My high school physics teacher had something very similar to this in the classroom in 1993. I think he said the software and antenna cost him $175 if I remember correctly. There may have been an educational discount involved though I suppose.
The software he had was really slick it would even display IR data from some satelites over a photo so as you drug the mouse around, you could see the temperature of the pixel you were pointing to.
Just like in the example given in the article, there were times in which there were no satellites overhead to connect to, but I remember there being a large selection of sattelites that it would listen to including a bunch of foreign weather satelites.
I wish I had more specifics but that's all I can remember right now.
So I'm supposed to feel sorry for the richest company in the world and one of the wealthiest industries because "pirates" are stealing their "warez"? Ok, I'll put them on my prioritized pity list. I think I have a little more pity for your average lottery winner but less pity for the hairy mole on my ass.
Hollywood and Microsoft are uniting to warn Congress that their intellectual property is being stolen and resold by organized-crime gangs around the globe
How about somebody unite to warn congress that we've got 40 fucking million people in this country without health insurance?
"Organized crime syndicates are frequently engaged in many types of illicit enterprises, including supporting terrorist activities,"
Give me a break. There are a million ways to make money to "support terrorism." I'm sure terrorist activities are actually funded by LEGAL income as much if not more than illegal income.
The MPAA and Microsoft, as usual, can fuck off. We've got better things for our politicians to waste their time with this. Please. They have more than enough problems to solve. This kind of shit just gums up the works.
Anybody else notice that 1.3 can't handle some of the.jpg's on their site? I installed 1.3 today and I'd say about a 5th of my images(all created by photoshop) were no longer viewable.
I exported them with a bunch of different options and it appears that unchecking the "optimized" checkbox and saving them again fixes the problem. To be honest, I'm not sure what making a.jpg "optimized" does but I guess I won't be using the option anymore. Weird.
These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday. These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday. These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday. These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday. These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday.
I took high school physics too smartass. I understand that energy cannot be created or destroyed and all that junk. What I'm saying is that we can achieve a net gain in the amount of energy available to us. We do it all the time. We extract potenial energy from places where it was stored by natural processes. In the case of fossil fuels, it was millions of years of pressure or whatever. In the case of most energy sources, you can trace it back to the sun if you go far enough.
We may not have a clean source of hydrogen right now that costs us less energy to extract than it is able to produce but that doesn't mean we won't find one eventually. It is the most plentiful element in the universe afterall. And even if we don't, it's a very clean way of storing energy. Much cleaner than batteries. Also, I'm not sure of the life expectancy of a fuel cell but it has to be better than a modern battery.
Sure it's not ready for mainstream use but the article never claimed it was. The purpose was to make a case for getting the research jump-started and trying to start freeing ourselves from dependence on foreign oil. It's something we desparately need to do soon somehow and right now fuel cells seem like one of our best bets.
I was at the Department of Energy's website a couple of Saturdays ago and if I read the reports correctly and did the math right, we would have roughly 6 years of oil left at our current consumption levels without foreign oil. It also looked to me like the world had roughly 40 years worth of oil left period. We have to do something soon. That's not a lot of time.
Hydrogen is a storage medium for energy, it can only contain the amount of energy to put into it. If it takes 1kW to crack the H2O to get hydrogen, a 100% efficient process could only extract 1kW back out of that hydrogen.
Well, first off, you are assuming that we're extracting the hydrogen from water (the cleanest but least efficent way we can produce it right now). Fuel cells work by putting water back together so obviously we're not going to get a net gain of energy from that. However, if we to find other places to extract hydrogen, other natural phenomenon to exploit, we could potentially produce hydrogen in a manner in which we get a net gain in energy. Something has to put the energy in but it doesn't have to be us.
Also, you may say that using hydrogen as a storage medium is inefficient and therefor a bad idea. However, our most efficient batteries right now have short lives, aren't very efficient either, and are toxic as all hell. Providing we can get the performance we need out of them, fuel cells could very well be an elegant, clean alternative to batteries.
This should come as no suprise to anybody familiar with alternative fuel vechicles. GM lost huge amounts of money on every EV1 sold. The batteries for electric cars are outrageously expensive. In fact, I have a friend who's an engineer for Honda. When they were trying to design an electric car the joke was that the cheapest way to build it would be to go out and buy an EV1 and take its batteries.
This is an absurd article with a misleading title.
A radio station studio isn't what I would call a "Professional Recording Studio". I would call it a broadcast studio or something. They have completely different needs from a studio where musicians are recording music. That's the type of studio that I would call a "Recording" studio. A broadcast studio just has the must rudimentary editing, archiving, and transporting issues to deal with. Cut, copy, paste, burn. Anything can do that.
The article doesn't talk sensibly about specific issues that they were having with their windoze system either. How were these viruses ravaging them through "some of the best firewall and virus software on the market"? As far as I can tell, we have completely incompetent network engineers and we're using McCafee AV on our network. We haven't had any significant problems with viruses in the two years I've been working here. What software was crashing on them also? Was there an affordable competing product?
What excact software are they using and for what purposes? It sounds to me like they're mainly encoding recordings into ogg files and burning CD's. This kind of work is nothing. I can do that on any one of my boxes, my old P133 linux box, my win2k machine, or my mac.
Linux may be coming up to speed for a radio station environment and that's great. I love seeing it work its way into little niches here and there. However, it's not even an option for a professional multitrack studio. Hardware compatibility just isn't there first off. Until I can install MOTU, Digidesign, or competing interfaces, it doesn't even matter what software I'm running. Of course really isn't linux software out there yet that can compete with things like Pro Tools, Digital Performer, Nuendo, etc. I'm sure it's coming but I haven't seen anything close to any one of these three applications.
This acrticle should have read "I found a great application for linux in a broadcast studio and I love it but I'm not going to tell you much about it. Oh and I hate windows". It would have saved me the time I wasted reading it.
Don't jump on digital impact too hard. I work for a MAJOR e-commerce site that contracts with Digital Impact. They are very good at sending out large volumes of e-mail reliably. We use them purely for legitimate, non-spam-type e-mails. Sure with time we could write the code to do it ourselves but they specialize in it. I'm not sure what MS has contracted them to do but as much as I hate to say it, it could be on the up and up. Not all high volume e-mails are spam.
As for overturning spam laws I'm skeptical that it is in the public's best interest but Digital Impact does offer valuable services.
Don't you love the way Photopaint deals with everything as objects instead of layers? I think this is much more intuitive. Don't get me wrong, I like photoshop and use it virtually daily because it's what my company supplies me with. But, I would gladly use photopaint instead.
I think this is probably good news. I'm glad that MS no longer has a stake in Corel. Some of Corel's products are very nice, high quality applications. Hopfully this VC firm will help bring them to competitive market shares. Frankly, I think Draw and Photopaint are far easier to learn that Photoshop and Illustrator. I also liked WordPerfect quite a bit more than current versions of MS Word though I still think Word 95 is to this day the best Word Processor ever written (flame away).
Good question. I filled up 4GB in about 10 hours. but those things will hold 2.5TB. Man, I don't know if I can even watch that much porn. I'd hate to say there's such a thing as too much porn but damn, that's a lot of porn.
Holy shit, GW actually did something right. I mean, I know it's not that hard picking up a pen and putting your signature where your political advisors tell you to. Still, this law rocks. I love it. If I could, I would marry it.
I am so on that list A.S.A.P.
These people are going to get a rude awakening when some piece of spyware or malicious website starts poping up porn ads everywhere and it shows up in their logs. Will their narrow-minded, conservative buddies believe that they didn't really intentionally hit that porn site? I doubt it considering that this product is for people that honestly believe that the proliferation of porn on the internet is a serious problem and that they need to somehow protect each other from it. If none of them would ever hit a porn site, then they obviously wouldn't need the product to begin with right?
As clever of an idea as this is for these ultra-conservative, bible-thumping freaks, I think it may actually fail for technical reasons alone.
What is wrong with the government helping small start-ups stay afloat? If done well, it creates jobs and revenue. This in turn creates more tax dollars. More jobs also means it swings the supply and demand for workers into the excess demand site. This helps assure fair treatment in the workplace more than any legislation ever has. When you can walk out the door for your choice of 10 different jobs, you are guaranteed to be treated more fairly.
As long as the money is distributed fairly and equitably amongst companies that truly need it, I don't see what the problem is. Also, keep in mind that "the government" in this article refers to Britain which is a socialist country. There are many things the British government does for its citizens that are private here in the states.
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If we jailed congressmen for stupid remarks, the house would be empty these days.
My high school physics teacher had something very similar to this in the classroom in 1993. I think he said the software and antenna cost him $175 if I remember correctly. There may have been an educational discount involved though I suppose.
The software he had was really slick it would even display IR data from some satelites over a photo so as you drug the mouse around, you could see the temperature of the pixel you were pointing to.
Just like in the example given in the article, there were times in which there were no satellites overhead to connect to, but I remember there being a large selection of sattelites that it would listen to including a bunch of foreign weather satelites.
I wish I had more specifics but that's all I can remember right now.
So I'm supposed to feel sorry for the richest company in the world and one of the wealthiest industries because "pirates" are stealing their "warez"? Ok, I'll put them on my prioritized pity list. I think I have a little more pity for your average lottery winner but less pity for the hairy mole on my ass.
Hollywood and Microsoft are uniting to warn Congress that their intellectual property is being stolen and resold by organized-crime gangs around the globe
How about somebody unite to warn congress that we've got 40 fucking million people in this country without health insurance?
"Organized crime syndicates are frequently engaged in many types of illicit enterprises, including supporting terrorist activities,"
Give me a break. There are a million ways to make money to "support terrorism." I'm sure terrorist activities are actually funded by LEGAL income as much if not more than illegal income.
The MPAA and Microsoft, as usual, can fuck off. We've got better things for our politicians to waste their time with this. Please. They have more than enough problems to solve. This kind of shit just gums up the works.
Anybody else notice that 1.3 can't handle some of the .jpg's on their site? I installed 1.3 today and I'd say about a 5th of my images(all created by photoshop) were no longer viewable.
.jpg "optimized" does but I guess I won't be using the option anymore. Weird.
I exported them with a bunch of different options and it appears that unchecking the "optimized" checkbox and saving them again fixes the problem. To be honest, I'm not sure what making a
That is funny, but not correct. See an explanation of the hippocampus here.
Hey, stop trolling my karma whoring.
These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday.
These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday.
These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday.
These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday.
These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday.
I took high school physics too smartass. I understand that energy cannot be created or destroyed and all that junk. What I'm saying is that we can achieve a net gain in the amount of energy available to us. We do it all the time. We extract potenial energy from places where it was stored by natural processes. In the case of fossil fuels, it was millions of years of pressure or whatever. In the case of most energy sources, you can trace it back to the sun if you go far enough.
We may not have a clean source of hydrogen right now that costs us less energy to extract than it is able to produce but that doesn't mean we won't find one eventually. It is the most plentiful element in the universe afterall. And even if we don't, it's a very clean way of storing energy. Much cleaner than batteries. Also, I'm not sure of the life expectancy of a fuel cell but it has to be better than a modern battery.
Sure it's not ready for mainstream use but the article never claimed it was. The purpose was to make a case for getting the research jump-started and trying to start freeing ourselves from dependence on foreign oil. It's something we desparately need to do soon somehow and right now fuel cells seem like one of our best bets.
I was at the Department of Energy's website a couple of Saturdays ago and if I read the reports correctly and did the math right, we would have roughly 6 years of oil left at our current consumption levels without foreign oil. It also looked to me like the world had roughly 40 years worth of oil left period. We have to do something soon. That's not a lot of time.
Hydrogen is a storage medium for energy, it can only contain the amount of energy to put into it. If it takes 1kW to crack the H2O to get hydrogen, a 100% efficient process could only extract 1kW back out of that hydrogen.
Well, first off, you are assuming that we're extracting the hydrogen from water (the cleanest but least efficent way we can produce it right now). Fuel cells work by putting water back together so obviously we're not going to get a net gain of energy from that. However, if we to find other places to extract hydrogen, other natural phenomenon to exploit, we could potentially produce hydrogen in a manner in which we get a net gain in energy. Something has to put the energy in but it doesn't have to be us.
Also, you may say that using hydrogen as a storage medium is inefficient and therefor a bad idea. However, our most efficient batteries right now have short lives, aren't very efficient either, and are toxic as all hell. Providing we can get the performance we need out of them, fuel cells could very well be an elegant, clean alternative to batteries.
This should come as no suprise to anybody familiar with alternative fuel vechicles. GM lost huge amounts of money on every EV1 sold. The batteries for electric cars are outrageously expensive. In fact, I have a friend who's an engineer for Honda. When they were trying to design an electric car the joke was that the cheapest way to build it would be to go out and buy an EV1 and take its batteries.
This is an absurd article with a misleading title.
A radio station studio isn't what I would call a "Professional Recording Studio". I would call it a broadcast studio or something. They have completely different needs from a studio where musicians are recording music. That's the type of studio that I would call a "Recording" studio. A broadcast studio just has the must rudimentary editing, archiving, and transporting issues to deal with. Cut, copy, paste, burn. Anything can do that.
The article doesn't talk sensibly about specific issues that they were having with their windoze system either. How were these viruses ravaging them through "some of the best firewall and virus software on the market"? As far as I can tell, we have completely incompetent network engineers and we're using McCafee AV on our network. We haven't had any significant problems with viruses in the two years I've been working here. What software was crashing on them also? Was there an affordable competing product?
What excact software are they using and for what purposes? It sounds to me like they're mainly encoding recordings into ogg files and burning CD's. This kind of work is nothing. I can do that on any one of my boxes, my old P133 linux box, my win2k machine, or my mac.
Linux may be coming up to speed for a radio station environment and that's great. I love seeing it work its way into little niches here and there. However, it's not even an option for a professional multitrack studio. Hardware compatibility just isn't there first off. Until I can install MOTU, Digidesign, or competing interfaces, it doesn't even matter what software I'm running. Of course really isn't linux software out there yet that can compete with things like Pro Tools, Digital Performer, Nuendo, etc. I'm sure it's coming but I haven't seen anything close to any one of these three applications.
This acrticle should have read "I found a great application for linux in a broadcast studio and I love it but I'm not going to tell you much about it. Oh and I hate windows". It would have saved me the time I wasted reading it.
Don't jump on digital impact too hard. I work for a MAJOR e-commerce site that contracts with Digital Impact. They are very good at sending out large volumes of e-mail reliably. We use them purely for legitimate, non-spam-type e-mails. Sure with time we could write the code to do it ourselves but they specialize in it. I'm not sure what MS has contracted them to do but as much as I hate to say it, it could be on the up and up. Not all high volume e-mails are spam.
As for overturning spam laws I'm skeptical that it is in the public's best interest but Digital Impact does offer valuable services.
Don't you love the way Photopaint deals with everything as objects instead of layers? I think this is much more intuitive. Don't get me wrong, I like photoshop and use it virtually daily because it's what my company supplies me with. But, I would gladly use photopaint instead.
I think this is probably good news. I'm glad that MS no longer has a stake in Corel. Some of Corel's products are very nice, high quality applications. Hopfully this VC firm will help bring them to competitive market shares. Frankly, I think Draw and Photopaint are far easier to learn that Photoshop and Illustrator. I also liked WordPerfect quite a bit more than current versions of MS Word though I still think Word 95 is to this day the best Word Processor ever written (flame away).
Good question. I filled up 4GB in about 10 hours. but those things will hold 2.5TB. Man, I don't know if I can even watch that much porn. I'd hate to say there's such a thing as too much porn but damn, that's a lot of porn.
Holy shit, GW actually did something right. I mean, I know it's not that hard picking up a pen and putting your signature where your political advisors tell you to. Still, this law rocks. I love it. If I could, I would marry it. I am so on that list A.S.A.P.
heh, alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica + news sniffer = time to get a bigger hard drive ;)
These people are going to get a rude awakening when some piece of spyware or malicious website starts poping up porn ads everywhere and it shows up in their logs. Will their narrow-minded, conservative buddies believe that they didn't really intentionally hit that porn site? I doubt it considering that this product is for people that honestly believe that the proliferation of porn on the internet is a serious problem and that they need to somehow protect each other from it. If none of them would ever hit a porn site, then they obviously wouldn't need the product to begin with right?
As clever of an idea as this is for these ultra-conservative, bible-thumping freaks, I think it may actually fail for technical reasons alone.
Knowing the guys I work with, this technology could possibly allow me to build the best list of free porn sites ever.
What is wrong with the government helping small start-ups stay afloat? If done well, it creates jobs and revenue. This in turn creates more tax dollars. More jobs also means it swings the supply and demand for workers into the excess demand site. This helps assure fair treatment in the workplace more than any legislation ever has. When you can walk out the door for your choice of 10 different jobs, you are guaranteed to be treated more fairly.
As long as the money is distributed fairly and equitably amongst companies that truly need it, I don't see what the problem is. Also, keep in mind that "the government" in this article refers to Britain which is a socialist country. There are many things the British government does for its citizens that are private here in the states.