120W for 20 minutes is easy for a reasonably fit "student" and could probably be sustained longer. 180W for 20 min is starting to get difficult for an untrained athlete. An untrained student-aged cyclist would start to struugle badly around 200W so 180W is getting close to mean maximal power.
That said... 10 motivated, fit students could manage 120W each for 20 min. As a slowish amateur racing cyclist I can chrun out 150W for hours.
zip.ca is great. I've been using them for a couple of years now. They've got a good amount of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD now too which makes me like them even more because the local video stores have almost nothing.
A little? I would say a LOT. There were at times I thought, "aren't they going to talk about video games?" If I had this show recorded, I would have fast forwarded through half of this show.
I watched this under the "I, Videogame" title. It's a horrible, horrible mini-series. At least half of each episode (and 75% in some cases) is pure filler.
There's a big difference between still images and real-time 30fps HD video. HDTV requires a lot of horsepower (to capture and compress) and bandwidth (to transmit back).
Also, a lot of what we've seen as high-res older NASA stuff is scanned from film. Something like, 35mm film is easily capable of looking good at 1920x1080.
Any video (not stills, but video)that NASA transmitted electronically was much lower resolution. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think still images from Mars that looked high-res were actually composites of many exposures from a relatively low-res sensor that were stitched into a larger image.
I was just watching an old episode of Sliders the other day where the characters are carrying pump-action shotguns. Every time they cut to a new scene, the characters would re-pump their shotguns. Which was rather amusing considering that they hadn't fired a single round...
Funny story... when I was in the early stages of police training we were told that one of the scariest sounds you can hear is the shotgun's pump action. So later we were in scenario training and the actor wasn't cooperating. My partner had a shotgun and I had a handgun. I whispered to my partner to rack the shotgun to see if the sound would have an effect. Well it didn't and (if it was reality) a shell would've uselessly gone skittering across the floor. D'oh!
Movies broke my brain.
/am now in a different career
//it's probably better that way;)
Re:F.E.A.R. is a misnomer
on
Fraidy Cat Gamer
·
· Score: 5, Funny
Doom 3 stopped being scary as soon as I learned to walk into rooms backwards.
Exactly. I own a Sirius unit and it produces something that's very far from high quality audio. Suitable for listening to in the car for sure but that's about it.
True, it's not free but really how many people here pay for software;) For the record my copy of VMWare is legal. Anyhoo, booting from the CD-ROM is doable. Hit the power button on any VMWare virtual machine (after making the virtual CD-ROM bootable in VMWare's BIOS) and it'll find the CD and start booting.
It's great to hear that there's life in the game engine still.
GPL suffered from maybe too much realism (although some minor aspects of the engine were lacking). The steep learning curve to drive high-horsepower (yet lightweight and no downforce aids) cars meant that most people likely deleted the demo and bought the latest Need for Speed game. Those of us who took the time to learn how to drive the cars were rewarded with an exceptionally fun simulation experience.
Add to that GPS transmitters on every bike, which brings instant results at the end of the race to the 100th of a second, and (this year on OLN) up-to-the-second time gaps among the groups on the road (this'll really shine when they hit the mountains).
http://www.amb-it.com/
They aren't GPS transmitters. They're transponder that are closer to RFID tags than GPS.
IMO, they're stupidly mounted on the chainstay. Have you noticed the number of intermediate sprints that are reported wrong and need to be corrected? I suspect it's situations where one rider's ft. wheel crosses the line and then he sits up. Mr. 2nd Place's transponder unit then crosses the sensor first.
Well built, no IR film counter (so you can shoot IR film just fine), solid automatic modes, full manual, compatible with most (all?) current and past Canon EF lenses so you're set for the future when upgrading to a new Canon body.
The only thing to watch is that the camera has had the mirror bumper replaced or that the camera shop will do that for you. These cameras are coming up to 13 years old now and there's a foam pad that leaves goo on the shutter blades.
I just got one to compliment my Digital Rebel. I am amazed at what a solid camera this is. I've put two rolls of film through it and the results are great.
Curl provides access to a rich 2/3-D graphics engine, excellent "interactivity" with HTML and multimedia support is built-in. It can be as OO as you want. It had the potential to be a great "first" language for coders.
Unfortunately the company (curl.com) is doing an extremely poor job marketing it and is lumbering it with a hideous licencing model.
DLP units are sweet. The one from work did a good job projecting Office Space on my wall at home;)
Word from the IT guys is that the bulbs are like, CDN$1000. Dunno if that's true but if it is then I'd be rethinking the use of DP for more than casual Powerpoint purposes.
I am a geocacher and I have never seen a cache cause damage to a location.
My wife geocaches and I refused to continue on one cache with her. The only way to get to it was to walk on a steepish rock face, ripping moss and plants away with each step. After about three steps I turned back.
To her credit, the wife mentioned this on the geocaching.com website and asked for the cache owner to move it to a less sensitive location.
Microsoft software is available for a negligible cost at the academic discount.
Assuming your lab is attached to a university the costs of any MS development tool would be a very small part of your budget
Still too expensive? Get a good connection with Microsoft's education people. Friend of mine ran a website for kid's science education. MS *gave* (read: free) him: NT4 Server (this was a while ago), SQL Server, Visual Studio Enterprise Edition and a bunch of other stuff. He turned his back on Linux and open source tools the day that package arrived from MS.
I've noticed in several "Making of.." type documentaries that even though the director is using a 4:3 stock they have a different ratio taped off on the camera's monitors.
Perhaps they work the way I do in digital photography... shoot with the intended ratio in mind but leave a little extra for "cropping".
For example, if Kubrick filmed a rather scenic shot then later decided he'd have liked the horizion a little higher or lower then the 4:3 image allows for adjustment before transfer to the "movie" ratio.
That's a good point, but the solution is simple: throw-away addresses.
That's what I do and it works great. Because of the way my virtual domain works at my ISP any address ending in @mydomain.com gets to my inbox (assuming it makes it through a very good set of spam filters I have + SpamAssassin).
So... let's say I sign up for something at... I dunno...Playboy. I use playboy@mydomain.com to register then when the spamming begins I simply put a bounce rule in my spam filters for that address. Easy-peasy.
A nice little digression on the subject of one of my primary pet peeves.
I don't know what posseses people to use the apostrophe at the end of words that don't need it. Maybe they get nervous and stick it in because it looks more right? Maybe they were just smoking too much weed in elementary school.
My latest sighting of this embarassment to public education was in a restaurant menu. New to the menu were "Stirfry's".
Slashdot Mirror
120W for 20 minutes is easy for a reasonably fit "student" and could probably be sustained longer. 180W for 20 min is starting to get difficult for an untrained athlete. An untrained student-aged cyclist would start to struugle badly around 200W so 180W is getting close to mean maximal power.
That said... 10 motivated, fit students could manage 120W each for 20 min. As a slowish amateur racing cyclist I can chrun out 150W for hours.
zip.ca is great. I've been using them for a couple of years now. They've got a good amount of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD now too which makes me like them even more because the local video stores have almost nothing.
There's a big difference between still images and real-time 30fps HD video. HDTV requires a lot of horsepower (to capture and compress) and bandwidth (to transmit back).
Also, a lot of what we've seen as high-res older NASA stuff is scanned from film. Something like, 35mm film is easily capable of looking good at 1920x1080.
Any video (not stills, but video)that NASA transmitted electronically was much lower resolution. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think still images from Mars that looked high-res were actually composites of many exposures from a relatively low-res sensor that were stitched into a larger image.
Doom 3 stopped being scary as soon as I learned to walk into rooms backwards.
Exactly. I own a Sirius unit and it produces something that's very far from high quality audio. Suitable for listening to in the car for sure but that's about it.
Personally, I need a bit more power for world processing than is available on current hardware. Right now I'm limited to processing just the Americas.
True, it's not free but really how many people here pay for software ;) For the record my copy of VMWare is legal. Anyhoo, booting from the CD-ROM is doable. Hit the power button on any VMWare virtual machine (after making the virtual CD-ROM bootable in VMWare's BIOS) and it'll find the CD and start booting.
I like booting Knoppix in VMWare! Same concept.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergy2/
Sounds like what you're looking for. I haven't tried it but I've seen a complementary review of it.
It's great to hear that there's life in the game engine still.
GPL suffered from maybe too much realism (although some minor aspects of the engine were lacking). The steep learning curve to drive high-horsepower (yet lightweight and no downforce aids) cars meant that most people likely deleted the demo and bought the latest Need for Speed game. Those of us who took the time to learn how to drive the cars were rewarded with an exceptionally fun simulation experience.
Ah... I see the OP's comment about time gaps... I suspect *those* GPS units are mounted on the motos that stick with each group.
They aren't GPS transmitters. They're transponder that are closer to RFID tags than GPS.
IMO, they're stupidly mounted on the chainstay. Have you noticed the number of intermediate sprints that are reported wrong and need to be corrected? I suspect it's situations where one rider's ft. wheel crosses the line and then he sits up. Mr. 2nd Place's transponder unit then crosses the sensor first.
Well built, no IR film counter (so you can shoot IR film just fine), solid automatic modes, full manual, compatible with most (all?) current and past Canon EF lenses so you're set for the future when upgrading to a new Canon body.
The only thing to watch is that the camera has had the mirror bumper replaced or that the camera shop will do that for you. These cameras are coming up to 13 years old now and there's a foam pad that leaves goo on the shutter blades.
I just got one to compliment my Digital Rebel. I am amazed at what a solid camera this is. I've put two rolls of film through it and the results are great.
A much more direct approach than shooting the TV...
Why worry... I'm quite happy with VMWare's Linux performance
Kids today forget how to use a library and rely on internet sources that don't receive the peer review of real books.
I've seen it first hand... inaccurate facts in papers... "but it was on the internet!"
Curl provides access to a rich 2/3-D graphics engine, excellent "interactivity" with HTML and multimedia support is built-in. It can be as OO as you want. It had the potential to be a great "first" language for coders.
Unfortunately the company (curl.com) is doing an extremely poor job marketing it and is lumbering it with a hideous licencing model.
It'll be dead within a year or two...
DLP units are sweet. The one from work did a good job projecting Office Space on my wall at home ;)
Word from the IT guys is that the bulbs are like, CDN$1000. Dunno if that's true but if it is then I'd be rethinking the use of DP for more than casual Powerpoint purposes.
My wife geocaches and I refused to continue on one cache with her. The only way to get to it was to walk on a steepish rock face, ripping moss and plants away with each step. After about three steps I turned back.
To her credit, the wife mentioned this on the geocaching.com website and asked for the cache owner to move it to a less sensitive location.
Microsoft software is available for a negligible cost at the academic discount.
Assuming your lab is attached to a university the costs of any MS development tool would be a very small part of your budget
Still too expensive? Get a good connection with Microsoft's education people. Friend of mine ran a website for kid's science education. MS *gave* (read: free) him: NT4 Server (this was a while ago), SQL Server, Visual Studio Enterprise Edition and a bunch of other stuff. He turned his back on Linux and open source tools the day that package arrived from MS.
I've noticed in several "Making of.." type documentaries that even though the director is using a 4:3 stock they have a different ratio taped off on the camera's monitors.
Perhaps they work the way I do in digital photography... shoot with the intended ratio in mind but leave a little extra for "cropping".
For example, if Kubrick filmed a rather scenic shot then later decided he'd have liked the horizion a little higher or lower then the 4:3 image allows for adjustment before transfer to the "movie" ratio.
That's a good point, but the solution is simple: throw-away addresses.
That's what I do and it works great. Because of the way my virtual domain works at my ISP any address ending in @mydomain.com gets to my inbox (assuming it makes it through a very good set of spam filters I have + SpamAssassin).
So... let's say I sign up for something at... I dunno...Playboy. I use playboy@mydomain.com to register then when the spamming begins I simply put a bounce rule in my spam filters for that address. Easy-peasy.
A nice little digression on the subject of one of my primary pet peeves.
I don't know what posseses people to use the apostrophe at the end of words that don't need it. Maybe they get nervous and stick it in because it looks more right? Maybe they were just smoking too much weed in elementary school.
My latest sighting of this embarassment to public education was in a restaurant menu. New to the menu were "Stirfry's".