Comment Re:Bloody really?!?! Another one? (Score 4, Insightful) 233
I haven't logged in for months, and seeing this blatant of an advertisement is sadly the first thing I've been pissed off about enough to comment. This is ridiculous. Crappy articles, ok, whatever. What makes Slashdot worth coming to is the comments. Put up enough crappy advertising and the people who make those comments will go elsewhere.
Journal Journal: Still here?
Slashdot is still here. Amazing.
Comment Re:How much of the cheater is in the filler classe (Score 1) 333
Wow. Sounds like someone who is out of touch with the modern university experience. There are filler classes, and the closer you get to state school, the more there are, less so at more expensive schools. Usually in the US, they're there to meet state mandated education requirements / accreditation requirements. Basic grammar, any subject you may have encountered in high school, etc - these are 'filler'. Find me a course catalog and I will find you filler.
Comment Re:f.lux (Score 1) 351
Just started using f.lux two weeks ago, love it. I no longer feel like I'm staring into a flashlight!
Comment Re:News Flash: Apple limits app store! (Score 1) 664
A private company does what they want with their store. You don't like it and demand that they change. Your demands matter *why*? Any argument demonstrating why Apple should care about your demands would be an incredibly fascinating one to hear.
Comment Where's the thesaurus? (Score 1) 180
It lists synonyms, but where's a decent online thesaurus when you need one? I've tried a few and most of them are useless, or hopelessly ad-cluttered or both
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Comment Re:On the other hand... (Score 1) 94
if it was a fun, well-made game... Tons of people would buy it. The news might make a fuss, but then even more people would buy it. In fact, if someone made a snuff film simulator... Er.. Wait, they already did.
Comment how hard can it be? (Score 1) 165
Not to belittle the achievement, but how hard can it be to make something that won't crumple? Does every bit of equipment need to be at 1 atmosphere for it to function? Are there no solid-state components?
Comment Innovation, but at what cost? (Score 1) 281
Innovation at the cost of a sane healthcare system is worth less than nothing.
Comment Re:Cropping is a big win for pixel count (Score 1) 596
Large format film is ridiculously expensive in terms of processing costs, though if you're loaded like some hobbyist photographers, you *could* shoot everything in 8x10 and blow portions of it up as needed.
Or get a Hasselblad H3D.
Comment Re:I want... (Score 1) 596
All these things you want to do are quite possible with digital cameras, though you'll have to get a digital SLR.
Some compacts do have exposure compensation settings, and high shutter speeds, for silhouettes and stopping waterfalls. For making them blurry, well, even digital photographers still use ND filters.
Film or digital, it's the person behind the camera that makes the difference, not the technology.
Comment Re:I've seen a little of that (Score 1) 1316
A short list is worth what you get out of it. If it is indistinguishable from empty promises that every other employer makes to the second place candidate for a position, why should *anyone* do as you request? Basically, you are under the impression that you're holding a large carrot while the rest of the world sees you holding absolutely nothing on the end of that string, and your requests are given weight accordingly.
Comment Re:Looking to dabble into a bit of photography mys (Score 1) 295
What can't you do with a P&S or "prosumer" camera?
That you should even ask such a question highlights the depths of your ignorance. Slashdot requiring analogies, you're asking why someone would want a desktop running linux instead of a simple calculator. I mean, what can't you do with a simple calculator? That sudden flood of answers that comes to your mind? Very akin to flood of answers that come to mind given your question about P&S cameras.