The orders of magnitude between a volcanic or tectonic event and a drone or helicopter Doppler effect is staggering. Picking up an prop engine is impressive, any kind of directional information is way beyond what I would expect from ground sensors. It's like someone operating Doppler weather radar calling me to say there was a moth circling my front porch light. If I read this in a DARPA grant proposal I would be derisive... this level of sensitivity would imply a lot of (seemingly) white noise in seismographic records. Next they start telling people to check the tread depth on some of the tires passing near a sensor.
I was asked to look at scanning file cabinets full of legal size folders with contracts (mostly NCR forms) and hand writing on the inside covers of the file folder itself. Using a bit of lumber and a square you can make a frame to position the item to be scanned and if need be mount the webcam so it can be run up and down a mast for very thick items. Our focal plane was about 15" up for a good legal size paper image. They had an old XP box so I used IrfanView for capture and X-mouse Button Control 2 for mapping a right click to IrfanView's batch scan mode (right mouse button remapped to = ctrl+shft+a) giving sequenced file numbers to the output. They had to reset the counter for each new contract and change the destination folder, in the end we worked in the same temp folder and moved each contract before starting the next task... books would be easier in that regard. IrfanView supports a lot of plugins, but if you make a good fixture for aligning your books below the camera, keystoning should not be an issue. I don't think I would do two pages at once at 1080, but on a small book it might be OK. The main thing is lighting, even lighting makes all the difference in that rig. If I had a budget I would have set up LEDs, we just used two desk lamps. Not counting the webcam and XP box, we were way under $50. I understand why you want to do this, good luck however you go.
Well then, cue White and Nerdy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw Al gots to get paid you know... Take all that sweet YouTube money and get an orthopedic Segway!
I've seen one system where the data is printed (or received by FAX), scanned into the patient record (as page images, i.e., TIFFs), and then a database of descriptors about the scans is what the medical personal can access... they then click a link (is this sounding like an intranet setup?) to pull up the scanned image in a new window... It's a bit scary... But on the other hand stealing a bunch of image files and then having to OCR and sort them does make for a less desirable target.
You want dental filling strength to *match* the strength of the tooth around it, not be stronger, otherwise after a few years the fillings will stick out.
Hey, if there's money to be made killing that guy, Amazon is probably interested (at least a little).
This could give rise to a whole new tough guy threat... "It would be a shame if something like a box of poorly selling books was to hit you in the head from 400 feet accelerating at 32.174 ft/s squared!"
As a communist luddite, I find your comment offensive. May the full might of social justice warriors(SJW) reign down upon you.
Slashdot is supposed to be a safe place. Savage!
You forgot the fundamental I'm a communist luddite, you insensitive clod! Slashdot is supposed to be a place of tradition, which reminds me... Preemptive Moo!
Well, I would be supportive of an anti-protest protest... but then I guess I would have to be fair and support an anti-protest protest protest. I can see right now this is not going to end well...
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The orders of magnitude between a volcanic or tectonic event and a drone or helicopter Doppler effect is staggering. Picking up an prop engine is impressive, any kind of directional information is way beyond what I would expect from ground sensors. It's like someone operating Doppler weather radar calling me to say there was a moth circling my front porch light. If I read this in a DARPA grant proposal I would be derisive... this level of sensitivity would imply a lot of (seemingly) white noise in seismographic records. Next they start telling people to check the tread depth on some of the tires passing near a sensor.
And it came to pass that the goats layed down with the greyhound,
and thus the goathound was begat!
It has a really great personality...
Man, I'll convert it to a strip club.
bill clinton already did that
And he provided complimentary cigars!
I was asked to look at scanning file cabinets full of legal size folders with contracts (mostly NCR forms) and hand writing on the inside covers of the file folder itself. Using a bit of lumber and a square you can make a frame to position the item to be scanned and if need be mount the webcam so it can be run up and down a mast for very thick items. Our focal plane was about 15" up for a good legal size paper image. They had an old XP box so I used IrfanView for capture and X-mouse Button Control 2 for mapping a right click to IrfanView's batch scan mode (right mouse button remapped to = ctrl+shft+a) giving sequenced file numbers to the output. They had to reset the counter for each new contract and change the destination folder, in the end we worked in the same temp folder and moved each contract before starting the next task... books would be easier in that regard. IrfanView supports a lot of plugins, but if you make a good fixture for aligning your books below the camera, keystoning should not be an issue. I don't think I would do two pages at once at 1080, but on a small book it might be OK. The main thing is lighting, even lighting makes all the difference in that rig. If I had a budget I would have set up LEDs, we just used two desk lamps. Not counting the webcam and XP box, we were way under $50. I understand why you want to do this, good luck however you go.
OK, does that stand for "Hogs Watch" or "Hog Swatch"?
I don't mine watching for Hogs, but I don't want to see any swatches...
On the downside, magnesium can be bear to put out when it gets going.
That probably takes the understatement of the thread award...
http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-06/let-burning-metals-lie
Christmas miracle!
And for the rest of us:
A Festivus phenomenon!
that allows people to collaborate when taking a piss. can I has buy out ?
Careful!
You know how the*IAA feels about unauthorized streaming...
Waiting for the FAA to ban birds from flying around helos and airplanes...
I call Shotgun!
Wait, my tax dollars are WORKING?
Dammit, they had an 11:15 tee time...
Venezuela is "Little Venice"
Why do I suddenly have a sinking feeling...
Well then, cue White and Nerdy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
Al gots to get paid you know...
Take all that sweet YouTube money and get an orthopedic Segway!
You forgot: what if we made a beowulf cluster of OpenAI?
I, for one, welcome our new OpenAI overlords
Only if they are mounted on sharks that have fricken lasers!
Obligatory video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs
Keanu Reeves has an estimated net worth of $350 million ... I'm not sure I'd call him a failed star.
Love him or hate him, pretty much everyone knows who he is.
Dude, Totally!
If we lack names for failed stars, there's lots of Kardashians...
I agree it's a sneaky way to win a bet...
When I break out in song the top request is "The refrain from singing"...
"how do you say "D'oh!" in German?"
Deuterium Hydroxide, also known as 'slightly heavy water'
It's just BIG BONED!
I've seen one system where the data is printed (or received by FAX), scanned into the patient record (as page images, i.e., TIFFs), and then a database of descriptors about the scans is what the medical personal can access... they then click a link (is this sounding like an intranet setup?) to pull up the scanned image in a new window... It's a bit scary... But on the other hand stealing a bunch of image files and then having to OCR and sort them does make for a less desirable target.
Vulcan wouldn't care, but Mars might...
Then again, she really got around.
http://www.ancient.eu/venus/
You want dental filling strength to *match* the strength of the tooth around it, not be stronger, otherwise after a few years the fillings will stick out.
Now all your teeth are belong to graphene!
I love that every response so far on slashdot is by a conspiracy theorist.
That, sir, is stereotyping!
Some of us are just nuts...
Nice try, DICE inc, trying to persuade us with your subliminal, liminal and even superliminal messages!
I'm not sure if it was beneath or above my notice...
Either way I'll skip TFA.
Hey, if there's money to be made killing that guy, Amazon is probably interested (at least a little).
This could give rise to a whole new tough guy threat...
"It would be a shame if something like a box of poorly selling books was to hit you in the head from 400 feet accelerating at 32.174 ft/s squared!"
As a communist luddite, I find your comment offensive. May the full might of social justice warriors(SJW) reign down upon you.
Slashdot is supposed to be a safe place. Savage!
You forgot the fundamental
I'm a communist luddite, you insensitive clod!
Slashdot is supposed to be a place of tradition, which reminds me...
Preemptive Moo!
Well, I would be supportive of an anti-protest protest...
but then I guess I would have to be fair and support an anti-protest protest protest.
I can see right now this is not going to end well...