The parent is not off-topic, but there are problems with processing transparencies this way. It's very difficult to match contrast for a start.
The best thing to do is send your transparencies out to a repro house to scan on a drum scanner. This can be expensive, but it's what professionals do, and they don't do it just so they can put it on their tax return.
Be prepared for some pain in manipulating the scans on Linux; there's a reason so many graphic artists use Macs.
Nope, there have been over 230 Soyuz launches in one form or another. Also the Soyuz is the only spacecraft to have successfully used its escape mechanism in a booster failure (Soyuz 18, I think).
So the total transportation costs run about $8.25 trillion.
Can I get you to do my taxes?
Apollo didn't cost anything like $110 billion each. Have a look here. The entire budget for the whole Apollo program was less than $80 billion (in 1994 dollars).
Anyway, Apollo wasn't designed to deliver 25 tonnes of Helium from the moon, so it's not surprising to see that it wouldn't be the best tool for the job. You could use Russian Progress spacecraft to deliver over a ton at a time, or actually design a spacecraft to do the job.
Just as in programming, or any other field, amateurs create amateurish output.
I would go even further than this: good design isn't something you can apply at the end of a project. Graphic design is about usability as well as style. You need a paper design before you code, and not one that makes sense just to yourself.
Since there are a zillion underemployed web designers around it probably would be worthwhile posting an ad on craigslist asking for a designer to produce a non-functional Flash demo of your project in return for costs and the folio value of the project. Don't specify what windows or fields or buttons are involved; have them figure out an intuitive model and feed that design into your development process.
It's worth investing some money in this as a clearer interface means lower support obligations and happier clients.
No, apparently they did have the source for Sound Forge, but Microsoft couldn't get it to compile because the dongle krack for their pirate copy of CodeWarrior doesn't work.
Haven't you ever bought anything on Canal Street? Sure, they say it's worth 6.5 trillion, but they'll take 2 trillion. Before you know it you're handing over 500 billion even though you know it'll break before you get it home.
Not necessarily. Or even at all. For example, a reusable craft is going to require more heat shielding because more of the craft is returning. The extra weight means more energy to reach orbit, which means more waste.
Perhaps the organizers wish to not pollute or rape the earth to get this task completed
Rockets launching to orbit is never going to be ecologically sound, whether the spacecraft is reusable or not. The best you can hope for is that the resulting science or economic advantage is worth the damage inflicted.
Could it be that the machines were programmed to swing.5% of the votes to Bush in order to put him over the top in any Florida-like situation without anybody noticing?
Yep. Switch on CNN, this is what they're saying. Bush has just conceded Florida and the presidency.
Also, the Concorde crash never happened, there was no 9/11 and Space Shuttle Columbia has finally landed.
I think one thing that sets China's space program apart from those of the US and Russia is the Chinese' ability to dedicate themselves to long-term programs that do not produce results for decades. Look at the Three Gorges Dam; no western nation would commit themselves to a project that economically makes the ISS look like a summer camp project.
The ISS doesn't have to be ultra-expensive. The space program has become the pork barrel smorgasbord of American politics. If completion and operation of the ISS was opened to independent contractors costs would plummet.
Think about it: DC. Huge contracts. Political oversight. Do you really think that money is being spent in the most cost-effective way?
Hence my original claim: the electoral college balances the interests of the majority against the interests of minority blocks and individuals. This balancing is a key concept in a republic.
But what about voters in non-swing states? Suppose you are a Bush-Cheney voter in California; your vote isn't going to affect the outcome. Even if you've suddenly decided that you don't like Bush, your Kerry-Edwards vote is similarly meaningless. The outcome is going to be decided in Florida and Ohio, where votes have a much greater gearing in terms of the electoral college.
What we should have is proportional allocation of electoral votes according to each state's vote, as Colorado may decide to do. this would force candidates to address issues in states like Wyoming or Oklahoma, rather than taking the vote in those states for granted (or giving up on them).
Incidentally, you might have assumed that I am one of those Sore Loserman complainers. In fact I have no particular interest in Kerry and would not be too disconcerted with a second Bush term. I do believe though that the electoral college doesn't serve Americans well and exists purely as an artefact of a less pluralistic America.
I made the same point because that is what we're talking about. What I did was provide some material that supported that point. If you think it would be better for me to depart into, say, an analysis of Manny Ramirez' hairstyle then that's fine but it's not what the discussion is about.
Either way, the electoral college offeres protection to smaller states who's voters have a minority oppionion from the more populous urban states. I think the compromise is as valid today as it was in the past.
How does the electoral college "protect" smaller states? It's not as if each state has the same number of electoral votes. If anything the electoral college gives decisive power to the larger states because they have more votes to give en bloc.
There are some arguments in favor of an electoral college, but arguing that the college exists for reasons other than slavery is specious.
The biggest flaw in standard civics accounts of the electoral college is that they never mention the real demon dooming direct national election in 1787 and 1803: slavery.
At the Philadelphia convention, the visionary Pennsylvanian James Wilson proposed direct national election of the President. But in a key speech on July 19, the savvy Virginian James Madison suggested that such a system would prove unacceptable to the South: "The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of Negroes."
In other words, in a direct election system, the North would outnumber the South, whose many slaves (more than half a million in all) of course could not vote. But the electoral college-a prototype of which Madison proposed in this same speech-instead let each southern state count its slaves, albeit with a two-fifths discount, in computing its share of the overall electoral college.
The Electoral College has nothing to do with the state of the art, in any period. The Electoral College is an artefact of slavery and was established in order to appease southern states, allowing them to count slaves as three fifths of a vote.
"Named after the situation NASA is in, Consternation Systems is responsible for developing the Not Another Shuttle Again (NAMBLA) and related exploration architecture systems. Consternation Systems is the combination of large and small systems that will provide Congress the capabilities necessary to cook up pork barrel politics for decades to come. Consternation Systems will be made up of artists' impressions, low-budget animations and constantly slipping schedules and a budget that expands and contracts according to the performances of DC's most expensive hookers and assistants."
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The parent is not off-topic, but there are problems with processing transparencies this way. It's very difficult to match contrast for a start.
The best thing to do is send your transparencies out to a repro house to scan on a drum scanner. This can be expensive, but it's what professionals do, and they don't do it just so they can put it on their tax return.
Be prepared for some pain in manipulating the scans on Linux; there's a reason so many graphic artists use Macs.
Q: What do you get if you combine Apple and IBM?
A: IBM.
Nope, there have been over 230 Soyuz launches in one form or another. Also the Soyuz is the only spacecraft to have successfully used its escape mechanism in a booster failure (Soyuz 18, I think).
So the total transportation costs run about $8.25 trillion.
Can I get you to do my taxes?
Apollo didn't cost anything like $110 billion each. Have a look here. The entire budget for the whole Apollo program was less than $80 billion (in 1994 dollars).
Anyway, Apollo wasn't designed to deliver 25 tonnes of Helium from the moon, so it's not surprising to see that it wouldn't be the best tool for the job. You could use Russian Progress spacecraft to deliver over a ton at a time, or actually design a spacecraft to do the job.
Just as in programming, or any other field, amateurs create amateurish output.
I would go even further than this: good design isn't something you can apply at the end of a project. Graphic design is about usability as well as style. You need a paper design before you code, and not one that makes sense just to yourself.
Since there are a zillion underemployed web designers around it probably would be worthwhile posting an ad on craigslist asking for a designer to produce a non-functional Flash demo of your project in return for costs and the folio value of the project. Don't specify what windows or fields or buttons are involved; have them figure out an intuitive model and feed that design into your development process.
It's worth investing some money in this as a clearer interface means lower support obligations and happier clients.
No, apparently they did have the source for Sound Forge, but Microsoft couldn't get it to compile because the dongle krack for their pirate copy of CodeWarrior doesn't work.
Woz: "Gil Amelio meets Steve Jobs. Game Over."
Haven't you ever bought anything on Canal Street? Sure, they say it's worth 6.5 trillion, but they'll take 2 trillion. Before you know it you're handing over 500 billion even though you know it'll break before you get it home.
Expendable = unnecessary = wasteful
Not necessarily. Or even at all. For example, a reusable craft is going to require more heat shielding because more of the craft is returning. The extra weight means more energy to reach orbit, which means more waste.
Perhaps the organizers wish to not pollute or rape the earth to get this task completed
Rockets launching to orbit is never going to be ecologically sound, whether the spacecraft is reusable or not. The best you can hope for is that the resulting science or economic advantage is worth the damage inflicted.
Could it be that the machines were programmed to swing .5% of the votes to Bush in order to put him over the top in any Florida-like situation without anybody noticing?
Yep. Switch on CNN, this is what they're saying. Bush has just conceded Florida and the presidency.
Also, the Concorde crash never happened, there was no 9/11 and Space Shuttle Columbia has finally landed.
Only a SOUTHERN democrat will EVER win.
ZELL MILLER for PRESIDENT!
The CZ-2F has three stages.
Don't be so proud of this technological terror you've constructed.
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
I think one thing that sets China's space program apart from those of the US and Russia is the Chinese' ability to dedicate themselves to long-term programs that do not produce results for decades. Look at the Three Gorges Dam; no western nation would commit themselves to a project that economically makes the ISS look like a summer camp project.
The ISS doesn't have to be ultra-expensive. The space program has become the pork barrel smorgasbord of American politics. If completion and operation of the ISS was opened to independent contractors costs would plummet.
Think about it: DC. Huge contracts. Political oversight. Do you really think that money is being spent in the most cost-effective way?
Hence my original claim: the electoral college balances the interests of the majority against the interests of minority blocks and individuals. This balancing is a key concept in a republic.
But what about voters in non-swing states? Suppose you are a Bush-Cheney voter in California; your vote isn't going to affect the outcome. Even if you've suddenly decided that you don't like Bush, your Kerry-Edwards vote is similarly meaningless. The outcome is going to be decided in Florida and Ohio, where votes have a much greater gearing in terms of the electoral college.
What we should have is proportional allocation of electoral votes according to each state's vote, as Colorado may decide to do. this would force candidates to address issues in states like Wyoming or Oklahoma, rather than taking the vote in those states for granted (or giving up on them).
Incidentally, you might have assumed that I am one of those Sore Loserman complainers. In fact I have no particular interest in Kerry and would not be too disconcerted with a second Bush term. I do believe though that the electoral college doesn't serve Americans well and exists purely as an artefact of a less pluralistic America.
I made the same point because that is what we're talking about. What I did was provide some material that supported that point. If you think it would be better for me to depart into, say, an analysis of Manny Ramirez' hairstyle then that's fine but it's not what the discussion is about.
Either way, the electoral college offeres protection to smaller states who's voters have a minority oppionion from the more populous urban states. I think the compromise is as valid today as it was in the past.
How does the electoral college "protect" smaller states? It's not as if each state has the same number of electoral votes. If anything the electoral college gives decisive power to the larger states because they have more votes to give en bloc.
There are some arguments in favor of an electoral college, but arguing that the college exists for reasons other than slavery is specious.
That's great, but you're wrong.
From FindLaw:
The biggest flaw in standard civics accounts of the electoral college is that they never mention the real demon dooming direct national election in 1787 and 1803: slavery.
At the Philadelphia convention, the visionary Pennsylvanian James Wilson proposed direct national election of the President. But in a key speech on July 19, the savvy Virginian James Madison suggested that such a system would prove unacceptable to the South: "The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of Negroes."
In other words, in a direct election system, the North would outnumber the South, whose many slaves (more than half a million in all) of course could not vote. But the electoral college-a prototype of which Madison proposed in this same speech-instead let each southern state count its slaves, albeit with a two-fifths discount, in computing its share of the overall electoral college.
I think your sig is undermining your arguments. You might as well put "RABID ATTACK DOGS FOR BUSH-CHENEY '04" or something.
The Electoral College has nothing to do with the state of the art, in any period. The Electoral College is an artefact of slavery and was established in order to appease southern states, allowing them to count slaves as three fifths of a vote.
"Named after the situation NASA is in, Consternation Systems is responsible for developing the Not Another Shuttle Again (NAMBLA) and related exploration architecture systems. Consternation Systems is the combination of large and small systems that will provide Congress the capabilities necessary to cook up pork barrel politics for decades to come. Consternation Systems will be made up of artists' impressions, low-budget animations and constantly slipping schedules and a budget that expands and contracts according to the performances of DC's most expensive hookers and assistants."
Of course if the Red Sox win then it just proves that there was no curse (curses don't just end for no reason) and Boston simply sucked for 86 years.
Asking for thought in variable names...
SPIRO_MEGAMAX_3000!