There are many of us here in OR state (Thats OR-IH-GUN for those of you elsewhere) that are NOT sick and tired of hearing about Mt. Saint Helens!
No one is panicking, it is just kinda cool. Of course I also think it is neat when it rains, and I like lightning storms and even forest fires... Even the recent hurricaines I found fascinating. If you don't like it, don't read!
No. It is the weather here. The Pacific Northwest, especially at higher elevations, tends to be foggy in the fall. And winter. And spring. And some of the summer.;)
What? I have never seen a house that had anything special for rooms above the garage. We had two bedrooms above the garage in our old house. And nothing but regular sheetrock / insulation / floor between them.
How is the cam not in a good location? The entire mountain is enveloped in the clouds. Perhaps if we moved the volcano to the sunny southwest for our viewing pleasure....
I prefer to go upthere myself, rather than watch webcams.
Consider doing something basic as printing "Hello World" on to the terminal.
c: printf("Hello World");
java: system.out.println("Hello World");
Thats your gripe? Well, first of all - a good IDE or editor will do command completion, reducing the typing quite a bit.
And without them - you are free to implement all the syntax you want. For example, make yourself an object and have a method called "sop". Then include that object, and all you have to do is call "sop("Hello World");" There, better.
What some people don't realize, is that more than the extra Mhz that this processor provides, it does up the bus speed to 200Mhz (current 1.5Ghz G4s are at 167Mhz). That is a pretty hefty increase, so they should perform quite well...
But having said that, I (who own a 1.5Ghz 15' Powerbook) would rather see the G5 in a laptop.
While the G5 is a GREAT processor, the 64bitness is not it's strongest points. The G5 is simply a very efficient processor... But still, most apps are not CPU constrained, but Bandwidth constrained. In fact, I would bet that a 2Ghz G4 on a 200Mhz bus would still be outperformed by a 1.6Ghz G5 on a 800Mhz bus.
What I would like to see would be a ~ 1.5Ghz G5 laptop with a 1Ghz bus and a 7200rpm disk and a good video card. They could do that right, and not have heat problems. But it wouldn't be cheap...:) The common 7200 RPM drives and high end video use a lot of power and generate a lot of heat...
Interestingly, if you don't believe how much things OTHER than the processor can impact performance, if you have a PowerBook (especially one with a 4200RPM drive) - Run XBench, note the score, then plug it into a 7200RPM firewire drive, and run it again (using the firewire drive instead of the internal). Note the score. That one little change should give you a pretty good speed boost!
Of course, everything in the camera has to do with Image Quality in some way I guess... In the same sense as 35mm film *potentially* is better than APS (24mm?) film. (If the film quality itself were equal). Simply because you get *more* starting info with the 35mm, so you can blow it up farther with less loss. And the same is true the larger you go. You have more "media" taking information, so your image should be better if all other things are equal....
But one of the big differences is the CMOS itself, not the size. Canon makes a really nice CMOS for that new camera.
I wonder if we will ever see Foveon stuff (concepts I mean, not actual hardware) go mainstream and merge with any of the other technologies....
Having a 35mm CMOS has nothing to do with the image quality. It has to do with the "mental math" that the photographer has to do when he uses lenses. On most Digital SLR cameras, there is a conversion multiplier because the sensor is not the same size as a 35mm film frame. That conversion is unnecessary if the sensor is the same size as the 35mm frame. But then we all know that slashdot editors take exhaustive measures to research their stories before posting...
What bugs me is that 35mm is considered 1, and all other sizes have to be converted. Maybe we need a better standard that could accomidate different sensor / film sizes while using standard nomenclature for lenses. I doubt it is even possible, but some genius somewhere could do it I bet...:)
I own about 5 Moby CDs. +- 1. Sure he might seem weird, but musicians and performers are *always* weird to "normal" folk. Oh, and I wouldn't admit in public that I watch Cribs - but I imagine if I *did*, I wouldn't use it as a yardstick to measure a person.
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Run it on Biodiesel.
Ahh. OSX gets nicer every day.
:)
Which is good, because it'll be a few days before DOOM3 ever hits OSX.
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Net? 8 moderators blew their wads....
There are many of us here in OR state (Thats OR-IH-GUN for those of you elsewhere) that are NOT sick and tired of hearing about Mt. Saint Helens!
No one is panicking, it is just kinda cool. Of course I also think it is neat when it rains, and I like lightning storms and even forest fires... Even the recent hurricaines I found fascinating. If you don't like it, don't read!
MSH Webcam
mms://koin.com/10-1-04helens.wmv
Here is some cool video (Windows media, but VLC played it fine):
Here is the coralized link directly to the image, no surrounding page: MSH Webcam
http://www.fs.fed.us.nyud.net:8090/gpnf/volcanocam s/msh/
Nevermind. It's going off right now... 12:30pm PDT Friday.
No. It is the weather here. The Pacific Northwest, especially at higher elevations, tends to be foggy in the fall. And winter. And spring. And some of the summer. ;)
What? I have never seen a house that had anything special for rooms above the garage. We had two bedrooms above the garage in our old house. And nothing but regular sheetrock / insulation / floor between them.
Launch the "virtual tour" and go to the "layout". It has a floorplan that you mouse over to find out what things are.
How is the cam not in a good location? The entire mountain is enveloped in the clouds. Perhaps if we moved the volcano to the sunny southwest for our viewing pleasure....
I prefer to go up there myself, rather than watch webcams.
BTW, where are the black helicopters?
They have been discontinued due to lack of funds and/or lack of pilots.
You wouldn't be buying property near Spirit Lake because it is on a National Volcanic Monument, within a National Forest.
Consider doing something basic as printing "Hello World" on to the terminal.
c: printf("Hello World");
java: system.out.println("Hello World");
Thats your gripe? Well, first of all - a good IDE or editor will do command completion, reducing the typing quite a bit.
And without them - you are free to implement all the syntax you want. For example, make yourself an object and have a method called "sop". Then include that object, and all you have to do is call "sop("Hello World");" There, better.
Why would you want a huge chunk of me? Do I get to pick the chunk?
But I play one on Slashdot...
What some people don't realize, is that more than the extra Mhz that this processor provides, it does up the bus speed to 200Mhz (current 1.5Ghz G4s are at 167Mhz). That is a pretty hefty increase, so they should perform quite well...
:) The common 7200 RPM drives and high end video use a lot of power and generate a lot of heat...
But having said that, I (who own a 1.5Ghz 15' Powerbook) would rather see the G5 in a laptop.
While the G5 is a GREAT processor, the 64bitness is not it's strongest points. The G5 is simply a very efficient processor... But still, most apps are not CPU constrained, but Bandwidth constrained. In fact, I would bet that a 2Ghz G4 on a 200Mhz bus would still be outperformed by a 1.6Ghz G5 on a 800Mhz bus.
What I would like to see would be a ~ 1.5Ghz G5 laptop with a 1Ghz bus and a 7200rpm disk and a good video card. They could do that right, and not have heat problems. But it wouldn't be cheap...
Interestingly, if you don't believe how much things OTHER than the processor can impact performance, if you have a PowerBook (especially one with a 4200RPM drive) - Run XBench, note the score, then plug it into a 7200RPM firewire drive, and run it again (using the firewire drive instead of the internal). Note the score. That one little change should give you a pretty good speed boost!
Of course, everything in the camera has to do with Image Quality in some way I guess... In the same sense as 35mm film *potentially* is better than APS (24mm?) film. (If the film quality itself were equal). Simply because you get *more* starting info with the 35mm, so you can blow it up farther with less loss. And the same is true the larger you go. You have more "media" taking information, so your image should be better if all other things are equal....
But one of the big differences is the CMOS itself, not the size. Canon makes a really nice CMOS for that new camera.
I wonder if we will ever see Foveon stuff (concepts I mean, not actual hardware) go mainstream and merge with any of the other technologies....
In order to be an Opera it would have to be set to music
Opera: A theatrical presentation in which a dramatic performance is set to music.
The closest relation is that Lucas has numbered them all with Episode numbers.
However, I would be interested in a Space Oprah...
Having a 35mm CMOS has nothing to do with the image quality. It has to do with the "mental math" that the photographer has to do when he uses lenses. On most Digital SLR cameras, there is a conversion multiplier because the sensor is not the same size as a 35mm film frame. That conversion is unnecessary if the sensor is the same size as the 35mm frame. But then we all know that slashdot editors take exhaustive measures to research their stories before posting...
:)
What bugs me is that 35mm is considered 1, and all other sizes have to be converted. Maybe we need a better standard that could accomidate different sensor / film sizes while using standard nomenclature for lenses. I doubt it is even possible, but some genius somewhere could do it I bet...
It may not be useful on the monitor, but when blown up to a 10 foot wall poster - the high megapixel count is very important... ;)
I own about 5 Moby CDs. +- 1. Sure he might seem weird, but musicians and performers are *always* weird to "normal" folk. Oh, and I wouldn't admit in public that I watch Cribs - but I imagine if I *did*, I wouldn't use it as a yardstick to measure a person.