Addiction LXVIII
12-05-17, 06:27 PM
#6476
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12-05-17, 06:34 PM
#6477
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So I’m coming close to completing the setup of my new mini-computer. I have always used Corel photo processing products because they were so much cheaper than Adobe and still very highly functional. But when I installed Paint Shop Pro and After Shot Pro (raw processor), the After Shot wouldn’t start up. After poor tech service to fix the problem, I gave up, got credit on the Corel stuff and bought Elements, which I kind of like.
Then I found PS CS6, the last onboard version of PS before the cloud subscription only version took over, on eBay and snagged it for $70. It is a DVD version with internal serial number, so I had to buy a plug-in DVD player ($25) to load it into the computer. So I am about $100 bucks out for the nearly latest version of PS that should last me forever. I am old after all.
I’m waiting for the PS to be delivered. Will let you all know how it works when I get it installed.
The one thing I am not particularly interested in is Lightroom. I have no use for the photo storage organizing functions, and that seems to be the forte of Lightroom.
Stay tuned.
Then I found PS CS6, the last onboard version of PS before the cloud subscription only version took over, on eBay and snagged it for $70. It is a DVD version with internal serial number, so I had to buy a plug-in DVD player ($25) to load it into the computer. So I am about $100 bucks out for the nearly latest version of PS that should last me forever. I am old after all.
I’m waiting for the PS to be delivered. Will let you all know how it works when I get it installed.
The one thing I am not particularly interested in is Lightroom. I have no use for the photo storage organizing functions, and that seems to be the forte of Lightroom.
Stay tuned.
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12-05-17, 06:36 PM
#6480
smelling the roses
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I wish more places would do that. I sometimes have to go for training sessions in locations where parking is problematic i.e. there is none for several blocks. Parking issues and Phoenicians who are usually ten miles over the posted speed limit and rarely use their turn signals have very much encouraged me to take the bus and light-rail. (Plus I would feel odd driving to an event where I'm rehabbing bikes.) The organization pays for mileage but not for a $4 full-day bus pass and I think that's silly. We already have to pay extra to register a car because it has to go through emissions testing because on days like today you can barely see the mountains so why encourage people to contribute to the problem?
12-05-17, 06:40 PM
#6483
Has a magic bike
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"Data" is my favorite. It's already plural. The singular is "datum". However, I challenge anyone to find where the word datum is actually appropriate. It seems you're never just talking about one.
The only place I've seen datum actually used was with regard to earth reference parameters used for cartography. For example "this map projection uses the WGS84 datum." But even then it's wonky, because each datum itself is a collection of data.
I've been waiting to pop out that Neat FactTM that "data is plural" forever, and have yet been able to do so.
The only place I've seen datum actually used was with regard to earth reference parameters used for cartography. For example "this map projection uses the WGS84 datum." But even then it's wonky, because each datum itself is a collection of data.
I've been waiting to pop out that Neat FactTM that "data is plural" forever, and have yet been able to do so.
But if the idea I'm trying to convey is adequately communicated- well, that's the point, isn't it?
We have a modern idea that our language is a fixed thing that should abide by rules. When in fact it is an evolving, living thing that will be significantly different two or three generations from now.
Poets do this all the time, Shakespeare was the king. If it suited his purposes to say data instead of datum, he would have done it in a heartbeat. And then maybe added dayahvam for good measure. Hindu word, connected to English language poetry through TS Eliot. Imagine! Using a Hindu word for its literal meaning but also for how it sounds, whereas I'm using it because of how it is spelled.
When I was in college and my life revolved around poetry, I wrote a maybe twenty page term paper on the idea that the entire key to understanding Chaucer's 8000 line poem, Troilus and Cressida, was to realize that there were alternate pronunciations in Middle English to the word "Heart" and based on the rhyme scheme Chaucer was using, it should have been pronounced each of those two ways when the word was repeated in consecutive lines, giving you a clue to what was in Cressida's heart and therefore why she did what she did. Was she a ***** because she was a b itch, or were the fates forcing her to be a b itch?
<Ans: it was the fates, IMO>
Anyway. Chaucer was a pretty clever dude. He intended "heart" to be pronounced "heart" the first time and "heart-uh" the second time, and if you were sitting there hearing this poem recited/performed as you might have in 1380-whatever and you were paying attention, you'd have that A Ha! moment and maybe get the gist of this story.
Whereas nowadays someone would chime in and tell the performer: It's pronounced heart not heart-uh!
TL/DR language is a fluid thing.
12-05-17, 06:48 PM
#6484
Token Canadian
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12-05-17, 07:07 PM
#6486
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12-05-17, 07:09 PM
#6487
serious cyclist
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Poetry and music have always abided by different rules. And I am totally on board with language evolving and warping it to suit your purposes, but there is a difference between intentionally changing something to better convey your point and lazy ignorance causing people to say things that make no sense.
12-05-17, 07:09 PM
#6488
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12-05-17, 07:10 PM
#6489
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I wish more places would do that. I sometimes have to go for training sessions in locations where parking is problematic i.e. there is none for several blocks. Parking issues and Phoenicians who are usually ten miles over the posted speed limit and rarely use their turn signals have very much encouraged me to take the bus and light-rail. (Plus I would feel odd driving to an event where I'm rehabbing bikes.) The organization pays for mileage but not for a $4 full-day bus pass and I think that's silly. We already have to pay extra to register a car because it has to go through emissions testing because on days like today you can barely see the mountains so why encourage people to contribute to the problem?
12-05-17, 07:14 PM
#6490
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The plant has been purchased by Rivian Automotive but I have no idea if they are actually doing anything there (DSM factory) other than storing VWs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivian_Automotive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivian_Automotive
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12-05-17, 07:16 PM
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The plant has been purchased by Rivian Automotive but I have no idea if they are actually doing anything there (DSM factory) other than storing VWs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivian_Automotive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivian_Automotive
12-05-17, 07:16 PM
#6492
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I wrote a maybe twenty page term paper on the idea that the entire key to understanding Chaucer's 8000 line poem, Troilus and Cressida, was to realize that there were alternate pronunciations in Middle English to the word "Heart" and based on the rhyme scheme Chaucer was using, it should have been pronounced each of those two ways when the word was repeated in consecutive lines, giving you a clue to what was in Cressida's heart and therefore why she did what she did. Was she a ***** because she was a b itch, or were the fates forcing her to be a b itch?
P.S. Figuring out Middle Age pronunciations is an inexact science. We have no recordings.
12-05-17, 07:17 PM
#6493
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12-05-17, 07:20 PM
#6494
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12-05-17, 07:21 PM
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12-05-17, 07:22 PM
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Crankwalk wasn't really a thing unless you mounted a really high effort clutch. Keep the pressure plate spring force reasonable at it would last forever.
12-05-17, 07:23 PM
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My son and sister both had '95 Eagle Talons. I sold my sister's for decent money after she passed away in 2013. It only had 35,000 miles on it. I wanted to keep it but my wife said she didn't want three cars around the place. 
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12-05-17, 07:25 PM
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This is me.
12-05-17, 07:25 PM
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12-05-17, 07:31 PM
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