Invisible escreveu:
>>>
http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2006/7/134708_57723549-5a5e-45a3-b33f-65cdfba82752_prod.jpg

>>>
>>
>>   Too bad it's not genuine. Here's the original:
>>
>> http://samanathon.com/images/white-vader.jpg
> 
> I'm just wondering which search engine was able to take an edited photo 
> and look up the original... Damn, I thought this technology was three 
> decades away! o_O

more like brute-force-looking-up

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Warp wrote:
> 
>   Too bad it's not genuine. Here's the original:
> 
> http://samanathon.com/images/white-vader.jpg
> 

That just has to be Luke's uncle.

-Aero

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On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:30:03 +0100, Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> Cutting a cake with a lightsaber?
>>>>
>>>> LMAO!
>>> I prefer my hot coffee. :)
>> 
>> Just don't put the lightsaber too far into the cup, or you'll be
>> cleaning coffee off the floor....
>> 
> Well for most practical day-to-day applications a light-pocket-knife
> would surely be more appropriate :-)

Yeah, that would seem to be the case - but the power cell is the size of 
a pack of Life Savers, so that's going to be a somewhat larger knife. ;-)

Jim

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On 1/24/2010 1:55 PM, Warp wrote:
> Patrick Elliott<sel### [at] npgcablecom>  wrote:
>> On 1/24/2010 12:48 PM, nemesis wrote:
>>> http://www.howstuffworks.com/lightsaber.htm/printable
>>>
>>> I'm sure this is old, but damn nice reading anyway, specially the shots in the
>>> end... :)
>>>
>> You know.. The irony here is that this gives me ideas on how to design
>> the "internals" to actually look right. lol
>
>    Nitpicking, but how is that "irony"?
>
Because.. Prior to this I had thought about buying the parts to make one 
of the replicas work, and was trying to figure out what junk I had that 
I could use to make it look impressive inside. Thus, this was just one 
of the things I was thinking about at the time it was posted.

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>> I'm just wondering which search engine was able to take an edited 
>> photo and look up the original... Damn, I thought this technology was 
>> three decades away! o_O
> 
> more like brute-force-looking-up

There isn't enough time in the universe.

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Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> [Not that you can legally refer to the hot sugar-milk I drink as "tea"...]
> 
>   Milk? Who puts milk in tea? Once you add milk to tea, it stops being tea.
> 
>   It's "the drink formerly know as tea", or "the drink" for short.

In my country, people who do *not* put milk in tea are regarded as weird.

Is this different in other countries then?

[OTOH, the stuff *I* drink is regarded as weird in just about *every* 
country...]

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Invisible wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> [Not that you can legally refer to the hot sugar-milk I drink as 
>>> "tea"...]
>>
>>   Milk? Who puts milk in tea? Once you add milk to tea, it stops being 
>> tea.
>>
>>   It's "the drink formerly know as tea", or "the drink" for short.
> 
> In my country, people who do *not* put milk in tea are regarded as weird.
> 

Speak for yourself.
Gentlefolk consider it common to adulterate tea with milk and sugar. In 
fact green (China) tea is the only tea for a sophisticated palate.

History aside drinking black tea (India or China) is quite widespread.


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Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote:
> On 1/24/2010 1:55 PM, Warp wrote:
> > Patrick Elliott<sel### [at] npgcablecom>  wrote:
> >> On 1/24/2010 12:48 PM, nemesis wrote:
> >>> http://www.howstuffworks.com/lightsaber.htm/printable
> >>>
> >>> I'm sure this is old, but damn nice reading anyway, specially the shots in the
> >>> end... :)
> >>>
> >> You know.. The irony here is that this gives me ideas on how to design
> >> the "internals" to actually look right. lol
> >
> >    Nitpicking, but how is that "irony"?
> >
> Because.. Prior to this I had thought about buying the parts to make one 
> of the replicas work, and was trying to figure out what junk I had that 
> I could use to make it look impressive inside. Thus, this was just one 
> of the things I was thinking about at the time it was posted.

  Ok, but I still can't see the irony of the situation.

  (Irony is always a juxtaposition of opposites. Typically something is
intended, but the exact opposite happens instead.)

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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
news:4b5eb1aa@news.povray.org...
>>> I'm just wondering which search engine was able to take an edited photo 
>>> and look up the original... Damn, I thought this technology was three 
>>> decades away! o_O
>>
>> more like brute-force-looking-up
>
> There isn't enough time in the universe.

Yeah, but time is a completely different beast in the galaxy that's far far 
away. Never forget the lesson of the Kessel run...

:-D

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>> In my country, people who do *not* put milk in tea are regarded as weird.
> 
> Speak for yourself.

Find an advert on British TV depicting tea that doesn't have milk in it. ;-)

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