"It can be a little tricky," Nishimura says. "Each camera has its own local weather and lighting conditions, and the auroras are different distances from each camera. I've got to account for these factors for six or more cameras simultaneously to make a coherent, large-scale movie."
It almost makes me feel bad for thinking it ought to have been in color.
I have one from yesterday's NRC Handelsblad. A quick & dirty translation of the main portion:
"Research was done on nearly 60,000 articles from 2006 to 2008 to determine how much they were based on sources from ANP. Almost 17,000 articles, mainly about sports, economy and foreign affairs [foreign countries really, there's a lot of that when viewed from the Netherlands], were (partly) based on a message from the press agency. The percentage ANP-news in the newspapers increased between 2006 and 2008 from on average 31 to 36 percent. This was the lowest in NRC Handelsblad and the free newspaper De Pers (20%) and the highest in the free newspapers Metro (40%) and Spits (46%)."
One problem is that ANP bulletins are often copies of other press agencies material. Another is that this doesn't say much about the original journalistic efforts of the newspapers; especially the free ones are very good at showbiz and celebrity news, car and movie reviews. Society's watchdog they're not.
When I was 3, the state of technology was in a big turmoil because of the oil crisis (1973). I remember it because that's when my parents taught me how to walk.
You'd move more of the complexity into the system. Say adding an x amount of lines of code and thus an y amount of bugs, or something like that. Engineering as a solution has its own drawbacks.
From my own experience, I sometimes get an obscure book because I have a particular reason to get that specific title (be it for the subject or the writer). I listen to obscure music because it sits somewhere in my playlist and the player is on when I'm doing something else.
Reading a novel takes time but I find it no problem to put a book down while I prefer to watch a movie from start to finish in one go. Books on a particular subject I read when I have the time and the interest, or else use them as reference material for when I need to know something specific. Watching a movie requires my time and attention, it's something I plan rather than just listen to some music or read a chapter because I haven't got something better to do.
When I do sit down to watch a movie, I tend to stay on the safe side, try to get the highest chance of being entertained. That may well be with an obscure movie but more often it's with a reasonably wellknown title. But then, I can't remember when I last bought or rented a movie in stead of downloading so my consumption won't show up in any shop's statistic at all.
Set top box detects no motion. Set top box closes your account and calls the morgue. You're wondering why the screen goes black and why your front door gets busted in.
Since when did produced, professional music become such a life necessity that the labels think it is important to get a blanket fee from EVERYONE?
You got it wrong.
To the labels, the labels are a life necessity. If they can get you to pay via a blanket fee then that's OK. If there are (pref. additional) other ways of emptying your wallet then they're OK too, provided your wallet empties into the coffers of the labels. The more you pay, the better.
Perhaps, maybe, if you're lucky, you get some professionally produced music in return. Sometimes even incredibly good stuff.
I was fortunate to get a computer around a time when "everybody" was getting computers (The Netherlands, late 80's). There were some tax regulations that made it possible to buy a machine by trading in holidays, to a point where it seemed so profitable that many people got one without having a use for it. My dad got one and a friend of about the same age (15 or so) who lived a few doors down the street got one a couple of weeks later through his dad's work.
What happened was I'd try something out with GW-BASIC, proudly showed it off to this friend of mine who then added something new or clever, which inspired me again to hack away, etcetera. In only a couple of weeks we'd learned to program, ferrying floppies back and forth with our latest discoveries. It had a funny mixture of generously helping eachother get better and fiercely competing to show who was the best. It was so much fun and so challenging, I needed encouragement to do anything else apart from programming.
Nearly 2 decades later that same guy turned up as an extern for web development at the company where I was doing a COBOL maintenance job on a mainframe.
As far as I'm concerned, the promise of the web died when we decided there wasn't anything wrong with giving citizens dynamic IPs that they can't use to self-publish and selling those IPs to large corporate interests.
Yes, thank you for putting it clearly. My cable provider offers various nice amounts of bandwidth for reasonable prices but a fixed IP is not available for any price. (I didn't offer them a blank check of course, just saying)
They could put a satellite dish on their roof, but it's a 300-year-old house and they feel a dish would be as prohibitively ugly
How about getting something newer for that 300-year-old house? Start with the dish and design the rest around it if simply moving to a more connected area isn't an option.
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It could tell you something about Lucas' current tastes and mental age.
It almost makes me feel bad for thinking it ought to have been in color.
I have one from yesterday's NRC Handelsblad.
A quick & dirty translation of the main portion:
"Research was done on nearly 60,000 articles from 2006 to 2008 to determine how much they were based on sources from ANP. Almost 17,000 articles, mainly about sports, economy and foreign affairs [foreign countries really, there's a lot of that when viewed from the Netherlands], were (partly) based on a message from the press agency. The percentage ANP-news in the newspapers increased between 2006 and 2008 from on average 31 to 36 percent. This was the lowest in NRC Handelsblad and the free newspaper De Pers (20%) and the highest in the free newspapers Metro (40%) and Spits (46%)."
One problem is that ANP bulletins are often copies of other press agencies material. Another is that this doesn't say much about the original journalistic efforts of the newspapers; especially the free ones are very good at showbiz and celebrity news, car and movie reviews. Society's watchdog they're not.
When I was 3, the state of technology was in a big turmoil because of the oil crisis (1973). I remember it because that's when my parents taught me how to walk.
I tell them it's an artificially intelligent terminal.
Fortunately, that's the same amount of days as it takes for the sun to rotate around the earth, else we had to make a new calendar.
You'd move more of the complexity into the system. Say adding an x amount of lines of code and thus an y amount of bugs, or something like that. Engineering as a solution has its own drawbacks.
From my own experience, I sometimes get an obscure book because I have a particular reason to get that specific title (be it for the subject or the writer). I listen to obscure music because it sits somewhere in my playlist and the player is on when I'm doing something else.
Reading a novel takes time but I find it no problem to put a book down while I prefer to watch a movie from start to finish in one go. Books on a particular subject I read when I have the time and the interest, or else use them as reference material for when I need to know something specific. Watching a movie requires my time and attention, it's something I plan rather than just listen to some music or read a chapter because I haven't got something better to do.
When I do sit down to watch a movie, I tend to stay on the safe side, try to get the highest chance of being entertained. That may well be with an obscure movie but more often it's with a reasonably wellknown title. But then, I can't remember when I last bought or rented a movie in stead of downloading so my consumption won't show up in any shop's statistic at all.
I think christianity is based on gardening but I've been kicked out of stores regardless of whether I was wearing my fig leaf.
Which are, I guess, not the vast majority of installations in this survey.
Maybe the world simply forgot to check for Y2K++ bugs.
er.. no. If you're reported as being alone & dead, there's just no point in ringing the doorbell.
Thank you for your large reply though.
Set top box detects no motion. Set top box closes your account and calls the morgue. You're wondering why the screen goes black and why your front door gets busted in.
You're still on Windows, aren't ya?
It's odd, the ERC Advanced Grant was awarded on 30 July 2008 already. I believe the news is Tanenbaum/the university now actually received the money.
I wouldn't mind having a Blackbox but if it was an advertisement for anything, I'd be more interested in getting one of those shake platforms.
You got it wrong.
To the labels, the labels are a life necessity. If they can get you to pay via a blanket fee then that's OK. If there are (pref. additional) other ways of emptying your wallet then they're OK too, provided your wallet empties into the coffers of the labels. The more you pay, the better.
Perhaps, maybe, if you're lucky, you get some professionally produced music in return. Sometimes even incredibly good stuff.
Old. English version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIWpFPkYrk
Well, given enough time and monkeys one will almost surely...
Perhaps the original developers can debate the differences, say in a newsgroup.
Isn't GPL stuff 'free' rather than 'open'? Sure, most people consider that something else but that's why we should refer to Linux as GNU/Linux.
I was fortunate to get a computer around a time when "everybody" was getting computers (The Netherlands, late 80's). There were some tax regulations that made it possible to buy a machine by trading in holidays, to a point where it seemed so profitable that many people got one without having a use for it. My dad got one and a friend of about the same age (15 or so) who lived a few doors down the street got one a couple of weeks later through his dad's work.
What happened was I'd try something out with GW-BASIC, proudly showed it off to this friend of mine who then added something new or clever, which inspired me again to hack away, etcetera. In only a couple of weeks we'd learned to program, ferrying floppies back and forth with our latest discoveries. It had a funny mixture of generously helping eachother get better and fiercely competing to show who was the best. It was so much fun and so challenging, I needed encouragement to do anything else apart from programming.
Nearly 2 decades later that same guy turned up as an extern for web development at the company where I was doing a COBOL maintenance job on a mainframe.
Yes, thank you for putting it clearly. My cable provider offers various nice amounts of bandwidth for reasonable prices but a fixed IP is not available for any price. (I didn't offer them a blank check of course, just saying)