This is basically a terrestrial version of beamed power from Solar Power Satallites, a concept that's been studied since 1968.
The microwave systems that SSI have studied are basically like a UHF tv station transmitter (sans Weird Al).
Birds don't cook, people don't mutate, airplanes won't crash from this.
Since this is a line of sight system, the range is probably less than 20 miles. Even so, it will make a terrific demo that proves the practicality of powering cities from SPS.
seems like this is an ideal thing to replicate in microgravity and a vacuum on the space station. at least this may be one experiment that justifies having a 40 billion dollar(?) science lab.
This is one of the worst bombs ever made. Most of this movie simply isn't funny. Everyone I've talked to about this film agrees, HOWEVER, they also say "except for this one scene... funniest thing ever" The wierd thing is that everyone names a different scene.
Pre-1984 Canal Street in New York City would have been at the top of the list. Now, there are just a few stores near 6th ave that have surplus gizmos.
Unfortunatly, I've been either too young or too broke to have really taken advantage of it before its decline into an Asian flea market. At least on one trip with my Dad I picked up a 27.5mm lens for a 35mm camera. It had started out as a 55mm lens, until someone used a diamond saw on it.
In the 80's I partnered with some friends to start a multi-media/DTP company, while still keeping my day job at a photo lab. Since everyone at the lab knew about my company, someone gave me a xeroxed Forbes article on how laser printers were being used to make bogus checks. It laid out step by step on how to do it, obviously so companies could make changes to prevent this type of scam.
When my parents came across it in my home, they were convinced that this was what I was really doing with the computer equiptment, and warned me that they wouldn't give me bail money when I was arrested for it.
I'm a fan of this system. They have a few competetors with similar specs. Since they have many odd parts, you can easily make exactly what you want. Wire rack makes it simple to velcro or zip tie cables, and attach things to an overhead shelf like speakers and lights
Imagine a bank of elevators, each one run by a different computer system:
Altier: A toggle switch allows you to open the door. A rope hangs from the ceiling, marked off in dot-dash patterns every 12 feet. Pulling the rope allows you to go up 4 stories, when you miss a tug, and crash.
IBM/DOS: you enter and push a button for the 8th floor, but it can't get past floor 6.40
Mac 7.X there is a single button for the floors. you push it, and it takes you to the floor it thinks is good for you.
Mac Copeland You stand outside the elevator door, drinking pepsi, waiting for it to arrive, while reading the sign about how wonderful it is. You get tiered of waiting, so you take the NeXT one.
Windows 95 As you enter, a voice chimes out "where do you want to go today?" so you push the button for the 32nd floor, but it takes you to the 16th floor, twice.
Linux Instead of a Button panel, there is a large paper bag full of parts and tools, with instructions in Finnish.
Irix Everything appears to be in order, but the button panel is ajar, and none of the floors will light up. A highly paid consultant is able to borrow a widget from Linux's large paper bag full of parts to make them display.
>>"Eventually the odds are going to catch up with those involved, something nobody thought of will happen and with such extreme forces involved, people will die."
The problem is when people DID THINK of what could happen, and their concerns were ignored or dismissed by management.
To use your analogy, it's as if someone told the jumpmaster "hey, looks like Synn's harness is getting frayed, and the jumpmaster replies "that's ok, he's jumped with a frayed harness before, and it didn't fail, so like the last time, we'll replace it after his jump"
After the splat, would your heirs hold the jumpmaster criminally negligent?
I hope that with the web enough info will come out so that the right people can be charged with homicide.
I had the same problem at a friend's house. Turned out it was a few filing cabinets that would block the signal when the ethernet adaptor (SMC2670W) was placed on the floor.
Wired has had some stories about this. TMS has been used to create "out of body" and religious experiances. I wonder how long before the Scientologists start using this......
see FWDepot
ok, so the above is too pricey, but it does prove that 2 drives are fine on one board. Another vendor of bridgeboards shows a 2 drive board. The suggestion to use a computer case is a good one, or any scsi case can be used..... or Legos.
I'm wondering, just how much time did you spend with google before you asked/. ?
I've done comparisons between a Phase One 4x5 and Ekta 100 scanned by an Isomet. Nyquist was right. To get the same detail the film had to be scanned at 2x the res of the Phase One. As far as Dynamic range, while nothing beats Kodachrome when the subject has movement, digital makes it far easier to do multiple exposures for compositing in Pshop. Also, some high end cameras do give you access to the 48bit raw file.
Bloom County had a great sunday strip where they had a funeral for the "death of film". I think the still photography community is going through exactly the same thing that the motion picture community went thru when portable video came along. umnn, have you seen a S-8 camera being used lately? or even 16mm?
Patrick, as far as 35mm film resolution goes, outputting a 4K image with a Solitare looks far better than a 2K output, so film does resolve more than 1200 dpi. Also, higher end slide scanners have 3 ccd strips, so no color interpolation is needed.
Hash Animation Master does most of what Maya, Lightwave etc. does, at a much cheaper cost.
WinImages is a "must have' program, especially since it's on sale. It includes a 3D render program.
Besides Blender, there's another open source program at www.openfx.com which has its roots in the old Sculpt 3D program.
Spend a few days looking at the sites in the dmoz.org 3D sections. When looking at which program to buy or put your time into, read through the discussion groups devoted to the program. For example, Caligari was mentioned, but if you read the sites forums, it doesen't seem to be a program worth dealing with. Maya, Softimage, Lightwave are often mentioned as the top programs, but you may not need that sort of power, and expense, if she's not planning to work for a company using those programs.
New Riders publishes some execllent books, especially Digital Cinematography & Directing,
Digital Lighting & Rendering, and Digital Texturing and Painting.
DVD's are also a great source of "behind the scenes" info. Movie FX Mag has some good sections on CGI.
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I have a friend who works in medical billing (including a long stint at Mount Sinai in NYC). Screwups in the paperwork costs an amazing amount for both hospitals and insurance companies. Patient theft is another big loss. Patients changing insurance companies every year or more just adds to the screwups. It starts when a patient is admitted, and the poorly trained (Thankx Anderson Consulting!) receptionist gets the forms wrong, usually by sins of ommission, or glitches with the insurance company's pre-approval process. Then the correct medical billing code (very thick books with the standard codes are updated every year) needs to be used. While the billing systems have fields for extensive notes, since they aren't required to be entered, allmost no one does. Nor do they bother to read them. Hospitals have contracts with insurance companies which are similar to Microsofts OEM contracts, details are hidden by an NDA. These provide substantial incentives *PROVIDED* claims are submitted on time, if not, then the hospital doesn't get 100% re-imbursment. Even if the hospital makes the deadline, the insurance company will claim it didn't. Since often neather side's peons has a copy of the contract, and the hospital's peon has more incentive to simply clear another case rather than save the hospital $20K or $30K, the point isn't argued. At this point, the insurance company now has a payment deadline, unless there is a mistake found in the claim. Or the patient's chap 11 dot com "forgot" to send in their insurance payments. Or a claims reviewer is using an old copy of the codes. Or the pre-approval code doesn't match the final code because the code number changed during the process. Or......... (Hmnn, what's the intrest on $50K for 6 months?) The real fun starts when a patient gets the re-imbursment check. Lets see, on one hand a terminally ill person can use the $100K on trips and quack treatments, or he can just send it into the hospital where maybe an underpayment mistake will be found. Or the patient can just "forget" they ever had a procedure done. (true story, patient needed to be reminded that a 6'5" 260# doctor shoved a 2 foot tube up her ass before she acknowledged that there was a reason she owed the hospital money. Makes me wonder what she usually shoves in there since the experiance hadn't been memorable)
HMO's and hospital love the pointy-haired logic that a surgeon can be paid a fraction of his standard rate since he can "make it up in volume". And if a surgery goes over the esimated time, he doesn't get paid extra since he can just work faster on the next one.
To sum it up, hospitals are effectivly giving insurance companies discounts by screwing up their claims and collections, and cutting doctor's fees.
I was about to say it died this year, but when I went to check, it looks like they have changed the concept a bit, adding an external piece at the bottom of the camera.
The original concept had only a "roll" that had to be removed to transfer the images. The CCD (or cmos?) did not cover the full frame and the quality of the posted tiffs were crap.
With the new Full Frame chips from Kodak etc, chances are SF won't be able to compeat
One of my favorite programs is no longer on the shelves of Comp-USA, and it's left me feeling rather bitter towards the mainstream. I tend to like programs that run from the command line but I'm in the minority so programs won't be made to pick up that small percentage. However now and again I find great programs on the net. They appear to be homemade and are in some cases very well done. Is it possible to do something like this for several version releases and place it on the net to share? how would someone go about doing something like this? And I know not to quit my day job."
I hope my point has been made. You have a lot of research ahead of you. 20 years ago you would be making S-8 films and be limited to 1950's special effects technology. Fortunatly, today with DV cams and computer editing and efx, the tech end of it isn't the main problem. Now, your main problem in creating a show is dealing with people, unless you're making a silent puppet show. Basically, don't be and don't work with assholes, and supply good food during a shoot.
As for distribution, you'll need to hook up with companies who can afford the bandwith if your show catches on. Which can happen in just a few days. You wouldn't want to be the next Mahir or 401The Movie just to have new viewers get a "bandwith limit exceeded" message when they try to view it..
Slashdot Mirror
The microwave systems that SSI have studied are basically like a UHF tv station transmitter (sans Weird Al).
Birds don't cook, people don't mutate, airplanes won't crash from this. Since this is a line of sight system, the range is probably less than 20 miles. Even so, it will make a terrific demo that proves the practicality of powering cities from SPS.
this is really sad. I think the question is just a troll..
g or ies.asp?categoryId=catMRG&refDomain=www05
https://www.sbcdslstore.com/Catalog/productcate
this is the page where SBC *sells* a networking kit.
As others have mentioned, they may not *support* other routers, but they don't forbid you to use your own.
seems like this is an ideal thing to replicate in microgravity and a vacuum on the space station. at least this may be one experiment that justifies having a 40 billion dollar(?) science lab.
This is one of the worst bombs ever made. Most of this movie simply isn't funny.
Everyone I've talked to about this film agrees, HOWEVER, they also say "except for this one scene... funniest thing ever"
The wierd thing is that everyone names a different scene.
a simple word substitution in the article may make this a more popular thread
.... if Spike Lee had one of these.
I thought I had read about this previously, and then I remembered where
Pre-1984 Canal Street in New York City would have been at the top of the list.
Now, there are just a few stores near 6th ave that have surplus gizmos.
Unfortunatly, I've been either too young or too broke to have really taken advantage of it before its decline into an Asian flea market. At least on one trip with my Dad I picked up a 27.5mm lens for a 35mm camera. It had started out as a 55mm lens, until someone used a diamond saw on it.
.....who think that way.
In the 80's I partnered with some friends to start a multi-media/DTP company, while still keeping my day job at a photo lab.
Since everyone at the lab knew about my company, someone gave me a xeroxed Forbes article on how laser printers were being used to make bogus checks. It laid out step by step on how to do it, obviously so companies could make changes to prevent this type of scam.
When my parents came across it in my home, they were convinced that this was what I was really doing with the computer equiptment, and warned me that they wouldn't give me bail money when I was arrested for it.
http://www.metro.com/index.cfm
I'm a fan of this system. They have a few competetors with similar specs.
Since they have many odd parts, you can easily make exactly what you want.
Wire rack makes it simple to velcro or zip tie cables, and attach things to an overhead shelf like speakers and lights
Why being a Ho' is just like
being a Computer Tech
Fee is about $150/hour for house calls
Agent helps get you work, and gives you protection, but wants half.
scsi connections
First thing you do when meeting a new client is check for viruses and make sure he uses protection.
Floppy disks are always a problem.
You can charge a higher fee when working on Saturday nite.
Clients will be fascinated with your unusual equipment, and wonder what you will do with it.
Clients never call unless they are desperate and don't have a friend who can help.
Most house calls merely require inserting a male part into a female part.
The faster the hard disk gets back up, the happier the client is.
New clients will call you if you appear in a magazine.
Clients want you to give their friends, who just happen to be there with their equipment, a group discount.
Imagine a bank of elevators, each one run by a different computer system:
Altier:
A toggle switch allows you to open the door. A rope hangs from the ceiling, marked off in dot-dash patterns every 12 feet. Pulling the rope allows you to go up 4 stories, when you miss a tug, and crash.
IBM/DOS:
you enter and push a button for the 8th floor, but it can't get past floor 6.40
Mac 7.X
there is a single button for the floors. you push it, and it takes you to the floor it thinks is good for you.
Mac Copeland
You stand outside the elevator door, drinking pepsi, waiting for it to arrive, while reading the sign about how wonderful it is. You get tiered of waiting, so you take the NeXT one.
Windows 95
As you enter, a voice chimes out "where do you want to go today?" so you push the button for the 32nd floor, but it takes you to the 16th floor, twice.
Linux
Instead of a Button panel, there is a large paper bag full of parts and tools, with instructions in Finnish.
Irix
Everything appears to be in order, but the button panel is ajar, and none of the floors will light up. A highly paid consultant is able to borrow a widget from Linux's large paper bag full of parts to make them display.
>>"Eventually the odds are going to catch up with those involved, something nobody thought of will happen and with such extreme forces involved, people will die."
The problem is when people DID THINK of what could happen, and their concerns were ignored or dismissed by management.
To use your analogy, it's as if someone told the jumpmaster "hey, looks like Synn's harness is getting frayed, and the jumpmaster replies "that's ok, he's jumped with a frayed harness before, and it didn't fail, so like the last time, we'll replace it after his jump"
After the splat, would your heirs hold the jumpmaster criminally negligent?
I hope that with the web enough info will come out so that the right people can be charged with homicide.
I had the same problem at a friend's house. Turned out it was a few filing cabinets that would block the signal when the ethernet adaptor (SMC2670W) was placed on the floor.
Wired has had some stories about this. TMS has been used to create "out of body" and religious experiances.
I wonder how long before the Scientologists start using this......
see FWDepot ok, so the above is too pricey, but it does prove that 2 drives are fine on one board.
/. ?
Another vendor of bridgeboards shows a 2 drive board. The suggestion to use a computer case is a good one, or any scsi case can be used..... or Legos.
I'm wondering, just how much time did you spend with google before you asked
I've done comparisons between a Phase One 4x5 and Ekta 100 scanned by an Isomet.
Nyquist was right. To get the same detail the film had to be scanned at 2x the res of the Phase One.
As far as Dynamic range, while nothing beats Kodachrome when the subject has movement, digital makes it far easier to do multiple exposures for compositing in Pshop. Also, some high end cameras do give you access to the 48bit raw file.
Bloom County had a great sunday strip where they had a funeral for the "death of film". I think the still photography community is going through exactly the same thing that the motion picture community went thru when portable video came along. umnn, have you seen a S-8 camera being used lately? or even 16mm?
Patrick, as far as 35mm film resolution goes, outputting a 4K image with a Solitare looks far better than a 2K output, so film does resolve more than 1200 dpi. Also, higher end slide scanners have 3 ccd strips, so no color interpolation is needed.
from the story:
"I have seen him play in the snow for twenty minutes, barefoot before we realized he had gotten out of the house."
so much for shoes.
maybe glueing it to his toenails?
you may have more fun asking about the incidents described in these sites:
h emeparkinsider.com/accidents/g ends.com/death/disney_deaths.ht ml5 fe59 240d86254cec78319f63b5ea8&act=SF&f=33. saferparks.org/ed_disney_safety_report. htmi ve/19 9810/IND19981014d.html
http://www.mouseplanet.com/david/
http://www.t
http://www.urbanle
http://www.disneypix.com/forum/index.php?s=16
http://www
http://www.conservativenews.org/InDepth/arch
WinImages is a "must have' program, especially since it's on sale. It includes a 3D render program.
Besides Blender, there's another open source program at www.openfx.com which has its roots in the old Sculpt 3D program.
Spend a few days looking at the sites in the dmoz.org 3D sections. When looking at which program to buy or put your time into, read through the discussion groups devoted to the program. For example, Caligari was mentioned, but if you read the sites forums, it doesen't seem to be a program worth dealing with.
Maya, Softimage, Lightwave are often mentioned as the top programs, but you may not need that sort of power, and expense, if she's not planning to work for a company using those programs.
New Riders publishes some execllent books, especially Digital Cinematography & Directing, Digital Lighting & Rendering, and Digital Texturing and Painting.
DVD's are also a great source of "behind the scenes" info. Movie FX Mag has some good sections on CGI.
I have a friend who works in medical billing (including a long stint at Mount Sinai in NYC).
Screwups in the paperwork costs an amazing amount for both hospitals and insurance companies. Patient theft is another big loss.
Patients changing insurance companies every year or more just adds to the screwups.
It starts when a patient is admitted, and the poorly trained (Thankx Anderson Consulting!) receptionist gets the forms wrong, usually by sins of ommission, or glitches with the insurance company's pre-approval process. Then the correct medical billing code (very thick books with the standard codes are updated every year) needs to be used. While the billing systems have fields for extensive notes, since they aren't required to be entered, allmost no one does. Nor do they bother to read them.
Hospitals have contracts with insurance companies which are similar to Microsofts OEM contracts, details are hidden by an NDA. These provide substantial incentives *PROVIDED* claims are submitted on time, if not, then the hospital doesn't get 100% re-imbursment. Even if the hospital makes the deadline, the insurance company will claim it didn't. Since often neather side's peons has a copy of the contract, and the hospital's peon has more incentive to simply clear another case rather than save the hospital $20K or $30K, the point isn't argued.
At this point, the insurance company now has a payment deadline, unless there is a mistake found in the claim. Or the patient's chap 11 dot com "forgot" to send in their insurance payments. Or a claims reviewer is using an old copy of the codes. Or the pre-approval code doesn't match the final code because the code number changed during the process. Or......... (Hmnn, what's the intrest on $50K for 6 months?)
The real fun starts when a patient gets the re-imbursment check. Lets see, on one hand a terminally ill person can use the $100K on trips and quack treatments, or he can just send it into the hospital where maybe an underpayment mistake will be found. Or the patient can just "forget" they ever had a procedure done. (true story, patient needed to be reminded that a 6'5" 260# doctor shoved a 2 foot tube up her ass before she acknowledged that there was a reason she owed the hospital money. Makes me wonder what she usually shoves in there since the experiance hadn't been memorable)
HMO's and hospital love the pointy-haired logic that a surgeon can be paid a fraction of his standard rate since he can "make it up in volume". And if a surgery goes over the esimated time, he doesn't get paid extra since he can just work faster on the next one.
To sum it up, hospitals are effectivly giving insurance companies discounts by screwing up their claims and collections, and cutting doctor's fees.
I was about to say it died this year, but when I went to check, it looks like they have changed the concept a bit, adding an external piece at the bottom of the camera.
The original concept had only a "roll" that had to be removed to transfer the images. The CCD (or cmos?) did not cover the full frame and the quality of the posted tiffs were crap.
With the new Full Frame chips from Kodak etc, chances are SF won't be able to compeat
book by Seth Gordon
Highly recommended. You can download the entire book for free from his website; http://www.ideavirus.com/
Just get it copyrighted. The day the US Copyright office receives your work is when their protection starts, and is provable.
I tend to like programs that run from the command line but I'm in the minority so programs won't be made to pick up that small percentage. However now and again I find great programs on the net. They appear to be homemade and are in some cases very well done. Is it possible to do something like this for several version releases and place it on the net to share? how would someone go about doing something like this? And I know not to quit my day job."
I hope my point has been made. You have a lot of research ahead of you. 20 years ago you would be making S-8 films and be limited to 1950's special effects technology. Fortunatly, today with DV cams and computer editing and efx, the tech end of it isn't the main problem. Now, your main problem in creating a show is dealing with people, unless you're making a silent puppet show. Basically, don't be and don't work with assholes, and supply good food during a shoot.
As for distribution, you'll need to hook up with companies who can afford the bandwith if your show catches on. Which can happen in just a few days. You wouldn't want to be the next Mahir or 401The Movie just to have new viewers get a "bandwith limit exceeded" message when they try to view it..
Of course the next step is ????? then Profit!