Adaptive optics works so well in the IR due to the wavelength dependence of the Fried parameter, r0, and hence Kolmogorov turbulence. There's less turbulence in the IR, hence it's easier to correct it.
There are wavelength ranges in the NIR where the atmosphere is indeed transparent (J,H and K bands, for example); but the atmosphere is opaque at most NIR wavelengths (and, even at those IR wavelengths where the atmosphere is transparent, the transmittance is lower than at visible or radio wavelengths). See here for more info.
An alternative to OS X (or, at least, an OS independent solution) for text to speech is to use Emacs.
Seriously.
Take a look at EmacsSpeak, which handles text to speech (as well as speech to text).
Having said that, if nodding and shaking her head are too much; I doubt typing will be an option either. I think one of the lower tech solutions are more likely to be useful. Good luck!
I remember a radio programme about identical twins a while ago. One of the things that fascinated me was that although identical twins have identical DNA, their active genes are not identical. Over time, the genes that are active vary between the two twins, as shown by comparing the gene sequences of pairs of identical twins at different ages. The variation was called something like 'Epygenetic modification'. Hopefully someone who knows more about this can comment?
I think the Registers take on this is quite amusing. It references this older Register article, which contains prior art. I wonder if they patented it?
The US does have public transport, and it's pretty good. Provided you're in the NY metropolitan area or San Francisco bay area. The rest of the country, with maybe one or two other exceptions, simply doesn't.
It's not like the film specifically mentioned the background check, and then showed footage of Moore filling in the form in the film. Oh, wait, it did.
2 minutes, 23 seconds in, the bank manager says "We have to do a background check". If you watched less than 2 and a half minutes of the film, why should I listen to your opinion about it?
I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but what war did Thatcher deliberately start? I'm not a particular fan of Thatcher, but there are more than enough facts out there about her that there's no need to fabricate criticisms.
4. non-standard cut/paste key sequences. I use both mac and win32, so the cut/paste keys (ctrl-W, ctrl-Y) are standard within emacs but incredibly unstandard within the mac (apple-c/apple-v) and win32 (ctrl-c, ctrl-v) ecosystem in which it is placed. This might have been fine in the 1980s, but not in the 200x's.
Fair point. I should also mention that I have no idea if sticky keys helps to prevent RSI or not, but it certainly makes the computer more comfortable for me to use. I think software should be modified to how I want to work, rather than have to modify my behaviour to suit the computer. Hence why I always replace Caps Lock with another Ctrl (why is this such a pain in Windows; it's 3 clicks on the Mac or in KDE?). It's also why I use Emacs.
One of the improvements for v22 is in the macro handling. F3 now starts recording, F4 ends recording, and F4 again runs the last recorded macro. Easier to remember than the old shortcuts (which still work), and perhaps more useful for an Emacs novice. There's other changes to the macro handling as well; it's even sweeter than it was before.
As a long time Emacs (and XEmacs) user, can I just say that sticky-keys is your friend. Saves having to hold down the modifier keys. I've now modified my OS to use that as the default in other applications too.
Channel 4 is, or so I thought, privately owned, but it gets a government subsidy to encourage it to cater to non-mainstream audiences. Arts programmes, Dispatches, Equinox (is that still on) etc are programmes that would make a loss if they had to rely on advertiser funding alone. If you have a reference that C4 is government owned, I'd be interested in following it up.
A bit of history on Greg Palast; he's the guy who, on the BBC, broke the story about election irregularities in Florida before the 2000 election. Admittedly, a few days before, but it's still a bit of a scoop.
No, take a look at the US Patents office website (which I'm too lazy to look up now) or google's patent search. Search for Microsoft and you'll find all the patent's they've filed and had granted. Anything not listed there is not afforded patent protection. Of course, what you won't find with that search is patent's filed by other companies subsequently taken over by Microsoft. And it's all written in legalese, so if anyone can suggest a legalese to English translator...
Okay, I'm not too lazy, here's the google patents listing.
DMCA only applies to copyrights, which, as you guessed, have nothing to do with patents. The deal with patents is this: someone invents something and, by publishing the invention, and therefore telling everyone how to make the invention, they're granted a time-limited monopoly (14 years, I think) on it. This monopoly protection is good even if someone subsequently develops the exact same invention, whether or not they are aware of the original inventor's patent. Patent protection is much stronger than copyright protection, but much shorter duration too.
I think, if you're found to have infringed a patent, your only recourse is to pay up, or to show that the patent is invalid (hence the mad scramble for prior art; proving an invention is not novel is sufficient to invalidate a patent). IANAL, of course (otherwise I wouldn't be on/.).
I would imagine, but I could be wrong, that patents covering FAT and NTFS would have expired by now?
Just 'cos something is a standard, doesn't mean there aren't patents involved. I'll wager that there's a whole host of patents related to JPEG images for example.
Hmm, not really. After all, a digital watermark in each and every CD or legal download would allow the producers to trace mass-pirated copies, and hence know who to sue to protect their copyrights, while not inconveniencing the consumer in any noticeable way (assuming the consumer wasn't into mass-pirating his CD).
I bought a 5300 a week ago; it works very well on a Mac. I haven't attempted using it yet with Linux (I have Ubuntu installed on another machine), but the Mac printer system is cups? I wonder if it will be as simple as copying the.ppd file over to the linux machine?
Not just in the USSR; that's still done in (parts of?) the UK. I know that's still the case at my parents, but that's a pretty rural part of Scotland. The milkman delivers milk each morning, and picks up the empty bottles. They're sterilised and re-used with exactly no effort from the consumer.
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Kind of hard to lose that one, don't you think?
See here, for example, for more information.
There are wavelength ranges in the NIR where the atmosphere is indeed transparent (J,H and K bands, for example); but the atmosphere is opaque at most NIR wavelengths (and, even at those IR wavelengths where the atmosphere is transparent, the transmittance is lower than at visible or radio wavelengths). See here for more info.
Seriously.
Take a look at EmacsSpeak, which handles text to speech (as well as speech to text).
Having said that, if nodding and shaking her head are too much; I doubt typing will be an option either. I think one of the lower tech solutions are more likely to be useful. Good luck!
I remember a radio programme about identical twins a while ago. One of the things that fascinated me was that although identical twins have identical DNA, their active genes are not identical. Over time, the genes that are active vary between the two twins, as shown by comparing the gene sequences of pairs of identical twins at different ages. The variation was called something like 'Epygenetic modification'. Hopefully someone who knows more about this can comment?
I think the Registers take on this is quite amusing. It references this older Register article, which contains prior art. I wonder if they patented it?
The US does have public transport, and it's pretty good. Provided you're in the NY metropolitan area or San Francisco bay area. The rest of the country, with maybe one or two other exceptions, simply doesn't.
2 minutes, 23 seconds in, the bank manager says "We have to do a background check". If you watched less than 2 and a half minutes of the film, why should I listen to your opinion about it?
I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but what war did Thatcher deliberately start? I'm not a particular fan of Thatcher, but there are more than enough facts out there about her that there's no need to fabricate criticisms.
"The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled. On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455)."
Try cua-mode. It does what you want.
Fair point. I should also mention that I have no idea if sticky keys helps to prevent RSI or not, but it certainly makes the computer more comfortable for me to use. I think software should be modified to how I want to work, rather than have to modify my behaviour to suit the computer. Hence why I always replace Caps Lock with another Ctrl (why is this such a pain in Windows; it's 3 clicks on the Mac or in KDE?). It's also why I use Emacs.
One of the improvements for v22 is in the macro handling. F3 now starts recording, F4 ends recording, and F4 again runs the last recorded macro. Easier to remember than the old shortcuts (which still work), and perhaps more useful for an Emacs novice. There's other changes to the macro handling as well; it's even sweeter than it was before.
As a long time Emacs (and XEmacs) user, can I just say that sticky-keys is your friend. Saves having to hold down the modifier keys. I've now modified my OS to use that as the default in other applications too.
Channel 4 is, or so I thought, privately owned, but it gets a government subsidy to encourage it to cater to non-mainstream audiences. Arts programmes, Dispatches, Equinox (is that still on) etc are programmes that would make a loss if they had to rely on advertiser funding alone. If you have a reference that C4 is government owned, I'd be interested in following it up.
A bit of history on Greg Palast; he's the guy who, on the BBC, broke the story about election irregularities in Florida before the 2000 election. Admittedly, a few days before, but it's still a bit of a scoop.
Okay, I'm not too lazy, here's the google patents listing.
I think, if you're found to have infringed a patent, your only recourse is to pay up, or to show that the patent is invalid (hence the mad scramble for prior art; proving an invention is not novel is sufficient to invalidate a patent). IANAL, of course (otherwise I wouldn't be on
I would imagine, but I could be wrong, that patents covering FAT and NTFS would have expired by now?
Just 'cos something is a standard, doesn't mean there aren't patents involved. I'll wager that there's a whole host of patents related to JPEG images for example.
Hmm, not really. After all, a digital watermark in each and every CD or legal download would allow the producers to trace mass-pirated copies, and hence know who to sue to protect their copyrights, while not inconveniencing the consumer in any noticeable way (assuming the consumer wasn't into mass-pirating his CD).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DbO9fm6XZtQ
or from today:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xpo7w5b3vo8
Is the word 'carbon' enough to be classified as 'biotech'? Is a pencil 'biotech' now?
I bought a 5300 a week ago; it works very well on a Mac. I haven't attempted using it yet with Linux (I have Ubuntu installed on another machine), but the Mac printer system is cups? I wonder if it will be as simple as copying the .ppd file over to the linux machine?
Let me guess, you use Emacs?
Not just in the USSR; that's still done in (parts of?) the UK. I know that's still the case at my parents, but that's a pretty rural part of Scotland. The milkman delivers milk each morning, and picks up the empty bottles. They're sterilised and re-used with exactly no effort from the consumer.
Ah, I'm not American. I'm Scottish; we have good beer.