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Windows 10. Horrible!
On Nov 24, 2017, PeterN wrote
(in article ): On 11/24/2017 9:46 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Nov 24, 2017, PeterN wrote (in article ): Snip Even worse, I want to try Aurora. I got a $10 dollar discount code through a camera group. I wanted to see if I could do better. Do a search Aurora HDR discount code. I stopped searching after the first few led me directly to the Macphun site, with a message that no code was needed. Yet Macphun honors the discount code. To my way of thinking these other sites are practicing unethical marketing. i am not sure, but I suspect that the only reason they do what they are doing, is they get a commission. The sites I am referring to include such as "retail me not," etc. If Macphun did not have a good reputation, that type of marketing practice would make me wary of buying. If anyone thinks I went too fr off topic, that's their problem. End of mini rant. It is always best to go directly to the developer site, questionable intermediates have been known to be problematic. Some previously trustworthy cheap/free app sources have become vectors for malware. That said, not all sites offering additional discounts are toxic, so one needs to be alert to bad playe4rs among the sincere offers. As for Aurora HDR, I think you will find it very suitable for some of your HDR work. It also does a good job on single exposure tone mapping. They have some interesting presets (some a bit over the top), a layered workflow with local adjustment brushes, and very flexible adjustments. With the local adjustment brush, you can apply a preset, or personal adjustments to a specifice area of the image. You also have the ability to create your own presets. ...and they have a good library of video tutorials. I agree completely, and have heard good things from others. Putting the issue of malware aside, I feel very strongly that the publisher is entitled to be paid. To the best of my knowledge, I have never used unlicensed software. There is nothing wrong with trying to get the best price, for legal software. I was shopping for the best discount codes that Aurora will honor. Fujirumors usually has good snag-free discount codes. Here is what they provided for Aurora, Luminar and some other stuff. https://www.fujirumors.com/aurora-hd...e-fuji-double- fuji-x-cashback-europe/ I also looked at Luminar, which I think it is a very good program. But, there is very little in it that interests me, that I don't already have. Right now, I am into playing with a using circular coordinates with luminosity masks. I bought Lumenzia, which speeds up making luminosity masks. Greg Benz, the developer gives great, and personalized support. I have seen his stuff in promos, but I have most of the function covered with other apps, and I have yet to roadtest Luminzia. On1 PR 2018 does a pretty good job with luminosity masks. Here is an example, which I am posting this only to show the concept. If anyone objects to the reduced resolution, or my copyright notice, look through it. https://www.dropbox.com/s/g6w96lsf1095334/20171005_6203-butterfly%20garden.jpg ;-) -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Windows 10. Horrible!
On Nov 24, 2017, PeterN wrote
(in article ): On 11/24/2017 9:58 PM, Savageduck wrote: snip Interesting. I don’t have that sort of ad issue with my iPad Pro which I use to stream Amazon Prime, Netflix, and other streaming content via my home network. I heard that Netflix, is acquiring Yahoo. The combined company will be called Netanyahoo. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.) Groan... Even worse considering that Verizon bought Yahoo several months ago. https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/13/ve...tion-of-yahoo- marissa-mayer-resigns-memo/ -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Windows 10. Horrible!
"PeterN" wrote
| there should be no expectation of privacy in email. When I have to send | sensitive information, I use encrypted files. | I see that as 2 different issues. One is whether your private info -- nude photos, SS number, etc -- might possibly be stolen in transit. Email is high risk that way. That's not about privacy. That's security. Privacy is what I consider to be an expectation of basic civility and honesty: That your correspondence is private property and should be treated as such by the people who handle it. Security is whether your personal effects are safe from theft in your locked file cabinet in your home office. Privacy is whether I have a right to copy and study your personal effects, then sell them to advertisers or marketing research people, simply because you hired me to clean your office, or because I built the desk you keep your papers in, and I therefore have a key you've given to me. Very different issues. What about selling information I've gleaned about you without actually copying your private effects? I could write down info about what food you eat, drugs in your medicine cabinet, tools in your garage, movies and music in your living room -- then sell that to marketers. Illegal? Probably not. But would you want me back in your house? This is a real-world example. I'm a contractor. I do office buildouts and bath remodels. It would be unprofessional for me to discuss a customer at all if there's any possible chance of you knowing them. Rummaging through their effects for information to sell? I can't imagine being so sleazy and that would probably border on illegal. They've given me permission to pull up their bathroom floor. They haven't given me permission to read their mail or personal letters, or even to look at the drugs in their medicine cabinet. That's an issue of basic decency. Yet you don't mind your email handler doing it. It should not be legal for Google to ask you to sign away your rights to your own personal effects, for them to store copies of email you've deleted, for them to access email content, or for them to forward your email to the NSA. But by putting your email functionality online they redefine your correspondence as their property and have gradually worked to redefine the legal precedent. We're increasingly allowing corpoate interests to middleman our lives and they're claiming co-ownership. You're *actively* furthering that trend by using the services. Unfortunately, that scenario is not only in the corporate interest (for targetted advertising and the collection of salable personal data) but also in the interest of "the gov't spook community". MS sends data to NSA and helps NSA decrypt their own encryption: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...tion-user-data Judge demands that all gmail, including deleted emails, be turned over in a legal case: https://www.cnet.com/news/police-blo...il-disclosure/ US gov't claims right to access any and all emails from anywhere in the world, arguing that email stored on MS servers is not private property but rather MS business data, and the gov't has the right to access corporate business data: https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...search-warrant Google faced a class action by non-gmail users at one point, who claimed they never gave Google the right to read their email. Google's argument was that everyone knows Google spies on everything and therefore the plaintiffs had no reasonable expectation that Google might not read any email sent to a gmailer: "But your honor, everyone knows I'm a bank robber. You can't blame me. It's the bank's fault for having money in the bank drawers when I walked in." The mega-corporate ad/tech companies' only interest in your privacy is for PR purposes. For instance, Tim Cook was happy to share iPhone data with the gov't. He just had to refuse once they made it a public demand. For the gov't's part, making it a public demand in special cases gets their foot in the door. Who's going to protest breaking the encryption on a cellphone owned by a terrorist who killled dozens, or by a cannibal who eats little girls? Once they publicly win cases like that they have a precedent. Companies like MS/Apple/Google/Facebook have no reason to care about that. They only care about whether you think they care and whether it might threaten your use of their product. |
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Windows 10. Horrible!
On 11/24/2017 11:30 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On Nov 24, 2017, PeterN wrote (in article ): On 11/24/2017 9:46 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Nov 24, 2017, PeterN wrote (in article ): Snip Even worse, I want to try Aurora. I got a $10 dollar discount code through a camera group. I wanted to see if I could do better. Do a search Aurora HDR discount code. I stopped searching after the first few led me directly to the Macphun site, with a message that no code was needed. Yet Macphun honors the discount code. To my way of thinking these other sites are practicing unethical marketing. i am not sure, but I suspect that the only reason they do what they are doing, is they get a commission. The sites I am referring to include such as "retail me not," etc. If Macphun did not have a good reputation, that type of marketing practice would make me wary of buying. If anyone thinks I went too fr off topic, that's their problem. End of mini rant. It is always best to go directly to the developer site, questionable intermediates have been known to be problematic. Some previously trustworthy cheap/free app sources have become vectors for malware. That said, not all sites offering additional discounts are toxic, so one needs to be alert to bad playe4rs among the sincere offers. As for Aurora HDR, I think you will find it very suitable for some of your HDR work. It also does a good job on single exposure tone mapping. They have some interesting presets (some a bit over the top), a layered workflow with local adjustment brushes, and very flexible adjustments. With the local adjustment brush, you can apply a preset, or personal adjustments to a specifice area of the image. You also have the ability to create your own presets. ...and they have a good library of video tutorials. I agree completely, and have heard good things from others. Putting the issue of malware aside, I feel very strongly that the publisher is entitled to be paid. To the best of my knowledge, I have never used unlicensed software. There is nothing wrong with trying to get the best price, for legal software. I was shopping for the best discount codes that Aurora will honor. Fujirumors usually has good snag-free discount codes. Here is what they provided for Aurora, Luminar and some other stuff. https://www.fujirumors.com/aurora-hd...e-fuji-double- fuji-x-cashback-europe/ I also looked at Luminar, which I think it is a very good program. But, there is very little in it that interests me, that I don't already have. Right now, I am into playing with a using circular coordinates with luminosity masks. I bought Lumenzia, which speeds up making luminosity masks. Greg Benz, the developer gives great, and personalized support. I have seen his stuff in promos, but I have most of the function covered with other apps, and I have yet to roadtest Luminzia. On1 PR 2018 does a pretty good job with luminosity masks. I will try it, but I haven't put On1 on my laptop. -- PeterN |
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Windows 10. Horrible!
On Nov 25, 2017, PeterN wrote
(in article ): On 11/24/2017 11:30 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Nov 24, 2017, PeterN wrote (in article ): On 11/24/2017 9:46 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Nov 24, 2017, PeterN wrote (in article ): Snip Even worse, I want to try Aurora. I got a $10 dollar discount code through a camera group. I wanted to see if I could do better. Do a search Aurora HDR discount code. I stopped searching after the first few led me directly to the Macphun site, with a message that no code was needed. Yet Macphun honors the discount code. To my way of thinking these other sites are practicing unethical marketing. i am not sure, but I suspect that the only reason they do what they are doing, is they get a commission. The sites I am referring to include such as "retail me not," etc. If Macphun did not have a good reputation, that type of marketing practice would make me wary of buying. If anyone thinks I went too fr off topic, that's their problem. End of mini rant. It is always best to go directly to the developer site, questionable intermediates have been known to be problematic. Some previously trustworthy cheap/free app sources have become vectors for malware. That said, not all sites offering additional discounts are toxic, so one needs to be alert to bad players among the sincere offers. As for Aurora HDR, I think you will find it very suitable for some of your HDR work. It also does a good job on single exposure tone mapping. They have some interesting presets (some a bit over the top), a layered workflow with local adjustment brushes, and very flexible adjustments. With the local adjustment brush, you can apply a preset, or personal adjustments to a specifice area of the image. You also have the ability to create your own presets. ...and they have a good library of video tutorials. I agree completely, and have heard good things from others. Putting the issue of malware aside, I feel very strongly that the publisher is entitled to be paid. To the best of my knowledge, I have never used unlicensed software. There is nothing wrong with trying to get the best price, for legal software. I was shopping for the best discount codes that Aurora will honor. Fujirumors usually has good snag-free discount codes. Here is what they provided for Aurora, Luminar and some other stuff. https://www.fujirumors.com/aurora-hd...e-fuji-double- fuji-x-cashback-europe/ I also looked at Luminar, which I think it is a very good program. But, there is very little in it that interests me, that I don't already have. Right now, I am into playing with a using circular coordinates with luminosity masks. I bought Lumenzia, which speeds up making luminosity masks. Greg Benz, the developer gives great, and personalized support. I have seen his stuff in promos, but I have most of the function covered with other apps, and I have yet to roadtest Luminzia. On1 PR 2018 does a pretty good job with luminosity masks. I will try it, but I haven't put On1 on my laptop. When you do get around to trying take a quick look at these: https://www.on1.com/blog/tag/masking-compositing/ https://youtu.be/v7ry-zRGqAk https://youtu.be/djRIw0ul4-U -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Windows 10. Horrible!
On 11/25/2017 10:09 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"PeterN" wrote | there should be no expectation of privacy in email. When I have to send | sensitive information, I use encrypted files. | I see that as 2 different issues. One is whether your private info -- nude photos, SS number, etc -- might possibly be stolen in transit. Email is high risk that way. That's not about privacy. That's security. That is where we differ. I admit that there are people who do not care about privacy, and/or security. They are the exception. I think that in general people lock their doors for both privacy and security reasons. I am looking at the issue from a Fifth Amendment viewpoint, and criminal cases. The rule may very well be different in civil cases, In the US, and New York, the issue of whether the search yielding the evidence was reasonable under the Fifth Amendment, typically hinges upon whether there was a reasonable expectation of privacy. As an example, if the perp leaves his window shades wide open, while performing the act constituting the crime, a photograph of the act would be admissible because anyone who leaves their windows open has no expectation of privacy. If all things were the same, and the cop, without a court order, jimmied the lock, sneaked in and took the picture, in the absence of other factors, that picture would not be admissible, because it was the product of an unreasonable search. Since there is no reasonable expectation of privacy, the injured sender has no legal or moral right to raise the issue. Similarity, if someone murders his parents, a request for mercy, because he is an orphan, would not be considered by the court. Because this is a photo group, I have oversimplified the situation, and omitted citations. Privacy is what I consider to be an expectation of basic civility and honesty: That your correspondence is private property and should be treated as such by the people who handle it. Security is whether your personal effects are safe from theft in your locked file cabinet in your home office. Privacy is whether I have a right to copy and study your personal effects, then sell them to advertisers or marketing research people, simply because you hired me to clean your office, or because I built the desk you keep your papers in, and I therefore have a key you've given to me. Very different issues. What about selling information I've gleaned about you without actually copying your private effects? I could write down info about what food you eat, drugs in your medicine cabinet, tools in your garage, movies and music in your living room -- then sell that to marketers. Illegal? Probably not. But would you want me back in your house? This is a real-world example. I'm a contractor. I do office buildouts and bath remodels. It would be unprofessional for me to discuss a customer at all if there's any possible chance of you knowing them. Rummaging through their effects for information to sell? I can't imagine being so sleazy and that would probably border on illegal. They've given me permission to pull up their bathroom floor. They haven't given me permission to read their mail or personal letters, or even to look at the drugs in their medicine cabinet. That's an issue of basic decency. Yet you don't mind your email handler doing it. It should not be legal for Google to ask you to sign away your rights to your own personal effects, for them to store copies of email you've deleted, for them to access email content, or for them to forward your email to the NSA. But by putting your email functionality online they redefine your correspondence as their property and have gradually worked to redefine the legal precedent. We're increasingly allowing corpoate interests to middleman our lives and they're claiming co-ownership. You're *actively* furthering that trend by using the services. Unfortunately, that scenario is not only in the corporate interest (for targetted advertising and the collection of salable personal data) but also in the interest of "the gov't spook community". MS sends data to NSA and helps NSA decrypt their own encryption: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...tion-user-data Judge demands that all gmail, including deleted emails, be turned over in a legal case: https://www.cnet.com/news/police-blo...il-disclosure/ US gov't claims right to access any and all emails from anywhere in the world, arguing that email stored on MS servers is not private property but rather MS business data, and the gov't has the right to access corporate business data: https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...search-warrant Google faced a class action by non-gmail users at one point, who claimed they never gave Google the right to read their email. Google's argument was that everyone knows Google spies on everything and therefore the plaintiffs had no reasonable expectation that Google might not read any email sent to a gmailer: "But your honor, everyone knows I'm a bank robber. You can't blame me. It's the bank's fault for having money in the bank drawers when I walked in." The mega-corporate ad/tech companies' only interest in your privacy is for PR purposes. For instance, Tim Cook was happy to share iPhone data with the gov't. He just had to refuse once they made it a public demand. For the gov't's part, making it a public demand in special cases gets their foot in the door. Who's going to protest breaking the encryption on a cellphone owned by a terrorist who killled dozens, or by a cannibal who eats little girls? Once they publicly win cases like that they have a precedent. Companies like MS/Apple/Google/Facebook have no reason to care about that. They only care about whether you think they care and whether it might threaten your use of their product. -- PeterN |
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Windows 10. Horrible!
On 11/25/2017 10:37 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On Nov 25, 2017, PeterN wrote (in article ): On 11/24/2017 11:30 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Nov 24, 2017, PeterN wrote (in article ): On 11/24/2017 9:46 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Nov 24, 2017, PeterN wrote (in article ): Snip Even worse, I want to try Aurora. I got a $10 dollar discount code through a camera group. I wanted to see if I could do better. Do a search Aurora HDR discount code. I stopped searching after the first few led me directly to the Macphun site, with a message that no code was needed. Yet Macphun honors the discount code. To my way of thinking these other sites are practicing unethical marketing. i am not sure, but I suspect that the only reason they do what they are doing, is they get a commission. The sites I am referring to include such as "retail me not," etc. If Macphun did not have a good reputation, that type of marketing practice would make me wary of buying. If anyone thinks I went too fr off topic, that's their problem. End of mini rant. It is always best to go directly to the developer site, questionable intermediates have been known to be problematic. Some previously trustworthy cheap/free app sources have become vectors for malware. That said, not all sites offering additional discounts are toxic, so one needs to be alert to bad players among the sincere offers. As for Aurora HDR, I think you will find it very suitable for some of your HDR work. It also does a good job on single exposure tone mapping. They have some interesting presets (some a bit over the top), a layered workflow with local adjustment brushes, and very flexible adjustments. With the local adjustment brush, you can apply a preset, or personal adjustments to a specifice area of the image. You also have the ability to create your own presets. ...and they have a good library of video tutorials. I agree completely, and have heard good things from others. Putting the issue of malware aside, I feel very strongly that the publisher is entitled to be paid. To the best of my knowledge, I have never used unlicensed software. There is nothing wrong with trying to get the best price, for legal software. I was shopping for the best discount codes that Aurora will honor. Fujirumors usually has good snag-free discount codes. Here is what they provided for Aurora, Luminar and some other stuff. https://www.fujirumors.com/aurora-hd...e-fuji-double- fuji-x-cashback-europe/ I also looked at Luminar, which I think it is a very good program. But, there is very little in it that interests me, that I don't already have. Right now, I am into playing with a using circular coordinates with luminosity masks. I bought Lumenzia, which speeds up making luminosity masks. Greg Benz, the developer gives great, and personalized support. I have seen his stuff in promos, but I have most of the function covered with other apps, and I have yet to roadtest Luminzia. On1 PR 2018 does a pretty good job with luminosity masks. I will try it, but I haven't put On1 on my laptop. When you do get around to trying take a quick look at these: https://www.on1.com/blog/tag/masking-compositing/ https://youtu.be/v7ry-zRGqAk https://youtu.be/djRIw0ul4-U Thanks for the links. Right now, my days are spent trying to give my wife support, and see that the doctors are not screwing up. Today I caught a pharmaceutical error by a nurse practitioner, that would have been harmful. https://www.drugs.com/drug-interactions/benadryl-with-tylenol-with-codeine-896-1617-48-8457.html When I get home at night working on an image, is cathartic for me, as I have to be on my A game during most of the day. -- PeterN |
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Windows 10. Horrible!
On Nov 25, 2017, PeterN wrote
(in article ): On 11/25/2017 10:37 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Nov 25, 2017, PeterN wrote (in article ): On 11/24/2017 11:30 PM, Savageduck wrote: Snip I have seen his stuff in promos, but I have most of the function covered with other apps, and I have yet to roadtest Luminzia. On1 PR 2018 does a pretty good job with luminosity masks. I will try it, but I haven't put On1 on my laptop. When you do get around to trying take a quick look at these: https://www.on1.com/blog/tag/masking-compositing/ https://youtu.be/v7ry-zRGqAk https://youtu.be/djRIw0ul4-U Thanks for the links. Right now, my days are spent trying to give my wife support, and see that the doctors are not screwing up. Today I caught a pharmaceutical error by a nurse practitioner, that would have been harmful. https://www.drugs.com/drug-interactions/benadryl-with-tylenol-with-codeine-896-1617-48-8457.html I can relate. In the case of my wife, the most serious goof was commited by her neurologist, and only caught by her neurosurgeon during the damage control phase. It is going to be ten years in December since I lost her. When I get home at night working on an image, is cathartic for me, as I have to be on my A game during most of the day. Just keep at it, whatever else is happening she is your major priority. ....and unwind when you can. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Windows 10. Horrible!
"PeterN" wrote | Today I | caught a pharmaceutical error by a nurse practitioner, that would have | been harmful. | https://www.drugs.com/drug-interactions/benadryl-with-tylenol-with-codeine-896-1617-48-8457.html | Not to mention that the efficacy of Tylenol is questionable for pain and non-existent for inflammation. And it's a risk for organ damage. Yet it's somehow been spread through the medical establishment like water on restaurant tables. Everyone gets megadoses. |
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Windows 10. Horrible!
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wrote: The big pain for me is that I have Win 10 on a machine that I use infrequently. Seems just about every time I use the machine it installs updates that take ages to install. It took 10+ minutes to boot this afternoon because it was updating/installing something; 10+ minutes with that sick greenish-yellow screen with the spinning dots. that part is most annoying, although it appears to be faster with fce. |
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