In one of my to-do notebooks I've got 3 camera setup sketched out and some maths. This will get you radial depth on a moving object as the shots are taken all at once. Also handy if you're moving! It's not a new idea. Stereo cameras and viewers were used for remote sensing from the early days of the camera. I used to look at aerial 2-D photos of national forests in my dads office back in the early 60's. You can do the same thing with a 'normal' digital camera if you are taking digital photos while moving and keep track of the relative position of the camera and subject
The cameras I have seen, low end, that are used for 3-D in jewelry CAM (cameos, broaches, rings, busts, etc.) project a grid on the object and then photograph multiple views. I've done s little engineering work for a company that sells these as a side line to their table top CNC milling machines. If you're interested in Jewelry and small model making, SHAMELESS PLUG WARNING, have a look at the modelmaster web site (I don't run this web site so don't bitch at me:-) Talk to Mike. Tell him Bob sent you (for discount).
BTW, if anyone has a rip of 'Loca De Amar' Ana Barbara CD, I'd like to listen before buying.
we should just 'leave some behind'. Dammit, this whole idea that one is not educated if one does not have a college degree causes more social problems than people not having the damn degrees.
Cases for tube type radios used to by made of sawdust and phenolic resin (phenol formaldehyde mixed with sawdust, pressed in a mold, and steam cured). This shiny brown material is known as bakelite. Sumitomo Bakelite is making what they call an "environment-friendly" phenolic resin. So now the resin and filler are biodegradable.
Sumitomo makes cell phone cases but I do not know if they are the supplier to the/. referenced company.
1) If SCO includes the licensed material with the license. If I'm gonna buy a license, I want to be sure I'm running the code I licensed and not some miscreants cobbled hack that delivers the same functionality.
2) How to merge this binary with my linux once I've got the linux compiled? If I'm gonna buy it, I want to use it. That way if my linux fscks up there is someone I can sue. SCO warrants the stuff, right?
3) The market has any faith. Baystar appears to be cutting it's losses. I heard at the bar that baystar was finessed into keeping quiet through margin advantage on another investors bailout. IIRC Baystar was questioning SCO's claims on linux back in the summer (northern hemisphere).
I'm a fan of whoever makes the best stuff the cheapest. Right now I'm a Athlon 64 fan and will be happy if Intel can compete with the Opteron.
re: Dell. They areall over the place on this AMD switch. I rad someplace that Dell is holding off because the design their own boards and adding the AMD will mean adding a new design team. Not familiar enough with Dell costing to knwo it this is a significant problem or if it;s just more smoke and mirrors. Any of youy/. guys know what it costs to bring a server design tem on line? After all, the ultimate goal of any business is to make $ and beating Intel up on price with AMD noise may pay better than actually bringing AMD based Dell product to market.
I can tell Intel there are only two ways to make $ in manufacturing. 1)Be the only guy who CAN make something. 2)Be the guy who can make it the cheapest. Trying to compete in projection TV which is pretty mature is NOT gonna make you $ unless you've got a spiffy atent likr TI and mirror arrays used for DLP. Of course that patent will expire so if you can beat TI, and everyone else waiting in the wings, handily on the cost/unit front...when that day arrives, you'll clean up.
Manufacturing is all about cost/unit which is all about cycle time, yield, and amortization of the plant. Chip manufacturers would do well to study other USA industries. Excepting the guys who are the only guys who can make the stuff, most stuff that anyone can make is moving offshore. Some exceptions. My brother told me of a 5 pan&pot stamped steel cookware set selling for $4.99 at BrandSmart. Made in USA. It costs less to make here and ship domestic than to ship steel to china and the shp the pots back.
Built one-off low EMI data acquistion system for NASA (plus some govt jobs I'm not a liberty to describe).
Plumbing
Electrical (unlicensed but work with up to 440VAC 3phase, mostly installing CNC machine tools also do the interfaces to run old machines on newer computers)
Roofing
Carpentry
Auto repair
Buy and sell surplus unix systems and networking hardware.
Control system design.
International RF communications systems installation and emergency repair.
Multi-vendor systems integration (you'd be surprised how often the customer wants to mix vendors and none of the vendors will touch the job).
Instrumentation, including LASER remote sensing. Broker 'systems' and 'stuff'. Always looking for something 'different' to do. Will travel almost anywhere pay/risk is acceptable.
We are a not-for-profit organisation which guarantees the the quality of open source deployments in the public sector by setting professional standards and bonding its members.
First you sync your data-disk.
Then you unhook it.
WTF is so complicated about that.
It's like enforcing socks with shoes.
Leave it up to the user. If he gets a blister it's his own damn fault. But sometimes he may just WANT to go sockless! Chew food before swallowing. Take with water. Mind your cat.
Even though these guys are from top universities.
"The team was co-headed by Chosun University professor Song Chang-hun, Seoul National University professor Kang Kyung-sun and Han Hoon, Ph.D, from the Seoul Cord Blood Bank (SCB)." quoted from Korea Times.
"I don't think it will work. I think that the human power to weight ratio is too small to move enough air at sea level to lift a body. Regardless of any magical gearing or lever action.."
have been flown successfully.
So, the power to weight ratio is there for fixed wing. The problem with the ornithopter is the huge amount of energy required to reach a speed where the wings are efficient enough for human power. This might be done with some sort of pre-takeoff storage, say with one of those ultra-highspeed flywheels in a vacuum that were in popular press as automobile energy storage units a few years back.
It flies like a bird, once it's flying. The operational geometry of the/. referenced ornithopters wing is NOT the same as a bird during initial acceleration
But UNC's Zimmons has his doubts. "I believe that while theoretically having a large number of transistors enables teraflops-class performance, the PS3 [Playstation 3] will not be able to deliver this kind of power to the consumer," quoted from/. referenced article.
Intelsat has declared IA-7 "a total loss" according to Ramu Potarazu, the Chief Operating Officer for Intelsat. They are not giving any reason for the failure as of yet. At approx 0222 EST Sunday 11.28.04, they had an electrical short of some kind on Bus 1 and eight minutes later lost telemetry to the spacecraft according to Intelsat engineer Kevin Maloy. There were no station-keeping maneuvers being done at the time, Maloy said. IA-7 was located at 129 degrees West longitude.
I got my SPRINT CDMA2000 card going, back when they were first introduced, by firing it up in W2K and then reading the connection log.
Discovered it was straight PPP.
Had no support for signal strength other than looking at dropped packets.
SPRINT was running brain dead transparent cache at the time and caching box would soak the upstream side of their network. BR>When they added fee off peak calling, the network was so saturated that I had trouble getting a call through, nevermind data (lowed QOS priority).
I dropped the thing after a few months of fighting with SPRINT ("we don't cache", right, I watched it from my own server! "we don't implement QOS", jeez guys, the guys who sold ou the system advertise it as a feature holding you out as an example!).I understand they have much better service now and know a good many folks using them with linux. I've lost my incentive. I was trying to talk the rapid transit people into putting a PeeCee wwith SPRINT card and 802.11B on the busses to encourage ridership. Figured if people could take care of email on their way to work, they might be more inclined to ride the bus. Not good for SPRINTs model in which riders would each pay a subscription, but hey, that's business
Surely it's $100 or less in 100k quantities.
It has a user interface and wireless and uses power efficiently. ARM9 and ARM7 should be plenty of power for education and FUN too.
exploitation and claim-staking, which might encourage these nations to sign up to the system."
HUH?
Maybe a little effort in the direction of a planetary space race rather than the nationalism we have now. Sure, we can still race, but the race and national pride could be in development of components of exploration, mining, nuclear fusion, etc. rather than a race for total planetary domination.
No, the reactor tech comes first. Transport is easy.
With present day tech, you can move enough to supply world energy demand for far less than the cost of equal fossl fuels.
RTFA's.
Quantities required are very small.
Rail gun.
Reactor powered transport burns same fuel it carries, much like gasoline tank trucks
It's gonna happen for ONE REASON. It's a friggin MONEY MACHINE!
Slashdot Mirror
NASA had a real cool solar powered plane. Helios RIP (shall rise again) was unmanned but could stay up for weeks.
Bertrand Piccard will be having a go at round the world solar powered flight. "...70-metre wingspan (larger than a Boeing 747)..."
Bertrand's the dude who just wouldn't give up and got around the world in a balloon in 1999.
In one of my to-do notebooks I've got 3 camera setup sketched out and some maths. This will get you radial depth on a moving object as the shots are taken all at once. Also handy if you're moving! It's not a new idea. Stereo cameras and viewers were used for remote sensing from the early days of the camera. I used to look at aerial 2-D photos of national forests in my dads office back in the early 60's.
You can do the same thing with a 'normal' digital camera if you are taking digital photos while moving and keep track of the relative position of the camera and subject
The cameras I have seen, low end, that are used for 3-D in jewelry CAM (cameos, broaches, rings, busts, etc.) project a grid on the object and then photograph multiple views. I've done s little engineering work for a company that sells these as a side line to their table top CNC milling machines. If you're interested in Jewelry and small model making, SHAMELESS PLUG WARNING, have a look at the modelmaster web site (I don't run this web site so don't bitch at me :-) Talk to Mike. Tell him Bob sent you (for discount).
BTW, if anyone has a rip of 'Loca De Amar' Ana Barbara CD, I'd like to listen before buying.
we should just 'leave some behind'. Dammit, this whole idea that one is not educated if one does not have a college degree causes more social problems than people not having the damn degrees.
Cases for tube type radios used to by made of sawdust and phenolic resin (phenol formaldehyde mixed with sawdust, pressed in a mold, and steam cured). This shiny brown material is known as bakelite. Sumitomo Bakelite is making what they call an "environment-friendly" phenolic resin. So now the resin and filler are biodegradable.
/. referenced company.
Sumitomo makes cell phone cases but I do not know if they are the supplier to the
I just happen to like bakelite.
English has two future tenses for certainty.
What do you mean, "to tell you the truth", all that other stuff you've been telling me is crap?
pet peeve
"short the fucker when the time comes" :-)
Actually you need to do this B4 the time comes
AFAIK there are no SCO options to trade.
1) If SCO includes the licensed material with the license. If I'm gonna buy a license, I want to be sure I'm running the code I licensed and not some miscreants cobbled hack that delivers the same functionality.
2) How to merge this binary with my linux once I've got the linux compiled? If I'm gonna buy it, I want to use it. That way if my linux fscks up there is someone I can sue. SCO warrants the stuff, right?
3) The market has any faith. Baystar appears to be cutting it's losses. I heard at the bar that baystar was finessed into keeping quiet through margin advantage on another investors bailout. IIRC Baystar was questioning SCO's claims on linux back in the summer (northern hemisphere).
Wallmart dragged it down though.
/. guys know what it costs to bring a server design tem on line? After all, the ultimate goal of any business is to make $ and beating Intel up on price with AMD noise may pay better than actually bringing AMD based Dell product to market.
AMD is making that spiffy flash too.
I'm a fan of whoever makes the best stuff the cheapest. Right now I'm a Athlon 64 fan and will be happy if Intel can compete with the Opteron.
re: Dell. They areall over the place on this AMD switch. I rad someplace that Dell is holding off because the design their own boards and adding the AMD will mean adding a new design team. Not familiar enough with Dell costing to knwo it this is a significant problem or if it;s just more smoke and mirrors. Any of youy
I can tell Intel there are only two ways to make $ in manufacturing. 1)Be the only guy who CAN make something. 2)Be the guy who can make it the cheapest.
Trying to compete in projection TV which is pretty mature is NOT gonna make you $ unless you've got a spiffy atent likr TI and mirror arrays used for DLP. Of course that patent will expire so if you can beat TI, and everyone else waiting in the wings, handily on the cost/unit front...when that day arrives, you'll clean up.
Manufacturing is all about cost/unit which is all about cycle time, yield, and amortization of the plant. Chip manufacturers would do well to study other USA industries. Excepting the guys who are the only guys who can make the stuff, most stuff that anyone can make is moving offshore. Some exceptions. My brother told me of a 5 pan&pot stamped steel cookware set selling for $4.99 at BrandSmart. Made in USA. It costs less to make here and ship domestic than to ship steel to china and the shp the pots back.
Built one-off low EMI data acquistion system for NASA (plus some govt jobs I'm not a liberty to describe).
Plumbing
Electrical (unlicensed but work with up to 440VAC 3phase, mostly installing CNC machine tools also do the interfaces to run old machines on newer computers)
Roofing
Carpentry
Auto repair
Buy and sell surplus unix systems and networking hardware.
Control system design.
International RF communications systems installation and emergency repair.
Multi-vendor systems integration (you'd be surprised how often the customer wants to mix vendors and none of the vendors will touch the job).
Instrumentation, including LASER remote sensing.
Broker 'systems' and 'stuff'.
Always looking for something 'different' to do. Will travel almost anywhere pay/risk is acceptable.
We are a not-for-profit organisation which guarantees the the quality of open source deployments in the public sector by setting professional standards and bonding its members.
AFBCD (Another Fucking Barber College Diploma)
More info on stinkin badges.
First you sync your data-disk.
Then you unhook it.
WTF is so complicated about that.
It's like enforcing socks with shoes.
Leave it up to the user. If he gets a blister it's his own damn fault. But sometimes he may just WANT to go sockless!
Chew food before swallowing.
Take with water. Mind your cat.
Seoul National and Chosun Universities are in South Korea. I know, I've been there!
Yes, we remember cold fusion
Even though these guys are from top universities.
"The team was co-headed by Chosun University professor Song Chang-hun, Seoul National University professor Kang Kyung-sun and Han Hoon, Ph.D, from the Seoul Cord Blood Bank (SCB)." quoted from Korea Times.
...it's still just one press release.
Ernest Angley
On the political front Rev. Ike has the answer.
'...LACK of MONEY is the root of EVIL'
Don Imus said it best though in "One Sacred Chicken to Go". You'll have to buy the record.
Don's much tamer these days
But back to Ernest. Just READ THE TESTIMONIALS
Puts science ina whole new light.
"I don't think it will work. I think that the human power to weight ratio is too small to move enough air at sea level to lift a body. Regardless of any magical gearing or lever action.."
Fixed wing human powered aircraft
have been flown successfully.
So, the power to weight ratio is there for fixed wing. The problem with the ornithopter is the huge amount of energy required to reach a speed where the wings are efficient enough for human power. This might be done with some sort of pre-takeoff storage, say with one of those ultra-highspeed flywheels in a vacuum that were in popular press as automobile energy storage units a few years back.
It flies like a bird, once it's flying. The operational geometry of the
Realloc()
Panic 47
Penguin Panic?
Cute
But UNC's Zimmons has his doubts. "I believe that while theoretically having a large number of transistors enables teraflops-class performance, the PS3 [Playstation 3] will not be able to deliver this kind of power to the consumer," quoted from /. referenced article.
Zimmons talks the details.
ABCNEWSABSAT
Excerpt
Intelsat has declared IA-7 "a total loss" according to Ramu Potarazu, the Chief Operating Officer for Intelsat. They are not giving any reason for the failure as of yet. At approx 0222 EST Sunday 11.28.04, they had an electrical short of some kind on Bus 1 and eight minutes later lost telemetry to the spacecraft according to Intelsat engineer Kevin Maloy. There were no station-keeping maneuvers being done at the time, Maloy said. IA-7 was located at 129 degrees West longitude.
linux support.
I got my SPRINT CDMA2000 card going, back when they were first introduced, by firing it up in W2K and then reading the connection log.
Discovered it was straight PPP.
Had no support for signal strength other than looking at dropped packets.
SPRINT was running brain dead transparent cache at the time and caching box would soak the upstream side of their network.
BR>When they added fee off peak calling, the network was so saturated that I had trouble getting a call through, nevermind data (lowed QOS priority).
I dropped the thing after a few months of fighting with SPRINT ("we don't cache", right, I watched it from my own server! "we don't implement QOS", jeez guys, the guys who sold ou the system advertise it as a feature holding you out as an example!).I understand they have much better service now and know a good many folks using them with linux. I've lost my incentive. I was trying to talk the rapid transit people into putting a PeeCee wwith SPRINT card and 802.11B on the busses to encourage ridership. Figured if people could take care of email on their way to work, they might be more inclined to ride the bus. Not good for SPRINTs model in which riders would each pay a subscription, but hey, that's business
""linksys" signals, left completely unsecured by generous donors"
Well yes. some of us with APs do leave them open, on purpose, for your use. Reciprocity is appreciated.
FWIW, most Krystal restaurants have WiFi and good breakfast.
Take that JIB and WC!
where the unstructured input is from a computing device, possibly but not necessarily the same as respondant computing device...
Surely it's $100 or less in 100k quantities.
It has a user interface and wireless and uses power efficiently.
ARM9 and ARM7 should be plenty of power for education and FUN too.
exploitation and claim-staking, which might encourage these nations to sign up to the system."
HUH?
Maybe a little effort in the direction of a planetary space race rather than the nationalism we have now. Sure, we can still race, but the race and national pride could be in development of components of exploration, mining, nuclear fusion, etc. rather than a race for total planetary domination.
No, the reactor tech comes first. Transport is easy. With present day tech, you can move enough to supply world energy demand for far less than the cost of equal fossl fuels.
RTFA's.
Quantities required are very small.
Rail gun.
Reactor powered transport burns same fuel it carries, much like gasoline tank trucks
It's gonna happen for ONE REASON. It's a friggin MONEY MACHINE!