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Shutter... Aperture... ISO??? Help!!! - Basic Photography Tutorials

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:19:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is a great tutorial on the basics of Photography. Most of us leave the camera on AUTO and end up with blurry shots in dark settings. This is when you switch to Manual and start messing with the settings. This guide gives very good basic descriptions of those settings.

Clip Source: www.silverlight.co.uk

Basic Photography Tutorials.

Table of Contents.

Composition.
Part I  Introduction and a few simple steps to better pictures.
Part II  The Rule of Thirds. Add some structure.
Part III  A few more bits and pieces for your compositional armoury.
The Camera.
Part I  Camera bits.
Annotated Diagram.Picture with some words.
Part II  Modes and Automation.
Part III  Your friend the Lightmeter.
Exposure
Part I  Apertures,shutters and f-numbers.
Part II  More about 'stops' and exposure.
Part III  Put it all together.
Take a test. test.
Film
Part I  Choosing film.
Part II  Latitude and grain.
Part III  Storage and processing.
Shutter and Aperture.
Intro.  The shutter and the aperture.
Part I.  Camera shake.Stuff you need to know.
Part II.  Choosing and using shutter speeds.

Hey Al, turn down the AC, Sheesh!

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:15:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hypocrites, all of them. How does the guy who wins a Nobel Peace prize for predicting our demise due to global warming actually increase his energy consumption and thus his carbon footprint while telling the little people to reduce theirs? The better question is now do the environ"mentalists" not hold him accountable and why does the liberal media ignore it?

Clip Source: www.businessweek.com

Al Gore's Carbon Footprint Is Big.

The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.

Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.

Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.

Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.

Obama to Middle America: If You Weren’t Such Losers, You’d Think Like Liberals

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:50:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How is it that liberals believe that people like Obama, Jackson, the Clintons care one bit about them? They care about themselves and their power only. They're so self absorbed and elitist they would hardly even notice those they claim to be representing if it wasn't for the need for their support in getting elected...

Clip Source: www.humanevents.com

Obama to Middle America: If You Weren’t Such Losers, You’d Think Like Liberals

Liberalism is the home and incubator of “multiculturalism” -- the belief that all cultures have value and should in no way be changed by little things like the Western world, or modernity. If you practice a form of herbal voodoo and speak a language with 13 remaining adherants, they’ll argue you should be celebrated, subsidized, and provided with a full-time interpreter should you decide to get a job at the Department of Moto

So you see it’s not inbreeding or lead-poisoning at all! It’s just that these people are all the bitter losers in life’s lottery and they manifest their bitterness and anger through obviously pathological behaviors such as a belief in the Second Amendment or by attending church. (Barack knows that the real reason to go to church is so you can hear your nutcase pastor tell his non-bitter congregation that America deserved the 9-11 massacres and that white people created the AIDS virus.)

Liberalism: Can it survive?

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:34:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Just another clip about bitter liberals. This was written by John Leo in the U.S. News & World Report, March 7th 2005. I clipped a great paragraph that I think sums up so many of the liberals I've encountered(perhaps not all, but many). The entire article is worth a read.

Clip Source: www.usnews.com

Liberalism: Can it survive?

Bitter. Liberals have been slow to grasp the mainstream reaction to the no-values culture, chalking it up to Karl Rove, sinister fundamentalists, racism, or the stupidity of the American voter. Since November 2, the withering contempt of liberals for ordinary Americans has been astonishing. Voting for Bush gave "quite average Americans a chance to feel superior," said Andrew Hacker, a prominent liberal professor at Queens College. We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow. Liberals might one day conclude that while most Americans value autonomy, they do not want a procedural republic in which patriotism, religion, socialization, and traditional values are politically declared out of bounds. Many Americans notice that liberalism nowadays lacks a vocabulary of right and wrong, declines to discuss virtue except in snickering terms, and seems increasingly hostile to prevailing moral sentiments.

Bitter Liberals - Check the Data; Conservatives are Happier

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:22:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I've always wondered why when debating liberals they immediately explode into expletives. Always on the edge of losing it without the capacity to listen to differing viewpoints. This link provides some insight.

Clip Source: www.post-gazette.com

Bitter liberals

Check the data; conservatives are happier

If Barack Obama read Karl Marx less, and Arthur Brooks more, he might not be in such hot water.

Mr. Brooks, a professor at Syracuse University, demonstrates, through the wealth of statistics in his new book, "Gross National Happiness," that conservatives are much happier than liberals. (In 2004, 44 percent of those who described themselves as "conservative" or "very conservative" told pollsters they were "very happy," compared to just 25 percent of those who described themselves as "liberal" or "very liberal.")

Nor does it have much to do with income, because conservatives are happier than liberals at all income levels. The happiness gap is due less to ideology than to two habits in which conservatives and liberals differ markedly.

Conservatives also give about 30 percent more to charity than liberals do, Prof. Brooks said. The difference between a philanthropist and a liberal is that a philanthropist is generous with his own money.

The Ant and the Grasshopper, revised edition

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:19:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Click the link to read the entire thing.

Clip Source: righttruth.typepad.com

The Ant and the Grasshopper, revised edition

The ant works hard, in the withering heat, all summer long.
He builds his house and stores supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks that the ant is a fool.
He laughs, dances and plays the summer away, preparing nothing for the coming winter.

Winter comes, the ant is safe and warm.
The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and fed, while others are cold and starving!

CBS, NBC, ABC & CNN show up to provide pictures of shivering grasshoppers, next to a video of an ant
in his comfortable home, with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast! How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor
grasshopper is allowed to suffer this way?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah, with the grasshopper.
Everyone cries when they sing "It's Not Easy Being Green".

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Five Things About SAP's Strategy That You Need to Know

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:31:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It is interesting how SAP generally stays below the IT news radar. Their recent legal issues with Oracle not-withstanding, not much newsworthy really ever comes out about SAP. This is a great read for just that reason as it sums up some important things about SAP's strategy.

Clip Source: www.cio.com

Five Things About SAP's Strategy That You Need to Know

May 15, 2008 — CIO — Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are a career-defining decision for many IT executives. And yet, says an expert who follows SAP and its base of corporate customers, many of those executives don’t pay enough attention to the German software giant’s strategy for updating these bet-your-business applications.

But here's the thing: They should be.

As AMR senior vice president of research Jim Shepherd describes in a report from earlier this year, "The Five SAP Strategies That You Need To Understand," few companies buy SAP for best-of-breed or one-off applications. More than likely, these companies (and the CEO, CFO and CIO who sign off on what is typically a multimillion-dollar contract with SAP) have "bought into the idea of deploying a broad, single vendor business suite," Shepherd writes. (For the latest on SAP, see "News and Views from SAP's Sapphire Show and User Conference 2008.")

Don't be initimidated By ITIL!

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:06:58 GMT

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Clip Source: advice.cio.com

Don't be initimidated By ITIL!

Posted by: Brian Flora in Best Practices

Topic: IT Organization Management

Current Rating: Comments: 8

There is a paradigm shift taking place in American business when it comes to ITIL®. A few years back a significant number of CIOs weren’t familiar with the term. While that no longer seems to be the case, we’ve now moved into the age of ITIL procrastination. Today’s CIOs are largely aware of the existence of this powerful set of best practices for IT Service Management (ITSM), and most of those who are aware acknowledge the potential benefits to be had from implementing improved processes. So why aren’t they moving forward? Increasingly, I hear some variation of the following:

“We want to put ITSM in place, but we’re just not ready yet”.

New Details on Apple iPhone 3G Activation for Business Customers

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:01:40 GMT

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Clip Source: advice.cio.com

New Details on Apple iPhone 3G Activation for Business Customers

Posted by: Al Sacco in News

Topic: Infrastructure

Blog: Mobile WorkHorse

Current Rating: Comment: 1

Apple's next generation iPhone 3G smartphone is set to hit retail store shelves this Friday, but many questions about the much anticipated device are still unanswered, at least from a business standpoint. For instance: How will organizations and businesses activate the iPhone 3G, and will a trip to an Apple or AT&T store be required?

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Oracle preps summar patch cluster

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:32:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Patch your Oracle systems on Tuesday!

Clip Source: www.theregister.co.uk

Oracle preps summer patch cluster

45 updates equal overtime for sysadmins

Oracle is preparing to release 45 security patches on Tuesday 15 July as part of its quarterly update cycle.

The updates cover unspecified security bugs across multiple Oracle products including its Oracle Database, Application Server, E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft business applications. Some of the updates address vulnerabilities in multiple products.

Murtha wrong, video at Haditha hearing shows

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:59:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Murtha wants so bad to turn our war heroes into criminals. What a lowlife scumbag.

Clip Source: www.wnd.com

Murtha wrong, video at Haditha hearing shows

Evidence of firefight attack on Marines presented to judge

U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., who publicly accused the Marines of killing Iraqi civilians in "cold blood," was wrong, according to video presented as evidence at a hearing for an officer charged in the case stemming from the battle in Haditha.

"If you go back [to Murtha's description] there was no [Improvised Explosive Device], there was no firefight, it was like there was a phantom menace," said Brian Rooney, a spokesman for the The Thomas More Law Center, which is representing Marine Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani against charges in the case.

"However we have the firefight on video. You can't deny it," Rooney told WND after a two-day motions hearing in Chessani's case came to a conclusion. There was no immediate ruling on the motions presented by the defense team to the hearing officer, Col. Stephen Folsom.

Ninety Percent of Virtual Worlds Projects Fail

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:28:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I did an MBA video project on virtual worlds (See my first clip). My assessment a year ago on this was that companies hadn't figured out how to make those worlds useful to the consumer. Instead they rushed head first into staking their virtual claim in the 3D world only to find out nobody cared or noticed except the typical hype mongers of the IT press that can't wait to be first to predict the next "BIG" thing. Maybe they were a little quick to judge.

Clip Source: www.cio.com

Gartner: Ninety Percent of Virtual Worlds Projects Fail

Despite a high failure rate by first adopters, Gartner sees an important future for virtual worlds as a tool for internal collaboration.

May 15, 2008 — CIO — Nine out of ten businesses that have launched virtual worlds saw them fail in 18 months or less, according to a recent research from Gartner, which faulted companies for getting hung up on the technology rather than thinking about how people use it.

Why EMC Showed VMware's Greene the Door, Hired Microsoft-Savvy Scrapper

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:41:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Kevin Fogarty makes some great points about where EMC needs to go in their virtualization play. Rather than waiting for Microsoft to beat you at their game, change the game. I agree that the cloud is where EMC needs to focus now that Microsoft is trying to make the VMware product irrelevant by basically giving their version of it away for free. Microsoft will never be good at innovation. However, with their installed base, they are a very strong me too player with deep pockets.

Clip Source: www.cio.com

Why EMC Showed VMware's Greene the Door, Hired Microsoft-Savvy Scrapper

VMware parent company EMC isn't saying much about why it decided to replace VMware founder and CEO Diane Greene with former-Microsoftie and former-cloud-computing entrepreneur Paul Maritz.

But I don't think you have to be a genius to figure it out, given the brick wall that's careening toward VMware as it toodles along at on own comfortable course.

First, it has nothing to do with the upcoming earnings announcement Wall Street analysts call "disappointing" following a warning that VMware won't quite hit the fifty-percent profit target it had posted. It also won't match the 69 percent revenue increase it posted for the first fiscal quarter of this year.

Microsoft tries again to streamline volume pricing

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:04:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There's got to be a better way. Something that doesn't lock the organization in to pointless interim updates of all products but rather requires Microsoft to prove the value of upgrades like every other software vendor has to. Selling by default has been their process for so many years that they've forgotten how to sell. Locking the corporation into a cyclical license perpetuates that behavior.

Clip Source: www.networkworld.com

Microsoft tries again to streamline volume pricing

Microsoft is set to unveil a new program that allows its larger customers to combine separate product licensing agreements under one master contract, which could help them to get bigger volume discounts.

The move, expected to be announced Tuesday, is another step in a series of changes intended to improve Microsoft's product licensing terms and make them easier for companies to navigate.

Are the ice caps melting?

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:58:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is an interesting read since it includes a lot of historical evidence that you don't read about anywhere else.

Clip Source: www.theregister.co.uk

Are the ice caps melting?

Climate science's bipolar disorder

PBEM The headlines last week brought us terrifying news: The North Pole will be ice-free this summer "for the first time in human history," wrote Steve Connor in The Independent. Or so the experts at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado predict. This sounds very frightening, so let's look at the facts about polar sea ice.

As usual, there are a couple of huge problems with the reports.