If you practice holding the camera still, braced against your face, a wall, frame or nearly anything, chances that your picture will have much better focus and that you will have at least a chance of a good picture.
Seconded majorly. If you practice you will be able to take excellent hand held (or location stabilized) photos down to 1/2 second.
I think the single biggest thing a budding photographer should buy is either a descent tripod, or a monopod. And when in doubt use them.
The U-2, A-12 (predecessor to the RS, err SR-71), M-21/D-21, Haveblue (F-117 prototype), F-117, and Shamau were all flight tested there. Among other programs that Lockheed may not have been involved in.
There are other programs that were tested there, but I don't remember them off the top of my head (most are stuff that only aviation buffs would care about).
One of the reply posters are correct they all the Lockheed Aircraft were developed by their Skunkworks department in Plamdale, CA, and radar tested else where.
Kelly Johnson is the designer most famously associated with Skunkworks, but it was Ben Rich, the man in charge of Skunkworks when the F-117 was developed, who wrote one of the best auto-biographies from Skunkworks.
To make the Visby visible during peace time they just mount a few radar reflectors on the outside. Then, if you want to be invisible again, you just bring them back inside.
Why would they do that? I said that the stealth is worthless in peace keeping operations, I didn't say that the ships needs to be visible. Simply that being stealth served no practical purpose.
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works built a stealth ship during the 80's for the Navy (violating Kelly's Johnson's unwritten 15th rule, Don't Work with the Navy), but the Navy didn't want it because of politics.
For the Surface Warfare guys prestige is a big deal, a traditional cruiser has a crew of 100 on duty at anyone time, the Sea Shadow had a on duty crew of 4, and a total compliment of 10. That and the ship (and it's crew) would have been top secret killed the program. But would have helped the Navy IMO.
With the Sea Shadow taking the picket air defense role, they would have had 200+ sailors that they could have put in other roles, for example the Arsenal ships.
I am truly surprised that another nation would start a stealth ship program, since primarily it would have only have a war time, during peace keeping operations stealth is all but worthless.
SMS, SUS, and some of the other non-Microsoft solutions will make your life alot easier in dealing with the patches.
A firewall, proxy server, and an e-mail server with AV installed can keep the viruses and worms out before they strike.
And finally internal firewalls can limit the damage within the network if one does happen to get in. Even internally you don't need to have all those ports open.
Yes it's true that you are never going to listen to all 1000 songs in a row, but if they are like me you have multiple play lists.
Sometimes they are used for even different aspects, I have my "Teach your self Spanish," various music types, and finally I am experimenting using it to store my checklists for flying.
Maybe, but I am not overly concerned, I purchase a CD a month tops anymore.
It takes about a minute or two to rip the song (Samsung 16xDVD 48x CD), then it encodes it.
But like I said not a really big deal (for me at least), not something to worry. Though I might update the software and see if that gives me a speed increase.
I don't like to encode on the fly, and I like to normalize the tracks that increases the time. I also add-in the time it takes me to correct CDDB information, and polish the disc with a microfiber cloth.
The actual rip and encode at 192kbps takes about 15-20 minutes. Which is about the time a new CD takes these days since the CDDB information is generally correct for new stuff, and there are no scratches on the CD to polish.
On my file machine (Columbia, a Althon 2000+, XP Pro, 1GB RAM does all my CD/DVD burning, large file downloading, and holds media files), it takes me on average 30 minutes to rip a disc, normalize and encode to MP3 with CDex. Just an average some take more time of course some less.
Not that includes time to polish it, and correct any CDDB errors (even more time when I have to translate the track titles myself if it's an anime OST).
But it's not as much of an obsession, I only have a hundred or so discs, and all ripped.
...There's no doubt that some sort of element like the scroll wheel came out of his head [Steve Jobs]...
Or his coffee table when he looked down at his VCR remote. The first gen iPod scroll wheel looked exactly like the one on my VCR remote.
But Winamp doesn't support (at least right now, they are working on WMP) any of the DRM enabled formats (AAC or WMP) that would be used at the online music stores.
And besides you trust the OEM's, they are going to install whatever pays them like the ISPs. Look at Dell giving your Musicmatch (the biggest POS I have ever seen).
None of those solutions are based on a monopoly. That is the difference here.
Sometimes agreement, or a dominate power is necessary. Agreement is unlikely with AAC, or RP, neither of which want to allow other programs in the market. And a standard without DRM is not going to be accepted by any of the major record companies. So that either AAC or WMP.
Personally I have not been happy with Apple's handling of Quicktime, I hate nagware, and I rarely use it. Microsoft on the other hand, made a good free standard (when it comes to players, and personal encoders), that meets the DRM requirements of the major studios.
*waiting for HP to bring out it's iPod's so mine can start playing WMP*
but I cannot use that DRM enable.wmp file with just any media player
Nor can I take a DRM encoded AAC file, nor a Realplayer file, and play it in just any player. But I know that Winamp will be able to play DRM encoded WMP files.
Don't want DRM lock-in then don't buy from the music stores that sell them with DRM, which are becoming fewer and far between. But even if you stay MP3 or ogg, all three of the player will play them just fine.
So how is one a troll pointing out a simple fact that you can still install other programs if you so choose?
Every time a new player was installed (Real,Quick,etc..) they all vied for their rightful piece of the action, and more.
Not all have used these tactics, both WMP (at least when I upgraded my 2K box) and Winamp ask the user what do they want it to play during the install (or first use for WMP), and respect those options. Which is why for me those are my too players of choice.
For once it seems that Microsoft is being the nice guy and following the rules while the other companies aren't. Yes WMP is pre-installed, but it doesn't nothing to prevent the user from installing a program that they want.
Exactly why I said that Linux handles crashes better than Windows. But Windows is starting to catch up. One of the key areas that Microsoft has been working on.
But the fact is that with this forced bundling is that they don't have a choice. Take my new computer and iPod for example, I loaded up my iPod then I installed Winamp. Everything went fine, until I had load up my iPod again, iTunes took over all my media, it wasn't until I realized they had that annoying media takeover feature, many users won't realize this (remember average help desk call).
But in the end the user will install all of those clients (within a year of being on the net), not because they want Real or Quicktime, because they have to play the files.
What if we don't want those rival audiovisual software are they going to be forcing to install the ad ware RealPlayer, or Quicktime/iTunes which likes to automatically turn all media over to it unless you change the settings after the install (for Winamp and WMP it's during the install that you tell it these critical options).
Perfectly understandable when you're using a system that you expect to eventually crash. My point is that until users expect software that actually doesn't crash, it won't get any better.
But the fact is that systems do crash without regular maintenance. Whether it's Linux, or Windows they do crash. Linux handles the crashes better than Windows (but Windows is starting to catch up on this regard), but it still crashes.
Being proactive leads to less problems. I would rather reboot machines weekly than spend my time (and my clients money) working on a crashed machine.
It may be a difference in attitude, but I am not a let it run until it dies admin, I found a system of regular maintenance (which 90% is accomplished by the client's IT staff, so it's not me making work for myself), which in many cases brings me nearly zero unplanned downtime among my client base.
I was talking to a DB manager for a M$ shop, that manages 7 terabytes of data...He laughed, and said, "We have to reboot the M$ DB _daily_ and reboot the whole machine".
Wow, I guess we have to take the opinion of one admin out of thousands. At a Microsoft SQL cluster that we implemented on Win 2K, our cluster machines have a scheduled reboot once a week, with the cluster controller rebooting every two weeks. I believe the database is in the 4TB range, it's been 3 months since they had had a problem so they might be higher.
With the exception of the cluster controller is has no effect on database access. And even if it is the cluster controller, a 3am reboot has the cluster back up in 15 minutes or less.
Why exactly would a zombie spoof it's return address?!!?! That would be kind of useless! Zombie's don't care if you know who they are.
Actually they do care. One of the colo boxes at a hosting facility got compromised and being used as a DDOS zombie. I decided to find out how this program worked, and what I could do to stop it on the network.
My packet capture showed spoofed addresses, and not even good spoofed addresses, I had everything from normal assigned IP ranges, to the private ranges, to some IPs on the experimental, not a single one was an IP in our range.
I implemented at that site a policy that if it wasn't in our assigned IP ranges (we had 2 dozen class C's, and a class C from each of our network providers), the packets was rejected at our router. Sure a portion on our network was still effected by the DOS zombie, but we configured our IDS to detect the packets so we can target it and take it off line. At the same time the packets weren't attacking the intended host.
If many of the ISPs and hosting companies did the same it would be easier to deal with the DOS attacks.
Now you can say that they could stop spoofing the address, which would make it even easier to deal with to filter then out at an upstream router level. Which is why they spoof, they could care less if each zombie is caught (actually they do, because they must find another zombie).
Who cares if they know who the innocent "perps" are? You really want your mom arrested because her computer was unwittingly taken over??
I said perp not under the RIAA meaning, which is the average computer user, but the malicious hackers that started the attack, with proper logging procedures (something books are written about, which are much longer than this reply), and honey pots, we might be able to catch the low level hackers that use this attack as the internet version of the drive-by shooting.
The hackers that do the DDOS attacks are my personal enemy. They have caused me many nights of working late trying to deal with this attack. I hate them as much as many/. users hate SCO, RIAA, spamers, Microsoft, etc.
IMO the best way to stop DOS attacks is to stop the zombies. And the best way to do that is to convince hosting companies and ISP, to configure their routers to reject packets with impossible return addresses.
Example RR not allowing their users to send packets with a return address that is not a RR IP for the area.
That won't stop DOS attacks from happening, but it will make it easier to track the zombies, and maybe even get the perp.
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No because most people don't realize how massive of an accomplishment it was to get to the moon.
All of that rocket, fuel, and oxygen to carry the LM, and CSM, which are small in comparison.
I think the single biggest thing a budding photographer should buy is either a descent tripod, or a monopod. And when in doubt use them.
The U-2, A-12 (predecessor to the RS, err SR-71), M-21/D-21, Haveblue (F-117 prototype), F-117, and Shamau were all flight tested there. Among other programs that Lockheed may not have been involved in.
There are other programs that were tested there, but I don't remember them off the top of my head (most are stuff that only aviation buffs would care about).
One of the reply posters are correct they all the Lockheed Aircraft were developed by their Skunkworks department in Plamdale, CA, and radar tested else where.
Kelly Johnson is the designer most famously associated with Skunkworks, but it was Ben Rich, the man in charge of Skunkworks when the F-117 was developed, who wrote one of the best auto-biographies from Skunkworks.
Why would they do that? I said that the stealth is worthless in peace keeping operations, I didn't say that the ships needs to be visible. Simply that being stealth served no practical purpose.
For the Surface Warfare guys prestige is a big deal, a traditional cruiser has a crew of 100 on duty at anyone time, the Sea Shadow had a on duty crew of 4, and a total compliment of 10. That and the ship (and it's crew) would have been top secret killed the program. But would have helped the Navy IMO.
With the Sea Shadow taking the picket air defense role, they would have had 200+ sailors that they could have put in other roles, for example the Arsenal ships.
I am truly surprised that another nation would start a stealth ship program, since primarily it would have only have a war time, during peace keeping operations stealth is all but worthless.
SMS, SUS, and some of the other non-Microsoft solutions will make your life alot easier in dealing with the patches.
A firewall, proxy server, and an e-mail server with AV installed can keep the viruses and worms out before they strike.
And finally internal firewalls can limit the damage within the network if one does happen to get in. Even internally you don't need to have all those ports open.
Sometimes they are used for even different aspects, I have my "Teach your self Spanish," various music types, and finally I am experimenting using it to store my checklists for flying.
Maybe, but I am not overly concerned, I purchase a CD a month tops anymore.
It takes about a minute or two to rip the song (Samsung 16xDVD 48x CD), then it encodes it.
But like I said not a really big deal (for me at least), not something to worry. Though I might update the software and see if that gives me a speed increase.
I don't like to encode on the fly, and I like to normalize the tracks that increases the time. I also add-in the time it takes me to correct CDDB information, and polish the disc with a microfiber cloth.
The actual rip and encode at 192kbps takes about 15-20 minutes. Which is about the time a new CD takes these days since the CDDB information is generally correct for new stuff, and there are no scratches on the CD to polish.
Not that includes time to polish it, and correct any CDDB errors (even more time when I have to translate the track titles myself if it's an anime OST).
But it's not as much of an obsession, I only have a hundred or so discs, and all ripped.
...There's no doubt that some sort of element like the scroll wheel came out of his head [Steve Jobs]... Or his coffee table when he looked down at his VCR remote. The first gen iPod scroll wheel looked exactly like the one on my VCR remote.
And besides you trust the OEM's, they are going to install whatever pays them like the ISPs. Look at Dell giving your Musicmatch (the biggest POS I have ever seen).
Sometimes agreement, or a dominate power is necessary. Agreement is unlikely with AAC, or RP, neither of which want to allow other programs in the market. And a standard without DRM is not going to be accepted by any of the major record companies. So that either AAC or WMP.
Personally I have not been happy with Apple's handling of Quicktime, I hate nagware, and I rarely use it. Microsoft on the other hand, made a good free standard (when it comes to players, and personal encoders), that meets the DRM requirements of the major studios.
*waiting for HP to bring out it's iPod's so mine can start playing WMP*
Nor can I take a DRM encoded AAC file, nor a Realplayer file, and play it in just any player. But I know that Winamp will be able to play DRM encoded WMP files.
Don't want DRM lock-in then don't buy from the music stores that sell them with DRM, which are becoming fewer and far between. But even if you stay MP3 or ogg, all three of the player will play them just fine.
So how is one a troll pointing out a simple fact that you can still install other programs if you so choose?
Not all have used these tactics, both WMP (at least when I upgraded my 2K box) and Winamp ask the user what do they want it to play during the install (or first use for WMP), and respect those options. Which is why for me those are my too players of choice.
For once it seems that Microsoft is being the nice guy and following the rules while the other companies aren't. Yes WMP is pre-installed, but it doesn't nothing to prevent the user from installing a program that they want.
Exactly why I said that Linux handles crashes better than Windows. But Windows is starting to catch up. One of the key areas that Microsoft has been working on.
But the fact is that with this forced bundling is that they don't have a choice. Take my new computer and iPod for example, I loaded up my iPod then I installed Winamp. Everything went fine, until I had load up my iPod again, iTunes took over all my media, it wasn't until I realized they had that annoying media takeover feature, many users won't realize this (remember average help desk call).
But in the end the user will install all of those clients (within a year of being on the net), not because they want Real or Quicktime, because they have to play the files.
What if we don't want those rival audiovisual software are they going to be forcing to install the ad ware RealPlayer, or Quicktime/iTunes which likes to automatically turn all media over to it unless you change the settings after the install (for Winamp and WMP it's during the install that you tell it these critical options).
Nor does WMP. I can still install iTunes, Winamp or whatever else. And iTunes has the same DRM for media that you buy from their store.
But the fact is that systems do crash without regular maintenance. Whether it's Linux, or Windows they do crash. Linux handles the crashes better than Windows (but Windows is starting to catch up on this regard), but it still crashes.
It may be a difference in attitude, but I am not a let it run until it dies admin, I found a system of regular maintenance (which 90% is accomplished by the client's IT staff, so it's not me making work for myself), which in many cases brings me nearly zero unplanned downtime among my client base.
Wow, I guess we have to take the opinion of one admin out of thousands. At a Microsoft SQL cluster that we implemented on Win 2K, our cluster machines have a scheduled reboot once a week, with the cluster controller rebooting every two weeks. I believe the database is in the 4TB range, it's been 3 months since they had had a problem so they might be higher.
With the exception of the cluster controller is has no effect on database access. And even if it is the cluster controller, a 3am reboot has the cluster back up in 15 minutes or less.
Actually they do care. One of the colo boxes at a hosting facility got compromised and being used as a DDOS zombie. I decided to find out how this program worked, and what I could do to stop it on the network.
My packet capture showed spoofed addresses, and not even good spoofed addresses, I had everything from normal assigned IP ranges, to the private ranges, to some IPs on the experimental, not a single one was an IP in our range.
I implemented at that site a policy that if it wasn't in our assigned IP ranges (we had 2 dozen class C's, and a class C from each of our network providers), the packets was rejected at our router. Sure a portion on our network was still effected by the DOS zombie, but we configured our IDS to detect the packets so we can target it and take it off line. At the same time the packets weren't attacking the intended host.
If many of the ISPs and hosting companies did the same it would be easier to deal with the DOS attacks.
Now you can say that they could stop spoofing the address, which would make it even easier to deal with to filter then out at an upstream router level. Which is why they spoof, they could care less if each zombie is caught (actually they do, because they must find another zombie).
Who cares if they know who the innocent "perps" are? You really want your mom arrested because her computer was unwittingly taken over??
I said perp not under the RIAA meaning, which is the average computer user, but the malicious hackers that started the attack, with proper logging procedures (something books are written about, which are much longer than this reply), and honey pots, we might be able to catch the low level hackers that use this attack as the internet version of the drive-by shooting.
The hackers that do the DDOS attacks are my personal enemy. They have caused me many nights of working late trying to deal with this attack. I hate them as much as many /. users hate SCO, RIAA, spamers, Microsoft, etc.
Example RR not allowing their users to send packets with a return address that is not a RR IP for the area.
That won't stop DOS attacks from happening, but it will make it easier to track the zombies, and maybe even get the perp.
Holding steady at 93KBps. While watching the WMV.