AFP's sports photography feed to its clients is near real-time. For example, during the soccer World Cup images were available on the AFP Photo News cellphone service in Japan while matches were still in progress. They're delivered to the service provider with full EXIF & IPTC info in a NewsML wrapper. So there's certainly a lot of effort going into getting images out of the cameras rapidly, and I assume other news organizations are the same.
Your "consumer-level" Olympus almost certainly supports EXIF. You just need to use an image browser that knows about EXIF, such as Irfanview. Also, if you edit images, you need to use a program that preserves the EXIF info (some editors throw it away).
Perhaps the most interesting part of this is to learn whether vast numbers of simple computers (Seti et al) scale better or worse than vast numbers of clustered computers (Google et al).
Good point. Tools I have make it much easier to compare the WinMX userbase against Fastrack stack users. Can you guess at the absolute user numbers for Winny & WinMX? Of course, the Japanese market is somewhat self-protecting in that the RIAA is unlikely to have much of a grip on the Japanese language and the RIAJ didn't come across as rocket scientists.
You have to give these guys credit for keeping the faith. In that particular silo, it's interesting to note that the target coordinates all seem to be airbursts, in other words they're city killers rather than military targets. I used the wonderful USAPhotoMaps to locate all the silos in the southern USA, and of course they're all a mile or two from a US freeway.
It's interesting that some US TV shows get to DVD a lot faster outside the USA, in markets where syndication isn't an issue. For example, Australia. Then, you just need a region-free DVD player to enjoy them. I got The Shield this way.
Japanese users typically use WinMX for two reasons. Firstly, it handles double-byte characters OK where Fasttrack clients et al. fail miserably, and secondly the transfers are effectively serial, so one is queued before download. This allows the operator to ask questions as to one's legitimacy. This frequently takes the form of "you send me a copyrighted work first, and then I'll send you what you requested". It's a miserable way of doing things, but it works after a fashion.
You ask if heat is being transferred from the CPU to the SODIMM area. No, SODIMMs can get extremely hot. I heatsinked my SODIMM to the keyboard chassis on my notebook after reading about SODIMM-related heat problems on my notebook. The Transmeta CPU also seems to run quite hot.
I've tried two types of heatsink to meet similar requirements. I need cooling, but not ruggedness. The first was a thin fan-assisted unit that needs a power source. It kept the bottom of the machine very cool, but wore out quickly and, of course, I was tethered. The second heatsink is actually a foil-encased gel pack, available in several sizes, and is about 5mm thick. It cost me about $10 and has worked way better than I expected. I carry it everywhere, if only to stop the laptop burning my knees.
On my machine, the heat affects the screen contrast more than the base unit, so I've attached a gel pack to the lid, too. It looks a bit silly but works very well.
One method I've seen for the lid but not tried is attaching a thin sheet the same size as the lid, using spacers to form an air gap. The same system is used for Taxi roofs in Hong Kong.
But if cash is no problem, I'd guess a Toughbook or militarized machine such as a Husky would be the way to go.
The machine I'm using is a cheap Casio Fiva, way below your spec requirements but it runs Linux well, has a hardware boot switch between Windows & Linux, and a 5-hour battery life. I spend much of the summer sat outside with it: the temperature right now is 32 C @ 87%; next month it should hit 38 C with ease. I'm cantenna'd to my base station.
The most important aid to recognising a vehicle as it moves about a network is its number plate, and to see that the camera has to be viewing an oblique or horizontal plane. The Hanshin Expressway network (Osaka, Japan) has video cameras all over the place. They track numberplates through the network to calculate journey times to various destinations which are then displayed on information boards and relayed via highway radio to car GPS systems that are designed to accept that information. At accident black spots, cameras use motion analysis to detect accidents in progress. (At tollbooths, cameras identify the location of the driver's head to decide from which of a column of vertical slots the ticket should be dispensed, to be within easiest reach)
I expect other networks do something similar with video networks.
In your situation, you could probably get better analysis data from a few static video cameras coupled with some image processing: you don't need to know exactly where every vehicle is all the time to carry out congestion analysis, for example. Since you mention "heavy traffic", the video data may already be available on tape, since you don't need to do this in real time, I assume.
With his recharge time of 25 seconds, I reckon my trebuchet and I would stand a good chance against his gauss gun. Plus, by replacing the payload with my baggage, it could easily get through airport security as a slightly complex baggage trolly.
There are other digital sources of Gutenberg (and other) facsimiles. For example, the Gottinger Gutenberg is online at http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/start.htm and can be purchased on CD at http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/order.htm (54 euros). Octavo (http://www.octavo.com/) is also a good source of very affordable digital editions on CD. Putting stuff on the internet for free is fun but hardly newsworthy.
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AFP's sports photography feed to its clients is near real-time. For example, during the soccer World Cup images were available on the AFP Photo News cellphone service in Japan while matches were still in progress. They're delivered to the service provider with full EXIF & IPTC info in a NewsML wrapper. So there's certainly a lot of effort going into getting images out of the cameras rapidly, and I assume other news organizations are the same.
Your "consumer-level" Olympus almost certainly supports EXIF. You just need to use an image browser that knows about EXIF, such as Irfanview. Also, if you edit images, you need to use a program that preserves the EXIF info (some editors throw it away).
And the Panasonic DMCFZ1 has a 12x Leica DC Vario Elmit optical zoom but only 2MP. It's seems to be a very popular niche camera, though.
Perhaps the most interesting part of this is to learn whether vast numbers of simple computers (Seti et al) scale better or worse than vast numbers of clustered computers (Google et al).
According to the Beeb, ground-based telescopes are catching up, referring to the Gemini observatory.
Good point. Tools I have make it much easier to compare the WinMX userbase against Fastrack stack users. Can you guess at the absolute user numbers for Winny & WinMX? Of course, the Japanese market is somewhat self-protecting in that the RIAA is unlikely to have much of a grip on the Japanese language and the RIAJ didn't come across as rocket scientists.
I visited that site and others a few years ago.
It's interesting that some US TV shows get to DVD a lot faster outside the USA, in markets where syndication isn't an issue. For example, Australia. Then, you just need a region-free DVD player to enjoy them. I got The Shield this way.
Japanese users typically use WinMX for two reasons. Firstly, it handles double-byte characters OK where Fasttrack clients et al. fail miserably, and secondly the transfers are effectively serial, so one is queued before download. This allows the operator to ask questions as to one's legitimacy. This frequently takes the form of "you send me a copyrighted work first, and then I'll send you what you requested". It's a miserable way of doing things, but it works after a fashion.
You ask if heat is being transferred from the CPU to the SODIMM area. No, SODIMMs can get extremely hot. I heatsinked my SODIMM to the keyboard chassis on my notebook after reading about SODIMM-related heat problems on my notebook. The Transmeta CPU also seems to run quite hot.
On my machine, the heat affects the screen contrast more than the base unit, so I've attached a gel pack to the lid, too. It looks a bit silly but works very well.
One method I've seen for the lid but not tried is attaching a thin sheet the same size as the lid, using spacers to form an air gap. The same system is used for Taxi roofs in Hong Kong.
But if cash is no problem, I'd guess a Toughbook or militarized machine such as a Husky would be the way to go.
The machine I'm using is a cheap Casio Fiva, way below your spec requirements but it runs Linux well, has a hardware boot switch between Windows & Linux, and a 5-hour battery life. I spend much of the summer sat outside with it: the temperature right now is 32 C @ 87%; next month it should hit 38 C with ease. I'm cantenna'd to my base station.
I expect other networks do something similar with video networks.
In your situation, you could probably get better analysis data from a few static video cameras coupled with some image processing: you don't need to know exactly where every vehicle is all the time to carry out congestion analysis, for example. Since you mention "heavy traffic", the video data may already be available on tape, since you don't need to do this in real time, I assume.
With his recharge time of 25 seconds, I reckon my trebuchet and I would stand a good chance against his gauss gun. Plus, by replacing the payload with my baggage, it could easily get through airport security as a slightly complex baggage trolly.
There are other digital sources of Gutenberg (and other) facsimiles. For example, the Gottinger Gutenberg is online at http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/start.htm and can be purchased on CD at http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/order.htm (54 euros). Octavo (http://www.octavo.com/) is also a good source of very affordable digital editions on CD. Putting stuff on the internet for free is fun but hardly newsworthy.