I took my son's cub scout troop to the local fire department a few years ago. They had a camera smaller than a shoe box that did thermal imaging - it could see foot prints left through shoes for a few minutes. They use it to find hot spots in the walls after fires, and talked about lending it to the police in hostage situations to determine where people were holed up.
One HUGE problem with this idea is that it will really screw up people who have to work on multiple computers. It also greatly magnifies the cost of a (whole) computer upgrade - the users will have to retrain the interface. (having an easy method to transfer settings would be a possible work around for this)
Also, what is right for one person is wrong for another. Think of all the tech support people who go to other's computers. Using this idea, each computer is going to be different, making them look ignorant because they are reading the entire menu instead of knowing where in the list the option is located. Also, the tech-support activity will change the interface, making it harder for the user to start working again.
Going to a real-world example, I have a father-in-law who hates computers. One reason is that they do not have a consistant interface. He actually gets mad at everyone who comes in to "fix" his computer because they always change the interface. In his case, the reason this is such a big deal is that he only uses the computer once a month, and it means that the directions he wrote in the notebook no longer work.
You don't mention where you live (and why not?? --hah), but it could be that you have a higher humidity level than the test area.
My grandfather used to tell me that during WWII, they would add a water can and atomizer to the air intake in front of the carbuerator to increase the mileage. He described it as a small straw in the air stream. My understanding is that this works because water expands more than air does, and the temperature change is going to be higher because the atomized water will evaporate, which cools the air. It is this change in temp that gives the power used to push the pistons, so by pre-cooling the air, you will be able to harness more energy.
dpreview has an blurb that is much more comprehensive. And, to spread the hits, you can see the original press release The content of the two links is the same, only the background color and periphery information is different. (dpreview is black; toshiba is white)
I was thinking that the reporter / editor would not be in the same place as the photographer, and the photographer would be too busy trying to get the next shot to document the last one, so another tool would need to be used.
The ease of getting the play data is going to vary widely by sport; I was thinking mainly of the football example the article focussed on. I imagine that Basketball would be much harder. But if you have the "photogenic moment" indicator in the reporters hand, that would probably be a better indicator of when the good pictures were taken than the "by play" grouping would be. Of course, it will take a while to learn how much lag time each reporter has. I would imagine that the moments tagged would correspond to the pictures/second peaks, since the photographers are essentially doing the same thing, but the reporter will be looking at the game from a different angle, and would be more selective than the photog since they are watching the game instead of recording it.
I see an opportunity to better use technology here. Now I wish I had the time to implement it. What I find amazing about this is the vast amounts of money that people spend on sports.
It is interesting that the editors want to be able to index these pictures by play, but have not realized how easy that would be to do. The cameras they use track the time that the photo was taken, in the exif information and in the file system (create date). All that would be needed is to syncronize the times on the cameras to allow them the get the true chronological order. If they had an intern hit one key at the start of the play, and another at the end of the play, they would be able to isolate all of the photos by play. They are already doing most of this. Looking on their web site, they already have time indexes based on the game clock.
You could even go so far as to give the editor / reporter types a device to track the times when they expect to have a good photo. You could even have it record a voice memo so the tech doesn't get into their way. I would assume that they all have cell phones that can do this, or PDA's could be used. (overkill, but handy)
The whole reason for the revocation is to handle the problems where an unauthorized party gets a certificate. For instance, if I get one for amazon, I can set up my server and then re-direct their traffic to it. (This is more possible if you are attempting to take over a small section of the world, like a corporate lan with its own dns server.) However, when verisign discovers their mistake, they will revoke my certificate, effectively ruining all of my hard work.
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I took my son's cub scout troop to the local fire department a few years ago. They had a camera smaller than a shoe box that did thermal imaging - it could see foot prints left through shoes for a few minutes. They use it to find hot spots in the walls after fires, and talked about lending it to the police in hostage situations to determine where people were holed up.
Also, what is right for one person is wrong for another. Think of all the tech support people who go to other's computers. Using this idea, each computer is going to be different, making them look ignorant because they are reading the entire menu instead of knowing where in the list the option is located. Also, the tech-support activity will change the interface, making it harder for the user to start working again.
Going to a real-world example, I have a father-in-law who hates computers. One reason is that they do not have a consistant interface. He actually gets mad at everyone who comes in to "fix" his computer because they always change the interface. In his case, the reason this is such a big deal is that he only uses the computer once a month, and it means that the directions he wrote in the notebook no longer work.
My grandfather used to tell me that during WWII, they would add a water can and atomizer to the air intake in front of the carbuerator to increase the mileage. He described it as a small straw in the air stream. My understanding is that this works because water expands more than air does, and the temperature change is going to be higher because the atomized water will evaporate, which cools the air. It is this change in temp that gives the power used to push the pistons, so by pre-cooling the air, you will be able to harness more energy.
dpreview has an blurb that is much more comprehensive. And, to spread the hits, you can see the original press release The content of the two links is the same, only the background color and periphery information is different. (dpreview is black; toshiba is white)
The ease of getting the play data is going to vary widely by sport; I was thinking mainly of the football example the article focussed on. I imagine that Basketball would be much harder. But if you have the "photogenic moment" indicator in the reporters hand, that would probably be a better indicator of when the good pictures were taken than the "by play" grouping would be. Of course, it will take a while to learn how much lag time each reporter has. I would imagine that the moments tagged would correspond to the pictures/second peaks, since the photographers are essentially doing the same thing, but the reporter will be looking at the game from a different angle, and would be more selective than the photog since they are watching the game instead of recording it.
It is interesting that the editors want to be able to index these pictures by play, but have not realized how easy that would be to do. The cameras they use track the time that the photo was taken, in the exif information and in the file system (create date). All that would be needed is to syncronize the times on the cameras to allow them the get the true chronological order. If they had an intern hit one key at the start of the play, and another at the end of the play, they would be able to isolate all of the photos by play. They are already doing most of this. Looking on their web site, they already have time indexes based on the game clock.
You could even go so far as to give the editor / reporter types a device to track the times when they expect to have a good photo. You could even have it record a voice memo so the tech doesn't get into their way. I would assume that they all have cell phones that can do this, or PDA's could be used. (overkill, but handy)
The whole reason for the revocation is to handle the problems where an unauthorized party gets a certificate. For instance, if I get one for amazon, I can set up my server and then re-direct their traffic to it. (This is more possible if you are attempting to take over a small section of the world, like a corporate lan with its own dns server.) However, when verisign discovers their mistake, they will revoke my certificate, effectively ruining all of my hard work.