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PTStereo does just that. It is part of panotools, but unfortunately the author has not released its source. (PTStereo was only one of a few components of Panotools that is only available in binary form).

PTStereo creates 3D-worlds from sets of photographs. Applications range from object movies to terrain visualization. Any set of images can be used without alignment requirements. 3D-data can be extracted for any feature visible in both images, as long as the images have different viewpoint (non-zero stereo base).

User input involves the triangulation of all images: Corresponding feature points have to be identified, and connected to a mesh consisting of triangles. The output of PTStereo is a 3D-world ready to be viewed with any VRML or 3DMF-browser. This world consists of a texture mapped indexed face set. In addition, world coordinates of all feature points and camera positions are calculated and can be used for measurements.

I now have my 3D triangle mesh textured model in the modeling program. You can do whatever you want with it from there, such as measuring its volume, rigging it to be animated as a CGI element in a movie, analysing the terrain of a mountain to find the best hiking route to a summit, having it be an obstacle for Blender's fluid simulator. There's no limit.

This issue I have with Google Earth, Photosynth and Earthmine, is that you are limited to their datasets, and they tend to only make 3D models of cities and buildings, and low resolution images (compared with photographs) of mountains taken from above only. Sketchup is a step in the right direction, but PTStereo allows you to do Image Based Modeling from your own images.... and it's free!

Hari Kiri.. Only uninformed or deceived Westerners refer to "Hari Kari"

http://home.no.net/harakiri/

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http://www.parida.com/seppuku.html

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku

"Vocabulary and Etymology

Seppuku is also known as hara-kiri (, "cutting the belly") and is written with the same kanji as seppuku but in reverse order with an okurigana. In Japanese, hara-kiri is a colloquialism, seppuku being the more formal term. Samurai (and modern adherents of bushido) would use seppuku, whereas ordinary Japanese (who in feudal times as well as today looked askance at the practice) would use hara-kiri. Hara-kiri is the more common term in English, where it is often mistakenly rendered "hari-kari.""

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http://www.answers.com/topic/seppuku-1

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(Probably the blame can be squarely laid at the feet of hollywood and any servicepersons and tourists from the West who "just didn't get it" or who just didn't give a damn...)

But, it is carried out with a "tanto":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanto

If you want to see it performed in a film (quite messy in real life and somewhat in the film), see:

Brother,

Starring and produced/directed by Kitano Takeshi (of "Beat"...) and starring Omar Epps

http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/2001/brother01.shtml

http://www.moviesunlimited.com/musite/product.asp?sku=D27123

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222851/

http://global.yesasia.com/en/artIdxDept.aspx/section-videos/code-j/aid-30742/

and,

http://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/brother

"this film sure is one violent sonofabitch. If you're not down for that, then maybe you should check to see if you can get into a session of Harry Potter instead. Some of the harshest violence in it is self-inflicted (that brother thing again, but taken to an illogical and hella messy degree). And all of it is LOUD. Handguns are like cannons. Kicks are like wrecking balls. Punches are like car crashes. Car crashes are like - well, like car crashes. I think the punches are louder."

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Anyway, I will always respect Kitano-san for how he ended the film, something rarely permitted in many western films. You have to see it for yourself...

"CIA Handbook Of Dirty Tricks [Vol #1]"

Robert

Went ahead and made a _trackerless_ torrent for those of you who want all the symphonies in this BBC series.

Grab the torrent here: http://home.no.net/nexus/beethoven_symphonies_trac kerless.torrent

Now, this is my first atempt at a trackerless torrent and you will need a client with trackerless support to use it (Newest Azureus and BitComet comes to mind)

Everyone knows child slaves are horrible at commenting their code.

Not at all. Just run their comments through this and you'll be fine.

Distros usually support the Chinese language out of the box, e.g. Mandrake comes with Chinese support.
If you prefer something like Gentoo, then make sure you have localization support in you glibc and utf-8 support. Then you'll only need an input editor such as SCIM. This page might help you as well.

If you need more information send me a personal message.

cheers,
Barnoid

Actually, player pianos can sound really cool, and they are NOT obsolete antiques from the past.
The sound is completely real, even better than the most costly surround system that ever excisted.

That is, if you tune the piano and restore the inner workings correctly, of course, in addition to being a good pianolist.

The automatic mechanism operates via a complex maze of vacuum hoses, valves and pneumatics (small bellows) and the piano roll which contains holes read by a tracker bar which tell small pneumatics when to collapse, which in order, moves the keys of the regular piano, something which is further illustrated and explained here.
Nearly all player pianos can be played by hand as a regular piano by the way. One interesting detail is that on European pianos, the keys often don't move when the player plays automatically, while on most of the american ones, the keys move like we see in those western movies. Some pianos have electrical driven pumps, most others have foot pedals - mine has both! Pianos with food pedals are very easy to pump, if they are in tight working condition!

Here are a some examples of high quality mp3 recordings of two old pianos, one Stroud pianola residing in an art café, called Thomasgaarden in the old norwegian copper mining town Røros and my own Weber Pianola !

Lion Tamer Rag Artcraft roll played on the Weber piano
Frühlingsrauschen by the norwegian composer Christian Sinding. Aeolian roll played on the Stroud piano
American Patrol Aeolian roll played on the Stroud piano
Chicago March Artcraft roll played on the Weber piano
Can-can Some old noname roll played on the Stroud piano

And yes, I also recorded St. Lois Blues and Tiger Rag when I visited that café last summer.

One should notice that even if the Stroud pianola is somewhat untuned, its tone is quite better than mine, which sounds more like a perfectly tuned home piano ready for taking those boring piano lessons. But guess what - there no more boring piano lessons to take when you have an automatic piano!

And if I need more rolls, My friend Douglas Henderson, who is the mastermind behind Artcraft still supplies newly made rolls!

Artcraft is by the way a one man business where the rolls are made the hard way with this amazing punching equipment.

Here are some pictures of the inside of my piano - and yes, I should long ago made a home page with these pictures.

Did you by the way get distracted by the LGB train on top of my Weber piano?

Anyway - here are some more pictures from the inside of the piano too, here's the wind motor which pulls the roll and the

Actually, player pianos can sound really cool, and they are NOT obsolete antiques from the past.
The sound is completely real, even better than the most costly surround system that ever excisted.

That is, if you tune the piano and restore the inner workings correctly, of course, in addition to being a good pianolist.

The automatic mechanism operates via a complex maze of vacuum hoses, valves and pneumatics (small bellows) and the piano roll which contains holes read by a tracker bar which tell small pneumatics when to collapse, which in order, moves the keys of the regular piano, something which is further illustrated and explained here.
Nearly all player pianos can be played by hand as a regular piano by the way. One interesting detail is that on European pianos, the keys often don't move when the player plays automatically, while on most of the american ones, the keys move like we see in those western movies. Some pianos have electrical driven pumps, most others have foot pedals - mine has both! Pianos with food pedals are very easy to pump, if they are in tight working condition!

Here are a some examples of high quality mp3 recordings of two old pianos, one Stroud pianola residing in an art café, called Thomasgaarden in the old norwegian copper mining town Røros and my own Weber Pianola !

Lion Tamer Rag Artcraft roll played on the Weber piano
Frühlingsrauschen by the norwegian composer Christian Sinding. Aeolian roll played on the Stroud piano
American Patrol Aeolian roll played on the Stroud piano
Chicago March Artcraft roll played on the Weber piano
Can-can Some old noname roll played on the Stroud piano

And yes, I also recorded St. Lois Blues and Tiger Rag when I visited that café last summer.

One should notice that even if the Stroud pianola is somewhat untuned, its tone is quite better than mine, which sounds more like a perfectly tuned home piano ready for taking those boring piano lessons. But guess what - there no more boring piano lessons to take when you have an automatic piano!

And if I need more rolls, My friend Douglas Henderson, who is the mastermind behind Artcraft still supplies newly made rolls!

Artcraft is by the way a one man business where the rolls are made the hard way with this amazing punching equipment.

Here are some pictures of the inside of my piano - and yes, I should long ago made a home page with these pictures.

Did you by the way get distracted by the LGB train on top of my Weber piano?

Anyway - here are some more pictures from the inside of the piano too, here's the wind motor which pulls the roll and the

Actually, player pianos can sound really cool, and they are NOT obsolete antiques from the past.
The sound is completely real, even better than the most costly surround system that ever excisted.

That is, if you tune the piano and restore the inner workings correctly, of course, in addition to being a good pianolist.

The automatic mechanism operates via a complex maze of vacuum hoses, valves and pneumatics (small bellows) and the piano roll which contains holes read by a tracker bar which tell small pneumatics when to collapse, which in order, moves the keys of the regular piano, something which is further illustrated and explained here.
Nearly all player pianos can be played by hand as a regular piano by the way. One interesting detail is that on European pianos, the keys often don't move when the player plays automatically, while on most of the american ones, the keys move like we see in those western movies. Some pianos have electrical driven pumps, most others have foot pedals - mine has both! Pianos with food pedals are very easy to pump, if they are in tight working condition!

Here are a some examples of high quality mp3 recordings of two old pianos, one Stroud pianola residing in an art café, called Thomasgaarden in the old norwegian copper mining town Røros and my own Weber Pianola !

Lion Tamer Rag Artcraft roll played on the Weber piano
Frühlingsrauschen by the norwegian composer Christian Sinding. Aeolian roll played on the Stroud piano
American Patrol Aeolian roll played on the Stroud piano
Chicago March Artcraft roll played on the Weber piano
Can-can Some old noname roll played on the Stroud piano

And yes, I also recorded St. Lois Blues and Tiger Rag when I visited that café last summer.

One should notice that even if the Stroud pianola is somewhat untuned, its tone is quite better than mine, which sounds more like a perfectly tuned home piano ready for taking those boring piano lessons. But guess what - there no more boring piano lessons to take when you have an automatic piano!

And if I need more rolls, My friend Douglas Henderson, who is the mastermind behind Artcraft still supplies newly made rolls!

Artcraft is by the way a one man business where the rolls are made the hard way with this amazing punching equipment.

Here are some pictures of the inside of my piano - and yes, I should long ago made a home page with these pictures.

Did you by the way get distracted by the LGB train on top of my Weber piano?

Anyway - here are some more pictures from the inside of the piano too, here's the wind motor which pulls the roll and the

Actually, player pianos can sound really cool, and they are NOT obsolete antiques from the past.
The sound is completely real, even better than the most costly surround system that ever excisted.

That is, if you tune the piano and restore the inner workings correctly, of course, in addition to being a good pianolist.

The automatic mechanism operates via a complex maze of vacuum hoses, valves and pneumatics (small bellows) and the piano roll which contains holes read by a tracker bar which tell small pneumatics when to collapse, which in order, moves the keys of the regular piano, something which is further illustrated and explained here.
Nearly all player pianos can be played by hand as a regular piano by the way. One interesting detail is that on European pianos, the keys often don't move when the player plays automatically, while on most of the american ones, the keys move like we see in those western movies. Some pianos have electrical driven pumps, most others have foot pedals - mine has both! Pianos with food pedals are very easy to pump, if they are in tight working condition!

Here are a some examples of high quality mp3 recordings of two old pianos, one Stroud pianola residing in an art café, called Thomasgaarden in the old norwegian copper mining town Røros and my own Weber Pianola !

Lion Tamer Rag Artcraft roll played on the Weber piano
Frühlingsrauschen by the norwegian composer Christian Sinding. Aeolian roll played on the Stroud piano
American Patrol Aeolian roll played on the Stroud piano
Chicago March Artcraft roll played on the Weber piano
Can-can Some old noname roll played on the Stroud piano

And yes, I also recorded St. Lois Blues and Tiger Rag when I visited that café last summer.

One should notice that even if the Stroud pianola is somewhat untuned, its tone is quite better than mine, which sounds more like a perfectly tuned home piano ready for taking those boring piano lessons. But guess what - there no more boring piano lessons to take when you have an automatic piano!

And if I need more rolls, My friend Douglas Henderson, who is the mastermind behind Artcraft still supplies newly made rolls!

Artcraft is by the way a one man business where the rolls are made the hard way with this amazing punching equipment.

Here are some pictures of the inside of my piano - and yes, I should long ago made a home page with these pictures.

Did you by the way get distracted by the LGB train on top of my Weber piano?

Anyway - here are some more pictures from the inside of the piano too, here's the wind motor which pulls the roll and the

Actually, player pianos can sound really cool, and they are NOT obsolete antiques from the past.
The sound is completely real, even better than the most costly surround system that ever excisted.

That is, if you tune the piano and restore the inner workings correctly, of course, in addition to being a good pianolist.

The automatic mechanism operates via a complex maze of vacuum hoses, valves and pneumatics (small bellows) and the piano roll which contains holes read by a tracker bar which tell small pneumatics when to collapse, which in order, moves the keys of the regular piano, something which is further illustrated and explained here.
Nearly all player pianos can be played by hand as a regular piano by the way. One interesting detail is that on European pianos, the keys often don't move when the player plays automatically, while on most of the american ones, the keys move like we see in those western movies. Some pianos have electrical driven pumps, most others have foot pedals - mine has both! Pianos with food pedals are very easy to pump, if they are in tight working condition!

Here are a some examples of high quality mp3 recordings of two old pianos, one Stroud pianola residing in an art café, called Thomasgaarden in the old norwegian copper mining town Røros and my own Weber Pianola !

Lion Tamer Rag Artcraft roll played on the Weber piano
Frühlingsrauschen by the norwegian composer Christian Sinding. Aeolian roll played on the Stroud piano
American Patrol Aeolian roll played on the Stroud piano
Chicago March Artcraft roll played on the Weber piano
Can-can Some old noname roll played on the Stroud piano

And yes, I also recorded St. Lois Blues and Tiger Rag when I visited that café last summer.

One should notice that even if the Stroud pianola is somewhat untuned, its tone is quite better than mine, which sounds more like a perfectly tuned home piano ready for taking those boring piano lessons. But guess what - there no more boring piano lessons to take when you have an automatic piano!

And if I need more rolls, My friend Douglas Henderson, who is the mastermind behind Artcraft still supplies newly made rolls!

Artcraft is by the way a one man business where the rolls are made the hard way with this amazing punching equipment.

Here are some pictures of the inside of my piano - and yes, I should long ago made a home page with these pictures.

Did you by the way get distracted by the LGB train on top of my Weber piano?

Anyway - here are some more pictures from the inside of the piano too, here's the wind motor which pulls the roll and the

Actually, player pianos can sound really cool, and they are NOT obsolete antiques from the past.
The sound is completely real, even better than the most costly surround system that ever excisted.

That is, if you tune the piano and restore the inner workings correctly, of course, in addition to being a good pianolist.

The automatic mechanism operates via a complex maze of vacuum hoses, valves and pneumatics (small bellows) and the piano roll which contains holes read by a tracker bar which tell small pneumatics when to collapse, which in order, moves the keys of the regular piano, something which is further illustrated and explained here.
Nearly all player pianos can be played by hand as a regular piano by the way. One interesting detail is that on European pianos, the keys often don't move when the player plays automatically, while on most of the american ones, the keys move like we see in those western movies. Some pianos have electrical driven pumps, most others have foot pedals - mine has both! Pianos with food pedals are very easy to pump, if they are in tight working condition!

Here are a some examples of high quality mp3 recordings of two old pianos, one Stroud pianola residing in an art café, called Thomasgaarden in the old norwegian copper mining town Røros and my own Weber Pianola !

Lion Tamer Rag Artcraft roll played on the Weber piano
Frühlingsrauschen by the norwegian composer Christian Sinding. Aeolian roll played on the Stroud piano
American Patrol Aeolian roll played on the Stroud piano
Chicago March Artcraft roll played on the Weber piano
Can-can Some old noname roll played on the Stroud piano

And yes, I also recorded St. Lois Blues and Tiger Rag when I visited that café last summer.

One should notice that even if the Stroud pianola is somewhat untuned, its tone is quite better than mine, which sounds more like a perfectly tuned home piano ready for taking those boring piano lessons. But guess what - there no more boring piano lessons to take when you have an automatic piano!

And if I need more rolls, My friend Douglas Henderson, who is the mastermind behind Artcraft still supplies newly made rolls!

Artcraft is by the way a one man business where the rolls are made the hard way with this amazing punching equipment.

Here are some pictures of the inside of my piano - and yes, I should long ago made a home page with these pictures.

Did you by the way get distracted by the LGB train on top of my Weber piano?

Anyway - here are some more pictures from the inside of the piano too, here's the wind motor which pulls the roll and the

Actually, player pianos can sound really cool, and they are NOT obsolete antiques from the past.
The sound is completely real, even better than the most costly surround system that ever excisted.

That is, if you tune the piano and restore the inner workings correctly, of course, in addition to being a good pianolist.

The automatic mechanism operates via a complex maze of vacuum hoses, valves and pneumatics (small bellows) and the piano roll which contains holes read by a tracker bar which tell small pneumatics when to collapse, which in order, moves the keys of the regular piano, something which is further illustrated and explained here.
Nearly all player pianos can be played by hand as a regular piano by the way. One interesting detail is that on European pianos, the keys often don't move when the player plays automatically, while on most of the american ones, the keys move like we see in those western movies. Some pianos have electrical driven pumps, most others have foot pedals - mine has both! Pianos with food pedals are very easy to pump, if they are in tight working condition!

Here are a some examples of high quality mp3 recordings of two old pianos, one Stroud pianola residing in an art café, called Thomasgaarden in the old norwegian copper mining town Røros and my own Weber Pianola !

Lion Tamer Rag Artcraft roll played on the Weber piano
Frühlingsrauschen by the norwegian composer Christian Sinding. Aeolian roll played on the Stroud piano
American Patrol Aeolian roll played on the Stroud piano
Chicago March Artcraft roll played on the Weber piano
Can-can Some old noname roll played on the Stroud piano

And yes, I also recorded St. Lois Blues and Tiger Rag when I visited that café last summer.

One should notice that even if the Stroud pianola is somewhat untuned, its tone is quite better than mine, which sounds more like a perfectly tuned home piano ready for taking those boring piano lessons. But guess what - there no more boring piano lessons to take when you have an automatic piano!

And if I need more rolls, My friend Douglas Henderson, who is the mastermind behind Artcraft still supplies newly made rolls!

Artcraft is by the way a one man business where the rolls are made the hard way with this amazing punching equipment.

Here are some pictures of the inside of my piano - and yes, I should long ago made a home page with these pictures.

Did you by the way get distracted by the LGB train on top of my Weber piano?

Anyway - here are some more pictures from the inside of the piano too, here's the wind motor which pulls the roll and the

Be sure to use similarly advanced techniques to "defraggle" your hard drive.

This Bush?

There was a project back in the '80s, codename Jetfire that did this.

Yeah, it's somewhat large. The hole consist of two holes actually :).

I hacked this without thinking much about making it pretty. I guess it's possible to cover the hole with a hard plastic cover, but I haven't gotten to that yet. (I usually watch the monitor when I'm in my room :).

Had some spare time right now, so I took some pictures:
The computer in the other room
The entry-point (hole) for the cables
Desktop , usb connected devices

Yeah, it's somewhat large. The hole consist of two holes actually :).

I hacked this without thinking much about making it pretty. I guess it's possible to cover the hole with a hard plastic cover, but I haven't gotten to that yet. (I usually watch the monitor when I'm in my room :).

Had some spare time right now, so I took some pictures:
The computer in the other room
The entry-point (hole) for the cables
Desktop , usb connected devices

Yeah, it's somewhat large. The hole consist of two holes actually :).

I hacked this without thinking much about making it pretty. I guess it's possible to cover the hole with a hard plastic cover, but I haven't gotten to that yet. (I usually watch the monitor when I'm in my room :).

Had some spare time right now, so I took some pictures:
The computer in the other room
The entry-point (hole) for the cables
Desktop , usb connected devices

CHECK IT

workaround for 89350: http://home.no.net/trihand/mozilla/home/en/ (mentioned in the bug report).

This is one bug you can easily close yourself, by applying this patch to your mozilla install. Works great for me.

"Where's my home button?"

Oh, right here.

It's the first thing I do when I re-install Moz.

The direct link to the home button hack is here

Just a note to point (2): You can put the home button in its proper place in mozilla by installing Home Button.

It's strange that moz doesn't put the home button there anyways. Maybe that will be fixed eventually.

-TomK

Here are instructions on how to build an igloo, if anyone is interested.
But if you ask me, I think global warming is the trend.

Eureka!

I have found The Zelda commercial in question. And I must say, it's much, much, much worse than I remember! Sorry, Windows Media Format only.

Also some other sites talking about the commercial.

I agree that it's pretty cool that it was built.

But you're wrong about the Camaro. It didn't have popup headlights. The RS model (?? Can't keep the RS, SS, and RS/SS straight) had grills in front of the headlights. Same on the '67-'71 Cougars. The grills rotated 90 degrees, up over the top of the headlight, still concealed by the rest of the car's nose. Look here for the Camaro and here for the cougar.

Sorry I couldn't find any pictures with the grills up.

FWIW, it's usually trivial to fix problems with headlight doors. In vacuum systems, it's an old, rotting vacuum line. In mechanical systems, you've got a shot bushing or bent linkage. Sometimes the motors crap out, but it's more likely to be one of the causes I listed, or a bad relay, fuse, etc.

In any event, I'm not buying a $5500 fixer upper like this. If it were based on a Ford Fox body, maybe. But an Escort? Nope. Not having it. (BTW, I assume that the seller is using an American Escort, not a European Escort. The two are quite different.)

While we're at it, let's get _all_ of RML's patches into the _main_ kernel. Show your support by visiting here and signing the petition!

RML NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!

I am thinking specifcally thinking of Sigfreid. This raised all kinds of uproar at the time of it's premier because of the way that it it went counter to the morals of the day (regarding forbidden loves, etc).