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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 601 of 3959 01 April 2009 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | ||
EN: After such a big dosis of the Italian language it's nice to read some Danish hyperliterals again. There is a similar popular science magazine like "Mente & Cervello" in Germany, which is called "Gehirn und Geist". As I cannot deal with all natural sciences (I have to focus on a few!) I have never read this specific magazine. This week I have copied and read a ten-pages-long article from "Sterne und Weltraum" about galaxy structures, which I found very interesting. I have attended the astronomy lecture about "White Dwarfs" this week, but this time I decided to write a mini-essay in Turkish about it in my own TAC-log. Fasulye-Babylonia 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6706 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 602 of 3959 01 April 2009 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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And while we are at it:
There several ways of making picture files. If you take a "namesomething.BMP" (or bitmap) file, then there is in principle an indication of colour and brightness for each spot (pixel) in the picture. That's why it is called a bitmap file. When I take pictures I use the format 2816 x 1880 pixels, - that's a lot of pixels, and a lot of information, and therefore .BMP-files tend to be very big which isn't practical for use on the internet. Therefore smart people have found ways of making these files smaller. Another format .TIF is found in two versions, one without compression and another with a compression that allegedly keeps all the original information alive. But it is still not small enough. A third format .GIF is also compressed, and it has the advantage of being able to make some areas transparent, - but the colours are terrible (good enough for graphics, but not for photographs). So for photographs the most common format by far is the one called .JPG (or .JPEG). If you zoom into a jpg-picture you will see that it is made up of small rectangles in different colours. This means that the jpg-version of a picture has thrown some of the information from the original picture away in order to make the file smaller, but because it looks much better than gif and results in tiny file sizes it is the one used for almost all photos on the internet. The back side is that you can't blow a JPG-picture up to astronomical sizes without making all the tiny squares visible. Below you see the Triceratopus from the Natural History Museum plus the Duomo with the hideous screen, both from Milan: 
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| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 603 of 3959 02 April 2009 at 7:01am | IP Logged | ||
EN: I've seen the Triceratops in several TV documentaries on "Phoenix" and "Super RTL". I would like to give some fats about the Triceratops for the general readers of Iversen's log: It lived 70-65 million years ago in the Cretaceous period. Its lenth was 9 m and its weight 4,5 - 10 tons. As food it ate plants. Thanks for explaining the different formats for pictures. My dinosaur is a JPG file downsized to 20 %. (I could have made it smaller, if I had wanted to) My question to Iversen: What are people watching on such public viewing screens in Milano? Advertisements? TV - programs? Tourist information? Football? I cannot really imagine the use of it. Fasulye-Babylonia Edited by Fasulye on 02 April 2009 at 7:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6706 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 604 of 3959 02 April 2009 at 10:38am | IP Logged | ||
So far the screen at the Piazza del Duomo shows static advertisement pages without sound, but I wonder how long it will take before there is sound too. And video clips. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5901 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 605 of 3959 02 April 2009 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | ||
The screen at the Piazza looks nasty and annoying. Iversen's dinsoaur is more realistic as Fasulye's one, because Fasulye's (or Dortmund's ) looking like plastic, and is in an unnatural place, but Iversens' is on sand.
Aha!!! 
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| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 606 of 3959 02 April 2009 at 7:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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BEZOEK PALEONTOLOGISCHE PLANTENTENTOONSTELLING, donderdag 02-04-2009
NL: Even nog een natuurwetenschappelijk bericht, voordat ik morgenochtend naar Nederland vertrek. Bij ons in de stad is de "Geologischer Dienst NRW" gevestigd, waar veel geologen en paleontologen werken. Vandaag was er de opening van een paleontologische tentoonstelling, waar ik naartoe ben gegaan. De tentoonstelling ging over fossielen van planten uit de Devontijd, dus rond 400 miljoen jaar geleden. Bij de tentoonstelling werd verschil gemaakt tussen "Unterdevon", "Mitteldevon" en "Oberdevon" en je kon daar hele mooie fossielen en de ontwikkling van de planten zien. Ik heb niet echt kennis van planten, maar ik heb me vooral alles goed bekeken.Er hing ook een grote poster met het schema van alle tijdperken aan de muur, hoe vaker ik erna kijk, des te beter ken ik zoiets van buiten. De fossielen, die hier tentoongesteld zijn, werden allemaal in NRW gevonden. Ook hadden ze daar een reuzen ammoniet liggen, die wilde ik dan gelijk fotograferen. Ik geef maar de website van de Geologischer Dienst NRW: www.gd.nrw.de Fasulye-Babylonia Edited by Fasulye on 02 April 2009 at 7:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6706 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 607 of 3959 02 April 2009 at 11:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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DU: Het Devoon is een interessante tijd voor de paleobotaniker want het was in dit periode dat de planten zijn begonnen te veroveren het land. Maar ik heb niet veel zin om planten, ook niet de huidige flora. In het Devoon war het wereld opgedeelt in twee continenten en de oceaan. De twee continenten zijn genaamd Gondwanaland en Laurasia, en in Brisbane in Australië heb ik gezien een soort van regenwoud-broeikas genaamd Gondwanaland.
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| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5901 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 608 of 3959 03 April 2009 at 3:18pm | IP Logged | ||
I suppose that you mean I can read music notes? yes, I can read them but not all the clefs (cleves?), for example fa and sol I can read, btu the other ones only very slowly. The very high and low notes I can't quickly read as well, when there are the extra lines I have to count them. But, all the things in the fa/sol which aren't very high or low I can immediatley read and play the notes on the piano, or tell what note it's. Which can you read, I suppose all because you composed those pieces? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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