Comment Nearest star? (Score 0) 24
No, it's the nearest T Tauri type star (according to Wikipedia). The nearest star to Sol should be Proxima Centauri IIRC.
Comment Re:Canon or Nikon (Score 1) 569
F-mount (for Nikon) and K-mount (for Pentax) are indeed very old mount; these two companies did a very good job for preserving backward compatibilities while adding new features to the newer lenses. K-mount is about 30-40 years old while F-mount dated back to the late 50s. Even so some higher-end cameras can get AE with the old lenses without electronic contacts!
Canon current EF-mount is a lot younger. They created the EF-mount in the 80s, which is incompatible to their old line of lenses. Though so Canon they produces a lot of EF-lenses nowadays so you would find it abundant on the market.
Comment Re:Not Quite True (Score 1) 140
Allowing you to read the news does not necessary equal to discuss it freely on the Internet
Comment Re:Meh, I actually had deep conversation with one (Score 1) 257
Sounds like we could replace humans with chatbots in Argument clinic
Dog Eats Man's Toe and Saves His Life 207
Have you ever been so drunk that you passed out and your dog ate your toe? I haven't either, but luckily for Michigander Jerry Douthett, he has. It turns out Jerry has type 2 diabetes and a wound on his toe had becoming dangerously infected. After a night of drinking Jerry passed out in his chair and the family dog Kiko decided to do a little doggy doctoring. From the article: "'The toe was gone,' said Douthett. 'He ate it. I mean, he must have eaten it, because we couldn't find it anywhere else in the house. I look down, there's blood all over, and my toe is gone.' [Douthett's wife] Rosee, 40, rushed her husband to the hospital where she's a gerontology nurse — Spectrum Health's Blodgett Campus. Kiko had gnawed to a point below the nail-line. When tests revealed an infection to the bone, doctors amputated what was left of the toe."
Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 435
You must be meaning longer exposure/shutter, and DoF is controlled by aperture not exposure, larger aperture (smaller f number) leads to a narrower DoF.
Comment Re:Big Deal! (Score 5, Informative) 347
The f-number which decides the depth of field is the ratio between the aperture and the focal length.
The real reason behind why small sensors does not work well with many pixels, is because it will make less light retrieved by individual pixel sensor (i.e. sensel). Since manufacturer tries to cramp as much pixels on a small patch, the image will worsen especially in low-light environment.
This is why FF (full-frame sensor, 135 film equivalent) and 6x6 (Hasselbrad V-system in TFA) has its market.
Comment Re:Use a persistence library (Score 1) 267
It would be better to use the mysqli extension (bind_param) if you are in PHP4 environment. Of course, if adding extensions is not an option, sanitize with these functions is the way to go.
Comment Re:Use a persistence library (Score 5, Insightful) 267
A more simple way is to use a parametrized statement. No extra libraries if you are using Java,
Scientists Turn Wood Into Bone 118
Bob the Super Hamster writes "The BBC is reporting that scientists in Italy have developed a method to convert rattan wood into a bone-like substance. The bone replacement is currently being tested in sheep, where, when inserted into the area of a fracture, it joins with the existing bone and eventually fuses. Unlike other bone replacements, this one actually has load-bearing ability and also naturally fuses with the existing bone. Additionally, since it is porous like real bone, nerves and blood vessels can pass through it."
Comment Re:EEE (Score 1) 181
EEE only applies to open standard Microsoft targets. And exFAT is a proprietary standard solely developed by Microsoft. What is the point for ruining their own standard and make their customers and manufacturers angry?
Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195
diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."
Comment Re:Where can I send disks? (Score 5, Funny) 265
You're trying to offer DDOS (Disk Delivery Overseas Service) to Russia?
Microsoft Plans Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday 341
CWmike writes "Microsoft said it will deliver its largest-ever number of security updates on Tuesday to fix 13 flaws in every version of Windows, as well as Internet Explorer (IE), Office, SQL Server, important developer tools and Forefront Security client software. Among the updates will be the first for the final, or release to manufacturing, code of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system. The 13 updates slated for next week, eight of them pegged 'critical,' beat the previous record of 12 updates shipped in February 2007 and again in October 2008." Update Reader Kurt Seifried writes to correct the math a bit, pointing to Microsoft's Advance Notification page for the release, which says that rather than 13 flaws, this Patch Tuesday involves "13 bulletins (eight critical and five important), addressing 34 vulnerabilities ... Most of these updates require a restart so please factor that into your deployment planning."
Comment Re:Charles Kao != Father of Fiber Optics (Score 1) 74
Maybe "Father of Long Range Fiber Optics" or "Father of Practical Fiber Optics"?
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