I suspect the low cost photographers like that woman will fade somewhat over the next few years. There is nothing really special about modern DSLRs over good film SLRs in terms of ease of use outside doing it on your own computer instead of sending off the negatives. To a degree we saw this in the past with easier access to cameras such as Polaroids or even regular old consumer SLRs. After each introduction there was a wave of people doing semi-professional work for dirt cheap, but each time they faded away somewhat and professionals continued to do their thing.
Even modded DSLRs are not quite up to what you can do with IR film, and they are no where near what you can do with UV film. That CFA on the sensor (granted I am speaking about non-sigma cameras) really messes things up if you get away from visible light.
*nods* which is why BFAs still start students on B&W film rather then leaping into DSLRs. Every time I see some place offering to 'teach photography' jumping strait to digital I suspect they are just trying to separate guys with cameras and aspirations of naughty photo-shoots from their money.
On the other hand, medium and large format are good examples of things that when talking about film are within the range of average people (including high schoolers) but both cost prohibitive AND inferior when it comes to digital solutions.
People, esp 'photogs' tend to forget that this is a hobby, and thus the criteria for something's value is how much one enjoys working with it rather then some statistic or only the finished product.
Personally I dislike working with film, but love manual lenses and glass filters. Both are easily replaced with modern autofocus lenses with electric apertures and photoshop filters, but since I am into photography for my own enjoyment, I go with the mechanical solutions.
I would argue that it still is not there, esp if you start factoring in things like UV film and the high resolution film. Though those tend to be pretty niche things and would not impact the vast majority of users.
There is a lot of grey area in between that has many ASD people worried. When the public face of autism awareness is often groups like Autism Speaks (which does not actually have any autistic leaders) that mostly exist to frighten parents into helping eradicate autism, non neurotypicals are not entirely out of line for worrying that if such treatments become possible people like them (many of whom are fully functioning members of society) might no longer exist due to parents not wanting their children to have this 'horrible life destroying condition'.
Good question, though it looks like in this case it might actually be a freebie since the organization bankrolling it is a charity.
Though yeah, in the past 'for their own good' patented crops have been introduced to poor regions and then farmers end up locked into an expensive seed supply.
Yeah, but following the same rules as other companies would increase their costs and would make them look like they are 'selling out' to the ideologues, and since those are their two main selling point it would not help them.
It is much more profitable to maintain the image that they are being persecuted and kept out of markets, even though all they have to do to get into those markets is follow the same rules as the companies currently in them.
The quest for a 'perfect' language generally just results in people taking perfectly good languages and complicating them to the point they start handling their intended function worse and worse.
Yes, developers SHOULD have to choose. When you are dealing with drastically different contexts and environments there are going to be trade offs. We could potentially make languages look the same through similar syntax, but they are not going to be the same language and should not be.
As for why the browser only supporting one language, well, because it is simpler. Operating systems only support one language too, machine code. Everything else is translated into that language in order to run.
Because developing new languages and ecosystems is fun, sexy, and gets you attention. Working in old fuddy languages with rich existing support requires reading books and bowing to other people who have already figured problems out. Bad for the ego.
It is almost like they want a language that uses some kind of VM so it can either be run inside a web page or as a stand along executable, possibly with good network support for interacting with remote servers. Someone should create a language like that.
Well, it is always possible we are simply the first. We do have an unusually old population I star and it still took billions of years for humans to come on the scene, so it is possible that the typical case simply takes longer and many suns are younger then our's.
Beyond that, all it takes are a few high profile 'things going wrong' to change the tide. Right now Uber is riding on a wave of support born out of low prices and political philosophy. However, taxi services developed these regulations over the years partly out of historical problems, problems Uber is not going to magically avoid.
If the prices go up and the ideological good will they are getting starts to go away, no facy app is going to save them.
Anyone is free to get a license and provide a similar service. They are not trying to block out 'competition', they are trying to block a company that can provide lower prices by failing to pay the same costs people playing by the rules do.
Ahm, tenure was the thing preventing situations like that. The consequences generally go the other way, school boards reflect a politically active subset of local voters, firing all the teachers who will not teach creationism would likely be rewarded at a local level, not punished. There would be nothing to sue the board over.
That makes a better case for reforming tenure rather then ruling it unconstitutional. In general if something has abuses go both ways you try to rebalance things, not eliminate one type of abuse while making the other easier.
Last I logged on to the local comcast wifi it was still using a webpage based authentication, so it probably would not be all that hard to fool the average consumer into signing onto a fake Comcast login page, esp since the malicious router could do its own DNS stuff.
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I suspect the low cost photographers like that woman will fade somewhat over the next few years. There is nothing really special about modern DSLRs over good film SLRs in terms of ease of use outside doing it on your own computer instead of sending off the negatives. To a degree we saw this in the past with easier access to cameras such as Polaroids or even regular old consumer SLRs. After each introduction there was a wave of people doing semi-professional work for dirt cheap, but each time they faded away somewhat and professionals continued to do their thing.
Even modded DSLRs are not quite up to what you can do with IR film, and they are no where near what you can do with UV film. That CFA on the sensor (granted I am speaking about non-sigma cameras) really messes things up if you get away from visible light.
*nods* which is why BFAs still start students on B&W film rather then leaping into DSLRs. Every time I see some place offering to 'teach photography' jumping strait to digital I suspect they are just trying to separate guys with cameras and aspirations of naughty photo-shoots from their money.
What you are probably seeing is the effect of the processing the developers did on your film as compared to the digital images before post processing.
On the other hand, medium and large format are good examples of things that when talking about film are within the range of average people (including high schoolers) but both cost prohibitive AND inferior when it comes to digital solutions.
People, esp 'photogs' tend to forget that this is a hobby, and thus the criteria for something's value is how much one enjoys working with it rather then some statistic or only the finished product.
Personally I dislike working with film, but love manual lenses and glass filters. Both are easily replaced with modern autofocus lenses with electric apertures and photoshop filters, but since I am into photography for my own enjoyment, I go with the mechanical solutions.
I would argue that it still is not there, esp if you start factoring in things like UV film and the high resolution film. Though those tend to be pretty niche things and would not impact the vast majority of users.
There is a lot of grey area in between that has many ASD people worried. When the public face of autism awareness is often groups like Autism Speaks (which does not actually have any autistic leaders) that mostly exist to frighten parents into helping eradicate autism, non neurotypicals are not entirely out of line for worrying that if such treatments become possible people like them (many of whom are fully functioning members of society) might no longer exist due to parents not wanting their children to have this 'horrible life destroying condition'.
I fail to see where the poster indicated they were self diagnosed.
Good question, though it looks like in this case it might actually be a freebie since the organization bankrolling it is a charity.
Though yeah, in the past 'for their own good' patented crops have been introduced to poor regions and then farmers end up locked into an expensive seed supply.
Yeah, but following the same rules as other companies would increase their costs and would make them look like they are 'selling out' to the ideologues, and since those are their two main selling point it would not help them.
It is much more profitable to maintain the image that they are being persecuted and kept out of markets, even though all they have to do to get into those markets is follow the same rules as the companies currently in them.
The quest for a 'perfect' language generally just results in people taking perfectly good languages and complicating them to the point they start handling their intended function worse and worse.
Yes, developers SHOULD have to choose. When you are dealing with drastically different contexts and environments there are going to be trade offs. We could potentially make languages look the same through similar syntax, but they are not going to be the same language and should not be.
As for why the browser only supporting one language, well, because it is simpler. Operating systems only support one language too, machine code. Everything else is translated into that language in order to run.
Because developing new languages and ecosystems is fun, sexy, and gets you attention. Working in old fuddy languages with rich existing support requires reading books and bowing to other people who have already figured problems out. Bad for the ego.
Thus begins testing hell....
And now I have to go mutter quietly about wxWidgets.....
It is almost like they want a language that uses some kind of VM so it can either be run inside a web page or as a stand along executable, possibly with good network support for interacting with remote servers. Someone should create a language like that.
Well, it is always possible we are simply the first. We do have an unusually old population I star and it still took billions of years for humans to come on the scene, so it is possible that the typical case simply takes longer and many suns are younger then our's.
Beyond that, all it takes are a few high profile 'things going wrong' to change the tide. Right now Uber is riding on a wave of support born out of low prices and political philosophy. However, taxi services developed these regulations over the years partly out of historical problems, problems Uber is not going to magically avoid.
If the prices go up and the ideological good will they are getting starts to go away, no facy app is going to save them.
Anyone is free to get a license and provide a similar service. They are not trying to block out 'competition', they are trying to block a company that can provide lower prices by failing to pay the same costs people playing by the rules do.
Ahm, tenure was the thing preventing situations like that. The consequences generally go the other way, school boards reflect a politically active subset of local voters, firing all the teachers who will not teach creationism would likely be rewarded at a local level, not punished. There would be nothing to sue the board over.
That makes a better case for reforming tenure rather then ruling it unconstitutional. In general if something has abuses go both ways you try to rebalance things, not eliminate one type of abuse while making the other easier.
Or bolt cutters.
Last I logged on to the local comcast wifi it was still using a webpage based authentication, so it probably would not be all that hard to fool the average consumer into signing onto a fake Comcast login page, esp since the malicious router could do its own DNS stuff.
Comcast is a major cable company, they do not 'break' the law, they write it.
Gotta love antenna that can be physically unscrewed and removed.
The number probably comes from the fee schedule for using the machines.