While states have different regulations clearly they have to deliver similar services to their citizenry. According to Wikipedia, Minnesota and its neighbor Wisconsin have about the same population while Minnesota has about 1.5 times the land of Wisconsin. Now if MS is going to supply all of Minnesota's systems for say $100M, then if they also delivered the same service to Wisconsin it would cost another $100M. But a huge amount of savings ought to be possible if the two states built their own cloud using freely customizable open source software systems. And if the savings aren't big enough then add in Iowa and the Dakotas for good measure. This would also keep citizen data out of the hands of a convicted monopoly, create jobs, improve efficiency by code reuse, and possibly it could even create a revenue flow as more states join on. After all, the early adopters will have a head start in building a pool of developers to work on the system and it would be natural to use them for additional clients in the future. If Minnesota was a bit smarter it could run its hardware at a profit through payments from other states.
The top scored comments do not consider that the iPhone has enough power and resources to augment photos.
You could take your photo and then wave the camera around in the air or even walk over to the side or closer to your subject, and the phone could be selectively lighting the scene while adding these frames onto the image. It can use the accelerometer with computer vision techniques to understand where the camera is moving. It can learn what the 3D shape of the subject is and computer 3D masking.
What I think this might mean in terms of low-hanging fruit is that the camera will shoot an image, detect the edges of dark areas that need lighting, then provide audible cues for the photographer to swing the camera to the side. The camera would then be able to shoot a series of frames automatically, blur them together, and make the tiny size of the flash appear bigger. It might also be possible for the flash to be actuated based on gesture input or shape recognition to simulate light painting (at least to highlight portions of an object somewhat artistically).
Finally the camera app could allow the user to selectively combine portions of this captured light field so that a single shot could be made to express different moods.
Approaching the subject or actuating a zoom, aperture, time delay, etc. could allow more detail, HDR, blur removal, etc. to be used to augment the image. In the end a processed 3D movie in time and reconstructed 3D scene, potentially including the photographer and what is behind him, or even including different lighting from different times of day or separately illuminated lighting, would result. This kind of a 3D photo-movie with tons of metadata could become the new photo we want to archive.
I hope this is enough to forestall any more patenting!
Not saying this will help you take good pictures. They will probably suck except for some incredibly lucky awesome ones which will be further photoshopped and used for marketing. But a more finely aimable flash combined with motion and processing in the space and time domains will certainly allow smart cameras to capture a lot more data. More so if it gets dual lenses and XY audio pickups. The iPhone seems to be the best platform. If only it would get better photo hardware...
Seriously I could see a next-gen iPhone with a honking big HD video lens and hot-swappable dual memory cards, generating tons of 3D and lighting data that can be editable on a MacBook Pro. Finally a good reason to get a multicore machine!
After all the comments against GoDaddy, and I am sure a lot of them are based on fact, there is one thing I've got to say. I moved my domains from Network Solutions to GoDaddy and have been extremely happy with GoDaddy, and very unhappy with netsol. Network Solutions actually would lock you out from transferring "for your protection" and then force you to call on the phone, so that they could repeatedly try to sell you on staying with them. And they made it very hard. Twice I had to demand their superior just to get any action. GoDaddy on the other hand is quite cheap and very easy to use. I switched a domain from from MelbourneIT to them and saved a lot of money. Their UI is not perfect but you can do a lot of stuff with it, both newbies and pros. The bit about them reselling your name is absolutely ridiculous. But otherwise they have given a lot of satisfaction and there are probably a lot of people who use them thinking it is a good deal, especially if you don't go in for anything else they offer. And Danica is hot. But that nothing to do with my decision, no sirree. I get non-techie gossip from my Mom. Apparently the creator of GoDaddy is hailed as a hero and successful entrepreneur in the popular press. Whatever, if someone else provides a more trustworthy service with better price point they will probably gain a lot of customers since everyone is I think a bit squeamish about GoDaddy's ugly habits. As for "licensing" versus "owning" domains, I didn't realize that. However I wonder if they would be able to operate a volume business with rapid changes, etc. otherwise. Does this allow them to auction your name off I wonder or is that a different story.
For video wall you may want to consider Christie Microtiles which I'm learning about myself now. Command and Control is one of the main uses. The interesting part is that it is made of self-calibrating display "bricks" you can build into any shaped display you want. Each brick houses a long-life DLP projector with very high resolution and color reproduction. There is only 1 mm between bricks, and it is easily reconfigured. From what I have heard, the bricks sense each other so you do not have a long calibration session, it is a low maintenance setup.
The TFA is quite interesting and seems to have been a real heroic quest. They haven't completed it to the last little bit, as it is highly resistant in places. Quite a mammoth!
Some years ago I saw a paper (maybe ACM Siggraph) on something related. A meeting room had a video camera every few feet and the stitched together signal was then projected from a few projectors onto a wall. I made it seem as though you were looking at another room, with a table and the people sitting behind it. Using multiple cameras / projectors (and maybe rotating their orientation) allowed a big portion of the room to be transmitted, while maintaining enough resolution to see their faces, it was all about life size.
I think I understand what you want, though some people are talking about it being creepy, you might want to arrange for some time of day when two rooms can be connected similarly. This couldn't be done in the kitchen of course. Maybe what you want is something simple. A button can be pushed from either side and it will start the link, then depending on the age of your child they can run and ask you a question. Maybe it is easiest to just have a Mac display on the kitchen table, maybe with a usb button like the griffin powermate to start and stop the connection. All the time on is going to be a distraction to everyone, is the screen going to be on when the kitchen is dark, etc.
Probably Skype or iChat will be easy and give you high quality. If you can script it with AppleScript and get a PowerMate button then it should be easy. Besides AppleScript I'm not sure what you can use but Quartz Composer seems to be able to use the Apple Remote and can be used for motion detection. There seem to be packages for the Mac that can do motion detection as part of the video streaming too. Logitech I believe makes a Skype compatible camera on a stalk with high resolution that swivels and zooms to track. That is, it is so high resolution that you can probably pan from your side within the image.
Hope this helps. My guess is you do not want to have a hot, loud projector running all the time somewhere so forget the augmented reality thing, and also an iPad would be great but it seems too limited camera and software wise and maybe cpu wise now. But check it out possibly you could plug a camera into it and maybe there is a skype app for it. Otherwise hide the computer under the table.. Hope this helps.
P.S. I found an Applescript Skype library though haven't looked into it at all. Also google for mac os x camera motion, this may help too. Don't see encryption much. Also don't forget to get a dynamic dns account for both computers or else, with ichat you could do without, just use jabber.org to set up the connection.
A lot of good comments in this thread already so I will only add one more vector.
The comments are about how to learn new languages/paradigms, and also to try and market yourself as a specialist. I'd like to add that the days are gone when companies can afford years-long rewrites of legacy systems converting to SAP, etc. Instead of interfaces being built from every system to every other system, just one interface is made to a data hub system that mixes and reroutes everything.
Even if systems do end up being totally converted to new platforms, there is a need to run the old system in parallel for some time (years possibly).
The point being that someone has to build these interfaces. You could be the specialist who gets hired onto a team to do this. If you can get yourself hooked up with a software house that has a chance at getting these jobs then it is possible you would get jobs one after the other in a stimulating atmosphere where you could see what other things are going on today.
I haven't tried Rakudo Perl yet but my impression is that Perl 6 and Parrot will enable many things to be possible. For example with parrot (correct me if I'm wrong) you would be able to mix different libraries written in different languages together easily. And Perl 6 is intended to be more advanced and flexible than other languages for the next 20 or 30 years. So in that sense it is far premature to be writing anti-Perl things when the first public release for a wider audience to try Rakugo Perl has been announced.
It should be celebrated not dissed. Finally, in terms of lines of code and how freely creative one may be, and how fun it is to use, Perl beats Java and Perl 6 may turn out to be awesome, who knows? The stupidest post of all was by a self-described "pretty sharp computer scientist" who never read a single manual on the language and dove in to a big program without understanding it. I mean the guy didn't even know that $_ is the default input, i.e. the next line read from a file. I think this really tells on the current totally ungeeky, uncool, unintelligent, inexperienced status of the average Slashdot reader.
I've met some of the people building Perl 6. They are cool, intelligent, funny, altruistic, geeky, and having tons of fun at what they are doing. They've spent a long time on it and they've plundered the state of the art in language design to do it. They aren't insular or hating other languages, they love cool stuff like Haskell and Ruby. My impression is the language is totally customizable if you are smart enough too. If I had more free time I would be investigating all kinds of stuff like Erlang and Scala, dive deep into Perl 6, any language is going to stretch your mind.
Oh, sorry, is Python the last thing you will ever need to know? Hah. I bet Perl 6 and Parrot will be great and I hate to hear people say detrimental things about something like that which has plenty of promise. $Foo on you! The rest of us are applauding them for their magnificent achievement and ongoing dedication. Plainly enough, they are heroes and deserve medals of honor and knighthoods.
By the way and underscoring that IANA physicist, the below quote and this page seem to indicate that room temperature gives a thermal voltage of 25mV and the electrons whirling in the graphene are hundreds of millivolts higher. Room temp. is 300 Kelvin. If we interpret "hundreds" to be "at least 200 mV higher", then let's say 225 mV above 25mV gives us 250mV or 10 times the thermal voltage, which is proportional to the temperature, meaning 10 times 300K = 3000K. So this seems to say that the electrons would at room temperature be like a plasma if they get out, or lots of sparks?
Crommie also noted, the "pseudomagnetic fields" inside the nanobubbles are high enough that the energy levels are separated by hundreds of millivolts, which is much higher than room temperature. Even at room temperature, thermal noise would not interfere with this effect in graphene.
IANAP but my understanding is that the physical deformations or "bubbles" make electrons move in circles and attain energy levels as if in a magnetic field of 300 Teslas. The LHC's cryogenically cooled magnets are only about 8 Teslas, and their substance theoretically can only handle 10T. The world record for continuous magnetic field is about 14T. The highest ever created explosively in the lab is 800T or so. So this is a really big (virtual) magnetic field. In other words the electrons must be at really high energy levels.
Some questions: Is the energy level of the electron just a wierd quantum mirage-like thing? Or is it a real energy level that would release energy if allowed to drop down? If you dropped a wire vertically onto the plate, would it create a current? If you pop a bubble say from friction or maybe chemically what happens? Is there any way to use this to perform experiments that could only be done in 300 T magnetic fields? Are they really bubbles? Does one layer of graphene bloom up and expand into the top shell of the bubble? Is it vacuum or air inside?
P.S. Of course there are some ways out of this: space-based systems, and systems that use wind, waves or biofuels which themselves are ultimately powered by the sun. There is no reason the storage cannot be biological.
Solar power needs to be stored in some kind of system and released at night, otherwise it is not in the same category as nuclear power and cannot be compared. Not to mention that TFA is apparently completely wrong about costs too as one poster noted.
1. Re BoingBoing, do nothing. They took it down and it was a mistake. 2. There may be other companies that also made mistakes about the license and don't have money to pay you. Anyway, you are not going to make 100,000 dollars so forget that. Did you have a visible pricelist for commercial use? If not maybe after the lawsuit you might make a few bucks as if it was work for hire. But I doubt it. I recommend if you want to pressure a megacorp, make sure all communications are documented in writing and get a lawyer and have the lawyer's office write a series of letters to their legal department, etc. Caveat about coming to Slashdot for legal advice. 3. Make a site if you don't have one for selling your photography commercially. You could also put your work into a photo agency. As it happens I'm making a site for a few photographers to show their portfolios. If you are a pro, then try that and stop putting your photos into difficult to understand creative commons system. The point is, Put photo into CC noncommercial -> Wait for people to use it commercially by mistake or evilly -> Sue -> Profit is not a smart business plan. 4. You could consider the uses as your loss leader and part of your portfolio and then go to an ad agency or otherwise try to sell your photos yourself. 5. Also note you can sell exclusivity for a certain territory or business area.
Ah. now I understand. You simply wanted to use Slashdot to promote your services for free. Well done. How you could talk about suing BB for use of a photo of a hammock belonging to a BB owner is totally beyond me and I regret the time I put into answering your questions below.
When I saw this story I was thinking about digital age type services the USPS could provide, something like am escrow or PayPal service but with guarantees on delivery, receipts, and letting you check that you were delivered what you expected. Things that would be more trustworthy and dependable having a reliable government official involved.
But then I remembered a presentation I heard at a conference last week. Many top companies like Microsoft, Hitachi, IBM, Oracle, etc. were there in Tokyo at the IT Pro conference. They were all talking about cloud computing as the future. And then came the President of Kuroneko Yamato, or in English Yamato Transport. Kuroneko means black cat, which is their logo. It was a very impressive talk and they showed a video which underscored customer satisfaction, the satisfaction their employees feel when thanked, and unstinting effort. They deliver in snow. If USPS could deliver service like Yamato they could beat out UPS and Fedex too. The moral being that digital technology is fine not more important than the delivery service itself.
Yes but what about colonization waves. I recently read a good novel, Manifold: Space by Stephen Baxter. It provides one possible answer. His previous book actually is based on no other aliens existing. That said while you make some sense I'm not convinced. Certainly we know from SETI how hard it is. (real hard)
It would be more useful if a link is simply provided to download the original resolution file without having to mess around with Javascript. In Safari, when you try to download by opening the Activity window and doubleclicking the streaming file, instead of it showing up in the Downloads window as normally a browser window is opened and the movie plays in a Quicktime movie player embedded in the browser.
As others note, longer submissions and frame rates, and no compression would be more useful than 4K. And if it really is 4K then there is no point streaming it since the file will be so huge, just download it as a file instead and play later.
Perhaps if I had a large display it would be more useful for me. I have a MacBook Pro (1920x1200) I got to show video and film, so I am interested in the higher resolutions, but it really is silly to be stuck in the old browser interface. Even if you have a giant screen the main video frame is tiny.
Meanwhile, if resolutions above 1080p become popular (as could be possible for people who have a large iMac (2560 x 1440) for example could use, YouTube's network will fall over. It only really makes sense to distribute high bitrate film over a torrent style delivery network. As for DRM and charging for it that is a different story but since YouTube is free already it would make sense for them to add a bittorrent tracker and allow people to upload via a free program like Miro (the old democracy player), etc. It would be really great for people to be able to distribute video but my impression is that YouTube cannot afford to allow the really high bitrate, high quality files that would make these displays shine, due to their old-fashioned delivery mechanism. We won't really know until it gets more popular though..
While Japanese are people just like Americans with similar faults, there is one area that lying would be unthinkable: Science. Especially space. I believe there is even a belief in the purity of research into nature, that goes beyond what is generally found in the U.S.A.
For example I remember seeing a story (animated and broadcast semiannually in Japan) about a scientist manning a seismic research station on a mountaintop, and he decides he must remain there during a volcanic eruption in order to give warning to everyone else up to the last moment.
Also while there are attempts now to change academia to work with business and make spinoff companies, there has been a great reluctance on the part of Japanese scientists to do business which has been seen as dirty.
So while I was angry at first to read your post I must say the answer is that the Japanese are capable of whatever humans are capable of doing, but that lying "to save face" is highly unlikely, and almost certainly not possible for these people anyway.
If anything the Japanese way rather is either to be straightforward and take the consequences (bushido) or to preserve gray ambiguous areas and leave things unstated (politicians, who also can say "I don't remember that, my secretary handles all my business").
Caveat: I have just switched to a MacBook Pro after years of windows and linux. I love it.
My impression is that this is the most advanced, subtle device on the market and they just dropped it into the hands of a million people. Can you imagine this sort of thing not happening? On the other hand there seems to be a major difference from past iPhone versions.
It sounds like an interesting issue that could combine subtle aspects of different sensor device, position, electromagnetic environment, head geometry, hair, limb length, complexion, reflections, software algorithms / settings, etc.
Maybe they have bad hardware, but more likely they have added even more subtle controls which work great for exactly the same type of people as their employees, down to their hair styles and awareness of how to hold the phone optimally. It isn't really strange that there is an optimal way to hold the phone. The problem seems to be that users are not shown what the device is thinking, nor given a way to tweak it subtly to better match their physical / mental / usage characteristics.
It might be useful for Apple to make an app that will record a log and let the user see what happens when a call is dropped or other function is started mistakenly while on the phone. It certainly may be possible that the size makes it easier for people to touch their cheek to the phone, or cover the sensor with a finger or maybe hair or jewelry. But right now there are no posts showing what the camera sees, or how to unfailing reproduce the problem.
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While states have different regulations clearly they have to deliver similar services to their citizenry.
According to Wikipedia, Minnesota and its neighbor Wisconsin have about the same population while Minnesota has about 1.5 times the land of Wisconsin.
Now if MS is going to supply all of Minnesota's systems for say $100M, then if they also delivered the same service to Wisconsin it would cost another $100M.
But a huge amount of savings ought to be possible if the two states built their own cloud using freely customizable open source software systems. And if the savings aren't big enough then add in Iowa and the Dakotas for good measure.
This would also keep citizen data out of the hands of a convicted monopoly, create jobs, improve efficiency by code reuse, and possibly it could even create a revenue flow as more states join on. After all, the early adopters will have a head start in building a pool of developers to work on the system and it would be natural to use them for additional clients in the future. If Minnesota was a bit smarter it could run its hardware at a profit through payments from other states.
The top scored comments do not consider that the iPhone has enough power and resources to augment photos.
You could take your photo and then wave the camera around in the air or even walk over to the side or closer to your subject, and the phone could be selectively lighting the scene while adding these frames onto the image. It can use the accelerometer with computer vision techniques to understand where the camera is moving. It can learn what the 3D shape of the subject is and computer 3D masking.
What I think this might mean in terms of low-hanging fruit is that the camera will shoot an image, detect the edges of dark areas that need lighting, then provide audible cues for the photographer to swing the camera to the side. The camera would then be able to shoot a series of frames automatically, blur them together, and make the tiny size of the flash appear bigger. It might also be possible for the flash to be actuated based on gesture input or shape recognition to simulate light painting (at least to highlight portions of an object somewhat artistically).
Finally the camera app could allow the user to selectively combine portions of this captured light field so that a single shot could be made to express different moods.
Approaching the subject or actuating a zoom, aperture, time delay, etc. could allow more detail, HDR, blur removal, etc. to be used to augment the image. In the end a processed 3D movie in time and reconstructed 3D scene, potentially including the photographer and what is behind him, or even including different lighting from different times of day or separately illuminated lighting, would result. This kind of a 3D photo-movie with tons of metadata could become the new photo we want to archive.
I hope this is enough to forestall any more patenting!
Not saying this will help you take good pictures. They will probably suck except for some incredibly lucky awesome ones which will be further photoshopped and used for marketing. But a more finely aimable flash combined with motion and processing in the space and time domains will certainly allow smart cameras to capture a lot more data. More so if it gets dual lenses and XY audio pickups. The iPhone seems to be the best platform. If only it would get better photo hardware...
Seriously I could see a next-gen iPhone with a honking big HD video lens and hot-swappable dual memory cards, generating tons of 3D and lighting data that can be editable on a MacBook Pro. Finally a good reason to get a multicore machine!
Has anyone asked what interesting thing actually happened 13,000 years ago then? Sounds like something surprising was discovered.
After all the comments against GoDaddy, and I am sure a lot of them are based on fact, there is one thing I've got to say.
I moved my domains from Network Solutions to GoDaddy and have been extremely happy with GoDaddy, and very unhappy with netsol.
Network Solutions actually would lock you out from transferring "for your protection" and then force you to call on the phone, so that they could repeatedly try to sell you on staying with them. And they made it very hard. Twice I had to demand their superior just to get any action.
GoDaddy on the other hand is quite cheap and very easy to use. I switched a domain from from MelbourneIT to them and saved a lot of money.
Their UI is not perfect but you can do a lot of stuff with it, both newbies and pros.
The bit about them reselling your name is absolutely ridiculous. But otherwise they have given a lot of satisfaction and there are probably a lot of people who use them thinking it is a good deal, especially if you don't go in for anything else they offer. And Danica is hot. But that nothing to do with my decision, no sirree.
I get non-techie gossip from my Mom. Apparently the creator of GoDaddy is hailed as a hero and successful entrepreneur in the popular press. Whatever, if someone else provides a more trustworthy service with better price point they will probably gain a lot of customers since everyone is I think a bit squeamish about GoDaddy's ugly habits.
As for "licensing" versus "owning" domains, I didn't realize that. However I wonder if they would be able to operate a volume business with rapid changes, etc. otherwise. Does this allow them to auction your name off I wonder or is that a different story.
For video wall you may want to consider Christie Microtiles which I'm learning about myself now. Command and Control is one of the main uses. The interesting part is that it is made of self-calibrating display "bricks" you can build into any shaped display you want. Each brick houses a long-life DLP projector with very high resolution and color reproduction. There is only 1 mm between bricks, and it is easily reconfigured. From what I have heard, the bricks sense each other so you do not have a long calibration session, it is a low maintenance setup.
The TFA is quite interesting and seems to have been a real heroic quest. They haven't completed it to the last little bit, as it is highly resistant in places. Quite a mammoth!
Some years ago I saw a paper (maybe ACM Siggraph) on something related. A meeting room had a video camera every few feet and the stitched together signal was then projected from a few projectors onto a wall. I made it seem as though you were looking at another room, with a table and the people sitting behind it. Using multiple cameras / projectors (and maybe rotating their orientation) allowed a big portion of the room to be transmitted, while maintaining enough resolution to see their faces, it was all about life size.
I think I understand what you want, though some people are talking about it being creepy, you might want to arrange for some time of day when two rooms can be connected similarly. This couldn't be done in the kitchen of course. Maybe what you want is something simple. A button can be pushed from either side and it will start the link, then depending on the age of your child they can run and ask you a question. Maybe it is easiest to just have a Mac display on the kitchen table, maybe with a usb button like the griffin powermate to start and stop the connection. All the time on is going to be a distraction to everyone, is the screen going to be on when the kitchen is dark, etc.
Probably Skype or iChat will be easy and give you high quality. If you can script it with AppleScript and get a PowerMate button then it should be easy.
Besides AppleScript I'm not sure what you can use but Quartz Composer seems to be able to use the Apple Remote and can be used for motion detection.
There seem to be packages for the Mac that can do motion detection as part of the video streaming too. Logitech I believe makes a Skype compatible camera on a stalk with high resolution that swivels and zooms to track. That is, it is so high resolution that you can probably pan from your side within the image.
Hope this helps. My guess is you do not want to have a hot, loud projector running all the time somewhere so forget the augmented reality thing, and also an iPad would be great but it seems too limited camera and software wise and maybe cpu wise now. But check it out possibly you could plug a camera into it and maybe there is a skype app for it. Otherwise hide the computer under the table.. Hope this helps.
P.S. I found an Applescript Skype library though haven't looked into it at all. Also google for mac os x camera motion, this may help too. Don't see encryption much. Also don't forget to get a dynamic dns account for both computers or else, with ichat you could do without, just use jabber.org to set up the connection.
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A lot of good comments in this thread already so I will only add one more vector.
The comments are about how to learn new languages/paradigms, and also to try and market yourself as a specialist.
I'd like to add that the days are gone when companies can afford years-long rewrites of legacy systems converting to SAP, etc. Instead of interfaces being built from every system to every other system, just one interface is made to a data hub system that mixes and reroutes everything.
Even if systems do end up being totally converted to new platforms, there is a need to run the old system in parallel for some time (years possibly).
The point being that someone has to build these interfaces. You could be the specialist who gets hired onto a team to do this. If you can get yourself hooked up with a software house that has a chance at getting these jobs then it is possible you would get jobs one after the other in a stimulating atmosphere where you could see what other things are going on today.
And in "enemy of my enemy is my friend", use an iPhone.
I haven't tried Rakudo Perl yet but my impression is that Perl 6 and Parrot will enable many things to be possible.
For example with parrot (correct me if I'm wrong) you would be able to mix different libraries written in different languages together easily. And Perl 6 is intended to be more advanced and flexible than other languages for the next 20 or 30 years. So in that sense it is far premature to be writing anti-Perl things when the first public release for a wider audience to try Rakugo Perl has been announced.
It should be celebrated not dissed. Finally, in terms of lines of code and how freely creative one may be, and how fun it is to use, Perl beats Java and Perl 6 may turn out to be awesome, who knows? The stupidest post of all was by a self-described "pretty sharp computer scientist" who never read a single manual on the language and dove in to a big program without understanding it. I mean the guy didn't even know that $_ is the default input, i.e. the next line read from a file. I think this really tells on the current totally ungeeky, uncool, unintelligent, inexperienced status of the average Slashdot reader.
I've met some of the people building Perl 6. They are cool, intelligent, funny, altruistic, geeky, and having tons of fun at what they are doing. They've spent a long time on it and they've plundered the state of the art in language design to do it. They aren't insular or hating other languages, they love cool stuff like Haskell and Ruby. My impression is the language is totally customizable if you are smart enough too. If I had more free time I would be investigating all kinds of stuff like Erlang and Scala, dive deep into Perl 6, any language is going to stretch your mind.
Oh, sorry, is Python the last thing you will ever need to know? Hah. I bet Perl 6 and Parrot will be great and I hate to hear people say detrimental things about something like that which has plenty of promise. $Foo on you! The rest of us are applauding them for their magnificent achievement and ongoing dedication. Plainly enough, they are heroes and deserve medals of honor and knighthoods.
By the way and underscoring that IANA physicist, the below quote and this page seem to indicate that room temperature gives a thermal voltage of 25mV and the electrons whirling in the graphene are hundreds of millivolts higher. Room temp. is 300 Kelvin. If we interpret "hundreds" to be "at least 200 mV higher", then let's say 225 mV above 25mV gives us 250mV or 10 times the thermal voltage, which is proportional to the temperature, meaning 10 times 300K = 3000K. So this seems to say that the electrons would at room temperature be like a plasma if they get out, or lots of sparks?
IANAP but my understanding is that the physical deformations or "bubbles" make electrons move in circles and attain energy levels as if in a magnetic field of 300 Teslas.
The LHC's cryogenically cooled magnets are only about 8 Teslas, and their substance theoretically can only handle 10T. The world record for continuous magnetic field is about 14T. The highest ever created explosively in the lab is 800T or so. So this is a really big (virtual) magnetic field. In other words the electrons must be at really high energy levels.
Some questions:
Is the energy level of the electron just a wierd quantum mirage-like thing? Or is it a real energy level that would release energy if allowed to drop down?
If you dropped a wire vertically onto the plate, would it create a current?
If you pop a bubble say from friction or maybe chemically what happens?
Is there any way to use this to perform experiments that could only be done in 300 T magnetic fields?
Are they really bubbles? Does one layer of graphene bloom up and expand into the top shell of the bubble?
Is it vacuum or air inside?
P.S. Of course there are some ways out of this: space-based systems, and systems that use wind, waves or biofuels which themselves are ultimately powered by the sun. There is no reason the storage cannot be biological.
Solar power needs to be stored in some kind of system and released at night, otherwise it is not in the same category as nuclear power and cannot be compared. Not to mention that TFA is apparently completely wrong about costs too as one poster noted.
1. Re BoingBoing, do nothing. They took it down and it was a mistake.
2. There may be other companies that also made mistakes about the license and don't have money to pay you. Anyway, you are not going to make 100,000 dollars so forget that. Did you have a visible pricelist for commercial use? If not maybe after the lawsuit you might make a few bucks as if it was work for hire. But I doubt it. I recommend if you want to pressure a megacorp, make sure all communications are documented in writing and get a lawyer and have the lawyer's office write a series of letters to their legal department, etc. Caveat about coming to Slashdot for legal advice.
3. Make a site if you don't have one for selling your photography commercially. You could also put your work into a photo agency.
As it happens I'm making a site for a few photographers to show their portfolios. If you are a pro, then try that and stop putting your photos into difficult to understand creative commons system. The point is, Put photo into CC noncommercial -> Wait for people to use it commercially by mistake or evilly -> Sue -> Profit is not a smart business plan.
4. You could consider the uses as your loss leader and part of your portfolio and then go to an ad agency or otherwise try to sell your photos yourself.
5. Also note you can sell exclusivity for a certain territory or business area.
Ah. now I understand. You simply wanted to use Slashdot to promote your services for free. Well done. How you could talk about suing BB for use of a photo of a hammock belonging to a BB owner is totally beyond me and I regret the time I put into answering your questions below.
When I saw this story I was thinking about digital age type services the USPS could provide, something like am escrow or PayPal service but with guarantees on delivery, receipts, and letting you check that you were delivered what you expected. Things that would be more trustworthy and dependable having a reliable government official involved.
But then I remembered a presentation I heard at a conference last week. Many top companies like Microsoft, Hitachi, IBM, Oracle, etc. were there in Tokyo at the IT Pro conference. They were all talking about cloud computing as the future. And then came the President of Kuroneko Yamato, or in English Yamato Transport. Kuroneko means black cat, which is their logo. It was a very impressive talk and they showed a video which underscored customer satisfaction, the satisfaction their employees feel when thanked, and unstinting effort. They deliver in snow. If USPS could deliver service like Yamato they could beat out UPS and Fedex too. The moral being that digital technology is fine not more important than the delivery service itself.
Yes but what about colonization waves. I recently read a good novel, Manifold: Space by Stephen Baxter. It provides one possible answer. His previous book actually is based on no other aliens existing. That said while you make some sense I'm not convinced. Certainly we know from SETI how hard it is. (real hard)
can you get a photo of him?
isp could log his stream
ask isp first, and call police in cincinatti.
don't try to trap him without telling police.
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I bought a copy of it and it rocked. It must have been the most advanced game at the time. How do you know they only sold a few thousand copies?
It would be more useful if a link is simply provided to download the original resolution file without having to mess around with Javascript. In Safari, when you try to download by opening the Activity window and doubleclicking the streaming file, instead of it showing up in the Downloads window as normally a browser window is opened and the movie plays in a Quicktime movie player embedded in the browser.
As others note, longer submissions and frame rates, and no compression would be more useful than 4K. And if it really is 4K then there is no point streaming it since the file will be so huge, just download it as a file instead and play later.
Perhaps if I had a large display it would be more useful for me. I have a MacBook Pro (1920x1200) I got to show video and film, so I am interested in the higher resolutions, but it really is silly to be stuck in the old browser interface. Even if you have a giant screen the main video frame is tiny.
Meanwhile, if resolutions above 1080p become popular (as could be possible for people who have a large iMac (2560 x 1440) for example could use, YouTube's network will fall over. It only really makes sense to distribute high bitrate film over a torrent style delivery network. As for DRM and charging for it that is a different story but since YouTube is free already it would make sense for them to add a bittorrent tracker and allow people to upload via a free program like Miro (the old democracy player), etc. It would be really great for people to be able to distribute video but my impression is that YouTube cannot afford to allow the really high bitrate, high quality files that would make these displays shine, due to their old-fashioned delivery mechanism. We won't really know until it gets more popular though..
While Japanese are people just like Americans with similar faults, there is one area that lying would be unthinkable: Science. Especially space. I believe there is even a belief in the purity of research into nature, that goes beyond what is generally found in the U.S.A.
For example I remember seeing a story (animated and broadcast semiannually in Japan) about a scientist manning a seismic research station on a mountaintop, and he decides he must remain there during a volcanic eruption in order to give warning to everyone else up to the last moment.
Also while there are attempts now to change academia to work with business and make spinoff companies, there has been a great reluctance on the part of Japanese scientists to do business which has been seen as dirty.
So while I was angry at first to read your post I must say the answer is that the Japanese are capable of whatever humans are capable of doing, but that lying "to save face" is highly unlikely, and almost certainly not possible for these people anyway.
If anything the Japanese way rather is either to be straightforward and take the consequences (bushido) or to preserve gray ambiguous areas and leave things unstated (politicians, who also can say "I don't remember that, my secretary handles all my business").
Caveat: I have just switched to a MacBook Pro after years of windows and linux. I love it.
My impression is that this is the most advanced, subtle device on the market and they just dropped it into the hands of a million people. Can you imagine this sort of thing not happening? On the other hand there seems to be a major difference from past iPhone versions.
It sounds like an interesting issue that could combine subtle aspects of different sensor device, position, electromagnetic environment, head geometry, hair, limb length, complexion, reflections, software algorithms / settings, etc.
Maybe they have bad hardware, but more likely they have added even more subtle controls which work great for exactly the same type of people as their employees, down to their hair styles and awareness of how to hold the phone optimally. It isn't really strange that there is an optimal way to hold the phone. The problem seems to be that users are not shown what the device is thinking, nor given a way to tweak it subtly to better match their physical / mental / usage characteristics.
It might be useful for Apple to make an app that will record a log and let the user see what happens when a call is dropped or other function is started mistakenly while on the phone. It certainly may be possible that the size makes it easier for people to touch their cheek to the phone, or cover the sensor with a finger or maybe hair or jewelry. But right now there are no posts showing what the camera sees, or how to unfailing reproduce the problem.