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We all know our leader Vitaly, from one way or another for good or bad, he and his team has manage to keep up one of the most interesting forums sites camera related and tech stuff, and all the internet. We all know PV it it's something special. Nor good or bad it's just special.

So poll is something different.

How you persive our current Leader from the inside. You know.. That black rock he calls heart. Lol just kidding.

So is he : Grumpy cat or good pony

Let's gets started.

Also we don't know your birthday Vitaly! May be fun have some presents from forum members.

The Qualcomm Centriq 2400 processor, based on the Qualcomm Falkor CPU, QDT’s own Armv8-based custom CPU core design, delivers leading-edge aggregate performance, as shown by SPECint_rate20062 score estimates. These scores are based on the open source gcc compiler, using -O2 flags, consistent with how cloud developers compile their own code.

The Qualcomm Centriq 2400 delivers better performance per watt than competing x86 server processors4. We’ve taken a typical Qualcomm Centriq 2460 processor and run SPECint_rate2006, measuring the average power for each sub-test. All tests ran at the full 2.6 GHz peak frequency. As a first-order view, the average (both mean and median) power of those measurements was 65W. Running the same test on an Intel Xeon Platinum 8176, which has similar SPECint_rate2006 performance when compiled with gcc -O2, the power we measured was significantly higher — running at 100% of its 165W thermal design power (TDP) and burning over 2.5x as much electricity for similar performance!

The Qualcomm Centriq 2400 processor delivers a phenomenal performance-per-dollar. With a list price5 of $1,995, the 48-core Qualcomm Centriq 2460 processor delivers 4X better performance-per-dollar versus Intel’s highest-performance Skylake processor, the Intel Xeon Platinum 8180. With a list price of $1373, the 46-core Qualcomm Centriq 2452 processor offers 3X better performance-per-dollar versus Intel Xeon Gold 6152. And, with a list price of $888, the 40-core Qualcomm Centriq 2434 processor offers 2X better performance-per-dollar versus Intel Xeon Silver 41166.

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2017/11/08/qualcomm-centriq-2400-worlds-first-10nm-server-processor

Capitalism has proven most resourceful. Population growth ha no doubt aided in its growth. Yet there is also a geographical dimension to its sucess, as noted famously by Henry Lefebvre (1991) and David Harvey (1982). In other words, through the production of space (e.g., Harvey), as witnessed through decreases in transportation and communication costs and the instant exchange of information between nodes located all around the world. These expansionistic tendencies take both intensive (e.g., new infraestructure investments in cities already involved in capitalistic modes of production) and extensive (investments in areas not yet enveloped in the logic of capital) forms (Sewell 2008). Yetm as Marx and Engels (1967) noted so long ago, these tendencies produce contradictions, which must be resolved in some form so as not to derail the circulation of capital. And therein lays capitalism's transformational engine, in these contradictions/tensions that it then "resolves". This has allowed capitalism to continue on the tracks without (yet?) a major derailing of its logics.

Marx and Engels predicted that eventually such tensions would become too much for capitalism: "The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very fundation on which the burgeoisie produces and appropriates productions. What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers" (Marx and Engels 1978: 483). The (first) contradiction is overproduction - that eventually there will simply be too much stuff and not enough people able to buy it all. More recently, James O'Connor (1998) has written about what he calls the second contradiction of capital. While the contradiction discussed by Marx and Engels centers on a crisis on the demand side, for O'Connor capitalism will, over time, witness a crisis on the supply side. This under-production will occur as industry and state - both which are directed by the logics of capital - fail to protect the conditions of production, namely, the environment. "Put simply", in the words of O'Connor (1998: 245), "the second contradiction states that when individual capitals attempt to defend or restore profits by cutting or externalizing costs, the unintended effect is to redue the 'productivity' of the conditions of production".

To be clear, I am not looking to rewrite Marx nor am I hoping to challenge or contradict others extensions of his thought. There is an impeccable logic embedded within these grave-digger arguments. But I cannot help wonder if there is something else 0 if you will, something "deeper" - that unites these contradictions into a single conceptual thread. It seems to m at least that capitalism would have painfully short existence were it not for our readiness to mistake its abstract "objects" for the concrete. The link between object-ification and O'Connor's argument is fairly easy to state. Breaking up the world into "decontextualized, dissociated and detached" commodities (Callon 1998: 19) reduces the productivity of the conditions of production because this process fragments something that fundamentally is not fragmented (see e.g., Levins and Lewontin 1994). And with each "object" new tensions arise (whereby the productivity of the conditions of production are threatened), which in turn brings about new objects (and new tensions), and so forth.

Capital has thus far acted with amazing speed at turning these tensions into sources of profits. William Sewell (2008: 525) describes this ability as follows:

"The occurrence of events in social life, of unexpected happenings of any sort, is for capital above all an opportunity for new sources of profit. As the profitability of existing investments declines or stagnates, there are always alert capitalists scanning the horizon for new, more profitable investments. It is this eternal alertness of capital for higher profit that drives both the business cycle (because the enthusiastic pursuit of new possibilities of gains results time and again in overinvestment) and capitalism's continual expansion (as new geographical, technological, social, and cultural patterns open the possibility for extending capitalist money-making practices into ever new sites)."

Decentering Biotechnology: Assemblages Built and Assemblages Masked By Professor Michael S Carolan

https://books.google.com.br/books?id=Yul6BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT97&lpg=PT97&dq=Antinutrients+and+capitalism&source=bl&ots=tmzgVa5nZO&sig=A4wkljZaUfEysWQ8my286NOSQHg&hl=pt-BR&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYzeTXgZ7XAhUEiJAKHdNMCfcQ6AEIMzAC#v=onepage&q=Antinutrients%20and%20capitalism&f=false

Upper pages seems more porridge related and are also very interesting.

The movie was shot with Arri Alexa with a 2k editing, so I perceived that the image was a little bit soft in the big 4k screen, mainly in wide scenes.

If IMAX cinema theater is native 4k projectors, why these big productions with lots of money are still using Arri Alexa with 2k editing and upscaling footage?

I think a 4k Lumix camera would look much better in IMAX.

https://gizmodo.com/5250780/how-regular-movies-become-imax-films

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4649466/technical?ref_=tt_dt_spec

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX#DMR_.28Digital_Media_Remastering.29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal

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The United Nations’ aviation agency is backing the creation of a single global drone registry, as part of broader efforts to come up with common rules for flying and tracking unmanned aircraft.

While the International Civil Aviation Organization cannot impose regulations on countries, ICAO has proposed formation of the registry during a Montreal symposium this month to make data accessible in real time, said Stephen Creamer, director of ICAO’s air navigation bureau.

The single registry would eschew multiple databases in favor of a one-stop-shop that would allow law enforcement to remotely identify and track unmanned aircraft, along with their operator and owner.

Shits.

How dare we attempt to educate our doctors about the truth behind most disease or do anything that might challenge the meat and pharma industry!

I complained a month ago with these words: "Entry to short film competition (link to approval email picture) where it was accepted. Artistic film based on comic http://tonalt.kapsi.fi/paskajuttu/1.jpg and contains potty humor, but poo is fake."

I haven't received response.

Sure there's fake poo and fart noises, but really, delete because of toilet humor?

What can I do?

I uploaded the video now to vimeo:

I just watched Okja, which I enjoyed until I couldn't stand the discrepancy between "Fuck corporations" and the entire movie being an apple commercial anymore. Also Mr Robots subversive "Fuck big money" - [produced by non other than amazon.](thats wrong, see edit) I enjoy the content very very much, but I have the feeling of being dulled. "Give Tim subversive shit, he likes that, then he stays calm." Ok, this is old news. But but there must be a system behind this. I never wanna have goosebumps again from something that is fed to me by straight up capitalists.

Edit: ok, I was misled, in Germany Mr. robot is published by amazon, I think they had a label "Amazon Studios" or similar on, which led me to believe this was produced by them. Still valid post though.

Remakes can be included, but that's just the easy way in... maybe if they're remakes (you think) are better than it's progenitalia...

BIG SPOILERS!!!

Ok, so Christopher Priest wrote The Prestige in 1995. Much before Nolan's adaptation to screen, 2006, in Eduardo Mignogna's film La Fuga (Argentinian-spanish co-production) from 2001 you can see the doubles trick (same Christian Bale used later ) used in a very intelligent way by the poker player crak Víctor Gans. La fuga is based in director's novel with same name from 1999. Did Eduardo Mignogna knew Priest's book??? Eduardo Mignogna never got to see The prestige as he died that same year

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It is like new and was one third of the store price.

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But what does the word Professional even mean today?

You will read on lots of forums that this word means:

• A person that makes their living by doing that activity

However as a videographer myself, I find that this is very misleading on more than one level:

What I understand this word to mean from discussion with other people:

• Does that job every day, and strives to better themselves in that one activity
• Specialises in that one activity (DOP, Sound Recordist, camera person etc)
• Buys "Professional gear" and knows how to use it

Dictionary definition:

• Engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as an amateur. "a professional boxer"

Yet: Professional Gear is:

• With a few exceptions very well build
• Forgiving in situations of misuse (think about overexposing an Alexa v's GH4/5 or using an audio recorder without analog limiters)
• Allows higher quality capture of source material
• Follows loose industry professional standards (think of SDI, PL-Mount etc)
• Expensive

However in the life of a videographer, there is no possible way to be Professional at all the activities that encompass that job.

As a videographer you need to have an understanding of:

• Lighting (Key lighting, Fill lighting, Negative Fill etc)
• Camera setup
• Lens selection
• Shot framing
• Audio recording
• (in my case I also do Music & SFX)
• Data wrangling
• Video Editing
• Color Grading (even fundamentals)
• Video Encoding

Sure a person could possibly be a Professional Videographer. But that same person does not do Video Editing every day. Nor Lighting every day. They may do it twice a week or so.

Getting back to Professional gear, it looks like Professional gear is actually easier to use, as it will be more robust, and more forgiving of on-set mistakes. (which do happen).

I think that this word Professional should be phased out, and possibly something else used.

Think of it like this, if you are a Baker, you don't call yourself a Professional Baker.