Observe the bitmaps closely and you will see the places where they were "fixed".
The fact that it is not visible right away in the low-res photos shown in the PDF, directly indicates that said corrections would be more visible had the photos been of higher resolution. Also, examples show the following:
- Girls: crease over single color surfaces. - Man leaning on a tree: black and white photo turned sepia. - Woman portrait: crease over single color surface. - Torn photo of a boy: black and white photo turned sepia. "Fix" quite visible.
Which would explain the literal approach to the term "by hand"?*
Pray tell - how would one use a scanner (mentioned in the sentence above the one you quoted) in the "restoration by hand" that you envision? As a work surface that you can put your brushes and chemicals on?
*Meant as a joke, not a troll. On the other hand... If a mod with points to spare does find it to be trolling, this is my message to them: "SCREW YOU and the (figurative) horse you rode in on!"
...Like saying that brown people are actually (regular) white people whose skin color turned darker?
Same thing for gay people, who are actually straight people who are making conscious choice to be gay (perverts) or are afflicted with a mental illness (sick).
From the examples shown in the.PDF it seems that it is once again a case of a quick fix that only works on low-res and low detail photos, preferably in single color.
And for it to work at all, you would need a 2-lamp scanner. Which are standard, but in high-quality print studios and other places that would do this kind of retouching by hand anyway in order to preserve or achieve better quality of the final product.
There is a place. It is a place where broken rocks ring a red sun. Several centuries ago, we discovered a race of arthropod-like creatures called Whilles, with whom we could not deal. They rejected friendly overtures on the parts of every known intelligent race. Also, they slew our emissaries and sent their remains back to us, missing a few pieces here and there. When first we contacted them, they possessed vehicles for travel within their own solar system. Shortly thereafter, they developed interstellar travel. Wherever they went, they killed and they stole and then beat it back home. Perhaps they didn't realize the size of the interstellar community at that time, or perhaps they didn't care. They guessed right if they thought it would take an awfully long time to reach an accord when it came to declaring war on them. There is actually very little precedent for interstellar war. The Pei'ans are about the only ones who remember any.. So the attacks failed, what remained of our forces were withdrawn, and we began to bombard the planet. The Whilles were, however, further along technologically than we'd initially thought. They had a near-perfect defense system against missiles. So we withdrew and tried to contain them. They didn't stop their raids, though. Then the Names were contacted, and three worldscapers, Sang-ring of Greldei, Karth'ting of Mordei and I, were chosen by lot to use our abilities in reverse. Later, within the system of the Whilles, beyond the orbit of their home world, a belt of asteroids began to collapse upon itself, forming a planetoid. Rock by rock, it grew, and slowly it altered its course. We sat, with our machinery, beyond the orbit of the farthest planet, directing the new world's growth and its slow spiral inward. When the Whilles realized what was happening, they tried to destroy it. But it was too late. They never asked for mercy, and none of them tried to flee. They waited, and the day came. The orbits of the two worlds intersected, and now it is a place where broken rocks ring a red sun. I stayed drunk for a week after that.
If you are child-less, and thus have little patience for the little monsters, you'd say that dogs *can* be as stupid and annoying as those screaming spoiled rotten two year old brats at McDonalds.
Small children, screaming and running around restaurants and other public establishments are akin to dogs let loose.
Also, such behavior indicates that their parents consider their offspring to be what dogs are to most people - pets.
As resource bases contract and the world goes back to a solar economy, expect the teenager to disappear.
I wouldn't agree on this though.
Teen and teen-age are a western 1st world invention - now in use globally. Unless entire western... no... HUMAN civilization disappears COMPLETELY - the term and the stage of human development it describes will remain distinctive from childhood and adulthood. And I am talking going back to hunter-gatherer stage long enough that current languages are changed and forgotten. Even then, upper classes WILL continue to pamper their young long after they (the "rulers" and "thinkers" - not the kids) stop writing dictionaries and regulating language. Teenagers would continue to exist in tradition among the upper class even if no one remained who could remember the word any more.
The only way it may be replaced or removed from use (other than what I said above) is if it is further broken down to early and late teens. Into something like earleens and lateens. Or prims and seconds. Or juniors and seniors.
But, for something like that to happen you would need a HUGE social difference to appear. Globally. Like for example giving 15-16 year-olds a right to vote or something similar. Just like teenagers first appeared when kids globally started being sent to school despite hitting puberty (instead of being sent to work in mines, fields etc.) - a new stage in the society would have to be created first.
Live ammo is actually irrelevant part of the project. It would have been far cooler if they played the fact that ANYTHING thrown at the wall registers as the accelerometers they've placed in the wall measure impact of practically anything.
As can be seen at the end of the video - it is far more fun to hit zombies with shovels than to shoot them.
How many of those can work 24/7/365 on a single subject with 100% concentration?
Or how about how many of those can you scale down to fit into a shoebox or smaller (while they are till operative) or scale up by linking them in a cluster (preferably of the Beowulf kind)?
When you title your article/web page/blog post etc. "Macs don't cure cancer but..." and then you start your text with a tirade about how much you hate M$ and Windblows and how MS$Office has killed your dog and raped your grandmother - don't be surprised when your page comes up when someone enters a search string along the lines of "Windows causes cancer" or "Why I hate Macs" or "My dog killed my grandmother in my office by the window".
From the "Why are Mac's So Expensive?" Yahoo! Answers topic:
Why are Mac's So Expensive? I am well and truely fed up with Windows and Microsofts global domiantion plans and want to return to mac (I had one years ago before replacing with a PC), but I have been having a look around and even 2nd hand ones are really expensive? If Apple want to cut Microsoft down, they should lower their costs?
* 3 years ago
Additional Details Rawlyn, I've tried using Linux - you seem to need to know how to make it do things - it is a bit complex for a computer stupid like me! If it had some kind of standard iterface it would be easier to understand.
See what I mean?
And does anyone even remember that Google gives you more popular choices to your search string first, after a while? So, after a while, you are bound to get more accurate results - along with the simple search string results. Like the ones Bing gives you. The one that is tainting the results is Google. They do it to give you the more popular results, as they are bound to be more accurate - but they ARE fiddling with the simple search string results. Putting the search string in quotes fixes that on both Bing and Google. No mention of Macs now.
But hey... Don't let logic come in the way of M$ bashing.
Oh... wait... Most of the Earth CAN'T actually be seen on google maps. Particularly when the object you are looking for is made up of millions of translucent (photo-degradation gets the colors first) plastic fragments smaller than a bottle cap, floating just bellow the surface of the water.
10 meters to 100 feet in depth, depending which source of the story you a reading. Considering that the article I read earlier (that I can't find right now) reported it being up to 40-80 meters deep - I'd go with the higher number.
Thing is, about 90%+ of the garbage is smaller than a bottle cap, and most of it floats just couple of feet bellow the water surface. So, just skimming it would do about diddly point squat as Capt. Moore had put it.
An additional feature enables users to 'airbrush' someone's face using the Skin Softening function to reduce the appearance of blemishes.
Nikon's Smart Portrait System with Skin Softening Face-priority AF helps produce more satisfying portraits by adjusting focus and exposure for as many as 12 faces in the framed shot. Skin Softening function detects and analyses a framed subject's skin, and then adjusts smoothness to produce enhanced results. Smile Timer automatically releases the shutter when the subject smiles, while its Blink Proof function shoots two sequential frames, then saves the one in which the subject's eyes are widest open. Blink Warning presents an alert when it suspects that someone in the shot has blinked. In-Camera Red-Eye Fix automatically corrects any perceived red-eye effect before saving the image to memory.
Finally! Just what we need in a consumer model camera. Nobody will look anything like themselves ever again.
Thompson says she has not hired an attorney to represent her because she cannot afford one. When she filed her complaint, she also filed a "poor person order," which exempts her from filing fees associated with the lawsuit.
That so called "plan" would have human crews travel all the way to Mars and then sit in orbit around it - in order to save 10 minutes that it takes to contact rowers.
A flyby of the moon might be followed by more distant trips to so-called Lagrange points, first to the location where the gravity of the Moon and the Earth gravity cancel each other out, then to where the gravity of the Earth and Sun cancel out. There could also be visits to asteroids or flybys of Mars leading to landings on one or both of the low-gravity moons of Deimos and Phobos.
To what use are ANY of these trips?
Lagrange points are only useful if you are actually going to position a permanent lab there. Flybys and visits... What for? You can do that just as fine with robotic probes.
The whole point of space travel is to permanently get humans to other places in the Solar System, Galaxy and Universe other than Earth. It is not a test to see how far we can throw a rock - it is a test to see how close we are to the colonization of our solar system.
Can we have a list of names of the people on "the legal team" for the defendant?
From what we've seen it appears to that it may be prudent to avoid their legal counsel in the future. You know... the way you might want to avoid a leper colony of HIV positive fans with gonorrhea who also happen to have both avian and swine flu.
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Observe the bitmaps closely and you will see the places where they were "fixed".
The fact that it is not visible right away in the low-res photos shown in the PDF, directly indicates that said corrections would be more visible had the photos been of higher resolution.
Also, examples show the following:
- Girls: crease over single color surfaces.
- Man leaning on a tree: black and white photo turned sepia.
- Woman portrait: crease over single color surface.
- Torn photo of a boy: black and white photo turned sepia. "Fix" quite visible.
Which would explain the literal approach to the term "by hand"?*
Pray tell - how would one use a scanner (mentioned in the sentence above the one you quoted) in the "restoration by hand" that you envision?
As a work surface that you can put your brushes and chemicals on?
...Like saying that brown people are actually (regular) white people whose skin color turned darker?
Same thing for gay people, who are actually straight people who are making conscious choice to be gay (perverts) or are afflicted with a mental illness (sick).
From the examples shown in the .PDF it seems that it is once again a case of a quick fix that only works on low-res and low detail photos, preferably in single color.
And for it to work at all, you would need a 2-lamp scanner.
Which are standard, but in high-quality print studios and other places that would do this kind of retouching by hand anyway in order to preserve or achieve better quality of the final product.
There is a place. It is a place where broken rocks ring a red sun.
Several centuries ago, we discovered a race of arthropod-like creatures called Whilles, with whom we could not deal.
They rejected friendly overtures on the parts of every known intelligent race. Also, they slew our emissaries and sent their remains back to us, missing a few pieces here and there.
When first we contacted them, they possessed vehicles for travel within their own solar system. Shortly thereafter, they developed interstellar travel.
Wherever they went, they killed and they stole and then beat it back home.
Perhaps they didn't realize the size of the interstellar community at that time, or perhaps they didn't care.
They guessed right if they thought it would take an awfully long time to reach an accord when it came to declaring war on them.
There is actually very little precedent for interstellar war. The Pei'ans are about the only ones who remember any..
So the attacks failed, what remained of our forces were withdrawn, and we began to bombard the planet.
The Whilles were, however, further along technologically than we'd initially thought. They had a near-perfect defense system against missiles.
So we withdrew and tried to contain them. They didn't stop their raids, though.
Then the Names were contacted, and three worldscapers, Sang-ring of Greldei, Karth'ting of Mordei and I, were chosen by lot to use our abilities in reverse.
Later, within the system of the Whilles, beyond the orbit of their home world, a belt of asteroids began to collapse upon itself, forming a planetoid.
Rock by rock, it grew, and slowly it altered its course. We sat, with our machinery, beyond the orbit of the farthest planet, directing the new world's growth and its slow spiral inward.
When the Whilles realized what was happening, they tried to destroy it.
But it was too late. They never asked for mercy, and none of them tried to flee. They waited, and the day came.
The orbits of the two worlds intersected, and now it is a place where broken rocks ring a red sun. I stayed drunk for a week after that.
http://www.amazon.com/Isle-Dead-Eye-Roger-Zelazny/dp/0743434684/
If you are child-less, and thus have little patience for the little monsters, you'd say that dogs *can* be as stupid and annoying as those screaming spoiled rotten two year old brats at McDonalds.
Small children, screaming and running around restaurants and other public establishments are akin to dogs let loose.
Also, such behavior indicates that their parents consider their offspring to be what dogs are to most people - pets.
But there is some breakthrough work being done on training 2-year-olds to sniff for bombs and drugs.
You pointed out nicely what I was about to post. Here are the links I was going to add though:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=teenage
http://www.answers.com/topic/teenager
http://www.home-school.com/Articles/PlattTeenagers.html
As resource bases contract and the world goes back to a solar economy, expect the teenager to disappear.
I wouldn't agree on this though.
Teen and teen-age are a western 1st world invention - now in use globally.
Unless entire western... no... HUMAN civilization disappears COMPLETELY - the term and the stage of human development it describes will remain distinctive from childhood and adulthood.
And I am talking going back to hunter-gatherer stage long enough that current languages are changed and forgotten.
Even then, upper classes WILL continue to pamper their young long after they (the "rulers" and "thinkers" - not the kids) stop writing dictionaries and regulating language. Teenagers would continue to exist in tradition among the upper class even if no one remained who could remember the word any more.
The only way it may be replaced or removed from use (other than what I said above) is if it is further broken down to early and late teens.
Into something like earleens and lateens. Or prims and seconds. Or juniors and seniors.
But, for something like that to happen you would need a HUGE social difference to appear. Globally.
Like for example giving 15-16 year-olds a right to vote or something similar.
Just like teenagers first appeared when kids globally started being sent to school despite hitting puberty (instead of being sent to work in mines, fields etc.) - a new stage in the society would have to be created first.
Live ammo is actually irrelevant part of the project.
It would have been far cooler if they played the fact that ANYTHING thrown at the wall registers as the accelerometers they've placed in the wall measure impact of practically anything.
As can be seen at the end of the video - it is far more fun to hit zombies with shovels than to shoot them.
Phone mice did.
And so did many a car mouse.
How many of those can work 24/7/365 on a single subject with 100% concentration?
Or how about how many of those can you scale down to fit into a shoebox or smaller (while they are till operative) or scale up by linking them in a cluster (preferably of the Beowulf kind)?
"Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip?"
Not YET.
...porn.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/15/2245215
For bashing Windows while they are lauding Macs.
When you title your article/web page/blog post etc. "Macs don't cure cancer but..." and then you start your text with a tirade about how much you hate M$ and Windblows and how MS$Office has killed your dog and raped your grandmother - don't be surprised when your page comes up when someone enters a search string along the lines of "Windows causes cancer" or "Why I hate Macs" or "My dog killed my grandmother in my office by the window".
From the "Why are Mac's So Expensive?" Yahoo! Answers topic:
Why are Mac's So Expensive?
I am well and truely fed up with Windows and Microsofts global domiantion plans and want to return to mac (I had one years ago before replacing with a PC), but I have been having a look around and even 2nd hand ones are really expensive? If Apple want to cut Microsoft down, they should lower their costs?
* 3 years ago
Additional Details
Rawlyn, I've tried using Linux - you seem to need to know how to make it do things - it is a bit complex for a computer stupid like me! If it had some kind of standard iterface it would be easier to understand.
See what I mean?
And does anyone even remember that Google gives you more popular choices to your search string first, after a while?
So, after a while, you are bound to get more accurate results - along with the simple search string results. Like the ones Bing gives you.
The one that is tainting the results is Google.
They do it to give you the more popular results, as they are bound to be more accurate - but they ARE fiddling with the simple search string results.
Putting the search string in quotes fixes that on both Bing and Google.
No mention of Macs now.
But hey... Don't let logic come in the way of M$ bashing.
Sure.
Oh... wait... Most of the Earth CAN'T actually be seen on google maps.
Particularly when the object you are looking for is made up of millions of translucent (photo-degradation gets the colors first) plastic fragments smaller than a bottle cap, floating just bellow the surface of the water.
Will a video suffice?
10 meters to 100 feet in depth, depending which source of the story you a reading.
Considering that the article I read earlier (that I can't find right now) reported it being up to 40-80 meters deep - I'd go with the higher number.
Thing is, about 90%+ of the garbage is smaller than a bottle cap, and most of it floats just couple of feet bellow the water surface.
So, just skimming it would do about diddly point squat as Capt. Moore had put it.
From the specs:
An additional feature enables users to 'airbrush' someone's face using the Skin Softening function to reduce the appearance of blemishes.
Nikon's Smart Portrait System with Skin Softening
Face-priority AF helps produce more satisfying portraits by adjusting focus and exposure for as many as 12 faces in the framed shot. Skin Softening function detects and analyses a framed subject's skin, and then adjusts smoothness to produce enhanced results. Smile Timer automatically releases the shutter when the subject smiles, while its Blink Proof function shoots two sequential frames, then saves the one in which the subject's eyes are widest open. Blink Warning presents an alert when it suspects that someone in the shot has blinked. In-Camera Red-Eye Fix automatically corrects any perceived red-eye effect before saving the image to memory.
Finally! Just what we need in a consumer model camera.
Nobody will look anything like themselves ever again.
From TFA:
Thompson says she has not hired an attorney to represent her because she cannot afford one.
When she filed her complaint, she also filed a "poor person order," which exempts her from filing fees associated with the lawsuit.
Wow! Can Slashdot employees actually be modded down to -1 Flaming Troll-land?
Stay tuned and find out.
P.S. Love the comments about Sweden.
Haven't heard those "You would be sprecken German if it weren't for US" in a long time.
For praising the machine.
It was first introduced in iPhones though.
The feature I am referring to is at 0:47.
Try to imagine what this means for the Smurf population.
They don't call this planet the "Blue Marble" for nothing, you know.
That so called "plan" would have human crews travel all the way to Mars and then sit in orbit around it - in order to save 10 minutes that it takes to contact rowers.
A flyby of the moon might be followed by more distant trips to so-called Lagrange points, first to the location where the gravity of the Moon and the Earth gravity cancel each other out, then to where the gravity of the Earth and Sun cancel out. There could also be visits to asteroids or flybys of Mars leading to landings on one or both of the low-gravity moons of Deimos and Phobos.
To what use are ANY of these trips?
Lagrange points are only useful if you are actually going to position a permanent lab there.
Flybys and visits... What for? You can do that just as fine with robotic probes.
The whole point of space travel is to permanently get humans to other places in the Solar System, Galaxy and Universe other than Earth.
It is not a test to see how far we can throw a rock - it is a test to see how close we are to the colonization of our solar system.
They are all BAD...
Can we have a list of names of the people on "the legal team" for the defendant?
From what we've seen it appears to that it may be prudent to avoid their legal counsel in the future.
You know... the way you might want to avoid a leper colony of HIV positive fans with gonorrhea who also happen to have both avian and swine flu.