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Some general thoughts:
Hard drive space is no issue here. Of course you need enough RAM to load a complete file into memory. Adding the
operating system and photoshop it seems you need at least 4 GB.
Now, what determines the speed of the process is not so much the amount of RAM (as long as you have enough to
handle the file), but its reaction time and throughput. Also, on startup the file has to be loaded from the hard
drive into the memory. The bottleneck here is clearly the hard drive, which is some orders of magnitude slower
than the memory.
In the end, it depends on what you want to optimize.
Conclusions:
- Once you have enough RAM to handle the file, more RAM will not increase speed
- To boost loading time, make sure to get a fast hard drive
- To speed up processing, get fast RAM (clock cycle measured in nanoseconds and throughput measured in Mhz)
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All my images are post processed, yet all but one meet the photo.net criteria to count as unmanipulated.
So where would you draw the line? Would cropping be allowed? What about in-camera adjustments? After all, it makes a big difference whether you shoot raw (I only shoot raw) or jpg.
The idea is interesting though and I would also like to see some before-after comparisons.
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I think I see Marcs point. the _number_ of ratings one receives is also an indicator of the quality. A main
hurdle to take for a picture is to provoke a reaction. That explains why the average rating given is well above
the mathematical rating average. Most people react - and give a rating - only to photos that trigger some kind of
reaction (mostly a positive one).
I have noticed, for example, that the hundreds of ratings I have given average almost exactly 5/5.
This tendency implies that 100 ratings of 6/6 are worth much more than 10 ratings of 6/6.
On the other side, the amount of ratings one receives is hardly linear. Only by getting many ratings fast, one
manages to get into the "last 3 days/last week/last month/etc." sections, where additional exposure is given to
the picture. And of course, being selected as POW gives another boost.
Therefore the original question ("It would be interesting to trace how many of the first photo’s ratings were
recorded BEFORE it became POW ?") makes sense.
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As a first step, uploading some professional pictures to sell might help. So, instead of learning html, hire a web designer to do it for you and go learn taking good pictures!
(That is, focus your own resources on your core business.)
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A history of photographic alteration going back as far as 1860:
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/
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One definition of poor: Having little or no wealth and few or no possessions.
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Poverty is not as subjective as you may think. The world bank measures poverty in a very quantitative way (IIRC:
income of < 2$ a day).
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Yet, they also provide a verbal definition:<br>
--cite--<br>
Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty
is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future,
living one day at a time. Poverty is losing a child to illness brought about by unclean water. Poverty is
powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom.<br>
--end cite--<br><br>
Source:
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From this point of view, there might indeed be no poverty where Sam Alberton lives.
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There exists a very different meaning of poverty though:<br>
It is poor to attack someone and accuse him of lack of understanding. <br>It is poor to suggest someone is ill-fated,
even a racist without knowing more than two innocent sentences he wrote.<br>
It is poor to write about prejudices without seeing your own.
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I just see I forgot some parts in the hat. But you get the point...
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How about blurring the background a little to make him stand out more?
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Just curious about the new limits for critiques
in PhotoNet Site Help
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How about tying the number of critique requests available to the number of critiques given? (Or is that already implemented?)
E.g. for every 4 you write, you may post one request (additionally to the 4 per 7 days).
Unfortunately it is very hard for me to get any really helpful advice at all through the critique system (this photo, for example, got no feedback at all: http://www.photo.net/photo/7686434, maybe posted wrong time of the day?)
In any case, I have noticed I can improve my own skills by rating/commenting on others photos, so I will continue to do so... :-)