Where this is really going to come in handy is for super-wide gamut monitors for artists to do things like photo correction and and soft proofing
Now that the leading inkjet manufacturers have dot placement that's arbitrarily small with respect to bleed on even the best inkjet papers (5760 DPI & better), and they have dot size that's arbitrarily small for creating smooth gradients (1.5 picoliter), they've decided to start going after color gamut. With the new small droplet size, Epson didn't need light cyan, light magenta, and grey to acheive smooth tones anymore on the R800, so they added Blue & Red to the CMYK inks.
Previously, most high-end monitors encompassed almost the entire CMYK printable color space, lacking only a few extreme cyans and magentas. But soon, we will need these extended gamut monitors to see all the colors we can print.
"... this was a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. Had this been a real emergency, the tone you just heard would have been followed by panicked shouting and terrified screams. This concludes our test of The Emergency Broadcast System."
I wonder if any of the judges of the 9th Circuit have read Foucault. Discipline and Punish is one of the best original sociological works on prison surveillance. (although the Panopticon is a little less high-tech.)
I recognize the judges are required to base their decisions upon the laws of the United States, and not the sociological or psychological issues involved, but I still like to hope they are well-informed on all aspects of the topic when weighing these issues.
Maybe the next step is for all the components to come in lego bricks. The self-organizing bus won't care what order you put them together in, so whenever you add a component (50 GB flash drive, GPU, firewire ports, ect.) you just click it on somewhere, and it adds it into the system.
I know there are already other responses that provide more facts and arguments about skin break-down voltages, fibrillation, etc, but just think for a moment: according to your logic, sticking your finger in an electric outlet is a very safe thing to do. That's only 110 volts, which at your reasoning would provide a trivial.11 mA of current.
Why don't you explain your theories to the families of the approximately 500 people a year in the US who are electrocuted from household 110 and 220 V sources.
As a kid, I did something stupid and got a 110 volt shock, and let me tell you, it's not a trivial shock.
A 35 mm negative taken on a fine-grained, professional film is worth scanning at about 8 megapixels. With only lossless, TIFF-like compression, let's call that a 20 MB file. A 35 mm motion-picture film frame is half that size. An IMAX frame is 10 times the area of a 35 mm motion picture frame, so let's call the scan 100 MB.
IMAX runs at 30 frames per second, and let's say we want to record a typical 2 hour movie. That's 21 terabytes. Furthermore, your storage medium needs to have a read speed of 3 GB/s, so you're not going to use a cheap IDE RAID array.
OK, I'm sure some better compression (like Pixlet) could improve the storage requirements some, but that would also require some pretty hefty processing to do advanced decoding on 3 GB/s of information flow in real time.
It's within the realm of reason, and hell, your PDA will probably have that in a few years, but it certainly wouldn't be a minimal cost to distribute in that format now.
"Both are MUCH better than the human eye, I'm afraid."
Yes, the dynamic range of CCD's and film is much higher than that of the cones of the human eye, but it's not a fair comparison. On the picture, you have to set the aperture on your camera once, take the shot, and be done with it. The film must capture the entire dynamic range you want in the image with one exposure setting.
Were a human standing in the same place observing the scene, her iris would change it's aperture on the fly many times a second, depending on exactly where she was looking. The "exposure" of her eye constantly changes, often making up for the lack of dynamic range at any particular instant.
Actually, while in an ideal world he probably shouldn't be prosecuted for investigating sensors in a public area, I do find it encouraging that, when he bothered Area 51, he got prosecuted, rather than just disappearing in the middle of the night.
I didn't read the entire document, but my understanding of the API's in there is that they are only to allow other applications to interface with Address Book, not to replace Address Book and allow another application to provide the address book's system-wide services.
Allowing other aps to interface with Address Book doesn't allow MS to sell a competitor that also provides system services using the same interface.
The published API's would help a third party to write an equivelent interface using those API's, but they'd basically have to hack the system to force Address Book and iCal out and replace them with something like Entourage. At least, that's my understanding of the situation. Apple is not providing the same opportunities to other developers that they give themselves; like some other company I can think of, they are using integration with the operating system to give their products a leg up on the competition.
I didn't read the entire document, but my understanding of the API's in there is that they are only to allow other applications to interface with Address Book, not to replace Address Book, and to provide the address book's system-wide services with another applicaton.
Allowing other aps to interface with Address Book doesn't allow MS to sell a competitor that also provides system services using the same interface.
I mean, it would help them to write an equivelent interface using those API's, but they'd basically have to hack the system to force Address Book and iCal out and replace them with Entourage's. At least, that's my understanding of the situation. Apple is not providing the same opportunities to other developers that they give themselves; like somne other company I can think of, they are using integration with the operating system to give their products a leg up on the sompetition.
"Now, there may be very good reason(s) why the MacBU chose not to integrate with the system PIM services"
It probably shouldn't be called a very good reason, but Entourage does have it's own integrated, competing calendar and address book, and Microsoft isn't exactly known for going out of their way to make their products bypass built-in features to interoperate nicely with the competition. Few programs from any vendor do.
In fact, it seems to me you may as easily ask why Apple didn't write open API's for the interface with address & calendar services so Microsoft could write Entourage in a way that other programs interface directly with it instead of with Address Book and iCal.
One other thing I'd like to note is that, while I miss the system integration (pulling Fax numbers out of Address Book when using print-to-fax, etc), Entourage's Address Book and Calendar are better than Apple's.
Anyway, there is a not-too-ugly way around this. There is a nice little app available that syncs Entourage & Address book. There's also a couple of converters from Entourage-> iCal. I know you don't want to run these all the time, but you don't have to. It should take about 2 minutes to assign an Applescript folder action to the folders that store the user data for both apps, that run the sync applications whenever the folder is updated. The only trick is that there's no ical-> Entourage import filter I could find, so you need to remember to make all your calendar updates in Entourage until there is one.
My favorites were always the ones they make you change your password all the time. Where I used to work, everyone had three passwords. At first, the company never made people change their passwords. Two of the passwords could be the same, and the third could be related (different number of characters required). People remembered their passwords, and I don't remember ever coming across someone else's.
Then, to increase security (without having had any problems, just, you know, to be more secure), they made it so that everyone had to change all three passwords every month, and the computer actually checked to make sure that no two were very similar to each other, or to the past month's password.
Suddenly, about half the computers in the office had a post-it-note on the monitor with a list of all three passwords. Since there were three, they always had the logins written conveniently beside them, so they could remember which account each password went with. This quickly got so bad that systems actually had to issue a rule you couldn't do this. But if you sat down at someone's desk and took a quick look around in the top desk drawer, under their calendar, etc, you could usually find their password sheet. (Yes, I sometimes looked, to just gauge the extent of the problem). Just walking around the office, you could see where people kept theirs because you'd see them checking the list just before they logged in.
At the same time, calls to Systems to reset passwords went through the roof. It got so bad they set up a separate phone number set up for password resetting. This number would often be busy so much that when someone forgot their password, instead of calling systems, they'd just ask someone else for theirs, or wander around to find a desk with them posted, and then use someone else's.
Perhaps they'll eventually notice how insecure this is. If they do, they'll probably make it so everyone has 10 different 30-character passwords they have to change every day. Just think how secure that would be!
I'm not sure I'm convinced, I think the primary reason water makes a much better coolant than air is that it has a much higher conductivity. Air is a great insulator.
You may be right that specific heat capacity plays a larger role when dealing with fluid cooling than when dealing with a solid heat sink. For one thing, the rate of temperture exchange is proportional to the temperature difference between the heat source and the heat sink, so when using a flowing liquid, one with a higher specific heat capacity won't heat up as quickly, so you can use a lower flow rate to acheive the same level of cooling. Of course, the rate of heat exchange is also proportional to the flow rate, so you start to lose other advantages when you turn the flow rate down. Also, on the other end, it's slower to disperse the heat back out of the liquid at the radiator if the water isn't as hot, so I'm not sure the entire system runs any cooler if the water has a higher specific heat capacity. Another consideration is that the liquid not boil, and you're right that a higher specific heat capacity can help out there, but in many cooling scenarios, boiling isn't a problem anyway. For example, a silicone processor would fry way before it got to the boiling point of water.
Anyway, I'm not convinced that if water had half it's specific heat capacity and double the conductivity that it would be a worse heat sink- I suspect that even for fluids, the conductivity is the most important part.
IANAP, but that's my guess. I'd appreciate it any physicists here would weigh in on the matter.
There are a lot of comments here to the effect that the important secs are the specific heat capacity, or the specific heat capacity and conductivity.
It's mostly just conductivity that matters. Aluminum is the most often used heat sink these days, and it has a very low specific heat capacity. Copper's another favorite, and it has a fairly high specific heat capacity. For heat sinks if there is a contiuous (rather than one-time or highly uneven) heat source, you don't really care how much of the heat sucked away is stored in the heat sink (specific heat capacity)- you just care how fast it can get rid of it. Conductivity's where it's at for heat sinks.
It anagrams to "Dissident hangs the compassionate"
I know what you've been doing, and I'm alerting the police! You serial killers are always leaving sneaky notes behind, thinking we won't catch you. Well you deserve the electric chair! (see I'm not compassionate. Don't come after me.)
They may claim they had Scooby-Doo in mind when naming this, but unless they are actually a division of Bombardier (which it doesn't appear they are), they might expect a lawsuit from them, do to the similarity to products like these and these
If you and the people you primarily email with encrypted everything, wouldn't you end up with the 1 GB email account, and Google would end up with nothing but a database full of "**begin PGP signed message..." announcements and public keys?
I guess they can still index all the spam and public mailing list messages you get. But it seems that doing this would let you have the account, while eliminating most of the privacy concerns.
Additionally, you can avoid their advertising for a "nominal fee" according to their "About Gmail" page:
6. Does Gmail support automatic forwarding and POP3 access?
Not at the moment, but Google believes in helping people access information whenever and however they want to do so. Your email should never be held hostage by a service provider. In the future you will be able to access Gmail messages from non-Gmail accounts for free or at a nominal fee.
Depending on how nominal that fee is, I'd be quite happy with a good email client that handles my PGP encryption and decryption on the fly, a bunch of friends that all use PGP too, and 1 GB of POP3 access from Google, with no indexing of personal messages, and no advertising.
Always remember with things that they are trying to sell, it'll only work if people buy it. For any product, if the "we" that doesn't like it enough to actually boycott it is sufficiently large, it won't happen in a free market.
On this issue, I tend to think he's right- consumers will allow everything to end up with RFID's- but don't forget that the collective "we" always could stop anything they have in mind, there's no forcing us.
Work to get yourself heard and have an effect on the things you believe in. If the first store to implement consumer item RFID had their sales immediately drop by even 10%, or preferably 90%, it would send a loud and clear message, and most managers wouldn't want to risk a similar problem. With a big word of mouth campaign and a few dedicated individuals handing out pamphlets in front of the stores, this might be accomplished.
I wonder if this is part of a trend away from the common associations of the web being a giant globalized impersonal place full of strangers, and making it also have a more small and personal aspect- a good place to get information on (and maybe even interact or get involved with) your own neighborhood?
I wonder what's next? Ebay neighborhood garage sales? Bid online, walk next door to pick it up? Web-conferencing the community association meeting? Using an online dating service to meet people instead of going out to a ba... wait a minute.
It comes in Ferrari red with black rubber grips, and a black leather "sports" dust cover. The feed trays are made of diamond pattern steel plate.
It has curves like a lotus, and when it prints, a speaker simulates the sound of someone revving a Harley Davidson. Spoiler, drilled aluminum function keys, and a portable base with 110-spoke alloy rimmed casters are available as a special option package.
The top of the printer also has special recesses for holding a beer and a remote control.
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Where this is really going to come in handy is for super-wide gamut monitors for artists to do things like photo correction and and soft proofing
Now that the leading inkjet manufacturers have dot placement that's arbitrarily small with respect to bleed on even the best inkjet papers (5760 DPI & better), and they have dot size that's arbitrarily small for creating smooth gradients (1.5 picoliter), they've decided to start going after color gamut. With the new small droplet size, Epson didn't need light cyan, light magenta, and grey to acheive smooth tones anymore on the R800, so they added Blue & Red to the CMYK inks.
Previously, most high-end monitors encompassed almost the entire CMYK printable color space, lacking only a few extreme cyans and magentas. But soon, we will need these extended gamut monitors to see all the colors we can print.
"... this was a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. Had this been a real emergency, the tone you just heard would have been followed by panicked shouting and terrified screams. This concludes our test of The Emergency Broadcast System."
I wonder if any of the judges of the 9th Circuit have read Foucault. Discipline and Punish is one of the best original sociological works on prison surveillance. (although the Panopticon is a little less high-tech.)
I recognize the judges are required to base their decisions upon the laws of the United States, and not the sociological or psychological issues involved, but I still like to hope they are well-informed on all aspects of the topic when weighing these issues.
Maybe the next step is for all the components to come in lego bricks. The self-organizing bus won't care what order you put them together in, so whenever you add a component (50 GB flash drive, GPU, firewire ports, ect.) you just click it on somewhere, and it adds it into the system.
I know there are already other responses that provide more facts and arguments about skin break-down voltages, fibrillation, etc, but just think for a moment: according to your logic, sticking your finger in an electric outlet is a very safe thing to do. That's only 110 volts, which at your reasoning would provide a trivial .11 mA of current.
Why don't you explain your theories to the families of the approximately 500 people a year in the US who are electrocuted from household 110 and 220 V sources.
As a kid, I did something stupid and got a 110 volt shock, and let me tell you, it's not a trivial shock.
Wait, it has even less functionality than normal Windows, and they call it "Windows Starter Edition?"
Shouldn't Microsoft call it "Linux Starter Edition," or "Mac Starter Edition?"
Surely they'll soon be switching to something else if this is even worse than Windows...
"I'm sure data storage isn't a problem"
Well, let's take a look.
A 35 mm negative taken on a fine-grained, professional film is worth scanning at about 8 megapixels. With only lossless, TIFF-like compression, let's call that a 20 MB file. A 35 mm motion-picture film frame is half that size. An IMAX frame is 10 times the area of a 35 mm motion picture frame, so let's call the scan 100 MB.
IMAX runs at 30 frames per second, and let's say we want to record a typical 2 hour movie. That's 21 terabytes. Furthermore, your storage medium needs to have a read speed of 3 GB/s, so you're not going to use a cheap IDE RAID array.
OK, I'm sure some better compression (like Pixlet) could improve the storage requirements some, but that would also require some pretty hefty processing to do advanced decoding on 3 GB/s of information flow in real time.
It's within the realm of reason, and hell, your PDA will probably have that in a few years, but it certainly wouldn't be a minimal cost to distribute in that format now.
"Both are MUCH better than the human eye, I'm afraid."
Yes, the dynamic range of CCD's and film is much higher than that of the cones of the human eye, but it's not a fair comparison. On the picture, you have to set the aperture on your camera once, take the shot, and be done with it. The film must capture the entire dynamic range you want in the image with one exposure setting.
Were a human standing in the same place observing the scene, her iris would change it's aperture on the fly many times a second, depending on exactly where she was looking. The "exposure" of her eye constantly changes, often making up for the lack of dynamic range at any particular instant.
Yeah, maybe. Or maybe without the government involved, there would be a much better internet now. Who knows?
Actually, while in an ideal world he probably shouldn't be prosecuted for investigating sensors in a public area, I do find it encouraging that, when he bothered Area 51, he got prosecuted, rather than just disappearing in the middle of the night.
I didn't read the entire document, but my understanding of the API's in there is that they are only to allow other applications to interface with Address Book, not to replace Address Book and allow another application to provide the address book's system-wide services.
Allowing other aps to interface with Address Book doesn't allow MS to sell a competitor that also provides system services using the same interface.
The published API's would help a third party to write an equivelent interface using those API's, but they'd basically have to hack the system to force Address Book and iCal out and replace them with something like Entourage. At least, that's my understanding of the situation. Apple is not providing the same opportunities to other developers that they give themselves; like some other company I can think of, they are using integration with the operating system to give their products a leg up on the competition.
I didn't read the entire document, but my understanding of the API's in there is that they are only to allow other applications to interface with Address Book, not to replace Address Book, and to provide the address book's system-wide services with another applicaton.
Allowing other aps to interface with Address Book doesn't allow MS to sell a competitor that also provides system services using the same interface.
I mean, it would help them to write an equivelent interface using those API's, but they'd basically have to hack the system to force Address Book and iCal out and replace them with Entourage's. At least, that's my understanding of the situation. Apple is not providing the same opportunities to other developers that they give themselves; like somne other company I can think of, they are using integration with the operating system to give their products a leg up on the sompetition.
"Now, there may be very good reason(s) why the MacBU chose not to integrate with the system PIM services"
It probably shouldn't be called a very good reason, but Entourage does have it's own integrated, competing calendar and address book, and Microsoft isn't exactly known for going out of their way to make their products bypass built-in features to interoperate nicely with the competition. Few programs from any vendor do.
In fact, it seems to me you may as easily ask why Apple didn't write open API's for the interface with address & calendar services so Microsoft could write Entourage in a way that other programs interface directly with it instead of with Address Book and iCal.
One other thing I'd like to note is that, while I miss the system integration (pulling Fax numbers out of Address Book when using print-to-fax, etc), Entourage's Address Book and Calendar are better than Apple's.
Anyway, there is a not-too-ugly way around this. There is a nice little app available that syncs Entourage & Address book. There's also a couple of converters from Entourage-> iCal. I know you don't want to run these all the time, but you don't have to. It should take about 2 minutes to assign an Applescript folder action to the folders that store the user data for both apps, that run the sync applications whenever the folder is updated. The only trick is that there's no ical-> Entourage import filter I could find, so you need to remember to make all your calendar updates in Entourage until there is one.
- Phat Tony.
My favorites were always the ones they make you change your password all the time. Where I used to work, everyone had three passwords. At first, the company never made people change their passwords. Two of the passwords could be the same, and the third could be related (different number of characters required). People remembered their passwords, and I don't remember ever coming across someone else's.
Then, to increase security (without having had any problems, just, you know, to be more secure), they made it so that everyone had to change all three passwords every month, and the computer actually checked to make sure that no two were very similar to each other, or to the past month's password.
Suddenly, about half the computers in the office had a post-it-note on the monitor with a list of all three passwords. Since there were three, they always had the logins written conveniently beside them, so they could remember which account each password went with. This quickly got so bad that systems actually had to issue a rule you couldn't do this. But if you sat down at someone's desk and took a quick look around in the top desk drawer, under their calendar, etc, you could usually find their password sheet. (Yes, I sometimes looked, to just gauge the extent of the problem). Just walking around the office, you could see where people kept theirs because you'd see them checking the list just before they logged in.
At the same time, calls to Systems to reset passwords went through the roof. It got so bad they set up a separate phone number set up for password resetting. This number would often be busy so much that when someone forgot their password, instead of calling systems, they'd just ask someone else for theirs, or wander around to find a desk with them posted, and then use someone else's.
Perhaps they'll eventually notice how insecure this is. If they do, they'll probably make it so everyone has 10 different 30-character passwords they have to change every day. Just think how secure that would be!
I'm not sure I'm convinced, I think the primary reason water makes a much better coolant than air is that it has a much higher conductivity. Air is a great insulator.
You may be right that specific heat capacity plays a larger role when dealing with fluid cooling than when dealing with a solid heat sink. For one thing, the rate of temperture exchange is proportional to the temperature difference between the heat source and the heat sink, so when using a flowing liquid, one with a higher specific heat capacity won't heat up as quickly, so you can use a lower flow rate to acheive the same level of cooling. Of course, the rate of heat exchange is also proportional to the flow rate, so you start to lose other advantages when you turn the flow rate down. Also, on the other end, it's slower to disperse the heat back out of the liquid at the radiator if the water isn't as hot, so I'm not sure the entire system runs any cooler if the water has a higher specific heat capacity. Another consideration is that the liquid not boil, and you're right that a higher specific heat capacity can help out there, but in many cooling scenarios, boiling isn't a problem anyway. For example, a silicone processor would fry way before it got to the boiling point of water.
Anyway, I'm not convinced that if water had half it's specific heat capacity and double the conductivity that it would be a worse heat sink- I suspect that even for fluids, the conductivity is the most important part.
IANAP, but that's my guess. I'd appreciate it any physicists here would weigh in on the matter.
There are a lot of comments here to the effect that the important secs are the specific heat capacity, or the specific heat capacity and conductivity.
It's mostly just conductivity that matters. Aluminum is the most often used heat sink these days, and it has a very low specific heat capacity. Copper's another favorite, and it has a fairly high specific heat capacity. For heat sinks if there is a contiuous (rather than one-time or highly uneven) heat source, you don't really care how much of the heat sucked away is stored in the heat sink (specific heat capacity)- you just care how fast it can get rid of it. Conductivity's where it's at for heat sinks.
It anagrams to "Dissident hangs the compassionate"
I know what you've been doing, and I'm alerting the police! You serial killers are always leaving sneaky notes behind, thinking we won't catch you. Well you deserve the electric chair! (see I'm not compassionate. Don't come after me.)
They may claim they had Scooby-Doo in mind when naming this, but unless they are actually a division of Bombardier (which it doesn't appear they are), they might expect a lawsuit from them, do to the similarity to products like these and these
If you and the people you primarily email with encrypted everything, wouldn't you end up with the 1 GB email account, and Google would end up with nothing but a database full of "**begin PGP signed message..." announcements and public keys?
I guess they can still index all the spam and public mailing list messages you get. But it seems that doing this would let you have the account, while eliminating most of the privacy concerns.
Additionally, you can avoid their advertising for a "nominal fee" according to their "About Gmail" page:
6. Does Gmail support automatic forwarding and POP3 access?
Not at the moment, but Google believes in helping people access information whenever and however they want to do so. Your email should never be held hostage by a service provider. In the future you will be able to access Gmail messages from non-Gmail accounts for free or at a nominal fee.
Depending on how nominal that fee is, I'd be quite happy with a good email client that handles my PGP encryption and decryption on the fly, a bunch of friends that all use PGP too, and 1 GB of POP3 access from Google, with no indexing of personal messages, and no advertising.
"RFID tags are coming whether we like it or not"
Always remember with things that they are trying to sell, it'll only work if people buy it. For any product, if the "we" that doesn't like it enough to actually boycott it is sufficiently large, it won't happen in a free market.
On this issue, I tend to think he's right- consumers will allow everything to end up with RFID's- but don't forget that the collective "we" always could stop anything they have in mind, there's no forcing us.
Work to get yourself heard and have an effect on the things you believe in. If the first store to implement consumer item RFID had their sales immediately drop by even 10%, or preferably 90%, it would send a loud and clear message, and most managers wouldn't want to risk a similar problem. With a big word of mouth campaign and a few dedicated individuals handing out pamphlets in front of the stores, this might be accomplished.
Apple's new Operating System 10.3 "Windows Killer" has been for sale for a couple of months.
so...
It uses "the same technology as the previously discussed GE organic LED project"
in a new dirigible?
Making it...
A LED Zepplin?
I wonder if this is part of a trend away from the common associations of the web being a giant globalized impersonal place full of strangers, and making it also have a more small and personal aspect- a good place to get information on (and maybe even interact or get involved with) your own neighborhood?
I wonder what's next? Ebay neighborhood garage sales? Bid online, walk next door to pick it up? Web-conferencing the community association meeting? Using an online dating service to meet people instead of going out to a ba... wait a minute.
If this were the case, SCO could not sue anyone but IBM, whom they claim contributed the supposedly infringing code to Linux.
Unfortunately, I suspect the actual costs to end users Daimler-Chrysler and Autozone are non-zero.
I wish it were true, though.
It comes in Ferrari red with black rubber grips, and a black leather "sports" dust cover. The feed trays are made of diamond pattern steel plate.
It has curves like a lotus, and when it prints, a speaker simulates the sound of someone revving a Harley Davidson. Spoiler, drilled aluminum function keys, and a portable base with 110-spoke alloy rimmed casters are available as a special option package.
The top of the printer also has special recesses for holding a beer and a remote control.