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Sony Ericsson S700 (S710 in the US I think). Example pictures taken with that phone:

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Well, first of all Microsoft doesn't make a browser. They make an OS named "Windows" one of its features is an icon called "Internet Explorer." That feature isn't free, you have to fork over cold, hard cash for a Windows license.

I guess this doesn't exist then. As far as I can tell it's a free browser available from Microsoft.

Not that I use it...but it's available and free. I just like saying "you're wrong".

Photos by Daniel Coughlin

So what's the problem? 100 pounds is certainly over $100.

Way to go Steve-o

~Dan
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But how do u make a case to attack him, and not China? [...] Or Iran? [...] All these countries have regimes or a general populace which hates Americans.

But how do u make a case to attack him, and not China? [...] Or Iran? [...] All these countries have regimes or a general populace which hates Americans.

Is anyone else having a problem with Firefox not displaying columns correctly? See my example from Slashdot. I'm on Windows XP SP1.

If Iranians like American people, then why did they take civilians hostage?

If Iranians like American people, then why did they take civilians hostage?

Here is the real reason for the recent seismic activity at Mount St. Helens.

- Jasen.

this cool job ad...

Use an Airsoft rife/shotgun/handgun, or even Semi-autos and Machine guns. I Found out about this extreamly realistic BB guns while on a trip to the Wis Dells. One of their shops had an MP5 with just about all the acc on it. I have it now and it would make someone look twice before invading my home, but mostly i use it for paintball target parctice (they make 6mm BB's and 6mm paint balls for it) Its only a cheap model but a little baint on the barrel and its like the real thing, it even has a laser sight for extra effect. Back to topic, They have metal versions of shotguns that sound likt the real thing. you wouldn't have to worrie about getting in trouble or going through the permits of the real thing, only check your local laws reguarding them, The Wis Dells has stores that sell them, just you can't use them in public there. If the shotgun doesn't scare them, a P90 would make them look twice. They do make Machine Guns (like the SAW look at it here: http://www.pbase.com/stan/saw and if you want buy it here: http://www.madaboutairsoft.com/Scripts/prodView.as p?idproduct=158 ). Most Airsoft can be found here: http://www.airsoftextreme.com/store.html or http://www.madaboutairsoft.com/ . look cool can be used in Paint ball fights and at worst if you shoot them, they loose an eye and find out your gun is a big fake. Still there is no one good way to defend your home and belongings.

TiVo had shown a reference HDTV unit back at the CES show in January 2003. However, no manufacturers were interested in building it. The DVR market is still small, and HDTV is an even smaller piece of that.

As far as limitations on the HR10-250 unit, you can probably blame DIRECTV. Their Series2-derived DVRs have USB ports that can be used for HMO (Home Media Option) but DTV has chosen not to do so. If you can find 4.0, you can install it on your HDVR2 and enable HMO. So the missing HMO functionality is not a technology issue.

Putting a DVD burner in each unit would be handy, but would also increase the cost. DVRs still aren't in widespread use and keeping the price point high won't help.

Finally, TiVo did announce TiVoToGo, which will allow you to play content on your PC.

BTW, Grand Haven, MI has one of the best beaches in the Midwest.

I found this in Grand Haven, last summer....hmmmm, strawberries.

http://mishami.image.pbase.com/u13/az/upload/19997 024.CRW_3145copy.jpg/

LCDs also drain far more power from your batteries than an optical system.

The mirror also serves to help keep dust off the CCD whilst changing lenses, although this could be worked around.

For less than that consider the Sigma SD9 - they newer model, the SD10, is more expensive but the SD9 is starting to go for cheap on eBay. Right now an SD9 plus a really good lens and professional flash is listed for only $650!

The disadvantage of the SD9 over the 300D is that the camera does not have as high an ISO support, and the camera does not do in-camera JPG. But it produces great images, just take a look at the SD9 users gallery on pbase. You'll also get more advanced features like mirror lock-up that the 300D only supports through a user created firmware update (not that there's anything wrong with that).

Here's a few other pictures from a photography message board I frequent:

Nice color:
http://www.pbase.com/image/29906625

Impressive quality:
http://cakeru.image.pbase.com/image/29912804/large .jpg

Here's a few other pictures from a photography message board I frequent:

Nice color:
http://www.pbase.com/image/29906625

Impressive quality:
http://cakeru.image.pbase.com/image/29912804/large .jpg

Yes, but...Video doesn't have to be motion. How many people carry along photos in their wallets? How many people have photos up at work? This could be really cool especially if it could attach to a compact flash drive and dump them onto a hard drive. I know the iPod can do it with a big bulky attachment...but even then you can't see them.

Just a thought.

Speaking of which here are my photos

If you can please give props to one particular boothbabe hired by your company named Amelia. She was quite the commando.

I am a owner of a Sony Mavica CD500. While I love the manual mode, the camera has to be handled a little more delicately then a camera that uses flash or SD. Because of the mini CD burner on the camera, shaking it while reading or writing it a no-no. Writing the pictures to the CD takes longer than to a flash/sd card. Another issue is that I have yet to find a driver to read the unfinished discs that the CD500 creates (tried by DirectCD and Nero's version, can't remember the name, neither worked). To actually view the CD on any cd drive, you first have to finalize the cd, which takes anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes.

Sony branded mini CDs hold about 180megs while you can use other brands that hold anywhere from 200 to 250 megs. I can put around 60-70 5megabit pictures on a 210mb mini CD.

If you want to sample what the CD500 can produce, here is a link to my pictures Click
All the photos on my account are taken with my CD500.

because US would lost on mass scale production,

What they did (US) =>
#1

What was asked (Japan) =>
#1 #2

Why not ask a professional? You linked to Brian Klimowski's site where he has several fantastic pictures of his trip to Zion National Park. The photos look very nice. Some are even time lapse jewels.

Instead of asking a bunch of inexperienced amateurs on Slashdot, why not ask Brian what he used and what he recommends? He left his email for all to see. Ask him.

Why not ask a professional? You linked to Brian Klimowski's site where he has several fantastic pictures of his trip to Zion National Park. The photos look very nice. Some are even time lapse jewels.

Instead of asking a bunch of inexperienced amateurs on Slashdot, why not ask Brian what he used and what he recommends? He left his email for all to see. Ask him.

Why not ask a professional? You linked to Brian Klimowski's site where he has several fantastic pictures of his trip to Zion National Park. The photos look very nice. Some are even time lapse jewels.

Instead of asking a bunch of inexperienced amateurs on Slashdot, why not ask Brian what he used and what he recommends? He left his email for all to see. Ask him.

Why not ask a professional? You linked to Brian Klimowski's site where he has several fantastic pictures of his trip to Zion National Park. The photos look very nice. Some are even time lapse jewels.

Instead of asking a bunch of inexperienced amateurs on Slashdot, why not ask Brian what he used and what he recommends? He left his email for all to see. Ask him.

Ironically, while Nigel had an Australian accent, he certainly wasn't an Australian Pelican.
Apart from the orange bill, he's almost certainly an American Brown Pelican.

Ironically, while Nigel had an Australian accent, he certainly wasn't an Australian Pelican.
Apart from the orange bill, he's almost certainly an American Brown Pelican.

You're welcome, and thank you!

The Sigma is a great camera, with the only real problem being finicky low light performance. For that I have the Pentax K1000 film camera.

Anywho, I checked out your portfolio page and I really like the prismacolor cat drawing, and the dog photo. The other work is nice as well.

You're right, I do need to get around to updating my art page. In the mean time, you can see some of my photos here.

Slashdot isn't a photography website, but I'll respond to this anyways. Optical zoom wouldn't have helped you much here. As others have responded, it probably would have hurt more than anything.

The shutter was open for 1/8 second. Usually the most stable hands can only hold a camera still for 1/focal length. ie, for a standard camera you shouldn't shoot any slower than 1/30 of a second.

Having a longer focal length would have exacerbated the problem. What you need here is a greater light sensitivity (higher ISO). A higher ISO would have allowed you to shoot with a faster shutter speed.

I would suggest reading up a bit at www.dpreview.com or www.steves-digicams.com before buying a new camera.

If you want to see my credentials for making this comment take a look at: http://www.pbase.com/efatapo

Man, I missed this when it showed up (been working some 12 hour days). I got married 4/17 at a Peep Off wearing a tin foil hat.

But now this post has been up for days and only even geekier guys than me would be reading it.

Stencils. Use a stencil. Jay got started with the masking tape but needed to go a step further.

1. buy a box cutter or scalpel from an art shop

2. do your designs onto cardboard, eg the boxes around cereal are ideal thickness and water resistance, they don't disintegrate when paint is applied and they don't repel it in blobs onto your artwork like plastic can. You have an advantage if you can print designs directly from the computer onto card.

3. Cut the designs out carefully with the box cutters or scalpel.

4. Place a thick board covered in newspaper inside the part of the suit that you want to apply the paint. Arrange the suit over the board so it is not wrinkled but not stretched either.

5. Place the stencil on the area you want the design. Tape it down if necessary. Cover up any other areas at risk from stray paint.

5. Apply paint to the holes in the stencil either by airbrush (you need the paint to be runny like water for this), or by thick stiff paintbrush or by sponge. Airbrush is best for even coverage (once you get the hang of using it - practice on scrap paper).

You can also use spray cans instead of an airbrush but you need to make sure only the area you want painted is exposed, use lots of newspaper and masking tape to cover up the areas you want to stay unpainted.

And you can get interesting effects using a tooth brush to apply paint. load the tooth brush up and then drag your thumb or a paint brush handle over the bristles towards you. Paint splatters will flick over anything opposite you. (practice aim on the bathroom mirror - but only if you're the one that has to clean it up).

How to make an orc costume

or worse, if he gets good with the airbrush he might dispense with the bodysuit altogeter. Warning: link includes photos of topless women with and without paint.

European Body Paint Festival Gallery

When is the contest for Anti-MAV? Tiny rockets that shoot down MAVs.

You're way too late, it's called a fly swatter.

~dan
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There also was an Even smaller ADB keyboard than the "small keyboard".

This usually came with a IIgs, but you could still order it with a Mac -- I used to see them back when people used Mac SEs for POS/Retail/Cash Registers. (Apple charged extra for all keyboards in those days.)

Heh, this is the same ship as the local passenger ferry here on the Isle of Man - the Seacat (There are actually two designs: the Seacat and the Seacat Rapide - see the photos here, here and here. To pull a quick excerpt from the above link:

"Built by InCat Australia for Sea Containers in Tasmania, SeaCat was the worlds' first vehicle-carrying catamaran. The original 74 metre craft have subsequently been joined by a new 81 metre length SeaCat design, also built by InCat."

And it keeps growing - It seems that Justin has got some weird nipple thingies too.

That's american showbiz for you. really fucked up

you've never heard of www.turbobricks.com have you? Mine is a 740, but it does quite the burnout O-60 in 5.88 seconds, 1/4 mile in 14.7 @ 94mph 280ftlbs of torque at the rear wheels ;)

My desk...

'nough said


http://www.pbase.com/efatapo

My desk...

'nough said


http://www.pbase.com/efatapo

Very interesting! Take a look at this picture of a view of San Francisco, taken through an "infrared" filter (actually near infrared).

The colors in this picture are un-retouched (only the contrast has been tweaked a bit to make the blacks darker). It was taken on a bright, sunny day. The sky was blue. It turned out in a similar hue to the Mars pics, since it was taken in infrared on a digital camera (a Canon Powershot G1). Perhaps the infrared filters on the Mars rover are giving us a similarly distorted vision of the colors on Mars.

Incidentally, not all color infrared pictures give the same reddish hue. The hue depends greatly on the subject matter, the lighting conditions, the type of camera (if you're using a digital camera how it interprets the "colors" that it sees through the IR filter will vary from camera to camera), and the film (if you're using a non-digital camera).

Here is a San Francisco landmark also in IR, but with a different hue.

Color isn't the only thing to get distorted through IR. Infrared will also alter how black and white images are seen, often giving them an "eerie", "glowing" cast.

So, yes, I would take the images from Mars with a grain of salt. Not, as you say, because it's a conspiracy or because the images might have been false colored, but because the choice of filters makes such a difference.

Very interesting! Take a look at this picture of a view of San Francisco, taken through an "infrared" filter (actually near infrared).

The colors in this picture are un-retouched (only the contrast has been tweaked a bit to make the blacks darker). It was taken on a bright, sunny day. The sky was blue. It turned out in a similar hue to the Mars pics, since it was taken in infrared on a digital camera (a Canon Powershot G1). Perhaps the infrared filters on the Mars rover are giving us a similarly distorted vision of the colors on Mars.

Incidentally, not all color infrared pictures give the same reddish hue. The hue depends greatly on the subject matter, the lighting conditions, the type of camera (if you're using a digital camera how it interprets the "colors" that it sees through the IR filter will vary from camera to camera), and the film (if you're using a non-digital camera).

Here is a San Francisco landmark also in IR, but with a different hue.

Color isn't the only thing to get distorted through IR. Infrared will also alter how black and white images are seen, often giving them an "eerie", "glowing" cast.

So, yes, I would take the images from Mars with a grain of salt. Not, as you say, because it's a conspiracy or because the images might have been false colored, but because the choice of filters makes such a difference.

I learned alot more when I switched over to digital because I wasn't worried about how much each click of the shutter was costing me and I got relatively instantaneous feed back. I was using Nikon's upper end Coolpix cameras which had manual over-ride for all of the controls. I recently switched over to a Canon EOS 10D digital SLR camera because I felt I couldn't control the focus well enough with the Coolpix cameras.
See some pics

Where do you see "defense contract". Sorry but most scientific funding comes from the US government by means of the National Institute of Health.

If you visited his website you would see his funding comes from the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which is part of the NIH.

~Dan
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Some pictures I found online, some of them are fairly recent while some of them are older under construction pics.

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/555/1193__2 9031___29255__014.jpg
http://images.theglobeandmail.com/archives/RTGAM/i mages/20031017/wtall1017/1017tall2.jpg
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/556/1115200 3_07_27two.jpg
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/556/1115200 3_07_27three.jpg
http://cakili.image.pbase.com/image/19442002.jpg
http://cakili.image.pbase.com/image/19442000.jpg
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/556/1710dsc f0010.jpg
http://www.mwlin.dhosting-pro.com/taipei101/galler y/albums/userpics/10001/HD030910.jpg

Basically if you want information on skyscrapers, skyscraperpage.com is a good place to start.

Some pictures I found online, some of them are fairly recent while some of them are older under construction pics.

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/555/1193__2 9031___29255__014.jpg
http://images.theglobeandmail.com/archives/RTGAM/i mages/20031017/wtall1017/1017tall2.jpg
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/556/1115200 3_07_27two.jpg
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/556/1115200 3_07_27three.jpg
http://cakili.image.pbase.com/image/19442002.jpg
http://cakili.image.pbase.com/image/19442000.jpg
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/556/1710dsc f0010.jpg
http://www.mwlin.dhosting-pro.com/taipei101/galler y/albums/userpics/10001/HD030910.jpg

Basically if you want information on skyscrapers, skyscraperpage.com is a good place to start.

This new VersaLaser:
http://www.versalaser.com/english/index.html

This thing can cut:
Fabric & Leather
Paper & Cardboard
Plastic (sheet, film & molded)
Rubber (natural, synthetic & foam)
Wood & Hard Organics

And can mark:
Glass & Ceramic
Metal (coated & bare)
Stone (natural & synthetic)

You just program the cutting pattern into your computer and slip the material in. If they didn't cost $10,000 I would definitely buy one!

~Dan
http://www.pbase.com/efatapo

...are missing the point. This isn't a permanent change to your computer it's a way to get the best performance for your games. You're not turning a $2000 machine into a $150 toy you're maxing out your machine for a certain task. How often are you multi-tasking while playing a game like America's Army? Not often. When you're playing a game best to get all of the potential of your machine focused on putting out the most frames per second, most textured and anti-aliased pixels, and least lag. End of story...

Except that I will say this sounds like a cool idea and I will definitely give it a shot.

~Dan
http://www.pbase.com/efatapo

I have attended both small, unknown and big, prestigious universities, and the quality and quantity of teaching is certainly better at the bigger schools.

While that may be your individual case I also have attended a small, relatively unkown school (Hillsdale College in Michigan) and then a big, prestigious university (UofM Ann Arbor). While I am receiving a much deeper (though narrow, biological chemistry specifically) education now than my small college could ever hope to offer, the quality of my undergrad education was top notch. Definitely exceeding the education 98% of UofM undergrads receive. I don't think you can compare undergraduate and graduate value in specific regards to size / prestige.

Also coming from a true liberal arts college I particularily appreciate this quote:

In the complexities of contemporary existence
the specialist who is trained but uneducated,
technically skilled but culturally incompetent,
is a menace.
-David B. Truman, Dean of Columbia College

Anyways, just a controlled rant because I truly believe the value of small liberal arts colleges are severely under-appreciated.

~Dan
http://www.pbase.com/efatapo

are here.

Note that really the best thing about the camera is that you can try out the software for free (see Sigma web site for download)!! The software is about the best software around for working with Raw images, and really shows what the camera can do. The smartest thing Sigma did was make the user work with raw images, as you have a lot more felxibility than if you were just shooting JPG and throwing away a lot of image detail.

Actually, instead the 3.5MP camera basically equals the output from a 6MP CCD, and in fact even appears a bit sharper... it really shows when you are printing images (which is pretty much just what the review says, not sure where you got the idea the real res was 1/3 less!!). Plus you have Zero (as in no) color moire with the X3 sensor, the thing I hated most about the CCD cameras and what led me to purchase an SD-9.

The only real limitation of the SD9 is a lack of ISO above 400 and more noise there than in other cameras. But they have addressed that with firmware and software upgrades, and also people have learned how to use the camera effectively even in low light. I've shot indoor skating before and gotten come good shots.

Take a look at the sample images at the SD-9 user gallery on PBase. Note that just about everyone there posts full size images, unlike the cropped images you usually get from other cameras so you can't quite make out how blurry they really are. With a good lens and good light, almost nothing can come close to the sharpness you get with an SD-9.

Canon does have some nice sensors and good cameras (like the 1Ds) but I greatly prefer the images from my SD-9 over the 10-D (which I was also considering along with the Fuji S2).