i inherited my grandfather's camera collection, an early 70s Nikkormat-EL with about half a dozen lenses ranging from a Micro-Nikkor macro, to a panoramic lens with a little mechanical jobbie to move the optics parallel to the plane of the film (lets you get shots of eg. tall buildings with no perspective effect) to a beast of a Nikkor-H 300mm tele...god, that thing is sweet. The rig is probably 30 years old and it still utterly spanks modern kit up and down the block - you could club somebody down with it, wipe the blood off, and keep shooting. perhaps i will get a new body sometime, but AFAIK the optics can still be made to fit. canon fanboys indeed:P
my first inkjet was an apple-branded canon, back in 1994; i think it actually still works. then i had a loaned i800, and i just recently bought a pixma iP6000D. the last two print great photos (the 6000D is a bit nicer since it's 6-color), and as the parent said the ink tanke are clear plastic so you can check the levels yourself. cheap, too. oh, and the canon drivers have never tried to phone home.
All the 532nm lasers that I can find (on Google at least) are all frequency-doubled Nd:YAG units - they do use a diode to generate the beam, but they still have a KTP freqquency doubler. AFAIK, there's no way to get direct laser action at 532nm; different materials lase at specific wavelengths and you use dyes or frequency changers to get different wavelengths.
Back at Brookhaven, we had some pricey Nd:YAG green lasers that were >80% efficient, stayed nice and cool to the touch, but they cost about $6,000 each. Without power supplies. Haven't played with the green pointers, so I don't know how they stack up against them.
As for the size, the phone could be compared to the relatively small digital camera, which means that it is certainly bigger than the modern phones. While the size wouldn't bother me at all, especially given the halfway decent quality of the pictures, I know a lot of people wo want the absolute smallest phone possible, so this probably wouldn't appeal to them. Looking at the pictures, it's almost like a camera with a phone built in, rather than vice-versa. Now, if I could get something like this that had the image quality of my coolpix 4300 or comparable cam, I'd be sold - but I suspect the small lens size is beginning to be a limiting factor; it looks like it's less than 1/4 the size of the lens on my cam.
While you are absolutely right about a 2-year timespan allowing amazing improvemenr in the technoloy of a phone, the lens itself isn't going to get any better for the same price over that same two years. Lens technology has matured to the point where you aren't going to get nearly the same pace of advancement as in the microelectronice field; the MP phone you have now likely uses the same optics setup as the VGA phones of yesteryear.
Sure, they could put the quality lenses used in credit card cameras in the phone, but a) those are still noticeably larger than the lenses in a typical camera phone (at least in the small cameras that I've seen) and b) those cams aren't terribly cheap - brings us right back to the original poster's point about price. Personally, given the choice between a 2MP camphone with a decent lens for $5-600, or a phone for $150 or less and a 4+MP digicam with an even better lens for $350, I'll take the latter. Of course, I value the quality of my photos far more than the convenience of having the cam in the phone, so YMMV.
You're absolutely right and I actually thought about putting a disclaimer in to that effect; I like to think I still have a good point though. I do know a few people who opted for the more expensive, faster serice on the sole grounds of enhancing their piracy activities, would that count?
...he does make one semi-decent point that a lot of/.'ers like to harp on:
Someone sneaks into a theater with a camcorder, films a movie, puts it online for the world to see for free, and it gets duplicated into DVDs that are getting sold on street corners from New York and Los Angeles to China. If this is allowed to continue, it will sink our industry.
It's perfectly reasonable to argue that that type of piracy does represent lost sales, and I for one think it's entirely legitimate to go after the people peddling those sorts of things. Too bad he goes on with
Q: The music industry has only sued people who "upload" onto the Internet -- i.e., people who share content with others. No downloader has been sued, because the RIAA says it's easier to find uploaders. Are you planning to sue just uploaders as well? A: Anybody who uses the technology to steal our property may be targeted. We want to get across the point that people are not anonymous on the Internet.
Now THAT just makes him sound like a media-whore-sue-everything-that-moves twit; it's a shame, he had a good thing going. Well, except that he shouldn't be allowed to breed - I wouldn't d/l Mr. 3000 if you paid me $9 to.
I think that price you quoted is for a civilian SAUG, semi-auto only...I can't find any prices ATM, but I think that Class III (select fire) SAUGS go for about the same price as the Oz black-market ones.
I remember a big flap a little while back over the rise in sword attacks down under; IIRC there was serious talk of legislation to ban swords, something along the lines of "there's no place for people just being able to go out there and buy these things" - sure, GUN crime might be down, but if Oz is such a non-violent utopia, why so people even need to discuss laws like that one? Lord knows if I tried running amuck with my katana here in PA, it's pretty good odds somebody would whip out a legally concealed handgun and stop me pretty fast.
Buh, the sporting goods store in town has a used AR-15 for $389.99, comes with a trigger lock, case, and two 30-round mags. Pretty good deal. Course, I decided I'd spend $349.99 on the HK G3 clone; 7.62 is much manlier than a wussy lil 5.56:D
Only 1% of the population are now farmers, yet they somehow manage to overweigh their influence on the US government
Once they all go out of business or leave because of the government's ignoring them in favor of purely urban interests and we've paved over every last amber wave of grain, how the fuck do you propose we feed ourselves? Cows don't graze on asphalt, ya know. Large cities are shit anyway - they're ecological nightmares as well as festering pits of the worst human nature has to offer; we'd be so much better off if we nuked NYC and LA, I can't even begin to describe it.
Interesting factoid (from Eric Sloane, you might want to try reading some of his books...you might learn something or two) - up till about the time of the Civil War and the explosion of cheap factory-produced goods, farmers, craftsmen, and other "inbred redneck trailer trash" were considered among the noblest and most important of Americans; it's only been since the Industrial Revolution that we look at farmers as uneducated hicks that are only worthy of our ridicule.
I completely see you're point, and I'm certainly not trying to be argumentative, but isn't that a rather defeatist attitude? Unless something is done, America's problems aren't going to get better, ever (ESPECIALLY if the people who really do want to make it better pack up and leave); it's probably true that one person acting alone can't change things, but wouldn't it be better to stay and try and make more people here feel the way you do instead of leaving and simply trying to absolve yourself of these atrocities? On a final note (and again, not to try and pick a fight or bait, but it's a point I feel is at least sorta valid...) doesn't leaving and not making an effort to fix things make you in some small way complicit in their happening, kind of like witnessing a crime on the street and doing nothing to stop it?
...what has expatriating done to improve the situation in terms of both what's going on in the US and what we're doing to the rest of the world? It seems to me that a mass exodus of the (relative) left to Canada/EU/wherever would be the LAST thing that should be happening - it would give unquestioned control of the US and its attendant military and economic power to the Far Right, which seems to me to be a Very Bad Idea. Yes, one could argue that the path the Right is taking us down leads to inevitable economic and attendant military collapse, but that's all hypothetical rambling - do you REALLY want to leave the arch-conservatives in power with no real opposition anymore?
If they designed the caddies to be the same size as jewel boxes, which can't be very difficult, there wouldn't be a problem - they could even put the cover on the caddy, voila, self-contained solution! Course, i still prefer "naked" discs since i use the book-type cases, but i do have a couple of racks filled with empty jewel boxes (gotta store them somewhere).
Photoshop 7.0.1/OS X, Raw, 640x480, 3 channel interleaved, 16bpp, Mac byte order (gonna assume that cuz it's a PPC) returns "Specified image is larger than file". Ideas?
I suppose I might be a bit biased, since I dropped $600 on an cat-back exhaust for my car this summer (95 240SX, A'PEXi N1 Dual); along with the intake and header, it definitely added a bit of power; even a $50 autozone coffee-can muffler should theoretically give you a small bit of power. Of course the ricer twits think that that alone is the only engine mod you need to have m4d p0w3r, totally ignoring the rest of the tuning and parts required to get the real benefits of a high-flow exhaust (next step for me is cams and a chip, just need to scrape up the cash first). I left the silencers in on my exhaust, but even without them it's only a bit louder than stock, and keeps a nice deep throatiness...no angry bumblebee for me. Of course, the large-for-a-4cyl. 2.4L displacement helps; a 1.6 liter honda engine is going to be whiney no matter what you do to it. Nor a body kit or ginormous rear wing; i did spring for 17" wheels, but those do give quite a handling improvement with wide tires, plus they look decent....
So...this radio station was mandatory listening for everybody in Canada? It's the same argument that cropped up on the Stern-Powell article - if you don't want to listen to it, you can switch it off. As long as the radio station wasn't blatantly telling listeners to go out and kill Jews/blacks/&c., you aren't allowed to have a problem with it. Freedom of speech = freedom to hate. Anyway, it keep it out in the open where it can be ridiculed and seen as the peabrained idiocy that it is, rather than giving it subversive appeal; look at the Neo-Nazi troubles in Europe (no, it's not Kristallnacht over again, but it's still much worse than here in the States where it's perfectly legal to spew that garbage).
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1280x1024 is actually a "narrower" size than 1280x960: 1280/960=1.33... 1280/1024=1.25
t's definitely usable on normal screens, it's what I use on my 17" CRT and i've seen it on PCs, so I don't think it's just an apple resolution.
more like the quality of construction.
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good industrial design doesn't come cheap, plus the components are usually spec'd way over what you'll find in a sub-$900 dell box. i have a performa 6400 that will still boot off the original mobo and hard drive (drive was replaced for size, board cuz the center plastic bit on the ADB port broke off, i could have fixed it with superglue but i lost the damned thing, $380 for a 6500 board); my old mentor and guy who got me into macs in the first place has an all-original SE/30 that runs like the day it came out of the box. i know you can find PCs that are just as reliable, but their prices tend to be more in line with Macs.
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The iPod-O-Lantern is available in different sizes for use as a wallpaper...it's available in 1280x960 but not 1280x1024 (the first one scales fine though). Can anybody perchance explain why there are two pretty much trivially different (bout 7% no matter which way you look at it) vertical resolutions for the 1280 horizontal resolution?
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i inherited my grandfather's camera collection, an early 70s Nikkormat-EL with about half a dozen lenses ranging from a Micro-Nikkor macro, to a panoramic lens with a little mechanical jobbie to move the optics parallel to the plane of the film (lets you get shots of eg. tall buildings with no perspective effect) to a beast of a Nikkor-H 300mm tele...god, that thing is sweet. The rig is probably 30 years old and it still utterly spanks modern kit up and down the block - you could club somebody down with it, wipe the blood off, and keep shooting. perhaps i will get a new body sometime, but AFAIK the optics can still be made to fit. canon fanboys indeed :P
my first inkjet was an apple-branded canon, back in 1994; i think it actually still works. then i had a loaned i800, and i just recently bought a pixma iP6000D. the last two print great photos (the 6000D is a bit nicer since it's 6-color), and as the parent said the ink tanke are clear plastic so you can check the levels yourself. cheap, too. oh, and the canon drivers have never tried to phone home.
All the 532nm lasers that I can find (on Google at least) are all frequency-doubled Nd:YAG units - they do use a diode to generate the beam, but they still have a KTP freqquency doubler. AFAIK, there's no way to get direct laser action at 532nm; different materials lase at specific wavelengths and you use dyes or frequency changers to get different wavelengths.
Back at Brookhaven, we had some pricey Nd:YAG green lasers that were >80% efficient, stayed nice and cool to the touch, but they cost about $6,000 each. Without power supplies. Haven't played with the green pointers, so I don't know how they stack up against them.
As for the size, the phone could be compared to the relatively small digital camera, which means that it is certainly bigger than the modern phones.
While the size wouldn't bother me at all, especially given the halfway decent quality of the pictures, I know a lot of people wo want the absolute smallest phone possible, so this probably wouldn't appeal to them. Looking at the pictures, it's almost like a camera with a phone built in, rather than vice-versa. Now, if I could get something like this that had the image quality of my coolpix 4300 or comparable cam, I'd be sold - but I suspect the small lens size is beginning to be a limiting factor; it looks like it's less than 1/4 the size of the lens on my cam.
While you are absolutely right about a 2-year timespan allowing amazing improvemenr in the technoloy of a phone, the lens itself isn't going to get any better for the same price over that same two years. Lens technology has matured to the point where you aren't going to get nearly the same pace of advancement as in the microelectronice field; the MP phone you have now likely uses the same optics setup as the VGA phones of yesteryear.
Sure, they could put the quality lenses used in credit card cameras in the phone, but a) those are still noticeably larger than the lenses in a typical camera phone (at least in the small cameras that I've seen) and b) those cams aren't terribly cheap - brings us right back to the original poster's point about price. Personally, given the choice between a 2MP camphone with a decent lens for $5-600, or a phone for $150 or less and a 4+MP digicam with an even better lens for $350, I'll take the latter. Of course, I value the quality of my photos far more than the convenience of having the cam in the phone, so YMMV.
You're absolutely right and I actually thought about putting a disclaimer in to that effect; I like to think I still have a good point though. I do know a few people who opted for the more expensive, faster serice on the sole grounds of enhancing their piracy activities, would that count?
It's perfectly reasonable to argue that that type of piracy does represent lost sales, and I for one think it's entirely legitimate to go after the people peddling those sorts of things. Too bad he goes on with Now THAT just makes him sound like a media-whore-sue-everything-that-moves twit; it's a shame, he had a good thing going. Well, except that he shouldn't be allowed to breed - I wouldn't d/l Mr. 3000 if you paid me $9 to.
$24.99/mo looks like a bargain compared to the what you're paying for the big fat pipe you use to download those movies.
buh, if you go overseas and renounce your US citizenship, i doubt your landlord's gonna come after you..
I think that price you quoted is for a civilian SAUG, semi-auto only...I can't find any prices ATM, but I think that Class III (select fire) SAUGS go for about the same price as the Oz black-market ones.
Nah, Ghost Recon w/the Navy SEALS 2.0 mod all the way...now I just need to find me some black BDUs and I'm all set :D
I remember a big flap a little while back over the rise in sword attacks down under; IIRC there was serious talk of legislation to ban swords, something along the lines of "there's no place for people just being able to go out there and buy these things" - sure, GUN crime might be down, but if Oz is such a non-violent utopia, why so people even need to discuss laws like that one? Lord knows if I tried running amuck with my katana here in PA, it's pretty good odds somebody would whip out a legally concealed handgun and stop me pretty fast.
Buh, the sporting goods store in town has a used AR-15 for $389.99, comes with a trigger lock, case, and two 30-round mags. Pretty good deal. Course, I decided I'd spend $349.99 on the HK G3 clone; 7.62 is much manlier than a wussy lil 5.56 :D
Only 1% of the population are now farmers, yet they somehow manage to overweigh their influence on the US government
Once they all go out of business or leave because of the government's ignoring them in favor of purely urban interests and we've paved over every last amber wave of grain, how the fuck do you propose we feed ourselves? Cows don't graze on asphalt, ya know. Large cities are shit anyway - they're ecological nightmares as well as festering pits of the worst human nature has to offer; we'd be so much better off if we nuked NYC and LA, I can't even begin to describe it.
Interesting factoid (from Eric Sloane, you might want to try reading some of his books...you might learn something or two) - up till about the time of the Civil War and the explosion of cheap factory-produced goods, farmers, craftsmen, and other "inbred redneck trailer trash" were considered among the noblest and most important of Americans; it's only been since the Industrial Revolution that we look at farmers as uneducated hicks that are only worthy of our ridicule.
...faith in the American public...
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*wipes tears from eyes*
thanks d00d, you gave me the first good laugh i've had all day.
I completely see you're point, and I'm certainly not trying to be argumentative, but isn't that a rather defeatist attitude? Unless something is done, America's problems aren't going to get better, ever (ESPECIALLY if the people who really do want to make it better pack up and leave); it's probably true that one person acting alone can't change things, but wouldn't it be better to stay and try and make more people here feel the way you do instead of leaving and simply trying to absolve yourself of these atrocities? On a final note (and again, not to try and pick a fight or bait, but it's a point I feel is at least sorta valid...) doesn't leaving and not making an effort to fix things make you in some small way complicit in their happening, kind of like witnessing a crime on the street and doing nothing to stop it?
...what has expatriating done to improve the situation in terms of both what's going on in the US and what we're doing to the rest of the world? It seems to me that a mass exodus of the (relative) left to Canada/EU/wherever would be the LAST thing that should be happening - it would give unquestioned control of the US and its attendant military and economic power to the Far Right, which seems to me to be a Very Bad Idea. Yes, one could argue that the path the Right is taking us down leads to inevitable economic and attendant military collapse, but that's all hypothetical rambling - do you REALLY want to leave the arch-conservatives in power with no real opposition anymore?
If they designed the caddies to be the same size as jewel boxes, which can't be very difficult, there wouldn't be a problem - they could even put the cover on the caddy, voila, self-contained solution! Course, i still prefer "naked" discs since i use the book-type cases, but i do have a couple of racks filled with empty jewel boxes (gotta store them somewhere).
Photoshop 7.0.1/OS X, Raw, 640x480, 3 channel interleaved, 16bpp, Mac byte order (gonna assume that cuz it's a PPC) returns "Specified image is larger than file". Ideas?
The G5's liquid cooling system is manufactured by Delphi, a pretty well-known auto parts manufacturer.
I suppose I might be a bit biased, since I dropped $600 on an cat-back exhaust for my car this summer (95 240SX, A'PEXi N1 Dual); along with the intake and header, it definitely added a bit of power; even a $50 autozone coffee-can muffler should theoretically give you a small bit of power. Of course the ricer twits think that that alone is the only engine mod you need to have m4d p0w3r, totally ignoring the rest of the tuning and parts required to get the real benefits of a high-flow exhaust (next step for me is cams and a chip, just need to scrape up the cash first).
I left the silencers in on my exhaust, but even without them it's only a bit louder than stock, and keeps a nice deep throatiness...no angry bumblebee for me. Of course, the large-for-a-4cyl. 2.4L displacement helps; a 1.6 liter honda engine is going to be whiney no matter what you do to it. Nor a body kit or ginormous rear wing; i did spring for 17" wheels, but those do give quite a handling improvement with wide tires, plus they look decent....
So...this radio station was mandatory listening for everybody in Canada? It's the same argument that cropped up on the Stern-Powell article - if you don't want to listen to it, you can switch it off. As long as the radio station wasn't blatantly telling listeners to go out and kill Jews/blacks/&c., you aren't allowed to have a problem with it. Freedom of speech = freedom to hate. Anyway, it keep it out in the open where it can be ridiculed and seen as the peabrained idiocy that it is, rather than giving it subversive appeal; look at the Neo-Nazi troubles in Europe (no, it's not Kristallnacht over again, but it's still much worse than here in the States where it's perfectly legal to spew that garbage).
?..the apple widescreens run in 1280x800 (link)
1280x1024 is actually a "narrower" size than 1280x960:
1280/960=1.33...
1280/1024=1.25
t's definitely usable on normal screens, it's what I use on my 17" CRT and i've seen it on PCs, so I don't think it's just an apple resolution.
good industrial design doesn't come cheap, plus the components are usually spec'd way over what you'll find in a sub-$900 dell box. i have a performa 6400 that will still boot off the original mobo and hard drive (drive was replaced for size, board cuz the center plastic bit on the ADB port broke off, i could have fixed it with superglue but i lost the damned thing, $380 for a 6500 board); my old mentor and guy who got me into macs in the first place has an all-original SE/30 that runs like the day it came out of the box. i know you can find PCs that are just as reliable, but their prices tend to be more in line with Macs.
The iPod-O-Lantern is available in different sizes for use as a wallpaper...it's available in 1280x960 but not 1280x1024 (the first one scales fine though). Can anybody perchance explain why there are two pretty much trivially different (bout 7% no matter which way you look at it) vertical resolutions for the 1280 horizontal resolution?