Learning on a manual camera is like learning to drive a stick shift...you're so busy worrying about the settings and such that you have less time to consider composition and artistry. And yes, some people do it and enjoy it, but more people "just want to take good pictures" and you can easily do this with an auto-everything camera, if you know when to use the flash and know good composition.
If you really want to learn on a manual camera, make your own pinhole out of an oatmeal box and go from there...you only have to worry about "shutter speed" because the apeture is fixed. If you want to learn about shutter speed and apeture, get a camera with both like the N80. Autofocusing is so fast and accurate now, it's going to give you better shots than you could get by hand at least nine times out of ten.
Don't believe me? Listen to a professional photographer: http://www.kenrockwell.com.
It wasn't as good though. I beta tested it once it became usable, and it never got too far beyond that - usable - for me. I was previously using Mandrake 9.1, went to 9.2, it was horrible at first but at least after updates and URPMI repositories, it was rock steady and very usable.
I understand when my 11-month-old niece points at her stuffed animal and exclaims "ba ba ba!", so since everyone understands what she means, does that mean she has no need to learn English as she has derived a way to effectively communicate?
Give me a break. Neither should the definition of a word be "fuzzied" because I, a guy who did telephone support for 2 years, understood what my then ignorant father used. I corrected him so that he did not sound ignorant in front of collegues, as that can be disasterous as a manager, and he appreciated my help learning computers very much, including use of terminology correction.
If you don't believe it, check it out here: http://www.snopes.com/college/admin/jobpost.asp
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY Cape Girardeau, Missouri 63701
Enclosed is an announcement of a tenure-track position in philosophy at the rank of assistant professor. We hope to fill this position rapidly; the target date for our final decision is June 13. We are more interested in looking at candidates with real teaching experience than in newly minted Ph.D's, who might have unrealistic expectations about the possibilities for academic growth at an institution such as ours. Southeast Missouri State University is a regional university which serves students in the southeast portion of the state including St. Louis. Our students tend to be poorly prepared for college level work, intellectually passive, interested primarily in partying, and culturally provincial in the extreme. We offer a major in philosophy. but do not usually have more than two students officially declared as majors at any given time.
There are a few good students, however, and we are proud to say that our current graduating major, William Knorpp, won the 1985 Analysis competition and will be undertaking graduate study in philosophy at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill next year. Mr. Knorpp's upper level work was mainly accomplished through independent tutorials; and prospective candidate must understand that there will be virtually no opportunity to teach upper-division seminars in philosophy. We also offer a religious studies minor; most of the students who declare this minor are shocked to learn that Moses might not have written the Pentateuch and regard higher criticism as secular humanist propaganda. The 12 hrs/semester teaching load is devoted mainly to general education courses at the freshman/sophomore level. In another five years, if the general education curriculum is revised as promised, there may be seminars which are to "capstone" the G.E. program.
The academic environment at SEMO is distinctly non-intellectual -- somewhat like a Norman Rockwell painting -- and the candidate cannot expect to attract students by offering courses that assume innate curiosity about ideas and books, or intellectual playfulness, or independence of moral and political thought. Nevertheless. in order to earn promotion and tenure it is necessary to be involved in curriculum development and to sustain an interest in research and publication. It has occurred to me that the best candidate would be someone who has held the Ph.D. for more than two years, has taught at a community college or a rural state institution, and who would like to continue in somewhat the same vein but at a slightly higher level.I will be interviewing at the Central Division Meetings in St. Louis. If you have an questions, you may call me at my office
"blog" and "burger" are shortened forms of "weblog" and "hamburger", that, while technically are not words in the English language, follow all conventions thereof. I'm not sure what your problem with Hexadecimal is, meaning a Base 16 number system, so I'm going to ignore that.
One of the reasons for a slang word to appear in general use is because it's easier or shorter to say than the word it is used in place of, or has some cultural reference. "Virii" fits none of these categories, nor does it follow the standard conventions of the English languages with its double i somehow signifying it as the plural form of "Virus". If it was supposed to follow the format set by words like "Octopus", the plural would be "viri" (like Octopi). However, the plural was set long ago, and it is "viruses", and it is not difficult to say, spell, or understand for anyone with even the most basic knowledge of the English language; or enough to know what "virus" means and what a plural is.
Finally, it's not even something like "ain't", a non-word that has been co-opted into speech and culture often enough to be accepted (somewhat begrudgingly) into dictionaries everywhere. As far as I know, the only place "virii" is used is Slashdot, and for some reason here otherwise intelligent people use this word when needing a plural form of the word "virus".
I'm guessing that we'll see that confrontation at the front part of the Return of the King actually...far too pivotal of a scene to get rid of entirely.
I used to have a problem, like many, with the Arwen stuff in the first two movies. But think about this - she is not mentioned except in passing reference in the book until she reappears to become queen at the end. They don't have the time in the movies to have Gandalf and Elrond sitting and talking about her for half an hour like in the book, so some liberties were taken to include her to avoid the moviegoer reaction of "Who is this? Uhhh, Aragorn has a girlfriend/wife now? Ok?" at the end.
I'm in agreement with you on Faramir, however. That I can't rationalize:)
Do we really need a "more powerful" desktop OS? I'm assuming you're salivating at the desktop use of such an OS based on the fact that you posted this in a Fedora Linux story. You're average Linux distro from the last 2 years is incredibly fast on any moderatly priced hardware from the last two years. Usability is getting there, but isn't quite there yet. It seems every distro has 2 or 3 nagging issues that keep it from being the perfect fulltime OS for me (and a lot of people), and that is what I am more looking forward toward.
I know I'm a Libertarian so you're going to think I'm some gun toting nut, but you almost hit upon the logic for carrying a gun for self-defense.
Less criminals will be tempted to pull one if there's a better chance that the person they're trying to violate (whether rape, mug, or kill) might also have one.
This is why crime goes DOWN in Concealed Carry areas and why violent crime is so high in the UK.
That is incorrect. Insurance IS for operating a specific car. The liability portion automatically extends to trailers towed by your vehicle, everything extends to a vehicle for which you trade your current vehicle (i.e. buying a new car, and trading in your old car) for 30 days, and in most cases coverage extends to a rental car - in MOST standard insurance contracts, the PAP (personal auto policy). Depending on state and company, for instance, you may find that coverage only transfers to a rental vehicle when yours is in the shop under a covered claim, or that it does apply to your vacationing vehicle, but only liability.
No, the dutch boy is the one without enough fingers. Don't you remember/haven't you heard the story of the boy who put his finger in the dike to keep the town from flooding or whatever?
I didn't say everyone should. It's your choice, it wouldn't work for everyone. If you work out of your home, why would you use a cellphone as your primary mode of communication?
I was just responding to his unfounded and at times completely ridiculous claims about costs and drawbacks to only cell/no landline situations. He's either quite stupid or has done very little research on the matter, either way he shouldn't be commenting.
Wow, great job troll. You lured me in, congratulations. I am a cellphone only, no landline person, and I save money too.
I don't need dialup or DSL over a cellphone, because I have CABLE internet, pay less than DSL for it, and get a discount on my expanded basic channel package to boot.
Voice mail is free with my cellphone plan. In fact, I don't think I had a choice whether or not to take it.
for $60 per month I get 2 lines (not just one) with 400 daytime minutes (my wife can have all of them, I am at work or asleep during the daytime hours) and unlimited nights (after 9pm) and weekends. Also unlimited cellphone-to-cellphone calls. In this, I have a form of emergency communication that I can take wherever I go, my reception is fine 99% of the time, and we (my wife and I) each have our own voicemail.
Cellphones are certainly a lot more secure than cordless land phones, which is what most people have (I think my mother is the only person left with a corded wall phone).
Slashdot Mirror
What is CAATS' slogan?
CAATS - we're better than ASS, err, AAS.
Or CAATS - All Your Airports Are Belong To Us.
*gets modded down*
Chris
In Soviet New Jersey, Perl has illegal sex with you!
Chris
Actually, high ISO is one of the few great pro applications for digital right now...
ISO 1600 on a pro digital camera has far less grain than ISO 1600 film.
Of course, grain isn't the only consideration, but it is one of the problems with high-speed film.
Chris
Learning on a manual camera is like learning to drive a stick shift...you're so busy worrying about the settings and such that you have less time to consider composition and artistry. And yes, some people do it and enjoy it, but more people "just want to take good pictures" and you can easily do this with an auto-everything camera, if you know when to use the flash and know good composition.
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If you really want to learn on a manual camera, make your own pinhole out of an oatmeal box and go from there...you only have to worry about "shutter speed" because the apeture is fixed. If you want to learn about shutter speed and apeture, get a camera with both like the N80. Autofocusing is so fast and accurate now, it's going to give you better shots than you could get by hand at least nine times out of ten.
Don't believe me? Listen to a professional photographer: http://www.kenrockwell.com
Chris
I have an N80, and you can set the ISO on that. Only cameras lesser than the N80 don't have that feature :)
Chris
It wasn't as good though. I beta tested it once it became usable, and it never got too far beyond that - usable - for me. I was previously using Mandrake 9.1, went to 9.2, it was horrible at first but at least after updates and URPMI repositories, it was rock steady and very usable.
Chris
I understand when my 11-month-old niece points at her stuffed animal and exclaims "ba ba ba!", so since everyone understands what she means, does that mean she has no need to learn English as she has derived a way to effectively communicate?
Give me a break. Neither should the definition of a word be "fuzzied" because I, a guy who did telephone support for 2 years, understood what my then ignorant father used. I corrected him so that he did not sound ignorant in front of collegues, as that can be disasterous as a manager, and he appreciated my help learning computers very much, including use of terminology correction.
Chris
Download (supposed) - definition of the transfer of data from any source to another.
Download (actual) - definition of the transfer of data from an network to your machine.
Uses:
1. "I downloaded the software from the CD to my computer."
2. "I downloaded the file from the internet."
3. "I downloaded the file into my e-mail and sent it to him."
Only #2 is correct.
I had to berate my father for WEEKS before he learned the intricacies of Download vs. Upload vs. Install.
Chris
You can do the same thing with URPMI on Mandrake, and I think URPMI is a lot better and easier to configure, frankly....
Chris
My experience, with the x86 live CD anyway, is that it boots to command line and allows you to install binary packages...
Is the PowerPC version different from this?
Chris
Also see here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/34143.html
Chris
I suggested this a long time ago - Head Rat Linux.
Chris
If you don't believe it, check it out here: http://www.snopes.com/college/admin/jobpost.asp
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY
Cape Girardeau, Missouri 63701
Enclosed is an announcement of a tenure-track position in philosophy at the rank of assistant professor. We hope to fill this position rapidly; the target date for our final decision is June 13. We are more interested in looking at candidates with real teaching experience than in newly minted Ph.D's, who might have unrealistic expectations about the possibilities for academic growth at an institution such as ours. Southeast Missouri State University is a regional university which serves students in the southeast portion of the state including St. Louis. Our students tend to be poorly prepared for college level work, intellectually passive, interested primarily in partying, and culturally provincial in the extreme. We offer a major in philosophy. but do not usually have more than two students officially declared as majors at any given time.
There are a few good students, however, and we are proud to say that our current graduating major, William Knorpp, won the 1985 Analysis competition and will be undertaking graduate study in philosophy at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill next year. Mr. Knorpp's upper level work was mainly accomplished through independent tutorials; and prospective candidate must understand that there will be virtually no opportunity to teach upper-division seminars in philosophy. We also offer a religious studies minor; most of the students who declare this minor are shocked to learn that Moses might not have written the Pentateuch and regard higher criticism as secular humanist propaganda. The 12 hrs/semester teaching load is devoted mainly to general education courses at the freshman/sophomore level. In another five years, if the general education curriculum is revised as promised, there may be seminars which are to "capstone" the G.E. program.
The academic environment at SEMO is distinctly non-intellectual -- somewhat like a Norman Rockwell painting -- and the candidate cannot expect to attract students by offering courses that assume innate curiosity about ideas and books, or intellectual playfulness, or independence of moral and political thought. Nevertheless. in order to earn promotion and tenure it is necessary to be involved in curriculum development and to sustain an interest in research and publication. It has occurred to me that the best candidate would be someone who has held the Ph.D. for more than two years, has taught at a community college or a rural state institution, and who would like to continue in somewhat the same vein but at a slightly higher level.I will be interviewing at the Central Division Meetings in St. Louis. If you have an questions, you may call me at my office
Ok, let's analyze...
"blog" and "burger" are shortened forms of "weblog" and "hamburger", that, while technically are not words in the English language, follow all conventions thereof. I'm not sure what your problem with Hexadecimal is, meaning a Base 16 number system, so I'm going to ignore that.
One of the reasons for a slang word to appear in general use is because it's easier or shorter to say than the word it is used in place of, or has some cultural reference. "Virii" fits none of these categories, nor does it follow the standard conventions of the English languages with its double i somehow signifying it as the plural form of "Virus". If it was supposed to follow the format set by words like "Octopus", the plural would be "viri" (like Octopi). However, the plural was set long ago, and it is "viruses", and it is not difficult to say, spell, or understand for anyone with even the most basic knowledge of the English language; or enough to know what "virus" means and what a plural is.
Finally, it's not even something like "ain't", a non-word that has been co-opted into speech and culture often enough to be accepted (somewhat begrudgingly) into dictionaries everywhere. As far as I know, the only place "virii" is used is Slashdot, and for some reason here otherwise intelligent people use this word when needing a plural form of the word "virus".
The end.
Chris
Virii is NOT a word! The plural of virus is viruses!
Chris
I'm guessing that we'll see that confrontation at the front part of the Return of the King actually...far too pivotal of a scene to get rid of entirely.
:)
I used to have a problem, like many, with the Arwen stuff in the first two movies. But think about this - she is not mentioned except in passing reference in the book until she reappears to become queen at the end. They don't have the time in the movies to have Gandalf and Elrond sitting and talking about her for half an hour like in the book, so some liberties were taken to include her to avoid the moviegoer reaction of "Who is this? Uhhh, Aragorn has a girlfriend/wife now? Ok?" at the end.
I'm in agreement with you on Faramir, however. That I can't rationalize
Chris
Do we really need a "more powerful" desktop OS? I'm assuming you're salivating at the desktop use of such an OS based on the fact that you posted this in a Fedora Linux story. You're average Linux distro from the last 2 years is incredibly fast on any moderatly priced hardware from the last two years. Usability is getting there, but isn't quite there yet. It seems every distro has 2 or 3 nagging issues that keep it from being the perfect fulltime OS for me (and a lot of people), and that is what I am more looking forward toward.
Chris
You mention non-political programming, sure. Ever listen to the stuff that DOES discuss politics?
It's not a terrible slant (maybe because I'm a left-leaning Libertarian), but it is definitely there.
Chris
I know I'm a Libertarian so you're going to think I'm some gun toting nut, but you almost hit upon the logic for carrying a gun for self-defense.
Less criminals will be tempted to pull one if there's a better chance that the person they're trying to violate (whether rape, mug, or kill) might also have one.
This is why crime goes DOWN in Concealed Carry areas and why violent crime is so high in the UK.
Chris
That is incorrect. Insurance IS for operating a specific car. The liability portion automatically extends to trailers towed by your vehicle, everything extends to a vehicle for which you trade your current vehicle (i.e. buying a new car, and trading in your old car) for 30 days, and in most cases coverage extends to a rental car - in MOST standard insurance contracts, the PAP (personal auto policy). Depending on state and company, for instance, you may find that coverage only transfers to a rental vehicle when yours is in the shop under a covered claim, or that it does apply to your vacationing vehicle, but only liability.
BTW, IAAIA! (I am an insurance agent)
Chris
No, the dutch boy is the one without enough fingers. Don't you remember/haven't you heard the story of the boy who put his finger in the dike to keep the town from flooding or whatever?
Chris
My father works for a very large logistics corporation and he would happily tell you that Dell's support is top notch.
Chris
In SOVIET RUSSIA, company sues you!
Chris
I didn't say everyone should. It's your choice, it wouldn't work for everyone. If you work out of your home, why would you use a cellphone as your primary mode of communication?
I was just responding to his unfounded and at times completely ridiculous claims about costs and drawbacks to only cell/no landline situations. He's either quite stupid or has done very little research on the matter, either way he shouldn't be commenting.
Chris
Wow, great job troll. You lured me in, congratulations. I am a cellphone only, no landline person, and I save money too.
I don't need dialup or DSL over a cellphone, because I have CABLE internet, pay less than DSL for it, and get a discount on my expanded basic channel package to boot.
Voice mail is free with my cellphone plan. In fact, I don't think I had a choice whether or not to take it.
for $60 per month I get 2 lines (not just one) with 400 daytime minutes (my wife can have all of them, I am at work or asleep during the daytime hours) and unlimited nights (after 9pm) and weekends. Also unlimited cellphone-to-cellphone calls. In this, I have a form of emergency communication that I can take wherever I go, my reception is fine 99% of the time, and we (my wife and I) each have our own voicemail.
Cellphones are certainly a lot more secure than cordless land phones, which is what most people have (I think my mother is the only person left with a corded wall phone).
So, better luck next time, Mr. or Ms. Troll.
Chris