From the judgement: "Conversely the claimant says: The defendants are free if they wish to create a red on grey London icon image. They can even have a Routemaster before the Houses of Parliament. As their own evidence shows, these can be depicted in all sorts of different ways. But what they cannot have is a southbound Routemaster on Westminster Bridge before the Houses of Parliament at the same angle as the claimant's work on a greyscale background and a white sky, in circumstances where they have admitted seeing the claimant's work"
The judge shot that down as putting the case too high. What he seems to be saying is that seeing a picture of a red southbound routemaster bus in a desaturated view of Westminster bridge, as used to advertise one product, and then asking a photographer to create something similar to advertise your own product is copyright infringement.
Having said that, I think the compositions are different enough to avoid any risk of confusion.
And secondly, if I'd been responsible for either image I'd be hiding in my corner that taste forgot rather than making a big deal out of it. Seriously, selective colouring? Still?
Someone who makes only a few html files a week can afford to be an esthetic purist, scrupulously arranging tags with a text editor.
That doesn't work so well for design professional cranking out tons of screens a week.
Noone should be doing that. They should be using a CMS of some sort, so that the design is configured and set once, and once only, and all they have to do is type the content in.
The designers create the layout, then either implement it or get it implemented in the CMS of choice. End content creators then come along and type up the content.
I very much doubt if the major news sites have someone cranking out new screens for every article - the content will be in a database and the system will pull it out and format the html around it when requested.
I sort of agree, except it's the standard term so everyone knows what it means.
I'd see hoarding as something slightly different anyway. Application grabs memory because it needs it. Then doesn't release it when it not longer needs it. If it then reuses that memory internally next time it needs some, that's hoarding. It's not admitting that the OS might do a better job of memory management and being greedy. Same with applications that grab more than they need on startup instead of waiting for when they really need it.
Leaking would be grabbing memory, not releasing it, "forgetting" about it (i.e. losing the pointer) and then asking for more when needed.
That 28 days includes public holidays, so really it's 20 days (when comparing with the two weeks that seems to be the norm in the US). Still better, but not as good as it sounds.
I get 25 days (plus the bank/public holidays). It used to be that you had to be at the company five years to earn the last five days, but now it's standard for all employees. We're expected to use it and can't carry more than 5 days forward to the following year (and then the days have to be used in the first quarter).
Compare any Tolkien to JK Rowling. She tells nice stories, but with such stark simplicity that I find them painfully droll.
The difference for me, though, is that JK Rowling creates characters you can care about and can tap into human emotion better, in my opinion, than Tolkein. I've read a lot - Tolkein, Dickens, plenty of classics as well as a lot of pulp, and initially I was sceptical about adults reading kids books when the whole Harry Potter thing took off.
Then I read them. Sure, the early ones are written for a young audience and they're full of plot holes and cliches. However, I rarely get a lump in my throat when reading, and there are scenes in the Potter novels that do just that.
I appreciate that this isn't an argument likely to be popular on a geek site, where people will probably be more concerned with her poor handling of time travel paradoxes in Azkaban, but there's a warmth to the Potter books that I find lacking in LotR.
I read them at around that age, after we'd read the Hobbit at school and I wanted to read more. It sparked my brief teenage flirtation with D&D and all things fantasy.
However, recently re-reading them I was disappointed. It's not great literature. The significance is in practically launching a genre.
Apples and oranges, but give me a Dickens any day...
I get around this by using the neck strap. I hold the camera at full arms length so the strap is taut around my neck and I'm applying pressure - it works a treat for keeping LCD based cameras steady.
I have a Nikon D7000 as my main SLR, but use a Panasonic GF1 with the 20mm lens as my occasional shooter. It's getting a bit long in the tooth now and it's high ISO performance is a little lacking, but it's a nice camera to use.
Er, we're not the United States of Europe just yet. Refer to the southern and western countries, sure, but not states.
I'd have thought that the eastern countries would have lower take up than the western ones though - the new EU members that were once part of the eastern bloc - but perhaps if you live in Spain or Portugal you have better things to do than spend your life on the internet...
I go to Erotica in London every year (if you don't know what it is, google it - it's held at Olympia every November).
In previous years, photography has been banned outright. You were even supposed to leave cameras with security if you had them on you when you arrived.
This year, the terms and conditions allowed for photography as long as it was with the consent of the subject. I guess they realised they were fighting a tide and couldn't police all the camera phones so just gave in to the inevitable.
Lots of people dress up (or down!) for it, though, and some give free rein to their "thing" - you see people in slave gear, cross dressers and so on. Despite the rules, people were taking surreptitious snaps which no doubt would end up online. OK, the subjects won't be tagged, but who's to say that they won't be spotted?
While I firmly believe noone should care what you do in your private life, a genuine picture blocker would be useful in the sad world in which we live.
I'll vote for the cloud. I use web based email (google) because I reckon they'll do a better job of backing up my data than I do (copy to USB drive as and when I think about it). I do download the contacts to a CSV every now and then, and should probably pop the email down to my PC as a local copy. I use Dropbox and Evernote as well - I like having things on multiple devices, and can't see the point of reinventing those wheels to do it myself.
The only things I store locally only are my photos, but I'm at about 600GB there, so the cloud wouldn't be practical. I do backup, not religiously, and so far haven't bothered with offsite copies.
While I care about my privacy, I reckon the worst that can happen with my email is that some admins at Google read it and have a good laugh at what a loser I am!
I prefer email for communicating with friends outside of real life.
I like the asynchronous nature of email. I send email when I don't need an immediate reply, and presume the recipient will reply at their convenience. MSN style chat demands instant replies, and at that point I'd rather actually speak to the person. I also like having an archive that's easily searchable, to the extent that I have an app on my phone that forwards SMS messages to email (handy for cut and paste when someone texts directions, for example).
At work, it's worse as we have a culture whereby someone will email you and then follow up five minutes later with a call asking if you got their email if you haven't responded... totally negates the benefit of email.
I was with BT when they were the only option for ADSL, back around 2000/2001. I switched away after I had a problem they wouldn't resolve. It even got to the point where an engineer had visited and confirmed that the problem was at the exchange. Even so, every time I phoned up I had to go through the "have you tried rebooting" rigmarole just to get an update. After two weeks of no service I cancelled.
I switched to Pipex who still had a good reputation at the time. I had a problem with them, their end - my router was connecting but not being given an IP address by the remote server. As part of troubleshooting, support asked me try pinging an address. I told them I didn't have an IP address, and they said it didn't matter I should still be able to ping!! In the end they told me it must be my PC. I had to get mad and insist on an escalation, and within half an hour of doing so it was fixed. I just with there was a way to short circuit first line if you know what you're talking about (yes, I know, there's an XKCD for that...)
So now, as of yesterday, I'm back on BT. Cheaper than Pipex and I'm getting 40MB download and 2MB upload.
It's the most cost effective platform for running Photoshop and Lightroom, with full support for colour management (including calibration devices).
I actually ran Linux from around 1999 to 2005 - it was getting back into photography that pushed me back to Windows. There is virtually nothing I miss - I run WAMP for testing website development, have Perl and Cygwin installed for adhoc scripting, and when I'm not editing photos most of my time is spent in a browser anyway.
The only thing I do miss is the feeling that if something went wrong I could fix it - with Linux, I always felt I could boot up from a bootable CD and faff around with config files if something broke. I don't feel so confident with Windows, but as long as my data's backed up it's not a big issue.
FWIW, I think seeing paid girls is more moral than a one night stand if you're leading your one night stand to believe it could be more than that. It's certainly more honest. A one night stand where both parties know it's a one night stand up front is fine, but rare in my experience - one or the other usually wants more from it.
I don't have a moral objection to paying as long as there's no coercion. Believe it or not, there are quality independent girls who choose to do it out of their own free will and without drug habits to support.
Yeah. Slippery slope. I - er my friend - knew it was time to scale back when I - er he - was spending as much on her as my - his - mortgage every month.
You pay her. You see her quite regularly. You sort of become friends but deep down you know she's telling you what you want to hear to keep you happy - all part of the customer service. Then she says she's given up working but will still see you - you're a gray area. Since there was no need for her to say that, you believe her. You see her more often. You fall in love. You ask her out. She says she doesn't want to complicate things while money's involved but she's looking for a normal office job. You suspect she's still working. Although you only see her once every couple of weeks you hear from her every couple of days and get insecure if you don't. Half of you wants to know the truth - is it just what it is, or is there something real there? You dream of a future together but she's probably laughing at you behind your back and all the way to the bank while continuing to provide service as usual to anyone who's got the cash.
So, in summary, go easy on the paid girls.
(true story, by the way. happened to a, er, friend)
If it's as effective as O2's 3G filtering, it won't be any use.
O2 block access to some really tame and completely non-adult sites unless you opt out, but conveniently forget to block google image search...
If you can't find what you need on google image search, you most likely need a therapist, not an internet filter.
It will therefore just be an inconvenience, while lulling parents in to a a false sense of security. How long before an ISP gets sued because they promised filtering and poor little Johnny could still find porn?
It's not just the adult filter - they put little messages in front of other sites too. Apparently if you go to one of the UK dating sites, you get an O2 website warning you to be careful when meeting people. You can then click through to the real site.
The latest BT offering (infinity, I think they call it) gives speeds up to, I think, 40MB/s if your exchange and local cabinet support it. Part of that bandwidth is ringfenced off to provide a public wi-fi access point to other BT customers. The idea is that if you're a BT customer, you can use any of those hotspots from your phone/mobile device. If enough people sign up, you can probably find coverage in most streets.
I'm hoping they've got the security model locked down though, as I presume it's a condition of the deal that it's enabled.
It's probably not a suitable setup for serious gamers. It wouldn't work for me either, for my photography. I don't think the virtual graphics adapter in the VM is all that capable.
Even composition to an extent is a post production choice, although you should be visualising it when you take the picture.
What I mean by that is that DSLRs, for example, take pictures with the old 35mm proportions of 3:2. Sometimes I see a square composition, or think 5:4 might look better, or even want to crop for a panoramic image. Some cameras do allow you to do that in camera, but certainly cropping can be necessary for the final result and not something you can always get the way you want in camera.
Lots of other people are mentioning Ansel Adams, but one of his famous quotes is to the effect that the negative is the score, the print is the performance. One of the fascinating things in the "Ansel Adams at 100" exhibition a few years ago was seeing how he changed his interpretation of the negatives over the years - generally making them more dramatic as he got older.
Cameras are limited, most post processing is an attempt to overcome the technical limitations and to choose which tones captured by the camera to emphasise.
On the sofa I use a tablet, as I'm just casually browsing while watching TV, or showing someone some photos. It's fine for that, and I don't need a real keyboard.
That's enough for many people I know. Relatively few are power users who need more, unless they're serious gamers. For me, the main reason I still keep a real PC is for photo editing.
Oh, I agree. What makes it worse is that they made the decision to switch to Flash at some point in the last two years. As I say, previous versions didn't use it.
But then this is BMC. Their monitoring suite is a hideous mix of Windows 3.1 era designed native tools, Java applications, Javascript based websites and now Flash.
One of the Windows applications has menu items that are labelled "drag left" and "drag right". I shit you not. At one point, a list screen that let you sort by column sorted dates literally. Since it displayed them as, for example, "September 15, 2011" that meant it would sort dates so that April came first, followed by August...
I could go on all day about how brain damaged BMC applications are.
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Exactly.
From the judgement: "Conversely the claimant says: The defendants are free if they wish to create a red on grey London icon image. They can even have a Routemaster before the Houses of Parliament. As their own evidence shows, these can be depicted in all sorts of different ways. But what they cannot have is a southbound Routemaster on Westminster Bridge before the Houses of Parliament at the same angle as the claimant's work on a greyscale background and a white sky, in circumstances where they have admitted seeing the claimant's work"
The judge shot that down as putting the case too high. What he seems to be saying is that seeing a picture of a red southbound routemaster bus in a desaturated view of Westminster bridge, as used to advertise one product, and then asking a photographer to create something similar to advertise your own product is copyright infringement.
Having said that, I think the compositions are different enough to avoid any risk of confusion.
And secondly, if I'd been responsible for either image I'd be hiding in my corner that taste forgot rather than making a big deal out of it. Seriously, selective colouring? Still?
Someone who makes only a few html files a week can afford to be an esthetic purist, scrupulously arranging tags with a text editor.
That doesn't work so well for design professional cranking out tons of screens a week.
Noone should be doing that. They should be using a CMS of some sort, so that the design is configured and set once, and once only, and all they have to do is type the content in.
The designers create the layout, then either implement it or get it implemented in the CMS of choice. End content creators then come along and type up the content.
I very much doubt if the major news sites have someone cranking out new screens for every article - the content will be in a database and the system will pull it out and format the html around it when requested.
I sort of agree, except it's the standard term so everyone knows what it means.
I'd see hoarding as something slightly different anyway. Application grabs memory because it needs it. Then doesn't release it when it not longer needs it. If it then reuses that memory internally next time it needs some, that's hoarding. It's not admitting that the OS might do a better job of memory management and being greedy. Same with applications that grab more than they need on startup instead of waiting for when they really need it.
Leaking would be grabbing memory, not releasing it, "forgetting" about it (i.e. losing the pointer) and then asking for more when needed.
That 28 days includes public holidays, so really it's 20 days (when comparing with the two weeks that seems to be the norm in the US). Still better, but not as good as it sounds.
I get 25 days (plus the bank/public holidays). It used to be that you had to be at the company five years to earn the last five days, but now it's standard for all employees. We're expected to use it and can't carry more than 5 days forward to the following year (and then the days have to be used in the first quarter).
Compare any Tolkien to JK Rowling. She tells nice stories, but with such stark simplicity that I find them painfully droll.
The difference for me, though, is that JK Rowling creates characters you can care about and can tap into human emotion better, in my opinion, than Tolkein. I've read a lot - Tolkein, Dickens, plenty of classics as well as a lot of pulp, and initially I was sceptical about adults reading kids books when the whole Harry Potter thing took off.
Then I read them. Sure, the early ones are written for a young audience and they're full of plot holes and cliches. However, I rarely get a lump in my throat when reading, and there are scenes in the Potter novels that do just that.
I appreciate that this isn't an argument likely to be popular on a geek site, where people will probably be more concerned with her poor handling of time travel paradoxes in Azkaban, but there's a warmth to the Potter books that I find lacking in LotR.
I read them at around that age, after we'd read the Hobbit at school and I wanted to read more. It sparked my brief teenage flirtation with D&D and all things fantasy.
However, recently re-reading them I was disappointed. It's not great literature. The significance is in practically launching a genre.
Apples and oranges, but give me a Dickens any day...
I get around this by using the neck strap. I hold the camera at full arms length so the strap is taut around my neck and I'm applying pressure - it works a treat for keeping LCD based cameras steady.
I have a Nikon D7000 as my main SLR, but use a Panasonic GF1 with the 20mm lens as my occasional shooter. It's getting a bit long in the tooth now and it's high ISO performance is a little lacking, but it's a nice camera to use.
Er, we're not the United States of Europe just yet. Refer to the southern and western countries, sure, but not states.
I'd have thought that the eastern countries would have lower take up than the western ones though - the new EU members that were once part of the eastern bloc - but perhaps if you live in Spain or Portugal you have better things to do than spend your life on the internet...
I go to Erotica in London every year (if you don't know what it is, google it - it's held at Olympia every November).
In previous years, photography has been banned outright. You were even supposed to leave cameras with security if you had them on you when you arrived.
This year, the terms and conditions allowed for photography as long as it was with the consent of the subject. I guess they realised they were fighting a tide and couldn't police all the camera phones so just gave in to the inevitable.
Lots of people dress up (or down!) for it, though, and some give free rein to their "thing" - you see people in slave gear, cross dressers and so on. Despite the rules, people were taking surreptitious snaps which no doubt would end up online. OK, the subjects won't be tagged, but who's to say that they won't be spotted?
While I firmly believe noone should care what you do in your private life, a genuine picture blocker would be useful in the sad world in which we live.
I'll vote for the cloud. I use web based email (google) because I reckon they'll do a better job of backing up my data than I do (copy to USB drive as and when I think about it). I do download the contacts to a CSV every now and then, and should probably pop the email down to my PC as a local copy. I use Dropbox and Evernote as well - I like having things on multiple devices, and can't see the point of reinventing those wheels to do it myself.
The only things I store locally only are my photos, but I'm at about 600GB there, so the cloud wouldn't be practical. I do backup, not religiously, and so far haven't bothered with offsite copies.
While I care about my privacy, I reckon the worst that can happen with my email is that some admins at Google read it and have a good laugh at what a loser I am!
I prefer email for communicating with friends outside of real life.
I like the asynchronous nature of email. I send email when I don't need an immediate reply, and presume the recipient will reply at their convenience. MSN style chat demands instant replies, and at that point I'd rather actually speak to the person. I also like having an archive that's easily searchable, to the extent that I have an app on my phone that forwards SMS messages to email (handy for cut and paste when someone texts directions, for example).
At work, it's worse as we have a culture whereby someone will email you and then follow up five minutes later with a call asking if you got their email if you haven't responded... totally negates the benefit of email.
Yeah, but the competition aren't much better.
I was with BT when they were the only option for ADSL, back around 2000/2001. I switched away after I had a problem they wouldn't resolve. It even got to the point where an engineer had visited and confirmed that the problem was at the exchange. Even so, every time I phoned up I had to go through the "have you tried rebooting" rigmarole just to get an update. After two weeks of no service I cancelled.
I switched to Pipex who still had a good reputation at the time. I had a problem with them, their end - my router was connecting but not being given an IP address by the remote server. As part of troubleshooting, support asked me try pinging an address. I told them I didn't have an IP address, and they said it didn't matter I should still be able to ping!! In the end they told me it must be my PC. I had to get mad and insist on an escalation, and within half an hour of doing so it was fixed. I just with there was a way to short circuit first line if you know what you're talking about (yes, I know, there's an XKCD for that...)
So now, as of yesterday, I'm back on BT. Cheaper than Pipex and I'm getting 40MB download and 2MB upload.
It's the most cost effective platform for running Photoshop and Lightroom, with full support for colour management (including calibration devices).
I actually ran Linux from around 1999 to 2005 - it was getting back into photography that pushed me back to Windows. There is virtually nothing I miss - I run WAMP for testing website development, have Perl and Cygwin installed for adhoc scripting, and when I'm not editing photos most of my time is spent in a browser anyway.
The only thing I do miss is the feeling that if something went wrong I could fix it - with Linux, I always felt I could boot up from a bootable CD and faff around with config files if something broke. I don't feel so confident with Windows, but as long as my data's backed up it's not a big issue.
That's more the "friends with benefits" model, which is a bit different, even if you are subsidising the benefits.
The thing is my "friend" has made that mistake of falling for her. Christ, he even cares when her kid gets sick and helped her choose schools.
(I love how even without being AC, I'm anonymous enough here to tell loads of complete strangers this shit).
FWIW, I think seeing paid girls is more moral than a one night stand if you're leading your one night stand to believe it could be more than that. It's certainly more honest. A one night stand where both parties know it's a one night stand up front is fine, but rare in my experience - one or the other usually wants more from it.
I don't have a moral objection to paying as long as there's no coercion. Believe it or not, there are quality independent girls who choose to do it out of their own free will and without drug habits to support.
Yeah. Slippery slope. I - er my friend - knew it was time to scale back when I - er he - was spending as much on her as my - his - mortgage every month.
You pay her. You see her quite regularly. You sort of become friends but deep down you know she's telling you what you want to hear to keep you happy - all part of the customer service. Then she says she's given up working but will still see you - you're a gray area. Since there was no need for her to say that, you believe her. You see her more often. You fall in love. You ask her out. She says she doesn't want to complicate things while money's involved but she's looking for a normal office job. You suspect she's still working. Although you only see her once every couple of weeks you hear from her every couple of days and get insecure if you don't. Half of you wants to know the truth - is it just what it is, or is there something real there? You dream of a future together but she's probably laughing at you behind your back and all the way to the bank while continuing to provide service as usual to anyone who's got the cash.
So, in summary, go easy on the paid girls.
(true story, by the way. happened to a, er, friend)
If it's as effective as O2's 3G filtering, it won't be any use.
O2 block access to some really tame and completely non-adult sites unless you opt out, but conveniently forget to block google image search...
If you can't find what you need on google image search, you most likely need a therapist, not an internet filter.
It will therefore just be an inconvenience, while lulling parents in to a a false sense of security. How long before an ISP gets sued because they promised filtering and poor little Johnny could still find porn?
It's not just the adult filter - they put little messages in front of other sites too. Apparently if you go to one of the UK dating sites, you get an O2 website warning you to be careful when meeting people. You can then click through to the real site.
The latest BT offering (infinity, I think they call it) gives speeds up to, I think, 40MB/s if your exchange and local cabinet support it. Part of that bandwidth is ringfenced off to provide a public wi-fi access point to other BT customers. The idea is that if you're a BT customer, you can use any of those hotspots from your phone/mobile device. If enough people sign up, you can probably find coverage in most streets.
I'm hoping they've got the security model locked down though, as I presume it's a condition of the deal that it's enabled.
Depends what you do with your PC.
It's probably not a suitable setup for serious gamers. It wouldn't work for me either, for my photography. I don't think the virtual graphics adapter in the VM is all that capable.
Even composition to an extent is a post production choice, although you should be visualising it when you take the picture.
What I mean by that is that DSLRs, for example, take pictures with the old 35mm proportions of 3:2. Sometimes I see a square composition, or think 5:4 might look better, or even want to crop for a panoramic image. Some cameras do allow you to do that in camera, but certainly cropping can be necessary for the final result and not something you can always get the way you want in camera.
Lots of other people are mentioning Ansel Adams, but one of his famous quotes is to the effect that the negative is the score, the print is the performance. One of the fascinating things in the "Ansel Adams at 100" exhibition a few years ago was seeing how he changed his interpretation of the negatives over the years - generally making them more dramatic as he got older.
Cameras are limited, most post processing is an attempt to overcome the technical limitations and to choose which tones captured by the camera to emphasise.
On the sofa I use a tablet, as I'm just casually browsing while watching TV, or showing someone some photos. It's fine for that, and I don't need a real keyboard.
That's enough for many people I know. Relatively few are power users who need more, unless they're serious gamers. For me, the main reason I still keep a real PC is for photo editing.
Oh, I agree. What makes it worse is that they made the decision to switch to Flash at some point in the last two years. As I say, previous versions didn't use it.
But then this is BMC. Their monitoring suite is a hideous mix of Windows 3.1 era designed native tools, Java applications, Javascript based websites and now Flash.
One of the Windows applications has menu items that are labelled "drag left" and "drag right". I shit you not. At one point, a list screen that let you sort by column sorted dates literally. Since it displayed them as, for example, "September 15, 2011" that meant it would sort dates so that April came first, followed by August...
I could go on all day about how brain damaged BMC applications are.