That's new to me. Here in Finland I can buy the tickets online, select exactly the seats me and my friends want, and pick up the tickets say an hour before. No extra charge, and if I just reserve the tickets, I can get the student discounts too.
Can I recommend iRiver's hard-disk based players? It has all the features you need, works as a usb disk, and I just learnt that I can even hack the firmware for my own skinning for it.
Yep, and the first link in google tells the proper method:
star+wars+dvd+bloopers Knock yourself out. But make sure to type 11 and not 1 and 1. And wait when it says "wait". This activex thingy is a totally redundant ad. Don't fall in the trap.
On the bonus disc, go to "Video games and still galleries", type 11, wait, type 3, wait, type 8 , wait and watch, done. Don't need no steenkin' active.cx or IE. Works in any player, computer or otherwise. On a remote control, though, make sure you type 11, and not 1 and 1. Press the 10+ or [..] button or whatever it's called so you can type a 2 digit number.
Ah, but I think that is hardly an effect because of the camera having a digital sensor? More like a lens effect, and they can look very strange sometimes, indeed. Although, a flare around a point source is unlikely to be in only one direction. And as you say, it's a 16-point star, not a 1-point one.
My point was to separate these effects, to clarify their separateness; lens-, sensor-, and film artefacts all look different, and any one single imaging device may (possibly) exhibit 2 of these (and maybe more?).But But I can't imagine any one of them that can both show a dark 1-point star from a moderately lit almost-point source light, and that can be applied in this case. The CCD fatigue+camera panning before picture theory is a nice one, but the trail is too straight, and the pics are aligned.
Moreover, someone pointed out that a street lamp is unlikely to explode, and it might likely be morning anyway, in which case the lamp would be turning off. And it's even likely not a lamp post, but a ship's mast which is close to the flash. So the possibilities amount to: meteorite (in front, at, or behind the pole), a spider swingin' by or other bug, a wicked coincidence of unknown flash+contrail shadow (it doesn't necessarily stretch over the horizon, it may just be an illusion), or a fake.
Ah, now I see. The fatigue would be from before the picture is taken, you mean? That is more possible, but the streak is damn straight. The pictures are also pixel-perfect in the same direction, the camera could hardly be moved back to the exact position it was in before. Interesting is also that the pole is likely a mast of one of the ships along the pier, as it is quite irregular compared to the taller light poles along the road (but not along the pier). That effectively debunks all the lamp theories. The hair theory is nice, but again, the streak is really straight, while hairs rarely are. Then again, the entire object is blurred by about the same amount, which would suggest a small abjoect just in from of the camera. Small spider swinging by?
Some newer ones have that too, but they don't extend diagonally, they extend along the "reading" path of the ccd, either horizontally or vertically. In one of my cameras, it goes straight down (relative to the camera).
If a jpeg compression were that extensive, it would have to be because of a bug in the camera hardware. And if so, the streak is before the camera has to deal with the bright spot (which isn't that bright anyway).
Sorry, some missing text: a).... (even width), thus, the object has to be moving perpendicular to the lens axis, in which the small part tof its trail that can be seen could certainly be straight. The shockwave......
It's certainly a bit suspicious. Looking at the EXIF tags, I don't understand why the time of taking/digitizing of the picture decreases with each successive picture. Also, those times (18:53:07, 18:52:52, and 18:52:37) suggest 15 seconds between each shot, not just a few, which can also be seen from the high cloud in the middle. Thus the boat to the far right is not "speeding", it is crawling forward at a low speed, and the reason the other boat is moving slightly is because it's drifting.
Taking a look at the flash, it doesn't appear to be that bright. Basically, it's a yellowish blotch that partially obscures the pole nearest it.
Looking at the long streak, we can note a few things: although slightly difficult to determine, the streak extends over the sky, slightly over the horizon, but not all the way to the flash; it's perfectly straight; it has an even width all across, and even intensity except the top part; it appears to fade out at the top end, and has disappeared by and even before the edge of the photo.
Finally, the fuzz, or "mist" just to the right of the flash. It is not perpendicular to the long streak; it has a almost straight, but not curved, form. The form is like a line, just slightly bent in the middle towards the flash, with smaller, perpendicular oval blobs at the ends in the direction of the flash, and a curvation in the middle that goes around the flash. The middle curvation has a slightly square, not-quite-round shape.
All of the really small details I mention could be false, due to the heavy compression, but the larger facts are definitely facts. I'm unsure if the pictures are recompressed. All the EXIF tags are intact, except for a mention of ACDsee, and a later modification date, probably the upload date from the camera. I don't know if the Canon PowerShot G3 can produce images with this much compression and low quality, but since it's not a cheapo camera, I highly doubt it. The camera was on auto-mode, which might explain the color and brightness change in the last picture.
My Explanations:
a) Something fell from the sky. Maybe, probably not. Different points on the trail are obviously not at different distances from the camera (even width), thus, the object has to be moving. The "shockwave" or "bow wave" in front of the object is not perpendicular to its path, and is also straight, not bow-formed. In any case, it's not coming from the clouds in the distance.
b) Lightning. Unlikely. Doesn't explain the straight streak, doesn't explain why the smoke is below the flash, or spread out as it is while the flash is still occuring.
c) Streak/mist is a sensor or lens artefact. Unlikely. Definitely not a sensor artefact, those do not come in diagonal versions. The mist could possibly resemble some lens flare, but is only on the right side of a fairly weak flash. The streak is darker than the background, lens flares are brighter.
d) The lamp blew out. Unlikely. Explains the flash, and possibly the mist (or smoke), but shows the middle finger to the long straight streak. The streak is unlikely a shadow, since there's nothing to cast a shadow on in the middle of the air. The streak is, again, of even width all across, perpendicular to the camera lens axis. The thin streak is also not a shadow of a long pole.
Not for a long while. Sure, snail mail will cease to have it's current (main) function eventually (which could also take a while), but that will also make a HandMade(tm) letter all the more attractive. Or perhaps archaic... or maybe all-out oldskool. Anyways, I'm pretty damn sure that handwriting will take eons to disappear, if ever, and that pretty much seals the survival of handwritten letters, it's just so basic. Now text&keyboards on the other hand might not survive as is.... Supposing we uplink our brains directly to computer systems in the future, yeah. So what's the topic now..... Young people! Right, so young people in the future might be totally net-ified, but as long as senses other than the visual also play a part, there'll be letters, that's the point.
Most of that is a 'win'.thing, but a handwritten letter is something that can't readily be replaced with newer technology.. It matters what paper you use, how much detail you use for the letters (the "font", if you will), and the layout of the page can easily be designed into something more meaningful than left-right up-down blocks of text. Until accurate touch screens with a surface with good writing properties (slippery plastic sucks), that are lightweight, can reproduce various bump-mappings appear on the market, a handwritten letter wins. And don't forget that smell plays a part too (say, rose petals). Try it! It's infinitely better than email, and will be for decades.
Fishy, you say? I immediately thought of hollywood science.
"Detective, we have a new computer program that can predict the path of any bullet...." "Yeah, so?" "So we tried running it backwards, and we just found out where the suspect bought the ammo!"
Sounds interesting, but it seems it's called TRAN.EXE.. took me some time to find it. On the same page is also an interesting oldsk00l christmas card thing.
Slashdot Mirror
"I am a google.com" .. ??
That sentence alone just sent 98% of the slashdot population into confusion and despair.
That's new to me. Here in Finland I can buy the tickets online, select exactly the seats me and my friends want, and pick up the tickets say an hour before. No extra charge, and if I just reserve the tickets, I can get the student discounts too.
Can I recommend iRiver's hard-disk based players? It has all the features you need, works as a usb disk, and I just learnt that I can even hack the firmware for my own skinning for it.
Yep, and the first link in google tells the proper method:
star+wars+dvd+bloopers
Knock yourself out. But make sure to type 11 and not 1 and 1. And wait when it says "wait". This activex thingy is a totally redundant ad. Don't fall in the trap.
Ok, so here's how to do it properly:
On the bonus disc, go to "Video games and still galleries", type 11, wait, type 3, wait, type 8 , wait and watch, done. Don't need no steenkin' active.cx or IE. Works in any player, computer or otherwise. On a remote control, though, make sure you type 11, and not 1 and 1. Press the 10+ or [..] button or whatever it's called so you can type a 2 digit number.
Ah, but I think that is hardly an effect because of the camera having a digital sensor? More like a lens effect, and they can look very strange sometimes, indeed. Although, a flare around a point source is unlikely to be in only one direction. And as you say, it's a 16-point star, not a 1-point one.
My point was to separate these effects, to clarify their separateness; lens-, sensor-, and film artefacts all look different, and any one single imaging device may (possibly) exhibit 2 of these (and maybe more?).But But I can't imagine any one of them that can both show a dark 1-point star from a moderately lit almost-point source light, and that can be applied in this case. The CCD fatigue+camera panning before picture theory is a nice one, but the trail is too straight, and the pics are aligned.
Moreover, someone pointed out that a street lamp is unlikely to explode, and it might likely be morning anyway, in which case the lamp would be turning off. And it's even likely not a lamp post, but a ship's mast which is close to the flash.
So the possibilities amount to: meteorite (in front, at, or behind the pole), a spider swingin' by or other bug, a wicked coincidence of unknown flash+contrail shadow (it doesn't necessarily stretch over the horizon, it may just be an illusion), or a fake.
Ah, now I see. The fatigue would be from before the picture is taken, you mean? That is more possible, but the streak is damn straight. The pictures are also pixel-perfect in the same direction, the camera could hardly be moved back to the exact position it was in before. Interesting is also that the pole is likely a mast of one of the ships along the pier, as it is quite irregular compared to the taller light poles along the road (but not along the pier). That effectively debunks all the lamp theories. The hair theory is nice, but again, the streak is really straight, while hairs rarely are. Then again, the entire object is blurred by about the same amount, which would suggest a small abjoect just in from of the camera. Small spider swinging by?
How do you mean? The camera was standing still, i.e. not panning anywhere. Also, why would the overflow error traverse diagonally over the image?
Some newer ones have that too, but they don't extend diagonally, they extend along the "reading" path of the ccd, either horizontally or vertically. In one of my cameras, it goes straight down (relative to the camera).
If a jpeg compression were that extensive, it would have to be because of a bug in the camera hardware. And if so, the streak is before the camera has to deal with the bright spot (which isn't that bright anyway).
Aha, I think you're right. Looking at how the big shining cloud moves, it does look like the pics are mislabeled.
Except lens flares aren't dark, they're brighter than the background. Otherwise a good explanation.
Sorry, some missing text: a) .... (even width), thus, the object has to be moving perpendicular to the lens axis, in which the small part tof its trail that can be seen could certainly be straight. The shockwave ......
It's certainly a bit suspicious. Looking at the EXIF tags, I don't understand why the time of taking/digitizing of the picture decreases with each successive picture. Also, those times (18:53:07, 18:52:52, and 18:52:37) suggest 15 seconds between each shot, not just a few, which can also be seen from the high cloud in the middle. Thus the boat to the far right is not "speeding", it is crawling forward at a low speed, and the reason the other boat is moving slightly is because it's drifting.
Taking a look at the flash, it doesn't appear to be that bright. Basically, it's a yellowish blotch that partially obscures the pole nearest it.
Looking at the long streak, we can note a few things: although slightly difficult to determine, the streak extends over the sky, slightly over the horizon, but not all the way to the flash; it's perfectly straight; it has an even width all across, and even intensity except the top part; it appears to fade out at the top end, and has disappeared by and even before the edge of the photo.
Finally, the fuzz, or "mist" just to the right of the flash. It is not perpendicular to the long streak; it has a almost straight, but not curved, form. The form is like a line, just slightly bent in the middle towards the flash, with smaller, perpendicular oval blobs at the ends in the direction of the flash, and a curvation in the middle that goes around the flash. The middle curvation has a slightly square, not-quite-round shape.
All of the really small details I mention could be false, due to the heavy compression, but the larger facts are definitely facts. I'm unsure if the pictures are recompressed. All the EXIF tags are intact, except for a mention of ACDsee, and a later modification date, probably the upload date from the camera. I don't know if the Canon PowerShot G3 can produce images with this much compression and low quality, but since it's not a cheapo camera, I highly doubt it. The camera was on auto-mode, which might explain the color and brightness change in the last picture.
My Explanations:
a) Something fell from the sky.
Maybe, probably not. Different points on the trail are obviously not at different distances from the camera (even width), thus, the object has to be moving. The "shockwave" or "bow wave" in front of the object is not perpendicular to its path, and is also straight, not bow-formed. In any case, it's not coming from the clouds in the distance.
b) Lightning.
Unlikely. Doesn't explain the straight streak, doesn't explain why the smoke is below the flash, or spread out as it is while the flash is still occuring.
c) Streak/mist is a sensor or lens artefact.
Unlikely. Definitely not a sensor artefact, those do not come in diagonal versions. The mist could possibly resemble some lens flare, but is only on the right side of a fairly weak flash. The streak is darker than the background, lens flares are brighter.
d) The lamp blew out.
Unlikely. Explains the flash, and possibly the mist (or smoke), but shows the middle finger to the long straight streak. The streak is unlikely a shadow, since there's nothing to cast a shadow on in the middle of the air. The streak is, again, of even width all across, perpendicular to the camera lens axis. The thin streak is also not a shadow of a long pole.
e) It's a fake.
Likely.
Any comments, corrections?
Not for a long while. Sure, snail mail will cease to have it's current (main) function eventually (which could also take a while), but that will also make a HandMade(tm) letter all the more attractive. Or perhaps archaic... or maybe all-out oldskool. Anyways, I'm pretty damn sure that handwriting will take eons to disappear, if ever, and that pretty much seals the survival of handwritten letters, it's just so basic. Now text&keyboards on the other hand might not survive as is.... Supposing we uplink our brains directly to computer systems in the future, yeah. So what's the topic now..... Young people! Right, so young people in the future might be totally net-ified, but as long as senses other than the visual also play a part, there'll be letters, that's the point.
Don't forget Sam's silhouette on an asteroid in Rebel Assault.
I, for one, welcome our future overlords!
...there, that should be the end-it-all for that joke.
Most of that is a 'win'.thing, but a handwritten letter is something that can't readily be replaced with newer technology.. It matters what paper you use, how much detail you use for the letters (the "font", if you will), and the layout of the page can easily be designed into something more meaningful than left-right up-down blocks of text. Until accurate touch screens with a surface with good writing properties (slippery plastic sucks), that are lightweight, can reproduce various bump-mappings appear on the market, a handwritten letter wins. And don't forget that smell plays a part too (say, rose petals). Try it! It's infinitely better than email, and will be for decades.
What system is that? I've never even heard of things like dialing in to update some roaming list.
Dude, you don't realize the potential of a digital sundial wristwatch!!!
Fishy, you say? I immediately thought of hollywood science.
"Detective, we have a new computer program that can predict the path of any bullet...."
"Yeah, so?"
"So we tried running it backwards, and we just found out where the suspect bought the ammo!"
Thus we get the (arbitrarily) combined formula:
Which in this case gives:
"In Soviet Korea, only Japanese old people talk to you robot Russians!"
Please bookmark this for reference in next week's stories.
Sounds interesting, but it seems it's called TRAN.EXE.. took me some time to find it. On the same page is also an interesting oldsk00l christmas card thing.
Actually, it's supposed to be 'elsebot'.