Try a 50' screen about 75' the ground....downtown Toronto, there's a bunch of very large digital screen used as ad platforms....saw one crash with a BSOD coming out of class....had to sit down I was laughing so hard....wish I had a camera.
good example...at one of my previous employers (no names) we spent over a month, not preparing and training for the ISO audit, but figuring out ways to fake our way through it - including documenting procedures that didn't exist and we never followed (completely impractical), to making up histories of processes (lots of fun having superuser access to ERP systems....):-) Loved the phone call - "the auditor's in the washroom - quick, add an inspection history for this part!"
...of people who assume they can manage any situation/group of people because they have a business degree.....how can you manage something without understanding even the basics of what it is you are supposed to manage?
I've met way too many people with business degrees who assume they are always going to be my boss because that's what they've been told by dumbasses like Dr. Johnsohn here....like I would trust someone without an engineering background to produce a "Design of an Automated Shop Floor Material Handling System with Inventory Considerations".....and people wonder where this six sigma and lean manufacturing crap comes from - how about just calling it common sense, instead of wasting millions of dollars on bullshit training sessions?
The peak in the current cycle was a few years back....see the NOAA's SolarCycle page
Considering it's an 11 year cycle, we are supposed to be on the downswing right now....also, don't forget that we're now at two major storms in the last few days, emmenating from two massive (and still growing) sunspots on the surface of the sun...so, I would call this something extraordinary.
try just using amazon.ca....just did a quick check on one of my VLSI books, $130CAD in Canada, $150CAD in the US (amazon.com), and $245CAD in the UK (amazon.co.uk).....looks like the whole UK theory doesn't always apply....must be a publisher specific thing (the book I looked up is McGraw Hill).
BTW, exchange rates calculated +2% if I bought using a credit card.
If you're having trouble finding something to use, maybe it's not the way to go......like other posts state, the range and BW are limited.....I'm using a nice little device from Honeywell - ROC09352XMS which is a radio-on-a-chip device for my thesis... All you need is a microcontroller with an SCI interface (i.e. just about any PIC or 68HC11 device, which most people have some knowledge of), a power supply and an antennae - everything else is self contained - and it can range from 300-900Mhz, up to 19.2kBps.....at $26US a piece, not very expensive either.....
This has been done before by several consulting groups specializing in water feature design for themes parks, etc....example (not with fog, but full water droplets) at Canada's Wonderland (in Toronto) a few years ago - we used a very large wide fan jet to create a screen, on which a Disney special feature was projected using standard equipment....
The only thing that's switching is the pop/smtp servers....dns, client id, etc are all the same. The official changeover is this friday - we'll see what happens then....
I met the marketing guy for lineo's canada office last week at the campus pub (and my mom says drinking doesn't pay)....what I got out of the conversation was that any software is being covered under UClinux, and the actual implementation is by lineo - lineo is the corp. covering the integration of the hardware and software......
I was also told that their basic idea is this: for every dollar spent on educating students, they can expect about 10 dollars back in the long run....
Got a similar setup...but since my TV is right next to my stereo, I picked up an old ATI video card with a TV-Out port....so now I've got mouse sitting on my coffee table, I hit the line-in button on my VCR remote, and I see the display on my TV. Change the input channel on the amp, and now I've got an mp3 player that I can control with a mouse and display on the TV. Much better than that little LCD...all the mp3s are sitting in a directory that gets updated twice a day from my workstation and my roommate's.
Though his girlfriend spent about 10 minutes grilling me on how I could be watching the "TV play music", and wanting an explanation as to why she didn't get that channel on her TV.
Some ideas (this is what I've done with my old boxes)
1. build a firewall/gateway
2. mp3 server - I scavenged an old ATI Mach64 with a TV-out port (enabled through the card's bios) to hook the box into my TV + stereo...
3. grabbed a video card out of another box, took an old 15" monitor and am using it as a second head on my main workstation.....
I don't think a manned mission will happen any time soon, but with technology seeming to stagnate (compared to the periods of quick and important advances in the first 3/4 of the 20th century) we need something to "light a fire under our asses". Aside from a major world war, nothing helped improve the rate of technological advancement more than the space race of the 60s. There hasn't really been any monumental discoveries/acheivements (besides the genome project) in the last 20 or so years - just refinement of current technology. Just the fact that Moore's Law for computing power is still relevant attests to this.
Since we don't want another world war, a good old fashioned space race would do wonders for all the R&D guys out there - increased funding, less pressure to make projects financially viable, etc.
Only problem is finding someone to race against.....don't think the Russians can handle it anymore - maybe the Chinese?
Link to my old prof's research proposal here. (sorry 'bout the PDF)
From the abstract:
...a study that will design,
construct and test an inexpensive tethered video camera cluster that will be used to created and
transmit real-time spherical panoramic video. The intent of the device is to create a cost-effective
means of providing comprehensive, integrated and continuous spherical panoramic
views of operational setting in micro-gravity.
Haven't heard anything recently on this - don't think he ever got the funding to really start.
this would be great for CAD stuff....I'm finding I spend too much time moving around and zooming.....especially to get those little details. AutoCAD already has an aerial view window - it just gets in the way having it on the same display as my drawing view....still, don't think my boss will go for the $300 US price tag.
just browsing the mailing list archives for Xine - seems as if their 0.5 development releases are starting to have some support for menu navigation....haven't tried yet, but we might get lucky, right?
Seems like the same thing that was done when broadcast transmissions switched from black & white to color - if you had a color TV, you saw a color feed, but if you still had an old b&w, you could still watch the same channels. Essentially the same problem. In retrospect, I'm kind of surprised this wasn't put forward sooner.
In Ontario, most universities keep a record of academic performance of each high school - in other words, they compare the high school marks with post-secondary performance and put each secondary school on a gradient. But it still depends alot on the university - when I applied at the end of high school for Computer/Electrical engineering at several different institutions, I had to have everything from character and professional references to 1500 word essays on why I was interested in enginering.....grades just got me the possibilty of being accepted.
The downtown core is moving to 647/416 (mandatory 10 digit as of March 5), and the suburbs are moving to 905/289 (mandatory 10 digit as of Jun 9). Just got the "official" Bell Canada notice in the mail yesterday. Only thing is, as of January 8, they'll be playing a reminder to dial 10 digits next time, which will kill any modem/fax transmissions.....
Actually, themes.org has a posting asking for a new maintainer for the kde.themes.org area....seems the previous maintainers got bogged down with other things and are looking for someone to take over...
First thing to work on - the interface. Has anyone tried to do anything with Blender? It's the ugliest and least intuitive thing I've ever seen. Lightwave and 3D studio aren't a whole lot better....but there _is_ room for improvement.
Not to be picky, but I thought that influenza was a retro-virus - that means it has RNA, not DNA as is continuously mentioned in the movie. Anyways, it sucked. I should have seen Gladiator again.
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Try a 50' screen about 75' the ground....downtown Toronto, there's a bunch of very large digital screen used as ad platforms....saw one crash with a BSOD coming out of class....had to sit down I was laughing so hard....wish I had a camera.
good example...at one of my previous employers (no names) we spent over a month, not preparing and training for the ISO audit, but figuring out ways to fake our way through it - including documenting procedures that didn't exist and we never followed (completely impractical), to making up histories of processes (lots of fun having superuser access to ERP systems....) :-) Loved the phone call - "the auditor's in the washroom - quick, add an inspection history for this part!"
...of people who assume they can manage any situation/group of people because they have a business degree.....how can you manage something without understanding even the basics of what it is you are supposed to manage? I've met way too many people with business degrees who assume they are always going to be my boss because that's what they've been told by dumbasses like Dr. Johnsohn here....like I would trust someone without an engineering background to produce a "Design of an Automated Shop Floor Material Handling System with Inventory Considerations".....and people wonder where this six sigma and lean manufacturing crap comes from - how about just calling it common sense, instead of wasting millions of dollars on bullshit training sessions?
The peak in the current cycle was a few years back....see the NOAA's SolarCycle page Considering it's an 11 year cycle, we are supposed to be on the downswing right now....also, don't forget that we're now at two major storms in the last few days, emmenating from two massive (and still growing) sunspots on the surface of the sun...so, I would call this something extraordinary.
try just using amazon.ca ....just did a quick check on one of my VLSI books, $130CAD in Canada, $150CAD in the US (amazon.com), and $245CAD in the UK (amazon.co.uk).....looks like the whole UK theory doesn't always apply....must be a publisher specific thing (the book I looked up is McGraw Hill).
BTW, exchange rates calculated +2% if I bought using a credit card.
If you're having trouble finding something to use, maybe it's not the way to go......like other posts state, the range and BW are limited.....I'm using a nice little device from Honeywell - ROC09352XMS which is a radio-on-a-chip device for my thesis... All you need is a microcontroller with an SCI interface (i.e. just about any PIC or 68HC11 device, which most people have some knowledge of), a power supply and an antennae - everything else is self contained - and it can range from 300-900Mhz, up to 19.2kBps.....at $26US a piece, not very expensive either.....
This has been done before by several consulting groups specializing in water feature design for themes parks, etc....example (not with fog, but full water droplets) at Canada's Wonderland (in Toronto) a few years ago - we used a very large wide fan jet to create a screen, on which a Disney special feature was projected using standard equipment....
The only thing that's switching is the pop/smtp servers....dns, client id, etc are all the same. The official changeover is this friday - we'll see what happens then....
Regarding lineo: this is only a rumour, but....
I met the marketing guy for lineo's canada office last week at the campus pub (and my mom says drinking doesn't pay)....what I got out of the conversation was that any software is being covered under UClinux, and the actual implementation is by lineo - lineo is the corp. covering the integration of the hardware and software......
I was also told that their basic idea is this: for every dollar spent on educating students, they can expect about 10 dollars back in the long run....
Got a similar setup...but since my TV is right next to my stereo, I picked up an old ATI video card with a TV-Out port....so now I've got mouse sitting on my coffee table, I hit the line-in button on my VCR remote, and I see the display on my TV. Change the input channel on the amp, and now I've got an mp3 player that I can control with a mouse and display on the TV. Much better than that little LCD...all the mp3s are sitting in a directory that gets updated twice a day from my workstation and my roommate's.
Though his girlfriend spent about 10 minutes grilling me on how I could be watching the "TV play music", and wanting an explanation as to why she didn't get that channel on her TV.
Some ideas (this is what I've done with my old boxes)
1. build a firewall/gateway
2. mp3 server - I scavenged an old ATI Mach64 with a TV-out port (enabled through the card's bios) to hook the box into my TV + stereo...
3. grabbed a video card out of another box, took an old 15" monitor and am using it as a second head on my main workstation.....
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I don't think a manned mission will happen any time soon, but with technology seeming to stagnate (compared to the periods of quick and important advances in the first 3/4 of the 20th century) we need something to "light a fire under our asses". Aside from a major world war, nothing helped improve the rate of technological advancement more than the space race of the 60s. There hasn't really been any monumental discoveries/acheivements (besides the genome project) in the last 20 or so years - just refinement of current technology. Just the fact that Moore's Law for computing power is still relevant attests to this.
Since we don't want another world war, a good old fashioned space race would do wonders for all the R&D guys out there - increased funding, less pressure to make projects financially viable, etc.
Only problem is finding someone to race against.....don't think the Russians can handle it anymore - maybe the Chinese?
Haven't heard anything recently on this - don't think he ever got the funding to really start.
this would be great for CAD stuff....I'm finding I spend too much time moving around and zooming.....especially to get those little details. AutoCAD already has an aerial view window - it just gets in the way having it on the same display as my drawing view....still, don't think my boss will go for the $300 US price tag.
just browsing the mailing list archives for Xine - seems as if their 0.5 development releases are starting to have some support for menu navigation....haven't tried yet, but we might get lucky, right?
wonder what the fertility rates will be like after a few years of these things running in every home....
Seems like the same thing that was done when broadcast transmissions switched from black & white to color - if you had a color TV, you saw a color feed, but if you still had an old b&w, you could still watch the same channels. Essentially the same problem. In retrospect, I'm kind of surprised this wasn't put forward sooner.
In Ontario, most universities keep a record of academic performance of each high school - in other words, they compare the high school marks with post-secondary performance and put each secondary school on a gradient. But it still depends alot on the university - when I applied at the end of high school for Computer/Electrical engineering at several different institutions, I had to have everything from character and professional references to 1500 word essays on why I was interested in enginering.....grades just got me the possibilty of being accepted.
A true OS solution....doesn't quite fit the problem, but everything needs a little modification....right? Coffee HOWTO
The downtown core is moving to 647/416 (mandatory 10 digit as of March 5), and the suburbs are moving to 905/289 (mandatory 10 digit as of Jun 9). Just got the "official" Bell Canada notice in the mail yesterday. Only thing is, as of January 8, they'll be playing a reminder to dial 10 digits next time, which will kill any modem/fax transmissions.....
Actually, themes.org has a posting asking for a new maintainer for the kde.themes.org area....seems the previous maintainers got bogged down with other things and are looking for someone to take over...
First thing to work on - the interface. Has anyone tried to do anything with Blender? It's the ugliest and least intuitive thing I've ever seen. Lightwave and 3D studio aren't a whole lot better....but there _is_ room for improvement.
Imagine playing Jedi Knight with this (multiplayer.....)
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Not to be picky, but I thought that influenza was a retro-virus - that means it has RNA, not DNA as is continuously mentioned in the movie. Anyways, it sucked. I should have seen Gladiator again.