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Ugh. No thanks. Adoption of that is going to be horrible. People may like to screw around with their desktops, but those in charge tend to make reasoned decisions WRT production servers. What carrots are the offering? DX10 and Aero aren't going to cut it.

The pictures I'm posting I don't consider to be excellent examples of anything; I'm just looking for (and receiving) constructive criticism as I go. I'm sure that, in time, I'll be glad to not have these pictures featured as examples of my work.

The trick is that there is no way AMD fan boys would buy Intel motherboards. They have already convinced themselves that Intel is inferior for some reason, so going to them for a mobo would be unlikely.

More bloat? Server 2003 was XP with less bloat. I was hoping they wouldn't mess that part up...

I downloaded the latest version and gave it a spin. The ability to pull panoramas out of a folder full of files was attractive, as was it's ability to handle RAW files. But it didn't detect anything, and crashed afterwards ;)

With 21MP images being easy to produce, 16GB or RAM can be chewed through in no time. Or I can run a mid-sized office's worth of virtual servers on a single machine for testing purposes.

Finger prints would be unlikely, as this is a combination of >5 pictures. Unless you see 5 fingerprints, I don't think so. The hangars on the right are Moffet Field, still used by NASA (and the MythBusters on a few occasions). The Bay Bridge is really hard to make out, but the supports and Angel...

Most recent attempt: Moffet Field to Bay Bridge (8.5MB)

Sure, any one in particular? From the panorama linked earlier?

Thanks for the tip. Great app, just threw together a 16537x3524 in <10 minutes. Too bad it doesn't directly take CR2 files...

Thanks for entertaining my curiosity.

This is still in Photoshop? Just using Win2k?

That is cool. Too bad I am not mechanically inclined.

Good, or bad? When I get on a plane, I know for a fact that my life is not im my hands. No matter what I do or how quick I am, it won't help me. On a train, however, perhaps fast reflexes could save me? So I should constantly be on alert, ready to head for one of the emergency windows at the...

LeDr9, Out of curiosity, where is "here"?

So I should be using the "long" side of the frame for the direction not being stitched, and just have more pictures to combine? I like the idea, but (as mentioned in another thread) I can't seem to merge more than about 4 pictures before it crashes.

Aren't they in the process of rolling out GPS assisted navigation for trains? Why not use a form of adaptive cruise control as seen in high-end cars?

<sarcasm>

160 is getting to be the smallest drives you can get. I think 80s are still available, but you save all of $10.

Out of curiosity, what tools?

I assume he is talking about the Photomerge or HDR options under "File->Automate". At least those are the ones that crash for me at about 150MB per image.

Normally would be in the horizontal orientation, the position that all these cameras are shown in. The 2.2k vertical was the result of a significant amount of cropping due to perspective, and a little based on what I wanted to show. I didn't say use longer lenses for landscapes, I believe I...

Lunar, I would love to know all that stuff. But for me, the only way to take days at it would be to do something, stare for half an hour, and undo it. When you say "turn the camera in the appropriate orientation", which orientation do you mean? This picture was taken holding the camera...

I haven't found an area microphone yet that works well in the car. Only the headset-type seem to avoid all the road noise.

I agree, and I would welcome such a change. But I would likely still be driving, as my work and the locations of my clients practically requires it.

I've been looking at Mazdas recently myself. The Mazdaspeed3 seems to be the best bang-for-the-buck in the <30k market. It's strange. When I am in my car driving and thinking of what I want, all I want is a couple year-old benz with adaptive cruise control and a quiet ride. When I'm at home...

What is the most powerful a/g card that you could install in a laptop? Ideally USB.

Looks good Lak. What enclosure do you intend to use? I've used a dozen or so of the VroomPC enclosures, and they all manage to use really loud fans that aren't well positioned based on the motherboard layout. I'm still waiting for an alternative that uses an 80mm fan on the larger side. I'm...

Excellent rant, Tannin. Made my morning much happier.

If you are going to stick to XP (not a bad choice for casual use), than 32-bit is probably the place to be. As Merc said, 64-bit XP is "a magical land where no one has written device drivers", and will continue to be so as power users move on to Vista. That being the case, planning for >3-3.5GB...

Thanks Tannin, those are the things I've been playing with so far (in the CS3 RAW importer). And I've seen the potential disasters.

With 2GB DIMMs selling as cheap as they are, I wouldn't consider 4 slots to be that significant.

32-bit XP will only handle ~3GB of RAM. If you put in more, it will be co-opted by the OS, and not available for your use. I'd stick to 2GB for now.

All of Merc's recommendations here (and pretty much anywhere else) are excellent. *except nVidia ;)

Do be careful, Paugie. I've found myself in the middle of a few riots in Asia (Thailand, Tibet, etc), and they have a way of sneaking up on you. Be sure you keep a clear path away from the batons and riot shields. I appreciate you wanting to take a stand and show your support, but try not to get...

Thanks for the comments, Tannin. One of the reasons I like the way that shot came out is that it is real, I've been there lots of times and that is how it looks on the best days. At the same time, I would love to know how to control what it looks like. That I like how it came out is pure...

Mine crashes on photomerges of files that large as well. I'm running with 4GB of RAM and 16GB of Page, so I don't think it's actually a memory limitation (even though the error says it is).

That works. Thanks Merc.

Poking at it some more, sub-forums actually isn't that great from a usability standpoint. If they were top-level forums, you would see what the last thread was and who posted it. If they were consolidated with other top-level forums, there would be less lists to look at to see all the posts. As...

Merc, Let me know if I missed this. What it sounds like you are saying is that performance of hard drives really doesn't matter for most users. And what I'm saying is that the only times hard drive performance does matter for users, they are STR-limited.

Looks good to me. The cleaner the better.

Didn't dissapear, just compressed. Look at the sub-forums.

Yup, you read me correctly. I was just curious whether that was seek bound or STR. My general impression is that seek always helps everything a little, but STR helps big things a lot. I'm welcome to any comments either way.

IIRC, 800/1200RPM. Same as the Slow/Medium Scythe.

That is still STR, no?

I don't think it's that overexposed, but what do I know ;) The composition is odd but intentional. That is the stretch of SF bay (called "City Front") where all the big sailboat races are held. It has more significance than just being pretty.

If you are looking for fans with built-in speed controllers, the Antec are the ones to get. If you don't need fast fans, you can get the low-speed S-Flex 800RPM version. IMHO the 1200RPM version is too loud.

Or Server 2003

...other than booting (OSs optimize for STR during boot) and Gaming (level loading) and linear AV applications and Photoshop virtual memory stuff. But if it weren't for those, I would be using a laptop drive to save on energy, heat and noise. Is hard drive performance really a factor in anything...

A buddy did 1100 miles each way for a week in Mexico... Hell, I did 800 miles in a weekend on vacation....