In Australia, the police and customs are much more effective. It's also really hard to get assault guns, so gangs tend to be massively outgunned by the authorities. We had some locally made "Owen Guns" (WWII carbines) getting made in an illegal factory in 2004; that's how starved our gangs are for hardware. Even the "good" African countries will have trouble, because gangs will be able to smuggle guns and ivory across land boarders to and from the "bad" countries.
The exact word he used was "socialism". Chinese heavy industry is typically state owned. Actually, a lot of countries are quite socialist, they just don't say it.
And his point was, state owned industries can be quite environmentally unfriendly, which is true. Just look at what happened to the Aral Sea in the former USSR.
Actually, economics majors say that money is a "thin veil over barter", so you don't have to worry about it. Queue the Global Financial Crisis, and they say it can only be modelled as a shock. They don't like considering debt, because it would help them predict crisis, and then they'd get blamed if they modelled it wrong. It's better to say that financial crisis are an unpredictable shock to otherwise perfect markets.
Yeah, I'd imagine the saying really came from one guy who thought it was a smart way to carry a recalcitrant cat, while moving homes. He then told a few friends what happened when he let the blighter out, and they told their friends, and quite frankly, you can't *not* imagine what happens when you let a cat out of a bag.
The above threads point out that this is probably false. That if you had a cat in a bag, you couldn't mistake it for anything else. I think it's just as likely that people transported cats in bags (if they were moving house?), and had a very... memorable... time letting the little bastard out.
They do it because it's really easy work. They don't need make-up, they don't need many shots, they don't need to learn the lines, the sound guys can fix everything up, and they just sit in a studio with a script ham acting into a microphone.
Good voice actors won't need as much post-production, and can do more to develop a character, but that's more of an issue in long-running cartoons.
Note: a "poke" is a bag. Apparently, people would sell a cat in a bag, and tell you it was a baby pig (which you could then fatten up). If you "let the cat out of the bag", you were showing everyone what a fraud the merchant was.
Let's not forget, you can render a really nice smooth teapot for peanuts, but you can't tell a good story, choreograph a chaotic rescue scene, or draw the expression on the protagonist's face when a little old lady kicks him in the nuts. You also have no chance of getting Jack Black or Angelina Jolie as voice actors.
Pixar is not just a render farm. It's also a studio. The South Park guys showed you can still beat a studio if you are willing to target a new demographic (people who liked The Simpsons, and want sex jokes as well as fart jokes) and have talented actors and writers, but it's not easy.
I'd like to know what else you can sue the government for. If they had the death penalty for petty theft, I bet you'd see a lot less theft. Can drug addicts sue the government for not imprisoning their dealers? Can convicted dealers sue because the government didn't imprison their clients? There's endless fun to be had!
Fun fact - Koalas eat eucalyptus (gum tree) leaves, which are pretty toxic to all other animals. They have a special bacteria in their gut which helps break the toxin down. Guess how the bacteria is passed on to the next generation?
Are they actually capable of real time packet encryption; or do they just run it like a proxy? The lag can be horrific, like there's some server at the border waiting for the whole page to download, before they forward it to you.
You don't understand - Carriers make money for overselling. They want you to buy 1GB a month, because they don't think you'll use it. If you do, they'll complain that you are using too much, and "hogging" data.
What they really want is to charge you for a 1GB plan, then charge you extra if you actually use it. Carriers want to upsell people to plans they won't use, and feel cheated if people use what they bought.
Is it real "fake archaic" language? It was meant to be set in another world, so the style wasn't fake old English, but synthetic Middle-Earth. And Tolkien really was a good enough linguist to pull off a synthetic dialogue. "Wardour Street English" is what you get if you try to imitate Shakespeare or The King James Bible.
it is helpful to society to have professors in colleges who aren't just there to provide "here's the video for the lecture, here's the choose-a-guess test, here's your certificate" classes but instead provide actual interactive discussions, answer questions relevant to the topic at hand from a learned perspective, continue to do research in the subjects they are teaching, and continually update the curriculum thereby.
Yeah, 'cause that happens in bricks and mortar universities *all* the time.
Or mass noun, or non-count noun. Generally, anything that is indivisible (like water or air) or difficult to divide (like leaves of tea, or grains or rice, or heads of cattle) is a mass noun. In Chinese and Japanese, everything is essentially a mass noun - you always say stuff like "head of cattle" or "sheet of paper" or "unit of people".
A f/0.95 25mm M4/3 lens sounds nice. I think decent 50mm prime on a larger camera should be as good, or better, but it's still pretty kick-ass.
So it seems 3rd party M4/3 lenses *are* cheaper - you prove my point. You won't get a f/0.95 50mm APS-C or full frame less than the price of a small car. But the original manufacturer lenses are a total rip-off, much more so than in the larger formats.
I forgot to add - they are way overpriced, and so are all their gear. You shouldn't pay more than APS-C equivalents. It's just wrong to sell a smaller lens for more. When the price comes down to earth (and maybe Sigma gets involved in making 3rd party lenses), I'll definitely get one though.
I didn't know about the focus thing, but from what I can tell 4/3rds seem otherwise OK.
Their sensor is pretty big - I think they have a 2.0x crop factor (i.e. 1/4 the area, or roughly half the quality of a full frame), as opposed to a 1.6 crop factor (i.e. 1/1.6 the quality) in an entry Canon DSLR. This is streets ahead of a ~4.5 crop factor for a s95, or ~4.2 crop factor on the LX5 (or Leica rebranded version - the D-Lux 5), which are some of the best non-SLR cameras you can get.
You can get some cute lenses. I like the way a lot of them are about 17mm, which is like a 21mm on a Canon 1.6 crop. That's a much nicer size (IMO) than the 50mm that everyone seems to get for APS-C DSLRs. Still, that's a personal thing.
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In Australia, the police and customs are much more effective. It's also really hard to get assault guns, so gangs tend to be massively outgunned by the authorities. We had some locally made "Owen Guns" (WWII carbines) getting made in an illegal factory in 2004; that's how starved our gangs are for hardware. Even the "good" African countries will have trouble, because gangs will be able to smuggle guns and ivory across land boarders to and from the "bad" countries.
Q: What do you do if an elephant comes through your window?
A: Swim!
It's possible he's referring to online-only book stores. I hear there's this new company called "Amazon", which is doing OK.
The exact word he used was "socialism". Chinese heavy industry is typically state owned. Actually, a lot of countries are quite socialist, they just don't say it.
And his point was, state owned industries can be quite environmentally unfriendly, which is true. Just look at what happened to the Aral Sea in the former USSR.
Or, kids don't swim in creeks anymore these days.
Actually, economics majors say that money is a "thin veil over barter", so you don't have to worry about it. Queue the Global Financial Crisis, and they say it can only be modelled as a shock. They don't like considering debt, because it would help them predict crisis, and then they'd get blamed if they modelled it wrong. It's better to say that financial crisis are an unpredictable shock to otherwise perfect markets.
Yeah, I'd imagine the saying really came from one guy who thought it was a smart way to carry a recalcitrant cat, while moving homes. He then told a few friends what happened when he let the blighter out, and they told their friends, and quite frankly, you can't *not* imagine what happens when you let a cat out of a bag.
The above threads point out that this is probably false. That if you had a cat in a bag, you couldn't mistake it for anything else. I think it's just as likely that people transported cats in bags (if they were moving house?), and had a very ... memorable ... time letting the little bastard out.
Would anybody else include China?
They do it because it's really easy work. They don't need make-up, they don't need many shots, they don't need to learn the lines, the sound guys can fix everything up, and they just sit in a studio with a script ham acting into a microphone.
Good voice actors won't need as much post-production, and can do more to develop a character, but that's more of an issue in long-running cartoons.
Note: a "poke" is a bag. Apparently, people would sell a cat in a bag, and tell you it was a baby pig (which you could then fatten up). If you "let the cat out of the bag", you were showing everyone what a fraud the merchant was.
See http://xkcd.com/325/ (when the SOPA blackout ends).
Because everyone knows that NO media outlet will EVER quote someone out of context.
Let's not forget, you can render a really nice smooth teapot for peanuts, but you can't tell a good story, choreograph a chaotic rescue scene, or draw the expression on the protagonist's face when a little old lady kicks him in the nuts. You also have no chance of getting Jack Black or Angelina Jolie as voice actors.
Pixar is not just a render farm. It's also a studio. The South Park guys showed you can still beat a studio if you are willing to target a new demographic (people who liked The Simpsons, and want sex jokes as well as fart jokes) and have talented actors and writers, but it's not easy.
> pork (I hope) rib bones
FTFY
I'd like to know what else you can sue the government for. If they had the death penalty for petty theft, I bet you'd see a lot less theft. Can drug addicts sue the government for not imprisoning their dealers? Can convicted dealers sue because the government didn't imprison their clients? There's endless fun to be had!
Fun fact - Koalas eat eucalyptus (gum tree) leaves, which are pretty toxic to all other animals. They have a special bacteria in their gut which helps break the toxin down. Guess how the bacteria is passed on to the next generation?
Are they actually capable of real time packet encryption; or do they just run it like a proxy? The lag can be horrific, like there's some server at the border waiting for the whole page to download, before they forward it to you.
... Not to mention that almost everyone in the US is in the top 1% worldwide.
Just not on standard of living.
You don't understand - Carriers make money for overselling. They want you to buy 1GB a month, because they don't think you'll use it. If you do, they'll complain that you are using too much, and "hogging" data.
What they really want is to charge you for a 1GB plan, then charge you extra if you actually use it. Carriers want to upsell people to plans they won't use, and feel cheated if people use what they bought.
Is it real "fake archaic" language? It was meant to be set in another world, so the style wasn't fake old English, but synthetic Middle-Earth. And Tolkien really was a good enough linguist to pull off a synthetic dialogue. "Wardour Street English" is what you get if you try to imitate Shakespeare or The King James Bible.
it is helpful to society to have professors in colleges who aren't just there to provide "here's the video for the lecture, here's the choose-a-guess test, here's your certificate" classes but instead provide actual interactive discussions, answer questions relevant to the topic at hand from a learned perspective, continue to do research in the subjects they are teaching, and continually update the curriculum thereby.
Yeah, 'cause that happens in bricks and mortar universities *all* the time.
Or mass noun, or non-count noun. Generally, anything that is indivisible (like water or air) or difficult to divide (like leaves of tea, or grains or rice, or heads of cattle) is a mass noun. In Chinese and Japanese, everything is essentially a mass noun - you always say stuff like "head of cattle" or "sheet of paper" or "unit of people".
A f/0.95 25mm M4/3 lens sounds nice. I think decent 50mm prime on a larger camera should be as good, or better, but it's still pretty kick-ass.
So it seems 3rd party M4/3 lenses *are* cheaper - you prove my point. You won't get a f/0.95 50mm APS-C or full frame less than the price of a small car. But the original manufacturer lenses are a total rip-off, much more so than in the larger formats.
I forgot to add - they are way overpriced, and so are all their gear. You shouldn't pay more than APS-C equivalents. It's just wrong to sell a smaller lens for more. When the price comes down to earth (and maybe Sigma gets involved in making 3rd party lenses), I'll definitely get one though.
I didn't know about the focus thing, but from what I can tell 4/3rds seem otherwise OK.
Their sensor is pretty big - I think they have a 2.0x crop factor (i.e. 1/4 the area, or roughly half the quality of a full frame), as opposed to a 1.6 crop factor (i.e. 1/1.6 the quality) in an entry Canon DSLR. This is streets ahead of a ~4.5 crop factor for a s95, or ~4.2 crop factor on the LX5 (or Leica rebranded version - the D-Lux 5), which are some of the best non-SLR cameras you can get.
You can get some cute lenses. I like the way a lot of them are about 17mm, which is like a 21mm on a Canon 1.6 crop. That's a much nicer size (IMO) than the 50mm that everyone seems to get for APS-C DSLRs. Still, that's a personal thing.