Yes, unless you're from another planet...
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I was at the European Technology Forum Technology Summit event in London recently where Mike Lynch (Ph.D), CEO of Autonomy gave a keynote speech responding to this article. Essentially, Mike said that the article is "fundamentally wrong" and "anyone who asserts IT doesn't matter must be from another planet". A very interesting read... we've barely scratched the surface when it comes to IT. Autonomy develop software to manage unstructured information, something current IT is not very good at.
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Hmm, since cinemascreens are a fine mesh with speakers positioned behind, you could put a large IR lamp behind the screen pointing out into the audience - then any camcorder would see a nasty washed out spot in the middle of the screen.
IR lights to stop camcorders?
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Since most CCDs are sensitive to IR as well as visible light, why not just have a a couple of powerful IR lamps positioned around the cinema screen to overexpose the CCD, thus washing out the recorded image...?
For my projects (particle physics etc) I generally use C++ these days (farewell fortran) because of the usefulness of templates. Recently I had to use some largish matrices (1000x1000 and growing - need more memory!) for a lattice calculation and found The Matrix Template Library to be most useful for my sparse matrices - and with an easy (well, easy for someone who knows STL) interface which allowed me to add a tensor product method - nice! The beauty of MTL is that it's just a series of header files - amazing! Then for data analysis I use ROOT an object oriented data analysis framework - it does histogram plotting / fitting etc... but is much more than a simple potting tool - you can build a cross platform GUI with it if you like, but the documentation is not the best. I've also used Octave for some FFT stuff too. It's like the unix philosophy really, use the right tools for the right job and use them together.
My old A500 had a cable that sent RGB down a SCART lead - European audio/video connector (and still has it's gathering dust in the loft since I got sensi soccer on an old cd32). Now, couple this with an RGB to S-Video converter from http://www.rgbtosvideo.com/ and you have s-video output. Please please please please please... Some Amiga demos on the next DVD.
Just tried it (opera 6.02/Linux) and it complains... asks whether you want to accept this dodgy certificate and gives you lots of info. So no, it's not vulnerable.
Fortran is still alive and well in the high energy physics (HEP) community... though it is fading away slowly (not as slowly as some people would like though). Up until very recently, FORTRAN was *THE* language for data analysis but is slowly being replaced by C++ in newer experiments such as BaBar at SLAC and is replacing FORTRAN for data analysis at a few older experiments such as H1 at DESY. The reason why FORTRAN is fading away so slowly is mainly because of CERNLIB which is a FORTRAN library that contains many useful functions (random numbers, matrix manipulation, data fitting etc...) As most particle physicists "grew up" using CERNLIB, it will be a while yet before FORTRAN well and truly disappears (in the HEP community anyway). Also of note, CERNLIB has now been released under the GPL, so anyone can use it. Nice.
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I was at the European Technology Forum Technology Summit event in London recently where Mike Lynch (Ph.D), CEO of Autonomy gave a keynote speech responding to this article. Essentially, Mike said that the article is "fundamentally wrong" and "anyone who asserts IT doesn't matter must be from another planet". A very interesting read... we've barely scratched the surface when it comes to IT. Autonomy develop software to manage unstructured information, something current IT is not very good at.
Hmm, since cinemascreens are a fine mesh with speakers positioned behind, you could put a large IR lamp behind the screen pointing out into the audience - then any camcorder would see a nasty washed out spot in the middle of the screen.
Since most CCDs are sensitive to IR as well as visible light, why not just have a a couple of powerful IR lamps positioned around the cinema screen to overexpose the CCD, thus washing out the recorded image...?
For my projects (particle physics etc) I generally use C++ these days (farewell fortran) because of the usefulness of templates. Recently I had to use some largish matrices (1000x1000 and growing - need more memory!) for a lattice calculation and found The Matrix Template Library to be most useful for my sparse matrices - and with an easy (well, easy for someone who knows STL) interface which allowed me to add a tensor product method - nice! The beauty of MTL is that it's just a series of header files - amazing! Then for data analysis I use ROOT an object oriented data analysis framework - it does histogram plotting / fitting etc... but is much more than a simple potting tool - you can build a cross platform GUI with it if you like, but the documentation is not the best. I've also used Octave for some FFT stuff too. It's like the unix philosophy really, use the right tools for the right job and use them together.
My old A500 had a cable that sent RGB down a SCART lead - European audio/video connector (and still has it's gathering dust in the loft since I got sensi soccer on an old cd32). Now, couple this with an RGB to S-Video converter from http://www.rgbtosvideo.com/ and you have s-video output. Please please please please please... Some Amiga demos on the next DVD.
Just tried it (opera 6.02/Linux) and it complains... asks whether you want to accept this dodgy certificate and gives you lots of info. So no, it's not vulnerable.
Fortran is still alive and well in the high energy physics (HEP) community... though it is fading away slowly (not as slowly as some people would like though). Up until very recently, FORTRAN was *THE* language for data analysis but is slowly being replaced by C++ in newer experiments such as BaBar at SLAC and is replacing FORTRAN for data analysis at a few older experiments such as H1 at DESY. The reason why FORTRAN is fading away so slowly is mainly because of CERNLIB which is a FORTRAN library that contains many useful functions (random numbers, matrix manipulation, data fitting etc...) As most particle physicists "grew up" using CERNLIB, it will be a while yet before FORTRAN well and truly disappears (in the HEP community anyway). Also of note, CERNLIB has now been released under the GPL, so anyone can use it. Nice.