I'm no photographer and have never heard of a LensBaby before looking at this guy's photos, and even I could tell you the AC above me is dead on!
I am a photographer and I own a LensBaby. Those things are so over used today that it disgusts me. Yes, there is often a time and place for them to be used in really neat and artistic ways, and then there's this guy and his stuff that makes me want to junk the whole thing. Ick!
A LensBaby is like a fancy filter in photoshop - it can do some neat stuff, and when used creatively you'd never guess how the effect was created, but over used, or in the hands of someone who doesn't know how to use it, and you get junk after junk with obvious "tricks" done to them.
Here's my idea that I've been kicking around for a while. We have forward and we have back buttons, but I think we need a next button. The button would increment the character to the left of the right most "dot" in a URL. For example www.someplace.com/1.html would go to www.someplace.com/2.html
The code should be sufficiently robust to handle 009.jpg and 9.jpg (mapping to 010.jpg and 10.jpg respectively) and yes am aware that this will often lead to 404 errors for sites which don't follow a normal ordered sequence of pages. But, for those that do, this will be heaven.
Also, it should be able to process letters in hex-style, but using all 26 letters, but this part is a lot trickier. For example, some time you want a9.jpg to go to b0.jpg but other times you'll want a10.jpg. I figured pick a scheme and stick with it. If it derails the user can change the file name sometimes to put it back on track. I think that most sites would roll over to a10.jpg (figuring it was a series of pictures from the 'a' range) but letting the user pick a scheme in a menu should win over folks who deal with the b0.jpg scheme a lot.
How did this sticker come into usage at your facility, and can it be used for more than just phones.
I avoid the camera phone thing as we are stopped at the entrance to our facility and cannot bring a camera on base. Cell phones can be used in certain areas, must be off in some, and must be left with a guard to enter others - various buildings/centers doing various things. To me, getting this sticker dealy at my DoD site would rock, especially if it can work beyond the phone.
For example, I shoot with a DSLR, and I'm always taking pictures. Furthermore, we all know two of the best times for lighting are sun-up and sun-down. Well, I'm driving to work at sun-up (and often home at sun-down) and I would gladly leave a few minutes earlier each day knowing I could stop somewhere if there was a pretty scene to shoot it, hop back in, and go to work. (or hit someplace on the way home)
My problem now is that I can't bring the camera on base, so I'm stuck sitting in my car going "Wow, if only I had my camera now." And then I don't have it on the way home.
This also is a pain when I travel for work to another base. Travel for me means several days away, and a hotel room. Naturally I'd take the camera for something like that, but if I have to stop at the base before check-in - well, there goes the whole camera for the whole trip.
If I could let them sticker my camera bag, lens cap perhaps, or remove the battery and sticker the cover - something - I could take my camera around and we would all be happy that I hadn't taken any photos.
So far I've asked for like a locker or something where I can put the items we all agree can't go with me on base, but that I can check-out when I leave. This hasn't gone over well with our people.
Where are you shopping? I paid $100 each for my A5200s. Granted they were only fully loaded with 18 gig drives, but still - 22 drives and that awesome touch screen.
Sun's A5200s are cheap on eBay, and you can pick up something like a 420r or a 250 to drive the thing. Put a qfe card in with the free sun trunking now for Solaris 10 and it'll serve up your files super speedy, all for very reasonable.
My friend, recursive green, has three A5200s in his basement right now, one stores his *ahem* photo collection and is web accessible.
I think new(er) fibre things are getting cheaper, but what was often high-end data-center-only big-$$ of a few years ago hits the price point of "at home" now.
But I just can't read this post. There are 5, an odd number, of quotation marks. How are these supposed to line up?
prostoalex writes "Seattle PI notices a rise in venture capital investments into open-source companies. JBoss, SourceLabs, SugarCRM and OSDL all attracted venture capital investments this year, with SourceLabs receiving investments from former Senior VP of Microsoft. ""You could say that it is as disruptive as... mainframes going to PCs or landlines going to cell phones. Software as it has been sold for years is about to be turned on its head completely," says Lucinda Stewart from OVP Venture Partners."
The programmer in me looks at this with parsing in mind and goes nuts.
I think either the second one is extra or the editor added a final article quote, but kept the text italics and addeed a final quotation mark for good measure.
Higher up boss was complaining why the project wasn't being done the wau he just suddenly came up with.
Low-level boss, who had fought to do it that way for months and was shot down by this higher up boss only to do it the current way, says, "I can't beging to think about doing it the right way until I finish doing it the wrong way... poorly."
When I was still teaching at Penn State one of my students had a wireless LAN in his dorm, and he noticed his upstairs neighbor would occasionally hop on. (He said he had an issue with WEP and using two brands of WiFi devices, why he didn't have MAC filtering at least, I don't know). My student told the neighbor he didn't mind, but would he please stop. Neighbor denied it. My student noticed a traffic spike that night, hopped on neihbor's network, found a printer, loaded it with goatse, never saw neighbor on the network again.
"You can take all of your code and inspect it prior to compilation."
should be:
"You can use an already compiled text viewer and inspect the code prior to compilation."
And there lies the interesting bit for the true conspiracy lovers - all text editors could have a basic "grep -v [secret information]" already slipped into their code. Thus, even if you use one of them to check the code for itself you would never see it.
You need to get to the most basic level to create a "known clean" area and slowly build up from that. Starting with and relying on "suspected clean" things like vi, notepad, cat, edlin, etc... does not ensure you are even looking at something you think you are.
Out of interest, any/.'rs remember where the censored comment(s) in question are in the archives, or even better, remember what was in them before the censorship?
Are you old enough to remember McCarthy? Read up on him some time.
IIRC McCarthy held hearings where he accused people of being "bad" (evil, communist, gay, whatever you poison) in and around 1953. Here there isn't even the need for an accusation, just a request. To me McCarthy (althought foolish, absurd, etc...) has free speach rights to accuse, he didn't have any more rights than that (IMHO). But we don't even have that burden with the PATRIOT act. Just a request.
Yes, McCarthy held several "executive sessions" (aka secret hearings) where the accusations were not made public in order to minimize public scrutiny. But, accusations (although secret) seem a little better than just a request.
Ever get the feeling that with the PATRIOT act it is easier to "spy" on people than it is to get that lunch at the Hardrock Cafe covered on your expense report? If I have to spend more time filling out paper work to get my freedom of lunch covered, someone shouldn't be allowed to spend less time on paperwork to find out about it.
I know this is really starting to get offtopic, but I have a friend who blows nearly all of their income every tuesday when some lame DVD comes out and they now wonder why they are in so much debt.
They have every "series" on DVD and I think every movie that was in the theaters in the past 4 or 5 years that came to DVD, and tons of other "classic" titles as well.
They have a larger collection of all legally purchased (and purchased when released, not 6 months later after the price drops) DVDs than the local video stores.
The thing is, they, and people I know like them (but with smaller collections) seem to never ever care about loss of media. They didn't spend top dollar the day it came out to worry if it goes bad, they'll just order a replacement at half cost today and not worry.
If this wasn't already a good indication of non-sensible behavior they obviously blow what little money they have after DVD purchases on other useless things: large screen TVS, PS2s in each room, etc... I've seen drug dealers cribs with less stuff.
I'm not saying the parent to your post is or is not a pirate. Personally I like to have backups of only the really hard to find/rare things (like bands I played in where the albums are no longer available), but there I make a backup to play and keep the original nice and hardly used.
At my PSU campus our department has one of those multiple burner rigs. We use it to make CDs each semester for all enrolled CS students (under 200) and we make available (when asked) for copies of linux distributions (downloaded isos burned). The standard CDs include LaTeX programs, pdfs of handouts for all classes, and tons of other freeware (or we licensed it for the entire department cheaply) programs that students find helpful, like the ADA compilier used in the class.
This helps a lot for our students with only dialup at home as they can get easy access to software their peers can get in the dorms very quickly. It also ensures everyone is on a level playing field and no one can complain they didn't have the same access as another person.
IIRC John Madden Football games date back to 1991 (I think it was released in 1991 for the first version, but I've seen it referred to as the 1990 version). However, all of the games released from the start until 2001 had Madden's gigantic head on the cover, not a player.
I can get players from 2001 on, with their "issues" of the following season:
'04: Mike Vick (broken leg) '03: Marshall Faulk (ankle) '02: Daunte Culpepper (crappy season, just a bad rating, not a true injury as the curse seems to claim to me) '01: Eddie George (crappy season again, low yardage per attempt)
Note, for the 2001 game it was released in 2000 for those of you trying to match this info. to a calendar.
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I'm no photographer and have never heard of a LensBaby before looking at this guy's photos, and even I could tell you the AC above me is dead on!
I am a photographer and I own a LensBaby. Those things are so over used today that it disgusts me. Yes, there is often a time and place for them to be used in really neat and artistic ways, and then there's this guy and his stuff that makes me want to junk the whole thing. Ick!
A LensBaby is like a fancy filter in photoshop - it can do some neat stuff, and when used creatively you'd never guess how the effect was created, but over used, or in the hands of someone who doesn't know how to use it, and you get junk after junk with obvious "tricks" done to them.
Kutztown is really the home of the Fighting Amish.
http://fightingamish1.tripod.com/amish/main_page/left_menu/logo.gif
It is kind of like Notre Dame, and a little bit not.
Here's my idea that I've been kicking around for a while. We have forward and we have back buttons, but I think we need a next button. The button would increment the character to the left of the right most "dot" in a URL. For example www.someplace.com/1.html would go to www.someplace.com/2.html
The code should be sufficiently robust to handle 009.jpg and 9.jpg (mapping to 010.jpg and 10.jpg respectively) and yes am aware that this will often lead to 404 errors for sites which don't follow a normal ordered sequence of pages. But, for those that do, this will be heaven.
Also, it should be able to process letters in hex-style, but using all 26 letters, but this part is a lot trickier. For example, some time you want a9.jpg to go to b0.jpg but other times you'll want a10.jpg. I figured pick a scheme and stick with it. If it derails the user can change the file name sometimes to put it back on track. I think that most sites would roll over to a10.jpg (figuring it was a series of pictures from the 'a' range) but letting the user pick a scheme in a menu should win over folks who deal with the b0.jpg scheme a lot.
It was his last day, but then Lumberg asked him if he could just go ahead and come on in on Saturday then too, mmmm'kay?
Do you meet your postitutes (which we established you don't get for sexual purposes) online?
If so, do you double bag it then?
What if you look but don't touch? Should you wear a condom to the strip joint?
came across some accidently shared sex videos of my [female] RA
/. post to have a link, that was it.
If ever there was a time for a
Hello kettle, meet pot.
I first read that as "Hello Kitty, meet pot," and my first thought was, "I gotta TiVo that!"
I let my downstairs neighbor hop on my AP and I don't even know who he is.
I've been meaning to say thanks, but I don't know who you are either, so it is at best kind of awkward.
By the way, I found your P$ share.... wow, those are some nice finds. Thanks for that, too!
I doubt even 1% of employers have rules against camera phones
So, the DoD is just "one employer" in your survey? It doesn't count that they have *lots* of employees?
Ah, statistics (especially those made up on the fly, such as yours) - I love when they can be (mis)used to convey interesting ideas.
How did this sticker come into usage at your facility, and can it be used for more than just phones.
I avoid the camera phone thing as we are stopped at the entrance to our facility and cannot bring a camera on base. Cell phones can be used in certain areas, must be off in some, and must be left with a guard to enter others - various buildings/centers doing various things. To me, getting this sticker dealy at my DoD site would rock, especially if it can work beyond the phone.
For example, I shoot with a DSLR, and I'm always taking pictures. Furthermore, we all know two of the best times for lighting are sun-up and sun-down. Well, I'm driving to work at sun-up (and often home at sun-down) and I would gladly leave a few minutes earlier each day knowing I could stop somewhere if there was a pretty scene to shoot it, hop back in, and go to work. (or hit someplace on the way home)
My problem now is that I can't bring the camera on base, so I'm stuck sitting in my car going "Wow, if only I had my camera now." And then I don't have it on the way home.
This also is a pain when I travel for work to another base. Travel for me means several days away, and a hotel room. Naturally I'd take the camera for something like that, but if I have to stop at the base before check-in - well, there goes the whole camera for the whole trip.
If I could let them sticker my camera bag, lens cap perhaps, or remove the battery and sticker the cover - something - I could take my camera around and we would all be happy that I hadn't taken any photos.
So far I've asked for like a locker or something where I can put the items we all agree can't go with me on base, but that I can check-out when I leave. This hasn't gone over well with our people.
So, a light saber is simply a mobile flowjet?
(Or flojet, I'm not sure of the spelling, I see 'em on those biker shows on cable)
Where are you shopping? I paid $100 each for my A5200s. Granted they were only fully loaded with 18 gig drives, but still - 22 drives and that awesome touch screen.
Sun's A5200s are cheap on eBay, and you can pick up something like a 420r or a 250 to drive the thing. Put a qfe card in with the free sun trunking now for Solaris 10 and it'll serve up your files super speedy, all for very reasonable.
My friend, recursive green, has three A5200s in his basement right now, one stores his *ahem* photo collection and is web accessible.
I think new(er) fibre things are getting cheaper, but what was often high-end data-center-only big-$$ of a few years ago hits the price point of "at home" now.
For some reason, in our house, the woman who plays her is called "Chlamydia Girl."
Been that way since Missing Perons and her time on ER.
Icky!
Ahhh, but you have quickly forogtten Marg Helgenberger!
She's Helgenbooty-licious!
But I just can't read this post. There are 5, an odd number, of quotation marks. How are these supposed to line up?
... mainframes going to PCs or landlines going to cell phones. Software as it has been sold for years is about to be turned on its head completely," says Lucinda Stewart from OVP Venture Partners."
prostoalex writes "Seattle PI notices a rise in venture capital investments into open-source companies. JBoss, SourceLabs, SugarCRM and OSDL all attracted venture capital investments this year, with SourceLabs receiving investments from former Senior VP of Microsoft. " "You could say that it is as disruptive as
The programmer in me looks at this with parsing in mind and goes nuts.
I think either the second one is extra or the editor added a final article quote, but kept the text italics and addeed a final quotation mark for good measure.
Higher up boss was complaining why the project wasn't being done the wau he just suddenly came up with.
Low-level boss, who had fought to do it that way for months and was shot down by this higher up boss only to do it the current way, says, "I can't beging to think about doing it the right way until I finish doing it the wrong way... poorly."
When I was still teaching at Penn State one of my students had a wireless LAN in his dorm, and he noticed his upstairs neighbor would occasionally hop on. (He said he had an issue with WEP and using two brands of WiFi devices, why he didn't have MAC filtering at least, I don't know). My student told the neighbor he didn't mind, but would he please stop. Neighbor denied it. My student noticed a traffic spike that night, hopped on neihbor's network, found a printer, loaded it with goatse, never saw neighbor on the network again.
Just what might I have asked?
Cart and horse problem:
"You can take all of your code and inspect it prior to compilation."
should be:
"You can use an already compiled text viewer and inspect the code prior to compilation."
And there lies the interesting bit for the true conspiracy lovers - all text editors could have a basic "grep -v [secret information]" already slipped into their code. Thus, even if you use one of them to check the code for itself you would never see it.
You need to get to the most basic level to create a "known clean" area and slowly build up from that. Starting with and relying on "suspected clean" things like vi, notepad, cat, edlin, etc... does not ensure you are even looking at something you think you are.
Out of interest, any /.'rs remember where the censored comment(s) in question are in the archives, or even better, remember what was in them before the censorship?
Yes. It was simply:
[portions of this comment have been removed, Ed.]
Let's hope this comment remains intact!
Are you old enough to remember McCarthy? Read up on him some time.
IIRC McCarthy held hearings where he accused people of being "bad" (evil, communist, gay, whatever you poison) in and around 1953. Here there isn't even the need for an accusation, just a request. To me McCarthy (althought foolish, absurd, etc...) has free speach rights to accuse, he didn't have any more rights than that (IMHO). But we don't even have that burden with the PATRIOT act. Just a request.
Yes, McCarthy held several "executive sessions" (aka secret hearings) where the accusations were not made public in order to minimize public scrutiny. But, accusations (although secret) seem a little better than just a request.
Ever get the feeling that with the PATRIOT act it is easier to "spy" on people than it is to get that lunch at the Hardrock Cafe covered on your expense report? If I have to spend more time filling out paper work to get my freedom of lunch covered, someone shouldn't be allowed to spend less time on paperwork to find out about it.
I know this is really starting to get offtopic, but I have a friend who blows nearly all of their income every tuesday when some lame DVD comes out and they now wonder why they are in so much debt.
They have every "series" on DVD and I think every movie that was in the theaters in the past 4 or 5 years that came to DVD, and tons of other "classic" titles as well.
They have a larger collection of all legally purchased (and purchased when released, not 6 months later after the price drops) DVDs than the local video stores.
The thing is, they, and people I know like them (but with smaller collections) seem to never ever care about loss of media. They didn't spend top dollar the day it came out to worry if it goes bad, they'll just order a replacement at half cost today and not worry.
If this wasn't already a good indication of non-sensible behavior they obviously blow what little money they have after DVD purchases on other useless things: large screen TVS, PS2s in each room, etc... I've seen drug dealers cribs with less stuff.
I'm not saying the parent to your post is or is not a pirate. Personally I like to have backups of only the really hard to find/rare things (like bands I played in where the albums are no longer available), but there I make a backup to play and keep the original nice and hardly used.
At my PSU campus our department has one of those multiple burner rigs. We use it to make CDs each semester for all enrolled CS students (under 200) and we make available (when asked) for copies of linux distributions (downloaded isos burned). The standard CDs include LaTeX programs, pdfs of handouts for all classes, and tons of other freeware (or we licensed it for the entire department cheaply) programs that students find helpful, like the ADA compilier used in the class.
This helps a lot for our students with only dialup at home as they can get easy access to software their peers can get in the dorms very quickly. It also ensures everyone is on a level playing field and no one can complain they didn't have the same access as another person.
IIRC John Madden Football games date back to 1991 (I think it was released in 1991 for the first version, but I've seen it referred to as the 1990 version). However, all of the games released from the start until 2001 had Madden's gigantic head on the cover, not a player.
I can get players from 2001 on, with their "issues" of the following season:
'04: Mike Vick (broken leg)
'03: Marshall Faulk (ankle)
'02: Daunte Culpepper (crappy season, just a bad rating, not a true injury as the curse seems to claim to me)
'01: Eddie George (crappy season again, low yardage per attempt)
Note, for the 2001 game it was released in 2000 for those of you trying to match this info. to a calendar.