Actually according to Wikipedia the molasses flowed at 35mph exerting a pressure of 200 kPa.
At 529 Commercial Street, a huge molasses tank (50 ft (15 m) tall, 240 ft (70 m) around and containing as much as 2.5 million US gallons (9,500 m or 9,500,000 litres)) collapsed. The collapse unleashed an immense wave of molasses between 8 and 15 ft (2.5 to 4.5 m) high, moving at 35 mph (60 km/h) and exerting a pressure of 2 ton/ft (200 kPa). The molasses wave was of sufficient force to break the girders of the adjacent Boston Elevated Railway's Atlantic Avenue Elevated structure and lift a train off the tracks. Several nearby buildings were also destroyed, and several blocks were flooded to a depth of 2 to 3 feet. Twenty-one people were killed and 150 injured as the molasses crushed and asphyxiated many of the victims. Rescuers found it difficult to make their way through the syrup to help the victims.
Overall I think it's a neat toy that some people may enjoy, but I think anyone serious about 3D will give it a pass (including, I'm guessing, the Pro version).
I don't know about that. Take a look at their case studies. There are some pretty good models in there.
The distinction between a formal declaration of war and an
authorization for use of military force was addressed in an
exceptionally informative report of the Congressional Research
Service in 2003.
"With respect to domestic law, a declaration of war automatically
brings into effect numerous standby statutory authorities
conferring special powers on the President with respect to the
military, foreign trade, transportation, communications,
manufacturing, alien enemies, etc."
"In contrast, no standby authorities appear to be triggered
automatically by an authorization for the use of force."
The history of both categories is delineated, including the texts of
the eleven formal declarations of war and the most important
authorizations for use of military force, along with an itemization
of the various statutes that are triggered directly or indirectly
in each case.
The 112 page CRS report is not generally available in the public
domain. A copy was obtained by Secrecy News.
See "Declarations of War and Authorizations for the Use of Military
Force: Historical Background and Legal Implications," updated
January 14, 2003:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL31133.pdf
One may need to insert a large amount of data when first populating a database. This section contains some suggestions on how to make this process as efficient as possible.
This is a good start, but we really need to be pumping money into solar power research if we ever want a carbon free energy future. A excellent post over at the Cosmic Variance recently discussed how solar power is the answer for our coming energy crises.
..."But we have nuclear fission, wind power, tides, biomass, hydro, and geothermo, and one day we'll have nuclear fusion...right?" No. First, he estimates that we need 10-30 TeraWatts (TW) of supply by 2050. Fission plants come in at about 1 GigaWatt (GW) of generation capacity (we don't know how to safely, securely and make efficient ones much bigger), and so we'll need to construct one new nuclear fission plant every other day -starting now- to meet the challenge. And then they only last 50 years... The biggest and brightest fusion project right now (in europe) is hoping to get break even several years from now, and then maybe built a working demonstration machine when it is probably already too late! He then continues to work down the list of all the other alternative sources, and you realize that they just won't even come close to what we need if we are truly going to stop dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
...
But then he reminds us that we have one source left, and it has way more energy than we can possibly need. The Sun. Two hours of sunlight hitting the whole earth's surface gives us the equivalent of the 30 TW for a year we need to be working at. Taking into account practicalities, we can expect about 600 TW or so fairly easily, and at 10% efficiency in recovering it and putting it to good use, we still are way ahead of what we need.
Right and recently the W3C ruled that designing a website for only IE violates their design rules. Since Section 508 incorporates all of the W3C guidelines, IE only government sites may soon be a thing of the past.
SEC. 102. WAIVER OF LAWS NECESSARY FOR IMPROVEMENT OF BARRIERS AT BORDERS.
Section 102(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note) is amended to read as follows:
(c) Waiver-
(1) IN GENERAL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to waive, and shall waive, all laws such Secretary, in such Secretary's sole discretion, determines necessary to ensure expeditious construction of the barriers and roads under this section.
(2) NO JUDICIAL REVIEW- Notwithstanding any other provision of law (statutory or nonstatutory), no court shall have jurisdiction--
(A) to hear any cause or claim arising from any action undertaken, or any decision made, by the Secretary of Homeland Security pursuant to paragraph (1); or
(B) to order compensatory, declaratory, injunctive, equitable, or any other relief for damage alleged to arise from any such action or decision.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer said this about this section:
If this provision, the waiver of all laws necessary for quote improvements of barriers at the border was to become law, the Secretary of Homeland Security could give a contract to his political cronies that had no safety standards, using 12-year-old illegal immigrants to do the labor, run it through the site of a Native American burial ground, kill bald eagles in the process, and pollute the drinking water of neighboring communities. And under the provisions of this act, no member of Congress, no citizen could do anything about it because you waive all judicial review.
a9 gets their results from google....
Try searching for "anything" using Google Image Search even with SafeSearch on...
and you will see the same picture that was on a9.
Moral: Don't search for images on the web if you are afraid of seening p0rn.
I searched the web and was able to find a company called Black Magic Design that sells video capture cards for both Mac and pc that allow real time keying of graphics. At $300 USD for an SDI board and software it's not that expensive.
From their website:
All SD DeckLink models now support internal keying allowing you to key graphics over live video in real time. This is perfect for adding logos and "bugs" to live video when doing dubs of your show reel; or adding copyright and not for broadcast notices to client dubs.
Key features are controlled by an application called Blackmagic LiveKey that enables keying. This is just like switching your video capture card into a keying card; DeckLink works very differently when keying is tuned on. Graphics with alpha channel displayed on the RGB video output will now be keyed live over any video that's connected to the DeckLink video input and then sent to the DeckLink video output.
You can choose "internal key" on all DeckLink models where keying is done inside the card and you don't need to use any external keyer equipment. You can also quick key a graphic in LiveKey as well as set key levels; and allow keys to animate on and off using independently set time values.
For external keying, DeckLink Pro features 2 independent SDI outputs and genlock allowing image and key video output from the separate SDI outputs. This lets you key in outboard equipment such as production switchers etc.
Well it's not Mac and it's not using Firewire, but it is digital.
Compix Media produces boards and computers that allow real time keying (with alpha) of graphics or text. The software is pretty easy to use and allows crawls, scrolls, and regular animation of pages. The higher end versions use SDI (Serial Digital Interface) for video i/o, while the cheaper versions use s-video and composite video (BNC) connectors.
Email never has and never will be a secure form a communication. Nothing is currently stopping the government from snooping on your email from other mail providers (e.g. yahoo, msn, aol). If you truly care about the privacy of your email, you really should be encrypting it.
This might be useful when ISPs routinely port-scan their subscribers to discover if their running services in violation of their TOS. This will allow your computer to appear not to be running services expect to the person who knows the magic knock.
You may laugh at the prospect of police underreporting crime rates, but as the citizens of
Atlanta discovered it happens.
From the article: Several police officers told auditors that during the selection process for the 1996 Olympics "a concerted effort" was made to improve Atlanta's chances for selection by underreporting crime to the point of discarding incident reports and improperly closing cases. Their claims have not been verified.
Violent crime that Atlanta reported for F.B.I. national statistics in 2002 was 6.8 percent lower than it should have been, the report found, while the F.B.I.'s margin of error is two percentage points. Reports for 22,000 responses to 911 calls in 2002 cannot be found in department files.
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Overall I think it's a neat toy that some people may enjoy, but I think anyone serious about 3D will give it a pass (including, I'm guessing, the Pro version).
I don't know about that. Take a look at their case studies. There are some pretty good models in there.
Ever here of slipstreaming?
See today's Secrecy News
Populating a Database
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid I really encourage you to read the whole post.
~CK
Right and recently the W3C ruled that designing a website for only IE violates their design rules. Since Section 508 incorporates all of the W3C guidelines, IE only government sites may soon be a thing of the past.
This has happened before...You think the goverment would have learned from their mistakes.
Memory Hole Un-Redacts Redacted DOJ Memo
I take it you don't read at -1 do you?
Here is the entire list of the 200+ New Features:
e s.html
http://www.apple.com/macosx/newfeatures/newfeatur
SEC. 102. WAIVER OF LAWS NECESSARY FOR IMPROVEMENT OF BARRIERS AT BORDERS.
Section 102(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note) is amended to read as follows:
- (c) Waiver-
- (1) IN GENERAL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to waive, and shall waive, all laws such Secretary, in such Secretary's sole discretion, determines necessary to ensure expeditious construction of the barriers and roads under this section.
- (2) NO JUDICIAL REVIEW- Notwithstanding any other provision of law (statutory or nonstatutory), no court shall have jurisdiction--
- (A) to hear any cause or claim arising from any action undertaken, or any decision made, by the Secretary of Homeland Security pursuant to paragraph (1); or
- (B) to order compensatory, declaratory, injunctive, equitable, or any other relief for damage alleged to arise from any such action or decision.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer said this about this section:If this provision, the waiver of all laws necessary for quote improvements of barriers at the border was to become law, the Secretary of Homeland Security could give a contract to his political cronies that had no safety standards, using 12-year-old illegal immigrants to do the labor, run it through the site of a Native American burial ground, kill bald eagles in the process, and pollute the drinking water of neighboring communities. And under the provisions of this act, no member of Congress, no citizen could do anything about it because you waive all judicial review.
Check it out yourself at http://thomas.loc.gov/
--Chris
a9 gets their results from google....
Try searching for "anything" using Google Image Search even with SafeSearch on...
and you will see the same picture that was on a9.
Moral: Don't search for images on the web if you are afraid of seening p0rn.
--Christopher
Does anyone know where the original series can be obtained?
--Chris
It now forces all cancellations occur by phone, making it more difficult to cancel because of a long hold time."
As a Netflix subscriber, I have a "Cancel Your Membership" button on my account page...
-Chris
I searched the web and was able to find a company called Black Magic Design that sells video capture cards for both Mac and pc that allow real time keying of graphics. At $300 USD for an SDI board and software it's not that expensive.
From their website:
All SD DeckLink models now support internal keying allowing you to key graphics over live video in real time. This is perfect for adding logos and "bugs" to live video when doing dubs of your show reel; or adding copyright and not for broadcast notices to client dubs.
Key features are controlled by an application called Blackmagic LiveKey that enables keying. This is just like switching your video capture card into a keying card; DeckLink works very differently when keying is tuned on. Graphics with alpha channel displayed on the RGB video output will now be keyed live over any video that's connected to the DeckLink video input and then sent to the DeckLink video output.
You can choose "internal key" on all DeckLink models where keying is done inside the card and you don't need to use any external keyer equipment. You can also quick key a graphic in LiveKey as well as set key levels; and allow keys to animate on and off using independently set time values.
For external keying, DeckLink Pro features 2 independent SDI outputs and genlock allowing image and key video output from the separate SDI outputs. This lets you key in outboard equipment such as production switchers etc.
--Chris
Well it's not Mac and it's not using Firewire, but it is digital.
Compix Media produces boards and computers that allow real time keying (with alpha) of graphics or text. The software is pretty easy to use and allows crawls, scrolls, and regular animation of pages. The higher end versions use SDI (Serial Digital Interface) for video i/o, while the cheaper versions use s-video and composite video (BNC) connectors.
--Chris
Middle click to open link in new window/tab
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Too bad it doesn't work in OSX:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15124
Two years later it finally appears a patch is in the works....
Email never has and never will be a secure form a communication. Nothing is currently stopping the government from snooping on your email from other mail providers (e.g. yahoo, msn, aol). If you truly care about the privacy of your email, you really should be encrypting it.
This might be useful when ISPs routinely port-scan their subscribers to discover if their running services in violation of their TOS.
This will allow your computer to appear not to be running services expect to the person who knows the magic knock.
This Article?r .html
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/hacker_p
Pointy Haired Boss
Get a G5. I'm serious. It is dead quiet.
From previous story
You may laugh at the prospect of police underreporting crime rates, but as the citizens of Atlanta discovered it happens.
From the article:
Several police officers told auditors that during the selection process for the 1996 Olympics "a concerted effort" was made to improve Atlanta's chances for selection by underreporting crime to the point of discarding incident reports and improperly closing cases. Their claims have not been verified.
Violent crime that Atlanta reported for F.B.I. national statistics in 2002 was 6.8 percent lower than it should have been, the report found, while the F.B.I.'s margin of error is two percentage points. Reports for 22,000 responses to 911 calls in 2002 cannot be found in department files.