Here the use of false colors is so we can realize better what the gradient's like. The problem with the real color image (the b&w one that's unfiltered) is that, due to how Cassini saves it's images, it has much more grey's than our screens can display. We only can display 256, as Cassini's image contain 4096 (not sure), thus, false colors provide a more detailed gradient.
I don't completly agree with that, although there's some truth in it, some unmanned missions make the NASA popular, just look at Hubble Space Telescope, although we can argue that it needs manned missions to fix it, the reason why it's so popular is because it makes such nice images, nice popular images that are hardly even usefull.
In the example of the HST, it's popularity is due to the public communication around it, not because some men go there to rescue it. In other words, manned missions are not required in order to get public support, spectacular looking ones are.
I guess it shows how cool the P2P effect is, it makes huge fuckin stars sell less CD's and undergroud ones sell a bit more.
Isn't it what anyone (except the big artists and music companies) would want to see? As someone say, that's very socialist, it's like the tax on fortune and wellfare, or whatever you call that, takes lots from the rich people and gives some to the poor ones.
Big stars all suck according to me anyway, so fuck them and don't try to make us cry because Madonna is gonna sell a few thousand less than expected on the millions she's sellin.
Reminds me of an episode of south park actually...
haha, well, it used to be like that for me too back when I had my 3330, but now, with my 3200 and all the games took off P2P, there's no game I feel like playing while on there. Means I found b&w 3330 games more entertaining than these Java games
Before there can be an "intergalatic" war, or even realtions with the extraterrestrials, we should get in contact with any of them. It's like, we're probably not gonna get in contact with any of them within the next 3 centuries, but still they spending time and money on that kind of bullshit, quit watching TV damnit, we're not closer to encountering aliens than we were two hundred years ago, rather spend time and money on global warming, cuz that's gonna happen much earlier than any eventual encounter with extraterrestrials.
some people just have no idea of what priorities are..
Not surprising : cell phone games suck. I downloaded packages on P2P with hundreds of Java games for my Nokia 3200, and hardly can find any that's good, they all use tired concepts, they just plainly lack interest.
A few years ago it was said that cell phone games would soon be as good GameBoy games, but that's bullshit, none of all the java games I tried is as good as some old arcade gamles from the mid 70's that i play with MAME, you'll have much more fun playing Arkanoid or Space Wars than playing Tomb Raider on your cell phone or Splinter Cell
Those cell phone games are a joke
Interesting calculation. However, I think that you could copy your buttocks with barely having a force of 100 newtons exerced on the glass, just because you can stand in a way so your thighs are inclined of 45 degrees without leaning on anything. But that's only if the inclined copy machine is low enough so you can have your feet on the floor
Make 45 inclinded copy machines, so we don't really sit on it, just lean with our asses on it. It would make the force excerced on the glass divided by something like 5 or 10 i guess.
Ubuntu is a cool distro, as long as you don't try to build/compile something in it, which makes it of hardly any use, at least for me.
I like the nude wallpapers concept too, although I don't like the ratio 2 men - 1 woman too much.
Damn, weird reaction, maybe one day we'll see Mac OS XII computers get infected with lots of viruses and Apple will be just glad "Now we're so big that we can directly compete on the attacks and virus with Microsoft's Windows"
haha, americans and their outdated evolution vs. creationism debate will always make me laugh. it's just so ridiculous. when i first heard about that debate, i thought it was evolution vs. natural selection or some other scientifical theory, but no, they are opposing a scientifical theory that's actually much more than a theory against a piece of mythology that's -correct me if i'm wrong- about 3,000 year old.
And they dare labelling that a "theory"! USA is quite a funny country (no offense to all the americans out here)
Damn, I would just love GP-B to find out that ain't no fucking "vortex", I mean I would love it to find out that ain't no curvature of space-time.
I would also love someone to find out that photons have a weight, because at the moment I don't feel like admitting that everything in the relativity is true, it's just too hard.
That thing reminds me of High Dynamical Range imaging when it gets to the software-focusing thing (as HDR imaging uses software-controlled-exposure).
In HDR you can "mix" together pictures at different exposures to obtain one good looking picture. Could you do the same with that thing to obtain a picture where all objects at all distances are focused, by "putting together" parts of the image when focused?
If so that would be kind of interesting to obtain out of it something that's not normally possible, unless you use an impossibly small lens.
Slashdot Mirror
Here the use of false colors is so we can realize better what the gradient's like. The problem with the real color image (the b&w one that's unfiltered) is that, due to how Cassini saves it's images, it has much more grey's than our screens can display. We only can display 256, as Cassini's image contain 4096 (not sure), thus, false colors provide a more detailed gradient.
Reminds me of Triton's geysers. Temperature over there is a few tens of Kelvins, and a difference of about 4 K is enough to create those geysers.
In the example of the HST, it's popularity is due to the public communication around it, not because some men go there to rescue it. In other words, manned missions are not required in order to get public support, spectacular looking ones are.
Interesting link thanks :)
"Site overloaded. Oh. Slashdot. That would explain things. Hello." That's what the link now says. /.ing kills, or at least overloads.
No, but i'd still like it better than Canada, i think..
I'd move to Alabama rather than Canada just for the weather
I guess it shows how cool the P2P effect is, it makes huge fuckin stars sell less CD's and undergroud ones sell a bit more.
Isn't it what anyone (except the big artists and music companies) would want to see? As someone say, that's very socialist, it's like the tax on fortune and wellfare, or whatever you call that, takes lots from the rich people and gives some to the poor ones.
Big stars all suck according to me anyway, so fuck them and don't try to make us cry because Madonna is gonna sell a few thousand less than expected on the millions she's sellin.
Reminds me of an episode of south park actually...
haha, well, it used to be like that for me too back when I had my 3330, but now, with my 3200 and all the games took off P2P, there's no game I feel like playing while on there. Means I found b&w 3330 games more entertaining than these Java games
some people just have no idea of what priorities are..
oh, ok then, i didn't say anything :-/
Not surprising : cell phone games suck. I downloaded packages on P2P with hundreds of Java games for my Nokia 3200, and hardly can find any that's good, they all use tired concepts, they just plainly lack interest. A few years ago it was said that cell phone games would soon be as good GameBoy games, but that's bullshit, none of all the java games I tried is as good as some old arcade gamles from the mid 70's that i play with MAME, you'll have much more fun playing Arkanoid or Space Wars than playing Tomb Raider on your cell phone or Splinter Cell Those cell phone games are a joke
Damn, good idea, why didn't anyone think about that before??
Interesting calculation. However, I think that you could copy your buttocks with barely having a force of 100 newtons exerced on the glass, just because you can stand in a way so your thighs are inclined of 45 degrees without leaning on anything. But that's only if the inclined copy machine is low enough so you can have your feet on the floor
Wireless is overrated. 30 meters ethernet cables rules!
I meant 45 degrees, for some reason the degree sign won't appear (i know, shoulda used the preview button....)
Make 45 inclinded copy machines, so we don't really sit on it, just lean with our asses on it. It would make the force excerced on the glass divided by something like 5 or 10 i guess.
Ubuntu is a cool distro, as long as you don't try to build/compile something in it, which makes it of hardly any use, at least for me. I like the nude wallpapers concept too, although I don't like the ratio 2 men - 1 woman too much.
Damn, weird reaction, maybe one day we'll see Mac OS XII computers get infected with lots of viruses and Apple will be just glad "Now we're so big that we can directly compete on the attacks and virus with Microsoft's Windows"
you forgot sex
haha, americans and their outdated evolution vs. creationism debate will always make me laugh. it's just so ridiculous. when i first heard about that debate, i thought it was evolution vs. natural selection or some other scientifical theory, but no, they are opposing a scientifical theory that's actually much more than a theory against a piece of mythology that's -correct me if i'm wrong- about 3,000 year old. And they dare labelling that a "theory"! USA is quite a funny country (no offense to all the americans out here)
Damn, I would just love GP-B to find out that ain't no fucking "vortex", I mean I would love it to find out that ain't no curvature of space-time. I would also love someone to find out that photons have a weight, because at the moment I don't feel like admitting that everything in the relativity is true, it's just too hard.
That thing reminds me of High Dynamical Range imaging when it gets to the software-focusing thing (as HDR imaging uses software-controlled-exposure). In HDR you can "mix" together pictures at different exposures to obtain one good looking picture. Could you do the same with that thing to obtain a picture where all objects at all distances are focused, by "putting together" parts of the image when focused? If so that would be kind of interesting to obtain out of it something that's not normally possible, unless you use an impossibly small lens.