In civil engineering projects, I've noticed a lot of people getting wise to the "finish on time" thing, by imposing rewards for finishing early--$10k for every day the project is finished early--and penalties for finishing late--$10k for every day the project is late. Contractor's estimates tend to get a lot more reasonable when they know that finishing two weeks late is going to cost them $140k.
Theatrical productions, at least up to the regional level--I don't have experience above that, have the philosophy of hard deadlines (which actually make them hard to model is most project mgmt software-- they don't like deadlines that can't move). This is because at opening night, the audience is going to show up, so you have to be finished. I worked on a production where the preview performance got cancelled because of rain. Another stagehand and I were squeeging 2" of water off the stage when the audience rushed the gates and started to sit down, outside, in pouring rain. When you're faced with an angry mob, you'll finish on time.
You're supposing that "anybody" is smaller than, say, 35mx35m... Phobos has pretty low gravity, a creature of that size wouldn't be too structurally difficult.
I read about a similar product for storefronts a while back. The marketing mumbo-jumbo made it sound like the most magical thing ever. I can't find the site now, but it looks like this thing from their descriptions.
Basically, they were using standard projectors to project onto a transparent screen. They could do these cool things in storefronts, since they could control the POV (mostly just the one) and keep the ambient light level down (since the store was closed & the other lights off).
I'll be very interested to see if this one isn't more marketing fluff. You'll notice in the picture on the linked site that the image isn't off the screen...
ianaz/b/eia - in the article it mentions that the plants are harvested as they die. Possibly before germination. Handy thing about heavy metals is that they're poisonous.
Like yeast and liqour-- you have to distill because the yeast dies at 18% alcohol content.
And I'll third (or fourth) this. You should also check with rental shops around, many of them have piles of the old ones they'll sell or give to you on the cheap.
The Wayback machine does archive robots.txt, it seems like the whitehouse updates this file about every week or so. The current update happened after April 13th, 2003, and it simply took all of those references that said ".../.../.../text" and added/iraq as well.
Seems odd and pointless to me. I'd like a statement explaining it. A lot like the "Disallow:/hidden/passwd" kind of entries.
IANAL -- Public performance counts as a "copy" of a copyrighted work whether or not you charge for the performance. Sam French published works carry a rather terse warning to this effect. It's a lot harder to prove damages, but you can still file criminal charges.
OTOH, most schools, etc, who don't charge for performances (or for some performances), frequently don't pay royalties. Some get busted-- it's hard to promote a theatrical production w/o making it publicly known which play you're doing.
I live in the SF Bay area, and mostly go across the bay bridge on the weekends, so I end up sitting in traffic waiting for the tolls. Most of the people aren't commuters, and so it backs up differently than the commute.
I take the attitude of all the lanes are going pretty close to average speed, and 15 cars back there's no way to predict that. So when a lane goes significantly faster for a moment, I don't ditch out to try to get in that lane. However, there seems to be a lot of people who just keep switching lanes trying to be in the fastest one. I usually keep pace with them, sitting in my one lane. However, when around 5 to 20 percent of the people in the system are switching lanes, it slows everyone down.
Or at least that's my perception. Are they really slowing us down, or is it the people fumbling for change at the tolls? I think the same is true of the cut-and-weave pattern on the highway-- it certainly speeds up the person who is cutting and weaving, but it slows everyone else down. Or maybe I should stop thinking and start driving.
What Color Kinetics does, and does really well, is do smooth color fades and smooth dimming with the LEDs. This isn't fantastic, but it is pretty nifty. It's more than just hitting a switch (at least in many architectural/theatrical uses)
Actually for motion capture (a la Matrix), you'd do better in a black unitard--like full body tights-- with a grid of little day-glo dots... even different colored front and back faces. i.e., yellow for front, blue for back.
Darken the room, black curtains, and use blacklight to light the figure. The dots will POP way above the level of the black or any face/hands shown.
Would be a very cool app to do this from moderatly-low-quality webcams... =^)
Q1: How fast is USB?
A1: High speed USB products have a design data rate of 480 Mb/s. Full speed USB devices signal at 12Mb/s, while low speed devices use a 1.5Mb/s subchannel.
From the USB FAQ, seems they just dropped the 1.1 and 2 designation, there's no mention of them on their website. My guess is the mfg's are pulling the fast one, although the High speed/full speed naming convention should be clearer.
Read a little deeper-- it actually helps you. It's proposing labeling not copy protection. Kind of like knowing you're buying something that has explicit lyrics you might not want to-- you can know that you're buying something with explicit copy protection you might not want.
B.
So, the article didn't really mention this but in passing, but given:
a) manifold movements are cyclical
b) extinction cycles are cyclical
A + B means large, slow, asteroids are pretty much funnelled in this way on a regular basis. I wonder if NEAR is looking at this as a way to predict odds of getting hit during a certain century.
It really doesn't seem to be for display-purposes. OMRON makes industrial controls, &c-- they said their primary use would be replacing signal lights. Here in California, most of the traffic lights are now arrays of LEDs, this seems to be proposing to (once they're bright enough) replace the array with a single unit. Stadium displays could benefit-- most of them simply spread out the 'pixels' when the display is viewed from further.
The innovation is simply to redesign the LED reflector design to reflect current trends in use.
I agree with you, except on the "previous business" clause--
While I don't expect to get buried in spam from companies I've done business with, getting unsolicited e-mails from companies I might want to do business with, which can include non-bulk e-mails, like a salesman doing a direct, personal, followup a few months later saying "Anything else you want?" can be useful, and could lead to absurd fines if the law doesn't include a clause for it.
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In civil engineering projects, I've noticed a lot of people getting wise to the "finish on time" thing, by imposing rewards for finishing early--$10k for every day the project is finished early--and penalties for finishing late--$10k for every day the project is late. Contractor's estimates tend to get a lot more reasonable when they know that finishing two weeks late is going to cost them $140k.
Theatrical productions, at least up to the regional level--I don't have experience above that, have the philosophy of hard deadlines (which actually make them hard to model is most project mgmt software-- they don't like deadlines that can't move). This is because at opening night, the audience is going to show up, so you have to be finished. I worked on a production where the preview performance got cancelled because of rain. Another stagehand and I were squeeging 2" of water off the stage when the audience rushed the gates and started to sit down, outside, in pouring rain. When you're faced with an angry mob, you'll finish on time.
You're supposing that "anybody" is smaller than, say, 35mx35m... Phobos has pretty low gravity, a creature of that size wouldn't be too structurally difficult.
Basically, they were using standard projectors to project onto a transparent screen. They could do these cool things in storefronts, since they could control the POV (mostly just the one) and keep the ambient light level down (since the store was closed & the other lights off).
I'll be very interested to see if this one isn't more marketing fluff. You'll notice in the picture on the linked site that the image isn't off the screen...
Like yeast and liqour-- you have to distill because the yeast dies at 18% alcohol content.
I wonder if it's programmed to take Pittsburgh Lefts too...
And I'll third (or fourth) this. You should also check with rental shops around, many of them have piles of the old ones they'll sell or give to you on the cheap.
Seems odd and pointless to me. I'd like a statement explaining it. A lot like the "Disallow: /hidden/passwd" kind of entries.
OTOH, most schools, etc, who don't charge for performances (or for some performances), frequently don't pay royalties. Some get busted-- it's hard to promote a theatrical production w/o making it publicly known which play you're doing.
I live in the SF Bay area, and mostly go across the bay bridge on the weekends, so I end up sitting in traffic waiting for the tolls. Most of the people aren't commuters, and so it backs up differently than the commute.
I take the attitude of all the lanes are going pretty close to average speed, and 15 cars back there's no way to predict that. So when a lane goes significantly faster for a moment, I don't ditch out to try to get in that lane. However, there seems to be a lot of people who just keep switching lanes trying to be in the fastest one. I usually keep pace with them, sitting in my one lane. However, when around 5 to 20 percent of the people in the system are switching lanes, it slows everyone down.
Or at least that's my perception. Are they really slowing us down, or is it the people fumbling for change at the tolls? I think the same is true of the cut-and-weave pattern on the highway-- it certainly speeds up the person who is cutting and weaving, but it slows everyone else down. Or maybe I should stop thinking and start driving.
What Color Kinetics does, and does really well, is do smooth color fades and smooth dimming with the LEDs. This isn't fantastic, but it is pretty nifty. It's more than just hitting a switch (at least in many architectural/theatrical uses)
=) B
Darken the room, black curtains, and use blacklight to light the figure. The dots will POP way above the level of the black or any face/hands shown.
Would be a very cool app to do this from moderatly-low-quality webcams... =^)
A1: High speed USB products have a design data rate of 480 Mb/s. Full speed USB devices signal at 12Mb/s, while low speed devices use a 1.5Mb/s subchannel.
From the USB FAQ, seems they just dropped the 1.1 and 2 designation, there's no mention of them on their website. My guess is the mfg's are pulling the fast one, although the High speed/full speed naming convention should be clearer.
Read a little deeper-- it actually helps you. It's proposing labeling not copy protection. Kind of like knowing you're buying something that has explicit lyrics you might not want to-- you can know that you're buying something with explicit copy protection you might not want.
B.
a) manifold movements are cyclical
b) extinction cycles are cyclical
A + B means large, slow, asteroids are pretty much funnelled in this way on a regular basis. I wonder if NEAR is looking at this as a way to predict odds of getting hit during a certain century.
Maybe I should just go back to bed.
-- B
The innovation is simply to redesign the LED reflector design to reflect current trends in use.
While I don't expect to get buried in spam from companies I've done business with, getting unsolicited e-mails from companies I might want to do business with, which can include non-bulk e-mails, like a salesman doing a direct, personal, followup a few months later saying "Anything else you want?" can be useful, and could lead to absurd fines if the law doesn't include a clause for it.
Just my .02