He doesn't travel well. He's like fine shrimp.

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Spidra Webster - Nov 28, 2010 4:26:49 pm PST #15503 of 25501
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

Thanks, ita. I figured it was something their designers would be choosing but the person communicating with me knows even less about that stuff than I do.


§ ita § - Nov 28, 2010 4:30:32 pm PST #15504 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is it a scanned photo? In that case it would have a DPI, relative to the size it was as an original, but I couldn't tell you how to find that in iPhoto.


Spidra Webster - Nov 28, 2010 4:32:43 pm PST #15505 of 25501
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

No. It's a photo I took. This publisher is interested in it for a book. And she said "we are looking for most (photos) at 300dpi at 8x10".


§ ita § - Nov 28, 2010 4:35:42 pm PST #15506 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

300 DPI at 8x10 means 300x8 pixels wide and 300x10 pixels long. So, 2400x3200 pixels.


Spidra Webster - Nov 28, 2010 5:12:46 pm PST #15507 of 25501
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

Oh well. My camera seems to do 1536 x 2048. Looks like they'll have to search around for another photo of an uncommon pear variety...


tommyrot - Nov 29, 2010 2:24:16 pm PST #15508 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Comcast Puts Tollbooth on Net Video, Says Backbone Provider

Comcast strong-armed one of the nation’s biggest internet backbone providers, Level 3, into paying extra to deliver movies to Comcast customers, Level 3 announced Monday, describing it as a violation of open internet principles.

“Comcast is putting up a toll booth at the borders of its broadband Internet access network, enabling it to unilaterally decide how much to charge for content which competes with its own cable TV and Xfinity delivered content,” Level 3 chief legal officer Thomas Stortz said in a press release.

Level 3 is a major “backbone” provider which carries large amounts of traffic from ISP to ISP, and in some cases, from large corporate clients to ISPs. One of Level 3’s biggest clients is Netflix, which provides on-demand video services that have grown to an estimated 20 percent of net traffic during peak evening hours.


Gudanov - Nov 30, 2010 5:14:22 am PST #15509 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

It sucks that ISPs that have a near monopoly on broadband access also have a conflict of interest. It's gonna hold the U.S. back in electronic infrastructure.


le nubian - Nov 30, 2010 9:34:56 am PST #15510 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

agreed. I am very pissed off at Comcast. but I've always been pissed at them, so status quo has not changed.


Typo Boy - Dec 01, 2010 3:06:55 pm PST #15511 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Any thoughts on lightweight voice control software. I'm not thinking true text-to-speach. Just something that can substitute for mouse clicks and and cursor typing. So I can say right-click, left-click, up-arrow, down-arrow, shift-this, alt-that. Keep my hand mostly on keyboard and not have to use mouse so much. I want low low memory and processor profile, so NOT Dragon Naturally Speaking. Does such a thing exist?


Liese S. - Dec 01, 2010 3:17:47 pm PST #15512 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

What operating system are you on? Some of them come with basic voice stuff these days.