You mean Apple licensed technlogy from Macromedia and you control the playback of songs with a web browser and there's lots of annoying graphics and stuff that don't run properly on Linux?!:-o
The performance of the store doesn't seem terribly awe inspiring right now. Knowing that Apple don't tend to launch small, I can only presume that this means lots of happy Canadians browsing and buying.
Neither. The hologram is a function of refracted visible light caused by interference patterns.
So, there are a number of factors that determine the hue of the image...and you get that "oil on water" type rainbow effect.
You *can* make full colour holograms, but the process is complex and requires three lasers (R+G+B) and colour holographic film. Also remember that movement of even just a few microns in the illuminated subject disrupts the interference patter enough to cause foggy exposures ruining your holograph -- so doing it with three laser sources is even more prone to errors.
Unfortunately, our medicare system is in a bit of a mess right now. Sorting out things like waiting lists for MRIs and non-elective surgery are big priorities.
Money for pure research projects up here is few and far between (although I'm not saying it's non-existent -- research at hospitals like Sick Kids in Toronto is excellent).
But, agreed...it'd sure be nice if someone took up the gauntlet and pursued a cure for Type 1 diabetes.
"It also ignores the Broadcast Flag, which means that it will be illegal in the States starting July 1st, 2005, under a recent FCC Order."
No, the FCC order makes provision for "grandfathering" any existing devices. Anyone with any common sense would see that it would be completely unreasonable for that expensive HDTV you've got to suddenly become "illegal"!
And was not terribly impressed for the following reasons:
- Has an annoying "PC/HDTV" button on the front that's a remnant from when they sold it in Asia with an HDTV "tuner module" that you can't get here
- The HDTV tuner module sat in a slot the size of a power supply in the back. This is now an empty area covered in a sticker!
- I've never been able to get the IR remote/VFD and ATX power to work the way I expect.
- You can't do simple stuff with the VFD like remote the annoying startup banner. Definitely not on par with Matrix Orbital VFDs.
- The case is way over-sized considering it is built for ATX!
There's probably a couple of other bits. Oh, and Ahanix sales were USELESS. They didn't even know their products particularly well, although the tech support guy was quite helpful.
They did, didn't they? In the form of their own Linux distribution.
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
If you read the source and documentation, it's quite clear what they did. Producing a "boiler-plate" security document for all Linux distributions would be futile -- there are too many variables involved.
A commercial product such as OSX is quite a bit more linear, and this easier to release a straightforward guide.
This is only useful if you're running Linux on your Xbox. The drives won't be available to the original Xbox BIOS *or* even to a modded Xbox BIOS with a modchip.
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You mean Apple licensed technlogy from Macromedia and you control the playback of songs with a web browser and there's lots of annoying graphics and stuff that don't run properly on Linux?! :-o
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When did we buy the second tank?!
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The performance of the store doesn't seem terribly awe inspiring right now. Knowing that Apple don't tend to launch small, I can only presume that this means lots of happy Canadians browsing and buying.
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We're on our way :-)
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I'm 32 going on 50!
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"and software to extract the on-screen text from the box's displayed menu and make sense of it would be a challenge to a funded team of programmers."
What are you talking about? That content is already sitting in MySQL on any Mythtv installation.
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No. Only transmissive holograms need to be illuminated by the same wavelength of laser that they were created with.
Reflective holograms are illuminated with a single point *visible* white light source.
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I run with lasers! ;-)
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Neither. The hologram is a function of refracted visible light caused by interference patterns.
So, there are a number of factors that determine the hue of the image...and you get that "oil on water" type rainbow effect.
You *can* make full colour holograms, but the process is complex and requires three lasers (R+G+B) and colour holographic film. Also remember that movement of even just a few microns in the illuminated subject disrupts the interference patter enough to cause foggy exposures ruining your holograph -- so doing it with three laser sources is even more prone to errors.
(Real holography used to be a hobby of mine).
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Unfortunately, our medicare system is in a bit of a mess right now. Sorting out things like waiting lists for MRIs and non-elective surgery are big priorities.
Money for pure research projects up here is few and far between (although I'm not saying it's non-existent -- research at hospitals like Sick Kids in Toronto is excellent).
But, agreed...it'd sure be nice if someone took up the gauntlet and pursued a cure for Type 1 diabetes.
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"It also ignores the Broadcast Flag, which means that it will be illegal in the States starting July 1st, 2005, under a recent FCC Order."
No, the FCC order makes provision for "grandfathering" any existing devices. Anyone with any common sense would see that it would be completely unreasonable for that expensive HDTV you've got to suddenly become "illegal"!
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That's interesting seeing as I bought mine a couple of months ago.
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Nice! Doesn't matter if it's a one-man shop, they look really nicely engineered.
Thanks for the tip-off.
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And was not terribly impressed for the following reasons:
- Has an annoying "PC/HDTV" button on the front that's a remnant from when they sold it in Asia with an HDTV "tuner module" that you can't get here
- The HDTV tuner module sat in a slot the size of a power supply in the back. This is now an empty area covered in a sticker!
- I've never been able to get the IR remote/VFD and ATX power to work the way I expect.
- You can't do simple stuff with the VFD like remote the annoying startup banner. Definitely not on par with Matrix Orbital VFDs.
- The case is way over-sized considering it is built for ATX!
There's probably a couple of other bits. Oh, and Ahanix sales were USELESS. They didn't even know their products particularly well, although the tech support guy was quite helpful.
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They did, didn't they? In the form of their own Linux distribution.
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
If you read the source and documentation, it's quite clear what they did. Producing a "boiler-plate" security document for all Linux distributions would be futile -- there are too many variables involved.
A commercial product such as OSX is quite a bit more linear, and this easier to release a straightforward guide.
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And if you actually spoke both, you'd know you can say aye carrumbe in both languages, plus Italian!
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Aye carrumba!!! Aye-eee!!!! Enough to make a man want to go to Mars ;-)
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Dude, that's a link to Oliver Stone :-p
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Parker directs AND produces, Stone just produces...
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It was Saddam's "pubes" that were of International interest, not his "tubes"!!!!
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I searched for 'strip bar' in Toronto and got:
(1) A male strip bar
(2 onwards...) Steak and chop restaurants such as the Purple Onion
In other words, this is definitely no better than YellowPages.ca....so where's the Googleness?
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It's 25% of the original volume. Look at the side-by-side pics...the system is tiny compared to the origianl.
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Warm enough in the summer that a foam-lined box full of electronics would get close to operating max, though.
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This is only useful if you're running Linux on your Xbox. The drives won't be available to the original Xbox BIOS *or* even to a modded Xbox BIOS with a modchip.
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Might be a good career choice if certifaction rocks your (or your employers) boat.
http://www.lpi.org
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