Recent content by Musicman

What Garry said here is exactly right Longer lenses are just an in-camera cropping tool for the scene

I started out with a Praktica Nova 1 and wanted a Canon A-1 but I settled for a used AV-1, which I used for most of the next 20 years (until I finally got my hands on an A-1). It turned out aperture priority metering suited me perfectly.

The A7 I bought in 2014 is still in service as a web cam that I use for work calls on MS Teams, which also finds a use for the kit 28-70 lens that I never got on with :D I also keep it around as a backup for the A7III that is my main body these days, though I have had similar thoughts about...

From your own post, not using LLMs would reduce your memory requirements and costs enormously! :D If everyone using AI adopted the the same approach (including industrial users) then maybe we could get back to some sane memory and storage prices

I can talk about a similar market which I used to work in, computer retail, specifically Apple computers. Back in the 1980s, (the limited number of) Apple resellers made healthy gross margins in the order of 30%. By the early 90s, when I entered the industry at a newer mail order Apple...

I nearly qualified my statement because i thought someone might say that :exit: This was before that;, it was a very simple static site. They got someone else to do the horribly slow thing you are remembering.

I built their first web site circa 1997 :)

Thanks Curious you don’t have the sidebar - I can’t find any way to turn it off For fun, I tried some other browsers Chrome, which I use very rarely (and I am sure I’ve never used to visit TP) And then Duck Duck Go, which was a totally clean install; never had it on the iPad before

Is this just me? View the What’s New page with my iPad in vertical orientation and the titles of the threads are displayed in 1-character wide column If I turn to landscape it displays as you would expect It’s been doing this for months. I don’t have this problem with an iPhone running...

Still rocking a 6 ½ year old iPhone 11, which does me fine That may change this year, the battery is starting to get annoying and I am not sure it is worth spending more money on it at this point as I think it is finally going to fall out of support for the latest version of iOS in the autumn...

When I first got started in computer retail in the early 1990s, HDDs were around £1000 per GB, plus VAT

On the flip side, I had my first SSD failure a couple of weeks ago with a four year old 2TB Samsung T7 that stopped reading and writing overnight. It just sits there doing nothing and getting hot. Data was safely backed up, so that wasn't a problem, fortunately. And I had plenty of space on...

I didn’t say they are orphaned works, just that there is a legally defined process that must be followed for them the IPO to determine whether they are orphaned or not, which is described on the sites I linked to. Form the IPO, the definition is [emphasis added] The guidance includes...

There is, however, also the Orphaned Works scheme that dates from 2015 (off the back of a 2012 EU directive) designed for situations like this https://www.gov.uk/guidance/copyright-orphan-works If the rights owner cannot be discovered after a diligent search, you pay a fee to the Intellectual...

I think with an iPhone 7 you will be limited by the data transfer speed of the Lightning port, which would act as the USB host. It is very slow compared (USB 2,.0 / 480 mbps) with some more recent iPhones with USB C which are equipped with ISB 3.0 that maxes out at 10 Gbps. However, this is...