There is an image processing technicuq called the Feature vector.
This can be anything from a color histogram to a compressed FFT of the image. MPEG-7 files have texture descriptors built in.
A color histogram may not be of much use if someone alters the overall appearance of the image (color to monochrome or sepia tone). Silhouettes might not work if parts of the image are cropped or composited with another image. Monochrome texture segmentation and classification may be the only method that would work.
Business owners across the city have been forced to figure out ways to keep drug users and others out of their bathrooms while keeping the toilets open to customers.
One UK town had that problem with drug users. There was a simple solution - they noticed that some restrooms had no problems with druggies even though there was the same population, same level of cleaning and security. The only difference was that the restroom had some rather cheap fluorescent lights of a single light wavelength. While this was adequate for basic hygiene and safety, it made it impossible for drug users to see their veins in order to use needles. As a consequence, they would avoid that particular restroom.
That is very much how the motor car industry started out - you had well over 3000 startup companies all across North America and Europe, experimenting with the combustion engine, and inventing different improvements (carburettor, cooling fan, 2-stroke, 4-stroke and 8-stroke engines). Eventually, over time they merged together to form larger companies and eventually forming a handful of corporations.
How many solar panels would they need on a car to have a completedly closed system (solar panels to generate electricity to split water into hydrogen, a compressor to force the hydrogen and oxygen into the engine, and a collector to recycle the used water from the exhaust)?
This happens with my Linux system as well - Youtube videos tend to freeze and crash with a gray screen of death (just the video box, not the entire browser). I have to kill the process 'npviewer.bin' which usually is already defunct according to 'ps'.
The other process is 'acroread' which seems to manage to force the CPU to run at 91C, while not actually being visible on the screen. It actually managed to burn out my heatsink fan, as I had left my PC running overnight while it was running. When I killed the 'acroread' process, the CPU immediately starts cooling down to around 40C. (as witnessed by the 'sensors-applet' widget).
If you think 15K is bad, have a long at what the data processing staff of the Californian public sector were earning. I thought these were monthly salaries and not annual salaries, but then with the Governators demand that all salaries are reduced to minimum wage, these must be annual salaries.
Reminds me of the earlier Sci-Fi series from the 1980's (Dr. Who, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica). They didn't have the prosthetics effects available that are available now, so they choose actors with distinctive features and costume design.
Different universities usually have their own preferred calculator for use on their courses and exams. My university has made the Casio FX-85 series as the officially permitted calculator. What are the choices in other universities?
The most common way of intercepting data traffic on a single computer system is to create a dummy API layer that replaces one or more of the API's in use (sockets, OpenGL). For the function calls that you are uninterested in, you just call the real API. For the functions that you are interested in, you log the parameters sent and data received.
Encrypting the data at a higher level is one way of trying to defeat this, but then you just replace the API layer that does the encrypting/decrypting.
Another interesting point is that this demo is currently capped at 3 casts per pixel
That's three ray bounces.
The first ray goes from the eye point through the image plane (the resulting image) into the scene. The second ray goes from the reflection or refraction of the first intersecting surface into the scene again. The same with the third ray. This allows the renderer to draw the reflection of the car from the plate glass windows on the other side of the street.
If you want more rays per pixel, that is multi-sampling (or anti-aliasing) which will do the effects you describe.
This may be done using a hybrid rasterizer/ray-tracer. A simple ray-tracer will rasterize the resulting image by scanning each pixel column-by-colum, row-by-row.
That could be optimized by rasterizng each triangle (forming the first ray) then doing the reflection/refraction calculations with the rest of the scene.
Interesting to note the car is a fixed color with a reflective component. This will probably be of benefit to the CAD industry who like to generate ray-traced views of designed geometry.
Yes, I have one of those, except that it doesn't receive Sky One, and all the channels that it does received are already available on the free channel selection of the cable TV service.
My parents have a Sky 'freeview' card - they get all the USA/European/Asian news channels for free (CNN, Russia Today, CCTV-9, Euronews, Deutsche Welle, FR-2) while with Virgin Media Cable, you have to pay for the most expensive channel bundling option in order to get the very same channels.
Virgin media more or less has an monopoly over anyone (or any apartment block) that hasn't been cabled for a satellite dish. Of course, there are portable satellite dishes, but that depends on having a South facing window.
The problem is, hardcore game players will take advantage of the multiplayer game system settings, and turn off all the extra visual effects that make it hard to see other players (don't need fog, lens flare, smoke effects, high-resolution detail, light haze, high screen resolutions) and which slow down frame rate.
I've always wondered what to do with my old lightbulbs - they can't go into the glass recycling centre or standard trash because they contain metal. They can't go to the scrapyard or the recyclables because they are glass. So, I've just got a pile which gradually gets bigger over time.
Labour party seats tend to be in high density council housing, while Conservative seats are in rural or suburban seats. Since the electoral commission tries to keep the proportion of the population represented by each MP at around 40,000 - 50,000, this means that Labour gets more MP's, even though a demographic map of the UK shows the majority of the country supporting the Conservatives. At the same time, Labour are encouraging the conversion of suburban housing into high density housing through the use of "garden grabbing".
A quarter of all families in central London are single parent mothers... Other deprived parts of the country approach 50% of the population working in the public sector. If you want to check up on the demographics of a particular area, check the Acorn map.
SGI only downspiraled because their management refused to allow hardware to be developed for the PC - they just believed everyone would be willing to pay "UNIX prices" for UNIX hardware. After seeing 3Dfx develop hardware for the PC, SGI's engineers wanted to build a graphics accelerator board for the PC. In the end, their engineers left to form Nvidia.
I think the blue enter keys are a tradition of IBM:( Much the same as the nipple controller in the middle of the keyboard.
I'm looking to buy a new laptop/desktop - my criteria are quad-core CPU or better, current generation graphics chip (Nvidia 9800 upwards) with as many stream processors as possible and as much texture memory as possible (512 MBytes+), a decent resolution screen (>1050 pixels vertically), dual hard disk drives, as many USB ports as possible (>3), and a good amount of system memory (2+ Gigabytes).
The components of this machine match my specification, the keypad and the Wacom to the right is an additional bonus, but the blue [Enter] keys and the 1" thick bezel just remind me of an 1970's IBM BYTE advert with a geek with thick square politburo glasses standing beside an IBM mainframe/line printer.
Probably to do with the fact that IBM sold their PC division to Lenovo. "Big Blue" is a nickname for IBM
In any event, IBM keyboards, typewriters, and some other manufactured devices, have played on the "Big Blue" concept, using the color for enter keys and carriage returns.
The Wacom should be removable (like a DVD laptop drive, laptop battery, laptop hard disk drive) and should be slidable into either the left or right sides. A blank panel should be usable where their is no Wacom (or even with some foam padding so that you can rest your hand their).
I'd like to see someone design a modular laptop where *ALL* the components could be removed, replaced and recycled. Most laptop manufacturers have very nearly achieved this (with the components described above), so that upgrading a laptop just simply involves replacing whatever needs to be replaced or upgraded (motherboard, CPU, GPU, external connector sockets).
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Replace "C++" with "assembly language" and "Boost" with "C", and you will get a Readers comments reply from a 1978 edition of BYTE magazine.
There is an image processing technicuq called the Feature vector.
This can be anything from a color histogram to a compressed FFT of the image. MPEG-7 files have texture descriptors built in.
A color histogram may not be of much use if someone alters the overall appearance of the image (color to monochrome or sepia tone). Silhouettes might not work if parts of the image are cropped or composited with another image. Monochrome texture segmentation and classification may be the only method that would work.
Business owners across the city have been forced to figure out ways to keep drug users and others out of their bathrooms while keeping the toilets open to customers.
One UK town had that problem with drug users. There was a simple solution - they noticed that some restrooms had no problems with druggies even though there was the same population, same level of cleaning and security. The only difference was that the restroom had some rather cheap fluorescent lights of a single light wavelength. While this was adequate for basic hygiene and safety, it made it impossible for drug users to see their veins in order to use needles. As a consequence, they would avoid that particular restroom.
That is very much how the motor car industry started out - you had well over 3000 startup companies all across North America and Europe, experimenting with the combustion engine, and inventing different improvements (carburettor, cooling fan, 2-stroke, 4-stroke and 8-stroke engines). Eventually, over time they merged together to form larger companies and eventually forming a handful of corporations.
How many solar panels would they need on a car to have a completedly closed system (solar panels to generate electricity to split water into hydrogen, a compressor to force the hydrogen and oxygen into the engine, and a collector to recycle the used water from the exhaust)?
This happens with my Linux system as well - Youtube videos tend to freeze and crash with a gray screen of death (just the video box, not the entire browser). I have to kill the process 'npviewer.bin' which usually is already defunct according to 'ps'.
The other process is 'acroread' which seems to manage to force the CPU to run at 91C, while not actually being visible on the screen. It actually managed to burn out my heatsink fan, as I had left my PC running overnight while it was running. When I killed the 'acroread' process, the CPU immediately starts cooling down to around 40C.
(as witnessed by the 'sensors-applet' widget).
If you think 15K is bad, have a long at what the data processing staff of the Californian public sector were earning. I thought these were monthly salaries and not annual salaries, but then with the Governators demand that all salaries are reduced to minimum wage, these must be annual salaries.
Reminds me of the earlier Sci-Fi series from the 1980's (Dr. Who, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica). They didn't have the prosthetics effects available that are available now, so they choose actors with distinctive features and costume design.
Different universities usually have their own preferred calculator for use on their courses and exams. My university has made the Casio FX-85 series as the officially permitted calculator. What are the choices in other universities?
The most common way of intercepting data traffic on a single computer system is to create a dummy API layer that replaces one or more of the API's in use (sockets, OpenGL). For the function calls that you are uninterested in, you just call the real API. For the functions that you are interested in, you log the parameters sent and data received.
Encrypting the data at a higher level is one way of trying to defeat this, but then you just replace the API layer that does the encrypting/decrypting.
No doubt we'll see the following headlines:
"Police offer amnesty on knitting needles, clickers and black wool"
"Terrorist caught after downloading balaclava knitting patterns from Ministry of Justice website"
"Terrorists caught trying to buy home knitting kits through the black market"
"MI5 to attend KnittingCon 2009"
Another interesting point is that this demo is currently capped at 3 casts per pixel
That's three ray bounces.
The first ray goes from the eye point through the image plane (the resulting image) into the scene. The second ray goes from the reflection or refraction of the first intersecting surface into the scene again. The same with the third ray. This allows the renderer to draw the reflection of the car from the plate glass windows on the other side of the street.
If you want more rays per pixel, that is multi-sampling (or anti-aliasing) which will do the effects you describe.
This may be done using a hybrid rasterizer/ray-tracer. A simple ray-tracer will rasterize the resulting image by scanning each pixel column-by-colum, row-by-row.
That could be optimized by rasterizng each triangle (forming the first ray) then doing the reflection/refraction calculations with the rest of the scene.
Interesting to note the car is a fixed color with a reflective component. This will probably be of benefit to the CAD industry who like to generate ray-traced views of designed geometry.
You can get a FTA card from Sky - that gives you around 300+ channels. There's a good guide to FTA channels in Europe
Yes, I have one of those, except that it doesn't receive Sky One, and all the channels that it does received are already available on the free channel selection of the cable TV service.
My parents have a Sky 'freeview' card - they get all the USA/European/Asian news channels for free (CNN, Russia Today, CCTV-9, Euronews, Deutsche Welle, FR-2) while with Virgin Media Cable, you have to pay for the most expensive channel bundling option in order to get the very same channels.
Virgin media more or less has an monopoly over anyone (or any apartment block) that hasn't been cabled for a satellite dish. Of course, there are portable satellite dishes, but that depends on having a South facing window.
The problem is, hardcore game players will take advantage of the multiplayer game system settings, and turn off all the extra visual effects that make it hard to see other players (don't need fog, lens flare, smoke effects, high-resolution detail, light haze, high screen resolutions) and which slow down frame rate.
I've always wondered what to do with my old lightbulbs - they can't go into the glass recycling centre or standard trash because they contain metal. They can't go to the scrapyard or the recyclables because they are glass. So, I've just got a pile which gradually gets bigger over time.
Heard of this one (in the days of 9 pin modem and monitor sockets):
Insert plug into socket
Modem makes funny noise
Insert plug into RS-232C port
Modem lights go on
Labour party seats tend to be in high density council housing, while Conservative seats are in rural or suburban seats. Since the electoral commission tries to keep the proportion of the population represented by each MP at around 40,000 - 50,000, this means that Labour gets more MP's, even though a demographic map of the UK shows the majority of the country supporting the Conservatives. At the same time, Labour are encouraging the conversion of suburban housing into high density housing through the use of "garden grabbing".
A quarter of all families in central London are single parent mothers... Other deprived parts of the country approach 50% of the population working in the public sector. If you want to check up on the demographics of a particular area, check the Acorn map.
I've haven't seen anyone wearing glasses with frames this thick for around 60 years. On the other hand the modern smaller square framed glasses are quite popular.
To me, the LCD should fill the entire lid area minus a half inch frame. Anything else greater than that, and they should be using a larger LCD.
SGI only downspiraled because their management refused to allow hardware to be developed for the PC - they just believed everyone would be willing to pay "UNIX prices" for UNIX hardware. After seeing 3Dfx develop hardware for the PC, SGI's engineers wanted to build a graphics accelerator board for the PC. In the end, their engineers left to form Nvidia.
I noticed that the download of slashdot webpages would be delayed by some strange link to
http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js
http://www.ad.doubleclick.net/adj/ostg.slashdot/yro_p1_leader;logged_in=1;dcopt=....
You can check this by clicking on Adblock in Firefox.
I do wonder if this allows doubleclick.net to see past "anonymous coward" postings.
I think the blue enter keys are a tradition of IBM :( Much the same as the nipple controller in the middle of the keyboard.
I'm looking to buy a new laptop/desktop - my criteria are quad-core CPU or better, current generation graphics chip (Nvidia 9800 upwards) with as many stream processors as possible and as much texture memory as possible (512 MBytes+), a decent resolution screen (>1050 pixels vertically), dual hard disk drives, as many USB ports as possible (>3), and a good amount of system memory (2+ Gigabytes).
The components of this machine match my specification, the keypad and the Wacom to the right is an additional bonus, but the blue [Enter] keys and the 1" thick bezel just remind me of an 1970's IBM BYTE advert with a geek with thick square politburo glasses standing beside an IBM mainframe/line printer.
Who would have thought that you could blow up a coke bottle using menthol sweets or Dry ice bombs at home, or In the swimming pool.
Probably to do with the fact that IBM sold their PC division to Lenovo. "Big Blue" is a nickname for IBM
In any event, IBM keyboards, typewriters, and some other manufactured devices, have played on the "Big Blue" concept, using the color for enter keys and carriage returns.
The Wacom should be removable (like a DVD laptop drive, laptop battery, laptop hard disk drive) and should be slidable into either the left or right sides. A blank panel should be usable where their is no Wacom (or even with some foam padding so that you can rest your hand their).
I'd like to see someone design a modular laptop where *ALL* the components could be removed, replaced and recycled. Most laptop manufacturers have very nearly achieved this (with the components described above), so that upgrading a laptop just simply
involves replacing whatever needs to be replaced or upgraded (motherboard, CPU, GPU, external connector sockets).