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Comment Re:Still going strong (Score 1) 422

Um, no it cannot.
Have you not looked at the film gain on ISO800 film? ISO800 is grainy as all hell and only really usable for small prints.
it most certainly CANNOT look like 80MP, its grain size is huge and it wont come close to that.

It is fine to enjoy your process.. but what you are doing is lying.. and that is not good.

for example 'The Canon 1Ds (11MP) is simply superior to 35mm slide film both in grain and detail and is seriously challenging medium format performance.'
and thats at ISO100..

read this, you may learn something (however I suspect you wont, sad..):
http://www.normankoren.com/Tutorials/MTF7.html

Comment Re:The scam was found out (Score 1) 422

Complete and utter bullshit.

A *good* photographer is actually working often - THAT is the different.
There is however a subset of photographers who seem to think that working a few days a month is 'work' and therefore that they
need huge fees for those few days to keep up their lifestyles.... they are fools... the Hipsters of photography.

Once upon a time photography was very different - hours or days were spend developing and processing film. on site you were highly
limited in what you could take, and you could not see the results until after the event, so you HAD to get the right shots - that was
very difficult. These days exactly none of that is true - the work has become MUCH simpler.

Let alone the insanity of photographers thinking they can DEMAND copyright on works created for pay.. what an insult!
do they think that broadcast cameramen keep copyright of the output of their camera when working? how about film cameramen?
are they somehow 'less creative' because their whole output is under consideration not just single frames? It is a huge scam which
would collapse overnight is people would stop falling for it.
IF they want to come along (with permission) at no cost and take photographs and then offer them for sale later, then sure claim
copyright - as they have carried the cost of creation. However they dont! they are (well) paid for their work at the time, so the
copyright of the images created belongs EXACTLY with the people who paid them to create them!

Comment Re:What happened? (Score 2) 422

You, sir, are what we technically refer to an 'an uninformed idiot'
noise is increased by pixel count, as the photosensors become relatively noisier as they become smaller. so your 8mp sensor will have less noise than your 20mp if the sensor area is the same.
As a 4k screen has approximately 8mp anyway, an 8mp sensor is just about right for it. there is no need for more.
The giveaway to your incorrectness is the low light, which increases relative NOISE, nothing else.
with the same sensor size, a modern 8mp sensor will outperform a modern 20mp sensor in low light, easily.
if your sensor sizes are different, then THAT is the issue, not the number of MP.
so, basically, you are completely incorrect and in fact the truth is almost exactly the opposite of what you claim.

Comment Translation... (Score 5, Insightful) 214

Our huge profit margins are not maximized under the current plans, and it means we cannot use our government enforced cartels to force other companies to pay us again for services the end users are already paying for.

Therefore we will 'protest' by selling off an area of the business we have been planning to sell of for normal commercial reasons for quite some time, but using our highly paid group of lobbyists and spin doctors, we will make you think this is bad for you, and therefore change the playing field to make us even more profitable, at your expense.

The sad thing is some people will actually fall for this rubbish.

And the sadder thing is it wont matter if you dont fall for it, because 'campaign contributions' mean they get whatever laws they desire anyway, given enough time and no one peaking behind the curtain.

Welcome to the new world.

Comment Re:My FreeBSD Report: Four Months In (Score 1) 471

Great!

Now, can you please tell me what to edit to change my runlevel in systemd?
It used to be a single line in initd... nice and simple. in systemd........

After all, such an important and core function must be nice and easy, right?
Not looking for a gui that makes a bunch of hidden changes, I need to know what config file entry to change, and need it to
be consistent across different systems so we can automate some admit jobs..

Comment Re:I would rather see 1000 terrorists go free... (Score 2) 562

Good thing your Daughter does what she is told by authority, it should make life MUCH easier for the following type of cops:

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/raped-cop-police-chief-advice-break-law/

Of course, you are good with that, right?
After all, they represent AUTHORITY.
Personally, I would rather teach children what is right than to be good little sheep.

Oh, and about that privacy you still have... you DO realise they catch everyone in their nets right, not just 'the bad people'?
Lets hope someone in a position of authority doesnt decide they want to take you down a peg or two..

Comment Re:Teachers and Nurses? (Score 1) 335

The thing you need to remember is that when feminists talk about the 'gender gap' these days what they MEAN to say is the gap is not large enough.

Women have more choices, more opportunities, better health, longer lives, more social stature, and more support than men.
And THATS NOT ENOUGH!

Once you understand that, things become clearer.
Sad, isnt it.

Comment Answer: (Score 0) 154

Because it is a load of PC navel gazing pseudo-religious bullshit?

Just a guess, but hey.

Could it be any clearer that this is a bunch of 'oh my god the sky is falling!' anti nuclear scaremongers desperately
trying to create a shred of link between unclear power (by FAR the least damaging base load power producer EVER)
and some idea of 'mankinds rape of our our beloved earth mother'?

Other than that particularly transparent attempt at politicalisation, the particular date seems basically stupid, it certainly
marks no major change in behaviour, society structure, technical capability (hint, use of radioactives, or even fission
didnt start then..)... Hell, the invention of the first computer could be considered far more important, or international public
networks, or about 10 dozen other developments that have global impact.

And if they want an accurate date marker, ffs, astronomy is well known as THE method, not BS approximate soil sampling.

Or are they childish enough to think that with modern land development approaches (burying waste, earthworks for construction, etc)
that soil strata are work a shit for any future research?

Hmmm..

Comment Re:How could this all happen? (Score 3, Insightful) 257

Could you please let me know which Govt Department I go to in France to apply for the location I am allowed to live in?
I seem to be having trouble finding it - hell - last time I was there I just lived where I damn well wanted to and could afford..
Lucky I wasnt tracked down, I assume the penalty for living in the wrong place ispretty damn severe!

Oh, sorry, you mean you were talking figuratively, not literally? or some BS excuse like that?
Do you realise that the rhetoric you are spouting here is almost EXACTLY from the playbook of pre-soviet communism?
Didnt work out too well then either, for those who believed it.. unless you consider life under stalinist russia, or maoist
china to have worked out well for minorities (and I DO suggest you go and find out what did happen to them..).

In the end there is a certainly small percentge of ALL populations who will take up any excuse to do bad things.
They are (some of) the rapists, the murderers, the arsonists, you get the idea...
These particular ones just grabbed on a different excuse for their actions. Its not the voices in their heads, its not because
society forced them to, its not to compensate for what their parents did to them, its to 'avenge their religion', and its about
as BS as the other reasons - but these kinds of people will always find a reason.

THAT is the important thing to remember. This is no more 'Islam' than the crusaders were 'Christian' (even less so as it is not
state sponsored). It is the scumm of humanity doing what they have always done.

And, unfrotunately, there is no law you can pass, no restructions you can place, no force you can empower to stop it.
the best you can do is EDUCATE PEOPLE, and stop assuming that every nasty little arsehole is actually a wonderful
person who just needs love and support to help them bloom. Some of them are just nasty little arseholes.

Comment Re:Prepare for more (Score 0) 257

So, perhaps then you can explain how the firebombing of dresden worked out so well and got the germans to surrender?

Moron.

The Japanese didnt capitulate, their leaders decided to because they didnt want that much of their own blood on their hands.
Point to the leaders who will be surrendering in the middle east?

Such efforts have been well studies, and attacking a population results in one thing - giving them stronger resolve.

Bloodshed has never EVER conquered a people, idiot.

Comment Re:42 minutes (Score 1) 300

Just in case you dont realise, the reason for that have absolutely NOTHING to do with technical or economic issues.

And if you think any similar issues are the main problem with tunneling through the core of the planet, may I suggest looking at a preschool picture of 'the inside of a planet'? you see that red stuff? ......

Comment Re: Chicago schools (Score 1) 169

Yes, they are. They are being fired, because paranoid parents assume that all male teachers are rapists, and schools are doing nothing to prevent that perception.
(and of course ignoring the amount of female teachers committing rape, both statutory and direct).

Of course that is only part of the problem, the fact is that Male and Female teachers take different approaches, which is why having both is so important.
And the 'educationalists' have a large bias to the Female approach (mostly because most of them are female).

Pull your head out of the closet and have a look at the teacher gender split figures, they are, shall we say, enlightening.

Comment Re:Chicago schools (Score 2) 169

This, exactly this, and not just in the US, in pretty much every westernised education system.

Add to that of course addressing the HUGE gender imbalance in teaching (where is the effort to get more male teachers? yeah right,
they are being actively removed...)

Schools have become comfortable little fiefdoms with a dirty mixture of self interest, paranoia, and financial incest. The system needs to be stripped open
and scrubbed clean.

Once upon a time we had a media who would do the hard yards to achieve such things. Once..

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