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http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/sip/hf/deny.gif Cenap, It just occured to me that you may be the perfect guy to write this book: "Why the Armenian genocide didn't happen for Dummies"

acegroup ... interesting point but in the case of Armenians, just judging by the ones I have seen recently arriving in LA, I think the Jehovah's Wittnesses were probably the victims here ... they probably still don't know what hit them! You got better God? Sure sure we convert. You give us free bible? Oh sure sure ... we convert right now.

I just wanted to officially point out how much I dislike the title of this thread.

Fad, you are recording digitally but your sensors are capturing an analog signal. If there is something wrong with the sensor or the analog to digital converter assosiated with it, then you can easily get noise.

24 bit * 720 * 480 = 0.9888 MB If 32 bits, then it will require 1.32 MB (4 bytes per pixel)

Raw NTSC, if transmitted digitally (I assume 24bit 720x480 at 30fps), would require roughly about 238 Mbps. With enough buffering, that should be ok for a 400 Mbps Firewire link. But then you are talking about 30MB/second of video so you are looking at 18 Gigs for a 10 minute clip of raw NTSC.

Hearing the wrong thing the wrong way can sometimes be a good thing.

I think he was joking

This is for the canadians among us ...

For eastern Armenian you would require a new G5 ... .cause it's such a rich language. Surprisingly enough, western Armenian can even run on an Apple II. Ah this should start a nice fight here

Just wait till I take my welding classes with bruin Once I learn how to weld properly, then I'd be set. But I'd certainly be game as the pit crew guy ... while you are doing your laps, I'd be hanging out with the hot victory lane and bud-light chicks ;) One of my dream projects is being able to put together an entire vehicle from the groud up .. sort of a dream concept vehicle. I think in my case it'll end up being a rock buggy of sorts but I'd want to do everything myself. I don't know ... maybe something like this http://www.gradysoffroad.com/jackyl/jackyl_side_view1x1.gif http://www.gradysoffroad.com/jackyl/jackyl_action011x1.jpg maybe even something more insane with rear steering http://www.4x44u.com/events4u/ARCACedarCitySatPhotobook/Mvc208fsm.jpg About the ONE traffic light ... ... had a meeting at 11, woke up at 10:40 figuring I had more than enough time. WRONG. I was a couple minutes late ... but so was the other guy About carpool lanes in LA ... I was actually talking to another prof about that here ... the interesting thing about those carpool lanes in LA is that they don't do ANYTHING to help congestion. They increase the capacity a bit by forcing more people per car but they don't help the congestion problem one bit. The reason is that there are so many cars waiting to get on to the freeway ... I always find it funny (and disturbing) hearing policy makers trying to tackle the freeway "congestion problem" and the first thing out of their mouth is "carpool" ... so rediculous... and I think LA is a wonderful example of where "carpooling" has no impact on congestion. However, people don't violate the law too much in LA regarding that (suprisingly not as much as one would expect), as far as I have seen. Mostly because the fines are so big I guess... several hundred bucks.

OOOO! In the front? Sweet!!! I could have used that today. People just sometimes don't feel like driving on a left turn GREEN arrow. I couldn't believe it .. .they just sit there and wait for the pedestrians These upper-mid-coast people are very different than the LA crowd I'm used too. Almost ended up driving over one of them to finally get through the 5th light and not be late for a meeting ... and since when does YELLOW mean stop right away?

Wow !!! That's a bummer. Glad GM wasn't like that. They have this "PassLock" system which basically relies on a "resistance" code. On my truck, the code is actually in the key cylinder and not the key itself. But yah, even trying to get around that one was a pain in the you know where. Though I must say now that I know how it works, I can hotwire a car similar to mine in much faster than two days.

Actually I know how to do that Thoth!!! It is really neat but it won't work too well with newer vehicles that have catalytic converters ... it would just plug that cat up and totally mess up the emissions systems. Basically what they do is drill a small hole in the exhaust, a few inches from the tip and put in a regular spark plug. Then, they put a bypass on the spark on one of the cylinders. When you press the button, that cylinder doesn't fire, dumping the unburnt fuel vapor into the exhaust but then they spark it with the plug in the exhaust ... it gives this awesome flame thrower effect! Lot of the hot-rodders do it ... but as I said, that will wreak havoc with new emission systems and O2 sensors

I was hoping you wouldn't take it the wrong way

That's one of the reasons I always do my own "security" modifications. I can add my own personal touches which would take some time for some other person to figure out (i.e. a non standard way of doing things) ... I think the blazer is at a point where they are going to have to tow it if they want to steal it. BUT, the big reason is that I myself know very well how to bypass things where, how, and when!

How about "Kellogg's special K" Honestly, that's the first image that popped into my head when I saw that one! I guess it could also be "erotic" if one has a strange breakfast cereal fettish. I'm sorry ... I think I just showed the depth of my artistic vision.

I forgot to mention a pretty hillarious (well, maybe not at the time) story with that ... basically I was putting in a remote start system and a two-way pager. My remote has a color LCD display which tells me what part of the blazer caused the alarm as well as other things. It has a pretty good range but the main reason was the remote start ... I can press the button in my office and the truck will turn on ... by the time I walk all the way to the parking structure it'll be all nice and warm ready to go Anyway, I basically had to cut into a lot of wires and some of the ignition systems to get this to work. The problem was, I didn't know about this security feature where the computer in the car detects tampering and goes into theft mode ... which means you can't turn on the vehicle!!!!! It took me a LONG time to realize what was going on and figure out how to break that security feature ... it also detects your key so you basically can't turn on the car without your key. To make a long story short, I finally figured it out after two days of charcharank. I just thought it was funny that my own car thought I was a thief, got mad at me, and wouldn't let me drive it for 2 days

Thoth, you know that statement really got me thinking. I think you're on to something there!!!! and Domino, thanks!!! But I'd prefer a raise on the $5000 ... dual monitors ;)

I don't agree much with the quote, as presented. It seems to categorize everything learned by a child under the umbrella of "culture" ... of course that is too simplistic of a view but as noted above, we are not sure what position the author is taking (it's just a small quote). Science, logic, mathematics, music, dance, group and social behavior, morality, and many other things are "learned" concepts that far transcend just culture. For example there are some fundamental universal truths in mathematics that are culture-invariant. We recently had a discussion on morality here and whether it is a product of the intelligent mind or passed down from generation to generation (maybe as part of the culture) ... well, my position was and is that morality is a product of an intelligent mind.

I thought yours was grosser! What if that was my phone

To make it better Car designers and manufacturers aren't necessarily aware of what I like in my car ... they tend to make things for the average "cup-holder damanding" consumer.

Of course you already know how my hobbies ened up evovling in the last few years ... as far away from a computer as possible!!! But I didn't suggest offroading to you since it is a VERY expensive hobbie. Oh and I also like to tear my car apart every once in a while like this and this. This was a couple of months ago!. I realized at some point that I was messing around dangerously close to the airbag wires. I was lucky they didn't go off!!!!! I realized just in time.