I imagine that the first economically-driven application of this technology would be market research. (Evil, evil, market research.) Imagine walking into a store and having a high-res surveillance camera tracking what products catch your eye, how long you ponder over them before making a purchasing decision, what kind of packaging is most effective, what kind of store signage grabs your attention, etc. I can already see advertising folks drooling over this kind of feedback.
A new translation of the Masoretic Hebrew text was completed in 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society, and is widely considered by scholars to be the best English translation of the original Hebrew text.
...of not being able to share your ATM card with a trusted individual? I can't count the number of times I've given my bank card to my girlfriend so that she can grab me some cash when she goes to do her own banking.
The images are split into versions with or without shaded topography and bathymetry, there's an ice cap map, a landcover map, topography/bathymetry maps, a cloud layer, and the city lights image.
They're in RAW format ("Open As.." in Photoshop).
Be prepared to wait a while for them to open.
"The lawsuits... were brought by the largest TV networks and all seven major Hollywood movie companies..."
Sony is one of those "seven major Hollywood movie companies".
Sony is also the biggest manufacturer of Tivo boxes. Funny how only ReplayTV was named in the suit.
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I think you're thinking of On2 VP6: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_video
Honest. It's not our thing.
http://www.beerhunter.ca/ottawa
What more noble cause is there for public transit?
I imagine that the first economically-driven application of this technology would be market research. (Evil, evil, market research.) Imagine walking into a store and having a high-res surveillance camera tracking what products catch your eye, how long you ponder over them before making a purchasing decision, what kind of packaging is most effective, what kind of store signage grabs your attention, etc. I can already see advertising folks drooling over this kind of feedback.
A new translation of the Masoretic Hebrew text was completed in 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society, and is widely considered by scholars to be the best English translation of the original Hebrew text.
...of not being able to share your ATM card with a trusted individual? I can't count the number of times I've given my bank card to my girlfriend so that she can grab me some cash when she goes to do her own banking.
Direct link to NPR interview:
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http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wf
They should convert them into WiFi hotspots.
Of course it was the games -- he died after he got up to go to take a break.
Clearly, he died of withdrawl.
At that rate, they'll still be pushing MiniDisc players in 2018.
It's not all in French. If you look at the flags on the title screen you'll notice it's in "French" and "American".
In-browser games are easy to hide and are good for short-term distractions that won't totally kill your "productivity".
...at least they're better than solitaire.
Multiplayer Mini-Golf
NetbabyWorld (not Mozilla-friendly)
Orisinal (little Flash games)
Spaced Penguin! (fun with gravity)
Just wish there was more out there.
All the data, seperated into hemispheres and at 1 pixel = 1 km resolution (21600x21600 pixel images) is freely available from NASA at:
ftp://gloria2-f.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/stockli/
The images are split into versions with or without shaded topography and bathymetry, there's an ice cap map, a landcover map, topography/bathymetry maps, a cloud layer, and the city lights image.
They're in RAW format ("Open As.." in Photoshop).
Be prepared to wait a while for them to open.
"The lawsuits... were brought by the largest TV networks and all seven major Hollywood movie companies..."
Sony is one of those "seven major Hollywood movie companies".
Sony is also the biggest manufacturer of Tivo boxes.
Funny how only ReplayTV was named in the suit.