He needs to have a number of cards at his immediate use at all times. Large high-resolution raw-format images are big no matter how you spin it, and the prospect of loosing an expensive card (well, probably less expensive now, but rewind five years and let the horror set in) isn't good.
When you're at a shoot, "oops, I somehow managed to grab ten cards, five of which were full" is inexcusable.
He organizes it by keeping track, putting things in consistent places, eg. full cards in need of download to the computer go in one place, cards that have been downloaded to the computer can be put in another place.
Simple habits can fix most problems of organization.
He needs so many cards because sometimes he doesn't have time to process photos between shoots, and there isn't always time to stop by the store to buy more, either.
And yes, he archives all data to hard disks and what not. Keeping it on flimsy cards that can easily get deleted by a camera's "clear card" function is a horrifying way to loose your customer's data.
While not always avoidable, try to keep critical data off cards. We've all seen photos of cell phones with address books in toilets or the fabled $2,000 latte. Do you really want to be the next/. headline "I lost my SD card in the wash and there was data on it I didn't have replicated - can you suggest any good recovery techniques, or am I basically screwed?"
No one can hack Wii because the development kit costs $1,700 per seat.
No programmer in their right mind would risk getting that toy pulled! Think: I could make it rich if I build the Wii's Killer App, but I could loose that chance if I do something stupid and get my SDK pulled!
My Uncle is a photographer, and has literally hundreds of memory cards (not to mention rolls of film for "classic" shoots - those can be absolute murder to keep track of, 'cause they're so freaking sensitive to light!).
Trust me, it can easily become a huge problem if you haven't thought through a laser-targeted organizational system.
I horde my digital media! People. Do. Not. Touch. My. Stuff.
Family members taking personal responsibility to know what is theirs and where it is is the only solution. There is no technological substitute for plain-old responsible living.
Putting labels on cards if they know they'll forget is part of that. Putting their things in their specific corners of the shared domicile are manditory. I infest my bedroom and my computer desk. My dad inhabits his desk of the study and his side of the master bedroom. My brother floats between the sofa, the piano, and his room. My mom Supremely Controls the rest of the house, and of course has jurisidiction as to the aesthetics of everyone else's little corners.
Do what you (hopefully) learned in kindergarten! Put things back where you found them! Develop habits! My keys always go with my wallet and phone and PDA on the articulating arm base of my computer monitor. I never wonder where they are: they're either on me, where they belong, or stolen.
Life is very simple when you take responsibility. It's all black and white, easy to differentiate, and on the whole much more pleasant.
Amen. When Oprah goes for blood, she goes straight for the jugular.
I remember when she read Elie Wiesel's book Night... she did a huge show on it, went to Germany and toured the concentration camps, talked with the author, and really did her best to show exactly the face of evil.
I hope she tries to show the face of corruption and incompetence in the patent system. If anyone in America has the audience and the skills to effectively portray this to the public, it'd be Oprah.
When will we start fixing the root of the problem: suing and firing moron patent officers that grant amazingly stupid patents, followed by investigations and possible nullifications of the patents they have granted?
Fight the war on two fronts: kill the patent trolls, and also fire the idiots who keep feeding them!
Seriously, I know a lot of bullshit must come across their desks at patent offices, but you would think that they'd have figured out how to assign patents of specific types to specialist patent officers. Larry on floor three does digital patents, Ed on floor two does software patents. Some of these patents look like they've been granted by juries that have been allowed to be brainwashed by RIAA lawyers into thinking that 1 + 1 = patent. Are our patent officers being bribed to grant stupid patents? Are they themselves stupid or incompetent?
I want blood! (Or at least sufficient litigation and layoffs to fix the problem).
Dealing with the assets separately is problematic - some of us are out of state, other out of country. Subversion is kind of like an advanced FTP to them which has the ability to keep a record of everything that's happened.
I agree, people should learn version control theory and one VCS, but this is not a perfect world, so I dealt with it with the tools and resources available to me.
A bunch of friends and I want to build a video game. I'm the only programmer. The rest are talented artists and musicians. They aren't computer scientists, and hence are almost completely foreign to the command line. I use Subversion because it has TortoiseSVN, which is difficult enough for them to learn to use.
Not everyone is a bash-tested, Linux-wielding Level 99 Code Mage, and successful software keeps this fact in mind.
Had I the money, I'd pay for Perforce because it's far easier to use than Subversion for the reason that it's targeted towards teams that also have people that aren't coders. I don't, so Subversion was the runner up.
When working with other people, you can't pick software because it's just better, you have to pick software because it's what the users can use. IOW, ask not what software you can learn to use, but what software your friends can use with minimal effort and still get the job done!
When it comes to learning a "weird" tool, Perl developers are the easiest sell you'll find. Most of them are already command-line literate, and already familiar with source-control doctrine. They're probably thankful they don't have to hunt down annoying proprietary Perforce binaries to do their job anymore.
Git would be inappropriate in situations where you have developers that are either unwilling or incapable of learning how to use the command line and how to manage source control. In that kind of situation, something with a large array of graphical tools, such as Subversion, would be beneficial.
And may 2010 and 2011 and 2012 and all that follow continue the wars. So long as they're competing, we keep getting a better Linux desktop.
Heck, I'd go so far as to suggest that because of all the internal competition inside of Linux desktop systems that the Linux desktop surpassed Windows a long time ago. If I were to volunteer a date, I'd say 1998, or earlier. It's only recently that we've seen Linux administrable by those who aren't sysadmin enthusiasts. It's always been as usable for users as Windows, if not more.
What about all the other little boys and girls that never got sued this Christmas?
EVE Online Second Life Diablo Hellgate: London
Furthermore, I feel somewhat constrained to point out that they're suing over the "scalable virtual world" patent. World of Warcraft is anything but scalable! There are so many shards - more than 1,500 in North America alone by last count - that it's not as much scalable as it is "add another server Bob, they're lagging again and we need to put the newcomers on another shard!"
Of course, two sufficiently incompetent lawyers could conceivably argue their way into inventing the Internet from this starting topic, but you get my point.
I have given MS Visual Studio a good college try on many different occasions. I can say with deadly been-there-tried-that conviction that Visual Studio is the most stable, featureless text editor out there.
Perhaps I didn't find the hidden "Microsoft has already raped me, there's no point in making me suffer any further" checkbox in the preferences pane, but it didn't do half of what Eclipse or Netbeans C++ can do. I also found its basic code editing facilities lacking.
It's better than DGJPP and makefiles, but I can't really imagine anything more that it can do better.
I am excited about their surface technology. I believe it'll be buggy and totally unusable, but it'll cause other people to take notice and make things that do it better. I can't wait for the simple, intuitive computer interfaces we see in movies like Quantum of Solace. I've always thought that Apple would be the one to deliver that, but hell, I don't give a damn who does it so long as it happens!
While it's a great idea,* USB drives aren't allowed to connect to secure assets. You can loose your clearance by just bringing a USB drive into a secure room.
*Great idea thinking as a white hat trying to break in to better defend, of course.
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And, seriously, how many times have ya'll watched "Empire Strikes Back"?:)
Once every three and a half years, whether I need it or not.
On the other hand, I have no sympathy for parents who want to teach their children the ridiculous and harmful idea that all life was created by an omnipotent and amoral creator that we must subjugate ourselves to, and I would not defend any parent's right to indoctrinate their child with that at the expense of teaching them real science.
Stay the fuck outta my rights you liberal communist.
It's that "I cannot allow you to -your hotbutton topic here-" that is the beginning of the slippery slope to a removal of ALL freedoms.
Don't teach your kids about God and creationism. That's fine by me. But stay the hell away from my conscience and what is my moral ground. You have just as much right to teach your kids something as I do mine. NO MORE, no less.
I'm not opposed to teaching kids about evolution - rather, I think it's important that they learn about both sides of the story so that the kid can make his or her own evaluation, screw what any parent thinks.
I am opposed to teaching kids only one or the other because some asshole says that one is right and one is wrong. Evolution itself is full of holes, and the Bible isn't exactly realistically believable on its story of creationism. With two false beliefs, take the one which makes you happy and run with it.
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He needs to have a number of cards at his immediate use at all times. Large high-resolution raw-format images are big no matter how you spin it, and the prospect of loosing an expensive card (well, probably less expensive now, but rewind five years and let the horror set in) isn't good.
When you're at a shoot, "oops, I somehow managed to grab ten cards, five of which were full" is inexcusable.
He organizes it by keeping track, putting things in consistent places, eg. full cards in need of download to the computer go in one place, cards that have been downloaded to the computer can be put in another place.
Simple habits can fix most problems of organization.
He needs so many cards because sometimes he doesn't have time to process photos between shoots, and there isn't always time to stop by the store to buy more, either.
And yes, he archives all data to hard disks and what not. Keeping it on flimsy cards that can easily get deleted by a camera's "clear card" function is a horrifying way to loose your customer's data.
While not always avoidable, try to keep critical data off cards. We've all seen photos of cell phones with address books in toilets or the fabled $2,000 latte. Do you really want to be the next /. headline "I lost my SD card in the wash and there was data on it I didn't have replicated - can you suggest any good recovery techniques, or am I basically screwed?"
No one can hack Wii because the development kit costs $1,700 per seat.
No programmer in their right mind would risk getting that toy pulled! Think: I could make it rich if I build the Wii's Killer App, but I could loose that chance if I do something stupid and get my SDK pulled!
My Uncle is a photographer, and has literally hundreds of memory cards (not to mention rolls of film for "classic" shoots - those can be absolute murder to keep track of, 'cause they're so freaking sensitive to light!).
Trust me, it can easily become a huge problem if you haven't thought through a laser-targeted organizational system.
I horde my digital media! People. Do. Not. Touch. My. Stuff.
Family members taking personal responsibility to know what is theirs and where it is is the only solution. There is no technological substitute for plain-old responsible living.
Putting labels on cards if they know they'll forget is part of that. Putting their things in their specific corners of the shared domicile are manditory. I infest my bedroom and my computer desk. My dad inhabits his desk of the study and his side of the master bedroom. My brother floats between the sofa, the piano, and his room. My mom Supremely Controls the rest of the house, and of course has jurisidiction as to the aesthetics of everyone else's little corners.
Do what you (hopefully) learned in kindergarten! Put things back where you found them! Develop habits! My keys always go with my wallet and phone and PDA on the articulating arm base of my computer monitor. I never wonder where they are: they're either on me, where they belong, or stolen.
Life is very simple when you take responsibility. It's all black and white, easy to differentiate, and on the whole much more pleasant.
Amen. When Oprah goes for blood, she goes straight for the jugular.
I remember when she read Elie Wiesel's book Night... she did a huge show on it, went to Germany and toured the concentration camps, talked with the author, and really did her best to show exactly the face of evil.
I hope she tries to show the face of corruption and incompetence in the patent system. If anyone in America has the audience and the skills to effectively portray this to the public, it'd be Oprah.
When will we start fixing the root of the problem: suing and firing moron patent officers that grant amazingly stupid patents, followed by investigations and possible nullifications of the patents they have granted?
Fight the war on two fronts: kill the patent trolls, and also fire the idiots who keep feeding them!
Seriously, I know a lot of bullshit must come across their desks at patent offices, but you would think that they'd have figured out how to assign patents of specific types to specialist patent officers. Larry on floor three does digital patents, Ed on floor two does software patents. Some of these patents look like they've been granted by juries that have been allowed to be brainwashed by RIAA lawyers into thinking that 1 + 1 = patent. Are our patent officers being bribed to grant stupid patents? Are they themselves stupid or incompetent?
I want blood! (Or at least sufficient litigation and layoffs to fix the problem).
Dealing with the assets separately is problematic - some of us are out of state, other out of country. Subversion is kind of like an advanced FTP to them which has the ability to keep a record of everything that's happened.
I agree, people should learn version control theory and one VCS, but this is not a perfect world, so I dealt with it with the tools and resources available to me.
A bunch of friends and I want to build a video game. I'm the only programmer. The rest are talented artists and musicians. They aren't computer scientists, and hence are almost completely foreign to the command line. I use Subversion because it has TortoiseSVN, which is difficult enough for them to learn to use.
Not everyone is a bash-tested, Linux-wielding Level 99 Code Mage, and successful software keeps this fact in mind.
Had I the money, I'd pay for Perforce because it's far easier to use than Subversion for the reason that it's targeted towards teams that also have people that aren't coders. I don't, so Subversion was the runner up.
When working with other people, you can't pick software because it's just better, you have to pick software because it's what the users can use. IOW, ask not what software you can learn to use, but what software your friends can use with minimal effort and still get the job done!
When it comes to learning a "weird" tool, Perl developers are the easiest sell you'll find. Most of them are already command-line literate, and already familiar with source-control doctrine. They're probably thankful they don't have to hunt down annoying proprietary Perforce binaries to do their job anymore.
Git would be inappropriate in situations where you have developers that are either unwilling or incapable of learning how to use the command line and how to manage source control. In that kind of situation, something with a large array of graphical tools, such as Subversion, would be beneficial.
You forget that Q also appeared in ST:V a few times.
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And may 2010 and 2011 and 2012 and all that follow continue the wars. So long as they're competing, we keep getting a better Linux desktop.
Heck, I'd go so far as to suggest that because of all the internal competition inside of Linux desktop systems that the Linux desktop surpassed Windows a long time ago. If I were to volunteer a date, I'd say 1998, or earlier. It's only recently that we've seen Linux administrable by those who aren't sysadmin enthusiasts. It's always been as usable for users as Windows, if not more.
What about all the other little boys and girls that never got sued this Christmas?
EVE Online
Second Life
Diablo
Hellgate: London
Furthermore, I feel somewhat constrained to point out that they're suing over the "scalable virtual world" patent. World of Warcraft is anything but scalable! There are so many shards - more than 1,500 in North America alone by last count - that it's not as much scalable as it is "add another server Bob, they're lagging again and we need to put the newcomers on another shard!"
Of course, two sufficiently incompetent lawyers could conceivably argue their way into inventing the Internet from this starting topic, but you get my point.
I have given MS Visual Studio a good college try on many different occasions. I can say with deadly been-there-tried-that conviction that Visual Studio is the most stable, featureless text editor out there.
Perhaps I didn't find the hidden "Microsoft has already raped me, there's no point in making me suffer any further" checkbox in the preferences pane, but it didn't do half of what Eclipse or Netbeans C++ can do. I also found its basic code editing facilities lacking.
It's better than DGJPP and makefiles, but I can't really imagine anything more that it can do better.
I am excited about their surface technology. I believe it'll be buggy and totally unusable, but it'll cause other people to take notice and make things that do it better. I can't wait for the simple, intuitive computer interfaces we see in movies like Quantum of Solace. I've always thought that Apple would be the one to deliver that, but hell, I don't give a damn who does it so long as it happens!
I know Outlook 2003 was a load of crapware, I haven't tried it since.
I think Google Apps (GMail, Calendar) more or less invaded Outlook's primary sphere of use for home users.
My Mac's uptime is 10 days right now. Longest I've ever noticed is 28 days. When you can sleep it and forget it, you really use that feature.
While it's a great idea,* USB drives aren't allowed to connect to secure assets. You can loose your clearance by just bringing a USB drive into a secure room.
*Great idea thinking as a white hat trying to break in to better defend, of course.
Once every three and a half years, whether I need it or not.
That would explain the history of Britain.
I'd rather see Suse and Ubuntu duking it out with Fedora and Gentoo rather than 2-minute long Viagra commercials.
On an IMAP server? Gee, perfect case for the use of ReiserFS, though it might murder sendmail and then remove all the crontab scripts from its car ;-)
Any C++ tag beyond 21* characters is truncated. At that point better documentation would serve you better than a more "descriptive" tag.
* IIRC, YMMV based on compiler.
So, basically a rowboat with a competent Boy Scout in it will get farther than an oil tanker piloted by Barak Obama?
Gee, who would'a thunk that management can make or break a project...
You make me laugh.
Stay the fuck outta my rights you liberal communist.
It's that "I cannot allow you to -your hotbutton topic here-" that is the beginning of the slippery slope to a removal of ALL freedoms.
Don't teach your kids about God and creationism. That's fine by me. But stay the hell away from my conscience and what is my moral ground. You have just as much right to teach your kids something as I do mine. NO MORE, no less.
I'm not opposed to teaching kids about evolution - rather, I think it's important that they learn about both sides of the story so that the kid can make his or her own evaluation, screw what any parent thinks.
I am opposed to teaching kids only one or the other because some asshole says that one is right and one is wrong. Evolution itself is full of holes, and the Bible isn't exactly realistically believable on its story of creationism. With two false beliefs, take the one which makes you happy and run with it.
Don't you dare pick for me too.
I find your misplaced faith disturbing.