Re:Missing the point of CMYK?
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I have at least three friends who have built cars from parts and in two cases they weren't kits either!
CYMK isn't that difficult, tt really isn't, the transformations are fairly standard. It is essentially a nice little student project. The real issue as somebody else commented on is the Pantone stuff.
Photoshop is good but in many cases it is overkill, even for a trained graphic artist. However there is a space somewhere that the GIMP could fill very well. For example a ski club that Ibelong to prepares a season guide each year - should we have a club copy of Photoshop just to get CMYK processing. Can the club afford a graphics professional? Well, no. At the moment it is a hack because we can print CMYK, but we can't easily import it.
Re:Missing the point of CMYK?
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Yep its totally uneconomical for one gut, but if you have a team of graphics artists consuming Photoshop licenses and upgrades. Say 10 liceneses at around $5000 would buy a lot of coding time.
Pantone has been around for a long time but the colour swatches are probably copyrighted. However, the code to implement pantone and pantone conversion can't be so directly protected so it may be possible to produce a plugin that if you use, you should pay a license fee for.
Actually what happens is that VMS builds stack frames with signal handlers. A condition handler may be established at any frame level and it may process a condition, continuing ot unwinding or it may resignal to an upper level handler or a combination of the two. A side effect is the nice informative error messages. It also means that you could write some really reliable code.
It seems to me that it is less likely that you will find the same equipment in both Alaska and Nevada. When you do, you generally fins that it needs a bit more care (=protection).
User customisation - please also remember that the latest multimedia ATMs can play advertising while you wait tuned to your account details. Oh, this is Mr Smith, lets show him a car loan or maybe tout a new Mortgage for Mr Jones.
You definitely don't want get near one of those ones!
On the other hand the same philosophy suits non-combat situations well.
For example, a friend of mine was on a mining job in Uzbekistan. They had taken over a mine and substantially upgraded the equipment with the latest western stuff. After a while, some major items (pumps) were switched back to the Russian models because although they broke down more often, the downtime and running cost was much less than the Swiss models.
Back to combat operations, this was one of the successful aspects of the Red Army during WW2. The Germans were living on the edge of an extended logistical supply pipeline and even though the Russians were local, the fqctories were often a long way away (Stalin moved his production as far away from the advancing Germans as possible) so easy maintenance was very important.
I don't know enough about modern military aircraft, but it would be interesting to put in a total picture including maintenance costs and logistics (part inventories and so on). I have an acquaintance that flies the big Antonovs, and swears by them (even though they too are forever engine swapping).
Good idea, the EU already contributes a lot towards civillian applications in the CIS. However unless there was good control, a lot of the money would be 'diverted'.
You are underselling it, Buran had flown completely under automatic control - the shuttle has *never* been able to do this. The heat shield was more efficient/effective because of the better flight profile.
However the last thing that I realy like, was that Buran could fly itself using bolt on propulsion modules containg Jet Engines. This means that ferrying it around from the landing strips back to the launch centre would have been easy.
Imagine what kind of amazing technology could NASA put out if they were getting $100B budget each year
Yep, there would be some of the most wonderful offices in the world with armies of cost accountants with their finger firmly on every pencil in the organisation. There would be lots of fat juicy contracts for the companies that were major congessional or presidential election contributors, with elegant paperwork supporing every $100,000 screwdriver.
As you may see, I would have extreme problems with NASA getting so much money in its current form. It seems that many of the people from the current chief administrator downwards have lost their way, whther for space or aeronautiucs research.
You forgot to mention that when you rebuild a Russian engine, it tends to be a relatively quick process using cheap parts. The other point is that Russia being extremely diverse for weather conditions means that one design has to cope with a lot.
If not you really haven't a fucking clue!!!! Go back to high-school and study some history.
How to win against anywhere using your strategy is to wipe out everyone. Absolulely everyone. Many of the traditional troublespots of the world can be traced to the few that escaped a massacre. It doesn't matter about however right you feel about a solution, unless they do - your descendents will be dodging trouble until the tenth generation.
Nuclear weapons are very effective at achieving this - particularly if you talk about multi-megaton MIRVs. Not many will survive that kind of cooking, but this really difficult to do, say, against Palastinians in the Gaza strip. Bit of an own goal, isn't it?
What Osama did was to introduce the (American) concept of the Franchise to terrorism. You should be Islamic, but otherwise Al Quaeda gives the training, helps a little with the finances but otherwise the groups get up to their murderous mischief fairly independently. It is extremely difficult to stop these peple. You take out one and another ten come along encouraged by the storied about the first.
They really don't need to all come at once, they know that a few attacks over time will do the job better. Never engage a numerically superior and better equipped force in the open. If the Israelis want to commit a few atrocities in return, even better as it will help get more recruits for the arab extremists.
The Israelis have survived for a long time living off "holocaust cred" - the moment they try the bomb, and then even the US will find it difficult to support them.
The same for the indistinctive ghost voices that people can hear on the radio amongst the static. This is a well known phenomenon which has been well investigated by cognitive psychologists over more than forty years.
It's very disappointing that these clowns forget all this research and it makes if much for difficult for the researchers who are genuinely looking for evidence of life on Mars - my bet is on none now, but fossillized bacteria.
We end up running with Local Admin access to the C: drive the whole time. To get local admin, I have to enable it, log out and log back in again. This all takes so long that it is either to just not log out when you have the rights.
I know what it is like in the African Bush to drive on tracks. Sure, you could follow the tracks (theoretically roads but unmetalled), but you always ran the risk of bottoming out (with the engine sump or the diffs) so you still had to use a lot of attention. Particularly if the ruts were water filled so you didn't know how deep they were.
Most of the time, you drive at between 20 to 30 MPH tops often at just 15 MPH.
I once had a long discussion about this with FAPSI. It turns out that the decree gives exemption for organisations regulated by the Central Bank of Russia, for example banks and interbank currency exchanges.
The FAPSI approval is really a joke. It means you have to send everyone on cryptograhy courses to make them aware of the sensitivity of key materials and so on. You are then obliged to use a FAPSI system to issue keys (you pay per key). The whole system is totally unsuitable for any kind of electronic shopping as the public would have to pass a FAPSI course before they were allowed to use the system.
And now FAPSI has been reabsorbed into the FSB (it used to be the KGB 22nd directorate). Whilst the law isn't particularl effective, it gives the FSB a very good way of applying pressure on you.
Yes, military service is mandatory as they run a militia but way off base on the 50% tax. Its more like 10% if you are resident in one of the cheaper places like Zuge.
Not what I heard. The PAC3 is KE only and has onlz been able to knock down 4 out of 5 targets in tests with unrealistic simulation. This is painfully inadequate. GMD did have an onboard beacon for earlier tests and the Cobra-Dane tracking system data was, as you say, faked. No modern MIRV system with decoys could be sufficiantly defended against using the system.
As for terrorism, the other reason that the crooks are chasing after $660M next year for their still not functioning system.
Patriot isn't particularly good at hitting planes when operated for more than a few hours at a time (range gate problem). PAC3 is excellent at hitting down ballistic missiles flying a large electronic "Hit Me" flag(and only one at a time). Perhaps the govt would be so kind as to donate their beacon technology to the North Koreans.
Perhaps if they organised a competition the same way as they did for the autonomous all-terrain vehicle, then the ABM program wouldn't be so corrupt.
...but there are also situations when the stock price can climb or sick and it has little or no bearing whatsoever on the actual operation of the company.
Which is why any lender whether direct (like a bank) or indirect (a bond buyer) whould do their "Due Dilligence". However, many do not or only take a superficial look.
The corrollaries of a strong share price are the abilities to perform well in correspondence to other companies in the same sector. In reference to our favourite companies, SCO suck but MS has done well.
and also what they haul the beneficiaries of their largesse over. They take risks but they must be enumerated and mitigated. They will also be scrupiously careful with their statements as if a lawyer is hanging on every word.
First, it is remarkable that Goldfarb is saying this. It is also interesting what he is not saying. Like the old slashdot favourite of filling in the ??? before profit?
A company's ability to borrow, either from a bank or by issuing bonds is directly affected by the share price. A company with a poor share value and low-potential would normally find credit tight. You don't have to issue shares to get value out of stock and this is ignoring the obvious like derivatives.
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CYMK isn't that difficult, tt really isn't, the transformations are fairly standard. It is essentially a nice little student project. The real issue as somebody else commented on is the Pantone stuff.
Photoshop is good but in many cases it is overkill, even for a trained graphic artist. However there is a space somewhere that the GIMP could fill very well. For example a ski club that Ibelong to prepares a season guide each year - should we have a club copy of Photoshop just to get CMYK processing. Can the club afford a graphics professional? Well, no. At the moment it is a hack because we can print CMYK, but we can't easily import it.
Yep its totally uneconomical for one gut, but if you have a team of graphics artists consuming Photoshop licenses and upgrades. Say 10 liceneses at around $5000 would buy a lot of coding time.
Pantone has been around for a long time but the colour swatches are probably copyrighted. However, the code to implement pantone and pantone conversion can't be so directly protected so it may be possible to produce a plugin that if you use, you should pay a license fee for.
Actually what happens is that VMS builds stack frames with signal handlers. A condition handler may be established at any frame level and it may process a condition, continuing ot unwinding or it may resignal to an upper level handler or a combination of the two. A side effect is the nice informative error messages. It also means that you could write some really reliable code.
It seems to me that it is less likely that you will find the same equipment in both Alaska and Nevada. When you do, you generally fins that it needs a bit more care (=protection).
Somehow I don't feel reassured by this!
You definitely don't want get near one of those ones!
For example, a friend of mine was on a mining job in Uzbekistan. They had taken over a mine and substantially upgraded the equipment with the latest western stuff. After a while, some major items (pumps) were switched back to the Russian models because although they broke down more often, the downtime and running cost was much less than the Swiss models.
Back to combat operations, this was one of the successful aspects of the Red Army during WW2. The Germans were living on the edge of an extended logistical supply pipeline and even though the Russians were local, the fqctories were often a long way away (Stalin moved his production as far away from the advancing Germans as possible) so easy maintenance was very important.
I don't know enough about modern military aircraft, but it would be interesting to put in a total picture including maintenance costs and logistics (part inventories and so on). I have an acquaintance that flies the big Antonovs, and swears by them (even though they too are forever engine swapping).
Good idea, the EU already contributes a lot towards civillian applications in the CIS. However unless there was good control, a lot of the money would be 'diverted'.
However the last thing that I realy like, was that Buran could fly itself using bolt on propulsion modules containg Jet Engines. This means that ferrying it around from the landing strips back to the launch centre would have been easy.
As you may see, I would have extreme problems with NASA getting so much money in its current form. It seems that many of the people from the current chief administrator downwards have lost their way, whther for space or aeronautiucs research.
You forgot to mention that when you rebuild a Russian engine, it tends to be a relatively quick process using cheap parts. The other point is that Russia being extremely diverse for weather conditions means that one design has to cope with a lot.
How to win against anywhere using your strategy is to wipe out everyone. Absolulely everyone. Many of the traditional troublespots of the world can be traced to the few that escaped a massacre. It doesn't matter about however right you feel about a solution, unless they do - your descendents will be dodging trouble until the tenth generation.
Nuclear weapons are very effective at achieving this - particularly if you talk about multi-megaton MIRVs. Not many will survive that kind of cooking, but this really difficult to do, say, against Palastinians in the Gaza strip. Bit of an own goal, isn't it?
What Osama did was to introduce the (American) concept of the Franchise to terrorism. You should be Islamic, but otherwise Al Quaeda gives the training, helps a little with the finances but otherwise the groups get up to their murderous mischief fairly independently. It is extremely difficult to stop these peple. You take out one and another ten come along encouraged by the storied about the first.
They really don't need to all come at once, they know that a few attacks over time will do the job better. Never engage a numerically superior and better equipped force in the open. If the Israelis want to commit a few atrocities in return, even better as it will help get more recruits for the arab extremists.
The Israelis have survived for a long time living off "holocaust cred" - the moment they try the bomb, and then even the US will find it difficult to support them.
It's very disappointing that these clowns forget all this research and it makes if much for difficult for the researchers who are genuinely looking for evidence of life on Mars - my bet is on none now, but fossillized bacteria.
We end up running with Local Admin access to the C: drive the whole time. To get local admin, I have to enable it, log out and log back in again. This all takes so long that it is either to just not log out when you have the rights.
VMware is great for this (you can have a backup of your complete system image), but it isn't fast.
Most of the time, you drive at between 20 to 30 MPH tops often at just 15 MPH.
The FAPSI approval is really a joke. It means you have to send everyone on cryptograhy courses to make them aware of the sensitivity of key materials and so on. You are then obliged to use a FAPSI system to issue keys (you pay per key). The whole system is totally unsuitable for any kind of electronic shopping as the public would have to pass a FAPSI course before they were allowed to use the system.
And now FAPSI has been reabsorbed into the FSB (it used to be the KGB 22nd directorate). Whilst the law isn't particularl effective, it gives the FSB a very good way of applying pressure on you.
Yes, military service is mandatory as they run a militia but way off base on the 50% tax. Its more like 10% if you are resident in one of the cheaper places like Zuge.
As for terrorism, the other reason that the crooks are chasing after $660M next year for their still not functioning system.
Perhaps if they organised a competition the same way as they did for the autonomous all-terrain vehicle, then the ABM program wouldn't be so corrupt.
The corrollaries of a strong share price are the abilities to perform well in correspondence to other companies in the same sector. In reference to our favourite companies, SCO suck but MS has done well.
Known poor quality control, I don't think patriot is that good.
First, it is remarkable that Goldfarb is saying this. It is also interesting what he is not saying. Like the old slashdot favourite of filling in the ??? before profit?
Oh, and I am a capital markets specialist!