Red Ring Tupperware Party, Unabashed (17)

Wonderful first pics Jay!

Nice flower Dan!

So last night I was trying to finish up my pano. I'm having to jump back and forth between my Vista install and my Win 7 install since I haven't loaded PS on my Win 7 install yet. Got tired of having to do that so I tried to install CS2 on my Win 7 install and was unsuccessful. I turned to the internet for a fix and got burned with some malware. So I had to go back to my Vista install, download Malwarebytes and run that in safe mode on the Win 7 install to get rid of the infections. That was a waste of about an hour and a half! I made some progress on the pano, but I need to add some foreground to the lower right of the pano or I will have to cut a bunch of it off. So back at it tonight I guess.

Geez Mike. You're having no luck with your PC. Good mornin' btw.

jdizzle wrote in post #10659526
Geez Mike. You're having no luck with your PC. Good mornin' btw.

I know! I really don't want to spring for CS5. I just don't use PS enough to justify the purchase. I may have to pick up Elements for those few times when I need a pixel editor. The good and the bad of LR I guess!

Morning!

Mooorning All...

Thanks Mike. Hope you get your computer issues sorted.

Up the hill and back down again today for me. Hoping to have a little bit of time in Santa Fe.

Rollin on ...

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #10659690
Mooorning All...

Thanks Mike. Hope you get your computer issues sorted.

Up the hill and back down again today for me. Hoping to have a little bit of time in Santa Fe.

Rollin on ...

Thanks Jay, I'll get them sorted soon I'm sure.

And in the words of Limp Bizkit " Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin'!"

In2Photos wrote in post #10659735
Thanks Jay, I'll get them sorted soon I'm sure.

And in the words of Limp Bizkit " Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin'!"

You're pretty hip Mike.

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #10657357
Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Trouble is, nobody wants a 40D or a 5DC anymore.

Probably still outta my price range, shoot me some PM numbers anyway.

Sup Chet.

Just chill'n at work. The cats away today, so the mice we play. You?

I'm off today. Just surfin on the web.

Hey all!

I had a novel question today!

I just listened to a brief interview via satellite with a businessman in the UAE -- he is a major tech retailer and was taking questions related to the Blackberry ban in the UAE and the fact that he is having to provide iPhones to the Blackberry user base there.

Anyway, it was an informal, conversational interview and he spoke fluent conversational English in a heavy "Arabian accent" -- something we've gotten used to in the decades of the "global economy" where many countries are teaching English as the "primary secondary language" or whatever you call it, anyway teaching English from childhood so that if I saw the transcript of the interview I'd have no idea that he was from a non-"western" country. We see this all the time in forums like this. "Where is this person from?"

Anyway, a phrase stuck out. He was referring to the fact that the iPhone wasn't the big phenomenon there like it is in other places, although in his words "it's a cool gadget to have". What struck me is that this was not a phrase that you'd learn in an English class, in fact it's a phrase that would strike me as more "American English".

Now, I could be all wet here since I've never lived outside the US and maybe people in, say, Britain or Australia walk aroung saying "hey, that's a cool gadget!" and such, which is why I'm asking you guys with some representation of those places (Harm I'm thinking of you, and Greg, I'm thinking of you).

So my question would be, "What 'flavor' is global English becoming?".

This guy may have spent a lot of time in America and other countries to pick up his flavor, or maybe a lot of time just watching cable TV from various places...what do you all think? Is global English becoming "Americanized" or is it just the ruminations of my idle mind as I listen to the finance news and slug through my business day! Probably the latter but I thought it might be entertaining...

Harm wrote in post #10647786
gonna be a long day, my grandad passed away this morning but he was very ill for a long time, so we were all expecting it.

Sorry to hear that Harm. My condolences, (somewhat late, but I'm just catching up).

Thalagyrt wrote in post #10648780
That just struck me as insane. 30 megawatts... A whole small town. 32 megawatts, the emission from lasers being put into production by the US Navy + Raytheon for anti-aircraft/missile defenses on cruisers, replacing the Phalanx. I wonder how much power that 32 megawatt laser draws? I'm not too familiar with laser design though, could be some crazy voltage stepping going on somewhere to bring the power up that high without drawing insane amounts of electricity, considering it's on a ship... Most of these laser diodes operate at around 12v if I recall correctly.

Chemical lasers . . .

archer1960 wrote in post #10653766
High powered lasers aren't laser diodes; they're usually gas (often CO2) lasers, and that power is the peak output of the laser pulse, which only lasts a very short time, then stops to recharge the capacitors that fire it. So the average draw from the power system is probably only a few kW to maybe 10s of kW.

That . . .

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #10657357
Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Trouble is, nobody wants a 40D or a 5DC anymore.

This nobody would love a 5DC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:p

tonylong wrote in post #10661684
So my question would be, "What 'flavor' is global English becoming?".

It is becoming a lot more Americanised . Some years back as part of the OZ/US free trade agreement the quota for local content on TV changed, from then we saw a lot more US TV. Cable TV has a big influence on the kids as well as almost all the content on our cable is US based. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing in total, we do still retain our local identity when it comes to speech and vocab. Although the stereotype Aussie accent as portrayed on US TV is a lot over the top.

My kids are still taught "British" spelling ie colour, honour etc. Some words have migrated across to US spelling program instead of programme.

tonylong wrote in post #10661684
Hey all!

I had a novel question today!

I just listened to a brief interview via satellite with a businessman in the UAE -- he is a major tech retailer and was taking questions related to the Blackberry ban in the UAE and the fact that he is having to provide iPhones to the Blackberry user base there.

Anyway, it was an informal, conversational interview and he spoke fluent conversational English in a heavy "Arabian accent" -- something we've gotten used to in the decades of the "global economy" where many countries are teaching English as the "primary secondary language" or whatever you call it, anyway teaching English from childhood so that if I saw the transcript of the interview I'd have no idea that he was from a non-"western" country. We see this all the time in forums like this. "Where is this person from?"

Anyway, a phrase stuck out. He was referring to the fact that the iPhone wasn't the big phenomenon there like it is in other places, although in his words "it's a cool gadget to have". What struck me is that this was not a phrase that you'd learn in an English class, in fact it's a phrase that would strike me as more "American English".

Now, I could be all wet here since I've never lived outside the US and maybe people in, say, Britain or Australia walk aroung saying "hey, that's a cool gadget!" and such, which is why I'm asking you guys with some representation of those places (Harm I'm thinking of you, and Greg, I'm thinking of you).

So my question would be, "What 'flavor' is global English becoming?".

This guy may have spent a lot of time in America and other countries to pick up his flavor, or maybe a lot of time just watching cable TV from various places...what do you all think? Is global English becoming "Americanized" or is it just the ruminations of my idle mind as I listen to the finance news and slug through my business day! Probably the latter but I thought it might be entertaining...

I blame youtube!