The duo also throws in a handful of references engineered to make the informed listener feel smart: the sample of Masta Ace's minor hit "Born to Roll, " the interpolation of the hook to OutKast's "Elevators (Me and You), " numerous allusions to A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory.

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Since a final 8- or 5-megapixel photo usually contains enough detail for printing and is easier to store and transmit, it's possible to use those 41 megapixels to zoom in or stabilize the image without resorting to interpolation and losing information.

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At the moment, digital video cameras take poor quality stills, and digital still cameras take poor quality video (largely because they have to compromise quality in order to perform all that interpolation on several frames per second).

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