NASA provides a guide for those with Photoshop, to make red / blue stereo images like you see on their website.
If anyone wants to convert the steps in the link to The Gimp 2.2, I'd be very greatful. I get stuck on about step 5 when I paste the 2 colour image into the other grey one and don't get the shaddowy red blue image that needs adjusting.
It would be modeled after the hit American TV series with Mr. Sutherland in it. He'd have just 24 hours to learn Unix, or a bomb goes off yadda yadda. Each hour of the show would show him at the command line, or trying to get X Windows running, and about hour 15 someone should show him a Linux Live CD and nearly save the day.
It could be shot under the BSD license, and run on either a Mac or Intel processor, depending on what they'd think would get better ratings.
Any TV producers out there want to buy the rights to my idea?
"Where it really sickens me (and this was the source of my frustration) is when upstate Republicans run against upstate Democrats by claiming that "they will be for NYC". They exploit the divide and make it worse just so they can get elected. *Sigh*"
In SK, the incumbent NDP is understood to support urban dwellers, they are union and labour friendly and most sease are in cities. The SK Party is understaood to favour rural issues. The legislature is split nearly 50:50, similar to the red state blue state divide in the US [which again is really a rural urban split if you look at the vote distribution]. Both sides need to realize that they aren't going to get by without bringing everyone with them on their mad dash to wealth and prosperity. We can't let one side step on the other to get a leg up.
Cities won't survive without rural goods, and rural areas won't get specialists and modern equipment without the urban economy. It's time we stopped bitching about each other, and take everyone into the 21st Century.
"Anything that wouldn't work in Saskatchewan obviously wouldn't be any use anywhere else on the planet."
Did I say that it wouldn't? No; that makes your comment needlessly sarcastic.
Obviously electric vehicles are ideal for urban dwellers with no need to travel by car outside of their city. I strongly encourage them to buy them if they live in a climate that can handle them with the current technolgy.
Speaking of strictly electric vehicles though, you can't recharge as quickly as you can with gas. Hybrids get around this problem, but electric only run into it. You have to plan for recharge time, even if there is a station available to recharge you.
And just in case you didn't know, SK is far from being only flat. It's only because the Trans Canada goes through the flattest part that most people think that. The rest looks more like Montana does [minus the Rockies, but add in Canadian Shield in the north part].
Essentially there are 500K rural people that need access to personal vehicles that can go 500km+ without the need to be recharged over 2 hours, when gas can be filled up in 5 minutes. Not all services are available within a 100km drive for hundreds of thousands of people. It's a big place, and we don't even drive in half the province, the top half is all trees and lakes, and rocks, and lakes, and more rocks, and uranium.
"There's also the fact that I'm a New Yorker and grew weary of the upstate/downstate divide (you have to live here to know what I'm talking about). We both need each other. In any case it was offtopic and I apologize if it offended anyone."
It's good to hear an urban dweller talking like that; very refreshing.
Don't be surprised if others do understand about your state divide. SK has a very strong urban rural split, and I suspect this same phenomenon exists everywhere.
My 500K estimate is high, since that includes everyone not living in an urban center, including children and the elderly. Of those 500K, not nearly close to that is all farmers, it includes towns and villages too, as well as miners, lumberjacks, and ranchers.
We don't all travel daily 300km+ but most need to go at least 300km round trip a few times a month, and would need a vehicle that could do it without taking long to recharge [like gas can be refueled].
"Why should we have to pay more for our phone service/electricity/roads/etc, etc, etc just so you can afford yours? If you like living in the middle of nowhere so much then be prepared to pay for it."
Because you're not all selfish city bastards? Seriously though, because your groceries and oil and everything doesn't come from downtown New York, and if you want supplies in your cities you'll need people and support structures outside of cities to support your urban lifestyle. If you want good people to work out of the city you'll have to provide them with healthcare, communication, education, and entertainment, so consider supporting rural telephone service, to be part of your grocery bill.
You're right gas heat is waste heat, so maybe electric generation is more efficient. I'm not saying don't go electric, I'm just saying don't be surprised everyone doesn't jump at it, until it works and is proven to work in rural and cold settings. Remember trailers add friction and thus provide a MPG hit too, as well as a registration cost, and skill level to drive them.
"Who here wouldn't own a battery powered electric vehicle if it had about 300-350 miles of range?"
That's not enough range for half a million drivers in Saskatchewan, and it wouldn't do well in winter. A hybrid can provide heat to the passengers without an electric heater which might be too much strain on a vehicle's battery?
I'm not saying battery cars shouldn't proceed to be adopted, but not everyone can have one for what they need.
"It's the investors of these companies (in this case) that are pushing for protection of human rights." If it doesn't hold a profit incentive to be respectful of human rights, odds are a company won't do it. Corporations remove the humanity from humans in power of them.
The only way most firms will push to respect human rights is if we make serious domestic penalties for companies that break human rights laws overseas or use companies that break codes.
We can't even get Walmart to stop hiring illegal immigrants and hiding them in the backs of stores in America, how are we going to stop The Gap from using sweatshops or whatever it is they do to get clothing made?
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"You forgot polio."
I think we all did. Can you show me that it's been officially wiped out of the wild like Small Pox has been?
I've been polled twice about the flu
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So far in the past week I've been polled by two major Canadian polling groups, at least partially on the Bird Flu in the news.
I tried my best to show I'm not as concerned as the media is about this threat, since I feel there are more important health measures we can be taking than preparing for a bug that doesn't exist, when there's so many that do exist we don't prepare for or wipe out while the technology exists for us to do it.
You'd think microbes must think the human economy is the only thing keeping polio, TB, Measles, and Chicken Pox from being wiped off the earth like Small Pox was.
People who haven't heard yet will buy them, or if they get put on sale because no one's buying them.
Slashdotters have to get this story into the mainstream a lot more by getting school kids to spread the word, or write your local paper so grandparents know that Sony is making evil CDs and user agreements for their products. Tell people that "Sony CDs are infected with DRM" which means you can't use them in your computer or it breaks the computer.
This is hardly surprising to those with any understanding of climate change. Water vapour has been known to be a major greenhouse gas for a good long while. The difference is that we can control our carbon emissions by burning fewer fossil fuels, which we know have secondary beneficial effects on the environment ranging from less particulate matter, to less acid rain.
This does not give license to people thinking they can drive 2 blocks to the corner store in their Hummer. This simply means that we should look at ways of preventing massive steam producers from pumping their waste water into the air.
" And we all know the only unreal anti-gravity device is a (Score:5, Offtopic)"
You're trying to make Coybow Neal spin in his grave aren't you? Which by the way is a pretty effective perpetual motion machine, generating unlimited energy.
Even that isn't a fool proof way of avoiding detection. With a simple site counter from statcounter.com a webmaster can see what search query you used to visit their website. So if you're looking for "torture" "device" and the website has the words torture and device on it, and you go to it, then let's say by coincidence your neighbour is tortured to death the next week. You were just curious about history of torture devices, or have a sexual fantasy about torture, but now they have circumstancial evidence out there that you were looking up torture devices.
The courts better be very careful with this evidence.
My sister once made a Corel Presentations slide show, and then showed it to me. It had nothing to say except that her favourite TV show "Boomtown" was on that night, and she wanted the TV at 9:00PM. But it had pretty cool special effects in it.
Disable Java, and it will open about twice as fast. I hear it disables macros or something that most users will never use. Hopefully in 2.1 they'll disable Java by default, and load it up slowly in the background after the application is open and being used.
If you're having trouble convincing someone to learn a new word processor, you can sometimes convince them using the "shame method".
I tell them that if my 85 year old, blind grandmother could learn to email, then can learn how to use Open Office. Sure she wasn't blind at the time, and was only 77 when she learned to use a computer, but some people just need to hear that someone older and frailer than they are, could do something they've never tried. It worked to convince my grandpa how to use the computer. My grandma learned first, and he got kind of jealous that she knew how to play cribbage on the machine and he didn't, so he put his mind to learning it too.
90% of teaching is convincing the person that they are capable of learning.
Slashdot Mirror
The "Fear of the unknown hacker" is one reason I like my current method of blogging which is simple HTML editing, and no scripts to upload changes.
I'm thinking of switching though, so I can offer RSS feeds and update through email for instance.
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/spotlight/3d01.html
NASA provides a guide for those with Photoshop, to make red / blue stereo images like you see on their website.
If anyone wants to convert the steps in the link to The Gimp 2.2, I'd be very greatful. I get stuck on about step 5 when I paste the 2 colour image into the other grey one and don't get the shaddowy red blue image that needs adjusting.
24 Unix!
It would be modeled after the hit American TV series with Mr. Sutherland in it. He'd have just 24 hours to learn Unix, or a bomb goes off yadda yadda. Each hour of the show would show him at the command line, or trying to get X Windows running, and about hour 15 someone should show him a Linux Live CD and nearly save the day.
It could be shot under the BSD license, and run on either a Mac or Intel processor, depending on what they'd think would get better ratings.
Any TV producers out there want to buy the rights to my idea?
"have yourself a nuclear combine."
And start selling Plutonium Peas, Radioactive Rye, Barrium Barley, Deuterium Durum, and Isotope Flax.
The marketing firm messed up when they thought Isotope Flax would sell well.
I think your idea has potential, but I think it will be a hydrogen fuel cell that will be the farming engine of the future.
"Where it really sickens me (and this was the source of my frustration) is when upstate Republicans run against upstate Democrats by claiming that "they will be for NYC". They exploit the divide and make it worse just so they can get elected. *Sigh*"
In SK, the incumbent NDP is understood to support urban dwellers, they are union and labour friendly and most sease are in cities. The SK Party is understaood to favour rural issues. The legislature is split nearly 50:50, similar to the red state blue state divide in the US [which again is really a rural urban split if you look at the vote distribution]. Both sides need to realize that they aren't going to get by without bringing everyone with them on their mad dash to wealth and prosperity. We can't let one side step on the other to get a leg up.
Cities won't survive without rural goods, and rural areas won't get specialists and modern equipment without the urban economy. It's time we stopped bitching about each other, and take everyone into the 21st Century.
"Anything that wouldn't work in Saskatchewan obviously wouldn't be any use anywhere else on the planet."
Did I say that it wouldn't? No; that makes your comment needlessly sarcastic.
Obviously electric vehicles are ideal for urban dwellers with no need to travel by car outside of their city. I strongly encourage them to buy them if they live in a climate that can handle them with the current technolgy.
Speaking of strictly electric vehicles though, you can't recharge as quickly as you can with gas. Hybrids get around this problem, but electric only run into it. You have to plan for recharge time, even if there is a station available to recharge you.
And just in case you didn't know, SK is far from being only flat. It's only because the Trans Canada goes through the flattest part that most people think that. The rest looks more like Montana does [minus the Rockies, but add in Canadian Shield in the north part].
See my answer in a comment below.
Essentially there are 500K rural people that need access to personal vehicles that can go 500km+ without the need to be recharged over 2 hours, when gas can be filled up in 5 minutes. Not all services are available within a 100km drive for hundreds of thousands of people. It's a big place, and we don't even drive in half the province, the top half is all trees and lakes, and rocks, and lakes, and more rocks, and uranium.
"There's also the fact that I'm a New Yorker and grew weary of the upstate/downstate divide (you have to live here to know what I'm talking about). We both need each other. In any case it was offtopic and I apologize if it offended anyone."
It's good to hear an urban dweller talking like that; very refreshing.
Don't be surprised if others do understand about your state divide. SK has a very strong urban rural split, and I suspect this same phenomenon exists everywhere.
Nice try, but not quite.
My 500K estimate is high, since that includes everyone not living in an urban center, including children and the elderly. Of those 500K, not nearly close to that is all farmers, it includes towns and villages too, as well as miners, lumberjacks, and ranchers.
We don't all travel daily 300km+ but most need to go at least 300km round trip a few times a month, and would need a vehicle that could do it without taking long to recharge [like gas can be refueled].
"Why should we have to pay more for our phone service/electricity/roads/etc, etc, etc just so you can afford yours? If you like living in the middle of nowhere so much then be prepared to pay for it."
Because you're not all selfish city bastards?
Seriously though, because your groceries and oil and everything doesn't come from downtown New York, and if you want supplies in your cities you'll need people and support structures outside of cities to support your urban lifestyle. If you want good people to work out of the city you'll have to provide them with healthcare, communication, education, and entertainment, so consider supporting rural telephone service, to be part of your grocery bill.
You're right gas heat is waste heat, so maybe electric generation is more efficient. I'm not saying don't go electric, I'm just saying don't be surprised everyone doesn't jump at it, until it works and is proven to work in rural and cold settings. Remember trailers add friction and thus provide a MPG hit too, as well as a registration cost, and skill level to drive them.
"Who here wouldn't own a battery powered electric vehicle if it had about 300-350 miles of range?"
That's not enough range for half a million drivers in Saskatchewan, and it wouldn't do well in winter. A hybrid can provide heat to the passengers without an electric heater which might be too much strain on a vehicle's battery?
I'm not saying battery cars shouldn't proceed to be adopted, but not everyone can have one for what they need.
Trevis Smith, the football player charged with having unprotected sex while HIV positive will be delighted to hear that.
"Umm, did you read the article?"
You must be new here.
"It's the investors of these companies (in this case) that are pushing for protection of human rights."
If it doesn't hold a profit incentive to be respectful of human rights, odds are a company won't do it. Corporations remove the humanity from humans in power of them.
The only way most firms will push to respect human rights is if we make serious domestic penalties for companies that break human rights laws overseas or use companies that break codes.
We can't even get Walmart to stop hiring illegal immigrants and hiding them in the backs of stores in America, how are we going to stop The Gap from using sweatshops or whatever it is they do to get clothing made?
"You forgot polio."
I think we all did. Can you show me that it's been officially wiped out of the wild like Small Pox has been?
So far in the past week I've been polled by two major Canadian polling groups, at least partially on the Bird Flu in the news.
I tried my best to show I'm not as concerned as the media is about this threat, since I feel there are more important health measures we can be taking than preparing for a bug that doesn't exist, when there's so many that do exist we don't prepare for or wipe out while the technology exists for us to do it.
You'd think microbes must think the human economy is the only thing keeping polio, TB, Measles, and Chicken Pox from being wiped off the earth like Small Pox was.
People who haven't heard yet will buy them, or if they get put on sale because no one's buying them.
Slashdotters have to get this story into the mainstream a lot more by getting school kids to spread the word, or write your local paper so grandparents know that Sony is making evil CDs and user agreements for their products. Tell people that "Sony CDs are infected with DRM" which means you can't use them in your computer or it breaks the computer.
"Sony execs crowed a few weeks ago that their latest MP3 players were THE iPod Killers"
What we didn't know, is that the Sony MP3 player actually DOES kill you if you copy non-DRM music to it. Look it up, it's in their EULA.
This is hardly surprising to those with any understanding of climate change. Water vapour has been known to be a major greenhouse gas for a good long while. The difference is that we can control our carbon emissions by burning fewer fossil fuels, which we know have secondary beneficial effects on the environment ranging from less particulate matter, to less acid rain.
This does not give license to people thinking they can drive 2 blocks to the corner store in their Hummer. This simply means that we should look at ways of preventing massive steam producers from pumping their waste water into the air.
" And we all know the only unreal anti-gravity device is a (Score:5, Offtopic)"
You're trying to make Coybow Neal spin in his grave aren't you? Which by the way is a pretty effective perpetual motion machine, generating unlimited energy.
Even that isn't a fool proof way of avoiding detection. With a simple site counter from statcounter.com a webmaster can see what search query you used to visit their website. So if you're looking for "torture" "device" and the website has the words torture and device on it, and you go to it, then let's say by coincidence your neighbour is tortured to death the next week. You were just curious about history of torture devices, or have a sexual fantasy about torture, but now they have circumstancial evidence out there that you were looking up torture devices.
The courts better be very careful with this evidence.
"the speaker had nothing of value to say."
My sister once made a Corel Presentations slide show, and then showed it to me. It had nothing to say except that her favourite TV show "Boomtown" was on that night, and she wanted the TV at 9:00PM. But it had pretty cool special effects in it.
Open up OO.o 2 and go to:
-Tools.
-Options
-Java
Disable Java, and it will open about twice as fast. I hear it disables macros or something that most users will never use. Hopefully in 2.1 they'll disable Java by default, and load it up slowly in the background after the application is open and being used.
If you're having trouble convincing someone to learn a new word processor, you can sometimes convince them using the "shame method".
I tell them that if my 85 year old, blind grandmother could learn to email, then can learn how to use Open Office. Sure she wasn't blind at the time, and was only 77 when she learned to use a computer, but some people just need to hear that someone older and frailer than they are, could do something they've never tried. It worked to convince my grandpa how to use the computer. My grandma learned first, and he got kind of jealous that she knew how to play cribbage on the machine and he didn't, so he put his mind to learning it too.
90% of teaching is convincing the person that they are capable of learning.