This "retro-reflectum" sounds exactly like the glass beads used to coat traffic signs and some types of projector screens. They reflect light mainly straight back to where it originated. This is a really old technology.
The only way I could see them doing better is to develop a way to fabricate millions of small inverse-cube relfectors which would be much more precise than spherical ones.
Yeah; that'll work until someone decides to try pulling the cable on the connection to see if the data transfer stops. Steve Jobs did this to great effect (everybody cheered) during one of his keynotes when he disconnected a gigabit ethernet cable and the demo DV stream stopped and then started again immediately after he plugged it back in.
I guess you could just tell your investors that "Our new high-bandwidth link is so powerful, it doesn't even need to be plugged in!"
If compilation speed is an issue and you're on a fast network, the distributed build feature in XCode could really help. I've used on my C++ apps and it effectively adds about 50% of the CPU speed of the shared machines to my performance.
The cross-eyed pairs are where your left eye looks at the right picture and your other eye looks at the left picture. On the linked story page, these are the two left-most images.
I think the parallel stereograms (left image->left eye, right image->right eye) are easier and more comfortable to view because there is less perspective distortion as each eye can be directly in front of the part it needs to see. The two center images on the page make a parallel stereo pair. To view these, just look at some imaginary point several feet behind your display. When you do this, everything close to you will appear in double. Relax your eyes and adjust them so the two stereo images converge (you may have to tilt your head a little to get them perfectly horizontal). When the images overlap enough, your eyes will automatically "lock on" and a glorious patch of 3D will appear!
If Microsoft really wanted to prevent leaks like this they could embed invisible watermarks into the screen captures. Is there any way to tell if they are already doing this? If I were under NDA I would want to be certain that the screenshots couldn't be traced back my company.
But anything can be considered music...
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Any arbitrary data file - whether its a movie, ebook, or software application can be converted to wav format just by adding the appropriate header. Once it's audio a person can start calling it music and take advantage of the compulsory license.
This beta includes files that can help you integrate the IBM compiler with the Project Builder and Xcode integrated development environments (IDEs). For more information, see:/opt/ibmcmp/vac/6.0/samples/macide.pdf
I think a solid example would be the fact that Lockheed Martin just purchased 260 Xserves with the intent of running Linux on them. This paragraph explains why:
"United States Navy submarines utilize on-board HPC clusters for the realtime image processing. These systems are revised and upgraded on a rotational basis. Lockheed Martin has chosen to move with the Apple Xserves and Yellow Dog Linux. This combination provides a solution twice as dense, less power consumptive, and higher performance than the previous solution at a similar cost. "
Wow, that's really crazy. Microsoft getting a tax write-off for donating something that costs them essentially nothing to manufacture, but has a high market value.
What's to stop me from doing that for my personal income tax? I could write some stupid shareware app and attach a retail value of $100. Then, burn a few thousand CDs and donate them to a local non-profit. Yay, no income tax!
These high prices are just a result of rampant piracy in the ink industry. College students are especially guilty of downloading ink from Kazaa and sharing it with their friends.
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I always assumed the iMac design was derived from an earlier Apple prototype which was featured on the cover of Macworld magazine in May 1995.
The base of the computer was a flat black "pizza" box with a sloped top and a CD drive lid (no tray). Extending vertically was a pivot where there was affixed metal boom. One end of the boom held a counterweight and on the other end was an LCD panel. It looked about as adjustable as the present-day iMac, though probably more fragile.
And will they let you fill your balloon or are they going to insist on wasting it on a car?
Well, if they are anything like the filling stations here in the states probably not. I know from experience that the Amoco people absolutely *HATE IT* when you start filling water balloons at the gas pump.
People toss this around from time to time on the Marathon's story forums. I think the consensus is that basing a movie directly on the game would be a little crazy. One person mentioned specifically that it would feel a bit like "2001: A Space Odessy meets Judge Dredd".
So, what would the corporate punishment for murder be? Microsoft has so much cash, it might actually be economical for them to bump off some competitors and just pay the fines.
One way this group might go about collecting samples from every species (particulary from the ocean, where the greatest variety resides) is to run a sort of filter through the water/atmosphere at various depths, catching all manner of critters. Then, dump all the animals into some sort of machine that grinds them up processes them to collect DNA information which could be sorted into a large database.
The major drawback is that we might not know what sort of creature a specific entry represents or even what it looks like... but at least we could catagorize a lot of things in a short amount of time.
I'm not sure the technology exists to analyze so much organic material, but that could be something to work for.
Well, what if we could accelerate a missile toward the speed of light; it's mass would increase and I would assume it's gravitational field would also increase. If the projectile could approach the speed of gravity (which is probably very close, if not the same as, C) it might radiate a cone of 'compressed' gravity (similiar to a sonic boom). I imagine such a thing could make a very amusing weapon.
Of course, Hollywood will probably cut every reference to the Sirius Cybernetics Complaints Division. The phrase "Share and Enjoy" is like poison to them.
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This "retro-reflectum" sounds exactly like the glass beads used to coat traffic signs and some types of projector screens. They reflect light mainly straight back to where it originated. This is a really old technology.
The only way I could see them doing better is to develop a way to fabricate millions of small inverse-cube relfectors which would be much more precise than spherical ones.
Yeah; that'll work until someone decides to try pulling the cable on the connection to see if the data transfer stops. Steve Jobs did this to great effect (everybody cheered) during one of his keynotes when he disconnected a gigabit ethernet cable and the demo DV stream stopped and then started again immediately after he plugged it back in.
I guess you could just tell your investors that "Our new high-bandwidth link is so powerful, it doesn't even need to be plugged in!"
Wait; I thought this had already happened...?
If compilation speed is an issue and you're on a fast network, the distributed build feature in XCode could really help. I've used on my C++ apps and it effectively adds about 50% of the CPU speed of the shared machines to my performance.
The cross-eyed pairs are where your left eye looks at the right picture and your other eye looks at the left picture. On the linked story page, these are the two left-most images.
I think the parallel stereograms (left image->left eye, right image->right eye) are easier and more comfortable to view because there is less perspective distortion as each eye can be directly in front of the part it needs to see. The two center images on the page make a parallel stereo pair. To view these, just look at some imaginary point several feet behind your display. When you do this, everything close to you will appear in double. Relax your eyes and adjust them so the two stereo images converge (you may have to tilt your head a little to get them perfectly horizontal). When the images overlap enough, your eyes will automatically "lock on" and a glorious patch of 3D will appear!
Why don't they just put a plastic owl on the nose of each turbine? Most birds tend to fly well clear of those.
If Microsoft really wanted to prevent leaks like this they could embed invisible watermarks into the screen captures. Is there any way to tell if they are already doing this? If I were under NDA I would want to be certain that the screenshots couldn't be traced back my company.
Any arbitrary data file - whether its a movie, ebook, or software application can be converted to wav format just by adding the appropriate header. Once it's audio a person can start calling it music and take advantage of the compulsory license.
They forgot to mention the ever popular 110v electrical socket-to-ethernet "converter" cable. :)
According to the readme:
/opt/ibmcmp/vac/6.0/samples/macide.pdf
This beta includes files that can help you integrate the IBM compiler with
the Project Builder and Xcode integrated development environments (IDEs).
For more information, see:
I think a solid example would be the fact that Lockheed Martin just purchased 260 Xserves with the intent of running Linux on them. This paragraph explains why:
"United States Navy submarines utilize on-board HPC clusters for the realtime image processing. These systems are revised and upgraded on a rotational basis. Lockheed Martin has chosen to move with the Apple Xserves and Yellow Dog Linux. This combination provides a solution twice as dense, less power consumptive, and higher performance than the previous solution at a similar cost. "
Wow, that's really crazy. Microsoft getting a tax write-off for donating something that costs them essentially nothing to manufacture, but has a high market value.
What's to stop me from doing that for my personal income tax? I could write some stupid shareware app and attach a retail value of $100. Then, burn a few thousand CDs and donate them to a local non-profit. Yay, no income tax!
Well, I don't see Office for OS X on the list... did they just overlook that product, or does it not infringe?
I've always assumed that Office XP and X had decent feature parity, with the exception of Access and Entourage.
These high prices are just a result of rampant piracy in the ink industry. College students are especially guilty of downloading ink from Kazaa and sharing it with their friends.
This is a known bug, but there is a workaround.
I always assumed the iMac design was derived from an earlier Apple prototype which was featured on the cover of Macworld magazine in May 1995.
The base of the computer was a flat black "pizza" box with a sloped top and a CD drive lid (no tray). Extending vertically was a pivot where there was affixed metal boom. One end of the boom held a counterweight and on the other end was an LCD panel. It looked about as adjustable as the present-day iMac, though probably more fragile.
And will they let you fill your balloon or are they going to insist on wasting it on a car?
Well, if they are anything like the filling stations here in the states probably not. I know from experience that the Amoco people absolutely *HATE IT* when you start filling water balloons at the gas pump.
People toss this around from time to time on the Marathon's story forums. I think the consensus is that basing a movie directly on the game would be a little crazy. One person mentioned specifically that it would feel a bit like "2001: A Space Odessy meets Judge Dredd".
Yeah, you know your starship is massive enough when you don't need artificial gravity!
So, what would the corporate punishment for murder be? Microsoft has so much cash, it might actually be economical for them to bump off some competitors and just pay the fines.
One way this group might go about collecting samples from every species (particulary from the ocean, where the greatest variety resides) is to run a sort of filter through the water/atmosphere at various depths, catching all manner of critters. Then, dump all the animals into some sort of machine that grinds them up processes them to collect DNA information which could be sorted into a large database.
The major drawback is that we might not know what sort of creature a specific entry represents or even what it looks like... but at least we could catagorize a lot of things in a short amount of time.
I'm not sure the technology exists to analyze so much organic material, but that could be something to work for.
Hmmm... How could we make a weapon out of this?
Well, what if we could accelerate a missile toward the speed of light; it's mass would increase and I would assume it's gravitational field would also increase. If the projectile could approach the speed of gravity (which is probably very close, if not the same as, C) it might radiate a cone of 'compressed' gravity (similiar to a sonic boom). I imagine such a thing could make a very amusing weapon.
You know, it seems like Microsoft could get around a lot of those judgements simply by changing the name of their OS from "Windows" to something else.
Now that you've built your own subwoofer, you can cover the higher audio range with a custom made plasma speaker!
Of course, Hollywood will probably cut every reference to the Sirius Cybernetics Complaints Division. The phrase "Share and Enjoy" is like poison to them.