There are 22 megapixel backs for some view cameras. Which gives you about the same resolution (20 MP) as a digital medium-format back would, and about 1/9 of the resolution of normal 4x5 film.
A 10-megapixel image is nice and all, but Adams used everything up to 8x10 cameras, and there's nothing like that kind of resolution even in the planning stages for digital. He certainly would have used digitals for his "small" works.
For big landscapes? no.
For example, a 4x5 using Velvia color film is in the 200 megapixel range, and the 8x10 would be closer to the gigapixel category using 25 ASA black and white...
You can get Minoltas *cheap* compared to most of the other cameras you've seen mentioned here, and their lenses are very nice indeed. I have an X-700, its baby brother the 370, and a bunch of lenses that are all beautiful, ranging from 28mm to 300 mm.
The X-700 with a 50mm f1.4 is *great* for club photography, by the way.
Over a dozen years ago, one of my friends (a geologist) went into a near-frothing rage at me when I mentioned the idea that an asteroid hitting the Earth might have killed the dinosaurs, and he spent a half hour telling me in no uncertain terms that anyone who suggested it was going against everything known about the science.
Meanwhile, you can get many of the major petroleum products by putting a bunch of methane under high pressure and heat for a few million years.
Geology is one of the most conservative sciences, and it takes a generation or so for startling new ideas to even be read, much less accepted.
I've worked corporate meetings for IBM, and they would quite happily do quite a lot to frustrate Microsoft. Keeping the 970 secret would be right in line with their corporate attitude. You have to remember that Microsoft's screwing of IBM didn't stop with the selling of DOS to Compaq - it's been a habit for the last 20 years.
When I started high school, they got the first student-usable computer in Texas. It was three feet tall, two feet wide and deep, had 256 BYTES of volatile memory, and had a paper-tape storage device.
Yes, paper. Inch-wide paper tape, in folds, with a punch write head and an optical reader. You programmed the machine with eight switches and a push button (up, down, up, up, down, down, up, up, ENTER).
Just six years later, a friend of mine had an Apple II with 64K of RAM (the "language card"), color display, and *two* 5 1/4 floppy drives. Other Comp Sci students used to come over just to see this monster machine, which was being used to write some silly little computer game called "Ultima."
This is one of the great hoaxes put on the American people, and it's gained a life of its own. Gore correctly took credit - in a casual comment in an interview - for taking the initiative in Congress in creating what we consider to be the Internet (increasing funding and taking it from a military to a commercial and academic network). Some weeks later, Republicans started using the false "invented" claim.
"New" oscilloscopes use ethernet or other networking setups to transfer data. They *don't* have floppies. Don't confuse what you're seeing at the technical school with what's out there in the real world.
If you have to have something to transfer stuff to your house, you might look into that new "CD-ROM" drive. they're all the rage.
I got a call from a small publishing company to do some work on their machines (they just bought some new Macs). So I looked around, and found the network cables, and the printer, and...
"Um, where's your print server?"
"We don't have one."
"Yeah, you do, all of your machines are talking to it, it's here somewhere."
"I've been here seven years, and we don't have a server."
I traced the cables into a closet. That's blocked off by a workstation/desk. After some convincing, I managed to get them to let me move the desk, and I got into the closet. Where I found a 1987-vintage Mac II, happily munching along as a print server. Hooked into an old phone company-style UPS. Covered in a solid inch of dust and debris. And running without anyone noticing it for at least seven years...
Were the local towers receiving your cell signal? I could see a lot of situations where a phone would be showing "no signal" but where the towers (several times a minute) were trying to acquire you, causing lots of extra traffic (and, possibly, trying to bill you for roaming over several states).
It seems more like the countries that scored well are the ones where their journalists just don't get into trouble as much. Reporters getting arrested in the US for sneaking into a secure area happens from time to time, but how often does anyone even attempt it in most countries? I just can't see too many members of the German press resisting some government employee who asks them for information on some story they covered... although they seem to have no issues in covering controversial American stories.
Some of the games out there already have characters that "pay attention" to the player's moves and start anticipating them. The new "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" game for Xbox does this.
The "landing just about anywhere" thing is all of the point. Being able to drop an armored vehicle and a handful of troops anywhere, any time, with no warning and little prep is a Very Big Thing. Alternately, you could take that same troop/armor load and sit twenty miles off someone's coast for a couple of days and wait for something to happen, with a reaction time of minutes instead of hours (or days). Or, if it has good high-altitude capability, you could fly a partly-loaded one up to 100,000 feet or so and use it as a manned sensor/weapons platform that nobody could touch.
It'd have to be a helluva big car, with some really bad-ass explosives. Six inches of Very Hard Steel, with a lead liner and a thick energy-absorbing outer casing. A simple bomb would just push the thing over. You'd need a shaped charge just to poke a hole in it, and all that would do would be to let some nasty stuff out (which would contaminate a few hundred meters of ground). Collisions? They tested the cask design by running a locomotive into it at 60+ MPH, and all it did was bounce the thing along the track.
Meanwhile, several thousand tons of extremely nasty chemicals of all sorts (from caustics to poisons to explosives) are running down roads and railroad tracks at speeds of up to 100 MPH.
And at this very moment, over two BILLION gallons of a horrible chemical (poisonous, explosive, and carcinogenic) are currently being transported around the US in vehicles, and normal folks are allowed to handle the stuff with little or no formal training (at places they call "gas stations").
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There are 22 megapixel backs for some view cameras. Which gives you about the same resolution (20 MP) as a digital medium-format back would, and about 1/9 of the resolution of normal 4x5 film.
He also would have kept his film cameras.
A 10-megapixel image is nice and all, but Adams used everything up to 8x10 cameras, and there's nothing like that kind of resolution even in the planning stages for digital. He certainly would have used digitals for his "small" works.
For big landscapes? no.
For example, a 4x5 using Velvia color film is in the 200 megapixel range, and the 8x10 would be closer to the gigapixel category using 25 ASA black and white...
Big dittoes on that.
You can get Minoltas *cheap* compared to most of the other cameras you've seen mentioned here, and their lenses are very nice indeed. I have an X-700, its baby brother the 370, and a bunch of lenses that are all beautiful, ranging from 28mm to 300 mm.
The X-700 with a 50mm f1.4 is *great* for club photography, by the way.
Use the machine.
Machine prints out two pieces of paper. One has your name, the other doesn't. Transaction numbers on both for future reference.
Compare for accuracy, keep the one with your name, toss the other in the ballot box.
Simple.
Over a dozen years ago, one of my friends (a geologist) went into a near-frothing rage at me when I mentioned the idea that an asteroid hitting the Earth might have killed the dinosaurs, and he spent a half hour telling me in no uncertain terms that anyone who suggested it was going against everything known about the science.
Meanwhile, you can get many of the major petroleum products by putting a bunch of methane under high pressure and heat for a few million years.
Geology is one of the most conservative sciences, and it takes a generation or so for startling new ideas to even be read, much less accepted.
It's also the 20th anniversary of someone including the entire post in their reply, and adding "me too!"
Seems as good a word as any.
Set his coffin on top of a hundred kiloton fusion device out in the middle of the desert somewhere and give him the world's best cremation.
"It's not a test, it's a ceremony!"
The Simpsons alone has more episodes than all of those put together...
By the way: when was Mononoke a regular TV show in Japan? It must have been a very short series.
I've worked corporate meetings for IBM, and they would quite happily do quite a lot to frustrate Microsoft. Keeping the 970 secret would be right in line with their corporate attitude. You have to remember that Microsoft's screwing of IBM didn't stop with the selling of DOS to Compaq - it's been a habit for the last 20 years.
The warhead of the "jeep" weapon was no larger than ten or twenty tons, not 40 kilotons.
The web page says 40 tons, but that's a high estimate.
When I started high school, they got the first student-usable computer in Texas. It was three feet tall, two feet wide and deep, had 256 BYTES of volatile memory, and had a paper-tape storage device.
Yes, paper. Inch-wide paper tape, in folds, with a punch write head and an optical reader. You programmed the machine with eight switches and a push button (up, down, up, up, down, down, up, up, ENTER).
Just six years later, a friend of mine had an Apple II with 64K of RAM (the "language card"), color display, and *two* 5 1/4 floppy drives. Other Comp Sci students used to come over just to see this monster machine, which was being used to write some silly little computer game called "Ultima."
Been in the inventory for *years*...
This is one of the great hoaxes put on the American people, and it's gained a life of its own. Gore correctly took credit - in a casual comment in an interview - for taking the initiative in Congress in creating what we consider to be the Internet (increasing funding and taking it from a military to a commercial and academic network). Some weeks later, Republicans started using the false "invented" claim.
"New" oscilloscopes use ethernet or other networking setups to transfer data. They *don't* have floppies. Don't confuse what you're seeing at the technical school with what's out there in the real world.
If you have to have something to transfer stuff to your house, you might look into that new "CD-ROM" drive. they're all the rage.
Gotta say it like the Prez...
Some of the material on the CD-ROM is available online at the Baen Free Library.
I got a call from a small publishing company to do some work on their machines (they just bought some new Macs). So I looked around, and found the network cables, and the printer, and...
"Um, where's your print server?"
"We don't have one."
"Yeah, you do, all of your machines are talking to it, it's here somewhere."
"I've been here seven years, and we don't have a server."
I traced the cables into a closet. That's blocked off by a workstation/desk. After some convincing, I managed to get them to let me move the desk, and I got into the closet. Where I found a 1987-vintage Mac II, happily munching along as a print server. Hooked into an old phone company-style UPS. Covered in a solid inch of dust and debris. And running without anyone noticing it for at least seven years...
Were the local towers receiving your cell signal? I could see a lot of situations where a phone would be showing "no signal" but where the towers (several times a minute) were trying to acquire you, causing lots of extra traffic (and, possibly, trying to bill you for roaming over several states).
It seems more like the countries that scored well are the ones where their journalists just don't get into trouble as much. Reporters getting arrested in the US for sneaking into a secure area happens from time to time, but how often does anyone even attempt it in most countries? I just can't see too many members of the German press resisting some government employee who asks them for information on some story they covered... although they seem to have no issues in covering controversial American stories.
Some of the games out there already have characters that "pay attention" to the player's moves and start anticipating them. The new "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" game for Xbox does this.
The "landing just about anywhere" thing is all of the point. Being able to drop an armored vehicle and a handful of troops anywhere, any time, with no warning and little prep is a Very Big Thing. Alternately, you could take that same troop/armor load and sit twenty miles off someone's coast for a couple of days and wait for something to happen, with a reaction time of minutes instead of hours (or days). Or, if it has good high-altitude capability, you could fly a partly-loaded one up to 100,000 feet or so and use it as a manned sensor/weapons platform that nobody could touch.
Get your reservations in early...
Regular expressions are old hat. I'm much more interested in the advances in irregular expressions, as used in the old Firth and Pasquale languages.
But, of course, everyone knows that a real coder uses irregexps in disassembly language.
It'd have to be a helluva big car, with some really bad-ass explosives. Six inches of Very Hard Steel, with a lead liner and a thick energy-absorbing outer casing. A simple bomb would just push the thing over. You'd need a shaped charge just to poke a hole in it, and all that would do would be to let some nasty stuff out (which would contaminate a few hundred meters of ground). Collisions? They tested the cask design by running a locomotive into it at 60+ MPH, and all it did was bounce the thing along the track.
Meanwhile, several thousand tons of extremely nasty chemicals of all sorts (from caustics to poisons to explosives) are running down roads and railroad tracks at speeds of up to 100 MPH.
And at this very moment, over two BILLION gallons of a horrible chemical (poisonous, explosive, and carcinogenic) are currently being transported around the US in vehicles, and normal folks are allowed to handle the stuff with little or no formal training (at places they call "gas stations").