If you are getting lens distortion, you can pu ton a grid overlay over the map and use the "straightening" feature of Hugin (and other panorama software) when stitching to correct for lens distortions. The feature allows you to designate horizontal and vertical lines and will bend the image to make it so.
As more and more people get multiple devices, the push-back against DRM will increase, and move from the small population of early adopter tech-savvy consumers, to the larger population "normal" consumers- once they find that they can't move their legally bought content between their devices they will tell their friends not to buy it. My prediction is that the format with the most easily "cracked" DRM will also be the most popular format & will win.
Also, having just been through the deep-dive purchasing decision process for a new plasma TV, it was interesting to see that at a normal viewing distance, on a 50" display, HD or good progressive scan DVD produced a similar picture quality to my eyes (HD picture was subjectively about 5% better... this is comapred to 576p upscaled by the TV to 768 lines). http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/09/1080p-charted -viewing-distance-to-screen-size/
Summary- at more than 10 foot viewing distance with a 50" plasma screen there is no benefit to more than 576 lines (us PAL types are in luck here). About 13 foot for NTSC 480P. So for 42" HD is probably a waste of time everywhere. For 50" it is more useful in NTSC territory as long as you sit fairly close up, and marginal for PAL territory.
Also, I saw one HD feed split into similar sets from the same manufacturer, one set was 1080 line the other 768 line. At normal viewing distances no noticable difference.
The patent on using PWM to drive LEDS which combine to make different colours is, I believe, held by color kinetics.
When you are taken to court for patent infringement, you can use this batch of comments on slashdot to try to defend the fact that the idea is trivial and obvious to anyone who knows anything about electronics. I'll send you cards in jail:-)
Colorkinetics web site
Indulis (about to put in a patent on "Forward motion by gravity assisted rythmic motion and articulated frameworks"... next time you go for a walk you'll be paying ME!)
I just rang one of the businesses advertised as "happy customers" at the http://www.t3direct.com.au web site (look under web design).
My aim was to inform the business that as a consumer I would choose not to deal with any company associated with t3direct.
Anyway, this business told me that t3direct owed them a large sum of money, and they were not aware that their company's business name was being used as a reference on t3direct's web site.
It'd be interesting if people were to turn up at the advertised (on the web site) seminars on spam-marketing and discuss some "spam-recipient" viewpoints with the people there. Such as just how much we love spam mail and how it makes us instantly want to buy something from the people that do it, and how we love to read their mail to the exclusion of other mail to do with work, friends, or family. Or how we love to use our bandwidth $ downloading their mail because it is always so useful and fun to read. Or how we love to spend our hours deleting their mails one by one (after we've read them and bought the products of course!).
Ind (just about to go out on the net and start spraying me e-mail address around so I can collect some more loverly SPAM)
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If you are getting lens distortion, you can pu ton a grid overlay over the map and use the "straightening" feature of Hugin (and other panorama software) when stitching to correct for lens distortions. The feature allows you to designate horizontal and vertical lines and will bend the image to make it so.
As more and more people get multiple devices, the push-back against DRM will increase, and move from the small population of early adopter tech-savvy consumers, to the larger population "normal" consumers- once they find that they can't move their legally bought content between their devices they will tell their friends not to buy it. My prediction is that the format with the most easily "cracked" DRM will also be the most popular format & will win.
d -viewing-distance-to-screen-size/
Also, having just been through the deep-dive purchasing decision process for a new plasma TV, it was interesting to see that at a normal viewing distance, on a 50" display, HD or good progressive scan DVD produced a similar picture quality to my eyes (HD picture was subjectively about 5% better... this is comapred to 576p upscaled by the TV to 768 lines).
http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/09/1080p-charte
Summary- at more than 10 foot viewing distance with a 50" plasma screen there is no benefit to more than 576 lines (us PAL types are in luck here). About 13 foot for NTSC 480P. So for 42" HD is probably a waste of time everywhere. For 50" it is more useful in NTSC territory as long as you sit fairly close up, and marginal for PAL territory.
Also, I saw one HD feed split into similar sets from the same manufacturer, one set was 1080 line the other 768 line. At normal viewing distances no noticable difference.
color kinetics.
When you are taken to court for patent infringement, you can use this batch of comments on slashdot to try to defend the fact that the idea is trivial and obvious to anyone who knows anything about electronics. I'll send you cards in jail
Colorkinetics web site
Indulis
(about to put in a patent on
"Forward motion by gravity assisted rythmic motion and articulated frameworks"... next time you go for a walk you'll be paying ME!)
I just rang one of the businesses advertised as "happy customers" at the http://www.t3direct.com.au web site (look under web design).
My aim was to inform the business that as a consumer I would choose not to deal with any company associated with t3direct.
Anyway, this business told me that t3direct owed them a large sum of money, and they were not aware that their company's business name was being used as a reference on t3direct's web site.
It'd be interesting if people were to turn up at the advertised (on the web site) seminars on spam-marketing and discuss some "spam-recipient" viewpoints with the people there. Such as just how much we love spam mail and how it makes us instantly want to buy something from the people that do it, and how we love to read their mail to the exclusion of other mail to do with work, friends, or family. Or how we love to use our bandwidth $ downloading their mail because it is always so useful and fun to read. Or how we love to spend our hours deleting their mails one by one (after we've read them and bought the products of course!).
Ind
(just about to go out on the net and start spraying me e-mail address around so I can collect some more loverly SPAM)