application for the Nikon SDK is possible for bona fide software companies that send Nikon a written application for the SDK. Once approved, the SDK is provided to the developer at no charge and they are authorized to use it.
IOW, if they don't like you, you're out of luck. If you're not "bona fide", you're out of luck. Guess who gets to define "bona fide"? Don't like how the SDK handles things? Tough; complain to your Nikon rep and maybe they'll do something.
2. I'm not so sure if "it's the same as it ever was" either. Adobe, for example (and according to this page, uses the open source dcraw. (Modulo their modifications.) They don't use manufacturers' SDKs because they usually provide (from what I've read) limited access to the raw data and limited conversion opportunities. (The Nikon SDK only allows you to convert to JPG an TIFF.) Before, Dave Coffin (author of dcraw) only needed to reverse engineer camera X's raw format, while now, if he does that with the Nikon white balance information, he runs afoul of the DMCA -- quite possibly a battle he doesn't want to fight (and I wouldn't blame him). If Dave isn't supporting this new raw format, then Adobe has the choice of running afoul of the DMCA theirselves. (Nice irony, eh?)
3. There are many third partys out there who develop alternative raw converters. Depending on who you ask, these third party converters are better than the one available through the SDK. They are much SOL here.
4. A photographer's workflow is very important to them. If they have a favorite third-party converter, such as Phase One's Camera One, have it well integrated into their workflow, then go out and get a D2X, they could very well be nuking an important part of their workflow for no reason other than a Nikon power grab. This will lead to even grumpier photographers. Not a pretty... well, you get the idea.:)
I'm so happy someone mentioned this movie. As soon as I read the topic for this Ask/., "Iron Giant" came to mind. I love this story and the animation was great.
Damn shame how it was marketed though. Everyone I've gotten to sit down and watch this movie thought it was great and they were surprised that it was good for adults too. (Well, those who even remembered the slight marketing there was.)
I don't know much about the copper vs fiber stuff, but I do know that I've got fiber between my house and the CO and I can't get squat for good Internet access. DSL is right out, since it's a copper-only solution. The local cable company doesn't offer Internet access and the satellite company won't think of offering Internet access to anything that's not Windows. (Though I'll admit that these last two have nothing to do with fiber.)
So, I've got fiber. Yea. Big whoop. What does this matter? How can I turn this situation around without going broke?
The fact that the Justice Department backed down to this slap-on-the-wrist after winning the case and convicting Microsoft of illegal activities smacks heavily of back-room deals and under-the-table politics.
Slap on the wrist? No, this is more like a friendly little slap on the ass....
"Ooooooo.... ow..... Give naughty Billy-boy another, Jonnie A..."
This is not surprising at all. I was initially turned off by this (and a similar offering from Red Hat with their up2date service), but then I remembered the basic business model of Open Source. Open the source code, but sell services based around it. AFAIK (and it's not that far;) anyone with a big enough pipe and enough patience can get Ximian GNOME and its updates. They're just selling an update service around it. This is not a problem and I wish them luck. It's not something that I need, but some people might.
It's NASA's new funding model. With Congressional support going down and other monies being directed to the "war", they thught they needed some other source of funds.... Soooo.... Next month the brewery module is being attached to the ISS. =;]
...only right-handed people get wrist problems or want nice mice. This has been an annoyance to me for quite a while. While I can use the mouse on the right side, it feels more comforatble for me to use it on the left. I cannot find even one nice, three button wheel mouse designed specifically for lefties and yet I find scads of nice ones for righties. I am so tired of this (admittedly minor) discrimination and it's not even just WRT mice. I see it with other products too, but mice seem to hit closest to home.
Not even business DSL can get you much more than a few static IP addresses. I'm in the same situation (in Fairfax, VA, with copper and fiber between my house and the CO) and all they can offer me is IDSL (ISDN with the control channel also used for data -- blah).
I'm in Fairfax, VA. I'm not very far from the CO at all. My problem is that I've got fiber between my house and the CO. Apparently, it's prohibitivly expensive to do DSL over fiber (according to the Verizon tech who did the line check), so I'm stuck with either IDSL or cable. I'm not really happy with 144Kbps, but it's better than dialup and I can get static IPs with it. I'd probably go with cable if I didn't need the static IP addresses.
Kind of ironic that fiber's supposed to be "the way of the future" but because of its presense, I'm stuck with bandwidth of the past...
They (Adelphia) were saying this back when they were Cablevision of Loudoun back in late '98, early '99, but they were saying that it'll be symmetric by the end of '99. BS. They're all freaking liers.
About a year ago, my company was looking to replace our Exchange servers with OpenMail. We needed them to co-exist for a while and for it to be transparent (function-wise) to the end users (many of whom are using Outlook). OpenMail just couldn't do it. Not with 100% functionality. We had OM sales engineers come to our site to help, but they just went away without solving the problem. Finally, when the last SE was here and couldn't solve the problems, he told us on the way out that it was probably good that we weren't going with OM anyway as MS was applying a lot of pressure on the HP execs to stop OM as it was too much cometition. This was one of the reasons why a lot of the integration issues we had seen had not been fixed (they were old issues). He even hinted that he thought that OM would be canceled soon.
Finally, we found a whole lot of docs out there on how to transition from OM to Exchange, but nothing on how to go from Exchange to OM. =8[
I firmly believe that this is more evidence on MS using their monopoly in one area to influence another. Now, how much is due to pressure and how much is due to ineptitude, I don't know.
okay, the one thing that so many people at work really like about outlook is that you can see other people's calendars while setting up meetings. outlook does this by accessing the free/busy database on the exchange servers (asaik, that is). i'm willing to bet that this interface is closed, but, i have to ask, are there plans for evolution to be able to access the free/busy lists on an exchange server? is this maybe what libole is for?
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There's a Google video from 12/1/05 of Limoncelli presenting his system at a $GROUPNAME meeting here: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22Time+Mana gement+for+System+Administrators%22.
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IOW, if they don't like you, you're out of luck. If you're not "bona fide", you're out of luck. Guess who gets to define "bona fide"? Don't like how the SDK handles things? Tough; complain to your Nikon rep and maybe they'll do something.
2. I'm not so sure if "it's the same as it ever was" either. Adobe, for example (and according to this page, uses the open source dcraw. (Modulo their modifications.) They don't use manufacturers' SDKs because they usually provide (from what I've read) limited access to the raw data and limited conversion opportunities. (The Nikon SDK only allows you to convert to JPG an TIFF.) Before, Dave Coffin (author of dcraw) only needed to reverse engineer camera X's raw format, while now, if he does that with the Nikon white balance information, he runs afoul of the DMCA -- quite possibly a battle he doesn't want to fight (and I wouldn't blame him). If Dave isn't supporting this new raw format, then Adobe has the choice of running afoul of the DMCA theirselves. (Nice irony, eh?)
3. There are many third partys out there who develop alternative raw converters. Depending on who you ask, these third party converters are better than the one available through the SDK. They are much SOL here.
4. A photographer's workflow is very important to them. If they have a favorite third-party converter, such as Phase One's Camera One, have it well integrated into their workflow, then go out and get a D2X, they could very well be nuking an important part of their workflow for no reason other than a Nikon power grab. This will lead to even grumpier photographers. Not a pretty... well, you get the idea.
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To quote for an old(ish) cartoon...
2. Then a miracle occurs
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I'm so happy someone mentioned this movie. As soon as I read the topic for this Ask /., "Iron Giant" came to mind. I love this story and the animation was great.
Damn shame how it was marketed though. Everyone I've gotten to sit down and watch this movie thought it was great and they were surprised that it was good for adults too. (Well, those who even remembered the slight marketing there was.)
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Yes. Well, at least the cover cartoon is new.
http://www-fp.aw.com/bigcovers/020163466X.jpg
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a.root-servers.net and j.root-servers.net
I read somewhere the following quote describing the attitude Apple's customers have towards Apple:
"Punish me harder!"
This article seems to confirm that Apple is still willing to play this game.
And it would seem that I am too. I know I shouldn't, but I just can't help myself. These are some pretty nice apps.
At least they're not calling me bitch and demanding I yell their name.... (yet)
...of Javascript being used against you. I turned off JS and everything was fine.
[sigsegv@dopey] ls -l /dev/congress /dev/congress -> /dev/null
/dev filesystem. =8]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 May 9 02:35
Aha! Just as I suspected.
The answers to life lie in the
I don't know much about the copper vs fiber stuff, but I do know that I've got fiber between my house and the CO and I can't get squat for good Internet access. DSL is right out, since it's a copper-only solution. The local cable company doesn't offer Internet access and the satellite company won't think of offering Internet access to anything that's not Windows. (Though I'll admit that these last two have nothing to do with fiber.)
So, I've got fiber. Yea. Big whoop. What does this matter? How can I turn this situation around without going broke?
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Man, that's the same day LOTH:FOTR Platinum Series Extended Edition comes out. 11/12 is turning out to be a big day for DVD releases.
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Hell has frozen over...the Chicago Cubs have won the World Series
I guess Boston winning the World Series is even outside the scope of hell freezing over.
Slap on the wrist? No, this is more like a friendly little slap on the ass....
"Ooooooo.... ow..... Give naughty Billy-boy another, Jonnie A..."
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This is not surprising at all. I was initially turned off by this (and a similar offering from Red Hat with their up2date service), but then I remembered the basic business model of Open Source. Open the source code, but sell services based around it. AFAIK (and it's not that far ;) anyone with a big enough pipe and enough patience can get Ximian GNOME and its updates. They're just selling an update service around it. This is not a problem and I wish them luck. It's not something that I need, but some people might.
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Would anyone be able to tell the difference between the bugs, trapdoors, and whatnot that al Queda put in there vs the ones Microsoft did?
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It's NASA's new funding model. With Congressional support going down and other monies being directed to the "war", they thught they needed some other source of funds.... Soooo.... Next month the brewery module is being attached to the ISS. =;]
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...only right-handed people get wrist problems or want nice mice. This has been an annoyance to me for quite a while. While I can use the mouse on the right side, it feels more comforatble for me to use it on the left. I cannot find even one nice, three button wheel mouse designed specifically for lefties and yet I find scads of nice ones for righties. I am so tired of this (admittedly minor) discrimination and it's not even just WRT mice. I see it with other products too, but mice seem to hit closest to home.
Not even business DSL can get you much more than a few static IP addresses. I'm in the same situation (in Fairfax, VA, with copper and fiber between my house and the CO) and all they can offer me is IDSL (ISDN with the control channel also used for data -- blah).
I'm in Fairfax, VA. I'm not very far from the CO at all. My problem is that I've got fiber between my house and the CO. Apparently, it's prohibitivly expensive to do DSL over fiber (according to the Verizon tech who did the line check), so I'm stuck with either IDSL or cable. I'm not really happy with 144Kbps, but it's better than dialup and I can get static IPs with it. I'd probably go with cable if I didn't need the static IP addresses.
Kind of ironic that fiber's supposed to be "the way of the future" but because of its presense, I'm stuck with bandwidth of the past...
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They (Adelphia) were saying this back when they were Cablevision of Loudoun back in late '98, early '99, but they were saying that it'll be symmetric by the end of '99. BS. They're all freaking liers.
About a year ago, my company was looking to replace our Exchange servers with OpenMail. We needed them to co-exist for a while and for it to be transparent (function-wise) to the end users (many of whom are using Outlook). OpenMail just couldn't do it. Not with 100% functionality. We had OM sales engineers come to our site to help, but they just went away without solving the problem. Finally, when the last SE was here and couldn't solve the problems, he told us on the way out that it was probably good that we weren't going with OM anyway as MS was applying a lot of pressure on the HP execs to stop OM as it was too much cometition. This was one of the reasons why a lot of the integration issues we had seen had not been fixed (they were old issues). He even hinted that he thought that OM would be canceled soon.
Finally, we found a whole lot of docs out there on how to transition from OM to Exchange, but nothing on how to go from Exchange to OM. =8[
I firmly believe that this is more evidence on MS using their monopoly in one area to influence another. Now, how much is due to pressure and how much is due to ineptitude, I don't know.
pete
....is for monitor. Mmmmmmmmmm.
...naked pictures of _Steve_ Case. *shudder*
=8]
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okay, the one thing that so many people at work really like about outlook is that you can see other people's calendars while setting up meetings. outlook does this by accessing the free/busy database on the exchange servers (asaik, that is). i'm willing to bet that this interface is closed, but, i have to ask, are there plans for evolution to be able to access the free/busy lists on an exchange server? is this maybe what libole is for?