I know it is cliche and all, but I'm still impressed by NASA's achievements in the 60s and 70s. That photo, for instance -- fly 240,000 miles (give or take a few orbits) one way, and park within walking distance of a rover sent up 3 years earlier.
Now we piddle around in low earth orbit with tremendously expensive and fragile craft, while the bureaucracy can't make up its mind about what NASA should be doing. Sigh.
Lenses have little to do with the grain, and glass-grinding hasn't improved all that much from your "older movies (90s)" to today, except perhaps the speed at which it is done.
Grain is a result the chemical reactions in producing the film, exposing the film, and developing the film.
I suspect what you're seeing is more the result of quick & cheap digitizing, or poor upscaling -- even if that upscaling was done by the studio.
Since I rarely use email 9-5 (internal IM and other tech has mostly replaced it for work) I usually only look at my personal email a couple times each evening, usually when I'm home from work, and shortly before I go to bed.
Since I don't fall into either of their groups, I'd be considered a spam-bot. Which I guess wouldn't be a target market for other spam, so maybe that isn't such a bad thing.
Desert wall designed to stop sand, sea wall designed to stop ocean water. Waves will over-top a sea wall on occasion, but the water (what you're trying to keep out) doesn't stack up against the wall, it flows back out.
Wall designed to stop sand, as you said, catches sand. Eventually enough sand stacks up against the wall that sand is blown over the wall, making the wall useless.
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Although the combination of the SKS stock and the AR15 handgrip is odd, and wouldn't have been my first choice.
Of course, I'm not a particular fan of the SKS in general. Mine was accurate enough for power-plinking, but the stock just sucked.
That may be true in some countries, but I haven't found that to be true here (USA), UNLESS you are being paid by the university. It is common for graduate work to be university property, because it is also common for graduates to be paid by the university to do the research.
Undergrads usually don't get paid by the university to do research or to write up other papers, so their classwork still belongs to them.
Apparently the courts have decided that they don't get to control what is done with their own work. Why should they? Its not like the courts like the little people anyway. They don't have big enough checkbooks to matter.
And if it did the job decently, and didn't fall apart if you looked at it wrong, then even a $5k Nano is a hell of a lot better price for a commuter car than our current options which seem to start about $13k.
And I'm betting that a lot of the people in the can-only-afford-a-run-down-gas-hog-piece-of-crap-junker category would have a much easier time buying something "decent" in a few years, if Nanos are $5k new -- two or three years down the road you'd start seeing them in the $1-3k range on the used market.
And anything that helps to get 80s crapboxes off the road is a good thing.
If he really "broke this cycle" he would have picked people that paid their damned taxes.
As it stands, it looks like the minority in congress -- the republicans -- are forcing a break to this cycle by making a big stink about Obama's picks. Of course, I doubt the same republicans making a stink about things have paid their taxes either.
To claim that Obama is reducing corruption when his picks are just as guilty is just flat out stupid.
Because after 8 years of sliding to the far right, electing someone from the far right is a way to correct that? Or after 4 (or 8) heading back to the far left, another leftist will help slow down that slide?
Yeah, yeah, "back to the middle" -- but how is that possible? Too many of my fellow countrymen are idiots who care more about "their team" winning than they do about what actually happens. Good luck changing that mentality.
My opinions are all over the map, and both the D's (and the R's) suck donkey (or elephant) balls. Pro-bill-of-rights (all, including the pesky 2nd and 4th), anti-spending (except defense and infrastructure spending), let-women-kill-their-spawn-if-they-want (but give men the ability to give up their rights as father and be free from the responsibility too), let-gays-marry (they should have the right to be as miserable as the rest of us), keep-the-death-penalty (but make the process faster - 5 years should be enough for appeals).
The RIAA is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
They don't even stop then. They sue dead people, remember?
Before they let the Aussies have their independence, the ships carrying prisoners to Australia needed ballast for the return trip. Since they had a supply of rocks, and an abundance of prisoners, it was a natural progression to have the prisoners produce rocks suitable for not only for ballast (any old rock will do, really), but also suitable for sale as a reference weight upon the return of said ships to the civilized world.
The arrest itself is all that is needed to ruin someone's life. When (not if) it comes up, the perception is not "the system worked" but is instead "he beat the system and got away with it". The perception of getting away with it is reinforced if there was any press/media coverage of the event.
Disclaimer: I don't care for FPSs in general, and absolutely hate FPSs on consoles. If you're going to play FPSs, keyboard + mouse is the proper control scheme. Period. But with that said, the original HALO was leaps and bounds ahead of any other FPS available for consoles at the time. That was what created the HALO fanboy club./Didn't really care for HALO, played only because a friend was such a damn fanboy I had to see if it was really all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips//Didn't care enough to give -2 or -3 a try
In my area, there's ultimately two residential ISPs to choose from. Time-Warner Cable and AT&T. Sure, there's other companies, but they're just re-selling service from those two at higher rates, and with all the TWC or AT&T baggage (caps, throttling, ever-changing-without-notice ToSs) still attached.
No. "Good samaritan" laws are there to protect the people that are attempting to provide help from lawsuits, not to force people to help.
Otherwise, Joe sees Billy get hit by a car, calls 911 and starts first aid. Billy ends up paralyzed or dead anyway, and Billy's family sues Joe, the EMTs, and the hospital. EMTs and the hospital have insurance, but Joe's out hanging in the wind, getting sued for trying to help.
Morally, you might have an obligation to help, but most places you are not legally required to do anything.
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I know it is cliche and all, but I'm still impressed by NASA's achievements in the 60s and 70s. That photo, for instance -- fly 240,000 miles (give or take a few orbits) one way, and park within walking distance of a rover sent up 3 years earlier.
Now we piddle around in low earth orbit with tremendously expensive and fragile craft, while the bureaucracy can't make up its mind about what NASA should be doing. Sigh.
That's what my domains say. Of course, it is also what the 404 page says for all of them too.
Lenses have little to do with the grain, and glass-grinding hasn't improved all that much from your "older movies (90s)" to today, except perhaps the speed at which it is done.
Grain is a result the chemical reactions in producing the film, exposing the film, and developing the film.
I suspect what you're seeing is more the result of quick & cheap digitizing, or poor upscaling -- even if that upscaling was done by the studio.
Since I rarely use email 9-5 (internal IM and other tech has mostly replaced it for work) I usually only look at my personal email a couple times each evening, usually when I'm home from work, and shortly before I go to bed.
Since I don't fall into either of their groups, I'd be considered a spam-bot. Which I guess wouldn't be a target market for other spam, so maybe that isn't such a bad thing.
Desert wall designed to stop sand, sea wall designed to stop ocean water. Waves will over-top a sea wall on occasion, but the water (what you're trying to keep out) doesn't stack up against the wall, it flows back out.
Wall designed to stop sand, as you said, catches sand. Eventually enough sand stacks up against the wall that sand is blown over the wall, making the wall useless.
I stand corrected.
Although the combination of the SKS stock and the AR15 handgrip is odd, and wouldn't have been my first choice.
Of course, I'm not a particular fan of the SKS in general. Mine was accurate enough for power-plinking, but the stock just sucked.
Subject says it all, really. After all, alcohol abuse is bad.
You attach a "This code is hereby placed in the public domain." line in the code or accompanying documentation.
Quit making things harder than they need to be.
That may be true in some countries, but I haven't found that to be true here (USA), UNLESS you are being paid by the university. It is common for graduate work to be university property, because it is also common for graduates to be paid by the university to do the research.
Undergrads usually don't get paid by the university to do research or to write up other papers, so their classwork still belongs to them.
Apparently the courts have decided that they don't get to control what is done with their own work. Why should they? Its not like the courts like the little people anyway. They don't have big enough checkbooks to matter.
And if it did the job decently, and didn't fall apart if you looked at it wrong, then even a $5k Nano is a hell of a lot better price for a commuter car than our current options which seem to start about $13k.
And I'm betting that a lot of the people in the can-only-afford-a-run-down-gas-hog-piece-of-crap-junker category would have a much easier time buying something "decent" in a few years, if Nanos are $5k new -- two or three years down the road you'd start seeing them in the $1-3k range on the used market.
And anything that helps to get 80s crapboxes off the road is a good thing.
At least he isn't blindly going along with Team Red or Team Blue.
If he really "broke this cycle" he would have picked people that paid their damned taxes.
As it stands, it looks like the minority in congress -- the republicans -- are forcing a break to this cycle by making a big stink about Obama's picks. Of course, I doubt the same republicans making a stink about things have paid their taxes either.
To claim that Obama is reducing corruption when his picks are just as guilty is just flat out stupid.
No, they both exist. They're just no longer associated with the Democratic and Republican parties.
So you steer into the skid, is that it?
Because after 8 years of sliding to the far right, electing someone from the far right is a way to correct that? Or after 4 (or 8) heading back to the far left, another leftist will help slow down that slide?
Yeah, yeah, "back to the middle" -- but how is that possible? Too many of my fellow countrymen are idiots who care more about "their team" winning than they do about what actually happens. Good luck changing that mentality.
My opinions are all over the map, and both the D's (and the R's) suck donkey (or elephant) balls. Pro-bill-of-rights (all, including the pesky 2nd and 4th), anti-spending (except defense and infrastructure spending), let-women-kill-their-spawn-if-they-want (but give men the ability to give up their rights as father and be free from the responsibility too), let-gays-marry (they should have the right to be as miserable as the rest of us), keep-the-death-penalty (but make the process faster - 5 years should be enough for appeals).
Nevermind. This was apparently added to the summary after I'd posted it. If you read it there, no point in reading it here.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/06/obama/index.html
The RIAA is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
They don't even stop then. They sue dead people, remember?
Before they let the Aussies have their independence, the ships carrying prisoners to Australia needed ballast for the return trip. Since they had a supply of rocks, and an abundance of prisoners, it was a natural progression to have the prisoners produce rocks suitable for not only for ballast (any old rock will do, really), but also suitable for sale as a reference weight upon the return of said ships to the civilized world.
Pardon the (very) rough math..
Escape velocity for Earth is roughly 25000 mph. At 30 mph / detonation, that takes > 830 detonations.
Low earth orbit requires a velocity of roughly 17500 mph, or > 580 detonations
Geostationary orbit requires a velocity of about 6800 mph, or > 225 detonations
That is a LOT of kaboom going on, and while I'm sure it'd be a hell of a ride, and a hell of a sight to see, I'll stick to plain old chemical rockets.
Give them a number that was purchased for cash on the street.
The arrest itself is all that is needed to ruin someone's life. When (not if) it comes up, the perception is not "the system worked" but is instead "he beat the system and got away with it". The perception of getting away with it is reinforced if there was any press/media coverage of the event.
Disclaimer: I don't care for FPSs in general, and absolutely hate FPSs on consoles. If you're going to play FPSs, keyboard + mouse is the proper control scheme. Period. But with that said, the original HALO was leaps and bounds ahead of any other FPS available for consoles at the time. That was what created the HALO fanboy club. /Didn't really care for HALO, played only because a friend was such a damn fanboy I had to see if it was really all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips //Didn't care enough to give -2 or -3 a try
Thus my question was "what big ISPs".
In my area, there's ultimately two residential ISPs to choose from. Time-Warner Cable and AT&T. Sure, there's other companies, but they're just re-selling service from those two at higher rates, and with all the TWC or AT&T baggage (caps, throttling, ever-changing-without-notice ToSs) still attached.
No. "Good samaritan" laws are there to protect the people that are attempting to provide help from lawsuits, not to force people to help.
Otherwise, Joe sees Billy get hit by a car, calls 911 and starts first aid. Billy ends up paralyzed or dead anyway, and Billy's family sues Joe, the EMTs, and the hospital. EMTs and the hospital have insurance, but Joe's out hanging in the wind, getting sued for trying to help.
Morally, you might have an obligation to help, but most places you are not legally required to do anything.