No, he forgot to mention how many people here think it's a piece of shit and refuse to buy it... while anxiously waiting for their torrent to complete.
"And even if you could use a larger lens...you introduce additional spherical (and possibly chromatic) distortion as you do so."
Actually, you end up with fewer of them, as most of the optical aberrations occur the closer you get to the edges of the image circle. That's why APS-sized sensors see fewer distortion and chromatic issues edge-to-edge as opposed to their full-frame brethren, given the same lens, and another reason why they can "work" with cheaper lenses. Most of the bad stuff happens outside the chip's area.
If you're interested in this kind of stuff, you should hang out on the forums of Digital Phography Review http://www.dpreview.com/.
I have to echo the planning ahead post above. Yeah, you might be able to do those chores you mentioned, but whay happens when they buy a digital camera and now want to process images? What about a future video iPod and the desire to transcode video?
I'm more in the buy future capacity camp. Yes, it's possible to have too much, but then again, that beats out not having enough and having to trash everything and start over...
And "Enhancing the Public Domain and the Common Good" is done by providing incentives and protections to artists and authors so that they can afford to create new works.
And you have the "limited times" clause exactly backwards. It's not yours. It's theirs. Exclusively. Then, after a limited time has passed, and only then, does it pass from their control into the public domain and become "yours".
And intellectual property has been confirmed as property, be it of a special type. Even the often misquoted Dowling case agrees as such.
And, "we have a Right to experience our own culture"? Sorry, but that's not a "right". Try walking past the ticket taker at a theater, playhouse, or concert hall with that line. And I'm sure it will work equally well with the security guard at Best Buy.
All in all, I'd have to say that your overall tone illustrates my major disagreement with the Declaration and Constitution, in that we've become a society focused on "rights", but care little or not at all for the responsibilities, duties, and obligations--to ourselves and others--upon which those rights are based.
"Infringement without profit motive is far more common in cases of Internet-
based copyright infringement than it is in the physical world. Until recently,
the prosecution was required to prove that copyright infringement was done
willfully and for commercial advantage or private financial gain. Now the law
provides for prosecution in the absence of these monetary considerations.
Specifically, the current statute, as codified at 17 U.S.C. 506(a)(2),
allows for prosecution in cases involving large scale illegal reproduction or
distribution of copyrighted works where the infringers act willfully, but without
a discernible profit motive. Congress specifically made this change as part of
the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act of 1997, Pub. L. No. 105-147, 111 Stat. 2678."
"...plug in my username and password and it appears in my 'media list'."
I like the idea of part of the download encryption technology using the credit card number used to make the purchase. Any player can play it, IF it also has the credit number. You can loan it to friends, but they'd better be trustworthy...
And you think they WANT to waste their resources and employees time that way? Don't blame them. Blame all the jerks that walked out the front (or back) door with non-empty boxes they didn't pay for...
"So yes, in a way, the limitation is the CCD, but the smaller lens makes it much harder to achieve high resolution with adequate light gathering."
Ummm... I can just as easily say, and it would be true, that the smaller CHIP makes it much harder to achieve high resolution with adequate light gathering. Smaller chip @ higher pixel counts = smaller pixel wells = fewer photons captured per well = less signal over noise.
And you can always use larger lenses with smaller chips (aka AF-S).
There's also a countervailing aspect to the focus issue, in that smaller formats tend to have much, much greater perceived DOF, so extremely precise focus isn't needed. They also use the CCD/CMOS to do phase-detection autofocus, and that tends to self correct any minor placement errors.
Finally, most camera/phone makers understand these issues, which is one reason the best you can usually get is about 2MP, adequate for birthday party snapshots and 4x6s. You're correct that they will never be a Canon 1Ds MII, but they're not designed to be.
As XCP (Extended Copy Protection) was developed by First 4 Internet Ltd, an outside company, I'd say that Sony's executives were approached by F4I with a proposal to use their new "advanced" DRM system to protect their music.
"So, if you want to play iTunes AACs on Linux, for example, it requires an illegal action."
So? Why the heck did you buy them then, knowing Linux can't access them? That's like buying a cassette tape when you know you don't have a cassette player.
As far as that goes, why can't you play them on the machine on which you DID buy them, since it had to support iTunes to start with?
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for fair use. I'm also for not needing locks on my car and my front door. Unfortunately, for all of those concepts, they're too many jerks out there willing to steal anything they can lay their hands on.
"... *cough*, you can strip the DRM then and still have access to your files... *wink wink*."
Yeah, wink-wink. It's posts like this one I fully expect to be copied out by the RIAA and presented to the courts and lawmakers. "You see why we need addition protections, your honor..."
"The lenses on a dSLR aren't huge because people like their cameras to look impressive."
No, they're huge because they have to generate an image circle large enough to encompass a 24x36mm sensor (full frame). It's actually easier, and cheaper, to create high quality lenses using smaller glass. Notice, as an example, the Olympus E-1 has several very high quality, small bright (f2.0 constant) lenses for it's smaller 4/3 format.
Now, if you want to discuss noise floor and other low-light characteristics of smaller SENSORS, and how those impact image quality, then that's another matter. But the limiting factor is not, as you suggest, the lens.
Of course, we also have recent announcements of imaging bugs and vulnerabilities in Apple's QuickTime that can allow machines to be hijacked. As such, I gather *nix systems can and do have similar problems.
"...stored procedures, when implemented and called correctly, protect against SQL injection attacks, increase performance..."
So do prepared statements.
"...abstract your data layer by providing a consistent interface even when the underlying structure may change."
Really? I thought that's what my application layer interface did. Let's say my boss decides I need to fetch XML data from a new CMS-based application server, instead directly from the old content database. Tell me again how to convert all of my stored procedures to do that? Tell me how many of my direct calls to SPs I now need to rip out and replace?
Sorry. Data types? Yes. Constraints? Yes. Insert/delete triggers? Yes. Some data-intensive cursor-based manipulations? Okay.
Abstraction? Consistent interface? Application logic? Business processes and procedures? Sorry. That's the app server's duty.
Then I must vehemently disagree with your vehement disagreement. On a web site, for example, my "business logic" says that a new registration must be added to the member database, to certain groups, to a log (another database), to a email list (another server), and a registration notice sent (another server).
This must be done front-end and back-end (admin), from the site, from the order servers, and so on. There's no way I want my database box spinning its wheels and wasting its time trying to connect to mail servers and the like.
As the only access to the data (from any application) is through a service, I can let the business layer/service box do its thing, organize the data access, and let the database worry strictly about the data. Should the application box get bogged down, it's MUCH easier to fan out and add another relatively-inexpensive app server to take up the load.
Nor do I want a bunch of SPs knowing too much about the "world" they live in. If, for efficiency, I need to move a certain database to its own box, I don't want to run through and recode a batch of SPs that "ass-ume" the membership database and the order database are on the same box.
I paid good money to have my database server serve data, and that's ALL I want it doing.
Depends on the company. mySQL AB, for example, did create their product from scratch. On the flip side, many "real world" companies exist solely to market products manufactured by others.
And as near as I can tell, the investment folk mentioned in the article are looking for the companies WITH products, and not just for the "me too" marketers.
Yes, EQUAL emphasis should be given to gameplay, but I think the visuals are important too, as what we're looking for is complete and total immersion in the game world. As we inch towards complete photo-realism in many games, that immersion becomes easier to achieve.
The "government" quote on copyrights and patents, for one thing, as it totally ignores the author's rights to his creation, as it does the production side of the equation.
Facts are facts, but I'm quite sure that my "truth" and theirs are entirely different things.
That's not quite what I remember. The/// was Apple's answer to the IBM PC, and intended for the same higher-end business market. The ][ series was still the "home" system. You're correct, however, in that the/// never took off.
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No, he forgot to mention how many people here think it's a piece of shit and refuse to buy it... while anxiously waiting for their torrent to complete.
Actually, you end up with fewer of them, as most of the optical aberrations occur the closer you get to the edges of the image circle. That's why APS-sized sensors see fewer distortion and chromatic issues edge-to-edge as opposed to their full-frame brethren, given the same lens, and another reason why they can "work" with cheaper lenses. Most of the bad stuff happens outside the chip's area.
If you're interested in this kind of stuff, you should hang out on the forums of Digital Phography Review http://www.dpreview.com/.
I'm more in the buy future capacity camp. Yes, it's possible to have too much, but then again, that beats out not having enough and having to trash everything and start over...
And you have the "limited times" clause exactly backwards. It's not yours. It's theirs. Exclusively. Then, after a limited time has passed, and only then, does it pass from their control into the public domain and become "yours".
And intellectual property has been confirmed as property, be it of a special type. Even the often misquoted Dowling case agrees as such.
And, "we have a Right to experience our own culture"? Sorry, but that's not a "right". Try walking past the ticket taker at a theater, playhouse, or concert hall with that line. And I'm sure it will work equally well with the security guard at Best Buy.
All in all, I'd have to say that your overall tone illustrates my major disagreement with the Declaration and Constitution, in that we've become a society focused on "rights", but care little or not at all for the responsibilities, duties, and obligations--to ourselves and others--upon which those rights are based.
Yes, but who wound up the clock to start with???
Can't be done. Take the time to write a summary, and someone else will have posted it first...
And doing nothing loses dollars in inventory and sales, as it's hard to sell something that isn't there.
Fundamentally, it's a no-win scenario. I'm sure, however, they'd be interested if you could prove your thesis.
How about the hundreds of thousands of musicians, singers, and songwriters this also impacts.
There's also millions of auto drivers. Let's all get togther and go bomb Ford and GM...
"...greedy fuckwads..."
You mean all those people who expect to get something for nothing?
"Infringement without profit motive is far more common in cases of Internet- based copyright infringement than it is in the physical world. Until recently, the prosecution was required to prove that copyright infringement was done willfully and for commercial advantage or private financial gain. Now the law provides for prosecution in the absence of these monetary considerations. Specifically, the current statute, as codified at 17 U.S.C. 506(a)(2), allows for prosecution in cases involving large scale illegal reproduction or distribution of copyrighted works where the infringers act willfully, but without a discernible profit motive. Congress specifically made this change as part of the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act of 1997, Pub. L. No. 105-147, 111 Stat. 2678."
I like the idea of part of the download encryption technology using the credit card number used to make the purchase. Any player can play it, IF it also has the credit number. You can loan it to friends, but they'd better be trustworthy...
And you think they WANT to waste their resources and employees time that way? Don't blame them. Blame all the jerks that walked out the front (or back) door with non-empty boxes they didn't pay for...
Ummm... I can just as easily say, and it would be true, that the smaller CHIP makes it much harder to achieve high resolution with adequate light gathering. Smaller chip @ higher pixel counts = smaller pixel wells = fewer photons captured per well = less signal over noise.
And you can always use larger lenses with smaller chips (aka AF-S).
There's also a countervailing aspect to the focus issue, in that smaller formats tend to have much, much greater perceived DOF, so extremely precise focus isn't needed. They also use the CCD/CMOS to do phase-detection autofocus, and that tends to self correct any minor placement errors.
Finally, most camera/phone makers understand these issues, which is one reason the best you can usually get is about 2MP, adequate for birthday party snapshots and 4x6s. You're correct that they will never be a Canon 1Ds MII, but they're not designed to be.
As XCP (Extended Copy Protection) was developed by First 4 Internet Ltd, an outside company, I'd say that Sony's executives were approached by F4I with a proposal to use their new "advanced" DRM system to protect their music.
So? Why the heck did you buy them then, knowing Linux can't access them? That's like buying a cassette tape when you know you don't have a cassette player.
As far as that goes, why can't you play them on the machine on which you DID buy them, since it had to support iTunes to start with?
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for fair use. I'm also for not needing locks on my car and my front door. Unfortunately, for all of those concepts, they're too many jerks out there willing to steal anything they can lay their hands on.
Yeah, wink-wink. It's posts like this one I fully expect to be copied out by the RIAA and presented to the courts and lawmakers. "You see why we need addition protections, your honor..."
No, they're huge because they have to generate an image circle large enough to encompass a 24x36mm sensor (full frame). It's actually easier, and cheaper, to create high quality lenses using smaller glass. Notice, as an example, the Olympus E-1 has several very high quality, small bright (f2.0 constant) lenses for it's smaller 4/3 format.
Now, if you want to discuss noise floor and other low-light characteristics of smaller SENSORS, and how those impact image quality, then that's another matter. But the limiting factor is not, as you suggest, the lens.
Of course, we also have recent announcements of imaging bugs and vulnerabilities in Apple's QuickTime that can allow machines to be hijacked. As such, I gather *nix systems can and do have similar problems.
So do prepared statements.
"...abstract your data layer by providing a consistent interface even when the underlying structure may change."
Really? I thought that's what my application layer interface did. Let's say my boss decides I need to fetch XML data from a new CMS-based application server, instead directly from the old content database. Tell me again how to convert all of my stored procedures to do that? Tell me how many of my direct calls to SPs I now need to rip out and replace?
Sorry. Data types? Yes. Constraints? Yes. Insert/delete triggers? Yes. Some data-intensive cursor-based manipulations? Okay.
Abstraction? Consistent interface? Application logic? Business processes and procedures? Sorry. That's the app server's duty.
This must be done front-end and back-end (admin), from the site, from the order servers, and so on. There's no way I want my database box spinning its wheels and wasting its time trying to connect to mail servers and the like.
As the only access to the data (from any application) is through a service, I can let the business layer/service box do its thing, organize the data access, and let the database worry strictly about the data. Should the application box get bogged down, it's MUCH easier to fan out and add another relatively-inexpensive app server to take up the load.
Nor do I want a bunch of SPs knowing too much about the "world" they live in. If, for efficiency, I need to move a certain database to its own box, I don't want to run through and recode a batch of SPs that "ass-ume" the membership database and the order database are on the same box.
I paid good money to have my database server serve data, and that's ALL I want it doing.
And as near as I can tell, the investment folk mentioned in the article are looking for the companies WITH products, and not just for the "me too" marketers.
Yes, EQUAL emphasis should be given to gameplay, but I think the visuals are important too, as what we're looking for is complete and total immersion in the game world. As we inch towards complete photo-realism in many games, that immersion becomes easier to achieve.
Especially since Open Source companies have an additional financial leg kicked out from under them... sales of the product itself.
Automator lets you design your own tasks and actions.
Facts are facts, but I'm quite sure that my "truth" and theirs are entirely different things.
That's not quite what I remember. The /// was Apple's answer to the IBM PC, and intended for the same higher-end business market. The ][ series was still the "home" system. You're correct, however, in that the /// never took off.