sherwoodpete

Why? Because the quota is not the amount of disk space used. It's the amount of bandwidth consumed during the upload process. The latter figure can never go down, once you used it, it stays used. ...

What bugs me is when someone goes to the trouble of typing a different subject in the heading box, but precedes it with re: That has me scanning all the previous posts to see what it's a reply to....

Well, it's not just a matter of "correct". There are idiomatic usages in English which can be incomprehensible to a foreigner. For example the term "cold shoulder". But there are others where the...

The important thing is that we all have our own goals in photography. My goals may not be yours, but that doesn't make either of us wrong. I will continue to strive towards producing the kind of...

I'm not going to post any examples, as the images I have in mind are not my own. Off the top of my head, there are a few images that come into mind, not necessarily those world-famous iconic...

I think it should be read as "FWIW today's best DSC Bayer sensors are about 2.5+ stops away." The rest of the text is in effect a new sentence, together with the other text (not quoted here) it...

You raise another issue, that of sleep. Simply turning the machine off temporarily (like the way I can set my computer to hibernate) is not by any means the same thing as sleep. The mind and some...

Just what is science? Here's one definition: "Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on...

Science is a methodology, a tool which allows us to investigate and try to understand the world and the way it works. The scientific method is certainly a human invention. There is an increasing...

I've not seen the film, so miss out here. I'd consider that simply the difference between software and hardware. The data is in a sense abstract, it is independent of the medium. Although if the...

1. I wouldn't blame the lens. The Samsung EX1 has a lens capable of very sharp images. Fuji usually makes excellent lenses too. 2. Bear in mind that when you look at a photograph, it is not the RAW...

You may be interested in some of the studies done on the subject of  Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home. Here's a video on the subject, Rupert Sheldrake: Pets and Their Masters and...

You've clearly identified something which you recognise is the important factor.  I think it's the label (and associated connotations) that you find objectionable. To a large extent I agree with...

And what if you use the "photocopier" analogy to produce 50 copies. How do you tell them apart? Which one is "you"? Is there anything to stop their simultaneous co-existence?

There are difficulties here. Currently there are no solid explanations of how self-concious awareness arises from the physical brain. Although certain brain activity can be correlated with certain...

Please don't perpetuate the misunderstanding that Ukraine is just a province of Russia. The Soviet Union is long ended, and even during its era Ukraine and Russia were two separate states. Nowadays...

There is a separate but related problem. When there is a possibility that a file may be over-written by a different file with the same name, the software should stop and ask the user what action to...

Yes, a lot of people saw Glenn Miller for example.

Bizarre comment. Many people lost their lives while this man became very rich at their expense.

It was highlighted by Professor Bruce Hood in...