The result is that they're really close. And then when you consider the fact that 6x7 film is something like 6 times the surface area of a 24mm by 36mm film negative... well, you get the idea.
Actually, it's the other way around. The high-end digital cameras are superior to film for almost everything. At the 11 megapixel level (specifically the Canon 1Ds), digital surpasses 35mm film.
At ISO (film sensitivity) at or over 800, digital will come out way ahead, since grain will be so large on the film that resolution is severely compromised. Digital will have a small amount of noise at higher ISO's, but it would be not nearly as severe in deteriorating the image quality as large grain fast 35mm film. This is one of the reasons why all the sports photographers are shooting digital now, even if it is with the lower resolution 4 or 5 megapixel cameras.
A real computer science program will teach generic principles of programming and systems development, with projects that delve into a variety of actual implementations of systems.
For example, a b-tree data structure is fundamentally the same thing whether you implement it in 32-bit ARM assembly language or 16-bit x86 assembly language or C or Java.
To understand how assembly language works, you need to understand how a processor works, how instruction decoding works, how register transfer language works, how clocking a processor makes it accomplish things. To understnad how registers hold values electrically and transfer values between registers you need to understand some physics and electronics.
To understand how a compiler takes a source language and translates it into a target language, you need to understand a little about the kinds of languages computers can understand (Context-Free Languages) and how they can parse them (Context-Free Grammars). Delving into that field will lead to the core theory of computer science, what is possible with machines in general and what is impossible.
A real computer science program at a university will take you through all of these subjects over several years, allowing for some excursions into other things like databases and cryptography. A real computer science program is always theory with projects that are applied to actual implementations.
Well, for starters the syntax for assemblers is different. There are two standards, the AT&T standard (which is used by the GNU assembler) and the other one that is more familiar to DOS/Windows x86 assembly programmers (which is used by the NASM assmebler).
Second, OS interfaces for making system calls (e.g., to read files, open network connections, etc) are different in Linux versus DOS or Windows).
If you have a case against a large corporation that could result in a large settlement, the lawyers will take on the case on a contingency basis. That means that it's a gamble to them. If you win the case, they get 40% or more of the proceeds.
They'll take those cases. If they figure out that if they win a certain percentage of them and the expected profit for them is worth more than the cost of doing the work, they'll do it.
Hypocrite Troll. You yourself killed hundreds of Iraqi children because you either directly or indirectly paid taxes that paid for the bombs dropped on their homes.
That's why Team Fortress 2 was never released. It couldn't compete with CS. It was just out-classed by a free mod. Of course, everyone was blown away by CS.
Also, tech demos from 4 years ago would probably not be considered very impressive today.
There are a suprising number of people who believe that one party is "good" and the other party is "evil". Most of those people, if you confront them on it, will deny any such fervant alignment. However, many of the same people will look down upon anyone who openly supports a candidate of the other party, considering that person a supporter of the devil or a bad person.
Mostly I've seen this behavior in young women, all Democrats.
One story I heard about the capture of Saddam Hussein was that just after the initial invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein disappeared and a bank was robbed in Baghdad. The U.S. suspected that Saddam had robbed the bank so they acquired a list of the serial numbers of the currency stolen from the bank. When those bills started showing up, they traced the bills back to the source and found the neighborhood where Saddam was hiding.
In the same way, if banks scan the all the bills they take in and send out and OCR the serial numbers, if the bank is robbed, they will know what bills were stolen. When those bills show up anywhere (for example deposited at another bank), they can try to trace the source back to the robbers.
A photographer will have a model sign a "model release", which states what the model was paid for his/her work and giving permission to the photographer for whatever use of the images.
I presume makeup artists and stylists and also perhaps providers of clothing also have to sign similar releases allowing visual reproduction (photographs) of their works to be created and used by the photographer.
I usually don't bother to correct people like that. Eventually, there will be so few educated people who will know the difference between e.g. and i.e., so it won't matter. Of course, by then, people will use language, but not know why.
No doubt that you can do anything in C, but sometimes it does take 100 lines plus a lot of constructs to do something and those 100 lines are less likely to be reused than if the same code was written in another language that makes it more likely to be reused. Often in C, I find myself rewriting things that I've done dozens of times before.
Nintendo was never that dumb. They always took the strategy of making the hardware as cheaply as possible. They then keep exclusive software titles and characters (e.g., Pokemon, Mario, Luigi, Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Wave Race, Starfox, etc). It seems to work pretty well for them.
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I prefer Windows 666*3+5.
Spoken like someone who doesn't really know what he's talking about...
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Here's an article comparing the Canon 1Ds to 6x7 medium format film scanned with a $100 per scan drum scanner process.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/shootou
The result is that they're really close. And then when you consider the fact that 6x7 film is something like 6 times the surface area of a 24mm by 36mm film negative... well, you get the idea.
Actually, it's the other way around. The high-end digital cameras are superior to film for almost everything. At the 11 megapixel level (specifically the Canon 1Ds), digital surpasses 35mm film.
At ISO (film sensitivity) at or over 800, digital will come out way ahead, since grain will be so large on the film that resolution is severely compromised. Digital will have a small amount of noise at higher ISO's, but it would be not nearly as severe in deteriorating the image quality as large grain fast 35mm film. This is one of the reasons why all the sports photographers are shooting digital now, even if it is with the lower resolution 4 or 5 megapixel cameras.
First off, for still cameras, there ARE ones that rival or exceed 35mm film. Take a look at the Cannon E01 as an example.
You mean the Canon EOS 1Ds. It's an 11 megapixel digital SLR camera. And yes, it's better than 35mm film.
A real computer science program will teach generic principles of programming and systems development, with projects that delve into a variety of actual implementations of systems.
For example, a b-tree data structure is fundamentally the same thing whether you implement it in 32-bit ARM assembly language or 16-bit x86 assembly language or C or Java.
To understand how assembly language works, you need to understand how a processor works, how instruction decoding works, how register transfer language works, how clocking a processor makes it accomplish things. To understnad how registers hold values electrically and transfer values between registers you need to understand some physics and electronics.
To understand how a compiler takes a source language and translates it into a target language, you need to understand a little about the kinds of languages computers can understand (Context-Free Languages) and how they can parse them (Context-Free Grammars). Delving into that field will lead to the core theory of computer science, what is possible with machines in general and what is impossible.
A real computer science program at a university will take you through all of these subjects over several years, allowing for some excursions into other things like databases and cryptography. A real computer science program is always theory with projects that are applied to actual implementations.
Well, for starters the syntax for assemblers is different. There are two standards, the AT&T standard (which is used by the GNU assembler) and the other one that is more familiar to DOS/Windows x86 assembly programmers (which is used by the NASM assmebler).
Second, OS interfaces for making system calls (e.g., to read files, open network connections, etc) are different in Linux versus DOS or Windows).
Actually, the smallest Canon digicam uses SD memory because CF would make the camera too big.
But for all the bigger cameras, they use CF.
Another weird thing is that this new pro camera (which will cost close to $4000) has slots for both CF and SD.
/sarcasm on...
/sarcasm off...
Wait, dragging a file to the trash will delete it. So won't dragging a disk to the trash delete the disk?
The Mac UI is not the most consistant thing in the universe.
If you have a case against a large corporation that could result in a large settlement, the lawyers will take on the case on a contingency basis. That means that it's a gamble to them. If you win the case, they get 40% or more of the proceeds.
They'll take those cases. If they figure out that if they win a certain percentage of them and the expected profit for them is worth more than the cost of doing the work, they'll do it.
oops. 50's not 60's.
Damn, the GNU-gestapo modded you flamebait already.
Oh well, I have to agree with you. GNU info sucks.
Unfortunately, no.
She's a fun girl at parties though.
These old movie guys are all communists. Didn't we learn anything from the McCarthy hearings in the 1960's.
Hypocrite Troll. You yourself killed hundreds of Iraqi children because you either directly or indirectly paid taxes that paid for the bombs dropped on their homes.
That's why Team Fortress 2 was never released. It couldn't compete with CS. It was just out-classed by a free mod. Of course, everyone was blown away by CS.
Also, tech demos from 4 years ago would probably not be considered very impressive today.
There are a suprising number of people who believe that one party is "good" and the other party is "evil". Most of those people, if you confront them on it, will deny any such fervant alignment. However, many of the same people will look down upon anyone who openly supports a candidate of the other party, considering that person a supporter of the devil or a bad person.
Mostly I've seen this behavior in young women, all Democrats.
The paper was written by smart people, though they wrote it as a joke.
One story I heard about the capture of Saddam Hussein was that just after the initial invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein disappeared and a bank was robbed in Baghdad. The U.S. suspected that Saddam had robbed the bank so they acquired a list of the serial numbers of the currency stolen from the bank. When those bills started showing up, they traced the bills back to the source and found the neighborhood where Saddam was hiding.
In the same way, if banks scan the all the bills they take in and send out and OCR the serial numbers, if the bank is robbed, they will know what bills were stolen. When those bills show up anywhere (for example deposited at another bank), they can try to trace the source back to the robbers.
A photographer will have a model sign a "model release", which states what the model was paid for his/her work and giving permission to the photographer for whatever use of the images.
I presume makeup artists and stylists and also perhaps providers of clothing also have to sign similar releases allowing visual reproduction (photographs) of their works to be created and used by the photographer.
It's a weird business.
The same concept should be able to map any linear data (audio, video, etc) to the track on the record.
Step 1: Get five candles and a live goat. ...
Step 2:
Step 3: Profit!
I usually don't bother to correct people like that. Eventually, there will be so few educated people who will know the difference between e.g. and i.e., so it won't matter. Of course, by then, people will use language, but not know why.
I guess ultimately, it doesn't really matter.
No doubt that you can do anything in C, but sometimes it does take 100 lines plus a lot of constructs to do something and those 100 lines are less likely to be reused than if the same code was written in another language that makes it more likely to be reused. Often in C, I find myself rewriting things that I've done dozens of times before.
Nintendo was never that dumb. They always took the strategy of making the hardware as cheaply as possible. They then keep exclusive software titles and characters (e.g., Pokemon, Mario, Luigi, Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Wave Race, Starfox, etc). It seems to work pretty well for them.
True, that is a serious concern for large companies. However, for your average porn/mp3/divx/warez archive though, it's fine.