There were two points. First, cool effect with the motion and all. Second, 100+ megapixels!!
Have you seen the pictures? The quality is fairly poor, and they are black and white. 100+ megapixels only does you good if you have a lens that can produce that kind of quality image, which he didn't.
The scanner he uses on his primary camera is 600x1200 dpi, so he's clearly not talking about that. (a full 8x10 scan would be 65 megapixels, but the 4x5 frame would only be about 15 megapixels) Kinda confusing as to why the images are so large then...that's not much bigger than my DSLR. Even a RAW image with my 8 megapixel camera is only about 8Megs.
It may come in handy for corporations wanting to control their documents, but I can't see how regular users would knowingly want a product that restricts their access to their documents or files.
Because users want media. Companies that produce media are unwilling to distribute it in a DRMless world.
Also, regular users care if something can be done *easily*, not if it's possible to be done if I download this converter source code, and compile it, and then....yadda yadda yadda.
individual employees are forced to apply security patches with little or no notice, under threat of their machines loosing network access
I don't think this is unreasonable at all. What's the downside of enforcing a little rigor in your employees, when the alternative is having your entire corporate network become a zombie farm overnight controlled by a mob boss in Russia named Vladamir?
It bothers me when people don't actually read the article - they just post a comment on it based on the summary.
No, this doesn't erase memories. It inhibits what your brain releases during trauma that makes the memories more vivid and terrifying years later. In fact, in the study, they had a hard time showing that there was a statistically significant difference in emotional response.
Also, they already have drugs that make you forget what's happening while you're on it. That's what date-rape drugs do.
"While their has been recent publicity about the gold farm factories in China, it by no means justifies thinking that every Chinese or non-English speaking player is a gold farmer."
Well, he failed the test. He's not joining our group.
The part of TFA about trying to run windows reminded me of the scene from zoolander where they're spoofing space odyssey 2001. He tried mashing all sorts of button combinations to try and get the windows CD to boot, and concluded after all his button-mashing that "I think it's going to be a matter of time before Windows is running on the iMac, especially Vista."
So...brighter means closer. Since that was the result that prompted us to think that the universe is expanding in the first place, I guess this means that the rate at which the universe is accelerating is accelerating.
I realized that I wasn't very clear when I said this - our current theory of dark energy came about because of a type Ia supernova explosion that was about half of the age of the universe. If the older xray sources are brighter than expected, then this means that the acceleration is accelerating. (If the xray sources had been *younger* and brighter, however, it would have meant that the acceleration was decelerating.
So...brighter means closer. Since that was the result that prompted us to think that the universe is expanding in the first place, I guess this means that the rate at which the universe is accelerating is accelerating.
I guess now would be the most appropriate time for people to start posting goatse.cx links. I can tell you what, I think my reaction time was quicker than 50ms the first time I accidentally clicked on that link at work. *shudder*
If they eventually find more evidence for these "dark matter streams", and start naming them, I think "the styx" would be a completely awesome name for such a stream.
it's nice to see that someone is going to finally make it so I stop burning my lunch.
Well, no, it'll just help regulate the temperature more accurately. It's still up to you to remember to stop playing doom 3 and go rescue your omlette from becoming a black crunchy lump.
No, it's not directly a result of a lawsuit. I'm sure that about 90% of their motivation for doing this was so that their lawyers could argue that they weren't trying to leverage the windows monopoly; but now it seems that the name microsoft doesn't bring to mind the evil connotations it once did, thanks to bill gates starting a 50 billion dollar foundation. =P
I'm not saying this is his motivation, the publicity seems to have really payed off. =P I predict we start seeing more of this. (i.e. no more full-blown office-on-mac - just converter software)
Wadle became interested in the concept while studying lightning coming from the ground, "which led him to believe that there's some type of power emanating from earth, which led him to trees," Lagadinos said.
The fact that he didn't start from an actual theory as to why there would be a voltage differential between a tree and the ground says that he's full of crap. "Lightning comes from the ground - therefore there must be power eminating from the ground!" How about the explanation that's been accepted for hundreds of years, which is the power is generated by the *clouds*?
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There were two points. First, cool effect with the motion and all. Second, 100+ megapixels!!
Have you seen the pictures? The quality is fairly poor, and they are black and white. 100+ megapixels only does you good if you have a lens that can produce that kind of quality image, which he didn't.
The scanner he uses on his primary camera is 600x1200 dpi, so he's clearly not talking about that. (a full 8x10 scan would be 65 megapixels, but the 4x5 frame would only be about 15 megapixels) Kinda confusing as to why the images are so large then...that's not much bigger than my DSLR. Even a RAW image with my 8 megapixel camera is only about 8Megs.
The movies are actually not very good at all. (The pictures themselves are far more interesting)
I'd love to try some high res landscapes though
If you want to do landscape photography with this, then you've missed the point entirely. =P (Unless you're talking about clouds or something)
That's the kind of thing that makes you wish you'd thought of it first. =)
Those pictures are amazingly one-of-a-kind.
right in the middle of writing some complex SQL thank you very much...
Well, besides the inherent irony of expanding the acryonym, you couldn't think of a better example than SQL of a mentally tasking work activity? =P
It may come in handy for corporations wanting to control their documents, but I can't see how regular users would knowingly want a product that restricts their access to their documents or files.
Because users want media. Companies that produce media are unwilling to distribute it in a DRMless world.
Also, regular users care if something can be done *easily*, not if it's possible to be done if I download this converter source code, and compile it, and then....yadda yadda yadda.
individual employees are forced to apply security patches with little or no notice, under threat of their machines loosing network access
I don't think this is unreasonable at all. What's the downside of enforcing a little rigor in your employees, when the alternative is having your entire corporate network become a zombie farm overnight controlled by a mob boss in Russia named Vladamir?
It bothers me when people don't actually read the article - they just post a comment on it based on the summary.
No, this doesn't erase memories. It inhibits what your brain releases during trauma that makes the memories more vivid and terrifying years later. In fact, in the study, they had a hard time showing that there was a statistically significant difference in emotional response.
Also, they already have drugs that make you forget what's happening while you're on it. That's what date-rape drugs do.
"While their has been recent publicity about the gold farm factories in China, it by no means justifies thinking that every Chinese or non-English speaking player is a gold farmer."
Well, he failed the test. He's not joining our group.
The part of TFA about trying to run windows reminded me of the scene from zoolander where they're spoofing space odyssey 2001. He tried mashing all sorts of button combinations to try and get the windows CD to boot, and concluded after all his button-mashing that "I think it's going to be a matter of time before Windows is running on the iMac, especially Vista."
Maybe its just the engineer in me, but isn't it possible that we're just observing some other unknown effect.
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So...brighter means closer. Since that was the result that prompted us to think that the universe is expanding in the first place, I guess this means that the rate at which the universe is accelerating is accelerating.
I realized that I wasn't very clear when I said this - our current theory of dark energy came about because of a type Ia supernova explosion that was about half of the age of the universe. If the older xray sources are brighter than expected, then this means that the acceleration is accelerating. (If the xray sources had been *younger* and brighter, however, it would have meant that the acceleration was decelerating.
Somebody's been reading Kuhn in an introductory english class. =P
It doesn't say, but if it's brighter than expected, that means that the rate of accelerating is becoming greater.
So...brighter means closer. Since that was the result that prompted us to think that the universe is expanding in the first place, I guess this means that the rate at which the universe is accelerating is accelerating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_RipBig Rip.
I guess now would be the most appropriate time for people to start posting goatse.cx links. I can tell you what, I think my reaction time was quicker than 50ms the first time I accidentally clicked on that link at work. *shudder*
So it's like racism for websites.
Of course, I think this mental heuristic is pretty useful more often than not.
If they eventually find more evidence for these "dark matter streams", and start naming them, I think "the styx" would be a completely awesome name for such a stream.
it's nice to see that someone is going to finally make it so I stop burning my lunch.
Well, no, it'll just help regulate the temperature more accurately. It's still up to you to remember to stop playing doom 3 and go rescue your omlette from becoming a black crunchy lump.
but a large number of these were located in countries that were either politically unstable or that faced threats from the natural environment
Permafrost isn't in danger? My FORD DEMOLISHER begs to differ.
No, it's not directly a result of a lawsuit. I'm sure that about 90% of their motivation for doing this was so that their lawyers could argue that they weren't trying to leverage the windows monopoly; but now it seems that the name microsoft doesn't bring to mind the evil connotations it once did, thanks to bill gates starting a 50 billion dollar foundation. =P
I'm not saying this is his motivation, the publicity seems to have really payed off. =P I predict we start seeing more of this. (i.e. no more full-blown office-on-mac - just converter software)
...that the 4th apple story in the last 24 hours is entitled The Media's Crush on Apple. =P
Imploding bubbles, caught on film emitting light. Are they emitting energy too? ...
*cry*
Wadle became interested in the concept while studying lightning coming from the ground, "which led him to believe that there's some type of power emanating from earth, which led him to trees," Lagadinos said.
The fact that he didn't start from an actual theory as to why there would be a voltage differential between a tree and the ground says that he's full of crap. "Lightning comes from the ground - therefore there must be power eminating from the ground!" How about the explanation that's been accepted for hundreds of years, which is the power is generated by the *clouds*?
Maybe he never took a middleschool science class.