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combine this with some really wild slit/film configurations, and you can get some interesting images... check out what andrew davidhazy is doing with moving slit photography, especially some of this stuff. he even has some articles discussing scanner derived camera backs here and here

As well as scanner photography.

...[T]he objects that were moving were twisted and distorted into wonderful shapes. At first, I thought that this was a mistake, that something was wrong with my new contraption. But I soon realized that the motion of the scanner was meshing with the motion of the recorded scene, creating unexpected, yet predictable, results.

Someone needs to tell him that slit-scan photography has already been invented.

The similarities with slit-scan photography immediately stood out to me as well.

For anyone that's interested, there's a reasonably good page describing the technique here and pages about it's application in the stargate sequence of 2001 here and here.

It's possible to fake the technique in Adobe aftereffects with the time displacement filter too.

Andrew Davidhazy has done similar things at the Imaging and Photographic Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology years ago. His site is interesting

http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/

Many have done the same later on. I got through a Christmas period converting a Umax page scanner to a panorama scanner. It was fun.

http://www.pigment-print.com/Panorama%20Camera%201 /index.html

Why have a chip on your shoulder about non-elitist equipment?

I don't. I have a chip on my shoulder about people claiming something as artistically and/or technically new when it has been done numerous times before, and often better.

Here is one link. Here's another one. There have been a number of other variations, including leaving the scanner in the film plane of a LF camera.

OK so these are not for you computer but they make them really small http://www.rit.edu/~physics/Research/nanopower.sht ml

Yes that was a quote. Even more can be found here. This is the text book from the materials and processes class at RIT http://www.rit.edu/

http://books.google.com/books?q=silver+nitrate&id= BRYa6Qpsw48C&prev=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fse arch%3Fsourceid%3Dnavclient-ff%26ie%3DUTF-8%26rls% 3DGGGL%2CGGGL%3A2005-09%2CGGGL%3Aen%26q%3Dmaterial s%2Band%2Bprocesses%2Bor%2Bphotography&ie=UTF-8

VAXen haven't completely gone out of use yet, you know. Here at RIT, the best way to get registered for courses is by logging into a VAX, and all the grade/course information seems to be run on VAX systems.

(I'd like to put the Baron Munchausen reference in here too:

Horatio Jackson: Ah, the officer who risked his life by singlehandedly destroying *six* enemy cannon and rescuing ten of our men help captive by The Turk.

Heroic Officer: Yes, sir.

Horatio Jackson: The officer about whom we've heard so much.

Heroic Officer: I suppose so, sir.

Horatio Jackson: Always taking risks far beyond the call of duty.

Heroic Officer: I only did my best, sir.

Horatio Jackson: Have him executed at once. This sort of behavior is demoralizing for the ordinary soldiers and citizens who are trying to lead normal, simple, unexceptional lives. I think things are difficult enough without these emotional people rocking the boat.)

Hard as it is to believe though, there are some people working on college campuses who take such strange ideas quite seriously. I know from personal experience.

In the Declaration of Independence (shown below) that Thomas Jefferson drafted, he wrote:

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

Franklin argued successfully for substituting "self-evident" for sacred and undeniable." It was a significant and fortuitous change. Jefferson's wording implied a divine origin for men's rights. Franklin used a term from science and based the rights on reason. All men, he implied, could investigate and prove the proposition. Franklin made natural rights sacred because they were true, while in Jefferson's version they were true because they were sacred.

As an outsider watching from the far north, I've always thought Franklin's substitution of truths as self evident relfected the ideas put forth by Euclid. Jefferson OTOH towed the line from Aristotle. The early chrisitian church fathers adopted the ideas of Aristotle. Aritotle's ideas on teleology inform the christian ideas of intelligent design. These same ideas were first succinctly put forth in 'The Great Chain of Being'...'the historian of ideas Arthur Lovejoythere thus resulted a...'

"conception of the plan and structure of the world which, through the Middle Ages and down to the late eighteenth century...most educated men were to accept without question - the conception of the universe as a "Great Chain of Being", composed of an immense, or...infinite, number of links ranging in hierarchical order from the meagerest kind of existents...through "every possible" grade up to the ens perfectissumu"'

Religion is an evolutionary adaptations' ploy wherein if you want to get along you go along, and, as the better fit suggests the better ploy, the benefits are seen as the blessings of god. Any adaptation is necessarily more good or more bad and thus morality is born. It amounts to a patriarchical ploy (a pick up line) that says I'm a big man in the community and made in the image of the biggest man in the universe, won't you come home with me and let me impregnate you, please I really gotta spread my seed, my god says I'm gonnna have children greater than all the sands on the beach.

Depending on what kind of degree you want to pursue, an online degree definitely can be equivalent to a "traditional" degree. I have a B.S. from Rochester Institute of Technology, and completed my entirely at night through their Distance Learning program while I was working for a software company full-time. Because it's an accredited school and my degree was "work related," I was even able to use tuition reimbursement from work to pay for it.

When I decided to go to law school (2nd tier), the fact that I had earned my distance learning degree wasn't even mentioned (yes, I was accepted). In my case, there is no difference between my degree and the same degree earned on campus.

I'm certain there will be a lot of naysayers who are convinced that all online degrees are worthless, but it's not true. It depends on the school (accredited, etc.) and the type of degree you're looking for. Even if you're just looking for a way to get some extra credits, most schools will let you take DL courses from an accredited school and transfer them into your program.

Do your research and you'll find there are a lot of legitimate options out there. John Bear has written some good books about where to get quality distance learning education.

See also: The Lennart Nilsson Award

It's not a study or even a very credible source, but out of the probably 50 people I knew of with modded XBoxes while I was still in school a couple years ago, not a single one was used for anything but emulators and illegal copies of games.

It might make you feel better to think otherwise, but outside of Slashdot and some other hard-core Linux/OSS communities, I really don't think much of anyone gives a damn about the non-illegal uses of hacking consoles.

Just my opinion, though.

NTP won't run as often as it should, so my recordings are off by 20-30 secs and I have to login and manually run ntpdate

Why not have it run via cron? Also are you running an ongoing ntp daemon to continually check the time and slew the clock if needed? Doesn't sound like you are.

Has anyone been successful in prototyping a Mythbox (such that it just works for long periods of time without having to worry about tweaks and workarounds)? If so, please tell me how.

Yes, several people have. I've had two different MythTV boxes up and running for prolonged (roughly year) time frames. The only reason they didn't continue service longer was my desire to tinker with them, not need. As for how, I use Debian and the Debian packages for MythTV provided here.

... "Informative"? Did you people even read the link?

It's from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, not stolen from the linked post like the parent seems to imply.

If you want more information on this, check out www.cis.rit.edu or http://www.cis.rit.edu/vpl/ . And also for more cutting edge stuff, look into the binocular eye tracking - binocular tracking tracks both eyes, while most eye trackers track only one. Pelz (at the CIS VPL) is pushing the edge of tracking limits by taking it out of the laboratory into the real world with portable trackers that fit into small camelback backpacks.
Senior Thesis on binocular tracking systems is here: http://www.cis.rit.edu/~srb0036/Binocular_Eye_Thes is.pdf

-Snyper

If you want more information on this, check out www.cis.rit.edu or http://www.cis.rit.edu/vpl/ . And also for more cutting edge stuff, look into the binocular eye tracking - binocular tracking tracks both eyes, while most eye trackers track only one. Pelz (at the CIS VPL) is pushing the edge of tracking limits by taking it out of the laboratory into the real world with portable trackers that fit into small camelback backpacks.
Senior Thesis on binocular tracking systems is here: http://www.cis.rit.edu/~srb0036/Binocular_Eye_Thes is.pdf

-Snyper

Check out 'N' a great flash game. The proble with flash is reusability of the modules, and the hackability of it.

Looking at teagames.com and http://www.rit.edu/~jhb4598/jblog Java quake 3 map renderer (with rail gun) that runs at ~89fps on my stock dell POShit.

Despite diverging proprietary systems, the dominance of flash and java in web and mobile gaming will ultimately (as technology grows) give us cross platform gaming. If Java can do cross platform quake 3 now, in 3 years will Java do cross platform Doom3 or Offset engine?

Cross platform - its what you want!

Play N today, it is supeerrrr333t, and they are putting out tutorials as their prime objective.

Teagames hasn't tutorials yet, if you want, nag them to put some tutorials out!

Thats all!

Tod the guy playing slashdot and reading flash games... switch that... while getting paid!

This is known as immersion lithography. Intel has kept it off its official roadmap because they're able to push their current technology to 45nm and possibly beyond. AMD on the other hand has started purchasing immersion steppers and it looks like they're trying to get them operational in production by 2006.

A few small corrections to your comment: it's not water, and there's no "flow". The fluid used is engineered to increase something called the "numerical aperture" of the lens (or, the NA). Typical fluids include ethylene glycol and certain other alcohols diluted with deionized water. In reference to the "flowing," the steppers simply pick up a bead of water and use it. When the wafer comes out of the stepper it's essentially dry.

One potential downside to this process is the sensitivity of the resist reaction to water. Unfortunately in order to work at the low end the wafers must be post-exposure baked immediately coming out of the stepper. This reduced throughput time since you can't do an entire lot of wafers at once unless you set up 25 hot plates.

Rochester Institute of Technology recently revealed that they have been able to push immersion lithography with high NA fluids to 31nm lines and spaces, which is only 2 generations from the proposed physical limit of silicon gate transistors (11 nm).

http://patsy.cis.rit.edu/Software/4p/

http://www.rit.edu/~smo4215/monty.htm#Scene%2023

Why is this something to post about... measureing 19" is not that hard.... Hell i do it on a daily basis as i work in Pro audio/lighting.

What would have been simpler to me is to just by a Mid-atlantic rack, get the shelving unit (U1 or U3).

Find a computer case thats 19" tall. Throw it on its side. screw it to the shelf and then mount it in the case.

Also could have gotten some 19" blanks and lined the back with fans/outtakes, put an AC Plug on there. along with RJ45 jack that goes to the switch. so it looks cleaner with less wires hanging out.

http://www.rit.edu/~ajw8557/computer/rack/index.ht ml

I think these guys did a much cooler job making one that this dude.... at least they did it with an old fridge!

http://www.rit.edu/~smo4215/monty.htm

[battle sounds]
[Black Knight defeats a worthless-piece-of-crap-knight]
ARTHUR: You fight with the strength of many men, Sir knight.

I am Arthur, King of the Britons.

I seek the finest and the bravest knights in the land to join me in my Court of Camelot.
You have proved yourself worthy; will you join me?
You make me sad. So be it. Come, Patsy.
BLACK KNIGHT: None shall pass.
ARTHUR: What?
BLACK KNIGHT: None shall pass.
ARTHUR: I have no quarrel with you, good Sir knight, but I must
cross this bridge.
BLACK KNIGHT: Then you shall die.
ARTHUR: I command you as King of the Britons to stand aside!
BLACK KNIGHT: I move for no man.
ARTHUR: So be it!
[hah]
[parry thrust]
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's left arm off]
ARTHUR: Now stand aside, worthy adversary.
BLACK KNIGHT: 'Tis but a scratch.
ARTHUR: A scratch? Your arm's off!
BLACK KNIGHT: No, it isn't.
ARTHUR: Well, what's that then?
BLACK KNIGHT: I've had worse.
ARTHUR: You liar!
BLACK KNIGHT: Come on you pansy!
[hah]
[parry thrust]
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's right arm off]
ARTHUR: Victory is mine!
[kneeling]
We thank thee Lord, that in thy merc-
[Black Knight kicks Arthur in the head while he is praying]
BLACK KNIGHT: Come on then.
ARTHUR: What?
BLACK KNIGHT: Have at you!
ARTHUR: You are indeed brave, Sir knight, but the fight is mine.
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, had enough, eh?
ARTHUR: Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left.
BLACK KNIGHT: Yes I have.
ARTHUR: Look!
BLACK KNIGHT: Just a flesh wound.
[Headbutts Arthur in the chest]
ARTHUR: Look, stop that.
BLACK KNIGHT: Chicken! Chicken!
ARTHUR: Look, I'll have your leg. Right!
[whop]
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's leg off]
BLACK KNIGHT: Right, I'll do you for that!
ARTHUR: You'll what?
BLACK KNIGHT: Come 'ere!
ARTHUR: What are you going to do, bleed on me?
BLACK KNIGHT: I'm invincible!
ARTHUR: You're a loony.
BLACK KNIGHT: The Black Knight always triumphs! Have at you!
Come on then.
[whop]
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's other leg off]
BLACK KNIGHT: All right; we'll call it a draw.
ARTHUR: Come, Patsy.
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, oh, I see, running away then. You yellow
bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite
your legs off!

They've already done that at universities that care about the craft, its "Comp Sci" vs. "Software Engineering"

http://msoe.edu/eecs/se/
http://www.se.rit.edu/

The cult recently opened one of their "temples" in California (of course). They have many local churches.

Like the Scientologists who have their "e-meter", these lego freaks have their or psuedo-technological props. They even have an mystic Oracle that you can ask questions on the internet. And just like the leader of the Scientologists, their leaders aspire to be JRR Tolkien. Not only that, these foul fiends have the temerity to rewrite the Bible.

And they are Holocaust revisionists, too boot

1. Exhibit A - one of their foul leaders proudly displays their trumped up "evidence"
2. Exhibit B
3. Exhibit C
4. Exhibit D
5. Exhibit E
6. Exhibit F

They worship strange, vile gods. And are building machines to take over the world.

Actually, while it varies according to region, looking at the US as whole, there was roughly a 1.5% (1.47%) part of the population that is deaf.

I go to school at RIT which also houses The National Technical Institute for the Deaf. While I am not part of the Deaf culture, there's one thing I've learned from my time there: Captioning is wonderful. Not only does it allow more people to enjoy the movie, but sometimes, it's just freaking helpful to be able to re-view what just happened.

If captions (open captions, yes, up on the screen, the whole time) are that big of problem for you, maybe you should be the one who has to wait for it to come out on DVD.

Here at RIT, we have a College of Computing and Information Sciences ( http://www.rit.edu/~gccis/ ) and that's where CS lives. It's separate from our College of Engineering. Computer Scientist might be considered more proper here.

After watching the final fight scene in Episode III between Obi Wan and Anakin, was anyone else reminded of King Arthur's fight with the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Oh, well. Sith happens.

Christ, you are so fucking thick. Go bang your fucking head against a wall or something, you no talent ass clown. Do you seriously expect to get away with not only posting incorrect information about Holy Grail, but posting it on Slashdot of all places?

Heres a question even your feeble brain might get right. Which came first, scene 21 or scene 23?

God you suck. I pity you.

Christ, you are so fucking thick. Go bang your fucking head against a wall or something, you no talent ass clown. Do you seriously expect to get away with not only posting incorrect information about Holy Grail, but posting it on Slashdot of all places?

Heres a question even your feeble brain might get right. Which came first, scene 21 or scene 23?

God you suck. I pity you.

(Come on, don't you remember our favourite Norwegian subtitles?)

Some might consider one tribe might be the English, and some might consider that the other to be the French.

In this one, which nationality discovers that coconuts are *not* migratory?

http://www.rit.edu/~smo4215/monty.htm

GUARD #1: Where'd you get the coconut?
ARTHUR: We found them.
GUARD #1: Found them? In Mercea? The coconut's tropical!
ARTHUR: What do you mean?
GUARD #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.
ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not strangers to our land.
GUARD #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
ARTHUR: Not at all, they could be carried.
GUARD #1: What -- a swallow carrying a coconut?
ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk!
GUARD #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound coconut.
ARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.
GUARD #1: Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?
ARTHUR: Please!
GUARD #1: Am I right?
ARTHUR: I'm not interested!
GUARD #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!
GUARD #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow, that's my point.
GUARD #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that...
ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?!
GUARD #1: But then of course African swallows are not migratory.
GUARD #2: Oh, yeah...
GUARD #1: So they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway...

[clop clop]

GUARD #2: Wait a minute -- supposing two swallows carried it together?
GUARD #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.
GUARD #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a strand of creeper!
GUARD #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
GUARD #2: Well, why not?

I am a happy Mythtv user.

I watch TV much anymore, but I wanted to muck around with it, so I bought a WinPVR-250 card.

I stuck it in my file server, and watch it on my desktop. Both are running Debian, of course.

For debian/ubuntu users check out this line:
#Mythtv
deb http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv

I am sure you know what it is for.. (minus the /. add-on bracketry)

The only tricky part was that the guide was off by one hour (found a quick-n-easy SQL one-liner on the internet to fix that) and setting up MySQL so that it would accept remote connections (this is disabled in Debian by default).

I found out that it will happily run in a window and is fairly desktop friendly, which I didn't know they had it setup to do. My desktop resolution is 2 monitors at 1280x1024 and I run mythtv at 800x600. Nice picture and a pleasent distraction while mucking around with work or whatnot.

Also nice for when you want to watch TV with your laptop.

If I had a second chance at a card (bought it a while ago) I'd get one of those plexor's that use the go7007 drivers.

Plexor GPL'd the drivers themselves and they look nice. Much more capable then the WinPVR stuff.. Can encode in mpeg4 (divx-style) as well as mpeg2 and others, were the WinPVR can only do mpeg2.

I may actually buy one still.

One tip: when you find a show you want to watch, hit the 'r' button to start recording it. I find that when I let it pause for a couple hours and I come back to finish watching the show to many times I accidently change the channel and loose my buffer.

Its being investigated at my alma mater. RIT Research to Examine Success and Failure Rate of Women in IT Programs Women in IT Education
Understanding Gendered Attrition in Departments of Information Technology
about the project
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has received an Information Technology Workforce (ITWF) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the experiences of undergraduate women in departments of Information Technology (IT). Most research to date into women's experiences in undergraduate computing programs has focused on Computer Science departments. While IT programs have cast themselves as qualitatively different from traditional CS, it is not clear whether women's experiences in these programs are more positive than in CS, where retention of female students has been consistently problematic.

Its being investigated at my alma mater. RIT Research to Examine Success and Failure Rate of Women in IT Programs Women in IT Education
Understanding Gendered Attrition in Departments of Information Technology
about the project
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has received an Information Technology Workforce (ITWF) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the experiences of undergraduate women in departments of Information Technology (IT). Most research to date into women's experiences in undergraduate computing programs has focused on Computer Science departments. While IT programs have cast themselves as qualitatively different from traditional CS, it is not clear whether women's experiences in these programs are more positive than in CS, where retention of female students has been consistently problematic.

Parent is not flamebait, it is a direct quote

The summary states incorrectly:

Gravitational lenses have been seen many times before, but never so complete ...

Way back in 1989, radio astronomers found a gravitational lens near the galaxy MG1643+1346 which creates two images, one of which is a nearly complete circular ring. Take a look at this radio image from Langston et al., AJ 97, 1283 (1989):

Click to see radio image of lensed quasar.

So, this newest system is a pretty good lens, but not the "most complete" one yet found.

By the way, if you want to understand how gravitational lensing works, you can read some lectures I wrote for an introductory astronomy class:

• Basic theory of lensing
• Microlensing (lensing by a single star)

The summary states incorrectly:

Gravitational lenses have been seen many times before, but never so complete ...

Way back in 1989, radio astronomers found a gravitational lens near the galaxy MG1643+1346 which creates two images, one of which is a nearly complete circular ring. Take a look at this radio image from Langston et al., AJ 97, 1283 (1989):

Click to see radio image of lensed quasar.

So, this newest system is a pretty good lens, but not the "most complete" one yet found.

By the way, if you want to understand how gravitational lensing works, you can read some lectures I wrote for an introductory astronomy class:

• Basic theory of lensing
• Microlensing (lensing by a single star)

The summary states incorrectly:

Gravitational lenses have been seen many times before, but never so complete ...

Way back in 1989, radio astronomers found a gravitational lens near the galaxy MG1643+1346 which creates two images, one of which is a nearly complete circular ring. Take a look at this radio image from Langston et al., AJ 97, 1283 (1989):

Click to see radio image of lensed quasar.

So, this newest system is a pretty good lens, but not the "most complete" one yet found.

By the way, if you want to understand how gravitational lensing works, you can read some lectures I wrote for an introductory astronomy class:

• Basic theory of lensing
• Microlensing (lensing by a single star)

Reminds me of The Kinks song Give the People What They Want. http://kinks.it.rit.edu/cgi-bin/MusicSearch.cgi?so ng=regular/gtpwtw/song-gtpwt

RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) has the NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf) which is the largest tech school for the deaf in the nation. From what I have seen in the school newspaper, there is a researcher here who has patented some ASL learning process that helps people learn ASL. (It's a very popular thing to learn at RIT)

I can't find any resources on it right now, it may not be released. I would check NTID's homepage often for more information. (Not to mention the NTID page has lots of ASL stuff anyway)

in computer science house, one of the clubs i'm in at RIT, the number of mac laptop users has skyrocketed in the past few years. it's probably even the most common laptop in the club now. i've seen similar trends across the CS department, but not nearly as high as this club in particular.

Everyone seems to like the game, so why pay $249+? Play a Lumines clone for free. Requires Java.
http://www.rit.edu/~jhb4598/jblog/archives/000598. php3

The PSP had a piss-poor game selection on launch, in my opinion. The list I saw at my local EB contained something like 10 or 11 sports games out of the 20 available at launch. No thanks. If I want a sports game, I'll put down the portasystem, and go play with a ball. Funny, no?

The only game that looks promising is Grand Theft Auto, and that's not due out for another two months. Now, if that had come out at launch, I'd have spent 300$ on it (at the extreme behest of my significant other - so what, I wanna buy myself a birthday gift...). But no; there was absolutely nothing appealing about the launch.

Please note, the above statement completely disregards the fact that I barely have time to read slashdot, anymore, let alone play video games. World of Warcraft barely gets touched anymore. Thank you, school work, you're destroying my livelyhood...

The PSP had a piss-poor game selection on launch, in my opinion. The list I saw at my local EB contained something like 10 or 11 sports games out of the 20 available at launch. No thanks. If I want a sports game, I'll put down the portasystem, and go play with a ball. Funny, no?

The only game that looks promising is Grand Theft Auto, and that's not due out for another two months. Now, if that had come out at launch, I'd have spent 300$ on it (at the extreme behest of my significant other - so what, I wanna buy myself a birthday gift...). But no; there was absolutely nothing appealing about the launch.

Please note, the above statement completely disregards the fact that I barely have time to read slashdot, anymore, let alone play video games. World of Warcraft barely gets touched anymore. Thank you, school work, you're destroying my livelyhood...

This is the kind of extreme they mean.

Lots of things work, you can easily buy a IR pass filter.

I I've used purple sweet wrappers in an IR remote control, and often the plastic in the housing is good enough to block most visible light but pass IR.

There are in fact debian packages for mythtv, and they really are excellent. See the packages here and modify your sources.list file accordingly. You will also need a few packages from unstable, if you are otherwise running stable or testing.

You can see a similar phenomenon in these high speed photos of water droplets.