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I'm sorry, this wasn't the precise article that I thought it was. Here are the exact quotes:

"20 years from now we can re-scan our film and get 2029-level image quality."

...

"You can't go back to a raw file and get more resolution. With film, you don't have to make a resolution decision until you scan it.

With film, you can scan at any resolution. With film, you can scan it again in 30 years with whatever technology we have then, because you still have your original raw image captured alive and well."

...

"Real Raw needs no noise reduction.

Details and textures are always crisp and clear on film."

From: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/real-raw.htm
I'm sure this can be patched after manufacture--the logic is probably on a flash prom. I would hope the dealership takes care of this during a regular service.
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Assuming frictionless rope, pulleys, non-stretchable rope, etc. etc., and assuming the system is at rest, with weights on the ground.

The tension (call it T) in the rope is the force that is acting on each pulley; since the rope is wrapped around all pulleys exactly once, the force applied to every weight is 2T (assuming the fixed pulleys attached to the ceiling aren't going anywhere). If 2T isn't larger than the force of gravity for any one of the weights, then nothing is going to happen. If the man applies enough force (T), the first weight to lift up is the weight whose force of gravity (mass times g) is exceeded by 2T. Since the force of gravity is proportional to the mass, the weights do indeed matter; the lightest weight rises first.
Just look at how much detail there is in all that film grain.
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Too bad you can't link directly to his comment.
"The car is not at home" anyway ;)
I would start with getting success quotes and images on your desk. Buy some good cheerful songs, watch some Jerry McGuire like films, read a couple of spiritual books, do some excercise. If still depressed go to a therapist to get yourself straight again and get your mojo back, laugh a lot!!
I think this is one of the most important points:

"That said, they can also find support for their ideas in the mainstream media—because when the mainstream media gives a so-called balanced view, it’s often misleading. The media thinks that because one side says climate change is real and dangerous, the other view is that it’s not real and not dangerous. That doesn’t reflect the fact that something like 98 percent of climate scientists agree that global warming is real and dangerous. And this happens with everything from genetically modified foods to evolution."

It is not just in science. It is in everything, including politics. The (modern) concept of the unbiased view has turned into a "ask both sides of the argument". Which can work when (say) you are in an election campaign. But take a scientist and a charismatic charlatan: the scientist tries to give the right view (with all the ifs and buts) and the charlatan gives a appealing and simple to understand story... though completely wrong. I don't blame the reader/viewer for not being persuaded by the scientist.

The idea that, for example, a group of us could join forces and argue that the oil spill is really a good thing for the biology of the mexican gulf, and we would be given equal time with the guy who's done 10 years of study in it... that does not help the viewer.

The journalist seem to have forgotten their role of gatekeepers, and fact checking. They seem to be just there repeating verbatim what he or she says: sure, it makes their job easier, but it really doesn't help their readership.
I think most people can at least tell the difference between good and bad quality. Average/medium is slightly harder, so it might be more useful to group medium with high.

For the most part, the entries look accurate to me. I noticed a lot of variance in California as well, I'm wondering if thats because some people are buying legally (medical), some not. My hypothesis is that the overall price should drop from before, but now we have two different supply and demand graphs because the number of licenses for buying and growing is limited.
As a Nikon D40 owner, I strongly disagree with your points. Its 6M pixels have more warmth and life on my pictures than any other higher MP camera I've come across. Also, Ken's argument includes many other angles, such as the lightweight and practicality of this camera, not just the MP comparisons.

As far as infinite resolution on the film: any analog source can be sampled at increasingly higher resolutions, and at some point it will be virtually indistinguishable from the original. However, higher res samples will always have more data from the source, though marginally less useful. Based on this, you can definitely state that film has infinite resolution.
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OT: We're so used to tech buzzwords that sometimes we don't realize our secret language sounds odd. Just look at the title of this post literally. It's pretty hilarious.
>>Fail #4 - obviously commercially inspired music recommendations are obviously lametastic.

Is this the best critique of Ping HN could find, a poorly written, rage-infused, explitive-riddled rant fest that one would expect to be found on digg?

Ping came out 2 bloody days ago! Who would expect that every niche artist would be on this thing not even 48 hours in? I'm very impressed with the mix they got on board pre-launch. Give it a couple of days.

By the way, how many users did Myspace, FB, or Twitter have 2 days in? Let's use our heads here, folks.
The only one of these that bothers me at all is the dearth of artists on the network. But that alone is plenty fatal. I guess I'll try it again in a month and see how uptake is then.

I'd say it's extremely premature to say it will fail, though. But I guess tech pundits love to jump to conclusions based on opening day impressions.
They must have hung out in cute downtown Palo Alto most of the time, because it is full of strip malls
I've got one of the Verizon Mifi's but grandfathered into their unlimited data plan (had several previous generations of Verizon USB devices) for $65/month.

I'm very happy with it. For example, I can take the train from Pittsburgh to NYC with full connectivity all the way, which is pretty amazing. Works well on the East coast and on the West. (Avoids paying ridiculous hotel wifi charges; the more expensive the hotel, the higher the charge.)

And I use it when I'm in my remote office (near-beach house) in CT as my main line. Can't really do VOIP, but otherwise it's fine (1+ Mb/s).
Not even remotely. The luminous landscape comparisons were complete rubbish.

The best prints that I've seen from digital imagers, including modern full-frame 35mm digital cameras, look miserably blurry if you approach the print closely enough to read the caption. From 15 feet away, they look nice and sharp... my prints from 4x5 look every bit as sharp from 15 feet away until you stick your nose on the print -- and all you keep finding is more detail.

The other thing that the digital fanputzes ignore is that with the exception of the Foveon, DIGITAL SENSORS ARE MONOCRHOMATIC. They invent most of their color information through interpolation because THEY CANNOT RECORD COLOR.

If you want high ISO ability, digital rules the roost. If you want fast turnaround, you go with digital. If you want the best color and maximal detail, you use film -- the bigger the better.

Even Jack Dykinga, who switched to using multiple exposures stitched together for his commercial work, says that for fine art images, he still uses 4x5 film, because not even stitching 15-20 full 35mm frame digital images together can match an image from a 4x5 sheet film, especially if you use a drum scanner.
I made the same experience, especially when I discovered jQuery and other cross-browser libraries.

Before, most scripts went along the document.write(document.lastModified);-line. And if I remember correctly, not even that worked in all browsers correctly. Made me give up rather quick.
Keeping this in mind makes me extremely grateful that it's only in ITMS and not in my library. I don't want or need another social network, least of all one welded onto my personal music collection.
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No permission. It would be pretty evil to secretly keep track of iTunes users and then secretly reveal a social network based on that.

They could use Genius data... which then makes me wonder why they didn't.
The airplane on the conveyor belt is more interesting in this respect, in that different people have different ideas about how the question should be interpreted.

For this question, I think everyone will agree on the likely expected assumptions. Incidentally, the mass of the rope doesn't affect the answer so long as it's uniform, and the mass of the pulleys doesn't matter so long as the pulleys directly attached to the weights all have the same mass. And once you assume the pulleys are frictionless, their moment of inertia doesn't affect the answer either.
I have been making the point lately that the stories that are killed -- either by autokill or by editors -- should be updated with a hint about why the kill happened. I don't want to help spammers figure out how to spam HN more. But I am convinced that it's possible to give people who are making legitimate attempts to post an idea about what they did wrong.

The way things are, the leadership of HN is creating a chilling, authoritarian atmosphere. I fear for the future of HN enough to keep making this point.
Netflix can get a customer in perpetuity at $9-$15.

Much higher than that, it becomes a budget item that's scrutinized once a month, twice a year, or when times get tough.

I canceled cable with enthusiasm because it saved me $50 a month. I look at the value I get for $10 from Netflix, and it's clear that canceling it would be a mistake.

If it was $20, I'd cancel it. Instead, they have me forever and ever.
It has been slow for me of late.
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Neither of them is really accepted. Scientists might have a preference toward one or the other, but so far they both have inconsistencies.
It should be noted that at 80kg, Fabian Cancellara is considered much too heavy to ever win a grand tour. He is spectacularly fast on the flat because he is only slightly less aerodynamic than a much smaller and less powerful man, but he is quickly overpowered on a mountain stage by lighter riders.
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I loved these pulley problems in statics.

Assume the weights are resting on a surface, the pulleys and rope are massless, the pulleys are frictionless, and the system is maintained in quasi-equilibrium as the rope is pulled (steady state & small accelerations). In this case, the tension T in the rope is constant everywhere. Now, take a horizontal section through the ropes. ("Cut" them and replace the missing portions of the rope with the tension.) Each weight is experiencing an upward force of 2T.

When 2T >= 20, or T = 10, weight A begins to rise. Once a hits a stop, T must be increased to just above 20 to get Weight B to rise. Similarly, T just above 30 causes C to rise after B stops.

The "trick" with these pulley problems is to section the problem through the cables and show the tension, T. Then you've just got free body problems, in this case subject to the floor constraint.

Oh, also, while the first weight is being lifted, the floor beneath weight B experiences 40 - 20 = 20 units of force, and the floor under C experiences 60 - 20 = 40 units of force. Once B is lifted, the floor under C experiences 60 - 40 = 20 units of force. (Presuming that the labels are weights, and not masses.)
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I can't do with digital what I do with film... the technology in its current state is simply too limiting.
Oh I don't know ...questioning their conclusions? Participating in a healthy debate? The impression (which may be wrong) was that Simon was advocating trust just because a scientist may hold a degree or may have joined with other scientists in agreement.
That's precisely why I sometimes use it. And that running code through another compiler can sometimes highlight issues that went previously unnoticed.
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Film is an artistic eccentricity, like a writer using a manual typewriter or a guitarist using a beaten-up '58 Strat. It's an indulgence you can only afford if you don't have deadlines to meet or a client paying by the hour.
I don't disagree with this, but I think that customer 'laziness' is really just people relying on what they know, and is something that can be shifted. Marketing may never uplift anything, nor can it. However, it can influence how people perceive something new.

Marketing, if done well, can transform a radical design or idea into a positive, must-have device. I hate to keep using apple, but I can't think of another company that does this as well as they do.

Marketing on the product development end of things, however, is another story. On this side it is certainly true that marketing, unfortunately, seems to rule and often produces lack-luster, pedestrian results.
I see what you mean but I think you are overlooking how easy it is to muddy the waters. You come up with a good evidence of evolution. Great: but it will take the anti-evolution just one guy that makes a somehow plausible alternative scenario, or finds one whole in your argument and suddenly people are back to square one.

Despite we are _not_ back on square one. Between a theory that almost works (like evolution) and one that is pure conjecture, the fact that there's a whole in the former all it shows is that we need to improve the theory.

It is the same thing in climate modelling. It takes a nobody to say something which sound somehow plausible for the scientist to need to prove themselves again, often taking several years and a lot of effort. Most scientist, including at the IPCC, do describe hypothetical scenarios with all their doubts, including error bars etc... They also state all their assumptions, and their full method.

Then one guy says: "Hey, it's been crazy cold in England this winter... so much for global warming", or "between 2001-2002 the global temperature went down" and suddenly everyone feel they are back to "we don't know". But why? The data from the IPCC is the result of many different models, with many different assumptions. The opposition has provided no better model: all they need to do to keep the status quo is point out some small unknown or flaw. That's WRONG!

And btw, climate science is possibly one of the hardest disciplines around: you are making a prediction in the future of a chaotic system. But the anti-science groups can find objections just as easily to pretty much any bit of science they dislike.
The spam filter on GMail seems to work well enough.
Here is why ping will fail:

I heard about it a couple of days ago, but never really gave it much thought because, honestly, I don't really even know what it is for. Streaming music? Better than grooveshark? Not likely if its run by Apple.

After seeing this article (and the one directly below it as of right now), I decided I should check it out.

Hmmm...do I go to ping.com (no, because I'm pretty sure that ping golf clubs aren't going to sell their domain), or apple.com/ping? No, that says "the page you're looking for cannot be found".

Okay, then, duckduckgo it is! Hmm...apple.com/itunes/ping, that is a lot to type...stupid move, apple, whatever.

click

Annnndddd...nothing? I have to launch iTunes to even see what this is?

iTunes, right, the software that won't let me play half of my audio files because Apple refuses to allow flac?

So I have to get out my laptop, open it, launch itunes, then figure out how to get to ping?

The barrier to entry, at least for me, is way to high.
If my comparisons are rubbish, post better ones. This is HN, not Reddit. Cite your sources.
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Same question from my side, where would I have to send my CV?
Hum... yellow car. I entered Camaro told it was wrong. Was it a Chevelle? Are you using a semantic dictionary to decide if the answer was right or wrong or a predefined word list?
I just blogged about this. Early this year I played around with the open source code on the Wave protocol site, but "play" is the active word here: I did nothing practical with it.

Although I never used Wave's web UI very much, I did find writing Wave robots interesting and potentially very useful.

I was disappointed when Google recently announced their phasing out support of Wave but today's announcement that they are completing the open source project to the point of its being a complete system is very good news.
Am I the only one here who thinks scotch acts as an appetite suppressant? Scotch reduces my hunger in a way that beer or wine doesn't.
About your last quote, I think what we need is to have scientist dedicated to the communication side of science: aka scientific journalists. I know there are a few, but we need a lot more, and like many bits of science they'll need to be sometimes paid with public money.

This seems to me the only way that you can keep the scientist working on the science, and still answer all the questions that people have. Basically large groups need their own public relation department. :)
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It really depends on the type of recommendation engine being used. Pandora tries to match by sound - matching similar sounding works. Other engines rely on people and the relationships that are formed based on what everybody likes. The problem with these recommendation engines is that new music (in this case) really need to be seeded first before they'll start showing up in lists.
Simon might be a shining example of the un-scientist (smart but able to talk to real people) but the article didn't portray him this way. My comment about history and wisdom was based on my own experiences as I get older. When someone is young and smart, they tend to debate with such passion it blinds them from listening to the opposing viewpoint and working to a resolution. Scientists need to learn to communicate and convert the non-believes (bad word I know) without falling back on "I'm smarter and hold more degrees so I must be right". Lay the evidence on the table, hold a debate, and listen. The most important being the listen part. Sure you can dismiss the ignorant, but not in a society where the ignorant make decisions that effect all of us. I'm rambling now ... off to the next reply.
Well, finding the best word for a given tile rack played on a given position can be expressed staggeringly simply in Haskell. I'm just wondering if there's some clever way to store and search a whole board without getting into something messy and halfway-imperative. Something that can be expressed as mostly a composition of simple library functions.

Plus, I've always had issues with multidimensional structures -- I can never quite settle on what's the most intuitive way to express them.
Maybe it's just that they have set up the wrong expectations. I certainly didn't expect that artists would have to be _users_ of Ping. I thought they'd just sort of be there as, you know, artists.
that's a great idea!
talking about comment spam here.
Hi,
I just connected to your website and the first "bafflebot" submit to me is "what is this character's name" (a yellow bird) I'm from France, I dont know all the US kid cartoons so I cant answer to that captcha.. Whereas 1+2 or "enter the word" is pretty universal.

Second try, I have in front of me a red apple with legs and arms and the question is "what is it?"
The question is wayyyyy to broad, what should I answer? is it another cartoon that I'm not aware of? is it an apple? a red apple?...

A captcha must be VERY simple and universal.

I read a few months ago a good captcha idea, a picture of a human and the challenge is to say if it's a man or a female. A bot cant read the picture well enough, but the human eye/brain is trained to identify a man or a female in less than a second!

My 2cents, good luck with your project. I agree captcha generally sucks
bump - open up the sign in process !
And for a rather different take on science-as-religion, try A Canticle for Leibowitz.
I disagree. The compelling reason Apple would enter the social space was to inform their customers about artists they don't already know about. To contend that Apple isn't interested in the ClearChannel listener is exactly wrong. In Apple's ideal world, ClearChannel doesn't even have a reason to exist. Their goal should be to expose artists and music that their customers haven't already heard about, in order to encourage them to buy their music.