"The flying observatory will begin its short science, or 'first light' observations, in early summer 2009, and will continue its program of ***celestial observations*** for the next 20 years."
I should note that I know it wasn't an intentional hoax. I was following the human gullibility line, but looking into it again, I guess the panic it caused was over-hyped. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Not that this has anything to do with what the software is doing, but some of the differences between the two images are similar to what you get when you compare a portrait taken with a wide-angle and one taken with a telephoto. There's a reason why wide-angle lenses usually make poor portrait lenses. They exaggerate apparent relative distances on the Z plane, with bulging eyes, lips, and nose, and too-small ears. Judging from the look of her face, I'm guessing that the original was taken with a wide-angle. If so, the difference between the image and how a person's eye would see her is going to be the same kind of difference this software generates. The face is distorted, but easily recognizable. I'd go so far to say that, with so many portraits now taken with camera phones and the like, the distortion has become commonplace and looks normal.
Soon the misuse will become part of the definition, like "beg the question". I understand that language needs to be pliant and change, but I wish it wasn't so susceptible to laziness. This isn't out of any snobbery about purity; it's a practical matter. As words lose their distinctions and become more generic, the English language becomes diluted and loses its ability to be succinct. So now "robot" is losing its automation and is becoming just another remote-controlled device.
Ah, I see part of the problem. My explanation in the past post was goofed up (mad cow). I meant that at 128k, he starts to notice less of a difference, and so starts to become less annoyed. At 192k, that lessoning stops.
Take out the "not" in the original and you get "at 192k, he starts to become less annoyed".
This implies that he was annoyed and at 192k, he starts to become less so at that point.
Put the "not" back in, and at 192k, his lessening annoyance, which started earlier (128k) and was lessening as the bit rate rose, stopped.
if you show up in the middle of the night, and it's dark, and you really have to go, it's a bit of a pain to always have to feel to see if the seat is up or down before you let it all out. Isn't this exactly the argument most often used by women?
Unfortunately, I think think this make the opposite argument of what you intended. If it's always up or always down, you never have to search. In the dark, you know right where it is. If it's left in the last position, you have to search each time.
I'm not saying it counters the entire argument, just that portion.
I'm not saying that a space walk isn't suit-soiling scary, but if your jet pack dies and you go floating off, can't they just come get you? They do a pretty good job with satellites.
I enjoyed the show when it first came out, but now the catchphrase when seeing one of the many character blunders is, "They aren't very good..." Never mind the writing blunders.
And jeesh, "Killer Instinct" just did the very same story line.
I find game music to be annoying repetitive at best. No matter how good it is, I get sick of it after a few loops. Sure, I smile whenever I hear a snippet of music from Doom, but that's only because I recognize it from the title screen. I always play my games without music. It's too distracting for me. It certainly isn't what makes or breaks a game. They could license from Barry Manilow for all I care.
While I agree that LoPinto trying to sell Nikons (there's no way Adams would settle for anything out of the current crop), I don't agree with your assessment of the quality of digital prints. Inkjets equiped with a B&W quadtone system are capable of tonal ranges that surpass that of photographic paper. The shadow detail you can obtain is amazing. The reason you don't see that kind of quality in books is because the cost to mass produce such output would put the list price out of reach of most people.
I myself have only just now decided that digital has become good enough for me to replace my film equipment, and I'm only shooting on 35mm. If Adams were around in another ten years... ? Well, that's another story, since the question is "would he go digital?" and not "would he go digital now?"
M42 mount lenses and bodies are plentiful and various. You have many choices in manufacturers, build quality, and prices. You won't be getting any whiz-bang features, but you can put together a nice system for a low outlay.
I'd also go for prime lenses (35mm, 50mm, 85mm, 200mm, etc) instead of zooms (35mm-105mm, 100mm-300mm, etc). Most people think that a zoom is for saving you from walking. Wrong! You choose the focal length first, then walk to where you can frame the picture correctly. Sure, there are times when you don't have a lot of room to move around, but the focal length you choose has a HUGE inpact on the outcome of the picture. It should be a conscious choice.
Prime lenses allow you to open up the aperture more, so they are more useful in low-light and when you want to shorten the amount of focal depth. With a 50mm f1.4, you can blur the background quite well, but zooms often only open up to f4. The quality of lenses tend to be better also, as compromises don't have to be made for a range of focal lengths.
I would say that both you and the previous poster are correct on some points, but the net effect is that there are equal, but different, dangers and benefits to both online and offline meeting of people early in any relationship.
Bingo. Online or off, the real question is, "How desperate are you?" The more you need to find someone, the more likely you are to ignore any warning signs. Do you want to believe?
He also wrote a "series" that includes Last Call, Expiration Date, and Earthquake Weather, and a cold-war spy novel with fantasy elements called Declare.
Like Gaiman, his work is about the fantastic that lies under the surface, unseen by all but a few.
More info: http://www.jberlyne.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm
Bug in Girlfriend.lib 1.0
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Try executing Girlfiend.GetBeer() and see what happens. I usually get output similar to "#%$&*!". Setting either Girlfriend.submissive or even the undocumented Girlfriend.wench to "true" has no effect. Be careful with debugging; repeated attempts in too short a period of time have resulted in actual hardware damage to the submitting hardware.
I have no idea if the s/w is acurate on that level, or if such things scale, but it seems like you might be able to come up with some impressive party favors.
"Do you support backdoors to allow athorities to keep tabs on potential terrorist?" will yield quite a different result than "Do you support backdoors that would allow athorities to keep tabs on YOU and give hackers yet another way to access your data?
You can get the answer you want simply by the way you phrase the question.
Useful or not, I want to see them. Heck, I like to watch disks defrag. Window boots are torture; the visual equivalent of hold music. You mean I'm supposed to sit quietly for a full 60 seconds with nothing to do? Besides, they're impressive. Especially if you throw in a few lines like echo 'Plutonium containment field initialization failure' in your boot scripts. The more the better, I say.
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From the article:
"The flying observatory will begin its short science, or 'first light' observations, in early summer 2009, and will continue its program of ***celestial observations*** for the next 20 years."
I should note that I know it wasn't an intentional hoax. I was following the human gullibility line, but looking into it again, I guess the panic it caused was over-hyped. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Hard to beat a visit by space aliens.
Not that this has anything to do with what the software is doing, but some of the differences between the two images are similar to what you get when you compare a portrait taken with a wide-angle and one taken with a telephoto. There's a reason why wide-angle lenses usually make poor portrait lenses. They exaggerate apparent relative distances on the Z plane, with bulging eyes, lips, and nose, and too-small ears. Judging from the look of her face, I'm guessing that the original was taken with a wide-angle. If so, the difference between the image and how a person's eye would see her is going to be the same kind of difference this software generates. The face is distorted, but easily recognizable. I'd go so far to say that, with so many portraits now taken with camera phones and the like, the distortion has become commonplace and looks normal.
http://www.hash.com/users/jsherwood/tutes/focal/focal.html
with all my Bose equipment.
Soon the misuse will become part of the definition, like "beg the question". I understand that language needs to be pliant and change, but I wish it wasn't so susceptible to laziness. This isn't out of any snobbery about purity; it's a practical matter. As words lose their distinctions and become more generic, the English language becomes diluted and loses its ability to be succinct. So now "robot" is losing its automation and is becoming just another remote-controlled device.
Maybe Opus Palladianum will be finished by then.
Ah, I see part of the problem. My explanation in the past post was goofed up (mad cow). I meant that at 128k, he starts to notice less of a difference, and so starts to become less annoyed. At 192k, that lessoning stops.
Take out the "not" in the original and you get "at 192k, he starts to become less annoyed".
This implies that he was annoyed and at 192k, he starts to become less so at that point.
Put the "not" back in, and at 192k, his lessening annoyance, which started earlier (128k) and was lessening as the bit rate rose, stopped.
if you show up in the middle of the night, and it's dark, and you really have to go, it's a bit of a pain to always have to feel to see if the seat is up or down before you let it all out. Isn't this exactly the argument most often used by women?
Unfortunately, I think think this make the opposite argument of what you intended. If it's always up or always down, you never have to search. In the dark, you know right where it is. If it's left in the last position, you have to search each time.
I'm not saying it counters the entire argument, just that portion.
As the bit-rate rises, he becomes less annoyed. At 192k, he starts to notice less of a difference, and so starts to become less annoyed.
(I'm too literal-minded to let it pass just for the sake of a joke.)
I'm not saying that a space walk isn't suit-soiling scary, but if your jet pack dies and you go floating off, can't they just come get you? They do a pretty good job with satellites.
golden urn soiled
grandfather desecrated
by a confused cat
My coding comments are about as useful as my message board ones.
I enjoyed the show when it first came out, but now the catchphrase when seeing one of the many character blunders is, "They aren't very good..." Never mind the writing blunders.
And jeesh, "Killer Instinct" just did the very same story line.
I find game music to be annoying repetitive at best. No matter how good it is, I get sick of it after a few loops. Sure, I smile whenever I hear a snippet of music from Doom, but that's only because I recognize it from the title screen. I always play my games without music. It's too distracting for me. It certainly isn't what makes or breaks a game. They could license from Barry Manilow for all I care.
While I agree that LoPinto trying to sell Nikons (there's no way Adams would settle for anything out of the current crop), I don't agree with your assessment of the quality of digital prints. Inkjets equiped with a B&W quadtone system are capable of tonal ranges that surpass that of photographic paper. The shadow detail you can obtain is amazing. The reason you don't see that kind of quality in books is because the cost to mass produce such output would put the list price out of reach of most people. I myself have only just now decided that digital has become good enough for me to replace my film equipment, and I'm only shooting on 35mm. If Adams were around in another ten years... ? Well, that's another story, since the question is "would he go digital?" and not "would he go digital now?"
M42 mount lenses and bodies are plentiful and various. You have many choices in manufacturers, build quality, and prices. You won't be getting any whiz-bang features, but you can put together a nice system for a low outlay.
I'd also go for prime lenses (35mm, 50mm, 85mm, 200mm, etc) instead of zooms (35mm-105mm, 100mm-300mm, etc). Most people think that a zoom is for saving you from walking. Wrong! You choose the focal length first, then walk to where you can frame the picture correctly. Sure, there are times when you don't have a lot of room to move around, but the focal length you choose has a HUGE inpact on the outcome of the picture. It should be a conscious choice.
Prime lenses allow you to open up the aperture more, so they are more useful in low-light and when you want to shorten the amount of focal depth. With a 50mm f1.4, you can blur the background quite well, but zooms often only open up to f4. The quality of lenses tend to be better also, as compromises don't have to be made for a range of focal lengths.
A goatee is just the chin (Shaggy).
What many people call a goatee is really a Van Dyke (the Green Arrow).
Bingo. Online or off, the real question is, "How desperate are you?" The more you need to find someone, the more likely you are to ignore any warning signs. Do you want to believe?
Powers is amazing!
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He also wrote a "series" that includes Last Call , Expiration Date , and Earthquake Weather , and a cold-war spy novel with fantasy elements called Declare
Like Gaiman, his work is about the fantastic that lies under the surface, unseen by all but a few.
More info: http://www.jberlyne.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.ht
Try executing Girlfiend.GetBeer() and see what happens. I usually get output similar to "#%$&*!". Setting either Girlfriend.submissive or even the undocumented Girlfriend.wench to "true" has no effect. Be careful with debugging; repeated attempts in too short a period of time have resulted in actual hardware damage to the submitting hardware.
I have one installed on my Epson 1160. It works like a charm; even with the pigment quadtone I'm using. I don't know of one for HPs.
Consumables is where the printer companies make their money. They may even lose money on some models. It's like razors and razor blades.
HP inks
Epson CFS
Looking for love in all the wrong places.
*sigh*
I have no idea if the s/w is acurate on that level, or if such things scale, but it seems like you might be able to come up with some impressive party favors.
should include the questions asked, verbatim.
"Do you support backdoors to allow athorities to keep tabs on potential terrorist?" will yield quite a different result than "Do you support backdoors that would allow athorities to keep tabs on YOU and give hackers yet another way to access your data?
You can get the answer you want simply by the way you phrase the question.
Useful or not, I want to see them. Heck, I like to watch disks defrag. Window boots are torture; the visual equivalent of hold music. You mean I'm supposed to sit quietly for a full 60 seconds with nothing to do? Besides, they're impressive. Especially if you throw in a few lines like echo 'Plutonium containment field initialization failure' in your boot scripts. The more the better, I say.