This technique was used in the early 90s in Disneyland's Fantasma show. Characters from Fantasia performed on a stage on Tom Sawyer's Island across the river from the audience. In less than a second, they can hide the stage in a wall of water used as a projection screen for scenes from the movie Fantasia. Then turn off the water and projector for viewing the characters on stage, again within less than a second.
It was an awesome display. It only ran for a limited time and as far as I know they've never repeated it. I'm glad I lived in California at the time to experience it. The show rates a 10! If they ever bring this back and you have the opportunity, I highly recommend catching it.
Borax is sodium borate, not the borate ion B0H4 the recipe calls for. You can buy borate here:
http://www.nmclay.com/Clay&Raw%20Mat/glazemat.htm# gerstley
I was once dared to drop a pound of Silly Putty seven stories inside a building, but could only imagine the trouble I'd get in. It was our office balcony.
I bought a pound of Silly Putty directly from Dow Corning for $6.00. I've never gotten more comments on any desk toy than I have with my pound of Silly Putty.
Here's an interesting thing to do with a pound of Silly Putty: hang half of it off the edge of your desk at the end of the day. It freaks out the custodial crew, causes them to look up at the ceiling to see where the leak is coming from.
Okay, so I dissed Sinclair computers and supported Atari 800, but I still understand what he's going through.
But for India not to hire Americans? Blatant double standard. And they don't know what they're missing. It takes so much in the way of resources to gain the info, knowledge, language, and culture of an American in India that it's near priceless. They don't even realize what they're missing in an American programmer whiling to relocate to India.
Yah, I looked at the high-end cards and looked at what software I would be using that would push it, mostly popular first-person-shooter games, and decided on the NVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB. It's the most bang for the buck.
Hell, running on a P4 2.0 GHz with 1GB RAM, any game would be happy.
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I watched an article on the CBS "Sunday Morning" show where they interviewed Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page while sitting at the breakfast table absorbing my first cup of coffee when noticed stackes of boxes in their office labeled "Penguin Computing". That put a smile on my face!
You know those boys over at the New York Times are not too bright. First they can't control writers printing false stories, now they can't secure their own systems.
And now they're going to air their dirty laundry by charging the messenger. They'd be better off taking the high road and by employing Adrian Lamo to help fix their problems.
I wonder how many people are going to trust NYT with their personal information from now on?
I also wonder if they've closed their security holes. If not, hackers with less honest intentions then Lamo may run with this story.
"Starship Troopers", "Stranger in a strange land", and "The moon is a harsh mistress", are some of my favorites of his. But "The Moon..." is by far the funniest.
The $4488 I quoted was from PC Mag and was fully loaded with monitor, speakers (including center channel). It's in the article link.
I tried to build a system on Dell's Web site and found it difficult to get the exact features as PC Mag's high-end PC. The price I got was $2,932.
Personally, when I build my system I went for the best bang for the buck. It's a P4 2.0 GHz 1 GB RAM and spent only $450, but I was mostly upgrading.
I read the PC Magazine article Build Your Own PC! after building my own and they spell it out very simply. Their step-by-step approach could easily be accomplished by many people.
Their home-built high-end system performed better than an equivelent Dell Dimension XPS for less money ($3673 vs. $4488).
Does your digital camera have a format option and have you retrieved pictures after using it?
My Canon PowerShot G1 has both an Erase All and a Format option. Erase All erases all pictures not protected where Format clears the entire CompactFlash card.
Who knows; the Ritz system might just format the flash memory.
So, did you friend leave you with any girlfriend goodies?
Doesn't it seem practical that separating data from power is an essential property for data security? Ever seen The Recruit: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0292506
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That why brown M&Ms are tossed!
This technique was used in the early 90s in Disneyland's Fantasma show. Characters from Fantasia performed on a stage on Tom Sawyer's Island across the river from the audience. In less than a second, they can hide the stage in a wall of water used as a projection screen for scenes from the movie Fantasia. Then turn off the water and projector for viewing the characters on stage, again within less than a second.
It was an awesome display. It only ran for a limited time and as far as I know they've never repeated it. I'm glad I lived in California at the time to experience it. The show rates a 10! If they ever bring this back and you have the opportunity, I highly recommend catching it.
Borax is sodium borate, not the borate ion B0H4 the recipe calls for. You can buy borate here: http://www.nmclay.com/Clay&Raw%20Mat/glazemat.htm# gerstley
I was once dared to drop a pound of Silly Putty seven stories inside a building, but could only imagine the trouble I'd get in. It was our office balcony. I bought a pound of Silly Putty directly from Dow Corning for $6.00. I've never gotten more comments on any desk toy than I have with my pound of Silly Putty. Here's an interesting thing to do with a pound of Silly Putty: hang half of it off the edge of your desk at the end of the day. It freaks out the custodial crew, causes them to look up at the ceiling to see where the leak is coming from.
...this stuff, but I couldn't resist.
Okay, so I dissed Sinclair computers and supported Atari 800, but I still understand what he's going through.
But for India not to hire Americans? Blatant double standard. And they don't know what they're missing. It takes so much in the way of resources to gain the info, knowledge, language, and culture of an American in India that it's near priceless. They don't even realize what they're missing in an American programmer whiling to relocate to India.
Yah, I looked at the high-end cards and looked at what software I would be using that would push it, mostly popular first-person-shooter games, and decided on the NVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB. It's the most bang for the buck. Hell, running on a P4 2.0 GHz with 1GB RAM, any game would be happy.
I love it! It's awesome!
Why bother?
I watched an article on the CBS "Sunday Morning" show where they interviewed Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page while sitting at the breakfast table absorbing my first cup of coffee when noticed stackes of boxes in their office labeled "Penguin Computing". That put a smile on my face!
Oh, I'd like to get a picture of that...Oh, in bottles...forget it.
I thought it would be interesting to see NTY's take on the story.2 68.html
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1023_3-5072
You know those boys over at the New York Times are not too bright. First they can't control writers printing false stories, now they can't secure their own systems.
And now they're going to air their dirty laundry by charging the messenger. They'd be better off taking the high road and by employing Adrian Lamo to help fix their problems.
I wonder how many people are going to trust NYT with their personal information from now on?
I also wonder if they've closed their security holes. If not, hackers with less honest intentions then Lamo may run with this story.
No, this is more like telling someone they left their keys in the door. No gratitude.
Yah, I even swapped out my IBM-PC character set ROM for an APL character set ROM.
Iota 8
One Iota, two Iota, three Iota, four,
Five Iota, six Iota, seven Iota, more...
...The thieves have a lot of balls, and security has no teeth.
Sounds a lot like 9/11.
Repeat after me, we are all individuals
I'm not!
"Starship Troopers", "Stranger in a strange land", and "The moon is a harsh mistress", are some of my favorites of his. But "The Moon..." is by far the funniest.
Given that the average sized dog costs its owner $6400 over its life span, $1599 is very cost effective, albeit not as affectionate.
I loved APL in college and almost went to work for a company that was writing everything in APL. Then I came to my senses.
The $4488 I quoted was from PC Mag and was fully loaded with monitor, speakers (including center channel). It's in the article link. I tried to build a system on Dell's Web site and found it difficult to get the exact features as PC Mag's high-end PC. The price I got was $2,932. Personally, when I build my system I went for the best bang for the buck. It's a P4 2.0 GHz 1 GB RAM and spent only $450, but I was mostly upgrading.
I read the PC Magazine article Build Your Own PC! after building my own and they spell it out very simply. Their step-by-step approach could easily be accomplished by many people. Their home-built high-end system performed better than an equivelent Dell Dimension XPS for less money ($3673 vs. $4488).
Very cool idea.
Does your digital camera have a format option and have you retrieved pictures after using it?
My Canon PowerShot G1 has both an Erase All and a Format option. Erase All erases all pictures not protected where Format clears the entire CompactFlash card.
Who knows; the Ritz system might just format the flash memory.
So, did you friend leave you with any girlfriend goodies?
Doesn't it seem practical that separating data from power is an essential property for data security? Ever seen The Recruit:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0292506
Sounds like Ice9 to me.
So I'll have to pull start this laptop to boot it up?