I second your very last statement. It's not the camera, it's the person behind it.
I hate it when people say "Wow! What a stunning picture, must be the camera." A dolt with the best camera on earth will produce crap and a person who knows his stit could produce the most stunning pictures with a drug store throwaway.
So why not make the USB drive bootable? Have like a bare minimum copy of Linux on it with drivers for net and printers and have OOo loaded on it. Insert drive, restart and viola, your office on any x86 machine.
you have to realise that in this camera, an optical viewfinder is more engineering trouble then it's worth. As it is, in a conventional point and shoot camera the view finder and the lens connected to the CCD are 2 different sets of optics. The view thru the viewfinder is only an approximation of what the CCD actually sees, where as the LCD picture is WYSIWYG.
Now, it's hard enough to get the 2 sets of optics to sync so that you don't take a picture with someone's head cropped off, I'm sure you can see how much harder it'll be to get the viewfinder's optics to sync with 2 different sets of lenses. Even on the digital side, the engineers at Kodak decided to use 2 CCDs instead of creating an assembly for a single CCD to switch between the 2 lenses.
And yes, viewfinders are useful, but only on SLRs like your E-10. But then, on a proper dSLR, you can only use the viewfinder anyway.b
meh... you give them too little credit. Not only did they do what you said they did, they did it while making it look like an "Accident" and didn't have to fork out for a car for taco...
I don't disagree with you. I said so myself. If the thief wants it bad enough, he'll take it one way or another. What i AM saying is, in a lot with 2 indentical Porsches, exacpt 1 has a steering lock and the other does not, the thief is more LIKELY to take the one without the lock.
You obviously aren't a photographer. Many award winning shots are accidents. Taken during such times where, for example, a photographer is running for his life in a hail of bullets, simply pressing the shutter as he runs, not even looking in the viewfinder.
What I'm getting at is, some moments happen in literally in the blink of an eye and they only happen once in a lifetime. So in that split second where you are trying to take a shot and have no time to double check, won't you be sorely disappointed if your ticket to a Pulitzer was ruined by the wrong f-stop setting? Or the wrong focus?
Back in the day of 8mb CF cards, a 6megapixel 6mb RAW was insane. But in this day of 4GB CF and memory prices what they are, 6 or even 16 mb RAWs are but a drop in the bucket. Heck even with today's memory capacities, if you had a camera that produced a 188mb RAW, it'd still be perfectly acceptable to any photographer, considering the possibilities for photography this new technology gives you.
Steering locks don't make cars any less steal-able. Any pro thief will drive off with the car in a matter of minutes regardless. But, what it does do it make it harder for the thief to steal. So faced with a car with a lock and one without, the theif is more likely take the car that has no lock.
Same here. Faced with stealing a laptop that can be fanced off with little work, or one that needs a new cover (meaning an expense) teh thief is more likely to take another laptop instead.
Thig here is 1) Microsoft ISN'T naming the stadium after itself... 2) Microsoft is too rich for anythign sour here to hurt them... the worst is the report a slightly lower profit...
You know what? Forget the speaker---sell compact, portable, one-speaker wireless-enabled amplifiers and let people convert their existing speakers into packet-switched audio devices.
Then rejoyce, for Creative has been making it for quite a while now.
Re:IP will give these no advantage at all.
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They'll be heavier than non-powered speakers because they'll need to contain an integrated power supply, an amplifier, and a microcontroller to do the interfacing. It's completely useless to bring up the "lossy speaker cable" argument, because if you were going to spend the extra money and waste an extra power cable for powered speakers, you might as well just use standard analog speakers with XLR cables (which have been VERY well established as nearly noiseless and lossless for point to point audio distribution). You can reliably have a couple double-shielded XLR cables ran from your pre-amp to your self-powered speakers for less than having speakers that speak IP.
Bah... the usual problem, when people repeat something false often enought it subconciously become true, in an hypnotic way...
OT: Just like "Quantum Leap". We all know that a 'Quantum' is the SMALLEST, Tiniest descernable unit of something. So alot of soemthing insignificant is still very little. So PLEASE stop using Quantum Leap to mean something big!
'-wan' is a suffix to denote a man whose occupation is that of the word the suffix is attached to. It's similar to '-ician' (i.e dietician, electrician, politician) in English, but the Malay version is gender specific.
Also, if the person who goes turns out to be female, then we use the '-wati' suffix instead.
Ok. I am now officially embressed to be a Malaysian. Seriously though, this isn't news at all. This is simply a ticket into space our goverment got from the Russians who offered it as a sweetener to close a deal on a fleet of MiG fighters.
I Seriously wish it was a one way ticket and they'd send our esteemed Defence Minister, who is also our useless ass of a Deputy Prime Minister.
PLEASE I BEG ALL OF YOU! MOVE ALONG! THERES NOTHING TO SEE HERE!!!!!
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thats what the "Bulb" setting, a $15 wireless remote and a wristwatch is for.
I second your very last statement. It's not the camera, it's the person behind it.
I hate it when people say "Wow! What a stunning picture, must be the camera." A dolt with the best camera on earth will produce crap and a person who knows his stit could produce the most stunning pictures with a drug store throwaway.
I'm not even going to touch that with a 50 ft pole... it contains Norton "Fuck up your PC while leeching you dry" Anti Virus.
WTF Google? I'd expect like AVG in there.
So why not make the USB drive bootable? Have like a bare minimum copy of Linux on it with drivers for net and printers and have OOo loaded on it. Insert drive, restart and viola, your office on any x86 machine.
you have to realise that in this camera, an optical viewfinder is more engineering trouble then it's worth. As it is, in a conventional point and shoot camera the view finder and the lens connected to the CCD are 2 different sets of optics. The view thru the viewfinder is only an approximation of what the CCD actually sees, where as the LCD picture is WYSIWYG.
Now, it's hard enough to get the 2 sets of optics to sync so that you don't take a picture with someone's head cropped off, I'm sure you can see how much harder it'll be to get the viewfinder's optics to sync with 2 different sets of lenses. Even on the digital side, the engineers at Kodak decided to use 2 CCDs instead of creating an assembly for a single CCD to switch between the 2 lenses.
And yes, viewfinders are useful, but only on SLRs like your E-10. But then, on a proper dSLR, you can only use the viewfinder anyway.b
Troll? How on Earth is this a troll? I wish i had mod points today... Somebody please do the parent some justice.
meh... you give them too little credit. Not only did they do what you said they did, they did it while making it look like an "Accident" and didn't have to fork out for a car for taco...
I don't disagree with you. I said so myself. If the thief wants it bad enough, he'll take it one way or another. What i AM saying is, in a lot with 2 indentical Porsches, exacpt 1 has a steering lock and the other does not, the thief is more LIKELY to take the one without the lock.
You obviously aren't a photographer. Many award winning shots are accidents. Taken during such times where, for example, a photographer is running for his life in a hail of bullets, simply pressing the shutter as he runs, not even looking in the viewfinder.
What I'm getting at is, some moments happen in literally in the blink of an eye and they only happen once in a lifetime. So in that split second where you are trying to take a shot and have no time to double check, won't you be sorely disappointed if your ticket to a Pulitzer was ruined by the wrong f-stop setting? Or the wrong focus?
Back in the day of 8mb CF cards, a 6megapixel 6mb RAW was insane. But in this day of 4GB CF and memory prices what they are, 6 or even 16 mb RAWs are but a drop in the bucket. Heck even with today's memory capacities, if you had a camera that produced a 188mb RAW, it'd still be perfectly acceptable to any photographer, considering the possibilities for photography this new technology gives you.
Steering locks don't make cars any less steal-able. Any pro thief will drive off with the car in a matter of minutes regardless. But, what it does do it make it harder for the thief to steal. So faced with a car with a lock and one without, the theif is more likely take the car that has no lock.
Same here. Faced with stealing a laptop that can be fanced off with little work, or one that needs a new cover (meaning an expense) teh thief is more likely to take another laptop instead.
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Close enough... except it's the Flash
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huh? Last I checked, education is a basic human right...
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Thig here is 1) Microsoft ISN'T naming the stadium after itself... 2) Microsoft is too rich for anythign sour here to hurt them... the worst is the report a slightly lower profit...
You know what? Forget the speaker---sell compact, portable, one-speaker wireless-enabled amplifiers and let people convert their existing speakers into packet-switched audio devices.
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Then rejoyce, for Creative has been making it for quite a while now.
http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?cate
They even make a compact Bluetooth type
http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?cate
They'll be heavier than non-powered speakers because they'll need to contain an integrated power supply, an amplifier, and a microcontroller to do the interfacing. It's completely useless to bring up the "lossy speaker cable" argument, because if you were going to spend the extra money and waste an extra power cable for powered speakers, you might as well just use standard analog speakers with XLR cables (which have been VERY well established as nearly noiseless and lossless for point to point audio distribution). You can reliably have a couple double-shielded XLR cables ran from your pre-amp to your self-powered speakers for less than having speakers that speak IP.
Have you never heard of Power over Ethernet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/06/dell_open
Bah... the usual problem, when people repeat something false often enought it subconciously become true, in an hypnotic way...
OT: Just like "Quantum Leap". We all know that a 'Quantum' is the SMALLEST, Tiniest descernable unit of something. So alot of soemthing insignificant is still very little. So PLEASE stop using Quantum Leap to mean something big!
Pictures in stories here and here. Enjoy!
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Padawan's occupation would be to 'occupy' Padme
Insert "[1F13] Deep Space Homer" refrence... HERE!
'Angkasawan'.
That's the Malay word for astronaut.
'Angkasa' means space.
'-wan' is a suffix to denote a man whose occupation is that of the word the suffix is attached to. It's similar to '-ician' (i.e dietician, electrician, politician) in English, but the Malay version is gender specific.
Also, if the person who goes turns out to be female, then we use the '-wati' suffix instead.
Close... Actually it's the Deputy Prime Minister who should go.. this whole fiaco is his doing.
Ok. I am now officially embressed to be a Malaysian. Seriously though, this isn't news at all. This is simply a ticket into space our goverment got from the Russians who offered it as a sweetener to close a deal on a fleet of MiG fighters.
I Seriously wish it was a one way ticket and they'd send our esteemed Defence Minister, who is also our useless ass of a Deputy Prime Minister.
PLEASE I BEG ALL OF YOU! MOVE ALONG! THERES NOTHING TO SEE HERE!!!!!
So if anybody's ignorant, it's actually the clowns in Florida.
Eh! Quit insulting clowns.
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