On law and order last night they demonstrated the Infinite Scalability Principle of Surveillance Cameras on Television Shows.
They used a computer to zoom in on a photograph taken for a gymnasium identification card, and they found a figure lurking outside the gym! They then zoomed right in on this figure until they had a crystal clear image of the lurker (who did indeed turn out to be the murderer!)
That must be a pretty expensive camera they use for ID's in that gymnasium, what with having near-infinite resolution. Most identification card photographs just take grainy, warped ugly little photos. (Or is that what i really look like?) I bet their membership fees are near infinite too.
(continues... more about tech-mistakes on tv)
'BillT' on Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:02:30 GMT, writes:
Yet, I keep hearing people ask how they can load 100,000 records into a listbox or combo !
'Benjimawoo' on Tue, 25 May 2004 09:05:31 GMT, writes:
There's another conversation you never hear.
'Well I don't really know how to use it. Steve's the one who went on the course, but he's on leave today... What?... No... No. I'm not trained using the widget. I know it's a remarkably complex bit of kit. Yes, I know it's very useful in a technician's skilled hands, just not mine... You want me to try to solve your case with our brand new widget? But I haven't been on the training. I haven't got a clue what I'm doing. I can make a start, but Steve's really the expert. Can it wait until he gets back?... No?... etc. etc.
I never heard Warrick Brown say to Nick 'Nonononono wait, I found a quicker wy to do it...'
Whoever writes their software needs a word, too. I've never seen a progress bar on a process that takes a real long time, but if something's gonna be done in a couple of seconds, it's progress bars galore!!
Sorry about the length. Got a little carried away...
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'Omer van Kloeten' on Mon, 24 May 2004 15:50:57 GMT, writes:
Maybe all the surveilance cameras create vector graphics represntations of everything... There's an idea for another one of those things they hire a crappy computer guy to write for them in the script so that they look like they know what the hell they're talking about.
URL: http://weblogs.asp.net/OKloeten/
'Dan F' on Mon, 24 May 2004 02:41:24 GMT, writes:
haha, I'm glad I'm not the only one that wonders how special those cameras must be :)
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