Archive for May, 2009
Army Starts Testing ‘Judge Dredd’ Weapon
Some experts call it the “Judge Dredd” gun, after the Sylvester Stallone movie. The Pentagon calls it the XM-25 Individual Air Burst Weapon, which uses a laser rangefinder to precisely measure the distance to a target, then primes a fuse on a timed grenade so that the projectile explodes exactly where it should.
“The way a soldier operates this is you basically find your target, then laze to it, which gives the range, then you get an adjusted aim point, adjust fire and pull the trigger,” deputy program manager Richard Audette told Army News Service. “Say you’ve lazed out to 543 meters … when you pull the trigger it arms the round and fires it 543 meters plus or minus a one-, two- or three-meter increment, then it explodes over the target.”
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Lenticular Clouds
Here are some images of some lenticular clouds that formed over Mount Rainier in Washington state:
Lenticular Clouds
Lenticular Clouds 2
Lenticular Clouds 3
Mount Rainier
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Halo 3 Render-to-Video Public Beta
Bungie has released the public beta of its ‘render to video’ service for the game Halo 3. Quote from Bungie:
We’re ready to enter the public Beta phase of this project, which is open to all paid Bungie Pro subscribers *up through yesterday morning*. We need to have a limited-size audience for the beta, so if you’re reading this now and haven’t previously subscribed, doing so now won’t get you access to the beta, sorry. However, early Pro members whose subscriptions might have lapsed are included, as a thank-you for being an early adopter of our premium service. (Also note that I said “paid” – people who only have Bungie Pro via the Legendary or Mythic DLC promotional offers are not eligible for the beta.)
Currently you can only render to standard defintion video but soon there will be the option to render to high definition video; if you want more details go HERE.
Update, here is a test video of the current service:
Update 2, here is a video rendered in 1280×720 format with Bungie’s render to video service:
Enjoy!
Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite
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I think we’re due an update…
Long time no post… time to update this thing I think.
Sorry for the lack of posts… busy doing other things. Here are a couple of pictures to say sorry:
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