I doubt anyone would leave this in the game format when it comes to distribution. After setting up the sequence you want use a progam to capture it to mpeg I'm assuming that doing everything in one shot using something like the halflife engine would be brutally hard to pull off. Instead make all your small clips, capture and edit like you want.
electric engines tend to have a very very flat torque curve, 100 RPM to redline it's the same power output. The reason we have transmissions in ICE cars is because they make the most power at one point in the power band and you would like to keep the car at that point, to change the speed you're doing at that point you change the gearing. electric doesn't have this limitation.
Looking at some of the pictures I'm heavily reminded of the troop carrier used in Aliens.
Last night I saw something on the troops of the future on tv and the helmet with integrated camera and flip down screen could have been a prop out of that movie.
Wish I had seen this earlier. Anyways I've built my own projector out of a benq 567s V2 a 400W Bulb A big fan for cooling, some tempered glass and all the lenses as required.
Over all the quality is great for something I build at home. I've not been able to get the alignment of everything perfect though, and this has resulted in a dark picture. Now it's easily watchable, and I've got lots of hours on mine but it doesn't compare to a good $1500 XGA projector. The good news is others have built the same thing using the same parts and easily beat the XGA projectors in quality, they have just spent more time on theirs. I also built a screen but thats pretty easy to get right once you know what to build it with.
Now my complaints Mine wasn't $300 it was closer to $750 cdn.
It's frigging huge, my measurements are something like 30"x 14" x 12"
I added keystone correction and that works great but it doesn't have any form of zoom other then moving it closer or further back. You end up designing the room around the projector.
The site I got the plans and info off of was excellect and the forums make paying for access completely worthwhile. www.lumenlab.com They also have pictures to show some peoples results. They have overcome the zoom and darkness issues with newer designs then I used. Price is still high but their top of the line is a fraction of what a professional projector would cost and they are comparable in quality.
I've built one of the DIY LCD projectors but used a 400W metal halide bulb. I love the thing but yeah it gets really hot and needs a lot of active cooling. I looked into LED bulbs as the light source but you need a lot of lumens to get a good picture. Something around 30,000- 40,000 lumens is what my bulb makes if I remember correctly.
When I checked there were new LED coming out that held promise of making enough light if you used 100 or more of them but they also cost $15 each so I quickly scrapped that idea. Given enough time though I do think LED arrays will become the light source of choice for these projects.
I've just finished building a projector out of a LCD some lenses and a very bright lightbulb. Got the plans from www.lumenlab.com and I have to say it works amazingly well.
Next project is getting mythTV or Freevo working with my hauppage under linux to give me TV on the new projector(It was plug and play under windows but I can't stand 2000 anymore)
After that I'll be using the serial port on my motorola cable box to let the PVR change channels on the cable box. At that point I don't know where to go with my media center. Maybe remote PC's to let me access the backend from all the rooms in the house?
Now as for the magazine I'd love to see a nice big how two on creating my own speakers, even if it is just a build a box and plug the parts in I'm curious if this can be done cheaper then buying the nice ones at a store. Home made amplifiers would be cool as well.
Getting away from my media viewing, I'd love to see articles on wiring up houses. Temp sensors in every room/area, on the water pipes. A way to monitor electric usage on every circuit. Door/Window open/closed monitoring... All linked back to a PC with some nice logging software to keep track of whats going on in the house.
There are tons of other things I'd love to have but can't afford so I'm forced to build them. The difficult part for the magazine is going to be how difficult some of them are. Using one project to develop the skills needed for the next is a great way to learn but if you jump in to the magazine part way though you could end up stuck. If they don't gradually get harded the long term readers will be bored.
actually I see this being a great thing for the MPAA. In reality it will still take a minute or two to get a complete DVD but thats fast enough for me. So all the studios have to do is take their entire collection of films and make the new iTunes for movies. I'd gladdly pay $2 per movie to download some of the really old obscure crap I tend to rent for 49 cents a week on wornout vhs these days.
The only requirements I have is I must own the downloaded copy, and it must not be tied to a specific viewer.
Now they may not be interested in releasing the newest movies that way and thats fine by me. I see most of them in theater anyways. Perhaps they could timeshift the new releases like they do to the PPV on TV, 6 weeks after the DVD release it's on PPV. I usually wait the 6 weeks since it's just much more convienent.
Well almost every upgrade of any size these days comes with a presigned agreement that the company making the software isn't responsible for anything that takes place. So talk with the lawyers then if they say it's not a problem go ahead and take the responsibility. The customer would have nothing to come back at you anyways.
Once that is done bust ass to fix it and make them happy. And then spend a few weeks creating new processes on how to do major installs that would catch this problem.
If you're company is responsible for it then they should have made so much in profit that they can eat a $1,000,000 payout if thats what the courts decide. You still have to fix it.
Mistakes happen and anyone working in deals of this size should be very well prepaired for the onslaught to follow
We don't use windows or linux and would kill for the hardware support of either OS.
The majority of readers we use operate off of a keyboard wedge. Nothing special there it just fakes keystrokes.
As for the printers it's usually just a case of pumping through the correct control codes to get what you want out. We use barcode blasters and the code required to get one barcode with say an item description, and price is maybe 20 lines. It's easy and the codes are always included with the printer or on the website documentation. Perhaps I should take the time to adding support for the printers I have access to.
Now the more advanced stuff, USB scanners and printers may require more work but I doubt it can be that hard.
I see lots of jokes about barcodes software and how ground breaking it is being made here. It's obvious that the people making those jokes don't work in retail software. I write Point of sale and inventory management software and good easy handling of barcodes is a huge thing with customers, even if it is relatively boring software wise. Programs like this may seem like nothing but they will go a long way towards linux acceptance in key non server locations.
RFID may be the new hotness but barcodes still rule the retail world.
I don't have to work in SQL very often so in those times that I do I reply quite heavily on the MSDN API listings of the T-SQL commands. I'm mostly just looking for the syntax and maybe a couple of examples since I'm not doing anything difficult here.
Today I went to look up something and have found that the MSDN has turned into a giant advertisement for SQL server 2005 and if the useful information is still there it's buried.
It's really sad that today I looked up some syntax on the mySQL site and prayed it was the same on MSSQL.
I can completely understand why my customers don't like it when we change the layout of screens now.
I had a buddy get his 98 box owned a year or so ago. He found out when he received a warning from his ISP that "Someone" was considering legal action against him for sharing movies. A quick look on his box showed that there was a bot running there into a couple of hidden movies into an IRC Channel.
Moral of the story is the MPAA at least are going through the big channels and trying to track them down. Due to hacked machines the real criminals will never be found.
I don't care about faking the data. I drive fast on a track. My concern is removing this equipment was a sideaffect of a different upgrade and it could be illegal for that reason.
Now my car is probably a little older then anything that contains these, it's a 91, but I'm wondering if you could legally remove this if you wanted to?
I'm in the process of stripping my car down to it's bare essentials for autoX use however it needs to be street legal to get to the track.
I know that the aftermarket ECU I've installed is illegal because it can be tuned by the user and therefore fails the local smog rules. However when I had the car tested the inspectors didn't find the ECU and the results still came out clean enough so I don't care.
In my mind the most likely place to have this tracking hardware is in the ECU. It already knows all of the information he was convicted on. The new ECU has the capability of logging the same info, but I can turn it on or off.
I'd hate for something stupid like that to be the thing that gets my car pulled off the road.
It's not too suprising. I'm still running a p3 700 which I upgraded the video card to a 9100 last year. I don't play a lot of games but really I've not seen anything that has actually been released that would make me upgrade. I currently intend to buy a new system when halflife 2 comes out, but until that actually happens I have no need to drop the cash. I know a few others that are in a similar situation. Nothing has come out that was impressive enough to demand an upgrade.
Microsoft giving away windows would not do anything serious to linux. It may delay new adoption of linux. That is about it damage wise for linux. When nobody used linux it was developed for free by people that wanted to build it. Now It's still developed for free by people that want to build it, and you get some commercial input by paid programmers. Linux could lose the commercial input and would still continue on.
MS has exactly ZERO input coming from free sources. It must therefor pay money to advance the product.
In the long run it takes convincing zellots to not develop on linux to stop it's evolution.
Windows you just have to not pay people and they stop. In the longterm, under these conditions I see MS being in for a world of hurt.
As an aside I almost could care less if Linux becomes more popular. It would be nice if their where more linux based jobs out there. Thats it. If grandma never gets to play with KDE I don't care. I've long since given up caring about the general PC using population.
I go out and spend around $20 a month on magazines, usually cars or 4x4's. I've enjoyed the magazine format for years now except for a couple of things.
If you miss on issue and they have a project broke up over multiple months it costs a lot to back order a copy and it is a hassle.
After getting 2 or 3 magazines a month for a few years you end up with a huge pile that I want to keep the information in but I don't really want to devote part of my library to.
I see some subscription based websites that mimic the magazine format but none of the big names are doing it and non of the small guys post up as much as I'd get in a magazine.
I'd be willing to pay for an online subscription to something like SCC so long as it has every bit on information thats in the printed version. This includes the Ads. I hate popups, but I do browse the parts ads on a regular basis so make sure they're in there. Hell charge the advertiser more and make the ads a link the companies site, that would be useful.
I also want the archive from the day you go online accessible. I won't accept just being able to get this months and thats it.
Everything also has to be in a standard format. PDF or HTML is fine, some encrypted format that is windows only and requires a special viewer and the deal is off.
What I'm not willing to pay money for is hacked down versions that show 3 out of 10 stories.
I think this is great. We've been told security though obscurity is safer then open source. It's also been argued that open source is safer because we can spot and close the holes. It's always been impossible to test. Now that the windows source is out there we'll know once and for all which method is superior.
I didn't intend for my degree comment to become such a flamewar. The reason I mostly hire degree's is because I have confidence that in getting the piece of paper they will most likely have developed the skills I require. So they make it further in the shortlisting then people without degrees in general. When you post a position and get 500-1000 resumes you need quick and easy ways to cut down that list. Degree or equivalent experience is an easy way to get to the list that I actually take the time and read the entire resume. If you don't have it you may be a god but I don't have the time to identify that fact. Yes my system is flawed but I have yet to locate a better way of doing that initial cut if I go to resumes. My prefered method of hiring involves recomendations from friends in the industry. Since we all went to university we tend to know others with degrees...
I entirely agree with this. Pick a language you want to learn, then spend the $50 and buy one of those learn to program language X in 21 days books.
Start working through the examples, by the time you hit day 15 you'll usually know the language well enough to do as you please and just use the last few chapters as reference. After a few languages you'll find that days 1 - 5 are almost always the same with just minor syntax differences.
I've found this the quickest way to learn to languages. Getting good enough to add them to your resume takes actually using them for a few months/projects.
Actaully learning the proper way to program is far more difficult to get from a book. This is one of the major things I learned while getting my degree. This is also the major reason that I rarely hire someone without a degree.
Anyone can write code, but not everyone can program.
You can take a loss on some products in order to sell other products. What you can't do is take a loss in order to attract business away from competitors hoping that they will go broke before you do.
You're entirely correct that the problem is the manufacturing part. I work on a POS system and was asked to look into expanding our very limited ERP system. After a few days research I decided it's just way way to hard to add something like that to our old system. I thought about adding it to the new system but I have to admit I just don't understand all the pieces.
The industry seems to be working against new people learning ERP systems. I couldn't find many good sources of material to learn it.
Ok I've been following along with this story for quite awhile now and I personally believe sco is going to lose the case. It should be the end of the company at that time. Now I was just at the nasdaq site looking to see how the recent news has affected sco. While there I started looking into some of it's numbers and found that overall if I knew nothing about the company everything looks pretty good. Hell they even went from losing money to having an actual earnings/share in the past year. There stock is ranked as being an average risk and there is both a buy rating and a sell rating in the analysis. Something worth $250,000,000 could be worth $2 in less then 30 days time and it's an average risk?
This leaves me wondering just how many other stocks out there are rated so highly based off of a hope and prayer? Is the entire system this easily manipulated?
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I doubt anyone would leave this in the game format when it comes to distribution. After setting up the sequence you want use a progam to capture it to mpeg I'm assuming that doing everything in one shot using something like the halflife engine would be brutally hard to pull off. Instead make all your small clips, capture and edit like you want.
electric engines tend to have a very very flat torque curve, 100 RPM to redline it's the same power output. The reason we have transmissions in ICE cars is because they make the most power at one point in the power band and you would like to keep the car at that point, to change the speed you're doing at that point you change the gearing. electric doesn't have this limitation.
Looking at some of the pictures I'm heavily reminded of the troop carrier used in Aliens.
Last night I saw something on the troops of the future on tv and the helmet with integrated camera and flip down screen could have been a prop out of that movie.
Now to find a motion tracker.
Wish I had seen this earlier. Anyways I've built my own projector out of a benq 567s V2 a 400W Bulb A big fan for cooling, some tempered glass and all the lenses as required.
Over all the quality is great for something I build at home. I've not been able to get the alignment of everything perfect though, and this has resulted in a dark picture. Now it's easily watchable, and I've got lots of hours on mine but it doesn't compare to a good $1500 XGA projector. The good news is others have built the same thing using the same parts and easily beat the XGA projectors in quality, they have just spent more time on theirs. I also built a screen but thats pretty easy to get right once you know what to build it with.
Now my complaints
Mine wasn't $300 it was closer to $750 cdn.
It's frigging huge, my measurements are something like 30"x 14" x 12"
I added keystone correction and that works great but it doesn't have any form of zoom other then moving it closer or further back. You end up designing the room around the projector.
The site I got the plans and info off of was excellect and the forums make paying for access completely worthwhile. www.lumenlab.com They also have pictures to show some peoples results. They have overcome the zoom and darkness issues with newer designs then I used. Price is still high but their top of the line is a fraction of what a professional projector would cost and they are comparable in quality.
I've built one of the DIY LCD projectors but used a 400W metal halide bulb. I love the thing but yeah it gets really hot and needs a lot of active cooling. I looked into LED bulbs as the light source but you need a lot of lumens to get a good picture. Something around 30,000- 40,000 lumens is what my bulb makes if I remember correctly.
When I checked there were new LED coming out that held promise of making enough light if you used 100 or more of them but they also cost $15 each so I quickly scrapped that idea. Given enough time though I do think LED arrays will become the light source of choice for these projects.
I know it's bad karma and all but I forgot to add
I don't buy paper magazines anymore. My subscription will only come if It's for a PDF or some other electronic form of the magazine.
This is something that I'd be all over.
I've just finished building a projector out of a LCD some lenses and a very bright lightbulb. Got the plans from www.lumenlab.com and I have to say it works amazingly well.
Next project is getting mythTV or Freevo working with my hauppage under linux to give me TV on the new projector(It was plug and play under windows but I can't stand 2000 anymore)
After that I'll be using the serial port on my motorola cable box to let the PVR change channels on the cable box. At that point I don't know where to go with my media center. Maybe remote PC's to let me access the backend from all the rooms in the house?
Now as for the magazine I'd love to see a nice big how two on creating my own speakers, even if it is just a build a box and plug the parts in I'm curious if this can be done cheaper then buying the nice ones at a store. Home made amplifiers would be cool as well.
Getting away from my media viewing, I'd love to see articles on wiring up houses. Temp sensors in every room/area, on the water pipes. A way to monitor electric usage on every circuit. Door/Window open/closed monitoring... All linked back to a PC with some nice logging software to keep track of whats going on in the house.
There are tons of other things I'd love to have but can't afford so I'm forced to build them. The difficult part for the magazine is going to be how difficult some of them are. Using one project to develop the skills needed for the next is a great way to learn but if you jump in to the magazine part way though you could end up stuck. If they don't gradually get harded the long term readers will be bored.
actually I see this being a great thing for the MPAA. In reality it will still take a minute or two to get a complete DVD but thats fast enough for me. So all the studios have to do is take their entire collection of films and make the new iTunes for movies. I'd gladdly pay $2 per movie to download some of the really old obscure crap I tend to rent for 49 cents a week on wornout vhs these days.
The only requirements I have is I must own the downloaded copy, and it must not be tied to a specific viewer.
Now they may not be interested in releasing the newest movies that way and thats fine by me. I see most of them in theater anyways. Perhaps they could timeshift the new releases like they do to the PPV on TV, 6 weeks after the DVD release it's on PPV. I usually wait the 6 weeks since it's just much more convienent.
Well almost every upgrade of any size these days comes with a presigned agreement that the company making the software isn't responsible for anything that takes place. So talk with the lawyers then if they say it's not a problem go ahead and take the responsibility. The customer would have nothing to come back at you anyways.
Once that is done bust ass to fix it and make them happy. And then spend a few weeks creating new processes on how to do major installs that would catch this problem.
If you're company is responsible for it then they should have made so much in profit that they can eat a $1,000,000 payout if thats what the courts decide. You still have to fix it.
Mistakes happen and anyone working in deals of this size should be very well prepaired for the onslaught to follow
We don't use windows or linux and would kill for the hardware support of either OS.
The majority of readers we use operate off of a keyboard wedge. Nothing special there it just fakes keystrokes.
As for the printers it's usually just a case of pumping through the correct control codes to get what you want out. We use barcode blasters and the code required to get one barcode with say an item description, and price is maybe 20 lines. It's easy and the codes are always included with the printer or on the website documentation. Perhaps I should take the time to adding support for the printers I have access to.
Now the more advanced stuff, USB scanners and printers may require more work but I doubt it can be that hard.
I see lots of jokes about barcodes software and how ground breaking it is being made here. It's obvious that the people making those jokes don't work in retail software.
I write Point of sale and inventory management software and good easy handling of barcodes is a huge thing with customers, even if it is relatively boring software wise. Programs like this may seem like nothing but they will go a long way towards linux acceptance in key non server locations.
RFID may be the new hotness but barcodes still rule the retail world.
I don't have to work in SQL very often so in those times that I do I reply quite heavily on the MSDN API listings of the T-SQL commands. I'm mostly just looking for the syntax and maybe a couple of examples since I'm not doing anything difficult here.
Today I went to look up something and have found that the MSDN has turned into a giant advertisement for SQL server 2005 and if the useful information is still there it's buried.
It's really sad that today I looked up some syntax on the mySQL site and prayed it was the same on MSSQL.
I can completely understand why my customers don't like it when we change the layout of screens now.
I had a buddy get his 98 box owned a year or so ago. He found out when he received a warning from his ISP that "Someone" was considering legal action against him for sharing movies. A quick look on his box showed that there was a bot running there into a couple of hidden movies into an IRC Channel.
Moral of the story is the MPAA at least are going through the big channels and trying to track them down. Due to hacked machines the real criminals will never be found.
Very nice, I was wondering how you managed to do that.
I can do this as well, now that you've shown me the method. I'm wondering where you learned to do it?
It's not likely to be something taught in school.
My idea of intelligence isn't being able to do fancy math tricks, it's figuring out those math tricks in the first place.
I don't care about faking the data. I drive fast on a track. My concern is removing this equipment was a sideaffect of a different upgrade and it could be illegal for that reason.
Now my car is probably a little older then anything that contains these, it's a 91, but I'm wondering if you could legally remove this if you wanted to?
I'm in the process of stripping my car down to it's bare essentials for autoX use however it needs to be street legal to get to the track.
I know that the aftermarket ECU I've installed is illegal because it can be tuned by the user and therefore fails the local smog rules. However when I had the car tested the inspectors didn't find the ECU and the results still came out clean enough so I don't care.
In my mind the most likely place to have this tracking hardware is in the ECU. It already knows all of the information he was convicted on. The new ECU has the capability of logging the same info, but I can turn it on or off.
I'd hate for something stupid like that to be the thing that gets my car pulled off the road.
It's not too suprising. I'm still running a p3 700 which I upgraded the video card to a 9100 last year. I don't play a lot of games but really I've not seen anything that has actually been released that would make me upgrade. I currently intend to buy a new system when halflife 2 comes out, but until that actually happens I have no need to drop the cash. I know a few others that are in a similar situation. Nothing has come out that was impressive enough to demand an upgrade.
Microsoft giving away windows would not do anything serious to linux. It may delay new adoption of linux. That is about it damage wise for linux. When nobody used linux it was developed for free by people that wanted to build it. Now It's still developed for free by people that want to build it, and you get some commercial input by paid programmers. Linux could lose the commercial input and would still continue on.
MS has exactly ZERO input coming from free sources. It must therefor pay money to advance the product.
In the long run it takes convincing zellots to not develop on linux to stop it's evolution.
Windows you just have to not pay people and they stop. In the longterm, under these conditions I see MS being in for a world of hurt.
As an aside I almost could care less if Linux becomes more popular. It would be nice if their where more linux based jobs out there. Thats it. If grandma never gets to play with KDE I don't care. I've long since given up caring about the general PC using population.
I go out and spend around $20 a month on magazines, usually cars or 4x4's. I've enjoyed the magazine format for years now except for a couple of things.
If you miss on issue and they have a project broke up over multiple months it costs a lot to back order a copy and it is a hassle.
After getting 2 or 3 magazines a month for a few years you end up with a huge pile that I want to keep the information in but I don't really want to devote part of my library to.
I see some subscription based websites that mimic the magazine format but none of the big names are doing it and non of the small guys post up as much as I'd get in a magazine.
I'd be willing to pay for an online subscription to something like SCC so long as it has every bit on information thats in the printed version. This includes the Ads. I hate popups, but I do browse the parts ads on a regular basis so make sure they're in there. Hell charge the advertiser more and make the ads a link the companies site, that would be useful.
I also want the archive from the day you go online accessible. I won't accept just being able to get this months and thats it.
Everything also has to be in a standard format. PDF or HTML is fine, some encrypted format that is windows only and requires a special viewer and the deal is off.
What I'm not willing to pay money for is hacked down versions that show 3 out of 10 stories.
I think this is great. We've been told security though obscurity is safer then open source. It's also been argued that open source is safer because we can spot and close the holes. It's always been impossible to test. Now that the windows source is out there we'll know once and for all which method is superior.
I didn't intend for my degree comment to become such a flamewar. The reason I mostly hire degree's is because I have confidence that in getting the piece of paper they will most likely have developed the skills I require. So they make it further in the shortlisting then people without degrees in general. When you post a position and get 500-1000 resumes you need quick and easy ways to cut down that list. Degree or equivalent experience is an easy way to get to the list that I actually take the time and read the entire resume. If you don't have it you may be a god but I don't have the time to identify that fact. Yes my system is flawed but I have yet to locate a better way of doing that initial cut if I go to resumes. My prefered method of hiring involves recomendations from friends in the industry. Since we all went to university we tend to know others with degrees...
I entirely agree with this. Pick a language you want to learn, then spend the $50 and buy one of those learn to program language X in 21 days books.
Start working through the examples, by the time you hit day 15 you'll usually know the language well enough to do as you please and just use the last few chapters as reference. After a few languages you'll find that days 1 - 5 are almost always the same with just minor syntax differences.
I've found this the quickest way to learn to languages. Getting good enough to add them to your resume takes actually using them for a few months/projects.
Actaully learning the proper way to program is far more difficult to get from a book. This is one of the major things I learned while getting my degree. This is also the major reason that I rarely hire someone without a degree.
Anyone can write code, but not everyone can program.
No
You can take a loss on some products in order to sell other products. What you can't do is take a loss in order to attract business away from competitors hoping that they will go broke before you do.
You're entirely correct that the problem is the manufacturing part. I work on a POS system and was asked to look into expanding our very limited ERP system. After a few days research I decided it's just way way to hard to add something like that to our old system. I thought about adding it to the new system but I have to admit I just don't understand all the pieces.
The industry seems to be working against new people learning ERP systems. I couldn't find many good sources of material to learn it.
Ok I've been following along with this story for quite awhile now and I personally believe sco is going to lose the case. It should be the end of the company at that time. Now I was just at the nasdaq site looking to see how the recent news has affected sco. While there I started looking into some of it's numbers and found that overall if I knew nothing about the company everything looks pretty good. Hell they even went from losing money to having an actual earnings/share in the past year. There stock is ranked as being an average risk and there is both a buy rating and a sell rating in the analysis. Something worth $250,000,000 could be worth $2 in less then 30 days time and it's an average risk?
This leaves me wondering just how many other stocks out there are rated so highly based off of a hope and prayer? Is the entire system this easily manipulated?