This is cutting off their nose to spite their face. "Our business will be damaged by mod chips therefore we're going to destroy our business first.", has to be the most hollow threat ever.
If African rivers are seeing a decrease in volume then the ice must be melting at a reduced rate. Perhaps there is less snow being deposited atop the mountain but at least question the claims with a critical eye.
He hasn't admitted to that. Jeeze learn to read before accusing people. He had 2000 images, NOT a movie. He never had the movie, go back and read the article.
Crap about event horizons aside, the article was talking about the distance enclosing the black hole and a star orbiting the black hole. The mass was deduced from observations of the orbiting star.
No he didn't steal what the headline says, READ IT. There is no evidence he stole anything (except a story board, which was probably headed for the trash can). They searched his mom's apartment looking for evidence he leaked the film and found none. So instead they throw the book at him because he has some images and sound samples on a disk. He was a frikin' production assistant and they charge him with grand theft because he had some *copies* of data on a disk. NOT the whole film, just a few images.
The criminals here are Lucasfilm and others who dupe law enforcement into thinking this is some kind of outrageous theft.
This is complete bullshit. There's nothing here that suggests he stole the film, he didn't even have a copy.
The guy has a few copies of starwars production images and some audio effects on CDROM and they accuse him of theft. He's a production assistant, are you telling me this isn't commonplace? They all have this kind of stuff lying around. As for the storyboards, look at the memerobelia that regularly surfaces after years, that would otherwise have been thrown in the trash if some grip hadn't grabbed it. Not only do they have the gall to charge him with theft mind you, but grand theft! The guy's an ex-employee and has some images on a CDROM he didn't use and it's "grand" theft. He didn't deprive Lucasfilm of their use and he didn't use them illegally, they were just lying on his disk.
Lucasfilm you hypocrites, look at your own hard disks and 'souvenir' collections and then examine your conscience, if you have any.
Let this be a lesson to the reader, DON'T work for Lucasfilm, DON'T have anything to do with the assholes.
A fishing expedition fails to catch what they're looking for so they charge the guy for something many of them do.
No the familiar pattern is some airhead with a kneejerk followup to a reasonable post. I happen to disagree with your view of the matter. There is a bigger picture here that you're missing. Go take some prozac before posting.
A company that fails in the market resorts to intellectual property suits to tax successful companies.
Let's be clear here, Intel didn't steal Integraphs designs, but now everyone who purchases an Itanium CPU from Intel must subsidise Integraph who had no hand in designing or manufacturing them.
Face it, after this EULA and the email this guy just sent out bit keeper is dead. R.I.P. Who knows where their business dealings will take them and what use it will be in their interests to curtail in future. If you're using BK for source management you have to be looking over your sholder and worrying what proclamation McVoy will issue next that might force you to throw out all versions in your tree currently and move to an alternative product.
Please don't talk about stuff you don't understand. There are numerous factors that limit film resolution. Not least being film grain but there are all sorts of chemical issues in the development process and issues trying to obtain an image from a slide or negative that limit resolution further. Kodak don't even make the finest grain structure film. On crime scene photographs the camera can record many details and software audit packages exist to maintain a chain of evidence from the camera to the courtroom. It's a useless strawman and infact has no basis in fact.
Except that film resolution is gated by ISO and film grain and none approach 11 mpix at CMOS quality. Even Velvia at ISO 50 is a stretch and many don't like what it does to your color.
Come on you're taking ISO 50 velvia (that oversaturates and looks like a cartoon) as your benchmark. How about a useful film? Also what about dynamic range and noise in shadows. This analysis was way oversimplified and distorts the truth. You say 10-16 is required but this camera is 11.2 mpix, that seems like it's in your range and wins in many areas like noise and lack of grain. So I think digital is there. Unfortunately at $9k it's not really there in a practical sense so the whole debate is a bit of a red herring.
No you are wrong. People have been tracking the resolution of film vs digital. Film has grain and a finite resolution. Also even when the resolution is good with film, it get's real grainy at high magnification and this is extremely bad in shadow areas. Digital at 11 mpix full frame is certainly better than film. And we're talking really GOOD slide film not the crap people normally shoot with and then get shitty prints from. It's not an idle or poorly researhed issue, digital is surpassing film on any metric that counts, even with a great drum scanner you're still going to have grain issues and poor resolution.
No, you have loads of detail in the shadows already. You need only expose for the highlights and the rest is there. The only issue is potentially noise but that is MUCH better than film with the CMOS sensors.
Some trade secret. You realize that this guy is a lock salesman. The big trade secret is his ability to persuade Home Depot et.al. to give his company shelve space in preference to competitors. Reading the decision his ex-Boss sounds like a nightmare. The competition are trying to hire him because of his ovious talent but even his old company say his ex-boss Robert Steinman made disparraging comments about him (this is their Dilbertian attempt to argue the employee was taking revenge). The same bozo threatened to end the guy's career in an exit interview.
The icing on the cake here, the really unbelievable thing here is that one company is a subsidiary of the other from the decision "Sladge is a subsidiary of Ingersoll-Rand", unless this is a typo and "Sladge" should read "Kwikset".
Either I've found an error in the court decision or the world is going insane.
Best move of the whole trial? On disclosure the defendant hands over a bag full of destroyed disks and shredded papers etc.
Is this really a response to my post? What's your point. A total non sequitur from a moron? At least try and relate your post in some way to the preceeding text. I don't see anyone saying the world runs on Linux. I do see a moron posting ignorant garbage about the operating system and another idiot backing him up with name calling.
You Sir are an idiot. It is because Linux process management is already so efficient that it does not benefit greatly from the Apache 2.0 improvements. What would you have them do? Slow Linux process creation down to the point where threads are as essential as they are on other operating systems?
You won't see a backlash because the news outlets who sould publish the stories that would outrage us, will not. Even if they do they'll spin them in favour of their paymasters with vested interests and short sighted paranoia. It is far more likely that they'll try to scare mom & pop into refusing to allow little Johnny to installing any P2P software because they may lose their house car pension etc if he has the wrong file on his P2P network share directory. Can you imaging the hysteria they will cause?
Look at the coverage of this debate so far? The underlying problem is the media outlets are predisposed to support copyright holders in this debate, there's no chance of a fair hearing and that flushing noise is your freedom heading in the inevitable direction.
Someone with priviledged access to the (near)completed and edited version has released this movie. This is not the P2P networks fault, the real problem is lax security in their production chain. Once their product is out in the wild a few individuals will share it, but let's remember that the P2P networks didn't break and enter. One of the employees paid to handle or create this product has *released* a copy.
That is the root of this problem, NOT the file sharing, I just hope that congress is made aware of this when the bleeding hearts try to use this as another excuse to control an entire industry they did nothing to create or contribute to.
Is it a coincidence that an employee of the movie industry releases an early version of LOTR on file sharing networks just when legislators are deciding whether to legalize hacking of P2P nodes?
You said it, you're an EE. Most of AMD's customers aren't and they need to sell chips. Like it or not Intel deliberately created a pipeline with too many stages so they could clock their chip high. People care about performance, AMD is telling people their chip performs like an Intel or better at some clock rate. Otherwise their customers wouldn't get it because they aren't EEs. You clearly know the real clock so there's no problem. Get over it, if AMD marketed like you suggest they might be out of business already.
That is the oldest line in the book. Historically it has been proven resoundingly wrong. Apps use new power and resources and new applications are enabled by faster CPUs and more memory. People have been saying "we don't need this much power" since the 486DX 20MHz, and how many people use those today? Damned few. Get over it, stuff gets faster and people keep buying the stuff and developers write their applications for the newer stuff.
This isn't a gift, it's a loss leader. How can they circumvent competitive tender regulations by pretending the first part of a huge lucrative deal is a gift. It's crazy. Microsoft isn't giving them the hardware because they think they will lose money on this deal. Just how dumb are these civic leaders?
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This is cutting off their nose to spite their face. "Our business will be damaged by mod chips therefore we're going to destroy our business first.", has to be the most hollow threat ever.
If African rivers are seeing a decrease in volume then the ice must be melting at a reduced rate. Perhaps there is less snow being deposited atop the mountain but at least question the claims with a critical eye.
He hasn't admitted to that. Jeeze learn to read before accusing people. He had 2000 images, NOT a movie. He never had the movie, go back and read the article.
Crap about event horizons aside, the article was talking about the distance enclosing the black hole and a star orbiting the black hole. The mass was deduced from observations of the orbiting star.
No he didn't steal what the headline says, READ IT. There is no evidence he stole anything (except a story board, which was probably headed for the trash can). They searched his mom's apartment looking for evidence he leaked the film and found none. So instead they throw the book at him because he has some images and sound samples on a disk. He was a frikin' production assistant and they charge him with grand theft because he had some *copies* of data on a disk. NOT the whole film, just a few images.
The criminals here are Lucasfilm and others who dupe law enforcement into thinking this is some kind of outrageous theft.
This is complete bullshit. There's nothing here that suggests he stole the film, he didn't even have a copy.
The guy has a few copies of starwars production images and some audio effects on CDROM and they accuse him of theft. He's a production assistant, are you telling me this isn't commonplace? They all have this kind of stuff lying around. As for the storyboards, look at the memerobelia that regularly surfaces after years, that would otherwise have been thrown in the trash if some grip hadn't grabbed it. Not only do they have the gall to charge him with theft mind you, but grand theft! The guy's an ex-employee and has some images on a CDROM he didn't use and it's "grand" theft. He didn't deprive Lucasfilm of their use and he didn't use them illegally, they were just lying on his disk.
Lucasfilm you hypocrites, look at your own hard disks and 'souvenir' collections and then examine your conscience, if you have any.
Let this be a lesson to the reader, DON'T work for Lucasfilm, DON'T have anything to do with the assholes.
A fishing expedition fails to catch what they're looking for so they charge the guy for something many of them do.
Apple made that mistake in the past. They've learned their lesson. They know they need to keep pace with i86 processor developments.
No the familiar pattern is some airhead with a kneejerk followup to a reasonable post. I happen to disagree with your view of the matter. There is a bigger picture here that you're missing. Go take some prozac before posting.
This is a familiar pattern.
A company that fails in the market resorts to intellectual property suits to tax successful companies.
Let's be clear here, Intel didn't steal Integraphs designs, but now everyone who purchases an Itanium CPU from Intel must subsidise Integraph who had no hand in designing or manufacturing them.
No because you don't capture in 8 bit per channel. These cameras capture with way more precision.
Face it, after this EULA and the email this guy just sent out bit keeper is dead. R.I.P. Who knows where their business dealings will take them and what use it will be in their interests to curtail in future. If you're using BK for source management you have to be looking over your sholder and worrying what proclamation McVoy will issue next that might force you to throw out all versions in your tree currently and move to an alternative product.
Please don't talk about stuff you don't understand. There are numerous factors that limit film resolution. Not least being film grain but there are all sorts of chemical issues in the development process and issues trying to obtain an image from a slide or negative that limit resolution further. Kodak don't even make the finest grain structure film. On crime scene photographs the camera can record many details and software audit packages exist to maintain a chain of evidence from the camera to the courtroom. It's a useless strawman and infact has no basis in fact.
Except that film resolution is gated by ISO and film grain and none approach 11 mpix at CMOS quality. Even Velvia at ISO 50 is a stretch and many don't like what it does to your color.
Come on you're taking ISO 50 velvia (that oversaturates and looks like a cartoon) as your benchmark. How about a useful film? Also what about dynamic range and noise in shadows. This analysis was way oversimplified and distorts the truth. You say 10-16 is required but this camera is 11.2 mpix, that seems like it's in your range and wins in many areas like noise and lack of grain. So I think digital is there. Unfortunately at $9k it's not really there in a practical sense so the whole debate is a bit of a red herring.
No you are wrong. People have been tracking the resolution of film vs digital. Film has grain and a finite resolution. Also even when the resolution is good with film, it get's real grainy at high magnification and this is extremely bad in shadow areas. Digital at 11 mpix full frame is certainly better than film. And we're talking really GOOD slide film not the crap people normally shoot with and then get shitty prints from. It's not an idle or poorly researhed issue, digital is surpassing film on any metric that counts, even with a great drum scanner you're still going to have grain issues and poor resolution.
No, you have loads of detail in the shadows already. You need only expose for the highlights and the rest is there. The only issue is potentially noise but that is MUCH better than film with the CMOS sensors.
Some trade secret. You realize that this guy is a lock salesman. The big trade secret is his ability to persuade Home Depot et.al. to give his company shelve space in preference to competitors. Reading the decision his ex-Boss sounds like a nightmare. The competition are trying to hire him because of his ovious talent but even his old company say his ex-boss Robert Steinman made disparraging comments about him (this is their Dilbertian attempt to argue the employee was taking revenge). The same bozo threatened to end the guy's career in an exit interview.
The icing on the cake here, the really unbelievable thing here is that one company is a subsidiary of the other from the decision "Sladge is a subsidiary of Ingersoll-Rand", unless this is a typo and "Sladge" should read "Kwikset".
Either I've found an error in the court decision or the world is going insane.
Best move of the whole trial? On disclosure the defendant hands over a bag full of destroyed disks and shredded papers etc.
IBM license these ideas to anyone who'll buy them for $$$$
Is this really a response to my post? What's your point. A total non sequitur from a moron? At least try and relate your post in some way to the preceeding text. I don't see anyone saying the world runs on Linux. I do see a moron posting ignorant garbage about the operating system and another idiot backing him up with name calling.
You Sir are an idiot. It is because Linux process management is already so efficient that it does not benefit greatly from the Apache 2.0 improvements. What would you have them do? Slow Linux process creation down to the point where threads are as essential as they are on other operating systems?
You won't see a backlash because the news outlets who sould publish the stories that would outrage us, will not. Even if they do they'll spin them in favour of their paymasters with vested interests and short sighted paranoia. It is far more likely that they'll try to scare mom & pop into refusing to allow little Johnny to installing any P2P software because they may lose their house car pension etc if he has the wrong file on his P2P network share directory. Can you imaging the hysteria they will cause?
Look at the coverage of this debate so far? The underlying problem is the media outlets are predisposed to support copyright holders in this debate, there's no chance of a fair hearing and that flushing noise is your freedom heading in the inevitable direction.
Remember this movie was leaked by an insider.
Someone with priviledged access to the (near)completed and edited version has released this movie. This is not the P2P networks fault, the real problem is lax security in their production chain. Once their product is out in the wild a few individuals will share it, but let's remember that the P2P networks didn't break and enter. One of the employees paid to handle or create this product has *released* a copy.
That is the root of this problem, NOT the file sharing, I just hope that congress is made aware of this when the bleeding hearts try to use this as another excuse to control an entire industry they did nothing to create or contribute to.
Is it a coincidence that an employee of the movie industry releases an early version of LOTR on file sharing networks just when legislators are deciding whether to legalize hacking of P2P nodes?
You said it, you're an EE. Most of AMD's customers aren't and they need to sell chips. Like it or not Intel deliberately created a pipeline with too many stages so they could clock their chip high. People care about performance, AMD is telling people their chip performs like an Intel or better at some clock rate. Otherwise their customers wouldn't get it because they aren't EEs. You clearly know the real clock so there's no problem. Get over it, if AMD marketed like you suggest they might be out of business already.
That is the oldest line in the book. Historically it has been proven resoundingly wrong. Apps use new power and resources and new applications are enabled by faster CPUs and more memory. People have been saying "we don't need this much power" since the 486DX 20MHz, and how many people use those today? Damned few. Get over it, stuff gets faster and people keep buying the stuff and developers write their applications for the newer stuff.
This isn't a gift, it's a loss leader. How can they circumvent competitive tender regulations by pretending the first part of a huge lucrative deal is a gift. It's crazy. Microsoft isn't giving them the hardware because they think they will lose money on this deal. Just how dumb are these civic leaders?