To clarify a point, the speed of light was first (inaccurately, but in the ballpark) estimated in 1676 by Roemer, long before Einstein, Einsteins grandparents,... Bradley got a closer value in 1729.
The thing with LOTR is that a lot us read, you know, the books. Now years later it's a popular movie and everyone's all ooh ooh Legolas, oooh LOTR is da bomb and shit. And we're like hello? it's been a book series since like the 1950s. Can you even read?
I don't want commercial software on Linux and I don't want to pay for commercial software on Linux. I'd rather use free software even if it's not quite as good as a commercial equivalent. In many cases free software is better anyway.
Commercial software is an antithesis to the primary advantage of the Linux platform: openness. If you try to make Linux into just another delivery vehicle for commercial software you will fail because Microsoft and Apple are far better at creating operating systems for that purpose. Loki already bit it and many other vendor attempts to release commercial software on Linux have failed.
Linux is a niche market with a lot of users that will not pay for commercial software because the software is not worth the cost (monetary or freedom) to them.
Run Windoze if you want to pay money for software you can't modify. I use Windoze to run games, for example.
Well, the sensor technology is different of course because you don't have the exposure flexibility. You also need more realtime processing power in DV. Unless you're willing to live with 3 frame per second home movies:-).
Well, you assume width x height is some aspect ratio like 4x5. My gripe is it doesn't include color depth which is also important. But unless you're a impulse buyer, you'll go get the real specs anyway.
That's not true. When you scale down / downsample a detailed image you get a more accurate small image. These computed pixels are representative of more sensor information than a 1.5mp image would be.
In other words a 650KB jpeg created from this Canon would be higher quality even though you aren't keeping all the data.
Even with a 1.5 mp camera or whatever you can take a bunch of shots and then use panorama stiching software to join them. Try it if you're ever bored, it's kind of fun.
I think 11 MP is just about right to finally get rid of the 35 mm for any amateur but serious photographers, and actually doesn't come close to fulfilling the needs of the professional yet.
I agree. Digital is just at the edge of 35mm quality. But medium and large format quality is ways off. The practical advantages are probably causing many to move to digital anyway.
Here's 35mm vs medium format if you're interested:
comparing formats
I'd done a small amount of 6510 (gradeschool) and x86 (high school) programming before I took assembly language and computer architecture in college.
Our assembly class was based on some invention of the professor's. It used a virtual machine and its own language. It probably would have been better to use something like z80, but it was okay. For me the class was rather pointless except for the project to write an assembler.
We used the Hennessy book for architecture which is of course MIPS based. I thought that was a great assembly language for learning RISC and stuff like pipelining.
After college I taught myself Motorola 68k assembly. Wow! That is the most elegant assembly language I've ever used. x86 assembly in contrast is very odd and clunky. I'm curious what PPC is like, but I haven't studied it.
For Computer Science I think it is better to learn the general concepts such as memory hierarchies, superscalar design and pipelining, etc., and focus on generic 32 bit RISC architecture. I think that will serve students far better than learning x86.
If you're not motivated enough to learn any specific language, assembly or otherwise, on your own anyway, I think you're in the wrong field!
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To clarify a point, the speed of light was first (inaccurately, but in the ballpark) estimated in 1676 by Roemer, long before Einstein, Einsteins grandparents, ... Bradley got a closer value in 1729.
-Kevin
Oops, sorry I goofed. I like your model too!
Except where you said the headline blurb was an unfamiliar use of "cool" and it's a waste of time and money I guess.
You don't seem to think I have the same right to comment that you do.
LEGOs aren't my hobby. Go read another thread if you can't appreciate the work the guy did.
No, you're a prick because you ripping on someone's hobby mr. go-play-with-your-legos-cuz-i'm-doing-nuclear-phys ics-in-my-bathtub.
I did really enjoy the movie though.
Now I guess you can add prick to your resume.
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just pics: crane pics
If you're going to get a degree in air conditioner design and writing OS drivers like EE or CpE, why not learn C?
Commercial software is an antithesis to the primary advantage of the Linux platform: openness. If you try to make Linux into just another delivery vehicle for commercial software you will fail because Microsoft and Apple are far better at creating operating systems for that purpose. Loki already bit it and many other vendor attempts to release commercial software on Linux have failed.
Linux is a niche market with a lot of users that will not pay for commercial software because the software is not worth the cost (monetary or freedom) to them.
Run Windoze if you want to pay money for software you can't modify. I use Windoze to run games, for example.
-Kevin
You can just remove that since network.h doesn't exist...
-Kevin
-Kevin
Well, you assume width x height is some aspect ratio like 4x5. My gripe is it doesn't include color depth which is also important. But unless you're a impulse buyer, you'll go get the real specs anyway.
-Kevin
I've read that 35mm is roughly equivalent to 20 megapixels x 36 bit color (12 bits per color). Film also has grain which digital does not.
In other words a 650KB jpeg created from this Canon would be higher quality even though you aren't keeping all the data.
Even with a 1.5 mp camera or whatever you can take a bunch of shots and then use panorama stiching software to join them. Try it if you're ever bored, it's kind of fun.
I agree. Digital is just at the edge of 35mm quality. But medium and large format quality is ways off. The practical advantages are probably causing many to move to digital anyway.
Here's 35mm vs medium format if you're interested: comparing formats
That's only true in some sense. Many people compose multiple digital images at different exposures in order to get _greater_ range than film.
see this link: compositing
That's too bad.
I doubt they used that speed to seem "fast". Shelby Cobras in the 1960s could do nearly double that speed.
-Kevin
Our assembly class was based on some invention of the professor's. It used a virtual machine and its own language. It probably would have been better to use something like z80, but it was okay. For me the class was rather pointless except for the project to write an assembler.
We used the Hennessy book for architecture which is of course MIPS based. I thought that was a great assembly language for learning RISC and stuff like pipelining.
After college I taught myself Motorola 68k assembly. Wow! That is the most elegant assembly language I've ever used. x86 assembly in contrast is very odd and clunky. I'm curious what PPC is like, but I haven't studied it.
For Computer Science I think it is better to learn the general concepts such as memory hierarchies, superscalar design and pipelining, etc., and focus on generic 32 bit RISC architecture. I think that will serve students far better than learning x86.
If you're not motivated enough to learn any specific language, assembly or otherwise, on your own anyway, I think you're in the wrong field!
-Kevin
What has Iran done lately?
-Kevin
No kidding!
It will be nice to not have to hear about Napster anymore finally.
The name rang a bell but I couldn't remember what DaveCentral was.
I just checked and it's one of those silly download sites. Whoopdeedo!
-Kevin