Here in Argentina I've been to at least a few hydroelectric plants that already do this. Besides working as a "normal" hydroelectric plant, and because the artificial lakes that power them are small, they pump water up during the "cheap" hours and let it go through the turbines on the "expensive" ones, selling power back to the grid and making a profit. A neat way of speculation if you ask me:)
No it won't. The sensor on your camera has changed, your lens still sucks. An 8 MP sensor exceeds the resolution of a P&S zoom lens by a lot, so such a sensor is essentially useless - interpolating a 5MP image would get you at about the same place with some USM.
Really, cropping is just digital zoom. You won't get additional resolution once past the lens resolution limit, which is by far exceded by 8MP APS-C sensors on consumer zooms or "normal" prosumer zooms (except the occasional hidden L). The problem is the lenses, not the sensor.
Really, even at 8MP, your main concern for cropping is not sensor resolution but *lens* resolution. At 8MP 1:1 anything but good prosumer or pro lenses is a fuzzy blur. Even if you had 40MP in your sensor, cropping an 8MP section of it wouldn't look near as nice as an actual 8MP picture right out of the sensor, because the lens has finite resolution too.
You do need drivers for ATA controllers. It's just that they are normally included already, but if you were to create one from scratch, you would have to include drivers. See the corresponding part of your linux kernel configuration for more info on this.
Heh, I don't go to church, as you might imagine, but there are some very stupid churchs around there. There are some which will fix the problems caused to you by other people's envy, those who think talking to god will cure illnesses, etc. It was just a silly comment. But Dark Matter is not the same level of made-up-ness than the christian God.
On the other hand, experimental science is not math nor formal logic. Nothing is ever TRUE. There is only "very good chances it correctly describes our observations on cases not yet tried", "very bad chances it does", "not a clue", and various degrees of it. Karl Popper wrote quite a bit on this, you might be interested in reading it.
General Relativity is considered by most (rigourous, educated, thoughtful) scientists to correctly describe our universe. All of it's predictions have been either shown by experiments/observation (black holes) or not yet shown, but never disproved (frame dragging, gravitational waves, both of which are very fashionable these days). So, we are not desperate to dump a theory that has been correctly describing everything around us for half a century. Therefore, dark matter. Additional mass that makes the theory work. Nothing too crazy, IMO.
So, Dark Matter is "proven" to exist. It's not that it's actually there, it's that our since 1920's very reliable theory needs it to function. I'm happier to accept that there is some matter we can't see (hey, it's very far away) than I am to find out that GR is flawed. It's not that it can't be, but at this point, it's just a matter of confidence.
What do you mean you can't boot to PCI? What do you think connects your ATA *controller*, which then connects to your ATA devices? The other poster probably has it right: It's been done this way so that you don't need any drivers.
IANAQP but you are theoretically shielding against it since you are experimenting the effects of gravity (which means you are interacting with gravitons). Neutrinos can't be shielded against either AFAIK.
-- CRAZY PULLED OUT OF MY *SS THEORY -- Maybe because in order to shield from gravitons you need mass (you know, m1m2/d^2, both masses are important, your interaction depends also on your mass), the "shadow" effect of your interaction on this graviton field is reduced by your own gravity.
People think of dark matter as some misterious matter (it's dark!). But it's more simple than that.Dark Matter is a theoretical construct because no one knows what it is. It's just a bunch of mass that is needed to make the universe work in the current models. It could be dust, though one would need a lot of it. No one denies that the need for dark matter might show that the model is flawed, but the truth is, no one knows better either ATM, and this hypothetical additional mass would make it work. It isn't supposed to be true. At least, not more true than imaginary time and super strings. They are just numbers that are needed to get the math to work. At some point, we might discover what dark matter actually *is*, and then it won't be dark anymore.
No one claims that dark matter will grant you favors if you go to church on sundays. There is proof of the existence of dark matter: it is needed to make an apparently very good model work on bigger scales.
This is not that bad, really. You can't actually do most operations if you can't see how they'll come up. And for the rounding issue when convoluting, this is solved by using more resolution, not more colors.
Well, I'd say it's much easier to command a vehicle moving in a homogeneous fluid where every obstacle it might find is already listed at some control tower or geographic institute (say, planes or mountains), than there is to sort obstacles in the middle of the desert where the kind of problems you might find are much more complicated to work out (say, radar says "i have a big thing over here, it doesn't fit in my field of view, where do we go? left, right?". It's not because everyone drives a car every day, that it's easier to have it done automatically.
Ok, a few major flaws: 1) The obvious glass person problem 2) 33ft range?? Utterly useless, there's a reason paparazzis use long lenses 3) Unless the person is standing right next to this "lighting pole" thing, a good ole' lens hood will prevent the beam from entering the lens and ruining the picture. The pole would have to be *in* the picture for this to be a problem. In order to solve this, get a 400mm lens and attach a properly sized hood, get just what you want in the picture.
1) Auto-indent works fine with Python, as long it's the while-you-code type. Any nice indenter should check for existing indents and respect whatever they used (spaces or tabs), or let you specify it.
No one is forcing anything on you. I think the fact that you have to put some attention to what you code is actually a feature, not a bug.
Either way, a Python-aware editor can do the tab/space conversion for you (and most of them do).
2) I don't know about you but if i'm going to be copying and pasting large nested blocks of code that can "break", I might as well use PHP instead.
Just give Python a try and see by yourself if the benefits outweigh (or not) this "downside".
Any text editor with a featureset larger than notepad.exe's can indent a selected block of code. You just have to pay attention to this with python, just like you pay attention to braces in C.
I do agree on the potential indentation mistakes. Still, unless you have a badly b0rked text editor (which, if you are a programmer, is a no-no) it's hard to have a problem with this.
Different incompatible modules. E.g mod_php4, mod_php5, mod_python 2.7/3.1. Some of them can't run together, some of them only run on Apache 1.3 or 2.0.
Don't remove flexibility unless you get something out of it that outweighs the lack thereof.
Not really, in order to have the second SHA1 hash collide you would need to get *both* the MD5 AND the SHA1 to collide. That shouldn't be as easy, although I don't know if it would be significantly harder.
Of course, and they deserve it, because they should have used the GPL and just giving away their money to those poor kids is like giving a man a fish instead of the fishing row.
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Yes, but just on Windows (or at least not under Linux).
Here in Argentina I've been to at least a few hydroelectric plants that already do this. Besides working as a "normal" hydroelectric plant, and because the artificial lakes that power them are small, they pump water up during the "cheap" hours and let it go through the turbines on the "expensive" ones, selling power back to the grid and making a profit. A neat way of speculation if you ask me :)
That is right if you don't get the joke. The 1st premise was implied.
Logic 101: Modus ponens
Only americans can be proud of SUVs. (note, not "all the americans")
$PERSON is proud of his SUV.
-> $PERSON is an american.
No it won't. The sensor on your camera has changed, your lens still sucks. An 8 MP sensor exceeds the resolution of a P&S zoom lens by a lot, so such a sensor is essentially useless - interpolating a 5MP image would get you at about the same place with some USM.
http://www.photo.net/equipment/canon/100
Tada!
Really, cropping is just digital zoom. You won't get additional resolution once past the lens resolution limit, which is by far exceded by 8MP APS-C sensors on consumer zooms or "normal" prosumer zooms (except the occasional hidden L). The problem is the lenses, not the sensor.
Really, even at 8MP, your main concern for cropping is not sensor resolution but *lens* resolution. At 8MP 1:1 anything but good prosumer or pro lenses is a fuzzy blur. Even if you had 40MP in your sensor, cropping an 8MP section of it wouldn't look near as nice as an actual 8MP picture right out of the sensor, because the lens has finite resolution too.
Yeah, except that's pretty damn hard. You won't find 2 controllers that use the same driver, and it's not because they dont want them to.
You do need drivers for ATA controllers. It's just that they are normally included already, but if you were to create one from scratch, you would have to include drivers. See the corresponding part of your linux kernel configuration for more info on this.
Heh, I don't go to church, as you might imagine, but there are some very stupid churchs around there. There are some which will fix the problems caused to you by other people's envy, those who think talking to god will cure illnesses, etc. It was just a silly comment. But Dark Matter is not the same level of made-up-ness than the christian God.
On the other hand, experimental science is not math nor formal logic. Nothing is ever TRUE. There is only "very good chances it correctly describes our observations on cases not yet tried", "very bad chances it does", "not a clue", and various degrees of it. Karl Popper wrote quite a bit on this, you might be interested in reading it.
General Relativity is considered by most (rigourous, educated, thoughtful) scientists to correctly describe our universe. All of it's predictions have been either shown by experiments/observation (black holes) or not yet shown, but never disproved (frame dragging, gravitational waves, both of which are very fashionable these days). So, we are not desperate to dump a theory that has been correctly describing everything around us for half a century. Therefore, dark matter. Additional mass that makes the theory work. Nothing too crazy, IMO.
So, Dark Matter is "proven" to exist. It's not that it's actually there, it's that our since 1920's very reliable theory needs it to function. I'm happier to accept that there is some matter we can't see (hey, it's very far away) than I am to find out that GR is flawed. It's not that it can't be, but at this point, it's just a matter of confidence.
What do you mean you can't boot to PCI? What do you think connects your ATA *controller*, which then connects to your ATA devices?
The other poster probably has it right: It's been done this way so that you don't need any drivers.
IANAQP but you are theoretically shielding against it since you are experimenting the effects of gravity (which means you are interacting with gravitons). Neutrinos can't be shielded against either AFAIK.
-- CRAZY PULLED OUT OF MY *SS THEORY --
Maybe because in order to shield from gravitons you need mass (you know, m1m2/d^2, both masses are important, your interaction depends also on your mass), the "shadow" effect of your interaction on this graviton field is reduced by your own gravity.
People think of dark matter as some misterious matter (it's dark!). But it's more simple than that .Dark Matter is a theoretical construct because no one knows what it is. It's just a bunch of mass that is needed to make the universe work in the current models. It could be dust, though one would need a lot of it. No one denies that the need for dark matter might show that the model is flawed, but the truth is, no one knows better either ATM, and this hypothetical additional mass would make it work. It isn't supposed to be true.
At least, not more true than imaginary time and super strings. They are just numbers that are needed to get the math to work. At some point, we might discover what dark matter actually *is*, and then it won't be dark anymore.
No one claims that dark matter will grant you favors if you go to church on sundays. There is proof of the existence of dark matter: it is needed to make an apparently very good model work on bigger scales.
You can't do that. Whoever did the work keeps the copyright and chooses whether this can be done or not, not the company.
This is not that bad, really. You can't actually do most operations if you can't see how they'll come up. And for the rounding issue when convoluting, this is solved by using more resolution, not more colors.
Well, I'd say it's much easier to command a vehicle moving in a homogeneous fluid where every obstacle it might find is already listed at some control tower or geographic institute (say, planes or mountains), than there is to sort obstacles in the middle of the desert where the kind of problems you might find are much more complicated to work out (say, radar says "i have a big thing over here, it doesn't fit in my field of view, where do we go? left, right?". It's not because everyone drives a car every day, that it's easier to have it done automatically.
Well, the glasses issue was explained on the 2nd page. The other two still stand though.
Thanks for your being nice about it.
Ok, a few major flaws:
1) The obvious glass person problem
2) 33ft range?? Utterly useless, there's a reason paparazzis use long lenses
3) Unless the person is standing right next to this "lighting pole" thing, a good ole' lens hood will prevent the beam from entering the lens and ruining the picture. The pole would have to be *in* the picture for this to be a problem. In order to solve this, get a 400mm lens and attach a properly sized hood, get just what you want in the picture.
Really, no paparazzi is worrying about this.
1) Auto-indent works fine with Python, as long it's the while-you-code type. Any nice indenter should check for existing indents and respect whatever they used (spaces or tabs), or let you specify it.
No one is forcing anything on you. I think the fact that you have to put some attention to what you code is actually a feature, not a bug.
Either way, a Python-aware editor can do the tab/space conversion for you (and most of them do).
2) I don't know about you but if i'm going to be copying and pasting large nested blocks of code that can "break", I might as well use PHP instead.
Just give Python a try and see by yourself if the benefits outweigh (or not) this "downside".
Any text editor with a featureset larger than notepad.exe's can indent a selected block of code. You just have to pay attention to this with python, just like you pay attention to braces in C.
I do agree on the potential indentation mistakes. Still, unless you have a badly b0rked text editor (which, if you are a programmer, is a no-no) it's hard to have a problem with this.
Different incompatible modules. E.g mod_php4, mod_php5, mod_python 2.7/3.1. Some of them can't run together, some of them only run on Apache 1.3 or 2.0.
Don't remove flexibility unless you get something out of it that outweighs the lack thereof.
And how exactly do you put your relationally organized music into a hyerarchical tree such as your filesystem?
Well, no. That's the whole point. Even if it's serial it can boost you bandwidth per buck a huge lot.
Not really, in order to have the second SHA1 hash collide you would need to get *both* the MD5 AND the SHA1 to collide. That shouldn't be as easy, although I don't know if it would be significantly harder.
Of course, and they deserve it, because they should have used the GPL and just giving away their money to those poor kids is like giving a man a fish instead of the fishing row.