Not quite, but only because our CEO insisted on limiting the implementation time and budget. Of course, we've ended up with a half arsed implementation that doesn't really work. Instead of being the integrated solution we were promised, we have to buttress it with the usual bunch of spreadsheets that are actually how 90% of business is actually run anyway; we then fudge SAP reports to give the same answers.
So yeah, we have SAP. We are SAPs.
I even did a course on SAP administration and wow! The underlying architecture is the worst of 1970s mainframe design. If that's their IP, I don't think anyone is going to want to steal it - it would be like stealing a (insert crap 1970s car of choice here).
I don't know what you're referring to here. But again, I think you're forgetting the evolution of computers, and of human understanding. Eventually, someone will discover a way. Perhaps just because there is a relatively simple way that the algo's creators never envisaged.
That's the answer! The police should ask for more than 90 days - "We need to hold this guy without charge until someone invents a practical method of quantum decryption so we can easily read his files". Could be next week, could be next year, could be 100 years time.
Or better yet, we need to hold him without charge until we invent a practical time machine so we can go back and witness him commit the crime in the first place... yes, that's the answer!
Maybe. Adobe might be under some pressure for a fully native Photoshop from the likes of Disney, who have put work into WINE in order to get PS under Linux. I'm sure they'd prefer a native release. OTOH, perhaps the success of PS under WINE makes a full Linux release less necessary.
By taking part in this initiative, Adobe may well end up with the ammunition to turn around and say there's no way they can even contemplate a Linux PS until proper standards exist. Even more ammo if the initiative descends into petty wrangling or is poorly supported.
Either way, a big problem for PS under Linux is going to be around things like colour management. Serious photographers won't touch it unless their hardware calibration tools work.
I read somewhere that making street lights less bright actually helps to reduce crime. The logic was that very bright street lighting increases contrast between the areas nearest the lights and the gaps between them. This means that our eyes don't adjust to the darkness so well, and creates shadows in which the criminals can lurk.
By reducing the brightness of the streetlights, our eyes are adjusted to the lower light levels and so we can see better into the unlit shadows; hence making it harder for the criminals to lurk unseen.
Although this was borne out by a study (somewhere in Arizona? Can't find a link handy), Joe Public didn't understand and demanded their brighter lights back. The purpose of the study was to investigate ways to reduce energy use, but lower light pollution is an obvious side benefit.
I set up an Outlook rule to automatically change high priority flags to low priority. It doesn't make any real difference; I can still see who sent their messages as high priority, but it amuses me.
When you meet your friends in the pub after your holiday, do you want to drag along your laptop to show them the pics, or do you want to hand round a set of 6x4 prints and laugh about how drunk you all were at the restaurant when the waiter took your photo?
Do you want to buy an expensive LCD virtual picture frame for every room in the house, or do you just want to stick a 10x8 print in a clip frame?
Do you enjoy the tactile sense of flicking through an album as opposed to scrolling through thumbnails?
There are as many reasons for wanting physical prints as there are for wanting paper books and magazines - although if you have a stack of photos next to the toilet, it's probably not for the same reason;-)
The significance is that in the UK, I would guess that Dixons sell more cameras than almost anyone. Not to enthusiasts, but to Joe Public. Those who don't buy at Dixons probably go to Argos, or if they're really adventurous perhaps Jessops.
This means that film cameras are no longer mainstream; this will have a knock on effect on prices and availability in all UK camera shops, as Dixons probably drove the market especially for point and shoot (although Dixons also sold plenty of entry to mid level SLRs).
My favourite bit was his advice on buying a Beetle - if I recall correctly, some very hippy crap about sitting crosslegged on the ground, contemplating it to see if the vibes felt right. He then said that at the very least, it might freak the seller out and get them to lower their price a bit just to get rid of the weirdo...
Brilliant mix of hardcore technical advice and offbeat oddness that should be understood by any Beetle owner (sadly my 1971 1300 is off the road pending some serious welding work)
Glad to hear it; I guess the report was either inaccurate (lots of misinformation floating around) or a temporary evacuation while a dodgy package was investigated.
It sounds like most mainline stations are getting back to normal.
Exactly.
Let's face it, the mobile network breaks down every New Year's Eve at midnight when everyone tries to use it at once. Are we suggesting that this is a secret government conspiracy to stop people wishing each other a happy New Year?
I saw Sith in my local cinema (I'm British - I go to the cinema to watch a film...), and now that it's a god-knows-how-many screen multiplex the screen was, of course, tiny. The actual auditorium was also undersized; the green emergency exit sign was so close to the screen that it cast a permanent green glow over the bottom right portion of the screen.
So much for the full cinematic experience... I remember the good old days of 1000+ seaters and grainy, still image ads for the curry house "just round the corner"; now that was a decent night out.
Reverse engineer pdf? I thought you could download the spec of the pdf format from Adobe's site. They also publish the spec of the tiff format, and are behind the new digital negative format that is an effort to replace proprietory digital camera RAW formats with an open format.
Closed programs, open formats is, to my mind, a reasonable compromise for a commercial organisation.
Many American companies seem to have three regions; America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and Far East.
The only reason I can think of is that the African market is quite small, so they can handle it out of their European base without needing another division.
Makes no sense for this sort of brand recognition though.
I know some keen amateur photographers who have actually given up on home printing. When you take into account the ink and paper cost, it is often cheaper to get prints made in the high street, or using online services (where you upload a file and they send you the prints).
The quality of real prints on proper paper (eg. Fuji Crystal Archive) is hard to beat at home. Colour management is another nightmare that can waste time and paper.
Of course, you can use third party ink and paper in your top of the range printer to reduce costs, but then the archival qualities are unknown - only the combination of ink and paper certified by the manufacturer is guaranteed to be archival.
Photo.net has been mentioned a few times already, but I'd like to add read the static content - start here and work your way through the tutorial. You can also search the archives for answers to specific questions.
You should note that photo.netters have a fairly low tolerance for newbies who post questions to the forums without searching the archives.
Apart from that, shoot loads and when you see the results try to analyse which pictures really work best and why
My final recommendation is to see other photographers work for inspiration. Most photo technique books have pretty dull photos in them, and once you master basic technique you'll learn more from studying the masters.
Sometimes it's the other way around--the foundation gets paid by private companies for whom it acts as a sort of hired enforcer
So to the PHBs at Forbes it's presumably OK for the BSA to act as an enforcer for one type of license but not for the FSF to act as an enforcer for another?
It would appear that the Windows version will have product activation as per Windows XP. This technology has apparently been bought from a third party.
Sadly, I still think Photoshop beats the Gimp for high end photo editing. Is there anything available for Linux that uses colour profiles and allows on screen proof previews using those profiles?
I'm in the UK, and I have a couple of domain names registered through uk2.net. A whois search reveals my name as registrant, but "UK2 Limited" is listed as the "Registrant's Agent". Hence no personal data.
UK2 have a pretty clear policy on disclosing personal data: from the page listing their generic response to domain name disputes, I found the following:
"UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT 1984 WE CANNOT DISCLOSE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR CLIENTS WITHOUT BEING LEGALLY OBLIGED TO DO SO. UK DOMAIN NAMES HAVE NO REGISTRANT ADDRESS LISTED IN THE NOMINET DATABASE AND UK2 LTD APPEARS AS THE ADMIN/TECH/BILLING CONTACT. WE WILL DISCLOSE THE REGISTRANT DETAILS IF A WRIT IS FILED WITH THE HIGH COURT AGAINST THE REGISTRANT ON OUR ADDRESS"
And I would think the primary responsibility for managing the cache issues falls on the NYTimes. When they've done their part, they can whine to Google, but not before.
I'm not so sure - why should the burden of responsibility fall on websites? It's like those checkboxes on forms (both web and real), that basically say "tick this or we'll spam you". Google are saying "add this to your html or we'll cache you". The principle is the same - inaction is taken as approval. And I don't suppose Google are offering to pick up the costs that the NY Times would incur changing their code? Google should at the very least have a "do not cache" list to which sites could be added at their own request - without having to change their sites.
I use email almost exclusively now - if something is discussed face to face or over the phone, there's nothing in writing. We have something of a blame culture where I work, and so I find it necessary to have an audit trail of conversations.
If it's not in an email it never happened. Even when I have a conversation, I feel obliged to follow up with an email summarising the points to make sure we're all on the same page (excuse the management speak).
I had a meeting last week in which we decided to "park the issues until we can achieve clarity". My company's mission statement includes the word "leverage". Our new CEO has pointy hair and I can feel my tie begin to curl upwards.
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Not quite, but only because our CEO insisted on limiting the implementation time and budget. Of course, we've ended up with a half arsed implementation that doesn't really work. Instead of being the integrated solution we were promised, we have to buttress it with the usual bunch of spreadsheets that are actually how 90% of business is actually run anyway; we then fudge SAP reports to give the same answers.
So yeah, we have SAP. We are SAPs.
I even did a course on SAP administration and wow! The underlying architecture is the worst of 1970s mainframe design. If that's their IP, I don't think anyone is going to want to steal it - it would be like stealing a (insert crap 1970s car of choice here).
That's the answer! The police should ask for more than 90 days - "We need to hold this guy without charge until someone invents a practical method of quantum decryption so we can easily read his files". Could be next week, could be next year, could be 100 years time.
Or better yet, we need to hold him without charge until we invent a practical time machine so we can go back and witness him commit the crime in the first place... yes, that's the answer!
1. Take cube apart.
.. er, profit?
2. Put back together in random order so it can't be solved.
3. Give to cube geek.
4. Watch them sweat as their moves don't work.
5.
Of course, these serious cubers would probably take one look at the cube and immediately tell you it had been tampered with.
Sad news. I'm old enough to remember these when they first came out. I feel very, very old. Anyone remember Rubik's snake?
Tony Blair needs to know about this as soon as possible. 90 days isn't long enough, we need to be holding those terror suspects for five months...
Maybe. Adobe might be under some pressure for a fully native Photoshop from the likes of Disney, who have put work into WINE in order to get PS under Linux. I'm sure they'd prefer a native release. OTOH, perhaps the success of PS under WINE makes a full Linux release less necessary.
By taking part in this initiative, Adobe may well end up with the ammunition to turn around and say there's no way they can even contemplate a Linux PS until proper standards exist. Even more ammo if the initiative descends into petty wrangling or is poorly supported.
Either way, a big problem for PS under Linux is going to be around things like colour management. Serious photographers won't touch it unless their hardware calibration tools work.
Adobe? Does this mean Photoshop could be on the cards?
(and yes, I've used the Gimp, and no, it doesn't do what Photoshop can do)
I read somewhere that making street lights less bright actually helps to reduce crime. The logic was that very bright street lighting increases contrast between the areas nearest the lights and the gaps between them. This means that our eyes don't adjust to the darkness so well, and creates shadows in which the criminals can lurk.
By reducing the brightness of the streetlights, our eyes are adjusted to the lower light levels and so we can see better into the unlit shadows; hence making it harder for the criminals to lurk unseen.
Although this was borne out by a study (somewhere in Arizona? Can't find a link handy), Joe Public didn't understand and demanded their brighter lights back. The purpose of the study was to investigate ways to reduce energy use, but lower light pollution is an obvious side benefit.
I set up an Outlook rule to automatically change high priority flags to low priority. It doesn't make any real difference; I can still see who sent their messages as high priority, but it amuses me.
When you meet your friends in the pub after your holiday, do you want to drag along your laptop to show them the pics, or do you want to hand round a set of 6x4 prints and laugh about how drunk you all were at the restaurant when the waiter took your photo?
;-)
Do you want to buy an expensive LCD virtual picture frame for every room in the house, or do you just want to stick a 10x8 print in a clip frame?
Do you enjoy the tactile sense of flicking through an album as opposed to scrolling through thumbnails?
There are as many reasons for wanting physical prints as there are for wanting paper books and magazines - although if you have a stack of photos next to the toilet, it's probably not for the same reason
The significance is that in the UK, I would guess that Dixons sell more cameras than almost anyone. Not to enthusiasts, but to Joe Public. Those who don't buy at Dixons probably go to Argos, or if they're really adventurous perhaps Jessops. This means that film cameras are no longer mainstream; this will have a knock on effect on prices and availability in all UK camera shops, as Dixons probably drove the market especially for point and shoot (although Dixons also sold plenty of entry to mid level SLRs).
Yes! I love that book.
My favourite bit was his advice on buying a Beetle - if I recall correctly, some very hippy crap about sitting crosslegged on the ground, contemplating it to see if the vibes felt right. He then said that at the very least, it might freak the seller out and get them to lower their price a bit just to get rid of the weirdo...
Brilliant mix of hardcore technical advice and offbeat oddness that should be understood by any Beetle owner (sadly my 1971 1300 is off the road pending some serious welding work)
Glad to hear it; I guess the report was either inaccurate (lots of misinformation floating around) or a temporary evacuation while a dodgy package was investigated.
It sounds like most mainline stations are getting back to normal.
Exactly. Let's face it, the mobile network breaks down every New Year's Eve at midnight when everyone tries to use it at once. Are we suggesting that this is a secret government conspiracy to stop people wishing each other a happy New Year?
Radio 2 announced Paddington was being evacuated about ten minutes ago.
I saw Sith in my local cinema (I'm British - I go to the cinema to watch a film...), and now that it's a god-knows-how-many screen multiplex the screen was, of course, tiny. The actual auditorium was also undersized; the green emergency exit sign was so close to the screen that it cast a permanent green glow over the bottom right portion of the screen.
So much for the full cinematic experience... I remember the good old days of 1000+ seaters and grainy, still image ads for the curry house "just round the corner"; now that was a decent night out.
Reverse engineer pdf? I thought you could download the spec of the pdf format from Adobe's site. They also publish the spec of the tiff format, and are behind the new digital negative format that is an effort to replace proprietory digital camera RAW formats with an open format.
Closed programs, open formats is, to my mind, a reasonable compromise for a commercial organisation.
Many American companies seem to have three regions; America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and Far East.
The only reason I can think of is that the African market is quite small, so they can handle it out of their European base without needing another division.
Makes no sense for this sort of brand recognition though.
I know some keen amateur photographers who have actually given up on home printing. When you take into account the ink and paper cost, it is often cheaper to get prints made in the high street, or using online services (where you upload a file and they send you the prints).
The quality of real prints on proper paper (eg. Fuji Crystal Archive) is hard to beat at home. Colour management is another nightmare that can waste time and paper.
Of course, you can use third party ink and paper in your top of the range printer to reduce costs, but then the archival qualities are unknown - only the combination of ink and paper certified by the manufacturer is guaranteed to be archival.
You should note that photo.netters have a fairly low tolerance for newbies who post questions to the forums without searching the archives.
Apart from that, shoot loads and when you see the results try to analyse which pictures really work best and why
My final recommendation is to see other photographers work for inspiration. Most photo technique books have pretty dull photos in them, and once you master basic technique you'll learn more from studying the masters.
So to the PHBs at Forbes it's presumably OK for the BSA to act as an enforcer for one type of license but not for the FSF to act as an enforcer for another?
Sadly, I still think Photoshop beats the Gimp for high end photo editing. Is there anything available for Linux that uses colour profiles and allows on screen proof previews using those profiles?
I'm in the UK, and I have a couple of domain names registered through uk2.net. A whois search reveals my name as registrant, but "UK2 Limited" is listed as the "Registrant's Agent". Hence no personal data.
UK2 have a pretty clear policy on disclosing personal data: from the page listing their generic response to domain name disputes, I found the following:
"UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT 1984 WE CANNOT DISCLOSE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR CLIENTS WITHOUT BEING LEGALLY OBLIGED TO DO SO. UK DOMAIN NAMES HAVE NO REGISTRANT ADDRESS LISTED IN THE NOMINET DATABASE AND UK2 LTD APPEARS AS THE ADMIN/TECH/BILLING CONTACT. WE WILL DISCLOSE THE REGISTRANT DETAILS IF A WRIT IS FILED WITH THE HIGH COURT AGAINST THE REGISTRANT ON OUR ADDRESS"
I'm not so sure - why should the burden of responsibility fall on websites? It's like those checkboxes on forms (both web and real), that basically say "tick this or we'll spam you". Google are saying "add this to your html or we'll cache you". The principle is the same - inaction is taken as approval. And I don't suppose Google are offering to pick up the costs that the NY Times would incur changing their code? Google should at the very least have a "do not cache" list to which sites could be added at their own request - without having to change their sites.
If it's not in an email it never happened. Even when I have a conversation, I feel obliged to follow up with an email summarising the points to make sure we're all on the same page (excuse the management speak).
I had a meeting last week in which we decided to "park the issues until we can achieve clarity". My company's mission statement includes the word "leverage". Our new CEO has pointy hair and I can feel my tie begin to curl upwards.