>The cold reality is: the only important spin off of the space program is the ICBM,
Scuze me?
Hitler had the ICBM a full 20 years earlier. His aim was not to go to the moon. London was as far as he got, but Washington and New York were in his plans.
The money spent will be spent here on earth. Its not like there will be a bunch of guys shoveling money out the spacecraft hatch.
Any spin offs are gravy, and historically have vastly exceeded the total budget by several orders of magnitude in untold commercial applications of even the most basic research by-products.
Spending the same amount of money on any terrestrial application OTHER THAN the development of additional energy sources would probably be a boondoggle.
Record the show and wait an hour or 5 before playback and you could have Henry Kissinger pitching snide remarks to Gretta Van Susteran while watching War of the Worlds.
Wait a month and you could have some really cool total-replacement sound tracks of Bush calling a world cup game.
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>Don't assume that just because you can't figure it out that The Gimp is missing the feature or The Gimp sucks.
Actually, not being able to figure it out is a perfect definition of SUCK.
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You got scored as a troll, unfairly. The truth is your comment is spot on.
Quoting the original posting:
"Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Professional" authored by Akkana Peck. Divided into 12 chapters and 6 appendices, this book aims to cover the whole gamut of features found in Gimp. "
I submit that any software that takes a 12 chapter book before any kind of comparitive prodictivity can be obtained needs more than a glue on interface change. I've never read a book on photoshop, (I don't doubt that they exist), its never been necessary. Its interface is transparently intuitive compared to GIMP.
GIMP has been a most appropriate name since day one, and the product is so maddening and obtuse that I keep a copy of Photoshop Elements installed under wine on my linux computers just because any trip into gimp will result in a huge waste of time learning what was immediatly obvious in Photoshop.
The Broadcom Conference call STRONGLY hinted that newer broadcom chipsets (smaller, lower power comsumption, cheaper, faster, yadda yadda) were going to be the replacement for these PortalPlayer chips.
Much of the work of several chips has been bundled into single chip solutions by Broadcom, making fabrication much easier for video applications and handsets (cellphones).
It is FUD to bash US ownership, and intimating all sorts of nefarious intent when there is already an alternative on the market which can be received using Garmin 10 units.
I suspect it was just easier and more fun to bash the US than do any real research.
So they want to be paid by both the broadcasters and the listeners?
Why does that supprise you? You are already paying a tax on blank tapes and blank CDroms to compensate the music industry for any songs you MIGHT decide to record there, even when they were compensated for those songs when the radio station played them.
Therefore, you have paid for the right to record these on CDrom already, and the music industry got their fair share. Its enshrined in law, and a Canadian court already accepted this defense. I don't understand why its not used in the US.
Article I, section 10 specifically forbids any state to lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports without the consent of congress, and the proceeds of such taxes must go to the Federal Government, not the State. Section 9 of the same article prohibits taxes on exports from any state.
It was the founding fathers clear intent that goods and services move untaxed between states. They specifically wanted to avoid the fifedomes of taxation that prevailed in europe at the time (which even the europeans have finally gotten around to eliminating).
The article, like so much else in the NYT, is misleading, and in fact most cameras do NOT contain a retroreflective (isn't that redundant?) surface behind the lense.
So the whole idea is based on bogus information. There are some camera's that do have this, mostly for distance measuring, but by and large its simply not true. Look at your digital camera and see if you can find it.
A more reliable method might be to get a simple strobe trigger, the kind that reads a strobe (camera flash) and fires another flash. If set up correctly the flash would have the same effect as trying to take your own picture in a mirror with a flash.
That leaves only the daylight hours to worry about.
Do not confuse a paper trail with a receipt. You don't get a receipt with paper ballots, and you should never get one with an electronic ballot.
(Receipts open up way more potential for vote buying, - take the receipt down to your friendly campaign headquarters for a quick hundred buck, - in a sense creating a bigger problem).
You might get to view the paper trail before it advances to hide your vote, but even this is uncommon.
Paper trails are so that there can be a hand count, and that is all the were meant to provide.
The video explains it much better than the abstract. The way I understand things (which may be wildly inaccurate, but I think I have the jist
I suggest this is a hoax, because it is impossible to photograph that which can't be seen using a regular camera and regular film, such as the opposite side of a playing card.
You might be able to bounce a laser off the card onto the page such that you could tell the color of the light reflecting from the page and match that to where the laser was pointing.
But a simple flood projector can not do this, as it lights the entire card at once.
This is the optical equivalent of cold fusion.
In short, it doesn't matter what someone's fancily named theory says, if it doesn't work in the real world its just a hoax.
And if it was as simple as the set up shown you could substitute the sun for the projector and photograph the morning rush hour in Bejing from your balcony in Boston.
Soon (if not already) there will be a 'telephone plugin' for your favorite chat app and you connect a, say, usb phone to your computer and use as normal.
Or a chat plugin to your favorite Talk app. Such as Skype.
You can already buy wireless skype-ready phones for use near your computer.
With Skype being free for computer to computer, and dirt cheap for computer to phone, I can't see how any of these companies like Vonage can make any money selling something for $24 per month. http://www.skype.com/
Seems not to affect Konqueror at all. Is it perhaps not the browser but the OS that is the problem here? The Zophar site never triggers any popups on Linux...
You verify it. Wikipedia has a big fat disclaimer about how it makes no guarantees of validity. If your topic matters, then look it up somewhere else
You could have stopped right there. If it has no validity, it is worthless for its stated purpose.
Its very reason to exist therefore is violated and suspect, and its integrity nill. Anything that happens to be correct can not be discerned from that which is not. In short, a huge waste of time and effort.
Of course they are only likely to get information from people they can easily find, such as Tivo Customers and Sat TV companies who supply boxes with recording cabpabilities.
NO, no radio antenna have been found, US troops have looked everywhere, and even the UN is convinced there are no radio towers, just as Saddam claimed all along.
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>The cold reality is: the only important spin off of the space program is the ICBM,
Scuze me?
Hitler had the ICBM a full 20 years earlier.
His aim was not to go to the moon.
London was as far as he got, but Washington and New York were in his plans.
The money spent will be spent here on earth. Its not like there will be a bunch of guys shoveling money out the spacecraft hatch.
Any spin offs are gravy, and historically have vastly exceeded the total budget by several orders of magnitude in untold commercial applications of even the most basic research by-products.
Spending the same amount of money on any terrestrial application OTHER THAN the development of additional energy sources would probably be a boondoggle.
Maybe a MythTV plugin would be in order.
Record the show and wait an hour or 5 before playback and you could have Henry Kissinger pitching snide remarks to Gretta Van Susteran while watching War of the Worlds.
Wait a month and you could have some really cool total-replacement sound tracks of Bush calling a world cup game.
>Don't assume that just because you can't figure it out that The Gimp is missing the feature or The Gimp sucks.
Actually, not being able to figure it out is a perfect definition of SUCK.
You got scored as a troll, unfairly.
The truth is your comment is spot on.
Quoting the original posting:
"Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Professional" authored by Akkana Peck. Divided into 12 chapters and 6 appendices, this book aims to cover the whole gamut of features found in Gimp. "
I submit that any software that takes a 12 chapter book before any kind of comparitive prodictivity can be obtained needs more than a glue on interface change. I've never read a book on photoshop, (I don't doubt that they exist), its never been necessary. Its interface is transparently intuitive compared to GIMP.
GIMP has been a most appropriate name since day one, and the product is so maddening and obtuse that I keep a copy of Photoshop Elements installed under wine on my linux computers just because any trip into gimp will result in a huge waste of time learning what was immediatly obvious in Photoshop.
The Broadcom Conference call STRONGLY hinted that newer broadcom chipsets (smaller, lower power comsumption, cheaper, faster, yadda yadda) were going to be the replacement for these PortalPlayer chips.
Much of the work of several chips has been bundled into single chip solutions by Broadcom, making fabrication much easier for video applications and handsets (cellphones).
It is FUD to bash US ownership, and intimating all sorts of nefarious intent when there is already an alternative on the market which can be received using Garmin 10 units.
I suspect it was just easier and more fun to bash the US than do any real research.
IF??? What do you mean IF?
The Russian system has been in use by commercially available hand held receivers for years?
More FUD.
Independence of the US system?
Where have you been for the last 10 years?
Even commercially available hand held units also have the capability of using the Russian system.
Fud pushers! Can't live with them, and you can't shoot them!
Why does that supprise you? You are already paying a tax on blank tapes and blank CDroms to compensate the music industry for any songs you MIGHT decide to record there, even when they were compensated for those songs when the radio station played them.
Therefore, you have paid for the right to record these on CDrom already, and the music industry got their fair share. Its enshrined in law, and a Canadian court already accepted this defense. I don't understand why its not used in the US.
Yes it is. You can't get around a constitutional prohibition by quibblining what the definition of "is" is. The Clinton years are over.
Article I, section 10 specifically forbids any state to lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports without the consent of congress, and the proceeds of such taxes must go to the Federal Government, not the State. Section 9 of the same article prohibits taxes on exports from any state.
It was the founding fathers clear intent that goods and services move untaxed between states. They specifically wanted to avoid the fifedomes of taxation that prevailed in europe at the time (which even the europeans have finally gotten around to eliminating).
The article, like so much else in the NYT, is misleading, and in fact most cameras do NOT contain a retroreflective (isn't that redundant?) surface behind the lense.
So the whole idea is based on bogus information. There are some camera's that do have this, mostly for distance measuring, but by and large its simply not true. Look at your digital camera and see if you can find it.
A more reliable method might be to get a simple strobe trigger, the kind that reads a strobe (camera flash) and fires another flash. If set up correctly the flash would have the same effect as trying to take your own picture in a mirror with a flash.
That leaves only the daylight hours to worry about.
Yes, and take your yellow copy down to the campaign headquarters and get your fresh crisp $50 bill for voting the way they wanted you to.
No thanks, Receipts are a fundamentally stupid idea that just screams VOTE BUYING on a grand scale.
Do not confuse a paper trail with a receipt. You don't get a receipt with paper ballots, and you should never get one with an electronic ballot.
(Receipts open up way more potential for vote buying, - take the receipt down to your friendly campaign headquarters for a quick hundred buck, - in a sense creating a bigger problem).
You might get to view the paper trail before it advances to hide your vote, but even this is uncommon.
Paper trails are so that there can be a hand count, and that is all the were meant to provide.
Perhaps you would care to explain how a simple projector scans the scene. It Floods the scene with slightly-collimated light.
Optical Cold Fusion.
I suggest this is a hoax, because it is impossible to photograph that which can't be seen using a regular camera and regular film, such as the opposite side of a playing card.
You might be able to bounce a laser off the card onto the page such that you could tell the color of the light reflecting from the page and match that to where the laser was pointing.
But a simple flood projector can not do this, as it lights the entire card at once.
This is the optical equivalent of cold fusion.
In short, it doesn't matter what someone's fancily named theory says, if it doesn't work in the real world its just a hoax.
And if it was as simple as the set up shown you could substitute the sun for the projector and photograph the morning rush hour in Bejing from your balcony in Boston.
But hey, they had you going, right?
Or a chat plugin to your favorite Talk app.
Such as Skype.
You can already buy wireless skype-ready phones for use near your computer.
With Skype being free for computer to computer, and dirt cheap for computer to phone, I can't see how any of these companies like Vonage can make any money selling something for $24 per month.
http://www.skype.com/
Massively Popular? You must be kidding.
A useless spam generator imho.
Seems not to affect Konqueror at all.
Is it perhaps not the browser but the OS that is the problem here? The Zophar site never triggers any popups on Linux...
You could have stopped right there. If it has no validity, it is worthless for its stated purpose.
Its very reason to exist therefore is violated and suspect, and its integrity nill. Anything that happens to be correct can not be discerned from that which is not. In short, a huge waste of time and effort.
other than signing the permission for them to monitor the shows I watched/recorded,
Its bad enough they can detect what you record, but inexcusable that they can tell what you actually watched.
Of course they are only likely to get information from people they can easily find, such as Tivo Customers and Sat TV companies who supply boxes with recording cabpabilities.
They will totally miss those using Mythtv ( http://www.mythtv.org/ ) or Freevo ( http://freevo.sourceforge.net/ ) or any other home brew solution.
NO, no radio antenna have been found, US troops have looked everywhere, and even the UN is convinced there are no radio towers, just as Saddam claimed all along.
Well, you sort of glibly parrot the bit about "harms mammalian sea life". There has never been any study to prove this...