They are without a doubt the worst company in the world. Totally disorganised, uninterested in their customers, and years behind the rest of the world
The saddest thing I ever saw, was when their research labs were presenting a paper. All the other research teams had migrated to using Powerpoint presentations using laptops. They were the only team still using overhead projection slides.
If you ever see an low-rise building with great big blisters of flaking paint, you can be guaranteed it's a BT exchange.
One last thing... the image quality of their TV broadcasts has plumetted in recent years. Especially after the change over to digital! We were promised better pictures with digital but the amount of compression is obscene! Seriously... blocky artifacts everywhere... I wonder if they're ready for hidef TV??? My TV sure is.
I'll certainly agree with that. Anything was fast motion, flames, water drops, waves all look worse than Ceefax pages. Don't blame Telewest, they use Scientific Atlanta equipment.
The projector gives you an array of regions that you can illuminate individually.
The camera or photocell gives you an array of regions that you can measure individually.
The real-world scene does all the lighting calculations for you in parallel.
For the playing card, by setting each individual projector pixel in turn, you can measure the final effect on the scene using the camera. By calculating the average color on the resulting image, you can deduce the colour of that pixel even though you cannot see it. They have also managed to find a way that optimises this process, so that more than one pixel can be processed simultanously.
By combining the contributions of the pixels in selected ways, you can render the scene as if a particular projection image or 'gobo' were in use.
Helmholtz reciprocality basically states that a material will affect light in the same way if the incident and reflected directions are swapped around.
given the size of a camera CCD, this means that the change in average colour received by the camera can be considered to be the colour of the illuminated pixel on the projector. And so you can see the scene as illuminated by the projector.
They weren't smoking anything - the political parties were being told what to do by investors - "Run your country according to these rules, otherwise we will lower your international credit rating". Not forgetting the donations of several million $$$$ for the next election battle. At this time, broadband didn't exist - and ISDN was for businesses only, so the only requirement by the regulator for home telephone services was to maintain existing services, continue upgrading all exchanges to system X and maintain 24/7 emergency telephone service.
Looking at all the European countries whose idea of "privatizing" was creating one absolute monopoly corporations, I can't help but wonder "WTF were they SMOKING?"
It was started by Maggie Thatcher. She believed by "privatizing" the state run monopolies, they would be freed from government red-tape that restricted the development of new services.
The only problem is that now, all the shares of BT ended up in the hands of City stockbrokers, who see BT as a cash-cow. Instead of being allowed to invest profits in new services (ie. broadband) all profits are going straight into the City investment firms who are only interested in short-term profits. So telephone exchanges won't be upgraded to DSL until enough people register interest and there is a guaranteed short-term profit. Or, there is competition from the cable networks.
It is unfortunate that the EU wastes large amounts of money, although they don't have a monopoly in this (see the Millenium dome).
I don't think it's a bad idea to control sound and other types of pollution in the cities (otherwise, people just leave for the suburbs and encourage sprawl), although common sense tells you that the loudest places are the main streets, while the quietest places are the backstreets and secluded garden areas.
To setup a monitoring network to prove this seems rather wasteful, especially since the same task could be achieved simply by asking local residents or by having patrolling noise wardens
Where I currently live, the major source of noise pollution is taxi drivers taking home drunk college students in the early hours of morning during final exam month. Aside from the constant shouting and screaming of residents struggling to get to their front door, the constant ticking over of automobile engines as the taxi drivers wait for the next call.
In keeping with my roots, I do a similar thing when I buy a plastic and styrofoam refridgerated package of boneless, skinless chicken breast for $1.99/lb.
But it's a real disappointment when the delivery van arrives, and the guys brings you the order form with the line "Sorry - this item was not available - alternative item found", and you get a pack of frozen chicken mcnuggets.
In the photograph (or could it be a rendered image?) there are also numbers beside the button. The edges of the X could be LED's letting you which player you are.
If it were a trackball, you would be straining the tendons of your thumb trying to get past the other two buttons. The best place for a trackball would be beside the handgrips of the controller, so you could make adjustments without stretching your thumb too much.
According to the latest crime statistics, more prisoners are in jail for driving offences, than for burglary, mugging, or other violent crimes.
http://www.cronaca.com/archives/001982.html Harbon's story, although extreme, is not as unusual as one might think. Last Sunday Martin Narey, the head of the prison service, admitted that jails are now overwhelmed by motorists locked up for minor violations. ..
Underlining his point, it emerged last week that in 2002 15,059 people were jailed for motoring offences, compared with 10,184 for burglary.
Europeans takes their noise pollution very serious. There's even a research institute dedicated to Accoustic Ecology.
Although many of the articles also cover both cites in Canada and the USA.
European cities with more than 250,000 residents are being required to install noise pollution monitors Europoean Union Says "Quiet" - The European Union is requiring all cities with populations over 250,000 to develop noise maps in an effort to reduce exposure to bothersome and harmful noise levels. Paris leads the way, with maps available online, allowing residents to zoom in and explore sound levels in their own neighborhoods. "It's been an exceptional success," said Paris Deputy Mayor Contassot. "We could doubtless halve the amount of noise. That, to me, seems to be an entirely realistic goal." A WHO report estimated that 40 percent of EU residents -- 150 million people -- are exposed to road traffic noise exceeding 55 decibels (the level that the WHO deems a "serious annoyance") and that over 30 percent suffer noise levels at night that disturb sleep. Brussels has already used its maps to identify people eligible for soundproofing subsidies because of excess traffic noise.
The Sharp 3D Actius laptop can do true stereo display without the use of special glasses, although images to have to be preprocessed. If this could be extended to LCD's in general and windowing system updated accordingly, then true 3D GUI's could be possible.
Personally, I'd like to have a mouse with a mini-trackball rather than a jog-wheel. Move the mouse around for large distances, move the trackball around for small distances.
Not really. Human vision develops at the early stage, at the same time as we learn to crawl along as infants. There was once a case where some parents tried "accelerate" their kids development, by skipping the crawling stage, and just using a baby bouncer instead. Apparently, the kid never learnt the concepts of "perspective" and "distance". as a consequence, she couldn't understand why objects changed in size.
There was also a guy in a 3rd world country who had cataracts since he was born. Doctors managed to help him see again, but he could only see colours, but not shapes. He still had to touch the object to get the idea of its shape.
There are so many aspects of vision that we have to learn in order to avoid becoming confused: shadows, reflections, texture, shape from shadow, perspective, not forgetting spacial relationships (partially obscured, behind, inside).
Not the modern kind of elevators with solid doors, but there have been cases where little kids have had an arm pulled off by the old fashioned cage elevators. These elevators sometimes have trellis type doors, or windows that kids like to stick their arms through. The "Bladerunner" movie might have a better example.
Apart for being safer, the modern doors do offer some interesting opportunites for the artist
Now look at me, I am a software engineer, I think they are the biggest waste of money within a school, they are "super machines" that people think will make teaching go so much better.
Give the money to the teachers to higher a better staff, THEN you will have more well informed children. God if they paid $60K+ starting to teach, think of the people they could have instructing.
During the general election a couple of days ago, I had to look up the location of the primary school used as a polling station. To my surprise, I found out that classroom projects are being completed using Powerpoint.
Every primary school has a computer suite now. The goal is to eliminate the digital divide between wealthy middle class parents who can afford to buy their kids computers and software, and the low income families who cannot.
Although, at at the same time, the schools are being prevented from suspending truly disruptive kids from the schools, and also have to integrate autistic kids into mainstream education (teachers get assistants to help with these kids).
Back in my day, only my secondary school had computers (first a pair of Apple ]['s, then a network of BBC model B's, and another network of Acorn Archimedes).
Thanks. I see now. As long as it's more cost-effective for ISP's to squeeze more customer space out of IPV4 using IP stacks implementing convoluted address schemes, IPV6 doesn't get anywhere.
Yes, but a Class A address reserves the entire range AA.0.0.0 to AA.255.255.255 for a single customer.
Unless someone can prove that they desperately need 16 million plus individual IP in the near future, they are not going to get a class A address. Instead, the customer will be allocated a range of class B addresses, with each address giving 65536 hosts (BB.BB.0.0 to BB.BB.255.255).
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They are without a doubt the worst company in the world. Totally disorganised, uninterested in their customers, and years behind the rest of the world
The saddest thing I ever saw, was when their research labs were presenting a paper. All the other research teams had migrated to using Powerpoint presentations using laptops. They were the only team still using overhead projection slides.
If you ever see an low-rise building with great big blisters of flaking paint, you can be guaranteed it's a BT exchange.
One last thing... the image quality of their TV broadcasts has plumetted in recent years. Especially after the change over to digital! We were promised better pictures with digital but the amount of compression is obscene! Seriously... blocky artifacts everywhere... I wonder if they're ready for hidef TV??? My TV sure is.
I'll certainly agree with that. Anything was fast motion, flames, water drops, waves all look worse than Ceefax pages. Don't blame Telewest, they use Scientific Atlanta equipment.
This is basically radiosity calculations:
The projector gives you an array of regions that you can illuminate individually.
The camera or photocell gives you an array of regions that you can measure individually.
The real-world scene does all the lighting calculations for you in parallel.
For the playing card, by setting each individual projector pixel in turn, you can measure the final effect on the scene using the camera. By calculating the average color on the resulting image, you can deduce the colour of that pixel even though you cannot see it. They have also managed to find a way that optimises this process, so that more than one pixel can be processed simultanously.
By combining the contributions of the pixels in selected ways, you can render the scene as if a particular projection image or 'gobo' were in use.
Helmholtz reciprocality basically states that a material will affect light in the same way if the incident and reflected directions are swapped around.
given the size of a camera CCD, this means that the change in average colour received by the camera can be considered to be the colour of the illuminated pixel on the projector. And so you can see the scene as illuminated by the projector.
They weren't smoking anything - the political parties were being told what to do by investors - "Run your country according to these rules, otherwise we will lower your international credit rating". Not forgetting the donations of several million $$$$ for the next election battle.
At this time, broadband didn't exist - and ISDN was for businesses only, so the only requirement by the regulator for home telephone services was to maintain existing services, continue upgrading all exchanges to system X and maintain 24/7 emergency telephone service.
Looking at all the European countries whose idea of "privatizing" was creating one absolute monopoly corporations, I can't help but wonder "WTF were they SMOKING?"
It was started by Maggie Thatcher. She believed by "privatizing" the state run monopolies, they would be freed from government red-tape that restricted the development of new services.
The only problem is that now, all the shares of BT ended up in the hands of City stockbrokers, who see BT as a cash-cow. Instead of being allowed to invest profits in new services (ie. broadband) all profits are going straight into the City investment firms who are only interested in short-term profits. So telephone exchanges won't be upgraded to DSL until enough people register interest and there is a guaranteed short-term profit. Or, there is competition from the cable networks.
Are you referring to the scene where he zooms into a photograph using a automated magnifier?
From what I remember, he caught the reflection of the dancers from a mirror partially visible through the bathrooom door.
It is unfortunate that the EU wastes large amounts of money, although they don't have a monopoly in this (see the Millenium dome).
I don't think it's a bad idea to control sound and other types of pollution in the cities (otherwise, people just leave for the suburbs and encourage sprawl), although common sense tells you that the loudest places are the main streets, while the quietest places are the backstreets and secluded garden areas.
To setup a monitoring network to prove this seems rather wasteful, especially since the same task could be achieved simply by asking local residents or by having patrolling noise wardens
Where I currently live, the major source of noise pollution is taxi drivers taking home drunk college students in the early hours of morning during final exam month. Aside from the constant shouting and screaming of residents struggling to get to their front door, the constant ticking over of automobile engines as the taxi drivers wait for the next call.
Although, in other places, it is Laminated floorboards that cause the most noise.
In keeping with my roots, I do a similar thing when I buy a plastic and styrofoam refridgerated package of boneless, skinless chicken breast for $1.99/lb.
But it's a real disappointment when the delivery van arrives, and the guys brings you the order form with the line "Sorry - this item was not available - alternative item found", and you get a pack of frozen chicken mcnuggets.
... does your new job depend on references from your existing employer? I wouldn't want to make the situation any worse that it is already.
If nothing else, you might end up meeting your current workmates in another company some time in the distant future.
Otherwise, get out of there as fast as you can, since you have already indicated that you were unhappy working there.
In the photograph (or could it be a rendered image?) there are also numbers beside the button. The edges of the X could be LED's letting you which player you are.
If it were a trackball, you would be straining the tendons of your thumb trying to get past the other two buttons. The best place for a trackball would be beside the handgrips of the controller, so you could make adjustments without stretching your thumb too much.
What kind of motor offenses land you in Jail? Here in Iowa (in the US) only Drunk Driving will put you in jail, and usualy only for multiple offenses.
Speeding
Refusing to pay a Speeding ticket
Causing Death by Dangerous Driving through drinking
and usually to escape being identified by police officers and manslaughter
According to the latest crime statistics, more prisoners are in jail for driving offences, than for burglary, mugging, or other violent crimes.
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http://www.cronaca.com/archives/001982.html
Harbon's story, although extreme, is not as unusual as one might think. Last Sunday Martin Narey, the head of the prison service, admitted that jails are now overwhelmed by motorists locked up for minor violations. .
Underlining his point, it emerged last week that in 2002 15,059 people were jailed for motoring offences, compared with 10,184 for burglary.
Fuck this shit.
People are starving to death, and this is how the EU money is spent?
Unfortunately, yes.
And this is the reason why many the populations of many EU countries, are voting against further economic integration.
On a Telewest broadband host, ssh login attempts come from all over the place (India, Taiwan, Korea, Spain).
Oddly enough, it's only one host per day.
Europeans takes their noise pollution very serious. There's even a research institute dedicated to Accoustic Ecology.
Although many of the articles also cover both cites in Canada and the USA.
European cities with more than 250,000 residents are being required to install noise pollution monitors
Europoean Union Says "Quiet" - The European Union is requiring all cities with populations over 250,000 to develop noise maps in an effort to reduce exposure to bothersome and harmful noise levels. Paris leads the way, with maps available online, allowing residents to zoom in and explore sound levels in their own neighborhoods. "It's been an exceptional success," said Paris Deputy Mayor Contassot. "We could doubtless halve the amount of noise. That, to me, seems to be an entirely realistic goal." A WHO report estimated that 40 percent of EU residents -- 150 million people -- are exposed to road traffic noise exceeding 55 decibels (the level that the WHO deems a "serious annoyance") and that over 30 percent suffer noise levels at night that disturb sleep. Brussels has already used its maps to identify people eligible for soundproofing subsidies because of excess traffic noise.
Sounds interesting. Just what would be a practical application for "small distance"?
3D modelling - move mouse to translate model, move trackball to rotate object, and free up the mouse buttons for something else.
The Sharp 3D Actius laptop can do true stereo display without the use of special glasses, although images to have to be preprocessed. If this could be extended to LCD's in general and windowing system updated accordingly, then true 3D GUI's could be possible.
Personally, I'd like to have a mouse with a mini-trackball rather than a jog-wheel. Move the mouse around for large distances, move the trackball around for small distances.
I did a search for this accident and found many articles relating to Hitoshi Nikaidoh. Apparently, there are 30 deaths and 17,100 injuries each year.
There is a detailed explanation at snopes.com. The exact cause was a miswired controller stud which bypassed the safety features.
Other hospital accidents have been caused by the elevator cabs falling by several feet while a gurney was being pushed in or out.
According to an elevator expert, most of these accidents are caused by infrequent maintenance.
From now on, I'll take the stairs.
Not really. Human vision develops at the early stage, at the same time as we learn to crawl along as infants. There was once a case where some parents tried "accelerate" their kids development, by skipping the crawling stage, and just using a baby bouncer instead. Apparently, the kid never learnt the concepts of "perspective" and "distance". as a consequence, she couldn't understand why objects changed in size.
There was also a guy in a 3rd world country who had cataracts since he was born. Doctors managed to help him see again, but he could only see colours, but not shapes. He still had to touch the object to get the idea of its shape.
There are so many aspects of vision that we have to learn in order to avoid becoming confused: shadows, reflections, texture, shape from shadow, perspective, not forgetting spacial relationships (partially obscured, behind, inside).
Not the modern kind of elevators with solid doors, but there have been cases where little kids have had an arm pulled off by the old fashioned cage elevators. These elevators sometimes have trellis type doors, or windows that kids like to stick their arms through. The "Bladerunner" movie might have a better example.
Apart for being safer, the modern doors do offer some interesting opportunites for the artist
The designer subcontracted out the project, but the contractors went bankrupt, so another contractor stepped in with an off-the-shelf design.
Now look at me, I am a software engineer, I think they are the biggest waste of money within a school, they are "super machines" that people think will make teaching go so much better.
Give the money to the teachers to higher a better staff, THEN you will have more well informed children. God if they paid $60K+ starting to teach, think of the people they could have instructing.
During the general election a couple of days ago, I had to look up the location of the primary school used as a polling station. To my surprise, I found out that classroom projects are being completed using Powerpoint.
Every primary school has a computer suite now. The goal is to eliminate the digital divide between wealthy middle class parents who can afford to buy their kids computers and software, and the low income families who cannot.
Although, at at the same time, the schools are being prevented from suspending truly disruptive kids from the schools, and also have to integrate autistic kids into mainstream education (teachers get assistants to help with these kids).
Back in my day, only my secondary school had computers (first a pair of Apple ]['s, then a network of BBC model B's, and another network of Acorn Archimedes).
Thanks. I see now. As long as it's more cost-effective for ISP's to squeeze more customer space out of IPV4 using IP stacks implementing convoluted address schemes, IPV6 doesn't get anywhere.
Yes, but a Class A address reserves the entire range AA.0.0.0 to AA.255.255.255 for a single customer.
Unless someone can prove that they desperately need 16 million plus individual IP in the near future, they are not going to get a class A address.
Instead, the customer will be allocated a range of class B addresses, with each address giving 65536 hosts (BB.BB.0.0 to BB.BB.255.255).