It's not the MPs that matter idiot. It's the CCD size and quality and that's what TFA talks about. With the small cameras you usually get a tiny-winy crap quality CCD with a very high MP count. With a decent D-SLR, you get a very high quality, large CCD with a moderate MP count and it still outperforms the other.
I got an A70 for my mum last christmas, she is very happy with it. Got an A85 for my sister this summer, she is going mad with it. I'm thinking of the same for myself for a second digital camera.
That series is pretty good, its lack of RAW mode is annoying but overall it is a good buy.
Unless it is explicitly for american people, usually times given in astronomical magazines or web pages are for UT. Luck helps us, UT is GMT unless it is BST, then we are UT-1.
Get a deck chair and a thick blanket. Go to a park. Sit down and start watching. Hot coffee will help. You don't need any more equipment for a meteor shower. And patience. And luck. Having two people or more helps because you can cover a greater portion of the sky and alert each other for fireballs.
If you have an old-type film camera, put it on top of a tripod and set it to Bulb mode (in most cameras marked as B). If it is really old, take the battery out, they will function without any power (Mitra, I love these old Prakticas and Zenits). Point it towards gemini or zenith, if you don't know where gemini is. Leave it for 15-20 minutes running, aperture around f/2-3. Move to a new frame after the period is finished. The chances are you will capture more than a couple of shots. if you leave it pointed to Gemini, the shots will be more spectacular.
Now, this is all assuming the weather will behave itself. ForecastFox doesn't tell me good things for Cambridge.:-)
I live near Cambridge. Checking ForecastFox it guesstimates it will be a partly-cloudy here. Still, I live a little away from a small town, you are in the city. You will be able to see it but probably will have to get to a dark park. Beware of the perverts.
Sorry, there is nothing wrong here. I am comparing both vs building everything out of source, collected from the sources themselves, not someone else's workings. I am not discussing who came first or who imitated what. Functionally they do the same thing and that's what I was stressing.
Quite a lot of people claim Gentoo is hard work. It isn't. As long as you follow the cookbook and type the commands in the right order, it is a breeze. The only thing that is taxing be patience. Your patience might run out while you are building everything from 'scratch'. On the other hand, with Gentoo all of the hard work is done by 'someone else', FreeBSD's portage is not much different compared to Gentoo, download ready-to-be-cooked package and there you go.
The youngsters have it too easy. When Redhat hadn't invent rpm, you had to get the tarball or check the source out of the cvs and try to get it compile, for every sodding package. That's educational. Gentoo isn't. FreeBSD portage system isn't. They are convenient way of building from source but they are not that different than rpm-hell in many ways.
To put it bluntly, when I was young, we had to walk 10 miles in snow everyday, both ways uphill.:)
We have a similar dual-PII box running webserver/mysql combo for intranet. Runs two seti@home processes as well. Just works. A colleague and I installed it with Suse 9 FTP after the previous box, a Pentium-200's SCSI drives died on us. I intend to run it until it dies.
SVN is a complete rewrite but at the moment the core developers are busy developing (IMHO) unnecessary features just to make CVS users happy. They implemented file server back end recently, now they are very busy rewriting code to implement locking. The first feature is throwing away the best thing SVN had: A database backend. The second feature is throwing the best method cycle SVN had: checkout-merge cycle.
IMHO, just to win over CVS users, they are wasting their time.
As it is clearly apparent, improving CVS is not that hard, at least functionality-wise. In many cases you don't want to improve CVS but incorporate it into a bespoke "revision" system, audio, video, graphics, word documents. Now it can become an enbedded system without any license baggage. That is a good thing. It will enable many software companies and free software writers write new software. That is good.
On the other hand, if there was a mechanism to convince these people contribute their changes back into the wild, it would have been good but it is should not be necessary.
GPL is better in the long run, for the short term solutions, BSD license is much easier to use. No hassle, keep the copyrights and use the code.
License differences are mainly political. Just like there is not a single "Truth", there is not a single political view. Every single person prefers a particular flavour of license, party. Why can't people just accept this as a fact of life and let people choose the license they would like to follow?
Now it is more corporate-friendly. If you want to make money out of it by modifying it, it is easier. You can just create an other bespoke platform, system, architecture.
It makes sense for many people, most of the people out there are not comfortable with "giving back to the community". The BSD license is the most free license in any way, it allows you to do whatever you want to. GPL is more restrictive but in the long run more beneficial to the masses.
Things I'm thinking about: A CVS-based system (in the background) where images, movies are stored, revisioned. I know quite a lot of people who would pay big bucks for this. I know a couple of companies who sell this kind of software pretty happily.
This is a free-software issue, anyone can do anything they like, as long as they stick to the license. Now there is a CVS-variant which is completely BSD. It sounds good to me, it is still not closed-source.
But companies do get money for development and research, testing etc. What they won't get is the contract to build at least 200 hundred of them, each for a billion.
Until recently EU wasn't a union. It was an economic entity. Before that it even wasn't that but only a couple of countries in trade agreements. So what?
First of all, USA and Turkey no longer have the good old relationship they used to have. That ended when Turkish parliament, much to everyone's suprise, refused to let American soldiers into Turkey to attack Iraq. America had to find other bases, much to their pain. Secondly, America doesn't army PKK, they arm two Kurdish factions which divvied the Northern Iraq between themselves (and to be fair, in civil var since 1960s. Reading the history of Barzani and Talibani families is much fun, how they betrayed Kurds to Iraqi and Turkish authorities, in turn is quite fascinating).
PKK (also known as KADEK) is hated by both factions and is regarded as a terrorist organisation by all sides. Their bases in Iraq were shelled by American Army last year.
PKK's former leader, Ocalan, was captured by Turks (or handed to them, depending on which conspiracy theory you subscribe to) also was quite a shame to Kurds, after grovelling to Turkish "Ideals" when he was on trial.
Turkish criminal justice system is quote good, by, even the standards of United States (there, Coskun would just end up in Guatanamo Bay). However, it is not good enough for ANY truly civilized country.
I used to get around equivalent of 1 grand in GBP, after taxes mind you, I used to work in an IT company. My mother, an university teacher in a good university, used to get paid a little bit less than I did. On the other hand, renting a good flat in a decent location would cost around 300GBP at the same time, leaving enough to spend on everything else. Buying a car was expensive, average new cost of a car was around 10 grand. A typical school teacher would get paind around 300-350GBP, which is not much. Mind you, these are in UK pounds when I moved out of the country. Since then the real purchasing power has gone down, after the economic crisis of 2001. Turkish Lira did slump horrendously in late 90s but the economy was reasonable, with a good rate of growth. After the Izmit earthquake, where over 35 thousand died, the economy went into a slump and stayed at rock bottom. You can see the TL vs. Euro slump here As you can see, the last couple of years are quite steady. The economy can only get better, not worse.
In Turkish juicidal structure, there are NO ethnic groups. Everyone is treated equally. Of course it doesn't work out that way, especially when politics interfere with courts. I have to stress that this is not a government policy, it is more of a cultural policy, generated by politics and culture of individuals. Government of Turkey is an islamist party which, if given the chance, would revert Turkey to carbon copy of Iran. To stop this happening, Nationalism gets pumped up by the Military higher echelon, which always takes a "big brotherly" point of view in Turkish Politics.
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Auto-white balance: My cheap SLR-like has that capability... It doesn't have ISO1600, ISO800 is quite painful.
It's not the MPs that matter idiot. It's the CCD size and quality and that's what TFA talks about. With the small cameras you usually get a tiny-winy crap quality CCD with a very high MP count. With a decent D-SLR, you get a very high quality, large CCD with a moderate MP count and it still outperforms the other.
A75 is quite piss-poor compared to A70, it's supposed predecessor. A85 on the other hand is very good (but 5MP).
That series is pretty good, its lack of RAW mode is annoying but overall it is a good buy.
Get a deck chair and a thick blanket. Go to a park. Sit down and start watching. Hot coffee will help. You don't need any more equipment for a meteor shower. And patience. And luck. Having two people or more helps because you can cover a greater portion of the sky and alert each other for fireballs.
If you have an old-type film camera, put it on top of a tripod and set it to Bulb mode (in most cameras marked as B). If it is really old, take the battery out, they will function without any power (Mitra, I love these old Prakticas and Zenits). Point it towards gemini or zenith, if you don't know where gemini is. Leave it for 15-20 minutes running, aperture around f/2-3. Move to a new frame after the period is finished. The chances are you will capture more than a couple of shots. if you leave it pointed to Gemini, the shots will be more spectacular.
Now, this is all assuming the weather will behave itself. ForecastFox doesn't tell me good things for Cambridge. :-)
I live near Cambridge. Checking ForecastFox it guesstimates it will be a partly-cloudy here. Still, I live a little away from a small town, you are in the city. You will be able to see it but probably will have to get to a dark park. Beware of the perverts.
Sorry, there is nothing wrong here. I am comparing both vs building everything out of source, collected from the sources themselves, not someone else's workings. I am not discussing who came first or who imitated what. Functionally they do the same thing and that's what I was stressing.
The youngsters have it too easy. When Redhat hadn't invent rpm, you had to get the tarball or check the source out of the cvs and try to get it compile, for every sodding package. That's educational. Gentoo isn't. FreeBSD portage system isn't. They are convenient way of building from source but they are not that different than rpm-hell in many ways.
To put it bluntly, when I was young, we had to walk 10 miles in snow everyday, both ways uphill. :)
You don't need to joke. Gentoo is far too easy to build and run.
We have a similar dual-PII box running webserver/mysql combo for intranet. Runs two seti@home processes as well. Just works. A colleague and I installed it with Suse 9 FTP after the previous box, a Pentium-200's SCSI drives died on us. I intend to run it until it dies.
I don't want to fiddle with config files buried /deep/in/your/ass. /etc and ~/.etc are good enough for me, thank you.
IMHO, just to win over CVS users, they are wasting their time.
As it is clearly apparent, improving CVS is not that hard, at least functionality-wise. In many cases you don't want to improve CVS but incorporate it into a bespoke "revision" system, audio, video, graphics, word documents. Now it can become an enbedded system without any license baggage. That is a good thing. It will enable many software companies and free software writers write new software. That is good.
On the other hand, if there was a mechanism to convince these people contribute their changes back into the wild, it would have been good but it is should not be necessary.
GPL is better in the long run, for the short term solutions, BSD license is much easier to use. No hassle, keep the copyrights and use the code.
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License differences are mainly political. Just like there is not a single "Truth", there is not a single political view. Every single person prefers a particular flavour of license, party. Why can't people just accept this as a fact of life and let people choose the license they would like to follow?
It makes sense for many people, most of the people out there are not comfortable with "giving back to the community". The BSD license is the most free license in any way, it allows you to do whatever you want to. GPL is more restrictive but in the long run more beneficial to the masses.
Things I'm thinking about: A CVS-based system (in the background) where images, movies are stored, revisioned. I know quite a lot of people who would pay big bucks for this. I know a couple of companies who sell this kind of software pretty happily.
This is a free-software issue, anyone can do anything they like, as long as they stick to the license. Now there is a CVS-variant which is completely BSD. It sounds good to me, it is still not closed-source.
Subversion guys just did that and it is good. It is riskier, they are still coding but it is already very good indeed.
Wasn't Adventures of Young Indiana Jones a success? I read many good reviews about it (but only watched a couple of episodes).
But companies do get money for development and research, testing etc. What they won't get is the contract to build at least 200 hundred of them, each for a billion.
In Slashdot, cliche jokes are only for the elderly.
Until recently EU wasn't a union. It was an economic entity. Before that it even wasn't that but only a couple of countries in trade agreements. So what?
Secondly, America doesn't army PKK, they arm two Kurdish factions which divvied the Northern Iraq between themselves (and to be fair, in civil var since 1960s. Reading the history of Barzani and Talibani families is much fun, how they betrayed Kurds to Iraqi and Turkish authorities, in turn is quite fascinating).
PKK (also known as KADEK) is hated by both factions and is regarded as a terrorist organisation by all sides. Their bases in Iraq were shelled by American Army last year.
PKK's former leader, Ocalan, was captured by Turks (or handed to them, depending on which conspiracy theory you subscribe to) also was quite a shame to Kurds, after grovelling to Turkish "Ideals" when he was on trial.
Turkish criminal justice system is quote good, by, even the standards of United States (there, Coskun would just end up in Guatanamo Bay). However, it is not good enough for ANY truly civilized country.
Israel competes in Eurovision and they are in... Israel??
I used to get around equivalent of 1 grand in GBP, after taxes mind you, I used to work in an IT company. My mother, an university teacher in a good university, used to get paid a little bit less than I did. On the other hand, renting a good flat in a decent location would cost around 300GBP at the same time, leaving enough to spend on everything else. Buying a car was expensive, average new cost of a car was around 10 grand. A typical school teacher would get paind around 300-350GBP, which is not much. Mind you, these are in UK pounds when I moved out of the country. Since then the real purchasing power has gone down, after the economic crisis of 2001.
Turkish Lira did slump horrendously in late 90s but the economy was reasonable, with a good rate of growth. After the Izmit earthquake, where over 35 thousand died, the economy went into a slump and stayed at rock bottom. You can see the TL vs. Euro slump here As you can see, the last couple of years are quite steady. The economy can only get better, not worse.
In Turkish juicidal structure, there are NO ethnic groups. Everyone is treated equally. Of course it doesn't work out that way, especially when politics interfere with courts.
I have to stress that this is not a government policy, it is more of a cultural policy, generated by politics and culture of individuals. Government of Turkey is an islamist party which, if given the chance, would revert Turkey to carbon copy of Iran. To stop this happening, Nationalism gets pumped up by the Military higher echelon, which always takes a "big brotherly" point of view in Turkish Politics.