You try licking 30,000 stamps. 3 calories apiece, that'll keep you up all night and you're gonna have to be quite an exercise bug to get that weight off.
And with those impressive tongue muscles, you might as well stay morally straight because the women are gonna LOVE you....
Then again, maybe stamp collecting should be a girl scout badge...
.... it wasn't a warning of impending doom or death, it was more of a "don't go there". He talks about it as a voice that says you need to move on or whatnot, and if he doesn't listen to it things start to go wrong in his life.
OK, that doesn't sound quite write- take out the psyche problems that implies (as my fiancee is a psychologist and she said he sounds normal so I'm not describing him very well)
It was just a 'move on' push that kept him from working there. And the next year he went back to working on radio towers as it was OK this time.
Of course, if you take his view on things everything is pre-determined... which means free will is an illusion.
I agree. We should have a whole chapter dedicated to each of the gods of creation- how Zeus came about, whom birthed whom, etc. Better still, limit it to a single chapter that encompases every single creation myth by every religion- then cut it down to 35 pages that a normal chapter is. Maybe even less with graphics.
I for one would appreciate learning about our Native American's thoughts on creation. I wish I had learned; I probably would have prefered them to learning about how the fault of all man kind's problems can be laid down at the foot of a seductive woman.
But then one day I woke up and said "Huh, this doesn't make sense anymore" and haven't looked back.
I have a coworker, a man I deeply respect, who has told me he has lived his life by listening to an inner voice that guides him.
That, in itself isn't bothering. He's a story about how he was living semi-nomadic, moving from job to job, and when it came time to move south he went to take a position doing radio towers (he'd done it every year). This year, however, his 'voice' told him to skip it.
The crew that ran the towers was killed when a freak gust of wind knocked them off. The owners brother, who was filling in because they were short handed, was killed as well.
Which makes you not wonder why a repeated event like that would lead someone to believe there is a higher power granting directions to you.
He also went on to tell me he believed in the great flood and that the bible talks about life on other planets, and how those aliens came to earth and impregnated our women to form the scourage that was wiped clean with said flood.... but like I said, I respect the man deeply.
Pity there wasn't a black box installed in the vehicle that could tell 1) Speed 2) Pedal position 3) Brake position 4) Parking break 5) Steering wheel manuvers for 5 seconds.
They counted 11 entry holes into the vehicle, 5 of which hit the engine compartment. The rate of fire for the MS40B 200 rounds minute... or 650/950 rounds/minute cyclic.... which means a 1.2 second burst while trying to hit a moving target at a distance of 120 feet.
Frankly, I knew there was a good reason NYS said not to talk on the cell phone while driving.
28 pages of text and analysis doesn't sound like a coverup.
And if the goverment had really 'had it in for her' and tried to intentionally kill her, don't you think they would have done a better job than to let her 'accidently' run into a roadblock?
And I bet JFK was bumped out by a russian hit squad, too?
Kings Quest Fun plot, lots of actions, and the graphics sucked. But that didn't stop it from being a blast to play (remember if you didn't have the sugar cube to get thru the poison brambles...)
Anyways, theres always decent story lines, multiple realms, etc. Thats why I always enjoyed Muds (MortalRealms) because of the varied areas and the fact that new ones were always being brought online. I realize that most games can not afford to be updated to this extent (text vs complex 3d models) but still... if I wanted a photo realistic game with pain feed-back, I'd join paintball.
The problem with the current quantum computer research is there are always butterflies in China flapping their wings... interfering with the research done in the US.
A friend of mine is a staunch republican. His wife is a democrat.
He was yelling at me for supporting a party that couldn't get its act together enough to elect enough senators to block some of shrubs more stupid antics.
... some companies started dyeing their film bases orange to match Kodaks.
They didn't understand why the leader in Film Technology at the time was making their film bases orange but there had to be a good reason.
In short, there was, but I don't believe it was patented at the time. Had it been Kodak would have had to disclose the reasons behind the logic... and instead it bought then another 9 years of non-competition as everyone tried to understand what was happening.
AgX film vs Digital: The stakes are the same, just it's a bit on the fast side.
WIth a passion that can only be described as 'migrane'.
I've had a number of those LED Tailight vehicles drive past me and been nearly wrecked because I can't keep my eyes off them. The flicker at such an obnoxious rate that, even while staring forward, my vision is destroyed as the car passes me.
If it passes on the right I'm left with 12 to 14 after images of that damn tailight streaking thru my vision.
Very very very annoying. At least flash them at 120hz.
Most of my bills have had starch messages written on them. Heh heh heh heh.
"IF YOU CAN READ THIS THIS IS NOT A COUNTERFIT"
"WWW.WHERESGEORGE.COM"
Yeah they'd have to rub the whole bill, but still...
(To your other point, yes, the cashier demonstrated total ignorance to what the pen was supposed to be used for- which is why I find it even funnier...)
Which goes to show the cashier is a moron. A 'citizens arrest' was instigated by a false statement which led to incarceration.
I'd say a lawsuit is warranted against BB and the cashier. The officer failed to do a sensible thing (such as laugh his head off) and help the guy carry his receipt out.
We calibrate monitors at work that are designed to precisely match the human visual system- 4 cycles per degree and luminance matched to boot.
Greyscale monitors should have a dynamic range of.20 to 70 fL. Color can't do that at all, so a more typical range is.15 to 35 fL.... and even MOST color monitors can't do that... which means they get down-graded to about 30 fL if they're capable.
I'll let you figure out the contrast ratios for that;)
However the curves are nearly as important. Most of the newer LCDs are coming out with programmable gain control within the monitor: This means that you can upload a corrected 'viewing' lut to the LCD and still get a little software lut in the video card. These are few and far between (Eizo panel, IBM's high end 10K$ one, and a few others come to mind) but they may suffer from 'gain' errors, where non-linear curve shaping occurrs due to where the designers put the amplifier breaks.
LCDs have one of the wierdest spot function because the pixels are square. They don't match the human visual system since there is no 'decay' to the image- your eye continually integrates the same patch over time (as opposed to CRT that immediately dies off in brightness). Some manufactures are using temporal dithering to compensate (3 pixels 'blur' over time to give you the appropriate value) or some form of backlight flickering.... which make these all a bitch to calibrate (please note this is one of my current assignments...)
Lastly, backwash of light on the walls should be consistend and dim. I think it's recommended from 2 to 4 fL of light reflecting off of a neutral grey surface. My room at home that I work on photographs with is 'silver screen' grey, has tungsten bulbs in blue sconces that works out to be about 6000K.... close, and close enough for my work to match prints in.
LCDs are wonderfull small, bright, and very sharp, but simply do not yet offer the potential for high end critical work. I would gladly put an LCD next to my CRT anyday... and keep ti for all of my text documents, coding, whatnot. For photos, I'll take my lambertian CRT (since LCDs don't yet ship with a head brace to lock down the view angle).
Toner cartridges carry a distribution of particle sizes that are considered 'safe' for you to inhale because they can't stick in your lungs.
You can also make toner with such a small particle size distribution it is actually taken into the blood stream and excreted, well, normally.
You get into trouble, however, when you get into particle sizes between the two of those ranges (Which escape me ATM).
That sized dust goes into the lung and stays there- too large to get absorbed, too small to get exhaled out.
It will also exhibit most of the properties of statically charged nano-particulates: It gets everywhere, fast.
There may be a 'clean room' to disengage the suits, but no matter how you adjust for the problem (save going underwater in an ultrasonic scrubber) that dust will move with you.
Maybe installation of those 'ion-breeze' units from SharperImage will fix it....;P
1 meter per pixel is about the resolution you need in order to navigate a map. You can recognize houses (15 to 20 pixels) on a screen easily. Unfortunately if they give you, say, 4 meters per pixel, then a jpg block is 32meters x 32meters. If the compression is set too high (and it usually is) you'll get rid of most of the DCT terms that give you the actual detail.
Worse of all, you may get 'fake' data from the compression process.
Thus, 1 meter per pixel JPGd is what you need to see quiet well. Can you see a person? Probably not- you might see a fuzzy single pixel that represents his bald head reflecting daylight, but thats about it.
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You try licking 30,000 stamps. 3 calories apiece, that'll keep you up all night and you're gonna have to be quite an exercise bug to get that weight off.
And with those impressive tongue muscles, you might as well stay morally straight because the women are gonna LOVE you....
Then again, maybe stamp collecting should be a girl scout badge...
The story he told me was the cables snapped on the tower and the tower came down...
OK, that doesn't sound quite write- take out the psyche problems that implies (as my fiancee is a psychologist and she said he sounds normal so I'm not describing him very well)
It was just a 'move on' push that kept him from working there. And the next year he went back to working on radio towers as it was OK this time.
Of course, if you take his view on things everything is pre-determined... which means free will is an illusion.
Well, maybe not Myths...
I agree. We should have a whole chapter dedicated to each of the gods of creation- how Zeus came about, whom birthed whom, etc. Better still, limit it to a single chapter that encompases every single creation myth by every religion- then cut it down to 35 pages that a normal chapter is. Maybe even less with graphics.
I for one would appreciate learning about our Native American's thoughts on creation. I wish I had learned; I probably would have prefered them to learning about how the fault of all man kind's problems can be laid down at the foot of a seductive woman.
But then one day I woke up and said "Huh, this doesn't make sense anymore" and haven't looked back.
I have a coworker, a man I deeply respect, who has told me he has lived his life by listening to an inner voice that guides him.
That, in itself isn't bothering. He's a story about how he was living semi-nomadic, moving from job to job, and when it came time to move south he went to take a position doing radio towers (he'd done it every year). This year, however, his 'voice' told him to skip it.
The crew that ran the towers was killed when a freak gust of wind knocked them off. The owners brother, who was filling in because they were short handed, was killed as well.
Which makes you not wonder why a repeated event like that would lead someone to believe there is a higher power granting directions to you.
He also went on to tell me he believed in the great flood and that the bible talks about life on other planets, and how those aliens came to earth and impregnated our women to form the scourage that was wiped clean with said flood.... but like I said, I respect the man deeply.
I just don't agree with him.
Pity there wasn't a black box installed in the vehicle that could tell
1) Speed
2) Pedal position
3) Brake position
4) Parking break
5) Steering wheel manuvers for 5 seconds.
Think how much easier this would be.
Or was that a sheep brain in a monkey body? I can't ever remember at times....
They counted 11 entry holes into the vehicle, 5 of which hit the engine compartment. The rate of fire for the MS40B 200 rounds minute... or 650/950 rounds/minute cyclic. ... which means a 1.2 second burst while trying to hit a moving target at a distance of 120 feet.
Frankly, I knew there was a good reason NYS said not to talk on the cell phone while driving.
28 pages of text and analysis doesn't sound like a coverup.
And if the goverment had really 'had it in for her' and tried to intentionally kill her, don't you think they would have done a better job than to let her 'accidently' run into a roadblock?
And I bet JFK was bumped out by a russian hit squad, too?
My website says it all.
GotSheep?
(The NYS DMV cancelled my plates on my car- GOTSH33P - and the reason given was "They are illegal, immoral, and sexually perverse".
Kings Quest Fun plot, lots of actions, and the graphics sucked. But that didn't stop it from being a blast to play (remember if you didn't have the sugar cube to get thru the poison brambles...)
Anyways, theres always decent story lines, multiple realms, etc. Thats why I always enjoyed Muds (MortalRealms) because of the varied areas and the fact that new ones were always being brought online. I realize that most games can not afford to be updated to this extent (text vs complex 3d models) but still... if I wanted a photo realistic game with pain feed-back, I'd join paintball.
The problem with the current quantum computer research is there are always butterflies in China flapping their wings ... interfering with the research done in the US.
A friend of mine is a staunch republican. His wife is a democrat.
He was yelling at me for supporting a party that couldn't get its act together enough to elect enough senators to block some of shrubs more stupid antics.
Rubber stamp, indeed.
Not really. The companies would have had a leap on all the research and understanding it would bring.
... some companies started dyeing their film bases orange to match Kodaks.
They didn't understand why the leader in Film Technology at the time was making their film bases orange but there had to be a good reason.
In short, there was, but I don't believe it was patented at the time. Had it been Kodak would have had to disclose the reasons behind the logic... and instead it bought then another 9 years of non-competition as everyone tried to understand what was happening.
AgX film vs Digital: The stakes are the same, just it's a bit on the fast side.
Quoth the current administration: Outsourcing = good!
After all, those that have money don't need to earn more... and if you can pay someone else less to do the same job thats more profit for you.
Eventually there will be a '1 billion employed' by McDonalds.
WIth a passion that can only be described as 'migrane'.
I've had a number of those LED Tailight vehicles drive past me and been nearly wrecked because I can't keep my eyes off them. The flicker at such an obnoxious rate that, even while staring forward, my vision is destroyed as the car passes me.
If it passes on the right I'm left with 12 to 14 after images of that damn tailight streaking thru my vision.
Very very very annoying. At least flash them at 120hz.
Because Sex is a viral reporduction.
Viruses are illegal.
There Sex is Illegal.
uality is just a bunch of letters tacked onto Sex, and Now that SEX is illegal... so is sexuality.
QED.
Most of my bills have had starch messages written on them. Heh heh heh heh.
"IF YOU CAN READ THIS THIS IS NOT A COUNTERFIT"
"WWW.WHERESGEORGE.COM"
Yeah they'd have to rub the whole bill, but still...
(To your other point, yes, the cashier demonstrated total ignorance to what the pen was supposed to be used for- which is why I find it even funnier...)
... and that turns the line black.
Which goes to show the cashier is a moron. A 'citizens arrest' was instigated by a false statement which led to incarceration.
I'd say a lawsuit is warranted against BB and the cashier. The officer failed to do a sensible thing (such as laugh his head off) and help the guy carry his receipt out.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A= details&Q=&is=REG&O=productlist&sku=266546
Now this is a monitor that rocks. We use'm all the time... excelent configuration, great luminance, and perfect spot size.
Oh yeah, and it kicks the ass out of the 4Kx3K IBM flat panel that we paid 10K$ for.
We calibrate monitors at work that are designed to precisely match the human visual system- 4 cycles per degree and luminance matched to boot.
.20 to 70 fL. Color can't do that at all, so a more typical range is .15 to 35 fL.... and even MOST color monitors can't do that... which means they get down-graded to about 30 fL if they're capable.
;)
Greyscale monitors should have a dynamic range of
I'll let you figure out the contrast ratios for that
However the curves are nearly as important. Most of the newer LCDs are coming out with programmable gain control within the monitor: This means that you can upload a corrected 'viewing' lut to the LCD and still get a little software lut in the video card. These are few and far between (Eizo panel, IBM's high end 10K$ one, and a few others come to mind) but they may suffer from 'gain' errors, where non-linear curve shaping occurrs due to where the designers put the amplifier breaks.
LCDs have one of the wierdest spot function because the pixels are square. They don't match the human visual system since there is no 'decay' to the image- your eye continually integrates the same patch over time (as opposed to CRT that immediately dies off in brightness). Some manufactures are using temporal dithering to compensate (3 pixels 'blur' over time to give you the appropriate value) or some form of backlight flickering.... which make these all a bitch to calibrate (please note this is one of my current assignments...)
Lastly, backwash of light on the walls should be consistend and dim. I think it's recommended from 2 to 4 fL of light reflecting off of a neutral grey surface. My room at home that I work on photographs with is 'silver screen' grey, has tungsten bulbs in blue sconces that works out to be about 6000K.... close, and close enough for my work to match prints in.
LCDs are wonderfull small, bright, and very sharp, but simply do not yet offer the potential for high end critical work. I would gladly put an LCD next to my CRT anyday... and keep ti for all of my text documents, coding, whatnot. For photos, I'll take my lambertian CRT (since LCDs don't yet ship with a head brace to lock down the view angle).
I like that idea- solves alot of issues, and with some refinement it might be able to address issues of seal penetration on that seam.
You've touched the cornerstone tho- every single seal will eventually become contaminated with time...
Maybe fluid seals are the way to go.
Toner cartridges carry a distribution of particle sizes that are considered 'safe' for you to inhale because they can't stick in your lungs.
;P
You can also make toner with such a small particle size distribution it is actually taken into the blood stream and excreted, well, normally.
You get into trouble, however, when you get into particle sizes between the two of those ranges (Which escape me ATM).
That sized dust goes into the lung and stays there- too large to get absorbed, too small to get exhaled out.
It will also exhibit most of the properties of statically charged nano-particulates: It gets everywhere, fast.
There may be a 'clean room' to disengage the suits, but no matter how you adjust for the problem (save going underwater in an ultrasonic scrubber) that dust will move with you.
Maybe installation of those 'ion-breeze' units from SharperImage will fix it....
1 meter per pixel is about the resolution you need in order to navigate a map. You can recognize houses (15 to 20 pixels) on a screen easily. Unfortunately if they give you, say, 4 meters per pixel, then a jpg block is 32meters x 32meters. If the compression is set too high (and it usually is) you'll get rid of most of the DCT terms that give you the actual detail.
Worse of all, you may get 'fake' data from the compression process.
Thus, 1 meter per pixel JPGd is what you need to see quiet well. Can you see a person? Probably not- you might see a fuzzy single pixel that represents his bald head reflecting daylight, but thats about it.