The question is are they happy with the cameras for artistic purposes.
I still find it annoying as hell that you can't capture RGB at each pixel (except for foveon) and so have to choose which kind of degradation/approximation of reality to use.
Even with the foveon, your looking at the difference between shitty (sigma) vs quality glass (Nikon) mean that it makes no little difference whether you use a CFA or a foveon.
Also, RAW image formats store more information than RGB at each pixel. RGB at each pixel is a concept that doesn't actually make any sense in the context of photography - especially from an artistic perspective. For example, how many bits do you expect to describe the red channel, 8 as in standard 24 bit RGB colour space? How do you reconcile that with the massive variation possible in nature?
It makes no sense unless you can define the range that the red channel describes, for example a 0 red value means that the sensor picked up 0.003% of the light as it would looking at a (slightly off) white sheet of paper at mid day at a latitude of 25 degrees south. RAW image formats used in professional photography actually capture information about the way the camera was calibrated a generally much higher than the 8 bits per pixel you are used to looking at on screen.
In understanding this stuff it does help to appreciate that EVERY way of capturing images, including chemically, is an approximation, it helps to understand colour spaces and it helps to understand that the quality of glass is most often far more important than megapixels or whether the red green and blue sensors physically separated by a distance which is more than covered by errors in most glass.
Pro photographers I know love their digital stuff for the equivalent of 35mm work - those that are not afraid of or superstitious about computers anyway. I know a couple of photographers who have put digital backs in their old hasselblads.
Then again, I am one of those imaging technology pedants.:-P
So is open office. I use rosegarden more than I use any office apps. I never use office apps on my desktop machine. They should remove that too. And fspot, and tomboy, pidgin, transmission, etc, etc, etc.
Hardware for a ~40-80GB disk is cheap. Not being able to access you music collection or photos or important documents when your ISP or the server is down is a royal pain in the arse. I'm all for this new fangled "cloud" thingy, but where possible I make sure I have a local copy - even on my android phone.
Following on from the informative comment from Onetus, The Age also has a full transcript of Xenophons speech to the Senate. He makes it clear that he is tabling letters in the Senate with names removed to protect informants and innocents and has left the names in the copies sent to the Australian Federal Police.
The point of his speech is to open dialogue in the Senate with a view to holding an inquiry into the CoS tax exemption. The purpose of sending the letters to the police with original names is for the police to investigate any criminality. Kind of a pincer movement really, good on him.
From the speech:
These allegations are serious, and many names have been removed from the letters I have tabled in the Senate tonight, but those names have not been removed from copies I am providing to the police. This organisation must be investigated. These victims of Scientology have spoken out at considerable personal risk, and I commend them for that. And I would encourage other victims of Scientology to come forward, contact the police or contact my office -- but, most importantly, speak out.
Fear makes you irrational. It suppresses the "carefully think about the situation" part of your brain, and supercharges the "fight or flight" part.
I remember reading somewhere that a study showed fear suppresses peoples ability to think rationally while anger enhances it which is why I am surprised so many people are reacting in such an irrational way. I guess this guy didn't do his job properly.
ps. I was the lead sound effects editor on the show. Along with blowing up Yellowstone and other sundry destructions, I personally cut about 80% of the computer screen beeps. And I cut every one of them just for you guys, because I know you love them so much:D
It was a shameless CP/M knock-off produced by some hole-in-the-wall called Seattle Computer Products. MS bought it for $50,000 and proceeded to destroy the brilliant company known as Digital Research who developed the real thing (CP/M, later DR-DOS). DR also had a better GUI environment than early versions of Windows called GEM. I remember GEM fondly on my Atari ST. Ran it on a 286 for a while too.
And still the best operating system MicroSoft ever produced!
Yeah, NetBeans is not used all that much. Eclipse is used a lot more in the real world where consultants get paid more if they spend longer doing basic project/environment setup and waiting for the UI to come back.
Of course for anyone who wants a quick and feature rich IDE, you can't go past newer versions of NetBeans. I am thankful that more recently I have been in a position to say "I am using NetBeans, even if all you idiots settled on Eclipse" and it has worked out quite well.
Of course, Eclipse will drop off in popularity, developers will look at critisism and improve it and in another 5 years Eclipse will be the better IDE with smaller market share.
JDeveloper should be dropped, IMO. It doesn't offer any real advantage over anything else out there, and suffers in comparison to NetBeans and Eclipse for most tasks. Oracle could be missing a great opportunity here...
DVICO dual fusion PCI (from memory, not at the machine right now). I don't think it is in the kernel and I personally wouldn't have bought it. My dad was at the shop getting it for my birthday, he rang me up and asked about brands/models and then bought the only one where I said "Don't get that!". He got it because for only a couple of dollars more than a supported haupage DVB card, he got (being phased out at the time and completely redundant) analogue included. He's getting old, bless him.
I'm still running an older kernel on that machine because it's my super stable, not allowed anywhere near bleeding edge workhorse. I won't find out if it's in the kernel now until next year, most likely.
Just in case this post shows up on google for someone looking for linux DVICO dual fusion PCI, go here. This Christopher Pascoe guy does good things, although I do have to massage the build, removing drivers that fail from the build config works for me. I wish I was at the machine, I could be more specific.
I've been running it for ages without major problems. The only problem I have is every time I upgrade the kernel I need to rebuild the driver for my tuner, but that's no biggy - got that scripted - and it's nothing to do with MythTV per se.
Sure, it was a bitch to set up the first time, but since then it's been stable and awesome and having done it once, I'm pretty quick at setting it up for others.
I too use XBMC, but only as a quick and dirty way of using an Xbox as a frontend. It just doesn't come close as a PVR.
("McDonalds food tastes like shit" was one of the first comments for mcdonalds.com).
I can see your point. If I wanted to know what shit tastes like, I wouldn't necessarily know to search for McDonalds. But thanks. Now I know that, should I be curious about fecal flavour, I'll be sure to try McDonalds.
I lived in a house with both 240VAC and 12VDC. 12.5 volts at the batteries, 10.5 volts at the opposite end of the house. And that was with some seriously thick copper wiring. Voltage drop makes it so.
The only reason we had it set up like that was because we were energy self sufficient and the 240V was supplied by an inverter. Not the most efficient system.
I remember reading something about it in New Scientist years ago (probably 1980 something). It was about research into magnetic fields and what happens when water moves and the jist of it was that some people are unconsciously sensitive to these fields.
I can't remember the details, but it does kind of make sense to me considering that there are lots of animals with sensitivity to magnetic fields and our own bodies are full of little tiny ferrite dots being pumped around. It doesn't make much sense to me when it comes to detecting explosives, but a fool and his money are soon parted...
That copy of New Scientist was given to me by my grandfather who taught me divining. It goes back centuries in our family.
Military is going to trust their brothers in arms that have fought and bled beside them far more then some piece of code.
Bled? What, do they cut themselves shaving that often?
Come on, pussies sitting in front of screens are not soldiers. If they're willing to kill remotely at the push of a button, they are likely to be more than a little fucked up and are probably less trustworthy than code.
Yeah... if Jack White released an album that came bundled with a Chinese copy of a Les Paul guitar and "Les Paul" plastered on the promotional material and album sleeve. Exactly the same.
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Even with the foveon, your looking at the difference between shitty (sigma) vs quality glass (Nikon) mean that it makes no little difference whether you use a CFA or a foveon.
Also, RAW image formats store more information than RGB at each pixel. RGB at each pixel is a concept that doesn't actually make any sense in the context of photography - especially from an artistic perspective. For example, how many bits do you expect to describe the red channel, 8 as in standard 24 bit RGB colour space? How do you reconcile that with the massive variation possible in nature?
It makes no sense unless you can define the range that the red channel describes, for example a 0 red value means that the sensor picked up 0.003% of the light as it would looking at a (slightly off) white sheet of paper at mid day at a latitude of 25 degrees south. RAW image formats used in professional photography actually capture information about the way the camera was calibrated a generally much higher than the 8 bits per pixel you are used to looking at on screen.
In understanding this stuff it does help to appreciate that EVERY way of capturing images, including chemically, is an approximation, it helps to understand colour spaces and it helps to understand that the quality of glass is most often far more important than megapixels or whether the red green and blue sensors physically separated by a distance which is more than covered by errors in most glass.
Pro photographers I know love their digital stuff for the equivalent of 35mm work - those that are not afraid of or superstitious about computers anyway. I know a couple of photographers who have put digital backs in their old hasselblads.
Then again, I am one of those imaging technology pedants. :-P
Care to name the bank? That should be public knowledge - or at least available to all customers and any potential customers.
So is open office. I use rosegarden more than I use any office apps. I never use office apps on my desktop machine. They should remove that too. And fspot, and tomboy, pidgin, transmission, etc, etc, etc.
For the most part yes. And where mobile internet is not available, they can alsways just pop in to a Starbucks.
Hardware for a ~40-80GB disk is cheap. Not being able to access you music collection or photos or important documents when your ISP or the server is down is a royal pain in the arse. I'm all for this new fangled "cloud" thingy, but where possible I make sure I have a local copy - even on my android phone.
Do not want
Prove it.
Well as usual we hope that the police police police are effective in policing the police police's policing of the police.
No, but if you eat kippers on Tuesday it will not rain.
Following on from the informative comment from Onetus, The Age also has a full transcript of Xenophons speech to the Senate. He makes it clear that he is tabling letters in the Senate with names removed to protect informants and innocents and has left the names in the copies sent to the Australian Federal Police.
The point of his speech is to open dialogue in the Senate with a view to holding an inquiry into the CoS tax exemption. The purpose of sending the letters to the police with original names is for the police to investigate any criminality. Kind of a pincer movement really, good on him.
From the speech:
I remember reading somewhere that a study showed fear suppresses peoples ability to think rationally while anger enhances it which is why I am surprised so many people are reacting in such an irrational way. I guess this guy didn't do his job properly.
It certainly is.
I must say though, as an Australian, a successful launch would provide a perfect demonstration of the ingenuity of Aussie engineers.
A failed mission will of course make New Zealand a laughing stock.
Again.
Quite right, although I usually bing for stuff on Google.
And still the best operating system MicroSoft ever produced!
Come on, MS-DOS was the best operating system MicroSoft ever produced!
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope
Earth.
Yip yip yip yip yip yip.
Huh! Look. Aaaawwwwww. Radio.
Radio.
Yip yip yip yip yip.
Radio
Uhuh, uhuh, Radio. Yipyipyipyipyip.
I'm sorry, I'm going to have to shoot you.
Yeah, NetBeans is not used all that much. Eclipse is used a lot more in the real world where consultants get paid more if they spend longer doing basic project/environment setup and waiting for the UI to come back.
Of course for anyone who wants a quick and feature rich IDE, you can't go past newer versions of NetBeans. I am thankful that more recently I have been in a position to say "I am using NetBeans, even if all you idiots settled on Eclipse" and it has worked out quite well.
Of course, Eclipse will drop off in popularity, developers will look at critisism and improve it and in another 5 years Eclipse will be the better IDE with smaller market share.
JDeveloper should be dropped, IMO. It doesn't offer any real advantage over anything else out there, and suffers in comparison to NetBeans and Eclipse for most tasks. Oracle could be missing a great opportunity here...
Well I thought it was funny...
DVICO dual fusion PCI (from memory, not at the machine right now). I don't think it is in the kernel and I personally wouldn't have bought it. My dad was at the shop getting it for my birthday, he rang me up and asked about brands/models and then bought the only one where I said "Don't get that!". He got it because for only a couple of dollars more than a supported haupage DVB card, he got (being phased out at the time and completely redundant) analogue included. He's getting old, bless him.
I'm still running an older kernel on that machine because it's my super stable, not allowed anywhere near bleeding edge workhorse. I won't find out if it's in the kernel now until next year, most likely.
Just in case this post shows up on google for someone looking for linux DVICO dual fusion PCI, go here. This Christopher Pascoe guy does good things, although I do have to massage the build, removing drivers that fail from the build config works for me. I wish I was at the machine, I could be more specific.
I've been running it for ages without major problems. The only problem I have is every time I upgrade the kernel I need to rebuild the driver for my tuner, but that's no biggy - got that scripted - and it's nothing to do with MythTV per se.
Sure, it was a bitch to set up the first time, but since then it's been stable and awesome and having done it once, I'm pretty quick at setting it up for others.
I too use XBMC, but only as a quick and dirty way of using an Xbox as a frontend. It just doesn't come close as a PVR.
I can see your point. If I wanted to know what shit tastes like, I wouldn't necessarily know to search for McDonalds. But thanks. Now I know that, should I be curious about fecal flavour, I'll be sure to try McDonalds.
I lived in a house with both 240VAC and 12VDC. 12.5 volts at the batteries, 10.5 volts at the opposite end of the house. And that was with some seriously thick copper wiring. Voltage drop makes it so.
The only reason we had it set up like that was because we were energy self sufficient and the 240V was supplied by an inverter. Not the most efficient system.
I remember reading something about it in New Scientist years ago (probably 1980 something). It was about research into magnetic fields and what happens when water moves and the jist of it was that some people are unconsciously sensitive to these fields.
I can't remember the details, but it does kind of make sense to me considering that there are lots of animals with sensitivity to magnetic fields and our own bodies are full of little tiny ferrite dots being pumped around. It doesn't make much sense to me when it comes to detecting explosives, but a fool and his money are soon parted...
That copy of New Scientist was given to me by my grandfather who taught me divining. It goes back centuries in our family.
Bled? What, do they cut themselves shaving that often?
Come on, pussies sitting in front of screens are not soldiers. If they're willing to kill remotely at the push of a button, they are likely to be more than a little fucked up and are probably less trustworthy than code.
Yeah... if Jack White released an album that came bundled with a Chinese copy of a Les Paul guitar and "Les Paul" plastered on the promotional material and album sleeve. Exactly the same.