I agree that ADHD is not a disease, but for different reasons. I believe it is a real phenomenon caused by the overwhelming amount of material we are expected to pay attention to and absorb. It's no illusion that society moves at a faster pace than ever before, and I think we've reached the limit of what the human mind can keep up with. The solution isn't drugs or therapy, it's Slack!
The red color of the sky is caused by dust particles in the atmosphere. The red cast on nearby objects is caused by skylight. Photographers are quite familiar with the effects of skylight here on Earth: take a picture in the shadow of a tree or building on a clear blue day, tell your photofinisher not to correct the color, and you'll see what I mean.
Now... the question is, what is the "right" color for these pictures? I'd guess that the engineers and scientists at NASA didn't build any automatic white-balance into Spirit's cameras. They probably set them for Earth daylight (5400°K) color balance for comparison. If that's the case, then in one sense, these are exactly the right colors.
But color is a shifty thing. Your eyes automatically adjust to the color of the light; flourescent light is very green, incandescent light is very orange, but you seldom notice it. It's likely that if you lived on Mars for any length of time, you would start to perceive direct daylight as white, regardless of its measured color temperature. So the sky might very well look blue...
It's a phenomenon very familiar to photographers here on Earth. Our blue sky creates a strong blue or cyan cast in pictures taken in open shade. I suspect something similar happens on Mars.
On the one hand, it's pretty lame to make a big deal out of this, considering it's just a ripped-off Windows UI component.
On the other hand, it's great to finally see the GNOME team getting serious about usability for the unwashed masses. Kudos all around.
The answer is something I've known for a long time: the stock market has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with reality! It's a terrible indicator of the health of a company or the real strength of our economy. When I'm President, the first thing I'll do is shut down Wall Street. All corporations will become public non-profits, and investments will be treated as loans to be paid back with interest, not perpetual debts that can never be paid off.
Tribes/Tribes 2 were a couple of my favorite games of all time. You've just made my day with this link.
In case anyone doesn't know, it wasn't anything about the gameplay that doomed Tribes 2. It was the copyright protection. Not only did it require a CD key to play online, which is fair and understandable, but you had to have the disc to play and the disc was uncopyable. So no letting your friends try it out at LAN parties. The lawyer who talked the publisher into that should be hanged...
Nikon kept things compatible when moving from manual to auto focus, Canon did not.
Sort of. Nikon hasn't changed their lens mount since 1959, but they have changed the way the lens communicates its aperture to the body. Really old lenses have a little U-shaped flange on top to engage a pin that sticks out of the body. Newer AI lenses have a tab on a ring at the rear of the lens. Still newer lenses (G-series) have no mechanical indexing at all; they work only with modern electronic bodies. So although you can mount a manual lens on a N65, N80, etc., you won't be able to meter correctly with it. AFAIK, only the N90 (discontinued) and F5 are fully compatible with manual lenses.
You should take this article into consideration when choosing your lens.
Though I love old manual cameras like the Pentax K1000, you would probably be happier with a modern camera that will "grow" with you if you take a serious interest in photography. Nikon's N65 and N75 are great starter cameras around your price range, and the N80 is a great camera for a great price. On the Canon side, the Rebel Ti is nice (it's the cheapest Rebel with a metal lens mount) but the Elan 7 is ridiculously overpriced, especially compared to the N80. (Find an Elan II on eBay instead! I've owned two of those, they rock.)
Check out PN. The critics are harsh at times, but it's still the #1 photo information site on the Web.
Finally, don't fall into the trap I did, of becoming a snob and shooting pro film, B&W, and slides all the time. Buy some good cheap film like Fuji Superia in bulk and shoot the hell out of it. That's the quickest way to improve your skills.
I guess it's a great business model - steal as much money as possible before the customer notices. When they leave you, refuse to hand it back and let them realize the cost of an attorney is more than the value of what they've stolen.
Even governments are catching on to this business model! I recently received a letter from a collection agency in Florida claiming that I owed some small-town court $131 for a traffic violation in 2000. Until October of this year, I hadn't set foot in Florida since 1998. But of course I can't even travel to Florida on $131, much less hire a lawyer to defend myself against this fraud. I'm killing time by making them send me court documents to back up their claim. Who knows, maybe identity theft will be apparent. I can't wait to see the vehicle description and tag number.
Anyway, I'm sure the Bush fundraising campaign making headlines this week is a COMPLETE coincidence...
I've been shouting from my soapbox for a long time that if we follow the money, we'll find that it all comes back to the insurance industry. The rising costs involved in renting or owning a home or vehicle, practicing or receiving medical care, operating a business, or practically anything else you want to do in our society other than shut the fuck up and break your back for The Man, can be traced back to the insurance industry. The government makes insurance a legal requirement in many situations but fails to regulate the industry or clamp down on the rampant litigation that drives the high prices of insurance.
If I were President (or even a Governor) I would saw the insurance industry's legs off. The hard part is making voters understand why this is so necessary.
I forget what it was last time, but I remember getting a polite response to my email a few days later.
I would never recommend shelling out for a new prebuilt computer from any manufacturer, but I'll still recommend old business-surplus Dells as rock solid Linux firewall/routers.:o)
Don't worry, Indiana will come around. We've got a lot of people in love with the Republican party here because Indiana was one of the few places where Reaganomics actually worked; "Old South" capitalism hadn't penetrated this region in the 80's and and "trickle-down economics" actually works when the CEO lives in the same 'hood as the guy who cleans the toilets. People are starting to come around as they hear about these kinds of abuses. Rest assured, if any Fort Wayne officers pulled a stunt like this they would be ridden out of town on a rail, if not lynched on the front lawn of the Allen County courthouse.
Redhat wants us to develop and test fedora for free, turn around sell it to enteprise for big bucks.
They're not selling software. They've chosen a collection of packages that work well together and they're selling their time in supporting your installation of those packages. And guess what... you are free to do exactly the same thing with any GPLed software.
*Too many* choices! If we want to appeal to the unwashed masses who expect things to "just work", we need a well-supported distro containing only carefully selected, well-integrated packages that install one way and one way only. I know this seems counter to the whole spirit of Open Source, but we need a standardized platform if we want to attract serious developers of the software people care about. (Namely, kickass games.)
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Cerveza Caguama, now that's the stuff. Fucking impossible to find, though.
'Sync' and 'synch' are both shortened forms of 'synchronize'. The word you're probably thinking of that's pronounced 'sinch' is spelled 'cinch'.
I agree that ADHD is not a disease, but for different reasons. I believe it is a real phenomenon caused by the overwhelming amount of material we are expected to pay attention to and absorb. It's no illusion that society moves at a faster pace than ever before, and I think we've reached the limit of what the human mind can keep up with. The solution isn't drugs or therapy, it's Slack!
1. Trade American cell phones for Canadian Viagra 2. ??? 3. Profit!
Now... the question is, what is the "right" color for these pictures? I'd guess that the engineers and scientists at NASA didn't build any automatic white-balance into Spirit's cameras. They probably set them for Earth daylight (5400°K) color balance for comparison. If that's the case, then in one sense, these are exactly the right colors.
But color is a shifty thing. Your eyes automatically adjust to the color of the light; flourescent light is very green, incandescent light is very orange, but you seldom notice it. It's likely that if you lived on Mars for any length of time, you would start to perceive direct daylight as white, regardless of its measured color temperature. So the sky might very well look blue...
It's a phenomenon very familiar to photographers here on Earth. Our blue sky creates a strong blue or cyan cast in pictures taken in open shade. I suspect something similar happens on Mars.
On the one hand, it's pretty lame to make a big deal out of this, considering it's just a ripped-off Windows UI component. On the other hand, it's great to finally see the GNOME team getting serious about usability for the unwashed masses. Kudos all around.
The answer is something I've known for a long time: the stock market has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with reality! It's a terrible indicator of the health of a company or the real strength of our economy. When I'm President, the first thing I'll do is shut down Wall Street. All corporations will become public non-profits, and investments will be treated as loans to be paid back with interest, not perpetual debts that can never be paid off.
Vote Krumwiede in 2012!
Well hot damn. Where'd I put that CD?
In case anyone doesn't know, it wasn't anything about the gameplay that doomed Tribes 2. It was the copyright protection. Not only did it require a CD key to play online, which is fair and understandable, but you had to have the disc to play and the disc was uncopyable. So no letting your friends try it out at LAN parties. The lawyer who talked the publisher into that should be hanged...
Sort of. Nikon hasn't changed their lens mount since 1959, but they have changed the way the lens communicates its aperture to the body. Really old lenses have a little U-shaped flange on top to engage a pin that sticks out of the body. Newer AI lenses have a tab on a ring at the rear of the lens. Still newer lenses (G-series) have no mechanical indexing at all; they work only with modern electronic bodies. So although you can mount a manual lens on a N65, N80, etc., you won't be able to meter correctly with it. AFAIK, only the N90 (discontinued) and F5 are fully compatible with manual lenses.
Though I love old manual cameras like the Pentax K1000, you would probably be happier with a modern camera that will "grow" with you if you take a serious interest in photography. Nikon's N65 and N75 are great starter cameras around your price range, and the N80 is a great camera for a great price. On the Canon side, the Rebel Ti is nice (it's the cheapest Rebel with a metal lens mount) but the Elan 7 is ridiculously overpriced, especially compared to the N80. (Find an Elan II on eBay instead! I've owned two of those, they rock.)
Check out PN. The critics are harsh at times, but it's still the #1 photo information site on the Web.
Finally, don't fall into the trap I did, of becoming a snob and shooting pro film, B&W, and slides all the time. Buy some good cheap film like Fuji Superia in bulk and shoot the hell out of it. That's the quickest way to improve your skills.
Even governments are catching on to this business model! I recently received a letter from a collection agency in Florida claiming that I owed some small-town court $131 for a traffic violation in 2000. Until October of this year, I hadn't set foot in Florida since 1998. But of course I can't even travel to Florida on $131, much less hire a lawyer to defend myself against this fraud. I'm killing time by making them send me court documents to back up their claim. Who knows, maybe identity theft will be apparent. I can't wait to see the vehicle description and tag number.
Anyway, I'm sure the Bush fundraising campaign making headlines this week is a COMPLETE coincidence...
I've been shouting from my soapbox for a long time that if we follow the money, we'll find that it all comes back to the insurance industry. The rising costs involved in renting or owning a home or vehicle, practicing or receiving medical care, operating a business, or practically anything else you want to do in our society other than shut the fuck up and break your back for The Man, can be traced back to the insurance industry. The government makes insurance a legal requirement in many situations but fails to regulate the industry or clamp down on the rampant litigation that drives the high prices of insurance. If I were President (or even a Governor) I would saw the insurance industry's legs off. The hard part is making voters understand why this is so necessary.
I would never recommend shelling out for a new prebuilt computer from any manufacturer, but I'll still recommend old business-surplus Dells as rock solid Linux firewall/routers. :o)
We can't decrease the amount of money the government extorts from us for a change?
Nobody is forced to use Microsoft products. Maybe this will wake them up. (We can hope...)
Don't worry, Indiana will come around. We've got a lot of people in love with the Republican party here because Indiana was one of the few places where Reaganomics actually worked; "Old South" capitalism hadn't penetrated this region in the 80's and and "trickle-down economics" actually works when the CEO lives in the same 'hood as the guy who cleans the toilets. People are starting to come around as they hear about these kinds of abuses. Rest assured, if any Fort Wayne officers pulled a stunt like this they would be ridden out of town on a rail, if not lynched on the front lawn of the Allen County courthouse.
And if you're really serious, you don't make threats...
I'll bring my rifle.
Redhat wants us to develop and test fedora for free, turn around sell it to enteprise for big bucks. They're not selling software. They've chosen a collection of packages that work well together and they're selling their time in supporting your installation of those packages. And guess what... you are free to do exactly the same thing with any GPLed software.
*Too many* choices! If we want to appeal to the unwashed masses who expect things to "just work", we need a well-supported distro containing only carefully selected, well-integrated packages that install one way and one way only. I know this seems counter to the whole spirit of Open Source, but we need a standardized platform if we want to attract serious developers of the software people care about. (Namely, kickass games.)
It's an expression of agreement. Should I have been more verbose? I'm not an English-major fag; I don't need to talk all wordy and shit.
They were killed by Communism, not communism.
Word.