Artists have been making montage images for a long time, using pictures within images, objects to make faces, etc. Introductory art classes tend to mention painting styles, of which Seurat'spointillism is always mentioned. Images were made with typewriters also.
In the computer world, in the 1960s the most widely available output device was a "line printer". This was a printer which printed up to 132 characters on each line of 11x17 paper. The printer could be told to stay on the same line, so text could be printer over other previously printed text. There were a large number of images developed to be printed out, including ones which were printed in several columns which had to be joined side-to-side (such as an image of a jet flying over the Golden Gate bridge). Both simple printing and overprinting were used. Here is an example circa 1973; it was such a popular technique that even self-portraits were done with it.
There were programs available for creating "printer art". You'd give the program a two-dimensional matrix of integers with the gray scale value desired for each pixel. The programs simply translated the gray scale numbers to the character (or characters) used for the nearest shade of gray. The programs were particularly convenient if you were one of the few people with some sort of image scanning device.
When ASCII became popular, with Teletypes and 72-80 character timesharing terminals becoming common, the same technology was used there. Some artists preferred to (or didn't know about the programs) manually create the art with text editors (or tools like a 1987 program for creating printer art). Some of the same images appeared on terminals.
Obviously, text characters were used simply for their gray-scale pixel value. The same technology can be used for images, by selecting component images based on brightness and color values.
There are now many ASCII Art sites on the Web. This Conversion Programs information is from this ASCII Art FAQ. An online example of a conversion program is GIF2TXT, which converts any online image -- try giving it that Slashdot logo at the upper left of this page. If you don't get enough ASCII Art links here, try the ASCII Art WebRing.
The company also falsely claimed the i-opener could provide complete Internet functionality, when in fact it could not process multimedia features like digital music and video or run software available over the Internet, the FTC said.
Well, maybe it can't do that with the software which the company chose for the i-opener.
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Furthermore, we have interesting statistics which tells us that in situations where guns are fired, armed citizens are significantly less likely to shoot the wrong person than police officers.
Doesn't surprise me. Victims of crime who shoot their attackers in self-defense would indeed tend to shoot criminals.
(I'm assuming most of these civilian shootings are self-defense rather than other situations -- as is the case with situations which I've read about.)
Wouldn't cloning cause each body to now have only one half as many thetans? So one could get the number of thetans down to a single one by cloning oneself sufficient times. Not that it would matter to the clones which grow up not knowing Scientology...
Hmm... those food colorings are dye dissolved in alcohol. Although the dye is used on organic materials (food), if the dye dissolves in alcohol then it may be carried into the surface of an alcohol-dissolvable plastic. Alcohol might work better on plastic...depending upon the plastic.
Hey, my first thought was "Those anti-geneticists and environmentalists each need their own planets to run the way that they want. Play well with others or get off this planet."
Apparently there is no written trouble isolation procedure: People just used their network skills to try to find a problem.
Apparently OSDN does not have something like "mon", "Big Brother", or "Spong" monitoring all the equipment and links. Or if they do, they didn't mention looking at the screen and seeing the flashing red "Failure" icons on some equipment.
Apparently the network staff had to be manually paged, due to not having any of the aforementioned monitoring tools.
Science college students may know this as a "Lab Notebook"; there actually is a course which tells you write everything down and suggests the types of format and details to include.
It's worse than just the font choice. I've been reading it, amused that all those who defend Microsoft are using Microsoft proprietary characters. All of their comments have distracting garbled characters, reminding me about Microsoft's treatment of standards and lack of concern for user's data.
Of course, a UPS or constant-voltage transformers can also be put on devices to give a different style of protection. (As I mentioned everything else, I should have mentioned this too...)
Yes, you can put a "lightning arrestor" on your cables -- this tries to divert a direct strike or near miss, mainly to prevent fires.
Also put in a surge suppressor on your circuit breaker panel. A whole-house suppressor is slower than the type used on a power strip, but can handle much more power. This will divert large surges, and is actually to protect the smaller surge protectors.
Finally, use the power-strip style surge protectors. These are delicate fast-acting suppresors which can protect your devices from minor surges.
Here is a description of this multilevel protection.
Yes, if a lightning bolt hits your house you have to assume all your electronics are destroyed. Any spark with enough power to jump across several miles of air isn't going to be stopped by any insulators or suppresors. The cables to ground which are used in lightning rods and arrestors simply try to provide an easier route for the main bolt to follow. Despite that, the ground around your house will briefly have an electrical charge of hundreds or thousands of volts, and all your electrical equipment is connected to ground through the third wire as well as through one of the two "power" leads. There are plenty of opportunities for undesirable current flow in this situation. Go ahead and install lightning protection, but also protect against the more likely surges from nearby strikes.
...because you'll find going to the bank is inconvenient, have a little box in your car to put your backups in. As soon as you make a new backup, take it out to the car. There's a better chance of the backup surviving when it's in the car than in the house -- unless your car catches fire in the garage and that's what burns down your house.
In non-visible(IR or UV, I forget) light, it was brighter than plain corn at the same stage of development.
That reminds me that a few years ago a researcher noticed that areas with known gold deposits were showing a certain coloration on satellite pictures. To find out what material on the surface was producing this sensor reading, he used a brute force approach: he drove out to the nearest such area with a duplicate of the satellite sensor, and waved it around until he found a rock which was giving the mystery reading. Then he had a sample to identify in the lab.
If you look on Terraserver, you'll find public aerial photographs for sale in addition to their satellite photos. The aerial photographs have resolution good enough that I can see that there used to be a tree by my house, and at a former NSA satellite spy site I could see that some of the dishes are mounted on towers. If someone was lying down, they'd be visible...in one or two pixels.
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In the computer world, in the 1960s the most widely available output device was a "line printer". This was a printer which printed up to 132 characters on each line of 11x17 paper. The printer could be told to stay on the same line, so text could be printer over other previously printed text. There were a large number of images developed to be printed out, including ones which were printed in several columns which had to be joined side-to-side (such as an image of a jet flying over the Golden Gate bridge). Both simple printing and overprinting were used. Here is an example circa 1973; it was such a popular technique that even self-portraits were done with it.
There were programs available for creating "printer art". You'd give the program a two-dimensional matrix of integers with the gray scale value desired for each pixel. The programs simply translated the gray scale numbers to the character (or characters) used for the nearest shade of gray. The programs were particularly convenient if you were one of the few people with some sort of image scanning device.
When ASCII became popular, with Teletypes and 72-80 character timesharing terminals becoming common, the same technology was used there. Some artists preferred to (or didn't know about the programs) manually create the art with text editors (or tools like a 1987 program for creating printer art). Some of the same images appeared on terminals.
Obviously, text characters were used simply for their gray-scale pixel value. The same technology can be used for images, by selecting component images based on brightness and color values.
There are now many ASCII Art sites on the Web. This Conversion Programs information is from this ASCII Art FAQ. An online example of a conversion program is GIF2TXT, which converts any online image -- try giving it that Slashdot logo at the upper left of this page. If you don't get enough ASCII Art links here, try the ASCII Art WebRing.
Plug it in and hope it never works.
Can't we just pay Dr. Evil six million dollars if he'll go away?
(I'm assuming most of these civilian shootings are self-defense rather than other situations -- as is the case with situations which I've read about.)
Wouldn't cloning cause each body to now have only one half as many thetans? So one could get the number of thetans down to a single one by cloning oneself sufficient times. Not that it would matter to the clones which grow up not knowing Scientology...
They can clone me when they can pry my memories out of my hard, thick skull.
Hmm... those food colorings are dye dissolved in alcohol. Although the dye is used on organic materials (food), if the dye dissolves in alcohol then it may be carried into the surface of an alcohol-dissolvable plastic. Alcohol might work better on plastic...depending upon the plastic.
The linked page also spelled "otter" wrong. Although I didn't know anyone was making casings for otters.
(I tend to agree, a water-based dye doesn't seem like the right tool for the job; maybe someone else's comment has a good solution. Pun intended.)
If their server requires a "beta" version, that's the production version.
Someone should remind Napster of the difference between "Beta" and "Production" quality.
"All these worlds are yours..."
Oh, yeah, tomatoes are a fruit. Get them out of the Vegetables Aisle!
Apparently OSDN does not have something like "mon", "Big Brother", or "Spong" monitoring all the equipment and links. Or if they do, they didn't mention looking at the screen and seeing the flashing red "Failure" icons on some equipment.
Apparently the network staff had to be manually paged, due to not having any of the aforementioned monitoring tools.
So that means that someone on the Slashdot staff was reading Slashdot at 2 A.M.?
Science college students may know this as a "Lab Notebook"; there actually is a course which tells you write everything down and suggests the types of format and details to include.
It's worse than just the font choice. I've been reading it, amused that all those who defend Microsoft are using Microsoft proprietary characters. All of their comments have distracting garbled characters, reminding me about Microsoft's treatment of standards and lack of concern for user's data.
Of course, a UPS or constant-voltage transformers can also be put on devices to give a different style of protection. (As I mentioned everything else, I should have mentioned this too...)
Also put in a surge suppressor on your circuit breaker panel. A whole-house suppressor is slower than the type used on a power strip, but can handle much more power. This will divert large surges, and is actually to protect the smaller surge protectors.
Finally, use the power-strip style surge protectors. These are delicate fast-acting suppresors which can protect your devices from minor surges.
Here is a description of this multilevel protection.
Yes, if a lightning bolt hits your house you have to assume all your electronics are destroyed. Any spark with enough power to jump across several miles of air isn't going to be stopped by any insulators or suppresors. The cables to ground which are used in lightning rods and arrestors simply try to provide an easier route for the main bolt to follow. Despite that, the ground around your house will briefly have an electrical charge of hundreds or thousands of volts, and all your electrical equipment is connected to ground through the third wire as well as through one of the two "power" leads. There are plenty of opportunities for undesirable current flow in this situation. Go ahead and install lightning protection, but also protect against the more likely surges from nearby strikes.
...because you'll find going to the bank is inconvenient, have a little box in your car to put your backups in. As soon as you make a new backup, take it out to the car. There's a better chance of the backup surviving when it's in the car than in the house -- unless your car catches fire in the garage and that's what burns down your house.
Particularly because the amount of water vapor has increased.
If you look on Terraserver, you'll find public aerial photographs for sale in addition to their satellite photos. The aerial photographs have resolution good enough that I can see that there used to be a tree by my house, and at a former NSA satellite spy site I could see that some of the dishes are mounted on towers. If someone was lying down, they'd be visible...in one or two pixels.