February 2011

Photographing Waterfalls: 1000-fold Exposure Range

February 27, 2011

When photographing a waterfall (or other forms of moving, turbulent water), the choice of shutter speed determines whether you get a stop-action view of every droplet in motion, or whether you get a smooth,  time-averaged view of the currents.  What is the best shutter speed to use with waterfalls?   I had the opportunity last year [...]

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Jeopardy x 10

February 16, 2011

I’ve been reading a lot of interesting discussions about the amazing Jeopardy match between human champions and IBM’s Watson computer.  Although I’m in no way involved in this project, it is very exciting to watch this event unfold.  Some of the discussions I’ve read concern the impact of reaction time, who can get to the [...]

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The Versions of ODF

February 10, 2011

It has been a few months now since the OASIS ODF TC has done substantive technical work on ODF 1.2.  We had a 60-day public review last summer, a 15-day public review last December and we will start another (hopefully final) 15-day public review starting this week.   Every time we make a change to the [...]

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