I just thought I could explain what seems like a frivolous claim in #3 here. Mac has always been an object oriented operating system. I was based around the idea of resources used by applications that didn't need to clutter the file system. This was done initially with a resource fork in all files that contained the resources and a separate fork for data. This means icons, sounds, everything can be in the application. They have stuck with this in OS X and have modified the application of the concept a bit but it uses the same principles. This is part of the reason why you have less external resource files in the mac than you do in windows.
I currently do this using a tivo with tivoweb plus and tyshow. Simple modifications allow you to view the live stream and control the tivo with a web browser. Of course a simple 79 dollar portable tv would be less techie but would probably be easier to maintain and be more portable than a laptop.
I'm just glad its not another dumb google could have answered it in less than 20 seconds type question. Or, better yet, some marketing question guised to gauge public interest. Or someone elses homework they want slashdot readers to do.
I find it interesting such a condescending tone would come from someone as unread as yourself. Had you read any of the links in the posting, you would see that was their intentions exactly. I applaud our government for taking action against these people. I'm more afraid of liberal dimwits, who tend to defend things they know nothing about just because they are afraid someone's rights are being violated, than I am terrorists right now.
Uhm, am I the only one who realizes if they were truly anonymous then no one would know it was their work. What you would really be saying is that posting with the illusion of anonymity is sometimes a good thing. But equating what these trolls are doing to our forefathers is at the very least an insult to them.
I don't agree with you. I think Bush has been a great president. He tells us what he is going to do and he does it. We haven't seen a president like that since Regan.
Now why do you hate GW Bush? Is your hatred based off the patriot act? Because you seem to be catching what is going on in the media with the rest of your post so I don't get the hatred for Bush.
It isn't about privacy don't make the mistake based of some retarded slashdot editor that it is. They did not pick out a single person and shame them for their actions; they picked out a group based off their political affiliation in an effort to intimidate them.
This is an anti republican group who has decided to take upon itself the intimidating the delegates.
To clarify this would be akin to someone publishing a list of all the blacks in the city and telling everyone who took the list "Now Ya'll know what to do."
What's worse is we have people like Michael posting these biased stories because he is incapable of taking in the entire picture.
I wish I had mod points to correct this because your right. Unfortunatly slashdot is a cest pool full of low lifes who think governments bad and liberalism is the wave of the future. The thing that boggles my mind is these are the same people who are rooting for a guy to become president who is a member of a political party that has always been for more goverment. It doesn't make sense but maybe that is because I don't do drugs.
You sir are both a liar and troll and I really wish slashdot wasn't so full of people like yourself who have about as much of an ability to think for themselves as your average houseplant. You take in and regurgitate other people's opinions maybe you should take the time to validate their facts first. The trucks were found as well as numerous other items some of which I certainly consider weapons capable of mass destruction like long range missiles, serine gas, mustard gas, bomb vests and the like. You may not like the US President and that's your prerogative but if you think you can come in here and spout off the bullshit like you just did then your wrong. You can take your micheal moore is my hero t-shirt and shove it straight up your ass cause I for one am not buying the bullshit anymore.
I am guilty!!! Please direct the comment of knowing what one is talking about to myself and whomever posted this story. I only read the story header, which does claim that they raised the efficiency of leds to 99%. I don't know why I even bother reading slashdot anymore I'm guessing I should spend more of me free time elsewhere.
You have no idea what your talking about. Your better off questioning the veracity of the statement of 99% efficiency. Given that 100% efficiency is somewhere around 220 Lumens/Watt your looking at a tops of 40 watts to generate the light required to exceed your estimate of 8000 lumens. But don't forget that 99% of that energy is being converted into light. The actual heat energy is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1/2 a watt. This easily qualifies for fanless operation. That being said I am skeptical of any tech story like this that appears on slashdot anymore. They are always looking for funding for patents or development.
I would spend the first few hours probably doing nothing more than taking cd's and dvds converting them into iso's and trying to clog up the network throuwing them around. After amazing myself with the speed and finding myself content I would probably have to find a few of the fastest machines ont he network and ping flood the slowest one i could find then run over to it and see if it effects how fast notepad opens. Then I would setup a vnc conection to see if 10Gbps would allow me to use it form machine to machine without lag. After all of theat I would get a couple of my friends together for a nice lan game. This process would be repeated for the first week or so until the newness wore off. Then I would take the time to learn first hand if the increase in wire speed actualy effected the performance of most machines seeing as how it is difficulat for some memory to keep up with those speeds the only obvious application for such bandwidth is for backbone services.
Am I the only one reading this and thinking what a loon? Your going to send your 4 year old laptop off to a country who's computer literacy is just above that of the jungles that surround it. Next your going to load it up with a bunch of "cheap educational" software and send it to them? If that wasn't enough your going to enlist the slashdot community to help you in this utterly useless plan. Save everyone the trouble wipe the drive to the specs when you bought it load it in a box and send it to them. If you also want them to have some educational software throw another 200 bucks in the box and let them decide. After all as smart as some of the people are on slashdot no one can judge the needs of a scholastic program better than those who are directly involved in it.
Hmm, a TINI based lawn mower. I could see that plus you can run with 1 wire ADC circuitry with is relatively inexpensive for analogue sensors. The whole dev board setup is a bit expensive at 100 bucks but you can build you own much cheaper if you are patient enough to work with surface mount components. It also has an arguable advantage of being able to be programmed in java and tested in a shell like environment called slush.
Not quite that easy as people's yards are not all built like basketball courts. Many have hilly areas which easily fool both sonic and ir range finders into avoiding obstacles that don't exist.
Stereoscopic reverse 3d mapping might be a better way to solve the problem with a 3-4 ft fixed focal length. Alignment can be done through successive approximation.
I would venture to guess that these specs are BS based off the fact Steve Jobs promised 3Ghz PPCs by now and we are only seeing 2.5Ghz. For those keeping score that is a 500Mhz increase in a little over a year. That means if the trend continues we will see a 3.5Ghx PPC in two more years. Given that Apple machine sell fairly well and supply of the PPC chip is relatively small expecting to meet the demands of a console market with a chip that can hardly keep up with the smaller nitch market of apple products would be expecting a bit much. Not to mention the logistics of a gaggle of high frequency chips enclosed in a smaller box and the EM produced would cause problems for the ultra high bandwidth memory on a multilayer PCB aimed at a sub $300 price point.
MS owns the servers and charges nothing to use the basic service. I hardly think its a rights issue that they will close an account that has had a complaint against it as it is far easier to do that than waste someone's time trying to track down the user and get their side of the story. Bottom line, free service using their equipment and bandwidth. If they want to disable your account, for whatever reason, it is their right online to do so. Just like its rastakid's right to look like a moron questioning the practices of a free service of which he also has the right not to use.
When will slashdot institute moderation of the editors and the stories they post.
I have to many student loans to pay back to begin anything like this at the moment I was just curious as to why people have had such trouble. I would assume a fixed focal point with a predictable parallax would work much better than detecting from the outside in. I've seen it go the other way and work very well, so why not reverse the process to determine spatial relationships within the confines of the resolution of the image it is fed. I'm sure using this type of algorithm with a high speed fpga could result in real time processing and when coupled with the other sense I mentioned allow for "good enough for government work" straight ahead environmental awareness. Possibly using infrared cameras or B&W would be better than attempting to work with color as a previous poster mentioned he had attempted.
I have noticed you are quick to skew the numbers, which is why I called you on it. You too are using a statistical figure t prove your point from a single city were the police force numbers 1 officer per 100 citizens, there are cameras on every major intersection in the city. It is a police state controlled with an almost Orwellian undertone. Do you still think I'm a gun nut? I think you're a nut for admiring a city that treats you as if you were a caged animal watching over your every public move. I enjoy my freedoms and I'm not about to kowtow to criminals who believe their lives are better if the people who abide by the laws don't have guns cause it makes them easier targets. This is after all your stance.
You still never answered as to where your numbers came from, you can accuse me all day of not looking very hard but if you fail to provide the documentation your claims are baseless and without merit. Call me a nut if you will but I think your the one lacking the common sense to realize that criminals are criminals and removing the rights of law abiders does not equate to less crime.
Why not a combination of stereovision, range finding, and a digital horizon to enable real time mapping based off a visual system. Seems conceptually simple enough is there something in that picture I'm missing as it would seem fairly easy once properly calibrated to discard bad data based of changes in the visual system or abrupt unpredicted changes in the horizon. Then make determinations based off the risk of what data is left of whether or not to slow down and catch up on the data before proceeding.
I wish I lived closer this project is very technically exciting.
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I just thought I could explain what seems like a frivolous claim in #3 here. Mac has always been an object oriented operating system. I was based around the idea of resources used by applications that didn't need to clutter the file system. This was done initially with a resource fork in all files that contained the resources and a separate fork for data. This means icons, sounds, everything can be in the application. They have stuck with this in OS X and have modified the application of the concept a bit but it uses the same principles. This is part of the reason why you have less external resource files in the mac than you do in windows.
I currently do this using a tivo with tivoweb plus and tyshow. Simple modifications allow you to view the live stream and control the tivo with a web browser. Of course a simple 79 dollar portable tv would be less techie but would probably be easier to maintain and be more portable than a laptop.
I'm just glad its not another dumb google could have answered it in less than 20 seconds type question. Or, better yet, some marketing question guised to gauge public interest. Or someone elses homework they want slashdot readers to do.
I find it interesting such a condescending tone would come from someone as unread as yourself. Had you read any of the links in the posting, you would see that was their intentions exactly. I applaud our government for taking action against these people. I'm more afraid of liberal dimwits, who tend to defend things they know nothing about just because they are afraid someone's rights are being violated, than I am terrorists right now.
Uhm, am I the only one who realizes if they were truly anonymous then no one would know it was their work. What you would really be saying is that posting with the illusion of anonymity is sometimes a good thing. But equating what these trolls are doing to our forefathers is at the very least an insult to them.
I don't agree with you. I think Bush has been a great president. He tells us what he is going to do and he does it. We haven't seen a president like that since Regan.
Now why do you hate GW Bush? Is your hatred based off the patriot act? Because you seem to be catching what is going on in the media with the rest of your post so I don't get the hatred for Bush.
It isn't about privacy don't make the mistake based of some retarded slashdot editor that it is. They did not pick out a single person and shame them for their actions; they picked out a group based off their political affiliation in an effort to intimidate them.
This is an anti republican group who has decided to take upon itself the intimidating the delegates.
To clarify this would be akin to someone publishing a list of all the blacks in the city and telling everyone who took the list "Now Ya'll know what to do."
What's worse is we have people like Michael posting these biased stories because he is incapable of taking in the entire picture.
But then he couldn't stay angry at the man for keeping him down.
I wish I had mod points to correct this because your right. Unfortunatly slashdot is a cest pool full of low lifes who think governments bad and liberalism is the wave of the future. The thing that boggles my mind is these are the same people who are rooting for a guy to become president who is a member of a political party that has always been for more goverment. It doesn't make sense but maybe that is because I don't do drugs.
You sir are both a liar and troll and I really wish slashdot wasn't so full of people like yourself who have about as much of an ability to think for themselves as your average houseplant. You take in and regurgitate other people's opinions maybe you should take the time to validate their facts first. The trucks were found as well as numerous other items some of which I certainly consider weapons capable of mass destruction like long range missiles, serine gas, mustard gas, bomb vests and the like. You may not like the US President and that's your prerogative but if you think you can come in here and spout off the bullshit like you just did then your wrong. You can take your micheal moore is my hero t-shirt and shove it straight up your ass cause I for one am not buying the bullshit anymore.
I am guilty!!! Please direct the comment of knowing what one is talking about to myself and whomever posted this story. I only read the story header, which does claim that they raised the efficiency of leds to 99%. I don't know why I even bother reading slashdot anymore I'm guessing I should spend more of me free time elsewhere.
Maybe China should get its own search engine. People who bich about free shit peeve me off.
This only works if you are working with inductive loads like motors and such not resistive loads like what you would find through a led.
You have no idea what your talking about. Your better off questioning the veracity of the statement of 99% efficiency. Given that 100% efficiency is somewhere around 220 Lumens/Watt your looking at a tops of 40 watts to generate the light required to exceed your estimate of 8000 lumens. But don't forget that 99% of that energy is being converted into light. The actual heat energy is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1/2 a watt. This easily qualifies for fanless operation. That being said I am skeptical of any tech story like this that appears on slashdot anymore. They are always looking for funding for patents or development.
I would spend the first few hours probably doing nothing more than taking cd's and dvds converting them into iso's and trying to clog up the network throuwing them around. After amazing myself with the speed and finding myself content I would probably have to find a few of the fastest machines ont he network and ping flood the slowest one i could find then run over to it and see if it effects how fast notepad opens. Then I would setup a vnc conection to see if 10Gbps would allow me to use it form machine to machine without lag. After all of theat I would get a couple of my friends together for a nice lan game. This process would be repeated for the first week or so until the newness wore off. Then I would take the time to learn first hand if the increase in wire speed actualy effected the performance of most machines seeing as how it is difficulat for some memory to keep up with those speeds the only obvious application for such bandwidth is for backbone services.
Am I the only one reading this and thinking what a loon? Your going to send your 4 year old laptop off to a country who's computer literacy is just above that of the jungles that surround it. Next your going to load it up with a bunch of "cheap educational" software and send it to them? If that wasn't enough your going to enlist the slashdot community to help you in this utterly useless plan. Save everyone the trouble wipe the drive to the specs when you bought it load it in a box and send it to them. If you also want them to have some educational software throw another 200 bucks in the box and let them decide. After all as smart as some of the people are on slashdot no one can judge the needs of a scholastic program better than those who are directly involved in it.
Hmm, a TINI based lawn mower. I could see that plus you can run with 1 wire ADC circuitry with is relatively inexpensive for analogue sensors. The whole dev board setup is a bit expensive at 100 bucks but you can build you own much cheaper if you are patient enough to work with surface mount components. It also has an arguable advantage of being able to be programmed in java and tested in a shell like environment called slush.
Just wondering where the linx RF serial modules can be picked up for cheap. Used a set a while back and it was about 60 bucks total shipped.
Not quite that easy as people's yards are not all built like basketball courts. Many have hilly areas which easily fool both sonic and ir range finders into avoiding obstacles that don't exist.
Stereoscopic reverse 3d mapping might be a better way to solve the problem with a 3-4 ft fixed focal length. Alignment can be done through successive approximation.
I would venture to guess that these specs are BS based off the fact Steve Jobs promised 3Ghz PPCs by now and we are only seeing 2.5Ghz. For those keeping score that is a 500Mhz increase in a little over a year. That means if the trend continues we will see a 3.5Ghx PPC in two more years. Given that Apple machine sell fairly well and supply of the PPC chip is relatively small expecting to meet the demands of a console market with a chip that can hardly keep up with the smaller nitch market of apple products would be expecting a bit much. Not to mention the logistics of a gaggle of high frequency chips enclosed in a smaller box and the EM produced would cause problems for the ultra high bandwidth memory on a multilayer PCB aimed at a sub $300 price point.
MS owns the servers and charges nothing to use the basic service. I hardly think its a rights issue that they will close an account that has had a complaint against it as it is far easier to do that than waste someone's time trying to track down the user and get their side of the story. Bottom line, free service using their equipment and bandwidth. If they want to disable your account, for whatever reason, it is their right online to do so. Just like its rastakid's right to look like a moron questioning the practices of a free service of which he also has the right not to use.
When will slashdot institute moderation of the editors and the stories they post.
I have to many student loans to pay back to begin anything like this at the moment I was just curious as to why people have had such trouble. I would assume a fixed focal point with a predictable parallax would work much better than detecting from the outside in. I've seen it go the other way and work very well, so why not reverse the process to determine spatial relationships within the confines of the resolution of the image it is fed. I'm sure using this type of algorithm with a high speed fpga could result in real time processing and when coupled with the other sense I mentioned allow for "good enough for government work" straight ahead environmental awareness. Possibly using infrared cameras or B&W would be better than attempting to work with color as a previous poster mentioned he had attempted.
I have noticed you are quick to skew the numbers, which is why I called you on it. You too are using a statistical figure t prove your point from a single city were the police force numbers 1 officer per 100 citizens, there are cameras on every major intersection in the city. It is a police state controlled with an almost Orwellian undertone. Do you still think I'm a gun nut? I think you're a nut for admiring a city that treats you as if you were a caged animal watching over your every public move. I enjoy my freedoms and I'm not about to kowtow to criminals who believe their lives are better if the people who abide by the laws don't have guns cause it makes them easier targets. This is after all your stance.
You still never answered as to where your numbers came from, you can accuse me all day of not looking very hard but if you fail to provide the documentation your claims are baseless and without merit. Call me a nut if you will but I think your the one lacking the common sense to realize that criminals are criminals and removing the rights of law abiders does not equate to less crime.
Man, why is this modded as troll? Are there slashdoters out there that are so intolerant of the use of the word god.
Why not a combination of stereovision, range finding, and a digital horizon to enable real time mapping based off a visual system. Seems conceptually simple enough is there something in that picture I'm missing as it would seem fairly easy once properly calibrated to discard bad data based of changes in the visual system or abrupt unpredicted changes in the horizon. Then make determinations based off the risk of what data is left of whether or not to slow down and catch up on the data before proceeding.
I wish I lived closer this project is very technically exciting.