The reaction is so facile that it would be surprising if it didn't occur given the present in the presence of the pre-biotic soup of simple molecules likely to have been pre-biotic soup of early Earth. The authors demonstrated an efficient synthesis of a phosphorylated ribonucleotide under mild conditions using if it didn't occur given these molecules. The reactions using only a small number of simple molecules likely to have been present synthesis of simple molecules.
[courtesy of the Gibberish Generator: I ran your gibberish through their Physics generator which might as well be whatever the fuck you were blathering about.]
You make the assumption that the director is for some reason the author (re: auteur theory) of a movie, which is just one way to look at film. Some of the best films Hollywood has created were not done by auteurs, Casablanca perhaps being the most appropriate example. I'm all for getting away from auteur theory, and embracing film as a collaborative medium. There are only a few truly great auteurs today, (Coppola, Mann, Mamet, Ridley Scott), rest of them mediocre (Peter Jackson) or overstretched hacks (Michael Bay, Lucas, and perhaps Spielberg) (not meant as an exhaustive list).
I've played FPSs since Wolfenstein 3D, some would say obsessively. The level of hardcore I'm talking about can be summed up looking at the game list I played at the bottom. I got tired of upgrading my PC every two years (downing a console's worth of money each time), keeping up with what's the best bang-for-buck setup (I just want to play), aimbotting and dealing with incompatibilities between hardware components and/or software.
Bought a PS3 and haven't played a PC game since (except Nethack). It just works. Killzone 2 is the only FPS I've played extensively, and it's good. I played the campaign almost through to acquaint myself with the controller, and now it's second nature.
Of course it has slower pace, but that doesn't make it less harder, or more casual. It's just as enjoyable as TO:AOT, TCE, NS (as such a serious PC gamer as you are I'm sure you're familiar with those) or BF2 - without the hassle that comes with PCs I just mentioned. No autoaim, either.
1. I don't remember which version of GIMP it was, but it was... 3-4 years ago. But yeah, appears GIMP now has color management. How robust and reliable it is I'll have to find out myself - I need ProPhoto as that's what Lightroom spits out (I know you can export in other color spaces but why would I want to lose majority of the color info when it's there). Thanks for pointing this out!
2. Printing was just not done - no drivers for GIMP/Ubuntu for any serious photo printer (7+ inks) was the killer. Doubt that has been fixed.
3. It's not. I'm not a pro photog or retoucher, but those who are, it means they have 4-40 hours of lost time to learn the new UI and workflow. That's money they're leaving on the table. Economic times, especially in photography industry, are not conducive to wasting time.
4. Personally I'd miss PhotoKit Sharpener, which makes the tedious job of sharpening digital photos palatable and fast.
5. Not an issue for me, I use a stand-alone stitcher (Autopano Pro). Haven't tried the plugins, but sounds promising for those who rely on PS.
6. Advanced doodads includes numerous little tools and filters, from the top of my head spot healing, patching tool, history brush, some advanced layer blending modes, some advanced channel manipulation modes, HSL color space. I'm sure some of these can be duplicated in GIMP, but I'm also sure some can't. Depending on the user, these can quickly become a game breaker. I wouldn't want to use a program without spot healing, Smart Filters and certain blending and masking options.
But good points, thanks. It's been a while since I've tried it, and I think it's time to try it again before plunking a thousand or so euros for UPGRADE to CS4 (I don't think I'm exaggerating much on the price).
1. Color-managed workflow - a must for even a serious amateur 2. Proper printing (see also 1) 3. No need to spend numerous hours learning a new UI and workflow 4. A massive library of plugins 5. Built-in stitching (used by landscape pros) 6. GIMP probably doesn't have Smart Filters and some other advanced doodads which have made later CS versions indispensable for those (admittedly few people) who know how to use them
I used GIMP when I really wanted to move entirely to Ubuntu. But points 1, 2 and 6 broke GIMP for me. I hate sticking to XP just so I can have PS, but that's the price I have to pay to have proper photo editing.
Indeed. SMS was invented by a Finnish engineer Matti Makkonen. There was a good story in the biggest Finnish newspaper on him a few years back... Found an English blurb:
"What I've often wondered is why our artificial hearts have a heartbeat. I mean, if it only has to move blood, why don't we use something akin to a centrifugal pump that would move blood in a constant stream..."
That's more than likely to result in your body's finely tuned system malfunctioning. Just imagine taking a "normal" engine out of a car and replacing it with Mazda's Wanker engine - I'm sure you'll end up with with a huge mess, leaking fluids all over the place. Not to mention a broken crank shaft.
Look, new sources are found all the time - or did you miss the Espirito Santo announcement? Not to mention that tech advances all the time, making previously unexploitable sources well worth the investment. Oil has been running out for generations, but human ingenuity and new sources always push back that "inevitability."
Thanks for the disclaimer at the end, though. Since you work in the oil industry, you have a vested interest in making the rest of us think there will be a shortage in oil. Cute.
Your lack of understanding on what people actually get paid for is appalling. We don't live in a communist utopia you seem to refer to.
I'm at a loss for words. Do you really believe what you wrote? Do you really think that writers' pay structure is a result of some feel-good "oh those poor souls don't have work for six months?"
And most writers have two jobs: one to pay the bills, one to write. Yes, even WGA writers.
Correction: it's 1+ trillion dollar _equivalent_. Dollars account for 30-60 of that 1+ trillion, which is still more than any other country's reserves, including the US.
So what? That sounds trollish, but really, so what? Are whales an essential part of the ecosystem? Will the food chain in the oceans be irrevocably broken if one species of whales dies? If all whales die? Biodiversity for biodiversity's sake is a stupid notion, as species have been dying for millions of years, yet we are here.
We need to move on from the emotionally loaded "rare, unique and irreplaceable" rhetoric - not to mention the cute factor of other species - to the more rational "where should we concentrate our conservation efforts?"
I'm aware of this. I picked a bad sample story to bitch about this, but/. is littered with submissions which are littered with unexplained and unlinked terms and acronyms that are gibberish to even those of us who read/. daily, like me.
Why can't/. produce blurbs that are decipherable without reading the link - yeah yeah, I know -, doing a google and wikipedia search, and having extensive industry insider knowledge?
For me (amateur photographer using PS CS3 as a digital darkroom) it's the lack of color management and 16-bit editing in GIMP. Also, the UI is atrocious, although I'm sure it might be ok if I hadn't invested years in learning and using PS already.
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The reaction is so facile that it would be surprising if it didn't occur given the present in the presence of the pre-biotic soup of simple molecules likely to have been pre-biotic soup of early Earth. The authors demonstrated an efficient synthesis of a phosphorylated ribonucleotide under mild conditions using if it didn't occur given these molecules. The reactions using only a small number of simple molecules likely to have been present synthesis of simple molecules. [courtesy of the Gibberish Generator: I ran your gibberish through their Physics generator which might as well be whatever the fuck you were blathering about.]
You make the assumption that the director is for some reason the author (re: auteur theory) of a movie, which is just one way to look at film. Some of the best films Hollywood has created were not done by auteurs, Casablanca perhaps being the most appropriate example. I'm all for getting away from auteur theory, and embracing film as a collaborative medium. There are only a few truly great auteurs today, (Coppola, Mann, Mamet, Ridley Scott), rest of them mediocre (Peter Jackson) or overstretched hacks (Michael Bay, Lucas, and perhaps Spielberg) (not meant as an exhaustive list).
I've played FPSs since Wolfenstein 3D, some would say obsessively. The level of hardcore I'm talking about can be summed up looking at the game list I played at the bottom. I got tired of upgrading my PC every two years (downing a console's worth of money each time), keeping up with what's the best bang-for-buck setup (I just want to play), aimbotting and dealing with incompatibilities between hardware components and/or software.
Bought a PS3 and haven't played a PC game since (except Nethack). It just works. Killzone 2 is the only FPS I've played extensively, and it's good. I played the campaign almost through to acquaint myself with the controller, and now it's second nature.
Of course it has slower pace, but that doesn't make it less harder, or more casual. It's just as enjoyable as TO:AOT, TCE, NS (as such a serious PC gamer as you are I'm sure you're familiar with those) or BF2 - without the hassle that comes with PCs I just mentioned. No autoaim, either.
Judging by the tone of your post, you must be an open source technical support volunteer.
1. I don't remember which version of GIMP it was, but it was... 3-4 years ago. But yeah, appears GIMP now has color management. How robust and reliable it is I'll have to find out myself - I need ProPhoto as that's what Lightroom spits out (I know you can export in other color spaces but why would I want to lose majority of the color info when it's there). Thanks for pointing this out!
2. Printing was just not done - no drivers for GIMP/Ubuntu for any serious photo printer (7+ inks) was the killer. Doubt that has been fixed.
3. It's not. I'm not a pro photog or retoucher, but those who are, it means they have 4-40 hours of lost time to learn the new UI and workflow. That's money they're leaving on the table. Economic times, especially in photography industry, are not conducive to wasting time.
4. Personally I'd miss PhotoKit Sharpener, which makes the tedious job of sharpening digital photos palatable and fast.
5. Not an issue for me, I use a stand-alone stitcher (Autopano Pro). Haven't tried the plugins, but sounds promising for those who rely on PS.
6. Advanced doodads includes numerous little tools and filters, from the top of my head spot healing, patching tool, history brush, some advanced layer blending modes, some advanced channel manipulation modes, HSL color space. I'm sure some of these can be duplicated in GIMP, but I'm also sure some can't. Depending on the user, these can quickly become a game breaker. I wouldn't want to use a program without spot healing, Smart Filters and certain blending and masking options.
But good points, thanks. It's been a while since I've tried it, and I think it's time to try it again before plunking a thousand or so euros for UPGRADE to CS4 (I don't think I'm exaggerating much on the price).
1. Color-managed workflow - a must for even a serious amateur
2. Proper printing (see also 1)
3. No need to spend numerous hours learning a new UI and workflow
4. A massive library of plugins
5. Built-in stitching (used by landscape pros)
6. GIMP probably doesn't have Smart Filters and some other advanced doodads which have made later CS versions indispensable for those (admittedly few people) who know how to use them
I used GIMP when I really wanted to move entirely to Ubuntu. But points 1, 2 and 6 broke GIMP for me. I hate sticking to XP just so I can have PS, but that's the price I have to pay to have proper photo editing.
Yeah, this is a brilliant idea if you want to turn your army into a zombie army.
Hint: sniper bullets travel faster than sound, so you'll end up with a zombie army if you rely on sound detection... fine, nevermind.
Causation does not equal causation.
Perhaps the populace elects Republican presidents during downturns?
Is gratuitous name-dropping a requirement for physicists, or are you just a pompous fool?
Indeed. SMS was invented by a Finnish engineer Matti Makkonen. There was a good story in the biggest Finnish newspaper on him a few years back... Found an English blurb:
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Finnish+inventions+-+going+cheap/1135220274722
"What I've often wondered is why our artificial hearts have a heartbeat. I mean, if it only has to move blood, why don't we use something akin to a centrifugal pump that would move blood in a constant stream..."
That's more than likely to result in your body's finely tuned system malfunctioning. Just imagine taking a "normal" engine out of a car and replacing it with Mazda's Wanker engine - I'm sure you'll end up with with a huge mess, leaking fluids all over the place. Not to mention a broken crank shaft.
Peak oil fanatic gets a 5 on /., what a shocker.
Look, new sources are found all the time - or did you miss the Espirito Santo announcement? Not to mention that tech advances all the time, making previously unexploitable sources well worth the investment. Oil has been running out for generations, but human ingenuity and new sources always push back that "inevitability."
Thanks for the disclaimer at the end, though. Since you work in the oil industry, you have a vested interest in making the rest of us think there will be a shortage in oil. Cute.
Your lack of understanding on what people actually get paid for is appalling. We don't live in a communist utopia you seem to refer to.
I'm at a loss for words. Do you really believe what you wrote? Do you really think that writers' pay structure is a result of some feel-good "oh those poor souls don't have work for six months?"
And most writers have two jobs: one to pay the bills, one to write. Yes, even WGA writers.
And I can't believe you got a 5 for that drivel.
Moot point since Amazon "backs up" your books: you can re-download the books for free once you've bought them.
Enough with the pretentious "price point."
I trust you know him personally? Making such assumptions based solely on his media persona and hearsay would be... what's the word... Right: idiotic.
Correction: it's 1+ trillion dollar _equivalent_. Dollars account for 30-60 of that 1+ trillion, which is still more than any other country's reserves, including the US.
"Given the failure rate, don't you think 'brick' would be more appropriate than 'box'? ;)"
/..
Should've known better than to try a vagina joke on
He is talking about Xbox 360, right?
So what? That sounds trollish, but really, so what? Are whales an essential part of the ecosystem? Will the food chain in the oceans be irrevocably broken if one species of whales dies? If all whales die? Biodiversity for biodiversity's sake is a stupid notion, as species have been dying for millions of years, yet we are here.
We need to move on from the emotionally loaded "rare, unique and irreplaceable" rhetoric - not to mention the cute factor of other species - to the more rational "where should we concentrate our conservation efforts?"
It is, but not to figure out WTF is going on.
I'm aware of this. I picked a bad sample story to bitch about this, but /. is littered with submissions which are littered with unexplained and unlinked terms and acronyms that are gibberish to even those of us who read /. daily, like me.
Why can't /. produce blurbs that are decipherable without reading the link - yeah yeah, I know -, doing a google and wikipedia search, and having extensive industry insider knowledge?
For me (amateur photographer using PS CS3 as a digital darkroom) it's the lack of color management and 16-bit editing in GIMP. Also, the UI is atrocious, although I'm sure it might be ok if I hadn't invested years in learning and using PS already.
But Paint Shop Pro has proper color management and limited 16-bit editing, which GIMP still lacks, which is the most mind-boggling thing.