the flagship cammy, the F6 will still be made, and the FM10...what's sad really is that they'll stop making primes (bad for flash-less available light/shallow DOF shooting) and the FM3a (the real camera, the FM10 is made of plastic...)
not dropping out of the film field entirely as the orig article states.
bummed about minolta stopping their film cameras a few years back...their MD mount cameras were awesome
kodak? i sincerely hope not, I can't live without Tri-X....could use Ilford Delta I guess but that's not as forgiving for someone not as experienced with eyeballing exposures as I.
I think Nikon is losing out on the digicam market to Canon big time...maybe it doesn't have the financial health to support all these things, but everything I hear is rumor or hearsay anyway.
old cameras are fun, i have a soft spot for the minolta MD mount line especially the XD-11
not to mention all of pentax's quirky products...K1000 forever...
and the Leica MP....
Fm3a is the better camera....although some would say the Nikon SP is the best Nikon 35mm ever made, or the F5 has its adherents too....
But for my money, I'd shoot for a Leica MP with the summilux f1.4 asph lenses
generally agree with jgoemat and redwizzard, couple comments:
The soviets were engaged in a desperate race with Skylab. They lost, but did get a Salyut station up in 1974.
Also, re: quality of Russian rocket designs, IIRC, Air & Space magazine had an article on how some of the latest Energomash designs were opened up to Western aerospace firms in the '90s. They were supposedly considered somewhat more advanced that the current Western designs; Russian launch vehicles are often used nowadays in joint launch consortiums with various US aerospace companies.
The other thing was, once Eisenhower sent the U2's and the spy satellites over the Soviets, it became clear that Khruschev's boasts about the ICBM's he had were nothing but wild exaggerations, which became known metaphorically as his Potemkin villages...
(re: the posting about the Francis Power U2 shootdown, apparently it happened the day Khruschev was making a speech on the May Day military parades. The Soviets kept scrambling fighters and couldn't shoot the plane down until it was well into the USSR; Khruschev was pissed..)
the humans in the matrix all still have hands, feet, eyes, noses, ears - all things that they wouldn't need in the matrix. With their supposedly thorough command of human anatomy and physiology (to the point where they can "program" anything into the human brain), why keep breeding humans with all these things? Why not just farm big bags of flesh with lungs and a GI tract? All the machines really need is the power anyway...
Rutan still has some nifty defense dept. contracts. Scaled Composites created the airframe for the Boeing X-45 UCAV, and I'd bet they probably have a hand in a lot of the other UCAV's too. They have more experience than anyone else when it comes to lightweight, composite material aircraft construction.
Regardless of how much is copied or not, producers, sound engineers, techs, coffee gophers and all those people involved in the production get paid the same amount of money - i.e. the amount stipulated in their contracts or salaries.
Copying can reduce the amount of royalties artists make if their contract includes such, but this is extremely, disproportionately low compared with the take the record companies keep for themselves (and who probably withold a lot than their share more through various accounting and red tape tricks). A lot of the artists are forced to sign restrictive, exclusive contracts that limit who and where they can perform or record, such that you can argue that the RIAA record companies are stealing from the artists more than MP3 copiers are, in terms of unfavorable contracts, career limitations, and so forth.
Also, as the product is disproportionately overpriced compared with actual worth, the copying phenomenon on a macro scale can be seen as a natural equalizer of CD prices to proper market value.
Also, the licensing terms are not really prominently displayed to the consumer as they buy the CD, such that it may be reasonable to assume that consumer considers a CD purchase as the purchase of the physical material, with which he or she may do as he or she pleases. Any attempts to hold the consumer to a license, i.e. a contractual agreement, that he or she was not required to read or sign can be seen as an attempt to enforce a contract of adhesion and therefore, illegal.
This book is not really new, but it's still good to see a review on it here. It is a thoroughly researched and very well written book, not just on the atomic bomb but on a good chunk of the history of 20th century physics.
Out of curiousity, has Carmack created a working rocket or achieved flight at least? Because some companies are already off the terra firma...
http://xcor.com/
Wasn't Richard Clarke the guy who predicted the Al Qaeda threat to the Bush team when Clinton left office, and had an aggressive roll-back plan ready, but was basically ignored by Bush, Condi and everyone else? If they had listened to him, they might have averted 9/11...
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the flagship cammy, the F6 will still be made, and the FM10...what's sad really is that they'll stop making primes (bad for flash-less available light/shallow DOF shooting) and the FM3a (the real camera, the FM10 is made of plastic...) not dropping out of the film field entirely as the orig article states. bummed about minolta stopping their film cameras a few years back...their MD mount cameras were awesome
kodak? i sincerely hope not, I can't live without Tri-X....could use Ilford Delta I guess but that's not as forgiving for someone not as experienced with eyeballing exposures as I. I think Nikon is losing out on the digicam market to Canon big time...maybe it doesn't have the financial health to support all these things, but everything I hear is rumor or hearsay anyway.
old cameras are fun, i have a soft spot for the minolta MD mount line especially the XD-11 not to mention all of pentax's quirky products...K1000 forever... and the Leica MP....
Fm3a is the better camera....although some would say the Nikon SP is the best Nikon 35mm ever made, or the F5 has its adherents too.... But for my money, I'd shoot for a Leica MP with the summilux f1.4 asph lenses
AFAIK, Kerry himself is broke, although his family used to be wealthy. He just has a habit of marrying wealthy women.
generally agree with jgoemat and redwizzard, couple comments: The soviets were engaged in a desperate race with Skylab. They lost, but did get a Salyut station up in 1974. Also, re: quality of Russian rocket designs, IIRC, Air & Space magazine had an article on how some of the latest Energomash designs were opened up to Western aerospace firms in the '90s. They were supposedly considered somewhat more advanced that the current Western designs; Russian launch vehicles are often used nowadays in joint launch consortiums with various US aerospace companies. The other thing was, once Eisenhower sent the U2's and the spy satellites over the Soviets, it became clear that Khruschev's boasts about the ICBM's he had were nothing but wild exaggerations, which became known metaphorically as his Potemkin villages... (re: the posting about the Francis Power U2 shootdown, apparently it happened the day Khruschev was making a speech on the May Day military parades. The Soviets kept scrambling fighters and couldn't shoot the plane down until it was well into the USSR; Khruschev was pissed..)
ahhh, the modern digital version of Igloo White. Seems like the military has taken an interest in the survivability of P2P networks...
the humans in the matrix all still have hands, feet, eyes, noses, ears - all things that they wouldn't need in the matrix. With their supposedly thorough command of human anatomy and physiology (to the point where they can "program" anything into the human brain), why keep breeding humans with all these things? Why not just farm big bags of flesh with lungs and a GI tract? All the machines really need is the power anyway...
No no no, Kennedy is from boston, it'd be like: "Saadaamz aacraft caarria"
Rutan still has some nifty defense dept. contracts. Scaled Composites created the airframe for the Boeing X-45 UCAV, and I'd bet they probably have a hand in a lot of the other UCAV's too. They have more experience than anyone else when it comes to lightweight, composite material aircraft construction.
I vote they change the name to "ThunderPig"
Regardless of how much is copied or not, producers, sound engineers, techs, coffee gophers and all those people involved in the production get paid the same amount of money - i.e. the amount stipulated in their contracts or salaries. Copying can reduce the amount of royalties artists make if their contract includes such, but this is extremely, disproportionately low compared with the take the record companies keep for themselves (and who probably withold a lot than their share more through various accounting and red tape tricks). A lot of the artists are forced to sign restrictive, exclusive contracts that limit who and where they can perform or record, such that you can argue that the RIAA record companies are stealing from the artists more than MP3 copiers are, in terms of unfavorable contracts, career limitations, and so forth. Also, as the product is disproportionately overpriced compared with actual worth, the copying phenomenon on a macro scale can be seen as a natural equalizer of CD prices to proper market value. Also, the licensing terms are not really prominently displayed to the consumer as they buy the CD, such that it may be reasonable to assume that consumer considers a CD purchase as the purchase of the physical material, with which he or she may do as he or she pleases. Any attempts to hold the consumer to a license, i.e. a contractual agreement, that he or she was not required to read or sign can be seen as an attempt to enforce a contract of adhesion and therefore, illegal.
How is this different from 90% of all the other monarchs in world history?
This book is not really new, but it's still good to see a review on it here. It is a thoroughly researched and very well written book, not just on the atomic bomb but on a good chunk of the history of 20th century physics.
Did anyone ask about Alias? I can't believe no one asked about Alias...
Out of curiousity, has Carmack created a working rocket or achieved flight at least? Because some companies are already off the terra firma... http://xcor.com/
Wasn't Richard Clarke the guy who predicted the Al Qaeda threat to the Bush team when Clinton left office, and had an aggressive roll-back plan ready, but was basically ignored by Bush, Condi and everyone else? If they had listened to him, they might have averted 9/11...