The spatial resolution, as stated in the article, is 5.3m. Think about how big something would have to be in order for an image to show anything meaningful about it if each pixel represents 5 m^2.
Plasma thruster to change orbits.
Exactly why do you think this is spooky?
Small size, for smaller radar image, and/or better survivability.
Or, maybe, a small size means less weight and lower cost to orbit. But, don't let that hamper your paranoia.
Even if I am just being paranoid, the military potential is there...
Where? Look at this 5m SPOT image and tell me what the military applications are when you've got 2m commercially available imagery and probably much, much better on the satellite that wasn't announced in a press release.
Well the english on that site is really poor and I never trust Israeli tech sites to be accurate.
According to this press release, it's a multispectral sensor in VNIR with only 12 bands. I don't know where they get "super-spectral," I've never heard that term before. The IsraCast article has an AVIRIS image with it. AVIRIS is a hyperspectral (hundreds of bands) sensor but it's not on any satellite. It flies on planes. The only impressive thing about this seems to be the spatial resolution.
And to all of you paranoid androids, yes, there are legitimate and very useful applications of multi-spectral remote sensing for agriculture and environmental monitoring. Also, a 5.3m spatial resolution is not going to impress any spies. You couldn't even make a out a house reliably with the resolution.
I installed Panther on a Rev D iMac with the original 6GB HD and had 2-3 GB left over. That included the Developer tools, too, I think. It does not take 10GB.
Thanks. That's for Maine so I'm guessing it's up to the state in which a company in incorporated. Is there any case law in which shareholders sue a corporation because they made decisions that didn't make enough money?
A publically traded corporation is by law, required to uphold the interests of the shareholders foremost, above anything else.
In what law, exactly, is this obligation spelled out. People march out this argument every time these issues arise but no on ever cites a source. Please, cite the source. I want to look at the actual law. Thanks.
Someday, all designers will understand that you should never, ever mess with people's scroll bars. Essentially, they're creating their own windows inside a window, which is just confusing. What does it achieve on the page? They get to keep their copyright notice on the screen all the time and the user gets confused and annoyed when they reach for the scroll bar where they expect it to be.
I think that's crux of why Apple seems to have more good will towards it than Microsoft. They don't make promises like MS does so there's less disappointment and more excitement as any new product is somewhat of a surprise. Apple saves excitement and then releases it with products. Microsoft borrows excitement by pre-announcing future products. After a while, people start to feel cheated by MS. They end up owing a lot of people a lot of exciting products and never fully come through.
Well, I've got an N-machine in my garage that I could fire up right now to prove you wrong. Only, I won't because the FBI will come and take it but rest assured that, with the limitless energy of my paradoxically, perpetually turned-OFF N-machine, I could travel in any dimension I choose.
Point out in my post where I said Linux can't read NTFS. Go on, I'm waiting....
My 250 GB external HD is too large to format as Fat32 (the only format that OS X, Windows and Linux all read/write.) Windows and Linux won't read the HFS+ format OS X likes, OS X and Linux won't read the NTFS format that Windows likes, and OS X and Windows won't read the EXT3 format that Linux likes.
Unless my reading comprehension is really bad, I think you owe someone an apology.
It always amazes me when OSNews editorials and feature articles get posted on Slashdot or any blog. They are so consistently bad -- poorly researched, poorly thought out, poorly written -- that you'd think people would know by now and just ignore them. I suppose if you write long enough about any particular topic, no matter how bad the writing, someone will pay attention and give you more respect than you've earned.
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Mod parent up. The discovery of antibiotics pushed phage research into the background which, I think, many biologists are realizing was a mistake. See Félix d'Herelle for more information.
Really, what's the point of using SVG for these images? To slow down the rendering? Their not interactive or dynamic in any way that I can tell. I don't need to scale them to poster size and I doubt anyone else will, either. They could have just use PNGs with transparency if they wanted thumb their noses at IE.
That URL is a good example of what I don't like:) Specifically:
'index' in every URL. This doesn't make sense from a user's perspective.
'tutorials-story-action'. This is meaningless to the user. It's exposing the mechanisms of the CMS when the URL should represent the organization/hierarchy of the site
'story.11'. Kind of makes sense but you're breaking an established convention that text after a '.' represents what kind of file you are accessing
'title.url-rewriting-in-sitellite-4'. Similar problem to above and it's superfluous.
In my experience, users read URLs -- even novices. URLs should reflect how content on the site is organized especially on sites have a lot of static content.
I tried Sitellite for a while and was impressed that it was easy to set up and get going. But, one of the deal breakers for me was the URLs. They just don't make sense. I consider URLs to be an important usability issue. Otherwise, it's a pretty slick CMS.
Most Open Source CMSs aren't much more than blogs or forums on steroids. Very few deal with real content management problems. I still haven't found one that I'm crazy about. I'm trying to work with Apache Lenya right now but it takes a lot of work. Zope/Plone is similar. The power is there for both of them but the initial learning curve is steep.
Oh, and my biggest pet peeve for any CMS site (or any site) is unreadable URLs. It's OK for some applications but for a site where people will be returning to the same page frequently, it should have a sane URL.
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The spatial resolution, as stated in the article, is 5.3m. Think about how big something would have to be in order for an image to show anything meaningful about it if each pixel represents 5 m^2.
Plasma thruster to change orbits.Exactly why do you think this is spooky?
Small size, for smaller radar image, and/or better survivability.Or, maybe, a small size means less weight and lower cost to orbit. But, don't let that hamper your paranoia.
Even if I am just being paranoid, the military potential is there...Where? Look at this 5m SPOT image and tell me what the military applications are when you've got 2m commercially available imagery and probably much, much better on the satellite that wasn't announced in a press release.
Well the english on that site is really poor and I never trust Israeli tech sites to be accurate.
According to this press release, it's a multispectral sensor in VNIR with only 12 bands. I don't know where they get "super-spectral," I've never heard that term before. The IsraCast article has an AVIRIS image with it. AVIRIS is a hyperspectral (hundreds of bands) sensor but it's not on any satellite. It flies on planes. The only impressive thing about this seems to be the spatial resolution.
And to all of you paranoid androids, yes, there are legitimate and very useful applications of multi-spectral remote sensing for agriculture and environmental monitoring. Also, a 5.3m spatial resolution is not going to impress any spies. You couldn't even make a out a house reliably with the resolution.
Couldn't they have just bought a bunch of iMacs? :P
I installed Panther on a Rev D iMac with the original 6GB HD and had 2-3 GB left over. That included the Developer tools, too, I think. It does not take 10GB.
Thanks. That's for Maine so I'm guessing it's up to the state in which a company in incorporated. Is there any case law in which shareholders sue a corporation because they made decisions that didn't make enough money?
In what law, exactly, is this obligation spelled out. People march out this argument every time these issues arise but no on ever cites a source. Please, cite the source. I want to look at the actual law. Thanks.
Someday, all designers will understand that you should never, ever mess with people's scroll bars. Essentially, they're creating their own windows inside a window, which is just confusing. What does it achieve on the page? They get to keep their copyright notice on the screen all the time and the user gets confused and annoyed when they reach for the scroll bar where they expect it to be.
I believe they usually get CDs at a 50% discount.
I think that's crux of why Apple seems to have more good will towards it than Microsoft. They don't make promises like MS does so there's less disappointment and more excitement as any new product is somewhat of a surprise. Apple saves excitement and then releases it with products. Microsoft borrows excitement by pre-announcing future products. After a while, people start to feel cheated by MS. They end up owing a lot of people a lot of exciting products and never fully come through.
That's a pretty lame troll. Please, try harder.
A podcast goes pay-to-play.
The title makes it sound like all of podcasting is suddenly going to a subscription model which is ridiculous hyperbole.
That's what I think every time I see a Dvorak article posted here. And the fact that they keep getting posted is my rationale for blocking ads here.
No, you got it all wrong. It's about tailoring the product to meet the customer's needs, silly. Future releases will include;
This is true software innovation.
Don't hurt yourself.
Well, I've got an N-machine in my garage that I could fire up right now to prove you wrong. Only, I won't because the FBI will come and take it but rest assured that, with the limitless energy of my paradoxically, perpetually turned-OFF N-machine, I could travel in any dimension I choose.
Unless my reading comprehension is really bad, I think you owe someone an apology.
It always amazes me when OSNews editorials and feature articles get posted on Slashdot or any blog. They are so consistently bad -- poorly researched, poorly thought out, poorly written -- that you'd think people would know by now and just ignore them. I suppose if you write long enough about any particular topic, no matter how bad the writing, someone will pay attention and give you more respect than you've earned.
Mod parent up. The discovery of antibiotics pushed phage research into the background which, I think, many biologists are realizing was a mistake. See Félix d'Herelle for more information.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
If they were literally saying "Slavery is Freedom" they would have said "Slavery is Freedom."
Maybe he hasn't but he hasn't denied it either. He's quite adept at talking around the issue.
Really, what's the point of using SVG for these images? To slow down the rendering? Their not interactive or dynamic in any way that I can tell. I don't need to scale them to poster size and I doubt anyone else will, either. They could have just use PNGs with transparency if they wanted thumb their noses at IE.
That URL is a good example of what I don't like :) Specifically:
In my experience, users read URLs -- even novices. URLs should reflect how content on the site is organized especially on sites have a lot of static content.
The report comes from Thailand. The fish comes from Sumatra.
I tried Sitellite for a while and was impressed that it was easy to set up and get going. But, one of the deal breakers for me was the URLs. They just don't make sense. I consider URLs to be an important usability issue. Otherwise, it's a pretty slick CMS.
Most Open Source CMSs aren't much more than blogs or forums on steroids. Very few deal with real content management problems. I still haven't found one that I'm crazy about. I'm trying to work with Apache Lenya right now but it takes a lot of work. Zope/Plone is similar. The power is there for both of them but the initial learning curve is steep.
Oh, and my biggest pet peeve for any CMS site (or any site) is unreadable URLs. It's OK for some applications but for a site where people will be returning to the same page frequently, it should have a sane URL.