This is the second time this story has been printed (AND I LIVE IN FUCKING ST. LOUIS) and I have received NO credit for the submission. I hold my middle finger high at whatever fuckhead posted a dupe AND failed to acknowledge a local's submission!
Sure, and those filters are indeed very useful. My comments are meant to be interpreted as applicable to a camera with a lens attached and no filters. But you are right - GND filters are fantastic for landscape shots.
I wouldn't call it "color precision" so much as I'd call it "rendering the full dynamic range the human eye is capable of seeing in a single scene since 'normal' cameras and imaging/rendering/gaming software does not accurately model the response of the Mark One Eyeball"... but that's just me.
High Dynamic Range is also a useful tool in photography, especially for digital photographers who find that the useful dynamic range of a digital camera is less than that of an equivalent film camera. Multiple-exposure bracketing can be combined with the use of special processing software in order to yield images that would be difficult to obtain with a digital camera, or sometimes even a film camera.
Photoshop CS2 includes this technology out of the box (Photoshop CS2 HDR) -- in the demo page, notice that the sky is properly exposed as well as the vegetation on the hill in the foreground; this would be impossible to capture with many cameras. As the article linked by the original post states,
"HDR, or High Dynamic Range, is... designed to emulate... lighting to closely mirror the changes we see in the real world."
And indeed that's what the photographic equivalent does. Unlike a camera, our eyes can properly "expose" the ground as well as they can the sky in the same scene. In fact, this is mentioned on pages 2 and 3 of the linked article in the original post.
If you would like to try this yourself, many digital cameras have a bracketing feature. I'd suggest at least five exposures, separated by one half stop or one full stop. However, it does not work well for moving objects since there will be a short amount of time that elapses between exposures.
This particular shot was taken with a Canon EOS 1Ds MkII camera and manual bracketing, although I've made other successfull attempts with the bracketing feature of my Nikon D70.
Excuse me, but who was rude to begin with and set the tone of the interaction? Why, the jerk who bothers the recipient by barging in uninvited! Be rude to me, I return the favor. Want me to be nice to you? Be nice to me by NOT BOTHERING ME!
Because the state attorney general responsible for enforcing my state's do not call list, which I'm on in addition to the federal one, won't "forget" to fine your ass if you fail to put me on the list.
I think calling Anita Blake would be a good idea right about now. Sadly, she's probably off screwing Jean-Claude again. (Which makes me wonder how long it will be before "How Vampires Work" appears!)
I saw it when it aired, too. It was fascinating. I was in PubMed and reading the article it cites before the show even finished airing.
It's also reminiscent of how (no one knows exactly why) the gene for sickle cell anemia provides resistance to malaria, thus has yet to be expunged from the human gene pool.
Thing is, though, a "journal" that is "live" (life) is by definition a journal about someone's life. So that's the kind of content that you'd have to expect to see there. Now, while I use mine to talk about my life (which you don't seem to like... aww) I've seen some people on my friends list use theirs as actual blogs. But that's in the minority, though. Most blogs are on standalone sites (at least in my experience).
But they're all still blogs. A blog about someone's life isn't any less worthy than a product critic blog, or an aficionado blog. They just don't cater to the same audiences.
then get presented AGAIN with the registration page after typing in the bullshit registration info. Slashdot can't even avoid posting links to reg sites by including the reg info because the reg info DOESN'T FUCKING WORK!
How about something like this: it just installs and runs without needlessly demanding a disk it doesn't actually read any data from and doesn't behave as spyware by telling some nameless faceless corporation somewhere what I'm doing. Nobody but me has a right to know that I am using the software and when.
Thank you for filling my screen with the same goddamned text I scrolled past just several seconds ago. No, wait, I don't thank you at all and I don't think it's funny. My god, I thought QA sucked on the web in general but TWO FUCKING COPIES of the same story within 5 screenfulls of text?
Offtopic and deservedly so. Wish I hadn't used my last mod point in the last article or this would be even further down the drain.
What I don't understand is why they don't just get around the aggravation with the CD check by having the CD/DVD actually store stuff on it that is read while the game runs? If the disk has to be in the drive when I start an app, the app had damn well better utilize the disk to free up space on my drive (I know, big drives are cheap these days; it's the principle of it).
I do not pirate games, but if one wants that disk but doesn't make use of it, I WILL use a hack to disable the check. You want that disk in my drive at startup? Earn it, by making a real reason for it to be there, or out come the cracks. You got my money already; I'm going to shove the disk in its case in my disk rack so I can find it later and just run the damn app without having to root through disk storage every time I want to run it.
If I didn't, I'd have to juggle disks in and out of the drive a dozen times a day just to do what I usually do.
The fact that developers continue to think users should have to put up with such ridiculous crap is astounding. Just imagine the mess if EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM on our machines demanded a disk in the drive whenever it started up. You'd be paying people for an hour every day just to play freaking Optical CD Musical Chairs.
To be precise, violating the GPL makes the information more free but less Free, while violating most copyrights makes the infomation more free but equally Free. It astonishes me that we're in the 21st century and people are still confused by this.
I guess a lot of brains out there aren't formatted with a case-sensitive memory system!
Not mine! I took the dealer ad off my car. Hey dealer! Want to advertise yourself? Why aren't you sending me a check every month to pay for that little badge? You didn't pay me, so your ad went into the trash! (Plus, the car looks much better without it...)
PLoS started out there (I work at a medical school in one of the research labs) but is expanding all the time. I wouldn't be surprised if chemical journals are added in the future. It hasn't been around that long.
My dad's a chemist, too -- he does nuclear chemistry research and teaching.
I wonder if this isn't crossing the line into illegality -- this sounds an awful lot like spyware that monitors what you're doing and reports back to someone else without telling you about it. If spyware is being outlawed, why isn't this sort of thing? ("you agreed to it when installing"? People "agree" to install spyware buried in long EULAs all the time, and the law is still cracking down)...
Here in St. Louis, many suburbs are passing rules/resolutions restricting the use of eminent domain, and a city councilman was recently recalled by 70% of the voters in his district when he supported the use of ED for building a gas station ("we need the tax revenues") when there were two other stations within half a mile that were doing just fine. More people voted to recall him than voted in the election to put him in office.
Looks like politicians are finding that people want these restrictions to get peace of mind, and anyone who wants to use ED for something frivolous or unnecessary is going to get run out of town on a rail.
My own suburb hasn't passed any rules yet, but one of the ones that has is less than five miles from my house (which is a few miles from a big shopping center that was built where houses once stood, but itself isn't in an area that I can imagine being turned into more malls, fortunately).
I imagine if anyone tries anything like that here, the inhabitants will get upset -- and I live in a mildly yuppified area, so they've got money to fight it.
"Boromir heard muttering about eminent domain while eyeing Frodo oddly. Sam will vote him out of office if he tries anything."
Yes but Eminent Domain, at least in this country, requires just compensation.
Tell that to all the people forced out of homes or businesses for amounts of money that are far below what their property is assesed at when they refuse to sell for the government's ridiculously low offers. They just say "well, tough luck, we're taking it anyway and that's all you're getting, assessments be damned".
Plus, Apple is primarily in the hardware business, not software. The iTunes store exists to drive iPod sales (though I believe it now makes a profit and broke even earlier than expected; it was originally supposed to be funded by the hardware sales) and the OS makes their computer hardware appealing. So of course they won't make it generically available; they get the boost in hardware sales because of people who'd like to run the OS.
No huge conspiracy here; it all makes sense when considering that Apple wants to sell hardware and uses its software to do that. Sadly, when the thread about a DRM chip in the test Intel Macs broke, I was the first one (according to one commenter to my post) who actually took the time to explain the hardware-sales angle instead of crying conspiracy...
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This is the second time this story has been printed (AND I LIVE IN FUCKING ST. LOUIS) and I have received NO credit for the submission. I hold my middle finger high at whatever fuckhead posted a dupe AND failed to acknowledge a local's submission!
I think some other poster did, run a search on his name... I didn't because I hadn't heard of him, but I'll look at that when it isn't 3AM.
Sidenote: Your username makes me wonder if you're a VW driver. Are you?
Sure, and those filters are indeed very useful. My comments are meant to be interpreted as applicable to a camera with a lens attached and no filters. But you are right - GND filters are fantastic for landscape shots.
I wouldn't call it "color precision" so much as I'd call it "rendering the full dynamic range the human eye is capable of seeing in a single scene since 'normal' cameras and imaging/rendering/gaming software does not accurately model the response of the Mark One Eyeball" ... but that's just me.
High Dynamic Range is also a useful tool in photography, especially for digital photographers who find that the useful dynamic range of a digital camera is less than that of an equivalent film camera. Multiple-exposure bracketing can be combined with the use of special processing software in order to yield images that would be difficult to obtain with a digital camera, or sometimes even a film camera.
... designed to emulate ... lighting to closely mirror the changes we see in the real world."
Photoshop CS2 includes this technology out of the box (Photoshop CS2 HDR) -- in the demo page, notice that the sky is properly exposed as well as the vegetation on the hill in the foreground; this would be impossible to capture with many cameras. As the article linked by the original post states,
"HDR, or High Dynamic Range, is
And indeed that's what the photographic equivalent does. Unlike a camera, our eyes can properly "expose" the ground as well as they can the sky in the same scene. In fact, this is mentioned on pages 2 and 3 of the linked article in the original post.
More:
HDR - High Dynamic Range Compression - a Photoshop plugin
The Future of Digital Imaging - High Dynamic Range Photography (HDR)
Aizu University's Atrium High Dynamic Range Source Images
High dynamic range imaging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stitched HDRI
If you would like to try this yourself, many digital cameras have a bracketing feature. I'd suggest at least five exposures, separated by one half stop or one full stop. However, it does not work well for moving objects since there will be a short amount of time that elapses between exposures.
Here is my first attempt:
High Dynamic Range Candy Corn
This particular shot was taken with a Canon EOS 1Ds MkII camera and manual bracketing, although I've made other successfull attempts with the bracketing feature of my Nikon D70.
Excuse me, but who was rude to begin with and set the tone of the interaction? Why, the jerk who bothers the recipient by barging in uninvited! Be rude to me, I return the favor. Want me to be nice to you? Be nice to me by NOT BOTHERING ME!
(It is also ironic that the US flag is under the Slashdot whilst talking about Australia. We are after all the 53rd state (after the UK and Canada).)
Amused point taken, though in reality I think it's just the generic "politics" theme.
Because the state attorney general responsible for enforcing my state's do not call list, which I'm on in addition to the federal one, won't "forget" to fine your ass if you fail to put me on the list.
Or the submitter is an idiot. How about a corrected link huh? I wanted to see pictures!
I think calling Anita Blake would be a good idea right about now. Sadly, she's probably off screwing Jean-Claude again. (Which makes me wonder how long it will be before "How Vampires Work" appears!)
I saw it when it aired, too. It was fascinating. I was in PubMed and reading the article it cites before the show even finished airing.
It's also reminiscent of how (no one knows exactly why) the gene for sickle cell anemia provides resistance to malaria, thus has yet to be expunged from the human gene pool.
Thing is, though, a "journal" that is "live" (life) is by definition a journal about someone's life. So that's the kind of content that you'd have to expect to see there. Now, while I use mine to talk about my life (which you don't seem to like... aww) I've seen some people on my friends list use theirs as actual blogs. But that's in the minority, though. Most blogs are on standalone sites (at least in my experience).
But they're all still blogs. A blog about someone's life isn't any less worthy than a product critic blog, or an aficionado blog. They just don't cater to the same audiences.
Maybe, but this is what the EDIT function is for. And it can be done -- I've seen stories change after the fact before.
then get presented AGAIN with the registration page after typing in the bullshit registration info. Slashdot can't even avoid posting links to reg sites by including the reg info because the reg info DOESN'T FUCKING WORK!
How about something like this: it just installs and runs without needlessly demanding a disk it doesn't actually read any data from and doesn't behave as spyware by telling some nameless faceless corporation somewhere what I'm doing. Nobody but me has a right to know that I am using the software and when.
Thank you for filling my screen with the same goddamned text I scrolled past just several seconds ago. No, wait, I don't thank you at all and I don't think it's funny. My god, I thought QA sucked on the web in general but TWO FUCKING COPIES of the same story within 5 screenfulls of text?
Offtopic and deservedly so. Wish I hadn't used my last mod point in the last article or this would be even further down the drain.
What I don't understand is why they don't just get around the aggravation with the CD check by having the CD/DVD actually store stuff on it that is read while the game runs? If the disk has to be in the drive when I start an app, the app had damn well better utilize the disk to free up space on my drive (I know, big drives are cheap these days; it's the principle of it).
I do not pirate games, but if one wants that disk but doesn't make use of it, I WILL use a hack to disable the check. You want that disk in my drive at startup? Earn it, by making a real reason for it to be there, or out come the cracks. You got my money already; I'm going to shove the disk in its case in my disk rack so I can find it later and just run the damn app without having to root through disk storage every time I want to run it.
If I didn't, I'd have to juggle disks in and out of the drive a dozen times a day just to do what I usually do.
The fact that developers continue to think users should have to put up with such ridiculous crap is astounding. Just imagine the mess if EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM on our machines demanded a disk in the drive whenever it started up. You'd be paying people for an hour every day just to play freaking Optical CD Musical Chairs.
You should be ashamed of yourselves.
To be precise, violating the GPL makes the information more free but less Free, while violating most copyrights makes the infomation more free but equally Free. It astonishes me that we're in the 21st century and people are still confused by this.
I guess a lot of brains out there aren't formatted with a case-sensitive memory system!
Not mine! I took the dealer ad off my car. Hey dealer! Want to advertise yourself? Why aren't you sending me a check every month to pay for that little badge? You didn't pay me, so your ad went into the trash! (Plus, the car looks much better without it...)
PLoS started out there (I work at a medical school in one of the research labs) but is expanding all the time. I wouldn't be surprised if chemical journals are added in the future. It hasn't been around that long.
My dad's a chemist, too -- he does nuclear chemistry research and teaching.
I wonder if this isn't crossing the line into illegality -- this sounds an awful lot like spyware that monitors what you're doing and reports back to someone else without telling you about it. If spyware is being outlawed, why isn't this sort of thing? ("you agreed to it when installing"? People "agree" to install spyware buried in long EULAs all the time, and the law is still cracking down)...
The planet where scientists can and do fund their own publishing so that access is open to all.
Public Library of Science
Here in St. Louis, many suburbs are passing rules/resolutions restricting the use of eminent domain, and a city councilman was recently recalled by 70% of the voters in his district when he supported the use of ED for building a gas station ("we need the tax revenues") when there were two other stations within half a mile that were doing just fine. More people voted to recall him than voted in the election to put him in office.
Looks like politicians are finding that people want these restrictions to get peace of mind, and anyone who wants to use ED for something frivolous or unnecessary is going to get run out of town on a rail.
My own suburb hasn't passed any rules yet, but one of the ones that has is less than five miles from my house (which is a few miles from a big shopping center that was built where houses once stood, but itself isn't in an area that I can imagine being turned into more malls, fortunately).
I imagine if anyone tries anything like that here, the inhabitants will get upset -- and I live in a mildly yuppified area, so they've got money to fight it.
"Boromir heard muttering about eminent domain while eyeing Frodo oddly. Sam will vote him out of office if he tries anything."
Yes but Eminent Domain, at least in this country, requires just compensation.
Tell that to all the people forced out of homes or businesses for amounts of money that are far below what their property is assesed at when they refuse to sell for the government's ridiculously low offers. They just say "well, tough luck, we're taking it anyway and that's all you're getting, assessments be damned".
Plus, Apple is primarily in the hardware business, not software. The iTunes store exists to drive iPod sales (though I believe it now makes a profit and broke even earlier than expected; it was originally supposed to be funded by the hardware sales) and the OS makes their computer hardware appealing. So of course they won't make it generically available; they get the boost in hardware sales because of people who'd like to run the OS.
No huge conspiracy here; it all makes sense when considering that Apple wants to sell hardware and uses its software to do that. Sadly, when the thread about a DRM chip in the test Intel Macs broke, I was the first one (according to one commenter to my post) who actually took the time to explain the hardware-sales angle instead of crying conspiracy...