That's it! I am so sick of these little minded twits. I want to start suing churches. Let us have some warning stickers on bibles that ram a little science down the preachers throat. Protest outside churches saying that God is not the only answer. Have cameras inside the holy conclave to see the arguments as the "Holy Spirit" moves the bishops to elect the next pope (after they murder the one they just elected). Science can stand to have a bright light shined upon it. Can religion?
Nice. A hacking company wants me to load a tiny 6 megabyte linux client into my secure network that then becomes a dumb node in my cluster, "without disturbing (or even touching) the contents of the local hard disk". A company that says they use the power to crack passwords.
Yeah, sign me up with the full knowledge of how many company network policies I would be violating, and the fact that I would not trust them as far as I could throw a datagram.
Hmmm, it quacks like a duck. I would swear they taught us this in both "Social Engineering" and Advertising. Give the "mark" a little benifit, and then take over his world.
Just last Saturday every paper in Boston was crowing about a new killer HIV strain. It was on the nightly news as well. Now, you are saying that they have been doing research into using HIV as a cancer killer. Where did I leave my plastic bags and duct tape. I need to seal my house right now.
You seem to be using "through space" as a non-relative term. If the sun is moving "through space" at 155 miles a second, how can earth be moving "through space" at only 18 miles a second. It that was the case we would be 16,000 miles farther from the sun since I started writing this email. 3 million miles more than when I woke up this morning and 180,795,888,000 miles since I was born.
Guys, I have seen the show. Believe me, I have paid.
Decontamination gel on more jubblies could make it up to me.
Rubbing some decontamination gel on my borg ass-imilation device would be just fine.
Ok, sorry. One of the two episodes I watched was the opener where the timid vulcan chick decontaminated her boobies. The other had to do with some Nazi crap with some aliens. I gave up quick.
To bad they ruled you could not do this because I just had 50,000 stickers printed up that said "Bullshit" that I was going to take to church on Sunday for bible class.
All I know is that any time someone tries to control robot behavior with 3 laws, something goes wrong. Maybe we should add a 4th law about not taking over the world or something.
So, what you are saying is that because you did half-assed fixes, you are expecting that the rest of us did the same? What you did was repeat history (dipshit).
Bit by Bit: Forget Cue Cards, Make a Teleprompter! Creative problem solving is a trait many creative professionals share, but perhaps no one possesses that skill more than Brian P. Lawler. See how he made a teleprompter with a laptop, Adobe InDesign, and some scrap wood. Ingenious.
(creativepro.com) By Brian P. Lawler, creativepro.com contributing editor Thursday, December 16, 2004
It was Thursday evening and I needed a teleprompter. I was making a video about panoramic photography, and for the scenes where I speak directly into the camera I looked like a cross-eyed newscaster. While trying to read cue cards on a stand in front of the camera, my eyes were cast downward, and that looked odd.
To overcome this problem, I decided to read from the screen of my PowerBook instead. I figured that I could put the PowerBook display closer to the lens, and thus not appear to be looking down when looking at the camera.
But even with the text on the PowerBook screen, I still looked slightly downward when I wanted to look directly into the lens of the camera. A teleprompter was the solution, but there are no teleprompters in our area, and renting one from Los Angeles or San Francisco - both hundreds of miles away - was impractical and beyond my budget. I decided to build one.
Discipline Makes Successful Video I am careful when making video productions to enforce a moviemaker's discipline upon myself and my hired crew and helpers. This is a skill learned from experience. When one is making a video, attention to detail, continuity, and story are critical. I find that I can't go back -- ever -- to shoot a fill-in scene; something will have changed, someone won't be available, the light will be different -- something will prevent success. Instead, I work to get it right the first time!
In the back of my sketchbook I keep a cardboard template with four windows cut to the proportion of a television screen. I use this to draw frames for my storyboards, and then I sketch ideas and stories into the frames. My sketchbook thus becomes the foundation of many of my projects. I had been working on the storyboard for this video for several months, and the story and scene ideas covered many pages of the book (see Figure 1).
From Sketchbook to Database After deciding to use a teleprompter, I wanted to convert the sketches in my book to visual elements of a script database. I scanned the pages of the sketchbook, and then cropped the individual frame drawings into small photos that I stored in a folder. I then built a FileMaker template, and imported all the images into that database. FileMaker is very accommodating in this respect -- it imported my entire folder of numbered images into the database automatically.
Once the sketches were imported, I added descriptions, scene and shot numbers (used to sort the story into chapters), and the narration text. This method allowed me to develop the text that I would read into the camera using the teleprompter. Using FileMaker's sorting functions, I then generated a story that was in logical order with a narration that flows smoothly and which I could read easily. After sorting the script, I exported the script records into text, and then placed the resulting file in Adobe InDesign for my teleprompter needs.
Construction of the teleprompter Having seen a number of commercial teleprompters over the years in television studios and at trade shows, I understood the concept. A teleprompter is a made of a sheet of glass suspended in front of the camera lens at a 45-degree angle. The glass reflects the image of a TV screen without affecting the light entering the lens. In the most sophisticated units, there is a controller -- and an operator -- to set the pace of the text scrolling on the screen. Mine is more primitive.
My prompter is nothing more than a sheet of window glass supported in a plywood frame in front of the camera at the correct angle (see Figure 3). I probably spent three hours cutting and building. Once
Dude, at minus 1, tape is only mentioned 43 times right now (oops, make that 44 with this minus 1 comment). So, now, I am the 44th. You have a LONG way to go before your comment is shown to be correct. I think the phone should just be wrapped in razor wire. You still get the upskirt crowd, but, they will only do it a few times. And, they can use the tape on the cuts (oh crap, 45).
This was a hanging breaking ball, right down the center of the plate. I could have knocked it out of the park. BSOD, tried it, ultimate, Media Edition, Green Screen, man, there were just so may easy +5 jokes. Alas, first post was not to be.
Was Bush the Giant Douche Bag, or the Turd Sandwich?
Go Cows!
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Good Job. You were able to reiterate almost every republican talking point, in order. That must be a difficult job sometimes. I am shocked they did not have you working the spin room after one of the debates.
Sorry, it was me who cut down on the sex searches and stuff. I'm getting older, and there are more things involved in life now. I know, it's an old excuse to cut down. Wife and kidz will do that to you someday as well. I had figured there was another young rebel behind me, so make sure Libby and Jenna would still get plenty of page hits in seach engines. I thought I passed the torch to some first class deviants. Instead, you search for Biz and TV and crap. You don't deserve the internet.
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That's it! I am so sick of these little minded twits. I want to start suing churches. Let us have some warning stickers on bibles that ram a little science down the preachers throat. Protest outside churches saying that God is not the only answer. Have cameras inside the holy conclave to see the arguments as the "Holy Spirit" moves the bishops to elect the next pope (after they murder the one they just elected). Science can stand to have a bright light shined upon it. Can religion?
Nice. A hacking company wants me to load a tiny 6 megabyte linux client into my secure network that then becomes a dumb node in my cluster, "without disturbing (or even touching) the contents of the local hard disk". A company that says they use the power to crack passwords.
Yeah, sign me up with the full knowledge of how many company network policies I would be violating, and the fact that I would not trust them as far as I could throw a datagram.
Hmmm, it quacks like a duck. I would swear they taught us this in both "Social Engineering" and Advertising. Give the "mark" a little benifit, and then take over his world.
May the slashdotting be with you.
KKKKAAAAAAAHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!
(fade to black)
If the day of the week has a Y in it, Microsoft had a security problem today.
I just saved the government (pinky to corner of mouth) 1 Billllion dollars!
Just last Saturday every paper in Boston was crowing about a new killer HIV strain. It was on the nightly news as well. Now, you are saying that they have been doing research into using HIV as a cancer killer. Where did I leave my plastic bags and duct tape. I need to seal my house right now.
You seem to be using "through space" as a non-relative term. If the sun is moving "through space" at 155 miles a second, how can earth be moving "through space" at only 18 miles a second. It that was the case we would be 16,000 miles farther from the sun since I started writing this email. 3 million miles more than when I woke up this morning and 180,795,888,000 miles since I was born.
Guys, I have seen the show.
Believe me, I have paid.
Decontamination gel on more jubblies could make it up to me.
Rubbing some decontamination gel on my borg ass-imilation device would be just fine.
Ok, sorry. One of the two episodes I watched was the opener where the timid vulcan chick decontaminated her boobies. The other had to do with some Nazi crap with some aliens. I gave up quick.
If I ever become rich and famous, I am going to leave doodles of boobies all over the place. They will think I am a sex obsessed pig.... Oh.
To bad they ruled you could not do this because I just had 50,000 stickers printed up that said "Bullshit" that I was going to take to church on Sunday for bible class.
All I know is that any time someone tries to control robot behavior with 3 laws, something goes wrong. Maybe we should add a 4th law about not taking over the world or something.
The machine was still running Windows when it completed.
Dudes, they made the problem, they left in the weak code, and now they are saying they can fix it best???
For some reason, I don't think I'll be trusting them to much.
So, what you are saying is that because you did half-assed fixes, you are expecting that the rest of us did the same? What you did was repeat history (dipshit).
Ok, I did RTFA (for once).
Quote1: nearly $1 trillion was wagered on underperforming projects
Quote2: A large number of underperforming projects ultimately fail
Quote3: costing U.S. companies more than $75 billion each year
How does 7% failure become a "large number" of projects failing?
I would expect 7% to fail just from bad ideas alone.
A little gloom and doom?
Just plug an unpatched XP box into the internet. It will be part of the worlds largest grid computer in less than 2 minutes.
It will also hum the tune Zombie Rock!
I really seem to have a thing against having linux on a machine, but then I need to go download each part that should be on the distribution CDs.
Sorry Linspire, but I am UNinspired by your install model.
Bit by Bit: Forget Cue Cards, Make a Teleprompter!
Creative problem solving is a trait many creative professionals share, but perhaps no one possesses that skill more than Brian P. Lawler. See how he made a teleprompter with a laptop, Adobe InDesign, and some scrap wood. Ingenious.
(creativepro.com)
By Brian P. Lawler, creativepro.com contributing editor
Thursday, December 16, 2004
It was Thursday evening and I needed a teleprompter.
I was making a video about panoramic photography, and for the scenes where I speak directly into the camera I looked like a cross-eyed newscaster. While trying to read cue cards on a stand in front of the camera, my eyes were cast downward, and that looked odd.
To overcome this problem, I decided to read from the screen of my PowerBook instead. I figured that I could put the PowerBook display closer to the lens, and thus not appear to be looking down when looking at the camera.
But even with the text on the PowerBook screen, I still looked slightly downward when I wanted to look directly into the lens of the camera. A teleprompter was the solution, but there are no teleprompters in our area, and renting one from Los Angeles or San Francisco - both hundreds of miles away - was impractical and beyond my budget. I decided to build one.
Discipline Makes Successful Video
I am careful when making video productions to enforce a moviemaker's discipline upon myself and my hired crew and helpers. This is a skill learned from experience. When one is making a video, attention to detail, continuity, and story are critical. I find that I can't go back -- ever -- to shoot a fill-in scene; something will have changed, someone won't be available, the light will be different -- something will prevent success. Instead, I work to get it right the first time!
In the back of my sketchbook I keep a cardboard template with four windows cut to the proportion of a television screen. I use this to draw frames for my storyboards, and then I sketch ideas and stories into the frames. My sketchbook thus becomes the foundation of many of my projects. I had been working on the storyboard for this video for several months, and the story and scene ideas covered many pages of the book (see Figure 1).
From Sketchbook to Database
After deciding to use a teleprompter, I wanted to convert the sketches in my book to visual elements of a script database. I scanned the pages of the sketchbook, and then cropped the individual frame drawings into small photos that I stored in a folder. I then built a FileMaker template, and imported all the images into that database. FileMaker is very accommodating in this respect -- it imported my entire folder of numbered images into the database automatically.
Once the sketches were imported, I added descriptions, scene and shot numbers (used to sort the story into chapters), and the narration text. This method allowed me to develop the text that I would read into the camera using the teleprompter. Using FileMaker's sorting functions, I then generated a story that was in logical order with a narration that flows smoothly and which I could read easily. After sorting the script, I exported the script records into text, and then placed the resulting file in Adobe InDesign for my teleprompter needs.
Construction of the teleprompter
Having seen a number of commercial teleprompters over the years in television studios and at trade shows, I understood the concept. A teleprompter is a made of a sheet of glass suspended in front of the camera lens at a 45-degree angle. The glass reflects the image of a TV screen without affecting the light entering the lens. In the most sophisticated units, there is a controller -- and an operator -- to set the pace of the text scrolling on the screen. Mine is more primitive.
My prompter is nothing more than a sheet of window glass supported in a plywood frame in front of the camera at the correct angle (see Figure 3). I probably spent three hours cutting and building. Once
This thing is to the ears, what goatse is to the bottom.
Story? What is this "Story" you speak of? Read the blurb, form kneejerk reaction, post. Life is too short for facts.
Dude, at minus 1, tape is only mentioned 43 times right now (oops, make that 44 with this minus 1 comment). So, now, I am the 44th. You have a LONG way to go before your comment is shown to be correct. I think the phone should just be wrapped in razor wire. You still get the upskirt crowd, but, they will only do it a few times. And, they can use the tape on the cuts (oh crap, 45).
This was a hanging breaking ball, right down the center of the plate. I could have knocked it out of the park. BSOD, tried it, ultimate, Media Edition, Green Screen, man, there were just so may easy +5 jokes. Alas, first post was not to be.
Was Bush the Giant Douche Bag, or the Turd Sandwich?
Go Cows!
Good Job. You were able to reiterate almost every republican talking point, in order. That must be a difficult job sometimes. I am shocked they did not have you working the spin room after one of the debates.
Kerry, because Bush sucks more than Monica did.
Doods,
Sorry, it was me who cut down on the sex searches and stuff. I'm getting older, and there are more things involved in life now. I know, it's an old excuse to cut down. Wife and kidz will do that to you someday as well. I had figured there was another young rebel behind me, so make sure Libby and Jenna would still get plenty of page hits in seach engines. I thought I passed the torch to some first class deviants. Instead, you search for Biz and TV and crap. You don't deserve the internet.
Spack
P = NP
Now, if I could just prove it!