The silence of an exterior shot is broken up by the heavy breathing of him inside the suit. It really gets across a feeling of controlled panic.
Yeh, that's the point I've been trying to make. Some people just don't seem to grok it. Exterior space shots are SILENT. Interior shots (with atmosphere) can be as noisy as you like.
If I'm designing a human-ship interface for a fighting ship in space, I'm going to make sure that you can tell where other vessels all around you and what they're doing, (i.e. you'll know if it's moving, if it's coming closer and when it blows up, you'll hear that too).
The scenes I was referring to were EVAs where they fired a rifle or set off explosives (or simply banged on things) and it was completely silent. LIke the exterior shots of the Jupiter atmospheric braking in 2010. The interior shots during that scene were full of noise and shaking, of course...
Real live battles would be a lot safer if twelve millimeters of wood stopped missiles and massive electric arcs.
Yeah, it always cracks me up to watch TV and movie gunfights where the antagonists hide behind wooden tables and drywall, which miraculously stop bullets. I'm so used to sneering at it that a recent episode of 24 caught me by surprise: the bad guy (actually a girl in this case) was trading shots with Jack Bauer and ducked behind a drywall column. Jack simply put three shots through the column and the villain crumpled. Heh. It was like watching the vacuum scenes in Firefly and noticing that there was--correctly, for a change--no sound.
IIRC, women get a massive burst of oxytocin when giving birth, thus bonding them with their infant. Clever evolutionary strategy, since it makes it more likely that one parent will take care of the kid.
My wife thinks our son can do no wrong. Me, I wonder when he's going to get a Real Job. Feh.
So, these lawyers get $1.78M in profit. Well, if you consider that they're going to win some and loose some, then getting the occasionaly $1.78M payday is no worse than VCs getting a 10X payday on IPO.
Except that venture capitalists are helping to create wealth, while lawyers are simply redistributing it, and injecting a massive inefficiency into the process to boot (their fee). Don't get me started...
My experience has been that if I keep an email address away from the web, and never, ever let it appear on any website or directory anywhere, that email address will never, ever get spammed or phished.
Until the machine of one of your contacts gets pwned and your address gets out into the wide world. Although I do the same as you, I still have to rely on a good Bayesian filter.
I haven't read the article and don't intend to (I stay clear of Card's writings)
Why is that? Because you ran across one of his articles on ornery.org and decided he was a Christian asshole?* Like most authors, some of his work is dreck and some is good. Card has produced some truly excellent fiction (the first two books in the Ender series and the Homecoming novels). He focuses on characterization, sometimes to the detriment of plot, but his best work is definitely worth reading. If you like science fiction, give him a shot.
*<flame-shield>I'm an athiest and don't always agree with his columns, but they're always well-written and provocative.</flame-shield>
Since I (finally!) got a broadband connection, I've been using BitTorrent to grab stuff I've missed. Despite the *AA's efforts, a few sites still provide torrents for TV shows. And I figure I'm not violating copyright if I download a show, watch it, and then trash it. The shows I really like, I'll buy the DVD later...
The Mechwarrior II seriers from Activision gets my vote for best video game sound track ever....These techno/tribal tunes really helped to set a mood better than any game prior to it, IHMO.
Ever listen to the Quake 1 soundtrack, by Trent Reznor? Talk about setting a mood...
A nifty ad-blocker called PithHelmet will do this, either globally or by site (set preferences to disable plugins). Unfortunately it broke in 1.3, but the developer is working on a fix.
I've never used Intuit's products, but I've hated them since the mid-90s when they made a corporate decision, under the leadership of Bill Campbell, to blow off their Mac user base. "Want new features? Use Windows." Punks. So I guess it's not really surprising that they're screwing over their current customer base like this.
For some reason Apple decided to put Campbell on its board of directors, despite his demonstrated inimicality (yes, that's a word). I own a fair amount of AAPL, and every year I mark my proxy to withhold my votes for that SOB. Sadly, he keeps getting re-elected. Oh well.
Apple is a software company, that just so happens to expect the best when it comes to hardware and peripherials.
BZZZT! Apple is a hardware company (check out the third row of slides) that's in the enviable position of being able to control the software that runs on its products.
There is a huge industry around selling useless crap to people.
My absolute favorite example of this is the US$1500 Audio Magic Clairvoyant Power Cord. I thought this was an April Fool's column until I looked at the date.
Long ago, in an Internet far, far away (Compuserve), a game company that sold an air combat simulator floated the idea of allowing all human figures to be "strafe-able" (e.g., noncombatant civilian vacationers on a beach). The overwhelming response from the players was "That's sick! Don't you dare!"
These days I hear that capping innocents is one of the hilarious features of programs like GTA. How times change...
the SMALLEST, LIGHTEST, MOST PORTABLE musical instrument in existance
Nope. You should have said your friend was an exquisite whistler. "How will he manage without a mic, a recording deck and electricity??!" Any replies to that would be truly worthy of derision...
Spammers will hire scumware authors to write apps that packet sites who target spammers, making the circle complete. Then, the masses (tm) will get infected with the scumware
Does this remind anyone else of the nanobot wars in The Diamond Age? Where the guy comes back from a night on the town coughing black stuff out of his lungs, collateral damage in the latest skirmish?
Well, the story is off the front page now and I doubt anybody will read this, but I'm not sure it actually does anything. I installed it a couple of days ago as soon as the story came out (OS X version), and it stated that there were 9720 clients running. It shows the same number today; I would have expected to see at least a small/. effect and then a falloff, but the number has remained constant.
I also noticed that CPU usage is quite high when it starts up, and then it falls to zero after 5 or 10 minutes. Anybody have sniffer data that verifies it's actually sending traffic, let alone hitting spammer sites?
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EZ Pass works from about 30 feet
Because it's a powered transmitter. The RFID tags in passports would be passive.
(on a business network) many of your users install and run the screensaver and suck up your own bandwidth as well as that of the spammers.
I installed it and it doesn't seem to use much bandwidth (MacOS X). It does, however, seriously cut into the Folding@Home CPU cycles, so I'm not sure how long I'll play with it. I think I'd rather help cure diseases than DDOS spammers, even though the latter is immensely satisfying...
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The silence of an exterior shot is broken up by the heavy breathing of him inside the suit. It really gets across a feeling of controlled panic.
Yeh, that's the point I've been trying to make. Some people just don't seem to grok it. Exterior space shots are SILENT. Interior shots (with atmosphere) can be as noisy as you like.
If I'm designing a human-ship interface for a fighting ship in space, I'm going to make sure that you can tell where other vessels all around you and what they're doing, (i.e. you'll know if it's moving, if it's coming closer and when it blows up, you'll hear that too).
The scenes I was referring to were EVAs where they fired a rifle or set off explosives (or simply banged on things) and it was completely silent. LIke the exterior shots of the Jupiter atmospheric braking in 2010. The interior shots during that scene were full of noise and shaking, of course...
Real live battles would be a lot safer if twelve millimeters of wood stopped missiles and massive electric arcs.
Yeah, it always cracks me up to watch TV and movie gunfights where the antagonists hide behind wooden tables and drywall, which miraculously stop bullets. I'm so used to sneering at it that a recent episode of 24 caught me by surprise: the bad guy (actually a girl in this case) was trading shots with Jack Bauer and ducked behind a drywall column. Jack simply put three shots through the column and the villain crumpled. Heh. It was like watching the vacuum scenes in Firefly and noticing that there was--correctly, for a change--no sound.
IIRC, women get a massive burst of oxytocin when giving birth, thus bonding them with their infant. Clever evolutionary strategy, since it makes it more likely that one parent will take care of the kid.
My wife thinks our son can do no wrong. Me, I wonder when he's going to get a Real Job. Feh.
So, these lawyers get $1.78M in profit. Well, if you consider that they're going to win some and loose some, then getting the occasionaly $1.78M payday is no worse than VCs getting a 10X payday on IPO.
Except that venture capitalists are helping to create wealth, while lawyers are simply redistributing it, and injecting a massive inefficiency into the process to boot (their fee). Don't get me started...
My experience has been that if I keep an email address away from the web, and never, ever let it appear on any website or directory anywhere, that email address will never, ever get spammed or phished.
Until the machine of one of your contacts gets pwned and your address gets out into the wide world. Although I do the same as you, I still have to rely on a good Bayesian filter.
Your query is a subset of the problem discussed by Bruce Sterling's Dead Media Project.
Basically, you should transfer to new formats as they arise.
I haven't read the article and don't intend to (I stay clear of Card's writings)
Why is that? Because you ran across one of his articles on ornery.org and decided he was a Christian asshole?* Like most authors, some of his work is dreck and some is good. Card has produced some truly excellent fiction (the first two books in the Ender series and the Homecoming novels). He focuses on characterization, sometimes to the detriment of plot, but his best work is definitely worth reading. If you like science fiction, give him a shot.
*<flame-shield>I'm an athiest and don't always agree with his columns, but they're always well-written and provocative.</flame-shield>
Since I (finally!) got a broadband connection, I've been using BitTorrent to grab stuff I've missed. Despite the *AA's efforts, a few sites still provide torrents for TV shows. And I figure I'm not violating copyright if I download a show, watch it, and then trash it. The shows I really like, I'll buy the DVD later...
The Mechwarrior II seriers from Activision gets my vote for best video game sound track ever....These techno/tribal tunes really helped to set a mood better than any game prior to it, IHMO.
Ever listen to the Quake 1 soundtrack, by Trent Reznor? Talk about setting a mood...
block flash in Safari
A nifty ad-blocker called PithHelmet will do this, either globally or by site (set preferences to disable plugins). Unfortunately it broke in 1.3, but the developer is working on a fix.
Man, I hate the Internet without ad-blocking...
I've never used Intuit's products, but I've hated them since the mid-90s when they made a corporate decision, under the leadership of Bill Campbell, to blow off their Mac user base. "Want new features? Use Windows." Punks. So I guess it's not really surprising that they're screwing over their current customer base like this.
For some reason Apple decided to put Campbell on its board of directors, despite his demonstrated inimicality (yes, that's a word). I own a fair amount of AAPL, and every year I mark my proxy to withhold my votes for that SOB. Sadly, he keeps getting re-elected. Oh well.
Thanks for listening.
Apple is a software company, that just so happens to expect the best when it comes to hardware and peripherials.
BZZZT! Apple is a hardware company (check out the third row of slides) that's in the enviable position of being able to control the software that runs on its products.
What a HUGE surprise. The linked page now explains, almost sorrowfully, why he decided to call it off. Read the last paragraph for a real laugh.
This is the notorious Jack Campbell, one of the shadiest characters around. It's undoubtedly a publicity stunt for his business. What a jerk.
There is a huge industry around selling useless crap to people.
My absolute favorite example of this is the US$1500 Audio Magic Clairvoyant Power Cord. I thought this was an April Fool's column until I looked at the date.
Long ago, in an Internet far, far away (Compuserve), a game company that sold an air combat simulator floated the idea of allowing all human figures to be "strafe-able" (e.g., noncombatant civilian vacationers on a beach). The overwhelming response from the players was "That's sick! Don't you dare!" These days I hear that capping innocents is one of the hilarious features of programs like GTA. How times change...
"If you want to fiddle with RFID chips, stick to Wal-Mart's."
But that doesn't give you the opportunity to schmooze with a big guy named Vito:
the SMALLEST, LIGHTEST, MOST PORTABLE musical instrument in existance
Nope. You should have said your friend was an exquisite whistler. "How will he manage without a mic, a recording deck and electricity??!" Any replies to that would be truly worthy of derision...
p.s. - it's "existence".
the death of IE 5 support
I can't get to TFA at the moment to see if this is mentioned, but I did look at the stylesheet for the main page and found that they're using Tantek Celik's IE5 box model hack.
Does that count as "eating your own dog food"?
It was old hat to register paypa1.com, paypalaccount.com, etc.
A while back there was a phishing scheme that used "papai.com", sending the URL in the email as "paypaI.com" (capital "i"). Clever.
Spammers will hire scumware authors to write apps that packet sites who target spammers, making the circle complete. Then, the masses (tm) will get infected with the scumware
Does this remind anyone else of the nanobot wars in The Diamond Age? Where the guy comes back from a night on the town coughing black stuff out of his lungs, collateral damage in the latest skirmish?
Well, the story is off the front page now and I doubt anybody will read this, but I'm not sure it actually does anything. I installed it a couple of days ago as soon as the story came out (OS X version), and it stated that there were 9720 clients running. It shows the same number today; I would have expected to see at least a small /. effect and then a falloff, but the number has remained constant.
I also noticed that CPU usage is quite high when it starts up, and then it falls to zero after 5 or 10 minutes. Anybody have sniffer data that verifies it's actually sending traffic, let alone hitting spammer sites?
EZ Pass works from about 30 feet
Because it's a powered transmitter. The RFID tags in passports would be passive.
(on a business network) many of your users install and run the screensaver and suck up your own bandwidth as well as that of the spammers.
I installed it and it doesn't seem to use much bandwidth (MacOS X). It does, however, seriously cut into the Folding@Home CPU cycles, so I'm not sure how long I'll play with it. I think I'd rather help cure diseases than DDOS spammers, even though the latter is immensely satisfying...