credit reporting agencies should pony up into a fund for the FBI so that they can enforce existing laws Perhaps I'm misinformed, but I thought that's what we pay taxes for.
(Ok, so it was a poor attempt after the binary reply above but that's a tough act to follow.) My original thought was something about cat macros and nine lives, so I'm definitely not going to cast any blame your way.:-P
...until the system is abused. Actually, a quick check shows that the US Congress is empowered by the Constitution to issue letters of marque to private citizens. I wonder if they're issued all that often now...
If he's serious about breaking the record, he's probably going to do his best to stick to the highways, isn't he? Not many pedestrians to be found there.
I've heard rumors that American soldiers are slated to be test subjects. This is outrageous! I strongly urge all of you to stop playing computer solitaire and--
Hey, is that the queen of diamonds?
I've started wondering about how well the people of central Africa will handle the internet. Obviously there's a lot of problems there, as described in the above posts... what happens if they start throwing everything they've got into hopeless scams that prey on their destitution and strife? I'm not sure their culture is geared to handle it in quite the same way ours is, and I can't help but wonder if Africa is where we will first start to see cultures seriously undermined or destroyed by the Internet.
You may be in luck... have you heard of the Freespace 2 Source Code Project? Basically, FS2 is now open source; not only can you play FS2 in full for free, you can also modify it. Gamers are having a field day with it. I'm pretty sure there's work being done on an X-Wing game, though my sights are fixed more closely on a total conversion based on the new Battlestar Galactica series.
I think some people here are missing part of the draw of such a venture as this. People aren't interested in spending the money just for a minute and a half of weightlessness... they're interested in considering themselves astronauts. Once you break the 100km altitude mark--the Karman Line--you're in outer space. If you're in outer space, you're technically an astronaut. People want the title, as it is still somewhat exotic and mysterious.
If you think about it, space exploration is turning out to be just like the development of powered flight. It starts with a handful of daring, adventurous explorers, followed by governmental applications and novelties (like barnstorming and such), leading to common use by a large portion of society. Right now, we're moving through that second phase.
When I looked earlier in the day, it was one dead, one injured. "That's sad," I told myself.
Just before my midterm this afternoon, the professor was asking people if anybody'd heard about what had happened. I was shocked that the death toll was now 22.
Looking here, I see it rose even higher.
Wow. Just... wow.
I'm trying to conceive of such a thing happening at my school. It makes me physically tense up. Here, people are debating the merits of concealed-carry at colleges and universities. I didn't even *know* some schools allowed non-campus-safety weapons on campus.
Just... wow.
I realize that the symptoms of shortage are widespread, but I think this particular story is just for Syracuse. Their "Your Stories" segment is just that: stories or complaints that people call in that NewsChannel 9 investigates and reports on.
No camera system is perfect... but I think you might be selling this one short a little too soon.
The idea behind the average consumer camera is to gather photons from a large area in a reasonably short amount of time. Usually we do this with film or with a CCD or CMOS array. However, film is going out of vogue, and CCDs and CMOS arrays can have dead spots. From a scientific standpoint, arrays are problematic for this very reason... plus, who has time to calibrate several thousand detector elements per camera? Using a single element detector helps mitigate this problem.
In this ScienceDaily article, it is revealed that the system works best with higher frequency information that can appear to be white noise. While it may produce images that are unappealing to the human eye, from a scientific standpoint it might be just the thing needed for a given application. I'd be very careful stating that it "essentially directly zeroes out certain frequencies that have low amplitude"... a more appropriate description of what it is doing is recording less information for fields that contain little or no change. Change is often edges, and edges are approximately generated through the summation of many high-frequency sinusoids.
From an imaging standpoint, this is some intriguing stuff. I would have gone to the presentation, but I had class at the time.
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...until the system is abused. Actually, a quick check shows that the US Congress is empowered by the Constitution to issue letters of marque to private citizens. I wonder if they're issued all that often now...
What's the rationale behind having ten computers be the felony limit? Why not seven, or five?
If he's serious about breaking the record, he's probably going to do his best to stick to the highways, isn't he? Not many pedestrians to be found there.
I've heard rumors that American soldiers are slated to be test subjects. This is outrageous! I strongly urge all of you to stop playing computer solitaire and-- Hey, is that the queen of diamonds?
I hope the kids retort with "Make Original".
The truth about the quality and durability of the OLPC will come out when these kids start posting about it on Slashdot.
But that would make too much cents!
I've started wondering about how well the people of central Africa will handle the internet. Obviously there's a lot of problems there, as described in the above posts... what happens if they start throwing everything they've got into hopeless scams that prey on their destitution and strife? I'm not sure their culture is geared to handle it in quite the same way ours is, and I can't help but wonder if Africa is where we will first start to see cultures seriously undermined or destroyed by the Internet.
You may be in luck... have you heard of the Freespace 2 Source Code Project? Basically, FS2 is now open source; not only can you play FS2 in full for free, you can also modify it. Gamers are having a field day with it. I'm pretty sure there's work being done on an X-Wing game, though my sights are fixed more closely on a total conversion based on the new Battlestar Galactica series.
I think some people here are missing part of the draw of such a venture as this. People aren't interested in spending the money just for a minute and a half of weightlessness... they're interested in considering themselves astronauts. Once you break the 100km altitude mark--the Karman Line--you're in outer space. If you're in outer space, you're technically an astronaut. People want the title, as it is still somewhat exotic and mysterious.
If you think about it, space exploration is turning out to be just like the development of powered flight. It starts with a handful of daring, adventurous explorers, followed by governmental applications and novelties (like barnstorming and such), leading to common use by a large portion of society. Right now, we're moving through that second phase.
When I looked earlier in the day, it was one dead, one injured. "That's sad," I told myself. Just before my midterm this afternoon, the professor was asking people if anybody'd heard about what had happened. I was shocked that the death toll was now 22. Looking here, I see it rose even higher. Wow. Just... wow. I'm trying to conceive of such a thing happening at my school. It makes me physically tense up. Here, people are debating the merits of concealed-carry at colleges and universities. I didn't even *know* some schools allowed non-campus-safety weapons on campus. Just... wow.
I realize that the symptoms of shortage are widespread, but I think this particular story is just for Syracuse. Their "Your Stories" segment is just that: stories or complaints that people call in that NewsChannel 9 investigates and reports on.
If this is what rolling a 13 is like, what happens when the world rolls a critical hit?
Uh... does anybody have a link to the reassembly page?
Exactly. Point the camera "up", instead of "down".
No camera system is perfect... but I think you might be selling this one short a little too soon.
The idea behind the average consumer camera is to gather photons from a large area in a reasonably short amount of time. Usually we do this with film or with a CCD or CMOS array. However, film is going out of vogue, and CCDs and CMOS arrays can have dead spots. From a scientific standpoint, arrays are problematic for this very reason... plus, who has time to calibrate several thousand detector elements per camera? Using a single element detector helps mitigate this problem.
In this ScienceDaily article, it is revealed that the system works best with higher frequency information that can appear to be white noise. While it may produce images that are unappealing to the human eye, from a scientific standpoint it might be just the thing needed for a given application. I'd be very careful stating that it "essentially directly zeroes out certain frequencies that have low amplitude"... a more appropriate description of what it is doing is recording less information for fields that contain little or no change. Change is often edges, and edges are approximately generated through the summation of many high-frequency sinusoids.
From an imaging standpoint, this is some intriguing stuff. I would have gone to the presentation, but I had class at the time.