Author Topic: Quotes from work (Read 180681 times)

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #525 on:** June 18, 2009, 09:58:15 PM »

Idioms are just another hurdle for him to jump through.

rivka · « **Reply #526 on:** June 18, 2009, 11:02:20 PM »

Her.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #527 on:** June 18, 2009, 11:49:29 PM »

You know, I vacillated between the male and female pronoun, and in the end, just flipped a coin. A virtual coin.

rivka · « **Reply #528 on:** June 19, 2009, 01:09:40 AM »

I think it's funny because I am fairly certain this is not the first time we have had this same conversation about my boss. No reason you should remember she's a she -- I doubt you've ever met her! I just find it amusing.

Neutros the Radioactive Dragon · « **Reply #529 on:** June 19, 2009, 07:04:05 AM »

Yes. I find such errors entertaining as well. If I know the person cares, I mention it. If not, I just sit back and smile.

Jonathon · « **Reply #530 on:** June 29, 2009, 12:00:51 PM »

One of my coworkers just scanned an image for our designer and asked her what format she wanted the image in. The designer responded, "Uh, JPEG, TIFF, it's all the same." >.< Uh, no, it's not.

Porter · « **Reply #531 on:** June 29, 2009, 12:05:25 PM »

Somebody should recommend that to maintain image integrity, your designer needs to save each version as a separate .jpg, and then re-load it from the .jpg each step.

Jonathon · « **Reply #532 on:** June 29, 2009, 12:06:45 PM »

I think it'd be better to avoid JPEGs altogether and use something with lossless compression, like a TIFF.

Porter · « **Reply #533 on:** June 29, 2009, 12:12:02 PM »

Um, I was saying that he should change his workflow so that he was essentially only working with jpgs, so that each step new JPEG artifacts would come and multiply on top of the ones from other steps.

Jonathon · « **Reply #534 on:** June 29, 2009, 12:24:29 PM »

So that after only a few changes, the images start looking like absolute crud? Sounds good to me.

pooka · « **Reply #535 on:** June 29, 2009, 12:45:45 PM »

Except he'd remember you were the one who recommended it. The lesson learned would not be that jpgs are bad, but that you are.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #536 on:** June 29, 2009, 12:46:50 PM »

Well, that's a useful thing to know, no?

Porter · « **Reply #537 on:** June 29, 2009, 12:50:32 PM »

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So that after only a few changes, the images start looking like absolute crud? Sounds good to me.

Bingo.

Then he won't ask you that question anymore. Hopefully.

The Genuine · « **Reply #538 on:** June 29, 2009, 01:23:03 PM »

What about .png? How does that compare to .tiff?

Isn't .png newer, smaller, and web-browseable? What's the upside to .tiff?

Jonathon · « **Reply #539 on:** June 29, 2009, 01:59:06 PM »

First off, the designer is a she, not a he. Second, I wasn't the one doing the scanning. I just overheard the conversation. Third, PNG does not support CMYK color spaces. We don't need something web-browsable, but printable.

Jonathon · « **Reply #540 on:** July 01, 2009, 04:15:19 PM »

And now, for the shockingly racist quote of the day:

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Another surprise in table 1 was the high self-esteem reported among the Mexican LDS students, especially on positive items. . . . We have no reasonable explanation for this cultural difference. We actually anticipated that the LDS Mexican students would have lower self-esteem than other LDS students. Perhaps the Mexican [high school] seniors compare themselves to other Mexican students rather than to American youth and feel pretty good about themselves.

sweet clementine · « **Reply #541 on:** July 01, 2009, 04:36:37 PM »

wow! What the heck is that?

Jonathon · « **Reply #542 on:** July 01, 2009, 05:18:24 PM »

It's from a book on the influence of religion on LDS youth.

rivka · « **Reply #543 on:** July 01, 2009, 05:30:20 PM »

>.<

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #544 on:** July 01, 2009, 08:50:55 PM »

Maybe they are too ignorant to understand that they are supposed to feel inferior to white people.

Jonathon · « **Reply #545 on:** July 01, 2009, 09:12:49 PM »

Apparently so.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #546 on:** July 01, 2009, 10:44:24 PM »

People like this are being published?

sarcasticmuppet · « **Reply #547 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:34:50 AM »

Well, with Stephanie Meyers as a benchmark...

rivka · « **Reply #548 on:** July 02, 2009, 08:20:32 AM »

One of our English instructors shared an email with me from a student protesting their grade of "B", which includes such memorable phrases as "with all do respect".

Jonathon · « **Reply #549 on:** July 02, 2009, 08:35:14 AM »

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People like this are being published?

Sadly, yes, though I should point out that we'll be deleting most of what I quoted.