Wow I have a friend who does 3D stuff so I'll have to ask him, right now they are digitalizing cars for commercials. They scan the car with a laser scanner then he spends months smoothing the orange peel out of the paint, each near microscopic dimple in the paint becomes polygons occupying disk space and rendering time.
Are you kidding having a nonprofit is big business, it can be too complicated. One of my neighbors went from being a janitor to being the executive director of a non-profit and got paid a shit-pile of money.
The philosophy here is that we tax income of the individuals and corporations, expenses incurred in pursuing that income are subtracted or deducted and the remainder is taxed at a percentage that increases as the entities net income increases. Sometimes we get a special deduction for something that is socially valuable like a money or material donation to a charity. We infrequently get a tax credit for some things, the unused portion of a credit is refunded to the tax payer.
Individuals can't claim time as a charitable deduction because there is no offsetting income, a business that pays an employee to work for a charity but it's nonsense because the employee's wages are an expenses for the business anyways
You can write off anything you want, but you should also be prepared to pay the taxes, interest and penalties if the IRS Auditor disagrees, after which he may decide to take a look at the other returns you have filed. The honest truth is the risks of having deductions refused on computers, and household expenses for home offices business use are so high that the little pittance in taxes isn't worth the risk even if legit.
Men my age all say they dream in black and white while most women say they dream in color. In fact my peers look at me in disbelief when I tell them I sometimes dream in color, frequently with main items and people in color with backgrounds in monochrome and only occasionally in monochrome, I'm 54. In psychology I was taught that color dreaming was rare in men and a sign of high intelligence and or creativity.
Your also posting on/., we're not exactly a typical population. When I took psychology they said color dreaming tended to tract intelligence, and creativity scores and more likely in women and much rarer in men.
my first dream with color was when I was about 8, a series of ivy covered tree fort over the sidewalk actually had pale green leaves, everything else was black and white; but I grew up when television was mostly b/w with a few color shows. Most of my dreams are muted color but a few are full.
Newspaper can be laid up just like fiberglass and is surprisingly strong. I've heard of people building racing shells out of newspaper and shellac resin for the binder. It wouldn't compare with fiberglass and epoxy resin or even polyester but it certainly would be much cheaper to purchase, so it might be stronger per dollar than fiberglass
But is it inherently different than having a tree on your property fall and damage neighbor's property... it's your tree, and your responsibility, even if the government just a month before sent out an arborist who declared the tree healthy and sound?
A tree falling is generally considered an act of god, but the specifics of a situation can vary wildly from area to area.
What's so bad about DDT? It's one of the safest pesticides there is for indoor use. Irrational fear of DDT has caused millions to die from malaria, a disease that once was all most eradicated.
Using a laser in the photo lithography process isn't to far fetched nor would seeing what happens when you start playing with high-tech toys like femtosecond laser pulses that logically go together with commonly used materials like sulfur hexafluoride which is commonly ionized into a plasma and used to etch silicon wafers.
Not necessarily, the licensing office was completely mesmerized by bio-tech and drug patent licensing, this was neither and ignored until more enlightened personel were hired the office at Harvard.
Harvard, for its part, is holding up SiOnyx as one early result of the ongoing overhaul of the university's technology licensing efforts. The school gained a reputation early in this decade as being unresponsive, even hostile, toward faculty and students who wished to commercialize discoveries made in the university's labs, especially in areas outside of biotechnology and drug development. For years after the discovery of black silicon in Mazur's lab, the school's technology transfer office âoewasn't very excitedâ about the work, according to Carey.
Not conservatives but Neocons, personally i don't see much difference between being anally probed by big government, big religion or big business; at the end of the day I feel violated and am expected to kowtow to the fuedal lord du jour.
I live in a town of 35,000 and there are 3 people singing karaoke that are every bit as good as anybody make hit records; yet everybody wants to be a Rock star too.
I get mod points about once a week, you just have to build karma, post a lot of comments on articles that don't hit the main page to avoid getting down modded by zealots, metamoderate every day and when you get one comment pushed up to +5 you'll get mod-points. After that its just a matter of keeping you moderation percentage up high so up mod rather than down modding.
advantages of making the mirror on the moon would include; 1. lunar vacuum would prevent air entrapment in the blank allowing a much quicker melt cycle, 2. lunar vacuum would greatly reduce heat loss in the oven, all losses would be radiative rather than conducting heat to air like on Earth 3. the blank would only have to be strong enough to resist deformation under lunar gravity rather the Earth gravity not to mention increased forces and vibration durring a launch from Earth.
still I'm not sure a good case can be made for actually putting an optical telescope on the Monn rather than in orbit.
The solar wind. It "blows" which actually causes a static charge to build up twice a month as the Moon move into and out of the Earth's magnetosphere. This causes the dust to levitate because of electrostatic repulsion.
while not being able to ignite the boat might seem like failure but in reality heating the wood to 400 degrees F means anyone on board would feel pretty uncomfortable if they were exposed to the light which would likely enough to cause permanent and instant blindness and some rather painful skin burns; I was on fire a couple years ago and it's pretty intense and intimidating.
Well since the moon has little atmosphere to scatter the sunlight as long a the telescope is pointing at the sun it wouldn't be blinded. Even on Earth the day-time sky gets pretty black above 10 Km of altitude
Slashdot Mirror
Wow I have a friend who does 3D stuff so I'll have to ask him, right now they are digitalizing cars for commercials. They scan the car with a laser scanner then he spends months smoothing the orange peel out of the paint, each near microscopic dimple in the paint becomes polygons occupying disk space and rendering time.
Are you kidding having a nonprofit is big business, it can be too complicated. One of my neighbors went from being a janitor to being the executive director of a non-profit and got paid a shit-pile of money.
The philosophy here is that we tax income of the individuals and corporations, expenses incurred in pursuing that income are subtracted or deducted and the remainder is taxed at a percentage that increases as the entities net income increases. Sometimes we get a special deduction for something that is socially valuable like a money or material donation to a charity. We infrequently get a tax credit for some things, the unused portion of a credit is refunded to the tax payer.
Individuals can't claim time as a charitable deduction because there is no offsetting income, a business that pays an employee to work for a charity but it's nonsense because the employee's wages are an expenses for the business anyways
You can write off anything you want, but you should also be prepared to pay the taxes, interest and penalties if the IRS Auditor disagrees, after which he may decide to take a look at the other returns you have filed. The honest truth is the risks of having deductions refused on computers, and household expenses for home offices business use are so high that the little pittance in taxes isn't worth the risk even if legit.
Men my age all say they dream in black and white while most women say they dream in color. In fact my peers look at me in disbelief when I tell them I sometimes dream in color, frequently with main items and people in color with backgrounds in monochrome and only occasionally in monochrome, I'm 54. In psychology I was taught that color dreaming was rare in men and a sign of high intelligence and or creativity.
I have noticed that people who grown up on color only television don't appreciate fine art monochrome photography either
Your also posting on /., we're not exactly a typical population. When I took psychology they said color dreaming tended to tract intelligence, and creativity scores and more likely in women and much rarer in men.
my first dream with color was when I was about 8, a series of ivy covered tree fort over the sidewalk actually had pale green leaves, everything else was black and white; but I grew up when television was mostly b/w with a few color shows. Most of my dreams are muted color but a few are full.
Newspaper can be laid up just like fiberglass and is surprisingly strong. I've heard of people building racing shells out of newspaper and shellac resin for the binder. It wouldn't compare with fiberglass and epoxy resin or even polyester but it certainly would be much cheaper to purchase, so it might be stronger per dollar than fiberglass
But is it inherently different than having a tree on your property fall and damage neighbor's property... it's your tree, and your responsibility, even if the government just a month before sent out an arborist who declared the tree healthy and sound?
A tree falling is generally considered an act of god, but the specifics of a situation can vary wildly from area to area.
What's so bad about DDT? It's one of the safest pesticides there is for indoor use. Irrational fear of DDT has caused millions to die from malaria, a disease that once was all most eradicated.
survive a photographer's flash
Using a laser in the photo lithography process isn't to far fetched nor would seeing what happens when you start playing with high-tech toys like femtosecond laser pulses that logically go together with commonly used materials like sulfur hexafluoride which is commonly ionized into a plasma and used to etch silicon wafers.
absorbing a wider band of light almost inherently increases efficiency
Not necessarily, the licensing office was completely mesmerized by bio-tech and drug patent licensing, this was neither and ignored until more enlightened personel were hired the office at Harvard.
Harvard, for its part, is holding up SiOnyx as one early result of the ongoing overhaul of the university's technology licensing efforts. The school gained a reputation early in this decade as being unresponsive, even hostile, toward faculty and students who wished to commercialize discoveries made in the university's labs, especially in areas outside of biotechnology and drug development. For years after the discovery of black silicon in Mazur's lab, the school's technology transfer office âoewasn't very excitedâ about the work, according to Carey.
Not conservatives but Neocons, personally i don't see much difference between being anally probed by big government, big religion or big business; at the end of the day I feel violated and am expected to kowtow to the fuedal lord du jour.
I live in a town of 35,000 and there are 3 people singing karaoke that are every bit as good as anybody make hit records; yet everybody wants to be a Rock star too.
Didn't John Nash solve the chicks portion of that problem?
I get mod points about once a week, you just have to build karma, post a lot of comments on articles that don't hit the main page to avoid getting down modded by zealots, metamoderate every day and when you get one comment pushed up to +5 you'll get mod-points. After that its just a matter of keeping you moderation percentage up high so up mod rather than down modding.
advantages of making the mirror on the moon would include;
1. lunar vacuum would prevent air entrapment in the blank allowing a much quicker melt cycle,
2. lunar vacuum would greatly reduce heat loss in the oven, all losses would be radiative rather than conducting heat to air like on Earth
3. the blank would only have to be strong enough to resist deformation under lunar gravity rather the Earth gravity not to mention increased forces and vibration durring a launch from Earth.
still I'm not sure a good case can be made for actually putting an optical telescope on the Monn rather than in orbit.
In order for the 'mirror' to maintain its shape it would have to be continuously spinning during the 'freezing' phase.
That's pretty much the way real telescope mirrors are cast
The solar wind. It "blows" which actually causes a static charge to build up twice a month as the Moon move into and out of the Earth's magnetosphere. This causes the dust to levitate because of electrostatic repulsion.
while not being able to ignite the boat might seem like failure but in reality heating the wood to 400 degrees F means anyone on board would feel pretty uncomfortable if they were exposed to the light which would likely enough to cause permanent and instant blindness and some rather painful skin burns; I was on fire a couple years ago and it's pretty intense and intimidating.
we could even send pig through every once in a while to clean out the tube of any emails that got stuck on the sides or dropped packets
Well since the moon has little atmosphere to scatter the sunlight as long a the telescope is pointing at the sun it wouldn't be blinded. Even on Earth the day-time sky gets pretty black above 10 Km of altitude