I know you're just making a joke on the penmanship style used with a quill, but traditionally, a double-S would be more like fs, as in necefsary. Only the first S of a pair is elongated.
Um, Isaac Asimov was an authority on many different topics. He's the only author to have published into EVERY Dewey library category. I think his non-fiction works outnumbered his fiction works, and certainly not even all of the fiction works were futuristic in nature.
When a laptop screams 'I'm being stolen! I'm being stolen!' and no one can here it, is it really making noise?
Either you're coining a subtle and witty new verb related to finding something with a GPS transponder ("can you 'here' my stolen laptop, officer?"), or you are getting your homonyms mixed up. Given this site, I'll take the odds on a language blunder.
Heh, the closeup of the scoreboard shows MSU 3, PSU 0, first quarter.;) I'm sure I could fudge that to the final score if I wanted to sell to Penn State fans. The detail in the original is high enough you can find Sparty and the Lion mascots on the sidelines, read most of the jersey numbers, and count the cheerleaders too.
If anyone's interested in a print of any of my gallery, even those not already in the "storefront" page, I could arrange a PayPal for it. Give me an idea of the size you'd like and we'll negotiate a price.
Besides the consumer-oriented shutterflys and the community of deviantart, there are other service bureaus which are of value to professional and serious amateur photographers out there.
http://www.whcc.com/ -- great color-calibrated lightjet output at great prices if you're comfy with ftp
The OSDN folks have loudly and widely announced that some of their stories are "slashvertisements." I think it was originally stated that they'd put about one such story up per day. I don't know if that's still accurate but it's part of the business model that keeps them alive. Get over it.
Geosync is far enough away to make weather satellites convenient: they get well over 120 degrees of the planet in one shot.
It is NOT convenient for fine observation: they would require a lot more optics magnification and control, and much finer stabilization, to be able to observe details on the surface, even at the equator.
It is also NOT convenient to look up at Chinese citizen activity in the northern hemisphere, as the angle increases distortions from increased atmospheric depth and hides a significant part of the public space in any east-west streets. "Hm, why are the subversives always rallying on the south side of the street? Shady business, indeed."
Meanwhile, all the spy sats fly low because the orbits are faster, and they fly with an off-axis orbit to sweep north and south. With a few birds in the sky, there's always one bird that will be nearly overhead within a few minutes to an hour.
The number of posts of people like the parent there, who are superior because of their spelling ability, usually drops when I am using OS X, in which text areas boxes have red underline spell checking.
Of course, spell checkers don't do much for basic grammar. The syntax of the first half of the sentence is clumsy, too; a couple commas is the minimum fix but a rewrite would do better. As much as people might anthropomorphize their computers, "whose" probably doesn't apply to an inanimate object like OS X.
Amen. Max Lyons and the Gigapxl folks are at least choosing photographic subjects which BENEFIT from the high resolution treatment. And they have pride in craftsmanship to develop the image as artwork, not as a techno-novelty.
The camera-on-a-tower shot of this research institute hasn't even been hand-corrected in the places where moving objects were affected. They even point out these flaws on the website like it's a cool feature or something: "here's a bus that was clipped between two successive frames." Bah. Edit those OUT. Fix the clocks to agree if they're prominent, or shadow them out. Shoot in an order that will minimize the moving-shadow issues. Make it WORK as a single capture piece of ART, even though the capture had to be done with many exposures.
If you can point a piece of software you downloaded or bought at a directory full of snapshots, and get a mosaic of another snapshot, how is that particularly interesting? You don't even say what the actual image resolution is in your final, and your image has duplicates because your library wasn't big enough.
Max Lyons created new tools to develop image files that large. He selected a subject which benefitted from his technique. He hand-shot the images with the final project in mind. He found a printer who would show his print at a large scale, not just a 20"x30" you can upload to ezprints.com.
The Gigapixl film folks are using a camera to its fullest potential, carefully choosing subjects which, again, benefit from the capability.
Bokeh comes from the number of aperture leaves and their shape(there are some non-straight-edged aperture leaves). It has -absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the glass-
Bokeh comes from a NUMBER of influencing parameters, just as the "bouquet" of a fine wine can be affected by a number of different wine-making techniques.
You're right that the shape of the aperture has an effect. More leaves, or more rounded leaves, will smooth out the circle.
Another factor is whether the lens uses a reflex mirror design to achieve a longer effective focal length. Those short Tokina 500mm lenses definitely have a distinctive "donut shape" to any strongly contrasting bokeh area features.
The quality of glass can affect bokeh, especially when there are sharp highlights reflected in the out-of-focus areas. Take a christmas tree or a twinkling backlit lake at sunset. Put the small twinkling lights out of focus. Good glass without any bubbles or astigmatisms will have a smoother round highlight than glass which has inclusions, bubbles or grinding irregularities.
But, just like sipping that fine wine, you might come off as being pretentious if you drone on about bokeh, especially if those you are talking to know a lot less, or a lot more, than you do on the subject.
Does Tycho usually come up with the text/idea for the comic, then Gabe does the art as a separate process or is it more of a collaborative venture?
Hm, this sounds familiar.
Fan waiting for a signed comic: So you draw this?
Artist: I ink it and I m also the colorist.
The guy next to me draws it. But we both came up with the characters,...
Fan: What's that mean, you ink it?
Artist: Well. It means that Holden draws the pictures in pencil, and then he gives
it to me to go over in ink.
Fan: So you just trace!
Artist: It's not tracing. I add depth and
shading to give the image more
definition. Only then does the drawing
really take shape.
Fan: You go over what he draws with a pen--that's tracing.
Artist: Not really. Next!
Fan (to Kid): Hey man. If somebody draws something
and then you draw the same thing right
on top of it, not going out-side the
designated original art what do call
that?
Kid: I don't know. Tracing?
Now all we need is Jay and Silent Bob to come in and straighten it all out.
Copyright is to reward authors NOT publishers and distributors.
Justice O'Connor in 1991: 'The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."' To advance the arts and sciences, one must learn and build upon the existing works.
Heck, even a PDA can fit a spelling dictionary that would have "valiant" in it. After you transferred the text to Slashdot, and after an editor (and I use the term loosely) reviewed the submission, one might reasonably expect a correction to be made.
I'll be modded into oblivion just for pointing out that the corporate employees who run a for-profit website should have just a tiny bit of pride in worksmanship, but who are we really kidding here?
If you're sending your prints to a service bureau that uses a LightJet or other system to print on Fuji Crystal archival, or Kodak's equivalent, you're comparing apples to apples. They're silver halide photo papers, but the service uses a digital process to render light onto the photo paper instead of shining light through a bit of film.
They do have copyright law in Bangladesh -- they signed onto the Universal Copyright Convention.
That reminds me of the Dilbert where the North Elbonians said they would not return home with this country's secrets, because they signed the little agreement forms. Then the North Elbonians clapped and cheered at the joke.
Some Indians are convinced that following the West's modern concepts of IP is a good thing. Some others realize that we in the West built our whole culture atop the borrowed stories and legends of any other tradition that we could find, and so maybe they should stand on the shoulders of giants, too.
From what I've seen, it's more amenable to modular libraries and structured design. As for basic scripting where you may not even use a "package" statement, you probably won't care.
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I know you're just making a joke on the penmanship style used with a quill, but traditionally, a double-S would be more like fs, as in necefsary. Only the first S of a pair is elongated.
Um, Isaac Asimov was an authority on many different topics. He's the only author to have published into EVERY Dewey library category. I think his non-fiction works outnumbered his fiction works, and certainly not even all of the fiction works were futuristic in nature.
Either you're coining a subtle and witty new verb related to finding something with a GPS transponder ("can you 'here' my stolen laptop, officer?"), or you are getting your homonyms mixed up. Given this site, I'll take the odds on a language blunder.
Is Qetzoctl a cousin of IOCTL?
Rephrased, "In Korea, Sundials Are for Old People"?
Sheesh, I bet you aren't even an Economist.
Heh, the closeup of the scoreboard shows MSU 3, PSU 0, first quarter. ;) I'm sure I could fudge that to the final score if I wanted to sell to Penn State fans. The detail in the original is high enough you can find Sparty and the Lion mascots on the sidelines, read most of the jersey numbers, and count the cheerleaders too.
If anyone's interested in a print of any of my gallery, even those not already in the "storefront" page, I could arrange a PayPal for it. Give me an idea of the size you'd like and we'll negotiate a price.
- http://www.whcc.com/ -- great color-calibrated lightjet output at great prices if you're comfy with ftp
- http://www.pbase.com/ -- a free/cheap host for albums, allows deep links to images
- http://www.printroom.com/ -- a popular site for albums and print order processing
- http://www.smugmug.com/ -- a popular site for albums and print order processing
I used to use ezprints.com for lightjet output, but their color calibration is very spotty and inconsistent these days.The OSDN folks have loudly and widely announced that some of their stories are "slashvertisements." I think it was originally stated that they'd put about one such story up per day. I don't know if that's still accurate but it's part of the business model that keeps them alive. Get over it.
Paraphrasing Orwell only slightly, "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two is not five; everything else will follow."
I think you mean, IsToo! Farking sloppy homonyms. Lemme guess. "I'm not an English major."
It is NOT convenient for fine observation: they would require a lot more optics magnification and control, and much finer stabilization, to be able to observe details on the surface, even at the equator.
It is also NOT convenient to look up at Chinese citizen activity in the northern hemisphere, as the angle increases distortions from increased atmospheric depth and hides a significant part of the public space in any east-west streets. "Hm, why are the subversives always rallying on the south side of the street? Shady business, indeed."
Meanwhile, all the spy sats fly low because the orbits are faster, and they fly with an off-axis orbit to sweep north and south. With a few birds in the sky, there's always one bird that will be nearly overhead within a few minutes to an hour.
The number of posts of people like the parent there, who are superior because of their spelling ability, usually drops when I am using OS X, in which text areas boxes have red underline spell checking.
Of course, spell checkers don't do much for basic grammar. The syntax of the first half of the sentence is clumsy, too; a couple commas is the minimum fix but a rewrite would do better. As much as people might anthropomorphize their computers, "whose" probably doesn't apply to an inanimate object like OS X.
Amen. Max Lyons and the Gigapxl folks are at least choosing photographic subjects which BENEFIT from the high resolution treatment. And they have pride in craftsmanship to develop the image as artwork, not as a techno-novelty.
The camera-on-a-tower shot of this research institute hasn't even been hand-corrected in the places where moving objects were affected. They even point out these flaws on the website like it's a cool feature or something: "here's a bus that was clipped between two successive frames." Bah. Edit those OUT. Fix the clocks to agree if they're prominent, or shadow them out. Shoot in an order that will minimize the moving-shadow issues. Make it WORK as a single capture piece of ART, even though the capture had to be done with many exposures.
If you can point a piece of software you downloaded or bought at a directory full of snapshots, and get a mosaic of another snapshot, how is that particularly interesting? You don't even say what the actual image resolution is in your final, and your image has duplicates because your library wasn't big enough.
Max Lyons created new tools to develop image files that large. He selected a subject which benefitted from his technique. He hand-shot the images with the final project in mind. He found a printer who would show his print at a large scale, not just a 20"x30" you can upload to ezprints.com.
The Gigapixl film folks are using a camera to its fullest potential, carefully choosing subjects which, again, benefit from the capability.
Bokeh comes from the number of aperture leaves and their shape(there are some non-straight-edged aperture leaves). It has -absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the glass-
Bokeh comes from a NUMBER of influencing parameters, just as the "bouquet" of a fine wine can be affected by a number of different wine-making techniques.
You're right that the shape of the aperture has an effect. More leaves, or more rounded leaves, will smooth out the circle.
Another factor is whether the lens uses a reflex mirror design to achieve a longer effective focal length. Those short Tokina 500mm lenses definitely have a distinctive "donut shape" to any strongly contrasting bokeh area features.
The quality of glass can affect bokeh, especially when there are sharp highlights reflected in the out-of-focus areas. Take a christmas tree or a twinkling backlit lake at sunset. Put the small twinkling lights out of focus. Good glass without any bubbles or astigmatisms will have a smoother round highlight than glass which has inclusions, bubbles or grinding irregularities.
But, just like sipping that fine wine, you might come off as being pretentious if you drone on about bokeh, especially if those you are talking to know a lot less, or a lot more, than you do on the subject.
A government agency can't just do whatever the hell they please just because they feel like it.
No doubt. The wrong Powell is leaving office.
Does Tycho usually come up with the text/idea for the comic, then Gabe does the art as a separate process or is it more of a collaborative venture?
Hm, this sounds familiar.
Artist: I ink it and I m also the colorist. The guy next to me draws it. But we both came up with the characters, ...
Fan: What's that mean, you ink it?
Artist: Well. It means that Holden draws the pictures in pencil, and then he gives it to me to go over in ink.
Fan: So you just trace!
Artist: It's not tracing. I add depth and shading to give the image more definition. Only then does the drawing really take shape.
Fan: You go over what he draws with a pen--that's tracing.
Artist: Not really. Next!
Fan (to Kid): Hey man. If somebody draws something and then you draw the same thing right on top of it, not going out-side the designated original art what do call that?
Kid: I don't know. Tracing?
Now all we need is Jay and Silent Bob to come in and straighten it all out.
Copyright is to reward authors NOT publishers and distributors.
Justice O'Connor in 1991: 'The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."' To advance the arts and sciences, one must learn and build upon the existing works.
I'll be modded into oblivion just for pointing out that the corporate employees who run a for-profit website should have just a tiny bit of pride in worksmanship, but who are we really kidding here?
If you're sending your prints to a service bureau that uses a LightJet or other system to print on Fuji Crystal archival, or Kodak's equivalent, you're comparing apples to apples. They're silver halide photo papers, but the service uses a digital process to render light onto the photo paper instead of shining light through a bit of film.
That reminds me of the Dilbert where the North Elbonians said they would not return home with this country's secrets, because they signed the little agreement forms. Then the North Elbonians clapped and cheered at the joke.
Some Indians are convinced that following the West's modern concepts of IP is a good thing. Some others realize that we in the West built our whole culture atop the borrowed stories and legends of any other tradition that we could find, and so maybe they should stand on the shoulders of giants, too.
All I can say is, "The chocolate ration will be increased to 20 grams."
From what I've seen, it's more amenable to modular libraries and structured design. As for basic scripting where you may not even use a "package" statement, you probably won't care.