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This is not quite as bad as saying, "No one will ever need more than 640k of memory", but still...
Despite Gates' Prediction, Spam Far From a Thing of the Past
"Bill Gates declared in 2004 at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland that spam would be 'a thing of the past' within five years. However, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, has written in a blog post that 'with the prophecy's five-year anniversary approaching, spam continues to cause a headache for companies and home users.'"
The sound didn't match the jumbotrons at the Monument. Plus the sound echos off the buildings (and in my case, the Monument.) I had to stand facing the Monument in order to not get the speaker feed in one year and a delayed echo off the Monument in the other. And the wind played games with the sound. Thank god they cranked the volume for the oath and after. Most of the opening stuff I heard over a radio someone had because the speakers weren't loud enough. And Aretha's bit? Totally incomprehensible. The Mall? Not the best acoustics.
Nobody believes me when I tell them wind wreaks havok on sound. Outdoor shows are a pain. Wind, humidity, fog, barametric pressure. Weather is a mother!
My group totally talked about how wind effected the sound.
We too were at the base of the Washington, (on the slope of the southeast side, north of the Naval bandshell) but except for the Japanese movie dubbing delay, we could hear everything.
For those who don't believe that being outdoors can greatly affect sound, point them to the number of soldiers in battle who have reported that, because of an oddity of geographic position or atmospheric conditions, had no idea that a battle or, you know, artillery fire, was occuring less than fifty yards away from them.
Sound is a very bizzare thing sometimes.
Also, a goodly number of people fatally surprised by trains sneaking up on them.
Huh. A document I have up on google docs reverted to an older version. It was fine yesterday. Does anyone know if this happens much?
Question re: digital photographs - do all digital cameras take high res pictures all the time?
Or is that something people set when they set up their camera?
(I need high res photographs for a work related thing and people are sending me pictures and they have a pitiful low dpi.
How do you define "hi-res"? Digital cameras don't take images with a specific dpi; they take pictures with a certain number of pixels. So the size you need to print will determine what "hi-res" means.
300 dpi is what our Media Services need.
How can I figure that out based on pixels?
