Also, I don't find most volume indicators to be very non-linear, and I only notice non-linearity in battery indicators generally at the top and bottom 20%. The middle 60% seems to be pretty linear.

A big problem with battery indicators with replaceable batteries is that each brand will discharge slightly differently, and the discharge curve changes based on current draw, so it's very difficult to model. On top of that, the discharge curves of alkaline versus lithium are completely different.

I am guessing it just has a basic model for each phone (if it even has this much) and uses the radio transmit power. If the radio transmit power isn't available, it could pretty much model based on bars of signal, since it will have to transmit with more power in a less-than-five-bars area.

@Sibuna: I was a CS student right up until about two weeks before classes started. I switched to CpE. A year later, I switched to EE, and a year after that, I switched back to CpE. I never had a thought of switching back to CS, though.

@Serolf Divad: If you want something to push your next steampunk creation to 11, the proper answer is a galvanometer.

@p51d007: Modern television signals are actually YCbCr. Rather than sending red, green, and blue channels, luma, blue difference, and red difference are sent. The human eye is more perceptive to changes in brightness rather than changes in color. As a result, the CbCr portion (which essentially determine the color…

@Fanboy: I couldn't find a location that let me get the shot I wanted to get. I have two huge sets of images, but they didn't work out very well because of a low shooting angle. I was going to put a bunch of red cars at a stop light with one green car going the opposite direction. I really needed a bridge that I could…

The movie is a little dizzying, at least for me. Overuse of rapidly spinning sky, in my opinion. Speed up the capture rate and the dolly speed and you can have the same foreground motion with a little less sky motion. They don't all need to be going as fast as they are.

@The Albatross: It's like that in the boonies, or places with light pollution ordinances.

I think it's pretty clear that he's not filming an Avatar sequel, but a Titanic sequel. In the sequel, it's discovered that the wreckage we know of has been faked by the Illuminati. The real wreckage lies at the bottom of the trench. How did it get there? You'll have to tune in to find out.

@Claytons: You're not going to get much nicer trekking poles for under $80, in my opinion. Also, a lot of people only use one as more of a hiking staff.

For the serious hiker or serious photographer, these have been commercially available for quite some time. Here's one from Leki: [www.leki.com]

@McMike: It was really convincing at first. They nailed the sound and the stepping action.

@Wabbited: You need a different mirror setup, because you need to split the portrait frame horizontally and not vertically (like this rig).

If you want to better maximize the resolution, you can set the camera up in vertical orientation with the mirrors splitting top/bottom (you'd end up with an X mirror config when viewed from the top rather than a V config) and still giving you horizontal spread on the two frames.

I'd rather have a ride-on Big Dog.

@stuffman: If my shot has vignetting, it's all natural. I see a lot of pictures in the gallery devoid of any, and most of the ones with it only have a small amount.

@Jesse Scroggins: I was born the Saturday before Labor Day (9/1). It's great always getting a holiday weekend right after.

@moetop: Looks to me like a fantastic reason to watch reality TV.