1949? Little Richard didn't record until 1951
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...and those four records went nowhere. He didn't have his first hit until the mid-50's.
There are many songs from the late 40's that claim to be the first rock and roll song. Those songs include Ike Turner's Rocket 88, Wynonie Harris' Good Rockin' Tonight, and Fats Domino's The Fat Man. None of those cited, however, are Little Richard's.
I'm not talking about faking it... I'm talking about a manufacturer putting a very high quality black and white-specific CCD or CMOS sensor into a dSLR camera.
Think of it as a separate body that ONLY does black and white but it does it exceptionally well. Better dynamic range and/or better resolution than the equivalent color camera.
Even if you can't get 32 bit dynamic range, you could certainly get much higher quality than you would by faking B/W using a color sensor.
I don't mean a camera with a color sensor that just gets desaturated. I want a dSLR camera with a sensor designed strictly for black and white.
I think it makes great sense. Current technology could probably give you 32-48 bit dynamic range if all you sampled was black and white and forgot about color. (current color cameras are around 12-16 bit) That would make for incredible quality images and I bet it would sell quite well within the pro and artists market.
I would imagine they would fly over the North Pole and parts of the Pacific to get from New York to Tokyo....but the polar bear lobby is pretty powerful.
I wonder if people are making firewire cases that are the same dimensions as the Mac Mini, so you could stack them neatly. I think would be an obvious product, but I haven't seen any yet.
Even if the printer malfunctions, you may lose one vote, but that's unlikely because a poll worker would simply void the vote, fix the printer, and have the voter try again.
The alternative (i.e. no printers) is not being able to properly audit and recount all the votes.
Liberals are all lazy unemployed hippies... that's it! That's the answer! How could I have overlooked that?
That's the very reason this particular exit poll was wrong when every exit poll in the past 50 years has been correct. Unemployed hippies... wow... how brilliant!
It boils down to trust. In a democracy, if you cannot trust the vote, you cannot trust anything. These vote counting methods do not inspire trust.
Let's rephrase this... would you rather:
Have your votes counted in a machine room by a computer where the source code is proprietary and unknown AND controlled by a company that verbally supports one party over the other?
Or... have your votes counted in an open forum by real individuals and observers from both parties?
I would think that you would be interested in a process where the count is open to all and can not be questioned. Fair, honest, and open voting is the bedrock of our democracy.
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...and those four records went nowhere. He didn't have his first hit until the mid-50's.
There are many songs from the late 40's that claim to be the first rock and roll song. Those songs include Ike Turner's Rocket 88, Wynonie Harris' Good Rockin' Tonight, and Fats Domino's The Fat Man. None of those cited, however, are Little Richard's.
I'm buying land in warm, sunny Alaska.
Well... it'll be sunny and warm by the time I retire.
You can toss your spaceship in the blue bin for curbside recycling!
Sure killed off CDs for me.
Since the iTunes store opened, I haven't bought any music CDs.
Like it costs so much to record a song in this day of digital recording. 99 cents is plenty.
The record labels pretty much killed CDs by charging 20 bucks each for them, now they'll kill this outlet as well.
Seriously, have you ever been in a New York Subway in August?
Talk about toxic.
I find it pretty strange that we haven't heard about legal action against whomever distributed their copy.
Unless it was Bill Gates. I'm sure the Microsoft Office development team has plenty of x86 Macs in their facility.
Now, that would be a fun lawsuit to watch.
Seems like Microsoft can use that patent against any company that produces an mp3 player.
It's obscene how companies are allowed to patent the obvious. Has anyone patented buttered bread yet? If not, I'll be filing today.
Imagine if even a fraction of that money went to outer space exploration.
(or schools, roads, healthcare, etc...)
I just built a Pentium D system yesterday.
It's running really hot and I need to find a way to cool it.
She's melting! She's melting!
Because... stuff always needs more duct tape.
Does very similar things... is getting better every release... and it's free.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
I'm not talking about faking it... I'm talking about a manufacturer putting a very high quality black and white-specific CCD or CMOS sensor into a dSLR camera.
Think of it as a separate body that ONLY does black and white but it does it exceptionally well. Better dynamic range and/or better resolution than the equivalent color camera.
Even if you can't get 32 bit dynamic range, you could certainly get much higher quality than you would by faking B/W using a color sensor.
I don't mean a camera with a color sensor that just gets desaturated. I want a dSLR camera with a sensor designed strictly for black and white.
I think it makes great sense. Current technology could probably give you 32-48 bit dynamic range if all you sampled was black and white and forgot about color. (current color cameras are around 12-16 bit) That would make for incredible quality images and I bet it would sell quite well within the pro and artists market.
Totally agree... What has the ISS done that hasn't already been done on Mir?
>The SR-71 was developed in the 70's, and is retired..
Early to mid 1960's, actually.
Retired in 1998.
I would imagine they would fly over the North Pole and parts of the Pacific to get from New York to Tokyo. ...but the polar bear lobby is pretty powerful.
Cost of the White Knight AND the SS1 - around $25 million
Cost of the X37 -- $173 million.
The article didn't say if this is $173 million is just for the X37 prototype or for one that can actually be used. My guess is the former.
People who choose their jobs carefully are more likely to be satisfied with them than those who take a flying leap into the great unknown
Unless you want a job as a professional skydiver, that is...
I wonder if people are making firewire cases that are the same dimensions as the Mac Mini, so you could stack them neatly. I think would be an obvious product, but I haven't seen any yet.
Even if the printer malfunctions, you may lose one vote, but that's unlikely because a poll worker would simply void the vote, fix the printer, and have the voter try again.
The alternative (i.e. no printers) is not being able to properly audit and recount all the votes.
Which is worse?
Liberals are all lazy unemployed hippies... that's it! That's the answer! How could I have overlooked that?
That's the very reason this particular exit poll was wrong when every exit poll in the past 50 years has been correct. Unemployed hippies... wow... how brilliant!
Thank you for clearing that up.
Exit polling has accurately predicted the outcome in every presidential election since 1948. The science of exit polling has been shown to work.
Except in 2004.
What changed? Well, the exit polling methods did not change, but the method of COUNTING the votes did change.
It appears to me that the logical place to look for the discrepancy is in the variable that changed - the voting machines.
It boils down to trust. In a democracy, if you cannot trust the vote, you cannot trust anything. These vote counting methods do not inspire trust.
Let's rephrase this... would you rather:
Have your votes counted in a machine room by a computer where the source code is proprietary and unknown AND controlled by a company that verbally supports one party over the other?
Or... have your votes counted in an open forum by real individuals and observers from both parties?
I would think that you would be interested in a process where the count is open to all and can not be questioned. Fair, honest, and open voting is the bedrock of our democracy.
Why do you hate democracy?