Wrote on a post-it-note "Want $2,000,000" in small unmarked notes. All they did was have me arrested:( Clearly I need to work on my social engineering skills. Maybe next time I won't walk in with my helmet on, so they can see my big friendly smile.
And what exactly do you suppose we puny humans can do about that "huge locomotive with blaring sirens that's about to hit [us]"? We can neither deflect the "locomotive" (your "dinosaur killer"), nor can we get out of the way (move the whole planet).
We can't deflect it in the stupid way portrayed in movies, but we may well be able to change it's trajectory. How do we know? Have we spent any significant time or resources trying to find a way? Your defeatist attitude is awful, and we'd never have survived as a species if we'd all been that way from the start.
So in a game such as EQ (the only MMO I've played) you could kill people (on pvp servers) and take their gold. Clearly this is part of the game, but is it something you could be arrested for now?
Only if you don't pay your "I just killed me a player" tax.
Given the disparity in the probability of asteroid strikes (on populated areas, no less) vs earthquakes, it should be no surprise that the world governments believe money is better spent on earthquake prediction and evacuation relief, not on asteroid strike detection. The "bang for the buck" is clearly higher in earthquake spending.
1. An earthquake affects a relatively small population.
2. A single dinosaur killer could wipe out humanity.
3. Probability for all these events approaches 1 as time goes on.
In light of the above your "bang for buck" argument is silly. It's like counting the pennies while sitting on the railroad track with your back turned to a huge locomotive with blaring sirens that's about to hit you at 100km/hr and arguing that it costs too much to turn around and look at how close it is, never mind get off your ass and out of the way of the train.
Or perhaps slashdot is full of idiots who can't handle a point of view that doesn't coincide exactly with theirs. The author is being naive, and has made a couple of very silly comments. Pointing that out doesn't take anything away from his work.
Please point me to something that clearly states that Adobe Camera RAW is based on dcraw.
"Thanks to dcraw source code, Adobe Photoshop and dozens of other image tools now have built-in support for raw photos, and the popularity of raw photography has grown enormously." is the only line I could find on Dave's resume and you'll forgive me if I'm skeptical since I found NOTHING else with a quick google.
How exactly can this every be construed as flamebait? People need to understand the difference between a flame and an observation or argument they don't like.
. It is not commonly known, but dcraw is the basis of the decoding engines of almost all raw converter software (including Photoshop, LightZone, RawShooter, etc.).
It's not commonly known because it is just plain wrong. Photoshop and Lightroom use Adobe Camera RAW.
I decided to change the license to GPL and thus offer the source code to the open source community. This does not mean that I stop developing RawTherapee. I will invest as much time into the development as till now. I have three motivations for this decision: first, I love playing with image processing algorithms but I'm not keen on GUI development. Recently a huge amount of work had to be invested to develop a usable GUI and I had no time left to play with new algorithms. I hope to involve some new developers who help me to maintain and enhance the GUI. The second reason of licence change was that I am very frustrated by the huge amount of bug reports I can not reproduce (believe it or not, RT is stable on my PC). I hope that with the open source model some talented users can identify the problems and fix the bugs. The third (but maybe the most important) reason of switching to GPL is that our baby reached the age (10 month old) when he needs his father more and more. I dont want to disappoint him:). With more developers involved the development process will hopefully more smooth and wont stop when I am busy.
Such naivety!
1. Author is very lucky he's had so much time on his hands up to the 10 month mark with his son. I've had very little time to myself since mine was born (almost 18 months). I think he's about to learn how much time and effort raising a child takes.
2. I can't believe the author of such a mature and well known product has come up with the line "believe it or not, RT is stable on my PC". Or that he believes the first thing any other programmer is going to want to do is reproduce bugs they aren't experiencing themselves. Epic fail.
What determines the price of a scale is not just its equipment or accuracy.. but also the insurance the manufacturer has to carry in case something goes wrong. That's why medical devices are more expensive... you're also paying for the liability of somebody being misdiagnosed by a technical malfunction. Highly unlikely, but the money that has to be paid when that happens and gets proven is huge.
So they system is "protecting" patients right out of being able to afford treatment, and people are still willing to stand up and defend this insanity. With these sorts of controls, many, many patients go without treatment, or worse go for alternative Voodoo treatment that do harm because they simply can't afford the real thing. It's a sure sign that the medical system is itself quite ill and probably clinically insane.
What needs to happen is companies need to be held accountable for gross negligence and willful malice, but permitted to release a medical device with a disclaimer about the level of testing that has been done. If the overhead for adhering to medical standards is literally an 180 fold increase in the price, clearly there is something very wrong with the efficiency of the system.
I can't find information about the spectra in the links. How was it different? Were percentages different? Was something unexpected found? Is it composed of green dragons, fairies and teddybears? How about some substance to the news?
Clearly parents that expect their child to be educated by morons who think anything with wires and a clear container must be a bomb, and don't take enough interest in the child to ask him what he's building, need counseling about their choice of schools. If the kid managed to build a motion detector at 11, that doesn't make him a genius, but they should be looking at advanced classes taught by competent and sane people.
I think the entire faculty and investigating police should get counseling over this drama too, preferably at the local unemployment office.
Think about what a person in a 30 people tribe (or your group of friends and family) can do and not do, versus what someone in a 300,000 people corporation can do and not do, and you know what I mean.
That's certainly what people fear most: getting caught wearing glasses while watching porn.
The way some people watch porn I'd think they'd be worried about the glasses shattering. Or perhaps that's a result of the kind of porn they choose. Either or.
"If you can have it and I can't I'll sue" - Pretty soon kids are lucky to have access to food and clothing, let alone an education. It's a losing strategy compared to say innovating and catering to diversity. Why can't they lobby for an ebook reader that does cater to the blind. Perhaps popup braile? Instead of wasting effort sending all your kids minds back to the stone age. Doesn't have to be a Kindle either. Leave the brand names out of it.
If reality doesn't match math, it means we missed something essential so we insert another variable into our equations, recalculate and know we have uncovered something new...
That's rather an oversimplification. I'd hardly characterise a paradigm shift like Newtonian Mechanics to Relativity as "adding another variable". We found it had to be done completely differently to cater for those extreme cases. Newtonian Mechanics simply turns out to be an approximation. Whatever overthrows Relativity will likely also be a complete rework ratehr than add another variable.
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Maybe that's my problem! Most of my brain is highly specialized for something that doesn't yet exist!
Hate to break it to you, but sex really does exist.
Wrote on a post-it-note "Want $2,000,000" in small unmarked notes. All they did was have me arrested:( Clearly I need to work on my social engineering skills. Maybe next time I won't walk in with my helmet on, so they can see my big friendly smile.
Nice tradeoff. Now HE can track you on his proxy. He can sell the information too (in aggregated form if he's scrupulous).
And what exactly do you suppose we puny humans can do about that "huge locomotive with blaring sirens that's about to hit [us]"? We can neither deflect the "locomotive" (your "dinosaur killer"), nor can we get out of the way (move the whole planet).
We can't deflect it in the stupid way portrayed in movies, but we may well be able to change it's trajectory. How do we know? Have we spent any significant time or resources trying to find a way? Your defeatist attitude is awful, and we'd never have survived as a species if we'd all been that way from the start.
So in a game such as EQ (the only MMO I've played) you could kill people (on pvp servers) and take their gold. Clearly this is part of the game, but is it something you could be arrested for now?
Only if you don't pay your "I just killed me a player" tax.
Given the disparity in the probability of asteroid strikes (on populated areas, no less) vs earthquakes, it should be no surprise that the world governments believe money is better spent on earthquake prediction and evacuation relief, not on asteroid strike detection. The "bang for the buck" is clearly higher in earthquake spending.
1. An earthquake affects a relatively small population.
2. A single dinosaur killer could wipe out humanity.
3. Probability for all these events approaches 1 as time goes on.
In light of the above your "bang for buck" argument is silly. It's like counting the pennies while sitting on the railroad track with your back turned to a huge locomotive with blaring sirens that's about to hit you at 100km/hr and arguing that it costs too much to turn around and look at how close it is, never mind get off your ass and out of the way of the train.
Or perhaps slashdot is full of idiots who can't handle a point of view that doesn't coincide exactly with theirs. The author is being naive, and has made a couple of very silly comments. Pointing that out doesn't take anything away from his work.
Please point me to something that clearly states that Adobe Camera RAW is based on dcraw.
"Thanks to dcraw source code, Adobe Photoshop and dozens of other image tools now have built-in support for raw photos, and the popularity of raw photography has grown enormously." is the only line I could find on Dave's resume and you'll forgive me if I'm skeptical since I found NOTHING else with a quick google.
How exactly can this every be construed as flamebait? People need to understand the difference between a flame and an observation or argument they don't like.
Why do people persist in uppercasing "raw" as if it were an acronym???
It is an acronymn. RAW = Really Awkward Workflow ;-)
Actually when I use an SLR I almost strictly shoot RAW these days, because while it can be a pain it's worth it.
. It is not commonly known, but dcraw is the basis of the decoding engines of almost all raw converter software (including Photoshop, LightZone, RawShooter, etc.).
It's not commonly known because it is just plain wrong. Photoshop and Lightroom use Adobe Camera RAW.
Cool technique. I wonder if they played "Smoke on the water" in the background ;P~~~
License changes:
I decided to change the license to GPL and thus offer the source code to the open source community. This does not mean that I stop developing RawTherapee. I will invest as much time into the development as till now. I have three motivations for this decision: first, I love playing with image processing algorithms but I'm not keen on GUI development. Recently a huge amount of work had to be invested to develop a usable GUI and I had no time left to play with new algorithms. I hope to involve some new developers who help me to maintain and enhance the GUI. The second reason of licence change was that I am very frustrated by the huge amount of bug reports I can not reproduce (believe it or not, RT is stable on my PC). I hope that with the open source model some talented users can identify the problems and fix the bugs. The third (but maybe the most important) reason of switching to GPL is that our baby reached the age (10 month old) when he needs his father more and more. I dont want to disappoint him :). With more developers involved the development process will hopefully more smooth and wont stop when I am busy.
Such naivety!
1. Author is very lucky he's had so much time on his hands up to the 10 month mark with his son. I've had very little time to myself since mine was born (almost 18 months). I think he's about to learn how much time and effort raising a child takes.
2. I can't believe the author of such a mature and well known product has come up with the line "believe it or not, RT is stable on my PC". Or that he believes the first thing any other programmer is going to want to do is reproduce bugs they aren't experiencing themselves. Epic fail.
RAWTherapee uses dcraw under the hood.
Changes to the underlying version of dcraw are referenced in the version history on the project website's front page
http://www.rawtherapee.com/
France and Germany agree on something?
The IE threat must be greater than previously imagined. Or...something.
France just hadn't surrendered to anyone in a little while and were getting frisky.
What determines the price of a scale is not just its equipment or accuracy.. but also the insurance the manufacturer has to carry in case something goes wrong. That's why medical devices are more expensive... you're also paying for the liability of somebody being misdiagnosed by a technical malfunction. Highly unlikely, but the money that has to be paid when that happens and gets proven is huge.
So they system is "protecting" patients right out of being able to afford treatment, and people are still willing to stand up and defend this insanity. With these sorts of controls, many, many patients go without treatment, or worse go for alternative Voodoo treatment that do harm because they simply can't afford the real thing. It's a sure sign that the medical system is itself quite ill and probably clinically insane.
What needs to happen is companies need to be held accountable for gross negligence and willful malice, but permitted to release a medical device with a disclaimer about the level of testing that has been done. If the overhead for adhering to medical standards is literally an 180 fold increase in the price, clearly there is something very wrong with the efficiency of the system.
I can't find information about the spectra in the links. How was it different? Were percentages different? Was something unexpected found? Is it composed of green dragons, fairies and teddybears? How about some substance to the news?
Clearly parents that expect their child to be educated by morons who think anything with wires and a clear container must be a bomb, and don't take enough interest in the child to ask him what he's building, need counseling about their choice of schools. If the kid managed to build a motion detector at 11, that doesn't make him a genius, but they should be looking at advanced classes taught by competent and sane people.
I think the entire faculty and investigating police should get counseling over this drama too, preferably at the local unemployment office.
Think about what a person in a 30 people tribe (or your group of friends and family) can do and not do, versus what someone in a 300,000 people corporation can do and not do, and you know what I mean.
Agree on what toppings to get on the pizzas? ;-)
Using querty kbrd shld b banned. I typed ths msg in lss thn 30 sec on my qrt kbd
That's certainly what people fear most: getting caught wearing glasses while watching porn.
The way some people watch porn I'd think they'd be worried about the glasses shattering. Or perhaps that's a result of the kind of porn they choose. Either or.
"If you can have it and I can't I'll sue" - Pretty soon kids are lucky to have access to food and clothing, let alone an education. It's a losing strategy compared to say innovating and catering to diversity. Why can't they lobby for an ebook reader that does cater to the blind. Perhaps popup braile? Instead of wasting effort sending all your kids minds back to the stone age. Doesn't have to be a Kindle either. Leave the brand names out of it.
You couldn't mate with a pig, though.
I think you'll find a lot of mid western farmers disagree and can prove you wrong by contradiction. What you can't do is produce viable offspring.
Only morons trust any version number as an indicator of stability.
Gracie meet upper management. Upper management this is Gracie.
If reality doesn't match math, it means we missed something essential so we insert another variable into our equations, recalculate and know we have uncovered something new...
That's rather an oversimplification. I'd hardly characterise a paradigm shift like Newtonian Mechanics to Relativity as "adding another variable". We found it had to be done completely differently to cater for those extreme cases. Newtonian Mechanics simply turns out to be an approximation. Whatever overthrows Relativity will likely also be a complete rework ratehr than add another variable.