The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux

Posted Mar 15, 2007 12:21 UTC (Thu) by MortenSickel (subscriber, #3238)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux by modernjazz
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Nearly killed me as well!

great little gem!

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The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux

Posted Mar 16, 2007 10:18 UTC (Fri) by sitaram (guest, #5959) [Link] (3 responses)

not being familiar with baseball, I can't make out if the comment on baseball in the previous paragraph to this one was also tounge-in-cheek

But it definitely carries the stamp of "our editor", bless him!

:-)

Baseball is a little bit like cricket.

Posted Mar 17, 2007 13:49 UTC (Sat) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

> not being familiar with baseball, I can't make out if the comment on
> baseball in the previous paragraph to this one was also tounge-in-cheek

Baseball is to baseball-playing countries what cricket is to cricket-playing countries. It is marginally faster (games tend to start and end on the same day), but there is a comparable amount of careful rearrangement of fielders between balls.

If cricket is also unfamiliar, you are blessed.

The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux

Posted Mar 17, 2007 15:59 UTC (Sat) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] (1 responses)

There is a Finnish flavor of baseball (pesäpallo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pes%C3%A4pallo) which is the nr 2 summer sport in Finland and I also enjoy playing and watching it myself occasionally. With this background, when 7 years ago I for the first time visited the US, I was excited to see some of your baseball too. Luckily for me, there was a huge game on TV that night, NY vs Boston or something like that.

Apparently this was supposedly a great game too. The commentators were wild about the fact that the pitcher had thrown so many balls without a single batter hitting once and that he was about to break his personal best. Halfway through the game I fell asleep. Next day I read in the papers the game had ended 1-0. (Ok, so jet lag may have played a part too.) I must say, it did not quite live up to my expectations :-)

Next day my Finnish friend confirmed: Yup, this was a typical game and he has no idea why Americans are so excited about it.

[OT] baseball

Posted Mar 17, 2007 19:47 UTC (Sat) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link]

Next day my Finnish friend confirmed: Yup, this was a typical game and he has no idea why Americans are so excited about it.

Some of us Americans have no idea, either. ;-)

But it is pretty fun to play the game. There's nothing quite like nailing a line drive into the gap in left field...or, conversely, being the outfielder who snags it out of that gap (on the run) to save the game.

Greg