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GeekNights Monday - Specialized Peripherals
Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about specialized input devices like drawing tablets and knobs. In other news, Sandy Hook's ferry has a weird problem, Delta's operations is crippled by bad IT, and Edward Snowden is not dead.
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As for peripherals, at my old work place for 3D scanning we had a USB turntable that would rotate in increments, for automatic object scanning. I don't think it had an official drivers/ software. 100% of the time we'd rotate it manually.
Wacom tablets is definitely a necessity for Photoshop/ Lightroom, I have the small Bamboo. Really need a Cintiq. The Bamboos are now rebranded Intuos, which isn't a good idea, since they're still entry level products. The pressure sensitivity makes a big difference. Especially when you have fine control over pressure curves with the professional models.
The only other 'exotic' peripheral I have is a colorimeter, which I actually don't really need at the moment, since I don't have an IPS monitor. However using it confirmed for me which monitors where good/ bad. I ended up chucking out a bunch of monitors and defaulting to using my LED TV for photoshop work. The calibration also means my TV now uses it's best possible settings.
Professional monitors are likely to have built-in colorimeters, so it's kind of redundant now. Have no real use for it anymore.
Which one? Standard English, the common ancestor of modern English.
There are many standard Englishes, as many as there are countries that speak English, and they are all taught in their respective countries. Standard American English is mostly based on how Midwestern people spoke in the early 1900s (see Walter Cronkite). Every other country that speaks English has their own mostly artificial prestige dialect.
Suggesting that everyone who learns English learn a variety that less than five percent of British people speak is not just unfeasible, it's not something that most English language learners want, and it's boring. Accents are fun! Everybody sounding the same so you don't have to suffer through "Could you say that again?" isn't worth it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920
If the Jones act is the reason their doing it, but they've got ferries just up the road that run normally, the one that services Sandy Hook might not be US-built. Any way the people who ride it could find out?
People will understand what you're saying here more likely due to American TV shows being quite popular.
I can see why many Brits might think you can't speak the Queen's English, mainly because the majority have messed it up so poorly!
Cop exchange was an interesting thought of something that I had seen with firefighters in Australian exchanging with Californian firefighters.
As of a year ago Apple computer has over $200 billion just in cash in the bank not doing anything. I see no reason not to tax that money at 90% or even 100%. Not hyperbole.
Sheldon Adelson, one of the most evil rich people around, is worth about $30 billion. Fuck him over, take 28 or 29 of those billions and he can still live in idle perfect luxury with the worlds most expensive cars and mansions until he dies (hopefully soon).