Thx! I clarified that flickr changes the filename [0], which is different than changing the binary data, but for me a non-starter when looking at places to backup photos. ymmv.
Lock-in and missing features aside, preserving the binary data is pretty cool, and it's honestly the most important thing when picking a place to store photos (for me).
The most annoying thing was it treated the NEF and JPG files separately, and showed pictures twice in the UI.
But probably the better test will be to see how files differ between iOS devices, and the Mac Photos.app when that is released.
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Running this through exiftool, the image downloaded via icloud.com/photos has the following EXIF stripped which is the likely cause of the above change:
GPS Latitude Ref
GPS Longitude Ref
GPS Altitude Ref
GPS Time Stamp
GPS Speed Ref
GPS Speed
GPS Img Direction Ref
GPS Img Direction
GPS Dest Bearing Ref
GPS Dest Bearing
GPS Date Stamp
GPS Altitude
GPS Date/Time
GPS Latitude
GPS Longitude
GPS Position
Interesting. I emailed Amazon and received this reply:
Currently the unlimited photo storage benefit includes most major image file types: JPEG, GIF, (both animated and non-animated), most common TIFFs, RAW, PNG, and BMP.
This means at this time the .nef, .rw2 and .orf will be considered as unsupported format and will count against cloud drive storage limit.
For more information about Cloud Drive Photos & Videos file requirements, go to:
I've forwarded your comments as feedback to our Amazon Cloud Drive team that you want .NEF file type images to be included in the unlimited photo storage benefit so that they aren't counted against your Cloud Storage quota. We're adding more file types to the unlimited photo storage feature, and file types not compatible now may become compatible in the future.
I just looked at http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
and the "Note" mentions NEF as a supported format. I am still seeing errors "File size larger than remaining quote" when I try to upload NEF files, but JPG works fine. Not sure what the disconnect is.
It's OneDrive for Business (i.e. SharePoint) that sometimes modifies uploaded files. To the best of my knowledge, OneDrive Consumer (http://onedrive.com) operates no differently than `rsync` would.
I've seen Microsoft employees across the web have to point this out a dozen times.
"The New Microsoft" seems to be making better decisions overall, but it apparently didn't learn anything from the early-2000s ".net branding clusterfuck" which conflated their runtime platform, development tools, consumer-facing single-sign-on, and a few dozen other things in the mind of the public.
Perhaps out of hope but more likely Stockholm syndrome, over the last decade I seem to have got stuck in a cycle of: Blind love and hope for a new product of theirs, utter disappointment at the resulting clusterfuck after a week, hatred, switch to something else, miss it, go crawling back.
Only just broken out of this loop but to be honest it knackered my productivity badly over the years.
Ultimately I'm a sucker I suspect but the revelation that FreeBSD hadn't actually poked me in the eye once in the last decade had turned my hand finally. That and ruby.
Yes I got tangled in DNA, ATL etc as well. Nothing but regret.
Mary Jo Foley is a well-known Microsoft reporter and has been for a lonnnnnng time (I would bet on 15 years without Googling). She's also sharp and plugged into the tech scene, with the usual savviness to develop sources inside corps. I've met her at a couple conferences. She's probably read a few Asimov books.
What I think the quote shows is not a lack of awareness about other uses of "Asimov" but that much of her stories are copy-pasted from emails with Microsoft marketers. Someone in Microsoft (Azure?) wants you to know about "Asimov"... perhaps an announcement next week? This way Mary Jo looks like she is relevant and you are primed to want to learn more...
Edit: I agree with the facepalm, just for different reasons
> Does ParseHub respect robots.txt?
> We're working on an admin panel to give webmasters full transparency and control. We'll have more info soon.
What does that mean? I read it as ParseHub does not respect robots.txt, which as a content owner is a bit disappointing. Would you elaborate on your thinking?
At the moment, ParseHub does not respect robots.txt. We do expect to add this + features for webmasters in the future, but have not had the developer cycles to do this yet.
This isn't enough data to draw any conclusions, but it is interesting enough to ask the anonymous internet to finish the research since I'm tired tonight :)
A business may be profitable (i.e. revenues greater than costs) but still have negative cash flow. Imagine I'm opening a chain of lemonade stands. I open a new stand each month, at a capital outlay of $3600. The stand will last me 3 years, so only $100 per month per stand shows up as a cost on my income statement. So, as long as each stand can make more than $100 per month per stand in operating profit (revenue, less cost of goods sold, less my staff etc.) from its first month onward, my business is profitable.
My business would be profitable even if I were to open 1000 lemonade stands next month. However, it doesn't mean I have the $3.6m required.
In short, IPO can be about funding growth. Profits can be a poor indicator of cash requirements if significant marketing costs or capital items (all of which cost real cash) are spread over time in the company's accounts. (The accounting treatment is useful, though, as it matches revenues to the costs which generated them, even if they were incurred much earlier.)
I cloned that app to show how to build the same thing while also respecting user privacy. And, it's open source.