Posts for: TheShoe
May 11, 2024 14:08:56 #
A. T. wrote:
I crop extensively myself and I just can't believe that there are those who claim they don't. I'm a wildlife photographer and even with some of the mega zooms, I find myself needing to crop. So many view cropping as some evil process that the crop boogie man will get you.
I gave up pixel peeping years ago, when I switched to DxO.
May 11, 2024 14:04:26 #
AzPicLady wrote:
Has anyone seen or heard from Cany143 lately? I'm having withdrawal pains from his beautiful pictures.
He did have some recent posts, uo to his usual standards.
May 9, 2024 12:21:44 #
SueScott wrote:
I thought the tree was a distraction but it's interesting to see other opinions.
It does seem to be a bit of a distraction. Maybe a compromise, cutout the greenery to the right and some of the trunk would work.
May 8, 2024 16:55:53 #
jerryc41 wrote:
It's unfortunate that we have the terminology we d... (show quote)
They did not run out of numbers, there are an infinite number of them
May 8, 2024 16:50:16 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Never get off the ground doesn't mean safe. All three astronaults were killed in the Apollo 1 that never got off the ground.
After that happened, my father-in-law, a Boeing engineer working at Redstone Arsenal, was in a group tasked with finding a way for the astronauts to escape if something happened while they were still on the platform. They found the quickest, most reliable solution was the least technical way. It was a zip-line over a baricade.
May 8, 2024 16:36:04 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
Around 1959 I took a computer programming course. It used Symbolic Optimum Assembly Procedure which had a two-part command. The first part was the operation to be performed and the second part was the location of the next instruction on the drum memory. You had to refer to a table that told you how many milliseconds the instruction took to complete so you could figure out how far the drum memory had turned.
My first program was on an IBM 650. It used a rotating drum for its memory. That was also in 1959. We had no courses. Freshmen did not get any assembly or compiler access. We had to do the optimization ourselves. I miss the Shift Left 15 key.
May 8, 2024 01:48:53 #
Bridges wrote:
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On previous page, but this is it
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/declarations-of-war.htm
May 7, 2024 12:36:32 #
Lucian wrote:
I'm Welsh I know what you mean. Our longest word in Welsh and I believe the second longest word in the world is: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch however, we just abbreviate (now why is that such a long word?) it to Llanfair PG. It basically tells a story rather than be just one word, about a house with a white gate down by the river etc.
In English, the Brits would invent some kind of Cockney slang for it, while in the US we would use "sander" instead of "sanding machine".
May 7, 2024 12:28:32 #
Bridges wrote:
No, when the US declared war on Japan, Germany, being an Axis power with Japan, declared war on the US. I can't answer whether we would have remained neutral but because of Germany's alliance with Japan, it would have eventually gotten involved.
Follow the link.
May 6, 2024 18:23:09 #
Delderby wrote:
Your population figures include mothers and babies. The total population of the UK in 1939 was 39,000,000.
You are correct in that the US did not declare war on Germany.
You are correct in that the US did not declare war on Germany.
The US declared war on Japan Dec 8, 1941 and on Germany and Italy 3 days later.
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/declarations-of-war.htm
May 3, 2024 15:55:40 #
PAR4DCR wrote:
Which delivery method did you choose? 😂😂
Don
Don
And what is a Master Express card?
May 2, 2024 00:45:13 #
twowindsbear wrote:
Would someone please identify this spider? I think it may be a wolf spider, seems a bit small, though. I hope it's not a brown recluse!
I apologize for the quality of the pic, too. It's a heavily cropped, one-handed iPhone capture in my kitchen.
Thanks in advance
ps And, there's no possibility of another pic of this spider. It's well squished, quite mangled & in the trash!
Serious replies, preferred.
I apologize for the quality of the pic, too. It's a heavily cropped, one-handed iPhone capture in my kitchen.
Thanks in advance
ps And, there's no possibility of another pic of this spider. It's well squished, quite mangled & in the trash!
Serious replies, preferred.
Definitely not a Brown Recluse. I am not familiar with the Hobo, but it could be a Wolf.
May 2, 2024 00:32:23 #
May 1, 2024 01:42:28 #
TriX wrote:
Was this written by chatGPT or a similar AI application? 
Trix,
That looks like a fine analysis.
Apr 30, 2024 18:43:22 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Thanks so much, John! I'm trying to see more outside the box Not sure of the below that I just finished editing. Perhaps relies too much on special effects?
Not sure of the below that I just finished editing. Perhaps relies too much on special effects?Your first cut conveys the silence of the playground without kids very well. The color version does not. This darker version seems almost sinister.