Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Android: Root It? Or are there phones that come unlocked/jailbroken?

2011-06-07 Thread Owen Densmore
[Note: widened from wedtech to include friam, see attached.]

From /.: Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban
http://goo.gl/ynL9A 

I believe I now am in the same spot with android as with iphone: I will have to 
at least jail break any phone I own, and heck, might as well unlock it while 
I'm at it.

This surprises me.  Android was to be the hacker's delight, a Google no evil 
phone that allows me to use it as I please.  Not a sissy iphone where Apple 
rules my life and limits my options.

After yesterdays announcement of the iTunes cloud (where they store not only 
your bought media in their cloud, but any CDs you rip and have in iTunes!!), 
I'm rethinking just how free Google etc are over Apple.

I still plan to complete my conversion to gmail, and the Google ecology has 
lots of advantages.  But Apple is gaining fast with everything (mail, contacts, 
calendar, music, bookmarks, ...) in iCloud and accessible everywhere.

If this works, and that's a big IF, and if they can be cross-platform .. at 
least windows if not linux/unix (a bigger IF!), Google will start to look like 
a chaotic mess of non-integrated parts while Apple, once again, solves the 
user's problem.
http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/demoted

  -- Owen


On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:56 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:

 The Vibrant came with tethering and wifi hotspot applications installed, but 
 I haven't tried them.
 
 You want an unlocked phone, then buy a Nexus-S.  Consider it a $500 vote for 
 the phone you want to use.  You want a subsidized phone, then be prepared to 
 put up with all the crapware and attempts to control your usage that the 
 manufacturers and carriers feel like trying out on you.
 
 -- rec --
 
 On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
 I thought android was open .. i.e. you could install just about anything 
 you'd like.
 
 But I just read about tethering wifi, and the story had options from rooting 
 the phone to fairly expensive (and dubious) apps.
 
 So what's the deal here.  Is it open?  Or am I back to hacking my phone 
 like I had to do with iPhone jailbrake/unlock?  Or is it somewhere in between.
 
 How many of us are tethering wifi nowadays?  Do the carriers care?
 
   -- Owen

-- Owen



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Re: [FRIAM] Android: Root It? Or are there phones that come unlocked/jailbroken?

2011-06-07 Thread glen e. p. ropella

This is more about the hardware manufacturer and the service provider,
not the operating system.  FWIW, Samsung is very friendly.  I have a
Motorola.  They're relatively neutral.  Verizon is not friendly.  Apple
is an enemy.  T-Mobile is neutral.  Cricket is friendly (so far).

I can't imagine anyone _not_ rooting their phone and replacing their
operating system at will.  It boggles my mind that so many tech savvy
people enslave themselves to a corporate cabal.

Owen Densmore wrote at 06/07/2011 09:27 AM:
 [Note: widened from wedtech to include friam, see attached.]
 
From /.: Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban
   http://goo.gl/ynL9A 
 
 I believe I now am in the same spot with android as with iphone: I will have 
 to at least jail break any phone I own, and heck, might as well unlock it 
 while I'm at it.
 
 This surprises me.  Android was to be the hacker's delight, a Google no 
 evil phone that allows me to use it as I please.  Not a sissy iphone where 
 Apple rules my life and limits my options.
 
 After yesterdays announcement of the iTunes cloud (where they store not only 
 your bought media in their cloud, but any CDs you rip and have in iTunes!!), 
 I'm rethinking just how free Google etc are over Apple.
 
 I still plan to complete my conversion to gmail, and the Google ecology has 
 lots of advantages.  But Apple is gaining fast with everything (mail, 
 contacts, calendar, music, bookmarks, ...) in iCloud and accessible 
 everywhere.
 
 If this works, and that's a big IF, and if they can be cross-platform .. at 
 least windows if not linux/unix (a bigger IF!), Google will start to look 
 like a chaotic mess of non-integrated parts while Apple, once again, solves 
 the user's problem.
   http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/demoted


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Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Android: Root It? Or are there phones that come unlocked/jailbroken?

2011-06-07 Thread Gillian Densmore
I had a short discution with some friends sort of related to the iOS
vs Android topic and it came down to this:
iOS is a bit more forgiving on the end user end and by and large has a
set audiance, while Android has a bit more diversity.
Company politics company polotics... I guess it realy comes down to:
Ok so wich companies model do you prefer? Android (at least for the
moment) being more cloud centric-some free apps some for pay (though
cheep) apps? Where as iOS you have only one phone. Some Android OS
phones do target specific audiances wich even the relatively
conservative CNET has critisized (such as motorolas Defty and Droid).
From reviews the Galaxy netpad and phone are relatively light in terms
of preinstalled apps.I don't know anything about the icloud it might
be a bit early to say-googles been in the cloud model for longer than
apple. On the other hand Apples has been in the OS and Computing
business long enough that they could have a sexy nich.  The question
you may want to ask yourself though is since both companies are being
dicks which one is the smaller dick?
All cariers suck to be honest. Though verizon slightly less so.
And yes to 'do as I please with a netpad and or AndroidOS phone
you'll need to be prepared to pay a lot. Although with a few small
exceptions everyphone and netpad have some mechanic to unlock them.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
 [Note: widened from wedtech to include friam, see attached.]

 From /.: Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban
        http://goo.gl/ynL9A

 I believe I now am in the same spot with android as with iphone: I will have 
 to at least jail break any phone I own, and heck, might as well unlock it 
 while I'm at it.

 This surprises me.  Android was to be the hacker's delight, a Google no 
 evil phone that allows me to use it as I please.  Not a sissy iphone where 
 Apple rules my life and limits my options.

 After yesterdays announcement of the iTunes cloud (where they store not only 
 your bought media in their cloud, but any CDs you rip and have in iTunes!!), 
 I'm rethinking just how free Google etc are over Apple.

 I still plan to complete my conversion to gmail, and the Google ecology has 
 lots of advantages.  But Apple is gaining fast with everything (mail, 
 contacts, calendar, music, bookmarks, ...) in iCloud and accessible 
 everywhere.

 If this works, and that's a big IF, and if they can be cross-platform .. at 
 least windows if not linux/unix (a bigger IF!), Google will start to look 
 like a chaotic mess of non-integrated parts while Apple, once again, solves 
 the user's problem.
        http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/demoted

  -- Owen


 On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:56 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:

 The Vibrant came with tethering and wifi hotspot applications installed, but 
 I haven't tried them.

 You want an unlocked phone, then buy a Nexus-S.  Consider it a $500 vote for 
 the phone you want to use.  You want a subsidized phone, then be prepared to 
 put up with all the crapware and attempts to control your usage that the 
 manufacturers and carriers feel like trying out on you.

 -- rec --

 On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
 I thought android was open .. i.e. you could install just about anything 
 you'd like.

 But I just read about tethering wifi, and the story had options from rooting 
 the phone to fairly expensive (and dubious) apps.

 So what's the deal here.  Is it open?  Or am I back to hacking my phone 
 like I had to do with iPhone jailbrake/unlock?  Or is it somewhere in 
 between.

 How many of us are tethering wifi nowadays?  Do the carriers care?

       -- Owen

        -- Owen


 
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Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Android: Root It? Or are there phones that come unlocked/jailbroken?

2011-06-07 Thread Owen Densmore
On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Tom Johnson wrote:

 See this:  Rooting Your Android Phone: FAQ 
 http://www.pcworld.com/article/214697/article.html#tk.nl_pvx_h_crawl
 
 I'm using a variety of apps -- primarily DropBox, but others like 
 Gladinet.com  -- that sync everything to my Cloud storage without anything 
 that Apple might come up with.

Good pointer, thanks.

I've had to jailbreak then unlock my iPhone.  I believe rooting is 
equivalent to jailbreak, right?

I'm not sure if I need to unlock the phone myself, tmobile has always been 
willing to send me the codes for it when I travel to europe.  And I certainly 
don't want to unlock just to go to ATT!

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Re: [FRIAM] Android: Root It? Or are there phones that come unlocked/jailbroken?

2011-06-07 Thread Steve Smith


  
  
I completely appreciate the sentiment of hacking things to do what
they weren't intended to do.

I also am sympathetic with the irritation with corporate deals that
leave us with products that have what feel like arbitrary
restrictions (iPhone only works with ATT)...

But at the same time... I agree with Eric's point...   vote with
your feet (wallet).
  I've a
friend whose first response to any new interesting piece of tech is:
I can't wait to run that thing through a band
saw!

  

  
Glen,
  If by "enslaved to a corporate cabal" you mean
  that I use my cell phone
  mostly as a phone, I can tell you it doesn't feel that
  bad. Personally, I have
  trouble imagining why anyone would want to do otherwise.
  The complaints of
  people who have to 'go through the trouble' to jailbreak
  iPhones, for example,
  strike me as silly. If you don't like what the iPhone is,
  why did you buy one?
  It's like someone who buys a new house and then complains
  it is not laid out
  the way they want, and then complains about how hard it
  was to redo the floor
  plan: You know there were other houses, right? You know it
  was a perfectly
  functional house already, right? 
  
  Now, I'm not against tinkering with
  things. If you are the type of person that likes to buy
  things intended for one
  purpose and modify them for other purposes, then I support
  you, and am at times
  a comrade in arms. But if that were the case, there would
  be no reason to
  complain. 
  
  Ah well, slave signing out,
  
  Eric
  
  On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 12:43 PM, "glen e. p. ropella"
g...@tempusdictum.com
  wrote:
  
This is more about the hardware manufacturer and the service provider,
not the operating system.  FWIW, Samsung is very friendly.  I have a
Motorola.  They're relatively neutral.  Verizon is not friendly.  Apple
is an enemy.  T-Mobile is neutral.  Cricket is friendly (so far).

I can't imagine anyone _not_ rooting their phone and replacing their
operating system at will.  It boggles my mind that so many tech savvy
people enslave themselves to a corporate cabal.

Owen Densmore wrote at 06/07/2011 09:27 AM:
 [Note: widened from wedtech to include friam, see attached.]
 
From /.: Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban
 	http://goo.gl/ynL9A 
 
 I believe I now am in the same spot with android as with iphone: I will
have to at least jail break any phone I own, and heck, might as well unlock it
while I'm at it.
 
 This surprises me.  Android was to be the hacker's delight, a Google
"no evil" phone that allows me to use it as I please.  Not a sissy
iphone where Apple rules my life and limits my options.
 
 After yesterdays announcement of the iTunes cloud (where they store
not only your bought media in their cloud, but any CDs you rip and have in
iTunes!!), I'm rethinking just how free Google etc are over Apple.
 
 I still plan to complete my conversion to gmail, and the Google ecology
has lots of advantages.  But Apple is gaining fast with everything (mail,
contacts, calendar, music, bookmarks, ...) in iCloud and accessible
everywhere.
 
 If this works, and that's a big IF, and if they can be cross-platform ..
at least windows if not linux/unix (a bigger IF!), Google will start
to look like a chaotic mess of non-integrated parts while Apple, once again,
solves the user's problem.
 	http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/demoted


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Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Android: Root It? Or are there phones that come unlocked/jailbroken?

2011-06-07 Thread Joshua Thorp
  (mail, contacts, calendar, music, bookmarks, ...)

Which of these didn't google have in the cloud before apple? ;) 




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Re: [FRIAM] Android: Root It? Or are there phones that come unlocked/jailbroken?

2011-06-07 Thread glen
ERIC P. CHARLES wrote at 06/07/2011 12:59 PM:
 If by enslaved to a corporate cabal you mean that I use my cell phone
 mostly as a phone,

No, it really has nothing to do with _how_ you use any given device.
It's more about what you're paying for.  Did you pay for an actual
_thing_ or did you pay for a key to a door or facility, someone else's
property?

The whole SaaS paradigm is reprehensible to a given degree.  You buy a
phone and you really don't own anything.  What you've bought is really
a fake, kinda startup fee.[*]  If you stop paying the monthly fee, that
initial $100 or $150 is lost in the wind.

If they were more honest about it, they'd treat these devices like the
cable companies or ISPs treat their modems.  You either buy the thing
outright (and admit that it'll be largely useless when you quit) or you
lease it during the time you use their service.

 Personally,
 I have trouble imagining why anyone would want to do otherwise. The
 complaints of people who have to 'go through the trouble' to jailbreak
 iPhones, for example, strike me as silly. If you don't like what the
 iPhone is, why did you buy one? It's like someone who buys a new house
 and then complains it is not laid out the way they want, and then
 complains about how hard it was to redo the floor plan: You know there
 were other houses, right? You know it was a perfectly functional house
 already, right?

I suppose there are two ways to think about this.  (There are 2 types of
people in the world: 1) those who divide the people in the world into 2
types and 2) those who don't.)

1) There are those of us who find satisfaction in _doing_ rather than
having, and

2) There are those of us who enjoy nesting, i.e. surrounding ourselves
with our own accomplishments.

(1) and (2) are, by no means, disjoint.  When I look at my phone, I see
things that I've achieved (on the shoulders of giants, of course).
That's satisfying to some extent.  Similarly, when the phone behaves in
some way that I didn't expect, it is relatively trivial for me to figure
out why it behaved that way and why I expected something different.  Had
I not rooted it and replaced the OS, this would not be the case.  The
former is a result of (2) and the latter is a result of (1).

If you think either (1) or (2) are silly, then we are at a rhetorical
impasse. ;-)

What boggles my mind are the tech-savvy people who seem to blank out on
some things.  Like a programmer who can't change their own oil.  Or a
mechanic who is baffled by computers.  By saying it boggles me, I'm not
implying that they are _silly_, or wrong, or whatever.  It just confuses
me.  It seems that you either want to know how things work, or you
don't.  It is _so_ EASY to root and replace the OS on Android phones
that I can't imagine any tech savvy person with disposable income _not_
doing so.

[*] There's also a kind of consumerist, disposable culture, influence
at work, here.  If you don't/can't root and replace the OS on your cell
phone, then that phone is a lot like a Bic lighter or disposable razor.
 Your supposed to use it once, then throw it into some landfill because
it's become useless.  Now, I'm no tree-hugging liberal.  But it seems to
me that this disposable computer culture lacks an ability to account for
its externalities.  I should be able to use my phone for many years.
And if, in order to do that, I have to maintain the OS _myself_, then I
should be allowed to do so.  I used my G1 long past the point where
T-Mobile was pushing updates only because I used CyanogenMod.  And when
I finally found the $$ to buy a new phone, I passed that old G1 on to a
less fortunate, but more geeky, friend who is still using it.  I can say
the same about many of the desk- and lap-tops around my house.  And when
they are finally of no use to me, I give them to FreeGeek.org, who
refurbishes them and gives them to people who don't have computers.  It
just seems reasonable to me; but perhaps I've drunk too much Kool Aid?

-- 
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Re: [FRIAM] Android: Root It? Or are there phones that come unlocked/jailbroken?

2011-06-07 Thread Russ Abbott
I understand wanting to know how things work.  My problem is that I don't
have the time to work on all the things that I might work on.  If I had an
Android phone (I don't but not for any important reason), I doubt that I
would have the time to work on it. There are too many other things I want to
spend my time doing.

My wife's computer is always doing something flaky. I'm the one she looks to
for help.  Often it's not too much of a hassle. But there are times when it
takes forever to track down what's wrong.  I don't want to spend too much of
my time doing that--even though it's nice to find out what's really going
on.  My life is full enough with technology that I often really like having
a gadget that just works--and I don't have to think about it. In fact, that
should be one of the selling points of the iPhone and iPad. My complaint
about them is that they don't live up to that promise.

*-- Russ *


On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:21 PM, glen g...@ropella.name wrote:

 ERIC P. CHARLES wrote at 06/07/2011 12:59 PM:
  If by enslaved to a corporate cabal you mean that I use my cell phone
  mostly as a phone,

 No, it really has nothing to do with _how_ you use any given device.
 It's more about what you're paying for.  Did you pay for an actual
 _thing_ or did you pay for a key to a door or facility, someone else's
 property?

 The whole SaaS paradigm is reprehensible to a given degree.  You buy a
 phone and you really don't own anything.  What you've bought is really
 a fake, kinda startup fee.[*]  If you stop paying the monthly fee, that
 initial $100 or $150 is lost in the wind.

 If they were more honest about it, they'd treat these devices like the
 cable companies or ISPs treat their modems.  You either buy the thing
 outright (and admit that it'll be largely useless when you quit) or you
 lease it during the time you use their service.

  Personally,
  I have trouble imagining why anyone would want to do otherwise. The
  complaints of people who have to 'go through the trouble' to jailbreak
  iPhones, for example, strike me as silly. If you don't like what the
  iPhone is, why did you buy one? It's like someone who buys a new house
  and then complains it is not laid out the way they want, and then
  complains about how hard it was to redo the floor plan: You know there
  were other houses, right? You know it was a perfectly functional house
  already, right?

 I suppose there are two ways to think about this.  (There are 2 types of
 people in the world: 1) those who divide the people in the world into 2
 types and 2) those who don't.)

 1) There are those of us who find satisfaction in _doing_ rather than
 having, and

 2) There are those of us who enjoy nesting, i.e. surrounding ourselves
 with our own accomplishments.

 (1) and (2) are, by no means, disjoint.  When I look at my phone, I see
 things that I've achieved (on the shoulders of giants, of course).
 That's satisfying to some extent.  Similarly, when the phone behaves in
 some way that I didn't expect, it is relatively trivial for me to figure
 out why it behaved that way and why I expected something different.  Had
 I not rooted it and replaced the OS, this would not be the case.  The
 former is a result of (2) and the latter is a result of (1).

 If you think either (1) or (2) are silly, then we are at a rhetorical
 impasse. ;-)

 What boggles my mind are the tech-savvy people who seem to blank out on
 some things.  Like a programmer who can't change their own oil.  Or a
 mechanic who is baffled by computers.  By saying it boggles me, I'm not
 implying that they are _silly_, or wrong, or whatever.  It just confuses
 me.  It seems that you either want to know how things work, or you
 don't.  It is _so_ EASY to root and replace the OS on Android phones
 that I can't imagine any tech savvy person with disposable income _not_
 doing so.

 [*] There's also a kind of consumerist, disposable culture, influence
 at work, here.  If you don't/can't root and replace the OS on your cell
 phone, then that phone is a lot like a Bic lighter or disposable razor.
  Your supposed to use it once, then throw it into some landfill because
 it's become useless.  Now, I'm no tree-hugging liberal.  But it seems to
 me that this disposable computer culture lacks an ability to account for
 its externalities.  I should be able to use my phone for many years.
 And if, in order to do that, I have to maintain the OS _myself_, then I
 should be allowed to do so.  I used my G1 long past the point where
 T-Mobile was pushing updates only because I used CyanogenMod.  And when
 I finally found the $$ to buy a new phone, I passed that old G1 on to a
 less fortunate, but more geeky, friend who is still using it.  I can say
 the same about many of the desk- and lap-tops around my house.  And when
 they are finally of no use to me, I give them to FreeGeek.org, who
 refurbishes them and gives them to people who don't have computers.  It
 just seems reasonable to me; but perhaps 

Re: [FRIAM] Android: Root It? Or are there phones that come unlocked/jailbroken?

2011-06-07 Thread glen
Russ Abbott wrote at 06/07/2011 04:11 PM:
 often really like having a gadget that just works--and I don't have to
 think about it. In fact, that should be one of the selling points of the
 iPhone and iPad. My complaint about them is that they don't live up to
 that promise.

I understand.  To me this is the greatest confidence scheme we've ever
experienced.  Technology (tools) does not solve problems, regardless of
how often or how vehemently the tool producers claim they do.  Tools
don't solve problems.  Tool users solve problems.

So, it's a shock when we snap out of it and realize that we've been
conned.  Anyone who promises that a given tool or device that just
works is selling snake oil and ocean front property in Nevada.

-- 
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[FRIAM] entire galactic sky via 624 12 deg areas 5, 000 MPx, Photopic Sky Survey, Nick Risinger -- fractal 3D dark mesh?: Rich Murray 2011.06.07

2011-06-07 Thread Rich Murray
entire galactic sky via 624 12 deg areas 5,000 MPx, Photopic Sky
Survey, Nick Risinger -- fractal 3D dark mesh?: Rich Murray 2011.06.07
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.htm
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
[ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/86
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___


You can locate Andromeda Galaxy in the lower left of this vast image,
and zoom in until it fills half the full screen, showing its major
dark lanes.  About the size of our galaxy, it is 140,000 light years
wide, about 2.5 million light years away, with an visual size of about
3 degrees.  The Sun and Moon are about 0.5 degrees wide.

I notice that zooming in on the edges of our galaxy reveals ubiquitous
apparent complex fractal 3D dark mesh, like a loosely woven wool
sweater -- also noticable in my closeups from the Hubble Ultra Deep
Field, with the gamma doubled to lighten dark areas, and colors
saturated.


http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/geekend/photographer-captures-entire-night-sky-in-massive-image/7099?tag=nl.e101

http://skysurvey.org/

Geekend

Photographer captures entire night sky in massive image
By Wally Bahny
June 2, 2011, 11:37 AM PDT

Takeaway: Astrophotographer Nick Risinger traveled 60,000 miles and
took 37,440 exposures to create a 5,000 megapixel photo of the entire
night sky.
Learn more about his Photopic Sky Survey.

How long would it take to photograph the entire night sky?
Even more, what would it take to capture tens of millions of stars --
more than are commonly visible to the naked eye?
Photographer Nick Risinger has the answer: one year and 60,000 miles
of travel thanks to his Photopic Sky Survey, which consists of 37,440
exposures captured in the American west and South Africa.

Using an array of six cameras mounted on a tripod designed to move
with the Earth’s spin, Risinger spent innumerable nights under these
same stars listening to the click-clack of camera shutters opening and
closing.
Using a grid of 624 uniformly-spaced areas of the sky -- each a mere
12 degrees in height and containing 60 exposures to reduce the amount
of satellites, meteors, and other unwanted objects -- he then stitched
the images together to form a gigantic, 5,000 megapixel photograph
that can be viewed on his site,
using a simple zoom applet,

http://media.skysurvey.org/openzoom.html

or more in-depth with the Interactive 360 degree panorama.

http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html

The Interactive view is especially nice because it comes with a
constellation and key objects overlay.
Several objects, such as the planets and some nebulae, even have
clickable links to the Wikipedia article about that object.

If you really like what you see on the Photopic Sky Survey site, you
can order an archival print of an image.

http://skysurvey.org/prints/index.html

These prints have century-plus image stability and are very high
quality. Please note, at this time, the only print available
pre-mounted is the 60in x30in version. The checkout process is limited
to certain countries so if you live outside the U.S. please contact me
first at nrisin...@skysurvey.org

60in x 15in Photo Print on Kodak Metallic Endura gloss
$200 unmounted

96in x 24in Giclee Print on satin
$300 unmounted

120in x 30in Photo Print on Kodak Metallic Endura gloss
$500 unmounted

60in x 30in Photo Print on Kodak Metallic Endura gloss
$350 unmounted

The images below are freely available under the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial license, attributed as Nick Risinger,
skysurvey.org
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Image courtesy of Nick Risinger, skysurvey.org.

(Thanks to TechRepublic’s Mark Kaelin for the tip.)
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HUDF center top left, #90 astrodeep200407aab10ada.png 3.68 MB 1244X1243 1 of 4
identical views with different color schemes 2008.12.12 #88-91 on rmforall at
flickr.com: Rich Murray 2011.01.09
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.htm
Sunday, January 9, 2011
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#89 astrodeep200407aab10aea.png 4.14 MB 1244X1283 HUDF center top left

This image is 6.3x6.3 arc-seconds, 3.965% of the area of the Hubble Ultra Deep
Field,

which is 186 arc-seconds wide and high = 3.1 arc-minutes

= 1/10 width of the Full Moon or Sun, about 0.5 degrees,

so the HUDF is about 1% of the area of the square that holds the Full Moon or
Sun,

short introduction re viewing lovely subtle earliest structures in HUDF:
AstroDeep, Rich Murray 2009.02.23

I've found since 2005 myriad