Digital cameras do not pick up low light and shadow details as well as film, and generally have inferior optics which limit image quality far more than resolution does.
The dynamic range on digital cameras is getting better all the time, but what you say about the lenses isn't true. These days digital cameras use the same lenses as film cameras, and my EOS 350D takes better photos than my EOS 300 film using the exact same L lens.
Yahoo recently partnered with one of Australia's three TV networks, Ch 7. I'm not sure what they're planning on doing with it - MSN and Channel 9 did a similar thing years ago and I don't really understand why, as they haven't done anything interesting with it.
In Australia, Telstra offer ADSL at a max speed of 1536/256. They offer retail access via Bigpon, and wholesale access to many other ISPs. A couple of these ISPs have started installing their own ADSL2+ equipment, offering up to 24/1Mbps. Earlier this week, Optus (The 2nd largest Telco, behind Telstra) announced their ADSL2+ rollout, similar to Internode and iiNet's uncapped speeds
Today, Telstra announced their ADSL2+ plans. They're going to offer a whole 2meg! A Telstra spokesperson said "typical consumers do not need faster Internet". Telstra are reserving the rest of the bandwidth for video on demand and VoIP.
After we dumped out 1 & 2 cent coins, $1.99 prices still existed. Round off the total of the transaction, not each individual item. I guess it also helps that our prices are usually including tax, not excluding - but it wouldn't make that much of a difference.
The camera body is the cheap part. I've spent way more on lenses than I have on the camera body (film or digital).
I have a 350D with a couple of L series lenses. The cheaper consumer-grade lenses annoyed the hell out of me. If you're doing serious work, you need a serious lens.
I recently sent in my old Pentax Spotmatic film body for repair - over 30 years old and still good (except for the broken light-meter battery compartment).
I have a DC240, wonderful and simple to use from the 1.1Megapixel days
My DC210 was a great camera, I was taking much better photos with it than my friends with their new 4MP Canon's (they didnt give it time to autofocus, but my DC210 was fixed focus heh).
There are also a lot of signs at the park with pictures of a bench breaking off into the ocean and an unfortunate stick figure hiker falling in with it, but the pics are out of scale and make the bench look like a rather small edge of land by the sea, easily steered clear of.
Only yesterday did I see in the news that a ~40-acre bench had broken off into the ocean. Holy moly, 40 acres! And that was only three days after we almost snuck out on this exact bench, not realizing its massive size!
40 acres!? I had no idea it was so large. We didnt get very far past the no parking sign before it started getting dark so we turned back.
The Big Island was the best part of our two weeks in Hawaii. Maui and Oahu were ok - but I guess my local beaches spoil me.
We visited the Volcano National Park 18 months ago. While it was very active at the time - it was an awesome sight.
At the end of Chain Of Craters road (see map), there is this sign which explains what happened.
My boss recently PAID for eMule, which he installed on his daughter's computer. 5 days later they get a bill from Bigpond for $600AUD in excess data usage. Bigpond is one of the few ISPs left in Australia that count uploads are part of your data quota, and she left eMule running.
I find it quite funny that he ended up paying more for the illegally downloaded music than it would have cost to buy the CDs.
Reminds me of a scene in the Hunt for Red October..
Watson: Seaman Jones here is into music in a big way, and he views this whole boat as his own personal, private stereo set. Well, one day he's got this piece of Pavarotti...
Seaman Jones: It was Paganini.
Watson: Whatever.
Seaman Jones: It was Paganini.
Watson: Look, this is my story, okay?
Seaman Jones: Then tell it right, COB. Pavarotti is a tenor, Paganini was a composer.
Watson: So anyway, he's got this music out in the water, and he's listening to it on his headsets, and he's just happy as a clam. And then all hell breaks loose. See, there's this whole slew of boats out in the water...
Seaman Jones: Including one WAY out at Pearl!
Watson: Including one way the hell out at Pearl. All of a sudden, they start hearing, Pavarotti...
Beaumont: Pavarotti!
Watson: Coming up their asses!
I've been using Gallery since the early v1.4's, and have found it very suitable for my needs.
G2 is a big step forward compared with G1. I've been running G2 since the beta was first released, and while I noticed a few bugs in the early betas (that's what beta versions are for after all..) the more recent versions have been really good.
Yes, you need an SQL server for this version, but for those of us running our own servers, that isnt really a huge problem. It certainly makes things much easier (I've had corrupted db files in gallery1 that were a huge pain - I couldn't delete an empty album!)
I've been to the reactor complex on a high school physics class field trip about 10 years ago.
I know which building is the reactor, and the security back then was almost non-existant. The father of one of the guys in my class was a safety inspector there - think Homer Simpson.
Actually our class was described by some as "terrorists". Our teacher had to read us the riot act before we got off the bus - "leave the weapons ON the bus please", nothing too serious - just a few slingshots and potato guns. One of the guys even stole a chunk of synrock.
I now live about 8km from the site, and I'm not worried about it at all.
It is common to call the person in charge of the ship "Captain", even if they're a lowly ensign.
I'm not sure how BSG's rank works - in the US Navy, Commander (O-5) is lower than Captain (O-6). The USMC have an O-3 Captain but do not have the rank of Commander.
How about removing the brats that talk on thier cell phones, or throw things, use laser pointers, get up and leave, then come back and mess with thier friends.
I didn't have any problems with laser pointers or cell phones. Just a couple of people with pretend light sabers.
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The dynamic range on digital cameras is getting better all the time, but what you say about the lenses isn't true. These days digital cameras use the same lenses as film cameras, and my EOS 350D takes better photos than my EOS 300 film using the exact same L lens.
Yahoo recently partnered with one of Australia's three TV networks, Ch 7. I'm not sure what they're planning on doing with it - MSN and Channel 9 did a similar thing years ago and I don't really understand why, as they haven't done anything interesting with it.
Funny.. I thought in Piracy they shouted Arrr, walked around with a parot on their shoulder, and made you walk the plank.
Today, Telstra announced their ADSL2+ plans. They're going to offer a whole 2meg! A Telstra spokesperson said "typical consumers do not need faster Internet". Telstra are reserving the rest of the bandwidth for video on demand and VoIP.
Unbelievable...
It's still in the process of being fully mirrored. Would rather they allow access to an incomplete mirror (and corrupted files)?
I still think the best bash.org autokick quote is this one
After we dumped out 1 & 2 cent coins, $1.99 prices still existed. Round off the total of the transaction, not each individual item. I guess it also helps that our prices are usually including tax, not excluding - but it wouldn't make that much of a difference.
I think I've seen some way of getting two drives onto the one SATA port, but I might have been dreaming.
I have a 350D with a couple of L series lenses. The cheaper consumer-grade lenses annoyed the hell out of me. If you're doing serious work, you need a serious lens.
I recently sent in my old Pentax Spotmatic film body for repair - over 30 years old and still good (except for the broken light-meter battery compartment).
My DC210 was a great camera, I was taking much better photos with it than my friends with their new 4MP Canon's (they didnt give it time to autofocus, but my DC210 was fixed focus heh).
I upgraded to a DX5430, and it took wonderful photos too.
I've now got a Canon EOS 350D/RebelXT, and wouldn't go back to Kodak (or any other compact camera)
http://www.apacer.com/en/products/CompactFlash_Car d.htm
The place I bought it from seems to have stopped selling them, otherwise I'd buy another.
Yes. I know a guy who runs a 3 processor Xeon. It works fine.
Such as this is the sign.
Only yesterday did I see in the news that a ~40-acre bench had broken off into the ocean. Holy moly, 40 acres! And that was only three days after we almost snuck out on this exact bench, not realizing its massive size!
40 acres!? I had no idea it was so large. We didnt get very far past the no parking sign before it started getting dark so we turned back.
The Big Island was the best part of our two weeks in Hawaii. Maui and Oahu were ok - but I guess my local beaches spoil me.
We visited the Volcano National Park 18 months ago. While it was very active at the time - it was an awesome sight. At the end of Chain Of Craters road (see map), there is this sign which explains what happened.
Because they're stupid.
My boss recently PAID for eMule, which he installed on his daughter's computer. 5 days later they get a bill from Bigpond for $600AUD in excess data usage. Bigpond is one of the few ISPs left in Australia that count uploads are part of your data quota, and she left eMule running.
I find it quite funny that he ended up paying more for the illegally downloaded music than it would have cost to buy the CDs.
Reminds me of a scene in the Hunt for Red October.. Watson: Seaman Jones here is into music in a big way, and he views this whole boat as his own personal, private stereo set. Well, one day he's got this piece of Pavarotti...
Seaman Jones: It was Paganini.
Watson: Whatever.
Seaman Jones: It was Paganini.
Watson: Look, this is my story, okay?
Seaman Jones: Then tell it right, COB. Pavarotti is a tenor, Paganini was a composer.
Watson: So anyway, he's got this music out in the water, and he's listening to it on his headsets, and he's just happy as a clam. And then all hell breaks loose. See, there's this whole slew of boats out in the water...
Seaman Jones: Including one WAY out at Pearl!
Watson: Including one way the hell out at Pearl. All of a sudden, they start hearing, Pavarotti...
Beaumont: Pavarotti!
Watson: Coming up their asses!
(Seriously - I've been out of the country for 5 years
Yep. A while ago now - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/29/worlds_big gest_luddite_to_retire/
So since they drilled down into the rock, the medium density should be really high, yeah?
Sure nukes in open space is questionable, but the AC was talking about placing the nuke within the asteroid - Armageddon style.
G2 is a big step forward compared with G1. I've been running G2 since the beta was first released, and while I noticed a few bugs in the early betas (that's what beta versions are for after all..) the more recent versions have been really good.
Yes, you need an SQL server for this version, but for those of us running our own servers, that isnt really a huge problem. It certainly makes things much easier (I've had corrupted db files in gallery1 that were a huge pain - I couldn't delete an empty album!)
Actually our class was described by some as "terrorists". Our teacher had to read us the riot act before we got off the bus - "leave the weapons ON the bus please", nothing too serious - just a few slingshots and potato guns. One of the guys even stole a chunk of synrock.
I now live about 8km from the site, and I'm not worried about it at all.
I'm not sure how BSG's rank works - in the US Navy, Commander (O-5) is lower than Captain (O-6). The USMC have an O-3 Captain but do not have the rank of Commander.
A bit of googling shows the rank structure listed 1/2 way down this page: http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/02/
So it's a mixture of Navy and Army ranks..
I didn't have any problems with laser pointers or cell phones. Just a couple of people with pretend light sabers.
I'm wishing I'd bought the deluxe model, I've recently added a firewire card, and I'd like sata now too. I could also do with more USB2 ports..
I always turn off autorun with Group Policies
I have an old Compaq 486 laptop that has the transformer built in.