I find it rather interesting that this claim is being made when I've found it to be quite the opposite to my experiences overseas, especially in Asia.
In the US, someone gets the cold or even the flu and they just deal it. There's a massive selection of over-the-counter drugs to help deal with so many basic illnesses.
In Taiwan, as an example, feel a bit off and people start insisting you visit the doctor. And why wouldn't they when, thanks to their social healthcare system, it only costs a few dollars for a visit? So people go in constantly for things like simply colds and then get prescribed a ton of medication that aggressively deals with all the symptoms.
I took my 1-year old daughter to the doctor in Korea last year because she had high fever (40+). They measured her temperature, said it must be swine flu, and prescribed Tamiflu, even though she had absolutely no nose or chest congestion or any other typical signs of a flu.
I called my pediatrician in the U.S. and told him what what going on. He said, given the age, the type of fever, and lack of other symptoms, it was probably roseola, and I should keep my daughter comfortable and wait for a day or two. After a day, the fever broke with a rash and he was proved correct.
The IBM 740 CRT output recorder was an electronic device attached to the IBM 701 Data Processing System. It provided output which recorded data points on the faces of a pair of television-like tubes... the IBM 740 also could be used to display alphabetic characters...
Now, the IBM 740 was a vector display device, and did not use a character generator. However, the idea of displaying text on a screen was by no means non-obvious.
Do you realize how much pressure one is under when one realizes that the opportunity for a first post is at hand, but that the slightest delay will cruelly dash one's fondest hopes and crush one's sweetest dreams of that elusive, and long desired first post?
This won't be enough to get in the coveted "Top 10 Views" chart at Youtube. They'll have to either add a public humiliation and beat-down, or just go all-out straight to "The Evolution of Dance" IN SPACE!
But there was no requirement for direct access to the network. Worm instances on airgapped systems received updates & transmitted information via later worm instances brought via USB stick.
Ringworld Engineers was bad and Ringworld Throne made me promise myself I'd never waste money on Larry Niven again. Was there a plot in Ringworld engineers apart from "have sex with everything that moves?" How immature do one have to be to come up with that crap?
there's The Integral Trees,
Once again, a really great concept. And the story was better than Ringworld, but still not that good.
and -- with Pournelle -- The Mote in God's Eye, Lucifer's Hammer, and Footfall, among others.
I agree, and I blame Pournelle for their relative quality.
On his own, however, I think he does better short fiction. "Neutron Star", "All the Myriad Ways", "Inconstant Moon" are all award-winning classics, his "The Jigsaw Man" and "Death by Ecstasy" are both predictive and relevant, and his "Flash Crowd" invented the term.
You're right. His short stories are fine. And it's not surprising because the short story format allows him to explore a concept without all that character development and plot stuff that causes trouble.
Heinlein benefited from writing most of his stuff in an era where his manuscripts were ruthlessly edited for content and length. His later, unedited, stuff is garbage, as are the "uncut" versions of his older stuff.
What has Larry Niven ever written that deserves to be discussed on a TV show?
His best novel ever was _Protector_ and even that isn't exactly prizeworthy.
which almost certainly means that it is generated at the same time the picture is generated
No. That's exactly my point. The time stamps are generated AFTER the picture is taken.
In order for the time stamps to measure EXACT time the picture is taken you need a realtime clock running in the focal plane.
NASA does this.
Off the shelf CCDs do not have this.
The time stamp is inserted at processing time. Its not in the raw image.
Lets imagine a system where an interrupt is triggered when the image capture is complete. If, at that time, the timestamp is inserted into the raw image, then it will be accurate to within one interrupt response time, which is going to be accurate enough to support the charge of speeding.
If the timestamp is inserted into the image after some arbitrarily long interval during which jpeg encoding is done, files are saved to flash memory, etc. etc. then you are doing it wrong and your cases deserve to be thrown out.
You keep going on as if the insertion of the timestamp and the jpeg encoding are the same process.
But they aren't.
They might be occurring back to back, but they don't have to be and if you don't want your cases thrown out of court, they shouldn't be.
Just timestamp immediately after capturing the image and then that timestamped raw image can sit around all day waiting to be encoded without any problem
Adding the time stamp to the photo and jpeg encoding are two separate things.
The time stamp can only be added to pixels, not to a jpeg-encoded image.
So either, the image is captured, time stamp added, then jpeg encoded. (the intelligent alternative)
Or, the image is captured, jpeg encoded, jpeg decoded, time stamp added, jpeg re-encoded. (the stupid alternative)
Now sure it is possible that as a matter of software architecture, the raw photo is captured then hangs around cooling it's heels while the previous photo is encoded, and that only after the previous photo is safely stored away in nonvolatile memory does the second photo start through the timestamp, encode, store pipeline. In that case then the speeding camera company is just shooting themselves (and the local government) in the foot by including the timestamp at all.
If they are required by law to timestamp the photos, then they need to change the system to timestamp each image immediately after capture. That shouldn't be too difficult.
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I find it rather interesting that this claim is being made when I've found it to be quite the opposite to my experiences overseas, especially in Asia.
In the US, someone gets the cold or even the flu and they just deal it. There's a massive selection of over-the-counter drugs to help deal with so many basic illnesses.
In Taiwan, as an example, feel a bit off and people start insisting you visit the doctor. And why wouldn't they when, thanks to their social healthcare system, it only costs a few dollars for a visit? So people go in constantly for things like simply colds and then get prescribed a ton of medication that aggressively deals with all the symptoms.
I took my 1-year old daughter to the doctor in Korea last year because she had high fever (40+). They measured her temperature, said it must be swine flu, and prescribed Tamiflu, even though she had absolutely no nose or chest congestion or any other typical signs of a flu.
I called my pediatrician in the U.S. and told him what what going on. He said, given the age, the type of fever, and lack of other symptoms, it was probably roseola, and I should keep my daughter comfortable and wait for a day or two. After a day, the fever broke with a rash and he was proved correct.
Meanwhile, in 1954...
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/701/701_1415bx40.html
Now, the IBM 740 was a vector display device, and did not use a character generator. However, the idea of displaying text on a screen was by no means non-obvious.
You are ignorant.
Do you realize how much pressure one is under when one realizes that the opportunity for a first post is at hand, but that the slightest delay will cruelly dash one's fondest hopes and crush one's sweetest dreams of that elusive, and long desired first post?
Not for long...
There is no way this is going to put on any iPhone Verizon sells.
Yea, keep dreaming that it's just IT World. Go look at Google news and search on RIM. Even the Canadian newspapers are questioning RIM's future.
This won't be enough to get in the coveted "Top 10 Views" chart at Youtube. They'll have to either add a public humiliation and beat-down, or just go all-out straight to "The Evolution of Dance" IN SPACE!
But there was no requirement for direct access to the network. Worm instances on airgapped systems received updates & transmitted information via later worm instances brought via USB stick.
So maybe... just maybe, this is a clue that it's not quite right to break down people's doors because of an ip address?
If you don't like Ringworld (et seq.),
Ringworld Engineers was bad and Ringworld Throne made me promise myself I'd never waste money on Larry Niven again. Was there a plot in Ringworld engineers apart from "have sex with everything that moves?" How immature do one have to be to come up with that crap?
there's The Integral Trees,
Once again, a really great concept. And the story was better than Ringworld, but still not that good.
and -- with Pournelle -- The Mote in God's Eye, Lucifer's Hammer, and Footfall, among others.
I agree, and I blame Pournelle for their relative quality.
On his own, however, I think he does better short fiction. "Neutron Star", "All the Myriad Ways", "Inconstant Moon" are all award-winning classics, his "The Jigsaw Man" and "Death by Ecstasy" are both predictive and relevant, and his "Flash Crowd" invented the term.
You're right. His short stories are fine. And it's not surprising because the short story format allows him to explore a concept without all that character development and plot stuff that causes trouble.
Ringworld is a great concept. But the story part got left out.
Heinlein benefited from writing most of his stuff in an era where his manuscripts were ruthlessly edited for content and length. His later, unedited, stuff is garbage, as are the "uncut" versions of his older stuff.
What has Larry Niven ever written that deserves to be discussed on a TV show? His best novel ever was _Protector_ and even that isn't exactly prizeworthy.
Oh... So... you're paying for "green" power, but what you get the same electricity everyone else gets... ok... now I'm with you.
Same price? Don't they even charge a fee to come down and unhook you from the "dirty" wires and then reconnect you to the "green" wires?
Why should anyone care what Greenpeace says?
The Blackberry Bridge being blocked on AT&T is very ridiculous, but writing this review without Blackberry Bridge is even more ridiculous.
Obviously you failed to read the rest of the review, wherein the reviewer DID install Blackberry Bridge.
But I bet they'll have either terabyte hard drives
Wow! A whole terabyte?!?!?
I made no such claim.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2094730&cid=35899696
Wherein you said "He has to prove the radar was wrong."
The law does not require that the picture be taken PRECISELY to a hundredth of a millisecond at the exact time the radar clocked the car.
The law does not require the judge to refrain from tossing your cases out.
The law does require the state to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty but you claim the accused has to prove his innocence.
which almost certainly means that it is generated at the same time the picture is generated
No. That's exactly my point. The time stamps are generated AFTER the picture is taken.
In order for the time stamps to measure EXACT time the picture is taken you need a realtime clock running in the focal plane. NASA does this.
Off the shelf CCDs do not have this.
The time stamp is inserted at processing time. Its not in the raw image.
Lets imagine a system where an interrupt is triggered when the image capture is complete. If, at that time, the timestamp is inserted into the raw image, then it will be accurate to within one interrupt response time, which is going to be accurate enough to support the charge of speeding.
If the timestamp is inserted into the image after some arbitrarily long interval during which jpeg encoding is done, files are saved to flash memory, etc. etc. then you are doing it wrong and your cases deserve to be thrown out.
No what's stupid is that the accused is being required to prove that he's not guilty when the opposite should be true.
You keep going on as if the insertion of the timestamp and the jpeg encoding are the same process.
But they aren't.
They might be occurring back to back, but they don't have to be and if you don't want your cases thrown out of court, they shouldn't be.
Just timestamp immediately after capturing the image and then that timestamped raw image can sit around all day waiting to be encoded without any problem
Adding the time stamp to the photo and jpeg encoding are two separate things. The time stamp can only be added to pixels, not to a jpeg-encoded image. So either, the image is captured, time stamp added, then jpeg encoded. (the intelligent alternative) Or, the image is captured, jpeg encoded, jpeg decoded, time stamp added, jpeg re-encoded. (the stupid alternative) Now sure it is possible that as a matter of software architecture, the raw photo is captured then hangs around cooling it's heels while the previous photo is encoded, and that only after the previous photo is safely stored away in nonvolatile memory does the second photo start through the timestamp, encode, store pipeline. In that case then the speeding camera company is just shooting themselves (and the local government) in the foot by including the timestamp at all. If they are required by law to timestamp the photos, then they need to change the system to timestamp each image immediately after capture. That shouldn't be too difficult.