I know the technology isn't exactly cutting edge, but I'm surprised I didn't see railroads being mentioned as a possibility.
Here's a flickr album showing them being moved without a problem http://www.flickr.com/photos/10372533@N06/2468920475/
Run them on trains to as close to where they're going to go as possible, then air lift them to their final destinations, simple as that.
I can't connect, it says "error establishing database connection", I'm gonna guess this is another instance of a server overloading thanks to the amount of people connecting from a link on slashdot. Maybe once there's a few more new stories posted, people will stop looking at this one for long enough for me to load the images.
I wonder if SCO told their buyer that Linux (all of it) is part of the sale?
They probably said "yea, this guy with a blue blanket and a red and black striped shirt who calls himself Linus is gonna try to tell you that Linux isn't ours to sell, yea, just ignore him".
"...the researchers used 'techniques similar to how Polaroid sunglasses filter away reflected sunlight to reduce glare..."
Funny, I didn't even know Polaroid made sunglasses, here I thought they only made photography stuff.
I assume the writer meant Polarized sunglasses?
I wonder if there's a system out there which works like a giant CD jukebox, where it keeps all the CDs stored and can robotically find any disc through a database? I know there's systems like this for archiving documents, and some TV stations used to use a system like this with a robotic arm to archive video tapes and automatically load them to run the scheduled shows.
When I was 10, I was perfectly comfortable writing my own programs in basic on my parents' Apple II, so I don't think 10 year olds would have a problem with it. The problem lies with older people that've been using XP or OSX for too long and wouldn't welcome the slimmed down interface unless you could make an interface which is close enough to, say, win95 at least which can run fine on a system with such low specs.
As far as Linux being too fat, is this being said about the archetecture, or is it based on a distro like Debian which is packed floor to ceiling with stuff the average computer user would never use?
My thoughts on this subject are that you should give them whatever technology that may come in handy for just about any field. I figure give them a powerful computer that can do anything, but also give them some non-computer technology to play with. Let them take your old appliances apart (just not your old CRT monitors and TVs) to get a better understanding of how things work, rather than just telling them that they work. Give them an old PC and let them take that apart and put it back together, this way they understand that the power button doesn't just turn the computer on, it actually latches a relay inside the PSU which powers up a transformer supplying 5 and 12vdc to the motherboard which then loads the bios, and so on. Make sure they have a grasp on what makes things tick, not just why they tick. One great way to do it is with those electronics kits they sell at radioshack, my grandmother bought me one of those for my 8th birthday, and when I got into 4th grade science class, they were teaching how to make a light bulb work with a battery and a wire, while I could already read schematics and build radios.
When immersing your kids in technology, make sure they at least get a grasp on how vast technology tuly is, a car mechanic may not make as much money or have as much education as an IT guy, but that doesn't mean he's any less smart, skillful, or works any less. There's so much to that word "technology" that goes far beyond your computer. Personally, I'm an IMAX theater projectionist part time, in an IMAX projection booth, everything is computer controlled, but the projector is still mainly just a big box with a bunch of gears, motors, relays, my experience as a weekend hacker as well as my experience as a mechanic come into play almost constantly at this job.
Rather than just throwing knowledge or expensive computers at them, just encourage them to learn all they can, some will naturally have a strong interest, and some won't, just encourage technical learning at least to the level they'll need to function in a world where something as simple as a toaster is microprocessor controlled.
Letting them grow up using a computer that dual boots windows and linux wouldn't be a bad idea either.
Digital will most likely never be able to achive a truly higher resolution than that of film. In a digital camera, the image is broken down into pixels, whereas in a film camera, the image goes directly to the chemicals on the film. So really, the only way a digital camera could possibly achive a higher resolution than a film camera is if the pixels were smaller than the molecules of the chemicals on the film. I'm not a chemistry major, so I have absolutely no idea what the dimensions of the chemical molecules would be, but I can still more or less guarantee that they're smaller than the pixels in the highest resolution digital cameras.
Of course this doesn't mean much for the point and shoot crowd, but for blowing up an image, the larger the image gets, the more distortion it will have as it gets more pixelated. Obviously, with an extremely high resolution digital camera, blowing up an image to a 4x6" size won't distort the image to the point that the human eye would be able to detect, but blowing it up to the size of a billboard or the size of the exterior of a large building will cause a drop in resolution.
After all, photography is really nothing more than enlarging images, the camera always takes the image at a size much much smaller than the original, and the development, or the printing will make the image many times larger than the original. A picture of a mountain range will still be shrunk down to the size of the film apperature or the ccd chip, and will have to go from there..
I didn't realise that the card recorded anything, I would figure that there's gotta be some way around this flagging problem. You figure that the stream still makes it through the card to the computer and still shows up on the screen, why not just build a program which records the stream as if it's playing it rather than going directly from the video card's output?
All in all, I've been pretty impressed by my AiW 9700 so far, i've had it for almost 2 years and haven't had many problems with it overall, actually, I've had no problems that I can think of in Windows, and all kinds of problems with linux, but I guess that's still to be expected.
what about Fox news without the extreme right wing christian conservitive bias? that got canceled too
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The whole pre-existing legend might have just been created to enduce local commerce by telling anyone from out of town that the lights have been there for over 150 years. People who wouldn't usually drive a few hundred miles to visit the Marfa General store or the old mobil fillin' station, now have a reason to go there.
Look at the loch ness, one day some scientist will discover that the monster is actually just an old sunken boat that appears whenever the water level gets low enough, after that people will say "well, scotland's just a place where men wear miniskirts" without even mentioning the lake.
That's what happens when someone who loves to show off their brain points out a blatently obvious fact which was only covered up by people trying to preserve their local folklore.
They say the plastic melted from the heat of the radiation, don't ya think they might have considered that the radioactive source woul probibly give off some heat when they built this thing?
Maybe when you're building a robot designed to go into areas with severely large ammounts of radiation, it might be a good idea to put some kind of radiation shield onto the fucking thing, that's just a thought.
I'd love to see how it saves the lives of all the troops who have to go after it with a 10 foot pole, why not just put the cordless drill on the end of the pole and save us taxpayers a few million?
With a flexible transparent LCD display, if they can make them big enough, imagine a car windshield with the cluster display, GPS, stereo, etc. working as a heads up display on the windshield itself. I can see BMW getting exited, as well as tow truck drivers with all the distractions.
Of course, having things like the winamp visualizations all over your dashboard and headliner would be crazy.
Maybe this might be one step closer to my dream of having LCD touchscreens seamlessly covering the entire area of all the walls of my house, just touch the wall anywhere and get a window with light switches, thermostats, etc. and being able to have a giant screen tv anywhere on any wall in my house, course that might just be a pipe dream.
I haven't read the book, but from what I gather from that article, he's basically saying that for a company to use M$ would cost $450+ per computer vs. nothing if all computers ran OSS. Although that may be true in theory, he doesn't seem to mention that linux isn't quite as user-friendly as windows. Sure you can get a pre-loaded distro with just what you need, but for someone who only has experience with windows, it's gonna take some time for them to understand how to build stuff from source code rather than just running an installer.
Basically, what I'm saying is that for a small company without an IT, or a large company with an IT that doesn't know a thing about *nix or even dos (seems odd, but they are out there) to completely dump windows and go to linux might cost more in lost productivity than it would to just buy the windows software.
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I know the technology isn't exactly cutting edge, but I'm surprised I didn't see railroads being mentioned as a possibility. Here's a flickr album showing them being moved without a problem http://www.flickr.com/photos/10372533@N06/2468920475/ Run them on trains to as close to where they're going to go as possible, then air lift them to their final destinations, simple as that.
I wonder if any of the info will be considered public info, and if so, how many of the satellites up there will be considered "non existent".
I can't connect, it says "error establishing database connection", I'm gonna guess this is another instance of a server overloading thanks to the amount of people connecting from a link on slashdot. Maybe once there's a few more new stories posted, people will stop looking at this one for long enough for me to load the images.
I wonder if SCO told their buyer that Linux (all of it) is part of the sale? They probably said "yea, this guy with a blue blanket and a red and black striped shirt who calls himself Linus is gonna try to tell you that Linux isn't ours to sell, yea, just ignore him".
What ever happened to the good old days when AVG was free?
Here's a really short video of it in action
Here's the designer talking about it
And here's his website (under construction, but with some technical info)
"...the researchers used 'techniques similar to how Polaroid sunglasses filter away reflected sunlight to reduce glare..." Funny, I didn't even know Polaroid made sunglasses, here I thought they only made photography stuff. I assume the writer meant Polarized sunglasses?
I wonder if there's a system out there which works like a giant CD jukebox, where it keeps all the CDs stored and can robotically find any disc through a database? I know there's systems like this for archiving documents, and some TV stations used to use a system like this with a robotic arm to archive video tapes and automatically load them to run the scheduled shows.
When I was 10, I was perfectly comfortable writing my own programs in basic on my parents' Apple II, so I don't think 10 year olds would have a problem with it. The problem lies with older people that've been using XP or OSX for too long and wouldn't welcome the slimmed down interface unless you could make an interface which is close enough to, say, win95 at least which can run fine on a system with such low specs.
As far as Linux being too fat, is this being said about the archetecture, or is it based on a distro like Debian which is packed floor to ceiling with stuff the average computer user would never use?
My thoughts on this subject are that you should give them whatever technology that may come in handy for just about any field. I figure give them a powerful computer that can do anything, but also give them some non-computer technology to play with. Let them take your old appliances apart (just not your old CRT monitors and TVs) to get a better understanding of how things work, rather than just telling them that they work. Give them an old PC and let them take that apart and put it back together, this way they understand that the power button doesn't just turn the computer on, it actually latches a relay inside the PSU which powers up a transformer supplying 5 and 12vdc to the motherboard which then loads the bios, and so on. Make sure they have a grasp on what makes things tick, not just why they tick. One great way to do it is with those electronics kits they sell at radioshack, my grandmother bought me one of those for my 8th birthday, and when I got into 4th grade science class, they were teaching how to make a light bulb work with a battery and a wire, while I could already read schematics and build radios.
When immersing your kids in technology, make sure they at least get a grasp on how vast technology tuly is, a car mechanic may not make as much money or have as much education as an IT guy, but that doesn't mean he's any less smart, skillful, or works any less. There's so much to that word "technology" that goes far beyond your computer. Personally, I'm an IMAX theater projectionist part time, in an IMAX projection booth, everything is computer controlled, but the projector is still mainly just a big box with a bunch of gears, motors, relays, my experience as a weekend hacker as well as my experience as a mechanic come into play almost constantly at this job.
Rather than just throwing knowledge or expensive computers at them, just encourage them to learn all they can, some will naturally have a strong interest, and some won't, just encourage technical learning at least to the level they'll need to function in a world where something as simple as a toaster is microprocessor controlled.
Letting them grow up using a computer that dual boots windows and linux wouldn't be a bad idea either.
Digital will most likely never be able to achive a truly higher resolution than that of film. In a digital camera, the image is broken down into pixels, whereas in a film camera, the image goes directly to the chemicals on the film. So really, the only way a digital camera could possibly achive a higher resolution than a film camera is if the pixels were smaller than the molecules of the chemicals on the film. I'm not a chemistry major, so I have absolutely no idea what the dimensions of the chemical molecules would be, but I can still more or less guarantee that they're smaller than the pixels in the highest resolution digital cameras.
Of course this doesn't mean much for the point and shoot crowd, but for blowing up an image, the larger the image gets, the more distortion it will have as it gets more pixelated. Obviously, with an extremely high resolution digital camera, blowing up an image to a 4x6" size won't distort the image to the point that the human eye would be able to detect, but blowing it up to the size of a billboard or the size of the exterior of a large building will cause a drop in resolution.
After all, photography is really nothing more than enlarging images, the camera always takes the image at a size much much smaller than the original, and the development, or the printing will make the image many times larger than the original. A picture of a mountain range will still be shrunk down to the size of the film apperature or the ccd chip, and will have to go from there..
I didn't realise that the card recorded anything, I would figure that there's gotta be some way around this flagging problem. You figure that the stream still makes it through the card to the computer and still shows up on the screen, why not just build a program which records the stream as if it's playing it rather than going directly from the video card's output?
All in all, I've been pretty impressed by my AiW 9700 so far, i've had it for almost 2 years and haven't had many problems with it overall, actually, I've had no problems that I can think of in Windows, and all kinds of problems with linux, but I guess that's still to be expected.
what about Fox news without the extreme right wing christian conservitive bias? that got canceled too
The whole pre-existing legend might have just been created to enduce local commerce by telling anyone from out of town that the lights have been there for over 150 years. People who wouldn't usually drive a few hundred miles to visit the Marfa General store or the old mobil fillin' station, now have a reason to go there.
Look at the loch ness, one day some scientist will discover that the monster is actually just an old sunken boat that appears whenever the water level gets low enough, after that people will say "well, scotland's just a place where men wear miniskirts" without even mentioning the lake.
That's what happens when someone who loves to show off their brain points out a blatently obvious fact which was only covered up by people trying to preserve their local folklore.
They say the plastic melted from the heat of the radiation, don't ya think they might have considered that the radioactive source woul probibly give off some heat when they built this thing?
Maybe when you're building a robot designed to go into areas with severely large ammounts of radiation, it might be a good idea to put some kind of radiation shield onto the fucking thing, that's just a thought.
I'd love to see how it saves the lives of all the troops who have to go after it with a 10 foot pole, why not just put the cordless drill on the end of the pole and save us taxpayers a few million?
With a flexible transparent LCD display, if they can make them big enough, imagine a car windshield with the cluster display, GPS, stereo, etc. working as a heads up display on the windshield itself. I can see BMW getting exited, as well as tow truck drivers with all the distractions.
Of course, having things like the winamp visualizations all over your dashboard and headliner would be crazy.
Maybe this might be one step closer to my dream of having LCD touchscreens seamlessly covering the entire area of all the walls of my house, just touch the wall anywhere and get a window with light switches, thermostats, etc. and being able to have a giant screen tv anywhere on any wall in my house, course that might just be a pipe dream.
I haven't read the book, but from what I gather from that article, he's basically saying that for a company to use M$ would cost $450+ per computer vs. nothing if all computers ran OSS. Although that may be true in theory, he doesn't seem to mention that linux isn't quite as user-friendly as windows. Sure you can get a pre-loaded distro with just what you need, but for someone who only has experience with windows, it's gonna take some time for them to understand how to build stuff from source code rather than just running an installer.
Basically, what I'm saying is that for a small company without an IT, or a large company with an IT that doesn't know a thing about *nix or even dos (seems odd, but they are out there) to completely dump windows and go to linux might cost more in lost productivity than it would to just buy the windows software.