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I can't imagine having to live on a metered link, but I can think of all the crazy things I'd do to avoid being on one. If a normal life involves using credit cards regularly, using a smartphone, using any mainstream search engine, and keeping up with people on Facebook, it is hard to imagine...

The biggest thing to keep in mind is the number of shutter actuations your camera is rated for before a costly repair. This is how my 20D died, and it was better to replace the camera than do the repair on an older unit. All of my time lapses have been 1 second/shot. I'd imagine I took 15k...

Neat link. According to them I would save $200/mo and break even after 471 months. Of course, that assumes that the intent was to completely pay for my new car with fuel savings, which is pretty absurd.

Our projector does 3D and we have the 3D glasses, but the kid doesn't like to wear them.

Not really. If I can get one past the censor...any picture of her that is good enough to make into post gets publication rules attached.

I did. I was just contemplating a brief summary, so here 'goes. Flew MRY->LAX, Carnival Cruise provided transport to the ship. Paid for expedited everything and so avoided ~45 minutes worth of lines and walked right on. Got (IMO) the best room on the ship, Carnival Miracle 7298, deck wrapped...

Despicable Me is playing for about the 30th time in the last couple months. This and the sequel are the only films to feature at our house in years.

This trend I'm very aware of. My wife would rather use her Galaxy Note Edge even if I'm trying to hand her an S110. Just the fact that the camera pictures will be on dropbox and able to be shared immediately is enough to dissuade her. Any DSLRs with built-in WiFi and some kind of automated cloud...

If you aren't on a metered connection, and aren't bothered too much by yet another company having a bunch of data on you, 10 isn't a bad experience. Quicker, cleaner UI, great hardware support.

I didn't intend to disagree with your analysis, just point out that Canon still holds a pretty big slice of the market. If their cameras were significantly (15%?) inferior at the same price point, I'd expect to hear outcry and market analysis issues.

To clarify, I posted before I realized the thread already went onto this page. I don't have the experience Lunar does, nor the access to so much equipment from both manufacturers. At the same time it can't be that bad as I haven't heard about such a gap anywhere but here (I read a little, but...

I settled on Canon because I bought a 20D from Tannin who knows how many years ago. Used it to shutter failure. By that point I was familiar with Canon's interface and had picked up a couple lenses so "lock-in" had started. By the time my next body (entry level, 350D?) failed I'd picked up even...

If you want a bigger electric, I think the Model S is your only choice. It did just score 103 out of 100 from Consumer Reports...

I'll be on a boat for the next 8 days. Internet will be crazy expensive; we'll see if I can stay off here for a while...

Ah. I just scrolled down to the first table and decided I didn't want to risk the same.

I have no doubt they do, but I'm sure Photoshop is a top priority for the WINE folks. (I mean, behind World of Warcraft, obvs.) Looks like only up to CS3 though. No mention of Creative Cloud and the 2015 release.

I really like that site. Normal text on a normal background that respects scaling and doesn't have any flash ads. Perfect for consuming data.

Sorry to hear that Lunar. That is kind of a thing. A while ago all my friends were getting married, then they were having kids. Eventually they will be dying.

This looks amazing. Thanks for the link.

So backing up via a file consolidation tool (Winzip or Windows Backup) might offer a significant performance improvement? Interesting. This is what I was thinking.

Yup. The Batch plant software required a full Oracle and Citrix Metaframe implementation; we were in for a quarter-mil before the software even arrived.

I was thinking as I was reading your analysis that writing a proper test suite for drives like this would be a nightmare. I wonder if ZFS or other drive aggregation tools would be able to take this kind of thing into account in an automated fashion?

Running the updated version now. Is the taskbar icon new? I dig it.

Your users almost certainly won't need a shell alternative. The normal stuff that normal users do is similar enough that they'll figure it out without retraining. If you are as picky as some here (probably the biggest UI snob here being Tannin?), you may want one to tweak stuff, but it is far...

An accounting software package. That was considerably cheaper than our estimating/dispatch/time cards software package (~$225k) or our concrete batching/invoicing/inventory system (~$185k). Note that these are software/install/training and don't include hardware or annual maintenance costs. They...

Just a company check, no big deal except for the amount. For that kind of total we could have easily wired the money, hell my AMEX could have taken it (but they'd be nuts to accept the 6% charge).

It would be interesting if someone wrote a sudo-WSUS server service you could install on your computer with a bit of a proxy. While you're at it redirect the rest of their shady crap.

Just freaked out the FedEx guy. Came in with a tiny (CD) envelope for me that was COD for $103,672.49 Not sure why our new accounting company wanted us to pay for the software that way, but whatever.

Brilliant. Thanks for that. The Acer B326HKs at work switched perfectly. I'll try the Dell at home tonight.

I'm mainly frustrated that I can't get any of my current 4k monitors to do more than 30hz. Haven't worked that hard at it, but I thought DP from the Titan X supported 60.

h.264, 5.2 profile, 30MB ABR with 60MB Max, 2-pass, 3840x2160@60 Mainly just verifying the workflow before we go on vacation next week.

Not sure why it isn't giving a 4k option on playback, the source certainly is. https://youtu.be/nouBCEmW67E

High profile was indeed the highest setting in Adobe Media Encoder. Many people have posted this issue and I haven't found a thread with a resolution. The workaround is to set up the work space as 60FPS and your source images as 3840x2160 and just leave the setting "match source" checked. Of...

And on top of that, Premiere won't let me set H.264 to 3840x2160@60, saying the profile is too low, even after I up the bitrate. The Googles do nothing. Blah.

Sometimes I prefer not to buy another camera ;) Making good progress, just trying to find a way to take more than one picture a second. The TC-80N3 won't do it, but triggertrap will. Also need to get a better selection of ND filters, much better results can be had when the exposure time is as...

RD650, ESXi

With the DSLR I'm in full manual and using either the Canon TC-80N3 or a cable/app called triggertrap that can trigger on all kinds of neat things. Either way, no sunrise/sunset ramping there (yet). I've installed CHDK on a S110 and S95 and there are scripts there that claim to be able to do...

Just ordered a new VM Server, due in a week, it will need a couple weeks of testing before it goes live I think. 2 X INTEL XEON 14 CORE PROCESSOR E5-2697V3 2.6GHZ 35MB SMART CACHE 9.6GT/S QPI TDP 145W 16 X 16GB DDR4-2133 MHZ 2RX4 RDIMM MEMORY (SUPPORTS UP TO 768GB OF MEMORY TOTAL, 24 DIMM...

Just started playing with this. We can talk about the various methods to get a camera to take a picture every x often for y time if anyone is interested, but I want to start with the workflow. My goal is to move as quickly as possible from a pile of a few thousand RAW images into a 4k@60fps...

Quite true. Because of all the grading and water (dust control), the surface is remarkably flat. Go when no-one else is there and you have a dry thin layer of dust and small gravel on top of a hard-packed surprisingly smooth surface. Quite low-traction, but not exceptionally rough.

Good to hear about the rolling resistance, what about the weight? Noticeably different?

Reminds me of this: http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt

I suspect he meant on a broader scale. Society and most of the country are designed in such a way that existing without a car is a significant disability (insert JTR here, I said "most" ;)). Further, safety and luxury items make cars make weigh several tons which means they need lots of power to...

Nope. I just spend a lot of my life in a car and insist on making that time as fun as possible. The company I work for owns several industrial sites, one of which is an open-pit mine. Not sure what MSHA says about the car traveling in a direction it isn't pointing.

The worst is actually the high-speed off-road stuff; drifting across a quarry is a bit of a rough ride.

I identified a small trim piece that was easy and cheap to remove/replace, ordered a spare, and drilled a single hole in one of them. Anytime I like I can just swap it with the unmodified one. In my car this was the bezel around the stereo. Sticky tape and suction cups just don't work for my...

Are you talking about the search box near the start button? All three of those worked for me. In fact, I only had to go as far as "winw", "ie", and "cm" before the right one was brought up immediately.

I started as well, so long as the overcast holds.

At least they are keeping the HS mounting point the same, the vendors are just calling it 115x.

I bolted a RokForm V3 bike mount into the dash. Works perfectly.