Originally posted by 84fiero123: The colors look like some Gay designed the place.
Steve
In color, yes. But to have enough contrast to show up in black/white, strange colors are used to get the correct visual effect. Oh, crap...the photographer in me just came out. Sorry about that
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84fiero123 Member
Posts: 29950 From: farmington, maine usa Registered: Oct 2004
In color, yes. But to have enough contrast to show up in black/white, strange colors are used to get the correct visual effect. Oh, crap...the photographer in me just came out. Sorry about that
Geek.
Steve
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Marvin McInnis Member
Posts: 11599 From: ~ Kansas City, USA Registered: Apr 2002
In color, yes. But to have enough contrast to show up in black/white, strange colors are used to get the correct visual effect.
Yep. I worked in TV back before the transition to color. (Yes, I'm that old.) We sometimes had to use some pretty weird tricks to make things look right in B&W. Making food in B&W commercials look appetizing was often particularly challenging. B&W film had different characteristics than B&W TV, so you couldn't always use the same techniques for both media.
In the case of the Addams Family, light reflected from the pink surroundings may have cause the actors' skin tones to look even more surreal in B&W ... or that may just have been the color they had available in the prop room the day they painted the set.
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tebailey Member
Posts: 2622 From: Bay City MI Registered: Jan 2013
Yep. I worked in TV back before the transition to color. (Yes, I'm that old.)
What was life like back before they invented color? I imagine a black and white rainbow just did not have the same appeal, or your box of crayons only having 2 colors probably got boring pretty quickly...
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84fiero123 Member
Posts: 29950 From: farmington, maine usa Registered: Oct 2004
What was life like back before they invented color? I imagine a black and white rainbow just did not have the same appeal, or your box of crayons only having 2 colors probably got boring pretty quickly...
Hey give Marv a brake we used to drag race on rock unicycles back then.
Originally posted by theBDub: Oh, yeah, that's not offensive or anything. Didn't you just get back from probation for something? Nice dude.
My probation had nothing to do with my language, it had to do with that NY insurance less kid and I didn't remember it was a permanent ban of posting on any post he started.
My probation had nothing to do with my language, it had to do with that NY insurance less kid and I didn't remember it was a permanent ban of posting on any post he started.
steve
Still, you're offensive. Time for you to grow up. The word 'homosexual' hasn't been acceptable in decades.
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spark1 Member
Posts: 11159 From: Benton County, OR Registered: Dec 2002
The video omitted perhaps the most famous B&W test pattern of all, the Indian Head, usually generated by a dedicated device called a "monoscope":
I have spent hundreds ... if not thousands ... of hours watching the Indian Head test pattern. We would watch it for half an hour or more, accompanied by a constant 400 Hz tone, each afternoon before the first (and, for a while, only) TV station in town began its short "broadcast day." This period was also dedicated to constant fiddling with the rabbit-ears antenna, as well as endlessly adjusting the fine tuning, horizontal hold, and vertical hold controls as the whole vacuum-tube system slowly warmed up to its final operating temperature.
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84fiero123 Member
Posts: 29950 From: farmington, maine usa Registered: Oct 2004
Originally posted by 84fiero123: And so are your resent avatars, but I don't complain, and your use of the N word when talking to your black friends, we all have our little problems. Steve
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Originally posted by theBDub: I have since stopped using it
What do you find so offensive about his Avatar? The last one was just an eye.
His new one looks like another gay just like his last one did, sorry my opinion and I am entitled to it, as we all are entitled to an opinion. as far as my use of the N word, it was called for in that thread. some people have thin skin, like engineers who can't take criticism of their plans that are always to complicated or don't have things in the right places, or people who are gay or all those who neg me for my opinion of religious thread or politics or race.
every one is entitled to an opinion yet some people can't accept the fact that they could be wrong.
His new one looks like another gay just like his last one did, sorry my opinion and I am entitled to it, as we all are entitled to an opinion. as far as my use of the N word, it was called for in that thread. some people have thin skin, like engineers who can't take criticism of their plans that are always to complicated or don't have things in the right places, or people who are gay or all those who neg me for my opinion of religious thread or politics or race.
every one is entitled to an opinion yet some people can't accept the fact that they could be wrong.
Steve
The eyebrow one was me. Literally my face.
This is from a parody music video. I think it's hilarious, and I'm keeping it.
You are the superstar of not accepting that you're wrong. Like, right now, where you use an offensive term and are a bigot. Hey, you don't need to grow up. Live the rest of your life how you are and see how it works out for you. I'm just suggesting something that will make you a better person is all. Hey like I said, don't take my advice and see how much I care.
The funny music video my avatar is from:
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84fiero123 Member
Posts: 29950 From: farmington, maine usa Registered: Oct 2004
This is from a parody music video. I think it's hilarious, and I'm keeping it.
You are the superstar of not accepting that you're wrong. Like, right now, where you use an offensive term and are a bigot. Hey, you don't need to grow up. Live the rest of your life how you are and see how it works out for you. I'm just suggesting something that will make you a better person is all. Hey like I said, don't take my advice and see how much I care.
The funny music video my avatar is from:
Typical of an engineers life, I can never be wrong, I am an engineer and have an education therefor you are wrong.
It is my opinion like it or not an opinion can never be wrong, it is an opinion.
Still, you're offensive. Time for you to grow up. The word 'homosexual' hasn't been acceptable in decades.
When we ban the use of words, we just make them more powerful. I say use it as well as the one that starts with N that gets auto-changed here on the forum. I don't like either word but I like the power they posess even less.
Jonathan
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NoMoreRicers Member
Posts: 2192 From: Spokane, WA Registered: Mar 2009
Typical of an engineers life, I can never be wrong, I am an engineer and have an education therefor you are wrong.
A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display. While he was there, another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, "I'll have an AutoCAD monkey please." The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the side of the shop and took out a monkey. He fitted a collar and leash, handed it to the customer, saying, "That'll be $5000." The customer paid and walked out with his monkey. Startled, the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said, "That was a very expensive monkey. Most of them are only few hundred dollars. Why did that one cost so much?" The Shopkeeper answered, "Ah, that monkey can draw in AutoCAD - very fast, clear layouts, no mistakes, well worth the money."
The tourist looked at a monkey in another cage. "That one's even more expensive! $10,000! What does it do?" "Oh, that one's a Design monkey; it can design systems, layout projects, mark-up drawings, write specifications, some even calculate. All the really useful stuff," said the shopkeeper.
The tourist looked around for a little longer and saw a third monkey in its own cage. The price tag around its neck read $50,000. He gasped to the shopkeeper, "That one costs more than all the others put together! What on earth does it do?"
The shopkeeper replied, "Well, I haven't actually seen it do anything, but it says it's a Welding Inspector.
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NoMoreRicers Member
Posts: 2192 From: Spokane, WA Registered: Mar 2009
Being a mechanic, I have to fix the engineers mistakes. Every now and then I do get one that listens, and things get changed. The bad ones are the ones that don't listen to feed back from the field. Hence government mandated recalls. You have to realize that just because it works on paper it doesn't always work in the field. And what does any of this have to do with the Adams family set???
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When we ban the use of words, we just make them more powerful. I say use it as well as the one that starts with N that gets auto-changed here on the forum. I don't like either word but I like the power they posess even less.
Jonathan
I'm not talking about banning words, but when words are used in a derogatory way, they hurt people. I'm just saying, not everything has to be PC, but some things are pretty easy to avoid without going out of your way.
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pokeyfiero Member
Posts: 16228 From: Free America! Registered: Dec 2003
Being a mechanic, I have to fix the engineers mistakes. Every now and then I do get one that listens, and things get changed. The bad ones are the ones that don't listen to feed back from the field. Hence government mandated recalls. You have to realize that just because it works on paper it doesn't always work in the field. And what does any of this have to do with the Adams family set???
I've always thought Engineers should have mandatory classes in how to deal with people before being given their degree, and every few years after that. So many of them seem to fail in it once in the real world. Many of them seem to be never wrong as well.
Brad
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84fiero123 Member
Posts: 29950 From: farmington, maine usa Registered: Oct 2004
I've always thought Engineers should have mandatory classes in how to deal with people before being given their degree, and every few years after that. So many of them seem to fail in it once in the real world. Many of them seem to be never wrong as well.
Brad
Although engineers have absolutely nothing to do with this thread after the last couple of postings I have to post this, yet again.
And you guys wonder just why people that actually have to build and work on the crap you design say they want to kill you or some other extreme measure because of the way something is engineered. You guys can say whatever you like to try and put the blame on someone else, when it comes down to some poor bastige who has to work on something you guys created.
I think you should all have to spend a few YEARS working on things, some other engineer designed long before you ever pick up a pencil or move a mouse. Then after that you can go on to school and earn your degree.
don't get me wrong there are many engineers who learned the right way, spent years as a mechanic, or like they like to be called now a tech or whatever. but give us a brake, we ain't all as stupid as some of you think we are.
Steve
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Nazareth Member
Posts: 730 From: morristown, TN Registered: Aug 2003
efault
You guys can say whatever you like to try and put the blame on someone else, when it comes down to some poor bastige who has to work on something you guys created.
