Put it into A mode, and experiment with changing the aperture – I’m not sure how you do that on your model, but there’s probably a scrollwheel to turn. Using different apertures is probably the single most important thing you can do to change how your pictures look…
I can’t think of any tadpole handcrank trikes off the top of my head – the resaon, I guess, is that they’d be pretty hard to get into and out of. Deltas are easier than tadpoles to get into from a chair.
2tyred – I went to a Glasgow primary school too, and I remember even as a young age being made to feel different because I didn’t pray with the other children. I was pretty bloody-minded even as a child so the rebellion was sometimes fun, but it was also often uncomfortable. I still remember being told not to ask the minister awkward questions as it upset him.
So, while I hope my daughter will be independent- minded enough to question what she’s told about religion in school, I wish she didn’t have to…
I’ve seen Strathclyde’s finest from both sides – as a victim of crime and as the accused. Always been courteous, if a bit bumbling and amusingly incompetent :-)
Only bad experience was with a jumped-up idiot who claimed he was an off-duty officer but wouldn’t show me his warrant card, so he got short shrift…
Quite a few theories about the creation of the universe require that there’s a certain amount of matter/energy (which are, of course, interchangeable) in the universe. The “flat universe” theory, for example. But calculations of galagtic rotation curves etc only accounts for some matter/energy, so it can’t all be in the form of matter, some of it must be in the form of energy. And it must be a form of energy that doesn’t interact with anything, or we’d see it.
Well, one proof is to look at how galaxies spin. Basically, they are spinning too quickly – they should really be flinging themselves apart. But the fact that they’re not means there’s a lot more mass there that we can’t see holding them together. You can even work out how much mass there is and where it is by looking at the speed of rotation at various distances from the centre of a galaxy – galaxies should rotate like water downa plughole, but they really rotate a bit more like a spinning plate.
We can see the same distance in all directions – we’re not in the centre of the universe as there is no centre. It is a bit odd to get your head around, but space itself is expanding, it’s not that everything is expanding into empty space.
The usual analogy is a balloon – if you were standing on a giant balloon as it was being blown up, every other point would be rushing away from you at the same speed – but you aren’t at the centre of the balloon.
Now try to convert that analogy from two to three dimensions without your brain popping out of your ears :-)
OK so tell me why religion is NOT outdated then? If people still take the bible to be a good or true reflection of modern life, I find that incredibly hard to believe and also quite unerving!
I guess it’s not that it’s a reflection of modern life, it’s that it helps people cope with issues that appear in any life, at any time. Birth, death, stuff like that. I don’t know any Christians (or, indeed, anyone of any religion) who actually believes the word of their religious book.
I very rarely use a torque wrench – the most accurate ones I’ve found are the bending beam type – the clicking type seem very inconsistent, at least with ones that cost sensible money.
When the title said a two lane road, I was assuming one lane in either direction, in wich case it’s courteous to go in single file so cars can pass – a road like this, when traffic is flowing freely, I’m amazed that it’s even a question. Of course it’s both right and legal that they were riding side by side.
A side point as well – pedestrians, horse riders and cyclists have a legal right to use the roads. Drivers only do so under license – drivers have less right to be on the road, not more.
Gloss will generally have a decent shine without – satin or Matt will need a clearcoat to come up shiny. Or you can get a Matt clearcoat as well if that’s your thing (looks cool on bare steel).
But yeah, find powdercoaters who have done bikes before and know what to mask and how thin to coat. In Glasgow, ESP are excellent…
A couple of years back, I was filming with the Gadget Show in Eburg, and we had a police car and one of those vans as an escort. Filming was dragging on a bit, so he got bored and did what he said he usually did when he got bored – parked up, extended the mast, and amused himself by peering through people’s windows…
Cycling home late from the pub, I was doing pretty well I thought – had my lights on, wasn’t wobbling too much, was the correct distance from the kerb.
It was only the rapidly approaching headlights that alerted me to the fact that I was on the wrong side of a dual carriageway…
An analogy I suppose is that it’s like how you use a strobelight to watch a fast-moving engine – you view different parts of a repeated event to build up a full picture. With a strobe you take time slices, with this camera they take x-axis slices, but same principle.
I can think of applications – like studying how light behaves in complex lens assemblies, for example.
I don’t think LX and XT actually stand for anything (or the old DX) – they were just made up. XTR is XT Race, though.
More interestingly is Deore. One of their first mechs had a picture of a deer on it (I’ve got one) and someone mistranslated “Deer” – they liked the mistake, so it stuck.
I’ve seen the original CVT design – very clever, it used a linkage which changed length to change the effective leverage ratio, the major problem with it was that it required non-circular cogwheels to smooth out the output drive, and they’re an absolute sod to machine.
The later derailleur-in-a-box design was also called, I think, Petespeed – though that might have been a similar design from a different company.
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