MMAPI includes support for a camera, with a special locator capture://video used to create its Player. An application can use the VideoControl to display a viewfinder on the screen, then take a picture using VideoControl.getSnapshot(String imageType). The default image format is PNG. You can use the imageType parameter to select any other supported format, and query the system property video.snapshot.encodings to find out what formats are supported.
I'm sorry that you aren't willing to push the "R" button to do you part in the war on spam...
But on the personal responsibility side, if one expects to receive private messages in response to a posting of some kind (be it mailing list or whatever), using TMDA you can set up addresses without filters to subscribe to the list, such as eli173-1-k-responses@biteme.org. That email address can be set up not to have an auto-challenger on it, but still deliver email to eli173@biteme.org.
Should a spammer harvest that tagged address, you can close it down and start up another one.
Moreover, TMDA filters can also use other filtering techniques (ala Procmail), such as looking in headers for a Mailing list name, and it can avoid auto-challenging emails with those headers.
You can check out all the filters here, and there are some common uses here.
To date, I am unaware of missing any non-spam email because of TMDA. Keep in mind that messages can be kept in a "pending" directory until their challenge is replied to. I (quickly) scan that directory once a week or so, in case I missed something.
But it turns out that most people worth emailing with are willing to press a single key for you...
I'm curious if this book (or any other) goes into using the cameras on cellphones under J2ME. I'd like to write a "real webcam program" for a Sanyo SCP-5300, i.e., one that takes a picture every few minutes and ftps it to a server. Is there any hope for this kind of thing to be written?
TMDA has flexible whitelist and blacklist capabilities. But the big win is that it can be set to autoreply to anyone not on the whitelist, and require them to reply back before allowing the email to get through. Of course, very few spammers have valid return email addresses...
This may seem drastic, but in fact it has made life soooo much easier. It also helps you to "automagically" get off those email lists you signed up for a long time ago, don't really care about, and are too lazy (or lost the info) to sign yourself off;)
The only sad thing is that no longer do Russian women want to extend my length or give me free money or viagra, and I am no longer in contact with Ms. Sesse Seiko from Uganda...
In the other direction, I took a useless old laptop running Windows 98, put a static route on it, put the wi-fi NIC into peer-to-peer mode, and that is my "access point."
In "the future", everyone will record video of everything.
A device the size of a USB drive will have a video camera recording hours of MPEG-4 video onto multi-GB of flash memory. It would log into wireless Ethernet hotspots to download the video to your long-term storage on a server. Should anyting happen to you, there would be a record.
Or another scenario is continuously running video cellphones on 3G networks. Korea already has video cellphones, you could just turn it on if you are walking somewhere dangerous.
That is, unless there is some kind of "gun control" for video recorders, and we all know how well that works.
Nasscom has an interesting viewpoint on the benefits to the US from H1Bs and outsourcing. By saving costs, US businesses can actually avoid laying off workers, despite a bad economy. Not only that, the US does $3 billion a year in high tech exports to India. Plus we need not mention that H1Bs still contribute to US taxes and consumption, and that many very large US tech companies were started by immigrants.
I realize there are real issues with high-tech globalization, and it is easy to scapegoat particular groups of people during economic downturns, but for every down point there is an up point, and the US will benefit from a global economic integration and growth over the long term.
Wait until IBOC (in-band, on-channel, aka Hi-Def Radio) digital radio becomes more popular. Then you will see more interference to weak adjacent channel stations.
As someone who has served out "Geeks in Space" audio files for Slashdot, I don't buy the whole bandwidth issue of slashdotting.
I think that most of the "slashdot effect" is due to Web servers themselves failing, generally because of low hard drive bandwidth of dynamic sites. There is also the issue of kernels not configured properly to handle large numbers of open files & processes.
Slashdotting of a Web site should only create a couple of Mbps of network bandwidth. Now if you pay per GB transfer, that might add up fast, but if you pay for peak BW of a few Mbps, you'll be set.
Is this really true? I thought that rifle rounds actually cut through the kevlar (or other ballistic-resistant material) itself. Some bullet-resistant vests also do not protect against sharp-edged weapons.
Check this out, where even a handgun bullet can sometimes actually penetrate a kevlar vest, or here where there was penetration of several layers of kevlar.
Blunt-force trauma is another reason to use hard plates, but penetration is an issue as well, especially with rifle bullets.
On the other hand, every poor country that has become developed (mainly the "Asian Tigers") have done so to a large extent through the use of trade to leverage their economies.
So while these countries certainly engaged in government-lead industrial policy, without being able to trade with other countries (especially the US), they would still be poor today.
Moreover, it is looking like once countries achieve a certain level of development, government-lead industrial policy begins to fail them. Korea and Japan came a long way, but are now stagnating and trying to reform into more fully free-market economies, but the siren song of protectionism keeps them from moving forward.
Meanwhile, I can assure you there is no benefit to the US limiting trade with anyone. If they want to sell us cheap DRAM, damn, let's buy it up!
Or, the production capacity of the Earth would feed the current and future population well if governments of developing nations were anti-free-market and/or corrupt.
Take a look at South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong as once very poor countries that now have a high standard of living. Or China and India that have reduced poverty rates significantly in the 1990's.
The Taikong Corporation has info on the fish on their Azoo site. Unfortunately, it appears to only be in Chinese, but you can get the idea from the pictures.
The pictures (and other sites such as this one) imply that they are "fluorescent" fish, i.e., they glow when bathed in UV light, as opposed to fish that glow without a UV light source.
The challenge of socialism is motivating people to work to create the essentials, and then to give them away to others. Outside of family or tight tribal bounds, it seems to not be generally a human behaviour.
While there is quite a bit of non-earned wealth transfer in the Western democracies through tax policies, socialized health & education, and retirement Ponzi schemes, the only governments that have been successful in breaking the basic human nature of greed and desire for personal property have had to use massive, totalitarian force, often resulting perversely in the death of millions through starvation (China, Russia, North Korea).
On the other hand, capitalism has made enough people so incredibly rich that they don't mind (so much) handing out money to the less well off for free schools, medicine, etc.
Moreover, people in developing countries are poor because of bad government destroying economies. Regardless of whether your government is totalitarian (China) or democratic (India), once it starts to make pro free-market economic reforms, you get increased GDP growth and poverty reduction. After 50 years of growth, you have quite a result. South Korea was once one of the poorest places on the planet. Not any more.
Unfortunately, many governments in Africa and the Middle East are set up to keep their economies from ever growing.
Digital modes do work on HF...see this link for info.
One of the oldest digital HF modes was FSK RTTY (radio teletype), which you could send text at 45 baud. It lead to AMTOR text at 100 baud. Then came PACTOR at 200 baud, still very popular, with built-in ARQ and compression. PACTOR begot PACTOR II and III, GTOR, CLOVER, PSK HF modes.
PSK31 is popular now, but is intended for human-to-human highly reliable communication at 31 baud.
You will notice that the Amateur digital modes are all extremely narrowband compared with DRM. Most Ham HF bands are so tight that putting a wide signal up like the shortwave AM stations do would take up most of the band. Most use of amateur HF bands are Morse Code and single sideband voice.
PACTOR-III is the fastest HF digital amateur mode, with speeds capable of up to 3kbps under excellent conditions.
Yeah, but I am seeing some "modern interior" interior redesigns in closer-in areas such as Cheverly and Hyattsville, MD, trying to be the next Takoma Park, MD or Alexandria, VA. People who aren't making.COM money any more are getting sick of spending 4+ hours per day commuting from $500k McMansions in the distant suburbs, and are retruning to $250k-$350k old houses in the close-in suburbs, or even DC itself as far east as 14th street NW.
While there certainly will be a general new housing slowdown in the US, Washington,DC should exepct to see a lot of interior redos since the area is actually adding jobs (as happened in San Francisco and Manhattan during the 90's)
There are also all kinds of new houses going up in Southern PG County (MD) along the Potomac. I've seen $450k waterfront houses there, which would be over $1m across the river in Virginia.
The most interesting environmental question is whether carbohydrate-based plastics are a net greenhouse gas sink. Oil-based plastics pull carbon out of the ground, and put it back into landfills.
Carbohydrate-based plastics actually pull CO2 out of the air as plants grown (good), but if they do decompose, the carbon is released as methane gas, which is actually a more powerful greenhouse warming gas than CO2 (bad).
In the future, we may move from plants to GM bacteria that have hyper-efficient photosynthesis / chemosythesis and cellulases for materials prodcution.
Slashdot Mirror
Brief Introduction to the Mobile Media API v1.0 (with Camera instructions)
Camera MIDlet: A Mobile Media API Example v1.0
And at The J2ME Mobile Media API:
I'm sorry that you aren't willing to push the "R" button to do you part in the war on spam...
But on the personal responsibility side, if one expects to receive private messages in response to a posting of some kind (be it mailing list or whatever), using TMDA you can set up addresses without filters to subscribe to the list, such as eli173-1-k-responses@biteme.org. That email address can be set up not to have an auto-challenger on it, but still deliver email to eli173@biteme.org.
Should a spammer harvest that tagged address, you can close it down and start up another one.
Moreover, TMDA filters can also use other filtering techniques (ala Procmail), such as looking in headers for a Mailing list name, and it can avoid auto-challenging emails with those headers.
You can check out all the filters here, and there are some common uses here.
To date, I am unaware of missing any non-spam email because of TMDA. Keep in mind that messages can be kept in a "pending" directory until their challenge is replied to. I (quickly) scan that directory once a week or so, in case I missed something.
But it turns out that most people worth emailing with are willing to press a single key for you...
I'm curious if this book (or any other) goes into using the cameras on cellphones under J2ME. I'd like to write a "real webcam program" for a Sanyo SCP-5300, i.e., one that takes a picture every few minutes and ftps it to a server. Is there any hope for this kind of thing to be written?
After a while, SpamAssasin's false negatives and positives drove me to the Tagged Message Delivery Agent (TMDA).
;)
TMDA has flexible whitelist and blacklist capabilities. But the big win is that it can be set to autoreply to anyone not on the whitelist, and require them to reply back before allowing the email to get through. Of course, very few spammers have valid return email addresses...
This may seem drastic, but in fact it has made life soooo much easier. It also helps you to "automagically" get off those email lists you signed up for a long time ago, don't really care about, and are too lazy (or lost the info) to sign yourself off
The only sad thing is that no longer do Russian women want to extend my length or give me free money or viagra, and I am no longer in contact with Ms. Sesse Seiko from Uganda...
Maybe Slashdot should start its own "record label"? Line up S.P.O.C.K. and such for micropayment downloadable MP3s...
In the other direction, I took a useless old laptop running Windows 98, put a static route on it, put the wi-fi NIC into peer-to-peer mode, and that is my "access point."
In "the future", everyone will record video of everything.
A device the size of a USB drive will have a video camera recording hours of MPEG-4 video onto multi-GB of flash memory. It would log into wireless Ethernet hotspots to download the video to your long-term storage on a server. Should anyting happen to you, there would be a record.
Or another scenario is continuously running video cellphones on 3G networks. Korea already has video cellphones, you could just turn it on if you are walking somewhere dangerous.
That is, unless there is some kind of "gun control" for video recorders, and we all know how well that works.
In a free land, the broadcast news reflects what a free people want to hear. Often, that does not mean the truth, and sometimes is tainted pro-US...
Of course, Europe is basically as free as the US, and they also get the media they want as well, which is often tainted anti-US...
Meanwhile, in Iraq under Hussein, Iraqis could only legally listen to the spoutings of the M.S.S.. Now Iraqis can get satellite TV.
What is Direct Connect? Do you have a URL?
Can someone prove to me that they actually have 10 Mbps or greater Internet bandwidth from home for under $100 per month? I just don't believe it.
Nasscom has an interesting viewpoint on the benefits to the US from H1Bs and outsourcing. By saving costs, US businesses can actually avoid laying off workers, despite a bad economy. Not only that, the US does $3 billion a year in high tech exports to India. Plus we need not mention that H1Bs still contribute to US taxes and consumption, and that many very large US tech companies were started by immigrants.
I realize there are real issues with high-tech globalization, and it is easy to scapegoat particular groups of people during economic downturns, but for every down point there is an up point, and the US will benefit from a global economic integration and growth over the long term.
Wait until IBOC (in-band, on-channel, aka Hi-Def Radio) digital radio becomes more popular. Then you will see more interference to weak adjacent channel stations.
As someone who has served out "Geeks in Space" audio files for Slashdot, I don't buy the whole bandwidth issue of slashdotting.
I think that most of the "slashdot effect" is due to Web servers themselves failing, generally because of low hard drive bandwidth of dynamic sites. There is also the issue of kernels not configured properly to handle large numbers of open files & processes.
Slashdotting of a Web site should only create a couple of Mbps of network bandwidth. Now if you pay per GB transfer, that might add up fast, but if you pay for peak BW of a few Mbps, you'll be set.
I've found Visual Studio .NET with C# fairly enjoyable to program. In particular, it is pretty easy to build a Web service client (given the WSDL).
.NET? It is how programming Windows should have been, without nutty stuff like DLL hell, COM crazyness, and MFC.
What is
Is this really true? I thought that rifle rounds actually cut through the kevlar (or other ballistic-resistant material) itself. Some bullet-resistant vests also do not protect against sharp-edged weapons.
Check this out, where even a handgun bullet can sometimes actually penetrate a kevlar vest, or here where there was penetration of several layers of kevlar.
Blunt-force trauma is another reason to use hard plates, but penetration is an issue as well, especially with rifle bullets.
On the other hand, every poor country that has become developed (mainly the "Asian Tigers") have done so to a large extent through the use of trade to leverage their economies.
So while these countries certainly engaged in government-lead industrial policy, without being able to trade with other countries (especially the US), they would still be poor today.
Moreover, it is looking like once countries achieve a certain level of development, government-lead industrial policy begins to fail them. Korea and Japan came a long way, but are now stagnating and trying to reform into more fully free-market economies, but the siren song of protectionism keeps them from moving forward.
Meanwhile, I can assure you there is no benefit to the US limiting trade with anyone. If they want to sell us cheap DRAM, damn, let's buy it up!
Or, the production capacity of the Earth would feed the current and future population well if governments of developing nations were anti-free-market and/or corrupt.
Take a look at South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong as once very poor countries that now have a high standard of living. Or China and India that have reduced poverty rates significantly in the 1990's.
The Taikong Corporation has info on the fish on their Azoo site. Unfortunately, it appears to only be in Chinese, but you can get the idea from the pictures.
Here are several stories and pictures of the fish.
The pictures (and other sites such as this one) imply that they are "fluorescent" fish, i.e., they glow when bathed in UV light, as opposed to fish that glow without a UV light source.
Well, if Transgenic Pets releases an allergy free dog, the benefit to the dog is that I'd provide it a loving home...
The challenge of socialism is motivating people to work to create the essentials, and then to give them away to others. Outside of family or tight tribal bounds, it seems to not be generally a human behaviour.
While there is quite a bit of non-earned wealth transfer in the Western democracies through tax policies, socialized health & education, and retirement Ponzi schemes, the only governments that have been successful in breaking the basic human nature of greed and desire for personal property have had to use massive, totalitarian force, often resulting perversely in the death of millions through starvation (China, Russia, North Korea).
On the other hand, capitalism has made enough people so incredibly rich that they don't mind (so much) handing out money to the less well off for free schools, medicine, etc.
Moreover, people in developing countries are poor because of bad government destroying economies. Regardless of whether your government is totalitarian (China) or democratic (India), once it starts to make pro free-market economic reforms, you get increased GDP growth and poverty reduction. After 50 years of growth, you have quite a result. South Korea was once one of the poorest places on the planet. Not any more.
Unfortunately, many governments in Africa and the Middle East are set up to keep their economies from ever growing.
Digital modes do work on HF...see this link for info.
One of the oldest digital HF modes was FSK RTTY (radio teletype), which you could send text at 45 baud. It lead to AMTOR text at 100 baud. Then came PACTOR at 200 baud, still very popular, with built-in ARQ and compression. PACTOR begot PACTOR II and III, GTOR, CLOVER, PSK HF modes.
PSK31 is popular now, but is intended for human-to-human highly reliable communication at 31 baud.
You will notice that the Amateur digital modes are all extremely narrowband compared with DRM. Most Ham HF bands are so tight that putting a wide signal up like the shortwave AM stations do would take up most of the band. Most use of amateur HF bands are Morse Code and single sideband voice.
PACTOR-III is the fastest HF digital amateur mode, with speeds capable of up to 3kbps under excellent conditions.
Yeah, but I am seeing some "modern interior" interior redesigns in closer-in areas such as Cheverly and Hyattsville, MD, trying to be the next Takoma Park, MD or Alexandria, VA. People who aren't making .COM money any more are getting sick of spending 4+ hours per day commuting from $500k McMansions in the distant suburbs, and are retruning to $250k-$350k old houses in the close-in suburbs, or even DC itself as far east as 14th street NW.
While there certainly will be a general new housing slowdown in the US, Washington,DC should exepct to see a lot of interior redos since the area is actually adding jobs (as happened in San Francisco and Manhattan during the 90's)
There are also all kinds of new houses going up in Southern PG County (MD) along the Potomac. I've seen $450k waterfront houses there, which would be over $1m across the river in Virginia.
The most interesting environmental question is whether carbohydrate-based plastics are a net greenhouse gas sink. Oil-based plastics pull carbon out of the ground, and put it back into landfills.
Carbohydrate-based plastics actually pull CO2 out of the air as plants grown (good), but if they do decompose, the carbon is released as methane gas, which is actually a more powerful greenhouse warming gas than CO2 (bad).
In the future, we may move from plants to GM bacteria that have hyper-efficient photosynthesis / chemosythesis and cellulases for materials prodcution.
I believe there were terrorist acts in Red Dawn (kids taking potshots at soldiers, planting bombs, etc.)