After watching the video it looks to me like an Interactive White Board laying down with the exception they are using fingers to control it rather than a stylus.
In the video it shows that the image is projected from the roof mounted projector, it doesn't have a display in the surface.
These are basically already in thousands of classrooms around the world aren't they?
This looks like it is just an IWB laying down and they are probably charging squillions more.
I have mentioned this in another thread a couple of months back but... I heard on BBC's digital planet program about film-makers using only CCTV and video obtained under the data protection act to make a movie. The film they were talking about is called "Faceless".
I haven't seen it but it sounds like a great idea. You just put your actors in a place where there are CCTV cameras and then request the tapes. It would be cool to see some of the angles, colours, and quality they get, you would also see the timecode jumping all over the place in different shots.
BBC's Digital Planet radio show has an interesting segment about accessing the video from the hundreds of CCTV cameras in Britain and using them to make a film. Thanks to the data protection act in Britain you can request a copy of CCTV footage that you appear in.
Some film makers have been using this footage to make a film called FACELESS . They have censored the faces of other people that appear in the video obtained under the data protection act. Pretty great idea I think. This leads me to wonder if they will get some free arial footage from the spy drones:-)
I agree. I haven't ever been able to get the standard Windows XP wireless config working with my netgear pcmcia card for years. I am only able to use the netgear software which does not detect wireless networks in the area, you must type in the SSID manually.
The only way to look for wireless networks around me is to leave the SSID blank then use Aerosol or something similar to have a look for what is around. Then to connect I need to type in the SSID in the netgear tool again.
I have just recently installed Edubuntu... and wireless worked straight away. I did still have to specify the SSID during the setup, but I would need to do that either way because I have SSID broadcasting turned off.)
There is one here in Brisbane, Australia too.
At the Springwood store. Has been there since before google maps existed methinks.
Here is a link to it on google maps
After watching the video of a 3D printer posted a few days back, I don't really understand how they do the top of things. What do they do when the top is flat. I can understand the floor, but does the top of everything else above the floor have to be a dome? Will it be like living in Tatooine? (Tunisia?) Dome I understand, but how does a spray of concrete/gypsum defy gravity long enough to set flat?
(I'm hesitant asking this question, it might be blatantly obvious to everyone but me.:-/)
In my experience at university here in Queensland, Australia, past exams are available in the library . They write new exams every semester....I never actually went and looked at a past exam though;-) except for when a lecturer/tutor gave us a copy of example questions in class. We were the first group through a new course structure so lots of the assessment was being tried out for the first time too.
I am thinking of taking a look some of the info in the MIT OCW to see if I might be interested in studying some more in a slightly different discipline. I think it is great idea. Who knows... It might even inspire me to travel to the US and enrol in MIT or enrol externally. (If they'd have one of us poor cousins from Australia.)
What I find more annoying about this article is the way that they refer to 'The Internet' as something you can 'get'. You can 'get' a connection to the Internet, but you can't 'get' the whole Internet as far as I know...
While I am having a rant...other phrases people use when referring to the Internet that bug me are...
'I have the Internet at home' 'I have the Internet on my computer' or the question 'Do you have the Internet at home?'
I always feel like saying, 'Yes! I do. It took a long time but I finished downloading the whole thing last night'.
There was some word on the news before the shuttle launch that even Amberley Air Force Base (near Brisbane) and Darwin Airport could be used in Australia for emergency landings.
While I think that would be pretty cool because I could drive out to see it if it were at Amberley, but imagine how much of a pain it would be to move a shuttle back to the US after it landed in Australia.
How would they do it? Would they put it on a ship or would a shuttle be too heavy? Anybody know?
Here in Queensland, Australia, we don't have daylight savings time like the other states on the east coast because it would fade the curtains. Or the cows wouldn't know what time to give milk, or the farmers would have to get up an hour earlier or something like that. Keep in mind the Queensland Government has given our state the new slogan, 'The Smart State'.
The here is Queensland we would benefit from daylight savings because we don't really have a twilight, it is just light, then dark pretty quickly. Whereas further south in the states that do have daylight savings such as Melbourne, Victoria, they have a longer twilight and have daylight savings so it is not totally dark until 9pm or so.
I tend to take an active interest in technology related issues affecting Australia especially after reading a lot about all the trouble and illogic ensuing from the DMCA in US. (arrghh...)
I worked until recently for what was (before OzEmail F***ed it up, but thats a different story all together...)
Queensland's Largest ISP, and the first real news and discussion of the problems with Australia's Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000 that I read was from 2600!
My former workmates will testify that after reading the amendment, I stood up from my desk and said, "Thats it! Im moving to the moon!"
It just infuriates me junk that governments are passing as legislation. I can't express how bewildered I was when after feeling sad for the people of America after how stupid their DMCA turned out that we had one that was pretty much the same!
The only consolation we have is that big business in Australia hasn't started (yet, touchwood...) suing people etc left right and centre like in the US for anything that they think might be covered by our equivailent of the DMCA. "Oh, oh, you figured out how to take the label off a beer bottle and put it on inside the bottle! Oh, you must be circumventing our patented label technology... CEASE AND DESIST, CEASE AND DESIST!" "Yeah, but i paid for the beer?"
Also, the government supposedly consults industry groups, ISPs, etc while putting together legislation like this. But they dont actually listen. I heard objections and comments on fesability from Australia's largest ISPs and they were just ignored.
*bir0 pulls his hair out.
I dont see the logic
Thats my 2. I can be contacted on the moon if anyone needs me.
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After watching the video it looks to me like an Interactive White Board laying down with the exception they are using fingers to control it rather than a stylus.
In the video it shows that the image is projected from the roof mounted projector, it doesn't have a display in the surface.
These are basically already in thousands of classrooms around the world aren't they?
This looks like it is just an IWB laying down and they are probably charging squillions more.
How stupid do I feel... I meant to say.. You DONT usually get 'bad science' published in a peer reviewed journal. ...sucks to be me. :-S
Call me naive... but you usually get 'Bad Science' published in peer review journals.
The research is published in:
He, Congrong and Morawska, Lidia and Taplin, Len (2007) Particle emission characteristics of office printers. Environmental Science and Technology.
probably not out for free download yet though.
You can read the abstract here if you like.
I have mentioned this in another thread a couple of months back but...
I heard on BBC's digital planet program about film-makers using only CCTV and video obtained under the data protection act to make a movie. The film they were talking about is called "Faceless".
I haven't seen it but it sounds like a great idea. You just put your actors in a place where there are CCTV cameras and then request the tapes. It would be cool to see some of the angles, colours, and quality they get, you would also see the timecode jumping all over the place in different shots.
BBC's Digital Planet radio show has an interesting segment about accessing the video from the hundreds of CCTV cameras in Britain and using them to make a film. Thanks to the data protection act in Britain you can request a copy of CCTV footage that you appear in. Some film makers have been using this footage to make a film called FACELESS . They have censored the faces of other people that appear in the video obtained under the data protection act. Pretty great idea I think. This leads me to wonder if they will get some free arial footage from the spy drones :-)
I'm having trouble accessing the link to the FCC's site linked in the original post? Am I the only one?
Maybe staff at ISP's, etc are all trying to get to the documents in a last minute attempt to comply.
I agree. I haven't ever been able to get the standard Windows XP wireless config working with my netgear pcmcia card for years. I am only able to use the netgear software which does not detect wireless networks in the area, you must type in the SSID manually.
The only way to look for wireless networks around me is to leave the SSID blank then use Aerosol or something similar to have a look for what is around. Then to connect I need to type in the SSID in the netgear tool again.
I have just recently installed Edubuntu... and wireless worked straight away. I did still have to specify the SSID during the setup, but I would need to do that either way because I have SSID broadcasting turned off.)
There is one here in Brisbane, Australia too. At the Springwood store. Has been there since before google maps existed methinks. Here is a link to it on google maps
After watching the video of a 3D printer posted a few days back, I don't really understand how they do the top of things. What do they do when the top is flat. I can understand the floor, but does the top of everything else above the floor have to be a dome? Will it be like living in Tatooine? (Tunisia?) Dome I understand, but how does a spray of concrete/gypsum defy gravity long enough to set flat?
:-/)
(I'm hesitant asking this question, it might be blatantly obvious to everyone but me.
In my experience at university here in Queensland, Australia, past exams are available in the library . They write new exams every semester. ...I never actually went and looked at a past exam though ;-) except for when a lecturer/tutor gave us a copy of example questions in class. We were the first group through a new course structure so lots of the assessment was being tried out for the first time too.
I am thinking of taking a look some of the info in the MIT OCW to see if I might be interested in studying some more in a slightly different discipline. I think it is great idea. Who knows... It might even inspire me to travel to the US and enrol in MIT or enrol externally. (If they'd have one of us poor cousins from Australia.)
What I find more annoying about this article is the way that they refer to 'The Internet' as something you can 'get'. You can 'get' a connection to the Internet, but you can't 'get' the whole Internet as far as I know...
While I am having a rant...other phrases people use when referring to the Internet that bug me are...
'I have the Internet at home'
'I have the Internet on my computer'
or the question 'Do you have the Internet at home?'
I always feel like saying, 'Yes! I do. It took a long time but I finished downloading the whole thing last night'.
There was some word on the news before the shuttle launch that even Amberley Air Force Base (near Brisbane) and Darwin Airport could be used in Australia for emergency landings.
While I think that would be pretty cool because I could drive out to see it if it were at Amberley, but imagine how much of a pain it would be to move a shuttle back to the US after it landed in Australia.
How would they do it? Would they put it on a ship or would a shuttle be too heavy? Anybody know?
Here in Queensland, Australia, we don't have daylight savings time like the other states on the east coast because it would fade the curtains. Or the cows wouldn't know what time to give milk, or the farmers would have to get up an hour earlier or something like that. Keep in mind the Queensland Government has given our state the new slogan, 'The Smart State'.
The here is Queensland we would benefit from daylight savings because we don't really have a twilight, it is just light, then dark pretty quickly. Whereas further south in the states that do have daylight savings such as Melbourne, Victoria, they have a longer twilight and have daylight savings so it is not totally dark until 9pm or so.
I tend to take an active interest in technology related issues affecting Australia especially after reading a lot about all the trouble and illogic ensuing from the DMCA in US. (arrghh...)
I worked until recently for what was (before OzEmail F***ed it up, but thats a different story all together...) Queensland's Largest ISP, and the first real news and discussion of the problems with Australia's Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000 that I read was from 2600!
My former workmates will testify that after reading the amendment, I stood up from my desk and said, "Thats it! Im moving to the moon!"
It just infuriates me junk that governments are passing as legislation. I can't express how bewildered I was when after feeling sad for the people of America after how stupid their DMCA turned out that we had one that was pretty much the same!
The only consolation we have is that big business in Australia hasn't started (yet, touchwood...) suing people etc left right and centre like in the US for anything that they think might be covered by our equivailent of the DMCA. "Oh, oh, you figured out how to take the label off a beer bottle and put it on inside the bottle! Oh, you must be circumventing our patented label technology... CEASE AND DESIST, CEASE AND DESIST!" "Yeah, but i paid for the beer?"
Also, the government supposedly consults industry groups, ISPs, etc while putting together legislation like this. But they dont actually listen. I heard objections and comments on fesability from Australia's largest ISPs and they were just ignored.
*bir0 pulls his hair out.
I dont see the logic
Thats my 2. I can be contacted on the moon if anyone needs me.
-bir0
My Cat's breath smells like cat food...