You shouldn't be a photographer or work in the film industry.
Every (competent) photographer knows that camera film and sensors have a very limited way of "seeing" compared to the human eye.
Your eyes have an incredible dynamic range (the range of light you can see at any one time) that cameras cannot hope to match, at least not currently. That's why you see no stars in the moon landing photos; and why you *can* see stars and the moon simultaneously when you look up at the night sky.
The funny thing is that film (negative, not slide) has *more* dynamic range and exposure latitude than digital. Getting differing subjects exposed correctly is mostly in the lighting, which has always been possible.
Well, you gotta factor in the cost of paying for meals, transportation, gifts, entertainment and so on. And don't forget about failed ventures -- many investments turn bad and take time to recoup. If you finally make a successful investment, there's the possible expense of a wedding ring and cermony, then after a 9-month waiting period, there are 18 years spent developing it into self-sufficient state... that's a pretty big production cost if you ask me!
Are you honestly claiming that it's so difficult to search for an unbeknownst term for a definition in one of the many free and excellent online dictionaries?
I mean, hell, Google is usually pretty good at figuring out what searches are ostensibly for the sake of reference, even without providing the "define:" flag. In Firefox, Opera and probably other browsers, you just need to highlight the term and select "search $SearchEngine for $Word" for, and it will take you right to the definition. There's an extension for Firefox to load a word definition in an overlaid in a fancy DHTML box without having the leave the page. I'll bet there's one that does something similar on mouseover or double click since you're obviously to lazy to make the three or four clicks it takes otherwise.
I love when writers use complex words. If it's a good one, I've augmented my vocabulary with a word that will enable me to express something more elegantly and coherently. For example, just the other day, I came across the word "petulant." What an eloquently percussive word to hurl at someone when appropriate. Although, I guess you'll never fully understand it because a few clicks are too difficult. Who knew there were Slashdotters afraid to learn?
Conspiracy theorists' version: it's all part of the plan. Tank the economy so that citizens have to work their fingers to the bone just to survive and they'll be too busy and tired to care.
I realize it's just politics as usual, but it's so incredibly infuriating that politicians give so few shits about their own constituents that progresses in civil rights only ever happen every four years or when there's a serious uprising.
Either way, it only happens because it's their own skin on the line; otherwise, they care fuck-all.
As long as you document, label and organize your code coherently and logically in a solid language, coding from scratch (or near scratch using libraries of your own) can be a good thing. It avoids pitfalls like vulnerabilities that affect common code bases, massive libraries that take friggin' *ages* to load on an i7 with a fast internet connection or relying on the developer(s) of library X to add feature Y ("sorry, we can't add that feature yet Mr. Client, it's uh... because of complicated programming reasons, basically, we're relying on a third party and we don't know how to do it ourselves")
How the actual fuck did this disinformative horseshit get modded up?
Evidence collected in a manner that violates defendants' rights is evidence collected illegally. Government and law enforcement do this routinely because (a) it makes their jobs easier, (b) there are no direct consequences and (c) people are largely unaware of the details and contextual interpretations pertaining to their rights.
Charges get reduced or dropped and concessions are made to defendants when their rights are violated for the purposes of recompense to the defendants and punishment to law enforcement.
This is an absolutely vital function of justice and the paradox of liberty: we want the bad guys to get nailed, but the only we can determine their guilt with any certainty is to uphold their rights. Violating one person's rights is violating *everyone's* rights.
Indeed, total case of WTF did I just read? She has a mechanical engineering degree and she's fucking BORED because waaaaah, I don't have any shiny new toys!
So your gadgets aren't exciting anymore? Here's an idea... you have a degree in mechanical fucking engineering, go be creative, MAKE something exciting!
Oh, what's that? You have no imagination because you're just a shallow, entitled bitch who skimmed through an entire education that was paid for by her rich parents? Yeah, that's what I thought.
Please point me to a new Dell or HP model with a proper 7-row keyboard (non-chiclet, INS/DEL/HOM/END/PGU/PGD 3x2 cluster in top right, F key groupings of 4, F keys that are actually goddamm F keys and not this secondary function bullshit)
I couldn't give less of a shit what they do with consumer-targeted products that are used entirely or mostly for dicking around. I mean, Android is cute, but some of us actually need our computers to work.
What I want is for them to reverse the spread of this toxic notion in the ThinkPad lineup. See: crippled, flexing keyboards and buttonless trackpoints/pads that are pretty but feel and work like shit, wide screens that are fine for movies but shit for actually working, removal of status lights that gave useful information at a glance replaced by various indicators scattered among hardware and software that make usability a load of fragmented shit, poor construction materials that make them feel and behave like cheap shit...
In case it wasn't clear, the point I'm getting at is that the last several generations of ThinkPad have increasingly been... shit.
So, the experiment basically proved what any reasonable person has known empirically all along: most people do drugs recreationally because they're in shitty situations (poverty, disparity and so on) and drugs make shitty situations feel less shitty, even if only transiently.
Predictably, and despite additional studies confirming the results, policy-makers ignored and flat-out dismissed them by hurling irrelevant character insults to throw people of the scent of reason.
If they *actually* wanted to end the war on drugs, they would be trying to empower the people and end poverty. The truth is that they are perpetuating the drug war and they *like* it that way. It's just waaay more fun to dress up in riot gear, pack a big fucking gun and play soldier cop instead of working together peacefully and solving the real problems of society.
Better: we need TV shows that glamorize, deify and glorify criminal defense lawyers in the same way procedural cop shows do with police officers. Every cop show paints defense lawyers as these belligerent, prissy jerks when they're the ones asserting defendants' *rights*.
We need shows where the cops and legal system are frequently painted as the *antagonists* because, given the current legal climate, it's certainly a more realistic premise.
They should occasionally feature innocent defendants, but for the most part, they should show how there are many asshole cops who conduct their jobs malevolently and deceptively and how defendants are provided compromise or pardon for having their rights violated, even if they're entirely guilty.
It should also lead you to identify with and develop compassion for defendants by showing that people are generally good people forced into bad situations by poverty, an uncaring system, poor guidance in adolescence, etc... as opposed to cop shows, which *love* to paint every criminal as a psychotic freak with no impulse control.
It's quite pathetic, but TV shows have a huge influence on the general public's thought processes involving the legal system. Hollywood's propaganda power is mountainous. A few good, captivating shows to sway public opinion in the general direction of cynicism could go a long way to taking us off this road to a police state.
Something is seriously wrong with a society that criminalizes people with disabilities because it doesn't take the time and compassion to understand them.
This sort of unforgivable xenophobia was characteristic of the Nazis. America is just doing the same thing under a different guise (though the difference is shockingly small).
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They may just be tools, but they'll make you look like one too.
So Adam wants to cash in on subverting one of greatest assets on the Inet.
So, in other words, an asset subverted by an asshat.
You shouldn't be a photographer or work in the film industry.
Every (competent) photographer knows that camera film and sensors have a very limited way of "seeing" compared to the human eye.
Your eyes have an incredible dynamic range (the range of light you can see at any one time) that cameras cannot hope to match, at least not currently. That's why you see no stars in the moon landing photos; and why you *can* see stars and the moon simultaneously when you look up at the night sky.
The funny thing is that film (negative, not slide) has *more* dynamic range and exposure latitude than digital. Getting differing subjects exposed correctly is mostly in the lighting, which has always been possible.
No production cost
Well, you gotta factor in the cost of paying for meals, transportation, gifts, entertainment and so on. And don't forget about failed ventures -- many investments turn bad and take time to recoup. If you finally make a successful investment, there's the possible expense of a wedding ring and cermony, then after a 9-month waiting period, there are 18 years spent developing it into self-sufficient state ... that's a pretty big production cost if you ask me!
... to get nothing more than a cushy retirement after having committed countless crimes against millions of people.
Are you honestly claiming that it's so difficult to search for an unbeknownst term for a definition in one of the many free and excellent online dictionaries?
I mean, hell, Google is usually pretty good at figuring out what searches are ostensibly for the sake of reference, even without providing the "define:" flag. In Firefox, Opera and probably other browsers, you just need to highlight the term and select "search $SearchEngine for $Word" for, and it will take you right to the definition. There's an extension for Firefox to load a word definition in an overlaid in a fancy DHTML box without having the leave the page. I'll bet there's one that does something similar on mouseover or double click since you're obviously to lazy to make the three or four clicks it takes otherwise.
I love when writers use complex words. If it's a good one, I've augmented my vocabulary with a word that will enable me to express something more elegantly and coherently. For example, just the other day, I came across the word "petulant." What an eloquently percussive word to hurl at someone when appropriate. Although, I guess you'll never fully understand it because a few clicks are too difficult. Who knew there were Slashdotters afraid to learn?
Just wait until April of next year and see if you can say the same thing.
Hmm, OK, I was only being half facetious, but I'll take it ;)
Conspiracy theorists' version: it's all part of the plan. Tank the economy so that citizens have to work their fingers to the bone just to survive and they'll be too busy and tired to care.
I realize it's just politics as usual, but it's so incredibly infuriating that politicians give so few shits about their own constituents that progresses in civil rights only ever happen every four years or when there's a serious uprising.
Either way, it only happens because it's their own skin on the line; otherwise, they care fuck-all.
As long as you document, label and organize your code coherently and logically in a solid language, coding from scratch (or near scratch using libraries of your own) can be a good thing. It avoids pitfalls like vulnerabilities that affect common code bases, massive libraries that take friggin' *ages* to load on an i7 with a fast internet connection or relying on the developer(s) of library X to add feature Y ("sorry, we can't add that feature yet Mr. Client, it's uh ... because of complicated programming reasons, basically, we're relying on a third party and we don't know how to do it ourselves")
Spam is actually doing something useful. Enemy of my enemy and all that.
How the actual fuck did this disinformative horseshit get modded up?
Evidence collected in a manner that violates defendants' rights is evidence collected illegally. Government and law enforcement do this routinely because (a) it makes their jobs easier, (b) there are no direct consequences and (c) people are largely unaware of the details and contextual interpretations pertaining to their rights.
Charges get reduced or dropped and concessions are made to defendants when their rights are violated for the purposes of recompense to the defendants and punishment to law enforcement.
This is an absolutely vital function of justice and the paradox of liberty: we want the bad guys to get nailed, but the only we can determine their guilt with any certainty is to uphold their rights. Violating one person's rights is violating *everyone's* rights.
Apple has caught up with Microsoft.
Indeed, total case of WTF did I just read? She has a mechanical engineering degree and she's fucking BORED because waaaaah, I don't have any shiny new toys!
So your gadgets aren't exciting anymore? Here's an idea ... you have a degree in mechanical fucking engineering, go be creative, MAKE something exciting!
Oh, what's that? You have no imagination because you're just a shallow, entitled bitch who skimmed through an entire education that was paid for by her rich parents? Yeah, that's what I thought.
Please point me to a new Dell or HP model with a proper 7-row keyboard (non-chiclet, INS/DEL/HOM/END/PGU/PGD 3x2 cluster in top right, F key groupings of 4, F keys that are actually goddamm F keys and not this secondary function bullshit)
0: the number of times they're actually telling you the truth.
I couldn't give less of a shit what they do with consumer-targeted products that are used entirely or mostly for dicking around. I mean, Android is cute, but some of us actually need our computers to work.
What I want is for them to reverse the spread of this toxic notion in the ThinkPad lineup. See: crippled, flexing keyboards and buttonless trackpoints/pads that are pretty but feel and work like shit, wide screens that are fine for movies but shit for actually working, removal of status lights that gave useful information at a glance replaced by various indicators scattered among hardware and software that make usability a load of fragmented shit, poor construction materials that make them feel and behave like cheap shit...
In case it wasn't clear, the point I'm getting at is that the last several generations of ThinkPad have increasingly been ... shit.
Fix that shit first, please.
I figured they'd be on version 47 by now.
So, the experiment basically proved what any reasonable person has known empirically all along: most people do drugs recreationally because they're in shitty situations (poverty, disparity and so on) and drugs make shitty situations feel less shitty, even if only transiently.
Predictably, and despite additional studies confirming the results, policy-makers ignored and flat-out dismissed them by hurling irrelevant character insults to throw people of the scent of reason.
If they *actually* wanted to end the war on drugs, they would be trying to empower the people and end poverty. The truth is that they are perpetuating the drug war and they *like* it that way. It's just waaay more fun to dress up in riot gear, pack a big fucking gun and play soldier cop instead of working together peacefully and solving the real problems of society.
That easyDNS refused to rollover and instead called their bluff with, "nope, you're full of shit, kindly fuck off," is refreshingly satisfying.
Better: we need TV shows that glamorize, deify and glorify criminal defense lawyers in the same way procedural cop shows do with police officers. Every cop show paints defense lawyers as these belligerent, prissy jerks when they're the ones asserting defendants' *rights*.
We need shows where the cops and legal system are frequently painted as the *antagonists* because, given the current legal climate, it's certainly a more realistic premise.
They should occasionally feature innocent defendants, but for the most part, they should show how there are many asshole cops who conduct their jobs malevolently and deceptively and how defendants are provided compromise or pardon for having their rights violated, even if they're entirely guilty.
It should also lead you to identify with and develop compassion for defendants by showing that people are generally good people forced into bad situations by poverty, an uncaring system, poor guidance in adolescence, etc ... as opposed to cop shows, which *love* to paint every criminal as a psychotic freak with no impulse control.
It's quite pathetic, but TV shows have a huge influence on the general public's thought processes involving the legal system. Hollywood's propaganda power is mountainous. A few good, captivating shows to sway public opinion in the general direction of cynicism could go a long way to taking us off this road to a police state.
Something is seriously wrong with a society that criminalizes people with disabilities because it doesn't take the time and compassion to understand them.
This sort of unforgivable xenophobia was characteristic of the Nazis. America is just doing the same thing under a different guise (though the difference is shockingly small).
Stop making enemies by meddling in other countries' affairs to suit your own selfish gains.
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