Call me silly, but outside of its possible use for video storage due to its high-speed transfer, this 2GB MMC card is completely frigging DUMB when compact flash cards are already available at 4GB and soon 12GB.
OK Silly. Stop thinking "PDA", especially when the original post mentions photography. One of the bottlenecks in digital photography is the speed at which the card can be written to. In some cameras each shot can be stored both as a Jpeg and RAW image. Burst rates, which are useful for action shots/photojounalism, are effected by the slow transfer speeds.
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When it comes to these two cameras, one has a plastic body and the other metal, one will do mirror lockup and the other won't, and one has a prism for a view finder while the other uses a mirror. If you don't even take the software into account, those three physical differences are worth 500 bucks to me right there.
Hear, hear. Wish I had mod points.
As far as the disabled functionality, if you don't care about the hardware differences you likely won't care about the functions you're missing. There are some folks who are on a budget but would like to have the additional functionality, but the three hardware differences mentioned make the 10D a better camera for either a very serious hobbyist or a pro. I don't think the Rebel/D would stand up to the abuse I'd probably give it.
Cannon no doubt developed a strategy for repaying them based on selling X number of full-featured units at a high price, and Y crippled units at a low price.
I don't think that's the way it played out. More likely when the Rebel D was in development they said, "Hey, lets reuse the 10D code and just disable some of the functionality so the 10D buyers don't feel ripped off."
What I want to know is if the hack makes the Rebel body feel a little more substantial....
I'm still not following your argument here. Not trying to be dense (it's a gift) but in the previous post it was the data that degrades (the ones and zeros) and now it's the audio quality. Now, I'm willing to concede that a degradation of the data will result in a degradation of audio quality but what you haven't addressed is how the original CD knows to degrade the data (or audio) for a copy, but not for replay. That works for analog, but I don't see how it applies to digital.
Even if the studios started with a product that was degraded out of the box, subsequent digital copies should be just as good unless you can point me to some mechanism that will intelligently determine that Britney's new CD has had too many copies made (would that this intelligence were applied earlier in the production process....).
I'm not sure I'm tracking with you here. How does the data degrade? I'm assuming you're talking about the original CD and not the copy. By what mechanism does the CD have the intelligence to render progressively worse copies and yet not progressively worse replays?
This does nothing to the average "pirate". A pirate is someone who shanghai's the CD and reproduces it and its cover art and resells it for profit in large quantities.
By the way, a solution that I haven't seen mentioned yet is to perform something like a man-in-the-middle attack by hooking up another box to the unprotected signal going to the speakers.
Gramofile does essentially that without the need for a second box. Records from the signal on the sound card within the same machine.
I beg to differ. Just because there is a segment of the community that the joke doesn't apply to does not mean that there cannot be a stereotypical/. user that you can joke about. It's about the image, not the reality.
I'm having difficulty with your second assertion. Just how does the use of backspace end up being equivalent to an "All Your Base" joke? Granted he was making a "nerds don't have girlfriends" joke, but the use of the backspace in this instance says, "Why are you asking me.... Oh wait! I mean why are you asking them?" and it becomes self-deprecating humor. I believe you may have missed that since people who take themselves too seriously often don't understand that type of humor.
Once after posting about how I beat the crap out of a punk who knocked over my daughter while yapping on his cell phone, there was no end to the nasty comments about my being a bully and a criminal. I'm 6'1, BTW.
If the "punk" knocked your daughter down on purpose you may have been justified, but it sounds like the guy just wasn't watching where he was going. You committed both assault and battery because someone accidentally bumped into your daughter. That's criminal behavior according to most jurisdictions.
This has nothing to do with your height or strength, but about your actions. Who's the bully here, someone who bumps into someone smaller and knocks them down or someone who boasts that their height and strength enables them to beat the living daylights out of somebody who made a mistake and was too small or weak to keep you from pummeling them.
Hopefully your daughter won't run into somebody in the hall at school who has an older sibling with your attitude.
Teens spend money. For most teens their money is 100% available for discretionary spending. Like it or not, that's a major target market and it's foolish for the music industry to simply ignore that market. The Pop music industry focuses on teen girls for the most part. This demographic doesn't (for the most part) care about music, but about image. Pick up a copy of Seventeen or any number of periodicals targeting this market and prepare to be enlightened.
I have to confess to a certain fascination with American Idol myself, but don't kid yourself, once the public starts voting it's no longer about talent.
I haven't been able to get to the whole Crosby interview. Using two different browsers on two different machines running two different OS's and it stops at,
"They bit the poison pill, without realizing it, when they went digital."
Who said smarter? I said funny. And besides, I never mentioned what "my way" was....
I still think it's hilarious to sentence someone to an existence that is identical to the one they've likely been living for years. You've taken nothing away from them at all and simply told them to go home.
I'm not an apologist for the penal system, but you've definitely taken away far more than someone's credit score when you deprive them of contact with their friends and family (or their electronics - for those who only interact well with things that have clock cycles rather than heartbeats) and the freedom to get up and go somewhere else any time they want to. Your way (which you did present as "your way") just sends them back with zero penalty.
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Call me silly, but outside of its possible use for video storage due to its high-speed transfer, this 2GB MMC card is completely frigging DUMB when compact flash cards are already available at 4GB and soon 12GB.
OK Silly. Stop thinking "PDA", especially when the original post mentions photography. One of the bottlenecks in digital photography is the speed at which the card can be written to. In some cameras each shot can be stored both as a Jpeg and RAW image. Burst rates, which are useful for action shots/photojounalism, are effected by the slow transfer speeds.
Well, it ain't Shakespeare.
When it comes to these two cameras, one has a plastic body and the other metal, one will do mirror lockup and the other won't, and one has a prism for a view finder while the other uses a mirror. If you don't even take the software into account, those three physical differences are worth 500 bucks to me right there.
Hear, hear. Wish I had mod points.
As far as the disabled functionality, if you don't care about the hardware differences you likely won't care about the functions you're missing. There are some folks who are on a budget but would like to have the additional functionality, but the three hardware differences mentioned make the 10D a better camera for either a very serious hobbyist or a pro. I don't think the Rebel/D would stand up to the abuse I'd probably give it.
Cannon no doubt developed a strategy for repaying them based on selling X number of full-featured units at a high price, and Y crippled units at a low price.
I don't think that's the way it played out. More likely when the Rebel D was in development they said, "Hey, lets reuse the 10D code and just disable some of the functionality so the 10D buyers don't feel ripped off."
What I want to know is if the hack makes the Rebel body feel a little more substantial....
I'm still not following your argument here. Not trying to be dense (it's a gift) but in the previous post it was the data that degrades (the ones and zeros) and now it's the audio quality. Now, I'm willing to concede that a degradation of the data will result in a degradation of audio quality but what you haven't addressed is how the original CD knows to degrade the data (or audio) for a copy, but not for replay. That works for analog, but I don't see how it applies to digital.
Even if the studios started with a product that was degraded out of the box, subsequent digital copies should be just as good unless you can point me to some mechanism that will intelligently determine that Britney's new CD has had too many copies made (would that this intelligence were applied earlier in the production process....).
I'm not sure I'm tracking with you here. How does the data degrade? I'm assuming you're talking about the original CD and not the copy. By what mechanism does the CD have the intelligence to render progressively worse copies and yet not progressively worse replays?
This does nothing to the average "pirate". A pirate is someone who shanghai's the CD and reproduces it and its cover art and resells it for profit in large quantities.
Sounds like you need better equipment or need to stop going through your LP's like a blackjack dealer doles out cards.....
By the way, a solution that I haven't seen mentioned yet is to perform something like a man-in-the-middle attack by hooking up another box to the unprotected signal going to the speakers.
Gramofile does essentially that without the need for a second box. Records from the signal on the sound card within the same machine.
How will a CD know the difference between being read for replay and being read for copy?
I beg to differ. Just because there is a segment of the community that the joke doesn't apply to does not mean that there cannot be a stereotypical /. user that you can joke about. It's about the image, not the reality.
I'm having difficulty with your second assertion. Just how does the use of backspace end up being equivalent to an "All Your Base" joke? Granted he was making a "nerds don't have girlfriends" joke, but the use of the backspace in this instance says, "Why are you asking me.... Oh wait! I mean why are you asking them?" and it becomes self-deprecating humor. I believe you may have missed that since people who take themselves too seriously often don't understand that type of humor.
Once after posting about how I beat the crap out of a punk who knocked over my daughter while yapping on his cell phone, there was no end to the nasty comments about my being a bully and a criminal. I'm 6'1, BTW.
If the "punk" knocked your daughter down on purpose you may have been justified, but it sounds like the guy just wasn't watching where he was going. You committed both assault and battery because someone accidentally bumped into your daughter. That's criminal behavior according to most jurisdictions.
This has nothing to do with your height or strength, but about your actions. Who's the bully here, someone who bumps into someone smaller and knocks them down or someone who boasts that their height and strength enables them to beat the living daylights out of somebody who made a mistake and was too small or weak to keep you from pummeling them.
Hopefully your daughter won't run into somebody in the hall at school who has an older sibling with your attitude.
I guess the hotshot Navy pilots will have to stick with cutting cables of mountain trams in Italy.
Sooo close. You got the implied reference but seem to have missed the joke....
It advances the state of engineering and materials science, by testing structures that would otherwise never have been built.
Think of it as like going to the moon, with fewer scientific benefits but less waste to match.
Dude! We need to build a bridge to the moon then. Lots of up-front costs, but once it's in we could drive there anytime we want.....
So now the US Navy pilots have a slalom course in Europe. Sweet!
Let's hope that Vinci is the chintzy and fewer corners were cut on the bridge then.
And if not, look at it this way, you have a better chance of flying off their bridge than out of their airport.....
Teens spend money. For most teens their money is 100% available for discretionary spending. Like it or not, that's a major target market and it's foolish for the music industry to simply ignore that market. The Pop music industry focuses on teen girls for the most part. This demographic doesn't (for the most part) care about music, but about image. Pick up a copy of Seventeen or any number of periodicals targeting this market and prepare to be enlightened.
I have to confess to a certain fascination with American Idol myself, but don't kid yourself, once the public starts voting it's no longer about talent.
Is it? Ever tried to listen to any life performance...
Gee, and I thought Inna Gadda Da Vida was long. I don't have time to listen to a performance for life. Too many other things to do....
But do they like the music or the image?
I cannot argue with such refined discernment...
Actually, I had teetered between that response and
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Who said smarter? I said funny. And besides, I never mentioned what "my way" was....
I still think it's hilarious to sentence someone to an existence that is identical to the one they've likely been living for years. You've taken nothing away from them at all and simply told them to go home.
I'm not an apologist for the penal system, but you've definitely taken away far more than someone's credit score when you deprive them of contact with their friends and family (or their electronics - for those who only interact well with things that have clock cycles rather than heartbeats) and the freedom to get up and go somewhere else any time they want to. Your way (which you did present as "your way") just sends them back with zero penalty.
So, when Oracle's database hiccups I should remember the same thing, right?
That's funny....
Judge: "I hereby sentence you to no credit. From now on you can only use cash."
Criminal: "But judge, I already have no credit except for yours and I can steal somethin' if I want cash."