FTA "Film in general isn't going away any time soon as digital cameras cannot replace medium and large format cameras,"
See, that is bull shite. FYI there are digital camera backs out there for large format cameras that are just as good as large formate film. I'm not talking about any of the dSLR's we are talking about say for example "The Hasselblad H2D Digital Camera uses an advanced 22 Megapixel sensor that is more than twice the size of typical 35mm sensors. It provides higher resolution, less noise, seamless integration, and uses the same high performance HC lenses as the rest of the H System. It's $26,000. Or there is the Better Light
Super 8K-HS Digital Scanning Back
For 4x5 cameras. It cost $18,000 and creates 550 MB files.
This issue was previously reported on Slashdot. last year
I have to say, as an environmentalist, this line of research is one of the most hopeful I have seen. Besides cleaning power emissions, it can clean farm and industrial waste while generating fuel.
While at a farm products convention I talked to the bio- diesel and ethanol people from Iowa about this stuff. They had never heard of it, which is a shame. It seems like there should be better ways to get good ideas out there, but I guess market forces are the best we can do considering the government is so in line with the status quo.
As a photographer with a completely digital workflow, this issue is a big nightmare for me. To keep myself from loosing sleep I send the clients a DVD, and I keep a DVD myself, AND I back everything onto TWO external hard drives. If anyone has a reliable and cheap system, I'd love to hear about it.
The second "it" in the second sentence (below) refers to nothing at all in the paragraph.
"Joe Brockmeier and I have teamed up in a story on NewsForge to point out how the mainstream and trade press misrepresent the annual summary of vulnerabilities from US-CERT. They're doing it again this year to make it appear as if it is more secure than UNIX/Linux.
Forgetting any other issues for a moment, the government mandated obsolescence of 70 million tv's is an environmental disaster. How many pounds of plastic and glass and metal are just going to get hauled to a landfill? Let alone the low end estimate of 280 million pounds of lead. Below is a few paragraphs from the executive summary of "Poison PCs and Toxic TVs:
E-waste Tsunami to Roll Across the US: Are We Prepared?" Found at http://www.svtc.org/cleancc/pubs/ppcttv2004execsum .htm/ FYI, I left in the parts about state laws for the conservative states rights crowd.
Discarded computers and televisions are hazardous wastes - and when dumped into landfills or improperly recycled, pose a hazard to the environment and human health. The cathode ray tubes (CRTs) in computer monitors, television sets, and other video display devices contain significant concentrations of lead and other heavy metals. The State of California affirmed that:
"...when discarded, CRTs are identified as hazardous waste under both federal and State law and are required to be managed in accordance with all applicable requirements, including generator, transporter and facility requirements."
Source: California Department of Toxic Substances Control March 21, 2001, Letter to Materials for the Future Foundation
As a hazardous waste, the disposal of CRTs in California municipal solid waste landfills is prohibited. Additionally, collection, whether for recycling or disposal, must be regulated and permitted as a hazardous waste activity. Other states, including Massachusetts, Minnesota and Maine, have taken similar steps. In those states without specific landfill bans for CRTs, any non-residential CRT containing hazardous waste is banned from landfilling under national hazardous waste laws.
Each computer or television display contains an average of 4 to 8 pounds of lead. 13 The 315 million computers that became obsolete between 1997 and 2004 contain a total of more than 1.2 billion pounds of lead. Monitor glass contains about 20% lead by weight. When these components are illegally disposed and crushed in landfills, the lead is released into the environment, posing a hazardous legacy for current and future generations. Consumer electronics already constitute 40% of lead found in landfills. About 70% of the heavy metals (including mercury and cadmium) found in landfills comes from electronic equipment discards. These heavy metals and other hazardous substances found in electronics can contaminate groundwater and pose other environmental and public health risks.
The thing about our blind spots is that by definition we can't see them, so we have no idea how many of them there are or how big there are. Maybe Einstein 2 would find one big enough to drive 90% of the universe (dark) thru.
"In other words, our perception of Einstein as a towering figure is, well, relative."
Might I suggest that the author is trying to resolve his own feelings on inadequacy. I believe that a scientist that makes such a huge and profound leap will still stand out from all of the "brilliant" scientists who are incrementally advancing the frontiers of knowledge.
I spend a lot of time every day waiting for large files to upload to labs. I can do something else while I wait, as long as it isn't browse the web because it slows to a crawl as these uploads are happening. I would REALLY love high speed, and if it never made a single web page load faster I would not give a stuff.
Did I say I liked coal? No. So who is the moron? Maybe you? See, if you had asked me, I would have said that the entire cost of all stages of a fuels cycle should be factored into the KWH cost, from extraction to disposal. So with nukes and coal and oil, the cost of the wast stream should be part of the equation. Hell, solar too once a panel dies and has to be disposed of. And oil should include all of the military costs too. But you didn't ask, so you are just a plain old moron.
How blandly can someone describe something evil? Well, lets see!
I'm so mad I can't type. The idea that something can be put into a tool that I buy weather I want it or not, and then we will see if my privacy invasion is good or evil latter makes me want to throttle someone.
The tone of the article gives me a good idea of who to start with.
LOS ANGELES--The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that it will be taking legal action against anyone discovered telling friends, acquaintances, or associates about new songs, artists, or albums. "We are merely exercising our right to defend our intellectual properties from unauthorized peer-to-peer notification of the existence of copyrighted material," a press release signed by RIAA anti-piracy director Brad Buckles read. "We will aggressively prosecute those individuals who attempt to pirate our property by generating 'buzz' about any proprietary music, movies, or software, or enjoy same in the company of anyone other than themselves." RIAA attorneys said they were also looking into the legality of word-of-mouth "favorites-sharing" sites, such as coffee shops, universities, and living rooms.
One thing I worry about, I think really small artist get ripped off completely along the way. An artist I've shot photos for is on iTunes. Tabitha Lebec http://www.tabithalebec.com/ with her amazing album Back to Innocence. If you like Sarah Mclachlan you will love Tabitha. Anyway I have personally bought songs from her on iTunes, and she hasn't seen a penny. Where is the $$$ going? If she hasn't seen her share at.99 a song, how is she supposed to see anything of.25 a song? Hell, at this rate it could be $99.99 a song, she is getting ripped off. Any class action lawyers out there? She tells me that other small artists she knows experience the same thing.
In case you were wondering, it isn't a magnet at all. Mosquitos are not suddenly made of iron. It is a trap using bait and suction. Just thought I'd save you the time of RTFA.
Moderator, Please mod parent up. That is not a troll at all, but a fair summary of the implications of all cars being watched all the time. Of course the media uses this good example, but it is still Big Brother.
I hear these arguments about DRM, but to me, as long as I can make a high-fi copy of anything I can play, I don't see what the problem is. Personally I've been using Audio Hijack Pro by Rogue Amoeba. http://www.rogueamoeba.com/. I love it. I record my favorite radio shows from the internet on a regular schedule like tivo for internet radio, and if I ever had a DRM CD, I would just use Audio Hijack to record it while it played. Bring your DRM on, I'm not scared! If something was so DRM'd that I couldn't even play it, then we would have a problem...
What does this sentence from TFA mean? (especially the second half of the sentence)
"the best frames produced by SALT and SALTICAM show star images as small as 1 arcsecond (1/3600 degree), despite being taken when the seeing was 0.9-1.0 arcseconds"
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We've got diesel from algae, electricity from trees, and now Mr. Fusion! We're saved! Woo Hoo!
See, that is bull shite. FYI there are digital camera backs out there for large format cameras that are just as good as large formate film. I'm not talking about any of the dSLR's we are talking about say for example "The Hasselblad H2D Digital Camera uses an advanced 22 Megapixel sensor that is more than twice the size of typical 35mm sensors. It provides higher resolution, less noise, seamless integration, and uses the same high performance HC lenses as the rest of the H System. It's $26,000. Or there is the Better Light Super 8K-HS Digital Scanning Back For 4x5 cameras. It cost $18,000 and creates 550 MB files.
I have to say, as an environmentalist, this line of research is one of the most hopeful I have seen. Besides cleaning power emissions, it can clean farm and industrial waste while generating fuel.
While at a farm products convention I talked to the bio- diesel and ethanol people from Iowa about this stuff. They had never heard of it, which is a shame. It seems like there should be better ways to get good ideas out there, but I guess market forces are the best we can do considering the government is so in line with the status quo.
As a photographer with a completely digital workflow, this issue is a big nightmare for me. To keep myself from loosing sleep I send the clients a DVD, and I keep a DVD myself, AND I back everything onto TWO external hard drives. If anyone has a reliable and cheap system, I'd love to hear about it.
"Joe Brockmeier and I have teamed up in a story on NewsForge to point out how the mainstream and trade press misrepresent the annual summary of vulnerabilities from US-CERT. They're doing it again this year to make it appear as if it is more secure than UNIX/Linux.
Discarded computers and televisions are hazardous wastes - and when dumped into landfills or improperly recycled, pose a hazard to the environment and human health. The cathode ray tubes (CRTs) in computer monitors, television sets, and other video display devices contain significant concentrations of lead and other heavy metals. The State of California affirmed that:
"...when discarded, CRTs are identified as hazardous waste under both federal and State law and are required to be managed in accordance with all applicable requirements, including generator, transporter and facility requirements." Source: California Department of Toxic Substances Control March 21, 2001, Letter to Materials for the Future Foundation
As a hazardous waste, the disposal of CRTs in California municipal solid waste landfills is prohibited. Additionally, collection, whether for recycling or disposal, must be regulated and permitted as a hazardous waste activity. Other states, including Massachusetts, Minnesota and Maine, have taken similar steps. In those states without specific landfill bans for CRTs, any non-residential CRT containing hazardous waste is banned from landfilling under national hazardous waste laws.
Each computer or television display contains an average of 4 to 8 pounds of lead. 13 The 315 million computers that became obsolete between 1997 and 2004 contain a total of more than 1.2 billion pounds of lead. Monitor glass contains about 20% lead by weight. When these components are illegally disposed and crushed in landfills, the lead is released into the environment, posing a hazardous legacy for current and future generations. Consumer electronics already constitute 40% of lead found in landfills. About 70% of the heavy metals (including mercury and cadmium) found in landfills comes from electronic equipment discards. These heavy metals and other hazardous substances found in electronics can contaminate groundwater and pose other environmental and public health risks.
The thing about our blind spots is that by definition we can't see them, so we have no idea how many of them there are or how big there are. Maybe Einstein 2 would find one big enough to drive 90% of the universe (dark) thru.
Might I suggest that the author is trying to resolve his own feelings on inadequacy. I believe that a scientist that makes such a huge and profound leap will still stand out from all of the "brilliant" scientists who are incrementally advancing the frontiers of knowledge.
I spend a lot of time every day waiting for large files to upload to labs. I can do something else while I wait, as long as it isn't browse the web because it slows to a crawl as these uploads are happening. I would REALLY love high speed, and if it never made a single web page load faster I would not give a stuff.
Almost like that, but the pollution associated with other power sources are not fairly added to the cost.
Did I say I liked coal? No. So who is the moron? Maybe you? See, if you had asked me, I would have said that the entire cost of all stages of a fuels cycle should be factored into the KWH cost, from extraction to disposal. So with nukes and coal and oil, the cost of the wast stream should be part of the equation. Hell, solar too once a panel dies and has to be disposed of. And oil should include all of the military costs too. But you didn't ask, so you are just a plain old moron.
What if it is on a down ramp? It saves your brakes a little bit instead. Unless you have a hybrid with regen braking you should like it.
While I agree with your basic point about crap idea, your sub point about nukes is daft. Can you say radioactive waste? Want some?
Anything my spellchecker doesn't get...
I'm so mad I can't type. The idea that something can be put into a tool that I buy weather I want it or not, and then we will see if my privacy invasion is good or evil latter makes me want to throttle someone.
The tone of the article gives me a good idea of who to start with.
If you are in the market for SEO, the nice thing is, you shouldn't have to look to far on Google. If they can't get themselves to the top 5...
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43029/ RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs
LOS ANGELES--The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that it will be taking legal action against anyone discovered telling friends, acquaintances, or associates about new songs, artists, or albums. "We are merely exercising our right to defend our intellectual properties from unauthorized peer-to-peer notification of the existence of copyrighted material," a press release signed by RIAA anti-piracy director Brad Buckles read. "We will aggressively prosecute those individuals who attempt to pirate our property by generating 'buzz' about any proprietary music, movies, or software, or enjoy same in the company of anyone other than themselves." RIAA attorneys said they were also looking into the legality of word-of-mouth "favorites-sharing" sites, such as coffee shops, universities, and living rooms.
One thing I worry about, I think really small artist get ripped off completely along the way. An artist I've shot photos for is on iTunes. Tabitha Lebec http://www.tabithalebec.com/ with her amazing album Back to Innocence. If you like Sarah Mclachlan you will love Tabitha. Anyway I have personally bought songs from her on iTunes, and she hasn't seen a penny. Where is the $$$ going? If she hasn't seen her share at .99 a song, how is she supposed to see anything of .25 a song? Hell, at this rate it could be $99.99 a song, she is getting ripped off. Any class action lawyers out there? She tells me that other small artists she knows experience the same thing.
In case you were wondering, it isn't a magnet at all. Mosquitos are not suddenly made of iron. It is a trap using bait and suction. Just thought I'd save you the time of RTFA.
Moderator, Please mod parent up. That is not a troll at all, but a fair summary of the implications of all cars being watched all the time. Of course the media uses this good example, but it is still Big Brother.
I hear these arguments about DRM, but to me, as long as I can make a high-fi copy of anything I can play, I don't see what the problem is. Personally I've been using Audio Hijack Pro by Rogue Amoeba. http://www.rogueamoeba.com/. I love it. I record my favorite radio shows from the internet on a regular schedule like tivo for internet radio, and if I ever had a DRM CD, I would just use Audio Hijack to record it while it played. Bring your DRM on, I'm not scared! If something was so DRM'd that I couldn't even play it, then we would have a problem...
If I had mod points I'd have modded you up. Lucky for me I read with troll and flamebait +5. I think a new dark ages is too likely.
I love that it's called "Limewire Pro". It is a file sharing app, mainly used to download copyrighten material illegally, but it is Pro!
a.) on a PC right now
b.) other (describe below)
"the best frames produced by SALT and SALTICAM show star images as small as 1 arcsecond (1/3600 degree), despite being taken when the seeing was 0.9-1.0 arcseconds"