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richwicks says

The photograph above was taken in 2002 or so, brand new technology. The sensor on the Kodak doesn't even exist anymore.

I had an Indian engineer that has worked on imaging hardware in the past. Tell me that every sensor in a digital camera were the exact same. There are only a few manufacturers around the world. Every digital camera used the exact same part. What makes it 1mp vs 12mp is the processor and imaging software embedded in the chip on the camera. That was way back in 2013, I don't know if that is still the case..

Tenpoundbass says

What makes it 1mp vs 12mp is the processor and imaging software embedded in the chip on the camera. That was way back in 2013, I don't know if that is still the case..

I see this as possible.

Tenpoundbass says

I had an Indian engineer that has worked on imaging hardware in the past. Tell me that every sensor in a digital camera were the exact same. There are only a few manufacturers around the world. Every digital camera used the exact same part. What makes it 1mp vs 12mp is the processor and imaging software embedded in the chip on the camera. That was way back in 2013, I don't know if that is still the case..

Not quite. A lot of phones and point-and-shoot cameras do use the same camera capture sensors around the same generation of products (sensor makers' output go through generations every 3-5 years), but the digital SLR's and professional digital video cameras have different sensors, much larger sensors for better signal-to-noise ratio (due to lamda/D quantum limit; wavelength over feature size, the size of each light-trapping pit a "pixel"). It wouldn't make sense for a phone or a P+S camera to have a large sensor that would cost much more money. Also, until 2017, Sony was making CCD sensors of various sizes while Canon was making CMOS sensors of various sizes, before Sony switched to CMOS. IIRC, Canon started making large CMOS sensors back around 2000.

Snail physicists have no explanation, except they don't look older when they get back.

Ok, I am starting to warm up to the quirky new chief engineer in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds:

"I still have a bunker in Vermont in case this whole ‘no-money socialist utopia’ thing turns out to be a fad.”

#NoMoneySocialistUtopiaThing

Patrick says

Put glasses, powder and horn rim glasses on it and it could be a CNN anchor.

We got this text regularly.

It'll take more than 9 volts to get past the vapes and the THC.

Ricky Gervais is on a roll!

Trollhole says

Ok, I am starting to warm up to the quirky new chief engineer in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds:

"I still have a bunker in Vermont in case this whole ‘no-money socialist utopia’ thing turns out to be a fad.”

#NoMoneySocialistUtopiaThing

She did a scene in Princess Bride with Billy Crystal. Glad she's bringing flavor to the show.

Trollhole says

Ok, I am starting to warm up to the quirky new chief engineer in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds:

"I still have a bunker in Vermont in case this whole ‘no-money socialist utopia’ thing turns out to be a fad.”

#NoMoneySocialistUtopiaThing

@Trollhole What episode? I doubt this was said in the show, but I have some time to waste. Tell me, and I'll find out.

I'd be absolutely shocked if anything on television pushed back on this woke bullshit.

richwicks says

I doubt this was said in the show, but I have some time to waste. Tell me, and I'll find out.

It was said. A poke at Gene Roddenberry's socialist bullshit he pushed in TOS and Next Generation. Only in DS9 did they start to make some (light) criticism with it.

I didn't believe it when I heard it first. Had to rewind and play it back 4 or so times. It is also brought up in online reviews already.

Latest episode. Time travel one.

Trollhole says

richwicks says

I doubt this was said in the show, but I have some time to waste. Tell me, and I'll find out.

It was said. A poke at Gene Roddenberry's socialist bullshit he pushed in TOS and Next Generation. Only in DS9 did they start to make some (light) criticism with it.

I didn't believe it when I heard it first. Had to rewind and play it back 4 or so times. It is also brought up in online reviews already.

Latest episode. Time travel one.

Apparently "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow". In any case, I'll watch it to find it.

The idea of Star Trek was a POST scarcity society. The original series was conceived around the idea that all problems of humanity had been solved, and all that humanity was doing was exploring the universe to learn more.

IF we could make something like replicators, it's entirely possible - HOWEVER, the show also assumed the eradication of sociopaths. Criminality was treated as a mental illness. Nobody needed to steal anything or commit any crime, because everybody could have anything they wanted, and humanity was reduced to only intellectual pursuit. Everybody was given equal opportunity, and the people aboard a starship were the brightest and best of humanity. A single starship was able to destroy a planet. Basically, the men that went out were essentially gods even compared to us.

That's why there were such strict regulations on sanity and checking sanity. Ship's doctor could remove the captain.

There was still a capitalist system, but people who worked, were incredibly wealthy. Captain Kirk didn't work. I suppose the only competition that existed was over space.

It's not a communist system, it's a system that can't exist and probably never can exist. It assumed we eliminated criminality in our species and although criminals SOMETIMES showed up, it was rare, and a mental ailment. The whole idea was a utopia of a better future.

In almost every case, any conflict was resolved though co-operation and understanding, but than the Klingons (the USSR) became the enemy du-jour. Devil in the Dark was about a monster lifeform which wasn't actually a monster, but was just protecting it's children from unknowing miners, who didn't realize they were in conflict, and the resolution was cooperation. It was very common theme through the series that diplomacy solved the problem, not violence or force.

Trollhole says

richwicks says

I doubt this was said in the show, but I have some time to waste. Tell me, and I'll find out.

It was said. A poke at Gene Roddenberry's socialist bullshit he pushed in TOS and Next Generation. Only in DS9 did they start to make some (light) criticism with it.

I didn't believe it when I heard it first. Had to rewind and play it back 4 or so times. It is also brought up in online reviews already.

Latest episode. Time travel one.

OK, confirmed, but she's depicted as a nut:



Also, got 30 minutes into it, television is utterly unwatchable to me. Social propaganda is oozing out of it. Push for a one world government is, and even project Blue Beam.

Lol, that's up there with:

"I don't drink anymore. I don't drink any less, either."

Does stuff like this even happen anymore? Seems like the neighborhood vibe, and the generation that played outside is long gone...

Trollhole says

A Nazi cat, no less!

Lol, didn't notice before, but it makes sense. Cats are like that.

Must be a close relative of Jane Fonda.