Even if they used a cheap old DSLR it would still stomp on phone camera+zoom attachment. I picked up a cheap long discontinued consumer super zoom lens (tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3) as a beater lens and went and decided to play with it on my old DLSR this past weekend and image quality wise it is much closer to the high end camera shot than to the iPhone+zoom attachment shot. That camera was an entry level DSLR 10 years ago and I paid about $100 for the body last year and paid $60 for the cheap consumer super zoom lens last week. While a bit on the soft side it isn't anywhere as out of focus as the cell phone+zoom attachment. It also doesn't have the chromatic aberrations that abound in that cellphone shot.
For schools like these it basically means you are dirt poor. I'm actually surprised Rice didn't already have a program like this as so many other schools like them do.
Rice is a private institution so not socialist because it isn't the government. If you are dirt poor they are using their money to cover your tuition. Lots of elite schools do this, hell one of my cousins got into to Brandeis University's economics program and didn't pay a dime for tuition with his parents being a teacher and a physical therapist. What you fail to understand is that elite schools want the best and brightest to graduate from their school even if they are poor. This means that the degrees for the rich fucks who can't find their ass with both hands who also graduate from there are respected.
There are clip on mounts and lenses that can turn a phone into a microscope or a telescopic camera.
And those suck but they are better than nothing. While this is a bit absurd, they didn't have to take a flagship pro camera for the test, it does show the difference in quality and should properly set expectations of those add on lenses for cellphones. My advice is to view them like most pro photographers view telephoto converters, most are crap, a few aren't bad, but they are all better than nothing when you really need the extra reach.
For most people the cellphone camera is more camera than they will ever need. Their ability as a photographer will never outstrip the camera's ability to capture the image. Also there is a big difference between image quality (measurable attributes like pixel count, pixel density, noise, sharpness, how it handles bokeh, etc) and picture quality (subjective items like framing, subject matter, etc). Any camera is capable of capturing a good picture in most cases as that is mostly operator dependent. However the pissing contests over cameras that most people get into is all over image quality not ability to capture the picture they want. For that I would be willing to put my entry level 10 year old DSLR with kit lens, APS-C 10MP CCD sensor, and max ISO of 3200 up against current cell phone cameras and it would beat most and be a very strong competitor to the best. Let me stick my best glass on it and it will crush them. This ignores my one generation back flagship pro level digital or my ancient all manual but high end film body, both of which again would crush any cellphone. There are just hard physical limits that you very quickly run into with tiny sensors.
I believe with MtG the breakdown per pack is 1 rare (1:8 chance of it being mythic rare) 3 uncommons, 10 commons, 1 basic land with 1:4 packs containing a foil card of any rarity that replaces one of the commons.
Not as expensive as one would think. NGK makes containerizedsoidum-sulfur batteries that are great for grid level storage and have been available for close to 20 years now. I would expect that such things will be deployed at sub stations eventually as rooftop solar becomes more widespread as they will help with load leveling and grid stability as more intermittent renewables are added.
From what I read of it, it is fairly long, it seems like it is pretty good. Then again there are a number of change these words to these other words in existing law which is usually where things go sideways. In the senate it looks like 16 democrats and 1 independent also voted for it. In the house it looks like 33 democrats voted for it too. So while not a strongly bipartisian bill it seems like there is support from both sides and from what little reporting on I have seen seems to indicate that it did roll back some of the Dodd-Frank regulations so that may be why there wasn't as strong of democrat support. Then again I don't really know if those roll backs were good or bad as I just don't have enough knowledge in that area.
Too bad neither of my state senators voted for it but then one really can't expect much out of Amy Klobuchar. At least my Representative in the House voted for it.
Looks like I may have some things to get setup in a couple of weeks when things go into effect on Sept 21.
You realize that this means that speaking in a language that they don't know (or have a convenient translator for) would be illegal under this law... since they don't have any backdoor way to know what is being said.
These large wild fires happen several times a year. I believe there are 3 major ones now in CA and several smaller ones. That 31 square miles is tiny, there is a WMA not far from my lake property it is about 67 square miles and gets regular controlled burns. Even the large county park near me has started doing controlled burns over its 4 square mile area. They ran some big brush hogs through the woods several years ago and have been having controlled burns since in the woods and as part of an ongoing prairie restoration project.
That $20 Timex is the better time keeper with its quartz movement over the mechanical movement of the Rollex. If going for mechanical movement watches there are plenty of better options than Rollex. People buy a Rollex to show off a Rollex.
I wouldn't be putting any hope in the TSA being effective given their past performance of a 95% miss rate. Hell I've had a coat with a hand full of shotgun shells make it through their x-ray machine without issue. They were put in the inner pocket of the coat when done hunting and forgotten about so it isn't like I put any deliberate effort into concealing them. That said if I bring my old SLR and lens I get to spend an extra 15 minutes answering questions from the dumbest people on the planet.
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Even if they used a cheap old DSLR it would still stomp on phone camera+zoom attachment. I picked up a cheap long discontinued consumer super zoom lens (tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3) as a beater lens and went and decided to play with it on my old DLSR this past weekend and image quality wise it is much closer to the high end camera shot than to the iPhone+zoom attachment shot. That camera was an entry level DSLR 10 years ago and I paid about $100 for the body last year and paid $60 for the cheap consumer super zoom lens last week. While a bit on the soft side it isn't anywhere as out of focus as the cell phone+zoom attachment. It also doesn't have the chromatic aberrations that abound in that cellphone shot.
For schools like these it basically means you are dirt poor. I'm actually surprised Rice didn't already have a program like this as so many other schools like them do.
Rice is a private institution so not socialist because it isn't the government. If you are dirt poor they are using their money to cover your tuition. Lots of elite schools do this, hell one of my cousins got into to Brandeis University's economics program and didn't pay a dime for tuition with his parents being a teacher and a physical therapist. What you fail to understand is that elite schools want the best and brightest to graduate from their school even if they are poor. This means that the degrees for the rich fucks who can't find their ass with both hands who also graduate from there are respected.
Or a 110. There was one good 110 camera but it was still limited by the tiny 110 format film. I now wonder if I can find some 110 film locally.
There are clip on mounts and lenses that can turn a phone into a microscope or a telescopic camera.
And those suck but they are better than nothing. While this is a bit absurd, they didn't have to take a flagship pro camera for the test, it does show the difference in quality and should properly set expectations of those add on lenses for cellphones. My advice is to view them like most pro photographers view telephoto converters, most are crap, a few aren't bad, but they are all better than nothing when you really need the extra reach.
For most people the cellphone camera is more camera than they will ever need. Their ability as a photographer will never outstrip the camera's ability to capture the image. Also there is a big difference between image quality (measurable attributes like pixel count, pixel density, noise, sharpness, how it handles bokeh, etc) and picture quality (subjective items like framing, subject matter, etc). Any camera is capable of capturing a good picture in most cases as that is mostly operator dependent. However the pissing contests over cameras that most people get into is all over image quality not ability to capture the picture they want. For that I would be willing to put my entry level 10 year old DSLR with kit lens, APS-C 10MP CCD sensor, and max ISO of 3200 up against current cell phone cameras and it would beat most and be a very strong competitor to the best. Let me stick my best glass on it and it will crush them. This ignores my one generation back flagship pro level digital or my ancient all manual but high end film body, both of which again would crush any cellphone. There are just hard physical limits that you very quickly run into with tiny sensors.
I believe that is pinterest.
I believe with MtG the breakdown per pack is 1 rare (1:8 chance of it being mythic rare) 3 uncommons, 10 commons, 1 basic land with 1:4 packs containing a foil card of any rarity that replaces one of the commons.
Not as expensive as one would think. NGK makes containerized soidum-sulfur batteries that are great for grid level storage and have been available for close to 20 years now. I would expect that such things will be deployed at sub stations eventually as rooftop solar becomes more widespread as they will help with load leveling and grid stability as more intermittent renewables are added.
How many times I've heard that damn crab crone "kiss the girl.?" Thank god I drew the line at a teletubby disk collection.
Have you considered investing in one of these?
From what I read of it, it is fairly long, it seems like it is pretty good. Then again there are a number of change these words to these other words in existing law which is usually where things go sideways. In the senate it looks like 16 democrats and 1 independent also voted for it. In the house it looks like 33 democrats voted for it too. So while not a strongly bipartisian bill it seems like there is support from both sides and from what little reporting on I have seen seems to indicate that it did roll back some of the Dodd-Frank regulations so that may be why there wasn't as strong of democrat support. Then again I don't really know if those roll backs were good or bad as I just don't have enough knowledge in that area.
Too bad neither of my state senators voted for it but then one really can't expect much out of Amy Klobuchar. At least my Representative in the House voted for it.
Looks like I may have some things to get setup in a couple of weeks when things go into effect on Sept 21.
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I'd like to see Bill Gates dead
Those ensure you go straight to GITMO.
I have never felt a greater need to put some of these stickers on things in my life. For those afraid to click it is a Hello Kitty Punisher sticker.
I was going for a funny but apparently got a woosh.
You realize that this means that speaking in a language that they don't know (or have a convenient translator for) would be illegal under this law... since they don't have any backdoor way to know what is being said.
You mean Welsh, right?
These large wild fires happen several times a year. I believe there are 3 major ones now in CA and several smaller ones. That 31 square miles is tiny, there is a WMA not far from my lake property it is about 67 square miles and gets regular controlled burns. Even the large county park near me has started doing controlled burns over its 4 square mile area. They ran some big brush hogs through the woods several years ago and have been having controlled burns since in the woods and as part of an ongoing prairie restoration project.
That $20 Timex is the better time keeper with its quartz movement over the mechanical movement of the Rollex. If going for mechanical movement watches there are plenty of better options than Rollex. People buy a Rollex to show off a Rollex.
That is just crazy logical talk. How dare you have a well reasoned rational thought.
I thought the assault weapon of the day back then was the Kentucky Long rifle, not those silly smooth bore muskets the British used.
I wouldn't be putting any hope in the TSA being effective given their past performance of a 95% miss rate. Hell I've had a coat with a hand full of shotgun shells make it through their x-ray machine without issue. They were put in the inner pocket of the coat when done hunting and forgotten about so it isn't like I put any deliberate effort into concealing them. That said if I bring my old SLR and lens I get to spend an extra 15 minutes answering questions from the dumbest people on the planet.
I don't think the timecube guy was ever on slashdot.
They were still ahead of Pentax which didn't have a FF digital until a couple years back, yes I do mean 2 years ago.