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(...) Heh, I have a single 20mb CF card right now. I'd probably want a minimum of 2 of the 64mb cards to feel comfortable if I was bringing a Libretto along with me... (...) Yeah, the one I had in my office had either 1 or 2 PCMCIA slots in the unit (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | JPEG compression (was: Re: One of the Mindfest pics)
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(...) Speaking of JPEG compression, here's a comparison of JPEG (lossy) vs. TIFF (non-lossy) for three images: (3 URLs) the last of the three pages contains several megabytes of inline images. --Todd (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) I was a real strong believer in uncompressed (I'm allergic to jpeg compression). But I have to say, after playing a little with them (and the D700), I can tolerate the image quality they output at their (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Here are some of the questions that have been nagging me since I was a kid. How does the press of the throttle affect the RPM and the torque of the engine? By looking at the R/C model engines, it seems to me that the throttle controls the amount of (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't think that they even _have_ an uncompressed mode. 1024x768x24bit = 2.3M. Too big for a floppy. The FD-based mavicas, from what I've heard, do reallly nasty jpeg compression in order to fit stuff in such a small space. Compact flash is (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I actually read about this in a cheesy digital camera mag that I signed up for at Comdex a year or two ago. Lemme try Google... Turning up nothing. Hope this wasn't bogus in that mag... but I did find a post in rec.photo.digital that mentioned (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) (I'll have to pop over to altavista...[1]) We have had excellent results with Sony Mavica FD-83's at school. They are floppy based, but can also take short mpeg movies with sound. Even people who have never (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ooh, twoooo whole bedrooms. I can only dream.... :) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ah, ok. Well, this is one reason why we're moving into a 3 bedroom apt from a 2 bedroom. (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Part of the problem is again, the space thing. No room to store everything, and karen hates having the apartment cluttered with computer junk. (she likes having computers, but wants them to _work_....) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ah, I see. Well, I gave MS my $40 for NT a long time ago (friend was an employee then) so I forget that most people don't have it laying around. (...) Those Libretto's are cool. I wish I could have taken the one from my old office to my new (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm dual-booting to Win95 (haven't gotten around to bothering with NT, and don't want to give MS any more of my money) to use Photoshop. The GIMP is decent, but it's not there yet in power, features, or ease of use. I hope it will be someday, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
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(...) I saw some of those in the dollar store the other day. Unfortunately, they were from the time after Micheal Golden had left, but before Broderick had come on board. No wait, maybe it was after Broderick had left, too. Anyway, Karza was back, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Unless it's a hard drive, and then a Kilobyte is 10^3 (and for awhile was even actually measuring the "unformatted" capacity). (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
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Great, now I´ll have to learn all of this ;-) I didn´t know there was such defined standards for mini, micro and nanofigs. But, well, times are changing.... But whats kibifig then? --Tobias <380a50fb.190663701@...et.com>... (...) size (...) 2^10 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes: [big snip about LCD, GCF, GCD, LCM, etc...] You should teach fractions, Todd :) That's a much more in-depth explanation than my 5th grade math teacher ever gave (the one who kept asking me to tell her if she (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) old (...) I suppose I should have had more soda before I wrote that. I got very little sleep last night. Megafig is what they have at Legoland and is also on Joe Davenport's web site. They actually have their own name (Legoland) but I have (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
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(...) Yes, Micro- is 10^-6, but Mini- is not necessarily 10^-3. Mini- is any size less than 1. Milli- is 10^-3. (...) Macro is any size greater than 1 or greater than usual. It *can* be 10^3, but it isn't necessarily 10^3. Macroeconomics, for (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I forgot adult LEGO-ness! It's a wonderful opportunity to make a very confusing and misleading true statment! :) :) Male adult LEGO fans are quite uncommon. Hee hee! It's true!! :) --Todd (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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