Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Parsons Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Yosemite or how to make OSX look like iOS :( Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 16:00:23 -0500 Lines: 105 Message-ID: References: <53d53ab8$0$17073$c3e8da3$dd9697d2@news.astraweb.com> <280720141546366846%michelle@michelle.org> <310720140656217518%michelle@michelle.org> <310720141918027728%michelle@michelle.org> <010820140825000920%michelle@michelle.org> <010820141456458957%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: individual.net tzK4Le8GaBshjgqx7v9aQAW42mDl2opiqcV2HtEoUR820yqguO Cancel-Lock: sha1:V2W8MAVF/hMr5HfaUY6zP3gsXO0= User-Agent: NewsgroupsRT/Version 13 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:62808 > On 2014-08-01 20:08:48 +0000, Alan Baker said: > >> On 2014-08-01 19:55:47 +0000, FPP said: >> >>> On 2014-08-01 19:01:13 +0000, Alan Baker said: >>> >>>> On 2014-08-01 18:56:45 +0000, nospam said: >>>> >>>>> In article , Alan Baker >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>>> You'd be surprised at what people miss when copy checking and color >>>>>>>> correcting. The human brain is a strange thing... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://brainden.com/images/same-color-illusion-big.png >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> (Square A and B are exactly the same color). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The shadow knows. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Oh, I readily caught the redundant "the" and "you". >>>>>> >>>>>> And in back in real life, that particular illustration of that illusion >>>>>> is WRONG. >>>>>> >>>>>> A and B are NOT exactly the same colour. >>>>> >>>>> yes they are. >>>> >>>> No, they are not. >>> >>> You're not a color editor, but you play one on Usenet, right? I don't >>> pretend to know everything... but I'm the graphics guy with 38 years >>> experience, here. But, hey, don't take MY word for it. >>> >>> "The checker shadow illusion is an optical illusion published by Edward >>> H. Adelson, Professor of Vision Science at MIT in 1995." >>> >>> That's THE Massachusetts Institute of technology that has produced 81 >>> Nobel laureates, 52 National Medal of Science recipients, 45 Rhodes >>> Scholars, 38 MacArthur Fellows. >>> >>> I have a 25K stationary Spectrophotometer, and I'm not afraid to use it >>> :-) Of course, all that can't hold a candle (FYI - that's an "idiom", >>> and not strictly a "figure of speech".) next to a guy who has a free >>> color meter on his home computer. >>> >>> My hand held X-Rite densitometer also says it matches. Do you want to >>> know the L*a*b* values, too? >>> >>> Of course not... because you haven't a clue that L*a*b* is a a >>> three-dimensional color specification system. >>> >>> Would you prefer to know the Delta E values? (Delta E is defined as >>> the difference between two colors in an L*a*b* color space.) >>> >>> For the knuckle draggers out there (no offense), you can simply cut >>> square A out of the background and drop it directly over square B, and >>> it will match with almost perfect accuracy. >>> >>> So I'm wrong, am I? Have you NOT been paying attention? Do you >>> REALLY think I would post it if I didn't KNOW I was right? >>> >>> You're a guy who doesn't know his ass from his elbow about a great many things. >>> You've already embarrassed yourself... please, for your own sake, stop >>> trying before you hurt yourself. >> >> Says the person who claimed the Dock couldn't do something that it >> quite clearly could... > > Oh, for fucks sake, give it a rest. I "quite clearly" don't give two > shits about the dock. Did you read anything I wrote? Did you > understand anything I wrote? I'm wasting my breath on a lost cause. > > You ARE wrong. You WERE wrong. And, until you grow up and realize it, > you'll CONTINUE to be wrong. > > It's a sign of maturity when you can take responsibility and admit a > mistake. I offered you an olive branch when I KNEW you had made a > simple grammar mistake. Did you take it? No. You grabbed the branch > and took a swing at me. > > You ready to tell me, now, that the new Yosemite system font isn't > harder to read like I said? That I'm WRONG about that, too, like I was > wrong about the checker shadow illusion? 'Cause I can do this all day. > > Just what is YOUR area of expertise? It sure isn't graphic arts, > grammar or reading comprehension... > > Care to enlighten us? Or do you just want to tell me about the fucking > dock once more... > > -- > "To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable." -Goldwater > > Alan's posting style is mostly of the antagonist sort, nearly trollish in nature. You get used to it or just ignore him most of the time and life gets better. He's that way in every newsgroup he posts to and that's a lot of newsgroups. -- -- Lloyd from SurfacePro via NewsgroupsRT