If your project has a crucial dependency on some Open Source software (Ndiswrapper, or whatever), and the original developers of that software can't keep up with your needs, you should help them out, take it over, fork the source, or whatever.
Your view is far too software dev centered. Not everyone who uses a particular tool or application is, or has access to, a dev team. Legions of people, while they may use an OSS application, have absolutely no idea what the words 'source code' mean. Nor what to do with it if it was on their screen.
You could also figure out which pie slice of the circle has the most black space. So split the circle into 10 36-degree segments and add up all the black pixels.
Even simpler: Split the pic of each dial into the 10 segments. Compare today's pic segments with the stored segments. Whichever 1 or 2 segments checksum 'different' than the stored, that's where the pointer is.
Since you are talking about a webcam, that currently means USB. Your spouse will likely throw a fit about yet another set of wires trailing around the house. So unless you intend to splash out for a fully wireless (and expensive, in cost and 24x7 power) camera setup, my suggestion is to abandon this idea completely.
For the sake of your family sanity.
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I'm still paranoid enough to wonder if the current white house occupants might still pull something that is almost but not quite a coup
Not a chance. The ensuing riots would burn down half the country.
Simply put: If you're looking for help online for flu symptoms, that doesn't correlate with an 'outbreak' of flu.
If many, many others in your area are doing the same, it just might indicate a local outbreak. Graph this over time, and you might see trends happening.
Do this for a couple of years, and compare to actual CDC data, and you might just find it works.
Track eye movements. A wink is a click. A two-eyed wink could be back, or escape.
Such a system could work with goggles or sci-fi contact lenses.
If we need to add hands on top of that for gaming or CAD or Photoshop, that would be fine.
But the basics start with what we're looking at, with our eyes.
The several years old 'Nouse'. Nose tracking for mouse movement, blinks for mouse clicks.
Interesting wording... you're still here, but who exactly are you 'defending' us FROM?
well...it WAS the USSR. Now that they've gone down the tubes, you'll notice there was quite a large drop in the number of US troops and equipment in Europe.
(think of it this way: if yo hadn't bombed it, you wouldn't have had to pay to fix it...)
Unfortunately, if the allies hadn't bombed those cities...WWII would have ended much, much differently. Or maybe not ended at all.
A wise man once said: "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
Routing around Australia as a whole is probably not the intended nor desired outcome. The rest of the Internet will be fine. Just nothing in or out of Oz.
You don't need an actual stream. A frame (jpg) every second or three, then upon motion detection, every 0.25 second. We don't need movie quality video for this.
Never said it was perfect. I live in a low threat area. This is good enough. But....in my location, they can't cut the cable line without being monitored. Yes, there is a cam pointed out the window, encompassing the whole cable line from pole to house. Several frames will be captured and FTP'd before the line is cut. Especially as the outside security light comes on (at night) if they near that part of the house.
If you're not looking for 3rd party monitoring, there are quite a few windows apps that monitor webcams. Currently, I use SupervisionCam. Monitor several cams at once, and perform multiple actions on motion detection. Email, FTP to elsewhere, run an external app, play a sound (BarkBark!). Or, have it capture 1 frame every couple of seconds, and go into high gear on motion detection.
Just be sure you have your motion sensor set right. Otherwise, you might quickly fill up your email or webserver space.
2 or 3 cams pointed at various entrances is cheap and easy.
although I'm not supposed to have any media within the polls
Then don't. Give no excuse for anyone to question that polling places results. Whoever wins, will still win whether you know about it instantly or not.
No, but it is enough of a block that would seriously sway things in one direction. If the rest of the country were 50-50, even 55-45...that block would rule. 40 million people, mostly going the same way, is a hell of a persuader.
Everyone (mostly) already does. POTS. Yes, it is becoming increasingly harder to use it, due to bloated websites, but it is there and pretty damn universal.
I know among the geekazoids in here, POTS is a dirty word. But a lot of people still use it, by choice.
Elections should be based on the popular vote, not the outdated electoral college system and electronic voting is really the only way to make it happen.
Generally, the same candidate appeals to the metro areas of NYC/Chicago/LA. That's who we would have, the rest of the country be damned. Always.
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If your project has a crucial dependency on some Open Source software (Ndiswrapper, or whatever), and the original developers of that software can't keep up with your needs, you should help them out, take it over, fork the source, or whatever.
Your view is far too software dev centered. Not everyone who uses a particular tool or application is, or has access to, a dev team. Legions of people, while they may use an OSS application, have absolutely no idea what the words 'source code' mean. Nor what to do with it if it was on their screen.
Right. Not checksum, because they won't be "identical", but similar (histogram, black level, white level, whatever) within a few percent.
You could also figure out which pie slice of the circle has the most black space. So split the circle into 10 36-degree segments and add up all the black pixels.
Even simpler:
Split the pic of each dial into the 10 segments.
Compare today's pic segments with the stored segments.
Whichever 1 or 2 segments checksum 'different' than the stored, that's where the pointer is.
For the sake of your family sanity.
I'm still paranoid enough to wonder if the current white house occupants might still pull something that is almost but not quite a coup
Not a chance. The ensuing riots would burn down half the country.
Not enough to shut the hoaxers up. (Not that anything short of dumping them on the lunar surface will)
With no helmet.
I doubt any country would want 300,000 additional people dumped on their doorstep short of a major humanitarian relief effort.
The US gets more than that from Mexico every year.
Physics, electronics, aerodynamics, all rolled into one.
or all the parts to build something from scitoys.com.
or, a basic set of hand tools, and the proper dad instruction on how to use them and build things.
My son, at age 9, found the plans for a basic platform hovercraft online.
"Ok, dude...here's the circular saw and a tape measure, let's go".
Seriously, everyone in the Slashdot crowd needs to read Wired.
Welcome to 15 yrs ago.
True - if weren't for the pesky fact that the Google curves and the CDC curves differ significantly, and not just in lag time.
Not according to the graph here
Simply put: If you're looking for help online for flu symptoms, that doesn't correlate with an 'outbreak' of flu.
If many, many others in your area are doing the same, it just might indicate a local outbreak.
Graph this over time, and you might see trends happening.
Do this for a couple of years, and compare to actual CDC data, and you might just find it works.
Track eye movements. A wink is a click. A two-eyed wink could be back, or escape. Such a system could work with goggles or sci-fi contact lenses. If we need to add hands on top of that for gaming or CAD or Photoshop, that would be fine. But the basics start with what we're looking at, with our eyes.
The several years old 'Nouse'. Nose tracking for mouse movement, blinks for mouse clicks.
Interesting wording... you're still here, but who exactly are you 'defending' us FROM?
well...it WAS the USSR. Now that they've gone down the tubes, you'll notice there was quite a large drop in the number of US troops and equipment in Europe.
(think of it this way: if yo hadn't bombed it, you wouldn't have had to pay to fix it...)
Unfortunately, if the allies hadn't bombed those cities...WWII would have ended much, much differently. Or maybe not ended at all.
A wise man once said: "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
Routing around Australia as a whole is probably not the intended nor desired outcome. The rest of the Internet will be fine. Just nothing in or out of Oz.
Because in space, no one can hear you fart.
These are Saturnian farts. Much stronger than your average SBD.
What the heck does creationism have to do with science? Why would you teach it in a science class?
Actually, what she said was, 'if the subject comes up, discuss.' Specifically not mandating teaching both viewpoints.
You don't need an actual stream. A frame (jpg) every second or three, then upon motion detection, every 0.25 second. We don't need movie quality video for this.
Never said it was perfect. I live in a low threat area. This is good enough.
But....in my location, they can't cut the cable line without being monitored. Yes, there is a cam pointed out the window, encompassing the whole cable line from pole to house. Several frames will be captured and FTP'd before the line is cut. Especially as the outside security light comes on (at night) if they near that part of the house.
If you're not looking for 3rd party monitoring, there are quite a few windows apps that monitor webcams. Currently, I use SupervisionCam. Monitor several cams at once, and perform multiple actions on motion detection. Email, FTP to elsewhere, run an external app, play a sound (BarkBark!). Or, have it capture 1 frame every couple of seconds, and go into high gear on motion detection.
Just be sure you have your motion sensor set right. Otherwise, you might quickly fill up your email or webserver space.
2 or 3 cams pointed at various entrances is cheap and easy.
although I'm not supposed to have any media within the polls
Then don't. Give no excuse for anyone to question that polling places results. Whoever wins, will still win whether you know about it instantly or not.
It's 2008, 7 years since they started the migration, I think they're sticking to it.
Those are 5 words to remember.
It's never as easy as "dump Windows and install Foo".
No, but it is enough of a block that would seriously sway things in one direction. If the rest of the country were 50-50, even 55-45...that block would rule.
40 million people, mostly going the same way, is a hell of a persuader.
Not to sound insensitive, but Hurricane Katrina did highlight just how abysmally poor the state of the US disaster preparedness was.
Correct that to New Orleans disaster preparedness...
Other places do a LOT better.
Imagine that everyone has Internet access,
Everyone (mostly) already does. POTS. Yes, it is becoming increasingly harder to use it, due to bloated websites, but it is there and pretty damn universal.
I know among the geekazoids in here, POTS is a dirty word. But a lot of people still use it, by choice.
Elections should be based on the popular vote, not the outdated electoral college system and electronic voting is really the only way to make it happen.
Generally, the same candidate appeals to the metro areas of NYC/Chicago/LA. That's who we would have, the rest of the country be damned.
Always.