The links go to the original JPEGS on their site - be gentle
Atari in hospital
I was contacted some time ago by some person asking me if I can help with
repair or replacement of Atari 800XL for hospital. I was very curious about
that, because it's known that Czech hospitals are in bad financial situation
but I just wondered how they could use it at the end of the nineties.
The person was kind enough to send me some details about setup and also
sent me few pictures.
Description
It's used in child cardiocenter in Faculty Hospital Motol for the heart
diagnosis. They are looking for uninvited leaks between two parts of heart.
Principle is in injecting isotope in blood and screening its movement in
vascular system of pacient.
Usage
1) Computer is started, program is loaded from cassette.
2) Entering the data of patient (name, birthdate, height, weight).
3) Entering the date & time of checkup.
4) Entering the age of the isotope.
5) Program computes the optimal amount of isotope.
6) The probes are pointed to certain places of patient's body.
7) Injection of isotope.
8) For 5 minutes the program records the data from the probes.
9) Saving the data to cassette.
10) Disconnecting the gamma interface, connecting the teletype interface.
11) Priting of the protocol to teletype.
The checkup could be done by usage of other gamma camera, but it takes about
1 hour and the amount of isotope needs to be higher.
INFOGRAMES, INC. LICENSES PHENOMENALLY SUCCESSFUL DRAGON BALL Z PROPERTY FROM FUNIMATION Top-rated Anime Cartoon Series Comes To Life In Video Games NEW YORK, November 30, 2000
So two weeks after the announcement they start threatening the Bid for Power people. OK, looking at the screenshots I can see why : this looks really good.
2. Lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits. A review on PC Gamer or c|net carries a lot more weight than one disgruntled gamer in Idaho (or wherever). They'll selectively sue, like they do already
How about this on a review page : Because of the fact that by the UCITA law we are forbidden to publish bad reviews, we will not review Microsoft Office 10. Draw your own conclusions.
The original review might have said something like : It's not the best thing in the world , but now it sounds like IT'S CRAP !!!!
Does anyone else have some creative uses for UCITA?
From the point of view of the tax office there is a benefit - namely you benefit from being able to do what the software enabled you to do.
Which would mean that if I need software to do a specific thing and I decide to program it myself, I could be (theoretically) taxed for it. Right? I do benefit from the software, so there's no difference.
They could cover it up so that they won't have to pay a thing.
Then they'd say "There were no holes, but just to be on the safe side we changed some things anyway"
But let's wait with the conspiracy theory until after their review of the 450 entries. Reasonable doubt and stuff (you can find more than enough doubt around here, it's reason that's sometimes hard to get;-)
So, if I understand you correctly, the RIAA is trying to make sure the fees coming from web broadcast is going to them instead of to the artists. And they are using US law to get it.
Does that mean that European or Asian web broadcasters won't have to pay anything at all?
Money going to artists = GOOD. Money going to RIAA is BAD !
On their website, when you click censure (where you can post anonymous postcards, what this was all about), there is a warning :
WARNING
It has come to our attention that certain people have been using annoy.com to deliver what some might consider to be threats of physical violence or harm to others.
Do not mistake our commitment to freedom of speech for a license to abuse our service in this manner.
We plan to cooperate fully with law enforcement agencies in whatever efforts they make to find you and punish you - even if it's some renegade authoritarian dictatorship that might crucify your stupid ass if they catch you.
Free speech and annoy.com are not about harassment and definitely not about harm or violence. If you think for a second we will allow cowardly idiots to spoil our free speech party you are making a mistake. A huge mistake.
Just wondering what they mean with "some renegade authoritarian dictatorship that might crucify your stupid ass if they catch you". In light of these events I mean.
X-Box will only run binaries that have been digitally signed by microsoft. These executables will not run on a normal PC and can only be decrypted with decryption hardware built into the X-Box chipset.
Until somebody figures out how it works and makes DeMsft. Of course, don't go telling the judge that you did it to run Micro$oft stuff on your Linux box this time.....(I can just imagine it : Judge stares at you, scratches his head ".....could you repeat that please?"
This will change - it has to change. And yes, the European model for charging for online access will certainly be dead and buried within two years - the cracks in this strategy are already obvious.
I hope so. I didn't like the fact that I couldn't use the phone for 3 months because I couldn't pay the bill, which ran a bit higher than usual because I did some research on the web. Luckily we can finally use cable modems in our town. But it's just one monopoly replacing another, and even though it's a lot cheaper, due to the explosive growth of cable users and the slow actions taken by the cable provider to update their system, to keep from getting overwhelmed they are now resorting to a more and more restrictive approach : restricted download speeds & more restricted upload speeds and more and more limiting the download quantity. And a friend who lives 20Km from me still has to wait until the end of 2001 before he can get cable. Adsl is so expensive no average person can afford it.
That's not to say that it won't happen, and I do hope it will happen as fast as you think. But from what I've seen it doesn't seem very likely (in this timeframe, I mean).
Frankly, I find that people who cling to these archiac attitudes are the people who know the least about encryption technology
You are right, but if enough people believe it's not safe, Webplications won't be profitable enough. And about credit cards : even though it's secure there's still the chance that, just like in real life, someone at the receiving end will run off with your credit card data. Of course it wouldn't do him much good, but what if this happened with that fantastic breakthrough you were typing up that could make you rich beyond your wildest dreams. It maybe impossible that this would happen in an ideal world, but suppose your webplication wasn't open source (to get back on topic), and the company that made it overlooked some serious bugs or had some convenient backdoors....
For what it's worth, I believe it WILL be safe enough (at least if you know what to use). All I've written is just hypothetical FUD. But when the day comes that webplications become reality, and if that day is spoiled by someone spreading real FUD..... well, we all should be aware of the power of FUD by now.
Of course, with OSS, people can check if their fears have a base in reality, and fix things if needed.
Summary : I DO believe in a rosey future, I just don't feel comfortable with putting a timeframe on it. And that's because those timeframes can never accurately represent the greed factor, both those of companies that want to create webplications and those that want to remain desktop oriented.
(I'm very tired at this moment, so please ignore the typos and grammatical errors - heck, I'm so tired that maybe you should ignore this post altogether. I won't lose any sleep over it, mainly because I can't afford to lose more sleep anyway:-P)
But you have to remember that a great deal of the world still has to pay a lot of money to get on the internet. When you have to pay a certain amount of money per minute that you are online, some expensive packages that don't need the web suddenly become a lot cheaper in comparison. And the companies that do their reseach know that. So, until things have improved enough (could be next year, could be in 10 years, who knows), or until someone decides that Europe isn't important, the desktop mindset is still the right mindset.
Of course, medium to big sized companies don't have to worry about internet costs, but I do think they don't like the idea of typing up highly confedential material over a WEBplication. I mean, imagine someone working at Oracle typing up the new ideas of the company on "word for Microsoft.NET" and somebody at microsoft writing down the details... I don't mean to say that it actually will be like this, only that this thought will cross the minds of many CEOs (but maybe I give those CEOs too much credit;-)
But that doesn't have to mean that people who don't want to pay for their software won't benefit from it.
This reminds me of the vaguely similar work ethic of a non OSS company named Hash. They make a 3D modeling package. They sell you a one-year subscription of their software, which means that you get all the updates they release in that year. And they release a lot over a year. They follow their own agenda, so if there's a feature you really want, you can either wait until they think that it would be a good idea to have that feature, or you can pay them to program it. But they will make sure that every user of their program gets to use that feature, not just the person who paid for it
Now, I don't see them crossing over to OSS any day soon (you can read about it if you seach amongst the latest Martin's Minutes you have to go up to number 297. BTW the last article is about their dealings with M$) BUT if you look at the OSS projects that have corporate backing, you'll see that it's actually the same model.
Right now, these large companies are backing Linux so that Linux can become a more viable desktop option (for their own reasons). But we all benefit from it. And I think that in a not too distant future smaller companies will pay OSS programmers for 'just that one extra feature in MySQL that will make our company more efficient'. They'll pay for it, because they really need it, but in the end we all can use that extra feature, and OSS software will become even more robust & packed with features, and more people will see OSS software as a viable option....
Maybe I'm a bit too optimistic. So sue me. heh - In the following weeks we intend to prove to the court that the defendant has shown traits of optimism on a public forum
First some background about me : I've been involved in art for more than 10 years : studying it and creating it. I've only recently started learning how to program.
Now : why did I write this? Well, a lot of people look at me stangely when I tell them I consider programming an art form. IT IS !!!!! You're CREATING something in a way that only you could. When I program a database, for example, it will work in a certain way because that's my individualistic view on how a database should work.Not all people will like it of course, but not all people like my paintings either:-( Of course : if you're working for a company then you're no longer making art, because you're following orders and not expressing your individuality.
But what does it have to do with the case? Well, how would a judge feel about outlawing art? (please remember that the days of both Nazi Germany AND McCarthy (sp?) have long passed)
Please note that I'm also new to the/. community, so I don't know if I'm rehashing old stuff. My knowledge about the USA is also very limited, being a European. So feel free to correct me, but please don't make me sit in the corner wearing that dunce-hat (not again!;-)
I don't think that this technology would be used in the final stages of rendering a scene. The most interesting feature of this technology to me is the fact that it can be used to filter out the noise in 3D scanned objects.And it can also be used to simplify models - low poly versions of distant objects. While this is not new, I think that most of those routines are based on NURBS (and other spline-based) technology. And with this new algoritm it can be used for polygon-based objects. Or provide a better way to convert polygon objects to spline-based objects without losing too much details. When modeling some highly-detailed objects, I've often wished for a good polygon-reducer - maybe this is it?(that would mean that you have to thank me - hey, I wished it)
hey, just SECONDS before I read this message I heard about it on the radio. And that was right after the announcement that Napster wants to organize a 'buy-cot' this weekend, meaning that you should only buy CDs from artists that have supported them. So Signal 11 : don't ignore the press just yet (then again : maybe I'm just blessed by living in an area that has quality radio stations)
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Atari in hospital
I was contacted some time ago by some person asking me if I can help with repair or replacement of Atari 800XL for hospital. I was very curious about that, because it's known that Czech hospitals are in bad financial situation but I just wondered how they could use it at the end of the nineties. The person was kind enough to send me some details about setup and also sent me few pictures.
Description
It's used in child cardiocenter in Faculty Hospital Motol for the heart diagnosis. They are looking for uninvited leaks between two parts of heart. Principle is in injecting isotope in blood and screening its movement in vascular system of pacient.
Usage
1) Computer is started, program is loaded from cassette.
2) Entering the data of patient (name, birthdate, height, weight).
3) Entering the date & time of checkup.
4) Entering the age of the isotope.
5) Program computes the optimal amount of isotope.
6) The probes are pointed to certain places of patient's body.
7) Injection of isotope.
8) For 5 minutes the program records the data from the probes.
9) Saving the data to cassette.
10) Disconnecting the gamma interface, connecting the teletype interface.
11) Priting of the protocol to teletype.
The checkup could be done by usage of other gamma camera, but it takes about 1 hour and the amount of isotope needs to be higher.
Setup
4 gamma probes
plotter
Atari 800 XL
Atari XC 12 datasette with Turbo2000
teletype T100
interface Atari gamma probes (two joystick connectors)
interface Atari teletype (one joystick connector)
monitor
Pictures
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Detail of setup. Black box at the left behind is power supply for interface.
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Overall look to gamma probes and plotter.
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Detail of setup.
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Overall look. At the left is teletype machine.
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Overall look.
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Detail of sticker on the computer. I wonder where did they got it.
Atari pages accessed xxx times.Last modified: Wed Dec 6 13:33:40 2000
(c) 2000 Jindroush
As can be read here.
A small c&p from that page :
So two weeks after the announcement they start threatening the Bid for Power people. OK, looking at the screenshots I can see why : this looks really good.
From the looks of it, it must've been Kraftwerk !!!
So .... the machine that goes PING has stopped
How about this on a review page : Because of the fact that by the UCITA law we are forbidden to publish bad reviews, we will not review Microsoft Office 10. Draw your own conclusions.
The original review might have said something like : It's not the best thing in the world , but now it sounds like IT'S CRAP !!!!
Does anyone else have some creative uses for UCITA?
Which would mean that if I need software to do a specific thing and I decide to program it myself, I could be (theoretically) taxed for it. Right? I do benefit from the software, so there's no difference.
I don't think it's too strange.
They could cover it up so that they won't have to pay a thing.
Then they'd say "There were no holes, but just to be on the safe side we changed some things anyway"
But let's wait with the conspiracy theory until after their review of the 450 entries. Reasonable doubt and stuff (you can find more than enough doubt around here, it's reason that's sometimes hard to get ;-)
So, if I understand you correctly, the RIAA is trying to make sure the fees coming from web broadcast is going to them instead of to the artists. And they are using US law to get it.
Does that mean that European or Asian web broadcasters won't have to pay anything at all?
Money going to artists = GOOD. Money going to RIAA is BAD !
On their website, when you click censure (where you can post anonymous postcards, what this was all about), there is a warning :
WARNING
It has come to our attention that certain people have been using annoy.com to deliver what some might consider to be threats of physical violence or harm to others.
Do not mistake our commitment to freedom of speech for a license to abuse our service in this manner.
We plan to cooperate fully with law enforcement agencies in whatever efforts they make to find you and punish you - even if it's some renegade authoritarian dictatorship that might crucify your stupid ass if they catch you.
Free speech and annoy.com are not about harassment and definitely not about harm or violence. If you think for a second we will allow cowardly idiots to spoil our free speech party you are making a mistake. A huge mistake.
Just wondering what they mean with "some renegade authoritarian dictatorship that might crucify your stupid ass if they catch you". In light of these events I mean.
This will change - it has to change. And yes, the European model for charging for online access will certainly be dead and buried within two years - the cracks in this strategy are already obvious.
....
..... well, we all should be aware of the power of FUD by now.
:-P)
I hope so. I didn't like the fact that I couldn't use the phone for 3 months because I couldn't pay the bill, which ran a bit higher than usual because I did some research on the web. Luckily we can finally use cable modems in our town. But it's just one monopoly replacing another, and even though it's a lot cheaper, due to the explosive growth of cable users and the slow actions taken by the cable provider to update their system, to keep from getting overwhelmed they are now resorting to a more and more restrictive approach : restricted download speeds & more restricted upload speeds and more and more limiting the download quantity. And a friend who lives 20Km from me still has to wait until the end of 2001 before he can get cable. Adsl is so expensive no average person can afford it.
That's not to say that it won't happen, and I do hope it will happen as fast as you think. But from what I've seen it doesn't seem very likely (in this timeframe, I mean).
Frankly, I find that people who cling to these archiac attitudes are the people who know the least about encryption technology
You are right, but if enough people believe it's not safe, Webplications won't be profitable enough. And about credit cards : even though it's secure there's still the chance that, just like in real life, someone at the receiving end will run off with your credit card data. Of course it wouldn't do him much good, but what if this happened with that fantastic breakthrough you were typing up that could make you rich beyond your wildest dreams. It maybe impossible that this would happen in an ideal world, but suppose your webplication wasn't open source (to get back on topic), and the company that made it overlooked some serious bugs or had some convenient backdoors
For what it's worth, I believe it WILL be safe enough (at least if you know what to use). All I've written is just hypothetical FUD. But when the day comes that webplications become reality, and if that day is spoiled by someone spreading real FUD
Of course, with OSS, people can check if their fears have a base in reality, and fix things if needed.
Summary : I DO believe in a rosey future, I just don't feel comfortable with putting a timeframe on it. And that's because those timeframes can never accurately represent the greed factor, both those of companies that want to create webplications and those that want to remain desktop oriented.
(I'm very tired at this moment, so please ignore the typos and grammatical errors - heck, I'm so tired that maybe you should ignore this post altogether. I won't lose any sleep over it, mainly because I can't afford to lose more sleep anyway
But you have to remember that a great deal of the world still has to pay a lot of money to get on the internet. When you have to pay a certain amount of money per minute that you are online, some expensive packages that don't need the web suddenly become a lot cheaper in comparison. And the companies that do their reseach know that. So, until things have improved enough (could be next year, could be in 10 years, who knows), or until someone decides that Europe isn't important, the desktop mindset is still the right mindset. ;-)
Of course, medium to big sized companies don't have to worry about internet costs, but I do think they don't like the idea of typing up highly confedential material over a WEBplication. I mean, imagine someone working at Oracle typing up the new ideas of the company on "word for Microsoft.NET" and somebody at microsoft writing down the details... I don't mean to say that it actually will be like this, only that this thought will cross the minds of many CEOs (but maybe I give those CEOs too much credit
But that doesn't have to mean that people who don't want to pay for their software won't benefit from it.
....
This reminds me of the vaguely similar work ethic of a non OSS company named Hash. They make a 3D modeling package. They sell you a one-year subscription of their software, which means that you get all the updates they release in that year. And they release a lot over a year. They follow their own agenda, so if there's a feature you really want, you can either wait until they think that it would be a good idea to have that feature, or you can pay them to program it. But they will make sure that every user of their program gets to use that feature, not just the person who paid for it
Now, I don't see them crossing over to OSS any day soon (you can read about it if you seach amongst the latest Martin's Minutes you have to go up to number 297. BTW the last article is about their dealings with M$) BUT if you look at the OSS projects that have corporate backing, you'll see that it's actually the same model.
Right now, these large companies are backing Linux so that Linux can become a more viable desktop option (for their own reasons). But we all benefit from it. And I think that in a not too distant future smaller companies will pay OSS programmers for 'just that one extra feature in MySQL that will make our company more efficient'. They'll pay for it, because they really need it, but in the end we all can use that extra feature, and OSS software will become even more robust & packed with features, and more people will see OSS software as a viable option
Maybe I'm a bit too optimistic. So sue me. heh - In the following weeks we intend to prove to the court that the defendant has shown traits of optimism on a public forum
-Did something crawl in your throat and die?
-It didn't die!
and the obvious one if you're a windows user : my shirt turned blue ... again.
Of course : asking a woman with a blue shirt if you may press alt-ctrl-del might get you a slap in the face
Ogg Vorbis does sound a bit like some character from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (in exactly the same way that MP3 doesn't).
First some background about me : I've been involved in art for more than 10 years : studying it and creating it.
:-(
/. community, so I don't know if I'm rehashing old stuff. My knowledge about the USA is also very limited, being a European. So feel free to correct me, but please don't make me sit in the corner wearing that dunce-hat (not again! ;-)
I've only recently started learning how to program.
Now : why did I write this? Well, a lot of people look at me stangely when I tell them I consider programming an art form.
IT IS !!!!!
You're CREATING something in a way that only you could. When I program a database, for example, it will work in a certain way because that's my individualistic view on how a database should work.Not all people will like it of course, but not all people like my paintings either
Of course : if you're working for a company then you're no longer making art, because you're following orders and not expressing your individuality.
But what does it have to do with the case?
Well, how would a judge feel about outlawing art? (please remember that the days of both Nazi Germany AND McCarthy (sp?) have long passed)
Please note that I'm also new to the
I don't think that this technology would be used in the final stages of rendering a scene.
The most interesting feature of this technology to me is the fact that it can be used to filter out the noise in 3D scanned objects.And it can also be used to simplify models - low poly versions of distant objects.
While this is not new, I think that most of those routines are based on NURBS (and other spline-based) technology. And with this new algoritm it can be used for polygon-based objects. Or provide a better way to convert polygon objects to spline-based objects without losing too much details.
When modeling some highly-detailed objects, I've often wished for a good polygon-reducer - maybe this is it?(that would mean that you have to thank me - hey, I wished it)
hey, just SECONDS before I read this message I heard about it on the radio.
And that was right after the announcement that Napster wants to organize a 'buy-cot' this weekend, meaning that you should only buy CDs from artists that have supported them.
So Signal 11 : don't ignore the press just yet (then again : maybe I'm just blessed by living in an area that has quality radio stations)