Updated/interactive version of pinscreen animation
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This is nothing new- basically pinscreen animation (the first of which, Night on Bald Mountain, was made by inventor Alexander Alexeieff in 1933) with much larger "pixels", using chrome balls instead of pins, and much lower resolution. Actual pinscreen animations like Mindscape have a much higher resolution, and look almost like lithographs.
Of course, images on the pinscreen have to be manually "drawn" in using rollers & hand tools, which takes a considerable amount of time.
Yes. As Sr. Release Engineer at a major security software company, I used EPM to create all the UNIX packages, which meant Tru64, AIX, HPUX, & Linux (RPM). Beat the hell out of doing everything 4 times. EPM rules. And fortunately, someone else was in charge of the Windows installers, so I didn't have to worry about those.:>
Check out the AuthXML project - it's an open standard that allows for completely decentralized authentication between sites, businesses, etc., single sign-on, blah blah blah.. Completely platform, application, and corporation-independant, and prevents the need to entrust ALL your data to MS (or any other single entity).
I have a personal rule, which is that no matter how intimate we feel online, nothing is decided before we've met iRL.
This cannot be stressed enough. I've had numerous online relationships (maybe even more than started IRL ), mostly thru people I've met on newsgroups, or people who started emailing me after seeing my website (a fan site). Many of them included meeting IRL, and of those, a few turned into nice, long relationship, and the rest ended very soon after the first RL meeting.
That said, the biggest piece of advice I can give anyone even considering an online relationship is this: just because you can find a lot of things in common before meeting doesn't mean you're perfect for each other- keep in mind that you haven't really met them yet! Every major failure was attributed to one thing: building things up wayyy too high before the actual RL meeting, so that we were both set up for disappointment.
My current relationship is long-distance, and with someone I knew a little bit online before meeting IRL at a concert w/ a group of other online fans. Perhaps one of the reasons things have worked out so well is that we didn't spend that much time talking online before actually meeting IRL. We met almost a year ago, & now I'm planning on moving there for a while (pending a telecommute-OK from work, heh) until we figure out where we both want to live more permanently. We spend lots of time on irc or ytalk, & I even installed linux on her poor old 486 (shortly after which the windows partition crapped out & became completely useless).:) Being a rich geek can also come in very handy for those nightly, hours-long phone calls & frequent plane tickets, as the last successful LDR I was in was during college, so we didn't get to see each other very often...
Anyway, it is possible to find someone online, and being online certainly helps LDRs. It's even possible to find 'fun' (i.e. non-committal) relationships online. Just don't let the fact that it's easier to talk online allow you to rush into things before you're ready.
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This is nothing new- basically pinscreen animation (the first of which, Night on Bald Mountain, was made by inventor Alexander Alexeieff in 1933) with much larger "pixels", using chrome balls instead of pins, and much lower resolution. Actual pinscreen animations like Mindscape have a much higher resolution, and look almost like lithographs.
Of course, images on the pinscreen have to be manually "drawn" in using rollers & hand tools, which takes a considerable amount of time.
(IAAAM - I Am An Animation Major)
Yes. As Sr. Release Engineer at a major security software company, I used EPM to create all the UNIX packages, which meant Tru64, AIX, HPUX, & Linux (RPM). Beat the hell out of doing everything 4 times. EPM rules. And fortunately, someone else was in charge of the Windows installers, so I didn't have to worry about those. :>
My all-time favorite:
The data could not be "read"
(yes, the quotes are part of the error message)
Check out the AuthXML project - it's an open standard that allows for completely decentralized authentication between sites, businesses, etc., single sign-on, blah blah blah.. Completely platform, application, and corporation-independant, and prevents the need to entrust ALL your data to MS (or any other single entity).
on the tag of Joe Boxer underwear:
CHANGE DAILY! (tm)
I don't know which is funnier/more pathetic: that they have to tell you to change your underwear, or that they had to trademark that phrase.
I have a personal rule, which is that no matter how intimate we feel online, nothing is decided before we've met iRL.
:) Being a rich geek can also come in very handy for those nightly, hours-long phone calls & frequent plane tickets, as the last successful LDR I was in was during college, so we didn't get to see each other very often...
This cannot be stressed enough. I've had numerous online relationships (maybe even more than started IRL ), mostly thru people I've met on newsgroups, or people who started emailing me after seeing my website (a fan site). Many of them included meeting IRL, and of those, a few turned into nice, long relationship, and the rest ended very soon after the first RL meeting.
That said, the biggest piece of advice I can give anyone even considering an online relationship is this: just because you can find a lot of things in common before meeting doesn't mean you're perfect for each other- keep in mind that you haven't really met them yet! Every major failure was attributed to one thing: building things up wayyy too high before the actual RL meeting, so that we were both set up for disappointment.
My current relationship is long-distance, and with someone I knew a little bit online before meeting IRL at a concert w/ a group of other online fans. Perhaps one of the reasons things have worked out so well is that we didn't spend that much time talking online before actually meeting IRL. We met almost a year ago, & now I'm planning on moving there for a while (pending a telecommute-OK from work, heh) until we figure out where we both want to live more permanently. We spend lots of time on irc or ytalk, & I even installed linux on her poor old 486 (shortly after which the windows partition crapped out & became completely useless).
Anyway, it is possible to find someone online, and being online certainly helps LDRs. It's even possible to find 'fun' (i.e. non-committal) relationships online. Just don't let the fact that it's easier to talk online allow you to rush into things before you're ready.