Recommended System
* Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 or faster
* 2GB of RAM
* One of the following graphics cards:
o ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition
o ATI Radeon 9800 XT or 9800 Pro
o NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL or 6800 GT DDL
o NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
o NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
* 5GB of disk space for application, templates, and tutorial
* DVD drive for installation
Probably they'll eventually offer a "light" version of Aperture, like they did with Final Cut and Logic Audio, other "Pro" software.
I agree, it could go wrong. Especially with the price of RFID tags falling down dramatically, it is reasonable to believe we'll be flooded by RFID in our not-so-far future. We will required strong laws. But the is those who don't care that much with about the law!
Taking from slashgisrs.org: MobileMag have a small article about a 100% organic matter RFID chip developed in Korea, costing only 0.5 cents. From the article: The new RFID Tag chip is able to function on the 30 kHz frequency by only using 100% organic compounds and an inkjet printer. By cutting down the price considerably it will allow for thee mass production through the printing process. The chip can also be printed on any paper, plastic and wood standard. The new chips from Korea will use the 30 kHz frequency.
Yeah. I too wish for a MacOS X port for Google Earth. Same with NASA's worldwind, Windows only. Ports will eventually come, I'm sure.
Meanwhile we wait, three games involving Google Earth, Earth Contest, GoogleEarthing and GEwar. (plug) Taken from the new slashgisrs.org, which can be of interest to you if you're interested with Google Local/Earth and anything GIS+RS. (/plug) Cheers:-)
This looks like a pretty blatant rip-off of Slashdot, and is clearly not very popular judging by how many comments are on articles. It also links to articles as Posted on Slashdot:... When the articles come from other sources, not Slashdot. What is the point of your pitiful site?
Well, slashgisrs.org is only a week old. It target a different crowd than/., it's for the GIS+RS professionals. All links are provided on the articles, not only/. links. There's plenty of slashcode-based website out there, are they all blatant rip-off of Slashdot, of course not, and that's why you've been modded offtopic. Hopefully, sometimes, the mods are right!;-)
Talking about LCD technology GIS Monitor has an excellent article about new planar 3D monitors (picture included), they are stereoscopic 3D LCD monitors based on an entirely new stereoscopic technology. From the article: The device is particularly well-suited for geospatial image analysts and photogrammetrists, who require 3D viewing to discern depth in the imagery and interpret spatial details.
In addition to this (posted on http://slashgisrs.org/ ), the/. crowd will be happy to learn that According to Planar, future imaging applications for its new device may include medical imaging, molecular modeling, CAD/architecture, and computer gaming.
On this one, I fail to understand why the mods say it's troll. Slashdot is about information. I shared information that, in this case, I believe pertinent. If it's not pertinent to (which is strange since you're reading a story about those subway maps and I'm refering to a site about maps where this story is also shown), it is in no way troll!
I know I'm slightly off-topic, but not that much! I'm pretty sure readers of this story will have interest in the brand-new (launched a week ago) slashsite http://slashgisrs.org/ . It a new site for GIS + RS and everything spatially related, where this very story was published in the middle of the week.
FYI, slashgisrs.org is probably the first slashcss newborn. There's also plenty of low UID available;-)
I know this. I guess Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google, was meaning improving Google Moon. He wanted to fit Google Moon and Google Mars in the same sentence, with a confusing result!
As indicated on the brand-new slash-css website http://slashgisrs.org/ , this new "team" will probably have an impact on GIS.
"Google's engineers will be able to pick NASA's brains for ideas on supercomputing design, which could help the company in its efforts to create products such as 3-D maps. "We already have Google Earth. We'd like to have Google Mars and Google Moon," quipped Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google." Taken from http://appdomains.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05 /09/29/173248
Humm, I'll start stealing slashdot's content for our new slashsite!:-)
Want to discuss GPS stuff or anything related to geospatial like GIS and Remote Sensing, visit the brand-new http://slashgisrs.org/ website. Ad-free and non-for-profit.
It has just launched (last friday afternoon), so plenty of low uid still available;-)
I decided to make my dreams come true and have my own slashsite. Wanting to migrate my successful GIS / RS mailing list to slash. http://www.matox.com/agisrs
SlashCSS is not "ready yet". I though it would be easy to setup the site, but even with a lot of help from the slash mailing lists and http://www.lottadot.com/ . A few weeks will be required for our launch announcement.
SlashCSS is really a great step in the right direction, however, my advice, if you're planning building a slash site, wait a little while, the whole process will be easier for you.
We chose slash over other CMS http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ mainly because of the great (even if flawed) moderation system.
Because weather.gov is so good and ad free, people prefer to use it.
Same here in Canada. The govermental weather site is the most visited website of Canada (about 18 millions hits per day IIRC). http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/
For-profit organizations try to offer value-added products, but it's crippled with ads. And what many clients do not know, they (example http://meteomedia.com/) basicly simply repackage and reinterpret the data the government sells them (I work for the Canadian Meteorological Centre:-).
The Shuttle has completed its return-to-flight mission, but continuing problems with debris marred the otherwise successful flight.
Discovery was launched at 1439:00 UTC on Jul 26, reaching a 54 x 229 km orbit at 1447 UTC. The OMS-2 burn at 1517 UTC raised the perigee out of the atmosphere, with a 155 x 230 km orbit. NC-1 and NC-2 burns resulted in 226 x 285 km and 270 x 287 km orbits, as the Shuttle slowly matched altitude and speed with the Station in a 350 x 356 km x 51.6 deg orbit. Meanwhile, external tank ET-121 fell back into the Pacific with reentry at around 1550 UTC.
Spectacular camera views from the External Tank showed minor tile damage during ascent, and the loss of a half-meter piece of foam from the ET at the time of SRB separation. Although the foam did not hit Discovery, the failure to stop large foam loss (a 15-cm piece was also lost from near the bipod ramp) will have to be investigated and fixed before Atlantis can fly the next mission.
On Jul 19 the Station crew flew Soyuz TMA-6 from the Pirs docking port, undocking at 1038 UTC, and redocked with the Zarya docking port at 1108 UTC.
On Jul 28 at 1118 UTC Discovery docked at the Space Station. Hatch opening was at 1250 UTC. The first spacewalk was carried out on Jul 30 and saw tile repair tests in the payload bay, and installation of a mounting bracket for the ESP-2 stores platform on the Station's Quest module.
The second spacewalk on Aug 1 saw replacement of the Station's CMG-1 gyro. The third spacewalk on Aug 3 saw installation of the ESP-2 platform, and the removal of two protruding pieces of tile gap-filler material from the Shuttle's heat shield.
Discovery undocked from Station at 0724 UTC on Aug 6 and landed safely on Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base at 1211 UTC on Aug 9.
Ok, that's almost completely off-topic, but not looking for bad karma, I find strange that/. eds haven't published anything about Apple's financial release last week: best quarter *ever*.
Apple has announced their Q3 2005 Financial Results today:
Apple said net income for its third fiscal quarter ended June 25 rose to $320 million, or 37 cents per share, from $61 million, or 8 cents a share, a year ago, on a split-adjusted basis.
Revenue rose 75 percent to $3.52 billion from $2.01 billion.
Highlights
- 1.182 Million Macs shipped for quarter (35% growth)
- 687,00 desktops; 495,000 portables shipped
- 6.155 million iPods shipped for quarter (616% growth)
- iTunes Music Store market share 80% according to Neilsen
- Tiger revenue $100 million in quarter; installed base of Mac OS X is close to 16 million
- Still planning on Intel based Macs to be available at this time next year.
- Apple noticed no significant drop in Mac sales following the Intel announcement, but only have a few weeks of data. Still are being cautious about 4th Quarter predictions/results. (maybe I'm not that much off-topic;-)
- Question asked if Apple has considered advertising the Mac further especially surrounding the iPod "halo" effect, but no real answer was given.
- Question about Apple's thoughts on subscription vs purchased music model. Apple still feels that users was to purchase songs, not rent them and feels the 80% market share reflects this.
Apple also release updates to iPhoto and iSync.
Mod me off-topic if you want. It *is* off-topic. But the financial results are worth the read... well, to me at least!;-)
You can bypass the 60$US handling for ASTER L1Bdata by using the link provided in my first comment.
Meanwhile, I only suggested Landsat-7, ASTER and SRTM-DEM because they're free, but there is of course many other sources of satellite imagery (see me previous comment on the thread for the link). The problem with 62 cm Quickbird or 1 m Ikonos, it's the cost of 22 and 7 $US / km2 with minimal purchase of 25 and 49 km2.
Interesting challenge. To complete what MathFox was saying about satellite imagery, he's right, it can help a lot. However, the main problem can be spatial resolution:
Landsat-7 is available freely and cover the whole world, but it's only 15 m (panchromatic) and 30 m (multispectral)
ASTER L1B is also free but the cover is not complete. It's very good data with 3 bands in VNIR. 15 bands total.
SRTM-DEM, for topography, is also great and free. 3 arc-second of horizontal resolution and about 5 m vertically (relative, not absolute). It really is useful data for topography, and it's free.
If I were you, I would try to ask somewhere else than/.. Nothing against the/. crowd, it just doesn't hurt to have a second opinion, especially if it comes from GIS/RS experts. You can try the Applied-GIS-RS mailing list http://www.matox.com/agisrs but there are a lot of other groups of GIS/RS specialists. Good luck!
Funny, I read your comment and told myself it wouldn't do the same to me since I'm so gentle with my mac. Went to update and oops, it crashed like yours:-)
However, I'll give details about my experience: iBook G4 first gen. No hack or special software installed, exception made of the great screen panning doctor. It was a hard crash on the first reboot. The second reboot went smoothly and everything looks fine and no harm done (?).
No need to send a bug report, on reboot, my happy mac now-10.4.2 asked me if I wanted to send the crash report to Apple, which I did.
This shouldn't happen, I mean crashes after updates, but hey, my system's looking ok and in the long run, I'm pretty sure other bug fixes will proove useful:-) Good luck to all.
TFA says nothing about patents problems that VLC and other media players are facing (see http://www.videolan.org/patents.html). But with Google in the bandwagon, I guess this problem can be solved with a win on the open source front:-)
This is good news (tm). I've been using the X11 version for a while. Works great. Yes, it's X11, but it truly works fine. Downloading NeoOfficeJ right now. It is a good thing to have a choice. It might not be native but hey, we'll get there eventually.
In terms of competition, there's KOffice for MacOS X I kept my eyes on, see http://kde.opendarwin.org/. Still pre-alpha however.
I use and love iWorks. Keynote is simply *great*. But it is not free (forget open source). And iWorks, for the moment, lacks a spreedsheet, which OOO doesn't. Thanks to OOO and NeoOfficeJ developpers!:-)
I was planning to try a post on this issue, but this article is perfect. These DVDs would allow to skip ads: how does this stands in terms of ethics?
Personally, I use ad-blocking in browsers, if I had a TV (I don't:-), I would not feel bad about using Tivo. I wouldn't feel bad either to use this DVD feature the article is about.
I had an interesting discussion with a friend, he was telling me that by using ad-blocking on the web, I was treatening good wepages themselves by denying them their source of revenue to pay for bandwitdh et al. Same story with the DVD and Tivo, the price would go up since the ads would have no effect. He saif ad-blocking is legal, but wrong in terms of ethics. I disagree, I believe ad-blocking websites will make things evolve and improve. Yes, maybe -some- free websites could be jeopardized, but that's how life is.
I agree with you. That's why I specified "almost" no luck involved.
Trade card drawing is the only so-called luck factor involved in this game. However, with 6 or 7 players, with about 12 calamities, with 7 to 9 cards drawn by every player every turn, in the end, I believe it ends up everybody having about the same load of good and bad card drawing.
It is at least better than games overly relying on luck !:-)
Slashdot Mirror
An interesting surprise is the prerequisites. Based on http://www.apple.com/aperture/specs.html , Aperture requires a state-of-the-art mac:
Recommended System
* Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 or faster
* 2GB of RAM
* One of the following graphics cards:
o ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition
o ATI Radeon 9800 XT or 9800 Pro
o NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL or 6800 GT DDL
o NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
o NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
* 5GB of disk space for application, templates, and tutorial
* DVD drive for installation
Probably they'll eventually offer a "light" version of Aperture, like they did with Final Cut and Logic Audio, other "Pro" software.
I agree, it could go wrong. Especially with the price of RFID tags falling down dramatically, it is reasonable to believe we'll be flooded by RFID in our not-so-far future. We will required strong laws. But the is those who don't care that much with about the law!
Taking from slashgisrs.org: MobileMag have a small article about a 100% organic matter RFID chip developed in Korea, costing only 0.5 cents. From the article: The new RFID Tag chip is able to function on the 30 kHz frequency by only using 100% organic compounds and an inkjet printer. By cutting down the price considerably it will allow for thee mass production through the printing process. The chip can also be printed on any paper, plastic and wood standard. The new chips from Korea will use the 30 kHz frequency.
Yeah. I too wish for a MacOS X port for Google Earth. Same with NASA's worldwind, Windows only. Ports will eventually come, I'm sure.
:-)
Meanwhile we wait, three games involving Google Earth, Earth Contest, GoogleEarthing and GEwar. (plug) Taken from the new slashgisrs.org, which can be of interest to you if you're interested with Google Local/Earth and anything GIS+RS. (/plug) Cheers
This looks like a pretty blatant rip-off of Slashdot, and is clearly not very popular judging by how many comments are on articles. It also links to articles as Posted on Slashdot: ... When the articles come from other sources, not Slashdot. What is the point of your pitiful site?
/., it's for the GIS+RS professionals. All links are provided on the articles, not only /. links. There's plenty of slashcode-based website out there, are they all blatant rip-off of Slashdot, of course not, and that's why you've been modded offtopic. Hopefully, sometimes, the mods are right! ;-)
Well, slashgisrs.org is only a week old. It target a different crowd than
Talking about LCD technology
/. crowd will be happy to learn that According to Planar, future imaging applications for its new device may include medical imaging, molecular modeling, CAD/architecture, and computer gaming.
GIS Monitor has an excellent article about new planar 3D monitors (picture included), they are stereoscopic 3D LCD monitors based on an entirely new stereoscopic technology. From the article: The device is particularly well-suited for geospatial image analysts and photogrammetrists, who require 3D viewing to discern depth in the imagery and interpret spatial details.
In addition to this (posted on http://slashgisrs.org/ ), the
On this one, I fail to understand why the mods say it's troll. Slashdot is about information. I shared information that, in this case, I believe pertinent. If it's not pertinent to (which is strange since you're reading a story about those subway maps and I'm refering to a site about maps where this story is also shown), it is in no way troll!
Here, honestly, I fail to understand. Strange.
Ok ok, not a real dupe, but this was published on http://appdomains.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05 /09/28/1348208 last -wednesday-!
;-)
I know I'm slightly off-topic, but not that much! I'm pretty sure readers of this story will have interest in the brand-new (launched a week ago) slashsite http://slashgisrs.org/ . It a new site for GIS + RS and everything spatially related, where this very story was published in the middle of the week.
FYI, slashgisrs.org is probably the first slashcss newborn. There's also plenty of low UID available
I know this. I guess Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google, was meaning improving Google Moon. He wanted to fit Google Moon and Google Mars in the same sentence, with a confusing result!
As indicated on the brand-new slash-css website http://slashgisrs.org/ , this new "team" will probably have an impact on GIS.
5 /09/29/173248
"Google's engineers will be able to pick NASA's brains for ideas on supercomputing design, which could help the company in its efforts to create products such as 3-D maps. "We already have Google Earth. We'd like to have Google Mars and Google Moon," quipped Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google."
Taken from http://appdomains.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=0
Well, someone had to provide this link :-)
:-)
http://freeciv.org/
Ok, graphics are not are great, but the gameplay is still interesting
Opensource, of course.
Oh, forgot to mention, http://slashgisrs.org/ is based on SlashCSS, probably the first brand new slashsite using SlashCSS :-)
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SlashCSS/slashdot announcement:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/22/13242
Humm, I'll start stealing slashdot's content for our new slashsite! :-)
;-)
Want to discuss GPS stuff or anything related to geospatial like GIS and Remote Sensing, visit the brand-new http://slashgisrs.org/ website. Ad-free and non-for-profit.
It has just launched (last friday afternoon), so plenty of low uid still available
I decided to make my dreams come true and have my own slashsite. Wanting to migrate my successful GIS / RS mailing list to slash. http://www.matox.com/agisrs
SlashCSS is not "ready yet". I though it would be easy to setup the site, but even with a lot of help from the slash mailing lists and http://www.lottadot.com/ . A few weeks will be required for our launch announcement.
SlashCSS is really a great step in the right direction, however, my advice, if you're planning building a slash site, wait a little while, the whole process will be easier for you.
We chose slash over other CMS http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ mainly because of the great (even if flawed) moderation system.
Here's how you can connect to all 5 IM protocols with Apple's iChat.
u gh-jabber
:-)
http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat-to-msn-thro
It works flawlessly and yes, it uses Jabber
Because weather.gov is so good and ad free, people prefer to use it.
:-).
Same here in Canada. The govermental weather site is the most visited website of Canada (about 18 millions hits per day IIRC). http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/
For-profit organizations try to offer value-added products, but it's crippled with ads. And what many clients do not know, they (example http://meteomedia.com/) basicly simply repackage and reinterpret the data the government sells them (I work for the Canadian Meteorological Centre
From the great JSR monthly report.
http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html
Shuttle and Station
-------------------
The Shuttle has completed its return-to-flight mission, but continuing problems with debris marred the otherwise successful flight.
Discovery was launched at 1439:00 UTC on Jul 26, reaching a 54 x 229 km orbit at 1447 UTC. The OMS-2 burn at 1517 UTC raised the perigee out of
the atmosphere, with a 155 x 230 km orbit. NC-1 and NC-2 burns resulted in 226 x 285 km and 270 x 287 km orbits, as the Shuttle slowly matched
altitude and speed with the Station in a 350 x 356 km x 51.6 deg orbit. Meanwhile, external tank ET-121 fell back into the Pacific with reentry
at around 1550 UTC.
Spectacular camera views from the External Tank showed minor tile damage during ascent, and the loss of a half-meter piece of foam from the ET at
the time of SRB separation. Although the foam did not hit Discovery, the failure to stop large foam loss (a 15-cm piece was also lost from near
the bipod ramp) will have to be investigated and fixed before Atlantis can fly the next mission.
On Jul 19 the Station crew flew Soyuz TMA-6 from the Pirs docking port, undocking at 1038 UTC, and redocked with the Zarya docking port at 1108 UTC.
On Jul 28 at 1118 UTC Discovery docked at the Space Station. Hatch opening was at 1250 UTC. The first spacewalk was carried out on Jul 30
and saw tile repair tests in the payload bay, and installation of a mounting bracket for the ESP-2 stores platform on the Station's Quest module.
The second spacewalk on Aug 1 saw replacement of the Station's CMG-1 gyro. The third spacewalk on Aug 3 saw installation of the ESP-2 platform,
and the removal of two protruding pieces of tile gap-filler material from the Shuttle's heat shield.
Discovery undocked from Station at 0724 UTC on Aug 6 and landed safely on Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base at 1211 UTC on Aug 9.
Apple has announced their Q3 2005 Financial Results today:
Apple said net income for its third fiscal quarter ended June 25 rose to $320 million, or 37 cents per share, from $61 million, or 8 cents a share, a year ago, on a split-adjusted basis.
Revenue rose 75 percent to $3.52 billion from $2.01 billion.
Highlights ;-)
- 1.182 Million Macs shipped for quarter (35% growth)
- 687,00 desktops; 495,000 portables shipped
- 6.155 million iPods shipped for quarter (616% growth)
- iTunes Music Store market share 80% according to Neilsen
- Tiger revenue $100 million in quarter; installed base of Mac OS X is close to 16 million
- Still planning on Intel based Macs to be available at this time next year.
- Apple noticed no significant drop in Mac sales following the Intel announcement, but only have a few weeks of data. Still are being cautious about 4th Quarter predictions/results. (maybe I'm not that much off-topic
- Question asked if Apple has considered advertising the Mac further especially surrounding the iPod "halo" effect, but no real answer was given.
- Question about Apple's thoughts on subscription vs purchased music model. Apple still feels that users was to purchase songs, not rent them and feels the 80% market share reflects this.
Apple also release updates to iPhoto and iSync.
Mod me off-topic if you want. It *is* off-topic. But the financial results are worth the read... well, to me at least! ;-)
Meanwhile, I only suggested Landsat-7, ASTER and SRTM-DEM because they're free, but there is of course many other sources of satellite imagery (see me previous comment on the thread for the link). The problem with 62 cm Quickbird or 1 m Ikonos, it's the cost of 22 and 7 $US / km2 with minimal purchase of 25 and 49 km2.
Landsat-7 is available freely and cover the whole world, but it's only 15 m (panchromatic) and 30 m (multispectral)
ASTER L1B is also free but the cover is not complete. It's very good data with 3 bands in VNIR. 15 bands total.
SRTM-DEM, for topography, is also great and free. 3 arc-second of horizontal resolution and about 5 m vertically (relative, not absolute). It really is useful data for topography, and it's free.
Where to find this data? Start on my Remote Sensing Table http://www.matox.com/agisrs/arsist
As for software, yes, GRASS GIS works fine on MacOS X, *but*, the learning curve is very steep. I don't know MacGPS Pro. See the two other comments http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155849&cid =13067619 and http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155849&cid =13067710
If I were you, I would try to ask somewhere else than /.. Nothing against the /. crowd, it just doesn't hurt to have a second opinion, especially if it comes from GIS/RS experts. You can try the Applied-GIS-RS mailing list http://www.matox.com/agisrs but there are a lot of other groups of GIS/RS specialists. Good luck!
However, I'll give details about my experience: iBook G4 first gen. No hack or special software installed, exception made of the great screen panning doctor. It was a hard crash on the first reboot. The second reboot went smoothly and everything looks fine and no harm done (?).
No need to send a bug report, on reboot, my happy mac now-10.4.2 asked me if I wanted to send the crash report to Apple, which I did.
This shouldn't happen, I mean crashes after updates, but hey, my system's looking ok and in the long run, I'm pretty sure other bug fixes will proove useful :-) Good luck to all.
TFA says nothing about patents problems that VLC and other media players are facing (see http://www.videolan.org/patents.html). But with Google in the bandwagon, I guess this problem can be solved with a win on the open source front :-)
In terms of competition, there's KOffice for MacOS X I kept my eyes on, see http://kde.opendarwin.org/. Still pre-alpha however.
I use and love iWorks. Keynote is simply *great*. But it is not free (forget open source). And iWorks, for the moment, lacks a spreedsheet, which OOO doesn't. Thanks to OOO and NeoOfficeJ developpers! :-)
Personally, I use ad-blocking in browsers, if I had a TV (I don't :-), I would not feel bad about using Tivo. I wouldn't feel bad either to use this DVD feature the article is about.
I had an interesting discussion with a friend, he was telling me that by using ad-blocking on the web, I was treatening good wepages themselves by denying them their source of revenue to pay for bandwitdh et al. Same story with the DVD and Tivo, the price would go up since the ads would have no effect. He saif ad-blocking is legal, but wrong in terms of ethics. I disagree, I believe ad-blocking websites will make things evolve and improve. Yes, maybe -some- free websites could be jeopardized, but that's how life is.
What do you think?!
You like Google and MacOS X? You'll like this then: http://labs.google.com/googlex/ ;-)
Trade card drawing is the only so-called luck factor involved in this game. However, with 6 or 7 players, with about 12 calamities, with 7 to 9 cards drawn by every player every turn, in the end, I believe it ends up everybody having about the same load of good and bad card drawing.
It is at least better than games overly relying on luck ! :-)