That was just the cover (and a blatantly thin one at that); the real beneficiary would be the purchaser, which was buying what could easily be turned into a highly lucrative business for peanuts.
I guess I never really understood how. Are TLDs really worth that much income? Why would somebody choose .org instead of .com or their local TLD? Would they have tried to monetize by undercutting .com?
.org is among the cheap TLDs and widely used. If you want to make money from it, you jack up the prices and now many long-term established organisations using an .org domain now have to pay you more or have to give up their domain and find a new one, with all the follow up costs and consequences. People just now looking for a domain are fine, the ones committed to a name have an issue.
What is the standard tool the industry uses to analyze pictures like this? I see these are JPEG's, that can't be the best format for this type of data, is it?
JPEG is good for display. If you want to do any sort of analysis on the image, you'll want a lossless format that can handle multiple channels and the georeferencing metadata. TIFF is pretty good for that. There are a bunch depending on what sensor you're getting them from and what you plan on doing with them. And how sensitive you are to having a pallet of hard drives fed-exed to your office.
GDAL (https://gdal.org) is a wonderful tool that can handle essentially any geographic raster image imaginable. Tools like ArcGis or Grass can also deal pretty well with hyperspectral images. Lots of GIS shops also roll very customized image pipelines if they have particular needs.
I would have imagined they capture images with all kinds of visible/non-visibles light too - perhaps this is just the bucket that they dump the images from pr0/consumer devices into?
Interesting product in fman. May I ask what percent of the <20k came from one off sales (18 euros) vs paying for the ongoing updates? Trying to figure out how a license a product of mine. THanks
Well I'm in Miami with 10 years of professional experience after BS in CS and I'm making 130k. So from my perspective no; however, I'm sure some disagree.
thanks! and good question - same locale but jumped ship to be a contractor.
I was a team lead prior and dealt with a lot of vendors where I was approving their time sheets so I saw how much they were being paid. Told myself.. WTF, why aren't I doing this?? Paid twice as much, way less accountability (parameters of work are all defined per project or per SoW) and I don't have to be stress out about the politics within the company. Also.. as a contractor, my schedule consist of half the time on customer's premises and the other half dealing with internal dev teams which gave me loads of flexibility of WFH.
This is the unfortunate reality for IT positions in any industry in Australia - Full time positions have not many upsides and contracting is the best way you can capture as much $$$ as you can. There are some downsides but upsides outweigh it by a mile!
