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Is it still worth it to protect our software against piracy? Are there reasonably effective ways to prevent or at least make piracy difficult?
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Not really. Any copy protection has to be 100% perfect, (which we all know is impossible,) or else all it will take is for one person anywhere in the world to come up with a working crack and post it on the Web.
If you want people to pay money for your product, copy protection is not the answer. It never has worked and never will. The answer lies in Economics 101: people will pay money for your product if they perceive its value to them as being greater than the price you are asking for it. Otherwise, they won't. Period.
I would say "No" to both questions, without hesitation.
No, and a lot of companies and independent developers have demonstrated that there's no need.
The Humble Indie Bundle is an exceptionally good example of one possible way of making a killing in spite of active "piracy." In a single 3-week event, five developers made, together, almost US$900,000 on their five games (plus one), without DRM, and even without a concerted effort to control access to the download links. And despite rampant sharing by people who paid, an average of US$10 per copy was paid, 30% of which went to charity. (This is, admittedly, a rather exceptional example in that it's not the norm even for this kind of sale event, but it is a good demonstration of how non-standard sales models can work extremely well.)
Companies like Introversion Software and Stardock make a lot of money despite a 90% piracy rate.
Another good example is Illumination Software Creator, which is doing very well for itself.
Or look at Minecraft, which has chosen a "freemium" model and is earning (as of this week) the author $100,000 per day.
Even when people stop fighting "piracy," they tend to do very well for themselves.
No, and frankly, it's rather pointless. Software can and will be copied as easily as you copy values within your program. No matter what efforts you make to protect your software against "piracy," so long as the end-user will at any point have a copy of the program, someone will distribute it to others without cost.
The only two ways to prevent "piracy" are: Make your software a service, such as a web application, or open your source code (or otherwise license your software for free distribution).
The only way to discourage "piracy" of software with a price tag is to set a price more in line with the value your customers perceive in the product, or to attach that price to actual services (like providing support). No one will pay $60 for something they can get for free in another product.
(On a side note, I object to the term "piracy," since its etymology implies theft. Copyright infringement is not theft, no matter how you look at it, and to equate the two is intellectually dishonest. I would prefer a term like "illegitimate customer" or "untapped market.")
Yes it is still useful, but don't spend to much time and money on that. If your software worth it, it will be purchased AND cracked. Regardless the efforts you put in the protection mechanism.
Give it away :)
Given that virtually all anti-piracy measures can be circumvented if someone is determined enough there's an argument for not doing anything.
Make your software useful and offer support to those that pay, thus getting the revenue and dedicated users.
One way to get revenue could be to have a "pro" version that unlocks extra features that needs to be paid for. This seems to be a popular approach. You need to be make sure that the unlocking of the pro features is a) easy for the customer but b) hard for the hacker.
Just because copy protection isn't 100% effective doesn't mean it's worthless. It keeps honest people honest. Customers need SOME incentive to pay for software and most of the time that's what copy protection provides. If your price is reasonable, most people aren't going to spend the time and effort trying to circumvent the protections you have in place. Of course, if the protections make the core functionality a bitch to use, that's another issue.
This blog post is an excellent evaluation of the value of copy protection: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/09/05/everything-you-need-to-know-about-registration-systems/
As far as a reasonably effective way to provide SOME protections for your software, I highly recommend Infralution Licensing System. It's inexpensive and performs well.
First of all, I would boldly claim that you can never keep the administrator account from verbatim copying files on their machine.
However, regarding copying you could simply set the permissions on your executable files to
Since you cannot prevent the binary from being copied, and you are willing to manually install it on target systems. Compile them explicitly for that system and include a hash of the system configuration (e.g. hostname, hardware, ...). Check during runtime that you are running on a system that matches this configuration.
Still this will only make it harder to steal your software, not prevent it, because you can always take the binary, examine it and remove the part that checks for the correct machine.
All in all, doing this is usually a bad idea (IMHO) because it will cause problems to your customers (the last thing you want). If you really want to sell commercial software to people, bind them by law, not by hacks, to obey your terms and conditions.
Don't spend much work on this, and don't make it intrusive.
There are two layers of copy protection that can possibly be worthwhile. One is to prevent the casual user from copying it, and one is to prevent anybody from copying it. There's nothing in between, since if any one person can crack your copy protection all the dedicated pirates in the world will have a copy. The second level is impossible, so don't even try. The first may have some value.
If you make the copy protection annoying, the pirate sites will have a better version available. Many people buy a legit copy of software, and then download an illegit to actually use. I really don't think you want to encourage honest people to download your stuff from pirate sites, and you don't want to annoy your paying customers too much.
You should stop worrying about piracy per se. For stand-alone service, pirates take nothing from you. Seriously. You still have everything you had before. What they might to is deprive you of possible sales. In other words, they can do nothing to you that an influential reviewer can't.
What you should be concerned about is revenue, and increasing the number of sales. Piracy can actually help that, by giving people some free trials and experience. Many people will buy the stuff they actually use. Some people attribute some of Microsoft's success to large numbers of people illicitly using their software. They're better off in the long run with hundreds of millions of Chinese using illegally copied Windows than perfectly legal Linux.
Don't pay attention to the number of illegitimate copies. They aren't, for the most part, lost sales. Pirates tend to accumulate large quantities of software they barely use, far beyond their ability to buy. Pay attention to your actual sales.
No, not really. And depending on the used technology there may not even be a reasonable approach at all.
For example, there is nothing you can do to prevent decompilation of an SWF (e.g. with Sothink SWF Decompiler). It will give you pretty much exactly the source code you typed. Of course you can use code obfuscation, but that makes it only a tad more difficult to understand the code while doing nothing to e.g. prevent someone from decompiling your SWF, replacing your name and company logo and then recompile it again.
The same goes for JavaScript or ABAP (where you basically have to deliver the source code to the customer) and probably some other technologies as well.
On the other hand, copy-protection/DRM can seriously annoy your customers and give your company very bad publicity. Think of the various protection mechanisms employed by the gaming industry:
Therefore you should always consider the negative impact any copy-protection measures you include in your product can have on your reputation and how much effort (development time, license costs, etc.) it requires to actually get that DRM stuff into your application. If you come to the conclusion that it's still worth the trouble then do it. But if you have any doubt that using DRM will actually hurt your business more than benefit it then simply don't do it.
Of course, requiring a CD key or employing a disc check to prevent John Doe from using Nero to provide his whole family with copies of your product is still reasonable. However, any measures that invade the customer's system by installing DRM drivers or something like that should be considered very carefully because of the previously stated reasons.
Ultimately you can't - it's just a question of how much time/money you want to spend compared to how much time/money the other guy wants to spend copying it.
1) I do it SaaS way - Software as a Service
2) I make the software free for download and use, but requires a connection to a server for limited, paid access.
The only dependable and relatively problem-free way I know of is to have the software "call home" and ask "Here is my serial number, am I a legal copy?" Of course the program needs to have an internet connection in order to do that, which might be thought of as a bit of a problem, but it gets remedied by including a "check for updates" option and doing the checking during that time.
Actually, even that is not exactly dependable without additional measures to prevent people from running version 1 build 1 for eternity, or people reverse-engineering your app and disabling the protection, but this is a good start in the right direction.
Give the software away for free as a 'lite' version. People who are serious about it can pay for the 'full' version and have their version somehow stamped to identify it. Don't stick their name in it - that's too easy to remove.
A better model is to manage payment from the server side. See my answer on pricing for more details.
I'm considering selling my software to China, and considering how rampant software piracy is, I want to at least know who is stealing my software so I can get some metrics for Advertisers who may want to sell ads within my free app.
For that purpose I use SLP from http://www.inishtech.com/. I track all the users of my software, and get an idea how compliant people are. I don't expect much more than to use it as a reporting tool, but it's able to do much more.
Give them more than just the software somehow. Free downloadable content for paid users and free upgrades and patches, training videos, cheap upgrades or free upgrades to the latest versions. You can also donate a bit of your profits to a charity, so the users have a feeling of giving something back when they buy your software.
If there are online features only make them accessible to paying users. Copy protection is a waste of time. Nowadays it's all about content and service, and not just giving someone a static exe and expecting to make free money after your costs are covered.
If you don't add any protection or annoyance (i.e a nag screen), almost no one will pay for you work.
With a basic protection, the average user, really motivated to buy your software, will buy it, but avoid to make too complex its life: the customer is paying you, so be kind.
A good way to protect software is online activation. Of course keep in mind that every copy protection system may be overridden, so don't spend too much time in developing complex protection schemes: people that absolutely don't want or can't afford buying it will either crack it or skip it.
I have a somewhat different view, for perhaps two reasons. First of all, I work for Agilis Software, a company in the license management business, and secondly a substantial portion of Agilis's business is not in protecting consumer/desktop software, but in protecting enterprise applications, embedded systems etc.
In the consumer/desktop space the arguments are well rehearsed above. Modern licensing systems can make activation unobtrusive and flexible for the user (as many companies have found with Agilis's Orion product activation system), but the decision in the end is a strategic one for the vendor.
With enterprise systems, and some consumer packages, the vendor offers more sophisticated pricing options than just a single perpetual desktop license. Subscription licenses, for example, are widely used, but if you don't include some secure mechanism for enforcing the subscription period the renewal rate will be very low (so you discounted your software from the perpetual-license price for nothing). Many vendors of more complex applications also want to offer different combinations of features to different markets, or to price features separately. Without a license manager to control which features are enabled you might have to provide a separate package for each customer and each upgrade, with all the operations work that entails. The user-count model is still very popular too, where the customer can have n licenses active at any one time; if you don't enforce this limit with a license server, it is very likely to be exceeded. Another model growing in popularity is usage-based licensing (usage-based licensing case study).
The enterprise customers themselves are well aware that once a software package is installed, despite the best intentions of IT and management, the agreed paper licensing terms are easily exceeded, exposing the company to unpleasant audits, penalty fees etc., so they prefer to have the licensing terms enforced if done by a secure, unobtrusive licensing system.
I think, the solutions is placing all interested code in the server side and use thin client.
Depends on how valuable you deem your time and your IP.
Myself, if I was selling consumer-interesting software that would be likely to be pirated, I would work on an internet-based solution that would deliver encrypted binaries each program run-time.
Hmmm, only two solutions:
1) Release under GPL (or similar)
2) SaaS
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What are the current computational (non-network) bottlenecks now in a quant's workflow? What computational tasks would be revolutionary with a 10-100x improvement in performance using general purpose GPUs?
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Coming from an HPC background myself, I know too well the feeling of owning a hammer and yet having no nail. Your question is about computational bottlenecks that can be relieved with GPGPU, though I'm afraid to admit that there aren't many in finance. For realtime applications, the network is the bottleneck; for historical applications, the memory is the bottleneck. The CPU is rarely saturated in my line of work.
However, there is one particular area that does appear to be CPU bound: interpretation. Namely, the feed handler and the FIX parser both require many small amounts of data to be transformed from one representation to another. FPGA-based feed handlers are starting to become more popular; I haven't seen anything similar for FIX parsers though.
If you could show how to parse a FIX message with a GPU off the wire, then that might be interesting. FIXT 1.1 can support InfiniBand, so NVIDIA / Mellanox's GPU Direct set-up would be especially noteworthy, though not required. (There aren't many trading venues supporting FIXT right now anyway, so there's no rush there.)
If you wanted to generalize your work for all key-value pairs communicated over a network, you might be able to apply some of your findings to parsing HTTP headers in realtime. No doubt many cloud vendors would be pleased to see that.
By the way, the reason I advocated FIX parsing instead of feed handling is that most data vendors ship their own proprietary API. Good luck getting Wombat to cooperate with you until you have some results of your own to show.
In exotics options pricing, there are lots of CPU bottlenecks -- for example the calculation of Fast Fourier Transform or Monte Carlo simulation. When I price a range accrual in Libor Market Model, I don't use a lot of data (carefully optimized, everything should fit in a few MB of L2 cache), but I do a lot of calculations. This is where, I think, a GPU may be useful.


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I have sent numerous messages to toon balmy and got nowt back, is he only available at certain times?
I have sent numerous messages to toon balmy and got nowt back, is he only available at certain times?
Arsenal have made a huge move in the trasnfer market announcing the purchase of Bayern winger Arjen Robben for £30million. This along with the purchase of Jack Rodwell from Everton shows the intent Arsenal have to improve on the disappointing perfromance of last season. The chairman has stated that there will be no more players coming into the club.
Newcastle would like to announce the sacking of Chris Hughton, after 2 succesful seasons it seems that him and the chairmen did not see eye to eye on some transfer deals, and also on the expectations for next season. After the succesful top half finish last season it is reported that the chairmen wanted to finish in a solid Europa League place where as Hughton believed the team should still be fighting against relegation due to the so called second season syndrome!
Bookies have installed Harry Redknapp as 3/1 favourite and David Moyes as 5/1 close behind. The outsiders include Arsene Wenger at 14/1 and an extraordinary return of Kevin Keegan at 20/1.
Chairmen Ben Peters has insisted that a deal is close for the new manager, and that the new manager will be handed a transfer budget of 20million!
cplpeters do you want to buy any of my players. the ones for sale are on post 1157. does anyone want to buy any of my players on post 1157
Liverpool Tranfer Latest.
Lodiero - Undisclosed
Vermalean £15m
Grafite - Undisclosed
Nakamura - £1.5m
Knight - £3.5m
Bentley - Loan
Fulop - 1m
Babel - £1m fee - Loan
Riera - Loan
Skrtel - £4m
Last edited by Fu_19; 03-08-2010 at 22:07.
Fu_19 can you still buy that other player off me.
Does any1 want kygriakos?
toon you about?
sorry gib i wasnt on as much today but iv meesaged you back and all the current transfer dealings have gone through god i come back after getting rid of 15 and theres another 15 waiting for message i mean ahaha
Right lads im off to bed.
mind some of my players i will listen to offers.
And who wants kygriakos.... come on some 1 must want him.
oops forgot bout the two other signings i did aha
Last edited by toon_balmy; 04-08-2010 at 07:29.
Toon I sent you a pm a few days ago regarding free agents. If you could answer my question I'd appreciate it
I asked you if the players who aren't English but played in England are considered foreigners?
I also gave you my offers for two players in the PM
Chelsea transfer list:
Slobodan Rajkovic
Available for good offers:
Branislav Ivanovic
Pascal Feindouno
Do foreign free agents count towards the foreign quota then?
Could I get a list of who is who? or could you accept me as a friend and let me know who you are team wise please.
I would like to do some loan deals for Dawson, Kranjcar, Hutton, Rajkovic and kygriakos, if the mangers could please PM me with details I would be eternally greatful.
Manager Change Coming For Pompy....... (well as soon as Toon Balmy wakes up)
Have you all played this before? how did it work? Would contact via MSN and hotmail work out any quicker?
Will I lose David James and Tal Ben Haim becuase their transfers in real life?
so i was looking to get rid of matthew upson. is anyone interested, swap deals involving him and another cb would be much appreciated. i could also throw kovac in there if needed.
I would be interested in loaning Kovac if possible (Pompys finances are just like real life!) I just have to wait to see if I get the target's I want first.
*** BREAKING NEWS **** PORTSMOUTH loan Rajkovic for the season **** BREAKING NEWS **** PORTSMOUTH hire Mattias Sammer as head coach **** BREAKING NEWS ****
In a crazy morning of activity on the south coast Portsmouth would like to announce the signing of Mesut Ozil for 19 million pounds Ozil was quoted in saying "it has been my dream to play for Portsmouth since I was a little boy watching Linvoy Primus"
I loved him just because he sounds like a Transformer!
I would still like to do business with whoever owns Niko Kranjcar, Michael Dawson and Alan Hutton.....?
Newcastle Utd would like to announce Harry Redknapp as there new manager, he has signed on a 3 year deal. Rumour has it he made the U turn from turning down the chance to manage the Magpies in January 2008 because of his meetings with Chairmen Ben Peters.
A statement from Ben Peters stated that he was "Proud" and "Happy" to have got his man and has said that there will be a Transfer Budget in the region of £15mil for Redknapp to decide who to sign.
Toon Balmy you have to clear your inbox apparently
Birmingham City have made a public offer of 2 million pounds to Liverpool for Greek defender Sotiris Kyrgiakos.
Birmingham City have made a public offer of 650,000 pounds to Bolton for Dutch winger Mustapha Riga
Birmingham City have made a public offer of 3.5 million pounds to Man Utd for Korean midfielder Park Ji Sung.
Birmingham City have made a public offer of 2.8 million pounds to Wolves for English striker Sylvain Ebanks-Blake
Last edited by William Hall; 04-08-2010 at 08:48.
do stoke have a chairmaan yet. i really need to talk to him.
Yes he was and thanks! The "other" club can no longer afford Kyrgiakos, sorry once again.
Can I please see what my finances look like atm?
Everton News
Everton have accepted a £2.5 million pound bid from Wolves for transfer listed, Louis Saha. Everton chairman, hitman19ko, has been making some dramatic changes to the Merseyside club so far this transfer window. He is reportedly clearing a large amount of wages in order for new manager Fabio Cappello to attract quality players who might demand more money.
Pompy Evening Standard
Portsmouth have tied up the signings of Freddie Kanoute for £5.5 million and Kyrgiakos for £2.5 million
Leaked information NOTW
Hutton on the move with two bids of 3.5 million and no budging at that price its going to come down to who offers more in wages becuase this Scotsman likes his haggis
Wolves news:
Players up for transfer:
Scott Brown
Kevin Doyle
Michael Knightley
Steven Mouyokolo
Stephen Hunt
Wolves have accepted a 2.8M bid for Sylvain Ebanks-Blake to go to Birmingham City
Everton are actively searching for any centre backs, left backs, and strikers who are valued at around £3 million and available for either loan or purchase. We are only looking for players who can immediately jump into our first team squad and have a positive impact.
Everton Transfer History:
Samir Nasir + £8 m (Arsenal)
Steven Defour- £9 m (Standard)
Louis Saha- £2.5m (Wolves)
Jack Rodwell- Player Exchange (Arsenal)
Slyvain Distin- £1.5m (Middlesbrough)
Seamus Coleman- £4 m (Man Utd)
Last edited by hitman19ko; 04-08-2010 at 09:52.
Liverpool Tranfer Latest.
Lodiero - Undisclosed
Vermalean £15m
Grafite - Undisclosed
Nakamura - £1.5m
Knight - £3.5m
Bentley - Loan
Fulop - 1m
Babel - £1m fee - Loan
Riera - Loan
Skrtel - £4m
Kygriakos - 2.5m
Wolves can confirm the signing of Ji Sung Park for 6M from Manchester Utd. Chairman jparok is looking forward to seeing the King of Korea in action at wolves
Wolves can confirm that a 7M bid for Ivanovic has been accepted
right people am off to clean my house send me all the transfers and ill get em done when i get bk on
Who are the Chelsea and everton chairmen, would like to enquire about a few players.
also any 1 interested in any Liverpool players either pm me or ask on here.
most are open to offers.
Chelsea Charl116
Everton Hitman19ko
Wolves can confirm a 5M bid for Michael Dawson has been accepted by Spurs
I am Everton, but I won't be likely to sell my big name players unless it's a great offer.
Wolves are going mad lol
This has been a crazy Transfer market!
all tottenhams transfer listed players gone apart from Alan Hutton
Can i please have a pic of My first and reserves so that i can see if i need any last minute buys/cover i dont think i do just need to check.
Alan Hutton for 2mil?
Anyone got a right back or left back for sale?
Wolves players up for transfer:
Kevin Foley
Ronald Zubar
Christophe Berra
Scott Brown
Kevin Doyle
Richard Stearman
David Jones
Michael Kightley
Steven Mouyokolo
Matt Jarvis
surely people want my players. i know they are shocking but i will listen to offers for them. look at post 1157 if you want to see.
On transfer deadline day there has been another agreement between Bolton and Liverpool. The player in question is Milos Ninkovic who is joining Liverpool for £500k.
Fu_19 you need to pm toon the rest of the details.
west ham have managed to pull off the signing of freddy ady for 3.5 mn today. This is fantastic news for the club as they have managed to obtain a player of real potential on the cheap. The Chairman in his statement said he expected adu to give a little bit of magic to his side.
who was the person who wanted beye yesterday but then went offline
What happens now...? Do we wait for the window to close (tonight I think) and then tomorrow Toon Balmy presses 'continue' and we get a game a day or what?
Liverpool Tranfer Latest.
Lodiero - Undisclosed
Vermalean £15m
Grafite - Undisclosed
Nakamura - £1.5m
Knight - £3.5m
Bentley - Loan
Fulop - 1m
Ninkovic - 500k
Babel - £1m fee - Loan
Riera - Loan
Skrtel - £4m
Kygriakos - 2.5m
Liverpool feel they have done enough in the transfer market this summer.
although they woul seel a few player to lighten the wage bill.
toon when you see this could i withdraw all offers for the free agents except for Adam Smith, Michael Woods and Adam Pepper. the rest i want to withdraw bidding for. i want to keep the same offers for the other 3 though. same wages and everything cheers.
does no one want upson. was his world cup really that damaging to him. anyway hes for sale for 5mn. also ddo we have any word on stoke yet.
Deadline is drawing closer.
does any 1 want N'Gog?
has to be a offer that suit the club wont be going cheap.
Nah i think we let them wait until January and keep it to the rules. Otherwise GI burrows could argue that he missed the whole first year and should be allowed to buy 2 more foreign players this year. I say they take over the job as chairman from the point we are at in the game and just carry on as normal if that is outside of a transfer window then so be it.
Either that or wait until the beginning of the transfer windoe before offereing Stoke to someone.
toons a hard man to get a message to. having said that ive probably clogged his inbox myself.
I wont argue I promise (and I love a good moan) I think if someone has Stoke and they are rubbish then they should be given special dispensation if agreed upon by all 20 chairman....?
Newcastle United are announcing that there transfer window is now closed. Harry Redknapp will be trusted with the Transfers and no sales will be done.
Liverpool have also given up trying to reduce the wage bill and leave all dealings with the manager.
there may be late drama at Anfield.... more to follow.
Last edited by Fu_19; 04-08-2010 at 15:40.
How does Toon Balmy stop our managers from getting the sack if they are absolutely hopeless?
Breaking news from Anfield.
Emiliano Insúa has left the merseyside club after 4 seasons with the club for a reported £5m. Insua had fallen out of favour under Hodgson and a deal has been made.
Liverpool would like to thank Insua for his years and dedication at the club and wish him well at wolves.
Liverpool Ins & Outs this summer
Liverpool Tranfer Latest.
Lodiero - Undisclosed
Vermalean £15m
Grafite - Undisclosed
Nakamura - £1.5m
Knight - £3.5m
Bentley - Loan
Fulop - 1m
Ninkovic - 500k
Babel - £1m fee - Loan
Riera - Loan
Skrtel - £4m
Kygriakos - 2.5m
Insua - £5m
Last edited by Fu_19; 04-08-2010 at 16:06.
Middlesbrough Transfer List
These players will be sold cheap:
Leroy Lita
Barry Robson
Chris Killen
These players will be sold for a decent price:
Gary O'Neil
Julio Arca
Marvin Emnes
No thanks, need to get rid of players now, not buy them.
Middlesbrough Press Conference
In a late bid to strengthen a relegation threatened team, chairman Rhys Cartwright signed 3 players who have Premier League experience when it comes to staving of relegation. Arriving at the Riverside are; Jamie O'Hara from Tottenham for an undisclosed fee, Kevin Doyle from Wolves for £3mil & Matthew Upson from West Ham with David Wheater going in the opposite direction. Cartwright said afterwards " These 3 players, along with the signings we've already made this off-season, should put us in good stead for the new season, and hopefully keep us in the division. With a manager like Laurent Blanc at the helm, I am more than confident we will produce."
Middlesbrough are believed to still be waiting on the outcome of 2 free agents and Cartwright said " We went after players we thought might go under the radar a little, so we are quite hopeful."
It was said though that Middlesbrough are looking to sell players put on the transfer list, with funds a little tight after a spending spree this summer.
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I have a Canon T2i and I am having a hard time figuring out how to change the shutter speed and aperture. I have tried reading the manual but it seems to be a little unclear. Can someone please point me in the right direction?
For changing the shutter speed, put the mode dial on Tv (as in the image below: make sure the white line corresponds to the letters Tv ), and turn the wheel high-lighted in red below (excuse my crappy images, I edited all this as something quick and dirty).
On your LCD screen, you can see the below screen (let me know if you don't know how to get to this screen). The 1/200 is in seconds - you can go anywhere between 1/4000th of a second to 30 seconds. When you turn the wheel, the number changes, which indicates the change in shutter speed. Make sure you have enough lighting when you choose a very fast shutter speed.
Similarly, for changing the aperture, put the mode dial on Av (as in the image below: make sure the white line corresponds to the letters Av ), and turn the wheel high-lighted in red below.
On your LCD screen, you can see the below screen. The number you see here is actually the denominator (F2.8 actually means f/2.8) For Aperture, the minimum and maximum varies with the lens you have attached. I have a Sigma 18-50 f/2.8-4.5 lens attached on my camera, so you'll see that my aperture is f/2.8.
There is more to the F numbers, but since I don't want to confuse you with all the jargon, I will keep the things simple.
A smaller f number is also called a wide aperture, and a larger f-number is also called a narrow aperture.
The smaller f number like an F.1.8 or F/2.8 is useful when -
Choose a higher F number like F8 or F11 -
Finally, one thing to keep in mind is the aperture and shutter speed change in effect to one-another. For simplicity (and skipping the jargon), when you select a fast shutter speed, the aperture will change to a higher f-number, and when you select a slow shutter speed, the aperture will change to a smaller f-number.
Similarly, if you select a small f-number (wide aperture), the shutter duration will increase (slower speed), and selecting a high f-number (narrow aperture) will decrease the shutter duration (faster speed).
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FYI, I just noticed that they tried to tack on 2-3 day shipping for an extra $5 at checkout. It's an option, but they tried to sneak it past; I almost missed it.
Nice deal though, thanks for sharing.
@blainekyle: Thanks for the heads up on shipping charges! I would have missed that one.
Almost missed the $5 S&H fee also they tried to add in. Chose the BUDGET option and took it to Free S&H.
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Is buy.com good to go? I haven't ordered from them before.
Man, what luck. Expired Sunday, got an IPhone at Best Buy yesterday and had one of these with me and was just going to say screw it and pay the $59. Figured I'd hold out the rest of this week and sure enough...woot!
In for 2.
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In for 2...may hold onto one for a nice stocking stuffer for my 15 yr.old son.
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Do these cards expire?
My family has a 12 month membership for 4 users for $100. I guess if you are solo on your profile, this would be a good deal?!?
I submitted this for amazon price match, so hopefully it is matched soon on amazon as well.
For once, you can actually buy directly from buy.com instead of from their ebay storefront? Amazing!
In for one. My sub is about to expire. Woot comes through in the nick of time! As mentioned, the default shipping is $5 for 5-8 day shipping, but you can get 2 day for $5.50. I went for that since I need it quick. Still a great price at $40.50.
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got mine! Perfect timing , my subscription ends in a week!
Is this a physical card, or an electronic (code)?
@jzmacdaddy: Should be a physical card. Typically it will say so in the description on the site if it is a code. Also, shipping would not be an option. Hope this helps.
That's a bingo!
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LG-brand refrigerators, washers, dryers, dishwashers and ranges are among the appliances that Lowe's will offer online and in more than 1,700 of its locations across the United States beginning in 2013. The new line will include the industry's largest total capacity refrigerator at 33 cubic feet and a host of products awarded the Energy Star "Most Efficient" designation.
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Do you know what this is called?
I was talking to my sister about favorite foods from childhood, and we both thought of the same dessert, but we can't remember what it is called. This topic has come up before, and it is very frustrating that I still can't remember.
It is a sort of ice cream cake except its not made up of layers of cake and ice cream, but it is a cake made up of ice cream (if that makes sense). As I recall (it has been more than 10-15 years), the cake consisted of layers of ice cream with thin layers of chocolate between (like the hardened chocolate topping you can buy for sundaes). If I remember correctly, my family use to buy them from Kroger for birthday celebrations. I think they came in rectangular boxes in the freezer aisle. Unfortunately, they stopped selling it after awhile, and I have been unable to find it anywhere since.
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Baked Alaska? Or maybe a Torte?
Cue the music ...
Viennetta is back!
That's it! Aw, just as I get my hopes up, I find out it really isn't available in the USA anymore. I'm disappointed. :(
I guess I'm too late like usual. All I could find was this. :)
@jsimsace: lol I clicked ><
Sorry...it was all I had. :)
ice cream heaven
DQ Ice cream cakes!
It was back for a short time a couple of years ago. I bought a bunch then. I wish it'd come back again.
Like the movie V for Vienetta? (smile)
Recipe for a homemade version using premade ice cream:
(mostly ice cream and various flavors of magic shell)
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Christine Mitchell, compliance coordinator for the Natrium facility, presented the check to George Smoulder, executive director, United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley.
Agencies supported by the United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley include the Family Service Association, Ohio River Valley Council of Boys Scouts of America, River Council of the American Red Cross and Brooke County Committee on Aging, which oversees the Brooke County Senior Center and its senior nutrition program.
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My friend is trying so hard to fit into polite society, and is raising her child to say loo rather than toilet. I know it should be lavatory (and I would not say lav) but we are in the 21st century now. What would be deemed appropriate?
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In the UK, people would be happy if you say loo.
An alternative to loo is lavatory, which is something you might hear in higher class circles.
Toilet is fine, but will make some, more old fashioned, people wince.
If you say "bathroom" (as in MrHen's answer) in the UK, people will probably understand you, but if you are out and about (rather than in someone's home) then they might be a little confused.
We don't tend to use "restroom" in the UK, but, again, most people will understand you.
Other euphemisms for toilet in the UK, that are used in polite society, include
Male toilets
Female toilets
and somethings I've only heard from my granddad's generation:
The answer you are looking for entirely depends on where the child is being raised. In the Midwestern US, for instance, the most polite word is restroom:
If you are in someone's house you can also use bathroom. Most of the US considers these two appropriate.
The terms used for the room-sized location where human waste is expelled tends to be highly regional.
In the US, the term "toilet" is almost exclusively reserved for the plumbing apparatus rather than the room where it is installed. Because in most American home construction the toilet is located in the same room as the bath tub, when a person asks for access to another person's toilet in a polite way they ask "May I use your bathroom?" It's common knowledge in the US that such a question indicates that the asker wants to use the toilet. The term "restroom" also seems to be an American term that is not commonly used elsewhere. My Dutch aunt was appalled the first time she experienced a public "restroom" in a gas station. She had pictured a room where you could actually have a restful experience, perhaps with a couch or comfortable chairs. In most places in the US, although people know what a "lavatory" is, that term sounds very technical and is usually reserved for airplanes. Another generic euphemism that is common in the US is "washroom". "Washroom" may be the most widespread euphemism that does not have the possibly misleading connotations that "bathroom" and "restroom" have. In the US, I have only heard the term "latrine" used in military TV shows or by ex-military co-workers. To me, that term paints the same foul picture I associate with "outhouse."
In Europe, and other locations where the toilet fixture is not installed in the same room as the bath, the term "bathroom" is completely foreign. In these places the terms "water closet", or simply "WC", "lavatory", or "loo" are the more common euphemisms for needing to use the toilet. Of course, outside the US, it seems that it is not completely uncommon, nor impolite, to ask "Where is the toilet?" or "May I use your toilet?"
MrHen is correct, much depends on location. It also depends on the child's age; as adults we understand that "loo", "lavatory" and "toilet" are all the same thing, but for young children it is usually more helpful, for them and for those around them, to use language consistently. Therefore I would encourage parents to use the more common word ("toilet" in the UK) as this is what the child is more likely to hear other people saying (including other children, teachers, and other carers).
Making sure children can understand what's being said to them, and make themselves understood, is more important than adhering to some archaic code of etiquette. The archaic nature of the idea that "toilet" is somehow impolite is evidenced by the emergence of signs saying "public toilets" instead of "public conveniences"
Slightly more formal terms in the U.S. are men's room and ladies' room.
Variants of those are little boys' room and little girls' room. I would never expect to hear one man ask another "Which way to the little boys' room?", but it would not be too surprising to hear one woman ask her friend "Which way to the little girls' room?".
To give another perspective: whereas reasonably crude terms will make some people cringe, terms like "loo", "little boys'/girls' room" etc. will make others cringe. The term "loo" was simply not used where I grew up, and to me it feels very prissy. It's all rather context-dependent; I know people who would, amongst close groups of friends, simply announce "I'm going for a shit". That might be extreme, but it perhaps serves to illustrate quite how out of place "I'm just off to powder my nose / spend a penny / use the little boys'/girls room", or even just "I'm going to the loo", might sound in some cases.
Anyway, I'd say distance is the polite thing. There's nothing impolite about the word "toilet" if you want to use a word for it, but in more formal environments, you might want to use the term "bathroom" (which, contrary to what Matt Ellen said, I believe is understood even when there's no hope of a bath nearby!), or " gents' / ladies' " (this has a sort of 'casual-but-professional' feel to it to me). But by far the most context-neutral, polite and distant way to go about things, at least when you're out (e.g. in a restaurant), is simply to excuse yourself. This has politeness issues too, but they're much easier to deal with: the difference between "I'll be right back" (casual) and "please excuse me for a minute" (formal) is pretty small.
Both lavatory and loo are fine, and it's meaningless to talk about which is correct or more correct, IMHO. Interestingly, these terms are quite strong class indicators in the UK: loo is more often used by middle class speakers than, for instance, toilet. When I was young, I once mortified my parents by asking a family friend if I could use their bog.
Not sure whether this is relevant, but a teacher of mine (female, late middle-age and Irish) became very irritated when someone in her class used the term 'loo' as opposed to toilet. Nobody understood why, but since she was widely regarded to be a lunatic, and we were quite young and timid at the time, nobody questioned it. I've never heard this reaction from anybody since. Anyone able to shed any light on this?
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I've noticed some churches in my area that are titled things like:
"Greek" Orthodox
"Russian" Orthodox
"Serbian" Orthodox
"Antiochian" Orthodox
Are these all the same type of Christian Church?
I've noticed some churches in my area that are titled things like:
Are these all the same type of Christian Church?
This kinda falls into general reference territory. There are two major groups of "Orthodox" churches.
The Eastern Orthodox Church is one large group of churches that share a common theology. It separated from the Catholic Church (or vice versa, depending on your POV) in 1054 AD.
They are the "same type" of church in that they share a theology, but they tend to be ethnically tied - if you go into a Greek Orthodox Church in Texas, you'll still need to speak you some Greek. They don't have a pope, but the group of all their bishops are considered to be the ruling body of the church.
The Oriental Orthodox Church split off earlier (451 AD) over the Council of Chalcedon.
This is a pretty small group however; most Orthodox churches you'll see in the West tend to be of the Eastern Orthodox breed.
These churches are all the same faith in the sense that they recognize each other are Christian, but the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox branches are not in communion with each other (or anyone else, I believe) and consider other branches to be schismatic and more-or-less heretical.
There are a lot of churches with similar names and variants. Of course they are mostly synonyms, a trivial canvas of local denomination names and sub-denominations indicates you have to be quite specific. A commenter asked about "the Coptics;" there is a Coptic Catholic Church and a Coptic Orthodox Church, for example.
Officially all the Eastern Orthodox Churches share "one Lord, one faith, one baptism," and this is manifested by intercommunion among, say, the sees of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome (before the Schism, she received the highest honor among the sees at councils), Constantinople, Georgia, Kiev, Moscow, Athens, Washington DC, Paris, London, Tokyo, Bulgaria, and so on. One of the recent blessings the Lord bestowed upon the Orthodox Church was a restoration of intercommunion between the estranged sees of Moscow and the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, which separated due to the Bolshevik Revolution. We all believe (canonically/officially) the same thing, or rather, we all believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, in more or less the same way.
With regards to the answer of @mxyzplk: in America, due to the immigrant nature of our population, Orthodox parishes unfortunately can become ethnic enclaves rather than Eucharistic communities. This is a heresy condemned by the church: it is called ethnophyletism. This is not to say that ethnic communities dedicated to preserving a real culture in the midst of our consumerist so-called culture are bad; but they must be distinguished from the work of the church. I have never personally encountered this problem in my life in the Orthodox Church, thank God.
There are other churches with the name Orthodox, among them notably the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, and the Indian Orthodox Church. The Coptics, Syriacs, and Ethiopians do not accept the council of Chalcedon, so they are not in communion with the Eastern Orthodox. Confusingly, they are collectively called "Oriental" Orthodox, as opposed to the "Eastern" Orthodox. There is nowadays an ongoing dialogue between the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, in hopes that perhaps our separation is due merely to misunderstanding or language issues. (Cf. orthodoxwiki.org)
The churches your speaking about are all the same in faith and are all Eastern Orthodox. The reason they have different names is because of the ethnicity/culture of the Orthodox who attend that Church, but they are all united in one faith.
Actually, the Coptic Church is one of the Oriental Orthodox, there's also the Ethiopians, the Malankar (I think), and others who escape me at this point.
However, it is incorrect to argue that the Orthodox are split into two sects. The so-called "Eastern" Orthodox (which I am), would simply say that the Oriental Orthodox is another break away group, like Rome, but which retains much more of their Orthodox roots.
Orthodox are all the same. I am Antiochian Orthodox but we have Russians, Greeks, Romanians, and Serbs that also come to our church. The Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox are not in communion but their beliefs and liturgy are nearly the same. Nowadays, most Eastern and Oriental Orthodox believe there was a misunderstanding in language during the Chalcean Council. Both Oriental and Eastern Orthodoxy are different from Catholicism and Protestantism in their definitions of sin, hell, and heaven among several other things.
Eastern Orthodox churches all share the same religious dogma. Where they vary is language and with regard to some rituals and customs. For example, some churches are on the old calendar. Young male Macedonians, Bulgarians and Greeks dive into water to retrieve a cross to celebrate Epiphany. Russians use gold crowns during weddings, Greeks use more simple ones. They are all religiously the same however.


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I live in the Netherlands, but I'm not a Dutch citizen, I have an Italian passport.
How do I get a tourist visa for Cuba ?
I live in the Netherlands, but I'm not a Dutch citizen, I have an Italian passport.
You should apply to the embassy or the consulate in Rotterdam. Here is the official information.
You may get a visa (tourist card) also through your travel agency, even if you do not plan your trip via the agency.
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A tourist visa card (visa de tarjeta del turista) is necessary for travellers from most nations. This visa, which is really little more than a piece of paper on which you list your vital statistics, costs between 15-25 CUC (or 15-25 Euro), depending on where purchased. It can be purchased at the Airport in Cuba on arrival, however it should be noted that many airlines will require a valid tourist visa card before boarding flights. It is usually valid for 30 days and can be extended once for another 30 days at any immigration office in Cuba (for 25 CUC) - beyond this you would need a flight out of Cuba within the extended visa period. Canadians are the exception, getting 90 days on arrival and can apply for a 90 day extension. Your passport needs to be valid at least six months past the end of your planned return.
From Canada, the tourist card is normally provided on the flight. It can be purchased at Cancun airport (250 MXN) if departing from there, and similar in most other Latin American gateway airports. Please note that if departing the UK and many parts of Europe at least (this may apply to other countries), you will require to have the visa before boarding the plane. Boarding may be denied (this is because the airline will then get a $1,000 fine from the immigration authorities) and airplane ticket lost. In the UK, applying for the visa is a very simple process and can be done by post or in person at the Cuban embassy in London. Please do note that if apply to Cuban Consulate by post, there is a new charge introduced in 2011 which is a £25 for a non-personal transaction. If you cannot go to the Cuban Consulate use VisaCuba (2) because it will be cheaper. Through them it will cost £20 in total per person. If you apply in person to the Cuban Consulate, you get the visa straight away. It can also be done through online agencies as mentioned before although they will be very expensive (normally £15 + £50 admin fee).
Regular tourists who renew their 30 day visa are eligible to depart the country (to any destination) and return immediately enjoying a further 60 days (30 days plus a 30 day extension). You are only allowed two consecutive stays in this manner.
If you want to stay with friends or family in Cuba you have to go with your intended host within two days after arrival to a migration office and pay 40 CUC for a 30 days family visa.
Citizens of Antigua and Barbuda (28 days), Barbados (28 days), Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, CIS (except Ukraine and Uzbekistan), Dominica, Grenada (60 days), Liechtenstein (90 days), Macedonia, Malaysia (90 days), Mongolia, Montenegro (90 days), Namibia, Singapore, Slovakia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Serbia (90 days), Turkmenistan who can stay 30 days without visa. (The source of the previous sentence is unknown. Aeromexico staff at Cancun airport claim that only citizens of China and Russia need no visa.)
It is important to note that there is also a departure tax of CUC 25, to be paid in cash when departing Cuba by airplane; this is not required for boat departures. This tax is not well publicised but it is essential to remember it. You will run into significant difficulties if you do not have enough cash to pay this tax when leaving the country. An ATM is available at the airport but these facilities are not as reliable in Cuba as in other places.
(Second source: VisaHQ)
This site merely confirms that as a citizen of Italy living in the Netherlands, yes, you do need a visa for Cuba, as described in the process above.


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