To a degree the shuttle was a one-off design, but they did reference the research that the Air Force did with their Dyna-Soar project. Dyna-Soar went through many dozens of iterations of lifting bodies.
Well, I'm guessing that it won't do YOU a bit of good. However, I am a 3d Animator. My typical scene is limited by the per-task memory limit of 32 bit processors. I've been waiting for the day that I can switch to 64 bits and that day is very close. Autodesk has not released the 64 bit Max yet, but when they do I'll be able to use more then 2 gigs of meshes and textures in my scene.
Gone will be the countless hours of trimming stuff our of my scene so that Max doesn't crash. Oh, and I went through this same thing back in the 16 -> 32 bit upgrade.
That link is now no longer a 404. It's a real live page for Google's IM client. I just got this message on my Trillian/JABBER IM Client:
gmail.com: The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users!
At first I wasn't sure what it meant by a broken link, but I tried an http connection to the talk server and lo and behold a page existed with download links.:)
We got our subscription copy of AutoCAD 2006 earlier this week. I love the new GUI displays on the drawing tools, but on big drawings they are painfully slow. Anyone know how to toggle those off, or how to disable the skin they have applied to all of the windows?
So, the point of this article is that they produced an IMAGE. Where's the image?? The article does not show it or mention anything about where one would go to see it. Sup???
The logging community here in Oregon could really use a shot in the arm. Despite popular belief, loggers are not evil enviroment haters bound and determined to ruin the land forever. I'm not a logger, but I have friends that are and they are some of the most passionate people I know when it comes to the forest. They work in the forest because they care about it and they enjoy it. Yes, loggers used to do large clear cuts and the slash and burn tactics, but because of modern forest management techniques, the Forest Service does not issue these kinds if logging contracts any more. Now it's selective harvesting, thinning, and removal of downed timber. Add to that the mandated replanting and the additional stream thread conservation and anti-errosion practices and todays logging process does not resemble the logging practices of even 10 years ago.
The woods around my cabbin is SO FULL of downed timber, that it's a virtual tinder box. We are scare shitless of a fire. There has been no logging in our area for a good 7 years, and even then it was spotty at best. The last major logging was almost 12 years ago when Clinton stopped 90% of the logging within the first few months of his term. If we could get the forests around our cabin, and the forests for 50 miles in every direction thined and managed, I'D LOVE IT!!!!
You don't get it. When is the last time you wondered more than 100 yards off of a blacktp highway. The forests in this country are worse then they have been in years. The forest around my cabin could go up at a moments notice, and the fuel load is so high that any fire in the area would crown easily. I can't cut a single tree on the national forest land around my property without getting an expensive permit (and even then I can't cut most live trees I can't cut dead yellow pine because they need saved for the birds and the bugs), so I can't properly create a firebreak big enough to deal with a crowned fire.
and Bush doesn't even know what the word "environment" means.
This is so unbelievably biased. I find it amazing how many/.ers are so intellectually lazy that they gobble this kind of argument up.
I actually find Kerry's total sellout to the extremist greenies revolting. There is a bill in the works that would litteraly lock up (yes, gated with padlock) access to huge sections of National Forest land all acrost the west. They want to take the Wilderness Area designation originally designed to protect the trully wild and scenic wilderness areas such as mountain peaks and other inaccessible mountainous terrain and apply it to lower lying forested mountains and hills, areas that are currently multipurpose recreational lands. I have a cabin in the mountains of eastern Oregon, and it sits right in the middle of a massive area slatted for lock up. If this goes through, there will be a thin 100 yard wide access corridor from the highway to my place and a few others in the area. Kerry has already stated that he will sign this bill if it gets passed the House and Senate.
It really makes me sick to think that a bunch of city-dwelling good for nothing enviromental lawers and their "lock it all up" greenie friends have the power to take away the rights of ordinary Americans like myself who just wants to enjoy what little multipurpose recreational forest land remains.
I live in Tigard, just southwest of Portland. After the May 18th, 1980 eruption I distinctly remember scraping about 1/8th of an inch of ash off of the slide on the swingset. We have several jars full of ash in the basement. I also remember using the snow scoop to clean off the driveway. We had a fair sized pile in the front yard for a few months until weeds started growing in it. I don't know how far south it got, but yes, there was ash in Portland.
The ash was so fine that when mixed with water, it set up hard. It was much easier to shovel when dry.
So, what I want to know, is where can I see the six minute short?
Nearly every article I've read about this film refers to a six minute short that Kerry Conran produced on his own. I've googled for it a bit, and I can't find a copy online. Any/.'ers know where one might get a copy of it?
I remember reading an article about shooting miniatures for Star Trek and they used a red screen.
But yes, he is correct, with todays computer keying software, you can key on anything. With some of the advanced keying plugins for After Effects, I've been able to key on several colors at once and extract subjects out of some fairly complicated backgrounds.
Originally, when the chroma key was first invented, and when everything was done with analog equipment, they were able to take the blue signal created by the blue orthicon tube and use it as a "switch" from one source to another, much like an alpha channel is used today. The blue signal was used because they were able to create the greatest contrast with the blue tube. The Red and Green tubes were not used for two reasons, one, they did not produce an image with enough contrast, and two, skin tone for all races contain a lot of red, some green and very little (if any) blue. By using blue, you don't run the risk of keying out an actors face.
Back in the Windows 95 era, there were a bunch of programs like CleanSweep that would monitor the install of a program (program files, dll's, registry entries, etc) and would build a log of what happened. When you wanted to un-install it, you could get rid of everything.
In the linux/*nix world, aptget and rpm can remove an installed program, but sometimes I have to install a program that's either not available in a package, or the version in the package has to many dependencies. So I resort to the./configure; make; make install;
What I want most of all, is a way to monitor what happens during the make install. I want it to keep copies of old versions before they are over written, I want a full log of every file installed, and I want a quick way to un-install it. I would be one of the last people on this earth to know how this might be programed, but one thought would be to make a version of bash that can monitor the activities of the programs it spawns.
Maybe this exists? Anyone want to start a SourceForge project?
Yes, a bridge is more expensive than an intersection, but I'd wager that if the code in the current javascript were to run real cars, the lawsuits would cost more than the bridge.
Some cheap dual opteron boards save traces by pairing one cpu with all the memory banks - so every memory operation on the non directly linked cpu passes over the h-link.
Care to elaborate? I'm researching dual opteron boards right now, and if some of them are "cheap" in the sense that they can hamper performance, then I'd love to know that ahead of time.
I imagine that a good portion of this $150 is for the DVD Playback. The last several DVD drives that I have bought have included a copy of the PowerDVD player software! I can understand that there is some cost involved in getting their program to run under Linux, but if you can get their player for free with the purchase of a $35 DVD drive, why so much for those of us that want a better OS?
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.torrents.net/torrent/1602488/JSTOR_01_PhilTrans/
I don't think the fire retardant foam that he mentioned is Areogel...
e snextrep=272735319180963&ReqTyp=Catalog&CtlgEditio n=113&CtlgPgNbr=3426&ScreenWidth=1920&McMMainWidth =857
http://www.mcmaster.com/ctlg/DisplCtlgPage.aspx?s
The part number he gave is for the "Fire-Retardant Extreme-Temperature Silicone Foam Rubber", 24" x 24", #85925K423, $80.73
To a degree the shuttle was a one-off design, but they did reference the research that the Air Force did with their Dyna-Soar project. Dyna-Soar went through many dozens of iterations of lifting bodies.
The the file size goes right back up when your usenet clients re-encodes with yenc. At least it's not as bad as uuencode was.
Well, I'm guessing that it won't do YOU a bit of good. However, I am a 3d Animator. My typical scene is limited by the per-task memory limit of 32 bit processors. I've been waiting for the day that I can switch to 64 bits and that day is very close. Autodesk has not released the 64 bit Max yet, but when they do I'll be able to use more then 2 gigs of meshes and textures in my scene.
Gone will be the countless hours of trimming stuff our of my scene so that Max doesn't crash. Oh, and I went through this same thing back in the 16 -> 32 bit upgrade.
But my server is "Powered by NT Technology". Are you telling me thats wrong as well????
That link is now no longer a 404. It's a real live page for Google's IM client. I just got this message on my Trillian/JABBER IM Client:
:)
gmail.com: The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users!
At first I wasn't sure what it meant by a broken link, but I tried an http connection to the talk server and lo and behold a page existed with download links.
We got our subscription copy of AutoCAD 2006 earlier this week. I love the new GUI displays on the drawing tools, but on big drawings they are painfully slow. Anyone know how to toggle those off, or how to disable the skin they have applied to all of the windows?
So, the point of this article is that they produced an IMAGE. Where's the image?? The article does not show it or mention anything about where one would go to see it. Sup???
The logging community here in Oregon could really use a shot in the arm. Despite popular belief, loggers are not evil enviroment haters bound and determined to ruin the land forever. I'm not a logger, but I have friends that are and they are some of the most passionate people I know when it comes to the forest. They work in the forest because they care about it and they enjoy it. Yes, loggers used to do large clear cuts and the slash and burn tactics, but because of modern forest management techniques, the Forest Service does not issue these kinds if logging contracts any more. Now it's selective harvesting, thinning, and removal of downed timber. Add to that the mandated replanting and the additional stream thread conservation and anti-errosion practices and todays logging process does not resemble the logging practices of even 10 years ago.
The woods around my cabbin is SO FULL of downed timber, that it's a virtual tinder box. We are scare shitless of a fire. There has been no logging in our area for a good 7 years, and even then it was spotty at best. The last major logging was almost 12 years ago when Clinton stopped 90% of the logging within the first few months of his term. If we could get the forests around our cabin, and the forests for 50 miles in every direction thined and managed, I'D LOVE IT!!!!
You don't get it. When is the last time you wondered more than 100 yards off of a blacktp highway. The forests in this country are worse then they have been in years. The forest around my cabin could go up at a moments notice, and the fuel load is so high that any fire in the area would crown easily. I can't cut a single tree on the national forest land around my property without getting an expensive permit (and even then I can't cut most live trees I can't cut dead yellow pine because they need saved for the birds and the bugs), so I can't properly create a firebreak big enough to deal with a crowned fire.
This is so unbelievably biased. I find it amazing how many /.ers are so intellectually lazy that they gobble this kind of argument up.
I actually find Kerry's total sellout to the extremist greenies revolting. There is a bill in the works that would litteraly lock up (yes, gated with padlock) access to huge sections of National Forest land all acrost the west. They want to take the Wilderness Area designation originally designed to protect the trully wild and scenic wilderness areas such as mountain peaks and other inaccessible mountainous terrain and apply it to lower lying forested mountains and hills, areas that are currently multipurpose recreational lands. I have a cabin in the mountains of eastern Oregon, and it sits right in the middle of a massive area slatted for lock up. If this goes through, there will be a thin 100 yard wide access corridor from the highway to my place and a few others in the area. Kerry has already stated that he will sign this bill if it gets passed the House and Senate.
It really makes me sick to think that a bunch of city-dwelling good for nothing enviromental lawers and their "lock it all up" greenie friends have the power to take away the rights of ordinary Americans like myself who just wants to enjoy what little multipurpose recreational forest land remains.
I for one hope that Bush wins.
http://freeav.com
It's free, and I use it everywhere.
I tried to use the google calculator to figure this out, but they don't have "libraries of congress" defined. Too bad.
a ri es+of+congress+in+megabytes&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=1+libr
I live in Tigard, just southwest of Portland. After the May 18th, 1980 eruption I distinctly remember scraping about 1/8th of an inch of ash off of the slide on the swingset. We have several jars full of ash in the basement. I also remember using the snow scoop to clean off the driveway. We had a fair sized pile in the front yard for a few months until weeds started growing in it. I don't know how far south it got, but yes, there was ash in Portland.
The ash was so fine that when mixed with water, it set up hard. It was much easier to shovel when dry.
Yea. What if they want a picture of Polaris. Woops, there's a big rock in the way!!!
So, what I want to know, is where can I see the six minute short?
/.'ers know where one might get a copy of it?
Nearly every article I've read about this film refers to a six minute short that Kerry Conran produced on his own. I've googled for it a bit, and I can't find a copy online. Any
I remember reading an article about shooting miniatures for Star Trek and they used a red screen.
But yes, he is correct, with todays computer keying software, you can key on anything. With some of the advanced keying plugins for After Effects, I've been able to key on several colors at once and extract subjects out of some fairly complicated backgrounds.
Originally, when the chroma key was first invented, and when everything was done with analog equipment, they were able to take the blue signal created by the blue orthicon tube and use it as a "switch" from one source to another, much like an alpha channel is used today. The blue signal was used because they were able to create the greatest contrast with the blue tube. The Red and Green tubes were not used for two reasons, one, they did not produce an image with enough contrast, and two, skin tone for all races contain a lot of red, some green and very little (if any) blue. By using blue, you don't run the risk of keying out an actors face.
Back in the Windows 95 era, there were a bunch of programs like CleanSweep that would monitor the install of a program (program files, dll's, registry entries, etc) and would build a log of what happened. When you wanted to un-install it, you could get rid of everything.
./configure; make; make install;
In the linux/*nix world, aptget and rpm can remove an installed program, but sometimes I have to install a program that's either not available in a package, or the version in the package has to many dependencies. So I resort to the
What I want most of all, is a way to monitor what happens during the make install. I want it to keep copies of old versions before they are over written, I want a full log of every file installed, and I want a quick way to un-install it. I would be one of the last people on this earth to know how this might be programed, but one thought would be to make a version of bash that can monitor the activities of the programs it spawns.
Maybe this exists? Anyone want to start a SourceForge project?
"Pre-802.11n" ... Odd, why not call it 802.11m instead of Pre-802.11n? Isn't 'm' before 'n'?
Wake me when they reach 802.11z. Maybe they will have a secure and bug free system by then.
Yes, a bridge is more expensive than an intersection, but I'd wager that if the code in the current javascript were to run real cars, the lawsuits would cost more than the bridge.
You really don't need to wish for one of these. They exist now. http://lairdtelemedia.com/products/ultraseries.htm l#CAPDIV Check it out, a very cute gizmo. There are several other mfg's that make these as well.
Yea, That'd be a good idea, web hosting. Oh, and they could offer e-mail too. Wait..... I think they are working on that.
I imagine that a good portion of this $150 is for the DVD Playback. The last several DVD drives that I have bought have included a copy of the PowerDVD player software! I can understand that there is some cost involved in getting their program to run under Linux, but if you can get their player for free with the purchase of a $35 DVD drive, why so much for those of us that want a better OS?