I figured this out when doing color photography with my B&W QuickCam back in 1998:
Using a standard pair of red-blue 3d glasses, take a red image and a blue image. Subtract these two from the full image to generate the green image, and remix. This method has the advantage of not needing anything fancier than the free 3d glasses that Wendy's was giving away at the time.
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In fact, there are a number of reasons to suspect that the primary perps behind the anthrax are American, including [...] the fact that the targets included a planned parenthood
Yeah, Abortion Rights are big on the list of things that Al Qaeda wants to protect from American interference.
About three years ago, someone discovered that (in Word) if you typed "I'd like..." and anything you want, selected it, and then hit thesaurus, you'd get "I'll drink to that!" as a potential replacement.
Of course, this was sent out in an email forward as "RASCISM AT MICROSFOT!!!1!!11!21!", because you could type "I'd like all niggers to die", and of course, it would respond, "I'll drink to that!".
Shortly after that, the thesaurus was disabled for anything longer than one word. I could easily imagine a directive coming down from on high, saying not to have anything in the thesaurus, dictionary, or whatever, that could even remotely have a risk of generating something embarassing to Microsoft. One way to prevent that would be to simply refuse to search for analogies to "idiot", "dullard", and so on.
In the USA, we have two American Football leagues, the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference. Last weekend, the final game of the season for each conference was played, and a champion from each one crowned. Usually, two weeks after the championship games, but this week only one week after the games, the two champions play the final game of the season, the Super Bowl. Unless there's a moon landing or something like that, the Super Bowl is usually the single most-watched television event in the USA in any given year. Because of that, advertisers are willing to spend a *lot* of money to put a commercial on during the game. This year, the going rate was $2 million for a 30-second spot.
Because there are a lot of people watching, the advertisers want to make sure that their ads are watched. To do this, they make their ads as interesting and funny as possible. The Super Bowl is usually used to announce new products (like the MacIntosh 1984 commercial, that only ran on network TV twice, one of which was during the Super Bowl, and the other one was an amusing story that I don't have time to go into here.)
This results in the Super Bowl being filled (though not as much this year) with funny ads, and since the game itself often winds up being 43-13 or some similarly out-of-balance total, the ads are often as entertaining as the game itself. (On the other hand, this year the game was pretty good, not decided until the final seconds.)
I've got all kinds of advertiser addresses aliased to 127.0.0.1. It protects your privacy and speeds up your Internet browsing. It's even possible if you, for whatever reason, use Microsoft Windows, there's a hosts file in the c:\windows (or whatever) directory, that you can edit. However, you do need the most recent version of IE (I don't know what Netscape would do) to make it not go to a full-screen error message on any site that has an ad.
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I figured this out when doing color photography with my B&W QuickCam back in 1998:
Using a standard pair of red-blue 3d glasses, take a red image and a blue image. Subtract these two from the full image to generate the green image, and remix. This method has the advantage of not needing anything fancier than the free 3d glasses that Wendy's was giving away at the time.
In fact, there are a number of reasons to suspect that the primary perps behind the anthrax are American, including [...] the fact that the targets included a planned parenthood
Yeah, Abortion Rights are big on the list of things that Al Qaeda wants to protect from American interference.
Of course, this was sent out in an email forward as "RASCISM AT MICROSFOT!!!1!!11!21!", because you could type "I'd like all niggers to die", and of course, it would respond, "I'll drink to that!".
Shortly after that, the thesaurus was disabled for anything longer than one word. I could easily imagine a directive coming down from on high, saying not to have anything in the thesaurus, dictionary, or whatever, that could even remotely have a risk of generating something embarassing to Microsoft. One way to prevent that would be to simply refuse to search for analogies to "idiot", "dullard", and so on.
I sent it in two days ago...
Because there are a lot of people watching, the advertisers want to make sure that their ads are watched. To do this, they make their ads as interesting and funny as possible. The Super Bowl is usually used to announce new products (like the MacIntosh 1984 commercial, that only ran on network TV twice, one of which was during the Super Bowl, and the other one was an amusing story that I don't have time to go into here.)
This results in the Super Bowl being filled (though not as much this year) with funny ads, and since the game itself often winds up being 43-13 or some similarly out-of-balance total, the ads are often as entertaining as the game itself. (On the other hand, this year the game was pretty good, not decided until the final seconds.)
Sorry 'bout the heavy MS content.