state and local are watching the public reaction very closely.
Have you ever been involved in a lawsuit?
I'll defer to you on the methodology of the numbers, but you seem to have a rather positive view of the legal system. But it seems to me that it is subject to upfront agreements and forgive me if I'm somewhat jaded as to what reasonable means.
But anyways thanks for the response.
I'll be following this case closely.
Say the state offers you 1.7Mil$ for your waterfront property. You feel it's worth 2Mil$ because the Smiths down the beach got 1.7Mil$ and their sand is not as nice as yours.
You sue.
The court agrees your beach is nicer and sets the price at 2Mil$. The lawyer gets 300K$ and you get 1.7Mil$. Also the lawyer gets office expenses, so he/she gets more than 300K$.
The price differential has to be as high as your example or it's not worth it. Plus the riskier the case the higher the lawyer's %.
I live near New London and this case is receiving a lot of attention on the TV and Radio. The city of New London is trying to take the land and turn it over to a private developer so the city can increase it's tax revenues. That is exactly the arguement the city's lawyer made to the US Supreme court.
To us this is very scary. New London is in Connecticut which is one of the original 13 colonies that rebelled against England. This seems to me to be a revolutionary war type of cause.
The concept of private property is very dear to us and this seems to smack of unjust confiscation. If this case is allowed to stand who of us will be safe? All of our houses and land would draw more in taxes if developed. These people have been on this land a long long time. The coast of New England is pretty damm well populated, they will not be able to replace what they have now.
Just compensation is a tricky term, the state decides and they have NO reason to make it fair or just. If you do not like that figure then you can always sue, sue the state that is. The cost of a suit with lawyers quickly convince most people to take the second offer made by the state. Not a fair fight.
The state politicians have been very quiet on this issue and the papers mute. Two hundred years ago this would have been pitchforks and torches.
Oh, where is a muckracking politico when you need one?
Nice overview.
I built an HMD for the Army back about 16 years ago. Hmmm maybe more. Called the HELMID program. Helmet Mounted Infantry Display. The results were shall we say less than acceptable. It was weight, weight, weight and weight. And the helmet is a not so good mounting platform, moves too much. The idea was to rifle mount a TV and let the user shoot around corners and over fences without sticking their head out.
You see a display can not allow any light to escape, if it does then you have lit up the user and he/she is a well lit target for any one else using night vision gear. Very bad. A bullet in the face does not make for an effective soldier.
This appears to be see through, which means the combiner only reflects a percentage of the image. Which also means the image has to compete with the Sun as in Solar, very tough to do. This display is probably only viewable when the user is looking at a dark surface. The image will be washed out against the sky. You'll need to use stroke graphics for sky viewing.
A couple of years ago a company started selling one eyed head mounted HUDs for the general aviation market. I asked the salespeople at Oshkosh about all your points, and if they have been getting headaches like the Apache pilots do. Their reaction was interesting, and mixure of "oh my god, some one knows about this and what is he talking about?", I gave them my card and told them I was available for consulting, never heard from them.
As Bill M used to say, "That eyeball boy ain't changing". The issues are the same, the head can only carry soooo much weight, the sun is bright, and our eyeballs/brain interface is millions of years old and it don't handle mulitple images well.
Interesing work when you can get it.
This system is stereo so it should be easier on the eyes/brain. However it'll never see combat if it lights up the user's face.
Many a good theory (re: model) has been ruined by a single piece of real data.
Models are only as good as our assumptions. And I assume badly often, thats why we test.
Yes, it's not your fault. Feel better?
On the face of it the statement,"I was hoping Kerry would get in office so I could get an Engineering job back home in Texas", is absurd.
Hmmm the ONLY job YOU could find was in the midwest, two scenarios come to mind, 1st: The mindless midwesterners are the only ones dumb enough to create jobs. 2nd: You are virtually unemployable. And the midwesterners took pity on you.
Take your pick. You are messing up their state.
When push comes to shove, this Northeasterner hopes he has Midwesterners at his side and not the majority of his fellow Northeasterns.
Nothing reveals Kerry's inane platform more then his doublespeak on "Benedict Arnold" companies.
The United States is in a global economy. Our economy would collapse without global trade. The flip side of that is people outside the US have to be able to sell to us.
It's a two way street, if people want to work for less and provide an acceptable product. There is nothing wrong with that.
Kerry's record in the Senate is virtually nonexistent. I live next door (statewise) to Kerry and I know virtually nothing about him. And I am very politically aware.
Did you know Bush was born in Connecticut?
Did you know Bush's grandfather was a US Senator from Connecticut?
Close but no cigar.
I have been on the look out for:
A industrial/school/company PC, with:
NO CDROM,
NO DVD,
No floppy,
128M ram,
very small Hard drive, 10 gig would do,
couple of USBs would be nice,
browser,
built in wireless,
video port,
keyboard port,
mouse port.
And that's it.
I don't care what OS, just as long the brower can do javascript.
I want a really thin client, for $150, less monitor. If I want it, others do too!