It's a pity. I was still buying their printer paper to print my photos on (when I print photos that is). I did have a Kodak Digital camera at one stage, but switched to Nikon and have never looked back. Up to my second Nikon camera now, and they are wonderful things. But, every photographer I know recommends either Nikon or Canon for anything that is more than just a point and shoot (and my nikon works wonderful even when I'm lazy and just doing a 'point and shoot' thing on 'Auto'). So, they really didn't get a look in at that end of the market. As far as point and shoot cameras go, my old Kodak was expensive, and it is a crowded market, and as some people always point out to me, the cameras in mobile phones are getting to the point of being just as good (in some case better) as point and shoot cameras.
One of the problems holding us back at work is the software some of our designers and engineers run is brilliant on XP but second rate on Win7. They complain to me and ask me to 'fix' the versions that run on Win7 as they have bugs/flaws. I can't 'fix' the software, as the software is third party. Many times I hear the designers saying things like 'Version 11 (XP version) is great, but version 12 (Win7 Version) stuffs up and makes it look like I can't do my job.' One of the design engineers was showing me how in the Win7 version two metal beams that join perfectly in the XP software don't quite match up in the Win7 version. They join the beams perfectly in one view, swing it around and it's 5 cm out in a different view.
To cut a long story short, until the Win7 versions of the software have had the bugs ironed out and removed, the XP versions of the software are the only things we can actually use to do our jobs. We had to wait months for the Win7 versions of the software, but after testing, they just aren't up to scratch yet. We can't move to Linux or Unix (or anything else) as the software we use (and our clients use) are all Windows based.
Less quality cinemas usually have 'new movies' too at the discount rate. I know as I used to deliver the flyer for a cinema (and had a 'free pass' to see all the movies I wanted... except the 'R' rated ones as I was under 18 at the time). But I saw the original 'Battlestar Gallactica' and 'Buck Rogers' (yeah, me old), as well as Rocky and Rocky II all when they were brand new and being shown at 'quality cinemas', (and 'The Empire Strikes Back'... which I saw two nights in a row, Oh yeah!), and the less quality cinema was about two thirds the cost of a regular cinema.
I currently get an email from a 'less quality' cinema in my city, (though I admit I've never gone) which shows the latest movies at a lesser price. Admittedly they don't show 'ALL' the latest movies, but one of the reasons for that is they have only one screen to show the movies they are playing. But if there are say, ten new movies out, they'll be showing about three of them each week, along with two or three 'art movies' that you'd never see at the mainstream cinemas.
One 'less quality' cinema that I used to frequent in my University years had two screens, so could show two movies at a time. But, it shut down due to financial difficulties. It used to play a combination of latest movies at a cheaper rate and 'classic' / 'cult' movies such as 'Blues Brothers', 'Rocky Horror Picture Show', 'Song Remains the Same' and 'Clockwork Orange' etc so was always good if you ever wanted to see something 'classic' like 'Citizen Kane' or 'Seven Samurai' on the big screen. Though, with todays home theatre experience who needs to go to a cinema to have that experience.
Not sure about the 'lesser quality' cinemas in your location, but the perception that they show 'older movies' is something that was always persistent with the 'lesser quality' cinemas I used to frequent, and was more a perception based on the fact that they do show old 'classics' and often never have a 'specific' latest movie that someone wants to see (due to lack of screens to play them on).
One good thing I will say about the 'lesser quality' cinemas I've been to though, is they tend to be cleaner and smell less than the big cinemas. This, I will assume, is probably due to them not having a 'patrons are cattle' attitude. The big cinemas tend to do a 'quick' clean between showings and get the next lot of patrons in ASAP, where as the 'lesser quality' cinemas show less movies (sometimes only one or two a night per screen) and do a better clean between screenings. I've sat in a big cinema where the area I was in smelt like urine... but couldn't move seats because there wasn't anywhere to move to (it was packed) and the people I was with didn't want to wait for another showing.
You're being ripped off. We outsourced a $10 million project to India for $900,000. Admittedly it didn't work and came back all wrong, but after getting them to correct it and make it 'usable' it still came back at about $1 million total. Still, it was one tenth the cost for something which, though not as good a quality, still did the job it was intended to do. So, get an Indian guy at one tenth the price, or maybe one at one fifth the price to maintain the quality.:-)
I've worked with several 'good' IT managers who are worth their weight in gold. 'Bad' IT managers are, unfortunately, the norm. There are several problems I always had with 'bad' IT Managers.
First, is the IT Manager who knows NOTHING about IT. Often they are accountants who have risen through managerial ranks and somehow talked their way into IT positions. They make demands like 'ripping out the firewalls' which they think do nothing and are an 'expense' or 'remove all Linux boxes from the network' because Linux is free and therefore can't possibly work. They're also naturally arrogant sods who think they know better than their underlings because 'they're managers' and if the underlings actually knew anything they'd be managers.
Second, is the IT manager who has risen through the ranks of IT to make it into management. They often know their IT stuff quite well, but due to their 'nerd' nature are often poor communicators, loners with poor social skills (brush your teeth 'Mister Sticky Green Teeth'! Sorry, flashback to an IT manager form 1988), and treat anyone who doesn't know 'everything' that they know like they are idiots, (and with 20-30 years IT experience under their belts, they think they know it all).
BUT the flip side to this is I've also found people don't care / want to know what IT does, so IT managers NOT explaining things sits well with them. Then there are the users from 'hell' - those who like to 'fiddle' with their settings till they break - those who expect computers to 'read their minds' - those who expect the computer software to do things how THEY [the user] wants it to work, not how it was designed to function - users who think you are an expert on every piece of hardware / software etc even invented, (Had a conversation today that went something like, 'Where can I buy a TX75 card? I used to have a TX65, but the manufacturer stopped making it and the TX85 is now out and I can't find it in the store, but my old TX75 stopped working and I thought maybe you'd know where I can get one.' 'Er, what's a TX75 card and what does it do?' 'Oh, come on, you're in IT. You know what it does! Have you heard what specs the TX90 is getting? I heard it was phasing out USB two point zero support and had an internal SATA jack that can be attached from outside the box.' *faints*)
In 2003, when I was trying to get on a plane in Kalgoorlie to fly to Perth an Airport security guard started claiming that my digital camera might 'be a bomb' and started demanding I hand it over so he could 'throw it away'. I believe (and still do), that what he really wanted was the camera, so I refused to hand it over. He then said he'd get the police, so I agreed that he could call them. He then said if I could prove it was a working camera he'd let me keep it, else he'd assume it was a bomb and take it from me. So I turned it on and showed him it working... I was a little afraid at this point because the batteries had previously died and I wasn't sure it would turn on. The fear was that I'd be put in a position where I'd have to chose between keeping my camera or flying where I needed to go. The camera was worth $500 and the plane ticket about $150... but I needed to get to my destination. Anyway, luckily the battery had enough charge to turn on once and prove it was a working camera (and died a few seconds later after he'd checked it.. phew).
My youngest brother wasn't so lucky and when he was out photographing nature in a park the police told him taking photos was illegal and confiscated his film and threw it in the bin. I spoke to my boss about this (he was a Snr Constable - I was working for WA Police at the time as a civilian) and he told me that the police officers did the wrong thing. Anything personal property they take from you, if it isn't something illegal (like drugs, weapons etc), you have a right to demand a receipt for and they are required to return it once the reason for why they took it from you had passed. For instance, in this case my boss suspected an operation was going down and they wanted to ensure that the photos my brother had taken didn't contain anything that might jeopardise the operation (like put officers lives at risk). But, also, if there was nothing jeopardising on the roll of film they took, then it should have been given back later. I wish my brother had taken their numbers down so that he could report them, but too late now. But, know your rights... while we still have some to know.
' 'To sell and promote the physical book in our store showrooms, and not have the eBook available for sale would undermine our promise to Barnes & Noble customers to make available any book, anywhere, anytime.'
Errr... so pulling the physical books off the shelf then makes those books available 'anywhere, anytime' ??? Um, doesn't that make them less available? I think what they meant to say was DC are being a bunch of *#@$%*** by helping Amazon create a Monopoly!!!!
How does that affect prior art?
For instance, I invent something and don't patent it. I sell the product for ten years when suddenly it gets popular. Someone else either independently invents it, or steals the invention and then patents it. The patent office won't have any records of a patent for the invention and grants them a patent on it. Where would I then stand? Technically I'm violating their patent, but can prove that I invented it first.
Except in the case of Milli Vanilli the record producer who put the act together wasn't trying to hide the fact that they weren't the real singers. He'd done the same thing with Boney M and other acts and thought people were Okay with 'bands' where some or all of the people out front are lip syncing. After all, it's how he made his name. So from his perspective, why would people suddenly think he put a band together where the people out front were actually singing for once? It was really the media hype that made out it was a secret scam, when in fact it wasn't.
I went to UNE (Armidale, New South Wales) when I did Comp. Sc. They are very Linux based. We had to purchase Red hat 2 (Yes, that long ago) as well as one subject which required Windows 3.1 or 95 (Because it was prior to 98). I was annoyed though when after forking out money for Corel Works, because we were told we had to use that and weren't allowed to use MS Office for our assignments, they did a backflip and suddenly decided people could use Excel etc for assignments. But, other than that one subject all our assignments had to be written to run on Linux RedHat boxes (Later a Fedora box I believe... yeah, yeah, same difference).
'You remember those people...everything must run MS and if it doesn't, it sucks.'
Of course I remember them. I work for them now. One of the big bosses told me the other day that no one ever ran Unix and it never took off. My direct boss is always ridiculing me for running a Mac at home (I also have a copy of Ubuntu running on the Mac). He keeps telling me Apple are people who know nothing about computers making computers for people who don't know how to use them. I just keep reminding him that my Mac's never crashed, whilst we spend all day fixing MS stuff (I'm sort of a DB admin for one group and looking after the MS servers for other groups... I used to be just a DB admin till I programmed my way out of that job by automating almost everything... but, my boss probably takes that as a sign I know nothing about computers because the systems I set up never crash! *sigh*).
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Or that cognitive decline starts as soon as you are being watched by researchers. :-)
It's a pity. I was still buying their printer paper to print my photos on (when I print photos that is). I did have a Kodak Digital camera at one stage, but switched to Nikon and have never looked back. Up to my second Nikon camera now, and they are wonderful things. But, every photographer I know recommends either Nikon or Canon for anything that is more than just a point and shoot (and my nikon works wonderful even when I'm lazy and just doing a 'point and shoot' thing on 'Auto'). So, they really didn't get a look in at that end of the market. As far as point and shoot cameras go, my old Kodak was expensive, and it is a crowded market, and as some people always point out to me, the cameras in mobile phones are getting to the point of being just as good (in some case better) as point and shoot cameras.
Why did I just have flashbacks of the 'Stand Up Philosopher' bit from Mel Brooks 'History of the World Part 1' ???
One of the problems holding us back at work is the software some of our designers and engineers run is brilliant on XP but second rate on Win7. They complain to me and ask me to 'fix' the versions that run on Win7 as they have bugs/flaws. I can't 'fix' the software, as the software is third party. Many times I hear the designers saying things like 'Version 11 (XP version) is great, but version 12 (Win7 Version) stuffs up and makes it look like I can't do my job.' One of the design engineers was showing me how in the Win7 version two metal beams that join perfectly in the XP software don't quite match up in the Win7 version. They join the beams perfectly in one view, swing it around and it's 5 cm out in a different view.
To cut a long story short, until the Win7 versions of the software have had the bugs ironed out and removed, the XP versions of the software are the only things we can actually use to do our jobs. We had to wait months for the Win7 versions of the software, but after testing, they just aren't up to scratch yet. We can't move to Linux or Unix (or anything else) as the software we use (and our clients use) are all Windows based.
Agree with you except for one small point.
Less quality cinemas usually have 'new movies' too at the discount rate. I know as I used to deliver the flyer for a cinema (and had a 'free pass' to see all the movies I wanted ... except the 'R' rated ones as I was under 18 at the time). But I saw the original 'Battlestar Gallactica' and 'Buck Rogers' (yeah, me old), as well as Rocky and Rocky II all when they were brand new and being shown at 'quality cinemas', (and 'The Empire Strikes Back' ... which I saw two nights in a row, Oh yeah!), and the less quality cinema was about two thirds the cost of a regular cinema.
I currently get an email from a 'less quality' cinema in my city, (though I admit I've never gone) which shows the latest movies at a lesser price. Admittedly they don't show 'ALL' the latest movies, but one of the reasons for that is they have only one screen to show the movies they are playing. But if there are say, ten new movies out, they'll be showing about three of them each week, along with two or three 'art movies' that you'd never see at the mainstream cinemas.
One 'less quality' cinema that I used to frequent in my University years had two screens, so could show two movies at a time. But, it shut down due to financial difficulties. It used to play a combination of latest movies at a cheaper rate and 'classic' / 'cult' movies such as 'Blues Brothers', 'Rocky Horror Picture Show', 'Song Remains the Same' and 'Clockwork Orange' etc so was always good if you ever wanted to see something 'classic' like 'Citizen Kane' or 'Seven Samurai' on the big screen. Though, with todays home theatre experience who needs to go to a cinema to have that experience.
Not sure about the 'lesser quality' cinemas in your location, but the perception that they show 'older movies' is something that was always persistent with the 'lesser quality' cinemas I used to frequent, and was more a perception based on the fact that they do show old 'classics' and often never have a 'specific' latest movie that someone wants to see (due to lack of screens to play them on).
One good thing I will say about the 'lesser quality' cinemas I've been to though, is they tend to be cleaner and smell less than the big cinemas. This, I will assume, is probably due to them not having a 'patrons are cattle' attitude. The big cinemas tend to do a 'quick' clean between showings and get the next lot of patrons in ASAP, where as the 'lesser quality' cinemas show less movies (sometimes only one or two a night per screen) and do a better clean between screenings. I've sat in a big cinema where the area I was in smelt like urine ... but couldn't move seats because there wasn't anywhere to move to (it was packed) and the people I was with didn't want to wait for another showing.
You're being ripped off. We outsourced a $10 million project to India for $900,000. Admittedly it didn't work and came back all wrong, but after getting them to correct it and make it 'usable' it still came back at about $1 million total. Still, it was one tenth the cost for something which, though not as good a quality, still did the job it was intended to do. So, get an Indian guy at one tenth the price, or maybe one at one fifth the price to maintain the quality. :-)
I've worked with several 'good' IT managers who are worth their weight in gold. 'Bad' IT managers are, unfortunately, the norm. There are several problems I always had with 'bad' IT Managers.
First, is the IT Manager who knows NOTHING about IT. Often they are accountants who have risen through managerial ranks and somehow talked their way into IT positions. They make demands like 'ripping out the firewalls' which they think do nothing and are an 'expense' or 'remove all Linux boxes from the network' because Linux is free and therefore can't possibly work. They're also naturally arrogant sods who think they know better than their underlings because 'they're managers' and if the underlings actually knew anything they'd be managers.
Second, is the IT manager who has risen through the ranks of IT to make it into management. They often know their IT stuff quite well, but due to their 'nerd' nature are often poor communicators, loners with poor social skills (brush your teeth 'Mister Sticky Green Teeth'! Sorry, flashback to an IT manager form 1988), and treat anyone who doesn't know 'everything' that they know like they are idiots, (and with 20-30 years IT experience under their belts, they think they know it all).
BUT the flip side to this is I've also found people don't care / want to know what IT does, so IT managers NOT explaining things sits well with them. Then there are the users from 'hell' - those who like to 'fiddle' with their settings till they break - those who expect computers to 'read their minds' - those who expect the computer software to do things how THEY [the user] wants it to work, not how it was designed to function - users who think you are an expert on every piece of hardware / software etc even invented, (Had a conversation today that went something like, 'Where can I buy a TX75 card? I used to have a TX65, but the manufacturer stopped making it and the TX85 is now out and I can't find it in the store, but my old TX75 stopped working and I thought maybe you'd know where I can get one.' 'Er, what's a TX75 card and what does it do?' 'Oh, come on, you're in IT. You know what it does! Have you heard what specs the TX90 is getting? I heard it was phasing out USB two point zero support and had an internal SATA jack that can be attached from outside the box.' *faints*)
... the Universe is held together by stupidity. It's a theory, based on the fact there is so much of it about.
Didn't they prove that theory wrong? :-)
Nothing to translate for those of us who can read original Klingon.
More expensive than humans in many cases.
In 2003, when I was trying to get on a plane in Kalgoorlie to fly to Perth an Airport security guard started claiming that my digital camera might 'be a bomb' and started demanding I hand it over so he could 'throw it away'. I believe (and still do), that what he really wanted was the camera, so I refused to hand it over. He then said he'd get the police, so I agreed that he could call them. He then said if I could prove it was a working camera he'd let me keep it, else he'd assume it was a bomb and take it from me. So I turned it on and showed him it working ... I was a little afraid at this point because the batteries had previously died and I wasn't sure it would turn on. The fear was that I'd be put in a position where I'd have to chose between keeping my camera or flying where I needed to go. The camera was worth $500 and the plane ticket about $150 ... but I needed to get to my destination. Anyway, luckily the battery had enough charge to turn on once and prove it was a working camera (and died a few seconds later after he'd checked it .. phew).
My youngest brother wasn't so lucky and when he was out photographing nature in a park the police told him taking photos was illegal and confiscated his film and threw it in the bin. I spoke to my boss about this (he was a Snr Constable - I was working for WA Police at the time as a civilian) and he told me that the police officers did the wrong thing. Anything personal property they take from you, if it isn't something illegal (like drugs, weapons etc), you have a right to demand a receipt for and they are required to return it once the reason for why they took it from you had passed. For instance, in this case my boss suspected an operation was going down and they wanted to ensure that the photos my brother had taken didn't contain anything that might jeopardise the operation (like put officers lives at risk). But, also, if there was nothing jeopardising on the roll of film they took, then it should have been given back later. I wish my brother had taken their numbers down so that he could report them, but too late now. But, know your rights ... while we still have some to know.
You fell through a hole in time and are at MS developing Win95????
I was being humorous. I understand the reasons. lol
He's studied chaos theory, string theory, quantum mechanics and nuclear science. NOT spelling, damn it!!!! :-)
As soon as they are hired, they are technically incompetent professionals. :-)
' 'To sell and promote the physical book in our store showrooms, and not have the eBook available for sale would undermine our promise to Barnes & Noble customers to make available any book, anywhere, anytime.'
Errr ... so pulling the physical books off the shelf then makes those books available 'anywhere, anytime' ??? Um, doesn't that make them less available? I think what they meant to say was DC are being a bunch of *#@$%*** by helping Amazon create a Monopoly!!!!
How does that affect prior art? For instance, I invent something and don't patent it. I sell the product for ten years when suddenly it gets popular. Someone else either independently invents it, or steals the invention and then patents it. The patent office won't have any records of a patent for the invention and grants them a patent on it. Where would I then stand? Technically I'm violating their patent, but can prove that I invented it first.
Except in the case of Milli Vanilli the record producer who put the act together wasn't trying to hide the fact that they weren't the real singers. He'd done the same thing with Boney M and other acts and thought people were Okay with 'bands' where some or all of the people out front are lip syncing. After all, it's how he made his name. So from his perspective, why would people suddenly think he put a band together where the people out front were actually singing for once? It was really the media hype that made out it was a secret scam, when in fact it wasn't.
So ... download it from work! :-)
... not just one set of 1's and 0's, but TWO sets for the same price!
It was just a dream, Bender. There's no such thing as two.
'... a group of 65,000 chemicals has a good chance of creating a 'self-sustaining' system of chemical reactions (similar to life).'
KIRK: Bones, what can you tell me about these 65,000 chemicals?
McCoy: Well, it's similar to life, Jim. But not as we know it.'
I went to UNE (Armidale, New South Wales) when I did Comp. Sc. They are very Linux based. We had to purchase Red hat 2 (Yes, that long ago) as well as one subject which required Windows 3.1 or 95 (Because it was prior to 98). I was annoyed though when after forking out money for Corel Works, because we were told we had to use that and weren't allowed to use MS Office for our assignments, they did a backflip and suddenly decided people could use Excel etc for assignments. But, other than that one subject all our assignments had to be written to run on Linux RedHat boxes (Later a Fedora box I believe ... yeah, yeah, same difference).
'You remember those people...everything must run MS and if it doesn't, it sucks.'
Of course I remember them. I work for them now. One of the big bosses told me the other day that no one ever ran Unix and it never took off. My direct boss is always ridiculing me for running a Mac at home (I also have a copy of Ubuntu running on the Mac). He keeps telling me Apple are people who know nothing about computers making computers for people who don't know how to use them. I just keep reminding him that my Mac's never crashed, whilst we spend all day fixing MS stuff (I'm sort of a DB admin for one group and looking after the MS servers for other groups ... I used to be just a DB admin till I programmed my way out of that job by automating almost everything ... but, my boss probably takes that as a sign I know nothing about computers because the systems I set up never crash! *sigh*).
Because Knut(h) the polar bear ate a lot of penguins and was deemed more linux than Ubuntu. :-)