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These times, if a celebrity launches their have activity, it is probable with Glu Cellular. Known for their no cost-to-engage in mobile game titles, the publicly traded corporation lists additional than a hundred game titles, together with Sonic the Hedgehog, Transformers, Guitar Hero...
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This requires a bit of explanation, and unless you are bit of a techie, almost entirely unimportant. This is a test to determine whether Flickr is doing it's image processing (mostly resizing) properly with respect to gamma.
Color spaces of images generally refer to 3 different things: 1) the bounds of the gamut of viewable colors (exactly how red is 0xff0000), 2) the white point or exactly what spectrum do we treat as pure white (usually D65 for a 6500K black body emitter), and a value distribution across that range. Gamma refers to the last one.
Our eyes aren't uniformly sensitive. We can see much more detail at the low end of the intensity range. Roughly this curve looks like X^N for some N. In the case of the sRGB space, which roughly created for normal monitors under normal intensity levels, N = 2.2. Generally, this is a really good thing. We space the values of brightness in the image according to where they will do the most use.
The caviat with working in gamma-corrected spaces is that various maths no longer work right, most notably addition which is needed to resample the images. I'll leave it to those that are interested to see that
(A+B)^2.2 != A^2.2 + B^2.2
and the rest of you can take my word for it.
Now, what does that have to do with this image. Well, to see, you'll have to compare the resampled to the original and notice that the original is exactly twice the size of the Flickr-resampled medium size and is comprised of alternating 1-pixel-wide columns of black and white opposed to the 128 grey of the resized. This is so that when resized, 2 columns will be averaged together into 1 pixel.
Now, assuming that think of 0 as 0 and 255 as 1 (a convenient value for the maximum as image processing does), to do gamma-correct filtering on an sRGB image we do the following:
A = 0^(2.2) // ungamma-corrected black (A=0)
B = 1^(2.2) // ungamma-corrected white (B=1)
C = (A + B)/2 // average colors (0.5)
D = C^(1/2.2) // gamma corrected middle grey
Now, if this in done correctly, D, the pixel in the resized Flickr image should be 186 instead of 128.
What does this all mean? Well, in the grand scheme of things, mostly nothing. Flickr strips color spaces along with all other EXIF data on resize currently, so it is possible they are doing the proper thing and just not recorrecting. But, if that was the case, all the resized images would look substantially darker than the originals. This only deals with the additions to average adjactent pixels when resizing. The less different adjactent pixels, the less the error, and an most photographs it would hardly be noticable on most stuff anyway.
It's pretty uncommon to see any image programs handle this anyway, so this is in no means singling out Flickr. Firefox ignores color spaces all-together. I'm not even sure if Photoshop does everything gamma correct. I'll need to look at the image internals in my own viewer to be sure.
More just curious. Hope you enjoyed this moment of image geekery. Let me know if you have any questions or want to know more.
In what is become the Google I/O defining second, the organization kicked off the 2012 event with a collection of skydivers, bikers, and climbers to debut the scorching newness that was Project Glass (hindsight, etc.). Two a long time later on, Google went all Oprah on everyone and ...
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Spent most the month of Sept. on the road, Oregon to Minneapolis, visiting our son in his new loft. Took his techie/biographical multi media mosaic and installed it. WIP and more detaled photos can be found in my "Thundza WIP" set.
Getting Hired In Tech — The Value Of Work Experience
It’s the catch-22 of the working world: you’re new and you’re looking for a job, but you need work experience before you can even think about getting hired. In circumstances like these, how’s a techie to get their foot in the door? Who can you convince you’re worth taking a chance on?
If you’re facing this conundrum, you’re in luck: every web developer and designer in business today has gone through the same hiring ordeal, and we know the tricks they used to land their first gig.
We’ll cover every angle of the job search, from utilizing your personal network to finding online job opportunities. I’m so confident that these tactics will help you get hired I’ll even go one step further and guide you through how to make the most of your first gig.
How to find your first tech job
When you’ve got the skills for design or development work and you need a job now, the most important thing is to get your foot in the door. Scoring your first gig will help you build your portfolio, gather references, and demonstrate your talent: all things that will make getting your second, third, and fourth jobs that much easier.
John Feldmann, writer for Insperity Jobs, providers of human resources and business solutions to improve business performance, told us:
“Unless you’re applying for an entry-level job, work experience is often the cornerstone upon which a job applicant is evaluated in the technology field. After that, several factors may come into play – education, cultural fit, interviewing skills – but ultimately, employers want to see a track record of success in the field.”
When looking for your first gig as a designer or developer, think more about the experience you’re trying to gain rather than the pay.
Don’t get me wrong – being paid for your work is vital to your career (and your hungry stomach!).
But when you’re starting out and peddling your empty resume, impressing a clienton a low-paying (or pro bono) job can be more valuable in the long run than wasting away as you try to find a paying job. This might mean building a website for a friend, taking on a part-time job, or entering an unpaid internship. But as long as you are confident that you’ll get a great portfolio piece (or pieces) out of your experience, your hard work will pay off.
“If there was one thing I could tell all job seekers, it’s get experience – and get it early. Not only does it help you develop your skillset, but it allows you to get accustomed to the industry/work environment. You’ll have a better idea of how the business works, how to interact with people, and so on. I’m a huge advocate of internships for that reason. If I just hopped into a full-time job without knowing how things worked in an office, I’d be a little overwhelmed. Getting that experience early really does make a difference.”
Ariella Coombs, managing editor for CareeRealism.
When considering which jobs to take on, always remember: do it for the money, the contact, or the experience.
Keeping all this in mind, here are a few tips on how to find a job.
Reach out to everyone you know – and I mean everyone!
When you start your job search, your first step is to tell everyone – and I mean everyone – that you’re looking. Make your announcement through email, LinkedIn,Facebook, or carrier pigeon – it doesn’t matter; just get the word out that you’re ready to take on new and challenging work! Maybe your mom’s friend needs a new website for her flower shop. Maybe your high school music teacher could use some help building an events page.
You’ll never know until you ask.
As CareerFoundry CMO and Creative Director Emil Lamprecht recounts, one of his secrets to getting hired as a new freelancer was to tell everyone he knew that he was looking for work. That meant emailing friends, friends of friends, co-workers, and even ex-colleagues.
Since your resume is probably fairly blank right now and your portfolio non-existent, your best bet is to start reaching out to people who already know you and your work ethic. Given that they know you and probably place some level of trust in you, your existing contacts are more likely to hire you than a complete stranger.
When you write to your friends and contacts, let them know about your career change and the specific type of work you’re looking for. Looking to build websites? Great! But tell them what kind of websites you specialize in. Want to design mobile apps? Let your contacts know which platforms you work in.
Remember: even if your contacts can’t pay much or anything at all, gaining experience can be a springboard to future paying jobs by building your portfolio and helping you gather referrals.
Tap into people you don’t know
Once you’ve told your grandmom, your yoga instructor, and all of their friends that you’re on the market, it’s time to reach out to people you don’t know. And while the Internet can be a great resource for new job seekers,the millions of listed job openings listed online can be overwhelming. Here I break down how to find a job online without pulling out all of your hair.
Your alumni association
If you’ve earned a bachelor’s or master’s degree, chances are your university has established ways for you to network with alumni from your institution. Find alumniwho work in the field you want to enter, and set up informational interviews to learn how they got started.
Even though you might not have met the alumni you’ll reach out to, the fact that you graduated from the same institution is likely to make them more receptive toward you. And you never know: you can get some career-building advice, or maybe you’ll meet your next mentor!
Here are some ways to connect with professionals from your alma mater:
Your alumni association’s LinkedIn group: here you can post about what you’re looking for. If anyone knows of a relevant opening they might pass it along to you
LinkedIn search: LinkedIn offers a great search tool that lets you filter your extended network by university, title, location, and more
Your alumni directory: Similar to LinkedIn’s search, use this tool to search for alumni in the position you aim to enter and ask for an informational interview
Want to read the full post? Check it out on the CareerFoundry blog here. blog.careerfoundry.com/getting-hired-tech-value-work-expe...
My radio shack has equipment dating from the 1941 radio in the left foreground to the modern computers to the right.
This may shatter my reputation as a techie, but I have hung on to this Nokia phone since 2001-- I really am not a huge mobile phone user, and I come it at max maybe 150 minutes a month. All this phone does is enable me to make phone calls (shocking), though in fits of boredom, I have played "Snake" on it.
As you may notice, it has been sporting a lovely bit of duct tape to keep the battery connected.
But Old Nokie is now retired, and I am sending this phone via my new Motoroloa V10, a camera phone that I used to take this picture. Actually, I first got a Nokia 6225i but never got it to send pictures nor could anyone at the store or the tech support line. Hint- never buy a new phone at the store where it is so new, the employee do not know how to use it.
I am now using phone technology that ahs been around for 2-3 years. I guess I am a phone Luddite or Lagger.
Sathya recently moved back to Bangalore from Chennai. He is a techie into Oracle's SQL.
He loves Chicken, Meat, Beer and other food I'm not supposed to be typing here.
Lover of all things techie and scientific... A great choice for the Discovery Network... Who do we have to talk to, someone needs to make this happen!
Il Sogno sunset
I captured this with my Canon EOS 600D, but tweaked it in Instagram before uploading manually, hence no EXIF info, but for those of you who are into the techie stuff,Shutter speed 1/125, Aperture f/6.3, Focal length 64mm, ISO 100
This new techie gizmo is going to be fun! See the video of the drone camera here: youtu.be/jAD2WSN5aIU
Mr James Coleman, left, retired from Arbroath Academy's technical department in June, 1994, and was presented with a cheque by Dr John Caldwell, depute rector.
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Techology - supposedly the *information-enabler*, has instead created silos and made access to information all the more difficult !!
Infact, the more technology has evolved, the costlier is the access/implementation .
Here is to celebrate the open source community/movement ::
Floss (Free/Libre Open-Source Software) !
Business Exchange Techie Awards 2022
Held at Sandstorm Films
The Old Dairy
Badbury
Wiltshire
SN4 0EU
on Thursday 20th October 2022
Photography taken by Barbara Leatham Photography
image courtesy.. Google images
Innocent techie spends 50 days in Jail
Wrongly accused of defaming Shivaji on net
This is the first page headlines in Times of India by a report filed by Ketan Tanna
Nov 3 2007.
According to him a Bangalore based youth Kailash K was arrested for uploading
An insulting picture of Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj on Orkut.. tht allegedly had led to riots in Pune …Nov2006.
He was arrested under the Information Technology Act 2000, and lodged at Yerwada Jail.He was there as an undertrial for 50 days .
His IP provider was Airtel Bharti they had provided the requisite information that led to his arrest.
However it turned out that the information provided by the provider was wrong and the actual culprits have been nabbed.
Kailash K has been duly released.
You can read the entire report in Times of India..
What I would like to warn the present day over enthusiastic bloggers is that Big Brother is watching you all the time.
I must tell you that last year at Buzznet my Photographer No1 site was hacked and the hacker went about posting pornographic stuff and had access to all my uploading, my messages and other tools..
I had informed Buzznet Support , the site was frozen but the damage came later , when this hacked contents were seen by Shia fundamentalists, I could not delete it as the controls were with the Developer..but they should have blocked my site from viewing which they did not do..I was threatened with Fatwas, went through the most harrowing experience. Deleted almost 11000 blogs in a single night , I was for the first time disillusioned as a photo blogger.
I respect all religion, I am not into porn, I like any one else hate the unnecessary killings of Muslims by Muslims or terrorism in any form.I am against racism too.
So it is shocking this single episode Kafkaesque says the Times journalist of the arrest of Kailash K.
Are we bloggers really safe? I don’t even know what happened to Gautam Buddhi who was alleged to have posted hate messages to President Bush from the Yahoo Finance Board network…
The cops catch the wrong man
For posting an insulting picture
Of Chattrapati Shivaji on Orkut
Lock him for 50 days
Crime they say never pays
But later they realize
The had made a mistake
Travesty of Cybernetic justice in a Maze
Such are police investigative ways
False encounters
False complaints
Extortions blackmail
by a few rogue cops to get a raise
there are good cops we do praise
for our safety hoodlums chase
case after case
meticulously they liase
but putting a wrong man in prison
for a crime he did not commit
a thought badly misplaced
our system
of law and order
totally disgraced
Pt. Defiance Dahlias...sunshine!
Techie stuff: Canon 400D; EF 70-200mm f4L; Kenko 36mm ext. tube
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LG’s SmartThinQ Hub appears a whole lot like the Amazon Echo. It is the initially that occurred to me when it was introduced suitable about CES of this yr, and it was probably the initially issue that occurred to you, far too. And like the Echo, LG’s tall black speaker tower connects to sev...
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The folks over at WowWee Innovations have truly outdone themselves. They've created a troll who's hair dances to the thump of deep house music! Just what the world needs. It's actually kinda cool. But there was so much thumping deep house music playing in the convention center this guys hair never stopped!
Happy flowers, not so happy Amanda. Shucks.
Life in front of the camera. Here at ZURB you almost feel like your being chased by the paparazzi.
ZURB is a close-knit team of interaction designers and strategists that help companies design better (www.zurb.com).
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Google nowadays announced that it will keep on its Android Beta system with Android Nougat 7.1, the upcoming small update to the most recent model of its cell functioning system.
The business previously confirmed off some of 7.1’s options when it announced its Pixel telephones last 7 days, b...
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Google currently introduced a selection of new companies for video game builders at its yearly Developer Working day at the Video game Developers Meeting. They include tools for running virtual goods and currencies, the start of the Online video Recording API so builders can make it a lot e...
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Another techie tenant marks its turf on the old Cinema West building, South Congress, Austin.
So much for the preservationist dream of turning it back into a pr0n theater.
Concerns have been elevated about the scope of a data-sharing arrangement amongst Google-owned DeepMind and the UK’s Nationwide Wellness Support (NHS) after it was revealed the agreement covers accessibility to all patient information from the three London hospitals included, alternatively t...
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All through an earnings phone marked by a lot of a lot less than stellar news, Apple CEO Tim Cook did deal with to find some brilliant places in the company’s ever-expanding portfolio. Amid them was a regular maximize in paying Apple Songs subscribers.
That range has surpassed 13 million, u...
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The bride outside the reception in downtown Columbus Ohio.
Techie Silliness: Lighting provided by the sun (on the background) and two White Lighting X1600 mono lights powered by a Paul Buff Vagabond unit. The two mono lights were above slightly to camera right and left and were difused with two brolly boxes (think a shoot through umbrella with a black backing to stop the light from spilling back, it's often considered a poor man's softbox... in this case it's a very portable softbox). Flashes triggered by Pocket Wizard Plus units...
I like using studio lights for the formal photos and the bridal stuff if it happens to work out. The light provided by the exteral mono-lights allows the light to be much more controlled and usually provides a ton more light allowing me to drop my ISO and stop down a bit for a cleaner photo with better color.
Camera Exposure Info: Canon 5D with 24-70mm f/2.8L lens attached, exposed at 1/80th @ f/9 with ISO 160.
Kawaii Robot Spectrum
Cute Handmade Vinyl Sticker Cling
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It's practically a SF techie cliché, but Lacey & I had our portraits taken at Photobooth SF today. Better quality scans to follow midweek.
a young man who was a student was wearing this yesterday at stARTS. see info about WPI below..........leave it to a techie/engineer to come up with this t-shirt logo, eh?
Yummy with Bambi haunch steaks!
Techie note: Nikon D300 (with 70-300mm zoom) in Commander mode with built in flash at +1EV and SB900 strobe in remote mode at +2EV to left of shot angled at 45 degrees upwards (to white ceiling). Silver reflector to right of shot. Photoshop used to clean up background and rear edge of scene.