I guess this could be used on cars given enough processor speed, but it's really not applicable in this case, as it yields additional information about something in a plane (parallel to the sensor of the imaging device -- imagine a brick wall ahead of you when driving). When driving, the plane, say, 50m ahead of the car is moving just as fast as you are, and seeing ultra-crisp images of that plane for the instant that it is 50m ahead would be of dubious utility imo.
Yes, but a car equipped with a beowulf cluster of these to focus on a whole lot of planes...
The Google Local FAQ doesn't mention Canada, but it does give this humorous bit:
5. Does this work everywhere? Can I find a noodle shop in Nagoya?
Google Local only searches for locations in the United States right now. However, we plan on expanding this service to other parts of the world once we work out the kinks in this beta product. In the meantime, we recommend Miyoshiya for noodles in Naka-ku, near downtown.
I know that the most sophisticated VR also requires complicated head position tracking hardware, which apparently is quite difficult to get right.
Here's an idea for head position tracking hardware: put a bunch of bright balls around the outside of a helmet, and have the person surrounded by a handful of cameras. Think of how they did CG in The Matrix, when it watched such things and was able to map that into the virtual world of the movie.
True, that wasn't real-time, but it seems possible with some serious processor firepower behind it.
Correct, but saying a web page could be rendered on it is silly, because that implies some serious shrinking so that you would need a magnifying glass to read it, if you're over 30.
Shoulda hit Preview. This point didn't quite come through right. I apologize for the bit of confusion for this point in the above post.
They constantly deny that the situation in Iraq is degenerating into civil war. More lies.
From what CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, and the BBC show, it sure does look that way. But try reading blogs of Iraqis in Iraq. Or soldiers in Iraq. Get your information closer to the source. You'll see a much different picture from what the liberal media shows you.
You mean W invaded Iraq for no reason, resulting in the needless deaths of over 1000 American soldiers.
"... for no reason..." is quite mistaken, and you immediately disprove it. To mention this is fallacious and erroneous, but I'll let that slide for now...
No weapons of mass destruction have been found.
Would unnecessarily massive amounts of fertilizer count? Because lots of ammunition depots have been just filled with this stuff, which happens to be a simple precursor to chemical weapons. The claim is that it's for agricultural reasons, but the Iraqi economy doesn't support that, and even then, why house it in military installations? I'd say, the jury's still out on this.
No credible link between Iraq and the 9/11 attacks has been found. Another lie.
I don't recall the Bush administration ever claming that Iraq was tied to 9/11. That they were tied to terrorists, yes, but 9/11, no. Tons of people have come to the same conclusion as you did, though, so it's troublesome.
From what CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, and the BBC show, it sure does look that way. But try reading blogs of Iraqis in Iraq. Or soldiers in Iraq. Get your information closer to the source. You'll see a much different picture from what the liberal media shows you.
Dick Chaney, primary proponent of the war, has recieved a minimum of $7 MILLION in personal profit as a direct result of the war. The Bush family is one of the primary investors in the Carlisle group, which has also reaped windfall profits as a result of the war. Conflict of interest, anyone?
Where's your proof of this? And if it's Micheal Moore, well... I feel quite sorry for you.
All of the senior administration officials (with the sole exception of Colin Powell) are chickenhawks -- they go looking for fights but they have proven themselves, to a man, unwilling to put their money where their mouths are and actually serve in combat, despite having had the opportunity to do so.
"chicken-hawks"... real intelligent-sounding. But I'll bite: tell that to the ANG members who went to Vietnam (Bush even volunteered, but didn't have enough flight hours in the right planes to go). So to say that serving in the ANG is being unwilling to serve in combat is at least a little disingenuous. Let's be fair. Cheney--well, I don't like him much, but will add this name, who started fights but never fought himself: Clinton
If GWB believes that the war is so important that Americans need to send their sons & daughters halfway around the world to fight & die, then he should lead by example and encourage those two little drunken sluts of his to enlist and go off to the front lines.
Again, name-calling. I see no evidence his daughters are acting any different from others their age in college, nor evidence that "sluts" is any kind of fitting. If you have first-hand knowledge otherwise, that's something--if not, you're not helping your cause any. Similarly, I didn't see Chelsea in the Balkans. And we were only going to be there just that year, right? What? We've still got troops there? Whoa...
I wondered this, too. My digital camera's ~$300 when new (last year), and I wouldn't risk it in this. I do have an older one, but it's a super-crappy thing you snap onto the bottom of an old Palm IIIx. I wouldn't even want to do it with that--the picture quality's about the same as modern cellphones (about.6megapixel)!
I guess I'm just not caught up with the Joneses to have an old (yet good enough) digital camera sitting around unused.
I read a book about how they made the first Stealth fighter, and in it, they found their first air-to-air pictures of it were fuzzy & grainy. They soon realized that their Kodak camera used a sonar-like system for focusing, and was unable to focus due to the F-117's design features.
Both great sites. Though C&F isn't so much a blog anymore, is it? At least, it's not one you can post comments to. Love the cartoons, though, so C&F has been on my daily list for a few months now.
However, a steady drumbeat of the Bush administration insinuating that Iraq was behind the attacks turned this around.
I didn't believe Iraq was behind it, and I don't believe that Bush was ever trying to say so. They did often say that Iraq was 100% related to the War on Terror, but not that it was related to 9/11. I felt what we did in Iraq was right, since it was a state that sponsored terrorists and the Bush Doctrine to boot. I did see, though, that even though I didn't think Bush was trying to link Iraq and 9/11, a lot of people were making that link, and assuming his people were saying it.
I still say, Iraq is absolutely part of the War on Terror, but absolutely not responsible for 9/11 in any way. I don't see a problem with this viewpoint.
But, that's just me. Call it "nuanced" if you will.
Heat is another byproduct of nuclear power generation but it's also a byproduct of every other heat-engine based power technology and is rapidly dissipated with little effect on anything so I don't consider it pollution.
I seem to remember a recent post on/. in which someone who worked at a nuke plant said that the warmer water coming from the cooling towers was more able to support fish than the stream/river it was going into, so much so that people tended to fish right outside the plant (water ensured to be safe, of course). So a little heat pollution just might help out in certain places, therefore is not always bad.
I keep hearing that forging gov't documents is a felony. If true, then will it be likely Burkett will be forced to disclose, under oath, whom The Source(R) is?
Slashdot Mirror
I guess this could be used on cars given enough processor speed, but it's really not applicable in this case, as it yields additional information about something in a plane (parallel to the sensor of the imaging device -- imagine a brick wall ahead of you when driving). When driving, the plane, say, 50m ahead of the car is moving just as fast as you are, and seeing ultra-crisp images of that plane for the instant that it is 50m ahead would be of dubious utility imo.
...
Yes, but a car equipped with a beowulf cluster of these to focus on a whole lot of planes
I wonder what we'd see if we flew a device of this type over a gas giant, such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (or Michael Moore).
... that'd be something rare. And good.
Military equipment changed for scientific use
And it doesn't work again. Damn /. for not taking a special character when I try it, and damn me for not using the Preview button!
And I find that the NOT character can't be copied in that easily. Dammit.
"The Rest of the World Wants Bush" would be the most accurate.
"The Rest of the World Wants Bush" would be the most accurate.
The Google Local FAQ doesn't mention Canada, but it does give this humorous bit:
5. Does this work everywhere? Can I find a noodle shop in Nagoya?
Google Local only searches for locations in the United States right now. However, we plan on expanding this service to other parts of the world once we work out the kinks in this beta product. In the meantime, we recommend Miyoshiya for noodles in Naka-ku, near downtown.
You're correct. My mother would not be able to use my cellphone, and my father wouldn't be able to use his own but for his bifocals.
I know that the most sophisticated VR also requires complicated head position tracking hardware, which apparently is quite difficult to get right.
Here's an idea for head position tracking hardware: put a bunch of bright balls around the outside of a helmet, and have the person surrounded by a handful of cameras. Think of how they did CG in The Matrix, when it watched such things and was able to map that into the virtual world of the movie.
True, that wasn't real-time, but it seems possible with some serious processor firepower behind it.
Just a thought.
Correct, but saying a web page could be rendered on it is silly, because that implies some serious shrinking so that you would need a magnifying glass to read it, if you're over 30.
sounds like a /. poll topic (hint: submit it to them)
From space, Foale saw a large black cloud over the Middle East: smoke from a bombed oil pipeline in Iraq."
Pix please.
He eats babies, simple as that.
/. !
But what's worse is the little-known fact that he's the one behind the IT color scheme on
Shoulda hit Preview. This point didn't quite come through right. I apologize for the bit of confusion for this point in the above post.
They constantly deny that the situation in Iraq is degenerating into civil war. More lies.
From what CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, and the BBC show, it sure does look that way. But try reading blogs of Iraqis in Iraq. Or soldiers in Iraq. Get your information closer to the source. You'll see a much different picture from what the liberal media shows you.
You mean W invaded Iraq for no reason, resulting in the needless deaths of over 1000 American soldiers.
"... for no reason ..." is quite mistaken, and you immediately disprove it. To mention this is fallacious and erroneous, but I'll let that slide for now ...
No weapons of mass destruction have been found.
Would unnecessarily massive amounts of fertilizer count? Because lots of ammunition depots have been just filled with this stuff, which happens to be a simple precursor to chemical weapons. The claim is that it's for agricultural reasons, but the Iraqi economy doesn't support that, and even then, why house it in military installations? I'd say, the jury's still out on this.
No credible link between Iraq and the 9/11 attacks has been found. Another lie.
I don't recall the Bush administration ever claming that Iraq was tied to 9/11. That they were tied to terrorists, yes, but 9/11, no. Tons of people have come to the same conclusion as you did, though, so it's troublesome.
From what CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, and the BBC show, it sure does look that way. But try reading blogs of Iraqis in Iraq. Or soldiers in Iraq. Get your information closer to the source. You'll see a much different picture from what the liberal media shows you.
Dick Chaney, primary proponent of the war, has recieved a minimum of $7 MILLION in personal profit as a direct result of the war. The Bush family is one of the primary investors in the Carlisle group, which has also reaped windfall profits as a result of the war. Conflict of interest, anyone?
Where's your proof of this? And if it's Micheal Moore, well ... I feel quite sorry for you.
All of the senior administration officials (with the sole exception of Colin Powell) are chickenhawks -- they go looking for fights but they have proven themselves, to a man, unwilling to put their money where their mouths are and actually serve in combat, despite having had the opportunity to do so.
"chicken-hawks" ... real intelligent-sounding. But I'll bite: tell that to the ANG members who went to Vietnam (Bush even volunteered, but didn't have enough flight hours in the right planes to go). So to say that serving in the ANG is being unwilling to serve in combat is at least a little disingenuous. Let's be fair.
Cheney--well, I don't like him much, but will add this name, who started fights but never fought himself: Clinton
If GWB believes that the war is so important that Americans need to send their sons & daughters halfway around the world to fight & die, then he should lead by example and encourage those two little drunken sluts of his to enlist and go off to the front lines.
Again, name-calling. I see no evidence his daughters are acting any different from others their age in college, nor evidence that "sluts" is any kind of fitting. If you have first-hand knowledge otherwise, that's something--if not, you're not helping your cause any. ...
Similarly, I didn't see Chelsea in the Balkans. And we were only going to be there just that year, right? What? We've still got troops there? Whoa
Next!
Kinda like Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate, "They never see me coming!"
I wondered this, too. My digital camera's ~$300 when new (last year), and I wouldn't risk it in this. I do have an older one, but it's a super-crappy thing you snap onto the bottom of an old Palm IIIx. I wouldn't even want to do it with that--the picture quality's about the same as modern cellphones (about .6megapixel)!
I guess I'm just not caught up with the Joneses to have an old (yet good enough) digital camera sitting around unused.
I'd rather see the IRS go first, before the DHS. They're just as able to take away our abilities, and have no qualms in doing so.
I read a book about how they made the first Stealth fighter, and in it, they found their first air-to-air pictures of it were fuzzy & grainy. They soon realized that their Kodak camera used a sonar-like system for focusing, and was unable to focus due to the F-117's design features.
Both great sites. Though C&F isn't so much a blog anymore, is it? At least, it's not one you can post comments to. Love the cartoons, though, so C&F has been on my daily list for a few months now.
However, a steady drumbeat of the Bush administration insinuating that Iraq was behind the attacks turned this around.
I didn't believe Iraq was behind it, and I don't believe that Bush was ever trying to say so. They did often say that Iraq was 100% related to the War on Terror, but not that it was related to 9/11. I felt what we did in Iraq was right, since it was a state that sponsored terrorists and the Bush Doctrine to boot. I did see, though, that even though I didn't think Bush was trying to link Iraq and 9/11, a lot of people were making that link, and assuming his people were saying it.
I still say, Iraq is absolutely part of the War on Terror, but absolutely not responsible for 9/11 in any way. I don't see a problem with this viewpoint.
But, that's just me. Call it "nuanced" if you will.
Heat is another byproduct of nuclear power generation but it's also a byproduct of every other heat-engine based power technology and is rapidly dissipated with little effect on anything so I don't consider it pollution.
/. in which someone who worked at a nuke plant said that the warmer water coming from the cooling towers was more able to support fish than the stream/river it was going into, so much so that people tended to fish right outside the plant (water ensured to be safe, of course). So a little heat pollution just might help out in certain places, therefore is not always bad.
I seem to remember a recent post on
A "boob" like hers should have never been shown on TV. Just nasty...
At least it was clearly real, unlike most of the ones seen on TV. Like Dan Rather.
Jimmy Carter stood down to Iran. George W Bush stood up to Iraq.
Next?
I keep hearing that forging gov't documents is a felony. If true, then will it be likely Burkett will be forced to disclose, under oath, whom The Source(R) is?
Or would you be OK with your employer deciding that your services are overpriced so they wont be paying you anymore ...
... that's going on already.
Um