Re:Why were MP ever such a big deal?
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I routinely print 8x10's on an Epson 960 at a resolution of 360dpi and they look incredible. Every bit as good as anything I've had done at a professional lab (and usually much better since I have control over the entire process). I have a good 35mm with a small collection of lenses, but it just collects dust these days.
And it's not just about the immediacy of the image (as you infer in a later comment). Digital makes an excellent teaching tool for a number of reasons. Not only can you check the image immediately, but you can dissect the image by looking at the EXIF information and learn about what works and why. What was the ISO setting, shutter speed and aperature setting on this really good image and what were they on one that's not so good of the same subject at the same time of day? What settings are giving me the DOF I want for a particular shot? You can also shoot as many pics as you want to capture the changing light (or changing subject matter with small kids or animals) without having to worry about what it's going to cost in terms of processing and film purchases.
Your statements regarding "the only reason" you'd do something simply highlights your limited experience with digital and your bias toward film. Saying you wouldn't use digital for a letter sized print without giving a single reason is pure prejudicial thinking.
Given my own experience in digital I'd have to conclude that you've either never done digital prints using decent capture and output devices or you simply don't know how to do it right. The fact of the matter is you can make excellent 8x10's even with a 3MP camera, good technique and a good printer.
The fact that it is a cultural norm is the problem.
Language changes. If you have no problem with the fact that the gay community co-opted the term to use in a way that was not consistent with the prior usage then how can you have a beef with those who hijack the term to mean something totally different today?
When I was in marketing I developed a good rapport with my customers by being honest. When the Account Executive would try and blow smoke my customers would ask me if the claim was true. If it wasn't I told them so, but I also tried to show where their needs could be met through creative use of an existing function. I wasn't popular with management, but sales never suffered.
This seems like a non-sequitur to me. If it doesn't purport to be truth, then it is, in all likelihood, not true, and therefore it meets that criteria...
I believe the parent meant to imply that the slander/libel must be told as a truth. I think there's also a consideration of malicious intent, but I may be wrong...
Both your friends?
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At $1/hour, this sounds like a low-gain way to infuriate both your friends and perfect strangers.
Right.... That's why women in the USA are forced to wear coverings that only reveal their hands and eyes. That's why anyone caught having sex outside of marriage is stoned (in the ancient sense of that term) to death. That's why Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson will declare you an infidel for speaking such things and will encourage Christians everywhere to kill you ala Salman Rushdie (sp?).
If you don't like Christians, fine, but in this case AC must stand for Anal Comparison.
Err, but what if you document the work done on the site, say: 200 hours web design work @ $15/hr = $3000
Except that all that design work doesn't count since it's a simple upload to the new host in order to be back on the web.He'd also have to prove that those were his hourly rates and even then he'd have difficulty using his own time to justify the "expense" by definition.
Now, if he can produce printing receipts for stationery and cards and other genuine 'expenses' he's got a good case. If he can even show expenses that would be incurred if the domain had to be changed, like a mailing to notify all of his current clients of the change, then he's got a better case. It sounds like $10,000.00 was an arbitrary number chosen so that it doesn't look like he's a cyber-squatter (and I don't think he is) asking for millions but is also a big chunk of change for your average High School student.
Based on the google cache it doesn't look like his business (or at least his own website) was too active over the last five months, but maybe most of his freelance work comes when he's off for summer vacation.
Parent takes a jab at sitting president. My post shows that the "quote" has been used both ways. Original is modded up the wazoo as Funny and mine is modded 0 as a troll. Interesting.....
The right move is to train the twits that handle currency, not prevent legitimate uses of a product. Look at the covers of business mags and advertizements and a myriad other print venues that show currency. The numbers of people doing legitimate things with currency scans is also non-trivial. Anti-counterfeit pens are cheap and simply rubbing the note as it's handled would foil the amateurs as the feel is as distinctive as the look (actually more so).
As far as faith in the currency, I can't say I'm acquainted with anyone that paranoid. I get all my 20's from the bank and rarely carry anything larger. Merchants catch almost all of the phony stuff and faith in the currency you're given goes hand in hand with the level of confidence you place in the person(s) hired to handle it.
Adobe had to know going in that this would be easily circumvented by genuine crooks while frustrating legitimate users with legitimate reasons to include currency in their editorial, creative and commercial graphics. It was a stupid measure and should be removed ASAP.
You really are overly critical given the fact that there is no law regarding scanning or acquiring or viewing digital images of currency, only reproduction.
You did not! I am superman and I don't remember you (and I have super memory). Ever since I ditched that lame Clark Kent alter-ego nobody has been able to guess my secret iden..... Doh!
All publicized images of currency I've seen are partial or modified. I suspect that the letter of the law was broken in the process of making those images.
Nope. There are specific, governmental guidelines for permissible ways in which the reproduction of currency is allowed.
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I routinely print 8x10's on an Epson 960 at a resolution of 360dpi and they look incredible. Every bit as good as anything I've had done at a professional lab (and usually much better since I have control over the entire process). I have a good 35mm with a small collection of lenses, but it just collects dust these days.
And it's not just about the immediacy of the image (as you infer in a later comment). Digital makes an excellent teaching tool for a number of reasons. Not only can you check the image immediately, but you can dissect the image by looking at the EXIF information and learn about what works and why. What was the ISO setting, shutter speed and aperature setting on this really good image and what were they on one that's not so good of the same subject at the same time of day? What settings are giving me the DOF I want for a particular shot? You can also shoot as many pics as you want to capture the changing light (or changing subject matter with small kids or animals) without having to worry about what it's going to cost in terms of processing and film purchases.
Your statements regarding "the only reason" you'd do something simply highlights your limited experience with digital and your bias toward film. Saying you wouldn't use digital for a letter sized print without giving a single reason is pure prejudicial thinking.
Given my own experience in digital I'd have to conclude that you've either never done digital prints using decent capture and output devices or you simply don't know how to do it right. The fact of the matter is you can make excellent 8x10's even with a 3MP camera, good technique and a good printer.
Tijuana - Near border, like the granparent said.
Mexico City - Near border (for extremely large values of 'near').
The fact that it is a cultural norm is the problem.
Language changes. If you have no problem with the fact that the gay community co-opted the term to use in a way that was not consistent with the prior usage then how can you have a beef with those who hijack the term to mean something totally different today?
Yes, and all ___________ people are alike.
When I was in marketing I developed a good rapport with my customers by being honest. When the Account Executive would try and blow smoke my customers would ask me if the claim was true. If it wasn't I told them so, but I also tried to show where their needs could be met through creative use of an existing function. I wasn't popular with management, but sales never suffered.
Hmmm. Incomplete sentences, lack of consistent punctuation and absolutely no capitalization. Pot, meet kettle.
It is news on slashdot, because maybe the fact that it involves Linux will make some geeks question the Iraq situation.
If they couldn't think about the situation in Iraq without a Linux tie-in I doubt whatever they think about it will be worth listening to.
There are ways to tell people that they are wong without saying, "Hey, Nimrod, your being dumb!".
Y'mean like this?
Alert Slashdot reader jamie pointed out a story in Smithsonian Magazine...
Maybe jamie's cells sounded the alert...
This seems like a non-sequitur to me. If it doesn't purport to be truth, then it is, in all likelihood, not true, and therefore it meets that criteria...
I believe the parent meant to imply that the slander/libel must be told as a truth. I think there's also a consideration of malicious intent, but I may be wrong...
At $1/hour, this sounds like a low-gain way to infuriate both your friends and perfect strangers.
Hey, how'd you know I only have two friends...?
Right.... That's why women in the USA are forced to wear coverings that only reveal their hands and eyes. That's why anyone caught having sex outside of marriage is stoned (in the ancient sense of that term) to death. That's why Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson will declare you an infidel for speaking such things and will encourage Christians everywhere to kill you ala Salman Rushdie (sp?).
If you don't like Christians, fine, but in this case AC must stand for Anal Comparison.
...US soldiers had a top secret cooling system built into their underwear.
They should stay out of Sicily then as it could give new meaning to the term "shorts".
Err, but what if you document the work done on the site, say:
200 hours web design work @ $15/hr = $3000
Except that all that design work doesn't count since it's a simple upload to the new host in order to be back on the web.He'd also have to prove that those were his hourly rates and even then he'd have difficulty using his own time to justify the "expense" by definition.
Now, if he can produce printing receipts for stationery and cards and other genuine 'expenses' he's got a good case. If he can even show expenses that would be incurred if the domain had to be changed, like a mailing to notify all of his current clients of the change, then he's got a better case. It sounds like $10,000.00 was an arbitrary number chosen so that it doesn't look like he's a cyber-squatter (and I don't think he is) asking for millions but is also a big chunk of change for your average High School student.
Based on the google cache it doesn't look like his business (or at least his own website) was too active over the last five months, but maybe most of his freelance work comes when he's off for summer vacation.
Let's see if I get this straight....
Parent takes a jab at sitting president. My post shows that the "quote" has been used both ways. Original is modded up the wazoo as Funny and mine is modded 0 as a troll. Interesting.....
BSOD? It says they can go from clear to opaque.
"Dang! I was lookin' out the window when all of a sudden, BANG, it just went all blue for no reason."
I was elected President of the United States.
Silly Gore.....
By the way, he's in New York today in -30 (windchill) to talk about global warming. Man knows how to set the stage....
What would you do with a robot on your lap? Never mind. I don't think I'd want to know....
The right move is to train the twits that handle currency, not prevent legitimate uses of a product. Look at the covers of business mags and advertizements and a myriad other print venues that show currency. The numbers of people doing legitimate things with currency scans is also non-trivial. Anti-counterfeit pens are cheap and simply rubbing the note as it's handled would foil the amateurs as the feel is as distinctive as the look (actually more so).
As far as faith in the currency, I can't say I'm acquainted with anyone that paranoid. I get all my 20's from the bank and rarely carry anything larger. Merchants catch almost all of the phony stuff and faith in the currency you're given goes hand in hand with the level of confidence you place in the person(s) hired to handle it.
Adobe had to know going in that this would be easily circumvented by genuine crooks while frustrating legitimate users with legitimate reasons to include currency in their editorial, creative and commercial graphics. It was a stupid measure and should be removed ASAP.
No. The previous article was about Photoshop containing anti-counterfeiting measures. This article is about it being circumvented.
Have you considered they might have been pushed?
I thought that was Humpty Dumpty....
...when it's just Adobe following the law.
You really are overly critical given the fact that there is no law regarding scanning or acquiring or viewing digital images of currency, only reproduction.
You did not! I am superman and I don't remember you (and I have super memory). Ever since I ditched that lame Clark Kent alter-ego nobody has been able to guess my secret iden..... Doh!
...also to aid consumer recognition (ie a lot harder to mistake a 50 from a 5 in a dark pub/club)
Or if you're blind. Maybe the US Govt. should be cited for failing to comply with the ADA in making their currency accessible to the blind.
All publicized images of currency I've seen are partial or modified. I suspect that the letter of the law was broken in the process of making those images.
Nope. There are specific, governmental guidelines for permissible ways in which the reproduction of currency is allowed.