I would never try Internet Explorer, it's too dangerous.
Indeed, I've heard that every time you use IE it permanently rewires parts of your brain and that after a certain number of uses a person can be declared legally insane.
Well, luckily my external IS my backup drive. I just run Carbon Copy Cloner to it every night. So if I have to reformat, I'm not too worried. Just wondering if that's the only option available to me at this point.
Actually, I DID lose my firewire drive. It had survived all the updates until this point without any problems. The Delta Update info page made no mention of potential problems, but the Combo Updage page had a warning. Since I was going from 10.3.7 to 10.3.8 via Software Update, I left the drive attached.
Yes, in terms of X-Pans, Widelux, Horizons, etc. But I believe the original post here was referring to the "panorama" mode of APS cameras, which were, in fact, just crops of the full frame.
A couple of folks have made suggestions that answer the original post. I'm more curious about what the communication protocols for the jukeboxes that were used in diners in the 50s. Each remote station (table/booth) could add a song to the queue of the master jukebox. They'd have to transmit the song ID to the master. Was this done serial? Parallel? What was the encoding used? And how did the master jukebox implement a FIFO queue?
Curious, and fairly ignorant of pre-solid-state electronics.
Or Medea: Harlan's World by Jack Williamson, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Hal Clement, Thomas M. Disch, Frank Herbert, Poul Anderson, Kate Wilhelm, Theodore Sturgeon and Robert Silverberg. Edited by Harlan Ellison. The authors did a panel discussion to work out the specifics of the world then generated short stories to populate it. OK, the individual stories aren't collaborative (neither are Wild Cards, for that matter) but the world buidling was.
I believe it may have been the last leap second (1/1/1999?) or perhaps one just prior to that, I sat out by (or, more appropriately, on) the sundial at the Museum of Natural Science in Houston, TX. with my father and his shortwave radio, and together we counted the beeps of the 61-second minute. Good father/son bonding times like these don't come around every 6-months (or every 6-years, even, it seems...)
The hard part is the image processing software that turns the differences in shadow between the images into the outline image.
That's where Photoshop comes in. It seems like most of the math tools required are built in as layer modes...
From the article:
The shadows of an image are detected by first computing a shadow-free image, which is approximated with the MAX composite image. The MAX composite image is assembled by choosing from each pixel the maximum intensity value from the image set.
OK, this is stacking your 4 images as layers in Photoshop with the Mode of each layer set to "Lighten". Once you've got your shadow-free image,...
Then the shadow free image is compared with the individual shadowed images identifying the shadow regions.
So you copy the original images back above the shadow-free layer, but this time set their mode to difference. (OK, you might have to do these comparisons one at a time and combine them... I don't have 4 "identical but differently lit" shots available at the moment to qork out the exact workflow, but I don't think it should be too difficult.
To be acurate, you'd probably want to have your 4 strobes on stands and measure their distance from the lens to ensure equality. Looks like the advantage of what they're proposing is having it all in one box. But as you mention, the poor man's method should be just as effective.
Thereafter he spent several years of his life doing nothing but filling out millions of dollars worth of claims with insurance companies.
Poor bastard. So step one in building your own cluster in your desk is "Get the best insurance policy available, valuing your collection of Pez dispensers as 'irreplaceable heirlooms'."
Just curious, but when was the last time someone sold a printer with green ink? Color printers have been CMYK (or more) for as long as I can remember. (Maybe the 7 color ribbon for the ImageWriter II???)
I've been part of an active PBeM RPG for a few years now. Slow paced, but a fun diversion. But the original post seems more along the lines of what Flying Buffalo has been doing forever...
I've got my Garmin Vista talking to my OS X box via a Keyspan USB to serial cable and run the freeware GPS Connect and its shareware big brother Terrabrowser to upload and download waypoints.
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I would never try Internet Explorer, it's too dangerous.
Indeed, I've heard that every time you use IE it permanently rewires parts of your brain and that after a certain number of uses a person can be declared legally insane.
Or was that acid they were talking about?
A note and a question:
The digital projector at Grauman's Chinese Theater is probably the best in town, as far as lumens go at least.
I was under the impression that most major releases were using a DI process now days?
Well, luckily my external IS my backup drive. I just run Carbon Copy Cloner to it every night. So if I have to reformat, I'm not too worried. Just wondering if that's the only option available to me at this point.
On the Combo Update page but not the Delta Update page. Bastards.
Actually, I DID lose my firewire drive. It had survived all the updates until this point without any problems. The Delta Update info page made no mention of potential problems, but the Combo Updage page had a warning. Since I was going from 10.3.7 to 10.3.8 via Software Update, I left the drive attached.
Ooops.
Anyone know how to get it back?
You're suprised? Considering "Vader" is dutch for "father"???
Yes, in terms of X-Pans, Widelux, Horizons, etc. But I believe the original post here was referring to the "panorama" mode of APS cameras, which were, in fact, just crops of the full frame.
Feel free to rate this Offtopic...
A couple of folks have made suggestions that answer the original post. I'm more curious about what the communication protocols for the jukeboxes that were used in diners in the 50s. Each remote station (table/booth) could add a song to the queue of the master jukebox. They'd have to transmit the song ID to the master. Was this done serial? Parallel? What was the encoding used? And how did the master jukebox implement a FIFO queue?
Curious, and fairly ignorant of pre-solid-state electronics.
Or Medea: Harlan's World by Jack Williamson, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Hal Clement, Thomas M. Disch, Frank Herbert, Poul Anderson, Kate Wilhelm, Theodore Sturgeon and Robert Silverberg. Edited by Harlan Ellison. The authors did a panel discussion to work out the specifics of the world then generated short stories to populate it. OK, the individual stories aren't collaborative (neither are Wild Cards, for that matter) but the world buidling was.
Indeed, a PC/104 format Mac mobo would be a GoodThing(TM). I've only wanted one for, oh, 6 years now? Still don't see it coming...
Nah, it probably just has an aluminum foil wrapped sea cucumber in its pants.
I believe it may have been the last leap second (1/1/1999?) or perhaps one just prior to that, I sat out by (or, more appropriately, on) the sundial at the Museum of Natural Science in Houston, TX. with my father and his shortwave radio, and together we counted the beeps of the 61-second minute. Good father/son bonding times like these don't come around every 6-months (or every 6-years, even, it seems...)
That's where Photoshop comes in. It seems like most of the math tools required are built in as layer modes...
From the article:OK, this is stacking your 4 images as layers in Photoshop with the Mode of each layer set to "Lighten". Once you've got your shadow-free image,
To be acurate, you'd probably want to have your 4 strobes on stands and measure their distance from the lens to ensure equality. Looks like the advantage of what they're proposing is having it all in one box. But as you mention, the poor man's method should be just as effective.
Thereafter he spent several years of his life doing nothing but filling out millions of dollars worth of claims with insurance companies.
Poor bastard. So step one in building your own cluster in your desk is "Get the best insurance policy available, valuing your collection of Pez dispensers as 'irreplaceable heirlooms'."
Just curious, but when was the last time someone sold a printer with green ink? Color printers have been CMYK (or more) for as long as I can remember. (Maybe the 7 color ribbon for the ImageWriter II???)
Easy, just print the cash on the store's demo printer...
I've been part of an active PBeM RPG for a few years now. Slow paced, but a fun diversion. But the original post seems more along the lines of what Flying Buffalo has been doing forever...
A full list is here http://www.flyingbuffalo.com/pbm.htm (The junk filter won't let me quote the page with links...)
Dunno. U2 probably uses AppleWorks...
I would have gone for the Haarlem Gløbtrotters reference, myself.
Only if the optics of the bottom of your beer glass match a particular signature. Or you could just go here.
Well, your "facts" seem to be that Dickens was pro copyright, not Poe. From the blurb you link to, it only mentions that Poe mocked Dickens...
Really?
That could probably be rectified with the iSight API...
no, but somebody should get ahold of the people camping on consco.net...
I've got my Garmin Vista talking to my OS X box via a Keyspan USB to serial cable and run the freeware GPS Connect and its shareware big brother Terrabrowser to upload and download waypoints.
Funny, the Lyndon LaRouche people have been camped out on the Santa Monica College campus for months, and nobody seems too concerned...