I experienced the same problem. This is a screenshot I took on one of the occassions where file operations would just seem to stall for no reason at all.
I really have to wonder about the quality of the coax after all those years. I lived in a dorm built in 1980 and the coax was utter shit. Tons of noise on certain channels and even the "best quality" channels were pretty bad.
It was a "training" type situation where the DEA folks were telling the RCMP who (as in what to look for) to stop and search. Which I'm ok with, it's just the "get secretly invited to the country and take part in arrests and carry handguns possibly without the proper paperwork, licenses etc" thing that is a bit disturbing.
It is basically impossible to get a carry permit up in Canada (you need written permission from "some guy" and have it planned weeks or even months in advance, etc.
High shutter speeds are still created by turning the sensor on and off quickly in the lower end (all?) digital cameras. The D50 I have is limited to something like 1/800th of a second mechanical shutter speed IIRC. As for exactly why... Guessing that LCD screens aren't all that good - and you can get a few goodies for your viewfinder that wouldn't work with the lcd.
Are we talking about the same one that ships with the d50? What a piece of shit. Lots of distortion, the manual focus is retarded (it focuses way (easily 1/4 of the manual focus range) "past infinity" which is a problem at night because the autofocus doesn't like setting itself to infinity, just shines that stupid light and seeks) The manual focus adjustment gets bumped incredibly easily, it's hard to fine tune the focus since there is little movement there... It's just not all that clear on top of that and it's slow.
I bought the d50 right before a 2 week trip and ended up despising the lens. I really expected more, which may of have been a mistake, but I was really disappointed with the quality. I am beginning to suspect that I got a lemon...
I suppose the canon kit lens could be worse though.
I own a Nikon (so I'm not a canon fanboy, etc) but it seems that the nikon DSLRs have a fair bit of noise at 1600 even if you do flatten it to black and white. I still think film has its place...
I have the same camera and what we mean by two full days is "taking around 2000 images totaling somewhere in the area of 3-4 gigs"
Just because some people might have different ideas what "2 days" mean;)
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The RAW format isn't the only proprietary trap of DSLRs. I bought a Pentax primarily because of the ease of lens interchange but it also uses standard old SD cards and regular AA batteries. I use rechargeables but the point is I don't have to buy those VERY expensive proprietary batteries or flavor of the month memory formats as you may if you don't watch out.
Except that AA's - even rechargables - suck ass for powering cameras.I have a D50 and the kit battery lets me take somewhat in the area of 1700 pictures between charges. I can go out for an entire day, shooting continuously and filling up over 3 gigs of SD cards and come home at the end of the night with juice left for the next day. Before, I'd have to change batteries every 200 or so shots.
The kit batteries hold much more power for their weight and size (nimh aa cells are the heaviest) and you have an overall better experience. Besides, the "expensive" batteries are pretty cheap if you compare the cost of buying them to buying AA nimh cells. Could even be cheaper.
Most DSLRs use common cards. CF dominated, now SD is slowly making its way in.
The FBI and DEA took part in raids and traffic stops up here in Canada a while back. Supposedly in an "advisory" role only, but there were cases where they were pointing guns at Canadians...
It is also offensive because, as a practicing Jew, he uses Hebrew when he pretends to be talking Kazakh - which is pretty offensive itself.
Uhh, no. In fact 3 of his most popular catch phrases are clearly Polish (they may also be from some other slavic languages, perhaps even yiddish, but I'm almost certain that it isn't Hebrew)
"Jak sie masz?" is "how are you?" "gen ku-ye" is "thank you" "Dzien dobry (gein doh-brie)" is "good morning" etc.
He usually uses them in the improper context, but it's pretty clear what he's saying.
Around that time in East Germany (although you won't find many movie clips of this) you would of have seen East German officers shooting people who were trying to scale the wall.
And if I put money in my savings account I can get fined for taking money out of it too often.
Then your bank "fucking sucks" (TM) and yeah, almost no checking accounts earn interest. Even if it did, if you keep a reasonable amount of money in there (i.e. not everything you have), what are you going to earn in interest? $10 a year? The paypal card is a pain, probably the most annoying is the "automatic tip rejection" and I'm pretty sure their chargeback policy is the worst out there (not that ATM cards are worth a damn when it comes to chargebacks anyways).
Because Slate would of have put together a strong defense and made the FBI and everyone else involved in the prosecution of this case look like douchebags. This guy, on the other hand, is a graduate student. Broke, nobody really knows his name and and an easy target. Without the Internet, he is a nobody. If this gets spun by the media as "aiding terrorism" instead of exposing a flaw, he's an incredibly easy target.
Right, like the prosecutor assigned to this case doesn't have a stiffy right now because if he wins he will be known as "the prosecutor who put the fraudulent ticket terrorist behind bars" (which will only help his future political career).
I could just have a slanted view of the legal system, but I have not once seen a prosecutor that has used any sort of common sense in the United States. It seems that the majority of prosecutors are sociopaths who just want to carve another notch on their belt so that they can move up.
60 Minutes did a great segment about the the No Fly list (titled "Unlikely Terrorists On No Fly List") which aired 2006-10-08. Great piece and it is pretty much guaranteed that you'll feel the watch lists are a joke (or a bigger joke) after you watch it.
It's on their annoyingly bad website. These links should work. Video Article
And "Security Theater" is an excellent way to describe the "security" measures that have been enacted over the past few years.
Harassment, mainly. He is looking at a period of several months and several appearances in court and discussions with his lawyer before he gets his computer and personal property back, assuming they aren't "lost" in the system.
The repairs for any damage that the FBI did, include the maliciously broken window (really, the FBI doesn't know how to pick locks?) will come out of his pocket.
And yes, now they can scan his hard drive for whatever they want, im / chat logs, "kiddie porn" (aka porn involving a girl who faked her ID, even if it is sold through regular channels under the belief that it is legal - it just takes 1 of these to get a mandatory sentence of several to a dozen years in prison, depending on the state). Anything that can be used for character assassination will be. It doesn't help that that congressman who is trying to look tough on terrorism opened his mouth either.
Now let me get out the soapbox yet again. I don't understand the injustice system. The judge gets paid well, the bailiffs & cops get paid well, the lawyers get paid very well, but the jurors get lunch money. What is wrong with this picture?
Nothing, the legal system already sees regular people as pieces of shit who don't actually serve a purpose in the courtroom, this just reinforces it. In some counties, the cost of parking at the courthouse exceeds what you get a day as a juror.
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Change some to most. You generally have to pay them a few bucks to do it, which will probably exceed the cost of what you win in small claims.
The key word being "attempt"...
I experienced the same problem.
This is a screenshot I took on one of the occassions where file operations would just seem to stall for no reason at all.
And it actually took 3 minutes to finish deleting 9mb
I really have to wonder about the quality of the coax after all those years. I lived in a dorm built in 1980 and the coax was utter shit. Tons of noise on certain channels and even the "best quality" channels were pretty bad.
Running data over that would be "fun".
It was a "training" type situation where the DEA folks were telling the RCMP who (as in what to look for) to stop and search. Which I'm ok with, it's just the "get secretly invited to the country and take part in arrests and carry handguns possibly without the proper paperwork, licenses etc" thing that is a bit disturbing.
It is basically impossible to get a carry permit up in Canada (you need written permission from "some guy" and have it planned weeks or even months in advance, etc.
High shutter speeds are still created by turning the sensor on and off quickly in the lower end (all?) digital cameras. The D50 I have is limited to something like 1/800th of a second mechanical shutter speed IIRC.
As for exactly why... Guessing that LCD screens aren't all that good - and you can get a few goodies for your viewfinder that wouldn't work with the lcd.
The A620 is a damn nice "point and shoot", probably the, if not one of the one of the best cameras you can buy for the price.
Are we talking about the same one that ships with the d50?
What a piece of shit. Lots of distortion, the manual focus is retarded (it focuses way (easily 1/4 of the manual focus range) "past infinity" which is a problem at night because the autofocus doesn't like setting itself to infinity, just shines that stupid light and seeks)
The manual focus adjustment gets bumped incredibly easily, it's hard to fine tune the focus since there is little movement there...
It's just not all that clear on top of that and it's slow.
I bought the d50 right before a 2 week trip and ended up despising the lens. I really expected more, which may of have been a mistake, but I was really disappointed with the quality. I am beginning to suspect that I got a lemon...
I suppose the canon kit lens could be worse though.
Sure, you can have movie mode ;)
;)
Time Lapse vids shot with a Nikon D50
I own a Nikon (so I'm not a canon fanboy, etc) but it seems that the nikon DSLRs have a fair bit of noise at 1600 even if you do flatten it to black and white.
I still think film has its place...
I have the same camera and what we mean by two full days is "taking around 2000 images totaling somewhere in the area of 3-4 gigs"
;)
Just because some people might have different ideas what "2 days" mean
The RAW format isn't the only proprietary trap of DSLRs. I bought a Pentax primarily because of the ease of lens interchange but it also uses standard old SD cards and regular AA batteries. I use rechargeables but the point is I don't have to buy those VERY expensive proprietary batteries or flavor of the month memory formats as you may if you don't watch out.
Except that AA's - even rechargables - suck ass for powering cameras.I have a D50 and the kit battery lets me take somewhat in the area of 1700 pictures between charges. I can go out for an entire day, shooting continuously and filling up over 3 gigs of SD cards and come home at the end of the night with juice left for the next day. Before, I'd have to change batteries every 200 or so shots.
The kit batteries hold much more power for their weight and size (nimh aa cells are the heaviest) and you have an overall better experience. Besides, the "expensive" batteries are pretty cheap if you compare the cost of buying them to buying AA nimh cells. Could even be cheaper.
Most DSLRs use common cards. CF dominated, now SD is slowly making its way in.
The FBI and DEA took part in raids and traffic stops up here in Canada a while back. Supposedly in an "advisory" role only, but there were cases where they were pointing guns at Canadians...
It is also offensive because, as a practicing Jew, he uses Hebrew when he pretends to be talking Kazakh - which is pretty offensive itself.
Uhh, no. In fact 3 of his most popular catch phrases are clearly Polish (they may also be from some other slavic languages, perhaps even yiddish, but I'm almost certain that it isn't Hebrew)
"Jak sie masz?" is "how are you?"
"gen ku-ye" is "thank you"
"Dzien dobry (gein doh-brie)" is "good morning" etc.
He usually uses them in the improper context, but it's pretty clear what he's saying.
Around that time in East Germany (although you won't find many movie clips of this) you would of have seen East German officers shooting people who were trying to scale the wall.
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Shame, I was going to get their contact information and give them a friendly phone call
Yeah, but the comedy central viewer really, really sucks.
You're full of shit, there are no people who actually speak English working in call centers anymore...
and the latter kind implies that your sympathies lie with the perpetrators
Bing bing bing!
And if I put money in my savings account I can get fined for taking money out of it too often.
Then your bank "fucking sucks" (TM) and yeah, almost no checking accounts earn interest. Even if it did, if you keep a reasonable amount of money in there (i.e. not everything you have), what are you going to earn in interest? $10 a year?
The paypal card is a pain, probably the most annoying is the "automatic tip rejection" and I'm pretty sure their chargeback policy is the worst out there (not that ATM cards are worth a damn when it comes to chargebacks anyways).
Because Slate would of have put together a strong defense and made the FBI and everyone else involved in the prosecution of this case look like douchebags. This guy, on the other hand, is a graduate student. Broke, nobody really knows his name and and an easy target. Without the Internet, he is a nobody. If this gets spun by the media as "aiding terrorism" instead of exposing a flaw, he's an incredibly easy target.
A good time for prosecutorial DISCRETION
Right, like the prosecutor assigned to this case doesn't have a stiffy right now because if he wins he will be known as "the prosecutor who put the fraudulent ticket terrorist behind bars" (which will only help his future political career).
I could just have a slanted view of the legal system, but I have not once seen a prosecutor that has used any sort of common sense in the United States. It seems that the majority of prosecutors are sociopaths who just want to carve another notch on their belt so that they can move up.
60 Minutes did a great segment about the the No Fly list (titled "Unlikely Terrorists On No Fly List") which aired 2006-10-08.
Great piece and it is pretty much guaranteed that you'll feel the watch lists are a joke (or a bigger joke) after you watch it.
It's on their annoyingly bad website. These links should work.
Video
Article
And "Security Theater" is an excellent way to describe the "security" measures that have been enacted over the past few years.
Harassment, mainly. He is looking at a period of several months and several appearances in court and discussions with his lawyer before he gets his computer and personal property back, assuming they aren't "lost" in the system.
The repairs for any damage that the FBI did, include the maliciously broken window (really, the FBI doesn't know how to pick locks?) will come out of his pocket.
And yes, now they can scan his hard drive for whatever they want, im / chat logs, "kiddie porn" (aka porn involving a girl who faked her ID, even if it is sold through regular channels under the belief that it is legal - it just takes 1 of these to get a mandatory sentence of several to a dozen years in prison, depending on the state).
Anything that can be used for character assassination will be. It doesn't help that that congressman who is trying to look tough on terrorism opened his mouth either.
Now let me get out the soapbox yet again. I don't understand the injustice system. The judge gets paid well, the bailiffs & cops get paid well, the lawyers get paid very well, but the jurors get lunch money. What is wrong with this picture?
Nothing, the legal system already sees regular people as pieces of shit who don't actually serve a purpose in the courtroom, this just reinforces it. In some counties, the cost of parking at the courthouse exceeds what you get a day as a juror.