if he cares about details... he will need to have the tripod positions known, lens type known, and take pictures of reference items of simple geometry to verify the stitching and other perspective errors.
He can recreate the lens/ camera / geometry structure in a 3d studio type application, and reverse it to make a relatively distortion free copy.
You should record the type of lens used, the type of camera... and set up a tripod over the map, keep it consistent, and take a few pictures of reference items.
Recording the lens type and all of the exact settings would make it easy to use software to correct for distortion. The reference... grid of say 1cm by 1cm squares with some other simple geometry to test your math.
Look, if somebody has made their computer totally nasty by using it as an ashtray, 1. That should void the warranty because customer gross negligence damaged it... you don't blow particulate matter into a computer! 2. If the computer has fine soot all about it, don't touch it.
I suspect that the computers were saturated with cigarette smoke, and There should be a way to charge the customer for rediculous clean up... 40 dollars an hour plus materials for Personal protective equipment.
Some goggles and a mask and a special cardboard box with venting -- vacuum attached...
I do feel sorry for the people who contaminated their computers... 1. They are such dumb asses 2. They probably are about to loose a lot of data, and should have an option to pay to have the damn thing cleaned.
Apple should make a note in their legalese... unless they already have something that covers it... certain Exposure to particulate matter may void your warrenty, and or have a break-even cost to clean price associated with it.
Patents should be issued to encourage use of the patented techniques, of course in addition to encouraging people to develop new ones.
patent's should have an additional restriction of how much royalties can be collected..
It would be possible for developers to patent a partially implemented idea, so the idea gets shared earlier, and keeps a revenue stream going for the designers. -- Maybe somebody is better and being a "closer" actually making the idea work, and other people are better and brain storming. Both are valuable, and the "closer" shouldn't get all of the rewards.
Large corporations are basically getting so large that they are functioning like the government-- they control aspects of our life in a near totalitarian way. The argument supporting that statement basically has to deal with subversion of the people and formerly consentual business relationships turning into controling entities.
I've got a problem with corporations sitting on patents, keeping people from being able to integrate ideas into functioning products.
More ideas Maybe a company could apply for a patent-relief status, where 1/3rd of income goes to pay patent royalties, and thus would be able to incorporate patents into devices without royalties..
--BAH, my ideas are rough, but I think I'm close to something workable.
Patents are a device that give their holders governing rights over other people.
The government could restrict licensing fees.
The patent should be applied only to an individual, and not be transferable.
We should make them a lot easier to search and obtain.
You can't just install Linux on somebodies computer and have it work.
THey'll come across a website that needs windows media, or Flash 8, and be willing to spend $200 for windows and other crap software.
Heck, sound doesn't even work in Firefox for plug-in content on Linux. You have to edit scripts and crap like that to make it work.
There is no point for cross over office or anything like that for a non-techie (for flash 8 or shockwave) it's just too complicated for somebody to maintain.
That said, we need to make sure that all of our websites work on a couple year old linux install, and not purchase stuff from people who don't make linux compatable websites.
Quanta plus is so nice and easy to use, with support of CSS, and a bunch of other tools to help you code right.
Basically make your content, name the blocks. Start writing CSS that makes the page look right.
To do a website elegantly, you need to consider CSS from the ground up.
quanta plus has a wysiwyg environment now. Plus it uses konqueror--the browser that passes the acid2 test. and it has some great code collapsing features from the advanced text editor.
I have to keep track of a few versions of my documents. I end up having a document1 document2 document3 document2.1 document2.2 document2.3 document2.4
etc... ant it's a pain to keep track of them. I've been wanting to make my entire Linux system be a subversion repository.
I just hope that microsoft allows for atomized complete deletion. Sort of like emptying the recycle bin.
If not, somebody will come out with a "must have utility" that will integrate nicely with the shell and everybody can be happy.
I was considering where to donate money, and KDE is something that I use a lot, I tried to look up how to give it money.. and it was in germany or something like that.. No tax deduction there!
Or maybe I'm just confused about the whole tax thing.
I found out that I didn't donate enough percentage of my money to qualify for a tax deduction anyway, It would have had to be well over 10 percent of my income to get a break larger than standard deduction.
I really enjoyed watching firefly and battlestar galactica with my friends.. our emotional responces built on eachothers. buddytv may allow friends to give commentaries to other friends? I haven't looked into it that much...
The threading issue is siply non trivial, and there are going to be errors of different kinds on a distributed system, rather than on a local system... somebody tripped over the cord! and the like...
I don't know much about this stuff, but I'd stop waiting...
Conventions for passing data drrm important.. and I would assume that you could get by omiting some of the failsafes if your application allowed for it, and have a simpiler time dealing with this stuff.
I've never seen a program cause as many problems as some of these name brand anti-virus programs.. they're worse than having the viruses!!! and they add extra complexity that gives attackers more possibilities for exploitation.
Keep your patches up to date, or don't connect to the internet... Don't open ANY freaking attachments, unless you expect it, and you know where it came from... or don't connect to the network.
My mom's computer has their security suite? set up on it... it basically just nags her when programs try to do anything... it's nice that it warns about Real Player's nasties... but we all know to unistall that basterd and just use the codec...... I'm saying stuff that everybody already knew... but nobody cared enough to nuke that company for the good of the world.
The HD is ofcourse used for other things as well... it has to get done writing something and then seek.. yada yada...
I'd think that most email systems are multi-threaded so that a mail message waiting to be put on disk wouldn't block another one from comming.../. had an article on why vista won't suck.. and the ability to use a usb thumb drive for system purposes was mentioned.
I would think that the flash would be used for moderately frequently read items... (because superfrequently read stuff would be in RAM already, and stuff that isn't read often.. we could wait for... unless it's a critical low latency item...
So, for those things infrequently read, but needing low latency, the first part of the file ( or most critical to be read) could be stored in the flash section... and the hd could fill it's cache with the rest of the file between seeks, or just go and read the file...
I though flash was inappropriate for swap.. because of it's limited writability.. however, there filesystems for flash take this into account.
In linux, I might make/boot be flash.. I might make some databases be part flash...
I'd have to say that the whole hybrid drive could be done without anymodification of the drivers...
The hard drive controler would do analysis of what files get changed little... er sectors or what-not.. and read frequently... it would then copy the files, or initial parts of the files to flash. I would think that it would be more prudent to "copy" rather than "move" the part of a file... just because it makes error recovery a bit easier.
I'd just like to get a hard drive that takes sticks of sdram and has a battery backup... so that when the power goes off, it sits there still spinning writing the ram to disk and safely parking it's heads before shutting down.. it wouldn't take that big of a battery!
Remember that our 3 1/2 inch drives are half height!!! I had a 300mb scsi disk that was full height.. and I asked my dad... why is this double height?! and I was told... back in the day son...
anyway... we could have hd's with ram sticks, battery, and cooling solution if we just let the dogs be a bit bigger.
That annoying little purple box even nags me for more stuff than clippy used to.
And OO has more annoying "features" turned on by default... however, they are all listed on just a handfull of tab thingies.. so after 4 minutes or so my OO.org system is up and running without goofing up my grammer...
(I type dogs, then want to type dog(newline) and it types dogs for me.... stupid, stupid stupid)
But heck, I avoid MS office, MS and Bill Gates do enough things that I don't agree with that, I'd even work extra to not give them a penny.
The only things I need for OO to suit me, are email form letters (not for spam, I swear!) and better impress printing of multiple slides, and an embedable chart that can take data from other embeded documents, rather than manually type the entire huge dataset by hand on every change:O
We are paranoid becuase the United States appears to be turning into that kind of group.
and our paranoia makes us hold on to the people who appear to be comforting us-- that might actually be raping us.
If we defy the lying cheating bastards, we will support their argument that they are under attack. and allow them to draw more people to them.
I wonder if it would all get better if we just submitted to the jerks who are defacing our country. Sometimes I think it would be... (note, islam means submission!!!)
When submitting to the Bush Clown Posse, I must refuse to lie and cheat and steal, even though everyone else is doing it.
My duty is to keep serving to the best of my ability, and refuse to take part in the autracaties that the government partakes in. Almost everyone values an honest, hard working, considerate, generous person, who doesn't lend vimself to addiction.
I also feel ethically obliged to warn the people of upcomming doom.
We need production facilities to stay in our country. We need our farms, distributed arround our country. We need our families.
We need to care. I'm sick of people who don't care what they do to other people.
Love is going to work to make money to feed people, and to learn from others. It is not to be confused with selfish desires... lust.
We need to keep the 10 commandments, as they help us work together as a bigger family. They are not magic, They help people work together. We will be blessed if we work together.
About the biometric database, if we were all allowed to read from it freely... I don't see much problem with it. I do not believe in the right to privacy, however I do believe that it is a wonderfull tool to supress tryants.
1st, the firefox button is already distinguished... by color! The button is already longer as well! it has the down arrow next to it!
Irregularly spaced items are tough to deal with... (if he would have chosen the kde "K" button as an example, I would have been in agreement)
2nd.
Off by 1 pixel controls are very important. I don't want to accidentally blow away my work! Some tasks require extra attention, because they are extra dangerous.
3rd the other stuff seems resonable, thanks for bringing up the issue!
middle clicking in the browser window to paste is a horrible BUG
it causes data leaking, it causes confusion, and is just so horrible, that I can't understand why firefox copied konqueror:
however, firefox has the option to make the behavior correct:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44931 is where hardly anything has been done to fix it in kde, rendering kde unusable
about:config serching for middle (and later autoscroll) gives you: middlemouse.contentLoadURL and something about autoscroll
Konqueror is unusable because it's so hard to close tabs, because you can't middle mouse click on tabs to close them.
it makes no sence to paste onto a tab. though it makes sence to paste onto the go button
but there is a bug open to stop that!!!!
the other solution, by the makers of the unusable web browser is: klipper , with actions disabled
klipper keeps a history of what's been in the clipboard.
I feel your pain, and miss paste very very often.. but klipper saves me from everything except for konqeuror and text with newlines in dialogs that take enter as execute
Slashdot Mirror
if he cares about details... he will need to have the tripod positions known, lens type known, and take pictures of reference items of simple geometry to verify the stitching and other perspective errors.
He can recreate the lens/ camera / geometry structure in a 3d studio type application, and reverse it to make a relatively distortion free copy.
You should record the type of lens used, the type of camera... and set up a tripod over the map, keep it consistent, and take a few pictures of reference items.
Recording the lens type and all of the exact settings would make it easy to use software to correct for distortion. The reference... grid of say 1cm by 1cm squares with some other simple geometry to test your math.
Look, if somebody has made their computer totally nasty by using it as an ashtray,
1. That should void the warranty because customer gross negligence damaged it... you don't blow particulate matter into a computer!
2. If the computer has fine soot all about it, don't touch it.
I suspect that the computers were saturated with cigarette smoke, and There should be a way to charge the customer for rediculous clean up... 40 dollars an hour plus materials for Personal protective equipment.
Some goggles and a mask and a special cardboard box with venting -- vacuum attached...
I do feel sorry for the people who contaminated their computers...
1. They are such dumb asses
2. They probably are about to loose a lot of data, and should have an option to pay to have the damn thing cleaned.
Apple should make a note in their legalese... unless they already have something that covers it...
certain Exposure to particulate matter may void your warrenty, and or have a break-even cost to clean price associated with it.
macbook air in an interdepartmental env?
We watch way too much TV.
less shows = less watchy? = more time doing productive work?
(probably not, but sounds right)
Patents should be issued to encourage use of the patented techniques, of course in addition to encouraging people to develop new ones.
patent's should have an additional restriction of how much royalties can be collected..
It would be possible for developers to patent a partially implemented idea, so the idea gets shared earlier, and keeps a revenue stream going for the designers. -- Maybe somebody is better and being a "closer" actually making the idea work, and other people are better and brain storming. Both are valuable, and the "closer" shouldn't get all of the rewards.
Large corporations are basically getting so large that they are functioning like the government-- they control aspects of our life in a near totalitarian way. The argument supporting that statement basically has to deal with subversion of the people and formerly consentual business relationships turning into controling entities.
I've got a problem with corporations sitting on patents, keeping people from being able to integrate ideas into functioning products.
More ideas
Maybe a company could apply for a patent-relief status, where 1/3rd of income goes to pay patent royalties, and thus would be able to incorporate patents into devices without royalties..
--BAH, my ideas are rough, but I think I'm close to something workable.
Patents are a device that give their holders governing rights over other people.
The government could restrict licensing fees.
The patent should be applied only to an individual, and not be transferable.
We should make them a lot easier to search and obtain.
You can't just install Linux on somebodies computer and have it work.
THey'll come across a website that needs windows media, or Flash 8, and be willing to spend $200 for windows and other crap software.
Heck, sound doesn't even work in Firefox for plug-in content on Linux. You have to edit scripts and crap like that to make it work.
There is no point for cross over office or anything like that for a non-techie (for flash 8 or shockwave) it's just too complicated for somebody to maintain.
That said, we need to make sure that all of our websites work on a couple year old linux install, and not purchase stuff from people who don't make linux compatable websites.
No Lamborginis for me!
Quanta plus is so nice and easy to use, with support of CSS, and a bunch of other tools to help you code right.
Basically make your content, name the blocks. Start writing CSS that makes the page look right.
To do a website elegantly, you need to consider CSS from the ground up.
quanta plus has a wysiwyg environment now. Plus it uses konqueror--the browser that passes the acid2 test. and it has some great code collapsing features from the advanced text editor.
--AP
I have to keep track of a few versions of my documents. I end up having a
document1
document2
document3
document2.1
document2.2
document2.3
document2.4
etc... ant it's a pain to keep track of them. I've been wanting to make my entire Linux system be a subversion repository.
I just hope that microsoft allows for atomized complete deletion. Sort of like emptying the recycle bin.
If not, somebody will come out with a "must have utility" that will integrate nicely with the shell and everybody can be happy.
I was considering where to donate money, and KDE is something that I use a lot, I tried to look up how to give it money.. and it was in germany or something like that.. No tax deduction there!
Or maybe I'm just confused about the whole tax thing.
http://www.kde.org/support/support.php
I found out that I didn't donate enough percentage of my money to qualify for a tax deduction anyway, It would have had to be well over 10 percent of my income to get a break larger than standard deduction.
I went to the site. I didn't read it very well...
I'm wrong, sorry.
I also bicycle, and I remember the 1km speed record being not that much higher... that was at a sprint of course...
I know that wind resistance is significant.
Bye bye Karma! still... my confusion should have been interesting to you guys?!
I want to know how fast the guy was.. his average speed for 1km and his instantaneous speed.
If he did 87 kilometers in an hour.. OMG that guy rocks, I couldn't imagine a person being able to go that fast for more than a few minutes.
He probably went only went a few kilometers at any sort of record speed.
*** Yes I'm an engineer type nerd ***
Hehe.. I hate it when people get their facts all screwed up because of not knowing units for speed.
he went 1 km more than 85 km? Almost anybody can do that in a day.
I think you mean km/hr kph or some unit like that.
Because it's News for Nerds, and I'm a nerd, I gotta call you on that.
http://www.buddytv.com/ A guy I met at church is working on this project.
I really enjoyed watching firefly and battlestar galactica with my friends.. our emotional responces built on eachothers. buddytv may allow friends to give commentaries to other friends? I haven't looked into it that much...
The threading issue is siply non trivial, and there are going to be errors of different kinds on a distributed system, rather than on a local system... somebody tripped over the cord! and the like...
I don't know much about this stuff, but I'd stop waiting...
Conventions for passing data drrm important.. and I would assume that you could get by omiting some of the failsafes if your application allowed for it, and have a simpiler time dealing with this stuff.
--Am I talking out of the wrong orifice?
I've never seen a program cause as many problems as some of these name brand anti-virus programs.. they're worse than having the viruses!!! and they add extra complexity that gives attackers more possibilities for exploitation.
... I'm saying stuff that everybody already knew... but nobody cared enough to nuke that company for the good of the world.
Keep your patches up to date, or don't connect to the internet...
Don't open ANY freaking attachments, unless you expect it, and you know where it came from... or don't connect to the network.
My mom's computer has their security suite? set up on it... it basically just nags her when programs try to do anything... it's nice that it warns about Real Player's nasties... but we all know to unistall that basterd and just use the codec...
The HD is ofcourse used for other things as well... it has to get done writing something and then seek.. yada yada...
/. had an article on why vista won't suck.. and the ability to use a usb thumb drive for system purposes was mentioned.
/boot be flash.. I might make some databases be part flash...
I'd think that most email systems are multi-threaded so that a mail message waiting to be put on disk wouldn't block another one from comming...
I would think that the flash would be used for moderately frequently read items... (because superfrequently read stuff would be in RAM already, and stuff that isn't read often.. we could wait for... unless it's a critical low latency item...
So, for those things infrequently read, but needing low latency, the first part of the file ( or most critical to be read) could be stored in the flash section... and the hd could fill it's cache with the rest of the file between seeks, or just go and read the file...
I though flash was inappropriate for swap.. because of it's limited writability.. however, there filesystems for flash take this into account.
In linux, I might make
I'd have to say that the whole hybrid drive could be done without anymodification of the drivers...
The hard drive controler would do analysis of what files get changed little... er sectors or what-not.. and read frequently... it would then copy the files, or initial parts of the files to flash. I would think that it would be more prudent to "copy" rather than "move" the part of a file... just because it makes error recovery a bit easier.
I'd just like to get a hard drive that takes sticks of sdram and has a battery backup... so that when the power goes off, it sits there still spinning writing the ram to disk and safely parking it's heads before shutting down.. it wouldn't take that big of a battery!
Remember that our 3 1/2 inch drives are half height!!! I had a 300mb scsi disk that was full height.. and I asked my dad... why is this double height?! and I was told... back in the day son...
anyway... we could have hd's with ram sticks, battery, and cooling solution if we just let the dogs be a bit bigger.
-AP
That annoying little purple box even nags me for more stuff than clippy used to.
:O
And OO has more annoying "features" turned on by default... however, they are all listed on just a handfull of tab thingies.. so after 4 minutes or so my OO.org system is up and running without goofing up my grammer...
(I type dogs, then want to type dog(newline) and it types dogs for me.... stupid, stupid stupid)
But heck, I avoid MS office, MS and Bill Gates do enough things that I don't agree with that, I'd even work extra to not give them a penny.
The only things I need for OO to suit me, are email form letters (not for spam, I swear!) and better impress printing of multiple slides, and an embedable chart that can take data from other embeded documents, rather than manually type the entire huge dataset by hand on every change
Geez...
if thier server has updates for XP win2000 win2003 winME and what not...
and the website works with those... even on wine...
WHAT'S THE NEWS??!
nothing!
it works on wine!
I'm sure if you changed that registry setting to:
Imdum
it wouldn't work either.
Bah, Bah, Bah...
(of course I only skimed the article...)
We are paranoid becuase the United States appears to be turning into that kind of group.
and our paranoia makes us hold on to the people who appear to be comforting us-- that might actually be raping us.
If we defy the lying cheating bastards, we will support their argument that they are under attack. and allow them to draw more people to them.
I wonder if it would all get better if we just submitted to the jerks who are defacing our country. Sometimes I think it would be... (note, islam means submission!!!)
When submitting to the Bush Clown Posse, I must refuse to lie and cheat and steal, even though everyone else is doing it.
My duty is to keep serving to the best of my ability, and refuse to take part in the autracaties that the government partakes in. Almost everyone values an honest, hard working, considerate, generous person, who doesn't lend vimself to addiction.
I also feel ethically obliged to warn the people of upcomming doom.
We need production facilities to stay in our country.
We need our farms, distributed arround our country.
We need our families.
We need to care. I'm sick of people who don't care what they do to other people.
Love is going to work to make money to feed people, and to learn from others. It is not to be confused with selfish desires... lust.
We need to keep the 10 commandments, as they help us work together as a bigger family. They are not magic, They help people work together. We will be blessed if we work together.
About the biometric database, if we were all allowed to read from it freely... I don't see much problem with it. I do not believe in the right to privacy, however I do believe that it is a wonderfull tool to supress tryants.
1st,
the firefox button is already distinguished... by color! The button is already longer as well! it has the down arrow next to it!
Irregularly spaced items are tough to deal with...
(if he would have chosen the kde "K" button as an example, I would have been in agreement)
2nd.
Off by 1 pixel controls are very important. I don't want to accidentally blow away my work! Some tasks require extra attention, because they are extra dangerous.
3rd the other stuff seems resonable, thanks for bringing up the issue!
we should be able to have our own stash of rockets and fully automatic patent lawyer deturents.
pr0n related.
middle clicking in the browser window to paste is a horrible BUG
it causes data leaking, it causes confusion, and is just so horrible, that I can't understand why firefox copied konqueror:
however, firefox has the option to make the behavior correct:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44931
is where hardly anything has been done to fix it
in kde, rendering kde unusable
about:config
serching for middle (and later autoscroll) gives you:
middlemouse.contentLoadURL
and something about autoscroll
Konqueror is unusable because it's so hard to close tabs, because you can't middle mouse click on tabs to close them.
it makes no sence to paste onto a tab.
though it makes sence to paste onto the go button
but there is a bug open to stop that!!!!
the other solution, by the makers of the unusable web browser is: klipper , with actions disabled
klipper keeps a history of what's been in the clipboard.
I feel your pain, and miss paste very very often.. but klipper saves me from everything except for konqeuror and text with newlines in dialogs that take enter as execute
Why give her a cute bunny type game? who wants to play that? not even lots of women.
find a similar game that you can train her on.. play one on one with her against the computers...
then have her join up with you and your buds.
Do it TOGETHER
don't just shove her away with some offensively cute game..