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When I started making photos, I believe in 2010 when I got my first camera, dedicated camera equipment was still miles away from what you could find integrated in mobile phones. But now, there are pocket cameras that arguably perform worse than a camera on an S3 phone, which is 3 years old already. Even if their performance is marginally better, their price and practicability doesn't justify buying them.
Bridge cameras, the kind that I have, unfortunately use the same shitty small sensor so they only compensate through more professional features and better lenses, better zoom.
So the only kind of camera used for what you could call "Photography" is the DSLR. Even here prices, the simplification of them and introduction of lots of "autos" has made them accessible to a large public.

Photography isn't what it used to be. 50 years ago photography was truly an art and you'd get respect for doing that. Now anyone can be a photographer. You just need some money, and a one month crash course, or even less. Heck, you only need a good phone.

The only thing that, I think, separates amateurs from professionals is experience and dedication. I no longer consider myself a photographer as I used to in high-school. I am also appalled by the fact that anyone can make a mindless photo and call it photography, and that could apply to me too when I don't know so...

Or perhaps I'm just confused about this art where nobody makes the slightest effort anymore.

Don't get me wrong, this is just some rant. I still see magnificent photos, and on this thread too. I just consider true photography an exquisite art suited for the adventurous, the enduring and the risk-takers. Qualities that not all photographers have, especially zillion wedding&events photographers(but that's business, not art...).

The sky is over

Winter pines road

Plowing through the snow like the choo choo bastard.

But.. but.. it was super pi day

Yeah just send me the design and I can print my own for less than 10$

2 members resurfacing in the same thread!

Anyhow, can't believe you would actually say bye to this community. Farewell, Slaks! Best of wishes and let's hope we hear from you soon.

Friday at 8 PM GMT for seems like an excellent time.

But I don't like counter strike. I will complain about this tournament forever including while happily competing and winning prizes

But do you like HL2DM?

I'm still mid-exam session. If this stuff happened in 2 weeks from now, I would have gladly joined( just posting here a message if anybody was wondering about my absence).
I can't wait to see what comes out of this project though!

Yeah its a game, but that is a tiny chance someone might take it seriously somewhere.

Like people freaking out over some children walking alone a mile to their school?

I think it's what people say: "shit happens".

This thread is

3 years.

It's an old article.

I can't see that without thinking "Let's rock."

That's probably just me.

I instantly think of ol' Duke too :).
Incidentally, to use the same word:Something's happening here.

lmaonions

I suppose most of the enthusiasts( not saying I wouldn't be enthusiastic about it!) here don't have to travel from 30-40 hours and make several stops in order to switch planes. Also pay about 2000 euro for a round-trip - economic class - can you imagine 10 hours sitting in such a seat? I've travelled 11 hours by train before, and if it hadn't been for the landscapes, a book and the sheer luck of sitting next to an engineer who had a lot of subjects to talk about, I would've gone mad.
My country also doesn't have the Visa waiver program.

Traveling for a medium-class citizen is... quite expensive. Both financially and psychologically(if he travels alone).

Think about it, all it will cost you is a round flight and some vaca. time whereas for me it will cost an entire house build.

Substituting "vaca" with the translation in my language: "cow". Some cow time?

Anyway, you do realize it's a USA party what you're talking about. USA is hard to travel to if you don't have relatives because you can hardly get those visas or what they're called.
Spending several thousand dollars only on transport is not my kind of thing either. Yet.
Perhaps in 10 years I'll be able to attend. If TWHL still exists then.

All in all it sounds like a very nice idea, I don't want to discourage you.

Let's just buy 3 geostationary satellites for our community on which to run servers.
I'm sure we can afford together the mortgage.

DiscoStu is having an artistic orgasm :)).
Archie be like in this thread "drop it like it's hot...".

Happy new year everyone! My new year's resolution is 1920x1080, haha!
But besides that this year I want yo eat healthier, do more sports, master a programming language and increase my social networking skills.

I'd say it's a piece of mapping art.

The irony here is that it's 03:43 and I was actually trying to understand these obscure mathematical conjectures about knot theory that have finally been solved in 1991.

Potatis, that album almost serves as a basis for a meme, that's how the text sounds to me at least.

Also bhop_maps. Those were the shit...

As a random fact(idk how you scored that article Archie), during WWII in Ploiesti, USAAF organized an air raid on nine oil refineries near Ploiesti on 1 August 1943. The purpose was to cut petrol supplies to the Axis powers.

They've lost 53 bombardiers. I feel chills in my spine just thinking about the event and what a fucking strong fortress the city was.

Here's another one:

I cheated by randomizing the wiki page several times...( I got really nonsensical articles, like "North American Flags" )

But it wasn't about scores. The ticket-based system allowed each of us a chance. I think it was quite fair and the tournament was fun-oriented, not competitive :P.

Do you use free background music from incompetech?
Great first highlight.

It'll come to ya!

I am now convinced that Urby is actually Barney Rubble.

It's probably your fart propulsion system.

Also, to reiterate for whenever ruffles checks this (seeing as this thing starts in ~6 hours):
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Get rid of awp_2tabere_v2.
[...] And an RTV wouldn't go astray.
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Seconded.
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Agreed.

Lol I had no idea that map got in the list. It was merely a proposal, that map is certainly not intended to be played for that long. I agree too.

I'll be here around 10-11 gmt 0.

As before, you're welcome to use the SnC Teamspeak.

london1.teamspeak.net:26044
snc

I will cut you...
some cake for that.

I opened this thread after seeing the word knife to see if Archie still farts that line.
I was not mistaken.

The web developer everyone needs but doesn't want him. He is the average guy that goes everyday to work and keeps a minimum social agenda. But during the night he becomes somebody extraordinary. His super power is: detecting 404's before they happen and fixing them.

This thread has made me realise that most people here are much smarter and far more successful than I am...

Man... you're expecting a baby. If that doesn't prove success and accomplishment at least on the family level, I don't know what does.

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The third photo has something in it that screams: "It's really cold outside!"

Probably the very blond hair of that (cute)girl, and the whitish light from the sun.

^ took with my phone

Yeah I nominate De_Dome.

No I don't.

Maybe samurai_jack_mini_map_ultimate?

Who am I kidding

But seriously, out of all my crap CS maps, I never seen awp_2tabere_v2 played. It's not that bad. Good for a few quick shots.

I'm at the end of a 2 month internship in Javascript. Don't know if I'll get hired, my performance wasn't terrific, plus I'm a Telecommunication(+Electronics +Information Technology) Engineering student, and the faculty is unforgiving. Even if the situation is unclear at the moment, at least I learned a couple of interesting stuff and I can do more complicated web apps now(if I don't forget all the stuff, since I have little time to practice).
So, I hope I'll be earning my first money until next year somehow. I never had friends to do anything for me in this sense. I'm on my own, for now.

It's copied outside too. The difference is that, in my country for example, a lot of the price cuts are fake, yet there are good offers nevertheless.

What are products are you hunting for this year's Black Friday?

For me, it's a printer. I've put my eyes on this Epson L210. It's a bit expensive compared to other printers, but it has CISS, meaning I can print up-to 4000 or so pages with one ink fill. This is better than laser printers... It also has a scanner.
Well, I don't know if luck would strike and some shop will reduce the price of this specific one, but my eyes are on it.
The downside is that it doesn't have wireless functionality.

That tank could be used for humorous things.

Yeah? Well, TIL that Scotland's official animal is the Unicorn.

Well, I hope you don't get pissed off by saying this, but I have no idea where my place is on that map, and I have a rather big home.

That is actually awesome. I used a pinhole camera to measure the distance to the sun once.

I'm coming here as a total newbie to the subject, unlike Satchmo who said in his journal that he studied Scotland's history, something I'll try too in the next weeks.

I'm intrigued by what are the consequences of this action, since it can have reverberations on an international level. First of all, will Great Britain be named The not so Great Britain? UK in not so UK?
Then, in a world that strives for unity, something that is a must in a century where we boast ourselves with space exploration and expeditions to Mars, how does this event fit into that perspective?

I know, there are other bigger problems in the world at this moment like the conflicts in Ukraine and the constant battles in Gaza.
It just makes me think, as an outsider...

When we will finally reach a common goal for pushing our human limits off Earth? Isn't it sad to know that 50 years ago the first man put his foot on the Moon, using computers slower than your common smartphone today? Where could we be today if nations were more united and governments less corrupt?

I might be a dreamer, but I'm trying to understand what the heck is happening in this world, when the path we must strive for is so obvious and we keep making childish mistakes.

Yeah imageshack charging is a bit of a dick move, I don't understand how they justify this under the current circumstances.