Well, North Korea is not democratic at ALL, so South Korea (where you have elections, protests, etc) is the more democratic.
As far as being paranoid, I think the South is quite paranoid and with good reason. North Korean spies reguarly travel into the south, through a large network of tunnels under the DMZ. NK agents have kidnapped Japanese and South Koreans dozens of times in the past 40 years. South Korea is often infiltrated by North Korean spies who get into the country via small submarines.
From what I understand, cold war Berlin was nothing compared to what's been going on in Korea since the 60s.
Um, WHERE do pre-released copies come from? It's not Joe VCR in the theater with a videocam, it's insiders.
Yes... and no. Pre-release CAMs are actually Joe DV in cinema with a camera and a bucket of popcorn. Including a break in the middle of most CAMs for Joe to switch tapes.
You hit it right on the head: tobacco is the biggest problem. And it's all the more harmful in that it doesn't have any self-limiters, like almost all other drugs do.
Take alcohol. You go out, you get hammered on tequilla and vodka, you black out, next day you wake up with a raging hangover. You're barely functional, you have a hard time doing anything.
Now, you know you can't drink before work. You sure as hell can't drink at work, you'll get fired. Same thing with pot (well, depends on the pot), amphetamines (sleeping it off), acid (paranoia and other strange behavior), heroin, etc.
On the other hand, you can smoke cigs night and day and nobody'll say a word. Hell, you can get breaks at work, breaks that non-smokers don't get, to go and puff. And unlike most other drugs, smoking affects those around you and you surroundings directly.
The hypocrisy surrounding alcohol and tobacco is amazing. What's even more amazing is that it's not only a political hypocrisy, but a society-wide, international hypocrisy.
What? My friends, who run a Mac DTP shop bought a used dual G4 last year. They spent 6000PLN (~$1500 US) on it. That's about as much money as I've spent on all my computer equipment over the past 4 years. That's going from a dual celeron, to a p3-866, an athlon 1700+ and now to a dual athlon rig. Right now I have three computers: the dual athlon, the athlon and the dual celeron.
Over these 4 years the following parts have failed:
1 celeron fan 1 geforce 2 fan
So... yeah, lots of replacing, lots of investing. Here's how I see it: unless you need the 64-bit power, everything that Apple is offering right now is overpowered and overpriced. MacOS X is the first MacOS that is more stable than Windows 95.
Even if upgraded my machines, the cost would much lower then laying out that much money for a Mac. Four thousand dollars? I would have to really search to spend that much money on x86 right now.
If you're already on the Nikon bus, I would seriously recommend you check out the Fujifilm S2. It's fully compatible with all Nikon lenses, with a great SuperCCD sensor for a full 6.3mpx. The camera gets incredible colors and fills a void that Nikon just isn't filling right now.
The D1H is on it's way out, being replaced by the D2H.
Oh, couple things I shoulda mentioned... the lens that comes with it is decent, but you will probably quickly want at least one more if you're much of a photographer at all.
That's a pretty common misconception. Almost all of the pro photographers I know have one (or two) main lenses that they carry around with them. It's the amateurs that horde lenses and equpiment. I'd recommend the Canon 50mm f/1.8 as a 'starter' lens to anyone who wants to get into SLR photography. Learn to take pictures using a single, non-zoom lens. Learn how to compose your photographs, play with depth of field (remember that your f-stop also determines how shallow your DoF can be), play with taking photographs in poor lighting situations (which is much harder to do with the darker f/3-4 lenses I see most people using).
The truth is that a good photographer can take good photographs with a polaroid camera, with a compact. While it's nice to have good equipment, the equipment doesn't make the photographer. If you can't compose with a simple compact, you won't be able to do it with a Hasselblad or Rolleiflex.
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The 50mm f/1.8, which is an EXCELLENT lens, and one I recommend to anyone who is starting in photography, costs $70 new. Anyone who has a Canon SLR and doesn't have one of these lenses (or a better 50mm) doesn't know what they're missing. Razor sharp, pretty bright and DAMN cheap.
SMSes have taken over bullshit systems like PayPal as far as micropayments in Europe go. The real problem is the telecoms. Here in Poland, their cut is at least 30%, and this is on a huge discount, massive volume number - usually it's around 50%. So my friend, who runs a service that lives off SMS payments, after taxes gets about 35% of the money his customers spend. It's a shame, almost everybody in Europe has a cell phone (or at least access to one) and it's much easier, secure and impulse-buyable then any kind of credit/debit/virtual bank system.
Photoshop as a tool is completely mature. It has been for quite a while now.
Uh... no. The problem with Photoshop is that it's developers are lacking in imagination. There are a lot of things that can be done to speed up the workflow, a lot of things that could be animated. There are still no symbols, no sub folders. There's only very basic grouping of layers and elements. You can't change the font of more than one text object at once. There's no multiple redo, etc.
There are a lot of functions, small, easy to implement functions that will make Photoshop a lot easier to use for the people who use it everyday. That's what'll push me to upgrade.
The next logical step would be to combine Photoshop and Illustrator. There is no non-technological reason that these programs are apart. 'But they have different uses' you say. The end effect is that I spend wayyy too much time shuttling rasters and vectors back and forth. It was necessary in '97, it's not necessary any more. There's much to be done, I just wonder if Adobe has the balls to do it.
I have a white, Microsoft two button mouse that my parents bought to use with our AT&T6300 in '88 (8086 power). It has an adapter which lets you switch between bus and serial mode. The bus cord was used with the bus card - remember when you used an extra card to hook up a mouse?
Anyway, it still works. One of the buttons is pushed in a bit and I should clean it, but it still works.
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Exactly how? If you're a graphic designer billing at $50/hr it costs less than 2 solid days work.
Using Photoshop for light photo retouching is like using Oracle for your blog.
America, in particular, when someone dies or gets hurt, someone "HAS TO PAY"
This is probably the this European make fun of the most, when talking about the USA.
XP runs circles around Win2K on low end equipment.
Yeah, this game had teh suck pretty bad.
well, she's only legal now. doesn't mean that he hasn't been getting around anyway.
This is the way The Bat does it, and I prefer it.
Well, North Korea is not democratic at ALL, so South Korea (where you have elections, protests, etc) is the more democratic.
As far as being paranoid, I think the South is quite paranoid and with good reason. North Korean spies reguarly travel into the south, through a large network of tunnels under the DMZ. NK agents have kidnapped Japanese and South Koreans dozens of times in the past 40 years. South Korea is often infiltrated by North Korean spies who get into the country via small submarines.
From what I understand, cold war Berlin was nothing compared to what's been going on in Korea since the 60s.
Um, WHERE do pre-released copies come from? It's not Joe VCR in the theater with a videocam, it's insiders.
Yes... and no. Pre-release CAMs are actually Joe DV in cinema with a camera and a bucket of popcorn. Including a break in the middle of most CAMs for Joe to switch tapes.
Microsoft taking over the graphics shops?
Sure... that's why I do all my DTP work under MS Publisher and set all type in TrueType, etc.
No matter how much you want to bash the french, france is far from a third world country.
At least they can afford a health system for their citizens...
The best Ralphie Wiggum quote:
"Me fail English? That's unpossible."
You hit it right on the head: tobacco is the biggest problem. And it's all the more harmful in that it doesn't have any self-limiters, like almost all other drugs do.
Take alcohol. You go out, you get hammered on tequilla and vodka, you black out, next day you wake up with a raging hangover. You're barely functional, you have a hard time doing anything.
Now, you know you can't drink before work. You sure as hell can't drink at work, you'll get fired. Same thing with pot (well, depends on the pot), amphetamines (sleeping it off), acid (paranoia and other strange behavior), heroin, etc.
On the other hand, you can smoke cigs night and day and nobody'll say a word. Hell, you can get breaks at work, breaks that non-smokers don't get, to go and puff. And unlike most other drugs, smoking affects those around you and you surroundings directly.
The hypocrisy surrounding alcohol and tobacco is amazing. What's even more amazing is that it's not only a political hypocrisy, but a society-wide, international hypocrisy.
Because it doesn't work in the country I live and work in.
What? My friends, who run a Mac DTP shop bought a used dual G4 last year. They spent 6000PLN (~$1500 US) on it. That's about as much money as I've spent on all my computer equipment over the past 4 years. That's going from a dual celeron, to a p3-866, an athlon 1700+ and now to a dual athlon rig. Right now I have three computers: the dual athlon, the athlon and the dual celeron.
Over these 4 years the following parts have failed:
1 celeron fan
1 geforce 2 fan
So... yeah, lots of replacing, lots of investing. Here's how I see it: unless you need the 64-bit power, everything that Apple is offering right now is overpowered and overpriced. MacOS X is the first MacOS that is more stable than Windows 95.
Even if upgraded my machines, the cost would much lower then laying out that much money for a Mac. Four thousand dollars? I would have to really search to spend that much money on x86 right now.
If you're already on the Nikon bus, I would seriously recommend you check out the Fujifilm S2. It's fully compatible with all Nikon lenses, with a great SuperCCD sensor for a full 6.3mpx. The camera gets incredible colors and fills a void that Nikon just isn't filling right now.
The D1H is on it's way out, being replaced by the D2H.
Oh, couple things I shoulda mentioned... the lens that comes with it is decent, but you will probably quickly want at least one more if you're much of a photographer at all.
That's a pretty common misconception. Almost all of the pro photographers I know have one (or two) main lenses that they carry around with them. It's the amateurs that horde lenses and equpiment. I'd recommend the Canon 50mm f/1.8 as a 'starter' lens to anyone who wants to get into SLR photography. Learn to take pictures using a single, non-zoom lens. Learn how to compose your photographs, play with depth of field (remember that your f-stop also determines how shallow your DoF can be), play with taking photographs in poor lighting situations (which is much harder to do with the darker f/3-4 lenses I see most people using).
The truth is that a good photographer can take good photographs with a polaroid camera, with a compact. While it's nice to have good equipment, the equipment doesn't make the photographer. If you can't compose with a simple compact, you won't be able to do it with a Hasselblad or Rolleiflex.
The 50mm f/1.8, which is an EXCELLENT lens, and one I recommend to anyone who is starting in photography, costs $70 new. Anyone who has a Canon SLR and doesn't have one of these lenses (or a better 50mm) doesn't know what they're missing. Razor sharp, pretty bright and DAMN cheap.
Fuji makes a back for highend medium format cameras - 22mpx.
SMSes have taken over bullshit systems like PayPal as far as micropayments in Europe go. The real problem is the telecoms. Here in Poland, their cut is at least 30%, and this is on a huge discount, massive volume number - usually it's around 50%. So my friend, who runs a service that lives off SMS payments, after taxes gets about 35% of the money his customers spend. It's a shame, almost everybody in Europe has a cell phone (or at least access to one) and it's much easier, secure and impulse-buyable then any kind of credit/debit/virtual bank system.
You know what... I really, really like the following functions added since 4.0:
* multiple undo
* history palette
* layer folders
* pattern maker
* type-on-screen
* etc.
yeah, those are really web nicities.
Isn't VHS like 360x240 (1/4 NTSC or PAL)?
Photoshop as a tool is completely mature. It has been for quite a while now.
Uh... no. The problem with Photoshop is that it's developers are lacking in imagination. There are a lot of things that can be done to speed up the workflow, a lot of things that could be animated. There are still no symbols, no sub folders. There's only very basic grouping of layers and elements. You can't change the font of more than one text object at once. There's no multiple redo, etc.
There are a lot of functions, small, easy to implement functions that will make Photoshop a lot easier to use for the people who use it everyday. That's what'll push me to upgrade.
The next logical step would be to combine Photoshop and Illustrator. There is no non-technological reason that these programs are apart. 'But they have different uses' you say. The end effect is that I spend wayyy too much time shuttling rasters and vectors back and forth. It was necessary in '97, it's not necessary any more. There's much to be done, I just wonder if Adobe has the balls to do it.
Man... I wish we could get microwave burritos here in Poland.
Mmm... waveolicious.
I have a white, Microsoft two button mouse that my parents bought to use with our AT&T6300 in '88 (8086 power). It has an adapter which lets you switch between bus and serial mode. The bus cord was used with the bus card - remember when you used an extra card to hook up a mouse?
Anyway, it still works. One of the buttons is pushed in a bit and I should clean it, but it still works.
Most DVD screeners I've been watching lately have a blured rectangle in the upper-right-hand corner, where I assume a watermark should be.