There was just a story of a young german couple putting their baby up for sale on ebay as a joke. While they initially had their baby taken away by child services, prosecutors realized it had been a joke and the baby is back in the hands of its parents. Our stupid American justice system can't take a joke.
Give me a break. Fishermen take home some of the catch. Garbage-men get goodies left on the curb. Office workers take supplies. Teachers get the summer. Firemen get free food. Mine is that I get to eat food from the craft service table any time I want.
Every job should have some perks.
But what's the breakdown in thee age groups of AI voters? How many are under 18? Also, you don't have to leave your house to vote on AI. Some people don't have to do more than send a text message (depending on their wireless phone provider).
"Except that all unions are administrated by the "scum and freeloaders" group. That's what unions are all about, defending the right of not working properly."
I am a member of a union, the cinematographers guild. I work as a motion picutre camera assistant. It is not unheard of to work over 24 hours on a shoot (many television shows in New York shoot over 13 hours every day, 5 days a week. By the end of the week people are working 16 hours, halfway into Saturday, and then begin work monday morning at 6 or 7). It is the job of a producer to work a crew-member as hard as they can, for as long as they can, with as little pay/rest/recompense as possible. It is the job of my union to keep me protected from this, and they are fighting a losing battle, as every contract renegotiation we lose more ground to the producers. Most of the people who administer my union are/were working as cinematographers or camera assitants. If you would consider the people who worked in the field and left ( or even stayed working in the field) to continue on to help their brothers and sisters get a fair deal as "scum and [freeloading]", then please rethink your statement.
If you are speaking sarcasticly I couldn't pick that up from your statement.
i use self-check-in services all the time and they never look at my id unless i'm checking bags. all you need is a valid credit card or frequent flyer #.
I think the parent is on to something. If you check out Google Earth lat: 3714'28.70"N lon: 11549'21.46"W you can make out what appears to be a baseball diamond. Now do you think that the government and the MLB aren't in cahoots?
Mod parent up. This is honestly one of my major pet peeves, people using made up words that sound correct but actually have a completely different meaning than the intended.
Excellent selection (beer and classic games), although they don't have double dragon or spyhunter. They really need some pinball too. Union bet. Powers and Ainslie. Try the 6-Points beers, they're great.
"An advertiser releases a report stating that their method works"
I see your point, but I'd hope my cousin's business practices are a little more honest than that.
And in all honesty if you had only read "The study, commissioned by in-game ad creators Double Fusion" you didn't get to the part where it says Nielsen Interactive was involved. Nielsen interactive might ring bells as one of the Industry's leading tabulators, as in A.C. Nielsen, the people who brought you TV show nightly rankings.
This may be true for others, but I pay more than $10 living in New York City, and I go once a week. The experience in a theater is better than in any home. If it's a quiet showing where I am one of 10 people in the theater its like a private screening on a screen that's 20' x 40'. If it's the premier of a cult-blockbuster with a packed house, there is as much energy in the room as at a world series game. Regardless of price, I will always go to the movies.
The real way to bring people back to the theaters is to get rid of the comercials, lower concession prices, increase the number of previews, delay the dvd release time, but most importantly improve the content of the films being made. Of course nobody wants to pay $10 to see the crap film that they can rent 3 months from now. But if one could see something of real value, with good writing, and real content, they would be more interested in spending that much.
Exactly, Neisseria Meningitidis, the bacteria that causes meningitis. If I had said Neisseria Meningitidis most people whould have been at a loss. It probably wasn't Hemophilus (a bacillus) because it was definatly a diplococcus.
They do. I took a microbio class in college and one assignment was to take a swab of some object in everyday use and see what grows on a petri dish. Well, I chose the pen at the sign-in clipboard to the infermery. When we were looking at the slides we prepared from our cultures, my prof asked me what I had sampled. When I told her she became very upset, especially when she looked at my slide and saw many gram-negative cocci, of which she was afraid that I had grown meningitis. My culture was promptly destroyed.
Honestly, the game was a 2-d top scroller that had no more plot than dodge, dodge, fire.
He must be planning an exploding boathouse scene though, I'm sure of that:
Spyhunters car speeds towards the boathouse. Helecopter hovers overhead raining down a birrage of bombs. The car zooms into the boathouse, Spyhunter leaps from car to boat. Bombs crash through the roof, and the boat is blown out into the river by the fire and shockwave.
Cheers to turning one of the most simple videogames into a 100million dollar budgeted dud. And thanks for ruining one of PKD's best story's
not completely. I've definatly been watching a show (Soprano's) and wanted to record two other shows (Simpsons and Family Guy) which all apear Tuesdays at 11:30 where I live but couldn't cause the DVR couldn't handle it( also having the same issue half-an-hour earlier to rec. DailyShow and Futuurama while Sopranos is on). And I can easily see that another show could interfere, like a movie or sports game (even both-not that I really watch the later). Now the total is 5. I'm pretty sure that during the week there are multiple games going on at the same time and there are cable packages that could take advantage of all, including the 2 or 3 TV series' you follow.
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Actually, this is already being implamented by the US Military in Iraq. It is used at checkpoints to speak to aproaching parties. And the Military has signed a new contract with American Technology for $1.1 million to deliver these LRAD's (long range acoustice divices) to the Marines.
"LRAD is a breakthrough long-range hailing and warning, directed acoustic device that is designed to determine intent, change behavior, and support various rules of engagement. With LRAD, a sentry can issue a focused verbal challenge with instructions in excess of 300 hundred yards, and follow up with a warning tone to cause behavior change. Recorded messages can be selected and delivered over LRAD in multiple languages."[from an American Technology press release. regarding this contract]
So far this is the biggest contract the company has and most likely, for years to come, the most lucrative applications will come from military applications, both as defense and as weapons. But ultimatly, comercial application will exceed the military in the technology's application and source of revenue for ATC.
Back in '01, when I was in college, each student was asigned an individual IP address that you had to have entered in your network prefs to access the campus network. Not sure how other campuses run their's but I'd think more than one is opperating under this method.
As a professional I concur, but for proffesional application or if it was in his price range. These cameras generally run much more than regular consumer cameras. Look for a camera with the largest ccd you can get in your range. The larger the ccd the more information it can absorb (in a sense). CCD size can be compared to film- smaller (8mm), largest (70mm/imax). It follows that the small sizes have show more grain (in video this translates what looks like static) when viewed in larger formats (tv vs. the small viewfinder). Also look for a camera with a low lux (1 or 6db).
Optics, like lens is important but don't let it spoil your search. Cannon makes excellent lenses as does Sony (many of which are Zeiss). Someone else mentioned optical vs. digital zoom in another post and are correct. The longer the optical zoom the better becasue this relys exclusivly on the optics of the camera verses the CCD capacity of camera. Digital zoom enlarges sections of the image using information from the whole image on the ccd, resulting in pixilation.
Viewfinder. Best is flipout of largest size. Many of the small eyelevel viewfinders are B&W so a camera with a flip-out screen will allow you to see the image in color, as well as interact more with your subject because your nose won't be pressed up to the camera. Be aware that in bright light and at different angels, the flip-out may not be viewable. Also of note is that the flip-out brightness level can fool you into thinking that the exposure level of the image is higher than it actually is.
Audio is always a problem on camcorders, specificly because the microphones generally just take in all sound from every direction. If there is one, try to get a camera who's mic is directional towards the front of the camera. That way you will hear what is infront of the lens more than behind or to the sides.
Format should also be of consideration. mini DV is better than digital 8 and microDV. Do not consider camera that use digital 8 or micro as media. MiniDV stores the highest res video of the three and if you get another camera years down the line you will not be stuck with a camera that only uses digital 8 (which has become the equvalent- already- as 8 and hi-8 video) or micro (of which selection is small, as well as having tapes which are difficult to find). The ubiquity of miniDV tapes should sell you alone.
Finally, Connectivity should be considered. Make sure the camcorder you get has both rca connections (this can come in the format of 1/8in mini plug to rca or rca to rca) and IEEE1394 (aka dv interface for computers, in case you ever want to back up your video and make a dvd or just edit birthday parties or even let you kids shoot/edit their own movies).
IMHO canon elura is a very good consumer camera, but this is a year ago or so. There may even be better by now.
I hope that some of what I've said is helpful, and that you enjoy whatever camera you buy.
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There was just a story of a young german couple putting their baby up for sale on ebay as a joke. While they initially had their baby taken away by child services, prosecutors realized it had been a joke and the baby is back in the hands of its parents. Our stupid American justice system can't take a joke.
Give me a break. Fishermen take home some of the catch. Garbage-men get goodies left on the curb. Office workers take supplies. Teachers get the summer. Firemen get free food. Mine is that I get to eat food from the craft service table any time I want. Every job should have some perks.
But what's the breakdown in thee age groups of AI voters? How many are under 18? Also, you don't have to leave your house to vote on AI. Some people don't have to do more than send a text message (depending on their wireless phone provider).
sure you can. one of the payment methods is with a credit/debit card through E-centru (www.e-centru.com)
"Except that all unions are administrated by the "scum and freeloaders" group. That's what unions are all about, defending the right of not working properly." I am a member of a union, the cinematographers guild. I work as a motion picutre camera assistant. It is not unheard of to work over 24 hours on a shoot (many television shows in New York shoot over 13 hours every day, 5 days a week. By the end of the week people are working 16 hours, halfway into Saturday, and then begin work monday morning at 6 or 7). It is the job of a producer to work a crew-member as hard as they can, for as long as they can, with as little pay/rest/recompense as possible. It is the job of my union to keep me protected from this, and they are fighting a losing battle, as every contract renegotiation we lose more ground to the producers. Most of the people who administer my union are/were working as cinematographers or camera assitants. If you would consider the people who worked in the field and left ( or even stayed working in the field) to continue on to help their brothers and sisters get a fair deal as "scum and [freeloading]", then please rethink your statement. If you are speaking sarcasticly I couldn't pick that up from your statement.
They been doing this for years with the microphone in my TV?
i use self-check-in services all the time and they never look at my id unless i'm checking bags. all you need is a valid credit card or frequent flyer #.
Hair Pie.
I think the parent is on to something. If you check out Google Earth lat: 3714'28.70"N lon: 11549'21.46"W you can make out what appears to be a baseball diamond. Now do you think that the government and the MLB aren't in cahoots?
Mod parent up. This is honestly one of my major pet peeves, people using made up words that sound correct but actually have a completely different meaning than the intended.
Excellent selection (beer and classic games), although they don't have double dragon or spyhunter. They really need some pinball too. Union bet. Powers and Ainslie. Try the 6-Points beers, they're great.
Safari serves up blank.
Actually, King calls himself a hack in book 6 or possibly in the epilogue of book 5, I can't quite remember. So good showing.
"An advertiser releases a report stating that their method works" I see your point, but I'd hope my cousin's business practices are a little more honest than that. And in all honesty if you had only read "The study, commissioned by in-game ad creators Double Fusion" you didn't get to the part where it says Nielsen Interactive was involved. Nielsen interactive might ring bells as one of the Industry's leading tabulators, as in A.C. Nielsen, the people who brought you TV show nightly rankings.
This may be true for others, but I pay more than $10 living in New York City, and I go once a week. The experience in a theater is better than in any home. If it's a quiet showing where I am one of 10 people in the theater its like a private screening on a screen that's 20' x 40'. If it's the premier of a cult-blockbuster with a packed house, there is as much energy in the room as at a world series game. Regardless of price, I will always go to the movies. The real way to bring people back to the theaters is to get rid of the comercials, lower concession prices, increase the number of previews, delay the dvd release time, but most importantly improve the content of the films being made. Of course nobody wants to pay $10 to see the crap film that they can rent 3 months from now. But if one could see something of real value, with good writing, and real content, they would be more interested in spending that much.
My maker will be cooking up it's own drug cocktails.
Exactly, Neisseria Meningitidis, the bacteria that causes meningitis. If I had said Neisseria Meningitidis most people whould have been at a loss. It probably wasn't Hemophilus (a bacillus) because it was definatly a diplococcus.
They do. I took a microbio class in college and one assignment was to take a swab of some object in everyday use and see what grows on a petri dish. Well, I chose the pen at the sign-in clipboard to the infermery. When we were looking at the slides we prepared from our cultures, my prof asked me what I had sampled. When I told her she became very upset, especially when she looked at my slide and saw many gram-negative cocci, of which she was afraid that I had grown meningitis. My culture was promptly destroyed.
Actually, this page was slow yesterday (5.24.04), after the flood from a Gizmodo listing.
Honestly, the game was a 2-d top scroller that had no more plot than dodge, dodge, fire. He must be planning an exploding boathouse scene though, I'm sure of that: Spyhunters car speeds towards the boathouse. Helecopter hovers overhead raining down a birrage of bombs. The car zooms into the boathouse, Spyhunter leaps from car to boat. Bombs crash through the roof, and the boat is blown out into the river by the fire and shockwave. Cheers to turning one of the most simple videogames into a 100million dollar budgeted dud. And thanks for ruining one of PKD's best story's
Yeah, especially cause everyone knows that the real rats are at The Post
not completely. I've definatly been watching a show (Soprano's) and wanted to record two other shows (Simpsons and Family Guy) which all apear Tuesdays at 11:30 where I live but couldn't cause the DVR couldn't handle it( also having the same issue half-an-hour earlier to rec. DailyShow and Futuurama while Sopranos is on). And I can easily see that another show could interfere, like a movie or sports game (even both-not that I really watch the later). Now the total is 5. I'm pretty sure that during the week there are multiple games going on at the same time and there are cable packages that could take advantage of all, including the 2 or 3 TV series' you follow.
Actually, this is already being implamented by the US Military in Iraq. It is used at checkpoints to speak to aproaching parties. And the Military has signed a new contract with American Technology for $1.1 million to deliver these LRAD's (long range acoustice divices) to the Marines. "LRAD is a breakthrough long-range hailing and warning, directed acoustic device that is designed to determine intent, change behavior, and support various rules of engagement. With LRAD, a sentry can issue a focused verbal challenge with instructions in excess of 300 hundred yards, and follow up with a warning tone to cause behavior change. Recorded messages can be selected and delivered over LRAD in multiple languages."[from an American Technology press release. regarding this contract] So far this is the biggest contract the company has and most likely, for years to come, the most lucrative applications will come from military applications, both as defense and as weapons. But ultimatly, comercial application will exceed the military in the technology's application and source of revenue for ATC.
Back in '01, when I was in college, each student was asigned an individual IP address that you had to have entered in your network prefs to access the campus network. Not sure how other campuses run their's but I'd think more than one is opperating under this method.
As a professional I concur, but for proffesional application or if it was in his price range. These cameras generally run much more than regular consumer cameras. Look for a camera with the largest ccd you can get in your range. The larger the ccd the more information it can absorb (in a sense). CCD size can be compared to film- smaller (8mm), largest (70mm/imax). It follows that the small sizes have show more grain (in video this translates what looks like static) when viewed in larger formats (tv vs. the small viewfinder). Also look for a camera with a low lux (1 or 6db).
Optics, like lens is important but don't let it spoil your search. Cannon makes excellent lenses as does Sony (many of which are Zeiss). Someone else mentioned optical vs. digital zoom in another post and are correct. The longer the optical zoom the better becasue this relys exclusivly on the optics of the camera verses the CCD capacity of camera. Digital zoom enlarges sections of the image using information from the whole image on the ccd, resulting in pixilation.
Viewfinder. Best is flipout of largest size. Many of the small eyelevel viewfinders are B&W so a camera with a flip-out screen will allow you to see the image in color, as well as interact more with your subject because your nose won't be pressed up to the camera. Be aware that in bright light and at different angels, the flip-out may not be viewable. Also of note is that the flip-out brightness level can fool you into thinking that the exposure level of the image is higher than it actually is.
Audio is always a problem on camcorders, specificly because the microphones generally just take in all sound from every direction. If there is one, try to get a camera who's mic is directional towards the front of the camera. That way you will hear what is infront of the lens more than behind or to the sides.
Format should also be of consideration. mini DV is better than digital 8 and microDV. Do not consider camera that use digital 8 or micro as media. MiniDV stores the highest res video of the three and if you get another camera years down the line you will not be stuck with a camera that only uses digital 8 (which has become the equvalent- already- as 8 and hi-8 video) or micro (of which selection is small, as well as having tapes which are difficult to find). The ubiquity of miniDV tapes should sell you alone.
Finally, Connectivity should be considered. Make sure the camcorder you get has both rca connections (this can come in the format of 1/8in mini plug to rca or rca to rca) and IEEE1394 (aka dv interface for computers, in case you ever want to back up your video and make a dvd or just edit birthday parties or even let you kids shoot/edit their own movies).
IMHO canon elura is a very good consumer camera, but this is a year ago or so. There may even be better by now.
I hope that some of what I've said is helpful, and that you enjoy whatever camera you buy.