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  1. <p>This reminds me of JD Power and Associates giving awards to products they have tied themselves to financially. No doubt they do it because it works when it comes to selling more units.</p>
  2. <p>I feel like this is part of our social change that's coming about from more people moving to cities. It's seems similar to attitude changes towards amateur radio, firearms use and off-road transportation. In my state over 80% of our land is rural or semi-rural. If you crashed your drone or fired your shotgun or wrecked your four wheeler two counties away, no one would care. In town, you might make the news.</p> <p>We see a lot of political discussions about things like this where geography, having space, is an important part of mitigating risk. Yet, we don't often talk about it. It is as though everyone lives in suburbia or "The City." Meanwhile these same activities could take place over the surface of most of our land and no one would care.</p> <p>If you crashed your drone in the country, you might have trouble finding it. If you flew your drone in the city, you might need to find a lawyer. If you crashed your drone in the city, you might need an ad agency to help you with public relations during the televised lawsuit.</p> <p>Too bad we're not smart enough, as a group, to use a map when considering public policies. Maybe we'll get there. If we could bring ourselves to use population densities as a common part of safety discussions, then a lot of this stuff would get sorted out with less yelling.</p>
  3. <p>When programming video downloads to web pages written in HTML5, what are your preferred technical references for writing programs that provide the video streams? While embedding a player in a web page is easy, I am interested in learning more about serving the video. When you code those streamers, what references do you keep on hand to do it?</p>
  4. <p>Excuse me, but it is much different. Per user, I will run less than 20 processes. A full count of "lsof" will bring back less than 2500 of everything.</p> <p>I routinely pick up old Windows machines and outfit them with lighter installations using Unix. It's not the same. In these kinds of installations, the user is in charge. Picking what to put on there is the tough part. Running an X11-based, lightweight system is not nearly close to the computing overhead in contemporary commercial operating systems. Graphics are expensive (in computations), but it doesn't take the latest everything to handle a picture or two. Handling 2000 at a time: that would be a different story.<br> <br />This particular box I'm on now is over 10 years old. It's working just fine under FreeBSD 10. When I picked it up off the side of the road it was loaded with XP. Its neighbor, also found on the side of the road, had a copy of Windows 98 on it before I refitted it. Computer after computer, time and again: a user would struggle to make it through the most basic functions. Refitted with a simple Unix installation, normally free except for the time it takes to compile and build and learn: that same computer will once again be able to perform common tasks.</p> <p>The OP's got a budget of under $250. Just what Windows system is he going to buy? My recommendation, take it or leave it, is to spend nothing. Maybe you can find a system on the side of the road, too. Maybe someone will just flat out give you an old computer. Scrap together whatever you can. Load it up with FreeBSD or Linux and use Gimp. It works for a lot of people.</p> <p>Save your money for supporting your photo habit somehow else. For a picture or two, you don't need to spend anything. But, to make something out of nothing, you will have to get smarter, more savvy, about your choices. Purchasing your budget to death will just lead to a dead end. Make more pictures instead. Good luck.</p>
  5. This is a common problem with K1000 and Spotmatic style cameras. I have seen this type of defect fixed, only to see it break again in the same way. If you do choose to fix it yourself, be careful with disassembling the shutter speed dial. It contains spring loaded parts, if I remember right. The spring and tatchet assembly that might be bothering you is probably under that rewind lever, set a little into the frame of the camera. Basically, once you get around to repairing it, often other parts have been worn or damaged from repeated attempts at using the camera when the film advancement lever is breaking. Things get out of sync, there's more damage; eventually, the camera might croak out a grinding sound and then just lock up. Good luck.
  6. FreeBSD or a Linux distro might help. When you're running Windows, you'll be running about 75 programs at a time just to keep the OS up. Other major brands are not much better. The thing to do with a *nix system like FreeBSD is to cut down on running what you don't need. As you might imagine, thee's a learning curve. It can be steep.
  7. jpo3136b

    Until the End of Time

    It took me a while to figure out the subject was a knot of roots in a tree trunk. An essential detail for me was the texture of the bark.  Overall, I felt there was a strong composition in the photo, with good use of color and tone.  However, the unusual appearance of that subject tree takes a little longer.  Because of the contrast, and the use of light grays and white, the photo might have more impact in a larger size; those bark details are important to the overall picture.
  8. Abnormally strong composition for a wildlife photo.  Good use of tone in the foreground bushes and tree trunk to set up the eye to go to the bear.  Very good lineup of the light gray back of the blurred tree branches in the background also pointing toward the subject.  This might be your once in a lifetime shot.
  9. I liked the diagonal lines of the ropes and arms; colorful clothing; head at just the right angle: strong composition in this photo.
  10. jpo3136b

    MARCH EAGLE 1

    Good photo of an eagle. I had a look at your portfolio because of it. What, do you have a pet eagle? There are so many eagle photos in there! Good job. I also liked your picture of the sheep in the "Iowa" section. It seems like there is a slight fogginess near the bottom margin of the picture: really the only imperfection I could detect. Considering that this is a photo of a wild animal, good exposure, good focus, reasonable composition: a picture worth keeping. Keep up the good work. J.
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    There is something about the downward angle of the point of view and the upward turn of the cat's ear, combined with the pattern of the fur, that makes the cat's body look skewed or distorted.  That effect commanded my attention more than anything else.  I would suggest trying a lower point of view instead.
  12. <p>Over the years, I had a lot of photos stored in extreme heat. If you see plastic melting, it won't go back once it cools off. If the photos begin to melt onto something or get something melted onto them: you're stuck with whatever happens. <br /> <br /> Damage from heat will sometimes manifest itself as immediate and obvious emulsion damage. For example, if you begin to see the film separate from the paper, adhere to plastic encasing the picture, or curl and lacerate with the temperature changes: that's permanent damage. From reading your narrative, I wouldn't expect that kind of problem.</p>
  13. <p>I read over the source code from your front page. As far as SEO goes, it seems like you've tried to take advantage of some Wordpress plugins. One looked like it was from yoast.com and it used Open Graph Protocol. Open graph has a website here, http://ogp.me/ , which explains some of the syntax of their language.<br /> <br /> I'll be frank: search engine optimization is a buzzword of a phrase. First off, few really know how different search engines prioritize their displayed results. Some, like a search on Facebook, will often withhold the desired answer to a search just to get a user to eliminate similar, but unwanted, answers. Try searching Facebook sometime while logged in and then again while not logged in. Look for someone you know who is on there. Take a look at how different the search results can be. I expect you will find that one method, not being logged in, will yield a much less efficient set of results. In practice, I expect that you might endlessly scroll through results without ever seeing what you know you could find in an instant if you were logged in.<br> <br /> With those two different kinds of experiences in mind, ask yourself: how are you going to optimize that?<br /> <br /> I once had some pages crawled by a guy over at Blekko who was running spiders based on URLs he had bought off of Yahoo!. One search engine company tried to keep and sell data on anything. The other was trying to build up a database of human-reviewed websites. How it was that those two were trading data with one another was mind-boggling. Even within the context of commercial data swaps like those, how would a user "optimize" his web page to "win" by "ranking" on the "first page" of "results"?<br /> <br /> When I told that CTO at Blekko to stay off of my website, he acted as if he didn't know which one his program had crawled. In a limited sense, I suppose it's plausible that he was clueless. He probably crawled tens of thousands without knowing what his program was doing. Meanwhile, his program was doing exactly what it was programmed to do, by his company and for his company. It's obvious that there is little real judgment or intellectual control of data management, data gathering or general "situation awareness" on the part of many of these data companies. <br /> <br /> Maybe they can Google "a clue" and find one for themselves. They'll probably get a 404. I have seen little reason to believe that good judgment or consistent logic will ever be applied to a semantic web view of this mess we call the Internet. <br /> <br /> People just aren't savvy enough to get organized and stay that way. Search engine companies are no exception. Their main form of organization: identifying who pays money into their wallet. Everyone else is the hoi polloi.<br /> <br /> The effect of this is that search engine optimization pays about as well as good auto maintenance. If you want your site to run well and be reasonably survivable, put 30 minutes into routine maintenance. That should include updating some simple text files to reflect what pages have what content on the site.<br /> <br /> Some basics make sense. Build up a robots.txt. Install a sitemap. Aside from those simple kinds of lists you can make yourself, and metadata tags that you can write yourself, there's little point in spending a lot of money or effort in trying to gain in everyone's "rankings" by "optimizing" your web pages.</p> <p>Take care. Good luck with your photography.</p>
  14. <p>Expect a lot of failures. It's normal. Enjoy the pictures anyway.</p>
  15. <blockquote> <p>What would be the recommended top 3 lenses to start with for a DSLR camera?</p> </blockquote> <p>Frequently used, daily needed and thankfully carried.<br /> <br /> Frequently used: Ye Olde Normal 50mm, reincarnated for your newer system. Used all the time by everyone, it's really the only lens you'll ever need. The magic of this lens: its horizontal span of view was real close to normal, unaided vision.<br /> <br /> Daily needed: Ye Olde Wide Angle 35mm, reincarnated for your newer system. Cram that lens into someone's face, and you can still get the whole world in.<br /> <br /> Thankfully carried: Ye Olde Telephoto 135mm or similar, reincarnated for your newer system. With a span of view a few fingers wide, it was there for when you wanted to reach out and touch something. When you got as close as you could, and it still wasn't at the right distance to cut out those unnecessary things, when you needed that narrower field of view: telephoto was there.<br /> <br /> I still use that old 50mm most of the time. <br /> <br /> I think just about everybody already recommended each of these three lenses for you in their posts above. That 28-135 might have them covered already. Good luck.</p>
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