I use win2k on this box and have never had a problem with malware, viruses, etc. thanks to:
firefox
thunderbird
Spybot S&D and its hosts file
enough intelligence to avoid most spyware
sadly, the average user doesn't have or know about these things.
we're college students, and we're all supposed to be able to afford laptops?
The school I go to (Pennsylvania College of Technology) has official WAPs in several of the larger buildings, and then there's any number of student-owned WAPs that probably cover the entirity of on-campus housing. One of the guys I know picked up over 300 signals from the comfort of his on-campus apartment with a large (+18db?) antenna. Shame the school's network setup itself is crap... including the school's router occasionally changing everybody's address translations at once. and this school's probably around 1/3 CS students.
I don't see how exactly that is supposed to be 3D, everything's on the same sphere surface except for the window that has focus. You could do the same thing with a large virtual desktop. Then there's the fact that when a window is on an angle you can't really read what's in it too well due.
here's where we're hitting a problem with two meanings for critical.
not all "critical updates" are ranked as critical. it so happens that six of the 14 (from what I've heard) are considered critical by redmond--and that's the highest they have.
first off, brain fart. $3.5B. Second, what happened to parent?
Point is, even if Russia can't pull off the funding, it would be a nice thing to try. I'm not personally a fan of wasting money exploring space, however, if it can be done on a budget...
I started out with the one element I knew would take me the longest, the helmet. I should mention that any time I have to work on a helmet or loose-fitting full-head mask, I use a bust that I created just for this purpose.
The bust began with a standard life-mask made with plaster impregnated bandages available at craft and medical supply stores. As you might have guessed, I sat for about half an hour with pieces of drinking straw up my nose, while my mother wrapped my Vaseline coated face in plaster bandage. After the bandages had set, the cast was carefully removed and the breathing holes patched with small pieces of bandage, and more Vaseline applied to the inner surface of the mold. I then poured plaster of paris into the life-mask, let it set, and carefully removed the finished life-mask. I sculpted a bust around the life-mask, all the way down to the beginning of the shoulders. This involved taking measurements from my head and comparing the bust to them, until the basic geometric requirements had been met, and then using a bit of "finesse" to make everything fit together properly.
The original helmets used for the film were a style of hockey helmet in use at the time, extended slightly at the back to hide the hairline. Since I couldn't lay my hands on one on short notice, I began sculpting it in oil-based clay over my custom-made bust. I used paper templates as a guide to insure that the sculpture maintained it's goemetric qualities, and to make sure the side details would remain symmetrical. Finally, a plaster mold was made, and a positive cast made with a cellulose-based material called Celastic. If I had it to do over, I would have cast it in polyester resin and fiberglass, since Celastic must be dissolved in acetone (which is relatively toxic if not handled properly), and must be sanded and filled before being painted and finished. Alternately, I could have broken the original up into sections and vacu-formed it, but we live and learn! The finished positive, after having been filled and sanded, was painted with a cheap, white, oil-based primer (which has yellowed with age - next time I'll use acrylics), and detailed with the circuit pattern. Lastly, the interior was padded to make it more comfortable to wear.
In the images above you see some of the painted circuitry work being done by hand. I could have masked all of this off, but it was faster to do it "freehand". The "disc", is a glow-in-the-dark frisbee with most of the surface detail sanded off, and new stripes scribed in and painted flourescent blue. The shoulder and arm guards are formed from Celastic in much the same way as the helmet, and attatched to the leotard with small pieces of elastic glued to the pieces and sewn to the costume body.
YORI by IronWulf
Visit IronWulf's TRON costume page for more pics and info.
TRON by BaumSquad
First thing to find was some armor. For this, I went to Play It Again Sports (the BEST place to get Halloween gear IMHO) Anyway, I picked up some Hockey gear, which looks amazingly similar to Tron gear. Some hockey helmets look almost identical to the Tron helmets. I found a GREAT helmet used for pretty darn cheap. Then I needed a chest plate because I'm a scrawny little guy and a plain tight T-shirt would have looked too wussy. I found a wonderful thing for baseball catcher's (maybe) and it was great. Had a big chest plate on it and some nice big round shoulder covers. Then I just got some Soccer shin guards to use as those things that Tron has coming off of his elbows. Just wear shin guards on your wrist, with your hand coming through where the foot goes, and the shin part running up your forearm, mocking the things that Tron has quite well. So that takes care of most of your upper body.
Then at Play It Again Sports I bought an old weight lifters belt to wear, well, as a belt. It defines the look a little better, though drawing lines on the shirt would work as well. And then I bought some old moon boots a
landing gear (or even better, a hovering ability) would be a nice feature, if they had enough power to take off in a reasonable distance. And yes, self destructing would be a very good thing, keeps other people from stealing your tech.
I'd personally rather play on my PC because of the extra control that having a keyboard and mouse gives you. There's only so many buttons you can put on a controller, and a mouse gives you an accuracy in just about anything that involves aiming that a joystick cannot and will never be able to match.
RFID still has a potential to be used for tracking, and I think that's what will continue to make a lot of people nervous/paranoid. With a UPC, there's a limited number (10^12) of possibilities, you can tell what information it contains and compare between things--even if the numbers aren't there, it's not too difficult to figure them out from the bar code pattern--and you can tell when it is being scanned. With RFID, there's a potential for transmitting much more information, the information can't be read/compared without a scanner, and it's easy to scan without anyone knowing.
I think that if legislation was passed saying what uses of RFID should be legal and what should not, a lot less people would be worried about it.
on the same line of thought, why can't it be spent on more useful things such as lowering taxes, creating a decent broadband (say, fiber) infrastructure like some other companies have, medicare, improving quality of life in general (cleaning up cities, things like that)? why spend all this money on something that, in my mind, has no real use to us?
Yes, and Paul Allen also owns the largest private yacht in the world, at 400-some feet (can't remember the exact figure). About the same size as some of the cruise ships I saw down in Ft. Lauderdale last week.
Just like all MS products, it is expensive, slow, and bloated.
Slashdot Mirror
when a .gov.uk gets slashdotted. Must have cut back on funding to do the study.
Now to build myself a boat I can get my toolbox in.
if it gets the people using kazaa off of our network, I see no problem with it. More bandwidth for the rest of us.
I use win2k on this box and have never had a problem with malware, viruses, etc. thanks to:
firefox
thunderbird
Spybot S&D and its hosts file
enough intelligence to avoid most spyware
sadly, the average user doesn't have or know about these things.
got posted earlier today... er... yesterday now I guess.
we're college students, and we're all supposed to be able to afford laptops?
The school I go to (Pennsylvania College of Technology) has official WAPs in several of the larger buildings, and then there's any number of student-owned WAPs that probably cover the entirity of on-campus housing. One of the guys I know picked up over 300 signals from the comfort of his on-campus apartment with a large (+18db?) antenna. Shame the school's network setup itself is crap... including the school's router occasionally changing everybody's address translations at once. and this school's probably around 1/3 CS students.
I don't see how exactly that is supposed to be 3D, everything's on the same sphere surface except for the window that has focus. You could do the same thing with a large virtual desktop. Then there's the fact that when a window is on an angle you can't really read what's in it too well due.
seeing as the stock shuttle PSU will barely support my system with its 2600+ and a Ti 4200.
That thing has to be drawing over 15 amps.
that we should blame perl for all our spam?
here's where we're hitting a problem with two meanings for critical.
not all "critical updates" are ranked as critical. it so happens that six of the 14 (from what I've heard) are considered critical by redmond--and that's the highest they have.
I still use my old analog phone. It does exactly what I want it to do-- make calls.
first off, brain fart. $3.5B. Second, what happened to parent? Point is, even if Russia can't pull off the funding, it would be a nice thing to try. I'm not personally a fan of wasting money exploring space, however, if it can be done on a budget...
yes, but if Bush could manage to pull that off (send people to mars for all of $3.5M) that would be a VERY GOOD THING.
he made a plaster mold of his head. the vaseline was to keep the plaster bandages from sticking to his face.
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TRON by IronWulf
I started out with the one element I knew would take me the longest, the helmet. I should mention that any time I have to work on a helmet or loose-fitting full-head mask, I use a bust that I created just for this purpose.
The bust began with a standard life-mask made with plaster impregnated bandages available at craft and medical supply stores. As you might have guessed, I sat for about half an hour with pieces of drinking straw up my nose, while my mother wrapped my Vaseline coated face in plaster bandage. After the bandages had set, the cast was carefully removed and the breathing holes patched with small pieces of bandage, and more Vaseline applied to the inner surface of the mold. I then poured plaster of paris into the life-mask, let it set, and carefully removed the finished life-mask. I sculpted a bust around the life-mask, all the way down to the beginning of the shoulders. This involved taking measurements from my head and comparing the bust to them, until the basic geometric requirements had been met, and then using a bit of "finesse" to make everything fit together properly.
The original helmets used for the film were a style of hockey helmet in use at the time, extended slightly at the back to hide the hairline. Since I couldn't lay my hands on one on short notice, I began sculpting it in oil-based clay over my custom-made bust. I used paper templates as a guide to insure that the sculpture maintained it's goemetric qualities, and to make sure the side details would remain symmetrical. Finally, a plaster mold was made, and a positive cast made with a cellulose-based material called Celastic. If I had it to do over, I would have cast it in polyester resin and fiberglass, since Celastic must be dissolved in acetone (which is relatively toxic if not handled properly), and must be sanded and filled before being painted and finished. Alternately, I could have broken the original up into sections and vacu-formed it, but we live and learn! The finished positive, after having been filled and sanded, was painted with a cheap, white, oil-based primer (which has yellowed with age - next time I'll use acrylics), and detailed with the circuit pattern. Lastly, the interior was padded to make it more comfortable to wear.
In the images above you see some of the painted circuitry work being done by hand. I could have masked all of this off, but it was faster to do it "freehand". The "disc", is a glow-in-the-dark frisbee with most of the surface detail sanded off, and new stripes scribed in and painted flourescent blue. The shoulder and arm guards are formed from Celastic in much the same way as the helmet, and attatched to the leotard with small pieces of elastic glued to the pieces and sewn to the costume body.
YORI by IronWulf
Visit IronWulf's TRON costume page for more pics and info.
TRON by BaumSquad
First thing to find was some armor. For this, I went to Play It Again Sports (the BEST place to get Halloween gear IMHO) Anyway, I picked up some Hockey gear, which looks amazingly similar to Tron gear. Some hockey helmets look almost identical to the Tron helmets. I found a GREAT helmet used for pretty darn cheap. Then I needed a chest plate because I'm a scrawny little guy and a plain tight T-shirt would have looked too wussy. I found a wonderful thing for baseball catcher's (maybe) and it was great. Had a big chest plate on it and some nice big round shoulder covers. Then I just got some Soccer shin guards to use as those things that Tron has coming off of his elbows. Just wear shin guards on your wrist, with your hand coming through where the foot goes, and the shin part running up your forearm, mocking the things that Tron has quite well. So that takes care of most of your upper body.
Then at Play It Again Sports I bought an old weight lifters belt to wear, well, as a belt. It defines the look a little better, though drawing lines on the shirt would work as well. And then I bought some old moon boots a
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as IIS and wondered why, if they're doing something as advanced as this, they don't have the intelligence to use apache?
landing gear (or even better, a hovering ability) would be a nice feature, if they had enough power to take off in a reasonable distance. And yes, self destructing would be a very good thing, keeps other people from stealing your tech.
Yes, I had FPS's in mind. Then you've got flight/space sims, RPG's, fighting games and such, which, yes, are much easier to play with a controller.
But the way I see it, a USB controller at $15 or $20 is a lot more affordable than a $200 console.
I'd personally rather play on my PC because of the extra control that having a keyboard and mouse gives you. There's only so many buttons you can put on a controller, and a mouse gives you an accuracy in just about anything that involves aiming that a joystick cannot and will never be able to match.
RFID still has a potential to be used for tracking, and I think that's what will continue to make a lot of people nervous/paranoid.
With a UPC, there's a limited number (10^12) of possibilities, you can tell what information it contains and compare between things--even if the numbers aren't there, it's not too difficult to figure them out from the bar code pattern--and you can tell when it is being scanned.
With RFID, there's a potential for transmitting much more information, the information can't be read/compared without a scanner, and it's easy to scan without anyone knowing.
I think that if legislation was passed saying what uses of RFID should be legal and what should not, a lot less people would be worried about it.
Looks like the GNOME site (both web and FTP) is back up and running again (from a replacement system)
on the same line of thought, why can't it be spent on more useful things such as lowering taxes, creating a decent broadband (say, fiber) infrastructure like some other companies have, medicare, improving quality of life in general (cleaning up cities, things like that)? why spend all this money on something that, in my mind, has no real use to us?
there were still 4 hours left. if I wasn't completely not ready to drive back up to school I might head out on the way.
Yes, and Paul Allen also owns the largest private yacht in the world, at 400-some feet (can't remember the exact figure). About the same size as some of the cruise ships I saw down in Ft. Lauderdale last week. Just like all MS products, it is expensive, slow, and bloated.