Nikon failed when they tied themselves to niche formats like Apple's MOV video format.

And the value of a Nikon was always in the glass. Nobody cared as much about the Nikon camera body as they did about the Nikon glass. But seeing what they've done in the digital world, I'm never buying a Nikon again.

Canon did it much better. And it's the same with Leica and Hasselblad - the glass is the thing.

I've got a Mamiya RB67 and the lenses are glorious. So is the body and viewfinder. But a digital back is something like AUD$14K. So I will stick to film for now.

Wasn't his doing. Management couldn't get the $$$ signs out of their eyes to see the coming revolution.

Had they properly managed the IP licencing earlier, and invested in more R&D for digital technology, they'd have stayed at the top of the pile. They had the money to invest in digital, but they were too scared of losing sales of analog films.

Sales of film negative stock was very profitable. And Kodachrome, and ektachrome.

Plus movie films, and specialist films. The catalogue was huge.

Kodak films were expensive. They were good, though, and worth the money. Their range of colour films was extensive, much much more than what's available today.

And then there was the printing papers.Rolls and rolls and rolls and rolls of it for minilabs AKA kiosks.

Ilford ruled on B&W, and Agfa was a distant third (good quality, just didn't have the sales). And Cibachrome...... drool.

Film *was* messy and expensive, but the results were fantastic.

I should clarify that by saying the results *could be* fantastic. Point-and-shoot cameras, while convenient and lots of fun, left a lot to be desired WRT quality imaging. But they *were* a lot of fun to use at parties, even if the results weren't immediately available, there was an enjoyable anticipation for the results.

Aren't there companies - mostly USA - with multiple 8s, much more than they could ever use?
I can understand IBM and HP needing multiple 8s, but General Motors and others?

That must be a nexus-1.

Won't be long before you can have a Leon for the heavy gardening work, a Pris for "company", and a Zhora to take out your enemies.

Perhaps even a Roy to discuss philosophy. Just don't make him mad by referring to the four-year lifespan.

"how to elevate privileges, hide processes, and quickly delete files"

He had to look that up? What an incompetent fool. He deserves his sentence.

Makes the rest of us look bad.

Fuck my 15 moderator points, you should be ashamed that this was allowed at all. What a load of shite.

I'm really disappointed.

Q: "And this, Bond, is your pee bottle"

Bond: "My what?"

Q: "You can't stop and relieve yourself at any time during this mission, Bond, you MUST pee in the bottle!"

Bond: "Does it do anything else"

Q: "Yes, there's a laser in the cap, be careful - if you pee on the cap, you'll short-circuit the laser's battery and blow yourself up."

Even embedded fonts is no guarantee.

"They also look better than anything that Word generates."

Sharper typefaces, perhaps?

Better keming, too?

Off to pihole I go. It already blocks resolution of telemetry upload URLs, we'll have to track down just who Copilot is talking to.

I think I'll go and read "Footfall" (Niven/Pournelle) again, to refresh my space battle tactics.

Project Orion, shuttles armed with missiles, fission-pumped x-ray lasers, it's a helluva ride.

That's great, good on you.

I joyfully anticipate your report on replacing banking and insurance mainframes with "non-mainframe strategies to zero-downtime, relative to the workload"

Or not. If banks, insurance companies, airlines, and others with a nine-nines uptime requirement could replace their mainframes with "non-mainframe strategies", I'd be happy to read about it.

Really? You don't think banks would have moved off the mainframe world if they had been able to find a replacement that was just as reliable for the same price or cheaper?

It's been decades, and it's never happened.

"The vast majority of no-downtime experiences in the modern era don't have mainframe involvement."

LOL. You have no idea.

I was referring to mainframes WRT to downtime, not VMs on commodity hardware.

There are a few pumped hydro projects in the pipeline, but a recent change in the Qld state government canned one of the proposals.

Yes, it was a right-leaning government that canned it.