- ask about any subject X and include 'Linux' and it'll get your answers posted to slashdot.
Frankly the best I've seen is for the Macintosh, which is unfortunate due to my high investment in PC hardware.
I currently make wedding 'dvds' from photographs using Studio 8.1 and, recently, have been experimenting making AVIs and converting them to MPGs. Just doesn't work well tho.
Nice photo of the vehicle. But if you know Umit, tell him to get his photo retaken! It's difficult enough to do a good shot in a striped shirt, but those are wrinkles!
Seriously, I'm a photographer- tell him to get a new press head shot.
Pretty slick design tho. I somehow think this is going turn out to be a contest of overdesigned rather than 'clever'....
You can't send a message with DHCP- thats a network assignment protocol. As in, you get your IP from them with that.
It would be even better to send them a "Net Send " but thats been disabled due to viruses and spam.
Frankly those users have ignored all the obvious aspects of being infected (100% cable light flashing) and have probably consumed more bandwidth than an army of teenagers downloading MP3s. That cable *should* be cut and I stand by my comments about desiring cable access being denied to them UNTIL they remove their virus.
Frankly, they AREN't running a virus scanner because... obviously... the logs go on for days. Weeks. A few for months. So how exactly do you want to make them call in for more information? Why, you cut out their access. Very quickly they call in. If they don't, well, they weren't using the service and they will call in when they want to... at which point a qualified technician can 'walk them thru' downloading a virus scanner and installing it.
Because lets face it- if they are spamming the net with a virus thats been on their machine for months, a little DHCP message (hah) ain't gonna do nothing to stop them.
One down, one to go. Just think of all those logs your firewall generates that show time 300,000 connections from the SAME IP with the SAME VIRUS SIGNATURE... and Time Warner won't do anything about it (say, for instance, shutting off their cable).
Comcast has taken the right steps here. So again, thank you... maybe that'll be enough to get other providers to start 'assisting' in preventing the continued harassment of my router.
... ed. But I Could be wrong, too. But damnit if that thing wasn't ancient looking- but it functiond and had 100K pixels? It was a pretty large number for the timeperiod.
Hell, I didn't think they knew what a transistor was when that thing was dated....
I work for Kodak. At least for the next few weeks until my division is 'divested'.
And it's pretty sad when you see all sorts of "HEY! We made that first" crap happen and the company lawyers don't go after the infringers. Thats *your* ideas, *your* work, and damnit if the courts didn't award *your* company the patent for it.
I won't speak to the Sony thing because I don't know the specifics, but I have heard many, many, many instances where Kodak should have, but didn't.
And you might remember a few years back a certain Polaroid case that ruled that even the *idea* was infringed, even if there were 600 people, 300 file cabinets, and an army of engineers waiting to patiently explain that the two systems were completely different. We lost that one- Pretty much everyone outside of the company that's spoke about that declares it a landmark case... that went the wrong way.
ALot of engineering went into that pipeline- I've seen 'studies' that argue the effectiveness of that pipeline, regardless of it's isolation from the VSMs.
However it sounds like you've good info- can you provide any summarized reports? The last material I read has to be at least 8 years old... and it wasn't terribly fair to the pipeline.
I meant more along the lines of environmental richness - living in the Saraha desert doesn't make life exactly the easiest.
Living in rocky outcropping makes food difficult to raise and transport. You may expend more energy and work transporting food over a range than obtain from consuming it.
Anyways, my bad- I should have explained I wasn't referencing any economic aspect, just the environment.
(thats why most early civs bracketed rivers and floodplains....)
Actually as much as I'd like to see OLED succeed, the formation of the materials are very toxic. I agree with 100% what you say, but look a few of them up on the web.
The materials used typically involve heavy metal catalyst, huge quantities of solvent (almost all OLED materials are uniquely insoluble- the rocks in my front yard are easier to get into solution), and extended purification to get to the requisite 99.9% purities.
And.... the actual coatings... dont' get me started there;)
(Yes, I've worked on OLED projects and I know what I'm talking about)
Exactly. You typically do not want to have to condition 'fresh' water for use in your equipment at every stage of the game. Besides, water coming into a plant has loads of bacteria and algae, which tend to muck up the heat exchangers;)
A settling tank eats alot of real-estate, but those HUGE tanks then have to overflow to another tank, which overflows to another tank.... which might then be clean enough to discharge.
I think the tank we use has a number of blades to keep it stirred and allow any bacteria to properly clean up the water before it's fed back to a city 'treatment' plant. The bacteria actually 'learn' what noxious chemicals are in the water and eat them up... although it does take a few days of lagtime from the introduction of, say Acetone, to convert to, say Toluene.
Mod that baby up. Dumping energy into a water stream has a massive impact on the surrounding ecology.
I'm sure most of the US people have heard of the manatees- the power plants in Florida have discharge channels that are long and wide and attract hundreds of the 'sea cows' each year. Why? Because the water being returned (reclaimed) comes out quite a bit warmer than the water it's going back into.
This translates to a literal calving ground of protected, tempered water. The plants even run a little tourist center for people to come in and watch the manatees - heh there's even a little hose that drops 'fresh' water into the discharge channel. Watch the creatures pull up under it and drink from a 'novel' non-salt containing water.... I think it gets them drunk, but then again if you've watched a manatee swim you'll swear they are all drunk.
But in this case the energy return is quite benefitial to the surroundings. Usually it's not- think of the Alaskan pipeway that draws heated oil from the wells to distribution. That permafrost underneath NEEDS to be kept cold, yet we are radiating millions of therms of energy above it to keep the oil from freezing solid. So it's a complete tradeoff in that sense- the coldest environment that MUST stay cold has the hottest (And capable of generating the most heat) mere meters above it. I think the pipes are about 2.5m off the ground, to allow animals to pass thru.
The dissolved O2 problem is real, but not as big as you think. I'd place more issue around the extra few degrees in the winter than on the amount of O2 present (algae can have a more devastating effect from phosphate dumping)
... actually 'restore' the condition of the water downstream.
Papermills are notoriously pollutive- they use quite a bit of pH-basic material in the process. There is a well documented instance (sadly I can not locate an online reference) of water being polluted thru acidic mine discharge (AMD) and being 'fixed' downstream from a papermill that discharches additional 'treated' water from their process. The before/after photos are breathtaking- you've got dead trees looking like a swampland and then, just past the plant, is any normal looking river (Except the trees are still smaller- they've not fully grown back to hardwoods that you'd expect to find around a river)
Anyways, yes, water is 'consumed' at that papermill. Fortunately, it's also 'returned' in a state that restores the ecological balance that was present at a time in the past. If the grand-parent poster had his way, that wouldn't even be allowed.... and we'd have one more dead, polluted river in need of fixing.
(not all papermills work out that well, sadly. most are just as guilty as the original mines for dumping their tailings and letting it leach out)
I find it very humourous that one second you tell me to get some humanity... and then call me a 'stupid moron' and suggest that I should choke to death on a hamburger and fries. Interesting, I think we've proven which one of us is more qualified to discuss the ecological impacts of using water- a Chemical Engineer Level IV (capable of designing plants) or someone that compares others to sheep (btw, I collect sheep- can you send me a photo of you and one for my collection?)
Now, on to your post- when my company built a plant in China they allowed the workers to bring their families in and shower, clean up, etc. Shanty towns sprung up next door. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't entirely voluntary, but in the end it worked out for both groups.
Now lets talk about water regulation: In the US water outlets are strickly regulated. Plants must have water monitoring tools, take samples, observe, and report any and all spills or problems, on a regular basis or face severe economic penalties.
I've seen silver sludge, as black as your heart-felt comments, come out drinkable. In fact, I watched the lead engineer down a glass that, moments before, was as toxic as your words.
Of course, I don't agree with the economic policies that force pollution out to 3rd will countries- but there isnt' a damn thing that can be done to stop it until those countries force the same regulations.
Anyways, thank you for holding up some more posters of preservation. It's been entertaining.
You were modded as 'insightful' for repeating the drivel on television?
1L at 1.04 g/cm^3 is a cube 10cm X 10cm X 10cm and weighs in at 1.04 kg. 1500L is a cube approximately 1.15m x 1.15m x 1.15m and weighs 1560kg.
Now you'd like to transport that 1500kg across the world to some poor, impoverished nation and give some thirsty children some water?
How would you like to accompish that? Maybe put it in a truck? Or a boat? Possibly an airplane? You might have to burn some fossil fuels to move it, unless of course you will be willing to pedal and move it by yourself (note, you will need cooling water yourself in order to maintain peak performance and prevent your brain from frying due to overheating).
This new-age drivel is very annoying to listen to. You would have a better chance of relocating the affected individuals to a more 'rich' environment.
Of course, using those computers to predict where hotspots will form is a bad thing- better to be surprised by a hurricane and lose the entire crop across an entire nation, than to 'consume' that 1500L of water. Let's exclude the fact that environmental regulations strictly control what can be returned to the water table, and that fines run into the 100K's for offenses.
Personally, I'd find it prettey interesting to watch you move 1560 kg of water using a bicycle to pull an oxen cart loaded with ~5 55gallon drums of water.
Actually water is quite expensive, in terms of conditioning. But just passing thru the pipe is what this damn report is talking about- I can tell you about processes I've done where the byproducts are BURNED. You want to talk about waste? Thats wasteful. When I tried to implement changes that would recycle and make it easier to recover the fossil fuel solvents, I had it nixed because of the environmental paperwork for the government.
So water consumption is a 'bad' thing? Not in my book.
Took nearly 2 minutes to download, but watching those short steps around... then finding out that the backpack was loaded with 100lbs.... wow.
Obviously the future of movement and an important first step, no pun intended.
So we've got a unit that can carry up to 120lbs of weight. Figure a few more lbs and it may now be able to 'support' a man whos legs no longer work properly. Although this design is based upon feedback from a proper leg to calculate where it is supposed to move/balance.
The old quote about the yellow pages- let your fingers do the walking- may soon become far more true than you've realized... especially for those born or brought to wheelchair bound.
... what is not journalism. It's mostly a rambling trend of thought that, unfortunately, is very publishable on the internet.
"Hacking YoYos" ??? Hardly. That's not new, and it certainly wasn't invented at this conference. People (and self) have always 'modified' a yoyo when it wasn't performing well.
I won't even go into the logic the writer espouses while complaining that doctors are allowed to cause pain in the name of science. Anyone remember the 'call for volunteers' that NASA wanted to lay on their back at a negative incline for months to simulate weightlessness? That's a hell of allot more intrusive and damaging than being poked or heated.
... I remember when this came out and I wanted it SO bad- as bad as any 8 or 9 year old kid who's learning electronics can want. I think it was about 300$ or so for the kit- big money back then.
Most of the comments i've seen so far are jokes poking fun at the way it looks, features, etc. Must be those 'youngins' i've heard so much about. Why, the HERO is the great grand-daddy to that fancy schmancy SONY robot that can walk on two legs. The joke being, "In my day Robots ROLLED around- there wasn't enough hard radiation to mutate them into ones with legs".
Etc.
I've watched ebay for a few heathkit robots to come across but to no avail (at my pricepoint, that is;P)
Anyways, pretty sweet. To those of you that enjoy mocking it, go get your stupid AIBO and bitch about it when Sony changes the firmware... because you didn't actually build it yourself.
I used to work in the hybrid lab- if you have silver capture on film and silver output, but stick a computer in the middle you can produce some incredible photographs.
The only camera I've seen surpass film is the Eos 1Ds. Of course, when that comes down to 2K, I'll buy it... bur right now it's still hovering around $7K. So I've a little life left in my camera:)
80% skill, 20% luck. It's lucky to be in the right place at the right time, but it takes training, dedication, and reaction time to get, compose, and fire off that frame.
Every now and then you can get lucky, but knowing what to do with that luck to make successful images takes skill.
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- ask about any subject X and include 'Linux' and it'll get your answers posted to slashdot.
Frankly the best I've seen is for the Macintosh, which is unfortunate due to my high investment in PC hardware.
I currently make wedding 'dvds' from photographs using Studio 8.1 and, recently, have been experimenting making AVIs and converting them to MPGs. Just doesn't work well tho.
Nice photo of the vehicle. But if you know Umit, tell him to get his photo retaken! It's difficult enough to do a good shot in a striped shirt, but those are wrinkles!
Seriously, I'm a photographer- tell him to get a new press head shot.
Pretty slick design tho. I somehow think this is going turn out to be a contest of overdesigned rather than 'clever'....
You can't send a message with DHCP- thats a network assignment protocol. As in, you get your IP from them with that.
It would be even better to send them a "Net Send " but thats been disabled due to viruses and spam.
Frankly those users have ignored all the obvious aspects of being infected (100% cable light flashing) and have probably consumed more bandwidth than an army of teenagers downloading MP3s. That cable *should* be cut and I stand by my comments about desiring cable access being denied to them UNTIL they remove their virus.
Frankly, they AREN't running a virus scanner because... obviously... the logs go on for days. Weeks. A few for months. So how exactly do you want to make them call in for more information? Why, you cut out their access. Very quickly they call in. If they don't, well, they weren't using the service and they will call in when they want to... at which point a qualified technician can 'walk them thru' downloading a virus scanner and installing it.
Because lets face it- if they are spamming the net with a virus thats been on their machine for months, a little DHCP message (hah) ain't gonna do nothing to stop them.
One down, one to go. Just think of all those logs your firewall generates that show time 300,000 connections from the SAME IP with the SAME VIRUS SIGNATURE... and Time Warner won't do anything about it (say, for instance, shutting off their cable).
Comcast has taken the right steps here. So again, thank you... maybe that'll be enough to get other providers to start 'assisting' in preventing the continued harassment of my router.
... ed. But I Could be wrong, too. But damnit if that thing wasn't ancient looking- but it functiond and had 100K pixels? It was a pretty large number for the timeperiod.
Hell, I didn't think they knew what a transistor was when that thing was dated....
IR/Red penetrates deeper into the chip and 'spreads' out. A good IR filter would take care of that purple haze.
It could also be the wells filling and spilling over to the surrounding areas, or even a slow clock on some of the colour arrays.
... but I saw a digital camera that was dated circa 1976, the year I was born. So you only missed the boat by being about 14 years too late....
I work for Kodak. At least for the next few weeks until my division is 'divested'.
And it's pretty sad when you see all sorts of "HEY! We made that first" crap happen and the company lawyers don't go after the infringers. Thats *your* ideas, *your* work, and damnit if the courts didn't award *your* company the patent for it.
I won't speak to the Sony thing because I don't know the specifics, but I have heard many, many, many instances where Kodak should have, but didn't.
And you might remember a few years back a certain Polaroid case that ruled that even the *idea* was infringed, even if there were 600 people, 300 file cabinets, and an army of engineers waiting to patiently explain that the two systems were completely different. We lost that one- Pretty much everyone outside of the company that's spoke about that declares it a landmark case... that went the wrong way.
- and their reps switched it out every night because it was fading that fast.
;-)
Not all OLED have these problems, but certainly when they go for a show, you'd better have some backups
ALot of engineering went into that pipeline- I've seen 'studies' that argue the effectiveness of that pipeline, regardless of it's isolation from the VSMs.
However it sounds like you've good info- can you provide any summarized reports? The last material I read has to be at least 8 years old... and it wasn't terribly fair to the pipeline.
I meant more along the lines of environmental richness - living in the Saraha desert doesn't make life exactly the easiest.
Living in rocky outcropping makes food difficult to raise and transport. You may expend more energy and work transporting food over a range than obtain from consuming it.
Anyways, my bad- I should have explained I wasn't referencing any economic aspect, just the environment.
(thats why most early civs bracketed rivers and floodplains....)
Actually as much as I'd like to see OLED succeed, the formation of the materials are very toxic. I agree with 100% what you say, but look a few of them up on the web.
;)
The materials used typically involve heavy metal catalyst, huge quantities of solvent (almost all OLED materials are uniquely insoluble- the rocks in my front yard are easier to get into solution), and extended purification to get to the requisite 99.9% purities.
And.... the actual coatings... dont' get me started there
(Yes, I've worked on OLED projects and I know what I'm talking about)
Exactly. You typically do not want to have to condition 'fresh' water for use in your equipment at every stage of the game. Besides, water coming into a plant has loads of bacteria and algae, which tend to muck up the heat exchangers ;)
A settling tank eats alot of real-estate, but those HUGE tanks then have to overflow to another tank, which overflows to another tank.... which might then be clean enough to discharge.
I think the tank we use has a number of blades to keep it stirred and allow any bacteria to properly clean up the water before it's fed back to a city 'treatment' plant. The bacteria actually 'learn' what noxious chemicals are in the water and eat them up... although it does take a few days of lagtime from the introduction of, say Acetone, to convert to, say Toluene.
Mod that baby up. Dumping energy into a water stream has a massive impact on the surrounding ecology.
I'm sure most of the US people have heard of the manatees- the power plants in Florida have discharge channels that are long and wide and attract hundreds of the 'sea cows' each year. Why? Because the water being returned (reclaimed) comes out quite a bit warmer than the water it's going back into.
This translates to a literal calving ground of protected, tempered water. The plants even run a little tourist center for people to come in and watch the manatees - heh there's even a little hose that drops 'fresh' water into the discharge channel. Watch the creatures pull up under it and drink from a 'novel' non-salt containing water.... I think it gets them drunk, but then again if you've watched a manatee swim you'll swear they are all drunk.
But in this case the energy return is quite benefitial to the surroundings. Usually it's not- think of the Alaskan pipeway that draws heated oil from the wells to distribution. That permafrost underneath NEEDS to be kept cold, yet we are radiating millions of therms of energy above it to keep the oil from freezing solid. So it's a complete tradeoff in that sense- the coldest environment that MUST stay cold has the hottest (And capable of generating the most heat) mere meters above it. I think the pipes are about 2.5m off the ground, to allow animals to pass thru.
The dissolved O2 problem is real, but not as big as you think. I'd place more issue around the extra few degrees in the winter than on the amount of O2 present (algae can have a more devastating effect from phosphate dumping)
... actually 'restore' the condition of the water downstream.
Papermills are notoriously pollutive- they use quite a bit of pH-basic material in the process. There is a well documented instance (sadly I can not locate an online reference) of water being polluted thru acidic mine discharge (AMD) and being 'fixed' downstream from a papermill that discharches additional 'treated' water from their process. The before/after photos are breathtaking- you've got dead trees looking like a swampland and then, just past the plant, is any normal looking river (Except the trees are still smaller- they've not fully grown back to hardwoods that you'd expect to find around a river)
Anyways, yes, water is 'consumed' at that papermill. Fortunately, it's also 'returned' in a state that restores the ecological balance that was present at a time in the past. If the grand-parent poster had his way, that wouldn't even be allowed.... and we'd have one more dead, polluted river in need of fixing.
(not all papermills work out that well, sadly. most are just as guilty as the original mines for dumping their tailings and letting it leach out)
I find it very humourous that one second you tell me to get some humanity... and then call me a 'stupid moron' and suggest that I should choke to death on a hamburger and fries. Interesting, I think we've proven which one of us is more qualified to discuss the ecological impacts of using water- a Chemical Engineer Level IV (capable of designing plants) or someone that compares others to sheep (btw, I collect sheep- can you send me a photo of you and one for my collection?)
Now, on to your post- when my company built a plant in China they allowed the workers to bring their families in and shower, clean up, etc. Shanty towns sprung up next door. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't entirely voluntary, but in the end it worked out for both groups.
Now lets talk about water regulation: In the US water outlets are strickly regulated. Plants must have water monitoring tools, take samples, observe, and report any and all spills or problems, on a regular basis or face severe economic penalties.
I've seen silver sludge, as black as your heart-felt comments, come out drinkable. In fact, I watched the lead engineer down a glass that, moments before, was as toxic as your words.
Of course, I don't agree with the economic policies that force pollution out to 3rd will countries- but there isnt' a damn thing that can be done to stop it until those countries force the same regulations.
Anyways, thank you for holding up some more posters of preservation. It's been entertaining.
You were modded as 'insightful' for repeating the drivel on television?
1L at 1.04 g/cm^3 is a cube 10cm X 10cm X 10cm and weighs in at 1.04 kg. 1500L is a cube approximately 1.15m x 1.15m x 1.15m and weighs 1560kg.
Now you'd like to transport that 1500kg across the world to some poor, impoverished nation and give some thirsty children some water?
How would you like to accompish that? Maybe put it in a truck? Or a boat? Possibly an airplane? You might have to burn some fossil fuels to move it, unless of course you will be willing to pedal and move it by yourself (note, you will need cooling water yourself in order to maintain peak performance and prevent your brain from frying due to overheating).
This new-age drivel is very annoying to listen to. You would have a better chance of relocating the affected individuals to a more 'rich' environment.
Of course, using those computers to predict where hotspots will form is a bad thing- better to be surprised by a hurricane and lose the entire crop across an entire nation, than to 'consume' that 1500L of water. Let's exclude the fact that environmental regulations strictly control what can be returned to the water table, and that fines run into the 100K's for offenses.
Personally, I'd find it prettey interesting to watch you move 1560 kg of water using a bicycle to pull an oxen cart loaded with ~5 55gallon drums of water.
Actually water is quite expensive, in terms of conditioning. But just passing thru the pipe is what this damn report is talking about- I can tell you about processes I've done where the byproducts are BURNED. You want to talk about waste? Thats wasteful. When I tried to implement changes that would recycle and make it easier to recover the fossil fuel solvents, I had it nixed because of the environmental paperwork for the government.
So water consumption is a 'bad' thing? Not in my book.
And a Politician that's a Hero is a man I wouldn't otherwise respect.
1) Glenn has name-recognition.
2) Name-recognition translates to Power.
3) Power can move mountains.
The goals are lofty, but the fact he states them gives it more credence than anyone else.
Took nearly 2 minutes to download, but watching those short steps around... then finding out that the backpack was loaded with 100lbs.... wow.
Obviously the future of movement and an important first step, no pun intended.
So we've got a unit that can carry up to 120lbs of weight. Figure a few more lbs and it may now be able to 'support' a man whos legs no longer work properly. Although this design is based upon feedback from a proper leg to calculate where it is supposed to move/balance.
The old quote about the yellow pages- let your fingers do the walking- may soon become far more true than you've realized... especially for those born or brought to wheelchair bound.
... what is not journalism. It's mostly a rambling trend of thought that, unfortunately, is very publishable on the internet.
"Hacking YoYos" ??? Hardly. That's not new, and it certainly wasn't invented at this conference. People (and self) have always 'modified' a yoyo when it wasn't performing well.
I won't even go into the logic the writer espouses while complaining that doctors are allowed to cause pain in the name of science. Anyone remember the 'call for volunteers' that NASA wanted to lay on their back at a negative incline for months to simulate weightlessness? That's a hell of allot more intrusive and damaging than being poked or heated.
Enough New-Age crap.
... I remember when this came out and I wanted it SO bad- as bad as any 8 or 9 year old kid who's learning electronics can want. I think it was about 300$ or so for the kit- big money back then.
;P)
Most of the comments i've seen so far are jokes poking fun at the way it looks, features, etc. Must be those 'youngins' i've heard so much about. Why, the HERO is the great grand-daddy to that fancy schmancy SONY robot that can walk on two legs. The joke being, "In my day Robots ROLLED around- there wasn't enough hard radiation to mutate them into ones with legs".
Etc.
I've watched ebay for a few heathkit robots to come across but to no avail (at my pricepoint, that is
Anyways, pretty sweet. To those of you that enjoy mocking it, go get your stupid AIBO and bitch about it when Sony changes the firmware... because you didn't actually build it yourself.
I used to work in the hybrid lab- if you have silver capture on film and silver output, but stick a computer in the middle you can produce some incredible photographs.
:)
The only camera I've seen surpass film is the Eos 1Ds. Of course, when that comes down to 2K, I'll buy it... bur right now it's still hovering around $7K. So I've a little life left in my camera
80% skill, 20% luck. It's lucky to be in the right place at the right time, but it takes training, dedication, and reaction time to get, compose, and fire off that frame.
Every now and then you can get lucky, but knowing what to do with that luck to make successful images takes skill.