The military have used this technology for quite some time in vehicles, connecting a GPS to a military radio, which will transmit coordinates back to observers. Earlier this week my unit trained in a war-simulator, where the GPS-unit was sewn into the clothes, transmitting coordinates, ammunition-usage etc back to observers, who could then watch the operation in real-time in 2D-maps, aerial photos, or computer-generated 3D-landscapes.
They showed us the observers-room, and replayed the whole game we played later. It was incredible awsome:) I guess(/know) other countries military forces have the same kind of technology and simulators.
Wait for those palms with the new Cobalt OS from palm. The OS have been available, but afaik we're still waiting for devices to start using it. I myself can't wait for a Tungsten running Cobalt. It got memory-protection, so applications can't overwrite the memory of others. This should solve a lot of crashes I hope:)
Who cares if the API's are open? How many developer's read through linux API's? 0.000000001%... of linux users! Whats that, like 6 guys?
I would rate myself as a _TOTAL_ newbie in C-programming. Just learning some of it by myself when I find time for it and get bored. But when I do program, I choose Linux/QT/C++ for the job, and even though I'm so fresh in C programming that I don't know half as much about classes, pointers and STL, as you probably do after a week if you take a C++-course, I've several times dug into the sourcecode GPL'ed software-libs I'm using hoping to sort out a "problem" i wonder about. 90% of the time it doesn't help me one bit, as the code is usually to advanced for me to understand, but the 10% of the times it actually sort out a problem for me, I get real happy:) And I can imagine as my programming-skills increase, so will the percentage of the times source-digging turns out usefull. Been on Linux since '99, and I'll never switch back.. That has a lot more to do with other things than the ability for me _personally_ to view the source though..
Except I'll rather be locked up with my future mother-in-law for a week, than spending a week with _PURE_ gamers, shouting "LOL! CAMPER! OHOLOLOLOL*2k! ROFL *HEADSHOT*!!!! n000000000000b =D" all day long:-P
Hehe, speaking of images. I got my (quite big) picture-archieve from last years party slashdot'ed during the party. That wouldn't have been to bad, if it wasn't for: They where hosted on my own workstation (which I actually tried to get some work done on) from inside the party. To top it all, my archeive consisted purely of unscaled 5Megapixel images =] But honestly, it wen't real well. I didn't notice very much to the apache-load actually. It was a 2.55GHz P4 with 512MB RAM. Haven't got the webalizer logs any more, but think it was ~ 60GB of data beeing transfered the first 10 hours after the/.
This year, I'll be there as a photographer on behalf of the crew, covering concerts and "everyday" live in there (for their website). I'll try to build up a personal "realtime" picture-archieve as the party evolves this year too. Equipped with more megapixels, and more Gigabytes to get transfered if the "higher force" care to slashdot it again;)
You even ask? Adrenalin man, _ADRENALIN_! Nothing can possible beat the rush of arranging it.. Cowards go skydiving, mountainbiking, take drugs, whatever. But to experience _TEH adrenalin_ you just have to be the guy responsible for a network or power-failure which affects 5000+ byte-horny g33ks, (where half of them haven't showered in some days) using they're keyboards to punch you to death if they ever manage to catch you. There's a reason why there's new people in the Power and Network crew each year;)
Now, with a 50-man LAN, you could simply lock yourself into the toilet if that should happen.. But 5000... They will tear the place down to get your ass man;)
There are uniformed police both inside, and outside the place during the entire party, to ensure safety for the attendees. They also use dogs while patroling outside. There might also be non-uniformed police snooping around inside, but I can't confirm this. In 1999 there where a squad sent out by the department for economical crime (the department who got the most computer-expertice in the Norwegian police-force) giving out leaflets with information about the possible punishment for beeing arrested for things like (D)DOS-attacks, piracy, children-pr0n etc. Can't remember having seen them there any later years, but I'm pretty sure they stick there heads in to "snoop around" from time to time, but maybe not in uniforms and with leaflets, as in 1999.
The police themself are probably the only one knowing for sure how many people they got in there at a current time, and as far as I can remember, every single year since '99 there have been arrests for piracy, child-pr0n and drug-abuse during the party. But that's something you probably never will get rid of, as long as you house 5000 people under the same roof for five consecutive days:/
4800 "regular" seats. But there's still lot of other seats. It got it's own big crew-area (lot of people down there), it's own demoscene area (another 200 or so), plus quite a lot crew-members not sitting in the crew-area itself...
From www.gathering.org
The Gathering is the largest computerparty in the world. Last year, 5200 visitors attended the annual event which takes place at Vikingskipet Olympic Arena in Hamar, Norway, and lasts for five consecutive days.
It sure isn't. Dreamhack did pass TG in largest attending crowd one or two years ago, and now they top each other for each event. So when TG is held this year, it'll likely be the worlds biggest (as last year), until Dreamhack. Then Dreamhack will stay the largest until the next TG (and so and so on)
You don't need to unmask those packages. You can instead specify the complete path to the ebuild to emerge itself. like this: "emerge/usr/portage/kde-base/arts/arts-1.2.0.ebuild"
You're wrong. A 35mm Digital SLR means a Digital SLR camera with a 35mm image-sensor. The Canon EOS 1Ds is such a camera, with a pricetag at ~ $7000. The Digital Rebel is no such camera, since it's sensor is smaller than 35mm (~ 22mm if I recall correctly)
You got to remember that the Digital Rebel (called EOS 300-D in Europe, and Kiss in Asia) is not a digital 35mm SLR. It's a small-format SLR. What this means, is that the CMOS-sensor in use is far smaller than a traditional 35mm film. At the moment, the only SLR which got a TRUE 35mm image-sensor, is the Canon EOS 1Ds, which got a 11MegaPixels CMOS sensor at 35mm. The EOS 1Ds also cost $7000+.
So what does this mean? It means that your sensor will be more prone to noise than a bigger sensor will be. But the sensor in the Rebel is the same as for the 10D, and short said _EXCELLENT_! At higher ISO-settings you will get little noise, but more than you would if the sensor was a 35mm. Heck, compare this sensor against the (much (physical) smaller) sensor in point-and-shoot cameras. You will see that this sensor can do ISO-800 with as little Noise as most point-and-shoot's can do at 100 and 200. It's amazing..
Also, it means wide-angle will become hard (expensive). The sensor in use is 1.6x smaller than a 35mm, and this means the perspective you get from a 50mm prime, will equal 80mm. This is obviously not a bonus. But Canon thought.. How can we make this sound good? Yeah, let's just say it's a 1.6x telephoto-converter which you can use without losing aperture! Great, so Canon makes us believe that their small-format sensor actually is something good. It's not. You don't get additional telephoto. You will get a crop from a 35mm sensor, and if you blow this and the same image from a 35mm up in the same dimention, it will look like it's magnified 1.6x times. And indeed it is. It's magnified! This is like a digital zoom! You will just stretch the crop to the correct size. So don't get fooled by the 1.6x tele-factor.
One wide-angle this makes things very expensive. A 24mm wide-angle becomes a 38.4mm, and to get a true 24mm you have to get a 15mm (non-fisheye), which is indeed expensive.
But the rebel is surely a great camera, beating the H*LL out of point-and-shoot models. I ordered it myself, but canceled the order and got the Canon EOS 10D instead, which use the same sensor (same 1.6x whatever-factor) but is more solid built in a magnesium body, and overall a better quality-camera, but at a higher price.
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The military have used this technology for quite some time in vehicles, connecting a GPS to a military radio, which will transmit coordinates back to observers. Earlier this week my unit trained in a war-simulator, where the GPS-unit was sewn into the clothes, transmitting coordinates, ammunition-usage etc back to observers, who could then watch the operation in real-time in 2D-maps, aerial photos, or computer-generated 3D-landscapes.
:) I guess(/know) other countries military forces have the same kind of technology and simulators.
They showed us the observers-room, and replayed the whole game we played later. It was incredible awsome
Wait for those palms with the new Cobalt OS from palm. The OS have been available, but afaik we're still waiting for devices to start using it. I myself can't wait for a Tungsten running Cobalt. It got memory-protection, so applications can't overwrite the memory of others. This should solve a lot of crashes I hope :)
Some over two years ago when the Nikon D1H and D1X came with support for GPS ;) I quote from http://www.naturfotograf.com/D2H_rev01.html
"Support for GPS, a very nice feature of D1X and D1H, has quite unexpectedly been removed from D2H."
So this isn't exactly a new thing though..
Who cares if the API's are open? How many developer's read through linux API's? 0.000000001% ... of linux users! Whats that, like 6 guys?
:) And I can imagine as my programming-skills increase, so will the percentage of the times source-digging turns out usefull. Been on Linux since '99, and I'll never switch back.. That has a lot more to do with other things than the ability for me _personally_ to view the source though..
I would rate myself as a _TOTAL_ newbie in C-programming. Just learning some of it by myself when I find time for it and get bored. But when I do program, I choose Linux/QT/C++ for the job, and even though I'm so fresh in C programming that I don't know half as much about classes, pointers and STL, as you probably do after a week if you take a C++-course, I've several times dug into the sourcecode GPL'ed software-libs I'm using hoping to sort out a "problem" i wonder about. 90% of the time it doesn't help me one bit, as the code is usually to advanced for me to understand, but the 10% of the times it actually sort out a problem for me, I get real happy
Except I'll rather be locked up with my future mother-in-law for a week, than spending a week with _PURE_ gamers, shouting "LOL! CAMPER! OHOLOLOLOL*2k! ROFL *HEADSHOT*!!!! n000000000000b =D" all day long :-P
Hehe, speaking of images. I got my (quite big) picture-archieve from last years party slashdot'ed during the party. That wouldn't have been to bad, if it wasn't for: They where hosted on my own workstation (which I actually tried to get some work done on) from inside the party. To top it all, my archeive consisted purely of unscaled 5Megapixel images =] But honestly, it wen't real well. I didn't notice very much to the apache-load actually. It was a 2.55GHz P4 with 512MB RAM. Haven't got the webalizer logs any more, but think it was ~ 60GB of data beeing transfered the first 10 hours after the /.
;)
This year, I'll be there as a photographer on behalf of the crew, covering concerts and "everyday" live in there (for their website). I'll try to build up a personal "realtime" picture-archieve as the party evolves this year too. Equipped with more megapixels, and more Gigabytes to get transfered if the "higher force" care to slashdot it again
You even ask? Adrenalin man, _ADRENALIN_! Nothing can possible beat the rush of arranging it.. Cowards go skydiving, mountainbiking, take drugs, whatever. But to experience _TEH adrenalin_ you just have to be the guy responsible for a network or power-failure which affects 5000+ byte-horny g33ks, (where half of them haven't showered in some days) using they're keyboards to punch you to death if they ever manage to catch you. There's a reason why there's new people in the Power and Network crew each year ;)
;)
Now, with a 50-man LAN, you could simply lock yourself into the toilet if that should happen.. But 5000... They will tear the place down to get your ass man
There are uniformed police both inside, and outside the place during the entire party, to ensure safety for the attendees. They also use dogs while patroling outside. There might also be non-uniformed police snooping around inside, but I can't confirm this. In 1999 there where a squad sent out by the department for economical crime (the department who got the most computer-expertice in the Norwegian police-force) giving out leaflets with information about the possible punishment for beeing arrested for things like (D)DOS-attacks, piracy, children-pr0n etc. Can't remember having seen them there any later years, but I'm pretty sure they stick there heads in to "snoop around" from time to time, but maybe not in uniforms and with leaflets, as in 1999.
:/
The police themself are probably the only one knowing for sure how many people they got in there at a current time, and as far as I can remember, every single year since '99 there have been arrests for piracy, child-pr0n and drug-abuse during the party. But that's something you probably never will get rid of, as long as you house 5000 people under the same roof for five consecutive days
4800 "regular" seats. But there's still lot of other seats. It got it's own big crew-area (lot of people down there), it's own demoscene area (another 200 or so), plus quite a lot crew-members not sitting in the crew-area itself...
From www.gathering.org
The Gathering is the largest computerparty in the world. Last year, 5200 visitors attended the annual event which takes place at Vikingskipet Olympic Arena in Hamar, Norway, and lasts for five consecutive days.
It sure isn't. Dreamhack did pass TG in largest attending crowd one or two years ago, and now they top each other for each event. So when TG is held this year, it'll likely be the worlds biggest (as last year), until Dreamhack. Then Dreamhack will stay the largest until the next TG (and so and so on)
You don't need to unmask those packages. You can instead specify the complete path to the ebuild to emerge itself. like this: "emerge /usr/portage/kde-base/arts/arts-1.2.0.ebuild"
And so on for the other packages.
You're wrong. A 35mm Digital SLR means a Digital SLR camera with a 35mm image-sensor. The Canon EOS 1Ds is such a camera, with a pricetag at ~ $7000. The Digital Rebel is no such camera, since it's sensor is smaller than 35mm (~ 22mm if I recall correctly)
You got to remember that the Digital Rebel (called EOS 300-D in Europe, and Kiss in Asia) is not a digital 35mm SLR. It's a small-format SLR. What this means, is that the CMOS-sensor in use is far smaller than a traditional 35mm film. At the moment, the only SLR which got a TRUE 35mm image-sensor, is the Canon EOS 1Ds, which got a 11MegaPixels CMOS sensor at 35mm. The EOS 1Ds also cost $7000+.
So what does this mean? It means that your sensor will be more prone to noise than a bigger sensor will be. But the sensor in the Rebel is the same as for the 10D, and short said _EXCELLENT_! At higher ISO-settings you will get little noise, but more than you would if the sensor was a 35mm. Heck, compare this sensor against the (much (physical) smaller) sensor in point-and-shoot cameras. You will see that this sensor can do ISO-800 with as little Noise as most point-and-shoot's can do at 100 and 200. It's amazing..
Also, it means wide-angle will become hard (expensive). The sensor in use is 1.6x smaller than a 35mm, and this means the perspective you get from a 50mm prime, will equal 80mm. This is obviously not a bonus. But Canon thought.. How can we make this sound good? Yeah, let's just say it's a 1.6x telephoto-converter which you can use without losing aperture! Great, so Canon makes us believe that their small-format sensor actually is something good. It's not. You don't get additional telephoto. You will get a crop from a 35mm sensor, and if you blow this and the same image from a 35mm up in the same dimention, it will look like it's magnified 1.6x times. And indeed it is. It's magnified! This is like a digital zoom! You will just stretch the crop to the correct size. So don't get fooled by the 1.6x tele-factor.
One wide-angle this makes things very expensive. A 24mm wide-angle becomes a 38.4mm, and to get a true 24mm you have to get a 15mm (non-fisheye), which is indeed expensive.
But the rebel is surely a great camera, beating the H*LL out of point-and-shoot models. I ordered it myself, but canceled the order and got the Canon EOS 10D instead, which use the same sensor (same 1.6x whatever-factor) but is more solid built in a magnesium body, and overall a better quality-camera, but at a higher price.