I've seen links to plans and videos of props that look professional quality at www.halloweenforum.com. Since you only have a week until Halloween, some of the more detailed stuff won't be possible. There are DVDs out there that are good for a scary background, you could build a Pepper Ghost, or a Flying Crank Ghost (FCG) for the front window. (I plan on making a FCG for next year myself.)
There are many mods that can be done to a WalMart blow-mold skeleton (known in the parlance as "Bluckys") to make them look like rotting corpses, zombies etc, and plans to use a lawn sprinkler as a piston and hook it up to compressed air to move it. You can use a simple motion outdoor light detector with a socket plug screwed into one of the lamp sockets to trigger it.
Here's a site that has more Halloween prop links than you can shake a femur at:
http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/
I get into decorating for Halloween more than I do for Christmas. Good luck!;)
Maybe he'll do like Gov. George Wallace did in Alabama back in the day. He was prohibited from serving more than two consecutive terms, so his wife ran and won as governer. He of course won again the next election.
This is similar to when the US Navy in the late 20s/early 30s offered a prize to the company that could develop a diesel engine that would produce a certain number of horsepower while adhering to size and weight constraints so that it could be used for submarine engines.
The manufacturers jumped at it not because of the sub contract (which was only good for several dozen engines) but because this engine would be perfect for making railroad locomotives. The winner of the competition could then build the cost of the factory to produce the engines into the government contract, and when the Navy had its sub engines the company could start cranking out locomotives at a higher profit (or undercut the competition) since the capital expenditures were already paid for.
Check out http://www.live365.com/ for an amazing selection of talk and spoken word (and just about anything else.) There are thousands of stations here, programmed by individuals (unlike AOL or Yahoo) ranging from people who just want to hear their own music at work to hobbyists to professional broadcasters. Free to listen, (install a popup blocker) and for $4.95 a month you can ditch both the popups *and* the audio ads. It's a cubicle-dweller's nirvana. I found the best jazz station I've ever heard there, and listen to it when working.
Unlike many Shoutcast stations, all these stations pay licensing fees, so don't have the threat of being shut down by the RIAA looming over them. It's also easy to get started on your own. You can start at $10/month (a paltry 100MB of storage) up to however big you want to get. Some of the "pro" stations are spending upwards to $2000/month and selling their own ads.
The short (and not very detailed) explanation is a "Space Western." But that's not doing the series justice.
Like so many other innovative series, Firefly was sandbagged by network execs that have the same level of comprehension as Paris Hilton. They nixed the pilot that explained who everyone was and set up the situation, so everyone was confused as hell. The suits then used that as justification to kill the series in favor of Queen Latifah's latest vehicle, or whatever.
Google for it, and you'll find plenty of info.
Right now, I'd gladly trade fertility for taking out my brain tumors and inoperable spinal tumors.
Seeing as how neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is hereditary (50/50 chance of passing the bad chromosome #22) and I'm in my 40s, I doubt I'll be experiencing any urges to pass this along anyway.
All the robots have to do is keep the ball moving at all times, and away from the human team, tiring them out until the last few minutes, then going for the win. They'll be able to compute the trajectory of the ball to never miss, track all players around them to avoid them, and have detailed dossiers on the playstyle of all players.
Just run the humans into the ground, and once fatigue sets in, they have the upper hand. I easily see this happening in 5020!;)
"By 2050, our aim is to beat the winners of football's World Cup and we are very confident that we will be able to do that," said Shu Ishiguro, who heads Robot Laboratory in Osaka. "When we have accomplished that, we will have a society in which humans and artificial intelligence are completely in harmony."
This quote shows that these scientists are obviously clueless, if he thinks the reaction of the fans in the stands will be completely harmonious when the robots beat their team. They'll burn every Toyota in the city.
The Soviet Union would have folded in months, if it weren't for the millions upon millions in supplies and vehicles the US poured into the country. The Soviet Union survived because the US and British spent the blood and money to get those supplies through. The Soviet Union survived WWII because the US kept them alive. Without those hundreds of convoys fighting their way past Uboats and surface raiders (why was the Tirpitz and latter Scharnhorst in Norway? To strike at the Murmansk convoys. They were still in range of the RAF, as they would have been in Kiel.)
There would have *been* no 1943, no victory at Stalingrad, without US Lend-Lease. Did the US and British use Stalin to keep Hitler busy until they could prepare for an invasion of the Continent? Sure. But you know what? Without the US, the Soviet Union would have been destroyed. Stalin knew it, FDR knew it, Churchill and Hitler knew it. That is why there was so much struggle and death in those Artic waters to get the convoys through, and to try to defeat them. If it hadn't been important, you wouldn't have seen both sides using battleships in an effort to decide the outcome.
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I worked at an Electronics Boutique while going to college, and the two favorite jokes were when I customer came in asking when NeverWinter Nights was coming out (answer: "Never") and how long until Duke Nukem comes out (answer: "Forever")
Then blasted Atari actually shipped NWN.:P
I graduated with a CIS degree in May 2002. After all the bank mergers and call centers closing down locally, I could only find a job at a small locally owned company that had never had any MIS person. After spending four months chasing viruses and updating computers that hadn't seen a patch or virus definition update in five years, and implementing a VPN network between the branch offices and the home office that saved a ton of moeny, they decided "they couldn't afford to have a full time MIS person on staff."
Oh, and I was working for $10/hr.
I'm now a Realtor(R), and am much happier, that is, until I look at the $50,000 in student loans I still have to pay back.
This is what Microsoft is banking on, and is why they've poured millions into
a) cable set-top boxes
b) Web TV
c) Xbox
They've decided the way to control all of your entertainment options (the electronic ones at least) is to take a loss on each Xbox in order to grab market share, then expand its functions until it's the only thing you use as far as computing, games, etc. This will become more likely as HDTVs make inroads into the average American home (eliminating the objection of "crappy resolution" while web surfing on the TV.) Xbox is the leader among consoles in supporting higher display resolutions.
We all know that, for the home user, the only reason for beefy computers is games. In comparison, the horsepower needed for email, web browsing, etc is minimal. So, by tying the games to a console standard, Microsoft eliminates the bloat and complexity of the games (unfortunately, also eliminating the in-depth strategy games I favor) and has plenty of horsepower to run web surfing and email (and already comes with the hard drive for storage.)
We may be seeing the Black Box replace the Beige Box.
I envision a cluster of wirelessly networked systems which will share computing time with one another when they have cycles to spare, working together to carry out such a project. The sum of the data from stress analyses, efficiency plans, and so on would be combined to carry out tasks as rapidly as possible. Ultimately, people will be able to focus on management tasks rather than laboring.
Having someone hack into a Caterpiller D9 bulldozer and go on a rampage brings a whole new meaning to "wardriving.";)
Buy one of those stationary bikes that has a generator built in, that companies were selling parents that were worried that their kids were going to grow up to be couch potatoes. It was designed to be hooked up to the TV so that the kids could only watch TV/play Nintendo while they were pedaling.
Of course, I'm sure you could easily Google the plans to build your own from parts available at a scrapyard.
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sent to intercept Comet Wild 2 Hmm, I must have missed "Comets Gone Wild 1: Shake That Tail!"
Unfortunately, the Grammar Nazis don't restrict their activities to January 5th.
I've seen links to plans and videos of props that look professional quality at www.halloweenforum.com. Since you only have a week until Halloween, some of the more detailed stuff won't be possible. There are DVDs out there that are good for a scary background, you could build a Pepper Ghost, or a Flying Crank Ghost (FCG) for the front window. (I plan on making a FCG for next year myself.) There are many mods that can be done to a WalMart blow-mold skeleton (known in the parlance as "Bluckys") to make them look like rotting corpses, zombies etc, and plans to use a lawn sprinkler as a piston and hook it up to compressed air to move it. You can use a simple motion outdoor light detector with a socket plug screwed into one of the lamp sockets to trigger it. Here's a site that has more Halloween prop links than you can shake a femur at: http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/ I get into decorating for Halloween more than I do for Christmas. Good luck! ;)
Maybe he'll do like Gov. George Wallace did in Alabama back in the day. He was prohibited from serving more than two consecutive terms, so his wife ran and won as governer. He of course won again the next election.
This is similar to when the US Navy in the late 20s/early 30s offered a prize to the company that could develop a diesel engine that would produce a certain number of horsepower while adhering to size and weight constraints so that it could be used for submarine engines. The manufacturers jumped at it not because of the sub contract (which was only good for several dozen engines) but because this engine would be perfect for making railroad locomotives. The winner of the competition could then build the cost of the factory to produce the engines into the government contract, and when the Navy had its sub engines the company could start cranking out locomotives at a higher profit (or undercut the competition) since the capital expenditures were already paid for.
Check out http://www.live365.com/ for an amazing selection of talk and spoken word (and just about anything else.) There are thousands of stations here, programmed by individuals (unlike AOL or Yahoo) ranging from people who just want to hear their own music at work to hobbyists to professional broadcasters. Free to listen, (install a popup blocker) and for $4.95 a month you can ditch both the popups *and* the audio ads. It's a cubicle-dweller's nirvana. I found the best jazz station I've ever heard there, and listen to it when working.
Unlike many Shoutcast stations, all these stations pay licensing fees, so don't have the threat of being shut down by the RIAA looming over them. It's also easy to get started on your own. You can start at $10/month (a paltry 100MB of storage) up to however big you want to get. Some of the "pro" stations are spending upwards to $2000/month and selling their own ads.
For a sample of the types of music you can hear, check the 2005 Mikey Awards winners here http://www.live365.com/info/press/20050512.html/( Disclaimer: I have broadcast on Live 365 since 2000.)
The short (and not very detailed) explanation is a "Space Western." But that's not doing the series justice. Like so many other innovative series, Firefly was sandbagged by network execs that have the same level of comprehension as Paris Hilton. They nixed the pilot that explained who everyone was and set up the situation, so everyone was confused as hell. The suits then used that as justification to kill the series in favor of Queen Latifah's latest vehicle, or whatever. Google for it, and you'll find plenty of info.
Right now, I'd gladly trade fertility for taking out my brain tumors and inoperable spinal tumors. Seeing as how neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is hereditary (50/50 chance of passing the bad chromosome #22) and I'm in my 40s, I doubt I'll be experiencing any urges to pass this along anyway.
Man, he's bringing out the big guns, ain't he?
All the robots have to do is keep the ball moving at all times, and away from the human team, tiring them out until the last few minutes, then going for the win. They'll be able to compute the trajectory of the ball to never miss, track all players around them to avoid them, and have detailed dossiers on the playstyle of all players. Just run the humans into the ground, and once fatigue sets in, they have the upper hand. I easily see this happening in 5020! ;)
"By 2050, our aim is to beat the winners of football's World Cup and we are very confident that we will be able to do that," said Shu Ishiguro, who heads Robot Laboratory in Osaka. "When we have accomplished that, we will have a society in which humans and artificial intelligence are completely in harmony." This quote shows that these scientists are obviously clueless, if he thinks the reaction of the fans in the stands will be completely harmonious when the robots beat their team. They'll burn every Toyota in the city.
The Soviet Union would have folded in months, if it weren't for the millions upon millions in supplies and vehicles the US poured into the country. The Soviet Union survived because the US and British spent the blood and money to get those supplies through. The Soviet Union survived WWII because the US kept them alive. Without those hundreds of convoys fighting their way past Uboats and surface raiders (why was the Tirpitz and latter Scharnhorst in Norway? To strike at the Murmansk convoys. They were still in range of the RAF, as they would have been in Kiel.) There would have *been* no 1943, no victory at Stalingrad, without US Lend-Lease. Did the US and British use Stalin to keep Hitler busy until they could prepare for an invasion of the Continent? Sure. But you know what? Without the US, the Soviet Union would have been destroyed. Stalin knew it, FDR knew it, Churchill and Hitler knew it. That is why there was so much struggle and death in those Artic waters to get the convoys through, and to try to defeat them. If it hadn't been important, you wouldn't have seen both sides using battleships in an effort to decide the outcome.
Corruptino- That's what Ken Lay drinks at Starbucks
I worked at an Electronics Boutique while going to college, and the two favorite jokes were when I customer came in asking when NeverWinter Nights was coming out (answer: "Never") and how long until Duke Nukem comes out (answer: "Forever") Then blasted Atari actually shipped NWN. :P
I graduated with a CIS degree in May 2002. After all the bank mergers and call centers closing down locally, I could only find a job at a small locally owned company that had never had any MIS person. After spending four months chasing viruses and updating computers that hadn't seen a patch or virus definition update in five years, and implementing a VPN network between the branch offices and the home office that saved a ton of moeny, they decided "they couldn't afford to have a full time MIS person on staff." Oh, and I was working for $10/hr. I'm now a Realtor(R), and am much happier, that is, until I look at the $50,000 in student loans I still have to pay back.
This is what Microsoft is banking on, and is why they've poured millions into a) cable set-top boxes b) Web TV c) Xbox They've decided the way to control all of your entertainment options (the electronic ones at least) is to take a loss on each Xbox in order to grab market share, then expand its functions until it's the only thing you use as far as computing, games, etc. This will become more likely as HDTVs make inroads into the average American home (eliminating the objection of "crappy resolution" while web surfing on the TV.) Xbox is the leader among consoles in supporting higher display resolutions. We all know that, for the home user, the only reason for beefy computers is games. In comparison, the horsepower needed for email, web browsing, etc is minimal. So, by tying the games to a console standard, Microsoft eliminates the bloat and complexity of the games (unfortunately, also eliminating the in-depth strategy games I favor) and has plenty of horsepower to run web surfing and email (and already comes with the hard drive for storage.) We may be seeing the Black Box replace the Beige Box.
I envision a cluster of wirelessly networked systems which will share computing time with one another when they have cycles to spare, working together to carry out such a project. The sum of the data from stress analyses, efficiency plans, and so on would be combined to carry out tasks as rapidly as possible. Ultimately, people will be able to focus on management tasks rather than laboring. Having someone hack into a Caterpiller D9 bulldozer and go on a rampage brings a whole new meaning to "wardriving." ;)
Buy one of those stationary bikes that has a generator built in, that companies were selling parents that were worried that their kids were going to grow up to be couch potatoes. It was designed to be hooked up to the TV so that the kids could only watch TV/play Nintendo while they were pedaling. Of course, I'm sure you could easily Google the plans to build your own from parts available at a scrapyard.
Did anyone else hesitate to click the Google news link on this story, in case it was a demonstration of the vulnerability in question?