The other day I found myself ranting to a friend on that very subject. I'd never really been interested in 1600s-era art based on prints. Once I saw some with my own eyes -- wow, the difference defies description. NO print ever shows even a hint of the depth, glow, and sense of its own reality that you get from seeing these works in person.
I see we've killed their server so I'll have to wait on seeing what this effort looks like. However, I'm of the opinion that any access is better than NO access (since most of us cannot travel to see all these works in person).
And as to brown on a monitor... the nearest you can come is actually a sort of grubby purple that fools the eye if you don't look too closely, or lack real brown to compare to. Very irritating (especially when trying to get it visually-right for a client's logo -- all in BROWN!)
Why is my document white and furry and sounds like a piano??!
[Actually, that's not a terrible idea. Liberace was largely about bringing classical music to the masses in a way they could relate to. Isn't OOo about bringing document processing to the masses in a way that's less financially painful to relate to??]
Novell released a version that supposedly fixed a lot of the bloat and performance issues (can't say one way or the other as I never tried it). Anyone know what became of that?
All sorts of things are proving genetic that we didn't used to think were. Studies on spontaneous abortions have found numerous known lethal defects. I think stating that saving them is not harming the gene pool is a trifle optimistic. At the very least, it preserves a *tendency* toward premature delivery or of some unknown defect in the fetus.
There is a known syndrome in dogs and horses where the dam fails to produce enough progesterone or thyroid to maintain pregnancy, often causing a pre-viable delivery. When progesterone or thyroid is supplemented and a live delivery results, and the next generation is bred... same thing again.
But we keep records of such things in livestock, so we KNOW where it's going wrong. Human pedigrees are abysmally lacking in such data, where the pedigree is known at all.
I vaguely recall that there was a lawsuit against the California highway patrol a few years ago, which determined that HP cars shall be black-and-whites, period. The logic went something like the public has a right to know when the cops are watching them.
Lately I've been seeing plain-whites -- marked cars (just on the doors), but not obviously so until you get right up to it. I'm wondering what happened to the previous court decision.
Maybe some smaller unions still serve a purpose. But the bigger ones have been synonymous with "mob" for a long time. And per the wiki article, violence appears not all that rare. But even when nothing actually happens... I remember a local strike (AFL-CIO) of a couple decades back, where there was sufficient intimidation going on that many people didn't quite dare go into the stores. Nothing was ever said, but when there's a gang of union toughs hanging around outside the door, the threat alone is sufficient.
I know both the union and pay arrangements have been drastically altered since I was in it... SEG went away for starters, and good riddance. I haven't really kept track since then. But most extras are still non-union (I have friends still working those gigs occasionally).
How infrequently someone works should not be considered, tho -- unless you figure specialists like actors should be paid for sitting on their ass between jobs. Which is actually WHY the daily pay is so high even for what amount to entry-level positions for speaking parts... it was developed on a basis of how much time someone DOESN'T work.
I worked on a movie where we non-union extras held a sit-down strike until the production company agreed to pay fairly for the conditions we were working under. I'm sure non-union mine workers could do the same, if there was general agreement that conditions were unsafe. It's usually more cost-effective to address a problem quickly than to recruit and train new workers.
And there have been times when crossing a picket line, especially if you were a union member, would get you shot, or beat up, or your home torched. So it wasn't exactly optional.
You may be confusing two segments of the acting profession:
EXTRAS are poorly paid -- it's a minimum wage job, or close to it. (Union extras' wages are about 3 times as high, but they work less often, so it evens out.) However, your daily wages are typically doubled by overtime, and demand is fairly steady, usually about 3 days a week.
However, ACTORS playing "real" parts (however minor)... well, when I was in the business, some 25 years ago, SAG scale (minimum pay) was $1000/day. I don't know what it is today.
The problem is that actors don't work every day, because there's never that much demand for "your type" (whatever that may be). So yeah, if you want regular pay, you need a regular job too.
But that has nothing to do with how much those minor-part actors are paid.
But you never stopped self-educating, and that's a big difference. A lot of kids nowadays fall out of high school or even graduate from college expecting the world owes them a living or owes them success. They don't realise that you have to BUILD it yourself.
BTW congrats on the personal achievements, and on possibly being the most senior slashdotter! Now I'll be gettin' off your lawn.:D
"The Democrat Congress doesn't give a fuck about farmers and do-it-yourselfers (i.e. independent persons). They think you should quit and become factory or office workers like everyone else, while the government takes care of you like a little child. (Yes the Dems really are that stupid - which is why they passed a law banning incandescents.)"
Couldn't agree more. And there you have the essence of today's "liberal" (socialist) thinking. I do wonder what they think they're going to eat once they've shut down all the farmers... oh, food from China? paid for with what money, since we're in debt up to our eyebrows for generations to come?? And this has worked so well in the past, eh??
As I've put it elsewhere, today's liberal wackoism isn't a political philosophy, it's a learning disability. (And no, I'm NOT being facetious -- it's exactly how a 12-year-old idealizes the world into working HIS way.)
It's about 28 cents per KWH after everything is figured (SoCalEdison's convoluted rate tiering is a thing of beauty, if you're a corporate accountant, or possibly a contortionist). BUT... I found that the difference on my bill, having done nothing different but changed out the single lightbulb that ran 8 hours a day, was an astounding $30. Left me scratching my head too.
I haven't figured out how PG&E can charge $40 for a month of NO usage other than one VERY energy-efficient fridge, either.
BTW this was in my workroom, so while I do use a 15W for a reading lamp, it wasn't practical there.
And I've lived with nothing but candlelight and gas lamps (had no electricity at the one place), so I'm quite aware of the light our ancestors used.
I have yet to see a "green" energy *anything* that didn't suffer from this problem. It's all about ideology (and short-term profits), not about what really works over the long haul.
Kinda like that wonderful ethanol fuel... that last I heard takes 5 gallons of diesel to produce 4 gallons of corn ethanol. Yep, that's real green too!
Ah, but in my experience, when they're overheating, the base is WAY hotter than the bulb (I've had one get so hot it expansion-locked itself into the socket; had to let it cool a while before it came loose). So once they get to that point, it should work.
Looks like a nifty gadget regardless... will keep it in mind. I like your random pick for taking cheap batteries that I already buy in bulk for the camera and other stuff.:)
I just check 'em once in a while, after they start dimming with age -- getting overly hot and burning out seem to come close together, so no big loss to pitch out one that's on its way out.
Not sure how hot they can get but it can make my table lamp's socket smell scorched (that's my threshold for considering something a fire hazard), and the bulb base gets hot enough that it's a fair while before it can be touched. It does make one wonder about enclosed fixtures, like most modern home lighting.
What's this IR thermometer w/laser pointer gadget??
Now that you mention it.... next thing we'll hear is that under the Americans with Disabilities Act, municipalities shall be forced to provide shade and EM coverings over all public sidewalks, for the protection of people with sun allergy and/or other radition reactions.
Once you start down this road, there's no logical stopping point.
My personal fave was an incident someone cited last time this topic went around, where some bunch of tinfoil hats took the cell provider to court for making them sick... and it turned out the towers *hadn't yet been powered on*, making the plaintiffs look more than a little ridiculous.
And now I'm going to go fry my brain in some unregulated solar radiation.;)
Unfortunately my observation is that the opposite tends to occur... when an election had shit results, even fewer people vote next time, citing how lousy the results were and that their votes don't count anyway.
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The other day I found myself ranting to a friend on that very subject. I'd never really been interested in 1600s-era art based on prints. Once I saw some with my own eyes -- wow, the difference defies description. NO print ever shows even a hint of the depth, glow, and sense of its own reality that you get from seeing these works in person.
I see we've killed their server so I'll have to wait on seeing what this effort looks like. However, I'm of the opinion that any access is better than NO access (since most of us cannot travel to see all these works in person).
And as to brown on a monitor... the nearest you can come is actually a sort of grubby purple that fools the eye if you don't look too closely, or lack real brown to compare to. Very irritating (especially when trying to get it visually-right for a client's logo -- all in BROWN!)
That's all fine and dandy so long as you don't mind there being an elite (the freely-connected) and an underclass (those with censored access).
More insightful than funny, and unfortunately we are fast becoming exactly that parody of ourselves. :(
Best argument for limited copyright EVER. :(
Cripes, even at 21 years he'd be way over limit.
Ah, okay. From what I've heard about Novell's version, this is a Good Thing.
Why is my document white and furry and sounds like a piano??!
[Actually, that's not a terrible idea. Liberace was largely about bringing classical music to the masses in a way they could relate to. Isn't OOo about bringing document processing to the masses in a way that's less financially painful to relate to??]
Novell released a version that supposedly fixed a lot of the bloat and performance issues (can't say one way or the other as I never tried it). Anyone know what became of that?
All sorts of things are proving genetic that we didn't used to think were. Studies on spontaneous abortions have found numerous known lethal defects. I think stating that saving them is not harming the gene pool is a trifle optimistic. At the very least, it preserves a *tendency* toward premature delivery or of some unknown defect in the fetus.
There is a known syndrome in dogs and horses where the dam fails to produce enough progesterone or thyroid to maintain pregnancy, often causing a pre-viable delivery. When progesterone or thyroid is supplemented and a live delivery results, and the next generation is bred... same thing again.
But we keep records of such things in livestock, so we KNOW where it's going wrong. Human pedigrees are abysmally lacking in such data, where the pedigree is known at all.
Since ignorance of the law is no defense for private citizens, why should it be a defense for the police??
I vaguely recall that there was a lawsuit against the California highway patrol a few years ago, which determined that HP cars shall be black-and-whites, period. The logic went something like the public has a right to know when the cops are watching them.
Lately I've been seeing plain-whites -- marked cars (just on the doors), but not obviously so until you get right up to it. I'm wondering what happened to the previous court decision.
Maybe some smaller unions still serve a purpose. But the bigger ones have been synonymous with "mob" for a long time. And per the wiki article, violence appears not all that rare. But even when nothing actually happens... I remember a local strike (AFL-CIO) of a couple decades back, where there was sufficient intimidation going on that many people didn't quite dare go into the stores. Nothing was ever said, but when there's a gang of union toughs hanging around outside the door, the threat alone is sufficient.
I know both the union and pay arrangements have been drastically altered since I was in it... SEG went away for starters, and good riddance. I haven't really kept track since then. But most extras are still non-union (I have friends still working those gigs occasionally).
How infrequently someone works should not be considered, tho -- unless you figure specialists like actors should be paid for sitting on their ass between jobs. Which is actually WHY the daily pay is so high even for what amount to entry-level positions for speaking parts ... it was developed on a basis of how much time someone DOESN'T work.
I worked on a movie where we non-union extras held a sit-down strike until the production company agreed to pay fairly for the conditions we were working under. I'm sure non-union mine workers could do the same, if there was general agreement that conditions were unsafe. It's usually more cost-effective to address a problem quickly than to recruit and train new workers.
And there have been times when crossing a picket line, especially if you were a union member, would get you shot, or beat up, or your home torched. So it wasn't exactly optional.
You may be confusing two segments of the acting profession:
EXTRAS are poorly paid -- it's a minimum wage job, or close to it. (Union extras' wages are about 3 times as high, but they work less often, so it evens out.) However, your daily wages are typically doubled by overtime, and demand is fairly steady, usually about 3 days a week.
However, ACTORS playing "real" parts (however minor) ... well, when I was in the business, some 25 years ago, SAG scale (minimum pay) was $1000/day. I don't know what it is today.
The problem is that actors don't work every day, because there's never that much demand for "your type" (whatever that may be). So yeah, if you want regular pay, you need a regular job too.
But that has nothing to do with how much those minor-part actors are paid.
But you never stopped self-educating, and that's a big difference. A lot of kids nowadays fall out of high school or even graduate from college expecting the world owes them a living or owes them success. They don't realise that you have to BUILD it yourself.
BTW congrats on the personal achievements, and on possibly being the most senior slashdotter! Now I'll be gettin' off your lawn. :D
"The Democrat Congress doesn't give a fuck about farmers and do-it-yourselfers (i.e. independent persons). They think you should quit and become factory or office workers like everyone else, while the government takes care of you like a little child. (Yes the Dems really are that stupid - which is why they passed a law banning incandescents.)"
Couldn't agree more. And there you have the essence of today's "liberal" (socialist) thinking. I do wonder what they think they're going to eat once they've shut down all the farmers... oh, food from China? paid for with what money, since we're in debt up to our eyebrows for generations to come?? And this has worked so well in the past, eh??
As I've put it elsewhere, today's liberal wackoism isn't a political philosophy, it's a learning disability. (And no, I'm NOT being facetious -- it's exactly how a 12-year-old idealizes the world into working HIS way.)
It's about 28 cents per KWH after everything is figured (SoCalEdison's convoluted rate tiering is a thing of beauty, if you're a corporate accountant, or possibly a contortionist). BUT... I found that the difference on my bill, having done nothing different but changed out the single lightbulb that ran 8 hours a day, was an astounding $30. Left me scratching my head too.
I haven't figured out how PG&E can charge $40 for a month of NO usage other than one VERY energy-efficient fridge, either.
BTW this was in my workroom, so while I do use a 15W for a reading lamp, it wasn't practical there.
And I've lived with nothing but candlelight and gas lamps (had no electricity at the one place), so I'm quite aware of the light our ancestors used.
I have yet to see a "green" energy *anything* that didn't suffer from this problem. It's all about ideology (and short-term profits), not about what really works over the long haul.
Kinda like that wonderful ethanol fuel... that last I heard takes 5 gallons of diesel to produce 4 gallons of corn ethanol. Yep, that's real green too!
Ah, but in my experience, when they're overheating, the base is WAY hotter than the bulb (I've had one get so hot it expansion-locked itself into the socket; had to let it cool a while before it came loose). So once they get to that point, it should work.
Looks like a nifty gadget regardless... will keep it in mind. I like your random pick for taking cheap batteries that I already buy in bulk for the camera and other stuff. :)
I just check 'em once in a while, after they start dimming with age -- getting overly hot and burning out seem to come close together, so no big loss to pitch out one that's on its way out.
Not sure how hot they can get but it can make my table lamp's socket smell scorched (that's my threshold for considering something a fire hazard), and the bulb base gets hot enough that it's a fair while before it can be touched. It does make one wonder about enclosed fixtures, like most modern home lighting.
What's this IR thermometer w/laser pointer gadget??
Now that you mention it.... next thing we'll hear is that under the Americans with Disabilities Act, municipalities shall be forced to provide shade and EM coverings over all public sidewalks, for the protection of people with sun allergy and/or other radition reactions.
Once you start down this road, there's no logical stopping point.
Haha! I expect there are numerous similar stories out there...
And I agree, it's not the normal folks' job to make life easier for the batshit insane.
My personal fave was an incident someone cited last time this topic went around, where some bunch of tinfoil hats took the cell provider to court for making them sick... and it turned out the towers *hadn't yet been powered on*, making the plaintiffs look more than a little ridiculous.
And now I'm going to go fry my brain in some unregulated solar radiation. ;)
Unfortunately my observation is that the opposite tends to occur... when an election had shit results, even fewer people vote next time, citing how lousy the results were and that their votes don't count anyway.