Word: overlit
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...also only as good as the light it's got to work with. As HP noted in its blog post, the lighting in the YouTube video was dim, and, the company said, there wasn't enough contrast to pick up the facial shadows the computer needed for seeing. (An overlit person with a fair complexion might have had the same problem.) A better camera wouldn't necessarily have guaranteed a better result, because there's another bottleneck: computing power. The constant flow of images is usually too much for the software to handle, so it downsamples them, or reduces...
...Even now, I often feel, in the Land of the Rising Sun, as if I'm living in some overlit amusement arcade, in which every other car is called "Sunny" and even the supermarkets style themselves "Sun Plazas." In 1987, when I first arrived in Japan, an American teacher of English in Kyoto told me that when she asked her students to choose an adjective with which to describe themselves, she had to ban the use of the word "cheerful," or else every girl in class would select it. Accentuating the positive is an article of faith here...
...might mean waltzing in the State House, which is nice but intimidating (and believe me, they keep all the interesting offices locked when they rent it out). Or worse, it could be a fiasco like this year's Citystep formal at the Children's Museum, which was overcrowded, overlit and understaffed. It's also just not as much fun climbing on the giant telephone if you're wearing spike heels, a strapless bra and a lot of sequins...
...produced, if not exactly a movie the whole world is waiting for. True to the packager's creed, Yes, Giorgio has something for everyone whose taste was formed in the '50s; lots of cute lovers' spats but no visible sex, a rich range of overlit settings for a parade of Pavarotti's greatest hits, plus a funny nun, two funny servants and a not-so-funny food fight (in case someone from the Animal House crowd wanders in by mistake). Franklin J. Schaffner has directed as if no one let him in on the scam. Poor...
...world's oil-or more than 16 million bbl. a day. Much of that precious petroleum is wasted, guzzled up in two-ton cars that carry one person to the office, or burned up in poorly insulated houses that are overheated in winter, overcooled in summer and overlit year round. All the talk notwithstanding, Americans have not yet begun to conserve. As soon as last winter's oil embargo started leaking and the gasoline lines began shrinking, people quickly stepped on the gas and turned up the thermostat. Sooner rather than later, however, Americans will have to learn...