It actually isn't traditional HDR (where multiple exposures are combined into one frame to create a final image with higher dynamic range.) What you're talking about is somehow gradually increasing the exposure to progressively let more light in as it gets darker as the sun sets. There's currently no magical way to achieve this, but there are a number of different techniques that people have implemented thus far including using light meters to watch the ambient light and either lengthen the shutter speed or gradually stop down the lens aperture, using multiple cameras to bracket different exposures and bounce between the cameras in post-processing, and so on.
You can read about these techniques in more detail at the very bottom of this tutorial under the header labeled Timelapse "Holy Grail"? Sunset, Sunrise, Day to Night Transitions.
You can view the Google Public DNS privacy and logging policies here. (It's nice and relatively short. Very un-EULA-ish.)
From the page:
We don't correlate or combine your information from these logs with any other log data that Google might have about your use of other services, such as data from Web Search and data from advertising on the Google content network.
I believe it was the other way around. Amazon would slowly lower the price on items they saw you monitoring over time, hoping to entice you to finally buy it. One guy was complaining because he lost his cookies and thus his discount on the product he was wanting.
You can find groups on most anything you imagine. I love hiking, for example, and I'm constantly finding amazing people to go hiking with, planned hikes, all over the area, at least twice a week now. It's such a blast.
There's groups that go out and try different restaurants in the area, people who want to bring chihuahuas together, book club meetups, dancing meetups, spiritual meetups... whatever you want!
Do what you LOVE and allow your relationships to stem from your passion, rather than blindly groping around for a person out there somewhere. It's much easier to find friends when you enjoy doing similar things together.:)
How much of the "skill" in computerized chess comes from the programmers and how much comes from the raw cpu horsepower available? TFA was quoting 40-core boxes competing with Nokia cell phones.
One cool use for it I've found is punching in pieces of the full URL and having it find the correct link.
For example, let's say I was looking for www.domain.com/blog/name-of-some-cool-article/
In the awesome bar I could type: domain cool article
and it would find what I was looking for. Plus it searches titles of the website as well. It makes it much easier to find pages that exist in my history.
It's really cool to see people still looking for the original teachings to minimize distortions. Nevertheless, the teachings back then were designed for much more primitive people. The people today have a higher level of consciousness and thus are ready for higher levels of truth than that given 2,000 years ago.
Jesus' updated and corrected teachings are available today and he's here sharing with us the new levels of truth we're ready for. It's time for humanity to evolve. That was then, this is now.
or, worse yet, perhaps the TV is just "background music" Worse? Advertisers love that. Their messages then seep right into the listener's subconscious unimpeded!
I want the ability to turn OFF all phone and data capabilities and use the iPhone purely as an iPod. That way, if you travel abroad, you can still use your iPhone for entertainment without getting slammed with heavy fees due to it constantly going out to check for voice mails, text messages, and so on.
There's lots of insights about what the deal really is behind extended warranties, backup discs, and such. For example:
10. When buying a PC you will be asked to have a backup DVD made for a charge of $30. This is done through an application found on all computers, sometimes hidden. You could do it yourself for free. Also, it was very common to sell this on Toshiba laptops. Little do the customers know, it's already in the box. So we would charge, and do nothing.
Yeah, this has been going on for a while now and there's a few main players in the game.
Flickr is of course a common one and lots of people use it.
Smugmug lets you geolocate your images too for those of us out there selling prints.
If you use a photoblog powered by Pixelpost, there is an addon available to let you map out your photos.
Finally, if you want to get your images overlayed in Google Earth, you'll want to go through Panoramio.
Now, there are two main ways to get your images geolocated in the first place:
1) You can manually do it by selecting a photo and then clicking a point in the world using Google Earth or Google Maps. While this works, it's really slow and tedious. Programs like Picasa supports this method by letting you click your location through Google Earth.
2) If you have a GPS receiver, you can create a tracklog as you travel and then use a program such as RoboGeo to automatically correlate the timestamp of the image you took to your location at that specific point in time and then stamp that info into the image's EXIF info. Then when you upload your images to the web, the GPS info will be automatically read and placed into the map. This is, by far, the easier method.
Want to save an image losslessly? Digital SLRs (and some point in shoots) let you save in RAW. Not only is the image saved losslessly, but you can adjust white balance, exposure (within reason), sharpness, and more all after taking the photo!
Want decent optical zooms? SLR lenseshave been available for decades now that range from 8mm to a whopping 1200mm. That's over 100x for you guys used to talking about lenses in terms of "how much zoom" they have. Canon's lens selection.
Want storage? You can get CF/SD cards as large as 8 gb, and portable hard drives such as the Epson P-2000 made for offloading photos out in the field.
Want to wirelessly transmit photos? The 1Ds Mark II can do it with the WFT-E1A.
Current batteries can let you shoot 2500 shots on a single charge. Spare batteries are cheap and keeping spares in your bag is no big deal.
The thing is that all this technology is already available, but be prepared to spend thousands of dollars for it. If you're looking for all this technology crammed into an everyday point & shoot, give it a few more years.
Instead of more MP, how about better high ISO capabilities? No shutter lag from when you press the button to when the camera takes the picture? How about taking photos at 8fps? Instant-on when you power up your camera? Quicker autofocus? These features are very important, but these too are available on DSLRs, and for a price. Considering how little money you're spending on a point & shoot, they do quite a bit as it is and they'll only get better. The technology is already there and it will eventually find its way down to lower end cameras.
I'm currently in France for the summer studying abroad for school. I go to Georgia Tech, where 25 students were sued a few weeks back by the RIAA.
I was talking to some French students here a few days ago and we were talking about file sharing. To them, it's a very common occurance and it's done without any legal ramifications. I told them about the RIAA suing people and that sounded absolutely ludicrous to them.
Here in France, we have a piracy tax on blank CDs which is annoying.
Considering how little they like the idea of suing people for p2p issues, I'm not surprised to see this sort of activism coming from France.
When opening multiple tabs quickly, it's much faster, such as when viewing Fark or College Humor. Firefox feels much more responsive now.
Be careful though because some extensions won't work with the trunk builds after the install, such as Adblock, though a simple reinstall will have you up and running normally.
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"It's amazing what can be accomplished when we don't care who gets the credit." -(I forget who originally said this, ironically enough...) :)
It actually isn't traditional HDR (where multiple exposures are combined into one frame to create a final image with higher dynamic range.) What you're talking about is somehow gradually increasing the exposure to progressively let more light in as it gets darker as the sun sets. There's currently no magical way to achieve this, but there are a number of different techniques that people have implemented thus far including using light meters to watch the ambient light and either lengthen the shutter speed or gradually stop down the lens aperture, using multiple cameras to bracket different exposures and bounce between the cameras in post-processing, and so on.
You can read about these techniques in more detail at the very bottom of this tutorial under the header labeled Timelapse "Holy Grail"? Sunset, Sunrise, Day to Night Transitions.
From the page:
We don't correlate or combine your information from these logs with any other log data that Google might have about your use of other services, such as data from Web Search and data from advertising on the Google content network.
I believe it was the other way around. Amazon would slowly lower the price on items they saw you monitoring over time, hoping to entice you to finally buy it. One guy was complaining because he lost his cookies and thus his discount on the product he was wanting.
I'm a big fan of meetup.com.
:)
You can find groups on most anything you imagine. I love hiking, for example, and I'm constantly finding amazing people to go hiking with, planned hikes, all over the area, at least twice a week now. It's such a blast.
There's groups that go out and try different restaurants in the area, people who want to bring chihuahuas together, book club meetups, dancing meetups, spiritual meetups... whatever you want!
Do what you LOVE and allow your relationships to stem from your passion, rather than blindly groping around for a person out there somewhere. It's much easier to find friends when you enjoy doing similar things together.
How much of the "skill" in computerized chess comes from the programmers and how much comes from the raw cpu horsepower available? TFA was quoting 40-core boxes competing with Nokia cell phones.
I really like the Awesome bar. It's very useful.
One cool use for it I've found is punching in pieces of the full URL and having it find the correct link.
For example, let's say I was looking for www.domain.com/blog/name-of-some-cool-article/
In the awesome bar I could type: domain cool article
and it would find what I was looking for. Plus it searches titles of the website as well. It makes it much easier to find pages that exist in my history.
It's really cool to see people still looking for the original teachings to minimize distortions. Nevertheless, the teachings back then were designed for much more primitive people. The people today have a higher level of consciousness and thus are ready for higher levels of truth than that given 2,000 years ago.
Jesus' updated and corrected teachings are available today and he's here sharing with us the new levels of truth we're ready for. It's time for humanity to evolve. That was then, this is now.
It would be so much easier if we all decided to simply TELL THE TRUTH!
Not just here, but in every area of our lives... politically, economically, socially, personally, even to ourselves...
"This hard drive will self-destruct in 1,400 years."
Great, but how fast is it? I've used it in the past and supported it for a while, but it was horrifically slow.
I'll bet that in the original design, they painted it up as a shark and they mounted the fricken' laser on its fricken' head.
They can control cockroach societies, eh? Hopefully they can have the robots train the cockroaches to commit seppuku.
Instead of deleting email, is there a way to archive messages through IMAP?
I want the ability to turn OFF all phone and data capabilities and use the iPhone purely as an iPod. That way, if you travel abroad, you can still use your iPhone for entertainment without getting slammed with heavy fees due to it constantly going out to check for voice mails, text messages, and so on.
His head fell off. He was pretty old...
Did anyone else read that as Mexico's New Space Terminal?
I guess we're not sending chihuahuas and tacos into space quite yet.
Check out this blog post about 27 Confessions of a Former Circuit City Worker.
There's lots of insights about what the deal really is behind extended warranties, backup discs, and such. For example:
10. When buying a PC you will be asked to have a backup DVD made for a charge of $30. This is done through an application found on all computers, sometimes hidden. You could do it yourself for free. Also, it was very common to sell this on Toshiba laptops. Little do the customers know, it's already in the box. So we would charge, and do nothing.
Yeah, this has been going on for a while now and there's a few main players in the game.
Flickr is of course a common one and lots of people use it.
Smugmug lets you geolocate your images too for those of us out there selling prints.
If you use a photoblog powered by Pixelpost, there is an addon available to let you map out your photos.
Finally, if you want to get your images overlayed in Google Earth, you'll want to go through Panoramio.
Now, there are two main ways to get your images geolocated in the first place:
1) You can manually do it by selecting a photo and then clicking a point in the world using Google Earth or Google Maps. While this works, it's really slow and tedious. Programs like Picasa supports this method by letting you click your location through Google Earth.
2) If you have a GPS receiver, you can create a tracklog as you travel and then use a program such as RoboGeo to automatically correlate the timestamp of the image you took to your location at that specific point in time and then stamp that info into the image's EXIF info. Then when you upload your images to the web, the GPS info will be automatically read and placed into the map. This is, by far, the easier method.
NASA's first anti-satellite weapon was a resounding success. Unfortunately, it wasn't designed as an anti-satellite weapon.
Want to save an image losslessly? Digital SLRs (and some point in shoots) let you save in RAW. Not only is the image saved losslessly, but you can adjust white balance, exposure (within reason), sharpness, and more all after taking the photo!
Want decent optical zooms? SLR lenseshave been available for decades now that range from 8mm to a whopping 1200mm. That's over 100x for you guys used to talking about lenses in terms of "how much zoom" they have. Canon's lens selection.
Want 13MP? The Canon 5D does 12.8. The Canon 1Ds Mark II does 16.8.
Want storage? You can get CF/SD cards as large as 8 gb, and portable hard drives such as the Epson P-2000 made for offloading photos out in the field.
Want to wirelessly transmit photos? The 1Ds Mark II can do it with the WFT-E1A.
Current batteries can let you shoot 2500 shots on a single charge. Spare batteries are cheap and keeping spares in your bag is no big deal.
The thing is that all this technology is already available, but be prepared to spend thousands of dollars for it. If you're looking for all this technology crammed into an everyday point & shoot, give it a few more years.
Instead of more MP, how about better high ISO capabilities? No shutter lag from when you press the button to when the camera takes the picture? How about taking photos at 8fps? Instant-on when you power up your camera? Quicker autofocus? These features are very important, but these too are available on DSLRs, and for a price. Considering how little money you're spending on a point & shoot, they do quite a bit as it is and they'll only get better. The technology is already there and it will eventually find its way down to lower end cameras.
Problem: What happens when the Martians launch their own copper slugs back?
Marvin the Martian will take us on. "Where's the kaboom? There's supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"
I'm currently in France for the summer studying abroad for school. I go to Georgia Tech, where 25 students were sued a few weeks back by the RIAA.
I was talking to some French students here a few days ago and we were talking about file sharing. To them, it's a very common occurance and it's done without any legal ramifications. I told them about the RIAA suing people and that sounded absolutely ludicrous to them.
Here in France, we have a piracy tax on blank CDs which is annoying.
Considering how little they like the idea of suing people for p2p issues, I'm not surprised to see this sort of activism coming from France.
Viva la France!
When opening multiple tabs quickly, it's much faster, such as when viewing Fark or College Humor. Firefox feels much more responsive now.
Be careful though because some extensions won't work with the trunk builds after the install, such as Adblock, though a simple reinstall will have you up and running normally.