I'm guessing that the temperature change might have something to do with it as well.
As the air pressure drops in the vacuum jar, so does the temperature. This might cause the latex to become more brittle, which would make it more likely to "shatter" into many small pieces.
"I'd like something as simple as IKEA Kitchen Planner, but all Google serches lead to some software suite that looks unprofessional or Windows95-stylish."
You're doing something on a non-professional level, and expect professional level results on the cheap? I don't think its going to happen.
You could use some fancy 3d modeling program, but it sounds like all you really need is pencil and paper: 1. Draw out a floorplan. Its not that hard, just use graph paper. You were going to measure it out anyways (RIGHT?). 2. Make photocopies of the floorplan. These are to come up with layout ideas on. 3. Sketch or take photographs of the area, maybe move some furniture around so you mostly see the walls. 4. Photocopy the sketchs/photos, and draw over them so you can get an idea what it would look like furnished.
Pencil and paper are great tools, you shouldn't be so quick to discount them just because some program exists. They've been around for a long time, so there must be some advantages to using them.
The majority of people who probably use home design software are probably not OSS geeks. I'm willing to bet a lot of them are (gasp!) interior designers, landscapers, and architects. Hell, they just might still use Windows 95.
I'm sorry, but you just don't know your constitutional case law OR US history.
The Tenth Amendment (the mysterious Amendment X!), if "enterpreted (sic) tersely" would have prevented the US from creating a national air force. The founding fathers never intended to give Congress the permission to create a fighting force of flying machines, nor did they intend to allow the New Deal.
This is why we have something called "framer's intent." "Strict Constructionism" also went the way of the dodo, but much earlier, thanks to fact that the Federalists won.
I'm going to stop here to let you think about what you've said, and to give you time to go read up on these things.
I'm sorry, but you just don't know your constitutional case law OR US history.
The Tenth Amendment (the mysterious Amendment X!), if "enterpreted (sic) tersely" would have prevented the US from creating a national air force. The founding fathers never intended to give Congress the permission to create a fighting force of flying machines, nor did they intend to allow the New Deal.
This is why we have something called "framer's intent."
"Strict Constructionism" also went the way of the dodo, but much earlier, thanks to fact that the Federalists won.
I'm going to stop here to let you think about what you've said, and to give you time to go read up on these things.
Under the proposed rule, a passport that contains a damaged,
defective, or otherwise nonfunctioning electronic chip or with
observable wear and tear that render it unfit for further use as a
travel document may be invalidated by the Department of State.
So without the working RFID, you are at the mercy of the Dept of State.
You also get to apply for a new passport, and boy is that fun (2 hour wait) and cheap ($85/$145 rushed)!
From TFA:
[the RFID contains] all the information on the data page of the passport, including name, date and place of birth, and a digitized version of the photo passport [passport number, and date/place of issuance]
So thanks to the digital signature (however strong that may be), passport forgers will need to crack the signature to create a passport with matching name, photo, etc. that would pass muster. Its basically adding another layer of difficulty for forgers.
Of course, this still ignores the potential of:
-Skimming via a bluesniper
-Forgers creating fake rfid chips (how hard/far off can it be, now that this will be the primary goal of passport forgers?)
The decision to rely on a digital signature (which is basically crypto!) and not encrypt the data is positively loopy. They haven't even decided what kind of signature it will be, and weakenesses in cryptographic methods are discoveredallthetime.
Basically, I think it comes down to the fact that shoes are the object that are most likely to have metal in them that people aren't aware of.
If your shoes don't set off the metal detector, and you are sharp enough to remember to put metal bits into your jacket/bag, you go through the security goon checkpoint pretty fast.
Unless you have any kind of electronics that you can't buy at Target.. =) (Flying with a Shuttle mini-pc or a desktop lcd screen consistently gets your carry-on stuff put through the explosives sniffer and lots of funny puzzled looks.)
I didn't mean to imply that he's taking advantage of me/us/the Intarweb.
I meant that this is a very difficult thing to do, even when you already have a plan AND the necessary hardware AND a space in mind AND sponsors... and STILL expect turn a profit. Some other posters have pointed out that LAN parties are considered runaway sucesses if they break even. And thats at a hotel conference room (or similar venue), with sponsors, prizes, the right hardware and knowledgable, dedicated organizers and staff.
It's almost analagous to going up to a Fortune 500 board, and asking them "How do I make money - fast - with almost nothing to start with but an idea."
Its not an easy task for anybody, and if somebody did know how to do it, they probably wouldn't share their secret of sucess.
Dear Slashdot,
I am a 15 year old geek and I need a fundraiser. I thought that a LAN party would be an effective, and exciting, 'solution'.
Then I realized that we don't have the space, equipment, know-how, experience or startup funding. Please figure this out for me.
-Kid "the yellow dart" planner
P.S. Make it profitable! Even though most experienced LAN parties don't.
HijackThis is an extremely useful tool if you can tell a "regular" windows component from a non-regular one.
It will catch almost anything, since it scans based on malware vectors, rather than signatures. I routinely remove spyware at a smallish university, and I'm beginning to prefer HijackThis over spybot and AdAware, because HijackThis is faster, simpler, and I know what I'm doing.
It also encourages the less-knowledgable/newer employees to learn what is normal Windows behavior and what is not.
Its kind of a sad commentary on Japanese politics when the solution to an aging population is "cute talking robots".
"Solutions" like this are pursued because Japan is unwilling to legalize the thousands of foreign workers from the Phillipines and a couple other nearby Asian nations already in Japan, and Japanese politicians are also highly unwilling to open the borders, out of concern for preserving the national identity. 1 in 3 Japanese oppose legalizing foreign workers.
While its cute, a robot is no replacement for a real, live, human caretaker. The Phillipine government is actually actively attracting Japanese elderly to live in the Phillipines, relying on the low cost of living and readily availible supply of nurses. The ulterior motive is to remove Japanese elderly from Japan to prevent their re-entry into the workforce, thus forcing Japan to open its borders to foreign workers (primarily Phillipinos).
A similar strategy is being pursued in regards to Japanese women, but thats another post.
I know an AC (a troll) who once posted a complete lie...
Good Samaritan Laws (enacted in every state in the USA) protect people who perform CPR and emergency care from lawsuits over injuries sustained during the care.
So if you are CPR-certified, and crack a heart attack victim's ribs after they consent* for you to perform CPR on them, they can't sue you for the cracked ribs.
Good Samaritan laws do not obligate anybody to help somebody in an emergency. Not helping somebody in an emergency is perfectly legal.
Btw, I am a law student, and CPR-certified.
*: You can obtain regular consent or implied consent. Implied consent is when a person is unable to consent (usually due to being unconcious) but a reasonable person would likely consent. Handy if somebody is choking on food but won't consent to the heimlich, because as soon as they pass out, you can perform rescue breathing/unconcious choking care on them.
I did. It took about 4 minutes (2 cs rounds) just to get used to turning and navigating in a manner unlike a booze hound on St. Patrick's day.
If I remember correctly, the horizontal axis isn't controlled by side to side movement (strafing your hand or yaw), but by tilting it (roll).
After trying (and failing) to shoot other players for a good 10 minutes, I finally decided just to use the para and spin in circles. This mouse sucks even for that.
Thankfully, it works as an optical mouse too. But is sure as hell isn't worth more than $20.
Well...
First of all, there is the obvious improbability of a real robot that looks like the one depicted being sold by next summer. That thing looked more like something from a rendered wallpaper or some techy music video than a working product.
Then there is also the term at the end "3 laws safe". I would have thought most geeks would recognize this as the 3 laws of robotics first written by Asimov, although maybe medieval geeks (rotk fans) aren't as familiar with these as sci-fi geeks (star wars/star trek).
Finally, this is a very unlikely means of advertising such a product. Robots and domestic appliances aren't traditionally advertised in theaters (although there were 30 minutes of advertisements before the previews during the showing of RotK i went to). I've never seen any ads for the Segway, Aibo or Roomba in a theater (or on TV for that matter) because they are pretty specialized markets, and a very small percentage of the moviegoing population can afford one.
But yeah, most people shut their brains off when they go see a movie, so that might also have contributed to this mistaken perception.
This kind of paper artwork is somewhat popular in Japan.
Basically, if you can make or get a 3d model of something, assembling a paper model if it isn't that hard to do. There's even software for this.
There are also models of starships from Homeworld, Babylon 5, Star Wars and Star Trek here.
Of course, paper models by no means are limited to static sculptures. My girlfriend got me one of these and it was remarkably simple to assemble, yet very impressive.
Very neat stuff.
Dennis Miller says it quite well, but in a slightly different subject.
If you are going "adventuring", at least have a contingency plan.
I view professional extreme athletes with, at worst, mild puzzlement and, at best, genuine respect. But what pisses me off are the amateur extreme athletes, who don't just risk their own lives -- they make some park ranger, fireman, or cop risk his life to save them. Every time I see a soldier who enlisted so he could defend his country, end up having to put his neck on the line, rappelling off a helicopter to save some middle-aged hero-wannabe jagoff who skied 20 miles off the clearly marked trail just so he can have a better pickup line than, "Hey, baby, your place or my moms?", I can't help but hope that just this one time, the kid from the National Guard is going to change his mind and chopper away to get a well-deserved beer, but not before getting just close enough to shout, "Hey, asshole, Charles Darwin says hi."
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I'm guessing that the temperature change might have something to do with it as well.
As the air pressure drops in the vacuum jar, so does the temperature. This might cause the latex to become more brittle, which would make it more likely to "shatter" into many small pieces.
Anyone know how that steganographic filesystem is coming?
See for yourself:
There's already a HL2 mod out that adds a HDR Bloom effect.
6 486
Its made by Studio Radi-8, who are working on a mod called neotokyo.
http://forum.neotokyohq.com/viewtopic.php?p=6486#
...There won't be any physics left to model.
Well, some people would say steam deserves it, but shooting Ash is just wrong.
Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waiterbot.
"I'd like something as simple as IKEA Kitchen Planner, but all Google serches lead to some software suite that looks unprofessional or Windows95-stylish."
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You're doing something on a non-professional level, and expect professional level results on the cheap? I don't think its going to happen.
You could use some fancy 3d modeling program, but it sounds like all you really need is pencil and paper:
1. Draw out a floorplan. Its not that hard, just use graph paper. You were going to measure it out anyways (RIGHT?).
2. Make photocopies of the floorplan. These are to come up with layout ideas on.
3. Sketch or take photographs of the area, maybe move some furniture around so you mostly see the walls.
4. Photocopy the sketchs/photos, and draw over them so you can get an idea what it would look like furnished.
Pencil and paper are great tools, you shouldn't be so quick to discount them just because some program exists. They've been around for a long time, so there must be some advantages to using them.
The majority of people who probably use home design software are probably not OSS geeks. I'm willing to bet a lot of them are (gasp!) interior designers, landscapers, and architects. Hell, they just might still use Windows 95.
In any case, here are two possible candidates.
http://www.imsisoft.com/prodinfo.asp?t=1&mcid=244
https://secure.chiefarchitect.com/xcarthd/custome
(crap, forgot to preview)
I'm sorry, but you just don't know your constitutional case law OR US history.
The Tenth Amendment (the mysterious Amendment X!), if "enterpreted (sic) tersely" would have prevented the US from creating a national air force. The founding fathers never intended to give Congress the permission to create a fighting force of flying machines, nor did they intend to allow the New Deal.
This is why we have something called "framer's intent."
"Strict Constructionism" also went the way of the dodo, but much earlier, thanks to fact that the Federalists won.
I'm going to stop here to let you think about what you've said, and to give you time to go read up on these things.
I'm sorry, but you just don't know your constitutional case law OR US history. The Tenth Amendment (the mysterious Amendment X!), if "enterpreted (sic) tersely" would have prevented the US from creating a national air force. The founding fathers never intended to give Congress the permission to create a fighting force of flying machines, nor did they intend to allow the New Deal. This is why we have something called "framer's intent." "Strict Constructionism" also went the way of the dodo, but much earlier, thanks to fact that the Federalists won. I'm going to stop here to let you think about what you've said, and to give you time to go read up on these things.
You also get to apply for a new passport, and boy is that fun (2 hour wait) and cheap ($85/$145 rushed)!
It's an anti-counterfeiting measure.
From TFA:
[the RFID contains] all the information on the data page of the passport, including name, date and place of birth, and a digitized version of the photo passport [passport number, and date/place of issuance]
So thanks to the digital signature (however strong that may be), passport forgers will need to crack the signature to create a passport with matching name, photo, etc. that would pass muster. Its basically adding another layer of difficulty for forgers.
Of course, this still ignores the potential of:
-Skimming via a bluesniper
-Forgers creating fake rfid chips (how hard/far off can it be, now that this will be the primary goal of passport forgers?)
The decision to rely on a digital signature (which is basically crypto!) and not encrypt the data is positively loopy. They haven't even decided what kind of signature it will be, and weakenesses in cryptographic methods are discovered all the time.
Depends on which airport you go through.
Basically, I think it comes down to the fact that shoes are the object that are most likely to have metal in them that people aren't aware of.
If your shoes don't set off the metal detector, and you are sharp enough to remember to put metal bits into your jacket/bag, you go through the security goon checkpoint pretty fast.
Unless you have any kind of electronics that you can't buy at Target.. =)
(Flying with a Shuttle mini-pc or a desktop lcd screen consistently gets your carry-on stuff put through the explosives sniffer and lots of funny puzzled looks.)
"Nobody who speaks german could be an evil man"
... it was easier to just run screaming from AIX then to deal with it.
Its damn easy to run away screaming instead of doing something.
I meant the post by tuxter is hilarious, not the story.
Don't let em get you down, tuxter. People on the intarweb rarely matter.
This is the funniest thing i have read on Slashdot in over a year.
And as an Asian who is somewhat involved in Japanese cultural presentations, I find it hilarious.
I didn't mean to imply that he's taking advantage of me/us/the Intarweb.
I meant that this is a very difficult thing to do, even when you already have a plan AND the necessary hardware AND a space in mind AND sponsors... and STILL expect turn a profit. Some other posters have pointed out that LAN parties are considered runaway sucesses if they break even. And thats at a hotel conference room (or similar venue), with sponsors, prizes, the right hardware and knowledgable, dedicated organizers and staff.
It's almost analagous to going up to a Fortune 500 board, and asking them "How do I make money - fast - with almost nothing to start with but an idea."
Its not an easy task for anybody, and if somebody did know how to do it, they probably wouldn't share their secret of sucess.
Dear Slashdot,
I am a 15 year old geek and I need a fundraiser. I thought that a LAN party would be an effective, and exciting, 'solution'.
Then I realized that we don't have the space, equipment, know-how, experience or startup funding. Please figure this out for me.
-Kid "the yellow dart" planner
P.S. Make it profitable! Even though most experienced LAN parties don't.
P.P.S. Oh, its due tomorrow too, so please hurry!
HijackThis is an extremely useful tool if you can tell a "regular" windows component from a non-regular one.
It will catch almost anything, since it scans based on malware vectors, rather than signatures. I routinely remove spyware at a smallish university, and I'm beginning to prefer HijackThis over spybot and AdAware, because HijackThis is faster, simpler, and I know what I'm doing.
It also encourages the less-knowledgable/newer employees to learn what is normal Windows behavior and what is not.
No Loafing!
Its kind of a sad commentary on Japanese politics when the solution to an aging population is "cute talking robots".
"Solutions" like this are pursued because Japan is unwilling to legalize the thousands of foreign workers from the Phillipines and a couple other nearby Asian nations already in Japan, and Japanese politicians are also highly unwilling to open the borders, out of concern for preserving the national identity. 1 in 3 Japanese oppose legalizing foreign workers.
While its cute, a robot is no replacement for a real, live, human caretaker. The Phillipine government is actually actively attracting Japanese elderly to live in the Phillipines, relying on the low cost of living and readily availible supply of nurses. The ulterior motive is to remove Japanese elderly from Japan to prevent their re-entry into the workforce, thus forcing Japan to open its borders to foreign workers (primarily Phillipinos).
A similar strategy is being pursued in regards to Japanese women, but thats another post.
C'mon people, its GIANT insects (zoomed in) FIGHTING!
This beats rubber monster movies, wrestling, and mechs fighting anyday.
I know an AC (a troll) who once posted a complete lie...
Good Samaritan Laws (enacted in every state in the USA) protect people who perform CPR and emergency care from lawsuits over injuries sustained during the care.
So if you are CPR-certified, and crack a heart attack victim's ribs after they consent* for you to perform CPR on them, they can't sue you for the cracked ribs.
Good Samaritan laws do not obligate anybody to help somebody in an emergency. Not helping somebody in an emergency is perfectly legal.
Btw, I am a law student, and CPR-certified.
*: You can obtain regular consent or implied consent. Implied consent is when a person is unable to consent (usually due to being unconcious) but a reasonable person would likely consent. Handy if somebody is choking on food but won't consent to the heimlich, because as soon as they pass out, you can perform rescue breathing/unconcious choking care on them.
I can't think of a gamer who would use this.
I did. It took about 4 minutes (2 cs rounds) just to get used to turning and navigating in a manner unlike a booze hound on St. Patrick's day.
If I remember correctly, the horizontal axis isn't controlled by side to side movement (strafing your hand or yaw), but by tilting it (roll).
After trying (and failing) to shoot other players for a good 10 minutes, I finally decided just to use the para and spin in circles. This mouse sucks even for that.
Thankfully, it works as an optical mouse too. But is sure as hell isn't worth more than $20.
Well...
First of all, there is the obvious improbability of a real robot that looks like the one depicted being sold by next summer. That thing looked more like something from a rendered wallpaper or some techy music video than a working product.
Then there is also the term at the end "3 laws safe". I would have thought most geeks would recognize this as the 3 laws of robotics first written by Asimov, although maybe medieval geeks (rotk fans) aren't as familiar with these as sci-fi geeks (star wars/star trek).
Finally, this is a very unlikely means of advertising such a product. Robots and domestic appliances aren't traditionally advertised in theaters (although there were 30 minutes of advertisements before the previews during the showing of RotK i went to). I've never seen any ads for the Segway, Aibo or Roomba in a theater (or on TV for that matter) because they are pretty specialized markets, and a very small percentage of the moviegoing population can afford one.
But yeah, most people shut their brains off when they go see a movie, so that might also have contributed to this mistaken perception.
This kind of paper artwork is somewhat popular in Japan.
Basically, if you can make or get a 3d model of something, assembling a paper model if it isn't that hard to do. There's even software for this.
Check out their gallery for more examples.
There are also models of starships from Homeworld, Babylon 5, Star Wars and Star Trek here.
Of course, paper models by no means are limited to static sculptures. My girlfriend got me one of these and it was remarkably simple to assemble, yet very impressive.
Very neat stuff.
If you are going "adventuring", at least have a contingency plan.