So when does it become unethical? If you share it with 3 friends? 4? 5?
42?
Seriously, though, the Napster model wasn't "sharing with friends." It's "sharing with strangers."
If you need a line to draw that isn't "when the copyright holder objects over their unfinished songs showing up on your network," I suggest you use "when you share with strangers".
Honey, the WHOLE WORLD is my buddy. Just don't have them ask me to help them move furniture, house-sit, or loan them money.
For those who don't bother to read the article...[snip]
Translation: 95% of/.
As for the other 5%:
2% skimmed it and didn't see the Crazy Hot Heat as promised and gave up on the picture. Here your work was definitely appreciated.
another 2% understands the Crazy Hot Science Geek lingo and proceeds to write insightful and informative comments on the subject. Here your work goes unappreciated..5% finds enlightenment amongst the Crazy Hotness and that guy's bald spot peeking through his hair.
The rest troll out, as.5% of all comments to this story end up in the dangerous -1 Troll land.
In other words, without your dilligent support, there would be readers who would have to actually Read The Article (a thing almost unheard of around here) and the unenlightened would remain unenlightenend, and the Trolls would still roam free, without the other half of the equation balancing out.
So tell me, have you ever thought about politics?
Actually some of us fellow like the "Crazy Hot Science Geek" hairy bear types. So it wasn't entirely deceptive on that front even though the actual page title is "Tiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs". The "Crazy Hot Science Geek" seems fairly handsome, in shape, intelligent, has decently clean hair + skin, functional taste in clothes, etc... all good qualities in a potential sexual partner.
As for the tech, it is basic "putting one concept together with another concept to test a theory" that is the foundation of basic experimentive science with the followup of getting the proper numbers to prove the results are valid. Simple science tends to always follow through with easily replicated results and fast mass-production of product lines. Given those qualities I suspect a fast cash flow to follow and thusly another increase in the "Crazy Hotness" of this "Science Geek". Not too hard to figure these things out I would say.
You got it wrong, the bubbles have a very low heat capacity themselves, it is the formation of the bubbles that bleeds the heat out of the system, the heat of vaporization is enormous compared to the heat capacity of the vapor form for every fluid I have ever heard of... Then the bubbles, now buoyant, float off with lots of heat stored up, they then condense returning their heat to a more traditional, but much larger compared to the chip, heat sink, and the liquid returns to the cycle to vaporize once again...
BTW the flow is laminar, you got that right, but a turbulent flow would actually be more effective, you just can't get a turbulent flow in such a small channel, remember the Reynolds number has the length scale in the numerator... micro-channels will never have turbulent flow with any fluid that does not have a viscosity approaching zero
How about adding in a small fan in the liquid before it hits the microchannels?
That way you'd have: [ fan and heat sink on exterior of chip ] [ top of liquid containment chamber ] [ bubble release chamber ] [ microchannel stalks ] [ liquid spot before microchannel ] [ turbulence zone + circulation fan ] [ liquid spot under fan for bubble formation ] [ bottom of liquid containment chamber ] [ the chip to be cooled ]
The current design eliminates the fan addition you have suggested.
Another choice should be instead of a circular rotating fan perhaps a waving fan design that resembles sunshade blinds waving to and fro for turbulence and to prevent a steam buildup zone.
That way each cycle on the sunshade blind fan would sweep in a left - right - left - right motion.
The only other obvious solution would be to create spikes on the bubble formation surface to disrupt a stream layer formation. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ^_^_^
That way the steam would force the vapor up the stalks until they hit the bubble transfer microchannel stalks.
How dare you spit on the graves of the millions who died so that you can post on this site. How dare you spit on the grave of the millions of jews who were massacred by the Germans. How dare you spit on the graves of the millions who sacrificed everything they had to support this country during the war.
Comparing Bush to Hitler is a disgusting display of your ignorance of history. I demand an apology on behalf of all those you ungraciously insulted and demeaned.
Aren't you the most pathetic little PSYOPS GOP=KGB WHOREBOY yet? Perhaps a comparison between SUPERFRAUD Bush and IDI AMIN is more too your liking. Both are regarded as being dead from the neck up and both distracted their opponents by being the buffoon long enough to slit the laughing person's throat. Both are really ignorant and have played that ignorance up to hideous levels so as to distract and disarm the force of their opponent's willpower.
However, the USA-PATRIOT-DEATHCAMP-ENABLING-ACT duplicates absolutely the horrible laws of the Nazi murder & steal movement. Here is a statement that any sane person will recognize, "Hitler did not televise the DEATHCAMPS on TV. He knew that doing so would offend the useful fools that supported him unquestioningly up to now." SUPERFRAUD Bush would not televise the DEATHCAMPS of today either and the GOP=KGB WHORE MEDIA would also refuse to tell the truth to the public either.
We are a BIG NATION. An entire city of people can be slaughtered in a day with no one the wiser. If then the people that question what happened to the slaughtered town show up, the USA-PATRIOT-DEATHCAMP-ENABLING-ACT empowers the GOP=KGB WHORES to seize the questioners under "anti-terrorist" reasons quietly and execute them secretly. Remember that the Attorney General can deny ever American their citizenship instantly now, kidnap anyone, execute that person in complete secrecy, and dispose of the body ALL LEGALLY RIGHT NOW. Does anyone reading this here think John "Satan's Devoted Whore" Ashcroft is above abusing that power when he has gladly abused every power given him before?
The logical conclusion is that YES there are DEATHCAMPS operating RIGHT NOW and kidnapping innocents and murdering them RIGHT NOW because that is what the GOP=KGB WHORES want so they can rob America's National Treasury under the illusion of war, forcefully bankrupt the nation entirely, and seize the property of all Americans at whim while executing the owners of said property.
Know your murderers America.
Are they the "tree-hugging" Liberals or the "make everyone into a criminal" Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminals?
Who will imprison you unjustly and steal your property? The "Save the Whales" crowd or the "Lock and Load" GOP-KGB WHORES?
Who is more nuts? The "Recycle your Bottles" Liberals or the "Ronnie ROTTEN Reagan was right in smuggling cocaine into America so we could smuggle guns to the Contras and use George H.W. Opium/Cocaine/BCCI/Money-Laundering Bush to fund the GOP=KGB rise to power"?
I see the most crooked, evil, sinister, rotten, lousy, shameful, horrible, lying, stealing, whoring, insane, inbred, bunch of sub-human trash currently occupying the White House and GOP-KGB WHORES like you cheer them on with your dim-witted hands clapping like flippers on a seal.
Go back to HELL and take your Son-of-Moloch SUPERFRAUD Bush demon-baby with you.
News flash. Congress has been split(Senate) or in control of Republicans since 1994.
Presidency since 2000( Bush won after 5 recounts ).
Whos is losing control again? I think its the leftists.
Go get that trachea shaved some more Lanky Skanky Ann "The Man" Coulter. Your lies don't cut it here. The recounts were constantly interrupted by SUPERFRAUD Criminal Traitor Mass-Murderer Sadistic Satanist Cannibal-Child-Molester Fraud President George Worthless Bush and his lawsuit-happy James Baker. SUPERFRAUD Bush sued and sued and sued to stall the recounts while KKK-Distraction-Clown Katherine Harris was busy ballot-tampering more votes up under SUPERFRAUD Bush's Criminal Traitor Mafia-Cocaine-Slut Jeb Bush's orders.
The ACTUAL hand recount was completed in the summer of 2001 but then SUPERFRAUD Bush (after whoring out the Lincoln Bedroom to his PIONEER donors for $100,000 donations, and after having more of his ENRON buddies play "Let's ram a Japanese fishing boat with an American nuclear submarine and kill all aboard", and letting ENRON black out California with their criminal scams along with jacking up energy prices across the nation for 3 months, and having John "Satan's Devoted Whore" Ashcroft go masturbate frantically with Crisco while Arthur Anderson Accounting shredded criminal evidence in dumptruck-sized shredding machines while ENRON followed suit, and saying "Arsenic is just dandy for America's kiddies, etc... outrage after outrage) went on vacation for a full month in August despite having repeated warnings about a terrorist attack (which SUPERFRAUD Bush funded with taxpayer dollars to the tune of $42 million dollars) and then when the World Trade Centers burned to the ground SUPERFRAUD Bush was later heard to joke in a room full of Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminals "Meanwhile in North Carolina pResident Bush jokes about hitting the Trifecta:
Remarks by the President to Robin Hayes for Congress and Elizabeth Dole for Senate North Carolina Republican Party Luncheon
"And we've got a job to do at home, as well. You know, I was campaigning in Chicago and somebody asked me, is there ever any time where the budget might have to go into deficit? I said only if we were at war or had a national emergency or were in recession. (Laughter.) Little did I realize we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.) But we're fine."
Sure... mass-murder and a ruined economy are always HILARIOUS! What a jolly bunch of HIDEOUS HORRIBLE GHOULS these Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminals must be!
Go back to HELL you shit-eating GOP=KGB WHORE and take the Son of a Demon SUPERFRAUD Bush with you.
Not bad... that would also invalidate every employment non-disclosure agreement I've ever seen...
All I can say is that if someone wants me to keep a secret after I no longer work for them they better PAY ME EVERY DAMN DAY I KEEP MY MY MOUTH SHUT or their secrets are going to fly fast and free.
Otherwise what is the bargain? I am no longer paid, BUT I have to keep their secrets quiet FOR FREE?!? That is totally fucked up.
No way in heck am I going to keep working for them if they refuse to keep paying me to work for them. FREE Non-Disclosure Agreements? Hell no. What a scam for babies and fools to keep another schmuck's business plan intact when they are not receiving any monetary reward in return.
That is as bad as the GOP=KGB WHORES that bend over everytime Bill Gates is bouncing around with a boner for their bondage. Some people love to be abused, but I refuse to play GOP=KGB WHORE for anyone especially Microsoft.
Agreed. The whole point is that Google distinguished themselves AS a search engine... and the minimalist interface and understated, clearly delineated text ads reinforce that idea. Yahoo!, on the other hand, was all about being a portal. When you hear Yahoo! you do not think "search," at least I don't. Never did, frankly.
I went to Yahoo's front page just now (first time in a LONG time I'd been there) and what did I get: jobs, chat, travel, ads, directories, ads, news, ads, groups, ads... It's a mess, frankly. A positive assessment would be "one stop shop," which is I'm sure what they want me to think, but my reaction is "you can do twelve things at once but they're all badly done."
A few cumulative hours of research and a well-organized favorites list makes a Portal completely redundant. Yahoo! would never exist if they tried to start up today with their business model. What they have now is name recognition, leftover juice from the bubble, and a certain amount of inertia.
Agreed. GOOGLE wins with the timeless truth, "Less is MORE." and "KISS = Keep It Simple Successfully."
GOOGLE wins easily because they appear to give a damn about their service. The big questions on everyones' lips is, "How long can they keep it simple and honest?" and "When they stumble, just how badly will this giant squish me?"
This reminds me of an unforgettable saga involving Roger Penrose and toilet paper. Apparently, Penrose invented something called a nonrepeating tesselation. (Which I gather is some kind of pattern on a plane which can not be mapped to itself by shifting.) One fine day Penrose (claimed to have) found the pattern on a piece of toilet paper. What did he do? Why, sue the toilet paper company for copyright violation of course! You can read about it here [gwu.edu]. It absolutely cracked me up the first time I heard it.
At first read I thought you were shitting me, but doing a GOOGLE confirmed it. Roger Penrose is a pissy little asshole apparently. How sad that someone so smart as Penrose can be a pissy little asshole.
People, Places & Things in the News
One of Britain's most distinguished mathematicians is suing Kimberly-Clark, claiming the company is using his copyright design on its Kleenex quilted toilet paper.
The suit brought by Sir Roger Penrose, a professor of mathematics at Oxford University, alleges that the company is using a pattern that has the same overall appearance as "the Penrose Pattern." Mr. Penrose devised the complex design in the 1970s.
Mr. Penrose is best known for his work with Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University on relativity, black holes and the question of whether time has a beginning. They concluded that it does.
The suit asks for the return of all copies of the pattern and the surrender or destruction of all articles and documents using the design. It also seeks unspecified damages.
What patent or copyright issues relating to computer software do this controversy suggest? Any IP paper on this subject will be considered acceptable in terms of subject matter if it manages to bring in {Baker v. Selden and/or The Rubber Tip Pencil Case} and computer software.
1. Last December, Sir Roger Penrose, the eminent British mathematician, came face to face with his own copyrighted polygon pattern in Kleenex quilted toilet paper. When his wife returned from the market with the embossed rolls, Penrose expressed "astonishment and dismay" upon seeing the use to which his discovery had been put.
Penrose devised the nonrepeating five-fold symmetrical pattern in the 1970s by using two kinds of diamond shapes--fat and thin--to create what is now called Penrose tiling. The pattern, which was thought not to exist in nature before Penrose's discovery, has subsequently been found in many physical and biological phenomena.
According to the British newspaper, The Independent, the pattern "has deeper mathematical implications because it fits halfway between chaos and orderliness and is one of a family of noncomputable problems." Noncomputability is a key concept needed to understand consciousness, according to Penrose's best-selling book The Emperor's New Mind.)
Mrs. Penrose first recognized the pattern on the loo paper in the store and brought it to her husband's attention. "He wasn't pleased," said Penrose's lawyer, as quoted in The Wall Street Journal. So Penrose and Pentaplex Ltd., the Yorkshire, England, company that owns the licensing rights to the Penrose pattern, filed a lawsuit against Kimberly-Clark for breach of copyright.
I've since tried, unsuccessfully, to find the embossed Penrose pattern in Kleenex's U.S. tissue, which although quilted doesn't offer the aperiodic design that reflects Penrose's geometric findings. The quilted British tissue is embossed with the pentagonal pattern to make it "thicker and softer," according to Kimberly-Clark literature. Penrose's writ argues that making the tissue fluffier enables manufacturers to reduce the amount of paper used on each roll. "But, if the pattern repeats itself, the tissue would likely bunch up, looking unattractive," the sui
I'd rather have a toilet roll holder that could notify someone when it was (almost) empty. Would be nice for public or semi-public places like schools etc.
Wouldn't it be better to create a high volume holder which locks securely at the top and has multiple dowels which retract out of the way when the previous roll is empty and holds multiple rolls. The other better choice is a system which dispenses Kleenex style with an accordian folding style stack.
Heck, if you just want something that beeps when empty then it would be easy enough to have a timed infrared battery powered sensor which powers on once per 10 minutes for 5 seconds, checks the remaining toilet paper quantity, and then shuts off if toilet paper remains or sends a signal out if empty.
Did you even read the SC's decision? They ruled (rightfully so!) that the Democrat's recounting of select areas of Florida (the poor and mostly democratic counties, oddly enough) gave those votes more weight, thus lessening the value of all the other votes of the state. Basically if the Dems had been crying for a complete statewide recount (which btw the bush camp was doing) they would have been fine. Instead they tried to skew the results in their favor and it fucked them in the end.
Before you even try to argue with me, imagine if every state was forced under pressure from the republicans to recount the ballets from white upper-class neighborhoods.
Try this... the Florida Supreme Court DID decide to do a FULL STATEWIDE RECOUNT until the Supreme WHORE Court stepped in and decided that a FULL STATEWIDE RECOUNT would "Irreparably Harm" SUPERFRAUD Bush.
On December 12, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Florida Supreme Court ruling ordering a full statewide hand recount of all undervotes not yet tallied. The U.S. Supreme Court action effectively ratified Florida election officials' determination that Bush won by a few hundred votes out of more than 6 million cast.
Bush Rejects Gore Offer of Statewide Hand Recount NewsMax.com Wires - Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2000 (From a GOP-KGB WHOREBOY page) George W. Bush tonight called for the Florida vote recounting to end and for the acceptance of the vote totals Friday, when overseas ballots are due.
He rejected Vice President Al Gore's two plans for settling the Florida vote recount. Earlier in the evening Gore promised:
* If Republicans allowed manual recounts to continue in Democrat-dominated Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, he would accept the final tally of those results added to the certified results from 64 other counties and overseas absentee ballots, due by midnight Friday.
* Or, "I am also prepared, if Gov. Bush prefers, to include in this recount all the counties in the entire state of Florida,'' Gore said. "I would also be willing to abide by that result and agree not to take any legal action to challenge that result.''
"We need a resolution that will be both fair and just," Gore, appearing with running mate Joe Lieberman, told reporters from the vice presidential residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory. in Washington.
Democrat Gore offered to meet with Texas Republican Gov. Bush.
"I propose that Gov. Bush and I meet personally, one on one, as soon as possible, before the vote count is finished, not to negotiate but to improve the tone of our dialogue in America.''
"I am willing to go to his house or meet him wherever he wants to meet, not to negotiate but to improve the tone of our dialogue in America," Gore said.
Gore said that, in addition to an immediate meeting, he and Bush should meet again once the election is settled "to reaffirm our national unity.''
"If I turn out to be successful, I'll be ready to travel to Governor Bush's home. If I am not, I'll be ready to meet him wherever he wishes,'' Gore said.
Gore said he was trying to honor the Constitution.
"This is the time to respect every voter and every vote,'' he said.
"This is the time to honor the true will of the people. So our goal must be what is right for America.''
(I can also list the text where Katherine "The Distraction KKK-Clown" Harris had her paid Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminal cronies correct incorrect military ballots for the GOP side and discard the Democrat military ballots. Then there is the matter of the fickle deadline and the GOP-KGB WHORE CHOICEPOINT scam with a 97% INCORRECT voter disqualification list which was paid for with $2 million in taxpayer dollars).
So, you would have favored simply recounting and recounting until the vote turned out how you like it?
How about getting the votes HAND COUNTED at least ONCE!
Sorry you little GOP-KGB WHORE but you LOSE. Sending the ballots through a machine is not counting the votes. It is repeating the same damn errors that fucked up the system in the first place. The machines are a quicker way to tabulate the votes, but they are NOT THE VOTERS and they are not perfect. Since there was ample proof of outright FRAUD and BALLOT TAMPERING by Katherine "The Distraction KKK-Clown" Harris the ballot process was corrupted and in violation of the Florida "Sunshine Law" which requires the intent of the voter to be served.
Having SUPERFRAUD Bush lie and lie about his goals yet SUE CONSTANTLY further invalidates your lies you little "Axis of Weasel" GOP-KGB WHORE. The final corrupt Supreme WHORE Court decision to deny a full statewide hand count of the ballots (which until that time had been denied and delayed CONSTANTLY by SUPERFRAUD Bush's Criminal Traitor Cronies) and hand the election to SUPERFRAUD Bush simply proves (along with the constant treason by the Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminal Party) that we American citizens can no longer trust the ballots to be machine counted ever again. I would rather have accuracy over speed when the stakes are as dire as the constant assault on America's freedoms by the Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminal Party crooks.
The point is that the GOP-KGB WHORES are many and our freedoms are ever diminishing under the OUTRAGEOUS TREASON that the GOP-KGB WHORES have unleashed under their Anti-American Anti-Human Anti-Christ agenda. I warned the Slashdot readers about this a few times already and it seems to have taken quite long for them to wake up and smell the TERROR that comes from Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminal rule. The Satanic Child of Moloch is 67% out of the womb and the GOP-KGB WHORES are the gleeful nursemaids to the birth. The DEATHCAMPS are already gearing up to run at full capacity and only us Americans can stop this NOW if we wake up and smell the stench of the charred human flesh from the GOP-KGB WHORE-operated DEATHCAMPS.
Like hell it does. Must we resort to bashing other image editors to make our own look better?
I'm a professional designer, and I prefer PSP to any other editor merely for its near-flawless integration of vector and bitmap tools. Yes, I've used them all... CorelDRAW, Canvas, Photoshop, Fireworks, and even the GIMP. They've all got their markets. But to state unequivocally that an application sucks (without any reasons, besides!) is just bloody stupid.
I also own PaintShop Pro too, but it is flawed badly on handling layers and vector objects (Ulead's paint program is many times better at that, but the trial version of #8 I downloaded recently is SLOW now and not worth the cash).
My new favorite paint program for vector & bitmap is REAL DRAW PRO3. The pure wonderfulness of this program is that you can paint directly on a vector object and add multiple effects and there are some great vector editing tools (though for some reason it lacks a SMOOTH vector object command AND it lacks a basic "Draw spline" to draw a series of points and connect them with a rubber band curve AND for some inane reason doesn't change vector lines to "curve" or "line" at the line corners but at points ending or starting the line which makes editing awkward). The greatness of this program cannot be stated easily here so I recommend a visit to the website and download the TRIAL version. mediachance.com/realdraw/
It could use better paint tools, some basic bitmap tweaking functions (smear, blur, smooth, etc..) for the paint tools, and some options I've already suggested to the programmer along the lines of more direct effect map editing as is already done with direct transparency map painting (painting on the bump maps directly, painting on the lens maps, adding in height map painting and vector fills) and adding in a flood fill option, object hierarchies, fixing the rotate option to allow rotation of grouped objects, fixing the magic texture tool to allow mapping rotation and perspective options, making the menus a bit more consistent, etc...
1. if you are an honest person, you wouldn't care about them knowing public details about you.
2. credit cards have already recorded all this information already, now you know they keep it (it was already being kept silly, just for when they COULD legally do it.)
3. just remember, to monitor every one of you little punks, they have to have their own little punk at the computer going through it.
this isn't a law yet, its still "proposed" so for all you chicken little people, read the damned article. its less than 3 pages. big print. small words.
i'd watch out for that law in oregon about blocking the roads = terrorism = 25 yrs prison;p
Sure, I'll be comfortable when you post your credit card number, home address, phone number, the entire list of your sexual partners, any undocumented crimes, etc...
I guess you have never heard of anonymous harassment and identity theft. Even a tiny bit of personal information can be exploited to horrible extremes by someone wishing to abuse that information.
1, Do not hot swap of an ordinary IDE controller. You will bork it. 2, Do not put a swap partition onto a flash drive. You will find out REAL FAST how quickly you can get through 1 million writes.
Dave
Amen. I have a Minolta Dimage 5 camera and I wondered why the right side of it gets so hot. So I pull out the Compact Flash card and it is DAMN HOT! If someone used this as a IDE swap partition I rather suspect that it would rapidly become a fire hazard if it did not completely immolate its innards.
I have been wondering whether the other storage formats get as toasty on the inside.
I wonder what will hang between quotes when we write - George "....... " Bush ?
George WORTHLESS Bush describes the SUPERFRAUD more than enough.
Otherwise the most accurate name I have for him is Criminal Traitor Mass-Murderer Sadistic Satanist Lifetime-Cocaine-Addict Pathological-Liar Lunatic-Cannibal Fraud President George WORTHLESS Bush.
However, for fast reference I just go with the well-earned title of SUPERFRAUD Bush. What else would any sane person call a nutball who uses the Idi Amin tactic of being really stupid and lazy while pretending to be MORE STUPID than he really is while pretending to be a "compassionate" "conservative" yet using the Anti-American methods of Adolph Hitler, Stalin, and Richard Nixon against America with his GOP=KGB WHORE attack on America with the USA-PATRIOT-DEATHCAMP-ENABLING-ACT? SUPERFRAUD Bush has shown all of the thinking Americans and the entire world through his CRIMINAL TRAITOR actions that he and his entire GOP=KGB WHORE CULT of Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminals that their words mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING while their actions prove them beyond all doubt wicked, dangerous, and insane. America can only survive if it purges itself of the vile ilk of the Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminal Party until the Republican Party can prove itself not to be irrevocably corrupted by insane weasels cloaked in stolen human skin. The Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminal Party has proven itself the Satanic "Axis of Weasels".
Very good point that some may have overlooked. DO NOT USE THE TOASTER OVER FOR FOOD COOKING AFTER MELTING LEAD INSIDE IT
Lead fumes from a previous soldering session can vaporize off the oven walls, stick to the food (and all dishware), and poison you slowly - Lead poisoning is NOT fun. GOOGLE [ Lead Poisoning ]
it will cost a very large amount of money to re-train all of your NT people to Linux, it's called Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
this is the biggest blatant lie I have ever heard.
Let's see MCSE training every year is $3500.00 every 2 years to keep the certifications PER employee. RHCE is Much less and the other linuxes are the same.
The TCO of the switch is less than maintaining the current level of training for Microsoft.
Unless your company doesn't care about training and certification. Microsoft recommends MCSE's are trained every year. are you saying that microsoft is lying to us?
And if they pay the fee and are audited regularly they can even achieve MCSE Level OT(3). After that you will no longer have to pay for sick days as their now non-reactive mind will have gained the power to heal itself without the pill-poisons that the Psychs force upon the non-Clear WOGs. For another $7000.00 per year we can bring your MCSE Servants up to Level OT(4). At MCSE Level OT(4) they will be rid of half of their Thetan parasites and gain the ability to Audit lesser MCSE Level OT(3)'s and even earn a handsome profit. Best of all when your MCSE Level OT(4)'s are Audited to Level OT(5) they gain the ability to stop time and FLY! Imagine the money they will save commuting and only at the cost of $14,000.00 per year. If you are willing to go the limit and rid your MCSE Servants of all their Thetans parasitically sapping their true powers you can bring them to MCSE Level OT(8) for the cost of $112,000 a year and they will be able to move through time at will and reshape the universe to their whims. Curse Xenu for implanting us with the WOG curse. Thanks to L-Ron I can now drink Drano while being only at MCSE Level OT(4). It tastes great. The Psychs are lying to you all!
(Hey, I couldn't resist. The whole MCSE scam and the Scientology scam sound so much alike and cost ratios are probably cheaper in my poking. By the way, for any Scientology drones reading here - drinking Drano is a certain prolonged painful death as the strong alkaline will destroy your intestines from the inside and kill you with agonizing septic shock. No "Happy Thought" lie will prevent that. For any Scientology drone that does choose to prove the "faith" then so be it - Welcome to the Darwin Awards - Don't be the weakest link).
Read VALIS by Philip K Dick. The similarities are amazing. They are both a telling of the same basic story, but VALIS is much more interesting.
Oh I don't know. There are many possible precursors to THE MATRIX. I read one book where the population spent most of their time in Cyber-Reality and when they decided to give up on the real world they uploaded their minds and the robots hauled the bodies off for cremation. This left the Earth heavily depopulated and in bad disrepair along with a Evangelical anti-tech movement taking control.
I read another one where THE MATRIX could have started as a virtual prison housing inmates with a healthy artificial reality reforming the inmates during the course of their imprisonment with little cost to the taxpayer and few discipline problems (the inmates each had their own individually tailored realities which excluded all of the other inmates).
I could conceive a nursing home or even a clone farm serving as the precursor to THE MATRIX. It could even be an online gaming service that got out of control or a method to house the disabled while giving them full benefits to enjoy and prosper despite their physical hindrances.
Personally I like the first ANIMATRIX short showing that the robots by far were more moral and mature than humans overall (it is feasible that we would want the best qualities of human beings in the best imitations of human beings that we would manufacture as we do want the best from our children despite their organic construction). In the end, the robots still behaved maturely and tried to simply request the simple dignity and politeness that any human being would prefer for their dedicated and polite service. However, we are entering THE MATRIX movie during the stage where THE MATRIX guardians have shifted from defensive protection of its occupants to aggressive destruction of all trespassers into its systems.
I wonder if they used stock photography again this time?
Does anyone else notice that the "Hacker" looks almost like Bill Gates?
(Although if Microsoft started marketing under the blurb, "Microsoft now has devoted itself to protect you from the evil greedy grasping twitching fingers of Bill Gates and all of the rest of Microsoft's greedy incompetent executives", then that would be a slogan I could place some faith in.)
Yeah, like it's that easy. Have you ever tried to work with acrylic and hardener? It's a MESS. It's the consistency of motor oil and after some air exposure it starts to get sticky. Worse, it smells like paint * 100. Finally, I can guarantee that you WILL NOT be able to 'cast' a sphere. The inside of a small toy ball might be your best bet, but I have my doubts about how the mechanics of the casting process would play out.
Those discouraging words said.... Dude! Give it a try and let us know how it works. Better yet, take some time to think about clever ways to make that casting happen and maybe you can share a new and interesting technique with the rest of us. But before you start too far down this path, go buy a small (8oz) can of liquid acrylic + hardener (expect to pay $15-20 for these) and do some small experiments (more than one!) so that you get a feel for what working with that stuff is like.
Good luck and report back!
Um, you do know you can go down to WallyWorld and pick up a cheap kit. I have seen the Baby Impressions Kit in WallyWorld's craft department. Check the CRYSTAL KEEPSAKE KIT (I am certain you can find similar kits under different names online - GOOGLE is your FRIEND so have GOOGLE help you out)
Add in a balloon for the sphere shape while making the mold shape and pop and remove the balloon before casting. Or if you feel this will not give enough "solidness" to the shape you can fill the balloon with water, tape the end shut and when you want to remove it from the sand mold to begin casting, suck the water out with a straw.
With a little imagination a person could cast anything with just a bit of effort (using moist sand to make the mold - adding sugar to the water will give firmness when the sand dries, tamp down the sand, drain the sand, remove the positive object, if you can, then add your molding compounds, and when the mold sets or cooks or cures you can wet the sand, and retrieve your finished item.)
Please note that Silversmiths of Colonial times would use a wax sculpture of the object to be molded, then tamp some sand down in the bottom of a wooden box (to make a sand base for the model), place the wax model in the center, add fine sand carefully to fill up the area around the wax model in the box, pack the sand down gently, and then drain the water off, and then when the sand was dry they would heat up the silver in a cauldron and pour it into the open spout of the sand mold and destroy their wax model. This left a finished silver model after the silver cooled to be smoothed and polished.
Mold and object casting is an interesting art form which I suggest you folks research as you might want to try making some cast art someday.
...CG complete rendered at 1/2 (and soon to be 1/10) the cost...
Hmm... If not using a top model for your shots, it will be a long while before a 30 minute photographing session (with some Photoshop touchups later) will be more expensive than months of meticulous work in creating these 3D models.
Using life human actors is still, for the most part, a lot cheaper than CG.
Except CG Actors do not get fussy, can change their expressions perfectly, can defy gravity at will, can defy anatomical limitations at will, and don't cost a penny ever again once they are bought. In other words, the perfect slave that always looks tempting yet never has to be fed or paid ever again. That is the future of human product modeling of images.
As with any good thing, the initial outlay is expensive and the future costs are meager while the profits are pure.
I just watched the trailer (thank god for slashdot articles "from the future") and noticed that not a single one of the characters blinked in the entire preview. Whether it's blinking, or speed of limb movement, or A/V sync, minute body motions are going to continue to separate live action from CGI for a few more years to come. Photorealism exists only in still frames for the time being.
Hmm... "Photorealistic TV series"... now what shows do I remember that fits that bill...
REBOOT REBOOT "Daemon Rising" poster BEAST WARS BEAST MACHINES ACTION MAN (All of the above by MAINFRAME ENTERTAINMENT) MAX STEEL ROUGHNECKS: STARSHIP TROOPERS HEAVY GEAR CUBIX JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS
These are just off the top of my short term memory. Feel free to lengthen my list as I feel I am missing at least 3 shows.
Of course these listed shows were not "Photo Perfect Realism" (MAINFRAME prefers not to render shadows on its main characters to give a "cartoony" feel to them, but if they decided to and were paid enough they could render a perfect human character on a weekly show). The dilemma of that time was with processor speed doubling regularly the investment of more render stations at the current speed means 11 months later they COULD have bought half of those render stations and gotten the same output level. Heck, by REBOOT Season 4 the faster Pentiums had decreased their render times so that they could render 64 times the output that they created at the begin of REBOOT Season 1.
The simple truth is that making a Computer Rendered show that can be mistaken for something filmed in the real world with actors in costumes requires money, talent, fast computers, and great software. At the moment it is cheaper to render a cartoony show and skip the realism for budget and time constraint issues.
No! Now I'm continue to drool over these OLED displays and you sir can have your 120lb CRT displays. I'm sure a lot more of those will start appearing in dumpsters once OLED gets underway.
CBS has a nice story about OLEDs with a shocking video (Realvideo format) of their flexible potential (see sidebar).
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/12/evenin gn ews/main529111.shtml
The trick to posting links that work is to remember that all links begin with a "Left pointing LESS THAN arrow" then the letter "A" followed on the next line by a "href=" with a quote mark, then the actual http:// link, an end quote following that link, and a "Right pointing GREATER THAN arrow" with any text (ergo the "Shocking OLED Flexing" text, which is then followed by a "Left pointing LESS THAN arrow", a "/A", and a "Right pointing GREATER THAN arrow".
Or like this example <A href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/ 2002/11/1 2/eveningnews/main529111.shtml">Shocking OLED FLEXING - write your text description here</A>
(Notice the SLASHDOT space break in the HTML link above? If you write up your own text in the space following the link then the link will be clickable and unbroken.)
(And it was interesting to note that to get past the SLASHDOT plaintext but still reading HTML codes filter I have to use the "<" for the "<" and ">" for the ">" symbols PLUS the "&" for the "&" symbols. HTML reading of plaintext is bothersome when you have to escape out "&", "<", & ">" in text otherwise they get swallowed as garbage characters in the HTML junk character filter).
For those new to "Plain Old Text" being read as HTML, I suggest you COPY & PASTE this text so you can refer to it later. Otherwise a search for GOOGLE on [ HTML codes ] should fill in the rest of the blanks in your knowledge (I know I picked up some things I missed the first time).
With this knowledge you should be able to post HTTP links correctly now. I personally take my links, copy them to the clipboard, use IE to make a NEW MESSAGE, paste into the blank message (in RICH TEXT - HTML FORMAT), select the SOURCE tab at the bottom, and then copy & paste the link after editing the following text so it doesn't violate SLASHDOT's "No words longer than 40 characters or we stick a space in it" rule which screws HTTP links up to defeat PAGE WIDENING TROLL POSTS.
As an Apple user and Volkswagen driver, I know when someone is gay. I am an authority in determining if someone is homosexual. Tony Blair is definitely a fag. There is no doubt in my mind that Tony Blair not only sucks penises, he is also the bitch in an anal love relationship with George W. Bush. Tony Blair is so gay, that even my juices get flowing. Someday, I would hope to have my dick sucked by Tony Blair. That is what I think of this. Tony Blair's sucking could be a renewable energy source.
Well then Tony Blair needs some Penis Kleen to make those blowjobs easier. Penis Kleen - Ask for it by name at your local Supermarket.
Slashdot Mirror
So when does it become unethical? If you share it with 3 friends? 4? 5?
42?
Seriously, though, the Napster model wasn't "sharing with friends." It's "sharing with strangers."
If you need a line to draw that isn't "when the copyright holder objects over their unfinished songs showing up on your network," I suggest you use "when you share with strangers".
Honey, the WHOLE WORLD is my buddy. Just don't have them ask me to help them move furniture, house-sit, or loan them money.
For those who don't bother to read the article...[snip]
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.5% finds enlightenment amongst the Crazy Hotness and that guy's bald spot peeking through his hair.
.5% of all comments to this story end up in the dangerous -1 Troll land.
Translation: 95% of
As for the other 5%:
2% skimmed it and didn't see the Crazy Hot Heat as promised and gave up on the picture. Here your work was definitely appreciated.
another 2% understands the Crazy Hot Science Geek lingo and proceeds to write insightful and informative comments on the subject. Here your work goes unappreciated.
The rest troll out, as
In other words, without your dilligent support, there would be readers who would have to actually Read The Article (a thing almost unheard of around here) and the unenlightened would remain unenlightenend, and the Trolls would still roam free, without the other half of the equation balancing out.
So tell me, have you ever thought about politics?
Actually some of us fellow like the "Crazy Hot Science Geek" hairy bear types. So it wasn't entirely deceptive on that front even though the actual page title is "Tiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs". The "Crazy Hot Science Geek" seems fairly handsome, in shape, intelligent, has decently clean hair + skin, functional taste in clothes, etc... all good qualities in a potential sexual partner.
As for the tech, it is basic "putting one concept together with another concept to test a theory" that is the foundation of basic experimentive science with the followup of getting the proper numbers to prove the results are valid. Simple science tends to always follow through with easily replicated results and fast mass-production of product lines. Given those qualities I suspect a fast cash flow to follow and thusly another increase in the "Crazy Hotness" of this "Science Geek". Not too hard to figure these things out I would say.
You got it wrong, the bubbles have a very low heat capacity themselves, it is the formation of the bubbles that bleeds the heat out of the system, the heat of vaporization is enormous compared to the heat capacity of the vapor form for every fluid I have ever heard of... Then the bubbles, now buoyant, float off with lots of heat stored up, they then condense returning their heat to a more traditional, but much larger compared to the chip, heat sink, and the liquid returns to the cycle to vaporize once again...
BTW the flow is laminar, you got that right, but a turbulent flow would actually be more effective, you just can't get a turbulent flow in such a small channel, remember the Reynolds number has the length scale in the numerator... micro-channels will never have turbulent flow with any fluid that does not have a viscosity approaching zero
How about adding in a small fan in the liquid before it hits the microchannels?
That way you'd have:
[ fan and heat sink on exterior of chip ]
[ top of liquid containment chamber ]
[ bubble release chamber ]
[ microchannel stalks ]
[ liquid spot before microchannel ]
[ turbulence zone + circulation fan ]
[ liquid spot under fan for bubble formation ]
[ bottom of liquid containment chamber ]
[ the chip to be cooled ]
The current design eliminates the fan addition you have suggested.
Another choice should be instead of a circular rotating fan perhaps a waving fan design that resembles sunshade blinds waving to and fro for turbulence and to prevent a steam buildup zone.
That way each cycle on the sunshade blind fan would sweep in a left - right - left - right motion.
The only other obvious solution would be to create spikes on the bubble formation surface to disrupt a stream layer formation.
1 1 1
1 1 1
1 1 1
^_^_^
That way the steam would force the vapor up the stalks until they hit the bubble transfer microchannel stalks.
How dare you spit on the graves of the millions who died so that you can post on this site. How dare you spit on the grave of the millions of jews who were massacred by the Germans. How dare you spit on the graves of the millions who sacrificed everything they had to support this country during the war.
Comparing Bush to Hitler is a disgusting display of your ignorance of history. I demand an apology on behalf of all those you ungraciously insulted and demeaned.
Aren't you the most pathetic little PSYOPS GOP=KGB WHOREBOY yet? Perhaps a comparison between SUPERFRAUD Bush and IDI AMIN is more too your liking. Both are regarded as being dead from the neck up and both distracted their opponents by being the buffoon long enough to slit the laughing person's throat. Both are really ignorant and have played that ignorance up to hideous levels so as to distract and disarm the force of their opponent's willpower.
However, the USA-PATRIOT-DEATHCAMP-ENABLING-ACT duplicates absolutely the horrible laws of the Nazi murder & steal movement. Here is a statement that any sane person will recognize, "Hitler did not televise the DEATHCAMPS on TV. He knew that doing so would offend the useful fools that supported him unquestioningly up to now." SUPERFRAUD Bush would not televise the DEATHCAMPS of today either and the GOP=KGB WHORE MEDIA would also refuse to tell the truth to the public either.
We are a BIG NATION. An entire city of people can be slaughtered in a day with no one the wiser. If then the people that question what happened to the slaughtered town show up, the USA-PATRIOT-DEATHCAMP-ENABLING-ACT empowers the GOP=KGB WHORES to seize the questioners under "anti-terrorist" reasons quietly and execute them secretly. Remember that the Attorney General can deny ever American their citizenship instantly now, kidnap anyone, execute that person in complete secrecy, and dispose of the body ALL LEGALLY RIGHT NOW. Does anyone reading this here think John "Satan's Devoted Whore" Ashcroft is above abusing that power when he has gladly abused every power given him before?
The logical conclusion is that YES there are DEATHCAMPS operating RIGHT NOW and kidnapping innocents and murdering them RIGHT NOW because that is what the GOP=KGB WHORES want so they can rob America's National Treasury under the illusion of war, forcefully bankrupt the nation entirely, and seize the property of all Americans at whim while executing the owners of said property.
Know your murderers America.
Are they the "tree-hugging" Liberals or the "make everyone into a criminal" Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminals?
Who will imprison you unjustly and steal your property? The "Save the Whales" crowd or the "Lock and Load" GOP-KGB WHORES?
Who is more nuts? The "Recycle your Bottles" Liberals or the "Ronnie ROTTEN Reagan was right in smuggling cocaine into America so we could smuggle guns to the Contras and use George H.W. Opium/Cocaine/BCCI/Money-Laundering Bush to fund the GOP=KGB rise to power"?
I see the most crooked, evil, sinister, rotten, lousy, shameful, horrible, lying, stealing, whoring, insane, inbred, bunch of sub-human trash currently occupying the White House and GOP-KGB WHORES like you cheer them on with your dim-witted hands clapping like flippers on a seal.
Go back to HELL and take your Son-of-Moloch SUPERFRAUD Bush demon-baby with you.
News flash. Congress has been split(Senate) or in control of Republicans since 1994.
Presidency since 2000( Bush won after 5 recounts ).
Whos is losing control again? I think its the leftists.
Go get that trachea shaved some more Lanky Skanky Ann "The Man" Coulter. Your lies don't cut it here. The recounts were constantly interrupted by SUPERFRAUD Criminal Traitor Mass-Murderer Sadistic Satanist Cannibal-Child-Molester Fraud President George Worthless Bush and his lawsuit-happy James Baker. SUPERFRAUD Bush sued and sued and sued to stall the recounts while KKK-Distraction-Clown Katherine Harris was busy ballot-tampering more votes up under SUPERFRAUD Bush's Criminal Traitor Mafia-Cocaine-Slut Jeb Bush's orders.
The ACTUAL hand recount was completed in the summer of 2001 but then SUPERFRAUD Bush (after whoring out the Lincoln Bedroom to his PIONEER donors for $100,000 donations, and after having more of his ENRON buddies play "Let's ram a Japanese fishing boat with an American nuclear submarine and kill all aboard", and letting ENRON black out California with their criminal scams along with jacking up energy prices across the nation for 3 months, and having John "Satan's Devoted Whore" Ashcroft go masturbate frantically with Crisco while Arthur Anderson Accounting shredded criminal evidence in dumptruck-sized shredding machines while ENRON followed suit, and saying "Arsenic is just dandy for America's kiddies, etc... outrage after outrage) went on vacation for a full month in August despite having repeated warnings about a terrorist attack (which SUPERFRAUD Bush funded with taxpayer dollars to the tune of $42 million dollars) and then when the World Trade Centers burned to the ground SUPERFRAUD Bush was later heard to joke in a room full of Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminals "Meanwhile in North Carolina pResident Bush jokes about hitting the Trifecta:
Remarks by the President to Robin Hayes for Congress and Elizabeth Dole for Senate North Carolina Republican Party Luncheon
"And we've got a job to do at home, as well. You know, I was campaigning in Chicago and somebody asked me, is there ever any time where the budget might have to go into deficit? I said only if we were at war or had a national emergency or were in recession. (Laughter.) Little did I realize we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.) But we're fine."
Sure... mass-murder and a ruined economy are always HILARIOUS! What a jolly bunch of HIDEOUS HORRIBLE GHOULS these Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminals must be!
Go back to HELL you shit-eating GOP=KGB WHORE and take the Son of a Demon SUPERFRAUD Bush with you.
Not bad... that would also invalidate every employment non-disclosure agreement I've ever seen...
All I can say is that if someone wants me to keep a secret after I no longer work for them they better PAY ME EVERY DAMN DAY I KEEP MY MY MOUTH SHUT or their secrets are going to fly fast and free.
Otherwise what is the bargain? I am no longer paid, BUT I have to keep their secrets quiet FOR FREE?!? That is totally fucked up.
No way in heck am I going to keep working for them if they refuse to keep paying me to work for them. FREE Non-Disclosure Agreements? Hell no. What a scam for babies and fools to keep another schmuck's business plan intact when they are not receiving any monetary reward in return.
That is as bad as the GOP=KGB WHORES that bend over everytime Bill Gates is bouncing around with a boner for their bondage. Some people love to be abused, but I refuse to play GOP=KGB WHORE for anyone especially Microsoft.
Agreed. The whole point is that Google distinguished themselves AS a search engine... and the minimalist interface and understated, clearly delineated text ads reinforce that idea. Yahoo!, on the other hand, was all about being a portal. When you hear Yahoo! you do not think "search," at least I don't. Never did, frankly.
I went to Yahoo's front page just now (first time in a LONG time I'd been there) and what did I get: jobs, chat, travel, ads, directories, ads, news, ads, groups, ads... It's a mess, frankly. A positive assessment would be "one stop shop," which is I'm sure what they want me to think, but my reaction is "you can do twelve things at once but they're all badly done."
A few cumulative hours of research and a well-organized favorites list makes a Portal completely redundant. Yahoo! would never exist if they tried to start up today with their business model. What they have now is name recognition, leftover juice from the bubble, and a certain amount of inertia.
Agreed. GOOGLE wins with the timeless truth, "Less is MORE." and "KISS = Keep It Simple Successfully."
GOOGLE wins easily because they appear to give a damn about their service. The big questions on everyones' lips is, "How long can they keep it simple and honest?" and "When they stumble, just how badly will this giant squish me?"
This reminds me of an unforgettable saga involving Roger Penrose and toilet paper. Apparently, Penrose invented something called a nonrepeating tesselation. (Which I gather is some kind of pattern on a plane which can not be mapped to itself by shifting.) One fine day Penrose (claimed to have) found the pattern on a piece of toilet paper. What did he do? Why, sue the toilet paper company for copyright violation of course! You can read about it here [gwu.edu]. It absolutely cracked me up the first time I heard it.
At first read I thought you were shitting me, but doing a GOOGLE confirmed it. Roger Penrose is a pissy little asshole apparently. How sad that someone so smart as Penrose can be a pissy little asshole.
People, Places & Things in the News
One of Britain's most distinguished mathematicians is suing Kimberly-Clark, claiming the company is using his copyright design on its Kleenex quilted toilet paper.
The suit brought by Sir Roger Penrose, a professor of mathematics at Oxford University, alleges that the company is using a pattern that has the same overall appearance as "the Penrose Pattern." Mr. Penrose devised the complex design in the 1970s.
Mr. Penrose is best known for his work with Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University on relativity, black holes and the question of whether time has a beginning. They concluded that it does.
The suit asks for the return of all copies of the pattern and the surrender or destruction of all articles and documents using the design. It also seeks unspecified damages.
Penrose Tiling v. Kleenex
What patent or copyright issues relating to computer software do this controversy suggest? Any IP paper on this subject will be considered acceptable in terms of subject matter if it manages to bring in {Baker v. Selden and/or The Rubber Tip Pencil Case} and computer software.
1. Last December, Sir Roger Penrose, the eminent British mathematician, came face to face with his own copyrighted polygon pattern in Kleenex quilted toilet paper. When his wife returned from the market with the embossed rolls, Penrose expressed "astonishment and dismay" upon seeing the use to which his discovery had been put.
Penrose devised the nonrepeating five-fold symmetrical pattern in the 1970s by using two kinds of diamond shapes--fat and thin--to create what is now called Penrose tiling. The pattern, which was thought not to exist in nature before Penrose's discovery, has subsequently been found in many physical and biological phenomena.
According to the British newspaper, The Independent, the pattern "has deeper mathematical implications because it fits halfway between chaos and orderliness and is one of a family of noncomputable problems." Noncomputability is a key concept needed to understand consciousness, according to Penrose's best-selling book The Emperor's New Mind.)
Mrs. Penrose first recognized the pattern on the loo paper in the store and brought it to her husband's attention. "He wasn't pleased," said Penrose's lawyer, as quoted in The Wall Street Journal. So Penrose and Pentaplex Ltd., the Yorkshire, England, company that owns the licensing rights to the Penrose pattern, filed a lawsuit against Kimberly-Clark for breach of copyright.
I've since tried, unsuccessfully, to find the embossed Penrose pattern in Kleenex's U.S. tissue, which although quilted doesn't offer the aperiodic design that reflects Penrose's geometric findings. The quilted British tissue is embossed with the pentagonal pattern to make it "thicker and softer," according to Kimberly-Clark literature. Penrose's writ argues that making the tissue fluffier enables manufacturers to reduce the amount of paper used on each roll. "But, if the pattern repeats itself, the tissue would likely bunch up, looking unattractive," the sui
I'd rather have a toilet roll holder that could notify someone when it was (almost) empty. Would be nice for public or semi-public places like schools etc.
Wouldn't it be better to create a high volume holder which locks securely at the top and has multiple dowels which retract out of the way when the previous roll is empty and holds multiple rolls. The other better choice is a system which dispenses Kleenex style with an accordian folding style stack.
Heck, if you just want something that beeps when empty then it would be easy enough to have a timed infrared battery powered sensor which powers on once per 10 minutes for 5 seconds, checks the remaining toilet paper quantity, and then shuts off if toilet paper remains or sends a signal out if empty.
Did you even read the SC's decision? They ruled (rightfully so!) that the Democrat's recounting of select areas of Florida (the poor and mostly democratic counties, oddly enough) gave those votes more weight, thus lessening the value of all the other votes of the state. Basically if the Dems had been crying for a complete statewide recount (which btw the bush camp was doing) they would have been fine. Instead they tried to skew the results in their favor and it fucked them in the end.
Before you even try to argue with me, imagine if every state was forced under pressure from the republicans to recount the ballets from white upper-class neighborhoods.
Try this... the Florida Supreme Court DID decide to do a FULL STATEWIDE RECOUNT until the Supreme WHORE Court stepped in and decided that a FULL STATEWIDE RECOUNT would "Irreparably Harm" SUPERFRAUD Bush.
You lose again GOP-KGB WHORE.
Florida Supreme Court recount ruling
On December 12, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Florida Supreme Court ruling ordering a full statewide hand recount of all undervotes not yet tallied. The U.S. Supreme Court action effectively ratified Florida election officials' determination that Bush won by a few hundred votes out of more than 6 million cast.
Bush Rejects Gore Offer of Statewide Hand Recount
NewsMax.com Wires - Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2000 (From a GOP-KGB WHOREBOY page)
George W. Bush tonight called for the Florida vote recounting to end and for the acceptance of the vote totals Friday, when overseas ballots are due.
He rejected Vice President Al Gore's two plans for settling the Florida vote recount. Earlier in the evening Gore promised:
* If Republicans allowed manual recounts to continue in Democrat-dominated Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, he would accept the final tally of those results added to the certified results from 64 other counties and overseas absentee ballots, due by midnight Friday.
* Or, "I am also prepared, if Gov. Bush prefers, to include in this recount all the counties in the entire state of Florida,'' Gore said.
"I would also be willing to abide by that result and agree not to take any legal action to challenge that result.''
"We need a resolution that will be both fair and just," Gore, appearing with running mate Joe Lieberman, told reporters from the vice presidential residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory. in Washington.
Democrat Gore offered to meet with Texas Republican Gov. Bush.
"I propose that Gov. Bush and I meet personally, one on one, as soon as possible, before the vote count is finished, not to negotiate but to improve the tone of our dialogue in America.''
"I am willing to go to his house or meet him wherever he wants to meet, not to negotiate but to improve the tone of our dialogue in America," Gore said.
Gore said that, in addition to an immediate meeting, he and Bush should meet again once the election is settled "to reaffirm our national unity.''
"If I turn out to be successful, I'll be ready to travel to Governor Bush's home. If I am not, I'll be ready to meet him wherever he wishes,'' Gore said.
Gore said he was trying to honor the Constitution.
"This is the time to respect every voter and every vote,'' he said.
"This is the time to honor the true will of the people. So our goal must be what is right for America.''
(I can also list the text where Katherine "The Distraction KKK-Clown" Harris had her paid Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminal cronies correct incorrect military ballots for the GOP side and discard the Democrat military ballots. Then there is the matter of the fickle deadline and the GOP-KGB WHORE CHOICEPOINT scam with a 97% INCORRECT voter disqualification list which was paid for with $2 million in taxpayer dollars).
So, you would have favored simply recounting and recounting until the vote turned out how you like it?
How about getting the votes HAND COUNTED at least ONCE!
Sorry you little GOP-KGB WHORE but you LOSE.
Sending the ballots through a machine is not counting the votes. It is repeating the same damn errors that fucked up the system in the first place. The machines are a quicker way to tabulate the votes, but they are NOT THE VOTERS and they are not perfect. Since there was ample proof of outright FRAUD and BALLOT TAMPERING by Katherine "The Distraction KKK-Clown" Harris the ballot process was corrupted and in violation of the Florida "Sunshine Law" which requires the intent of the voter to be served.
Having SUPERFRAUD Bush lie and lie about his goals yet SUE CONSTANTLY further invalidates your lies you little "Axis of Weasel" GOP-KGB WHORE. The final corrupt Supreme WHORE Court decision to deny a full statewide hand count of the ballots (which until that time had been denied and delayed CONSTANTLY by SUPERFRAUD Bush's Criminal Traitor Cronies) and hand the election to SUPERFRAUD Bush simply proves (along with the constant treason by the Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminal Party) that we American citizens can no longer trust the ballots to be machine counted ever again. I would rather have accuracy over speed when the stakes are as dire as the constant assault on America's freedoms by the Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminal Party crooks.
The point is that the GOP-KGB WHORES are many and our freedoms are ever diminishing under the OUTRAGEOUS TREASON that the GOP-KGB WHORES have unleashed under their Anti-American Anti-Human Anti-Christ agenda. I warned the Slashdot readers about this a few times already and it seems to have taken quite long for them to wake up and smell the TERROR that comes from Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminal rule. The Satanic Child of Moloch is 67% out of the womb and the GOP-KGB WHORES are the gleeful nursemaids to the birth. The DEATHCAMPS are already gearing up to run at full capacity and only us Americans can stop this NOW if we wake up and smell the stench of the charred human flesh from the GOP-KGB WHORE-operated DEATHCAMPS.
Like hell it does. Must we resort to bashing other image editors to make our own look better?
... CorelDRAW, Canvas, Photoshop, Fireworks, and even the GIMP. They've all got their markets. But to state unequivocally that an application sucks (without any reasons, besides!) is just bloody stupid.
I'm a professional designer, and I prefer PSP to any other editor merely for its near-flawless integration of vector and bitmap tools. Yes, I've used them all
I also own PaintShop Pro too, but it is flawed badly on handling layers and vector objects (Ulead's paint program is many times better at that, but the trial version of #8 I downloaded recently is SLOW now and not worth the cash).
My new favorite paint program for vector & bitmap is REAL DRAW PRO3. The pure wonderfulness of this program is that you can paint directly on a vector object and add multiple effects and there are some great vector editing tools (though for some reason it lacks a SMOOTH vector object command AND it lacks a basic "Draw spline" to draw a series of points and connect them with a rubber band curve AND for some inane reason doesn't change vector lines to "curve" or "line" at the line corners but at points ending or starting the line which makes editing awkward). The greatness of this program cannot be stated easily here so I recommend a visit to the website and download the TRIAL version.
mediachance.com/realdraw/
It could use better paint tools, some basic bitmap tweaking functions (smear, blur, smooth, etc..) for the paint tools, and some options I've already suggested to the programmer along the lines of more direct effect map editing as is already done with direct transparency map painting (painting on the bump maps directly, painting on the lens maps, adding in height map painting and vector fills) and adding in a flood fill option, object hierarchies, fixing the rotate option to allow rotation of grouped objects, fixing the magic texture tool to allow mapping rotation and perspective options, making the menus a bit more consistent, etc...
Otherwise it is one damn nice proggy.
It is nice to use a program that acts like I want it too overall.
An overview of what the program can do from the REALDRAW PRO3 history page
1. if you are an honest person, you wouldn't care about them knowing public details about you.
;p
2. credit cards have already recorded all this information already, now you know they keep it (it was already being kept silly, just for when they COULD legally do it.)
3. just remember, to monitor every one of you little punks, they have to have their own little punk at the computer going through it.
this isn't a law yet, its still "proposed" so for all you chicken little people, read the damned article. its less than 3 pages. big print. small words.
i'd watch out for that law in oregon about blocking the roads = terrorism = 25 yrs prison
Sure, I'll be comfortable when you post your credit card number, home address, phone number, the entire list of your sexual partners, any undocumented crimes, etc...
I guess you have never heard of anonymous harassment and identity theft. Even a tiny bit of personal information can be exploited to horrible extremes by someone wishing to abuse that information.
Two provisos with this:
1, Do not hot swap of an ordinary IDE controller. You will bork it.
2, Do not put a swap partition onto a flash drive. You will find out REAL FAST how quickly you can get through 1 million writes.
Dave
Amen. I have a Minolta Dimage 5 camera and I wondered why the right side of it gets so hot. So I pull out the Compact Flash card and it is DAMN HOT! If someone used this as a IDE swap partition I rather suspect that it would rapidly become a fire hazard if it did not completely immolate its innards.
I have been wondering whether the other storage formats get as toasty on the inside.
I wonder what will hang between quotes when we write - George " ....... " Bush ?
George WORTHLESS Bush describes the SUPERFRAUD more than enough.
Otherwise the most accurate name I have for him is Criminal Traitor Mass-Murderer Sadistic Satanist Lifetime-Cocaine-Addict Pathological-Liar Lunatic-Cannibal Fraud President George WORTHLESS Bush.
However, for fast reference I just go with the well-earned title of SUPERFRAUD Bush. What else would any sane person call a nutball who uses the Idi Amin tactic of being really stupid and lazy while pretending to be MORE STUPID than he really is while pretending to be a "compassionate" "conservative" yet using the Anti-American methods of Adolph Hitler, Stalin, and Richard Nixon against America with his GOP=KGB WHORE attack on America with the USA-PATRIOT-DEATHCAMP-ENABLING-ACT? SUPERFRAUD Bush has shown all of the thinking Americans and the entire world through his CRIMINAL TRAITOR actions that he and his entire GOP=KGB WHORE CULT of Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminals that their words mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING while their actions prove them beyond all doubt wicked, dangerous, and insane. America can only survive if it purges itself of the vile ilk of the Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminal Party until the Republican Party can prove itself not to be irrevocably corrupted by insane weasels cloaked in stolen human skin. The Criminal Traitor Republican Traitor Criminal Party has proven itself the Satanic "Axis of Weasels".
Do you plan on using that oven for food later?
How about having kids with only two eyes?
Very good point that some may have overlooked.
DO NOT USE THE TOASTER OVER FOR FOOD COOKING AFTER MELTING LEAD INSIDE IT
Lead fumes from a previous soldering session can vaporize off the oven walls, stick to the food (and all dishware), and poison you slowly - Lead poisoning is NOT fun.
GOOGLE [ Lead Poisoning ]
Thank you for bringing this up.
it will cost a very large amount of money to re-train all of your NT people to Linux, it's called Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
this is the biggest blatant lie I have ever heard.
Let's see MCSE training every year is $3500.00 every 2 years to keep the certifications PER employee. RHCE is Much less and the other linuxes are the same.
The TCO of the switch is less than maintaining the current level of training for Microsoft.
Unless your company doesn't care about training and certification. Microsoft recommends MCSE's are trained every year. are you saying that microsoft is lying to us?
And if they pay the fee and are audited regularly they can even achieve MCSE Level OT(3). After that you will no longer have to pay for sick days as their now non-reactive mind will have gained the power to heal itself without the pill-poisons that the Psychs force upon the non-Clear WOGs. For another $7000.00 per year we can bring your MCSE Servants up to Level OT(4). At MCSE Level OT(4) they will be rid of half of their Thetan parasites and gain the ability to Audit lesser MCSE Level OT(3)'s and even earn a handsome profit. Best of all when your MCSE Level OT(4)'s are Audited to Level OT(5) they gain the ability to stop time and FLY! Imagine the money they will save commuting and only at the cost of $14,000.00 per year. If you are willing to go the limit and rid your MCSE Servants of all their Thetans parasitically sapping their true powers you can bring them to MCSE Level OT(8) for the cost of $112,000 a year and they will be able to move through time at will and reshape the universe to their whims. Curse Xenu for implanting us with the WOG curse. Thanks to L-Ron I can now drink Drano while being only at MCSE Level OT(4). It tastes great. The Psychs are lying to you all!
(Hey, I couldn't resist. The whole MCSE scam and the Scientology scam sound so much alike and cost ratios are probably cheaper in my poking. By the way, for any Scientology drones reading here - drinking Drano is a certain prolonged painful death as the strong alkaline will destroy your intestines from the inside and kill you with agonizing septic shock. No "Happy Thought" lie will prevent that. For any Scientology drone that does choose to prove the "faith" then so be it - Welcome to the Darwin Awards - Don't be the weakest link).
Read VALIS by Philip K Dick. The similarities are amazing. They are both a telling of the same basic story, but VALIS is much more interesting.
Oh I don't know. There are many possible precursors to THE MATRIX. I read one book where the population spent most of their time in Cyber-Reality and when they decided to give up on the real world they uploaded their minds and the robots hauled the bodies off for cremation. This left the Earth heavily depopulated and in bad disrepair along with a Evangelical anti-tech movement taking control.
I read another one where THE MATRIX could have started as a virtual prison housing inmates with a healthy artificial reality reforming the inmates during the course of their imprisonment with little cost to the taxpayer and few discipline problems (the inmates each had their own individually tailored realities which excluded all of the other inmates).
I could conceive a nursing home or even a clone farm serving as the precursor to THE MATRIX. It could even be an online gaming service that got out of control or a method to house the disabled while giving them full benefits to enjoy and prosper despite their physical hindrances.
Personally I like the first ANIMATRIX short showing that the robots by far were more moral and mature than humans overall (it is feasible that we would want the best qualities of human beings in the best imitations of human beings that we would manufacture as we do want the best from our children despite their organic construction). In the end, the robots still behaved maturely and tried to simply request the simple dignity and politeness that any human being would prefer for their dedicated and polite service. However, we are entering THE MATRIX movie during the stage where THE MATRIX guardians have shifted from defensive protection of its occupants to aggressive destruction of all trespassers into its systems.
I wonder if they used stock photography again this time?
Does anyone else notice that the "Hacker" looks almost like Bill Gates?
(Although if Microsoft started marketing under the blurb, "Microsoft now has devoted itself to protect you from the evil greedy grasping twitching fingers of Bill Gates and all of the rest of Microsoft's greedy incompetent executives", then that would be a slogan I could place some faith in.)
"Cast a couple of them in some translucent resin"
Yeah, like it's that easy. Have you ever tried to work with acrylic and hardener? It's a MESS. It's the consistency of motor oil and after some air exposure it starts to get sticky. Worse, it smells like paint * 100. Finally, I can guarantee that you WILL NOT be able to 'cast' a sphere. The inside of a small toy ball might be your best bet, but I have my doubts about how the mechanics of the casting process would play out.
Those discouraging words said.... Dude! Give it a try and let us know how it works. Better yet, take some time to think about clever ways to make that casting happen and maybe you can share a new and interesting technique with the rest of us. But before you start too far down this path, go buy a small (8oz) can of liquid acrylic + hardener (expect to pay $15-20 for these) and do some small experiments (more than one!) so that you get a feel for what working with that stuff is like.
Good luck and report back!
Um, you do know you can go down to WallyWorld and pick up a cheap kit. I have seen the Baby Impressions Kit in WallyWorld's craft department.
Check the CRYSTAL KEEPSAKE KIT
(I am certain you can find similar kits under different names online - GOOGLE is your FRIEND so have GOOGLE help you out)
Add in a balloon for the sphere shape while making the mold shape and pop and remove the balloon before casting. Or if you feel this will not give enough "solidness" to the shape you can fill the balloon with water, tape the end shut and when you want to remove it from the sand mold to begin casting, suck the water out with a straw.
With a little imagination a person could cast anything with just a bit of effort (using moist sand to make the mold - adding sugar to the water will give firmness when the sand dries, tamp down the sand, drain the sand, remove the positive object, if you can, then add your molding compounds, and when the mold sets or cooks or cures you can wet the sand, and retrieve your finished item.)
Please note that Silversmiths of Colonial times would use a wax sculpture of the object to be molded, then tamp some sand down in the bottom of a wooden box (to make a sand base for the model), place the wax model in the center, add fine sand carefully to fill up the area around the wax model in the box, pack the sand down gently, and then drain the water off, and then when the sand was dry they would heat up the silver in a cauldron and pour it into the open spout of the sand mold and destroy their wax model. This left a finished silver model after the silver cooled to be smoothed and polished.
Mold and object casting is an interesting art form which I suggest you folks research as you might want to try making some cast art someday.
Hmm... If not using a top model for your shots, it will be a long while before a 30 minute photographing session (with some Photoshop touchups later) will be more expensive than months of meticulous work in creating these 3D models.
Using life human actors is still, for the most part, a lot cheaper than CG.
Except CG Actors do not get fussy, can change their expressions perfectly, can defy gravity at will, can defy anatomical limitations at will, and don't cost a penny ever again once they are bought. In other words, the perfect slave that always looks tempting yet never has to be fed or paid ever again. That is the future of human product modeling of images.
As with any good thing, the initial outlay is expensive and the future costs are meager while the profits are pure.
I just watched the trailer (thank god for slashdot articles "from the future") and noticed that not a single one of the characters blinked in the entire preview. Whether it's blinking, or speed of limb movement, or A/V sync, minute body motions are going to continue to separate live action from CGI for a few more years to come. Photorealism exists only in still frames for the time being.
Hmm... "Photorealistic TV series"... now what shows do I remember that fits that bill...
REBOOT
REBOOT "Daemon Rising" poster
BEAST WARS
BEAST MACHINES
ACTION MAN
(All of the above by MAINFRAME ENTERTAINMENT)
MAX STEEL
ROUGHNECKS: STARSHIP TROOPERS
HEAVY GEAR
CUBIX
JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS
These are just off the top of my short term memory. Feel free to lengthen my list as I feel I am missing at least 3 shows.
Of course these listed shows were not "Photo Perfect Realism" (MAINFRAME prefers not to render shadows on its main characters to give a "cartoony" feel to them, but if they decided to and were paid enough they could render a perfect human character on a weekly show). The dilemma of that time was with processor speed doubling regularly the investment of more render stations at the current speed means 11 months later they COULD have bought half of those render stations and gotten the same output level. Heck, by REBOOT Season 4 the faster Pentiums had decreased their render times so that they could render 64 times the output that they created at the begin of REBOOT Season 1.
The simple truth is that making a Computer Rendered show that can be mistaken for something filmed in the real world with actors in costumes requires money, talent, fast computers, and great software. At the moment it is cheaper to render a cartoony show and skip the realism for budget and time constraint issues.
No! Now I'm continue to drool over these OLED displays and you sir can have your 120lb CRT displays. I'm sure a lot more of those will start appearing in dumpsters once OLED gets underway.
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CBS has a nice story about OLEDs with a shocking video (Realvideo format) of their flexible potential (see sidebar).
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/12/eveni
This is the clickable link
Shocking OLED Flexing
The trick to posting links that work is to remember that all links begin with a
"Left pointing LESS THAN arrow" then the letter "A" followed on the next line by a "href=" with a quote mark, then the actual http:// link, an end quote following that link, and a "Right pointing GREATER THAN arrow" with any text (ergo the "Shocking OLED Flexing" text, which is then followed by a "Left pointing LESS THAN arrow", a "/A", and a "Right pointing GREATER THAN arrow".
Or like this example
<A
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories
(Notice the SLASHDOT space break in the HTML link above? If you write up your own text in the space following the link then the link will be clickable and unbroken.)
(And it was interesting to note that to get past the SLASHDOT plaintext but still reading HTML codes filter I have to use the "<" for the "<" and ">" for the ">" symbols PLUS the "&" for the "&" symbols. HTML reading of plaintext is bothersome when you have to escape out "&", "<", & ">" in text otherwise they get swallowed as garbage characters in the HTML junk character filter).
For those new to "Plain Old Text" being read as HTML, I suggest you COPY & PASTE this text so you can refer to it later. Otherwise a search for GOOGLE on [ HTML codes ] should fill in the rest of the blanks in your knowledge (I know I picked up some things I missed the first time).
With this knowledge you should be able to post HTTP links correctly now. I personally take my links, copy them to the clipboard, use IE to make a NEW MESSAGE, paste into the blank message (in RICH TEXT - HTML FORMAT), select the SOURCE tab at the bottom, and then copy & paste the link after editing the following text so it doesn't violate SLASHDOT's "No words longer than 40 characters or we stick a space in it" rule which screws HTTP links up to defeat PAGE WIDENING TROLL POSTS.
Actually, if you follow the link to megaprime from ARS, you'll find that the camera is called MegaCam, from the MegaPrime project... ... /index.html (Link works, but Slashdot pushes spaces in words over 40
http://www-dapnia.cea.fr/
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Hmm... what I thought of instantly was the fellow that turned a flatbed scanner into a wide-field still image camera.
Building a megapixel digital camera from a flatbed scanner
And the later revisions in the concept by interested folks with science as their tool of genius.
Industry always begins with hacking existing toys Thus the ultimate reason the DMCA is a BAD BAD BAD law.
Improved Scanning Digital Camera
I see the article is about an array of the imaging sensors with one bigass lens. I guess they'll get a quicker image this way.
As an Apple user and Volkswagen driver, I know when someone is gay. I am an authority in determining if someone is homosexual. Tony Blair is definitely a fag. There is no doubt in my mind that Tony Blair not only sucks penises, he is also the bitch in an anal love relationship with George W. Bush. Tony Blair is so gay, that even my juices get flowing. Someday, I would hope to have my dick sucked by Tony Blair. That is what I think of this. Tony Blair's sucking could be a renewable energy source.
Well then Tony Blair needs some Penis Kleen to make those blowjobs easier.
Penis Kleen - Ask for it by name at your local Supermarket.