While this criticism is overblown, the literature of open source is richer on the subject of debugging than design.
Don't think much of other people's opinions, do you? Yes, lets discount every opinion that is in disagreement.*sarc*
Of course, I personally agree there needs to be a strong form of 'copied' features because, frankly, if every app I use has it's buttons in different spots, I'd go insane trying to remember them. MS has led the way here and if it's not FILE EDIT VIEW then it's not right. But new, breathtaking features? Well, alpha skins looks good. But I think thats all I've seen so far I like.
You'll have speed lost indeed, but you'll also get some tremendous fog. Kodak has some recommendations at their website for tips on how to develop old film- freezing helps but you still get radiation.... not to mention losses that occurr as the latent image degrades by losing Ag centers.
Interesting thought- now randomize them. Or make them.5 - as in can't tell the level. Leave a bunch out. Skip a few. Now throw in a compression algorithm. Whats this, missing pixels? Whacked Code Values (CV). Or worse yet,corrupt data that can't be read.
... a few years back in the merger a friend of mine was murdered by a drunk driver. His webpage was all that was left. It took some time and some emailing but eventually a person started a correspondance and got it all back up.
YMMV but I bet if you just cycle thru and eventually do enough abuse accounts you'll get a response- but be polite.
Great technology, but again, remember back when they announced 100 gigs on a CDROM? Seems storage size is getting smaller;P
When I see someone manufacturing it, I'll be impressed, but until then.....
oh yeah- don't forget- just how long would it take to back this up (should it ever become RW?) At SCSI 120mb/sec..... right, you get the picture.
Re:Open Source Pioneers? Or $$$ Saving?
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It's $$$ Savings all the way. Remember, they are the ones that will make the rules and the rules won't apply to them. So if they want to edit their files on Linux and follow the GPL, great- they will. The rest of us will have to deal with the restrictions.
They will have their cake and eat it, too- just because they use Linux doesn't mean they (the executives) are suddenly going to rethink all of their plans- in fact, I'd say they are finding out how EASY it is to do this and thus scaring themselves more.
Its not going away, unfortunately, unless everyone unites and refuses to buy- that'll stop it.
In fact, I've come to grips with a new theory- it's one that we are all really part of a gigantic battery that powers some robots. Therefore everything about getting to the moon was nothing more than a computer simulation plugged directly into our collective concious....
Sad thing is, I know people that have been told that. Heh. 64 nodes that take 3 months to make 1 calculation....... unbelievable (and these are no slowpokes, 1ghz, 1.6ghz chips)......
- Hey, it's simple. Really. Book a flight overseas. Pick a return date. Figure out what to do once you get there and just DO stuff. There has GOT to be somet things you'd like to see- Eiffel Tower, Louver, Rome, etc- you know what you WANT to do, so go do it!
I did the same thing, disappeared for a month. Hooked up with total strangers for a couple of days. Drifted apart. Took pictures
No one can make a trip but you- and if it doesn't work out you'll have only your geeky self to blame rather than that 'stupid slashdot crowd'. Figure out what you want out of life and do it, or do you have absolutely no iniative?
I have a friend that demo'd this to some students- they stirred the mixture with a glass rod- unfortunately the shear increase was far greater than they expected (even during their tests for some reason) and the rod snapped into 3 pieces- 2 of which lacerated and punctured her hand quite severely.
Be careful on ANY demonstration that you have not rehearesed completely, and, as corny as this sounds (no pun intended), hold a 'review' session with your peers to make sure you have considered all things that could go wrong.
Not likelyl. However if it was a BW image PRINTED on colour paper (developed via RA-4) then yes, you can get a colour tone to it There are other possibilities. A true BW image is silver based - what you see are fixed silver grains. You could have that printed selenium toned, which would give you a slightly purple print and leave behind Selenium Sulfide (i think...)... which is the most practical permanent print you can make. No way for that to be oxidized and removed... very very permanent.
Now you've also mentioned development of film- yes. This plays quite a roll but believe it or not film is developed (as in research) to be quite tolerant of processing mistakes. Yeah you can give film a colour cast thru improper development but more likely than not what you are seeing is a printing error. The Pro lab I used to work for charged $4.00 for a 4x6 that was custom printed. Yes you bet that skin tone was dead on- a 4x6 machine print cost $0.46. I could make 10 of those for the same cost, and probably get to the right tone, but then you are limited by machine buttons (which was I believe 15% increments, or about 10cc (colour correction) filter levels).
Most all developing fluids are seasoned (you refer to them as aged). Thats out of necessity- it's far cheaper to buy and replenish than to mix anew, and it's also more reliable from a standpoint of quality. Occasionally you have to dump a tank and start over but that's a very traumatic experience for all involved (and usually involves running lots of seasoner (exposed but unimportant film/paper) to bring the Bromide levels back to normal).
The biggest problem in photo is metamerism from your description- how can you get a system with 3 dyes to mimic what you see in artwork where the spectrals are all over the place.... even with extremely careful colour management you are going to suffer. I think there is a place that uses 10 inks to reproduce artwork (might be you?)... it's difficult, expensive, laborious but gives great results. It's all about covering the spectrum... and 3 is good, but 10 is much better:)
Anyway, I've rambled quite far from BW colour casts.... post processing is most likely responsible for it.
Given a large impact that engulfs some 20% of the land mass in flame...
Said impact ejecta would be thrown up and into the stratosphere, circle, and land somewhere opposite (say 3/4) around the globe. More impacts, more fire. Lots of soot to block out light.
I can see a 'ring' of debris specifically targetting the tropics region, but i just have trouble dealing with the numbers of objects required to decrease the light that significantly resulting in a sphere of Earths size being cooled that significantly.
Suffice to say, the ring is there, but I'd still throw my support behind half the planet burning up as a more tangible reason.
Thats funny, I discovered this commercial app that used something similiar to it. Fortunately I recognized that a truly distant host allowed me to guestimate what the numbers would be.... and I successfully reverse engineered the software.
Good news, credit card numbers and company secrets were soon mine!
Because people will find the restrictions easier to swallow. They'll accept it since its, say, 20% painful instead of 100% painful.
And then in another year, after our collective memory has faded.... it'll be 40% painful.... then 60%... then soon you'll find a coin slot next to your 3 gig floppy drive to pay for copywritten letters that make up the emails you are reading.
Once down the slippery slope, the only way to stop is to either dig in or hit the bottom.
Oh, you can also scan film at extended bit depth (not '16 bit colour' but '16 bit density' - they arent the same thing)... which generates huge files (compress nicely, tho.... but still).
Or you can drumscan chromes to get images that are around 120 meg to 250 megs.... and if you are particularily anal (no pun intended) you can scan up to 8000 lpi to print at 400 lpi...
So these files are 'active' in use, until they get archived. As you know most CDroms dont transfer all that fast (except the true 72x one that used what, 7 beams?) so moving them on/off media is a bit of a pain...
So submitting a story joking about porn will get you on the front page of Slashdot. Interesting.
I'm a photograper. At any given point there are usually 30 gigs of uncompressed TIFF files and 60 to 90 gigs of 12 bit RAW data floating around my room. Most, obviously, are kept on CDs... most computers cant simply comprehend the amount of space required for high quality imaging.
If they SERIOUSLY sell the 320 gig for 300$, it will be my newest HD. At less than a dollar a gig, its better than the staples deals with the 80 gig ATA133 maxtors...
Yes, you can need disk space for something other than MP3, DivX, and Porn.
other than the fact a camera obscura operates around f128, which is 14 stops less light, which works out to make it impossible to contrast to with normal viewing conditions. unless u add a photo multiplier tubes....
Which is why these boxes will continue to show up as fancy tax-writeoffs for companies As soon as the consumer is deemed intelligent not enough to lie, cheat, and steal, all the push for DRM will go away. The companies behind this only want whats best for us.
And yeah, I believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Gnomes:_)
Re:Whoa: Now every little watercooling kit posted?
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Actually, the pump is run off a 120 volt line external to the computer, but plugged into the same surge supressor (and hence the UPS) as the computer. Unplugging it reboots.
Come to think of it i've been dying slowly to the unstable regime. I think my chips going, even if my block / cpu temps are 8 over ambient.
The pump is a RIO, 200 or 300 gph (cost about 15 or 20$).
Diode would kinda kill teh AC:)
Whoa: Now every little watercooling kit posted?
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I'm not one to begrudge a nice review, but on 1 water cooling kit with nothing special?
The water cooling phenomenon is pretty common right now- I'd love to go on about my current issues around a ground-phase loop (i unplug the pump, the computer reboots) but that isn't relevant.
Now if this was an informative article about a number of different water cooling kits, then yes, I think that would deserve a large posting. (yes, the server is slashdotted already). However, I'd say this is more like direct marketing. There isn't even a link to the manufacturer's link in the slashdot posting, making it impossible to even review the that. Water cooling is very expensive- pumps run 40$, blocks run 30$, tubing and fittings run 20$, radiators run 50$...... Anyway... thanks for the direct markting blurb, but i think there are more professional ways to advertise a product:)
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While this criticism is overblown, the literature of open source is richer on the subject of debugging than design.
Don't think much of other people's opinions, do you? Yes, lets discount every opinion that is in disagreement.*sarc*
Of course, I personally agree there needs to be a strong form of 'copied' features because, frankly, if every app I use has it's buttons in different spots, I'd go insane trying to remember them. MS has led the way here and if it's not FILE EDIT VIEW then it's not right. But new, breathtaking features? Well, alpha skins looks good. But I think thats all I've seen so far I like.
You'll have speed lost indeed, but you'll also get some tremendous fog. Kodak has some recommendations at their website for tips on how to develop old film- freezing helps but you still get radiation .... not to mention losses that occurr as the latent image degrades by losing Ag centers.
I can dig up the link if ur really interested..
One or Zero - your choice?
.5 - as in can't tell the level. Leave a bunch out. Skip a few. Now throw in a compression algorithm. Whats this, missing pixels? Whacked Code Values (CV). Or worse yet,corrupt data that can't be read.
Interesting thought- now randomize them. Or make them
One or Zero indeed.
Because if it was my digital VCR tapes from 8 years ago, the only thing they are good for is imitating sparklers when tossed in a fire.
Analog fails gracefully, digital fails catastrophically.
You think I'm kidding about this? It took nearly 6 months to get everything back in order after they wiped it.
I'd post the page but frankly I don't think it'd be appreciated.
And yes, politeness counts, as well as the links to his death in the newspapers / court cases.
... a few years back in the merger a friend of mine was murdered by a drunk driver. His webpage was all that was left. It took some time and some emailing but eventually a person started a correspondance and got it all back up.
YMMV but I bet if you just cycle thru and eventually do enough abuse accounts you'll get a response- but be polite.
... he's one of us and everyone else is jealous of the fact that not only did he have the skills but the business sense to cash in on it all?
Oh, thats right, the whole struggling 'artist' concept applies- it's good to suffer the injustices of the majority for your craft....
Great technology, but again, remember back when they announced 100 gigs on a CDROM? Seems storage size is getting smaller ;P
When I see someone manufacturing it, I'll be impressed, but until then.....
oh yeah- don't forget- just how long would it take to back this up (should it ever become RW?) At SCSI 120mb/sec..... right, you get the picture.
It's $$$ Savings all the way. Remember, they are the ones that will make the rules and the rules won't apply to them. So if they want to edit their files on Linux and follow the GPL, great- they will. The rest of us will have to deal with the restrictions.
They will have their cake and eat it, too- just because they use Linux doesn't mean they (the executives) are suddenly going to rethink all of their plans- in fact, I'd say they are finding out how EASY it is to do this and thus scaring themselves more.
Its not going away, unfortunately, unless everyone unites and refuses to buy- that'll stop it.
In fact, I've come to grips with a new theory- it's one that we are all really part of a gigantic battery that powers some robots. Therefore everything about getting to the moon was nothing more than a computer simulation plugged directly into our collective concious....
;P
-thats humour for you
Sad thing is, I know people that have been told that. Heh. 64 nodes that take 3 months to make 1 calculation....... unbelievable (and these are no slowpokes, 1ghz, 1.6ghz chips)......
I mean, who would manage to forget that MS actually makes money.
Come to think of it, glancing down that list of companies.... MS seems to be the only one making ANY money.
Sorry, ya'll, but it seems that 'appropriate' MS bashing will indeed get you an article on SlashDot.
And really, this isn't a troll, this is disgust at having actually read thru what I thought was going to be an interesting read.
- Hey, it's simple. Really. Book a flight overseas. Pick a return date. Figure out what to do once you get there and just DO stuff. There has GOT to be somet things you'd like to see- Eiffel Tower, Louver, Rome, etc- you know what you WANT to do, so go do it!
I did the same thing, disappeared for a month. Hooked up with total strangers for a couple of days. Drifted apart. Took pictures
No one can make a trip but you- and if it doesn't work out you'll have only your geeky self to blame rather than that 'stupid slashdot crowd'. Figure out what you want out of life and do it, or do you have absolutely no iniative?
I have a friend that demo'd this to some students- they stirred the mixture with a glass rod- unfortunately the shear increase was far greater than they expected (even during their tests for some reason) and the rod snapped into 3 pieces- 2 of which lacerated and punctured her hand quite severely.
Be careful on ANY demonstration that you have not rehearesed completely, and, as corny as this sounds (no pun intended), hold a 'review' session with your peers to make sure you have considered all things that could go wrong.
or some form of pulse modulated laser. Best still would just pick a spectral response that the cameras see that humans do not- easily accomplished.
Not likelyl. However if it was a BW image PRINTED on colour paper (developed via RA-4) then yes, you can get a colour tone to it
:)
There are other possibilities. A true BW image is silver based - what you see are fixed silver grains. You could have that printed selenium toned, which would give you a slightly purple print and leave behind Selenium Sulfide (i think...)... which is the most practical permanent print you can make. No way for that to be oxidized and removed... very very permanent.
Now you've also mentioned development of film- yes. This plays quite a roll but believe it or not film is developed (as in research) to be quite tolerant of processing mistakes. Yeah you can give film a colour cast thru improper development but more likely than not what you are seeing is a printing error. The Pro lab I used to work for charged $4.00 for a 4x6 that was custom printed. Yes you bet that skin tone was dead on- a 4x6 machine print cost $0.46. I could make 10 of those for the same cost, and probably get to the right tone, but then you are limited by machine buttons (which was I believe 15% increments, or about 10cc (colour correction) filter levels).
Most all developing fluids are seasoned (you refer to them as aged). Thats out of necessity- it's far cheaper to buy and replenish than to mix anew, and it's also more reliable from a standpoint of quality. Occasionally you have to dump a tank and start over but that's a very traumatic experience for all involved (and usually involves running lots of seasoner (exposed but unimportant film/paper) to bring the Bromide levels back to normal).
The biggest problem in photo is metamerism from your description- how can you get a system with 3 dyes to mimic what you see in artwork where the spectrals are all over the place.... even with extremely careful colour management you are going to suffer. I think there is a place that uses 10 inks to reproduce artwork (might be you?)... it's difficult, expensive, laborious but gives great results. It's all about covering the spectrum... and 3 is good, but 10 is much better
Anyway, I've rambled quite far from BW colour casts.... post processing is most likely responsible for it.
Given a large impact that engulfs some 20% of the land mass in flame...
Said impact ejecta would be thrown up and into the stratosphere, circle, and land somewhere opposite (say 3/4) around the globe. More impacts, more fire. Lots of soot to block out light.
I can see a 'ring' of debris specifically targetting the tropics region, but i just have trouble dealing with the numbers of objects required to decrease the light that significantly resulting in a sphere of Earths size being cooled that significantly.
Suffice to say, the ring is there, but I'd still throw my support behind half the planet burning up as a more tangible reason.
Thats funny, I discovered this commercial app that used something similiar to it. Fortunately I recognized that a truly distant host allowed me to guestimate what the numbers would be.... and I successfully reverse engineered the software.
Good news, credit card numbers and company secrets were soon mine!
Because people will find the restrictions easier to swallow. They'll accept it since its, say, 20% painful instead of 100% painful.
And then in another year, after our collective memory has faded.... it'll be 40% painful.... then 60%... then soon you'll find a coin slot next to your 3 gig floppy drive to pay for copywritten letters that make up the emails you are reading.
Once down the slippery slope, the only way to stop is to either dig in or hit the bottom.
Oh, you can also scan film at extended bit depth (not '16 bit colour' but '16 bit density' - they arent the same thing)... which generates huge files (compress nicely, tho.... but still).
Or you can drumscan chromes to get images that are around 120 meg to 250 megs.... and if you are particularily anal (no pun intended) you can scan up to 8000 lpi to print at 400 lpi...
So these files are 'active' in use, until they get archived. As you know most CDroms dont transfer all that fast (except the true 72x one that used what, 7 beams?) so moving them on/off media is a bit of a pain...
Anyways, Digital is fun, but I still love my AgX.
So submitting a story joking about porn will get you on the front page of Slashdot. Interesting.
I'm a photograper. At any given point there are usually 30 gigs of uncompressed TIFF files and 60 to 90 gigs of 12 bit RAW data floating around my room. Most, obviously, are kept on CDs... most computers cant simply comprehend the amount of space required for high quality imaging.
If they SERIOUSLY sell the 320 gig for 300$, it will be my newest HD. At less than a dollar a gig, its better than the staples deals with the 80 gig ATA133 maxtors...
Yes, you can need disk space for something other than MP3, DivX, and Porn.
other than the fact a camera obscura operates around f128, which is 14 stops less light, which works out to make it impossible to contrast to with normal viewing conditions. unless u add a photo multiplier tubes....
Which is why these boxes will continue to show up as fancy tax-writeoffs for companies
:_)
As soon as the consumer is deemed intelligent not enough to lie, cheat, and steal, all the push for DRM will go away. The companies behind this only want whats best for us.
And yeah, I believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Gnomes
Actually, the pump is run off a 120 volt line external to the computer, but plugged into the same surge supressor (and hence the UPS) as the computer. Unplugging it reboots.
:)
Come to think of it i've been dying slowly to the unstable regime. I think my chips going, even if my block / cpu temps are 8 over ambient.
The pump is a RIO, 200 or 300 gph (cost about 15 or 20$).
Diode would kinda kill teh AC
I'm not one to begrudge a nice review, but on 1 water cooling kit with nothing special?
:)
The water cooling phenomenon is pretty common right now- I'd love to go on about my current issues around a ground-phase loop (i unplug the pump, the computer reboots) but that isn't relevant.
Now if this was an informative article about a number of different water cooling kits, then yes, I think that would deserve a large posting. (yes, the server is slashdotted already).
However, I'd say this is more like direct marketing. There isn't even a link to the manufacturer's link in the slashdot posting, making it impossible to even review the that.
Water cooling is very expensive- pumps run 40$, blocks run 30$, tubing and fittings run 20$, radiators run 50$......
Anyway... thanks for the direct markting blurb, but i think there are more professional ways to advertise a product