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Skriven 2007-01-16 19:29:58 av Wesley Struebing (13667.babylon5)
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Ärende: Re: Suspension of disbelief - an open debate
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On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:51:29 -0800, Charlie Edmondson
<edmondson@ieee.org> wrote:

>Soundy wrote:
>
>> Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
>> 
>>>It is alleged that Blair Leatherwood claimed:
>>>
>>>
>>>>And then there's the ability to disbelieve as driven by your own areas
>>>>of expertise.  I recall a discussion on this group in which the improper
>>>
>>>Exactly.  I find most movies that base their premise on computer use
>>>painful.  Specific examples include The Net, Swordfish, and Hackers.
>> 
>> 
>> The ones that drive me nuts anymore are all the movies *and* TV shows
>> where camera views are zoomed in with infinite detail: CSI, Las Vegas,
>> movies like Enemy Of The State...  Working in CCTV the last three
>> years, I've learned a few things.
>> 
>> Now granted, some extremely high levels of detail are possible...
>> unfortunately customers who see these things on TV shows and movies and
>> think we can set them up with something similar aren't quite prepared
>> for the price... or get all pissy when they discover AFTER we've got
>> everything installed that they can't, in fact, zoom in on a recorded an
>> see the nose hairs on a guy two blocks away.  "I thought I'd be able to
>> see that!"  This ain't Hollywood, pal...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>Oh, yeah!
>Ten years ago, I was working on toll roads, and was tasked with doing an 
>engineering study on reading license plates.  I had already designed one 
>such system, so it was fun taking the time to do a complete analysis.
>
>But then, the construction head gave me a great deal of grief when he 
>saw in the study that said that their existing system wouldn't work.  He 
>claimed that they had a 98% success rate on reading plates!  I then 
>(quietly, I didn't want to make this public) pointed out to him that 
>those statistics basically 'threw out' all the plates that they couldn't 
>read due to deficiencies in the system, and then counted.
>
>Another manager took me to task because 'He had seen a demonstration' of 
>a system where they had pictures of three lanes of cars, and then 
>'digitally zoomed' into and read the individual license plates.  I told 
>him it couldn't actually be done that way without special cameras and 
>high end computing power (this was ten years ago!) but he basically 
>refused to believe me.
>
Well, the one ticket I've ever gotten (except for an accident I was in
some 40 years ago) was a "photo" ticket.  Clear enough picture of *me*
to see it WAS me, and the license was quite clear - also mine...and
this was a camera in a school zone (hidden, of course), so it wasn't
very close to the street.  Even if they "enhanced" it, they had to
something to work with to enhance.  (however, the point is well-taken
about the infinite resolution...<G>)

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