And these things happened before the days of computers. There was a case where a pair of teenagers who had watched a TV interview with a Playboy photographer, had decided to do their own photo-shoot. Unfortunately, they lived in a Christian fundamentalist area in the deep South, and when they had the photographs developed, the lab technician took offence and called in the Police. The guy was arrested for underage porn.
Yes, I programmed in X/Motif some time ago. Having to register callback functions was like including receipts for tax deductions in an annual tax return form. That was the easy part. The hard part was setting up the connections which attached each widget to each other. The order was very specific as the last widget that was connected was the one that was resized first.
Exactly. That's the point of them being appointed rather than elected. You are not going to get some knucklehead desk-thumping politician pretending to be "tough-on-crime" just because he invested the state pension scheme in a privately run jail system.
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How would we go about replacing X-windows? It seems to be one of those API's that if you tried to replace it with something "simpler and more modern", by the time the developers added the features that everyone else wanted, we would be back to what we had already. The wikipedia entry for the X-Window System"> explains why the designers made the decisions that they made.
Just by looking at all the research papers and articles that have been published relating to X-windows: X-windows, there seems to be plenty that needs to be changed/added/optimized/enhanced.
Maybe the extra resolution will help with rendering dark objects? There used to be a problem trying to render glossy black objects such as cars and modern furniture with highlights. Planar or slightly curved surfaces would show banding when the surface was illuminated with a specular lightsource at a large angle away from the observer. The solution was to have 16-bit framebuffers with a matching monitor.
Thanks for that piece of information. Some more pieces from gizmodo:
* 3DConverter - Create 3D images and videos from 2D image sequences - computer generated or camera images.
This software reads your image sequences, camera setup, and the geometry specification of the HoloVizio device to be used, and outputs an AVI file that can be played on the HoloVizio in real-time using HoloPlayer. To use this method, you need an image / video sequence that shows your object from at least 60 different directions (more views result in better 3D quality).
* HoloVizio OpenGL Wrapper - Use your existing OpenGL-based applications on the HoloVizio without modification.
The HoloVizio OpenGL Wrapper creates a layer between your OpenGL-based application and the original OpenGL library. It seamlessly intercepts OpenGL calls made by the application, and (depending on the HoloVizio system used) renders and sends images to the display, or sends the OpenGL stream to the rendering cluster.
The biggest problem with these raves was the amount of litter and other debris that was left behind both inside and outside the barns, and the damage done to the land due to the number of vehicles driving up to the fields.
The monitor is designed to be color calibrated with color printers and scanners.
We had some art friends who used a system like this. One time, they discovered there was a market for their paintings as prints rather than as originals, so they decided to set up their own print shop.
However, the problem was making sure the scanned input matched what was on the screen and what was printed out. So they bought a system calibrator which had a photosensor that attached to the screen. You basically scanned in a pre-supplied test image, placed the photosensor on the screen and then onto the printed output. Each time the system would readjust the gamma correction for each color channel of every device until they all matched.
For a company like Dreamworks, they will want to be able to visualize 3D characters as designed by the artists and be able to use this information to create merchandise like wall posters, bean bag toys, plastic models and accessories.
Same with CNN, Euronews, CCTV-7, Al Jazeera, Russia Today, and a whole load of other news channels, all of which require an XL TV subscription, yet are free to watch using a "Freeview" card.
Depends upon the way the system is working. Does it track the position of a single person and adjusts the view accordingly? Or are there multiple GPU's rendering the scene from different angles and having these different views projected in different directions using vertically aligned lenses? In the latter case, projecting a view "outwards" should be possible. It certainly looks the case in the gears video
I wonder if this technology would scale into a laptop display?
A single customer could be paying as much as 50 pounds ($100/month). Virgin already lost 84,000 customers from the lost of Sky One/News, so that is a large amount to lose.
Because the rave parties were being held out in disused barns in the countryside, through the night to the early morning, disturbing both farm workers and animals.
olitical demonstrations in certain areas (like outside parliament)
Because the MP's didn't want their work disturbed by the noise made by certain protestors - if they listened to the voted population in the first place, they wouldn't have protestors outside their offices in the first place.
It started because NTL (cable operator) decided to buy out TeleWest (another cable operator), mainly because Telewest was able to remain in the black and NTL kept making a loss and had poor customer service. Both networks had invested heavily in infrastructure and were struggling to make a profit.
Then Virgin Mobile andd NTL:Telewest merged. Branson accepted a 10.7% shareholder offer in return for being able to use the Virgin brandname. The motivation for this was to compete against BSkyB, but the side effect was to cause the loss of Sky One and Sky News (a bit pathetic because Sky News can still be viewed using broadband, if only in 10 minute segments), and caused more financial loss to Sky (through advertising revenue) that to Virgin.
From the viewpoint of a customer, the side effect of the cable network being bought out by Virgin, has been to have information packs translated into ValleyGirl Speak. The first line was "Hello you!" and an reassuring statement "We're not going to bamboozle you with technobabble, so we've renamed all our services in easy to understand S(mall), (M)edium, (L)arge and (XL)extra-large. Just as bad as sky referring to the receiver unit as the "digibox".
I would think that piezo-electric mats that absorb sound would create more energy while at the same time reducing the amount of noise would be more practical than collecting potential energy from passing trains.
According to this article, Rome was city used by MIT researchers to create real-time maps of people moving around the city.
As you sit in your car amongst thousands of others, sweating even as the AC chugs, the question lingers: how can you remove traffic from your life? Researchers from MIT may have the answer: starting in Rome, they're using data from mobile phone networks to create real time maps of people moving around the city, giving commuters a more detailed, wide-ranging view of traffic conditions -- everywhere, not just on major roads and highways.
Essentially, with all of the GPS devices in taxis, buses, and mobile phones spread about the city, the researchers are attempting to create algorithms that can give drivers a comprehensive look at any part of the city, directing them away from traffic and accounting for the ebb and flow of congestion in real time.
This cell phone tracking actually gives civil libertarians an argument as to why these raids cannot possibly be justified in most cases because the police can figure out where the person is going, and ambush them when they have the advantage (something they don't have when assaulting a home).
The Department of Homeland Security has noted your suggestion and a couple of agents will be over to interview you regarding this suggestion further. Please remain where you are until they arrive.
If you google search hard enough, you can usually find these papers free of charge from the originating university, either in the author's own website, or from a departmental archive.
I'm at an university, and even with a free Athens login from the campus library, our university still doesn't have a subscription to one or two of these companies. Basically, the subscription managers at the library will get a free trial or purchase a 1 years license with one of these companies. If enough papers are referenced, then the subscription is maintained, otherwise it is dropped.
Many research fields form their own cliques where they reference each others papers, and none from anybody else. If you are not in this clique, then it isn't worth taking out a subscription to that journal.
Fortunately, it is possible to get the jist of an unreadable paper by reading the descriptions from other papers.
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For security, you can have your laptop automatically overwrite any free disk blocks with random data when it is not in use by any user.
I did a google search and came up with the keyword "chair mat". I've never seen these in use, but they seem to be in demand in the UK.
And these things happened before the days of computers. There was a case where a pair of teenagers who had watched a TV interview with a Playboy photographer, had decided to do their own photo-shoot. Unfortunately, they lived in a Christian fundamentalist area in the deep South, and when they had the photographs developed, the lab technician took offence and called in the Police. The guy was arrested for underage porn.
Yes, I programmed in X/Motif some time ago. Having to register callback functions was like including receipts for tax deductions in an annual tax return form. That was the easy part. The hard part was setting up the connections which attached each widget to each other. The order was very specific as the last widget that was connected was the one that was resized first.
Having used a variety of chairs, I'd say the following are important:
o Wheels - being able to push the chair back when you move away from the desk (otherwise you will probably just tear the carpet).
o Adjustable height - make sure you are not hunched up in front of the keyboard or bending your neck looking down.
o Armrests - definitely needed for sitting back and letting your arms rest. As others have pointed out, make sure these are adjustable.
o Rotatable - maybe you want to have a side desk alongside your main desk
The Aeron seems to match these.
For a desk, I'd go for the B747 Engine cowling desk
Exactly. That's the point of them being appointed rather than elected. You are not going to get some knucklehead desk-thumping politician pretending to be "tough-on-crime" just because he invested the state pension scheme in a privately run jail system.
The KGI project still seems to have a website but mostly deals with FreeBSD.
There is also the GGI project which has been ported to both Vista, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.
But have these projects been overtaken by 3D desktop environments?
How would we go about replacing X-windows? It seems to be one of those API's that if you tried to replace it with something "simpler and more modern", by the time the developers added the features that everyone else wanted, we would be back to what we had already. The wikipedia entry for the X-Window System"> explains why the designers made the decisions that they made.
Just by looking at all the research papers and articles that have been published relating to X-windows: X-windows, there seems to be plenty that needs to be changed/added/optimized/enhanced.
I wonder how relevant is the paper: "Why X Is Not Our Ideal Window System" today, considering it was written just over 18 years ago.
Maybe the extra resolution will help with rendering dark objects? There used to be a problem trying to render glossy black objects such as cars and modern furniture with highlights. Planar or slightly curved surfaces would show banding when the surface was illuminated with a specular lightsource at a large angle away from the observer. The solution was to have 16-bit framebuffers with a matching monitor.
Thanks for that piece of information. Some more pieces from gizmodo:
* 3DConverter - Create 3D images and videos from 2D image sequences - computer generated or camera images.
This software reads your image sequences, camera setup, and the geometry specification of the HoloVizio device to be used, and outputs an AVI file that can be played on the HoloVizio in real-time using HoloPlayer. To use this method, you need an image / video sequence that shows your object from at least 60 different directions (more views result in better 3D quality).
* HoloVizio OpenGL Wrapper - Use your existing OpenGL-based applications on the HoloVizio without modification.
The HoloVizio OpenGL Wrapper creates a layer between your OpenGL-based application and the original OpenGL library. It seamlessly intercepts OpenGL calls made by the application, and (depending on the HoloVizio system used) renders and sends images to the display, or sends the OpenGL stream to the rendering cluster.
The biggest problem with these raves was the amount of litter and other debris that was left behind both inside and outside the barns, and the damage done to the land due to the number of vehicles driving up to the fields.
The monitor is designed to be color calibrated with color printers and scanners.
We had some art friends who used a system like this. One time, they discovered there was a market for their paintings as prints rather than as originals, so they decided to set up their own print shop.
However, the problem was making sure the scanned input matched what was on the screen and what was printed out. So they bought a system calibrator which had a photosensor that attached to the screen. You basically scanned in a pre-supplied test image, placed the photosensor on the screen and then onto the printed output. Each time the system would readjust the gamma correction for each color channel of every device until they all matched.
This was in accordance with the Pantone Matching System
For a company like Dreamworks, they will want to be able to visualize 3D characters as designed by the artists and be able to use this information to create merchandise like wall posters, bean bag toys, plastic models and accessories.
Same with CNN, Euronews, CCTV-7, Al Jazeera, Russia Today, and a whole load of other news channels, all of which require an XL TV subscription, yet are free to watch using a "Freeview" card.
Depends upon the way the system is working. Does it track the position of a single person and adjusts the view accordingly? Or are there multiple GPU's rendering the scene from different angles and having these different views projected in different directions using vertically aligned lenses? In the latter case, projecting a view "outwards" should be possible. It certainly looks the case in the gears video
I wonder if this technology would scale into a laptop display?
Is that for Virgin media or T1?
A single customer at Virgin would pay a lot more than $15 month. Just double pounds and you will get the equivalent price in dollars.
Broadband -
2 Mb = 9 pound/month (Size M)
4 Mb = 16 pound/month (Size L),
20Mb = 26 pound/month (Size XL)
Digital TV -
40 Channels - Free (Size M)
90 Channels - 9 pounds/month (Size L)
145 Channels - 19.90 pounds/month (Size XL)
Landline Phone
Talk Weekends - 11 pounds/month (Size M)
Talk Evenings/Weekends - 14.14 pounds/month (Size L)
Talk Unlimited - 18.95 pounds/month (Size XL)
Mobile Phone
Talk Anywhere 200 - 20 pounds/month
Talk Anywhere 400 - 28 pounds/month
Talk Anywhere 800 - 40 pounds/month
A single customer could be paying as much as 50 pounds ($100/month). Virgin already lost 84,000 customers from the lost of Sky One/News, so that is a large amount to lose.
50 MBit and 100MBit is the download speed, but the upload speed is only 64kbits. A T1-line is 192Knytes/second for both uploading and downloading.
starting with laws to stop raves
Because the rave parties were being held out in disused barns in the countryside, through the night to the early morning, disturbing both farm workers and animals.
olitical demonstrations in certain areas (like outside parliament)
Because the MP's didn't want their work disturbed by the noise made by certain protestors - if they listened to the voted population in the first place, they wouldn't have protestors outside their offices in the first place.
It started because NTL (cable operator) decided to buy out TeleWest (another cable operator), mainly because Telewest was able to remain in the black and NTL kept making a loss and had poor customer service. Both networks had invested heavily in infrastructure and were struggling to make a profit.
NTL seals $6bn Telewest takeover
Then Virgin Mobile andd NTL:Telewest merged. Branson accepted a 10.7% shareholder offer in return for being able to use the Virgin brandname. The motivation for this was to compete against BSkyB, but the side effect was to cause the loss of Sky One and Sky News (a bit pathetic because Sky News can still be viewed using broadband, if only in 10 minute segments), and caused more financial loss to Sky (through advertising revenue) that to Virgin.
Virgin media.
From the viewpoint of a customer, the side effect of the cable network being bought out by Virgin, has been to have information packs translated into ValleyGirl Speak. The first line was "Hello you!" and an reassuring statement "We're not going to bamboozle you with technobabble, so we've renamed all our services in easy to understand S(mall), (M)edium, (L)arge and (XL)extra-large. Just as bad as sky referring to the receiver unit as the "digibox".
They can also use a system like that to simulate the response of the populations of other countries to particular events.
DARPA Files Patent On Predictive Simulation
Modeling Urban Panic
I would think that piezo-electric mats that absorb sound would create more energy while at the same time reducing the amount of noise would be more practical than collecting potential energy from passing trains.
According to this article, Rome was city used by MIT researchers to create real-time maps of people moving around the city.
As you sit in your car amongst thousands of others, sweating even as the AC chugs, the question lingers: how can you remove traffic from your life? Researchers from MIT may have the answer: starting in Rome, they're using data from mobile phone networks to create real time maps of people moving around the city, giving commuters a more detailed, wide-ranging view of traffic conditions -- everywhere, not just on major roads and highways.
Essentially, with all of the GPS devices in taxis, buses, and mobile phones spread about the city, the researchers are attempting to create algorithms that can give drivers a comprehensive look at any part of the city, directing them away from traffic and accounting for the ebb and flow of congestion in real time.
This story was covered by the BBC
This cell phone tracking actually gives civil libertarians an argument as to why these raids cannot possibly be justified in most cases because the police can figure out where the person is going, and ambush them when they have the advantage (something they don't have when assaulting a home).
Or alternatively, they can purchase a high-tech hand-held radar system to see through walls
Why couldn't they have simply waited for him to leave his house when he was going out to work?
The Department of Homeland Security has noted your suggestion and a couple of agents will be over to interview you regarding this suggestion further. Please remain where you are until they arrive.
If you google search hard enough, you can usually find these papers free of charge from the originating university, either in the author's own website, or from a departmental archive.
I'm at an university, and even with a free Athens login from the campus library, our university still doesn't have a subscription to one or two of these companies. Basically, the subscription managers at the library will get a free trial or purchase a 1 years license with one of these companies. If enough papers are referenced, then the subscription is maintained, otherwise it is dropped.
Many research fields form their own cliques where they reference each others papers, and none from anybody else. If you are not in this clique, then it isn't worth taking out a subscription to that journal.
Fortunately, it is possible to get the jist of an unreadable paper by reading the descriptions from other papers.