A business is simply a way of producing something efficiently, so that no excess profits are made
Riiight. There's no such thing as "excess profit". If a business could sustainably produce somthing for one cent, and sell it for a hundred dollars, and get away with it, then they'd gleefully do so. Go watch The Corporation and Enron: The smartest guys in the room to get a taste of what businesses are really like.
Not really, the lead enriched water just postpones inevitable death. Either way, the poor bastard making the choice between dehydration and lead poisoning is fucked.
I also worked at a Staples in a small city in Canada, and they pulled the same shit. They even locked up printer cartriges, which was a true delight for the employees. We'd have lineups of 10-15 people waiting for cartriges, and suffice to say it was us peons in red who took the flak. Lunchtimes were pretty bad, and the christmas rush nearly made me go postal.
I was seriously... distracted... by Diablo2. I'd get rather restless about an hour before quitting time at work and would feel a sense of relief once I was at home, bashing pixels. I pretty much quit the game cold turkey, I one day just found myself deeply bored with the prospect of doing yet another baal run. Never touched the game since, and had no real need to. I did try WoW for a few months, but found it deeply boring as well. I guess I don't get the "high" or whatever off this type of game anymore.
If the ethanol comes from say, fermented corn or potatos, the CO2 would already have been "in the loop" so to speak. Its the stuff we're pumping and digging up out of the ground that's adding to our CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
Being the first man in space was memorable. Landing on the Moon was memorable. Endlessly orbiting our planet, doing "routine" things is very, very unmemorable. The name of the first person to set foot on Mars will be remembered.
Softimage was able to keep Softimage|3D free of microsoft's shit, but that's only because they were forced to tie XSI (their next gen app) down to Win32. The switch to win32 delayed XSI long enough to allow Maya to become the dominant app in the high end market.
We don't really know the maximum storage capacity of the brain yet. Sure, there's probably an upper limit, but the brain is pretty good at trashing useless data, and compressing / archiving more useful stuff.
I had a job working with a vicon motion capture system that used IR strobes. For those who aren't familiar with the technology, here's a quick explanation of how it works:
A group of cameras are arranged in a ring formation, with their lenses facing inward. Typically, this ring is raised up about 10' or so above the ground, and the cameras aimed down toward a common area. Each camera's lens has a donut shaped ring mounted to it. The donut's surface is covered either red or ir emitting led. The light from these leds floods the capture area (the volume) and bounces off of reflective markers which are attached to the actors inside the volume. The cameras, which are IR sensitive pick up the markers, and a computer then uses the feeds from multiple cameras to triangulate the positions of the markers.
Anyhow, the Vicon guy did say that its not a good idea to stare into the strobes, as it was probably not healthy for the eyes. The red ones are probably less unhealthy, as your pupils contract due to the visible light. The ir ones don't emit any visible light, and the only way to tell if a strobe as working was by a green led stuck among the ir ones.
Just to wrap up this mishmash of info, and to make a point, I don't think flooding areas with ir light is a good idea, as I did find myself getting headaches and eyestrain if we left the strobes running too long in the studio.
No-one was tortured at Abu Ghraib - not while it was under American control. Hundreds were tortured to death there under Saddam's regime. The worst that happened after he was removed was some naughty pictures.
That's probably the reason, but the Spirit and Opportunity rovers are somewhat bigger:
1.5 meter (4.9 feet) high by 2.3 meters (7.5 feet) wide by 1.6 meter (5.2 feet) long, according to this site.
I'm thinking NASA is trying to save money by not sending somthing with mobile capability. Its a pity, as the dev work's already been done... may as well use it.
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Would this be low profile enough?
Me, I'm gonna design a race of five assed monkeys as the 1st thing when I get the game.
Riiight. There's no such thing as "excess profit". If a business could sustainably produce somthing for one cent, and sell it for a hundred dollars, and get away with it, then they'd gleefully do so. Go watch The Corporation and Enron: The smartest guys in the room to get a taste of what businesses are really like.
Not really, the lead enriched water just postpones inevitable death. Either way, the poor bastard making the choice between dehydration and lead poisoning is fucked.
At this point I wouldn't trade the shit off my shoe for a box of floppies.
Certain models of Cray computers were cooled using fluorinert. Its rather expensive stuff, probably out of the reach of most hobbyists.
I wonder how people would react if they knew that good, wholesome canola is actually called rapeseed...
I also worked at a Staples in a small city in Canada, and they pulled the same shit. They even locked up printer cartriges, which was a true delight for the employees. We'd have lineups of 10-15 people waiting for cartriges, and suffice to say it was us peons in red who took the flak. Lunchtimes were pretty bad, and the christmas rush nearly made me go postal.
Quagmire- I like where this is going, giggidy-giggidy-giggidy!
Hmm... "researchers" are totally dependant on funding, so they lower themselves to stating things like "gaming is addictive"?
I was seriously... distracted... by Diablo2. I'd get rather restless about an hour before quitting time at work and would feel a sense of relief once I was at home, bashing pixels. I pretty much quit the game cold turkey, I one day just found myself deeply bored with the prospect of doing yet another baal run. Never touched the game since, and had no real need to. I did try WoW for a few months, but found it deeply boring as well. I guess I don't get the "high" or whatever off this type of game anymore.
If the ethanol comes from say, fermented corn or potatos, the CO2 would already have been "in the loop" so to speak. Its the stuff we're pumping and digging up out of the ground that's adding to our CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
I, for one, am aghast. Broad reaching powers being abused?! Inconceivable!
Being the first man in space was memorable. Landing on the Moon was memorable. Endlessly orbiting our planet, doing "routine" things is very, very unmemorable. The name of the first person to set foot on Mars will be remembered.
Softimage was able to keep Softimage|3D free of microsoft's shit, but that's only because they were forced to tie XSI (their next gen app) down to Win32. The switch to win32 delayed XSI long enough to allow Maya to become the dominant app in the high end market.
We don't really know the maximum storage capacity of the brain yet. Sure, there's probably an upper limit, but the brain is pretty good at trashing useless data, and compressing / archiving more useful stuff.
A group of cameras are arranged in a ring formation, with their lenses facing inward. Typically, this ring is raised up about 10' or so above the ground, and the cameras aimed down toward a common area. Each camera's lens has a donut shaped ring mounted to it. The donut's surface is covered either red or ir emitting led. The light from these leds floods the capture area (the volume) and bounces off of reflective markers which are attached to the actors inside the volume. The cameras, which are IR sensitive pick up the markers, and a computer then uses the feeds from multiple cameras to triangulate the positions of the markers.
Anyhow, the Vicon guy did say that its not a good idea to stare into the strobes, as it was probably not healthy for the eyes. The red ones are probably less unhealthy, as your pupils contract due to the visible light. The ir ones don't emit any visible light, and the only way to tell if a strobe as working was by a green led stuck among the ir ones.
Just to wrap up this mishmash of info, and to make a point, I don't think flooding areas with ir light is a good idea, as I did find myself getting headaches and eyestrain if we left the strobes running too long in the studio.
Everyone has their price, but not everyone's currency is dollars.
A picture is worth a thousand words, so I'll leave it at this.
If you make it your campaign platform, then you've got my vote.
Or perhaps like this?
And no science fiction ever became fact...
You must mean these things... my bullshit detector is going apeshit right now.
I suspect the average detective is only marginally smarter than the criminals they catch.
1.5 meter (4.9 feet) high by 2.3 meters (7.5 feet) wide by 1.6 meter (5.2 feet) long, according to this site.
I'm thinking NASA is trying to save money by not sending somthing with mobile capability. Its a pity, as the dev work's already been done... may as well use it.