The problem is this: there is no way this should ever have involved the judicial system. That it did is a symptom of a much larger problem..
We are becoming a police state, Read through the comments here, some of them are down right scary.
If we don't call these things out we'll deserve what we get.
This is about the punishment - not the crime.
What the hell is wrong with you. Do you tie your shoes in little nazies.
In an age where we find Judges being paid to send kids to jail we
should be questioning every single one of these incidents. What's
the motive here? And how did we come to this?
Anyone remember that book? Most of it was crap, but there was one point that has some validity: if you can intercept the signal, regardless of the medium, you can gain some information. What kind of information, and of what value? I'll leave that to your engineering imagination. I can see why the security folks would be howling over this, given all the possibilities.
The rise of the MBA over the past fifty years has burdened this country with whole class of parasites.
Look to that when you try to explain the fall of a once great nation.
Bloodletting, blistering and trepanation were practiced for
thousands of years with published and recorded results.
Unfortunately, no one paid any attention to them.
Willow bark is a good thing, turns out it contains
aspirin. How about strychnine, belladonna,
cinnabar (mercury(III) sulfide), and arsenic
all from the best natural sources.
Selective memory is a dangerous thing,
A random walk through nature's biochemistry will
certainly produce some results, and will appear
quite successful, if you are willing to ignore
the non-results and tragedies.
Science is about finding the root causes of disease
and cure. It is a process of winnowing out the
truth. Belief is easier, but it is also a crap
shoot.
Medicine is full of fuzzy science. Yes, most is good stuff derived
from research, but there is also a lot of "we tried this on five
patients and it seemed to work".
Too much medicine is just simply the memorization of some
"x is indicated for y". Later we find out that while x actually
did work on y, it also produced z and z turned out to be a very bad
thing. This usually leads to a better understanding of the
interaction of x with the body, but one would have hoped to have
had that information first.
There are still too many traces of 18'th century thinking left
in modern medicine. Most were pushed out into the "alternative"
categories during the last century, but enough remain to allow
the cranks to have an argument. Homeopathy is certainly benign
compared to some "established" procedures with a equal level of
quackery, but it is at the very least unproductive, and that
raises ethical as well as scientific issues.
When you treat someone, you should do it with a reasonable
expectation that the procedure will yield the desired result
(in addition to doing no harm, although failing to treat the condition
could be causing the patient a great deal of harm).
Doing the science right is not just a good idea, it is an obligation
for anyone claiming to practice medicine.
Cinepaint is certainly worth a look if you need something for
simple operations on high bit depth imnages
(e.g. retouching, levels, scaling sharpening etc) It's not photoshop,
but it does work. Although there is a new design in the
works (glasgow), the original gimp forked version is still
under development and has become quite stable. I have
run several hundred raw 16 Megapixel images from my Canon 1Ds
through it without a burp.
What has happened to the gimp is truly a shame. Once one
of the leading Linux applications, it is now 10 years
behind the hardware. Whether by contribution or by
fork, imaging on Linux needs a lot of help.
Yup, seen the same thing. Seems the gimp operates in blocks rather than
on the whole image. On my machines it seems to spend as much time going back
and forth to GTK as it does on the block calculations.
As th Man Said, Stick a fork in it
on
Beginning GIMP
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· Score: 1
I've spent quite a bit of time in the gimp, cinepaint
and Photoshop. I work exclusively in large
(16M pixels and up) images at 16 bit depth.
As far as the current offerings go, frankly, I can't
stand any of them.
Photoshop will get the job done, but I'm convinced that
there has to be something better. Cinepaint is
usable and sufficient for simple retouching, but
it is very buggy. The gimp was great 5-10 years
ago and is probably fine use with consumer grade
images.
It seems it's time for something different. Cinepaint
Glasgow looks interesting, but the release keeps
slipping. The Gimp people seem to point to Gegl, but
that is a complete mystery to me.
Time to write some code. There are a lot of good, but
incomplete ideas floating around out there. It
seems like a merge might produce something truly
usable.
As one post pointed out thats 25% percent
of the population. What scares the hell
out of me is the reaction of the other 75%.
There is little tolerance out there for
either curiousity or intellect.
Too often the "curious" are labeled as
attention deficit (or otherwise) disordered
and drugged back into the mainstream.
The most important quote in the Reuters article seems to have been missed:
Feingold believes the PSP's biggest drawback as a movie-watching device was the inability to connect the gadget to TV sets for big-screen viewing, "which would have made it more compelling," as well as the inclusion of memory stick capability.
"I think a lot of people are ripping content and sticking it onto the device rather than purchasing," he said. "
(For those who skipped the article Benjamin Feingold, is president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
Sound familiar ?? Sort of like the excuses for decling CD sales ???
Someone correct me on this, but I would think
that there would be work arounds for this, e.g.
recording reference colors.
Also, this is not unique to Nikon. From what
I understand Canon is equally hard to deal with,
although their formats are not encripted, just
undocumented.
The comment by dfghjk is right on the mark.
Most listening occurs in the near field.
At base frequencies you need to be in a
very large space to get into the far
field of any acoustice radiator. I always
had to laugh at the rich kids who had
Klipsch horns in their dorm rooms.
Horns are basically impedance matching devices.
Anyone who has heard an old gramaphone has
probalbly noticed that the sound can be
quite loud. The horn matched the acoustic
impedance of the needle to that of the air.
These are equivalent to tapered lines
in microwave and RF work.
Pipes (e.g. organs) are the acoustic equivalent
of transmission lines, and again act
to match the source impedance to that
of the air. Baroque organs could
fill a church with sound will very
little air pressure driving the pipes.
The Bose wave radio uses a internal
pipe as a transmission line match.
You can make you own version out
of PVC pipe. One problem with
transmission line matchers is
narrow bandwidth. The old solution
was to stuff the line with some
material to lower the Q. Bose
seems to use some DSP tricks
There are a number of web sites
out there on transmission line
sub-woofers - don't have the links
handy, but google should reveal
a bunch of projects for anyone
interested in a cheap and efficient
base source.
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The problem is this: there is no way this should ever have involved the judicial system. That it did is a symptom of a much larger problem.. We are becoming a police state, Read through the comments here, some of them are down right scary. If we don't call these things out we'll deserve what we get.
This is about the punishment - not the crime. What the hell is wrong with you. Do you tie your shoes in little nazies. In an age where we find Judges being paid to send kids to jail we should be questioning every single one of these incidents. What's the motive here? And how did we come to this?
I can recommend. I'll even cut y'all in on the finders fee.
Anyone remember that book? Most of it was crap, but there was one point that has some validity: if you can intercept the signal, regardless of the medium, you can gain some information. What kind of information, and of what value? I'll leave that to your engineering imagination. I can see why the security folks would be howling over this, given all the possibilities.
The rise of the MBA over the past fifty years has burdened this country with whole class of parasites. Look to that when you try to explain the fall of a once great nation.
whoops before anyone points it out belladonna was a bad example as is a source of atropine, Also, putting aspirin on a tooth is also a bad idea
Bloodletting, blistering and trepanation were practiced for thousands of years with published and recorded results. Unfortunately, no one paid any attention to them. Willow bark is a good thing, turns out it contains aspirin. How about strychnine, belladonna, cinnabar (mercury(III) sulfide), and arsenic all from the best natural sources. Selective memory is a dangerous thing, A random walk through nature's biochemistry will certainly produce some results, and will appear quite successful, if you are willing to ignore the non-results and tragedies. Science is about finding the root causes of disease and cure. It is a process of winnowing out the truth. Belief is easier, but it is also a crap shoot.
Medicine is full of fuzzy science. Yes, most is good stuff derived from research, but there is also a lot of "we tried this on five patients and it seemed to work". Too much medicine is just simply the memorization of some "x is indicated for y". Later we find out that while x actually did work on y, it also produced z and z turned out to be a very bad thing. This usually leads to a better understanding of the interaction of x with the body, but one would have hoped to have had that information first. There are still too many traces of 18'th century thinking left in modern medicine. Most were pushed out into the "alternative" categories during the last century, but enough remain to allow the cranks to have an argument. Homeopathy is certainly benign compared to some "established" procedures with a equal level of quackery, but it is at the very least unproductive, and that raises ethical as well as scientific issues. When you treat someone, you should do it with a reasonable expectation that the procedure will yield the desired result (in addition to doing no harm, although failing to treat the condition could be causing the patient a great deal of harm). Doing the science right is not just a good idea, it is an obligation for anyone claiming to practice medicine.
Cinepaint is certainly worth a look if you need something for simple operations on high bit depth imnages (e.g. retouching, levels, scaling sharpening etc) It's not photoshop, but it does work. Although there is a new design in the works (glasgow), the original gimp forked version is still under development and has become quite stable. I have run several hundred raw 16 Megapixel images from my Canon 1Ds through it without a burp. What has happened to the gimp is truly a shame. Once one of the leading Linux applications, it is now 10 years behind the hardware. Whether by contribution or by fork, imaging on Linux needs a lot of help.
Telling people you like classical is usually enough to end any conversation.
Yup, seen the same thing. Seems the gimp operates in blocks rather than on the whole image. On my machines it seems to spend as much time going back and forth to GTK as it does on the block calculations.
I've spent quite a bit of time in the gimp, cinepaint and Photoshop. I work exclusively in large (16M pixels and up) images at 16 bit depth. As far as the current offerings go, frankly, I can't stand any of them. Photoshop will get the job done, but I'm convinced that there has to be something better. Cinepaint is usable and sufficient for simple retouching, but it is very buggy. The gimp was great 5-10 years ago and is probably fine use with consumer grade images. It seems it's time for something different. Cinepaint Glasgow looks interesting, but the release keeps slipping. The Gimp people seem to point to Gegl, but that is a complete mystery to me. Time to write some code. There are a lot of good, but incomplete ideas floating around out there. It seems like a merge might produce something truly usable.
As one post pointed out thats 25% percent of the population. What scares the hell out of me is the reaction of the other 75%. There is little tolerance out there for either curiousity or intellect. Too often the "curious" are labeled as attention deficit (or otherwise) disordered and drugged back into the mainstream.
The most important quote in the Reuters
article seems to have been missed:
Feingold believes the PSP's biggest drawback as a movie-watching device was the inability to connect the gadget to TV sets for big-screen viewing, "which would have made it more compelling," as well as the inclusion of memory stick capability.
"I think a lot of people are ripping content and sticking it onto the device rather than purchasing," he said. "
(For those who skipped the article Benjamin Feingold, is president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
Sound familiar ?? Sort of like the excuses for decling CD sales ???
They just don't get it.
Someone correct me on this, but I would think that there would be work arounds for this, e.g. recording reference colors. Also, this is not unique to Nikon. From what I understand Canon is equally hard to deal with, although their formats are not encripted, just undocumented.
Anyone priced these connectors lately - that thing's gotta be 50 bucks / piece
There is an "I" in innovation.
The comment by dfghjk is right on the mark. Most listening occurs in the near field. At base frequencies you need to be in a very large space to get into the far field of any acoustice radiator. I always had to laugh at the rich kids who had Klipsch horns in their dorm rooms.
Horns are basically impedance matching devices. Anyone who has heard an old gramaphone has probalbly noticed that the sound can be quite loud. The horn matched the acoustic impedance of the needle to that of the air. These are equivalent to tapered lines in microwave and RF work. Pipes (e.g. organs) are the acoustic equivalent of transmission lines, and again act to match the source impedance to that of the air. Baroque organs could fill a church with sound will very little air pressure driving the pipes. The Bose wave radio uses a internal pipe as a transmission line match. You can make you own version out of PVC pipe. One problem with transmission line matchers is narrow bandwidth. The old solution was to stuff the line with some material to lower the Q. Bose seems to use some DSP tricks There are a number of web sites out there on transmission line sub-woofers - don't have the links handy, but google should reveal a bunch of projects for anyone interested in a cheap and efficient base source.