Beta testing is the way to go.
Adobe has just released Lightroom 2.0 Beta allowing all and sundry to bang away at it in a sort of group grope-wiki software development approach which I can only applaud.
Why?
Well look at the catastrophe that resulted when they decided to go it alone. Alternatively, compare this to arrogant […]
Attempted theft of your images.
My nephew called the other day to say that one of the snaps he had taken on the estate here - a neat one of the zinfandel grapes near harvest - had been used for profit. Though he had released the picture under a Creative Commons license, he had omitted […]
Those brilliant Japanese.
Talk of warranties requires that I point out that Joseph Juran died the other day at the grand age of 103. With W. Edwards Deming he taught the gospel of quality control to Japanese management and workers after World War II. Why the Japanese? Because when he tried to teach […]
This means a new Mac for Yours Truly
A while back I wrote of my expectation for Apple’s stock price, here.
Well, it took a while to cross the $100 barrier but today’s announcement after the close (AAPL closed at $95.35) reads thus:
Which makes the stock price something over $104.
And you know what that means, right?
Yes, a […]
To buy or not to buy?
Mention of Apple in these pages is frequent, simply because my love of picture taking moved me to that computer brand a few years ago.
So no sooner than I wrote about eyeing a ‘free’ MacPro in December, 2006 once AAPL hits $100 a share, than the stock takes an extended […]
While I’m at it ….
…. I might as well take another swipe at the strategic planning effort at Kodak.
They have now introduced three printers which, they hope, will obsolete the Gillette razor marketing of the competition (meaning you give away the printer/razor holder and charge like a bandit for supplies/razor blades). So Kodak introduces […]
Kodak proposes to grow by shrinking
I quote from yesterday’s press release - my italics:
“Eastman Kodak Co. said it would expand its long-running restructuring, saying it now plans to cut as many as 30,000 jobs, up from a prior plan to lay off up to 27,000 employees.
Kodak now expects costs related to the restructuring program of […]