It's amazing how many people don't get this. How many people convert to CMYK as they think that's the professional thing to do, and they just use the canned profiles (or no profile at all as they don't trust all that ICC wizardry) in Photoshop. Fail. Then they wonder why the output looks crap...
Professionals in print production and publishing aren't using CMYK these days. Modern print-production workflows use RGB images (as they have a wider gamut thant CMYK) and use ICC profiles to convert to CMYK at the time it's printed. This way, when the colours are separated, they're done with the intent of the device that will actually be printing the output, not with some generic RGB to CMYK conversion in Photoshop.
If you are working with CMYK images on your computer, you have made decisions about UCR and GCR and ink density that are at best educated guesses as you often have no idea what equipment will be printing your output. Once you've separated it to CMYK, if you need to print it on a different device that has different characteristics, you're in trouble.
Now, whether or not GIMP is a suitable substitute for Photoshop is another argument altogether, but these days it doesn't hinge on CMYK support.
Except we can't do that because we jumped at the opportunity to sign all sorts of one-sided trade agreements with the US over the past few years that specifically prohibit this kind of behaviour.
The reason Apple are getting asked to explain is that songs on the iTunes Music store have a base rate of $0.99 in the US and $1.69 in Aus.
At the time this pricing was set, it was a slight markup over the prevailing exchange rate - small enough that it wasn't worth complaining about it. Now that the AUD has been more than $1.00 USD for over a year, Apple are yet to adjust the pricing.
Movies are often, but not always, more expensive here.
Their reasoning is that it can't be changed due to deals with the music labels and movie studios, which I am almost inclined to believe as the prices on apps have dropped to a more reasonable rate - ie, $0.99 apps in the US are $0.99 in AU as well.
What is meant by that is that the OPs personal assets (house, savings etc) are on the line if he takes it to court. If he had a limited liability company, then should the company lose the court case, it's only the companies assets that are up for grabs, and if you play your cards right, the company doesn't have any assets to seize.
After trying this in every app I could think of, and failing to crash them, it turns out that this is case sensitive.
Some dude has done a more detailed analysis over on github but the long and short of it is that there is a specific check in the code for 'file://' and any other case will cause it to crash. All caps - crash. Capital F and the rest in lower-case - crash. All lower-case and a capital L - crash.
You say incredibly low overall fine, I say an incredibly sane fine.
If I were to be fined, say, $1.5M for sharing a couple of albums on bittorrent, then that would do little to stop me doing it again. Sure, it would ruin my life, but after I declared bankruptcy, I'd probably be out doing it again, just to stick it to the man.
If I were on the other hand to be fined over $600 for sharing a couple of tracks, that's not something that's big enough to waste tens of thousands or more of lawyer time on appeals, nor is it enough to declare bankruptcy over, so I'd be left with no choice but to suck it up and pay. It would probably curb my enthusiasm for file sharing at the same time, as $600 is a lot for a few tracks, but makes sense as a punishment.
If the RIAA were to take a similar tactic, they'd get a LOT more settlements as it's just not worth trying to fight something of this magnitude, a couple of hours with a lawyer working out a defence soon costs more than the actual fine, so in the end, it's cheaper and easier to pay it and move on.
For all the amazingly stupid bullshit I've been hearing the last month about America having a "gun culture," we are actually far below average in our exposure to this stuff.
If the citizens of the USA are "far below average" in their exposure to weapons, I hate to think what you consider average exposure to be. The citizens of Afghanistan or Iraq?
I am not able to install a controller based Wi-Fi solution in my office due to cost...
Yes, you are.
Check out UniFi by Ubiquity Networks - they're cheaper than you think (in the same ballpark as premium consumer wifi gear) and the controller is a software instance you can run on just about anything. Management is through a web browser and is dead easy.
The wifi networks have great throughput, the Pro access points have 3x3 MIMO, and they're stable and reliable.
You also get some other good features, such as traffic analysis and reporting, a captive portal for guests that can either use tickets (generated in the controller software) or via a PayPal gateway if you want to start charging people for access and plug-and-play for adding new APs to the network.
Disclaimer - I have deployed a number of Ubiquity networks for my clients, and they're all working successfully.
Maybe it's because we've heard of forge welding, and this example, with the decorative pattern welding in particular, is particularly interesting owing to the complexity of the work and the hours involved in getting it right.
Users of a Method, or a Process that is patented are, under US law, breaking the patent.
These patents are designed to protect things such as a process for making soap or candles, so that no one else can copy your exact technique.
These patents are then abused to protect a common process that occurs in the vast majority of businesses these days - like it or not, that's the law.
They even explain in the legal letter (if you read the linked article, and the legal letter it contains) that they're not going after Xerox or Canon who make the printers, as they're simply a tool used in the process. Similarly, they're not going after Microsoft or IBM, as the software used is simply another tool used in the process.
They are going after the people they have determined are infringing their patented process, which is nearly everyone - and they're focussing on small companies who don't have the resources to defend themselves as in the US, you don't have a loser-pays legal system.
I'd argue that one of the biggest infringers of these patents is the US Government itself, but I don't see them getting threatened any time soon...
Furthermore, a typical ceiling of 2500 mm will be at 2500 mm +/- 1 mm, in just the same way that if you had an 8 foot ceiling, it'd be 8 feet +/- 1/32 inch. You wouldn't aim for a ceiling height of 8 feet 2 2764 inches just because that's 2500 mm.
You don't convert from inches to millimetres using a rough approximation. multiply that out, and convert back to inches - you work in inches all the way. In the same way, I work in millimetres, I don't convert to inches and back again just to lose precision.
As I said, plus or minus 1 mm is roughly the same accuracy as plus or minus 1/32", which is generally accurate enough for construction work
What I'm saying is that plus or minus 1 mm is roughly the same accuracy as plus or minus 1/32", which is generally accurate enough for construction work
Why do you need a single, integer, measure to replace the foot?
0.3 m ( a third of a metre) is the same as 30 cm ( thirty centimetres ) is the same as 300 mm ( three-hundred millimetres or more commonly three-hunded mills )
If something is 2 1/2 feet long, how is that different to saying it's 75 cm or 750 mills?
As units like millimetres are used so thoroughly in construction, it's easy to say just a plain number and have it to be well understood you're talking about mm.
That ceiling is twenty-five hundred high, the light switch is fifteen-hundred above the floor, the cabinets in the kitchen are six-hundred wide, the stove is nine-hundred and the bench height is nine-hundred. The floor tiles are three-hundred by four-fifty and the splashback tiles are ten by fifty glass tiles.
I might go and say that the room is four and a half by three metres, but that's trivial to convert in your head to 4500 x 3000. Were it to be drawn up on a plan, it'd be dimensioned as 4500 x 3000.
This way, you're using a single, consistent unit for all measurements across an entire drawing, from the exterior dimensions of the whole house, to the size of the cutouts for light switches and power outlets.
I appreciate that there are significant hurdles to overcome in changing over to a metric system, and as you've use an imperial system your whole life, it seems more natural to use it. I don't want to switch the measures that I've learned since primary school to something else, that's for sure.
As for us metricians making a rule that has the emphasis on the wrong subdivisions, then yes, I'm sure we're trying to subconsciously annoy you.
No, the implication that I read into your statement was that imperial measurements (or more technically United States customary units) are somehow more practical to use and that they are more naturally understood by people.
The inch and the foot are more practical units for everyday use than cm and meters and that's what people are used to.
No, that's what you are used to. It's a complete fallacy to suggest that everyone is more used to ft and inches when the vast majority of the world uses metric measurements, and therefore are used to metres (and therefore divisions of the metre, like centimetres, millimetres and kilometres) when it's an overwhelming minority of just three countries (Liberia and Burma being the other two - you're in great company there, by the way) that haven't standardised on metric units.
If you can remember that a US Letter page is 8.5" x 11" then you can just as easily remember that an A4 is 210 x 297 mm. Then, to get other sizes, you simply double of halve the page size to scale it up or down.
To get an A5 - that's half an A4, which is 210 x 148. To get an A3 - that's twice an A4, which is 297 x 420.
To get a DL size (eg, the size to go in a mailing envelope) that's an A4 folded in thirds or 210 x 99
It's more than accurate enough, if you're using the right measurements. I'm not even remotely suggesting that you work out how long you want something in feet and inches and then convert it to millimetres using 1 mm = 1/32", that'd be crazy. Why on earth would I decide I want a 3 foot shelf, when everything else around me is in millimetres? I'd put in a 900 wide shelf. I don't measure in feet, remember?
What I'm saying is that plus or minus 1 mm is roughly the same accuracy as plus or minus 1/32", which is generally accurate enough for construction work
If I want a 900 wide shelf, and I cut my lumber to be 899 or 901 mm, then that's close enough. Similarly, if you want a 3 foot wide shelf, and you cut your limber to be 1' 31/32" or 2' 1/32" too short or too long, then that's close enough too.
Man, look at those measurements, how on earth can something like 2' 31/32" be any easier to work with than 599 mm?
Consider the majority of professional photographers who deal primarily with individual, personal clients. The photographer has only two real choices: charge lots more for doing the initial job (because they know full well that they're never going to sell any copies) or switch to a different market altogether. That doesn't benefit the consumer, does it? It just means those services cease to be available, not because the services aren't wanted any more but because the majority of consumers are too dishonest to be worth dealing with.
Sadly, I don't think there's a realistic solution to this. Not while the average consumer continues to believe it's okay to rip off the author because 'it's just for personal use'.
When I am commissioning some photography, I'm much more willing to pay a fair amount up-front and have unrestricted use of the works rather than pay far below what the actual market rate should be for the initial work and then have to pay inflated prices for prints of said works.
Sure, some people shopping around for, say, a wedding photographer will pick someone who charges a relative pittance up-front, not realising that they're going to get stung when it comes time to get some prints of the photos and you'll never be able to get the negatives or RAW files, but I specifically shopped around for a photographer who charged a higher, yet fair, amount up-front to cover the work they put in on the day and the work involved in processing and retouching the photos, but then sold me prints for what they cost to print (possibly with a small markup) and gave me the RAW files on disc.
In benefits society because it's an incentive for you to write even more music, which benefits us all.
The incentive would be for companies to not commission new music, but instead use the free ones from a vastly bigger pool. I'm barely making ends meet as it is, but I do it because I love this work. However if production companies were offered the amazing windfall profit of free contemporary music, I'd have to get another job
If you define Free Contemporary Music as music that was created around or before the year 1900 or so, then yes, you're right. With the copyright extensions that have been put through since 1976, that are retroactively applied to existing copyrights, nothing made after 1910 is yet in the public domain.
Human body temperature is about 100F. Human extreme cold is 0F. Water's state is irrelevant to human perception. There are reasons beyond history and romance to use non-metric units for non-scientific purposes.
But it's not - 100F is 38C which is technically a fever. Normal body temperature is around 37.0C or 98.6F. Cold or extreme cold, it doesn't matter = 0C is pretty damn cold and an unprotected human is just as dead as at 0F
It's quite handy to know that 0C is quite literally freezing, 10C is cold, 20C is nice, maybe slightly chilly, 30C is hot and 40C is damn hot.
Well, when a half is simply 0.5 and a quarter is 0.25, I don't see what you're getting at?
Half a metre is 0.5 m is 50 cm is 500 mm. This is what makes it superior to the inch. You have a system of prefixes that involve moving a decimal point to the left or the right. There's nothing wrong with having, say, 0.5 mm - who said you had to have integer measurements? As it's all decimal, it doesn't matter - if you need more precision, simply add more decimal digits.
Decimals are inherently easier to deal with than fractions. They also imply a level of precision, so if I say something is 50 mm long, that implies less precision than if I specify that something is 50.000 mm long.
Half a yard is 1 1/2 feet is 18 inches is 576/32 inches is 1152/64 inches. If you're talking instead about decimal inches, then you're giving up everything that you say makes inches superior.
I've never seen a socket set with a metric drive. Even 100% metric sets here have 1/4 or 1/2 inch drives on them. I suppose the size of the drive is largely irrelevant to the task at hand (as long as it's big enough to not break under the torque) so this is one area where we use a pre-existing standard to as to be compatible with as much as possible. As long as the sockets are available in metric sizes, it's all good...
I'm sure someone makes a 10mm drive socket somewhere though...
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OS X has built in mirroring. In system preferences, drag one monitor on top of the other in the arrangement and they're mirrored.
It's amazing how many people don't get this. How many people convert to CMYK as they think that's the professional thing to do, and they just use the canned profiles (or no profile at all as they don't trust all that ICC wizardry) in Photoshop. Fail. Then they wonder why the output looks crap...
Professionals in print production and publishing aren't using CMYK these days. Modern print-production workflows use RGB images (as they have a wider gamut thant CMYK) and use ICC profiles to convert to CMYK at the time it's printed. This way, when the colours are separated, they're done with the intent of the device that will actually be printing the output, not with some generic RGB to CMYK conversion in Photoshop.
If you are working with CMYK images on your computer, you have made decisions about UCR and GCR and ink density that are at best educated guesses as you often have no idea what equipment will be printing your output. Once you've separated it to CMYK, if you need to print it on a different device that has different characteristics, you're in trouble.
Now, whether or not GIMP is a suitable substitute for Photoshop is another argument altogether, but these days it doesn't hinge on CMYK support.
Except we can't do that because we jumped at the opportunity to sign all sorts of one-sided trade agreements with the US over the past few years that specifically prohibit this kind of behaviour.
The reason Apple are getting asked to explain is that songs on the iTunes Music store have a base rate of $0.99 in the US and $1.69 in Aus.
At the time this pricing was set, it was a slight markup over the prevailing exchange rate - small enough that it wasn't worth complaining about it.
Now that the AUD has been more than $1.00 USD for over a year, Apple are yet to adjust the pricing.
Movies are often, but not always, more expensive here.
Their reasoning is that it can't be changed due to deals with the music labels and movie studios, which I am almost inclined to believe as the prices on apps have dropped to a more reasonable rate - ie, $0.99 apps in the US are $0.99 in AU as well.
What is meant by that is that the OPs personal assets (house, savings etc) are on the line if he takes it to court. If he had a limited liability company, then should the company lose the court case, it's only the companies assets that are up for grabs, and if you play your cards right, the company doesn't have any assets to seize.
After trying this in every app I could think of, and failing to crash them, it turns out that this is case sensitive.
Some dude has done a more detailed analysis over on github but the long and short of it is that there is a specific check in the code for 'file://' and any other case will cause it to crash. All caps - crash. Capital F and the rest in lower-case - crash. All lower-case and a capital L - crash.
You say incredibly low overall fine, I say an incredibly sane fine.
If I were to be fined, say, $1.5M for sharing a couple of albums on bittorrent, then that would do little to stop me doing it again. Sure, it would ruin my life, but after I declared bankruptcy, I'd probably be out doing it again, just to stick it to the man.
If I were on the other hand to be fined over $600 for sharing a couple of tracks, that's not something that's big enough to waste tens of thousands or more of lawyer time on appeals, nor is it enough to declare bankruptcy over, so I'd be left with no choice but to suck it up and pay. It would probably curb my enthusiasm for file sharing at the same time, as $600 is a lot for a few tracks, but makes sense as a punishment.
If the RIAA were to take a similar tactic, they'd get a LOT more settlements as it's just not worth trying to fight something of this magnitude, a couple of hours with a lawyer working out a defence soon costs more than the actual fine, so in the end, it's cheaper and easier to pay it and move on.
For all the amazingly stupid bullshit I've been hearing the last month about America having a "gun culture," we are actually far below average in our exposure to this stuff.
If the citizens of the USA are "far below average" in their exposure to weapons, I hate to think what you consider average exposure to be. The citizens of Afghanistan or Iraq?
I had this so I was curling and grepping a weather feed and displaying 5-minute updated weather status on the office printer for a while...
I am not able to install a controller based Wi-Fi solution in my office due to cost...
Yes, you are.
Check out UniFi by Ubiquity Networks - they're cheaper than you think (in the same ballpark as premium consumer wifi gear) and the controller is a software instance you can run on just about anything. Management is through a web browser and is dead easy.
The wifi networks have great throughput, the Pro access points have 3x3 MIMO, and they're stable and reliable.
You also get some other good features, such as traffic analysis and reporting, a captive portal for guests that can either use tickets (generated in the controller software) or via a PayPal gateway if you want to start charging people for access and plug-and-play for adding new APs to the network.
Disclaimer - I have deployed a number of Ubiquity networks for my clients, and they're all working successfully.
Maybe it's because we've heard of forge welding, and this example, with the decorative pattern welding in particular, is particularly interesting owing to the complexity of the work and the hours involved in getting it right.
Users of a Method, or a Process that is patented are, under US law, breaking the patent.
These patents are designed to protect things such as a process for making soap or candles, so that no one else can copy your exact technique.
These patents are then abused to protect a common process that occurs in the vast majority of businesses these days - like it or not, that's the law.
They even explain in the legal letter (if you read the linked article, and the legal letter it contains) that they're not going after Xerox or Canon who make the printers, as they're simply a tool used in the process. Similarly, they're not going after Microsoft or IBM, as the software used is simply another tool used in the process.
They are going after the people they have determined are infringing their patented process, which is nearly everyone - and they're focussing on small companies who don't have the resources to defend themselves as in the US, you don't have a loser-pays legal system.
I'd argue that one of the biggest infringers of these patents is the US Government itself, but I don't see them getting threatened any time soon...
Furthermore, a typical ceiling of 2500 mm will be at 2500 mm +/- 1 mm, in just the same way that if you had an 8 foot ceiling, it'd be 8 feet +/- 1/32 inch. You wouldn't aim for a ceiling height of 8 feet 2 2764 inches just because that's 2500 mm.
You don't convert from inches to millimetres using a rough approximation. multiply that out, and convert back to inches - you work in inches all the way.
In the same way, I work in millimetres, I don't convert to inches and back again just to lose precision.
As I said, plus or minus 1 mm is roughly the same accuracy as plus or minus 1/32", which is generally accurate enough for construction work
I'm not saying that 1/32" equals 1 mm.
What I'm saying is that plus or minus 1 mm is roughly the same accuracy as plus or minus 1/32", which is generally accurate enough for construction work
Why do you need a single, integer, measure to replace the foot?
0.3 m ( a third of a metre) is the same as 30 cm ( thirty centimetres ) is the same as 300 mm ( three-hundred millimetres or more commonly three-hunded mills )
If something is 2 1/2 feet long, how is that different to saying it's 75 cm or 750 mills?
As units like millimetres are used so thoroughly in construction, it's easy to say just a plain number and have it to be well understood you're talking about mm.
That ceiling is twenty-five hundred high, the light switch is fifteen-hundred above the floor, the cabinets in the kitchen are six-hundred wide, the stove is nine-hundred and the bench height is nine-hundred. The floor tiles are three-hundred by four-fifty and the splashback tiles are ten by fifty glass tiles.
I might go and say that the room is four and a half by three metres, but that's trivial to convert in your head to 4500 x 3000. Were it to be drawn up on a plan, it'd be dimensioned as 4500 x 3000.
This way, you're using a single, consistent unit for all measurements across an entire drawing, from the exterior dimensions of the whole house, to the size of the cutouts for light switches and power outlets.
I appreciate that there are significant hurdles to overcome in changing over to a metric system, and as you've use an imperial system your whole life, it seems more natural to use it. I don't want to switch the measures that I've learned since primary school to something else, that's for sure.
As for us metricians making a rule that has the emphasis on the wrong subdivisions, then yes, I'm sure we're trying to subconsciously annoy you.
No, the implication that I read into your statement was that imperial measurements (or more technically United States customary units) are somehow more practical to use and that they are more naturally understood by people.
The inch and the foot are more practical units for everyday use than cm and meters and that's what people are used to.
No, that's what you are used to. It's a complete fallacy to suggest that everyone is more used to ft and inches when the vast majority of the world uses metric measurements, and therefore are used to metres (and therefore divisions of the metre, like centimetres, millimetres and kilometres) when it's an overwhelming minority of just three countries (Liberia and Burma being the other two - you're in great company there, by the way) that haven't standardised on metric units.
If you can remember that a US Letter page is 8.5" x 11" then you can just as easily remember that an A4 is 210 x 297 mm.
Then, to get other sizes, you simply double of halve the page size to scale it up or down.
To get an A5 - that's half an A4, which is 210 x 148.
To get an A3 - that's twice an A4, which is 297 x 420.
To get a DL size (eg, the size to go in a mailing envelope) that's an A4 folded in thirds or 210 x 99
It's more than accurate enough, if you're using the right measurements. I'm not even remotely suggesting that you work out how long you want something in feet and inches and then convert it to millimetres using 1 mm = 1/32", that'd be crazy. Why on earth would I decide I want a 3 foot shelf, when everything else around me is in millimetres? I'd put in a 900 wide shelf. I don't measure in feet, remember?
What I'm saying is that plus or minus 1 mm is roughly the same accuracy as plus or minus 1/32", which is generally accurate enough for construction work
If I want a 900 wide shelf, and I cut my lumber to be 899 or 901 mm, then that's close enough.
Similarly, if you want a 3 foot wide shelf, and you cut your limber to be 1' 31/32" or 2' 1/32" too short or too long, then that's close enough too.
Man, look at those measurements, how on earth can something like 2' 31/32" be any easier to work with than 599 mm?
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Consider the majority of professional photographers who deal primarily with individual, personal clients. The photographer has only two real choices: charge lots more for doing the initial job (because they know full well that they're never going to sell any copies) or switch to a different market altogether. That doesn't benefit the consumer, does it? It just means those services cease to be available, not because the services aren't wanted any more but because the majority of consumers are too dishonest to be worth dealing with.
Sadly, I don't think there's a realistic solution to this. Not while the average consumer continues to believe it's okay to rip off the author because 'it's just for personal use'.
When I am commissioning some photography, I'm much more willing to pay a fair amount up-front and have unrestricted use of the works rather than pay far below what the actual market rate should be for the initial work and then have to pay inflated prices for prints of said works.
Sure, some people shopping around for, say, a wedding photographer will pick someone who charges a relative pittance up-front, not realising that they're going to get stung when it comes time to get some prints of the photos and you'll never be able to get the negatives or RAW files, but I specifically shopped around for a photographer who charged a higher, yet fair, amount up-front to cover the work they put in on the day and the work involved in processing and retouching the photos, but then sold me prints for what they cost to print (possibly with a small markup) and gave me the RAW files on disc.
In benefits society because it's an incentive for you to write even more music, which benefits us all.
The incentive would be for companies to not commission new music, but instead use the free ones from a vastly bigger pool. I'm barely making ends meet as it is, but I do it because I love this work. However if production companies were offered the amazing windfall profit of free contemporary music, I'd have to get another job
If you define Free Contemporary Music as music that was created around or before the year 1900 or so, then yes, you're right. With the copyright extensions that have been put through since 1976, that are retroactively applied to existing copyrights, nothing made after 1910 is yet in the public domain.
Human body temperature is about 100F. Human extreme cold is 0F.
Water's state is irrelevant to human perception.
There are reasons beyond history and romance to use non-metric units for non-scientific purposes.
But it's not - 100F is 38C which is technically a fever. Normal body temperature is around 37.0C or 98.6F.
Cold or extreme cold, it doesn't matter = 0C is pretty damn cold and an unprotected human is just as dead as at 0F
It's quite handy to know that 0C is quite literally freezing, 10C is cold, 20C is nice, maybe slightly chilly, 30C is hot and 40C is damn hot.
Well, when a half is simply 0.5 and a quarter is 0.25, I don't see what you're getting at?
Half a metre is 0.5 m is 50 cm is 500 mm. This is what makes it superior to the inch. You have a system of prefixes that involve moving a decimal point to the left or the right. There's nothing wrong with having, say, 0.5 mm - who said you had to have integer measurements? As it's all decimal, it doesn't matter - if you need more precision, simply add more decimal digits.
Decimals are inherently easier to deal with than fractions. They also imply a level of precision, so if I say something is 50 mm long, that implies less precision than if I specify that something is 50.000 mm long.
Half a yard is 1 1/2 feet is 18 inches is 576/32 inches is 1152/64 inches. If you're talking instead about decimal inches, then you're giving up everything that you say makes inches superior.
I've never seen a socket set with a metric drive. Even 100% metric sets here have 1/4 or 1/2 inch drives on them.
I suppose the size of the drive is largely irrelevant to the task at hand (as long as it's big enough to not break under the torque) so this is one area where we use a pre-existing standard to as to be compatible with as much as possible. As long as the sockets are available in metric sizes, it's all good...
I'm sure someone makes a 10mm drive socket somewhere though...