Kodak still has a very active R & D program, as well as produces very good high end digital cameras - the Pro 14n being an example of this. And if you doubt their optical capability, realize that Kodak Commercial & Government systems does substantial satelite construction business. Kodak does know optics.
Translation of government double-speak: "...be solved by the government". Government is not "society as a whole"
You've hit on the jackpot! Many Europeans view their government to be a product of society, not a seperate entity, diametrical opposed as do many Americans.
It's a sales and use tax. You'd have to pay the tax of the state in which you currently reside. If you've every bought a car out of state, or out of county(if your county has a sales tax), you find this out quite quickly.
Your correct - depending on the camcorder, what you suggested won't work. Many(most?) Camcorder/Digital Cameras have IR blocking filters specifically to make sure IR isn't received as visible.
Nobody is saying it'll be easy to accomplish. But it would be possible to accomplish, and it's another avenue for the enemy to explore and posssibly exploit.
The US is no longer fighting against a superpower with unlimited resources at it's disposal. We're fighting against the 3rd world now - countries that have very limited resources, who are much more likely to invest their limited supplies in areas such as Chem/Bio/Nuclear weapons, than supply chain warfare.
As someone only half-facetiously pointed out above, switching the tags could easily go unnoticed.
It's quite easy to attach a tag to a box in a manner that make's it's removal painfully obvious. A good example is the Shockwatch monitors (a small vial filled with sand) on the side of high dollar equipment shipping containers - they're attached with an adhesive that's almost impossible to remove without damaging the box. RFID tags could be similarly attached.
"life-long reference"? Unless it's an introductory text in a basic science - it's doubtful that ANY book will be a life-long reference for me - technology progresses fast enough to make the usefulness of any one text at a nonbasic level, marginal after 10-20 years.
Most Engineers/Scientists generally compile a library of textbooks that for the most part site on a shelf collecting dust for the rest of their useful lives.
From what I've seen it's not a false positive that causes the wheel to be locked up - there's no retract trigger for the front wheel, so once it locks, it's locked for good - or at least until someone special comes along to reset it.
I'll have to check out the Freddies - the ghetto Safeways been upgraded, so the carts are gone. Would be a fun system to hack (locking peoples carts in the middle of the store!)
The Safeway store here in Portland, OR USA has a smilar system - it's triggered when the cart exits the parking lot. The problems with it are a) there doesn't seem to be a reset, so there are lots of "broken" carts around b)the increased resistance of the booted front wheel isn't that great - so it doesn't affect the usefulness of a stolen cart. An interesting idea though.
If you think you want only the top 1% to work at your company, you shouldn't create a company. What matters much more than credentials, to create a succesful company, is the ability of the employee to work in a team, and to meet goals - and to overcome obstacles. Far to many of the recent top 1% lack this ability - and this is ofthen the most important. Besides, there's only a finite group of companies that can hire the top 1%, or 10%, or whatever%
I've found the wait for the initial pickup to be longer than any transfer time. If only they would institute web (cellphone) based tracking of the buses. Now there's a useful application! (and there's a market - even many bus users have cellphone's now)
They adapted the direct sell model to the national market - in the old days, and even now, there are stores where you can walk in, configure a PC, and pick it up a couple of days later. Dell adapted this idea (which had existed since the dawn of the computer) to a wider audience
Huh? In most states if your purchasing for a busine you *don't* pay sales tax - which is why the business account at Costco is wonderful. Of course I live in Oregon - so no one pays sales tax.
Obviously you've never tried to contact them - I tried to find out if they'd received my order(they never sent an e-mail confirmation) It took 20 minutes on the phone - through 11 menus, and then 10 minutes on hold to get an answer. All to correct for their f-up. That sucks.
Given the increasing popularity of hand free headsets - the old "how does hold against the cheek" test for a cellphone design may be on the way out. How long until we get wireless cellphone headphones? This really is the last roadblock to the convergence device.
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Kodak still has a very active R & D program, as well as produces very good high end digital cameras - the Pro 14n being an example of this. And if you doubt their optical capability, realize that Kodak Commercial & Government systems does substantial satelite construction business. Kodak does know optics.
Ahh.. The printermakers have gotten smart about that. The ink cartridges they include aren't even full anymore! Bastards!
The Nikon F Series accept all lenses.
Translation of government double-speak: "...be solved by the government". Government is not "society as a whole"
You've hit on the jackpot! Many Europeans view their government to be a product of society, not a seperate entity, diametrical opposed as do many Americans.
How you got modded insightful I'll never know. Like most complicated mechanical things, airplanes have added numerous failsafes and warnings.
Places like www.epitonic.com
It's a sales and use tax. You'd have to pay the tax of the state in which you currently reside. If you've every bought a car out of state, or out of county(if your county has a sales tax), you find this out quite quickly.
Your correct - depending on the camcorder, what you suggested won't work. Many(most?) Camcorder/Digital Cameras have IR blocking filters specifically to make sure IR isn't received as visible.
Nobody is saying it'll be easy to accomplish. But it would be possible to accomplish, and it's another avenue for the enemy to explore and posssibly exploit. The US is no longer fighting against a superpower with unlimited resources at it's disposal. We're fighting against the 3rd world now - countries that have very limited resources, who are much more likely to invest their limited supplies in areas such as Chem/Bio/Nuclear weapons, than supply chain warfare.
As someone only half-facetiously pointed out above, switching the tags could easily go unnoticed.
It's quite easy to attach a tag to a box in a manner that make's it's removal painfully obvious. A good example is the Shockwatch monitors (a small vial filled with sand) on the side of high dollar equipment shipping containers - they're attached with an adhesive that's almost impossible to remove without damaging the box. RFID tags could be similarly attached.
"life-long reference"? Unless it's an introductory text in a basic science - it's doubtful that ANY book will be a life-long reference for me - technology progresses fast enough to make the usefulness of any one text at a nonbasic level, marginal after 10-20 years.
Most Engineers/Scientists generally compile a library of textbooks that for the most part site on a shelf collecting dust for the rest of their useful lives.
From what I've seen it's not a false positive that causes the wheel to be locked up - there's no retract trigger for the front wheel, so once it locks, it's locked for good - or at least until someone special comes along to reset it.
I'll have to check out the Freddies - the ghetto Safeways been upgraded, so the carts are gone. Would be a fun system to hack (locking peoples carts in the middle of the store!)
The Safeway store here in Portland, OR USA has a smilar system - it's triggered when the cart exits the parking lot. The problems with it are a) there doesn't seem to be a reset, so there are lots of "broken" carts around b)the increased resistance of the booted front wheel isn't that great - so it doesn't affect the usefulness of a stolen cart. An interesting idea though.
If you think you want only the top 1% to work at your company, you shouldn't create a company. What matters much more than credentials, to create a succesful company, is the ability of the employee to work in a team, and to meet goals - and to overcome obstacles. Far to many of the recent top 1% lack this ability - and this is ofthen the most important. Besides, there's only a finite group of companies that can hire the top 1%, or 10%, or whatever%
It's all about conservation, eh?
Now there's a guy who excels at helping good companies flush themselves down the drain - first Motorola, then Kodak.
And the drawback to this is?
I believe there's this phenomena called a "pub" in Northern England that's supposed to increase energy. I highly recommend it with a pint of bitter.
I've found the wait for the initial pickup to be longer than any transfer time. If only they would institute web (cellphone) based tracking of the buses. Now there's a useful application! (and there's a market - even many bus users have cellphone's now)
They adapted the direct sell model to the national market - in the old days, and even now, there are stores where you can walk in, configure a PC, and pick it up a couple of days later. Dell adapted this idea (which had existed since the dawn of the computer) to a wider audience
Huh? In most states if your purchasing for a busine you *don't* pay sales tax - which is why the business account at Costco is wonderful. Of course I live in Oregon - so no one pays sales tax.
Obviously you've never tried to contact them - I tried to find out if they'd received my order(they never sent an e-mail confirmation) It took 20 minutes on the phone - through 11 menus, and then 10 minutes on hold to get an answer. All to correct for their f-up. That sucks.
Given the increasing popularity of hand free headsets - the old "how does hold against the cheek" test for a cellphone design may be on the way out. How long until we get wireless cellphone headphones? This really is the last roadblock to the convergence device.
To nitpick - C & W - Cable & Wireless is British owned.