I've used Outlook 2k1 Just a question, but what made you believe that you can speak with some kind of fucking authority on 2k3 then? Not trying to be any sort of zealot, but jesus...
I've put office 2k3 on a 466 celery with 128mb of ram. Runs fine. Of course, the OS was 2k3 server, so that is a pretty important thing, as XP runs like shit on that box.
That assumes Adobe won't want a small 3% or so licensing fee for using it.
I personally think we should be using a format that is braindead simple on the camera end. Forget having the camera decide that one pixel has this brightness or color, but do it yourself, on a computer - not in the camera.
Each pixel (well, actually, we would want to use sub-pixels instead of viewing 3 sub-pixels (each with a different primary color) as a single pixel) would report that it received so much light while the picture was being taken. This "report" would simply be the number of electrons that have been created from light by the cmos sensor. Now (deep breath) I realize that counting electrons one by one is a bit of an iffy process (seeing that before march of this year we weren't able to actually count electrons one by one until some Swedes figured it out) however something a little more coarse can be used.
Since the amount of time is constant across all pixels - and we know what "color" each sub-pixel is (via a map of the CCD / CMOS (actually, it would have to be CMOS I think) sensor on the computer), we can construct an image at virtually all exposure levels (yes, there would be an upper limit in most cases, nag nag), and selectively pick the exposure in sections of the image.
Taking a picture inside a house facing a window? Who cares? Select the window area and specify to divide the values of that section by 2, or 4, or whatever is needed to change the exposure of the window to match the levels of the inside of the house. You don't really lose any data during this process - as in the vast majority of pictures, the image won't change much over the 1/250th of a second it takes to take it.
It shouldn't matter which sub pixels you dispose of (because for most things, that only every second or third sub pixel (or 30th) is counted. All of a sudden, your "overexposed" section of the image is in balance with the rest of your photo.
It would give people a lot more flexibility in selecting fstops, etc, because creating what amounts to a digital (virtual?) shutter that can be selectively applied to different parts of the image. This would also be the end of stuck pixels, as a little bit of logic could be used to filter out oddities such as one pixel reporting 7000 times more light than the average pixel. You could also do some neat things with the analysis of several photos to filter out noise, etc.
Yeah, it will be a really big file size, but really, size doesn't really matter anymore if you're doing pro photography (oh no, not a 100mb image!) To work it out an 8mp camera = 24 mil subpixels, each reporting a 16 byte number (which is probably overkill by a wee bit if you consider the whole "number of particles in the universe" thing;) the file doesn't turn out to be all that big (320mb or so) More of an extension of a bunch of stuff that is around today, not really anything groundbreakingly new...
The manufacturers are just opposed to working together to create some sort of standard.
But can you blame them? Really, think about this for a second - people (scumbag fucks who should hang from lampposts, call them what you will) from Rambus sat in standards groups for years and then turned around and secretly patented the standard and then had the balls to demand royalties. You saw more or less the same bullshit with.gif and in hundreds of other similar cases in the last 20 or so years. I think it is (sort of) understandable that companies would be hesistant to work together to develop a standard way of doing something - especially in a cutthroat business such as photography.
And by the way, using Canon is a fairly shitty example, Nikon is far worse when it comes to the RAW format (ok, its not really a format) bullshit that flows through the world of pro photography.
That all said, this smacks more of the petty bickering that is involved in cameras more than than anything else (See Also, "Complete lack of lens interchangability" et al), but as always, we (or those who buy $600+ cameras) get fucked.
Don't get me started on how "using the DMCA to "protect" the super complex almost but not quite encrypted raw format". I don't need a stroke at this age. . .
As usual, California has recently adopted its own unique approach: If a suspect refuses, he can be physically restrained and a blood sample forcefully taken from him -- and he will be charged with a refusal as well.
Expensive? Horseshit. About two weeks ago, you could get a Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW 20.1-inch LCD Monitor with a stand for $379. This uses the exact same panel as the Apple Cinema displays.
Of course, you could pay retail (yes, Frys is anally raping you), or buy from the company in this/vertisement, but the cost of LCDs has been falling.
Hell, 2 nice Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW 20.1" widescreen displays (that use the same panel as the apple cinema displays) can be had for well under $100 (they were going for $379 shipped about 2 weeks ago)
You should try 2k3, very impressive. None of the standard XP bullshit. 2k's explorer was fucking retarded when it came to dealing with music or video files (and that infernally annoying bar on the left hand side), 2k3's is slightly better although it still tries to get info for.avi files.
It would be nice to have an explorer that just shows the damn files and doesn't try to get extra info about them (like resolution, running length, etc).
I have a Sony Trinitron CPD G500. Does 75 Hz at 2048x1536, 85HZ (more maybe?) at 1600x1200. $150ish on ebay, although you can get them off craigslist or something for about half that. LaCie also has clearance sales where you can get a lot of their older stuff at fire sale prices. Nice if you live in Portland, Oregon:)
The iBook's lcds suck, as does the 12" powerbook. The apple cinema display uses the same lcd as the dell 20" LCD that retails for ~$400 with coupons, etc
What percentage of animals that once lived are now extinct? (this is sort of a trick question for the christian "scientists" who go looking for dinosaurs in Africa, but lets ignore those morons for a moment.) Over 99%? Oh. Yes, species die off. Sucks for the those animals, and makes us feel guilty if were are causing it, but the fact is that natural processes have killed off more animals than humans have.
This should change a bit once the whole "you can go bankrupt, but still owe all your medical bills" ball gets rolling. BTW, let me come over there and break your arm, I'll give you some tylenol right after, should clear it up in a couple days...
This might be a tad bit cynical viewpoint, but I don't think so. Dallas PD did this for years before it was "stopped" in 2001 and hundreds were falsely convicted and are now serving long prison terms. Their "public defenders" were court appointed, without any budget to actually test and see whether the drugs weren't powdered sugar.
When some police (perhaps I should use "pigs") want to frame someone and send them to prison for a couple decades, they can simply use powdered sugar instead of having to steal something from the evidence locker. Of course, DPD (among other departments) did both, but if your policy is to pre-emptively lock up "bad" people (and lets be realistic, it isn't as if cops are immune to corruption, and prosecutors are happy to get a "tough on crime" stance in order to move up), this is an excellent method. This practice isn't exclusive to Dallas pigs either. Dallas pigs were just really ballsy and got caught.
It might also have something to do with people getting pissed off and doing stupid shit like burning your apartment complex down after finding that you ripped them off. Not that most people would know about those laws, but still.
Students from India, which has cordial relations with the U.S., will need licenses to study, but students from Saudi Arabia -- home country for most of the participants in the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, and much of the financing and ideology behind Islamist terrorism -- will not.
Ahh. Cognitive Dissonance, well, maybe in 10 or 15 years we will get over this and do stuff that is kind of intelligent. (Although it could be that India has nukes and the Saudis have Isreal right next door to them, which seems to sum up US foreign policy in the past couple of years pretty well)
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Perhaps you should add "Almost nobody read the damn thing before it was passed" to the list.
Yeah, I also bought a TV for about $5 8 years ago. The guy was muttering something about needing "crack"...
I've used Outlook 2k1
Just a question, but what made you believe that you can speak with some kind of fucking authority on 2k3 then?
Not trying to be any sort of zealot, but jesus...
I've put office 2k3 on a 466 celery with 128mb of ram. Runs fine. Of course, the OS was 2k3 server, so that is a pretty important thing, as XP runs like shit on that box.
That assumes Adobe won't want a small 3% or so licensing fee for using it.
;) the file doesn't turn out to be all that big (320mb or so)
I personally think we should be using a format that is braindead simple on the camera end. Forget having the camera decide that one pixel has this brightness or color, but do it yourself, on a computer - not in the camera.
Each pixel (well, actually, we would want to use sub-pixels instead of viewing 3 sub-pixels (each with a different primary color) as a single pixel) would report that it received so much light while the picture was being taken. This "report" would simply be the number of electrons that have been created from light by the cmos sensor. Now (deep breath) I realize that counting electrons one by one is a bit of an iffy process (seeing that before march of this year we weren't able to actually count electrons one by one until some Swedes figured it out) however something a little more coarse can be used.
Since the amount of time is constant across all pixels - and we know what "color" each sub-pixel is (via a map of the CCD / CMOS (actually, it would have to be CMOS I think) sensor on the computer), we can construct an image at virtually all exposure levels (yes, there would be an upper limit in most cases, nag nag), and selectively pick the exposure in sections of the image.
Taking a picture inside a house facing a window? Who cares? Select the window area and specify to divide the values of that section by 2, or 4, or whatever is needed to change the exposure of the window to match the levels of the inside of the house.
You don't really lose any data during this process - as in the vast majority of pictures, the image won't change much over the 1/250th of a second it takes to take it.
It shouldn't matter which sub pixels you dispose of (because for most things,
that only every second or third sub pixel (or 30th) is counted. All of a sudden, your "overexposed" section of the image is in balance with the rest of your photo.
It would give people a lot more flexibility in selecting fstops, etc, because creating what amounts to a digital (virtual?) shutter that can be selectively applied to different parts of the image. This would also be the end of stuck pixels, as a little bit of logic could be used to filter out oddities such as one pixel reporting 7000 times more light than the average pixel. You could also do some neat things with the analysis of several photos to filter out noise, etc.
Yeah, it will be a really big file size, but really, size doesn't really matter anymore if you're doing pro photography (oh no, not a 100mb image!)
To work it out an 8mp camera = 24 mil subpixels, each reporting a 16 byte number (which is probably overkill by a wee bit if you consider the whole "number of particles in the universe" thing
More of an extension of a bunch of stuff that is around today, not really anything groundbreakingly new...
The manufacturers are just opposed to working together to create some sort of standard.
.gif and in hundreds of other similar cases in the last 20 or so years.
But can you blame them? Really, think about this for a second - people (scumbag fucks who should hang from lampposts, call them what you will) from Rambus sat in standards groups for years and then turned around and secretly patented the standard and then had the balls to demand royalties. You saw more or less the same bullshit with
I think it is (sort of) understandable that companies would be hesistant to work together to develop a standard way of doing something - especially in a cutthroat business such as photography.
And by the way, using Canon is a fairly shitty example, Nikon is far worse when it comes to the RAW format (ok, its not really a format) bullshit that flows through the world of pro photography.
That all said, this smacks more of the petty bickering that is involved in cameras more than than anything else (See Also, "Complete lack of lens interchangability" et al), but as always, we (or those who buy $600+ cameras) get fucked.
Don't get me started on how "using the DMCA to "protect" the super complex almost but not quite encrypted raw format". I don't need a stroke at this age. . .
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As usual, California has recently adopted its own unique approach: If a suspect refuses, he can be physically restrained and a blood sample forcefully taken from him -- and he will be charged with a refusal as well.
Expensive? Horseshit.
/vertisement, but the cost of LCDs has been falling.
About two weeks ago, you could get a Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW 20.1-inch LCD Monitor with a stand for $379. This uses the exact same panel as the Apple Cinema displays.
Of course, you could pay retail (yes, Frys is anally raping you), or buy from the company in this
Hell, 2 nice Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW 20.1" widescreen displays (that use the same panel as the apple cinema displays) can be had for well under $100 (they were going for $379 shipped about 2 weeks ago)
You should try 2k3, very impressive. None of the standard XP bullshit. 2k's explorer was fucking retarded when it came to dealing with music or video files (and that infernally annoying bar on the left hand side), 2k3's is slightly better although it still tries to get info for .avi files.
It would be nice to have an explorer that just shows the damn files and doesn't try to get extra info about them (like resolution, running length, etc).
I have a Sony Trinitron CPD G500. Does 75 Hz at 2048x1536, 85HZ (more maybe?) at 1600x1200. :)
$150ish on ebay, although you can get them off craigslist or something for about half that.
LaCie also has clearance sales where you can get a lot of their older stuff at fire sale prices.
Nice if you live in Portland, Oregon
The iBook's lcds suck, as does the 12" powerbook.
The apple cinema display uses the same lcd as the dell 20" LCD that retails for ~$400 with coupons, etc
So, what you're saying is that you're pissed off because you were ripped off last year at Frys.
How convienient that you just happened to forget who made the LCD too.
Trash that $20 vtech phone and you should have no problem.
What percentage of animals that once lived are now extinct? (this is sort of a trick question for the christian "scientists" who go looking for dinosaurs in Africa, but lets ignore those morons for a moment.)
Over 99%? Oh.
Yes, species die off. Sucks for the those animals, and makes us feel guilty if were are causing it, but the fact is that natural processes have killed off more animals than humans have.
You need to read up a bit on something called a "model release"e d
This link might help too
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#Publish
If you don't have a model release, people can sue you under a variety of different laws. Especially if you are throwing nudie pics on the internet.
I suppose you could just flip the breaker.
Easiest would be to just have no power plugs. Your average laptop doesn't last that long.
I think you could argue that Fedex and Kinkos weren't stagnant. It isn't as though TW or AOL were centers of innovation near the time of the merger.
This should change a bit once the whole "you can go bankrupt, but still owe all your medical bills" ball gets rolling.
BTW, let me come over there and break your arm, I'll give you some tylenol right after, should clear it up in a couple days...
This might be a tad bit cynical viewpoint, but I don't think so. Dallas PD did this for years before it was "stopped" in 2001 and hundreds were falsely convicted and are now serving long prison terms. Their "public defenders" were court appointed, without any budget to actually test and see whether the drugs weren't powdered sugar.
When some police (perhaps I should use "pigs") want to frame someone and send them to prison for a couple decades, they can simply use powdered sugar instead of having to steal something from the evidence locker. Of course, DPD (among other departments) did both, but if your policy is to pre-emptively lock up "bad" people (and lets be realistic, it isn't as if cops are immune to corruption, and prosecutors are happy to get a "tough on crime" stance in order to move up), this is an excellent method.
This practice isn't exclusive to Dallas pigs either. Dallas pigs were just really ballsy and got caught.
It might also have something to do with people getting pissed off and doing stupid shit like burning your apartment complex down after finding that you ripped them off. Not that most people would know about those laws, but still.
Students from India, which has cordial relations with the U.S., will need licenses to study, but students from Saudi Arabia -- home country for most of the participants in the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, and much of the financing and ideology behind Islamist terrorism -- will not.
Ahh. Cognitive Dissonance, well, maybe in 10 or 15 years we will get over this and do stuff that is kind of intelligent. (Although it could be that India has nukes and the Saudis have Isreal right next door to them, which seems to sum up US foreign policy in the past couple of years pretty well)
Yes, super duper gps that works indoors.
Some would see this as what is commonly reffered to as an "opportunity". Maybe it is a good thing to take advantage of the stupid.
Exactly.
this is what the grown-up world is all about boys and girls. Bowing to authority figures and political "leaders", no matter how corrupt is what you're going to do.