What I find very strange is that Apple choose to use the iPhone name, as they wanted to use the Mac trademark more. I can understand that they would use the iPhone name as a continuation of the iPod brand, or to lift on the rumors of the press.
As the phone is basically a Mac OS X machine (if that is correct information) I would have expected they would call it the MacPhone. From this point of view it would be unlikely to be called the Apple Phone. MacPhone also sound nicer.
I've seen the demo of Ultra-HDTV at the broadcasting conference here in amsterdam a couple of months ago All I can say extremely cool. And all the people who say the eyes can not resolve this resolution, should wait to actually see this demo before passing judgment.
The Japanese do know how to make a prototype, they had all the equipment working, nicely in 19" deskside racks, with pretty equipment inside. They had a camera on the top of the building feeding live (using IP over fiber) to the theater. They could distribute uncompressed, but also compress in real time, scaling in real time (they had a couple of these 2000 line LCD TVs around the building). Record and Playback (they show a 12 minute video of nature, streets in a city, monuments, etc).
Very professional, it looked like you could simply buy it and use it turn-key in a TV studio. Although it may have been a little expensive:-)
The only problem: if you have bad eye sight you experience the world as a blur. If you look at this picture you are focusing on the screen which is closer to you than the image suggest, however the image is completely in focus and thus you see the image much sharper than reality. Even with perfect eye sight you notice this with Ultra-HD. I think people in the CGI industry would call this hyper reality, I am sure if one would make a dramatic production using this technology one would like to use a lower depth of field.
If you leave GPS Graffiti in a train/subway/tram/car. Shouldn't the graffiti stay relative to the transportation device, instead of relative to earth? It depend of course if you are leaving graffiti about the outside "Nice house", or about the train it self "gum on this seat".
Actually there are reasons to not write platform independent code. In my free time I develop a reasonable successful audio recording application for the Apple (Boom Recorder).
Before I started I thought really long and hard about if should I write an application that would be platform independent Apple, Linux, Windows or only for Apple. On the one hand I would have needed to write lots of abstractions between: completely different Audio APIs, User Interface APIs and Custom User Interface drawing. On the other hand I could use the tight integration that Apple's Cocoa offers between the user interface and the actual objects. I've decided to build a native Cocoa application and I have not regretted it (except for the sometimes angry emails from people who want it do be a Windows application).
I especially like Cocoa's bindings, this allows me to link user interface elements directly to the data in the object model, without the need for controller objects. Even better Cocoa includes standard controller objects to handle a lot of functions for you, for example: you can bind a user interface element directly to a preference; thus the user interface element keeps its state between invocations of the application.
As the largest part of my application is the user interface, simply drawing it and directly binding it to the object model allows me to develop quicker and include new features requested by customers. If I would have made a cross platform application, it would have meant maintaining the abstractions and having to program the user interface control instead of simply drawing it.
maybe it was filled with InkJet Ink, from what I understand that is one of the most valueble liquids in the world. Maybe it was pressurised to form a solid and then put in the capsule:-)
Here in europa most of the population has a camera phone. They are being used to record crime, including how the police are handling it.
The first time I really noticed this change of "power to the people" was on the BBC, there was a big fire somewhere in the industrial part of London and they where showing footage recorded on camera phones that the public had emailed to BBC News.
This is similar to other events that used to be recorded using camcorders of tourists, however it would take hours or days to arrive at the news office. This was minutes after it happened.
Ehm, yes, but how would you actually put out a battery fire. I understand that even a fire fighter just tries to move the battery to a location where it can cause the least harm such as the center of a room and let it run out of fuel. I guess you would be able to put one in the center of a plane, try and remove all the seats around it. and hope it doesn't burn right through the floor.
I had teachers that didn't mind such notes during an exam for the same reason. First you probably now know the subject because you have written it down. Second you can not write the complete knowledge needed on such an exam on a cheat paper. These teachers would ask open questions on exams anyway.
Many of the teachers from my electronics school didn't even care if you made a mistake and accidentally calculated the wrong result, as long as they could see how I got the result was correct. They didn't even care if the way I found the result was the one they taught me.
An example: I once had an exam about analogue amplifiers (transistor amps), I basically went blank and didn't know any of the long formulas that I should have know for the exam. With the large formulas you could pretty simply just fill in and get the amplification ratio for the whole schematic. As I forgot this formula I had to fall back on the really basic formulas; U=I*R, P=U*I kind of things. I just put a 1 volt on the input of the schematic and calculated it right through, getting something of 10 MVolt on the output; which was the wrong answer because of a calc mistake, but the question was marked as "ok" anyway. Long story short, I got a 8 out of 10 for an exam that I completely blanked out on.
It definitely is not the comparable resolution to 35 mm film, although film can be scanned at this resolution there is too much film grain to actually get near this resolution.
For what it is worth, I've seen the demo of UltraHD, it is pretty amazing. For the people who think the resolution is much higher than the eye can resolve, nope, I think we can still resolve much more than UltraHD.
Anyway we want to get to a resolution of 2000 pixels/mm so that we can do holography.
For the ABN AMRO, also in the Netherlands they have a generic calculator like device where you can slide in your bank pas (which has a chip). You will have to logon to your bank-pas using your 4 digit code, then your bankpas is unlocked to handle the challenge/response of the website.
With large transactions they ask you to sign the destination bank account number, by doing the same challenge/response, but the challenge is part of the destination bank account number.
Actually with the amount of IPv6 addresses you will get assigned a/48 range, that is 16 bits for subnet routing and 64 bits for addresses within such a subnet. I believe this is mandatory (rules from RIPE, the european IANA) for an always-on customer.
Did they actually cheer a second to early. Or did the BBC compensate for the Leap second. How would you show a leap second on an analogue clock that they used.
Yes, but by the time we have that speed, we may have holographic TV, which needs a pixel density of a couple of thousand pixels per mm. Or if you don't want to go that far, what about people who glad their rooms with oLED wallpaper, with a little bit of pixel density, that will add up to a lot of pixels to send.
This story about this first vaccine and the inoculation of the British aristocracy, was incidentally on the BBC last night. But I didn't really watch it, so I don't know her name either
You can not play with nature like that. Both the cat will fall on his paws and the bread with butter will fall face down. severing the cat in two in the process
The way I tell nanotech and chemistry apart is: if you make a new molecule by changing how its atoms are arranged it is nano tech, if you make a new molecule by combining different atoms I would call it chemistry.
However it is a very thin line, for example if you create a new material by combining different atoms, this first arrangement is chemistry. If you than choose to see if you can change the properties by moving around the atoms (by using chemistry) it is called nanotech.
But then, creating a DNA/RNA strand (which is a single molecule) and choosing which base pairs you want to be in it is also called nanotech then.
And maybe plastic manufacturing is also nanotech.
And the first arrangement of atoms in a molecule is also nanotech.
So I guess there is no real difference of nantotech en chemistry after all.
Doesn't that take a lot of time if you have a lot of people showing up? I live in the Netherlands and swimming pools can be very busy, at some pools you pay for an hour of pool time, so there is a continues stream of people.
Now in the Netherlands (up to a few years ago) everyone got swimming lessons in junior high, so almost everyone can swim. I find it worrying that parents need to get swimming lessons for their kids now, they are quite expensive I've heard. We are in a country surrounded by water.
Apple sells power adapters with a firewire connection to charge firewire devices with, they may also sell a usb version now, as the new iPods do not have a firewire cable included anymore.
Or go the really cool route using color modulating crystals.
I don't have a link, but there is a company that makes light modulators. You point the laser trough this gizmo, use electronics to tell the gizmo what color it should be modulated to. Now add a single moving mirror, and some electronics to scan lines on the screen (or whatever form you like).
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What I find very strange is that Apple choose to use the iPhone name, as they wanted to use the Mac trademark more. I can understand that they would use the iPhone name as a continuation of the iPod brand, or to lift on the rumors of the press.
As the phone is basically a Mac OS X machine (if that is correct information) I would have expected they would call it the MacPhone.
From this point of view it would be unlikely to be called the Apple Phone. MacPhone also sound nicer.
I've seen the demo of Ultra-HDTV at the broadcasting conference here in amsterdam a couple of months ago
:-)
All I can say extremely cool. And all the people who say the eyes can not resolve this resolution, should wait to actually see this demo before passing judgment.
The Japanese do know how to make a prototype, they had all the equipment working, nicely in 19" deskside racks, with pretty equipment inside. They had a camera on the top of the building feeding live (using IP over fiber) to the theater. They could distribute uncompressed, but also compress in real time, scaling in real time (they had a couple of these 2000 line LCD TVs around the building). Record and Playback (they show a 12 minute video of nature, streets in a city, monuments, etc).
Very professional, it looked like you could simply buy it and use it turn-key in a TV studio. Although it may have been a little expensive
The only problem: if you have bad eye sight you experience the world as a blur. If you look at this picture you are focusing on the screen which is closer to you than the image suggest, however the image is completely in focus and thus you see the image much sharper than reality. Even with perfect eye sight you notice this with Ultra-HD. I think people in the CGI industry would call this hyper reality, I am sure if one would make a dramatic production using this technology one would like to use a lower depth of field.
Interesting,
If you leave GPS Graffiti in a train/subway/tram/car. Shouldn't the graffiti stay relative to the transportation device, instead of relative to earth?
It depend of course if you are leaving graffiti about the outside "Nice house", or about the train it self "gum on this seat".
Actually there are reasons to not write platform independent code.
In my free time I develop a reasonable successful audio recording application for the Apple (Boom Recorder).
Before I started I thought really long and hard about if should I write an application that would be platform independent Apple, Linux, Windows or only for Apple.
On the one hand I would have needed to write lots of abstractions between: completely different Audio APIs, User Interface APIs and Custom User Interface drawing. On the other hand I could use the tight integration that Apple's Cocoa offers between the user interface and the actual objects. I've decided to build a native Cocoa application and I have not regretted it (except for the sometimes angry emails from people who want it do be a Windows application).
I especially like Cocoa's bindings, this allows me to link user interface elements directly to the data in the object model, without the need for controller objects. Even better Cocoa includes standard controller objects to handle a lot of functions for you, for example: you can bind a user interface element directly to a preference; thus the user interface element keeps its state between invocations of the application.
As the largest part of my application is the user interface, simply drawing it and directly binding it to the object model allows me to develop quicker and include new features requested by customers. If I would have made a cross platform application, it would have meant maintaining the abstractions and having to program the user interface control instead of simply drawing it.
maybe it was filled with InkJet Ink, from what I understand that is one of the most valueble liquids in the world. Maybe it was pressurised to form a solid and then put in the capsule :-)
Here in europa most of the population has a camera phone. They are being used to record crime, including how the police are handling it.
The first time I really noticed this change of "power to the people" was on the BBC, there was a big fire somewhere in the industrial part of London and they where showing footage recorded on camera phones that the public had emailed to BBC News.
This is similar to other events that used to be recorded using camcorders of tourists, however it would take hours or days to arrive at the news office. This was minutes after it happened.
Big Brother just got a lot of little sisters.
Don't worry they will plug that analogue hole when everyone is reading digital books.
Ehm, yes, but how would you actually put out a battery fire. I understand that even a fire fighter just tries to move the battery to a location where it can cause the least harm such as the center of a room and let it run out of fuel.
I guess you would be able to put one in the center of a plane, try and remove all the seats around it. and hope it doesn't burn right through the floor.
I had teachers that didn't mind such notes during an exam for the same reason. First you probably now know the subject because you have written it down. Second you can not write the complete knowledge needed on such an exam on a cheat paper. These teachers would ask open questions on exams anyway.
Many of the teachers from my electronics school didn't even care if you made a mistake and accidentally calculated the wrong result, as long as they could see how I got the result was correct. They didn't even care if the way I found the result was the one they taught me.
An example:
I once had an exam about analogue amplifiers (transistor amps), I basically went blank and didn't know any of the long formulas that I should have know for the exam. With the large formulas you could pretty simply just fill in and get the amplification ratio for the whole schematic. As I forgot this formula I had to fall back on the really basic formulas; U=I*R, P=U*I kind of things. I just put a 1 volt on the input of the schematic and calculated it right through, getting something of 10 MVolt on the output; which was the wrong answer because of a calc mistake, but the question was marked as "ok" anyway. Long story short, I got a 8 out of 10 for an exam that I completely blanked out on.
It definitely is not the comparable resolution to 35 mm film, although film can be scanned at this resolution there is too much film grain to actually get near this resolution.
For what it is worth, I've seen the demo of UltraHD, it is pretty amazing. For the people who think the resolution is much higher than the eye can resolve, nope, I think we can still resolve much more than UltraHD.
Anyway we want to get to a resolution of 2000 pixels/mm so that we can do holography.
Are you certain? I saw this documentary once about living ancient Egyptians, they did have glowing eyes though.
For the ABN AMRO, also in the Netherlands they have a generic calculator like device where you can slide in your bank pas (which has a chip). You will have to logon to your bank-pas using your 4 digit code, then your bankpas is unlocked to handle the challenge/response of the website.
With large transactions they ask you to sign the destination bank account number, by doing the same challenge/response, but the challenge is part of the destination bank account number.
Actually with the amount of IPv6 addresses you will get assigned a /48 range, that is 16 bits for subnet routing and 64 bits for addresses within such a subnet. I believe this is mandatory (rules from RIPE, the european IANA) for an always-on customer.
Did they actually cheer a second to early.
Or did the BBC compensate for the Leap second.
How would you show a leap second on an analogue clock that they used.
This is one of the most funniest comments I've read, very british like humor.
Yes, but by the time we have that speed, we may have holographic TV, which needs a pixel density of a couple of thousand pixels per mm. Or if you don't want to go that far, what about people who glad their rooms with oLED wallpaper, with a little bit of pixel density, that will add up to a lot of pixels to send.
This story about this first vaccine and the inoculation of the British aristocracy, was incidentally on the BBC last night. But I didn't really watch it, so I don't know her name either
4.23 milliard (for people who live long scale countries)
The poor are the ones eating solylent green, the rich can actually buy real strawberries and steak (or a cop steals them from a dead man).
You can not play with nature like that.
Both the cat will fall on his paws and the bread with butter will fall face down. severing the cat in two in the process
The way I tell nanotech and chemistry apart is: if you make a new molecule by changing how its atoms are arranged it is nano tech, if you make a new molecule by combining different atoms I would call it chemistry.
However it is a very thin line, for example if you create a new material by combining different atoms, this first arrangement is chemistry. If you than choose to see if you can change the properties by moving around the atoms (by using chemistry) it is called nanotech.
But then, creating a DNA/RNA strand (which is a single molecule) and choosing which base pairs you want to be in it is also called nanotech then.
And maybe plastic manufacturing is also nanotech.
And the first arrangement of atoms in a molecule is also nanotech.
So I guess there is no real difference of nantotech en chemistry after all.
Doesn't that take a lot of time if you have a lot of people showing up? I live in the Netherlands and swimming pools can be very busy, at some pools you pay for an hour of pool time, so there is a continues stream of people.
Now in the Netherlands (up to a few years ago) everyone got swimming lessons in junior high, so almost everyone can swim. I find it worrying that parents need to get swimming lessons for their kids now, they are quite expensive I've heard. We are in a country surrounded by water.
Apple sells power adapters with a firewire connection to charge firewire devices with, they may also sell a usb version now, as the new iPods do not have a firewire cable included anymore.
Or go the really cool route using color modulating crystals.
I don't have a link, but there is a company that makes light modulators. You point the laser trough this gizmo, use electronics to tell the gizmo what color it should be modulated to. Now add a single moving mirror, and some electronics to scan lines on the screen (or whatever form you like).
Nah, by then you simply pay the thinking fee using taxes.