Those look much more like the tracks of a martian dune buggy. It is well kown that martians love racing sports and this is more evidence. I just love all these "experts" to choose one interpretation of an image or data and suddenly have a whole story behind it which is realated either by them or a news service as a fact. The facts are that someone quesses that these maybe mud slides, but untill someone goes up there and sees for them selves they might just be dune buggy tracks.
If they are required to keep the resume whats the big deal dump all the resumes onto a CD or backup tape. Resume is probably 50Kbytes so something like 13,000 fit on a CD. I don't think the'll loose to much sleep trying to store a CD or two. Paper resumes are a bigger issue but at 37 cents to send through the mail most people don't bother anymore, scan and store even if each submitter had two pages that scan to 1MByte you can still get 650 per CD. They are required to hold onto resume not actual read it!!!!!
NASA always uses education as an important goal, we need to teach our children about space. NASA doesn't seem to know much about space and doesn't seem to have any real goals for humans in space. They have done good research on planets, asteroids, comets etc... but how many billions of dead presidents have been spent on the wonderful Internation Space Station, when was the last time it made the news???? The Stuttle shouldn't be needed for experimention anymore if we have a dedicated platofrm in space for longer term studies, but last we they sent up another
shuttle with one of the goals being bone growth in space, how much does a bone grow and wouldn't it be more realistic to do a 6month study than a 10-15 day one for something like this. I know there are many great engineers and scientists at NASA but all the money is being spent on Shuttle and ISS (space station) PR type activities rather than having good scientific goals. Bag the teacher in space and send people to do real science or save the money to do more astronomy or other useful research. I can't even guess how many millions of dollars it will take to send a teacher into space so that they can produce 4-5 hours of wow isn't being weightless in space cool!!!!. There are plenty of old videos from Apollo and SpaceLab and others that show weightlessness, gravity etc... we don't need more. Those are mine and your tax dollars being wasted, NASA needs to concentate on things that are helpful to the US/World be it enviromental, reseaching the planets etc... getting to Mars etc... Also one guestion that I've always had was that when they have been repairing the Hubble (another major screw up) of assembly of the SpaceSation etc... they always send up a PhD or Astronaut when the task is really a mechanical assembly job wouldn't a construction worker or electronics assembly tech be more skilled to install HW or swap out electronics???
NASA should be the best a brightest tackling the worlds biggest challenges but it seems to be more of a money sink for PR purposes.
"I have maybe 4000 books at home, most of them Scifi/SF."
May be its time to leave the house and talk to poeple,maybe even one of those females (there must have been one or two in the 4000 books), they're warm and cuddly!!! I highly recommend.
As far as I understand it MMC uses a SPI like signalling up to 20MHz, SD uses the same (with more options) the x4 speed comes from offering 4 data lines so can be nibble parallel rather than serial, thus 4 times the data but few devices have bothered to suport this high speed mode SPI protocol issues may limit this anyway. The MMC spec is fully relased and available to anyone the SD spec is available to SD CARD group memebers only, so not a lot is known about the "extra features". MMC is fine for everything, but my experince has been, different from other posters, that SD with the extra feature is actually cheaper than MMC. As an end user with a PDA there will be no difference buy which ever is cheaper, your application software must enable the security features so nothing is going to happen without your control and should only be an issue in a MP3 player that offers DRM, Sony uses this in their Magic Stick (White ones) that are replacing the Memory Stick (Purple ones), but most evryone else is ingnoring this.
This is good news the government should not be doing basic research there are plenty of university people that are in the proper enviroment for basic reseach and have a large amount of slave^h^h^h^h^h er, er I mean undergraduate/graduate assistants. If the government wants to feed some money to university and research institutes its a much better use of money.
Who do you think funds most of the grants that pay for the labs those slaves work in?
I clearly said:
"If the government wants to feed some money to university and research institutes its a much better use of money."
I don't have any trouble with the government funding research they should be doing research, maybe you need to read before responding next time.
This is good news the government should not be doing basic research there are plenty of university people that are in the proper enviroment for basic reseach and have a large amount of slave^h^h^h^h^h er, er I mean undergraduate/graduate assistants. If the government wants to feed some money to university and research institutes its a much better use of money. Government labs should only be dealing with real nation issues, weapons, food (agriculture) and even in those areas it should be supervising outside researchers, the government has no clue an only makes things more difficult (US or any other country) your research friends would probably be a lot happier in a university or other research lab anyway.
The earth's sun will burn it self out long before the few hundred million years, so the question is do two black holes really collide if no one is there to watch them????
What is "Black Friday???" Slashdot needs to require some basic level of documentaion to every story, the story and the site reference give no details so this story is a waste to almost all of/. readers. DCMA sucks but thats hardly news at this point.
852 x 480 resolution isn't going to look that good I'd rather have 1280x1024 or higher on a 21" screen it will work just don't expect the detail of a modern computer monitor. 42 inches equals some pretty big pixels, it sounds like a good TV, not good enough for HDTV and not good enough for a computer monitor. If you're mainly interested in a TV its great elsewise look else where.
I have done a lot of work on wavelets for image compression and looked at many of the books available a couple years ago and couldn't make heads or tails of any of them. I can give a 5 minute desciption that is so obvious to someone with a basic signal processing background that explains it all. The books are written by math nerds and there is a need for someone to derive the mathimatical basis and design new valid filters but the basics are made unreachable by the way these texts are written. Wavelets are very useful and the basic concepts are common sense but none of the books that I have ever seen give a description of the basics or why subband coding is a good idea and where it excells/fails. Wavelets are an extreme case but much of math/engineering/science is this way the experts seem to want to put themselves above everone esle and keep technology a mystery rather than sharing the wealth of knowledge. Its time to open source technology concepts and stop patenting every little idea.
How does this make a "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters"??????? It maybe a slow news day but it can't be that slow, is he atleast using the compost for a case mod????? is there a super cooled overclocked 5GHz Athlon at the bottom????
I beleive that the average theater uses 35mm film but in the high end theaters they often also can use 70mm. In a multiplex that I used to go to in VA they had two screens of 70mm for new/big releases and featured that they were 70mm while the other 10 screens were 35mm. IIRC IMAX is a 70mm format, but I assume different from the run of the mill 70mm film projector, so they could use the higher quality 70mm film in an IMAX, but it wouldn't be up to full IMAX standards, what they are suggesting here is that they can digitally enhance the film from 35mm to make it acceptable on IMAX screens.
If a choice between dying and paying, (let them try and sue a poor starving farmer (isn't worth the court costs)). It sounds like another oportunity for open source, open sourced GM foods to feed the world. How does one prove that you are using GM corn??? All life (by the theory of eveolution is a mix of parents, all food is crossbred to gain benificial characteristics, i.e. all tomatos were small and not particularly tasty, but with crossbreding they are now, small, large juicy, meaty etc... GM is only the manual version of random selection. So once the GM corn is planted in a field with other corn species won't it cross and become a hybrid of the native/GM???? This is all kinda mute as if the people are starving they aren't targets for payments. The other simple solution is the grind the provided corn a meal or flour, which is what the poeple would probably do to eat it anyway. This doesn't have as long a storage life, but if you are feeding the starving how long does it need to last anyway??? I have never understood this patenting of living things (DNA, plants etc...) they don't invent, they just mix existing materials which would in general mix on a random basis in the environment anyway. There are some extreme cases where a fish gene is placed in a plant but for the most part that is rare. I can see that the food companies have the right to charge more for a optimized product but once they have sold/provided the material they shouldn't have any rights to future use and if thats what they want then they should make the equivalent of seedless grapes that don't reproduce just provide a single harvent and not generate seed.
This can of course be done (compositing multiple images to create a large image) but the problem is that each lens appears to see a slightly different image (much like human vision with two eyes) and as such the stereo effect is present. You can create an image but it will not work perfectly for all cases. If the scene is far enough away the draw backs will be minimal but as objects get closer this will have effects. What would be more interesting would be to use the dual cameras to generate two video feeds that could be piped into a HMD (head mounted display) with two displays (one for each eye) and then the stereo effect would produce a 3D view for the camera source increasing realism. The larger image would let you see more just don't expect 4 640 x 480 images to create a seemless 1280x960, you will need some overlap and the 4 images will not be from the same perspective so will always look like 4 images pasted together.
How could humans have developed a society, the arts and modern civiliation if they wanted to be independant. Of course it feels good to help others and there is security in working as a group, be it cavemen or street kids forming a gang. Humans are social, this seems crazy to assume otherwise. As described in "A Beautiful Mind" which was a pretty good movie but a little too much about mental illness and not the accomplishments of the main character. The main characters "big idea" is that if everyone is out for themselves everyone just ends up fighting each other and everyone looses, if on the other hand you work together and cooperate no one gets the ideal goal but everyone does well and evolution is about survival not being the strongest.
No, e-ink is competing for the same goals and may get there first. E-ink has better characteristics for books, newspapers, posters (Ads), maps, i.e. the image is static for at least a few seconds. E-ink doesn't need to be refreshed set the pixels and it stays. Oled's are for active displays, i.e computer screens, TV's etc.... They can and probably will split the market. Motion on OLED, short period static on e-ink.
The biggest insult is that at least when I pulled up the story (this may be a random advirtisment) but the ad that is almost as big as the story is for Gateways new line of laptops featureing, you guessed it the P4 from, you guessed it Intel.
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Those look much more like the tracks of a martian dune buggy. It is well kown that martians love racing sports and this is more evidence. I just love all these "experts" to choose one interpretation of an image or data and suddenly have a whole story behind it which is realated either by them or a news service as a fact. The facts are that someone quesses that these maybe mud slides, but untill someone goes up there and sees for them selves they might just be dune buggy tracks.
If they are required to keep the resume whats the big deal dump all the resumes onto a CD or backup tape. Resume is probably 50Kbytes so something like 13,000 fit on a CD. I don't think the'll loose to much sleep trying to store a CD or two. Paper resumes are a bigger issue but at 37 cents to send through the mail most people don't bother anymore, scan and store even if each submitter had two pages that scan to 1MByte you can still get 650 per CD. They are required to hold onto resume not actual read it!!!!!
NASA always uses education as an important goal, we need to teach our children about space. NASA doesn't seem to know much about space and doesn't seem to have any real goals for humans in space. They have done good research on planets, asteroids, comets etc... but how many billions of dead presidents have been spent on the wonderful Internation Space Station, when was the last time it made the news???? The Stuttle shouldn't be needed for experimention anymore if we have a dedicated platofrm in space for longer term studies, but last we they sent up another shuttle with one of the goals being bone growth in space, how much does a bone grow and wouldn't it be more realistic to do a 6month study than a 10-15 day one for something like this. I know there are many great engineers and scientists at NASA but all the money is being spent on Shuttle and ISS (space station) PR type activities rather than having good scientific goals. Bag the teacher in space and send people to do real science or save the money to do more astronomy or other useful research. I can't even guess how many millions of dollars it will take to send a teacher into space so that they can produce 4-5 hours of wow isn't being weightless in space cool!!!!. There are plenty of old videos from Apollo and SpaceLab and others that show weightlessness, gravity etc... we don't need more. Those are mine and your tax dollars being wasted, NASA needs to concentate on things that are helpful to the US/World be it enviromental, reseaching the planets etc... getting to Mars etc... Also one guestion that I've always had was that when they have been repairing the Hubble (another major screw up) of assembly of the SpaceSation etc... they always send up a PhD or Astronaut when the task is really a mechanical assembly job wouldn't a construction worker or electronics assembly tech be more skilled to install HW or swap out electronics???
NASA should be the best a brightest tackling the worlds biggest challenges but it seems to be more of a money sink for PR purposes.
"I have maybe 4000 books at home, most of them Scifi/SF."
,maybe even one of those females (there must have been one or two in the 4000 books), they're warm and cuddly!!! I highly recommend.
May be its time to leave the house and talk to poeple
As far as I understand it MMC uses a SPI like signalling up to 20MHz, SD uses the same (with more options) the x4 speed comes from offering 4 data lines so can be nibble parallel rather than serial, thus 4 times the data but few devices have bothered to suport this high speed mode SPI protocol issues may limit this anyway. The MMC spec is fully relased and available to anyone the SD spec is available to SD CARD group memebers only, so not a lot is known about the "extra features". MMC is fine for everything, but my experince has been, different from other posters, that SD with the extra feature is actually cheaper than MMC. As an end user with a PDA there will be no difference buy which ever is cheaper, your application software must enable the security features so nothing is going to happen without your control and should only be an issue in a MP3 player that offers DRM, Sony uses this in their Magic Stick (White ones) that are replacing the Memory Stick (Purple ones), but most evryone else is ingnoring this.
Aren't all sysadmins evil trolls that restrict user rights, sleep in server rooms and complain that they don't have enough control????
There aren't any jobs out there so bag the final and get the super extreme jumbo large bucket 'O corn and enjoy the movie.
Patriot - American challenges the English Braveheart - Scottish challenges the English MadMax4 - Auzzies challenge the English?????
How are these supposed to be funny, lame with a capital 'L' is more like it. This could have been a great idea, but just didn't pan out, too bad.
This is good news the government should not be doing basic research there are plenty of university people that are in the proper enviroment for basic reseach and have a large amount of slave^h^h^h^h^h er, er I mean undergraduate/graduate assistants. If the government wants to feed some money to university and research institutes its a much better use of money. Who do you think funds most of the grants that pay for the labs those slaves work in? I clearly said: "If the government wants to feed some money to university and research institutes its a much better use of money." I don't have any trouble with the government funding research they should be doing research, maybe you need to read before responding next time.
This is good news the government should not be doing basic research there are plenty of university people that are in the proper enviroment for basic reseach and have a large amount of slave^h^h^h^h^h er, er I mean undergraduate/graduate assistants. If the government wants to feed some money to university and research institutes its a much better use of money. Government labs should only be dealing with real nation issues, weapons, food (agriculture) and even in those areas it should be supervising outside researchers, the government has no clue an only makes things more difficult (US or any other country) your research friends would probably be a lot happier in a university or other research lab anyway.
The earth's sun will burn it self out long before the few hundred million years, so the question is do two black holes really collide if no one is there to watch them????
What is "Black Friday???" Slashdot needs to require some basic level of documentaion to every story, the story and the site reference give no details so this story is a waste to almost all of /. readers. DCMA sucks but thats hardly news at this point.
Why don't you just go out and buy a Cray???
So when are they going to start making tighty whiteys outa this stuff I have to drive past a nuke plant everyday and I still want to have kids!
852 x 480 resolution isn't going to look that good I'd rather have 1280x1024 or higher on a 21" screen it will work just don't expect the detail of a modern computer monitor. 42 inches equals some pretty big pixels, it sounds like a good TV, not good enough for HDTV and not good enough for a computer monitor. If you're mainly interested in a TV its great elsewise look else where.
I have done a lot of work on wavelets for image compression and looked at many of the books available a couple years ago and couldn't make heads or tails of any of them. I can give a 5 minute desciption that is so obvious to someone with a basic signal processing background that explains it all. The books are written by math nerds and there is a need for someone to derive the mathimatical basis and design new valid filters but the basics are made unreachable by the way these texts are written. Wavelets are very useful and the basic concepts are common sense but none of the books that I have ever seen give a description of the basics or why subband coding is a good idea and where it excells/fails. Wavelets are an extreme case but much of math/engineering/science is this way the experts seem to want to put themselves above everone esle and keep technology a mystery rather than sharing the wealth of knowledge. Its time to open source technology concepts and stop patenting every little idea.
How does this make a "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters"??????? It maybe a slow news day but it can't be that slow, is he atleast using the compost for a case mod????? is there a super cooled overclocked 5GHz Athlon at the bottom????
I beleive that the average theater uses 35mm film but in the high end theaters they often also can use 70mm. In a multiplex that I used to go to in VA they had two screens of 70mm for new/big releases and featured that they were 70mm while the other 10 screens were 35mm. IIRC IMAX is a 70mm format, but I assume different from the run of the mill 70mm film projector, so they could use the higher quality 70mm film in an IMAX, but it wouldn't be up to full IMAX standards, what they are suggesting here is that they can digitally enhance the film from 35mm to make it acceptable on IMAX screens.
If a choice between dying and paying, (let them try and sue a poor starving farmer (isn't worth the court costs)). It sounds like another oportunity for open source, open sourced GM foods to feed the world. How does one prove that you are using GM corn??? All life (by the theory of eveolution is a mix of parents, all food is crossbred to gain benificial characteristics, i.e. all tomatos were small and not particularly tasty, but with crossbreding they are now, small, large juicy, meaty etc... GM is only the manual version of random selection. So once the GM corn is planted in a field with other corn species won't it cross and become a hybrid of the native/GM???? This is all kinda mute as if the people are starving they aren't targets for payments. The other simple solution is the grind the provided corn a meal or flour, which is what the poeple would probably do to eat it anyway. This doesn't have as long a storage life, but if you are feeding the starving how long does it need to last anyway??? I have never understood this patenting of living things (DNA, plants etc...) they don't invent, they just mix existing materials which would in general mix on a random basis in the environment anyway. There are some extreme cases where a fish gene is placed in a plant but for the most part that is rare. I can see that the food companies have the right to charge more for a optimized product but once they have sold/provided the material they shouldn't have any rights to future use and if thats what they want then they should make the equivalent of seedless grapes that don't reproduce just provide a single harvent and not generate seed.
This can of course be done (compositing multiple images to create a large image) but the problem is that each lens appears to see a slightly different image (much like human vision with two eyes) and as such the stereo effect is present. You can create an image but it will not work perfectly for all cases. If the scene is far enough away the draw backs will be minimal but as objects get closer this will have effects. What would be more interesting would be to use the dual cameras to generate two video feeds that could be piped into a HMD (head mounted display) with two displays (one for each eye) and then the stereo effect would produce a 3D view for the camera source increasing realism. The larger image would let you see more just don't expect 4 640 x 480 images to create a seemless 1280x960, you will need some overlap and the 4 images will not be from the same perspective so will always look like 4 images pasted together.
How could humans have developed a society, the arts and modern civiliation if they wanted to be independant. Of course it feels good to help others and there is security in working as a group, be it cavemen or street kids forming a gang. Humans are social, this seems crazy to assume otherwise. As described in "A Beautiful Mind" which was a pretty good movie but a little too much about mental illness and not the accomplishments of the main character. The main characters "big idea" is that if everyone is out for themselves everyone just ends up fighting each other and everyone looses, if on the other hand you work together and cooperate no one gets the ideal goal but everyone does well and evolution is about survival not being the strongest.
Too bad about the decision, by the way could you spare a beer or two , eh?
No, e-ink is competing for the same goals and may get there first. E-ink has better characteristics for books, newspapers, posters (Ads), maps, i.e. the image is static for at least a few seconds. E-ink doesn't need to be refreshed set the pixels and it stays. Oled's are for active displays, i.e computer screens, TV's etc.... They can and probably will split the market. Motion on OLED, short period static on e-ink.
The biggest insult is that at least when I pulled up the story (this may be a random advirtisment) but the ad that is almost as big as the story is for Gateways new line of laptops featureing, you guessed it the P4 from, you guessed it Intel.