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Iridium May Have To Reinvent Itself Again
prgrmr writes "The Washington Post has this article on the latest wrinkle in the Iridium saga. There may be a conflict between new competition and existing contractual obligations for putting up the next generation of sattelites. This could become a milestone for making the service more ubiquitous, or the millstone that finally sinks it."
Hey y'all.
That way I can buy it extra cheap! The price should drop after each bankruptcy!
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"sattelites" should be spelled
satellites.
Enjoying some superb home grown United States of
Amerika pot!!!
blah blah blah
Get it straight then.
:(
I was watching Evangelion, in my underwear, while eating a bowl of Frosted Flakes.
Bastard.
Since the line was italicized, I believe it was the submitter, not Hemos, who wrote that clever phrase.
ich muß mehr Kuhglocke haben
Showing for the first time at the Society for Information Display (SID) conference in Boston was a three-dimensional display with 100 million volume pixels or "voxels".
The Perspecta, which has been developed by Actuality Systems of Burlington, Massachusetts, was previously known as Helios (see related story).
It is a hardware and software combination that projects 3D images inside a 500 mm transparent spherical dome. Images 250 mm in diameter can be seen from a full 360 degrees without goggles, allowing the viewer to walk around the image.
The display is compatible with a number of molecular visualization software packages and 3D design software for drug development applications. Perspecta can be used to visualize protein structures and to plan surgical and radiation treatment by locating the exact position of a tumour on an x-ray or mammogram.
It could also be used in air traffic control, prototype designing and security scanning of luggage.
Perspecta uses Texas Instruments' digital light processor technology and a spinning projection screen, which sweeps the sphere. The result is the creation of 198 slices, each containing 76 x 768 pixels.
At the moment, the projection screen rotates 24 times per second, producing an unpleasant flicker. Actuality's chief technical officer, Gregg Favalora, told Optics.org that the company was working on increasing the spin rate to remove flicker.
Four prototypes have been made and ten pre-production systems will be built this year. Perspecta will sell for USD 40 000. Actuality is also developing a 3D laser pointer to go with the system.
Author
Phillip Hill is editor of Displays Europe and a contributing editor of Opto & Laser Europe magazine.
Oops...or prgrmr, rather.
slashdot is crap.
just wanted to stop in and say high your all sudo intellectuall fackers. fuck you ya fackin cacks.
go read some gnome chompsky you cacks.
Linux was made by G33ks who hate mycr0z0f! and like to piss in each others anus!
/dev/mem
LINUX SUCKS LINUX SUCKS LINUX SUCKS
THIS IS PAINFUL but its only a millionth of the pain you will endure while using linux!
There is no modem support
no printer support
no sound support
and no technical support
Linux is also very buggy and filled with security holes!
This article SHOWS THAT MICROSOFT WINDOWS HAS LESS HOLES THAN LINUX!
Go on, mod me as a troll, but remember this IS THE TRUTH AND THE PERSOn who moderates this is fucking lyer who fucking likes fucking goatsex while typing on a fucking command line!
The gui in linux sucks! The gnome desktop is a blatent rip off of the high quality motif desktop found in real unices! The fonts suck and if you want to install software you either compile it or use packages which have more dependancies than luxury palace in ceasar 3!
BOTTOM LINE LINUX SUCKS! and here is a command that crashes linux without being root and can be exploited!
$ yes >
Yeah, unless you actually TRY to watch stars, then they are anything but "cool"
couldn't resist could you?
Don't click this link
Couldn't resist that either could you?
Fuck off you cock sucking speling troller.
Try to find out who I am.
powerpc is da shit d00d! if ya wanna use a r33l ch1p get an alpha d00d! we use em back in da ghetto fur word processin and dat excel spreadsh33t. muthafuckin poweful dem alphas r an its price is so low d00d i think em designers r wack or on crack!