Stijn!!

[flipper35]

We had a few flakes outside this morning. Will be above freezing for a few days, then back to winter.

Today is our 19th wedding anniversary. Seems like only a few years other than having a HS senior.

[GH85Carrera]

Yep, time flies faster and faster as we age. I swear it was just a few years ago we got married, and it is coming up on 28 years in a few months.

Congratulations is 19 years!

As a kid, no doubt time slowed down to a crawl between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Back when I was a kid it was 9 months at least. Now it is just a few days.

It still boggles my mind that it will be 2020 in just over two weeks. I read lots of science fiction about the "far future" of the 2020s and it seems so far off. I still don't have my jetpack or flying car, but the computer I am typing this on would be a world class supercomputer of the far future in the 1970s or 1980s.

[RKDinOKC]

When we were 10 years old a year was 1/10th of our lives.
At 40 years old a year is 1/40th of our lives.
That makes a year seem 40 times shorter.
So, the older you get, the shorter years seem.

[RKDinOKC]

From brother Bob.

According to the Extra Terrestrial whistle blowers they have had flying cars that can go mach19 for a long time that have and invisibility cloak. Now they have them that will go Mach44. It's from engineering extra terrestrial technology so earth humans can drive them.

Personall, if they exist I don't see how you could keep from crashing into everyone else. Isn't crashes where they go the technology in the first place?

They say the general public will find out more if Trump does not get impeached. They want the general public to learn more so they will back Earth having a Space Force to protect our planet from invaders from another galaxy.

[flipper35]

Probably extrapolated that from the General that just had a press conference alluding to some of the tech we have that should be declassified.

[GH85Carrera]

OK so Mach one is about 767 MPH depending on moisture and other things, But we can use that as an average.

Mach 14 is 10,738 and Mach 19 is 14,753 MPH. The returning spacecraft hit the atmosphere at 17,000 mph or so and have to have large effective heat shields to survive. The SR71 was the fastest airplane ever built. It could go 2,193 and got red hot just from air friction. So those flying cars must have force fields and one very astonishing power source. I want one!

[RKDinOKC]

They say they also have some sort of energy source that will put all our energy companies out of business and completely change our lifestyles because it will be free energy,

[RKDinOKC]

Of course they are made of some kind of different material that solves all those problems.
They can fly in air, space, and even under water.

There are 35000 of the Mach 19 vehicles in use, most were sent to Mars. 1500 were sent to be used on the Moon.

The cloaking devices only work if you are 1000 ft or farther away.
They take off and land from underground at bases that have at least 1000 ft perimeter.
They go straight up until they can travel without being seen.

The two whistle blowers that told about this stuff died on the same day.

[GH85Carrera]

Dang Adobe and the horse they rode in on!

We have an license to use Adobe Photoshop and we use it a lot. I figured the easiest thing was to download the latest and greatest version on my new computer, hoping they got over the 4 gig limit on tif files. No such luck on that. The main part of the program is about the same.

BUT!

Grumble grumble cussing and such...

The arrow tool was super easy before. It has been "improved and enhanced" I guess. It is a total pain in the butt to find, and use. Totally different than ever before. Photoshop 2020 is what we are stuck with, but dang it, why change a easy to use tool that works great.

[Porsche-poor]

That's so you call tech support and pay a fee to find out where they out said arrow tool.

[GH85Carrera]

Fortunately Google knows all. The tough part is finding an up to date set of instructions. Several of the top Google picks were how to do in on old version. And the video was a pitiful one with the guy not really explaining much. He did show me where to find the shapes tools, and all I had was trees, animals, and other useless things, no arrows! So I kept poking it and saw a little radio button and it had "legacy shapes" and finally I found the arrows. I drug it over, and then the arrow vanishes. It took me several tries to get it to fill with a solid color, and sty where I wanted it. Completely stupid painful way to do it.

[GH85Carrera]

We have a special roll around bin for recycling stuff. Cardboard, plastic and so on. With the new computer and all those boxes, and some other boxes of stuff, the recycling bin is stuffed full.

[RKDinOKC]

Tomorrow is recycle pickup day here.

Think I put all my recycle stuff in the normal bin by mistake and set it out last week.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

OK so Mach one is about 767 MPH depending on moisture and other things, But we can use that as an average.

Mach 14 is 10,738 and Mach 19 is 14,753 MPH. The returning spacecraft hit the atmosphere at 17,000 mph or so and have to have large effective heat shields to survive. The SR71 was the fastest airplane ever built. It could go 2,193 and got red hot just from air friction. So those flying cars must have force fields and one very astonishing power source. I want one!

Well, the navy has a patent on plasma shielding and room temperature semiconductors that would allow them to do some "different" things with respect to flying. Would create puddles from the occupants, but that is a minor issue to overcome.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Fortunately Google knows all. The tough part is finding an up to date set of instructions. Several of the top Google picks were how to do in on old version. And the video was a pitiful one with the guy not really explaining much. He did show me where to find the shapes tools, and all I had was trees, animals, and other useless things, no arrows! So I kept poking it and saw a little radio button and it had "legacy shapes" and finally I found the arrows. I drug it over, and then the arrow vanishes. It took me several tries to get it to fill with a solid color, and sty where I wanted it. Completely stupid painful way to do it.

It is called progress. Why else would you pay for a subscription and update?

They* do that a lot. Make a change so they can say they changed it. It doesn't have to make sense. If it did, we wouldn't have Dilbert.

*Software companies.

[GH85Carrera]

No doubt, Brent is right. Photoshop is only available as a subscription now. I suspect all software will go that way soon. We have to have the subscription to use it (legally) so we do. The new version is mostly changed layout and I don't know if it is one iota faster or better. I doubt it.

Since we pay for it, and the easy way is to download from the Adobe server, that is what I did. I will eventually get used to some of the "new and improved" features. One of the total classic moves of Photoshop was for years one of the free sample batch files was called contact sheet. One could easily pick the folder of photos, and then pick the size of the page, and tell it how many rows and columns to build, and wham a old style page of images with the file names. In one of the big updates, they just killed the automation entirely and made you use a separate program called light table. We just kept the old version around and used that.

They finally brought it back a few versions back. It is still in the newest version, but automated batches are a royal pain to set up and use. I had to figure it out and I can make it work. I have CD of my Photoshop Ver 6 about 20+ years ago. It was for Win 95 so it is old. I am tempted to load it on occasions. It was way easier to use. This is version 21 or 2020 depending on what part of the web I search.

[RKDinOKC]

Macs just went to a forced 64 bit system. None of the 16 or 32 bit programs will run on the current system. They did the same when they went to 32 from 16 and 16 from 8. The only good thing was it killed all the malware and virus holes from the lesser bit manipulation world.

I had a really good plug-in for photoshop that re-colored old slides that faded. It was from Kodak and did really well. It was 32 bit and required booting photoshop in 32 bit to run. Now that don't work unless I dig out one of my old laptops that still run old 32 bit system stuff.

Have watched several really good programs with features no-one else had die out due to update incompatibility.

Used to have a database that was relational and totally programable using flow charts. Was able to put together a program to schedule and run a foundry with on a Saturday because it made to processes so easy. It is now gone.

[Jim Richards]

Now I have a sunset, from the west side of the island.

[GH85Carrera]

Richard, that Kodak plug in is still available. You mentioned its name not long ago and I checked, it was then.

Jim, I worked at a commercial photolab for over 25 years. Back in the olden days when a color print bigger than a snap shot was something we did all the time. We made lots of 16x20s and bigger. It was a rare day that we went all day without printing a sunset picture from some clients negative. With pro lab like us printing it, we could do all the tricks of burning (darkening one area only) or dodging (selectively lightning an area) and of course adjusting the colors to make it look even better. We could color burn an area to enhance the colors of the sky and many other darkroom techniques of a professional. Of course all of that and much more is now easily done in Photoshop.

We had one professional photographer bring us the quintessential Oklahoma sunset photo. Of course the clouds, the sun on the horizon, but it had an active drilling oil well, a guy on horse in silhouette, several cattle, a large bird, likely a hawk flying through, and off in the background some storm clouds, and a field of green winter wheat in the foreground.

That is a nice Hawaii sunset.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. One week till Christmas eve. Everyone ready to hunt the fat man in reds transportation system?