I was thinking of the type of inkjets that photographers use to do portraits or other artwork. I had one that died a year ago, but I don't shoot as much serious stuff anymore and mostly just take happy snaps on vacation now, so I haven't bought a new one. I did look them up and a comparable one now-a-days runs around $2100.00 to 2900.00 US. Considering I don't do enough serious colour work, I'll stick with your suggestion of the drug store if I really want a print... but looking at them on computer is good enough for now. Any serious stuff I do shoot now is usually BW and BW film still has better latitude and tonality than BW digital (but printing I'd say is WAY more expensive than a laser:-). Give it a few years and digital will be there. Interesting to hear what others have to say on the colour printing side though. Thanks.
Some people want good colour prints that are not standard size. I'm curious if lasers are any better at creating good photo quality prints on high end photo paper like can be done on good ink jet printers? Or are ink jets still the way to go?
I was able to use after market cartridges in my (former) Epson printer. However it gave up the ghost after about 6 years... it was a high end model (11x17) used often in preprint or for photographic art and even by wedding photographers. Still... the after market cartridges worked great and the colours were fine... and were way cheaper than brand name. I got rid of it a year ago so I'm not sure what the deal is with newer models.
Sure, isolate yourself from the rest of the world, and don't 'snitch' when a crime occurs right in front of you. Two good practices to ensure people never have a chance out of poverty and crime. Keep it up... you're helping [/sarcasm]
Cajun to be clear, is not based on English. It is based on Acadian French. Acadia is a region in the province of New Brunswick in Canada. In one of the wars between the English and French in the 17th or 18th century, when Britain captured that region (of what is now Canada), they tried to ship all the resident Acadians to then French controlled Louisiana as a means to rid the area of French influence. It is doubtful whether they found all the French residents. In subsequent wars, France won and then lost the area again. This time the British left the people where they were. Cajun is a bastardization of Acadian. After hurricane Katrina, the Acadians in New Brunswick offered Louisiana Cajuns sanctuary which a number took up.
Honestly, given modern materials like carbon fibre which is lightweight and stronger than steel, you would have to be smoking dope or trying hard to justify growing it to come up with such a stupid idea. I think the East Germans came up with an old fashion linoleum-like (crappy fibre impregnated with resin) car called the Trabant. Given the safety advantages of modern materials you would have to be smoking dope to get in something like this.
Honestly, the dope smoking losers in Canada keep trying to find ways to justify growing more of the stuff to try somehow to justify growing more of the variety for smoking (hey man it's natural, lighten up dude it has to be good). The plants don't look much different to the untrained or from the air. Yeah I'm a reformed dope smoker who now knows based on the difference between then (18+ years ago) and now that the stuff is not as benign as those who are always stoned seem to think. Go smoke a joint and do something. Yeah right... pass the cheetos.
I was thinking more along the lines of the new Blackberry which will have a slide out keyboard. A built in standard qwerty with real buttons means they don't have to suffer the inconvenience of having to carry around another piece of hardware in order to use very common features.
I saw this poster in 1999 on a fellow's cubical wall at a place where the company I worked for was putting in a software system, in Rhode Island. The blog where the picture is hosted from provides the text below the picture. It was commissioned by The National Head Start Association. For those that it matters to, the person who put up the poster was black. It was no surprise when I saw it for the first time, as I found previously that he placed a lot of emphasis on being able to communicate effectively with those around him.
Your politically correct stance does not help people. In order to overcome prejudices it is best to focus on our similarities with others rather than on our differences. Once that is done, the differences don't matter as much. We cannot focus on anything if we cannot communicate. It doesn't help communication when one community works so hard on creating a wholly new dialect, if not language, just so that they can be more different.
In case the site is not available, or for those that don't care to click, here is the text:
"I HAS A DREAM" written over the image of the man. Below the image was the following text:
"Does this bother you? It should. We've spent over 400 years fighting for the right to have a voice. Is this how we'll use it? More importantly, is this how we'll teach our children to use it? If we expect more of them, we must not throw our hands in the air and agree with those who say our children cannot be taught. By now, you've probably heard about Ebonics (aka black [sic] English). And if you think it's become a controversy because white America doesn't want us messing with their precious language, don't. White America couldn't care less what we do to segregate ourselves.
The fact is language is power. And we can't take that power away from our children with Ebonics. Would Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and all the others who paid the price of obtaining our voice with the currency of their lives embrace this? If you haven't used your voice lately, consider this an invitation."
("SPEAK OUT AGAINST EBONICS", The National Head Start Association, 1651 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA 22314, The New York Times, October 9, 1998, A19 [National Edition])
The gist of the naysayer in the article is that it is better to close the gate AFTER the horses get out than before. Typical human behaviour that has existed since time immemorial.
Government should only regulate in case of monopoly or duopoly.
What about in the case of cartels? I think ten can be considered a limited number in this case. Monopolies aren't the only way for an industry to screw over the public.
In British Columbia, you are charged a fee for being rescued if you have done something particularly stupid (e.g. ski in an out of bounds area and go over a cliff or get lost, hike in an out of bounds area of a provincial or national park and get hurt or lost, etc). There is continual debate on expanding this policy to more situations where this applies. This kind of policy at least helps cover the cost of those who are too stupid to learn the skills and responsibilities for doing these types of activities... even of it might not entirely prevent them. And the ones who are really stupid ensure they will never trouble us again.
And, BTW, ice cover has increased since 2007... is that a sign of Global Cooling?
The extent of the ice cap is not the only way to measure the ice cover in the arctic. Probably more important is the quality and the volume of the ice at the polar cap.
By the way, ice 'extent' is different than the 'area' covered by ice. 'Extent' is what is often quoted, not 'area'. Extent is measured like this: If a grid square being examined has more than 15% ice then it is considered ice covered. So if you had two grids being examined of say 10 sq km each, one being covered 80% by ice and the other being 16% covered by ice, the measurements would say that the ice extent or extent of ice coverage is 20 sq km, when the area would be more like 9.6 sq km. Because this is measured by satellite, grids for study are normally more like 25 or more sq km. Argument can be made to use extent over area since sometimes melt water over ice can be interpreted by the analysis software as being open water. Not always but sometimes; so they use extent to be on the safe side.
What many leave out is analysis of data from satellites that provide measurement of ice thickness. The linked web site addresses this somewhat. I have read about and seen information mentioned more and more on this for at least the last five or six years (and to be sure, the real experts have been looking at this for years). It looks like even if the ice extent is greater this year than in 2007, it is still about 1.6 million sq km less than the 1979 to 2000 average; and more importantly, the current volume of arctic ice is the lowest on record.
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For fucks sake people, this ship left the dock years ago with games like Grand Theft Auto where people get added health for killing innocent people; and where reviewers say things like "who doesn't love a game where you get to kill innocent people". That someone will now try to play the "morality card" with respect to video games is absolute hypocritical bullshit. Stop trying to put the wolf of trivializing the death of another into sheep's clothing. To listen to these fuckers trying to NOW claim some sort of moral dilemma is sickening. If anything, this is just a ploy to get ideas on how to justify making these games when critics attack them. America: land of the free, where soldiers go to foreign lands and kill people so the civilians at, and from the safety of own their home can also get to kill those same people in a virtual world (after running over the grandmother in the street earlier in the evening).
For the record, I happen to believe that we should have gone into Afghanistan after 9/11, but that Iraq was a bullshit war instigated by a moron president pushed by a crew of xenophobic and oleophilic advisors who had ulterior motives (including the VP).
Like I said, it's easy to point fingers from outside. Join the auxiliary police and ride with them for a couple of years. Then let's hear your tune. Ridiculous self righteousness is not only the domain of asshat right wing christians (I put those in lower case... real ones I capitalize). Have a good life judging others from a chair.
How the fuck is this offtopic? The only reason people are doing this is because Apple is fucking over their customers. Likely an Apple Fanboy moderator.
FTFY: Java is still the most actively used programming language.
Cobol is still the most used programming language... and is still being used (and I have no idea how to program with it... I can barely stand looking at its record/data structures).
This depends entirely on the size of the application being programmed. A shop creating consumer level products like say, a word processor or music player, will not make much, if any money selling support contracts; and even if a corporation buys a word processor for example, they generally don't pay for a support contract. A shop writing a database management system will make a considerable amount of money with support contracts. Billing system vendors (I am thinking telecom billing systems since that is what I have worked on the most) make most of their money from support and customization despite the high up front cost of the software itself. The question is, what is the ratio of consumer level software programs to corporate (read: requires support contracts)? My bet is that it is at least even; and if I had to choose -- I would bet the consumer side is larger.
In other words, the idea that you can create a software project and count on making money by way of support contracts is grossly overblown. Especially by the OSS movement. While there are a lot of high quality OSS projects that are based on the 'paid support' paradigm, there are orders of magnitude more that die because that paradigm does not work for them. For example, look at all the abandoned or stalled projects on sourceforge where there has been no activity for months or years. If people can't make money from the project they work on in their spare time, they will usually end up doing something more productive/worthwhile to them like playing with their kids, or hanging out with friends.
There is a difference between the 'scale'/'key signature of the song' you are playing' and the 'the scale on the keyboard/fretboard/etc'. If there weren't, piano players would only be able to play songs in the key of 'C'. However that is not the case. Learn music theory before commenting on music. Google: C sharp major. You will see that the note B is marked as to be played 'sharp'; and yes, in that case it means you play a 'C' when you see a 'B' on the music staff.
this jailbreak only works on iOS versions with the vulnerable component
It seems strange to me that while the FCC says that people have the right to install whatever software they want on their devices, Apple is still 'fixing' the OS on the devices so that their users cannot install their choice of software without jailbreaking the device, which Apple then fixes so that the user cannot install the software they want GOTO LINE 1
While I particularly hate the overly litigious attitude that permeates the United States (note that I like many other aspects a great deal), isn't this a very good case for a class action lawsuit? That is, Apple keeps blocking the users attempts to install their choice of software and possibly corrupts already installed software based on Apple's priorities, not the users.
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When I write with my left hand, I feel like I'm dictating.
I was thinking of the type of inkjets that photographers use to do portraits or other artwork. I had one that died a year ago, but I don't shoot as much serious stuff anymore and mostly just take happy snaps on vacation now, so I haven't bought a new one. I did look them up and a comparable one now-a-days runs around $2100.00 to 2900.00 US. Considering I don't do enough serious colour work, I'll stick with your suggestion of the drug store if I really want a print... but looking at them on computer is good enough for now. Any serious stuff I do shoot now is usually BW and BW film still has better latitude and tonality than BW digital (but printing I'd say is WAY more expensive than a laser :-). Give it a few years and digital will be there. Interesting to hear what others have to say on the colour printing side though. Thanks.
Some people want good colour prints that are not standard size. I'm curious if lasers are any better at creating good photo quality prints on high end photo paper like can be done on good ink jet printers? Or are ink jets still the way to go?
I was able to use after market cartridges in my (former) Epson printer. However it gave up the ghost after about 6 years... it was a high end model (11x17) used often in preprint or for photographic art and even by wedding photographers. Still... the after market cartridges worked great and the colours were fine... and were way cheaper than brand name. I got rid of it a year ago so I'm not sure what the deal is with newer models.
Sure, isolate yourself from the rest of the world, and don't 'snitch' when a crime occurs right in front of you. Two good practices to ensure people never have a chance out of poverty and crime. Keep it up... you're helping [/sarcasm]
Cajun to be clear, is not based on English. It is based on Acadian French. Acadia is a region in the province of New Brunswick in Canada. In one of the wars between the English and French in the 17th or 18th century, when Britain captured that region (of what is now Canada), they tried to ship all the resident Acadians to then French controlled Louisiana as a means to rid the area of French influence. It is doubtful whether they found all the French residents. In subsequent wars, France won and then lost the area again. This time the British left the people where they were. Cajun is a bastardization of Acadian. After hurricane Katrina, the Acadians in New Brunswick offered Louisiana Cajuns sanctuary which a number took up.
It comes as standard equipment.
Honestly, given modern materials like carbon fibre which is lightweight and stronger than steel, you would have to be smoking dope or trying hard to justify growing it to come up with such a stupid idea. I think the East Germans came up with an old fashion linoleum-like (crappy fibre impregnated with resin) car called the Trabant. Given the safety advantages of modern materials you would have to be smoking dope to get in something like this.
Honestly, the dope smoking losers in Canada keep trying to find ways to justify growing more of the stuff to try somehow to justify growing more of the variety for smoking (hey man it's natural, lighten up dude it has to be good). The plants don't look much different to the untrained or from the air. Yeah I'm a reformed dope smoker who now knows based on the difference between then (18+ years ago) and now that the stuff is not as benign as those who are always stoned seem to think. Go smoke a joint and do something. Yeah right... pass the cheetos.
It's HOLLYWOOD BABY! If it looks good, it HAS to be good. Right?
I was thinking more along the lines of the new Blackberry which will have a slide out keyboard. A built in standard qwerty with real buttons means they don't have to suffer the inconvenience of having to carry around another piece of hardware in order to use very common features.
I saw this poster in 1999 on a fellow's cubical wall at a place where the company I worked for was putting in a software system, in Rhode Island. The blog where the picture is hosted from provides the text below the picture. It was commissioned by The National Head Start Association. For those that it matters to, the person who put up the poster was black. It was no surprise when I saw it for the first time, as I found previously that he placed a lot of emphasis on being able to communicate effectively with those around him.
Your politically correct stance does not help people. In order to overcome prejudices it is best to focus on our similarities with others rather than on our differences. Once that is done, the differences don't matter as much. We cannot focus on anything if we cannot communicate. It doesn't help communication when one community works so hard on creating a wholly new dialect, if not language, just so that they can be more different.
In case the site is not available, or for those that don't care to click, here is the text:
Yeah, I like the way the keyboard slides out so blind touch typists can use it too. What? It has a Braille feature? No? Oh. Never mind.
The gist of the naysayer in the article is that it is better to close the gate AFTER the horses get out than before. Typical human behaviour that has existed since time immemorial.
What about in the case of cartels? I think ten can be considered a limited number in this case. Monopolies aren't the only way for an industry to screw over the public.
In British Columbia, you are charged a fee for being rescued if you have done something particularly stupid (e.g. ski in an out of bounds area and go over a cliff or get lost, hike in an out of bounds area of a provincial or national park and get hurt or lost, etc). There is continual debate on expanding this policy to more situations where this applies. This kind of policy at least helps cover the cost of those who are too stupid to learn the skills and responsibilities for doing these types of activities... even of it might not entirely prevent them. And the ones who are really stupid ensure they will never trouble us again.
The extent of the ice cap is not the only way to measure the ice cover in the arctic. Probably more important is the quality and the volume of the ice at the polar cap.
By the way, ice 'extent' is different than the 'area' covered by ice. 'Extent' is what is often quoted, not 'area'. Extent is measured like this: If a grid square being examined has more than 15% ice then it is considered ice covered. So if you had two grids being examined of say 10 sq km each, one being covered 80% by ice and the other being 16% covered by ice, the measurements would say that the ice extent or extent of ice coverage is 20 sq km, when the area would be more like 9.6 sq km. Because this is measured by satellite, grids for study are normally more like 25 or more sq km. Argument can be made to use extent over area since sometimes melt water over ice can be interpreted by the analysis software as being open water. Not always but sometimes; so they use extent to be on the safe side.
What many leave out is analysis of data from satellites that provide measurement of ice thickness. The linked web site addresses this somewhat. I have read about and seen information mentioned more and more on this for at least the last five or six years (and to be sure, the real experts have been looking at this for years). It looks like even if the ice extent is greater this year than in 2007, it is still about 1.6 million sq km less than the 1979 to 2000 average; and more importantly, the current volume of arctic ice is the lowest on record.
I see why it failed now.
For fucks sake people, this ship left the dock years ago with games like Grand Theft Auto where people get added health for killing innocent people; and where reviewers say things like "who doesn't love a game where you get to kill innocent people". That someone will now try to play the "morality card" with respect to video games is absolute hypocritical bullshit. Stop trying to put the wolf of trivializing the death of another into sheep's clothing. To listen to these fuckers trying to NOW claim some sort of moral dilemma is sickening. If anything, this is just a ploy to get ideas on how to justify making these games when critics attack them. America: land of the free, where soldiers go to foreign lands and kill people so the civilians at, and from the safety of own their home can also get to kill those same people in a virtual world (after running over the grandmother in the street earlier in the evening).
For the record, I happen to believe that we should have gone into Afghanistan after 9/11, but that Iraq was a bullshit war instigated by a moron president pushed by a crew of xenophobic and oleophilic advisors who had ulterior motives (including the VP).
Like I said, it's easy to point fingers from outside. Join the auxiliary police and ride with them for a couple of years. Then let's hear your tune. Ridiculous self righteousness is not only the domain of asshat right wing christians (I put those in lower case... real ones I capitalize). Have a good life judging others from a chair.
How the fuck is this offtopic? The only reason people are doing this is because Apple is fucking over their customers. Likely an Apple Fanboy moderator.
The are going to put the meat in emergency/fallout shelters. It will keep indefinitely.
FTFY: Java is still the most actively used programming language.
Cobol is still the most used programming language... and is still being used (and I have no idea how to program with it... I can barely stand looking at its record/data structures).
This depends entirely on the size of the application being programmed. A shop creating consumer level products like say, a word processor or music player, will not make much, if any money selling support contracts; and even if a corporation buys a word processor for example, they generally don't pay for a support contract. A shop writing a database management system will make a considerable amount of money with support contracts. Billing system vendors (I am thinking telecom billing systems since that is what I have worked on the most) make most of their money from support and customization despite the high up front cost of the software itself. The question is, what is the ratio of consumer level software programs to corporate (read: requires support contracts)? My bet is that it is at least even; and if I had to choose -- I would bet the consumer side is larger.
In other words, the idea that you can create a software project and count on making money by way of support contracts is grossly overblown. Especially by the OSS movement. While there are a lot of high quality OSS projects that are based on the 'paid support' paradigm, there are orders of magnitude more that die because that paradigm does not work for them. For example, look at all the abandoned or stalled projects on sourceforge where there has been no activity for months or years. If people can't make money from the project they work on in their spare time, they will usually end up doing something more productive/worthwhile to them like playing with their kids, or hanging out with friends.
There is a difference between the 'scale'/'key signature of the song' you are playing' and the 'the scale on the keyboard/fretboard/etc'. If there weren't, piano players would only be able to play songs in the key of 'C'. However that is not the case. Learn music theory before commenting on music. Google: C sharp major. You will see that the note B is marked as to be played 'sharp'; and yes, in that case it means you play a 'C' when you see a 'B' on the music staff.
It seems strange to me that while the FCC says that people have the right to install whatever software they want on their devices, Apple is still 'fixing' the OS on the devices so that their users cannot install their choice of software without jailbreaking the device, which Apple then fixes so that the user cannot install the software they want GOTO LINE 1
While I particularly hate the overly litigious attitude that permeates the United States (note that I like many other aspects a great deal), isn't this a very good case for a class action lawsuit? That is, Apple keeps blocking the users attempts to install their choice of software and possibly corrupts already installed software based on Apple's priorities, not the users.
Just curious... is it hung up on the rock because it sank into the sand while going over it?