Despite what most of you think there ARE copyright protection laws over there. They aren't enforced often, but they DO exist. So if RIAA goes through Interpol, or asks one of their Russian partners (major labels have presence there, too) to file a lawsuit, this site will be closed within a DAY.
Another issue is that there's no question in my mind that the musicians themselves aren't getting a dime off their sales. This is not fair, and this should be stopped. Musician should get his cut.
Do a simple experiment. Shoot the same scene (especially a portrait or a landscape) using a film and a digital SLR, from a tripod, using the same high quality lenses. Scan the film at 4000DPI. Sharpen the scanned image (lightness only, _slight_ sharpening). Compare the resulting scan (18MP) with what you got from your DSLR. Downsize it to what your DSLR can produce and compare again. The comparison will not be in DSLR's favor, and there's barely any grain visible in Fuji Provia and Velvia scans at 4000 DPI. You will also find that the same lenses perform A LOT better on film SLRs, especially at the edges of the frame. This is because of two reasons: acceptance angle (limited with digital sensors), and bayer pattern / AA filter (bayer pattern needs a lot better lenses to resolve the same amount of detail, due to smaller primary color photosites and AA filter).
Sure, film costs money and scanning it is a drag, but the results from a $100 film camera with $50 Canon 50mm lens blow away $8K Canon EOS 1Ds. It's a bit too early to declare film dead, dontcha think?
I'm actually thinking of selling my EOS 10D. Wanna buy it?
I have Nikon Coolscan V slide scanner, and there's no comparison between 4000 DPI scans (downsized) and 2000DPI ones. The ones that were scanned at higher resolution have LESS grain. This is a well known phenomenon, and this is exactly the reason why we have 4000 and 5400 DPI scanners available.
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Skin colors are too yellow, skies are too blue and the foliage looks dull. Nope, you can't correct this in Photoshop. So Foveon/Sigma will remain where they are right now for the foreseeable future. Nowhere.
>> my 2700dpi 35mm film scanner can pick up the grain
That's called "grain aliasing" my friend. Your film has a lot less grain than your scanner leads you to believe. Try scanning at 4000DPI or 5000DPI and THEN downsizing - you'll see that there's a lot less grain, and current crop of prosumer DSLRs are far behind in terms of resolution.
An experienced software developer has a LOT more potential than a freshly minted grad. It's this "been there done that" thing. Developers become a lot better when they spend five years on the job and go through a couple product cycles, ups, downs, deathmarches, etc. It's this "been there, done that, won't do it again" thing that they don't teach in college.
In Russia (not necessarily Soviet, though they had this back then, too) men have what they call "autopilot". They don't need no stinkin' smartphone when they're drunk. I've tried that multiple times and it works. Just leave it to whatever little part of your brain that is still functioning (that's what the autopilot is, essentially and this assumes that you haven't done drugs with your Vodka) and it'll get you home all by itself if you can walk. And I can walk no matter how much "load I've taken on my chest" (another Russian idiom).
Yes they are "losing" market share in terms of server count, and then only marginally. Where they gain marketshare is in enterprise area. More and more enterprise-level websites switch to ASP.NET from alternatives (source: Netcraft).
Every single god damn worm would not work if users would patch their god damn systems. That's not news. Tell me something new to support that "Linux is secure" myth.
Yeah, you can turn off all the junk in MS Money by unchecking one checkbox in properties. I know it's hard to believe, but it's that simple. And yeah, just about anything is superior to Quicken these days.
Just how outsourcing one of the highest-margin industries to another country and depleting hi-tech talent pool that takes decades (and shitloads of money) to rebuild helps the US economy.
It'd be also cool to hear someone from Federal Reserve System explain how long does this country expect to live in prosperity by simply exporting national debt while not manufacturing the actual _stuff_ (be it IP, goods, natural resources, etc.). There's gotta be a breaking point to this trend.
They've taken a lot of lessons from FOSS community, and the main lesson was to innovate where the competitor can't or won't - frameworks, managed runtime, consistent set of APIs, hardware accelerated UI, sql based FS, better shell scripting, better management/monitoring, etc. - all these things will blow up in FOSS community's face in year 2006 when Longhorn comes out. Suddenly everyone will find that FOSS is based on 10 years old technology and costs too much to develop for and maintain.
Longhorn is Microsoft's big bet, and they have an extraordinary history of delivering on those. They've done this with Windows 95, IE, Media Player, SQL Server, Exchange, NT,.NET Framework/CLR and a bunch of other things. Longorn is the biggest bet of them all, bigger than Windows 95 was in 1995.
reminds me of "revolutionary advance in toilet bowl cleaning technology" (believe it or not, they actually say this in commercials on american TV). Someone got their adjectives seriously wrong.:0)
for every product in EVERY software company. First PMs get together and throw a bunch of requirements at developers. Developers do some preliminary investigations and proof-of-concept work and estimate how long it will take them to write the damn things. Management multiplies this by 2 and that's how long it will take to test them. Then all of this is put into one big-ass schedule which usually in its first cut takes three times longer than it should. Then PMs and developers look at the schedule and remove non-critical pieces from it until the product becomes shippable in a reasonable timeframe. After all said and done this schedule will blow up 2 or 3 times in process and some more non-critical features will be cut, too. Heck, even some critical features may suffer.
The most important feature of every product is its shipping. You can have a perfect OS with all the features everyone wants, but if you haven't shipped it nobody gives a crap (and money either). You can cut back in two ways - on quality (which simply doesn't work for big projects because problems start stepping on each other's toes) and on features (which is what I believe is happening).
Help mother nature by leaving a 250-300W device running 24x7 and consuming electricity. And to produce this electricity, let's burn shitloads of coal and oil byproducts. Now that's a lot cleaner than an ounce of lead sitting somewhere in landfill.
The benefits are twofold: 1. They'll fuck it up and nobody will have to pay any taxes at all (thus by "Dubya logic" the economy will take off like crazy) 2. It'll be much cheaper overall to fuck this up. No $200M budget overruns
Mac Office folks have just released a new version. What should I ask them again? And yeah, non-core workforce ("contingent staff") is hired and fired when necessary. That's why it's "non-core". When there's not enough resources to do things on their own, MS hires contractors. Some of them end up working for MS for more than a year, some get hired after a year long employment, most get fired when they're done with the work assigned to them though. This is nothing new or "evil" for that matter. Heck, MS still employs US contractors even though they're a heck of a lot more expensive than a regular permanent employee. I'd expect all the contractors to be gone before layoffs begin (and IF they begin).
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Despite what most of you think there ARE copyright protection laws over there. They aren't enforced often, but they DO exist. So if RIAA goes through Interpol, or asks one of their Russian partners (major labels have presence there, too) to file a lawsuit, this site will be closed within a DAY.
Another issue is that there's no question in my mind that the musicians themselves aren't getting a dime off their sales. This is not fair, and this should be stopped. Musician should get his cut.
Do a simple experiment. Shoot the same scene (especially a portrait or a landscape) using a film and a digital SLR, from a tripod, using the same high quality lenses. Scan the film at 4000DPI. Sharpen the scanned image (lightness only, _slight_ sharpening). Compare the resulting scan (18MP) with what you got from your DSLR. Downsize it to what your DSLR can produce and compare again. The comparison will not be in DSLR's favor, and there's barely any grain visible in Fuji Provia and Velvia scans at 4000 DPI. You will also find that the same lenses perform A LOT better on film SLRs, especially at the edges of the frame. This is because of two reasons: acceptance angle (limited with digital sensors), and bayer pattern / AA filter (bayer pattern needs a lot better lenses to resolve the same amount of detail, due to smaller primary color photosites and AA filter).
Sure, film costs money and scanning it is a drag, but the results from a $100 film camera with $50 Canon 50mm lens blow away $8K Canon EOS 1Ds. It's a bit too early to declare film dead, dontcha think?
I'm actually thinking of selling my EOS 10D. Wanna buy it?
I have Nikon Coolscan V slide scanner, and there's no comparison between 4000 DPI scans (downsized) and 2000DPI ones. The ones that were scanned at higher resolution have LESS grain. This is a well known phenomenon, and this is exactly the reason why we have 4000 and 5400 DPI scanners available.
Skin colors are too yellow, skies are too blue and the foliage looks dull. Nope, you can't correct this in Photoshop. So Foveon/Sigma will remain where they are right now for the foreseeable future. Nowhere.
>> my 2700dpi 35mm film scanner can pick up the grain
That's called "grain aliasing" my friend. Your film has a lot less grain than your scanner leads you to believe. Try scanning at 4000DPI or 5000DPI and THEN downsizing - you'll see that there's a lot less grain, and current crop of prosumer DSLRs are far behind in terms of resolution.
People, don't be stupid, don't send your emails to people you don't know.
An experienced software developer has a LOT more potential than a freshly minted grad. It's this "been there done that" thing. Developers become a lot better when they spend five years on the job and go through a couple product cycles, ups, downs, deathmarches, etc. It's this "been there, done that, won't do it again" thing that they don't teach in college.
RTFA, follow the links. Are you still as excited? Is it time for your hyporcisy to kick in?
In Russia we call folks like you "fucking morons".
In Russia (not necessarily Soviet, though they had this back then, too) men have what they call "autopilot". They don't need no stinkin' smartphone when they're drunk. I've tried that multiple times and it works. Just leave it to whatever little part of your brain that is still functioning (that's what the autopilot is, essentially and this assumes that you haven't done drugs with your Vodka) and it'll get you home all by itself if you can walk. And I can walk no matter how much "load I've taken on my chest" (another Russian idiom).
Yes they are "losing" market share in terms of server count, and then only marginally. Where they gain marketshare is in enterprise area. More and more enterprise-level websites switch to ASP.NET from alternatives (source: Netcraft).
It's not like there was a security hole, we're just making our secure system even more secure.
What a crock of bullshit.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=617 98
Apple never "fixes" security holes. They only "improve handling" or something like this. Yet everyone pees their pants about MacOS X.
Every single god damn worm would not work if users would patch their god damn systems. That's not news. Tell me something new to support that "Linux is secure" myth.
They just used user passwords and exploited local privilege elevation vulnerabilities.
Yeah, you can turn off all the junk in MS Money by unchecking one checkbox in properties. I know it's hard to believe, but it's that simple. And yeah, just about anything is superior to Quicken these days.
I mean, GnuCash? Who the heck uses this crap anyway.
Just how outsourcing one of the highest-margin industries to another country and depleting hi-tech talent pool that takes decades (and shitloads of money) to rebuild helps the US economy.
It'd be also cool to hear someone from Federal Reserve System explain how long does this country expect to live in prosperity by simply exporting national debt while not manufacturing the actual _stuff_ (be it IP, goods, natural resources, etc.). There's gotta be a breaking point to this trend.
They've taken a lot of lessons from FOSS community, and the main lesson was to innovate where the competitor can't or won't - frameworks, managed runtime, consistent set of APIs, hardware accelerated UI, sql based FS, better shell scripting, better management/monitoring, etc. - all these things will blow up in FOSS community's face in year 2006 when Longhorn comes out. Suddenly everyone will find that FOSS is based on 10 years old technology and costs too much to develop for and maintain.
.NET Framework/CLR and a bunch of other things. Longorn is the biggest bet of them all, bigger than Windows 95 was in 1995.
Longhorn is Microsoft's big bet, and they have an extraordinary history of delivering on those. They've done this with Windows 95, IE, Media Player, SQL Server, Exchange, NT,
reminds me of "revolutionary advance in toilet bowl cleaning technology" (believe it or not, they actually say this in commercials on american TV). Someone got their adjectives seriously wrong. :0)
for every product in EVERY software company. First PMs get together and throw a bunch of requirements at developers. Developers do some preliminary investigations and proof-of-concept work and estimate how long it will take them to write the damn things. Management multiplies this by 2 and that's how long it will take to test them. Then all of this is put into one big-ass schedule which usually in its first cut takes three times longer than it should. Then PMs and developers look at the schedule and remove non-critical pieces from it until the product becomes shippable in a reasonable timeframe. After all said and done this schedule will blow up 2 or 3 times in process and some more non-critical features will be cut, too. Heck, even some critical features may suffer.
The most important feature of every product is its shipping. You can have a perfect OS with all the features everyone wants, but if you haven't shipped it nobody gives a crap (and money either). You can cut back in two ways - on quality (which simply doesn't work for big projects because problems start stepping on each other's toes) and on features (which is what I believe is happening).
Help mother nature by leaving a 250-300W device running 24x7 and consuming electricity. And to produce this electricity, let's burn shitloads of coal and oil byproducts. Now that's a lot cleaner than an ounce of lead sitting somewhere in landfill.
I KNOW they cost more. Yes, they work hard, but they cost about 15-20% more of what an employee would cost, all things considered.
The benefits are twofold:
1. They'll fuck it up and nobody will have to pay any taxes at all (thus by "Dubya logic" the economy will take off like crazy)
2. It'll be much cheaper overall to fuck this up. No $200M budget overruns
Mac Office folks have just released a new version. What should I ask them again? And yeah, non-core workforce ("contingent staff") is hired and fired when necessary. That's why it's "non-core". When there's not enough resources to do things on their own, MS hires contractors. Some of them end up working for MS for more than a year, some get hired after a year long employment, most get fired when they're done with the work assigned to them though. This is nothing new or "evil" for that matter. Heck, MS still employs US contractors even though they're a heck of a lot more expensive than a regular permanent employee. I'd expect all the contractors to be gone before layoffs begin (and IF they begin).