Without RTFA (it's already/.ed), I'd have to say this sounds a lot like the Apple Newton. I.e. it won't work because it's too big to fit in a pocket, and to small to work comfortably on it. Until we get usable and affordable goggles, and/or plus some kind of input technology that's truly portable [1], these devices won't take off.
1: e.g. digital paper, so I can fold an A3-sized screen/tablet into an A6 package.
Unless the original poster wasn't German, in which case he could very well have used the English "sour" instead of the German "Sauer" and still refer to the foodstuff. Googling for "Sour kraut", most of the first 10 matches are recipes, so I'd say this is pretty common.
(re: +1 Funny mod) Yeah, no selfrespecting monopoly will ever do this. But the lack of EPG data (due to no standardization) is what's keeping PVRs from becoming popular in Europe.
for some big company (say, Microsoft) to not settle but go to war. Force a court decision that invalidates the patent, and then sue Forgent and their lawyers for damages, frivolous litigation, the works, until both Forgent and their lawyers go bankrupt.
TiVo, MS and other PVR manufacturers should work to create an open standard for publishing programming guide information, and they should try to get all broadcasters to adopt this standard. No more US-only products!
My color addition/subtraction memories are fuzzy at best so IDK if the system can solve this particular case, but the system does measure the wall's colors, and attempts to compensate for them.
Actually, the parent *is* right. Consider the extreme case of projecting into a corner: the projection looks right when you view from the same area where the camera is/was, but try looking at the image from a significantly different angle (say, a right angle to one of the walls). The picture will be severely distorted then.
Lots of people don't have blank walls. Colored wallpaper, non-smooth plastered walls, walls covered with paintings etc. are all unusable with a normal projector.
Actually, no. Recent British research (by the police) concluded that speeding caused only 7% of accidents, and was a contributing factor in something like 20%. 'Not paying attention' is a much more common cause of accidents. Unfortunately, that's a lot harder to detect than speeding, which results in ludicrous statistics like 80% of all traffic tickets [1] written in the Netherlands last year being for speeding offences (with most of them in the 5-10 km/h range).
1: Seven million tickets, and only 7 million cars on the road. On average, every car owner got one ticket last year.
Parent may have been joking, but couldn't Soyuz be used for this sort of thing? AFAIK, its safety record is better than the Shuttle's, and they're still being built (in fact, Starsem can build 60 a year) so no worries about losing another 33% of the Shuttle fleet.
Even a mission with a Soyuz plus a Progress launch (to get all the materials needed into orbit) would be feasible.
And I've seen the cost of a Soyuz launch quoted at $35M, ie peanuts compared to a Shuttle launch.
Given the inertia displayed by the entire commercial-aircraft community (manufacturers, pilots, the aviation administrations), I'd say there's a good chance hell will freeze over before that happens.
Why spend time and money building a cruise missile (which would have to be pretty big to deliver the amount of explosives required), when you can send a suicidal maniac with a truck instead?
AFAIK, all of them. Developing UAVs costs a lot of money (the UAVs in use now typically cost $1M or more), and the military is currently just about the only party willing to throw money at this. The military have one big incentive that commercial users don't: military aircraft are likely to get shot at. The only exception I know of is NASA, their huge flying wing is a step towards 'persistent' UAVs (that can loiter over an area for a long time, which is what you want for surveillance missions).
Well, a "a collision detection and avoidance system" that doesn't rely on ATC needs sensors (3-D radar, or IR plus laser) that are big and expensive. Typically, these aren't even used on $100M airliners, much less uni research projects.
This guy beat them to it, sending an UAV over the Atlantic.
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There was a demand, just not at the price point Adobe wanted (FrameMaker is about $800 for the Windows version, $ 1400 for Solaris). IIRC the user survey showed Linux users expected it to be free. It's a pity, FrameMaker still is one of the best tools around (and the most accessible) for long-document publishing, even if Adobe has been neglecting it forever.
Interesting, but what about the other way round?
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There's at least one Solaris application I'd like to run on Linux: Adobe FrameMaker.
They can't dodge you like those who ride sport bikes can.
So instead of buying a decent bike, these people purposely endanger themselves and others by driving one that has POS handling, and then they add insult to injury by installing loud pipes (while claiming that they're a safety feature)? What morons.
You forgot the motherboard, processor, network cards (2x Fibrechannel plus 2x Ethernet), redundant hot-swappable power supplies and fans, and the OS plus software for remote control. And the time you need to build, set up and maintain the system (this is bound to take more time with a general-purpose computer vs. a dedicated RAID box). And your Lian Li case needs much more space and power than the XRaid to pack 12 drives.
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Without RTFA (it's already /.ed), I'd have to say this sounds a lot like the Apple Newton. I.e. it won't work because it's too big to fit in a pocket, and to small to work comfortably on it. Until we get usable and affordable goggles, and/or plus some kind of input technology that's truly portable [1], these devices won't take off.
1: e.g. digital paper, so I can fold an A3-sized screen/tablet into an A6 package.
Unless the original poster wasn't German, in which case he could very well have used the English "sour" instead of the German "Sauer" and still refer to the foodstuff. Googling for "Sour kraut", most of the first 10 matches are recipes, so I'd say this is pretty common.
Um, you do realize "Sauerkraut" is a pretty common German word? Now sit back und watchen das Blinkenlichten.
(re: +1 Funny mod) Yeah, no selfrespecting monopoly will ever do this.
But the lack of EPG data (due to no standardization) is what's keeping PVRs from becoming popular in Europe.
for some big company (say, Microsoft) to not settle but go to war. Force a court decision that invalidates the patent, and then sue Forgent and their lawyers for damages, frivolous litigation, the works, until both Forgent and their lawyers go bankrupt.
Well done. A perfect illustration of the reason so few women choose CS.
...even though the Joint Photographic Experts Group tried to create a format that wasn't encumbered by patents. Where will the madness end?
And maybe use NetBoot for centralized administration, which should make it easy to reset the clients to a default state.
TiVo, MS and other PVR manufacturers should work to create an open standard for publishing programming guide information, and they should try to get all broadcasters to adopt this standard. No more US-only products!
A very blunt, and rather ineffective instrument it would seem. Just move the site to a different domain name.
My color addition/subtraction memories are fuzzy at best so IDK if the system can solve this particular case, but the system does measure the wall's colors, and attempts to compensate for them.
Actually, the parent *is* right. Consider the extreme case of projecting into a corner: the projection looks right when you view from the same area where the camera is/was, but try looking at the image from a significantly different angle (say, a right angle to one of the walls). The picture will be severely distorted then.
Lots of people don't have blank walls. Colored wallpaper, non-smooth plastered walls, walls covered with paintings etc. are all unusable with a normal projector.
Actually, no. Recent British research (by the police) concluded that speeding caused only 7% of accidents, and was a contributing factor in something like 20%. 'Not paying attention' is a much more common cause of accidents. Unfortunately, that's a lot harder to detect than speeding, which results in ludicrous statistics like 80% of all traffic tickets [1] written in the Netherlands last year being for speeding offences (with most of them in the 5-10 km/h range).
1: Seven million tickets, and only 7 million cars on the road. On average, every car owner got one ticket last year.
Parent may have been joking, but couldn't Soyuz be used for this sort of thing? AFAIK, its safety record is better than the Shuttle's, and they're still being built (in fact, Starsem can build 60 a year) so no worries about losing another 33% of the Shuttle fleet. Even a mission with a Soyuz plus a Progress launch (to get all the materials needed into orbit) would be feasible. And I've seen the cost of a Soyuz launch quoted at $35M, ie peanuts compared to a Shuttle launch.
In ST:TNG, of course! This episode
Given the inertia displayed by the entire commercial-aircraft community (manufacturers, pilots, the aviation administrations), I'd say there's a good chance hell will freeze over before that happens.
Why spend time and money building a cruise missile (which would have to be pretty big to deliver the amount of explosives required), when you can send a suicidal maniac with a truck instead?
AFAIK, all of them. Developing UAVs costs a lot of money (the UAVs in use now typically cost $1M or more), and the military is currently just about the only party willing to throw money at this. The military have one big incentive that commercial users don't: military aircraft are likely to get shot at.
The only exception I know of is NASA, their huge flying wing is a step towards 'persistent' UAVs (that can loiter over an area for a long time, which is what you want for surveillance missions).
Well, a "a collision detection and avoidance system" that doesn't rely on ATC needs sensors (3-D radar, or IR plus laser) that are big and expensive. Typically, these aren't even used on $100M airliners, much less uni research projects.
This guy beat them to it, sending an UAV over the Atlantic.
There was a demand, just not at the price point Adobe wanted (FrameMaker is about $800 for the Windows version, $ 1400 for Solaris). IIRC the user survey showed Linux users expected it to be free.
It's a pity, FrameMaker still is one of the best tools around (and the most accessible) for long-document publishing, even if Adobe has been neglecting it forever.
There's at least one Solaris application I'd like to run on Linux: Adobe FrameMaker.
They can't dodge you like those who ride sport bikes can.
So instead of buying a decent bike, these people purposely endanger themselves and others by driving one that has POS handling, and then they add insult to injury by installing loud pipes (while claiming that they're a safety feature)? What morons.
You forgot the motherboard, processor, network cards (2x Fibrechannel plus 2x Ethernet), redundant hot-swappable power supplies and fans, and the OS plus software for remote control.
And the time you need to build, set up and maintain the system (this is bound to take more time with a general-purpose computer vs. a dedicated RAID box).
And your Lian Li case needs much more space and power than the XRaid to pack 12 drives.