While its true that cameras with large sensors tend to have shallower depth of field, its actually a side effect of needing to use longer focal length lenses to get the same field of view. You might need 70mm on a 35mm camera to frame a subject for a portrait but only 12mm on a point and shoot to frame the same subject. Longer focal length means bigger actual lens aperture for the same f-stop, and thats what decreases depth of field.
For example, a 35mm f/2 lens on a full frame camera will have the same depth of field as a 35mm f/2 lens on a 2/3" CCD point and shoot, but the 35mm on a full frame camera is going to be a standard angle and 35mm on the point and shoot is going to be considerable telephoto.
People generally don't use the same range of focal lengths on full frame cameras as they do on tiny sensor point and shoots (or cell phones) so thats why it seems like its easier to achieve the shallower depth of field with a bigger imager.
And this is why I like Supreme Commander better than Starcraft. Since you can queue every action, you don't need to babysit to make sure your factories didn't forget to keep pumping units out. Thus freeing you up to actually manage your units.
The problem is that anyone can get a loan, even people who definitely have no prospect of paying it back. With guarenteed loan money, schools can charge whatever they want and you'll just have to take out a bigger loan. And of course 18 year olds fresh out of high school don't understand the power of compound interest, they just know that they "have" to go to college to get a good job and they'll get a better job if they go to a fancy private school.
While you can't get a bachelors from our local community college, it only costs $2,500 a year in tuition and you're getting credits that can transfer to any state school. Why can a community college offer actual college classes for that little, but a 4 year school can charge $10,000, $20,000 or more for largely the same education? Its just insane.
The Wii only achieved an odd form of success though. While lots of people bought it and Nintendo profited on the sales of the consoles, nowadays they're just sitting on people's shelves unused. Even with that kind of market saturation is it successful if the average Wii owner has, what, less than 5 games? Less than 2? I don't know the answer but if something is purchased but then rarely used it's only a partial success. They have to sell games too.
Obviously, its a problem when "Season Pass" doesn't actually get you the whole season. If I hadn't RTFA'd I might have presumed that the guy was complaining that he didn't get access to either all 16 episodes including the ones that weren't even played yet (that would be absurd) or that he didn't get access to the first 8 + the ones that have been played already (not absurd but I wouldn't be on his side)
If Apple's intention was that buying a season pass to season 5 of breaking bad would get you the first 8 episodes now, and the last 8 episodes when they were released to dvd/bluray/download, it would just be a matter of patience and I'd still be on Apple's side on this one.
Except from the sounds of it, Apple was selling a season pass to "Season 5" and not listing it as "The first 8 episodes of season 5." They had no intention of ever giving him access to the last 8 episodes of Season 5 for that price, making it "Not really a season pass." Clearly this is a problem and the guy just wants his money back for misleading advertising. If I were him, I'd be ok with a gift card in the amount of the price of the first 8 episodes, since the second 8 will presumably be priced the same anyway, effectively getting me what was advertised. The whole season for one price.
Links awakening was a direct sequel to link to the past and an extremely enjoyable game. The later GBC ones were developed by capcom and I never played them so I can't comment. But there's definitely nothing bastardized about links awakening.
Heres the real benefit I see to 3840x2160 (or 3840x2400). Whatever. I'll call it 4k like everybody else is.
The real benefit is that you can start treating your monitor like a CRT again, feeding it arbitrary resolutions. First off, 1080p would work fine on a 3840x2160, and with any luck the monitor would just display it pixel-doubled so it wouldn't be any more blurry than a native 1080p monitor. That would be awesome. You can also run 1280x720p natively, as 3840x2160 is triple that, just like its double 1080p. But heres the real kicker - say you have some old game that tops out at 1280x1024 or something. You'll have to accept the black bars on the sides for games that aren't widescreen, but given that, you can upscale 1280x1024 to 2700x2160 or whatever. It'll still look good because theres so many excess pixels - more than double. Back when we were switching from CRTs to 15 and 17" or maybe a 19 if you're lucky, we had the issue that 800x600 looked like junk on a 1024x768 monitor and 1024x768 looked like junk on 1280x1024. At 3840x2160, we can display 1080p and 720p with literally no artifacts, and anything in between with minimal artifacts. In fact, the dot pitch of a 3840x2160 24" monitor is smaller than that of a typical 21" fine dot pitch aperture grille CRT. 3840x2160 at that resolution is only.13mm dot pitch. Remember when we thought.25mm dot pitch was awesome? Obviously we've got that beat, and that's why 3840x2160 is worth it even when not displaying native 3840x2160 images.
" 'It sure beats washing cars,' says Georgia State University graduate Landon Crider, 24, an in-house courier who, for $10 an hour, ferries documents back and forth between the courthouse and his company's office."
I work for a full service car wash as a supervisor. I wash cars. I don't have a college degree. I both make more than $10 an hour and would rather be washing cars than sitting at a desk. So this quote in the summary really made me laugh.
I used to live in Nashua and I found that the times I had to interact with the Nashua police, it might as well have been the Nazi SS. Not all cops are bad, but the Nashua PD clearly has an issue with hiring/promoting scumbags and it only takes a few bad apples to ruin the batch.
Why would burly police men ever have to escalate violence against somebody just trying to buy some christmas presents? Sure, they asked her to leave, and when they ask you to leave and you don't its trespassing so they were right to call the police. But the reaction by the police was completely overbearing.
For added lulz, google "Nashua Gannon wire tapping". The officer who was harassing this guy at his own house late at night was the guy I had the pleasure of dealing with the time I got a speeding ticket. Its never pleasant getting a ticket, but he was like interrogating me about why i was going so fast and why I thought I could do that and etc - never mind the detail that he wrote me up for doing 50 in a 30 when the speed limit was actually 40 where I was driving. Got it dropped in court no problem, but if you're gonna do you your job as a police officer, don't get the facts wrong.
In short, I will definitely never, ever, ever be going back to Nashua NH.
Landing in top gun is actually really easy, the thing most people don't realize is that you have to hold and release the button to speed up and keep your speed around 250 mph. It'll tell you to speed up if you're too slow and it'll tell you to slow down if you're too fast, so you sorta have to pulse-width-modulate your speed in between. The up/down/left/right instructions are pretty self explanatory, but on top of the directions you really just have to point at the aircraft carrier deck. Just like a real plane. Except way easier.
Disclaimer: I can land a real plane, but that aside I still don't think its that hard to land in top gun. Its just not clear on what you're supposed to be doing to succesfully land.
All US Golfs going back to MK5 were built in Wolfsburg, so if you get a new Golf TDI 100% of them are German built. My MK4 Golf was built in Brazil, and MK4/MK5 Jettas for the US were mostly built in Mexico. At any rate, if you're not sure where a VW is built, just look at the first letter in the VIN... W = Germany, 3 = Mexico.
I just got a new galaxy nexus and posted about how great it was on facebook. My aunt, who currently has an iphone 3GS, commented asking if she should get one too. I said stick with the iphone. She's horrible with technology and, just like you said, the reasons I like the android phone would be the reasons she hated it.
Cartoony, Hilarious, and not impossibly difficult. And easy to acquire. A spectacular game all around and you can run it right in scummvm.
Really I recommend all of their games, but I'd suggest that as a best "first" game. Monkey Island 2 is my actual favorite scumm game, but its SUPER hard so not really a good "first" game.
Of course, achieving a 15:1 glide ratio requires you to be at the appropriate airspeed to do that... and since the main problem was loss of airspeed indicator, they were falling, not gliding.
Yes - the problem is that we have to change it at all, not that the sun goes down an hour later (and comes up an hour later). I prefer the light at the end of the day myself, so, indeed, make it DST year round. Problem solved.
In your fraud-free world, enjoy your ~$45 a month 500kbps connection and don't complain to me that a guaranteed 10mbit line costs hundreds of dollars a month.
I'd rather be on an oversold line with a high peak connection speed than a "Guaranteed... to be slow" connection, regardless of what your definition of fraud is.
Other posts point it out, and its true - they don't make "most" of their revenue from speeding tickets, BUT
I used to go to school in NH and I got a ticket for doing 50 in a 30... which sounds like I was doing something wrong, except heres what REALLY happened.
I was coming down a long hill admittedly doing 50mph. I was in a 40mph speed zone. Then I saw near the bottom of the hill that there was a 30 mph speed sign but i didn't really see it till the last second because it was kinda blocked by trees until you got within about 20 yards of it. I slowed down to about 32mph or so.
Cop was sitting in an unmarked car maybe another 100 yards past the sign, but I know from his perspective he could have very well shot me with radar while I was still at the very top of the hill - definitely doing 50, definitely going "10 over" but definitely not doing 50 by the time the speed limit dropped to 30.
It got dropped but only because my record was clean anyway, I didn't even need to mention the fact that the sign was blocked by trees.
Long story short - NH is a sack of dicks when it comes to speed traps, and I have no intention of ever living there. There are roads just like that one by my house in NY that have a 55mph limit, not 30mph.
My pair of solutions. 1. NEVER give a cop a reason to pull you over. If you're going 7 over, you might attract enough attention to yourself to get some dick cop thats gonna decide to write you up for going 13 over when that may not have actually been the case. If you're going less than 5 over, they'll probably leave you alone because they'd rather screw around with the guy going 7-10 over that they'd miss if they pulled you over first.
And the obvious one, 2. Fuck NH. If I'm driving to maine I'm gonna go over the mass pike to get there and cut out as little NH driving as possible, and I will never stop for gas or to eat or give business of any kind to any business within NH state borders. That state is dead to me.
I apparently already have the fastest internet service I can get... RR turbo at 15/1. I only signed up for it because it was advertised as 15/2 right on the site where I upgraded my service. After about 2 weeks of trying to explain to various people in the company that the service is advertised as 15/2 so I expect 2 mbit uploads, the best they could do was credit my account for free turbo for 6 months and absolutely could not offer me the service advertised. Sounds like bait and switch to me. Even made a youtube video about it.
To add insult to injury, what I really wanted was RR extreme (Their 30/5 docsis 3 service) but even though its been on and off the ordering page on their web site, every time I try to order it my order gets cancelled because its not yet available right at my house. Never mind that Comcast, for as crappy as they are for other reasons, have like 95% of their nation wide service area covered with docsis 3 already and have for like 2 years.
If they'd get off their asses and actually make docsis 3 work, I wouldn't have had to deal with the bait-and-switch 2mbit/1mbit RR turbo shennigans.
Somebody should just sue them over this shit. Even if its not illegal to drag your feet on upgrading your customer's service, it IS illegal to offer a level of service at a certain price, and then refuse to honor the offer later. Credit or not.
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While its true that cameras with large sensors tend to have shallower depth of field, its actually a side effect of needing to use longer focal length lenses to get the same field of view. You might need 70mm on a 35mm camera to frame a subject for a portrait but only 12mm on a point and shoot to frame the same subject. Longer focal length means bigger actual lens aperture for the same f-stop, and thats what decreases depth of field.
For example, a 35mm f/2 lens on a full frame camera will have the same depth of field as a 35mm f/2 lens on a 2/3" CCD point and shoot, but the 35mm on a full frame camera is going to be a standard angle and 35mm on the point and shoot is going to be considerable telephoto.
People generally don't use the same range of focal lengths on full frame cameras as they do on tiny sensor point and shoots (or cell phones) so thats why it seems like its easier to achieve the shallower depth of field with a bigger imager.
And this is why I like Supreme Commander better than Starcraft. Since you can queue every action, you don't need to babysit to make sure your factories didn't forget to keep pumping units out. Thus freeing you up to actually manage your units.
Did the same myself. I even said that I know they can't and won't reply for legal reasons but that I hope the words reach his eyes. Shame shame shame.
Or $227: http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-...
The problem is that anyone can get a loan, even people who definitely have no prospect of paying it back. With guarenteed loan money, schools can charge whatever they want and you'll just have to take out a bigger loan. And of course 18 year olds fresh out of high school don't understand the power of compound interest, they just know that they "have" to go to college to get a good job and they'll get a better job if they go to a fancy private school.
While you can't get a bachelors from our local community college, it only costs $2,500 a year in tuition and you're getting credits that can transfer to any state school. Why can a community college offer actual college classes for that little, but a 4 year school can charge $10,000, $20,000 or more for largely the same education? Its just insane.
The Wii only achieved an odd form of success though. While lots of people bought it and Nintendo profited on the sales of the consoles, nowadays they're just sitting on people's shelves unused. Even with that kind of market saturation is it successful if the average Wii owner has, what, less than 5 games? Less than 2? I don't know the answer but if something is purchased but then rarely used it's only a partial success. They have to sell games too.
Obviously, its a problem when "Season Pass" doesn't actually get you the whole season. If I hadn't RTFA'd I might have presumed that the guy was complaining that he didn't get access to either all 16 episodes including the ones that weren't even played yet (that would be absurd) or that he didn't get access to the first 8 + the ones that have been played already (not absurd but I wouldn't be on his side)
If Apple's intention was that buying a season pass to season 5 of breaking bad would get you the first 8 episodes now, and the last 8 episodes when they were released to dvd/bluray/download, it would just be a matter of patience and I'd still be on Apple's side on this one.
Except from the sounds of it, Apple was selling a season pass to "Season 5" and not listing it as "The first 8 episodes of season 5." They had no intention of ever giving him access to the last 8 episodes of Season 5 for that price, making it "Not really a season pass." Clearly this is a problem and the guy just wants his money back for misleading advertising. If I were him, I'd be ok with a gift card in the amount of the price of the first 8 episodes, since the second 8 will presumably be priced the same anyway, effectively getting me what was advertised. The whole season for one price.
And blackjack. And hookers.
Links awakening was a direct sequel to link to the past and an extremely enjoyable game. The later GBC ones were developed by capcom and I never played them so I can't comment. But there's definitely nothing bastardized about links awakening.
Heres the real benefit I see to 3840x2160 (or 3840x2400). Whatever. I'll call it 4k like everybody else is.
The real benefit is that you can start treating your monitor like a CRT again, feeding it arbitrary resolutions. First off, 1080p would work fine on a 3840x2160, and with any luck the monitor would just display it pixel-doubled so it wouldn't be any more blurry than a native 1080p monitor. That would be awesome. You can also run 1280x720p natively, as 3840x2160 is triple that, just like its double 1080p. But heres the real kicker - say you have some old game that tops out at 1280x1024 or something. You'll have to accept the black bars on the sides for games that aren't widescreen, but given that, you can upscale 1280x1024 to 2700x2160 or whatever. It'll still look good because theres so many excess pixels - more than double. Back when we were switching from CRTs to 15 and 17" or maybe a 19 if you're lucky, we had the issue that 800x600 looked like junk on a 1024x768 monitor and 1024x768 looked like junk on 1280x1024. At 3840x2160, we can display 1080p and 720p with literally no artifacts, and anything in between with minimal artifacts. In fact, the dot pitch of a 3840x2160 24" monitor is smaller than that of a typical 21" fine dot pitch aperture grille CRT. 3840x2160 at that resolution is only .13mm dot pitch. Remember when we thought .25mm dot pitch was awesome? Obviously we've got that beat, and that's why 3840x2160 is worth it even when not displaying native 3840x2160 images.
" 'It sure beats washing cars,' says Georgia State University graduate Landon Crider, 24, an in-house courier who, for $10 an hour, ferries documents back and forth between the courthouse and his company's office."
I work for a full service car wash as a supervisor. I wash cars. I don't have a college degree. I both make more than $10 an hour and would rather be washing cars than sitting at a desk. So this quote in the summary really made me laugh.
I've got all the top brands... Magnetbox, Sorny, Panaphonics!
I used to live in Nashua and I found that the times I had to interact with the Nashua police, it might as well have been the Nazi SS. Not all cops are bad, but the Nashua PD clearly has an issue with hiring/promoting scumbags and it only takes a few bad apples to ruin the batch.
Why would burly police men ever have to escalate violence against somebody just trying to buy some christmas presents? Sure, they asked her to leave, and when they ask you to leave and you don't its trespassing so they were right to call the police. But the reaction by the police was completely overbearing.
For added lulz, google "Nashua Gannon wire tapping". The officer who was harassing this guy at his own house late at night was the guy I had the pleasure of dealing with the time I got a speeding ticket. Its never pleasant getting a ticket, but he was like interrogating me about why i was going so fast and why I thought I could do that and etc - never mind the detail that he wrote me up for doing 50 in a 30 when the speed limit was actually 40 where I was driving. Got it dropped in court no problem, but if you're gonna do you your job as a police officer, don't get the facts wrong.
In short, I will definitely never, ever, ever be going back to Nashua NH.
Landing in top gun is actually really easy, the thing most people don't realize is that you have to hold and release the button to speed up and keep your speed around 250 mph. It'll tell you to speed up if you're too slow and it'll tell you to slow down if you're too fast, so you sorta have to pulse-width-modulate your speed in between. The up/down/left/right instructions are pretty self explanatory, but on top of the directions you really just have to point at the aircraft carrier deck. Just like a real plane. Except way easier. Disclaimer: I can land a real plane, but that aside I still don't think its that hard to land in top gun. Its just not clear on what you're supposed to be doing to succesfully land.
All US Golfs going back to MK5 were built in Wolfsburg, so if you get a new Golf TDI 100% of them are German built. My MK4 Golf was built in Brazil, and MK4/MK5 Jettas for the US were mostly built in Mexico. At any rate, if you're not sure where a VW is built, just look at the first letter in the VIN... W = Germany, 3 = Mexico.
I just got a new galaxy nexus and posted about how great it was on facebook. My aunt, who currently has an iphone 3GS, commented asking if she should get one too. I said stick with the iphone. She's horrible with technology and, just like you said, the reasons I like the android phone would be the reasons she hated it.
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/actually-take-these-petitions-seriously-instead-just-using-them-excuse-pretend-you-are-listening/grQ9mNkN There it is. Slashdot it.
And I am that tall guy that still lives with my mom! VICTORY!
The one with the squirrels and mars (but incidentally no squirrles ON mars) is Zak McKracken. I love that game and like nobody knows about it.
Cartoony, Hilarious, and not impossibly difficult. And easy to acquire. A spectacular game all around and you can run it right in scummvm.
Really I recommend all of their games, but I'd suggest that as a best "first" game. Monkey Island 2 is my actual favorite scumm game, but its SUPER hard so not really a good "first" game.
Of course, achieving a 15:1 glide ratio requires you to be at the appropriate airspeed to do that... and since the main problem was loss of airspeed indicator, they were falling, not gliding.
Yes - the problem is that we have to change it at all, not that the sun goes down an hour later (and comes up an hour later). I prefer the light at the end of the day myself, so, indeed, make it DST year round. Problem solved.
In your fraud-free world, enjoy your ~$45 a month 500kbps connection and don't complain to me that a guaranteed 10mbit line costs hundreds of dollars a month.
I'd rather be on an oversold line with a high peak connection speed than a "Guaranteed... to be slow" connection, regardless of what your definition of fraud is.
Other posts point it out, and its true - they don't make "most" of their revenue from speeding tickets, BUT
I used to go to school in NH and I got a ticket for doing 50 in a 30... which sounds like I was doing something wrong, except heres what REALLY happened.
I was coming down a long hill admittedly doing 50mph. I was in a 40mph speed zone. Then I saw near the bottom of the hill that there was a 30 mph speed sign but i didn't really see it till the last second because it was kinda blocked by trees until you got within about 20 yards of it. I slowed down to about 32mph or so.
Cop was sitting in an unmarked car maybe another 100 yards past the sign, but I know from his perspective he could have very well shot me with radar while I was still at the very top of the hill - definitely doing 50, definitely going "10 over" but definitely not doing 50 by the time the speed limit dropped to 30.
It got dropped but only because my record was clean anyway, I didn't even need to mention the fact that the sign was blocked by trees.
Long story short - NH is a sack of dicks when it comes to speed traps, and I have no intention of ever living there. There are roads just like that one by my house in NY that have a 55mph limit, not 30mph.
My pair of solutions. 1. NEVER give a cop a reason to pull you over. If you're going 7 over, you might attract enough attention to yourself to get some dick cop thats gonna decide to write you up for going 13 over when that may not have actually been the case. If you're going less than 5 over, they'll probably leave you alone because they'd rather screw around with the guy going 7-10 over that they'd miss if they pulled you over first.
And the obvious one, 2. Fuck NH. If I'm driving to maine I'm gonna go over the mass pike to get there and cut out as little NH driving as possible, and I will never stop for gas or to eat or give business of any kind to any business within NH state borders. That state is dead to me.
I apparently already have the fastest internet service I can get... RR turbo at 15/1. I only signed up for it because it was advertised as 15/2 right on the site where I upgraded my service. After about 2 weeks of trying to explain to various people in the company that the service is advertised as 15/2 so I expect 2 mbit uploads, the best they could do was credit my account for free turbo for 6 months and absolutely could not offer me the service advertised. Sounds like bait and switch to me. Even made a youtube video about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIatnz01XaY
To add insult to injury, what I really wanted was RR extreme (Their 30/5 docsis 3 service) but even though its been on and off the ordering page on their web site, every time I try to order it my order gets cancelled because its not yet available right at my house. Never mind that Comcast, for as crappy as they are for other reasons, have like 95% of their nation wide service area covered with docsis 3 already and have for like 2 years.
If they'd get off their asses and actually make docsis 3 work, I wouldn't have had to deal with the bait-and-switch 2mbit/1mbit RR turbo shennigans.
Somebody should just sue them over this shit. Even if its not illegal to drag your feet on upgrading your customer's service, it IS illegal to offer a level of service at a certain price, and then refuse to honor the offer later. Credit or not.