Yeah, but then there's the business of making a constitution, buying off the former inhabitants/rulers of the land, setting down infrastructure and, worst of all, sitting on a big fancy throne listening to people complain all the time.
...Or I could just make a technocracy like I always wanted. Rule of the Experts.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Do not be fooled by the tardiness in my celebration.
I was merely hindered by my simmering-on-low wrath towards that man.
But I guess the deodorant that my family ended up switching to wasn't that bad, so I guess I avoided most of the larger hoodwinking that he attempted to pull.
Another cat showed up on our back porch. I really want to take this cat in, but there's no more room in the house with 4 cats, so I'm trying to find this cat a good home.
In other news, recent actions have made it clear to me that my brother will be venturing into music under the name "Li'l Goose Goose", because boy, is he one
agreed, Kexruct. I like both Julian Emile and Emile Julian.
Watching each successive seventh of The Secret Of Kells gets you six Rozpoints, for a total of 42.
Hmmm.
THe Book of Kells is available digitally?!! That's awesome! So long as the digital reproduction was achieved without damage to the original treasure, it's great. Now, people who don't have the opportunity to go to Ireland will be able to experience that wonder and beauty.
Also, apparently, in the physical The Book Of Kells, not all the pages are the same thickness, sometimes you can almost see through a page into the next page; and the differing thicknesses of the pages change how the materials made in the writing and drawing work on the paper, so that's awesome and I don't know if that can be transferred to a screen-image.
Sadly, in the 1800's, the book of Kells had stuff chopped off on its top, side, and bottom so it could fit in a certain book cover that they wanted to display it in. The chopped-off parts were just thrown away and I wish we'd had some way to digitize it before that happened. This is why I like certain aspects of digitizing for archiving and preservation.
BUt, clearly, nobody's going to discard the physical The Book Of Kells for the digital, not at all. The digital is a reproduction and celebration of the original.
So, no, no angry rant from me. I am, like, a squankillion per-cent down with this.
This is the kidna thing that Digital media was made for. To support everyone, to give the wonder of art to people who could never visit the Louvre, to make it so that we have a good backup for records and censuses; to help aid in reprinting of books whose copies have all been lost, to increase reading and availability of wonderful things to people.
I just think that if Digital media supplants or replaces physical media, then it is reducing the ability to give wonderful things to people. NO matter how wonderful a screen image of a picture in the Louvre is, it simply is not the actual painting itself (but it shouldn't be expected to be). The problem would be if we destroyed the paintings in the Louvre and replaced them with screens showing digital versions of the originals.
By the same token that a digital image is not the original image, the original image is not the thing pictured. A painting of the Amber Room is not as great as the actual Amber Room.
So long as Ebooks don't replace or supplant books, I don't have a problem with them. My problem is that I think that they do do that sometimes.
A photocopy of the Constitution of the United States is not as awe-inspiring as the actual paper itself; but it doesn't have to be.
By the same token, a mass-produced printed book is not as amazing as a handwritten book. Print has not completely superceded handwriting, peopel still use notebooks and draw and write in journals and many authors write their books in their own handwriting first and then the publisher prints a print version.
By the same same token, a flat sheet of paper is not as amazing as carvings in rock or clay, which can last for milennia, and offer a true connection to the person who wrote them. You can see the very motion and movement of the writer's hand.
By the same same same token, the Epic of Gilgamesh is not as amazing as actually having someone who was around at the time it was written tell you the story.
By the same same same same token, having someone tell you the story is not as amazing as actually being there where Gilgamesh is and being there when it happens.
But, well, each successive level is easier than the last, and more available than the last. IF digital media can continue this chain and not supplant or replace Physical media, then I have no problem with it.
The four types of resolution in imaging of real objects:
* spatial resolution (also known as pixel size, this is what we typically mean when we say "resolution") * spectral resolution (what parts of the electromagnetic spectrum are you using) * temporal resolution (when was the image captured? alternatively, how often or when next or previous is the same platform/sensor imaging the same object?) * radiometric resolution (how finely do the sensor and output product differentiate between different tones? a common stat for this is 8-bit, which means there rae 256 gradations between totally dark and totally bright)
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
*glomp of friendship*
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
In other news, recent actions have made it clear to me that my brother will be venturing into music under the name "Li'l Goose Goose", because boy, is he one
agreed, Kexruct. I like both Julian Emile and Emile Julian.
Watching each successive seventh of The Secret Of Kells gets you six Rozpoints, for a total of 42.
Hmmm.
THe Book of Kells is available digitally?!! That's awesome! So long as the digital reproduction was achieved without damage to the original treasure, it's great. Now, people who don't have the opportunity to go to Ireland will be able to experience that wonder and beauty.
Also, apparently, in the physical The Book Of Kells, not all the pages are the same thickness, sometimes you can almost see through a page into the next page; and the differing thicknesses of the pages change how the materials made in the writing and drawing work on the paper, so that's awesome and I don't know if that can be transferred to a screen-image.
Sadly, in the 1800's, the book of Kells had stuff chopped off on its top, side, and bottom so it could fit in a certain book cover that they wanted to display it in. The chopped-off parts were just thrown away and I wish we'd had some way to digitize it before that happened. This is why I like certain aspects of digitizing for archiving and preservation.
BUt, clearly, nobody's going to discard the physical The Book Of Kells for the digital, not at all. The digital is a reproduction and celebration of the original.
So, no, no angry rant from me. I am, like, a squankillion per-cent down with this.
Fun fun fun.
:D
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Though it would be hella if we could have both
I just think that if Digital media supplants or replaces physical media, then it is reducing the ability to give wonderful things to people. NO matter how wonderful a screen image of a picture in the Louvre is, it simply is not the actual painting itself (but it shouldn't be expected to be). The problem would be if we destroyed the paintings in the Louvre and replaced them with screens showing digital versions of the originals.
By the same token that a digital image is not the original image, the original image is not the thing pictured. A painting of the Amber Room is not as great as the actual Amber Room.
So long as Ebooks don't replace or supplant books, I don't have a problem with them. My problem is that I think that they do do that sometimes.
A photocopy of the Constitution of the United States is not as awe-inspiring as the actual paper itself; but it doesn't have to be.
By the same token, a mass-produced printed book is not as amazing as a handwritten book. Print has not completely superceded handwriting, peopel still use notebooks and draw and write in journals and many authors write their books in their own handwriting first and then the publisher prints a print version.
By the same same token, a flat sheet of paper is not as amazing as carvings in rock or clay, which can last for milennia, and offer a true connection to the person who wrote them. You can see the very motion and movement of the writer's hand.
By the same same same token, the Epic of Gilgamesh is not as amazing as actually having someone who was around at the time it was written tell you the story.
By the same same same same token, having someone tell you the story is not as amazing as actually being there where Gilgamesh is and being there when it happens.
But, well, each successive level is easier than the last, and more available than the last. IF digital media can continue this chain and not supplant or replace Physical media, then I have no problem with it.
Symbiosis, not competitive exclusion.
* spatial resolution (also known as pixel size, this is what we typically mean when we say "resolution")
* spectral resolution (what parts of the electromagnetic spectrum are you using)
* temporal resolution (when was the image captured? alternatively, how often or when next or previous is the same platform/sensor imaging the same object?)
* radiometric resolution (how finely do the sensor and output product differentiate between different tones? a common stat for this is 8-bit, which means there rae 256 gradations between totally dark and totally bright)