Yep that data in FOAF or any other format is an asset of those commercial organizations, they'll happily provide you tools for importing data in FOAF format, but they're not going to let you take that away from them.
You can build FOAF data by scraping those sites, or I guess in the case of Imeem you could exploit its distributed nature and pull the data directly from the database on your client, but that'd probably require more work than just writing another website scraper.
No but they do contribute heavily to The Mono Project, and they're released Open source code - such as their 'Dumbarton' project which bridges Objective C to C#. So, not open source, but certainly contributing to the community
They manage to forget a similar floor controller for the 2600 - The Joyboard - developed by the same engineers who developed the Amiga. The original versions of the Amiga OS would occasionally serve up a crash report with a 'Guru Meditation' dumping the processor state - the story goes that one of the programmers liked to sit cross legged on the board and try to balance it while figuring out what had caused the crash - in this pose he resembled a meditating Guru, hence the error message.
Well by long exposure I mean 'Longer than the 0.04 second exposures the Webcam normally maxes out at" - I do take 30 second+ exposures with my wife's Digital SLR, but beyond that the tracking on my scope starts to show up.
Astronomers have been doing the same kind of thing with Webcams - specificly the Phillips TouCam, Vesta Pro and the Quickcam 3000 all use CCD sensors which are sensitive enough for astrophotography. It's possible to open them up, modify them for long exposure photography, add peltier cooling to reduce noise and some people even replace the CCD with a different kinds. http://www.qcuiag.co.uk/
Well except without all the Ajax goodness - but myplay was fun while it lasted. They wanted to get in on the whole internet music scene but like everyone else they couldn't get licenses from the music business, so they let users store their music online and make it accessible wherever they went. The money ran out before the music industry started doing deals.
I'd got snapped up from my astronomy position in the UK to come and contract for a couple of months in the US, I'd been developing software like mp3serv/liveice/icecast. But, I didn't want to leave behind UK radio - like the Essential Mix, John Peel or The Breezeblock - the BBC website offered low quality real audio. I left my radio plugged into my computer at the observatory and streamed all the UK radio across the atlantic to my office in the US....
Sadly... I don't have an office in the UK any more so I guess my best bet now is Sirius radio.
Sure some people may have increased, but one data point is not an average (unless it's the only data point!) The funny thing is that I'm on a 1280x1024 display at my office, and yet 5 years ago I had a Dell laptop with a 1400x1050 display
I used to have 1600x1200 on everything, but none of my flat screens go that high - so the screen resolutions that people use have dropped a little from a couple of years ago when everyone was buying desktops with CRTs. I know a lot of people are even foregoing the desktop and just using a laptop instead, that's shrunk down the resolution as well.....
You know, they have already answered this question on one of the Mythbusters compilation shows, do we want to burn one of our questions on this?;-)
Burning Man Contraptions - What Do They Think?
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Q: Have The Mythbusters Ever Gone To 'Burning Man' Many of the contraptions that people lug out to the festival resemble things that the mythbusters build, but without the rationale of mythbusting. People build giant machines that generate tornados of fire, giant battling robots, massive tesla coils or mushroom cloud simulators - the kind of gizmos we see on the show. So even if you haven't been do you have any knowledge/stories/favrourites etc etc. Mythbusters in based in San Francisco and I know some of the 'experts' they bring in are Burning Man regulars so I guess I'm just interested in what they think of these 'amateurs' doing this kind of crazy stuff in the desert.
So, while the anti-virus companies were slow with code to detect and remove Sony's rootkit, they were much faster in releasing updates that detected and quarantined the various exploits that allowed PSP owners to downgrade their firmware from 2.0 to 1.5 so that they could run homebrew/warez - Sure there was Trojan.PSPBrick which actually did damage if it was installed on your PSP and viewed, but most anti-virus vendors were happy to tar 'useful' exploit code with the same brush.
There were many companies that wanted to sell music the way ITMS does, I remember going to a party in SF with about 10 different companies - including Napster - all wanting to sell music online. Of course, the record business didn't budge and all these companies bit the dust. Napster of course was a latecomer it started out in not so legal forma and tried to become legal, so it's understandable that perhaps the record business didn't want to deal with them, but there were many other companies who didn't have the legal baggage who were stonewalled by the record business.
Which is why it pisses me off immensely that people described ITMS as 'innovative' when it appeared, elsewhere taleneted developers had innovated and built all the technology several times over.
Right now you can generate SHA256 hashes, but you can't sign anything using SHA256 because it's not supported. Mono of course handles this without any problem.
I've seen comments in a few places that suggest that imeem is linked with Google. There was a story yesterday asking whether imeem was the next google? It's like a client application that does everything you'd ever need, it apparently caches and indexes content so that search queries get shared amongst the clients in the network and data gets swarmed out. Brilliant idea, but has anyone else heard the google rumours?
I've seen friends using imeem from the Alexis Park network at defcon, since my job title at imeem is 'Security Architect' I know that someone is trusting my security-fu enough to give it a spin on what is very likely the antithesis to the phrase 'Trusted Network'. I Always loved the Wall of Shame^H^H^H^H^HSheep showing all the individuals who were clueless enough to log into unencrypted services from the Defcon network.
Then you head off to another planet.... with a deeper gene pool. Or perhaps you fail - if your mission is to try and evolve the aliens into a suitable food source (i.e. weed out the aggressive genes)
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I made loads of notes back when I had an Atari ST - the idea was to basically have a scrolling shooter with lots of aliens travelling around the landscape. The aliens would breed and through survival of the fittest they'd get stronger - the player would essentially be the force of natural selection....
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Yep that data in FOAF or any other format is an asset of those commercial organizations, they'll happily provide you tools for importing data in FOAF format, but they're not going to let you take that away from them.
You can build FOAF data by scraping those sites, or I guess in the case of Imeem you could exploit its distributed nature and pull the data directly from the database on your client, but that'd probably require more work than just writing another website scraper.
No but they do contribute heavily to The Mono Project, and they're released Open source code - such as their 'Dumbarton' project which bridges Objective C to C#. So, not open source, but certainly contributing to the community
Sounds like imeem - any other slashdotters out there using imeem for connecting and sharing?
They manage to forget a similar floor controller for the 2600 - The Joyboard - developed by the same engineers who developed the Amiga. The original versions of the Amiga OS would occasionally serve up a crash report with a 'Guru Meditation' dumping the processor state - the story goes that one of the programmers liked to sit cross legged on the board and try to balance it while figuring out what had caused the crash - in this pose he resembled a meditating Guru, hence the error message.
There's a page on this at wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_meditation
Well by long exposure I mean 'Longer than the 0.04 second exposures the Webcam normally maxes out at" - I do take 30 second+ exposures with my wife's Digital SLR, but beyond that the tracking on my scope starts to show up.
Astronomers have been doing the same kind of thing with Webcams - specificly the Phillips TouCam, Vesta Pro and the Quickcam 3000 all use CCD sensors which are sensitive enough for astrophotography. It's possible to open them up, modify them for long exposure photography, add peltier cooling to reduce noise and some people even replace the CCD with a different kinds.
http://www.qcuiag.co.uk/
'I voted for you - did you vote for me' - at least that's what the blog says ;-)
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http://efrenramirez.imeem.com/photo/0MCW7w6O/K184
Well except without all the Ajax goodness - but myplay was fun while it lasted. They wanted to get in on the whole internet music scene but like everyone else they couldn't get licenses from the music business, so they let users store their music online and make it accessible wherever they went. The money ran out before the music industry started doing deals.
Err sorry - That should be 'Delia' Derbyshire
don't know what got into me.
And it's a landmark composition in Electronic music - composed by Ron Granier and spliced together out of tape 'samples' by Dorothy Derbyshire.
http://snm.imeem.com/blogentry/fei0wfrP
I'd got snapped up from my astronomy position in the UK to come and contract for a couple of months in the US, I'd been developing software like mp3serv/liveice/icecast. But, I didn't want to leave behind UK radio - like the Essential Mix, John Peel or The Breezeblock - the BBC website offered low quality real audio. I left my radio plugged into my computer at the observatory and streamed all the UK radio across the atlantic to my office in the US....
Sadly... I don't have an office in the UK any more so I guess my best bet now is Sirius radio.
Sure some people may have increased, but one data point is not an average (unless it's the only data point!)
The funny thing is that I'm on a 1280x1024 display at my office, and yet 5 years ago I had a Dell laptop with a 1400x1050 display
I used to have 1600x1200 on everything, but none of my flat screens go that high - so the screen resolutions that people use have dropped a little from a couple of years ago when everyone was buying desktops with CRTs. I know a lot of people are even foregoing the desktop and just using a laptop instead, that's shrunk down the resolution as well.....
You know, they have already answered this question on one of the Mythbusters compilation shows, do we want to burn one of our questions on this? ;-)
Q: Have The Mythbusters Ever Gone To 'Burning Man'
Many of the contraptions that people lug out to the festival resemble things that the mythbusters build, but without the rationale of mythbusting. People build giant machines that generate tornados of fire, giant battling robots, massive tesla coils or mushroom cloud simulators - the kind of gizmos we see on the show. So even if you haven't been do you have any knowledge/stories/favrourites etc etc.
Mythbusters in based in San Francisco and I know some of the 'experts' they bring in are Burning Man regulars so I guess I'm just interested in what they think of these 'amateurs' doing this kind of crazy stuff in the desert.
So, while the anti-virus companies were slow with code to detect and remove Sony's rootkit, they were much faster in releasing updates that detected and quarantined the various exploits that allowed PSP owners to downgrade their firmware from 2.0 to 1.5 so that they could run homebrew/warez - Sure there was Trojan.PSPBrick which actually did damage if it was installed on your PSP and viewed, but most anti-virus vendors were happy to tar 'useful' exploit code with the same brush.
I'm sure Sony had nothing to do with it.
One of the best shows on TV, almost as Good as Henry Rollin's Film Corner.
There were many companies that wanted to sell music the way ITMS does, I remember going to a party in SF with about 10 different companies - including Napster - all wanting to sell music online. Of course, the record business didn't budge and all these companies bit the dust. Napster of course was a latecomer it started out in not so legal forma and tried to become legal, so it's understandable that perhaps the record business didn't want to deal with them, but there were many other companies who didn't have the legal baggage who were stonewalled by the record business.
Which is why it pisses me off immensely that people described ITMS as 'innovative' when it appeared, elsewhere taleneted developers had innovated and built all the technology several times over.
Right now you can generate SHA256 hashes, but you can't sign anything using SHA256 because it's not supported. Mono of course handles this without any problem.
I've seen comments in a few places that suggest that imeem is linked with Google. There was a story yesterday asking whether imeem was the next google? It's like a client application that does everything you'd ever need, it apparently caches and indexes content so that search queries get shared amongst the clients in the network and data gets swarmed out. Brilliant idea, but has anyone else heard the google rumours?
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Oh, so it's commercial games only or something? If you don't pay for it and have an ad campaign you don't get on the list.
I've seen friends using imeem from the Alexis Park network at defcon, since my job title at imeem is 'Security Architect' I know that someone is trusting my security-fu enough to give it a spin on what is very likely the antithesis to the phrase 'Trusted Network'.
I Always loved the Wall of Shame^H^H^H^H^HSheep showing all the individuals who were clueless enough to log into unencrypted services from the Defcon network.
Then you head off to another planet.... with a deeper gene pool.
Or perhaps you fail - if your mission is to try and evolve the aliens into a suitable food source (i.e. weed out the aggressive genes)
I made loads of notes back when I had an Atari ST - the idea was to basically have a scrolling shooter with lots of aliens travelling around the landscape. The aliens would breed and through survival of the fittest they'd get stronger - the player would essentially be the force of natural selection....
Maybe it's time to revisit the idea.
Indeed, we have a server that runs on Linux (well Mono + Linux), but the UI isn't there by any means.