Your cynicism is appropriate given human nature. But in this case we can assume that the speaker is not an idiot and therefore worthy of some attention.
Hey, I'm pretty much a FCP guy, but do you think it is worth getting some cross-training? Are the advantages substantial enough to make it worth learning both?
The station I work at recently abandoned mini-dv because of the drop out & sync issues. It's not a huge problem, but one little drop out in the wrong place can me hours of time and chunks of what little hair I have left.
DVCAM is quite a bit more expensive, but if you can swing it, it will so be worth it. Now if they will by hard drive recorder I'll be set!
I liked the Cannon XL1, and I hear the XL1-S is even better.
I'd like to second asparagus's comments about the auxiliary gear. People will forgive lesser video quality, but are quite intolerant of bad camera movement, poor sound, the like.
I don't have personal knowledge about the FBI ignoring money type crimes, but I once had some moron email me an offer for kiddie porn. I saved the email, left a message on a FBI answering machine, emailed them and got nothing. Not even a a "sorry, go away" message. Nothing.
I wouldn't count on them for protection or help. If their system isn't tight enough to at least generate an auto-reply, they're mostly useless. That's my experience with them, anyway.
I work in the bush leagues of broadcasting, and I can't wait until they surplus all that equipment. It's usually high end stuff that's perfectly good, but can't be sold as new.
It won't go on eBay, probably, but if you like some of the small parts you see at the Olympics, start saving your pennies now.
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A semi-retired nuclear engineer/tour guide that sowed a group of us around an unfinished reactor building in Hanford said that the containment building could take an impact by a loaded 737. Those walls are insanely thick and the rebar is about as big as thick as an arm and the stuff is woven together before the concrete is poured. It's damn impressive.
There are certainly larger aircraft, and maybe two or more would break the building, who knows. Point being, if you want to take out a nuclear reactor with a civilian aircraft, you're gonna have to work for it.
If you did manage to hit the containment building, I'm guessing the reactor would be safed immediately, just on principle. And the turbine buildings and other auxiliary buildings were ordinary steel buildings, and would certainly be thrashed by flying debris and heat, so the reactor won't be doing much useful work anyway.
I've dissected a cat. It was pretty much a standard short haired cat. I think it must have been a stray alley cat, but not one of the bright ones that was smart enough to run like hell when the cat-snatchers came.
Anyway, Once you see a cat without it's skin, the reason that cats can take falls becomes apparent. the only really massive structure in a cat is the legs/shoulderblade/pectorals structure. The shoulder blades on our cat were huge and had an endless number of muscle attachments. The shoulder blades are hooked on to the back but the connections are relatively loose and sloppy and the spine is basically like a slinky. The legs on our cat had a 5+ inches of travel. If you get a chance, pick the cat up by holding it with one hand under it's ribcage. Use the other hand to work the front legs up and down to see the massive travel and check out the way all the muscles that insert into the shoulder blade take up the shock. Giving the cat a tracheotomy and watching the lungs inflate and deflate is a lot of fun too.
The hind quarters of the cat weren't really much, but it was as it was a really skinny alley cat there wasn't much weight for the back legs to handle. The above poster's postulated "enormously fat, bald, tailless" cat would probably shoot it's guts out all over the place on impact, but a normal cat might have a chance. Also a long tail might be handy for balance and steering on the way down, but I don't know.
Take A&P if you ever get a chance. It's a lot of fun. But try not to get hooked up with idiot lab partners that only enjoyed dissecting the cat's nuts. That freaked me out a bit. Also, don't wear your good shirt to a lab session.
Somebody, somewhere does periodic surveys that let chart makers tweak the declination lines on aerial navigation charts. Even if the polarity flip takes only 1000 years, the low estimate, the rate of change should be small enough that the charts could be kept up to date.
Low altitude, dead reckoning type navigation is lots of fun. If you aren't careful, local geological features can throw off your compass readings. Large ore deposits are part of the problem, and sometimes the anomalies have no attribution.
I wonder if the earth's gross magnetic field overrides these micro-local anomalies to any degree or if the vectors of the earth's magnetic field and the field of the ore bodies, for instance, are simply summed. Will the compass deviations caused by these local bodies vary in proportion to the change in the overall magnetic field or will they "pop" out?
You can tell that I'm not much of a physicist, right? I don't think the above poster addressed this question! This page is interesting if not totally obvious to the layman.
Anyway, multiple, redundant & cross checked instruments are your friend. Even without a compas or GPS there's no excuse for a pilot to get lost.
Yes, but it had some interesting engine issuesSo far, I like SpaceshipOne's safety record is better than the X-15's. One X-15 pilot got three crushed vertebrae. Mike Melville played with candy and went to see Jay Leno.
I don't mean to dump on NASA, their guys had big old brass ones to fly a beast like the X-15. Also, I'd expect a more modern effort that has fun things like CAD/CAM and CFD systems to be safer and slicker.
This is an interesting question, but I don't think it will be ever tested on higher primates. I think some research has been done with rats. As faras I remember, the experiment set a rat up in a cage with two buttons. Step on button A and you get food. Step on button B and you get narcotics. Rat after rat starved to death.
This is so not my specialty so I could be way off. But I would put my money on the monkey butt.
"That's Huge and could very well be used as a weapon"
Sure, I see two possibilities. First, you could bludgeon someone to death with the motor. Put it in a sock for extra leverage. Second. some knucklehead might want to rig up a remote fired "Katyusha" type of assembly. Guess which one I think is more likely?
I did the small model rockets as a kid and always thought it would be fun to get into the big ones if I ever got into a big enough paycheck. Now, it seems like a colossal pain. Oh well. Now I'll have to get a safe hobby like motorcycles, skydiving or street racing.
1. $20 Movie + Popcorn
$30 Dinner
$6.50 1 Case PBR, or whatever you like 2. Wait 69 months 3. Tell the little rug-rodent to get out there and do his part for the family.
This idea is not my personal, original material, incase you were wondering. I was very good at mowing lawns too, thank you very much, and the cat damn well learned to sleep up on the porch railing. He he he...
Simple, effective, but more expensive than the commercial solution if the kid wants to go to college.
Well, yeah, in an ideal and probably ordinary world that's so. But, according to a lexisnexis.com bit:
because any duty owed is limited to the public at large rather than to any specific individual.
The page rambles on, but an important concept seems to be "reliance." That is they don't have to do anything for a person unless the police have done something to make that person depend on them to a extraordinary degree. I think that's the gist, anyway.
I can speak to the medical privacy issue from personal experience. I was a less qualified person on a fire department type basic life support team. We see people in some of their most vulnerable times and take measures to protect their privacy. It's to everyone's benefit because we often need quick answers to do our job right, quickly, and get back to the house. It's law & policy too.
Offtopic, but don't depend on being able to tell the medics that you're allergic to anything. For the slashdot demographic, if you really, really need the medics, you'll probably be half conscious, naked (God help my mind's eye) and otherwise not up to answering questions. Get a bracelet, make sure your roomies know or whatever. And for pity's sake, don't worry about embarassing yourself or the medics. Anybody that cares will have long since left after they've seen their first old lady-cpr case. No one cares, but I digress.
Anyway, they probably will help, but they don't owe you or me anything, US maybe. That's how I read the law anyway.
It's a question of motivation. The profit margins for drug smuggling are huge. It's also easier black hole a domain or to really throttle them than it is to seal a border.
Unless the Russians, Hungarians, Chinese and others are willing to print the IP packets out, roll them up and keister them, anti-drug logic doesn't apply to spammers. You never do know, the drive and ingenuity of the greedy is probably limitless.
I hope this works, and that they do it right. And that they don't forget where the software came from. I really don't care if they are doing this just to spite $((the)us), just as long as they remember where their software came from. My local government needs all the help it can get. Hopefully they'll share the wealth.
William L. Shirer wrote Rise and fall of the Third Reich . It's a big, dense work, but well worth reading. I had a hard time getting past the first few hundred pages, but from then on it hooked me.
Just about any decent used book store will have a copy in paperback. Lots of people try to finish it, but fail.
I do my video editing work on a old G4 using FCP 3.0 (I know, I'm behind.) Occasionally I get stuck with 8 hour renders that generate 6 gig or better render files.
Is there any cheap solution that will let me spread this work out? I don't use AE at all. My shop is incredibly cheap so it would have to be a free or nearly free solution. I know that's asking a lot. It just isn't worth it to get more macs and put FCP express on them. That's the only thing I can think of.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
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I think apologies made under pressure mean exactly dick.
Even if he actually regrets his actions, his apology is still meaningless to me. I'm interested in his actions, and just doing a lecture tour to teach middle school kiddies isn't enough. It isn't even a start.
If he truly is sorry he'll spend every spare moment teaching Linford & Friends everything he knows and squealing on every single one of his associates. It has to be distasteful, but that's just tough. Now, not many people wake up in the morning worry about what chadjg thinks of them, so most people should ignore this vitriol.
The bottom line is that we shouldn't try to gauge sincerity in this situation. It's irrelevant. Actions matter, and toeing the line isn't good enough. He needs to be a freaking saint-on-earth if he wants to come up even.
For the record, I think he'll turn rotten as soon as the ruckus dies down. Shame passes sooner than greed.
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Your cynicism is appropriate given human nature. But in this case we can assume that the speaker is not an idiot and therefore worthy of some attention.
Is he wrong? Selfish or not?
You bed down with the dogs, you get fleas.
Hey, I'm pretty much a FCP guy, but do you think it is worth getting some cross-training? Are the advantages substantial enough to make it worth learning both?
The station I work at recently abandoned mini-dv because of the drop out & sync issues. It's not a huge problem, but one little drop out in the wrong place can me hours of time and chunks of what little hair I have left.
DVCAM is quite a bit more expensive, but if you can swing it, it will so be worth it. Now if they will by hard drive recorder I'll be set!
I liked the Cannon XL1, and I hear the XL1-S is even better.
I'd like to second asparagus's comments about the auxiliary gear. People will forgive lesser video quality, but are quite intolerant of bad camera movement, poor sound, the like.
Have fun!
I don't have personal knowledge about the FBI ignoring money type crimes, but I once had some moron email me an offer for kiddie porn. I saved the email, left a message on a FBI answering machine, emailed them and got nothing. Not even a a "sorry, go away" message. Nothing.
I wouldn't count on them for protection or help. If their system isn't tight enough to at least generate an auto-reply, they're mostly useless. That's my experience with them, anyway.
I work in the bush leagues of broadcasting, and I can't wait until they surplus all that equipment. It's usually high end stuff that's perfectly good, but can't be sold as new. It won't go on eBay, probably, but if you like some of the small parts you see at the Olympics, start saving your pennies now.
Man, there's going to be some ugly beatings.
A semi-retired nuclear engineer/tour guide that sowed a group of us around an unfinished reactor building in Hanford said that the containment building could take an impact by a loaded 737. Those walls are insanely thick and the rebar is about as big as thick as an arm and the stuff is woven together before the concrete is poured. It's damn impressive.
There are certainly larger aircraft, and maybe two or more would break the building, who knows. Point being, if you want to take out a nuclear reactor with a civilian aircraft, you're gonna have to work for it.
If you did manage to hit the containment building, I'm guessing the reactor would be safed immediately, just on principle. And the turbine buildings and other auxiliary buildings were ordinary steel buildings, and would certainly be thrashed by flying debris and heat, so the reactor won't be doing much useful work anyway.
Is it possible to go back to your old bosses and ask to spill details? Maybe it is good publicity and I'm curious.
I've dissected a cat. It was pretty much a standard short haired cat. I think it must have been a stray alley cat, but not one of the bright ones that was smart enough to run like hell when the cat-snatchers came.
Anyway, Once you see a cat without it's skin, the reason that cats can take falls becomes apparent. the only really massive structure in a cat is the legs/shoulderblade/pectorals structure. The shoulder blades on our cat were huge and had an endless number of muscle attachments. The shoulder blades are hooked on to the back but the connections are relatively loose and sloppy and the spine is basically like a slinky. The legs on our cat had a 5+ inches of travel. If you get a chance, pick the cat up by holding it with one hand under it's ribcage. Use the other hand to work the front legs up and down to see the massive travel and check out the way all the muscles that insert into the shoulder blade take up the shock. Giving the cat a tracheotomy and watching the lungs inflate and deflate is a lot of fun too.
The hind quarters of the cat weren't really much, but it was as it was a really skinny alley cat there wasn't much weight for the back legs to handle. The above poster's postulated "enormously fat, bald, tailless" cat would probably shoot it's guts out all over the place on impact, but a normal cat might have a chance. Also a long tail might be handy for balance and steering on the way down, but I don't know.
Take A&P if you ever get a chance. It's a lot of fun. But try not to get hooked up with idiot lab partners that only enjoyed dissecting the cat's nuts. That freaked me out a bit. Also, don't wear your good shirt to a lab session.
Somebody, somewhere does periodic surveys that let chart makers tweak the declination lines on aerial navigation charts. Even if the polarity flip takes only 1000 years, the low estimate, the rate of change should be small enough that the charts could be kept up to date.
Low altitude, dead reckoning type navigation is lots of fun. If you aren't careful, local geological features can throw off your compass readings. Large ore deposits are part of the problem, and sometimes the anomalies have no attribution.
I wonder if the earth's gross magnetic field overrides these micro-local anomalies to any degree or if the vectors of the earth's magnetic field and the field of the ore bodies, for instance, are simply summed. Will the compass deviations caused by these local bodies vary in proportion to the change in the overall magnetic field or will they "pop" out?
You can tell that I'm not much of a physicist, right? I don't think the above poster addressed this question! This page is interesting if not totally obvious to the layman.
Anyway, multiple, redundant & cross checked instruments are your friend. Even without a compas or GPS there's no excuse for a pilot to get lost.
Yes, but it had some interesting engine issuesSo far, I like SpaceshipOne's safety record is better than the X-15's. One X-15 pilot got three crushed vertebrae. Mike Melville played with candy and went to see Jay Leno.
I don't mean to dump on NASA, their guys had big old brass ones to fly a beast like the X-15. Also, I'd expect a more modern effort that has fun things like CAD/CAM and CFD systems to be safer and slicker.
So, does this mean that Win XP 2006 will get a Harley and start humping BeOS behind Ballmer's back?
going to hell now...
This is an interesting question, but I don't think it will be ever tested on higher primates. I think some research has been done with rats. As faras I remember, the experiment set a rat up in a cage with two buttons. Step on button A and you get food. Step on button B and you get narcotics. Rat after rat starved to death.
This is so not my specialty so I could be way off. But I would put my money on the monkey butt.
"That's Huge and could very well be used as a weapon"
Sure, I see two possibilities. First, you could bludgeon someone to death with the motor. Put it in a sock for extra leverage. Second. some knucklehead might want to rig up a remote fired "Katyusha" type of assembly. Guess which one I think is more likely?
I did the small model rockets as a kid and always thought it would be fun to get into the big ones if I ever got into a big enough paycheck. Now, it seems like a colossal pain. Oh well. Now I'll have to get a safe hobby like motorcycles, skydiving or street racing.
It really is too bad.
1. $20 Movie + Popcorn
$30 Dinner
$6.50 1 Case PBR, or whatever you like
2. Wait 69 months
3. Tell the little rug-rodent to get out there and do his part for the family.
This idea is not my personal, original material, incase you were wondering. I was very good at mowing lawns too, thank you very much, and the cat damn well learned to sleep up on the porch railing. He he he...
Simple, effective, but more expensive than the commercial solution if the kid wants to go to college.
Says the parent:
Well, yeah, in an ideal and probably ordinary world that's so. But, according to a lexisnexis.com bit:
The page rambles on, but an important concept seems to be "reliance." That is they don't have to do anything for a person unless the police have done something to make that person depend on them to a extraordinary degree. I think that's the gist, anyway.I can speak to the medical privacy issue from personal experience. I was a less qualified person on a fire department type basic life support team. We see people in some of their most vulnerable times and take measures to protect their privacy. It's to everyone's benefit because we often need quick answers to do our job right, quickly, and get back to the house. It's law & policy too.
Offtopic, but don't depend on being able to tell the medics that you're allergic to anything. For the slashdot demographic, if you really, really need the medics, you'll probably be half conscious, naked (God help my mind's eye) and otherwise not up to answering questions. Get a bracelet, make sure your roomies know or whatever. And for pity's sake, don't worry about embarassing yourself or the medics. Anybody that cares will have long since left after they've seen their first old lady-cpr case. No one cares, but I digress.
Anyway, they probably will help, but they don't owe you or me anything, US maybe. That's how I read the law anyway.
It's a question of motivation. The profit margins for drug smuggling are huge. It's also easier black hole a domain or to really throttle them than it is to seal a border.
Unless the Russians, Hungarians, Chinese and others are willing to print the IP packets out, roll them up and keister them, anti-drug logic doesn't apply to spammers. You never do know, the drive and ingenuity of the greedy is probably limitless.
Ah. I'm a moron. I'll look into this one. Thanks.
Go France, Go! WooWooWoo!
I hope this works, and that they do it right. And that they don't forget where the software came from. I really don't care if they are doing this just to spite $((the)us), just as long as they remember where their software came from. My local government needs all the help it can get. Hopefully they'll share the wealth.
William L. Shirer wrote Rise and fall of the Third Reich . It's a big, dense work, but well worth reading. I had a hard time getting past the first few hundred pages, but from then on it hooked me.
Just about any decent used book store will have a copy in paperback. Lots of people try to finish it, but fail.
Please let me know if there is a way I can get more information about your friend's case. I'm completely powerless, so I can't help, but I'm curious.
I do my video editing work on a old G4 using FCP 3.0 (I know, I'm behind.) Occasionally I get stuck with 8 hour renders that generate 6 gig or better render files.
Is there any cheap solution that will let me spread this work out? I don't use AE at all. My shop is incredibly cheap so it would have to be a free or nearly free solution. I know that's asking a lot. It just isn't worth it to get more macs and put FCP express on them. That's the only thing I can think of.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
I think apologies made under pressure mean exactly dick.
Even if he actually regrets his actions, his apology is still meaningless to me. I'm interested in his actions, and just doing a lecture tour to teach middle school kiddies isn't enough. It isn't even a start.
If he truly is sorry he'll spend every spare moment teaching Linford & Friends everything he knows and squealing on every single one of his associates. It has to be distasteful, but that's just tough. Now, not many people wake up in the morning worry about what chadjg thinks of them, so most people should ignore this vitriol.
The bottom line is that we shouldn't try to gauge sincerity in this situation. It's irrelevant. Actions matter, and toeing the line isn't good enough. He needs to be a freaking saint-on-earth if he wants to come up even.
For the record, I think he'll turn rotten as soon as the ruckus dies down. Shame passes sooner than greed.