Except you can't just go out and buy an Enzo, you have to be approved, even to buy one used. Approval usually consists of having owned a couple other Ferrari's before, and not just a GT or Testarossa, you have to have owned one of the really fancy ones. Then you have to get approved by Ferrari in some obscure way to be allowed to purchase one.
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If you are only using the images for textures, look into a plug-in for photoshop called Image Doctor made by AlienSkin
They have a filter called JPEG repair that does a decent job of removing the artifacts. But only if the file resolution is not too high. Then it seems to choke.
Ah, but I come from the other side, I like to see my Sci-Fi ships in no way aerodynamic...unless of course they are used in atmosphere.
The only reason for aerodynamics is of course, for air to flow cleanly over the surface. In Vacuum, no flowing of air.
So if you have some sort of hypothetical shielding, it really would not matter too much if you had the eiffel tower sticking out of the top of your space ship. As long as it is braced well enough to handle all the g-force of acceleration and turning.
At one point photo retouching was the realm of high end propriatary systems, then, quite quickly, it became the realm of off the shelf software and off the shelf computers. The same could easily happen to Avid
About ten years ago, in my industry no one would be caught dead using a mac or a PC they were both considered crap. There were two high end proprietary systems, one from SGI, and the other from Scitex. It would cost you about $100,000 to get going with either system....
Now everyone uses a Mac and Photoshop...to do their color correction and photo retouching. Started right around Photoshop 3. When you could do as much with a $8,000 mac and some $800 software (PowerPC 8500 with a gig of RAM and a decent SCSI disk)
My guess is that Avid is not looking at the parallel here, and will all of a sudden be wondering where their business has gone. I remember the Scitex fondly...but I will be damned if I ever go back to working on one. They got passed by, and never caught up to Photoshop again.
But, with more than a hundred formats for the best ID system we have, it's impossible for anybody to be an expert on what security measures to look for and be able to notice when they're absent.
Actually it is really easy. I have worked in nightclub's for about 10 years now and the newer the ID the easier it is to tell if it is fake or not. The majority of states use some very subtle things across their ID's (Many states have ink that only show up under black light I know CA does, have seen others). And to make things easier there is a book, easily purchased that has every state's various ID's, including outdated ones that may still be in use.
More worrisome from an ID checking experience is foreign ID's, very few countries out there have decent ID cards, the Swiss, the Australians, Sweden, and recently the British. The rest just use passports (which are OK, but boy some would be REALLY easy to forge), or they have some really crappy state issued DL.
It is not hard over all of these to figure out what is real and what is fake pretty quickly, but then again I have the incentive to learn, which is probably lacking from many that check ID's now. If someone under 21 is found by the authorities in my club, the club get's fined $10,000 and I get fined $1200. So i leaned real quick how to spot a fake ID. But if there was no accountability, sure I would not be nearly as vigilant.
Most common signs of a fake ID(U.S.):
wrong material (most states use a printed plastic now, not laminated paper)
Height, weight, age don't match the person
Wrong font used on ID
Security inks look "wrong"(many are metallic or color changing now)
The final one is more abstract, but, you start to get a feel for people that are trying to B.S. you.
For foreign ID's, (especially those damn paper ones) there is not as much we can do. So, instead we just stand by the law, which is that the ID must be issued by a Government. No student ID's, and especially none of those damn AAA international driver's lisecenses. You see one of those, you can pretty much be guaranteed there is some fake info on them. Other than that, you get used to seeing the other countries passports and DL's and start to know what to look for.
Well, the other traditional reason to have an IPO is to make all the current share holders bloody rich and to let the Venture Capatal guys earn their "just rewards" for investing in this "long shot". So, even if you are trading your percentage of stock in for a smaller percentage, you can now go out and buy a new house and a car and a fancy watch. In many ways this is more important to the people working their ass of for the last 6 years(and don't forget the VC guys watching them work their ass off) than more money coming in to the company for some other project. The project they are concerned about right now is very likely their bank balance.
Well, by the number of people I see walking to SBC Park in San Francisco with laptop bags. A bunch of them do. From the two times I have been to Games there, the onlyplace you have to worry about having crap spilled onto your pricey equipment is if you are in the bleachers. The rest of the time, I would use the term lethargic to describe the average fan there.
OT: [rant]I have worked less than 3 block from that damn ballpark ever since it opened. And Damnit. I now hate baseball and baseball fans...and all theri damn kids too. I have lost count of the number of times I walk out into our parking lot to see some jackass peeing onto someone else's car. [/rant]
I see Gmail as being just another in a long line of disposable e-mail addresses i use for shopping, log in confirmation and what not.
The search functions are not that special, I already use Powermail which allows me to search in every way mentioned, and gives a nice easy to see bar of the messages relevance. All of my e-mail resides on my computer, not some mystery server, so I can search it when not linked to the net. Also, I have currently 4 e-mail addresses, should I be thinking of forwarding all these to Google, so they can organize my searches? Nahhh.
I know I am not their intended audience, but I am trying to figure out what it may be able to do for me that a full featured e-mail app couldn't.
All it is going to take, is some one with the money who is willing to take the chance with the health & safety risks that any major government will never take.
If some group had a ship going to mars, how many people would line up to go? How many scientists would be willing to sacrifice their health and safety to be one of the first to set foot on and study another planet?
Simply by being held accountable by the government and the people, NASA is never going to be able to say "Well, this ship will get you there, but we can't guarantee that you will live to make it, and we can't guarantee that you won't get cancer by the time you get back. But hey, you get to go to Mars!"
Where as, a private firm only has to have a lawyer draw up a suitably impressive release of liability, and start charging for tickets.
More power to them, I hope they make it. It will push those damn lolly-gaggers in our over managed space program to actually acheive something instead of throwing money at quadrupal fail-safe indestructible toilet seats.
You also get to know a news sources biases, as you mention the Guardian's out-to-get-it-ness for the Brit Govn't
Once you have compared a couple of news sources, you learn pretty quick how they slant their story's. So, even if it isn't the whole story, you will at least have a general idea of what was omitted or skewed based on that source's leanings.
If your news comes randomly from all over, you will never know the angle someone is pushing, nor ever the whole story.
So, as a resposible citizen I am supposed to figure out what I spent and tax myself 8.5%...except I am not responsible enough, I doubt I have many of the receipts necessary to figure this out. Nor am I going to be bothered to try.
So moving on...
Looking at just my little slice of the country there are three counties within easy driving distance, and all three have a different sales tax rate. They range from 8.25%-8.75% (welcome to CA).
So let's say I now run a business selling widgets, and I am expected to keep a list of all the counties in the US and their tax code, figure out what my customer owes on purchasing 4 widgets, and mail this payment off to the state in question so they can disburse the proper percentage to the county from which my customer bought it.
Right, good luck.
Some scrupulous tax accountant out there may do this on their own purchases...but some how I doubt it. And they better figure out a way for the business' trying to collect this tax to have an easy way to pay out properly...or it will be doomed to failure, if only because it will end up being to costly to enforce.
John Stewart on the credibility of the Daily Show:
"Our show is obviously at a disadvantage with any of the other news shows we're competing against, For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility, we are... well, oddly enough we're about even."
hmmm. I always figured in the linux world there would be more inspired software coming out, but it seems that only 1 out of 100 is usefull.
Just because someone uses a Mac does not mean they actually have any graphical talent. Just like someone who has managed to set up LInux(i have) can then bust out a decent script and or full fledged application(I DEFINTELY can not).
I've worked for 10 years on a mac as a photo-retoucher. And weep whenever it is time to start looking at resume/portfolios for a new hire.
Many many many {repeat x10} people out there, Mac and Windows think they are artisticly inclined with photoshop. [cough] bull$hit [cough cough]. Look at Fark's photoshop contests, or if you are feeling particularly masochistic, follow this link... This typical of people who say they are "photo-retouchers".
For the other side...check out Saddington Baynes.(not where I work, don't want to be accused of plugging...)
When you are in a single line text element (like an address bar in a browser, or editing a file name) pushing the up arrow will take you to the beginning and down arrow will take you to the end.
From Apples point of view this makes sense, those keys are grouped with the page up/page down keys. Disconcerting though, is that while typing this I did a test, once the text box in Safari reached a point of scrolling, the page up/down key would move first the text box to the end, then the page to the end, and vice versa. While the home and end keys would only work on the editable text box. I am assuming this made sense to someone somewhere, however, it could just be a glitch. Neither reason would surprise me as OSX is full of baffling reasoning and wierd glitches....that in some cases will slowly end up being features.
Now that I am older and wiser, and more varied in my computing platforms, I realise it is their compensation for not having those extra keys all those years. However, there are many times on my windows box I find myself cursing because the damn up arrow will not go to the beginning of the line.
I wonder if Microsoft has kept that old NT version which runs on PowerPC in anyways up to date?
I know this is mostly aimed at embedded devices, but with how aggressively IBM is pushing the Power architecture, and now with this, is intel going to slowly fall behind?
If MS were to release it's server line for the Power5 or somesuch, how quickly would intel scramble to stay in Microsofts' good graces?
Besides, I would love to be able to dual-boot my powerbook back and forth between multiple OS' without emulators etc.
Gregory Blepp, vice-president of licensing at SCO in the US, said he was working to create legal conditions which require Linux users in Germany to purchase SCO's intellectual property licences.
Since when is Gregory Blepp able to create legal conditions. At best, he can lobby congress to push the UN to make a resoltuion that Germany should make a law forcing Germans to purchase "SCO's intellectual property"....hmmm I wonder at what point they would realize the futility in that one. Or they could lobby the German govn't directly....yeah, that will go over well.
I know there are trade agreements in place to respect IP laws, but I am curious as to how SCO can create "legal conditions" in other countries. Considering the troubles Microsoft is having in these same other countries, I would think SCO might have a slightly harder time of it.
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Except you can't just go out and buy an Enzo, you have to be approved, even to buy one used. Approval usually consists of having owned a couple other Ferrari's before, and not just a GT or Testarossa, you have to have owned one of the really fancy ones. Then you have to get approved by Ferrari in some obscure way to be allowed to purchase one.
They have a filter called JPEG repair that does a decent job of removing the artifacts. But only if the file resolution is not too high. Then it seems to choke.
The glowing gaseous jagged "comet"?
The leap across the vast distance of this texas sized comet?
Walking around on the surface of the asteroid like it was an earthlike gravity with some "air powered system"
drilling 800 feet in a few hours, with some ad-hoc machine?
The splitting of it in half with one tiny nuke?
Ben Asslick being the hero of, well, anything?
Yeah, I guess the docking of the shuttle to the space station and it's instant acceleration to gravity inducing speeds is the worst part
The only reason for aerodynamics is of course, for air to flow cleanly over the surface. In Vacuum, no flowing of air.
So if you have some sort of hypothetical shielding, it really would not matter too much if you had the eiffel tower sticking out of the top of your space ship. As long as it is braced well enough to handle all the g-force of acceleration and turning.
At one point photo retouching was the realm of high end propriatary systems, then, quite quickly, it became the realm of off the shelf software and off the shelf computers. The same could easily happen to Avid
Now everyone uses a Mac and Photoshop...to do their color correction and photo retouching. Started right around Photoshop 3. When you could do as much with a $8,000 mac and some $800 software (PowerPC 8500 with a gig of RAM and a decent SCSI disk)
My guess is that Avid is not looking at the parallel here, and will all of a sudden be wondering where their business has gone. I remember the Scitex fondly...but I will be damned if I ever go back to working on one. They got passed by, and never caught up to Photoshop again.
Actually it is really easy. I have worked in nightclub's for about 10 years now and the newer the ID the easier it is to tell if it is fake or not. The majority of states use some very subtle things across their ID's (Many states have ink that only show up under black light I know CA does, have seen others). And to make things easier there is a book, easily purchased that has every state's various ID's, including outdated ones that may still be in use.
More worrisome from an ID checking experience is foreign ID's, very few countries out there have decent ID cards, the Swiss, the Australians, Sweden, and recently the British. The rest just use passports (which are OK, but boy some would be REALLY easy to forge), or they have some really crappy state issued DL.
It is not hard over all of these to figure out what is real and what is fake pretty quickly, but then again I have the incentive to learn, which is probably lacking from many that check ID's now. If someone under 21 is found by the authorities in my club, the club get's fined $10,000 and I get fined $1200. So i leaned real quick how to spot a fake ID. But if there was no accountability, sure I would not be nearly as vigilant.
Most common signs of a fake ID(U.S.):
wrong material (most states use a printed plastic now, not laminated paper)
Height, weight, age don't match the person
Wrong font used on ID
Security inks look "wrong"(many are metallic or color changing now)
The final one is more abstract, but, you start to get a feel for people that are trying to B.S. you.
For foreign ID's, (especially those damn paper ones) there is not as much we can do. So, instead we just stand by the law, which is that the ID must be issued by a Government. No student ID's, and especially none of those damn AAA international driver's lisecenses. You see one of those, you can pretty much be guaranteed there is some fake info on them. Other than that, you get used to seeing the other countries passports and DL's and start to know what to look for.
Well, the other traditional reason to have an IPO is to make all the current share holders bloody rich and to let the Venture Capatal guys earn their "just rewards" for investing in this "long shot". So, even if you are trading your percentage of stock in for a smaller percentage, you can now go out and buy a new house and a car and a fancy watch. In many ways this is more important to the people working their ass of for the last 6 years(and don't forget the VC guys watching them work their ass off) than more money coming in to the company for some other project. The project they are concerned about right now is very likely their bank balance.
OT: [rant]I have worked less than 3 block from that damn ballpark ever since it opened. And Damnit. I now hate baseball and baseball fans...and all theri damn kids too. I have lost count of the number of times I walk out into our parking lot to see some jackass peeing onto someone else's car. [/rant]
The search functions are not that special, I already use Powermail which allows me to search in every way mentioned, and gives a nice easy to see bar of the messages relevance. All of my e-mail resides on my computer, not some mystery server, so I can search it when not linked to the net. Also, I have currently 4 e-mail addresses, should I be thinking of forwarding all these to Google, so they can organize my searches?
Nahhh.
I know I am not their intended audience, but I am trying to figure out what it may be able to do for me that a full featured e-mail app couldn't.
I think the worry is "We might be blamed if they don't come back."
Which is even stupider if the people voluntarily going somewhere dangerous know what they are getting into...
If some group had a ship going to mars, how many people would line up to go? How many scientists would be willing to sacrifice their health and safety to be one of the first to set foot on and study another planet?
Simply by being held accountable by the government and the people, NASA is never going to be able to say "Well, this ship will get you there, but we can't guarantee that you will live to make it, and we can't guarantee that you won't get cancer by the time you get back. But hey, you get to go to Mars!"
Where as, a private firm only has to have a lawyer draw up a suitably impressive release of liability, and start charging for tickets.
More power to them, I hope they make it. It will push those damn lolly-gaggers in our over managed space program to actually acheive something instead of throwing money at quadrupal fail-safe indestructible toilet seats.
Actually, I was referring to the information quality. But it seems I was little to vague...
Once you have compared a couple of news sources, you learn pretty quick how they slant their story's. So, even if it isn't the whole story, you will at least have a general idea of what was omitted or skewed based on that source's leanings.
If your news comes randomly from all over, you will never know the angle someone is pushing, nor ever the whole story.
Corrupt
Incomplete
Poor Quality
or possibly even think I am getting news, I open it up and get:
"Durty, S1uts with farm animals !!!"
yay.
So moving on...
Looking at just my little slice of the country there are three counties within easy driving distance, and all three have a different sales tax rate. They range from 8.25%-8.75% (welcome to CA).
So let's say I now run a business selling widgets, and I am expected to keep a list of all the counties in the US and their tax code, figure out what my customer owes on purchasing 4 widgets, and mail this payment off to the state in question so they can disburse the proper percentage to the county from which my customer bought it.
Right, good luck.
Some scrupulous tax accountant out there may do this on their own purchases...but some how I doubt it. And they better figure out a way for the business' trying to collect this tax to have an easy way to pay out properly...or it will be doomed to failure, if only because it will end up being to costly to enforce.
ummm, pepsi pays full price for every song you use a cap to buy.
"Our show is obviously at a disadvantage with any of the other news shows we're competing against, For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility, we are ... well, oddly enough we're about even."
I understand, I was attempting humor, and got modded Interesting...go figure.
spellin' po'ly sinse 1978
"It's not hard, Radio is easy to use."
Just because someone uses a Mac does not mean they actually have any graphical talent. Just like someone who has managed to set up LInux(i have) can then bust out a decent script and or full fledged application(I DEFINTELY can not).
I've worked for 10 years on a mac as a photo-retoucher. And weep whenever it is time to start looking at resume/portfolios for a new hire.
Many many many {repeat x10} people out there, Mac and Windows think they are artisticly inclined with photoshop. [cough] bull$hit [cough cough]. Look at Fark's photoshop contests, or if you are feeling particularly masochistic, follow this link... This typical of people who say they are "photo-retouchers".
For the other side...check out Saddington Baynes.(not where I work, don't want to be accused of plugging...)
From Apples point of view this makes sense, those keys are grouped with the page up/page down keys. Disconcerting though, is that while typing this I did a test, once the text box in Safari reached a point of scrolling, the page up/down key would move first the text box to the end, then the page to the end, and vice versa. While the home and end keys would only work on the editable text box. I am assuming this made sense to someone somewhere, however, it could just be a glitch. Neither reason would surprise me as OSX is full of baffling reasoning and wierd glitches....that in some cases will slowly end up being features.
Now that I am older and wiser, and more varied in my computing platforms, I realise it is their compensation for not having those extra keys all those years. However, there are many times on my windows box I find myself cursing because the damn up arrow will not go to the beginning of the line.
I know this is mostly aimed at embedded devices, but with how aggressively IBM is pushing the Power architecture, and now with this, is intel going to slowly fall behind?
If MS were to release it's server line for the Power5 or somesuch, how quickly would intel scramble to stay in Microsofts' good graces?
Besides, I would love to be able to dual-boot my powerbook back and forth between multiple OS' without emulators etc.
Since when is Gregory Blepp able to create legal conditions. At best, he can lobby congress to push the UN to make a resoltuion that Germany should make a law forcing Germans to purchase "SCO's intellectual property"....hmmm I wonder at what point they would realize the futility in that one. Or they could lobby the German govn't directly....yeah, that will go over well.
I know there are trade agreements in place to respect IP laws, but I am curious as to how SCO can create "legal conditions" in other countries. Considering the troubles Microsoft is having in these same other countries, I would think SCO might have a slightly harder time of it.