If you buy a cheap 50mm for your camera, it'll work from entry level to pro body. I only use Canon since I got the 350d, but since then I steadily upgraded my gear, lenses and bodies. I never was at a point where a lens was not compatible with my camera. At one point of course you can choose to sell a lens to get a better one, but that doesn't mean all of your gear has become useless. So I don't get where you think this is a fallacy -- it actually is one of the strongest selling points for DSLRs, image quality aside.
This is the doing of Christian Estrosi, mayor of Nice and minister of Industry, whose education consisted in winning motorcycle races. He's at the forefront of applying repression at the city level, and actually wanted to fine mayors of other cities where crime is not sufficiantly fought in his eyes. Funny coming from the guy in charge of the city where the Russian Mafia is rampant... anyway the summary has is wrong, in terms of politically correct French. The French government wants everyone to stop using the ugly word 'videosurveillance' and instead opt for the friendly, wonderfully orwellian 'videoprotection'.
The conseil constitutionnel is not a joke compared to the US Supreme Court, it's just something completely different. It validates or invalidates laws passed by parliement, when the supreme court is a judicial body, ruling over a court case.
Also, for information, the 3-strikes law will be discussed next week, and implies juicy stuff like "guilty until proven innocent" and "you can only prove innocent if you have installed official government trojan horses on your computer" and "these malware have no requirement of interoperability, which hurts the choice of costumers (!)".
Citizens and bloggers (such as myself) following the Quadrature du Net association are calling for a "blackout" (link in French, sorry) of the French side of the internet in protest.
i bought an asus xonar because my onboard chip had too much static, which made listening to music on headphones a nightmare. ie, moving the mouse increased the static.
now with my sennheiser headphones, listening to my numerous flacs is a blast. my computer is my only source of music, and a dedicated sound card really made a huge difference, both in quality, depth, and non-staticness.
in a flabbergasting coincidence that will leave you all wondering about Fate, i just received my copy of this book today, and was at this very minute beginning to read it. my life has just been slashdotted.
It is a matter of personnal rights. You, as a person, have the right to control your image.
You scatter your DNA all over in public places, in hair, skin, etc. Would you like someone else to take it, and use it for a profit? Would you not feel personnally violated?
exactly. it's not resistance, it's not reticence.
you just can't do that in France, and that's it. French law is not going to change just to please a foreign company.
A small B&B with references on Google Maps would boost sales as I know a lot of people that consult TripAdvisor reviews (supplements that appear to the Google Maps images) to decide where to go during vacation trips or even routine business trips. you do realise that Paris is the most visited city in the world, and as such among the cities with most pictures online already?
it's good to know that like everything else in the US, your own image has a price.
A pretty low price.
That you're only given if you're willing to fight.
exactly. we Frenchmen have seen the pictures of Americans taking a piss in these Google pictures. According to French law, a citizen owns the right to control how his/her image is used. Don't mind us if we have respect for ourselves.
It seems to me that you are a victim to the illusion that anything important that happens, happens in the US. Other parts of the world develop stuff as well, you know. Especially Europe.
and as far as i know (which may not be much), h.264 was developped in an international context, by the ITU-T and MPEG, a subgroup of ISO/IEC. The "I" in each acronym stands for international. The ITU-T is actually based in Switzerland. It doesn't sound like the US alone developped it, and that now Europe wants to steal hard-working americans' money to use it.
So if I'm in Paris and take a picture of Notre Dame that just happens to catch some well-known atheist leaving, and (unknowingly) post it to a blog, I'm is serious legal trouble? Not serious. The identifiable persons could ask you to take it down, and perhaps ask for reparation. Of course if you are a company using these pictures for a commercial product, then it is far more serious and real legal trouble could arise.
Say you are photographed by google with a finger up your nose, unaware of what's going on. Would you be comfortable with a company using that picture of you, publishing it on a very popular web service, so that anyone in the world can without any mistake identify you as the finger-up-his-nose guy?
exactly. since in France it is forbidden to publish without consent one's photograph, I was somehow surprised at this google project; and we all have seen many examples of people that, if they had a choice, would probably have declined being exposed over the whole internet in such positions.
Publishing pictures is fine, but you have to respect the individual and the fact that many people do not want their faces anywhere on the internet.
What one chooses to do with one's image is actually a prized individual freedom in France.
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so you don't have the knowledge to appreciate a dslr, yet you're willing to buy a similarly expensive mirrorless camera with multiple lenses?
If you buy a cheap 50mm for your camera, it'll work from entry level to pro body. I only use Canon since I got the 350d, but since then I steadily upgraded my gear, lenses and bodies. I never was at a point where a lens was not compatible with my camera. At one point of course you can choose to sell a lens to get a better one, but that doesn't mean all of your gear has become useless. So I don't get where you think this is a fallacy -- it actually is one of the strongest selling points for DSLRs, image quality aside.
Smugmug, and also a spare external hard drive for monthly backups. That should be enough.
This is the doing of Christian Estrosi, mayor of Nice and minister of Industry, whose education consisted in winning motorcycle races. He's at the forefront of applying repression at the city level, and actually wanted to fine mayors of other cities where crime is not sufficiantly fought in his eyes. Funny coming from the guy in charge of the city where the Russian Mafia is rampant... anyway the summary has is wrong, in terms of politically correct French. The French government wants everyone to stop using the ugly word 'videosurveillance' and instead opt for the friendly, wonderfully orwellian 'videoprotection'.
The conseil constitutionnel is not a joke compared to the US Supreme Court, it's just something completely different. It validates or invalidates laws passed by parliement, when the supreme court is a judicial body, ruling over a court case.
i actually retrieved my great-grand-father's work hammer (he was a smith). 1876 sounds about right for it.
apparently it worked in australia, or new-zeland, i don't remember.
Also, for information, the 3-strikes law will be discussed next week, and implies juicy stuff like "guilty until proven innocent" and "you can only prove innocent if you have installed official government trojan horses on your computer" and "these malware have no requirement of interoperability, which hurts the choice of costumers (!)". Citizens and bloggers (such as myself) following the Quadrature du Net association are calling for a "blackout" (link in French, sorry) of the French side of the internet in protest.
is MGMT, for what it's worth. When the band decided to sue, Sarkozy's party offered a "symbolic euro" for compensation.
latex + aspell maybe?
i bought an asus xonar because my onboard chip had too much static, which made listening to music on headphones a nightmare. ie, moving the mouse increased the static. now with my sennheiser headphones, listening to my numerous flacs is a blast. my computer is my only source of music, and a dedicated sound card really made a huge difference, both in quality, depth, and non-staticness.
in a flabbergasting coincidence that will leave you all wondering about Fate, i just received my copy of this book today, and was at this very minute beginning to read it. my life has just been slashdotted.
sadly, these rights are eroding fast in France, because the current authorities are fascinated by US and UK-type mass control.
It is a matter of personnal rights. You, as a person, have the right to control your image. You scatter your DNA all over in public places, in hair, skin, etc. Would you like someone else to take it, and use it for a profit? Would you not feel personnally violated?
yes, because if it's available on the internets, then it must be legal.
exactly. it's not resistance, it's not reticence. you just can't do that in France, and that's it. French law is not going to change just to please a foreign company.
it's good to know that like everything else in the US, your own image has a price. A pretty low price. That you're only given if you're willing to fight.
exactly. we Frenchmen have seen the pictures of Americans taking a piss in these Google pictures. According to French law, a citizen owns the right to control how his/her image is used. Don't mind us if we have respect for ourselves.
It seems to me that you are a victim to the illusion that anything important that happens, happens in the US. Other parts of the world develop stuff as well, you know. Especially Europe.
and as far as i know (which may not be much), h.264 was developped in an international context, by the ITU-T and MPEG, a subgroup of ISO/IEC. The "I" in each acronym stands for international. The ITU-T is actually based in Switzerland. It doesn't sound like the US alone developped it, and that now Europe wants to steal hard-working americans' money to use it.
Pictures taken by government cameras do not end up on google. They stay unpublished.
Say you are photographed by google with a finger up your nose, unaware of what's going on. Would you be comfortable with a company using that picture of you, publishing it on a very popular web service, so that anyone in the world can without any mistake identify you as the finger-up-his-nose guy?
yes, but have you noticed? the streets are always empty.
exactly. since in France it is forbidden to publish without consent one's photograph, I was somehow surprised at this google project; and we all have seen many examples of people that, if they had a choice, would probably have declined being exposed over the whole internet in such positions. Publishing pictures is fine, but you have to respect the individual and the fact that many people do not want their faces anywhere on the internet. What one chooses to do with one's image is actually a prized individual freedom in France.