How to take RAW images in Canon 600D ? What is the use of making RAW than jpg ? Does the quality differs or the we can edit easily ?
From a technical perspective, what exactly is RAW and how does it differ from JPG or bitmap images? I'm not asking about the pros/cons versus another format, but rather what constitutes RAW format, how is the data stored, how does it differ from JPG (other than lack of compression), and how is it different than bitmap?
Is colour, as represented using primary colours, accurate only to humans? Slightly biological, hopefully physical enough to be answered.  Suppose a magenta hue is represented by a mix of red and blue pigment. This is all very well for a creature with red and blue photoreceptors, but suppose it was seen by a creature which had a magenta-sensitive receptor, but no red or blue. Would the colour appear the same (insomuch as a qualititave concept can appear the same, I suppose I mean 'Would they interpret it as colour of the same wavelength?')?  The crux of my question is, do the particular bands in which photoreceptors are activated affect vision of additive, as opposed to pure, hues?  Finally, completely off-topic, but if there happens to be a biologist around, do animals on the whole have similar photoreceptors, or are they placed largely randomly?  Thanks, Wyatt Unicode Processing in C++ What is the best practice of Unicode processing in C++? Creating a selector from a method name with parameters I have a code sample that gets a SEL from the current object,   SEL callback = @selector(mymethod:parameter2);   And I have a method like    -(void)mymethod:(id)v1 parameter2;(NSString*)v2 { }   Now I need to move mymethod to another object, say myDelegate.  I have tried:  SEL callback = @selector(myDelegate, mymethod:parameter2);   but it won't compile. What is the VTable Layout and VTable Pointer Location in C++ Objects in GCC 3.x and 4.x? In Java, what is the best way to determine the size of an object? I have an application that reads a CSV file with piles of data rows.  I give the user a summary of the number of rows based on types of data, but I want to make sure that I don't read in too many rows of data and cause OutOfMemoryErrors.  Each row translates into an object.  Is there an easy way to find out the size of that object programmatically?  Is there a reference that defines how large primitive types and object references are for a VM?  Right now, I have code that says read up to 32,000 rows, but I'd also like to have code that says read as many rows as possible until I've used 32MB of memory.  Maybe that is a different question, but I'd still like to know. Quick way to remove solidify thickness I have made the mesh and added solidify modifier and applied. But later i thought to increase the thickness. So now i want to remove thickness so that i can added the solidify modifier again. I want to know is there any quick remove thicknes. When i select the edge then ctrl+ the selection goes downward not to single face. So i want to know a quick way to decrease thickness. Any suggestion or help. How to graphical remote control an Ubuntu server? I've tried googling and .  I'm connecting my Windows 7 SP1 machine to an Amazon EC2 Ubuntu cloud server, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. What I have done is   Enabling Remote Desktop in Ubuntu (, ) Connect to my server using 1)  and 2)  &ndash; I don't use  since it contains viruses.   But all of those result in Connection failed. I'm giving up!  More Detail Ubuntu server to remote to: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (codename lucid)  My Windows: Windows 7 SP1 Is every discrete absolute value non-archimedean? I've been reading Milne's notes on absolute values and local fields (Chapter 7 of the book on algebraic number theory), and a possibly minor point is confusing me.   On page 126, Milne writes, "$K$ is a field complete with respect to a discrete absolute value $|\cdot|$..." and then he talks about things that only make sense for non-archimedean absolute values, like the ring of integers and its maximal ideal.   Is every discrete absolute value on a field $K$ also non-archimedean? This would explain a lot, but I also suspect that it is not true, because I can't find any statement of this fact anywhere.  EDIT: An absolute value is discrete if the value group $|K^\times|$ is a discrete subgroup of the multiplicative group $\mathbb{R}_{&gt;0}$. An absolute value is non-archimedean if it satisfies the stronger triangle inequality $$ |x+y| \le \max (|x|,|y|) $$ or equivalently if the set $\{|1|,|1+1|,|1+1+1|,\ldots\}$ is a bounded subset of $\mathbb{R}$. What is the max variance distribution with fixed mean and support Is there a upper bound on the variance for a distribution that is confined say, in $[0,1]$, and has fixed mean $\mu \in [0, 1]$ I need to use an alias in the WHERE clause, but It keeps telling me that its an unknown column. Is there any way to get around this issue? I need to select records that have a rating higher than x. Rating is calculated as the following alias:  sum(reviews.rev_rating)/count(reviews.rev_id) as avg_rating The Pauli group for $n$-qubits is defined as $G_n=\{I,X,Y,Z \}^{\otimes n}$, that is as the group containing all the possible tensor products between $n$ Pauli matrices. It is clear that the Pauli matrices form a basis for the $2\times 2$ complex matrix vector spaces, that is $\mathbb{C}^{2\times 2}$. Apart from it, from the definition of the tensor product, it is known that the $n$-qubit Pauli group will form a basis for the tensor product space $(\mathbb{C}^{2\times 2})^{\otimes n}$.  I am wondering if the Pauli group in $n$-qubits forms a basis for the complex vector space where the elements of this tensor product space act, that is $\mathbb{C}^{2^n\times 2^n}$. Summarizing, the question would be, is $(\mathbb{C}^{2\times 2})^{\otimes n}=\mathbb{C}^{2^n\times 2^n}$ true?  I have been trying to prove it using arguments about the dimensions of both spaces, but I have not been able to get anything yet. I'm looking for the name of a series of space opera novels I read some time ago, probably between 2003 and 2010.    It may have been published quite a few years before I read it, I don't think it was new at the time. I borrowed the novels from the local library, but I can't find them in its catalogue. I think the covers were fairly dark and plain, though there may have been some artwork on them. There was a totalitarian empire that controlled most planets, possibly ruled by a queen. There was no mention of Earth, the solar system or other real planets, the setting was completely fictional. There were people with psychic/psionic powers, referred to as something like "psi". These people were second-class citizens or slaves. Spaceships were used to travel between worlds. I'm not sure what kind of FTL technology they had, if any. Beyond the edge of the empire was some kind of "dark space", where there was no light. There were some horror themes: When travelling in dark space in one of the novels, a ships crew experienced strange thoughts and hallucinations. I remember finding this quite scary at the time.   Does anyone know which series this could be?  This isn't a duplicate of , since the two questions are about different parts of the same series (the first and second episodes). Why is triple-DES using three different keys vulnerable to a meet-in-the-middle-attack? Among other sources,  states that triple DES using three seperate keys (k1, k2, k3) is vulnerable to meet-in-the-middle-attacks, while triple DES using only two keys (k1, k2, k1) is not.  Why is this attack possible if all the keys are different, but not if the first and the third are the same? Why do 'get' and 'have' work similarly in      I got/had my car repaired.    but differently – that is are not complemented in the same way although they still mean the same – in      I got someone to repair my car.    and      I had someone repair my car. Prove that $x^x+y^y=z^z$ doesn't have integer solutions Printing labels along with equation numbers Working with documents with huge amount of equations it becomes cumbersome to go back and remind yourself what you labeled a certain equation to (I try to name them in a smart way, but there are too many).  Is there a convenient way to have equations print the label along with the tag/number, so that I can easily check the label in the compiled document?  Something like this would be perfect:  x = y               (14.1) eq:my_label What is the best way to add options to a select from a JavaScript object with jQuery? Show by induction that for all natural numbers n>3  $(1+\frac{1}{n})^n&lt;n$  Let $(1+\frac{1}{n})^n&lt;n$ be true !   We show that $(1+\frac{1}{n+1})^{n+1})&lt;n+1$  $(1+\frac{1}{n})^n(1+\frac{1}{n})&lt;n(1+\frac{1}{n})$   $(1+\frac{1}{n})^{n+1}&lt;n+1$  So now we just need to show that   $(1+\frac{1}{n+1})^{n+1}&lt;(1+\frac{1}{n})^{n+1}$  So here , If I show that :   $(1+\frac{1}{n+1})&lt;(1+\frac{1}{n})$   Does that mean im done with exercise ? Intuitive idea of the Lipschitz function I'm trying to understand intuitively the notion of Lipschitz function.   I can't understand why bounded function doesn't imply Lipschitz function.   I need a counterexample or an intuitive idea to clarify my notion of Lipschitz function.  I need help  Thanks a lot If I have a string with a valid math expression such as:  String s = "1 + 2 * 7";   Is there a built in library/function in .NET that will parse and evaluate that expression for me and return the result? In this case 15.