Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

What’s better, a camera or a camcorder?

Friday, September 24th, 2004

I used to be a keen amateur photographer when I was a teenager and during my 20s. My father had an old camera, later he bought a new one. He also bought developing devices, so I used to make black and white photographs at home.
Later in my 30s. I used a camera only during my holiday and I started to buy colored films, which I wasn’t able to develop at home. It was necessary to send them to the lab.
In 1994 I bought my first camcorder and I was thrilled from it. Its zoom was excellent, I could record even remote objects well. It was amazing, that I was able to record objects in motion and to replay them on my TV monitor.
At that time I completely ceased using a camera and I thought that everyone would do the same and that the production of cameras would finish.
At first I was right, because most of my relatives, friends and people, who I knew, bought a camcorder. But later cameras with a zoom and with a possibility of recording video sequences were invented. They were quite cheap. It was clear that cameras like that, produced on a digital base, had most of the advantages that only camcorders had offered so far.
I’d say, that people buy cameras more than camcorders these days.
Maybe camcorders alone will cease and will be completely replaced with cameras in spite of the fact that nowadays digital camcorders enables taking pictures too.
It’s also possible that mobile phones in a short future will enable not only calling and taking pictures, but shooting objects in motion too.

Littoral and inland countries

Tuesday, September 7th, 2004

I’m used to live in the country, which doesn’t lie by the sea. During my everyday life I don’t miss it.
But this fact is the reason why I regularly spend my abroad holiday somewhere nearby the coast.
Relaxing on the beach and swimming in the sea, I always realize advantages which have countries completely or partly surrounded by the sea.
Littoral countries make use of their position. Presence of the sea influences economy of such country, which profits of fishing, tourism, sea transport, etc. Lots of people are employed or make bussiness in branches connected with the sea.
I’m sure that my country would be much more developed and richer having sea.
So I must envy to those who live in the seaside countries.

The Big Bang

Wednesday, August 25th, 2004

Most of the scientists all over the world thinks that about 10 or 20 billion years ago all the matter was together, concentrated into a zero capacity and that the density of this matter, so called the primeval atom, was endlessly great. At that time a cosmic explosion happened. This explosion, called the Big Bang, started a huge expansion of the matter and of the space in all directions and that’s the origin of the universe.

They also think that before the Big Bang, neither time nor space existed and thus the question, what have existed before, is a meaningless.

But the Big Bang theory doesn’t explain, what sort of process or activity created the primeval atom, what surrounded it and what caused the Big Bang.

I’m sure that mankind will never be able to answer basic questions: Was the matter created and is final, or was it never created and is infinite?

I belong among those, who thinks that everything has both its beginning and its end, because I believe that nothing exists without its origin and nothing lasts forever.

On the other hand, if all that surrounds us, has its origin, what or who caused it and set the laws of nature?

Scientists and philosophers will always be able to research the nature, not what maybe exists beyond it. They will never be able to confirm or rebut existence of God or another supernatural phenomenon.

Is it a pity? I don’t think so. But in spite of this, I’d like to know true answers on all these questions.

Malta as a homeland or Malta as a holiday destination?

Friday, July 16th, 2004

I’m going to visit Malta during my holiday this year, so I’ve just booked a package tour with departure on the 28th August. It’s going to be my second flight to Malta, for the first time I was there 7 years ago.
Malta island has been an unusual destination for me, because it’s a tiny island, everything is close, so I used to go there on foot a lot.
During my stay there I’m going to swim and to make a trips on foot and I’ll probably make a trip to Gozo, another island of the Malta republic, which is even smaller than Malta island itself and which is situated 3 or 4 km west of Malta island. Maybe I’ll rent a bike for long trips around the island.
I’d like to meet some native inhabitants too, because I’ve recently visited a website of a girl from Malta. She doesn’t like living there. She thinks that Malta is too small for comfortable living, so I’d like to ask other people living there if they like or dislike their life there, what are advantages and disadvantages, if they’d like to move somewhere in the continent etc.
As to me, I thing Malta is both a good place for a holiday and a good place for living.