So there are a lot of things you can do with Polaroids
If you feel compelled to adjust your projector without instrumentation, you can easily tell if it close to correct by taking a Polaroid color photograph (without flash) of the 11 step crossed gray scale on Video Essentials or AVIA. Although Polaroid color film is balanced for 5600 degrees Kelvin, the difference between the film primaries and the proper CIE tristimulus filter response causes a display which has been properly adjusted to D65 (6500 degrees Kelvin) to photograph well. Polaroid color film has is very sensitive to color temperature errors and cannot be fooled. The eye is easily fooled, and most people judge display color temperature between 9000 and 13000 degrees to be perfect.
Any color tint that you observe in the black and white gray scale pattern is the error in your white balance. If the photograph is blue, you have too much blue. Either decrease blue, or increase red and green. If the photograph is magenta, decrease red and blue or increase green. If the photograph is yellow, increase blue or decrease red and green.
http://www.thebigpicturedvd.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/ dc board.cgi?az=show_thread&om=1513&forum=DCForumID24 &archive=yes
In a perfect world, intelligent life doesn't evolve.
I'm just thinking what must go in a mind of person that flies a 7?7 into a building with 10 thousend of persons inside.
What personal pain such a person must have gone through? What has he seen? what was done to him? what pain must a person go through to be ready to to do such act? Had he to see to watch his family die? I just can't imagine what such person went trough.
Its called brainwashing. I've heard that these suiciders are promised X concubines in heaven for each person they kill and will sit at the right hand of god_name_here. Its the carrot, not the stick.
Consider the modern theory of evolution, which is mainly about differential reproduction. Succinctly, its not "survival of the fittest", but rather "faster reproduction of the fitter". In a population, there are not completely "fit" and completely "unfit" members. There are only "fitter" and "less fit". The individual members of a population do not evolve, the population as a whole does. It does so not becuase the "less fit" die -- they do, but only after reproducing some. The "fitter" also die, but reproduce a little more. Over many generations, the genetic state of the whole evolves.
In modern society, this mostly does not happen. Just about any human--fit or not--can have as many children as they want. Not to stereotype, but we all know of crack whores having children and geniuses who do not. So, according to the modern theory of evolution, humans stopped evolving about 50 years ago and that will continue into the future.
When we are capable of genetically engineering our children, THAT is when human evolution will resume. At a much faster rate. Our evolution will resume with US in control of it. Whether you believe in Mother Nature or God, we will be that entity. We WILL have become GOD. Not just in our minds, but in reality. And we will screw it up in a magnitude that only a God can.
In the next few generations after widespread genetic engineering of children, it cannot be doubted that "pretty people" -- people that are only fit to be models or actors -- will be vastly over-represented. Geeks and nerds like us will be vastly under-represented. The consequence of this is that all the machines (gene manipulators, machines that make gene manipulators, computers that design the machines that make gene manipulators, ets...) will break down and there will be no one to fix them. Society will collapse and all the "pretty people" will be even more useless in that society than they are in this one. They will all die and Mother Nature or God (whichever you believe) will reassert control over evolution.
QED.:-)
Grayswan, Lord of the Morning
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Usually, we only go to the doctor after we develop a problem. Imagine if you went to a doc when you didn't have a problem and the doc was able to use a time machine to look 50 years into the future and tell you what diseases you were going to develop and when. One day, genes may offer this possibility, or something like it.
People buy insurance because they DO NOT know what is going to happen. Once we effectively know the future, health insurance companies are going to become small businesses.
What I learned in highschool is that DNA is a blueprint.
Its not a blueprint, its a recipe. It doesn't tell you what you get, only how to make it. If you change DNA, you have to let it run through its recipe and only at the end do you find out what you get.
Our genes may define how tall or short we are, the colour of our hair (sans bleaching or dying it)
You know how much women change their hair color. If you did choose the hair color of your baby daughter, she'd just change it anyway. In fact, she'd probably change it just *because* you picked it for her.
I got a ticket in the mail with a nice picture showing my car, license plate prominent, going through a red light in Brooklyn.
They were going to do this here in Marietta but decided against it based on the argument that it would cause drivers to speed up ALOT so they wouldn't get caught in the intersection. It was felt that any accidents that DID happen would be MUCH WORSE.
From the Jargon file:
C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain varying according to the speaker, as "a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language".
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I mean, aren't ALL black holes "Massive"? I mean, you never hear stories about *tiny* black holes.
When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking.
ATI finally released better drivers for the 8500 this week and it keeps up fine with a GeForce3 Ti 500...
Any you are sure THESE benchmarks are acurate because...?
Benchmark numbers don't lie. Or do they?
Step 1) Get A lobotomy.
When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking
I noticed that Kylix 1 choked over VNC. I assumed that was due to the influence of wine. Can I get a witness from the congregation?
When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking.
Up there with JRRT. I like him because he isn't afraid to kill main characters. Its more life-like that way.
When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking.
So there are a lot of things you can do with Polaroids
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If you feel compelled to adjust your projector without instrumentation, you can easily tell if it close to correct by taking a Polaroid color photograph (without flash) of the 11 step crossed gray scale on Video Essentials or AVIA. Although Polaroid color film is balanced for 5600 degrees Kelvin, the difference between the film primaries and the proper CIE tristimulus filter response causes a display which has been properly adjusted to D65 (6500 degrees Kelvin) to photograph well. Polaroid color film has is very sensitive to color temperature errors and cannot be fooled. The eye is easily fooled, and most people judge display color temperature between 9000 and 13000 degrees to be perfect.
Any color tint that you observe in the black and white gray scale pattern is the error in your white balance. If the photograph is blue, you have too much blue. Either decrease blue, or increase red and green. If the photograph is magenta, decrease red and blue or increase green. If the photograph is yellow, increase blue or decrease red and green.
http://www.thebigpicturedvd.com/cgi-bin/dcforum
In a perfect world, intelligent life doesn't evolve.
Do they use this stuff to make Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters? If so, have they located Zaphod yet?
In a perfect world, intelligent life doesn't evolve.
It sounds like you've got the dreaded AiluroSnesenNecrophobia. Fear of death by sneezing cat.
In a perfect world, intelligent life doesn't evolve
I haven't seen or heard anything from Bill Clinton since the attack. That's unusual and his office IS in NYC. Hmmmm....
I'm just thinking what must go in a mind of person that flies a 7?7 into a building with 10 thousend of persons inside.
What personal pain such a person must have gone through? What has he seen? what was done to him? what pain must a person go through to be ready to to do such act? Had he to see to watch his family die? I just can't imagine what such person went trough.
Its called brainwashing. I've heard that these suiciders are promised X concubines in heaven for each person they kill and will sit at the right hand of god_name_here. Its the carrot, not the stick.
Eugenics is a Bad Thing.
:-)
Consider the modern theory of evolution, which is mainly about differential reproduction. Succinctly, its not "survival of the fittest", but rather "faster reproduction of the fitter". In a population, there are not completely "fit" and completely "unfit" members. There are only "fitter" and "less fit". The individual members of a population do not evolve, the population as a whole does. It does so not becuase the "less fit" die -- they do, but only after reproducing some. The "fitter" also die, but reproduce a little more. Over many generations, the genetic state of the whole evolves.
In modern society, this mostly does not happen. Just about any human--fit or not--can have as many children as they want. Not to stereotype, but we all know of crack whores having children and geniuses who do not. So, according to the modern theory of evolution, humans stopped evolving about 50 years ago and that will continue into the future.
When we are capable of genetically engineering our children, THAT is when human evolution will resume. At a much faster rate. Our evolution will resume with US in control of it. Whether you believe in Mother Nature or God, we will be that entity. We WILL have become GOD. Not just in our minds, but in reality. And we will screw it up in a magnitude that only a God can.
In the next few generations after widespread genetic engineering of children, it cannot be doubted that "pretty people" -- people that are only fit to be models or actors -- will be vastly over-represented. Geeks and nerds like us will be vastly under-represented. The consequence of this is that all the machines (gene manipulators, machines that make gene manipulators, computers that design the machines that make gene manipulators, ets...) will break down and there will be no one to fix them. Society will collapse and all the "pretty people" will be even more useless in that society than they are in this one. They will all die and Mother Nature or God (whichever you believe) will reassert control over evolution.
QED.
Grayswan, Lord of the Morning
People buy insurance because they DO NOT know what is going to happen. Once we effectively know the future, health insurance companies are going to become small businesses.
Grayswan, Lord of the Morning
Its not a blueprint, its a recipe. It doesn't tell you what you get, only how to make it. If you change DNA, you have to let it run through its recipe and only at the end do you find out what you get.
Grayswan, Lord of the Morning
You know how much women change their hair color. If you did choose the hair color of your baby daughter, she'd just change it anyway. In fact, she'd probably change it just *because* you picked it for her.
Grayswan, Lord of the Morning
They were going to do this here in Marietta but decided against it based on the argument that it would cause drivers to speed up ALOT so they wouldn't get caught in the intersection. It was felt that any accidents that DID happen would be MUCH WORSE.
http://corporate.bridges.com/corp/vision.htm
That last link led to a page of 99.44% pure BS! That's rare stuff.
Check out the inside back cover of every issue of Consumer Reports for some of the more egregious examples of marketroid english butchering.
Grayswan,
I don't know where you're going now Mr. Adams, but Don't Panic! Be sure to take your towel and have a Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster on me.
Grayswan,
Life is what I do between cigarettes. - Mark Twain
From the Jargon file: C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain varying according to the speaker, as "a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language".