Comments by: John B

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November 2004
Berkeley versus Arizona

Played football and baseball through college -- growing up, my uncle -- who was a defenseman in hockey through his college years and a pretty roughneck guy onfield -- wouldn't allow me to play with…

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Sir Dunston (you're a good man): further elaboration --> the biggest point regarding the players quickness & skill level is not their fitness, but that when the faster & better players are on…

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Okay, not done...talking to this game in particular. The Cal defense was smothering; I thought a young kid made some mistakes in routes run from what I saw (some wide receiver -- forgot his name)…

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I didn't touch your second point -- lack of intelligence. Sometimes so. Sometimes the speed of the game and the odd shape of the football conspire to make people look like idiots.

I can figure…

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D - Let me argue the counter point. As a former player, one has no idea how fast (and athletic) this game can be until on the field trying to keep up. It is really, really fast. And played for the…

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Touchdown, Tim Mixon

D - what happened on motion stabilizer? Does it go haywire if you're panning with action? Thinking of purchasing but now wondering...

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October 2004
Sweeping the infield

I think the best job in baseball might be ballgirl -- if i were a girl of course. Best seat in the house and no real responsibility especially vis a vis the guys who are supposed to protect the…

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Baseball batter at Oakland Coliseum

Looks like a long lens was used --> the bullpen pitchers look to be just behind the first base coach when in fact they are fairly far away. Cool photo effects and stuff.
--jb, a ballplayer.

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August 2004
Rubber ducks

Sorry -- no offense my man. My comment actually was intended for Marten with his reference to the jpg extension.

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I think the idea was that the original is to be stored in RAW format, as opposed to JPG, thus allowing the next-generation JPG, optimized for the web, to have one round less data loss.... just my…

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