Today I bought 4 of these guys....



Tuna, Italian BMT, Subway Club, and Buffalo Chicken. $20 feeds a family of 4 for dinner and lunch the following day as opposed to the last time we went for fastfood junk and it cost me $30. Kids are getting too old for the "Kid's Meals" and it's starting to cost some money for a quick bite

Quote from Highsider9 :

Fiat 500 Shot from today...

You folks do have some strange little cars over there.

Love the setting, that is awesome.

Nice pans, Strobe. Wondering, do you crop for the composition or are you getting the shot as is? I've done limited panning attempts but I find it quite difficult to leave room in front of the vehicle/subject to be moving to. Mine end up being centered so I have to zoom back and crop for composition. It doesn't help that I don't have autofocus tracking or multiple focus points to choose my point either.

Quote from Riders Motion :

lolz we all have different systems yet all get the same result for GTA IV.

Yeah! You're right!

Er......




Yeah, I'm not rich by any standards. Can't afford a new PC every 6 months. I buy one and use it continuously for years.

Doesn't help that I blew up my graphics card and I'm back on the onboard chip though.

Quote from danthebangerboy :

I have no idea what I am talking about...

As ole Dannyboy said, indeed they would be 8 ohm speakers. You wouldn't be feeding them with any ohms at all compared to what he said. An amp does not "put out" anything. The drivers (speakers) pull from the amp. Wattage is pulled from the amp in terms of current and voltage dependent of resistance. Car audio equipment is designed to be most efficient with a 4 ohm load, or resistance. That's not to say you can't connect an 8 ohm load or down to a 2 ohm load or lower. It will still work. With 8 ohm drivers, the wattage would be cut approximately in half, 2 ohm it would be approximately doubled.

Note, it takes 10 times the power being pulled from an amp to double the sound volume. Thus, your sound volume would not be cut in half, only your wattage being pulled from the amp.

I know nothing about the design of PA speakers, but I very much doubt they would sound good at all. Whether or not they are similar to a subwoofer I do not know. If similar enough to a subwoofer, you could drive it with a dedicated amp with sufficient wattage with a filtered signal.

But from previous threads of yours, I think all you have is a head unit and not an entire system. The internal amplifier of a head unit is not powerful enough to drive any sort of speaker decently, let alone a speaker of 8 ohms.

With a dedicated amp, it would be possible to bridge the amp to a mono signal and wire the drivers up in parallel and it would then be a 4 ohm load, pulling the correct wattage from the amplifier. I doubt you can bridge the internal amplifier of a head unit (you couldn't when I was into car audio).

Simply put, they are going to sound like garbage. But then again, anything being driven from a head unit's internal amp is going to sound like garbage if you are use to something even half decent.

My credibility.... FWIW, I had a very small extremely clean 4 channel 16W RMS amp bridged to 2 channels running 6 speakers at a 1.333 ohm load with a 50W RMS 2 channel bridged to one channel driving 2 subs wired parallel for a 2 ohm load. It was not a system built for pounding out cRAP, but built for accurate reproduction of Pink Floyd (was a stoner back then and good Pink Floyd music was extremely important back then.)

I see you stated everyone was too low. Bummer, I was going to give the "Price is Right" standard guess of 1 kg.

Sorry, there's quite a few pictures here....

Last week we had a little doggie play date...




Don't even think about getting my stick!




Hey, give it back!




Fine, I've got my own stick.




No one is getting this stick.




Oh no you don't. You wouldn't let me have yours, so this one is mine.




You two can have the sticks, I have all the balls.




You stay here and make sure that Lab doesn't get the balls. I'm going to go get the rest of them.




Here's one....




Here's the other, now we have them all.




I know I saw one of those balls over here.




Hey, where did they go?




Awe screw it, I'm done. I'm going to rest right here.

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...within the Show and Shine forums, part of the The Show Room category

Did anyone ever think that he is doing this for the company to have a display car? Those commenting saying that "stupid, drive it just once and it's trashed again..." don't seem to understand what this particular car, "#1 of 835" is.

Oh, about the sound deadening, I only breezed through the last of the first page, but that isn't to eliminate outside noise with car audio. It is to deaden the resonant frequencies coming from the panels with an audio system. I agree, all that extra weight for something that you would only drive on the track is stupid, but this particular single car will, obvious to me, never be driven anywhere, let alone on a track.

It's a case of completing a perfectly finished car as a showpiece of the company.

As for extreme detailing of a car, I use to detail my vehicles when I was single and didn't have more important things in my life (kids, wife, house upkeep...) I didn't detail like this, but I did detail the entire vehicle twice a year and with the last one, my 89 Toyota Pickup truck, I ended up totaling it in an accident. I was 4wheeling 3 days prior to the accident where my truck was completely covered in mud from roof to tires including the engine bay. The insurance company sent me a 3 page itemized list of extra value because everything was "extra clean". I received an extra $1800 in the value of the vehicle because of the "extra clean" detailing of it. $1800 was almost 1/3 of what I paid for the truck.

Quote from Migz :

Well its not really marketing, its research, you need research to be able to design your product for your market. Theres no point designing a camera thats pearlescent pink with a huge zoom, no features, all buttons and no touch screen..... if nobody wants it like that.

Is it a manufacturing and design class or is it a graphical design class? What you are doing is indeed marketing and as you say, research. You are doing research for marketing, not something I would expect from a graphical design class.

- what sort of price range
- which features you would expect to be in this
- Are their any features you would like
- Which of these names is best
- Would you like their to be 2 versions of the camera? One that is more expensive, which has more memory and more features. And another which is cheaper but has less memory and fewer features?

None of those has anything to do with graphical design. So, out of 11 questions, 4 are just random questions gathering info on the person doing the survey, 5 have nothing to do with the class, and only 2, color and look, have anything to do with graphical design.

Wondering, did you create these survey questions or were you given the questions to survey?

Quote from Bob Smith :

Why? They can help look after the children so you can go out and fu... I mean, have a good time with your wife without any interruptions.

Er, we have door locks on the interior doors and plenty of toys in their bedrooms for that....

Quote from S3ANPukekoh3 :

Decided to just get an Mr2 instead of a van. Faster, cheaper, better.

RWD, Manual, Mid-Engined...

Not bad for 2 grand.

Wow! After Shotglass posted in his "pick me a car" thread, I took a look at MR2s around here. They are either $10k or they have half a million miles on them.

Though there is a nice 15 year old 38k mile car for :eye-poppi $20,500!

Most are $10k though and have at least 160k on the clock. To get down to $5k, they are over 200k and that's not fun coming from someone who deals with 160-200k on a regular basis.

Eh, I'd just tell him because I'm a photographer and photographers by definition take photographs .

How many folks posting the opinions here are married with kids? It definitely changes with that.

I hate my job, and it doesn't pay well. Problem is, neither does anything else out there unless I pack up and move far away. But I have a wife, kids, and family to think of too. It's easy to pack up and move away by yourself, but when you have kids and a strong sense of family, it's a bit more difficult to take the kids away from the grandparents and the grandparents away from the kids.

Sorry Speedy Pro, I think you are wrong. Accident or not with how that shot came out, I would certainly pay for a framed print in 20x16 (inch) or so to hang on the wall of my garage if I had a fancy garage.

It gives me inspiration to go out and find a good location to experiment with panning. Unfortunately, around here, all I would see is 4 door family cars or small SUVs . I have no idea where I could go to capture some panning of cars actually worthy of trying to capture.

Motocross season is starting soon though. We have a local outdoor track that I've been wanting to take the kids to. I think they would enjoy it and I'll be able to do some shooting. I think the track opens up for practice starting next week. I probably have to wait for summer though when my oldest is done with school.

Last edited by mrodgers, Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:40.

Sorry I don't play anymore, but thanks for the 4 years that I did.

Speedy Pro, that first shot is fantastic! What shutter speed was that? I don't think there is any point not blurred, but that is what makes the shot! Stunning! That is in need of large print and hanging on your office wall. I hope you have that one printed and framed. Better yet, I think that one could make you a little money.

I could swear you already posted the 2nd and 3rd of the bikes before.

Quote from james12s :

well you say they aint built well...

Nah, I don't say they aren't well built, they just felt cheap, plasticy (just made that word up I think, hehe), light, and felt not well built. Image quality is fantastic with them as well judging from what I see on photography forums though. Nothing against them, just didn't like how they felt or the intuitiveness of the controls layout.

Yeah, sorry DWB. Pentax wouldn't be out of the mix, it's just that I've never had a chance to check one out. I'd like to find one just to check out.

At least it isn't a Sony . I don't care if the Sony dSLR is the cat's meow, I boycott anything Sony after my experience of everything I've owned Sony since my fantastic original 10 disc CD changer I bought in 1990. Every Sony product since then has been complete garbage.

As for the 450D (I am trying for the non-american name, I think this is the XTi), I think my little Fuji superzoom felt more solid than that thing.

It would all come down to feel and ergonomics (I sparked a big and very good discussion about ergonomics and "buy the one that feels right" on the photography forum) as they all pretty much compare excellently with shot quality wise within their respective classes of camera.

GMTA.... Made me look that one up, Sam.

I actually have 3 options.

1. I sit on my fat arse waiting for you guys to build up the GMAC Paypal fund (Get Mike a Camera).

2. I'm still in the running for the grand prize which is $1000 gift card to Target. I have to get a note out to my flight sim and my RC forums, hehe. That's where the D80/18-135 is that I have my eye on. I think it is around $850.

3. My wife started working last Monday after a 9 year leave while the kids were little. She went back a little early since the youngest isn't starting until next fall. Thus, we have some things to catch up on, then we will finally be set pretty good.

As for 1, ha ha, I couldn't do that. For 2, well, I never expected to win one of the monthly as I never win anything, so anything could happen with the grand prize. #3 is my best bet, so I'll be getting one eventually. Not to worry.

Nikon decision would be based so far on comparing a D40 and 450D and looking at Nikon's controls vs. Canons. Locally, I only have Nikon or Canon available or else everything would be through the internet. No problems shopping on the net, but I do like to see something in person first.

I actually would love a D90 based on some ISO 3200 shots I've seen. I was amazed at the lack of noise at ISO3200 with that one. A bit expensive for me though.

Soon!

Quote from nihil :

Work is a con that has been perpetuated for far too long. Is there really any sane and rational reason (beyond personal obsession) why one person should do the same thing day in, day out?

Yes there is. If you are not going to do it, and I am not, and he is not, and she is not, then who is? You are posting from a computer I assume. Where are you going to get that computer from if no one is willing to "do the same thing day in and day out?" You race LFS (I assume). How are you going to do that without a computer, without a controller, without an internet connection? You have to eat. How are you going to do that without working? You have to have shelter to live in. How to do that? You have to clothe yourself, how?

There is the solution to the problems of this con act of working. Just show up in public without clothing and you can get arrested for indecent exposure, free shelter, free food, no need for all those little things like computer, phone, cars, etc. that you need to work to get those things. Then again, if work is a con and you shouldn't have to do it, then neither should anyone else so there would be no one providing the tax moneys to shelter you and feed you in jail. So, what is the solution?

You'll never be happy until you do what I did....

Poor paying job that you hate. That's the ticket. Makes you appreciate going home much more.

:ices_rofl

Lovely edit!

Quote from Speed Soro :

My friend, I ask you with my best respect for you read the example below, and please TRY to understand the whole thing under a new perspective.

Imagine that you live in a calm distric, with good neighbourhood, and there is a park in front of your house, where you used to play when you were a child, and where now, your kids play every afternoon after back the school.

One day the things started to change. New neighbours come to your street, and them don't stop coming. The old park, that was build for kids to play, becomes a place for teenagers, kisses, cigarettes, cars and music at high volume.

You know that space is public, and that people has the same rights that you, your family and the old neighbours have, but you know there is something wrong with that.

You'll do nothing against them, but you will talk to your friends, you'll write to the newspaper of your district, you'll complain the new era.

You know that the park will never be the same, and all you have to do is to move to a new place, or close your windows and go watch tv.

Ah, but your analogy is a bit wrong. See, in your analogy, it is not just the same park that now is filled with teenagers smoking cigarettes and blasting music where your children have always played. The park is expanded by the work of those teenagers and the expansion is where the teenagers are hanging out in. Ok, so this expanded section of the park is right there, right next to where your children are playing. That is true. But through the powers that be, you and all the other parents of the children who have always played in the park have the ability to snap your fingers and suddenly that expanded area of the park disappears completely from view and your children are completely isolated from any influence of the teenagers hanging out.

Cheap, expensive, doesn't matter. Get a long set of jumpers. Many times I've helped or needed help with a battery only to find that the cars can not get near enough due to other cars parked around it. There's always the ability to push the car out of a parking spot, but it's just easier to use longer jumpers.

Nice shots Sam. I'll have to check them out again when I'm down on my desktop. I'm on the work laptop right now and I can't seem to get the display settings right. Everything either is too dark, or the screen hurts my eyes to view. That and I have it connected at work normally to a POS CRT of which takes completely different settings to view.

It's all done with paint brushes. I don't think that would scratch the glass.

This has been posted and discussed a very long time ago.

I think it's more impressive how dusty he gets the cars rather than the art. I don't know how one could get a car so dusty.

Quote from (SaM) :

She's the other half of the winner, you know.

Oh yea, and BTW, the photographer always holds exclusive copyrights to any photos. The model is nothing but hired help unless copyright transfer is in contract. The model in this case is paid very well in gummi bears and Reese's Peanutbutter Cups.