I'd agree with you that the Mac and Wintel machines are equally stable, but the problem is that windows automatic updates will restart your machine for you if it is idle. This even includes quitting your open applications without saving any documents that you had open.
Mac OS X never does that, even when it requires a restart after update.
I think the market cap issue is the only thing keeping Apple from buying Adobe. On the other hand, I bet Adobe will not stray from Apple since Steve Jobs most likely talked to Bruce Chizen and 'told' him, 'the moment Adobe moves away from Mac software development is the moment when Apple releases a Photoshop competitor for Windows and Mac.'
If you're that concerned about the value of the photos, you might want to consider scanning the negatives with a 16-bit prosumer+ type of scanner, like the Nikon ED series. Yes it takes longer and is more time consuming, but if you devote some proper time to it, over the course of a year you can get quite a lot accomplished.
Considering the amount of cleanup over aged materials and dust and scratch removal, perhaps http://nikonimaging.com/global/products/scanner/co olscan_4/ this might be best suited for you. Sell it on ebay or get a used one and resell it after.
Let's be realistic here. In NO way is Sony going to ship this in Q1 06. Where are the production SAMPLE units, SKUs or final plastics? No one has even developer SDKs that are in any way finished or polished (besides Sony owned entities) and they are still throwing about theoretical performance numbers. If Sony was any way serious about launching in this time frame, you'd see their factories gearing up for such a launch. The only thing happening here is that they're trying to steal away hype from the 360 launch...and doing pretty well at that it seems.
Well your policy would have got me kicked out of a class for reasons not of my own. I once had a linear algebra assignment that was graded and a name written over top of mine after it was returned to me.
I never understood why that name was written until after the semester had ended. A person with said name came up to me and thanked me for allowing him to "borrow" my assignment. Apparently he was able to fish out my submitted work from the drop box and he cribbed my work. I was quite livid but I held my tongue.
If you really want to catch cheaters and hangers on, give snap quizzes. Assigned work is rife with plagarism.
Just remember that networking was not a new phenomenom before the web.
We had Compuserve, Prodigy, Bix, eWorld, and probably a dozen other big ones that I can't recall. All of them got steam rolled by the internet because it was so 'disruptive'. One of the properties of being disruptive means upheaval and loss of a certain amount of control.
Perhaps google will introduce the next phase of communications through wireless gateways that are free, and put cell phone providers in the category of technological has beens...who really knows what will work and what will fail until it is done?
Nothing happened to OLED. It's just that OLED has a short lifespan, especially in the blue channel, AFAIR, and that means that colour will not stay consistent through a reasonable lifespan, and gamut will decrease in that term as well.
OLED is coming for cheap displays but not ready for colour critical work. Yet.
Um, screen resolution has nothing to do with it. It's about the display's ability to show what colour the video controller has input to the display.
Let me change the 6-bit display to a 4-bit example: If you have a display that is only capable of 4 bits (per channel) then each pixel can only show one of 2^4 available shades, or 16 shade (or Red, Green and Blue) = 4096 colour display. Even if it was a 4096 x 4096 sized screen, yielding 16.78 million pixels, each pixel could only display one of the 4096 colours. The issue here is that the display cannot choose 16 shades arbitrarily, they are in a fixed gradation from the factory.
This is why banding or dithering will still occur on images on a 6-bit display, as each colour can only be represented by 2^6=64 shades (262k colours), and (most) human eyes can perceive 256 shades, or 2^8, equivalent to an 8-bit display (combinations of RGB being 24.7 million colours, or 24-bit colour).
I think your initial estimate of 30,000 is correct (1/10th of 1% of 30 million on Miranda to start), but Reavers can also potentially multiply without violating the storyline by being exposed to the gas and not being allowed to sleep.
(spoiler ahead) If the population died by simply going to sleep as they lost all motivation to do anything, and reavers 'never lie down' (according to River), then it may be possible to create a reaver not allowing someone to sleep after being exposed to the gas (PAX-Cl?), or kill a reaver by forcing(?) them to sleep.
You had better ensure that your credit record is not damaged by this action against you. You may not care about it now, and think that you can ignore the collections agent because you have the moral high ground, but it can affect your current and future credit score.
Personally get your credit record and find out if they've done anything to damage it by placing you in collections, and if they have you should contest any of those filings immediately. Poor credit scores may affect your ability to get a loan or mortgage, and that would be a real piss-off, especially if you never downloaded said album in the first place.
There are two common consumer level scanners. CCD based and CMOS. Both types are good for 99.9% of consumer requirements of resolution and colour accuracy. So I suppose that price, driver quality, and reliability come into play as discriminating factors in your purchase.
Most scanners are TWAIN compliant nowadays, and if you use vuescan then the software is not a major differentiator either.
CCD based is the traditional scanner as you know it. Every manufacturer uses it except Canon's LIDE based models. Works well and can scan in 3 dimensional objects and the like. Epson's models are quite good, UMAX are lower quality but generally cheaper. HP I haven't had any recent experience with, but they have been OK in the past.
CMOS based scanners are the basis of Canon's LIDE lineup. CMOS based systems were/are considered the holy grail of imaging systems because they are less power consuming and cheaper to manufacture than CCD based units. This is why Canon's scanners can be powered via USB and make decent portable units. Canon manages to compensate for CMOS' inherently noiser systems by a proprietary calibration technique. This is why most other manufacturers are behind Canon in CMOS based imagers for scanning. The biggest drawback to CMOS based scanners are the lack of focal depth in three dimensional or thicker objects. Since sheet music is flat a CMOS based system may good for your sister if she values portability. The lack of a wall wart is a bonus to me and reduces the tangle of cables as well.
Reliability wise, I've never had too much an issue with scanners unless they've been roughly transported or dropped.
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Thanks for the heads up on blue security! Now I can sign up and get these jerks. I hope their plan backfires and blue's subscriber base triples!
I'd agree with you that the Mac and Wintel machines are equally stable, but the problem is that windows automatic updates will restart your machine for you if it is idle. This even includes quitting your open applications without saving any documents that you had open.
Mac OS X never does that, even when it requires a restart after update.
I think the market cap issue is the only thing keeping Apple from buying Adobe. On the other hand, I bet Adobe will not stray from Apple since Steve Jobs most likely talked to Bruce Chizen and 'told' him, 'the moment Adobe moves away from Mac software development is the moment when Apple releases a Photoshop competitor for Windows and Mac.'
You mean something like this?
http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/
If you're that concerned about the value of the photos, you might want to consider scanning the negatives with a 16-bit prosumer+ type of scanner, like the Nikon ED series. Yes it takes longer and is more time consuming, but if you devote some proper time to it, over the course of a year you can get quite a lot accomplished.
o olscan_4/ this might be best suited for you. Sell it on ebay or get a used one and resell it after.
Considering the amount of cleanup over aged materials and dust and scratch removal, perhaps http://nikonimaging.com/global/products/scanner/c
Just a thought.
http://www.rojakpot.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=304 &pgno=1
Will they call it the Celine Dion law?
Let's be realistic here. In NO way is Sony going to ship this in Q1 06. Where are the production SAMPLE units, SKUs or final plastics? No one has even developer SDKs that are in any way finished or polished (besides Sony owned entities) and they are still throwing about theoretical performance numbers. If Sony was any way serious about launching in this time frame, you'd see their factories gearing up for such a launch. The only thing happening here is that they're trying to steal away hype from the 360 launch...and doing pretty well at that it seems.
Doesn't China already have MFN status? Why not just revoke that instead?
does this mean that you can swallow this fish and it will be able to live in your stomach (for a while at least)?
You must work for Dreamworks.
Here's a decent accounting of what happened between "A Bug's Life" and "Antz".
http://www.businessweek.com/1998/47/b3605013.htm
Too lazy to use html, it's Sunday.
Well your policy would have got me kicked out of a class for reasons not of my own. I once had a linear algebra assignment that was graded and a name written over top of mine after it was returned to me.
I never understood why that name was written until after the semester had ended. A person with said name came up to me and thanked me for allowing him to "borrow" my assignment. Apparently he was able to fish out my submitted work from the drop box and he cribbed my work. I was quite livid but I held my tongue.
If you really want to catch cheaters and hangers on, give snap quizzes. Assigned work is rife with plagarism.
hmmm...mac compatability too? Nice!
only if you don't look.
Please mod the parent up. I feel exactly the same way about the direction lego has taken in the last 20 years.
Another fine product from Wayne Enterprises Military Division...
How do you know it's not 2 microsoft marketing employees kiting up the price of a unit to hype it?
The cost of such an astroturfing operation is the eBay listing fees and that's it. Pretty cheap for a lot of buzz.
Just a thought.
Just kidding...
Just remember that networking was not a new phenomenom before the web.
We had Compuserve, Prodigy, Bix, eWorld, and probably a dozen other big ones that I can't recall. All of them got steam rolled by the internet because it was so 'disruptive'. One of the properties of being disruptive means upheaval and loss of a certain amount of control.
Perhaps google will introduce the next phase of communications through wireless gateways that are free, and put cell phone providers in the category of technological has beens...who really knows what will work and what will fail until it is done?
Nothing happened to OLED. It's just that OLED has a short lifespan, especially in the blue channel, AFAIR, and that means that colour will not stay consistent through a reasonable lifespan, and gamut will decrease in that term as well.
OLED is coming for cheap displays but not ready for colour critical work. Yet.
Um, screen resolution has nothing to do with it. It's about the display's ability to show what colour the video controller has input to the display.
Let me change the 6-bit display to a 4-bit example:
If you have a display that is only capable of 4 bits (per channel) then each pixel can only show one of 2^4 available shades, or 16 shade (or Red, Green and Blue) = 4096 colour display. Even if it was a 4096 x 4096 sized screen, yielding 16.78 million pixels, each pixel could only display one of the 4096 colours. The issue here is that the display cannot choose 16 shades arbitrarily, they are in a fixed gradation from the factory.
This is why banding or dithering will still occur on images on a 6-bit display, as each colour can only be represented by 2^6=64 shades (262k colours), and (most) human eyes can perceive 256 shades, or 2^8, equivalent to an 8-bit display (combinations of RGB being 24.7 million colours, or 24-bit colour).
That's the whole point of this discussion... whether bush bashing in space is necessary or not.
Thank you, I'll be here the rest of the day. Make sure to tip your waitress.
I think your initial estimate of 30,000 is correct (1/10th of 1% of 30 million on Miranda to start), but Reavers can also potentially multiply without violating the storyline by being exposed to the gas and not being allowed to sleep.
(spoiler ahead)
If the population died by simply going to sleep as they lost all motivation to do anything, and reavers 'never lie down' (according to River), then it may be possible to create a reaver not allowing someone to sleep after being exposed to the gas (PAX-Cl?), or kill a reaver by forcing(?) them to sleep.
You had better ensure that your credit record is not damaged by this action against you. You may not care about it now, and think that you can ignore the collections agent because you have the moral high ground, but it can affect your current and future credit score.
Personally get your credit record and find out if they've done anything to damage it by placing you in collections, and if they have you should contest any of those filings immediately. Poor credit scores may affect your ability to get a loan or mortgage, and that would be a real piss-off, especially if you never downloaded said album in the first place.
Meh.
175 upmoderated posts and not a lot of real info.
There are two common consumer level scanners. CCD based and CMOS. Both types are good for 99.9% of consumer requirements of resolution and colour accuracy. So I suppose that price, driver quality, and reliability come into play as discriminating factors in your purchase.
Most scanners are TWAIN compliant nowadays, and if you use vuescan then the software is not a major differentiator either.
CCD based is the traditional scanner as you know it. Every manufacturer uses it except Canon's LIDE based models. Works well and can scan in 3 dimensional objects and the like. Epson's models are quite good, UMAX are lower quality but generally cheaper. HP I haven't had any recent experience with, but they have been OK in the past.
CMOS based scanners are the basis of Canon's LIDE lineup. CMOS based systems were/are considered the holy grail of imaging systems because they are less power consuming and cheaper to manufacture than CCD based units. This is why Canon's scanners can be powered via USB and make decent portable units. Canon manages to compensate for CMOS' inherently noiser systems by a proprietary calibration technique. This is why most other manufacturers are behind Canon in CMOS based imagers for scanning. The biggest drawback to CMOS based scanners are the lack of focal depth in three dimensional or thicker objects. Since sheet music is flat a CMOS based system may good for your sister if she values portability. The lack of a wall wart is a bonus to me and reduces the tangle of cables as well.
Reliability wise, I've never had too much an issue with scanners unless they've been roughly transported or dropped.