[H] hdtv and web channel hookup
My wife and I are looking at a Samsung 40 HDTV (UN40B7000 probably) and I'd like to be able to easily toggle into various web channels now available. What is the easiest (and most spouse friendly) way to do this? I have Comcast for both TV and Internet, and I'm open to dedicating a PC to the job. -- -- Gregory Waleed Kavalec - What matters?... Only the flicker of light within the darkness, the feeling of warmth within the cold, the knowledge of love within the void. — Joan Walsh Anglund
Re: [H] hdtv and web channel hookup
Boxee is a good option. Also looking at netgear's newest... http://www.netgear.com/Products/Entertainment/DigitalMediaPlayers/EVA8000.aspx On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Robert Martin Jr. lopa...@pacbell.netwrote: Most user friendly would probably be any half decent box or mini-itx with TV-Out running windows version of Boxee and a cheap MCE remote. Boxee can do hulu and lot of other sites. Next in line would be PC running bootable XBMC with plugins for various sites. If you're lucky enough to already have a networked DVD player you can purchase Playon for $39 one time fee, and run just about every streaming website through your player. I do this with an Avel Linkplayer2 and can watch everything. I frequently watch netflicks, hulu, ScyFy and Crackle sites without any problems. Keep in mind you do need a decent server to run the playon software since all encoding is done on the fly. I'm running it on a quade core mini-itx XP x64 system. lopaka --- On Wed, 9/9/09, G.Waleed Kavalec kava...@gmail.com wrote: From: G.Waleed Kavalec kava...@gmail.com Subject: [H] hdtv and web channel hookup To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 8:01 AM My wife and I are looking at a Samsung 40 HDTV (UN40B7000 probably) and I'd like to be able to easily toggle into various web channels now available. What is the easiest (and most spouse friendly) way to do this? I have Comcast for both TV and Internet, and I'm open to dedicating a PC to the job. -- -- Gregory Waleed Kavalec - What matters?... Only the flicker of light within the darkness, the feeling of warmth within the cold, the knowledge of love within the void. — Joan Walsh Anglund -- -- Gregory Waleed Kavalec - What matters?... Only the flicker of light within the darkness, the feeling of warmth within the cold, the knowledge of love within the void. — Joan Walsh Anglund
Re: [H] So the boss goes and buys a piece of hardware...
Ended up with a two-part equivalent. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Harry McGregor mic...@osef.org wrote: G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: Been there? What I am looking at is a Sans Digital Tower Raid TR8MB. Nice external drive box. Has a Sata-II port (and cables) and comes with a PCI-express-1X card with two Sata-II ports. We have 2+ year old Dell servers, good machines, but none have any PCI-express-1X slots. Anyone know of a workaround? A sata-ii - usb adapter that's reliable? Or a old school card that does the sata-ii job? Thanks! This looks to be what you need: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816133002 Harry -- -- Gregory Waleed Kavalec - And among His Signs is this, that He created for you mates from among yourselves... -- Quran 30:21
[H] So the boss goes and buys a piece of hardware...
Been there? What I am looking at is a Sans Digital Tower Raid TR8MB. Nice external drive box. Has a Sata-II port (and cables) and comes with a PCI-express-1X card with two Sata-II ports. We have 2+ year old Dell servers, good machines, but none have any PCI-express-1X slots. Anyone know of a workaround? A sata-ii - usb adapter that's reliable? Or a old school card that does the sata-ii job? Thanks! -- -- Gregory Waleed Kavalec - And among His Signs is this, that He created for you mates from among yourselves... -- Quran 30:21
[H] Paging Dr. McCoy
Your gadget is ready. http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticleid=7925 -- Gregory Waleed Kavalec -
Re: [H] Portable eye. In your phone.
First time cramming compatible components in? I can see it. Next year it should be $200. On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:45 AM, maccrawj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $2600 of software to do essentially OCR to text to speech on a cellphone? Sounds like someone is being robbed blind! Great idea for sure, but I don't get the price tag. G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/10/26/the_possibilities_of_a_portable_eye/ But then it becomes apparent what's unique about Smith's phone: A flash goes off when he snaps a picture of the menu, and a few seconds later, his phone has translated the page of text into speech, and started reciting the options through his earpiece at a rapid clip. -- Gregory Waleed Kavalec - I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in.
[H] Portable eye. In your phone.
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/10/26/the_possibilities_of_a_portable_eye/ But then it becomes apparent what's unique about Smith's phone: A flash goes off when he snaps a picture of the menu, and a few seconds later, his phone has translated the page of text into speech, and started reciting the options through his earpiece at a rapid clip. -- Gregory Waleed Kavalec - Obama wants to spread the wealth. Republicans would rather just spread the debt.
[H] Reactionless drive??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive Man this would be TOO DAMN COOL if it turns out to be real. The Chinese space agency is building one. They aren't stupid. I mean: whoa. -- Ramadan Mubarak Gregory Waleed Kavalec --- McCain on Spain shows he doesn't have a Brain
Re: [H] Reactionless drive??
I'm not a good enough mathematician to tell which side is right. The comment comparing the logic to that behind a laser gyro makes some sense; light is NOT in our frame of reference. As always the real answer will be in the toast. Man, but IF ! On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: At an event last year in Beijing the head of CASC (their big space company) was asked if they were going to the Moon to mine He3 and he said yes, it was something very important to them. So take everything with a grain of salt. Who knows if this is legit or just more pseduoscience. -- Brian On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM, G.Waleed Kavalec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive Man this would be TOO DAMN COOL if it turns out to be real. The Chinese space agency is building one. They aren't stupid. I mean: whoa. -- Ramadan Mubarak Gregory Waleed Kavalec --- McCain on Spain shows he doesn't have a Brain -- Ramadan Mubarak Gregory Waleed Kavalec --- McCain on Spain shows he doesn't have a Brain
[H] [OT] permanent Friday
For those who need a place to post the Friday-Off-Topic stuff - all the time. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wayofftopic/ Open enrollment for now (until the usual spam starts) -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - http://www.facebook.com/p/G_Waleed_Kavalec/618860864
[H] repeatable nanofabrication
Milling maching software + Atomic Force Microscope = repeatable nanofabrication http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070801170326.htm Not tomorrow sci-fi. This is now. -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - http://www.facebook.com/p/G_Waleed_Kavalec/618860864
[H] nostalgia
You can purchase this 80MB disk system for less than $12k -- and even better, 300MB for under $20k! http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasictaxonomyName=storagearticleId=9023960taxonomyId=19intsrc=kc_feat -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - http://www.facebook.com/p/G_Waleed_Kavalec/618860864
[H] Fwd: Closer to a light computer
PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 825 May 23, 2007 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein www.aip.org/pnu SON ET LUMIERE, which in French means *sound and light,* is the name for popular nighttime outdoor shows in which pictures are projected on the walls of famous buildings (in France and other countries) accompanied by stories played out over loudspeakers. Now scientists hope to make a miniature sound-and-light show in fibers with the intention of producing not entertainment but ultrasensitive optical switches or the means of transporting bits in future all-optical computers. The new scheme being developed by scientists at Ben-Gurion University and Tel Aviv University uses sound waves to help slow light nearly to a halt under conditions (ordinary materials at room temperature) more practicable than for most other slow-light experiments. Richard Tasgal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and his colleagues use as their medium a so-called Bragg grating fiber; the UV-sensitive core of a fiber is exposed through a mask to ultraviolet light. This treatment changes the germanium-doped silica fiber core in periodic way along its length so that the index of refraction varies periodically. Light sent into such a fiber, and encountering a regularly changing index of refraction, will reflect multiply, not just at the ends but all along the fiber. A fiber with this condition is sometimes referred to as a distributed mirror. If, furthermore, the light beam is intense and the fiber material possesses a nonlinear response to light, the net effect of light wavelets propagating in the forward and backward direction can be a light pulse traveling at speeds much less than the speed of light in vacuum. Here*s where the sound part comes in. Very intense light will cause a slight bunching in the density of the fiber and this can create sound waves. This process is enhanced when the light pulse is traveling close to the speed of sound (around 5 km/s) in the material, and recent work has shown this could be achieved. But the enhancement can work both ways. A passing sound wave alters very slightly the material*s index of refraction and this in turn can result in a shortening and slowing of a passing light pulse-in this case referred to as opto-acoustic solitons. Tasgal says that he and his colleagues are the first to recognize the potential of sound waves in slowing and processing light pulses in this way. The first great difficulty in implementing the whole scheme is to getting light pulses to enter and stay in a Bragg fiber in the first place since the fiber looks at first just like one long mirror. This might be achieved by gradually increasing the strength of the grating along the fiber. (Tasgal, Band, Malomed, Physical Review Letters, upcoming article)
[H] Off topic? Nope. THIS is hardware!
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/18626/ Kwabena Boahen is part of a small but growing community of scientists and engineers using a process they call neuromorphing to build complicated electronic circuits meant to model the behavior of neural circuits. Their work takes advantage of anatomical diagrams of different parts of the brain generated through years of painstaking animal studies by neuroscientists around the world. The hope is that hardwired models of the brain will yield insights difficult to glean through existing experimental techniques. --- Putting you or me on a chip is still a long way off, but this does seem to be blurring some edges. What KB's work does NOT do, as best I understand it, is model the secondary channels of information in the brain. Chemical channels. -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - http://www.facebook.com/p/G_Waleed_Kavalec/618860864
[H] Remember Clark's Law ?
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070423/full/070423-11.html dayam!
[H] Fwd: The latest in RRE technology
We need one of these... -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Yannone pyannone [EMAIL PROTECTED] FANTASTIC! I have GOT to get one. On 4/3/07, MJYannone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuhYd9L_d7w -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - http://www.facebook.com/p/G_Waleed_Kavalec/618860864
Re: [H] dot-net question
There are many, many dot-net oriented yahoo and google groups. Join a few and let the message traffic flow by, you will pick up a lot. If you want the standing-on-one-foot answer, .Net is all about the creation of a layer that holds the most common functions and services needed by any application; the implication is that this layer will over time/versions become part of the operating system in MS's case. To really grasp the basics, read up on the CLR (common language runtime). That is the real guts. On 4/5/07, DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a website (other than M$) that can explain the dot-net business for a non-programmer? I have never used anything dot-net that I am aware of, but still recall many negative comments about most things dot-net. Perhaps time for more study of the subject. Thanks, Duncan This email scanned for Viruses and Spam by ZCloud.net -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not an intended recipient of this document, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. In fact it would be best all around for you to burn your computer then report to the nearest office of the Department of Homeland Security and turn yourself in as a potential danger to the moral fabric of America and a serious risk to the purity of apple pie. If you actually are an intended recipient of this document you are probably far worse than that and had better be making your escape because appropriate authorities have already been notified. We know where you've been.
Re: [H] dot-net question
Take a mix of the Java VM and the old VB runtimes, add some steroids and mass quantities of man-hours, stir, simmer... No you aren't wrong, it's just not the whole story. My impression is that MS did with CLR for developers what they did with the Windows interface for end-usres; taking lots and lots of feedback from one side while trying to keep a consistent vision from the other. Not a fun balancing act. And hell yes they tried to run over Java while making the drive ;-) Personally I *like* C#... it's a kinder gentler C++. On 4/5/07, Rick Glazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be too much of a stretch to say it was the new MS answer to JRE (JavaVM) after they (effectively) got kicked out of that? (Sorry if I got the wrong idea somewhere...) Rick Glazier From: G.Waleed Kavalec clipped: .Net is all about the creation of a layer that holds the most common functions and services needed by any application; the implication is that this layer will over time/versions become part of the operating system in MS's case. -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not an intended recipient of this document, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. In fact it would be best all around for you to burn your computer then report to the nearest office of the Department of Homeland Security and turn yourself in as a potential danger to the moral fabric of America and a serious risk to the purity of apple pie. If you actually are an intended recipient of this document you are probably far worse than that and had better be making your escape because appropriate authorities have already been notified. We know where you've been.
Re: [H] Fwd: really-bad-wiring-jobs
I would hate to have to fix it after the maniac with a chainsaw came to visit. But yeah, me too. On 3/31/07, j maccraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL, the good overhead track wiring pic is impressive. The rest down right disturbing! G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: I think I worked a couple of these places -- Forwarded message -- http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2007/03/really-bad-wiring-jobs_20.html Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not an intended recipient of this document, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. In fact it would be best all around for you to burn your computer then report to the nearest office of the Department of Homeland Security and turn yourself in as a potential danger to the moral fabric of America and a serious risk to the purity of apple pie. If you actually are an intended recipient of this document you are probably far worse than that and had better be making your escape because appropriate authorities have already been notified. We know where you've been.
[H] Fwd: really-bad-wiring-jobs
I think I worked a couple of these places -- Forwarded message -- http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2007/03/really-bad-wiring-jobs_20.html -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not an intended recipient of this document, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. In fact it would be best all around for you to burn your computer then report to the nearest office of the Department of Homeland Security and turn yourself in as a potential danger to the moral fabric of America and a serious risk to the purity of apple pie. If you actually are an intended recipient of this document you are probably far worse than that and had better be making your escape because appropriate authorities have already been notified. We know where you've been.
[H] No levity intended
Curiouser and curiouser... http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/gravity_research_020731.html -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not an intended recipient of this document, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. In fact it would be best all around for you to burn your computer then report to the nearest office of the Department of Homeland Security and turn yourself in as a potential danger to the moral fabric of America and a serious risk to the purity of apple pie. If you actually are an intended recipient of this document you are probably far worse than that and had better be making your escape because appropriate authorities have already been notified. We know where you've been.
[H] NASA built Quantum chip for D-Wave
NASA Describes Quantum Chip A custom chip powered a disputed demonstration
of quantum computing by D-Wave Systems. Ben Ames, IDG News Service Saturday,
March 10, 2007 06:00 PM PST
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The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed Thursday
that it built a special chip used in a disputed demonstration of quantum
computing in February.
NASA engineers used their experience with sub-micrometer dimensions and
ultra-low temperatures to build a quantum processor for Canadian startup
D-Wave Systems Inc., said Alan Kleinsasser, principal investigator in the
quantum chip program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
California.
D-Wave claimed to demonstrate a prototype quantum computer during a news
conference Feb. 13 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View,
California. But industry experts became skeptical when D-Wave revealed it
had left the computer at its Vancouver office, then conducted the
demonstration over a Web link.
You could characterize our announcement as being met with enthusiasm from
industry and skepticism from academia, D-Wave CEO Ed Martin said in an
interview Feb. 27. But he said the event served as proof of concept of the
technology, and that D-Wave's potential customers are businesses that don't
care how the technology works as long as it can solve their complex models.
He plans to start renting time on the machine to customers in 2008.
Businesses aren't too fascinated about the details of quantum mechanics,
but academics have their own axes to grind. I can assure you that our VCs
look at us a lot closer than the government looks at the academics who win
research grants, Martin said.
He described D-Wave's computer as a hybrid, running applications on a
traditional, digital computer and using a single quantum processor as an
accelerator or co-processor. Martin said the back end is a rack-mounted PC
with an off-the-shelf processor, but wouldn't cite the specific brand.
The crucial part is the quantum chip, which is a processor built from the
superconducting materials aluminum and niobium, then chilled in a tank of
liquid helium. It achieves supercomputing speeds because its basic data
units -- called qubits -- can hold both the values 0 and 1 simultaneously,
and instantly share those values among all the qubits. A standard digital
processor assigns a specific value to each data bit, and handles them one at
a time.
D-Wave designed the quantum chip and then contracted with NASA to build it.
The request was nothing new for engineers at the Microdevices Laboratory
(MDL), a unit of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who were accustomed to
building superconducting circuits for clients such as Hypres, a company in
Elmsford, New York, and for instruments used aboard spacecraft such as the
European Space Agency's Herschel mission.
There has been activity in MDL in quantum technology, including quantum
computing, for around 10 years, Kleinsasser said. Superconducting quantum
computing technology requires devices and ultra-low [millikelvin]
temperatures that are also required in much of our sensor work. A couple of
years ago, D-Wave recognized that JPL is capable of producing the chips it
wished to design. There is no [private] industry that can deliver such
superconducting devices. So, we worked out a collaboration that produced the
chips that D-Wave is currently using.
The computer that D-Wave used for the Feb. 13 demonstration had a chip
capable of running at 16 qubits, Martin said. The company plans to scale its
machine much larger in the next 18 months, reaching 32 qubits by the end of
2007, then 512 qubits and 1,024 qubits by the end of 2008.
Still, D-Wave will surprise a lot of experts if it can reach its goals. Many
analysts say quantum computing is feasible but that a working system is
still a decade or more away.
Given the kind of upheaval a working quantum system would bring,
[H] Numenta
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/hawkins.html *Jeff Hawkins created the Palm Pilot and the Treo. Now he says he's got the ultimate invention: software that mimics the human brain.* -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - If you are not an intended recipient of this document, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. In fact it would be best all around for you to report to the nearest office of the Department of Homeland Security and turn yourself in as a potential danger to the moral fabric of America.
[H] This is not a movie. It's OK to be afraid. Too late. But OK.
http://ibtimes.com/articles/20070226/surveillance-cameras.htm Surveillance Cameras Get Smarter By Stephen Manning The next time you walk by a shop window, take a glance at your reflection. How much do you swing your arms? Is the weight of your bag causing you to hunch over? Do you still have a bit of that 1970s disco strut left? Look around - You might not be the only one watching. The never-blinking surveillance cameras, rapidly becoming a part of daily life in public and even private places, may be sizing you up as well. And they may soon get a lot smarter. Researchers and security companies are developing cameras that not only watch the world but also interpret what they see. Soon, some cameras may be able to find unattended bags at airports, guess your height or analyze the way you walk to see if you are hiding something. Most of the cameras widely used today are used as forensic tools to identify crooks after-the-fact. (Think grainy video on local TV news of convenience store robberies gone wrong.) But the latest breed, known as intelligent video, could transform cameras from passive observers to eyes with brains, able to detect suspicious behavior and potentially prevent crime before it occurs. Surveillance cameras are common in many cities, monitoring tough street corners to deter crime, watching over sensitive government buildings and even catching speeders. Cameras are on public buses and in train stations, building lobbies, schools and stores. Most feed video to central control rooms, where they are monitored by security staff. The innovations could mean fewer people would be needed to watch what they record, and make it easier to install more in public places and private homes. Law enforcement people in this country are realizing they can use video surveillance to be in a lot of places at one time, said Roy Bordes, who runs an Orlando, Fla.-based security consulting company. He also is a council vice president with ASIS International, a Washington-based organization for security officials. The advancements have already been put to work. For example, cameras in Chicago and Washington can detect gunshots and alert police. Baltimore installed cameras that can play a recorded message and snap pictures of graffiti sprayers or illegal dumpers. In the commercial market, the gaming industry uses camera systems that can detect facial features, according to Bordes. Casinos use their vast banks of security cameras to hunt cheating gamblers who have been flagged before. In London, one of the largest users of surveillance, cameras provided key photos of the men who bombed the underground system in July 2005 and four more who failed in a second attempt just days later. But the cameras were only able to help with the investigation, not prevent the attacks. Companies that make the latest cameras say the systems, if used broadly, could make video surveillance much more powerful. Cameras could monitor airports and ports, help secure homes and watch over vast borders to catch people crossing illegally. Intelligent surveillance uses computer algorithms to interpret what a camera records. The system can be programmed to look for particular things, like an unattended bag or people walking somewhere they don't belong. If you think of the camera as your eye, we are using computer programs as your brain, said Patty Gillespie, branch chief for image processing at the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Md. Today, the military funds much of the smart-surveillance research. At the University of Maryland, engineering professor Rama Chellappa and a team of graduate students have worked on systems that can identify a person's unique gait or analyze the way someone walks to determine if they are a threat. A camera trained to look for people on a watch list, for example, could combine their unique walk with facial-recognition tools to make an identification. A person carrying a heavy load under a jacket would walk differently than someone unencumbered - which could help identify a person hiding a weapon. The system could even estimate someone's height. With two cameras and a laptop computer set up in a conference room, Chellappa and a team of graduate students recently demonstrated how intelligent surveillance works. A student walked into the middle of the room, dropped a laptop case, then walked away. On the laptop screen, a green box popped up around him as he moved into view, then a second focused on the case when it was dropped. After a few seconds, the box around the case went red, signaling an alert. In another video, a car pulled into a parking lot and the driver got out, a box springing up around him. It moved with the driver as he went from car to car, looking in the windows instead of heading into the building. In both cases, the camera knew what was normal - the layout of the room with the suspicious bag and the location of the office door and parking spots in the parking lot. Alerts were
[H] latest Bose-Einstein magic
OK, for the NEXT trick... make this happen from one cloud to the next *through entanglement ONLY*. -- Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/6343311.stm Cool clouds turn light to matter *A fleeting pulse of light has been captured and then made to reappear in a different location by US physicists. * The quantum sleight of hand exploits the properties of super-cooled matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. The emerging pulse was slightly weaker than the high-speed beam that entered the experimental setup, but was identical in all other respects. The work, published in the journal Nature, could one day lead to advances in computing and optical communication. Instead of light shining through optical fibres into boxes full of wires and semiconductor chips, intact data, messages, and images will be read directly from the light, said Professor Lene Vestergaard Hau of Harvard University and one of the authors of the paper. *Exotic freezer * The Harvard team rose to prominence in the late 1990s when they slowed light from its constant 299,792km/s (186,282mps) to a leisurely 61km/h (38mph). They applied the brakes by shining light into a cloud of sodium atoms trapped in a vacuum and cooled to just above absolute zero (-273 Celsius), the theoretical state of zero heat. *The two atom clouds were separated and had never seen each other before * Lene Hau At this temperature the atoms coalesce to form a Bose-Einstein condensate, an exotic quantum entity first predicted by Albert Einstein and created in the lab in 1995. A second laser tuned the tiny atomic cloud to slow the pulse of light. In 2001, working with a team from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the same group brought light to a halt, by slowly turning off the second control laser. Switching the laser back on set the light free. The new experiment builds on this work. *Light switch * Instead of just one cloud of sodium atoms, the new setup used two, a fraction of a millimetre apart. The two atom clouds were separated and had never seen each other before, said Professor Hau. A pulse of light was shone on the first cloud, impressing a cast of the pulse into a clump of spinning sodium atoms, nudged in the direction of the second condensate. This slowly-moving clump was composed entirely of sodium atoms, effectively turning light into matter. Once the messenger group had merged with the second cloud, a second laser was shone through the condensate to revive the original pulse of light. From a standing start, the reconstructed beam sped back up to the normal speed of light. Analysis showed that it possessed exactly the same shape and wavelength of the original beam, although it was slightly weaker. Writing in an accompanying article in Nature, Professor Michael Fleischhauer of the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany described the experiment as striking and intriguing. He said that science was entering a period of unprecedented experimental control of light and matter. That could bring very real technological benefits, he wrote. Applications could include optical storage devices and quantum computers, far quicker and more powerful than today's PCs. Published: 2007/02/08 17:50:09 GMT (c) BBC MMVII -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention. - Hedly Lamar (Harvey Korman)
[H] OK, I'm impressed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf2-gJvOSOI -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec -
Re: [H] Secure web page
From the site... In order to password protect documents using IIS, you have to actually create accounts on the NT machine. You then assign permissions to the various documents so that those users have permission to read those documents. While this sounds simple enough, keep in mind that this means that user accounts and passwords are being passed across the Internet in plain text. This presumes you DON'T have an https connection first. If you don't, shame on you. On 10/8/06, Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It all depends on what the web server is. Through the Magic of Google I bring this to you: http://www.hwg.org/lists/hwg-servers/passwords.html Winterlight wrote: I want to put up a web page, of an excel file, on my site that is log on only, and is secure. I have never understood why Frontpage doesn't have this built into it as a tool. I could use a password for the excel file but that is not secure. Any ideas? -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - http://www.IslamAwakened.com/thisisislam.swf
Re: [H] Secure web page
Depending on what for; can't really argue.(besides, I save my religious debating for other forums)On 10/9/06, Bryan Seitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL if you're using IIS, SHAME ON YOU.On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 08:33:04PM -0500, G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: From the site... In order to password protect documents using IIS, you have to actually create accounts on the NT machine. You then assign permissions to the various documents so that those users have permission to read those documents. While this sounds simple enough, keep in mind that this means that user accounts and passwords are being passed across the Internet in plain text. This presumes you DON'T have an https connection first. If you don't, shame on you. On 10/8/06, Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It all depends on what the web server is. Through the Magic of Google I bring this to you: http://www.hwg.org/lists/hwg-servers/passwords.html Winterlight wrote: I want to put up a web page, of an excel file, on my site that is log on only, and is secure. I have never understood why Frontpage doesn't have this built into it as a tool. I could use a password for the excel file but that is not secure. Any ideas? -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec -http://www.IslamAwakened.com/thisisislam.swf--Bryan G. Seitz -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec-http://www.IslamAwakened.com/thisisislam.swf
[H] Future hardware...
Quantum Dot Molecules - One Step Further Towards Quantum Computing NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Honolulu, HI, United States, 08/16/2006 - Individual quantum dots (QDs) have been widely investigated for the past 15 years, showing their potential applications in quantum computing. However, individual QDs are not enough for practical applications, but preparing and characterizing groups of QDs with controllable crosstalk (quantum dot molecule) is very challenging still. University of Arkansas researchers discovered a simply way to fabricate QD pairs, the most simple QD molecule. This provides a unique opportunity to study carrier interaction among QDs, one step further towards quantum computing. Professors Zhiming Wang and Gregory Salamo, who lead the the molecular-beam-epitaxy (MBE) group at the University of Arkansas, together with co-authors Kyland Holmes, Yuriy I. Mazur and Kimberly A. Ramsey report their most recent findings in an article titled Self-organization of quantum-dot pairs by high-temperature droplet epitaxy published online on July 25, 2006 in the new, free-access publication Nanoscale Research Letters. Self-assembly of epitaxial semiconductor nanostructures has been an intensive field of research Wang explains to Nanowerk. In particular, the Stranski-Krastanov (SK) growth mode based on the use of lattice-mismatched materials has played an important role in the formation of nanostructures, the investigation of quantum confinement effects, and has made possible applications of nanostructures. In parallel, an alternative approach for the growth of nanostructures, called droplet epitaxy was developed. This is the method used by the researchers at the University of Arkansas, whereby liquid metal droplets are first formed as an intermediate growth step before being converted into semiconductor nanostructures. Read the full article on the Nanowerk website.About Nanowerk: Nanowerk is a leading nanotechnology information portal. Apart from its unique Nanomaterial Database™, with over 1,300 products from 90 suppliers, it provides the most complete nanotech events calendar; hundreds of links to universities, labs, researchers, associations, networks and international initiatives involved in nanotechnology; daily news; downloadable reports; and much more. The site includes a daily "Spotlight" section featuring Nanowerk-exclusive reviews and summaries of cutting-edge nanotechnology research by guest authors and Nanowerk editors. Nanowerk also publishes the nanoRISK newsletter – a constructive contribution to the debate about the potential risks of nanotechnology. By Michael Berger, Copyright 2006 Nanowerk LLC Agency / Source: Nanowerk, LLC Availability: All Regions (Including Int'l) Distribution: [+] Press Release Newswire Distribution Network. via PRZOOM - Newswire Today (NewswireToday.com) -- http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/7723/ -- G. Waleed Kavalec-Nice circus, where's the bread?
[H] Not included...
Lift off for battery-power plane A manned plane powered by conventional batteries took off from Tokyo on Sunday - and flew for 59 seconds. The one-man, glider-like plane took off from a private airport and reached a height of 5.2m (16ft). It was powered by 160 AA batteries, which are commonly used in portable CD players and cameras. I was careful at take-off as it was very difficult, said pilot Tomohiro Kamiya, a senior member at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He added: As it soared 5m, people on the ground looked so small to me. I did not expect it to take off so beautifully. I realised again how powerful it could be. The Institute, known for its experiments with human-powered planes, and Matsushita, who provided the batteries, launched a joint project to develop the battery-powered vehicle in January. In April, the joint team completed building the plane and suceeded in rolling and taxiing the aircraft in its first test flight. In the second test, the plane soared 2m above the ground and flew some 400m almost independently. Sunday's flight was the first in the presence of officials from the Japan Aeronautic Association. Story from BBC NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/technology/5188324.stm
[H] Quantum computer by WHEN ?
Jan Andrew Buck heads Princeton Group International, which backs biotech ventures. He said he is itching for a bare-bones quan tum computer for plotting complicated routes and schedules. I think I can get a squeaky, scratchy quantum computer to market in two or three years, Buck said. All he needs, he said, are investors with deep pockets and short deadlines. [...] http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base/business-3/11526867504680.xmlcoll=1 -- G. Waleed Kavalec-Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a g*ddamned piece of paper!--George W. Bush, November 2005. -- G. Waleed Kavalec-"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a g*ddamned piece of paper!"--George W. Bush, November 2005.
[H] Ooh....
http://www.slingmedia.com/slingbox/ http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1833045,00.asp -- G. Waleed Kavalec - Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, iI's just a g*ddamned piece of paper! -- George W. Bush, November 2005.
Re: [H] Project idea - noise canceling in autos
On 6/28/06, Jin-Wei Tioh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:07 PM 6/28/2006, you wrote:Very cool - just what I was looking for.I think the real question is going to be how it will work in a caraudio environment.I wonder what running such a signal through the standard hi power car audio amp and filters would produce and whathappens with a system where you have residual hum from RFinterference.I guess the only way would be to build it and try it out :) --BrianMight be a fun mini-project to do once I get me thesis done.At least it'll put that TI DSP collecting dust on the shelf to some use :PGreat novelty idea to install in your house for when the mothe-in-law visits.
[H] From the Hey I thought of that dept...
http://oncampus.osu.edu/article.php?id=843 By: Pam Frost Gorder Stealth radar system sees through trees, walls undetected Ohio State engineers have invented a radar system that is virtually undetectable because its signal resembles random noise. The radar could have applications in law enforcement, the military and disaster rescue. Eric Walton, senior research scientist in Ohio State's ElectroScience Laboratory, said that with further development the technology could even be used for medical imaging. He explained why using random noise makes the radar system invisible. Almost all radio receivers in the world are designed to eliminate random noise so that they can clearly receive the signal they're looking for, Walton said. Radio receivers could search for this radar signal and they wouldn't find it. It also won't interfere with TV, radio or other communication signals. The radar scatters a very low-intensity signal across a wide range of frequencies, so a TV or radio tuned to any one frequency would interpret the radar signal as a very weak form of static. It doesn't interfere because it has a bandwidth that is thousands of times broader than the signals it might otherwise interfere with, Walton said. Like traditional radar, the noise radar detects objects by bouncing a radio signal off them and detecting the rebound. The hardware isn't expensive, either; altogether, the components cost less than $100. The difference is that the noise radar generates a signal that resembles random noise, and a computer calculates very small differences in the return signal. The calculations happen billions of times every second and the pattern of the signal changes constantly. A receiver couldn't detect the signal unless it knew exactly what random pattern was being used. The radar can be tuned to penetrate solid walls - just like the waves that transmit radio and TV signals - so the military could spot enemy soldiers inside a building without the radar signal being detected, Walton said. Traffic police could measure vehicle speed without setting off drivers' radar detectors. Autonomous vehicles could tell whether a bush conceals a more dangerous obstacle, like a tree stump or a gulley. The radar is inherently able to distinguish between many types of targets because of its ultra-wide-band characteristics. Unfortunately, there are thousands of everyday objects that look like humans on radar - even chairs and filing cabinets, he said. So the shape of a radar image alone can't be used to identify a human. What tends to give a human away is that he moves. He breathes, his heart beats, his body makes unintended motions. These tiny motions could be used to locate disaster survivors who were pinned under rubble. Other radar systems can't do that because they are too far-sighted - they can't see people who are buried only a few yards away. Walton said that the noise radar is inherently able to see objects that are nearby. It can see things that are only a couple of inches away with as much clarity as it can see things on the surface of Mars, he added. That means that with further development, the radar might image tumors, blood clots and foreign objects in the body. It could even measure bone density. As with all forms of medical imaging, studies would first have to determine the radar's effect on the body. The university is expected to license the patented radar system.
[H] And now for something completely different...
[...] Quantum rules are thought to break down and give way to the classical world as things get bigger. But enzymes are small, and move their substrate particles over short distances. David Leys, Nigel Scrutton, Michael Sutcliffe and colleagues at Manchester University, together with Adrian Mulholland at Bristol, have just published a paper in the journal Science that claims that an enzyme called aromatic amine dehydrogenase (AADH) accelerates its chemical reaction by bringing the substrate particles so close to the enzyme that the fog of particle positions overlaps, allowing a proton to quantum tunnel from substrate to enzyme. That biochemical reactions involve quantum tunnelling isn't surprising, since tunnelling also happens in some inorganic reactions. But in the case of AADH, the enzyme isn't just capturing a process that occurs anyway, the dynamics of the enzyme actively promote the quantum tunnelling event in order to accelerate the reaction rate. The enzyme needs quantum mechanics to work. Leys' research implies that enzymes have evolved to dip into the weird world of quantum mechanics to enhance reaction rates. This indicates that the motive force driving bird flight and a million other biological processes depends on quantum tunnelling. If true, then quantum tunnelling has been central to life since its inception: life may have discovered 21st-century quantum technology billions of years ago. Quantum mechanics may be what makes life so special - the weird rules of the very small writ large in the world. [...] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1791275,00.html
[H] Frankenware!
Better Fuel Cells Using Bacteria Bioengineer Tim Gardner says synthetic biology could create bacteria that produce electricity from waste more efficiently. By Emily Singer What if you could power your house with sewage? Or run your pacemaker with blood sugar rather than a traditional battery? Scientists hope that microbial fuel cells -- devices that use bacteria to generate electricity -- could one day make this vision a reality. While typical fuel cells use hydrogen as fuel, separating out electrons to create electricity, bacteria can use a wide variety of nutrients as fuel. Some species, such as Shewanella oneidensis and Rhodoferax ferrireducens, turn these nutrients directly into electrons. Indeed, scientists have already created experimental microbial fuel cells that can run off glucose and sewage. Although these microscopic organisms are remarkably efficient at producing energy, they don't make enough of it for practical applications. Tim Gardner, a bioengineer at Boston University (and member of the 2004 TR35 ), has developed a new technique for understanding the networks of genes that regulate the chemical reactions taking place in bacterial cells. The resulting map will be an advance for the field of synthetic biology: the quest to design and build biological systems that can perform specific functions. Gardner's team aims to harness the genetic control system to engineer bacteria that can produce energy more efficiently. [...] http://www.techreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16921ch=biztech
[H] Hardware.. no, wait.. softw... no wait... Frankenware?
Viruses 'trained' to build tiny batteries Thu Apr 6, 6:39 PM ET Researchers trying to make tiny machines have turned to the power of nature, engineering a virus to attract metals and then using it to build minute wires for microscopic batteries. The resulting nanowires can be used in minuscule lithium ion battery electrodes, which in turn would be used to power very small machines, the researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science. The international team of researchers, led by a group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used the M13 virus, a simple and easily manipulated virus. We use viruses to synthesize and assemble nanowires of cobalt oxide at room temperature, the researchers wrote. They modified the M13 virus' genes so its outside layer, or coat, would bind with certain metal ions. They incubated the virus in a cobalt chloride solution so that cobalt oxide crystals mineralized uniformly along its length. They added a bit of gold for the desired electrical effects. Viruses cannot reproduce on their own but must be grown in cells -- in this case, bacteria. They inject their genetic material and then the cells pump out copies of the virus. The viruses formed orderly layers, the researchers reported. The resulting nanowires worked as positive electrodes for battery electrodes, the researchers said. They hope to build batteries that range from the size of a grain of rice up to the size of existing hearing-aid batteries. Each virus, and thus each wire, is only 6 nanometers -- 6 billionths of a meter -- in diameter, and 880 nanometers long, the researchers said. We have previously used viruses to assemble semiconductor and magnetic nanowires, the researchers wrote.
[H] superconduction...
Nano World: Superconducting wires By CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, March 31 (UPI) -- Nanotechnology could help enable the next generation of superconducting wires for everything from new city power grids to levitating trains, experts told UPI's Nano World. Superconductors allow electrical current to flow with virtually no resistance. This enables superconducting wires to carry high levels of current very efficiently. The problem is these wires often stop being superconducting when around strong magnetic fields, the kind often generated by motors and power lines. Researcher Amit Goyal, a materials scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, and his colleagues experimented on wires made of yttrium-barium-copper-oxygen, or YBCO, which is a high-temperature superconductor. This means it operates at about the same temperature nitrogen is liquid at, relatively high compared the near absolute zero temperatures other materials are superconducting at. Passing a current through a superconductor while in the presence of large magnetic fields causes magnetic vortexes to move, which results in electrical resistance. Goyal and his colleagues discovered that columns of dots only 10 nanometers or so wide made of a non-superconducting ceramic known as barium zirconate could help overcome this interference. The researchers created their wires by growing films of YBCO on top of flexible metal foundations. Mixed in with the YBCO were barium zirconate nanodots. Due to interactions between the barium zirconate and the superconductor, these nanodots automatically lined up into columns that ran vertically through YBCO. These columnar defects in the superconductor serve as a barrier for the magnetic flux to move, and hence allows the superconductor to carry supercurrents in high magnetic fields, Goyal said. The nanometer scale of these dots is crucial for pinning down the magnetic flux -- if they were larger, the vortexes could move around within them, Goyal explained. It's a considerable advance, said materials scientist David Larbelestier at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The results are wires that for the first time meet or exceed the high temperature superconductor industry's performance standards for many large-scale applications, including motors, power cables and high-strength magnets. Goyal expected companies to have superconducting wires possessing such nanoscale defects within a few years. One can think about super-efficient, environmentally friendly motors, and underground transmission lines that can revolutionize the power grid, Goyal said. In congested cities like New York, the power requirements are increasing daily, and in time, it will reach capacity and the grid will not be able to transfer any more power. Replacing them with superconducting wires is perhaps the only way to move forward. While the researchers have demonstrated their findings in short wires just slightly more than a half-inch long, Goyal noted a lot more work remained open when it came to creating mile-long wires power companies would likely need. Goyal and his colleagues present their findings in the March 31 issue of the journal Science.
Re: [H] Batteries to get boost from nanotechnology
Actually this didn't come from the industry but from MIT. ...but you're right about fuel cells. On 4/2/06, Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:09 PM 01/04/2006, G.Waleed Kavalec wrote:It is estimated that commercial products containing capacitors basedon CNT technology are between three and five years away.Every time there's a breakthrough in battery technology, the commercial product is a couple of years away.Has there been anyreal improvement in laptop batteries in the last three years?Ican't think of any.Laptops have started using less power, and haveadded extra batteries, but I've yet to see the fuel-cell stuff I read about years ago.I think the battery industry needs to take a page from the video cardindustry and stop talking about improvements until they can actuallysell me a product.T -- G. Waleed Kavalec-Why are we all in this handbasketand where is it going so fast? http://www.kavalec.com/thisisislam.swf
[H] Batteries to get boost from nanotechnology
Mobile devices in the future may get extra battery power thanks to nanotechnology. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a way of storing extra charge in 'ultracapacitors'. The team led by Riccardo Signorelli, Joel Schindall and John Kassakian have developed a new type of double layer capacitor that can store charge way beyond the limits of normal capacitors. They say that their new design is 1,000 times the power density of conventional batteries and 10,000 times that of the much touted fuel cells. Capacitors have been a way of storing charge for electrical devices for many years. Typically, a capacitor consists of two plates. As a current is applied to the circuit, a negative charge will build up on one plate and a positive charge on the other. The amount of charge that can be held on a plate depends on its size. Over the years engineers have come up with ways of folding the plate to increase its surface area without necessarily increasing the space the device takes up. The MIT has increased the surface area of a plate by covering the capacitor with 'carbon nanotubes' (CNTs) arranged in a vertical matrix. The team claim to have grown CNTs with diameters of between 0.7 and 2nm and lengths up to tens of microns long. As a result, the team say they have created a device which has packed 10 million such tubes only a few nanometres long in each square millimetre of the capacitor, dramatically increasing the surface area and its ability to hold a charge. The devices are robust too with the team claiming that a CNT based capacity has a lifetime of 300,000 cycles. It is estimated that commercial products containing capacitors based on CNT technology are between three and five years away. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/84646/batteries-to-get-boost-from-nanotechnology.html
Re: [H] Quantum computing leaps closer
Five years ago quantum computing was about as real as warp drive. Theories, sure, but actually build one?? Keep your eyes on this, you are watching the Kitty Hawk flight... On 3/30/06, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turns my mind to jello, but interesting for sure. Just when you thinkyou understand computers they change the playing field.G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: http://www.rdmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=014ACCT=140100ISSUE=0603RELTYPE=FEPRODCODE=PRODLETT=AS our wave function is rather large Whoa. -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- G. Waleed Kavalec-Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast? http://www.kavalec.com/thisisislam.swf
[H] Quantum computing leaps closer
http://www.rdmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=014ACCT=140100ISSUE=0603RELTYPE=FEPRODCODE=PRODLETT=AS our wave function is rather large Whoa.-- G. Waleed Kavalec-
Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings was....
On 3/8/06, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ALL LIES! Iran is a peaceful place. So peaceful in fact why don't you flyover there during ramadan and eat a bbq pork sandwich in front of the revolutionary guard in public. I'm sure they will not bother you. Iran is a mess and shariah law as it is commonly understood today is an even bigger mess. But garbage spewed by islamophobes is going to written of as nonsense anyway. I.e. LIES. -- G. Waleed Kavalec-Why are we all in this handbasketand where is it going so fast? http://www.kavalec.com/thisisislam.swf
Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings was....
On 3/9/06, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are true simpleton. Posting links to irrefutable acts of human rightsabuses makes you a Druid? You don't need to be a Bush supporter (I am mostcertainly not) to be concerned with the subhuman savagery in Iran. If anything, being concerned with human rights in Iran is a very liberal issue(at least it damn well should be). Posting links to sites with a clear bigotted agenda is what make you a Bush worshipper. Try 1. learning some objective facts about major world religions, 2. learning that not everybody is going to swallow your neo-con bullshit 3. (and most important) growing up a little. Then, child, come on back. MAYBE then we can talk.
Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings was....
On 3/9/06, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent example: the neo-cons, controlled by the Radical Christian Right,have killed AT LEAST 100,000 CIVILIANS in their war on Iraq.Plentyelsewhere, too.Link? If you need a link you are too ignorant of current events to know how to use one. In other words, forget about the rest of the majority islamic nations andinstead just pay attention to Indonesia, No, just try looking at Islam as perceived in machismo countries vs. the way it manifests in non-machismo countries. Lo and behold! we discover that cutlures carry their own baggage whereas faith can only be internalized by individuals; but I don't expect you to understand that. Or acknowledge it even if you do. And now muslim women are back to being property again. Funny that. 80 lashes for you! Again, your sources have an islamophobic bias so don't bother with spewing their garbage here. I think what scares any sane person the most about Iran is the newly ELECTED madman president who calls for the destruction of Israel. Israel as it exists as a political entiry is a failed UN experiment. An experiment that has cost more lives than the very Holocaust it was meant to atone for. Muslim leaders were on-the-money with one thing: if Europe wants to atone for the six million they should do it with EUROPEAN LAND. Get the fuck off of ours. Muslims didn't kill six million Jews, y'all's kinfolk done that. Historically it was in Muslim countries Jews sought asylum when Europe went on its periodic Inquisitional rampages. (insert gratuitous Monty Python tangent here) PS: I wonder if any of the European countries with holocaust denial lawshave the balls to arrest Ahmadinejad the minute he steps foot into their country. I personally find the laws silly but whatever. No more than Denmark had any balls to enforce its own anti-religion-defamation laws; funny that. When expediency is king double standards are the norm. -- Masalaam G. Waleed Kavalec - The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, and prejudice to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudice can kill and suspicion can destroy and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children... and the children yet unborn. Rod Serling, Twilight Zone narrative. The Monsters are due on Maple Street
Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings was....
On 3/9/06, Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:09 PM 09/03/2006, G.Waleed Kavalec wrote:My apologies to Druids everywhere.Would you allow Neo-druid?Why not use Bushite, or Neo-Con.I can't see the connection toDruids of any sort. Druids are commonly perceived a bush worshippers.
Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings was....
On 3/9/06, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't seem to understand there ARE NO Islamic governments today.As a Muslim I know what the phrase 'Islamic government' means and instead Isee corrupted politicians there just as much we see them here. This is where you break off from the reality. It's like saying the UnitedStates or any country in Europe is not a REAL democratically electedgovernment - d'Oh ! a few fringe loonies believe this and may have some merit inthis belief, but it doesn't change the reality of it all. Reality is NOT in your vocabulary.
Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings was....
Opun your mind grasshopper ! On 3/9/06, Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How? This makes no sense to me. As Druidism is a faith based on Nature Worship and gaia-based faith mythology, it has more in common with Wicca then George Bush. I'm unsure where this link ever started, but it makes no sense at all.
Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings was....
On 3/9/06, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: G.Waleed Kavalec [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.comSubject: Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings wasDate: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:36:53 -0600 Blame the brits, great scapegoat.One-liners as an empty defense when the facts don't fit your islamophobicagenda, that I can understand.It is not an empty defense. When you say insinuate that former british colonialism is to blame I point out the many former colonies that do notsuffer. There is nothing much really to say further. Show me unsuffering former colonies where the colonials actually left. India still has problems out the kazoo (you want to talk about women's rights let's focus on immolation.) The post-colonial shinning example today - where the indigents now rule - is South Africa... and that was a miracle between Mandela and deClerk (with mostly a lot of help from God). -- G. Waleed Kavalec-Why are we all in this handbasketand where is it going so fast? http://www.kavalec.com/thisisislam.swf
Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings was....
Some folks in Puerto Rico and Guam would disagree. ;-) And the Phillipines are our own post-colonial albatros. On 3/9/06, Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a pretty short list. And having a wife from Jamaica, which still has great relations with UK, I can tell you not entirely so. And the US is a former colony going back farther; Canada generally has a pretty good rep around the world, and they have had control for a while.. hmm. Having a SIL who lives in British Virgin Islands, there is another.. hmm. Colonialism does yield quite a few problems. Thus, the US has no colonies ;)
Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings was....
On 3/8/06, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But never respect fools who spread inflammatory nonsense like this.Oh but it is not nonsense!It really happened, I just got the age wrong. 14, my bad. And I agree -never respect fools, or stupid religions, or the murderous subhuman filth who use fairy tales to justify the killing of innocent people.Ta ta!http://www.natashatynes.com/newswire/2004/11/14_year_old_boy.html The Kurdish site Rojeh´heh Lât reports that the young man´s identity has not been disclosedKurdish site as your real cite? Like I said. Nonsense. I'm sure I can find a KKK cite proving that all black men want to rape white women, too.-- G. Waleed Kavalec-Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast? http://www.kavalec.com/thisisislam.swf
Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings was....
On 3/8/06, Gary VanderMolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it appears the citizenry didn't want him buried in the cemetary either.It never ceases to amaze me how much of an asshole major religions make god out to be.Here's a secret:If he's a loving god, he doesn't give a shit if you eat whatever you want, whenever you want.And if he's an asshole, he's not worth worshipping because if he is going to waste his time dicking around with diets here on Earth, just imagine what a PITA he'll be in heaven.Good point. In either case, civil authorities have no businessenforcing or punishing infractions of religious practices.Barbaricism reigns when there is no religious freedom. Gary VanderMolenSanity. At last.-- G. Waleed Kavalec-Why are we all in this handbasketand where is it going so fast? http://www.kavalec.com/thisisislam.swf
Re: [H] google search for failure
As I understand it the real problem with ethanol is that it won't go though existing pipelines. And THAT is a monster of a chicken-egg issue. On 3/3/06, j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The funny thing is you have all these american car companies saying it's soo hard to get off gas, do a google on Brazil and Ethanol, you can get a car down there that will switch from deisel or gas to ethanol with the flip of a switch so you can use what's convenient, guess who makes those cars - Ford. And the real kicker, the ethanol they are producing, based off cane not corn packs more of a punch than gas. Yes I realize the whole chicken and the egg, I'm not going to find straight ethanol at the corner gas station. Yes it would take some sort of government mandate, but before you free market wonks ruffle yourself over that, just don't, not with all the govt handouts being given to the current energy industry. Why is it that Citgo is being investigated for setting up a program to give discounted oil/gas to low income folks but exxon/mobil got barely a look for price gouging. On 3/3/06, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better we work on filtering technology then creating more nuclear waste that can't be gotten rid of, only stored. Then there's the issue that a nuke plant is essentially a dirty bomb ripe to be detonated. Fuel-cell + Battery + Ethanol sound like they could be good tech if that's what the market was buying as a whole for cars. Add to that, Solar could be viable to power homes. Chris Reeves wrote: The reality is, though, the electric type cars, etc. all require you to create energy somewhere.. I'm laughing a bit at places like Montana where you've got a Governor asking to open up strip mining for more coal based solutions. Everyone is so terrified of Nuclear Power, which numerous other places in the world use to great success, that they are willing to do almost anything else with other permanent damage because they find it much easier to sell. -- -jmg -sapere aude -- G. Waleed Kavalec - Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast? http://www.kavalec.com/thisisislam.swf
[H] hardware - but a bit OT
An Oxford University physicist sees the future of nanotechnology in the workings of one of Nature's tiniest motors An Oxford University physicist sees the future of nanotechnology in the workings of one of Nature's tiniest motors, that which allows some bacteria to swim by rotating slender filaments known as flagella. 'The bacterial flagellar motor is an example of finished bio-nanotechnology, and understanding how it works and assembles is one of the first steps towards making man-made machines on the same tiny scale,' said Dr Richard Berry, a Tutorial Fellow in Physics at Oxford University. 'The smallest man-made rotary motors so far are thousands of times bigger.' This motor has the same power-to-weight ratio as an internal combustion engine, spins at up to 100,000 rpm and achieves near-perfect efficiency. Yet at only 50 nanometres across, one hundred million would fit onto a full-stop. The only other natural rotary electric motor is in the enzyme ATP-synthase. Dr Berry is a member of the Rotary Molecular Motors Group in the Oxford Department of Physics. He presented his research at the Biophysical Society's Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Sunday 19 February. The physicist and his Japanese colleagues changed the proteins normally found in the motor of E Coli to make it run on sodium instead of hydrogen ions. This allowed them to reduce its speed of rotation by lowering the level of sodium ions present. They also made the actions of the motor more easily detectable by attaching tiny beads to stubs of flagella. Ultimately 26 distinct steps could be observed in each of its revolutions. 'The motor runs on electric current, the flow of hydrogen or sodium ions across the cell membrane, and each step may be caused by one or two sodium ions passing through the motor,' explained Dr Berry. The tools involved included optical tweezers, which employ light beams to hold and to measure transparent particles, and a high-speed fluorescence microscope which can capture 2500 images per second. Dr Berry and his colleagues have so far determined the torque-speed relationship of the motor, and that it can have up to twelve independent 'cylinders.' 'Our research will allow us to measure the performance of the motor when we vary things like the driving voltage and number of cylinders, and to understand the physics of the fundamental torque-generating process,' said Dr Berry. http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=2958
Re: [H] google search for failure
PS: and if anyone thinks I was joking http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4741On 3/3/06, G.Waleed Kavalec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need a (really hefty) Ansari X-Prize for the one who invents Mr. Fusion. On 3/3/06, Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have to use more nuclear power. I applaud efforts to add wind, thermal, and solar generation, but I just don't see those every becoming large scale enough to make an appreciable dent. (incidentally, did you see that KCPL is building a wind generation station out west?) Nuclear power, properly regulated and standardized, is incredibly safe and clean. The fuel issue will become a nonissue once breeder reactors are further developed and build en masse. Russia figured out that nuclear is the future. They're building 2 new reactors per year to reach 25% nuclear generation (currently 16%) by 2030. China announced plans to quadruple nuclear power output over the next 20 years--to the tune of 30 new reactors. We're starting to move, of course. 16 new reactors are on the drawing boards. Orders are expected in late 2007. But we need to get serious...I would like to see around 50% (20% now) of our KWH coming from nuclear sources. Greg - Original Message - From: Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'The Hardware List' hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 7:06 AM Subject: RE: [H] google search for failure The reality is, though, the electric type cars, etc. all require you to create energy somewhere.. I'm laughing a bit at places like Montana where you've got a Governor asking to open up strip mining for more coal based solutions. Everyone is so terrified of Nuclear Power, which numerous other places in the world use to great success, that they are willing to do almost anything else with other permanent damage because they find it much easier to sell. CW -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 7:40 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] google search for failure I'm interested in what the greenies are going to do when all those batteries hit the scrap pile. IMO large vehicles keep gas prices lower, big oil is not going to live with lower profits which is what would happen if all cars got 50mph, they would raise the rates to keep profits the same, we would get 50 mph but would still cost us the same each year to operate. :-} fp At 06:17 PM 3/2/2006, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with: I'd prefer an electric vehicle. When they finally figure out that the real solution is all-electric with nuclear, wind, solar, and hydrothermal power sources, and put a decent sized motor in a car with a Li-Ion battery that uses the nanotech Panasonic invented, and can do so without being $80,000, I'm there. Until then, I'm going to buy vehicles with big fat V8's. Greg -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Think much, speak little, and write less. --G. Waleed Kavalec-Why are we all in this handbasketand where is it going so fast? http://www.kavalec.com/thisisislam.swf-- G. Waleed Kavalec-Why are we all in this handbasketand where is it going so fast? http://www.kavalec.com/thisisislam.swf
[H] Information from fichefish ?
Stealth sharks to patrol the high seas * 01 March 2006 * From New Scientist Print Edition * Susan Brown IMAGINE getting inside the mind of a shark: swimming silently through the ocean, sensing faint electrical fields, homing in on the trace of a scent, and navigating through the featureless depths for hour after hour. We may soon be able to do just that via electrical probes in the shark's brain. Engineers funded by the US military have created a neural implant designed to enable a shark's brain signals to be manipulated remotely, controlling the animal's movements, and perhaps even decoding what it is feeling. [...] http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/mg18925416.300.html
[H] Whoa... Even Spock didn't have one of THESE
Overview The Cyberlink Interface is a communication link between humans and machines. Anyone wishing to explore the world of brain-actuated control can now operate computer software and any electrical device directly from the control center - the mind. The Cyberlink Interface enables hands-free control of computers and electrical devices. The Cyberlink system is easy and fun to use and can be learned quickly. Strap on the headband, plug into your computer and let your mind do the rest. --- Now the other shoe $ 1995.00 I think I'll wait until next year.
Re: [H] First Nanotechnology-Based Image Sensor
Strong Molecule-Sized Springs Discovered Sara GoudarziSpecial to LiveScienceLiveScience.com Tue Jan 24, 11:00 AM ET Researchers have discovered nature's miniature springs within the proteins of many living cells. These proteins could one day be used in developing incredibly small machines in the nano realm. Nanomachines can be the size of a few molecules. One nanometer equals one billionth of a meter. Scientists envision using nanomachines to manufacture other small products for computers and other high-tech products, and to improve human health and longevity by navigating inside the body to search for problems and deliver drugs. Like most machinery, nanomachines require parts such as motors, valves, and springs. Constructing these tiny parts is challenging. An alternative may be to use what nature has already made available. Like common springs Nature's tiny coils, which are protein components called ankyrin repeats, resemble 'classical' springs made of a steel wire, said Piotr Marszalek, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the Duke Pratt School of Engineering. [...] http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060124/sc_space/strongmoleculesizedspringsdiscovered On 1/11/06, G.Waleed Kavalec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading what actually happening in the lab it sure is blurry. On 1/9/06, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't realize Engines of Creation was now considered fact :)On 1/9/06, G.Waleed Kavalec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/9/06, James Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: G.Waleed KavalecFirst Nanotechnology-Based Image Sensor Debuts in the United States at CES -- G. Waleed Kavalec-Why are we all in this handbasketand where is it going so fast? http://www.kavalec.com/thisisislam.swf
[H] This isn't - exactly - hardware, but dayam..
January 17, 2006 Custom-Made Microbes, at Your Service By ANDREW POLLACK There are bacteria that blink on and off like Christmas tree lights and bacteria that form multicolored patterns of concentric circles resembling an archery target. Yet others can reproduce photographic images. These are not strange-but-true specimens from nature, but rather the early tinkering of synthetic biologists, scientists who seek to create living machines and biological devices that can perform novel tasks. We want to do for biology what Intel does for electronics, said George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard and a leader in the field. We want to design and manufacture complicated biological circuitry. While much of the early work has consisted of eye-catching, if useless, stunts like the blinking bacteria, the emerging field could one day have a major impact on medicine and industry. For instance, Christina D. Smolke, an assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology, is trying to develop circuits of biological parts to sit in the body's cells and guard against cancer. If they detected a cancer-causing mechanism had been activated, they would switch on a gene to have the cell self-destruct. [...] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/science/17synt.html
[H] First Nanotechnology-Based Image Sensor
First Nanotechnology-Based Image Sensor Debuts in the United States at CES Planet82 Inc., a global leader of nanotechnology, announced today the first U.S. demonstration of its innovative and highly sensitive image sensor, Single Carrier Modulation Photo Detector (SMPD), which uses nanotechnology to enable cameras to take high resolution photos or video in the dark -- without a flash. The world's first chip of its kind, Planet82's SMPD image sensor is 2,000 times more sensitive to light than other image sensors. Until now, taking a picture in the dark without a flash or taking a picture of a candle-lit birthday cake without any other light in the room would yield a dark photograph. Planet82 makes it possible to take clear images even when the light level is less than 1 lux (or up to 0.1 lux). One lux is equivalent to the brightness from one candle one meter away in a dark room. Human eyes can barely distinguish images at less than 1 lux. Planet82's SMPD image sensor will change how professional and amateur photographers and videographers capture images and video, said Dr. Hoon Kim, Ph.D., and chief technology officer for Planet82 and director of the Nano Scale Quantum Devices Research Center at the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI). We're thrilled to bring our technology to the United States, and show how effective it truly is at taking pictures and video without any light. Current image sensors generally need hundreds of thousands of photons to perceive light. Planet82's SMPD image sensor is designed to perceive light using only a handful of photons. To make this possible, Planet82 applied the principles of quantum mechanics to produce thousands of electrons out of one photon. It also minimized the aperture ratio and increased the number of pixels per unit density on the chip -- boasting low unit production cost and power consumption. Planet82's SMPD image sensor can be mass-produced using standard CMOS process without additional investment for facilities. It is half the size of the current CCD image sensor used in digital cameras and closed circuit television cameras (CCTVs), and CMOS image sensors used in camera phones. Additionally, digital cameras and camera phones have low sensitivity to dim light, therefore making it difficult to take a picture in the dark without a flash. As the market for these devices continues to grow exponentially, so too will the market for image sensors. iSuppli estimates that the global image sensor market will reach $9.4 billion by 2008. Planet82 expects SMPD image sensor will firstly be available in CCTVs, camera phones and vehicle rear-view sensors in Q1/Q2 2006. The SMPD technology also makes it ideally suited for applications in healthcare, the military, environmental industries and more, as well as electrical appliances such as digital cameras or camcorders. Headquartered in Seoul, Korea, Planet82 is a global leader of nanotechnology. In 2003, Planet82 acquired the patent and intellectual property rights to mass produce nano photodiode and nano biotechnology services from the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI). Today, Planet82 leads the development of the world's first Single Carrier Modulation Photo Detector image sensor (SMPD) image sensor, enabling cameras to take high resolution photos or video in the dark -- without a flash. Planet82 is listed on KOSDAQ. http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=2765
Re: [H] First Nanotechnology-Based Image Sensor
On 1/9/06, James Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: G.Waleed Kavalec First Nanotechnology-Based Image Sensor Debuts in the United States at CES Planet82 Inc., a global leader of nanotechnology, announced today the first U.S. demonstration of its innovative and highly sensitive image sensor, Single Carrier Modulation Photo Detector (SMPD), which uses nanotechnology to enable cameras to take high resolution photos or video in the dark -- without a flash.Anybody read Michael Crichton's Prey? Not yet. I find Crichton a bit formulaic. But if you want the real gee-whiz nanotech book, read Engines of Creation - non-fiction. -- G. Waleed Kavalec-Why are we all in this handbasketand where is it going so fast? http://www.kavalec.com/thisisislam.swf
[H] is this OT enough for Friday?
Welcome to Mars express: only a three hour trip IAN JOHNSTON SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT AN EXTRAORDINARY hyperspace engine that could make interstellar space travel a reality by flying into other dimensions is being investigated by the United States government. The hypothetical device, which has been outlined in principle but is based on a controversial theory about the fabric of the universe, could potentially allow a spacecraft to travel to Mars in three hours and journey to a star 11 light years away in just 80 days, according to a report in today's New Scientist magazine. The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft. Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension. The US air force has expressed an interest in the idea and scientists working for the American Department of Energy - which has a device known as the Z Machine that could generate the kind of magnetic fields required to drive the engine - say they may carry out a test if the theory withstands further scrutiny. Professor Jochem Hauser, one of the scientists who put forward the idea, told The Scotsman that if everything went well a working engine could be tested in about five years. However, Prof Hauser, a physicist at the Applied Sciences University in Salzgitter, Germany, and a former chief of aerodynamics at the European Space Agency, cautioned it was based on a highly controversial theory that would require a significant change in the current understanding of the laws of physics. It would be amazing. I have been working on propulsion systems for quite a while and it would be the most amazing thing. The benefits would be almost unlimited, he said. But this thing is not around the corner; we first have to prove the basic science is correct and there are quite a few physicists who have a different opinion. It's our job to prove we are right and we are working on that. He said the engine would enable spaceships to travel to different solar systems. If the theory is correct then this is not science fiction, it is science fact, Prof Hauser said. NASA have contacted me and next week I'm going to see someone from the [US] air force to talk about it further, but it is at a very early stage. I think the best-case scenario would be within the next five years [to build a test device] if the technology works. The US authorities' attention was attracted after Prof Hauser and an Austrian colleague, Walter Droscher, wrote a paper called Guidelines for a space propulsion device based on Heim's quantum theory. -- wouldn't it be cool? --
Re: [H] is this OT enough for Friday?
The published works are legit and mainstream but right? Who knows. On 1/6/06, Gary VanderMolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds about as believable as the Cold Fusion claims in 1989.Gary VanderMolen- Original Message -Welcome to Mars express: only a three hour trip IAN JOHNSTON SCIENCE[snip] -- G. Waleed Kavalec-Why are we all in this handbasketand where is it going so fast? http://www.kavalec.com/thisisislam.swf
Re: [H] is this OT enough for Friday?
On 1/6/06, Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:48 PM 06/01/2006, CW wrote:I have no problems with blue sky research, the idea of following up eventhe wildest of theoretical ideas to see if they have any viability.Evenif totally wrong, the work that would be done would provide research; reminds me of something a physicist once told me: even if you fall onyourface, you're six feet closer to where you want to go.I like that.Thomas Edison failed hundreds of times to create a light bulb and when asked if the failures discouraged him, he said something likeThey aren't failures.I have succeeded in proving that those methodsdon't work.I hope they go for it.I'd love to spend a week on Mars or go for a cruise around Jupiter. Of course if the FTL component works, things will get weird. Returning from a trip to find you didn't leave due to rescheduling. Returning from a longer trip to find the last election turned out different than you remember (no I don't have tickets). Even longer trip, come back to a North America that never left Britain...
Re: [H] -OT- Cuba
Not hard at all, just too busy having to fight it HERE these days. On 12/14/05, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's hard for some to swallow that there was a time when Democrats actuallygave a shit about combating tyranny head on,
Re: [H] -OT- Cuba
Can you say Diebold? I thought you could. ...(this is a hardware list after all ;-) http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/13413981.htm On 12/15/05, Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They'd do a much better job if they could win free elections.-FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM!Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter http://mail.giantcompany.comFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of G.Waleed KavalecSent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:41 AMTo: The Hardware ListSubject: Re: [H] -OT- Cuba Not hard at all, just too busy having to fight it HERE these days.On 12/14/05, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:It's hard for some to swallow that there was a time when Democrats actually gave a shit about combating tyranny head on,-- G. Waleed Kavalec-Why are we all in this handbasketand where is it going so fast? http://www.kavalec.com/thisisislam.swf
Re: [H] -OT- Cuba
On 12/15/05, Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is sad that voter fraud has went on for years; the dead have come out tovote in numerous elections.. Did you catch the recent Showtime movie Homecoming? -- G. Waleed Kavalec-Why are we all in this handbasketand where is it going so fast? http://www.kavalec.com/thisisislam.swf
Re: [H] -OT- Cuba
On 12/14/05, Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the US government still frown on US citizens going to Cuba?TJust like they frown on unhackable voting machines or journalists who tell the truth about Falluja.
Re: [H] Electronic Gunk ???
Absolutely. We can visuallize it analog - as gunk, but all you are seeing is random bits in LOTS of places they should not be. When power goes away generally they do too. This shows up in nics and modems too, PC's need power off-on now and then. On 10/15/05, Robert Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Bob Rankin's newsletter: ... Until recently, I would have dismissed the notion that electronic gunk can accumulate in a machine and cause it to act erratically. But a few months ago my high-speed Internet connection, which is normally rock solid, started getting flaky. I unplugged my cable modem, plugged it back in and voila... things were back to normal. And since then I've repeated the procedure a few times with good results, whenever I noticed a slowdown in my Internet speed. ... http://www.askbobrankin.com/do_computers_get_tired.html Robert Turnbull, Toronto, Canada -- G. Waleed Kavalec http://www.IslamAwakened.com/Quran Bush's War Killed New Orleans
Re: [H] Watch It Shred
I can't find the link labeled neighbor's poodle. On 9/15/05, Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.ssiworld.com/watch/watch-en.htm
Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.
Next time somebody kills their spouse with a hammer, the next of kin should sue Sears. On 7/5/05, j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what it also doesn't do is give clarity to allowing the suits inthe first place.They've opened the door to folks to let the courtsdecide if there was any 'promotion of infringement' by the hardware orsoftware vendors. My Subaru's tv ad had 0-60 times as 5.4 secs - are they promotingreckless driving?Can they be sued for it?What someone does with tools they've purchased should be their ownresponsibility.A vague ruling like this will kill funding of projects that have market potential simply because of litigationfears.On 7/5/05, Robert Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:From The Washington Post: In http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W6RH04C5C064AD9BC6D7A3C8141400Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al., the Court held that Grokster could be sued by MGM and other entertainment industry firms for its creation of a peer-to-peer file-sharing service. That's not because Grokster's software could be used for downloading movies and music, nor because Grokster's software was being used for that purpose, nor even because the Groksterites intended that use. The difference here, Justice David Souter wrote for a 9-0 majority, was that Grokster advertised itself as a way to get movies and music without paying. To quote http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W6RH04C5C0575D9BC6D7A3C8141400 Souter's opinion: one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear _expression_ or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties. This is a somewhat fine distinction that seems to have gotten lost in some we're-all-gonna-die! analysis. The ruling does not throw people in jail for making hardware or software that could be used to share copyrighted works. It does not require the developers of hardware and software to act as copyright cops. The ruling makes this clear on page 19: Mere knowledge of infringing potential or of actual infringing uses would not be enough here to subject a distributor to liability, and in footnote 12 on page 22: In the absence of other evidence of intent, a court would be unable to find contributory infringement liability merely based on a failure to take affirmative steps to prevent infringement, if the device otherwise was capable of substantial noninfringing uses. Robert Turnbull, Toronto, Canada---jmgChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]-- G. Waleed Kavalechttp://www.IslamAwakened.com/QuranAuozo Billah himinash shatan-ir-rajeem
[H] [OT] Early Friday off-topic
BULLETIN! this just in It wasn't the Qur'an they flushed after all... http://www.islamawakened.com/images/20050517edwas-a-p.jpg G. Waleed Kavalec
Re: [H] Programming Question
If I could type I would have been World President decades ago! On 6/10/05, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:55 PM 6/10/2005, G.Waleed Kavalec typed: Always made me shrarpen up my trig! That's alright I'm no good at spelling sharpen either but I still remember a²+ b² = c². ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com -- G. Waleed Kavalec- an unhyphenated MuslimAuozo Billah himinash shatan-ir-rajeem
Re: [H] -OT- Logic question for programmers on the list
I got the impression it wasn't lazy guys, but those trying to slant the test, who were the problem. On 6/3/05, Gary VanderMolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the bad/lazy guys catch on, they will simply rate half the questions as 5 and the other half as 1, resulting in an overall average score, which would be difficult to distinguish from a honest scorer. Gary VanderMolen - Original Message - That's the phrase I was looking for when I wrote my first response. Standard Deviation is the best way to go. This is assuming that the cheaters/lazy people are the minority. This will not work if they are majority or even half of the end users. -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Copyright: G. Waleed Kavalec 2005 This message may be resent and/or republished provided the content and this notice are kept intact.
Re: [H] SFF PC (Shuttle?)
On 6/1/05, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:19 PM 01/06/2005, Harry McGregor wrote: X2 4200+ is not two 2500+ but two 3500+, and just running the OS, and other system stuff on another chip should give you enough edge over a single 4000+ Ohhh...very cool. I'm glad you explained that to me...or maybe not, because now I want one. :) Yeah, major increase in the drool factor.
Re: [H] Re: expanding a partition - software
Especially on a Dell. ;-p On 6/1/05, joeuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hate to agree with G.Waleed Kavalec but I must. 8P G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: PartionMagice still seems to be the favorite. -- Cheers, joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key) -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Copyright: G. Waleed Kavalec 2005 This message may be resent and/or repuplished provided the content and this notice are kept intact.
Re: [H] SFF PC (Shuttle?)
On 6/1/05, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just me, but I would go with a throw away chip, and wait for the X2 to be a good price. Ditto. Hyperthreading is the P4's last bastion of desktop superiority is hyperthreading. While AMD will probably never license HT anytime soon, a dual core that produces less heat than a P4 HT is a much better option. The dept. of redundancy dept. will continue to use them ;-)
Re: [H] TV shows
A CSI fan? I guess you're OK after all ;-) On 5/20/05, Francisco Tapia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah I know it really bites... Newsfeeds.com has been mentioned before for having Groups w/ TV downloads. I missed the CSI episode last night and thought I coudl just pick it up from befnet or tvtorrents, but low and behold they both just poof disappeared :( On 5/19/05, Chris Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any sites to download shows? The two sites I use have disappeared. -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com |PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More... -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Copyright: G. Waleed Kavalec 2005 This message may be resent and/or repuplished provided the content and this notice are kept intact.
Re: [H] OT - Rant on consumer gaming hardware
Wudever happened to VR? On 5/19/05, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good rant on gaming hardware from http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars : There is a lot of new hardware coming out. A ton. If you bought every piece you'd spend close to $32,953 by my estimates. The only thing we're missing at this E3 is, I don't know. Games? I bought DS and enjoyed Mario and Feel the Magic. Then? Nothing. The PSP is fun for Lumines and to watch The Shield at the DMV, but outside of that and ports of PS2 sports games there's not much else. We're all going insane over the super fast ultra sleek OMG you can stand it on it's side hardware, but no one seems willing to ask what we're going to be PLAYING on them. Is Ghost Recon 3 the best that MS can do to show off it's system? Is Sony really thinking prerendered videos from a KILLZONE sequel is going to get us pumped? This is Killzone here, the game that was called a Halo killer and then sold close to three copies. On the DS we haveerm. Moving on. The PSP is a cesspool for chopped down PS2 ports. Nintendo is so sure we're going to be blown away by the new Zelda they haven't really bothered to show us anything on the Revolution. Well, it IS very slanty. There's just too much hardware, and not enough developers with enough time to show off all of these systems. I'm sure each game will have it's killer app, but right now there is a lack of new and exciting content. I'm done being wowed by the power of these systems based on stats that may or may not mean something, and I'm looking forward to hearing about the games that will make me glad I'm dropping $400+ on each new piece of hardware (my guess). Which I will. Because I'm a consumer whore. -- Brian -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Copyright: G. Waleed Kavalec 2005 This message may be resent and/or repuplished provided the content and this notice are kept intact.
Re: [H] Brian Livingston's take on FF
Thane as a programmer I know that when a program reaches that point, two things are true: 1)it's my fault, and 2)I have to rewrite it to make it easier. Is 1) absolutely true even in cases where you have warned the powers that be? But they insisted on the fast patch anyway? On 5/13/05, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since this has been a discussion recently, I think people will find this interesting. I think he has the issue nailed: Yes, FF could be more secure, but since it's better than anything other than Opera (who isn't going to make it in a free browser world when they charge), it doesn't matter. Of real interest is MS's admission that IE is effectively too complex to maintain - as a programmer I know that when a program reaches that point, two things are true: 1)it's my fault, and 2)I have to rewrite it to make it easier. T Is Firefox still safer than IE? By Brian Livingston The popular Firefox browser received a security upgrade, known as version 1.0.4, when the Mozilla Foundation released the new code on May 11. This upgrade closes a security hole that could allow a hacker Web site to install software without a visitors' knowledge or approval. This is the fourth minor update to Firefox since the open-source browser's 1.0 release on Nov. 9, 2004. That doesn't seem like very many patches to me, compared with Firefox's dominant competition, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), which is included in every copy of Windows. But I've heard a surprising amount of comment that Firefox might no longer be as secure as IE. At Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), held in Seattle April 25-27, for example, an IE product manager made this case explicitly. Firefox had had (at that time) three major releases, she said, while Internet Explorer 6.0 had had none. This statement was presented as though a lack of upgrades to IE was a benefit. In fact, Microsoft has released at least http://WindowsSecrets.com/links/edc2a8h/?u=www.microsoft.com%2Fsecurity%2Fbulletins%2Fdefault.mspx20 major security patches for Windows or Internet Explorer since November 2004. Most of these patches were rated Critical, Microsoft's most severe security alert level. The evidence I've seen so far indicates that Firefox remains much more secure than IE. But it's worth our time to take a closer look. IE users were exposed for 200 days in 2004 Some remarkable statistics comparing the major Web browsers have been developed by Scanit NV, an international security firm with headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The company painstakingly researched the dates when vulnerabilities were first discovered in various browsers, and the dates when the holes were subsequently patched. The firm found that IE was wide open for a total of 200 days in 2004, or 54% of the year, to exploits that were in the wild on the Internet. The Firefox browser and its older sibling Mozilla had no periods in 2004 when a security flaw went unpatched before exploits started circulating on the Net. With the latest 1.0.4 upgrade, Firefox has retained its patch-before-hackers-can-strike record so far in 2005, as well. These statistics are so important to understanding the attack surface of the major browsers that we should break down this study into its individual findings: IE suffered from unpatched security holes for 359 days in 2004. According to Scanit, there were only 7 days out of 366 in 2004 during which IE had no unpatched security holes. This means IE had no official patch available against well-publicized vulnerabilities for 98% of the year. Attacks on IE weaknesses circulated in the wild for 200 of those days. Scanit records the first sighting of actual working hacker code on the Internet. In this way, the firm was able to determine how many days an IE user was exposed to possible harm. When Microsoft released a patch for an IE problem, Scanit stopped the clock on the period of vulnerability. Mozilla and Firefox patched all vulnerabilities before hacker code circulated. Scanit found that the Mozilla family of browsers, which share the same code base, went only 26 days in 2004 during which a Windows user was using a browser with a known security hole. Another 30 days involved a weakness that was only in the Mac OS version. Scanit reports that each vulnerability was patched before exploits were running on the Web. This resulted in zero days when a Mozilla or Firefox user could have been infected. The Opera browser also experienced no days during which unpatched holes faced actual exploits, but Scanit began keeping statistics on Opera only since September 2004. To see Scanit's visual timeline of these holes, exploits, and fixes, visit the firm's http://WindowsSecrets.com/links/194251h/?u=bcheck.scanit.be%2Fbcheck%2Fpage.php%3Fname%3DSTATS2004%26page%3D3Internet Explorer page. On that
Re: [H] Spyware Woes
On 5/11/05, joeuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got hit by a drunk or a drunk beauty? Either way glad your still around. Ditto. God williing you'll at least get some rest out of this!
[H] APC back-UPS
We have one small server dedicated to the monitoring job. MRTG, event log collection, IIS logs, etc. We would like to take the various APC back-UPS (1000's and 1500's mostly) and monitor them centralized too. Any know of an easy off-the-shelf way to go? -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Copyright: G. Waleed Kavalec 2005 This message may be resent and/or repuplished provided the content and this notice are kept intact.
Re: [H] APC back-UPS
They said if Reliant Energy would switch to Dells we wouldn't need any UPS here. On 5/9/05, joeuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: repuplished? Hope I'm not violating your copyright by mentioning this... What did Dell say? G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: We have one small server dedicated to the monitoring job. MRTG, event log collection, IIS logs, etc. We would like to take the various APC back-UPS (1000's and 1500's mostly) and monitor them centralized too. Any know of an easy off-the-shelf way to go? -- Cheers, joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key) -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Copyright: G. Waleed Kavalec 2005 This message may be resent and/or repuplished provided the content and this notice are kept intact.
Re: [H] APC back-UPS
It was a troll response to a troll response. Thread may end now, unless any real responses are out there. On 5/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: G.Waleed Kavalec [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: joeuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [H] APC back-UPS They said if Reliant Energy would switch to Dells we wouldn't need any UPS here. Do they think any computer has a built in device that serves as a UPS. Mine do not have that! I highly recommend that all of my customers have a UPS. How many have stopped to think that the computer is the only common household device that should not be plugged into a surge suppressor or wall outlet, but needs a UPS? Note that I do not sell anything outside of the computer case (monitors, UPS and other peripherals) so I have no financial incentive in my strong-arm tactics in trying to get a UPS into every customer's home. Chuck -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Copyright: G. Waleed Kavalec 2005 This message may be resent and/or repuplished provided the content and this notice are kept intact.
Re: [H] Dual layer DVDRW?
over 8 megs - wow! ;-) On 5/6/05, Mark Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got three Verbatim's at Fry's for 19.99 and burned the first Deadwood disc to it and it will not play on either of my Sony's (S530D and NS 315) but OK in my laptop and desktop. I don't know if it was worth it or not. I haven't a clue what I'm going to do with the other two yet. This was from an ISO, maybe I'll try to copy a large DVD and see if it plays in one of my players. I think Gladiator is over 8 megs. Mark Dodge MD Computers 602-421-0329 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 12:54 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Dual layer DVDRW? At 03:55 PM 06/05/2005, Greg Sevart wrote: Negative. Only this last week did Verbatim announce they were shipping DVD-R DL media. Nobody knows for sure if DVDRW DL will ever appear. Even if they did, would it really be worth $15-20 per disc? DVD+R DL has only fallen to $7/disc so far... For backups it'd be worth it. T --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Anti-Virus] -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Copyright: G. Waleed Kavalec 2005 This message may be resent and/or repuplished provided the content and this notice are kept intact.
Re: [H] Dual layer DVDRW?
On 5/6/05, Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2005, G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: over 8 megs - wow! ;-) You have any idea how many floppies that is? (well, I'm pretty sure the Gladiator DVD is over 8 megs, I would be stunned if it weren't) It's that new single-bit compression algorithm.
Re: [H] New MS rule
Does anyone see this as simply a drive to make people to upgrade to XP. And a drive for an easy $15 ;-)
Re: [H] New MS rule
On 5/5/05, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:38 PM 05/05/2005, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: How can you be sure the support time is really covered by $15? These problems go away of the customer keeps up with their own info... Hmmm... underpaid Indian worker gives fax number to caller - 3 minutes looks at fax - 1 minute Loads keygen program - 30 seconds presses Generate Key - 2 seconds Writes down key number in email or letter to be faxed - 1 minute Sends fax/email - 30 seconds Knowing that job could have belonged to an American - priceless.
Re: [H] AMD XP Temps (WAS -- OT: Is this on?)
Hey! Someday soon engaging sub-light will consist only
of putting a load on the aft processor ;-)
(For FTL see: quantum computing)
On 5/4/05, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/4fkp3
am I the only one that thinks hs/fans are going over the edge. like
something from scifi :{)
:-}
At 02:13 AM 5/4/2005, Mark Dodge Poked the stick with:
Crap
It is the XP-120 that is the heat pipe style,,,
Mark Dodge
MD Computers
602-421-0329
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Mark Dodge
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:11 AM
To: 'The Hardware List'
Subject: RE: [H] AMD XP Temps (WAS -- OT: Is this on?)
I would think that most of the latest heat pipe styles should work as the
plate is small and then everything else is up high away from the caps.
The slk800 is one that I have been looking at.
http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1280
Mark Dodge
MD Computers
602-421-0329
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
James Maki
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 7:07 PM
To: 'The Hardware List'
Subject: RE: [H] AMD XP Temps (WAS -- OT: Is this on?)
-Original Message-
From: jeff.lane
Just waiting for
you...
Okay, Item for discussion.
I am running an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with a Speeze HSF unit on a Gigabyte
GA-7NNXP board. To me, it has always run hot. It idles in the mid 50s
(celsius) and climbs to the low to mid 60s underload (i.e., DVD recoding).
IIRC, AMD recommends a max out temp of 85 C. I assume this is the melt
down temp. In the summer months, the temp can get into the mid to hi 60s.
I
turn the system off till the ambient temps come down.
Many of the hi capacity HSF won't fit on the Gigabyte board (to my
understanding) due to the close placement of some capacitors.
So, the matter for discussion is possible solutions for this temp problem.
Are the temps I am experiencing normal enough not to worry? Does anyone
have
experience with a good HSF that works on the gigabyte board? What about
liquid cooling. I have seen the Kingwin AWC-1 Arctic Liquid Cooler System
for $86.99. Experience, comments or warnings?
I understand the AMD64 chips run much cooler, but do they also have a lower
thresh hold temp?
Hope this gets some discussion going.
Jim Maki
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [H] encryption of data
We use gpg here, no complaints. On 4/17/05, W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 18:59 4/17/2005, Winterlight, wrote: I have a computer with sensitive data. The data is on two separate partitions. The primary partition is all sensitive data. The secondary partition only has a folder that is sensitive. I am not worried about external attack, I am not even worried about physically accessing the computer while it is up and running, but I am worried if someone were to steal the computer and have time, and physical access to it. I would like to encrypt the data partition... and the folder on the other partition. I would like to do this in such a way as to make the data, while the computer is running normally, completely accessible both by the logged in user and the network. But if the computer is shut down, the data should not be able to be accessed without the right key, or some other method, no matter how smart and sophisticated the effort. I want it to be safe for the data, easy to use, as if it isn't even there, but the data needs to be encrypted in a un-hackable format. Any thoughts? PGP Disk: http://tinyurl.com/7avpn http://tinyurl.com/73myv Start Here to Find It Fast! - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Copyright: G. Waleed Kavalec 2005 This message may be resent and/or repuplished provided the content and this notice are kept intact.
Re: [H] Here's a weird ruling from MS
Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against . . . We're after power and we mean it. - Dr. Floyd Ferris, character in Atlas Shrugged On 4/14/05, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I caught that at my last live meeting, it also is not legal to move a COA and OS from a OEM box to a white box even if the OEM box is destroyed. I think MS is trying it's best to make us all criminals IMO. I have done what you did on occasion, ask customer for the cd and get a blank stair. go figure fp At 05:36 AM 4/14/2005, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with: I have a lot of people come in that need Windows reinstalled. Sometimes they have the Windows CD, sometimes the COA, rarely both. If they have the CD, I call MS and get a number generated for them. If they have the COA, I use my CD and their COA. I was talking to MS anti-piracy yesterday, and I asked if that was legal. Guess what? It isn't. If you have the COA but no CD, you are not allowed to reinstall the software from another CD. You must call MS, order a new CD for $45 (that includes shipping) and wait 7 to 10 days. I tried to explain that a)if they had the COA and that meant they had a license to run the software, then why would they want to wait 7 to 10 days, and b)$45 was a lot of money for a CD with no license even including shipping. Heck, $10 would make MS money. The guy agreed that it did take a long time and that the price was high, but he pointed out, using another OEM CD might cause problems because: 1)the old Windows I was installing over might be customized (I told him I generally erased the drive) and 2)the OEM CD I had might not have all the drivers. I explained that I could download drivers, and he conceded I could do that, but triumphantly pointed out that I might not want to. At that point I gave up. T --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Anti-Virus] -- Tallyho ! ]:8) -- Sorry the reply is a bit late... as my computer is just awake from the crash. -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Copyright: G. Waleed Kavalec 2005 This message may be resent and/or repuplished provided the content and this notice are kept intact.
Re: [H] Down again! (Comcast)
So how did your firewall know Jeff out? On 4/14/05, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was playing with my firewall all day Wed. had no issues that I hadn't cause myself (for a change). jeff.lane wrote: Anybody notice that Comcast is down again? (Internet, mail still working, right now) This is the second time in the space of a week and, additionally, they have been slow every afternoon this week here on the left coast. Wonder what's wrong this time. Jeff -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Copyright: G. Waleed Kavalec 2005 This message may be resent and/or repuplished provided the content and this notice are kept intact.
Re: [H] Plasma TV
Did a search on Sony WEGA 40XBR800 and got... Sony KV-40XBR800 40 FD Trinitron Wega XBR HDTV-Ready TV: Sony Su ... - $199.99 - Cyber Discount Warehouse ...don't bother. It's the stand. ;-) On Apr 5, 2005 1:43 PM, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While the subject of TV's is being discussed, I have the question for the ages.. I must admit I am totally lost with regard to HDTV.. Gaining in understanding, but still hopelessly befuddled. My TV is a Sony WEGA 40XBR800.. This is the 40 tube TV that weighs 305 pounds.. What a monster, but what a picture.. So I decided to take the plunge with Cox and get HD hooked up.. The digital box with Cox is a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 3250HD.. High Definition really is amazing.. So here we go.. Is the picture by definition, necessarily compressed to a smaller size with black and gray bars as borders in the center of the screen? I'm having to answer my wife's classic question: It's really a clear picture Bill, but why is the picture so small? Of course she is used to a 4:3 TV where the picture fills the screen.. HD is compressed, but all my other digital non-HD pictures are compressed also.. Struggling to understand here.. TIA, Bill -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Copyright: G. Waleed Kavalec 2005 This message may be resent and/or repuplished provided the content and this notice are kept intact.
Re: [H] Plasma TV
SPECIFICALLY Lawrence of Arabia Couple scenes in theatre ratio give the size of the desert, where the pan and scan is... ho hum, a bunch of sand On Apr 5, 2005 2:06 PM, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You simply need to explain to her the difference between 16:9 and 4:3. A really good way to do it is to get both widescreen and fullscreen versions of a DVD and show a scene. Let her see how they crop the edges (or do pan and scan) to get it to fill the screen. Then explain to her that the question came down to which will you be watching more of - 16:9 content or 4:3 content. The format of the set you buy should match the answer to that question. -- Brian -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Copyright: G. Waleed Kavalec 2005 This message may be resent and/or repuplished provided the content and this notice are kept intact.
[H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom
http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm A 2.5 gigapixel photo TNO has produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. So, what do we mean by large? After all, modern consumer cameras can easily take a picture with 5 million pixels. Well, we are talking about a photo of completely different dimensions. One with 2.5 billion pixels - that's 500 times more pixels. If this photo were printed, it would measure 6.67 m by 2.67 m (300 dpi). The photograph shows Delft and its surroundings in the autumn of 2004. It was taken from the top of the Electrical Engineering faculty of Delft University, at a height of about 100 m, by TNO. --- Go to the above link and the photo looks totally Unimpressive. ...until you zoom and pan... WHOA Can you find the guy standing by the fire hydrant in front of the red truck? (PS - actually its a composite, but still - dang!) -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ?
Re: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom
This is also a bus-car on the main road. The picture is a composite, took them a while to 'click' it all. On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:56:16 -0700, Mark Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found an error in the picture there is a man with a red backpack walking and his bottom half is missing. There is a parking area in front of the long building at the right of the picture and at the north end of that building on the sidewalk there is a blue sign, looks like it has a bicycle on it and the man is to the right of it. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G.Waleed Kavalec Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:11 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm A 2.5 gigapixel photo TNO has produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. So, what do we mean by large? After all, modern consumer cameras can easily take a picture with 5 million pixels. Well, we are talking about a photo of completely different dimensions. One with 2.5 billion pixels - that's 500 times more pixels. If this photo were printed, it would measure 6.67 m by 2.67 m (300 dpi). The photograph shows Delft and its surroundings in the autumn of 2004. It was taken from the top of the Electrical Engineering faculty of Delft University, at a height of about 100 m, by TNO. --- Go to the above link and the photo looks totally Unimpressive. ...until you zoom and pan... WHOA Can you find the guy standing by the fire hydrant in front of the red truck? (PS - actually its a composite, but still - dang!) -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ? -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ?
Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911
I was surprised to learn idea of corporations started in the ancient Moslem East. See chapter 8. True. But Islamic free trade disallows interest... makes for a completely different system. Can you imagine Enron without all the convoluted banking tricks? On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:53:46 -0700, Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary VanderMolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other countries seem to be much more pro-consumer compared to the caveat emptor attitude in the US. USA; the home of corporate greed for the last 150 years or so... I was surprised to learn idea of corporations started in the ancient Moslem East. See chapter 8. The actual vehicle for large-scale European commerce developed out of another gift of Islam, the qirad contract. ... The first mention of the qirad in Islam occurs in the Muwatta' of Malik ibn Anas, the oldest extant Islamic legal text, which was written sometime after 750 AD. The History of the Corporation Volume One by Bruce Brown http://www.astonisher.com/archives/corporation_intro.html Al (who finally got the tag lines working) I pledge allegiance to the Corporate States of America; and to the Republicans for which it stands. A divided nation, under dept; with Justice and Liberty for Oil. -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ?
Re: [H] Fwd: [Humor] example of a bad 911 call
Now ya see? With GPS and a small warhead this could have been permanently solved. On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:31:18 -0800, Francisco Tapia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mms://kroq.wmod.llnwd.net/a168/o1/kbaudio/911_tape.asf -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com | PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More... -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ?
Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911
I confess to ignorance re VoIP, but this can't be rocket science. On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:29:05 -0500, j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The customer has to activate since he/she has to state where that phone is going to be used since theoretically it can be used anywhere it's got an internet connection. How is Vonage going to know where you are using that phone? Hence it's up to you to do a bit of work. On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:23:38 -0600, G.Waleed Kavalec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why not just default it to active and save lives? On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:17:57 -0500 (EST), Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, 007 wrote: Some quirks exist in Voice/IP. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58598-2005Mar22.html The parents, who survived their injuries, didn't specifically request 911 services when they signed up. Abbott, who is seeking $20,000 for each violation, said Vonage's marketing materials don't make it clear that users need to sign up to make 911 calls. Vonage is *MORE* than clear about this, they are downright IN YOUR FACE (Caps required to really understand how specific they are on this issue) that you need to activate your 911 service. In fact, in the feature menu on your account screed (Where you setup voicemail, call waiting, etc the exact verbage is: 911 Dialing is NOT automatic. You must activate 911 Dialing for each number on your account. To activate or change activation information, choose a number below. Oh, and it's in the only non-grey table cell (The cell is red). I was notified 5 or more times during the process that 911 calling had to be activated, and would *NOT* work before activated. Idiots. Christopher Fisk -- I don't know which is worse, ...that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low. -Calvin -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ? -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918] -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ?
Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911
I'll bet if 208.20.76.243 hacked into the DOD, they would get located. On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:29:39 -0500 (EST), Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: So why not just default it to active and save lives? Sure. So, which 911 exchange should 208.20.76.243 go to? Basically, vonage has no clue where you are located in the world when you sign up, and what happens when you move? Like i said, during the signup process you are notified multiple times that you need to setup 911 calling. It's the first thing I did after I created my account, just because they were so specific about it. Christopher Fisk -- Loosely confederate colors of Benetton -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ?
