Sorry, but I was an AC that wrote it, and it was indeed intentional. "mute point" has got to be one of the most common homophone-like mistakes made on the internet
Look at the map and check out the scale. That was nearly 1 mile from the rock slide. Also, look straight down from the rock slide. Thats almost 2 miles away and it was still 600 feet. It may have only been 100 feet at some further distance away, but I still suspect it was much bigger, and the 100 foot wave that was witnessed was more of a....I don't know what the fluid equivalent of an echo would be called.
Look at the map in the link. The 1720 elevation was recorded directly across from the area where the rockslide occurred. It would seem to me that right in that vacinity the water went up MUCH higher than 100 feet, but that one neaby area took the brunt of it, and the wave that continued on out was much smaller. You can see on the map how it quickly diminishes in size (and then slowly continues shrinking) the further away from the source you get.
I can't understand why, what I like to call, "the grandma scenario" is constantly being brought up here (my grandma can't use Openbox / my grandma can't compile shit in the command line / my grandma can't update her fucking firmware). did the OP imply he is technologically retarded and can't use more than the router equivalent of a fucking toaster? this is Slashdot, not tech-tips-for-fucking-lonely-housewives. try to keep some decency, I mean look at your UID, for FSM's sake man!
Some of us have a lot of people we recommend hardware to. I do, and I don't mind. A simple question I can answer in 60 seconds. However, we do NOT want to be their tech support, configuring their routers and all of their other purchases because we have other things to do with our time. Or perhaps we aren't even in the same state (or country). Having suggestions for great off-the-shelf items is helpful.
Oh, and by the way...when you have an issue with another poster's comments, try not to be such a prick about it.
Well, for starters, if they paid to retain the employee, they wouldn't have a position to fill, right? Second, when they do get that opening, they can't as easily convince another good programmer to come on board to fill that position.
That was the point of this thread. The perceived shortage isn't really an actual shortage. It's like a high school dropout complaining that there is a shortage of companies paying more than minimum wage. There is likely more than enough programmers with the required expertise. It's just a lot of them have probably moved on to working in areas that actually pay more reasonably. Good programmers are very versatile.
Easy. A bad web developer is the talented one that gets what he needs and then ditches the company without notice. A good web developer is the talented one that sticks with the company, even through some difficult times. Now, with that out of the way, lets see if you can fit the rest of the pieces into the puzzle.
Thats a nice theory, except that in 5 years only 22 companies have been fined. I'll admit, the list has helped me tremendously, and my phone is now a LOT quieter. However, I alone have had more than 22 telemarketers call me in that time. When you look at it in the grand scheme of things, it is a great deterrent to the huge telemarketing companies. However, for the medium and small ones, it appears they'll never even be gotten around to, and they thus have very little worry of being fined. I'm fearing the day they all figure this out and all start blatently ignoring the list.
You don't need that many pixels. Good quality 6-8MP digitals were considered by many to surpass film because of other characteristics (especially the lack of film grain).
You should have repeated an important point from your first post. You qualified your original statement as "if the lens is perfect".
A perfect lens may be diffraction limited at f/5.6 on such a camera (I haven't done the calculation...I'll take your word and assume you did them correctly). However, real lenses aren't perfect. At f/5.6, most lenses aren't at their sharpest, and their loss of sharpness is easily greater than the diffraction at that level.
In addition, there is a depth of field issue. As you stop down the lens, you increase the depth of field and more things become clear. As those previously-out-of-focus things come into focus and thus become sharper, the other stuff that was already in focus becomes less sharp due to diffraction. Depending on what you want to achieve, that may be an acceptable trade off.
I am on T-Mobile, and there is no way to opt out of receiving text messages.
I'm on tmobile prepaid. At one point I thought the same thing as you, but earlier this year I had some problems with text messages and found out that (at least for prepaid) you CAN disable text messages. Of course, I just spent 15 minutes looking for where on the website it was and I can't find it (one of their phone reps walked me through the process). But it's there in that mess, somewhere. It was a bit primitive, but you could set up different filters based on from or subject lines, etc, or just disable them altogether.
Very much debatable. I've seen way more statistics that suggest the exact opposite.
But they took the 2nd amendment which has an unclear intention and made it much more definitive, at the cost of state's rights
I'm one of those people who are VERY good at seeing and understanding other people's points of view, even when those points of view completely conflict with what I believe. But this is one of those things I absolutely cannot understand. How is there any ambiguity in "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"? I mean, take whichever version you like, with it's different capitalization and commas, and it still clearly means the same thing. Are people reading this as "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be. Infringed!"? It is clearly saying the "right of the people", not the "right of a well regulated militia".
Try getting caught speeding over and over, and sooner or later your license will be suspended. It may take a few more than 3 tries depending on how serious your speeding offense is. Doing 100 MPH in a 25 MPH zone three times would probably do it.
That actually looks nothing like the grand canyon to me. The geography is distinctly different in those photos. Too much vegetation, the plants I see don't appear to by typical of the area, not steep enough drops, too many rolling hill-like areas, no jagged edges, not enough color layering in the rock, among other things.
Whatever happened to parents' responsibility for what their kids do
While I do agree with you, I can't help but laugh that you said that. The case specifically being cited as the reason for such a law was not a kid being bullied by another kid, but a kid that was more or less goaded into committing suicide by the MOTHER of her friend.
Oh yeah, thats right. That was one of Fox News' lame-ass "top 10 lies told by Osama^H^H^H^Hbama". It would be a lame attempt even if it were technically correct, as you suggest. However, you are wrong. He technically was a profressor:
"He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track."
Psst... DVDs are encrypted (badly, but still) thus, when you copy them, you are circumventing copy protection, which is a patent violation of the DMCA. Nice try justifying it though!
Really? When I rip an ISO, I thought it was still encrypted.
I was thinking he was just talking about things like how people react in real time to a presentation being given. A bad point is brought up and the stock starts dropping. Then the bad point is put into context with something like "but this downturn has provided us the opportunity to improve..." and suddenly the stock shoots up. And then repeat over and over. It's interesting to see how bi-polar investors behave.
From an investment point of view, this could be helpful, because it could help you better gauge what sort of things appear to be most important to the market and help you make future decisions.
Most of the year Michigan is cold and gray and, on the whole, a thoroughly unpleasant place to live.
Cold and gray for four months? Sure, but definitely not most of the year.
There's plenty of sun. Trust me on this. As a photographer, one of the things you really don't want for daytime photography is a clear blue sky (gives horrible lighting and poor contrast). Yet way more than 1/2 of my planned photo trips get ruined by exactly that.
As for cold, that depends on your point of view. If 50-60 degrees is your idea of cold, then sure I'll concede that point. But it's really not that cold. Sure, you'll want to wear pants instead of shorts and put on a light jacket, but it's not like eskimo suit time.
Thoroughly unpleasant? Now you are just trolling. I won't even bother to address that.
If you're going to go that route, Obama also probably saw Rocky (1976). A story about a guy who keeps fighting and won't back down even in the face of an evil, heartless opponent.
Oh. Wait...
You mean the movie where the black guy wins the split decision?
Exactly. Living in Detroit, I go into Canada a couple times a year and always get these questions coming back. Some of the questions are for info they can verify against your passport (or, I suspect things they can look up on the computer via your passport, like your place of employment).
Others are just stuff that they probably don't know the correct answer to but just want to see how quickly you answer, or if you stumble over your words.
Advertising makes products that I do want cost more, simple as that.
Sorry, but it is not simple as that. Economy of scale. With an increased audience and thus more people buying, any upfront overhead costs can be distributed among a lot more customers, and supplies/materials to manufacture each unit can also be purchased cheaper because the suppliers will also benefit from economy of scale.
Having an expectation of privacy when you are in a public place and where you know thousands of random strangers can observe you just by turning their head...well, it just seems strange. Of course, I'm sure a lot of common-sense-to-me laws we have in the US seem very strange to people in countries that don't have the same laws.
All I can say is, I'm glad I'm a photographer in the US rather than in France (except for the overzealous photographer=terrorist part, although maybe they have that too). Apparently I couldn't go 7 days in Paris without breaking the law... multiple times...including people I wouldn't want to mess with.
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Sorry, but I was an AC that wrote it, and it was indeed intentional. "mute point" has got to be one of the most common homophone-like mistakes made on the internet
Look at the map and check out the scale. That was nearly 1 mile from the rock slide. Also, look straight down from the rock slide. Thats almost 2 miles away and it was still 600 feet. It may have only been 100 feet at some further distance away, but I still suspect it was much bigger, and the 100 foot wave that was witnessed was more of a....I don't know what the fluid equivalent of an echo would be called.
Look at the map in the link. The 1720 elevation was recorded directly across from the area where the rockslide occurred. It would seem to me that right in that vacinity the water went up MUCH higher than 100 feet, but that one neaby area took the brunt of it, and the wave that continued on out was much smaller. You can see on the map how it quickly diminishes in size (and then slowly continues shrinking) the further away from the source you get.
Performance of WoW is gonna suck now that everyone has to disable their cache before starting the game.
Some of us have a lot of people we recommend hardware to. I do, and I don't mind. A simple question I can answer in 60 seconds. However, we do NOT want to be their tech support, configuring their routers and all of their other purchases because we have other things to do with our time. Or perhaps we aren't even in the same state (or country). Having suggestions for great off-the-shelf items is helpful.
Oh, and by the way...when you have an issue with another poster's comments, try not to be such a prick about it.
Well, for starters, if they paid to retain the employee, they wouldn't have a position to fill, right? Second, when they do get that opening, they can't as easily convince another good programmer to come on board to fill that position.
That was the point of this thread. The perceived shortage isn't really an actual shortage. It's like a high school dropout complaining that there is a shortage of companies paying more than minimum wage. There is likely more than enough programmers with the required expertise. It's just a lot of them have probably moved on to working in areas that actually pay more reasonably. Good programmers are very versatile.
I light know how you feel. I'm always light making typos where light I accidentally type the word light light.
Easy. A bad web developer is the talented one that gets what he needs and then ditches the company without notice. A good web developer is the talented one that sticks with the company, even through some difficult times. Now, with that out of the way, lets see if you can fit the rest of the pieces into the puzzle.
Thats a nice theory, except that in 5 years only 22 companies have been fined. I'll admit, the list has helped me tremendously, and my phone is now a LOT quieter. However, I alone have had more than 22 telemarketers call me in that time. When you look at it in the grand scheme of things, it is a great deterrent to the huge telemarketing companies. However, for the medium and small ones, it appears they'll never even be gotten around to, and they thus have very little worry of being fined. I'm fearing the day they all figure this out and all start blatently ignoring the list.
You don't need that many pixels. Good quality 6-8MP digitals were considered by many to surpass film because of other characteristics (especially the lack of film grain).
You should have repeated an important point from your first post. You qualified your original statement as "if the lens is perfect".
A perfect lens may be diffraction limited at f/5.6 on such a camera (I haven't done the calculation...I'll take your word and assume you did them correctly). However, real lenses aren't perfect. At f/5.6, most lenses aren't at their sharpest, and their loss of sharpness is easily greater than the diffraction at that level.
In addition, there is a depth of field issue. As you stop down the lens, you increase the depth of field and more things become clear. As those previously-out-of-focus things come into focus and thus become sharper, the other stuff that was already in focus becomes less sharp due to diffraction. Depending on what you want to achieve, that may be an acceptable trade off.
I'm on tmobile prepaid. At one point I thought the same thing as you, but earlier this year I had some problems with text messages and found out that (at least for prepaid) you CAN disable text messages. Of course, I just spent 15 minutes looking for where on the website it was and I can't find it (one of their phone reps walked me through the process). But it's there in that mess, somewhere. It was a bit primitive, but you could set up different filters based on from or subject lines, etc, or just disable them altogether.
Try getting caught speeding over and over, and sooner or later your license will be suspended. It may take a few more than 3 tries depending on how serious your speeding offense is. Doing 100 MPH in a 25 MPH zone three times would probably do it.
That actually looks nothing like the grand canyon to me. The geography is distinctly different in those photos. Too much vegetation, the plants I see don't appear to by typical of the area, not steep enough drops, too many rolling hill-like areas, no jagged edges, not enough color layering in the rock, among other things.
While I do agree with you, I can't help but laugh that you said that. The case specifically being cited as the reason for such a law was not a kid being bullied by another kid, but a kid that was more or less goaded into committing suicide by the MOTHER of her friend.
Oh yeah, thats right. That was one of Fox News' lame-ass "top 10 lies told by Osama^H^H^H^Hbama". It would be a lame attempt even if it were technically correct, as you suggest. However, you are wrong. He technically was a profressor:
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media/index.html
"He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track."
Really? When I rip an ISO, I thought it was still encrypted.
I was thinking he was just talking about things like how people react in real time to a presentation being given. A bad point is brought up and the stock starts dropping. Then the bad point is put into context with something like "but this downturn has provided us the opportunity to improve..." and suddenly the stock shoots up. And then repeat over and over. It's interesting to see how bi-polar investors behave.
From an investment point of view, this could be helpful, because it could help you better gauge what sort of things appear to be most important to the market and help you make future decisions.
Why don't you learn to ready, too? Because if you had read the page that was linked to:
"I got a Ph.D in pain and a master's in disaster, / the mighty Stephen Hawking is a fucking Quake master." â" from "QuakeMaster"
Cold and gray for four months? Sure, but definitely not most of the year.
There's plenty of sun. Trust me on this. As a photographer, one of the things you really don't want for daytime photography is a clear blue sky (gives horrible lighting and poor contrast). Yet way more than 1/2 of my planned photo trips get ruined by exactly that.
As for cold, that depends on your point of view. If 50-60 degrees is your idea of cold, then sure I'll concede that point. But it's really not that cold. Sure, you'll want to wear pants instead of shorts and put on a light jacket, but it's not like eskimo suit time.
Thoroughly unpleasant? Now you are just trolling. I won't even bother to address that.
You mean the movie where the black guy wins the split decision?
Exactly. Living in Detroit, I go into Canada a couple times a year and always get these questions coming back. Some of the questions are for info they can verify against your passport (or, I suspect things they can look up on the computer via your passport, like your place of employment).
Others are just stuff that they probably don't know the correct answer to but just want to see how quickly you answer, or if you stumble over your words.
Sorry, but it is not simple as that. Economy of scale. With an increased audience and thus more people buying, any upfront overhead costs can be distributed among a lot more customers, and supplies/materials to manufacture each unit can also be purchased cheaper because the suppliers will also benefit from economy of scale.
Having an expectation of privacy when you are in a public place and where you know thousands of random strangers can observe you just by turning their head...well, it just seems strange. Of course, I'm sure a lot of common-sense-to-me laws we have in the US seem very strange to people in countries that don't have the same laws.
... multiple times...including people I wouldn't want to mess with.
All I can say is, I'm glad I'm a photographer in the US rather than in France (except for the overzealous photographer=terrorist part, although maybe they have that too). Apparently I couldn't go 7 days in Paris without breaking the law