Wuss. You just described last year for me. You know if you throw all three in a blender with a scoop of ice cream it makes a pretty cool shake. Especially if you toss in a tripple expresso. Forgetting what day it is doesn't mean you've worked too many alnighters, forgetting what year it is is generally the first warning sign.
They are called RAW files. Normally they are tough to work with but Apeture is changing that. I started playing with it recently and it changed my attitude about RAW files. Targa and Tiff files are normally better than JPEG but RAW is the best way to go. RAW files can be huge and tweaking them isn't desireable but Apeture avoids that problem and can handle the massive files with ease. I was never a Mac fan but Final Cut Pro and Apeture have made me a believer.
now that the megapixel buzzword can be put to rest.
7 or 8 megapixel may be adequate for consumer cameras but even the highest pixel count availible doesn't match the needs of a lot of professionals. They've finally hit pro level but for high res work many still need to use film. The mass market race is over but pro cameras will keep increasing for years to come. A 4'x5' still has far more resolution than the best camera on the market today.
Time is flat. It's been a well established fact for thousands of years. It relates to timespace in that when you fall off the edge of the world you also fall out of time. Einstein was right in that if you could make the sun rotate in the opposite direction around the earth you'd go back in time. The updated text books including Intellegent Design will also include a passage on Flat Time Theory. With the support of the current administration the US should once again be world leaders in science and technology. Now if we can get some of those pesky laws of motion and energy conservation off the books we might get a working perpetual motion machine!
I wouldn't call your lawyer. I'm pretty sure your patent still holds on that particular gesture. I doubt Apple would be willing to reproduce the research it took for you to recieve the patent on that specific gesture.
I found the best way was to cancel my bank account, change my name and move to a foreign country. They've tracked me down twice but I filed off my fingerprints this time and had plastic surgery so I'm hopeful. They only ones worse are Girl Scouts at cookie time and Jehova's Witnesses. Those I've had to learn to live with.
I never did the math before since I have a life. By the hour it works out to be $.40 per week. Assuming the 28,000 empolyees are correct and they work the full 52 weeks a year, they get paid vacations, we're talking actually $291,200 a year saved by not rounding up. Check the math if you really are that bored. It was to prove a point that companies are so obsessed with profit that wages are at times calculated to the half cent.
Once they exhaust every other avenue of revenue the last thing to get attacked is always service. If they are expected to increase profits 5% well the simpliest way is to reduce service 5%. It's what's happened with helath insurance and even food. Try to buy a pound of prepackaged name brand coffee. They are all less than a pound for a reason. Most prepackaged foods went through a similar contraction. Instead of 50 olives we load 49 and change it to weight rather than number. Petty? With high volume items or services it can be millions a year. A friend that worked at Universal was given a raise that was calculated to the half cent. When he complainted to accounting that it was rediculous they calmly explained given the number of employees over the course of a year it saved them tens of thousands of dollars. Reductions in service are unavoidable as execs turn to bean counters to find the next profit increase so they can justify their new raise. Who looses? The consumer.
Damn, is it 2025 already? I've got to apply for Social Security. Is there still Social Security? Serves me right for falling asleep at my keyboard for 20 years. Got to get a new computer. What is it going to take to run Duke Nuke em Forever? Is Kray making home computers now? If Moore's law held out I'll bet PCs are really fast now. Bet I can even play Doom 3 on them.
I realize Americans are supposed to feel ashamed because of slavery but none of my ancestors were from slave states and none of them practiced slavery. You said
The slave trade has always been blamed on Europeans and African slavetraders as well.
You rarely hear these days about Europeon and Africans involvement in the slave trade, it's always the US that was doing it. The fact is Black Africans did enslave other blacks and sold them to Europeons who transported them to America and sold them to rich landowners in this and other countries. I can't help that we were one of the last countries practicing slavery, it was a wee bit before my time, but I don't think Europe stopping the practice lets them off the hook. We aren't playing a game of musical chairs here and Africa, no matter how politically incorrect it is to say it, takes some of the blame. It's easy to say America was an evil country because of slavery and we hardly invented rascism and it's in fact practiced in most of the world in one form or the other. There's plenty of blame to go around with slavery but there's one truth few seem to want to hear, everyone involved has been dead for nearly a century. The practice itself ended 140 years ago. Other countries had slaves but they haven't practiced the self flagelation that we do. It's a horrible thing but a whole lot of dead people did it and I'm not related to any of them. Perhaps some people deserve "the sins of the fathers" but not every single American alive today. If you still insist blaming some one Spain, Portugal, Holland and to a lesser degree England are equally to blame. And I'm sorry but some Africans do deserve a share. In some ways that was even worse because they were selling their own people into slavery. It's a cheap shot to simply blame the US when there was plenty of blame to go around. If you can't move on then at least look at it objectively.
Americans have been blamed for slavery yet this first group were obviously brought by the Spanish. A number of Europeon countries were involved in the slave trade. I'm not aware of American ships involved in the slave trade itself. Wealthy landowners in this country were buyers but the trade was actually Europeon in origin. Just find it odd that the US gets all the blame when the slavers were African and Europeon. Kind of like saying the drug addicts were responsible for making, transporting and selling the drugs. Rich Americans back in the 1700s and 1800s were at fault but they were hardly the only ones involved. And an FYI most Americans at the time didn't own slaves or support slavery. Many in fact actively worked against the practice.
Red Bull is my regular drink. I actually use the alias "Redt Toro" when I take an editing credit. When I was in New Zealand they had a drink called "V" that actually tasted good that worked as well as Red Bull. Kind of a light citrus taste. Red Bull doesn't taste the greatest but it works. The sugar free Red Bull is pretty disgusting though. Wish they sold V in this country.
If it goes to court it's more of an indictment of our legal system. It should never go near a court room. The most they should expect is a refund and the publisher in good faith offered one. There are no damages. Waste of time? Who's the plantiff Bill Gates? Very few people's time can add up to 50 mill even in a lifetime. It's hard to charge some one over filing a fivolous case but I think it's time for a law that punishes repeat offenders. Three times and you go to court for wasting the court's time. If a lawyer brings three frivolous cases in a single year they get a warning. If they bring three more within the next twelve months they loose their license. It might force lawyers and scam artists to rethink persuing rediculous cases. Most of these people you'll find are repeat offenders and they often make a career of bringing cases to court that should be thrown out. These laughable cases cost us all.
The real...problem is....I got one of those.....$100 notebooks. Ever tried to....crank a charger.....and type...... at the same time? Damn.....I'm....tired.
Child Porn is classified completely differently from Adult Porn, for good reason.
Actually it's not, the president it sets applies to all porn. Personally I'm all for the death penalty for child porn makers and I'm all for throwing the book at him for even downloading it. The problem is this president will be used to charge people with other crimes. Say you download and burn adult porn to disk. By definition then you are a pornographer not some one that simply views porn. They are playing the letter of the law game to attack a guy viewing child porn but others will abuse the finding to go after non kiddie porn cases. Throw away the key with the guy fine but it's a bad ruling and will lead to rampant abuse. If the guy was burning them to sell or distribute to friends fine but that's distribution not "making" and is illegal under other existing laws.
The machines themselves have to be faster. If the old chips were on par with similar PC chips the very fact they are dual core increases the speed. The real problem is in applications. Even in the PC world most apps don't take advantage of the dual core architecture. Even Maya only uses multiple processors when rendering. If you have a quad machine, a dual/dual core, it will only use one processor for most functions but will use all four nodes in rendering. If I ran a benchmark that involved modelling it would show no improvement in speed over a single chip machine. If I ran a render test would clock in around 4X faster. Both tests are accurate and simply reflect how the software is designed not how the chips themselves function.
Seems like starving third world children will benefit the least from the technology. They need food not laptops. If they are living on $300 a year as some do that's four months of food money. If they can sell the laptops they will and in fact should. If they can't sell them they get to stare at what amounts to an expensive toy while they starve. The third world coutries lack infastructures to take advantage of large numbers of computer literate kids. If they idea is big companies will take advantage of the cheap labor and outsource isn't this just a bigger push to outsource tech jobs? Aren't talking computer sweat shops then? Instead of clothes we have $1 an hour people handling coporate records and possibly programming. Hey they'll probably pay the programmers $3 an hour since it takes more skill. Won't this just turn into big business yet again taking advantage of the third world to make a quick buck? Will it in the end benefit the people. Look at what happened in Mexico. It became an end run on environmental laws and people are coming across the border faster than ever. Big business gets slave labor and unemployment goes up in this country. A win win for big business and everyone else looses.
I find it compeling that it's also been a record year for hot air production in Washington DC. It's widely believed to be the cause of the recent spike in hurriccanes and such high hot air readings coming from DC could very easily sway overall totals.
You mean like a game where you beat the shit out of your state senator?
Kill all Congressmen. The game for the new millenium. Freedom fighters defend the Constitution by offing as many politicans as they can. To win you must prevent Congress from passing unconstituational legislation and restore the country to a democracy. You get bonus points for nailing rightwing Republicans but all politicans have point value. You can also score by defending a Congressman that is filibustering unconstitutional legislation. If you shoot any Congressmen that objects to the fillibuster you win the round and the legislation is defeated. A game hint, you get an extra 1,000 points if you nail Darth Chenney. He's well guarded so it's a risky move. It's easier to go after his lightly guarded boss but he's only worth 10 bonus points.
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Wuss. You just described last year for me. You know if you throw all three in a blender with a scoop of ice cream it makes a pretty cool shake. Especially if you toss in a tripple expresso. Forgetting what day it is doesn't mean you've worked too many alnighters, forgetting what year it is is generally the first warning sign.
They are called RAW files. Normally they are tough to work with but Apeture is changing that. I started playing with it recently and it changed my attitude about RAW files. Targa and Tiff files are normally better than JPEG but RAW is the best way to go. RAW files can be huge and tweaking them isn't desireable but Apeture avoids that problem and can handle the massive files with ease. I was never a Mac fan but Final Cut Pro and Apeture have made me a believer.
7 or 8 megapixel may be adequate for consumer cameras but even the highest pixel count availible doesn't match the needs of a lot of professionals. They've finally hit pro level but for high res work many still need to use film. The mass market race is over but pro cameras will keep increasing for years to come. A 4'x5' still has far more resolution than the best camera on the market today.
Time is flat. It's been a well established fact for thousands of years. It relates to timespace in that when you fall off the edge of the world you also fall out of time. Einstein was right in that if you could make the sun rotate in the opposite direction around the earth you'd go back in time. The updated text books including Intellegent Design will also include a passage on Flat Time Theory. With the support of the current administration the US should once again be world leaders in science and technology. Now if we can get some of those pesky laws of motion and energy conservation off the books we might get a working perpetual motion machine!
I wouldn't call your lawyer. I'm pretty sure your patent still holds on that particular gesture. I doubt Apple would be willing to reproduce the research it took for you to recieve the patent on that specific gesture.
I found the best way was to cancel my bank account, change my name and move to a foreign country. They've tracked me down twice but I filed off my fingerprints this time and had plastic surgery so I'm hopeful. They only ones worse are Girl Scouts at cookie time and Jehova's Witnesses. Those I've had to learn to live with.
I never did the math before since I have a life. By the hour it works out to be $.40 per week. Assuming the 28,000 empolyees are correct and they work the full 52 weeks a year, they get paid vacations, we're talking actually $291,200 a year saved by not rounding up. Check the math if you really are that bored. It was to prove a point that companies are so obsessed with profit that wages are at times calculated to the half cent.
Once they exhaust every other avenue of revenue the last thing to get attacked is always service. If they are expected to increase profits 5% well the simpliest way is to reduce service 5%. It's what's happened with helath insurance and even food. Try to buy a pound of prepackaged name brand coffee. They are all less than a pound for a reason. Most prepackaged foods went through a similar contraction. Instead of 50 olives we load 49 and change it to weight rather than number. Petty? With high volume items or services it can be millions a year. A friend that worked at Universal was given a raise that was calculated to the half cent. When he complainted to accounting that it was rediculous they calmly explained given the number of employees over the course of a year it saved them tens of thousands of dollars. Reductions in service are unavoidable as execs turn to bean counters to find the next profit increase so they can justify their new raise. Who looses? The consumer.
Damn, is it 2025 already? I've got to apply for Social Security. Is there still Social Security? Serves me right for falling asleep at my keyboard for 20 years. Got to get a new computer. What is it going to take to run Duke Nuke em Forever? Is Kray making home computers now? If Moore's law held out I'll bet PCs are really fast now. Bet I can even play Doom 3 on them.
I hope they checked. If the pidgeons are female the monthly charges are going to be murder.
The slave trade has always been blamed on Europeans and African slavetraders as well.
You rarely hear these days about Europeon and Africans involvement in the slave trade, it's always the US that was doing it. The fact is Black Africans did enslave other blacks and sold them to Europeons who transported them to America and sold them to rich landowners in this and other countries. I can't help that we were one of the last countries practicing slavery, it was a wee bit before my time, but I don't think Europe stopping the practice lets them off the hook. We aren't playing a game of musical chairs here and Africa, no matter how politically incorrect it is to say it, takes some of the blame. It's easy to say America was an evil country because of slavery and we hardly invented rascism and it's in fact practiced in most of the world in one form or the other. There's plenty of blame to go around with slavery but there's one truth few seem to want to hear, everyone involved has been dead for nearly a century. The practice itself ended 140 years ago. Other countries had slaves but they haven't practiced the self flagelation that we do. It's a horrible thing but a whole lot of dead people did it and I'm not related to any of them. Perhaps some people deserve "the sins of the fathers" but not every single American alive today. If you still insist blaming some one Spain, Portugal, Holland and to a lesser degree England are equally to blame. And I'm sorry but some Africans do deserve a share. In some ways that was even worse because they were selling their own people into slavery. It's a cheap shot to simply blame the US when there was plenty of blame to go around. If you can't move on then at least look at it objectively.
Americans have been blamed for slavery yet this first group were obviously brought by the Spanish. A number of Europeon countries were involved in the slave trade. I'm not aware of American ships involved in the slave trade itself. Wealthy landowners in this country were buyers but the trade was actually Europeon in origin. Just find it odd that the US gets all the blame when the slavers were African and Europeon. Kind of like saying the drug addicts were responsible for making, transporting and selling the drugs. Rich Americans back in the 1700s and 1800s were at fault but they were hardly the only ones involved. And an FYI most Americans at the time didn't own slaves or support slavery. Many in fact actively worked against the practice.
Red Bull is my regular drink. I actually use the alias "Redt Toro" when I take an editing credit. When I was in New Zealand they had a drink called "V" that actually tasted good that worked as well as Red Bull. Kind of a light citrus taste. Red Bull doesn't taste the greatest but it works. The sugar free Red Bull is pretty disgusting though. Wish they sold V in this country.
If it goes to court it's more of an indictment of our legal system. It should never go near a court room. The most they should expect is a refund and the publisher in good faith offered one. There are no damages. Waste of time? Who's the plantiff Bill Gates? Very few people's time can add up to 50 mill even in a lifetime. It's hard to charge some one over filing a fivolous case but I think it's time for a law that punishes repeat offenders. Three times and you go to court for wasting the court's time. If a lawyer brings three frivolous cases in a single year they get a warning. If they bring three more within the next twelve months they loose their license. It might force lawyers and scam artists to rethink persuing rediculous cases. Most of these people you'll find are repeat offenders and they often make a career of bringing cases to court that should be thrown out. These laughable cases cost us all.
The technology assumes that there is a brain to be scanned. It's going to be pretty useless in determining which political cannidate is lying.
The real ...problem is ....I got one of those .....$100 notebooks. Ever tried to ....crank a charger .....and type...... at the same time? Damn.....I'm....tired.
Actually it's not, the president it sets applies to all porn. Personally I'm all for the death penalty for child porn makers and I'm all for throwing the book at him for even downloading it. The problem is this president will be used to charge people with other crimes. Say you download and burn adult porn to disk. By definition then you are a pornographer not some one that simply views porn. They are playing the letter of the law game to attack a guy viewing child porn but others will abuse the finding to go after non kiddie porn cases. Throw away the key with the guy fine but it's a bad ruling and will lead to rampant abuse. If the guy was burning them to sell or distribute to friends fine but that's distribution not "making" and is illegal under other existing laws.
A hot line to the local fire department. Those 600 minute instead of 60 minute typos can cause the occational fire.
It was a pygmy giant octopus.
The machines themselves have to be faster. If the old chips were on par with similar PC chips the very fact they are dual core increases the speed. The real problem is in applications. Even in the PC world most apps don't take advantage of the dual core architecture. Even Maya only uses multiple processors when rendering. If you have a quad machine, a dual/dual core, it will only use one processor for most functions but will use all four nodes in rendering. If I ran a benchmark that involved modelling it would show no improvement in speed over a single chip machine. If I ran a render test would clock in around 4X faster. Both tests are accurate and simply reflect how the software is designed not how the chips themselves function.
Seems like starving third world children will benefit the least from the technology. They need food not laptops. If they are living on $300 a year as some do that's four months of food money. If they can sell the laptops they will and in fact should. If they can't sell them they get to stare at what amounts to an expensive toy while they starve. The third world coutries lack infastructures to take advantage of large numbers of computer literate kids. If they idea is big companies will take advantage of the cheap labor and outsource isn't this just a bigger push to outsource tech jobs? Aren't talking computer sweat shops then? Instead of clothes we have $1 an hour people handling coporate records and possibly programming. Hey they'll probably pay the programmers $3 an hour since it takes more skill. Won't this just turn into big business yet again taking advantage of the third world to make a quick buck? Will it in the end benefit the people. Look at what happened in Mexico. It became an end run on environmental laws and people are coming across the border faster than ever. Big business gets slave labor and unemployment goes up in this country. A win win for big business and everyone else looses.
I find it compeling that it's also been a record year for hot air production in Washington DC. It's widely believed to be the cause of the recent spike in hurriccanes and such high hot air readings coming from DC could very easily sway overall totals.
I lived through that horror. Where do I sign up?
Kill all Congressmen. The game for the new millenium. Freedom fighters defend the Constitution by offing as many politicans as they can. To win you must prevent Congress from passing unconstituational legislation and restore the country to a democracy. You get bonus points for nailing rightwing Republicans but all politicans have point value. You can also score by defending a Congressman that is filibustering unconstitutional legislation. If you shoot any Congressmen that objects to the fillibuster you win the round and the legislation is defeated. A game hint, you get an extra 1,000 points if you nail Darth Chenney. He's well guarded so it's a risky move. It's easier to go after his lightly guarded boss but he's only worth 10 bonus points.