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I thought festoon meant to adorn with flowers or garlands, or even the just the garland itself.
I guess your printing press is festooned with garlands of rollers.
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Festoon[^]; I think the 3rd noun definition fits best.
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Did you ever react to the term OCR - Optical Character Recognition? What is "optical" about comparing bitmaps of scanned images, sliding them up and down, scaling them, skewing them to make them match some target bitmap? There is no optics whatsoever involved!
In the old days, OCR was performed by pulling physical masks over the printed text - not scanned/digitized, but the hardcopy printout. After advancing the physical copy to the next character, you slid a black band of masks across it, with cutouts for each character. If the black print character matched the cutout perfectly, then it would be all black and the photocell picking up the reflected light (or rather: the lack of it) would flag the position of the mask band as the most likely character. (The most fancy systems displayed the mask through a zoom lens to project the mask onto the physical print, so that it could be matched to different font sizes.) Then the next test was performed, with a white mask band that was slid across the printed character, and the the cutouts inicated where there was not supposed to be ink. Say, if a vertical slot in the first band could match either a T or an I (assume sans serif), a cutout for the flanges of the T could indicate to the phototocel that this is indeed an I (all white), or is a T (lower reflection due to the horizontal line of the T being black through the cutouts.
This was the REAL Optical Character Recognition! I have had quite a few youngsters staring open-mouthed at me when I explain this to them!
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Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Huh. For some reason, I always thought 'festoon' meant to decorate.
In this industry, we use silly words like 'test', 'design', etc. It's o.k. though, nobody means it here.
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I was a press operator for a few years. In our plant we call festoons dancers. The printing industry is full of weird words/phrases. Dampener (dampner?), bustle wheels, cuim rollers, and so on.
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"Nip rollers" :snicker:
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Festoon: a chain or garland of flowers, leaves, or ribbons, hung in a curve as a decoration.
Quote: What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
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Gary Wheeler wrote: What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
agnostic - as in, our server app doesn't have apriori knowledge about what gets plugged in into it (as long as its API conforms to a standard) or who communicates with it (as long as are properly oauth'd in).
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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I've had to use atheist API's before - the server wouldn't allow your connection, no matter what you tried.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: the server wouldn't allow your connection, no matter what you tried.
Hmmm. That waitress in the bar last night was an atheist. I had no idea!
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Maybe it was your feet of clay. Next time, wear better shoes .
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Certainly, the most common use of "agnostic" is in the religious sense ("If god exists, he must be defeated!")
Linguistically speaking, "a-gnostic" simply means "not-knowing". It doesn't have to be related to religious concepts at all.
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out of a codeproject mug
thanks Chris and team.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Congratulations once again
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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i don't know what voodoo you used to make this mug work so well, but thank you.
i got it this morning right in time for a cup, and it was magic ever since.
Real programmers use butterflies
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when brewed by someone you love....
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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I always make my own coffee.
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So doesn't that qualify?
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Awww, you love yourself.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Jalapeno Bob wrote: When brewed by someone you love.
Jörgen Andersson wrote: I always make my own coffee.
Those who fall in love with themselves will have no rivals.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Those who fall in love with themselves will have no rivals.
...and they'll always have a partner...
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Did you ever read the story of Onan in the black book?
Sidetracking:
Now that I have brought up Onan... He it the most misunderstood character in the entire bible. His sin was that he refused to copulate with his sister-in-law after his older brother was dead before generating offspring.
The "official" argument he gave against it that he wanted his kids to be counted as his own, not as kids of his dead brother. (The tradition said that Tamar's first child should be counted as the child of Er, the dead brother, no matter who was the biological father.) Between the lines, we can read that Tamar was an immature child bride - years later she ended up as the wife of Shelah, the younger brother of Onan and Er, still a boy when Onan was "sinning" by not going to bed with his sister-in-law. In those days, a husband was always older than the wife, so it it obvious that Tamar was even younger than the immature Shelah. That explains why the oldest brother, Er, didn't succeed in having a child with Tamar before he died, and it gives a believable explanation why Onan refused to deposit his seed in her.
So, Onan should be praised as a hero, fighting against the use of child brides, rather than as the epitome of the sin of wasting your seed on activities that cannot contribute to making girls pregnant.
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