This sounds like a lot, but for those too lazy for the math....16,183/11 photographers/6 hours of shooting.... it *only* comes out to 4 pictures per minute. When you consider A lot of them are pictures in random succession like 10 in a row, searching for the ultimate still-frame it isn't really as mind boggling as the initial large number seems.
Sorry, no Janet Jackson or swimsuit pics in this article.
Now as far as that. How many other geeks out there are for Sports Illustrated starting a SETI-like distributed network program for their photos? Imagine the SI photographers taking thousands of swimsuit shots and sending them off to your computer for you to "process". Count me in.
I am not a big fan of the republican government we have. Everyone knows about that "Home Security Bill" they passed that contained privacy intrusions that would never have passed on their own. How are we to know that this is not just another excuse to give the government power to invade our privacy even more?
Bush seems to have an "at all costs" attitude which even includes freedom.
Has anyone else noticed that the Simpson plots have gotten more and more insane? I guess they are running out of ideas, but there are some that if you think about make you go huuuuh?
Like the one where they won the trip to africa off of an old animal crackers box. Or the one where Homer gets a webpage and ends up being drugged and taken to this special sanctuary. I know those are from a couple seasons ago, but I haven't had tv to watch the recent ones. I would assume they follow the same random act pattern. The beginning of the episode is usually totally different from the end. Like they'll have one plot line for the first 10 minutes with an odd occurence that completely shifts the plot line to something else; a two episodes in one type of thing.
I'm rambling, but the point is the plot lines seem to be more "drug-induced".
The one about the masturbation is kind of like one I use. When I was in my dorm I took the phone away from my ear and yelled "Larry, would you tell her to just swallow. I can't hear the phone over her gargling!"
My favorite one to do is make them answer every question they ask you. They ask me my address, I make them tell me theirs, etc. Some will actually do it.
Another one is when they go into their minute-long speech, wait until they are done and then say "I'm sorry, someone was at the door, can you repeat that?" Make up different excuses. You can keep a personal record of how many times you've gotten them to repeat it. Mine is 3. Then they finally just said they'd send the information to my address to look at.
When they say the phone call will be monitored for blah blah purpose, throw a fit about it. Ask to speak with the manager. In general I like to make sure I speak to the manager once per call.
Lastly, one of my new favorites is to talk really quietly to start out, then go silent for about 10 seconds. Then scream at the top of your lungs into the phone. Childish? Yes...but incredibly satisfying.
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Interesting? I wanted to be funny you insensitive clod!
This sounds like a lot, but for those too lazy for the math....16,183/11 photographers/6 hours of shooting.... it *only* comes out to 4 pictures per minute. When you consider A lot of them are pictures in random succession like 10 in a row, searching for the ultimate still-frame it isn't really as mind boggling as the initial large number seems.
Sorry, no Janet Jackson or swimsuit pics in this article.
Now as far as that. How many other geeks out there are for Sports Illustrated starting a SETI-like distributed network program for their photos? Imagine the SI photographers taking thousands of swimsuit shots and sending them off to your computer for you to "process". Count me in.
That's the part that renders slashdot readers immune. They should just send the 18,000 defective laptops our way.
Bush seems to have an "at all costs" attitude which even includes freedom.
Has anyone else noticed that the Simpson plots have gotten more and more insane? I guess they are running out of ideas, but there are some that if you think about make you go huuuuh? Like the one where they won the trip to africa off of an old animal crackers box. Or the one where Homer gets a webpage and ends up being drugged and taken to this special sanctuary. I know those are from a couple seasons ago, but I haven't had tv to watch the recent ones. I would assume they follow the same random act pattern. The beginning of the episode is usually totally different from the end. Like they'll have one plot line for the first 10 minutes with an odd occurence that completely shifts the plot line to something else; a two episodes in one type of thing. I'm rambling, but the point is the plot lines seem to be more "drug-induced".
I bet they do this to impress the ladies.
The one about the masturbation is kind of like one I use. When I was in my dorm I took the phone away from my ear and yelled "Larry, would you tell her to just swallow. I can't hear the phone over her gargling!"
My favorite one to do is make them answer every question they ask you. They ask me my address, I make them tell me theirs, etc. Some will actually do it.
Another one is when they go into their minute-long speech, wait until they are done and then say "I'm sorry, someone was at the door, can you repeat that?" Make up different excuses. You can keep a personal record of how many times you've gotten them to repeat it. Mine is 3. Then they finally just said they'd send the information to my address to look at.
When they say the phone call will be monitored for blah blah purpose, throw a fit about it. Ask to speak with the manager. In general I like to make sure I speak to the manager once per call.
Lastly, one of my new favorites is to talk really quietly to start out, then go silent for about 10 seconds. Then scream at the top of your lungs into the phone. Childish? Yes...but incredibly satisfying.
Ever since I saw One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish as a reference for a marine biology paper.