Who cares about what possible (unlikely) improvement this would be solar cells. How about camera optics?
In particular, this NIM would be useful for correcting chromatic aberration, which I currently have to correct for planetary imaging in software (which is a bit of a hit-and-miss affair, unfortunately).
Unfortunately you can't make that assumption any more.
Even national telcos, such as Telstra in Australia, are routing all of their landline and mobile voice and data telecommunications over IP networks (and have done so since 2007).
The Brightside zoned backlighting scheme was a very interesting idea when it first came out, however, it is actually the source of the problems outlined above because the screen is typically split up into only 24 zones (a 6 wide by 4 high array). This equates to a pixel area of about 320x270 per zone on a Full-HD panel.
Brightside was acquired by Dolby Laboratories, who now licenses the technology to various OEMs under their own name (Brightside as a corporation and a web site is no more).
They also are kind of bound to keep themselves kid-friendly, which means more adult-oriented accessories are out of their picture -- no Wii-AK-47s or Wii-M16A4s with sniper scopes.
In the interview he said, "Retailers should focus on what sells." Well, the Wii sells and it sells well, certainly better than the PS3 and Xbox 360. So what's so wrong with it?
Yes, Firefox supports International Domain Names, but there's a bunch of Whitelist Preferences in about:config that control which TLD's will work. The.xn--wgbh1c isn't in there, so you need to make sure you have the following preferences:
The main function of the Space Shuttle external is to supply the liquid oxygen and hydrogen fuel to the Space Shuttle main engines. It is also the backbone of the launch vehicle providing attachment points for the two Solid Rocket Boosters and the Orbiter. The external tank is the only part of the shuttle system that is not reused. Although the external tanks have always been discarded, it is possible to take them into orbit and re-use them (such as for incorporation into a space station).
The whole topic is nonsense. They can't even pull oil from the Gulf floor without having a disaster.
I love to bag the Yanks as much as the next guy, but I'd like to point out that it's BP (British Petroleum) that can't even pull oil from the Gulf floor without having a disaster.
Telesurgery made international news on September 7, 2001, when the first transatlantic surgical procedure took place between New York City and Strasbourg, France at a distance of nearly 4,000 miles. Dubbed "Operation Lindbergh" after Charles Lindbergh's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic, the surgery was a landmark in experimental long distance telesurgery.
Plants don't like more than about 1000-1500 PPM CO2, any higher than that and you start hitting problems.
Maybe, maybe not.
Some greenhouses routinely raise their CO2 levels above 10,000-15,000ppm for several hours at a time so as to kill insects pests (levels above 5,000ppm are considered to be toxic to animal life). The plants don't seem to mind this.
Even way back in 1969 there were research papers, such as "Ethylene and Carbon Dioxide in the Growth and Development of Cultured Radish Roots," that grew plants with constant 10,000ppm CO2 exposure with no ill-effect.
The 24-inch 600dpi display he so desperately wants requires a resolution of 12,000 x 7,500 pixels. A 600dpi, 24-bit colour 12,000 x 7,500 @ 60Hz display requires a 129.6Gbps communications bandwidth, which well and truly exceeds any (currently available) display bus connectivity.
HDMI 1.4 has a maximum video bandwidth of 8.16Gbps. Even a 4-lane DisplayPort connection has a maximum bandwidth of only 17.2Gbps. It's not HDTV that's limited the progress of desktop display resolutions, it's the lack of a decent high-bandwidth display communications link.
All this is academic, though. How many people would *really* be able to tell the difference between a 96dpi and 200dpi display on their desktop (IBM makes 200dpi displays, by the way), let alone a 600dpi display.
Don't worry, it's just another case of news reporters watching too many US television programs that have an air of "scientific plausibility" about them (yes, "CSI: Crap" and your ilk, I'm looking at you with your fictional "GPS Tracking Systems" conveniently built into every mobile phone and car of characters that you need to find).
Just mention the term "GPS" and everyone automatically thinks that there's a network of satellites up there tracking their every move, instead of a network of satellites up there sending out radio signals that a little receiver down here gets to figure out where it is located on the planet.
GPS has its own timecode system - it's central to the method and operation of the system. It doesn't need NTP or a WAIS receiver to get synchronised time signals. Bonus: the GPS receiver allows accurate tagging of the camera's location in the enforcement pictures.
They have such a system installed along various major roads outside Melbourne (Australia).
What the RTV found was that the "hoons" were using the devices for competitions to see who could get the highest speed, not really conducive to Road Safety, so they had to change the software on the displays to blink "Too Fast" if you were travelling at more than 15 or 20km/h over the posted limit.
Firewalls have been put on the routers (or some intermediate device) instead of the hosts precisely because the hosts can't be trusted. Certain hosts will always be subject to variations of the Ping-of-Death theme and tainted payloads and will never be safe with host-based firewalls.
Lest we forget... Apple used to install manufacturer-specific hard disk drivers in a special boot record on the hard disk (this is back in the days when Apple used SCSI disk drives).
Too bad if you went to upgrade to a larger hard disk and just cloned the old hard disk contents across to the new one - the system wouldn't boot, or it would even crash with random data destruction, until you managed to get the new manufacturer-specific driver into the boot record. At least, in the data destruction case, you still had the old hard disk providing a backup.
It's a liability shift that they hope will fly under the radar, since, for them, it means losing less money refunding stolen funds, and making more money from the overdraft fees that result.
You're kidding yourself if you think that the banks are losing that money. They do a chargeback on the merchant.
A lot of the audit rolls in cash registers also record card numbers.
And yet business is heard to say, "we only store card numbers in encrypted data marts." My ass.
The linked Bad Money Advice article makes the incorrect assumption that the consumers that are the victims in fraudulent credit card use. This is almost never the case.
Having suffered through a fraudulent purchase on my Visa card I was annoyed that the bank (read: Visa corp. behind the bank) took a full 45 business days to reverse the transaction, and I was annoyed that I had to fight with the bank to reverse the related overcharge fee (the purchase should never have been approved if it would exceed my limit) and interest charges on that fraudulent purchase, but that was only a minor inconvenience. The real victim in the transaction was the Harvard University Book Store who'd charged the original purchase - they had a chargeback on their account, so they doubly lost out on the amount of several hundred US-dollars in their bank account plus the cost of stock that they'd sold.
The banks and credit card companies don't care about fraudulent credit card use and they have no incentive to fix it. They charge the consumers interest on purchases, they charge the merchants merchant fees and they chargeback merchants whenever there's a fraudulent purchase. They are, quite literally, laughing all the way to the bank.
I don't want censorship at all. But I think it's hilarious that America, which is so censored that it can't even show boobies on television (nipples, specifically), is telling Australia that it shouldn't be censoring things.
There was an article posted only a couple of days ago that essentially said censorship is harmful to democracy. Maybe both the US and Australian governments should get out of censorship altogether, lest they wind up like China.
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Who cares about what possible (unlikely) improvement this would be solar cells. How about camera optics?
In particular, this NIM would be useful for correcting chromatic aberration, which I currently have to correct for planetary imaging in software (which is a bit of a hit-and-miss affair, unfortunately).
For the technically curious, there's a high-level overview of the technology in an NEC media release here:
http://www.nec.com.au/News-Media/Media-Centre/Media-Releases/NEC-Develops-Video-Content-Identification-Technology-that-Detects-Illegal-Video-Copies-on-the-Internet-in-a-Matter-of-Seconds.html
Unfortunately you can't make that assumption any more.
Even national telcos, such as Telstra in Australia, are routing all of their landline and mobile voice and data telecommunications over IP networks (and have done so since 2007).
The Brightside zoned backlighting scheme was a very interesting idea when it first came out, however, it is actually the source of the problems outlined above because the screen is typically split up into only 24 zones (a 6 wide by 4 high array). This equates to a pixel area of about 320x270 per zone on a Full-HD panel.
Brightside was acquired by Dolby Laboratories, who now licenses the technology to various OEMs under their own name (Brightside as a corporation and a web site is no more).
Last time I checked, the human eye is most sensitive to wavelengths near 555 nm. In other words, green.
They also are kind of bound to keep themselves kid-friendly, which means more adult-oriented accessories are out of their picture -- no Wii-AK-47s or Wii-M16A4s with sniper scopes.
Ah, you must have missed the Wiimote Shotgun Rifle accessory. (I have the Wii Zapper/Link's Crossbow Training bundle too, by the way, which was somewhat disappointing.)
As you said, doesn't seem notable:
http://au.gamespot.com/news/2004/07/29/news_6103712.html (from 2004)
In the interview he said, "Retailers should focus on what sells." Well, the Wii sells and it sells well, certainly better than the PS3 and Xbox 360. So what's so wrong with it?
To those Firefox users wondering why the http://xn--4gbrim.xn----rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/ar/default.aspx link in TFA didn't display non-ASCII characters in the address bar...
Yes, Firefox supports International Domain Names, but there's a bunch of Whitelist Preferences in about:config that control which TLD's will work. The .xn--wgbh1c isn't in there, so you need to make sure you have the following preferences:
Extra hint: Changing the preference will not affect currently-open tabs and windows.
We're talking about water here, which doesn't, you know, make a very good rocket fuel.
You're quite correct that it would take a large amount of energy to harvest water, probably more energy than it's worth, but just what do you think it is that they keep in that really big fuel tank on the belly of the Space Shuttle?
The main function of the Space Shuttle external is to supply the liquid oxygen and hydrogen fuel to the Space Shuttle main engines. It is also the backbone of the launch vehicle providing attachment points for the two Solid Rocket Boosters and the Orbiter. The external tank is the only part of the shuttle system that is not reused. Although the external tanks have always been discarded, it is possible to take them into orbit and re-use them (such as for incorporation into a space station).
Water is H2O, hydrogen and oxygen, after all.
The whole topic is nonsense. They can't even pull oil from the Gulf floor without having a disaster.
I love to bag the Yanks as much as the next guy, but I'd like to point out that it's BP (British Petroleum) that can't even pull oil from the Gulf floor without having a disaster.
From: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/innovation/episode7_essay1.html
Telesurgery made international news on September 7, 2001, when the first transatlantic surgical procedure took place between New York City and Strasbourg, France at a distance of nearly 4,000 miles. Dubbed "Operation Lindbergh" after Charles Lindbergh's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic, the surgery was a landmark in experimental long distance telesurgery.
This was also reported in the BBC News, so the English really should know better: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1552211.stm
Plants don't like more than about 1000-1500 PPM CO2, any higher than that and you start hitting problems.
Maybe, maybe not.
Some greenhouses routinely raise their CO2 levels above 10,000-15,000ppm for several hours at a time so as to kill insects pests (levels above 5,000ppm are considered to be toxic to animal life). The plants don't seem to mind this.
Even way back in 1969 there were research papers, such as "Ethylene and Carbon Dioxide in the Growth and Development of Cultured Radish Roots," that grew plants with constant 10,000ppm CO2 exposure with no ill-effect.
The 24-inch 600dpi display he so desperately wants requires a resolution of 12,000 x 7,500 pixels. A 600dpi, 24-bit colour 12,000 x 7,500 @ 60Hz display requires a 129.6Gbps communications bandwidth, which well and truly exceeds any (currently available) display bus connectivity.
HDMI 1.4 has a maximum video bandwidth of 8.16Gbps. Even a 4-lane DisplayPort connection has a maximum bandwidth of only 17.2Gbps. It's not HDTV that's limited the progress of desktop display resolutions, it's the lack of a decent high-bandwidth display communications link.
All this is academic, though. How many people would *really* be able to tell the difference between a 96dpi and 200dpi display on their desktop (IBM makes 200dpi displays, by the way), let alone a 600dpi display.
Don't worry, it's just another case of news reporters watching too many US television programs that have an air of "scientific plausibility" about them (yes, "CSI: Crap" and your ilk, I'm looking at you with your fictional "GPS Tracking Systems" conveniently built into every mobile phone and car of characters that you need to find).
Just mention the term "GPS" and everyone automatically thinks that there's a network of satellites up there tracking their every move, instead of a network of satellites up there sending out radio signals that a little receiver down here gets to figure out where it is located on the planet.
By that logic: Doesn't it seem odd that every GPS receiver manufacturer out there is profiting off of the US's GPS satellite expenditure?
GPS has its own timecode system - it's central to the method and operation of the system. It doesn't need NTP or a WAIS receiver to get synchronised time signals. Bonus: the GPS receiver allows accurate tagging of the camera's location in the enforcement pictures.
What about wormholes? What about Deloreans?
They have such a system installed along various major roads outside Melbourne (Australia).
What the RTV found was that the "hoons" were using the devices for competitions to see who could get the highest speed, not really conducive to Road Safety, so they had to change the software on the displays to blink "Too Fast" if you were travelling at more than 15 or 20km/h over the posted limit.
Firewalls have been put on the routers (or some intermediate device) instead of the hosts precisely because the hosts can't be trusted. Certain hosts will always be subject to variations of the Ping-of-Death theme and tainted payloads and will never be safe with host-based firewalls.
Lest we forget... Apple used to install manufacturer-specific hard disk drivers in a special boot record on the hard disk (this is back in the days when Apple used SCSI disk drives).
Too bad if you went to upgrade to a larger hard disk and just cloned the old hard disk contents across to the new one - the system wouldn't boot, or it would even crash with random data destruction, until you managed to get the new manufacturer-specific driver into the boot record. At least, in the data destruction case, you still had the old hard disk providing a backup.
It's a liability shift that they hope will fly under the radar, since, for them, it means losing less money refunding stolen funds, and making more money from the overdraft fees that result.
You're kidding yourself if you think that the banks are losing that money. They do a chargeback on the merchant.
A lot of the audit rolls in cash registers also record card numbers. And yet business is heard to say, "we only store card numbers in encrypted data marts." My ass.
The linked Bad Money Advice article makes the incorrect assumption that the consumers that are the victims in fraudulent credit card use. This is almost never the case.
Having suffered through a fraudulent purchase on my Visa card I was annoyed that the bank (read: Visa corp. behind the bank) took a full 45 business days to reverse the transaction, and I was annoyed that I had to fight with the bank to reverse the related overcharge fee (the purchase should never have been approved if it would exceed my limit) and interest charges on that fraudulent purchase, but that was only a minor inconvenience. The real victim in the transaction was the Harvard University Book Store who'd charged the original purchase - they had a chargeback on their account, so they doubly lost out on the amount of several hundred US-dollars in their bank account plus the cost of stock that they'd sold.
The banks and credit card companies don't care about fraudulent credit card use and they have no incentive to fix it. They charge the consumers interest on purchases, they charge the merchants merchant fees and they chargeback merchants whenever there's a fraudulent purchase. They are, quite literally, laughing all the way to the bank.
Didn't you know the ET's moved to subspace aeons ago?
I don't want censorship at all. But I think it's hilarious that America, which is so censored that it can't even show boobies on television (nipples, specifically), is telling Australia that it shouldn't be censoring things.
There was an article posted only a couple of days ago that essentially said censorship is harmful to democracy. Maybe both the US and Australian governments should get out of censorship altogether, lest they wind up like China.