Yeah, I've got a subscription too; software came with my nvidia card. Seems like Keyhole 2 is even slower. But once it loads, there is nothing cooler. I like to turn on terrain and cruise up and down the front range of the Rockies (it's mostly hi-res).
And the Mars server is pretty cool, too; you haven't lived until you've flown through Valles Marineris!
Totally off-topic: A careful reading of Revelation in the context of the entire bible reveals that the things it talks about have already happened. It was talking about God's coming judgement on Rome; letting the 1st century church know that bad persecution by Rome was coming (much worse than they had already experienced) but God was still in control despite how things looked and ultimately He was going to take Rome down. Yes, the angel with the bowl represented something; it represented God's wrath being poured out on the nations of the earth (which is what the sea represents in apocalyptic literature).
You can't say, "Oh, the angel is figurative and the bowl is figurative and the contents of the bowl are figurative but the sea is really the sea."
While you can't keep this going forever (energy is not free as in beer)
In a closed system, that's true. But remember earth is not a closed system; it has an outside energy source. This is the same reason that creationists' arguments which use the laws of thermodynamics don't hold water.
Yes, I know the sun will burn out eventually, so don't waste any time or energy (!) calling me on that. For all practical purposes 5 billion years is "forever."
You know what? When America was a third world country nobody gave us jack. When we had the Great Depression I don't recall receiving a crumb from anyone. And, even if it had been offered, we wouldn't have taken it. We had to fight and scratch and work to get what we needed as a nation. I for one don't think we should make ourselves vulnerable to destruction or give up exploration in order to "send food to third world countries."
Talk about short-sighted.
Boy, that takes me back...7th grade science class, 1977. By 1990 we would all be wearing long-sleeved turtlenecks and big floppy hats outside all the time. Sunglasses, of course, as well as zinc oxide on all exposed skin surfaces.
Until then there were a lot of clumps of material building up and gathering into what would eventually become the planets.
Now, this is the part I have trouble with, and is the same objection raised by the grandparent. Clumps do not "build up" or "gather" unless they start out with enough mass to begin the process. This is why the asteroid belt is not slowly forming into a planet, and the rings of Saturn are not forming into another moon.
This sort of process is still occurring in places where solar winds are too weak to blast apart an object which is being built up.
Where, exactly, is this process still occurring?
It's quite possible for a planet like Earth to have aggregated from smaller bits of material and then slowly lose them over the course of billions of years to eventually become like Mars is now.
Are you suggesting that a planet the size of earth will evaporate, becoming smaller? So first, it gathers all this material, then for some unknown reason starts losing it? What is the mechanism for the reversal?
This kind of thinking shakes my faith in scientists.
Replace the corn starch with Borax and add Elmer's glue, and you've got a pretty decent polymer slime:
INGREDIENTS:
1 rounded teaspoon 20 Mule Team Borax
8 oz. Elmer's glue (or any white school glue)
1 1/4 cups water
15 drops of food coloring (optional)... you choose the color
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. In a glass bowl, stir together 1 cup of the water, the glue, and the food coloring if desired, until no glue lumps remain.
2. Dissolve all the borax powder in the remaining 1/4 cup water. Notice; dissolve the borax.
3. Add borax mixture to glue mix and stir until a slimy lump forms. Stir vigorously for another 30 seconds.
4. Remove the lump of slime and kneed it with your hands (or someone else's hands, if you are squeamish) to dry it and complete the reaction.
In 2 minutes or so, you should be holding a ball of wonderful slime that pulls clean from your hands. If you're not, you did it wrong. Check the ingredient amounts and instructions again.
While the word "privacy" does not appear in the US Constitution, the US Supreme Court has interpreted a right to privacy to exist for individuals under the following amendments:
1st: guarantees freedom of communication and expression of ideas.
2nd: guarantees freedom of association and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
5th: freedom from self-incrimination and right to due process.
9th: recognizes that rights not specified in the Constitution are vested with the people.
14th: due process and equal protection with regard to the states.
If Britain's coastguard was brought down by a virus, they need to kick their admin in the nutsack. If Sydney's rail network went down because of a virus, they need to kick their admin in the nutsack. It's the admin's job to know about these dangers and protect the network; you can't pin the blame on some poor clueless users.
I'm not just talking out of my sphincter either; we've not been affected directly by any of the uber-worms or viruses that have come out in the last 4 years; my network has never allowed a single virus in because I implemented multiple layers of protection. My nutsack is unbruised.
Nowadays, for the polarization method, they are using a special two-lense camera that puts both views, compressed, onto one piece of film. Then, there is a special two-section prismatic lens on the projector that re-expands the two images and superimposes them on the screen. Each piece of the prism has the correct polarization so the resulting image is ready for the glasses.
Regarding the original claim, making 2D DVDs into 3D, e-Dimensional has software that claims to do this already; you have to use their LCD flicker-glasses and watch it on your PC, though. I've tried the glasses and the flicker is not too bad on the PC because of the higher refresh rates. But on a standard TV, you may have seizures from the low-refresh flicker.
Most of the Indian casinos in Oklahoma use digital gaming machines (slots, keno, etc) that run on WinXP. It's just a freakin' PC in there with an Intel proc.
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And the Mars server is pretty cool, too; you haven't lived until you've flown through Valles Marineris!
Get a clue dude (or dudette). You're bringing down the entire intelligence average of Slashdot, already perilously low to begin with.
You can't say, "Oh, the angel is figurative and the bowl is figurative and the contents of the bowl are figurative but the sea is really the sea."
And show me where it mentions "The Rapture."
In a closed system, that's true. But remember earth is not a closed system; it has an outside energy source. This is the same reason that creationists' arguments which use the laws of thermodynamics don't hold water.
Yes, I know the sun will burn out eventually, so don't waste any time or energy (!) calling me on that. For all practical purposes 5 billion years is "forever."
How's that 640K of RAM workin' out for ya?
You know what? When America was a third world country nobody gave us jack. When we had the Great Depression I don't recall receiving a crumb from anyone. And, even if it had been offered, we wouldn't have taken it. We had to fight and scratch and work to get what we needed as a nation. I for one don't think we should make ourselves vulnerable to destruction or give up exploration in order to "send food to third world countries." Talk about short-sighted.
Now, this is the part I have trouble with, and is the same objection raised by the grandparent. Clumps do not "build up" or "gather" unless they start out with enough mass to begin the process. This is why the asteroid belt is not slowly forming into a planet, and the rings of Saturn are not forming into another moon.
This sort of process is still occurring in places where solar winds are too weak to blast apart an object which is being built up.
Where, exactly, is this process still occurring?
It's quite possible for a planet like Earth to have aggregated from smaller bits of material and then slowly lose them over the course of billions of years to eventually become like Mars is now.
Are you suggesting that a planet the size of earth will evaporate, becoming smaller? So first, it gathers all this material, then for some unknown reason starts losing it? What is the mechanism for the reversal?
This kind of thinking shakes my faith in scientists.
INGREDIENTS:
1 rounded teaspoon 20 Mule Team Borax
8 oz. Elmer's glue (or any white school glue)
1 1/4 cups water
15 drops of food coloring (optional)... you choose the color
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. In a glass bowl, stir together 1 cup of the water, the glue, and the food coloring if desired, until no glue lumps remain.
2. Dissolve all the borax powder in the remaining 1/4 cup water. Notice; dissolve the borax.
3. Add borax mixture to glue mix and stir until a slimy lump forms. Stir vigorously for another 30 seconds.
4. Remove the lump of slime and kneed it with your hands (or someone else's hands, if you are squeamish) to dry it and complete the reaction.
In 2 minutes or so, you should be holding a ball of wonderful slime that pulls clean from your hands. If you're not, you did it wrong. Check the ingredient amounts and instructions again.
1st: guarantees freedom of communication and expression of ideas.
2nd: guarantees freedom of association and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
5th: freedom from self-incrimination and right to due process.
9th: recognizes that rights not specified in the Constitution are vested with the people.
14th: due process and equal protection with regard to the states.
I'm not just talking out of my sphincter either; we've not been affected directly by any of the uber-worms or viruses that have come out in the last 4 years; my network has never allowed a single virus in because I implemented multiple layers of protection. My nutsack is unbruised.
Regarding the original claim, making 2D DVDs into 3D, e-Dimensional has software that claims to do this already; you have to use their LCD flicker-glasses and watch it on your PC, though. I've tried the glasses and the flicker is not too bad on the PC because of the higher refresh rates. But on a standard TV, you may have seizures from the low-refresh flicker.
I've had Opera for a while, but only recently set it as my default. I'll never go back to IE.