Despite the billions the US spends on welfare, there is really no social net in the US society. We have no family or social fabrics either. It's a thin line between lack of social responsibility and hatred of others - the mentally troubled may not see that difference.
Socialized healthcare, for example, could go a long way in giving people the sense that someone cares about them.
The American society is a "jungle, survival of the fittest" society and it has it's price. We, at some point, need to decide if this is how we want to keep going, and if so, accept the loss that comes with it.
I think you missed my point - it's not about the blur, but about the stroboscopic effect - the motion + variable amount of blur (even no blur) is frozen in time for longer than the natural speed of the original motion. That's all there is to the film eerie. Any other effects may alter the image in an artsy way too, but not the "film" vs TV way.
You got the science wrong. This has very little to do with FPS and all to do with the stroboscopic effect film camera shutters introduce.
Bear with me here for moment while I explain.
It only matters very little whether you capture rapid motion with 30fps or 1000fps - the motion still occurs at its natural speed, it's the amount of motion blur per frame that changes. The eye sends a continuous stream of signals to the brain and the brain "sees". Most people have difficulty registering details about an object that moves faster than 36 degrees per second. So for roughly 180 degrees field of view, anything that crosses your sight in under 5 seconds is blurred. That's not much frame rate, right there. I only give this example to demonstrate that high frame-rate is not that important for action.
When you shoot film @ 24 fps, the photographic shutter does not stay open the whole 1/24 sec. time, because that will be too much motion blur and also too much exposure at, say, F2.8 for the film. Normally film is shot at shutter speeds about 1/50 sec. This means that half of the 1/24 sec. motion is NOT CAPTURED AT ALL. Film creates a stroboscopic effect, and when played back through a projector that displays 1/50 sec. worth of action for 1/24 sec., it looks eerie, artsy.
For the soap opera look, cheap TV shows are shot with cheap video cameras which do not have light shutters. Shutter is open for the duration of the frame - 1/60 for interlaced NTSC TV. The whole action is captured with motion blur similar to film (film at 1/60 sec. shutter). The playback is absolutely realistic, cheaply realistic.
So, there you have it: TV @ PAL/50i and film with "normal" shutter speed 1/48 sec. @ 24fps have similar amount of motion blur. Film has a stroboscopic effect, TV does not.
Use the opportunity to make a good impression for yourself. He will be your boss - you don't really have a say in these matters.
Many years go, I was in a small engineering team and we were allowed to interview our Director. There was one person nobody really liked, but turned out the big boss liked him because he talked the sweet talk and had all the right credentials - PhD in EE, etc. So, the big boss told our future Director how we didn't like him and hired him to be our Director. What an awkward situation, but a good lesson in life - express your opinion only if it really matters, and if you think it matters, think twice.
Exactly. Money left in the corporation can only be used for 2 things - reinvest in the business or pay employees/shareholders. If you reinvest, that's a good things - exactly what the US needs; if you pay out, income tax on the individuals should catch that.
Problem is that capital gains are taxed very low compared to wages, so the company has incentives to keep cash on the books to appreciate the stock without reinvestment risk, thus creating wealth for shareholders at low income tax rates. You will never see the money reinvested or increase of wages at the company.
EPA does not test all cars - only 15% per year. The EPA numbers are self-certified - each manufacture tests their own cars on their own test bench, which should be designed according to the EPA rules.
However, EPA does not audit all test benches and from what I understand there are some areas for interpretation about the test methodology.
We do not know whether Hyundai deliberately fudged the test methodology and results or it was an honest mistake. EPA is investigating. We'll see...
"American" lager (not the same as "made in the USA" lager) is a very light style of lager with adjuncts like corn and rice. Save the barley and hops, use lots of government subsidized cheap corn and you can make cheap beer.
Check out Trader Joe's "Name Tag" lager - 6-pack/$2.99. http://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/article.asp?article_id=165
Website says "all-malt beer, with no rice, no corn – no fillers of any kind", but it reeks of corn.
American boys are in deed healthier if circumcised, because they are not allowed to touch their penises to wash properly due to religious/puritanist reasons.
It may sound ridiculous to someone outside of the US, but I know parents who do not allow their boys to rub-wash their penises from fear of discovering masturbation. That's why an exposed penis head is important for "touchless" hygiene.
I am not religious, my son is asking me to explain the religious believes of some of his play-friends and the obvious to him collision with science. I explain that Science and Religion are not mutually exclusive.
I explain that Science does not teach "Absolute Truth" - it teaches to conduct experiments to measure and observe facts, then build theories to predict outcomes of future experiments, perform future experiments, confirm or deny theory. Nothing in the Scientific Approach requires for the facts to be "Absolute Truths" - they only need to be "Observable Truths".
Religion deals with "Absolute Truths" - it's not testable and measurable. It is Philosophy.
Maybe both should be studies at school - evolution in science class, creationism in philosophy class.
I am not religious, my son is asking me to explain the religious believes of some of his play-friends and the obvious to him collision with science.
I explain that Science and Religion are not mutually exclusive.
I explain that Science does not teach "Absolute Truth" - it teaches to conduct experiments to measure and observe facts, then build theories to predict outcomes of future experiments, perform future experiments, confirm or deny theory. Nothing in the Scientific Approach requires for the facts to be "Absolute Truths" - they only need to be "Observable Truths".
Religion deals with "Absolute Truths" - it's not testable and measurable. It is Philosophy.
Maybe both should be studies at school - evolution in science class, creationism in philosophy class.
Interlacing and frame-rate has nothing to do with it. It's the shutter settings that gives the "soap opera" look. See my comment above about the full explanation.
Here is why film looks like film, video looks like a Brazilian soap opera, and a film displayed on a HD TV with motion compensation turns into a Brazilian soap opera.
Frame rate has nothing to do with it. It all depends on the shutter.
With film, the shutter is rotary (one rotation of a disk during a frame). The shutter speed is determined in "shutter angle". A 180deg shutter means half of the disk is opaque, half is open. If film is 24fps, a 180deg shutter will give ~1/50 second shutter speed.
180deg shutter is called "normal motion blur" and is widely accepted as the typical shutter setting for normal shooting conditions. This actually creates a stroboscopic effect, since motion is captured for half of the frame time, but projected for a whole frame time. Different shutter settings are creatively used - in "Saving Private Ryan", the D-Day battle scenes are shot with fast shutter, which emphasizes the explosions and the flying debris with a strong stroboscopic effect.; on the other hand, gun fight is shot with a very show shutter speed in order to capture the muzzle flares (otherwise the machine guns will have no flash, since the muzzle flash is very short, like 1/1000 sec.). Cinematographers are very creative with the stroboscopic effect. We perceive is as Art, Cinema.
In a typical video recording, the electronic shutter is active for the duration of the frame, therefore all motion is captured and no stroboscopic effect exists. This looks real, less artsy, less Cinama, more soap opera.
Now, you take film at 24fps and show it on your 120 Hz HD TV set. The TV interpolates 3 frames for every 1 original frame and reconstructs a close approximation of the original motion, undoing the "creative" stroboscopic effect of the film. Now everything looks like a soap opera, even "Saving Private Ryan".
Some respectful manufacturers let you disable the interpolation feature and the TV just repeats the original frame 4 times.
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6
Yes, it seems to work this way from where we stand - the poor stiffs. However, to those with first order access to the money supply, the game is different.
It's not about supply/demand for stocks, but about supply of money that need to find a home. Imagine, every morning, you wake up to a suitcase of money by your bed. And since it's a guarantee that the suitcase will be there every morning no matter what (the FED makes it so), you just have to go buy something with it. In a sense, there is forced buying of the stock market. It is secondary which company you buy (maximize the ROI).
Small investors are just collecting pebbles in front of the steamroller. There will always be a buyer (the big guy) to your shares as long as the money supply is increasing (and the FED is more hawkish than ever to keep it so).
Most jobs in a service economy are protected in some way by the government, with the exception of engineering jobs. Anything in medical, law, finance, accounting, etc. is protected from fierce international competition by local and federal rules and regulations.
So, unless one's heart is really into it, why would anyone consider a career in engineering and science?
This is mostly an OS / launcher shell problem, not an application's problem.
A program takes time to load. It may be a very short time or it may be a very long time, depending on how the program is designed and built. It is difficult to design a program that presents UI feedback instantaneously, especially if it is a big application. Instead, the OS (or the launcher shell) should give feedback that the application is loading. An hourglass mouse cursor is often not enough feedback. The OS can also provide APIs for the application to report detailed start-up progress.
Just that you know, the credit card debt on her personal card that she's secreting amassing without your knowledge, is your debt too in a marriage. Just that you know...
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Socialized healthcare, for example, could go a long way in giving people the sense that someone cares about them.
The American society is a "jungle, survival of the fittest" society and it has it's price. We, at some point, need to decide if this is how we want to keep going, and if so, accept the loss that comes with it.
I think you missed my point - it's not about the blur, but about the stroboscopic effect - the motion + variable amount of blur (even no blur) is frozen in time for longer than the natural speed of the original motion. That's all there is to the film eerie. Any other effects may alter the image in an artsy way too, but not the "film" vs TV way.
It only matters very little whether you capture rapid motion with 30fps or 1000fps - the motion still occurs at its natural speed, it's the amount of motion blur per frame that changes. The eye sends a continuous stream of signals to the brain and the brain "sees". Most people have difficulty registering details about an object that moves faster than 36 degrees per second. So for roughly 180 degrees field of view, anything that crosses your sight in under 5 seconds is blurred. That's not much frame rate, right there. I only give this example to demonstrate that high frame-rate is not that important for action.
When you shoot film @ 24 fps, the photographic shutter does not stay open the whole 1/24 sec. time, because that will be too much motion blur and also too much exposure at, say, F2.8 for the film. Normally film is shot at shutter speeds about 1/50 sec. This means that half of the 1/24 sec. motion is NOT CAPTURED AT ALL. Film creates a stroboscopic effect, and when played back through a projector that displays 1/50 sec. worth of action for 1/24 sec., it looks eerie, artsy.
For the soap opera look, cheap TV shows are shot with cheap video cameras which do not have light shutters. Shutter is open for the duration of the frame - 1/60 for interlaced NTSC TV. The whole action is captured with motion blur similar to film (film at 1/60 sec. shutter). The playback is absolutely realistic, cheaply realistic.
So, there you have it: TV @ PAL/50i and film with "normal" shutter speed 1/48 sec. @ 24fps have similar amount of motion blur. Film has a stroboscopic effect, TV does not.
Of course not! Otherwise we won't be having paintings and art photography, just reporter style "gonzo" photos.
This! Mod it up!
Many years go, I was in a small engineering team and we were allowed to interview our Director. There was one person nobody really liked, but turned out the big boss liked him because he talked the sweet talk and had all the right credentials - PhD in EE, etc. So, the big boss told our future Director how we didn't like him and hired him to be our Director. What an awkward situation, but a good lesson in life - express your opinion only if it really matters, and if you think it matters, think twice.
Problem is that capital gains are taxed very low compared to wages, so the company has incentives to keep cash on the books to appreciate the stock without reinvestment risk, thus creating wealth for shareholders at low income tax rates. You will never see the money reinvested or increase of wages at the company.
EPA does not test all cars - only 15% per year. The EPA numbers are self-certified - each manufacture tests their own cars on their own test bench, which should be designed according to the EPA rules. However, EPA does not audit all test benches and from what I understand there are some areas for interpretation about the test methodology.
We do not know whether Hyundai deliberately fudged the test methodology and results or it was an honest mistake. EPA is investigating. We'll see...
"American" lager (not the same as "made in the USA" lager) is a very light style of lager with adjuncts like corn and rice. Save the barley and hops, use lots of government subsidized cheap corn and you can make cheap beer. Check out Trader Joe's "Name Tag" lager - 6-pack/$2.99. http://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/article.asp?article_id=165 Website says "all-malt beer, with no rice, no corn – no fillers of any kind", but it reeks of corn.
Get a hard-on, pull the skin back and she will not tell the difference.
American boys are in deed healthier if circumcised, because they are not allowed to touch their penises to wash properly due to religious/puritanist reasons. It may sound ridiculous to someone outside of the US, but I know parents who do not allow their boys to rub-wash their penises from fear of discovering masturbation. That's why an exposed penis head is important for "touchless" hygiene.
I explain that Science does not teach "Absolute Truth" - it teaches to conduct experiments to measure and observe facts, then build theories to predict outcomes of future experiments, perform future experiments, confirm or deny theory. Nothing in the Scientific Approach requires for the facts to be "Absolute Truths" - they only need to be "Observable Truths".
Religion deals with "Absolute Truths" - it's not testable and measurable. It is Philosophy.
Maybe both should be studies at school - evolution in science class, creationism in philosophy class.
I am not religious, my son is asking me to explain the religious believes of some of his play-friends and the obvious to him collision with science. I explain that Science and Religion are not mutually exclusive.
I explain that Science does not teach "Absolute Truth" - it teaches to conduct experiments to measure and observe facts, then build theories to predict outcomes of future experiments, perform future experiments, confirm or deny theory. Nothing in the Scientific Approach requires for the facts to be "Absolute Truths" - they only need to be "Observable Truths".
Religion deals with "Absolute Truths" - it's not testable and measurable. It is Philosophy.
Maybe both should be studies at school - evolution in science class, creationism in philosophy class.
And yet, more Line6 pods are being recorded than people like to admit. And Line6 is just the bottom of the barrel for professional grade stuff.
That's the difference between "money in search of a problem" and "a problem in search of money".
And yet, even with all this over-bloated pork stimulus, Cisco stock is still in the crapper.
Interlacing and frame-rate has nothing to do with it. It's the shutter settings that gives the "soap opera" look. See my comment above about the full explanation.
Frame rate has nothing to do with it. It all depends on the shutter.
With film, the shutter is rotary (one rotation of a disk during a frame). The shutter speed is determined in "shutter angle". A 180deg shutter means half of the disk is opaque, half is open. If film is 24fps, a 180deg shutter will give ~1/50 second shutter speed.
180deg shutter is called "normal motion blur" and is widely accepted as the typical shutter setting for normal shooting conditions. This actually creates a stroboscopic effect, since motion is captured for half of the frame time, but projected for a whole frame time. Different shutter settings are creatively used - in "Saving Private Ryan", the D-Day battle scenes are shot with fast shutter, which emphasizes the explosions and the flying debris with a strong stroboscopic effect.; on the other hand, gun fight is shot with a very show shutter speed in order to capture the muzzle flares (otherwise the machine guns will have no flash, since the muzzle flash is very short, like 1/1000 sec.). Cinematographers are very creative with the stroboscopic effect. We perceive is as Art, Cinema.
In a typical video recording, the electronic shutter is active for the duration of the frame, therefore all motion is captured and no stroboscopic effect exists. This looks real, less artsy, less Cinama, more soap opera.
Now, you take film at 24fps and show it on your 120 Hz HD TV set. The TV interpolates 3 frames for every 1 original frame and reconstructs a close approximation of the original motion, undoing the "creative" stroboscopic effect of the film. Now everything looks like a soap opera, even "Saving Private Ryan". Some respectful manufacturers let you disable the interpolation feature and the TV just repeats the original frame 4 times.
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6
It's not about supply/demand for stocks, but about supply of money that need to find a home. Imagine, every morning, you wake up to a suitcase of money by your bed. And since it's a guarantee that the suitcase will be there every morning no matter what (the FED makes it so), you just have to go buy something with it. In a sense, there is forced buying of the stock market. It is secondary which company you buy (maximize the ROI).
Small investors are just collecting pebbles in front of the steamroller. There will always be a buyer (the big guy) to your shares as long as the money supply is increasing (and the FED is more hawkish than ever to keep it so).
So, unless one's heart is really into it, why would anyone consider a career in engineering and science?
If your job can be telecommuted, it can be outsourced. I'll stick to jobs that require my presence at the office or nothing gets done.
A program takes time to load. It may be a very short time or it may be a very long time, depending on how the program is designed and built. It is difficult to design a program that presents UI feedback instantaneously, especially if it is a big application. Instead, the OS (or the launcher shell) should give feedback that the application is loading. An hourglass mouse cursor is often not enough feedback. The OS can also provide APIs for the application to report detailed start-up progress.
Instead, can we just stop purposely devaluing our currency, so that the value of the "money" is higher than the cost to manufacture the token?
Just that you know, the credit card debt on her personal card that she's secreting amassing without your knowledge, is your debt too in a marriage. Just that you know...