Never mind, I found an article detailing the story of the inventor:
http://www.lomcximo.com/english/people/camarena/ co ntent.html
WITHOUT MONEY He claimed not to have a penny from his inventions, as he had invested all of his money in new research.
Can the inventor of the first color television be Latin American?
In 1940 at the age of 22, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena obtained US Patent No. 2,296,022, which protected his "Trichromatic" system used for color television transmissions.
Gonzalez Camarena was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, in 1917.
In 1932, after two years of studies, he left the mechanical-electrical engineering program at the National Polytechnic Institute to work as an operator at the radio station of his country?s Department of Public Education. HIS OTHER SELF Besides being an inventor, Gonzalez Camarena liked astronomy, he was a connoisseur of archeology and mexican history, played several musical instruments and composed beautiful songs.
In 1934 he built his first monochromatic television camera from scrap materials he got from flea markets.
After his US patent for the color television on August 19, 1940, he registered his invention at the Mexican Office of Patents and Trademarks, No. 10,235, thus protecting himself against plagiarism and prohibited use of his invention in his country.
He immediately went to work, as chief operator, to the radio stations XEW and XEQ in the Mexican capital.
In 1942 he began experimenting with television transmissions from his home, and in 1946 he founded XEGC, the first experimental television station in Mexico, with only two receptors built and installed by himself; one in XEW and the other in the Mexican League of Radio Experimenters.
My ideal is to build economical receptors so that everyone can have one.
In 1948 he established Gon-Com Laboratories to manufacture TV transmission equipment, which he succeeded in exporting to the US two years later.
That same year he invented the first remote control in Mexico, showcased at the Presidential Objective Exposition that took place in the center of the city.
Of specific importance is the first black and white transmission of a surgical procedure by closed circuit television during the 7th Assembly of Surgeons, an experience that was repeated the following year during the same Assembly, but this time in full color.
In 1950, he obtained the right to commercialize Channel 5 in Mexico with the acronym XHGC, where two years later he began operations on May 10th with a Mother?s Day festival; but it wasn?t until August 18th that he began regular broadcasts. In 1960, Gonzalez Camarena obtained in Mexico and in the US patents for his ?Kaleidoscope?, an innovative color television system that was later improved and protected under a new patent in 1962 as the ?simplified bi-color.?
In 1963, XHGC began the first commercial color transmissions, broadcast to televisions in ten shopping centers in Mexico City, where the general public could enjoy them for free.
Unfortunately, in 1965 Gonzalez Camarena died in a tragic automobile accident.
This brilliant Latin American, without even reaching the age of 50 and working entirely in his own country of Mexico, managed to excel in a field traditionally reserved for scientists in first world countries.
Wasn't the inventor of Color TV a mexican engineer? I seem to remember the story of the man, traveling to the US to get funding for this project, because the mexican government didn't believe him and wouldn't support him economically.
But I read the article and he's not mentioned. I think his initials were G.C., there's a national TV station named after him here in Mexico (XHGC)
And Odin, the god of Popcorn, and... As Eddie Izzard says:
"And then the Romans came along with their gods that they had borrowed from the Greeks. They invaded Greece and conquered them and ? and stole all their gods?and renamed them with Roman names. Cause the Roman gods before that were kind of crap, you know ? Jeff, the god of biscuits. And Simon, the god of hairdos. And uh, you know, they had the god of war, the god of thunder, the god of running around and jumping and stuff and uh, ?Oh, let?s get some of those! Thank God they?ve got some gods, cause we have these crap gods, you know??"
I had some Aiwa earbud headphones that I used to wear almost all day at my old job. I saw them literally cling to a metal bar once, due to the magnets in them. I think that's probably pretty bad, isn't it?
This is strange, since I have an Archos recorder 20, and I can listen to it straight on for at least 10 hours.
This is of course using Rockbox, the open source OS for the Archos which has some minor battery management improvements.
In fact, the Archos Recorder has the advantage that you can switch batteries to higher capacity.I have the original 1500mh batteries, and Rockbox allows you to go up to 2500mh batteries, which should give you about 15 hours of continous playback.
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Man, the RockLobsters have SO sold out. I liked them more when they were totally indie.
The accounting program used by the firm I work for is DOS based. The accountants threatened to leave if they changed it. So we have a pentium 166 running just this one stupid app.
You say the web is only one click away. Well, unplug yourself, friend. I noticed my productivity went down the crapper when I got access to the internet in my office. It truly is addictive, and even worse, my attention span is much lower now. These newfangled multiple window browsers...
Also, I began doing Tai Chi, but I imagine Yoga or any other kind of exercise will help you focus.
Actually, in interviews with Miyamoto it is clear it wasn't his original intention, but was convinced by a co-producer (whose name I forget) to switch to this Cel shaded "kiddy" style.
He mentions being very nervous about the criticisms of the switch from the "original" (Spaceworld) look, and the final GC, but later said he was satisfied that the look was apparently accepted, and in some cases praised.
You know, Lightwave only has an Undo feature that is one level deep (IE you can only undo your very last move). I don't know if that says more about lightwave or about undo's in general.
Well, they certainly carry over to Mexico, where for some reason politicians say "Well, the U.S. has been doing this for ages, and look how well off they are!"
I just wish americans would fight these laws harder, because they really do affect everyone on the planet.
(This is from http://www.reenhead.com/comments.php?93238396 )
"It is not clear yet whether the SARS virus will be similar to corona virus in these respects, but it is highly likely.
So, the top 5 reasons SARS is here with us forever.
1. The corona virus envelope lacks immunogenicity. On average you get sick with corona virus every 2-4 years, but there are only two types of virus, hence 80% of infections represent re-infections with a type you have already fought off. So, the immune response to corona virus is not permanent like those for chicken-pox or measles (which are only near permanent, you can get reactivations and the vaccines wear off over a decade or so). 2. It is a cold, colds spread via small particles of aerosolized spit or mucus from sneezing, coughing, breathing etc. The spread is unlikely to be contained considering this. 3. It also represents a fusion with some kind of animal virus, making an animal reservoir highly likely, although so far it only appears to infect humans. 4. A vaccine could conceivably be developed, but because the coronavirus is typically resistant to normal immune responses illicited by the viral envelope or whatever your body targets, it is likely we will have to use a much more experimental type of vaccine. Such as plasmid vaccines which express a chosen protein from the virus, or a vaccine that infuses a particularly wierd epitope of the virus that is not mutable, and your body doesn't ordinarily recognize. 5. Finally, it is unlikely we will resolve this anytime soon because our government, and the government of China have not taken this seriously. The CDC took it seriously, and I'm sure in a decade we'll here about how they fought the administration for more attention, money, manpower etc., but it was denied just like with HIV. The second this was detected we should have taken far more drastic measures. Now the fatality rate approaches 10%, and the virus even kills young healthy people.
So, we're screwed. Just sit back and wait for the people to start dropping like flies. Dr. Strangelove 04/25/03 05:56pm"
I can add that in Colima, Mexico there is the same (or a similar) fungus. The people there know it, it seems to eat only CDs, and takes only a few days. Colima has a hot, humid weather, near the sea.
It's possible to sue, but it's not possible to win.
They have too much money, and I doubt the victims would have the money and the will to keep a trial going for years(which they probably will lose). They have the media (those pop stars are darlings of the media), the money and the politicians.
Didn't it bother anyone that the previous Two Towers trailer used the music from REQUIEM FOR A DREAM??
My girlfriend knew it, I knew it, even my mom knew it! It was just a bit reworked to sound more "Symphonic"(and it actually sounded pretty good when applied to the LOTR)
But isn't that some sort of copyright issue? Or is the music a copyright free work?
I'm just asking because I'd never noticed music from one movie being used in another. Very strange.
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Um, maybe slightly less than useless comment, but China has 1.3 billion people from last census, not 2 billion :)
I'd say "Equilibrium" with Christian Bale could loosely be based on Farenheit 451, except they added gunfights :)
Damn you Walmart! Damn YOUUUUU!
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Sorry, I just copied the link. But when you go to google and search for "The Wal-Mart Effect". you'll get the first link for that series of articles.
For some reason Slashdot adds a space between "walmart" in the link...
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-
Try this for a start:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-walmart-sg,1
Never mind, I found an article detailing the story of the inventor:
/ co ntent.html
http://www.lomcximo.com/english/people/camarena
WITHOUT MONEY
He claimed not to have a penny from his inventions, as he had invested all of his money in new research.
Can the inventor of the first color television be Latin American?
In 1940 at the age of 22, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena obtained US Patent
No. 2,296,022, which protected his "Trichromatic" system used for color television transmissions.
Gonzalez Camarena was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, in 1917.
In 1932, after two years of studies, he left the mechanical-electrical engineering program at the National Polytechnic Institute to work as an operator at the radio station of his country?s Department of Public Education.
HIS OTHER SELF
Besides being an inventor, Gonzalez Camarena liked astronomy, he was a connoisseur of archeology and mexican history, played several musical instruments and composed beautiful songs.
In 1934 he built his first monochromatic television camera from scrap materials he got from flea markets.
After his US patent for the color television on August 19, 1940, he registered his invention at the Mexican Office of Patents and Trademarks, No. 10,235, thus protecting himself against plagiarism and prohibited use of his invention in his country.
He immediately went to work, as chief operator, to the radio stations XEW and XEQ in the Mexican capital.
In 1942 he began experimenting with television transmissions from his home, and in 1946 he founded XEGC, the first experimental television station in Mexico, with only two receptors built and installed by himself; one in XEW and the other in the Mexican League of Radio Experimenters.
My ideal is to build economical receptors so that everyone can have one.
In 1948 he established Gon-Com Laboratories to manufacture TV transmission equipment, which he succeeded in exporting to the US two years later.
That same year he invented the first remote control in Mexico, showcased at the Presidential Objective Exposition that took place in the center of the city.
Of specific importance is the first black and white transmission of a surgical procedure by closed circuit television during the 7th Assembly of Surgeons, an experience that was repeated the following year during the same Assembly, but this time in full color.
In 1950, he obtained the right to commercialize Channel 5 in Mexico with the acronym XHGC, where two years later he began operations on May 10th with a Mother?s Day festival; but it wasn?t until August 18th that he began regular broadcasts.
In 1960, Gonzalez Camarena obtained in Mexico and in the US patents for his ?Kaleidoscope?, an innovative color television system that was later improved and protected under a new patent in 1962 as the ?simplified bi-color.?
In 1963, XHGC began the first commercial color transmissions, broadcast to televisions in ten shopping centers in Mexico City, where the general public could enjoy them for free.
Unfortunately, in 1965 Gonzalez Camarena died in a tragic automobile accident.
This brilliant Latin American, without even reaching the age of 50 and working entirely in his own country of Mexico, managed to excel in a field traditionally reserved for scientists in first world countries.
Wasn't the inventor of Color TV a mexican engineer? I seem to remember the story of the man, traveling to the US to get funding for this project, because the mexican government didn't believe him and wouldn't support him economically.
But I read the article and he's not mentioned. I think his initials were G.C., there's a national TV station named after him here in Mexico (XHGC)
And Odin, the god of Popcorn, and ... As Eddie Izzard says:
"And then the Romans came along with their gods that they had borrowed from the Greeks. They invaded Greece and conquered them and ? and stole all their gods?and renamed them with Roman names. Cause the Roman gods before that were kind of crap, you know ? Jeff, the god of biscuits. And Simon, the god of hairdos. And uh, you know, they had the god of war, the god of thunder, the god of running around and jumping and stuff and uh, ?Oh, let?s get some of those! Thank God they?ve got some gods, cause we have these crap gods, you know??"
I had some Aiwa earbud headphones that I used to wear almost all day at my old job. I saw them literally cling to a metal bar once, due to the magnets in them. I think that's probably pretty bad, isn't it?
Oh, wait, this is Slashdot...
This is strange, since I have an Archos recorder 20, and I can listen to it straight on for at least 10 hours.
.I have the original 1500mh batteries, and Rockbox allows you to go up to 2500mh batteries, which should give you about 15 hours of continous playback.
This is of course using Rockbox, the open source OS for the Archos which has some minor battery management improvements.
In fact, the Archos Recorder has the advantage that you can switch batteries to higher capacity
Man, the RockLobsters have SO sold out. I liked them more when they were totally indie.
The accounting program used by the firm I work for is DOS based. The accountants threatened to leave if they changed it. So we have a pentium 166 running just this one stupid app.
It's sad.
Lack of games and bad hardware support and installation.
Go forth, young Linuxite, and fix these. Call me when it's done!
Also, I began doing Tai Chi, but I imagine Yoga or any other kind of exercise will help you focus.
I got another!
"Opera singers seem to jump out at you when they hit the really high/loud notes."
He mentions being very nervous about the criticisms of the switch from the "original" (Spaceworld) look, and the final GC, but later said he was satisfied that the look was apparently accepted, and in some cases praised.
You know, Lightwave only has an Undo feature that is one level deep (IE you can only undo your very last move). I don't know if that says more about lightwave or about undo's in general.
He doesn't even refer to them as games. He calls them "products".
That's where Sierra went wrong.
Well, they certainly carry over to Mexico, where for some reason politicians say "Well, the U.S. has been doing this for ages, and look how well off they are!"
I just wish americans would fight these laws harder, because they really do affect everyone on the planet.
(This is from http://www.reenhead.com/comments.php?93238396 )
"It is not clear yet whether the SARS virus will be similar to corona virus in these respects, but it is highly likely.
So, the top 5 reasons SARS is here with us forever.
1. The corona virus envelope lacks immunogenicity. On average you get sick with corona virus every 2-4 years, but there are only two types of virus, hence 80% of infections represent re-infections with a type you have already fought off. So, the immune response to corona virus is not permanent like those for chicken-pox or measles (which are only near permanent, you can get reactivations and the vaccines wear off over a decade or so).
2. It is a cold, colds spread via small particles of aerosolized spit or mucus from sneezing, coughing, breathing etc. The spread is unlikely to be contained considering this.
3. It also represents a fusion with some kind of animal virus, making an animal reservoir highly likely, although so far it only appears to infect humans.
4. A vaccine could conceivably be developed, but because the coronavirus is typically resistant to normal immune responses illicited by the viral envelope or whatever your body targets, it is likely we will have to use a much more experimental type of vaccine. Such as plasmid vaccines which express a chosen protein from the virus, or a vaccine that infuses a particularly wierd epitope of the virus that is not mutable, and your body doesn't ordinarily recognize.
5. Finally, it is unlikely we will resolve this anytime soon because our government, and the government of China have not taken this seriously. The CDC took it seriously, and I'm sure in a decade we'll here about how they fought the administration for more attention, money, manpower etc., but it was denied just like with HIV. The second this was detected we should have taken far more drastic measures. Now the fatality rate approaches 10%, and the virus even kills young healthy people.
So, we're screwed. Just sit back and wait for the people to start dropping like flies.
Dr. Strangelove 04/25/03 05:56pm"
I can add that in Colima, Mexico there is the same (or a similar) fungus. The people there know it, it seems to eat only CDs, and takes only a few days. Colima has a hot, humid weather, near the sea.
It's possible to sue, but it's not possible to win.
They have too much money, and I doubt the victims would have the money and the will to keep a trial going for years(which they probably will lose). They have the media (those pop stars are darlings of the media), the money and the politicians.
Mommy, help me get out of here.
""Is there any of you who knows the kind of RPG Im looking for?""
Yes, it was called Planescape:Torment and was released in 1999.
Go and search forth, my friend. It's probably pretty hard to find now, but it's hands down... the best. RPG. Evar.
"Macintosh owners play games, too"
What, Breakout ain't enough for ya?
Didn't it bother anyone that the previous Two Towers trailer used the music from REQUIEM FOR A DREAM??
My girlfriend knew it, I knew it, even my mom knew it! It was just a bit reworked to sound more "Symphonic"(and it actually sounded pretty good when applied to the LOTR)
But isn't that some sort of copyright issue? Or is the music a copyright free work?
I'm just asking because I'd never noticed music from one movie being used in another. Very strange.