Posted on 12/31/2006 7:08:41 PM PST by Mo1
Hellllloooooooooooooo...Car-dith-aaa. I have been swimming and sunbathing all on the same lot of land. I just fit..;)
So.. what were you put out for the cost of the Postre you old faker?
You're still a freeloader no matter.
This is football day over here. Al's watching one game now and the Pats will be on at six. I am on my own and trying reallly reallly hard to be good.
Humongous bucks old girl -- I could have fed myself for a few days.
Now take it easy grannie my dear -- being good isn´t everything - I don´t want you to have a cerebral incident.
Bad is ok too.
OMG...don't say that. I almost had one yesterday. I was here alone and trying to take my nap, had the door closed and heard some odd sounds.. Of course the whole house was open and Al was gone off to the store.
I snuck out and couldn't see a thing but my heart was pounding and I know my BP spiked really good. So I went back into my closed bedroom and locked my outside door and hoped I'd survive until Al got back home. Took my BP and it was pretty high.
Come to find out later it was the kid measuring our windows for the new shutters. Sheeeesh..he could have killed me, and where would that have left Al and you? No one to brow-beat anymore...lol.
OMG --- he did not knock and make his presence known. Lucky he did not run into a nervous Freeper armed to the teef.
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Being developed by a lab at Rice University in Houston, Texas, the single-pixel camera is designed to tackle what its developers see as the "inefficiencies" of modern digital camera. It currently resembles an old-fashioned pinhole camera and is the size of a suitcase, but assistant professor of electrical engineering Kevin Kelly told BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme that it is only "the beginning of things." "Hopefully it will get smaller," he said. Inefficiencies The camera was created, according to Dr Kelly and his colleague Richard Baraniuk, because digital cameras are very wasteful. They require expensive microprocessors and massive battery power to capture an image - most of which will not be used in displaying the picture. This is because the captured image is compressed, to a jpeg file for example, to make the file size smaller and more convenient to store.
Although a digital camera picture may contain many millions of pixels, most photos can be described with far fewer because there is a lot of redundant or duplicate information in an image. For example a picture of a blank wall will have many pixels with the same colour and texture information. Dr Baraniuk said that this is where the single-pixel camera really has an advantage. "Instead of taking the light from an object through a lens and focusing it on a pixel array, we actually reflect it off an array of mirrors," he said. This digital micromirror device, as it is known, consists of a million or more tiny mirrors each the size of a bacterium. "From that mirror array, we then focus the light through a second lens on to one single photo-detector - a single pixel." Random mirrors As the light passes through the device, the millions of tiny mirrors are turned on and off at random in rapid succession. Complex mathematics then interprets the signals assembling a high resolution image from the thousands of sequential single-pixel snapshots. "In the last couple of years, scientists and engineers have figured out that from these randomised measurements, you can actually reconstruct an image of the object that is sitting in front of the lens," said Dr Kelly. The camera is hooked up to a computer to display the captured image which can take minutes to construct. Although at the experimental stage at the moment, if the device ever makes it to market it could make digital cameras more efficient and dramatically improve battery life by doing away with the need to process and compress each image. Using a single light sensor also means that it can be swapped, for example, for an ultra-violet sensor on a satellite, or infra-red for a night-vision camera. "Instead of using a million really expensive sensors, we can use one really expensive sensor and still give you a million-pixel image," said Dr Kelly. |
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Ummm,
If you read carefully, someone is almost pulling your leg. You can have a simple device that substitutes an array of mirrors for an array of pixels, but instead of having something to drive the array of pixels you have a counterpart to drive the array of mirrors. There is still a fair amount of energy and complexity required, and bad or broken micro-mirrors to contend with. Then when he says you have the software to compress the picture to jpg, vs the minutes of compute time to reconstitute the one pixel picture, he surely can't claim 'inefficiencies.' I strongly suspect a really inexperienced reporter with a weak understanding of science is behind this writeup.
Sure sounds like it to me...
Hi Gran You are doing real will with those videos.
Keep them coming!:)
I did not buy all that stuff yesterday it was over a two and a half year period 2004-06 the last item was the mutli food cooker a few weeks ago!
I just made a good spaghetti dinner with it tonight.
one of the feature on the multi cooker is pasta, another for soup and baking and of course rice.
Well I get the Kansas city steakburgers that has cheddar and bacon bits.
I cooked the pasta, used some Classico Tomato & Basil sauce, grilled 1-half pounder steakburger I like using the tasty meat for meat balls, graded fresh parmesan cheese, and sprankle some Red pepper flakes.
I was surprised how it all did the trick!
I was a shopaholic I have cut way down and gave a way a lot of stuff that was just cluttering my life.
The speakers on my computer is as good as Bose wow!
This season's metrosexual?
Uhhh....no thanks. I'm not into sissy boys. I just couldn't picture myself with anybody who was always wanting to borrow my purse and high heels.
Got any pics of Sam Elliot lying around? ;)
Most European men are wimps in this day an age!
They let the women libs rob them of their manhood!
I agree. I like men to look like men.
I wonder if Cardy carries a purse and wears makeup. :)
Lol! I'm not scared of Cardy. He's as harmless as a poodle with pink ribbons in it's hair. ;)
You see gran - the experts in these things have spoken - we will not have to suffer the expense of buying new cameras.
Which is a good thing -- imagining dropping one with all those mico-mirrors, it would certainly lead to 7 x 7,000 years of bad luck.
Mmmmmmmm ....Perhaps I could give one to Derly?
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