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by nessus42 14y ago
Are we supposed to find the "uneditorialized composition" to be any less amazing than the modern renderings? Personally, I don't find that to be the case. Though I do find the "uneditorialized" version to have a greenish cast that if I were
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by nessus42 14y ago
"Infinity" may not be a number, but omega is a number, and it is transfinite. Omega is the first transfinite ordinal. You are certainly correct, however, that Cantor's hotel does not need to have any rooms with transfinite room numbers.
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by nessus42 14y ago
You certainly can't have infinite hotels in physics, but it would be incorrect to assert that we have any good reason to believe that infinite quantities can't exist in nature. For instance, the model of the universe most widely accepted by
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by nessus42 14y ago
Nice try at what ? Yet another post by 001sky that insinuates everything and states nothing!
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by nessus42 14y ago
> I am perplexed by those who would argue against anyone who asks for a more than what Apple is giving I am perplexed by people who criticize a great product because it is not the particular great product that they want. Other compani
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by nessus42 14y ago
I'm a pretty big fan of my iPhone, but I would never think of shelling out the extra dough required to do an early upgrade. For people like me, the market for the iPhone 5 is not for someone who already owns an iPhone 4S, but rather for som
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by nessus42 14y ago
Perhaps it it is telling when someone claims to be an expert in photography and doesn't know the difference between a "long exposure" and a "long lens". Talk about drunk at the bar shit! Furthermore, half of your little diatribe there misat
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by nessus42 14y ago
> This is pure [classic] trolling. If anyone here is a troll, it is you. Only you haven't been coherent enough to be trolling in the traditional fashion. It seems perhaps that you have invented a new style of trolling: State things wi
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by nessus42 14y ago
APL? Does anyone use this anymore? APL was actually the first real programming language I learned, 35 year ago! It was very cool and mind-bending, and has hugely influenced the way I think today. APL has also been hugely influential on the
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by nessus42 14y ago
So, if I understand you correctly now, based on this response and your recent response to michrassena, is that your argument does not claim that these new renderings of Proudin-Gorsky's work are less of a window into a past reality than any
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by nessus42 14y ago
I'm a nerd through and through too. Being a nerd doesn't mean that you can't have an appreciation for some kinds of humanities, though, especially if you take a very analytical approach to it. E.g., Psychology at MIT is rather scientific, a
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by nessus42 14y ago
MIT certainly doesn't have the humanities breadth of Harvard, for instance, but the humanities that MIT does have are remarkably good. Some of my fellow MIT students at the time went to MIT because they thought the extra-curricular music
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by nessus42 14y ago
I guess the problem I have with everything you are saying is that you still seem to be implying that somehow the wool is being pulled over our eyes. That the restored Proudin-Gorsky images are more fabrication than an honest attempt to fait
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by nessus42 14y ago
> None of the film emulsions (prior to NC portra) really give you a contemporary look. To get that, you have to bring the image into digital. I went back and had a look at the photos, and you do have a point. The ones that are most st
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by nessus42 14y ago
Alrighty then. I know something about color theory. I even know some arcania, such as the fact that the X and Y coordinates of the XYZ color space are on the projective plane and that the XYZ color space contains non-existent colors. Let me
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by nessus42 14y ago
I understand all of that, and none of that contradicts anything I've said. Technicolor starts with three monochrome images on black and white silver negative film, just as these images started. So once we have the negatives, Technicolor use
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by nessus42 14y ago
I understand how this type of color photography works, as does anyone who read the article, since the article explained it. It's basically the same as Technicolor, which was invented only a few years after these photos were taken. Though Te
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by nessus42 14y ago
I'm not really sure what the point of your assertions is. I think that everyone here understands that they did not have the technology 100 years ago to produce prints, transparencies, or projections that look this good. A seeming insinuatio
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by nessus42 14y ago
I am so very glad that someone wrote this issue up in detail. The fact that the Unix filesystem makes it extremely difficult to write correct scripts and to issue non-problematic commands at the shell is Unix's biggest flaw. The whole point
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by nessus42 14y ago
A spring-loaded SD-slot that is not covered by a latching panel sounds like an extremely poor idea to me. All my cameras have such latching panels, but I can understand why Apple did not want to do that on their MacBooks.
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by nessus42 14y ago
I have no opinion on Strunk & White, but boy, oh boy, is the criticism of it that you linked to by Geoff Pullum pedantic!
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by nessus42 14y ago
>Offshore is, most of the times, about getting the same quality of work at cheaper cost. If this is true, then we're all in deep sh*t, as we'll all be working for Chinese-level wages soon.
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by nessus42 14y ago
I'm not sure why everyone who is commenting here seems to think that this story is about the student's essay -- it isn't. It doesn't matter if her essay was right or wrong, well-written or junk; the important part of the story is that she w
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by nessus42 14y ago
> The don't need to, they got Microsoft to buy a license. I'd be willing to bet good money the the reason that Apple licensed iOS UI patents to Microsoft was to make Microsoft sign something saying that they wouldn't copy the iOS UI
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by nessus42 14y ago
> I am vehemently against Apple in their IP crusade - which I wholeheartedly believe is to stifle competition Who has Apple sued that aren't blatantly copying the iOS UI? Are they suing Microsoft over Windows Phone? Are they suing HP
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by nessus42 14y ago
Putting a small amount of liquid nitrogen on your tongue does not cause any trouble, as long as you don't swallow it. I have a friend who used to do this frequently. See a comment I made elsewhere on this story for more details
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by nessus42 14y ago
When we were in high school, a friend of mine used to get liquid nitrogen from his father, who was a chemist, and put it on his tongue and blow smoke out his mouth and nose. I thought he was nuts! That he would crack a tooth, or some such,
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by nessus42 14y ago
All I can imagine is the sinking feeling I get when I see a ticket on my car. I start fuming about the nice meal I might have eaten for that $50. Maybe if I were a VC, I'd be rolling in so much money that I'd never think twice about $50. On
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by nessus42 14y ago
Personally, I would be rather peeved to be advertised to in this way. I wouldn't find it clever or cute--I would just find it annoying. I would not end up with a good impression of the company, and I wouldn't want to do business with it. On
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by nessus42 14y ago
My eyes are shot too, but I find that the sharper text on my Retina iPhone is a godsend. I find that the sharper the text is, the easier it is for my aged-vision eyes to focus on. Also, even if many people don't care about the difference, I

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