Also, I must caution the user. I used a paint mask, gloves, goggles, and a foam brush to apply the dust. I also probably inhaled, over time a lot. I had some respiratory issues and odd, random itching for up to a year after this treatment, but I can't be 100% sure it's related or was psychosomatic. YMMV.
I had the same problem. Here's where he failed: The bugs have to get off the bed and get back to the wall to crawl up and drop down on you again. So, I took a bucket of diatomaceous earth and put maybe an 1/8" layer, 2" wide along the baseboards of my room, under the bed including a 6" buffer area outside of the bed silhouette, around the legs of the bed, and then between the mattresses, under the sheets, and finally 4-6" swatch along the edge of the bed on top of the sheets. I then laid on top of the sheets using myself as bait. I reapplied every few days. After a week or so, I stopped finding dead bugs, but I kept the regiment up for 6 months. No more bedbugs, but I also caught the infestation early, as afar as I can tell. Then again, I also lived in a house. I can't imagine living in an apartment infested with bugs because no matter how diligent you are, if your neighbors don't make an effort, they just move back later.
...No you don't. It depends upon how much the slaves cost vs the course of treatment for whatever ailment infects them. Slaves sent to work in the swamps in South Carolina, for example, were basically being handed an early death sentence. http://www.sciway.net/hist/chicora/slavery18-2.html
Even with the extremely high "turnover rate", they were still able to make profits. Just another cost-center.
I can't explain it, either. I've been using Linux off-and-on since the mid-90s, full-time for a short time between stints with BeOS and Windows 2000, and I even have a Mint install on one of my beater sub-notebooks, as well as Windows 8 installed on a mid-2000s tablet.
I use my Chromebook more than all of those.
Turns out, when I'm sitting on my couch or laying in bed browsing the web, shopping on amazon/ebay, or participating in online forums (like/.), I don't need "25 years of software" (free or proprietary) for the most part. I don't need sed, awk, or a bash shell. I don't need perl, python, vi, tin, etc. Turns out, I don't even care that those aren't available to me. I mean, I've got a desktop (erm.. laptop* connected to a nice mechanical keyboard, mouse, and lcd) sitting across the room when I need it and hell, I can setup the share desktop function and still get access to that if I need it from where I'm sitting. Although I haven't figured out how to work around the multiple display stuff, which tells you exactly how often I've *needed* that functionality. I know I'm not you and I don't have your needs, but frankly, if my parents asked me to buy them a laptop, I'd get them both a chromebook. Why do my parents "need" to know about linux? Or even windows, for that matter, when all my dad is going to do is troll freerepublic and read cnn and my mom is just going to look at pictures of the grandbabies on facebook? Like it or not, that's the extent of "computers" for a very large portion of the computer using public.
*To make matters "worse", my laptop is just an HP Pavilion that came with an AMD A-series processor that I upgraded to an A8-3500m and maxed out the RAM. I'm thinking about moving to an SSD and going with an external storage solution. If it weren't for the fact that I've picked up filmmaking as a hobby, I really don't have any performance issues out of this rig. If/when I upgrade this, it will most likely be to another desktop focused on video editing.
I'd say it's a combination of the two. I've seen movies with lots of atmosphere that I'd never watch again, but I can watch a movie with a good idea over and over.
Just like software development (and other areas of production), ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution, on the other hand...
I'm down with that. I'd follow up with once you know the structure and can generate one on your own, eventually you'll figure out what parts of the structure you can ignore for your particular story. I'd say one of the criticisms I have with STC and other "structure nazis" is that they try to shoehorn everything into a beatsheet that may or may not be appropriate at all times. Knowing when to break the rules and all that.
I've always considered Agile (and other buzzword laden management theologies) to be a way to herd cats into "manageable" boxes. Because the PHBs don't actually "get" creative production (you can't just sit down and demand "innovation", but if you can, you'll be a very wealthy man), they have to try and fit everything into some sort of 'metric driven analysis'. They have to try and "prove" they're being productive to their bosses and their bosses' bosses, etc. Can't really blame them, but honestly, how many programmers/developers do you know actually *like* this shit?
People who create things terrify management. One, because their entire livelihood depends upon the output of the creatives, the idea that the creatives hold this much power over them (as mere employees) is anathema to social order. They have to come up with all sorts of weird ways to convince themselves that they're getting everything they can from their workers. They don't understand how to craft/create a story (or program). So they have to have a checklist that they can run through and assure themselves that, why yes, if all of these checkboxes are complete, if everything falls on the correct page, then they've successfully "managed" a project through to be presented to management for their "attaboys" (and fat bonus check). And typically, the writers get shit on (talk about manager taking your best ideas.. Read Goldman's "Adventures in the Screen Trade".. Writers are the least respected people in Hollywood, for the most part, even though without them we'd have no Hollywood). Now think about your burn-down charts and your user stories and your daily stand-ups...
This is true and it's not unique to "Save The Cat!" (which I have read and enjoyed). However, as other screenwriters have pointed out, it's not the only way to tell or sell a story, but almost all of your favorite movies, if you bother to sit down and ruin your movie experience by going "meta"*, follow a structure that can be teased out of it. The reality is, no one really wants to watch 2.5 hour movies anymore (god forbid you ever read about film history and see how early film makers were trying to make 5 and 6+ hour movie epics... Fortunately for us, those are TV series these days) for the most part. And if you want to talk formulaic, watch TV shows, especially crime dramas. They've been doing this for decades and have it down to an art. And we love every minute of it.
I like Lennon & Garant's break-down of movie story structure: Put a guy in a tree, throw some rocks at him, throw some bigger rocks at him, get him down from the tree. That's basically it in a nutshell. Now, the nitty gritty of STC gets into how to make those 4 steps at least somewhat interesting (no one is gonna watch a movie where the protagonist just gets his way every step of the way for the most part.. Even Ferris Bueller (unless you ascribe to the notion that Cameron was the real protagonist and Ferris was the catalyst) had issues to overcome, etc. Or stuff like "Memento" or even "Pulp Fiction", they've all got discernable structures, they just move them around.
*Take some film courses at your local community college, if offered. Pay attention to the cinematography methods classes,etc. Pretty soon you'll see you can't just "watch" a movie; instead you'll be focusing on shots, or framing, or sound design, or story beats, etc. It really sucks if you just want to turn off and watch a movie and be entertained.
Yeah, I get the hate for Mr. Bay, but "Pain & Gain" remains in my top 5 of 2013 thus far. I had no idea that he could still make a movie for under $100 million these days. (P&G was made for $25 million).
Same. Picked one up for the gf for Valentine's Day. She's loved it and hasn't found any issues that she's irritated with. So, last week, I bought one for myself. Since I do all my writing in Google Docs, anyway, and all I want to use it for is writing and researching shit I'm writing, I didn't see an issue. As you mentioned, all day battery, lightweight, fast boots, I'm pretty tickled with it. And it was $250. If it gets stolen, it's much easier to fork out $250 than buying a new Macbook Air.
I still have a "primary" laptop that I use for gaming/heavier work. But I don't need to carry that everywhere with me.
If I could submit a feature request for the next iteration of this Samsung, it's to add a backlit keyboard. That'd make it perfect.
What makes you so sure a jury will award you anything? If anything, most people I know would consider someone sitting down at their table, while recording their reactions, to be openly hostile, and chances are the person doing the punching will get off on the "assault", and you'll be left holding the bag for the civil suit afterwards.
If anything, the police should be citing Surveillance Man for Disturbing the Peace. These are normal, generally happy people before the "Man with a Camera" shows up.
CAR Based on your browsing history, there is an all-you-can-eat chicken wings special at Top Girls Cabaret, 0.5 miles away. Shall I proceed to this destination?
DAN THE MAN'S WIFE --Chicken Wings, eh?
DAN THE MAN'S 5 YO DAUGHTER Daddy, what's a "cabaret?"
Can't speak to everyone else, but I "upgraded" the APU in my HP laptop to an A8 from an A4 last year, and if the new FS sockets were still backwards compatible, I'd have upgraded again (and that still irritates me that it's not). The computer is fine.. keyboard, lcd, drive, etc.
It is real fucking unfair, especially when you consider the reason why those ~50% of the people "not paying income tax" don't pay income tax because they don't make ANY FUCKING MONEY to fucking tax because those 10% have fucking siphoned all the FUCKING MONEY that would have gone to wages for people to FUCKING PAY TAXES ON into their own pockets. You stupid FUCKING moron.
It doesn't matter. If you're doing any serious work with a Canon (or any DSLR (and I'm lumping mirrorless in here, too)), chances are you're also using an external LCD to monitor your video and not through the tiny-assed viewfinder, or through a diopter viewfinder over the built-in LCD. I would argue that if you're interested in the RAW features this hack provides, you're in this particular market. Don't get me wrong, I shoot through a hacked Panasonic GH2 and mirrorless is the way of the future, but dismissing DSLRs because of something this silly is a bit naive. I've got friends shooting video, professionally, on Canon DSLRs.
As an aspiring independent filmmaker, I've been following this with great interest (disclosure: I shoot through a hacked Panasonic GH2 and will most likely add a Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera to the line-up this summer). In 2009, you couldn't find Compact Flash cards fast enough to write the data that RAW requires, and even if you could, the pricing would be astronomical compared to the cost of the camera. REmember that these are DSLRs, not dedicated video cameras. It was a selling point that Canon eventually tacked on to meet a consumer "bullet point" ("Hey! You can also take some videos with this camera!") and they had no idea the monster they were about to unleash once people discovered that they could get "better" video from a $1500-2000 camera than a $15k dedicated video camera. That's the game changing part.
But, as evidenced last night at my school's film festival for its students, you don't even need a high end camera to make a good movie. My and others' favorite movie? Shot on a fucking iPad. a fucking iPAD. I've also seen some great stuff shot on Nokia phones, iphones, android phones, etc. If you've got a good story and good audio, the film image doesn't have to be spectacular.
/* it has none of the supporting features that make the ability to capture video useful */
erm, what?
I record sound externally and sync in post. Having in-camera recording makes syncing much easier, for sure, but it's not a necessity. I'm more concerned about the frame drops and system stability than lack of audio.
Yeah, I'm not sure where he's getting that. I shot a short 2 weekends ago. Six and a half minutes of finished product, cut from over 30gb of footage. That would take... god knows how long to upload from my Roadrunner connection. Not to mention blow my "storage limit" with them. I applaud them for their initial efforts, but I'll continue editing and manipulating video on my local drive (or a very fast local network) for the time being. However, who knows, this will surely change in the future and they'll be a step ahead of the curve. Then again, I'm just a student filmmaker, and perhaps I'm way out of their user base.
I picked one up for the gf for Valentine's Day to replace her dying HP Mini. It does have a few limitations, but for what she uses it for (web browsing on the couch while I work or play world of warcraft (...same thing?)) it's amazing. She also uses google docs to hammer out rough drafts of her own work (legal documents) and taking notes, etc, which she then copies from docs on her "real computer" at work, which is exactly what she did on the Mini, so no change there. For $250, it's the best peace of mind I've ever bought. When the Mini was dying, there was a constant feeling of "I'm bored, I want to do something" behind me on the couch. Now, we're both idly amused.
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Also, I must caution the user. I used a paint mask, gloves, goggles, and a foam brush to apply the dust. I also probably inhaled, over time a lot. I had some respiratory issues and odd, random itching for up to a year after this treatment, but I can't be 100% sure it's related or was psychosomatic. YMMV.
I had the same problem. Here's where he failed:
The bugs have to get off the bed and get back to the wall to crawl up and drop down on you again. So, I took a bucket of diatomaceous earth and put maybe an 1/8" layer, 2" wide along the baseboards of my room, under the bed including a 6" buffer area outside of the bed silhouette, around the legs of the bed, and then between the mattresses, under the sheets, and finally 4-6" swatch along the edge of the bed on top of the sheets. I then laid on top of the sheets using myself as bait. I reapplied every few days. After a week or so, I stopped finding dead bugs, but I kept the regiment up for 6 months. No more bedbugs, but I also caught the infestation early, as afar as I can tell. Then again, I also lived in a house. I can't imagine living in an apartment infested with bugs because no matter how diligent you are, if your neighbors don't make an effort, they just move back later.
...No you don't. It depends upon how much the slaves cost vs the course of treatment for whatever ailment infects them. Slaves sent to work in the swamps in South Carolina, for example, were basically being handed an early death sentence. http://www.sciway.net/hist/chicora/slavery18-2.html
Even with the extremely high "turnover rate", they were still able to make profits. Just another cost-center.
I can't explain it, either. I've been using Linux off-and-on since the mid-90s, full-time for a short time between stints with BeOS and Windows 2000, and I even have a Mint install on one of my beater sub-notebooks, as well as Windows 8 installed on a mid-2000s tablet.
I use my Chromebook more than all of those.
Turns out, when I'm sitting on my couch or laying in bed browsing the web, shopping on amazon/ebay, or participating in online forums (like /.), I don't need "25 years of software" (free or proprietary) for the most part. I don't need sed, awk, or a bash shell. I don't need perl, python, vi, tin, etc. Turns out, I don't even care that those aren't available to me. I mean, I've got a desktop (erm.. laptop* connected to a nice mechanical keyboard, mouse, and lcd) sitting across the room when I need it and hell, I can setup the share desktop function and still get access to that if I need it from where I'm sitting. Although I haven't figured out how to work around the multiple display stuff, which tells you exactly how often I've *needed* that functionality. I know I'm not you and I don't have your needs, but frankly, if my parents asked me to buy them a laptop, I'd get them both a chromebook. Why do my parents "need" to know about linux? Or even windows, for that matter, when all my dad is going to do is troll freerepublic and read cnn and my mom is just going to look at pictures of the grandbabies on facebook? Like it or not, that's the extent of "computers" for a very large portion of the computer using public.
*To make matters "worse", my laptop is just an HP Pavilion that came with an AMD A-series processor that I upgraded to an A8-3500m and maxed out the RAM. I'm thinking about moving to an SSD and going with an external storage solution. If it weren't for the fact that I've picked up filmmaking as a hobby, I really don't have any performance issues out of this rig. If/when I upgrade this, it will most likely be to another desktop focused on video editing.
d) suck my balls.
I realize english might not be the "attorney"'s first language, but his entire email exchange sounds like a shake down.
I'd say it's a combination of the two. I've seen movies with lots of atmosphere that I'd never watch again, but I can watch a movie with a good idea over and over.
Just like software development (and other areas of production), ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution, on the other hand...
I'm down with that. I'd follow up with once you know the structure and can generate one on your own, eventually you'll figure out what parts of the structure you can ignore for your particular story. I'd say one of the criticisms I have with STC and other "structure nazis" is that they try to shoehorn everything into a beatsheet that may or may not be appropriate at all times. Knowing when to break the rules and all that.
I've always considered Agile (and other buzzword laden management theologies) to be a way to herd cats into "manageable" boxes. Because the PHBs don't actually "get" creative production (you can't just sit down and demand "innovation", but if you can, you'll be a very wealthy man), they have to try and fit everything into some sort of 'metric driven analysis'. They have to try and "prove" they're being productive to their bosses and their bosses' bosses, etc. Can't really blame them, but honestly, how many programmers/developers do you know actually *like* this shit?
People who create things terrify management. One, because their entire livelihood depends upon the output of the creatives, the idea that the creatives hold this much power over them (as mere employees) is anathema to social order. They have to come up with all sorts of weird ways to convince themselves that they're getting everything they can from their workers. They don't understand how to craft/create a story (or program). So they have to have a checklist that they can run through and assure themselves that, why yes, if all of these checkboxes are complete, if everything falls on the correct page, then they've successfully "managed" a project through to be presented to management for their "attaboys" (and fat bonus check). And typically, the writers get shit on (talk about manager taking your best ideas.. Read Goldman's "Adventures in the Screen Trade".. Writers are the least respected people in Hollywood, for the most part, even though without them we'd have no Hollywood). Now think about your burn-down charts and your user stories and your daily stand-ups...
This is true and it's not unique to "Save The Cat!" (which I have read and enjoyed). However, as other screenwriters have pointed out, it's not the only way to tell or sell a story, but almost all of your favorite movies, if you bother to sit down and ruin your movie experience by going "meta"*, follow a structure that can be teased out of it. The reality is, no one really wants to watch 2.5 hour movies anymore (god forbid you ever read about film history and see how early film makers were trying to make 5 and 6+ hour movie epics... Fortunately for us, those are TV series these days) for the most part. And if you want to talk formulaic, watch TV shows, especially crime dramas. They've been doing this for decades and have it down to an art. And we love every minute of it.
I like Lennon & Garant's break-down of movie story structure: Put a guy in a tree, throw some rocks at him, throw some bigger rocks at him, get him down from the tree. That's basically it in a nutshell. Now, the nitty gritty of STC gets into how to make those 4 steps at least somewhat interesting (no one is gonna watch a movie where the protagonist just gets his way every step of the way for the most part.. Even Ferris Bueller (unless you ascribe to the notion that Cameron was the real protagonist and Ferris was the catalyst) had issues to overcome, etc. Or stuff like "Memento" or even "Pulp Fiction", they've all got discernable structures, they just move them around.
*Take some film courses at your local community college, if offered. Pay attention to the cinematography methods classes,etc. Pretty soon you'll see you can't just "watch" a movie; instead you'll be focusing on shots, or framing, or sound design, or story beats, etc. It really sucks if you just want to turn off and watch a movie and be entertained.
Yeah, I get the hate for Mr. Bay, but "Pain & Gain" remains in my top 5 of 2013 thus far. I had no idea that he could still make a movie for under $100 million these days. (P&G was made for $25 million).
Same. Picked one up for the gf for Valentine's Day. She's loved it and hasn't found any issues that she's irritated with. So, last week, I bought one for myself. Since I do all my writing in Google Docs, anyway, and all I want to use it for is writing and researching shit I'm writing, I didn't see an issue. As you mentioned, all day battery, lightweight, fast boots, I'm pretty tickled with it. And it was $250. If it gets stolen, it's much easier to fork out $250 than buying a new Macbook Air.
I still have a "primary" laptop that I use for gaming/heavier work. But I don't need to carry that everywhere with me.
If I could submit a feature request for the next iteration of this Samsung, it's to add a backlit keyboard. That'd make it perfect.
See 70s movie "Clonus" or the semi-remiake "The Island" from a few years back.
What makes you so sure a jury will award you anything? If anything, most people I know would consider someone sitting down at their table, while recording their reactions, to be openly hostile, and chances are the person doing the punching will get off on the "assault", and you'll be left holding the bag for the civil suit afterwards.
If anything, the police should be citing Surveillance Man for Disturbing the Peace. These are normal, generally happy people before the "Man with a Camera" shows up.
Driverless cars:
DAN THE MAN
Car, I'm hungry, what's around here?
CAR
Based on your browsing history, there is an all-you-can-eat chicken wings special at Top Girls Cabaret, 0.5 miles away. Shall I proceed to this destination?
DAN THE MAN'S WIFE
--Chicken Wings, eh?
DAN THE MAN'S 5 YO DAUGHTER
Daddy, what's a "cabaret?"
I don't actually see anything wrong with the Apache pilots' actions in that video. The war itself, on the other hand...
Actually, yes I would.
Can't speak to everyone else, but I "upgraded" the APU in my HP laptop to an A8 from an A4 last year, and if the new FS sockets were still backwards compatible, I'd have upgraded again (and that still irritates me that it's not). The computer is fine.. keyboard, lcd, drive, etc.
Indiegogo.com doesn't curate. A couple managed to crowdsource/fun a baby last year via indiegogo.
It is real fucking unfair, especially when you consider the reason why those ~50% of the people "not paying income tax" don't pay income tax because they don't make ANY FUCKING MONEY to fucking tax because those 10% have fucking siphoned all the FUCKING MONEY that would have gone to wages for people to FUCKING PAY TAXES ON into their own pockets. You stupid FUCKING moron.
It doesn't matter. If you're doing any serious work with a Canon (or any DSLR (and I'm lumping mirrorless in here, too)), chances are you're also using an external LCD to monitor your video and not through the tiny-assed viewfinder, or through a diopter viewfinder over the built-in LCD. I would argue that if you're interested in the RAW features this hack provides, you're in this particular market. Don't get me wrong, I shoot through a hacked Panasonic GH2 and mirrorless is the way of the future, but dismissing DSLRs because of something this silly is a bit naive. I've got friends shooting video, professionally, on Canon DSLRs.
As an aspiring independent filmmaker, I've been following this with great interest (disclosure: I shoot through a hacked Panasonic GH2 and will most likely add a Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera to the line-up this summer). In 2009, you couldn't find Compact Flash cards fast enough to write the data that RAW requires, and even if you could, the pricing would be astronomical compared to the cost of the camera. REmember that these are DSLRs, not dedicated video cameras. It was a selling point that Canon eventually tacked on to meet a consumer "bullet point" ("Hey! You can also take some videos with this camera!") and they had no idea the monster they were about to unleash once people discovered that they could get "better" video from a $1500-2000 camera than a $15k dedicated video camera. That's the game changing part.
But, as evidenced last night at my school's film festival for its students, you don't even need a high end camera to make a good movie. My and others' favorite movie? Shot on a fucking iPad. a fucking iPAD. I've also seen some great stuff shot on Nokia phones, iphones, android phones, etc. If you've got a good story and good audio, the film image doesn't have to be spectacular.
/* it has none of the supporting features that make the ability to capture video useful */
erm, what?
I record sound externally and sync in post. Having in-camera recording makes syncing much easier, for sure, but it's not a necessity. I'm more concerned about the frame drops and system stability than lack of audio.
Yeah, I'm not sure where he's getting that. I shot a short 2 weekends ago. Six and a half minutes of finished product, cut from over 30gb of footage. That would take... god knows how long to upload from my Roadrunner connection. Not to mention blow my "storage limit" with them. I applaud them for their initial efforts, but I'll continue editing and manipulating video on my local drive (or a very fast local network) for the time being. However, who knows, this will surely change in the future and they'll be a step ahead of the curve. Then again, I'm just a student filmmaker, and perhaps I'm way out of their user base.
Absolutely.
And.. Fuck Florida.
I picked one up for the gf for Valentine's Day to replace her dying HP Mini. It does have a few limitations, but for what she uses it for (web browsing on the couch while I work or play world of warcraft (...same thing?)) it's amazing. She also uses google docs to hammer out rough drafts of her own work (legal documents) and taking notes, etc, which she then copies from docs on her "real computer" at work, which is exactly what she did on the Mini, so no change there. For $250, it's the best peace of mind I've ever bought. When the Mini was dying, there was a constant feeling of "I'm bored, I want to do something" behind me on the couch. Now, we're both idly amused.