Yeah, and the dynamic range of digital totally eclipses film too. It is approaching films resolution finally with the latest round of SLRs as well. A 35mm slide yields about 20 megapixels. About the same as a full frame sensor, and increasingly APS-C sized sensors. Also the lens is going to certainly become the limiting factor in resolving power in the near future. Its going to take some breakthroughs in lens technology for current lens sizes to resolve much greater than 20mp as it is. Your arguments are nearly moot. Digital has for all intensive purposes trumped film as the ideal medium and the hordes of people that have given up medium format for Canon 5d Mark IIs are a testament for that.
Huh... you are bitching about colors not being vibrant and contrasty (like certain films...) and yet you are using the jpeg engine of your slr. You want raw. And you want lightroom with your own profiles. Then you can indeed make the colors like anything you want and can certainly improve them. A lot of the digital stuff is pretty heavily baked anymore with lots of contrast and strong blacks. The colors tend to be oversaturated too. Of course this is nothing like reality, and of course if your are just using your camera to process the images its going to come out in an underwhelming way. Jpegs are 8-bit vs the 14-bit raw your sensor is capable of. You are cutting your dynamic range in half by using jpeg and cutting down considerably on your color reproduction due to the limited gamut of 8-bit jpeg. The fujis give good color, because their default settings are to add all kinds of contrast and saturation. You can easily do this in lightroom and create the look you are going for and just apply it to all your raw files on import. Don't bitch about the medium or the tools if you don't want to use them to their maximum potential.
Older media is pretty decent. Its the newer CD-Rs with their blue vegetable dyes that are horrendous when it comes to long term storage. The dyes just break down after a few years. All of the older silver and black disks I've burned work fine....
And IBM continues to develop the Power architecture, which is wiping the floor with most chips out there these days. Something tells me that intel offered chips at a significantly cheaper rate than the ibm powerpcs. I don't believe for a second it had anything to do with performance or power consumption. Though, they were black eyes in the powerpc architecture around 5 years ago. If anything I was always fond of apples because they were different, right down to the CPU, and now they are basically a really expensive PC inside.
You know.I read through the wikipedia article and it was very interesting.sorry if this gets garbled....slashdot is so slow on my phone. Usually I take a lot of the independant press' assumptions about palestine at face value. However, the sobering reality is that things may not be as bad as they are making it out to be. I mean lots of bad things are happening and people are suffering and dying, sure. And both sides are probably equally as guilty...they seem to hate each other pretty equally. But on a general suffering scale this does seem to pale to places like the congo or sudan or rwanda or any number of extremely bad third world shitholes. Actually they probably have it a lot better than the north koreans, but that isn't saying much. My point is that one group needs to take a higher road and I don't see that happening. I see more ethnic cleansing (to use a better term) and clearly israel has a huge advantage in terms of military gear and money. Its just sad that it has to play out like this. The british gave up on a solution and its not hard to see why. They both want the sane lands, but they cannot share them. A more peaceful solution would be the unification of jews and palestinians but that will likely never happen with all the damage that has been done. I'm guessing by your nick you were military, so I could probably understand a bit where your viewpoint is coming from. I really don't have much opinion on who is wrong or right, but israel has certainly taken a position that will have long reaching consequences. I'm no fan of iran or a lot of the islamic world as well, but we likely would have never had any sort of war or issue with them if they didt have oil under their sands. That's a whole other topic though......
Yeah...and if you look further back...the Israelites came and originally took it from who was there first. Wasn't it the philistines? I'm just saying that if you look at their recent history they haven't exactly been saints.
Why? As another poster pointed out an M-16 can approach 30k as it is. Also their gear is really not cheap. All in all it costs far more than their salary to equip a soldier, never mind the costs of training them.
Gee. I can't see why the palestianians (and the surrounding arab/islamic community) would be pissed. I mean the UN decided to give the Jews over half of Palestine and then in 1967 they went and occupied the rest of it after the 6 day war. Everything they do has been backed by the UN and the US. They have gone from being the oppressed to becoming the oppressors themselves. Why don't you grow a pair yourself and look at all the geneva convention violations they have committed over the years. Let's face it, Israel has not taken the higher path here. I don't honestly know what is worse morally, suicide bombers or starving a population by controlling its food and fuel supply. They have essentially turned the whole gaza strip into a giant concentration camp. I can't see why that would possibly enrage your enemies. Oh no!
Both sides' hands are so drenched in blood that neither is even remotely innocent anymore. Oh...but we can't let the jews not have their holy land, because its sacred to xtians too! Boo fucking hoo. Jesus would be fucking proud.
And WTF is wrong with you? I suggest you take a class in reading and comprehension, then you will realize that I was using a figure of speech. A caged animal is a common metaphor for someone that is living under tyranny or enslavement. And yes, as per your other comment, the animal side of humans comes out very quickly when they cannot even fulfill basic needs like food and shelter. People can become quite savage in the right conditions. Now go back to your cave troll.
I still like the PS2....there were some pretty good games for it and the graphics are not all that bad, even today. In fact, I keep meaning to pick another one up so I can keep playing Dragon Quest VIII.
The Wii just appealed to the casual gamer grandmas who would have never considered console before. The only reason it sold so much is because it opened a new market that consoles could previously never break into. It was also relatively cheap, further lowering the bar to its entry into the market. The 360 appealed more to the traditional console crowd. Most serious gamers I know have 360s. Not many have a Wii.
The probability of being struck by lightning is probably greater. You have probably a 500% greater chance of being hit by a drunk driver. Where do you think we should be spending our resources? We are pissing away billions upon billions alone in the name of greater "security" and yet we cannot afford healthcare for everyone.
Fuck this. There are laws against this sort of thing. Being a TSA employee does not exempt you from the law. I'm disappointed that a prosecutor isn't looking into this case. Especially now that its gone national.
Plenty of public areas with lots of people in crowded cities for terrorists to exploit. See, that's the one thing that gets me about the 9/11 events. Everything the terrorists do is decidedly low tech. Sure they get more sophisticated bombs out there, with remote control and whatnot, but that is the height of their sophistication usually. Its either a) suicide bomber, b)road side bomb, c) stolen anti-aircraft IR missile, or d) truck bomb. Can't forget the RPG either. Everything they do involves setting a bomb off somewhere. The 9/11 attacks were far more sophisticated. They would have taken years of coordinated planning with a relatively high chance of failure for a few thousand lives. That's not really their style. If there were more active terrorist forces in america, all they would have to do is drive up to the local mall and drop off a few packages. The fact that bombs are not blowing up regularly around us like they are in Iraq and other hotspots of the world should indicate that the terrorists are no actual threat at all to the united states. I believe that we have created an enemy of perceived magnitude that actually does not exist in real life.The most convenient enemy of all, because terrorism is actually more of an ideal than an actual country, army, group of people etc. Permanent war. The neocons have won. The terrorists have won. We lose. Everything? Potentially....
The real question is what *can* we do about it? Every single one of our election choices is tainted by the massively corrupt lobbying machine. If we were to fight lobbying at the grassroots, efforts would be futile. You can't even get into a debate without massive corporate backing. The only thing I could think of would be to outlaw corporate campaign donations entirely, but that would still leave a lot of room for people with big pockets to maneuver in.
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Yeah, and the dynamic range of digital totally eclipses film too. It is approaching films resolution finally with the latest round of SLRs as well. A 35mm slide yields about 20 megapixels. About the same as a full frame sensor, and increasingly APS-C sized sensors. Also the lens is going to certainly become the limiting factor in resolving power in the near future. Its going to take some breakthroughs in lens technology for current lens sizes to resolve much greater than 20mp as it is. Your arguments are nearly moot. Digital has for all intensive purposes trumped film as the ideal medium and the hordes of people that have given up medium format for Canon 5d Mark IIs are a testament for that.
Huh... you are bitching about colors not being vibrant and contrasty (like certain films...) and yet you are using the jpeg engine of your slr. You want raw. And you want lightroom with your own profiles. Then you can indeed make the colors like anything you want and can certainly improve them. A lot of the digital stuff is pretty heavily baked anymore with lots of contrast and strong blacks. The colors tend to be oversaturated too. Of course this is nothing like reality, and of course if your are just using your camera to process the images its going to come out in an underwhelming way. Jpegs are 8-bit vs the 14-bit raw your sensor is capable of. You are cutting your dynamic range in half by using jpeg and cutting down considerably on your color reproduction due to the limited gamut of 8-bit jpeg. The fujis give good color, because their default settings are to add all kinds of contrast and saturation. You can easily do this in lightroom and create the look you are going for and just apply it to all your raw files on import. Don't bitch about the medium or the tools if you don't want to use them to their maximum potential.
Grey on this screen too. I remember them being grey in print as well....
Older media is pretty decent. Its the newer CD-Rs with their blue vegetable dyes that are horrendous when it comes to long term storage. The dyes just break down after a few years. All of the older silver and black disks I've burned work fine....
And IBM continues to develop the Power architecture, which is wiping the floor with most chips out there these days. Something tells me that intel offered chips at a significantly cheaper rate than the ibm powerpcs. I don't believe for a second it had anything to do with performance or power consumption. Though, they were black eyes in the powerpc architecture around 5 years ago. If anything I was always fond of apples because they were different, right down to the CPU, and now they are basically a really expensive PC inside.
You know.I read through the wikipedia article and it was very interesting.sorry if this gets garbled....slashdot is so slow on my phone. Usually I take a lot of the independant press' assumptions about palestine at face value. However, the sobering reality is that things may not be as bad as they are making it out to be. I mean lots of bad things are happening and people are suffering and dying, sure. And both sides are probably equally as guilty...they seem to hate each other pretty equally. But on a general suffering scale this does seem to pale to places like the congo or sudan or rwanda or any number of extremely bad third world shitholes. Actually they probably have it a lot better than the north koreans, but that isn't saying much. My point is that one group needs to take a higher road and I don't see that happening. I see more ethnic cleansing (to use a better term) and clearly israel has a huge advantage in terms of military gear and money. Its just sad that it has to play out like this. The british gave up on a solution and its not hard to see why. They both want the sane lands, but they cannot share them. A more peaceful solution would be the unification of jews and palestinians but that will likely never happen with all the damage that has been done. I'm guessing by your nick you were military, so I could probably understand a bit where your viewpoint is coming from. I really don't have much opinion on who is wrong or right, but israel has certainly taken a position that will have long reaching consequences. I'm no fan of iran or a lot of the islamic world as well, but we likely would have never had any sort of war or issue with them if they didt have oil under their sands. That's a whole other topic though......
Sorry for any typos...editing is painful
Early adopters always pay a premium. It is priced competitively with the high end android phones, which are also about $5-600.
Yes, and the galaxy also features phone functionality. It is just locked away for the us market, but otherwise you can use it to make calls.
Think of it as an over sized galaxy s.
Yeah...and if you look further back...the Israelites came and originally took it from who was there first. Wasn't it the philistines? I'm just saying that if you look at their recent history they haven't exactly been saints.
http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/oct/04/cost-equip-us-soldier-17500-please/
Looks like it was about 17.5k in 2007.....
Why? As another poster pointed out an M-16 can approach 30k as it is. Also their gear is really not cheap. All in all it costs far more than their salary to equip a soldier, never mind the costs of training them.
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_61719.shtml
As for their shelter....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3689104.stm
BBC mainstream enough for you?
http://www.countercurrents.org/pappe280108.htm
Gee. I can't see why the palestianians (and the surrounding arab/islamic community) would be pissed. I mean the UN decided to give the Jews over half of Palestine and then in 1967 they went and occupied the rest of it after the 6 day war. Everything they do has been backed by the UN and the US. They have gone from being the oppressed to becoming the oppressors themselves. Why don't you grow a pair yourself and look at all the geneva convention violations they have committed over the years. Let's face it, Israel has not taken the higher path here. I don't honestly know what is worse morally, suicide bombers or starving a population by controlling its food and fuel supply. They have essentially turned the whole gaza strip into a giant concentration camp. I can't see why that would possibly enrage your enemies. Oh no!
Both sides' hands are so drenched in blood that neither is even remotely innocent anymore. Oh...but we can't let the jews not have their holy land, because its sacred to xtians too! Boo fucking hoo. Jesus would be fucking proud.
And WTF is wrong with you? I suggest you take a class in reading and comprehension, then you will realize that I was using a figure of speech. A caged animal is a common metaphor for someone that is living under tyranny or enslavement. And yes, as per your other comment, the animal side of humans comes out very quickly when they cannot even fulfill basic needs like food and shelter. People can become quite savage in the right conditions. Now go back to your cave troll.
We can trust Israel? Yeah....trust them to wage further genocide against the Palestinians.....
Sure they are all terrorists. What else would you expect from a wounded caged animal being backed into a corner with a stick?
I still like the PS2....there were some pretty good games for it and the graphics are not all that bad, even today. In fact, I keep meaning to pick another one up so I can keep playing Dragon Quest VIII.
The Wii just appealed to the casual gamer grandmas who would have never considered console before. The only reason it sold so much is because it opened a new market that consoles could previously never break into. It was also relatively cheap, further lowering the bar to its entry into the market. The 360 appealed more to the traditional console crowd. Most serious gamers I know have 360s. Not many have a Wii.
You need to learn basic geometry.
And when you get arrested in China you have no rights at all. SO much easier.
Well, it does simplify things greatly.....
I honestly don't quite see how farting could possibly give the illusion of distance.
The probability of being struck by lightning is probably greater. You have probably a 500% greater chance of being hit by a drunk driver. Where do you think we should be spending our resources? We are pissing away billions upon billions alone in the name of greater "security" and yet we cannot afford healthcare for everyone.
Fuck this whole discussion makes me sick.
Fuck this. There are laws against this sort of thing. Being a TSA employee does not exempt you from the law. I'm disappointed that a prosecutor isn't looking into this case. Especially now that its gone national.
Plenty of public areas with lots of people in crowded cities for terrorists to exploit. See, that's the one thing that gets me about the 9/11 events. Everything the terrorists do is decidedly low tech. Sure they get more sophisticated bombs out there, with remote control and whatnot, but that is the height of their sophistication usually. Its either a) suicide bomber, b)road side bomb, c) stolen anti-aircraft IR missile, or d) truck bomb. Can't forget the RPG either. Everything they do involves setting a bomb off somewhere. The 9/11 attacks were far more sophisticated. They would have taken years of coordinated planning with a relatively high chance of failure for a few thousand lives. That's not really their style. If there were more active terrorist forces in america, all they would have to do is drive up to the local mall and drop off a few packages. The fact that bombs are not blowing up regularly around us like they are in Iraq and other hotspots of the world should indicate that the terrorists are no actual threat at all to the united states. I believe that we have created an enemy of perceived magnitude that actually does not exist in real life.The most convenient enemy of all, because terrorism is actually more of an ideal than an actual country, army, group of people etc. Permanent war. The neocons have won. The terrorists have won. We lose. Everything? Potentially....
So, what are you willing to be subjected to by the TSA to prevent the next colon bomber?
If the current voting population is any indication just about anything.
"Now sir you must bend over. You may find the following procedure slightly uncomfortable, but please be assured, we are professionals.."
The real question is what *can* we do about it? Every single one of our election choices is tainted by the massively corrupt lobbying machine. If we were to fight lobbying at the grassroots, efforts would be futile. You can't even get into a debate without massive corporate backing. The only thing I could think of would be to outlaw corporate campaign donations entirely, but that would still leave a lot of room for people with big pockets to maneuver in.