Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[dragoner]

I've never used a back hoe, but I did get to use one of those tracked, ride-behind augers.. I felt a sense of immense power

I was using one enough that I contemplated buying a used one, the real issue is where to store it. Mechanized work is great, dig a foundation in a day or two, easy, and it's fun.

 

[Deset Gled]

ISO is still a handy notation for light sensitivity and the "F" rating of a lens is the ratio between the lens's focal length and the aperture size. It would be nice if it was a linear arrangement, but nature tends to like a logarithm. Photography is mental math or, perhaps more appropriately, mental guesstimation when done on the fly. I'm lazy and typically use aperture mode because I know the depth of field I want in a given situation, and have it in my head what ISO I'll need for a rough shutter speed (for motorsports). ISO takes precedent in stills because I want the lowest ISO I can manage, in order to reduce noise.

There is still utility in the "old ways."

Its handy notation, but it's also kinda lying to the user about the actual variables they're adjusting. ISO in film typically relates to grain size (or chemical sensitivity), but pixel dimensions and quantum efficiency are essentially fixed on a digital camera. What you're really adjusting is (hopefully) a sensor gain or readout setting, or (hopefully not) just some software adjustment to dynamic range or a mystery combination of things. Likewise, while some digital cameras do have a physical aperture, what a lot of cell phone cameras call an f stop adjustment is actually a post-process bokeh effect.

Anyway, my bigger point is that I think the hypothetical guy you were talking about would be more likely to acknowledge that his knowledge was out of date if current UI was a bit more honest about what it's doing under the hood. YMMV.

 

[soviet]

Ignored posters are like black holes, you can tell they are there by the reaction posts of others.

 

[J.Quondam]

Ignored posters are like black holes, you can tell they are there by the reaction posts of others.

The dark matter of the internet.

 

[soviet]

The dark matter of the internet.

Does dark mean fecal?

 

[Hussar]

I learned today I was on someone's ignore list and I have no idea who they are.

 

[soviet]

I learned today I was on someone's ignore list and I have no idea who they are.

So metaphysically they were already on your IL? That's pretty meta

 

[Deset Gled]

I learned today I was on someone's ignore list and I have no idea who they are.

I have never interacted with at least three users who have me on ignore. At least two people who have me on ignore have less than 50 posts. And at least two people put me on ignore as one of their last acts on ENWorld before (voluntarily) leaving the site.



I would apologize to some of them, but that's not really how ignore lists work.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I didn't intend to take a hiatus... but uh.. somehow Enworld ended up on the blacklist at work.. And I just don't use the PC much while I'm at home so my ENworld time plummeted drastically.

I could go back and watch with the subtitles, but I kind of like the mystery.

Some blacklists confuse anything that references "game" with "gambling". I determined that was the issue when I couldn't access any of my fora while on lunch working at a courthouse for a while.

 

[soviet]

I have never interacted with at least three users who have me on ignore. At least two people who have me on ignore have less than 50 posts. And at least two people put me on ignore as one of their last acts on ENWorld before (voluntarily) leaving the site.



I would apologize to some of them, but that's not really how ignore lists work.

My assumption is that pure sexiness is a bannable offence to some people