Below is what I initially wrote, but the more I think about it, having my computer us it's cam to see it's environemt and react to it would be really useful. Anyway, here is my original message: I have a webcam on my site and I'll be adding more and there are two things I would like to do with it. 1. I want to archive pictures, but only if they change. When I'm gone, the pictures change only as the sun moves overhead, so most pictures I don't need. But if someone walks in front of the webcam, I want to archive that. 2. I want to know who walks in front of the web cam. If I'm on cam, I want my users to know that I'm on cam. I'm sure all the other cam site operators would think this was cool, anacam, planetconcrete, jennicam. I'm right in the middle of updating my site and scripting most of the daily tasks I need done with python, but I can't really script archiving the cam images because I would have too look at them. I really don't want to do that. Right now it's 1440 images a day. If I add 3 more cames, that's over 5000 images per day at 1 minute refreshes. Way to much both to save or look at. The other thing that ties into this is that I paint pictures, and I often would like to take elements out of my pictures, but not have to manually select cut and paste. I would like to drop a bunch of pictures into the app, tell the app what the template image is, and let it find pictures with that kind of image inside, and let it cut out the matching image and save it in a new file. I think something like this would be neat for a variety of other reasons...imagine finding more shots of President Clinton and Monica? But seriously, it would be really neat for me to archive all my digital camera pictures and keep a database of which ones have trees, or my kids, or naked women, or whatever...or find images with certain colors etc. That way I could search my digital camera images with templates, or through a database after they have already been checked for template images, and I could do the same thing with my paintings. As an example, I took about a 1000 images on a recent trip to London (my first, I wanna go back) and I would love to know which ones contain images of my grandfather, or the westminister clock tower, or an underground sign. (you can find my london pictures here: ) Okay, that's what I think might be useful. Especially for me. -calvin
I just came back from a trip to London where I took very nearly 1000 digital camera images with my fuji mx-700. My only complaints are boot time and smartcard write time. I think the newer versions improved this. I took 5 32mb cards on top of my 2 8mb cards and 1 2mb card. I also took 3 batteries. I bought a charger/powersupply while I was there and after that I had no problems. It's a great camera. I use it all the time and have stopped using my 35mm, because most of my shots are crappy anyway, and this way I can cut and crop and print whatever I want. All the pictures I took were 1280x1024. I came home with 150 shots I still could have taken. The cost per picture for the 5 32mb cards was about 2 cents less than taking actual photos and having them developed. But the cards can be reused over and over again. (plus it was an upfront cost because I had to pay my taxes the day after I got back which would have hampered developing film) Unless you are doing incredibly large prints, a digital camera is the way to go. I use it mostly for collecting images for use in paintings and just to record things happening around me (this morning it was bubble blowing) I was snap happy and took about 40 images. that's almost 2 rolls of film. The cost of doing this was nothing, because it's all reuse. Just in case you do want large prints, I recommend genuine fractal. It's a great bit of software for large format printing. I don't ever think about how much it costs to take a picture anymore, or if I run out of film, I just snap away. And it fits in my pocket so I literally can take it anywhere without anyone knowing I have it. Oh, and since my Mom doesn't have internet access (all my images are posted at 166.70.34.67/london/ ) it has the option to output video. I'll definitely buy another one. -calvin ps. My underwater camera is not digital, so I guess I'm not completely digital (yet)
Reserve judgement. Read the FAQ: http://www.corel.com/betaprogram/faq.htm
From the FAQ: "Once Corel LINUX is ready for general distribution, it will be distributed in accordance with the criteria for Open Source software."
So, it looks like the beta license agreement, while lame, is not how the general distribution is going to be licensed. According to the FAQ, they are also going to release source with the general distribution.
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Below is what I initially wrote, but the more I think about it, having my computer us it's cam to see it's environemt and react to it would be really useful. Anyway, here is my original message: I have a webcam on my site and I'll be adding more and there are two things I would like to do with it. 1. I want to archive pictures, but only if they change. When I'm gone, the pictures change only as the sun moves overhead, so most pictures I don't need. But if someone walks in front of the webcam, I want to archive that. 2. I want to know who walks in front of the web cam. If I'm on cam, I want my users to know that I'm on cam. I'm sure all the other cam site operators would think this was cool, anacam, planetconcrete, jennicam. I'm right in the middle of updating my site and scripting most of the daily tasks I need done with python, but I can't really script archiving the cam images because I would have too look at them. I really don't want to do that. Right now it's 1440 images a day. If I add 3 more cames, that's over 5000 images per day at 1 minute refreshes. Way to much both to save or look at. The other thing that ties into this is that I paint pictures, and I often would like to take elements out of my pictures, but not have to manually select cut and paste. I would like to drop a bunch of pictures into the app, tell the app what the template image is, and let it find pictures with that kind of image inside, and let it cut out the matching image and save it in a new file. I think something like this would be neat for a variety of other reasons...imagine finding more shots of President Clinton and Monica? But seriously, it would be really neat for me to archive all my digital camera pictures and keep a database of which ones have trees, or my kids, or naked women, or whatever...or find images with certain colors etc. That way I could search my digital camera images with templates, or through a database after they have already been checked for template images, and I could do the same thing with my paintings. As an example, I took about a 1000 images on a recent trip to London (my first, I wanna go back) and I would love to know which ones contain images of my grandfather, or the westminister clock tower, or an underground sign. (you can find my london pictures here: ) Okay, that's what I think might be useful. Especially for me. -calvin
I just came back from a trip to London where I took very nearly 1000 digital camera images with my fuji mx-700. My only complaints are boot time and smartcard write time. I think the newer versions improved this. I took 5 32mb cards on top of my 2 8mb cards and 1 2mb card. I also took 3 batteries. I bought a charger/powersupply while I was there and after that I had no problems. It's a great camera. I use it all the time and have stopped using my 35mm, because most of my shots are crappy anyway, and this way I can cut and crop and print whatever I want. All the pictures I took were 1280x1024. I came home with 150 shots I still could have taken. The cost per picture for the 5 32mb cards was about 2 cents less than taking actual photos and having them developed. But the cards can be reused over and over again. (plus it was an upfront cost because I had to pay my taxes the day after I got back which would have hampered developing film) Unless you are doing incredibly large prints, a digital camera is the way to go. I use it mostly for collecting images for use in paintings and just to record things happening around me (this morning it was bubble blowing) I was snap happy and took about 40 images. that's almost 2 rolls of film. The cost of doing this was nothing, because it's all reuse. Just in case you do want large prints, I recommend genuine fractal. It's a great bit of software for large format printing. I don't ever think about how much it costs to take a picture anymore, or if I run out of film, I just snap away. And it fits in my pocket so I literally can take it anywhere without anyone knowing I have it. Oh, and since my Mom doesn't have internet access (all my images are posted at 166.70.34.67/london/ ) it has the option to output video. I'll definitely buy another one. -calvin ps. My underwater camera is not digital, so I guess I'm not completely digital (yet)
http://www.corel.com/betaprogram/faq.htm
From the FAQ: "Once Corel LINUX is ready for general distribution, it will be distributed in accordance with the criteria for Open Source software."
So, it looks like the beta license agreement, while lame, is not how the general distribution is going to be licensed. According to the FAQ, they are also going to release source with the general distribution.
-calvin