For those who don't know already, here are the three laws: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
...if you should adopt the newest fastest processor out there? Here's your answer: 50% - Hell YES! 50%-Why when you can just load a BSD/GNU/LINUX flavor of the week onto some portable device that runs at 1/10th the clockspeed of the newest fastest machine? 100% - As long as you don't use microsoft wares on the processor
The man is a citizen of a certain nation. That nation has laws that are applicable to it's citizens. I'm certain there's something similar to "thou shall not kill" in the legal code that can be applied to Saddam's murder of thousands of his own citizens. I think a civilian Iraqi court should get the first shot at him.
"I know what Verizon charges us for a 768/128 DSL. If we charged $30/month for a 768k DSL circuit, we would be loosing about $8/month.
"For a broadband ISP to make money by selling DSL, they need to either own the network themselves (ie Verizon, SBC, CLEC's, etc) or have major quantities of customers"
Something like this? Accoutant: We're loosing money on every transaction/sale. CEO: But we'll make up for it with more volume!
Not all cameras shoot 35mm rollfilm, I mentioned 8x10 sheetfilm cameras for example. Some cameras use CCD and CMOS sensors with lenses as short as 2-3mm, none of them (that I am aware of) come with a zoom though, they're fixed focal length.
As for what qualifies as telephoto..telephoto is actualy a term that lets you know that the focal length of your lens is longer than the physical lenght of the lens...a very nice thing.. telephoto was first used on "longer than normal" length lenses, where it'd do the most good...your 400mm lens isn't going to be 400mm long these days.
The way telephoto is used by non-engineers has come to mean any lens that magnifies the image greater degree than the human eye. Folks disagree on the exact number, but most estimates lie in the 40-55mm range, with most falling at 50mm.
So, a 192mm lens IS telephoto by the common meaning of the word, and may even be telephoto by the techie meaning as well. It may be noted here that I own a 135mm f2.8 telephoto lens, wich is shorter than 135mm and delivers a focal length greater than 40-55mm.
As for a camera with a shutter faster than 1/2000th... it's a 7 year old (and I got it used) Minolta 600si. It goes for about $250-$300 if you can find one (it's discontinued) and this camera is a mid-level machine, it's nothing groundbreaking (other than in its ergonomics.)At 1/2000th of a second, with a stationary subject, it is possible to handhold a 2000mm focal length lens [what a monster] and get photos free of noticeable camera shake (this is determined by a rule of thumb, that dosen't likely scale well outside of the 35mm-250mm range.... the inverse of the focal length in seconds 30mm=1/30th of a second 500mm 1/500th of a second.)
Agreed a 3mm lens would be usless on a 35mm camera, but there is ALOT of call for extreme wide angle lenses in 35mm photography.
For a (not so quick) course in photographic art [some good some bad] and science visit www.photo.net (not www.photonet.com) Please don't slashdot my favorite photo site, it loads slowly enough as it is:P
What is an 8x telephoto lens? The 2x,3x,4x specs are mearly the ratio of of the shortest to longest focal length on a lens. I can HANDHOLD a 24mm 8x telephoto lens rock solid. The short end of that lens is 3mm.
I can also support a 400mm lens rock solid, exposures at 1/2000th of a second will be as sharp and free from blur as any photo you care to take (given we both use the same film format, no fair if one of us uses 35mm and the other brings out the 8x10 studio camera.)
You need a better analogy, it's easier to take a sharp photo [given the "8x telephoto" lens is of good enough quality to give a sharp image] than it is to aim a narrow beam of ElectroMagnetic energy at a point some 10+ miles appart. Make it more on the line of "shooting a flea off the back of a mangy dog at 100 meters" and you'll be in a better ballpark
Funny that icing problems are USUALY found in flight in IFR (instrument flight rules) conditions and not nearly as often under VFR (visual flight rules.) One of the biggest killers of IFR pilots in mid-flight (as opposed to takeoff and landing operations) if spatial disorientation. This is where the inner ear plays havok with a pilots sense of "which way is up?" Most often the pilot will correct for a non-existant problem with roll or pitch and end up departing from controlled flight, entering a spin that either results in collision with terrain or an in-flight breakup of the aircraft. This problem is most easily avoided by use of an automatic pilot or flight-director system. Ice IS a killer, but SD is a greater killer, so perhaps the money that would be spent installing these ice-detection systems on aircraft would be best used to install autopilots and/or flight directors on aircraft instead.
Let it be noted that nearly all aircraft used for commercial use worldwide do have autopilot systems, and commercial pilots worldwild have the LOWEST risk for SD, due to a system were the aicraft is controlled soley by a computerized system that gets its information from reliable instruments, as opposed to the human organs that evolved to provide stability on the ground. Most commercial flights also have more than one crew member, and with proper CRM (cockpit resource management) any deviation from controlled flight will be noted by at least 1 or 2 unaffected crewmembers. For these commecrial pilots the greatest threat to their saftey comes from a breakdown in procedures durring landing or takeoff operations. These breakdowns results in off-airport landings, controlled flight into terrain, wrong runway landings, or runway incursions(traffic accidents involving vehicles getting in the wrong places at the wrong time on the ground.)
Another great killer of airmen is inflight engine failure due to insuffecient fuel (either out of av-gas or fuel selection levers set to draw fuel from empty tanks) or fuel contamination by water (usualy due to inproper pre-flight inspection. This is also a greater threat than in-flight icing. Again, perhaps effort should be devoted to fuel management systems and watter detection systems.
The situation is somewhat like spending more money on America's #4 killer, as opposed to numbers 1 and 2 combined (AIDS, Heart Disease, and Cancer respectively.) It only makes sense to address the #1 threat first before concentrating on #2, and so forth..in the aviation world #1 is TRAINING, to avoid accidents through ignorance, and #2 in MAINTENCE, to avoid accidents from mechanical faults. Most aviation accidents come from a failure (or delay) of an aviator to apply their training to a situation (avoiding flight into icing conditions, using a proper cross-checking instrument scan when in IMC[instrument meterological conditions], confirming your fuel state and fuel quality BEFORE engine run-up, etc.)
So, this iceing detection system is good news, but it'd be like us throwing money at a somewhat (in relative terms) minor problem, when larger threats are killing aiviators on a regular basis. As an earlier poster pointed out, airlines didn't install TCAS systems to prevent in-flight colllisions until the FAA mandated it, because they'd rather have spent the money on what they felt to be a bigger threat (and to increase their profit margin as well.)
Well, I've rambled on...time to call it quits while i'm ahead
Apparently you never discovered the use of the reload/rearm/repair friggate did you? Send in a pair of these for every 10 other capital ships. Tell each SUPPORT FRIGGATE to repair the entire fleet (including the other support friggates) and proceede to ignore them and ignore the damage you'd otherwise take from the radiation. Yeah..so..strike craft couldn't operate for more than 2 minutes in that level, but you did have capital ships right?
Okay, get some furniture that looks like it came from a cheezy B sci-fi movie and it's babe city? So, slashdotters, with all the <A HREF="http://scifistorm.org/search.pl?topic=1">sci -fi</a> <A HREF="http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/07/233725 0.shtml?tid=167&tid=99">stuff</a> you've picked you must be swimming in chicks?
Features that both JVC iO Pocket PCs share include the JVC AV player that supports MP3, WAV and Ogg Vorbis compressed audio files, as well as AVI (MPEG4) and ASF (MPEG4) video files.
Because he didn't his killers had ample time to flee to Mexico where they're protected by international treaty barring extradition of murders from Mexico into the USA.
And, to think I used to complain about having to get the tripod out for exposures that were longer than 1/8th of a second! I'll never comlpain about slow film or lenses again!
Take Switch #1 - Plug in 4 computers. Take Switch #2, plug in 3 computers and the output from switch#1. Now you have a 7 Computer Switch with all the features of your 4 port switch, at twice the cost of course.
Yes, both Myst and it's Sequel (the books, not the game) were quite enjoyable. Can't say anything about the game as I haven't played Myst or Riven (The sequel was Riven right?)
Slashdot Mirror
If you think Will Smith is a bad pick, what about the coyote ugly chick cast as resident super-geinus Susan Calvin?
For those who don't know already, here are the three laws: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
And Arnold though getting to Sacramento was going to be the peak of his political career! DC here he comes!
...if you should adopt the newest fastest processor out there? Here's your answer: 50% - Hell YES! 50%-Why when you can just load a BSD/GNU/LINUX flavor of the week onto some portable device that runs at 1/10th the clockspeed of the newest fastest machine?
100% - As long as you don't use microsoft wares on the processor
"dont know what hemisphere you live in but the northern one is interested in small..."
Uhm...have you looked outside on the roads and counted the SUVs? Small is *NOT* the in thing for North America
The man is a citizen of a certain nation. That nation has laws that are applicable to it's citizens. I'm certain there's something similar to "thou shall not kill" in the legal code that can be applied to Saddam's murder of thousands of his own citizens. I think a civilian Iraqi court should get the first shot at him.
welcome our Linux powered robotic overlords
"I know what Verizon charges us for a 768/128 DSL. If we charged $30/month for a 768k DSL circuit, we would be loosing about $8/month.
"For a broadband ISP to make money by selling DSL, they need to either own the network themselves (ie Verizon, SBC, CLEC's, etc) or have major quantities of customers"
Something like this?
Accoutant: We're loosing money on every transaction/sale.
CEO: But we'll make up for it with more volume!
I for one welcome our new electronic gas sniffing overlords!
"Ready to Serve" - Peon - War Craft (2?)
"wakka wakka wakka" - PacMan - any game that he eats dots
"Elf needs food badly!" - Gauntlet
"I sense a soul in search of answers" - Diablo
"Lauuurrrraaaaa Lauuurrrrrraa" - Draccula - "D" (Early 1990s PC game)
Not all cameras shoot 35mm rollfilm, I mentioned 8x10 sheetfilm cameras for example. Some cameras use CCD and CMOS sensors with lenses as short as 2-3mm, none of them (that I am aware of) come with a zoom though, they're fixed focal length.
.... the inverse of the focal length in seconds 30mm=1/30th of a second 500mm 1/500th of a second.)
:P
As for what qualifies as telephoto..telephoto is actualy a term that lets you know that the focal length of your lens is longer than the physical lenght of the lens...a very nice thing.. telephoto was first used on "longer than normal" length lenses, where it'd do the most good...your 400mm lens isn't going to be 400mm long these days.
The way telephoto is used by non-engineers has come to mean any lens that magnifies the image greater degree than the human eye. Folks disagree on the exact number, but most estimates lie in the 40-55mm range, with most falling at 50mm.
So, a 192mm lens IS telephoto by the common meaning of the word, and may even be telephoto by the techie meaning as well. It may be noted here that I own a 135mm f2.8 telephoto lens, wich is shorter than 135mm and delivers a focal length greater than 40-55mm.
As for a camera with a shutter faster than 1/2000th... it's a 7 year old (and I got it used) Minolta 600si. It goes for about $250-$300 if you can find one (it's discontinued) and this camera is a mid-level machine, it's nothing groundbreaking (other than in its ergonomics.)At 1/2000th of a second, with a stationary subject, it is possible to handhold a 2000mm focal length lens [what a monster] and get photos free of noticeable camera shake (this is determined by a rule of thumb, that dosen't likely scale well outside of the 35mm-250mm range
Agreed a 3mm lens would be usless on a 35mm camera, but there is ALOT of call for extreme wide angle lenses in 35mm photography.
For a (not so quick) course in photographic art [some good some bad] and science visit www.photo.net (not www.photonet.com) Please don't slashdot my favorite photo site, it loads slowly enough as it is
What is an 8x telephoto lens? The 2x,3x,4x specs are mearly the ratio of of the shortest to longest focal length on a lens. I can HANDHOLD a 24mm 8x telephoto lens rock solid. The short end of that lens is 3mm.
I can also support a 400mm lens rock solid, exposures at 1/2000th of a second will be as sharp and free from blur as any photo you care to take (given we both use the same film format, no fair if one of us uses 35mm and the other brings out the 8x10 studio camera.)
You need a better analogy, it's easier to take a sharp photo [given the "8x telephoto" lens is of good enough quality to give a sharp image] than it is to aim a narrow beam of ElectroMagnetic energy at a point some 10+ miles appart. Make it more on the line of "shooting a flea off the back of a mangy dog at 100 meters" and you'll be in a better ballpark
Goal of the Maginot defensive line - To protect France from an invasion from central and eastern European powers
How well it did it's job? A+ until Invasion Day, then it failed.
Funny that icing problems are USUALY found in flight in IFR (instrument flight rules) conditions and not nearly as often under VFR (visual flight rules.) One of the biggest killers of IFR pilots in mid-flight (as opposed to takeoff and landing operations) if spatial disorientation. This is where the inner ear plays havok with a pilots sense of "which way is up?" Most often the pilot will correct for a non-existant problem with roll or pitch and end up departing from controlled flight, entering a spin that either results in collision with terrain or an in-flight breakup of the aircraft. This problem is most easily avoided by use of an automatic pilot or flight-director system. Ice IS a killer, but SD is a greater killer, so perhaps the money that would be spent installing these ice-detection systems on aircraft would be best used to install autopilots and/or flight directors on aircraft instead.
Let it be noted that nearly all aircraft used for commercial use worldwide do have autopilot systems, and commercial pilots worldwild have the LOWEST risk for SD, due to a system were the aicraft is controlled soley by a computerized system that gets its information from reliable instruments, as opposed to the human organs that evolved to provide stability on the ground. Most commercial flights also have more than one crew member, and with proper CRM (cockpit resource management) any deviation from controlled flight will be noted by at least 1 or 2 unaffected crewmembers. For these commecrial pilots the greatest threat to their saftey comes from a breakdown in procedures durring landing or takeoff operations. These breakdowns results in off-airport landings, controlled flight into terrain, wrong runway landings, or runway incursions(traffic accidents involving vehicles getting in the wrong places at the wrong time on the ground.)
Another great killer of airmen is inflight engine failure due to insuffecient fuel (either out of av-gas or fuel selection levers set to draw fuel from empty tanks) or fuel contamination by water (usualy due to inproper pre-flight inspection. This is also a greater threat than in-flight icing. Again, perhaps effort should be devoted to fuel management systems and watter detection systems.
The situation is somewhat like spending more money on America's #4 killer, as opposed to numbers 1 and 2 combined (AIDS, Heart Disease, and Cancer respectively.) It only makes sense to address the #1 threat first before concentrating on #2, and so forth..in the aviation world #1 is TRAINING, to avoid accidents through ignorance, and #2 in MAINTENCE, to avoid accidents from mechanical faults. Most aviation accidents come from a failure (or delay) of an aviator to apply their training to a situation (avoiding flight into icing conditions, using a proper cross-checking instrument scan when in IMC[instrument meterological conditions], confirming your fuel state and fuel quality BEFORE engine run-up, etc.)
So, this iceing detection system is good news, but it'd be like us throwing money at a somewhat (in relative terms) minor problem, when larger threats are killing aiviators on a regular basis. As an earlier poster pointed out, airlines didn't install TCAS systems to prevent in-flight colllisions until the FAA mandated it, because they'd rather have spent the money on what they felt to be a bigger threat (and to increase their profit margin as well.)
Well, I've rambled on...time to call it quits while i'm ahead
Apparently you never discovered the use of the reload/rearm/repair friggate did you? Send in a pair of these for every 10 other capital ships. Tell each SUPPORT FRIGGATE to repair the entire fleet (including the other support friggates) and proceede to ignore them and ignore the damage you'd otherwise take from the radiation. Yeah..so..strike craft couldn't operate for more than 2 minutes in that level, but you did have capital ships right?
Okay, get some furniture that looks like it came from a cheezy B sci-fi movie and it's babe city? So, slashdotters, with all the <A HREF="http://scifistorm.org/search.pl?topic=1">sci -fi</a> <A HREF="http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/07/233725 0.shtml?tid=167&tid=99">stuff</a> you've picked you must be swimming in chicks?
Features that both JVC iO Pocket PCs share include the JVC AV player that supports MP3, WAV and Ogg Vorbis compressed audio files, as well as AVI (MPEG4) and ASF (MPEG4) video files.
Must be served from a MFM drive, it gaev up the ghost and the site is gone! Slashdot in effect.
Because he didn't his killers had ample time to flee to Mexico where they're protected by international treaty barring extradition of murders from Mexico into the USA.
And, to think I used to complain about having to get the tripod out for exposures that were longer than 1/8th of a second! I'll never comlpain about slow film or lenses again!
Funny didn't I see a story
recently about how hard drives
where leaving CPUs in dust when it comes to capacity/price ratios?
You're obviously lying, there are no girls in cs.
My workplace has a 100% female population in customer service!
Take Switch #1 - Plug in 4 computers. Take Switch #2, plug in 3 computers and the output from switch#1. Now you have a 7 Computer Switch with all the features of your 4 port switch, at twice the cost of course.
Yes, both Myst and it's Sequel (the books, not the game) were quite enjoyable. Can't say anything about the game as I haven't played Myst or Riven (The sequel was Riven right?)
It might not be a MP3 player, but it is a Cell Phone Gun.