Just grabbed a digital camera today at Fry's. A Samsung Digimax 430, 4.0 MP camera for $229! I thought it was a pretty good deal.

Here's some of the first pictures...

The cats...

(Tiger)


(Smokey)


The computer... (recently rebuilt as SFF Shuttle PC)









Coming soon, pictures of me and some other stuff...

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The Matrix is not Linux compatible.

maby it's couse i've only had like 6 hours of sleep in the past 36, but that bed looks verry comfortable.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE PLEASE READ

Employees dying on the job are faling to fall down. THIS PRACTICE MUST STOP as it becmes impossible to distinguish between death and the natural movement of he staf.

Any employee found dead in an upright position will be dropped from the payroll.

Sounds like Elana likes someone.

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"It's OK for us to randomly attack people!"
-BV

It IS a very comfortable bed.

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The Matrix is not Linux compatible.

Nice keyboard... I got the same one, love it

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The Massassi-Map
There is no spoon.

How the hell can you afford all that crap?!?!


Nice stuff, Camera quallity sucks. its all Dithered.

My 2 MP looks even better then that, How odd.

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Signature.

*so original*

That "dithering" is just texture, something real world objects have a lot more of than objects in video games.

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Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.

No, Its the noise.

Don't you see it? Turn your gamma to 2.0, you'll see it.

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Signature.

*so original*

Um, hello, it's called jpeg compression.

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I check my e-mail.

[This message has been edited by Mystic0 (edited April 25, 2004).]

Thats crappy JPG compression.

Photoshop does a much better job without doing that crap.

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Signature.

*so original*

VERY nice, me likes.

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Photoshop also produces huge Jpeg files.

You know there is a detail slider in photoshop. It's a tradeoff between quality and size.

This, however, is usually irrelevent, as most cameras use jpeg compression internally. This is most unfortunate; they do this so they can sell a camera that holds x number of pictures. It would be ideal to use a lossless format, such as PNG, instead of a lossy method like JPEG.

I suppose that a typical customer just wants to e-mail their photos to their friends, on the other hand.

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I check my e-mail.

/me kicks ober in the throat.

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There are two asses in Massassi... and I'm one of them.
The Matrix Unplugged|My Portfolio|My Levels

I think it's pretty good quality, but maybe that's just me.

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The Matrix is not Linux compatible.

I dig that flat screen. Hell yeah.
How much does one of those things set you back? (the flat screen)

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«»The Scratchware Manifesto
-¬thoughts from beyond observance

I'm interested to know what the shiny silver thing with green lights is.

Is it an infra-red mouse port by any chance?

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"This next song is called- Where the **** is Jeordie White?" ~Maynard James Keenan

[This message has been edited by Acharjay (edited April 26, 2004).]

png isn't lossless. it just uses a different method of compression. jpeg uses patterns in noise and texture to produce a smaller image, png uses areas of solid colour. As a result, jpeg is ideal for photos and png is ideal for webgraphics (since webgraphics tend to be more cartoony).

Yeah, a lossless method

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG

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"Music is the universal language and the
dialect we speak in is Hip Hop!" - King Solomon

[This message has been edited by Molgrew (edited April 26, 2004).]

png in it's basic format is lossless, but it's almost useless unless you perform some palette optimizations because it produces files twice as large as a jpeg with the lowest compression settings.

On a quick test I did on a webcam image (it captures in bmp not jpeg) I got the following results.

BMP: 900kb
JPEG (compression level 1 - minimum): 70kb
JPEG (compression level 10): 25kb
*JPEG (compression level 99 - maximum): 2.5kb - looks like crap
PNG (highest possible quality, full pallete) - 176kb
*PNG (256 colour pallete) - 114kb

Now for a test on a webgraphic-style cartoon image:

BMP - 223kb
JPEG (compression level 1 - minimum) - 33.6kb
JPEG (compression level 10 - 16.5kb
*JPEG (compression level 99 - maximum) - 1.24kb
PNG (highest possible quality, full pallete) - 39kb
PNG (256 colour pallete) - 20.9kb

* indicates a test resulting in visible artifacts

Actually, it seems png just sucks However from past experience with png, i've managed to get good results out of png for website designs, but jpeg is always the format of choice for photos.

[This message has been edited by DeTRiTiC-iQ (edited April 26, 2004).]

The point i'm making is that png can't guarantee smaller file sizes on all images, the quality of compression varies greatly depending on the subject of the image. I always tend to use JPEG compression 10 for photos and the like and it saves a lot of space. As a result, it's pretty obvious why jpeg is used (instead of something like png) for digital cameras where filesize is an important consideration.

Camera manufacturers need to be able to guarantee that a camera with Xmb of memory can always hold Y photos.

About $630 when I got it six monthes ago.



Close, wireless mouse/keyboard base station. Doesn't work on infrared though. It's also a cradle to hold and recharge the mouse so you don't have to replace the batteries in it.

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The Matrix is not Linux compatible.

I asked my friend Kris about the quality, he had this to say:



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The Matrix is not Linux compatible.

I love my flatscreen. The only thing that would make it better would be a little apple logo.

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free mp3 ~Jump - Young America

new album comes out April 20th

besides, it's a 4 MegaPixil camera, just think of how nice that would be to look at when not compressed, i'd say at least 2048x16(blah)

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