I'm hardly defending Apple here, but I think "4x as good" is rather ridiculous.
Quite right.
It was 4.86 times faster, cooler and better. In the PC Pro video it looked like celebrities in one of those "with&without makeup" slideshows. De-glamored and like just another mobile phone. Which nobody really needs.
Not at all like something hand-sculpted from pieces of the true cross and philosopher's stone by (female) virgins gently rubbing their pelvises over the aforementioned imaginary artifacts.
...they had lasers on the INSIDE beaming out when ever their flesh is pierced? You know, like having lasers in the blood. How come Marvel didn't yet come up with such an awesome character? Would such a combination make the character some kind of a weird Wolverine-Cyclops hybrid? What would Jean Grey think about that?
What's next, I say you're dumb, and I get sued ? After that, I say I don't like you, and get sued. Finally, I decline to make a positive comment and I get sued.
Fuck that. You try any of that shit - I'm comin' at you with a baseball bat. Or a broken bottle. Whatever is at hand.
Since it is a military portrait - its a standard operating procedure.
What else are you going to put behind a soldier to liven up the photo? A mountain of corpses? "I killed all these myself". Or perhaps a row of latrines? "I've shoveled more shit during me military career than Hercules himself". A huge pile of guns? "You know... for shootin'". A spear with scalps on it? "To bad we are killin' mostly Arabs now - I like blonds"
Country's flag (which they salute to each morning and evening and which they carry in the front when marching or storming towards the enemy) and sometimes company or battalion flag on the other hand is so very patriotic without being insulting to the outside observer. A mountain of dead Japs or Jerries would be kinda inappropriate today, wouldn't it?
Also, that being the military - you might notice that they often have these little flags and coat of arms on their uniforms. I've heard that those are used for I-DEN-TI-FI-CA-TION. You know, so you could say "Them there NATO soldiers are 'Mericans, while them over there are Britts." - just by looking at them. From a distance even.
On the other hand - USA citizens are often fed with a larger patriotic spoon than most. Maybe has something to do with the fact that the USA is actually a bunch of separate states. Some of which have at least once tried to break away and form "their own USA, with blackjack and hookers". So, constantly reminding people how bestest in the world their country is and how much they all love it - maybe USA needs 50 times more of that than say... France? Or Andorra.
On the bottom photo (change.JPG in the link to.jpg as someone suggested) there is no added smoke. There IS a reflection from LAMINATION (or perhaps from glossy paper).
No added smoke. Are you perhaps referring to THIS? If so, were you sleeping or "smoking" during the lecture?
Or ever in contact/contract with US or any other military - as far as creative matters are concerned.
Armies of the world cover "graphic design" and other creative missions using "resources available at hand". Meaning - whichever soldier has, claims that he/she has, or looks like he/she might have experience in the said field.
Most cases that "experience" means "I was in the magazine club in high school" (f-in DTP and photo wizard) or "I put funny captions on cats". (average "expert").
It is a clear case of "for publicity use" photo cleared for use by someone who has no sense of the "documentary value and purpose" of photos. I've personally done greater "truthcrimes" for various aging local singers and celebrities. Not to mention all those thousands of yearbook photos that needed "touching up".
BTW... I'm a bit confused by the photos. While the left one (supposedly original) is highly degraded - the right one (polished version) has the exact same uniform. The UCP digital camouflage pattern is identical as well as all the creases. Now... Maybe someone on CSI (Miami) could "enhance" the left image to look like the right one, but not in the real world.
Sooo.. keeping that in mind, shadows around the left photo's head also appear kinda fake. As if they were cut/pasted from somewhere else, with some feathering used in the selection.
As if someone took photo A of a perfectly looking blank uniform, and photo B of the general's face, and merged them into photos C (sitting in the office, hard at work) and D (posing in front of a flag, being patriotic).
This is a treatment of Star Trek with action and comedy and romance and adventure, as opposed to a rather talky geekfest.
"Rather talky geekfest" is Mr. JJs understanding of previous Star Treks.
See? I told you people we should have killed him back when he switched from Felicity to Alias. But nooo... "We can't just go around killing people because they churn out mediocre TV crap." Yeah? Well... You asked for it.
You know... like those DivX/DVD players we have today for $30 a piece.
Only reason those are not popping out on every corner is the still too high price of hardware and well... plain old DVDs being good enough for most people. Which, again, is a part of the reason why BD hardware is still too expensive.
Personally - screw the player. Someone give us a decent and affordable BD Writer.
The religious will argue that a soul is something unique to mankind, embued by whichever creator their faith believes in, making it impossible for machines to ever have soul.
Ever read some Orson Scott Card?
The Xenocide-Speaker for the Dead-Children of the Mind arc is a nice blueprint for what "religious" will come up with when the time comes for them to face the "machine with a soul". As it should be. Card is one of "their" finer thinkers.
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Quite right.
It was 4.86 times faster, cooler and better. In the PC Pro video it looked like celebrities in one of those "with&without makeup" slideshows.
De-glamored and like just another mobile phone. Which nobody really needs.
Not at all like something hand-sculpted from pieces of the true cross and philosopher's stone by (female) virgins gently rubbing their pelvises over the aforementioned imaginary artifacts.
...they had lasers on the INSIDE beaming out when ever their flesh is pierced? You know, like having lasers in the blood.
How come Marvel didn't yet come up with such an awesome character?
Would such a combination make the character some kind of a weird Wolverine-Cyclops hybrid?
What would Jean Grey think about that?
Fuck that.
You try any of that shit - I'm comin' at you with a baseball bat. Or a broken bottle. Whatever is at hand.
Go kill yourself!
How do you like the taste of your own medicine? Ha? Ha?!
And do it painfully. So it hurts. A lot.
The best part is that I am not even from or in the US.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! >>:D
You can have my pseudonym when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
Why so upset?
Is it because of outsourcing to India?
Oh and, you misspelled Europeans.
And fucking.
The message was:
You don't see newspaper photos done with fisheye lenses - despite how funny that may be.
And there is photography and then there is photojournalism - which is only one branch of photography, and also only one branch of journalism.
Since it is a military portrait - its a standard operating procedure.
What else are you going to put behind a soldier to liven up the photo? A mountain of corpses? "I killed all these myself".
Or perhaps a row of latrines? "I've shoveled more shit during me military career than Hercules himself".
A huge pile of guns? "You know... for shootin'".
A spear with scalps on it? "To bad we are killin' mostly Arabs now - I like blonds"
Country's flag (which they salute to each morning and evening and which they carry in the front when marching or storming towards the enemy) and sometimes company or battalion flag on the other hand is so very patriotic without being insulting to the outside observer.
A mountain of dead Japs or Jerries would be kinda inappropriate today, wouldn't it?
Also, that being the military - you might notice that they often have these little flags and coat of arms on their uniforms.
I've heard that those are used for I-DEN-TI-FI-CA-TION.
You know, so you could say "Them there NATO soldiers are 'Mericans, while them over there are Britts." - just by looking at them. From a distance even.
On the other hand - USA citizens are often fed with a larger patriotic spoon than most.
Maybe has something to do with the fact that the USA is actually a bunch of separate states.
Some of which have at least once tried to break away and form "their own USA, with blackjack and hookers".
So, constantly reminding people how bestest in the world their country is and how much they all love it - maybe USA needs 50 times more of that than say... France? Or Andorra.
... you are talking about?
On the bottom photo (change .JPG in the link to .jpg as someone suggested) there is no added smoke.
There IS a reflection from LAMINATION (or perhaps from glossy paper).
No added smoke.
Are you perhaps referring to THIS?
If so, were you sleeping or "smoking" during the lecture?
Or ever in contact/contract with US or any other military - as far as creative matters are concerned.
Armies of the world cover "graphic design" and other creative missions using "resources available at hand".
Meaning - whichever soldier has, claims that he/she has, or looks like he/she might have experience in the said field.
Most cases that "experience" means "I was in the magazine club in high school" (f-in DTP and photo wizard) or "I put funny captions on cats". (average "expert").
It is a clear case of "for publicity use" photo cleared for use by someone who has no sense of the "documentary value and purpose" of photos.
I've personally done greater "truthcrimes" for various aging local singers and celebrities.
Not to mention all those thousands of yearbook photos that needed "touching up".
BTW... I'm a bit confused by the photos.
While the left one (supposedly original) is highly degraded - the right one (polished version) has the exact same uniform.
The UCP digital camouflage pattern is identical as well as all the creases.
Now... Maybe someone on CSI (Miami) could "enhance" the left image to look like the right one, but not in the real world.
Sooo.. keeping that in mind, shadows around the left photo's head also appear kinda fake.
As if they were cut/pasted from somewhere else, with some feathering used in the selection.
As if someone took photo A of a perfectly looking blank uniform, and photo B of the general's face, and merged them into photos C (sitting in the office, hard at work) and D (posing in front of a flag, being patriotic).
I meant cheap Chinese BD-DVD-DivX-MP3-buttered_toast-etc. players.
DVD-DivX-MP3-buttered_toast-etc. players ARE popping up everywhere.
Only now they come with 1080p HDMI output and video upscaling.
Or Jevis? Spelled Jeeves.
Which would be rather appropriate, being all knowing and such.
We'll bring them all back later.
Along with the saber-tooth tiger, dodo, Jesus, JFK and Elvis.
I for one would say Yabba-Dabba-Doo to that.
"Making" mammoths would give us the ability to.. umm... flavor them.
Buttery mammoth, Bananamammoth, Cinnamammoth, Fruity mammoth, Orange mammoth, Pear mammoth, Pineapple mammoth, Cotton candy mammoth, Wintergreen mammoth, Bitter almond mammoth, Vanilla mammoth with Swiss Mocha Chips & Blueberry Swirl, Chocolate mammoth with Chocolate Covered Coconut Bits & Marshmallow Swirl...
And that would be just the beginning.
I can't wait for the streets to be illuminated by phosphorescent, minty flavored, mini-mammoths.
JJ Abrams On The New Star Trek Trailer
"Rather talky geekfest" is Mr. JJs understanding of previous Star Treks.
See? I told you people we should have killed him back when he switched from Felicity to Alias.
But nooo... "We can't just go around killing people because they churn out mediocre TV crap."
Yeah? Well... You asked for it.
Suffer!
Theres willskey in the jar-o...
...I wish I did.
So that I could stop. Out of protest and such.
Alas, I don't even posses a single i-Thingie. Unless we count that white USB cable I "borrowed" from work.
I'd like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me.
Chinese cheap "All-Players".
You know... like those DivX/DVD players we have today for $30 a piece.
Only reason those are not popping out on every corner is the still too high price of hardware and well... plain old DVDs being good enough for most people.
Which, again, is a part of the reason why BD hardware is still too expensive.
Personally - screw the player.
Someone give us a decent and affordable BD Writer.
Or better yet - add links to the summary.
Just because they have a limited processing power and memory that does not mean the machines are THAT stupid.
Ever read some Orson Scott Card?
The Xenocide-Speaker for the Dead-Children of the Mind arc is a nice blueprint for what "religious" will come up with when the time comes for them to face the "machine with a soul".
As it should be. Card is one of "their" finer thinkers.