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My exercise is to try and burn up bicycle brakes on the way back from a 6000 foot to 8500 foot climb.

A boring video of part of the ride back down is here, where I hit 40mph.

Icy and sticky!
Dude! It's Ice Cream, ok?!

From all the documentation I have read on smart cards, 3V (and 1.8V) cards are an extension of the 5V SIM spec. That is, they work at 5V as well (but with higher power usage, of course). If you have specific documentation otherwise, please post it. Secondly, I assure you the quality of my soldering is excellent (ie http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/332269259_21900c5a01_b.jpg), but the lighting and video makes perfboard-soldering (ie http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/images/tutorials/perfboard/solderaperf26.jpg) look bad

Oh no, my friend...
Trees do indeed grow in dirt

I've thrown together one of the few photos of Terry against a backdrop of the SF fiber network here http://www.flickr.com/photos/9640932@N04/sets/72157606386153323/ got one of the t-shirts on the way already

Simple solutions to simple problems: see here

If you would like to see more 3-D Mars Phoenix images I created several (ok, 192) 3-D pictures and posted them to this picture set. For the most part, I used the highest resolution images available. There may be some dupes -- especially from the first few Sols as I got the hang of making these images using PaintShopPro and the importance of getting the left/right in the right order with proper alignment. The revised versions are denoted with "V2" or "V3". There are also a couple animated GIFs I put together similar to the "ice is there, now it's not" animation from earlier in the mission. You will need to sign in to Flickr to view the original high resolution 3D images and to view the animated GIFs. I stopped at Sol 33, but plan on continuing when I have the time again.

ZOMGPONIES!!!

Now all I have to do is glue two video cameras together and sell it as a "budget 3-D video camera"...

You mean like this?

You can synchronize the cameras using over LANC using this device.

You need:
1. A PC with support for two monitors (most)
2. Two projectors
3. Polarizing filters for the projectors (standard from photography store)
4. Polaroid sunglasses (lightweight and cheap)

Like this?

every hoodie-with-ASBOS-and-ringtones would be getting "free" rides.

And who will supply them, hm? Think of the money you could make!

Chavettes need rides, too, you know....

http://flickr.com/photos/bumi/285541845/sizes/o/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/18/facebook-sues-german-social-network-studivz/

http://mashable.com/images/facebookbigshot1.png

Check out the links to the Internet Archive home pages made by other posters, while you're at it. Facebook's home page recently changed, and their additional CSS is because their style sheets link to broad sets of standard styles. You don't mean to imply with a straight face that breaking up the CSS differently is evidence that it was written originally, or that even if it was, that it's not intended to duplicate arbitrary choices made by Facebook designers, do you?

Explain to me why all the unique content coding at studiVZ is in German, while all their PHP is in English, and named exactly the same as the includes, libraries, and function pages as Facebook.

You said,

"Apart from this, numerous HP employees have been discussing this subject within HP. People like myself and other individuals from the Software branch have pointed out this is a wasteful approach. And judging by the brand spanking new e-delivery option and certain other efforts within HP, I see that this is actually worked on for SoftWare."

And:

"Probably the costs that are associated with a radical change of this system are quite high, because it's likely that many changes need to be made in databases, order systems, processes and procedures."

And:

"As said, I have seen indications this is being worked on, but one has to remember we are a company the size of a small country, and that makes it a little more difficult to maneuver than a one man company."

Wow! Isn't there some mid-level manager at HP who is willing to say, "Stop sending single pieces of paper in boxes! Never do that again." ???

You made me realize the weakness of my grandparent comment. I thought I was giving an accurate picture of the misery inside HP. But I forgot to mention the most scary part of being a corporate drone: The drones don't realize they are drones. Woooo-oooo-ooo.

The situation is even worse than that! (Similar to the late-night Infomercials: But wait!! There's more!) At least, when it is only excess packaging, it is possible to just put the cardboard in the recycle bin. The real misery happens when drones become involved with technical details. I remember a conversation with an HP representative about a model of HP laser printer that costs about $1000. He told me, if I remember correctly, that it was entirely reasonable that if that model printer needed routine maintenance, the work could not be done locally, in our big city.

Nothing about this should give the impression that I think corporate drones are a particularly bad problem at HP. I have had worse experiences with Microsoft and Intel representatives.

(But wait!! There's more!) It's even scarier when entire departments become drones. I was on an Intel marketing email list. I got many emails suggesting that I would be motivated to buy Intel processors by the fact that Intel would give me a free bunny suit doll.

Hah! Are there people who don't believe that Intel was using dolls to sell processors? Believe! It's not my photo; I just found it with a Google search. I would never jump through the hoops necessary to get an Intel Bunny Suit Doll.

How did the department at Intel scarily called "Marketing" first arrive at the idea that making customers jump through hoops is doing something good for the company?

Then, later, the entire idea that "Intel Marketing" should do something good for Intel was completely abandoned. That happened years ago, so long ago that no one who is there now can remember when Intel Marketing was good for the company, or even cared about being good for the company.

Want a recent example? The new Intel 45 nanometer processors, which are an extremely impressive engineering achievement, I think, are called Centrino 2. Before they were "Core 2 Duo". Believe! (More Infomercial talk: That's not 1! Not 2!! But 3 uses of the concept two!!! The second person in the infomercial says, "John, that's Amazing!!!!")

You think that monster attacking Sigourney Weaver in the movie Alien was scary? "Intel Marketing" is even scarier than that. At least Sigourney Weaver realized she was being attacked by a monster. The really scary thing is when someone has become the monster, and doesn't realize it.

Maybe Intel top management thinks that Intel Marketing is like prostate cancer. Sometimes, if a tumor isn't growing, it is considered better to let it stay in the body.

Nothing you said says anything about reusing code. Adding datamining is a copy and paste operation, which they've plainly already mastered:
http://flickr.com/photos/bumi/285541845/sizes/o/

Also note that their "poke" function is named...poke.php. Most of their functions and libraries, in fact, are written in English...and named identically to their Facebook counterparts. The rest of the code, however, is in German (i.e. what they added or bothered to rename).

Look at the path on this StudiVZ server error: http://flickr.com/photos/bumi/285541845/sizes/o/
It shows the amount of creativity that went into StudiVZ.

http://flickr.com/photos/russnelson/2675626315/

Here are some photos I shot of the teams preparing their cars the day before the rally started in Plano, Texas.

North American Solar Challenge 2008 prep day photos

You could actually generate electricity and heat water with it, if you're up to some DIY. See this from Tel Aviv University:
Solar dish. It looks a bit mangled, but it's a research project after all, the commercial prototype I saw looks much better :)

Baloney. They've tried to make it a little better in some of the updates, but UAC still pops up when you're trying to change user-level settings, remove shortcuts from your own desktop or start menu, and various other stupid things.

That's what I always wished had happened to this thing. C&W had the largest commercial dish in the world, as it is I believe it may have just gone for scrap. It felt VERY Goldeneye to go out for a smoke at 3am with that thing (and a bunch of teeny 3/5 meters) hanging over you.

http://flickr.com/photos/holdenk/2670185358/

And get a haircut, hippie!

Grab a Flickr account, and upload the photos there.

Having scans of that book preserved somewhere for posterity would be pretty freakin' awesome too. I sincerely doubt Woz would mind...

This is your chance to be a geek hero. Share the wealth!

Did your 1998 computer have a "NASA" or "DoD" sticker?
Let's have a contest! Which of the following pictures depict a 1998 game character and which is from a Second Life avatar? :)
See if you can guess!

http://www.fpsteam.it/img2006/sin/sin_elexis_bathroom_04.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3246/2670018726_c289810160.jpg?v=0

(There is no such thing as Linden content, if you mean the Welcome Area, it was built like 4 years ago by a friend of mine, as a contractor... when SL had a completely different engine... and there was essentially nobody doing it professionally)

I think I have your cable right here.
I hope your computer is all right.

Sumo Wrestling.
Think about it. Neither Yang, nor Filo would stand a chance against Steve Ballmer.

its not cheap but I think its worth it. the hardware, that is. the software is free (freebsd m0n0wall).

a high res photo of mine:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/linux-works/1655498926/sizes/o/

link to its product page: http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm

its fanless, its very low power, its fast booting, it uses throw-away (seriously!) compact flash cards to boot from and the model I have has quite a few ethernet ports (admittedly, 10/100 and not gig-e; but its a wan gateway, not really a lan-router).

its gui is nice and clean, it pretty much works and the system's uptime is months and months. I think the last time my UPS ran down when the power failed, that's the last time the thing needed a reboot.

there is also a wireless option for this (it has a regular pci slot, too).

soekris is a small company and I do recommend people consider them for their embedded networking devices. (I'm just a customer, but I'm local and I drove down to where the comany is located and bought my unit in person. it was cool to see such a small operation turn out such a nice set of small fanless bsd-capable systems.)

Oh, NOW I get it. You think that I'm not actually seeing liquid nitrogen tanks. That "supercooling" with liquefied gases anywhere outside of labs and special installations is just absurd.
Oh. You're convinced that your theory trumps my reality.
Okay, now that I know the nature of your clue-impairment, I went to Flickr and it took me all of about five seconds to find this and this and this and, oh, whatever. I guess that somebody's just working really hard to fake what I think I'm seeing. I would ask you to explain it to me but you seem a little het up. Maybe you just need to sit down and have a nice cup of tea. Btw, for future reference, I used to get great results cooling mine off with liquid nitrogen. The professor in charge of our lab used to love to watch it jump out of the top of my cup. Should I explain to you why that happens?

Oh, NOW I get it. You think that I'm not actually seeing liquid nitrogen tanks. That "supercooling" with liquefied gases anywhere outside of labs and special installations is just absurd.
Oh. You're convinced that your theory trumps my reality.
Okay, now that I know the nature of your clue-impairment, I went to Flickr and it took me all of about five seconds to find this and this and this and, oh, whatever. I guess that somebody's just working really hard to fake what I think I'm seeing. I would ask you to explain it to me but you seem a little het up. Maybe you just need to sit down and have a nice cup of tea. Btw, for future reference, I used to get great results cooling mine off with liquid nitrogen. The professor in charge of our lab used to love to watch it jump out of the top of my cup. Should I explain to you why that happens?

Oh, NOW I get it. You think that I'm not actually seeing liquid nitrogen tanks. That "supercooling" with liquefied gases anywhere outside of labs and special installations is just absurd.
Oh. You're convinced that your theory trumps my reality.
Okay, now that I know the nature of your clue-impairment, I went to Flickr and it took me all of about five seconds to find this and this and this and, oh, whatever. I guess that somebody's just working really hard to fake what I think I'm seeing. I would ask you to explain it to me but you seem a little het up. Maybe you just need to sit down and have a nice cup of tea. Btw, for future reference, I used to get great results cooling mine off with liquid nitrogen. The professor in charge of our lab used to love to watch it jump out of the top of my cup. Should I explain to you why that happens?

I've wondered if there could be a market for "Christian porn" that addresses all the issues they have with it.

There isn't, for you see, The Lord Provides.

Can someone explain to me what Aperture is, what a "raw photo editor" is, and how a "photo manager" differs from a "file manager"? Thanks.

Screenshots might help - basically it's a file manager with additional sorting, filtering and whatnot designed for organising photos. Here's Lightroom's library view as an example - I've filtered to show only photos I've given three stars or more, and selected one so you can see all the keywords and other metadata assigned to that photo. All searchable, sortable, filterable and so on!

With regard to editing, here's a screenshot from the develop view. All the edits are non-destructive - you can see a history on the left. 'RAW' refers to the image from the camera being in an unprocessed, raw-data-from-image-sensor format, which gives you a bit more latitude in tweaking white balance, contrast, exposure and the like.

(I don't normally shoot 'RAW', but my once-in-a-lifetime shipyard visit coincided with some utterly horrendous weather - getting just the right exposure in unlit, semi-derelict Eastern European industrial buildings at 7am on a cold, dark, wintry morning proved a little tricky at times... ;-] )

.... but, you could spot the pimple on the Pron star's ass from 1000 feet away without using a zoom lens.

You mean a telephoto lens?

I have a Sigma 10-20mm lens that is a zoom lens that is from crazy-wide to very-wide, and doesn't get to a "normal" focal length. Perhaps you mean something like a 500mm lens, which doesn't zoom?

Focal length comparison, from 10 to 500mm on a 1.5x crop sensor here

I posted a picture of a penis monster saying 'Hi I'm Muhammad' with a caption that said 'I'm pretty sure this is what Muhammad probably looked like' on my flickr account and it hasn't been taken down. I'm not that familiar with Flickr but I was 100% sure that pic would have been taken down. I guess the lesson here is, in Flickr's eyes a photo of a child with a cigarette is more objectionable than openly insulting somebody's religion. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2143/2214325041_4e6ed4516b_o.jpg

I have to say Flickr is by far one the most disappointing experiences I have had online.

I am a professional photographer who uses Flickr as a means to promote my craft. I have even paid for a "pro" account to ensure consistency. Well, Flickr not only has taken censorship into their own hands, but have ZERO support for asking why and when and how to correct the situation. I have an account where I moderate my own material and have done it very well. BUT somewhere along the lines something happened and Flickr has made my account inaccessible for non-Flickr members and hard for even Flickr members to view. I tried to contact them through normal email channels many, many times with zero results and even rude replies from a moderator named "Terrence". I then went the phone method with Yahoo(their parent) only to find Flickr offers no support other than online, which has proven useless.

I have now lost noticeable business and online presence because of this, and all I was looking for was a little help. I have even thought to take Flick to small claims court for not only my membership price(which they refuse to refund) but also the time wasted and lost income. I also have fellow photographers who have lost their entire Flickr archive due to Flickrs weird self censorship.

I wonder how many people this has happened to. Now this article appears to show I am not the only one.

--tomjulio.com ...my Flickr account

Smells like a wonderful technology to implement as part of a camera sensor (when dealing with very low light, such as in astrophotography, nightshots of nature, etc.)

Canon's got the "switchable capacitor well" patent hanging in reserve, and it looks like they're going to have to use it with Nikon's new D700 going ASA 6400 and pushing all the way to 25600; but I wonder just how far you could take a camera's sensitivity if you had *accurate* photon counting... imagine a photodetector that counts photons as they arrive and simply increments a large counter. This would literally be a "digital" sensor, rather than an analog one. Precision light sensors. Mmmmm-good. :-)

I like wide-field astrophotography. I'd be all over a (relatively) affordable DSLR that could really do low light in a precise manner. Right now, you have to spend about three grand to get a camera body that can go to an honest ISO 6400; if they could get the price in or around that area with something that was effectively counting all the photons... Oy.

Have to do something about the color and IR filters, too. Swing them out of the way or something equally tricky. Maybe some variation on a single-well, filterless approach like the Foveon one.

From TFA, it will be used "...including business, education, commerce, and entertainment".

When it can do this: Entertainment, I know I'll be there like a rat up a drain pipe.

I look at a vehicle this small and wonder what would happen if it was hit by a 3000lb vehicle.

Here is a picture of the recent crash test results:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/397108785_154ccb88fc.jpg?v=0

Charles! Nooooooooooooo!

From version 1 of the gimp user manual
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80821046@N00/2633127801/

I've made a bit of a hobby of finding odd/geeky plates, and have seen LOL, and have pictures of a WTF here in Washington, along with ones like SSL, URL, UTF...yeah I'm weird.

they r coming after mah car... WTF NOOB!!!11!one!!

Hey, here in Virginia the state charges for a "WTF" license plate. Now that's good governance.

According to http://flickr.com/photos/saeru/1466473828/ it was taken at 2007:09:29 08:59:49.

The link also indicates that it's fog, not smog.

dom

Check out Guangzhou, China. I've been there several times and never seen a clear day there. Though I hear Xian is worse.

Here's a photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lowcarboneconomy/2380068464/sizes/o/

I am a big fan of our wind turbines. Maui's property is among the most expensive in the nation. People continue to flock here for their vacations. I don't think the wind farm would deter anyone from visiting. However, there are few residential properties that are have a view of the wind farm, even though it is on the ridgeline of the west Maui mountains. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/211/511912301_9d756feca2.jpg

If you're willing to put a little more work into it, there are others as well.

http://flickr.com/photos/99188631@N00/128731804/ created theirs from a wikipedia article, adding their own tabs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_projection is the article he got it from, which also has an SVG

I can't say I would want a bucky ball as a personal home either, and frankly, am confused as to why anyone would even think a geodesic dome would work for such. However the Tacoma Dome in Washington State is a geodesic dome and works very well as an arena. No leaks or anything. Don't blame the design man... ;-)

A curious blend of techincal and marketing skills soon to be forgotten. Surely you don't think of Wintel publications as anything more substantial than the Sears catalog?