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Ditto. Maybe it's because I'm a static line kid and I made my first 20 jumps from a 182, but I like that plane. My new favorite exit is to just hop off of the step facing the tail so that I end up on my back watching the plane. -- Brian
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Just about any photograph is going to look like crap at 256 colors. Think back to a Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis, they both had 256 color graphics. 16 bit would be the least I would recommend, and it should work on any halfway recent computer. Most modern computers can do 24 bit without trouble (I think Windows calls it "true color"). What do you mean about "show pics okay?" Consistently blocky images and washed out colors indicate to me that the computer is reducing the numbers of colors in an image to make it fit with the colors that it can display. You will almost always see this with 256 color mode. If it only happens some of the time then you might have a problem with that particular piece of software or image. -- Brian
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And here we have the movie timeline, which is different from both the publishing timeline and the storyline order. This is getting confusing. It also mentions how Cardinal of the Kremlin was supposed to be the next movie after Clear and Present, and how it was potentially going to star (jesus fucking christ) Keanu Reeves. You can tell how old the site is. -- Brian
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For the books centered around Jack Ryan the publishing order is actually somewhat different from the timeline order. Check it out here (google cache since the site died). It also mentions "irreconcilable differences in the time line that even Clancy has spoken about" (shit happens when you written umpteen thousand pages of books). -- Brian
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I was really into the Marcinko books when I was in middle school and early high school (7 years ago-ish). Right after the blue one came out I tried to get my mom to take me to the book store so I could buy one. She needed to do something that seemed totally unimportant to me, so we went the next day. It turns out he had been there signing books on the day that I wanted to go! I got my autographed copy anyway. But yeah, other than being completely over the top the first few were pretty good. -- Brian
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He's trying to get the money together. -- Brian
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Debt of Honor ends with the plane crash right after Ryan is sworn in as Vice-President. Executive Orders goes over it again so new readers aren't confused. [Rant Mode] I really like Clancy books, and for the most part the movies have been good, if not as true to the novels as possible (you can fit a lot of plot in 700 pages). Alec Baldwin made a good Jack Ryan in Hunt for Red October. Harrison Ford was good in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. Now they go ahead and give the part to Ben Affleck in The Sum of All Fears!! I know Ford doesn't bring the teenagers to theater like he used to, but crap! At least give the part to somebody that's old enough to play it. [/Rant Mode] -- Brian
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Howzabout we make it a rule that if you have the impetus to start a "weekend numbers" thread, you take the responsibility to explain what it means? Wow, neat, I used one made up word and one word from the Word-A-Day calendar in that last sentence.
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A figure at is a 360 followed by a 360 in the other direction. I think. A quick google search didn't turn up anything and it isn't in Poynter's book. -- Brian
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0:2:0 The weather in Illinois was great on Saturday. I had a cold but decided to ignore it and jump anyway. The first jump of the day was a solo doing leg turns and just watching the ground for the last few thousand feet. That was pretty cool. As it turns out, I probably shouldn't have jumped. One of my ears hurt like hell. So I ignored it because I wasn't going to drive an hour and a half to jump once on a beautiful day. The next jump was a 2 way with the DZO practicing docks. My runny nose got my goggles all blurry. Apparently all of the damage I was going to do to my ear had been done on the first jump because it didn't hurt anymore after the second jump. Other highlights: Student low flare followed by ass slide. A cutaway from a spun-up 79 that ended up in reserver line twists, everything ended fine, and it was on video. Marc sitflying. Another FallingIllini tandem. Getting swooped under canopy by the DZO. -- Brian
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Personally, I don't have a problem with 'net radio. In order to not use massive amounts of bandwidth the audio quality is usually at the level of FM radio and often worse. Even then most 'net radio stations can't handle more than a few hundred or thousand listeners at a time. Beyond that, the legality of net broadcasts is in question. Record companies see it as stealing want even radio stations with a real world presence to shut down Internet broadcasts. Proponents say it is just as legal as normal radio. This hasn't been challenged in court yet, as far as I know. -- Brian
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Sooner or later almost everybody gets frustrated trying to figure out how to do something in Photoshop (in my case it's usually sooner rather than later ). Check out some of the tutorials here: http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Graphics/Image_Editing/Photoshop/FAQs,_Help_and_Tutorials/ -- Brian
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Just a tip: Crop the image down before you upload it. The last two that you posted were gigantic, both in physical size and file size. -- Brian
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I'm assuming you are talking about the small picture that appears when people click on your user name. First, pick an image that you like and scale/crop it down to 65x75 pixels. Then, upload it to a web server somewhere. Finally, open your forum control panel to the "personal info" section (where you signature is) and paste the URL to the scaled picture into the box right underneath the signature box. Or... Email the picture that you want to mountainman and he'll do all the editing and uploading. Then he'll email you the URL of the picture and you can just paste it in to the control panel. -- Brian
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I never said that the email wasn't real. There are obviously some elements of truth and beyond that I don't want to speculate. However, there have been dozens of emails of this type, especially since September 11th, and quite a few of them have turned out to be partially or totally fabricated. Call me a cynic, but I have a hard time believing most of the things I read on the Internet unless I can verify it for myself. -- Brian
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I have a tendancy to take these sort of things with a boulder-size grain of salt, but it looks like there actually was a riot outside the US Embassy in Bahrain last month, although it doesn't mention that the Marines were involved, or that anybody even got over the wall. As always, look at the evidence and make up your own mind. The CNN piece: -- Brian
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Deja Vu. And I'm white, middle class, above average intelligence, somewhat socially inept, with a close circle of friends, quite a few of whom enjoy Ozzy Osbourne and wear black, so I must be prone to shooting up high schools, right? -- Brian
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And he managed to get elected back to the city council a year after he resigned his position because the cops caught a hooker with a personal check that he had written her, then he went on to become mayor. And he was born in London during WWII, so does he qualitify as a British politician? -- Brian
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There's a video out there of somebody doing an intentional cutaway on a BASE rig. I think it's on pilotdave's site. He goes off of a tower, good canopy, chop, another good canopy. -- Brian
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Depends what you want. If you want quality 2D with optional dualhead support, go with a newer Matrox card. Video people seem to like ATI's stuff. If you want game performance NVidia is top of the line, although ATI's newest stuff also performs quite well. Don't limit yourself to 64 megs. Most of the newer 3D cards have at least 128. It also depends on what OS you are running. All of the cards I mentioned are well supported on Windows. NVidia has pretty good quality drivers available for Linux users, as does Matrox. ATI has support for older cards for Linux, I believe. Check out AnandTech for what are (in my opinion) some of the best, most detailed, least biased reviews out there. -- Brian
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An Onion article for all occasions: I Love The Way Your Tits Bounce When You Type. -- Brian
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IRC server is back up... -- Brian
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Canada must be different. Packing your own main without assistance is a requirement to get a USPA A license (one of the few blank spots on my proficiency card), and anybody can pack. In fact, most of the packers at my home DZ aren't even old enough to jump. -- Brian
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Ditto, and ditto. I keep meaning to buy this shirt (see attached pic). -- Brian
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/05/02/1019441406441.html "We do more prostitutes before 8 AM than most people do all day" -- some Fark user. -- Brian