I hve one photo extant from my previous foray into IR.
That's a pretty amazing photo. I like it.
Angel: Just admit it: you think you're gonna ride in, save the day, and sweep Buffy off her--Spike: Like you're not thinking the same thing. Angel: I'm already seeing somebody. Spike: What, dog girl?
'The Girl in Question'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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Sean K - Feb 22, 2008 7:24:38 am PST #4876 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
DXMachina - Feb 22, 2008 8:20:07 am PST #4877 of 25501
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Also, can't some animals see ultraviolet light that we can't? I think some animals/insects can see in near-infrared.
It's mostly about the energy required to excite the specific chemicals in the photoreceptors in the eye, and what wavelengths of light provide those energy levels. Infrared affects molecules differently than visible and UV light do. Infrared causes bonds to vibrate. UV-vis causes electron promotion. Near infrared is the border between the two. Presumably species that can see further out into the spectrum have slightly different compounds in the eye than humans.
It's always amazed me that the chemicals in the eye human are sufficiently diverse to discern the visible spectrum as a continuum (or something close), rather than there being occasional gaps in the spectrum because the compounds don't have that particular energy level.
DCJensen - Feb 22, 2008 10:08:17 am PST #4878 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
engadget tests the $1500 Optimus Maximus keyboard ($1500): [link]
Kevin - Feb 23, 2008 11:47:42 am PST #4879 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Hello JenP in the future!
§ ita § - Feb 23, 2008 11:58:21 pm PST #4880 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A friend who just got an iTouch is returning it because the Flash player in Safari didn't work (he didn't say where he'd tried and failed) and because it didn't download email attachments--he said you had to be attached to the internet to open them.
Is that true? The former's not huge for me, but the latter is a mark against as I tally it.
Kevin - Feb 24, 2008 2:48:26 am PST #4881 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
It doesn't have a Flash player. I don't know about downloading email attachments - I've got an iPhone so data roaming is always available, would explain why I've never noticed it before.
Jessica - Feb 24, 2008 4:19:08 am PST #4882 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I just turned off my iPod touch's wifi and opened up Mail - no trouble at all opening email or attachments.
Lack of Flash support is a known thingy. The youtube app only play content in h.264.
DCJensen - Feb 24, 2008 6:22:23 am PST #4883 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I thought I read somewhere that there is a 3rd party flash player in development for the iPhone.
Kevin - Feb 24, 2008 6:26:12 am PST #4884 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
3rd party apps only work if you crack the phone at the minute. Future updates then brick the phone if you've cracked it.
There's an official software development kit coming out in March or April, so hopefully an official Flash player will appear further down the line.
Ginger - Feb 24, 2008 6:30:43 am PST #4885 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Ack! I was trying to get rid of the stupid windows xp log on screen, and now all I get is "unable to log you on because of an account restriction." I can get to set up, but that's it. I've tried to reboot from the CD, but I'm getting no love. At this point, of course, I can no longer remember everything I've tried to do.
I'm typing from my laptop, but I need the stuff on my desktop harddrive.
:: sob ::