Kodak wins lawsuit again Sun

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: amoeba
Gibson, where do you live ?

I live in Mass.

 

[Ranger X]

Another frivilous lawsuit winner. The country's going to hell for sure.

 

[amoeba]

Originally posted by: Gibson486

Originally posted by: amoeba
Gibson, where do you live ?

I live in Mass.

What type of education /background do you have? Are you more in to programming or hardware design?

I know that most of Sun's hardware engineering was laid off in boston a while back but there is still a substantial site there. I'm in Austin so I only know of stuff here.

Sun only does internships instead of Co-ops while companies like AMD/IBM only does Co-ops.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
Kodak really needs money now that they can't sell film anymore, don't they.

huh? Why can't they sell film?

arnt they the biggest film maker?

I think his point was that everything is going digital.

I think the photopgraphy companies should develop a new digital film (as opposed to memory cards). The film would cost as much as ordinary film, but hold a lot more data, at an extremely high resolution in a good quality image format (like tiff, perhaps broken into CMYK layers).

Why do that when you can sit on your ass and sue people for pantent violations. I know which one I would do.

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: amoeba

Originally posted by: Gibson486

Originally posted by: amoeba
Gibson, where do you live ?

I live in Mass.

What type of education /background do you have? Are you more in to programming or hardware design?

I know that most of Sun's hardware engineering was laid off in boston a while back but there is still a substantial site there. I'm in Austin so I only know of stuff here.

Sun only does internships instead of Co-ops while companies like AMD/IBM only does Co-ops.

sun don't wanna pay?

 

[amoeba]

Sun hasn't been doing so hot last couple of years but I enjoy what I do for them and I sincerely believe that what I'm working on will make a difference when it rolls out.

As to whether that will be the case, I don't know.

And the difference between internships and Co-op is not pay, its whether you take time off from school to work. Due to the volatile nature of Sun's situation, keeping a Co-op for 3 terms is not a good option but that doesn't mean we don't hire interns at all. I was an intern for 2 summers and now I'm a full time hire.
Sun typically pays their interns a bit more than an equivalent Co-op at another tech company.

 

[GMElias]

this is good for Rochester since Kodak has been sucking it up lately!
-Elias

 

[Modeps]

For everyone that thinks this is a good thing, it's not. This gives Kodak free reign to attack any object oriented programming architecture. I'm so tired of vague patent lawsuits. Kodak's revenue is probably tanking right now, simply because of the digital camera market and their lackluster offerings. So what do they do? They dig up a patent and apply it to what other people are doing and make a quick buck off of NOTHING.

Complete Bullsh!t.

 

[FreshPrince]

you mean like what M$ and $un has been doing for years?

 

[SuperTool]

Sun settled for $92M.
We need tort reform

 

[OffTopic1]

Originally posted by: ProviaFan

Originally posted by: tooltime
i think kodak invented the silver emulsion for film...they gotta know what their doing...

Ah, so that's why all the nature photography pros love E100VS (or whatever it's called) and eschew Velvia because it sucks so badly. I'm not up on the portrait photography field, so I don't know who's negative films are more popular, but the last I heard, Fuji was ahead in the transparency aka slide film department.

Well, there's only one roll of Kodachrome sitting there amidst a forest of green film boxes in my fridge, and I don't think any more yellow boxes will be added any time soon.

Velvia = slide film, use when one want highly saturate image (best film when taken under overcast or rainy day)

Portra 160NC/160VC are great portrait films with good reproduction of purple & violet colours.
However, Fuji NPS 160 (a replacement for Reala, and the colour isn't as saturated) is the best portrait film at this speed due to very high resoving power, extreamly fine grain, and have the best reproduction of neutral grey & excellent highlight/shadow details.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: OffTopic
Velvia = slide film, use when one want highly saturate image (best film when taken under overcast or rainy day)

I'm sort of an advanced amateur who is quite familiar with saturated and super-saturated Fuji slide films (hence the username).

Portra 160NC/160VC are great portrait films with good reproduction of purple & violet colours.
However, Fuji NPS 160 (a replacement for Reala, and the colour isn't as saturated) is the best portrait film at this speed due to very high resoving power, extreamly fine grain, and have the best reproduction of neutral grey & excellent highlight/shadow details.

Thanks for the explanation; as I said, I don't know a thing about portrait photography.

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: jadinolf

Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
Kodak really needs money now that they can't sell film anymore, don't they.

What do you mean by that? Kodak sold 6 rolls this quarter.

While it's true that consumer film sales are rapidly declining, I think we still sold roughly 100 million square meters of 35mm film last year. We also still produce the vast majority of movie film (millions and millions of square meters). And sales of films used in the health professions to print digital images of MRI's, CT's, mammograms, etc are still INCREASING. Although they are expected to level out in the next few years, then begin a gradual decline. We are downsizing, but are also still investing to increase capacity for medical films.

Although considering the performance of Kodak stock over the past few years and the fact that we are still struggling in the transition to digital technologies, I'm not sure I'd recommend buying Kodak stock. I know I'm taking a pass on the company stock plan.

Gee, I hope none of what I just said is confidential. Nah, should be public knowledge. But if I suddenly disappear from this forum, I guess you will know why.

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: Modeps
Kodak's revenue is probably tanking right now, simply because of the digital camera market and their lackluster offerings.

ATOT's resident photography buffs do not represent the majority of american consumers. But I think even they would say that the most recent Kodak digicams are much better than those of a year or two ago.

Kodak the Highest-Ranked Brand Among Digital Cameras in the $200-599 Price Segments, Which Comprise More than 60 Percent of Market

Underscoring its reputation for quality and ease of use among consumers, Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) today captured two of the four segments in the J.D. Power and Associates 2004 Digital Camera Satisfaction Study(SM).

In the inaugural consumer study evaluating performance, connectivity, cost and appearance, KODAK EASYSHARE products in the $200-399 and $400-599 price ranges ranked highest in customer satisfaction. Digital cameras in these segments comprise more than 60 percent of the U.S. market, according to data from The NPD Group.

Oh, and we have actually done quite well over the past year. I don't know enough about the lawsuit, and frankly, neither do you, to judge whether or not it is frivilous. The brief description in the article certainly sounds pretty stupid though.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: DT4K
But I think even they would say that the most recent Kodak digicams are much better than those of a year or two ago.

I sure hope so... My Kodak DX3500 sucks.

But don't feel bad, I still think the Pro SLR series is uber-cool... though the Nikon D2x looks nice also.

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: ProviaFan

Originally posted by: DT4K
But I think even they would say that the most recent Kodak digicams are much better than those of a year or two ago.

I sure hope so... My Kodak DX3500 sucks.

But don't feel bad, I still think the Pro SLR series is uber-cool... though the Nikon D2x looks nice also.

Don't worry, I won't take it personally. I work for the Health Imaging division. I'm a software developer in a manufacturing plant that does R&D and produces films for laser imagers used in hospitals and clinics. So I have nothing to do with digital cameras. I just pay attention when I hear good news about the company in general. That's why I liked the JD Powers study. Seems like after a shaky start, we are gaining some respect and market share in the digicam market. The Health Imaging division is really the cash cow of the company though.