I made a short film (~8 minutes) a few years ago - all volunteers except the stunt crew (I WANTED to pay them), but it still came to a budget of AUD$12K, using someone else's insurance cover. Had to pay for a permit to shoot in a forest reserve, camera and lighting hire, catering, daily expenses, costumes and makeup. It's not a cheap industry, all kudos to the producers of Primer.
What about sending a robot fuel tanker a little earlier? Even a previous launch window - send tanker, it lands on Mars, then send the manned mission. It refuels on Mars for the journey home - or am I being to simplistic?
Look up OS400 sometime. Sort of similar, but everything is accessed as an object. In fact for business purposes, as much as I admire Unix, I would choose OS400 over it every time - were it not for the expense of IBM hardware and software.
Yet, look at the advances in IC technology since it was first used in a "car" circa 1900. Advances in metallurgy, lubrication, combustion efficiency, and the advent of computerised engine management, etc, etc, etc.
Wasn't a lot of that driven by the market, e.g. "NOW WITH 15 MPG!"
Is there any reason to believe that similar advances couldn't be made in battery technology to deliver comparable results?
I have to agree - I lived through the '74 floods in Brissie - anyone who subsequently chose to live on or near the areas flooded that time should be second on the list for charity - there will be others more deserving.
Me? I moved uphill to Maleny.
I think we simply don't have the population to support more competition. Not enough people to buy enough stuff to support more retailers, and so on. Gerry Harvey can cry on someone else's shoulder - he just HATES competition.
Probably more correct to call it binary rather than digital, but you're correct - after development, the halide crystals are either black (exposed) or transparent (unexposed). Then the unexposed crystals are either bleached out (negative film) or chemically (E6) or optically (Kodachrome) exposed and developed to provide the positive image (reversal film).
No it's not. There's no such thing as a positive film. It's a reversal slide film (you can also get reversal paper - see Cibachrome). The image is a negative until it goes through the reversal stage of processing, and it's possible to process slide film to produce a negative by skipping that reversal stage.
No, nada, nyet. The end result is a positive, but the image is a negative until it goes through the reversal stage of processing. You can skip the reversal stage and end up with a negative, which you could then print onto photo paper to obtain your positive.
Perhaps you could also take a note of the aperture & shutter settings (and all the other metadata) of the photos. A picture will give a good visual reference, but a camera will make all sorts of exposure adjustments depending on what it "sees", including colour temperature. At least the aperture and shutter settings will provide a more accurate reference to "brightness".
Even better, take a reading on "auto" or "program", note the settings, switch to manual, set shutter speed, and adjust aperture only. As each full stop is effectively double (or half) the previous settings, you should get some reliable results.
Oh, and do all this in very low ambient conditions, or your observations will be very much affected by the light coming in the window.
Testify, Brother! Had the same problem with some IBM x86 servers. The Raid card did its job of rebuilding the data when the first drive failed and jumped ship to the hot spare, but that hadn't finished when the next drive failed. Result: a completely unusable array - we weren't going to trust the replacement units, either. We insisted on drives from another manufacturer, i.e. anyone except Hitachi
*Sigh* - let me know when you find as AS/400 emulator - I'd like to see how to make it work properly on non-AS/400 hardware, but just having that OS to play with.... I've been out of it for a while, but I've never seen the granularity of control available in any other mid-range or server OS. I've never seen a Microsoft OS that even approached the ability of OS/400 to manage resources and jobs. FWIW, I used to manage an AS400 that supported 200+ green screens and 200+ desktop PCs. It had 48MB (yes, megabytes) of main memory and still gave sub-second response times on green-screen applications. The PCs only used it for storage and printing. BTW, http://systeminetwork.com/ is a good place to start if you want to learn more.
I believe the Panasonic P2 series cameras can do this. They record to memory cards and the cameras have multiple slots, allowing you to record to card #2 while card #1 is hot-swapped and dumped to an external hard drive. The HVX202 has 2 slots, but the higher-end models have up to 6.
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Four words - "The Blade Runner Partnership". Yorkin's the reason.
I made a short film (~8 minutes) a few years ago - all volunteers except the stunt crew (I WANTED to pay them), but it still came to a budget of AUD$12K, using someone else's insurance cover. Had to pay for a permit to shoot in a forest reserve, camera and lighting hire, catering, daily expenses, costumes and makeup. It's not a cheap industry, all kudos to the producers of Primer.
Oh yes, oh yes, pleeeeeaaase.
But NO hollywood A-list actors or directors. And a max budget of USD$50 million
Dream on.....
What about sending a robot fuel tanker a little earlier? Even a previous launch window - send tanker, it lands on Mars, then send the manned mission. It refuels on Mars for the journey home - or am I being to simplistic?
Look up OS400 sometime. Sort of similar, but everything is accessed as an object. In fact for business purposes, as much as I admire Unix, I would choose OS400 over it every time - were it not for the expense of IBM hardware and software.
Wasn't a lot of that driven by the market, e.g. "NOW WITH 15 MPG!"
Is there any reason to believe that similar advances couldn't be made in battery technology to deliver comparable results?
The shit has hit the fan...HA
I have to agree - I lived through the '74 floods in Brissie - anyone who subsequently chose to live on or near the areas flooded that time should be second on the list for charity - there will be others more deserving. Me? I moved uphill to Maleny.
Thank you.
My wholesaler is still advertising XP Pro (costs more than 7Pro, though).
I think we simply don't have the population to support more competition. Not enough people to buy enough stuff to support more retailers, and so on. Gerry Harvey can cry on someone else's shoulder - he just HATES competition.
I'll assume you've never used Kodachrome 25 with a nice Nikkor/Schneider/Zeiss lens, then.
Probably more correct to call it binary rather than digital, but you're correct - after development, the halide crystals are either black (exposed) or transparent (unexposed). Then the unexposed crystals are either bleached out (negative film) or chemically (E6) or optically (Kodachrome) exposed and developed to provide the positive image (reversal film).
No it's not. There's no such thing as a positive film. It's a reversal slide film (you can also get reversal paper - see Cibachrome). The image is a negative until it goes through the reversal stage of processing, and it's possible to process slide film to produce a negative by skipping that reversal stage.
No, nada, nyet. The end result is a positive, but the image is a negative until it goes through the reversal stage of processing. You can skip the reversal stage and end up with a negative, which you could then print onto photo paper to obtain your positive.
Even better, take a reading on "auto" or "program", note the settings, switch to manual, set shutter speed, and adjust aperture only. As each full stop is effectively double (or half) the previous settings, you should get some reliable results.
Oh, and do all this in very low ambient conditions, or your observations will be very much affected by the light coming in the window.
Is there anyone here who worked on the restoration of the recently-discovered tapes of higher-quality TV feeds from the Apollo 11 mission?
Testify, Brother! Had the same problem with some IBM x86 servers. The Raid card did its job of rebuilding the data when the first drive failed and jumped ship to the hot spare, but that hadn't finished when the next drive failed. Result: a completely unusable array - we weren't going to trust the replacement units, either. We insisted on drives from another manufacturer, i.e. anyone except Hitachi
Wait a minute...Juliet?
Would you sell them with the "breasts out of whack"?
*Sigh* - let me know when you find as AS/400 emulator - I'd like to see how to make it work properly on non-AS/400 hardware, but just having that OS to play with.... I've been out of it for a while, but I've never seen the granularity of control available in any other mid-range or server OS. I've never seen a Microsoft OS that even approached the ability of OS/400 to manage resources and jobs. FWIW, I used to manage an AS400 that supported 200+ green screens and 200+ desktop PCs. It had 48MB (yes, megabytes) of main memory and still gave sub-second response times on green-screen applications. The PCs only used it for storage and printing. BTW, http://systeminetwork.com/ is a good place to start if you want to learn more.
I've come to the conclusion that if you reached adulthood during the middle ages, your immune system was one tough S.O.B.
While we're on it, what about the opening credits scene in Serenity? There's a cheat part-way through, but it's an enjoyable ride.
I believe the Panasonic P2 series cameras can do this. They record to memory cards and the cameras have multiple slots, allowing you to record to card #2 while card #1 is hot-swapped and dumped to an external hard drive. The HVX202 has 2 slots, but the higher-end models have up to 6.
2. ????
3. Profit!
I'm off-grid - no connection at all, unless you include the phone line.