From the responses of Ramachandran I can safely say that Ramachandran hasn’t served a day of his life as an aviator. He hasn’t the slightest clue to what hs is actually talking about… No knowledge of the operations of a aricraft especially a military aircraft.

I wonder what is the perpose of this thread other than to flame?

A military is not a democracy. If you think otherwize than you clearly are nuts.

There is not much freedom in fighter operations, in real life you go by engagement rules and every pilot know that. If they want to keep your job then they would stick to the rules and any deviation in actions are punished severely. It’s probably why there is a field manual for people to study and not making up engagement rules as Ramachandran seems to suggest.

Who ever started this thead have no idea what they are talking about…

It’s the military here you are talking about… its not a fregan democracy. The same manuvres are practiced till death and air combat are based on the rules of engagement. That does not change if you wanted it to or not.

Good polit is based on training time allotted. Free countries have better pilots due to more funds avaliable to train them. So it really is about who ever has more dough. The wealthier the country the better the pilot.

Dragon you should know better than to be draged into some flame war on commies vs india…

Well the observation is good but we also have to look at the policy China is following. The policy is Lay Low, Dont Bother, Find alternative, Keep growing.
Latest human right comission report by US bashed China over Human rights abuses, China opted to verbally condemn the statement and move on. As far as China getting involved over energy then let me give you a slight angle, Yesterday 11th FIVE YEAR plan was agreed by China governing Committe. One of the key points was optimize the use of energy. This suggest they are not thinking of increasing their energy resources let alone have any plans to fight for them. Bottom Line: Though energy is important for china, It will not go in direct conflict with USA over it.
Looking at the reaction these days considering Russia is the only country taking active role to diffuse the standoff between Iran and West , with China acting as a bystandard. Military Intervention by China, I doubt it seriously.
Comments Guys?

Personally I don’t think China will be involved in the conflict if there will be one. Good point on the energy issue though… as I would guess Beijing would be quite concerned as there is energy shortage already. Being a permenant member of the security council to UN will mean that China might crush any motion of force invloving the UN. Ultimately it might become Iraq all over with relatively low interational support and US would thus have to do the blunt of the fighting. Would the US accept is still up to disscussion.

Does anyone use a video/5th generation i-pod as a portable back-up? I borrowed a camera connector and tried to back up the card in my Canon 20D (which is supposed to be a compatible camera) without any success. I a had “device not recognised” message or similar on the i-pod.

Am I being technologically dim, or is it unreliable/quirky/difficult?

Any help would be appreciated as it seems a quick and easy way to back up or free up card space on the move.

TIA

CM

I thought you had to “Mod” the firmware in order to use the Ipod for other applications?

I wouldn’t reconmend it unless you know for sure what you are doing. Playing around with the Firmware may irreprably damage the hardware.

I find this argument useless as the indian flamers are the same one that claim MiG-23 superiority over F-14s and Mig-29K better than F-35…

Mabe in their tiny minds all equipement operated by india are superior and thus Indian aerospace industry must not be far off or even ahead of other aerospace giants…

Pretty close to the tanker there…!!!

Is that normal behaviour for a warhip to cut in front?

Guys,

I was reading an aviation book – published by a well-known aviation publisher and a well known author – when I spotted what I thought were a couple of my photos.

Sure enough, on every point of reference – composition, lighting, background etc etc, the photos are mine.

They are on my website – and I certainly did not give my permission for them to be used.

There is no acknowledgement in the book of their provenance……..

My question is – how do I prove that they are mine ??

They are digital images, so I don’t have any negatives and the flash card they were recorded onto is long wiped clean.

I do have the images on my PC – and saved to a DVD – so I have the original digital ‘stamp’ on the images – date & time taken etc.

In fact one of the originals is much larger – the web version and the ‘stolen’ one published – are cropped.

This is further proof that they are one and the same photo.

Does the fact that they are on my website – without any form of ‘copyright’ wording – make them public domain ???

Do I have any recourse in (UK) law ???

I have had my web photos ‘stolen’ before and used on other websites, but to see them published for profit……….. 😮

Or should I just shut up and stop whining – and put it down to experience?

It makes me reluctant to ‘share’ my photos on the web and on these newsgroups – so in the end we all suffer…

I’d be grateful for any advice and input…

Any of you professional photographers ? Damien ???

Cheers

Ken

Easy!
Do you have the original Digital pictures that hasn’t been tampered with?
IE not edited?

As you might already know these pictcures contain extra info embedded by the camera and usually contain the type of camera used, shutter speed, etc.

It is proof that you have taken this picture and reserve all rights too it.

Now all you have to do is sue the magazine in court. I believe legally when a photographer shoots a photo (doesn’t matter what format so digital included)
He/she has all the rights to the photot at the moment he/she depress the shutter. There won’t be any dispute regarding this. The dispute may come in the form of whether the web site explicitly stated the legality and restrictions on the use of the photos provided and if your photos were water marked for copy right… In the context of the internet, info is provided free of charge and if the photo on your site did not state that they can not be used in anyother way this falls into the grey area. Still if you make big enough of a fuss you will get something of a compensation.

i am not blaming China for having a larger military budget, i just said any program needs money and that undoutedly India has skills and capabilities to build 100 LCAs but the military budget is the main reason the LCA program runs much much slower.

It is not because the Indians are less capable or have less experience, if you notice both programs represent the same level of technology however India`s runs slower due to economic reasons, if they pump more money and recruit some french, russians and americans engineers, the LCA program and production will run faster.

The J-10 runs faster because China has cared about pumpig money and foreign expertise and technology into the J-10 program

I think you misunderstood my post…
What i meant to say is the J-10 project wouldn’t really have much more funds than the LCA. Since China has so much else to develope the funds are spread between everything. So in otherwords what is seemingly a large military budget won’t necessarily mean more money for the J-10.