You'll want the fastest (optically) scope you can afford. Don't be conc0erned with aperture. You'll appreciate the fast speed (low f/stop) when taking photos.
Have realistic expectations: You'll NEVER take Hubble-like pictures and there are very few things (outside of our atmosphere) that you'll see any color from with your eye. Photography offers a better change to capture color.
Learn about stacking multiple exposures: see Photoshop or applications like AStroStack
Spend the extra money on a good tripod and mount as you'll really wish you did when you start shooting longer exposures (because stacking isn't cutting it and now you want to stack long-exposures)
Don't waste your money on a red flash light. Red light is needed to help keep your eyes acclimated to the darkness. Red cellophane over a regular flashlight works. LEDs are the best as they have long battery life.
Allow the telescope to adjust temperature for several hours.
Know your equipment. This will some with time AND USE.
Know this sky. This will come with time and use.
Remember that you spent all that money to enjoy the wonders of the universe. Don't get pissed or let down.
Oh I'm not?
I would bet Viacom listed a copyright in their credits. I'm also pretty sure he did not. Nor did he send a C&D upon discovering his content lifted. Even if it were properly copyrighted, the point where he notices and infringement but doesn't act on it would show him to be of no concern with respect to his own copyright.
It sucks. Most copyright law sucks. Most big companies suck (in regards to copyright) but he violated theirs. He can't even show their aired portion of HIS content without their consent, even if he shows no original material. Granted, in that situation it would be hard to prove he was distributing their broadcast and not his own content, but the law still holds true.
Their broadcast, which he redistributed without authorization, was copyrighted. His was not. I'll repeat, wrong + wrong =/= right
"I wonder how much more time he will be willing to spend admining his box once it is rooted by malware and his bank accounts are periodically cleaned out?"
The funny thing is, as an intelligent Windows user, I've never had that happen. I tried Ubuntu, Mandriva and Knoppix (install from live CD) and none of them wanted to get my Dell XPS 400's network working right. Also, none of them configured x properly for my PCIe 6800.
For reason's like that, I gave up on Linux. I had ubuntu working fine on my 1 Ghz Compaq Armada. However it took ~5 minutes to boot. My Dell boots in 30 seconds and returns from hibernate in 10 seconds.
I know that has a lot to do with hardware (7200 rpm sata hdd vs 4200 rpm laptop drive) however it also has a lot to do with the OSes respectivly.
I can't have 5 minute booting times on a laptop which is turned on and off 10 times a day. The desktop isn't such a problem as I leave it on for weeks on end. But it's the Dell desktop that I couldn't get working right.
On a side note: I guess that's what I get for buying a Dell.
The bunch of you make me sick. How dare you post your thoughts on this topic and do nothing.
Of the 753 posts that say something to the effect of "this is right we can't do this, it's going to lead to the downfall of our country" how many of you are going to do something about it?
You're a bunch of phonies. Mod this in to oblivion if you like, it's the only actions you will ever take.
Not that this is the reason for using it... but most cars on the road now that can run e85 will not be savign money. e85 is a bit cheaper and your milage is a bit less. The savings (there is some) will be very little.
The implications of cutting our oil consumption (from gasoline) by 75 % is HUGE. It's just not a financial thing.
I live on my EVDO cell phone. I check my gmail on it ~10 times a day (albeit I hardly compose any email of length on it).
I currently do not use a celender client, however I see myself using this (as I never have to worry about being on an internet-connected computer and not being able to access it).
Those said, I really hope they make CL2 available via WAP or simple HTML so that I can use it on my phone. I'd LOVE to get a text message to remind me of calender events.
I use google servers to host my aunt's small business email through her domain. It's a gmail interface with her company logo on it. They love it. So I know it's not just for nerds as she's barelly (if at all) computer literate.
Well, dont shot commercials. During the time when everyone else is seeing them, buffer the next segment of the show. This should, in theory, allow one to stream HD content through a smaller bandwidth. It won't benifit the end user because there will still be dead air during broadcasted commercial breaks.
When do I get IPTV over my cable broad band which has (...estimates...) 10-fold the band width?
I figure I need about 150 Mbps into my home in order for me to satisfy my entire homes phone, tv and internet through IP. I assume the following: 1 HD TV stream for my family room, 4 HD streams (at times) for my bedroom because I will definately use IPTV with a PVR. 1 line of VoIP phone. Plus 10+ mbps for the several PCs in my home.
Guess I need giga-bit wiFi now. Whatever this IPTV set-top box is, it MUST HAVE vga output for my 19" LCD. I need a way to watch HD on my 19" LCD. I'd prefer not to but am willing to go through my computer. Anyone know of an HD capture card (that will hook up to an HD cable box instead of OTA HD)??
Much appriciated. I'll be sure to try tomorrow. Still doesn't fix all the blocked sites. I can't even get around most of it with proxies.
The (only?) benifit is that many ad domains are blocked leaving some pages almost ad-free.
...reads post as I sit within range of MIT and Harvard WiFi at the 4th largest pharma company on the planet. Yet I still connect to my cripple (nothing the "game" in the URL ) internet access. That routinely downloads at 7mbps. Oh well, I have my EVDO phone for games.slashdot.org:(
I understand why NF is doing it. But how they are doing it is sneaky, dirty, and of poor business ethics.
Simply stop offering 3-at-a-time and 5-at-a-time plans if people are abusing it. Send those people a letter saying that they rent too many movies (which requires you to publicly state how many is too many) and reduce them to 1-at-a-time.
It's not fair for Billy Bob to get a movie before me when I requested it first. The fact that it's called a "queue" inherently implies a fixed order and fairness. Dictionary.com contains the definition of queue as "A data structure from which the first item that can be retrieved is the one stored earliest."
It is false advertising. I have no problem with them doing something of this nature just not by this means.
Disclosure: I have a 3-at-a-time plan and go through 6 DVDs per week. That said most of them are TV series that are 6-7 discs per season. All I want to do is get caught up on Lost or Stargate: Atlantis or [insert./ series here].
Am I the only one that thinks that Columbia was the worse of the 2 shuttle crashes? I mean really, Challenger was catostrophic but was unsurvivable once the SRB ignited. Columbia was in orbit for weeks with its fatal problem in view of the entire planet had anbody thought to look. They say nothing could have been done had they found the damaged in orbit, but I have this funny feeling that we, as a planet, probabaly would have come up with something and not let them run out of O2.
I have heard, from several indipendent sources that the crew cabin had it's own structural reinorcements that make it stronger than the surrounding shuttle body.
If I understand this correctly, it is this cabin that survived (and can be seen on film) falling, intact, to the water below.
On a side note, I have a gut feeling (worth nothing more than what it means to me) that there was some consciousnous of the crew after the explosion (the ball of fire was big enough for me to continue to call it that). I hope that perhaps rapid rotation of the crew cabin during free fall caused g-forces to keep them blacked out before impact.
Ummmm.... there have been plotical blogs for years now. I mean ones written "by politicians". John Kerry and G-dubya both had blogs durring their compaigns. Old news.
Really, you can like to kids. Hopefully that have a better sence of how the "real world" is by the time they are old enough to get a job. I have no porblem saying "I have to make money to pay the bills and buy food and do fun things" and when asked if working is fun I can reply "sometime, just like school. But sometimes it's a lot of work." The whole "it's like school" thing can go on and on... sometimes its fun, sometimes its boring, sometimes there are people i dont like, sometimes I didn't do my homework, etc.
Google just needs Me Bell to delay a bit so they can unvail there gNet. I mean, I assume there's a reason for them buying up tons of dark fiber.
If I do have to pay for priority access to certain IP address, can't I just pay one... for a proxy server IP?
If I didn't have to pay extra to access Google.com at high speed, Google could (and would) make there own proxies or something of the like to relay our DNS requests at Google-Fiber-speed. Something like web accelerator.
If the administration wants statistics to back up there bill, why not ask Google for statistical data regarding pornographic requests instead of records of the actually quaries?
All your intellectual property are belong to us. No, really, we own the rights to it. And 51% of the human genome. So basically you belong to us.
I think legally it will hold up in court. All that means is that the laws need to be changed.
We should take up a collection for this: Buy the rights to, or patent if unowned, the genes that allow our lungs to process oxygen. Then demand, in court, a $.0001 loyalty fee per breath per person. While entirely silly, it would force the courts to rethink there policies and laws. As a bonus, if they don't reconsider , we'll all be rich.
Note: The intellectualy propery for this idea is soley mine. Anyone using this idea will have to pay me 10% of gross profits.
Oh yes I know. I don't mean the HDMI implies it was rished. I mean its size it's lack of anything else. Its price. Its lack of media (though that's bound to happen). It just seems rushed to me.
HDMI only was a stupid move. I already get the feeling like this was rushed to the market just to be able to say "we had the first."
I convert my HD signal with a 3rd party unit to watch on my 19" LCD in my bedroom. I have a 50" DLP downstairs. There's enough HD content (including most of my beloved Red Sox home games) to keep my content. There will be more content in the future.
It seems as though I'm the only one titilated for this all digital no more analog stuff.
How long before Netflix starts to carry HD discs? They're my only source of DVDs. Right cuz I've never, every "backed up" Netflix DVD on my too-big-to-ever-fill-but-smallest-SATA-you-can-buy hard drive. Maybe I'll be able to fill it now.
I just lost my 13.2 tb negative refraction DVD. Man, it was such a good Windows rebuild.
Seriously though, this could be a spiffy application to optical drives... errr negative optical drives.
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You'll want the fastest (optically) scope you can afford. Don't be conc0erned with aperture. You'll appreciate the fast speed (low f/stop) when taking photos.
Have realistic expectations: You'll NEVER take Hubble-like pictures and there are very few things (outside of our atmosphere) that you'll see any color from with your eye. Photography offers a better change to capture color.
Learn about stacking multiple exposures: see Photoshop or applications like AStroStack
Spend the extra money on a good tripod and mount as you'll really wish you did when you start shooting longer exposures (because stacking isn't cutting it and now you want to stack long-exposures)
Don't waste your money on a red flash light. Red light is needed to help keep your eyes acclimated to the darkness. Red cellophane over a regular flashlight works. LEDs are the best as they have long battery life.
Allow the telescope to adjust temperature for several hours.
Know your equipment. This will some with time AND USE.
Know this sky. This will come with time and use.
Remember that you spent all that money to enjoy the wonders of the universe. Don't get pissed or let down.
Good luck on keeping mosquitoes away.
Oh I'm not? I would bet Viacom listed a copyright in their credits. I'm also pretty sure he did not. Nor did he send a C&D upon discovering his content lifted. Even if it were properly copyrighted, the point where he notices and infringement but doesn't act on it would show him to be of no concern with respect to his own copyright. It sucks. Most copyright law sucks. Most big companies suck (in regards to copyright) but he violated theirs. He can't even show their aired portion of HIS content without their consent, even if he shows no original material. Granted, in that situation it would be hard to prove he was distributing their broadcast and not his own content, but the law still holds true. Their broadcast, which he redistributed without authorization, was copyrighted. His was not. I'll repeat, wrong + wrong =/= right
You are infringing on their copyright. Two wrongs doesn't make a right.
What can I do in my dad-to-day browsing to make it hard for the NSA/CIA/ect ? Does going through proxies help anything?
Um... that's what I said. The Dell suspends and wakes and comes back from Hibernate very very fast under Windows. Not so much under Linux.
"I wonder how much more time he will be willing to spend admining his box once it is rooted by malware and his bank accounts are periodically cleaned out?" The funny thing is, as an intelligent Windows user, I've never had that happen. I tried Ubuntu, Mandriva and Knoppix (install from live CD) and none of them wanted to get my Dell XPS 400's network working right. Also, none of them configured x properly for my PCIe 6800. For reason's like that, I gave up on Linux. I had ubuntu working fine on my 1 Ghz Compaq Armada. However it took ~5 minutes to boot. My Dell boots in 30 seconds and returns from hibernate in 10 seconds. I know that has a lot to do with hardware (7200 rpm sata hdd vs 4200 rpm laptop drive) however it also has a lot to do with the OSes respectivly. I can't have 5 minute booting times on a laptop which is turned on and off 10 times a day. The desktop isn't such a problem as I leave it on for weeks on end. But it's the Dell desktop that I couldn't get working right. On a side note: I guess that's what I get for buying a Dell.
The bunch of you make me sick. How dare you post your thoughts on this topic and do nothing.
Of the 753 posts that say something to the effect of "this is right we can't do this, it's going to lead to the downfall of our country" how many of you are going to do something about it?
You're a bunch of phonies. Mod this in to oblivion if you like, it's the only actions you will ever take.
Not that this is the reason for using it... but most cars on the road now that can run e85 will not be savign money. e85 is a bit cheaper and your milage is a bit less. The savings (there is some) will be very little. The implications of cutting our oil consumption (from gasoline) by 75 % is HUGE. It's just not a financial thing.
I live on my EVDO cell phone. I check my gmail on it ~10 times a day (albeit I hardly compose any email of length on it).
I currently do not use a celender client, however I see myself using this (as I never have to worry about being on an internet-connected computer and not being able to access it).
Those said, I really hope they make CL2 available via WAP or simple HTML so that I can use it on my phone. I'd LOVE to get a text message to remind me of calender events.
I use google servers to host my aunt's small business email through her domain. It's a gmail interface with her company logo on it. They love it. So I know it's not just for nerds as she's barelly (if at all) computer literate.
Neato... is this much different than say Geocities was? Just means myspace-like sites on google domains I think. Not my cup of tea.
Well, dont shot commercials. During the time when everyone else is seeing them, buffer the next segment of the show. This should, in theory, allow one to stream HD content through a smaller bandwidth. It won't benifit the end user because there will still be dead air during broadcasted commercial breaks.
When do I get IPTV over my cable broad band which has (...estimates...) 10-fold the band width?
I figure I need about 150 Mbps into my home in order for me to satisfy my entire homes phone, tv and internet through IP. I assume the following: 1 HD TV stream for my family room, 4 HD streams (at times) for my bedroom because I will definately use IPTV with a PVR. 1 line of VoIP phone. Plus 10+ mbps for the several PCs in my home.
Guess I need giga-bit wiFi now. Whatever this IPTV set-top box is, it MUST HAVE vga output for my 19" LCD. I need a way to watch HD on my 19" LCD. I'd prefer not to but am willing to go through my computer. Anyone know of an HD capture card (that will hook up to an HD cable box instead of OTA HD)??
Much appriciated. I'll be sure to try tomorrow. Still doesn't fix all the blocked sites. I can't even get around most of it with proxies. The (only?) benifit is that many ad domains are blocked leaving some pages almost ad-free.
...reads post as I sit within range of MIT and Harvard WiFi at the 4th largest pharma company on the planet. Yet I still connect to my cripple (nothing the "game" in the URL ) internet access. That routinely downloads at 7mbps. Oh well, I have my EVDO phone for games.slashdot.org :(
I understand why NF is doing it. But how they are doing it is sneaky, dirty, and of poor business ethics. Simply stop offering 3-at-a-time and 5-at-a-time plans if people are abusing it. Send those people a letter saying that they rent too many movies (which requires you to publicly state how many is too many) and reduce them to 1-at-a-time. It's not fair for Billy Bob to get a movie before me when I requested it first. The fact that it's called a "queue" inherently implies a fixed order and fairness. Dictionary.com contains the definition of queue as "A data structure from which the first item that can be retrieved is the one stored earliest." It is false advertising. I have no problem with them doing something of this nature just not by this means. Disclosure: I have a 3-at-a-time plan and go through 6 DVDs per week. That said most of them are TV series that are 6-7 discs per season. All I want to do is get caught up on Lost or Stargate: Atlantis or [insert ./ series here].
Am I the only one that thinks that Columbia was the worse of the 2 shuttle crashes? I mean really, Challenger was catostrophic but was unsurvivable once the SRB ignited. Columbia was in orbit for weeks with its fatal problem in view of the entire planet had anbody thought to look. They say nothing could have been done had they found the damaged in orbit, but I have this funny feeling that we, as a planet, probabaly would have come up with something and not let them run out of O2.
I have heard, from several indipendent sources that the crew cabin had it's own structural reinorcements that make it stronger than the surrounding shuttle body.
If I understand this correctly, it is this cabin that survived (and can be seen on film) falling, intact, to the water below.
On a side note, I have a gut feeling (worth nothing more than what it means to me) that there was some consciousnous of the crew after the explosion (the ball of fire was big enough for me to continue to call it that). I hope that perhaps rapid rotation of the crew cabin during free fall caused g-forces to keep them blacked out before impact.
Ummmm.... there have been plotical blogs for years now. I mean ones written "by politicians". John Kerry and G-dubya both had blogs durring their compaigns. Old news.
Really, you can like to kids. Hopefully that have a better sence of how the "real world" is by the time they are old enough to get a job. I have no porblem saying "I have to make money to pay the bills and buy food and do fun things" and when asked if working is fun I can reply "sometime, just like school. But sometimes it's a lot of work." The whole "it's like school" thing can go on and on... sometimes its fun, sometimes its boring, sometimes there are people i dont like, sometimes I didn't do my homework, etc.
Google just needs Me Bell to delay a bit so they can unvail there gNet. I mean, I assume there's a reason for them buying up tons of dark fiber. If I do have to pay for priority access to certain IP address, can't I just pay one... for a proxy server IP? If I didn't have to pay extra to access Google.com at high speed, Google could (and would) make there own proxies or something of the like to relay our DNS requests at Google-Fiber-speed. Something like web accelerator.
If the administration wants statistics to back up there bill, why not ask Google for statistical data regarding pornographic requests instead of records of the actually quaries?
All your intellectual property are belong to us. No, really, we own the rights to it. And 51% of the human genome. So basically you belong to us.
I think legally it will hold up in court. All that means is that the laws need to be changed.
We should take up a collection for this: Buy the rights to, or patent if unowned, the genes that allow our lungs to process oxygen. Then demand, in court, a $.0001 loyalty fee per breath per person. While entirely silly, it would force the courts to rethink there policies and laws. As a bonus, if they don't reconsider , we'll all be rich.
Note: The intellectualy propery for this idea is soley mine. Anyone using this idea will have to pay me 10% of gross profits.
All your communications are belong to us.
Oh yes I know. I don't mean the HDMI implies it was rished. I mean its size it's lack of anything else. Its price. Its lack of media (though that's bound to happen). It just seems rushed to me.
HDMI only was a stupid move. I already get the feeling like this was rushed to the market just to be able to say "we had the first." I convert my HD signal with a 3rd party unit to watch on my 19" LCD in my bedroom. I have a 50" DLP downstairs. There's enough HD content (including most of my beloved Red Sox home games) to keep my content. There will be more content in the future. It seems as though I'm the only one titilated for this all digital no more analog stuff. How long before Netflix starts to carry HD discs? They're my only source of DVDs. Right cuz I've never, every "backed up" Netflix DVD on my too-big-to-ever-fill-but-smallest-SATA-you-can-buy hard drive. Maybe I'll be able to fill it now.
I just lost my 13.2 tb negative refraction DVD. Man, it was such a good Windows rebuild. Seriously though, this could be a spiffy application to optical drives... errr negative optical drives.