Good points, I should be more specific. AFAIK photographs created before 1922 are all public domain. So historic photo archives tend to publish copies of images from their collection with watermarks. If you want access to their original (ie. the unwatermarked version) then you have to sign their contract.
It is possible the the library owns these copies of each image and you would need their permission to republish their copies of each image unless they clearly state otherwise.
I've recently dealt with getting digital copies of 1870's historical photographs from various sources including libraries, city archives, historical societies, private collectors, etc. Even though the images are very old, way beyond even a Disney copyright, but in each case each archive owns their copy of the image so you can only use a copy of their copy under their terms and conditions.
1. Obviously beta test the new system with a
select group of people who will use the new
system.
2. Explain the rollout of the new system during
a company meeting and why you're doing it and what benefit it is to everyone. Explain that the first week on the system may be a bumpy ride, and that you're not afraid nor ashamed to revert to the old system if things get too messy.
Don't use broadcast email to communicate about major rollouts unless you don't mind that only 30% of the company bothered to skim through your email and among them only 10% of what they read made any sense to them. People have better things to do then thoruoughyl digest mundane IT announcements. Important to you, boring to them.
3. Hard rollout: Use a weekend to rollout the new system. This may include backups, installing clients on desktops you have access to, etc. Come Monday morning the old system is not available (but can be switched back on in a hurry) and only the new system is available. You have wisely forewarned the bosses that Monday might be a low productivity day as people get used to the new system.
4. Bumpy landing: Expect that people will complain, be confused, ask questions, blame random errors on the new system rollout, misc coworkers can't install the new client. Everyone should expect the next several days to iron out the kinks.
5. Fallback if necessary: As you warned during the company meeting do not be afraid to revert back to the old system if the new system is not cutting it.
I think that shedding light on the potential of bot blogging is at least as informative as knowing this week's web browser vulnerabilities. I found it interesting anyway.
Several companies predict that bad business plans will cost them billions in 2005. Industry lobbyists would like Congress to pass a law restricting the use of bad business plans. It is estimated that bad business plans are already in progress in up to 80% of new tech companies and analysts say they that number to double to 160% by year 3010 which does not make sense mathematically but makes perfect sense to the former CFO of Enron.
With that kind of ease of use I suppose to configure application options you would simply open a debugger and set hex values directly in memory then add 0x005E the instruction pointer. Wow that's whole new interface paradigm. Our inlaws will find computers so much less intimidating once they learn assembly language.
I agree. As already stated his web site is not well organized, not good for someone who focuses better interface design. I found a Flash app demonstrating a ZUI and I was underwhelmed - it appeared to be a single large image that you could pan around and zoom in/ zoom out... whoopee. Then I found a page describing some arcane "command language" thing called THE which reminded me of using Emacs or vi, not exactly user friendly.
Forgive my skepticism, I sure there are some great concepts here. This web site does not make that clear.
...of being kicked up the ladder from junior programmer to director:
1. Learn to delegate and trust your co-geeks, don't try to quietly solve every technical issue yourself.
2. Give at least a 10 question pop quiz to any job candidate you interview for hire especially in technical positions. Some people interview great then start working and you discover they don't know the first thing about what you hired them for. You'll wish you gave them a pop quiz.
3. Provide answers, not complaints. Have a plan and present your plan. Solicit your team to contribute their own ideas to the plan and give them credit for their contributions. Otherwise other managers will not have confidence in you if you always complain and do not have solutions or any sense of department direction. Leaders have answers, followers have complaints.
4. Just know that you will deal with all the tedious HR issues of your department: vacations, promotions, coworker disputes, salary reviews, hirings and firings...
5. Hang out with and talk to other managers of other departments, get to know what they want from your department and work with them.
6. Your job is not your life. Don't work crazy hours, stress over deadlines, and neglect the world outside the office.
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The Lost 1984 Mac Video
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(Sometimes I wish others who downloaded a huge video or slashdotted site would bother to describe some of it so I will for the rest of y'all)
Steve Jobs ca. 1984 is speaking on a stage in front of an audience, suit coat and bow tie, these are his pre-jeans-and-black-turtleneck days. He tells the audience "All of the images you about to see on the large screen will be generated by what's in that bag." The lifts the black bag to reveal a Mac on a table (applause) he inserts a diskette into the Mac and steps back. The word MACINTOSH slowly scrolls across the screen to the tune of "Chariots of Fire" (wild appluase) Screen shots of paint program, word processor and calculator, fonts, program editor, 3d chess (cheering, applause). Steve introduces Macintosh speaking for itself. A bad robotic voice reads a few paragraphs of text on the screen. (applause, cheering) (wide shot of audience appluading) (end)
I do recall the days when PC DOS and the Apple II ruled the world and first time I saw a Mac in action was easy to recognize it was a big step forward.
I'm guessing the outsourcer wanted $x to deliver just the application and $x + $y for application with source code so the client took the cheaper option. That'd be the Vendor Lock-In Standard Deluxe option.
What makes 3DRealms special is that they have tantalized all of us with something we actually wanted, there was market demand, unlike Microsoft's vaporous offerings which usually no one is asking for and no one cares about.
No matter what Lucasfilm will still send out the press releases and video news marketing segments showing the usual crowd of groupies camping out at the theater in full costume to be first in line.
By the way, Lucas is announcing later today there will be a Episode III Trailer Special Edition Box Set which is a lot like the Episode III Trailer, except the picture is sharper and all characters are replaced with green screen silhouettes which will make it easier to replace each character for the Episode III Trailer Deluxe HD Gold Edition due out in 2008.
I appreciate seeing the article posted here and on Engadget. I was considering buying an iPod but I was not aware that Apple discourages iPod backups and future iPods will probably try to make backups impossible. Furthermore it seems iTunes does not allow you to re-download songs you that already paid for. This is ridiculous. So I would like to thank Endgadget and Slashdot for saving me the money I would have wasted in iPod/iTunes.
I found the Jon Stewart-Crossfire exchange to be less relevant since it boils down a comedic entertainer accusing political entertainers of providing entertainment instead of sober discourse. Stewart made a lot of good points but it's all a waste of his breath because food fight shows are the ratings giants of cable news.
Howard Stern's questioning of Michael Powell was mostly relevant. The FCC decency standards are not well defined and not consistently enforced and Stern, unlike most broadcasters, has been demanding some explanation of that process and whether certain fines have a political dimension behind them. Powell offered some good responses, pointing out that enforcement of decency is not just a Republican agenda but bipartisan.
My guess is some investors have put small bets on SCOX and continue to do so despite knowing that SCO's story is bull. Investors slap some money down on SCOX knowing it's a long shot to demand $3billion from IBM and be anointed the sole legal owner of Linux but they also see a cheap stock with 90:1 odds that can pay off 90:1.
"How much does it cost?
Since Concept Centaur is just that--a concept--they aren't for sale. At the present time, Segway LLC has no plans to manufacture or sell this as a product."
I think their idea is based on the same principle as motion pictures: persistance of vision.
In this case you rotate a translucent screen on a vertical axis at high speed (the screen is spinning so fast that it's not visible) then project a different image onto the screen depending on the angle of the screen... something along those lines I imagine.
My two cents: command line interfaces are still invaluable for remote administation. Unlike a GUI a CLI is still usable over slow connections, requires far less system resources, and simple remote terminal apps are available on almost every platform.
Quote the marketing info page: "runs wide variety of ISV applications and open source codes"
That's the power of Cray's parallel processing: each machine runs its own "open source code" therefore a cluster is more powerful because the entire cluster runs "open source codes". At least that's their sales reps understanding of it.
You make a good point that Microsoft's competitors are no more or less noble than Microsoft. But to me the most troubling outcome is Microsoft was able to prove that any company with a large enough legal budget can effectively DoS attack the legal system with appeals and paperwork while simultaneously releasing newer versions of the product in question. While the courts were arguing about Windows 95 Microsoft was already selling NT Server 4, Office 97, Windows 98, and so on. If the court even decided that bundling the web browser into Windows 95 was in violation than it was too late by then anyway.
Microsoft also punished via stock price, in fact all of Nasdaq got punished on that fateful day of April 2000 when the judge released his initial findings not in favor of Microsoft and the Nasdaq went into freefall.
Photography is a competitive business so difference in quality of your portfolio vs. other photographers matters. The extra megapixels, better lenses (espcially ability to use wide angle lenses), better exposure controls, better dynamic range, more clarity (lower ISO options) all adds up to point where stepping past the $1000 digital cameras to a $8000 dSLR is a good investment for serious photographers.
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Good points, I should be more specific. AFAIK photographs created before 1922 are all public domain. So historic photo archives tend to publish copies of images from their collection with watermarks. If you want access to their original (ie. the unwatermarked version) then you have to sign their contract.
It is possible the the library owns these copies of each image and you would need their permission to republish their copies of each image unless they clearly state otherwise.
I've recently dealt with getting digital copies of 1870's historical photographs from various sources including libraries, city archives, historical societies, private collectors, etc. Even though the images are very old, way beyond even a Disney copyright, but in each case each archive owns their copy of the image so you can only use a copy of their copy under their terms and conditions.
1. Obviously beta test the new system with a select group of people who will use the new system.
2. Explain the rollout of the new system during a company meeting and why you're doing it and what benefit it is to everyone. Explain that the first week on the system may be a bumpy ride, and that you're not afraid nor ashamed to revert to the old system if things get too messy.
Don't use broadcast email to communicate about major rollouts unless you don't mind that only 30% of the company bothered to skim through your email and among them only 10% of what they read made any sense to them. People have better things to do then thoruoughyl digest mundane IT announcements. Important to you, boring to them.
3. Hard rollout: Use a weekend to rollout the new system. This may include backups, installing clients on desktops you have access to, etc. Come Monday morning the old system is not available (but can be switched back on in a hurry) and only the new system is available. You have wisely forewarned the bosses that Monday might be a low productivity day as people get used to the new system.
4. Bumpy landing: Expect that people will complain, be confused, ask questions, blame random errors on the new system rollout, misc coworkers can't install the new client. Everyone should expect the next several days to iron out the kinks.
5. Fallback if necessary: As you warned during the company meeting do not be afraid to revert back to the old system if the new system is not cutting it.
I think that shedding light on the potential of bot blogging is at least as informative as knowing this week's web browser vulnerabilities. I found it interesting anyway.
Several companies predict that bad business plans will cost them billions in 2005. Industry lobbyists would like Congress to pass a law restricting the use of bad business plans. It is estimated that bad business plans are already in progress in up to 80% of new tech companies and analysts say they that number to double to 160% by year 3010 which does not make sense mathematically but makes perfect sense to the former CFO of Enron.
With that kind of ease of use I suppose to configure application options you would simply open a debugger and set hex values directly in memory then add 0x005E the instruction pointer. Wow that's whole new interface paradigm. Our inlaws will find computers so much less intimidating once they learn assembly language.
I agree. As already stated his web site is not well organized, not good for someone who focuses better interface design. I found a Flash app demonstrating a ZUI and I was underwhelmed - it appeared to be a single large image that you could pan around and zoom in/ zoom out... whoopee. Then I found a page describing some arcane "command language" thing called THE which reminded me of using Emacs or vi, not exactly user friendly.
Forgive my skepticism, I sure there are some great concepts here. This web site does not make that clear.
...of being kicked up the ladder from junior programmer to director:
1. Learn to delegate and trust your co-geeks, don't try to quietly solve every technical issue yourself.
2. Give at least a 10 question pop quiz to any job candidate you interview for hire especially in technical positions. Some people interview great then start working and you discover they don't know the first thing about what you hired them for. You'll wish you gave them a pop quiz.
3. Provide answers, not complaints. Have a plan and present your plan. Solicit your team to contribute their own ideas to the plan and give them credit for their contributions. Otherwise other managers will not have confidence in you if you always complain and do not have solutions or any sense of department direction. Leaders have answers, followers have complaints.
4. Just know that you will deal with all the tedious HR issues of your department: vacations, promotions, coworker disputes, salary reviews, hirings and firings...
5. Hang out with and talk to other managers of other departments, get to know what they want from your department and work with them.
6. Your job is not your life. Don't work crazy hours, stress over deadlines, and neglect the world outside the office.
(Sometimes I wish others who downloaded a huge video or slashdotted site would bother to describe some of it so I will for the rest of y'all)
Steve Jobs ca. 1984 is speaking on a stage in front of an audience, suit coat and bow tie, these are his pre-jeans-and-black-turtleneck days. He tells the audience "All of the images you about to see on the large screen will be generated by what's in that bag." The lifts the black bag to reveal a Mac on a table (applause) he inserts a diskette into the Mac and steps back. The word MACINTOSH slowly scrolls across the screen to the tune of "Chariots of Fire" (wild appluase) Screen shots of paint program, word processor and calculator, fonts, program editor, 3d chess (cheering, applause). Steve introduces Macintosh speaking for itself. A bad robotic voice reads a few paragraphs of text on the screen. (applause, cheering) (wide shot of audience appluading) (end)
I do recall the days when PC DOS and the Apple II ruled the world and first time I saw a Mac in action was easy to recognize it was a big step forward.
I'm guessing the outsourcer wanted $x to deliver just the application and $x + $y for application with source code so the client took the cheaper option. That'd be the Vendor Lock-In Standard Deluxe option.
I'll add that to my list of action items that way we can pick the low hanging fruit by the time we close the books on Q4.
What makes 3DRealms special is that they have tantalized all of us with something we actually wanted, there was market demand, unlike Microsoft's vaporous offerings which usually no one is asking for and no one cares about.
I like the interface. It's nice to see a cursor box highlighted the area you are zoomed into.
No matter what Lucasfilm will still send out the press releases and video news marketing segments showing the usual crowd of groupies camping out at the theater in full costume to be first in line.
By the way, Lucas is announcing later today there will be a Episode III Trailer Special Edition Box Set which is a lot like the Episode III Trailer, except the picture is sharper and all characters are replaced with green screen silhouettes which will make it easier to replace each character for the Episode III Trailer Deluxe HD Gold Edition due out in 2008.
I appreciate seeing the article posted here and on Engadget. I was considering buying an iPod but I was not aware that Apple discourages iPod backups and future iPods will probably try to make backups impossible. Furthermore it seems iTunes does not allow you to re-download songs you that already paid for. This is ridiculous. So I would like to thank Endgadget and Slashdot for saving me the money I would have wasted in iPod/iTunes.
I found the Jon Stewart-Crossfire exchange to be less relevant since it boils down a comedic entertainer accusing political entertainers of providing entertainment instead of sober discourse. Stewart made a lot of good points but it's all a waste of his breath because food fight shows are the ratings giants of cable news.
Howard Stern's questioning of Michael Powell was mostly relevant. The FCC decency standards are not well defined and not consistently enforced and Stern, unlike most broadcasters, has been demanding some explanation of that process and whether certain fines have a political dimension behind them. Powell offered some good responses, pointing out that enforcement of decency is not just a Republican agenda but bipartisan.
My guess is some investors have put small bets on SCOX and continue to do so despite knowing that SCO's story is bull. Investors slap some money down on SCOX knowing it's a long shot to demand $3billion from IBM and be anointed the sole legal owner of Linux but they also see a cheap stock with 90:1 odds that can pay off 90:1.
"How much does it cost? Since Concept Centaur is just that--a concept--they aren't for sale. At the present time, Segway LLC has no plans to manufacture or sell this as a product."
Which is why I hate you Segway.
I think their idea is based on the same principle as motion pictures: persistance of vision.
In this case you rotate a translucent screen on a vertical axis at high speed (the screen is spinning so fast that it's not visible) then project a different image onto the screen depending on the angle of the screen... something along those lines I imagine.
My two cents: command line interfaces are still invaluable for remote administation. Unlike a GUI a CLI is still usable over slow connections, requires far less system resources, and simple remote terminal apps are available on almost every platform.
Quote the marketing info page: "runs wide variety of ISV applications and open source codes"
That's the power of Cray's parallel processing: each machine runs its own "open source code" therefore a cluster is more powerful because the entire cluster runs "open source codes". At least that's their sales reps understanding of it.
You make a good point that Microsoft's competitors are no more or less noble than Microsoft. But to me the most troubling outcome is Microsoft was able to prove that any company with a large enough legal budget can effectively DoS attack the legal system with appeals and paperwork while simultaneously releasing newer versions of the product in question. While the courts were arguing about Windows 95 Microsoft was already selling NT Server 4, Office 97, Windows 98, and so on. If the court even decided that bundling the web browser into Windows 95 was in violation than it was too late by then anyway.
Microsoft also punished via stock price, in fact all of Nasdaq got punished on that fateful day of April 2000 when the judge released his initial findings not in favor of Microsoft and the Nasdaq went into freefall.
Photography is a competitive business so difference in quality of your portfolio vs. other photographers matters. The extra megapixels, better lenses (espcially ability to use wide angle lenses), better exposure controls, better dynamic range, more clarity (lower ISO options) all adds up to point where stepping past the $1000 digital cameras to a $8000 dSLR is a good investment for serious photographers.
Are you sure about that?
Russian space program = strapped for cash
Bahrain oil sheik = using treasury notes for kleenex
Russian space program: "Who wants to buy a shuttle prototype? Some assembly required."
Bahrain oil sheik: "That would make a cool water pipe!"