I mean real, pukka honest to gods CD's with the CD logo on them, rather than silver disks that (sometimes) work in your CD player but come with non CD standard copy protection..
I've sent back so many non-CD's for refunds to online shops that fail to mention there not technicaly CD's, as a consumer I [b]will not[/b] be persecuted for buying music, if I buy it I'm not a criminal , eh..
Who have finished product for the PS3 sat on a shelf for months waiting for working copy rpotection and a launch of a console sometime in the future, will certainly discourage people from developing for a console that will effectivly cost them money.
If by 'Stopped for a while' You mean paused for a few months (whist refitting the factory) between the end of the RX7 (August 2002) and start of the RX8 production(1st on street March 2003) I think you'd be right...
No there using it as fuel in the wankel, no fuel cell here.
The wankel rotary is pretty good at using hydrogen, far better than a piston engine.
Oh and the seal problem was solved a long time ago, RX7's had an overheating problem on part of the apex seals made out of a rubber, that part is cast iron on the renesis in the RX8.
I ran an RX8 (hi-powered, UK) for two years, 30,000 miles. It drinks like a fish.
Hydrogen , whilst its a nice step forward isnt going to help much overall, and 62miles is ok if you live very close to where you fill up. As for 340miles out of the gas tank, forget it, most mine did was 275, typicaly 200-220.
Stunning cars though, balance, power and practicality, tho the Hydrogen cycle runs at 50% power and thats with a turbo.
mazda have had a demo/development duel fuel RX8 for a number of years.
The minolta A2's viwefinder is hinged so you can look down verticaly on the camera pointing horizontal, very handy, and far better IQ than the LCD, and less power consumption.
Most of the lag on consumer cameras is focusing time, not shutter time. SLR's tend to have better focus technology than even prosumer digi's.
I can set my A2 to manual focus and snap very quickly, with zero noise, an advantage when you need to be quiet. Effectivly non SLR digital cameras dont have shutters...
I have a Minolta A2 - probably the best Electronic view finder on the market.
Its dreadfull(for image quality) when compared with the through the lens viewfinder of an SLR, there so much clearer and brighter.
its usefull for having grid patterns, histograms etc, but given the choice, I'd rather have the dSLR.
Also up until recently (with this sony aparently) running hte sensor, a LARGE sensor all the time suckd the battery power.
My friends canon 300d can take as many pictures with one battery (similar 'size') as my A2 does two - and I'm working in power saving mode (no LCD, eye sensor EVF etc.
The noise is a function of craming more megapixels onto the sensor.
The Canon 350d (8mp) and the Nikon (6 or 8mp) on the same sensor size.
People who 'know' dont equate number of pixels to image quality, theres many other things that take prescedence, nut to the masses things like Carl Zeiss and 10mp sell.
"I'll start as I shall no doubt finish this little piece of editorial, the lens is worth the price of the DSC-R1 alone. That fact is not to be underestimated, it's a great lens which provides you with a very useful 24 - 120 mm zoom range (which will be sufficient for the majority of users). Doing the math it's pretty clear that you have to spend a fairly considerable sum on lenses for a D-SLR to get close to this range and the quality of the DSC-R1's lens. "
The cameeras problem is not its lens, its in its image processing:
"The second issue is image processing, take a RAW out of the DSC-R1 and run it through Adobe Camera RAW and you can see just what that lens / sensor combination is capable of, however you really need to be pretty dedicated to shoot RAW all the time, 20 MB per RAW file and around 9 seconds to write; I did note that some of our forums users are converting the Sony RAW files to Adobe DNG to save space. That's not to say JPEG's aren't good, they are very good, but you get a whole new appreciation for just how much crisper images could look converting in ACR."
And the fact that your still better off buying a dSLR.
Carl Zeiss obviously suck at amking glass then eh?
I wont buy sony anymore, doesnt make their cameras poor, though I dont see the thought behind buying an SLR (ish) camera without the mirror or the switchable lenses...
I assmune they'll fix it , probably via a BIOS patch.
It is a pre-production system that as yet doesnt support its in-built ATA-100 controller @100mb and it has problems at 100Mhz FSB ( so no test with PC1600 yet).
Anyhow , theres pleny of other DDR chipsets on their way.
Motherboards with AMD chipsets ( the 750 ) tend to be more expensive because they need a 6 layer board ( as opposed to a 4 layer for the VIA chipset ), also with the system buss wunning at 266Mhz I assume the'd need more precise tolerances in the manufacturing.
Theres plent of other DDR chipsets on the way though..
Current Athlons run @ 100Mhz DDR (200Mhz) FSB, with a 10x multiplier for the 1Ghz Processor.
New Athlons will run @ 266Mhz (133Mhz DDR), it may be possible to force old athlons to run at 266Mhz FSB but for a 1Ghz you'll have to drop the multiplier down to 7.5 , if you don't it'll try running at 1.33Ghz and (probably) wont post.
Your unlikley to cook the CPU unless you give it a bit of a voltage boost ( chips will go higher with more v but too much will kill).
And they don't know if their source is clean...
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Wonder whats been added to the retail windowsME,free trojan with every copy?
Guess M$ might be going open source...
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I mean real, pukka honest to gods CD's with the CD logo on them, rather than silver disks that (sometimes) work in your CD player but come with non CD standard copy protection..
I've sent back so many non-CD's for refunds to online shops that fail to mention there not technicaly CD's, as a consumer I [b]will not[/b] be persecuted for buying music, if I buy it I'm not a criminal , eh..
I know you can download FLAC etc, but if I'm buying music I'll order a CD from cd-wow or something rather than download 128bps and rip it myself.
Who have finished product for the PS3 sat on a shelf for months waiting for working copy rpotection and a launch of a console sometime in the future, will certainly discourage people from developing for a console that will effectivly cost them money.
The RX7 was produced and sold up until late 2002 in Japan, they withdrew it from sale inthe US and Europe in the mid 90's.
If by 'Stopped for a while' You mean paused for a few months (whist refitting the factory) between the end of the RX7 (August 2002) and start of the RX8 production(1st on street March 2003) I think you'd be right...
Theres not a lot of room in the RX8 for a spaer tank, its a small coupe, and the gas tank size is already too small for its thirst..
But this isnt about practicality, its about tialing in the real work.
No there using it as fuel in the wankel, no fuel cell here.
The wankel rotary is pretty good at using hydrogen, far better than a piston engine.
Oh and the seal problem was solved a long time ago, RX7's had an overheating problem on part of the apex seals made out of a rubber, that part is cast iron on the renesis in the RX8.
I ran an RX8 (hi-powered, UK) for two years, 30,000 miles. It drinks like a fish.
Hydrogen , whilst its a nice step forward isnt going to help much overall, and 62miles is ok if you live very close to where you fill up. As for 340miles out of the gas tank, forget it, most mine did was 275, typicaly 200-220.
Stunning cars though, balance, power and practicality, tho the Hydrogen cycle runs at 50% power and thats with a turbo.
mazda have had a demo/development duel fuel RX8 for a number of years.
The current New Labour government practices thin end of the wedge legislation.
Once this is on the books and active its a few easy steps to make compulsary or virtualy indistinguishable from it.
Second hand early dSLR cant be that much more?
I know a lot of people who use an order of magniture more expensive lenses on cheaper cameras.
LCD screen != viewfinder, most cameras have both.
The minolta A2's viwefinder is hinged so you can look down verticaly on the camera pointing horizontal, very handy, and far better IQ than the LCD, and less power consumption.
(d)SRL still pwns it.
Most of the lag on consumer cameras is focusing time, not shutter time. SLR's tend to have better focus technology than even prosumer digi's.
I can set my A2 to manual focus and snap very quickly, with zero noise, an advantage when you need to be quiet. Effectivly non SLR digital cameras dont have shutters...
True about the power consumption though.
I have a Minolta A2 - probably the best Electronic view finder on the market.
Its dreadfull(for image quality) when compared with the through the lens viewfinder of an SLR, there so much clearer and brighter.
its usefull for having grid patterns, histograms etc, but given the choice, I'd rather have the dSLR.
Also up until recently (with this sony aparently) running hte sensor, a LARGE sensor all the time suckd the battery power.
My friends canon 300d can take as many pictures with one battery (similar 'size') as my A2 does two - and I'm working in power saving mode (no LCD, eye sensor EVF etc.
"The new architecture also allows wider-angle optics to be used"
Cheaply, its 24mm equivelant, isnt that wide angle, but they can make it decent and cheap - because its so close to the sensor.
The noise is a function of craming more megapixels onto the sensor.
The Canon 350d (8mp) and the Nikon (6 or 8mp) on the same sensor size.
People who 'know' dont equate number of pixels to image quality, theres many other things that take prescedence, nut to the masses things like Carl Zeiss and 10mp sell.
To Quote dpreview of the R1:
"I'll start as I shall no doubt finish this little piece of editorial, the lens is worth the price of the DSC-R1 alone. That fact is not to be underestimated, it's a great lens which provides you with a very useful 24 - 120 mm zoom range (which will be sufficient for the majority of users). Doing the math it's pretty clear that you have to spend a fairly considerable sum on lenses for a D-SLR to get close to this range and the quality of the DSC-R1's lens. "
The cameeras problem is not its lens, its in its image processing:
"The second issue is image processing, take a RAW out of the DSC-R1 and run it through Adobe Camera RAW and you can see just what that lens / sensor combination is capable of, however you really need to be pretty dedicated to shoot RAW all the time, 20 MB per RAW file and around 9 seconds to write; I did note that some of our forums users are converting the Sony RAW files to Adobe DNG to save space. That's not to say JPEG's aren't good, they are very good, but you get a whole new appreciation for just how much crisper images could look converting in ACR."
And the fact that your still better off buying a dSLR.
Carl Zeiss obviously suck at amking glass then eh?
I wont buy sony anymore, doesnt make their cameras poor, though I dont see the thought behind buying an SLR (ish) camera without the mirror or the switchable lenses...
My last job I had to give 3 months notice, be thankfull you had 2 weeks and got it as paid holiday.
So now we can put companies phone lines out of action aswell as their websites.
Nah , the hydro RX8 (dual fuel) is aided by a turbo for H2 burning and still only makes half the power of the petrol mode.
Fuel cell stuff is the way forward rather than burning it in conventional internal combustion engines.
But H2 takes power to produce, unless thats geotherm, wind, solar or whatever its not going to save the world, just kill it slower.
V2.0 to be precise. Bug list fix since V1.0 : No godlike humans alowed. Matrix.net server now improved and unhackable....
I assmune they'll fix it , probably via a BIOS patch. It is a pre-production system that as yet doesnt support its in-built ATA-100 controller @100mb and it has problems at 100Mhz FSB ( so no test with PC1600 yet). Anyhow , theres pleny of other DDR chipsets on their way.
Motherboards with AMD chipsets ( the 750 ) tend to be more expensive because they need a 6 layer board ( as opposed to a 4 layer for the VIA chipset ), also with the system buss wunning at 266Mhz I assume the'd need more precise tolerances in the manufacturing. Theres plent of other DDR chipsets on the way though..
Current Athlons run @ 100Mhz DDR (200Mhz) FSB, with a 10x multiplier for the 1Ghz Processor. New Athlons will run @ 266Mhz (133Mhz DDR), it may be possible to force old athlons to run at 266Mhz FSB but for a 1Ghz you'll have to drop the multiplier down to 7.5 , if you don't it'll try running at 1.33Ghz and (probably) wont post. Your unlikley to cook the CPU unless you give it a bit of a voltage boost ( chips will go higher with more v but too much will kill).
Wonder whats been added to the retail windowsME,free trojan with every copy? Guess M$ might be going open source...