Handshake Solutions is Philips. Philips Nat Lab was probably the only other place of research on asynchrone ARM based cores next to Steve Furber's Amulet research at Manchester Uni. There were contacts between the institutes, Furber's project was supported by Philips. Probably as much of Philips in this design as from Manchester Uni. Main core elements ARM based of course.
Philips has a longer history with asynchrone chip designs based on another core, about 20 years, with a first one ready in 1987, the same year the first Acorn Archimedes with an ARM CPU appeared and Steve Furber still was with Acorn. ARM Ltd was established in 1990 with Acorn and Apple as its main shareholders. At the same time Furber started the Amulet project.
Isn't this just the bank's scaring policy to extend the debt period so the interest payments continue ? I understand the security aspect but I also understand that the bank may use that excuse for their own benefits. You might pay back next time half the sum. The other way around: if you are a terrorist is it easier to get a loan than to pay it off ? Must be cheaper if the terrorist act is a one way ticket to the next skyscraper.
So the healthiest place to be is in the printshop where they make the notes and the worst spot is where they destroy the notes. I would alarm the union if I worked in that building. Can't be that they do not have some laundries at strategic spots like Las Vegas. The mob understands the problem.
Andrew Davidhazy (who never made it to Slashdot:-) was probably the first to use scanner technology for experiments in photography. Much earlier he had done similar things with analoge cameras. Slashdot didn't exist at that time. The stories are of course dupes and it is a pity that an even more original thinker like Davidhazy goes unnoticed to the Slashdot crowd. The step from Cirkut rotational panorama cameras of the early 1900's to digital solution based on the same concept isn't so big but Davidhazy did so many other things next to that. It is nice of course to get paid for that kind of creativity. Must be fun to have a prof like that.
Main problem is the short dynamic range of most sensors. You have to expose for something in the mid range and pray the rest will stay within that range. The Umax that I have used has a parallel connection and the only driver available was for W95. No Sane or commercial drivers like Vuescan that would drive that scanner. With Vuescan and the internals of an Epson 3200 you could do much more. Vuescan has a one-pass multi-sampling function that slows the scanner a lot while the S/N ratio gets better. Another function of Vuescan is a long exposure scan that does two runs with different exposures and adds the information of the shadow detail to a normal scan. However a rotation panorama camera loaded with color negative film has much more latitude than a digital (scanner) camera. See: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/panorama/camera/voya_ca_e. html
Usually you have to deal with the high infrared sensitivity of the scanner sensor too. I have used a slide protecter heat shield glass to block the IR but that isn't the best optical filter. At least it allowed semi-color takes with the second version of that panorama camera.
Andrew Davidhazy has done similar things at the Imaging and Photographic Technology Rochester Institute of Technology years ago. His site is interesting
Sony always uses Carl Zeiss lenses, maybe they do not see a reason put a name on it this time. The Carl Zeiss lenses used for the lower end digital cameras are made in Japan. Kyocera might be the manufacturer as it has licensed the name and technology before. There has been one lens assembly that got the Carl Zeiss brand name on the Sony digital camera and the Canon name on a Canon model and there was even a third camera manufacturer using the same lens assembly. 5 MP cameras AFAIK. So no reason to selsct the Nokia for its lens.
As observed in the list of replies there are different trends going on in printing images. While the quantity of pics taken increases exponentially and the need for prints may diminish (the estimation is that up to 80% of phone camera pics never get printed), the total amount of pictures printed increases still and the amount of pictures printed at home also increases. Yet archiving of the images may be worse than it ever was. Color film, negative or slide wasn't a stable medium but at least there are traces of the colored past kept in homes and in archives, some dating back almost 100 years now. B&W photography scores much better in both aspects. It has to be seen whether digital archiving is much better. So it may not be a bad idea to get prints made of the important pics you have. But checking the replies I see little information that is correct on which prints last and which fade or degrade in time.
Whether you print at home or in a lab, get the information about the media used. For labs Fuji Crystal paper and chemistry is scoring the best in prints that still use chemical processing. Framed behind glass they should last 40 years without much change. It is used both for analogue and digital images. Actually better properties than Cibachrome/Ilfochrome.
In inkjet printing, at home or in the lab, there are more choices. Pigment inks are much better and less dependent on the paper quality chosen. 70 - 200 years is the range. Yet the tests done are always related to the paper used. HP offers a dye inkset that comes close but only on a small range of suitable HP papers. A very proprietary solution. The other dye inks with or without suitable papers are way behind in fade resistance.
Anything from Kodak should be avoided. Kodak and some minor suppliers do not test their prints (chemical, inkjet or dyesub)to ISO standards or more severe testing. Their tests are actually substandard. Kodak's analogue color prints have a bad reputation as well, a reputation they already got in 1970-1990 period and didn't do much about to this date.
It is surprising to see that so few are actually aware of the fade properties of prints made at home or in the lab. The best information on this subject is available at www.wilhelm-research.com. Both for analogue prints and digital prints, with chemistry and without.
Printing at home can be done cheaper by using third party inks and papers. There are good pigment inkjet inks (color and B&W) and papers available but for that you should search some mailing lists to get the right information. It will never be as cheap as lab prints (especially the smaller sizes) even when the lab uses Fuji Crystal paper.
Before, during and after sex: the next patent is for a tooth speaker. Brand name: Cyrano. Advertised on Slashdot. With the first millions made it will be marketed for wider use: political party audiences, life sitcoms, board meetings, fake choirs.
The progress is even more than what is expressed in the average speed. The speed limit of 110 KM for several parts of the route limits the average speed of the fastest cars now more and more. Wonder whether there will be some new limitations on the designs for 2007 to bring the speed down. The Dutch Nuna team kept a 107 KM max on the 110 KM stretches.
Strange, feeding my brain with the same data you provide my output says that we should raise endless quantities of butterflies so the existing level of energy that has to come free is distributed over an endless chain of smaller incidents. More specific: instead of submarines we should have thousands of buoys with sun powered fans located at the African goldcoast that will create thousands of whirlwinds a day which results in a few small "hurricanes" a day to cross the ocean. May change the Caraibic weather for ever. The everyday surf gets better though.
The same logic: the global warming and by that more energy accumulating is just one cause, less butterflies in the Amazon forests results in fewer but heavier catastrophes.
ArtWorks II should have been in that list. One of the best vector drawing programs around with nice export features including SVG. Two other omissions: the vector backbone of Risc Os: Acorn Draw(+), originally developed by Sophie Wilson and OakDraw on the PC that can import Acorn Draw files and has SVG export as well.
I do and it is very good but lacks SVG export. It is a child of ArtWorks on the Risc Os machine and that application is even better today than it ever was before thanks to Martin Wuerthner. It has SVG export. It isn't in the list though. http://www.mw-software.com/index.html
The signs are there; Ilford and AgfaPhoto analogue photography had/has financial problems, Kodak ceases B&W paper production. The first two will continue for the time being and some Eastern European producers + Bergger + Oriental fill the rest of the niche. On the other hand digital B&W printing gets more and more important. While small players like MIS, Jon Cone and others introduced B&W quad inkjet inksets + software several years ago, it is now taken up by Epson with the new 2400, 4800 etc printer models that have a standard three grey inks for superb B&W printing. Especially if that is done with the shareware B&W RIP from www.harrington.com and similar commercial products.
B&W printing isn't dead, instead it is in many ways becoming a healthy activity.
There's Red Squirrel and VirtualAcorn to run Risc Os on PCs. As fast as this new machine is. I doubt that even ARM developers will buy this machine.
There's no problem solved by this machine, like an English MG or Rover isn't an answer to a transport problem. They sell too for other reasons but the companies never get healthy by that demand.
The only good thing left of the Acorn adventure is ARM Ltd. The first ARM CPU wasn't developed for a mobile phone though.
Popularity of Risc Os was big 10 years ago in the UK, on the continent and Australia. Never in the US but what is popular in US that isn't invented there ?
Risc Os 5 in a new true 32 bits version will soon be available for Xscale CPU desktop systems. It could mean a second life for an OS that was developed by Acorn at the same time when they started the ARM development. It shows that ARM isn't just for embedded applications. The lean and mean approach of ARM has its equivalent in Risc Os. There's a trend towards desktop systems with less heat and sound, energy saving isn't bad then.
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Handshake Solutions is Philips. Philips Nat Lab was probably the only other place of research on asynchrone ARM based cores next to Steve Furber's Amulet research at Manchester Uni. There were contacts between the institutes, Furber's project was supported by Philips. Probably as much of Philips in this design as from Manchester Uni. Main core elements ARM based of course.
Philips has a longer history with asynchrone chip designs based on another core, about 20 years, with a first one ready in 1987, the same year the first Acorn Archimedes with an ARM CPU appeared and Steve Furber still was with Acorn. ARM Ltd was established in 1990 with Acorn and Apple as its main shareholders. At the same time Furber started the Amulet project.
Isn't this just the bank's scaring policy to extend the debt period so the interest payments continue ? I understand the security aspect but I also understand that the bank may use that excuse for their own benefits. You might pay back next time half the sum. The other way around: if you are a terrorist is it easier to get a loan than to pay it off ? Must be cheaper if the terrorist act is a one way ticket to the next skyscraper.
So the healthiest place to be is in the printshop where they make the notes and the worst spot is where they destroy the notes. I would alarm the union if I worked in that building. Can't be that they do not have some laundries at strategic spots like Las Vegas. The mob understands the problem.
Andrew Davidhazy (who never made it to Slashdot:-) was probably the first to use scanner technology for experiments in photography. Much earlier he had done similar things with analoge cameras. Slashdot didn't exist at that time. The stories are of course dupes and it is a pity that an even more original thinker like Davidhazy goes unnoticed to the Slashdot crowd.
The step from Cirkut rotational panorama cameras of the early 1900's to digital solution based on the same concept isn't so big but Davidhazy did so many other things next to that. It is nice of course to get paid for that kind of creativity. Must be fun to have a prof like that.
Main problem is the short dynamic range of most sensors. You have to expose for something in the mid range and pray the rest will stay within that range. The Umax that I have used has a parallel connection and the only driver available was for W95. No Sane or commercial drivers like Vuescan that would drive that scanner. With Vuescan and the internals of an Epson 3200 you could do much more. Vuescan has a one-pass multi-sampling function that slows the scanner a lot while the S/N ratio gets better. Another function of Vuescan is a long exposure scan that does two runs with different exposures and adds the information of the shadow detail to a normal scan. However a rotation panorama camera loaded with color negative film has much more latitude than a digital (scanner) camera. See: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/panorama/camera/voya_ca_e. html
Usually you have to deal with the high infrared sensitivity of the scanner sensor too. I have used a slide protecter heat shield glass to block the IR but that isn't the best optical filter. At least it allowed semi-color takes with the second version of that panorama camera.
Andrew Davidhazy has done similar things at the Imaging and Photographic Technology
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Rochester Institute of Technology years ago. His site is interesting
http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/
Many have done the same later on. I got through a Christmas period converting a Umax page scanner to a panorama scanner. It was fun.
http://www.pigment-print.com/Panorama%20Camera%20
Sony always uses Carl Zeiss lenses, maybe they do not see a reason put a name on it this time. The Carl Zeiss lenses used for the lower end digital cameras are made in Japan. Kyocera might be the manufacturer as it has licensed the name and technology before. There has been one lens assembly that got the Carl Zeiss brand name on the Sony digital camera and the Canon name on a Canon model and there was even a third camera manufacturer using the same lens assembly. 5 MP cameras AFAIK. So no reason to selsct the Nokia for its lens.
As observed in the list of replies there are different trends going on in printing images. While the quantity of pics taken increases exponentially and the need for prints may diminish (the estimation is that up to 80% of phone camera pics never get printed), the total amount of pictures printed increases still and the amount of pictures printed at home also increases. Yet archiving of the images may be worse than it ever was. Color film, negative or slide wasn't a stable medium but at least there are traces of the colored past kept in homes and in archives, some dating back almost 100 years now. B&W photography scores much better in both aspects. It has to be seen whether digital archiving is much better. So it may not be a bad idea to get prints made of the important pics you have. But checking the replies I see little information that is correct on which prints last and which fade or degrade in time.
Whether you print at home or in a lab, get the information about the media used. For labs Fuji Crystal paper and chemistry is scoring the best in prints that still use chemical processing. Framed behind glass they should last 40 years without much change. It is used both for analogue and digital images. Actually better properties than Cibachrome/Ilfochrome.
In inkjet printing, at home or in the lab, there are more choices. Pigment inks are much better and less dependent on the paper quality chosen. 70 - 200 years is the range. Yet the tests done are always related to the paper used. HP offers a dye inkset that comes close but only on a small range of suitable HP papers. A very proprietary solution. The other dye inks with or without suitable papers are way behind in fade resistance.
Anything from Kodak should be avoided. Kodak and some minor suppliers do not test their prints (chemical, inkjet or dyesub)to ISO standards or more severe testing. Their tests are actually substandard. Kodak's analogue color prints have a bad reputation as well, a reputation they already got in 1970-1990 period and didn't do much about to this date.
It is surprising to see that so few are actually aware of the fade properties of prints made at home or in the lab. The best information on this subject is available at www.wilhelm-research.com. Both for analogue prints and digital prints, with chemistry and without.
Printing at home can be done cheaper by using third party inks and papers. There are good pigment inkjet inks (color and B&W) and papers available but for that you should search some mailing lists to get the right information. It will never be as cheap as lab prints (especially the smaller sizes) even when the lab uses Fuji Crystal paper.
Before, during and after sex: the next patent is for a tooth speaker. Brand name: Cyrano. Advertised on Slashdot. With the first millions made it will be marketed for wider use: political party audiences, life sitcoms, board meetings, fake choirs.
The progress is even more than what is expressed in the average speed. The speed limit of 110 KM for several parts of the route limits the average speed of the fastest cars now more and more. Wonder whether there will be some new limitations on the designs for 2007 to bring the speed down. The Dutch Nuna team kept a 107 KM max on the 110 KM stretches.
Strange, feeding my brain with the same data you provide my output says that we should raise endless quantities of butterflies so the existing level of energy that has to come free is distributed over an endless chain of smaller incidents. More specific: instead of submarines we should have thousands of buoys with sun powered fans located at the African goldcoast that will create thousands of whirlwinds a day which results in a few small "hurricanes" a day to cross the ocean. May change the Caraibic weather for ever. The everyday surf gets better though.
The same logic: the global warming and by that more energy accumulating is just one cause, less butterflies in the Amazon forests results in fewer but heavier catastrophes.
ArtWorks II should have been in that list. One of the best vector drawing programs around with nice export features including SVG. Two other omissions:
the vector backbone of Risc Os: Acorn Draw(+), originally developed by Sophie Wilson and OakDraw on the PC that can import Acorn Draw files and has SVG export as well.
I do and it is very good but lacks SVG export. It is a child of ArtWorks on the Risc Os machine and that application is even better today than it ever was before thanks to Martin Wuerthner. It has SVG export. It isn't in the list though.
http://www.mw-software.com/index.html
The signs are there; Ilford and AgfaPhoto analogue photography had/has financial problems, Kodak ceases B&W paper production. The first two will continue for the time being and some Eastern European producers + Bergger + Oriental fill the rest of the niche.
On the other hand digital B&W printing gets more and more important. While small players like MIS, Jon Cone and others introduced B&W quad inkjet inksets + software several years ago, it is now taken up by Epson with the new 2400, 4800 etc printer models that have a standard three grey inks for superb B&W printing. Especially if that is done with the shareware B&W RIP from www.harrington.com and similar commercial products.
B&W printing isn't dead, instead it is in many ways becoming a healthy activity.
There's Red Squirrel and VirtualAcorn to run Risc Os on PCs. As fast as this new machine is. I doubt that even ARM developers will buy this machine.
There's no problem solved by this machine, like an English MG or Rover isn't an answer to a transport problem. They sell too for other reasons but the companies never get healthy by that demand.
The only good thing left of the Acorn adventure is ARM Ltd. The first ARM CPU wasn't developed for a mobile phone though.
Popularity of Risc Os was big 10 years ago in the UK, on the continent and Australia. Never in the US but what is popular in US that isn't invented there ?
Ernst
Risc Os 5 in a new true 32 bits version will soon be available for Xscale CPU desktop systems. It could mean a second life for an OS that was developed by Acorn at the same time when they started the ARM development. It shows that ARM isn't just for embedded applications. The lean and mean approach of ARM has its equivalent in Risc Os. There's a trend towards desktop systems with less heat and sound, energy saving isn't bad then.
http://www.riscos.org/cgi-bin/news?days=
http://www.iyonix.com/Launch/winapc1.html