Apparently, some sources, such as Greenpeace disputes this:
"The 1991 cholera epidemic in Peru did not arise because the disinfection of water supplies with chlorine was discontinued. Chlorine disinfection of the public water supplies of the affected areas in Peru had been non-existent, intermittent and/or insufficient long before the cholera outbreak."...
"In Lima, a city with a population of seven million and a water supply built to serve 230,000, chlorination of the water was intermittent at best. After the epidemic, officials claimed their failure to chlorinate was the result of a report they had received from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that linked chlorination to a small risk of cancer. This was later described as "a face-saving excuse to cover up their laxity - while the city of Lima seems to have had the resources to chlorinate its water, the bureaucrats in charge chose not to make the effort." "
1920x1080p full resolution WMV clips. But be warned, recommended system is 3 Ghz (though it works) and the files are mammoth at about 150 megabytes for a 3 minute clip. (To play these HDTV clips, you do need the Windows Media 9 player now preinstalled on XP systems)
You should preview HDTV video clips from here...
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Hi,
Those people who want to see how good HDTV can look, can download video clips from http://www.wmvhd.com (Windoze unfortunately; I think). Several of those look AMAZING....
But you need at least a 2.5 Ghz computer (at least Athlon XP2700+ or Pentium 2.8 Ghz) to play the full resolution 1920x1080p video clips smoothly at a full 24 frames per second. Looks much better than DVD if you play on a good monitor at 1600x1200 or 2048x1536... actually 35mm quality now (I dare you to tell the difference...!)
Also, watch out -- these files are BIG on that site -- something like 150 megabyte download for just a 3 minute video clip!
These clips work fine under Windows Media 9 Player. Some of the lower resolution (1280x720p) clips still look better than DVD and yet plays on a slower computer. But don't bother downloading if you have less than 1.8 gigahertz!
Hopefully it works on Linux too (anyone know of a HDTV compatible WMV player for Linux?)
I am a deaf person who really appreciates the convenience of IP relay. There are many cases where I cannot use a modem. For example, from my laptop at a WiFi hotspot. I do not want to be stuck using only old-fashioned TTY's, and not all payphones have modem jacks. And sometimes I have to hunt down an Internet terminal if I am left home. (And that one time, I lost my Blackberry 7280; which also doubles as a wireless TTY)
I also use a Blackberry, and appreciate being able to telnet into an IP-Relay service too from my own handheld (using Idokorro telnet), or from either a PalmOS or PocketPC. (MCI IP-Relay has a telnet accessible service now) Or from any Linux box, or OS X shell prompt, when I don't feel like using a web browser.
I have a macro that allows me to launch IP-Relay web window from any phone number from my desktop PIM.
I really want them to add authentication ASAP; and please let certain other approved countries (ie Canada) use the services on a pay-per-use basis. Technically, if needed, I'd gladly pay $100 per month (I am a Canadian) to keep using IP-Relay because as a self employed software engineer, I really depend on IP-Relay for making business calls. (To back up my reputation -- my website is at http://www.marky.com -- or just google me using my last name 'Rejhon' as I dominate the top 10 hits.)
I also use the latest TDD technologies (ie Krown PocketComm) but I also use a Blackberry and a WiFi connected laptop.
I will be hurt greatly if they shut down IP-Relay. But I'd like to make them more secure; and add subscription service for Canadian users (ie $9.95 per month) of IP-Relay services. At the moment, I can only use the services to place calls to American companies.
Mark Rejhon -- http://www.marky.com Hearing FAQ at http://www.marky.com/hearing/
They took the red/infrareds at 1024x1024 and the blue/greens at 512x512 simply because most of the detail can be found in the most prominent color. It's a way to reduce data transmissions requirements.
In these cases where the green/blue images are 512x512 and red/infrared images are 1024x1024, the correct procedure is to scale up the respective green image/blue images to 1024x1024 and superimpose with either the red or infrared.
It's also why most consumer digital camera CCD's usually have two green pixels for every red pixel / every blue pixel. Green is the brightest color of the three primary colors, and thus more important to get the best resolution from green than from blue or red.
It's also the same sort of principle that Luma information on DVD is 720 pixels wide (black and white information) while chroma information is only 360 pixels wide (color information). Also, you Microsoft DirectShow programmers will understand this well -- with YUY2 and YVYU frame buffers, where you notice the luma (mono info) is double the resolution of a chroma component (color info - either the U component or the V component). For this, U corresponds to Pr and V corresponds to Pb in a Component color connection (Y Pr Pb).
Just some more FUD from Microsoft. Not that I actually hate all their products, but this is getting ricidulous...
I know of a few companies that use GPL open source software with LGPL-compliant plug-in API's, allowing them to keep the plug-ins proprietary while keeping the codebase open-source. Some of these companies are actually earning good money.
The most familiar example is open-source Mozilla (aka Netscape) with proprietary plug-ins such as Shockwave Flash. Also, designing proprietary software running on top of an open-source operating system can produce revenues. For example, the TiVo personal video recorder which runs Linux.
This type of plug-in technique has already been applied to other software.
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Actually, a streamlined OS can make things pretty fast. They already have Linux running on a Compaq iPaq, which is a 206Mhz StrongARM CPU based PDA with a CPU that runs more efficiently than the x86 instructions set of a Pentium III 300 Mhz!
(This is an early release of Linux - this site is actually hosted by Compaq, who recently released full hardware specs on the iPaq including low level registers and ports, making their iPaq an attractive "open" platform to program on)
The iPaq is a PocketPC with flash ROM - you can actually replace WinCE with a PDA version of Linux. The screenshots of Gnome are 320x240 - so you probably could install Gnome on this Compaq iPaq PDA sometime in the near future.
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Just think of the possibilities with the Times Square billboard! :D
Apparently, some sources, such as Greenpeace disputes this:
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"The 1991 cholera epidemic in Peru did not arise because the disinfection of water supplies with chlorine was discontinued. Chlorine disinfection of the public water supplies of the affected areas in Peru had been non-existent, intermittent and/or insufficient long before the cholera outbreak."
"In Lima, a city with a population of seven million and a water supply built to serve 230,000, chlorination of the water was intermittent at best. After the epidemic, officials claimed their failure to chlorinate was the result of a report they had received from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that linked chlorination to a small risk of cancer. This was later described as "a face-saving excuse to cover up their laxity - while the city of Lima seems to have had the resources to chlorinate its water, the bureaucrats in charge chose not to make the effort." "
Link to Greenpeace article on Peru Cholera crisis:
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/media/publications/t
www.wmvhd.com - Downloadable HDTV.
1920x1080p full resolution WMV clips. But be warned, recommended system is 3 Ghz (though it works) and the files are mammoth at about 150 megabytes for a 3 minute clip. (To play these HDTV clips, you do need the Windows Media 9 player now preinstalled on XP systems)
Hopefully, we can play this under Linux too, now that this technology is licensed:
http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5201352.html
Hi,
Those people who want to see how good HDTV can look, can download video clips from http://www.wmvhd.com (Windoze unfortunately; I think). Several of those look AMAZING....
But you need at least a 2.5 Ghz computer (at least Athlon XP2700+ or Pentium 2.8 Ghz) to play the full resolution 1920x1080p video clips smoothly at a full 24 frames per second. Looks much better than DVD if you play on a good monitor at 1600x1200 or 2048x1536... actually 35mm quality now (I dare you to tell the difference...!)
Also, watch out -- these files are BIG on that site -- something like 150 megabyte download for just a 3 minute video clip!
These clips work fine under Windows Media 9 Player. Some of the lower resolution (1280x720p) clips still look better than DVD and yet plays on a slower computer. But don't bother downloading if you have less than 1.8 gigahertz!
Hopefully it works on Linux too (anyone know of a HDTV compatible WMV player for Linux?)
Read the FCC paper -- it is DTV, not HDTV.
DTV is digital TV, which can just be digital low-resolution TV (standard definition, same number of scanlines as analog NTSC TV).
Although HDTV is encouraged, FCC only requires 100% DTV by 2006, not 100% HDTV by 2006. (Some circles say 2007, others say 2008...)
See my http://www.marky.com/hometheater/
(92" in that photo, but upgraded to 120" screen)
These days, cable is increasingly becoming a digital medium, not an analog medium.
There's no such thing as analog HDTV over cable (in commercial deployments, anyway).
Hi,
I am a deaf person who really appreciates the convenience of IP relay. There are many cases where I cannot use a modem. For example, from my laptop at a WiFi hotspot. I do not want to be stuck using only old-fashioned TTY's, and not all payphones have modem jacks. And sometimes I have to hunt down an Internet terminal if I am left home. (And that one time, I lost my Blackberry 7280; which also doubles as a wireless TTY)
I also use a Blackberry, and appreciate being able to telnet into an IP-Relay service too from my own handheld (using Idokorro telnet), or from either a PalmOS or PocketPC. (MCI IP-Relay has a telnet accessible service now) Or from any Linux box, or OS X shell prompt, when I don't feel like using a web browser.
I have a macro that allows me to launch IP-Relay web window from any phone number from my desktop PIM.
I really want them to add authentication ASAP; and please let certain other approved countries (ie Canada) use the services on a pay-per-use basis. Technically, if needed, I'd gladly pay $100 per month (I am a Canadian) to keep using IP-Relay because as a self employed software engineer, I really depend on IP-Relay for making business calls. (To back up my reputation -- my website is at http://www.marky.com -- or just google me using my last name 'Rejhon' as I dominate the top 10 hits.)
I also use the latest TDD technologies (ie Krown PocketComm) but I also use a Blackberry and a WiFi connected laptop.
I will be hurt greatly if they shut down IP-Relay. But I'd like to make them more secure; and add subscription service for Canadian users (ie $9.95 per month) of IP-Relay services. At the moment, I can only use the services to place calls to American companies.
Mark Rejhon -- http://www.marky.com
Hearing FAQ at http://www.marky.com/hearing/
Kano,
They took the red/infrareds at 1024x1024 and the blue/greens at 512x512 simply because most of the detail can be found in the most prominent color. It's a way to reduce data transmissions requirements.
In these cases where the green/blue images are 512x512 and red/infrared images are 1024x1024, the correct procedure is to scale up the respective green image/blue images to 1024x1024 and superimpose with either the red or infrared.
It's also why most consumer digital camera CCD's usually have two green pixels for every red pixel / every blue pixel. Green is the brightest color of the three primary colors, and thus more important to get the best resolution from green than from blue or red.
It's also the same sort of principle that Luma information on DVD is 720 pixels wide (black and white information) while chroma information is only 360 pixels wide (color information). Also, you Microsoft DirectShow programmers will understand this well -- with YUY2 and YVYU frame buffers, where you notice the luma (mono info) is double the resolution of a chroma component (color info - either the U component or the V component). For this, U corresponds to Pr and V corresponds to Pb in a Component color connection (Y Pr Pb).
Mark Rejhon
Just some more FUD from Microsoft. Not that I actually hate all their products, but this is getting ricidulous...
I know of a few companies that use GPL open source software with LGPL-compliant plug-in API's, allowing them to keep the plug-ins proprietary while keeping the codebase open-source. Some of these companies are actually earning good money.
The most familiar example is open-source Mozilla (aka Netscape) with proprietary plug-ins such as Shockwave Flash. Also, designing proprietary software running on top of an open-source operating system can produce revenues. For example, the TiVo personal video recorder which runs Linux.
This type of plug-in technique has already been applied to other software.
Thanks,
Mark Rejhon
http://www.marky.com
More information about installing Linux on a Compaq iPaq is at:
http://www.handhelds.org/Com paq/iPAQH3600/install.html
(This is an early release of Linux - this site is actually hosted by Compaq, who recently released full hardware specs on the iPaq including low level registers and ports, making their iPaq an attractive "open" platform to program on)
There are pictures of the iPaq:
http://www.compaq.com/products/h andhelds/pocketpc/
The iPaq is a PocketPC with flash ROM - you can actually replace WinCE with a PDA version of Linux. The screenshots of Gnome are 320x240 - so you probably could install Gnome on this Compaq iPaq PDA sometime in the near future.