Quite true, and think about the smaller digital cameras, 12mp but the practical limits of the lens is not that much, resulting in inerpolation and other tricks to try and "squeeze" out the final bits.
I wonder how many of those downloads are for music one already has? I know I had to P2P some songs because some idiot put protection on my CD, so I could not listen to it in my car (my car and "protected" cd's don't work well).
They actually are a heavy exporter of textiles and chemical products. Also they export "cash" in that their banking system is heavily used by other countries.
What the lawyer has done is basically utilized the US's own insistace at the WTO against them, and really leveredged the law to it's extreme. So, either the US gets shot or hung, depending on which way the case goes. In either case, the US's legal case just died.
Tht would actually be the FBI agreeing with him. Agfa 200 is not the highest definition film out there, at only 50 lpmm. Film ranges from 40 lpmm to 160 lpmm. You use, say, Fui Astia at 110 lpmm, you'd be running right up there.
And with what money shall the US consume if it does not manufacture anything to sell for profit? Technology was the last real growth manufacturing field. Without turning one thing into another, to sell for profit, there is no more real consumption as rather than generating money, you are just recycling money. And then, when you buy foreign made goods, that recycled money leaves the country, leaving you with less to purchase with. It is an entropic cycle, and will eventually fail.
When a country exports all of it's facilities, manufacturing, and infastructure overseas, how long before that countries trading partners realize that they can cut the country out of the loop entirely?
I'd say still not quite there on resolution, but that is highly variable as each kind of film has it's own resolving powers. Comparing Fuji Xtra to Kodachrome, you'll find one can resolve more per square mm than the other, dramatically so.
However I would still say that digtal cameras are moving backwards. Not the big guys like the 1Ds, but the average consumer camera. In the past 5 years, I have seen cameras go from rich, noise-free blacks and whites to very noisy beasts. While if you pay for it, you get the quality, on the lower end it feels like they are regressing. I know people that use a Nikon 990, and will not buy a newer camera, because the newer models don't produce pictures that lookas good.
I often times ponder if rating a camera by pixels is akin to rating a car by pistons, there's often times more to the story than just one measurement.
Actually noone has used 70mm in close to a decade save for IMAX movies. 16mm is very strong, and Super8 still has a strong following. With modern filmstocks, Super8 can look quite good, and even low grain. You cannot compare VNR footage with modern Vision2 or Eterna stocks. The new t-grain structure really does wonders for the grain.
You almost had me going till you tried to tell me that film color-shifts. I work with HD cameras professionally (love the HVX200 for low-cost setups) but the Super8 still comes out on top.
There's a reason why most things you see in movies or on TV is shot on film.
I can't wait till the virtual dancing hula girl arrives.... She could probably even dance to show you the direction to turn when plugged into your GPS.
A few years ago, my in-laws bought one of those digital satellite TV setups. Not bad, a pain when it rained, but otherwise aok. I recorded a few shows onto VHS, for posterity. Well, I visited there, and it still looked fine, especially compared to my digital TV at home, but then I popped in the old VHS tapes... something's happened to the picture. The shows I recorded years ago are sharper, and more pleasing than the modern footage. Then I began digging up old 3/4 and 1" masters from even further back, even better looking still. Then I bought myself a Super8 film camera previously used as a newsreel camera in the 70's. The footage it shot looks astounding.
And then I began looking at my digital cameras output vs my grandfathers old Yashica 35mm. The camera made in 1973 was blowing away $8000 Canons!
We are in an age of eroding quality. The DVD player you buy today likely will not last as long as the one you bought 5 years ago. Companies are cutting every corner they can to reduce cost, and telling us all the way how much better the new systems are.
Indeed. Due process is a concept often forgotten in this day and age, but it was one of the foundations that the United States were founded on. Do things right, or don't do them at all I say.
200 hours to get a FISA warrant? No, the FISA system is pretty well documented. If you come to the judge with the right level of evidence, it takes a matter of a pen stroke.
They might be claiming it takes 200 hours to get that level of evidence but that is very misleading. It took less than 14 hours for the FBI investigators persuing Zacarias Moussaoui to apply for his FISA warrant.
scary part is, I'm finding Intel is making huge leaps in areas that they've long ignored. Their IO systems used to be pretty anemic for performance. Now, while not top dog, they're giving a respectible showing.
It sounds like you don't grasp the simple brilliance of this. Rather than having the kernel handle these bits, forcing a one-size-fits-all approach, you instead have other teams working on this, developing the GUI, customizing it to the task at hand. Look at Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, each one fills a need, but none of them are exclusive.
The phrase "My name is Legion for we are many" comes to mind.
Example, at work here, Fedora suits our needs perfectly. While at home, Ubuntu powers my sons desktop and Gentoo is my servers backbone. Yet, when I need to take apps from home, they run with minimal problem. They isolate the desktop from the apps that run on it, giving you infinite flexibility. Yes, it can be overwhelming. Yes, it does not look like a unified front. But by doing this, Linux can be, and is, whatever you need it to be! Hell, my gentoo box doesn't even have a monitor! I ssh in, or when that fails, I have an old teletype in case of emergencys.
They now believe that some asteroids are derived from larger, planet-like bodies? Now the question arises, what happened to these bodies to cause their current state of being?
can sue everyone that thought the movie stank. Oh, even better, sue the people that didn't come and see the movie, after all because they didn't come and see what others had called a pile of rubbish!
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Quite true, and think about the smaller digital cameras, 12mp but the practical limits of the lens is not that much, resulting in inerpolation and other tricks to try and "squeeze" out the final bits.
I wonder how many of those downloads are for music one already has? I know I had to P2P some songs because some idiot put protection on my CD, so I could not listen to it in my car (my car and "protected" cd's don't work well).
They actually are a heavy exporter of textiles and chemical products. Also they export "cash" in that their banking system is heavily used by other countries.
What the lawyer has done is basically utilized the US's own insistace at the WTO against them, and really leveredged the law to it's extreme. So, either the US gets shot or hung, depending on which way the case goes. In either case, the US's legal case just died.
Tht would actually be the FBI agreeing with him. Agfa 200 is not the highest definition film out there, at only 50 lpmm. Film ranges from 40 lpmm to 160 lpmm. You use, say, Fui Astia at 110 lpmm, you'd be running right up there.
And with what money shall the US consume if it does not manufacture anything to sell for profit? Technology was the last real growth manufacturing field. Without turning one thing into another, to sell for profit, there is no more real consumption as rather than generating money, you are just recycling money. And then, when you buy foreign made goods, that recycled money leaves the country, leaving you with less to purchase with. It is an entropic cycle, and will eventually fail.
When a country exports all of it's facilities, manufacturing, and infastructure overseas, how long before that countries trading partners realize that they can cut the country out of the loop entirely?
I'd say still not quite there on resolution, but that is highly variable as each kind of film has it's own resolving powers. Comparing Fuji Xtra to Kodachrome, you'll find one can resolve more per square mm than the other, dramatically so.
However I would still say that digtal cameras are moving backwards. Not the big guys like the 1Ds, but the average consumer camera. In the past 5 years, I have seen cameras go from rich, noise-free blacks and whites to very noisy beasts. While if you pay for it, you get the quality, on the lower end it feels like they are regressing. I know people that use a Nikon 990, and will not buy a newer camera, because the newer models don't produce pictures that lookas good.
I often times ponder if rating a camera by pixels is akin to rating a car by pistons, there's often times more to the story than just one measurement.
Actually noone has used 70mm in close to a decade save for IMAX movies. 16mm is very strong, and Super8 still has a strong following. With modern filmstocks, Super8 can look quite good, and even low grain. You cannot compare VNR footage with modern Vision2 or Eterna stocks. The new t-grain structure really does wonders for the grain.
When man makes a better mousetrap, nature makes a better mouse.
You almost had me going till you tried to tell me that film color-shifts. I work with HD cameras professionally (love the HVX200 for low-cost setups) but the Super8 still comes out on top.
There's a reason why most things you see in movies or on TV is shot on film.
I can't wait till the virtual dancing hula girl arrives.... She could probably even dance to show you the direction to turn when plugged into your GPS.
People have spoken of this issue since Bush was even campaigning. Are you surprised that they actually had a manual for it?
I hope noone, I said my piece, don't need mods to make myself feel better.
A few years ago, my in-laws bought one of those digital satellite TV setups. Not bad, a pain when it rained, but otherwise aok. I recorded a few shows onto VHS, for posterity. Well, I visited there, and it still looked fine, especially compared to my digital TV at home, but then I popped in the old VHS tapes... something's happened to the picture. The shows I recorded years ago are sharper, and more pleasing than the modern footage. Then I began digging up old 3/4 and 1" masters from even further back, even better looking still. Then I bought myself a Super8 film camera previously used as a newsreel camera in the 70's. The footage it shot looks astounding.
And then I began looking at my digital cameras output vs my grandfathers old Yashica 35mm. The camera made in 1973 was blowing away $8000 Canons!
We are in an age of eroding quality. The DVD player you buy today likely will not last as long as the one you bought 5 years ago. Companies are cutting every corner they can to reduce cost, and telling us all the way how much better the new systems are.
Indeed. Due process is a concept often forgotten in this day and age, but it was one of the foundations that the United States were founded on. Do things right, or don't do them at all I say.
200 hours to get a FISA warrant? No, the FISA system is pretty well documented. If you come to the judge with the right level of evidence, it takes a matter of a pen stroke.
They might be claiming it takes 200 hours to get that level of evidence but that is very misleading. It took less than 14 hours for the FBI investigators persuing Zacarias Moussaoui to apply for his FISA warrant.
I run Theo's OS, so you take a guess. 8)
And to think, they want us all to ride in these things commercially....
They don't?
**flips to Warcraft, City of Heroes, Civilization III (hey, still my fave), and Quake 4, then comes back**
Really?
scary part is, I'm finding Intel is making huge leaps in areas that they've long ignored. Their IO systems used to be pretty anemic for performance. Now, while not top dog, they're giving a respectible showing.
It sounds like you don't grasp the simple brilliance of this. Rather than having the kernel handle these bits, forcing a one-size-fits-all approach, you instead have other teams working on this, developing the GUI, customizing it to the task at hand. Look at Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, each one fills a need, but none of them are exclusive.
The phrase "My name is Legion for we are many" comes to mind.
Example, at work here, Fedora suits our needs perfectly. While at home, Ubuntu powers my sons desktop and Gentoo is my servers backbone. Yet, when I need to take apps from home, they run with minimal problem. They isolate the desktop from the apps that run on it, giving you infinite flexibility. Yes, it can be overwhelming. Yes, it does not look like a unified front. But by doing this, Linux can be, and is, whatever you need it to be! Hell, my gentoo box doesn't even have a monitor! I ssh in, or when that fails, I have an old teletype in case of emergencys.
They now believe that some asteroids are derived from larger, planet-like bodies? Now the question arises, what happened to these bodies to cause their current state of being?
atomic-scale memory would create huge waves.
It also could help out on the heat issues as well.
I mean, think about how many atoms are in a normal piece of memory.... yeouch that's a lot of RAM!
can sue everyone that thought the movie stank. Oh, even better, sue the people that didn't come and see the movie, after all because they didn't come and see what others had called a pile of rubbish!