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In article <du8501t9tdduhoe356e4t159q4jqv3tso7@4ax.com>,
tribesfan@hotmail.com says...
> >http://www.pbase.com/fabriceroux/image/34876948
>
> Nice work! Beautiful part of the country. What kind of camera did you
> take those with? I know you probably stated it here before, but I'm
> too lazy to rifle through google when I can just simply ask. :)

Scroll down to the bottom of the image and you'll see that PBase display
advanced information about the picture that have EXIF:

"Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel ,Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
1/125s f/11.0 at 50.0mm iso200 full exif"

So it's a Canon 300D + Canon 28-135 zoom... :)

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Tribes and Paint Shop Pro scripts
 
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"[RS]Faramir_agst" <envoyezdesspams@free.fr> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c6b731254db9444989681@news.free.fr...
> In article <1102g4c48ld8a5e@corp.supernews.com>, quixote@writeme.com
> says...
>> > I want to believe that Tribes 3 is in fact the "serie pilot". The
>> > thingy
>> > to check if the audience is ready for a new show.
>>
>> Talk about him and he shows up out of thin air. What's up frenchie?
>
> Doing great. I spend more time with my pen tablet and paint shop pro
> than Tribes 1 & 2.
>
> ps: but I just reinstalled Tribes 1 on my machines. After dumping T3
> demo for good.

Couldn't be bothered to look it up - didn't you get your voiture nicked and
replaced it with a Golf GTI or something?

Anyway, even though you advocate cheating it's good to see you back (or
should there be an "r" after you?)
 
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"Mr K" <duffstuff@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ctu6aa$qk2$1@inews.gazeta.pl...
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:35:06 +0100, RS Faramir_agst wrote:
>
>> It's good to see that time goes by and things remain the same... AGST
>> aptitute to slide OFF TOPIC in a snap. :)
>
> I seem to recall someones cats breath smells.
>
> --
> "A riot is unt ugly thing, unt it's about time we had one!"
> R.L.U. #300033, running WM 0.80.1 under MDK9.1½

OF CAT FOOD
 
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 00:03:43 GMT, Schrodinger wrote:

> OF CAT FOOD

*slaps wrist*

--
"A riot is unt ugly thing, unt it's about time we had one!"
R.L.U. #300033, running WM 0.80.1 under MDK9.1½
 
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"Smeghead" <tribesfan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:vv23015t6q5560dmn32gp5q63vnlbv4kb3@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:31:26 +0100, [RS]Faramir_agst
> <envoyezdesspams@free.fr> wrote:
>
>>In article <9bs1019fhu3ptkggnmc9c5kcrd46kashiu@4ax.com>,
>>tribesfan@hotmail.com says...
>>> This game is lightyears behind Starsiege: Tribes and Tribes 2 in terms
>>> of: Team Dynamics, Weapons Balance, Strategic Depth, Vehicular
>>> Sensibility. You can see how the efforts to make the game "more
>>> accessible" has really dumbed it down and hurt it, again, in my
>>> opinion.
>>
>>I listed my most obvious reasons against Tribes 3.
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/4xnbf
>>
>>I want to believe that Tribes 3 is in fact the "serie pilot". The thingy
>>to check if the audience is ready for a new show.
>
> You nailed it right between the eyes, Faramir. VGCS.
>
> Everything you pointed out is why this game is lightyears behind even
> Starsiege: Tribes.
>
> I fear that it may be wishful thinking to hope that this is merely
> stupid-player bate to generate interest in the franchise.
>
> If there is another iteration, I hope that they remember what made S:T
> and T2 great. It wasn't the graphics, which were both good for their
> time. It was the incredible flexibility within the game.

I hated how i couldn't incredibly use grenades in t2.
 
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:08:02 -0600, Smeghead wrote:

> Point taken. We have about a billion shots of our daughters since
> buying it almost 4 years ago. Pictures that, if taken and developed on
> film, would probably force us into a second mortgage on the house.

Film cameras can never match the convenience of digital cameras. Digital
cameras cannot (yet) match the quality of film cameras.

--
"A riot is unt ugly thing, unt it's about time we had one!"
R.L.U. #300033, running WM 0.80.1 under MDK9.1½
 
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 07:56:50 +0000, Mr K <duffstuff@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:08:02 -0600, Smeghead wrote:
>
>> Point taken. We have about a billion shots of our daughters since
>> buying it almost 4 years ago. Pictures that, if taken and developed on
>> film, would probably force us into a second mortgage on the house.
>
>Film cameras can never match the convenience of digital cameras. Digital
>cameras cannot (yet) match the quality of film cameras.

At what resolution would digital converge with film as far as quality?
I doubt that I would be able to tell you the difference between an 8MP
image and one taken on film. But I don't have a trained eye for that
sort of thing.

--
--==< S m e g h e a d >==--
 
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"Smeghead" <tribesfan@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:usi501tcsekb91tdo4ulfe4jkgtqa8cik2@4ax.com:

> Scratch, you really are a geek! And I mean that as a compliment.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/geek.html

> 010010010010000001100010011001010111010000100000011110010110
> 111101110101001001110111001001100101001000000111001101101111
> 001000000110011101100101011001010110101101111001001000000111
> 010001101000011000010111010000100000011110010110111101110101
> 001000000110001101100001011011100010000001110010011001010110
> 000101100100001000000110001001101001011011100110000101110010
> 0111100100101110

Is there something in there? I'm not that good with binary, but I do well
with hexadecimal, and have used octal in the past.

I got this blanket for my geeky sister for xmas:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hoodies/574a/action/

Her cat has appropriated it, though.
 
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In article <eji5011vs68hvl5htqsp6mkiu70k1o5cvt@4ax.com>,
tribesfan@hotmail.com says...
> >If it fulfils your requirements, then what's the problem?
>
> Point taken. We have about a billion shots of our daughters since
> buying it almost 4 years ago. Pictures that, if taken and developed on
> film, would probably force us into a second mortgage on the house.

Or the sale of one of your daughters... :)

--
[RS]Faramir_agst --- www.fabriceroux.com
Tribes and Paint Shop Pro scripts
 
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 08:11:05 +0100, [RS]Faramir_agst
<envoyezdesspams@free.fr> wrote:

>In article <eji5011vs68hvl5htqsp6mkiu70k1o5cvt@4ax.com>,
>tribesfan@hotmail.com says...
>> >If it fulfils your requirements, then what's the problem?
>>
>> Point taken. We have about a billion shots of our daughters since
>> buying it almost 4 years ago. Pictures that, if taken and developed on
>> film, would probably force us into a second mortgage on the house.
>
>Or the sale of one of your daughters... :)

That's the sad thing, with all the tsunami orphans, the bottom has
dropped out on the black market. Gypsies, the Circus... no takers.

--
--==< S m e g h e a d >==--
 
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Mr K <duffstuff@hotmail.com> wrote in news:ctvnha$di1$1@inews.gazeta.pl:

> A CCD pixel cannot compete with a grain of silver, simply because you
> can get at least two grains of silver into the space of one CCD pixel.
> And one grain of silver acts as one CCD pixel.

That can be compensated for by doubling the area of the CCD, sacrificing
the same portability. Or mosaic the image, at the cost of exposure time.

> With digital photographs, if there's good detail in a sky, the shadows
> will be very dark (to the point of almost no detail visible). That's
> also applicable to any detail in shadowed areas... the sky will be
> washed out. A digital camera just doesn't have the same exposure
> latitude that a film camera has.

In electronics and audio that's called dynamic range.

Anybody know how luminence is represented/measured in a CCD? I thought they
were strictly digital beasts and flipped from 0 to 1 when a threshold
amount of light impacted on a CCD cell. So measuring luminence would be
done by counting how much time it takes for the cell to flip. But I'm
probably wrong.
 
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[RS]Faramir_agst <envoyezdesspams@free.fr> wrote in
news:MPG.1c6d3d9b62d9a595989691@news.free.fr:

> Photography is vaguely related to the equipment... it's more a matter
> of eye and brain behind the camera.

Like the way driving is related to the nut holding the steering wheel.
 
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"Smeghead" <tribesfan@hotmail.com> wrote in
news😱pb6015ofpih5jb96ceak8hjtf4uauoorm@4ax.com:

> "Jeez! I just want a computer, okay?! I didn't expect the Spanish
> Inquisition!"

"NO ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

"Huh?!"
 
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In article <ZYyMd.1000837$f47.171566@news.easynews.com>, no@way.com says...
> Couldn't be bothered to look it up - didn't you get your voiture nicked and
> replaced it with a Golf GTI or something?

The car that I got after the previous one took a trip to either north africa
or eastern europe is a Peugeot 307 XSi HDI. Diesel engine with impressive
mileage and diesel particles filter.

> Anyway, even though you advocate cheating it's good to see you back (or
> should there be an "r" after you?)

Let me replace this once AGAIN. When I'm on a server:
- where Mortar cheating is OK.
- unbalanced by number and quality. (boatloads of headless lemmings)

I tend to do my best to my best to "balance" the game. The solutions that I
chose one was to use the missile cheat:
1/ lock on target jetpack
2/ fire the missile
3/ use Debig script that plays a random animation
4/ press the forward key
5/ loop to 2 until required

Thanksfully the server patched this issue a while ago, implemented team
shuffling at map change... so now when the game is unbalanced in an obvious
way... I get my "Light annoyance" gear: light/energy
pack/blaster/shocklance/sniper rifle. I piss the whole enemy team...

--
[RS]Faramir_agst --- www.fabriceroux.com
Tribes and Paint Shop Pro scripts
 
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:09:15 -0600, ScratchMonkey
<ScratchMonkey.blacklist@sewingwitch.com> wrote:

>"Smeghead" <tribesfan@hotmail.com> wrote in
>news:usi501tcsekb91tdo4ulfe4jkgtqa8cik2@4ax.com:
>
>> Scratch, you really are a geek! And I mean that as a compliment.
>
>http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/geek.html
>
>> 010010010010000001100010011001010111010000100000011110010110
>> 111101110101001001110111001001100101001000000111001101101111
>> 001000000110011101100101011001010110101101111001001000000111
>> 010001101000011000010111010000100000011110010110111101110101
>> 001000000110001101100001011011100010000001110010011001010110
>> 000101100100001000000110001001101001011011100110000101110010
>> 0111100100101110
>
>Is there something in there? I'm not that good with binary, but I do well
>with hexadecimal, and have used octal in the past.
>
>I got this blanket for my geeky sister for xmas:
>
>http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hoodies/574a/action/
>
>Her cat has appropriated it, though.

Judging by the action shots, that's quite a common phenomenon. Hmmm,
why are cats attracted to binary? Is there some deeper intellect than
we normally attribute to them? Perhaps purring is another form of
binary communication.

Are cats like the White Mice in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's series?

--
--==< S m e g h e a d >==--
 
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:17:33 -0600, ScratchMonkey
<ScratchMonkey.blacklist@sewingwitch.com> wrote:

>"Smeghead" <tribesfan@hotmail.com> wrote in
>news😱pb6015ofpih5jb96ceak8hjtf4uauoorm@4ax.com:
>
>> "Jeez! I just want a computer, okay?! I didn't expect the Spanish
>> Inquisition!"
>
>"NO ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
>
>"Huh?!"

Our chief weapon is SURPRISE! Surprise and fear.
Our TWO weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency.
Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency and an
almost fanatical devotion to the Pope!
Our four... no...
Amongst our weaponry are such elements as fear, surprise...

I'll come in again.

--
--==< S m e g h e a d >==--
 
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:16:21 -0600, ScratchMonkey
<ScratchMonkey.blacklist@sewingwitch.com> wrote:

>[RS]Faramir_agst <envoyezdesspams@free.fr> wrote in
>news:MPG.1c6d3d9b62d9a595989691@news.free.fr:
>
>> Photography is vaguely related to the equipment... it's more a matter
>> of eye and brain behind the camera.
>
>Like the way driving is related to the nut holding the steering wheel.

Speaking of that, I saw on the news a just the other day that there is
a medical case study showing that teenagers are incapable of sound
driving decisions. The study, in an attempt to parallel the dangers of
a distracted teen behind the wheel, equated a kid on a cellphone as
dangerous as a driver with blood alcohol at just over .08, which is
considered DWI in most states and, hence, illegal.

There's a part of the brain, they claim, that doesn't mature until the
early 20's and is the seat of calculated decision making.

So, I wonder how dangerous a 16 year-old is with a few beers in him on
a cell behind the wheel? "I'm invincible!"

--
--==< S m e g h e a d >==--
 
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One day, while skipping through the forest, I heard the voice of
"Smeghead" <tribesfan@hotmail.com> coming from a tree, and thought, "Man,
this is f*ed up," but carried on the following conversation anyway:

> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 23:18:26 +0100, [RS]Faramir_agst
> <envoyezdesspams@free.fr> wrote:
>
>>In article <9u65015k6oqlpvko6ies778eqr7hm52um6@4ax.com>,
>>tribesfan@hotmail.com says...
>>> You'd think with the importance and emphasis I acknowledge sound
>>> plays in games, that I'd have invested in a top-notch PC sound
>>> system, right? Not yet. I have a passing sound solution. Two channel
>>> and subwoofer set of Boston Acoustics PC speakers.
>>
>>At the time Tribes was released I was using an Aureal Vortex 2
>>soundcard + headphones. The sound positionning was INCREDIBLE while
>>defending the flag in Scarabrae I was able to hear and local players
>>walking on the roof. :)
>>
>>Believe me positionning in PC games is better in headphones.
>
> Oh, I believe you. I just don't have a top-notch set of headphones
> either. :)
>
> I'd love to have a really nice sound setup because I know that with
> just the two channel sound, I can usually distinguish where a sniper
> is.
>

cheaper than similar quality speakers..

--
Adept
 
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:09:15 -0600, ScratchMonkey wrote:

> Is there something in there? I'm not that good with binary, but I do well
> with hexadecimal, and have used octal in the past.

Try:
http://www.plinko.net/binary/toenglish.asp

> I got this blanket for my geeky sister for xmas:
>
> http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hoodies/574a/action/
>
> Her cat has appropriated it, though.

How is that company/site for sending stuff to the UK?

--
"A riot is unt ugly thing, unt it's about time we had one!"
R.L.U. #300033, running WM 0.80.1 under MDK9.1½
 
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:19:56 +0000, Mr K <duffstuff@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:09:15 -0600, ScratchMonkey wrote:
>
>> Is there something in there? I'm not that good with binary, but I do well
>> with hexadecimal, and have used octal in the past.
>
>Try:
>http://www.plinko.net/binary/toenglish.asp
>
>> I got this blanket for my geeky sister for xmas:
>>
>> http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hoodies/574a/action/
>>
>> Her cat has appropriated it, though.
>
>How is that company/site for sending stuff to the UK?

I don't know, but their bloody brilliant about shipping stuff within
the continental United States. I had a poster shipped to a jobsite I
was on. Let me find the URL for it....

http://tinyurl.com/49mwz

The management was forever calling rediculously useless meetings. So a
couple of fellow scofflaws and I chipped in for this one. Which was
perfect, because the place is littered with those stupid "motivational
posters" anyway. And it took management forever to notice one more.

But they're not cheap at $15 / £7.97 a pop plus shipping.

I wanted to get the "Consulting" one too. As it is so very
appropriate.

--
--==< S m e g h e a d >==--
 
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:15:31 -0600, ScratchMonkey wrote:

> In electronics and audio that's called dynamic range.
>
> Anybody know how luminence is represented/measured in a CCD? I thought they
> were strictly digital beasts and flipped from 0 to 1 when a threshold
> amount of light impacted on a CCD cell. So measuring luminence would be
> done by counting how much time it takes for the cell to flip. But I'm
> probably wrong.

Dunno about that, but I know Fuji are trying to overcome the limitations
of the current CCD technology...:
http://www.dcviews.com/press/Fuji-F810.htm
http://www.ephotozine.com/articles/viewarticle.cfm?id=14

--
"A riot is unt ugly thing, unt it's about time we had one!"
R.L.U. #300033, running WM 0.80.1 under MDK9.1½
 
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:24:12 -0600, Smeghead wrote:

> Our chief weapon is SURPRISE! Surprise and fear.
> Our TWO weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency.
> Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency and an
> almost fanatical devotion to the Pope!
> Our four... no...
> Amongst our weaponry are such elements as fear, surprise...
>
> I'll come in again.

I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.

--
"A riot is unt ugly thing, unt it's about time we had one!"
R.L.U. #300033, running WM 0.80.1 under MDK9.1½
 
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:04:51 +0000, Mr K <duffstuff@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:24:12 -0600, Smeghead wrote:
>
>> Our chief weapon is SURPRISE! Surprise and fear.
>> Our TWO weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency.
>> Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency and an
>> almost fanatical devotion to the Pope!
>> Our four... no...
>> Amongst our weaponry are such elements as fear, surprise...
>>
>> I'll come in again.
>
>I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.

Say, you wouldn't know where a Yank like myself could acquire, either
a Region 1 encoded NTSC or PAL DVD collection of Porridge, the Ronnie
Barker sitcom. Or even a VHS PAL or NTSC version of said collection?

It's my Father-in-Law's wedding anniversary next week, and I was
hoping to present him some Porridge; as he is a huge Ronnie Barker
fan. (As in his fanaticism is huge and not to imply that my
father-in-law is huge, or indeed, that his admiration of Ronnie Barker
increases with Mr. Barker's girth.)

--
--==< S m e g h e a d >==--
 
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:22:44 -0600, Smeghead wrote:

> Say, you wouldn't know where a Yank like myself could acquire, either
> a Region 1 encoded NTSC or PAL DVD collection of Porridge, the Ronnie
> Barker sitcom. Or even a VHS PAL or NTSC version of said collection?

I have no idea. 🙁

> It's my Father-in-Law's wedding anniversary next week, and I was
> hoping to present him some Porridge; as he is a huge Ronnie Barker
> fan. (As in his fanaticism is huge and not to imply that my
> father-in-law is huge, or indeed, that his admiration of Ronnie Barker
> increases with Mr. Barker's girth.)

Heh.

--
"A riot is unt ugly thing, unt it's about time we had one!"
R.L.U. #300033, running WM 0.80.1 under MDK9.1½
 
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:37:18 +0000, Mr K <duffstuff@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:22:44 -0600, Smeghead wrote:
>
>> Say, you wouldn't know where a Yank like myself could acquire, either
>> a Region 1 encoded NTSC or PAL DVD collection of Porridge, the Ronnie
>> Barker sitcom. Or even a VHS PAL or NTSC version of said collection?
>
>I have no idea. 🙁
>
>> It's my Father-in-Law's wedding anniversary next week, and I was
>> hoping to present him some Porridge; as he is a huge Ronnie Barker
>> fan. (As in his fanaticism is huge and not to imply that my
>> father-in-law is huge, or indeed, that his admiration of Ronnie Barker
>> increases with Mr. Barker's girth.)
>
>Heh.

Found a VHS with 3 episodes at Amazon. Whodathunkit?

--
--==< S m e g h e a d >==--
 
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