You know that you probably bought a handicapped chip already, right? Chances are a good portion of the economy cpus out there had a core or two disabled just to meet a shipping quota and price point, not because the core failed an integrity check. So, Intel spends some money making the Q/A test disable cores when it needs more chips in the economy bin and less in the high-end one. This just shifts the market a little. Now, instead of disabling a core by frying it completely, they just lock it in firmware. You, the end user, still get your economy priced chip. If you decide to upgrade you just buy the software to unlock it.
This is not some software that works the other way around, you know. The chip you buy isn't going to say "4 Cores and 32Mb cache" and then show up as 2 and 1 meg. The box might tell you, instead "2 core (upgradeable to 4)". The computer upgrade goes from being something geeks know how to do, to something any mom and pop and uncle bob can do. If they can get past the perception of it, no big deal. However, most of those people have no idea what a computer upgrade requires, and telling them that you can do it with software is something they have suspected anyways.
The real problem is that it becomes buy computer -> download spyware, games, p2p crap -> oh no's it is slow -> buy upgrade card -> more crapware -> "why can't I buy another upgrade card?"
Shadow directions and all that, looks like the large circular objects are recessed into the ground. Silos, perhaps, or vertical pointing dishes. Could be a standing antenna on either of the hills, NE and SW of the north most building. Interesting site, lots of stuff to speculate on just from those pictures. Like, the clouds are there because the russians control the weather and wanted to keep that spy plane from seeing the aliens on the premises; normal internet speculation.
This sensor is APS-H, just a wide version of an APS-C sensor. 30mm by 16mm, roughly, just barely comes close to 135 film at 36x24mm and you will need six of the APS-H sensors to get close to 6x4.5 medium format. More sensors stacked is you want a larger medium format exposure, and a rather prohibitive number of them if you want something in the large format range. Frankly, with the noise level of that many sensors crammed into that little space, the benefit of getting a potential 720 megapixels out of a 6x4.5 camera is lost. A larger single sensor, in the 50 to 100 mp range, would have a much lower noise and get you a great photograph. Large format will be a whole other game. I would love to see a 4x5 sensor as a slide in replacement, but at that size you usually see scanner backs that can result in nice resolutions upward of 120 mp. You just have to have the cash for them.
As for telephoto; if cropping equals zoom, go for it. But, if you end up using just 12mp out of that 120mp sensor, wouldn't you have been better off using a 12mp camera, and buying a zoom lens? I have to guess that would work out to be cheaper.
The same way they deal with required physical courses and people with disabilities: they work with the student. No professor is going to say 'sorry, you are blind, tough shit.' to this any more than they will say 'sorry, audio books aren't the required book, so you fail.' Expect them to accept listening to a playthrough guide on youtube, or reading about the game, or any other number of ways that someone could still understand the story of the game without having played through it themselves.
It was never meant for what we're doing with it now.
That's the old-school definition of "hacking", and it's what nerds DO. Hell, when I was in high school I'd hack cheap $10 transistor radios into guitar fuzzboxes and sell them to friends for $50, because real guitar fuzzboxes cost four times that much back then.
They still do. Only now it's an arduino doing some lo-fi ADC number crunching to sound like a fuzz box. And a few extra dials for selecting different wave models.
The post came across as the Rand-ian style government shouldn't 'enable' people to be any more productive than they could return to society. Included in that is an abject measure of the value of a person in a very real sense, not as an abstract actuarial statistic. I carried that down the slippery slope, and presented the issue that once you make government assistance a debt, real or implied, then everyone is going to be indebted to the government. If you want them measuring how indebted you are, based on the amount of assets you cost the state, you are welcome to it. That isn't for me.
Politics, maybe. Always seemed like stand-up comedy, only the audience doesn't get the joke. I would like to think that if I worked for Fox News, however, that their average viewer would either be curled on the floor in the fetal position crying because I proved their collection of pet theories to be junk, or they would fire me in the first 5 minutes, live on the air for a youtube audience. Either way would get me the +5 funny I was burning karma for in the post you replied to.
If i ever went that way, i would have to build a huge Rube Goldberg device the size of the entire house, activated by an Arduino just to annoy idiotic elitist commenter's on Hackaday.
Needs more blue LEDs. And some EL wire. And you didn't give me credit, I started working on this six years ago but never put anything online, why doesn't/. ever cover my stories.
It is not the government's job to create laws that enable people to 'be productive' or 'give back to the community'. If that were the case, they should be creating laws that force people to work, and allow our corporate overlords to control 100% of our spending, just to be certain we are being productive with our money. Should you not have access to clean water, simply because you post on/. when you should be working and giving back?* For that matter, someone who is dead can not complain, should the government spend any money on a trial for a murderer; or should the murderer just be allowed to go free, so they can work and give back?
The government makes laws that, ideally, allow people to start on an equal footing and to prevent discrimination. The ADA has been used to say that a business open to the public can not say 'no wheelchairs', even by simply not providing a ramp, any more than they can say 'no blacks'. Now, we get to net devices. Computers have had the ability to display to braille pads, and make use of other devices, that allow it's user to make use of what senses and abilities they have. New devices are locking everything out, hiding behind the DMCA and 'OMG, piracy, think of the children' to prevent the owner of the device from making use of it if their needs are different. Manufacturers are quite capable of missing something simple, like audio cues for on screen text menus or white on blue text for the same menus. If it takes a law to get that changed, instead of just social pressure and an 'unexploited market', then fine by me. It will be unenforced, same as every other law on the books.
Get them to talk to each other, or siblings, or in your dad's case maybe another veteran. The librarian at your library might know people interested in history who could provide a sounding board and enough knowledge of the time period to avoid asking obviously painful questions too directly. Where do they hang out, do they play cards with a neighbor or work with a food bank or go to a church with friends? Find people they are friends with, get your parents on-board, and then ask their friends.
Above all, ask your parents. "Hey, Mom, Dad, I don't want to lose all of your history that I just can't memorize. The kids will want to hear it, grand-kids, great-grand and so on. How would you two feel if I brought a camera and recorded some stuff for the kids to hear when they are grown up." If they say yes, great. If not, ask what they would be comfortable with, and who they would be comfortable talking to.
I lost a non-immediate family member to cancer in the recent past. She did not want pictures or video taken of her, she wanted everyone to remember how she looked before. What she was willing to share, and what made her happy to talk about, was stories from childhood and other reminiscing. Got her siblings together, and just talked. I got to sit there and just hear stories about my parents from before I was born, about my grandparents, and other branches of the family that I have never met. It was touching, and it kept her from being too sad for just a little while. But do not push the issue, and make it a chore.
We don't know the OP's wife, so none of us can make real suggestions about what to record or preserve, or how to go about that. Her feelings, and those of your kids, are what you need to think about. If she doesn't want to talk about her childhood, don't push it. If she does, and the kids don't want to hear it, don't push them to. Maybe you can get her to write about things, video blog about them, or just all sit around and talk and share. Yes, there are things that your kids may want to know later, but what ever you do, don't make this time with your wife into the equivalent of a childhood 8mm christmas film.
Unless 8mm christmas films are what your family enjoy. I, personally, don't care to watch my childhood as recorded on film. Gives me the creeps.
Except that a quick google search suggests that, at least for Toyota, the batteries haven't needed to be replaced; people only talk about replacing them due to accidents. And several thousand is roughly two and a half. See here.
hybrid cars do not pay back for their own investment in money
...within the 5-year payback period considered by the study!
Or while only driving 20000 Km a year.
I guess figuring just the distance you would need to drive, total, to make up the difference between the cost of the stock vs the hybrid models is just too difficult. Some people don't figure on buying a new car every 5 years, and selling the old one back.
Yeah, what the parent post said. We should all stop driving gasoline cars and switch toe diesel. If you stupid amerikans would just do that, you wouldn't have to worry about oil any more, and you wouldn't have oil in your oceans.
Poetry isn't a normal impulse buy, can't say. Philosophy and sociology, that is exactly what I am saying. For philosophy, I recall there being the basic classics, and some new pop stuff, and that was it. The only sections that was extremely varied was the manga, and the arts and craft section. Everything else that I looked at was old staples and new pop-megastar authors.
Chalk it up to local preferences. Sure, I live in a college town, but the B&N is in the middle of 'townie' area. Maybe that is just what sells here.
I know that i will certainly miss the ability to wander through a bookstore and pick up authors or titles I might not have otherwise.
If by that you mean the limited selection that happens to be on the shelves. I love brick and mortar book stores, but the B&Ns in driving distance are horrible. If the book is not part of some reading club book of the month, or by an author that was featured on one of those lists, or it is not a major seller, they do not have it. The staff is always happy to order it for me and have it shipped directly to my house, but they can't look up a price on it to let me know how much that will cost. I know books are not impulse buys for everyone, but it seems that these stores would rather store an entire shelf of Marilyn Monroe photo essays (the same one) than stock a few non-book-club titles.
It is almost insulting, to me, to have the staff at such a store suggest that I could buy the book online. If I wanted to do that, as many other posters have pointed out, there are places with better prices on both the books and shipping.
In the real world, you eyes are usually focused at the same distance that they are converging at. When dealing with virtual 3D displays, you eyes are focusing at a distance determined by the location of the screen, and focusing at a distance determined by the object that the screen is displaying.
This is the reason I could never see Magic Eye posters. I can rarely convince my eyes to focus at 1 meter, while keeping the convergence point at 2 meters.
Oh no, magic eye posters killed our children's^W vision. We need to do a study, and bury it.
Alright, that photo of a quarter, you can call yourself a pro for that one.;-) The HDR thing is over-done, but I can't argue with photos of NYC. It works, for some reason.
Ooo, just started reading that contract. The average Flickr user is screwed if they agree to it. There is some weasel wording that all content is accepted as exclusive only. Then they lay out what non-exclusive rights some people might be allowed to keep. IANAL, but that phrasing looks rather weird. Even if the photographer keeps the non-exclusive rights, they would be in violation of the contract almost immediately if the photographs are licensed under the CC allowing for commercial use.
Then there is the contract wording assuring that the photographer does have a valid model release. Local law on who is responsible for damages if that release doesn't exist is so varied that I will be surprised if Getty doesn't demand a copy stapled to the contract.
And that is Getty's standard agreement for all of the photos they sell. So, if the Flickr user's goal is to get sold by Getty, this looks like a good deal. If they want to make money on stock photography, Getty is not really the place for that.
And somehow, during the age of the Brownie, cheaper and cheaper 35mm cameras with more features, and enthusiast range SLRs, we still hit what many people now are reminiscing about.
The difference is that, at the time of the Brownie, few people knew much about photographs. Not many people paid photographers to come to a kids birthday party and take a bunch of snap-shots. After the Brownie, the folks who still wanted a high-quality picture still paid for one; the folks who were now intrigued by snap-shots got Brownies and used them. Professionals were not selling pictures of other people's family to you, so you could hang a portrait on the wall.
Now, an industry grew around the idea that a photographer could take just generic images and get paid for it. Phrasing it that way, I am not sure why anyone thought it was a good idea, really. The real change now is not that there are cameras in the hands of the masses, but that the masses know they can get paid for those pictures.
If their nephew is willing to do all the work cheaper, and get it done in a time frame that they want, then you are over priced for the market as someone successfully under-bid you. On the other hand, the nephew is more likely to just throw things together, offer no support, and only know how to use WYSIWYG editors; so when a security flaw crops up, or they want to add something more than just a front page, the nephew is no where to be found.
Sell them the support you offer for the site you make, something the nephew probably can't offer. Or if they actually mention a nephew, leave them your card with the explaination that, when they find out the nephew can't offer what they actually want and they want you to come in and fix things, that the rate you charge may have increased.
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You know that you probably bought a handicapped chip already, right? Chances are a good portion of the economy cpus out there had a core or two disabled just to meet a shipping quota and price point, not because the core failed an integrity check. So, Intel spends some money making the Q/A test disable cores when it needs more chips in the economy bin and less in the high-end one. This just shifts the market a little. Now, instead of disabling a core by frying it completely, they just lock it in firmware. You, the end user, still get your economy priced chip. If you decide to upgrade you just buy the software to unlock it.
This is not some software that works the other way around, you know. The chip you buy isn't going to say "4 Cores and 32Mb cache" and then show up as 2 and 1 meg. The box might tell you, instead "2 core (upgradeable to 4)". The computer upgrade goes from being something geeks know how to do, to something any mom and pop and uncle bob can do. If they can get past the perception of it, no big deal. However, most of those people have no idea what a computer upgrade requires, and telling them that you can do it with software is something they have suspected anyways.
The real problem is that it becomes buy computer -> download spyware, games, p2p crap -> oh no's it is slow -> buy upgrade card -> more crapware -> "why can't I buy another upgrade card?"
Off topic, but where do you get 8mm film developed at and turn a profit at 150 a night? If you do it in house, I have a ton of questions for you.
Shadow directions and all that, looks like the large circular objects are recessed into the ground. Silos, perhaps, or vertical pointing dishes. Could be a standing antenna on either of the hills, NE and SW of the north most building. Interesting site, lots of stuff to speculate on just from those pictures. Like, the clouds are there because the russians control the weather and wanted to keep that spy plane from seeing the aliens on the premises; normal internet speculation.
This sensor is APS-H, just a wide version of an APS-C sensor. 30mm by 16mm, roughly, just barely comes close to 135 film at 36x24mm and you will need six of the APS-H sensors to get close to 6x4.5 medium format. More sensors stacked is you want a larger medium format exposure, and a rather prohibitive number of them if you want something in the large format range. Frankly, with the noise level of that many sensors crammed into that little space, the benefit of getting a potential 720 megapixels out of a 6x4.5 camera is lost. A larger single sensor, in the 50 to 100 mp range, would have a much lower noise and get you a great photograph. Large format will be a whole other game. I would love to see a 4x5 sensor as a slide in replacement, but at that size you usually see scanner backs that can result in nice resolutions upward of 120 mp. You just have to have the cash for them.
As for telephoto; if cropping equals zoom, go for it. But, if you end up using just 12mp out of that 120mp sensor, wouldn't you have been better off using a 12mp camera, and buying a zoom lens? I have to guess that would work out to be cheaper.
The same way they deal with required physical courses and people with disabilities: they work with the student. No professor is going to say 'sorry, you are blind, tough shit.' to this any more than they will say 'sorry, audio books aren't the required book, so you fail.' Expect them to accept listening to a playthrough guide on youtube, or reading about the game, or any other number of ways that someone could still understand the story of the game without having played through it themselves.
So . . . vrml and blaxxun.
It was never meant for what we're doing with it now.
That's the old-school definition of "hacking", and it's what nerds DO. Hell, when I was in high school I'd hack cheap $10 transistor radios into guitar fuzzboxes and sell them to friends for $50, because real guitar fuzzboxes cost four times that much back then.
They still do. Only now it's an arduino doing some lo-fi ADC number crunching to sound like a fuzz box. And a few extra dials for selecting different wave models.
The post came across as the Rand-ian style government shouldn't 'enable' people to be any more productive than they could return to society. Included in that is an abject measure of the value of a person in a very real sense, not as an abstract actuarial statistic. I carried that down the slippery slope, and presented the issue that once you make government assistance a debt, real or implied, then everyone is going to be indebted to the government. If you want them measuring how indebted you are, based on the amount of assets you cost the state, you are welcome to it. That isn't for me.
Politics, maybe. Always seemed like stand-up comedy, only the audience doesn't get the joke. I would like to think that if I worked for Fox News, however, that their average viewer would either be curled on the floor in the fetal position crying because I proved their collection of pet theories to be junk, or they would fire me in the first 5 minutes, live on the air for a youtube audience. Either way would get me the +5 funny I was burning karma for in the post you replied to.
If i ever went that way, i would have to build a huge Rube Goldberg device the size of the entire house, activated by an Arduino just to annoy idiotic elitist commenter's on Hackaday.
Needs more blue LEDs. And some EL wire. And you didn't give me credit, I started working on this six years ago but never put anything online, why doesn't /. ever cover my stories.
It is not the government's job to create laws that enable people to 'be productive' or 'give back to the community'. If that were the case, they should be creating laws that force people to work, and allow our corporate overlords to control 100% of our spending, just to be certain we are being productive with our money. Should you not have access to clean water, simply because you post on /. when you should be working and giving back?* For that matter, someone who is dead can not complain, should the government spend any money on a trial for a murderer; or should the murderer just be allowed to go free, so they can work and give back?
The government makes laws that, ideally, allow people to start on an equal footing and to prevent discrimination. The ADA has been used to say that a business open to the public can not say 'no wheelchairs', even by simply not providing a ramp, any more than they can say 'no blacks'. Now, we get to net devices. Computers have had the ability to display to braille pads, and make use of other devices, that allow it's user to make use of what senses and abilities they have. New devices are locking everything out, hiding behind the DMCA and 'OMG, piracy, think of the children' to prevent the owner of the device from making use of it if their needs are different. Manufacturers are quite capable of missing something simple, like audio cues for on screen text menus or white on blue text for the same menus. If it takes a law to get that changed, instead of just social pressure and an 'unexploited market', then fine by me. It will be unenforced, same as every other law on the books.
*: friendly jab at your username.
Get them to talk to each other, or siblings, or in your dad's case maybe another veteran. The librarian at your library might know people interested in history who could provide a sounding board and enough knowledge of the time period to avoid asking obviously painful questions too directly. Where do they hang out, do they play cards with a neighbor or work with a food bank or go to a church with friends? Find people they are friends with, get your parents on-board, and then ask their friends.
Above all, ask your parents. "Hey, Mom, Dad, I don't want to lose all of your history that I just can't memorize. The kids will want to hear it, grand-kids, great-grand and so on. How would you two feel if I brought a camera and recorded some stuff for the kids to hear when they are grown up." If they say yes, great. If not, ask what they would be comfortable with, and who they would be comfortable talking to.
This, this, this, this and this!
I lost a non-immediate family member to cancer in the recent past. She did not want pictures or video taken of her, she wanted everyone to remember how she looked before. What she was willing to share, and what made her happy to talk about, was stories from childhood and other reminiscing. Got her siblings together, and just talked. I got to sit there and just hear stories about my parents from before I was born, about my grandparents, and other branches of the family that I have never met. It was touching, and it kept her from being too sad for just a little while. But do not push the issue, and make it a chore.
We don't know the OP's wife, so none of us can make real suggestions about what to record or preserve, or how to go about that. Her feelings, and those of your kids, are what you need to think about. If she doesn't want to talk about her childhood, don't push it. If she does, and the kids don't want to hear it, don't push them to. Maybe you can get her to write about things, video blog about them, or just all sit around and talk and share. Yes, there are things that your kids may want to know later, but what ever you do, don't make this time with your wife into the equivalent of a childhood 8mm christmas film.
Unless 8mm christmas films are what your family enjoy. I, personally, don't care to watch my childhood as recorded on film. Gives me the creeps.
Except that a quick google search suggests that, at least for Toyota, the batteries haven't needed to be replaced; people only talk about replacing them due to accidents. And several thousand is roughly two and a half. See here.
Or while only driving 20000 Km a year.
I guess figuring just the distance you would need to drive, total, to make up the difference between the cost of the stock vs the hybrid models is just too difficult. Some people don't figure on buying a new car every 5 years, and selling the old one back.
Yeah, what the parent post said. We should all stop driving gasoline cars and switch toe diesel. If you stupid amerikans would just do that, you wouldn't have to worry about oil any more, and you wouldn't have oil in your oceans.
/really?
/really???
Poetry isn't a normal impulse buy, can't say. Philosophy and sociology, that is exactly what I am saying. For philosophy, I recall there being the basic classics, and some new pop stuff, and that was it. The only sections that was extremely varied was the manga, and the arts and craft section. Everything else that I looked at was old staples and new pop-megastar authors.
Chalk it up to local preferences. Sure, I live in a college town, but the B&N is in the middle of 'townie' area. Maybe that is just what sells here.
I know that i will certainly miss the ability to wander through a bookstore and pick up authors or titles I might not have otherwise.
If by that you mean the limited selection that happens to be on the shelves. I love brick and mortar book stores, but the B&Ns in driving distance are horrible. If the book is not part of some reading club book of the month, or by an author that was featured on one of those lists, or it is not a major seller, they do not have it. The staff is always happy to order it for me and have it shipped directly to my house, but they can't look up a price on it to let me know how much that will cost. I know books are not impulse buys for everyone, but it seems that these stores would rather store an entire shelf of Marilyn Monroe photo essays (the same one) than stock a few non-book-club titles.
It is almost insulting, to me, to have the staff at such a store suggest that I could buy the book online. If I wanted to do that, as many other posters have pointed out, there are places with better prices on both the books and shipping.
In the real world, you eyes are usually focused at the same distance that they are converging at. When dealing with virtual 3D displays, you eyes are focusing at a distance determined by the location of the screen, and focusing at a distance determined by the object that the screen is displaying.
This is the reason I could never see Magic Eye posters. I can rarely convince my eyes to focus at 1 meter, while keeping the convergence point at 2 meters.
Oh no, magic eye posters killed our children's^W vision. We need to do a study, and bury it.
Alright, that photo of a quarter, you can call yourself a pro for that one. ;-) The HDR thing is over-done, but I can't argue with photos of NYC. It works, for some reason.
Ooo, just started reading that contract. The average Flickr user is screwed if they agree to it. There is some weasel wording that all content is accepted as exclusive only. Then they lay out what non-exclusive rights some people might be allowed to keep. IANAL, but that phrasing looks rather weird. Even if the photographer keeps the non-exclusive rights, they would be in violation of the contract almost immediately if the photographs are licensed under the CC allowing for commercial use.
Then there is the contract wording assuring that the photographer does have a valid model release. Local law on who is responsible for damages if that release doesn't exist is so varied that I will be surprised if Getty doesn't demand a copy stapled to the contract.
There was a clearing house, RobertStock, back in the 1920s. It is still around, doing the same thing Getty does.
And that is Getty's standard agreement for all of the photos they sell. So, if the Flickr user's goal is to get sold by Getty, this looks like a good deal. If they want to make money on stock photography, Getty is not really the place for that.
And somehow, during the age of the Brownie, cheaper and cheaper 35mm cameras with more features, and enthusiast range SLRs, we still hit what many people now are reminiscing about.
The difference is that, at the time of the Brownie, few people knew much about photographs. Not many people paid photographers to come to a kids birthday party and take a bunch of snap-shots. After the Brownie, the folks who still wanted a high-quality picture still paid for one; the folks who were now intrigued by snap-shots got Brownies and used them. Professionals were not selling pictures of other people's family to you, so you could hang a portrait on the wall.
Now, an industry grew around the idea that a photographer could take just generic images and get paid for it. Phrasing it that way, I am not sure why anyone thought it was a good idea, really. The real change now is not that there are cameras in the hands of the masses, but that the masses know they can get paid for those pictures.
If their nephew is willing to do all the work cheaper, and get it done in a time frame that they want, then you are over priced for the market as someone successfully under-bid you. On the other hand, the nephew is more likely to just throw things together, offer no support, and only know how to use WYSIWYG editors; so when a security flaw crops up, or they want to add something more than just a front page, the nephew is no where to be found.
Sell them the support you offer for the site you make, something the nephew probably can't offer. Or if they actually mention a nephew, leave them your card with the explaination that, when they find out the nephew can't offer what they actually want and they want you to come in and fix things, that the rate you charge may have increased.