After a day at Cedar Point a fews years back, my girlfriend and I didn't feel right for well over a week...
Never again will I ride 10+ different coasters in a single day... That place is deadly... (we were traveling X-Country and decided to stop on a whim.. had no idea what we were getting ourselves into)
-- One of the chief reasons the system is as big as it is is because the risk is shifted away from the client! --
I'm all for the client.. but at least give the merchant some recourse as well....
-- It has always been heavily on the merchant to make sure things are valid, to ensure that the credit card is valid, that it's being used by the right person, etcetera, becuase the merchant is the one that loses if it's not. --
For non-internet sales that is all well and good. How do I tell if its being used by the "right" person online? Address verification does nothing... No signature to compare it against. If you in a biz where you are not shipping something, its basically going on your gut feeling if the person is genuine or not, which is not a good way to do biz.
-- These companies cater to merchants by making sure they have a huge customer base who wants to USE their credit cards to buy things, and they reduce the amount of actual cash the merchant has to handle. THe onus has always been heavily on the merchant to keep things in order. --
You do know mastercard and the likes makes more money off of me for a fraudulent transaction... On top of you giving all the money back (obivously), they also charge you $10-25 per chargeback, so you loose money.. they have no risk..
-- Since internet transactions don't have a signature, yes, it IS easy for the merchant to get screwed. But it's their choice.. they know the temrs. --
No shit, and I play by those terms.. but its a little too much to ask for some reform???
Anyways... Mastercards sucks... All the CC companies don't seem to care about the merchant at all.. Since internet transactions don't have a signature, there is little recourse for the merchant to do anything if a customer disputes a purchase, or is it easy to determine if a card is stolen in the first place. The whole system needs to be overhauled, but they make more money from chargebacks, so they aren't in any hurry...
>> I wonder if the technology industry was pro CBDTPA, would we be hearing as many bad things about it, in the press?" > globetechnology.com: Your Canadian source for timely technology news and analysis
>>But would anyone besides dish users see the NY station?
Probably... here in Vermont, I can't get cable, so its only a dish for me... That means all networks are over the air and I get crappy reception.. If I could watch the New York version via the dish and drop my over the air local network, I would in a second...
MSNBC.com has this story [msnbc.com] on PayPal facing a class action lawsuit.... is it just me or does it seem like/. is skipping this story? Maybe Taco bought a whack of shares in their IPO last week:)
>>In fact, I could go eat as most other white males (they'd probably notice if I gave them an african american girl's card, they aren't THAT slow.;))
We used to do that all the time... When a friend came to visit, we'd just grab a girls id that had plenty of meals left on it... and your friend had a free meal... IF the workers did notice, they certainly didn't care.
Well I guess many of them felt like it was either sit back and take it up the ___ or try to do something about it.... sure seemed like nobody else was gonna help
Fearing the worst, auction winners contacted officials at EBay, who said they would not accept complaints until 30 days after an auction's closing date. Local law enforcement officials in Arizona said they did not have the resources to handle the case. And the FBI told them to fill out a form and wait.
The adage states that 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' I'm not sure about that, but I can say one's worth about thirty thousand letters...
Question: What should one do with about a quarter million Modulex bricks?
This is not a question that most people will face in their lifetime. For that matter, few LEGO collectors will need to consider it. However, last fall I was sent a couple small Modulex bricks in the mail by a fellow, Ted, who had worked for LEGO some time ago. Ironically, my first thought when seeing the tiny bricks was, "these are so small, they're like toys!" -- as if the standard LEGO brick is not meant to be a toy.
Anyway, my interest was certainly piqued by these 'elfin sized' bricks, and I started doing some investigation. After a couple months of searching and researching, I stumbled into quite a find: for a (fairly reasonable) price I managed to put myself in half-ownership of approximately half a million Modulex bricks. Old, yes, but sealed in boxes and in mint condition.
So, I then had to ask myself what I would do with my new 'toys.'
What should one actually do with a quarter million Modulex bricks?
Some type of mosaic came to mind as the Modulex bricks are smaller than typical LEGO bricks, and the colors are different (more pastel).
What really intrigued me, though, was the fact that among the many, many bricks were some tiny 1x1 smooth bricks (tiles) that were white with black letters and numbers imprinted upon them.
What are "Modulex" bricks?
Modulex bricks are smaller 'cousins' of LEGO bricks. They were originally developed by the LEGO company (many decades ago) and marketed to professional architecture firms and such (not as a retail toy). Possibly to the surprise of many LEGO collectors, these bricks are still manufactured today (by the now independent, but LEGO-related, company Modulex).
Modulex bricks are not compatible with typical LEGO bricks. The standard 1x1 Modulex brick (or 'component' as the company refers to them) is 5mm cubed (yes, they are perfect cubes, unlike LEGO unit bricks which are taller than they are wide or deep).
The colors are also different than LEGO colors... much more in the 'pastel' frame of mind they are.
Buying new Modulex bricks is not cheap; piece by piece they would end up being more expensive than LEGO bricks on average.
There are Modulex collectors about, however, and if one searches hard enough, one can sometimes find old ones for sale. The eBay auction site can be quite handy in this instance.
I got my idea.
I'd do a mosaic, but instead of using colors, I'd use the letter and number tiles to create a picture reminiscent of the old 'ASCII art' one can find on the web (and which was certainly around long before the web).
Physical ASCII. How pseudo-retro-techno.
Okay then, a physical ASCII mosaic. But a mosaic of what?
I was sick of building LEGO cartoon/comic characters, so that was out.
I considered a picture from another fascination of mine: Alice in Wonderland (qq.v. Alice, White Rabbit Mosaic), but the original Tenniel drawings that I like are all pretty much black and white with little gray shading... not very conducive to ASCII art really.
So, with cartoon characters and Alice discarded, I turned to the next obvious thing: an actress (this may not be too obvious, but for anyone who knows me, this should not be a big surprise).
I decided to use a picture of Calista Flockhart.
Okay, I had my picture. Next I downloaded a freely available software program: ASCII Generator.
This nifty tool did just about all that I needed. I could specify what letters to use (and which were 'darkest' and which 'lightest'). I could specify how many pixels of width to give each letter (when printed normally, most fonts have letters that are taller than they are wide; my bricks, however, were square, so I needed to be able to adjust accordingly). All in all, the program was invaluable.
I did run into one snag, however.
See, in all the little letter tiles I had obtained, the distribution of particular letters and numbers was far from equal. For example, I had over five thousand U's, but only twenty-four C's (not twenty-four thousand, just twenty-four... two dozen).
The ASCII Generator program did not care what my supply actually was, so it just used as many of each letter as it deemed necessary. As a result, the output (which was 140 letters wide and 240 letters high) did not come close to matching the letter supply I actually had.
I solved the problem by grouping certain letters together into groups based on their darkness (so, say, the W's and X's and H's were in one group at the dark end while the I's and L's and J's were in the lightest group). With about 6 groups formed using all the tiles I did have, I then wrote a Perl script that analyzed the output from the ASCII program.
My script would look at the letter in each space as designated by the ASCII Generator and then see to which group it belonged. Next, it would randomly pick a letter from that group. This 'randomness' however was weighted so that the letters within the group of which I had the most would be most likely picked. Letters of which I had very few were proportionally less likely to be picked.
The picked letter from the group (which might, in fact, be the same as the original letter analyzed) was then substituted in the ASCII picture.
When the whole text file was thus filtered, I ended up with an ASCII image in which the darkness and lightness was pretty much the same as the original ASCII output, but I was guaranteed to have the necessary letters.
Whew.
With all that done, I could then actually start building.
Oh wait. There was one more problem. I had about 60,000 letter tiles at my disposal, but I had no baseplates to which I could attach them.
I ended up ordering some from the U.S. importer of Modulex products. This was not particularly cheap or timely, but about five weeks later I managed to get the baseplates I needed.
And I began the actual building of the mosaic.
I have constructed plenty of LEGO mosaic in the past (qq.v. New York City, Mona Lisa, San Francisco), so I was almost prepared for this task. There are notable differences between Modulex mosaic building and LEGO mosaic building, however. Most noticable is the fact that the minute Modulex bricks are *that much harder* to pick up and maneuver. Nimble fingers are required.
Modulex bricks also seem to attach more securely to the baseplates (more securely than LEGO bricks do to LEGO baseplates), and this is nice. However, it also means that a bit more force is need to make each little click. Tough fingers are required.
And finally, since I was creating a mosaic with little letters and numbers, I had to be sure that each brick was positioned with the correct orientation (no upside down P's for me, buddy).
Anyway... in the end, I got the darn thing done. The final 'Calista mosaic' is currently hanging on a wall in my house, and I hope to transport it to the Brickswest (2002) convention.
The mosaic used about 30,000 pieces (the 140 by 240 area for the letters, with some of the white spaces filled by larger tiles, and finally a border).
This, of course, means that I have about 30,000 or so letter tiles remaining. Enough for another mosaic! Heh... not one for myself, but I'd could always do one on commission, by request. Such a commssion would not be cheap of course (for a similarly sized mosaic -- 30 inches by 50 inches -- you could expect a price tag of many, many thousands of dollars).
But if you're game, let me know... I obviously have a limited supply, so it'd be first come, first serve... requests from actresses would get preferential consideration, of course [grin].
What I'm going to do with the rest of my Modulex stash (the non-letter bricks)... well, I'm still trying to figure that out.
More pictures
My initial set-up before actual construction began.
This was my basic layout of the bags. Each bag contains a separate letter (keeping them separate was vitally important, of course).
As work progressed, the workspace got messier and messier, but a facade of organization was kept.
The first baseplate (upper left of mosaic) is completed.
More progress. The empty areas would later be filled with white tiles (not all 1x1s).
A closer look.
The eyes are completed.
The final mosaic is 150 by 250 bricks (30 inches by 50 inches); these dimensions include a five-brick-wide black border.
A close-up shot to prove these are actually little letter tiles [grin].
A close-up of one of the eyes.
Here's a view of the printout instructions I used. I deliniated every 10 rows and columns to help keep things straight.
I 'signed' the mosaic in the lower right corner by placing letters at a ninety degree rotation.
Also, I should give thanks to Ted, Brad, Irving, Arne, and Henry for helping me get this crazy little project conceived and finsihed in about four months time.
Finally, for the trivia prone people, I'll toss out these little bits:
While I did not purposely place any messages in the mosaic (other than my signature), some small words did appear by chance. The longest were four letter words. Among the ones I remember: FILL, FULL, NOUN, QUOD (a strange word probably only familiar to Scrabble players). I caught these reading left-to-right as I built the mosaic... others may be hidden vertically.
The longest string of a single letter was an iteration of eight Y's (it appeared in the second row from the top).
I seem to recall a number six digits in length embedded within the mosaic, but I can't remember what it was, and now can't locate it in amongst the gibberish. It was the longest continuous string I spotted, though.
Here is a breakdown of the symbols used (of course, I may have erred a bit in the actual production, but this is what made up the text file; no M's or 9's were used -- they are just W's and 6's upside down; the balance of space was filled with blank white tiles):
[A] -> 83
[B] -> 109
[C] -> 24
[D] -> 596
[E] -> 468
[F] -> 1726
[G] -> 1851
[H] -> 985
[I] -> 562
[J] -> 2820
[K] -> 540
[L] -> 617
[N] -> 455
[O] -> 365
[P] -> 560
[Q] -> 1816
[R] -> 284
[S] -> 820
[T] -> 234
[U] -> 4157
[V] -> 1432
[W] -> 290
[X] -> 414
[Y] -> 2782
[Z] -> 150
[0] -> 491
[1] -> 197
[2] -> 346
[3] -> 100
[4] -> 383
[5] -> 358
[6] -> 277
[7] -> 128
[8] -> 52
[=] -> 1103
>>any bozo could rebuild the Empire State and all other US landmarks bcos they're all simple concrete-and-glass skyscrapers with little historic value (none over 80 years old), but you couldn't do the same with the Tower of London!
could have sworn we have buildings older then the 1920's, but it could be just me...
Slashdot Mirror
Although its terrible for your what happened to your cousin.. Why was his driver's license was revoked?
Did he pass out while driving ? How would anyone with the ability to revoke his license know about his condition?
After a day at Cedar Point a fews years back, my girlfriend and I didn't feel right for well over a week...
Never again will I ride 10+ different coasters in a single day... That place is deadly... (we were traveling X-Country and decided to stop on a whim.. had no idea what we were getting ourselves into)
I'm on the east coast.... and didn't watch it anyway..
/. waited a few hours. everyone would....
but it doesn't give everyone a chance to participate... if
Why don't you dumbasses wait 3 hours till everyone gets a chance to see it.... then post..
Nah.. that'd be too logical....
And in 2 months.... just like Yahoo... we'll see a follow up that nobdy cared and Miscrosoft let it stand....
Next......
Atleast he has an account... bitch...
So far, Perk has only raised $100 for repairs, but he's undeterred
He bought it in 1999.. has $100 out of $100,000. and is 70... he better get a move on it... (Guess story on MSNBC is a start..)
yes
I read at +2 to read this ?
Give me an option to remove all +1 bonuses....
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Besides, if I was going to do an android head, I'd at least build it out down to the boobs. It is a she, isn't it?
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He did build some arms for it.. no breasts to be found though...
http://howtoandroid.com/Gallery2/RMaxLowerArm3.
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One of the chief reasons the system is as big as it is is because the risk is shifted away from the client!
--
I'm all for the client.. but at least give the merchant some recourse as well....
--
It has always been heavily on the merchant to make sure things are valid, to ensure that the credit card is valid, that it's being used by the right person, etcetera, becuase the merchant is the one that loses if it's not.
--
For non-internet sales that is all well and good. How do I tell if its being used by the "right" person online? Address verification does nothing... No signature to compare it against. If you in a biz where you are not shipping something, its basically going on your gut feeling if the person is genuine or not, which is not a good way to do biz.
--
These companies cater to merchants by making sure they have a huge customer base who wants to USE their credit cards to buy things, and they reduce the amount of actual cash the merchant has to handle. THe onus has always been heavily on the merchant to keep things in order.
--
You do know mastercard and the likes makes more money off of me for a fraudulent transaction... On top of you giving all the money back (obivously), they also charge you $10-25 per chargeback, so you loose money.. they have no risk..
--
Since internet transactions don't have a signature, yes, it IS easy for the merchant to get screwed. But it's their choice.. they know the temrs.
--
No shit, and I play by those terms.. but its a little too much to ask for some reform???
Note they are not "cut off" until May 1...
Anyways... Mastercards sucks... All the CC companies don't seem to care about the merchant at all.. Since internet transactions don't have a signature, there is little recourse for the merchant to do anything if a customer disputes a purchase, or is it easy to determine if a card is stolen in the first place. The whole system needs to be overhauled, but they make more money from chargebacks, so they aren't in any hurry...
Stupid slashdot cut out half my comment.
screw it, this place sucks anyways...
>>
I wonder if the technology industry was pro CBDTPA, would we be hearing as many bad things about it, in the press?"
>
globetechnology.com: Your Canadian source for timely technology news and analysis
Yeah.. Adelphia too cheap....
rt 108 south from Jeffersonville... The villiage has cable.. but not enough people in the dead end valley to put cable any farther..
>>But would anyone besides dish users see the NY station?
Probably... here in Vermont, I can't get cable, so its only a dish for me... That means all networks are over the air and I get crappy reception.. If I could watch the New York version via the dish and drop my over the air local network, I would in a second...
no your not talking out your ass... but don't you think they could just limit the sales of tickets ?
MSNBC.com has this story [msnbc.com] on PayPal facing a class action lawsuit.... is it just me or does it seem like /. is skipping this story? Maybe Taco bought a whack of shares in their IPO last week :)
What story do you think your repling to ?
>>The worlds forests are NOT increasing.
Umm yeah they are..
Check the data...
http://lternet.edu/hfr/data/hf013/vt.gif - Graph of percentage of forested area vs date for Vermont.
This is the data: http://lternet.edu/hfr/data/hf013/vt.txt
Result on all the New England states can be found here: http://lternet.edu/hfr/data/hf013/hf013.html
Back in the early 1900's, New Englands forest cover was at about 25% and its probably close to 70% or more now...
>>In fact, I could go eat as most other white males (they'd probably notice if I gave them an african american girl's card, they aren't THAT slow. ;))
We used to do that all the time... When a friend came to visit, we'd just grab a girls id that had plenty of meals left on it... and your friend had a free meal... IF the workers did notice, they certainly didn't care.
not like the group is known for making good desicions though...
cashiers chaecks and money orders only please...
Well I guess many of them felt like it was either sit back and take it up the ___ or try to do something about it.... sure seemed like nobody else was gonna help
Fearing the worst, auction winners contacted officials at EBay, who said they would not accept complaints until 30 days after an auction's closing date. Local law enforcement officials in Arizona said they did not have the resources to handle the case. And the FBI told them to fill out a form and wait.
The adage states that 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' I'm not sure about that, but I can say one's worth about thirty thousand letters...
Question: What should one do with about a quarter million Modulex bricks?
This is not a question that most people will face in their lifetime. For that matter, few LEGO collectors will need to consider it. However, last fall I was sent a couple small Modulex bricks in the mail by a fellow, Ted, who had worked for LEGO some time ago. Ironically, my first thought when seeing the tiny bricks was, "these are so small, they're like toys!" -- as if the standard LEGO brick is not meant to be a toy.
Anyway, my interest was certainly piqued by these 'elfin sized' bricks, and I started doing some investigation. After a couple months of searching and researching, I stumbled into quite a find: for a (fairly reasonable) price I managed to put myself in half-ownership of approximately half a million Modulex bricks. Old, yes, but sealed in boxes and in mint condition.
So, I then had to ask myself what I would do with my new 'toys.'
What should one actually do with a quarter million Modulex bricks?
Some type of mosaic came to mind as the Modulex bricks are smaller than typical LEGO bricks, and the colors are different (more pastel).
What really intrigued me, though, was the fact that among the many, many bricks were some tiny 1x1 smooth bricks (tiles) that were white with black letters and numbers imprinted upon them.
What are "Modulex" bricks?
Modulex bricks are smaller 'cousins' of LEGO bricks. They were originally developed by the LEGO company (many decades ago) and marketed to professional architecture firms and such (not as a retail toy). Possibly to the surprise of many LEGO collectors, these bricks are still manufactured today (by the now independent, but LEGO-related, company Modulex).
Modulex bricks are not compatible with typical LEGO bricks. The standard 1x1 Modulex brick (or 'component' as the company refers to them) is 5mm cubed (yes, they are perfect cubes, unlike LEGO unit bricks which are taller than they are wide or deep).
The colors are also different than LEGO colors... much more in the 'pastel' frame of mind they are.
Buying new Modulex bricks is not cheap; piece by piece they would end up being more expensive than LEGO bricks on average.
There are Modulex collectors about, however, and if one searches hard enough, one can sometimes find old ones for sale. The eBay auction site can be quite handy in this instance.
I got my idea.
I'd do a mosaic, but instead of using colors, I'd use the letter and number tiles to create a picture reminiscent of the old 'ASCII art' one can find on the web (and which was certainly around long before the web).
Physical ASCII. How pseudo-retro-techno.
Okay then, a physical ASCII mosaic. But a mosaic of what?
I was sick of building LEGO cartoon/comic characters, so that was out.
I considered a picture from another fascination of mine: Alice in Wonderland (qq.v. Alice, White Rabbit Mosaic), but the original Tenniel drawings that I like are all pretty much black and white with little gray shading... not very conducive to ASCII art really.
So, with cartoon characters and Alice discarded, I turned to the next obvious thing: an actress (this may not be too obvious, but for anyone who knows me, this should not be a big surprise).
I decided to use a picture of Calista Flockhart.
Okay, I had my picture. Next I downloaded a freely available software program: ASCII Generator.
This nifty tool did just about all that I needed. I could specify what letters to use (and which were 'darkest' and which 'lightest'). I could specify how many pixels of width to give each letter (when printed normally, most fonts have letters that are taller than they are wide; my bricks, however, were square, so I needed to be able to adjust accordingly). All in all, the program was invaluable.
I did run into one snag, however.
See, in all the little letter tiles I had obtained, the distribution of particular letters and numbers was far from equal. For example, I had over five thousand U's, but only twenty-four C's (not twenty-four thousand, just twenty-four... two dozen).
The ASCII Generator program did not care what my supply actually was, so it just used as many of each letter as it deemed necessary. As a result, the output (which was 140 letters wide and 240 letters high) did not come close to matching the letter supply I actually had.
I solved the problem by grouping certain letters together into groups based on their darkness (so, say, the W's and X's and H's were in one group at the dark end while the I's and L's and J's were in the lightest group). With about 6 groups formed using all the tiles I did have, I then wrote a Perl script that analyzed the output from the ASCII program.
My script would look at the letter in each space as designated by the ASCII Generator and then see to which group it belonged. Next, it would randomly pick a letter from that group. This 'randomness' however was weighted so that the letters within the group of which I had the most would be most likely picked. Letters of which I had very few were proportionally less likely to be picked.
The picked letter from the group (which might, in fact, be the same as the original letter analyzed) was then substituted in the ASCII picture.
When the whole text file was thus filtered, I ended up with an ASCII image in which the darkness and lightness was pretty much the same as the original ASCII output, but I was guaranteed to have the necessary letters.
Whew.
With all that done, I could then actually start building.
Oh wait. There was one more problem. I had about 60,000 letter tiles at my disposal, but I had no baseplates to which I could attach them.
I ended up ordering some from the U.S. importer of Modulex products. This was not particularly cheap or timely, but about five weeks later I managed to get the baseplates I needed.
And I began the actual building of the mosaic.
I have constructed plenty of LEGO mosaic in the past (qq.v. New York City, Mona Lisa, San Francisco), so I was almost prepared for this task. There are notable differences between Modulex mosaic building and LEGO mosaic building, however. Most noticable is the fact that the minute Modulex bricks are *that much harder* to pick up and maneuver. Nimble fingers are required.
Modulex bricks also seem to attach more securely to the baseplates (more securely than LEGO bricks do to LEGO baseplates), and this is nice. However, it also means that a bit more force is need to make each little click. Tough fingers are required.
And finally, since I was creating a mosaic with little letters and numbers, I had to be sure that each brick was positioned with the correct orientation (no upside down P's for me, buddy).
Anyway... in the end, I got the darn thing done. The final 'Calista mosaic' is currently hanging on a wall in my house, and I hope to transport it to the Brickswest (2002) convention.
The mosaic used about 30,000 pieces (the 140 by 240 area for the letters, with some of the white spaces filled by larger tiles, and finally a border).
This, of course, means that I have about 30,000 or so letter tiles remaining. Enough for another mosaic! Heh... not one for myself, but I'd could always do one on commission, by request. Such a commssion would not be cheap of course (for a similarly sized mosaic -- 30 inches by 50 inches -- you could expect a price tag of many, many thousands of dollars).
But if you're game, let me know... I obviously have a limited supply, so it'd be first come, first serve... requests from actresses would get preferential consideration, of course [grin].
What I'm going to do with the rest of my Modulex stash (the non-letter bricks)... well, I'm still trying to figure that out.
More pictures
My initial set-up before actual construction began.
This was my basic layout of the bags. Each bag contains a separate letter (keeping them separate was vitally important, of course).
As work progressed, the workspace got messier and messier, but a facade of organization was kept.
The first baseplate (upper left of mosaic) is completed.
More progress. The empty areas would later be filled with white tiles (not all 1x1s).
A closer look.
The eyes are completed.
The final mosaic is 150 by 250 bricks (30 inches by 50 inches); these dimensions include a five-brick-wide black border.
A close-up shot to prove these are actually little letter tiles [grin].
A close-up of one of the eyes.
Here's a view of the printout instructions I used. I deliniated every 10 rows and columns to help keep things straight.
I 'signed' the mosaic in the lower right corner by placing letters at a ninety degree rotation.
Also, I should give thanks to Ted, Brad, Irving, Arne, and Henry for helping me get this crazy little project conceived and finsihed in about four months time.
Finally, for the trivia prone people, I'll toss out these little bits:
While I did not purposely place any messages in the mosaic (other than my signature), some small words did appear by chance. The longest were four letter words. Among the ones I remember: FILL, FULL, NOUN, QUOD (a strange word probably only familiar to Scrabble players). I caught these reading left-to-right as I built the mosaic... others may be hidden vertically.
The longest string of a single letter was an iteration of eight Y's (it appeared in the second row from the top).
I seem to recall a number six digits in length embedded within the mosaic, but I can't remember what it was, and now can't locate it in amongst the gibberish. It was the longest continuous string I spotted, though.
Here is a breakdown of the symbols used (of course, I may have erred a bit in the actual production, but this is what made up the text file; no M's or 9's were used -- they are just W's and 6's upside down; the balance of space was filled with blank white tiles):
[A] -> 83
[B] -> 109
[C] -> 24
[D] -> 596
[E] -> 468
[F] -> 1726
[G] -> 1851
[H] -> 985
[I] -> 562
[J] -> 2820
[K] -> 540
[L] -> 617
[N] -> 455
[O] -> 365
[P] -> 560
[Q] -> 1816
[R] -> 284
[S] -> 820
[T] -> 234
[U] -> 4157
[V] -> 1432
[W] -> 290
[X] -> 414
[Y] -> 2782
[Z] -> 150
[0] -> 491
[1] -> 197
[2] -> 346
[3] -> 100
[4] -> 383
[5] -> 358
[6] -> 277
[7] -> 128
[8] -> 52
[=] -> 1103
>>any bozo could rebuild the Empire State and all other US landmarks bcos they're all simple concrete-and-glass skyscrapers with little historic value (none over 80 years old), but you couldn't do the same with the Tower of London!
could have sworn we have buildings older then the 1920's, but it could be just me...
jackass
Here is a link to some info on that sat.
http://www.eurimage.com/Products/qb.shtml
moderators must be smoking some good crack this morning.....