my 2p: I can't disagree with your factual content, but I have to avoid RAW because of file speed issues. The theatre work I do a lot of means you have 1 dress rehearsal to get everything. Therefore the thing I need for that are number of shots per second. I personally find that in a shoot the extra rate at which I can take photos by using JPGs compensates for the lower image quality of that I loose. i.e. the photos might be 99% of the quality, but because I can take them twice as fast, my top 10 photos are much better. Highest quality JPG I tend to find is good enough for most enlargements without cropping (The example I show people when they get snobby like this is one picture I had blown up to 3'X2' and I challenge people to find the image artifacts even though it was a JPG). Now if you're going to crop and/or enlarge a lot, or you're going to do lots of processing, i can see the point, or if you're trying to save a blownout or underexposed area - but all of those - for the photography I do - are a sign of a badly composed/shot photo in the first place.
FWIW my current setup is based on a canon 350D, I find at this level it is the lenses that are the limit, but listening to/. you'd still think it was the silicon...
Judging how much everyone but microsoft (IBM, Sun, Apple, etc ) is in the unix camp in general and normally in the Linux camp (aboviously not Apple) - do you really see a lack of hardware for Linux to run on? Add into that ll the people who run Linux on embedded systems and...
I may be blind, but I can't see the day when it is impossible to buy hardware that Linux will run on.
Maybe I'm an optimist, maybe I misunderestimate the stupidity of PHBs and bribability of journalists...
Don't you think it'll be linke the fight against software patents? No matter how many times we beat them and say no, they'll try and get another bill through in 6 months time because it is in their commercial interest. They will never stop, they will never give up because it is in their interest. Nothing we can do will ever stop this fight except to give in. Not that we should give in, but it's like the fight for any freedom - constant vigelence
/me remembers the days when you didn't need firwalls When I was starting Uni firewalls were just staing to become widespread at my uni. I hated this because I was used to the concept of every unix machine having a guest account you could log into and use. It was (for my peers) part of the ettiquette for being on the internet that you did make your machine accessable. Now we take for granted that you lock your machine down very carefully.
I see a similar change in approach now, we're used to freedom, but there are people out there who abuse this and therefore undesirable security is needed. I see DRM in the same field as Firewalls, Spam filters, locked machines, etc. Unfortunate and undesirable, but a necessity in this big bad world.
If I notice someone is abusing the DRM I will vote with my wallet the same as I have always done. If the worst comes to the worst I'll just be stuck using old machines without hardware control - If I can't buy that anymore - I'll build my own with an FPGA. I don't see an issue as long as we make sure there remains an alternative. GPL and friends provide that alternative.
so we were potentally 1 inertial sensor away from militarising space after all: Never mind assasinating Hitler - amasing how fates can rest upon the smallest things...
Very interesting thought scenario. The one I like, is that in any given family you're going to be limited to the number of children that can be had. Therefore if you're sitting in this room of souls (house of goth?) and you had a choice between being born into 1 woman who had a preganacy at 20 - while she was still at Uni and it will spoil her career, or another woman who will have you at the age of 30 and you'll be born into a stable sucessful family.
The point I'm making is this could be the same woman, but an accident at university could leave her picking that choice on behalf of her children.
Perhaps they could add proper codec support so we would have a media player that works from the get-go (ubuntus doesn't because of legal ramifications)
They could push for better driver support so I can use my camera with my home desktop instead of having to bring my camera into work to get the photos off it, or borrow my friend's apple laptop (Canon DC350D)
That'd be my little bit of polish on the Linux system I'd like to see
"Number 3 in WHAT stats?" Whichever ones Top Gear use...
"some glorified scooter" Intersting that it has come number 1 in all user satisfaction polls in the UK, Holland and Hungary (I'm sure it has in more but those are the ones I've heard of).
"It's your own fault if you choose to drive a death machine." Which is the death machine, the machine that causes the death, or the machine that cannot protect against circumstances outside it's control?
"If you drunkely smash into me in your go-cart while weaving in and out of traffic" You've nicely ignored the point that you do have a responsibility to others in society for your actions not to put them at undue risk. I know the drivers of larger vehicles cut me up and almost wipe me out much more than the smaller cars. They act like they own the road whereas as a general rule, smaller cars show more consideration. Only my experience though, but I see smaller cars as being driven by more considerate safer drivers. And I've also observed, that the more someone claims to be a safe driver the less likley they are to be one.
I know; in my own way i was trying to skirt around the issue - much else would have been a statement of "Americans are all fat bastards". Which isn't somewhere I wanted to go...
I drive a Honda Jazz It gets 45+ around London. I can get 60 without much grief on a motorway run.
There you go, now you know of one. Under £10,000 from your local dealer and seats 5 adults no problem. Big enough to get a double setee into too when you fold the seats down. It's the most prqactical car I've ever owned.
Well I drive a Honda Jazz and it's also one of the safest cars cars on the road. I think it's about number 3 in the stats. Also gets 50+MPG.
Yes it might be a death-box if I'm hit in the rear by an idiot. Hence I've got to take responsibility for my saftey much as I do when I'm on my bike. Or shouldn't I cycle either? Get this into your head - Car drivers do not own the road! You as a member of society have a responsibility to other citizens too! I'd be much safer walking around town if I was fuly armed with knives such that I killed anyone who walked into me. Should I as a citizen do this? How is this different from driving an SUV and putting other road users (cyclists, pedestrians) at risk?
Right - so everyone should drive the largest truck they can!
Damn pedestrians!
This is called society - ther'll always be some fuckwit out there, that doesn't mean you have to join the zombie crowd. Distain them for the idiots they are, show them the error of their ways and make sure you get all the best parking spaces! Seriously if all shops started having parking spaces for small cars near the store and the larger spaces further away and ticketing prople who misused it, I bet we'd see some change! But no better to switch off brain and sod the consequences. But maybe that's me as Honda Jazz driver...
In the UK at least, if you took all the tax that was collected from cars there would be no UK, just 1 big motorway! The money gets diverted into other areas such as funding public transport, health service, social security etc etc.
As my brother says "I don't use public transport, I just pay for it". Not that I think this is a bad idea, I'd rather have the European transport system than the American one...
Let me throw some more figures into thsi discussion to give some perspective on electric cars. 1 litre of fuel contains 33KJ(http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/trol/dictunit/no tes2.htm) so at 30% efficient let's say that's 10KJ equivalent.
My tank has a capacity of 30L and I can get approx 400 miles on this - but it is a new car so lets keep it easy and say 30L = 300 Miles. so I need 1KJ to get me 1 Mile. I'll drive up to 600 Miles in one day, so either my electric car needs to store 600KJ, or to be equivalent to my car I need to be able to re-charge whatever it's tank capacity is at a rate of 100Miles/Minute (Assuming it takes 3 minutes to fill the tank at the pump - it's faster than this but I'll be generous). If I could plug in a 100KW to my car, I'd re-charge it's capacity in 3 seconds. 5KW would re-charge this capacity in the required 3 minues - quite doable with a 240V 3 phase supply. But where the hell are these batteries that can store that much power that fast? Ok even if I'm generous and take a break for 1/2 an hour at a service station while my car re-charges, what kind of battery can store that much that fast? Or are there "simple technologies" to get around this? One design I saw for this was replacable battery banks that at the service station would be slid out by machinery and replaced with new fully charged ones...
Think of it like the other X-Prize. Getting to the edge of space is to all intenets and purposes useless. But from that first stepping stone you can build something like Virgin Galactic. Once you can sequence lots of DNA with ease then it becomes easier to look for patterns and correlations. As soon as anyone can do the first steps (instead of just the big boys) then the later steps come easier. Instead of having just one human's worth we can have thousands with any anomoly or disease resistance you can name. So I'd say this challenge was exactly like the first X-Prize...
And the technology won't only be used for humans - the ability to quickly sequence the organism you've been experimenting with and has suddenly an immunity to the latest superbug would be damn handy.
BTW IANABCBIDDO (I am not a Bio-Chemist, but I did date one:-)
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/. you'd still think it was the silicon...
I can't disagree with your factual content, but I have to avoid RAW because of file speed issues. The theatre work I do a lot of means you have 1 dress rehearsal to get everything. Therefore the thing I need for that are number of shots per second.
I personally find that in a shoot the extra rate at which I can take photos by using JPGs compensates for the lower image quality of that I loose. i.e. the photos might be 99% of the quality, but because I can take them twice as fast, my top 10 photos are much better. Highest quality JPG I tend to find is good enough for most enlargements without cropping (The example I show people when they get snobby like this is one picture I had blown up to 3'X2' and I challenge people to find the image artifacts even though it was a JPG).
Now if you're going to crop and/or enlarge a lot, or you're going to do lots of processing, i can see the point, or if you're trying to save a blownout or underexposed area - but all of those - for the photography I do - are a sign of a badly composed/shot photo in the first place.
FWIW my current setup is based on a canon 350D, I find at this level it is the lenses that are the limit, but listening to
As a home user who does spend big bucks on his camera, i don't have money left to spend on the manipulation software :-)
That said I don't do the kind of manipulation that needs anything more than GIMP can offer (yet, but I'm getting close)
Judging how much everyone but microsoft (IBM, Sun, Apple, etc ) is in the unix camp in general and normally in the Linux camp (aboviously not Apple) - do you really see a lack of hardware for Linux to run on? Add into that ll the people who run Linux on embedded systems and...
I may be blind, but I can't see the day when it is impossible to buy hardware that Linux will run on.
Maybe I'm an optimist, maybe I misunderestimate the stupidity of PHBs and bribability of journalists...
Don't you think it'll be linke the fight against software patents?
No matter how many times we beat them and say no, they'll try and get another bill through in 6 months time because it is in their commercial interest.
They will never stop, they will never give up because it is in their interest. Nothing we can do will ever stop this fight except to give in.
Not that we should give in, but it's like the fight for any freedom - constant vigelence
What if some smartarse comes up with a way to use DRM to make sure the GPL is never violated?
All in favour?
/me remembers the days when you didn't need firwalls
When I was starting Uni firewalls were just staing to become widespread at my uni. I hated this because I was used to the concept of every unix machine having a guest account you could log into and use.
It was (for my peers) part of the ettiquette for being on the internet that you did make your machine accessable.
Now we take for granted that you lock your machine down very carefully.
I see a similar change in approach now, we're used to freedom, but there are people out there who abuse this and therefore undesirable security is needed.
I see DRM in the same field as Firewalls, Spam filters, locked machines, etc. Unfortunate and undesirable, but a necessity in this big bad world.
If I notice someone is abusing the DRM I will vote with my wallet the same as I have always done. If the worst comes to the worst I'll just be stuck using old machines without hardware control - If I can't buy that anymore - I'll build my own with an FPGA.
I don't see an issue as long as we make sure there remains an alternative. GPL and friends provide that alternative.
so we were potentally 1 inertial sensor away from militarising space after all:
Never mind assasinating Hitler - amasing how fates can rest upon the smallest things...
Nonsense - that pun must be intended! After all there's so many other things you could have said:
An advisory role to launch NASA
An advisory role to propel NASA to sucess
An advisory role to help NASA start with(out) a bang
etc
Very interesting thought scenario.
The one I like, is that in any given family you're going to be limited to the number of children that can be had. Therefore if you're sitting in this room of souls (house of goth?) and you had a choice between being born into 1 woman who had a preganacy at 20 - while she was still at Uni and it will spoil her career, or another woman who will have you at the age of 30 and you'll be born into a stable sucessful family.
The point I'm making is this could be the same woman, but an accident at university could leave her picking that choice on behalf of her children.
I think you miss the point that those supporting this nonsense believe that humans are more than just a combination of ingredients.
I feel a chorus of "Every sperm is sacred" comming on.
less of the comming though....
It's ok, I didn't want a photography of the sign - it's rusting anyway....
Perhaps they could add proper codec support so we would have a media player that works from the get-go (ubuntus doesn't because of legal ramifications)
They could push for better driver support so I can use my camera with my home desktop instead of having to bring my camera into work to get the photos off it, or borrow my friend's apple laptop (Canon DC350D)
That'd be my little bit of polish on the Linux system I'd like to see
"Number 3 in WHAT stats?"
Whichever ones Top Gear use...
"some glorified scooter"
Intersting that it has come number 1 in all user satisfaction polls in the UK, Holland and Hungary (I'm sure it has in more but those are the ones I've heard of).
"It's your own fault if you choose to drive a death machine."
Which is the death machine, the machine that causes the death, or the machine that cannot protect against circumstances outside it's control?
"If you drunkely smash into me in your go-cart while weaving in and out of traffic"
You've nicely ignored the point that you do have a responsibility to others in society for your actions not to put them at undue risk.
I know the drivers of larger vehicles cut me up and almost wipe me out much more than the smaller cars. They act like they own the road whereas as a general rule, smaller cars show more consideration.
Only my experience though, but I see smaller cars as being driven by more considerate safer drivers.
And I've also observed, that the more someone claims to be a safe driver the less likley they are to be one.
I know; in my own way i was trying to skirt around the issue - much else would have been a statement of "Americans are all fat bastards". Which isn't somewhere I wanted to go...
Yes, as in my family. We're all above 6' (except my mother:-))
Thanks!
;-)
I was doing the numbers and they seemed far too small! I couldn't find where I went wrong. So instead we need 5MW to recharge this car.
Good luck finding a piece of flex to do that
I drive a Honda Jazz
It gets 45+ around London. I can get 60 without much grief on a motorway run.
There you go, now you know of one. Under £10,000 from your local dealer and seats 5 adults no problem. Big enough to get a double setee into too when you fold the seats down.
It's the most prqactical car I've ever owned.
Next!
Well I drive a Honda Jazz and it's also one of the safest cars cars on the road. I think it's about number 3 in the stats. Also gets 50+MPG.
Yes it might be a death-box if I'm hit in the rear by an idiot. Hence I've got to take responsibility for my saftey much as I do when I'm on my bike.
Or shouldn't I cycle either?
Get this into your head - Car drivers do not own the road! You as a member of society have a responsibility to other citizens too!
I'd be much safer walking around town if I was fuly armed with knives such that I killed anyone who walked into me. Should I as a citizen do this? How is this different from driving an SUV and putting other road users (cyclists, pedestrians) at risk?
Right - so everyone should drive the largest truck they can!
Damn pedestrians!
This is called society - ther'll always be some fuckwit out there, that doesn't mean you have to join the zombie crowd. Distain them for the idiots they are, show them the error of their ways and make sure you get all the best parking spaces!
Seriously if all shops started having parking spaces for small cars near the store and the larger spaces further away and ticketing prople who misused it, I bet we'd see some change!
But no better to switch off brain and sod the consequences. But maybe that's me as Honda Jazz driver...
In the UK at least, if you took all the tax that was collected from cars there would be no UK, just 1 big motorway! The money gets diverted into other areas such as funding public transport, health service, social security etc etc.
As my brother says "I don't use public transport, I just pay for it". Not that I think this is a bad idea, I'd rather have the European transport system than the American one...
Let me throw some more figures into thsi discussion to give some perspective on electric cars.o tes2.htm) so at 30% efficient let's say that's 10KJ equivalent.
1 litre of fuel contains 33KJ(http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/trol/dictunit/n
My tank has a capacity of 30L and I can get approx 400 miles on this - but it is a new car so lets keep it easy and say 30L = 300 Miles. so I need 1KJ to get me 1 Mile.
I'll drive up to 600 Miles in one day, so either my electric car needs to store 600KJ, or to be equivalent to my car I need to be able to re-charge whatever it's tank capacity is at a rate of 100Miles/Minute (Assuming it takes 3 minutes to fill the tank at the pump - it's faster than this but I'll be generous).
If I could plug in a 100KW to my car, I'd re-charge it's capacity in 3 seconds. 5KW would re-charge this capacity in the required 3 minues - quite doable with a 240V 3 phase supply.
But where the hell are these batteries that can store that much power that fast? Ok even if I'm generous and take a break for 1/2 an hour at a service station while my car re-charges, what kind of battery can store that much that fast? Or are there "simple technologies" to get around this?
One design I saw for this was replacable battery banks that at the service station would be slid out by machinery and replaced with new fully charged ones...
Think of it like the other X-Prize.
:-)
Getting to the edge of space is to all intenets and purposes useless. But from that first stepping stone you can build something like Virgin Galactic.
Once you can sequence lots of DNA with ease then it becomes easier to look for patterns and correlations. As soon as anyone can do the first steps (instead of just the big boys) then the later steps come easier. Instead of having just one human's worth we can have thousands with any anomoly or disease resistance you can name.
So I'd say this challenge was exactly like the first X-Prize...
And the technology won't only be used for humans - the ability to quickly sequence the organism you've been experimenting with and has suddenly an immunity to the latest superbug would be damn handy.
BTW IANABCBIDDO
(I am not a Bio-Chemist, but I did date one
Sounds like someone has been reading Philip Pullman.
When they start drilling holes in people's heads let me know...
For those who aren't aware:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory
Predictions of faster tan light travel (amoung other things)