similar or same thing?. Maybe some ideas about approching this can be found there: http://patentexaminer.org/2011/09/innovatios-infringement-suit-rampage-expands-to-corporate-hotels/
I mean.. coal is bio-energy. Oil is bio-energy. The remnants of bio-mass that never made it to the sky, but whose carbon dioxide instead was stored in the ground by nature herself, process commonly known as "natural sinks". How can it be healthier for the planet to burn off bio-mass before it even gets a chance to sink or be "filtered" through various other life forms? I would have thought the production of bio-mass in sum cause as bad outlets of CO2 as oil. Not to mention the harm it does to various species, humans included, when huge areas of diverse vegatation is sacrifized to grow a single type of "fuel base" plants.
For the benefit of new readers and the general perspective; an old short-story by Terry Bisson: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/96q1/meat.html It's a "must read" if you haven't, just give in and click the link.
I've worked with old school reproduction work and retouching, as well as photo retouching and digital restoration of antique photos. Analogue manipulations just went digital, that's all there's to it.
Vanity always ruled. Even in real life we try to improve ourselves in order to please the senses: We wear makeup, fake "body" smells, garnments, footwear.. all to make a visual statement. *That's* the naked truth: We all cheat on reality. There's mankind for you.
Scan in an old sepia photo of your great-great-great grandmother, and study it in detail. Very often you'll find lines added: Eyelashes, "eyeliner", sometimes contours of nose and nails were enhanced in the darkroom, engraved modifications right onto the plate. Partly done to improve a poor shot, partly to enhance the subject. Coloring was also done, long before the first experiments with photographic color techniques were launched.
If "photoshopping" is somehow morally questionable, is black-and-white photography also questionable? It certainly doesn't reflect reality. But who ever said reflecting reality is the perogative of photography? All means of portrayal is artificial. Enter: Art.
Even a photo right out of the camera was and is tainted. Parameters are set for sharpness, contrast, hue and colors - be it by choise of analogue film and development etc. - or by digital options - basically mimicking the features of analogue cameras and traditional darkroom processes.
Now is the time for all brave IT lingo geeks who patiently preached the difference between hacking and cracking. It will be simpler from now on: If your head *really* hurts, it's being cracked. Simple. I feel a rap coming.......so I was backin' up my brain - when da hackin' went insane..
and then something about "crackin'" and "pain"!! I could make a million. As a matter of fact, I think I'll change my nickname.
Don't know about "good", but the old bomb project came to mind: http://draves.org/bomb/
The Really Paranoid Reader might wish to investigate which piece of music created this one.
On a related note (all pun intended), it would be interesting to synthesize the chromosome images to sound. Perhaps fragments of interesting music might be lurking there. Something to listen to while jaywalking with your iPod anyway. It would add that extra dimension to a Darwin award:)
I have a Latidude D610 which also litterally speaking gets burning hot at times, on the plastic surface above the HD: left front side. And that's exactly what the photo of the burning Dell shows. Power and battery, OTOH, are in the back. Nut that PC isn't burning there - it's burning in the left front side.
My own experience with a global callcenter, the one of Equant, offices in Britain, Egypt, India and some other more obscure asian location, is appalling:
Problems that used to take under an hour to get resolve can now take up to 25 hours. They are passed around the globe/timezones, to people who can barely make themselves understandable. Just to end up at the original center again. Laughable. If it wasn't so darn critical to our own services: The center is the service phone of one of our main network providers to abroad.
Once they even called the wrong contact phone in return, to our Infrastructure boss, in the middle of the night. He was sound asleep at the time, of course. When he woke up, he noticed there was an unanswered call from Egypt but never bothered to call back because assumed it was a freak call. A relative of some immigrant calling the wrong number or similar. Equant had initially promoted their service as one with a local (norwegian) call center, and with a scandinavian HQ in Sweden. "Now in your own language", ran the commercial. They later "forgot" to mention it all got outsourced. Ta daa.
The latter blunder gave us a solid refund, btw. Our CEO took the first flight to England and set things straight. But I have a hunch expenses like that aren't worked in to the maths of outsouring cost "benefits" right from the start. I'm not very surprised the outsourcing fever is cooling down by now. It allways appeared rather overhyped to me.
IMHO the world will see the peak of world oil production in about a year.
It certainly will happen within a decade. When this happens we can expect
oil and gas prices to skyrocket well past $100 bux and possibly past $300
per barrel.
An unrealistic scheme. Oil prices aren't unproportionally high due to scarse resources but because of political unrest.
But wast oil resources are yet to be uncovered, literally speaking. Oil companies are already positioning to drill for the black gold in regions currently under the icecaps. They'll be there when it melts. We won't see the end of oil in our lifetime - by far. But with some luck we'll witness a nice pricedrop on seaside properties. Not to mention species after species go under forever. Really, this planet can't take much more of our "ingenuity". Anyone who thinks people are smart, lack perspectives.
In al liklihood it is already too late and we have to embark on every energy conservation program and every energy source available. Even with a consorted effort it is probably too late. There are going to be some mightly lean decades just around the corner.
Regardless of how you count the duration of the last ice age: The half life of plutonium-239 is over 24000 years and it takes 20 cycles to render it harmless. Meaning it will outlast any figure for the last iceage by a very good measure. The single responsible precaution we can take is to not create the waste in the first place.
> I believe in the ingenuity of people and am confident that in the next > 100 years we will have solced the nuclear waste issue.
I believe in the stupidity of people. Get real. The last ice age lasted 10.000 years. Plutonioum takes 500.000 years to become harmless. What kind of storage facility do you think will outlast that? Who will warrant a 500.000 year commitment?
The increase in cancer after Tchernobyl lingers on. That was one single incident. "Professor Edmund Lengfelder of the Otto Hug Strahleninstitut in Munich, which has been running a thyroid centre in Belarus since 1991, warns of up to 100 000 additional cases of thyroid cancer in all age groups."
Nuclear power should ideally be globally banned. And if politically impossible, it should in the very least be banned in areas we know were covered under the icecap during the previous ice age. Anything else is a guaranteed recipe for disaster.
Plans and plants are barely theoretically safe. Think about it: With targets like that - who needs the Bomb?
There once was a poll: "You're In Stasis 100 Years. What's the First Tech You Look Into?"
I replied "an icepick", which was modified as insightful. Which made me very glad. But I feel I've now gained even more insight! As from today (actually yesterday) my reply would have been "scuba diving tech".
Office has a 5 year additional life on the Mac, but MSIE and Windows Media Player are terminated, including the support. Which, IMO, is good news. WMP is not good, navigates poorly on DVDs, and v9 and 10 cause random freezes and even crashes on WinXP PRO. At least on two (different) laptops I have. I've had to stop using it for DVDs.
Well there's that fine line between theory and practice, and in this case it looks more like a concrete wall. Do you seriously think it would be smart to hold my breath for this one?
is probably the only reason why there isn't yet "security" demands for enabling a cellulars camera remotely. But in the meanwhile: Just imagine of all the fun they have tapping into voluntary video calls:) In all other respects than video surveillance we're way past Orwell's predictions from "1984". Chauchescu must be spinning in his grave over the lost opportunities; The poor old sod only got as far as to sample all the countrys typewriters. What an amateur. Tie the IP up to cellphones, track them and film the environment... now there's a precision tool for the professional peek-a-boo.
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similar or same thing?. Maybe some ideas about approching this can be found there:
http://patentexaminer.org/2011/09/innovatios-infringement-suit-rampage-expands-to-corporate-hotels/
Very well put, If I may say so! (forgot to log in)
I mean.. coal is bio-energy. Oil is bio-energy. The remnants of bio-mass that never made it to the sky, but whose carbon dioxide instead was stored in the ground by nature herself, process commonly known as "natural sinks". How can it be healthier for the planet to burn off bio-mass before it even gets a chance to sink or be "filtered" through various other life forms? I would have thought the production of bio-mass in sum cause as bad outlets of CO2 as oil. Not to mention the harm it does to various species, humans included, when huge areas of diverse vegatation is sacrifized to grow a single type of "fuel base" plants.
For the benefit of new readers and the general perspective; an old short-story by Terry Bisson: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/96q1/meat.html
It's a "must read" if you haven't, just give in and click the link.
Improbable construction. If several guests "remember" seeing him there, his problem is false testimonies rather than a forged photo.
I've worked with old school reproduction work and retouching, as well as photo retouching and digital restoration of antique photos. Analogue manipulations just went digital, that's all there's to it.
Vanity always ruled. Even in real life we try to improve ourselves in order to please the senses: We wear makeup, fake "body" smells, garnments, footwear.. all to make a visual statement. *That's* the naked truth: We all cheat on reality. There's mankind for you.
Scan in an old sepia photo of your great-great-great grandmother, and study it in detail. Very often you'll find lines added: Eyelashes, "eyeliner", sometimes contours of nose and nails were enhanced in the darkroom, engraved modifications right onto the plate. Partly done to improve a poor shot, partly to enhance the subject. Coloring was also done, long before the first experiments with photographic color techniques were launched.
If "photoshopping" is somehow morally questionable, is black-and-white photography also questionable? It certainly doesn't reflect reality. But who ever said reflecting reality is the perogative of photography? All means of portrayal is artificial. Enter: Art.
Even a photo right out of the camera was and is tainted. Parameters are set for sharpness, contrast, hue and colors - be it by choise of analogue film and development etc. - or by digital options - basically mimicking the features of analogue cameras and traditional darkroom processes.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkJUJ5-PL-0
Enjoy.
Now is the time for all brave IT lingo geeks who patiently preached the difference between hacking and cracking. It will be simpler from now on: If your head *really* hurts, it's being cracked. Simple. I feel a rap coming... ....so I was backin' up my brain - when da hackin' went insane..
and then something about "crackin'" and "pain"!! I could make a million. As a matter of fact, I think I'll change my nickname.
True. And you need a new keyboard and eyeglasses :)
The Really Paranoid Reader might wish to investigate which piece of music created this one.
On a related note (all pun intended), it would be interesting to synthesize the chromosome images to sound. :)
Perhaps fragments of interesting music might be lurking there. Something to listen to while jaywalking with your iPod anyway. It would add that extra dimension to a Darwin award
..we transmit looping reruns of Soilent Green :)
I have a Latidude D610 which also litterally speaking gets burning hot at times, on the plastic surface above the HD: left front side. And that's exactly what the photo of the burning Dell shows. Power and battery, OTOH, are in the back. Nut that PC isn't burning there - it's burning in the left front side.
The Register ran a related story yesterday;g en_call_centre/
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/06/16/power
My own experience with a global callcenter, the one of Equant, offices in Britain, Egypt, India and some other more obscure asian location, is appalling:
Problems that used to take under an hour to get resolve can now take up to 25 hours. They are passed around the globe/timezones, to people who can barely make themselves understandable. Just to end up at the original center again. Laughable. If it wasn't so darn critical to our own services: The center is the service phone of one of our main network providers to abroad.
Once they even called the wrong contact phone in return, to our Infrastructure boss, in the middle of the night. He was sound asleep at the time, of course. When he woke up, he noticed there was an unanswered call from Egypt but never bothered to call back because assumed it was a freak call. A relative of some immigrant calling the wrong number or similar. Equant had initially promoted their service as one with a local (norwegian) call center, and with a scandinavian HQ in Sweden. "Now in your own language", ran the commercial. They later "forgot" to mention it all got outsourced. Ta daa.
The latter blunder gave us a solid refund, btw. Our CEO took the first flight to England and set things straight. But I have a hunch expenses like that aren't worked in to the maths of outsouring cost "benefits" right from the start. I'm not very surprised the outsourcing fever is cooling down by now. It allways appeared rather overhyped to me.
IMHO the world will see the peak of world oil production in about a year.
;)
It certainly will happen within a decade. When this happens we can expect
oil and gas prices to skyrocket well past $100 bux and possibly past $300
per barrel.
An unrealistic scheme. Oil prices aren't unproportionally high due to scarse resources but because of political unrest.
But wast oil resources are yet to be uncovered, literally speaking. Oil companies are already positioning to drill for the black gold in regions currently under the icecaps. They'll be there when it melts. We won't see the end of oil in our lifetime - by far. But with some luck we'll witness a nice pricedrop on seaside properties. Not to mention species after species go under forever. Really, this planet can't take much more of our "ingenuity". Anyone who thinks people are smart, lack perspectives.
In al liklihood it is already too late and we have to embark on every energy conservation program and every energy source available. Even with a consorted effort it is probably too late. There are going to be some mightly lean decades just around the corner.
Lean is healthy. Invest in solar panels
Regardless of how you count the duration of the last ice age: The half life of plutonium-239 is over 24000 years and it takes 20 cycles to render it harmless. Meaning it will outlast any figure for the last iceage by a very good measure. The single responsible precaution we can take is to not create the waste in the first place.
>I imagine an ice age will cause a lot more, and faster, deaths than will
:)
> a few increased cancers from plutonium.
An ice age will cause migration. But you don't just pocket a nuclear waste deposit and bring it along.
> Heck, plutonium is mostly harmless anyway, as long as you don't inhale
> a powdered form.
10.000 years of grinding will make a lot of powder.
> Heck, I've often wanted a plutonium disk built into the base of my
> coffee cup to keep my coffee warm....
"Now we're talking!" Good luck. Might at least get you a Darwin award
> I believe in the ingenuity of people and am confident that in the next
> 100 years we will have solced the nuclear waste issue.
I believe in the stupidity of people. Get real. The last ice age lasted 10.000 years. Plutonioum takes 500.000 years to become harmless. What kind of storage facility do you think will outlast that? Who will warrant a 500.000 year commitment?
The increase in cancer after Tchernobyl lingers on. That was one single incident.
"Professor Edmund Lengfelder of the Otto Hug Strahleninstitut in Munich, which has been running a thyroid centre in Belarus since 1991, warns of up to 100 000 additional cases of thyroid cancer in all age groups."
Nuclear power should ideally be globally banned. And if politically impossible, it should in the very least be banned in areas we know were covered under the icecap during the previous ice age. Anything else is a guaranteed recipe for disaster.
Plans and plants are barely theoretically safe. Think about it:
With targets like that - who needs the Bomb?
There once was a poll:
"You're In Stasis 100 Years. What's the First Tech You Look Into?"
I replied "an icepick", which was modified as insightful. Which made me very glad. But I feel I've now gained even more insight! As from today (actually yesterday) my reply would have been "scuba diving tech".
Can we please have a rerun? Please??
--
"Life is wasted on the living"
Office has a 5 year additional life on the Mac, but MSIE and Windows Media Player are terminated, including the support. Which, IMO, is good news. WMP is not good, navigates poorly on DVDs, and v9 and 10 cause random freezes and even crashes on WinXP PRO. At least on two (different) laptops I have. I've had to stop using it for DVDs.
> Where would you place asexual humans then?
I'm right here.
..is that he suffers from a mental illness, but for some reason has more to gain from being fired rather than retire of his own free will.
I'm not sure if you're trying to call me an idiot. Of course it is possible to port it. Everybody knows that. But that wasn't what I asked you about.
Well there's that fine line between theory and practice, and in this case it looks more like a concrete wall. Do you seriously think it would be smart to hold my breath for this one?
to use this, would be to in effect run Xscreensaver on Windows! Using XP, I really miss those. And they will never be ported.
is probably the only reason why there isn't yet "security" demands for enabling a cellulars camera remotely. But in the meanwhile: Just imagine of all the fun they have tapping into voluntary video calls :) In all other respects than video surveillance we're way past Orwell's predictions from "1984". Chauchescu must be spinning in his grave over the lost opportunities; The poor old sod only got as far as to sample all the countrys typewriters. What an amateur. Tie the IP up to cellphones, track them and film the environment... now there's a precision tool for the professional peek-a-boo.