At first I thought this couldn't be true. It took a lot of looking, but I did find some reports of this.
From pages 10,11 of a NASA report on Electronic System Failures caused by Electromagnetic Interference. The cases related here are with aircraft and Mercedes automobiles.
From another site that summarizes the above document:
The NASA Report says that when Mercedes Benz first equipped their automobiles with Automatic Braking Systems (ABS) these vehicles had severe braking problems along a certain stretch of the German autobahn. The brakes were affected by a nearby radio transmitter when vehicles applied them on a curved section of the autobahn. A short-term solution used was to erect a metal mesh screen alongside the roadway to attenuate the Electromagnetic Interference and enable the brakes to function properly.
DVDs that conform to the standard spec are only encoded with a series of zeros and ones. It is possible that this disk accidently included a two, confusing the playback hardware.
It's been known that you could get a current by creating a temperature differentiation on both wires and nanotubes. It's just that nobody had ever tried to create a temperature difference through the Bernoulli Principle.
Well then I'd like to submit, for the approval of the science community, my method of power generation by ice cube and Zippo lighter.
According to this the Seebeck Effect (current flow from temperature difference) is just the reverse of the Peltier Effect (temperature difference from current flow). It's been known that the semiconductor material of a Thermoelectric cooler (or Peltier cooler) works in reverse, generating current from a temperature difference between sides. The story seems to imply that this is a new discovery both for nanotubes and other semiconductors and it's been known that nanotubes can act as semiconductors. It does not exlplain how doing this with a wire and a moving gas is new.
This company is basically a pipe dream at best and a out-and-out fraud is more realistic. Besides, it's basically a PC in a fancy box, except you can't do word processing on it.
While I am doubtful that this product will be a success, it did have a surprisingly good showing at this year's E3. Infinium obviously spent big bucks on their booth and there were a lot of people there to check it out. Seems too much high-profile effort for fraud. The unit was even available to play Unreal Tournament 2004 on (although the woman answering questions said she was told not to touch it. This seemed to imply that the prototype was delicate.)
The keyboard and mouse comfiguration was interesting and seemed like they put a lot of thought into using these devices from a couch. The keyboard swiveled and tilted at an angle to reveal a mousing surface below.
For reference on the value of DLP systems, I had my 43" DLP TV serviced by a technician (under warranty of course) because of startup problems and he replaced the light engine. The light engine is basically all of the important parts of the TV (DLP chip, control circuitry and optics) which is built onto one large assembly.
Being an electrical engineer I of course asked what he was going to do with the old one, I mean it still worked 95% of the time. He told me that they get sent back to Samsung (probably to be reworked) and that they are an $1800 assembly. Basically this tells me that if you add on the rest of the components (outer case, projection surface, input jacks and circuitry) a price of about $2200-$2400 is not too unreasonable for what most would consider a luxury item.
It turns out that I didn't do too poorly when I bought it for about $2600 new after a crazy set of good deals that included a sale on large TVs, a $300 rebate sign that was left out on the floor past the rebate period (hooray for threats of false advertising!) and no sales tax =) This unit normally sold for about $3500
Must there be an "overwhelming" response to any product in order to consider it a success? Why does every movie have to be Spider-Man? Why does every game console have to be a PlayStation? Why does every book have to be Harry Potter?
I also subscribe to the "Special Class" system of product marketing. Everybody's a winner! Yay!
It's like the ocean. The ocean is big, powerful, and impressive, and we owe our existence to it, but even still, we don't call it the Ocean, merely the ocean.
I think the internet is the same way.
Leopards particularly will steal their kills at every turn.
Yeah, I saw that once on National Geographic once:
Wildebeest takes 65 points of slashing damage!
Wildebeest is slain by -=l3pp4rd=-
CH3374-X: j0 d00d! WTF! u stole my kill!111
-=13pp4rd=-: HE AGGROD ME
CH3374-X: STFU b1tch. now I hav to regen stam.
ICQ is owned by AOL. They recently allowed interoperability between AIM and ICQ so it would be silly to exclude ICQ. I'm not saying they won't exclude it, just that it would be silly.
I don't have that file. I got an email that told me to delete it, so I did. So far so.~ ^.8 . ++++[carrier lost]
Where do I get one of these modems that writes [carrier lost] into web forum posts before it disconnects? It seems like everyone has one but me... or maybe it's done at the ISP level!?.
You're not getting the point. Single chip DLP does not mix RGB channels. It just displays them separately in such quick succession that it appears to mix them to the human eye. That's why some people can see a rainbow effect when scanning their eyes quickly across a DLP projected picture. I don't know where you got any of that information because none of it is specifically in the article.
My point is that the screen doesn't really need to be calibrated that well for use with a single chip DLP projector. It just needs to reflect the RGB wavelengths well and absorb everything else. It does not need to be tuned to a specific frequency of white light.
In single ship DLP there are no other wavelengths hitting the screen than those specific red green and blue wavelengths. For single chip DLP those are the ONLY wavelengths you need to reflect.
Quote:
The on and off states of each micromirror are coordinated with these three basic building blocks of color. For example, a mirror responsible for projecting a purple pixel will only reflect red and blue light to the projection surface; our eyes then blend these rapidly alternating flashes to see the intended hue in a projected image.
Slashdot Mirror
From pages 10,11 of a NASA report on Electronic System Failures caused by Electromagnetic Interference. The cases related here are with aircraft and Mercedes automobiles.
From another site that summarizes the above document: Huh. There you go.
Is there anything to indicate that this card will do better?
The Voodoo 4/5 were the most expensive cards on the market. This card is cheaper than a *SINGLE* Nv 6800 and outperforms it by a good margin.
Why buy a 6800?
4.8 million maps
4.8 million maps? If the library was any good they'd only need one.
A German shepherd could figure out what's happening to this organization.
Is the German shepherd available?
-EA Management
"The idea of how they got there is still very much in the air."
They could FLY!?
How am I supposed to know what music to like if the RIAA doesn't tell me?
there are 70368744177664 geneticaly different children they could have.
That sounds like a wager to me.
DVDs that conform to the standard spec are only encoded with a series of zeros and ones. It is possible that this disk accidently included a two, confusing the playback hardware.
It's been known that you could get a current by creating a temperature differentiation on both wires and nanotubes. It's just that nobody had ever tried to create a temperature difference through the Bernoulli Principle.
Well then I'd like to submit, for the approval of the science community, my method of power generation by ice cube and Zippo lighter.
According to this the Seebeck Effect (current flow from temperature difference) is just the reverse of the Peltier Effect (temperature difference from current flow). It's been known that the semiconductor material of a Thermoelectric cooler (or Peltier cooler) works in reverse, generating current from a temperature difference between sides. The story seems to imply that this is a new discovery both for nanotubes and other semiconductors and it's been known that nanotubes can act as semiconductors. It does not exlplain how doing this with a wire and a moving gas is new.
This company is basically a pipe dream at best and a out-and-out fraud is more realistic. Besides, it's basically a PC in a fancy box, except you can't do word processing on it.
While I am doubtful that this product will be a success, it did have a surprisingly good showing at this year's E3. Infinium obviously spent big bucks on their booth and there were a lot of people there to check it out. Seems too much high-profile effort for fraud. The unit was even available to play Unreal Tournament 2004 on (although the woman answering questions said she was told not to touch it. This seemed to imply that the prototype was delicate.)
The keyboard and mouse comfiguration was interesting and seemed like they put a lot of thought into using these devices from a couch. The keyboard swiveled and tilted at an angle to reveal a mousing surface below.
Feel free to browse the pictures that I took, especially this one and this one.
Worse yet- Episodes 7-9 could be endless parlimentary procedure of resetting up the galactic senate.
"I can't believe The Gathering Shadow was senate redistricting." -Lisa Simpson
For reference on the value of DLP systems, I had my 43" DLP TV serviced by a technician (under warranty of course) because of startup problems and he replaced the light engine. The light engine is basically all of the important parts of the TV (DLP chip, control circuitry and optics) which is built onto one large assembly.
Being an electrical engineer I of course asked what he was going to do with the old one, I mean it still worked 95% of the time. He told me that they get sent back to Samsung (probably to be reworked) and that they are an $1800 assembly. Basically this tells me that if you add on the rest of the components (outer case, projection surface, input jacks and circuitry) a price of about $2200-$2400 is not too unreasonable for what most would consider a luxury item.
It turns out that I didn't do too poorly when I bought it for about $2600 new after a crazy set of good deals that included a sale on large TVs, a $300 rebate sign that was left out on the floor past the rebate period (hooray for threats of false advertising!) and no sales tax =)
This unit normally sold for about $3500
For further reference, Samsung DLPs are awesome.
Must there be an "overwhelming" response to any product in order to consider it a success? Why does every movie have to be Spider-Man? Why does every game console have to be a PlayStation? Why does every book have to be Harry Potter?
I also subscribe to the "Special Class" system of product marketing. Everybody's a winner! Yay!
It's like the ocean. The ocean is big, powerful, and impressive, and we owe our existence to it, but even still, we don't call it the Ocean, merely the ocean.
I think the internet is the same way.
Wow, that's deep. Deep like... the Ocean.
He kills a giant bat and uses it's rigid corpse to hang glide into the bad guy's lair.
Oh, and he's not really a hunter, nor is he from the future. He's from space...
I was joking. Relax.
A team of University of British Columbia engineering students tried to win the $20,000 US prize offered by the American Helicopter Society.
Since when is Canada part of America?
=)
Leopards particularly will steal their kills at every turn.
Yeah, I saw that once on National Geographic once:
Wildebeest takes 65 points of slashing damage!
Wildebeest is slain by -=l3pp4rd=-
CH3374-X: j0 d00d! WTF! u stole my kill!111
-=13pp4rd=-: HE AGGROD ME
CH3374-X: STFU b1tch. now I hav to regen stam.
Well, time to get my corneas frosted.
ICQ is owned by AOL. They recently allowed interoperability between AIM and ICQ so it would be silly to exclude ICQ. I'm not saying they won't exclude it, just that it would be silly.
there would be no use for this in the average Slashdotter's glass house.
Whoops! Did I just accidently hit reply, fill out the comment form with a biting observation, preview it a couple times and hit submit? Damn!
I don't have that file. I got an email that told me to delete it, so I did. So far so .~ ^.8 . ++++[carrier lost]
Where do I get one of these modems that writes [carrier lost] into web forum posts before it disconnects? It seems like everyone has one but me... or maybe it's done at the ISP level!?.
We should look to Futurama for inspiration in new security measures:
Bank Teller: "Hmm...we don't seem to have you retina scan, your fingerprint or your colonic map on file."
You're not getting the point. Single chip DLP does not mix RGB channels. It just displays them separately in such quick succession that it appears to mix them to the human eye. That's why some people can see a rainbow effect when scanning their eyes quickly across a DLP projected picture. I don't know where you got any of that information because none of it is specifically in the article.
My point is that the screen doesn't really need to be calibrated that well for use with a single chip DLP projector. It just needs to reflect the RGB wavelengths well and absorb everything else. It does not need to be tuned to a specific frequency of white light.
In single ship DLP there are no other wavelengths hitting the screen than those specific red green and blue wavelengths. For single chip DLP those are the ONLY wavelengths you need to reflect.
DLP.com
Quote:
The on and off states of each micromirror are coordinated with these three basic building blocks of color. For example, a mirror responsible for projecting a purple pixel will only reflect red and blue light to the projection surface; our eyes then blend these rapidly alternating flashes to see the intended hue in a projected image.