I think RDA did a fantastic job reprising the MacGuyver role in that commercial he did a year or two ago for MasterCard. I don't see why he couldn't do it for a full-length film.
He's in at least as good a shape as Harrison Ford was for reprising Indiana Jones.
This stuff would be much more environmentally friendly than using 100 sheets of regular paper if it weren't for the fact that it's made of lead, thorium, mercury, arsenic, and aloe.
Use relatively cheap cameras with good narrow-field lenses and aim them at points of entry and expensive objects (like your car). It makes no sense to use a wide-angle camera to cover your whole property in lo-res when a thief has to gain entry to your property through a door or window, and has to open your car door to steal your car or its CD player. Focus tight and you'll get better identification when a crime does happen.
They used this in one of last season's episodes of CSI:NY. They found a dead scuba diver, and that led them to discover another one lodged in a submerged subway car.
I sure hope the animation quality is up to the standard set by the excellent 'Star Trek' animated series!
Seriously, though the animation sucked, the animated Star Trek often had much better stories than the original Trek. Let's hope this series does as well. Only with better animation. MUCH better animation.
Reading this, I immediately set out to try to duplicate their setup. I lined up my keychain laser pointer with a couple of fridge magnets and ate some Taco Bell to give myself lots of gas, and I didn't see ONE synchrotroned particle!
The time is not far away when hospitals will routinely take a DNA sample from every newborn to test for genetic defects, and to file away as part of its lifelong medical records. Doctors will also routinely map a patient's DNA to test for genetic defects and predisposition to a myriad of conditions and diseases; to not do so will be considered malpractice.
These records will be made available to the government under whatever law prevails at that time. Under current law, the FBI only has to declare someone a 'person of interest' in the name of national security and the records must be handed over without a warrant. If that's okay with you, then do nothing. If it's not, then elect legislators and a president who will restore our basic freedoms.
I feel compelled to comment on a few of the misinformed opinions being posted here:
(1) "Ethanol from corn takes more energy to produce than the fuel provides." Even if this were true, so what? The whole idea is that you have to produce a portable form of energy storage. That takes energy, whether you are paying for drilling, transporting, and refining gasoline, or distilling ethanol from corn mash. Even charging batteries takes much more energy than is actually stored. Most electricity in the US comes from burning coal. So how green are batteries? How efficient? Not very. Besides, the truth is that for every 100 BTUs of energy used to make ethanol, 167 BTUs of ethanol is produced, which is actually a net GAIN. I'm not trying to defend ethanol production from corn, even though I live in Iowa. Ethanol from corn stalks is a better idea, IMHO. But whatever we do, we have to make sure we're talking about facts, not beliefs.
(2) "If farmers can't make money, they should just sell their land." Do you know how much you'd be paying for food if this actually happened? Besides, in Iowa and other agricultural states, farmland is zoned only for farming, in order to make sure the means of production aren't paved over for future generations. So the only person who's going to buy a farm is one who is willing to farm it. And, as someone else above pointed out, that isn't a profitable business unless you inherit your land and it's paid for. Vicious circle.
(3) "High-fructose corn syrup is bad." I don't like the stuff myself, but without this market corn prices would be even lower than they are, which would drive more farmers out of business or require increased subsidies. And judging from the thousands of tanker cars I see the railroad moving both east and west from here, I'm guessing most of you have a taste for it.
Agriculture is a business, and it's driven by the laws of economics. Balancing food prices, agricultural profits, and fuel production dos not have a simple black/white solution. It's complex, and is intertwingled with many, many other aspects of business, politics, and society. We need good science and solid leadership to determine the best balance for all.
Guard: "What do you want?" Jennifer Lopez: "I have a concert here tonight. Let me in." Guard: "I don't know. You look Mexican to me." JLo: "I am HISPANIC!" Guard: "What's your name?" JLo: "What? Do you live in a box?? I am JENNIFER LOPEZ!!!!" Guard: "Uh... okay. Oh, here you are. I'm sorry I can't let you in." JLo: "WHAT! Why not???" Guard: "Your name is on the 'No Work' list." JLo: "@#$%^&*(!!!!! Jennifer Lopez is a VERY common Hispanic name! That's not me!!!" Guard: "Sorry. You're on the list, you don't work. It's the law."
So what I'm trying to say is that at least ONE good thing would come out of this law.:)
Commercial music was once one of the great joys of my life. I loved mainstream rock'n'roll, high-profile jazz artists, famous classical artists; in fact, I loved just about everything except country. I spent a lot of money on vinyl, then tape, then CDs, often re-buying the same music when a new format came along. You wouldn't believe how much I've spent over the years.
I loved Napster and Kazaa when they came along because they allowed me to sample a lot of music I wouldn't have heard otherwise. When I found something I liked, I'd go out and buy a CD. You know, to 'support the band'. Only it turns out the bands didn't get much (if any) of the money, anyway; it went to the record companies and stopped there. Didn't matter, because the RIAA shut the download sites down. No more music sampling for me.
Then the RIAA went on a rampage and started dragging grannies and gradeschoolers into court. That's when I stopped buying music. I just quit completely. I haven't bought a new CD in over four years.
I began listening to Internet-streamed radio and loved it. Then the RIAA began trying to shut that down. Now they're going after commercial radio.
Well, screw them. I'm done. No more commercial, big-record-company music for me. The RIAA can kiss my shiny metal ass.
In the process of listening to streaming music, I've discovered some great independent music. I don't need the craptactular garbage the record companies dish out anymore. Especially not if they're going to try to fine me or send me to jail if I don't listen to it on their terms.
Screw them. I hope they all starve, and their children, too.
Don't forget us older 'early adopters'. I'm an old (55), wizened technology freak and I've been landline-free for more than a decade. Dial-up Internet service was my only reason for having a landline for the last three years or so I had one. Once broadband became available, I dumped my landline and never looked back.
PS I also first got online with Compuserve at 300 baud, when it cost $15/hr. plus long-distance charges.:)
If you don't want more crap like this from Hollywood, then don't go see it. Don't buy a ticket, don't buy the DVD, and whatever you do, don't buy the expanded trilogy DVD set with added features.
Despite all your whining you're going to go see it, you spineless nerd. Admit it.
I'm a Technical Writer, and my major objection to delivering documentation electronically is that users constantly have to switch between windows to read it as they work. Screen real estate is just too limited to keep both open and get anything done. With a second monitor, you can display help files on one and do your work on the other. To me, it's as good or better than working with an open manual, and has at least three advantages. First, you don't kill trees. Second, it's easy to ensure that you always have the latest version of the documentation at hand. Third, your eyes don't have to adjust from looking at a screen to looking at paper, to looking back at the screen, etc.
On a personal note, when writing documentation I'm often working with a bunch of different source documents. To be able to keep one or two of these open on one screen while I write on the other would be a godsend. Maybe I'll ask for another monitor myself.
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I think RDA did a fantastic job reprising the MacGuyver role in that commercial he did a year or two ago for MasterCard. I don't see why he couldn't do it for a full-length film.
He's in at least as good a shape as Harrison Ford was for reprising Indiana Jones.
This stuff would be much more environmentally friendly than using 100 sheets of regular paper if it weren't for the fact that it's made of lead, thorium, mercury, arsenic, and aloe.
Well, the aloe is okay.
Use relatively cheap cameras with good narrow-field lenses and aim them at points of entry and expensive objects (like your car). It makes no sense to use a wide-angle camera to cover your whole property in lo-res when a thief has to gain entry to your property through a door or window, and has to open your car door to steal your car or its CD player. Focus tight and you'll get better identification when a crime does happen.
Oh, boy! Time to navigate over to United Nuclear to pick up a gram of this stuff for my element collection!
I understand that it even has a cage where civet cats crap out steamy fresh Kopi Luwak beans.
Mmmm...
There are lots of sites on the web with quality, professionally-sourced material.
One of the best things to happen on the Web in recent years is the emergence of peer-reviewed professional journals.
This potentially gives students access to vast amounts of high-quality, expert-verified information. They just need to be taught how to use it.
They used this in one of last season's episodes of CSI:NY. They found a dead scuba diver, and that led them to discover another one lodged in a submerged subway car.
That's why I'm a writer, not a scientist.
Almost all of the great writers were heavy drinkers.
Woo-Hoo!!
Has anyone EVER asserted that Taco was worth more than a quarter of a million? Anyone? Anyone?
I didn't think so.
I sure hope the animation quality is up to the standard set by the excellent 'Star Trek' animated series!
Seriously, though the animation sucked, the animated Star Trek often had much better stories than the original Trek. Let's hope this series does as well. Only with better animation. MUCH better animation.
She's not a lunatic - she's a cold, calculating machine politician. We don't need another Clinton or Bush in the White House. Enough of the dynasties.
Obama is naive, compassionate, charismatic, and idealistic - just the kind of change in leadership this country needs.
Reading this, I immediately set out to try to duplicate their setup. I lined up my keychain laser pointer with a couple of fridge magnets and ate some Taco Bell to give myself lots of gas, and I didn't see ONE synchrotroned particle!
Busted!
I think desktops capable of parallel processing - which can be 1000 times faster than currents PCs - hold a lot more promise for the near term.
s ktop_parallel_processor_developed
http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/13371/de
The time is not far away when hospitals will routinely take a DNA sample from every newborn to test for genetic defects, and to file away as part of its lifelong medical records. Doctors will also routinely map a patient's DNA to test for genetic defects and predisposition to a myriad of conditions and diseases; to not do so will be considered malpractice.
These records will be made available to the government under whatever law prevails at that time. Under current law, the FBI only has to declare someone a 'person of interest' in the name of national security and the records must be handed over without a warrant. If that's okay with you, then do nothing. If it's not, then elect legislators and a president who will restore our basic freedoms.
I feel compelled to comment on a few of the misinformed opinions being posted here:
(1) "Ethanol from corn takes more energy to produce than the fuel provides." Even if this were true, so what? The whole idea is that you have to produce a portable form of energy storage. That takes energy, whether you are paying for drilling, transporting, and refining gasoline, or distilling ethanol from corn mash. Even charging batteries takes much more energy than is actually stored. Most electricity in the US comes from burning coal. So how green are batteries? How efficient? Not very. Besides, the truth is that for every 100 BTUs of energy used to make ethanol, 167 BTUs of ethanol is produced, which is actually a net GAIN. I'm not trying to defend ethanol production from corn, even though I live in Iowa. Ethanol from corn stalks is a better idea, IMHO. But whatever we do, we have to make sure we're talking about facts, not beliefs.
(2) "If farmers can't make money, they should just sell their land." Do you know how much you'd be paying for food if this actually happened? Besides, in Iowa and other agricultural states, farmland is zoned only for farming, in order to make sure the means of production aren't paved over for future generations. So the only person who's going to buy a farm is one who is willing to farm it. And, as someone else above pointed out, that isn't a profitable business unless you inherit your land and it's paid for. Vicious circle.
(3) "High-fructose corn syrup is bad." I don't like the stuff myself, but without this market corn prices would be even lower than they are, which would drive more farmers out of business or require increased subsidies. And judging from the thousands of tanker cars I see the railroad moving both east and west from here, I'm guessing most of you have a taste for it.
Agriculture is a business, and it's driven by the laws of economics. Balancing food prices, agricultural profits, and fuel production dos not have a simple black/white solution. It's complex, and is intertwingled with many, many other aspects of business, politics, and society. We need good science and solid leadership to determine the best balance for all.
At a concert venue somewhere in the USA:
:)
Guard: "What do you want?"
Jennifer Lopez: "I have a concert here tonight. Let me in."
Guard: "I don't know. You look Mexican to me."
JLo: "I am HISPANIC!"
Guard: "What's your name?"
JLo: "What? Do you live in a box?? I am JENNIFER LOPEZ!!!!"
Guard: "Uh... okay. Oh, here you are. I'm sorry I can't let you in."
JLo: "WHAT! Why not???"
Guard: "Your name is on the 'No Work' list."
JLo: "@#$%^&*(!!!!! Jennifer Lopez is a VERY common Hispanic name! That's not me!!!"
Guard: "Sorry. You're on the list, you don't work. It's the law."
So what I'm trying to say is that at least ONE good thing would come out of this law.
So... to hold that may Libraries of Congress worth of data, how big will the data server have to be?
Please express the answer in 'Volkswagens'.
Commercial music was once one of the great joys of my life. I loved mainstream rock'n'roll, high-profile jazz artists, famous classical artists; in fact, I loved just about everything except country. I spent a lot of money on vinyl, then tape, then CDs, often re-buying the same music when a new format came along. You wouldn't believe how much I've spent over the years.
I loved Napster and Kazaa when they came along because they allowed me to sample a lot of music I wouldn't have heard otherwise. When I found something I liked, I'd go out and buy a CD. You know, to 'support the band'. Only it turns out the bands didn't get much (if any) of the money, anyway; it went to the record companies and stopped there. Didn't matter, because the RIAA shut the download sites down. No more music sampling for me.
Then the RIAA went on a rampage and started dragging grannies and gradeschoolers into court. That's when I stopped buying music. I just quit completely. I haven't bought a new CD in over four years.
I began listening to Internet-streamed radio and loved it. Then the RIAA began trying to shut that down. Now they're going after commercial radio.
Well, screw them. I'm done. No more commercial, big-record-company music for me. The RIAA can kiss my shiny metal ass.
In the process of listening to streaming music, I've discovered some great independent music. I don't need the craptactular garbage the record companies dish out anymore. Especially not if they're going to try to fine me or send me to jail if I don't listen to it on their terms.
Screw them. I hope they all starve, and their children, too.
Don't forget us older 'early adopters'. I'm an old (55), wizened technology freak and I've been landline-free for more than a decade. Dial-up Internet service was my only reason for having a landline for the last three years or so I had one. Once broadband became available, I dumped my landline and never looked back.
:)
PS I also first got online with Compuserve at 300 baud, when it cost $15/hr. plus long-distance charges.
Civilization should have stopped once we invented Laz-y-Boys, cigars, beer, football, and TV.
If you don't want more crap like this from Hollywood, then don't go see it. Don't buy a ticket, don't buy the DVD, and whatever you do, don't buy the expanded trilogy DVD set with added features.
Despite all your whining you're going to go see it, you spineless nerd. Admit it.
They should have put a bitchin' bad multi-barrel probe launcher on that thing. Or maybe a machine-gun belt full of them.
See, this is why NASA should hire gamers to design their space probes.
I'm a Technical Writer, and my major objection to delivering documentation electronically is that users constantly have to switch between windows to read it as they work. Screen real estate is just too limited to keep both open and get anything done. With a second monitor, you can display help files on one and do your work on the other. To me, it's as good or better than working with an open manual, and has at least three advantages. First, you don't kill trees. Second, it's easy to ensure that you always have the latest version of the documentation at hand. Third, your eyes don't have to adjust from looking at a screen to looking at paper, to looking back at the screen, etc.
On a personal note, when writing documentation I'm often working with a bunch of different source documents. To be able to keep one or two of these open on one screen while I write on the other would be a godsend. Maybe I'll ask for another monitor myself.
Doesn't the author of this list know these basic Internet rules?
"Each Internet list must have only 10 elements."
"The title of each list of 10 elements must begin with "Top Ten...""