I have a Canon Rebel, which is a film SLR, but it has the interface you just described.
My parent's 1970's Canon is soooooooo much easier to use, it has knobs for the settings, it has a field-of-view diagram on the lens (I have to guess with mine), a split for perfecting focus on what you want in focus (I have to trust the autofocus or just eyeball it) and I know it's been dropped onto rocks in a flowing stream at least once and survived (I have not tested that with mine).
My camera's interface is a tiny LCD and microscopic buttons. You can see the settings more clearly when you look through the viewfinder, but then you can't see the tiny buttons you need to press. And the worst part: if stop pressing buttons long enough to arrange your shot (10 or so seconds) the camera times out and deletes all the settings you spent the last 5 minutes perfecting.
Of course, if they were unionized there is no way this could happen, and CC would have a fraction of a less percent profit to give to execs in 8 or 9 figure bonuses and the workers would be feeding their kids instead of looking for work...
Also, of course, I will be attacked for being anti-free-market, lazy, mobbed-up, or whatever other thought-preventing cliche can be churned up.
I'm going to guess the root reason is cost, but you also have to take into account the long starting time (doesn't cool until it's already too late?) and as an electrical engineer it scares me to think that the survival of my component is in the hands of a mechanical engineer's complex design with lots of moving parts that could fail without warning. I try to buy motherboards that don't have any fans, just heatsinks on the chipset, and if I could I would eliminate all fans.
I know Apple doesn't play DIVX or any standard other than their favorite, and I kinda assume the don't do ogg. Am I wrong?
I checked out the EVA8000 page and was surprised to see they don't support DIVX or Ogg either. WTF?
I'm not huge into music and video lately, and I'm getting old, so maybe I'm just completely out of it. But I stated using ogg because it was far more efficient than mp3s and my portable can play them, and I use divx because when I occasionally download something it's always in divx, and I even have a DVD player that can play divx, so I assumed it was popular. Am I wrong? If not, why the hell don't either product support it?
I did look into it, and saw no mention of a way to connect it to a TV. I stand corrected if there is a way to watch videos on a standard TV, however that product description says you can only watch slide shows, which is a rather odd restriction. I don't suppose there is a remote and a Ethernet dock for it, too?
I share the OP's frustration with the AppleTV. After all the hype and excitement that had me waiting for the release date so I could buy one on day 1, it turns out I can't watch any of my videos on it, I can't even store a fraction of my media on it, and I'd have to buy a new TV to boot. 40 GB HDD? I didn't know you could even get ones that small anymore.
So, if you know of a sub-$1000 HDD-based unit that will just play mp3s without a computer on in another room streaming content, let me know. But there must be a remote for the ipod, right? So maybe ipod+remote+video cable would be a solution.
Yeah, it's just like an Apple TV for standard TV, except there is no way to hook it up to a standard TV, and no way to watch it on a standard TV, and no Ethernet port, and no remote, and no on-screen interface, but other than that it's JUST like it.
You sure slammed that Apple noob. Pwned. He certainly doesn't understand teh market.
No external storage possible as the USB is crippled
Less storage than my 1999 ReplayTV
Same storage as my 2001 MP3 player
So, I can't watch any of my movies or TV shows, it wont come close to holding a quarter of my content, I would need to buy a new TV to support the Apple, it will only play iTunes content but will not let me get any iTunes content...
I didn't even know you could still buy 40GB drives. Why didn't they just include a 5.25" floppy drive?
In defense of "most" atheists, I think an argument could be made for the distinction between a hypothesis of a scientist and the "you must believe in this non-scientific bronze-age text or you will be tortured for eternity in the afterlife and possibly during your current life" argument from some religious folk.
Besides, Hawkings has got it all wrong. The Sun isn't a star, the Moon doesn't reflect light it emits it, same goes for all the planets and everything else in the solar system, and there is no such thing as galaxies or whatnot.
"And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also." Gen 1:16
My experience with CompUSA is they never, ever, EVER have any of their advertised items in stock, EVER, and will instead point me to the, say, 30GB drive for $160 when I came looking for a much larger drive at a much lower price. Or I'll come for the RAM that is nearly free after rebate and be the first one in the store but they will be "sold out" and only have 128MB sticks for $99.
I think the last time I shopped there was when I was looking for cat5 cable for my house. They had 25' for $100. Lowes had 50' for $50 and Home Depot had 100' for $25. Give or take. Sadly, Best Buy stopped selling things like fan funnels so I may have to go to CompUSA soon, or order online.
I guess I'll miss CompUSA, but I don't really know why. The only good prices they ever had was on broken cleanance bin stuff.
What exactly is sea ice? Are we talking about iceburgs that broke away from melting glaciers?
Anyway, I can't believe anyone still falls for the "we can ignore a world's worth of evidence because of this tiny anecdote" arguement. It's like going to the doctor with a 103 degree fever and the doc says "I just took the temperature of your pinky toe and you have no fever, in fact you are below normal, and furthermore sickness doesn't exist and if it did it would be good for you."
Agreed. I haven't used a Mac in a long time, but I know it must be nice to own a computer where everything works most of the time. They also come with some cool software that I may or may not use.
But then I look at the prices, and for $1500 I can get the same or less than what I would pay about $600 for with some Dell coupons.
I would love to be a convert, but I just haven't been convinced the 150% markup is worth it.
I read in an article on yahoo news, which I cannot find right now, that some of hubble's electrical shorts may have been related to debris floating in space. Is the HST in the same orbit as the satellite that China recently blew up?
All I want in the world is basically a rack-sized iPod. A convenient screen, a cute interface, and a 3.5" HDD with a ethernet jack for transferring songs. Does that exist yet? I've seen all sorts of wired and wireless models that require a 250W file server running in another room. I just want an mp3 player with a screen you can see from across the room and a remote. Is that too much to ask?
I've been watching Voyager, and they don't reroute anything anymore. They remodulate it. They remodulate shields, they remodulate phasers, they even remodulate things that have never been modulated before and seeming make no sense to be modulated, like the universal translater. All I know is it fixes everything technical, and i really need to learn how to do it.
"Does anybody really think that the rates of autism really doubled in this time period. Isn't it far more likely that the rate of diagnosis simply went up. What would cause parents to become aware of this unusual condition called autism? Maybe they saw a segment about it on TV?"
No. I read some studies on this a few years ago and that was ruled out. Better testing was assumed to be the cause of some huge spikes in CA among geeks who had children (cue "geek disease" headlines) but was ruled out.
I have seen some powerful correlations with the introduction of mercury-using vaccines in countries like China, and correlations with being downwind of coal-fired power plants that release mercury. And I have seen studies refuting this.
Whatever the cause, it is real, and the increase it is there.
So, if this game is anything like C&C Generals or the expansion packs, it will be so buggy it wont play out of the box, it will be owned by blatant cheaters for the first year and then the expansion pack will come out and similarly be owned, they will never include the ladder pack and other promised features, BUT they will have spyware installed on your computer.
Longer legs = father from the ground = ground appears to be moving more slowly = ants will walk farther.
Shorter legs = closer to ground = ground appears to be moving faster = ants will walk less distance.
Or, it could me an extremely complex pedometer.
A better choice would be to have the walk over perfectly featureless ground vs. striped ground, or even better have them walk over glass that has a movable pattern underneath it.
As I already said, we are not talking about landmarks and other things that ants can't see anyway. We are talking about texture. Last I checked, deserts had sand.
I don't buy for a second the idea that the ants count their footsteps. Of all the explanations they could come up with, that has to be the most ridiculous.
Years ago, nobody was sure how honeybees knew how far they were flying, whether it was visual or they kept track of how much energy they burned, etc.. Nobody suggested they counted wing flaps, because that's just stupid.
Anyway, it was proven that bees use visual cues. Not landmarks, like this article seems to suggest is the only way, but by how fast it appeared the terrain flew past them. This was proven by having bees fly down wide striped tubes and narrow striped tubes. The bees thought they were traveling faster (and thus farther) down the narrow tubes.
Someone should do the same test with these amazing counting ants.
Not only is racial profiling "not PC" and "offensive" to those we hope to gain intel from, but it's stupid. If you profile Muslim Arabs, how many Ted Kaczynskis are you going to stop? Or Timothy Mcveighs? Or Eric Rudolphs?
Do you think our enemies are retarded? If we annouced to the world "we will only search arabs, never whites" exacty how many seconds would pass before they recruited a white person to blow up a plane?
Aesop said it better than I ever could:
A DOE blind in one eye was accustomed to graze as near to the edge of the cliff as she possibly could, in the hope of securing her greater safety. She turned her sound eye towards the land that she might get the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from whence she entertained no anticipation of danger. Some boatmen sailing by saw her, and taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her. Yielding up her last breath, she gasped forth this lament: "O wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution against the land, and after all to find this seashore, to which I had come for safety, so much more perilous."
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I have a Canon Rebel, which is a film SLR, but it has the interface you just described.
My parent's 1970's Canon is soooooooo much easier to use, it has knobs for the settings, it has a field-of-view diagram on the lens (I have to guess with mine), a split for perfecting focus on what you want in focus (I have to trust the autofocus or just eyeball it) and I know it's been dropped onto rocks in a flowing stream at least once and survived (I have not tested that with mine).
My camera's interface is a tiny LCD and microscopic buttons. You can see the settings more clearly when you look through the viewfinder, but then you can't see the tiny buttons you need to press. And the worst part: if stop pressing buttons long enough to arrange your shot (10 or so seconds) the camera times out and deletes all the settings you spent the last 5 minutes perfecting.
Of course, if they were unionized there is no way this could happen, and CC would have a fraction of a less percent profit to give to execs in 8 or 9 figure bonuses and the workers would be feeding their kids instead of looking for work...
Also, of course, I will be attacked for being anti-free-market, lazy, mobbed-up, or whatever other thought-preventing cliche can be churned up.
I'm going to guess the root reason is cost, but you also have to take into account the long starting time (doesn't cool until it's already too late?) and as an electrical engineer it scares me to think that the survival of my component is in the hands of a mechanical engineer's complex design with lots of moving parts that could fail without warning. I try to buy motherboards that don't have any fans, just heatsinks on the chipset, and if I could I would eliminate all fans.
I know Apple doesn't play DIVX or any standard other than their favorite, and I kinda assume the don't do ogg. Am I wrong?
I checked out the EVA8000 page and was surprised to see they don't support DIVX or Ogg either. WTF?
I'm not huge into music and video lately, and I'm getting old, so maybe I'm just completely out of it. But I stated using ogg because it was far more efficient than mp3s and my portable can play them, and I use divx because when I occasionally download something it's always in divx, and I even have a DVD player that can play divx, so I assumed it was popular. Am I wrong? If not, why the hell don't either product support it?
I did look into it, and saw no mention of a way to connect it to a TV. I stand corrected if there is a way to watch videos on a standard TV, however that product description says you can only watch slide shows, which is a rather odd restriction. I don't suppose there is a remote and a Ethernet dock for it, too?
I share the OP's frustration with the AppleTV. After all the hype and excitement that had me waiting for the release date so I could buy one on day 1, it turns out I can't watch any of my videos on it, I can't even store a fraction of my media on it, and I'd have to buy a new TV to boot. 40 GB HDD? I didn't know you could even get ones that small anymore.
So, if you know of a sub-$1000 HDD-based unit that will just play mp3s without a computer on in another room streaming content, let me know. But there must be a remote for the ipod, right? So maybe ipod+remote+video cable would be a solution.
Yeah, it's just like an Apple TV for standard TV, except there is no way to hook it up to a standard TV, and no way to watch it on a standard TV, and no Ethernet port, and no remote, and no on-screen interface, but other than that it's JUST like it.
You sure slammed that Apple noob. Pwned. He certainly doesn't understand teh market.
No DIVX support!!!
.mp3 or .ogg?
No outputs that work with my TV
No external storage possible as the USB is crippled
Less storage than my 1999 ReplayTV
Same storage as my 2001 MP3 player
So, I can't watch any of my movies or TV shows, it wont come close to holding a quarter of my content, I would need to buy a new TV to support the Apple, it will only play iTunes content but will not let me get any iTunes content...
I didn't even know you could still buy 40GB drives. Why didn't they just include a 5.25" floppy drive?
Can it even play
A mirror is not a light...
In defense of "most" atheists, I think an argument could be made for the distinction between a hypothesis of a scientist and the "you must believe in this non-scientific bronze-age text or you will be tortured for eternity in the afterlife and possibly during your current life" argument from some religious folk.
Besides, Hawkings has got it all wrong. The Sun isn't a star, the Moon doesn't reflect light it emits it, same goes for all the planets and everything else in the solar system, and there is no such thing as galaxies or whatnot.
"And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also." Gen 1:16
He's gonna burn in hell.
My experience with CompUSA is they never, ever, EVER have any of their advertised items in stock, EVER, and will instead point me to the, say, 30GB drive for $160 when I came looking for a much larger drive at a much lower price. Or I'll come for the RAM that is nearly free after rebate and be the first one in the store but they will be "sold out" and only have 128MB sticks for $99.
I think the last time I shopped there was when I was looking for cat5 cable for my house. They had 25' for $100. Lowes had 50' for $50 and Home Depot had 100' for $25. Give or take. Sadly, Best Buy stopped selling things like fan funnels so I may have to go to CompUSA soon, or order online.
I guess I'll miss CompUSA, but I don't really know why. The only good prices they ever had was on broken cleanance bin stuff.
I love it when people drop random TLAs (three letter acronyms) that hardly anyone has ever seen and not bother to define them.
It's even better when they have multiple definitions.
It's even better when none of them actually fit, since the website says Drugal is a content managment platform (CMP)
Back in my day, it was only pedophiles and drug runners that used encryption. Oh, how times and emotionally munipulative FUD have changd.
What exactly is sea ice? Are we talking about iceburgs that broke away from melting glaciers?
Anyway, I can't believe anyone still falls for the "we can ignore a world's worth of evidence because of this tiny anecdote" arguement. It's like going to the doctor with a 103 degree fever and the doc says "I just took the temperature of your pinky toe and you have no fever, in fact you are below normal, and furthermore sickness doesn't exist and if it did it would be good for you."
Agreed. I haven't used a Mac in a long time, but I know it must be nice to own a computer where everything works most of the time. They also come with some cool software that I may or may not use.
But then I look at the prices, and for $1500 I can get the same or less than what I would pay about $600 for with some Dell coupons.
I would love to be a convert, but I just haven't been convinced the 150% markup is worth it.
I read in an article on yahoo news, which I cannot find right now, that some of hubble's electrical shorts may have been related to debris floating in space. Is the HST in the same orbit as the satellite that China recently blew up?
All I want in the world is basically a rack-sized iPod. A convenient screen, a cute interface, and a 3.5" HDD with a ethernet jack for transferring songs. Does that exist yet? I've seen all sorts of wired and wireless models that require a 250W file server running in another room. I just want an mp3 player with a screen you can see from across the room and a remote. Is that too much to ask?
I've been watching Voyager, and they don't reroute anything anymore. They remodulate it. They remodulate shields, they remodulate phasers, they even remodulate things that have never been modulated before and seeming make no sense to be modulated, like the universal translater. All I know is it fixes everything technical, and i really need to learn how to do it.
"Does anybody really think that the rates of autism really doubled in this time period. Isn't it far more likely that the rate of diagnosis simply went up. What would cause parents to become aware of this unusual condition called autism? Maybe they saw a segment about it on TV?"
No. I read some studies on this a few years ago and that was ruled out. Better testing was assumed to be the cause of some huge spikes in CA among geeks who had children (cue "geek disease" headlines) but was ruled out.
I have seen some powerful correlations with the introduction of mercury-using vaccines in countries like China, and correlations with being downwind of coal-fired power plants that release mercury. And I have seen studies refuting this.
Whatever the cause, it is real, and the increase it is there.
So, if this game is anything like C&C Generals or the expansion packs, it will be so buggy it wont play out of the box, it will be owned by blatant cheaters for the first year and then the expansion pack will come out and similarly be owned, they will never include the ladder pack and other promised features, BUT they will have spyware installed on your computer.
Where do I sign?
which is only emptied every several months
Longer legs = father from the ground = ground appears to be moving more slowly = ants will walk farther.
Shorter legs = closer to ground = ground appears to be moving faster = ants will walk less distance.
Or, it could me an extremely complex pedometer.
A better choice would be to have the walk over perfectly featureless ground vs. striped ground, or even better have them walk over glass that has a movable pattern underneath it.
As I already said, we are not talking about landmarks and other things that ants can't see anyway. We are talking about texture. Last I checked, deserts had sand.
Moron.
I don't buy for a second the idea that the ants count their footsteps. Of all the explanations they could come up with, that has to be the most ridiculous.
Years ago, nobody was sure how honeybees knew how far they were flying, whether it was visual or they kept track of how much energy they burned, etc.. Nobody suggested they counted wing flaps, because that's just stupid.
Anyway, it was proven that bees use visual cues. Not landmarks, like this article seems to suggest is the only way, but by how fast it appeared the terrain flew past them. This was proven by having bees fly down wide striped tubes and narrow striped tubes. The bees thought they were traveling faster (and thus farther) down the narrow tubes.
Someone should do the same test with these amazing counting ants.
Whine whine whine, you poor oppressed white boy.
Not only is racial profiling "not PC" and "offensive" to those we hope to gain intel from, but it's stupid. If you profile Muslim Arabs, how many Ted Kaczynskis are you going to stop? Or Timothy Mcveighs? Or Eric Rudolphs?
Do you think our enemies are retarded? If we annouced to the world "we will only search arabs, never whites" exacty how many seconds would pass before they recruited a white person to blow up a plane?
Aesop said it better than I ever could:
A DOE blind in one eye was accustomed to graze as near to the edge of the cliff as she possibly could, in the hope of securing her greater safety. She turned her sound eye towards the land that she might get the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from whence she entertained no anticipation of danger. Some boatmen sailing by saw her, and taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her. Yielding up her last breath, she gasped forth this lament: "O wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution against the land, and after all to find this seashore, to which I had come for safety, so much more perilous."