Uh, hi, excuse me, just in case you are interested, we have a potential kill-screen coming up on Slashdot if you'd like to come see; potential kill-screen on Slashdot.
It's all about Bondo Putty. Look up forums like the Nerf Modders, and replica prop boards to learn how to give it any goofy shape, and finish it with an automotive grade paint job....That or just wrap it in duct tape.
My sister is a 4th grade teacher, and being a Wikipedia addict, I got her to let me give a presentation on Wikipedia and the ideas behind it. Granted, the age group is a little young, but the values that can be gathered from Wikipedia involve writing to inform, as separate from writing to persuade or writing to entertain, and more importantly, techniques for writing quality research papers. I took AP courses all through HS and had my share of research paper assignments, but none of the instruction was as good as what I learned from understanding Wikipedia policy and guidelines. What you can teach kids is how to read an article and figure out for yourself if it is quality properly cited information or not. This teaches children to not only "don't believe everything you read" but more importantly, to know under what circumstances you can believe the things you read.
An animated version was attempted. If you hunt around the internet, you can find a few frames of teaser animation for a show that (as far as I could tell) has never seen the light of day.
I agree, miniseries would be the ideal format. But American TV hates miniseries. "If it's good, why the heck would we end it? If it's bad, why bother making it at all?" The best hope would be to commission a Japanese studio to do it, the same way Afro Samurai came to be. But Blah, I should've stopped a paragraph ago, no need to travel this path; this discussion is all over the various fanboards, no need to drag up again on/..
I realize the project is in permanent development Hell, but I sure hope Spider Jerusalem isn't counted amongst the superheros. I'd love to see a well made Transmetropolitan movie, but censoring it to a PG-13 rating would kill it beyond bother.
After about a year and a half, when your battery life is down to about 5 minutes, you suddenly understand why being able to replace it might be a desirable feature.
I love this. "Waaah, I can't download good!" I hate to be trollish, but I can stream Netflix flawlessly, and so can dozens of other commenters. So, um, sucks to be you, OP.
Indeed, Windows Mobile (or CE or HPC) was a total rewrite, Even Windows 7 potentially has some DOS 1.0 code, but not WM. It took that much effort to get ARM working. It's actually a comparatively Sturdy OS, it just doesn't have enough decent software built for it.
I had a MS-DOS EMU app for my HP Journada 720 (Windows HPC on a 255Mhz ARM chip), and for anything beyond rudimentary shell type commands, it was unusably slow.
Linux + ARM however would be lovely. I've got all sorts of daemons crunching instructions on my Western Digital MyBook World NAS. Still, by default, I believe they lack an FPU. I wonder if they'd add a coprocessor...
When I was a kid I always used to feel sorry for whoever first came up with the twelve bar blues riff, since it was basically "ripped off" for the next 80 years and counting. I guess I was a weird kid...
Oh all-knowing troll, I will respond to your flamebait.
Please update the Wikipedia article Origins of baseball, it makes no mention of your fourteenth century France origin.
The number three (3) is indeed extremely important. So is the number one (1), the number two (2), et cetera. I don't know if I'm one of "the big boys" but I fail to see any evidence, or proof, or even citations to search for further enlightenment within your comment as to why this particular extremely important number is more appropriate than other extremely important number.
Concerning the non-arbitrary nature of the number three in regards to the US Constitution, do you mean to imply that there is some relationship between "three strikes and your out" the fact that there are three branches of government? Or perhaps you refer to the concept of three classes of senate "so that one third may be chosen every second Year" I know you can't be referring to the need of a three fourths vote needed to amend the constitution, since that's really more of a.75 than it is a three.
Teenage girls will laugh at anything. No one but you cares.
Please leave comments like "Please, leave law to the big boys" to misogynistic executive characters from sex comedies of the 1960s.
(Arrg, Slashdot seems to have eaten my first attempt at this comment)
A decent silicone mold of a sheet of paper would be able to pick up a sufficient level of detail as to reproduce something (like a resin cast) that could fool the scanner. A bit of experimentation could produce a substance with the physical properties of paper that could fool it...I'm thinking along the lines of a finer grained pulp with some stronger binding agents.
It would take some cleverness and home-brew spirit to work out the technique, but resolving it, and publishing it to the webz would allow counterfeiting to resume, granted with added costs.
RTFA, It reads texture, not color. The alignment of the fibers isn't changed by cofee. If I dye my thumb purple, my thumbprint is still my thumbprint. Now if you spilled coffee on it, and firmly rubbed it firmly with your palm, it might change a bit, but even then, it could calulate the area that is common with the original. any two random sheets of paper, even produced from the same paper-mill would have a value pretty darn close to zero. Anything slightly higher than that suggests a match.
Well written, CmdrTaco. This is one of the best summaries I've read on Slashdot. It told me exactly what I wanted to know about the movie. You introduce yourself as an admitted comic-book geek, you discuss it's adherence to the original work, and you attempt to speculate on the perception of The Average Joe; no spoilers, no gushing. I can now enjoy my weekend terror-free and go watch this thing at my leisure.
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I always thought...that dogs...laid eggs!...and I learned something!
Gratz
Uh, hi, excuse me, just in case you are interested, we have a potential kill-screen coming up on Slashdot if you'd like to come see; potential kill-screen on Slashdot.
It's all about Bondo Putty. Look up forums like the Nerf Modders, and replica prop boards to learn how to give it any goofy shape, and finish it with an automotive grade paint job. ...That or just wrap it in duct tape.
My sister is a 4th grade teacher, and being a Wikipedia addict, I got her to let me give a presentation on Wikipedia and the ideas behind it. Granted, the age group is a little young, but the values that can be gathered from Wikipedia involve writing to inform, as separate from writing to persuade or writing to entertain, and more importantly, techniques for writing quality research papers. I took AP courses all through HS and had my share of research paper assignments, but none of the instruction was as good as what I learned from understanding Wikipedia policy and guidelines. What you can teach kids is how to read an article and figure out for yourself if it is quality properly cited information or not. This teaches children to not only "don't believe everything you read" but more importantly, to know under what circumstances you can believe the things you read.
An animated version was attempted. If you hunt around the internet, you can find a few frames of teaser animation for a show that (as far as I could tell) has never seen the light of day.
/..
I agree, miniseries would be the ideal format. But American TV hates miniseries. "If it's good, why the heck would we end it? If it's bad, why bother making it at all?" The best hope would be to commission a Japanese studio to do it, the same way Afro Samurai came to be. But Blah, I should've stopped a paragraph ago, no need to travel this path; this discussion is all over the various fanboards, no need to drag up again on
Super-Showgirls!!!
I realize the project is in permanent development Hell, but I sure hope Spider Jerusalem isn't counted amongst the superheros. I'd love to see a well made Transmetropolitan movie, but censoring it to a PG-13 rating would kill it beyond bother.
...and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.
After about a year and a half, when your battery life is down to about 5 minutes, you suddenly understand why being able to replace it might be a desirable feature.
You must be crazy, there isn't an elephant within a hundred miles of here!
* LTE/4g
I'm glad I'm not the first one to react to the headline thusly.
I love this. "Waaah, I can't download good!" I hate to be trollish, but I can stream Netflix flawlessly, and so can dozens of other commenters. So, um, sucks to be you, OP.
so um...Remember that one time? When James Bond was on a blimp fighting Christopher Walken? ...Yeah, that was awesome.
Don't you mean "Fetchez la manchot!"?
Indeed, Windows Mobile (or CE or HPC) was a total rewrite, Even Windows 7 potentially has some DOS 1.0 code, but not WM. It took that much effort to get ARM working. It's actually a comparatively Sturdy OS, it just doesn't have enough decent software built for it.
I had a MS-DOS EMU app for my HP Journada 720 (Windows HPC on a 255Mhz ARM chip), and for anything beyond rudimentary shell type commands, it was unusably slow.
Linux + ARM however would be lovely. I've got all sorts of daemons crunching instructions on my Western Digital MyBook World NAS. Still, by default, I believe they lack an FPU. I wonder if they'd add a coprocessor...
Yes, but have you ever seen the back of a twenty dollar bill... on Windows ????
When I was a kid I always used to feel sorry for whoever first came up with the twelve bar blues riff, since it was basically "ripped off" for the next 80 years and counting. I guess I was a weird kid...
Oh all-knowing troll, I will respond to your flamebait.
.75 than it is a three.
Please update the Wikipedia article Origins of baseball, it makes no mention of your fourteenth century France origin.
The number three (3) is indeed extremely important. So is the number one (1), the number two (2), et cetera. I don't know if I'm one of "the big boys" but I fail to see any evidence, or proof, or even citations to search for further enlightenment within your comment as to why this particular extremely important number is more appropriate than other extremely important number.
Concerning the non-arbitrary nature of the number three in regards to the US Constitution, do you mean to imply that there is some relationship between "three strikes and your out" the fact that there are three branches of government? Or perhaps you refer to the concept of three classes of senate "so that one third may be chosen every second Year" I know you can't be referring to the need of a three fourths vote needed to amend the constitution, since that's really more of a
Teenage girls will laugh at anything. No one but you cares.
Please leave comments like "Please, leave law to the big boys" to misogynistic executive characters from sex comedies of the 1960s.
(Arrg, Slashdot seems to have eaten my first attempt at this comment)
A decent silicone mold of a sheet of paper would be able to pick up a sufficient level of detail as to reproduce something (like a resin cast) that could fool the scanner. A bit of experimentation could produce a substance with the physical properties of paper that could fool it...I'm thinking along the lines of a finer grained pulp with some stronger binding agents.
It would take some cleverness and home-brew spirit to work out the technique, but resolving it, and publishing it to the webz would allow counterfeiting to resume, granted with added costs.
RTFA, It reads texture, not color. The alignment of the fibers isn't changed by cofee. If I dye my thumb purple, my thumbprint is still my thumbprint. Now if you spilled coffee on it, and firmly rubbed it firmly with your palm, it might change a bit, but even then, it could calulate the area that is common with the original. any two random sheets of paper, even produced from the same paper-mill would have a value pretty darn close to zero. Anything slightly higher than that suggests a match.
Well written, CmdrTaco. This is one of the best summaries I've read on Slashdot. It told me exactly what I wanted to know about the movie. You introduce yourself as an admitted comic-book geek, you discuss it's adherence to the original work, and you attempt to speculate on the perception of The Average Joe; no spoilers, no gushing. I can now enjoy my weekend terror-free and go watch this thing at my leisure.
How a comment got through with this subject heading and without "you insensitive clod!" I'll never know.
AHH!! Mod parent up!