Have had good results with 1800mAh NiMH RayOVac AA-size batteries in cameras with flash. Havne't used them for much else yet. Had less satisfactory results from Radio Shack-brand NiMH ones. YMWV.
or they'll make a movie out of it. The idea well has dried up, and anything with even a modest fan base and opportunities for lots of CGI will be seized upon immediately.
who drink our beers straight out of the bottle, what do we get, aside from the enjoyment of watching a tipsy barmate look at his glass and mutter "this thing's broken" when the servers ignore him...
Going by what a magazine production manager told me (ok, an ex-girlfriend, but she deals with this stuff every day), publications are asking their regular freelance and/or staff photogs to use digital, but at higher megapixel counts... 5MP and up; she mentioned that use of the Kodak SLR body that cranks out 13MP as something they'd like to see more of (other image quality factors notwithstanding, of course). Digital backs are also available for medium-format (a studio staple), and are seriously pricey, but also have higher resolution than the D2H, and would be the preferred choice in a studio setting.
In my experience, the two biggest drains on battery life are continuous autofocus and other motorized functions, and (when built-in to the camera) flash usage.
Most, if not all, higher-end Nikons have battery-pack extensions available and are essential for heavy use of the camera.
I have a film scanner and I love it. But then I have about 100 rolls worth of old negs that I want scanned.... it doesn't replace traditional printing, it simply adds a new way of dealing with images.
You might get more density if you used a proportional font in your post;)
It'd be more like:
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Perpendicular recording would effectively replace a two-dimensional bit with a one-dimensional bit, from the recording head's point of view. (Or something close to that.)
In other news, Lawrence Ellison of Oracle Corp announced that he intended to launch a hostile buyout offer for SCO... "we don't really want their products, we just want their lawyers."
Because if Tampa Bay's offense shows up, it will a nail-biter... and Sea-bass has more of a tendency to toss up a dead shank than Martin does. As the kicker in Ace Ventura said... "laces out! laces out!!!"
And although they stink now, my old faves the Bengals did turn in a couple of close, entertaining Super Bowls back in the day... WAY back in the day. (Including one which was broadcast by NBC in glasses-aided 3D!)
Why are good game coders in demand? The same reason that People magazine is one of the biggest selling rags in America... those who can entertain are in demand and of interest to a lot of people.
Also, in a quasi-reply to the posts above, entertainment is not something that is taught in traditional educational settings... granted, theatre is a valid major in many good schools, but otherwise there's really no academic correlation between those who can make a good game and those who did well in school. Is that a problem? Only if gaming becomes an exceptionally large part of the society's needs. Gaming is important to us, and currently profitable, but in the long run it's fringe to everyone else.
Heh, I'm not so sure about increasing the property value... the people who tend to build such homes are usually described as "rugged individualists", which is a synonym for "stone crazy".
Still, after my state got whacked by some tornadoes just a few weeks ago, the storm shelter idea sounds great... I'd really want a floor drain in case there was a pipe-joint leak, though. As anyone who's walked through a large storm drain knows, those pipes are designed to keep water IN, not OUT.
Actually, I can't think of any online versions that are really superior to their print counterparts... and while Byte was more of a general computing mag than a industry/trade mag, it did have its niche. In the end, I only read it for Jerry Pournelle's end-user-oriented column (and then sometimes only to see what he and Niven were up to;)
are the stuff that fills corporate ref libraries, which are themselves falling prey to the 'online is better' notion. Never read EN, but I'm guessing that it's something like Aviation Week, a publication my dad could not do without in his days at a major aerospace supplier; if you had a subscription, you knew what was going on in the industry. Now they have an online presence. It's probably just a natural evolution for mags like these, the ref library of the future will merely be a collection of links and content subscriptions. Hope that's not true, but that's the way it's shaping up.
And, online versions mean that you don't have to toss out a pile of mags every so often.
In at least one case, Time Warner stood up to the local media monopoly here in Central Ohio... which may or may not be as pervasive as the one in Toledo. Anyway, these people tried to push an all-Ohio news channel on TW, effectively doubling their ad revenue vs. only having the one local broadcast station on the cable system. TW said, "Shuh! As if!" and threatened to stop offering the monopoly's local broadcast station! Eventually the all-Ohio network made it onto their digital cable package, but it was fun to watch the head-cheeses at the local media monopoly squirm when they met up with a bigger bully.
P.S. Is anybody left in Toledo? I know a bunch of people who have moved away from there, never to return.
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Might make your head explode if you watch for thirty seconds or more.
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That would be the blipverts from the Max Headroom series... or a half-hour of the Anna Nicole Show. Either one will fragment your noggin; take your pick.
Our server room also has a water sprinkler system... due to less-than-forward-looking regulations in the dumb little suburb we are located in, all areas of the building HAD to have them, regardless of any other fire-suppression we might have paid for. Hope no one lights a match...
... but maybe it's about time this thing died a natural death. Personally, I think it's a sign that the computer industry has truly reached a state of being a commodity industry... years ago, when everything was new and nobody knew what would be the 'next big thing', COMDEX was the place to be. Now, either nobody thinks there will be a next big thing, or nobody cares.
Well, if you take into consideration the ages of the early Doctors, yeah, age isn't necessarily a factor, but as the Doctor regenerated over the years, he seemed to get younger... suddenly getting older again would be kind of a shock.
Pretty sure he's the oldest one still around... the first 3 have all passed on. Any of the other previous Doctors would be ok, as long as it's not Colin Baker... the big mistake in the Dr. line, IMHO.
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Not too much real-life humor comes up, vs. the plethora of geek jokes that are out there. One story that came to mind was told by one of my Astronomy teachers in college... had to look it up on Google to remember the details, but it ran something like this:
"Shortly after the discovery of the huge Tharsis volcanoes on Mars, various names were proposed for them. Someone ([Carl] Sagan discreetly described him as "a European savant") suggested that the mountains should be named after various Roman deities - there would be a Mons Martis, a Mons Jovis... and a Mons Veneris. Planetary scientists seem to lead very sheltered lives - it fell to Sagan to point out that "mons veneris" is a phrase already used to designate a well-loved portion of the female anatomy, and that it could only induce sniggering at the back of the class if the same name were given to a 20-kilometre-high volcano."
(snippet from this page.)
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Have had good results with 1800mAh NiMH RayOVac AA-size batteries in cameras with flash. Havne't used them for much else yet. Had less satisfactory results from Radio Shack-brand NiMH ones. YMWV.
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Points well made (i.e. it IS all about the money), but you might want to check your stock symbol for SCO... it's SCOX, not SCO.
or they'll make a movie out of it. The idea well has dried up, and anything with even a modest fan base and opportunities for lots of CGI will be seized upon immediately.
who drink our beers straight out of the bottle, what do we get, aside from the enjoyment of watching a tipsy barmate look at his glass and mutter "this thing's broken" when the servers ignore him...
Going by what a magazine production manager told me (ok, an ex-girlfriend, but she deals with this stuff every day), publications are asking their regular freelance and/or staff photogs to use digital, but at higher megapixel counts... 5MP and up; she mentioned that use of the Kodak SLR body that cranks out 13MP as something they'd like to see more of (other image quality factors notwithstanding, of course). Digital backs are also available for medium-format (a studio staple), and are seriously pricey, but also have higher resolution than the D2H, and would be the preferred choice in a studio setting.
Most, if not all, higher-end Nikons have battery-pack extensions available and are essential for heavy use of the camera.
I have a film scanner and I love it. But then I have about 100 rolls worth of old negs that I want scanned.... it doesn't replace traditional printing, it simply adds a new way of dealing with images.
It'd be more like:
from --------
to ||||||||
Perpendicular recording would effectively replace a two-dimensional bit with a one-dimensional bit, from the recording head's point of view. (Or something close to that.)
In other news, Lawrence Ellison of Oracle Corp announced that he intended to launch a hostile buyout offer for SCO... "we don't really want their products, we just want their lawyers."
SCO quote
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX&d=c&k=c1&a=v&p=s &t=1y&l=off&z=m&q=l
Wow, looks like FUD sells! (Note that the first copyright suit was filed around the graph's turning point in March.)
That is pretty pathetic, unless you're female. You are hereby exiled to Kentucky.
And although they stink now, my old faves the Bengals did turn in a couple of close, entertaining Super Bowls back in the day... WAY back in the day. (Including one which was broadcast by NBC in glasses-aided 3D!)
Guess he's still got the 'edge', if he can sneak in a first post on a thread about himself ;)
Also, in a quasi-reply to the posts above, entertainment is not something that is taught in traditional educational settings... granted, theatre is a valid major in many good schools, but otherwise there's really no academic correlation between those who can make a good game and those who did well in school. Is that a problem? Only if gaming becomes an exceptionally large part of the society's needs. Gaming is important to us, and currently profitable, but in the long run it's fringe to everyone else.
Still, after my state got whacked by some tornadoes just a few weeks ago, the storm shelter idea sounds great... I'd really want a floor drain in case there was a pipe-joint leak, though. As anyone who's walked through a large storm drain knows, those pipes are designed to keep water IN, not OUT.
Actually, I can't think of any online versions that are really superior to their print counterparts... and while Byte was more of a general computing mag than a industry/trade mag, it did have its niche. In the end, I only read it for Jerry Pournelle's end-user-oriented column (and then sometimes only to see what he and Niven were up to ;)
And, online versions mean that you don't have to toss out a pile of mags every so often.
P.S. Is anybody left in Toledo? I know a bunch of people who have moved away from there, never to return.
Might make your head explode if you watch for thirty seconds or more.
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That would be the blipverts from the Max Headroom series... or a half-hour of the Anna Nicole Show. Either one will fragment your noggin; take your pick.
Our server room also has a water sprinkler system... due to less-than-forward-looking regulations in the dumb little suburb we are located in, all areas of the building HAD to have them, regardless of any other fire-suppression we might have paid for. Hope no one lights a match...
... but maybe it's about time this thing died a natural death. Personally, I think it's a sign that the computer industry has truly reached a state of being a commodity industry... years ago, when everything was new and nobody knew what would be the 'next big thing', COMDEX was the place to be. Now, either nobody thinks there will be a next big thing, or nobody cares.
Pretty sure he's the oldest one still around... the first 3 have all passed on. Any of the other previous Doctors would be ok, as long as it's not Colin Baker... the big mistake in the Dr. line, IMHO.
"Shortly after the discovery of the huge Tharsis volcanoes on Mars, various names were proposed for them. Someone ([Carl] Sagan discreetly described him as "a European savant") suggested that the mountains should be named after various Roman deities - there would be a Mons Martis, a Mons Jovis ... and a Mons Veneris. Planetary scientists seem to lead very sheltered lives - it fell to Sagan to point out that "mons veneris" is a phrase already used to designate a well-loved portion of the female anatomy, and that it could only induce sniggering at the back of the class if the same name were given to a 20-kilometre-high volcano."
(snippet from this page.)
Any other good real-life science humor out there?