The 6502 was what I learned computer design, assembly, and machine code on. First was a Buck Engineering trainer, then a KIM-1 with an add-on board. I learned the value of coffee when coding. Finally I built my own system with an S-100 style archetecture. Memories indeed.
Wow, just wow! Not even a 6502. The Voyagers used a trio of 1802s clocked at 6.4MHz. Just goes to show what you can do with a specific bit of hardware and tight code.
Thet's what I thought when I first read your post. What really ticks me off is when otherwise comprtent writers (Alistair Reynolds, I'm looking at you...) use the word "occlude" to describe an object passing in front of (or behind) another object. Occult means "pass behind" or hidden from view"*, occlude means "stopped up"
*a much better definition of "occult powers" than the definition "supernatural".
It's nothing new, though. We've been doing this for ages.
You're right, it's nothing new. It's not even real 3D, it's "stereoscopy" to a higher degree. We were doing true 3D analysis 15 years ago; video analysis of gait and other motions on a treadmill. We used multiple cameras mounted orthoganally, and a digital mixer to combine and record onto SVHS tape w/a SMPTE time code. Post recording analysis was done using Peak Performance (brand) software. This was way before the cinematographers and game makers started doing this. There's little new in science.
We had an earthquake here in Central Oklahoma a couple of months ago. Not a biggie, just a "rattler". The cell lines (voice and data both) went down from overload, as did the AT&T *land lines*. I'd hate to see what happens when the next "Big One" hits (whatever that event is...).
I wonder if the opposite, the almost stroboscopic shooting and editing of scenes in contemporary television and cinema, are the cause or the effect of the millisecond attention span of today's ADD-infested viewers?
Won't the actual legibility of the font have a lot to do with pixel size and spacing? Sure, you can pack that font into a tiny space, but if it's all broken up in jaggies, can you READ it?
The French police officer, Alphonse Bertillon (April 24, 1853 - February 13, 1914) was a biometrics researcher who created anthropometry, an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to identify criminals. ?This was eventually supplanted by fingerprinting, because os inconsistancies in measurement. Using computer- or video-based measurements should help standardize measurements and increase statistical accuracy. Wikipedia article on Bertillion: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Alphonse_Bertillon
"Vikings? There ain't no Vikings here, just us honest farmers. The town was burning, the villagers were dead. They didn't need those sheep anyway. That's our story and we're sticking to it."
To find malware-distribution sites, Google uses a huge number of virtual machines running completely unpatched versions of Windows and Internet Explorer that they point at potentially malicious URLs.
And do they run FF, Chrome, Opera, etc. looking for vulns in them as well? Can you imagine what would happen if this "huge number of virtual machines" actually got pwned? Now there's a massive spambot or DDOS! Would google spam-block its self?
I blame WD, Seagate, et al. Now that you can buy 1TB drives for less than $50, and single drives up to (and soon exceeding) 3TB, it is easy and relatively inexpensive to archive everything the users do. Soon, if storage continues to be cheaper per TB, it may become possible, even mandantory to log every keystroke. Of course, there will always be excluded classes, politically and economically, from such laws. But then I'm a cynical old fart, who has seen technology become increasingly invasive, and privacy fleeting.
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Forget Cali, come to Central Oklahoma! Our GM plant closed last year; the facility and knowledgeable manpower are available. Decently low cost of living, decently high wages, right-to-work (not that I'm anti-union). Plenty of inexpensive power (natural gas-fired electrical plants) and good weather. Heck, we even have earthquakes.
I mean, wasn't the internet designed/made for the military in the first place (ARPA/DARPA)? Then first the institutions (.edu) and later the commercial market (.com) came along and took it over. I guess creating a new network from scratch (and doing it RIGHT this time) is easier than kicking the rest of us pikers off of what was theirs in the first place.
...it's all about power. Until a small, very power-dense storage medium is developed (better than current technology), this (and powered prosthetics) will remain only a curiosity. Once you can power it autonomously, there are no limits to the things this device (and those that follow) can do. But this is no easy feat! Perhaps beamed power would work. Or make one that can eat and digest rats and birds!
You wouldn't necessarily need to inflate a large balloon. There are several other low-mass/high drag options. A long ribbon would be one. It could be coiled up against the torque of a spring (for example) and be released by mechanical means; a lot simpler than carrying the stuff (valves, hoses/tubing, tanks, etc) to inflate the balloon (even though you would only need a small amount of pressure). There were several experiments with tethers and satellites back in the '90's. Two mechanisms would help bring down the satellite: electrodynamics and gravity.
I got one of the coupons and bought a converter box (I think I paid $10 out of pocket). I constructed a Grey-Hoverman antenna (actually a series of them, each one better). I get AMAZING reception with my 15 year old 19" CRT TV. It makes the picture look new. I got every channel except one (total of about 20) from 30-35 miles away. I now get the "missing" channel as they have now gone to full power (for some reason they did not at change-over). Yeah, I can only watch or tape one show at a time, but it's rare for me to watch/tape different stuff. from the same TV. All in all, I'm happy. Thank you George Bush (let's see how the mods like that!)
He should file an appeal... in Canada. The US just established cross-border jurisdiction (a court order in one country can be applied to another), so it would now be valid.
I have to confess, I'm an engineer/scientest not a lawyer*. Can he get an injunction to block enforcement of the previous injunction? Dueling injunctions? My pride is hurt by the America bashing (wouldn't yours be too, if it were your mother counry?), but I feel anger at the wrongness of the situation.
* scientests study nature to learn laws, not just make them up on the spot like lawyers (and mathematicians)
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So the world will end in 2012!
The 6502 was what I learned computer design, assembly, and machine code on. First was a Buck Engineering trainer, then a KIM-1 with an add-on board. I learned the value of coffee when coding. Finally I built my own system with an S-100 style archetecture. Memories indeed.
Yeah, well, that was after you lost the lawsuit and had to pay up. Next time, write better code!
Wow, just wow! Not even a 6502. The Voyagers used a trio of 1802s clocked at 6.4MHz. Just goes to show what you can do with a specific bit of hardware and tight code.
Thet's what I thought when I first read your post. What really ticks me off is when otherwise comprtent writers (Alistair Reynolds, I'm looking at you...) use the word "occlude" to describe an object passing in front of (or behind) another object. Occult means "pass behind" or hidden from view"*, occlude means "stopped up"
*a much better definition of "occult powers" than the definition "supernatural".
You're right, it's nothing new. It's not even real 3D, it's "stereoscopy" to a higher degree. We were doing true 3D analysis 15 years ago; video analysis of gait and other motions on a treadmill. We used multiple cameras mounted orthoganally, and a digital mixer to combine and record onto SVHS tape w/a SMPTE time code. Post recording analysis was done using Peak Performance (brand) software. This was way before the cinematographers and game makers started doing this. There's little new in science.
...call them Dolly Sisters.
We had an earthquake here in Central Oklahoma a couple of months ago. Not a biggie, just a "rattler". The cell lines (voice and data both) went down from overload, as did the AT&T *land lines*. I'd hate to see what happens when the next "Big One" hits (whatever that event is...).
I wonder if the opposite, the almost stroboscopic shooting and editing of scenes in contemporary television and cinema, are the cause or the effect of the millisecond attention span of today's ADD-infested viewers?
Won't the actual legibility of the font have a lot to do with pixel size and spacing? Sure, you can pack that font into a tiny space, but if it's all broken up in jaggies, can you READ it?
The French police officer, Alphonse Bertillon (April 24, 1853 - February 13, 1914) was a biometrics researcher who created anthropometry, an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to identify criminals.
?This was eventually supplanted by fingerprinting, because os inconsistancies in measurement. Using computer- or video-based measurements should help standardize measurements and increase statistical accuracy. Wikipedia article on Bertillion: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Alphonse_Bertillon
"Vikings? There ain't no Vikings here, just us honest farmers. The town was burning, the villagers were dead. They didn't need those sheep anyway. That's our story and we're sticking to it."
And do they run FF, Chrome, Opera, etc. looking for vulns in them as well? Can you imagine what would happen if this "huge number of virtual machines" actually got pwned? Now there's a massive spambot or DDOS! Would google spam-block its self?
I blame WD, Seagate, et al. Now that you can buy 1TB drives for less than $50, and single drives up to (and soon exceeding) 3TB, it is easy and relatively inexpensive to archive everything the users do. Soon, if storage continues to be cheaper per TB, it may become possible, even mandantory to log every keystroke. Of course, there will always be excluded classes, politically and economically, from such laws. But then I'm a cynical old fart, who has seen technology become increasingly invasive, and privacy fleeting.
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Forget Cali, come to Central Oklahoma! Our GM plant closed last year; the facility and knowledgeable manpower are available. Decently low cost of living, decently high wages, right-to-work (not that I'm anti-union). Plenty of inexpensive power (natural gas-fired electrical plants) and good weather. Heck, we even have earthquakes.
I mean, wasn't the internet designed/made for the military in the first place (ARPA/DARPA)? Then first the institutions (.edu) and later the commercial market (.com) came along and took it over. I guess creating a new network from scratch (and doing it RIGHT this time) is easier than kicking the rest of us pikers off of what was theirs in the first place.
...it's all about power. Until a small, very power-dense storage medium is developed (better than current technology), this (and powered prosthetics) will remain only a curiosity. Once you can power it autonomously, there are no limits to the things this device (and those that follow) can do. But this is no easy feat! Perhaps beamed power would work. Or make one that can eat and digest rats and birds!
You wouldn't necessarily need to inflate a large balloon. There are several other low-mass/high drag options. A long ribbon would be one. It could be coiled up against the torque of a spring (for example) and be released by mechanical means; a lot simpler than carrying the stuff (valves, hoses/tubing, tanks, etc) to inflate the balloon (even though you would only need a small amount of pressure). There were several experiments with tethers and satellites back in the '90's. Two mechanisms would help bring down the satellite: electrodynamics and gravity.
I can play Solitare on linux!
Oh, wait....
I got one of the coupons and bought a converter box (I think I paid $10 out of pocket). I constructed a Grey-Hoverman antenna (actually a series of them, each one better). I get AMAZING reception with my 15 year old 19" CRT TV. It makes the picture look new. I got every channel except one (total of about 20) from 30-35 miles away. I now get the "missing" channel as they have now gone to full power (for some reason they did not at change-over). Yeah, I can only watch or tape one show at a time, but it's rare for me to watch/tape different stuff. from the same TV. All in all, I'm happy. Thank you George Bush (let's see how the mods like that!)
...is there an app for that?
I have to confess, I'm an engineer/scientest not a lawyer*. Can he get an injunction to block enforcement of the previous injunction? Dueling injunctions? My pride is hurt by the America bashing (wouldn't yours be too, if it were your mother counry?), but I feel anger at the wrongness of the situation.
* scientests study nature to learn laws, not just make them up on the spot like lawyers (and mathematicians)
...the booms went bust.
I think in this case it has already been done: (open wi-fi) + Google + Oops! = Oogle!