Re: [Boston.pm] tech meeting?
Keith Fahlgren wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Matthew Brooks wrote: You mean I can't just trade in my old copies?! Jeez, even Microsoft has a discounted upgrade path! ;) Seriously though... I think O'Reilly should start a program where customers can send them the UPC or even the whole cover (making it a stripped book) of a previous edition that they already own so they can get a coupon/certificate/rebate for an additional 5-10% off the next edition. Hi, As the Product Marketing Manager explained to me last week, we do this already. Do this: Open your O'Reilly book. Find the 'blow-in' card with the Tarsier on it. Fill it out and mail it in to 'register' your book or go to http://register.oreilly.com. After you've done that, you'll get an email when a new edition gets published and a 10% off coupon toward the new edition. HTH, Keith Thanks for the info Keith! And here I was, thinking that O'Reilly was including it as a free bookmark ;) Matthew ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] tech meeting?
Uri Guttman wrote: are we going to have a tech meeting some time again? it's been a good while. i have some swag from o'reilly to give out to book reviewers: the perl template toolkit and mastering regular expressions 2nd ed. both are well known and liked books so if you want them you just need to put up a review on some public site like books.perl.org, amazon, etc. uri You mean I can't just trade in my old copies?! Jeez, even Microsoft has a discounted upgrade path! ;) Seriously though... I think O'Reilly should start a program where customers can send them the UPC or even the whole cover (making it a stripped book) of a previous edition that they already own so they can get a coupon/certificate/rebate for an additional 5-10% off the next edition. I'm sure Tim appreciates our infinite loyalty, but most people's bank accounts are finite. Besides, if you think about it, at least 5-10% of the content in a new edition was in the previous one(s) and we've already paid for it once, twice and sometimes three or more times over! Matthew ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] social attendee list (updated)
Switching from lower case to capitalized and back again are we, Uri? I'd sure hate to be debugging your code! ;) FYI an idiot light (voltage) came on on my dashboard earlier today (Tuesday) and then went away. I have a good idea of the root cause and doubt my status for attending needs to be changed to a maybe. But if anyone is on their way to the social and happens to see someone on the side of the road with their car hood open while swinging a tire iron at the contents therein, please stop and give me a lift. Matthew Uri Guttman wrote: randal schwartz uri linda guttman ronald kimball (one unnamed monger via ronald - fill it in please) matthew brooks Chris Ball + Madeleine Ian Langworth + emily + pete Greg London Sean Quinlan Stefan Dragnev Drew Taylor Jayson DeLancey Jeff Goff William Ricker (maybe) that is 17 + 1 maybe. i did up the reservation to 15-20 and confirmed it. i will call them again tomorrow with a (closer to) final count. they will hold our area for sure so i don't expect problems like the last time at legal's. please speak up if you are attending and not on that list or on the list and won't be attending). thanx, uri ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: Cameras Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz
REALLY serious photographers use large format sheet film cameras or at the very least, a medium format (usually Hasselblad). The technology might be close to catching up to 35mm film, but it will be several years before it overtakes medium format (somewhere in the 80-100 MP range) and decades before they achieve anything near the equivalent to sheet film. Even so, when that day comes, digital will still be lacking in certain areas, such as the ability to do pre-exposure to reduce the SBR of a scene by raising the zone the shadows are in by one or two (or three in some rare cases) stops. But of you're into photography, have $5000 to burn and feel left out because you haven't been playing in photoshop like all your friends are, you can always use the money to buy a decent scanner to scan your negatives in with and feel happy knowing that you can get higher quality prints at a photo lab than your lexmark spits out if you ever get one that you actually want to hang on a wall. Then you can take the left over money, buy a cruise ticket to some adventurous place and go take some really nice photos while having the time of your life. Don't get me wrong, I like digital cameras, the digital point and shooters are particularly useful. I'm just waiting until they have them running a Perl interpreter before I shell out a large hunk of cash for one myself. I mean come on, right now their asking price is 3-4 times that of a medium format Hasselblad and yet they still don't quite match the resolution you can get from 35mm film the least it can do is run my scripts! - Original Message - From: Mark J. Dulcey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 5:38 AM Subject: Re: Cameras Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting w/ Randal Schwartz Chris Devers wrote: Megapixels shmegapixels. Is the lens any good? It's this one, right? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001G6U5C It looks like just annother fancy point shoot (albeit one that takes images of unweildy size). Maybe next time you can get a nice SLR instead... :-) Wrong. Actually, it's this camera: http://consumer.usa.canon.com/ir/controller?act=ModelDetailActfcategoryid=1 39modelid=10464 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002XQJFA/ Nope. Randal's camera IS an SLR -- a digital SLR. That should have been obvious when you saw it in operation -- non-SLR cameras don't have the sound of moving mirrors when they take pictures. And if you don't like the lens it comes with (I believe he had the EF-S 18-5mm lens -- the one that Canon sells with the camera as a bundle -- which is quite good, by the way), you can put any Canon EF or EF-S (EOS system) lens on it. Amazon lists the EOS 20D at $1600 (with lens). For comparison, the EOS-1D Mark II is $4500 (without lens). For the extra money, you get another 8 megapixels, a full-frame sensor (in other words, you can use your SLR lenses with no conversion factor of focal length, but you can't use the EF-S series lenses, which are designed to cover only the smaller image area used by the consumer digital SLRs), full (rather than limited) compatibility of accessories, and a fancier autofocus system. I would say that both cameras are solid entries in their respective price categories. But, at a total price of $5000 or so (including lens), you have to be REALLY serious about photography to buy an EOS-1D system. ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] damian talk
To Greg's credit, he did say that... qq~ This is the extent of the Latin I know: Quid pro quo, Mr. Powers, quid pro quo. E Pluribus Unum Semper Fi(delis) Romanes Eunt Domus (OK, I had to look that one up) ~; So as you can see, he didn't say he knew Et tu, Brute ;) Matthew 4 years of Latin and I'm still confused Brooks - Original Message - From: Walt Mankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 2:30 PM Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] damian talk Et tu, Brute. It's vocative case, dammit! Geez, screwing up Latin AND Shakespeare in one short phrase. Don't they teach you kids across the pond ANYTHING these days? :) ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
