I take 'photographs'. Yep it's a distinction. It's also why I've taken about 13,000 photographs since I switched to Digital back in March of this year.
A 4gb CF card holds (on my 10D) about 530 photographs. I transfer said card to two battery backup units- a 20gb and a 40gb.
On my trip to St. Thomas I came back with a little over 2300 photographs; several of which I edited and stitched together to make massive panoramas. A panorama consisting of 14 frames tends to take quite a bit of disk space in the RAW format- and each time you want to capture it again that means 14x6mb each...
So anyways, yes I'm interested in this if it'll actually download the info. If not, I'll stick to my battery backups and leave my laptop at home.
I saw that and honestly shrugged- that may be true for a midtone, but I honestly (and I really mean honestly) doubt thats true thru the entire range.
I've seen some very good monitors with Delta E's, for one patch, of 1. The whites and blacks tho were shot- one had a colour temperature range from 6300K to 8000K....
Delta E calculations are made on displays where I work such that 1 delta E is the limit of acceptable colour change on a monitor. More than that over the range of Code values and the monitor fails.
The BEST LCDs have about a 10 delta E. If you figure 1 Delta E calc is equivelent to 50% of the population seeing a change and 50% of the other 50% guessing (therefore 75% say "Yes, there's a change") then that means LCDs... suck.
WHEN they make an LCD that acts as a lambertian light source they will see a change for the better. Until they do this NEC monitor (Don't know if we've tested it yet, to be honest, but I had heard we had some NECs in that were pretty good- and that meant 9 Delta E's compared to the 20 before) is a nice word processor doc, but never ever ever will it be certified for imaging...
... I saw that special on Dateline and it floored me. I never drove like that, ever. It was me in the car, maybe my sister, but I never hauled a bunch of freakish makeup artists everywhere.
In fact, when I drive now, I totally ignore my passengers. If the fiancee is talking to me too much I usually answer "Dear, I'm sorry, but I'm not really able to pay attention to you right now, I'm driving".
She's not gotten pissed off yet. If only I could try that when she wants to talk for 3 hours when I'm trying to go to bed....
Anyways, what needs to be done is simple: Revoke driving priveleges for anyone but single occupant. Those kids are the ones that need their licenses pulled, period.
A couple of searches: No hits on the following: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr= &q=%22Moshe+ Wald%22+Iowa&btnG=Search http://www.google.com/se arch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Moshe+ Wald%22+fertility&btnG=Search http://www.google.c om/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Yefim+She nykin&btnG=Search http://adam.cc.sunysb.edu/acc/d irsearch.cgi?first= &last=Shenykin&status=Any
However, if you take the fact that his name may have been mispelled, you've got this site: http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/urology/male_inf ertilit y/Yefim_R_Sheynkin.html
Now I realize spelling someone's name might not be important, but thats at least one fact that must be checked.
And once you spell his name correctly, you can link to the abstract at
... was to have you undergone brain scans before, during, and after your 'retraining'. A comparison study of language regions of the brain with motor skill manipulation may shed some light on why you're in MENSA.
After all, wouldn't it be humorous to learn that your right handed injury granted you more intelligence since the neurons in another area of your brain were forced to more mundane tasks?:)
Seriously- I bought a Nikon Coolscan 4000 off ebay for 500$. Slide adapter- comes free. Bulk feeder- 280$ - 390$.
I used to work for Kodak. I know CM (Colour Management). I also know you've got to pony up to get to at least a basic level of hardware that is capable of doing something.
Tell me, honestly, how is an Operating System going to affect how sharp your slide scanner is? Really- THINK ABOUT IT. One has NOTHING to do wit h the other. If you can't get sharp scans off your slide scanner, ebay it, throw it out, and stop wasting your time and buy something worth it.
Trust me, you won't regret it.
I wrote imaging chains for Drum scanners (8000lpi) and custom chains for other scanners, but they all had one thing in common: They were good pieces of equipment to begin with.
Once you have a good, consistent scan, the CM is actually pretty easy- but come on back when you've got a good piece of equipment.
Salting is probably the worst thing you can do to a roof- only use CaCl2 (but NaCl sticks around longer yet destroys shingles faster).
The primary thing for salt is to get rid of ice rapidly. And god does it work fast. I hired a roofer that ripped me and a neighbor off - we're out about 2500$ between the two of us. The salt takes care of a region that floods down into the house... destroyed my brand new kitchen ceiling and the garage, basement, floor, etc....
This year I try decicing cables:)
I shovel off the snow each year, but I figured the effort to carry up 400lbs of salt is probably best expended before the ladder is covered in ice...
Well, 54 now. But I'm not counting (save for the $15K I've put into it- or in that case, not saved).
I live in the snow region which, as of last year, had up to 3 foot deep snow ON MY ROOF. That the house occupies approximately 800 sq foot on the ground, thats about 3000 cubic feet of snow sitting above my head.
No offense to the posters of this article, but... That house is absolutely worthless in my region. But I'm sure that won't stop people from going on and on about how the US is a wasteful society and should model themselves after this... blah blah blah.
Parent is right. A house is a permanent structure and stays that way save for natural disaster, fire, or intentional destruction.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be wandering up onto the roof with another 400 lbs of salt soon- in preparation of the winter.
... and these kids are failing in a *good* school. She tells stories of how the mentally deficient children are assigned ALL of the tutors to help educate them to standardized levels.
You know who misses out on this? The normal, non gifted non slow children. They 'pass' enough on their own, so they don't qualify for tutors. The gifted ones excell on their own, and don't need the tutors.
Instead all of the monies are spent on bringing up 'special ed' for mainstreaming purposes.
Just grand.
Homeschooling starts to sound more and more like a viable choice.
(yes I have degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering because I love science)
The best system for eyestrain is one that incorporates the entire room lighting environment. You don't say how long you want to code, but looking at high contrast imagery requires subdued background lighting that matches your monitor.
CRTs generally deliver the Lmin (lowest brightness level) and an almost good enough Lmax (Colour CRTs don't hit the high range, unfortunately).
Basically no numbers because I'm not sure what's proprietary, but I'd tell you to choose CRTs hands down.
The LCD model that pretyt much every cheap LCD follows is innapropriate for large hours in front of the screen. The impulse that describes how the light appears to your eyes isn't the way your brain is designed to view things- the image doesn't 'decay'.
So if you light the wall behind your computer evenly with about, say, 2x15 watt bulbs from about 10 feet off, that should be sufficient illumination (note the rest of the room is dark) to keep your eyes in a 'relaxed' state. Your monitor should be out of cutoff (deep blacks) so that your eyes stay adjusted to the whole range. The bezel itself could be painted grey, but that isn't critical.
I've got to agree here. I was pretty impressed with the write up- using a computer driven servo to snap the shots... then I saw what it was they took.
I mean, really- it's a building.
Its is NO WHERE near the quality of what people like Max Lyons have done, by HAND. They wrote a script and attached a few servos.
That isn't to say what they accomplished isn't impressive- it is. But it lacks the flavour and the art of someone that's striven for a better capture method. I salute them for driving it with a servo- thats grand. Now take that setup out to some impressive scene and photograph that (Say the Tetons of Gigapixel fame) and lets see what it can do.
And if I can drive that servo with my palm pilot, plus some 26aH batteries, then I'm even more interested;)
But until they photograph something worthy of being captured at that resolution, it'll be no different then sticking a couple of webcams out the window.
Really, I currently have 600gb of data archived for photographs and images. That's not a whole hell of alot. 3x200gb Seagates take care of the raiding and assorted 80, 120, 160's (and I Just found another 60 laying around, YES!) handle day to day demands.
So, as with bluray, All I've got to say is "How soon do your writers and media get down to 1/10th the cost of IDE media (currently reasonably at $0.47/gb).
A DVD (cheap) can be had for about 40 cents per disk- which doesn't get you much for archiving except the ability to slap it into a jukebox that makes whirling sounds.
I need a massive data storage solution that I can ship off to friends to keep backups for me that does not rely on moving metal/ceramic disks.
So, I welcome another format- so long as they MOVE THEIR ASSES and get the price down to what I can afford.
And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go check Amazon and Outpost to see if they have any more 200gb Seagates for less that $0.47/gb after rebate.
It started in HS. I dated a 1 of a pair of twins. She was very cute, but then I moved away... and we broke up.
My second girlfriend was met at a supermarket where I was a cachier. She turned out to be a twin too. Very difficult when you can barely tell them apart. Anyways, broke up with her.
A few more women... then in college.... another twin. This one was alot of fun but just wasn't connecting. Oddly enough she lived in the same city I was moving to.
Start taking classes at RIT, meet another twin;) Didn't go anywhere great.
Finally, twin from college introduces me to her sister. Sister and I hit it off... and tommorow I propose;)
So when a tech guy gets laid off from the IT dept after being outsourced to India and is begging for money on the street, is his Personal Area Network - handling legal?
Just goes to show you, all those high school dropouts that thought employment was easy have a long way in front of them.
Sis works at an AT&T store with her husband. Both college degrees. I get to hear about some of their more colorful customers now and then... and they make more money than I do;)
... in the middle of snow season. If you're really nice, I'll let you climb up the 20 foot ladder to the 2nd story, get on the roof, and shovel snow off the roof (note- it's best not to shovel all of the snow, as you'll slip and fall to a painful death- always leave a 'walking path' of the snow to escape back down the ladder).
My house sits at 60F. I'm comfortable. My work is allowed to fluctuate between 72 and 81 degrees- which is a royal pain. All to save 'money'.
Hey! If my GF can't cross stitch anymore, she'll drag me back up to the bedroom. Please oh please don't make her do that- Vote to allow "Cross Stitching" for personal use only. If you don't, I don't know how my prostate will hold up...
*please note needles and scissors should still be banned from planes, wheras sharp metal pens and tubes of metallic epoxy should be allowed
Slashdot Mirror
Downloaded 3 images. Found out the fixed noise patterns were the same.
You'd think that, as a camera would operate, the temperature would change and some of the random noise would be different.
Sad to say, it wasn't.
Conclusion: Either he had a very good noise removal algorithm... or he was faking the images.
Proof: None. Just smile, snicker, and keep loading his pages until his bandwidth exceeds his heating...
I take 'photographs'. Yep it's a distinction. It's also why I've taken about 13,000 photographs since I switched to Digital back in March of this year.
A 4gb CF card holds (on my 10D) about 530 photographs. I transfer said card to two battery backup units- a 20gb and a 40gb.
On my trip to St. Thomas I came back with a little over 2300 photographs; several of which I edited and stitched together to make massive panoramas. A panorama consisting of 14 frames tends to take quite a bit of disk space in the RAW format- and each time you want to capture it again that means 14x6mb each...
So anyways, yes I'm interested in this if it'll actually download the info. If not, I'll stick to my battery backups and leave my laptop at home.
I saw that and honestly shrugged- that may be true for a midtone, but I honestly (and I really mean honestly) doubt thats true thru the entire range.
....
I've seen some very good monitors with Delta E's, for one patch, of 1. The whites and blacks tho were shot- one had a colour temperature range from 6300K to 8000K
Delta E calculations are made on displays where I work such that 1 delta E is the limit of acceptable colour change on a monitor. More than that over the range of Code values and the monitor fails.
... suck.
The BEST LCDs have about a 10 delta E. If you figure 1 Delta E calc is equivelent to 50% of the population seeing a change and 50% of the other 50% guessing (therefore 75% say "Yes, there's a change") then that means LCDs
WHEN they make an LCD that acts as a lambertian light source they will see a change for the better. Until they do this NEC monitor (Don't know if we've tested it yet, to be honest, but I had heard we had some NECs in that were pretty good- and that meant 9 Delta E's compared to the 20 before) is a nice word processor doc, but never ever ever will it be certified for imaging...
... I saw that special on Dateline and it floored me. I never drove like that, ever. It was me in the car, maybe my sister, but I never hauled a bunch of freakish makeup artists everywhere.
In fact, when I drive now, I totally ignore my passengers. If the fiancee is talking to me too much I usually answer "Dear, I'm sorry, but I'm not really able to pay attention to you right now, I'm driving".
She's not gotten pissed off yet. If only I could try that when she wants to talk for 3 hours when I'm trying to go to bed....
Anyways, what needs to be done is simple: Revoke driving priveleges for anyone but single occupant. Those kids are the ones that need their licenses pulled, period.
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No hits on the following:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr
http://www.google.com/s
http://www.google.
http://adam.cc.sunysb.edu/acc/
However, if you take the fact that his name may have been mispelled, you've got this site:
http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/urology/male_in
Now I realize spelling someone's name might not be important, but thats at least one fact that must be checked.
And once you spell his name correctly, you can link to the abstract at
http://humrep.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstr
... was to have you undergone brain scans before, during, and after your 'retraining'. A comparison study of language regions of the brain with motor skill manipulation may shed some light on why you're in MENSA.
:)
After all, wouldn't it be humorous to learn that your right handed injury granted you more intelligence since the neurons in another area of your brain were forced to more mundane tasks?
... if all of two areas are consumed in motor skills, and then language comes along and pushes one area out...
Just a thought. Maybe certain areas maintain large hand movements while talking are actually using both regions again.
heh.
Seriously- take a look at your average lefty. Now take a look at an average righty. Isn't your average righty better looking?
Of course my fiancee says I'm "right" all the time, so maybe it's gone to my head.
'scuse me while I go sleep on the sofa again...
Seriously- I bought a Nikon Coolscan 4000 off ebay for 500$. Slide adapter- comes free. Bulk feeder- 280$ - 390$.
I used to work for Kodak. I know CM (Colour Management). I also know you've got to pony up to get to at least a basic level of hardware that is capable of doing something.
Tell me, honestly, how is an Operating System going to affect how sharp your slide scanner is? Really- THINK ABOUT IT. One has NOTHING to do wit h the other. If you can't get sharp scans off your slide scanner, ebay it, throw it out, and stop wasting your time and buy something worth it.
Trust me, you won't regret it.
I wrote imaging chains for Drum scanners (8000lpi) and custom chains for other scanners, but they all had one thing in common: They were good pieces of equipment to begin with.
Once you have a good, consistent scan, the CM is actually pretty easy- but come on back when you've got a good piece of equipment.
Salting is probably the worst thing you can do to a roof- only use CaCl2 (but NaCl sticks around longer yet destroys shingles faster).
:)
The primary thing for salt is to get rid of ice rapidly. And god does it work fast. I hired a roofer that ripped me and a neighbor off - we're out about 2500$ between the two of us. The salt takes care of a region that floods down into the house... destroyed my brand new kitchen ceiling and the garage, basement, floor, etc....
This year I try decicing cables
I shovel off the snow each year, but I figured the effort to carry up 400lbs of salt is probably best expended before the ladder is covered in ice...
Well, 54 now. But I'm not counting (save for the $15K I've put into it- or in that case, not saved).
I live in the snow region which, as of last year, had up to 3 foot deep snow ON MY ROOF. That the house occupies approximately 800 sq foot on the ground, thats about 3000 cubic feet of snow sitting above my head.
No offense to the posters of this article, but... That house is absolutely worthless in my region. But I'm sure that won't stop people from going on and on about how the US is a wasteful society and should model themselves after this... blah blah blah.
Parent is right. A house is a permanent structure and stays that way save for natural disaster, fire, or intentional destruction.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be wandering up onto the roof with another 400 lbs of salt soon- in preparation of the winter.
... and these kids are failing in a *good* school. She tells stories of how the mentally deficient children are assigned ALL of the tutors to help educate them to standardized levels.
You know who misses out on this? The normal, non gifted non slow children. They 'pass' enough on their own, so they don't qualify for tutors. The gifted ones excell on their own, and don't need the tutors.
Instead all of the monies are spent on bringing up 'special ed' for mainstreaming purposes.
Just grand.
Homeschooling starts to sound more and more like a viable choice.
(yes I have degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering because I love science)
The best system for eyestrain is one that incorporates the entire room lighting environment. You don't say how long you want to code, but looking at high contrast imagery requires subdued background lighting that matches your monitor.
CRTs generally deliver the Lmin (lowest brightness level) and an almost good enough Lmax (Colour CRTs don't hit the high range, unfortunately).
Basically no numbers because I'm not sure what's proprietary, but I'd tell you to choose CRTs hands down.
The LCD model that pretyt much every cheap LCD follows is innapropriate for large hours in front of the screen. The impulse that describes how the light appears to your eyes isn't the way your brain is designed to view things- the image doesn't 'decay'.
So if you light the wall behind your computer evenly with about, say, 2x15 watt bulbs from about 10 feet off, that should be sufficient illumination (note the rest of the room is dark) to keep your eyes in a 'relaxed' state. Your monitor should be out of cutoff (deep blacks) so that your eyes stay adjusted to the whole range. The bezel itself could be painted grey, but that isn't critical.
Help any?
I've got to agree here. I was pretty impressed with the write up- using a computer driven servo to snap the shots... then I saw what it was they took.
;)
I mean, really- it's a building.
Its is NO WHERE near the quality of what people like Max Lyons have done, by HAND. They wrote a script and attached a few servos.
That isn't to say what they accomplished isn't impressive- it is. But it lacks the flavour and the art of someone that's striven for a better capture method. I salute them for driving it with a servo- thats grand. Now take that setup out to some impressive scene and photograph that (Say the Tetons of Gigapixel fame) and lets see what it can do.
And if I can drive that servo with my palm pilot, plus some 26aH batteries, then I'm even more interested
But until they photograph something worthy of being captured at that resolution, it'll be no different then sticking a couple of webcams out the window.
Just my opinion.
WhooooooHooooo!
;)
http://www.gotSheep.com/EMK
Thanks for the good luck
Really, I currently have 600gb of data archived for photographs and images. That's not a whole hell of alot. 3x200gb Seagates take care of the raiding and assorted 80, 120, 160's (and I Just found another 60 laying around, YES!) handle day to day demands.
/ceramic disks.
So, as with bluray, All I've got to say is "How soon do your writers and media get down to 1/10th the cost of IDE media (currently reasonably at $0.47/gb).
A DVD (cheap) can be had for about 40 cents per disk- which doesn't get you much for archiving except the ability to slap it into a jukebox that makes whirling sounds.
I need a massive data storage solution that I can ship off to friends to keep backups for me that does not rely on moving metal
So, I welcome another format- so long as they MOVE THEIR ASSES and get the price down to what I can afford.
And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go check Amazon and Outpost to see if they have any more 200gb Seagates for less that $0.47/gb after rebate.
It started in HS. I dated a 1 of a pair of twins. She was very cute, but then I moved away... and we broke up.
.... another twin. This one was alot of fun but just wasn't connecting. Oddly enough she lived in the same city I was moving to.
;) Didn't go anywhere great.
;)
My second girlfriend was met at a supermarket where I was a cachier. She turned out to be a twin too. Very difficult when you can barely tell them apart. Anyways, broke up with her.
A few more women... then in college
Start taking classes at RIT, meet another twin
Finally, twin from college introduces me to her sister. Sister and I hit it off... and tommorow I propose
So thats my Prime Twin Problem Solved.
Seriously. I have taken 13000 photographs on my digital SLR (Canon 10D) and I've kept every single one of them.
How many make it to the light of day for friends? Maybe 3000 - events, etc, where they want to see every shot.
How many make it to prints? Maybe 300.
How many make it to the wall? So far 0, but I have 3 picked out.
A visual diary.... yeah, old news. Art Wolfe did that a long time ago, with Film. And that was 1 EXPOSURE per day.
So when a tech guy gets laid off from the IT dept after being outsourced to India and is begging for money on the street, is his Personal Area Network - handling legal?
Just goes to show you, all those high school dropouts that thought employment was easy have a long way in front of them.
;)
Sis works at an AT&T store with her husband. Both college degrees. I get to hear about some of their more colorful customers now and then... and they make more money than I do
So what's wrong with that? I photograph anyone wearing anything... or nothing. I see nothing wrong with ta nude human body.
(of normal weight distribution mind you- I've seen some very scary ones while walking around the mall...)
... in the middle of snow season. If you're really nice, I'll let you climb up the 20 foot ladder to the 2nd story, get on the roof, and shovel snow off the roof (note- it's best not to shovel all of the snow, as you'll slip and fall to a painful death- always leave a 'walking path' of the snow to escape back down the ladder).
My house sits at 60F. I'm comfortable. My work is allowed to fluctuate between 72 and 81 degrees- which is a royal pain. All to save 'money'.
Hey! If my GF can't cross stitch anymore, she'll drag me back up to the bedroom. Please oh please don't make her do that- Vote to allow "Cross Stitching" for personal use only. If you don't, I don't know how my prostate will hold up...
*please note needles and scissors should still be banned from planes, wheras sharp metal pens and tubes of metallic epoxy should be allowed
... bullet holes, I'm all for it.
... yeah those ads won't bother most people after that. KILL'EM!
AA, open up with the saw
Hrmmm. Just what I honestly needed- more intrusions hawking products I don't need. Sigh.