There's a little more info on the
Open House 2005
site (where it was demo'd) that includes a graphic and mentions that it
"employs a 22.2 channel 3D loudspeaker arrangement to realize excellent sound
field reproduction and a wide listening range"... whatever 22.2 is,
it sure sounds like a lotta speakers.
EETimes didn't say when this would be actually available to end-users, but
PCWorld
wrote on June 16th
"... the NHK says its system is unlikely to be commercialized until sometime in the next decade" so it will be a while.
As with many new technologies, the p0rn industry will probably
be the first to deploy this 33,177,600 pixel technology. Boy, I
feel a bit inadaquate as my
halloween webcam
(goes offline Saturday night) only has 337,920 pixels (704x480) - I guess
size matters, eh?;-)
I agree with parent - what a load of crap from the RIAA. Video is becoming more and more mainstream, with the average consumer having access via traditional video camera's, webcams, and even phone's. And if I buy the recording device and shoot the video footage, don't I "own" it anyway. Heck, does this mean that I can't do my halloween webcam next year unless I have "permission" from the RIAA?
Frankenstein's fan motor died around 1830 MST tonight on the
halloween webcam
and Frankenstein will no longer inflate... my guess is that the
duty-cycle wasn't rated for thousands of off/on's. The 7,000+ lights are still
controllable (X10 super sockets are buzzing though) and trick-or-treaters
are waving to the webcam... but 'ol Frank is R.I.P.
I suspect this will be modded down into oblivion, but I wanted to
pay my respects to Frankenstein on Slashdot.
I wonder how many folks will chime in with the obligatory "I for one welcome our new robotic overlords." even though the Submitter (nice job BTW) already mentioned it.
Submitter (and the article) talks about merging
Google Desktop Search
with
IBM's Omnifind product.
Since it sounds like the purpose of this is to look inside the
firewall/enterprise, I'm really surprised that the
Google Search Appliance
wasn't mentioned. Wouldn't this be the logical product to internally
spider a Corporate network and provide Search Engine Services?
And since it was not mentioned, does this
suggest some shortcomings with the GSA (which Google released a
few years ago, but hasn't seemed to have done well)... or is this
announcement a way for Google and IBM to buddy-up to each other?
I'd like to see what you all are doing in REAL life for Halloween...
but what cool stuff are you geeks making for youselves?
Does the halloween webcam qualify as cool/geeky? Turn 7,000+ lights on and off via the web, plus inflate/deflate Frankenstein... and watch it all on a webcam.
We have a ton of kids in the neighborhood, and needless to say, my house is pretty popular, so it's fun having 'em all show up the actual night of Halloween, I have "HULK SMASH" audio playing really loud. So when the kids come by, I ask the smallest (and scaredest one) kid to tell the Hulk to be "Shut Up". It requires a little prodding, but eventually they will say "Be Quiet Hulk"... and I, of course, hit the OFF button on my wireless X10 remote in my pocket and 'lo and behold, the Hulk is quiet... since the speaker's power is toggled off. Always get a great response and that kid feels pretty good after that!;-)
NYT registration required to read this John Markoff (infamous at Slashdot
because of his "sensational" coverage of Kevin Mitnick) article... but fortunately,
BugMeNot comes to the rescue with username/password of "twernt/twernt"
This work was funded by Intel and DARPA with some assistance from an
HP researcher and uses something called the
Quantum-Confined Stark Effect with
primary application in optical networking gear... but hey, maybe
we'll see a 100 GHz PC in the not-too-distant future.
The halloween webcam is up... but X10 technology isn't capable of 100 Billion times/second updates...;-)
Yea, I know - I just like to minimize my use of Javascript... and with CSS, it is sooooo easy, why should I have to do all that extra work? BTW, the specific application in for the "input" element, so after I did all my setup/debugging in Firefox, I did a quick test in IE... "WTF"... why doesn't this work... Google around... GRRRRR.
Looking at the browser data for this month so far on the
halloween webcam,
there is 64.3% IE, 27.2% Firefox, 2.5% Safari, 1.2% Netscape,
0.8% Mozilla, 0.7% Opera, and the rest misc. - even a handful
of hits from WebTV and Firebird.
In comparison, the
2004 Christmas webcam
had 67.9% IE, 21.1% Firefox, 2.7% Netscape, 2.7% Safari, 2.4% Mozilla, and
1.6% Opera. Not a lotta change, although one interesting thing is the
drop in Mozilla (everyone uses Firefox now?) and Netscape - no surprise
on the later.
This would support some of the press that says Firefox growth is slowing.
Having said that, Firefox just ROCKS - really sucks when you can do
something cool in HTML/CSS (example:hover) and IE doesn't support it.
And obligatory "extensions are cool" too... GO FIREFOX!
I was pleasently surprised to see that while the DCF-F717 is affected, the DCS-F828 is NOT... which I own. While the advisory states "October 2002 through March 2004" I've owned this camera for almost 2 years now... so it doesn't sound like this is affecting any recent vintage digicams (?)
Christmas Lights webcam hoax ran from 2002 to 2004 until I outed myself. I can tell you from first hand experience that the fact checking of the mass media leaves a bit to be desired... and that is being generous. A noteable exception was the Wall Street Journal - it was actually hard to convince 'em that the hoax was really a hoax - they were (rightfully so) concerned about a double-dupe... too bad this/. story doesn't appear to have that element.
Here's a direct link to the
StreamLined Sales Tax website
which is confusing as all get out with their last press release being in 2002;
makes you wonder how "legit" these guys are. BTW, should this be filed under "The Mighty Buck" instead of Politics?!?;-)
BTW, there's been a noteable increase in Wall Street Journal stories
on Slashdot - certainly has improved the quality - kudo's to the
editors and
Carl Bialik from the WSJ
Perhaps not too important ...
on
Web Accessibility?
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
How important are web accessibility and the W3C Accessibility Guidelines to you and/or your company?
While this wasn't posted to the front page of/., my guess is that since there are ZERO comments after 15 minutes at Ask Slashdot that it is just not that important to many folks.
Microsoft buys AOL
Sends all "free AOL CD's" to Google.
After a few months, Google is buried in CD's.
P.S. Remember the days when AOL floppies were actually useful
since you never had to buy any? I actually had a useful purpose
for an AOL CD cover recently as a free viewport on an
outdoor webcam box.
Get submittal about your company approved on Slashdot
Every company reads about you and wants to hire you.
Profit... oh s*it... forgot to post our URL!
In addition to "Samba Experts" and "Linuix Support Now", I saw several for "Adidas Samba"... which is a running shoe - more via Google - although not relevent to the article, I'll give Google an "A" for effort with that match.
It's actually 12-16" above ground level (depending on where you are) and even with the back house door. We had a wood deck there before, but as noted on the deck design page, wood basically sucks in the dry, sunny Colorado environment. There allready is a ton of grass in the backyard (and yes, I mow it myself - note the concrete edging as a mow strip) so we wanted more of a hang-out place. I've been told that "patio" is more of a correct term than "deck" when it comes to concrete.
I assume the "big-ass shade thingie" refers to the patio umbrellas - yea, my wife did good on these. What's really cool is that I buried a pipe into the flowerpot concrete so that it is at the level of the dirt... but with another "pipe sleeve" that drops into that, I can then place the umbrella there... i.e. no bases to drag around. Check back in a few weeks to see that - some semi-clever engineering went into this as it is not as trivial as you might think at first glance.
I just had 20 tons of stamped concrete poured into my backyard - I'm kinda curious to see if that shows up on the next satellite pass. Right now, the Boulder, Colorado footage comes from the summer of 2002 (easy to tell because we had a major drought) - sure would be nice if they date stamped the imagery.
How many other/.'ers get the continual torrent of "your PayPal account is under review due to unusual activity - click here to restore full access" with the clicky being a phishing trap? I'm actually glad that I do NOT have a PayPal account (never did) since these are, of course, easily ignoreable, although they are getting better in terms of evading my spam filters and looking more authentic.
The other "main" ones appear to be Amazon and eBay - but I have yet to get a Email saying my Slashdot account is under review...;-)
Appears to be the owner of the domain - keep us posted in this thread of how the Slashdotting is treating 'ya.
In case useful to 'ya, here's my experience with the Slashdot Effect - mostly data on the numbers, but a few pointers I learned and got from others in the 2004 summary about configured Apache if useful - big one is turn KEEPALIVE OFF.
Slashdot Mirror
As with many new technologies, the p0rn industry will probably be the first to deploy this 33,177,600 pixel technology. Boy, I feel a bit inadaquate as my halloween webcam (goes offline Saturday night) only has 337,920 pixels (704x480) - I guess size matters, eh? ;-)
can be read here ...
Nothing to see here move along.
I agree with parent - what a load of crap from the RIAA. Video is becoming more and more mainstream, with the average consumer having access via traditional video camera's, webcams, and even phone's. And if I buy the recording device and shoot the video footage, don't I "own" it anyway. Heck, does this mean that I can't do my halloween webcam next year unless I have "permission" from the RIAA?
I'll find a replacement fuse tomorrow.
I suspect this will be modded down into oblivion, but I wanted to pay my respects to Frankenstein on Slashdot.
I wonder how many folks will chime in with the obligatory "I for one welcome our new robotic overlords." even though the Submitter (nice job BTW) already mentioned it.
X10 Halloween Webcam is online - is it a "Trick" or a "Treat" ... ;-)
That was a pretty funny (and argueably insightful) post - LOL. The Hulk is real ;-)
Does the halloween webcam qualify as cool/geeky? Turn 7,000+ lights on and off via the web, plus inflate/deflate Frankenstein ... and watch it all on a webcam.
We have a ton of kids in the neighborhood, and needless to say, my house is pretty popular, so it's fun having 'em all show up the actual night of Halloween, I have "HULK SMASH" audio playing really loud. So when the kids come by, I ask the smallest (and scaredest one) kid to tell the Hulk to be "Shut Up". It requires a little prodding, but eventually they will say "Be Quiet Hulk" ... and I, of course, hit the OFF button on my wireless X10 remote in my pocket and 'lo and behold, the Hulk is quiet ... since the speaker's power is toggled off. Always get a great response and that kid feels pretty good after that! ;-)
This work was funded by Intel and DARPA with some assistance from an HP researcher and uses something called the Quantum-Confined Stark Effect with primary application in optical networking gear ... but hey, maybe
we'll see a 100 GHz PC in the not-too-distant future.
The halloween webcam is up ... but X10 technology isn't capable of 100 Billion times/second updates ... ;-)
Yea, I know - I just like to minimize my use of Javascript ... and with CSS, it is sooooo easy, why should I have to do all that extra work? BTW, the specific application in for the "input" element, so after I did all my setup/debugging in Firefox, I did a quick test in IE ... "WTF" ... why doesn't this work ... Google around ... GRRRRR.
In comparison, the 2004 Christmas webcam had 67.9% IE, 21.1% Firefox, 2.7% Netscape, 2.7% Safari, 2.4% Mozilla, and 1.6% Opera. Not a lotta change, although one interesting thing is the drop in Mozilla (everyone uses Firefox now?) and Netscape - no surprise on the later.
This would support some of the press that says Firefox growth is slowing. Having said that, Firefox just ROCKS - really sucks when you can do something cool in HTML/CSS (example :hover) and IE doesn't support it.
And obligatory "extensions are cool" too ... GO FIREFOX!
I was pleasently surprised to see that while the DCF-F717 is affected, the DCS-F828 is NOT ... which I own. While the advisory states "October 2002 through March 2004" I've owned this camera for almost 2 years now ... so it doesn't sound like this is affecting any recent vintage digicams (?)
Having said all that, do you think it is "real" this time?!? ;-)
BTW, there's been a noteable increase in Wall Street Journal stories on Slashdot - certainly has improved the quality - kudo's to the editors and Carl Bialik from the WSJ
halloween webcam is coming
"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."
While this wasn't posted to the front page of /., my guess is that since there are ZERO comments after 15 minutes at Ask Slashdot that it is just not that important to many folks.
Sends all "free AOL CD's" to Google.
After a few months, Google is buried in CD's.
P.S. Remember the days when AOL floppies were actually useful since you never had to buy any? I actually had a useful purpose for an AOL CD cover recently as a free viewport on an outdoor webcam box.
Get submittal about your company approved on Slashdot ... oh s*it ... forgot to post our URL!
Every company reads about you and wants to hire you.
Profit
In addition to "Samba Experts" and "Linuix Support Now", I saw several for "Adidas Samba" ... which is a running shoe - more via Google - although not relevent to the article, I'll give Google an "A" for effort with that match.
I assume the "big-ass shade thingie" refers to the patio umbrellas - yea, my wife did good on these. What's really cool is that I buried a pipe into the flowerpot concrete so that it is at the level of the dirt ... but with another "pipe sleeve" that drops into that, I can then place the umbrella there ... i.e. no bases to drag around. Check back in a few weeks to see that - some semi-clever engineering went into this as it is not as trivial as you might think at first glance.
I just had 20 tons of stamped concrete poured into my backyard - I'm kinda curious to see if that shows up on the next satellite pass. Right now, the Boulder, Colorado footage comes from the summer of 2002 (easy to tell because we had a major drought) - sure would be nice if they date stamped the imagery.
The other "main" ones appear to be Amazon and eBay - but I have yet to get a Email saying my Slashdot account is under review ... ;-)
In case useful to 'ya, here's my experience with the Slashdot Effect - mostly data on the numbers, but a few pointers I learned and got from others in the 2004 summary about configured Apache if useful - big one is turn KEEPALIVE OFF.