...I recently finished a lengthy project with a friend of mine involving various scatter plots of homebrew antennae. The one that worked best, and all the way up to a staggering 1450 feet was something called a Yagi-Antenna. Our homemade cantenna worked well, but squeezed just barely a quarter mile out of it. The Bi-Quad we built and tested was impressive for its "shotgun" broadcast ability. The Bi-Quad was accessible by almost every angle and works great as a receiver. If you're going to transmit, use a Yagi, but don't stand in front of it... I think I might be sterile now.
The concept of "Art" is defined as "trivial" at best. Since art is perceptual and often interpretted differently among various people, art can mean different things to anyone.
As a professional artist, I feel its necessary to respond to this article. My work has been featured in several calendars, published in newspapers, and even on the web. Throughout my life I was encouraged to draw and definitely showed my talents in school; progressing to a 5th-year, college-level course in 3 years because my instructor wanted to keep challenging me.
Some of my work is drawn by hand, processed, and used in a more polished version of the drawing on my computer. Some pieces are drawn completely on the system, however, still drawn from scratch using the tools in various graphics programs.
Clip-art is an insult. Anyone who uses it and claims they're a graphics expert, just needs to be bitch-slapped.
My point is, art is something that can't be defined. Art can be used as a general term to specify one's practice as well. There's even a book called, "The Art of War". So in my humble opinion, art can be the feeling one would achieve from appreciating work for a reason unrelated to the immediate cause. An architect builds a home for a family to keep them dry, cool, and safe, but others would notice the archways and contours of the curved walls. Based on this concept, art is what helps define us as human.
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Southern Californians are probably better drivers than most Houstonians. Coming from Houston, TX, I feel our drivers give your's a run for their money, or at least until they hit something.
I was driving home yesterday, and keep in mind, I live only 30 minutes from work (with traffic). Within a mile from my office, I spotted two cop cars parked in the middle of the road with a Toyota Tundra making sweet, hot lovin' to a telephone pole next to them. Yes, "he let the smoke out." About 4 more miles down the road, I noticed traffic was backed up quite a bit on the opposing side of the highway. Curiosity was churning at this point, so I proceeded forth to discover an 18-wheeler had straddled the other side of the highway, sank its rear-wheels in the mud as well as the tractor. GREAT! If I'd only thought faster, I would have pointed my camera at it.
To top off stupidity, yes, we have drunks, but the most fatal of all things to impair drivers here is lack of brain power. You know those simple little "look before you leap" quotes... yeah, well, Houstonians don't look before changing lanes and they cross as many as possible just to pass you in the left lane; moving 5mph slower than the limit and usually pacing the car on the right.
Signals are optional. Speed limits are optional and are usually broken by traveling at 25mph +/- the limit. Here, we get on the freeway at 40mph and immediately merge into the middle-most lane of traffic that happens to be moving at the posted limit of 60mph, oh wait, there's that +/- tolerance. Now we have total pandemonium!
Want some fun? Just add water (rain, ice, floods). Apparently, Hondas and Nissans can cross 4-foot deep water here. I wasn't aware of that fact, yet no one has been able to do it and the ones that try, often sink. We HAVE flood-gauges at every lowered intersection!
Here's my side of town... (http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=M7tNO.p_0TqT &csz=77054&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=)
1. This is true and can't be ignored. Eventually, environment kits will need to be created that allow for pre-made characters, worlds, and objects - sort of a library.
2. Heat sucks. The only 2 reasons we have to explain heat buildup are the materials we use to fabricate the parts and also the architecture of the on-board components. Putting all your eggs in one basket (the chip) will ultimately increase your component mass, thus resulting in a higher volume to surface area ratio or a lower rate of heat dissipation - basic thermodynamics.
3. Prices suck too. Major video card manufacturers need to make their cards much like a motherboard to offer the most flexibility to the consumers. Make an upgradeable CPU and the ability to add more RAM to the card. When the video sub-system costs more than the barebones machine, we have a SEVERE problem! I understand the components are harder to make than the ones on a typical motherboard, but give us a break! $600+ for a video card is crazy!
As for the mini dotcom bubble theory, you're right. What's about to happen is the same thing that happened to 3DFx a few years ago. History repeats itself.
Moose, you're absolutely right about this. The "anti-geek" culture is made up of two types of people. First, you have the "geek-killers" who like to charge us with stupid things like "information terrorism" or some other crocked up load of shit. The latter are the "pseudo-geeks" who like to think they're real geeks because they own f*cking iPods. Either way, the moment a command-line pops up, they think we're trying to blow up the country. Personally, I feel its the white text on black that makes them think we're up to no good. Try changing the background color to white and use black text just like the command window in AutoCAD. Turns out colors have an adverse affect on people that makes them think crazy things. Mischief managed.
Remember when we couldn't contract the "Kitty Flu" because we're of a different species? Well, with the gray area filled between "animal" and "human" (not like we're any different anyway), this opens all sorts of doors to new viruses and diseases since they're known to mutate slightly in order to make themselves at home in the host. By doing this, we've pretty much given full "administrator rights" of our bodies to the offending diseases. Whoever thought it was necessary to "plug the hole", needs to have his/her hole plugged with my size 18 boot.
...or is it because the 733t h4x0rz keep trying to hack the site? If that's the case, the high-profile site becomes a target and the ISP wouldn't want to endanger other accounts. Provided the previous 2 statements are true, one could say, "cut off the toe to spare the foot." IMHO, the ISP would have done this to protect other against security breaches.
Forget malware, I'd like to think of it as an edible "virus". Since cross-pollination was mentioned, the pollen acts as a virus, attaching itself to a "bee" packet and traveling across the network (my neighborhood's gardens). My other, probably more important question is, with all this concern over a friggin' seed, what's to stop them from "eliminating the competition"? What if their seeds were to carry a genetic program or malformed "patch" for other plants of the like-variety - causing the real stalk of corn to die? What then?
Are you kidding me? What guy, who camps in front of a theatre for a Star Wars movie, actually has a girlfriend? Do you think his woman would show interest in his Ewok collection or his 0-60 time on his land-speeder? Really, c'mon... "Hey baby, let's you and me go to McDonald's for dinner with my mom and later, I'll show you my lightsaber" is supposed to attract a girl?
If Creative's products weren't CRAP, then yeah, maybe their plan would have some feasibility to it. Its no so much the hardware that's garbage, but the drivers and software. I can recall several instances where I had to rely on Windows' internal support for their devices and when they wouldn't work, I threw them out after a severe thrashing. Creative would be a great company if they'd just get their shit together.
"The Feds arrested him after he flashed a police helicopter searching for the source of the beam."...additional note to self, do NOT signal to police helicopter with your 'squeeky toy'.
I believe that people actually see colors differently.
Ever wondered why Aunt Helga likes red and purple dresses? Ever wish she'd substitute red for blue?
I think people's tastes on what colors go with other colors is actually based solely on the interpretation of the colors themselves. For example, I see "red" and call it "red", but you know this "red" as your "orange".
A spectrometer won't help explain this as it all lies in the interpretation of the brain. Hell, in my world, the sky is GREEN!
(100) Boxes of dinosaur sponges, (500) mops, (300) buckets, (1) roll of Brawny - The thicker, quicker, picker-upper, (1) Martha Stewart, (1) six-pack of Budweiser, (300,000) turkey franks, (320,000) hot-dog buns since 8 are in a bag for every 1 pack of 10 franks, (20,000) bottles of French's Mustard - an AMERICAN classic, and a healthy dose of ketchup.
So what's the point of filing your tax return? Either way, you're still fucked.
So here's an interesting question... has anyone yet determined WHERE this thing might impact? I know/bin/laden would LOVE for this thing to land on the U.S.
"Extended warranty!? How can I lose?!" --Homer Simpson
no one's yet thought of embedding rasterized text in a Quake III skin, setting the "Auto-downloading" option, and hoping that some building disappears in the middle of the night.
If you're really talented, build a map in something like BF1942 and use the mockup to execute your plan to ensure all goes well.;-) The problem with all these "realistic" games is that they are reaching the point of "simulation".
Now if I could just keep the plane level in BF1942 or FlightSim 2005... _________________________________________ _________ "If it absolutely, positively, needs to be blown up over night..." --U.S.A.F.
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...I recently finished a lengthy project with a friend of mine involving various scatter plots of homebrew antennae. The one that worked best, and all the way up to a staggering 1450 feet was something called a Yagi-Antenna. Our homemade cantenna worked well, but squeezed just barely a quarter mile out of it. The Bi-Quad we built and tested was impressive for its "shotgun" broadcast ability. The Bi-Quad was accessible by almost every angle and works great as a receiver. If you're going to transmit, use a Yagi, but don't stand in front of it... I think I might be sterile now.
The concept of "Art" is defined as "trivial" at best. Since art is perceptual and often interpretted differently among various people, art can mean different things to anyone.
As a professional artist, I feel its necessary to respond to this article. My work has been featured in several calendars, published in newspapers, and even on the web. Throughout my life I was encouraged to draw and definitely showed my talents in school; progressing to a 5th-year, college-level course in 3 years because my instructor wanted to keep challenging me.
Some of my work is drawn by hand, processed, and used in a more polished version of the drawing on my computer. Some pieces are drawn completely on the system, however, still drawn from scratch using the tools in various graphics programs.
Clip-art is an insult. Anyone who uses it and claims they're a graphics expert, just needs to be bitch-slapped.
My point is, art is something that can't be defined. Art can be used as a general term to specify one's practice as well. There's even a book called, "The Art of War". So in my humble opinion, art can be the feeling one would achieve from appreciating work for a reason unrelated to the immediate cause. An architect builds a home for a family to keep them dry, cool, and safe, but others would notice the archways and contours of the curved walls. Based on this concept, art is what helps define us as human.
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Southern Californians are probably better drivers than most Houstonians. Coming from Houston, TX, I feel our drivers give your's a run for their money, or at least until they hit something.
I was driving home yesterday, and keep in mind, I live only 30 minutes from work (with traffic). Within a mile from my office, I spotted two cop cars parked in the middle of the road with a Toyota Tundra making sweet, hot lovin' to a telephone pole next to them. Yes, "he let the smoke out." About 4 more miles down the road, I noticed traffic was backed up quite a bit on the opposing side of the highway. Curiosity was churning at this point, so I proceeded forth to discover an 18-wheeler had straddled the other side of the highway, sank its rear-wheels in the mud as well as the tractor. GREAT! If I'd only thought faster, I would have pointed my camera at it.
To top off stupidity, yes, we have drunks, but the most fatal of all things to impair drivers here is lack of brain power. You know those simple little "look before you leap" quotes... yeah, well, Houstonians don't look before changing lanes and they cross as many as possible just to pass you in the left lane; moving 5mph slower than the limit and usually pacing the car on the right.
Signals are optional. Speed limits are optional and are usually broken by traveling at 25mph +/- the limit. Here, we get on the freeway at 40mph and immediately merge into the middle-most lane of traffic that happens to be moving at the posted limit of 60mph, oh wait, there's that +/- tolerance. Now we have total pandemonium!
Want some fun? Just add water (rain, ice, floods). Apparently, Hondas and Nissans can cross 4-foot deep water here. I wasn't aware of that fact, yet no one has been able to do it and the ones that try, often sink. We HAVE flood-gauges at every lowered intersection!
Here's my side of town... (http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=M7tNO.p_0Tq
"Watch for [m]ice on Bridge"
1. This is true and can't be ignored. Eventually, environment kits will need to be created that allow for pre-made characters, worlds, and objects - sort of a library. 2. Heat sucks. The only 2 reasons we have to explain heat buildup are the materials we use to fabricate the parts and also the architecture of the on-board components. Putting all your eggs in one basket (the chip) will ultimately increase your component mass, thus resulting in a higher volume to surface area ratio or a lower rate of heat dissipation - basic thermodynamics. 3. Prices suck too. Major video card manufacturers need to make their cards much like a motherboard to offer the most flexibility to the consumers. Make an upgradeable CPU and the ability to add more RAM to the card. When the video sub-system costs more than the barebones machine, we have a SEVERE problem! I understand the components are harder to make than the ones on a typical motherboard, but give us a break! $600+ for a video card is crazy! As for the mini dotcom bubble theory, you're right. What's about to happen is the same thing that happened to 3DFx a few years ago. History repeats itself.
Back in the day, we'd just send them to Australia...
Moose, you're absolutely right about this. The "anti-geek" culture is made up of two types of people. First, you have the "geek-killers" who like to charge us with stupid things like "information terrorism" or some other crocked up load of shit. The latter are the "pseudo-geeks" who like to think they're real geeks because they own f*cking iPods. Either way, the moment a command-line pops up, they think we're trying to blow up the country. Personally, I feel its the white text on black that makes them think we're up to no good. Try changing the background color to white and use black text just like the command window in AutoCAD. Turns out colors have an adverse affect on people that makes them think crazy things. Mischief managed.
I say we find a Mosaic 1.0 browser and donate. That should really freak them out.
Its ok, in some college dorms and on some farms, human males and sheep have been breeding (or making feeble attempts at doing so) for decades...
Remember when we couldn't contract the "Kitty Flu" because we're of a different species? Well, with the gray area filled between "animal" and "human" (not like we're any different anyway), this opens all sorts of doors to new viruses and diseases since they're known to mutate slightly in order to make themselves at home in the host. By doing this, we've pretty much given full "administrator rights" of our bodies to the offending diseases. Whoever thought it was necessary to "plug the hole", needs to have his/her hole plugged with my size 18 boot.
...or is it because the 733t h4x0rz keep trying to hack the site? If that's the case, the high-profile site becomes a target and the ISP wouldn't want to endanger other accounts. Provided the previous 2 statements are true, one could say, "cut off the toe to spare the foot." IMHO, the ISP would have done this to protect other against security breaches.
Forget malware, I'd like to think of it as an edible "virus". Since cross-pollination was mentioned, the pollen acts as a virus, attaching itself to a "bee" packet and traveling across the network (my neighborhood's gardens). My other, probably more important question is, with all this concern over a friggin' seed, what's to stop them from "eliminating the competition"? What if their seeds were to carry a genetic program or malformed "patch" for other plants of the like-variety - causing the real stalk of corn to die? What then?
...and here's another one defending his inability to find a date for Friday night...
I'll drink to that!
Are you kidding me? What guy, who camps in front of a theatre for a Star Wars movie, actually has a girlfriend? Do you think his woman would show interest in his Ewok collection or his 0-60 time on his land-speeder? Really, c'mon... "Hey baby, let's you and me go to McDonald's for dinner with my mom and later, I'll show you my lightsaber" is supposed to attract a girl?
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If Creative's products weren't CRAP, then yeah, maybe their plan would have some feasibility to it. Its no so much the hardware that's garbage, but the drivers and software. I can recall several instances where I had to rely on Windows' internal support for their devices and when they wouldn't work, I threw them out after a severe thrashing. Creative would be a great company if they'd just get their shit together.
Double-take? Hell no... I was looking for the webpage to sign-up!
"The Feds arrested him after he flashed a police helicopter searching for the source of the beam." ...additional note to self, do NOT signal to police helicopter with your 'squeeky toy'.
I believe that people actually see colors differently.
Ever wondered why Aunt Helga likes red and purple dresses? Ever wish she'd substitute red for blue?
I think people's tastes on what colors go with other colors is actually based solely on the interpretation of the colors themselves. For example, I see "red" and call it "red", but you know this "red" as your "orange".
A spectrometer won't help explain this as it all lies in the interpretation of the brain. Hell, in my world, the sky is GREEN!
(100) Boxes of dinosaur sponges, (500) mops, (300) buckets, (1) roll of Brawny - The thicker, quicker, picker-upper, (1) Martha Stewart, (1) six-pack of Budweiser, (300,000) turkey franks, (320,000) hot-dog buns since 8 are in a bag for every 1 pack of 10 franks, (20,000) bottles of French's Mustard - an AMERICAN classic, and a healthy dose of ketchup.
So what's the point of filing your tax return? Either way, you're still fucked.
/bin/laden would LOVE for this thing to land on the U.S.
So here's an interesting question... has anyone yet determined WHERE this thing might impact? I know
"Extended warranty!? How can I lose?!" --Homer Simpson
no one's yet thought of embedding rasterized text in a Quake III skin, setting the "Auto-downloading" option, and hoping that some building disappears in the middle of the night.
;-) The problem with all these "realistic" games is that they are reaching the point of "simulation".
_ _________
If you're really talented, build a map in something like BF1942 and use the mockup to execute your plan to ensure all goes well.
Now if I could just keep the plane level in BF1942 or FlightSim 2005...
________________________________________
"If it absolutely, positively, needs to be blown up over night..." --U.S.A.F.
...and one of them looks Italian!