Thank you. That is a far more constructive comment. Getting the white balance right under the conditions was difficult, because lighting changed from moment-to-moment (other flashes, videographer spotlights). Additionally, this set of pictures is unaltered - direct from camera to site - no Photoshop correction.
Any suggestions for changing White Bal quickly under fast changing conditions are appreciated.
You make a good point. It seems to be just a few old-line industries blocking change at every turn. Music companies are trying to squish p2p file sharing, and a host of other technologies. Phone comapnies want to squish VOIP.
However, there are many larger organizations that innovate for their customers. Even my formerly big crappy bank is adding nice online banking features at every turn.
In 1998 - the latest year for which national statistics are available - among the 30 most populous cities, Baltimore ranked as the second-most violent city in America. When ranked by individual UCR crime, Baltimore ranked:
2nd in homicide;
8th in rape;
1st in robbery; and
3rd in aggravated assault.
Among the 207 cities with population of 100,000 or more, Baltimore's violent crime rate ranked as the eighth most violent.
When Baltimore's 1998 property crime rates are compared among the 30 most populous cities, Baltimore had the fifth highest property crime rate. When ranked by individual UCR crime, Baltimore ranked:
4th in burglary;
4th in larceny theft; and
15th in auto theft.
Baltimore has remained extremely consistent in maintaining high rates of over 300 murders for the last ten years. Much focus continues to be placed on the City's homicide totals. Murder is the most egregious of crimes and viewed by many as symptomatic of crime in general. Baltimore's homicide rate in 1998 was 5.1% higher than in 1990, bucking the national trend in which homicide rates declined 36.2% over the same period. Currently, Baltimore's murder rate is over seven times the national average.
Homicide rate per 100,000 in baltimore (1999) 43.2 In New york city it was 9.1.
I think we should not allow women to work. That will open up a lot of jobs. After all, zero jobs should be lost to women. I'll send a letter to Bush with my proposal. [/facetious] [/what your post sounds like]
2) You are unable to realize Internationalism is by no means a necessity in this world, and that the United States was most prosperous when it had heavy import tariffs and its industry predominantly supplied US citizens. The US, since International Finance began to dominate it in the fatermath of the Second World War, has been a souless place where track housing has replaced idealized urban planning of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ever heard of the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs, which worsened the great depression? Remember the utter failure of the recent Bush steel tariffs?
Tariffs only work if other countries do not respond with tariffs of their own. That is usually not the case.
[sarcastic jab]
Just imagine how many jobs would open up if we could only get women back in the kitchen. [/sarcastic jab]
Microsoft used the South by Southwest Music trade show that ran over the weekend to confirm plans to launch a music service later this year. The opportunity was also taken to show record labels the service running behind closed doors.
No details of pricing were given, but it has been made clear that Microsoft aims to promote the service almost exclusively through the MSN portal. Users will be able to sign up via MSN and then view the catalogue of available songs for purchase and download. The amount of music that will be available is also unknown, but a Microsoft spokeswoman stated the company is "going to be striving for a large catalogue of music."
Initially, the user interface was to be copied from the popular iTunes software, but since Apple Computer Inc. has been awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office for the iTunes interface, Microsoft is shifting gears. When Bill Gate's was asked about the situation he reiterated: "Well, I think it's fun to talk about this because the rate of advance is so incredible, and not just in a numeric sense. The whole way that we interact with systems, the way we write software, the way we administer these systems, the way we collaborate, it will be very, very different."
Microsoft warned that they may have to move operations of their upcoming music store to an undisclosed country, where patent laws do not exist.
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True to a point. Too few MEGAPIXELS and the picture will only have good resolution in a tiny size. But a 2MP camera can create 8x10 prints every bit as good and sometimes better than a higher MP camera. MP has to do with size of the picture you can print or display digitally.
Quality of optics is very important consideration.
Judge: Mr. Richter, before we begin I would like to ask you if OptInRealBig sent the following email to my 5 year old daughter titled - "Enlarge Your Penis in 5 Days"?
Jack Valenti: I hope that I'm a good persuader, that I'm able to make advocacy of a cause that people say, "You know, that makes sense." 'Lobbyist' has a connotation to me that gives me little shivers. But I like to believe that I try to make things simple to understand. And frankly, if I can understand it, then I figure everybody else can understand it, because I am not a technologist.... But I try to make things simple and clear as I can, and I think that helps you persuade other people.
The interviewer should have asked how many call girls, and how much in campaign contributions does it take to persuade these days. Because JV's spoken persuasion skills stink.
Abdul Rahman Yasin was the only member of the al Qaeda cell that detonated the 1993 World Trade Center bomb to remain at large in the Clinton years. He fled to Iraq. U.S. forces recently discovered a cache of documents in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, that show that Iraq gave Mr. Yasin both a house and monthly salary.
Bin Laden met at least eight times with officers of Iraq's Special Security Organization, a secret police agency run by Saddam's son Qusay, and met with officials from Saddam's mukhabarat, its external intelligence service, according to intelligence made public by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who was speaking before the United Nations Security Council on February 6, 2003.
Sudanese intelligence officials told me that their agents had observed meetings between Iraqi intelligence agents and bin Laden starting in 1994, when bin Laden lived in Khartoum.
Bin Laden met the director of the Iraqi mukhabarat in 1996 in Khartoum, according to Mr. Powell.
An al Qaeda operative now held by the U.S. confessed that in the mid-1990s, bin Laden had forged an agreement with Saddam's men to cease all terrorist activities against the Iraqi dictator, Mr. Powell told the United Nations.
In 1999 the Guardian, a British newspaper, reported that Farouk Hijazi, a senior officer in Iraq's mukhabarat, had journeyed deep into the icy mountains near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in December 1998 to meet with al Qaeda men. Mr. Hijazi is "thought to have offered bin Laden asylum in Iraq," the Guardian reported.
In October 2000, another Iraqi intelligence operative, Salah Suleiman, was arrested near the Afghan border by Pakistani authorities, according to Jane's Foreign Report, a respected international newsletter. Jane's reported that Suleiman was shuttling between Iraqi intelligence and Ayman al Zawahiri, now al Qaeda's No. 2 man.
As recently as 2001, Iraq's embassy in Pakistan was used as a "liaison" between the Iraqi dictator and al Qaeda, Mr. Powell told the United Nations.
Spanish investigators have uncovered documents seized from Yusuf Galan -- who is charged by a Spanish court with being "directly involved with the preparation and planning" of the Sept. 11 attacks -- that show the terrorist was invited to a party at the Iraqi embassy in Madrid. The invitation used his "al Qaeda nom de guerre," London's Independent reports.
An Iraqi defector to Turkey, known by his cover name as "Abu Mohammed," told Gwynne Roberts of the Sunday Times of London that he saw bin Laden's fighters in camps in Iraq in 1997. At the time, Mohammed was a colonel in Saddam's Fedayeen. He described an encounter at Salman Pak, the training facility southeast of Baghdad. At that vast compound run by Iraqi intelligence, Muslim militants trained to hijack planes with knives -- on a full-size Boeing 707. Col. Mohammed recalls his first visit to Salman Pak this way: "We were met by Colonel Jamil Kamil, the camp manager, and Major Ali Hawas. I noticed that a lot of people were queuing for food. (The major) said to me: 'You'll have nothing to do with these people. They are Osama bin Laden's group and the PKK and Mojahedin-e Khalq.'"
In 1998, Abbas al-Janabi, a longtime aide to Saddam's son Uday, defected to the West. At the time, he repeatedly told reporters that there was a direct connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.
The Sunday Times found a Saddam loyalist in a Kurdish prison who claims to have been Dr. Zawahiri's bodyguard during his 1992 visit with Saddam in Baghdad. Dr. Zawahiri was a close associate of bin Laden at the time and was present at the founding of al Qaeda in 1989.
Following the defeat of the Taliban, almost two dozen bin Laden associates "converged on Baghdad and established a base of operations there," Mr. Powell told the United Nations in February 2003. From their Baghdad base, the secretary said, they supervised the movement of men, materiel and money for al Qaeda's global network.
This guy is probably some commie that believes only the communist ruling party's intellects can use Linux. Everyone else has to wait in line for a copy of Windows.
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We're holding out to trade iTunes music files for cheap drugs.
Any suggestions for changing White Bal quickly under fast changing conditions are appreciated.
However, there are many larger organizations that innovate for their customers. Even my formerly big crappy bank is adding nice online banking features at every turn.
I'll request that the rock gym repaint their walls a different color.
Sample Pics 1 - may appear dark on non-Macs with bad graphics cards
Sample Pics 2 - may appear dark on non-Macs with bad graphics cards
There are blogs I read regularly, and they are in some ways similar to slashdot. The blog points out things of interest, and sometimes allow comments.
Some interetsting Blogs: Seth Godin's Blog
Poor and Stupid
Marginal Revolution
EconLog
Among the 207 cities with population of 100,000 or more, Baltimore's violent crime rate ranked as the eighth most violent.
When Baltimore's 1998 property crime rates are compared among the 30 most populous cities, Baltimore had the fifth highest property crime rate. When ranked by individual UCR crime, Baltimore ranked:
Baltimore has remained extremely consistent in maintaining high rates of over 300 murders for the last ten years. Much focus continues to be placed on the City's homicide totals. Murder is the most egregious of crimes and viewed by many as symptomatic of crime in general. Baltimore's homicide rate in 1998 was 5.1% higher than in 1990, bucking the national trend in which homicide rates declined 36.2% over the same period. Currently, Baltimore's murder rate is over seven times the national average.
Homicide rate per 100,000 in baltimore (1999) 43.2 In New york city it was 9.1.
I think we should not allow women to work. That will open up a lot of jobs. After all, zero jobs should be lost to women. I'll send a letter to Bush with my proposal. [/facetious] [/what your post sounds like]
This report is a bit more optimistic - the glass is half full.
You can change songs remotely if you have a wireless laptop.
Ever heard of the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs, which worsened the great depression? Remember the utter failure of the recent Bush steel tariffs?
Tariffs only work if other countries do not respond with tariffs of their own. That is usually not the case.
[sarcastic jab] Just imagine how many jobs would open up if we could only get women back in the kitchen. [/sarcastic jab]
Yes, and at 9.95 pounds for an album that is $17.8 us dollars. Is this because of the VAT?
B) Go here to view the positive contributions from the space program.
Here is a site covering some of the economic benefits of space exploration.
I thought PC's were fast? Especially, when compared to those slow MHZ macs.
Microsoft used the South by Southwest Music trade show that ran over the weekend to confirm plans to launch a music service later this year. The opportunity was also taken to show record labels the service running behind closed doors.
No details of pricing were given, but it has been made clear that Microsoft aims to promote the service almost exclusively through the MSN portal. Users will be able to sign up via MSN and then view the catalogue of available songs for purchase and download. The amount of music that will be available is also unknown, but a Microsoft spokeswoman stated the company is "going to be striving for a large catalogue of music."
Initially, the user interface was to be copied from the popular iTunes software, but since Apple Computer Inc. has been awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office for the iTunes interface, Microsoft is shifting gears. When Bill Gate's was asked about the situation he reiterated: "Well, I think it's fun to talk about this because the rate of advance is so incredible, and not just in a numeric sense. The whole way that we interact with systems, the way we write software, the way we administer these systems, the way we collaborate, it will be very, very different."
Microsoft warned that they may have to move operations of their upcoming music store to an undisclosed country, where patent laws do not exist.
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True to a point. Too few MEGAPIXELS and the picture will only have good resolution in a tiny size. But a 2MP camera can create 8x10 prints every bit as good and sometimes better than a higher MP camera. MP has to do with size of the picture you can print or display digitally. Quality of optics is very important consideration.
Word up!
...or before he ends up in prison with a rapist cellmate that shows him what OptInRealBig really means.
Richter: Gasp!
The funny part is that they don't have a toll free number. I wonder why?
The interviewer should have asked how many call girls, and how much in campaign contributions does it take to persuade these days. Because JV's spoken persuasion skills stink.
It's not. The hard part is getting the government to pick the right vendor or solution.
This guy is probably some commie that believes only the communist ruling party's intellects can use Linux. Everyone else has to wait in line for a copy of Windows.