He was found guilty by trial of conspiracy and fraud.
And nothing in the "convoluted the energy regulations and restrictions" in the country requires the construction of hundreds of off-balance sheet offshore subsidiaries to hide debt in. If you want to argue whether Ken Lay was ignorant of the accounting fraud that is represented by those subsidiaries, I guess despite the guilty verdict you might have a reasonable argument. But your claim seems to suggest that the real problem with Enron was energy regulations, and it's entirely clear that Enron did in fact commit securities fraud on an industrial scale.
If you can get the set of crayon colors into a color table file (I suspect it's pretty easy), you can do the conversion into that range of colors with a conversion into indexed color mode with that custom color table. You may need to convert in and out of indexed mode if some of the filters or other ops don't operate on indexed color images.
Is it commercial?... in the sense of "are you somehow limiting the original content owner's market?" If you're showing the full movie and charging people, you are cutting into the copyright holder's market (they charge ppl to see the movie, after all). If you are just using a short clip to make a point, and charging people for the presentation/training as a whole, then it's a fair use. Unless the copyright holder in question is actively trying to sell in the "clips for use in training sessions" market, then you're not cutting into his business.
Looks like Sony, at least, does in fact sell movie clips into similar markets.
One correction, the "is it commercial" test is different than the "does this interfere with the ability of the copyright holder to exploit the material" test, at least in US law. The Wikipedia page on "fair use" seems to cover this pretty well.
It is sobering to remember that the first hard disk (10MB) I ever purchased often wouldn't have been able to hold a single RAW image from my three-year old Canon 1Ds (8-12MB, depending on image content and ISO).
Actually, slide film has higher dynamic range than print film (in addition to having superior grain and vastly superior tonal range),
I believe you are mistaken, but I'm happy to be corrected if you have a reference. It is true that slide film has a higher range of contrasts it can hold in on film (Dmax/Dmin), but actually is recording a smaller dyanmic range of the light hitting the film in the first place, due to higher contrast.
Film, even cheap film, has far more latitude then the best digital. Look at the best digital can serve up, and then look close at the shadow detail, and its just not there.
Not quite true, but close enough. The high-end digital I've seen properly exposed and processed, approaches slide film in latitude, but you almost have to treat the digtial sensor with a pseduo-Zone-system approach to make sure you use as much as the sensor's dynamic range as possible. If you're used to using print emulsions, of course, you've got a lot more lattitude.
It often is. I leave it off overnight but don't turn it off when I'm not using it during the day, I know the two channel number of the station I tune into first thing in the morning. So my savings are likely something like 10 hrs/day * 31 W = 310Wh/day = 9+ KWh/month. I also leave it off during long trips (which I have quite a few of as a nature photographer.)
If folks are concerned about power waste, a better place to start might be your cable box, if you've got one. Mine draws 31W, even when it's "turned off", compared to 0.2-2W for the game boxes tested when turned off, a pretty fair difference. I use a power strip.
The catch is this--the "off button" doesn't really turn the cable box off, because it wants to keep processing the program information data ("Friends is on channel 7 at 7:30) that's being trickled down the cable, that requires the tuners and microprocessor and such to be on, leaving little difference in power use for the cable box between "on" and "off". This means that, when I turn the TV on, it can be 10-20 minutes before I have a fully populated program grid.
Actually, speaking as a Caltech alumni, that cannon has been the subject of several hack/prank/appropriations over the years, and I consider this one both "fair game" and demonstrating some level of understanding of the cannon. Bravo, MIT.
The cannon was painted pink by a group of members of Dabney House late in the evening after a Fleming Valentine's Day party in either 1981 or 1982, I don't recall. The Darbs involved eventually both paid for paint to repaint the areas of the cannon that the paint wouldn't wash easily off of, and "turned themselves in" for ritual showering, as the Flems had been unable to initially discover the perps.
And, yes, I still have a photograph of myself being hauled to the showers from the California Tech.
Bottom line: Caltech's security guards are rent-a-cops; MIT's are policemen. I cannot recall a single incident in my six years at Caltech where security responded to a call fast enough to see perpetrators.
I'd agree with the generalization, but they did get me once, with a group trying to RF "Saturn and the Mind of Man", which was a bunch of guys pontificating (on TV, from Beckman) on the deep meaning of sending a probe to Saturn. What had caught our attention was poor Carl Sagan, who looked quite put off by the situation.
Having no time for planning left us a little unclever, but we got cuaght by Security after sneaking into the back of Beckman (still during the telecast.) Still just got told to go away after collecting our student ID numbers, they were being more careful that day, we later discovered that the governor had been in the audience.
No professional photographers I know (and I know a LOT) use GIMP because Linux doesn't have ubiquitous color management. Bzzt!
Close, but no cigar. GIMP runs on Windows, so the issue isn't Linux itself, although signficant color management support is a Photoshop-over-GIMP issue for me. As I recall the rest of the laundry list of features important to my work that aren't in GIMP, they're things like CYMK support and adjustment layers.
There's a lot to be said for making a lot of money early, invested well, it can keep you in food, clothing, shelter and health insurance when you're old (your governments policies and/or fiscal malfaesence may vary). There's also a lot to be said for enjoying your life, and never, ever, talking to an SEC investigator ever again.
Hmmmm. Last April when we last talked about this, I listed as major hurdles to GIMP replacing Photoshop features including "16-bit" images, adjustment layers, CYMK processing and (with a little help from a commenter at that time) color managment.
(I'd also incorrectly guessed that RAW processing wasn't available at all.)
My understanding is that none of those features is yet addressed, although CMS is due in GIMP 2.4.
In that same time frame, PS has made advancements itself.
I, for one, welcome our new Adobe..., errr, that is, I remain unsuprised by corporate users wanting PS-on-Linux.
First, let me say that, in the main, we agree. I was confused by this, however:
Set free from the small but yield-killing 35mm frame sensor size, medium format digital backs are truly, truly impressive now
Are you suggesting that the sensors used in medium-format backs don't have even worse yield problems than their smaller 36x24mm "35mm" cousins? This flies against my understanding of chip fabrication, but perhaps I've misunderstood you.
I'm with you on the subject of scanning backs, too.
.but I will stick with film until digital catches up with me and my Wisner.
Y'know, in my opinion, even if that happens, there's nothing wrong with sticking with your Wisner so long as you can keep making prints you enjoy from it and film keeps being made. In the end, both the prints that I enjoy the most and the prints that my customers purchase aren't the ones that have a little more resolution than their kin, they're the ones for which the subject and composition resonate with them. And it's not as if your Wisner can't produce very fine, very large prints indeed.
You mean a 4x5 "large format" camera, or a 4 foot by 5 foot print? I'm assuming you mean the former.
And I'd answer to that: Just barely. Charlie Cramer did a nice piece looking at the new 39MP digital back over here at the Luminous Landscape a few days back. Note, however, that he's switching despite a marginal loss in detail resolution, and that that's not merely a matter of geekery-for-geek-sake, it's toward the end of making better images.
Now, that's $40K or so for a full-setup, which isn't precisely consumer-priced. But it shouldn't be too long before Canon, which already makes 16MP cameras in full-frame 35mm format, catches up. At this point, it's my firm belief that improvements in the Canon sensors are starting to be less important as the sensors reach and exceed the limits of the quality of existing Canon EF lenses, particularly in the wide-angle focal lengths.
Why are they still in business? Why do people put up with all this crap instead of finding a better provider?
Network coverage, network coverage, and network coverage. Verizon has significantly better coverage than other US providers. Oddly enough, some folks use cell phones for placing and recieving phone calls.
But they don't report that. From the article, I quote: "Will it work? It is too soon to say."
No difference was seen in the frequency or intensity of flashback episodes.
Now, to pick a nit, it is incorrect to say that no difference was seen in the frequency of flashback episodes. The article clearly states there was a difference, but that the difference was not statistically signifcant. Given the very low number of participants in the study, it would be relatively surprising to have seen a statistical difference, those folks need to do a signficantly larger study to make any sense of it. I agree with you that, by itself, this is not cause for optimism, but nor is it a direct cause for pessimism. In light of the authors previous studies, I think it's still an interesting and possibly productive line of research.
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And nothing in the "convoluted the energy regulations and restrictions" in the country requires the construction of hundreds of off-balance sheet offshore subsidiaries to hide debt in. If you want to argue whether Ken Lay was ignorant of the accounting fraud that is represented by those subsidiaries, I guess despite the guilty verdict you might have a reasonable argument. But your claim seems to suggest that the real problem with Enron was energy regulations, and it's entirely clear that Enron did in fact commit securities fraud on an industrial scale.
Me too, it was an incredible symbol. The story of one of the photographers who captured that image is pretty amazing as well.
If you can get the set of crayon colors into a color table file (I suspect it's pretty easy), you can do the conversion into that range of colors with a conversion into indexed color mode with that custom color table. You may need to convert in and out of indexed mode if some of the filters or other ops don't operate on indexed color images.
Even a grammar checker wouldn't catch this, to catch this you need semantic information.
Bravo if that actually happened, a lot of magazine covers wouldn't net you that much.
Dang, I'd intended to link the Sony licensing page.
Looks like Sony, at least, does in fact sell movie clips into similar markets.
One correction, the "is it commercial" test is different than the "does this interfere with the ability of the copyright holder to exploit the material" test, at least in US law. The Wikipedia page on "fair use" seems to cover this pretty well.
Disclaimer: IANAL.
It is sobering to remember that the first hard disk (10MB) I ever purchased often wouldn't have been able to hold a single RAW image from my three-year old Canon 1Ds (8-12MB, depending on image content and ISO).
I believe you are mistaken, but I'm happy to be corrected if you have a reference. It is true that slide film has a higher range of contrasts it can hold in on film (Dmax/Dmin), but actually is recording a smaller dyanmic range of the light hitting the film in the first place, due to higher contrast.
Not quite true, but close enough. The high-end digital I've seen properly exposed and processed, approaches slide film in latitude, but you almost have to treat the digtial sensor with a pseduo-Zone-system approach to make sure you use as much as the sensor's dynamic range as possible. If you're used to using print emulsions, of course, you've got a lot more lattitude.
Or shoot RAW images with your camera and adjust the white balance setting in post-processing.
It often is. I leave it off overnight but don't turn it off when I'm not using it during the day, I know the two channel number of the station I tune into first thing in the morning. So my savings are likely something like 10 hrs/day * 31 W = 310Wh/day = 9+ KWh/month. I also leave it off during long trips (which I have quite a few of as a nature photographer.)
The catch is this--the "off button" doesn't really turn the cable box off, because it wants to keep processing the program information data ("Friends is on channel 7 at 7:30) that's being trickled down the cable, that requires the tuners and microprocessor and such to be on, leaving little difference in power use for the cable box between "on" and "off". This means that, when I turn the TV on, it can be 10-20 minutes before I have a fully populated program grid.
Nope, just careless. ;)
Actually, speaking as a Caltech alumni, that cannon has been the subject of several hack/prank/appropriations over the years, and I consider this one both "fair game" and demonstrating some level of understanding of the cannon. Bravo, MIT.
And, yes, I still have a photograph of myself being hauled to the showers from the California Tech.
I'd agree with the generalization, but they did get me once, with a group trying to RF "Saturn and the Mind of Man", which was a bunch of guys pontificating (on TV, from Beckman) on the deep meaning of sending a probe to Saturn. What had caught our attention was poor Carl Sagan, who looked quite put off by the situation.
Having no time for planning left us a little unclever, but we got cuaght by Security after sneaking into the back of Beckman (still during the telecast.) Still just got told to go away after collecting our student ID numbers, they were being more careful that day, we later discovered that the governor had been in the audience.
And a big "hat's off" to MIT, nice hack. :)
Close, but no cigar. GIMP runs on Windows, so the issue isn't Linux itself, although signficant color management support is a Photoshop-over-GIMP issue for me. As I recall the rest of the laundry list of features important to my work that aren't in GIMP, they're things like CYMK support and adjustment layers.
There's a lot to be said for making a lot of money early, invested well, it can keep you in food, clothing, shelter and health insurance when you're old (your governments policies and/or fiscal malfaesence may vary). There's also a lot to be said for enjoying your life, and never, ever, talking to an SEC investigator ever again.
(I'd also incorrectly guessed that RAW processing wasn't available at all.)
My understanding is that none of those features is yet addressed, although CMS is due in GIMP 2.4.
In that same time frame, PS has made advancements itself.
I, for one, welcome our new Adobe..., errr, that is, I remain unsuprised by corporate users wanting PS-on-Linux.
Set free from the small but yield-killing 35mm frame sensor size, medium format digital backs are truly, truly impressive now
Are you suggesting that the sensors used in medium-format backs don't have even worse yield problems than their smaller 36x24mm "35mm" cousins? This flies against my understanding of chip fabrication, but perhaps I've misunderstood you.
I'm with you on the subject of scanning backs, too.
Y'know, in my opinion, even if that happens, there's nothing wrong with sticking with your Wisner so long as you can keep making prints you enjoy from it and film keeps being made. In the end, both the prints that I enjoy the most and the prints that my customers purchase aren't the ones that have a little more resolution than their kin, they're the ones for which the subject and composition resonate with them. And it's not as if your Wisner can't produce very fine, very large prints indeed.
You mean a 4x5 "large format" camera, or a 4 foot by 5 foot print? I'm assuming you mean the former.
And I'd answer to that: Just barely. Charlie Cramer did a nice piece looking at the new 39MP digital back over here at the Luminous Landscape a few days back. Note, however, that he's switching despite a marginal loss in detail resolution, and that that's not merely a matter of geekery-for-geek-sake, it's toward the end of making better images.
Now, that's $40K or so for a full-setup, which isn't precisely consumer-priced. But it shouldn't be too long before Canon, which already makes 16MP cameras in full-frame 35mm format, catches up. At this point, it's my firm belief that improvements in the Canon sensors are starting to be less important as the sensors reach and exceed the limits of the quality of existing Canon EF lenses, particularly in the wide-angle focal lengths.
Network coverage, network coverage, and network coverage. Verizon has significantly better coverage than other US providers. Oddly enough, some folks use cell phones for placing and recieving phone calls.
Does it? (I know that sounds rude, but I'm serious, do you have any basis for that belief?)
But they don't report that. From the article, I quote: "Will it work? It is too soon to say."
No difference was seen in the frequency or intensity of flashback episodes.
Now, to pick a nit, it is incorrect to say that no difference was seen in the frequency of flashback episodes. The article clearly states there was a difference, but that the difference was not statistically signifcant. Given the very low number of participants in the study, it would be relatively surprising to have seen a statistical difference, those folks need to do a signficantly larger study to make any sense of it. I agree with you that, by itself, this is not cause for optimism, but nor is it a direct cause for pessimism. In light of the authors previous studies, I think it's still an interesting and possibly productive line of research.