Why not put a half-silvered mirror (plate beamsplitter) at a 45 degree angle to the screen, a piece of black velvet beyond the beamsplitter as a light trap, and point the camera so it sees your face reflected in the glass? Like a teleprompter.
Didn't Feynman prove that no deterministic machine can simulate nonlocality? I read or heard this somewhere, and now I can't find the proof on the web.
You can get some short-term IP protection by filing a PPA. Filing fee was $100 last I knew (small entity). Go to nolo.com and buy "Patent It Yourself" for about $30. Read, understand, and follow all safety instructions. Then you can talk to potential partners, investors, vendors, etc. more confidently.
Best to use DLP projectors. LCD projectors are already polarized, and sometimes in odd ways (like magenta perpendicular to green) that will make using linear polarization impractical.
Peter Wimmer sells great software for running your projectors, cheap - called Stereoscopic Player.
You'll also need a screen that preserves polarization - aluminized "silver" screen is cheapest.
Using a pair of Canon point-and-shoots,the SDM (Stereo Data Maker) version of CHDK, and a cheap electrical switch connected to the USB ports of both cameras. This allows you to trigger both cameras at very nearly the same instant, and has other stereo-related features as well.
This is utter madness. We just lost 7 people and an orbiter because a piece
of foam broke off and hit the thermal tiles. We have yet to figure out how
to keep any foam from coming off (short of adding so much weight that the
shuttle could not carry a useful payload) and now NASA plans to use a tank
with thousands of known weak points, when for $10 million or so (about
1/30th of a launch budget?) they could use a good one?
I think that criminal charges will be appropriate, right up to the
administrator, if we lose Atlantis due to foam coming off the tank.
I'm pretty sure that doubly-linked lists are described in Donald Knuth's book Fundamental Algorithms, that probably was published in the early 1970's.
Not that this is the oldest example of the data structure being well-known, just the oldest evidence that I know of off hand.
I've been trying to learn which machine would be better suited for playing dual-stream HDTV or even higher-resolution video, for stereoscopic display. I know that front-side bus speed was a bottleneck for high-def video display once, and fear that it could be again. I am looking at playing two 1080p videos through a dual-head card.
I suppose that the only way to know for sure is to try it on both an X6800 and an FX 62, but does anyone have a clear idea of what the difference should be, between the 1066 FSB and the apparently faster AMD bus?
Thank you.
It might be proper, if a crime were alleged to have been committed, for a prosecutor or law enforcement agency to subpoena phone records to try to find evidence.
It would certainly not be proper or lawful for some servant of the executive branch to be getting phone records to find leakers.
If that is in fact what is going on, it is yet another crime that Bush and company should be impeached for.
There are also Patent Depository Libraries scattered around the country, that have search tools that are unavailable on the web. I suppose that they are mostly in large cities. The USPTO website probably has a list of them.
The only lawful way to remove these citizen-spying, rights-denying, war-relying, baldfaced-lying religionist / plutocratic / fascist / incompetent neocon scum is to elect a Democratic House and Senate this November. The House will be a cinch, and it will take little effort to also take the Senate. I know that most of the Democrats have not showed much spine lately, but at least they'll appoint a few independent counsels and get the impeachment under way, and block any further absurd legislation pending the removal of King George.
Commit now to bring 2 other people with you to the polls. Kick the butts of your apathetic friends and family, and get them registered.
In Kissinger's memoirs, White House Years, he describes how he and others, probably Nixon included, while in Moscow for a summit meeting, brought along a device I believe he called "the babbler", which was a tape player that played the sounds of many people speaking or maybe splices of babble. Then they could converse in their presumably bugged living quarters while playing the babbler. Kissinger wrote that it became intolerable after a while, it was so distracting.
I'm of the view that instead of spending billions to have people walking around on the moon, we ought to spend that money surveying the solar system for giant rocks that might be headed our way, and learn how to steer them away. I'm sure the probability of a major disaster is small, but why not work to make it a lot smaller?
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Why not put a half-silvered mirror (plate beamsplitter) at a 45 degree angle to the screen, a piece of black velvet beyond the beamsplitter as a light trap, and point the camera so it sees your face reflected in the glass? Like a teleprompter.
The aqueduct? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
Didn't Feynman prove that no deterministic machine can simulate nonlocality? I read or heard this somewhere, and now I can't find the proof on the web.
You can get some short-term IP protection by filing a PPA. Filing fee was $100 last I knew (small entity). Go to nolo.com and buy "Patent It Yourself" for about $30. Read, understand, and follow all safety instructions. Then you can talk to potential partners, investors, vendors, etc. more confidently.
I think it was Laplace. It sure wasn't Einstein.
Best to use DLP projectors. LCD projectors are already polarized, and sometimes in odd ways (like magenta perpendicular to green) that will make using linear polarization impractical. Peter Wimmer sells great software for running your projectors, cheap - called Stereoscopic Player. You'll also need a screen that preserves polarization - aluminized "silver" screen is cheapest.
Using a pair of Canon point-and-shoots,the SDM (Stereo Data Maker) version of CHDK, and a cheap electrical switch connected to the USB ports of both cameras. This allows you to trigger both cameras at very nearly the same instant, and has other stereo-related features as well.
If you haven't already, you might want to read Eugene Wigner's essay, on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences. Here's one link: http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March02/Wigner/Wigner.html
This is a false dichotomy, cultivated by the plutocrats.
This is utter madness. We just lost 7 people and an orbiter because a piece of foam broke off and hit the thermal tiles. We have yet to figure out how to keep any foam from coming off (short of adding so much weight that the shuttle could not carry a useful payload) and now NASA plans to use a tank with thousands of known weak points, when for $10 million or so (about 1/30th of a launch budget?) they could use a good one? I think that criminal charges will be appropriate, right up to the administrator, if we lose Atlantis due to foam coming off the tank.
I'm pretty sure that doubly-linked lists are described in Donald Knuth's book Fundamental Algorithms, that probably was published in the early 1970's. Not that this is the oldest example of the data structure being well-known, just the oldest evidence that I know of off hand.
I've been trying to learn which machine would be better suited for playing dual-stream HDTV or even higher-resolution video, for stereoscopic display. I know that front-side bus speed was a bottleneck for high-def video display once, and fear that it could be again. I am looking at playing two 1080p videos through a dual-head card. I suppose that the only way to know for sure is to try it on both an X6800 and an FX 62, but does anyone have a clear idea of what the difference should be, between the 1066 FSB and the apparently faster AMD bus? Thank you.
It might be proper, if a crime were alleged to have been committed, for a prosecutor or law enforcement agency to subpoena phone records to try to find evidence. It would certainly not be proper or lawful for some servant of the executive branch to be getting phone records to find leakers. If that is in fact what is going on, it is yet another crime that Bush and company should be impeached for.
There are also Patent Depository Libraries scattered around the country, that have search tools that are unavailable on the web. I suppose that they are mostly in large cities. The USPTO website probably has a list of them.
The only lawful way to remove these citizen-spying, rights-denying, war-relying, baldfaced-lying religionist / plutocratic / fascist / incompetent neocon scum is to elect a Democratic House and Senate this November. The House will be a cinch, and it will take little effort to also take the Senate. I know that most of the Democrats have not showed much spine lately, but at least they'll appoint a few independent counsels and get the impeachment under way, and block any further absurd legislation pending the removal of King George. Commit now to bring 2 other people with you to the polls. Kick the butts of your apathetic friends and family, and get them registered.
In Kissinger's memoirs, White House Years, he describes how he and others, probably Nixon included, while in Moscow for a summit meeting, brought along a device I believe he called "the babbler", which was a tape player that played the sounds of many people speaking or maybe splices of babble. Then they could converse in their presumably bugged living quarters while playing the babbler. Kissinger wrote that it became intolerable after a while, it was so distracting.
I'm of the view that instead of spending billions to have people walking around on the moon, we ought to spend that money surveying the solar system for giant rocks that might be headed our way, and learn how to steer them away. I'm sure the probability of a major disaster is small, but why not work to make it a lot smaller?