The fibre-optic network provides the high-bandwidth link to your local electricity distribution point. It is then injected into the power supply lines.
Technical hurdles to be overcome include getting signals around local transformers (which can be achieved by turning off the supply and sending a guy up each and every pole that carries one), and somehow keeping the signals in the wires and not radiating everywhere (which can be achieved by magic).
That wasn't the point I was making. I agree that the film cameras will pick up all the flashes but, from the stills camera's point of view, the flash will be insufficient to affect the outcome of the exposure and is, therefore, pointless.
Oooooooh, it makes me giggle when those silly little automatic cameras go all flashy at night. A tiny little camera with a tiny flash isn't going to illuminate a large helicopter at a range of 20m.
The camera moments that really make me laugh are flash photographs of cityscapes at night taken through windows. Well, everyone needs pictures of bright reflected flashes. My album is full of them.
I have been getting increasingly worried about the fact that Labour can do what they like seemingly unopposed because a) they have a rediculous majority in the House and b) the opposition simply don't have a clue. It is a great relief that democracy worked in this case.
I raise my glass to all who, like myself, contacted their MP's and raised a stink.
So, amateur radio is dead, is it? Cell phones make it redundent, do they?
Have you ever been too far from a base-station to get a signal to your phone? Have you ever been in a cell that is overloaded?
What happens after a big earthquake (you have them over there in the US)? The power goes off, there are suddenly hundreds of thousands of people worried about getting out of buildings alive, gas mains break, fires start and everything falls apart. Suddenly, everyone dives for their cell phone (the landlines are down) and what basestations still have power are buried in traffic.
Tarrantaraaa! In come the radio hams, with their generators and portable antenna masts, who can set up a comms system in next to no time, with no external help. It's like the Open Source of the communications industry. These guys do it because they enjoy it. They are good at it because they enjoy it. They know what radios do, how they behave, how radio signals move, what affects them, and are well used to communicating with very weak stations (where your cell-phone connection would be cut off due to lack of signal).
If all else fails, there's morse code, where an intelligible conversation can be had with signals hundreds of times weaker than required for a voice contact.
Don't give us that rubbish about radio hams being obsolete.
Oh, as well as earthquakes, there are tornados, hurricanes, plane crashes, mudslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, alien invasions and Keanu Reeves.
The Manchester Machine, built and operated during the Second World War at Manchester University, England, was the very first stored program computer to work. Can't say that it was general purpose, though.
Just to straighten the record a bit- saying that this was *THE* software behind the Matrix is not telling the whole story. The BulletTime sequences were shot using a large number of stills cameras, fired electronically. Unfortunately, each camera had its own trigger to shutter delay, resulting in hugely jerky images. Before anything could be done with them, they had to be smoothed, and extra frames inserted. This job was done by UK based Snell & Wilcox (for whom I worked at the time), with their technology called FloMo, which can very precisely measure the motion between frames and allow very sharp temporal interpolation. It was this that made the motion smooth, before any other effects, backgrounds, etc. were added. For the geeks amongst us, it is notable that Mr. Reeves' leg would pass through one of the pillars in the subway station if it was on screen at the time.... EtF.
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The fibre-optic network provides the high-bandwidth link to your local electricity distribution point. It is then injected into the power supply lines.
Technical hurdles to be overcome include getting signals around local transformers (which can be achieved by turning off the supply and sending a guy up each and every pole that carries one), and somehow keeping the signals in the wires and not radiating everywhere (which can be achieved by magic).
Has this guy never heard of the verb to motivate? There are so many good words out there, we don't need to invent bad ones to replace them.
Finkployd, I bow to you in reverence and awe. You have my eternal gratitude.
EtF.
That wasn't the point I was making. I agree that the film cameras will pick up all the flashes but, from the stills camera's point of view, the flash will be insufficient to affect the outcome of the exposure and is, therefore, pointless.
EtF.
Oooooooh, it makes me giggle when those silly little automatic cameras go all flashy at night. A tiny little camera with a tiny flash isn't going to illuminate a large helicopter at a range of 20m.
The camera moments that really make me laugh are flash photographs of cityscapes at night taken through windows. Well, everyone needs pictures of bright reflected flashes. My album is full of them.
EtF
I have been getting increasingly worried about the fact that Labour can do what they like seemingly unopposed because a) they have a rediculous majority in the House and b) the opposition simply don't have a clue. It is a great relief that democracy worked in this case.
I raise my glass to all who, like myself, contacted their MP's and raised a stink.
EtF.
".... and kick up a stink and make a fuss before someone thinks of blaming us".
Trey Parker & Matt Stone- from South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut
"Mummy, what is that man doing?"
"Don't worry, dear. There are some odd people in the world. If all he is doing is typing on his knees, you needn't worry"
Are there any other UK residents on /. who giggle at ATI naming their graphics cards after cheap washing powder?
EtF.
So, amateur radio is dead, is it? Cell phones make it redundent, do they?
Have you ever been too far from a base-station to get a signal to your phone? Have you ever been in a cell that is overloaded?
What happens after a big earthquake (you have them over there in the US)? The power goes off, there are suddenly hundreds of thousands of people worried about getting out of buildings alive, gas mains break, fires start and everything falls apart. Suddenly, everyone dives for their cell phone (the landlines are down) and what basestations still have power are buried in traffic.
Tarrantaraaa! In come the radio hams, with their generators and portable antenna masts, who can set up a comms system in next to no time, with no external help. It's like the Open Source of the communications industry. These guys do it because they enjoy it. They are good at it because they enjoy it. They know what radios do, how they behave, how radio signals move, what affects them, and are well used to communicating with very weak stations (where your cell-phone connection would be cut off due to lack of signal).
If all else fails, there's morse code, where an intelligible conversation can be had with signals hundreds of times weaker than required for a voice contact.
Don't give us that rubbish about radio hams being obsolete.
Oh, as well as earthquakes, there are tornados, hurricanes, plane crashes, mudslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, alien invasions and Keanu Reeves.
Just for the record, I am neither fat, nor bald.
Paul Robertson G0RQN.
Ethel.
Easy- just pay the locals to blow up the building.
Anyone remember the magnetic core store? 256 bits you could hold in the palm of your hand. Ethel.
Just to straighten the record a bit- saying that this was *THE* software behind the Matrix is not telling the whole story. The BulletTime sequences were shot using a large number of stills cameras, fired electronically. Unfortunately, each camera had its own trigger to shutter delay, resulting in hugely jerky images. Before anything could be done with them, they had to be smoothed, and extra frames inserted. This job was done by UK based Snell & Wilcox (for whom I worked at the time), with their technology called FloMo, which can very precisely measure the motion between frames and allow very sharp temporal interpolation. It was this that made the motion smooth, before any other effects, backgrounds, etc. were added. For the geeks amongst us, it is notable that Mr. Reeves' leg would pass through one of the pillars in the subway station if it was on screen at the time.... EtF.
Before distributing encrypted data and a program to decrypt and display it, take a look at the DeCSS stories....