Cisco Telepresence is the best - also least affordable in terms of required bandwidth and setting up a special room, but it is awesome!
For a small number of sites, you might try SightSpeed, they can do 9-way conferencing. I like its quality for a PC-based system.
Google Videochat is horrible quality, but has the unique quality of being able to make it through almost any firewall when you use HTTPS access to your Gmail.
Wikipedia says The Stewardesses was produced on a budget of just over $100,000, and the film grossed over $27,000,000 (USD) in 1970 dollars. Yes, I'd say that was a "big hit" for a small-time porno.
This is an inherent problem of stereoscopy. There are ways a display could change the absolute disparity between left and right eye views to make distant objects not be painful or impossible to view, but it distorts the entire spatial field.
This is why 2D+depth codings would be better, they would require the display to properly render depth for that particular display, regardless of whether it was a glasses-based stereoscopic display or a multiview non-glasses-based display.
In theory, light water fission plants could be built and operated safely. But in a cost-cutting, capitalist economy the actual practice is not going to be that way.
And of course, there has never been an explosion, hundreds of deaths, and thousands of sqaure miles contaminated for a hundred years in a non-capitalist economy.
People ignore the massive environmental disaster that was the USSR. Leaking oil, natural gas (a GHG), poisonous chemicals, rotting hulks of nuclear submarines...
VHS was widely licensed by JVC from the beginning, Betamax was only licensed by Sony after they noticed all the other manufacturers licensing VHS. Both specifications ended up as IEC standards over time, as typically happens with tape formats.
VHS ended up as IEC 60774-1 (1994) "Helical-scan video tape cassette system using 12,65 mm (0,5 in) magnetic tape on type VHS - Part 1: VHS and compact VHS video cassette system".
Betamax ended up as IEC 60767 (1983) "Helical-scan video-tape cassette system using 12.65 mm (0.5 in) magnetic tape on type beta-format"
You were probably watching Avatar in MAX Digital, which uses horizontal and vertical polarity glasses, thus the enhanced ghosting when you tilted your head.
RealD uses circular polarizations, and does not have that problem, nor does Dolby 3D which uses two different sets of primary colors as a glasses view selection method
To date, stereoscopic video production has been limited to "rigs" that hold two video cameras.
The complications of trying to keep two physically seperate lenses and imaging systems properly aligned over a range of zooms and focusing has been incredibly complex.
Plus, rigs are fragile. If you are on the sidelines of a football game and someone runs into your rig, it could be out of stereoscopic alignment for the rest of he game.
Thus the existance of unified stereo cameras built from the ground up to be solid, stable, and a supported product from a major manufacturer is a breakthrough.
But it will be on your iPhone. ATSC-M/H is an IP based system, and there will be a device called Tivit that will receive an ATSC-M/H IP stream, and rebroadcast it over WiFi to your iPhone, Touch, PC, etc.
For example, that feeling of 5760*3840 resolution being more visually pleasing than 2400*1920 is mostly the placebo effect.
Only if the screen size remains the same. I've seen ultra-HD 7680 × 4320 on a screen the size of a wall. From where I was standing, pixels subtended the same angle as 3 picture heights in front of standard HD (720x1280), but the screen enveloped my entire field of view. Pretty awesome.
Avatar's production company is Fox, which is owned by an Australian.
Avatar is produced by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, owned by Fox Filmed Entertainment (both headquartered in Los Angeles), which in turn is a part of Fox Entertainment Group, which is owned by News Corporation (both headquartered in New York City, and both currently corporations of the state of Delaware). News Corporation is a publicly traded company on the NYSE. Mr. Murdoch, who became an American citizen in 1985, does own a large interest in NewsCorp.
It is true that 2/3 of Avatar box-office has come from outside the US.
Even if the "riots" are not exaggerated hyperbole (which would not surprise me), then the serious question is why such people have been so stressed they have only rioting as an outlet.
India has been condemned to years of horrendous socialism, from its formation until he 1980's, and since then has been condemned to lesser amounts of socialism. This has resulted in tremendous loss of potential personal wealth over that time.
India does have a history of horrendous religious violent oppression over 1,000 years between Budhism, Hinduism, and Islam, but then again Christianity had some pretty bad splits between Catholicism and Protestantism, yet we seem to have stopped rioting in the streets because we are all so crazy rich now in Western Europe, US, and Canada. Riots are coming back into style in France and Germany due to their socialist labor regulations that end up keeping many youth unemployed.
To me SpaceX seems to be more of an airline that builds it's own planes then a NASA supplier like Boeing and Lockheed.
Ironically, the Air Mail Act of 1934 broke up the original airplane manufacturers from the airlines they built. For example, Boeing Air Transport became United Air Lines. North American Aviation owned what became Eastern Air Lines.
The Shuttle worked ok, but it was less than ideal for the task, cost far more than it should have and has never lived up to the design goal (although it was clearly very successful).
One of the problems is that the Shuttle was designed for both military and civilian operations. This lead to significant design compromises in terms of complexity and lower re-usability.
You can also get better compression by specifying a more sophisticated compression method within the same codec
I concur. A few years ago, HD with MPEG-2 only looked OK at 18 Mbps with the encoders of the time. Today, it looks OK at 12 Mbps with the most modern encoders.
It is likely that H.264 will also see a similar decrease in bitrate at comparable quality. It is mainly a matter of people learning how to use the different encoding tools within the codec, and having the CPU and memory to implement them.
Like, if we make our sprint goals, everyone on the project team gets an assault rifle.
Back in the day, at a certain Internet Service Provider, you could often see employees coming in with their DCM M1 Garand or cleaning their.22 target pistol. But yes, they generally kept the.50 cal rifles and MAK-90's out of the office. That was for during lunchtime!
I think I know what you are getting at, but it is a very fine point.
US Patents must be be new, be useful, and be nonobvious. Thus I can't patent the gene: "ATG GAT AAC AAT...TAG" by itself without being able to explain its usefulness.
On the other hand, consider US Patent 5,625,136, which discloses a gene and its usefulness: "DNA sequences optimized for expression in plants are disclosed. The DNA sequences preferably encode for an insecticidal polypeptides, particularly insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis. Plant promoters, particular tissue-specific and tissue-preferred promoters are also provided. Additionally disclosed are transformation vectors comprising said DNA sequences. The transformation vectors demonstrate high levels of insecticidal activity when transformed into maize."
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Corporations do not have first amendment rights. They cannot vote. They are not individuals. They have no rights at all.
Amendment 1 does not require a human being, nor does it grant anyone or anything a "right".
It states: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press". It is a limitation on the power of Congress.
In this case, Congress made a law abridging the freedom of the press. Bad Congress.
Why the heck would we want corporations to be able to do this?
Because we believe that limiting free speech is bad.
Cisco Telepresence is the best - also least affordable in terms of required bandwidth and setting up a special room, but it is awesome!
For a small number of sites, you might try SightSpeed, they can do 9-way conferencing. I like its quality for a PC-based system.
Google Videochat is horrible quality, but has the unique quality of being able to make it through almost any firewall when you use HTTPS access to your Gmail.
Mac iChat is good as well.
Consider open carry of a pistol. Might reduce the number of bottle throwing incidents!
Wikipedia says The Stewardesses was produced on a budget of just over $100,000, and the film grossed over $27,000,000 (USD) in 1970 dollars. Yes, I'd say that was a "big hit" for a small-time porno.
This is an inherent problem of stereoscopy. There are ways a display could change the absolute disparity between left and right eye views to make distant objects not be painful or impossible to view, but it distorts the entire spatial field.
This is why 2D+depth codings would be better, they would require the display to properly render depth for that particular display, regardless of whether it was a glasses-based stereoscopic display or a multiview non-glasses-based display.
If they make Google Apps HTTPS only, I'll be screwed, because my little embedded devices can't handle HTTPS stack.
In theory, light water fission plants could be built and operated safely. But in a cost-cutting, capitalist economy the actual practice is not going to be that way.
And of course, there has never been an explosion, hundreds of deaths, and thousands of sqaure miles contaminated for a hundred years in a non-capitalist economy.
People ignore the massive environmental disaster that was the USSR. Leaking oil, natural gas (a GHG), poisonous chemicals, rotting hulks of nuclear submarines...
VHS was widely licensed by JVC from the beginning, Betamax was only licensed by Sony after they noticed all the other manufacturers licensing VHS. Both specifications ended up as IEC standards over time, as typically happens with tape formats.
VHS ended up as IEC 60774-1 (1994) "Helical-scan video tape cassette system using 12,65 mm (0,5 in) magnetic tape on type VHS - Part 1: VHS and compact VHS video cassette system".
Betamax ended up as IEC 60767 (1983) "Helical-scan video-tape cassette system using 12.65 mm (0.5 in) magnetic tape on type beta-format"
You were probably watching Avatar in MAX Digital, which uses horizontal and vertical polarity glasses, thus the enhanced ghosting when you tilted your head.
RealD uses circular polarizations, and does not have that problem, nor does Dolby 3D which uses two different sets of primary colors as a glasses view selection method
To date, stereoscopic video production has been limited to "rigs" that hold two video cameras.
The complications of trying to keep two physically seperate lenses and imaging systems properly aligned over a range of zooms and focusing has been incredibly complex.
Plus, rigs are fragile. If you are on the sidelines of a football game and someone runs into your rig, it could be out of stereoscopic alignment for the rest of he game.
Thus the existance of unified stereo cameras built from the ground up to be solid, stable, and a supported product from a major manufacturer is a breakthrough.
They don't have to put it on the iPhone.
But it will be on your iPhone. ATSC-M/H is an IP based system, and there will be a device called Tivit that will receive an ATSC-M/H IP stream, and rebroadcast it over WiFi to your iPhone, Touch, PC, etc.
Here is a thermal imager for $2,000.
For example, that feeling of 5760*3840 resolution being more visually pleasing than 2400*1920 is mostly the placebo effect.
Only if the screen size remains the same. I've seen ultra-HD 7680 × 4320 on a screen the size of a wall. From where I was standing, pixels subtended the same angle as 3 picture heights in front of standard HD (720x1280), but the screen enveloped my entire field of view. Pretty awesome.
Avatar's production company is Fox, which is owned by an Australian.
Avatar is produced by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, owned by Fox Filmed Entertainment (both headquartered in Los Angeles), which in turn is a part of Fox Entertainment Group, which is owned by News Corporation (both headquartered in New York City, and both currently corporations of the state of Delaware). News Corporation is a publicly traded company on the NYSE. Mr. Murdoch, who became an American citizen in 1985, does own a large interest in NewsCorp.
It is true that 2/3 of Avatar box-office has come from outside the US.
Maybe The Truman Show is the last unique storyline I can think of.
"The Truman Show" just ripped off JenniCam...
It sounds more and more like "Peak Oil".
Sure, things might get dicey, but we could still be on IPv4 addresses for a very long time.
Yes, but those workers are from countries where there are still many people making less than $1 per day.
Perhaps you'd prefer they remained as poor as they were?
Even if the "riots" are not exaggerated hyperbole (which would not surprise me), then the serious question is why such people have been so stressed they have only rioting as an outlet.
India has been condemned to years of horrendous socialism, from its formation until he 1980's, and since then has been condemned to lesser amounts of socialism. This has resulted in tremendous loss of potential personal wealth over that time.
India does have a history of horrendous religious violent oppression over 1,000 years between Budhism, Hinduism, and Islam, but then again Christianity had some pretty bad splits between Catholicism and Protestantism, yet we seem to have stopped rioting in the streets because we are all so crazy rich now in Western Europe, US, and Canada. Riots are coming back into style in France and Germany due to their socialist labor regulations that end up keeping many youth unemployed.
An "open standard" is publicly available and either 1) royalty-free or 2) licensed in a "reasonable and non-discriminatory" way (RAND).
If you go royalty-free, that rules out H.264 and HE-AAC in the DVB-T digital television standard. Somehow I don't see that happening in Hungary.
In truth, almost all telecommunication standards are royalty-free or RAND licensed. All ITU standards must be.
To me SpaceX seems to be more of an airline that builds it's own planes then a NASA supplier like Boeing and Lockheed.
Ironically, the Air Mail Act of 1934 broke up the original airplane manufacturers from the airlines they built. For example, Boeing Air Transport became United Air Lines. North American Aviation owned what became Eastern Air Lines.
The Shuttle worked ok, but it was less than ideal for the task, cost far more than it should have and has never lived up to the design goal (although it was clearly very successful).
One of the problems is that the Shuttle was designed for both military and civilian operations. This lead to significant design compromises in terms of complexity and lower re-usability.
Which ISP is this? I want to buy from them.
They went public, got bought for cash, changed hands, and merged. That's all I can say :)
You can also get better compression by specifying a more sophisticated compression method within the same codec
I concur. A few years ago, HD with MPEG-2 only looked OK at 18 Mbps with the encoders of the time. Today, it looks OK at 12 Mbps with the most modern encoders.
It is likely that H.264 will also see a similar decrease in bitrate at comparable quality. It is mainly a matter of people learning how to use the different encoding tools within the codec, and having the CPU and memory to implement them.
Like, if we make our sprint goals, everyone on the project team gets an assault rifle.
Back in the day, at a certain Internet Service Provider, you could often see employees coming in with their DCM M1 Garand or cleaning their .22 target pistol. But yes, they generally kept the .50 cal rifles and MAK-90's out of the office. That was for during lunchtime!
Genes are not patentable.
I think I know what you are getting at, but it is a very fine point.
US Patents must be be new, be useful, and be nonobvious. Thus I can't patent the gene: "ATG GAT AAC AAT...TAG" by itself without being able to explain its usefulness.
On the other hand, consider US Patent 5,625,136, which discloses a gene and its usefulness: "DNA sequences optimized for expression in plants are disclosed. The DNA sequences preferably encode for an insecticidal polypeptides, particularly insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis. Plant promoters, particular tissue-specific and tissue-preferred promoters are also provided. Additionally disclosed are transformation vectors comprising said DNA sequences. The transformation vectors demonstrate high levels of insecticidal activity when transformed into maize."