That would depend on the instrument. Some had a 1d scanner where there would be one sensor element for each pixel in the X direction on the image and as the sat moved, a new line was generated each time the array took a sample (IIRC, Landsat MSS & France's SPOT did this). These would often be described as "push broom" scanners. Others like Landsat TM would have a 1d array of sensors and a rotating mirror that would result in multiple lines being sampled at a time in a back-n-forth motion. These are often referred to as "whisk broom" scanners. Some parts of the image would overlap and other parts would leave gaps between the scans which would then be replaced by 'synthetic pixels' by the processing software on the ground. I haven't checked on any specs, but I would guess that's still how the newer ones are doing it too, rather than doing 2d snap shots like personal digital cameras. (of course, this isn't including the multiple bands of information that are captured for each pixel).
Just think of all the industry and general news outlets will be carrying this story. I would imagine a few curious people might check their site.
Isn't the real name of Tiger just MacOS 10.4? Who would think of suing over a product's codename? Maybe the University of Texas should sue Microsoft for using their nickname and a likeness of one of the school symbols (who else has an orange longhorn?)?
just register the ship and the corporation in some little Carribean nation. a lot of cruise ships aren't registered as US flagged ships and neither are some corporations that have their corporate headquarters on US soil.
Military personnel pay all the same payroll taxes everyone else does.
Yes and no. IIRC, what they pay is based on the state they used to live in before enlisting. A friend of mine who got out the Army said that he was amazed at the level of taxation that hit him once he went into the private sector. He was had to start paying VA income taxes instead of what he had been paying for SD ($0). For that reason, it's better for people who know they want to join the military to spend enough time to become a resident of a state with no income tax (AK, FL, NH, NV, SD, TN, TX, WA, & WY).
It's already in the middle of the county. My parents can get DSL in their little town in the middle of SD, they just don't want it. For what they do, dialup is fine.
Whether the torrent listings come in from a RSS feed or if I'm manually searching for them, it doesn't matter. It still takes too long to download shows to 'kill' TV as we know it.
even with bittorrent, I haven't ever been able to get a 30-60 minute TV show w/o having to wait at least a couple hours for it to download - an hour if I'm lucky. Even then, the parts of the file don't necessarily have to come in order, so I usually have to wait until it is done before I can watch it. If you plan ahead and have the shows pulled down when you're doing something else, that would be great. Normally, if I'm watching TV, I'm bored and don't know what I want to watch and flip channels until I find something interesting.
until the amount of bandwidth between the people with the shows and the subscribers increases significantly, I don't see this sort of behavior happening on a wide scale to replace normal TV. maybe to queue up some shows that you want to watch the next day and they are pulled down over night while one is asleep.
how does it compare to a IIIxe in those categories? I would upgrade if the new models were significantly better, but given how I use my PDA, they aren't.
a 100+K registered users at one site, 100K at other sites(with some overlap) probably isn't very many people in the grand scheme of things. However, most of the people that I know using these services are often maxing out their upload and download rates using p2p for legal content. One taper torrent site has coordinated 600+TB of traffic alone and it is one of many. It may be insignificant in your opinion, but it is a good example of a _legal_ use for this technology and a user base that would have a very good reason to be pissed if the entertainment industry succeeds in getting ISPs to eliminate p2p.
I think the entertainment industry is more worried about the loss of control than copyright infringment. We can't have independant musicians or film makers posting torrents of their creations on the web, now can we? Too many of their peers may decide that they don't need the middlemen anymore either.
And the rest is clearly and unquestionable and overwhelmingly illegal downloading of copyrighted material.
That will be news to people who use etree.org, archive.org or any other site that allows people to trade shows that they recorded with the musicians' permission. I don't have the bandwidth to waste on the entertainment industry's pop bullshit.
The funny part is that he's right back to square one with the annoying fan noise. I know if I had the money to be able to afford such a system, I'd also spend the extra $$ for longer cables and/or enclosure for the case to eliminate the noise.
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But if they portrayed it accurately, it wouldn't be exciting TV.
That would depend on the instrument. Some had a 1d scanner where there would be one sensor element for each pixel in the X direction on the image and as the sat moved, a new line was generated each time the array took a sample (IIRC, Landsat MSS & France's SPOT did this). These would often be described as "push broom" scanners. Others like Landsat TM would have a 1d array of sensors and a rotating mirror that would result in multiple lines being sampled at a time in a back-n-forth motion. These are often referred to as "whisk broom" scanners. Some parts of the image would overlap and other parts would leave gaps between the scans which would then be replaced by 'synthetic pixels' by the processing software on the ground. I haven't checked on any specs, but I would guess that's still how the newer ones are doing it too, rather than doing 2d snap shots like personal digital cameras. (of course, this isn't including the multiple bands of information that are captured for each pixel).
I rode the bus to work for a while. I prefer the isolation cocoon of metal and concrete to the periodic delousing.
How do you think Raytheon developed the first microwave oven in 1946? An engineer discovered that the radar unit he was working on could heat food.
Isn't the real name of Tiger just MacOS 10.4? Who would think of suing over a product's codename? Maybe the University of Texas should sue Microsoft for using their nickname and a likeness of one of the school symbols (who else has an orange longhorn?)?
a friend of mine that used to be in the USAF said that they would use the radars they were working on to warm up their coffee, lunch, etc.
I launched Emacs when I got into work today and while I haven't used it as much as I normally do, it's only taking up 6.9M. Galeon is using about 64M.
just register the ship and the corporation in some little Carribean nation. a lot of cruise ships aren't registered as US flagged ships and neither are some corporations that have their corporate headquarters on US soil.
Military personnel pay all the same payroll taxes everyone else does.
Yes and no. IIRC, what they pay is based on the state they used to live in before enlisting. A friend of mine who got out the Army said that he was amazed at the level of taxation that hit him once he went into the private sector. He was had to start paying VA income taxes instead of what he had been paying for SD ($0). For that reason, it's better for people who know they want to join the military to spend enough time to become a resident of a state with no income tax (AK, FL, NH, NV, SD, TN, TX, WA, & WY).It's already in the middle of the county. My parents can get DSL in their little town in the middle of SD, they just don't want it. For what they do, dialup is fine.
Whether the torrent listings come in from a RSS feed or if I'm manually searching for them, it doesn't matter. It still takes too long to download shows to 'kill' TV as we know it.
even with bittorrent, I haven't ever been able to get a 30-60 minute TV show w/o having to wait at least a couple hours for it to download - an hour if I'm lucky. Even then, the parts of the file don't necessarily have to come in order, so I usually have to wait until it is done before I can watch it. If you plan ahead and have the shows pulled down when you're doing something else, that would be great. Normally, if I'm watching TV, I'm bored and don't know what I want to watch and flip channels until I find something interesting.
until the amount of bandwidth between the people with the shows and the subscribers increases significantly, I don't see this sort of behavior happening on a wide scale to replace normal TV. maybe to queue up some shows that you want to watch the next day and they are pulled down over night while one is asleep.
so in other words, keep the glorified calculator, calendar, and address book that I already have.
how does it compare to a IIIxe in those categories? I would upgrade if the new models were significantly better, but given how I use my PDA, they aren't.
a 100+K registered users at one site, 100K at other sites(with some overlap) probably isn't very many people in the grand scheme of things. However, most of the people that I know using these services are often maxing out their upload and download rates using p2p for legal content. One taper torrent site has coordinated 600+TB of traffic alone and it is one of many. It may be insignificant in your opinion, but it is a good example of a _legal_ use for this technology and a user base that would have a very good reason to be pissed if the entertainment industry succeeds in getting ISPs to eliminate p2p.
It's not a piracy problem anyway. It's a control problem, or a lack of it from their POV.
Metallica still allows tapers to record their shows and distribute them on the net.
I think the entertainment industry is more worried about the loss of control than copyright infringment. We can't have independant musicians or film makers posting torrents of their creations on the web, now can we? Too many of their peers may decide that they don't need the middlemen anymore either.
And the rest is clearly and unquestionable and overwhelmingly illegal downloading of copyrighted material.
That will be news to people who use etree.org, archive.org or any other site that allows people to trade shows that they recorded with the musicians' permission. I don't have the bandwidth to waste on the entertainment industry's pop bullshit.
WTF does the entertainment industry think it has the right to tell any other business how to run their operations? Who died and left them in charge?
What a complete and total git. And this gets posted to /. for what reason?
to show that some geeks have more money than brains?The funny part is that he's right back to square one with the annoying fan noise. I know if I had the money to be able to afford such a system, I'd also spend the extra $$ for longer cables and/or enclosure for the case to eliminate the noise.
why waste that space when you can FLAC it?
that depends on how you stack them and if they are midgets or not.