i
don’t want a cell ’phone, but the camera data might help!
Nokia cellphone being used with GPS and time data
marking on photos.
Image credit: Garage
Cinema Research
- “Gather all automatically available information at the point of
capture (time, spatial location, phone user, etc.)
- Use metadata similarity algorithms to find similar media that has been
annotated before
- Take advantage of this previously annotated media to make educated guesses
about the content of the newly captured media
- Interact in a simple and intuitive way with the phone user to confirm
and augment system-supplied metadata for captured media”
Also being developed at Garage Cinema Research :
Mobile Media Metadata 2 demonstrated on a Nokia cellphone.
Image credit: Garage
Cinema Research
Bluetooth-enabled camera cellphones that write the geo-position and time
on the photo, while also attempting to identify the people concerned.
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new camera with gps
- two and a half years on from clumsy rig-up to cellphone with enhancement
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heaven for experts
“US Court Ruling Won't Stop Evolution Row - Experts
“Supporters of the concept of "intelligent design" will
find new ways to advance their cause to have it taught in US schools despite
a major setback this week, experts on both sides of the debate said on Wednesday.”
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| the
pc disease spreads - economist cover, bbc and groaniad
Is this the end point at which political correctness moves
from tragedy to farce?
Illustration
for cover story of the Economist magazine
Meanwhile, the ‘hitlerisation’ squeal is spreading around the
lesser fossil media from the groaniad
left- wing in-house department. Don’t teach so much Hitler and the
holocaust, or at least “put it in the ‘context’ of Versailles”,
as if Versailles is any excuse for Hitler and national socialism.
the bbc illustrates their balanced reporting
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| The British Empire according to the BBC |
The Ottoman Empire according to the
BBC |
BBC lefties have illustrated a typically light-weight item on the British
Empire, Empire
history ‘key to UK life’, with a picture of slaves; while
another similar item is headed Empire
of the Ottomans and illustrated by the Sulyman Mosque at Istanbul with
the following descriptor, The Ottoman golden age brought unrivalled wealth.
Note: the BBC is a propaganda arm of the British government.
BBC lead from Frinkenstein.
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mass
production of solar cells
“The [$86 million] Kumamoto plant would initially have a capacity
to produce about 30 megawatts worth of solar cells annually, enough for
10,000 households a year, it said.”
The report is confused, referring to solar batteries! It
also does not make clear what is meant by “30 megawatts”, whether
it is capacity or year output. This type of problem is common to this source
[planetark.org] and many others.
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More
direct solar methods of power generation
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nanoscience
- is it just bucky balls?
“They found that the buckyballs bind strongly to DNA, with about
the same energy that drugs bind to receptors on the surface of cells. When
the buckyballs bound, they distorted the strands of DNA. Peter Cummings,
a Vanderbilt chemical engineer, says it seems likely the interaction would
interfere with the DNA's function, disrupting replication and repair and
increasing mutation rates.
“But he cautioned that it remains to be determined if buckyballs
even penetrate cell membranes, and if they do, whether they would penetrate
the cell nucleus, where the DNA resides.
—
“ Cells are bombarded with naturally occurring nano-sized particles
and appear to get by just fine, so it is not at all clear whether this speculation
holds any merit in the real world," he says.
“Cummings also notes that at present only a few grams of buckyballs
are produced in the world every year, and that to err on the cautious side
scientists treat them like toxic material.”
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| skyscrapers
causing earthquakes?
Taipei 101 building (click for
magnificent full-size version)
Image credit: Emporis.com.
©
C.Y. Lee & Partners
“[...] once Taipei 101 started to rise from the ground, things changed.
"The number of earthquakes increased to around two micro-earthquakes
per year during the construction period (1997 to 2003).
“ "Since the construction finished there have been two larger
earthquakes (magnitude 3.8 and 3.2) directly beneath Taipei 101, which were
big enough to feel," says Dr Lin.”
Some statistics for Taipei 101:
- height: 1,676 feet / 508 metres
- number of floors: 101 above ground / 5 below ground
- weight: 700,000 tonnes
- surface area: 3.7 acres / 15,081 square metres
Some, probably, man-induced earthquakes:
- Koyna Dam earthquake, 1967
cause: recently constructed dam in Maharashtra state, India
when vast water load
changed ground stresses
effect: 6.5 Richter
earthquake, over 120 dead
- Denver, Colorado
cause: huge amounts of waste injected into Rocky Mountains
effect: 5.5 Richter earthquake under Denver
- North Sea, 2001
cause: release in pressure from oil and gas extraction
effect: 5 Richter eqrthquake
Other very tall buidings:
- Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - 1,483 feet
- Sears Tower, Chicago, USA - 1,450 feet
related material
Highest, longest:
the Viaduct de Millau
half mile high building - well,
almost
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