When the majority of a group behave in a certain way, then the group's definition should be based on the way they actually behave, not the way certain people wished they behaved. The majority of conservatives today do not behave in a fiscally conservative manner. Therefore, if one wishes to speak of the way today's conservatives should behave, or the way conservatives of days past behaved, one should use the phrase fiscal conservative. Language and meaning change to reflect the realities of the present moment. Sorry. And I mean that sincerely, and for all of us. We could use more fiscal conservatives, as the choice nowadays seems to be between tax-and-spend, and borrow-and-spend. I'll go with tax-and-spend, because it seems more honest, and to be frank, more fiscally conservative.
This is an example of the No true Scottsman fallacy, a type of equivocation and begging the question. Someone says, "Conservatives do such and so," and the defenders of conservatism retort with, "Well, no true conservative would do that! They aren't conservatives!" Sorry, no. This is what conservatives do. You don't get to redefine conservatism as, "That part of conservatism I happen to agree with." Liberals do a hell of a lot of things I don't agree with, but I try not to say things like "Hillary and Obama are no true liberals." Sadly, this is what liberalism and conservatism have come to. Maybe we need to drop political labels altogether and look at what candidates actually stand for.
Heh. You know, I've never been to one of those things? I love sci fi, fantasy, and gaming, but I wouldn't go to a convention. I can't stand fanatics of any stripe, and I don't like (all male) circle jerks.
You do get that I was making fun at tjstork's expense, right? Slashdot is not only for people who love America. I wasn't saying that at all. I respect other's opinions, IF that opinion is worthy of respect. I respect people's right to have and share an opinion, too, but if my opinion of their opinion is that their opinion sucks donkey balls, I'm going to share that too. And tjstork's opinion amounted to, "haha, what a bunch of dorks."
I love America, the concept. I'm pretty fond of the country. The people I can take or leave, and the government can go stuff itself in the wrong end of a sheep.
As for Gen Con, if the allegations are true, yeah, they screwed up. But back in the day, it wasn't just the most prestigious, it was the only gaming convention. You know, when it was in Gary Gygax's living room, and a few years after that.
People have asked, over and over again, for the GIMP devs to add CMYK. As I understand it, the devs are concerned about doing it right, without stepping on patents. You don't understand the issue with CMYK. There is not just one way to do it. CMY is the spectral opposite of RGB, you get that, right? Conversion between RGB and CMY is simple, just invert the values. So, I ask again: what is the K for? If you don't know that, you don't know what the problem is AT ALL.
Here's a hint: it isn't the conversion, per se. It's about the calibration to a specific printer and set of inks. And most of those calibrations are patented. Are you starting to understand the issue yet?
You can't just 'print it out' to see what it will look like. There isn't just one CMYK, there are many. Depending on what printer you use, things will look different. Hell, on some printers like the ones I used, the humidity, temperature, and number of prints since the last time you recharged the ink could all make a difference. That is why calibration of monitors and printers to the same standard is important. I'm not going to do your research for you, if you want to know what professional use, JFGI. Or ask a current professional, I haven't been in that business for over a decade.
Look, you obviously don't know anything about the field. The fact that you continue to argue is laughable to anyone who does. Not only that, but I've stated that I like GIMP. You aren't going to 'convert' me. I've been using Open Source since software since 1995. I use it at work. Right now I administer 30 Linux servers. You don't need to convince me how awesome it is, I know. All you are doing is giving Open Source, and GIMP in particular a bad name, by being over zealous, under informed, and unwilling to listen to honest criticism. You're worse than twitter.
Well, you've inadvertantly answered my question, "What is your graphic design background?" question. It is obvious: none. There is software to match screen to print, color meters, special viewing booths with calibrated lighting, all kinds of stuff that any graphics professional knows all about.
Look, fanboi, I'm not coming down on GIMP. There are things GIMP does better than Photoshop. I've never had a problem with the interface. I like GIMP and have used it extensively, okay? But take it from someone who has worked in the industry and knows more than you, okay? The CMYK thing IS a big deal, the plugin DOES NOT do everything that graphics professionals need, and even the developers acknowledge that. And conversion between RGB and CMYK is NOT easy. Do you know why? Here's a hint, Cyan is the opposite of red, magenta is the opposite of green, and blue is the opposite of yellow. So, what's the K for? And how much do you put in? And what do you do with the other colors to compensate?
This is Slashdot. Do not pontificate on things which you know nothing about here. Because, I guarantee, there is someone here who knows WAY more than you on the subject, and will be only too happy to fact-slap you down.
Silly troll. Gen Con is one of the oldest, biggest, and most prestigious gaming conventions in the world. You know, Dungeon's and Dragons? Video games? Oh, why do I even bother, you're just being insulting to get a rise out of people. Even if it was a furry/anime/cosplay thing, why do you care? No one is rubbing your face in it, making you watch. Do you hate America? You know, land of the free? Do you hate that people are free to do what they want? Would you like to tell everyone what they can and can't do? Why are you even on this site? Go back to freep or AOL or the foxnews forums or whatever dung-heap you crawled out of, Slashdot is not the place for the likes of you.
There, you got a rise out of me, are you happy now?
Show me a natural system that is truly as inequitable as our human systems. Show me a species that over consumes and still survives. You may not like the truth, but that doesn't make it false. You can hide your head in the sand and ignore it, but that doesn't make it go away. You can insult people who think differently from you, but that doesn't make them wrong. And it also won't make intelligent people agree with you.
Capitalism isn't freedom, it is a path to slavery, as there are no negative feedback loops to halt the runaway concentration of capital into fewer and fewer hands. This will lead to a new type of feudalism, where a small percentage of people own all the means of production, and everyone else will have to do what they say, or starve. Freedom to choose what flavor of soda you drink is not real freedom.
Hope you enjoy your own intellectual-inbreeding. You are obviously so frightened of other points of view that you've put yourself into an echo chamber, where all you hear are confirmations of your own bias. Do you really think our current civilization is sustainable in the long term? What happens when we reach the limits of growth?
Yes, graphics professional do use CMYK before preprint, to check for color reproduction accuracy. They also use other modes that Photoshop supports but GIMP doesn't, such as duo and tri-tone. You are aware that there are many colors that RGB can create which are not in the printed CMYK color space, right? And I am aware of both the existence of that plugin, and its limitations. It's not an anti-Linux rant (GIMP is not Linux, for one thing) it's a realistic assessment of the situation.
I've done preprint work as a professional (Megachrome large format four color printing), as well as working in graphic design and dealing with printers (the profession, not the machine) getting color advertisements printed. What's your background in graphics?
Currently, I would not post such information because I would not have access to information about who used that information and how. And a bank employee wouldn't have access to accurate information about who was using that information. As long as there is an information imbalance, privacy is a necessary compromise. And as I mentioned, the bad guys do not respect privacy. That includes spooks working for the US government, who could easily declare you an enemy combatant and record anything and everything about without regard to your privacy.
As for my medical records, why wouldn't I share that information? I'm not embarrassed about any medical conditions I may have, and nothing I have would make anyone or institution prejudiced towards me.
The universe isn't random either. The quantum wave function is deterministic. As for the game of Life, there are configurations which can not be reached from any possible starting condition. Unless you mean you could arrive at any possible condition by starting at random, which is true, but pointless because that isn't what we were talking about. You should take a look at Golly, a hashing life algorithm that can quickly compute life configurations of billions of active cells for billions of generations. It comes with a nice little glossary of life terms, including some examples of garden of eden configurations.
Heh, I remember programming a (naive, slow) life implementation on a TRS-80 model I. It was my second major functional program, after an AD&D character generator.
No, the device does not communicate with the brain. The device simply measures brain waves, it does not need to find them. They are in the brain. I know, that is hard to find in some people...
We won't ever be 'obsoletized.' Right now, in any particular capacity, there is someone out there who is better than you. Does that make you obsolete? No. Whatever you do frees up the AIs to do something even more useful with their capacity. And most of the world's population today does not contribute that much to art or science, yet they are not 'obsolete.' The worth of a human being does not stem solely from their contributions to art and science, but also from their interactions with other human beings.
That last link ended with a message that can apply beyond brain simulations: "Size doesn't matter; it's what you put into your model and how you embed it into the environment." Sorry, girls are lying when they tell you that.
There's no Goatse-like opening "as soon as something is inserted, You Mac people and your weird obsessions with inserting things into goatse like openings. Is every Mac user some kind of closeted homosexual?
Huh. I just installed Ubuntu on a friend's computer last weekend, and he certainly found OpenOffice to be useful. The install went off without a hitch, detected all hardware, took less than an hour. The desktop is integrated and works right, out of the box. He now has all the software he needs.
How many decades has it been since you tried Linux? Or OpenOffice? I've used Photoshop since version 3 days back in the 80s, and I find GIMP to be an acceptable substitute for many tasks. If you find the UI funky, use GIMPshop. Yeah, no CMYK sucks, but there is still a great deal you can do without it.
As for me, I work on Linux servers all day long, and the only thing I do with computers when I get home is play games. Guess which OS I have? There are legitimate reasons not to switch, but nowadays the ones you list are not among them.
Not necessarily. Look at Conway's life cellular automaton. There are many valid configurations within the game that can never be reached without setting it that way to begin with. They are called 'garden of eden' configurations. And given any particular starting configuration, there are plenty of configurations that won't ever be reached. And if you define 'possible' as 'any condition that can be reached from a given starting condition,' then you have constructed a tautology and have not said anything useful at all. You are basically defining possible as 'that which happens, given enough time.'
Put another way, "given enough time, monkeys will fly out of my ass." Now, evolutionarily speaking, flying monkeys are possible. It is also possible, given enough mechanical force, that my ass could be stretched large enough to fit the wingspan of an average flying monkey. But I really doubt that even if you waited around for an eternity, you'd ever see a monkey fly out of my ass.
Pragmatically, there is no right to privacy. Get used to it. Not only that, there is no moral reason to uphold a right to privacy. Finally, there is no longer any practical reason to uphold privacy rights.
Let me explain.
Privacy is a stopgap measure. It existed to ensure that those who had better access to information and more power to act on that information could not use that to dominate the rest of us. If everyone has equal access to information, then we can know when someone is trying to use their power to gather or act on information to harm someone else, and we can act collectively to stop them. There is no practical reason to have privacy if everyone can see what everyone else is doing.
There is no moral reason to uphold privacy because it is essentially limiting other people's rights. If no one else were around limiting me, I could experience anything that I had the physical capacity to experience. Privacy limits my freedom to access information. While that my have been a useful compromise at one time, it is rapidly approaching the point where it no longer will be.
And pragmatically, bad guys do not respect the right to privacy while at the same time demanding it. Good guys won't use the information they gained to harm another. It's like guns, outlaw them and only outlaws have guns. Outlaw access to information and only outlaws will have access to that information.
How many wrong statements can one person make in one paragraph? First, yes, your God does say it is okay to kill people for your own benefit. Look at the old testament. How many people did God specifically tell his followers to kill? God made all the angels, and, here's the thing. Angels have no free will, only people do. Look it up. So, how did Satan choose to disobey? Again, look at Satan's role in the old testament. Look what God had him do to Job.
You don't even know your own religion, how pathetic is that?
Hmm, I'm sorry, but I've never heard any Asian refered to as a ricer, nor anyone joking about how much Asians love rice. Rice is not perjorative to Asians the way beans or watermelons are because it's never been used that way. The term is pejorative to the cars, it stems from American muscle car culture. Don't you think, at an institution like Wikipedia, if the term were pejorative to a group of people, they would complain, at least on the talk page? Yet there's nothing. The only place this is an insult to anyone is in your head. Get off your high horse and admit that not only are you 100% wrong, you are continuing to be a dick about it for no good reason.
Okay, but for instance, Oregon Trail wasn't rubbish and it taught a lot about the day to day life of a pioneer. I've learned a lot from games that didn't even really try to be educational, for instance, Civil War games, or Civ. Imagine learning about the Magna Carta by role playing King John. Or learning about physics in an interactive virtual physics lab. There are so many possibilities, and so far, they are mostly unrealized. I don't think we can say that about comics.
More than just entertainment for the whole family, video games can become a great teaching tool. Imagine learning about history in an RPG, witnessing historical events first hand. I still remember Oregon Trail. I wonder why more educational games haven't been released? Textbooks are huge business, why not textbook games?
I worked for a company that built supercomputer clusters for Los Alamos & Sandia National Labs. Those labs have more than enough eggheads to do it, but they are real high level eggheads. They have more important things to do. Building & supporting compute clusters is one step above monkey work, why should they waste their time on it?
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When the majority of a group behave in a certain way, then the group's definition should be based on the way they actually behave, not the way certain people wished they behaved. The majority of conservatives today do not behave in a fiscally conservative manner. Therefore, if one wishes to speak of the way today's conservatives should behave, or the way conservatives of days past behaved, one should use the phrase fiscal conservative. Language and meaning change to reflect the realities of the present moment. Sorry. And I mean that sincerely, and for all of us. We could use more fiscal conservatives, as the choice nowadays seems to be between tax-and-spend, and borrow-and-spend. I'll go with tax-and-spend, because it seems more honest, and to be frank, more fiscally conservative.
This is an example of the No true Scottsman fallacy, a type of equivocation and begging the question. Someone says, "Conservatives do such and so," and the defenders of conservatism retort with, "Well, no true conservative would do that! They aren't conservatives!" Sorry, no. This is what conservatives do. You don't get to redefine conservatism as, "That part of conservatism I happen to agree with." Liberals do a hell of a lot of things I don't agree with, but I try not to say things like "Hillary and Obama are no true liberals." Sadly, this is what liberalism and conservatism have come to. Maybe we need to drop political labels altogether and look at what candidates actually stand for.
Ahhh, yes, yes you did. Sorry.
Heh. You know, I've never been to one of those things? I love sci fi, fantasy, and gaming, but I wouldn't go to a convention. I can't stand fanatics of any stripe, and I don't like (all male) circle jerks.
You do get that I was making fun at tjstork's expense, right? Slashdot is not only for people who love America. I wasn't saying that at all. I respect other's opinions, IF that opinion is worthy of respect. I respect people's right to have and share an opinion, too, but if my opinion of their opinion is that their opinion sucks donkey balls, I'm going to share that too. And tjstork's opinion amounted to, "haha, what a bunch of dorks."
I love America, the concept. I'm pretty fond of the country. The people I can take or leave, and the government can go stuff itself in the wrong end of a sheep.
As for Gen Con, if the allegations are true, yeah, they screwed up. But back in the day, it wasn't just the most prestigious, it was the only gaming convention. You know, when it was in Gary Gygax's living room, and a few years after that.
People have asked, over and over again, for the GIMP devs to add CMYK. As I understand it, the devs are concerned about doing it right, without stepping on patents. You don't understand the issue with CMYK. There is not just one way to do it. CMY is the spectral opposite of RGB, you get that, right? Conversion between RGB and CMY is simple, just invert the values. So, I ask again: what is the K for? If you don't know that, you don't know what the problem is AT ALL.
Here's a hint: it isn't the conversion, per se. It's about the calibration to a specific printer and set of inks. And most of those calibrations are patented. Are you starting to understand the issue yet?
You can't just 'print it out' to see what it will look like. There isn't just one CMYK, there are many. Depending on what printer you use, things will look different. Hell, on some printers like the ones I used, the humidity, temperature, and number of prints since the last time you recharged the ink could all make a difference. That is why calibration of monitors and printers to the same standard is important. I'm not going to do your research for you, if you want to know what professional use, JFGI. Or ask a current professional, I haven't been in that business for over a decade.
Look, you obviously don't know anything about the field. The fact that you continue to argue is laughable to anyone who does. Not only that, but I've stated that I like GIMP. You aren't going to 'convert' me. I've been using Open Source since software since 1995. I use it at work. Right now I administer 30 Linux servers. You don't need to convince me how awesome it is, I know. All you are doing is giving Open Source, and GIMP in particular a bad name, by being over zealous, under informed, and unwilling to listen to honest criticism. You're worse than twitter.
Oh man, my finger slipped. You know, the apostrophe, it's so close to the... ah... Look over there! It's Bigfoot!
Well, you've inadvertantly answered my question, "What is your graphic design background?" question. It is obvious: none. There is software to match screen to print, color meters, special viewing booths with calibrated lighting, all kinds of stuff that any graphics professional knows all about.
Look, fanboi, I'm not coming down on GIMP. There are things GIMP does better than Photoshop. I've never had a problem with the interface. I like GIMP and have used it extensively, okay? But take it from someone who has worked in the industry and knows more than you, okay? The CMYK thing IS a big deal, the plugin DOES NOT do everything that graphics professionals need, and even the developers acknowledge that. And conversion between RGB and CMYK is NOT easy. Do you know why? Here's a hint, Cyan is the opposite of red, magenta is the opposite of green, and blue is the opposite of yellow. So, what's the K for? And how much do you put in? And what do you do with the other colors to compensate?
This is Slashdot. Do not pontificate on things which you know nothing about here. Because, I guarantee, there is someone here who knows WAY more than you on the subject, and will be only too happy to fact-slap you down.
Silly troll. Gen Con is one of the oldest, biggest, and most prestigious gaming conventions in the world. You know, Dungeon's and Dragons? Video games? Oh, why do I even bother, you're just being insulting to get a rise out of people. Even if it was a furry/anime/cosplay thing, why do you care? No one is rubbing your face in it, making you watch. Do you hate America? You know, land of the free? Do you hate that people are free to do what they want? Would you like to tell everyone what they can and can't do? Why are you even on this site? Go back to freep or AOL or the foxnews forums or whatever dung-heap you crawled out of, Slashdot is not the place for the likes of you.
There, you got a rise out of me, are you happy now?
Show me a natural system that is truly as inequitable as our human systems. Show me a species that over consumes and still survives. You may not like the truth, but that doesn't make it false. You can hide your head in the sand and ignore it, but that doesn't make it go away. You can insult people who think differently from you, but that doesn't make them wrong. And it also won't make intelligent people agree with you.
Capitalism isn't freedom, it is a path to slavery, as there are no negative feedback loops to halt the runaway concentration of capital into fewer and fewer hands. This will lead to a new type of feudalism, where a small percentage of people own all the means of production, and everyone else will have to do what they say, or starve. Freedom to choose what flavor of soda you drink is not real freedom.
Hope you enjoy your own intellectual-inbreeding. You are obviously so frightened of other points of view that you've put yourself into an echo chamber, where all you hear are confirmations of your own bias. Do you really think our current civilization is sustainable in the long term? What happens when we reach the limits of growth?
Wow, that joke flew right over your head, didn't it? You know, sin? As in sinful? Although the bit about his being an atheist did seem tacked on.
Yes, graphics professional do use CMYK before preprint, to check for color reproduction accuracy. They also use other modes that Photoshop supports but GIMP doesn't, such as duo and tri-tone. You are aware that there are many colors that RGB can create which are not in the printed CMYK color space, right? And I am aware of both the existence of that plugin, and its limitations. It's not an anti-Linux rant (GIMP is not Linux, for one thing) it's a realistic assessment of the situation.
I've done preprint work as a professional (Megachrome large format four color printing), as well as working in graphic design and dealing with printers (the profession, not the machine) getting color advertisements printed. What's your background in graphics?
Currently, I would not post such information because I would not have access to information about who used that information and how. And a bank employee wouldn't have access to accurate information about who was using that information. As long as there is an information imbalance, privacy is a necessary compromise. And as I mentioned, the bad guys do not respect privacy. That includes spooks working for the US government, who could easily declare you an enemy combatant and record anything and everything about without regard to your privacy.
As for my medical records, why wouldn't I share that information? I'm not embarrassed about any medical conditions I may have, and nothing I have would make anyone or institution prejudiced towards me.
The universe isn't random either. The quantum wave function is deterministic. As for the game of Life, there are configurations which can not be reached from any possible starting condition. Unless you mean you could arrive at any possible condition by starting at random, which is true, but pointless because that isn't what we were talking about. You should take a look at Golly, a hashing life algorithm that can quickly compute life configurations of billions of active cells for billions of generations. It comes with a nice little glossary of life terms, including some examples of garden of eden configurations.
Heh, I remember programming a (naive, slow) life implementation on a TRS-80 model I. It was my second major functional program, after an AD&D character generator.
No, the device does not communicate with the brain. The device simply measures brain waves, it does not need to find them. They are in the brain. I know, that is hard to find in some people...
We won't ever be 'obsoletized.' Right now, in any particular capacity, there is someone out there who is better than you. Does that make you obsolete? No. Whatever you do frees up the AIs to do something even more useful with their capacity. And most of the world's population today does not contribute that much to art or science, yet they are not 'obsolete.' The worth of a human being does not stem solely from their contributions to art and science, but also from their interactions with other human beings.
Huh. I just installed Ubuntu on a friend's computer last weekend, and he certainly found OpenOffice to be useful. The install went off without a hitch, detected all hardware, took less than an hour. The desktop is integrated and works right, out of the box. He now has all the software he needs.
How many decades has it been since you tried Linux? Or OpenOffice? I've used Photoshop since version 3 days back in the 80s, and I find GIMP to be an acceptable substitute for many tasks. If you find the UI funky, use GIMPshop. Yeah, no CMYK sucks, but there is still a great deal you can do without it.
As for me, I work on Linux servers all day long, and the only thing I do with computers when I get home is play games. Guess which OS I have? There are legitimate reasons not to switch, but nowadays the ones you list are not among them.
Not necessarily. Look at Conway's life cellular automaton. There are many valid configurations within the game that can never be reached without setting it that way to begin with. They are called 'garden of eden' configurations. And given any particular starting configuration, there are plenty of configurations that won't ever be reached. And if you define 'possible' as 'any condition that can be reached from a given starting condition,' then you have constructed a tautology and have not said anything useful at all. You are basically defining possible as 'that which happens, given enough time.'
Put another way, "given enough time, monkeys will fly out of my ass." Now, evolutionarily speaking, flying monkeys are possible. It is also possible, given enough mechanical force, that my ass could be stretched large enough to fit the wingspan of an average flying monkey. But I really doubt that even if you waited around for an eternity, you'd ever see a monkey fly out of my ass.
Pragmatically, there is no right to privacy. Get used to it. Not only that, there is no moral reason to uphold a right to privacy. Finally, there is no longer any practical reason to uphold privacy rights.
Let me explain.
Privacy is a stopgap measure. It existed to ensure that those who had better access to information and more power to act on that information could not use that to dominate the rest of us. If everyone has equal access to information, then we can know when someone is trying to use their power to gather or act on information to harm someone else, and we can act collectively to stop them. There is no practical reason to have privacy if everyone can see what everyone else is doing.
There is no moral reason to uphold privacy because it is essentially limiting other people's rights. If no one else were around limiting me, I could experience anything that I had the physical capacity to experience. Privacy limits my freedom to access information. While that my have been a useful compromise at one time, it is rapidly approaching the point where it no longer will be.
And pragmatically, bad guys do not respect the right to privacy while at the same time demanding it. Good guys won't use the information they gained to harm another. It's like guns, outlaw them and only outlaws have guns. Outlaw access to information and only outlaws will have access to that information.
How many wrong statements can one person make in one paragraph? First, yes, your God does say it is okay to kill people for your own benefit. Look at the old testament. How many people did God specifically tell his followers to kill? God made all the angels, and, here's the thing. Angels have no free will, only people do. Look it up. So, how did Satan choose to disobey? Again, look at Satan's role in the old testament. Look what God had him do to Job.
You don't even know your own religion, how pathetic is that?
Hmm, I'm sorry, but I've never heard any Asian refered to as a ricer, nor anyone joking about how much Asians love rice. Rice is not perjorative to Asians the way beans or watermelons are because it's never been used that way. The term is pejorative to the cars, it stems from American muscle car culture. Don't you think, at an institution like Wikipedia, if the term were pejorative to a group of people, they would complain, at least on the talk page? Yet there's nothing. The only place this is an insult to anyone is in your head. Get off your high horse and admit that not only are you 100% wrong, you are continuing to be a dick about it for no good reason.
Okay, but for instance, Oregon Trail wasn't rubbish and it taught a lot about the day to day life of a pioneer. I've learned a lot from games that didn't even really try to be educational, for instance, Civil War games, or Civ. Imagine learning about the Magna Carta by role playing King John. Or learning about physics in an interactive virtual physics lab. There are so many possibilities, and so far, they are mostly unrealized. I don't think we can say that about comics.
More than just entertainment for the whole family, video games can become a great teaching tool. Imagine learning about history in an RPG, witnessing historical events first hand. I still remember Oregon Trail. I wonder why more educational games haven't been released? Textbooks are huge business, why not textbook games?
I worked for a company that built supercomputer clusters for Los Alamos & Sandia National Labs. Those labs have more than enough eggheads to do it, but they are real high level eggheads. They have more important things to do. Building & supporting compute clusters is one step above monkey work, why should they waste their time on it?