There's prior art on the bank layout - we've had these kind of banks (coffee, stuff to occupy kids, particular layout) in the UK for a while. I think the first time I recall seeing them advertised was at least 2 years back.
Have you seen anybody use the coffee facilities? Are customers meant to just take a coffee whenever they want? If there was easy free coffee to be had I would find a lot more reasons to go to my bank.
The article says that it works with normal projectors.
I don't see how this could possibly be the case since most projectors use white light sources which are either split or filtered.
In tradition film projectors white is created by using clear film. Film projectors have used carbon arc, tungston, zenon and experimentally white LED light.
Most digital projectors use tungston or zenon lamps which are split using prisms before going to the LCD or DLP chip, alternatively they pass through multiple filters in sequence or through a moving colour wheel.
I could see that it may be possible to reflect light coming from a certain angle (ie the projector) however this would be hard to install (especially in a domestic situation.
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I guess you can use WLAN inside your apartment, as long as you use this kind of wallpaper on your outside walls only. Then the radio waves can pass through the inner walls, though not outside (your garden, e.g.).
Would this assume that your house is windowless (as in those glass things you see through)
allot bandwidth according to classes- one hour per week per hour-long class
In most university situations it would be desirable to have accsess outwith the scheduled classes, but less desirable for use during classes (it is distracting and rude towards those taking the classes)
If it is necessary to restrict accsess (for exams etc) The easiest way is to dissalow any equipment not provided by the university. In exams I have had calcualtors provided.
Where sound chanels are derived from other chanels.
In Dolby SR- The center channel is made of sound that is in both the left and right channel and the surround is made up of the sound that is in both the Left and Right channels but is out of phase.
Discrete sound channels offer better seperation since the data for each channel is provided seperately.
The arrival time would have to be calculated from the speed of the bus, either averaged or real time. Both would be inaccurate in the context of Irish roads. Irish road distances, both on maps and signposts, are INCREDIBLY wrong. Not inaccurate, just plain wrong.
If the system was designed to be intelligent and learn from previous journeys then it would become increacingly accurate as time progresses. It would be good if some form of traffic info was also used however I doubt that this is collected.
If you're standing at a stop there is NOTHING more annoying than seeing a delay tick up.
They could make it like the DART trains in Dublin which leave the station 2 minutes before they are due to arrive (according to the platform displays)
Any of this is better than no (or useless) information, at Edinburgh Waverly (the main station) the information screen often say "On Time" 5 minutes after the train should have departed and then change to the helpfull "Delayed" indicator.
In the UK cinema adverts have been around for a long time (with Pearl and Dean being around for over 50 years). Depending on the cinema the adverts and trailers last for 5-20 minutes. Some cinemas have slide / powerpoint adverts before that.
In virtually all cinemas these adverts arrive on a reel of 35mm film that is spliced on before the main feature.
Two cinemas in the region have to show longer features with an intermission (since the tower film handleing systems can only hold the equivelant of 12,000 feet of acitate film). Neither of these cinemas show adverts during the intermission, although one of them does get good consession sales.
Most cinemas can't do intermissions with good showmanship since that requires the curtains to close on the intermission tag (a blank screen should never be seen)
I dunno how true this is or where it applies, but I'm pretty sure that here in the UK, having any sort of moving display showing on a vehicle is illegal.
Many busses have changing displays showing where they are going (one destination and many route points cycling).
Some of the newer busses have cloth signs which are changed automatically. (the driver selects the destination and it slowly moves through to the right destination). It realy freeked me out the first time I saw the sign changing on a moving bus.
In the UK, pornography (excepting that involving children, which is de facto illegal) is not illegal unless it qualifies as 'obscene' under the Obscene Publications Act 1959.
If the porn is on DVD or Video then it is ilegal to sell it unless it has been classified by the BBFC.
Likewise to show it in a cinema the film has to be classifed by the BBFC or approved by the local council. (who have the power to change any clasification issued by the BBFC)
If the BBFC give the work an R18 clasification then it can only be sold through licenced sex shops or shown in member's only sex cinemas (of which only few exist) such as the Other Cinema in London.
Why not just watch all the films end to end (as many cinemas have shown). Then all you can complain about is the highly visible anti-piracy encoding on the prints and how the multiplex who had the prints before had trashed them.
You may want to wait till extended version prints have been struck
OT: Ever see that fair trade starbucks coffee? The one where they expect you to pay more so that the coffee growers in south america can get by. Doesn't that just raise the question, why aren't they paying their farmers enough already? I mean, starbucks seriously overcharges for their product. Is none of that price increase going to the farmers? Aren't they just admitting with this product that they're selling a designer product made with sweatshop labor so the managers can all get fat off of the labor of others?
Here in the UK Starbucks claim that all of their coffee is fairly traded.
http://starbucks.co.uk/en-GB/_Social+Responsibilit y/Commitment+to+Origins.htm
As far as I know institutions were charged for data that went over the transatlantic links (and not for data that went round Europe
JA.NET used to fund a proxy service that the institutions could link up to (for free) however this was closed in late 2002, details are still online wwwcache.ja.net
So you're saying that once I'm at the library, it takes me 20 seconds to look up the call number/location of Who's Who, turn to the appropriate page, and list out all of the man's books?
You then find that the copy of Who's Who was published in 1970 and useless for answering the question
When will there be a consumer film scanner able to capture individual frames of 8 or 16mm reel film?
Remember the time it will take to scan (and process the film) Even if it takes 5 seconds per frame then it will take 120 minutes to scan 1 minutes worth of film.
Admitadly there are better ways to convert film to video (such as telecine machines) some of which are convertable to the lesser used formats (such as 8 or 9.5mm film).
16mm film is still actively used as a production format for film and TV so hi res digital scanning will be possible
Despite very few of the pireted films coming from cinemas the studios are still putting a lot of effort into anoying cinema customers.
As well as their efforts with audience survaliance they have an unsubtle method of tracking pireted films down to the releace print it was made from (yes cinemas still project from film not a digital format).
These tracking systems (in the form of patterns of red dots) are highly destracting (once you know about them). I see (and get annoied by them) at virtually every film I go and see.
Many projectionists refer to them as the Crap code (a varient on the name of an earlier (more subtle system)
I have had similar experiences with a UK based student group where the print was delivered about an hour and a half before showtime along with two security guards who searched the guests.
Having said that it would still have been easy (with prior accses to the venue) to have hidden a camera.
It would depend if it makes this noise when in stations or traveling at low speed. In the UK the HST (125) trains make a lot of noise at all times. (this may be because they have to generate the power for the onboard facilitys) but some of the more modern trains make virtually no noise when stopped
Looking at some of the pictures of Maglev Trains, the track resembled a concreet trough, rather than the conventional flat rail/roadway track. This would cause the air (and sound) movements to be altered and possibly create a different sound
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There's prior art on the bank layout - we've had these kind of banks (coffee, stuff to occupy kids, particular layout) in the UK for a while. I think the first time I recall seeing them advertised was at least 2 years back.
Have you seen anybody use the coffee facilities?
Are customers meant to just take a coffee whenever they want?
If there was easy free coffee to be had I would find a lot more reasons to go to my bank.
The article says that it works with normal projectors.
I don't see how this could possibly be the case since most projectors use white light sources which are either split or filtered.
In tradition film projectors white is created by using clear film. Film projectors have used carbon arc, tungston, zenon and experimentally white LED light.
Most digital projectors use tungston or zenon lamps which are split using prisms before going to the LCD or DLP chip, alternatively they pass through multiple filters in sequence or through a moving colour wheel.
I could see that it may be possible to reflect light coming from a certain angle (ie the projector) however this would be hard to install (especially in a domestic situation.
I guess you can use WLAN inside your apartment, as long as you use this kind of wallpaper on your outside walls only. Then the radio waves can pass through the inner walls, though not outside (your garden, e.g.).
Would this assume that your house is windowless (as in those glass things you see through)
allot bandwidth according to classes- one hour per week per hour-long class
In most university situations it would be desirable to have accsess outwith the scheduled classes, but less desirable for use during classes (it is distracting and rude towards those taking the classes)
If it is necessary to restrict accsess (for exams etc) The easiest way is to dissalow any equipment not provided by the university. In exams I have had calcualtors provided.
What's a matrixed channel?
Where sound chanels are derived from other chanels.
In Dolby SR- The center channel is made of sound that is in both the left and right channel and the surround is made up of the sound that is in both the Left and Right channels but is out of phase.
Discrete sound channels offer better seperation since the data for each channel is provided seperately.
Some info
Dolby surround sound?
(yes I know they're well beyond that now... but it is by far the most prevalent tech out there now)
Dolby Digital is 5.1 (5 discrete channels + subwoofer)
Dolby Digital EX is 6.1 (5 discrete channels + 1 matrixed +subwoofer)
Not a huge advance. (Unless you were talking about cinema sound in general with SDDS 8 channel or DTS 10 channel)
The arrival time would have to be calculated from the speed of the bus, either averaged or real time. Both would be inaccurate in the context of Irish roads. Irish road distances, both on maps and signposts, are INCREDIBLY wrong. Not inaccurate, just plain wrong.
If the system was designed to be intelligent and learn from previous journeys then it would become increacingly accurate as time progresses. It would be good if some form of traffic info was also used however I doubt that this is collected.
If you're standing at a stop there is NOTHING more annoying than seeing a delay tick up.
They could make it like the DART trains in Dublin which leave the station 2 minutes before they are due to arrive (according to the platform displays)
Any of this is better than no (or useless) information, at Edinburgh Waverly (the main station) the information screen often say "On Time" 5 minutes after the train should have departed and then change to the helpfull "Delayed" indicator.
In the UK cinema adverts have been around for a long time (with Pearl and Dean being around for over 50 years). Depending on the cinema the adverts and trailers last for 5-20 minutes. Some cinemas have slide / powerpoint adverts before that.
In virtually all cinemas these adverts arrive on a reel of 35mm film that is spliced on before the main feature.
Two cinemas in the region have to show longer features with an intermission (since the tower film handleing systems can only hold the equivelant of 12,000 feet of acitate film). Neither of these cinemas show adverts during the intermission, although one of them does get good consession sales.
Most cinemas can't do intermissions with good showmanship since that requires the curtains to close on the intermission tag (a blank screen should never be seen)
I dunno how true this is or where it applies, but I'm pretty sure that here in the UK, having any sort of moving display showing on a vehicle is illegal.
Many busses have changing displays showing where they are going (one destination and many route points cycling).
Some of the newer busses have cloth signs which are changed automatically. (the driver selects the destination and it slowly moves through to the right destination). It realy freeked me out the first time I saw the sign changing on a moving bus.
In the UK, pornography (excepting that involving children, which is de facto illegal) is not illegal unless it qualifies as 'obscene' under the Obscene Publications Act 1959.
If the porn is on DVD or Video then it is ilegal to sell it unless it has been classified by the BBFC.
Likewise to show it in a cinema the film has to be classifed by the BBFC or approved by the local council. (who have the power to change any clasification issued by the BBFC)
If the BBFC give the work an R18 clasification then it can only be sold through licenced sex shops or shown in member's only sex cinemas (of which only few exist) such as the Other Cinema in London.
some of my friends figured out a way to get this to work on a modified fan
I have seen these in the UK for over a year advertising Guinness Extra Cold
Why not just watch all the films end to end (as many cinemas have shown). Then all you can complain about is the highly visible anti-piracy encoding on the prints and how the multiplex who had the prints before had trashed them. You may want to wait till extended version prints have been struck
There is no issue with quoting (from yourself and others) provided the work is properly referenced.
The issue is when work is not referenced and passed off as your own new work.
Will the "delete at gateway" be able to delete the high scoring spam, with the medium level spam (+ false positives) going to the user for filtering?
At least going out to do the shopping burned a couple of calories.
More if you used a Trim Trolley
OT: Ever see that fair trade starbucks coffee? The one where they expect you to pay more so that the coffee growers in south america can get by. Doesn't that just raise the question, why aren't they paying their farmers enough already? I mean, starbucks seriously overcharges for their product. Is none of that price increase going to the farmers? Aren't they just admitting with this product that they're selling a designer product made with sweatshop labor so the managers can all get fat off of the labor of others?
t y/Commitment+to+Origins.htm
Here in the UK Starbucks claim that all of their coffee is fairly traded.
http://starbucks.co.uk/en-GB/_Social+Responsibili
As far as I know institutions were charged for data that went over the transatlantic links (and not for data that went round Europe
JA.NET used to fund a proxy service that the institutions could link up to (for free) however this was closed in late 2002, details are still online wwwcache.ja.net
So you're saying that once I'm at the library, it takes me 20 seconds to look up the call number/location of Who's Who, turn to the appropriate page, and list out all of the man's books?
You then find that the copy of Who's Who was published in 1970 and useless for answering the question
When will there be a consumer film scanner able to capture individual frames of 8 or 16mm reel film?
Remember the time it will take to scan (and process the film) Even if it takes 5 seconds per frame then it will take 120 minutes to scan 1 minutes worth of film.
Admitadly there are better ways to convert film to video (such as telecine machines) some of which are convertable to the lesser used formats (such as 8 or 9.5mm film).
16mm film is still actively used as a production format for film and TV so hi res digital scanning will be possible
I don't know when this happened but the add URL function has been disabled (prahaps too many slashdoters submiting links to their sites)
on a packet of British Midland mixed nuts.
Despite very few of the pireted films coming from cinemas the studios are still putting a lot of effort into anoying cinema customers. As well as their efforts with audience survaliance they have an unsubtle method of tracking pireted films down to the releace print it was made from (yes cinemas still project from film not a digital format). These tracking systems (in the form of patterns of red dots) are highly destracting (once you know about them). I see (and get annoied by them) at virtually every film I go and see. Many projectionists refer to them as the Crap code (a varient on the name of an earlier (more subtle system)
I have had similar experiences with a UK based student group where the print was delivered about an hour and a half before showtime along with two security guards who searched the guests.
Having said that it would still have been easy (with prior accses to the venue) to have hidden a camera.
It would depend if it makes this noise when in stations or traveling at low speed. In the UK the HST (125) trains make a lot of noise at all times. (this may be because they have to generate the power for the onboard facilitys) but some of the more modern trains make virtually no noise when stopped
Looking at some of the pictures of Maglev Trains, the track resembled a concreet trough, rather than the conventional flat rail/roadway track. This would cause the air (and sound) movements to be altered and possibly create a different sound