Scanners work for macro digital photography too
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I used scanners set to 4800DPI or higher for eXtr33m close-up photography of tiny chips - the depth of field was enough to get the whole thing in focus. The detail was amazing - the mold marks and casting flaws
You have to set the scan area as small as possible.
I had to prop the lid open a tiny bit, which left tiny shadows, as if the chips were floating above a white surface.
If a projectile hits the wearers chest, will it break ribs and shock organs?
Probably. Cops that are hit while wearing their Kevlar vests get bruises, and even cracked ribs. It's better than a bullet hole, more like getting a whack with a baseball bat.
And if all the slashdotters (and slashbrothers and slashfathers and even the slashmothers) all asked for a copy of Mao's "Little Red Book", we could drive them crazy driving all over the country trying to keep track of all us unpatriotic types.
As Arlo Guthry asng in Alice's Restaurant:
"You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and
they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and
all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the
guitar."
I took the test and got 50%... but not because I was fooled by half the pfishers. They were frauds because I do not have accounts with any of the supposed senders.
Maybe the test should say: "IF you had an account with the following entities, would you consider this a genuine or a fake email from them?"
I've been through one software audit... we were squeaky clean, but it took about 4 hours of my time. Multiply that by the 25,000+ employees of that company, at their fully loaded pay rate and it was DAMNED EXPENSIVE to come up squeaky-clean.
Hypnosis is widely used in obstetrics - the hypnotist for the aortic aneurism repair I mentioned in another post was an obstetrician who regularly used hypnosis with his patients.
The patients will report feeling "pressure", but not pain.
The "Italian lawyer has filed suit against Sony on behalf of the Italian equivalent of the EFF" is not quite true. He made a formal complaint - he "denounced them", in legal lingo - but it's not a lawsuit.
Complying with standards is not burdensome, it's good for business. Keep in mind that the.mobi USERS are paying by the minute to look at those domains... it is the MOBI administration's best interest to make sure that the CUSTOMERS of the mobile phone companies are kept happy. If the.mobi domains become known for rendering badly or not at all, the consumers will stop using it.
If the initial HTML is consistent and well-coded, it is possible to deliver a mobile phone version of it... minus much of the eye candy, but with content intact. I've seen the standards for mobile - they don't preclude a GOOD designer from delivering attractive, perhaps even astounding pages. They do take into consideration the limited display ability of the phones.
Why hasn't the government spent any of it money to destroy hurricanes while they are offshore; instead, they just sit back and watch the destruction.
If all hurricanes were destroyed... what would that do to the climate worldwide? What about rainfall? It would be easier and cheaper to move people (permanently) out of vulnerable areas.
Building in an area that is hurricane-suceptible, in the area the expected to flood, should NOT BE REWARDED by subsidized insurance, rescue efforts, and rebuilding money. Except for fishing and shipping, there are few publically valuable reasons to build and live in the Gulf Coast. Resorts? Let them fend for themselves - they are for-profit businesses.
Comparing notes with the boss (who drives a Hummer). Forget the corporate incentinves. I'll stick with the 1995 truck that gets 22MPG.
Re:How does it deal with infections/health issues?
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Tux Can Even Milk Cows!
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Cow enters milking machine. Machine reads cow's ID tag and reads her info from database... if the cow is on antibiotics, the milk is shunted into a special tank immediately.
A farmer's NIGHTMARE is to have an undetected case of mastitis contaminate a whole milking - the collection trucks have their own testing. Each milk collection (per cow) is in a separate tank until the automatic testing for blood and abnormal numbers of white cells is done. These scanners can pick up the signs of IMPENDING mastitis before the milk quality is affected, and way before humans spot it - wastes less milk and cows seldom develop full-blown mastitis. If the milk doesn't meet standards, it's sent to the waste tank.
Detecting damage to udders and teats? Compare images of the cow's previous state, and signaling the farmer there is something that needs a human to look at.
"but calves born on dairy farms are taken from their mothers when they are just 1 day old and fed milk replacers (including cattle blood) so that humans can have the milk instead."
No, they are NOT. They are removed from their mothers and hand-fed "colustrum"... the antibody-rich substance that precedes milk. http://www.farmllc.org/custom3.html Cows optimized for dairy use are not optimized for nursing a calf (look at a side view of a Hereford versus a Holstein).
"But you can't just use a song that someone else wrote on your album without getting their permission."
You sure as hell CAN! The USA Copyright Act provides for what is called a "Compulsory License", which means that if you follow the steps set forth by statute, you can distribute your recording of that song on a CD or over the internet. The owner of the copyright to the song cannot prevent you from doing so.
Note that "permission" is not required. You just have to notify them and pay the statutory required royalties... The hard part if finding out who owns the rights.
"One question - aren't most contemporary humans immune to the 1918 bug?"
No. Most of the people who were alive then, to get immunity from surviving the infection) have died. We might have partial immunity from related infections, but it's not excellent protection. Sometimes entire population groups have an innate resistance: SARS, for example, is much more likely to kill Asians than Europeans because of some cell-level differences.
What we do have is a much better understanding of how viruses spread, and how to minimize the spread. The simple precautions of handwashing and isolating the patients go a long way to keep the lid on an epidemic.
"$1.60 Artists' royalties"... what's left after you subtract the "expenses" the studios charge, including vastly inflated "recording studio fees" (regardless of where the recording actually happened), and other fees dreamed up by studio accountants, is usually nothing.
These "services" remind me of the long-gone "Incredibvle Universe" electronics store, that insisated on seeing an ID and credit card BEFORE they let you in the door. I said "screw you" and headed back to the parking lot.
Aside from the generally crap quality of their downloads, and insistence on Windows OS, I have a serious gripe with the way these "services" try to make me buy a pig in a poke. It's extremely hard to browse their catalogs to see what they are offering. Maybe I'm mis-reading the interfaces, but here's my impressions:
eMusic... can't browse what they have without signing up for a "free" subscription, which means handing over all kinds of info to the marketers.
Virgin, you apparently have to download and install something to get anywhere, even to a catalog.
Walmart seems to have a browsable catalog! Crap selection, but it's a start.
Yahoo - who knows? I couldn't navigate their interface. OH! Wait a minute! They hid the link to their product really well. And I have to sign up to see the catalog.
MSN - couldn't find a catalog, search didn't work.
Rhapsody - no peeking at the tunes until you sign up for the free offer abnd give them personal info.
Napster - havre to sign up to browse
Apple - I have to install iTunes to see more than their top 10 tunes in any category?
Basically, you'll probably have a lot of clearing to do, and little if any power.
Crowbars Come-alongs (hand-operated winches) and LOTS of tow straps GAS-powered chainsaws and gas cans, spare chains and maintenance kit 2-man crosscut saws Branch loppers and sharpening stone sledge hammers Pulaski (pick-axe) Wheelbarrows/garden carts sturdy rakes
The usual hand tools: claw hammers, screwdrivers, shingle removers, hand saws, small sledgfe hammers.
Personal gear: Hard hats, several pairs of leather gloves, a couple pairs of steel-toed work boots, lots of dry socks, sunscreen
Clothing you don't mind TOTALLY ruining in the mud and stench: old levis, old t-shirts
WATER COOLER: They have water, but a 10-gallon water jug for the work site is great.
Prescription meds, extra pair of contacts or glasses Toilet paper
mosquito repellant, ibuprophen (taken BEFORE you start work, prevents a lot of soreness), antibiotic ointment and bandages for the inevitable scratches, hand sanitizer,
Diana Wynne Jones, the author herself, was reportedly very pleased with the movie.
What's she supposed to say? Very few authors have the luxury (like JK Rowling) of having script approval. And I agree with her that the animation was great and Howl was a hunk. I note that she appears to have said nothing about what happened to Sofie's character.
Sofie has more spunk, curiosity, complexity, and compassion than the vast majority of heroines of just about any genre.
In the book, Sofie also had a backstory, subtle magic, and a lot more to do than play girl-chick to an anime hero. I was disappointed at the dumbing-down of the character.
"As for the air raid scenes - this is a war we're talking about. Unfortunately, air raids on civilians are an inevitability of any modern war. But seeing it from the perspective of the victim in such explicit horrible detail really emphasis to the viewer that this war really really sucks."
The air raids weren't in the book, nor was the war... it was in the slow build-up, ominous saber rattling stage that Sofie and Howl are trying to prevent. The script writer invented the war and the raids, and in the process, ruined the build-up of tension. Huge chunks of plot had to be cut so the air raid scenes could fit.
Make sure you include a couple of courses on report writing and writing for buisness.
Many times your department or project will live or die based on how well you write your reports and memos. And your user base will love or hate you depending on your ability to clearly communicate - at their level and from their perspective - how to use whatever you are running.
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You have to set the scan area as small as possible.
I had to prop the lid open a tiny bit, which left tiny shadows, as if the chips were floating above a white surface.
Will an e-book be readable in 300 years? 30? Heck ... how about THREE?
If a projectile hits the wearers chest, will it break ribs and shock organs?
Probably. Cops that are hit while wearing their Kevlar vests get bruises, and even cracked ribs. It's better than a bullet hole, more like getting a whack with a baseball bat.
As Arlo Guthry asng in Alice's Restaurant:
"You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the guitar."
The weight of the car is spread over a large enough area that the PSI isn't destructively high.
The real test - can it survive being stepped on by a person wearing high-heels or golf shoes?
Maybe the test should say: "IF you had an account with the following entities, would you consider this a genuine or a fake email from them?"
I've been through one software audit ... we were squeaky clean, but it took about 4 hours of my time. Multiply that by the 25,000+ employees of that company, at their fully loaded pay rate and it was DAMNED EXPENSIVE to come up squeaky-clean.
The patients will report feeling "pressure", but not pain.
After that, I sopped doubting that it works. The only question is, on whom and what % of the time.
That could come later
If the initial HTML is consistent and well-coded, it is possible to deliver a mobile phone version of it ... minus much of the eye candy, but with content intact. I've seen the standards for mobile - they don't preclude a GOOD designer from delivering attractive, perhaps even astounding pages. They do take into consideration the limited display ability of the phones.
If all hurricanes were destroyed ... what would that do to the climate worldwide? What about rainfall? It would be easier and cheaper to move people (permanently) out of vulnerable areas.
Building in an area that is hurricane-suceptible, in the area the expected to flood, should NOT BE REWARDED by subsidized insurance, rescue efforts, and rebuilding money. Except for fishing and shipping, there are few publically valuable reasons to build and live in the Gulf Coast. Resorts? Let them fend for themselves - they are for-profit businesses.
Comparing notes with the boss (who drives a Hummer). Forget the corporate incentinves. I'll stick with the 1995 truck that gets 22MPG.
A farmer's NIGHTMARE is to have an undetected case of mastitis contaminate a whole milking - the collection trucks have their own testing. Each milk collection (per cow) is in a separate tank until the automatic testing for blood and abnormal numbers of white cells is done. These scanners can pick up the signs of IMPENDING mastitis before the milk quality is affected, and way before humans spot it - wastes less milk and cows seldom develop full-blown mastitis. If the milk doesn't meet standards, it's sent to the waste tank.
Detecting damage to udders and teats? Compare images of the cow's previous state, and signaling the farmer there is something that needs a human to look at.
No, they are NOT. They are removed from their mothers and hand-fed "colustrum" ... the antibody-rich substance that precedes milk. http://www.farmllc.org/custom3.html Cows optimized for dairy use are not optimized for nursing a calf (look at a side view of a Hereford versus a Holstein).
http://cockeyed.com/incredible/incredible.html
Especially check out the "papparazzi" costume
You sure as hell CAN! The USA Copyright Act provides for what is called a "Compulsory License", which means that if you follow the steps set forth by statute, you can distribute your recording of that song on a CD or over the internet. The owner of the copyright to the song cannot prevent you from doing so.
Note that "permission" is not required. You just have to notify them and pay the statutory required royalties ... The hard part if finding out who owns the rights.
See http://www.cleverjoe.com/articles/music_copyright_ law.html and also
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ73.pdf
No. Most of the people who were alive then, to get immunity from surviving the infection) have died. We might have partial immunity from related infections, but it's not excellent protection. Sometimes entire population groups have an innate resistance: SARS, for example, is much more likely to kill Asians than Europeans because of some cell-level differences.
What we do have is a much better understanding of how viruses spread, and how to minimize the spread. The simple precautions of handwashing and isolating the patients go a long way to keep the lid on an epidemic.
And it makes my point: these services are not easy to use.
Ask any artist how big their royalty checks are.
Aside from the generally crap quality of their downloads, and insistence on Windows OS, I have a serious gripe with the way these "services" try to make me buy a pig in a poke. It's extremely hard to browse their catalogs to see what they are offering. Maybe I'm mis-reading the interfaces, but here's my impressions:
Basically, you'll probably have a lot of clearing to do, and little if any power.
Crowbars
Come-alongs (hand-operated winches) and LOTS of tow straps
GAS-powered chainsaws and gas cans, spare chains and maintenance kit
2-man crosscut saws
Branch loppers and sharpening stone
sledge hammers
Pulaski (pick-axe)
Wheelbarrows/garden carts
sturdy rakes
The usual hand tools: claw hammers, screwdrivers, shingle removers, hand saws, small sledgfe hammers.
Personal gear:
Hard hats, several pairs of leather gloves, a couple pairs of steel-toed work boots, lots of dry socks, sunscreen
Clothing you don't mind TOTALLY ruining in the mud and stench: old levis, old t-shirts
WATER COOLER: They have water, but a 10-gallon water jug for the work site is great.
Prescription meds, extra pair of contacts or glasses
Toilet paper
mosquito repellant, ibuprophen (taken BEFORE you start work, prevents a lot of soreness), antibiotic ointment and bandages for the inevitable scratches, hand sanitizer,
Diana Wynne Jones, the author herself, was reportedly very pleased with the movie.
What's she supposed to say? Very few authors have the luxury (like JK Rowling) of having script approval. And I agree with her that the animation was great and Howl was a hunk. I note that she appears to have said nothing about what happened to Sofie's character.
Sofie has more spunk, curiosity, complexity, and compassion than the vast majority of heroines of just about any genre.
In the book, Sofie also had a backstory, subtle magic, and a lot more to do than play girl-chick to an anime hero. I was disappointed at the dumbing-down of the character.
"As for the air raid scenes - this is a war we're talking about. Unfortunately, air raids on civilians are an inevitability of any modern war. But seeing it from the perspective of the victim in such explicit horrible detail really emphasis to the viewer that this war really really sucks."
The air raids weren't in the book, nor was the war ... it was in the slow build-up, ominous saber rattling stage that Sofie and Howl are trying to prevent. The script writer invented the war and the raids, and in the process, ruined the build-up of tension. Huge chunks of plot had to be cut so the air raid scenes could fit.
Many times your department or project will live or die based on how well you write your reports and memos. And your user base will love or hate you depending on your ability to clearly communicate - at their level and from their perspective - how to use whatever you are running.