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Is Bradman really the greatest ever?

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People world over keep Online Pharmacy debating whether it is Sachin or Donald Bradman who should be considered the greatest batsman ever. Let’s try to settle the debate once and for all. :P (I don’t think I need to stress upon the fact that I am no authority on cricket but am just a mere fan.)

People who call Donald Bradman the greatest ever, only argue that his test batting average was nearly 100 and that he managed to score 29 centuries in only 52 matches. Remarkable achievement indeed but read on.

Donald Bradman played those 52 matches over a career spanning 20 years! So if we talk in terms of averages, we have not even 3 test matches per year. Viagra generika And of course no ODIs either.He scored lotensin 29 centuries in 20 years playing an average of less than 3 test matches per year and resting throughout the rest of the year.

Sachin Tendulkar has played for 20 years by now and has played a total of 166 matches. In the same time, he played close 440 ODIs too and in spite of  this hectic pressure, has managed to score more than 90 centuries that’s more than 3 times what Don Bradman scored.

Oppositions and Countries

In all, Bradman played against 4 nations ie England, West Indies, India and South Africa. Out of these, most of the encounters (37 in all) were against England. Now with all due respect to the  Queen, I don’t think England has ever been a strong opposition to play against. Viagra o levitra In fact it has always been one of the easiest oppositions to beat.

Also, Bradman played in all of 2 countries. England and Australia. He had the home advantage in more than 60% cases. To rephrase the argument, he always played in comfortable conditions against non threatening oppositions. (Now don’t tell me “I laugh at your ignorance about the bodyline”. Bradman achieved nothing great during the bodyline series.)

Sachin on the other hand, made his debut against the most hostile nation, Pakistan. Has played in every cricket playing country in the world and excelled. Scored a century  against every cricket playing country in the world. Has played more test matches away than he has played at home. He has played against the most competitive opposition in the world (which is of course Australia) and has excelled against them too, averaging nearly 58 against them in their own country!

Technology

How much technology did the era, when Don Bradman played, have to aid the teams to properly study each other. Almost nil. And how much technology do bowlers have now to study Sachin? Plenty of it. The argument could also be applied in favor of Sachin that he can study the bowlers too. But let’s face it. It’s one man against a bunch of hostile oppositions always putting a big prize on his wicket! They can always study his videos, find his weaknesses and work on how to exploit them but our little champion is always able to defeat them eventually. Even after 20 years, in spite of all the gruelling schedules, broken bones, tennis elbows, wrong umpiring decisions, the burden of expectations of the fickle minded Indian fans, Sachin is able to do all that he does! And let me remind the reader, I didn’t even touch upon his achievements in the more popular format of the game!

Hence Buy Clomid Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed the question is not if Sachin is as great as Bradman. Buy viagra The question is “Was Bradman as great as Sachin?”

On 3D Technologies

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I recently went to see Avatar in 3D. While the film was very good, I can’t say with certainty that there was anything groundbreaking about the 3D effects. For 1,there is a darkish tint throughout the film which reduces the color saturation. Occasionally you almost feel like you are looking at a monochromatic Buy tricor film (or that perhaps you’re dreaming).

Having said that, this is not the topic of this post. The post is meant to educate and create awareness about stereoscopic(3D) technologies, something which has fascinated me for more than half a decade now.

The underlying concept behind creating anything 3D is the same no matter what technology you use. Our perception of depth comes because we have 2 eyes. The 3rd dimension disappears when you close any one eye( Try it). So in case of a 3D picture or a video, the idea is to present 2 different views to the 2 eyes. If you can successfully present 2 separate views of the same picture/video to each eye, you will be able to perceive depth.

So what does one do to create a 3D video/photo and put it on youtube?

For video you need 2 cameras.  No extra ordinary camera but any 2 cameras that can shoot videos.It may be a good idea to tie them Viagra o levitra up with a rubber band.

After this you need to turn both the cameras on and shoot the video in both of them. So that the 2 cameras get a shifted version of the same video.

Or better you can simply follow these youtube instructions:

  • Use two cameras arranged like a pair of eyes
  • Start both cameras recording simultaneously
  • In your video-editing program, place the footage for the left and right eyes together in the frame side by side, with the right eye on the left and the left eye on the right
  • Upload your video!
  • Edit Buy Nexium Online Pharmacy your videos tags and add yt3d:enable=true. If video is widescreen, add yt3d:aspect=16:9

So Buy Levitra Online what happens when you do that? The Youtube 3d player becomes active and automatically shows your video in your desired formats. Something like this

If you’ll see this video on youtube, you will find the various 3D options such red/cyan, cross eyed, parallel eyes etc? Let me explain to you what some of them mean:

The first 6 options refer to filter glasses. Viagra generika

For example: red/cyan means you need a pair of glasses with red filter on the left and cyan/blue on the right. There is absolutely nothing special about these glasses and if you do not have them, simply using a good and appropriate cello phane paper will do.

Cross eyed/Parallel are techniques to view 3D without any special equipment but with a special eye exercise.Basically in the cross eyed technique, you need to see the image/video by crossing your eyes so that a 3rd image emerges in the center of the 2 images and that image will have depth.

The parallel eye technique is slightly more difficult to carry out. In this your left eye sees the left image and Buy Viagra Professional Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed the right one sees the right image. The 3rd image then appears at the center which appears to be slightly bigger than the other 2.  This technique puts a lot of strain on the eyes so you must be careful.

At the Cinema Halls

Now these are the only techniques to watch videos and images in 3D on your computer screen. But if you have seen any 3D film on theatre, you are probably wondering why the same technology is not used for 3D on ordinary computers. Well this is because the 3D on theaters uses special polarized projectors which work on the principle of plane polarized light. The glasses at the theater are polarized glasses placed perpendicular to each other.

If you haven’t studied physics, just imagine 2 light rays one of which is a bunch of vertical lines and the other is a bunch of horizontal lines. Can the vertical bunch pass through a grid of horizontal slits? It cannot but it can pass through the horizontal slits.  Vice versa for horizontal bunch. This is what the polarized glasses do. If you go to watch Avatar in 3D, then do this experiment with your glasses. Take them in your hand, and rotate them perpendicularly. You will find the views (that is the respective tints) are swapped. Also, reverse the glasses and then view a scene through them. Chances are one of them will completely block the view and you will see a dark screen.  And when you will rotate the glasses by 90 degree, the other glass will block the view.Basically the images are now created using 2 light sources which can pass through only one lens. Buy viagra

The reason why this technology is preferred over filter glass technology is the fact that it does not interfere with the color fidelity as much as the filtered glasses do. However, because you need a special projector to display such polarized light, very few theaters are able to run them.

As for James Cameron’s Avatar. There is nothing path breaking about it as far as the stereo 3D aspect of it is concerned since it is an ordinary polarized stereo only, the one which films such as Chhota Chetan used. However, it was very hard to believe that you were looking at a partially animated film. The 3D gimmicks are not really that many. If you want gimmicks, you should probably see Journey to the Center of the Earth or perhaps, Spy Kids 3D.