Property taxes are completely artificial. The city wants homes/land to cost more. They collect more tax dollars and are just as greedy as those evil capitalists.
Disclaimer: I'm the author of Boar, and I think that absolutely everyone who values their files should use it. Or something similar, although I haven't found anything else that fits my needs.
Current state The project is in beta phase...
What do I need to run it? Boar is written in Python and tested on Windows and Linux. You will need python 2.6 or higher. Also, you should know that boar is (so far) a command line tool and will require some basic command line skills.
It's beta, only tested on Windows and Linux and you need command line skills? It doesn't sound ready for Everyone just yet. You're going to need a GUI for the majority that's not reading your post here on/.
"...I hate iProducts.... I hate.... I get angry... "
Take a chill-pill. Your "hate" over inanimate objects and anger over behavior you have no right to dictate is not healthy. Amazingly, if you just forget about it and move on, you'll have more time to deal with more important things in life.
"In theory they're typing notes or recording the lecture or something.
In practice, I suspect it is more of a distraction than anything else."
Not much different than when we were bored with a lecture and played hangman on our HP41C calculators back in the 80's.
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"I'm planning on making this one into some sort of automatics control for the house (turn the lights on, report temperature, I don't know, a bunch of lame stuff like this)."
OBSD has support for the 20 pin gpio header on a Soekris net4801 board out-of-the-box. With that you can easily make either digital or transistor switches to control things. The shell command is gpioctl which you may want to grab the source and mod it so its not reading command line arguments and can be put in your code without an os system call depending how frequently you are reading/writing the pin states.
I wonder why my 8-bit per channel scanned BW negatives edited in the POS GIMP capture more stops of light than any APS-C or even FF small format digital camera I've seen with a single exposure?
"I imagine this is also a huge factor for people who shoot conventional black-and-white photos. 256 shades of grey is not a lot of fidelity."
No, it's not a problem for BW film shooters. You scan the negative as color. I shoot lots of medium and large format BW film. I know people who scan and edit in 48-bit. Really, you can't see the difference and what there is does not matter. Like I said, subject, mood and composition trumps a 200lp/mm lens and all the measurebater technology every time. That's why a skilled photographer can win an award-winning shot with a plastic lens on a Holga next to a shot that just woos you with fine fidelity and sunglasses color and is boring. YMMV.
12-bits of color will not increase the number of stops of light your camera can capture. In the case you described, there are physical limits. If you exceed that, your SOL without combining multiple exposures. So you could use a medium format digital which is better at grabbing more light than small format digital or use medium or large format film and use the zone system to compress the high values and bring in more "stops of light".
"It crash when the picture is big (4000x3000) tested in 2 distros..."
Did you change the default memory requirements in the preference? I scan 6x7 (cm) and 4x5 (inch) negatives and get 12000x10000ish images and edit them in the GIMP all the time. No crashes. Yes, I still shoot medium and large format BW film.
"That's a bit of a limitation when my camera can shoot in 12-bit color..."
Not a limitation at all. If you need 16-bit color to manipulate the hell out of your picture to reduce color round off error, then maybe capturing a good shot to begin with will solve that problem. And most devices to view that picture are low dynamic range anyway. So, gee, just think how MUCH better your picture would be in 128-bit floating point color!!! Hardly, you can't even see all the color differences of 16-bit.
The editor is part of the battle. The other is capturing the video off the cameras. When I select capture video in FCP, I get a list of choices a mile long.
"At the equator only... If you fly "around the world" at a higher latitude (longitude?), the diameter is much smaller and the required speed to stay in the sunlight is much lower."
Everyone assumes to fly around the World means flying at a constant longitude. At any latitude you can fly "around the world" equal in distance to the circumference of the Earth (assuming the earth is a sphere) at the equator by flying the arc of a great circle (remember your spherical trigonometry?).
"...This is/. and here "children" means the process you get from a fork() call, not some vaguely remembered bio-science concept that has something to do with a strange experience that no true/.er ever really knows."
Not some vaguely remembered bio-science concept? Not true. We all know that children generated from dysfunctional parents create Zombies!
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Property taxes are completely artificial. The city wants homes/land to cost more. They collect more tax dollars and are just as greedy as those evil capitalists.
Disclaimer: I'm the author of Boar, and I think that absolutely everyone who values their files should use it. Or something similar, although I haven't found anything else that fits my needs.
Current state
The project is in beta phase...
What do I need to run it?
Boar is written in Python and tested on Windows and Linux. You will need python 2.6 or higher. Also, you should know that boar is (so far) a command line tool and will require some basic command line skills.
It's beta, only tested on Windows and Linux and you need command line skills? It doesn't sound ready for Everyone just yet. You're going to need a GUI for the majority that's not reading your post here on /.
I know first-hand those augmentation pills don't work. Oh, wait, I mean...
"Does that mean that Geek Squad is Satanic?"
Only if you read the logo backwards.
"I was really hoping for an analogy using the metric system."
I, on the other hand, was hoping for a car analogy.
"...I hate iProducts.... I hate.... I get angry... "
Take a chill-pill. Your "hate" over inanimate objects and anger over behavior you have no right to dictate is not healthy. Amazingly, if you just forget about it and move on, you'll have more time to deal with more important things in life.
"crowd source it, let the people decide."
Actually, per the Wikipedia About ChatRoulette, a person can get banned up to 40 minutes if 3 people complain within 5 minutes.
"Will someone please squash this bug please."
Better yet, warm up your arm and be the first one to throw your best shot! Mulligans are allowed. My favorite McBride quote from a CRN Interview:
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CRN: This lawsuit is very unpopular among many in the open-source community.
McBride: We're either right or we're not. If we're wrong, we deserve people throwing rocks at us..."
I couldn't comprehend until, finally, the car analogy.
"In theory they're typing notes or recording the lecture or something.
In practice, I suspect it is more of a distraction than anything else."
Not much different than when we were bored with a lecture and played hangman on our HP41C calculators back in the 80's.
"I'm planning on making this one into some sort of automatics control for the house (turn the lights on, report temperature, I don't know, a bunch of lame stuff like this)."
OBSD has support for the 20 pin gpio header on a Soekris net4801 board out-of-the-box. With that you can easily make either digital or transistor switches to control things. The shell command is gpioctl which you may want to grab the source and mod it so its not reading command line arguments and can be put in your code without an os system call depending how frequently you are reading/writing the pin states.
"So we have found a large, ancient city with a large population."
Significant. One of the largest, ancient and romantic cities were so many of its citizens had broken hearts.
"...Apple is the 400 lb gorilla when it comes to online audio sales."
The room usually has an 800 lb-force gorilla in it. That one must be drinking fewer carbonated sodas these days.
I wonder why my 8-bit per channel scanned BW negatives edited in the POS GIMP capture more stops of light than any APS-C or even FF small format digital camera I've seen with a single exposure?
"I imagine this is also a huge factor for people who shoot conventional black-and-white photos. 256 shades of grey is not a lot of fidelity."
No, it's not a problem for BW film shooters. You scan the negative as color. I shoot lots of medium and large format BW film. I know people who scan and edit in 48-bit. Really, you can't see the difference and what there is does not matter. Like I said, subject, mood and composition trumps a 200lp/mm lens and all the measurebater technology every time. That's why a skilled photographer can win an award-winning shot with a plastic lens on a Holga next to a shot that just woos you with fine fidelity and sunglasses color and is boring. YMMV.
12-bits of color will not increase the number of stops of light your camera can capture. In the case you described, there are physical limits. If you exceed that, your SOL without combining multiple exposures. So you could use a medium format digital which is better at grabbing more light than small format digital or use medium or large format film and use the zone system to compress the high values and bring in more "stops of light".
Subject, mood and composition of a picture trumps everything every time.
"It crash when the picture is big (4000x3000) tested in 2 distros..."
Did you change the default memory requirements in the preference? I scan 6x7 (cm) and 4x5 (inch) negatives and get 12000x10000ish images and edit them in the GIMP all the time. No crashes. Yes, I still shoot medium and large format BW film.
"That's a bit of a limitation when my camera can shoot in 12-bit color..."
Not a limitation at all. If you need 16-bit color to manipulate the hell out of your picture to reduce color round off error, then maybe capturing a good shot to begin with will solve that problem. And most devices to view that picture are low dynamic range anyway. So, gee, just think how MUCH better your picture would be in 128-bit floating point color!!! Hardly, you can't even see all the color differences of 16-bit.
What about all those proprietary codecs in these cameras? It seems every manufacture is playing with the GOP too in HDV.
The editor is part of the battle. The other is capturing the video off the cameras. When I select capture video in FCP, I get a list of choices a mile long.
Correction, constant latitude.
"At the equator only... If you fly "around the world" at a higher latitude (longitude?), the diameter is much smaller and the required speed to stay in the sunlight is much lower."
Everyone assumes to fly around the World means flying at a constant longitude. At any latitude you can fly "around the world" equal in distance to the circumference of the Earth (assuming the earth is a sphere) at the equator by flying the arc of a great circle (remember your spherical trigonometry?).
Or a double-fork.
"...This is /. and here "children" means the process you get from a fork() call, not some vaguely remembered bio-science concept that has something to do with a strange experience that no true /.er ever really knows."
Not some vaguely remembered bio-science concept? Not true. We all know that children generated from dysfunctional parents create Zombies!