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Those are just the ones that they can tell you about. Scaled is where the Skunk Works and other such places go when even they can figure something out.
As with most speed laws, you won't get a ticket for going 16mph. From what I've heard, you start to get them once you hit 45 or so. Sorry I didn't elaborate that point, but I only felt that giving the posted speed limit was necessary, rather than telling people that they can get away with going fast enough to kill themselves if they hit the booth...
Completely artificial. There are roads that use this system that allow for 70mph scanning, and the system itself is capable of 150mph+ scanning, though no traffic laws in the US allow that!
MA does not track your speed using Fastlane. I work in Massachusetts and talk about RFID as part of my job. However, you can get a ticket for speeding through a toll booth if you have a Fastlane tag. There are RADAR guns next to the lanes, and if you exceed the 15mph limit, you get a ticket in the mail. In this case the Fastlane tag is only used to identify you, while the RADAR is measuring your speed.
There are some places where this is (or was) true. I think this may partially be the result of the military having to buy all of the mountains around Area 51/Groom Lake to prevent people from photographing the "nonexistent" base. They couldn't stop them, so they eliminated the public land.
In a lot of cases, yes you can. If you are the main subject of the picture (and you are easily identifiable), you can sue. If the picture would basically be the same with you or without you, you can't sue.
If there is a picture of you sleeping on a park bench that sells for $1000, you deserve a cut (unless you explicitly gave up that cut when you signed a release form). If you are in a crowd of partiers and sue because you can clearly see yourself as the 147th guy from the left, you'll lose.
You can take pictures of anything you can see from a public street or public land (as long as you are on said public land). There are specific exceptions for top-secret military installations (see 18 U.S.C. 795). Anything else is fair game.
However, you can't sell pictures of other people's work, including sculpture and architecture, without their permission. The city is breaking the law if they won't let anyone photograph the object, but not if they are just charging people who are trying to sell their pictures.
I am not a lawyer, but I am a photographer who knows his rights.
The real driving force behind this research is the desire for a nano-enabled soldier of the future. They hope to use these as exo-muscles in combat suits to allow soldiers to literally "leap tall buildings in a single bound."
This would make an Apple DRMed song an "orphan"
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iPods allow you to load songs onto them, but don't let you take them back off with out resorting to third-party software.
This probably doesn't apply to most of the people here, but the average iPod owner doesn't know about this software and therefore has no way to get music off of the device. For most people, this setup will result in a song that can't be copied to your computer. Since you can only download an iTunes song once, you are be stuck with your one iPod-bound copy unless you buy it from your home computer.
You are right, the 35mm size in not the main issue with image quality. However, the larger the sensor, the less noise in the image. I was saying the the high-quality 11MP sensor of the 1Ds can compete with medium format film. That statement has little to do with the size of the sensor.
As for a different lens standard, that is exactly what Olympus is trying with their 4/3 system.
Well, Canon and Nikon have both locked themselves into the 1.6 (or 1.5) crop factor with new lenses that only cover that area. Nikon has their DX-series lenses that work on all of their DLSRs, while Canon now has four lenses and two cameras that use the smaller EF-S format lenses.
I doubt that the full frame sensors will be available for less that $100 dollars in the next few years. Canon had no real competition in the full-frame realm (the Kodak cameras aren't in the same league), and competition is what drives down prices, right?
"And with its full 35mm CMOS it is the first camera to effectively reproduce the image quality of 35mm film."
It had been generally accepted that this camera's predecessor, the 1Ds, was close to the quality of medium-format film. We've been beyond the quality of 35mm film for quite some time now...
Moons orbit other (non-solar) bodies. Ceres can't be a moon because it only orbits the Sun. Some asteroids have satellites (moons) themselves.
There is no set cut-off point, but several miles seems to be considered moon-sized, while the larger chunks in Saturn's rings aren't big enough at a few hundred feet.
Invention & Technology, which is put out by the national inventor's hall of fame. They run detailed stories on the history of technologies ranging from mid-air refueling to the bra. All of them are well-written and interesting. I'd recommend checking it out. Maybe we could lift it from obscurity?
It is only quarterly, and even with a subscription it is $4.00 an issue, but I love it.
This isn't costing the government anything, at least for now.
From the Article:
The $6 million cost -- about $1 per Hoosier -- is being footed by SimDesk Technologies, which also has brought the technology to users in Houston and Chicago. The Houston-based firm has several Indiana investors, Davis said, and is partnering with Hewlett-Packard NonStop servers to provide the service.
The $6 million cost -- about $1 per Hoosier -- is being footed by SimDesk Technologies, which also has brought the technology to users in Houston and Chicago. The Houston-based firm has several Indiana investors, Davis said, and is partnering with Hewlett-Packard NonStop servers to provide the service.
While a Mac (or Linux) version would be nice, the taxpayers aren't paying for it either way.
Well, at least for now:
Kyle Lutes, associate professor of computer science at Purdue University, said he hadn't heard of SimDesk but expressed skepticism at the program.
It seems like a good deal, he said, but the company may be using the "crack dealer method of marketing -- give it to 'em free until they're addicted."
Here in Boston, the transit police are implementing a policy of randomly checking the IDs and bags of subway and train riders.
They will be patrolling trains (with police dogs) starting before the upcoming Democratic National Convention in July. This is not a temporary policy change for the DNC, it is a permanent change.
IMO, the Kelty Arrowhead is the ideal all-around backpack. It has plenty of room inside and lots of pockets. For a laptop, it has an inner pocket in the main compartment that is a perfect fit for my 15" powerbook. It would certainly hold thicker computers, and it would probably hold larger ones as well. The inside pocket isn't padded, so I use a sleeve.
The best thing about this pack is its comfort. It is designed for hiking (but it isn't big), so it has internal aluminum stays and a wide, cushioned waistbelt. When I tried it out at the store, I put a full-sized fire hydrant in it and wasn't at all bothered by the weight.
It also has a many-year warranty. I often run to catch the bus, and -- even then -- it is very comfortable.
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Scaled is where the Skunk Works and other such places go when even they can't figure something out.
Those are just the ones that they can tell you about. Scaled is where the Skunk Works and other such places go when even they can figure something out.
John Glenn did it for the Americans soon after.
As with most speed laws, you won't get a ticket for going 16mph. From what I've heard, you start to get them once you hit 45 or so. Sorry I didn't elaborate that point, but I only felt that giving the posted speed limit was necessary, rather than telling people that they can get away with going fast enough to kill themselves if they hit the booth...
The system does store logs. Peoples' toll records have been subpoenaed in court cases...
Completely artificial. There are roads that use this system that allow for 70mph scanning, and the system itself is capable of 150mph+ scanning, though no traffic laws in the US allow that!
MA does not track your speed using Fastlane. I work in Massachusetts and talk about RFID as part of my job. However, you can get a ticket for speeding through a toll booth if you have a Fastlane tag. There are RADAR guns next to the lanes, and if you exceed the 15mph limit, you get a ticket in the mail. In this case the Fastlane tag is only used to identify you, while the RADAR is measuring your speed.
There are some places where this is (or was) true. I think this may partially be the result of the military having to buy all of the mountains around Area 51/Groom Lake to prevent people from photographing the "nonexistent" base. They couldn't stop them, so they eliminated the public land.
In a lot of cases, yes you can. If you are the main subject of the picture (and you are easily identifiable), you can sue. If the picture would basically be the same with you or without you, you can't sue.
If there is a picture of you sleeping on a park bench that sells for $1000, you deserve a cut (unless you explicitly gave up that cut when you signed a release form). If you are in a crowd of partiers and sue because you can clearly see yourself as the 147th guy from the left, you'll lose.
However, you can't sell pictures of other people's work, including sculpture and architecture, without their permission. The city is breaking the law if they won't let anyone photograph the object, but not if they are just charging people who are trying to sell their pictures.
I am not a lawyer, but I am a photographer who knows his rights.
The real driving force behind this research is the desire for a nano-enabled soldier of the future. They hope to use these as exo-muscles in combat suits to allow soldiers to literally "leap tall buildings in a single bound."
The MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies is working on this right now, but they don't see it being available for use for 30 years or so. I recently attended a lecture at MIT entitled "Nanotechnology: From Promise to Profitablility" that was almost entirely focused on military applications.
Amputees will certainly benefit, but that's not why the money is there for this research...
It IS, however, free like 10.3.1-6 were...
iPods allow you to load songs onto them, but don't let you take them back off with out resorting to third-party software.
This probably doesn't apply to most of the people here, but the average iPod owner doesn't know about this software and therefore has no way to get music off of the device. For most people, this setup will result in a song that can't be copied to your computer. Since you can only download an iTunes song once, you are be stuck with your one iPod-bound copy unless you buy it from your home computer.
You are right, the 35mm size in not the main issue with image quality. However, the larger the sensor, the less noise in the image. I was saying the the high-quality 11MP sensor of the 1Ds can compete with medium format film. That statement has little to do with the size of the sensor.
As for a different lens standard, that is exactly what Olympus is trying with their 4/3 system.
Well, Canon and Nikon have both locked themselves into the 1.6 (or 1.5) crop factor with new lenses that only cover that area. Nikon has their DX-series lenses that work on all of their DLSRs, while Canon now has four lenses and two cameras that use the smaller EF-S format lenses. I doubt that the full frame sensors will be available for less that $100 dollars in the next few years. Canon had no real competition in the full-frame realm (the Kodak cameras aren't in the same league), and competition is what drives down prices, right?
The 1D and 1D Mark II have 1.3 crop factors. The 1Ds has a a full-frame, 11 megapixel sensor.
"And with its full 35mm CMOS it is the first camera to effectively reproduce the image quality of 35mm film."
It had been generally accepted that this camera's predecessor, the 1Ds, was close to the quality of medium-format film. We've been beyond the quality of 35mm film for quite some time now...
Moons orbit other (non-solar) bodies. Ceres can't be a moon because it only orbits the Sun. Some asteroids have satellites (moons) themselves.
There is no set cut-off point, but several miles seems to be considered moon-sized, while the larger chunks in Saturn's rings aren't big enough at a few hundred feet.
It is only quarterly, and even with a subscription it is $4.00 an issue, but I love it.
From the Article:
The $6 million cost -- about $1 per Hoosier -- is being footed by SimDesk Technologies, which also has brought the technology to users in Houston and Chicago. The Houston-based firm has several Indiana investors, Davis said, and is partnering with Hewlett-Packard NonStop servers to provide the service.
The $6 million cost -- about $1 per Hoosier -- is being footed by SimDesk Technologies, which also has brought the technology to users in Houston and Chicago. The Houston-based firm has several Indiana investors, Davis said, and is partnering with Hewlett-Packard NonStop servers to provide the service.
While a Mac (or Linux) version would be nice, the taxpayers aren't paying for it either way.
Well, at least for now:
Kyle Lutes, associate professor of computer science at Purdue University, said he hadn't heard of SimDesk but expressed skepticism at the program. It seems like a good deal, he said, but the company may be using the "crack dealer method of marketing -- give it to 'em free until they're addicted."
Here in Boston, the transit police are implementing a policy of randomly checking the IDs and bags of subway and train riders. They will be patrolling trains (with police dogs) starting before the upcoming Democratic National Convention in July. This is not a temporary policy change for the DNC, it is a permanent change.
IMO, the Kelty Arrowhead is the ideal all-around backpack. It has plenty of room inside and lots of pockets. For a laptop, it has an inner pocket in the main compartment that is a perfect fit for my 15" powerbook. It would certainly hold thicker computers, and it would probably hold larger ones as well. The inside pocket isn't padded, so I use a sleeve.
The best thing about this pack is its comfort. It is designed for hiking (but it isn't big), so it has internal aluminum stays and a wide, cushioned waistbelt. When I tried it out at the store, I put a full-sized fire hydrant in it and wasn't at all bothered by the weight.
It also has a many-year warranty. I often run to catch the bus, and -- even then -- it is very comfortable.