Crossfit type workouts can give a good measure of several metrics, but it isn't exactly easy to quantify.
I think what you refer to in your example is less a case of measuring fitness than it is measuring performance in some extremely specialized circumstances where the difference between first and last isn't all that much. Lance Armstrong wasn't a great runner despite being a great cyclist, but he is probably far better than most other non-runners. Just like Robbie McEwen can't match Armstrong in the Alps but would crush him in the last 100 meters of the flats.
When I was in the USMC we did a lot of 'fitness' stuff and everyone was more or less in pretty good shape. When I went to sniper school there were some physical requirements that were different and others that were under more scrutiny. That made obvious what were previously undetectable differences. Two guys could finish a run side by side but one of them would be so taxed he couldn't steady his rifle, despite both having first class PT scores. After I was discharged I worked more on strength than anything else and when I got back into competitive shooting I immediately noticed the difference. Hard to say which constitutes 'fitter', benching 325 or being able to march all day with a full pack and a 16 lb rifle.
Yes, that was my 'more than double the price' option. And my 100k option beats a Red, handily.
People keep mentioning Red cameras but I doubt they've ever used one. As a former owner of an early Red 1 I can tell you it was nice, but only when it worked, which wasn't nearly often enough. If they (ever) launch their new models the same way you won't be hearing much from them any more. Or, if established players like Canon and Nikon seriously target their market, same deal.
Because there are no HD video cameras that shoot better video for less money? Indeed, to even be on par you'd need to spend quite a bit more.
Until you get close to the 6 figure range you won't get a sensor as large as the one in the 5D. Even if you forego sensor size and just want decent optics to resolve the kind of detail HD video is capable of showing you'll more than double the price of the 5D and attendant L lenses.
You are right that the audio is lacking, and while this firmware allows some control, it can't address the cause directly.
Not all states conduct a NICS check prior to issuing an LTCH. Not all require photographs.
But now that you mention it, I think I should be able to skip past security by showing a signed off Form 4. I imagine myself walking up to the checkpoint on my way to a shoot, I hold up a supressor and paperwork, they wave me on through.
I don't shoot landscapes much but do shoot 40MP raw a lot. I tend to leave the images on the CF cards, since I have to carry them for the back anyway and their capacity has increased to the point where that is preferable to lugging any other storage. They hold up better to being banged around as well.
I am always suprised that on a site where there should be a higher than normal concentration of 'above average' computer users, there is always a lot of butthurt over some new (and usually expensive) piece of hardware or software. Someone shooting his kid's soccer game can't really justify an SSD at this point. Someone sitting in a coffee shop wearing pantaloons browsing the web doesn't either.
Some of us do though. I switched from fast HDDs to SSDs for my scratch disks and noticed a considerable speed improvement for batch processing, which made the cost well worth it to me. If I were doing a few dozen vacation pictures from a P&S it wouldn't be worth it though.
iPhones receive a link to ATT's gateway via SMS when someone sends them an MMS.
ATT's gateway works maybe 4%-5% of the time. Sometimes it reports no pic available, sometimes it just doesn't work and doesn't say why, sometimes it refuses the login credentials.
And speaking of login credentials, they arrive with the SMS. An alphanumeric code of about 8 digits and a concatenation of 2 words to be used as a password. These have to be written down on paper because clicking the link opens Safari but doesn't fill in the credentials, and they aren't exactly easy to remember for the time it takes to open the gateway over Edge/3G.
Flipping back and forth between the SMS app and Safari works, but Apple has built so much lag into the iphone OS that a pencil and paper is faster. That and sometimes the page refreshes and blanks out any characters that have been filled in so you have to start over.
So no, MMS gateways aren't a decent solution and I don't even like MMS.
We frown on the use of white phosphorous. Several other chemical weapons. Bullet placement by snipers is intended to leave little opportunity for recovery by the target, but it took us forever to get SMK bullets approved, because it was thought to fraqment excessively.
Anyone who wants good quality page layouts has to wrestle these programs to the ground and force them to do it. Try integrating drawings in your text with Word or OO, it is awful. Word 2003 plants a giant drawing canvas in the middle of the page. Laying out text with graphs and getting anything sensible looking is worse. Ask a typeface geek about typefaces. Ask Edward Tufte if default page layouts are anything approaching decent.
I know the fallback response is that most people don't care, or don't need proper page layout features, but that is just a chicken and egg argument. People have made due so long they no longer recognize the absurdities. Galileo published books in the 1600s that integrated text and pictures better than most modern word processing programs can.
They don't need to become full blown Pagenmaker-esque graphics hybrids, but there is whole lot of room to improve.
I live about 60 miles from Indianapolis, and subjectively I can see about as many stars here as I have in African towns that have no electricity. I haven't spent a lot of nights in the center of the jungle because I prefer to not be killed.
Depite being able to stand in my backyard and see an amount of stars that amazes guests I'm surrounded by adequate roads, ready access to health care facilities, and have been formally educated. Indoor plumbing as well. And 4mb wireless internet. So plenty of the comforts of civilization.
It isn't a requirement that everything civilized must be illuminated all the time. There will always be 24 hour factories and airports and roads that will be, but we light a lot of stupid things as well. A symbol of the housing bust is going to be upward facing exterior lights that allow people to show off their gaudy oversized homes to passersby even at night. At some point Wal-Mart will decide it is too expensive to light their entire lot at 3am when it is only 10% full.
I don't know that the statistical reality of our individual decisions make as long as we believe them. Plenty if people play the lottery, slot machines, unprotected sex, etc etc.
As for pilots being highly trained professionals, some are and some aren't.
Feel free to go in about religion though. You seem to be laboring under the illusion that if you post something here people will read it.
I agree that your examples aren't things I would be intereasted in paying for, but I don't see why it is bad that such things are available to those who want them.
There are people willing to pay for decoration in both real life and virtual, so someone is going to try to service that market in some way. I don't understand the mentality but I'm not really affected by its existence.
Having used Apple products for many years now I doubt they will allow the applications they distribute to trick people into buying things. I don't think microtransactions should be held back by the possibility that someone who isn't very bright might unknowingly click through whatever hoops and buy something unintentionally. I don't think games that depend on microtransactions will eliminate those that don't and 'force' every gamer into that model.
But the disclaimer is that I've yet to run into any specific content, games music movies, that absolutely cannot stop myself from consuming despite not liking its price or sales model. Others may have had a different experience.
0) There is already a means to punish people who are not safe drivers. It is the insurance industry and they impose financial penalties based on actual evidence of the driving habits of each individual, as opposed to generic statistical inferences and supposition broadly applied to everyone as if everyone were possessed of equal driving skills.
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They call that government.
Crossfit type workouts can give a good measure of several metrics, but it isn't exactly easy to quantify.
I think what you refer to in your example is less a case of measuring fitness than it is measuring performance in some extremely specialized circumstances where the difference between first and last isn't all that much. Lance Armstrong wasn't a great runner despite being a great cyclist, but he is probably far better than most other non-runners. Just like Robbie McEwen can't match Armstrong in the Alps but would crush him in the last 100 meters of the flats.
When I was in the USMC we did a lot of 'fitness' stuff and everyone was more or less in pretty good shape. When I went to sniper school there were some physical requirements that were different and others that were under more scrutiny. That made obvious what were previously undetectable differences. Two guys could finish a run side by side but one of them would be so taxed he couldn't steady his rifle, despite both having first class PT scores. After I was discharged I worked more on strength than anything else and when I got back into competitive shooting I immediately noticed the difference. Hard to say which constitutes 'fitter', benching 325 or being able to march all day with a full pack and a 16 lb rifle.
Yes, that was my 'more than double the price' option. And my 100k option beats a Red, handily.
People keep mentioning Red cameras but I doubt they've ever used one. As a former owner of an early Red 1 I can tell you it was nice, but only when it worked, which wasn't nearly often enough. If they (ever) launch their new models the same way you won't be hearing much from them any more. Or, if established players like Canon and Nikon seriously target their market, same deal.
While sports photographers may technically be taking 'still' shots, most of them are shooting burts of 8 frames per second or better.
Because there are no HD video cameras that shoot better video for less money? Indeed, to even be on par you'd need to spend quite a bit more.
Until you get close to the 6 figure range you won't get a sensor as large as the one in the 5D. Even if you forego sensor size and just want decent optics to resolve the kind of detail HD video is capable of showing you'll more than double the price of the 5D and attendant L lenses.
You are right that the audio is lacking, and while this firmware allows some control, it can't address the cause directly.
The larger sensor, and the ability to use lenses one already owns.
Not all states conduct a NICS check prior to issuing an LTCH. Not all require photographs.
But now that you mention it, I think I should be able to skip past security by showing a signed off Form 4. I imagine myself walking up to the checkpoint on my way to a shoot, I hold up a supressor and paperwork, they wave me on through.
You were thinking about maintenance.
While I like the analogy, as far as I know no electric companies advertise "unlimited electricity at amperages up to 20!".
I don't shoot landscapes much but do shoot 40MP raw a lot. I tend to leave the images on the CF cards, since I have to carry them for the back anyway and their capacity has increased to the point where that is preferable to lugging any other storage. They hold up better to being banged around as well.
I am always suprised that on a site where there should be a higher than normal concentration of 'above average' computer users, there is always a lot of butthurt over some new (and usually expensive) piece of hardware or software. Someone shooting his kid's soccer game can't really justify an SSD at this point. Someone sitting in a coffee shop wearing pantaloons browsing the web doesn't either.
Some of us do though. I switched from fast HDDs to SSDs for my scratch disks and noticed a considerable speed improvement for batch processing, which made the cost well worth it to me. If I were doing a few dozen vacation pictures from a P&S it wouldn't be worth it though.
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iPhones receive a link to ATT's gateway via SMS when someone sends them an MMS.
ATT's gateway works maybe 4%-5% of the time. Sometimes it reports no pic available, sometimes it just doesn't work and doesn't say why, sometimes it refuses the login credentials.
And speaking of login credentials, they arrive with the SMS. An alphanumeric code of about 8 digits and a concatenation of 2 words to be used as a password. These have to be written down on paper because clicking the link opens Safari but doesn't fill in the credentials, and they aren't exactly easy to remember for the time it takes to open the gateway over Edge/3G.
Flipping back and forth between the SMS app and Safari works, but Apple has built so much lag into the iphone OS that a pencil and paper is faster. That and sometimes the page refreshes and blanks out any characters that have been filled in so you have to start over.
So no, MMS gateways aren't a decent solution and I don't even like MMS.
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That seems to be the popular convention.
We frown on the use of white phosphorous. Several other chemical weapons. Bullet placement by snipers is intended to leave little opportunity for recovery by the target, but it took us forever to get SMK bullets approved, because it was thought to fraqment excessively.
Actually there is a lot, a whole lot.
Anyone who wants good quality page layouts has to wrestle these programs to the ground and force them to do it. Try integrating drawings in your text with Word or OO, it is awful. Word 2003 plants a giant drawing canvas in the middle of the page. Laying out text with graphs and getting anything sensible looking is worse. Ask a typeface geek about typefaces. Ask Edward Tufte if default page layouts are anything approaching decent.
I know the fallback response is that most people don't care, or don't need proper page layout features, but that is just a chicken and egg argument. People have made due so long they no longer recognize the absurdities. Galileo published books in the 1600s that integrated text and pictures better than most modern word processing programs can.
They don't need to become full blown Pagenmaker-esque graphics hybrids, but there is whole lot of room to improve.
I live about 60 miles from Indianapolis, and subjectively I can see about as many stars here as I have in African towns that have no electricity. I haven't spent a lot of nights in the center of the jungle because I prefer to not be killed.
Depite being able to stand in my backyard and see an amount of stars that amazes guests I'm surrounded by adequate roads, ready access to health care facilities, and have been formally educated. Indoor plumbing as well. And 4mb wireless internet. So plenty of the comforts of civilization.
It isn't a requirement that everything civilized must be illuminated all the time. There will always be 24 hour factories and airports and roads that will be, but we light a lot of stupid things as well. A symbol of the housing bust is going to be upward facing exterior lights that allow people to show off their gaudy oversized homes to passersby even at night. At some point Wal-Mart will decide it is too expensive to light their entire lot at 3am when it is only 10% full.
I'd pay 7k for a 30" OLED in a heartbeat.
I don't know that the statistical reality of our individual decisions make as long as we believe them. Plenty if people play the lottery, slot machines, unprotected sex, etc etc. As for pilots being highly trained professionals, some are and some aren't. Feel free to go in about religion though. You seem to be laboring under the illusion that if you post something here people will read it.
I assume they mean Methodist's main campus, since the lump IU in there as well.
If so, there are a couple other hospitals within a few minutes drive by ambulance. It was probably faster for the patient to just go there.
I'm told they called him that for reasons similar to why they nickname big kids "Tiny".
Then why outline the 'keys' at all....just use rows of letters.
I agree that your examples aren't things I would be intereasted in paying for, but I don't see why it is bad that such things are available to those who want them.
There are people willing to pay for decoration in both real life and virtual, so someone is going to try to service that market in some way. I don't understand the mentality but I'm not really affected by its existence.
Having used Apple products for many years now I doubt they will allow the applications they distribute to trick people into buying things. I don't think microtransactions should be held back by the possibility that someone who isn't very bright might unknowingly click through whatever hoops and buy something unintentionally. I don't think games that depend on microtransactions will eliminate those that don't and 'force' every gamer into that model.
But the disclaimer is that I've yet to run into any specific content, games music movies, that absolutely cannot stop myself from consuming despite not liking its price or sales model. Others may have had a different experience.
Small ones are all over the place. Most of the desktop sized digital photo frames I saw last I was in Japan are OLED.
What sort of photography job do you envision doing at some site with some client, where you are using Polariod instant film and camera?
0) There is already a means to punish people who are not safe drivers. It is the insurance industry and they impose financial penalties based on actual evidence of the driving habits of each individual, as opposed to generic statistical inferences and supposition broadly applied to everyone as if everyone were possessed of equal driving skills.