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"or heck, even 50cc scooters - they are far cheaper than the equivalent motor vehicles."

They're also far worse than cars in terms of per-km emissions other than CO2.

http://publications.tno.nl/pub... (2nd half of the report is in English.)

Well, you might want to look around then, there a plenty of examples where soldiers do train within a virtual environment. For example, here in the Netherlands the Dutch TNO institution has rebuild an entire virtual village in Afganistan used by soldiers to train team skills. http://www.tno.nl/images/shared/overtno/magazine/tno_mag_3_apr_2009_06_09.pdf

The TNO institute in The Netherlands also created a very large digital panorama photograph about two years ago. It was pretty impressive at the time.

not the one you are talking about, but this page uses something similar

I still think the 2.5 gigapixel photo is the best. The detail is incredible, the photo is interactive, allowing zoom capability. You can zoom all the way in and read license plates and see parking passes. http://www.tpd.tno.nl/smartsite966.html

Kind of like this [tpd.tno.nl]? ;-)

Kind of. Except "this" has a high quality image to start with.

(yes, I see the smiley)

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ie: having their forensics guy take a 320x200-ish video surveillance snapshot and enhancing it to see the bad guy in a reflection from someone's eyeball, etc...

Kind of like this? ;-)

I've heard of some very impressive computer forensics (I think these guys are the acknowledged experts in the UK, even if their poetry is awful), but I've also heard of some seriously cack-handed investigation, filling hard disks with irrelevant files. Something like a semi-automated Knoppix thing could be highly beneficial for some, but anything with any real legal weight would have to be done by a proper specialist...

Here (Flash) is a nifty site that simulates this effect - by combing a large number of photos.

Go ahead, ENHANCE!

"Would the owner of car, license plate number 93 DT VR, please return to your car, you've left your lights on?"

Really... (ok, their lights aren't actually on) it is pretty cool to be able to see well enough to make out the license plates of all those cars in the car park way down there...

I mean, come on... whoever the owner of HS ZP 71 is, you should clean your parcel shelf. (why is it called that anyway, if you actually put parcels on it you'd block your rear view)

It may be boring, but you can pretend you're on an episode of almost any crime/thriller show or movie (think Alias or the like) and say... "Wait... I'll just zoom in there... look, there's their license plate, clear as day!

Here is the flash view of it

Oh, and the really tinsy tiny car that fits into the motorcycle spot is call too.

this guy has a bit of bad luck

Pretty cool site, the Zoomify btw...

here's a link directly to the picture...it's still working for me...for now...

Which reminds me: I'll always regret not saving a Cyber 180 at a former employer before it (the Cyber) went into a landfill back in '89 or '90. It had a MAP and all.

Now that thing would easily crush a VAX 11/750 if it fell over on it. And a PC? Pfft! Roadkill!

*sniffle*

The liner material has to be very ductile so it will flow from its initial hollow cone shape to form the slug and penetrating jet. The wavefront of explosives detonating behind the cone (explosive is on the pointy side of the cone) forms the slug and jet.

You can demo this for yourself by putting shaving cream between your palms, holding your wrists together, and then claping your hands. The foam will shoot out at a velocity much higher than the speed you push your hands together.

Most very ductile materials are metals, so a non-conductive liner is unlikely.

Some other posts have mentioned discharging the system with the first hit, but this may not be a problem because the the full charge is not necessarily used up, since the current flow will cease when the jet is burned away.. In fact the system might work with two paralell screens, without the need for solid sheets.

The older anti-shaped-charge system is called reactive armor, which means the tank is covered with many explosive sheets, whichever one is hit detonates, thus disrupting the jet when it explodes.

The problem there is that the sheet must be replaced manually after a hit. This electrical system should keep on working.

Here is another highly advanced simulator currently being built in the Netherlands. Look at DESDEMONA:

It is a combination of a common synergistic motion system (like a hexapod) and centrifuge. The principle by which it works is that the subject is slowly rotated, while located at the center of the main rotation axis, such that the rotational perception of the subject is saturated (he does not notice that he is being rotated). When the simulation starts, the cabin is moved off-center such that a continuous-g-load is acting on the subject.

The problem with this simulator is that the head of the subject has to be more or less fixed, otherwise so-called coriolis forces will give him a disorenting cue.

The (Dutch) summary given by the researchers says:

The TNO study has been carried out with low field strengths, comparable to those from a base station to which one can maximally be exposed to in daily situations. Computer calculations show that it is unlikely that the statistically significant effects, as found in this study, are of thermal origin.

The paper mentions statistically significant effects on 72 persons. That must be pretty big differences. However, the paper nowhere mentions whether the experiment was actually (double)-blinded. TNO is a reputable organization, but I wouldn't take the conclusions for granted without reading the details of the study. A few years ago, a brand of liquid laundry detergent announced in a TV commercial that this detergent was better than all the others according to a TNO study. The ad didn't mention that the study only compared liquid detergents, which are overall worse than powder-type detergents.

Here you go: a management summary of the study, and more about the tests. Both in Dutch only, sorry.

The complete study can be found on the website of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, here. This one's in English; don't be fooled by the Dutch management summary that is included at the start of the document.

Here you go: a management summary of the study, and more about the tests. Both in Dutch only, sorry.

The complete study can be found on the website of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, here. This one's in English; don't be fooled by the Dutch management summary that is included at the start of the document.

Since the Sun is always heavy on opinion and light on fact, I looked up the stuff it was talking about.

There is currently an EU wide project looking into Electronic Vehicle Identification. ACPO (the UK's association of chief police officers) is just one of the bodies involved:

"Ministries of Transport of Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK, as well as ACPO (UK), KLPD (Netherlands), RDW (Netherlands), Q-Free (Norway), EFKON (Austria), TNO (Netherlands), ERTICO."

(Hardly a pet project of Blairs then?) I think the report referred to is this one which is part of a requirements gathering exercise, not a policy document. Here's a one of the requirements (Section 5, User Needs):

"The issues of privacy, safety, and security must be clear and understandable if the public are to have any confidence in the system. ("Big Brother" concerns by invasion of privacy by authorities)"

I don't think much of Blair and the lickspittles he has running the country just now, but the Sun is just about the bottom of the journalistic barrel, you might want to read the report and judge for yourself.

Amanda is busy backing up to my big 9-inch.

Wait, are we talking about a chick here? Never mind. How embarrassing!

You can't compare DOS to Unix well, as Unix influenced DOS... When MS added subdirectories to DOS they boasted they were going to add more Unix features to DOS (anyone have that announcement in your files?).