As simple small secure (Windows 8, no hacker will be interested!) smartphone is very good.
Just love Windows Phone interface for simplicity and speed.
No one push any stupid updates that slow down your phone.

Good camera, OIS, F2.0 Zeiss lens.
One of the best WB and colors I saw on any cheap phones.
Very good camera app.

Specs

• 8.7 megapixel 16:9 backside-illuminated multi-aspect ratio 1/3” sensor
• 8 megapixel output in 4:3 ratio, 7.1 megapixel in 16:9
• F2.0 lens, 26mm in 16:9, 28mm in 4:3 (35mm equivalents)
• Optical image stabilization
• Dual LED flash
• Two stage (half-press, full-press) dedicated shutter button
• 1080p video capture
• 4.5-inch 1280x768 332ppi display

Where Nokia’s unique Optical Image Stabilization, created in conjunction with ZEISS, differs from and outstrips its competitors, though, is in moving not one lens element in compensation, but in shifting the entire assembly of optical components. There are two advantages to this tactic: one, the camera can compensate for a much greater amount and form of movement—it picks up and cancels out about 50% more movements per second than convention OIS set-ups—and, two, the system has an incredibly fast reaction time—that is, approximately 300 times faster than the average human reaction time.

Plus it is red one that cost less (use $1 seller coupon), amazing.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Nokia-Lumia-920-Cell-Phone-GPS-WiFi-3G-4G-32GB-ROM-1GB-RAM-8MP-Camera-Unlocked/32829111004.html

https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2012/04/11/paint2sound-free-image-to-audio-converter-by-flexibeatzii/

http://jasonsiegel.format.com/shoot-portraits-not-people

I first understood the power of the documentary during the editing of my first film, The Quiet Mutiny. In the commentary, I make reference to a chicken, which my crew and I encountered while on patrol with American soldiers in Vietnam.

"It must be a Vietcong chicken - a communist chicken," said the sergeant. He wrote in his report: "enemy sighted".

The chicken moment seemed to underline the farce of the war - so I included it in the film. That may have been unwise. The regulator of commercial television in Britain - then the Independent Television Authority or ITA - had demanded to see my script. What was my source for the political affiliation of the chicken? I was asked. Was it really a communist chicken, or could it have been a pro-American chicken?

Of course, this nonsense had a serious purpose; when The Quiet Mutiny was broadcast by ITV in 1970, the US ambassador to Britain, Walter Annenberg, a personal friend of President Richard Nixon, complained to the ITA. He complained not about the chicken but about the whole film. "I intend to inform the White House," the ambassador wrote. Gosh.

The Quiet Mutiny had revealed that the US army in Vietnam was tearing itself apart. There was open rebellion: drafted men were refusing orders and shooting their officers in the back or "fragging" them with grenades as they slept.

None of this had been news. What it meant was that the war was lost; and the messenger was not appreciated.

The Director-General of the ITA was Sir Robert Fraser. He summoned Denis Foreman, then Director of Programmes at Granada TV, and went into a state of apoplexy. Spraying expletives, Sir Robert described me as a "dangerous subversive".

What concerned the regulator and the ambassador was the power of a single documentary film: the power of its facts and witnesses: especially young soldiers speaking the truth and treated sympathetically by the film-maker.

I was a newspaper journalist. I had never made a film before and I was indebted to Charles Denton, a renegade producer from the BBC, who taught me that facts and evidence told straight to the camera and to the audience could indeed be subversive.

This subversion of official lies is the power of documentary. I have now made 60 films and I believe there is nothing like this power in any other medium.

Read more at http://johnpilger.com/articles/why-the-documentary-must-not-be-allowed-to-die

Palihapitiya’s criticisms were aimed not only at Facebook, but the wider online ecosystem. “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works,” he said, referring to online interactions driven by “hearts, likes, thumbs-up.” “No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem — this is not about Russians ads. This is a global problem.” SNIP

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16761016/former-facebook-exec-ripping-apart-society

Images still are served over http, must be fixed soon.

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.