It's more the case of the word 'liberal' having different meaning in the rest of the world than in the USA.
I would consider myself a liberal in the sense that I support low taxes, market driven economics, and personal liberty free from governmental interference.
However, in the US, the world liberalism has sadly become synanymous with the left-wing.
It's more the case of cars and gas being taxed a great deal more in Europe than in United States and therefor extremely expensive. In my country we pay $5 per gallon of gas. A basic VW Golf costs $25,000. Pretty expensive, eh?
Admittedly, my country is one of the most expensive (the most expensive?) in Europe but you still get the picture.
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Yeah, I agree with you. And it should preferably have a monachrome sensor so no light would be wasted. Losing the Bayer RGBG would yield at least a whole stop or even two and the resulting image would be much sharper. Usable ISO1600 on a small digicam with fast lens (say f/1.4) would be terrific!
The thing about rich people is that they, like everyone else, look after their own interests. So, while they are harder to bribe, they are more inclined to vote for laws that happen to be beneficiary for themselves.
A rich politician is therefor more likely to be for tax cuts, limited services, etc.
I'm not saying that rich politicians don't do as their conscience tells them, just that it is a bit more difficult than otherwise.
Just think about it; would you really want Congress to be composed entirely of very rich people?
It depends, sometimes 2.35 and 1.85 films use a special anamorphic lens which compresses the whole image so it fits within the usual 1.33 24mm by 18mm frame but some directors don't like anamorphic lenses so they instead mask the film during shooting or afterwards. James Cameron usually uses the latter process and shoots on Super 35.
Small CCDs; anything used on medium format backs and smaller. The largest CCDs used in digital cameras never go beyond 16bits and few actually go beyond 14 bits.
The sensor size in digital backs is normally between 24x36mm and 48x36mm, not 6"x4". The backs with the 36x36mm 16MP Kodak sensor cost between $10.000 and $20.000.
Scanning backs can be larger but they can't, of course, be used for moving subjects.
Beagle 2 simply had a small painting with known color values bolted in front of the camera to be used for calibration. I guess NASA does something similar.
"Assuming the 7MB image is the raw output of the CCD, that gives 56 bits per pixel brightness. That is, each grayscale bit has 56 bits worth of information.
Not that I'm saying that's what is actually going on, just that you shouldn't expect a multi-million dollar camera to stick with 8-bits per pixel. In order to get as much information as possible (including being able to use various filters to their full effect) you would want as many bits per pixel as possible. Probably one reason the CCD elements on the camera are bigger than consumer models - more light, more differentiation between different states, and more information gained."
Duh, the maximum bit depths one would ever use would be 16bits per pixel. An ADC that could output 56bits would be too expensive and absolutely useless as the signal to noise ratio on small CCDs is just too low for an ADC of better resolution than 16bits to be of any use. You'd not gain any more signal - just more noise.
More than one item (*cough*xbox*cough*) in your list may be a loss leader, or just seem to act like one."
Microsoft may have plenty of products on which they lose money but those products still generate revenues. They do however decrease the profits of the company. I don't think there is such a thing as negative revenue.
There is no way to manufacture a computer with PIII processor, Nvidia chipset, 64MB memory, 8 GB hard drive, DVD-ROM drive etc. for only $170 (the wholesale price).
The PIII processor and the Nvidia chipset would cost between $80-$100 combined and then you would have to add all the other components, hard drive for $30-$40, DVD-ROM for $20 and so on. When you have added the cost of manufacturing the X-box itself you are probably looking at cost of $250 to manufacture each X-box.
As the AC noted there have already been several screenings of LotR in Iceland. Most of those screenings have been semi closed (eg. one needed to take part in some contest to get tickets) but there was also one public screening on December 10th (that is, anyone could buy tickets). I believe this was the first ever public screening of the movie in the world - and I was there:)
In total, I guess around 1% of the Icelandic population saw the movie between 10th and 12th December - that is before Harry Knowles got to see it:)
No, we don't see the fellowship equipping in Rivendell (though we do get to see when Bilbo gives Frodo his armor) and there is no scene in the movie involving the cloaks. However, I hear that the scene where the Fellowship is given their cloaks will be included on the DVD.
Actually, I did find the ending to be quite good (yes, I've seen the movie). The ending is very similar to the one in the book but some material from the beginning of the Two Towers has been moved to the first movie. The ending is still a bit of a non ending but I found it to be done most tastefully. My friend, who hasn't read the books, found the ending to be a very much of a cliffhanger and he couldn't wait to find out what would happen next.
Not true. The SP/DIF can actually degrade the digital sound signal [by causing jitter] . If you want to know more about this please read the following two articles on the subject.
Btw.: Many [most?] sound cards use 48khz as an internal sample rate and upsample any sound signal that has a lower frequency. A 44.1khz CD track would therefor be upsampled to 48khz if input via the SP/DIF connector on the sound card. This, of course, degrades the sound signal somewhat.
This AntiBasic is making some serious and dubious allegations against Mr. Podesta. He does this without giving us a single reference or link to support his claims.
And yet, this post has a score of 5, and is rated as informative! You people have a strange idea of what is "information".
Please think twice before moderating dubious posts in the future!
First we see an article where the author proclaims "MS Wants To Outlaw Open Source"
when the MS representative merely said that he worries if the government encourages
open source, and that open source is a threat to intellectual property. He didn't mention anything about outlawing anything.
Now we see just as false report about "the Belgian police arresting
Napster users" when in fact the police has only arrested people who operate
"music-sharing websites", not Napster users. The Belgian police is reviewing four cases brought
against Napster users though.
Perhaps I'm being overly critical but I don't think it would have been too
hard for Timothy and Hemos to actually read those articles before posting them on Slashdot. And could you please refrain from jumping to conclusions too soon. Sometimes I think Slashdot is turning into some kind of National Enquirer for Geeks.
I agree with you. What we need is a system akin to "put the dog to sleep".
However, I disagree with you that a corporation can be likened to a dog. A dog
is a living being. It is better for the dog to be alive than to be dead. A corporation
doesn't care if it is dead or alive. Only people care. If your dog kills a person,
the dog itself will be killed, causing both harm to you and your dog. If a corporation
gets killed, only the shareholders [and employee] care. The corporation doesn't
care as it is a soulless beast.
I would liken the dog to an employee. Under the current system, only the shareholders
are punished, the company gets sued and the stock price falls [and the corporation
may get bankrupt and die]. The "dog", the person that really caused the harm,
always gets away, unless it caused an environmental damage. If we had a "put
the dog to sleep" system, the employee [or a shareholder for that matter], be it the CEO or a
lowly factory worker, that really caused the damage would be punished by society.
Don't you think the CEO and other employees of Firestone should be punished
if they have deliberately caused tens of people to die? Or is it enough for
you to see the shareholders of Firestone and Ford lose some or all of their
money? Shouldn't someone be put to jail for manslaughter?
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I would consider myself a liberal in the sense that I support low taxes, market driven economics, and personal liberty free from governmental interference.
However, in the US, the world liberalism has sadly become synanymous with the left-wing.
Longer explanation from Wikipedia.
You seem to know a lot about the subject at hand without having even read the report, or may I guess, the NYT article.
It's more the case of cars and gas being taxed a great deal more in Europe than in United States and therefor extremely expensive. In my country we pay $5 per gallon of gas. A basic VW Golf costs $25,000. Pretty expensive, eh?
Admittedly, my country is one of the most expensive (the most expensive?) in Europe but you still get the picture.
Yeah, I agree with you. And it should preferably have a monachrome sensor so no light would be wasted. Losing the Bayer RGBG would yield at least a whole stop or even two and the resulting image would be much sharper. Usable ISO1600 on a small digicam with fast lens (say f/1.4) would be terrific!
You can still buy those CD-Rs under the Mitsui name. Kodak didn't actually manufacture their own CD-R but bought them from Mitsui.
You must be joking. A BMW M3 can go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 5.2 seconds! It will beat the hell out of a Miata.
A rich politician is therefor more likely to be for tax cuts, limited services, etc.
I'm not saying that rich politicians don't do as their conscience tells them, just that it is a bit more difficult than otherwise.
Just think about it; would you really want Congress to be composed entirely of very rich people?
It depends, sometimes 2.35 and 1.85 films use a special anamorphic lens which compresses the whole image so it fits within the usual 1.33 24mm by 18mm frame but some directors don't like anamorphic lenses so they instead mask the film during shooting or afterwards. James Cameron usually uses the latter process and shoots on Super 35.
Small CCDs; anything used on medium format backs and smaller. The largest CCDs used in digital cameras never go beyond 16bits and few actually go beyond 14 bits.
For long exposures it would have an effect. But for the exposure times I suspect NASA will be using, the effect will be minimal.
The sensor size in digital backs is normally between 24x36mm and 48x36mm, not 6"x4". The backs with the 36x36mm 16MP Kodak sensor cost between $10.000 and $20.000.
Scanning backs can be larger but they can't, of course, be used for moving subjects.
Beagle 2 simply had a small painting with known color values bolted in front of the camera to be used for calibration. I guess NASA does something similar.
"Assuming the 7MB image is the raw output of the CCD, that gives 56 bits per pixel brightness. That is, each grayscale bit has 56 bits worth of information.
Not that I'm saying that's what is actually going on, just that you shouldn't expect a multi-million dollar camera to stick with 8-bits per pixel. In order to get as much information as possible (including being able to use various filters to their full effect) you would want as many bits per pixel as possible. Probably one reason the CCD elements on the camera are bigger than consumer models - more light, more differentiation between different states, and more information gained."
Duh, the maximum bit depths one would ever use would be 16bits per pixel. An ADC that could output 56bits would be too expensive and absolutely useless as the signal to noise ratio on small CCDs is just too low for an ADC of better resolution than 16bits to be of any use. You'd not gain any more signal - just more noise.
50mm lenses are cheap because they are the easiest lenses to design. Because they are cheap they are the standard lens.
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- More than one item (*cough*xbox*cough*) in your list may be a loss leader, or just seem to act like one."
Microsoft may have plenty of products on which they lose money but those products still generate revenues. They do however decrease the profits of the company. I don't think there is such a thing as negative revenue.The PIII processor and the Nvidia chipset would cost between $80-$100 combined and then you would have to add all the other components, hard drive for $30-$40, DVD-ROM for $20 and so on. When you have added the cost of manufacturing the X-box itself you are probably looking at cost of $250 to manufacture each X-box.
As the AC noted there have already been several screenings of LotR in Iceland. Most of those screenings have been semi closed (eg. one needed to take part in some contest to get tickets) but there was also one public screening on December 10th (that is, anyone could buy tickets). I believe this was the first ever public screening of the movie in the world - and I was there :)
:)
In total, I guess around 1% of the Icelandic population saw the movie between 10th and 12th December - that is before Harry Knowles got to see it
No, we don't see the fellowship equipping in Rivendell (though we do get to see when Bilbo gives Frodo his armor) and there is no scene in the movie involving the cloaks.
However, I hear that the scene where the Fellowship is given their cloaks will be included on the DVD.
Actually, I did find the ending to be quite good (yes, I've seen the movie). The ending is very similar to the one in the book but some material from the beginning of the Two Towers has been moved to the first movie. The ending is still a bit of a non ending but I found it to be done most tastefully.
My friend, who hasn't read the books, found the ending to be a very much of a cliffhanger and he couldn't wait to find out what would happen next.
http://www.republika.pl/mparvi/digital.htm
http://www.geocities.com/jonrisch/jitter.htm
Btw.: Many [most?] sound cards use 48khz as an internal sample rate and upsample any sound signal that has a lower frequency. A 44.1khz CD track would therefor be upsampled to 48khz if input via the SP/DIF connector on the sound card. This, of course, degrades the sound signal somewhat.
And yet, this post has a score of 5, and is rated as informative! You people have a strange idea of what is "information".
Please think twice before moderating dubious posts in the future!
Now we see just as false report about "the Belgian police arresting Napster users" when in fact the police has only arrested people who operate "music-sharing websites", not Napster users. The Belgian police is reviewing four cases brought against Napster users though.
Perhaps I'm being overly critical but I don't think it would have been too hard for Timothy and Hemos to actually read those articles before posting them on Slashdot. And could you please refrain from jumping to conclusions too soon. Sometimes I think Slashdot is turning into some kind of National Enquirer for Geeks.
Haha, I see you are trying to be funny too.
I suppose you know just as well as I do, that Orwell was an Englishman.
I agree with you. What we need is a system akin to "put the dog to sleep". However, I disagree with you that a corporation can be likened to a dog. A dog is a living being. It is better for the dog to be alive than to be dead. A corporation doesn't care if it is dead or alive. Only people care. If your dog kills a person, the dog itself will be killed, causing both harm to you and your dog. If a corporation gets killed, only the shareholders [and employee] care. The corporation doesn't care as it is a soulless beast.
I would liken the dog to an employee. Under the current system, only the shareholders are punished, the company gets sued and the stock price falls [and the corporation may get bankrupt and die]. The "dog", the person that really caused the harm, always gets away, unless it caused an environmental damage. If we had a "put the dog to sleep" system, the employee [or a shareholder for that matter], be it the CEO or a lowly factory worker, that really caused the damage would be punished by society. Don't you think the CEO and other employees of Firestone should be punished if they have deliberately caused tens of people to die? Or is it enough for you to see the shareholders of Firestone and Ford lose some or all of their money? Shouldn't someone be put to jail for manslaughter?
LOL! I just can't believe this comment was rated as Insightful, not as funny!!! :-)
Americans, oh, they will never understand doublespeak