I figure they probably only had a dozen open source developers working on the project to begin with. Maybe they wanted more developers working on webkit and figured this would entice others to join in.
OK, FCC still regulates the amount of power that can be transmitted within the 2.4 and 5.8GHz region. Therefore, even using a proprietary protocol, they can only transmit at the same power level as say the 802.11x protocol can.
Add this to the fact that they only used 2-foot dishes whereas the DefCon people used 12-foot satellite dishes... sure, the DefCon wins the coolness factor of homemade surplus parts, but the MicroServ people should be given credit where it is due.
The FCC promised the public that by giving them complete control over the fiber lines, they (the telcos) would build them and make them competitive with the cable companies. But then I guess the Bells wanted more (don't they always)and the FCC seems more than happy to give them the whole infrastructure which was built using a lot of tax incentives and government loans (not to mention the early outright doles).
This looks to be sad times for competition and public good.
You forgot to mention a whole category of vector based software, that of Geographical Information Systems (GIS). All of ESRI's ARC products and other GIS programs are all capable of reading and saving to various vector formats, including.eps and.ai types. I wish tools like MapQuest would have thought about publishing their maps as vectors, this would have made them look so much better when printed.
This naturally occurring methane is a potent greenhouse gas, estimated to be 21 times as damaging to the ozone layer as carbon dioxide.
After reading that, I wonder if the author knows what an ozone depleting gas really is or if she is just spitting out words to fill the article. Carbon Dioxide and methane are both greenhouse gasses, not ozone depleters.
The timing of this decision is definately suspect. After Mike and Steve had that public spat. It reminds me of Dr. Seuss's Zax:
"And I'll prove to YOU," yelled the South-Going Zax,
"That I can stand here in the prairie of Prax
For fifty-nine years! For I live by a rule
That I learned as a boy back in South-Going School.
Never budge! That's my rule. Never budge in the least!
Not an inch to the west! Not an inch to the east!
I'll stay here, not budging! I can and I will
If it makes you and me and the whole world stand still!"
Well...
Of course the world didn't stand still.
Only time will tell who really needed the other person. But from this spot, it certainly looks like Disney is making one bad decison after another and Eisner may run Disney into the ground before he gives up the controls.
I have been working as a graduate student at Utah State University where we have been using a helium filled blimp to collect near-infrared (NIR) imagery of bare soil and vegetation. It is similar to the one shown, but we use two Nikon 950 digital cameras and attach a NIR filter to one of them. The filter is very close to those used on Sony "night-vision" cameras to see through clothing.
The imagery is then taken into Photoshop and analyzed to determine crop stress. Some of the other uses that we are looking at include measuring soil organic carbon (carbon sequestration) levels and weed detection. These experiments have been performed in conjunction with a NASA Geospatial Extension grant at the University.
You can check out the blimp in all its glory at the URL.
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I figure they probably only had a dozen open source developers working on the project to begin with. Maybe they wanted more developers working on webkit and figured this would entice others to join in.
OK, FCC still regulates the amount of power that can be transmitted within the 2.4 and 5.8GHz region. Therefore, even using a proprietary protocol, they can only transmit at the same power level as say the 802.11x protocol can.
Add this to the fact that they only used 2-foot dishes whereas the DefCon people used 12-foot satellite dishes... sure, the DefCon wins the coolness factor of homemade surplus parts, but the MicroServ people should be given credit where it is due.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-5410018.html/
The FCC promised the public that by giving them complete control over the fiber lines, they (the telcos) would build them and make them competitive with the cable companies. But then I guess the Bells wanted more (don't they always)and the FCC seems more than happy to give them the whole infrastructure which was built using a lot of tax incentives and government loans (not to mention the early outright doles).
This looks to be sad times for competition and public good.
You forgot to mention a whole category of vector based software, that of Geographical Information Systems (GIS). All of ESRI's ARC products and other GIS programs are all capable of reading and saving to various vector formats, including .eps and .ai types. I wish tools like MapQuest would have thought about publishing their maps as vectors, this would have made them look so much better when printed.
After reading that, I wonder if the author knows what an ozone depleting gas really is or if she is just spitting out words to fill the article. Carbon Dioxide and methane are both greenhouse gasses, not ozone depleters.
http://extnasa.usu.edu/on_target/nir_tutorial/ni r_seven_webpage.html
I have been working as a graduate student at Utah State University where we have been using a helium filled blimp to collect near-infrared (NIR) imagery of bare soil and vegetation. It is similar to the one shown, but we use two Nikon 950 digital cameras and attach a NIR filter to one of them. The filter is very close to those used on Sony "night-vision" cameras to see through clothing. The imagery is then taken into Photoshop and analyzed to determine crop stress. Some of the other uses that we are looking at include measuring soil organic carbon (carbon sequestration) levels and weed detection. These experiments have been performed in conjunction with a NASA Geospatial Extension grant at the University. You can check out the blimp in all its glory at the URL.