The films from The Impossible Project work, but at this point still need to be considered "experimental". The biggest problem they have yet to conquer is the chemical layer that shields the photo from light immediately after ejection from the camera - aka the opacifier layer.
All the current films require that you immediately protect the film from ambient light while it develops, which definitely kills some of the joy of the original SX70 experience.
Still major amounts of mad props to TIP for saving the film manufacturing equipment from being scrapped and being able to create a whole new film that works even as well as it does, on a shoestring budget in a short amount of time.
Fuji still makes some instant cameras, the Instax and Instax Mini line. The blood-sucking leeches, errrrr, the company that currently owns the Polaroid name rebadges one of the Instax Minis as the Polaroid 300 and sells it at a premium.
The Instax films are not compatible with older Polaroid cameras that use integral films, but Fuji also makes some films that fit the even older Polaroid pack film type cameras (pull the film out, wait 60 seconds, peel, wonder what to do with goopy negative portion).
>When you think of product placement on television you tend to think of cumbersome 1950s examples where the actor would cheesily turn to camera and hold up, say, a bar of soap
No I don't. I think of a scene with the actors driving somewhere, and one says to the other "hey, this is that new CANYONERO with that great NAVISYNCSTAR system, isn't it?" And the dialog just gets worse from there, while the camera lingers lovingly on the vehicles console for a creepily long time.
The choice of "a" or "an" is dictated by the sound of the following syllable, not based on the letter. Since "utopia" starts with the sound equivalent to "you", then "a" is the proper choice. Similarly, we would say an honor.
Back in the early 90's I worked with Unisys desktop systems (oh BTOS, how I miss thee). The suggested correction for "Unisys" was "anuses." We filed a problem report, and the official response was "works as designed."
At a very rudimentary level . . . A bill can be introduced in either the Senate or the House of Representatives. After being passed in one, it must then be passed by the other before it is sent to the President, who can sign the bill into law or veto it. If one chamber has added amendments that the other didn't, or if the two chambers have passed bills that are similar but not exactly the same, then the differences must be worked out by a conference committee and the compromise bill re-passed before it can be signed.
Any law can be challenged as being unconstitutional - you just need somebody with standing to file the appropriate suit in the appropriate court.
The judge is not "messing with the law", he is making a judgment on whether or not it violates the Constitution.
And just because you can allow foursquare to barrage your friends with location updates (which is probably the default, based on what I've seen) doesn't mean you should. The issue isn't people sharing their information, it's people screaming "look at me, look at me".
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The films from The Impossible Project work, but at this point still need to be considered "experimental". The biggest problem they have yet to conquer is the chemical layer that shields the photo from light immediately after ejection from the camera - aka the opacifier layer.
All the current films require that you immediately protect the film from ambient light while it develops, which definitely kills some of the joy of the original SX70 experience.
Still major amounts of mad props to TIP for saving the film manufacturing equipment from being scrapped and being able to create a whole new film that works even as well as it does, on a shoestring budget in a short amount of time.
Fuji still makes some instant cameras, the Instax and Instax Mini line. The blood-sucking leeches, errrrr, the company that currently owns the Polaroid name rebadges one of the Instax Minis as the Polaroid 300 and sells it at a premium.
The Instax films are not compatible with older Polaroid cameras that use integral films, but Fuji also makes some films that fit the even older Polaroid pack film type cameras (pull the film out, wait 60 seconds, peel, wonder what to do with goopy negative portion).
While you are reading, you should look up "false dichotomy."
Look kids, Big Ben! Parliament!
>When you think of product placement on television you tend to think of cumbersome 1950s examples where the actor would cheesily turn to camera and hold up, say, a bar of soap
No I don't. I think of a scene with the actors driving somewhere, and one says to the other "hey, this is that new CANYONERO with that great NAVISYNCSTAR system, isn't it?" And the dialog just gets worse from there, while the camera lingers lovingly on the vehicles console for a creepily long time.
> was it going to be a Sci-Fi film, or an action film?
As long as it's not a Syfy film!
It's cute that she thinks everybody on FB uses a real name. I'll be sure to pass that along to my friend Charlie Unknown*, and many others.
*Not the actual pseudonym, I wouldn't want somebody to get reported to the bureaucrats....
It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.
The choice of "a" or "an" is dictated by the sound of the following syllable, not based on the letter. Since "utopia" starts with the sound equivalent to "you", then "a" is the proper choice. Similarly, we would say an honor.
(Insert argument about "an historic ..." here).
"Roog" is one of the best stories, ever. I'm also fond of "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford".
And last night I read "The Eyes Have It", which I don't think I'd encountered before.
Wow, flamebait mod for a Stewie quote. Mod isn't a Family Guy fan, I guess.
Eddie Timanus wasn't amateurish.
Really? You think only Slashdot readers have ever watched the Simpsons?
You might want to check out that big room with the blue ceiling.
Yep, I was disappointed that there was absolutely no mention of Phil and Lem in this story.
I think in this case they moved the extraneous vowel to the end, they're called ScrewU's
*sings*
Cellular, Modular, screws are Pentalobular.
Bonus points to who gets the reference
*sings* /*sings*
Make a circuit with me
I can't wait to spend my bonus points!!
Back in the early 90's I worked with Unisys desktop systems (oh BTOS, how I miss thee). The suggested correction for "Unisys" was "anuses." We filed a problem report, and the official response was "works as designed."
How what? How to display a left angle aka less than?
HTML entities are your friends...
< becomes <
Gotta have the starting ampersand and trailing semicolon.
Now go back to the original and look at the first line.
+1
(and unfortunately required additional text to get around the lameness filter)
At a very rudimentary level . . . A bill can be introduced in either the Senate or the House of Representatives. After being passed in one, it must then be passed by the other before it is sent to the President, who can sign the bill into law or veto it. If one chamber has added amendments that the other didn't, or if the two chambers have passed bills that are similar but not exactly the same, then the differences must be worked out by a conference committee and the compromise bill re-passed before it can be signed.
Any law can be challenged as being unconstitutional - you just need somebody with standing to file the appropriate suit in the appropriate court.
The judge is not "messing with the law", he is making a judgment on whether or not it violates the Constitution.
I don't think you understand the term "got lucky." Oh right, I'm reading Slashdot ...
Yeah, and I'm champing at the bit to correct another mangled idiom. And don't even get me started on forming plurals.
Ah, thank you for that information. People aren't just being asshats inadvertantly, they doing it on purpose. Time to edit some lists, I think.
And just because you can allow foursquare to barrage your friends with location updates (which is probably the default, based on what I've seen) doesn't mean you should. The issue isn't people sharing their information, it's people screaming "look at me, look at me".