Notice the big fuzzy section. I used to work there and can tell you that that is Kodak Park (well, whats left of it as Kodak Management lays off the workforce, moves the operations to China, then demolishes the buildings- more layoffs next week).
The entire region is blurred out and unusable, so that you can't see into it.
What I'd like to know is whether or not this is common for other areas (anyone know lat/long of an oil refinery?) and other areas of key civil importance.
... thats the standard for commercial imagery and, with CitiPix flyovers (non-space) it's down around 1/3 of that.
Frankly most of what's available is only good for mapping, and that isn't that good at best. Most of the images have been jpg'd to the point that an 8x8 block is destroying what little detail is available.
For example, 8x8 blocked JPG at 10 meters per pixel is a boatload of image data lost.
Pain is one of the greatest behavior modifiers there is.
The whole point of a FPS trainer is to educate reality out of an individual. When you fire a pistol, sometimes your body will jerk the hand in anticipation of the shot. Dryfiring a few hundred times is enough to condition the pull back out, but it will eventually creep back.
I'm remember reading that 3/4 of the soldiers in WWI and WWII didn't aim at anything. They were conditioned to shoot at little bullseyes, not people. Notice how the military trains on human shaped targets now? Human-aim-fire-response.
This is all good, believe it or not.
Getting shot in a game there is no pain and risky behaviours can continue to flourish. Getting hit with a live round is most likely to inflict pain. Therefore, make the game as realistic as possible without killing your candidate:)
Will I play this? Nope. I already take Americas Army seriously and do my darndest not to die. But then again I'm not one of those people that beg the S-24 in order to get a pistol, either;)
Lets see how many Trolls vs Insightful's I'll get on this post...
1) This is a great idea- AS LONG AS there is a recorded method for access that is timestamped and GPS'd by the police department for querying the users information (ie, after pulled over but not before).
2) This is a BAD idea because, as has been demonstrated with the SpeedPass(tm) the encryption routines thought secure have been easily broken by dedicated hardware. Access to the db by walking out with a copy of it would result in very interesting privacy implications.
Now, I'm a fan of the black-box in a car because should I get into an accident and die, I'd really like my loved ones to know whether or not I was being a responsible individual or an asshole. And frankly, given the number of total incompetent drivers that are apparently granted licenses to operate 2500lb guided missiles, I think the black box has got a better chance of defending me in an accident than attacking me.
RFID tags provide a method of enforcing insurance- do you know what happens if an uninsured motorist hits you and does damage? You're fucked. Totally, completely, fucked. It would have been better for you to wrap your car (and yourself) around a tree than to get hit by an uninsured motorist.
First, your insurance skyrockets because there's no one to recoup the cost from- guess what, you're fucked. Second, there's no one to go after for pain and suffering (and I suffered for 5 months after getting T-boned by an asshole that ran a stopsign)- thats alot of physical therapy and chiropractic work to get your neck to move in the right direction without needles of pain shooting everywhere. Finally, there's the whole issue of 'submitted claims' that then follows you around for 7 years. It doesn't matter that your only fault was existing in that particular place at that particular time, it'll follow you on your record and probably influence such things as your credit report and interest rates.
A much better solution would be to simply confiscate the car of a driver that was uninsured or driving illegally, and if it was someone else's car require a 250$ or 500$ fine, doubling each time the car was 'caught'.
But I guess that's my opinion... someone that's had a perfect driving record, dodged into oncoming traffic to avoid hitting a little girl that ran into an intersection (great mother), been t-boned by a moron, and had 2 friends killed by drunk drivers with no insurance.
My grandfather used this system to charge batteries at his radio shop so many years ago I hesitate to guess. The 'kids' have stories about it so it's at least 60 years old.
You apparently could always hear the single stroke motor come on when the flywheel would slow down... a very lound POP... POP.. POP . POP POP POP.... then quiet again:)
Saw this article a few days ago and it talked about Alpha- raised all sorts of questions for me (being a non-enlightened individual) such as
a) What are the implications if Alpha is 'decaying' with time? b) What are the implications if alpha is variable with graviational mass? c) If enough photons were gathered in one location, would they have a 'gravitational' effect... and would that affect any known 'constants'?
Tantalizing and interesting, but I know I lack the education to understand all of the ramifications.
I just went a few rounds with hotmail's CSRs- the mail search feature has disappeared.
So I wrote and asked, and they said after 10 meg you can no longer search in the message body, just subject and to/from.
They then point to a little known clause in section 11 of their TOS- Hotmail can do anything to their service they want to without informing said end users.
Full conversational email available (in broken indian-ese) if you'd like it.
All for under 200$ - in fact, you can find some of the USB disc jukeboxes for around 60$ if you're lucky.
They hold 100 discs on 'nearline' storage- except the robot that loads them is you;)
Each disk gets cataloged with cdstoragemaster and then manually added to the nearline catalog. You push the disk into the jukebox, it confirms the name of the disk, it spins, and you're set.
Can't find a file you're looking for? search for it, get the disk name, eject the disk with the file, put it in the drive, and you're now looking at a live disk.
I do this with every image I take on my Canon 10D- 15,000 in total so far- 1 copy for the Juke, 1 copy for a spindle, and 2 copies for different harddrives.
... I was working with a gentleman that's job was to come up with new interpolation routines for CCDs to help bring the yield up.
What he came up with (and demo'd) was a way to restore a 20% defective chip with dropped columns to 95% accuracy.
Think of that- your brand new 1mp 1000$ digital camera has 20% of its columns defective, but with this algorithm they'll release it to you for the same cost... and you'll (supposedly) never know the difference.
I was also fortunate enough to see a perfect 16mp array come back from test. The chip was immediately 'disappeared'- everyone knew it was impossible to make a CCD chip with 0 defects. Most have very advanced mapping algorithms, but still this was downright amazing. 16 million perfect photosites with just small offsets.
Anyways, that one never made it into a camera, either. Heh.
I had one drive past me the other day at night- it destroyed my vision for a good full second. I was left with a streak of red LEDs running up and down the side of my view.
If I turned my head- there followed another streak.
I've written the manufacturer and BEGGED them to do anything to crank the refresh up to 120hz.... because it's honestly a hazard.
I'm considering writing the appropriate government agency... but we'll see.... (or in the case of those lights, not see)
Did it to my 300D (Digital Rebel)
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Took the whole camera apart, removed the optical pass filter from the CMOS chip, replaced it with an IR-PASS filter (rejects lessthan 750nm)... and I have a visible focus / IR sensitive camera.
False color means... what you 'think' red is is represented by something... what you think 'green' is is something... and what you think blue is is something else.
False Color means applying a dye that is proportional to exposure and it may or may not represent reality. Since we have 3 sensitivities (Excluding night vision) we have three discreet channels for image processing at the same time.
Biggest problem: When Green Grass comes out White because it is IR reflective. Thats when analysts have a fit:)
... we've the story being forwarded of one of our coworkers stopped at the border coming into the US from Canada for the very thing you say isn't possible.
Seeing as how he is a rather highly placed and takes a rather cynical view of the government leads me to believe his story about being yanked out of the Customs line and asked to undergo a radiological exam (geiger counter?).
Apparently he had been surrounded by officers since he'd gotten onto the bridge- don't ask me how because the next few cars were waved thru without an inspection (unverified).
... then I'll have some faith in the justice system again.
But once again, here's a $$$$ case. And $$$$ always win. But when someone in the administration exposes an individual to the risk of execution, and it's OK.
I'll withold my opinion about online bloggers, errr, "journalists"...
- then where exactly are you going to get your solar power? From glow-in-the-dark stickers left on your ceiling? I don't think so! Or maybe you'll just burn lots of dead plants to make light... still not very efficient....
1) Original Negative 2) Positive Negative (copy on negative masked stock) 3) Dupe Negative (negative again) (digital editing here) 4) Copy Negative (positive) 5) Print Negative (shipped to theatres)
And no, you still have lots of resolution left at that point. I know people that have made the films you speak of, and matching curves between series was one of their most prized accomplishments.
We tried to get a manufacturer to consider stacking 1gb of ram up on their card. That got us a few eyebrows, and the fact that the ram would dissipate nearly 150 watts.... heh heh. Oh well.
Who knows, there are people that need that to stick 'tiles' in for real applications, instead of games...
3D Labs WildCat VP990 Pro 512mb Quadro FX4400 PCI-EXPRESS SLI 512MB. I think Dome makes the 3rd card I'm thinking of - 512mb there too (or maybe we asked them to, I can't remember).
So.... yeah. 512mb in a CONSUMER card? Sounds good. But that's really nothing new at all for professional cards....
I've mistyped a few (slickdeals.com instead of.net, bensbargains.com instead of.net...) but as long as you don't click, there isn't any profit to be had.
Of course, if you're like my fiancee and have trouble spelling any word... well, I can only hope those sites are limited to advertising only (and not phishing)...
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The Rochester Airport is blurred, too- ROC is probably imaged WAY more than any airport due to RIT's flyovers, but nothing is in the public database.
Interesting...
See here:5 3&spn=0.032444,0.042658&t=k&hl=en
;)
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.198586,-77.6302
Notice the big fuzzy section. I used to work there and can tell you that that is Kodak Park (well, whats left of it as Kodak Management lays off the workforce, moves the operations to China, then demolishes the buildings- more layoffs next week).
The entire region is blurred out and unusable, so that you can't see into it.
What I'd like to know is whether or not this is common for other areas (anyone know lat/long of an oil refinery?) and other areas of key civil importance.
Otherwise maybe Kodak doesn't want them spying
... thats the standard for commercial imagery and, with CitiPix flyovers (non-space) it's down around 1/3 of that.
Frankly most of what's available is only good for mapping, and that isn't that good at best. Most of the images have been jpg'd to the point that an 8x8 block is destroying what little detail is available.
For example, 8x8 blocked JPG at 10 meters per pixel is a boatload of image data lost.
And yes, I work with Satellite imagery.
Pain is one of the greatest behavior modifiers there is.
:)
;)
The whole point of a FPS trainer is to educate reality out of an individual. When you fire a pistol, sometimes your body will jerk the hand in anticipation of the shot. Dryfiring a few hundred times is enough to condition the pull back out, but it will eventually creep back.
I'm remember reading that 3/4 of the soldiers in WWI and WWII didn't aim at anything. They were conditioned to shoot at little bullseyes, not people. Notice how the military trains on human shaped targets now? Human-aim-fire-response.
This is all good, believe it or not.
Getting shot in a game there is no pain and risky behaviours can continue to flourish. Getting hit with a live round is most likely to inflict pain. Therefore, make the game as realistic as possible without killing your candidate
Will I play this? Nope. I already take Americas Army seriously and do my darndest not to die. But then again I'm not one of those people that beg the S-24 in order to get a pistol, either
Lets see how many Trolls vs Insightful's I'll get on this post...
1) This is a great idea- AS LONG AS there is a recorded method for access that is timestamped and GPS'd by the police department for querying the users information (ie, after pulled over but not before).
2) This is a BAD idea because, as has been demonstrated with the SpeedPass(tm) the encryption routines thought secure have been easily broken by dedicated hardware. Access to the db by walking out with a copy of it would result in very interesting privacy implications.
Now, I'm a fan of the black-box in a car because should I get into an accident and die, I'd really like my loved ones to know whether or not I was being a responsible individual or an asshole. And frankly, given the number of total incompetent drivers that are apparently granted licenses to operate 2500lb guided missiles, I think the black box has got a better chance of defending me in an accident than attacking me.
RFID tags provide a method of enforcing insurance- do you know what happens if an uninsured motorist hits you and does damage? You're fucked. Totally, completely, fucked. It would have been better for you to wrap your car (and yourself) around a tree than to get hit by an uninsured motorist.
First, your insurance skyrockets because there's no one to recoup the cost from- guess what, you're fucked.
Second, there's no one to go after for pain and suffering (and I suffered for 5 months after getting T-boned by an asshole that ran a stopsign)- thats alot of physical therapy and chiropractic work to get your neck to move in the right direction without needles of pain shooting everywhere.
Finally, there's the whole issue of 'submitted claims' that then follows you around for 7 years. It doesn't matter that your only fault was existing in that particular place at that particular time, it'll follow you on your record and probably influence such things as your credit report and interest rates.
A much better solution would be to simply confiscate the car of a driver that was uninsured or driving illegally, and if it was someone else's car require a 250$ or 500$ fine, doubling each time the car was 'caught'.
But I guess that's my opinion... someone that's had a perfect driving record, dodged into oncoming traffic to avoid hitting a little girl that ran into an intersection (great mother), been t-boned by a moron, and had 2 friends killed by drunk drivers with no insurance.
My grandfather used this system to charge batteries at his radio shop so many years ago I hesitate to guess. The 'kids' have stories about it so it's at least 60 years old.
... POP.. POP . POP POP POP .... then quiet again :)
You apparently could always hear the single stroke motor come on when the flywheel would slow down... a very lound POP
Saw this article a few days ago and it talked about Alpha- raised all sorts of questions for me (being a non-enlightened individual) such as
a) What are the implications if Alpha is 'decaying' with time?
b) What are the implications if alpha is variable with graviational mass?
c) If enough photons were gathered in one location, would they have a 'gravitational' effect... and would that affect any known 'constants'?
Tantalizing and interesting, but I know I lack the education to understand all of the ramifications.
I just went a few rounds with hotmail's CSRs- the mail search feature has disappeared.
So I wrote and asked, and they said after 10 meg you can no longer search in the message body, just subject and to/from.
They then point to a little known clause in section 11 of their TOS- Hotmail can do anything to their service they want to without informing said end users.
Full conversational email available (in broken indian-ese) if you'd like it.
All for under 200$ - in fact, you can find some of the USB disc jukeboxes for around 60$ if you're lucky.
;)
:)
They hold 100 discs on 'nearline' storage- except the robot that loads them is you
Each disk gets cataloged with cdstoragemaster and then manually added to the nearline catalog. You push the disk into the jukebox, it confirms the name of the disk, it spins, and you're set.
Can't find a file you're looking for? search for it, get the disk name, eject the disk with the file, put it in the drive, and you're now looking at a live disk.
I do this with every image I take on my Canon 10D- 15,000 in total so far- 1 copy for the Juke, 1 copy for a spindle, and 2 copies for different harddrives.
More details available upon request
... I was working with a gentleman that's job was to come up with new interpolation routines for CCDs to help bring the yield up.
What he came up with (and demo'd) was a way to restore a 20% defective chip with dropped columns to 95% accuracy.
Think of that- your brand new 1mp 1000$ digital camera has 20% of its columns defective, but with this algorithm they'll release it to you for the same cost... and you'll (supposedly) never know the difference.
I was also fortunate enough to see a perfect 16mp array come back from test. The chip was immediately 'disappeared'- everyone knew it was impossible to make a CCD chip with 0 defects. Most have very advanced mapping algorithms, but still this was downright amazing. 16 million perfect photosites with just small offsets.
Anyways, that one never made it into a camera, either. Heh.
You are a sucker ;-)
May I interest you in a list of pocket lint? Very cheap at 2000$ an ounce...
I had one drive past me the other day at night- it destroyed my vision for a good full second. I was left with a streak of red LEDs running up and down the side of my view.
If I turned my head- there followed another streak.
I've written the manufacturer and BEGGED them to do anything to crank the refresh up to 120hz.... because it's honestly a hazard.
I'm considering writing the appropriate government agency... but we'll see.... (or in the case of those lights, not see)
Took the whole camera apart, removed the optical pass filter from the CMOS chip, replaced it with an IR-PASS filter (rejects lessthan 750nm)... and I have a visible focus / IR sensitive camera.
Great shots, too
1st test shot here: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/12473546/
False color means ... what you 'think' red is is represented by something... what you think 'green' is is something... and what you think blue is is something else.
:)
False Color means applying a dye that is proportional to exposure and it may or may not represent reality. Since we have 3 sensitivities (Excluding night vision) we have three discreet channels for image processing at the same time.
Biggest problem: When Green Grass comes out White because it is IR reflective. Thats when analysts have a fit
... we've the story being forwarded of one of our coworkers stopped at the border coming into the US from Canada for the very thing you say isn't possible.
:)
Seeing as how he is a rather highly placed and takes a rather cynical view of the government leads me to believe his story about being yanked out of the Customs line and asked to undergo a radiological exam (geiger counter?).
Apparently he had been surrounded by officers since he'd gotten onto the bridge- don't ask me how because the next few cars were waved thru without an inspection (unverified).
I guess radioactive Iodine is easier to find
(I can spell, just not while answering questions and typing)
... then I'll have some faith in the justice system again.
But once again, here's a $$$$ case. And $$$$ always win. But when someone in the administration exposes an individual to the risk of execution, and it's OK.
I'll withold my opinion about online bloggers, errr, "journalists"...
The average juror's biggest selling point is their lack of intelligence and their ability to be led.
;_)
The average judge, while more intelligent, enjoys setting precedents.
Put the two together and you've got the 9th circuit out in California
(Yes I just received my jury summons... I don't think I'll make it tho...)
I want to have some fun, like Microsoft, SCO, and whatever other companies there are ;)
- then where exactly are you going to get your solar power? From glow-in-the-dark stickers left on your ceiling? I don't think so! Or maybe you'll just burn lots of dead plants to make light... still not very efficient....
1) Original Negative
2) Positive Negative (copy on negative masked stock)
3) Dupe Negative (negative again) (digital editing here)
4) Copy Negative (positive)
5) Print Negative (shipped to theatres)
And no, you still have lots of resolution left at that point. I know people that have made the films you speak of, and matching curves between series was one of their most prized accomplishments.
(yes I worked for Kodak)
We tried to get a manufacturer to consider stacking 1gb of ram up on their card. That got us a few eyebrows, and the fact that the ram would dissipate nearly 150 watts .... heh heh. Oh well.
Who knows, there are people that need that to stick 'tiles' in for real applications, instead of games...
... on higher end video cards, that is.
.... yeah. 512mb in a CONSUMER card? Sounds good. But that's really nothing new at all for professional cards....
3D Labs WildCat VP990 Pro 512mb
Quadro FX4400 PCI-EXPRESS SLI 512MB.
I think Dome makes the 3rd card I'm thinking of - 512mb there too (or maybe we asked them to, I can't remember).
So
As in "How long does it take for a management chain to pass the blame"
Visit the wrong domain and never click the ads.
.net, bensbargains.com instead of .net...) but as long as you don't click, there isn't any profit to be had.
Bandwidth costs eat up profit margins.
I've mistyped a few (slickdeals.com instead of
Of course, if you're like my fiancee and have trouble spelling any word... well, I can only hope those sites are limited to advertising only (and not phishing)...