So instead of making the books cheaper so that more are sold... we try like hell to keep it at status quo so we can increase profits...
at 70% royalties and ebooks selling at the same price as dead tree editions... I feel far less guilt getting the cracked epub off of a torrent site..of dead tree books I own...
I'm certain that in 5 years we will have affordable (read that as $5500.00) 60mp medium format digitals.
Outside of older used gear medium format has been an expensive hobby. but I see the speed that digital is going and I can see a real medium format digital camera entering at a really reasonable price within 5 years.
A low end DSLR can beat 35mm film today. high end dslr's utterly kicks the crud out of 35mm in resolution.
The getting old Canon 5d Mark II is 21.5 megapixels which is 1.5 megapixels greater than the absolute best 35mm film+best camera+best lens can do. Honestly 90% of all 35mm film shots are less than 12megapixel in resolution due to low end glass and cameras as well as being processed less than perfect. And that's just the mid level stuff from Canon. high end digitals that reach the 60 megapixel mark utterly destroy 35mm film even when used with the best of everything.
Get a better digital. The Fuji pro cameras produce Incredible color. I prefer the photos take on my S5 pro outperform in color my Canon D5. But a friends Hassleblad H4D-60 while sold as a "medium format" Digital it really is not I call it a larger than full frame insane resolution camera... But it produces photos that have a dramatic dynamic range and color range that cant be touched...
I wish I had his budget, but I dont like wedding photography let alone rich people wedding photography so I dont get paid $9K per weekend like he does.
Until medium format Digital becomes more sane and really up's the resolution... film ain't going nowhere.
Even low end DSLR's like the T2i now have better resolution than 35mm film. (yes they do, I shoot both and that camera even kicks the hell out of 50ISO slide film for resolution.) As I have seen myself by scanning negatives and slides taken by really expensive cameras and glass.. Current cheap digitals exceed 35mm film.
but medium format is another matter.. 70mm is astounding still and I have yet to see any medium format digital get anywhere near what a cheap 1960's used camera can deliver. I have an old 220 that is 10 years older than I am and it produces insane photographs.
I look forward to the day when I can get a decent medium format digital...
""All this is going to be discarded," McCurry said of the processing equipment for Kodachrome,"... so it's just a piece of history. It's nostalgic. It's kind of sad. I have about 800,000 Kodachrome images in my lab and these will be the last.""
That same equipment can be used to process other 35mm film. discarding it instead of selling it or giving it to a person or company that can use it is purely dumb.
Film is not gone, there are several places still making 35mm film. and a lot of places still processing it.
Pandigital Novel - Best of them all as it runs Android 2.0
Archos 7 -- utter and COMPLETE garbage... Hardware was designed by a insane idiot that was being hit in the head with a hammer while being designed.
Archos 5 -- Better than the 7 but still complete crap.
Matricom tablet - Can we put a slower processor in there as well as not let it sleep?
Camangi Webstation -- Just plain old junk.
E-Lectio M5 This one crashed on a regular basis. it also would turn its self on for no reason at random times.
Several of the china UMPC tablets ranging from $99.00 to $199.00 many are copies of each other.
I suggest you actually look to see what is out there.. Most of them are complete junk because of really low grade hardware, bad design or simply idiots at the wheel during design phase.
I have tried at LEAST 15 different Android tablets and all of them are garbage hardware that is too slow to run even Android 1.5... how are they going to make an even cheaper tablet that will actually have battery life and run a GUI?
$35.00 = 200mhz processor and almost no ram and storage plus B&W screen.
If the biggest electronics makers cant make a $199.00 tablet with a free GUI/OS called android work well, how the hell do they think they can do it in less than 25%?
I'm trying to install MARKET apps. the free ones that for some reason the app makers dont want to bother with putting the apk on their websites for those of us with non blessed phones....
I did my research, Unless you got a way to get the market on a rooted phone or device and make it work without alerting google. That would start to walk onto the illegal side of things.. I want open, and that means gimmie the free apps that are ONLY available on the market.
Many of the free app makers utterly ignore those of us that dont have access to the Market.. That is my gripe.
Except for that silly thing of signing the Rom file so it will install in the phone.... even getting 99.9999987% is worthless if you cant install it on the phone.
Except for those of us that have non "blessed" android devices that dont have the store. trying to install the free store apps is a major pain in the arse searching bittorrent sites to get apk files that should be openly available...
Many of these public kiosks would be in airports, most people use airports to fly to countries other than their native one...
Friends in germany, Great Britian and italy would disagree with you. Most of europe either drives or takes the train. Why fly when it's less than a 1 hour drive to the next country.
Let's hope it's a whole lot better than the current offering... which means that cellphone companies get regulated and forced to deliver real bandwidth....
My 4G speeds are as bad as my 3G... Yeah I have a huge amount of download speed, but upload is so throttled that it's barely faster than a 56K modem.
dell pc comes with - 3 buckets of crapware, to bags of trialware, and 1 spoon of real apps MS Works...
Everything else is junk from the Mcaffee internet panic attack to the MS office 30 day nag trial to all the games that are nothing more than junk to get the machine full of ad's.
A OSX machine, even the lowest mac mini comes with a music editor, video editor, DVD video authoring app, Photo manager and basic editor, Backup solution and media organizer. None are cripple ware or 30 day trials... thay all are full retail versions.
The windows guys really want you to ignore that fact.
I had a paper copy of the onion, with ONION printed in bold on the top for the cover story that Congress makes a law banning Metallica. I placed it on a metallica fan's desk here at work and he went ape crazy for an hour until someone told him to read all of the paper carefully.
I love my subscription to the Onion... it works great for screwing with people...
Incorrect. It's firmware, meaning it's software in a FLASH or EEPROM on rare occasions. That means it can be re-written by applications that know how to talk to it. Writing to a FLASH is not hard or a secret, in fact I wrote a self destruct years ago to screw with a kid that kept trying to break into our dial up server. It was called "Router Passwords.exe" and it simply tried to write FF FF FF to the beginning of the Bios flash chip for several different common motherboards.
it worked, the kid never tried to connect again after he downloaded that bomb.
If it was a ROM, my trick would not work as you can not update or write to ROM's.
Sounds great. You going to smile and say thank you when your next PC costs you $3500.00 for the base model?
Cost of manufacture in the USA is well over 20X higher than in china. Wages alone make up a huge difference along with environmental laws that are hostile to business because they wont let them dump just anywhere..
All this stuff is made in china because you want $899.00 laptops. Bring it all back to the USA and you will be looking at $1300.00 netbooks and $3200.00 low end laptops. And that gamer grade high end PC will make a 8 core Mac pro with a full 16 gig of apple ram look cheap.
Made in america = far higher price. Yet most of the people that claim they only buy "american made" wont pay the american made prices.
This is not like the olden days when server hardware was high end and robust. Dell and many other servers are now glorified workstation hardware for server use. The poweredge R410 is a low end 1U rack server. The motherboard is not much different than the Workstation grade stuff.
The sad part.. Everyone is gung ho on making flat panel 3d with shutter glasses. yet nobody has a 3d projector that uses polarizers so you can use lighter and cheaper glasses.
for the price of these 42" plasmas and a set of 4 glasses I can set up a 109" dual projector and stewart screen, and have 90 pairs of glasses plus not have the problems with the shutter system.
Player 1 sees frame 1 NOT in 3d. Player 2 sees frame 2 NOT in 3d Player 3 sees frame 3 NOT in 3d Player 4 sees frame 4 NOT in 3d.
Why? so all 4 players get the full screen for playing. eliminates the tiny square in the corner effect and makes the game a lot more fun for multi player.
also it eliminates the douchebaggery of friends that look at the other windows to see where you are.
3d is worthless, give us real advances in gaming.
this also could be used for regular TV. I watch Show 1, the wife can watch Show 2 with headphones on.
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So instead of making the books cheaper so that more are sold... we try like hell to keep it at status quo so we can increase profits...
at 70% royalties and ebooks selling at the same price as dead tree editions... I feel far less guilt getting the cracked epub off of a torrent site..of dead tree books I own...
The authors are getting as bad as the publishers.
I'm certain that in 5 years we will have affordable (read that as $5500.00) 60mp medium format digitals.
Outside of older used gear medium format has been an expensive hobby. but I see the speed that digital is going and I can see a real medium format digital camera entering at a really reasonable price within 5 years.
A low end DSLR can beat 35mm film today. high end dslr's utterly kicks the crud out of 35mm in resolution.
The getting old Canon 5d Mark II is 21.5 megapixels which is 1.5 megapixels greater than the absolute best 35mm film+best camera+best lens can do. Honestly 90% of all 35mm film shots are less than 12megapixel in resolution due to low end glass and cameras as well as being processed less than perfect. And that's just the mid level stuff from Canon. high end digitals that reach the 60 megapixel mark utterly destroy 35mm film even when used with the best of everything.
Get a better digital. The Fuji pro cameras produce Incredible color. I prefer the photos take on my S5 pro outperform in color my Canon D5. But a friends Hassleblad H4D-60 while sold as a "medium format" Digital it really is not I call it a larger than full frame insane resolution camera... But it produces photos that have a dramatic dynamic range and color range that cant be touched...
I wish I had his budget, but I dont like wedding photography let alone rich people wedding photography so I dont get paid $9K per weekend like he does.
Until medium format Digital becomes more sane and really up's the resolution... film ain't going nowhere.
Even low end DSLR's like the T2i now have better resolution than 35mm film. (yes they do, I shoot both and that camera even kicks the hell out of 50ISO slide film for resolution.) As I have seen myself by scanning negatives and slides taken by really expensive cameras and glass.. Current cheap digitals exceed 35mm film.
but medium format is another matter.. 70mm is astounding still and I have yet to see any medium format digital get anywhere near what a cheap 1960's used camera can deliver. I have an old 220 that is 10 years older than I am and it produces insane photographs.
I look forward to the day when I can get a decent medium format digital...
""All this is going to be discarded," McCurry said of the processing equipment for Kodachrome,"... so it's just a piece of history. It's nostalgic. It's kind of sad. I have about 800,000 Kodachrome images in my lab and these will be the last.""
That same equipment can be used to process other 35mm film. discarding it instead of selling it or giving it to a person or company that can use it is purely dumb.
Film is not gone, there are several places still making 35mm film. and a lot of places still processing it.
Pandigital Novel - Best of them all as it runs Android 2.0
Archos 7 -- utter and COMPLETE garbage... Hardware was designed by a insane idiot that was being hit in the head with a hammer while being designed.
Archos 5 -- Better than the 7 but still complete crap.
Matricom tablet - Can we put a slower processor in there as well as not let it sleep?
Camangi Webstation -- Just plain old junk.
E-Lectio M5 This one crashed on a regular basis. it also would turn its self on for no reason at random times.
Several of the china UMPC tablets ranging from $99.00 to $199.00 many are copies of each other.
I suggest you actually look to see what is out there.. Most of them are complete junk because of really low grade hardware, bad design or simply idiots at the wheel during design phase.
I have tried at LEAST 15 different Android tablets and all of them are garbage hardware that is too slow to run even Android 1.5... how are they going to make an even cheaper tablet that will actually have battery life and run a GUI?
$35.00 = 200mhz processor and almost no ram and storage plus B&W screen.
If the biggest electronics makers cant make a $199.00 tablet with a free GUI/OS called android work well, how the hell do they think they can do it in less than 25%?
WTF are you talking about...
I'm trying to install MARKET apps. the free ones that for some reason the app makers dont want to bother with putting the apk on their websites for those of us with non blessed phones....
I did my research, Unless you got a way to get the market on a rooted phone or device and make it work without alerting google. That would start to walk onto the illegal side of things.. I want open, and that means gimmie the free apps that are ONLY available on the market.
Many of the free app makers utterly ignore those of us that dont have access to the Market.. That is my gripe.
HTC makes a lot of phones, or are you trying to make up something that is not factual?
HTC does not ONLY make android phones, they make a metric crapload of phone models.. Just like Nokia does.
Oh and MOST of their sales are outside the USA.
Except for that silly thing of signing the Rom file so it will install in the phone.... even getting 99.9999987% is worthless if you cant install it on the phone.
Except for those of us that have non "blessed" android devices that dont have the store. trying to install the free store apps is a major pain in the arse searching bittorrent sites to get apk files that should be openly available...
Amen... Android on the phone you buy is as open as IOS4..
the ONLY open android phone made was the one sold by google. all the rest are simply red headed ginger step children that secretly hate you.
If you grab the source files for many of their blender movies, you can get most of what you need pre designed and pre textured.
Many of these public kiosks would be in airports, most people use airports to fly to countries other than their native one...
Friends in germany, Great Britian and italy would disagree with you. Most of europe either drives or takes the train. Why fly when it's less than a 1 hour drive to the next country.
Let's hope it's a whole lot better than the current offering... which means that cellphone companies get regulated and forced to deliver real bandwidth....
My 4G speeds are as bad as my 3G... Yeah I have a huge amount of download speed, but upload is so throttled that it's barely faster than a 56K modem.
Honestly...
I would characterize the man as "odd" or "very wierd"... Smug would be too loose of a term to describe it.
I have met the man, he is a wierd bird. But then insane amounts of money tend to do that to you.
Major insightful..
dell pc comes with - 3 buckets of crapware, to bags of trialware, and 1 spoon of real apps MS Works...
Everything else is junk from the Mcaffee internet panic attack to the MS office 30 day nag trial to all the games that are nothing more than junk to get the machine full of ad's.
A OSX machine, even the lowest mac mini comes with a music editor, video editor, DVD video authoring app, Photo manager and basic editor, Backup solution and media organizer. None are cripple ware or 30 day trials... thay all are full retail versions.
The windows guys really want you to ignore that fact.
I had a paper copy of the onion, with ONION printed in bold on the top for the cover story that Congress makes a law banning Metallica. I placed it on a metallica fan's desk here at work and he went ape crazy for an hour until someone told him to read all of the paper carefully.
I love my subscription to the Onion... it works great for screwing with people...
Incorrect. It's firmware, meaning it's software in a FLASH or EEPROM on rare occasions. That means it can be re-written by applications that know how to talk to it. Writing to a FLASH is not hard or a secret, in fact I wrote a self destruct years ago to screw with a kid that kept trying to break into our dial up server. It was called "Router Passwords.exe" and it simply tried to write FF FF FF to the beginning of the Bios flash chip for several different common motherboards.
it worked, the kid never tried to connect again after he downloaded that bomb.
If it was a ROM, my trick would not work as you can not update or write to ROM's.
Sounds great. You going to smile and say thank you when your next PC costs you $3500.00 for the base model?
Cost of manufacture in the USA is well over 20X higher than in china. Wages alone make up a huge difference along with environmental laws that are hostile to business because they wont let them dump just anywhere..
All this stuff is made in china because you want $899.00 laptops. Bring it all back to the USA and you will be looking at $1300.00 netbooks and $3200.00 low end laptops. And that gamer grade high end PC will make a 8 core Mac pro with a full 16 gig of apple ram look cheap.
Made in america = far higher price. Yet most of the people that claim they only buy "american made" wont pay the american made prices.
This is not like the olden days when server hardware was high end and robust. Dell and many other servers are now glorified workstation hardware for server use. The poweredge R410 is a low end 1U rack server. The motherboard is not much different than the Workstation grade stuff.
The sad part.. Everyone is gung ho on making flat panel 3d with shutter glasses. yet nobody has a 3d projector that uses polarizers so you can use lighter and cheaper glasses.
for the price of these 42" plasmas and a set of 4 glasses I can set up a 109" dual projector and stewart screen, and have 90 pairs of glasses plus not have the problems with the shutter system.
Why not something innovative like...
Player 1 sees frame 1 NOT in 3d.
Player 2 sees frame 2 NOT in 3d
Player 3 sees frame 3 NOT in 3d
Player 4 sees frame 4 NOT in 3d.
Why? so all 4 players get the full screen for playing. eliminates the tiny square in the corner effect and makes the game a lot more fun for multi player.
also it eliminates the douchebaggery of friends that look at the other windows to see where you are.
3d is worthless, give us real advances in gaming.
this also could be used for regular TV. I watch Show 1, the wife can watch Show 2 with headphones on.
The Libel TERRORISM bill that will allow us to kidnap and torture any foreign journalist we don't like.
I kid you not, some of the ugly bags of meat on capitol hill actually think this is a good idea...