Does that imply that I need to remove the lenscap first??? No wonder all my shots come out black. I thought it was because I didn't have a
battery in my meter.
Why Analogue Film in a digital Age?
They say there's more dark matter in the universe anyway.
That's reason enough to disappear into a black hole. But if you are in fact in Maui and not just ribbing me, what is a lot more beautiful than a black hole or Lahaina is that stretch of the hill around 4000 ft elevation that looks an awful lot like Marin. Always wonderful light around there. And the jacarunda trees should be in bloom on that stretch of road right about now, if you are in fact there. And at the moment, I am drinking
some Maui-grown coffee. So just to irritate you, I did respond.
Shit I just broke the slider I pushed it up so far.
(As gently as I can muster while suppressing a mischievous grin...
That "slider" can't be broken because it's not real. It's an abstracted virtual simulation of a real sliding trim potentiometer. The abstraction is designed to provide the user with just enough sense of a real appearance so as to make the functionality connection with a real potentiometer easily apparent. That in turn leverages the user's prior knowledge so no new training is required to immediately put the simulation to use.
Further, the implementation of that slider abstraction already knows about the user's penchant for emotionally slamming real sliders too far in frustrated attempts to get more of what they think it is they want in post-processing.
So design envelope boundaries have been established and also implemented in code beyond the user's control to preempt this behavior. The user can continue pushing his mouse off the desk and out the window onto the pavement below, and that little simulated slider will continue to stop at its upper limit without "breaking" every single time.
You see, the key to a successful software simulation is to assert extremely tight control over the user to keep him firmly within the applicable abstract design envelope, while at the same time making him believe that he has full and complete control over his actions. But he doesn't. He can't be trusted to...
It's very much analogous to pacifying a petulant child after saying no by offering up three new options for him to choose between, all of which have already been pre-vetted by you as being acceptable. Implement that correctly and the child feels vindicated because he really did get his way in the end by making his own final choice.)
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Ken
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So design envelope boundaries have been established and also implemented in code beyond the user's control to preempt this behavior. The user can continue pushing his mouse off the desk and out the window onto the pavement below, and that little simulated slider will continue to stop at its upper limit without "breaking" every single time.
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But I have Photoshop Pro Plus Extreme.
With the Lik Peter, plug in.
I can even make a guy from Washington state look like he has a tan.
Perhaps a marketing opportunity is being missed here. If the software recognized the rapid slider movement as operator exasperation, then it could "break" the slider. The user would then have to authorize a "repair order" for some nominal fee and this would add to the company's revenue.
A former coworker of mine now works for a well-known company that creates postprocessing software; he writes plug-ins. I'll fly this past him.
Well, I'm still drinking real Maui coffee today,.......
But the Maui Wowie is running low here...Thanks. But no need to bother. We've got quite a reserve of Kona at the moment.
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)
Oh shit I dunno. Why drive a Ferrari Dino 246 when there's plenty of Hondas?
But the Maui Wowie is running low here...
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