A friend of mine was hired by a company that was doing this work for Google. When the schools pulled out, out went his job.
The camera system they had was great- using Canon 1Ds with a mirror, a page flipper, and no book was opened past 45 degrees (I believe- I'm doing this from memory).
Until they sell the account to the next collection agency. And the next. And the next. They're never required to maintain my innocence when they turn the file back in... so I get hit again and again and again...
But I do like your idea- I usually react without requesting an addy. Your way is much smarter.
This is very well written and I agree with every statement.
While I can't read the article, there should be a mechanism for her account to be re-instated- a 'white listing' that proves she has been validated. As was said, no one has a 'right' to a myspace profile. Those that say "Free Speech" mis understand the intended purpose- the Government can not Censor a Newspaper... not whether or not a company can let you post (baring discrimination based upon gender, race, orientation, ability, or intelligence).
I share the same name as a debtor, his calls come to my house. I have a 3" thick file on him. The government can do nothing to protect me, and there are no laws on the books to stop them from harassing me. Today's a good day- I can make light of it. Catch me on a bad day and I'll be in a foul mood for a week after one of their harassing phone calls.
In the end she'll work it out, I'm sure- if all else the press generated will pressure the company to reinstate the profile. Which is as the system should be.
Got a similar one. LCD used analog scan (could make out the scan lines) and the brightness/contrast wasn't so hot. To boot, the cheap little tube died after 6 months of use.
I have another one (same make/model) for sale- yours for 70$.
Most of the time the resolution is just too low on these units to be worth much. Nothing lower than 1024x768 or you'll regret it. High quality LCD panels are expensive, but it is possible to drive (say) a 17" panel for 200$ plus a cheap computer (such as the VIA Micro boards).
All in all... every commercial example I've seen for under 200$ hasn't been worth the money. I've looked...
I'm in the same boat. We constantly test LCDs at work to recommend to various customers which ones to go with for their next massive purchase. Several displays have been 'hot' for doing temporal dithering. Problem is... I see the noise patterns it produces, and it gives me a rather nasty headache. Statistically we are under-represented, but the customer will more than likely have a greater percentage of these younger, well-visioned individuals, so this becomes a problem.
We also work with manufacturers to get new technologies based upon the HVS (Human Visual System) implemented. Supposedly there are new displays coming that address even some of the issues out there- but temporal dithering is here to stay until it's displaced by a more impulse-decay system.
And... I'm of the personal opinion that temporal dithering messes with your heads. Several coworkers all have the same LCD panel. Each one notices they get headaches from the display, but none say anything about it to the others. At one point, another coworker gets the same LCD and gets diagnosed with Epilepsy 3 months afterwards, after getting increased headaches...
Ethanol boosted fuel economy by 'cooling' down the temperature just prior to ignition. This technique uses computer modeling (can we say $$$) to know how the cycle is progressing.
I say Great- but lets face it, you won't be able to work on your own car anymore. Then again... it's been difficult enough to do that for several years, with those whiz-bang computer thingies mucking it up.
At least it's not quite that bad here yet. But give it a few years!
What country are YOU posting from? There is hardly ANYTHING censored in the US- and yes, I recognize that you are attempting sarcasm, but it's rather pathetic. There are several dozen things that I wish were censored, but aren't, and that's a good thing too.
And yes, you can be executed in Iran if you perform Immoral Activities. Shall we wait for that to come to a US City nearest you, too now?
I tend to post alot about film because it's something I know. Which is why this is another humorous topic because Film has been dealing with this problem for years!
When a photon strikes a grain of Silver Halide (AgX, where X is chloride or bromide) it knocks an electron free. This is really a poor process, so people coat the grains with sensitizing dye that increases the area available and helps to shunt the electron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanine) into the crystal structure. The fastest grains were the T-Grains- they were very flat, large surface area and thin- but hard to make.
So it's very interesting to me to see a company touting the dye problem... maybe Kodak ought to pull out some of those useless dye colours and get them into Solar Cells...
(The fastest film was TMZ3200, with a nominal speed of 800, but could easily be pushed to 6400 ISO or higher. I know I personally shot in some crappy lighting conditions at 12500 and higher...)
Our 'organization' has a similar situation - they will have about 200gb of data coming in per day, yet only have 2.5 TB of data storage (Raid 5). It's hillarious when the engineers tell management that the solution isn't workable- they don't listen, and they 'dismiss' anyone that 'can't provide productive feedback'.
At least there's an answer out there, I'll read up on this and see if there isn't a way around it.
I *realize* they aren't talking about O2 free rooms. Perhaps I should have picked a better article closer to nitrogen asphyxiation then one advocating it's use for the death penalty. My bad.
I was *trying* to point out that you don't want to get too carried away by 'inerting' areas because there are consequences- while you may become sleepy and tired from CO poisoning, or disoriented, hot, and suffocating from CO2 poisoning, people will not experience warning symptoms with N2 poisoning- they'll simply keel over. That's it- zip, nada- I'm all for fire-safing server rooms (GO HALON!). No motive to discredit this technology- and no interest IN discrediting it. Just simple information that your average person might not have known about...
And you'll get into trouble with the N2/O2 becomes about 95%- there's not enough O2 partial pressure (Depending on your lung capacity and general health) without the addition of helium- that N2 has to dissolve somewhere, too...
Thanks, but like I said... I did read the article. The only moron here is yourself for your rapid, nonsense spouted response.
Nitrogen pools. We have several cryo tanks at work that regularly deplete thru displacement the oxygen content of their storage facility. They have to have a fan running 24x7 to sweep fresh air over and above the tanks to prevent anyone from getting injured.
I was simply pointing to those that might not have the experience the problems of a pure nitrogen environment, which wasn't discussed (since you read the article, right?- Funny how they left off the non-fatal aspects of oxygen deprivation).
Thanks for playing. Go sit in the corner until you can be constructive again.
Among other things, a Kodak safety lecture discussed an employee that modified his Bullard Hood hose connection. He accidently hooked it up to a Nitrogen line. Three breaths later, he was unconscious, and he was dead before anyone could resuscitate him.
They'd better make damn sure NO ONE can defeat the safeties to get into that room. You'll never know what hits you.
They tried that on BestBuy when BB sued FatWallet.com for posting their BlackThursday ads. I wanted to see a lawyer rot in jail, but they got themselves off.
I backpacked for a month- internet cafe's to send home pics, little handheld units to back up data (2x incase one was damaged), and that was all I needed.
Unless of course this isn't a vacation for you- if it is a vacation, don't lose yourself in your gadgetry. You don't need it. Relax.
(And if you take that macbook pro, I'll give it a life of about 3 days after someone sees you with it...)
Genetics works over time. I don't see a miracle happening where we are breeding at the rate of bacteria to go thru hundreds of generations to breed 'fat' people.
My parents weren't fat. My grandparents weren't fat- at least in the old bw photos I saw. My grandparents parents weren't fat, so far as we can tell from their pics.
I'm overweight. In fact, by the new guidelines, I'm obese- 230lbs / 6'2".
Frankly, I blame the chinese. Food that is- it's too good eatin... now where's my 5lbs for 5$ special coupon...
They had it posted on YouTube, and a student I was mentoring for FIRST Robotics had sent me the link. I was laughing so hard that I didn't hear them walk into the room on an un-official tour. When they came to my spot I had to recover, so I pointed out that this was what a student wanted to do for his robot (I am SO going to burn in hell) and that I had to figure out a way to dissuade them.
Fortunately, I recognized the client (and they me) so they joined right in on the fun.
I'll give'em credit tho- anyone that can put a beer spot on the money like that deserves what happens when they drink Bud.
At Kodak when we needed 'black' to capture no matter how much light was tossed on the film (for targets) we used a special designed prism- it consisted of 4 highly polished black angled walls and an aperture that, given any direction light would enter, would require a minimum of 4x reflections in order to exit.
Each of the walls reflected 0.1% of the light.... so the entire setup reflected 0.1^4 (%).... or about 'nothing'.
Anyway... The real reason I posted here is there's a guy on Ebay selling virtual backdrops. He bought a whole bunch from one of the photography forumns, and then photographed them in- and cells a single chroma key background, with the CD of the other background. He's making a pretty penny:)
... Every machine that comes to me for service has one requirement: No Norton. Take norton off, and people are *amazed* at how much faster their machines run.
I substitute Free-av.com for Norton- better infection detection, less memory overhead, free (with the option of buying a license- I usually guilt them into doing it), and nightly upgrades.
Digimarc was great- I loved them. It was hillarious to see images marked and then 'remarked' by hacking the program to re-watermark the image. The original mark wasn't recoverable.
I haven't bought music in a long while except used CDs off of ebay. Why? Because there is no such thing as DRM and Classical music. There is NO market for this- and MP3'd material is present poorly at 128kbps instead of 384kbps/vbr. Why would I waste my money (if it was offered) to purchase music that spans the complete tonal and then chop it down to inferior quality?
The Bach Partita #2 is a very-often recorded piece. Amazon lists 657 different 'featured' artists that have CDs with that search term. I own 5 different versions of the same music, on CD,- Jascha Heifetz, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, and two others I can't recall off the top of my head. You don't have this issue with 'mainstream' music- there aren't 300 different bands trying to record the same music Red Hot Chili Peppers has done- and provide their own artistic interpretations of it.
So I sit and watch the DRM debate with saddened eyes- the music I want will never be offered... and there's nothing I can do about it (Classical Nerds UNITE!... not gonna happen).
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A friend of mine was hired by a company that was doing this work for Google. When the schools pulled out, out went his job.
The camera system they had was great- using Canon 1Ds with a mirror, a page flipper, and no book was opened past 45 degrees (I believe- I'm doing this from memory).
Would have been a nice job....
*grin*
That's how it works for me too.
Until they sell the account to the next collection agency. And the next. And the next. They're never required to maintain my innocence when they turn the file back in... so I get hit again and again and again...
But I do like your idea- I usually react without requesting an addy. Your way is much smarter.
This is very well written and I agree with every statement.
While I can't read the article, there should be a mechanism for her account to be re-instated- a 'white listing' that proves she has been validated. As was said, no one has a 'right' to a myspace profile. Those that say "Free Speech" mis understand the intended purpose- the Government can not Censor a Newspaper... not whether or not a company can let you post (baring discrimination based upon gender, race, orientation, ability, or intelligence).
I share the same name as a debtor, his calls come to my house. I have a 3" thick file on him. The government can do nothing to protect me, and there are no laws on the books to stop them from harassing me. Today's a good day- I can make light of it. Catch me on a bad day and I'll be in a foul mood for a week after one of their harassing phone calls.
In the end she'll work it out, I'm sure- if all else the press generated will pressure the company to reinstate the profile. Which is as the system should be.
Got a similar one. LCD used analog scan (could make out the scan lines) and the brightness/contrast wasn't so hot. To boot, the cheap little tube died after 6 months of use.
I have another one (same make/model) for sale- yours for 70$.
Most of the time the resolution is just too low on these units to be worth much. Nothing lower than 1024x768 or you'll regret it. High quality LCD panels are expensive, but it is possible to drive (say) a 17" panel for 200$ plus a cheap computer (such as the VIA Micro boards).
All in all... every commercial example I've seen for under 200$ hasn't been worth the money. I've looked...
I'm in the same boat. We constantly test LCDs at work to recommend to various customers which ones to go with for their next massive purchase. Several displays have been 'hot' for doing temporal dithering. Problem is... I see the noise patterns it produces, and it gives me a rather nasty headache. Statistically we are under-represented, but the customer will more than likely have a greater percentage of these younger, well-visioned individuals, so this becomes a problem.
... I'm of the personal opinion that temporal dithering messes with your heads. Several coworkers all have the same LCD panel. Each one notices they get headaches from the display, but none say anything about it to the others. At one point, another coworker gets the same LCD and gets diagnosed with Epilepsy 3 months afterwards, after getting increased headaches...
We also work with manufacturers to get new technologies based upon the HVS (Human Visual System) implemented. Supposedly there are new displays coming that address even some of the issues out there- but temporal dithering is here to stay until it's displaced by a more impulse-decay system.
And
I hate temporal dithering.
Exactly.
Ethanol boosted fuel economy by 'cooling' down the temperature just prior to ignition. This technique uses computer modeling (can we say $$$) to know how the cycle is progressing.
I say Great- but lets face it, you won't be able to work on your own car anymore. Then again... it's been difficult enough to do that for several years, with those whiz-bang computer thingies mucking it up.
Go Boilers!
At least it's not quite that bad here yet. But give it a few years!
What country are YOU posting from? There is hardly ANYTHING censored in the US- and yes, I recognize that you are attempting sarcasm, but it's rather pathetic. There are several dozen things that I wish were censored, but aren't, and that's a good thing too.
And yes, you can be executed in Iran if you perform Immoral Activities. Shall we wait for that to come to a US City nearest you, too now?
Dye Ink costs about 1 to 15$ per gallon to manufacture. Milled ink (methanol milled nano-particulate pigment ink) is about 3x the cost.
I used to work for Kodak.
They can dump better ink at lower prices all over the market. HP does NOT want to get into an ink pricing war- everyone would lose.
I tend to post alot about film because it's something I know. Which is why this is another humorous topic because Film has been dealing with this problem for years!
When a photon strikes a grain of Silver Halide (AgX, where X is chloride or bromide) it knocks an electron free. This is really a poor process, so people coat the grains with sensitizing dye that increases the area available and helps to shunt the electron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanine) into the crystal structure. The fastest grains were the T-Grains- they were very flat, large surface area and thin- but hard to make.
So it's very interesting to me to see a company touting the dye problem... maybe Kodak ought to pull out some of those useless dye colours and get them into Solar Cells...
(The fastest film was TMZ3200, with a nominal speed of 800, but could easily be pushed to 6400 ISO or higher. I know I personally shot in some crappy lighting conditions at 12500 and higher...)
Interesting.
Our 'organization' has a similar situation - they will have about 200gb of data coming in per day, yet only have 2.5 TB of data storage (Raid 5). It's hillarious when the engineers tell management that the solution isn't workable- they don't listen, and they 'dismiss' anyone that 'can't provide productive feedback'.
At least there's an answer out there, I'll read up on this and see if there isn't a way around it.
http://www.solardeathray.com/
You can use the CDs to focus the sun's energy to a point and make a solar death ray! It's fun- all you need is a little epoxy!
A PhD Chemist in Rochester, NY (guess the company) contracting- 200K
A PhD Chemist in China, contracting- 30K
And yes, you don't have to worry what happens if they have an accident...
China: Where your dollar goes 7x further.
Thank you. At least someone understood my points...
*sigh*
I *realize* they aren't talking about O2 free rooms. Perhaps I should have picked a better article closer to nitrogen asphyxiation then one advocating it's use for the death penalty. My bad.
I was *trying* to point out that you don't want to get too carried away by 'inerting' areas because there are consequences- while you may become sleepy and tired from CO poisoning, or disoriented, hot, and suffocating from CO2 poisoning, people will not experience warning symptoms with N2 poisoning- they'll simply keel over. That's it- zip, nada- I'm all for fire-safing server rooms (GO HALON!). No motive to discredit this technology- and no interest IN discrediting it. Just simple information that your average person might not have known about...
And you'll get into trouble with the N2/O2 becomes about 95%- there's not enough O2 partial pressure (Depending on your lung capacity and general health) without the addition of helium- that N2 has to dissolve somewhere, too...
Thanks, but like I said... I did read the article. The only moron here is yourself for your rapid, nonsense spouted response.
Nitrogen pools. We have several cryo tanks at work that regularly deplete thru displacement the oxygen content of their storage facility. They have to have a fan running 24x7 to sweep fresh air over and above the tanks to prevent anyone from getting injured.
I was simply pointing to those that might not have the experience the problems of a pure nitrogen environment, which wasn't discussed (since you read the article, right?- Funny how they left off the non-fatal aspects of oxygen deprivation).
Thanks for playing. Go sit in the corner until you can be constructive again.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is _n17_v47/ai_17374449
Among other things, a Kodak safety lecture discussed an employee that modified his Bullard Hood hose connection. He accidently hooked it up to a Nitrogen line. Three breaths later, he was unconscious, and he was dead before anyone could resuscitate him.
They'd better make damn sure NO ONE can defeat the safeties to get into that room. You'll never know what hits you.
They tried that on BestBuy when BB sued FatWallet.com for posting their BlackThursday ads. I wanted to see a lawyer rot in jail, but they got themselves off.
Yes, pun intended.
I backpacked for a month- internet cafe's to send home pics, little handheld units to back up data (2x incase one was damaged), and that was all I needed.
Unless of course this isn't a vacation for you- if it is a vacation, don't lose yourself in your gadgetry. You don't need it. Relax.
(And if you take that macbook pro, I'll give it a life of about 3 days after someone sees you with it...)
Agreed.
Genetics works over time. I don't see a miracle happening where we are breeding at the rate of bacteria to go thru hundreds of generations to breed 'fat' people.
My parents weren't fat. My grandparents weren't fat- at least in the old bw photos I saw. My grandparents parents weren't fat, so far as we can tell from their pics.
I'm overweight. In fact, by the new guidelines, I'm obese- 230lbs / 6'2".
Frankly, I blame the chinese. Food that is- it's too good eatin... now where's my 5lbs for 5$ special coupon...
with a new client.
Talk about awkward.
They had it posted on YouTube, and a student I was mentoring for FIRST Robotics had sent me the link. I was laughing so hard that I didn't hear them walk into the room on an un-official tour. When they came to my spot I had to recover, so I pointed out that this was what a student wanted to do for his robot (I am SO going to burn in hell) and that I had to figure out a way to dissuade them.
Fortunately, I recognized the client (and they me) so they joined right in on the fun.
I'll give'em credit tho- anyone that can put a beer spot on the money like that deserves what happens when they drink Bud.
At Kodak when we needed 'black' to capture no matter how much light was tossed on the film (for targets) we used a special designed prism- it consisted of 4 highly polished black angled walls and an aperture that, given any direction light would enter, would require a minimum of 4x reflections in order to exit.
:)
Each of the walls reflected 0.1% of the light.... so the entire setup reflected 0.1^4 (%).... or about 'nothing'.
Anyway... The real reason I posted here is there's a guy on Ebay selling virtual backdrops. He bought a whole bunch from one of the photography forumns, and then photographed them in- and cells a single chroma key background, with the CD of the other background. He's making a pretty penny
So what you're saying is that this article is basically: The wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead- right?
... Every machine that comes to me for service has one requirement: No Norton. Take norton off, and people are *amazed* at how much faster their machines run.
I substitute Free-av.com for Norton- better infection detection, less memory overhead, free (with the option of buying a license- I usually guilt them into doing it), and nightly upgrades.
Digimarc was great- I loved them. It was hillarious to see images marked and then 'remarked' by hacking the program to re-watermark the image. The original mark wasn't recoverable.
http://www.woodmann.com/fravia/frogdigi.htm
Food for thought.
Pop rock, rap, Indie scene, punk... No thank you.
I haven't bought music in a long while except used CDs off of ebay. Why? Because there is no such thing as DRM and Classical music. There is NO market for this- and MP3'd material is present poorly at 128kbps instead of 384kbps/vbr. Why would I waste my money (if it was offered) to purchase music that spans the complete tonal and then chop it down to inferior quality?
The Bach Partita #2 is a very-often recorded piece. Amazon lists 657 different 'featured' artists that have CDs with that search term. I own 5 different versions of the same music, on CD,- Jascha Heifetz, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, and two others I can't recall off the top of my head. You don't have this issue with 'mainstream' music- there aren't 300 different bands trying to record the same music Red Hot Chili Peppers has done- and provide their own artistic interpretations of it.
So I sit and watch the DRM debate with saddened eyes- the music I want will never be offered... and there's nothing I can do about it (Classical Nerds UNITE!... not gonna happen).