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Re: Hallucination!

Colin Fletcher — Sun, 18 May 2008 08:05:41 -0000

FEJK!

Re: Weighted Categories

Colin Fletcher — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:32:27 -0000

here's a link to the widget: http://www.cogniza.com/blog/?p=93

Re: The Story of the $300 Deposit, or: Looking for Apartments, Update 6

Colin Fletcher — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:19:33 -0000

You should edit this post to include the word "sucks" and "scam" because those are the words I Google when I'm trying to check out the reputation of a company.

Re: Peek Into Supreme Court Nominee’s Portfolio

Colin Fletcher — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:01:56 -0000

Just wanted to mention Alan Greenspan's allocation: 100% U.S. Treasuries. I'd rather own those than keep $2 million in the bank. Why would you want four different money market funds? They're all the same.

Re: Carnival #6

Colin Fletcher — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:03:55 -0000

How'd that happen? Contacts?

Re: Making a happy developer house (Scripting News)

Colin Fletcher — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:47:17 -0000

That's very true. I started a company with a friend a couple of years ago to make games, and we chose the PC as a platform almost by default. The devkits are cheap and readily available, the platform has a huge installed base and it's easy to distribute for over the internet.

Unfortunately, there are big drawbacks too. Everyone's PC is different, which makes testing difficult and tedious (I remember getting bug reports from several people who were having trouble running the game in XP on a macbook pro, a testing scenario I never would have thought of. On the other hand, another user wrote to report that the game runs fine on his Linux box under wine).

Also, because it's so open, it's much easier to hack the games and software available for it. Games companies have moved to more closed systems to protect their games from piracy primarily, but also their customers' experiences. Modifications allowing players to cheat, easily performed on an open platform, are a big annoyance, and systems that only run signed code provide a welcome relief.

Re: JakeAndAmir.com: Barely Even Comedy

Colin Fletcher — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:51:37 -0000

This post needs to be in the sidebar so any new person to the site will see it -- duh guys

Re: Jake And Amir Dot Com

Colin Fletcher — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:12:36 -0000

Wow Congrats, Jake and Amir, You guys made it into Wired Magazine this month on page 70. A nice plug from Human Giant, might I add.

Re: Event Ticket Report: News for Buyers and Sellers of Live Event Tickets

Colin Fletcher — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:12:30 -0000

We owe the doctor who silenced her unlimited gratitude.

Re: 10 Ways To Be A Gentleman At The Gym

Colin Fletcher — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:06:11 -0000

What an utterly chauvanist cowardly opinion
~inside/outside thigh machines are girly~

TRY FREESTYLING A MOTOCROSS BIKE WITHOUT THOSE MUSCLES, m*r*n.

How utterly offensive:
since the mere *suggestion* that you might be feminine is so profoundly *demeaning* to you,
you can't value woman as person,
can you?

Your balls disappear when someone holds
slightly-pink/magenta cloth near you?

Many women have commented on this, and finally I "get" it,
and see it, when "my kind" are doing it:
Grow Up.
If *I* can, *anyone* can.

Try reading "Counting for nothing"
a book about just what men really value woman as...

Try reading "Women's Ways of Knowing"
by 4 psychologist women with both brains & guts.

And TRY freestyling a 250lb-400lb bike with weak thigh muscles,
and see if having it land on your head more frequently
makes *you* feel more manly, or more idiotic.
( & if you are offended by "practice" and "training" and "study" as too girly, then maybe get a Darwin Award doing a loop wrong?
.. at least it'd be *earned* )

--

Posted under a Nom de Plume, because it is the ISSUE that matters, not the "names".

(c) 2008 Captain Obvious

( yes, copyright still applies with a Nom de Plume )

Re: Classio

Colin Fletcher — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:40:46 -0000

You wear the same kind of watch I do! When I was a kid I used the calculator the most but now I use the stopwatch to remind me it's been 5 minutes since I turned on the coffeemaker or whatever (I work in a factory so I have a lot of "do this, then wait 2 minutes", "do that 15 minutes from now" projects.) If you really wanted to fix your SAD though you should have gotten the watch where the face comes off the strap and transforms into a little robot. It's so cute.

Re: Ron Jeremy vs. Craig Gross - ExChristian.Net - News and Opinion

Colin Fletcher — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:15:11 -0000

Craig Gross is controlled opposition, probably paid directly by the Jew-Feminist porno biz.

Re: New Pennsylvania Study Shows Fatality Increase After Helmet Law Repeal

Colin Fletcher — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:10:35 -0000

Well, if you "choose" to put a million or 2 $ in costs on us,
in hospital / nursing-home costs,
and you "choose" to not pay taxes for the rest of your life,
then I think we should have the right to "choose" to simply not bother offering first-aid,
let alone ambulance or hospital services,
to anyone who isn't helmetted:

The *increase* in costs per non-helmetted rider is significant,
and if you pay that increase in advance ( and show that you have, perhaps a special license-plate ),
then fine,
but if you don't,
the What Give You The Right To Put Those Costs On Us?

Choose, but pay for your choice,
or get off the planet.

Same as other kinds of "choice"s.

Drive drunk?
get locked away. Period.
( should be put to work, to pay for the prison, too. )

No seat belt?
If you get thrown through the windshield ( a friend of mine did it ),
why should we pay for you to have 24h care for the next decades?
( including a breathing-machine, due to the broken neck )

No sympathy for Deliberate Ignorance, aka Won't Know, is "deserved"...

( equally, if someone pretends they "didn't see" the motorcycle they hit,
remove their license for life -- no driving with your brain shut off.
You drive, you're responsible. Across the board. )

Cheers.

Re: New Pennsylvania Study Shows Fatality Increase After Helmet Law Repeal

Colin Fletcher — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:10:35 -0000

Re: Caption This Wrecked Ferrari 360 Modena

Colin Fletcher — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:28:23 -0000

well.. it worked in gran turismo

Re: Is This the Motor Car of Tomorrow?

Colin Fletcher — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:43:51 -0000

Art Deco...

Re: 2007/07/28/online-storage/

Colin Fletcher — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:20:05 -0000

FileDEN is rife with popups and ads, even after registering.

Re: Hookups Reflect the Supply and Demand for Sex

Colin Fletcher — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:56:28 -0000

this is bullshit though because you can't change the "greater culture". a woman on a micro level not participating in slut culture - sorry i meant hooking up - is not going to have any effect on the wider culture. media such as porn and mtv maintain a certain sexual culture also, and you can't combat that. feminist and sexual liberals like you unleashed anarchy, and it's not going back into the box no matter how many pseudo-intellectual "supply and demand" theories you want to put forward.

Re: Hookups Reflect the Supply and Demand for Sex

Colin Fletcher — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:01:36 -0000

"In the end men and women may want the same thing, but that time tends to occur when men approach 30."

Projection, projection, projection.

Re: Hookups Reflect the Supply and Demand for Sex

Colin Fletcher — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:05:32 -0000

indeed, on the point of projection I have to echo 11minutes' point.

females do the sexual selection. females, by and large, determine the sexual culture.

if there's a situation where the sexes "aren't interested" in marriage until "age 30" (which incidently is when the biological clock begins to tick a little louder), then more than likely that trend can be put down to the female population.

it's really so very elementary, if you weren't so caught up in projecting your behaviour and perceived failures onto others.

Re: Sex and the City Has a Lot to Answer For

Colin Fletcher — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:11:22 -0000

As far as I know oxytocin effects men in a similar manner, and the oxytocin mechanism occurs in the male brian. I know that goes against your whole dogma and narrative, but there you go.

Re: On Gay Marriage

Colin Fletcher — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:30:15 -0000

fuck pragmatism. death to democracy and liberalism.

Re: Lunch Bag Art - Title suggestions are welcome.

Colin Fletcher — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:52:11 -0000

Pretty average work... Nothing exceptional.

Re: Lear Chooses Not To Pay Bond Interest, Stock Shoots Higher

Colin Fletcher — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:12:26 -0000

I think you should change it to Taxpayer ULP (unlimited partnership)

Re: Link Between Marijuana and Memory Loss Explained

Colin Fletcher — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:14:52 -0000

Mice do not equal humans.

Re: Sequoia: 20 Petaflops, 1.6 million cores, 1.6 Petabytes RAM, 6 Megawatts

Colin Fletcher — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:19:44 -0000

You *will* be paying the electrical bill on it... So... Get used to it. :)

Re: Nicholas Scimeca

Colin Fletcher — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:43:49 -0000

what software did you use to do this, logic?

Re: ｢Saimoe ‘08｣ “Group B - Day 3″ Block ~ 1st Round Results

Colin Fletcher — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:25:00 -0000

Haruhi was in a commercial in lucky star selling coke "Buy 5 right now!", ep 20 think, so she's legit.

Re: Are European carriers playing hardball with Apple?

Colin Fletcher — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:36:23 -0000

"Dan Langendorf wrote that where the iPhone had already succeeded was in “wresting an unprecedented amount of control from a carrier — in this case AT&T — in designing the device, determining its applications and mindset of use, and how to price the phone and service.” Having witnessed this from across the pond, it seems that the European mobile industry is determined not to let the same happen to them."

Yes, and of course the European market is much more mature and saturated compared to the US one. Handset-vendor lock-in is something I think most of us would like to avoid, and for the most part in Europe have avoided.

Re: Obama's Mac-savvy team lands in Microsoft hell at White House

Colin Fletcher — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:49:00 -0000

QUICK - get the stem cell research going, get Steve up on the table and fix him, and you'll have cool new Mac stuff for the rest of the administration.

Re: Want to JailBreak your iPhone 3.0? There’s an app for that..

Colin Fletcher — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:11:59 -0000

Kyle, your ipod is in service mode, and you can fix the iphone very easily. Open Itunes, and choose restore while holding shift key. Select the OS (3.0...etc) and let the iphone restore itself.

Re: Gladwell on Nationalized Health-Care Coverage

Colin Fletcher — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:30:32 -0000

Does your "cost" to your employer drop when you move your kid from company provided day care to publicly provided kindergarten? No.

I don't follow at all. Before, the company had to pay your salary and your day care cost. Now it only has to pay your salary. Maybe in some perfect economics world you would instantly renegotiate your salary till your total benefits package once again became equal to your productivity. In the real-world example you give, though, your cost to your employer has definitely dropped and your cost to taxpayers has risen.

Re: An Argument For Social Security?

Colin Fletcher — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:55:29 -0000

But on what basis does Mr. Carrier rest his presumption that most Americans are as irresponsible as he is with his savings?

You don't know many Americans, do you?

Re: Google Chrome OS and the future of Windows

Colin Fletcher — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:04:07 -0000

What about Firefox running on Chrome OS??

Re: Google To Launch Operating System

Colin Fletcher — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:09:06 -0000

Chrome OS will be a vastly different Linux OS than current Linux "distros".

Re: Google To Launch Operating System

Colin Fletcher — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:15:49 -0000

Nope Chrome uses WebKit to render, which is itself based on Konqueror.

Re: http://disqus.com/preview/

Colin Fletcher — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:21:34 -0000

Aloha

Re: Canon 5D Mark II & Concert Photography: First Impressions

Colin Fletcher — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:56:47 -0000

few points:
Canon has obligation, to their long-term establishment, to NOT torpedo their 1D sales.

For every concert photog, there are about 1 million nature photogs.

That they decided as they did, is sane, from their perspective, re configuration.

( it also makes clear that that rule, don't torpedo the 1D sales, applies across the board, not just concert photogs )

2. If you can stick "Focus, Now" on another button, and shoot at a high enough f# to give a bit of depth of field, then focus, shoot/shoot/shoot shouldn't be much of a problem.

Re pixel-binning, versus crop, each has its place, but crop can be done afterwards, in post, whereas pixel-binning *cannot*.

Therefore Canon made the right choice, IF the 5Mpx resolution gives 6400 ISO noise at 12800 ISO or higher ( if it gives no noise benefit, then why the hell bother? just to save filespace? the only justification for that would be higher frame-rate in a card-limited burst )

comment erors, above:
more pixels = less image-noise, not necessarily, or even likely.
If the dynamic range is trashed, because the pixels are too small to store a decent range of values, then how the hell can you have any dynamic range in the image?
Try listening to an 8-bit-depth audio file, and if you *can* enjoy that, maybe you can enjoy garbage dynamic range. ( think "posterization" as one example of junk dynamic range )

further, CMYK printing doesn't work by having only 4 colors, overlaid, it works by having 4 colors, at MANY different size dots, spread out in a pattern, so the color-density is given by dot-size, by density of dots, and by density of pigment ( photo printers, the pro ones, are 8 or 9 color, btw ).

Look up "pointilism", or however that's spelt, for the oil-painting rendition of it, and you'll understand that spacing of dots can create variation of density, but, as noted earlier, the piezo nozzles in the Epson printers, ferinstance, have multiple dot-sizes.

If it were 4 colors = infinite colors, as suggested, then litebrites would need only 4 colors to present full photo subtlety ( though they'd have to be VERY BIG to do so at high resolution )

---

Having seen examples of its images,
6400 ISO is stunningly good, better than the D700 ( someone had a comparison, and there was *no* comparison! the 5D II was brighter, clearer, cleaner, and sharper, all at once )

3.9 fps is about 30% faster than the previous edition, and at 20.1 Mpx? more than stunning, in a $3000 camera. The data-rate must be incredible, in that bus ( ~ 80Mpx/sec, RGB, so 240 000 000 photosites read, at 14-bits each, per second, nearly 500MB/sec coming off that sensor, being processed, and thrown into buffer )

Focus: the focus-assist points seem to be good, & they have to keep this machine at the "semi-pro" function level, to protect their Pro level, so what on earth is everyone complaining about?

Everything: it's stunning.
No SLR film camera could equal it, for image quality*speed*capability, or for effectiveness ( processing in wet chemistry means one doesn't know if anything surprising went wrong until too damn late ).

I agree with the ones who've used it, who say it's a "Game Changer".

For all those who have established themselves on the "It's No Good! I want infinite ISO, infinite framerate, infinite resolution, and infinite focus-perfection, for $3.99, and I want a discount on weekends" mode, grow up: you couldn't possibly have produced what they did, it blows away 99.9% of all cameras produced in the entire planet's history, and at $3000 its price is good.

Rock on, man,

:)

Re: baratunde.com - Blog - Please backup your hard drive now... twice!

Colin Fletcher — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:55:22 -0000

Raid 5 is the best way to go for protecting your data in a single computer. One of the hard drives in a RAID 5 array is responsible for backing up the data via a parity bit. When a drive in the array fails, you can just buy a new one and the array will rebuild itself with no data loss. It takes several hours but its well worth the wait.

You can build a RAID5 setup from newegg.com for cheap check out this controller N82E16816115029 and this hard drive N82E16822145137. If you get 4 hard drives you'll have 1.5TB of space with one drive being the parity drive.

The only way this drive setup can fail is if multiple drive failures occur at the same time. As long as you keep them cooled the likelihood of this happening is extremely small.

Re: National Geographic Slams Tar Sands – Canadian Politicians Pissed

Colin Fletcher — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:53:52 -0000

Everything they wrote is true. Who gives a fuck which politicians are saying otherwise -- the facts are clear.

Re: Downgrade iPhone 3G Firmware 3.1 Baseband 05.11.07 to 04.26.08

Colin Fletcher — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:08:10 -0000

Fuzzyband will be releasing a new version in a few hours, 24th September - it should allow downgrading the baseband even on bootloaders newer than 5.08

Re: National Geographic Slams Tar Sands – Canadian Politicians Pissed

Colin Fletcher — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:53:52 -0000

Everything they wrote is true. Who gives a fuck which politicians are saying otherwise -- the facts are clear.

Re: Olá, chip da Oi!

Colin Fletcher — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:07:43 -0000

Realmente não dá para negar que a promoção é muuuuito boa - mesmo que use o número somente no período da promoção. Mas aqui da minha cidade - Campinas/SP - Simplesmente não dá pois o sinal é muito fraco. Pelo que pude perceber, há cobertura somente no centro e nos bairros que o circundam. De resto, é um ou outro bairro que funciona. De que adiante os créditos da promoção se você não consegue originar (ou receber) ligações?

É uma pena, pois a intenção foi boa...

Re: Etanolbilar klarar inte miljöbilsgränsen - Allt om Motor

Colin Fletcher — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:00:03 -0000

Precis det jag alltid sagt.

Etanol kommer aldrig att bli räddningen.

Jag vurmar istället för gasbilar och laddhybrider!