Overall, though, there appears to be no serious damage - though emergency repairs and lots of new windows are needed.
No serious damage? Yeah, what could possibly go wrong in a city with 1M people, that has no gas supply and frozen hospitals? Minimum temperatures are -4F/-20C at night right now, and maximum aren't much higher.
I think you're right. I love Ruby, it's a very fun and effective language, I could write it in my sleep but there are so many cool projects that are written in Python. Those languages are *very* similar, and it's a shame that so much effort is being divided between communities. I might get to learn Python one day but I'm afraid I'd become a so-so programmer in both languages.
A tour guide in front of the pyramid of Gizah : This pyramid is 4507.5 years old. A tourist : Wow! Which dating methodology did you use to achieve such a precision? Tour guide : It's quite simple actually. I got this job in summer 2005, and it was 4500 years old at that time.
They are both v1.0s. As in the case of all v1.0s, you may want to exercise some frickin' caution.
Sorry, what? In the OSS world, 1.0 should come after so many alphas/betas/release candidates that it should work perfectly everywhere. There are many good and very usable projects that are less than 0.3 If it's not ready at all, call it a 0.0.1b or something.
"Look! You only need 20kWh of electricity, 1m**3 of water, 2m**2 of land and 3 liters of fertilizer to get 1 liter of biofuel. We will revolutionize the world in 10 years!"
People complain all the time about low efficiency of PV Panels, but they're still 5 times better than photosynthesis.
Not so fast... Peak oil and climate change might change a thing or two in our society. It will probably be more useful to know how to grow potatoes than to have a PhD.
Don't ask me why the Nikon D90 gets 12.5 stops on DXOMark even though it shoots 12-bit RAW. Either they're high, they have a different definition of DR or it involves weird non-linear conversions.
[*] Create an image all orange in GIMP: RGB=(255, 128, 0). Start the curve tool (with preview active), select a point about halfway the curve, and move it around. If you move it up the color shifts towards yellow, if you move it down it shifts towards red. Explanation: you actually only change the green channel, and yellow=(255, 255, 0), red=(255, 0, 0). The contrast curve is applied to each channel separately and red and blue are on the endpoints that aren't changed. This is an extreme example, but the effect on photographs is that many colors tend to be shifted towards black, white, red, green, blue, cyan, yellow and magenta when a contrast curve is applied, including the curve cameras apply when producing JPGs. Many people like those candy colors, and as they are 'louder' than the color distortions many monitors have (I still see lots of laptop screens that are far too blue) for many people they will look better than images with more realistic colors, but I have always disliked the effect and avoid it.
Yes. Lightroom shows you in real time when you begin to lose information due to clipping in any of the 3 channels. Other programs (or your in camera histogram) might only complain when all 3 channels are clipping.
White balance isn't subjective : A gray card should be gray.:D But it's totally true that there are a lot of possible variations, and that playing with the orange/blue slider gives you a lot of creative flexibility. It also comes from the fact that your eyes and brain do a very good job at understanding that a gray card is gray even if it appears orange, green or blue.
I mostly agree with what you said, but the question was specifically for a well-exposed picture with correct WB. In this case, you don't need much processing (if at all), and RAW doesn't give you much advantage.
US lawmakers would be well advised to take a look at the rest of the industrialized, democratic first world countries from time to time and check what's considered adequate there
Care to mention which countries? I lived in many different "first world countries", and I can assure you there are many examples of weird justice decisions everywhere.
1) For a reasonably well-exposed photo where the white balance is roughly correct in the camera, are you able to produce a significantly better end result from RAW than from JPEG? (I definitely agree on using RAW+JPEG when you know exposure could be a problem)
Short answer : No Longer answer : It depends on the light, the sensor, the image processor in camera and your RAW workflow. From personal experience, I'd say that Canon JPGs are pretty good out of camera, Nikon JPGs lack a bit of sharpening, and Fuji X sensors have very good JPGs that are still impossible to match with RAW+Lightroom. I use RAW as a safety net during events or weddings, so that if I get a picture with good expression, focus and composition but wrong exposure or WB, I can still save it and print it instead of having to delete it. RAW is also interesting for scenes with high dynamic range, such as landscapes or concert.
Do you have any rough idea about the bit depth the RAW photos need to be at before you get a significant advantage over JPEG? My old camera produced 10 bit RAWs, and at that time I was almost never able to out-perform the JPEG. My new camera has 12 bit RAW, and I haven't really had much time recently (small children here as well) to play around with RAW. But maybe it would be worth it?
Skating, smoking weed & playing video games is evil and dangerous, but smoking cigarettes, owning guns & drinking and driving is cool, safe and "classic". Freaking idiots!
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Bullshit.
You mixed free and "1 year" up.
In this case, no prisoner would talk.
No serious damage? Yeah, what could possibly go wrong in a city with 1M people, that has no gas supply and frozen hospitals?
Minimum temperatures are -4F/-20C at night right now, and maximum aren't much higher.
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Upcased and without spaces is the solution.
Ruby, for example.
If you're being honest, 10 minutes is impressive.
It took me 2h10m, and I still need to finish (i.e. begin) a paper due tomorrow.
Sorry, your solution is wrong.
"HCXRCMIIIHXLS" doesn't fit the regexp.
Try http://twoevils.net/cross-regex.html
I think you're right.
I love Ruby, it's a very fun and effective language, I could write it in my sleep but there are so many cool projects that are written in Python.
Those languages are *very* similar, and it's a shame that so much effort is being divided between communities.
I might get to learn Python one day but I'm afraid I'd become a so-so programmer in both languages.
True, but it's a great way to learn how to ride unicycle backwards.
Also :
git reflog
If you need "to keep track of what was done by who", you can, even after a wild rebase.
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"online". It doesn't mean what you think it means. :D
It reminds me of a joke.
A tour guide in front of the pyramid of Gizah : This pyramid is 4507.5 years old.
A tourist : Wow! Which dating methodology did you use to achieve such a precision?
Tour guide : It's quite simple actually. I got this job in summer 2005, and it was 4500 years old at that time.
Sorry, what?
In the OSS world, 1.0 should come after so many alphas/betas/release candidates that it should work perfectly everywhere.
There are many good and very usable projects that are less than 0.3
If it's not ready at all, call it a 0.0.1b or something.
I treat present Ubuntu as a bad fork of old Ubuntu.
Linux Mint is the master branch of good old Ubuntu.
What about the system efficiency?
"Look!
You only need 20kWh of electricity, 1m**3 of water, 2m**2 of land and 3 liters of fertilizer to get 1 liter of biofuel.
We will revolutionize the world in 10 years!"
People complain all the time about low efficiency of PV Panels, but they're still 5 times better than photosynthesis.
Not so fast...
Peak oil and climate change might change a thing or two in our society.
It will probably be more useful to know how to grow potatoes than to have a PhD.
The way I understand it, yes.
12 stops dynamic range on a 12-bit RAW would mean that the darkest stop would get only 1 level while the brightest stop would get 2**11 levels.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/expose-right.shtml
Don't ask me why the Nikon D90 gets 12.5 stops on DXOMark even though it shoots 12-bit RAW.
Either they're high, they have a different definition of DR or it involves weird non-linear conversions.
Yes. Lightroom shows you in real time when you begin to lose information due to clipping in any of the 3 channels.
Other programs (or your in camera histogram) might only complain when all 3 channels are clipping.
White balance isn't subjective : A gray card should be gray. :D
But it's totally true that there are a lot of possible variations, and that playing with the orange/blue slider gives you a lot of creative flexibility.
It also comes from the fact that your eyes and brain do a very good job at understanding that a gray card is gray even if it appears orange, green or blue.
I mostly agree with what you said, but the question was specifically for a well-exposed picture with correct WB.
In this case, you don't need much processing (if at all), and RAW doesn't give you much advantage.
Care to mention which countries?
I lived in many different "first world countries", and I can assure you there are many examples of weird justice decisions everywhere.
Short answer : No
Longer answer : It depends on the light, the sensor, the image processor in camera and your RAW workflow.
From personal experience, I'd say that Canon JPGs are pretty good out of camera, Nikon JPGs lack a bit of sharpening, and Fuji X sensors have very good JPGs that are still impossible to match with RAW+Lightroom.
I use RAW as a safety net during events or weddings, so that if I get a picture with good expression, focus and composition but wrong exposure or WB, I can still save it and print it instead of having to delete it.
RAW is also interesting for scenes with high dynamic range, such as landscapes or concert.
I think it has more to do with dynamic range than with bit-depth. Just find a contrasty scene, take a RAW picture and try to retain details in both shadows and highlights with your RAW conversion software.
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/Digital_Imaging/dynamic_range_01.htm
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/Digital_Imaging/tonal_range_01.htm
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Skating, smoking weed & playing video games is evil and dangerous, but
smoking cigarettes, owning guns & drinking and driving is cool, safe and "classic".
Freaking idiots!
Pro-tip : Light is also heat. :D