I just wonder how long it will take before SLS gets canceled.
Don't underestimate the clout of the Congress Critters bought and paid for by Lockheed and Boeing . . . it's all about "job creation" (meaning funneling those sweet, sweet Federal dollars into their districts), ya know.
Or looking the other way while banks write mortgages to people who have no fucking chance of ever paying them back, and then allowing said banks to use hundreds of billions of stimulus money for M & A stuff and multi-million dollar payouts to the execs who caused the problems -- while doing NOTHING to prevent it from happening again. Or giving subsidies to Big Oil / farmers / Solyndra. Or stealing from Social Security. Or giving out tax breaks to *anyone* without putting the money back in with a corresponding increase somewhere. The wars absolutely suck, and both sides refuse to end them, but they're not the only reason the US is broke.
With traditional mechanical drives, you usually get a clicking noise accompanied by a time period where you can offload data from the drive before it fails completely. In my experience, though SSDs don't fail as often, when they do, it's sudden and catastrophic. Having said that, I've only seen one fail out of the ~10 we've deployed here (and it was in a laptop versus traditional desktop / workstation). So BACK IT UP. Just my $0.02.
Ummmm . . . hate to break it to you, but Texas is about as far from a swing state as possible. It is as predictably (as in, double-digit lead) red as New York, Maryland, and California are blue. Texans haven't voted for a Democrat for President since 1976. See http://www.270towin.com/states/Texas
Absolutely the resolution on the D800/E (or even Canon 5D MK III) will push the limits of what 35mm lenses can resolve. You *will* see it. For better landscapes or studio work, you need bigger (better) lenses, with a bigger sweet spot to get you away from the edges of the lenses where the flaws start to become apparent.
More pixels require bigger, better lenses. We shoot art repro with a BetterLight Super 8K digital scan back -- 12,000 x 16,000 pixels max resolution in one shot in 48-bit color -- that's a 1.1 GB file for a single TIFF -- *and* it's a 4x5 view camera-based system which lets us use the best large format lenses in the world. The lens size and quality is the biggest advantage over 35mm, but the system also uses a trilinear CCD (three discrete color channels) so there's no Bayer pattern interpolation. The color rendition is unmatched. But, you must use constant lighting (no flash), and the subject can't move -- so it's only good for still-life studio work and landscapes with no movement.
Sorry . . . they're not even in the same league folks. Child porn by definition requires an act of child molestation and sexual abuse. It literally destroys lives. Online piracy does nothing but decrease his industry's ability to generate profits without competition. Topolsky should have immediately attacked his bullshit straw man argument -- you know, something akin to "Jaywalking is illegal, and murder is illegal too . . . but society deals with them differently."
This fucking guy Emmanuel serves perfectly as a great face of Hollywood -- good looking, expensive designer clothing, swearing like a sailor (I mean, besides entertainment, in what other industry have you ever heard someone swear that constantly during an interview and still expect to be taken seriously? I guess that's to enhance his "Cool West LA" image all the TV-consuming serfs want to follow), talking down to people, and his brother is tight with the President. I lived in LA and have met his kind -- handsome but not quite good looking enough to be a model or actor, but well-connected and smart enough to profit off of the system anyway. He's an arrogant fuck whose industry's ass is getting handed to it by a changing world, and yet all he cares about is banking as much as he can for the next 20 years. He's the Democrats' answer to the Wall Street and Big Oil execs they love to demonize. Fuck him -- the world would be better off if he died in a car wreck tomorrow.
Great . . . did these three European countries have pro-government gangs armed with firearms to enforce the dictator's will and crush disparate viewpoints? If so, I wonder if said jackbooted thugs were worried about getting shot when smashing down dissidents' doors at 3 AM to arrest, rape, beat, and otherwise terrorize anyone opposed to Dear Leader? I suppose Nazi-occupied Poland wasn't one of the countries you lived in, huh? But I guess that could never happen again, not in gun-free Europe, right?
What the hell are you talking about? I attended a Jesuit high school (yep, that's Catholic) and we were indeed taught about other religions in our "phylosophy" classes, as well as given a robust science education. Despite its many flaws, most noticeably a nasty habit of abusing kids and then covering it up, the Catholic Church has a pretty good track record of being open-minded about and accepting of other religions, and their educational institutions tend to teach science *very* well, at least in modern times. The parochial schools in the Northeast != public schools full of Bible-thumping fundamentalists in Kansas. Not all Christians as are blindly anti-science and close-minded about other faiths as you see them to be.
Wow, such vitriol directed towards someone that might have a different perspective than you. Yeah, I've seen the UC YouTube video, and I've also read stories about Occupy camps rigging booby-traps when threatened with eviction, throwing human shit at police, cursing at them, daring them to attack, threatening lawsuits, etc. As with most things, the truth is most likely somewhere in the middle, unless we choose to wear blinders that let us think one side can do nothing but good and the other is always wrong.
Most of the time, they provoke, prod, cajoule, and taunt these people until one of them out of the dozen, hundred, or thousand there snaps
Not that I agree with deploying this type of technology against peaceful protesters, but what you're describing sounds * exactly* like the Occupy movement's tactics to provoke the police to assault them, thereby ensuring the incident ends up all over the news. Just sayin'.
I love archie bunkers chair. and I treat it with the greatest respect. but in and of itself, it has no value in 500 years.
That's not for you, or anyone else, to decide in 2012. There's no way to tell exactly what information, and artifacts, will be of value in the future, and what will not. Professional archivists and preservation people know this, and that's why they do what they do.
you can share the present, or you can protect the past, or you can do neither. both just isn't worth it.
Nonsense. Large-scale digitization efforts like HathiTrust and Internet Archive do it every day. You are completely talking out of your ass.
As someone who works with archivists and preservationists all over the country, every day, I can tell you that whether or not you feel "ripped off" is completely irrelevant to that community of folks. Archivists have two main missions. First and foremost, preservation: keeping the original artifact / object / document / etc. intact and protected, as close to its original state as possible. If this means keeping the original out of bright light, prohibiting flash photography, or even eliminating public access altogether and vaulting it, then so be it. This is becoming more and more of a popular trend in museums, for example at certain branches of the Smithsonian -- high-quality repros of paintings, documents, and photographs are displayed, and the originals are vaulted. Secondarily, access is another goal -- again, so long as the artifact can be protected. The high-profile case of theft of original presidential papers at the MD Historical Society last year has made archivists re-think public access to original artifacts, and sent shock waves through institutions all across the country. Digitization efforts, such as the one in TFA, have taken on an even more important role in terms of achieving the goal of increasing access.
But don't think for a second that archivists value your selfish desire to view an object "in person" over the need to preserve that object, ever.
A good place to start would be to impose steep tariffs on all imported manufactured goods and use that money to subsidize jobs here in the States.
No. All a tariff will do is artificially triple the price of everything in Wal-Mart, and give the government more money to piss away on stuff we don't need, like wars, pet programs, and Congressional benefits (if you *really* think that sweet, sweet tariff money would actually end up "subsidizing jobs," you clearly haven't been paying attention for the last 40 years -- e.g., stimulus money used for "shovel-ready jobs" as a recent example). The higher prices just get passed onto the consumer -- like every other tax out there -- and will regressively hit the poor the hardest, who spend the highest percentage of their income on the basics they need to live. You'll immediately have riots -- "Why does our government hate the poor people?" Etc. Sorry, but taxes only work if the revenue isn't wasted on something else, and our government hasn't proven it's able to do that and live within its means for a *long* time.
If you want to even the odds, force China to float their currency like everyone else out there, and *quit printing money* so we don't need to take on any more Chinese IOUs.
Yes, and watch the riots here as everything sold in Wal-Mart triples in price overnight. I can already hear it: "Why does our government hate poor people?" Yes, all so the government can get that tariff cash and "wisely invest" it like it does with all its other tax revenue. Yeah, that's gonna happen.
No true. Millions of Mexicans come here illegally every year and do just this. It's not a problem with western people, it's a problem with entitled Americans and our keeping-up-with-the-Jonses cultural mindset.
Yeah, because city officials would never think to raid those infrastructure funds to pay for their pet projects and special pensions directly benefiting them personally, right?
Ever heard of Vinod Khosla? How about legions of Asian programmers? Oh, no people of *his* color. Yeah, just another conspiracy by The Man to keep the bruthas down.
Seriously, when will this victim mentality shit ever end?
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should not be referred to as a democracy (or a democratic republic, for that matter).
I just wonder how long it will take before SLS gets canceled.
Don't underestimate the clout of the Congress Critters bought and paid for by Lockheed and Boeing . . . it's all about "job creation" (meaning funneling those sweet, sweet Federal dollars into their districts), ya know.
Or looking the other way while banks write mortgages to people who have no fucking chance of ever paying them back, and then allowing said banks to use hundreds of billions of stimulus money for M & A stuff and multi-million dollar payouts to the execs who caused the problems -- while doing NOTHING to prevent it from happening again. Or giving subsidies to Big Oil / farmers / Solyndra. Or stealing from Social Security. Or giving out tax breaks to *anyone* without putting the money back in with a corresponding increase somewhere. The wars absolutely suck, and both sides refuse to end them, but they're not the only reason the US is broke.
With traditional mechanical drives, you usually get a clicking noise accompanied by a time period where you can offload data from the drive before it fails completely. In my experience, though SSDs don't fail as often, when they do, it's sudden and catastrophic. Having said that, I've only seen one fail out of the ~10 we've deployed here (and it was in a laptop versus traditional desktop / workstation). So BACK IT UP. Just my $0.02.
Ummmm . . . hate to break it to you, but Texas is about as far from a swing state as possible. It is as predictably (as in, double-digit lead) red as New York, Maryland, and California are blue. Texans haven't voted for a Democrat for President since 1976. See http://www.270towin.com/states/Texas
Absolutely the resolution on the D800/E (or even Canon 5D MK III) will push the limits of what 35mm lenses can resolve. You *will* see it. For better landscapes or studio work, you need bigger (better) lenses, with a bigger sweet spot to get you away from the edges of the lenses where the flaws start to become apparent.
More pixels require bigger, better lenses. We shoot art repro with a BetterLight Super 8K digital scan back -- 12,000 x 16,000 pixels max resolution in one shot in 48-bit color -- that's a 1.1 GB file for a single TIFF -- *and* it's a 4x5 view camera-based system which lets us use the best large format lenses in the world. The lens size and quality is the biggest advantage over 35mm, but the system also uses a trilinear CCD (three discrete color channels) so there's no Bayer pattern interpolation. The color rendition is unmatched. But, you must use constant lighting (no flash), and the subject can't move -- so it's only good for still-life studio work and landscapes with no movement.
Sorry . . . they're not even in the same league folks. Child porn by definition requires an act of child molestation and sexual abuse. It literally destroys lives. Online piracy does nothing but decrease his industry's ability to generate profits without competition. Topolsky should have immediately attacked his bullshit straw man argument -- you know, something akin to "Jaywalking is illegal, and murder is illegal too . . . but society deals with them differently."
This fucking guy Emmanuel serves perfectly as a great face of Hollywood -- good looking, expensive designer clothing, swearing like a sailor (I mean, besides entertainment, in what other industry have you ever heard someone swear that constantly during an interview and still expect to be taken seriously? I guess that's to enhance his "Cool West LA" image all the TV-consuming serfs want to follow), talking down to people, and his brother is tight with the President. I lived in LA and have met his kind -- handsome but not quite good looking enough to be a model or actor, but well-connected and smart enough to profit off of the system anyway. He's an arrogant fuck whose industry's ass is getting handed to it by a changing world, and yet all he cares about is banking as much as he can for the next 20 years. He's the Democrats' answer to the Wall Street and Big Oil execs they love to demonize. Fuck him -- the world would be better off if he died in a car wreck tomorrow.
Great . . . did these three European countries have pro-government gangs armed with firearms to enforce the dictator's will and crush disparate viewpoints? If so, I wonder if said jackbooted thugs were worried about getting shot when smashing down dissidents' doors at 3 AM to arrest, rape, beat, and otherwise terrorize anyone opposed to Dear Leader? I suppose Nazi-occupied Poland wasn't one of the countries you lived in, huh? But I guess that could never happen again, not in gun-free Europe, right?
What can the average person do against police/military with professional training and equipment anyway?
Yeah, tell that to the Iraqis back in 2006.
systematically crushed in every place they had critical mess
Ironic typo of the month. ;-)
What the hell are you talking about? I attended a Jesuit high school (yep, that's Catholic) and we were indeed taught about other religions in our "phylosophy" classes, as well as given a robust science education. Despite its many flaws, most noticeably a nasty habit of abusing kids and then covering it up, the Catholic Church has a pretty good track record of being open-minded about and accepting of other religions, and their educational institutions tend to teach science *very* well, at least in modern times. The parochial schools in the Northeast != public schools full of Bible-thumping fundamentalists in Kansas. Not all Christians as are blindly anti-science and close-minded about other faiths as you see them to be.
http://www.opencongress.org/contact_congress_letters/new?bill=112-h3523&position=oppose
I don't have to imagine such a future because the place you describe already exists: Newark, NJ. ;-)
Wow, such vitriol directed towards someone that might have a different perspective than you. Yeah, I've seen the UC YouTube video, and I've also read stories about Occupy camps rigging booby-traps when threatened with eviction, throwing human shit at police, cursing at them, daring them to attack, threatening lawsuits, etc. As with most things, the truth is most likely somewhere in the middle, unless we choose to wear blinders that let us think one side can do nothing but good and the other is always wrong.
Most of the time, they provoke, prod, cajoule, and taunt these people until one of them out of the dozen, hundred, or thousand there snaps
Not that I agree with deploying this type of technology against peaceful protesters, but what you're describing sounds * exactly* like the Occupy movement's tactics to provoke the police to assault them, thereby ensuring the incident ends up all over the news. Just sayin'.
I love archie bunkers chair. and I treat it with the greatest respect. but in and of itself, it has no value in 500 years.
That's not for you, or anyone else, to decide in 2012. There's no way to tell exactly what information, and artifacts, will be of value in the future, and what will not. Professional archivists and preservation people know this, and that's why they do what they do.
you can share the present, or you can protect the past, or you can do neither. both just isn't worth it.
Nonsense. Large-scale digitization efforts like HathiTrust and Internet Archive do it every day. You are completely talking out of your ass.
Wow, you'd make a really terrible archivist.
As someone who works with archivists and preservationists all over the country, every day, I can tell you that whether or not you feel "ripped off" is completely irrelevant to that community of folks. Archivists have two main missions. First and foremost, preservation: keeping the original artifact / object / document / etc. intact and protected, as close to its original state as possible. If this means keeping the original out of bright light, prohibiting flash photography, or even eliminating public access altogether and vaulting it, then so be it. This is becoming more and more of a popular trend in museums, for example at certain branches of the Smithsonian -- high-quality repros of paintings, documents, and photographs are displayed, and the originals are vaulted. Secondarily, access is another goal -- again, so long as the artifact can be protected. The high-profile case of theft of original presidential papers at the MD Historical Society last year has made archivists re-think public access to original artifacts, and sent shock waves through institutions all across the country. Digitization efforts, such as the one in TFA, have taken on an even more important role in terms of achieving the goal of increasing access.
But don't think for a second that archivists value your selfish desire to view an object "in person" over the need to preserve that object, ever.
A good place to start would be to impose steep tariffs on all imported manufactured goods and use that money to subsidize jobs here in the States.
No. All a tariff will do is artificially triple the price of everything in Wal-Mart, and give the government more money to piss away on stuff we don't need, like wars, pet programs, and Congressional benefits (if you *really* think that sweet, sweet tariff money would actually end up "subsidizing jobs," you clearly haven't been paying attention for the last 40 years -- e.g., stimulus money used for "shovel-ready jobs" as a recent example). The higher prices just get passed onto the consumer -- like every other tax out there -- and will regressively hit the poor the hardest, who spend the highest percentage of their income on the basics they need to live. You'll immediately have riots -- "Why does our government hate the poor people?" Etc. Sorry, but taxes only work if the revenue isn't wasted on something else, and our government hasn't proven it's able to do that and live within its means for a *long* time.
If you want to even the odds, force China to float their currency like everyone else out there, and *quit printing money* so we don't need to take on any more Chinese IOUs.
Yes, and watch the riots here as everything sold in Wal-Mart triples in price overnight. I can already hear it: "Why does our government hate poor people?" Yes, all so the government can get that tariff cash and "wisely invest" it like it does with all its other tax revenue. Yeah, that's gonna happen.
No true. Millions of Mexicans come here illegally every year and do just this. It's not a problem with western people, it's a problem with entitled Americans and our keeping-up-with-the-Jonses cultural mindset.
Yeah, because city officials would never think to raid those infrastructure funds to pay for their pet projects and special pensions directly benefiting them personally, right?
Lousy Smarch weather.
A Christmas tree is a completely secular symbol, and you are a retard. That is all.
Ever heard of Vinod Khosla? How about legions of Asian programmers? Oh, no people of *his* color. Yeah, just another conspiracy by The Man to keep the bruthas down.
Seriously, when will this victim mentality shit ever end?
. . . so we can all see her giant schlong.