I took a one week long Photoshop class a few summers ago, the instructor worked as a mask painter on a little film made in New Zealand called Lord of the Rings.
As he explained it, There are three levels of detail for props and masks. The most detailed are Heroic (regardless of good guys or bad guys), obviously they take the most amount of time to do. The next two levels (whose names I don't recall) have less detail as they will never be seen in closeup.
I've had five operations on my right thumb. I call console games "thumb twitchers" and for the most part, I cannot play them. First, I'm left handed due to the operations. Second, my thumb does not have a full range of motion and can't handle the repetetive motions of most games.
I've found I can play Everquest on Xbox(?), that's about it. I loved the Godzilla game, especially in co-op mode, but that was a bit too much.
If your head were pressed against the end of the barrel (obviously not sealing it), would the air compression kill you before the howitzer shell tore your head off?
Behold, the power of caffeine and bbq chips! Better than drugs sometimes.
They'll bypass forgery altogether. In Arizona, a previous head of Dept of Motor Vehicles hired his son to work there. The son was later arrested for providing fake IDs to his cronies to let them drink in bars.
So why go to the trouble of spending lots of money making forgeries when you can compromise someone working for DMV to produce real ID cards?
One very nasty thing about airbags: if they deploy, particularly if you have side curtain bags, kiss the car goodbye. It doesn't matter too much how badly damaged the car is, the cost of replacing the airbags will total it.
Interesting that you should put it this way. My girlfriend is an astronomer (PhD astronomy/astrophysics) and she got into it as it was a science that did not involve death or killing things in order to study them.
I don't know what I was thinking, I guess for some reason I thought it was a free magazine. Perhaps it was a free magazine at one point and I was remembering that. Anyway, a day or two later when I realized what I had done, I went back to the same store and explained to the clerk what I had done and paid for it. We both laughed, I think he thought it was funny that I actually returned and paid. No harm, no foul.
I've heard the same thing happen with City of Heroes. They state explicitly that if the "scratch lottery cover" is in any way compromised over the secret key that you're screwed.
The thing that ticks me off is having to pay (monthly fee * 1.5 to 3) to buy the game up front. They should give you either the game for free or a discounted monthly fee for six months so that you recover the cost of the game.
Fortunately for me, Best Buy was running Deluxe DVD Collector's Edition Supper Spiff City of Heroes for $30, the day after I bought it Fry's put it on sale for $20, Best Buy gave me a rebate so I'm happy.
They'll tear down the older, smaller ones to build newer, spiffier ones. It's already been done at Kitt Peak and at various university locations. And an astronomy complex in Australia was destroyed by wild fires a few years back, so that one is available.
Good point, but that would assume sufficiently accurate surveilance and aiming. It's easier to hit the elephant's body at great range with iron sights than to put one in its brain.
These platforms will be made with a very tough Kevlar-like fabric, it won't be easily punctured, it's possible it would take something in excess of a.50 cal armor-piercing to pierce it. It will also be divided into lots of distinct buoyancy compartments so that if one is ruptured you won't lose a lot of lift. The walls between the compartments might be made of even stronger material to prevent over-penetration. And guaranteed the cells will have self-sealing aspects to handle small punctures.
Standard operating procedure would be that they would be deployed so that they overlap their coverage, probably 30-50% coverage, so if one does have to be pulled offline for major service, all you would have to do is reposition its neighbors and you have no holes in coverage. All on-board systems would probably be triple or quad redundant, so pulling one offline in the first place would be pretty rare.
If I were designing it, I would push for sensors to be in parachute pods with radio beacons so that if the air ship does suffer a catastrophic failure and is going to crash, ground control could hit the eject button and possibly recover a good amount of the sensors. And if you can't eject them, put in thermite charges to destroy the classified stuff.
I think the best way to take out something like this would be a flechette incendiary missile that would functionally MIRV when in final attack to try and rupture as many buoyancy cells simultaneously. The forthcoming F/A-22 Raptor has a claimed ceiling of 50,000 feet, the B-52 47,000 feet, so shooting these things down would be a major challenge.
their not providing benefits and helping their workers get on state/county benefits. The income taxes they are paying don't offset the increase in tax load on the tax base of the area.
I used to work for the State of Arizona, and I thought it was a travesty that there were literally scores of State employees who qualified for food stamps and welfare. This is people who are working full-time. (As it turns out, Arizona is one of the worst-paying state governments in the country, but that's another issue.)
So WalMart comes in, gets tax concessions because they'll be bringing in jobs, then doesn't provide health care and helps their employees get onto the state healthcare systems. Not good. And pretty thoroughly documented.
I have problems believing that this is what Sam Walton wanted, buying tons of merchandise from China and destroying small businesses and downtowns, but maybe he lost it when John-Boy went off to become a writer.
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Case in point: Alamogordo, NM. It had an Albertson's that was closed. It has a Walgreen's, a KMart that sells some groceries, and one grocery store of a chain that I don't recall right now. So if you live in Cloudcroft, NM, you have a small gas station mini-mart and a mercantile (think of it as a small general store with very limited selection). 20 miles down to WalMart, over 90 minutes to Las Cruces (2 WalMarts, KMart, 1 Albertson's, and a misc grocery store or two) or 2 hours to El Paso. And no Trader Joe's unless you drive up to Santa Fe.
I heard that the Albertson's left because it didn't generate enough profit. Not that it was losing money, but it wasn't making enough buckets of money to satisfy the board/stockholders.
Albertsons should have moderated the corporate expectations of the Alamogordo store to be more in line with the Alamogordo area economy.
Needless to say people do a lot of mail-order in that area, but that doesn't help you get groceries.
Given the choice, no, I would not shop at WalMart. But given the reality of wanting to marry my girlfriend and move to Cloudcroft, I have no choice.
To get my current job, I had to sign a loyalty oath. One part of it was that I could not be a member of the Communist Party. I couldn't be a subversive or revolutionary.
The job? 19 hours a week walking through the computer lab at a local community college helping people with Word, Excel, burning CDs on the Mac, etc. for minimum wage.
Yes, I am one of the 400,000+ who's been out of work for 3.5 years.
Check out your local SciFi fan community, chances are that one or more fans have a copy on DVD. Myself, I have two copies of the LD trilogy, a friend of mine came over with his own copy and we were going to record it onto digital VHS using the s-video connector on my player. New Hope went fine, but Empire & Jedi are both in the 130-140 minute range and too long for the Apple software he's using.
Then conveniently I mentioned it to a friend and *poof* he already has such a set. I'll get two copies and give one to the first friend, as long as we own the LD trilogies all we've done is convert media for backup purposes, no copy protection was circumvented.:-)
I can't entirely agree with you there. Yes, the resolution is impressive, but looking top-down is just not the same as doing a panorama from the same spot on the ground.
Myself, if I do any of these, I'm planning on doing a complete panoramic series and photo-stitching them together.
Reminds me of some of the amateur radio awards: Worked All States, Worked All Counties, etc. There are people who drive out to activate obscure or remote/unpopulated grids and announce it in advance just so that people can try and add that to their QSL collection.
Enable MAC filtering, it should be accessible through the web interface. Make sure you're using 128 bit keys. And change your SSID away from the factory default.
Yes, you can break WEP, but it isn't like throwing a baseball through a window. You have to capture a lot of packets (as in thousands, if not a million) and then subject them to analysis to get the initialization vector as the IV is the weakness in WEP.
Check out netstumbler.org and read up on how to war drive and break WEP. I'm suggesting it from purely an academic standpoint, it's interesting stuff and valuable information.
I think it's a little simpler than that. CD-R & -RW have their place: big file transfers, making music/MP3 CDs when you don't have an MP3 jukebox, inexpensive media, etc. But hard drive capacity has grown to such a point that they are no longer viable for system backups. Even my frickin' laptop, 4 1/2 years old as it is, has a 30 gig HD that you just can't back up on CD, it requires a DVD. I can back up critical data, but I can't do a full system backup with just 650-700 meg a disc.
Writable CD has been so eclipsed by growth in HD capacity that it just isn't funny. DVD can do a fair job of backing up systems if properly managed, but it's going to be the Blu-Ray and multi-layer or a heretofor unknown technology that's going to make a diff for backup purposes.
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See the article here. Called "2001: A Space Laptop", they discuss what's involved in using computers in space. It's a little dated, and we can hope they're using better computers as the spec at that time (2000) was a IBM 166MHz Pentium MMX Thinkpad.
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I took a one week long Photoshop class a few summers ago, the instructor worked as a mask painter on a little film made in New Zealand called Lord of the Rings.
As he explained it, There are three levels of detail for props and masks. The most detailed are Heroic (regardless of good guys or bad guys), obviously they take the most amount of time to do. The next two levels (whose names I don't recall) have less detail as they will never be seen in closeup.
FWIW.
I've had five operations on my right thumb. I call console games "thumb twitchers" and for the most part, I cannot play them. First, I'm left handed due to the operations. Second, my thumb does not have a full range of motion and can't handle the repetetive motions of most games.
I've found I can play Everquest on Xbox(?), that's about it. I loved the Godzilla game, especially in co-op mode, but that was a bit too much.
If your head were pressed against the end of the barrel (obviously not sealing it), would the air compression kill you before the howitzer shell tore your head off?
Behold, the power of caffeine and bbq chips! Better than drugs sometimes.
we should outsource all production and programming for this project to India.
"Yes, this is Launch Control. Apu speaking, what product are you trying to launch?"
They'll bypass forgery altogether. In Arizona, a previous head of Dept of Motor Vehicles hired his son to work there. The son was later arrested for providing fake IDs to his cronies to let them drink in bars.
So why go to the trouble of spending lots of money making forgeries when you can compromise someone working for DMV to produce real ID cards?
One very nasty thing about airbags: if they deploy, particularly if you have side curtain bags, kiss the car goodbye. It doesn't matter too much how badly damaged the car is, the cost of replacing the airbags will total it.
Interesting that you should put it this way. My girlfriend is an astronomer (PhD astronomy/astrophysics) and she got into it as it was a science that did not involve death or killing things in order to study them.
I don't know what I was thinking, I guess for some reason I thought it was a free magazine. Perhaps it was a free magazine at one point and I was remembering that. Anyway, a day or two later when I realized what I had done, I went back to the same store and explained to the clerk what I had done and paid for it. We both laughed, I think he thought it was funny that I actually returned and paid. No harm, no foul.
I've heard the same thing happen with City of Heroes. They state explicitly that if the "scratch lottery cover" is in any way compromised over the secret key that you're screwed.
The thing that ticks me off is having to pay (monthly fee * 1.5 to 3) to buy the game up front. They should give you either the game for free or a discounted monthly fee for six months so that you recover the cost of the game.
Fortunately for me, Best Buy was running Deluxe DVD Collector's Edition Supper Spiff City of Heroes for $30, the day after I bought it Fry's put it on sale for $20, Best Buy gave me a rebate so I'm happy.
They'll tear down the older, smaller ones to build newer, spiffier ones. It's already been done at Kitt Peak and at various university locations. And an astronomy complex in Australia was destroyed by wild fires a few years back, so that one is available.
IANAA, but my girlfriend is.
Good point, but that would assume sufficiently accurate surveilance and aiming. It's easier to hit the elephant's body at great range with iron sights than to put one in its brain.
You're never going to get near Ground Control, it will be very well protected on a military base.
These platforms will be made with a very tough Kevlar-like fabric, it won't be easily punctured, it's possible it would take something in excess of a .50 cal armor-piercing to pierce it. It will also be divided into lots of distinct buoyancy compartments so that if one is ruptured you won't lose a lot of lift. The walls between the compartments might be made of even stronger material to prevent over-penetration. And guaranteed the cells will have self-sealing aspects to handle small punctures.
Standard operating procedure would be that they would be deployed so that they overlap their coverage, probably 30-50% coverage, so if one does have to be pulled offline for major service, all you would have to do is reposition its neighbors and you have no holes in coverage. All on-board systems would probably be triple or quad redundant, so pulling one offline in the first place would be pretty rare.
If I were designing it, I would push for sensors to be in parachute pods with radio beacons so that if the air ship does suffer a catastrophic failure and is going to crash, ground control could hit the eject button and possibly recover a good amount of the sensors. And if you can't eject them, put in thermite charges to destroy the classified stuff.
I think the best way to take out something like this would be a flechette incendiary missile that would functionally MIRV when in final attack to try and rupture as many buoyancy cells simultaneously. The forthcoming F/A-22 Raptor has a claimed ceiling of 50,000 feet, the B-52 47,000 feet, so shooting these things down would be a major challenge.
their not providing benefits and helping their workers get on state/county benefits. The income taxes they are paying don't offset the increase in tax load on the tax base of the area.
I used to work for the State of Arizona, and I thought it was a travesty that there were literally scores of State employees who qualified for food stamps and welfare. This is people who are working full-time. (As it turns out, Arizona is one of the worst-paying state governments in the country, but that's another issue.)
So WalMart comes in, gets tax concessions because they'll be bringing in jobs, then doesn't provide health care and helps their employees get onto the state healthcare systems. Not good. And pretty thoroughly documented.
I have problems believing that this is what Sam Walton wanted, buying tons of merchandise from China and destroying small businesses and downtowns, but maybe he lost it when John-Boy went off to become a writer.
Case in point: Alamogordo, NM. It had an Albertson's that was closed. It has a Walgreen's, a KMart that sells some groceries, and one grocery store of a chain that I don't recall right now. So if you live in Cloudcroft, NM, you have a small gas station mini-mart and a mercantile (think of it as a small general store with very limited selection). 20 miles down to WalMart, over 90 minutes to Las Cruces (2 WalMarts, KMart, 1 Albertson's, and a misc grocery store or two) or 2 hours to El Paso. And no Trader Joe's unless you drive up to Santa Fe.
I heard that the Albertson's left because it didn't generate enough profit. Not that it was losing money, but it wasn't making enough buckets of money to satisfy the board/stockholders.
Albertsons should have moderated the corporate expectations of the Alamogordo store to be more in line with the Alamogordo area economy.
Needless to say people do a lot of mail-order in that area, but that doesn't help you get groceries.
Given the choice, no, I would not shop at WalMart. But given the reality of wanting to marry my girlfriend and move to Cloudcroft, I have no choice.
Here's a PDF of the oath, it's Section E, 5th line.
we had to carry lava down from the volcano in baskets and throw it on sleeping villagers.
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(I think I got it off a
To get my current job, I had to sign a loyalty oath. One part of it was that I could not be a member of the Communist Party. I couldn't be a subversive or revolutionary.
The job? 19 hours a week walking through the computer lab at a local community college helping people with Word, Excel, burning CDs on the Mac, etc. for minimum wage.
Yes, I am one of the 400,000+ who's been out of work for 3.5 years.
Here's a list of titles known to be on LD and not DVD, it was updated early July:
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http://www.dvd-register.com/Never_Issued_On_DVD
Check out your local SciFi fan community, chances are that one or more fans have a copy on DVD. Myself, I have two copies of the LD trilogy, a friend of mine came over with his own copy and we were going to record it onto digital VHS using the s-video connector on my player. New Hope went fine, but Empire & Jedi are both in the 130-140 minute range and too long for the Apple software he's using.
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Then conveniently I mentioned it to a friend and *poof* he already has such a set. I'll get two copies and give one to the first friend, as long as we own the LD trilogies all we've done is convert media for backup purposes, no copy protection was circumvented.
I can't entirely agree with you there. Yes, the resolution is impressive, but looking top-down is just not the same as doing a panorama from the same spot on the ground.
Myself, if I do any of these, I'm planning on doing a complete panoramic series and photo-stitching them together.
Reminds me of some of the amateur radio awards: Worked All States, Worked All Counties, etc. There are people who drive out to activate obscure or remote/unpopulated grids and announce it in advance just so that people can try and add that to their QSL collection.
Thus speaketh KB7UJR.
Enable MAC filtering, it should be accessible through the web interface. Make sure you're using 128 bit keys. And change your SSID away from the factory default.
Yes, you can break WEP, but it isn't like throwing a baseball through a window. You have to capture a lot of packets (as in thousands, if not a million) and then subject them to analysis to get the initialization vector as the IV is the weakness in WEP.
Check out netstumbler.org and read up on how to war drive and break WEP. I'm suggesting it from purely an academic standpoint, it's interesting stuff and valuable information.
I think it's a little simpler than that. CD-R & -RW have their place: big file transfers, making music/MP3 CDs when you don't have an MP3 jukebox, inexpensive media, etc. But hard drive capacity has grown to such a point that they are no longer viable for system backups. Even my frickin' laptop, 4 1/2 years old as it is, has a 30 gig HD that you just can't back up on CD, it requires a DVD. I can back up critical data, but I can't do a full system backup with just 650-700 meg a disc.
Writable CD has been so eclipsed by growth in HD capacity that it just isn't funny. DVD can do a fair job of backing up systems if properly managed, but it's going to be the Blu-Ray and multi-layer or a heretofor unknown technology that's going to make a diff for backup purposes.
I'm so glad I have a huge email archive
See the article here. Called "2001: A Space Laptop", they discuss what's involved in using computers in space. It's a little dated, and we can hope they're using better computers as the spec at that time (2000) was a IBM 166MHz Pentium MMX Thinkpad.