You can't use the PowerPhaseFX for non-still images. This camera is (and I'm oversimplifying for explanation) a flatbed scanner mounted onto a camera. Your image-capture takes a few seconds.
The Foveon product grabs the image all-at-once. Really important when taking studio pictures of people and animals, or other moving things.
I briefly worked as a tech for Carver Mead, the man behind Foveon
He is a Professor Emeritus at Caltech, where he was one of the many highly respected EE God's.
One of Carver's best known works are his books on VLSI (published in the early days before some of us were even born.) and analog VLSI and neural systems.
His research group did some really interesting technology including silicon retina which simulated the eye's tendency to detect motions and edges.
Foveon products probably won't show up in your handheld cameras anytime soon. But for professional environments, it takes beautiful images that minimize image artifcats that are typically associated with digital imagers.
A model, in a way, is language to express ideas. Much of our knowledge today that we take for granted today is built on the knowledge from our ancestors.
George Orwell said it well in 1984... If you control the language, you control thoughts:
If you breed breed out the concept of "freedom" and take related words out of the lexicon, you can control your population so that they don't know that they're free. Even if someone has a thought in his head that he's not free, he can't communicate that idea to others.
Similarly, if you create new language (or models), you allow new thoughts to form.
With Harris Interactive and FloNetworks (another "spam"-like company), at least you know who they are.
If you're really annoyed by the spam, and have a hard time getting off the repeat-offender's spam list, you might try this:
If your mail reader filter allows you to automagically foward incoming e-mail matching a pattern, redirect the spam to their customer service or sales department e-mail queue... (For example, Info@harrisinteractive.com.)
Hmmm, what if RBL is expanded to include a "send complaints to" contact address? Then, RBL-filtered MTA's can directly send a "stop sending our clients spam" e-mails!
The problem with most heatsinks today is that the "hotspot" in the center of the chip, and thus the center of the heat-sink.
Basically, the heat tends to concentrate in the center, and cools off the farther it is from the heat source. You end up with a thermal gradient over a large heat sink. (Remember college physics and doing equilibria problems? Ugh.) At some point, the outlying parts of the heatsink contributes little to the overall cooling of the core.
If the nanotubes make good thermal "superconductor", it makes it possible to make larger heat sinks with better heat distribution and dissipation. That would be A Good Thing.
Now, if they can only make cooler units that run silently!
Augh! As if my desktops weren't too loud already. Faster processors and cheap inefficient power supplies make it harder to make quiet custom-built PC's with off-the-shelf components.
Of course, if I wanted to spend the money, I could buy Dell, Sony or Compaq. But why?
I've already mentioned it here, but you can visit our website to CueCAT scan your CD's and DVD's. (Includes track listings, reviews, and cover images.)
A whole bunch of us in my office went straight to Rat Shack as soon as we read the CueCAT message... We thought this was way cool.
We took the decode algorithm from uscan.sourceforge.net and kludged it into our website so that you can look up CD's and DVD's by scanning the UPC barcode.
Well, the Cue code is a special symbology. It appears to be a variable-bar-width code (4 different width) similar to the UPC, but without the UPC guard bands...
I got my hands on the scanner 10 minutes ago. As others have already pointed out, the scanner will decodes the barcode... it just encrypts it so that you can't use the data directly...
If I'm looking for something, I love being targeted.
When I'm going about my daily business, I don't want to be snared by the targeted ads.
Really, I'm distratcted enough during the day. I don't need to keep getting Maxim and FHM ads shoved into my face (and *ahem* distracting me even more).
What next? Target alcohol and tobacco ads to alcoholics and chain smokers?
Yup. CompuMentor hooked me up with Make*A*Circus. They sorely needed in-house computer help at the time. I kept it up for a while, but had to stop when I left SF. Keep in mind that most non-profits have no technical capacity whatsoever. Anything you can bring to them would be welcomed. OTOH, keep in mind that you're probably going to work in technologically less-than-exciting environments -- most of them have little (if any!) budget for technology. Oh, one more thing... While it's nice that you want to help, you might want to consider helping in a non-technical way. As someone once said to me, "You work 80-hour weeks with computers; and then you want to spend your free time with computers? Why don't you try something non-technical and learn something new and different?"
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You can't use the PowerPhaseFX for non-still images. This camera is (and I'm oversimplifying for explanation) a flatbed scanner mounted onto a camera. Your image-capture takes a few seconds.
The Foveon product grabs the image all-at-once. Really important when taking studio pictures of people and animals, or other moving things.
I briefly worked as a tech for Carver Mead, the man behind Foveon
He is a Professor Emeritus at Caltech, where he was one of the many highly respected EE God's.One of Carver's best known works are his books on VLSI (published in the early days before some of us were even born.) and analog VLSI and neural systems.
His research group did some really interesting technology including silicon retina which simulated the eye's tendency to detect motions and edges.
Foveon products probably won't show up in your handheld cameras anytime soon. But for professional environments, it takes beautiful images that minimize image artifcats that are typically associated with digital imagers.
A model, in a way, is language to express ideas. Much of our knowledge today that we take for granted today is built on the knowledge from our ancestors.
George Orwell said it well in 1984... If you control the language, you control thoughts:
If you breed breed out the concept of "freedom" and take related words out of the lexicon, you can control your population so that they don't know that they're free. Even if someone has a thought in his head that he's not free, he can't communicate that idea to others.
Similarly, if you create new language (or models), you allow new thoughts to form.
With Harris Interactive and FloNetworks (another "spam"-like company), at least you know who they are. If you're really annoyed by the spam, and have a hard time getting off the repeat-offender's spam list, you might try this: If your mail reader filter allows you to automagically foward incoming e-mail matching a pattern, redirect the spam to their customer service or sales department e-mail queue... (For example, Info@harrisinteractive.com.) Hmmm, what if RBL is expanded to include a "send complaints to" contact address? Then, RBL-filtered MTA's can directly send a "stop sending our clients spam" e-mails!
The problem with most heatsinks today is that the "hotspot" in the center of the chip, and thus the center of the heat-sink. Basically, the heat tends to concentrate in the center, and cools off the farther it is from the heat source. You end up with a thermal gradient over a large heat sink. (Remember college physics and doing equilibria problems? Ugh.) At some point, the outlying parts of the heatsink contributes little to the overall cooling of the core. If the nanotubes make good thermal "superconductor", it makes it possible to make larger heat sinks with better heat distribution and dissipation. That would be A Good Thing. Now, if they can only make cooler units that run silently!
Nitpicking, I know, but if I had a decently performing laptop, with a good keyboard and display, all in 1 kg, I'd be mighty happy!
Augh! As if my desktops weren't too loud already. Faster processors and cheap inefficient power supplies make it harder to make quiet custom-built PC's with off-the-shelf components. Of course, if I wanted to spend the money, I could buy Dell, Sony or Compaq. But why?
Or, you can buy it on ebay. The April market hiccup not withstanding, I wonder how long the era of massive redstribution of wealth will continue... :-)
Ooops. The CueCAT scanning is enabled only on our site's sell-trade-ins page, which is here. Sorry for the confusion!
I've already mentioned it here, but you can visit our website to CueCAT scan your CD's and DVD's. (Includes track listings, reviews, and cover images.)
A whole bunch of us in my office went straight to Rat Shack as soon as we read the CueCAT message... We thought this was way cool.
We took the decode algorithm from uscan.sourceforge.net and kludged it into our website so that you can look up CD's and DVD's by scanning the UPC barcode.
#disclaimer: I work for Spun.com, a site for buying/selling new/used CD's and DVD's. But, honestly, we think this is really cool, and we just couldn't pass this up!
Well, the Cue code is a special symbology. It appears to be a variable-bar-width code (4 different width) similar to the UPC, but without the UPC guard bands... I got my hands on the scanner 10 minutes ago. As others have already pointed out, the scanner will decodes the barcode... it just encrypts it so that you can't use the data directly...
If I'm looking for something, I love being targeted.
When I'm going about my daily business, I don't want to be snared by the targeted ads.
Really, I'm distratcted enough during the day. I don't need to keep getting Maxim and FHM ads shoved into my face (and *ahem* distracting me even more).
What next? Target alcohol and tobacco ads to alcoholics and chain smokers?
Yup. CompuMentor hooked me up with Make*A*Circus. They sorely needed in-house computer help at the time. I kept it up for a while, but had to stop when I left SF. Keep in mind that most non-profits have no technical capacity whatsoever. Anything you can bring to them would be welcomed. OTOH, keep in mind that you're probably going to work in technologically less-than-exciting environments -- most of them have little (if any!) budget for technology. Oh, one more thing... While it's nice that you want to help, you might want to consider helping in a non-technical way. As someone once said to me, "You work 80-hour weeks with computers; and then you want to spend your free time with computers? Why don't you try something non-technical and learn something new and different?"