Also, why is the white pattern around the lightpost symmetrical about the axis of the dark streak? Wouldn't a bug flying sideways in the picture be asymmetrical in relation to its flight path?
Wings.
A camera flash lasts very approximately 1/1000s, or 1/50th of the exposure of this shot. You won't see much movement during the flash duration, although some of the blur may be explained by that at suh close range.
Note also that the dark streak does not extend to the edge of the frame. The illusion of something flying in and hitting the lamp post is just that - an illusion.
Actually, the focal length used was 46mm (35mm equivalent, certainly not telephoto) and the shutter speed was 1/20s. Bizarrely, the flash was used. See my "My solution" comment.
OK, here's my solution. The light levels are fairly low: the EXIF data from the big image reveals that the Powershot G3 used 1/20s exposure at f/5.6.
I reckon the streak and the blur are very, very close to the camera, and that the intersection with the streetlamp is conincidence.
I believe that the mystery object is an insect flying "north-west" (i.e. towards the top left of the camera). The EXIF data tells us that the flash was fired, although goodness knows why any decent photographer would use a flash for that shot.
The flash on most cameras fires at the beginning of the exposure time, and the insect is captured in flight and out of focus near the middle of the frame. It then continues flying for the rest of the 1/20s exposure causing the black streak.
...for a while now. Dunstan Orchard's 1976design.com uses it to produce a computer-generated weather-accurate panorama at the top of his blog pages. See the Colophon on that site for details. If only I had that much free time...
I've previously noted the phenomenon of comments with similar subjects appearing together chronologically.
Now we have two comments, both entitled "I'm skeptic", written by different people.
I'm beginning to think that Slashdot is a huge AI system and I'm the only real person here. I'm also of the opinion that the "A" is far more significant than the "I", especially if the AI code is anything like the "HTML" that Slashcode produces...
...than they are at building their website. That home page is truly awful, with very little real text and everything done with images. If you want to visit with Lynx, or if you're a search engine, bad luck.
If you start watching the baby on your video-phone, you'll get unhealthily paranoid. Select a baby-sitter you trust, and relax a bit. You'll have enough stress with a new kid as it is - you'll need to learn to let go when it's sleeping.
Human infants are quite good (admittedly not perfect) at not dying when left alone when sleeping.
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That's what the 410 Gone HTTP response header is for. If only admins would use it more...
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Best of luck trying to get rid of the heat. Remember, convection won't work, only radiation.
So this is like a physical version of the curiously addictive BallDroppings, then?
This term is actually also in common use in Poland.
...except they spell it yntyrznyrczyt.
"I will continue to play chess because it is a lot of fun, but no longer on a professional level," he said.
Like he's going to find any "normal" people to play more than once...
The article didn't say: does anyone know *where* the beam will be pointing?
Or in other words:
This opens up the option of homebrewing your own dock into a mini for yourself...
even those great ones with .scr's from v1agra@sh0p0ur31337store.ch.
Why does everyone pick on Switzerland as being the source of spam? I would have thought .cn (China) would be more appropriate...
Does anyone *really* need a book telling them how to use a browser? Doesn't that suggest that the browser UI design is inadequate?
I like to go to a coffee place (a cheap, friendly one nearby) ... Call it £3/coffee
I'm learning a new definition of "cheap" here.
I reckon I drink a coffee every 30 minutes while I'm working, so I probably have about 6 in 4 hours.
I don't know about you, but my work would be suffering after 6 coffees!
Also, why is the white pattern around the lightpost symmetrical about the axis of the dark streak? Wouldn't a bug flying sideways in the picture be asymmetrical in relation to its flight path?
Wings.
A camera flash lasts very approximately 1/1000s, or 1/50th of the exposure of this shot. You won't see much movement during the flash duration, although some of the blur may be explained by that at suh close range.
Note also that the dark streak does not extend to the edge of the frame. The illusion of something flying in and hitting the lamp post is just that - an illusion.
Actually, the focal length used was 46mm (35mm equivalent, certainly not telephoto) and the shutter speed was 1/20s. Bizarrely, the flash was used. See my "My solution" comment.
OK, here's my solution. The light levels are fairly low: the EXIF data from the big image reveals that the Powershot G3 used 1/20s exposure at f/5.6.
I reckon the streak and the blur are very, very close to the camera, and that the intersection with the streetlamp is conincidence.
I believe that the mystery object is an insect flying "north-west" (i.e. towards the top left of the camera). The EXIF data tells us that the flash was fired, although goodness knows why any decent photographer would use a flash for that shot.
The flash on most cameras fires at the beginning of the exposure time, and the insect is captured in flight and out of focus near the middle of the frame. It then continues flying for the rest of the 1/20s exposure causing the black streak.
Where do I go to collect my prize?
...for a while now. Dunstan Orchard's 1976design.com uses it to produce a computer-generated weather-accurate panorama at the top of his blog pages. See the Colophon on that site for details. If only I had that much free time...
It's worse than that - many single-page sites will have multiple domains pointing to them...
I've previously noted the phenomenon of comments with similar subjects appearing together chronologically.
Now we have two comments, both entitled "I'm skeptic", written by different people.
I'm beginning to think that Slashdot is a huge AI system and I'm the only real person here. I'm also of the opinion that the "A" is far more significant than the "I", especially if the AI code is anything like the "HTML" that Slashcode produces...
If a person tells Snuggling Ifbot, "I'm bored today," the robot might respond, "Are you bored? What do you want to do?"
Might respond? That's a lot of money for the possibility of a reply.
No, of course not. Ones that involve other computers.
...than they are at building their website. That home page is truly awful, with very little real text and everything done with images. If you want to visit with Lynx, or if you're a search engine, bad luck.
...can you run Linux on it?!
If you start watching the baby on your video-phone, you'll get unhealthily paranoid. Select a baby-sitter you trust, and relax a bit. You'll have enough stress with a new kid as it is - you'll need to learn to let go when it's sleeping.
Human infants are quite good (admittedly not perfect) at not dying when left alone when sleeping.
That's what the 410 Gone HTTP response header is for. If only admins would use it more...
Volker Hartmann (54) from Schaumburg
I preferred Google's "foam castle" translation of Schaumburg.
But you can't turn the detail levels down to make it run faster.
Before I became allergic to alcohol (really!) I found that a few beers would both decrease the detail levels and increase the apparent framerate.
How am I going to contact my personal human spam filter now?
Oh, wait - I don't live in Ireland.
Yeah? What's the address?