Breakthrough in boosting photo quality [SMH]:

Eastman Kodak said it has developed a colour-filter technology that at least doubles the sensitivity to light of the image sensor in every digital camera, enabling shutterbugs to take better pictures in poor light.

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The new method, which has been under development for more than five years, adds "panchromatic" cells that are sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light and collect a larger amount of light striking the sensor. Tailoring software algorithms to this unique new pattern enables faster shutter speeds, which reduces blurring when capturing a moving subject, McNiffe said.

My digital camera is terrible in low light compared to my film camera. Something that was better than both would be brilliant.

If you think hard enough you can apply a cost to anything.

For example, sitting reading email for 5 minutes costs my company $X in "wasted productivity". Such numbers assume I would have been doing anything useful in those 5 minutes. I might have been having a coffee instead, talking to my cube buddies, playing foozball, staring into space. Not providing an outlet could enhance my boredom which could enhance my desire to quit or cause me to stare into space more, thus costing $X.

If you work behind a counter in customer service and you get no customers for 10 minutes, have you "wasted" $X?

When the MPAA and RIAA and similar copyright protection agencies suggest that piracy has cost them $X billions of dollars, they're making a lot of assumptions.

Usually they assume that each download is a lost sale.

Using such made up numbers as evidence that police forces should increase their copyright enforcement duties over other crimes such as aggravated burglary are madness:

"Our law enforcement resources are seriously misaligned," NBC/Universal general counsel Rick Cotton said. "If you add up all the various kinds of property crimes in this country, everything from theft, to fraud, to burglary, bank-robbing, all of it, it costs the country $16 billion a year. But intellectual property crime runs to hundreds of billions [of dollars] a year."

Money.

Analogy of the day! Every time someone masturbates, that's one lost sale for the prostitution industry. Even if you say... 4 million people x say... 3 times a week x 52 weeks x $50 a "go"...

Oh my god! Masturbation costs the prostitution industry $31,200,000,000 a year!!!

Silly silly silly.

How's this? Not buying music or movies costs the recording industry much more than piracy ever could. When I go to JB HiFi and buy a TV instead of 100 CDs I'm costing the recording industry $3000! Or when I sit at home watching TV for half an hour instead of buying 40 songs online, I'm costing the industry $2 a minute!

Can't you see the money spontaneously appearing and disappearing before your eyes!

Reports from Paris indicate Tori's tour of Europe includes a band. Tours throughout the world on the last tour were solo (no band).

Whether Tori brings a band to Australia remains to be seen but I can't see why not.

Pre-sales for tickets begin today at midday.

Below is the info for Melbourne, stolen from undented:

Ticketmaster.com.au

My Ticketmaster pre-sale
Start: 12:00 Friday, June 15th
End: 17:00 Sunday, June 17th

Public On-sale
Monday, June 18th 9:00

I'm still not going.