That's my sensitive information, you insensitive clod!
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I often wondered, when people talked about using binoculars for astronomy, what mag. they were talking about and whether I could odo anything with what I had to hand. Your comment has given me a new impetus to try my dad's (very expensive) Steiner 16*80s on the night sky again, this time using a map! The last time I tried (a few years ago when I was probably 16) could never find any object that apppeared larger than a single point of light. Now I'm 25 and 2x as nerdy, and can get my hands on some software to help. Thanks!
To be honest, I'd go for quality over quantity. I don't mean to sound snotty, but flickr isn't a site where everyone just uploads their OMG funny!! GIF files and every crappy camera phone snap; it's more of a serious photographer's site, and as such doesn't have the same potential market as somewhere like photobucket.
It does, however, redeem Yahoo! in the eyes of a lot of people, and for that, I suppose they should be grateful.
Oh, ah yes of course; well in this case it's a specific, month-long competition that we'll be running so the judging is on a specific set of photos that have recently been posted. Hmm, wonder if we should allow general rating......
I'm using the same kind of solution for a photo competition website I'm setting up. The site is for a photographer's association (about 500 members), each of whom will enter a number of photos, and then judge fellow member's entries. It's a bit like the CGSociety competitions.
To ensure that you can't have other members simply go to the site vote up your work at your request I'll have the site present 20 random images to each member for their 'official' judging input; each image will be judged on a scale ( probably 1-10 or 1-100 )and require a given number of votes before the score can be judged as fair and the image's final score calculated.
I'll have to see see how I get on, but I think the system should be fair, assuming high enough number of votes for the number of images (2-3 votes per image isn't enough, 15-20 should give a nice reliable indicator). Anyone got any experience or opinions they'd like to share on the subject?
Oh, God, this man has been stymieing the creative output of Hollywood and muffling free speech for decades and you think we're mad at him for filing lawsuits against some file sharers.
Well, the thing is that you could potentially create a Flash movie almost from scratch using Actionscript saved in a text (.as) file and loaded into a near-blank.swf file; you've got the power to create objects, control time and load in content. It's just a lot handier when you've got the library sitting there so you can arrange your objects in the GUI and then code their individual behaviours by clicking on them and tapping in the on(release){} events etc.
Oh, well, each to their own:)
I thought that Half Life 2 made an excellent job of injecting some emotional content- like when Alyx gets caught on the roof, when you discover that Dr. Whassername (Rosen? whatever) is supposedly working for the other side, when Alyx is reunited with her dad, and, really, overall actually. You wander around this world looking at what it's become and it does move you a little each time you see things that hint at the state of the world and what's gone on. Oh, the cliffhanger at the end of Episode 1 was great, too.
If Adobe's software was on Linux I'd definitely get Ubuntu on here and start using it. I'd still have to dual-boot to get to use 3DS MAX (which doesn't run well in Wine when pushed) but I could quite happily do 99% of my multimedia work.
Microsoft's only market for Silverlight is some universities and eLearning facilities that are too short sighted to use Flash for multimedia delivery; the only way MS could possibly even put a dent in Flash's ubiquity is if they traveled back in time and made sure that Silverlight something that was installed on every windows machine from Windows 98 onwards.
Adobe have a massive user base for the Flash plugin (perhaps one of the highest user bases for any software in the world? (barring MS paint).. interesting question) and the application itself, and I don't see Microsoft making a dent in it in any meaningful way- why should Adobe even bother looking over their shoulder when you can ask most users what Flash is and they'll say 'oh it's that thing you need on the interwebs that does ______'.
Anyway, I've been wanting to make the move to Flex (from hand-coding my XML requests etc) and this is a great chance to do so. Spry integration into Dreamweaver CS3, then open-sourcing Flex? Some moves in the right direction, Adobe:)
Now, about that XML into After Effects idea I had:p
The 'Quicktime alternative' does almost none of the really nifty functions that make Quicktime such a great piece of software- it doesn't do video or audio editing, image conversion or video re-encoding. It just plays Quicktime files.
Bollocks. To a TV executive (except those in the BBC) the value of a TV show is directly proportionate to how many people watch it, and how much people will pay for advertising during that show. Clips on Youtube bring in viewers. I wouldn't be a Daily Show regular if I hadn't seen it on youtube. I sure as fuck didn't pick it up on Comedy Central's crappy video player system.
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Over a billion hard drives, but everyone knows that AOL were the first company to ship a billion CDs.
*hands you a pair of Welders' glasses and a pair of oven gloves*
;)
OK smartypants, go get some
Laden or unladen velocity?
... and how did they feel being denied them?
That's my sensitive information, you insensitive clod!
I often wondered, when people talked about using binoculars for astronomy, what mag. they were talking about and whether I could odo anything with what I had to hand. Your comment has given me a new impetus to try my dad's (very expensive) Steiner 16*80s on the night sky again, this time using a map! The last time I tried (a few years ago when I was probably 16) could never find any object that apppeared larger than a single point of light. Now I'm 25 and 2x as nerdy, and can get my hands on some software to help. Thanks!
If you fail the blood test, I don't care if it screws you, you're over the limit, should be punished and shouldn't seek not to be punished.
Are you kidding? It's quite slow on a PC slower than 1 Ghz. Especially for movies.
What the hell are you using? The OLPC computer? Get a PC built sometime this decade and get back to us.
The Canadians took them...... damn canadians
You haven't spent long actually using flickr, obviously.
To be honest, I'd go for quality over quantity. I don't mean to sound snotty, but flickr isn't a site where everyone just uploads their OMG funny!! GIF files and every crappy camera phone snap; it's more of a serious photographer's site, and as such doesn't have the same potential market as somewhere like photobucket.
It does, however, redeem Yahoo! in the eyes of a lot of people, and for that, I suppose they should be grateful.
But... how do you know we're tasty? There something you're not telling us?
Oh, ah yes of course; well in this case it's a specific, month-long competition that we'll be running so the judging is on a specific set of photos that have recently been posted. Hmm, wonder if we should allow general rating......
:)
Thanks
I'm using the same kind of solution for a photo competition website I'm setting up. The site is for a photographer's association (about 500 members), each of whom will enter a number of photos, and then judge fellow member's entries. It's a bit like the CGSociety competitions.
To ensure that you can't have other members simply go to the site vote up your work at your request I'll have the site present 20 random images to each member for their 'official' judging input; each image will be judged on a scale ( probably 1-10 or 1-100 )and require a given number of votes before the score can be judged as fair and the image's final score calculated.
I'll have to see see how I get on, but I think the system should be fair, assuming high enough number of votes for the number of images (2-3 votes per image isn't enough, 15-20 should give a nice reliable indicator). Anyone got any experience or opinions they'd like to share on the subject?
Oh, God, this man has been stymieing the creative output of Hollywood and muffling free speech for decades and you think we're mad at him for filing lawsuits against some file sharers.
Watch This Film is Not Yet Rated.
Oh, yes of course I forgot about that. Also, Maya and MAX are now under the same roof, so who knows?
*runs off to download latest build of ubuntu*
Well, the thing is that you could potentially create a Flash movie almost from scratch using Actionscript saved in a text (.as) file and loaded into a near-blank .swf file; you've got the power to create objects, control time and load in content. It's just a lot handier when you've got the library sitting there so you can arrange your objects in the GUI and then code their individual behaviours by clicking on them and tapping in the on(release){} events etc.
Oh, well, each to their own :)
*cowers*
I thought that Half Life 2 made an excellent job of injecting some emotional content- like when Alyx gets caught on the roof, when you discover that Dr. Whassername (Rosen? whatever) is supposedly working for the other side, when Alyx is reunited with her dad, and, really, overall actually. You wander around this world looking at what it's become and it does move you a little each time you see things that hint at the state of the world and what's gone on. Oh, the cliffhanger at the end of Episode 1 was great, too.
:D
Now if they'd just release the next episdode
If Adobe's software was on Linux I'd definitely get Ubuntu on here and start using it. I'd still have to dual-boot to get to use 3DS MAX (which doesn't run well in Wine when pushed) but I could quite happily do 99% of my multimedia work.
Microsoft's only market for Silverlight is some universities and eLearning facilities that are too short sighted to use Flash for multimedia delivery; the only way MS could possibly even put a dent in Flash's ubiquity is if they traveled back in time and made sure that Silverlight something that was installed on every windows machine from Windows 98 onwards.
:)
:p
Adobe have a massive user base for the Flash plugin (perhaps one of the highest user bases for any software in the world? (barring MS paint).. interesting question) and the application itself, and I don't see Microsoft making a dent in it in any meaningful way- why should Adobe even bother looking over their shoulder when you can ask most users what Flash is and they'll say 'oh it's that thing you need on the interwebs that does ______'.
Anyway, I've been wanting to make the move to Flex (from hand-coding my XML requests etc) and this is a great chance to do so. Spry integration into Dreamweaver CS3, then open-sourcing Flex? Some moves in the right direction, Adobe
Now, about that XML into After Effects idea I had
*runs off to buy master suite*
The 'Quicktime alternative' does almost none of the really nifty functions that make Quicktime such a great piece of software- it doesn't do video or audio editing, image conversion or video re-encoding. It just plays Quicktime files.
Seems like a waste of time to me.
Oh, good link!
*promises karma*
Outstandingly mediocre IT security? Sounds a lot like U.S National Security and Social Security :)
Bollocks. To a TV executive (except those in the BBC) the value of a TV show is directly proportionate to how many people watch it, and how much people will pay for advertising during that show. Clips on Youtube bring in viewers. I wouldn't be a Daily Show regular if I hadn't seen it on youtube. I sure as fuck didn't pick it up on Comedy Central's crappy video player system.