Part of Disney's business model is the carefully scheduled re-release of their "classic" films. Buy withholding the films for a period of time and re-releasing them, they get a whole new audience that isn't yet jaded by the films.
Similarly, many classic video games are being re-released as web games or cell phone games.
The article cites bend radii of 5 - 15 mm, which translates into 0.5 - 1.5 cm. So your 4.7 cm bend radius is beyond the range tested in the article.
Unfortunately, the researchers didn't bother to find a radius that does not result in exploding fibers, so it is possible that they are just running too much light through the fiber.
Regardless, this news makes me glad I lease bandwidth rather than own fiber.
I was recently called in to investigate network trouble at an office. The network laser printer frequently went offline and lost jobs, and no one could figure out why. I traced the cable and found that it went through a door hinge before plugging into the ether switch. The door couldn't close completely due to the cat-5 cable, and there was about 6" of "bite marks" along the cable where it had been pinched between the door and the frame. Changing the cable and rerouting away from any doors (the office had a drop ceiling, so that was easy) fixed the problems.
I was most surprised by this because the office was in support of an adjacent colocation facility which had beautifully structured fiber and copper running from rack to rack. But I've seen frat houses with better wiring than the office!
If everyone copied the book and sold them or gave copies to others without paying for it, it would be hard for the writer to earn a living from writing, and ultimately that would mean there would be fewer creative works for us to enjoy.
This reminds me of that time when I found myself in the middle of an argument between screenwriters. Being newbies to the industry, they were flush with cash and felt they had something to prove to everyone. I don't recall how the argument started, but I do recall angry words just before the three of them stormed off to their Lamborghini, Ferrari, and Aston Martin. Now that I think of it, the lamborghini driver may have said something about the Aston being a "pansy car," certainly not a suitable vehicle for a person as powerful as a screenwriter.
If only I had followed dad's advice and studied at the art academy, I might have made something of my life. As it is, I keep myself busy serving coffee and dispensing the odd IOS command. Such is the lot of an education wated on engineering...
Since most airliners are made of metal, it is both likely that they will get hit by lightning and completely benign. Electricity tends to flow on the outermost surface of a metal object, so sitting inside a nice metal airplane is a very safe place to be.
To bring this back on topic, I continue to be amazed at how motivated the RIAA/MPAA are in alienating their audience and destroying culture. Music, as a form of communication, very likely predates spoken language. It was transmitted around the world by word of mouth, drum, and instrument. Sharing of music "files" dates back to the stone age and before when visiting tribespeople learned new songs at the campfire while visiting remote villiages.
After nearly a century of repressive corporate control of music, it isfinally achieving freedom once again. The most successful record company twenty years from now will be the one that got it first and provided useful added value to globally shared music.
With the 35mm disposable camera, the plastic body can be reused, but the film must be processed and discarded. The result is a nasty chemical mess every time you decide to take pictures. The digicam downloads its data to the printer, and is immediately ready to be sent back out to take more pictures.
The 35mm disposable camera may be less expensive today, but every beautiful picture you take of the mountains contributes to the destruction of those same mountains. The digicam only needs to be manufacturered once, so the environmental impact is reduced. Prices will quickly fall as vendors compete for market share.
Not only do your appliances need public IP addresses, they need an SNMP server too. Just think of the benefits of MRTG graphs on fridge usage. Now you know where your sandwich went...
I have yet to see anyone run a PowerBook (or any Apple laptop) fully closed. All of them go to sleep with the cover closed. The work arounds for this are all low-tech, usually a pencil or piece of foam that blocks the lid slightly open.
Various wardriving FAQs warn against running a powerbook or ibook with the case closed due to cooling issues, so I assume it is possible. The photographer or assistant will want to use a mesh bag to allow for sufficient cooling
And then wait awhile as the 18meg RAW transers.
Transfers between my 3650 and powerbook are painfully slow, but I think it is mostly due to the 3650 wanting to tranfer one file at a time. Bluetooth has about 720 kbps of bandwidth, so it should be acceptable for big jpegs. RAW file will probably want 802.11g
I've never owned a Leica, but I love my Contax G2, and have owned a multitude of small cameras (XA2 and the like). I agree, I'd love to see that. But a rangefinder is useless to a sports photog, and they're a good percentage of the pro digital market right now. In the meantime, I've found that the Canon G2 Powershot is a good alternative to the digital SLR
I've got a few soviet Leica copies with vintage 1959 lenses, as well as modern Voigtlander lenses as wide as 15mm. I paid less for all of my screwmount gear than I would have paid for a single 15mm Nikkor lens. Because the lens isn't obstructed by the SLR mirror, the rear element can be placed very close to the film plane. The result is a compact lens that is very fast and doesn't darken the corners of the picture.
I tired the Canon G1, but have since replaced it with an S30. When a G series camera can do the equivelant of 15mm without lens extensions I'll buy again.
1) Use a 12" powerbook as your server. Set the PB to run while closed, switch the Airport card into access point mode, and enable FTP server. You now have a 60GB storage point nearby. The photog can either carry the PB himself, or an assistant can carry it. Several photographers can be supported by a single PowerBook.
2) Bluetooth should be next. As GPRS data rates fall, I should be able to connect my camera to my T68i and upload data to my servers back at the office rather than carry a bulky powerbook.
3) Police State Beware! Around the world there has been a proliferation of surveylence cameras spying on the civilian population. Now an individual can take this camera to Area 51 or the Aswan High Dam and start taking pictures. When the police show up to confiscate the film, they find nothing because the images are already gone. Most useful application is keeping protests peaceful.
4) WTF is up with the digital SLRs? I want nothing to do with the weight and bulk of an SLR's mirror and prism, nor the minimum distance between the back of the lens and the film plane. Voigtlander needs to bring their Leica clones into the digital world, enabling compact interchangable lens cameras with ultra-wide lenses.
I'm still working on that one. Actually, I'm working on getting a master's in accounting, now that the job market for software engineers is shot to hell.
I guess you haven't heard about the disintegration of Andersen Consulting or the numerous accounting failures across the country. Not only are accountants held in low esteem, but there are plenty of senior accountants who have not been barred from practice that are looking for work.
Try Cafe Ladro next time instead of Starbucks, and I think you will have a much more pleasant morning.
Starbucks produces digitally espresso with very little character. Many steps above drip coffee, but not much different from what I get out of my home SuperAutomatic machine. Seek out a cafe with real baristas, and you will be rewarded with good conversation from the staff and the other patrons.
1) What good will a pilot do if there is fog and cannot see?
2) What good will a pilot do if he is disoriented and can't tell which way is up?
3) What good will a 777 pilot do if one engine fails on takeoff? A 777 has two engines. If one fails, the pilot must rapidly and correctly identify the failed engine. That engine must be fully disabled, and the other engine's power output must be correctly adjusted. At the same time, control surfaces need to be adjusted to keep the airplane from hitting the ground under low power and asymmetrical thrust.
In each of these cases, I prefer the fast reflexes and perfect memory of a computer to the warm fuzzy feeling that they guy in the front of the plane is pissing his pants just as quickly as I am.
Finally, what good [bad?] will a knife-wielding terrorist do when the pilots are computers located far from the passenger compartment? The passenger compartment could be harmed, but no threat will encourage the computer pilot to crash into a populated area nor give up control.
One of the first Sun machines I used was a 3/160 with an external gigabyte disk array. The array was a washing machine size enclosure with a pair of 800 MB SMD disks with 8" platters. In 1994 this was a huge disk, in more ways than one!
Interestingly, my little 486 with its 340 MB drive were far faster than the old Sun, and even competitive with the newer SparcStations. 7200 RPM baraccudas in modified enclosures (extra fans and breathing holes made the difference between life and death) were even faster when they arrived.
After working exclucively with laptops for the past two years, I can see a clear parallel between the old 2.5" -> 2.5" transition and the 8" -> 5.25" -> 3.5" transitions in the past. Sure I keep a pair of 120 GB 3.5" disks in firewire enclosures around, but the 60 GB disk in my powerbook and the 30 GB disk in my Dell i8000 are more than adequate for daily use. My ipod even has 30GB, which is enough for my favorite music, the Warthog Jump video and a few other fun things.
With emphasis on blade and 1-U servers, as well as cardcage oriented telecom gear, I can see a lot of value for 2.5" disks in the telecom and server markets.
I can't imagine what pre-1860 passports would have been like, considering the cost and state of photo technology and the lack of real secure printing technologies.
The history of the passport and its name are closely tied together. Prior to the invention of photography, the primary visual representation of a human face was through painting or sculpture. Any of a number of government authorized artisans could be hired to craft an accurate facial representation. After completion of the work, the artist would inscribe their name someplace on the work, certifying its authenticity.
Early passports took the form of stone busts, often carved from marble. These early passports were often heavy and bulky, requiring some transportation assistance. This was typically provided by a porter, or in the case of a boarder crossing a pass-porter.
As pigment technology was discovered, oil paintings on canvas begain to replace the marble bust. These oil portraits were typically lighter than the marble busts, but still bulky enough to require a pass-porter.
The porters refered to their burdens as "passports." Over time, this shortened form of "pass-porter" came into common usage and was later applied to the photo based document we now know as the passport.
Do the UK police get to stop every person walking down the street and demand ID?
I understood that in the UK a drivers license was an A4 size legal document that was kept at home in a safe, and never expected to be carried on one's person.
In the early days of linux, only Tseng ET-4000 and Trident 8900 were supported by XFree86. Many of the custom clock chips were officially undocumented by the card manufacturers, and could change even while the product name remained the same.
Manufacturers like Matrox and Diamond were initially the most resistant to providing any kind of support for XFree86. As linux hackers reverse engineered and developed their own drivers and discussion board volume increased, Diamond and Matrox began to release their own drivers.
The issue here with Wi-Fi is that the marketing dudes don't expect that Linux users make up a significant fraction of Wi-Fi customers. They have no axe to grind against linux, instead they just don't see the value. The easiest way to convince them otherwise is to build custom drivers and use them. As soon as a large volume of users are visible, you can bet the commercial vendors will begin providing better support, just like with graphics cards in the early '90s.
Until then, Apple Powerbooks make very attractive Unix workstation.
So, installing Oracle requires the admin to run down to the server room, pull the oracle box out, plug in a monitor/mouse/kbd and run the gui right on the server?
No, they will run X on their powerbook and remotely display the install app. X is a protocol. Gnome/KDE/fvwm are GUIs.
I represent a growing provider of diverse Internet services. We have determined that the Linux platform is by far the most cost effective platform for new projects. Because we have selected Linux as the standard server platform, we find that Apple's Unix-based OS X platform is ideal for desktop use by designers and engineers who produce our new projects. Although we consider tools that require the Windows platform, we are most seriously interested in products that support OS X or Linux. In our experience, many other growing internet ventures hold a similar opinion.
Slashdot Mirror
Part of Disney's business model is the carefully scheduled re-release of their "classic" films. Buy withholding the films for a period of time and re-releasing them, they get a whole new audience that isn't yet jaded by the films.
Similarly, many classic video games are being re-released as web games or cell phone games.
The article cites bend radii of 5 - 15 mm, which translates into 0.5 - 1.5 cm. So your 4.7 cm bend radius is beyond the range tested in the article.
Unfortunately, the researchers didn't bother to find a radius that does not result in exploding fibers, so it is possible that they are just running too much light through the fiber.
Regardless, this news makes me glad I lease bandwidth rather than own fiber.
I was recently called in to investigate network trouble at an office. The network laser printer frequently went offline and lost jobs, and no one could figure out why. I traced the cable and found that it went through a door hinge before plugging into the ether switch. The door couldn't close completely due to the cat-5 cable, and there was about 6" of "bite marks" along the cable where it had been pinched between the door and the frame. Changing the cable and rerouting away from any doors (the office had a drop ceiling, so that was easy) fixed the problems.
I was most surprised by this because the office was in support of an adjacent colocation facility which had beautifully structured fiber and copper running from rack to rack. But I've seen frat houses with better wiring than the office!
As far as I've been able to research (see CBOE) there are no options of any type for SCO
That you can't find anyone to take the long side of an option contract is a good indication of the market's opinion of the company.
Can you tell us more about the read-write-read reliability of CF versus other media?
Drop a iPod down a flight of stairs (or more directly, a hard drive).
Drop a compact flash card down a flight of stairs.
Guess which is going to still work.
Sounds like an offshore gambling opportunity!
If everyone copied the book and sold them or gave copies to others without paying for it, it would be hard for the writer to earn a living from writing, and ultimately that would mean there would be fewer creative works for us to enjoy.
This reminds me of that time when I found myself in the middle of an argument between screenwriters. Being newbies to the industry, they were flush with cash and felt they had something to prove to everyone. I don't recall how the argument started, but I do recall angry words just before the three of them stormed off to their Lamborghini, Ferrari, and Aston Martin. Now that I think of it, the lamborghini driver may have said something about the Aston being a "pansy car," certainly not a suitable vehicle for a person as powerful as a screenwriter.
If only I had followed dad's advice and studied at the art academy, I might have made something of my life. As it is, I keep myself busy serving coffee and dispensing the odd IOS command. Such is the lot of an education wated on engineering...
Since most airliners are made of metal, it is both likely that they will get hit by lightning and completely benign. Electricity tends to flow on the outermost surface of a metal object, so sitting inside a nice metal airplane is a very safe place to be.
To bring this back on topic, I continue to be amazed at how motivated the RIAA/MPAA are in alienating their audience and destroying culture. Music, as a form of communication, very likely predates spoken language. It was transmitted around the world by word of mouth, drum, and instrument. Sharing of music "files" dates back to the stone age and before when visiting tribespeople learned new songs at the campfire while visiting remote villiages.
After nearly a century of repressive corporate control of music, it isfinally achieving freedom once again. The most successful record company twenty years from now will be the one that got it first and provided useful added value to globally shared music.
With the 35mm disposable camera, the plastic body can be reused, but the film must be processed and discarded. The result is a nasty chemical mess every time you decide to take pictures. The digicam downloads its data to the printer, and is immediately ready to be sent back out to take more pictures.
The 35mm disposable camera may be less expensive today, but every beautiful picture you take of the mountains contributes to the destruction of those same mountains. The digicam only needs to be manufacturered once, so the environmental impact is reduced. Prices will quickly fall as vendors compete for market share.
Not only do your appliances need public IP addresses, they need an SNMP server too. Just think of the benefits of MRTG graphs on fridge usage. Now you know where your sandwich went...
I have yet to see anyone run a PowerBook (or any Apple laptop) fully closed. All of them go to sleep with the cover closed. The work arounds for this are all low-tech, usually a pencil or piece of foam that blocks the lid slightly open.
Various wardriving FAQs warn against running a powerbook or ibook with the case closed due to cooling issues, so I assume it is possible. The photographer or assistant will want to use a mesh bag to allow for sufficient cooling
And then wait awhile as the 18meg RAW transers.
Transfers between my 3650 and powerbook are painfully slow, but I think it is mostly due to the 3650 wanting to tranfer one file at a time. Bluetooth has about 720 kbps of bandwidth, so it should be acceptable for big jpegs. RAW file will probably want 802.11g
I've never owned a Leica, but I love my Contax G2, and have owned a multitude of small cameras (XA2 and the like). I agree, I'd love to see that. But a rangefinder is useless to a sports photog, and they're a good percentage of the pro digital market right now. In the meantime, I've found that the Canon G2 Powershot is a good alternative to the digital SLR
I've got a few soviet Leica copies with vintage 1959 lenses, as well as modern Voigtlander lenses as wide as 15mm. I paid less for all of my screwmount gear than I would have paid for a single 15mm Nikkor lens. Because the lens isn't obstructed by the SLR mirror, the rear element can be placed very close to the film plane. The result is a compact lens that is very fast and doesn't darken the corners of the picture.
I tired the Canon G1, but have since replaced it with an S30. When a G series camera can do the equivelant of 15mm without lens extensions I'll buy again.
1) Use a 12" powerbook as your server. Set the PB to run while closed, switch the Airport card into access point mode, and enable FTP server. You now have a 60GB storage point nearby. The photog can either carry the PB himself, or an assistant can carry it. Several photographers can be supported by a single PowerBook.
2) Bluetooth should be next. As GPRS data rates fall, I should be able to connect my camera to my T68i and upload data to my servers back at the office rather than carry a bulky powerbook.
3) Police State Beware! Around the world there has been a proliferation of surveylence cameras spying on the civilian population. Now an individual can take this camera to Area 51 or the Aswan High Dam and start taking pictures. When the police show up to confiscate the film, they find nothing because the images are already gone. Most useful application is keeping protests peaceful.
4) WTF is up with the digital SLRs? I want nothing to do with the weight and bulk of an SLR's mirror and prism, nor the minimum distance between the back of the lens and the film plane. Voigtlander needs to bring their Leica clones into the digital world, enabling compact interchangable lens cameras with ultra-wide lenses.
How do I activate the GPS unit in my iPod?
3) Accounting
I'm still working on that one. Actually, I'm working on getting a master's in accounting, now that the job market for software engineers is shot to hell.
I guess you haven't heard about the disintegration of Andersen Consulting or the numerous accounting failures across the country. Not only are accountants held in low esteem, but there are plenty of senior accountants who have not been barred from practice that are looking for work.
Try Cafe Ladro next time instead of Starbucks, and I think you will have a much more pleasant morning.
Starbucks produces digitally espresso with very little character. Many steps above drip coffee, but not much different from what I get out of my home SuperAutomatic machine. Seek out a cafe with real baristas, and you will be rewarded with good conversation from the staff and the other patrons.
1) What good will a pilot do if there is fog and cannot see?
2) What good will a pilot do if he is disoriented and can't tell which way is up?
3) What good will a 777 pilot do if one engine fails on takeoff? A 777 has two engines. If one fails, the pilot must rapidly and correctly identify the failed engine. That engine must be fully disabled, and the other engine's power output must be correctly adjusted. At the same time, control surfaces need to be adjusted to keep the airplane from hitting the ground under low power and asymmetrical thrust.
In each of these cases, I prefer the fast reflexes and perfect memory of a computer to the warm fuzzy feeling that they guy in the front of the plane is pissing his pants just as quickly as I am.
Finally, what good [bad?] will a knife-wielding terrorist do when the pilots are computers located far from the passenger compartment? The passenger compartment could be harmed, but no threat will encourage the computer pilot to crash into a populated area nor give up control.
One of the first Sun machines I used was a 3/160 with an external gigabyte disk array. The array was a washing machine size enclosure with a pair of 800 MB SMD disks with 8" platters. In 1994 this was a huge disk, in more ways than one!
Interestingly, my little 486 with its 340 MB drive were far faster than the old Sun, and even competitive with the newer SparcStations. 7200 RPM baraccudas in modified enclosures (extra fans and breathing holes made the difference between life and death) were even faster when they arrived.
After working exclucively with laptops for the past two years, I can see a clear parallel between the old 2.5" -> 2.5" transition and the 8" -> 5.25" -> 3.5" transitions in the past. Sure I keep a pair of 120 GB 3.5" disks in firewire enclosures around, but the 60 GB disk in my powerbook and the 30 GB disk in my Dell i8000 are more than adequate for daily use. My ipod even has 30GB, which is enough for my favorite music, the Warthog Jump video and a few other fun things.
With emphasis on blade and 1-U servers, as well as cardcage oriented telecom gear, I can see a lot of value for 2.5" disks in the telecom and server markets.
I can't imagine what pre-1860 passports would have been like, considering the cost and state of photo technology and the lack of real secure printing technologies.
The history of the passport and its name are closely tied together. Prior to the invention of photography, the primary visual representation of a human face was through painting or sculpture. Any of a number of government authorized artisans could be hired to craft an accurate facial representation. After completion of the work, the artist would inscribe their name someplace on the work, certifying its authenticity.
Early passports took the form of stone busts, often carved from marble. These early passports were often heavy and bulky, requiring some transportation assistance. This was typically provided by a porter, or in the case of a boarder crossing a pass-porter.
As pigment technology was discovered, oil paintings on canvas begain to replace the marble bust. These oil portraits were typically lighter than the marble busts, but still bulky enough to require a pass-porter.
The porters refered to their burdens as "passports." Over time, this shortened form of "pass-porter" came into common usage and was later applied to the photo based document we now know as the passport.
What makes the ID cards mandatory?
Do the UK police get to stop every person walking down the street and demand ID?
I understood that in the UK a drivers license was an A4 size legal document that was kept at home in a safe, and never expected to be carried on one's person.
In the early days of linux, only Tseng ET-4000 and Trident 8900 were supported by XFree86. Many of the custom clock chips were officially undocumented by the card manufacturers, and could change even while the product name remained the same.
Manufacturers like Matrox and Diamond were initially the most resistant to providing any kind of support for XFree86. As linux hackers reverse engineered and developed their own drivers and discussion board volume increased, Diamond and Matrox began to release their own drivers.
The issue here with Wi-Fi is that the marketing dudes don't expect that Linux users make up a significant fraction of Wi-Fi customers. They have no axe to grind against linux, instead they just don't see the value. The easiest way to convince them otherwise is to build custom drivers and use them. As soon as a large volume of users are visible, you can bet the commercial vendors will begin providing better support, just like with graphics cards in the early '90s.
Until then, Apple Powerbooks make very attractive Unix workstation.
Have you considered an iBook?
No, they will run X on their powerbook and remotely display the install app. X is a protocol. Gnome/KDE/fvwm are GUIs.
By the time it ships, it will run SCO!
Mr Bowman,
I represent a growing provider of diverse Internet services. We have determined that the Linux platform is by far the most cost effective platform for new projects. Because we have selected Linux as the standard server platform, we find that Apple's Unix-based OS X platform is ideal for desktop use by designers and engineers who produce our new projects. Although we consider tools that require the Windows platform, we are most seriously interested in products that support OS X or Linux. In our experience, many other growing internet ventures hold a similar opinion.
Can I store these samples in my shoe?
Does that count as part of my person?