There's already a biometrics security firm that puts your face on Second Life avatars using their facial recognition technology and database, for $10/face with bulk discounts, which can turn out very crappy or very real depending on the lighting used, the angle of the head, and the photo quality. I suppose that the main customers have probably been people from companies that want to maintain an air of professionalism as they appear in a virtual world, since several IT companies like Cisco use Second Life for meetings with the public. Hopefully what this would do is create competition and lower prices, though.
I looked it up for Mexico City and there are two great citing opportunities there, five or six minutes long. Vancouver has over a dozen, better than in my city, and Toronto has many sighting opportunities as well. Suffice it to say, the best ones will likely be from 8 to 11pm local time, and the ISS will be only available for five or six minutes at most.
The last time the ISS flew over my city, I was ready at hand with my dinky 70mm telescope, which I've had a lot of trouble being able to steady despite having it for a year. By the time I had the knobs adjusted right such that it wouldn't slide down as I put my eye to it, I had to run with my telescope after it to a better spotting place before it disappeared with the horizon. It appeared in my viewfinder as two distinct overlapping yellow blurs, but I'm sure I saw it and this time I'd like to try again with a camera.
Use Virtual Audio Cable or a program that records everything going through your computer, to record all the music being played, then go back and remove the ads.
To clarify, this works best on pages that Internet Archive would miss--pages that use robot.txt, or that update enough for Internet Archive to miss between scans. I don't know of any feature that highlights changes between versions, but if you have both versions scrolled down at the same point, your eye should catch a difference in spacing that will lead you to the right place.
Firefox has an extension called Scrapbook that allows you to save to your cache entire copies of a webpage without saving screenshots to your hard drive. Your browser automatically downloads all pages from a website within a link depth that you set, and you can direct the process to be restricted to one domain.
I spidered www.whitehouse.gov on January 20 and January 21, 2009 to a link depth of 3. I wish I remembered to do the same thing with Blagojevich's webpages before they were changed.
"As long as they get to over-hype whatever story they want"
Isn't the idea of overhyping based on whoring out integrity to whatever sells, which would be the opposite of what is going on here? Just why are they overhyping if they aren't doing it for ratings?
Maybe you're both jackasses; the mother of the child is a jackass of the sort that has adamant beliefs about things for no good reason other than she needs something to believe to explain it, like parents that believe mercury in vaccines gave their child autism, seeing as how the tests for that farm came back negative; and I'm a jackass for joining in.
In Tennessee, third parties must get 2.7% of the vote in a gubernatorial election to be able to get on the ballot the next time. If they fail that, they have to get a petition encompassing 2.7% of the state's citizenry. The Greens, Libertarians, and members of the Constitution Party all joined together to sue in federal court for ballot access. I haven't heard about the case at all since mid-2008.
It comes with Windows Live, though I didn't install it, so I'm not sure if you could have opted out of it, but if you could have, it was automatically checked. If you installed it, you can go to your list of programs, then uninstall Windows Live. There's an option to uninstall the Family Monitoring thing and leave everything else there, which fixes it.
The navigation bar of Google's Blogger website was blocked for me. Random things were blocked that weren't noticeable as missing, popping up every time, so it felt like spyware. I tried to turn it off through Ctrl+Alt+Delete (actually, Ctrl+Shift+Esc since I use Vista). The process would not let itself die and restarted itself over and over. Then it blocked Wikipedia, I think before or after I went to "Stop Service." I asked if the owner of the computer meant to install it, and sure enough, it was hidden in some automatic update crap.
The same automatic update crap rolls back my graphics drivers to the lazily outdated computer manufacturer-approved one, rather than the newest Intel one. The former has a problem with rendering bumpmaps on 3D objects so that if you're looking at an object with a bumpmap in front of an object with a bumpmap, both bumpmaps are rendered on the object nearest the camera. The latter fixes it.
It also used to replace my wireless card driver with a driver from the same manufacturer meant for wirelessly communicating with other computers in a local area network, though this hasn't been a problem since I stopped using that card.
Sorry for the info dump. I could swear it separated into paragraphs last time I formatted it that way. Here it is with better formatting:
Why is it that when there's funding for a new fleet of presidential cars with increased fuel efficiency from Tesla---mind you, the Secret Service has been getting a new fleet of cars every year already, weirdly---on the basis that buying from them will ease mass production costs, the Republicans call it "massive wasteful earmark pork barrel spending", but when funding for a new presidential helicopter fleet with security features like shooting frickin' lasers is cut, there's also a massive backlash?
The cynic in me, considering that laser plane that is also being canceled in 41 states, says it all has to do with what states the companies are based in that the funding is going toward. When Republicans stop debating proposed projects on their merits or lack thereof, and instead just blankly categorize them with, say, a fake vomit factory in New Mexico, they just want it to go to the states they represent instead.
That's fine, relatively speaking; they're just trying to grab as much as they can for their constituencies at the expense of the welfare of the whole nation, and it's not anything new. It's not even the hypocrisy that's new, since 45% of the earmark spending comes from the Republicans, and half of the top ten earmark-getters in the Senate are Republicans. It's the cowardly way of throwing whatever they don't like (funding for the Smithsonian, volcano monitoring, etc.) into the category of wasteful spending without explaining why it is such, and using shock tactics of making you look like you're trying to fund a plastic beaver factory in Idaho if you dare question them. To turn your back on your colleagues in the body in which you represent the people, and take your case to people you know will agree with you on FOX News, is the essence, if not the definition, of partisanship.
Why is it that when there's funding for a new fleet of presidential cars with increased fuel efficiency from Tesla---mind you, the Secret Service has been getting a new fleet of cars every year already, weirdly---on the basis that buying from them will ease mass production costs, the Republicans call it "massive wasteful earmark pork barrel spending", but when funding for a new presidential helicopter fleet with security features like shooting frickin' lasers is cut, there's also a massive backlash?
The cynic in me, considering that laser plane that is also being canceled in 41 states, says it all has to do with what states the companies are based in that the funding is going toward. When Republicans stop debating proposed projects on their merits or lack thereof, and instead just blankly categorize them with, say, a fake vomit factory in New Mexico, they just want it to go to the states they represent instead.
That's fine, relatively speaking; they're just trying to grab as much as they can for their constituencies at the expense of the welfare of the whole nation, and it's not anything new. It's not even the hypocrisy that's new, since 45% of the earmark spending comes from the Republicans, and half of the top ten earmark-getters in the Senate are Republicans.
It's the cowardly way of throwing whatever they don't like (funding for the Smithsonian, volcano monitoring, etc.) into the category of wasteful spending without explaining why it is such, and using shock tactics of making you look like you're trying to fund a plastic beaver factory in Idaho if you dare question them. To turn your back on your colleagues in the body in which you represent the people, and take your case to people you know will agree with you on FOX News, is the essence, if not the definition, of partisanship.
"ultra-religious state like WA"
I learned from the 2008 Democratic primaries that Oregon and Washington have the highest non-religious rates in the nation, measured by church attendance and self-declared agnosticism and atheism. Of course, I can't blame you for listening to "analysis" like "Did white males vote for their gender or did they vote for their race?" (CNN's Bill Schnoeder)
Sony releases games, or remakes of games with better graphics and extended crap, for the PSP only. Why would I want a PSP if I have a PlayStation 2 or 3, just to play only one or two games that would have worked just as well on the console? Final Fantasy XIII is the only game on the PlayStation 3 I think would be worth playing, but I think hardly anyone would shell out $430 just for that.
The PlayStation 2 was by far the most popular console of the previous generation. When switch to another brand when buying a console from the current generation, like an Xbox 360 or a Wii, you get access to Xbox and Gamecube games because of backward compatibility, so it's like the game libraries are twice as large. This makes the PlayStation 3 library look even more minuscule by comparison.
Rather than get a PlayStation 3 to play FFXIII and whatever else is out there, I would just wait until 2019 when the PlayStation 4 or whatever they call it has been out for a few years and its price has dropped.
What Obama said during the general elections was that high school students could get scholarship benefits for college through community service --- you help make America great, America helps you. Now he's making it mandatory? Here we have the first post-election broken campaign promise.
How much something can be magnified with a telescope is attainable through simple trigonometry. At 589km above Earth, a kilometer is about 180 arcseconds. The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2's field of vision is about 164 arcseconds. Anything the Hubble would spot would be as interesting as a random Google Earth image, and besides, the Hubble Telescope orbits Earth at 5,700 m/s and probably wasn't designed to cope with that velocity just to target Earth.
As far as the Moon, I'd guess it would probably make a poor calibration target, because it is just so big. The WFPC2's field of vision is 8% of the Moon's diameter. It's also a few hundred thousand times brighter than the brightest star. At 78x magnification, with my simple telescope, the Moon takes up the entire field of vision. From this I can deduct that the Hubble Telescope's magnification with that camera is around 975x.
because Mr. Wurzelbacher has his name misspelled in the Social Security database, it would be assumed that he misspelled his name on his voter registration form. In Ohio, people that misspell their names or addresses, or have lost their homes and failed to update, or list a place that does not qualify as a "legal residence" in legalese like a dormitory, may be sent provisional ballots. These usually are not counted in the general election.
The Supreme Court had ruled against Ohio GOP measures, but on technical grounds or something, and now the Attorney General of the Department of Justice is probing whether or not they should be sent those provisional ballots. It's sad that Mr. Wurzelbacher had his privacy invaded, but in reference to the Republican argument, he did have something to hide.
I think it's more that they dumb down studies to a sentence that makes them sound like tax payers are paying for scientists to play with bug collections, for the benefit of riling up Joe Sixpack, and generally creating a feeling of anti-science instead of anti-wastefulness. When I hear "Joe Sixpack," I think of it as an insult and picture Cletus from The Simpsons.
Yeah, I can agree with that, but considering the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities thinks that 51% of the national deficit from 2001 to 2006 resulted from these tax cuts, I would say we're on the wrong part.
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There's already a biometrics security firm that puts your face on Second Life avatars using their facial recognition technology and database, for $10/face with bulk discounts, which can turn out very crappy or very real depending on the lighting used, the angle of the head, and the photo quality. I suppose that the main customers have probably been people from companies that want to maintain an air of professionalism as they appear in a virtual world, since several IT companies like Cisco use Second Life for meetings with the public. Hopefully what this would do is create competition and lower prices, though.
You can use NASA's satellite finder to view the time when it will pass over your city.
I looked it up for Mexico City and there are two great citing opportunities there, five or six minutes long. Vancouver has over a dozen, better than in my city, and Toronto has many sighting opportunities as well. Suffice it to say, the best ones will likely be from 8 to 11pm local time, and the ISS will be only available for five or six minutes at most.
The last time the ISS flew over my city, I was ready at hand with my dinky 70mm telescope, which I've had a lot of trouble being able to steady despite having it for a year. By the time I had the knobs adjusted right such that it wouldn't slide down as I put my eye to it, I had to run with my telescope after it to a better spotting place before it disappeared with the horizon. It appeared in my viewfinder as two distinct overlapping yellow blurs, but I'm sure I saw it and this time I'd like to try again with a camera.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1206_041206_global_warming.htm
It's like kicking someone trying to commit suicide in the shin.
Use Virtual Audio Cable or a program that records everything going through your computer, to record all the music being played, then go back and remove the ads.
To clarify, this works best on pages that Internet Archive would miss--pages that use robot.txt, or that update enough for Internet Archive to miss between scans. I don't know of any feature that highlights changes between versions, but if you have both versions scrolled down at the same point, your eye should catch a difference in spacing that will lead you to the right place.
Firefox has an extension called Scrapbook that allows you to save to your cache entire copies of a webpage without saving screenshots to your hard drive. Your browser automatically downloads all pages from a website within a link depth that you set, and you can direct the process to be restricted to one domain.
I spidered www.whitehouse.gov on January 20 and January 21, 2009 to a link depth of 3. I wish I remembered to do the same thing with Blagojevich's webpages before they were changed.
I think we should rename AIDS so as to placate the hearing aids industry. We could call it Sean, or Christine.
"As long as they get to over-hype whatever story they want"
Isn't the idea of overhyping based on whoring out integrity to whatever sells, which would be the opposite of what is going on here? Just why are they overhyping if they aren't doing it for ratings?
Maybe you're both jackasses; the mother of the child is a jackass of the sort that has adamant beliefs about things for no good reason other than she needs something to believe to explain it, like parents that believe mercury in vaccines gave their child autism, seeing as how the tests for that farm came back negative; and I'm a jackass for joining in.
In Tennessee, third parties must get 2.7% of the vote in a gubernatorial election to be able to get on the ballot the next time. If they fail that, they have to get a petition encompassing 2.7% of the state's citizenry. The Greens, Libertarians, and members of the Constitution Party all joined together to sue in federal court for ballot access. I haven't heard about the case at all since mid-2008.
It comes with Windows Live, though I didn't install it, so I'm not sure if you could have opted out of it, but if you could have, it was automatically checked. If you installed it, you can go to your list of programs, then uninstall Windows Live. There's an option to uninstall the Family Monitoring thing and leave everything else there, which fixes it.
The navigation bar of Google's Blogger website was blocked for me. Random things were blocked that weren't noticeable as missing, popping up every time, so it felt like spyware. I tried to turn it off through Ctrl+Alt+Delete (actually, Ctrl+Shift+Esc since I use Vista). The process would not let itself die and restarted itself over and over. Then it blocked Wikipedia, I think before or after I went to "Stop Service." I asked if the owner of the computer meant to install it, and sure enough, it was hidden in some automatic update crap. The same automatic update crap rolls back my graphics drivers to the lazily outdated computer manufacturer-approved one, rather than the newest Intel one. The former has a problem with rendering bumpmaps on 3D objects so that if you're looking at an object with a bumpmap in front of an object with a bumpmap, both bumpmaps are rendered on the object nearest the camera. The latter fixes it. It also used to replace my wireless card driver with a driver from the same manufacturer meant for wirelessly communicating with other computers in a local area network, though this hasn't been a problem since I stopped using that card.
Why is it that when there's funding for a new fleet of presidential cars with increased fuel efficiency from Tesla---mind you, the Secret Service has been getting a new fleet of cars every year already, weirdly---on the basis that buying from them will ease mass production costs, the Republicans call it "massive wasteful earmark pork barrel spending", but when funding for a new presidential helicopter fleet with security features like shooting frickin' lasers is cut, there's also a massive backlash?
The cynic in me, considering that laser plane that is also being canceled in 41 states, says it all has to do with what states the companies are based in that the funding is going toward. When Republicans stop debating proposed projects on their merits or lack thereof, and instead just blankly categorize them with, say, a fake vomit factory in New Mexico, they just want it to go to the states they represent instead.
That's fine, relatively speaking; they're just trying to grab as much as they can for their constituencies at the expense of the welfare of the whole nation, and it's not anything new. It's not even the hypocrisy that's new, since 45% of the earmark spending comes from the Republicans, and half of the top ten earmark-getters in the Senate are Republicans. It's the cowardly way of throwing whatever they don't like (funding for the Smithsonian, volcano monitoring, etc.) into the category of wasteful spending without explaining why it is such, and using shock tactics of making you look like you're trying to fund a plastic beaver factory in Idaho if you dare question them. To turn your back on your colleagues in the body in which you represent the people, and take your case to people you know will agree with you on FOX News, is the essence, if not the definition, of partisanship.
Why is it that when there's funding for a new fleet of presidential cars with increased fuel efficiency from Tesla---mind you, the Secret Service has been getting a new fleet of cars every year already, weirdly---on the basis that buying from them will ease mass production costs, the Republicans call it "massive wasteful earmark pork barrel spending", but when funding for a new presidential helicopter fleet with security features like shooting frickin' lasers is cut, there's also a massive backlash? The cynic in me, considering that laser plane that is also being canceled in 41 states, says it all has to do with what states the companies are based in that the funding is going toward. When Republicans stop debating proposed projects on their merits or lack thereof, and instead just blankly categorize them with, say, a fake vomit factory in New Mexico, they just want it to go to the states they represent instead. That's fine, relatively speaking; they're just trying to grab as much as they can for their constituencies at the expense of the welfare of the whole nation, and it's not anything new. It's not even the hypocrisy that's new, since 45% of the earmark spending comes from the Republicans, and half of the top ten earmark-getters in the Senate are Republicans. It's the cowardly way of throwing whatever they don't like (funding for the Smithsonian, volcano monitoring, etc.) into the category of wasteful spending without explaining why it is such, and using shock tactics of making you look like you're trying to fund a plastic beaver factory in Idaho if you dare question them. To turn your back on your colleagues in the body in which you represent the people, and take your case to people you know will agree with you on FOX News, is the essence, if not the definition, of partisanship.
"ultra-religious state like WA" I learned from the 2008 Democratic primaries that Oregon and Washington have the highest non-religious rates in the nation, measured by church attendance and self-declared agnosticism and atheism. Of course, I can't blame you for listening to "analysis" like "Did white males vote for their gender or did they vote for their race?" (CNN's Bill Schnoeder)
You are wrong! Completely, utterly, and entirely wrong! You forgot Mukasey.
Was it discovered at Amelia Earhart's crash site?
Look through the history of the article and its talk page and you find the CEO's mark and those of Zango employees all over it.
Sony releases games, or remakes of games with better graphics and extended crap, for the PSP only. Why would I want a PSP if I have a PlayStation 2 or 3, just to play only one or two games that would have worked just as well on the console? Final Fantasy XIII is the only game on the PlayStation 3 I think would be worth playing, but I think hardly anyone would shell out $430 just for that.
The PlayStation 2 was by far the most popular console of the previous generation. When switch to another brand when buying a console from the current generation, like an Xbox 360 or a Wii, you get access to Xbox and Gamecube games because of backward compatibility, so it's like the game libraries are twice as large. This makes the PlayStation 3 library look even more minuscule by comparison.
Rather than get a PlayStation 3 to play FFXIII and whatever else is out there, I would just wait until 2019 when the PlayStation 4 or whatever they call it has been out for a few years and its price has dropped.
What Obama said during the general elections was that high school students could get scholarship benefits for college through community service --- you help make America great, America helps you. Now he's making it mandatory? Here we have the first post-election broken campaign promise.
How much something can be magnified with a telescope is attainable through simple trigonometry. At 589km above Earth, a kilometer is about 180 arcseconds. The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2's field of vision is about 164 arcseconds. Anything the Hubble would spot would be as interesting as a random Google Earth image, and besides, the Hubble Telescope orbits Earth at 5,700 m/s and probably wasn't designed to cope with that velocity just to target Earth.
As far as the Moon, I'd guess it would probably make a poor calibration target, because it is just so big. The WFPC2's field of vision is 8% of the Moon's diameter. It's also a few hundred thousand times brighter than the brightest star. At 78x magnification, with my simple telescope, the Moon takes up the entire field of vision. From this I can deduct that the Hubble Telescope's magnification with that camera is around 975x.
because Mr. Wurzelbacher has his name misspelled in the Social Security database, it would be assumed that he misspelled his name on his voter registration form. In Ohio, people that misspell their names or addresses, or have lost their homes and failed to update, or list a place that does not qualify as a "legal residence" in legalese like a dormitory, may be sent provisional ballots. These usually are not counted in the general election.
The Supreme Court had ruled against Ohio GOP measures, but on technical grounds or something, and now the Attorney General of the Department of Justice is probing whether or not they should be sent those provisional ballots. It's sad that Mr. Wurzelbacher had his privacy invaded, but in reference to the Republican argument, he did have something to hide.
I think it's more that they dumb down studies to a sentence that makes them sound like tax payers are paying for scientists to play with bug collections, for the benefit of riling up Joe Sixpack, and generally creating a feeling of anti-science instead of anti-wastefulness. When I hear "Joe Sixpack," I think of it as an insult and picture Cletus from The Simpsons.
Yeah, I can agree with that, but considering the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities thinks that 51% of the national deficit from 2001 to 2006 resulted from these tax cuts, I would say we're on the wrong part.