Happy new year. Hope it’s as fun, productive and dramatic as 2005.
Thinking back, we got to play thumbs. Eat random birthday cakes. Burn stuff. Play some guitar. Go too fast on bikes. Laugh at poor chinese skillz. Drink a lot of grey goose. Help out strangers. Flask. Lots of trips to austin. Cook. Get really behind on pictures. Watch the home team! Stay behind on pictures. Laugh. Chill w/ new and old friends.
Enjoy the festivities tonight!
http://www.envtox.ucdavis.edu/cehs/TOXINS/acetalc.htm
Tylenol + ethenol = liver failure
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18825295.000
So the lesson is? Drink lots of dihydrogen monoxide before you pass out so you won’t need to take headache medicine in the morning. Oh, and don’t OD on painkillers like Michael does with Advil.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0512/05121201new_chips.asp
A couple of professors at the University of Rochester in NY have developed some interesting technologies for future CMOS imaging devices:
* Extremely low power feedback design
* Increased dynamic range, by a factor of 100
* New compression scheme which utilizes a new pixel arrangement on the chip allows for a fraction of the processing power needed by current chips
We may be seeing 1/3″ and 2/3″ sensors having ISO1600 and above sensitivities with noise levels at that of current DSLR levels in the future.
* Close to one in four (28%) of HDTV owners reported that they did not get any special equipment from their service provider to watch HDTV channels because the picture quality was already improved with the purchase of an HDTV.
* 23% of HDTV owners did not invest in special equipment to watch HDTV channels because a message at the beginning of the programs they watch tells them that those programs are being broadcast in HD.
* Nearly one in five (18%) reported that they believed the HD television would give them high-definition channels without additional equipment.
From ars.
Turns out this first version sucks.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/aperture.ars
* No curves
* Raw conversion output sucks
* histogram gives false information by taking a smoothed sample of file
* strips EXIF info on export
* slow as molasses
* retarded library database
* expensive
Kinda like a 1.0 release of most any Microsoft product. Buggy and doesn’t work. Good job Apple.