Dnash did some really awesome work for me last Halloween. I wish I had a picture that shows my fangs. They're very realistic and I get quite a few double- and triple-takes. The comment I get most often is "Wow, those look REAL!"
Having the dental mold made was the trickiest part; it took me a while to explain to the dentist exactly what I wanted a mold for. Once he was enlightened, he was happy to make the mold and prescribe a shade for a nominal charge.
Just as Dnash's page claims, they fit so well that they don't require any adhesives at all.
Caring for them isn't as hard as the website makes it out to be; you do have to be careful, but I've seen them survive a three foot drop to the floor.
Finally, the overriding reason I picked Dnash for this particular service (and yes, he DOES have competition): Dnash seems to have very strong ethics. He chooses molding and sculpting methods that produce the best product at the least risk to the customer's dental health. He lets you know exactly what you can expect, and he delivers. For something as expensive as these fangs, that's important.
Yes, I have been known to wear them at work. No, I've never drawn blood with them.:)
Is that the same Dave Miller that used to run a BBS on an Apple//gs, or am I suffering from Small World Syndrome?
--Threed
Bending the rules and twisting the name...
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Tetris Under Fire
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The first Tetris I ever played was the one bundled with the original (b&w) Gameboy. It's a "legit" Tetris, and it's the best one ever. No Tetris clone that I've seen mimics it 100%.
Does bending the rules and twisting the name evade this particular sort of liscensing?
Where is bittedness defined? Are we to let marketing define our CPUs for us? Does the IEEE have a standard definition for the bittedness of a CPU?
I've always taken it as granted that most registers in a given CPU will be the size of the accumulator, and that defines the CPU's bittedness. It bugs me that a lot of the marketing hype for these games is based on FALSE claims of inflated bittedness.
Console system people can go ahead and say their system is twice as fast, or has more games, or can do X ammount of polys per second, but they'd best be able to back up their claims.
I looked at the IEEE briefs about the CPUs that were detailed (which is what led to this story), and not a single one claimed to be "128-bit". So I conclude that someone at Sony is blowing smoke. I bet it's a marketer. An engineer would know better.
I think the Jaguar used to claim to be a 64-bit system, because it had two 32-bit CPUs running in parallel. Does that mean an SMP PII x 4 system is actually a 128-bit system? I don't think so...
So how do you define the bit-width of a CPU?
I am thinking that the maximum width of the CPU's accumulator register is the defining characteristic.
Welcome to the Technocracy...
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Why Work Sucks
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The elimination of the middle class, the widening of the gap between the lower and upper, is leading this country (hell, the whole WORLD) down the path of a Gibson novel.
Walk out on the streets and you're immediately swamped with technological "have-nots", and yet every company worth its salt has a web site. Why do they bother? Because the technological "haves" have the cash and everyone wants a piece of that as-yet-to-be-properly-exploited market.
The gov't is trying desperately to curb the flow of technology from its military and other R&D efforts into the hands of the people, hiding behind "national security". Strong encryption, while a pain in the ass to use, is an essential component of the new era of digital privacy that we have yet to see. Big Brother is watching you.
There's a war on. A war against the lower class. Don't let them get out of place. Don't let them rise up. Keep them down any way you can. If that means locking them up in jail, so be it. It's really easy, these days, to masquerade a new Mandatory Minimum Sentancing bill as "tough on crime", when all it is, really, is "tough on minorities".
Destroy the middle class at all costs, push them into places where they can be rounded up and branded "lower". Tax the hell out of property owners. Tax the hell out of the working stiffs. Make technology so difficult and expensive to acquire that the average person couldn't possibly start developing his own.
Take away the choices. Too many choices lead to unpredictable behavior. Empowering people leads to people holding the power. Can't have that bullshit, we have a country to run. We have lives to steamroller over. There's a war on!
The only choice you have these days is who you're going to let exploit you. Nah, you don't even have that choice. You can pick what industry is going to exploit you, and then you get to sell yourself out to a company in that industry. That is, if you're willing to lower yourself to the point of pissing in a cup first. What, you expect to be trusted? You expect to be valued on your own merits? Bullshit.
Once you've decided how you're going to be exploited, you get the supreme honor of handing over half or more of what you earn, to pay for something that's not guaranteed to be delivered on time or at all. Worse still, you pay the salaries of the very same people who created this mess.
Sorry... It's early in the morning, haven't had coffee yet...
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Dnash did some really awesome work for me last Halloween. I wish I had a picture that shows my fangs. They're very realistic and I get quite a few double- and triple-takes. The comment I get most often is "Wow, those look REAL!"
:)
Having the dental mold made was the trickiest part; it took me a while to explain to the dentist exactly what I wanted a mold for. Once he was enlightened, he was happy to make the mold and prescribe a shade for a nominal charge.
Just as Dnash's page claims, they fit so well that they don't require any adhesives at all.
Caring for them isn't as hard as the website makes it out to be; you do have to be careful, but I've seen them survive a three foot drop to the floor.
Finally, the overriding reason I picked Dnash for this particular service (and yes, he DOES have competition): Dnash seems to have very strong ethics. He chooses molding and sculpting methods that produce the best product at the least risk to the customer's dental health. He lets you know exactly what you can expect, and he delivers. For something as expensive as these fangs, that's important.
Yes, I have been known to wear them at work.
No, I've never drawn blood with them.
--Threed
Is that the same Dave Miller that used to run a BBS on an Apple //gs, or am I suffering from Small World Syndrome?
--Threed
The first Tetris I ever played was the one bundled with the original (b&w) Gameboy. It's a "legit" Tetris, and it's the best one ever. No Tetris clone that I've seen mimics it 100%.
Does bending the rules and twisting the name evade this particular sort of liscensing?
--Threed
Where is bittedness defined? Are we to let marketing define our CPUs for us? Does the IEEE have a standard definition for the bittedness of a CPU?
I've always taken it as granted that most registers in a given CPU will be the size of the accumulator, and that defines the CPU's bittedness. It bugs me that a lot of the marketing hype for these games is based on FALSE claims of inflated bittedness.
Console system people can go ahead and say their system is twice as fast, or has more games, or can do X ammount of polys per second, but they'd best be able to back up their claims.
I looked at the IEEE briefs about the CPUs that were detailed (which is what led to this story), and not a single one claimed to be "128-bit". So I conclude that someone at Sony is blowing smoke. I bet it's a marketer. An engineer would know better.
--Threed
I think the Jaguar used to claim to be a 64-bit system, because it had two 32-bit CPUs running in parallel. Does that mean an SMP PII x 4 system is actually a 128-bit system? I don't think so...
So how do you define the bit-width of a CPU?
I am thinking that the maximum width of the CPU's accumulator register is the defining characteristic.
6502 - A, 8 bits
286 - AX, 16 bits
386 - EAX, 32 bits
--Threed
The elimination of the middle class, the widening of the gap between the lower and upper, is leading this country (hell, the whole WORLD) down the path of a Gibson novel.
Walk out on the streets and you're immediately swamped with technological "have-nots", and yet every company worth its salt has a web site. Why do they bother? Because the technological "haves" have the cash and everyone wants a piece of that as-yet-to-be-properly-exploited market.
The gov't is trying desperately to curb the flow of technology from its military and other R&D efforts into the hands of the people, hiding behind "national security". Strong encryption, while a pain in the ass to use, is an essential component of the new era of digital privacy that we have yet to see. Big Brother is watching you.
There's a war on. A war against the lower class. Don't let them get out of place. Don't let them rise up. Keep them down any way you can. If that means locking them up in jail, so be it. It's really easy, these days, to masquerade a new Mandatory Minimum Sentancing bill as "tough on crime", when all it is, really, is "tough on minorities".
Destroy the middle class at all costs, push them into places where they can be rounded up and branded "lower". Tax the hell out of property owners. Tax the hell out of the working stiffs. Make technology so difficult and expensive to acquire that the average person couldn't possibly start developing his own.
Take away the choices. Too many choices lead to unpredictable behavior. Empowering people leads to people holding the power. Can't have that bullshit, we have a country to run. We have lives to steamroller over. There's a war on!
The only choice you have these days is who you're going to let exploit you. Nah, you don't even have that choice. You can pick what industry is going to exploit you, and then you get to sell yourself out to a company in that industry. That is, if you're willing to lower yourself to the point of pissing in a cup first. What, you expect to be trusted? You expect to be valued on your own merits? Bullshit.
Once you've decided how you're going to be exploited, you get the supreme honor of handing over half or more of what you earn, to pay for something that's not guaranteed to be delivered on time or at all. Worse still, you pay the salaries of the very same people who created this mess.
Sorry... It's early in the morning, haven't had coffee yet...
--Threed