The sensor is just as important as the lens. I don't care if you lens comes from these guys. Unless you have a decent sensor on the end of it aswell, it's going to be just as crap as a bad lens on a good sensor.
Uh, what this guy is talking about is a farily well established fact backed up by physics (refraction of light). Just do a bit of research on rec.photo.digital.
Ever seen a real spacecraft? Looks like a 5yo went nuts with the tin foil and kitchen utencils.
Spacecraft will probbaly always tend towards the "junk box" style because it's cheap and easy to engineer.
When they start making spacecraft for consumers, then there will probably be more sleeker looking spacecraft. And they won't all be silver or grey either!;)
In NZ, we have strict gun control, and low gun related crime rates, but there are still plenty of people who go hunting etc.
A large rifle isn't something you can carry around discretly, and it's purpose is to shoot animals. Hand guns and automatic guns are obviously designed to shoot people, and they can be consealed easly. You won't find many of them around here.
Looks like someone doesn't even know what HTML is supposed to be. HTML is not a layout tool, it's a markup language. It's not any of HTML's business to align stuff, that's what CSS is for. How many times does this need to be said? If this guy can't align stuff up, then it's simply because he is too dumb to know how--other people on the web manage to do it.
Your post shows the exact ignorant attitude that most designers have. Maybe you don't carry your printer around much, but there are obviously plenty of people do. The designers, in this case, decided to listen to their customers rather than make assumptions.
Kinda funny really. Most people here are making a big fuss over the handle. When a new Apple comes out, most people seem to like the handles on case.
Who ever carries their case around?
I don't see what is so sexist about a printer designed for/by females. What is sexist is just about every post on this board.
Most/.ers here miss the point. The point isn't that the designers are all female, it's that the company realised it needed to take into account how users really use there products, and listen to them, and design things based on how the user uses them. Not on how some progmmer/engineer/designer thinks is the best way (which in terms on the over all product features and things like GUI, is quite oftern very wrong).
I recommend reading The Inmates are Running the Asylum.
You're confusing near-IR and thermal-IR (not sure if they're techically correct terms). Most CCDs pick up IR very well. Infact, they do it so well that most digital cameras have an IR blocking filter or "hot mirror" in front of the CCD. If you want to see heat though, you will need a special sensor for that. most CCDs can't pick up IR that deep.
IR filters are easy to obtain. But if you want decent exposure times, you'll need to remove the hot mirror first, and replace it with plain glass. Most people don't want to do that to their digital cameras. But since I'm an idiot, I've done exactly that. You can see the results here.
The lack of IR blocking filter means I can take IR pics without a tripod in good light.
IR is interesting. I have quite a few black cloths that come out bright white, while other black cloths still come out black.
Not quite as small? It's less than half the weight! That's quite a big difference.
Not everyone needs 15GBs, Some people need something really small.
BTW. Perhaphs you should RTFA? It's cheap for it's intended market. But then again, you're the expert here. Perhaps you should go and chat to Mercedes or BMW. I guess they don't know what they're doing pricing cars that expensive, they'll never make any money that way.
Ever heard of Sir Edmund Hillary? He's not British. NZ is part of the Commonwealth though, and still barely connected to Britian, to. So I'm not sure what qualifies exactly.
Instead of lots of tedious dicking-around type code at the server side, you simply validate it stricly, and dump the whole thing if it's incorrect--because if it's incorrect, it because of serious error or someone trying to play games with your site, rather than forgeting to fill in a field, or enter an invalid e-mail address etc.
I do a lot of form-based web stuff in PHP and ASP. The biggest part is oftern the form/validation/feedback stage. Sometimes you look at the code, and you could swear it was the source for some complex C++ (or whatever) program, rather than a simple web page.
Only problem with XForms is: how long will it be untill it's supported widly enough so that we can use it? Then there's still backward compatability problems.
I'm sure electric motor engineers would be impressed. No sure what's so special about HD motors, brushless/inside-out motors have been around for quite a long time.
Turning the wheels into a motor is an impresive feat, because--even for electric motors--that's a lot of torque needed to start moving without the aid of any gearing. It's also a feat because making the engine light enough to not to cause too much of a problem with un-sprung weight, while still being very robust and able to deliver a lot of power isn't the most easiest thing to do.
Also, the movies were all filmed at once so you could consider the performance to be one big production simply because during production, it was one big contiguous filming. The fact that they were each released one year apart was merely a marketing decision more than anything else
Nope, they may have done the filming for all of them ages ago, but all the rest (mainly Weta Digital's stuff) has been non-stop 'till up to November, I think. A lot of people were worried that they'd miss the release date. My friend was working there untill October.
Exactly. Does anyone really think that Adams got photos like that straight from the camera? Nope, I'm sure he spent a lot of time in the darkroom making the most out of what he had shot.
Manupulation is just easier and more powerful in digital. It's certinaly nothing new though.
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The sensor is just as important as the lens. I don't care if you lens comes from these guys. Unless you have a decent sensor on the end of it aswell, it's going to be just as crap as a bad lens on a good sensor.
Uh, what this guy is talking about is a farily well established fact backed up by physics (refraction of light). Just do a bit of research on rec.photo.digital.
I know...That's ridiculous! Worst, model, ever!
Spacecraft will probbaly always tend towards the "junk box" style because it's cheap and easy to engineer. ;)
When they start making spacecraft for consumers, then there will probably be more sleeker looking spacecraft. And they won't all be silver or grey either!
I hope that FPS newreader has a Rapid-fire ATIL (Add To Ignore List) Gun.
A large rifle isn't something you can carry around discretly, and it's purpose is to shoot animals. Hand guns and automatic guns are obviously designed to shoot people, and they can be consealed easly. You won't find many of them around here.
Looks like someone doesn't even know what HTML is supposed to be. HTML is not a layout tool, it's a markup language. It's not any of HTML's business to align stuff, that's what CSS is for. How many times does this need to be said? If this guy can't align stuff up, then it's simply because he is too dumb to know how--other people on the web manage to do it.
Of course, if they used CSS, they would get those 21.72 GB savings back and more.
Nope. I also think it's a step back. The tabs where great, there was nothing wrong with them. Now it just looks too plain, and less usable to.
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...But I did think "Oh god, here come the PMS jokes".
Kinda funny really. Most people here are making a big fuss over the handle. When a new Apple comes out, most people seem to like the handles on case. Who ever carries their case around?
Most /.ers here miss the point. The point isn't that the designers are all female, it's that the company realised it needed to take into account how users really use there products, and listen to them, and design things based on how the user uses them. Not on how some progmmer/engineer/designer thinks is the best way (which in terms on the over all product features and things like GUI, is quite oftern very wrong).
I recommend reading The Inmates are Running the Asylum.
IR filters are easy to obtain. But if you want decent exposure times, you'll need to remove the hot mirror first, and replace it with plain glass. Most people don't want to do that to their digital cameras. But since I'm an idiot, I've done exactly that. You can see the results here. The lack of IR blocking filter means I can take IR pics without a tripod in good light.
IR is interesting. I have quite a few black cloths that come out bright white, while other black cloths still come out black.
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Not quite as small? It's less than half the weight! That's quite a big difference.
Not everyone needs 15GBs, Some people need something really small.
BTW. Perhaphs you should RTFA? It's cheap for it's intended market. But then again, you're the expert here. Perhaps you should go and chat to Mercedes or BMW. I guess they don't know what they're doing pricing cars that expensive, they'll never make any money that way.
Ever heard of Sir Edmund Hillary? He's not British. NZ is part of the Commonwealth though, and still barely connected to Britian, to. So I'm not sure what qualifies exactly.
I do a lot of form-based web stuff in PHP and ASP. The biggest part is oftern the form/validation/feedback stage. Sometimes you look at the code, and you could swear it was the source for some complex C++ (or whatever) program, rather than a simple web page.
Only problem with XForms is: how long will it be untill it's supported widly enough so that we can use it? Then there's still backward compatability problems.
Turning the wheels into a motor is an impresive feat, because--even for electric motors--that's a lot of torque needed to start moving without the aid of any gearing. It's also a feat because making the engine light enough to not to cause too much of a problem with un-sprung weight, while still being very robust and able to deliver a lot of power isn't the most easiest thing to do.
- Eletric motors are much more effecient
- No transmission at all
- The diesel engine can be tuned and optimised to run at a peak out-put level since it only ever turns a generator
These all add up.Uh... Just what exactly do you do with your disk drives?
The correct term is Wellywood. Atleast it was for LOTR. Not sure how Wellington-based this film series will be.
Nope, they may have done the filming for all of them ages ago, but all the rest (mainly Weta Digital's stuff) has been non-stop 'till up to November, I think. A lot of people were worried that they'd miss the release date. My friend was working there untill October.
Manupulation is just easier and more powerful in digital. It's certinaly nothing new though.
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