IT is not a profession. calling yourself a "professional" might make you feel like you are just as good as a doctor or lawyer, but it doesn't make it true. every halfwit from management on down to the cleaning staff calls himself a professional. you are more akin to a skilled tradesman. only there is no licensing test for IT personnel like there is for plumbers, engineers, and so forth. So your prospective employer feels he needs to make sure he is going to get his money's worth out of you somehow.
this is really a very small incremental improvement over their 39 mpix sensor. to double the resolution of a sensor, you need to quadruple the pixels. and memory bandwidth and image processing power is becoming a huge limitation with these things, the uncompressed image from these is like 150 MB. the $30000.00 39 mpix back has a 3 second shot-to-shot delay, so it is really only useful for studio work.
just steal a bunch of those ugly little garden lights. i'm sure that with those, a roll of duct tape and some speaker wire, you could figure a way to rig something up.
someone where i work decided it would be a good idea to make hand turkeys to decorate the place for thanksgiving. fucking hand turkeys. when i pointed out that the last time i made a hand turkey was kindergarten, i was told i was a spoilsport and accused of thinking i was too good for the place. so objecting to an activity usually reserved for kids in daycare makes me an elitist snob. where's my rocket launcher...
*sighs* - I bet he's skeptical about anthropomorphic climate change too yes, the climate is beginning to look more human isn't it? i thought i was the only one who noticed.
you must be nuts to recommend an apo on a $1000 budget. a good one will be at least 4x that. you can buy a decent 8" newtonian, some eyepieces and a pair of decent 80 mm binos for less than $1000, and those are going to be way more versatile than an apo refractor. you might even have some left over to buy a cheap 35 mm camera and make a barn door mount to take pictures of the sky, which is your best bet for entry level astrophotography.
Jericho was a steaming pile of crap. Annoying characters, the worst dialog since Titanic, And don't even get me started on that music. Anyone joining a campaign to save it needs to have their head checked.
The whole point of a HUD is that you don't have to shift focus between the display and objects in the environment. In aircraft HUDs, the image is collimated, so it appears to be focused wherever the pilot happens to be looking at the time. This can't be achieved by simply putting a transparent monitor on the windscreen in front of your eyes, it requires a projection system. The type of display they are talking about here would not be much better than a regular instrument panel, because you would still need to shift focus from the outside environment to the windscreen. The same goes for a targeting system built into goggles, it would be useless because you would need to shift your focus to the targeting display a few inches from your eye to the target several hundred meters away.
japan has had them for quite a while. i encountered one in a restaurant in kanazawa nearly 20 years ago in 1987. never having seen a computer-controlled toilet before, and unable to read japanese, i had a hell of a time trying to figure out how to flush the thing. after trying several of the buttons, heard a strange robot noise coming from the bowl. never having heard robot noises coming from a toilet bowl, i naturally jumped up to see just what the hell was going on and was promptly squirted in the face by the retractable bidet. the travel books had all warned about the hole-in-the-floor squat type commodes, but not about the automatic ass washing robot type.
oh, and does nobody else think that a guy named dr. winterhalter might have some ulterior motives here? there's a global warming supervillain name if i've ever heard one.
whenever you hear the phrase "junk science", dollars to doughnuts it's being uttered by a conservative hack or an industry shill, which roy spencer certainly is. this guy is on the exxon mobile payroll, and has written articles in favor of the teaching of intelligent design in schools.
it already exists and it is illegal, ghb produces effects very similar to alcohol, with much smaller dosage and few side effects. it works on gaba receptors like alcohol does.
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isn't deep frying the only legal method of food preparation in scotland?
it's probably a ploy to get more people to download pirated music, as lawsuits seem to be their main source of income these days.
well, it always ends the same way, doesn't it? sooner or later, they're bound to be right.
Whom, goddammit! Whom will Obama choose?
the addiction industry is out of control in this country. somebody ought to stage an intervention.
Stop buying all the graflex flashguns! there are some of us out there who still use them for their intended purpose. douchenozzles.
also:
1992 Honda Civic HB VX 40/50 mpg
and the regular edition of the geo metro, also sold as the suzuki swift, chevy sprint, and pontiac firefly got 38/45 mpg.
the 1990 Geo Metro XFI got 44/53 mpg city/hwy.
IT is not a profession. calling yourself a "professional" might make you feel like you are just as good as a doctor or lawyer, but it doesn't make it true. every halfwit from management on down to the cleaning staff calls himself a professional. you are more akin to a skilled tradesman. only there is no licensing test for IT personnel like there is for plumbers, engineers, and so forth. So your prospective employer feels he needs to make sure he is going to get his money's worth out of you somehow.
Seems like a short length of rope and a sturdy doorknob will get you to the same place as this, for a lot less money
this is really a very small incremental improvement over their 39 mpix sensor. to double the resolution of a sensor, you need to quadruple the pixels. and memory bandwidth and image processing power is becoming a huge limitation with these things, the uncompressed image from these is like 150 MB. the $30000.00 39 mpix back has a 3 second shot-to-shot delay, so it is really only useful for studio work.
just steal a bunch of those ugly little garden lights. i'm sure that with those, a roll of duct tape and some speaker wire, you could figure a way to rig something up.
someone where i work decided it would be a good idea to make hand turkeys to decorate the place for thanksgiving. fucking hand turkeys. when i pointed out that the last time i made a hand turkey was kindergarten, i was told i was a spoilsport and accused of thinking i was too good for the place. so objecting to an activity usually reserved for kids in daycare makes me an elitist snob. where's my rocket launcher...
Ok, you grab the mop, i'll be right behind you with the bucket. Seriously, what is it about E=mc^2 that you don't understand?
Watch your fucking language!
you must be nuts to recommend an apo on a $1000 budget. a good one will be at least 4x that. you can buy a decent 8" newtonian, some eyepieces and a pair of decent 80 mm binos for less than $1000, and those are going to be way more versatile than an apo refractor.
you might even have some left over to buy a cheap 35 mm camera and make a barn door mount to take pictures of the sky, which is your best bet for entry level astrophotography.
Jericho was a steaming pile of crap. Annoying characters, the worst dialog since Titanic, And don't even get me started on that music. Anyone joining a campaign to save it needs to have their head checked.
The whole point of a HUD is that you don't have to shift focus between the display and objects in the environment. In aircraft HUDs, the image is collimated, so it appears to be focused wherever the pilot happens to be looking at the time. This can't be achieved by simply putting a transparent monitor on the windscreen in front of your eyes, it requires a projection system. The type of display they are talking about here would not be much better than a regular instrument panel, because you would still need to shift focus from the outside environment to the windscreen. The same goes for a targeting system built into goggles, it would be useless because you would need to shift your focus to the targeting display a few inches from your eye to the target several hundred meters away.
japan has had them for quite a while. i encountered one in a restaurant in kanazawa nearly 20 years ago in 1987. never having seen a computer-controlled toilet before, and unable to read japanese, i had a hell of a time trying to figure out how to flush the thing. after trying several of the buttons, heard a strange robot noise coming from the bowl. never having heard robot noises coming from a toilet bowl, i naturally jumped up to see just what the hell was going on and was promptly squirted in the face by the retractable bidet. the travel books had all warned about the hole-in-the-floor squat type commodes, but not about the automatic ass washing robot type.
oh, and does nobody else think that a guy named dr. winterhalter might have some ulterior motives here? there's a global warming supervillain name if i've ever heard one.
whenever you hear the phrase "junk science", dollars to doughnuts it's being uttered by a conservative hack or an industry shill, which roy spencer certainly is. this guy is on the exxon mobile payroll, and has written articles in favor of the teaching of intelligent design in schools.
it already exists and it is illegal, ghb produces effects very similar to alcohol,
with much smaller dosage and few side effects. it works on gaba receptors like
alcohol does.
Better make sure my robot insurance is up to date.
the "hexagram" looks like a hawk missile battery or the remnants of one.