Regrettably, both Ilford & Agfa, the other two (strong) contenders in the black & white film and paper business have both had bankruptcy issues in the past couple of years.
I imagine, worst case scneario, if every major company left the stange, someone entrepreneurially-minded would fairly quickly step in and make a solid business on B&W.
Also, AFA your comment on Ilford paper: it is excellent. My all-time personal favorite paper is Brilliant Multigrade
All this can be avoided with these three sentences:
By using our processing service, you agree that all photographs are images being processed and/or printed are your own or that you have all legal rights to process and/or print the images.
If you are not certain you do, you may be held legally liable for fines up to $100,000 for copyright infringement.
By using our services you agree to be bound by these terms and to assume all risk.
DONE! That's it. DONE. But instead bureaucracy gets in the way of good judgement. Again.
In the most overarching, most generalized terms possible, the point of the BSD license isn't that BSD should benefit, it's that the user should benefit. In some cases the user turns out to be a great big corporation.
Realizing this is completely my opinion, I have to say, to me, THAT is the real beauty of it! The developers are saying, "I think I made something useful. You might find it useful, too. Here. And, oh by the way, if you use it cool, if you don't oh well."
When it gets cracked there'll be one of two things: either a ganga popup ads on the tapes (and other miscellaneous viruses and other garbage) or a much simpler message:
The other day I was fiddling with a laptop that had dual 2GHz processors or something like that. Ehh? I mean, it's great that they can cram all that into a "moderately" small package, but still, you need Nomex pants to use it in your lap.
I'm sayin'. They're pricey and great and all but there are hidden costs to operating them. Namely that the most expensive thing with these devices isn't buying second batteries (which are expensive in their own right, don't get me wrong). The most expensive thing is replacing your nomex pants and (should you ever forget to wear them) paying the emergency room bills!;-)
Yup. Funny you should mention that because I had a similar thought as soon as I read the article, too. What hit me was, "Reading articles like this makes me glad I subscribe to/."
To the poster, contributors, and Slashdot creators alike: thanks.
Any time I have to use a GUI to make a particular change, you as a developer have failed. Try to script configuration changes which require a GUI. Try to make those changes while logged in to a headless server using ssh.
Agreed.
[shudders]
Or try adding and manipulating more than two IPs in a Windows machine. What the #@$% is with that damned TEENY interface to work with IPs in Windows? (You see a whopping 3.5 IPs in the 'IP Settings' tab.) Is that thing yanked straight from the book of 'What Can I Do As a Developer to Make Life Crappy for the User?" God forbid you actually need to *add* a dozen IPs. You're typing the same crap a dozen times. Yeesh.
When moving something from one Windows machine to another and having to move the IP in the process, makes me cry every time.
Give me a good ol'
# ifconfig.....
anytime.
There are too many things like this in Windows where the UI to something is utter horror to deal with but where CLI makes the admin task a snap.
Indeed, and unfortunately, it's not just them, but it's also England, Germany, France, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, India, Pakistan, and even the Good Ol' US of A. And that's just the top of the list.
For the doubters about it happening here in the US, all it takes to see it in the US is a trip to a "County Fair", flea market, or similar swap meet. This is to say nothing of the bogus copies available online. If you see a copy of Windows for $25 here in the US (or anywhere for that matter), chances are it's bogus and you're putting yourself at risk.
Sad but true that it's so rampant, but it really is. [Note: debating why it's so rampant is another discussion altogether.]
I myself was a very reluctant adopter of 2000 when it was released. Having heard there were 65,000 bugs they knew about at release time, I feared much worse than just "the worst." I was expecting a scene like that from Ghostbusters with Bill Murray, "Riots in the streets, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!"
Funny thing is, after adopting XP Pro fairly early on and quickly learning how to take it out of the absurd default 'Clown Mode'(tm) with all those blasted animations. Grrr.], I found a lot of things just r a n S L O W E R on XP
Double Grrr.
So after a couple of reloads back and forth with 2K and XP since XPs release (on the same machine), I can say with complete sincerity, 2K is both noticably faster and their best OS. Don't talk to me about 'faster boot times'. Who cares? I reboot maybe a dozen times a year with 2K.
This doesn't seem to be any added protection to me. Here's why:
Voices would it seem need to be encoded into digital format to be useful. I.e. you do a match on the numberic voiceprint stored in the card vs that stored in a database.
Oh poo. There's a database involved somewhere--that also means that merchants will want to capture and store those fingerprints to prevent chargebacks.
Double poo. There's a second set of databases involved--ones which are often guarded willy-nilly (if at all).
Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems to me to be a non-starter.
Agreed. 100%. Why, oh why, is every bad decision blamed on that? Every lapse of judgement... every inclination someone has to do something a certain way that ends up being wrong... it's like a default response now.[sigh]
Whatever happened to: "Ya know what? We really screwed up, and man are we sorry." C'mon folks. Get a grip.
In large part, I agree. Poor planning of applications like MS SNA server (which I had the misfortune of having to use in a company a couple of years ago), which REQUIRES that the *client desktops* have administrator privs to run the *client* SNA software, is just bad news.
In my case with SNA, in the end we found a convoluted work-around for the client desktops, but it was unpleasant getting there.
As you said, it's stuff like that which is just inexcusably poor planning and that causes loads of other cascading problems. IIS running with Administrator rights is another similarly baffling mystery. We'll see.
leasing is a straight-forward writeoff for tax purposes while buying will involve amortizing the cost over multiple tax years.
While that is true in his case, for the case of many, many small business owners this is not the case (at least in the US). That said, for his purposes, I don't think he really cares (hence isn't considering) what the tax benefits/headaches are.
As I recall, current IRS regulations allow a company up to $110,000(?) to be spent annually for things like this and still deducted 100%.
Yeah--sure seems like it won't be long before someone at Cisco, Nortel, et al, (heck, even Dell now that they're making forays into network gear), steps up and makes accusations about dumping.
Don't get me wrong, I like good competition as much as the next guy, but it makes my blood boil when competitors cheat by doing things like dumping.
Exactly. They're taking advantage of a second energy supply and only claiming the cost of the first.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I'm also curious what the real-world *cost* is of generating that electricity. (I.e. not the price tag involved, per se, but the real-world effects of using even MORE electricity.) Here in California ["Official Home of the Rolling Blackouts"(tm)], the energy comes from nuclear power or coal or MAAAYBE natural gas or MAAAAAAAYBE wind.:-(
Coal is horribly dirty; nuclear power means yucky waste that no one wants; natural gas is a limited resource like oil; wind is largely impractical for use in large scale city-wide needs (especially in places where there's no wind to speak of).
It might very well be solid fuel econonomy, but it sure seems like we're just moving the problem from one place to another to me.
For Pete's sake, what are we doing plugging more stuff into the grid?!
... it's not just twigs, bubble gum and duct tape inside a computer box thingy? (Oh, and blinky lights?)
But... but... but.. What's all this talk of 'transistors'? And what am I going to do with all this extra duct tape I bought to fix things in there when it breaks?
I'm a little afraid to open it now, and I thought I'd just worked up the courage.
Amen, brother. (Errr... sister... well, nevermind that part for now. Just: AMEN!)
I've been saying for a while now that ask.com / teoma has an excellent search offering. It's funny how frequently I find myself liking what they're doing with search and nodding my head.
Supposedly Google has just recently hired one of the main people behind the Teoma algos.
I think more of us need to 'just say no'. I'm surprised by how often I'm able to avoid giving my SSN just by saying, "No."
Cell phone. Gas company. Phone company. Cable company. Long distance. ISPs. Electric company. Video rental.
(They've got to be kidding, right?) They absolutely do NOT need it. The worst case is I've had to put a lousy $100 down up front to 'secure' my account. It's $100 well spent to have my SSN in a few less places.
It's nice that we consumers are in a position like that now. Sure, Word Perfect was (is?) a terrific product, but it isn't free and OO is certainly its equal, too. All for the bargain price of free.
That said, it's only there because of the hard work of a ganga folks, so if you like it, I hope you're donating a few bucks to the fine folks developing OO. It's worth it.
These are some lessons my parents and grandparents taught me. You'd think they don't need saying, but let's review for the folks in the cheap seats and for BofA management.
1. The cheapest anything is almost never a good choice. (Shipping over commercial airlines?)
2. Never, ever allow yourself to use the phrase "It's not like..." when thinking about problems and solutions. Instead, start by asking, "What will I do when...." (It's not like we're going to lose a MILLION customers' data!)
3. Just because you're a big shot doesn't mean you have the right to treat people poorly. (The shoddy customer service given to gov't employees (and others, too) as mentioned by prior posters here.)
4. When you screw up, suck it up and tell it like it is. Put another way, hiding behind crap phrases like, "We're sorry for the inconvenience...." or "The investigation to date...." is just plain stupid and is neither believable nor functional.
5. If something can go wrong it will. Are you wearing clean underwear? (See all of the above.)
From having had numerous friends and family members bemoan that "I just don't use the Internet that much!" as justification for not getting DSL/cable, in 100% of the cases, they've all had worlds open up when they saw how painless things became once their access was so dramatically faster. (Waiting several seconds for a single page like Yahoo! to download gets tedious quickly.)
Their faster access meant more Internet usage (now they're paying bills online, banking, and shopping for instance), which in turn meant they "needed" the higher speed conenction.
Very quickly, they realize how much more than just faster speed, the faster speed meant.
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Regrettably, both Ilford & Agfa, the other two (strong) contenders in the black & white film and paper business have both had bankruptcy issues in the past couple of years.
I imagine, worst case scneario, if every major company left the stange, someone entrepreneurially-minded would fairly quickly step in and make a solid business on B&W.
Also, AFA your comment on Ilford paper: it is excellent. My all-time personal favorite paper is Brilliant Multigrade
All this can be avoided with these three sentences: DONE! That's it. DONE. But instead bureaucracy gets in the way of good judgement. Again.
In the most overarching, most generalized terms possible, the point of the BSD license isn't that BSD should benefit, it's that the user should benefit. In some cases the user turns out to be a great big corporation.
Realizing this is completely my opinion, I have to say, to me, THAT is the real beauty of it! The developers are saying, "I think I made something useful. You might find it useful, too. Here. And, oh by the way, if you use it cool, if you don't oh well."
Geez--RTFA.
The white paper says it will be Clippy.Net.
When it gets cracked there'll be one of two things: either a ganga popup ads on the tapes (and other miscellaneous viruses and other garbage) or a much simpler message:
I'm sayin'. They're pricey and great and all but there are hidden costs to operating them. Namely that the most expensive thing with these devices isn't buying second batteries (which are expensive in their own right, don't get me wrong). The most expensive thing is replacing your nomex pants and (should you ever forget to wear them) paying the emergency room bills!
[sigh] Oh, alright. Those people are great, too. ;-)
[/sigh]
There's just no easy Slashdot-like 'subscribe' option for supporting cancer research or I'd do that, too.
Yup. Funny you should mention that because I had a similar thought as soon as I read the article, too. What hit me was, "Reading articles like this makes me glad I subscribe to /."
;-)
To the poster, contributors, and Slashdot creators alike: thanks.
Oh, and the users are sometimes OK, too.
Or try adding and manipulating more than two IPs in a Windows machine. What the #@$% is with that damned TEENY interface to work with IPs in Windows? (You see a whopping 3.5 IPs in the 'IP Settings' tab.) Is that thing yanked straight from the book of 'What Can I Do As a Developer to Make Life Crappy for the User?" God forbid you actually need to *add* a dozen IPs. You're typing the same crap a dozen times. Yeesh.
When moving something from one Windows machine to another and having to move the IP in the process, makes me cry every time.
Give me a good ol' anytime.
There are too many things like this in Windows where the UI to something is utter horror to deal with but where CLI makes the admin task a snap.
Indeed, and unfortunately, it's not just them, but it's also England, Germany, France, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, India, Pakistan, and even the Good Ol' US of A. And that's just the top of the list.
For the doubters about it happening here in the US, all it takes to see it in the US is a trip to a "County Fair", flea market, or similar swap meet. This is to say nothing of the bogus copies available online. If you see a copy of Windows for $25 here in the US (or anywhere for that matter), chances are it's bogus and you're putting yourself at risk.
Sad but true that it's so rampant, but it really is. [Note: debating why it's so rampant is another discussion altogether.]
Amen, brother.
I myself was a very reluctant adopter of 2000 when it was released. Having heard there were 65,000 bugs they knew about at release time, I feared much worse than just "the worst." I was expecting a scene like that from Ghostbusters with Bill Murray, "Riots in the streets, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!"
Funny thing is, after adopting XP Pro fairly early on and quickly learning how to take it out of the absurd default 'Clown Mode'(tm) with all those blasted animations. Grrr.], I found a lot of things just r a n S L O W E R on XP
Double Grrr.
So after a couple of reloads back and forth with 2K and XP since XPs release (on the same machine), I can say with complete sincerity, 2K is both noticably faster and their best OS. Don't talk to me about 'faster boot times'. Who cares? I reboot maybe a dozen times a year with 2K.
-K.
sorry for the bold. I'm really not sure how that happened. :-(
:-\
Note to self: preview. preview!
This doesn't seem to be any added protection to me. Here's why:
Voices would it seem need to be encoded into digital format to be useful. I.e. you do a match on the numberic voiceprint stored in the card vs that stored in a database.
Oh poo. There's a database involved somewhere--that also means that merchants will want to capture and store those fingerprints to prevent chargebacks.
Double poo. There's a second set of databases involved--ones which are often guarded willy-nilly (if at all).
Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems to me to be a non-starter.
Agreed. 100%. Why, oh why, is every bad decision blamed on that? Every lapse of judgement... every inclination someone has to do something a certain way that ends up being wrong... it's like a default response now.[sigh]
Whatever happened to: "Ya know what? We really screwed up, and man are we sorry." C'mon folks. Get a grip.
In large part, I agree. Poor planning of applications like MS SNA server (which I had the misfortune of having to use in a company a couple of years ago), which REQUIRES that the *client desktops* have administrator privs to run the *client* SNA software, is just bad news.
In my case with SNA, in the end we found a convoluted work-around for the client desktops, but it was unpleasant getting there.
As you said, it's stuff like that which is just inexcusably poor planning and that causes loads of other cascading problems. IIS running with Administrator rights is another similarly baffling mystery. We'll see.
As I recall, current IRS regulations allow a company up to $110,000(?) to be spent annually for things like this and still deducted 100%.
YMMV. IANAA.
Yeah--sure seems like it won't be long before someone at Cisco, Nortel, et al, (heck, even Dell now that they're making forays into network gear), steps up and makes accusations about dumping.
Don't get me wrong, I like good competition as much as the next guy, but it makes my blood boil when competitors cheat by doing things like dumping.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I'm also curious what the real-world *cost* is of generating that electricity. (I.e. not the price tag involved, per se, but the real-world effects of using even MORE electricity.) Here in California ["Official Home of the Rolling Blackouts"(tm)], the energy comes from nuclear power or coal or MAAAYBE natural gas or MAAAAAAAYBE wind.
Coal is horribly dirty; nuclear power means yucky waste that no one wants; natural gas is a limited resource like oil; wind is largely impractical for use in large scale city-wide needs (especially in places where there's no wind to speak of).
It might very well be solid fuel econonomy, but it sure seems like we're just moving the problem from one place to another to me.
For Pete's sake, what are we doing plugging more stuff into the grid?!
... it's not just twigs, bubble gum and duct tape inside a computer box thingy? (Oh, and blinky lights?)
But... but... but.. What's all this talk of 'transistors'? And what am I going to do with all this extra duct tape I bought to fix things in there when it breaks?
I'm a little afraid to open it now, and I thought I'd just worked up the courage.
[sigh] Now what? [/sigh]
to say nothing about OpenOffice. It has excellent pdf creation, too, via the 'export' function.
Amen, brother. (Errr... sister... well, nevermind that part for now. Just: AMEN!)
I've been saying for a while now that ask.com / teoma has an excellent search offering. It's funny how frequently I find myself liking what they're doing with search and nodding my head.
Supposedly Google has just recently hired one of the main people behind the Teoma algos.
I think more of us need to 'just say no'. I'm surprised by how often I'm able to avoid giving my SSN just by saying, "No."
Cell phone. Gas company. Phone company. Cable company. Long distance. ISPs. Electric company. Video rental.
(They've got to be kidding, right?) They absolutely do NOT need it. The worst case is I've had to put a lousy $100 down up front to 'secure' my account. It's $100 well spent to have my SSN in a few less places.
It's nice that we consumers are in a position like that now. Sure, Word Perfect was (is?) a terrific product, but it isn't free and OO is certainly its equal, too. All for the bargain price of free.
That said, it's only there because of the hard work of a ganga folks, so if you like it, I hope you're donating a few bucks to the fine folks developing OO. It's worth it.
From having had numerous friends and family members bemoan that "I just don't use the Internet that much!" as justification for not getting DSL/cable, in 100% of the cases, they've all had worlds open up when they saw how painless things became once their access was so dramatically faster. (Waiting several seconds for a single page like Yahoo! to download gets tedious quickly.)
Their faster access meant more Internet usage (now they're paying bills online, banking, and shopping for instance), which in turn meant they "needed" the higher speed conenction.
Very quickly, they realize how much more than just faster speed, the faster speed meant.