Price is clearly a major difference between these products.
Oops. Missed that part. The coolest little gadgets on the net always cost so much they're more expensive than their mass in gold. Check out this little beauty, for example. Looks like an inexpensive DV camera attachment? It costs something like $13,000.
What resolution can these things display? The linked article and video doesn't mention anything. MicroOptical already makes things like these. They have a number of different versions and can display at VGA (640x480) resolution. They have binocular versions, and there's even one in which the display is a reflective portion of a transparent eyeglass lens that looks like a bifocal. Why wait until next year for this one from Mitsubishi when MicroOptical already has a whole range of different kinds now?
How does InfiniBand compare to Xsan? Are they different systems altogether, do they work in conjunctioin with one another, or are they competing standards?
Like I said before, the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica collapsed in 2002, and exposed glaciers have had accellerated movements and melting. Could all this melted ice have affected the carbon sink capacity of the oceans, since this unexplained leap in CO2 coincidentally started around the same time?
Oh, and I just watched The Day After Tomorrow on DVD, and it was all about cataclysmic natural disasters, and the movie began with the collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf. Coincidentally, I watched it after my previous post about the ice shelf, without knowing the movie was going to mention it. Kind of wierd.
Along side this was captured on film a troop of chips that went on a patrol in the pure purpose of hunting down and killing other chips in the area.
I believe I saw something like that about chimps that Jane Goodall observed. I saw a documentary about a group of chimps that grew too large and some were exiled to keep the group at a certain size. The exiled chimps were then treated as a rival group encroaching the main group's territory, hunted, and killed. This, shortly after having been part of the very group that hunted and killed them. Coincidentally, I learned in an Anthropology class that human tribes tend to divide if their populations exceed 100 members.
There was a recent documentary where the scientists believe human warfare is an extension of the primal behaviour in chips and their territory.
Human behaviour has been observed as an extension of primal instincts for some time now. I believe I heard of a book called The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris that was controversial when it was first published in 1967 because it observed human behaviour from a zoological perspective. I have also seen a documentary called Human Instinct by Robert Winston that also does the same sort of comparisons. There is also a book that complements the documentary.
I think that greed also has its roots in primal instincts. I also saw a video of Jane Goodall (again) feeding chimps. They used to scatter bananas around everywhere, and the pack of chimps would come along and just peacefully eat. However, one time, she decided to place all the bananas in a pile without realising the consequences. The chimps got into a big frenzy, fighting over the pile, with the alpha male keeping it for himself and keeping others away from it. After this, Goodall made it clear that they must never feed the chimps in this way again. It seemed similar to how animals feeding over a carcass with fight with one another. Despite the fact that money is an abstract concept, I think the human mind it somehow perceives it as a "pile of bananas", and elicits the same primal response. That's just my personal opinion, however.
I don't think they have a backpack version, but I hear Pelican cases are the best thing for carrying equipment around. A friend of mine told me she dropped a laptop down a flight of stairs in one of these things and it was fine. She also told me that during some news report video shoot, they had to throw all their recording equipment off of a boat and swim to shore because the boat was sinking, and all the equipment came out just fine because these cases are watertight and float.
Problem is that there's no Creative Commons license that prohibits noncommercial verbatim copying and distribution. Does CC's XML schema even have a way to express such a license?
I don't know, if the CC XML schema currently has a way, but I'm sure it could easily be added. I think that because it already exists, it should be integrated with DRM that has more features, because if the labels push for a unified form of DRM, it probably won't even be able to do the things that CC can. They would probably just use something like the current Microsoft or iTunes DRM, that has no flexibility and doesn't use XML.
3Dsolar display devices are set to revolutionize the way that people enjoy multimedia content both at work and at home. This latest innovation finally brings the dream to reality. For the very first time you will see objects flying few inches away from your screen without glasses and will be able to rotate 360 degrees around these objects.
Since images are based on a single view, content providers will not have to deal with two complex and independent images to create the 3Dsolar effect. Free from these technological complexities, content providers will be able to re-focus on their core business and freely create and develop 3D images in no time. 3Dsolar technology is not based on the principle of autostereoscopy.
It doesn't sound like a method of displaying images that have depth, with a different perspective for each eye. It sounds like a way of somehow projecting a 2D image that appears to be in mid air. I recall reading about this sort of thing ages ago, using some tricks with light to make images appear to hover in front of store windows using some form of projection. I think it is inaccurate to describe it as a 3D display if it can't give the perception of depth, but it still sounds like great technology.
They should use Creative Commons for part of a standardised DRM scheme. The whole concept of having XML data describe different licensing methods so that they can be understood by software would be the way to go.
Do the licenses of Mozilla and Netscape allow AOL to use developments in Mozilla for proprietary software? I'm not too clear on the specifics of how open source developments in Mozilla are migrated over to proprietary distributions of Netscape, if they actually are.
But if AOL has licensed Internet Explorer from Microsoft, then perhaps the deal includes the sharing of proprietary code both ways. If Mozilla code can become proprietary for AOL under the project's licensing scheme, then they could possibly pass it on to Microsoft. Microsoft could end up using developments for Mozilla for Internet Explorer to deal with all its current security issues under a closed source license. That could be the whole reason for this deal.
http://www.apple.com/appleworks/ Sorry, mate, but it didn't work out.
I know about Appleworks. It is a simple suite more on par with Microsoft Works rather than Microsoft Office in terms of features. I think Apple could develop a professional version more like Office, made out of separate applications that integrate with one another like The Production Suite, but aren't doing so in order to keep Microsoft Office on the Mac platform.
I think Apple could easily introduce a competing Office Suite of their own since they seem to be making a lot of successful software for their own platform, like those in The Production Suite and the iLife ones. However, Microsoft Office seems to be very important for the Mac platform because Microsoft has used the threat of discontinuing it as leverage to manipulate Apple.
I think Apple has chosen to coexist with Microsoft, since they have slightly different business models and markets, and each company has a somewhat different niche. Apple's primary income is hardware and their market leans towards media, while Microsoft's income is from software and their market leans towards business. If Apple challenged Office, Microsoft could give them a hard time by discontinuing it for the Mac, making incompatibilities with new versions of Office (perhaps through DRM), and challenging the Mac's dominance in media. Microsoft's deep pockets and monopoly leverage would be daunting to challenge head-on, so Apple is probably choosing not to rock the boat.
Early 1980s invention plus 20 year patent term = patent expiry in early 2000s, therefore Kodak can no longer sit on the technology, and that explains why OLEDs are finally hitting the market.
I believe the problem with mass-production of colour OLEDs was that blue LEDs were developed in the 90's, and they have been the problem in producing colour OLED displays. I don't know about monochrome displays, though. If the technology has been around for so long, it's strange that it hasn't been applied. I just found this page that says Kodak just applied for a patent this year for an improved OLED display method, which means this is probably what will be used if it replaced LCD displays. And that means they can sit on it for another 20 years. Here's a quote...
The OLED display described in patent application WO 2004/053827 uses various sizes of light-emitting elements. The areas of the elements are tailored to suit the eye's response to different wavelengths and also take into account the efficiency of the light-emitting material. The authors say that light-emitting elements made with higher-efficiency materials can be made smaller than elements with lower efficiency materials while producing the same light output. As a result, the blue emitting elements have the largest area, followed by green and then red. The inventors say that this configuration simultaneously increases the lifetime, power efficiency and apparent resolution of an OLED display device.
Two published studies (one by me, in fact) have shown that it is not very plausible that the bubonic plague caused enough natural selection to have produced the modern day frequencies of the Delta 32 mutation in Europe.
I found this article online that says that the black death may not have been caused by the bubonic plague, but rather some other disease. Could that have something to do with it? Heres a quote...
The descriptions given by Boccaccio and others didn't seem to fit with what we know about bubonic plague. That was the view of two British researchers, Christopher Duncan and Susan Scott from the University of Liverpool, who in 2001 published a book called Biology of Plagues: Evidence from Historical Populations. In it they pointed out several things that didn't make sense if indeed, the Black Death was caused by bubonic plague. ...
There had to be some other means of transmisson than the rat/flea/human pathway. It made much more sense if transmission was from person to person - by an airborne particle - probably a virus, argue Duncan and Scott.
Medieval descriptions of the Black Death - where dark spots appear in the skin - sound more like viral hemorrhagic fever, similar to modern day Ebola, than bubonic plague, they say.
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Price is clearly a major difference between these products.
Oops. Missed that part. The coolest little gadgets on the net always cost so much they're more expensive than their mass in gold. Check out this little beauty, for example. Looks like an inexpensive DV camera attachment? It costs something like $13,000.
What resolution can these things display? The linked article and video doesn't mention anything. MicroOptical already makes things like these. They have a number of different versions and can display at VGA (640x480) resolution. They have binocular versions, and there's even one in which the display is a reflective portion of a transparent eyeglass lens that looks like a bifocal. Why wait until next year for this one from Mitsubishi when MicroOptical already has a whole range of different kinds now?
How does InfiniBand compare to Xsan? Are they different systems altogether, do they work in conjunctioin with one another, or are they competing standards?
The media intentionally creates fear because it gets them ratings, which in turn generates more profit.
There is no way I'll allow DNA anywhere near my body.
If by chance you actually do get some DNA on you, make sure you get that blue GAP dress drycleaned...
Ebay stock price movements seem to only rarely follow real life.
Real life? Oh, you mean that thing that goes on outside the basement window.
If sun dies... IBM will then pick it up... it's so clear.
Or perhaps Kodak will.
Like I said before, the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica collapsed in 2002, and exposed glaciers have had accellerated movements and melting. Could all this melted ice have affected the carbon sink capacity of the oceans, since this unexplained leap in CO2 coincidentally started around the same time?
Oh, and I just watched The Day After Tomorrow on DVD, and it was all about cataclysmic natural disasters, and the movie began with the collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf. Coincidentally, I watched it after my previous post about the ice shelf, without knowing the movie was going to mention it. Kind of wierd.
Along side this was captured on film a troop of chips that went on a patrol in the pure purpose of hunting down and killing other chips in the area.
I believe I saw something like that about chimps that Jane Goodall observed. I saw a documentary about a group of chimps that grew too large and some were exiled to keep the group at a certain size. The exiled chimps were then treated as a rival group encroaching the main group's territory, hunted, and killed. This, shortly after having been part of the very group that hunted and killed them. Coincidentally, I learned in an Anthropology class that human tribes tend to divide if their populations exceed 100 members.
There was a recent documentary where the scientists believe human warfare is an extension of the primal behaviour in chips and their territory.
Human behaviour has been observed as an extension of primal instincts for some time now. I believe I heard of a book called The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris that was controversial when it was first published in 1967 because it observed human behaviour from a zoological perspective. I have also seen a documentary called Human Instinct by Robert Winston that also does the same sort of comparisons. There is also a book that complements the documentary.
I think that greed also has its roots in primal instincts. I also saw a video of Jane Goodall (again) feeding chimps. They used to scatter bananas around everywhere, and the pack of chimps would come along and just peacefully eat. However, one time, she decided to place all the bananas in a pile without realising the consequences. The chimps got into a big frenzy, fighting over the pile, with the alpha male keeping it for himself and keeping others away from it. After this, Goodall made it clear that they must never feed the chimps in this way again. It seemed similar to how animals feeding over a carcass with fight with one another. Despite the fact that money is an abstract concept, I think the human mind it somehow perceives it as a "pile of bananas", and elicits the same primal response. That's just my personal opinion, however.
... someone in the Chinese government finally saw Tubgirl
Which Pelican case model do you have?
You obviously haven't met my mother.
I don't think they have a backpack version, but I hear Pelican cases are the best thing for carrying equipment around. A friend of mine told me she dropped a laptop down a flight of stairs in one of these things and it was fine. She also told me that during some news report video shoot, they had to throw all their recording equipment off of a boat and swim to shore because the boat was sinking, and all the equipment came out just fine because these cases are watertight and float.
Problem is that there's no Creative Commons license that prohibits noncommercial verbatim copying and distribution. Does CC's XML schema even have a way to express such a license?
I don't know, if the CC XML schema currently has a way, but I'm sure it could easily be added. I think that because it already exists, it should be integrated with DRM that has more features, because if the labels push for a unified form of DRM, it probably won't even be able to do the things that CC can. They would probably just use something like the current Microsoft or iTunes DRM, that has no flexibility and doesn't use XML.
This is what is says on the 3Dsolar site...
It doesn't sound like a method of displaying images that have depth, with a different perspective for each eye. It sounds like a way of somehow projecting a 2D image that appears to be in mid air. I recall reading about this sort of thing ages ago, using some tricks with light to make images appear to hover in front of store windows using some form of projection. I think it is inaccurate to describe it as a 3D display if it can't give the perception of depth, but it still sounds like great technology.
They should use Creative Commons for part of a standardised DRM scheme. The whole concept of having XML data describe different licensing methods so that they can be understood by software would be the way to go.
The labels can go fuck themselves.
Apparently there are some photos circulating the net demonstrating how that can be done, I hear.
Do the licenses of Mozilla and Netscape allow AOL to use developments in Mozilla for proprietary software? I'm not too clear on the specifics of how open source developments in Mozilla are migrated over to proprietary distributions of Netscape, if they actually are.
But if AOL has licensed Internet Explorer from Microsoft, then perhaps the deal includes the sharing of proprietary code both ways. If Mozilla code can become proprietary for AOL under the project's licensing scheme, then they could possibly pass it on to Microsoft. Microsoft could end up using developments for Mozilla for Internet Explorer to deal with all its current security issues under a closed source license. That could be the whole reason for this deal.
http://www.apple.com/appleworks/ Sorry, mate, but it didn't work out.
I know about Appleworks. It is a simple suite more on par with Microsoft Works rather than Microsoft Office in terms of features. I think Apple could develop a professional version more like Office, made out of separate applications that integrate with one another like The Production Suite, but aren't doing so in order to keep Microsoft Office on the Mac platform.
Are you listening, Steve Jobs? Novell? IBM?
I think Apple could easily introduce a competing Office Suite of their own since they seem to be making a lot of successful software for their own platform, like those in The Production Suite and the iLife ones. However, Microsoft Office seems to be very important for the Mac platform because Microsoft has used the threat of discontinuing it as leverage to manipulate Apple.
I think Apple has chosen to coexist with Microsoft, since they have slightly different business models and markets, and each company has a somewhat different niche. Apple's primary income is hardware and their market leans towards media, while Microsoft's income is from software and their market leans towards business. If Apple challenged Office, Microsoft could give them a hard time by discontinuing it for the Mac, making incompatibilities with new versions of Office (perhaps through DRM), and challenging the Mac's dominance in media. Microsoft's deep pockets and monopoly leverage would be daunting to challenge head-on, so Apple is probably choosing not to rock the boat.
Why does that remind me of a particular shock site? I can't believe how slashdot has corrupted my mind.
Early 1980s invention plus 20 year patent term = patent expiry in early 2000s, therefore Kodak can no longer sit on the technology, and that explains why OLEDs are finally hitting the market.
I believe the problem with mass-production of colour OLEDs was that blue LEDs were developed in the 90's, and they have been the problem in producing colour OLED displays. I don't know about monochrome displays, though. If the technology has been around for so long, it's strange that it hasn't been applied. I just found this page that says Kodak just applied for a patent this year for an improved OLED display method, which means this is probably what will be used if it replaced LCD displays. And that means they can sit on it for another 20 years. Here's a quote...
I work for Honeywell.
Does Honeywell use Macs? That would kind of be ironic.
I would love to see OLED screens replace LCDs, but we're supposed to hate Kodak now!
Two published studies (one by me, in fact) have shown that it is not very plausible that the bubonic plague caused enough natural selection to have produced the modern day frequencies of the Delta 32 mutation in Europe.
I found this article online that says that the black death may not have been caused by the bubonic plague, but rather some other disease. Could that have something to do with it? Heres a quote...