That is true - I had to travel from a French airport to England. Due to a security alert, the check-in staff insisted that I had to check in my laptop (inside a neoprene laptop bag) as hold luggage. Nothing external was damaged, but the fluorescent tube inside the LCD screen had been cracked. Cost me around 100 pounds to get it repaired, and even then the repair didn't last long.
Could you have each marker represented by a RFID chip? Then detecting the position of each marker would only require four RFID transmitters. The time delay would give you the distance to each marker and you could use triangulation to determine the current orientation. And each RFID tag would be easy to label.
Ryanair are the same - no airline is going to accept any liability on electronic products like iPods, laptops and cameras because they know people would just use them as a cash cow to get upgraded hardware.
MTV used to be awesome 20 years ago - Dire Straits/Money for Nothing, USURA/Open Your Mind, Def Leppard, Eurythmics, Tina Turner. Same with Top of The Pops.
Although there are now something like 15 video music channels here in the UK. And just about each will have a retro/classic/80's/90's dance/heavy metal/punk/club/garage/underground evening/weekend.
Now, MTV always just seemed to be guys clowning around, let alone actually being any music.
Multinational companies are reputed to do things like that, because marketroids beliveve that the "adventure" of unwrapping a large box gives the customer a feelgood factor.
The worst packaging I have seen was back in the late 1980's. Our boss put in an order for a good few hundred state-of-the-art 80286 MS-DOS PC's. This went through to central purchasing and out to IBM, who promptly sent us a whole load of PS/2's bundled as a set of 3-metre palette cubes transported by lorry. We couldn't get the cubes off the lorry, so we had to open them right there. Each cube was about 40% packed with S and 8 shaped polysytrene beads, which eventually spilled all over the car park and let to some interesting fluid dynamic visualisations of airflow around an office block.
When our boss found out what had been delivered, he demanded that the whole lot be sent straight back.
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Some government contractors are like that. I once worked in a place where they would have free donuts/bagels/drinks twice a week. Nobody would touch the poopy seed bagels for fear of failing a drugs test.
Also passengers should sedated and cuffed nude with their arms outstretched for the duration of the journey.
The sedation part is quite simple - the "air cosh"; just turn up the heating. It used to be a tactic that air and passenger train staff were reputed to use. Whenever there were a large number of noisy drunks on board, the heating/air conditioning system would mysteriously "have broken down". Consequently, the sozzled souls would sleep for the remainder of the journey.
Yes, I agree that ID's and Epic's products are bleeding edge. But that is for the high end game user who more or less buys a new graphics card for the game.
I have attended interviews with small startup companies who were developing 3d home user applications for general use. Because they were dealing with a wide variety of legacy graphics cards, they could only use the most commonly used features available under all API's. So they stay with DirectX.
The problem is that new features are introduced instantaneously by Microsoft into DirectX, but there tends to be a delay with the same features becoming univerally available on all graphics hardware (ARB, EXT extensions), although vendors are free to introduce their own custom extensions.
If you're an application developer wanting to develop a bleeding edge application for the PC, you're more or less forced to use DirectX.
After terrorists figure out away of packing explosives into clothing (plastic satchels sewn between linings), we'll all be given disposable orange jumpsuits to wear.
After terrorists figure out how to make explosives out of in-cabin airline parts, we'll all be wearing handcuffs.
Then they'll move back to targeting trains and buses.
I've seen luggage handlers working - they don't carry the luggage between the pod carrying the luggage (those aluminium \_| shaped boxes, and the metal cages used to transport luggage - they throw the baggage in and out - a distance well over 5 metres - and may your sacred deity of worship have mercy on your baggage if it hits something sharp like a Samsonite case.
Back in 1986, it amazed me that home computers like the Atari 800 could do 16 colour graphics, while the IBM PC could only do four colours from a fixed palette.
EGA was a slight improvement, but it wasn't until VGA came along with multisync monitors that the fun really began. And there were all those wacky coprocessor cards that tried to bypass the CPU (some image processing cards had four transputers or a i860 for signal processing (Microway Quadputer/Number Smasher 860), Other had a TMS34020 for graphics or a builtin Ethernet controller so that images could be downloaded directly into video memory). And 8 Megabytes of video memory was considered generous.
I admit the concept is similar, but western heroes are generally considered to be those who gave their lives fighting against an enemy who wanted to kill them (us).
From watching TV, the West considers true heroes to be those who died while trying to save the lives of those who were in immediate danger of being killed.
The Middle-East terror groups heroes consider true heroes to be those who died trying to kill as many people as possible.
Anything electronic must go in the hold (laptops, cameras, gameboys, etc)
So who is going to pay for the insurance for damaged equipment? I had a laptop trashed due to a sudden "no handluggage allowed" security alert at an airport. Checkin staff insisted that all computers had to be put in the hold.
As anyone imagine, having a LCD bounced around a luggage routing system and then thrown onto a pile of suitcases, before being trampled down to make more space and then thrown out back onto another luggage routing system didn't do much for the fluorescent tube.
There's an alternative way... you could have a suit composed of mini-cameras, multiple angle LED's (these are possible, they have project a different colour for different azimuth/altitude angles) and wires that can sense how much they have been bent (like the Nintendo PowerGlove). From the wires, you could get an idea of the shape of the wearer, then you could match the input from each camera to the LED's on the opposite side of the person. This could even handle multiple occlusions from the different positions of the arms and legs. You could even camouflage heavy machines this way - look at the size of the outdoor displays that are available now.
What are the potential risks of participating in the study?
Rash
Transmission of hepatitis and HIV viruses
Unforeseen happenings
You trade the chance of dying against the chance of requiring a liver transplant, or a chronic illness requiring lifelong medication, no medical insurance, your family not wanting to be near you, and having no employer wanting to employ you.
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That is true - I had to travel from a French airport to England. Due to a security alert, the check-in staff insisted that I had to check in my laptop (inside a neoprene laptop bag) as hold luggage. Nothing external was damaged, but the fluorescent tube inside the LCD screen had been cracked. Cost me around 100 pounds to get it repaired, and even then the repair didn't last long.
Could you have each marker represented by a RFID chip? Then detecting the position of each marker would only require four RFID transmitters. The time delay would give you the distance to each marker and you could use triangulation to determine the current orientation. And each RFID tag would be easy to label.
Ryanair are the same - no airline is going to accept any liability on electronic products like iPods, laptops and cameras because they know people would just use them as a cash cow to get upgraded hardware.
MTV used to be awesome 20 years ago - Dire Straits/Money for Nothing, USURA/Open Your Mind, Def Leppard, Eurythmics, Tina Turner. Same with Top of The Pops.
Although there are now something like 15 video music channels here in the UK. And just about each will have a retro/classic/80's/90's dance/heavy metal/punk/club/garage/underground evening/weekend.
Now, MTV always just seemed to be guys clowning around, let alone actually being any music.
Multinational companies are reputed to do things like that, because marketroids beliveve that the "adventure" of unwrapping a large box gives the customer a feelgood factor.
The worst packaging I have seen was back in the late 1980's. Our boss put in an order for a good few hundred state-of-the-art 80286 MS-DOS PC's. This went through to central purchasing and out to IBM, who promptly sent us a whole load of PS/2's bundled as a set of 3-metre palette cubes transported by lorry. We couldn't get the cubes off the lorry, so we had to open them right there. Each cube was about 40% packed with S and 8 shaped polysytrene beads, which eventually spilled all over the car park and let to some interesting fluid dynamic visualisations of airflow around an office block.
When our boss found out what had been delivered, he demanded that the whole lot be sent straight back.
Some government contractors are like that. I once worked in a place where they would have free donuts/bagels/drinks twice a week. Nobody would touch the poopy seed bagels for fear of failing a drugs test.
Better still, try drinking diet cola and then chewing some mentos mints.
Better still, try
I was thinking more of in terms of NMR, next to having a pair of telepaths scanning everyone like "Good vs. Evil".
Also passengers should sedated and cuffed nude with their arms outstretched for the duration of the journey.
The sedation part is quite simple - the "air cosh"; just turn up the heating. It used to be a tactic that air and passenger train staff were reputed to use. Whenever there were a large number of noisy drunks on board, the heating/air conditioning system would mysteriously "have broken down". Consequently, the sozzled souls would sleep for the remainder of the journey.
2. Determine if they're a terrorist somehow. (??? step)
A brain scan - identify which parts of the brain are active - maybe suicidal terrorists
will have different areas active to ordinary people.
Yes, I agree that ID's and Epic's products are bleeding edge. But that is for the high
end game user who more or less buys a new graphics card for the game.
I have attended interviews with small startup companies who were developing 3d home user applications for general use. Because they were dealing with a wide variety of legacy graphics cards, they could only use the most commonly used features available under all
API's. So they stay with DirectX.
The problem is that new features are introduced instantaneously by Microsoft into DirectX, but there
tends to be a delay with the same features becoming univerally available on all graphics hardware (ARB, EXT extensions), although vendors are free to introduce their own custom extensions.
If you're an application developer wanting to develop a bleeding edge application for the PC, you're more or less forced to use DirectX.
Having seen what the Japanese did to the Chinese in Singapore (The Singapore History Museum), I believe the USA was
justified in using those weapons.
After terrorists figure out away of packing explosives into clothing (plastic satchels sewn between linings), we'll all be given disposable orange jumpsuits to wear.
After terrorists figure out how to make explosives out of in-cabin airline parts, we'll all be wearing handcuffs.
Then they'll move back to targeting trains and buses.
I've seen luggage handlers working - they don't carry the luggage between the pod carrying the luggage (those aluminium \_| shaped boxes, and the metal cages used to transport luggage - they throw the baggage in and out - a distance well over 5 metres - and may your sacred deity of worship have mercy on your baggage if it hits something sharp like a Samsonite case.
Back in 1986, it amazed me that home computers like the Atari 800 could do 16 colour graphics, while the IBM PC could only do four colours from a fixed palette.
EGA was a slight improvement, but it wasn't until VGA came along with multisync monitors that the fun really began. And there were all those wacky coprocessor cards that tried to bypass the CPU (some image processing cards had four transputers or a i860 for signal processing (Microway Quadputer/Number Smasher 860), Other had a TMS34020 for graphics or a builtin Ethernet controller so that images could be downloaded directly into video memory). And 8 Megabytes of video memory was considered generous.
I admit the concept is similar, but western heroes are generally considered to be those who gave their lives fighting against an enemy who wanted to kill them (us).
From watching TV, the West considers true heroes to be those who died while trying to save the lives of those who were in immediate danger of being killed.
The Middle-East terror groups heroes consider true heroes to be those who died trying to kill as many people as possible.
Anything electronic must go in the hold (laptops, cameras, gameboys, etc)
So who is going to pay for the insurance for damaged equipment?
I had a laptop trashed due to a sudden "no handluggage allowed" security alert at an airport.
Checkin staff insisted that all computers had to be put in the hold.
As anyone imagine, having a LCD bounced around a luggage routing system and then thrown onto
a pile of suitcases, before being trampled down to make more space and then thrown out back
onto another luggage routing system didn't do much for the fluorescent tube.
There's a sign saying "Beware of the Flying Spaghetti Monster: Trespassers will be demolecularized"
The BBC had an article on how lead atoms could self organise into patterns
Similar patterns are found in the striate cortex in the visual part of the brain.
Interactive examples include reaction-diffusion equation applets
My favourite is quasi-crystalline patterns. They aren't periodic like squares, hexagons or triangles, but do have symmetry.
And there will be a guest talk by John Titor on implementing secure communication links using time travel.
By Grabthar's hammer, you're right!!!
There's an alternative way... you could have a suit composed of mini-cameras, multiple angle LED's (these are possible, they have project a different colour for different azimuth/altitude angles) and wires that can sense how much they have been bent (like the Nintendo PowerGlove). From the wires, you could get an idea of the shape of the wearer, then you could match the input from each camera to the LED's on the opposite side of the person. This could even handle multiple occlusions from the different positions of the arms and legs. You could even camouflage heavy machines this way - look at the size of the outdoor displays that are available now.
Read the PolyHeme FAQ - PolyHeme FAQ
What are the potential risks of participating in the study?
Rash
Transmission of hepatitis and HIV viruses
Unforeseen happenings
You trade the chance of dying against the chance of requiring a liver transplant, or a chronic
illness requiring lifelong medication, no medical insurance, your family not wanting to be near
you, and having no employer wanting to employ you.