Does that really what atheist extremists do ? Talk about space, aliens or parallel worlds and stuff ? or this is clearly a manipulation ? and Hey check out PKK please :) The idea behind this organization is practically based on marksism & leninism so that makes them atheist as well, right ? correct me if I'm wrong. So what they do? They bomb and kill innocent people in Turkey , does not even matter if they are babies, youngsters or women.
- mcd
Seems if this was a equal opportunity parody, the Aethists would be bombing nativity scenes and Christmas trees ;)
- Johnny
from iPhone
Except I haven't heard of atheists bombing either of those things.
- ronin
I think they just throw barbed wit and strongly worded missives.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Atheists are too busy doing important things like scrubbing blessings off of highways.
- Akiva
Rene, PKK does not represent all Kurdish community in Turkey and yes, most of the kurdish people are not atheist, I agree with that and I sort of agree with the second part too, the way those govs threated kurdish people was all wrong. However, kurdish people is not my main point here, what I was trying to say and honestly I admit it seems that I am not intellectual enough to do that...
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- mcd
"The data show that there is little connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, or any one of the world's religions." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Why would other forms of violence be any different?
- Bruce Lewis
friendfeed'i ecnebinin kullanıyor olduğuna inanamıyorum. herkes bir kişi için ingilizce konuşuyor olabilir.
- otisaga
PKK is an islamist organisation AFAIK
- Onur Yalazı
tudor, hello, how are you? are they paying you well in friendfeed? will friendfeed close down? can you save my data for me? can you give me op?
- otisaga
براش یک ماگ خریده بودم که عکس شیر روش داشت :دی زده شکونده الاغ
- ladanooo
الاغه دیگه. نمی دونه با همین شیر به جایی رسیده که بهش بگیم: فوژان جهانی شد. لیاقتش اب هویجه اصن :))))
- mhmazidi
اذیت نکن بچه ام رو فعلا رو مود دفاع از فوژانم :دی
- ladanooo
خوبه. الان دوباره فوژان ساده دل گولتو میخوره بهت اعتماد میکنه. باز چند وقت دیگه که از مود در اومدی میزنیم لهش میکنم. هووووفوژان کوشی؟ :)))))
- mhmazidi
ببین مزیدی سقفش همین هشتاد تاست بیشتر نمیشه شخم نزن اینو:))))))))))
- فوژان
من اگه 100 سال هم طول بکشه مایوس نمی شم. :)) اون اول رو ببین لادن چی گفت: فوژان جهانی شد. تا جهانی تر شدن تو یه قدم بیش نیست. نهضت ادامه دارد :دی
- mhmazidi
باز کی اینو شخم زد؟ ای بابا نکنین دیگه :دی
- mhmazidi
حالا ایستگاه بعدی هزار لایک هست. کمپین حمایت از هزار لایک :)) این دفعه تازه می خوام این عکسو بفرستم تو گودر اونجا هم کلی در موردش بگیم بخندیم
- mhmazidi
یا حضرت خضر:)) خدا سوسکت میکنه آخر یه روز:)))))) یاد کافکا بخیر
- فوژان
فوژان مقصد بعدی ما 1000 لایک هست. مگه نشنیدی میگن راه قدس از کربلا می گذرد. ما الان تازه کربلا رو فتح کردیم. مقصد بعدی نابودی اسراییل هستش . یا حسین :))
- mhmazidi
فوژان: یاد کاراکتر «جیگر» تو سریال کلاه قرمزی افتادم که وقتی یه نفر پاشو لگد می کرد با اون معصومیت فوق العاده اش و با صدای زیباش می پرسید: چراااا؟ :)))
- mhmazidi
تو روحت به خدا اگه یه اپسیلن اغراق کنم :دی
- فوژان
فوژان می بینی؟ همش تقصیره این لادن لادانوی ورزشگاه آزادی هست. همش میاد خیلی مارموزانه این فید رو میاره بالا که تو رو اذیت کنه تازه به اسم من هم دربیاد.
- mhmazidi
راستی فوژان: از وقتی این لادن نکبت آوتارشو این ریختی کرده اسمشو گذاشتیم : ورزشگاه آزادی. اخه ادمو یاد این بوقچی های تو ورزشگاه می ندازه که دارن قرمز یا ابی رو تشویق می کنن. :))
- mhmazidi
From the article: "Movieline spoke with filmmaker James Kerwin, who lectured on the subject of the science of film perception and consciousness at the University of Arizona’s Center for Consciousness Studies. (His presentation included an analysis of the work of Dr. Stuart Hameroff and British cosmologist/philosopher Roger Penrose, and their quantum theory of consciousness.) According to Kerwin, there really is a simple scientific answer for why The Hobbit’s 48 fps presentation plays so poorly with some viewers — and it's not something we'll get used to over time."
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from Bookmarklet
James Kerwin: “Studies seem to show that most humans see about 66 frames per second — that’s how we see reality through our eyes, and our brains. So you would think that 48 frames per second is sufficiently below that — that it would look very different from reality. But what people aren’t taking into account is the fact that although we see 66 frames per second, neuroscientists and consciousness researchers are starting to realize that we’re only consciously aware of 40 moments per second.”
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
He continues: "'Dr. Hameroff’s theory has to do with the synchrony of the gamma waves in the brain — it’s called gamma synchrony — the brain wave cycle of 40 hertz. There’s a very strong theory that that is why we perceive 40 moments per second, but regardless of the reason, most researchers agree we perceive 40 conscious moments per second. In other words: our eyes see more than that...
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- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
And he concludes: "Those high frame rates are great for reality television, and we accept them because we know these things are real. We’re always going to associate high frame rates with something that’s not acted, and our brains are always going to associate low frame rates with something that is not. It’s not a learned behavior; [Some say] you watch it long enough and you won’t...
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- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I find his argument utterly absurd. When I watch a play, I know that I'm watching something that isn't real. Depending on my seat, I can see the actors spit, I can sometimes see their makeup, or their street clothes under their costumes. But if the play is good and the acting is good, none of that matters, I quickly get absorbed into the reality the play conjures.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I think the same applies to The Hobbit in 48fps. It took some time for me to get used to it, but the quality of the acting and the sets and the drama quickly drew me in. None of what Kerwin asserts above in his conclusion was true for me.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Yeah, I don't agree - at least partially because I've seen some higher frame-rate stuff, and after a bit, you just get used to it. (I skipped it for my first watch through of the Hobbit, at least partially so my reaction to the frame rate wouldn't color how I felt about the film)
- Jennifer Dittrich
In 10 or 20 years, we'll look at 24 fps in much the same way we look at black & white -- an interesting stylistic choice from a bygone era, but not the way movies are made anymore.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I heard that The Hobbit was being offered in 6 different combinations of 24/48, IMAX, and 3D options. Clearly you need to go see it in a few different presentations and report your findings.
- Brian Johns
If they want to keep the high frame rate while bringing back the suspension of disbelief, they can just play it back to us at a slightly higher rate than it was captured like in the old days :D #peopleusedtowalkreallyfastbeforecolor
- Eivind
The 66 fps figure is based simply on the temporal resolution capabilities of cones. If you went with the temporal resolution of rods, it would be 10 fps. The other thing to keep in mind is that you only have high resolution vision in a very small fraction of your retina. The only reason why things don't look blurry on the periphery is because we have automatic saccades, allowing us to...
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- Victor Ganata
I think gamers will not mind 48fps, as we're already used to suspension of disbelief at high frame rates.
- Tudor Bosman
from Android
I'm not convinced it's not learned behavior. I do think that higher frame rates require more effort to maintain suspension of disbelief, but if you're a kid who has never seen anything with low frame rates, I imagine 48 fps would detract a lot less from your experience.
- Victor Ganata
I'm a gamer and I strongly dislike high frame rates for scripted entertainment. HFR is great for sports, and more importantly for games, it's critical to reducing lag, which is key for twitch games. But I don't think it looks /good/ in scripted entertainment shown on a screen. (Live theater is an absolutely different thing from HFR video.)
- Andrew C (✓)
Difference between a play and a movie: One is a 2-D projection, one is real things in a real space. Can't really compare the two
- Johnny
from iPhone
But that has been the selling point of HFR: that it looks more real. I'm just saying, not so. HFR absolutely does not look more like real life. (It might avoid things like judder that 24 fps suffers from, but it's still not convincingly real.)
- Andrew C (✓)
So which is it? Is 48 fps "too real" as the critics and this article try to argue, or not real enough? This article tries to have it both ways. It's clear to me that 48 fps is objectively a better image (more free from blur and judder). We're just not used to it for movies. Yet.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Is HFR more like talkies (which pushed silent cinema into oblivion) and color film (did the same to b&W) or 3D, which has continually been promising to dethrone 2D since the 1950s and still hasn't? That is, I disagree that it's objectively better. (I also disagree with HFR defenders who try to dismiss modern HDTV's motion-smoothing interpolation modes as not indicative of real HFR. IMO...
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- Andrew C (✓)
I think a lot of people find high frame rates uncanny, and I do think it's rooted in physiology, but not necessarily for the reasons people state.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
The thing with games is that, even the best graphics cannot be confused for real-life, so I don't think you can compare to live action movies.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
I had no problems with the hobbit's images, I'm not sure there's any science to it except people - especially in the US - are used to weird refesh systems on their TVs and this is different... I found the 3D totally unhelpful though, most of the time it gets in the way
- Iphigenie
There have been studies about frame rates (mainly about degradation of video streams over low bandwidth connections) and most people just don't need that many frames per second to perceive something as smooth motion, although the necessary fps is highly context dependent. The other side is that most people find excessive sensory stimulus annoying, and the difference between watching a movie and real-life (which you would expect to be more excessive in terms of stimulus) are our automatic saccades.
- Victor Ganata
Tangent, but what is it about how commercials are shot in/for Europe that seem instantly recognizable as not North American productions?
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Having watched movies for most of my life, they all have in common a certain texture or character that when you change that feel, it just seems odd or somehow wrong, at least to me. Call me a purist, but I'll stick to 24 fps for movies, thanks.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Tangent to Micah's tangent: Does YouTube/Netflix/Amazon/iTunes support 48fps? If I wanted to watch some scenes in comparison in both 24 fps and 48fps side-by-side online, is there a way to do that?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
As far as I know, Youtube allows up to a maximum of 30 FPS...not sure about Netflix, Amazon, or itunes.
- Chris Topher
It's also likely Jackson used a higher shutter speed. That would reduce the motion blur and make it look more 'videoy'. For those using a DLSR wanting to gain that film look, they would use 1/50sec shutter speed for 24fps. Example of the difference: https://vimeo.com/11340117.
- Rodfather
We're used to much higher fps in real life...
- Iphigenie
Not really, because of automatic saccades.
- Victor Ganata
It's just like the motion smoothing that newer TVs do. It looks horrible, in my opinion, because it invariably injects motion artifacts that detract from the overall image. Once seen they cannot be unseen. It's just amazing to me anyhow, that we spend so much time on the visuals when studies have repeatedly shown that the audio part of film/tv entertainment play a much larger role in the overall experience.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Well now, actually filming in high frame rates wouldn't introduce artifacts.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Senior year of high school for the talent show, I walked across the stage on my hands. It was the second night of the show. I was dating another senior, Sara S., who was the director of the show. Everyone had horrible senioritis and was completely unmotivated. The talent show was pretty much terrible start to finish. During one lengthy sketch that wasn't getting any laughs (and hadn't had any the night before), she pushed me out of the wings and told me to walk across the stage on my hands.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I guess it was her equivalent of using one of those hooked poles that you see in old vaudeville talkies to yank the performers off the stage when they're bombing.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Good job! I never managed to master walking on my hands. I could do handstands, and eventually even managed to push myself up from a headstand to a handstand, but somehow I couldn't sustain walking on my hands for more than a few feeble 'steps.'
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
I tried this once, took out a small orphanage
- Mo Kargas
I've had so many dreams of walking my hands! I've never tried it though. I'm not strong enough.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Zu, if you have never tried it, how do you know you're not strong enough? Try it!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Happy birthday to my beautiful son, Joaquin Valentino! He always has a smile on his face even through visits to the hospital with asthma (and some epic pouts). I love you!
Attended Michael's Trisagion Service tonight, will go to the funeral tomorrow. Family OK w photos, will post as memorial to Michael.
- Norman Demetrios Fletcher
Wish he could have seen us tonight. He just may have.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
"when tomorrow starts without me....." My heart and prayers go to you, Michael and you're family. May you're family find peace and comfort in the days ahead. <3
- Lynda Dmoch
Happy Birthday Michael. nice to see your account is still here.
- Mike Nencetti
On FB he kept turning up on "People You May Know" even a few months ago. Bittersweet to see him there. Happy Birthday to Michael.
- Russian Space Lizard
"SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world. Gentries, 48, said he had absolutely no interest in exposing himself to further knowledge of Islamic civilization or putting his sweeping opinions into a broader context of any kind, and confirmed he was "perfectly happy" to make a handful of emotionally charged words the basis of his mistrust toward all members of the world's second-largest religion. "I learned all that really matters about the Muslim faith on 9/11," Gentries said in reference to the terrorist attacks on the United States undertaken by 19 of Islam's approximately 1.6 billion practitioners. "What more do I need to know to stigmatize Muslims everywhere as inherently violent radicals?""
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
"I almost gave in and listened to that guy defend Islam with words I didn't want to hear," Gentries said. "But then I remembered how much easier it is to live in a world of black-and-white in which I can assign the label of 'other' to someone and use him as a vessel for all my fears and insecurities." Added Gentries, "That really put things back into perspective."
- Paul Buchheit
OK, I'm doing it. I am going to learn WordPress. Because Blogger sucks that much. And because my new domain host has an easy way to do it, I think: http://www.name.com/rapidpr...
OMG, RapidPress is so worth it. Hosted WordPress blog installed and up. Bam.
- Laura Norvig
Adsense integration. I tried this, but I'm not sure what's going on. So much simpler doing this with youtube and blogger. I don't want to put my *own* ads on this site, I want to allow other people's ads. Not sure if I have figured that out yet. http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpre...
- Laura Norvig
Just finished my schtick about the library at adjunct faculty orientation. I turned on the lights, started asking them questions, and made bad jokes. They might have been nodding off before, but they aren't now!
Excellent. I love it when a plan comes together. Mega-kudos for engaging your audience!
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
Not so much with the planning, more about looking people in the eye and having a conversation, and a little fun :)
- maʀtha
I can just see it - 3 hours in the dark with power point slides? You are the hero. (Also, terrible faculty development design; faculty prefer to do the talking whenever possible.)
- barbara fister
...I dunno, turnabout seems like it ought to be fair play in this situation. (Just kidding: bad pedagogy is bad pedagogy, no matter whose butts are in the seats.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
We used to have a good new fac orientation that had the attendees rotating between three locations in the library and doing more discussion and meeting people. Now they compressed it into a half day and it's just a series of 10-15 minute presentations and I think it sucks. Good for you for livening it up!
- kaijsa
I wish I could get the folks who schedule adjunct orientation to remember to invite me more than 15 minutes before it starts. *sigh*
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Your people need an intervention. Sheesh.
- barbara fister
May your Wordpress be always upgraded, Blake.
- barbara fister
Happy B'day, and you'll be glad to know I changed my admin name to Admin and the password to Password, just as you instructed. "1234" was getting old.
- Walt Crawford
Woo! I'm going to change my passwords in your honor today.
- lris
I was about to pay you, but I'm afraid it might entail asking for my password. So I'm going to wait and do that another day. Instead, I shall just wish you the happiest of birthdays!
- laura x
Happy birthday, Blake! (Yes, I updated my Wordpress. Just for you.)
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Blake will be glad to know that thanks to many, many e-mails we (i) have the latest install and (ii) no longer have an 'admin' username
- Pete #TeamMonique
Char Booth, and Deb Gilchrist both reinforce my fan-girl-dom this week. I am a seriously recalcitrant fan-girl, which just goes to show how awesome they are.
- lris
Char Booth's visualizing departments and interventions, and Gilchrist's space-planning-based-on-philosophy changed my vision of liaison librarianship.
- lris
Now I don't feel so bad for peer-pressuring you into sitting at the front of the room for Deb's panel. I know I stole you away from Meredith. #winning
- kaijsa
I need someone to change my vision of liaison librarianship. [edit: that someone is probably me.]
- Steele Lawman
our librarians are sneaking around the library this week, leaving mystery treats and notes of appreciation on staff desks, to celebrate national library week. so! much! fun!
ALL! IMPORTANT! If you see sites that are scamming or otherwise taking advantage of the Boston Marathon Explosions, please forward to me at cjackson@cyveillance.com. Our company, Cyveillance, loves to take down scum like that and will go after any sites (including social media), emails, phone numbers, etc. we can.
If you would like to put "SCAM SITE" or something similar in the subject line, it would be appreciated. We helped the FBI take down two individuals that were taking advantage of the Newtown shootings. They are in jail and we did it because we could. Thank you.
- c.a.j.
Seen one via a friend on Facebook - not sure of the original source yet - but a search on Twitter for "old girl who died in the explosions" will show you what you need; some scum using a picture of a girl (huh?) who died, allegedly while running (huh?) for Sandy Hook (right). Retweeted like crazy. Just awful.
- Mark H
The last mile of the race was dedicated to the memory of the Newton/Sandy Hook shootings. (http://rt.com/usa...) Unfortunately, it was an 8 year old boy who was killed. The types of things we are looking for is people taking financial advantage of people who want to donate and that sort of criminal activity.
- c.a.j.
LB. I don't know how she does it all. I can't imagine the stress the fire has caused. And yet she's still here, encouraging us all, being amazing, interacting on a real level, and loving life. I want to be more like her.
"Drenched with about 500 inches of rainfall every year, Kauai’s Mount Waialeale is considered one of the rainiest locations our world has to offer and hosts the “Wall of Tears.” It’s named for featuring thin, long waterfalls inside a crater wall of dense foliage. The spot isn’t easily accessed, so helicopters fly over and around the region to catch a glimpse of its beauty. The extreme precipitation routinely blocks visibility with clouds that hug the landscape tightly. But as you can see here, few photographers got lucky during their helicopter rides, giving us a peek at phenomenal Hawaiian tropical scenery. Do you want more pictures from this location? Enjoy what this location offers in the Wettest Spot of the World gallery and Kauai on Flickr Places. Photos from rustyboy1957, Sherquilty, houstonryan, BenSchmittPhoto, and Christopher Lane Photography."
- John (bird whisperer)
from Bookmarklet
*adds Mount Waialeale to do not visit list*
- Mo Kargas
Kauai is gorgeous, Mo! And there's a dearth of man-eating beasties (except in the sea). Maybe that's why you don't wanna go, though... Feel lonely without the deadly fauna?
- Spidra Webster
I can't find a hotel either. Grrrrrr.
- Jason
from iPhone
Cool...what's with Portland hosting all of these conferences this year? The OpenStack summit starts here today.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex: At least one conference *involving* Portland people isn't in Portland--precisely. In another week, I'll be flying off to the joint Oregon/Washington Library Association Conference. It's WAY far from Portland...in Vancouver, WA. All the way across the river.
- Walt Crawford