Actually there was a misunderstanding. I suspect that Alton mistook a cornish game hen with hawaiian game hens. Cornish game hens are small and can be cooked in 15 minutes. Hawaiian game hens are big like chickens (they really are just free range chickens) and cannot be cooked in 15 minutes.
I've never used a zoom lens in my life. I'm not sure, however whether you received my point. If the film was limiting resolution/saturation then lens tests *wouldn't* work (all lens would test the same!). This, of course, assumes the tests are made on film, which some aren't, I realize.
Lenses affect the image you see, on the edge and in the center. So does the film. The digital community to focus on number of pixels is a little overdone. Its a little like claiming that you need only the fastest AMD processor to listen to MP3's.
BTW - I only shoot slow positives (slide film), never digital and blow up the traditional way.
BTW the glass elements of a camera do NOT limit the resolution of the film much at all (Again unless were talking total crap optics like in a 110 snappy camera). The size of the film grain does. ASA 100 film is much sharper than 400 becuase it has much finer grain.
Your points are taken, but the above quote is *not* always true, IMO. This is why we have lens tests. You are probably used to a so called "normal" or 50mm (w/ 35mm film) lens. Generally telephoto lenses are much lower res and look soft compared to sharp photos.
Flamers can note I realize the camera in question is SLR with interchangeable lenses. But it is not affordable at 6,000.... Nor is it clear that the lenses in optimal conditions (high shutter speed, f-stop sweet spot) have a 11 MP effective resolution.
Just a quick comment on megapixelling. Many in the camera world would have you believe that pixels == effective resolution of pictures. This is not true. The resolution of the CCD is analagous to the resolution of the film in a normal camera. As resolutions get higher, film is generally not the limiting factor to the sharpness of an image (or the color saturation, for that matter).
We tested a nice consumer level 6 MP (IIRC) camera informally with an odd shaped object. We found that we could not discern the shape of the object from a distance under any conditions, even though the camera clearly had enough pixel resolution to do so. (Yes we checked lossy compression was off) Therefore, the effective resolution was less than the resolution of the CCD. So maybe (not tested with our tests) a lower resolution camera will give similar results with a blow up in photoshop? I don't know, there are many variables.
In an SLR camera, light has to pass through as many as 15 glass elements before the light hits the film, these elements usually form the basis for the limiting resolution, not the film. So maybe you 6 MP fanboys don't need penis envy over the 11 MP camera afterall.... What we need to see is a affordable digital SLR that can take AIS (for nikon) or equivalent lenses so we aren't stuck with stock glass.
Yeah, whatever. 83.7% of all roads are in need of repair. 99.9% of all sewers contain rats and cockroaches. Things in society are messy and are nearly always far from perfect. Someone trying to make a buck doesn't make it anymore interesting or news.
Dunno, sounds like the auto-reply message was simply a cgi (or equivalent) bug. I've been known to write a few goodies in my life, too. Anyway, assuming it was a bug, no big deal.
Although I don't think this was going on here, there seems to be the perceptions from nonprofits/groups/personal websites that if isn't selling something it isn't spam. I run a couple of large email lists and many people feel offended when I deny usage of the list, because sending unsolicited messages might be seen as spam.
uncorrected vision not worse than 20/200 (Snellen) and corrected 20/20 in one eye and not worse than 20/40 in the other eye. All candidates must pass a color vision test.
Considering many males are colorblind and many have poor vision, this is another problem. The FBI is shooting themselves in the foot by having overly demanding entrance requirements.
The FBI should hire experts in the field they are going to work in. Have officers with guns do the dirty work and scientists do the research. This is the way law enforcement should work.
Then salaries could also be distributed to be competitive to get the correct people for the job.
Skeptics should read CSICOP's guide to critising before commenting. Being rude, and casually passing off claims as foolish does not make a good argument.
You know, 4096 colors is a far cry from 65,535, but in the whole thick of things its not that big of a deal. (Except maybe for those who are trying to port photoshop). I'm glad that Palm admitted their mistake. Many, many companies do far worse on a daily basis, fully aware of their deceitful actions.
Scientists are like any other profession, there are good ones and there are bad ones. Physicists should be happy, their image has a long way to go before they get to the level of politicians or lawyers.
This is the They-don't-make'm-like-they-used-to syndrome. Probably the best example of this is camera's. Cameras of 20 years ago sell today for nearly as much as they cost when they were sold! They depreciate slower than inflation! The cameras of today are fancy microchip powered wonders that are cheap, easy to break, plastic boxes. Funny thing is, these cameras generally only add auto-focus over the nikon,olympus and canon cameras of the 70's & 80's.
Fine. I agree that cell phones are important to many people. BUT, that said, those people shouldn't be going to the theatre, opera or anything else when they think they *might* receive a call. Why on earth should we suffer because some doctor wants to see a movie? I work in the dept of medicine at a major university (as a PhD scientist) and I think many of us realize this exact dilema and deal with it appropriately. Don't complain about the importance of cell phones until we ban them from your homes and the streets.
I do think $40 is a very reasonable price. A lot of people buy cellphones (likely not you or the rest of the tech savvy community) for safety. Emergency use for the kids, emergency use for the car. Image the huge deal these guys could get installing them in rental cars! When I initially got a cell phone it was because I wanted to have a communication device in my car in case I broke down commuting. I would much rather spend $40 for that piece of mind....
Code Rot - The spontaneous process by which unmaintained code slowly ceases to function properly. Also see entropy and decay.
No surprise here. Coders like to change things, API's, software, system registries, etc. Unfortunately, they are often unable to clean up after themselves properly.
Piracy is a interesting word, one that really can't be defined without an understanding of our democratic/capitalistic society.
Copyright holders need to realize that countries that are sovereign from the US may make decisions that are not in their perceived best interests. The countries have a right to do that. If the company has a problem with that, they have two choices. 1) Play politics in that country 2) Not do business in that country. Unfortunately, the third option is often 3) get US to get pissed at that country (not necessarily playing fair, IMO).
I think this decision will ultimately have two outcomes, 1) Students will start to like using certain pieces of software (in the copyright holders interest) 2) Students will have less respect for copyrights (not in the copyright holders interest)
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One can not choose not to be black, short, female, ugly, Indian, or wheel chair bound. (Except a under extreme circumstances)
What? That's a damn lie! Didn't you see Soul Man?
Dunno if I care about the 800mhz Ipaq (or this story) but the AR Quake has already come and gone off of /.
Slashdot story ARQuake
-Sean
Actually there was a misunderstanding. I suspect that Alton mistook a cornish game hen with hawaiian game hens. Cornish game hens are small and can be cooked in 15 minutes. Hawaiian game hens are big like chickens (they really are just free range chickens) and cannot be cooked in 15 minutes.
=Sean
I've never heard of someone eating puma. Does it taste like chicken. (Or tabby?) I wonder where I could find some recipes....
-Sean
I've never used a zoom lens in my life. I'm not sure, however whether you received my point. If the film was limiting resolution/saturation then lens tests *wouldn't* work (all lens would test the same!). This, of course, assumes the tests are made on film, which some aren't, I realize.
Lenses affect the image you see, on the edge and in the center. So does the film. The digital community to focus on number of pixels is a little overdone. Its a little like claiming that you need only the fastest AMD processor to listen to MP3's.
BTW - I only shoot slow positives (slide film), never digital and blow up the traditional way.
-Sean
BTW the glass elements of a camera do NOT limit the resolution of the film much at all (Again unless were talking total crap optics like in a 110 snappy camera). The size of the film grain does. ASA 100 film is much sharper than 400 becuase it has much finer grain.
Your points are taken, but the above quote is *not* always true, IMO. This is why we have lens tests. You are probably used to a so called "normal" or 50mm (w/ 35mm film) lens. Generally telephoto lenses are much lower res and look soft compared to sharp photos.
-Sean
Flamers can note I realize the camera in question is SLR with interchangeable lenses. But it is not affordable at 6,000.... Nor is it clear that the lenses in optimal conditions (high shutter speed, f-stop sweet spot) have a 11 MP effective resolution.
-Sean
Just a quick comment on megapixelling. Many in the camera world would have you believe that pixels == effective resolution of pictures. This is not true. The resolution of the CCD is analagous to the resolution of the film in a normal camera. As resolutions get higher, film is generally not the limiting factor to the sharpness of an image (or the color saturation, for that matter).
We tested a nice consumer level 6 MP (IIRC) camera informally with an odd shaped object. We found that we could not discern the shape of the object from a distance under any conditions, even though the camera clearly had enough pixel resolution to do so. (Yes we checked lossy compression was off) Therefore, the effective resolution was less than the resolution of the CCD. So maybe (not tested with our tests) a lower resolution camera will give similar results with a blow up in photoshop? I don't know, there are many variables.
In an SLR camera, light has to pass through as many as 15 glass elements before the light hits the film, these elements usually form the basis for the limiting resolution, not the film. So maybe you 6 MP fanboys don't need penis envy over the 11 MP camera afterall.... What we need to see is a affordable digital SLR that can take AIS (for nikon) or equivalent lenses so we aren't stuck with stock glass.
-Sean
Yeah, whatever. 83.7% of all roads are in need of repair. 99.9% of all sewers contain rats and cockroaches. Things in society are messy and are nearly always far from perfect. Someone trying to make a buck doesn't make it anymore interesting or news.
-Sean
The application of software and process patents will bring the very concept of innovation to a stand-still.
Funny. I guess its just okay for him to idle the industry....
Dunno, sounds like the auto-reply message was simply a cgi (or equivalent) bug. I've been known to write a few goodies in my life, too. Anyway, assuming it was a bug, no big deal.
Although I don't think this was going on here, there seems to be the perceptions from nonprofits/groups/personal websites that if isn't selling something it isn't spam. I run a couple of large email lists and many people feel offended when I deny usage of the list, because sending unsolicited messages might be seen as spam.
-Sean
uncorrected vision not worse than 20/200 (Snellen) and corrected 20/20 in one eye and not worse than 20/40 in the other eye. All candidates must pass a color vision test.
Considering many males are colorblind and many have poor vision, this is another problem. The FBI is shooting themselves in the foot by having overly demanding entrance requirements.
The FBI should hire experts in the field they are going to work in. Have officers with guns do the dirty work and scientists do the research. This is the way law enforcement should work.
Then salaries could also be distributed to be competitive to get the correct people for the job.
-Sean
Skeptics should read CSICOP's guide to critising before commenting. Being rude, and casually passing off claims as foolish does not make a good argument.
-Sean
I would very much like to know what percentage of 8 million album sales are followed up with greater than 4 million in sales.
-Sean
You know, 4096 colors is a far cry from 65,535, but in the whole thick of things its not that big of a deal. (Except maybe for those who are trying to port photoshop). I'm glad that Palm admitted their mistake. Many, many companies do far worse on a daily basis, fully aware of their deceitful actions.
-Sean
Just what the world needs, more Stephen Wolframs.
-Sean
I think you've just shown some pretty good evidence that the cable will break on the way down.
-Sean
Scientists are like any other profession, there are good ones and there are bad ones. Physicists should be happy, their image has a long way to go before they get to the level of politicians or lawyers.
This is the They-don't-make'm-like-they-used-to syndrome. Probably the best example of this is camera's. Cameras of 20 years ago sell today for nearly as much as they cost when they were sold! They depreciate slower than inflation! The cameras of today are fancy microchip powered wonders that are cheap, easy to break, plastic boxes. Funny thing is, these cameras generally only add auto-focus over the nikon,olympus and canon cameras of the 70's & 80's.
-Sean
Fine. I agree that cell phones are important to many people. BUT, that said, those people shouldn't be going to the theatre, opera or anything else when they think they *might* receive a call. Why on earth should we suffer because some doctor wants to see a movie? I work in the dept of medicine at a major university (as a PhD scientist) and I think many of us realize this exact dilema and deal with it appropriately. Don't complain about the importance of cell phones until we ban them from your homes and the streets.
-Sean
LOL! Man that is funny...
The best Hubbard sci-fi/comedy story came in the form of the 10-volume Mission Earth - A bitingly sarcastic riot of a read IMO.
I liked the first one, thought the later ones were pretty lame. Funny how most of these books came out after his death....
The press releases sound like bs to me, but ....
I do think $40 is a very reasonable price. A lot of people buy cellphones (likely not you or the rest of the tech savvy community) for safety. Emergency use for the kids, emergency use for the car. Image the huge deal these guys could get installing them in rental cars! When I initially got a cell phone it was because I wanted to have a communication device in my car in case I broke down commuting. I would much rather spend $40 for that piece of mind....
-Sean
Code Rot - The spontaneous process by which unmaintained code slowly ceases to function properly. Also see entropy and decay.
No surprise here. Coders like to change things, API's, software, system registries, etc. Unfortunately, they are often unable to clean up after themselves properly.
-Sean
Piracy is a interesting word, one that really can't be defined without an understanding of our democratic/capitalistic society.
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Copyright holders need to realize that countries that are sovereign from the US may make decisions that are not in their perceived best interests. The countries have a right to do that. If the company has a problem with that, they have two choices. 1) Play politics in that country 2) Not do business in that country. Unfortunately, the third option is often 3) get US to get pissed at that country (not necessarily playing fair, IMO).
I think this decision will ultimately have two outcomes, 1) Students will start to like using certain pieces of software (in the copyright holders interest) 2) Students will have less respect for copyrights (not in the copyright holders interest)
Just my
-Sean