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The General!
Oh, wait... It's LMAO, not MQOTD...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The General!
Looks like a good one to watch! 
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Anything with Buster Keaton is brilliant.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Watch the movie! You will see that those were the simple problems to solve... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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As Mark wrote: The General (1926)[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Ahh I missed what Mark said. My apology.
Thank you sir! 
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And from the university years - Buster Keaton made some good movies...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Ninety years old, and still funnier than 99.999% of comedy movies these days.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There are 99 little bugs sitting in the code,
99 little bugs sitting in the code.
Fix one bug, compile it up again.
There are 100 little bugs sitting in the code...
veni bibi saltavi
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Sounds like a song to me. Was that the chorus? 
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Just keep going until there are no more little bugs...
veni bibi saltavi
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...but bugs are like sins. Everytime you code, it comes with those little bugs. You can't escape bugs.
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Tried Google, no clear path to what I'm seeking; same with Bing.
My Sharp AQUOS Crystal[^] (an Android phone) has a camera. I have been approximately astounded at the quality that thing can produce.
To further astonish me, they have included some fantastic photo editing software.
My problem: I can't find a software package which provides the same editing features which this phone provides. (i.e., something I can put on a desktop windows PC)
I am seeking a package which will...
- Change color to B/W (easy to find)
- Alter general contrast (easy to find)
- Provide the "graduated" function which my Android has (no can find)
That "graduated" function is a bright-to-dark software enhancement which is on a three line array with three dots, arranged within an "H" pattern. Sorry if that's a nebulous description; it's the best I can do to try to describe it in words.
If anyone has this phone, and understands what I'm trying to describe here, and knows where I can find a windows desktop photo editing package which has this function, I thank you for pointing me to it.
The various questions I asked Google led me to a lot related hits, but not the exact function I am trying to find.
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What does the function do?
Based on the vague description, I'm guessing it's something like "curves" or "levels", which are included in most photo editing software - eg: Paint.NET[^] or GIMP[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: What does the function do?
I am very unfamiliar with the nomenclature, so my ability to accurately place the concept into words is greatly hindered (translation: I'm not smart enough to tell you)
I have Paint.Net on my machine, and I couldn't find the function.
I'll try this way: I spent 20 minutes on the Gimp website, and I found THIS PICTURE[^] which shows an area of the board which is "in a shadow"
That is a close approximation of what the "graduated" function on the phone does.
In the case of the phone, however, the function invokes a "gradient of brightness" (a phrase I just made up, because I don't know what I'm talking about) from one area of the photograph to the other area.
These two "Areas" can be one side and the other side, or the top and bottom, or one corner to the opposite corner, or along whatever line you choose to define.
If you are old enough to remember this old TV show, this video clip from THE EDGE OF NIGHT[^] has a couple of crude (50 to 60 year old technology) depictions; the first during the first 6 seconds, and the second around 01:20 into the clip; of what I'm trying to describe.
In the case of the phone's software, that is the elementary function in question; a light to dark change, but with a smooth gradient from the light to the dark zones, and not a sharp line.
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I suspect that in Gimp terms it's a Graduated Filter: Gimp Tutorial: How to Create a Graduated Filter Using Layers[^] - I'm not that sure as I didn't get on that well with Gimp.
In Corel / Jasc Paintshop Pro, it would be a gradient fill on a Mask layer, and is pretty easy once you get the hang of it.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Just came across Pixlr (http://www.pixlr.com) which is evidently somehow associated with AutoDesk.
They demand a sign-up and membership. Not sure what I would be getting into with them if I did.
Advice welcome.
modified 17-Nov-16 19:33pm.
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His rant is the antithesis of my own personal experience with that phone.
I am wearing this one out, and honestly, I think I would like another one.
I am highly disappointed with the psycho/schizo behavior with respect to WiFi voice calls, but I highly suspect that such is the nature of the Android operating system and my ComCast access box.
(Are they still called "modems" ?)
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I never noticed this before.
Some of my users have shown me folders in Explorer have one time. The same folder in DOS CMD window are off by 1 hour.
DST happened recently so could be involved. I've googled and found mention that the timestamps are supposed to reflect that. But it should be consistent.
New files have identical timestamps, so it's just existing files.
Also, any workaround to get the DOS window to match timestamps? Scripts are feeding bad data.
I need an app that will automatically deliver a new BBBBBBBBaBB (beautiful blonde bimbo brandishing bountiful bobbing bare breasts and bodacious butt) every day.
John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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I've just checked here, and DIR in a CMD box is giving me identical timestamps to the default view in Explorer: that's on Win10 AE
What are you doing that shows the problem? What system?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm on Win10, but they are all on Win7.
As example my C:\ shows Windows folder 02/11/2016 10:40am
My DOS CMD window shows Windows folder 02/11/2016 09:40am
Edit: also Temp folder is 15/11/2016 11:53am in both.
So it appears to only be off for files before time change.
I need an app that will automatically deliver a new BBBBBBBBaBB (beautiful blonde bimbo brandishing bountiful bobbing bare breasts and bodacious butt) every day.
John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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