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Different profiles can represent different color ranges/gamuts. Basically your eye can see more colors than a monitor or sRGB format can store. Different printers and methods also have different ranges. This can appear confusing, for example your display is typically sRGB (approximately), it is often limited to that range. Adobe RGB has a broader gamut, it can store a broader range, however if you display this it can look like it has less color on a monitor or LCD on the camera (unless color correction is happening for example with a callibrated setup) because the software can take the broad gamut and try to show it with the limited display capabilities squeezing the real displayable color into an even narrower range to accomodate the colors that cannot actually be displayed. Where you win is when you manipulate the images and/or print them, because every printer, and callibrated display has different capabilities to represent color. The gamuts are different and color conversion occurs specific to the device. If you shoot in sRGB you limit the dynamic range of colors stored in the image to those represented by the sRGB color space. Something like Adobe RGB has a broader gamut that can get more color range out of some color printers and some displays for example. If you shoot in sRGB that information is never captured. So, if you're shooting for a PC display (and/or converting for the web etc.) sRGB will give you the right results with faithful color reproduction to the limits of your PC display. If you are shooting for prints Adobe sRGB will give you a broader gamut that might be used along the way and get more out of your printer. If you want to capture more color and edit curves etc. to get the most from an image then something like Adobe RGB or RAW will be better for you, but you may need to edit to get best results or have a correctly callibrated setup.

When I saw this I thought it might be related to some people doing more and pushing themselves a bit farther on the memorial day weekend. That's not to say everyone involved did this. It's a big enough cluster to merit serious consideration. There were also a couple of cutaway incidents not so long ago at a holiday boogie. One option would be to do a statistical analysis of incidents vs holidays & major boogies (normaliziing if possible for additional jumps done) and if there is a correlation raise awareness to help jumpers understand that they should be vigilant and as cautious as they normally would be during events/holidays. Lots of jumpers don't realize the risk they take in all sorts of ways (not excluding myself here) and you invariably discover this too late for yourself or someone else. A small adjustment in attitude or awareness might have disastrous consequences and we may all have been there, done that and walked away because we were lucky, completely oblivious of any additional risk.

You're right. He also dated Bush's daughter. Let's not engage in a sin of omission. Or guilt by association. There's a difference between saying "I'm POTUS, here's my buddy give him a degree." and "I'm POTUS, this fine young man has served me with distinction for 4 years in the Whitehouse and I endorse his application.". Maybe you're right and we should just piss all over applicants with experience at the highest level of government and references from the most influential men in the nation & give bums & hobos equal consideration. I'm glad someone out there sees that leaving academia to pursue real world opportunities like this guy had shouldn't be a career killer nor hold you back, quite the opposite in fact.

I know who I'd rather hire. At some level you want to give the education to the person who is going to do the most with it. Realistically this is what drives the recruitment policy at schools where applications vastly exceed available places. This guy has shown the potential to go places and use an Ivy League education, you can pretend otherwise all day long, but his experience and a letter of recommendation from the sitting President outshines a lot of applications and it SHOULD.

Valid for what? This is just another of your snow jobs where you try to pretend all things are equal. If you want to say a bum on the street has professional experience as valuable as a guy serving as an aide to the POTUS then say it. Until then you're not actually saying anything that needs to be addressed directly. American schools like to collect trophy graduates, they only hire the bums.

There's more to life than academia. The guy has unique experience, a hatchet job saying he carries the President's mints and sandwitches doesn't change that.

Before deciding to hunt an endangered species, one critical question must be asked. How good does it taste?

The debate over Jessica's law and variations is a valid issue that a lot of people care about and are frustrated over.

Try to wear clothing that gets you each closer in fall rate from the start and it will be a lot easier. After graduation I struggled with fall rate on some jumps (depending on who I jumped with) and it made a huge difference to the success and enjoyment of my jumps. Just being in the right ballpark makes a huge difference.

The need to have unobscured plates is different from a border encroaching slightly on state labels etc. Most Texas plates have a frikin map of Texas in the middle of them and a cowboy riding a horse on the bottom. Stopping drivers for this is bullshit. It's not about plate letters being obscured. The issue is about stuff like "I'd rather be skydiving" plate borders etc. that do not for all practical purposes obscure plates yet is used as an excuse to hastle and potentially ticket drivers. Putting a smokescreen around the real issue doesn't help. The real issue is how a seemingly practical requirement is subsequently being enforced by pedantic individuals on a testosterone high. And good luck asking for official clarification, although I guess case law gives us that. http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/texasplate.asp

no? http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/caseclosed/hungerford.shtml so, the pro-gun people will keep brushing aside these cases just as long as they can keep their guns.... guns available to lunatics are a price we have to pay just so selfish people who wants guns can have their guns. No I disagree but it depends on your definitions, the context of my remark is clear and you're the one ignoring it. You should realize that Hungerford caused sweeping restrictions in the UK. Just for example, all shotguns over 2 shots had to be modified impacting thousands of legitimate farmers and hunters. We've been through the Hungerford firearms pogrom, it made no sense then and it didn't stop Dunblane. The fact is it's remotely unlikely that you'll be shot with a gun, and if you are it's incredibly likely that it'll be an illegal gun & owner, not one of the thousands of legal gun owners who the restrictions actually impact. Your irrational fears and obsession with villifying legal gun users don't justify restricting the legitimate use of firearms. You should try to ban christmas tree lights, you'd do more good and less harm, but then you'd look and sound like an ass to everyone in the country, not just those who understand gun ownership. P.S. I'm not justifying the ability to own some exotic gun. Just showing how assinine and irrational the decision making process is, thanks in large part to opinions like yours.

...it is best to avoid pilot chute handles . See video. http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=guestpass&id=6buk8

I was told to look farther ahead than where you're going. If you look where you're going then you don't get a good sense of timing, if you look ahead you can judge your convergence with the ground and develop a sense of timing for it. These days I plan on a 2-stage flare but the reasons are different than yours. My first stage is to reduce descent rate and convert vertical motion to horizontal, my second stage gradually applies more toggle to sustain my angle of attack/lift/glide over the ground as I lose speed. You're using your judgement during your flare as feedback to how much toggle input you're giving. At 8 jumps I'd guess that puts you ahead of the game, the rest will come with time.

So let me see if I've got this straight. When one person does something horrible, then everyone else like him who hasn't committed any crimes, should also be deemed untrustworthy, and punished. Is that you're philosophy for governing a nation of free people? Duh! Philosophy or not it's what's happening now. We may not be far away from that day and it may not take a reckless skydiver. What would happen at any DZ if someone went in on a moving vehicle or in someone's back yard and took out a child? What do you think would happen if there was a mid-air between a commercial heavy and a skydiver? None of these are zero probability events. If it ever does happen it won't make a recurrance any more likely (we already assume that risk today every day), quite the contrary but it would give the mob, the media and the politicians some impetus to legislate our sport into a smouldering crater.

Yup but the pistol restrictions were introduced after some marksman used one in Glasgow after a traffic accident and it made headlines. Nobody has used a high caliber rifle to take out random members of the public for no good reason. When they do the newspaper editors will be the first to know that the government is all over the problem.

Hamilton would have found another way. It doesn't take much to lock some doors and start a fire. There was a purpose to his evil. There's nothing mysterious in the contradiction on firearms access, the government needs the TA. They don't give a shit about civilians with guns. It's not about being consistent or doing anything that makes sense. They need to generate headlines and laws that makes it look & feel like they're addressing a problem. They're perfectly happy to fuck with your ability to own and use a gun, it simply doesn't affect them. The media are on the same sheet of music, you'll never meet a liberal arts major who's lamped foxes. Guns are simply incompatible with cheese & wine parties. This latest fiasco is a classic example, they might lose a chance of a medal or more to the point look like the asses they are, so they've got to patch the law. The concept of rights has gone the way of the dodo.

Yea it's really great. It's just one reason why whole sections of the population think British cops are fucking assholes. When I drove a car in Britain I was never stopped, on a motorcycle it was a weekly occurance. It's just great Einstein, until you're on the receiving end of the bigoted farts who do the stopping. Pretty soon in the UK you'll also be able to stop people in the street and demand to see their biometric records. You'll be in pig heaven, unless one day you're the one the fascists don't like the look of.

Yeah I am sure that his membership was the thing that sent him off in a rampage. I think the point is that he'd have passed muster even after all the bullshit regulations were imposed. Every massacre in Britain seems to provoke a new round of restrictions. As the U.K. sneers at their American cousins and the incidents of lunatics going 'postal' the excessive gun control, lack of firearms culture and virtual absence of weapons in the country seems unable to prevent homegrown incidents. The politicians have still got to be seen to do something about the problem each time some nut does what nuts do. It's all reactionary hysteria over everything from bird flu to firearms. People can be fucking morons collectively. Great men used to write laws to protect the rights of the individual from the stupidity of the baying mob, now it's open season and the best headline wins.

I thought about doing something similar. When I last looked at this Oregon Aero offered liner upgrade fitting but it was expensive and limited (from memory). It is absolutely incredible that people sitting in a room designing helmets don't seem to have this on their to-do list. :-(

Shit happens, if only I'd been there LOL. This guys strap was tight and was a bitch to get back on, sometimes shit happens. It's a chin not a hook. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1629807;search_string=chin%20strap;#1629807

I like the way you put this. It really strikes a chord.

I just saw this video, it's well worth watching. http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=3830

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/vxx.htm

This is just insane. 23 helicopters at a cost of $6.1 Billion. They should drive the guy or dig a fucking tunnel to the airport and give the guy a golf cart. This is truly obscene. http://www.livescience.com/technology/060507_marine_one.html Is it time to just disband the federal government & spend their pension plans towards paying down the national debt?

True...but I think I'd rather crawl down a cliff with a rope You might need to do that paragliding