Interesting are you taking about the D30 at 1600ISO? IF so, i'd really be currious to see a comparison with the current generation of Cameras, because as i udnerstand it, the 20D's Generation of sensors and newer have greatly improved noise/signal ratios.
On saturation, isn't that at peast partially an issue with the software/firmware?
given the same number of pixels, larger sensor = lower density. if you used the same process to make a sensor liek you described, you just get more pixels, rather than better pixels. i guess i should not have assumed i mean for the same number of pixels a bigger sensor will produce a cleaner image, but i thought it was aobvious. also, if you really want to get technical, it's not even the density, but the size of the individual pixels that makes the difference.
I do think it's neat to have this kind of technology, but i would be much more excited about a CCD or CMOS sensor that can capture 11 stops of light or some other type of technology that would get around the problem of high contrast scenes, than more megapixels. i just feel the mega pixel race has gone the way of the MHz race, in CPUs. sure it's bigger, badder, better, but after a certain point it won't make a noticeable difference on the end result, for most people.
it depends. do you need a smaller camera that usues less power? The basic physics is the more pixels you cram into the same space, the greater your noise to signal ratio. That's why a 6MP DSLR will produce cleaner images than an 8MP points and Shoot.
Considering the detail that current high end cameras can capture, can you imagine the amount of airbrushing that might need to go into portraits with such a camera?
well the noise problem is also based on the size of the sensor, so cameras with larger sensors can usually produce very clean hi res images. i don' think they are still as high as film, but for most uses, i don't think it will make noticable difference.
I do agree on the dynamic range problem of digital sensors. the trick for now, is to think of it like shooting slide film (which is close to a digital sensor in capturing about 5 stops of light). I am really hoping they get this problem solved before i buy my next body.
My actual opposition to them lies more in the fact that this could lead to all kinds of weird standards and possible discrimination... things would be so much easier if i was elected dictator.)
2E was just as good? I gave up on D&D sometime after 2E. I just did not liek it. that's when i swore off D&D and switched for good to Rolemaster. I finally got convinced to try 3.5 last year and it's not bad.
Although, in all honesty, i am thinking about making my own system next time around...
That is the whole problem isn't it? Parent's are not willing to learn. It's just a symptom of bad parenting all around. I remember hearing about a 16 year odl that brutally murdered a 14 year old in a pattern that followed a 17+ video game that he played. Lots of fingers were pointed at the video game, but i didn't hear anyone asking... why were the 16 year old's parents letting him play a 17+ game?
Sometimes i wish there would be a licensing requirement before you are allowed to raise children...
When i read the part abotu prison camps and registering super powers, that suddenly reminded me of "Days of Future Past." That old X-men alternate future... how long ago was that?
To add to the Dell is NOT good with enterprise support: My agency wanted to purchase about $20,000 worth of software licences. After going through all the motions, we got nothing. Our clerk called Dell, they said they had no order for it. We faxed averything over again. Two months later, repeat and rinse. Finally 5 months later, we got three copies of the media and 3 bills, each for $20,000. Dell is going to have to to a lot of make up before they even reach a "b" in my book, much less an "a."
It's not just user familiarity they need to fight, it's Industry Backing. One of the reasons other products just can't compete with PS is because of the huge wealth of third party plugins for Photoshop. Until MS can get all of their support too, they can't kill PS.
There are laws in place that they have to play by, and when their competition/customers ignore those laws, it's not a fair playing field. Of course they have a right to complain.
Most of those laws are bought and paid for by the industry to further their own needs. Who do you think lobbied and gave campaign contriobutions to have Copyrights extended from 14 years to the life of the artist PLUS 70 years? Who do you think paid to have the DMCA passed? The PIRATE and INDUCE acts? If you think an industry buying laws to protect it's own interests is the American way and truly a fair market, i disagree.
We're not talking about obsolete business plans. We're talking about massive amounts of potential customers taking your product without paying for it. Illegally.
We ARE talking about an obselete business plan. Even as deplorable as pirated DVDs are, from a purely economic point of view, even ilegal competition is still competition. When someone is undercutting your prices and you are selling a ludicrously over priced product, you should drop your prices to compete, then make it up in volume. That's High School economics.
Also consider that someone commiting copyright infringement is NOT neccessarily a loss for the industry, since many of them would not have bought the product anyway.
They are also producing a LOT of crap. If you look at certain movies, they rake in huge numbers and other... just aren't worth the inflated prices to watch.
Lastly, they ARE dealing with an obselete business model. In the past, the AA's had a great monopoly on the industry, simply because startup costs were so great that no one else could truly compete. Now that is getting less and less. They are also facing other competition that never truly matter years ago. VIdeo games are geting huge. The bigger video games get, the smaller the % of people's incomes will be spent on Music and Movies.
"Why are they being made out to be the bad guy when it very clearly is a huge and real problem?"
Because they usually are the bad guy. Look at the whole situation
1) They have no evidence and have never provided any concrete data about how they come up with their losses. Chances are good that it is based on an estimate of the number of pirated copies in existence and all of those represent a theoretical loss. Honestly, most people who get the stuff through infringement or from Pirates would not have bought the product and especially not at the listed price.
2) They use those jacked up numbers in order to justify new technology down our throats which sowly choke at the legitimate customer and our fair use rights. None of these anti-copying schemes actually stop pirates, they only serve to hamper the customer. They make us pay more for a less functional product that they know, doesn't do jack about saving their precious property.
3) They not just force technology down our throats they buy laws into affect that are VERY anti-consumer. Seriously, any legitimate consumer who is NOT mad at the RIAA and MPAA, really doesn't understand what is happening.
That sounds pretty devious and "bad" to me. I have been to the movies much less and have bought far fewer DVDs in the last couple years.. for two reason: Home Theatre and Netflix...
My understanding is the RIAA is a joint industry group or many different record companies (most of them owned by the big five). They are responsible for lobbying nad various legal wranglings. This gives the actual record industry a slight buffer from the inane actions of the RIAA.
They are of course looking to lock out ALL copyrights, because that's what benifits their members the most. That it might harm or hurt other eneties is meaningless.
I like Netflix over a video store because; they have a bigger selection, finding things are much faster, and if you want a particular old movie, you don't go to the store to find out it's been rented. i also like the convinience of building alist i want and just having it sent. no more trying to find a video, then finding out it's not there, etal...
Hasn't it been commonly said that high end hardware sales are driven by the gamers? WHo else (with soem rare exceptions) is going to pay for the latest and greatest, just off the assembly components? An OS upgrade isn't that inconcievable in that context.
I recall reading an interview with some MS exec (wish i coudl remember his name... Steven something). this was a year or two ago where he said that the path to security for MS/Windows was basically a 10 year road map. In other words, they are making good progress, but not even MS expects the problems to be solved overnight.
depends on who you ask... i remember a girl i know once exclaiming in a coffee shop, "I'm sorry, i don't care what anybody else says... size does matter!"
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Interesting are you taking about the D30 at 1600ISO? IF so, i'd really be currious to see a comparison with the current generation of Cameras, because as i udnerstand it, the 20D's Generation of sensors and newer have greatly improved noise/signal ratios. On saturation, isn't that at peast partially an issue with the software/firmware?
given the same number of pixels, larger sensor = lower density. if you used the same process to make a sensor liek you described, you just get more pixels, rather than better pixels. i guess i should not have assumed i mean for the same number of pixels a bigger sensor will produce a cleaner image, but i thought it was aobvious. also, if you really want to get technical, it's not even the density, but the size of the individual pixels that makes the difference.
I do think it's neat to have this kind of technology, but i would be much more excited about a CCD or CMOS sensor that can capture 11 stops of light or some other type of technology that would get around the problem of high contrast scenes, than more megapixels. i just feel the mega pixel race has gone the way of the MHz race, in CPUs. sure it's bigger, badder, better, but after a certain point it won't make a noticeable difference on the end result, for most people.
it depends. do you need a smaller camera that usues less power? The basic physics is the more pixels you cram into the same space, the greater your noise to signal ratio. That's why a 6MP DSLR will produce cleaner images than an 8MP points and Shoot.
Considering the detail that current high end cameras can capture, can you imagine the amount of airbrushing that might need to go into portraits with such a camera?
well the noise problem is also based on the size of the sensor, so cameras with larger sensors can usually produce very clean hi res images. i don' think they are still as high as film, but for most uses, i don't think it will make noticable difference. I do agree on the dynamic range problem of digital sensors. the trick for now, is to think of it like shooting slide film (which is close to a digital sensor in capturing about 5 stops of light). I am really hoping they get this problem solved before i buy my next body.
somehow... i just have trouble placing "Steve Jobs" and "leave well enough alone," into the same sentence...
So /.'ers are bigoted toward AC?
Down the the Hatred!!!!
My actual opposition to them lies more in the fact that this could lead to all kinds of weird standards and possible discrimination... things would be so much easier if i was elected dictator .)
2E was just as good? I gave up on D&D sometime after 2E. I just did not liek it. that's when i swore off D&D and switched for good to Rolemaster. I finally got convinced to try 3.5 last year and it's not bad. Although, in all honesty, i am thinking about making my own system next time around...
That is the whole problem isn't it? Parent's are not willing to learn. It's just a symptom of bad parenting all around. I remember hearing about a 16 year odl that brutally murdered a 14 year old in a pattern that followed a 17+ video game that he played. Lots of fingers were pointed at the video game, but i didn't hear anyone asking... why were the 16 year old's parents letting him play a 17+ game? Sometimes i wish there would be a licensing requirement before you are allowed to raise children...
When i read the part abotu prison camps and registering super powers, that suddenly reminded me of "Days of Future Past." That old X-men alternate future... how long ago was that?
But it's the first arcade game every that had bouncing boobs!
To add to the Dell is NOT good with enterprise support: My agency wanted to purchase about $20,000 worth of software licences. After going through all the motions, we got nothing. Our clerk called Dell, they said they had no order for it. We faxed averything over again. Two months later, repeat and rinse. Finally 5 months later, we got three copies of the media and 3 bills, each for $20,000. Dell is going to have to to a lot of make up before they even reach a "b" in my book, much less an "a."
It's not just user familiarity they need to fight, it's Industry Backing. One of the reasons other products just can't compete with PS is because of the huge wealth of third party plugins for Photoshop. Until MS can get all of their support too, they can't kill PS.
Congress would not do that because it would hurt their campaign coffers...
There are laws in place that they have to play by, and when their competition/customers ignore those laws, it's not a fair playing field. Of course they have a right to complain.
Most of those laws are bought and paid for by the industry to further their own needs. Who do you think lobbied and gave campaign contriobutions to have Copyrights extended from 14 years to the life of the artist PLUS 70 years? Who do you think paid to have the DMCA passed? The PIRATE and INDUCE acts? If you think an industry buying laws to protect it's own interests is the American way and truly a fair market, i disagree.
We're not talking about obsolete business plans. We're talking about massive amounts of potential customers taking your product without paying for it. Illegally.
We ARE talking about an obselete business plan. Even as deplorable as pirated DVDs are, from a purely economic point of view, even ilegal competition is still competition. When someone is undercutting your prices and you are selling a ludicrously over priced product, you should drop your prices to compete, then make it up in volume. That's High School economics.
Also consider that someone commiting copyright infringement is NOT neccessarily a loss for the industry, since many of them would not have bought the product anyway.
They are also producing a LOT of crap. If you look at certain movies, they rake in huge numbers and other... just aren't worth the inflated prices to watch.
Lastly, they ARE dealing with an obselete business model. In the past, the AA's had a great monopoly on the industry, simply because startup costs were so great that no one else could truly compete. Now that is getting less and less. They are also facing other competition that never truly matter years ago. VIdeo games are geting huge. The bigger video games get, the smaller the % of people's incomes will be spent on Music and Movies.
But just mow much of the film costs is to pay overinflated sallaries?
"Why are they being made out to be the bad guy when it very clearly is a huge and real problem?"
Because they usually are the bad guy. Look at the whole situation
1) They have no evidence and have never provided any concrete data about how they come up with their losses. Chances are good that it is based on an estimate of the number of pirated copies in existence and all of those represent a theoretical loss. Honestly, most people who get the stuff through infringement or from Pirates would not have bought the product and especially not at the listed price.
2) They use those jacked up numbers in order to justify new technology down our throats which sowly choke at the legitimate customer and our fair use rights. None of these anti-copying schemes actually stop pirates, they only serve to hamper the customer. They make us pay more for a less functional product that they know, doesn't do jack about saving their precious property.
3) They not just force technology down our throats they buy laws into affect that are VERY anti-consumer. Seriously, any legitimate consumer who is NOT mad at the RIAA and MPAA, really doesn't understand what is happening.
That sounds pretty devious and "bad" to me. I have been to the movies much less and have bought far fewer DVDs in the last couple years.. for two reason: Home Theatre and Netflix...
You mean like this?
My understanding is the RIAA is a joint industry group or many different record companies (most of them owned by the big five). They are responsible for lobbying nad various legal wranglings. This gives the actual record industry a slight buffer from the inane actions of the RIAA.
They are of course looking to lock out ALL copyrights, because that's what benifits their members the most. That it might harm or hurt other eneties is meaningless.
I like Netflix over a video store because; they have a bigger selection, finding things are much faster, and if you want a particular old movie, you don't go to the store to find out it's been rented. i also like the convinience of building alist i want and just having it sent. no more trying to find a video, then finding out it's not there, etal...
Hasn't it been commonly said that high end hardware sales are driven by the gamers? WHo else (with soem rare exceptions) is going to pay for the latest and greatest, just off the assembly components? An OS upgrade isn't that inconcievable in that context.
nah.. i think with all things considered, we are on rc2 by now .)
I recall reading an interview with some MS exec (wish i coudl remember his name... Steven something). this was a year or two ago where he said that the path to security for MS/Windows was basically a 10 year road map. In other words, they are making good progress, but not even MS expects the problems to be solved overnight.
depends on who you ask... i remember a girl i know once exclaiming in a coffee shop, "I'm sorry, i don't care what anybody else says... size does matter!"