The idea of a public TV license isn't as unique to the UK as people seem to think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence - It's a lot more normal than you might think and doesn't make the UK unique or special.
It's more the US that's "special" because they don't have one.
but I'll never forget everyone dropping their jaws over the original Unreal. That opening screen with the 3D pass over the castle...wow. We just sat there letting that thing run for a good 5 minutes just watching it.
I can still remember the first time I ran Unreal after installing it. I also just sat there for a while going "oooooooooooo". Probably my oooo-est moment in gaming.
That's no good - you can't jump straight to a 3 digit UID without going through many iterations of slightly lower 5 digit ones, a few 4 digit ones and the final "yeah but lots of us were there when it was a private bloggy thing and just took a while to register" moan:)
It's like Godwin's law only with fewer Nazis, zero relevance to anything sensible and conjures up images of nerds and epeens which I don't need before my first daily coffee. But which I now have. Dammit.
"My EYES, they burn from the inside!"
I get the feeling I'm ranting today for no real reason whatsoever. Help me!
I can see it now, the patch trying to fix the iphones and keep the net up as fast as the unpatched iphones are bringing it down until eventually all the phones in the world ring at the same time.:)
To be honest, unless you are into macro photography or something, autofocus on camera phones is mostly a waste of space and battery life etc. The teeny sensor, coupled with a teeny lens results in huge depth of field, so big that everything from around 10cm -> infinity will be in focus anyway. My Sony Ericsson D750 has an autofocus lens and the only advantage it offers over my Nokia N70 (both 2MP) is that it focuses down to a couple of cm.
To a certain extent, this extends to compact digital cameras too, they can never off the range on depth of field that a (digital) SLR can and even these will differ depending on whether you are using a full-frame or smaller sensor.
Yeah, I use Safari as my default browser. I have FF and Opera installed, mainly from when safari was new and a lot of (interactive) websites weren't very standards compliant and I used to have to dance between the 3 browsers to get my on-line banking to work. I now keep them all up-to-date out of habit.
WoW is perfectly playable on a MacBook, even in the really graphically-intensive areas and raids. Yes you need to turn most settings down but that doesn't affect the playability, just the ooooooh-factor:)
However for stuff like the latest and greatest 3D FPS games it's not enough as there you need your excessive frames a second so you only have ping times as an excuse for dying.
Indeed, I have my DSLR set to do almost no post processing In the camera when I shoot JPEG (I shoot RAW or Jpen depending on the situation) as I and Photoshop can do a much better job late on. So, indeed JPEGs straight from my camera don't look vibrant, they aren't even that "sharp". Compared to pictures from my little compact, they look flat and a bit fuzzy. Run them through my photoshop actions however and they are vastly superior to anything a point and shoot, or camera phone can produce, given the same subject and photographer.
And lets not forget my f/1.8 (and better) lenses that allow me to get pictures that NO camera phone or compact can obtain. Or photos with any decent control over depth of field - it's fundamentally impossible to get extremely narrow depth of field with a small lens-type camera.
I can set my DSLR to behave as a point and shoot (or camera phone) and it does lots of post processing and produces a picture worthy of "flickr", just like a camera phone:)
So, as the poster above pointed out, in point and shoot conditions, a point and shoot will win out - because it's smaller and portable but if you go on safari, don't expect your N95 to produce National Geographic quality prints!
'nother thumbs up for play.com. We use 'em for books as well (although they don't carry as many as Amazon) and recently got a rather cool radio from them:)
This "feature" was there to give the hightly-trained and expensive pilots sopmething to do during a mission where they are essentially passengers for 99.99% of the time..........
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The idea of a public TV license isn't as unique to the UK as people seem to think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence - It's a lot more normal than you might think and doesn't make the UK unique or special.
It's more the US that's "special" because they don't have one.
Surely Chuck Norris' password would simply be "Me"
Inconceivable.
but I'll never forget everyone dropping their jaws over the original Unreal. That opening screen with the 3D pass over the castle...wow. We just sat there letting that thing run for a good 5 minutes just watching it.
I can still remember the first time I ran Unreal after installing it. I also just sat there for a while going "oooooooooooo". Probably my oooo-est moment in gaming.
From his UID, I'd say he was half as new as you :)
If I step in the shower all power can be diverted to the water heater, etc.
But what about the forward deflector shields?
That's no good - you can't jump straight to a 3 digit UID without going through many iterations of slightly lower 5 digit ones, a few 4 digit ones and the final "yeah but lots of us were there when it was a private bloggy thing and just took a while to register" moan :)
It's like Godwin's law only with fewer Nazis, zero relevance to anything sensible and conjures up images of nerds and epeens which I don't need before my first daily coffee. But which I now have. Dammit.
"My EYES, they burn from the inside!"
I get the feeling I'm ranting today for no real reason whatsoever. Help me!
warfial
yes.
We spend every waking hour running scripts that look for an opportunity to flaunt our 3 or 4 digit IDs because we naturally have no life.
you mean snappier (tm)
It's obviously mated to a 1 farad resistor to make a nice bandpass filter :)
I remember when this was all fields..... :)
Yeah but how will they distribute it?
:)
I can see it now, the patch trying to fix the iphones and keep the net up as fast as the unpatched iphones are bringing it down until eventually all the phones in the world ring at the same time.
My gay office-mate thoroughly enjoys his daily fags ;)
(that's a UK-centric joke, sorry)
Oh and he's giggling over my shoulder now.
To be honest, unless you are into macro photography or something, autofocus on camera phones is mostly a waste of space and battery life etc. The teeny sensor, coupled with a teeny lens results in huge depth of field, so big that everything from around 10cm -> infinity will be in focus anyway. My Sony Ericsson D750 has an autofocus lens and the only advantage it offers over my Nokia N70 (both 2MP) is that it focuses down to a couple of cm.
To a certain extent, this extends to compact digital cameras too, they can never off the range on depth of field that a (digital) SLR can and even these will differ depending on whether you are using a full-frame or smaller sensor.
An optical zoom would be rather handy though.
Yeah, I use Safari as my default browser. I have FF and Opera installed, mainly from when safari was new and a lot of (interactive) websites weren't very standards compliant and I used to have to dance between the 3 browsers to get my on-line banking to work. I now keep them all up-to-date out of habit.
Opera I hardly ever use, Firefox sometimes.
WoW is perfectly playable on a MacBook, even in the really graphically-intensive areas and raids. Yes you need to turn most settings down but that doesn't affect the playability, just the ooooooh-factor :)
However for stuff like the latest and greatest 3D FPS games it's not enough as there you need your excessive frames a second so you only have ping times as an excuse for dying.
Indeed, I have my DSLR set to do almost no post processing In the camera when I shoot JPEG (I shoot RAW or Jpen depending on the situation) as I and Photoshop can do a much better job late on. So, indeed JPEGs straight from my camera don't look vibrant, they aren't even that "sharp". Compared to pictures from my little compact, they look flat and a bit fuzzy. Run them through my photoshop actions however and they are vastly superior to anything a point and shoot, or camera phone can produce, given the same subject and photographer.
:)
And lets not forget my f/1.8 (and better) lenses that allow me to get pictures that NO camera phone or compact can obtain. Or photos with any decent control over depth of field - it's fundamentally impossible to get extremely narrow depth of field with a small lens-type camera.
I can set my DSLR to behave as a point and shoot (or camera phone) and it does lots of post processing and produces a picture worthy of "flickr", just like a camera phone
So, as the poster above pointed out, in point and shoot conditions, a point and shoot will win out - because it's smaller and portable but if you go on safari, don't expect your N95 to produce National Geographic quality prints!
Yep, we old'uns can say what we like :)
Er, it does. Switch them on from the menubar.
I was new once and then they stole my naievity
You took the time to get three useless degrees? :)
'nother thumbs up for play.com. We use 'em for books as well (although they don't carry as many as Amazon) and recently got a rather cool radio from them :)
As long as I can still drink bouncy bubble beverage, I'll be happy.
This "feature" was there to give the hightly-trained and expensive pilots sopmething to do during a mission where they are essentially passengers for 99.99% of the time..........
T.