From TFA: "Engineers later confessed that system resets had occurred during pre-flight tests. They put these down to a hardware glitch and returned to focusing on the mission-critical landing software"
Very surprised by this... even if a hardware glitch, wouldn't you want to track that down before launch? Especially since in the harsh space environment (bit flops even with hardened RAM/CPU), you want your hardware to be as reliable as possible.
I was hoping to catch a time-lapse of the partially eclipsed sun setting over Longs Peak and it re-appeared literally at the last minute... if I had been just a little bit farther South, I probably would have been totally skunked. Plus we weren't in totality, so never got the ring-o-fire. But still very cool to watch and here's my time-lapse video.
BTW, since I didn't have an ND filter, mine was total makeshift... cut out one of the "eyepieces" from my Son's Eclipse Glasses and wedged that into the 2xTC teleconvertor!;-)
Yea, but X10 is cheap & simple plus works "most" of the time... which presumably is adequate for this application. The bigger issue Derek will have is other people deciding to take control of his room since there aren't that many house/unit codes.
But hats off to him for a most excellent job!
Nice upgrade, but no big surprises in the new iPad
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Glad to see this finally announced/released and while I'd love to exchange for my iPad2, I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade.
Without Steve Jobs doing the dramatics,
watching the Live Blog was almost as exciting as
Watching Grass Grow.
Ditto that - salient point here is a much larger sensor which has a big effect on reducing noise. It's still not anywhere near the size of a DSLR, and at least in the pics I saw (all taken in daylight), there was a lot of "smearing" at 100%... so diffraction is coming into play here.
Note also that the samples were all "wide-angle" - the "telephoto" is not optical - basically just using a subset of the sensor to do it electronically. So makes the device much simpler (no moving parts), but in essence is digital zoom, so image quality is going to suffer as you zoom in.
As the person who has Ultraviolet vision after Cataract Surgery, a reminder that many IOL's (Intra-Ocular-Lens) actually do filter UV light - this is also mentioned in TFA. I've read quite a bit of Mainster & Turner's work and while I'm a wanna-be-eye-doctor at best, believe they are "right" in that you should not filter UV with an IOL.
LOL on the "engineering masterpiece and marketing nightmare" - shame this type of stuff happens. I actually spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to find flashlights that don't bleed into the visible spectrum - it's really hard to find spectral power distribution... plus if you have flaws in the glass/plastic covering (or "wrong" material), it will fluoresce into the visible.
So give me a holler if you have an extra one of those lights around - "Captain UV" would love to take it for a spin!;-)
P.S. Your description of how other people would see it as black and I see it as violet is exactly correct - I tried to show that on the first picture of my webpage - note the poly carbonate glasses and UV filter, both of which dramatically change the look for me... but not for others.
Just to add another data point, I was able to push my 2500k to 5.0GHz (liquid cooling) and it ran Prime95/etc. stable... but did get fairly warm... and there was an intermittent bug on restore from sleep that may be fixed in the next version of ASUS Bios.
So I backed off to 4.7GHz... runs a lot cooler and has been rock-solid stable. So basically got an extra GHz in performance for free... and yea, as the OP says, all those reductions in time add up and make for a more pleasing experience.
Yep - referrer will show as NONE... so similar to if a user is coming to the site by typing the URL. Since you don't have the keywords in the weblogs, those tools don't have anything to parse... and the Search Engine Optimization people aren't going to be happy about.
Hopefully Meg will work out well for HP... but the revolving door CEO the last couple of years is pretty sad - gotta wonder about the Board and the whole pretexting scandal by Chairwoman Dunn was pathetic... Hewlett and Packard must be rolling in their graves over all the drama at HP.
Reality bites... although yea, the hope is eventually costs will come down, especially with volume.
BTW, are those batteries somehow recycled at end-of-life?
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From TFA: "Engineers later confessed that system resets had occurred during pre-flight tests. They put these down to a hardware glitch and returned to focusing on the mission-critical landing software"
... even if a hardware glitch, wouldn't you want to track that down before launch? Especially since in the harsh space environment (bit flops even with hardened RAM/CPU), you want your hardware to be as reliable as possible.
Very surprised by this
The Sydney Morning Herald article may have been sparked by Anil Dash's recent Blog Post - The Web We Lost ... which was discussed on /. last week.
... HO-HO-HO! ;-)
Anil also wrote a followup titled "Rebuilding the Web We Lost" that may be worth reading.
Speaking of the "lost web", we no longer see as many offbeat websites like this one
Us old farts will remember something similar called the Ping-O-Death! ;-)
Contrast Mark Cuban's "personal responsibility" position with that of the New York Times which "blamed" the Facebook CFO.
;-)
Let me guess which one is a Republican and which one is a Democrat?!?
Here's a pretty Heavy BBQ for 'ya - size matters when it comes to grilling! ;-)
Tough viewing conditions in the Republic of Boulder, Colorado as lots of clouds - check out this image showing a lotta crud between me and the sun.
... if I had been just a little bit farther South, I probably would have been totally skunked. Plus we weren't in totality, so never got the ring-o-fire. But still very cool to watch and here's my time-lapse video.
... cut out one of the "eyepieces" from my Son's Eclipse Glasses and wedged that into the 2xTC teleconvertor! ;-)
I was hoping to catch a time-lapse of the partially eclipsed sun setting over Longs Peak and it re-appeared literally at the last minute
BTW, since I didn't have an ND filter, mine was total makeshift
Yea, but X10 is cheap & simple plus works "most" of the time ... which presumably is adequate for this application. The bigger issue Derek will have is other people deciding to take control of his room since there aren't that many house/unit codes.
But hats off to him for a most excellent job!
Glad to see this finally announced/released and while I'd love to exchange for my iPad2, I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade. Without Steve Jobs doing the dramatics, watching the Live Blog was almost as exciting as Watching Grass Grow.
Nifty pinball place in Lyons Colorado - some pictures from a recent visit.
Ditto that - salient point here is a much larger sensor which has a big effect on reducing noise. It's still not anywhere near the size of a DSLR, and at least in the pics I saw (all taken in daylight), there was a lot of "smearing" at 100% ... so diffraction is coming into play here.
Note also that the samples were all "wide-angle" - the "telephoto" is not optical - basically just using a subset of the sensor to do it electronically. So makes the device much simpler (no moving parts), but in essence is digital zoom, so image quality is going to suffer as you zoom in.
Nifty idea though.
As the person who has Ultraviolet vision after Cataract Surgery, a reminder that many IOL's (Intra-Ocular-Lens) actually do filter UV light - this is also mentioned in TFA. I've read quite a bit of Mainster & Turner's work and while I'm a wanna-be-eye-doctor at best, believe they are "right" in that you should not filter UV with an IOL.
LOL on the "engineering masterpiece and marketing nightmare" - shame this type of stuff happens. I actually spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to find flashlights that don't bleed into the visible spectrum - it's really hard to find spectral power distribution ... plus if you have flaws in the glass/plastic covering (or "wrong" material), it will fluoresce into the visible.
;-)
... but not for others.
So give me a holler if you have an extra one of those lights around - "Captain UV" would love to take it for a spin!
P.S. Your description of how other people would see it as black and I see it as violet is exactly correct - I tried to show that on the first picture of my webpage - note the poly carbonate glasses and UV filter, both of which dramatically change the look for me
Sad to see ... but they've been living off patents and selling assets the last couple of years ... so not surprising they ran outa $$$
So I backed off to 4.7GHz ... runs a lot cooler and has been rock-solid stable. So basically got an extra GHz in performance for free ... and yea, as the OP says, all those reductions in time add up and make for a more pleasing experience.
Thomas has a pretty low-key way of presenting the shell access in the linked article - here's the Vimeo how-to video.
Yep - referrer will show as NONE ... so similar to if a user is coming to the site by typing the URL. Since you don't have the keywords in the weblogs, those tools don't have anything to parse ... and the Search Engine Optimization people aren't going to be happy about.
Hopefully Meg will work out well for HP ... but the revolving door CEO the last couple of years is pretty sad - gotta wonder about the Board and the whole pretexting scandal by Chairwoman Dunn was pathetic ... Hewlett and Packard must be rolling in their graves over all the drama at HP.
Ditto what parent posters have said ... but does appear that the latest 10.x release runs on 64-bit Windoze ... FINALLY Adobe!!!
I can't say as much the original post, but am sure I speak for many /. readers throughout the years when I also say thank you for all the posts Rob.
Here's a time-lapse of the Moonset setting over the Colorado Rockies in early/2010
I may venture out at O-dark-30 to shoot it again this year to see if it truly looks any bigger.
Makes me wonder if something about the patent might actually worry 'em?!?
Tech Crunch and All Things D. Sounds like the Yahoo folks aren't too happy about the word leaking out - "whoever it is, gone!
... HO-HO-HO! ;-)
With Yahoo shutting down Del.icio.us, where will we bookmark things such as these delicious Christmas Lights
Reality bites ... although yea, the hope is eventually costs will come down, especially with volume.
BTW, are those batteries somehow recycled at end-of-life?
Yea, I was going to post about that too - intentional on the submitter's part?!? ;-)