- A $1700 camera and $300 lens for video will not prevent you from getting your fingers in the shot while trying to manually adjust focus.
- No amount of sensor size, fast lens, and high ISO combination will compensate for "It's dark out here."
- HDR is very useful in very specific situations. But usually it just looks garish.
- RAW is the best possible, but JPEG has it's place. That place is usually on a deadline.
- Complete strangers will be perfectly happy to let you photograph them, as people love to be photographed.
- Your good friends will be annoyed when you photograph them, as people hate to be photographed.
- Never shoot anything handheld at less than 1/100, unless you want to create abstract art.
- When you buy cheap first, you will soon find that what you really needed was the expensive stuff.
- When you buy expensive first, you fill soon find that there was a much cheaper alternative that did what you needed.
- There is an international conspiracy of camera manufacturers to create at least one easily correctable flaw in their products that would otherwise make them perfect for what you intend to do with the camera.
- Just because a camera CAN go to 12800 ISO, doesn't mean that the camera SHOULD got to 12800 ISO.
* Under ObamaCare, patient management will be performed by HAL-9000
* Under Obamacare, Dr. Claw will finally get Gadget, as he will have been fitted with peg legs instead of bouncy ones.
* Under Obamacare, you will have One Health Plan to rule them all, One Health Plan to find them, One Health Plan to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
* Under ObamaCare, Lazarus Pits installed in all private homes, no longer exclusive province of al-Ghul family.
* Under Obamacare, all your bases are belong to us.
* Under ObamaCare, you have died of Dysentery.
* Under ObamaCare, your first born will be given "the gay."
* Under ObamaCare, Laughter = Best Medicine, According to Surgeon General Leno.
* Under ObamaCare, everyone over 50 will be fitted with a cyanide capsule in a fake tooth.
* Under Obamacare, all citizens will have a crystal in their hand that turns black at age 65 and summons the death squads.
* Under ObamaCare, anyone over 65 will be walked one by one into the molten cone of an active volcano.
* Under ObamaCare, doctors will literally implant a bleeding heart into your chest.
* Under Obamacare, cloning will be legal, but the only DNA available for use will be Paula Abdul's.
* Under ObamaCare, you will receive a signed certificate stating that Obama does, in fact care.
* Under Obamacare, Casper Van Dien will walk through every hospital screaming " YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER?"
* Under ObamaCare, Dr. House will diagnose you with lupus EVERY TIME.
* Under ObamaCare, the CIA will replace the prozac in your tap water with its generic.
* Under ObamaCare, everyone will get a copy of "To Serve Man." Wait! It's a cookbook!
* Under ObamaCare, patients with macular degeneration get a free pony ride to make them feel better about going blind.
* Under ObamaCare, kittens will be banned, replaced with baby moray eels. No one is allergic to moray eels.
* Under ObamaCare, All You Need Is Love. Additional treatments are not covered.
* Under Obamacare, Everlasting gobstoppers will be more accurately renamed "Temporary Gobstoppers."
* Under ObamaCare, there is a thin layer of rich, loamy peat.
* Under ObamaCare, you need to fill 5 different forms before listening to any cover of Alvin and the Chipmunks' "Witch Doctor"
* Under ObamaCare, "E Pluribus Unum" will be replaced with "Lose Some Weight, Lardass!" on all dollar bills.
* Under ObamaCare, those nice stretchy cloth Band-Aids will be replaced with yucky plastic Band-Aids.
* Under ObamaCare, pharmacies will include a free prize with every 30 day prescription filled
Who has?
Yes?
I meant - who has declared the swine flu outbreak a public health emergency?
Correct.
Correct did?
No, WHO did.
That's what I'm asking you... who declared the swine flu outbreak an emergency.
Indeed, sir!
Indeed who did?
That is correct. WHO certainly did declare the emergency.
Why are you asking me? I just want to know who did it!
WHO did what?
Declare the emergency.
That's a job for WHO.
I don't know! I'm asking YOU!
I can't help you. You need WHO.
*sigh* What's the name of the organization?
WHO.
The organization that declares medical emergencies.
WHO.
The organization that gave the warning about the swine flu.
WHO.
*sigh* Okay, when the UN hands out funding to health organizations, who gets the money.
Every dollar of it.
All I'm trying to find out is the name of the health organization
WHO.
The organization that gets...
That's it.
WHO gets the money...
Most of it. Some of it's for AIDS.
Whose aides?
Yes. [Pause] What's wrong with that?
Look, when they print up the health warning, there's a letter head right? What's on that letterhead?
WHO
The organization
WHO
What's on the letterhead?
That's on the letterhead?
Who?
Yes.
All I'm trying to find out is what's the name of the organization.
No, WHAT's the World Hunger Awareness Team.
I'm not asking you who's working with hunger.
WHO's working with health emergencies.
One organization at a time!
Well, don't change the organizations around.
I'm only asking you who's in charge of health.
That's right.
Okay.
All right.
[Pause]
What's the health organization?
WHAT's the hunger organization.
I'm not asking you who's in charge of hunger.
WHO's in charge of health.
Gimme a clue.
ACLU? Well - we're not talking about them.
We're not talking about who?
No, we are talking about WHO.
That's what I'm asking you for. Gimme a clue.
We're not talking about them! That's a national organization.
How did I get to a national organization?
You mentioned their name.
If I mentioned their name, who did I mention?
No, WHO is the health organization.
What's the health organization?
WHAT's the hunger organization.
Gimme a clue.
That's a national organization.
There I go, back to the national organization....
All right, what do you want to know?
What's the national organization?
WHAT's the hunger organization
Who's the hunger organization?
WHO's the health organization?
I don't know! Gimme a clue!
[Together] National.
{pause}
Okay, do you have a Women's organization at the UN?
WHI.
I just thought I'ad ask you.
Well, I just thought I'd tell you.
Then what's the women's organization?
WHAT's the hunger organization.
Who's the hunger organization?
WHO's the health organization.
I don't know. Gimme a clue!
[together] National.
{pause}
Okay, the women's organization.
WHI.
'cause!
CAUSE is Sustainable Energy.
What is sustainable energy?
WHAT is hunger.
Who is hunger?
WHO is health?
I don't know. Gimme a clue!
[together] National!!!
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/0
WASHINGTON – President Obama was re-administered the oath of office on Wednesday evening by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., one day after the two men stumbled over each other’s words during the inauguration.
The president and the chief justice stood in the Map Room of the White House at 7:35 p.m. as they took a second run at the constitutional oath. A handful of advisers watched the proceeding, which lasted about 25 seconds.
“Are you ready to take the oath?” Mr. Roberts said.
“I am,” Mr. Obama replied. “And we’re going to do it very slowly.”
Gregory Craig, the White House counsel, said he believes the oath was “administered effectively and that the president was sworn in appropriately.” But out of caution and to ward off any speculation that he wasn’t properly sworn in, aides decided on Wednesday afternoon to give the oath another try.
The president and the chief justice stood in the Map Room of the White House at 7:35 p.m. as they took a second run at the constitutional oath. A handful of advisers watched the proceeding, which lasted about 25 seconds.
“Are you ready to take the oath?” Mr. Roberts said.
“I am,” Mr. Obama replied. “And we’re going to do it very slowly.”
Gregory Craig, the White House counsel, said he believes the oath was “administered effectively and that the president was sworn in appropriately.” But out of caution and to ward off any speculation that he wasn’t properly sworn in, aides decided on Wednesday afternoon to give the oath another try.
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Rendering Vegas allows me to use four cores, and since I'm using Gigabyte's EasyTune utility, I'm getting around 3.0 GHz out of my 2.4 GHz processor. (I love this thing: It changes the clock speed of the processor on the fly so that it's only overclocked when you need it to be overclocked!, and underclocks when you're just doing stuff like reading e-mail or Web browsing so that it saves you power. So it could be running at 1.6GHz, and when you do the render, it ramps up to 3.0, and back down when it's done. That's gotta be better than running at 3.0 GHz full-time.)
The only problem is workflow - still not sure how I'm getting the 24p files out of the HG20. But hopefully that won't be a snag for too long.
The Robot's Unrequited Crush
I don't know why
they say that I can not cry
because I
have sensor eyes
catch the light and digitize
But reflected light
coming from
giant bright
soft human eyes. when
you are hurt hurts robots alike
Any human would be sad
to see you cry
So why not I?
I have a heart
like you It beats
in Gigahertz
My CPU does
understand why you hurt
And all I wish is
for you to stop crying
But I'm
not human,
and there are some things
I cannot do like
win your heart
away from
who caused it such pain
we can't quite help it
I am a thing a
metal man
Inanimate
though animated
So all I can do is just
hope that you stop
feeling pain
and let you
know I've done the only thing
a thing can do.
I'm made a gift of myself
to help you through.
For a living, I write about computers, on a computer, and publish using the computer to other people's computers.
My personal computer is exponentially more powerful than the ones used to calculate the upcoming Mercury spaceflight missions.
Through the computer, I have access to a massive database of information greater than any encyclopedia. If the database does not have an answer, the computer can search for an answer among billions of files and instantly return results which will more than likely answer the question I have posed.
I can call anywhere in the world on a videophone, and it costs me nothing to do so.
There is a camera sitting on my desk that is roughly the same size as a can of beans. It can record television picture and sound better than an entire studio, to media which is the size of a thumbprint and the thickness of a potato chip.
A complete amateur has more ability to edit a film or TV show than Paramount Studios, and can publish it to potentially more people than watch I Love Lucy every week, within minutes.
My car came from Kyoto, my clothes from Saigon and Taiwan, my food from Europe, South America, and Idaho. It's 70% cotton and 30% complex polymers. It's not silver, and it's not a jumpsuit, but it'll do.
Soldiers are currently fighting our wars via remote control. Within ten years the frontline soldier will likely be replaced by robots. In limited ways they already are.
My phone works anywhere on the planet, contains no wires, and is smaller than a deck of playing cards. It is also a computer, and stores the numbers of all my friends and family. It is considered obsolete - newer phones contain a full computer, including the ability to access all the computer databases I mentioned earlier. All without wires.
The entire print run of the New York Times can be digitized and fit onto a single disc the size of a saucer. We use them for watching movies and playing games.
The President-Elect of the United States is a black man who has held a law professorship from the University of Chicago.
The Soviet Union has been dissolved. Instead of fearing the "reds" we fear "islamic terrorists."
People, however, are still the same.
Sincerely,
2008
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