64 MB card for over $600 that claims 90 MB/sec write speed.
Overkill. Also not the way RAW works.
RAW only has one color sample per pixel. So you need to divide your numbers by 3. So more like 30MB per shot.
As to your $600 CF Card... no. You can get a 64GB - 60MBs write speed card for $150. Cameras have buffers so you can shoot burst and fill the buffer before needing to write to card. Most cameras can't shoot beyond 3 FPS. Before your buffer fills you could shoot on burst a few seconds of shots with a 60MB card.
You're spending about twice as much for the medium. But like you said developing and scanning is where you get hit. Think $15 a roll if you want 22 megapixels with 36bit color. So 24 rolls will set you back about $300 for procsesing. About twice a CF Card.
Or it's the same artistry--just being done on the computer.
Ansel Adams dodged and burned his photos in development. It's nothing new. We aren't to the point yet where you can just "photoshop all the light sources" yet but we will. And what's wrong with that? What's the difference between doing it on location where time is of the essence and electricity and lights might be scarce instead of capturing the composition and lighting in post?
You still have to have an eye for composition and lighting.
We bitch and whine about DRM because "it'll just be broken". So what does someone do? Just ask you not to steal it if you aren't a customer. So then we laugh at their naivety that someone wouldn't just steal it if it's not locked down with DRM.
Oh silly fickle Slashdot.
What do you say we reward someone who doesn't burden actual customers with troublesome and self defeating DRM instead of mocking them?
Piracy is a crime and has been for hundreds of years.
Just because something has no physical form and can be duplicated for free doesn't mean it didn't take effort. Fuck you. I worked hard to make my products. If I want to be payed for my labor and time then I should be allowed to charge for it.
I'm not saying that the current penalties aren't obscene and probably unconstitutional. But the notion that people shouldn't pay for things simply because they can be duplicated for free is equally offensive. No it's not theft. And I pirate things. I also speed and think we need speed limits.
I think this law is also too draconian... on the other hand I would absolutely stop pirating things if they could readily enforce such a law.
We're moving from a goods based economy to a virtual economy. Unless we want to completely dismantle our entire economy and stop paying anyone then I want to be payed for my labor. When my plumber will come out and work for free I'll happily give away my time for free as well. Until then I need greenbacks to pay people whose work I can't pirate.
When you abolish IP law you just fuck the little guy. Sure it looks like the MPAA and the RIAA and the other MAFIAAs are the ones waving their arms about now but think about the author. Someone spends two years writing the book. Then the first day it's published book printers in china just ramp up their factories and go to town. The author sees nothing. Even with eDistribution Amazon cranks up the servers and the author sees nothing. Barnes and Noble downloads it and uploads Amazon's copy a minute later to all their Nooks.
The only way the Author can make money is to go out and beg like fucking Hobo while tens of millions of people enjoy and value the book but don't have any moral or legal obligation to reward the writer. "But merchandising!" you say. No dice. The only way authors make money off of merchandising today is because they have a monopoly on the ideas. Factory in China ramps up Penny-Arcade plushies and away they go to Wal-Mart. No cut for the author.
Nobody would pay the author either for any sort of 'exclusive' since they know the second it hits the market another factory in China or Mexico will have it one week behind.
No thank you. The penalties are what's out of balance not the rights for a creator to have an exclusive monopoly on their labor.
Well. It is interesting from the perspective: "Democrats destroy the economy". I would say Microsoft, Google, Facebook etc are the fastest growing job makers in the country. And when it comes to choosing governance for some reason most of them choose Democrats.
If Democrats were destroying the economy, breaking the back of business and generally being bad for these companies they have an odd masochistic urge to continue the 'pain'.
It certainly runs counter to the meme "Democrats are anti-business".
If you want to wipe the hard drive and start from scratch then I bet the court would agree. In this case jail breaking an Xbox 360 is probably to run the OS in a state to circumvent copy protection.
You completely missed the point I was making. I'm not saying there aren't liberals who are trying to take away your liberties under the guise of 'security' I'm saying that at even the slightest motion to relax counter terrorism operations or surveillance elicits condemnation from a large number of Americans. Ironically mostly from the "Freedom Loving" sort.
If their taxes go up by 1% they scream tyranny. When the government cuts defense spending, relaxes domestic spying or tries to pass legislation which doesn't profile and infringe on citizens' rights it's "letting the terrorists win", "being soft on crime", "letting political correctness put us in danger" or a plot "put us under sharia law".
The source of this problem isn't Washington DC it's from the American people.
Which brings me to tablets: If Microsoft makes a tablet that isn't some bastardized copy of Windows, I'll take a look. Until then, no thank you. Buying an overpriced one use computing device to me seem silly, and trying to shoehorn Windows into a tablet type device is just as pointless.
90% of people vote for the two parties because >50% of the population in spite of their protests demands the goverment do this or else they will stop voting for their representative for not 'protecting' them.
When a majority of the voting block doesn't crucify a politician for suggesting that terrorists don't pose as great of threat as the security procedures to protect us from said terrorists we could start making progress. Remember when Obama said he wanted to make terrorism just another law enforcement problem like the mob or robbery? He was strung up by his ankles and had to back off because of the Fox News "Obama is coddling terrorists" line.
NPR just fired an journalist for saying that he gets nervous whenever he sees a muslim on a plane because we shouldn't deny that we're 'at war with islam'. It's evidently just "politically correct" and 'soft' to suggest that a muslim isn't hiding in every bush waiting to jump out and kill you.
That's sharp's own fault for signing on to build a competitor to the sidekick, which has had a declining market share for years now. I doubt they actually built it, probably just managed the manufacturing process at best.
Sharp used to build the "Sidekick". Sidekick was made by Danger. Danger got bought by Microsoft. So they weren't building a "competitor" to Sidekick they stuck with 'Sidekick' even after the branding got sold to T-Mobile.
The kin was pretty neutered. But the Sidekick was also always an enigma to me. It was always underfeatured compared to a real smartphone like the iPhone. I think the thing that killed the Kin was that it was too expensive. The Sidekick was this pre-teen texting phone but MS made it so data intensive it required a full blown smartphone plan. When you can get a droid for free now -- all you're really paying for is the data plan so why go for half of a phone?
If anyone is to blame it's Verizon IMO. (Well and MS for developing two smartphone OSes simultaneously instead of focusing on one. "Who could possibly have forseen that was a bad idea."/sarcasm)
So who do you support then? Republicans? Democrats? They both support the wars, look at the voting record. Even if you don't agree with teabaggers you should support their activities. We need a multi-party system now.
Please the tea party is full of the people who pushed for the war. And I don't see any Tea Party candidates on the ballots. All I see are Really Really Republican Republicans.
It's not a multi-party system when they run under the (R) nomination.
If you download it to a 64GB microSD card and everyone has a copy on their smart phone then you just need to give a smartphone some juice assuming it wasn't EMP'ed.
We've generated another crap that redundancy shouldn't be a problem. Just collect 100 phones from corpses and juice them up. One is certain to have a WikiApp.
Some time later I still had a Pentium 120 laying around and put together an Athlon 600. In the Athlon 600 I had a Matrox G400. And then I picked up a comparatively old Voodoo 2.
Loaded up Unreal and Unreal Tournament. The Pentium 120 w/ the Voodoo 2 was smooth as silk. 60fps. The Athlon 600 and newer Matrox G400. Chunk Chunk Chunk.
OpenOffice has a web based document management system? Since when? Is it like sharepoint?
In all seriousness (well seriously I didn't know OO had a web system of any kind), this has more to do with Microsoft's next big frontier: running your company's IT for you.
They don't want to sell you software, they want to sell you their software and hosting for that software. No longer will you own and manage an exchange server, file server, domain server etc... Microsoft will just give you a MS Bridge 2012 which you hook up to a Fiber internet connection. Documents will all be stored on MS servers. Instead of logging into your company's domain server you'll log into a MS hosted domain.
Thick clients, remote hosting. That's the future MS is pitching.
Well I'm speaking from experience that was just about half of my college credit outside of generals.
I entered college in a very technical and demanding field (Visual Effects and Animation). Since I had been doing it on my own--self taught for years and working on real projects I wasn't your average freshman 101 student. In fact I had been at least on the side learning and working as long as many of my teachers. There were a few of my fellow classmates that also were advanced students and our teachers being of the amazing variety decided that rather than ignore us they would just let us form our own classes.
We found our own teachers willing to act as advisers. We were simply called "Special Project 201, 301 etc.." and we set our own projects. The teachers offered professional criticism, they would answer questions, they would make sure we were creating legitimate projects and milestones and then try to divert as many school resources as possible to our endeavors.
The teachers treated us essentially like faculty: they gave us a syllabus of the things the accreditation said we had to learn and then let us find a way to meet those requirements. Technically we had a class time although we spent most of our time on location shooting, working on post production, working phones etc. If there was something that the teacher thought we were missing they would offer a little master class to fill in the gaps.
Unfortunately due to unrelated financial difficulties:D the school went bankrupt 6 months before graduation and we even inquired to see if we couldn't just pay our teachers for another 6 months to supervise the last of our credits but the accreditation board said the school still had to be in operation in full at the time of graduation so we all transfered to another school which took all of our credits. But I think we were probably the least expensive class on the books. We used almost entirely our own equipment. We barely used school facilities except for meetings. The teachers did a lot of email consulting and we weren't a large drain on their resources. Pretty much we just had on call mentors.
When you break down the cost of such an operation we could have bought all of our equipment for about $15k between the 8 of us. That's only $2k for a year of gear for each of us. And then split the cost of a teacher of around I imagine $60k split 8 ways. That's significantly less than the cost of operating an average college class.
The obvious impediments to such a situation are: lack of financial aid, lack of accreditation, lack of credit transfer etc. But I really think that the 'right' students and the 'right' teachers could really make it work. I would say though that it can't be completely open. There should be master classes in a variety of subjects that you could ala-carte in addition to more organic classes.
The problem though is this assumes that it can work for the teachers. If the teachers need to work two jobs it would be difficult to schedule such an organic schedule. And you have to ensure the teacher isn't packed one quarter and have nothing the next. It's the old "you're paying them so that they're available" catch 22. One of the largest expenses to most clients is the time when we don't have clients. The sustainability tax.
I went to an animation/film/design school. I know of one person who used an open source program instead of pirating or buying a student copy of the commercial packages. But he had been using it since Jr. High and is a ideologue--and even then he would admit it sucked for actual work but liked to poke at it and try to improve it in his spare time. And even he wouldn't touch Gimp with a 10 foot pole.
The reverse argument is that if 95% of Word customers just want quick common tasks done then it comes down which is easier.
If you don't use Word or Open Office enough to really dig into it and discover the features then the program with the more accessible UI will seem more useful.
I find Office 2007+'s hand holding and templates extremely helpful in this regard. I don't have to think about fonts or formatting I can just use the defaults which actually produce really well designed products. And since I don't spend any time in office I don't know where anything is but with the Ribbon I'm using significantly more of the application. That's been worth the $60 I spent.
In contrast when I load OO I'm always hunting and reading help files trying to find the tool or menu I'm looking for. And the templates aren't nearly as well designed or sexy.
I also like the minimized ribbon. Since I don't use much of Office most of the time I can just have it minimized and it literally takes up less screen real-estate than notepad. If I could get it to launch as fast as Notepad I would use it in its stead.
But importing arbitrary data (not comma separated but separated by words/spaces/newlines/various) is a pain in the ass in Excel. It involves saving it out as a txt file then importing. Calc will simply pop up a box asking what your delimiters are.
I'm no excel whiz. In fact I built a new computer about 8 months ago and haven't installed my copy of Office yet. But I was able to figure out how to do that in office in a few minutes last time I had it installed.
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64 MB card for over $600 that claims 90 MB/sec write speed.
Overkill. Also not the way RAW works.
RAW only has one color sample per pixel. So you need to divide your numbers by 3. So more like 30MB per shot.
As to your $600 CF Card... no. You can get a 64GB - 60MBs write speed card for $150. Cameras have buffers so you can shoot burst and fill the buffer before needing to write to card. Most cameras can't shoot beyond 3 FPS. Before your buffer fills you could shoot on burst a few seconds of shots with a 60MB card.
You're spending about twice as much for the medium. But like you said developing and scanning is where you get hit. Think $15 a roll if you want 22 megapixels with 36bit color. So 24 rolls will set you back about $300 for procsesing. About twice a CF Card.
Or it's the same artistry--just being done on the computer.
Ansel Adams dodged and burned his photos in development. It's nothing new. We aren't to the point yet where you can just "photoshop all the light sources" yet but we will. And what's wrong with that? What's the difference between doing it on location where time is of the essence and electricity and lights might be scarce instead of capturing the composition and lighting in post?
You still have to have an eye for composition and lighting.
We bitch and whine about DRM because "it'll just be broken". So what does someone do? Just ask you not to steal it if you aren't a customer. So then we laugh at their naivety that someone wouldn't just steal it if it's not locked down with DRM.
Oh silly fickle Slashdot.
What do you say we reward someone who doesn't burden actual customers with troublesome and self defeating DRM instead of mocking them?
Piracy is a crime and has been for hundreds of years.
Just because something has no physical form and can be duplicated for free doesn't mean it didn't take effort. Fuck you. I worked hard to make my products. If I want to be payed for my labor and time then I should be allowed to charge for it.
I'm not saying that the current penalties aren't obscene and probably unconstitutional. But the notion that people shouldn't pay for things simply because they can be duplicated for free is equally offensive. No it's not theft. And I pirate things. I also speed and think we need speed limits.
I think this law is also too draconian... on the other hand I would absolutely stop pirating things if they could readily enforce such a law.
We're moving from a goods based economy to a virtual economy. Unless we want to completely dismantle our entire economy and stop paying anyone then I want to be payed for my labor. When my plumber will come out and work for free I'll happily give away my time for free as well. Until then I need greenbacks to pay people whose work I can't pirate.
When you abolish IP law you just fuck the little guy. Sure it looks like the MPAA and the RIAA and the other MAFIAAs are the ones waving their arms about now but think about the author. Someone spends two years writing the book. Then the first day it's published book printers in china just ramp up their factories and go to town. The author sees nothing. Even with eDistribution Amazon cranks up the servers and the author sees nothing. Barnes and Noble downloads it and uploads Amazon's copy a minute later to all their Nooks.
The only way the Author can make money is to go out and beg like fucking Hobo while tens of millions of people enjoy and value the book but don't have any moral or legal obligation to reward the writer. "But merchandising!" you say. No dice. The only way authors make money off of merchandising today is because they have a monopoly on the ideas. Factory in China ramps up Penny-Arcade plushies and away they go to Wal-Mart. No cut for the author.
Nobody would pay the author either for any sort of 'exclusive' since they know the second it hits the market another factory in China or Mexico will have it one week behind.
No thank you. The penalties are what's out of balance not the rights for a creator to have an exclusive monopoly on their labor.
*cough* Tea-Party.
Exactly.
May have cost them a few elections. But it's undeniable that '3rd parties' can change the party platform.
That views the options though as one where interfering with business isn't *protecting* your freedom from the private sector.
I don't view the government as large of a threat to my liberty as a corporation like Google.
Well. It is interesting from the perspective: "Democrats destroy the economy". I would say Microsoft, Google, Facebook etc are the fastest growing job makers in the country. And when it comes to choosing governance for some reason most of them choose Democrats.
If Democrats were destroying the economy, breaking the back of business and generally being bad for these companies they have an odd masochistic urge to continue the 'pain'.
It certainly runs counter to the meme "Democrats are anti-business".
Maybe on a handful of issues. There are pretty significant differences between Reid and Angle's legislative agendas.
If you want to wipe the hard drive and start from scratch then I bet the court would agree. In this case jail breaking an Xbox 360 is probably to run the OS in a state to circumvent copy protection.
You completely missed the point I was making. I'm not saying there aren't liberals who are trying to take away your liberties under the guise of 'security' I'm saying that at even the slightest motion to relax counter terrorism operations or surveillance elicits condemnation from a large number of Americans. Ironically mostly from the "Freedom Loving" sort.
If their taxes go up by 1% they scream tyranny. When the government cuts defense spending, relaxes domestic spying or tries to pass legislation which doesn't profile and infringe on citizens' rights it's "letting the terrorists win", "being soft on crime", "letting political correctness put us in danger" or a plot "put us under sharia law".
The source of this problem isn't Washington DC it's from the American people.
Which brings me to tablets: If Microsoft makes a tablet that isn't some bastardized copy of Windows, I'll take a look. Until then, no thank you. Buying an overpriced one use computing device to me seem silly, and trying to shoehorn Windows into a tablet type device is just as pointless.
But isn't Android just a bastardized Linux?
90% of people vote for the two parties because >50% of the population in spite of their protests demands the goverment do this or else they will stop voting for their representative for not 'protecting' them.
When a majority of the voting block doesn't crucify a politician for suggesting that terrorists don't pose as great of threat as the security procedures to protect us from said terrorists we could start making progress. Remember when Obama said he wanted to make terrorism just another law enforcement problem like the mob or robbery? He was strung up by his ankles and had to back off because of the Fox News "Obama is coddling terrorists" line.
NPR just fired an journalist for saying that he gets nervous whenever he sees a muslim on a plane because we shouldn't deny that we're 'at war with islam'. It's evidently just "politically correct" and 'soft' to suggest that a muslim isn't hiding in every bush waiting to jump out and kill you.
That's sharp's own fault for signing on to build a competitor to the sidekick, which has had a declining market share for years now. I doubt they actually built it, probably just managed the manufacturing process at best.
Sharp used to build the "Sidekick". Sidekick was made by Danger. Danger got bought by Microsoft. So they weren't building a "competitor" to Sidekick they stuck with 'Sidekick' even after the branding got sold to T-Mobile.
The kin was pretty neutered. But the Sidekick was also always an enigma to me. It was always underfeatured compared to a real smartphone like the iPhone. I think the thing that killed the Kin was that it was too expensive. The Sidekick was this pre-teen texting phone but MS made it so data intensive it required a full blown smartphone plan. When you can get a droid for free now -- all you're really paying for is the data plan so why go for half of a phone?
If anyone is to blame it's Verizon IMO. (Well and MS for developing two smartphone OSes simultaneously instead of focusing on one. "Who could possibly have forseen that was a bad idea." /sarcasm)
Feel about what?
So who do you support then? Republicans? Democrats? They both support the wars, look at the voting record. Even if you don't agree with teabaggers you should support their activities. We need a multi-party system now.
Please the tea party is full of the people who pushed for the war. And I don't see any Tea Party candidates on the ballots. All I see are Really Really Republican Republicans.
It's not a multi-party system when they run under the (R) nomination.
See but I want GPS. And if it costs the manufacturer $1.50 for the GPS chip then why do you care if I get GPS?
If you download it to a 64GB microSD card and everyone has a copy on their smart phone then you just need to give a smartphone some juice assuming it wasn't EMP'ed.
We've generated another crap that redundancy shouldn't be a problem. Just collect 100 phones from corpses and juice them up. One is certain to have a WikiApp.
Some time later I still had a Pentium 120 laying around and put together an Athlon 600. In the Athlon 600 I had a Matrox G400. And then I picked up a comparatively old Voodoo 2.
Loaded up Unreal and Unreal Tournament. The Pentium 120 w/ the Voodoo 2 was smooth as silk. 60fps. The Athlon 600 and newer Matrox G400. Chunk Chunk Chunk.
I miss 3dfx. Glide was amazing.
OpenOffice has a web based document management system? Since when? Is it like sharepoint?
In all seriousness (well seriously I didn't know OO had a web system of any kind), this has more to do with Microsoft's next big frontier: running your company's IT for you.
They don't want to sell you software, they want to sell you their software and hosting for that software. No longer will you own and manage an exchange server, file server, domain server etc... Microsoft will just give you a MS Bridge 2012 which you hook up to a Fiber internet connection. Documents will all be stored on MS servers. Instead of logging into your company's domain server you'll log into a MS hosted domain.
Thick clients, remote hosting. That's the future MS is pitching.
That would be meaningful if I could put that into a usable device without voiding all of my carrier user agreements.
"Somewhere out there is a magical open android!"
"If it's not on my phone I don't care."
God! is there nothing about Microsoft that is not some sad, hollow sham?
Xbox 360/Live/Kinect, Zune, Windows 7, Live Essentials, MS Office, SkyDrive... ? Should I keep going?
Well I'm speaking from experience that was just about half of my college credit outside of generals.
I entered college in a very technical and demanding field (Visual Effects and Animation). Since I had been doing it on my own--self taught for years and working on real projects I wasn't your average freshman 101 student. In fact I had been at least on the side learning and working as long as many of my teachers. There were a few of my fellow classmates that also were advanced students and our teachers being of the amazing variety decided that rather than ignore us they would just let us form our own classes.
We found our own teachers willing to act as advisers. We were simply called "Special Project 201, 301 etc.." and we set our own projects. The teachers offered professional criticism, they would answer questions, they would make sure we were creating legitimate projects and milestones and then try to divert as many school resources as possible to our endeavors.
The teachers treated us essentially like faculty: they gave us a syllabus of the things the accreditation said we had to learn and then let us find a way to meet those requirements. Technically we had a class time although we spent most of our time on location shooting, working on post production, working phones etc. If there was something that the teacher thought we were missing they would offer a little master class to fill in the gaps.
Unfortunately due to unrelated financial difficulties :D the school went bankrupt 6 months before graduation and we even inquired to see if we couldn't just pay our teachers for another 6 months to supervise the last of our credits but the accreditation board said the school still had to be in operation in full at the time of graduation so we all transfered to another school which took all of our credits. But I think we were probably the least expensive class on the books. We used almost entirely our own equipment. We barely used school facilities except for meetings. The teachers did a lot of email consulting and we weren't a large drain on their resources. Pretty much we just had on call mentors.
When you break down the cost of such an operation we could have bought all of our equipment for about $15k between the 8 of us. That's only $2k for a year of gear for each of us. And then split the cost of a teacher of around I imagine $60k split 8 ways. That's significantly less than the cost of operating an average college class.
The obvious impediments to such a situation are: lack of financial aid, lack of accreditation, lack of credit transfer etc. But I really think that the 'right' students and the 'right' teachers could really make it work. I would say though that it can't be completely open. There should be master classes in a variety of subjects that you could ala-carte in addition to more organic classes.
The problem though is this assumes that it can work for the teachers. If the teachers need to work two jobs it would be difficult to schedule such an organic schedule. And you have to ensure the teacher isn't packed one quarter and have nothing the next. It's the old "you're paying them so that they're available" catch 22. One of the largest expenses to most clients is the time when we don't have clients. The sustainability tax.
I went to an animation/film/design school. I know of one person who used an open source program instead of pirating or buying a student copy of the commercial packages. But he had been using it since Jr. High and is a ideologue--and even then he would admit it sucked for actual work but liked to poke at it and try to improve it in his spare time. And even he wouldn't touch Gimp with a 10 foot pole.
The reverse argument is that if 95% of Word customers just want quick common tasks done then it comes down which is easier.
If you don't use Word or Open Office enough to really dig into it and discover the features then the program with the more accessible UI will seem more useful.
I find Office 2007+'s hand holding and templates extremely helpful in this regard. I don't have to think about fonts or formatting I can just use the defaults which actually produce really well designed products. And since I don't spend any time in office I don't know where anything is but with the Ribbon I'm using significantly more of the application. That's been worth the $60 I spent.
In contrast when I load OO I'm always hunting and reading help files trying to find the tool or menu I'm looking for. And the templates aren't nearly as well designed or sexy.
I also like the minimized ribbon. Since I don't use much of Office most of the time I can just have it minimized and it literally takes up less screen real-estate than notepad. If I could get it to launch as fast as Notepad I would use it in its stead.
But importing arbitrary data (not comma separated but separated by words/spaces/newlines/various) is a pain in the ass in Excel. It involves saving it out as a txt file then importing. Calc will simply pop up a box asking what your delimiters are.
I'm no excel whiz. In fact I built a new computer about 8 months ago and haven't installed my copy of Office yet. But I was able to figure out how to do that in office in a few minutes last time I had it installed.