I haven't RTFA but "cloaking IR" and talking about wavelengths for me sounds rather like it absorbs any IR thrown at it (so it would look "dark" if that was all you where looking for, hence invisible) or block IR from the object to be seen (wouldn't that need cooling/heat distribution to?) but then it would still be darker then the surroundings, or?
Regardless of how it works unless the object emits the same energy waves/particles that is on the opposite side of the object for the observer it's not really invisible at all is it?
I don't see how blocking or not reflecting anything is "invisibility"?
You know what film was used. Whatever the results and conclusions mean anything for you or are worthless for your purpose is up to you to decide.
Film vs digital may be somewhat misleading though since maybe then one would had wanted to see the possibilities of each medium and not so completely different versions but rather regular film sized film/sensor in both cases.
I know people don't like him, or shares his ideas, though I can't see how the images can "lie"
And even if _HIS_ DSLR in those images was an old one (the scanner is to..), I assume the point still holds, that 4x5" film outperforms APS-C (?) sensor DSLR cameras in sharpness.
Whatever that mean better images, in all other aspects and mean anything or is the right tool for the job and so on is another thing.
Does anyone happen to have a Kodak Kodachrome color profile for Vuescan for the Canon Canoscan 4400F?
Some settings for Lightroom which process the colors to something more natural when scanned with that scanner would do to.
Bought the scanner to scan all my dads slides from when we where kids or before that. But the colors turn out very weird. Weird gamma and very purple images I think.
Is this due to exposure when the picture was taken? Does all slides look like this? Is it because of aging? Does the scanner/software just assume the wrong WB/color balance of the film?
Was a stupid idea to buy it in the first place because it took bloody ages and results are poor, so I haven't scanned anything. Should had let some company do it instead because they most likely have way better hardware and knowledge.
Also I think someone said that it was better to scan at a lower resolution for some reason, is that so? Or should I scan at the highest and then scale the images? Don't really remember what the suggestions was. I guess I should run multiple passes? How many? 2 is enough? Would you rather scan in lower resolution and more passes or higher resolution and scale the image to get more of an "average" of pixels that way?
What would you consider the best methods in general?
I know there exist a slide holder for DSLR-camers. I probably should get a D90-replacement once available and such a piece instead. Put in slide, let the sun light it and take a photo of it. Done in an instant, raw and most likely better default WB-settings. I haven't understood how much the lights properties affect that solution but I guess the automatic WB may render that less of a problem.
May even have higher resolution, sure the scanner is 4800x9600 dpi or something such (claimed atleast..), but for a small slide that don't mean that many pixels (or well, at that resolution quite a bit anyway..)
Are scanner pixels RGB-pixels or are they single color pixels and then interpolated just as digital camera sensors (in most cases) are?
Does the scanner have higher quality pixels than a DSLR? (doubt that..)
6+ minutes or so / slide for scanning vs a fraction of a second for DSLR photo of the slide makes a difference...
I don't know how many slides there is but maybe 1500 or so.
I don't know whatever the Swedish government does or not. The FRA (http://www.fra.se/english.shtml) is supposed to only intercept international traffic. I assume they get all but shouldn't care about or use it against their own citizens.
In any case the government/police don't want to work for the copyright holders.
I doubt the FRA will answer any requests from Sony about who sent this and that mp3.
That doesn't make sense, or well, maybe from a personal vs a general perspective.
Anyway the DI-text was from the government, they are part of it. And no, I wouldn't trust that no-one was listening. However I think a copyright holder got much less use for their listening.
The "So, there" point was about their own text about "little brother", they obviously see the problem in companies/people breaking your integrity.
Yeah, because content providers will start asking Facebook who have used Facebook from this and that IP around this and that time?
Or they will sniff the traffic of all networks within Sweden?
We already have laws protecting personal data, how you can use and even store it. Forcing ISPs to provide the data is an exception, not the other way around.
The Data Inspection Board is a public authority. Our task is to protect the individual's privacy in the information society without unnecessarily preventing or complicating the use of new technology.
On the 24th of October 1998 the Personal Data Act (1998:204) came into force and replaced the out-dated Swedish Data Act from 1973. The Personal Data Act is based on Directive 95/46/EC which aims to prevent the violation of personal integrity in the processing of personal data.
For the purpose of illegal activities? - What? They just don't want to keep the logs. If anything Forex is the bastards taking money for illegal purposes, they happily transferred and exchanged any amount of money and currencies for their fee of 3.5%, even if the cause most likely was illegal business.
Law? - Either there is a limit for how long they would have to store the logs, or there will be sooner or later. Unless the fact they are a party prevent them from being affected by such.
Moral users? - Hell no. So what? Why do you think people bought decent bandwidth in the first place? How much money don't they already make of it? What about hard-drives, disc-media, hardware,..
Is it really that our "political conditions" are better or just that they where the first ones to do it and all the hype of the TPB (plus eventually the availability for decent bandwidth for some time in the country?)
All the ISP are forced to provide their account details for who had what IP (if they have it that is..)
Most likely close to all of them tried to limit that legal effect and pleasure their users by deciding they would store their logs as short time as possible.
So I doubt companies like Bahnhof, Bredbandsbolaget, Bredband2, maybe even Telia and Comhem and so on is far behind..
The first company/companies who announced it of course got major publicity for the move, and others followed.
So either its most likely not much of a difference as is or they just decide that they have to store the data for longer and everyone will have to follow it no matter what. I doubt they can run the ISP without doing so / risking anything.
Unless the fact its a political party changes things, by for instance making it impossible to charge them for anything, as in the old plan of running their own torrent site or whatever it was from within the government.
If they can deliver I would switch. And I already have offers like 6 months free 100/100 mbps connection from Bahnhof over Stadsnät if I sign up until further notice with one months termination time.
Personally I doubt people will be able to play without a valid key on battle.net at all. (Maybe you could generate it yourself but either it wouldn't be in their databases or it would be someone else or you would have to steal one and then it's a valid key, just not yours..)
It hasn't been possible with Warcraft III has it? Through some emulated battle.net service or VPNs though. But that won't be the same thing.
People don't buy Blizzard games to play single player. Sure it's still enjoyable and a good game but you will spend the majority of the time gaming online. And you won't be able to do that on battle.net without a valid key.
Blizzard even removed the CD-check from Warcraft III. Sure one could question whatever they did it because they thought it wouldn't sell much more anyway vs the inconvenience of having to have the CD available or if it was because they key-check when connecting online was enough. I hoped they would had skipped it altogether this time, and it seems like they did considering the download only-version. You can even register your games online and be able to download them for free whenever you need them and I assume they will also take care of your key so you don't lose it.
The people interesting in the game will most likely not even care what it would cost as long as it's a one time fee, because they know they will get hundreds of hours of fun out of it. I for sure don't. But I may not have a suitable computer for it at release date, so maybe I will get it a little sooner and then store price may have fallen somewhat. Too bad everyone else will be ahead though, but they would anyway thanks to the old game, the beta and simply being better =P, I would have to spend some time in single player anyway to learn what things are (Nothing worse than people who haven't played single player, don't know the game and don't want to lose because they are crap in 1-on-1 so they join team games and fuck up the game for everyone else. Same goes for people who ruin the game for team-mates, as in omg-sure-I-haven't-tried-to-expand-but-now-you've-taken-my-expansion-so-I-will-kill-it/you!)
TI-calculators has saved so many from failing so many tests.
Step one: Write notes in the lid. Step two: Write notes in the Basic function. Step three: Write notes as strings stored in variables. Step four: Write your notes in the graph function.
Simple reset / take out batteries would had made it much harder. Sure you could tweak the hardware with an additional battery or maybe rewrite the software somehow so it just look like a reset / hides any data you've stored when someone check the memory. But most people probably wouldn't.
I guess one could argue whatever such cheats is a problem or not though. Most often you're allowed to have a book of formulas with you and if you atleast actually know what this and that formula is used for then additional notes won't help you much. Either you get the problem and know how to solve it or you don't.
And in real life I doubt anyone would prevent you to get some help / notes / whatever if you end up in a situation where you can't solve the problem without them.
For problems which requires you to remember things over simple problem solving / logic /... you're not likely to bring a calculator in the first place.
Anyway, I think it's weird they don't clean out all calculators before you get to take your seat, even if it would had taken some time. At our university at the end of my studies they brought some GSM-detector which would alert them if anyone had their phone on.
As far as the net goes I was serious. The net in the door of my microwave oven seem to protect me just fine..
Does the grounding matter? Personally I don't know if it does or doesn't. But I'm not sure it _DOES_.
These wave/light stuff is weird to but I assume the holes may have to be smaller the higher frequency used?
If it's just that the entire wave can't "fit" through the hole I assume it may bounce/cut off and that the grounding may not be necessary? Or is the energy always picked up by the net? (In that case I don't know how the fact the net being a net and cover you affect things.)
Guess a simple search of faraday cage would had saved me from looking like an idiot:D
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Does it mean you can hide at all?
I haven't RTFA but "cloaking IR" and talking about wavelengths for me sounds rather like it absorbs any IR thrown at it (so it would look "dark" if that was all you where looking for, hence invisible) or block IR from the object to be seen (wouldn't that need cooling/heat distribution to?) but then it would still be darker then the surroundings, or?
Regardless of how it works unless the object emits the same energy waves/particles that is on the opposite side of the object for the observer it's not really invisible at all is it?
I don't see how blocking or not reflecting anything is "invisibility"?
He mentions what was used, prices and results.
You know what film was used. Whatever the results and conclusions mean anything for you or are worthless for your purpose is up to you to decide.
Film vs digital may be somewhat misleading though since maybe then one would had wanted to see the possibilities of each medium and not so completely different versions but rather regular film sized film/sensor in both cases.
I know people don't like him, or shares his ideas, though I can't see how the images can "lie"
And even if _HIS_ DSLR in those images was an old one (the scanner is to ..), I assume the point still holds, that 4x5" film outperforms APS-C (?) sensor DSLR cameras in sharpness.
Whatever that mean better images, in all other aspects and mean anything or is the right tool for the job and so on is another thing.
Ken Rockwells scanned film vs digital camera images:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/filmdig.htm
Film:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/images/filmdig/4990scan.jpg
Digital camera:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/images/filmdig/digital.jpg
"If you do fret the pixel counts, I find that it takes about 25 megapixels to simulate 35mm film's practical resolution"
Camera was a $700 Tachihara 4x5". lens SChneider Symmar 150 mm f/5.6, film Fuji Velvia, scanner a cheap Epson 4990.
2003, $1500 Microtek 1800f scanner:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/images/filmdig/1800fscan.jpg
2005, $500 Epson 4990 scanner:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/images/filmdig/4990scan.jpg
I don't know what digital camera he compared to.
film @ 2400 dpi: http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d200/images/film/2400dpi.jpg
Nikon D200: http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d200/images/film/KEN_5127-nn.jpg
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d200/d200-vs-4x5.htm
Nice shots.
What's the difference?
Ektachrome is newer/better?
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1730072&cid=33004206
I know I saw calibration slides/targets for Ektachrome but not for Kodachrome.
Does anyone happen to have a Kodak Kodachrome color profile for Vuescan for the Canon Canoscan 4400F?
Some settings for Lightroom which process the colors to something more natural when scanned with that scanner would do to.
Bought the scanner to scan all my dads slides from when we where kids or before that. But the colors turn out very weird. Weird gamma and very purple images I think.
Is this due to exposure when the picture was taken? Does all slides look like this? Is it because of aging? Does the scanner/software just assume the wrong WB/color balance of the film?
Was a stupid idea to buy it in the first place because it took bloody ages and results are poor, so I haven't scanned anything. Should had let some company do it instead because they most likely have way better hardware and knowledge.
Also I think someone said that it was better to scan at a lower resolution for some reason, is that so? Or should I scan at the highest and then scale the images? Don't really remember what the suggestions was. I guess I should run multiple passes? How many? 2 is enough? Would you rather scan in lower resolution and more passes or higher resolution and scale the image to get more of an "average" of pixels that way?
What would you consider the best methods in general?
I know there exist a slide holder for DSLR-camers. I probably should get a D90-replacement once available and such a piece instead. Put in slide, let the sun light it and take a photo of it. Done in an instant, raw and most likely better default WB-settings. I haven't understood how much the lights properties affect that solution but I guess the automatic WB may render that less of a problem.
May even have higher resolution, sure the scanner is 4800x9600 dpi or something such (claimed atleast ..), but for a small slide that don't mean that many pixels (or well, at that resolution quite a bit anyway ..)
Are scanner pixels RGB-pixels or are they single color pixels and then interpolated just as digital camera sensors (in most cases) are?
Does the scanner have higher quality pixels than a DSLR? (doubt that ..)
6+ minutes or so / slide for scanning vs a fraction of a second for DSLR photo of the slide makes a difference ...
I don't know how many slides there is but maybe 1500 or so.
Personally I've always wondered if geothermal is such a good idea. What happen long term if it's used on a large scale?
A nuclear plant can go just about anywhere.
Preferably "somewhere else" ;)
Much more true for the (especially) mining and (to the extent needed) waste storage though.
Nuclear energy is probably the best chance we have are breaking our addiction to oil.
Yes, that doesn't mean it's the best alternative though.
Nuclear energy is also relatively clean.
Compared to coal...
Comets will likely give us at least a few days to have a giant orgy.
Big deal, I won't be invited that time either :(
Oh well, atleast that time I won't have to wish for everyone else to die... They will anyway! >:]
I don't know whatever the Swedish government does or not. The FRA (http://www.fra.se/english.shtml) is supposed to only intercept international traffic. I assume they get all but shouldn't care about or use it against their own citizens.
In any case the government/police don't want to work for the copyright holders.
I doubt the FRA will answer any requests from Sony about who sent this and that mp3.
That doesn't make sense, or well, maybe from a personal vs a general perspective.
Anyway the DI-text was from the government, they are part of it. And no, I wouldn't trust that no-one was listening. However I think a copyright holder got much less use for their listening.
The "So, there" point was about their own text about "little brother", they obviously see the problem in companies/people breaking your integrity.
lol, from DIs own publication ("what on earth does the data inspection board do?" above (Avs1.4:))
Previously we had to be worried about Big Brother, now we have to worry about Little Brother.
So... There.
Yeah, because content providers will start asking Facebook who have used Facebook from this and that IP around this and that time?
Or they will sniff the traffic of all networks within Sweden?
We already have laws protecting personal data, how you can use and even store it. Forcing ISPs to provide the data is an exception, not the other way around.
http://www.datainspektionen.se/
http://www.datainspektionen.se/in-english/
The Data Inspection Board is a public authority. Our task is to protect the individual's privacy in the information society without unnecessarily preventing or complicating the use of new technology.
What on earth does the Data Inspection board does? (PDF):
http://www.datainspektionen.se/Documents/datainspektionen-presentation-eng.pdf
http://www.datainspektionen.se/lagar-och-regler/personuppgiftslagen/
http://www.datainspektionen.se/in-english/legislation/the-personal-data-act/
On the 24th of October 1998 the Personal Data Act (1998:204) came into force and replaced the out-dated Swedish Data Act from 1973. The Personal Data Act is based on Directive 95/46/EC which aims to prevent the violation of personal integrity in the processing of personal data.
Taking money?
- What? From whom?
For the purpose of illegal activities?
- What? They just don't want to keep the logs. If anything Forex is the bastards taking money for illegal purposes, they happily transferred and exchanged any amount of money and currencies for their fee of 3.5%, even if the cause most likely was illegal business.
Law?
- Either there is a limit for how long they would have to store the logs, or there will be sooner or later. Unless the fact they are a party prevent them from being affected by such.
Moral users? ..
- Hell no. So what? Why do you think people bought decent bandwidth in the first place? How much money don't they already make of it? What about hard-drives, disc-media, hardware,
Is it really that our "political conditions" are better or just that they where the first ones to do it and all the hype of the TPB (plus eventually the availability for decent bandwidth for some time in the country?)
I doubt they care about the small chance that someone who's not the subscriber may have performed the crime. But yeah, maybe.
The logs they are speaking of is rather who customer got which IP lease for which date and time.
Without those it's just an IP with no-one to charge. With them they got a real person.
Please spread to other countries...
Bah, we already have this.
All the ISP are forced to provide their account details for who had what IP (if they have it that is ..)
Most likely close to all of them tried to limit that legal effect and pleasure their users by deciding they would store their logs as short time as possible.
So I doubt companies like Bahnhof, Bredbandsbolaget, Bredband2, maybe even Telia and Comhem and so on is far behind ..
The first company/companies who announced it of course got major publicity for the move, and others followed.
So either its most likely not much of a difference as is or they just decide that they have to store the data for longer and everyone will have to follow it no matter what. I doubt they can run the ISP without doing so / risking anything.
Unless the fact its a political party changes things, by for instance making it impossible to charge them for anything, as in the old plan of running their own torrent site or whatever it was from within the government.
If they can deliver I would switch. And I already have offers like 6 months free 100/100 mbps connection from Bahnhof over Stadsnät if I sign up until further notice with one months termination time.
I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation.
Yeah, like China soon starting a very profitable space junk removal service at a global level?
Doesn't make sense to add more of their own junk though :)
I doubt they are scared about piracy.
Both the Starcraft and Warcraft universes most likely run in the "it prints money!"-league.
Playing in network environments not hooked up to the Internet much?
Personally I doubt people will be able to play without a valid key on battle.net at all. (Maybe you could generate it yourself but either it wouldn't be in their databases or it would be someone else or you would have to steal one and then it's a valid key, just not yours ..)
It hasn't been possible with Warcraft III has it? Through some emulated battle.net service or VPNs though. But that won't be the same thing.
So what?
People don't buy Blizzard games to play single player. Sure it's still enjoyable and a good game but you will spend the majority of the time gaming online. And you won't be able to do that on battle.net without a valid key.
Blizzard even removed the CD-check from Warcraft III. Sure one could question whatever they did it because they thought it wouldn't sell much more anyway vs the inconvenience of having to have the CD available or if it was because they key-check when connecting online was enough. I hoped they would had skipped it altogether this time, and it seems like they did considering the download only-version. You can even register your games online and be able to download them for free whenever you need them and I assume they will also take care of your key so you don't lose it.
The people interesting in the game will most likely not even care what it would cost as long as it's a one time fee, because they know they will get hundreds of hours of fun out of it. I for sure don't. But I may not have a suitable computer for it at release date, so maybe I will get it a little sooner and then store price may have fallen somewhat. Too bad everyone else will be ahead though, but they would anyway thanks to the old game, the beta and simply being better =P, I would have to spend some time in single player anyway to learn what things are (Nothing worse than people who haven't played single player, don't know the game and don't want to lose because they are crap in 1-on-1 so they join team games and fuck up the game for everyone else. Same goes for people who ruin the game for team-mates, as in omg-sure-I-haven't-tried-to-expand-but-now-you've-taken-my-expansion-so-I-will-kill-it/you!)
TI-calculators has saved so many from failing so many tests.
Step one:
Write notes in the lid.
Step two:
Write notes in the Basic function.
Step three:
Write notes as strings stored in variables.
Step four:
Write your notes in the graph function.
Simple reset / take out batteries would had made it much harder. Sure you could tweak the hardware with an additional battery or maybe rewrite the software somehow so it just look like a reset / hides any data you've stored when someone check the memory. But most people probably wouldn't.
I guess one could argue whatever such cheats is a problem or not though. Most often you're allowed to have a book of formulas with you and if you atleast actually know what this and that formula is used for then additional notes won't help you much. Either you get the problem and know how to solve it or you don't.
And in real life I doubt anyone would prevent you to get some help / notes / whatever if you end up in a situation where you can't solve the problem without them.
For problems which requires you to remember things over simple problem solving / logic / ... you're not likely to bring a calculator in the first place.
Anyway, I think it's weird they don't clean out all calculators before you get to take your seat, even if it would had taken some time. At our university at the end of my studies they brought some GSM-detector which would alert them if anyone had their phone on.
As far as the net goes I was serious. The net in the door of my microwave oven seem to protect me just fine ..
Does the grounding matter? Personally I don't know if it does or doesn't. But I'm not sure it _DOES_.
These wave/light stuff is weird to but I assume the holes may have to be smaller the higher frequency used?
If it's just that the entire wave can't "fit" through the hole I assume it may bounce/cut off and that the grounding may not be necessary? Or is the energy always picked up by the net? (In that case I don't know how the fact the net being a net and cover you affect things.)
Guess a simple search of faraday cage would had saved me from looking like an idiot :D
But yeah, serious :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
It mentions electromagnetics.