This has been done for a number of years (~20) by several companies, most notably GE.
My company, Cannon Technologies (www.cannontech.com), is also a supplier of Distribution Line Carrier systems, and has been doing it longer than TWACS.
I'm actually programming protocols for several power line carrier meters.
Yep. I'm monocular (due to surgery to correct crossed eyes), though I retain use of both of my eyes. (actually, I can even control which is my dominant/active eye, which allows me to perform rudimentary stereo checks, if only to amuse myself.)
I do gain a lot of information from motion.
At the same time, starfield simulations and the like (if done properly, refresh rate, etc) can really draw me in.
Precisely what I noticed. They blow out anti-fuses - make a physical connection - to store the data. Perhaps they can manage to make Flash work on a multi-tiered level...
This permanent film thing may be the fix for some applications, such as insurance, where you're not allowed to take digital photographs for fear of altering the picture after the fact.
This might help people make the jump to digital imaging, too, if they have an analogue to film negatives (deletable, non-permanent files only on their PC may put some people off from the idea.)
But I won't use it in my digital camera, though, because of its recurring cost; my Microdrive is reusable, and I archive onto my PC (CD-R, as soon as I buy one, and CD-R media is much less expensive than this purports to be).
It's a good step in the realistic-physics-modeling direction, though, with the addition of inverse kinematics. It may be the same as the jump from Doom to Quake.
I wonder if this sort of signals a plateau of sorts w.r.t. graphics improvements. Polys can increase, and texturing can get better, but not in such revolutionary ways as in the past.
Hopefully, this indicates a trend toward increasing the value of gameplay, as opposed to merely making things still-image pretty.
I was referring to lossless Canon RAW format 2200x1700x24bit (36-bit? I know the ADC is 12-bit) images, which come out to 3MB a pop.
I can store 8000 640x480 high-compression JPEGs on one Microdrive.
The resolution and quality (compared to, say, 3000 dpi scans of 35mm negatives) are two reasons why it hasn't been adopted by mainstream yet, but digital is getting closer.
Storage and quality will grow in parallel, so I think the intended point is valid.
there will still be risk involved... imagine one of the enemy's remote-controlled robots dropping a bomb on that joystick bunker.
the risk will be reduced, but will still be there.
besides, the ultimate goal has never been to kill people, but to remove their ability to resist you and/or achieve their nefarious goals.
I have - but I'm an amateur. it seems the situation is a lot different in the pro world.
I think you're right about the journalists' "shoot more or go get film" mentality - the impression I get is that they're made so busy by photographing constantly that reviewing/deleting is virtually unthinkable. And then from there, it's back to the office at the paper (or wherever) to download the pictures.
Unless we're talking solely about the new generation coming into journalism, I think old habits will be relatively hard to break in that regard; Digital SLRs are made to be virtually the same as film cameras so they can be used the same.
And if you look at the links I posted further down, you can see at least one example where photojournalists are permanently archiving their photos almost instantly.
re: CD-R - The new Sonys have CD-RW support, throwing a bit of confusion into that suggestion... (I imagine cost would encourage journalists to use CD-Rs, though.)
[never mind that those are currently mid-level consumer cameras, nowhere near the level of the pro SLR Canon or Nikon models.]
The G2's been tested to have about a 3.5 hour battery life, as detailed at the bottom of this page from its review at Digital Photography Review.
Quick answer: I don't know if the LCD was on or off for this test, but he was able to get 350+ pictures and 3.5 hours out of it.
I would recommend a second battery if you're going to be out away from wall plugs for a while... it's cheap compared to losing that One Great Shot.
I heartily recommend the camera... and be sure to look at DPReview - it's a great site with loads of info.
"Let's see, go back to the truck and get more film canisters, or stay here in the riot and take more pictures..."
Three 1GB microdrives equal 27 canisters of film, and are infinitely easier to carry.
It will be trivial to equal and exceed the capacity of film cameras.
I'm aware that 9 rolls isn't that much - but if a news agency is going to spend $6k on a Nikon D1x, they're not going to scrimp on the digital film.
They will recoup the costs in a short time, since they're reusable.
And if things are as time-critical as she purports in the article, photographers won't be going back and deleting - they'll be shooting more.
Digital film takes less space, and you don't have to develop it to see the results.
The losses she claims are not valid.
I got mine for $256, shipping included, from Dell. My pictures average 3 MB (I have a Canon Powershot G2 and shoot in RAW), so I can get 330+ images on the drive.
That's 9 36-exposure rolls.
Definitely not a problem if you don't want it to be.
It would have been in vain as far as the people that didn't believe - but when Jesus went to Hell to reclaim the keys to the grave, He told those in captivity there about His sacrifice (all those from before His time). Those people had the choice to believe or not, as well.
His was the ultimate, perfect sacrifice - the last sacrifice. A guiltless man paid the price for guilty mankind (think division by zero:) ).
No more blood sacrifice is ever required again, so no, a second or a third would not ever happen.
Jesus' sacrifice was it. Finished.
Bacteria? Where do you get that?
Chemical compounds will often attach themselves to a substrate - some chipfabs use a similar technique to grow transistors, but it's done with a high-pressure silicon vapor.
This has nothing to do with bacteria at all. No DNA, no mitochondria.
Yeah, I've been on a quest to quiet down my PC for some time now... I am a bit of an audiophile, and I use high-bitrate MP3s in addition to my CD player, so I would like my PC to be silent. The straw that broke the camel's back on this one was the 40GB Maxtor drive that I bought, which was audible through the telephone.
So I ordered a power supply, heatsink, and drive enclosure from Quiet PC. That fixed things to about 90% of what I would like... big improvement. But it is still an aftermarket fix for something that is admittedly broken w.r.t. sound emission.
It's great to see sound finally being considered by the industry... for example, the current trend in hard drives is FDB (Fluid Dynamic Bearings), which allows idle noise from the drive to be in the ~30dB range... and I seem to recall a post here recently about Dell P4 systems being very quiet.
I wonder if these could be put into various locations in heatsinks to allow more efficient dispersal of the heat throughout the entire structure (and from there, pure passive dispersal - no fans).
I find it interesting that the Gold requires speech interaction.
Up until I head the AT&T speech system, all computer voices had sounded very artificial to me... that technology puts the top award within reach.
Pretty exciting that this could actually be won in the not-too-distant future.
The Taliban is sponsoring and harboring terrorism.
This action is not designed to go after terrorists. It is designed to disrupt them so they cannot act with such impunity. Bombing training camps and weakening/toppling a terrorist-supporting government makes them scatter.
Freezing assets is a greater hurt to terrorism, if it can be done on a large enough basis. The money transfers involved in the WTC attacks were insanely large.
Individuals cannot do as much damage as the organization we are attempting to topple.
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This has been done for a number of years (~20) by several companies, most notably GE.
My company, Cannon Technologies (www.cannontech.com), is also a supplier of Distribution Line Carrier systems, and has been doing it longer than TWACS.
I'm actually programming protocols for several power line carrier meters.
Yep. I'm monocular (due to surgery to correct crossed eyes), though I retain use of both of my eyes. (actually, I can even control which is my dominant/active eye, which allows me to perform rudimentary stereo checks, if only to amuse myself.)
I do gain a lot of information from motion.
At the same time, starfield simulations and the like (if done properly, refresh rate, etc) can really draw me in.
We have a winner!
Will this technology fade once DVD-R comes into the mainstream?
Precisely what I noticed. They blow out anti-fuses - make a physical connection - to store the data. Perhaps they can manage to make Flash work on a multi-tiered level...
This permanent film thing may be the fix for some applications, such as insurance, where you're not allowed to take digital photographs for fear of altering the picture after the fact.
This might help people make the jump to digital imaging, too, if they have an analogue to film negatives (deletable, non-permanent files only on their PC may put some people off from the idea.)
But I won't use it in my digital camera, though, because of its recurring cost; my Microdrive is reusable, and I archive onto my PC (CD-R, as soon as I buy one, and CD-R media is much less expensive than this purports to be).
It's a good step in the realistic-physics-modeling direction, though, with the addition of inverse kinematics. It may be the same as the jump from Doom to Quake.
f rame.html... long and short being that things can move like your eye expects them to.
I wonder if this sort of signals a plateau of sorts w.r.t. graphics improvements. Polys can increase, and texturing can get better, but not in such revolutionary ways as in the past.
Hopefully, this indicates a trend toward increasing the value of gameplay, as opposed to merely making things still-image pretty.
For an interactive Flash example of inverse kinematics, have a peek at http://www.vectorlounge.com/04_amsterdam/jam/wire
I was referring to lossless Canon RAW format 2200x1700x24bit (36-bit? I know the ADC is 12-bit) images, which come out to 3MB a pop.
I can store 8000 640x480 high-compression JPEGs on one Microdrive.
The resolution and quality (compared to, say, 3000 dpi scans of 35mm negatives) are two reasons why it hasn't been adopted by mainstream yet, but digital is getting closer.
Storage and quality will grow in parallel, so I think the intended point is valid.
there will still be risk involved... imagine one of the enemy's remote-controlled robots dropping a bomb on that joystick bunker.
the risk will be reduced, but will still be there.
besides, the ultimate goal has never been to kill people, but to remove their ability to resist you and/or achieve their nefarious goals.
I have - but I'm an amateur. it seems the situation is a lot different in the pro world.
I think you're right about the journalists' "shoot more or go get film" mentality - the impression I get is that they're made so busy by photographing constantly that reviewing/deleting is virtually unthinkable. And then from there, it's back to the office at the paper (or wherever) to download the pictures.
Unless we're talking solely about the new generation coming into journalism, I think old habits will be relatively hard to break in that regard; Digital SLRs are made to be virtually the same as film cameras so they can be used the same.
And if you look at the links I posted further down, you can see at least one example where photojournalists are permanently archiving their photos almost instantly.
re: CD-R - The new Sonys have CD-RW support, throwing a bit of confusion into that suggestion... (I imagine cost would encourage journalists to use CD-Rs, though.)
[never mind that those are currently mid-level consumer cameras, nowhere near the level of the pro SLR Canon or Nikon models.]
The G2's been tested to have about a 3.5 hour battery life, as detailed at the bottom of this page from its review at Digital Photography Review.
Quick answer: I don't know if the LCD was on or off for this test, but he was able to get 350+ pictures and 3.5 hours out of it.
I would recommend a second battery if you're going to be out away from wall plugs for a while... it's cheap compared to losing that One Great Shot.
I heartily recommend the camera... and be sure to look at DPReview - it's a great site with loads of info.
"Let's see, go back to the truck and get more film canisters, or stay here in the riot and take more pictures..."
Three 1GB microdrives equal 27 canisters of film, and are infinitely easier to carry.
It will be trivial to equal and exceed the capacity of film cameras.
Bleah. "Plain old text" doesn't work that well for links.
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http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2001-10/2001
and
http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2001-10/2001
An excellent writeup about how photojournalists (even in extreme conditions) are using digital cameras and film is at
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http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2001-10/20
A followup is at
http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2001-10/20
They are archiving massive amounts of photos/data - nothing is lost. They are burning everything to DVD.
I'm aware that 9 rolls isn't that much - but if a news agency is going to spend $6k on a Nikon D1x, they're not going to scrimp on the digital film.
They will recoup the costs in a short time, since they're reusable.
And if things are as time-critical as she purports in the article, photographers won't be going back and deleting - they'll be shooting more.
Digital film takes less space, and you don't have to develop it to see the results.
The losses she claims are not valid.
I got mine for $256, shipping included, from Dell. My pictures average 3 MB (I have a Canon Powershot G2 and shoot in RAW), so I can get 330+ images on the drive.
That's 9 36-exposure rolls.
Definitely not a problem if you don't want it to be.
Spot on. Also, if you want to keep the allowable error regions the same, you will square power consumption.
A power/space/processing/error analysis on ternary would be nice to see.
It would have been in vain as far as the people that didn't believe - but when Jesus went to Hell to reclaim the keys to the grave, He told those in captivity there about His sacrifice (all those from before His time). Those people had the choice to believe or not, as well. :) ).
His was the ultimate, perfect sacrifice - the last sacrifice. A guiltless man paid the price for guilty mankind (think division by zero
No more blood sacrifice is ever required again, so no, a second or a third would not ever happen.
Jesus' sacrifice was it. Finished.
Bacteria? Where do you get that?
Chemical compounds will often attach themselves to a substrate - some chipfabs use a similar technique to grow transistors, but it's done with a high-pressure silicon vapor.
This has nothing to do with bacteria at all. No DNA, no mitochondria.
I dunno why I'm falling for this troll.
The Crystal Method took pictures using that camera during the making of their latest album: http://www.thecrystalmethod.com/photos/casiopic.as p
Well put. It's like saying "if we add enough horsepower to that car, it'll turn into plutonium!"
Computers are not inherently self-aware...
making them more of what they are won't change them into something else.
Yeah, I've been on a quest to quiet down my PC for some time now... I am a bit of an audiophile, and I use high-bitrate MP3s in addition to my CD player, so I would like my PC to be silent. The straw that broke the camel's back on this one was the 40GB Maxtor drive that I bought, which was audible through the telephone.
So I ordered a power supply, heatsink, and drive enclosure from Quiet PC. That fixed things to about 90% of what I would like... big improvement. But it is still an aftermarket fix for something that is admittedly broken w.r.t. sound emission.
It's great to see sound finally being considered by the industry... for example, the current trend in hard drives is FDB (Fluid Dynamic Bearings), which allows idle noise from the drive to be in the ~30dB range... and I seem to recall a post here recently about Dell P4 systems being very quiet.
I wonder if these could be put into various locations in heatsinks to allow more efficient dispersal of the heat throughout the entire structure (and from there, pure passive dispersal - no fans).
I find it interesting that the Gold requires speech interaction.
Up until I head the AT&T speech system, all computer voices had sounded very artificial to me... that technology puts the top award within reach.
Pretty exciting that this could actually be won in the not-too-distant future.
A calculated maneuver, in my estimation. :)
The Taliban is sponsoring and harboring terrorism.
This action is not designed to go after terrorists. It is designed to disrupt them so they cannot act with such impunity. Bombing training camps and weakening/toppling a terrorist-supporting government makes them scatter.
Freezing assets is a greater hurt to terrorism, if it can be done on a large enough basis. The money transfers involved in the WTC attacks were insanely large.
Individuals cannot do as much damage as the organization we are attempting to topple.