Logically, 1-4 can be solved by using a different compound to bind the cardboard (eg; polymers/plastics) together, down to the paper fibers themselves.
Electricity would be more expensive, but heating/air conditioning would not. Cardboard is actually a very good insulator, all things considered. That's why homeless "early cardboard housing adopters" in America prefer cardboard refrigerator boxes to many of the alternative living options available.
However, what I believe is the issue, is to create a form of moderate term housing at a minimal cost. I don't think the designers came up with this concept to create housing that someone could live in for a lifetime. It's intended as an alternative to living in a tent after a recent disaster, and to provide a sturdy shelter for larger families than a tent could conveniently provide.
I had to listen to it through reading the manga, but if Cameron's reading these posts, I feel that I should point it out.
Muse makes some excellent music and would be exceedingly perfect for the soundtrack. Between Origin of Symmetry and Absolution, you pretty much have the entire soundtrack wrapped up right.
Not only that, but the majority of porn sites out there all do the same thing: They steal porn from each other, usenet, or privately owned free sites.
Take the bazillion or so "Toon Porn!" websites out there. Maybe 3-4 of them actually feature original works that they've actually commissioned. The remainder leech off of alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime or alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.cartoons and recycle the same crap over and over again.
Pity nobody takes those guys to task for ripping off the original copyrights to begin with.
Has anybody encountered flickering in these kind of LEDs?
For example, if you look at an LED light source and move your eyes rapidly, it breaks a previously solid light into a series of lit dots.
Depending on how much flicker there is in the LED bulbs, that could lead to some serious eyestrain and migraines, with many preferring to get the cheaper, considerably higher Hz flickering flourescents.
It cuts both ways. Back in the 70s and 80s, I recall seeing tons of conspiracy theories about how bar codes could be misused to observe whatever we did in our purchases.
Additionally, there's the whole so-called conspiracy about how "shopping club" members who bought a frequent shopper club card was having vast and horrible statistics collected about how much Mountain Dew, et al, they were purchasing.
Frankly, yes, it can all be used for wrong, but that depends on your definition of wrong. Do you spend sleepless nights wondering if your store is telling evil corporations how much Mountain Dew you drink?
And unlike gas, when hydrogen is "burned" (simply recombined with O2 to form water), it can be reclaimed.
As it goes, it's the closest thing to a renewable fuel source available. Add solar "hydrogen ranches" to extract hydrogen from water, and you would essentially close the loop.
There's been 3D CG work in movies as far back as 1976, well over a decade before 1988. I'm pretty sure that static 3D imagery was around far sooner than that.
Helloooooo? In case you haven't a grasp on history, Bush won just barely half of the votes cast, when just barely half of the registered voters bothered to show up, or were otherwise dismissed by hanging chads and crap.
3/4 of Americans are against Bush, if we weren't complacent to begin with, he would have lost in a landslide.
So please (enter your country here) stop shitting on the rest of us because of 1/4 of the assholes who make up the balance of the US. We're on your side, but can't just casually grab every gun and march on the guy who's finger rests on a goddamnned nuclear trigger, let alone commands that military power everyone says is so powerful.
Sucks when a country the size of the US is expected to be able to overthrow a corrupt government like Chile or whatnot.
A while back, I recall seeing something that stated that the attempts to trace human ancestry reached a dead end at approximately 20,000 years ago, and a population at the barest thousands.
The suggested explanation is that there was a massive die off, supposedly due to a cataclysm caused either by an asteroid impact or volcanic eruption.
Is it then possible that the severely reduced genomes were due to such a massive die off? Plant seeds can survive years despite massive cataclysms, assuring almost unrestricted genetic exchanges between plant species. However, animal genetics are restricted by breeding cycles, how long they can stay alive to breed.
In essense, it may just simply be that animal DNA is considerably streamlined in order to compensate for that fact, kind of like a high speed dub for the species, as opposed to slow dub redundancies for accuracy's sake.
In other words, the only supremacy that plants hold over mammals, is time. Take a vial of sperm and a bag of fresh seeds, and keep them in a box for a year. Guess which one will still be viable.
The problem *is* the resolution. Most people wouldn't feel comfortable with a display showing less than a 640x480 resolution, and yet the one they show suggests a display resolution of 320x240.
As far as I know as well, anything higher than the previously mentioned resolutions is difficult if not impossible, or we'd be seeing LCD flat panel displays the size of a conventional TV with a much higher dot pitch.
When you're talking that resolution, may as well go to a scanning low energy laser display like was suggested some time ago.
I'll expand further later, watching the Farscape miniseries.
And it rocks for the $69 average price. It shows a simple menu for DVD-R archives as a file system (so, hypothetically, you could put up to 12 hours of DiVX encoded movies on 1 disc).
Pros:
Upgradable firmware Provides DiVX/XViD (DiVX 3.*,4.*,5.* compatible)and generic MPEG-4 playback (anyone who's been collecting the DAP MST3K episodes can imagine the ability to watch every show on the big screen again). Intuitive interface for the most part. Sexy and slim case design.
Cons: Slow disc menu loading time. Clumsy remote control design, buttons are very easy to confuse due to placement. No disc eject button on the remote. DiVX/XViD titles aren't displayed in the menu, if the video file's FOURCC code isn't configured properly.
So it isn't perfect, but considering its as cheap as some basic DVD players, you get slightly more than you pay for.
Excuse me while I curse incoherantly...
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Okay, I'm done. Now my big question is simple:
Anyone can buy a Gameboy Advance with a backlit LCD for about $79.
Anyone can buy a digital camera with built in 1.5" LCD for $120.
Anyone can buy a 15" LCD display for their PC for $300 on average.
So WHY is it that a monacle LCD using (technically) less technology costs 3-4 times that price? It's bloody stupid.
I've been monitoring the volcanocams this morning and noticed one spot near the top of the dome, that has been "glowing" pretty consistantly. Take a look at:
Keep an eye on the one steam plume on the upper right of the crater. As the sun goes down on the camera (roughly 22:00 Oct 12), you can see a prominant reddish spot that remains all the way through, well, the time I write this.
I think Nintendo is on crack. The DS needs "killer apps" to progress, but such has never truly been explored on such a basis.
Someone made a picture of a "hypothetical" Gameboy spinoff, which would have been far more realistic a goal. Minidisc drive, cartridge port, dual analog sticks, d-pad and twin shoulder buttons.
This looks like a future Virtual Boy, truth be told. Very little in the gaming world requires you to actually *watch* two screens. The ones that do, usually require more than two screens, and one hefty graphics setup to support a 180 degree view. Additionally there's the hassle of paying attention to *two* vertically arranged screens simultaneously, when most peoples eyes automatically are trained to work on a horizontal arrangement (duh, its how their eyes are arranged).
The second screen isn't nessesary. In fact, they probably would have done better to make a portable with a larger screen with a better 3D chipset.
Instead, add a simple IR eye tracking monacle that would do the job of the touch pad, so there would be less "switching hands/fingers" delay, and you have a winner (when I have 30 enemies dropping on me at the same time, I want to be able to aim and run at the same time without deciding what hands and fingers to favor).
If Nintendo had any sense, they would market the DS as a PDA that has the additional bonus of playing high resolution 3D games, which, most PDA/Smart Phone manufacturers have yet to claim.
Yep, and who had a majority in congress? D'oh! Republicans!
Since the Kyoto accord was originally agreed to by a Democratic administration AND congress, it was one of the first things the neocons wanted to vote out.
Pity one cannot mod parent threads down as "stupid".
Why oh WHY are records sealed regarding, in essense, a celebrity civilian who's been dead for almost 24 years now?
I mean I had my own conspiracy theory that it was due to the Reagan administration taking office, or a Manchurian Candidate situation, but hasn't the FBI figured out that hiding documents on cold cases long out of date only adds to the suspicion?
Some of them show what looks clearly like expansion fractures in the pack ice/snow surrounding the dome. The images (beware, they're 1MB and higher) are:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/wr/wa/vancouver/MSH_Im ag es/MSH_aerial_crater_dome_9-29-04.jpg
and
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/wr/wa/vancouver/MSH_Im ag es/MSH_crater_dome_glacier_west_side_9-29-04.jpg Looks like some definate expansion and shifting is going on.
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Logically, 1-4 can be solved by using a different compound to bind the cardboard (eg; polymers/plastics) together, down to the paper fibers themselves.
Electricity would be more expensive, but heating/air conditioning would not. Cardboard is actually a very good insulator, all things considered. That's why homeless "early cardboard housing adopters" in America prefer cardboard refrigerator boxes to many of the alternative living options available.
However, what I believe is the issue, is to create a form of moderate term housing at a minimal cost. I don't think the designers came up with this concept to create housing that someone could live in for a lifetime. It's intended as an alternative to living in a tent after a recent disaster, and to provide a sturdy shelter for larger families than a tent could conveniently provide.
I had to listen to it through reading the manga, but if Cameron's reading these posts, I feel that I should point it out.
Muse makes some excellent music and would be exceedingly perfect for the soundtrack. Between Origin of Symmetry and Absolution, you pretty much have the entire soundtrack wrapped up right.
Not only that, but the majority of porn sites out there all do the same thing: They steal porn from each other, usenet, or privately owned free sites.
Take the bazillion or so "Toon Porn!" websites out there. Maybe 3-4 of them actually feature original works that they've actually commissioned. The remainder leech off of alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime or alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.cartoons and recycle the same crap over and over again.
Pity nobody takes those guys to task for ripping off the original copyrights to begin with.
Has anybody encountered flickering in these kind of LEDs?
For example, if you look at an LED light source and move your eyes rapidly, it breaks a previously solid light into a series of lit dots.
Depending on how much flicker there is in the LED bulbs, that could lead to some serious eyestrain and migraines, with many preferring to get the cheaper, considerably higher Hz flickering flourescents.
It cuts both ways. Back in the 70s and 80s, I recall seeing tons of conspiracy theories about how bar codes could be misused to observe whatever we did in our purchases.
Additionally, there's the whole so-called conspiracy about how "shopping club" members who bought a frequent shopper club card was having vast and horrible statistics collected about how much Mountain Dew, et al, they were purchasing.
Frankly, yes, it can all be used for wrong, but that depends on your definition of wrong. Do you spend sleepless nights wondering if your store is telling evil corporations how much Mountain Dew you drink?
Chances are it's just the caffeine.
Not so much for its gaming capacity, but because it's a damnned good (and sturdy) keyboard.
After seeing it, now my mom wants one, I'll give you one guess on what my Xmas gift will be.
And unlike gas, when hydrogen is "burned" (simply recombined with O2 to form water), it can be reclaimed.
As it goes, it's the closest thing to a renewable fuel source available. Add solar "hydrogen ranches" to extract hydrogen from water, and you would essentially close the loop.
There's been 3D CG work in movies as far back as 1976, well over a decade before 1988. I'm pretty sure that static 3D imagery was around far sooner than that.
Helloooooo? In case you haven't a grasp on history, Bush won just barely half of the votes cast, when just barely half of the registered voters bothered to show up, or were otherwise dismissed by hanging chads and crap.
3/4 of Americans are against Bush, if we weren't complacent to begin with, he would have lost in a landslide.
So please (enter your country here) stop shitting on the rest of us because of 1/4 of the assholes who make up the balance of the US. We're on your side, but can't just casually grab every gun and march on the guy who's finger rests on a goddamnned nuclear trigger, let alone commands that military power everyone says is so powerful.
Sucks when a country the size of the US is expected to be able to overthrow a corrupt government like Chile or whatnot.
A while back, I recall seeing something that stated that the attempts to trace human ancestry reached a dead end at approximately 20,000 years ago, and a population at the barest thousands.
The suggested explanation is that there was a massive die off, supposedly due to a cataclysm caused either by an asteroid impact or volcanic eruption.
Is it then possible that the severely reduced genomes were due to such a massive die off? Plant seeds can survive years despite massive cataclysms, assuring almost unrestricted genetic exchanges between plant species. However, animal genetics are restricted by breeding cycles, how long they can stay alive to breed.
In essense, it may just simply be that animal DNA is considerably streamlined in order to compensate for that fact, kind of like a high speed dub for the species, as opposed to slow dub redundancies for accuracy's sake.
In other words, the only supremacy that plants hold over mammals, is time. Take a vial of sperm and a bag of fresh seeds, and keep them in a box for a year. Guess which one will still be viable.
The problem *is* the resolution. Most people wouldn't feel comfortable with a display showing less than a 640x480 resolution, and yet the one they show suggests a display resolution of 320x240.
As far as I know as well, anything higher than the previously mentioned resolutions is difficult if not impossible, or we'd be seeing LCD flat panel displays the size of a conventional TV with a much higher dot pitch.
When you're talking that resolution, may as well go to a scanning low energy laser display like was suggested some time ago.
I'll expand further later, watching the Farscape miniseries.
Thanks for pointing that out, I found that same answer on a DVD player code site a few hours ago.
And it rocks for the $69 average price. It shows a simple menu for DVD-R archives as a file system (so, hypothetically, you could put up to 12 hours of DiVX encoded movies on 1 disc).
Pros:
Upgradable firmware
Provides DiVX/XViD (DiVX 3.*,4.*,5.* compatible)and generic MPEG-4 playback (anyone who's been collecting the DAP MST3K episodes can imagine the ability to watch every show on the big screen again).
Intuitive interface for the most part.
Sexy and slim case design.
Cons:
Slow disc menu loading time.
Clumsy remote control design, buttons are very easy to confuse due to placement.
No disc eject button on the remote.
DiVX/XViD titles aren't displayed in the menu, if the video file's FOURCC code isn't configured properly.
So it isn't perfect, but considering its as cheap as some basic DVD players, you get slightly more than you pay for.
Okay, I'm done. Now my big question is simple:
Anyone can buy a Gameboy Advance with a backlit LCD for about $79.
Anyone can buy a digital camera with built in 1.5" LCD for $120.
Anyone can buy a 15" LCD display for their PC for $300 on average.
So WHY is it that a monacle LCD using (technically) less technology costs 3-4 times that price? It's bloody stupid.
I've been monitoring the volcanocams this morning and noticed one spot near the top of the dome, that has been "glowing" pretty consistantly. Take a look at:
s / (has archives)
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
and
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/image
Keep an eye on the one steam plume on the upper right of the crater. As the sun goes down on the camera (roughly 22:00 Oct 12), you can see a prominant reddish spot that remains all the way through, well, the time I write this.
"Doctors get free samples of random drugs, for godsake."
I think we would see many more positive movie reviews if Hollywood followed that example.
I think Nintendo is on crack. The DS needs "killer apps" to progress, but such has never truly been explored on such a basis.
Someone made a picture of a "hypothetical" Gameboy spinoff, which would have been far more realistic a goal. Minidisc drive, cartridge port, dual analog sticks, d-pad and twin shoulder buttons.
This looks like a future Virtual Boy, truth be told. Very little in the gaming world requires you to actually *watch* two screens. The ones that do, usually require more than two screens, and one hefty graphics setup to support a 180 degree view. Additionally there's the hassle of paying attention to *two* vertically arranged screens simultaneously, when most peoples eyes automatically are trained to work on a horizontal arrangement (duh, its how their eyes are arranged).
The second screen isn't nessesary. In fact, they probably would have done better to make a portable with a larger screen with a better 3D chipset.
Instead, add a simple IR eye tracking monacle that would do the job of the touch pad, so there would be less "switching hands/fingers" delay, and you have a winner (when I have 30 enemies dropping on me at the same time, I want to be able to aim and run at the same time without deciding what hands and fingers to favor).
If Nintendo had any sense, they would market the DS as a PDA that has the additional bonus of playing high resolution 3D games, which, most PDA/Smart Phone manufacturers have yet to claim.
Yep, and who had a majority in congress? D'oh! Republicans!
Since the Kyoto accord was originally agreed to by a Democratic administration AND congress, it was one of the first things the neocons wanted to vote out.
Pity one cannot mod parent threads down as "stupid".
Maybe when Jeb has to invest in scuba gear, that would be a good time to finally believe in global warming?
Why oh WHY are records sealed regarding, in essense, a celebrity civilian who's been dead for almost 24 years now?
I mean I had my own conspiracy theory that it was due to the Reagan administration taking office, or a Manchurian Candidate situation, but hasn't the FBI figured out that hiding documents on cold cases long out of date only adds to the suspicion?
Some of them show what looks clearly like expansion fractures in the pack ice/snow surrounding the dome. The images (beware, they're 1MB and higher) are:
m ag es/MSH_aerial_crater_dome_9-29-04.jpg
m ag es/MSH_crater_dome_glacier_west_side_9-29-04.jpg
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/wr/wa/vancouver/MSH_I
and
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/wr/wa/vancouver/MSH_I
Looks like some definate expansion and shifting is going on.
I believe the landing gear is spring loaded, as opposed to hydraulics or gears.
Use batteries like this in pacemakers?
Not quite (it starred Mark McKinney and Chevy Chase, which may be why you thought it was from KITH):
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http://snltranscripts.jt.org/96/96mchopper4.pht
When is someone going to mass market EYEGLASS frames?
Hell, one could even make a thicker LCD display that could be ground down into a lens, hypothetically speaking.
Even though some geeks can tolerate most of the hassles of contacts or surgery, most still wear glasses.