Good. I was hoping to find someone else who raised this issue. I don't know why I never thought of this until today. This does seem like a huge problem for time travel. If time travel were possible, the only reasonable thing to do is send a person in a spaceship and hope he doesn't end up appearing in the center of a planet or light years away from Earth.
I'm now very upset about why this doesn't come up as the BIGGEST problem related to time travel.
Oh good. So Carmack ISN'T the one obsessed with satanism. It's someone else at Id. For a longest time, I figured he sold his soul to be the great coder that he is.
I'm not absolutely sure, but I think the parent poster was making a reference to an episode of "King of the Hill." Long story short, in this case, Hank was trying to fix a jammed door lock with some WD-40. He pulls out a regular sized can of WD-40, can't get the cap off, and so then pulls out a tiny can of WD-40 from a belt clip to spray the top of the regular sized can to get the top off.
Yes. I do watch too much TV. And, yes. I can ruin any funny story by telling it aloud.
This happened during the day, while I was working. Very scary too, since I work for the DoD contractor Raytheon in a supposeded secure parking lot surronded by a barbed wire fence. But they messed up by hitting the car of an engineer. My anti-personnel car security system should be operational in the next month.
On the video's creation: "We shot a very basic video of the band [in London], we edited it and then we had a program that pixelized the video, roughly the size of the Lego blocks and then we printed each frame [25 frames per second] on paper. Then we had an animation team building up Lego blocks to match each frame.
Perhaps he meant (and I believe this to be the case) that most, if not all, of the video was shot normally with the musicians/actors/sets. They then might have taken the raw video through some filters adjusting the colors to LEGO colors and perhaps "pixelating" the video. They could then use these filtered frames as a reference to build the LEGOs.
Only a theory, but this is how I would attempt to do it anyway.
I just started at Raytheon as an engineer a few months ago, and one of the first things I locked onto was this Phalanx system. It blew me away the first time I saw it. (heh) I wish you could see some of the other video on it that I have access to, it really is an awesome sight. The software that controls it is also equally awesome. It reminded me of a LEGO Mindstorms/3Com Webcam project I did a while ago.
Yep. The original poster is jumping to an incorrect conclusion about Rollins. But hey, just look at his "site" and you'll see why. It has a picture of others just like him.;)
Goodness. I had to look at your name to make sure I hadn't typed your message in my sleep or something. I totally agree. Monty Python and especially MST3K episodes would be fantastic! And NO MORE Ab-fab marathons!!!
I liked the idea at first, but all the flashy crap started to turn me off. The silly metal music, idiot hosts, and stereotypical "hottie" girl talking to the awkward speaking robot builders was just starting to get on my nerves. If they had only done it more like Junkyard Wars I would have probably tuned in more often. Taking more time to get to the "tech" side of bot-building. But I guess geeks are too small of a crowd to cater to on TV right now.
Besides, I can hardly call those things "robots." More like RC death machines. When I think of robots, I think of more autonomous machines with some built-in intelligence. To me that would have been way more intersting to watch. Although, I guess watching some poorly programmed bot drive along the side of the ring the entire match might get boring. Oh well. Something like that.
TLC has a new show starting soon that may be intersting to see. With the original girl host from Junkyard Wars and, I think I saw him, Henry Rollins. I guess we'll see.
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Good. I was hoping to find someone else who raised this issue. I don't know why I never thought of this until today. This does seem like a huge problem for time travel. If time travel were possible, the only reasonable thing to do is send a person in a spaceship and hope he doesn't end up appearing in the center of a planet or light years away from Earth.
I'm now very upset about why this doesn't come up as the BIGGEST problem related to time travel.
Oh good. So Carmack ISN'T the one obsessed with satanism. It's someone else at Id. For a longest time, I figured he sold his soul to be the great coder that he is.
Let them do whatever they feel like! Gosh!
You wait patiently outside the boy's bathroom to score with the ladies? Well, I guess if you like those kind of ladies...
That's my plan.
In Soviet Russia, beowulf clusters you!
Er.. I know it ain't right. So SCO me.
You don't see "The Sims" players going out and getting a real life. Do you?
Yes. I do watch too much TV. And, yes. I can ruin any funny story by telling it aloud.
Point 3. Profit!!!!
Is the host here!?! Please kick GI14932!
Ahhh... Plans within plans.
Easy. Eight 15" woofers need 1.21 gigawatts. Oh wait...
Who am I kidding. I'll probably settle for razor blades on the back of the deck.
I feel your pain. Believe me. It just happened to me as well.
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This happened during the day, while I was working. Very scary too, since I work for the DoD contractor Raytheon in a supposeded secure parking lot surronded by a barbed wire fence. But they messed up by hitting the car of an engineer. My anti-personnel car security system should be operational in the next month.
I hope they try again...
Yay. I was right. +1 for me.
Only a theory, but this is how I would attempt to do it anyway.
Naaa. It wasn't turned on, unfortunately. And the gun was in pieces on the floor at the time.
I just started at Raytheon as an engineer a few months ago, and one of the first things I locked onto was this Phalanx system. It blew me away the first time I saw it. (heh) I wish you could see some of the other video on it that I have access to, it really is an awesome sight. The software that controls it is also equally awesome. It reminded me of a LEGO Mindstorms/3Com Webcam project I did a while ago.
Yep. The original poster is jumping to an incorrect conclusion about Rollins. But hey, just look at his "site" and you'll see why. It has a picture of others just like him. ;)
Goodness. I had to look at your name to make sure I hadn't typed your message in my sleep or something. I totally agree. Monty Python and especially MST3K episodes would be fantastic! And NO MORE Ab-fab marathons!!!
Besides, I can hardly call those things "robots." More like RC death machines. When I think of robots, I think of more autonomous machines with some built-in intelligence. To me that would have been way more intersting to watch. Although, I guess watching some poorly programmed bot drive along the side of the ring the entire match might get boring. Oh well. Something like that.
TLC has a new show starting soon that may be intersting to see. With the original girl host from Junkyard Wars and, I think I saw him, Henry Rollins. I guess we'll see.
Heh, I was afraid of that. I tried to justify myself in the description. No avoiding it, I supppose.
It's in the shape of a Gameboy.