All of them came AFTER I was responded to, except for the one response to the article, Mr. Coward. You don't know who I am, where I'm from, or what I do, or anything else about me, which negates the "me not being a professional" argument. And, if I were really just trolling, you wouldn't have to post anonymous, now would you?
Funny thing is, that's not the picture. The photographer, Brunier, decided to lower every copy he released electronically to either 18MP max, or be that one zoomable version. The 800MP version is only available through him, only for professionals, and he holds the copyright.
What the dick pretty much did, was give the astronomical community something to clap about and use to get more of an audience, while getting his own name on it. He didn't do anything serious with this, like let other people have it, or use it.
You can't get it anywhere except the artist. I set him an email, and he sent a very prompt reply that it's for profesional use only, without actually knowing wether or not I was a professional.
I'm guessing that even though this project, GigaGalaxy Zoom, is done by the ESO, a intergovernmental organization, the image is just under license from the "artist" (in this case, "man with too much time for tedium"), so don't hold your breath about finding it anyway.
Sites are claiming copyright as a concern, so you need to contact the artist to get the pic. I know downloading it is almost impossible due to the size, but really, pictures of the stars? Isn't this just tedious work that wouldn't be covered by copyright?
You can't actually see the 800-megapixel image. You have to contact the photographer to get the full-resolution image
They have a couple of decent sized static images, some desktop sizes, and one that dynamically loads when you zoom in, ala google maps. I don't know if the last one goes to the full 800MP when you zoom.
Uh, you guys are confusing me. Isn't there still going to be a bottleneck at the point between the output of the laser, and the lens? How do you actually compress anything with that bottleneck?
In a logical world, someone has to lose. You can't have an "equal and opposite reaction" without the opposite, which would be a loss for somebody, somewhere.
Israel has an ideology, but it's one that's fairly well established compared to Islam. Judaism has different sects, ranging from "hardly believe" to "worship constantly", but there's only about 6 of them. The "worship constantly" types aren't quite as hellbent on wiping Muslims off the face of the earth; they just want their small tract of land, that even with the West Bank included, takes about 6 minutes to fly across.
Islam is the 2nd most dominant religion in the world. Islam has nearly every one of their holy places under their control, which includes Mecca, their holiest city, and barring those in Israel. Islam has all sorts of different sects, with views ranging from moderate, to extreme, in it's interpretations. Some acknowledge honor killings, suicide bombings, stoning or harlots who don't cover their heads while in public, and the cutting off of hand of those who steal. Most of them don't believe this, but the sects do exist.
I'm pretty sure, though, that if anyone within Judaism believes these types of things, they don't have any support nearly anywhere in their community (I've never heard of these elements), whereas when it comes to Afghanistan in particular, you just need to go to a remote region near Pakistan to find these groups' training grounds (which I know, having never been outside the US).
I think it really comes down to how well established these groups are; around 1500, chirstianity had a revolution in the way they thought, and they started to become more tolerant of other peoples beliefs. Islam, on the other hand, hasn't been around as long, and is probably coming around to this type of a revolution in their culture.
Funny, because other people claim it was France who gave them their materials and the start on their research reactor. So, I think a more modern source that can actually be looked up easily is in order.
Also, I don't know how much raw material there was, but if we have enough material, it might be worthwhile to reprocess the actual material to put it back to its original purity.
Given that they're still fighting, while we've either won or given up, I'd say we're better at war, despite the level of violence we unleash compared to a war-like state a pair of cultures have been in for 1400 years.
If everyone lost, they'd all be defeated. Plus, given that we have some anti-missile systems available, we may not be wiped out if it's China. Nobody knows the real size of their arsenal that isn't high-level in their government.
This isn't American propaganda. All this is saying is if Russia or China fires on us, we have enough nukes to fire back ensuring that all parties, even those who don't have nukes, are wiped out. It is base purely on the nuclear arsenal and not military might per se.
People just fail to realize that their biases cause them to have their viewpoint. You don't like the Jew next door because they do something as silly as mow the backyard too little, and like the Arabic guy whose your other neighbor because of how he trims his bushes in interesting ways? Guess what, you're much more likely to support the Arab world if this is all of your contact with both cultures.
If people realized that this sort of extremely small difference between the two people you don't know but have this little, indirect interaction with can create your opinion of an entire region, the world would be a much different place. It's just unfortunate that people can't see that the little things in your life effect how you see the big picture.
K, so, fine and dandy. But have you read the "dangerously modified vehicle article"? They say a billion tmes that it was "obviously unsafe", "maintained horribly", "placing live of children at risk".....blah blah blah. They also throw a couple pictures of each kid into the story. But, not a single time do they mention a SINGLE detail about the disrepair, or the modifications to the car, that actually made it unsafe. For real, you're going to link a completely sensationalist, moralist news story, with zero information to back it up?
Most people don't pay that $800, they get the radio that comes with the car and stick with it. That radio tends to be at least moderately well designed, and is almost guaranteed not to be a touchscreen.
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Only on lawnmowers made in Japan.
...build a pinata to represent the school at an event sponsored by the Richmond Hispanic Chamber of Commerce...
Does the district have severe racial problems?
Considering the single core market has been reduced to netbooks, and Windows doesn't aim for them very well, I'd say nearly rightfully so.
...or at least good enough at its' price point to hit you hard in the wallet....
All of them came AFTER I was responded to, except for the one response to the article, Mr. Coward. You don't know who I am, where I'm from, or what I do, or anything else about me, which negates the "me not being a professional" argument. And, if I were really just trolling, you wouldn't have to post anonymous, now would you?
We were talking about the 800MP image, not the watered-down version.
Funny thing is, that's not the picture. The photographer, Brunier, decided to lower every copy he released electronically to either 18MP max, or be that one zoomable version. The 800MP version is only available through him, only for professionals, and he holds the copyright.
What the dick pretty much did, was give the astronomical community something to clap about and use to get more of an audience, while getting his own name on it. He didn't do anything serious with this, like let other people have it, or use it.
You can't get it anywhere except the artist. I set him an email, and he sent a very prompt reply that it's for profesional use only, without actually knowing wether or not I was a professional.
I'm guessing that even though this project, GigaGalaxy Zoom, is done by the ESO, a intergovernmental organization, the image is just under license from the "artist" (in this case, "man with too much time for tedium"), so don't hold your breath about finding it anyway.
Aren't they pretty much already doing that?
Sites are claiming copyright as a concern, so you need to contact the artist to get the pic. I know downloading it is almost impossible due to the size, but really, pictures of the stars? Isn't this just tedious work that wouldn't be covered by copyright?
It's the enormous amounts of tedium in doing this that caught their attention.
No, there's no full-res version. You have to email the artist for it.
You can't actually see the 800-megapixel image. You have to contact the photographer to get the full-resolution image
They have a couple of decent sized static images, some desktop sizes, and one that dynamically loads when you zoom in, ala google maps. I don't know if the last one goes to the full 800MP when you zoom.
The article is about really good graphics, as evinced by this picture. You think they're not gonna click or something?
.....what....the....fuck.....?
.....I'm baffled......who let him near a computer, on the internet, or even out of a womb?
Uh, you guys are confusing me. Isn't there still going to be a bottleneck at the point between the output of the laser, and the lens? How do you actually compress anything with that bottleneck?
In a logical world, someone has to lose. You can't have an "equal and opposite reaction" without the opposite, which would be a loss for somebody, somewhere.
Israel has an ideology, but it's one that's fairly well established compared to Islam. Judaism has different sects, ranging from "hardly believe" to "worship constantly", but there's only about 6 of them. The "worship constantly" types aren't quite as hellbent on wiping Muslims off the face of the earth; they just want their small tract of land, that even with the West Bank included, takes about 6 minutes to fly across.
Islam is the 2nd most dominant religion in the world. Islam has nearly every one of their holy places under their control, which includes Mecca, their holiest city, and barring those in Israel. Islam has all sorts of different sects, with views ranging from moderate, to extreme, in it's interpretations. Some acknowledge honor killings, suicide bombings, stoning or harlots who don't cover their heads while in public, and the cutting off of hand of those who steal. Most of them don't believe this, but the sects do exist.
I'm pretty sure, though, that if anyone within Judaism believes these types of things, they don't have any support nearly anywhere in their community (I've never heard of these elements), whereas when it comes to Afghanistan in particular, you just need to go to a remote region near Pakistan to find these groups' training grounds (which I know, having never been outside the US).
I think it really comes down to how well established these groups are; around 1500, chirstianity had a revolution in the way they thought, and they started to become more tolerant of other peoples beliefs. Islam, on the other hand, hasn't been around as long, and is probably coming around to this type of a revolution in their culture.
Funny, because other people claim it was France who gave them their materials and the start on their research reactor. So, I think a more modern source that can actually be looked up easily is in order.
Also, I don't know how much raw material there was, but if we have enough material, it might be worthwhile to reprocess the actual material to put it back to its original purity.
Given that they're still fighting, while we've either won or given up, I'd say we're better at war, despite the level of violence we unleash compared to a war-like state a pair of cultures have been in for 1400 years.
If everyone lost, they'd all be defeated. Plus, given that we have some anti-missile systems available, we may not be wiped out if it's China. Nobody knows the real size of their arsenal that isn't high-level in their government.
This isn't American propaganda. All this is saying is if Russia or China fires on us, we have enough nukes to fire back ensuring that all parties, even those who don't have nukes, are wiped out. It is base purely on the nuclear arsenal and not military might per se.
Here, fixed that for you.
Double-fixed.
Of course nobody's innocent in the area.
People just fail to realize that their biases cause them to have their viewpoint. You don't like the Jew next door because they do something as silly as mow the backyard too little, and like the Arabic guy whose your other neighbor because of how he trims his bushes in interesting ways? Guess what, you're much more likely to support the Arab world if this is all of your contact with both cultures.
If people realized that this sort of extremely small difference between the two people you don't know but have this little, indirect interaction with can create your opinion of an entire region, the world would be a much different place. It's just unfortunate that people can't see that the little things in your life effect how you see the big picture.
K, so, fine and dandy. But have you read the "dangerously modified vehicle article"? They say a billion tmes that it was "obviously unsafe", "maintained horribly", "placing live of children at risk".....blah blah blah. They also throw a couple pictures of each kid into the story. But, not a single time do they mention a SINGLE detail about the disrepair, or the modifications to the car, that actually made it unsafe. For real, you're going to link a completely sensationalist, moralist news story, with zero information to back it up?
Most people don't pay that $800, they get the radio that comes with the car and stick with it. That radio tends to be at least moderately well designed, and is almost guaranteed not to be a touchscreen.