I finally took the time to setup lightroom publish services which is great. I can post to most of my social networks and online portfolio in about 5mins total for each image.
but I also get almost no impact from caffine too. I can down several sodas and immediately go to bed without issue and can also not have any for weeks with no withdrawl.
when I get a cavity filled, they have to inject me 3 or 4 times
and when I had surgery where they actually put me under, they counted back from 10, said I should be out by 7, they got to 0 and actually started commenting about wondering why I wasn't out before I finally went under
lol now Canon messed up their convention even more. The new camera is 100D, and at the same time they copy pasted 650D into 700D, and just changed the kit lens.
No doubt there will be a little bit of luck involved; you have to hit the right segment of the community in the right mood on the right day with the stars aligned just so, and that's if the question is well-formulated, interesting and answerable.
Of your two example questions, the first ("Is the...
My photo on 500px reached "popular" status! Cool! I dont' think that has happened to me before. Not sure how common that is but it was kind of neat seeing all of the comments come in last night.
I already had an account in Picasa and Flickr, and now in 500px. Might as well go and upload something... I only really used the Picasa for one of my friends wanted copies of some of my photos (an event thingy) and she recommended Picasa. So far Facebook has met all of my needs :)
@EsaPaulasto yeah, facebook is really where i get most of my interaction and feedback
i also do like the abilities facebook has around visibility. i can easily share with 10 friends an album, or i can make it public, or just for my "friends". very easy and I use all of those different levels all the time.
@dpollitt Only one thing missing. Friends tend to like just about any photo I upload (now, I almost never upload more than one at a time) so it does not matter much what is in the photo or even less of the quality of the photo, they like it anyway as of saying I saw this and spent enough time viewing it as it takes to click on the Like-button.
on the other hand, me personally don't have much to show to large public, so I guess for me it is just the same if people click "Like" as a habit or if they really liked it :D
been washing our windows today, which is a chore I don't do too often
but while at it, I got an idea as to why it is a good idea to keep the windows clean
I live in 5th floor, or maybe 6th, depending on the way someone counts floors, so I sometimes get a nice sunset view and might even go out and drive to a better location when I notice a nice sunset is on its way.. but, sometimes it happens the sunset is spectacular and already at its peak, any delay would lessen the colours and effect
need to take a shot thru the window then :P
once again, as usual, it is straight out from camera (Canon 3MP p-n-s)
and of course that photo serves only as a memory of the scene, highly valuable at that, but otherwise useless :D
@EsaPaulasto haha true. i guess my friends dont "like" every shot i post though. the one that went popular on 500px today got about the most "likes" any picture on facebook ever has for me, so i guess they correlate somewhat.
@EsaPaulasto That is an entirely different situation. For one, WoW was offered as a subscription service from the beginning, and people knew going in that if they stopped paying, they stopped playing.
The difference with a productivity tool like Adobe's products...you stop paying, you stop MAKING A LIVING! Not only do you no longer have the ability to create new content, you LOSE THE ABILITY TO ACCESS THE YEARS OF CONTENT YOU ALREADY MADE!
Its wrong. It is extremely destructive to smaller businesses and individual content creators or photographers.
It will destroy a lot of livelihoods. And, I suspect, it will destroy a significant percentage of Adobe's income. There are people and businesses who just plain and simply cannot afford to pay the money, so they won't.
ah, no I was not comparing those. Offered it as a possible explanation as what it was Adobe might have been aiming at with the change. What were they thinking they are doing.
If you couldn't care less about the cloud, and only use two or three Adobe apps, your screwed.
They are trying to force everyone onto the $50/mo package, so they can get as many $600/year accounts rolling as they can.
I really hope it bites them in the ass.
Their product is the basis of so many peoples livelihoods. It is also only possible because they are nearly a monopoly in the market, and this action is extremely detrimental to the customer.
the software in question here is total stranger to me, so this might be a silly question, but here goes: what stops you from using the version 6 ad infinitum?
you already have the license to version 6, right? Why the need for every two-yearly upgrade? Why not wait for, say, five years and then see what's there on the market then.
As far as disabling the software goes if you stop paying your subscription...it should only prevent the creation of new content. By disabling the software entirely, it screws peoples ability to open content they created while they were subscribers. A lot of content creators need the ability to open, print, and do other things with existing files.
@EsaPaulasto Most people will. I certainly will (assuming they don't automatically put me on the cloud...from the way Adobe is wording things, it sounds like CS6 is already cloud enabled, and might "automatically" move over.)
Problem is, for photographers, you only get new RAW file format support when you upgrade.
If they make Lightroom a subscription product, I think I'd be willing to make the issue a class-action lawsuit. I'd be so friggin livid I can't even describe it.
I'm a very-low-budget kind of guy, and would never consider buying a high-priced software even though I knew it is the best and I'd really like to use it. But, I do pay some monthly subscription fees when I like the product. Those include cabletv ($29/month) and antivirus software ($9.50/month) and WoW game ($16/month)
I might consider paying for Adobe's power on photoediting if it was down here where I feel it affordable, stress on the word "feel".
A lot of people have working licenses of Adobe products.
So long as those licenses work, Adobe won't feel the pain.
Eventually, though, they will realize their revenue from monthly subscriptions is lower than their total yearly revenue from upgrades, because a lot of people won't move to CC.
I am certainly not.
Once your on the cloud, your stuck with it.
You run the risk of...price increases, an inability to afford the mothly fee, and thus inability to access your content, server downtime so when your software goes to call home, it fails, and locks you out, etc.
@AJHenderson Yeah, that is only if you use their cloud storage.
If you just use the software, it only calls home once a month.
But that is still a problem...DRM systems have a LONG history of disastrous server stability.
EA is the best example...one debacle after another, for YEARS.
They never anticipate the load (or rather, IMO, just plain and simply don't care), so the DRM servers always go offline, or just get slammed and stop responding, so no one can play their games.
@jrista It isn't clear yet, but I've heard some rumors that they still plan to sell boxed single products, just won't be doing a boxed bundle. Not sure if that is accurate or not though.
personally, what I'd really like to see a law about is that activation servers/drm servers should be required to be provided by a manufacturer until an unlocked executable is made available
I don't usually adhere to the notion that companies just like to suck their customers dry...but in EA's case, having been invited to their corporate offices personally in the past...EA cares about NOTHING but the bottom line, and they really don't seem to give a crap about their customers.
That's why they have persisted in using a broken, inconsistent, and generally useless DRM scheme for nearly a decade (even after every update to it is always cracked)...they don't care about the customer, they care about getting money from the customer. Everything they do is aimed at making the customer pay more.
I used to be a gamer, but after I found my wife through world of warcraft , games havent interested me. she stilll buys a month subscription every now and then, but I havent been online since cataclysm
The new SimCity is a perfect example. It is a RADICALLY gimped game, loaded with crappy DRM, and on top of it all...they nickle and dime you for EVERYTHING...the game is almost useless until you start buying little one-off things like larger map for your city, or other items.
@AJHenderson Yeah. Heh, back in 2003, when I was writing an editor for The Sims 3, hey invited me and a bunch of other community people from around the world to their headquarters.
They actually offered me a job. I turned them down...after talking with a lot of the developers and content creators, they all played as though they loved their job, but all of them also dropped little hints about how oppressive the environment was.
the gameplay was truely ground breaking for SW:TOR, but it released with too many bugs and rather than push through and invest to get more content out, they lost subs because of the bugs and then cut all new content pretty much
My problem with Adobe is that they effectively have a monopoly on their market. In the market segments they serve, there are very inferior OSS alternatives that don't do half of what Photoshop or Lightroom or Premier do. There are also far more expensive alternatives that are only viable for big businesses.
In their niche, Adobe effectively rules...and they are abusing their position as a default monopoly to suck the customer dry.
Sadly, outside of maybe Corel (which failed to compete a long time ago)...there really are no other commercial competitors that might but the fire to Adobe.
Maybe this will be a turnaround point for Corel. Maybe they'll get a lot of customers out of this, improve their revenues, and produce a product like PhotoPaint that competes with Photoshop again. I used Photopaint a long time ago...and it was very similar and very competitive against Photoshop.
I was one of the few people that actually did Warrior builds that could aoe tank though. It's too bad the way they killed the ability to do any kind of customization. Sure people mostly used cookie cutters, but that's just because they bought in to the BS about "best builds"
because molding to a particular situation is hard
though I suppose in the DPS world, there really can be a best build
there were "best builds" for aoe and for singel target threat, but pallys didnt really need the best threat as they got aggro for sneezing anyway. so you could play around with auxilary skills instead
I hated double tanking with a warrior, as tehy couldnt grab aggro at all
after tank switch I besically had to run away to let the warrior keep aggro
@jrista they had a few problems, first was buying Word Perfect which got destroyed by Office, and they simultaneously were getting hammered on the graphics side by Adobe
They tried going up against two different major companies at the same time
I noticed on my DK , which required a lot of ability smashing, that if you press the buttons as the GUI shows they are ready, you perform only 50% of your ability
you really needed to smash the button before it was ready
and if you built to maximize rage generation and boost damage while giving up just enough survivability to stay alive but not keeping an excess and did block based damage, you could do a lot
the best way to aoe threat build a warrior in early LK was to stack Block chance, then they got completely rid of that stat entirely and went from a highly mitigation based build to making all the content require high hit survival
so I was getting my ass handed to me for months in LK when the arena raid came out
I suspect Microsoft will gain further ground once their smaller tablets are released at better price points...then they'll be competing directly with Android 7" tablets.
Michael...if you mean a hybrid device that can be a laptop or a tablet, Microsoft Surface with the Type Cover is basically that.
You get one of the best Windows 8 tablets, with a fully functional keyboard with depressable keys, that doubles as a cover...or flip it back under the stand to get it out of the way.
Is the canon 50d primarily made from plastic or from a magnesium-alloy? I have read things that point in either direction. I wasn't able to find anything on Canon's website either. So, does anyone know what it is made from?
The dust from colour is really, really fine. If you don't want to use a waterproof enclosure, or perhaps even with one, you might be well-served by using a long telephoto lens to take your shots from a good distance away. Your composition and the intimacy of the photo might suffer a bit, but your gear won't! — Chinmay Kanchi9 mins ago
I think Stan is making a joke there but I'm not getting it
qoute my wife (who is talking in italian over skype about me, I noticed): "I was just saying you are not programmed to be attentive of the baby while sleeping"
@AJHenderson - He's teasing a bit, suggesting that you've insulted the plastic bag by failing to recognize the value add of the crappy filter on the front.
@MichaelNielsen - allrecipes.com is one of my favourite sites for recipes. Search "minced pork" for a fair number of hits. Might even get you guys to use spice a little... ;)
I've been to Aarhus a couple of times, the guys at TeleDanmark took me to a Mexican restaurant and I had to argue with the waiter for something hotter than tobasco...
He swore up and down that it was the spiciest chili they had ever served and it still felt like spaghetti sauce to me. I think I'm a bit of a chili head. :)
@MichaelNielsen - Try also epicurious.com (another of my favourites)
@JohnCavan I so-o-o get that. Especially here in Tronna. I keep ordering the things with the most chilis/fires on the menu, and they turn out to be what some call "white people hot".
You know, like "gosh, did you put pepper on that?" or "is that onion?"
Nary a palpitation to be had, let alone perspiration, post-nasal drip or a stinging sensation around the lips. Everything needs extra just to be warm.
Is the canon 50d primarily made from plastic or from a magnesium-alloy? I have read things that point in either direction. I wasn't able to find anything on Canon's website either. So, does anyone know what it is made from?
