Wonderful program, handles multiple tuners, cable boxes, universal remotes, plays well with Multiple Hauppage PVR-250s. Easy to use. And it records plain vanilla mpeg2s which rip straight to DVDs. Built a micro-ATX box with two PVR-250s a GeForce 5200 and a UIRT-USB for remote control / cable box interfacing. Works perfectly.
I used to work for John Dove (http://www.uticaod.com/archive/2004/01/24/opinion/24587.html) who also developed many of the critical technologies for the optical disk and also got completely reamed by Sony/Phillips even though he had patents. In fact he wanted to assign the patents to the Air Force but they refused to allow him to (this was a year or two before the advent of the laser).
My experience is that the Hostility to the H1B program is not directed towards the visa holders but towards the corporations using the program. The H1B program is used by corporations the way they use scabs and outsourcing, to drive down wages and job security by using a desparate population. The worst aspect of the H1B program is that it is not an imigration program but nearly a form of indentured servitude. The visa holder is often at the mercy of the sponsor, not free to switch jobs easily, and facing deportation once his visa expires. This may be used by corporations to hold down wages and dissent. I'm very happy to see immigration of skilled workers as citizens, but I'm not happy to see the exploitation of guest workers as H1Bs.
Enrico Fermi supposedly failed every single person who ever took his Quantum Mechanics course at the University of Chicago. A special footnote had to be added to transcripts as a result.
The pity is that such a strategy allows for no differentiation between people who are working at their full capacity and goof-offs who sleep though class.
Much of the lock-in associated with Windows is associated with the availability of apps. If you provide OSS cross-platform software for free, people will adopt the apps to save money and stay legal. If all the apps a user employs are cross platform he has no lock-in with Windows. Cost and security can then be used to push the adoption of Linux. This will be particularly true once 1-2 GB usb keys capable of supporting Knoppix and a tolerable workspace become common. In many respects this is Apple strategy in reverse . Rather than putting a proprietary desktop on top of OSS, put an OSS desktop on top of a proprietary OS. Finally, with the replacement rate of computers leveling off Microsoft has less profit from OS and more from apps, if they have to compete with free on every app they are in trouble.
A true hologram consists of a reconstruction of the wavefront eminating from a scene which is inherently 3d. The system describes a temporal stereoscopic display based on the spinning cylinder systems that have been around for 20 years. It has about as much to do with a viewmaster as a hologram.
Get rid of the programmers, get rid of the engineers . Slash R&D to nothing. Ban outright the most promising science (stem cell etc.)Where is the next big tech thing going to come from? Not here. The US is very rapidly following the trajectory of the postwar UK (Without the cool accents). Our captians of industry ceed one cutting edge field after another.
Of course if we have no manufacturing, programming or engineering what is going to support defense? How do we support the trade deficit? How does the dollar remain the default currency?
My friend who has been stuck on my couch for the past 6 months is a top of the line configuration management specialist, programmer, web designer, carpenter and really good auto mechanic (which he used to do between programming jobs) , he's still stuck on the couch. I've got a Bachelors in CS and a Ph.D. in Physics and I'm hanging on by my fingernails to a 7 day a week 14 hour a day job.
The evil pirates (otherwise known as users or consumers) buy Linux in order to steal SCO's Intellectual Property and having acomplished that they then move on to pirating Windows and installing that!
Having worked with Class IIIb Lasers for 25+ years I can attest to the fact that it is nearly impossible to incur eye damage from 5-15 mW. You reflexively look away and blink. In order to incur damage from such a laser it would require: 1.Anesthetizing your eyelid muscles 2.Anesthetizing your eye muscles 3.Mounting your head in a clamp 4.Firing the laser point blank into your eye for 10 min.
This would cause temporary damage.
In addition, while the laser beam is nominally collimated over distances of tens of meters the beam spreads, reducing the energy entering the eye by an inverse square relation.
This is not to say that lasers are not hazardous, something in the 1 Watt range can be seriously dangerous to your retina. But the inverse square law still applies over long distances. Pointing and tracking with an accuracy of 1cm over several kilometers is spectacularly difficult as well.
Eye-popper lasers have been evaluated by both the US and the Russians but they have had little effectiveness. They have been banned from the military as inhumane. Usually banned weapons tend to be both inhumane and ineffective.
With a big enough laser (>>10W)you could injure a pilot, in the same fashion you can bring down a plane with a sniper rifle, it's possible, but highly unlikely, and not a particularly good terrorist tactic.
A kamikaze falcon or the sudden release of a crate full of pigeons would be more effective by orders of magnitude.
The latest versions of DVD-Shrink will access the Nero API and burn the disk after ripping. DVD-Shrink is simply one of the best pieces of software out there. Anybody who asked me about DVD X-Copy was told to use DVD-Shrink instead.
Unlike most applications in which they are misapplied, Peltier Coolers are ideal for the purposes of cooling CCDs and thermal imaging devices. To achieve a 30-50 degree C cooling you may have to use a 2 or 3 stage configuration. In multistage configurations you employ more coolers for each stage to compensate for the waste heat generated by the previous stage. Thus in a two stage design one junction is employed in the first stage and thermally coupled (use plenty of thermal goo) to four junctions in the second stage and 9 to 16 in the third stage backed by a good size heatsink. The entire assembly should cool in the 30-50 degree range. Of course, this will result in condensation or even frost so be sure to encase the CCD in a dry nitrogen overpressure chamber.
The CCD Camera Cookbook provides an excellent overview of the construction of an astronomical camera from scratch. Amateur Telescope Makers (ATMs) do this all the time to obtain high performance cameras with greater sensitivity and dynamic range than conventional webcams and Digital Cameras. Such designs not only incorporate superior ADCs but often have such features as peltier coolers.
I can still rememmber when the first reply to a problem involving hardware was, 'yes we can build it!' Now the bulk of supposed 'hackers' reply that you have to go out and buy whatever you need.
My coworker just had this problem recently on his Thinkpad 41. We were able to rig a USB CF reader a 256 MB CF card and a copy of SLAX (live slackware in a 180 MB iso for 3.5" CDs) to generate a very usable interim system. With a 1 GB USB drive, it should be possible to mount a solid state version of Knoppix. Very nice!
The Economist is a fine rag, with a much higher level of writing than the usual American political magazine. It's suffered from a nasty case of Bush worship lately 'tho.
The New Republic used to (1980-1991) be the pinnacle of good writing under the editorial control of Hertzberg and Kinsley, but plummeted in quality during and after the reign of Andrew Sullivan. While It has occasionaly risen to the levels of the past, it is very irregular and tends to largely function as a neocon house organ.
Much of the best writers of the golden age of The New Republic have moved to the New Yorker which has also featured the indispensable writing of Sy Hersh.
The Atlantic and Harpers have always been quite good, 'tho the Atlantic has declined a bit lately.
There is a word for experience of reading The New Republic followed by The National Review, the word is Schizophrenia.
I used to read a plethora of magazines but with limited time I've boiled my dead tree reading down to:
1.Grappler: The greatest magazine ever esp: the Anime column.
2.Maximum PC: Pretty brutal on the reviews, their "Kick Ass" products are invariably good buys. Their articles often provide good overviews and handy tips.
3. CPU: More columns than the Parthenon, handy tips, reasonably tough reviews.
4. Wired: Still worth skimming, 80% bull, but that has always been the case.
5. Newtype: Always good for finding out about new anime before it hits the US.
6. Animerica: Good coverage of US anime market, a surprisingly high proportion of good articles.
7.Anime Insider: Good dose of Wizard magazine snark. Good background pieces. Handy on releases and Con dates.
A little pricey but well worth it, they generate excellent capture of video and encode in MPEG-2 in hardware. Very nice, and they make an excellent PVR when combined with SageTv or MythTv. They also incorporate an integrated IR remote. They have a good linux support particularly with regard to MythTV. The PVR-350 differs from the PVR-250 in that it has a S-Video output. I've also employed a Leadtek XP 2000 video capture card, nice but no hardware recording. I've had difficulty in recording the output of the LeadTek to DVD.
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Wonderful program, handles multiple tuners, cable boxes, universal remotes, plays well with Multiple Hauppage PVR-250s. Easy to use. And it records plain vanilla mpeg2s which rip straight to DVDs. Built a micro-ATX box with two PVR-250s a GeForce 5200 and a UIRT-USB for remote control / cable box interfacing. Works perfectly.
I used to work for John Dove (http://www.uticaod.com/archive/2004/01/24/opinion /24587.html) who also developed many of the critical technologies for the optical disk and also got completely reamed by Sony/Phillips even though he had patents. In fact he wanted to assign the patents to the Air Force but they refused to allow him to (this was a year or two before the advent of the laser).
Where's my 'Spirited Away' First-Person-Shooter?
You must have that confused with the MechWarrior/ Howl's Moving Castle tie-in video game
My experience is that the Hostility to the H1B program is not directed towards the visa holders but towards the corporations using the program. The H1B program is used by corporations the way they use scabs and outsourcing, to drive down wages and job security by using a desparate population. The worst aspect of the H1B program is that it is not an imigration program but nearly a form of indentured servitude. The visa holder is often at the mercy of the sponsor, not free to switch jobs easily, and facing deportation once his visa expires. This may be used by corporations to hold down wages and dissent.
I'm very happy to see immigration of skilled workers as citizens, but I'm not happy to see the exploitation of guest workers as H1Bs.
Enrico Fermi supposedly failed every single person who ever took his Quantum Mechanics course at the University of Chicago. A special footnote had to be added to transcripts as a result.
The pity is that such a strategy allows for no differentiation between people who are working at their full capacity and goof-offs who sleep though class.
Much of the lock-in associated with Windows is associated with the availability of apps. If you provide OSS cross-platform software for free, people will adopt the apps to save money and stay legal. If all the apps a user employs are cross platform he has no lock-in with Windows. Cost and security can then be used to push the adoption of Linux. This will be particularly true once 1-2 GB usb keys capable of supporting Knoppix and a tolerable workspace become common.
In many respects this is Apple strategy in reverse . Rather than putting a proprietary desktop on top of OSS, put an OSS desktop on top of a proprietary OS.
Finally, with the replacement rate of computers leveling off Microsoft has less profit from OS and more from apps, if they have to compete with free on every app they are in trouble.
A true hologram consists of a reconstruction of the wavefront eminating from a scene which is inherently 3d. The system describes a temporal stereoscopic display based on the spinning cylinder systems that have been around for 20 years. It has about as much to do with a viewmaster as a hologram.
Get rid of the programmers, get rid of the engineers . Slash R&D to nothing. Ban outright the most promising science (stem cell etc.)Where is the next big tech thing going to come from? Not here. The US is very rapidly following the trajectory of the postwar UK (Without the cool accents). Our captians of industry ceed one cutting edge field after another.
Of course if we have no manufacturing, programming or engineering what is going to support defense? How do we support the trade deficit? How does the dollar remain the default currency?
My friend who has been stuck on my couch for the past 6 months is a top of the line configuration management specialist, programmer, web designer, carpenter and really good auto mechanic (which he used to do between programming jobs) , he's still stuck on the couch. I've got a Bachelors in CS and a Ph.D. in Physics and I'm hanging on by my fingernails to a 7 day a week 14 hour a day job.
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mini-itx.com has a very nice 7" widescreen display
5 03
VGA and Composite (AV) inputs
Screen Size: Diagonal 7" 15:9 Aspect Ratio; Supported Resolution: 1024 x 768 (HxV); Dot Resolution: 2400(H) x 480(V) = 1,152,000 (dots); Display Brightness (w/ Touchscreen): 280 cd/m2; Touch Screen Interface: USB port; Operating Voltage: DC 11-13V; Power Consumption: 9W; Dimensions: 188mm x 125mm x 33mm; Weight: 0.55Kg
http://www.mini-itx.com/store/default.asp?c=9#p
The evil pirates (otherwise known as users or consumers) buy Linux in order to steal SCO's Intellectual Property and having acomplished that they then move on to pirating Windows and installing that!
Having worked with Class IIIb Lasers for 25+ years I can attest to the fact that it is nearly impossible to incur eye damage from 5-15 mW. You reflexively look away and blink. In order to incur damage from such a laser it would require:
1.Anesthetizing your eyelid muscles
2.Anesthetizing your eye muscles
3.Mounting your head in a clamp
4.Firing the laser point blank into your eye for 10 min.
This would cause temporary damage.
In addition, while the laser beam is nominally collimated over distances of tens of meters the beam spreads, reducing the energy entering the eye by an inverse square relation.
This is not to say that lasers are not hazardous, something in the 1 Watt range can be seriously dangerous to your retina. But the inverse square law still applies over long distances. Pointing and tracking with an accuracy of 1cm over several kilometers is spectacularly difficult as well.
Eye-popper lasers have been evaluated by both the US and the Russians but they have had little effectiveness. They have been banned from the military as inhumane. Usually banned weapons tend to be both inhumane and ineffective.
With a big enough laser (>>10W)you could injure a pilot, in the same fashion you can bring down a plane with a sniper rifle, it's possible, but highly unlikely, and not a particularly good terrorist tactic.
A kamikaze falcon or the sudden release of a crate full of pigeons would be more effective by orders of magnitude.
The king of redneck liberalism:
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Bartcop.com
The best political/war reporting:
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/
The best economic/tech material:
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movab
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Krugman R'lyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn! Aiiiiiii!!!:
http://shrillblog.blogspot.com/
Best War blog:
http://www.exile.ru/archive/by_column/war_
By the time she can read all the IT jobs will have been outsourced
So that assumes Bush wins the election this year
...Hollerith cards
The Fairuse wizard is perfect for backing up DVDs to DIVX. I've even used it to view DVDs on my palm. http://fairuse.free.fr/lang_en/
The latest versions of DVD-Shrink will access the Nero API and burn the disk after ripping. DVD-Shrink is simply one of the best pieces of software out there. Anybody who asked me about DVD X-Copy was told to use DVD-Shrink instead.
Unlike most applications in which they are misapplied, Peltier Coolers are ideal for the purposes of cooling CCDs and thermal imaging devices. To achieve a 30-50 degree C cooling you may have to use a 2 or 3 stage configuration. In multistage configurations you employ more coolers for each stage to compensate for the waste heat generated by the previous stage. Thus in a two stage design one junction is employed in the first stage and thermally coupled (use plenty of thermal goo) to four junctions in the second stage and 9 to 16 in the third stage backed by a good size heatsink. The entire assembly should cool in the 30-50 degree range. Of course, this will result in condensation or even frost so be sure to encase the CCD in a dry nitrogen overpressure chamber.
The CCD Camera Cookbook provides an excellent overview of the construction of an astronomical camera from scratch. Amateur Telescope Makers (ATMs) do this all the time to obtain high performance cameras with greater sensitivity and dynamic range than conventional webcams and Digital Cameras. Such designs not only incorporate superior ADCs but often have such features as peltier coolers.
I can still rememmber when the first reply to a problem involving hardware was, 'yes we can build it!' Now the bulk of supposed 'hackers' reply that you have to go out and buy whatever you need.
My coworker just had this problem recently on his Thinkpad 41. We were able to rig a USB CF reader a 256 MB CF card and a copy of SLAX (live slackware in a 180 MB iso for 3.5" CDs) to generate a very usable interim system. With a 1 GB USB drive, it should be possible to mount a solid state version of Knoppix. Very nice!
The Economist is a fine rag, with a much higher level of writing than the usual American political magazine. It's suffered from a nasty case of Bush worship lately 'tho.
The New Republic used to (1980-1991) be the pinnacle of good writing under the editorial control of Hertzberg and Kinsley, but plummeted in quality during and after the reign of Andrew Sullivan. While It has occasionaly risen to the levels of the past, it is very irregular and tends to largely function as a neocon house organ.
Much of the best writers of the golden age of The New Republic have moved to the New Yorker which has also featured the indispensable writing of Sy Hersh.
The Atlantic and Harpers have always been quite good, 'tho the Atlantic has declined a bit lately.
There is a word for experience of reading The New Republic followed by The National Review, the word is Schizophrenia.
I used to read a plethora of magazines but with limited time I've boiled my dead tree reading down to:
1.Grappler: The greatest magazine ever esp: the Anime column.
2.Maximum PC: Pretty brutal on the reviews, their "Kick Ass" products are invariably good buys. Their articles often provide good overviews and handy tips.
3. CPU: More columns than the Parthenon, handy tips, reasonably tough reviews.
4. Wired: Still worth skimming, 80% bull, but that has always been the case.
5. Newtype: Always good for finding out about new anime before it hits the US.
6. Animerica: Good coverage of US anime market, a surprisingly high proportion of good articles.
7.Anime Insider: Good dose of Wizard magazine snark. Good background pieces. Handy on releases and Con dates.
At work I roll my own using a Beowulf cluster running VTK (vtk.org) controlled by python scripting and pygame, very handy.
A little pricey but well worth it, they generate excellent capture of video and encode in MPEG-2 in hardware. Very nice, and they make an excellent PVR when combined with SageTv or MythTv. They also incorporate an integrated IR remote. They have a good linux support particularly with regard to MythTV. The PVR-350 differs from the PVR-250 in that it has a S-Video output. I've also employed a Leadtek XP 2000 video capture card, nice but no hardware recording. I've had difficulty in recording the output of the LeadTek to DVD.