Nowadays digital cameras are used every where with various features. The latest news I read last time was a camera that could submit pictures online to a website/blog space.
My dream camera actually is more than that. I am dreaming a camera that has GPS to tell the exact location where I took the picture, an electronic compass to tell the direction where the shot was taken to , and an electronic accelerometer to tell the orientation or tilt of the camera against horizon (e.g, postscript or landscape, altitude etc.). All these data should be stored in the picture's JPEG file as an extension to the existing EXIF format.
So, next time we want to repeat the exact snapshot, the camera can tell you. Seems thi may be helpful for crime investigators too.
Monday, March 3, 2008
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Blue-Ray prevails!
Finally, after years of standard war, Toshiba has lost battleground and quit HD-DVD business. Despite some of their similar picture quality, HD-DVD is relatively cheaper to produce and sell but trade off of being less capacity to store data. Probably it's good to have a single winner, Blue-Ray, which has almost double capacity as of HD-DVD.
If you're in the market of looking for a high-definition player, now it's determined to just buy Blue-Ray! (Sony PS3 has built-in blue-ray drive with $500'ish price).
The complete story can be found here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080219/ap_on_bi_ge/japan_toshiba;_ylt=AuYF1vqdcqbvnMkC7sD41UCs0NUE
If you're in the market of looking for a high-definition player, now it's determined to just buy Blue-Ray! (Sony PS3 has built-in blue-ray drive with $500'ish price).
The complete story can be found here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080219/ap_on_bi_ge/japan_toshiba;_ylt=AuYF1vqdcqbvnMkC7sD41UCs0NUE
Monday, February 18, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
Microsoft heard Me!
Finally, folks from Microsoft seem had read my blog :-)
On my blog last time (see "Why Windows sucks"), I listed some weaknesses on Windows XP. Microsoft has added most of those missing features in Vista, although still not as what I expected. First, Vista now has stronger scripting capability on its console/shell. Another thing is, it now is capable of creating symbolic links of actual files.
But, they've also added a supposedly-cool feature, super-fetch, but it turns out swamped most of resouce on my new quad-core PC (which has already 4 GB of RAM). Most of the time my hard disk is busy doing something. I admit, I've installed many applications, but unlike Linux or OSX, the more you install on any Windows, the slowliness you'd get (thanks to its stupid registry, an now super-fetch).
Look, I am not a typical user who just use Office or games for my PC. I am a super-user and love to hack things (well, this is just my self-proclaim :). But from my experience, Windows Vista in general is the most resource-eater among OSs I have tried so far (I've used various O/S, including DEC VMS on VAX machines, IBM OS/2, various DOSes since version 2.x, VxWorks, OSE, all the Windows variants since 3.x, some Linux variants [SUSE, RedHat, Debian], Solaris, Novell Netware, Mac OS9 & OS-X, Unix variants [FreeBSD, SCO, Xenix, Minix, etc.], FreeOS, even the open-source-IOS-like Vyatta).
On my blog last time (see "Why Windows sucks"), I listed some weaknesses on Windows XP. Microsoft has added most of those missing features in Vista, although still not as what I expected. First, Vista now has stronger scripting capability on its console/shell. Another thing is, it now is capable of creating symbolic links of actual files.
But, they've also added a supposedly-cool feature, super-fetch, but it turns out swamped most of resouce on my new quad-core PC (which has already 4 GB of RAM). Most of the time my hard disk is busy doing something. I admit, I've installed many applications, but unlike Linux or OSX, the more you install on any Windows, the slowliness you'd get (thanks to its stupid registry, an now super-fetch).
Look, I am not a typical user who just use Office or games for my PC. I am a super-user and love to hack things (well, this is just my self-proclaim :). But from my experience, Windows Vista in general is the most resource-eater among OSs I have tried so far (I've used various O/S, including DEC VMS on VAX machines, IBM OS/2, various DOSes since version 2.x, VxWorks, OSE, all the Windows variants since 3.x, some Linux variants [SUSE, RedHat, Debian], Solaris, Novell Netware, Mac OS9 & OS-X, Unix variants [FreeBSD, SCO, Xenix, Minix, etc.], FreeOS, even the open-source-IOS-like Vyatta).
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