Como meus caríssimos leitores sabem, sou editor, e todo editor não tem tempo...;)

Mas vamos aos fatos: precisei comprar uma placa Blackmagic para meu Power PC G5.

Vocês têm o todo o direito de me chamar de insano, doente da cabeça... sou mesmo!!! E daí? Mas não tive alternativa... e quer saber, valeu o investimento!!

Minha máquina está redondinha, com 1 Tb de HD detrabalho, 2,5 Gb de RAM, funcionando melhor que muito Mac Intel... (desculpinha de quem não tem grana pra comprar um...rs..)

Só doeu o bolso: R$ 4000,00 pela placa... mas sai da frente que minha máquina vai decolar!

Desculpem por largá-los sem posts... prometo ficar mais atento...

Abs

Pci-Pds-Ds-Pd: “migliori” si nasce. Voto – 9. Ci risiamo. Per bocca del vice presidente della Regione Abruzzo Enrico Paolini, democrat ex Ds, rispunta la teoria della “diversità”, nel senso di “siamo i migliori”. Politicamente, si intende. Dice il vice di Ottaviano del Turco: “Gli ex Ds sono antropologicamente “diversi” da quelli che provengono da Margherita e Sdi”. Come non ricordare che l’incantesimo della superiorità comunista fu rotto da Giorgio Amendola con tre articoli su Rinascita nel 1964? Forse “migliori” … si nasce, ma di certo “peggiori” si diventa.

[via: polisblog.it]

WASHINGTON (July 15, 2008) – Iran’s launch of a missile with a 2,000-kilometer range last week is a concrete example of the threat the world faces from missile proliferation, the chief of the Missile Defense Agency said Tuesday. Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry A. “Trey” Obering, said the United States is concerned specifically about the threat posed by developments North Korea and Iran are making in their missile programs.

“Iran is working on an extended-range version of the Shahab-3 and a new 2,000-kilometer medium-range ballistic missile, which they term the Ashura,” the general said at a news conference. Iran also claimed that it had successfully launched an exploratory space vehicle in February, which, analysts concluded, also was a Shahab-3. Last week, Iran launched several short- and medium-range ballistic missiles capable of striking Israel and the U.S. bases in the Middle East. Longer-ranged missiles are capable of striking Europe.

The U.S. concern with the spread of the technology was such that the current and previous administrations invested in fielding the missile defense program. “We needed to protect the United States and then to expand that protection for our deployed forces and our allies and friends in the European theater,” Obering said. The layered missile defense strategy melds boost-phase defense, mid-course defense and terminal-stage defense together. Various systems from ground-based interceptors, to airborne lasers to sea-based platforms provide protection against a rogue regime trying to launch one or two missiles at the United States or its allies.

U.S. officials are making great progress in integrating the missile defense systems with NATO programs, the general said. Obering discussed some of the systems’ successes. “In the boost phase, we've had great success with the airborne laser,” he said. The laser is mounted in a Boeing 747 and fires through the nose of the aircraft to destroy missiles just launching. “We have generated the power that we needed on the ground in a 747 fuselage mock-up, and we've also flown the aircraft,” he said. “We've demonstrated the tracking laser performance and an atmospheric compensation laser performance. All that goes together to show that we can shoot down a boosting missile. And we're on track to do that next year in a flight test.”

Thirty interceptor missiles at bases in Alaska and California make up the only defense the United States has against long-range missiles, Obering said. As time goes on, the general said, U.S. defense planners are concerned where countries like Iran and North Korea will go. They worry that the missile proliferators will develop more and more complex countermeasures to go along with their missiles. The agency is working to counter those moves, the general said.

Terminal-phase defense soon will receive another arrow in the quiver, as the agency prepares to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Air Defense system. The THAAD, which will come on line in the next year, shoots down missiles just inside and outside the atmosphere. Other agency projects include the launch of two space-tracking and surveillance system satellites and a test of missile interceptors scheduled July 18, Obering said. Tests have indicated the systems are working.

“Overall, since 2001, we have now conducted 35 of 43 successful hit-to-kill intercepts,” Obering said.

Source: CENTCOM.

PS. I am NOT adding the picture to this post, because it has been debunked as a photoshop forgery of the 9 missiles. There may have been one missile, and the others were copies. I do not know enough about it, and I cannot find the link to someone who does. Maybe you can find one from someone who has trackbacked to me! Ain't life grand? ;)

Cross-posted @ Rosemary's Thoughts.

May you walk with the LORD always, and when you cannot take another step, may He carry you the rest of the way until you can walk along side Him again.

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Legal Issues

Legal and organisational framework for the Spanish national SDI

Seeing the bigger picture: mapping out a vision of INSPIRE

One Scotland:One geography INSPIRE in the world of :Politick Verdadero/Politick Reale/ Reales politick/ Vrai politick/ Echte politick

INSPIRE directive in the Czech Legal System

Towards SDI Legislation in Poland

Data Sharing

Legal aspects about sharing geodata: a business model for licensing geographic information

Public Private Partnerships for building Spatial Data Infrastructures

Natura 2000: how to reconcile data sharing and sensitiveness of data?

Cooperation with spatial information obscured by clouds or the dark side of the moon?

This is disappointing news.  Not because Iran tested the missiles, but because the US didn't shoot them down.

I thought this back when North Korea was testing its missiles, and I think it now: whenever a rogue state puts together a missile test, the US should have Aegis cruisers nearby, and shoot down the missiles.

Consider it real-world testing for SDI.

Consider it the finest in diplomacy.  A chance to really hurt the reputations of our enemies, without hurting anyone.

Consider it a cold, hard threat.

Those missile tests are a threat.  They need to be countered.  Shoot them down.

SDI #460

20 Questions _contrarily_ addressed by Dave Furlotte, David Cherniack,
Frank
Feschino, and Alfred Lehmberg as chopped, whipped, and blended by Errol

Bruce Knapp, facilitator for the the best ufological gruel on the
planet!
Sticks to your bones, it does.

1. What was the biggest and best documented yet almost totally unknown
UFO
flap in the history of the planet?

2. Who's seemingly been sneaking mondo-bionic klasskurtxian pills?
You
know what they say, go black don't go back?

3. What's _abundantly_ documented as crashed, crash-landed, or forced
down
not once, but ten times over West Virginia in one 20 hour period,
September
12, 1952?

4. Were American pilots ordered to shoot down UFOs in 1952? Were UFOs

subsequently shot down?

5. Given UFOs are not threats to National security, why would it then
be
necessary to shoot them down?

6. Given the mundane and unremarkable reasons proffered for the loss
of
hundreds of men and machines, why were both unceasingly expended still?

7. Given UFOs do not exist, what were our pilots ordered to shoot
down?

8. If it _was_ a war, who won?

9. Who is it with the _real_ naivety regarding many publishing
houses?

10. Why is Stanton Friedman so taken with Frank Feschino?

11. Wither Jerome and Richard and why should these be the first to
seriously examine Feschino's data, chips fall where they may?

12. What sells soap is sold as what soap sells?

13. What has happened to investigative journalism?

14. UFOs have a "secret history" pertaining to what "politics of
reality"?

15. Who is David Cherniack and how did he get interested in UFOs?

16. When is a basement not a basement but a studio?

17. Is Cherniack's documentary "perfect in every way"?

18. When is a "proof" definitive, or can it ever be "definitive"?

19. How have UFOs changed over the decades, or is it _we_ who has
changed?

20. Who has an agenda and what would those agendas be?

Great fecund zots and gravid horny toads! Over 60 minutes remain of an

astonishing Mr. Cherniack, an unsettling Frank Feschino, and the
usually
ebullient if properly whittled Alfred Lehmberg perceiving all _manner_
of
abject and obverted craziness!

Live free or die fellow babies and other pilgrims, too, mourn with me
the
horrible passing of Bill Nye the science guy, once a wonderful guy but
now a
fellow of CSI. He will be missed. If he'd only known the toad...
pity.

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Główne partie startujące w przedwczesnych wyborach dzielą się nie tylko na konserwatystów i liberałów. Jest też kwestia narodowo-etniczna, a więc Ali Ahmeti i partia albańska, oraz macedońskie WMRO czy SDI. Bitwa trwa więc na bardziej złożonych niż w jednonarodowym państwie płaszczyznach. Inne pionki, inne reguły gry, inne strategie i przyczyny wyborów.

Na kilka tygodni przed wyborami rozpoczęło się plakatowanie miasta oraz kampania w prasie codziennej. Rozmieszczenie bilbordów odzwierciedlały etniczny podział przestrzei: Nikola Grueski królował w centrum, dzielnicach takich jak Kisela Voda, Aerodrom, a wspomniany Ali Ahmeti na Gazi Babie i w pobliżu Bit Pazaaru. Albańczycy nie udają, że czują się Macedończykami: zarówno treści na plakatach, jak i wystąpienia publiczne odbywały się w języku albańskim, co skutecznie przekreśla jakiekolwiek ewentualne zainteresowanie ze strony Macedończyków.

Wieczór przemówienia Ali Ahmetiego (DUI) na Ploštadzie przypominał rewolucję: tłumy z albańskimi flagami, okrzyki w języku nie-macedońskim, sztuczne ognie i pieśni. Hasło „UCK!” niczym przekleństwo padające z ust młodych chłopców rozchodzących się po spotkaniu. Zgromadzenie publiczności pokazuje system społeczny macedońskich muzułmanów: na ploštad przyszli praktycznie sami mężczyźni: ojcowie rodzin oraz młodzi; dostrzegłam kilka starszych kobiet w chustach, i tyle. Testosteron politycznym napędem narodu, estrogen gotuje kolację. DUI nie weszło do rządu, mimo że głosy na nich oddawano nawet w Župie. To ciekawe, jak nie lubiący Albańczyków Turek żongluje znaczeniami, stawiajac krzyżyk przy albańskim DUI. Kryterium poczucia solidarności jest jednak wiara? Podobno właśnie religia jest przestrzenią największej niechęci pomiędzy Albańczykami i pozostałymi muzułmanami w Macedonii. Czyżby Turek nie był Turkiem?

Spośród partii macedońskich, najgłośniejsze było liberalne SDI i konserwatywne WMRO. Co ciekawe, WMRO przyciąga ogromne rzesze młodzieży. Korzystając z silnej symboliki historycznej i narodowej, WMRO uderza w dumę Macedończyków i jest jednocześnie anty-niemacedońskie. Godłem WMRO jest vergila i lew, kolory flagi czarno czerwone. Placówki WMRO rozsiane są praktycznie po całym Skopje i są widoczne z daleka dzięki żółto-czerono-czarnym barwom. Najczęściej przed drzwiami przesiadują mężczyźni: starzy weterani i młodzi bojówkarze. Ci sami chłopcy, którzy są w WMRO, podczas protestu o nazwę Macedonii krzyczeli „czysta Macedonia” (i ci sami rzucają śmieci na ulicę nie świadomi paradoksu wynikającego z wieloznaczności słowa „czysta”). Program WMRO nie wyróżnia się niczym specjalnym, jednak głosują na WMRO nawet liberałowie, w ramach akcji anty-albańskiej. Lepsze WMRO niż Ali Ahmeti.

Placówki SDI były i są o wiele mniej widoczne. Gdyby nie prasa i znajomi, w ogóle nie zauważyłabym istnienia SDI gdyż nie przyciągą przeciętnego przechodnia. Poparcie dla SDI wyrażali, jako wybór mniejszego zła, ludzie o poglądach bardziej liberalistycznych niż WMRO-wcy. Zauważyłam też większe poparcie dla SDI wśród kobiet.

Nie Ali Ahmeti, lecz i tak wygrał patriarchat.

Po zwycięstwie WMRO nie dało się ukryć, że wybory nie odbywają się w Polsce: do rana pod moimi oknami słychać było okrzyki: WMRO! Sztuczne ognie, petardy, picie i świętowanie. Opijanie wygranej partii, gratulacje, žurki, trwały dni kilka. Intrygująco po tych wydarzeniach ucichł WMRO-wski kogut trzymany w mini-placówce na podwórku przed moim domem. Nie bardzo przejmuję się jego losem, gdyż patriotyzmem swym budził mnie o 3 rano. Po kampanii zniknął.

20 Questions addressed with so much British reserve that stiff upper lips well nigh litter the ufological Debris Field! Contributing are Dave Furlotte, Stuart Miller, Dr. David Clarke, and Herb Schirmer… as tintambulated masterfully by Errol Bruce-Knapp with some gusto even if petulantly underappreciated by lack-witted persons notorious for using the word "maven."

1. Mary, Mary… quite contrary, but how does her garden grow?

2. Does the Jewel of mankind in creation's crown preclude the existence of all other jewels?

3. What is the "Ostrich Syndrome" and how does it lead to a dirty ufological nape?

4. How does the Pope "allow" the "right" to "believe" in UFOs?

5. Is the Virtually Strange Network a harbinger of the "End Of Days"?

6. Is a fundamentalist a fundamentalist and ever a fundamentalist? Scripture thumping deniers, klasskurtxians, and UFO "bleevers": cut from the same cloth?

7. How does one choose to accept, as real, a flying spaghetti monster they have never seen even as they deny the existence of that which can be reputably perceived?

8. What's a righteous wage for "keeping the grand UFO conspiracy alive" and what is owed the righteous conspirators?

9. What is it about the "End Of Days" that has Errol Bruce-Knapp checking his watch and tapping his foot with no small impatience?

10. Do the "aliens" at once supply humankind equal parts utter deniability and a stark permission to believe?

11. Asked before, but is the "word" not grease… but Grey?

12. MOD Files release: Unappreciated forthcoming-ness or more of the same old artful-dodgy ness?

13. Why does Stuart Miller not believe aliens are in contact with some Earth governments?

14. Would an alien contact a government of needs or ignore such as ultimately non-representative of individuals?

15. From where comes a "sympathy" for GB's Ministry Of Defense and other devils?

16. How are Americans accused of impacting negatively on the ufological?

17. What "official agencies" are involved heavily with UFOs even as they are denied by those same agencies?

18. What would a conclusive finding of bona fide extraterrestrial life on Mars via the latest robot probe mean… …really?

19. Did anyone else get tired of the unceasing dysfunctional space toilet stories every news cycle all over the world?

20. Are the Brits unfairly maligned for an "excessive" interest in bodily functions, both on and off planet?

Zounds, tut tut, and cheerio… but more than 60 minutes remain of discourse so reasoned, erudite, and reasonable it achieves a dryness profound enough to provide for its own abundant hydration! Obey your thirst? They're not really klasskurtxians, mind, but could play them on TV.

Too, news on the cancellation of the Roswell theme park is reported. SETI's ufological narrowness is iterated. NASA floundering? Where's George W. Bush when you need him. More!

Pictures of the "dark" side of the moon are suggested! And then? Doctor David Clarke! Listen to him verbally express a WEB site URL and know why people sing in English. Subsequently, he reveals the "truth."

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On board ship, we watched the entire event unfold from the sea and could do nothing.  Our radar, the SPY-1, is the best and most accurate long range three-dimentional radar in serial production even today.  The Aegis weapon system of the ship is the finest combat system at sea or ashore.  But we had no missile capable of defeating a SCUD or any other ballistic missile in 1991.

I was mesmerized by the events of 1991 and set myself on a mission to help in any way that I could to bring a true ballistic missile defense system to American forces using the tools I knew best: the SPY-1, Aegis, the ships, and the sailors who crew and provide the excellent care for those fine ships and weapons systems.

Today, through the effort of tens of thousands of engineers, programmers and others, the United States Navy is proving out that capability that was only a small dream of a handful of people in 1991.

And all along the way, there was a chorus of naysayers who constantly proclaimed: this cannot be done.  The physics is too stressing.  You are wasting money and time.  And many other criticisms.

Last week, USS Lake Erie again demonstrated this evolving U.S. Navy ballistic missile defense capability, as we reported today in The Washington Times....

USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55) underway

Proving Ballistic Missile Defense

By John E. Carey
The Washington Times
June 9, 2008

On Thursday June 5, 2008, USS Lake Erie, a U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser, did something many critics say was and still is impossible. That ship and her crew destroyed a ballistic missile target just before that ballistic missile would have obliterated its target.

This was the first ballistic missile defense test of the sea-based system since a Navy cruiser surprised the world when it shot down an errant satellite earlier this year.

USS Lake Erie fired two interceptor missiles that shot down the target in its final seconds of flight about 12 miles above the Pacific Ocean. The target was destroyed about 100 miles northwest of the Hawaiian Island of Kauai about five minutes after it was launched.
 
Above: USS Lake Erie launches its ballistic
missile killer missile.

The Lake Erie crew didn’t know the exact time the launch would happen, only what their assignment would be. This is how the Navy does a full test of ship systems, the crew and the interceptor ballistic missile defense missile. Nothing is contrived.

This was the second successful intercept in two attempts of the sea-based terminal (just before ballistic missile hits its target) capability and the fourteenth overall successful test of the Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Program.

Ballistic missiles in the hands of nations like North Korea and Iran have been of concern for years because ballistic missiles would likely be used to deliver nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction and many “experts” said there was absolutely no defense against them.

Several even said the concept of hitting a “bullet with a bullet” would never be achieved.

Today, Navy ships have shown that they can reach targets on the edge of space, almost anywhere within the atmosphere, and down close to the ground. These ships equipped with the Aegis ballistic missile defense system have shown that they could destroy a North Korean ballistic missile headed for Japan, the United States or any number of targets in the Pacific region.

China also has a more than 15 year record of belligerent rhetoric and ballistic missile build-up opposite Taiwan.

 
File photo shows Chinese missiles rolling past Beijing's Tiananmen Gate during a military parade. China is building up its military defences to deter US intervention in case of war with Taiwan, the island's defence ministry has said(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)

“The beauty and criticality of this test is that it allows you to add to our defense in depth” said Rear Admiral Brad Hicks, the navy’s Program Manager. “It allows us to kill in space and in the atmosphere from a single platform.”

Eighteen U.S. Navy ships will deploy this defensive warfighting capability in the next several months.The Navy’s Ballistic Missile Defense Program grew from decades of Navy missile defense and guided missile ship development and President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative.

SDI, once derisively dubbed “Star Wars” by critics and most of the media, has evolved from a space-based concept into a more realistic sea and land-based “system of systems.”

On March 23, 1983, President Reagan announced from the Oval Office, “I’ve reached a decision which offers a new hope for our children in the 21st century.”

Since 1983, America’s Missile Defense effort has gone through tremendous changes in concept, budget and technological evolution. Yet President Reagan’s vision has never perished.

Today the at sea effort by the U.S. Navy and Japan’s Navy is one of the more demanding and successful elements of the ballistic missile defense effort.

Japan’s Navy already deploys this capability aboard its four Kongo class Aegis guided missile destroyers.

John E. Carey, a retired U.S. Navy Commander, served aboard three Aegis guided missile ships and in the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization. He is now president of International Defense Consultants, Inc. He is a frequent contributor to The Washington Times.

This ship, like Lake Erie, is conducting a ballistic missile defense test.

Another option is the watering system. Many gallons of water are wasted by the spray action of sprinklers. Water is basically atomized and a good share of it vaporizes leaving very little to get to the plants. If you calculate this over the course of a year it adds up to a huge wastage of money and water.

Root watering systems allow water to go directly from the tap to the roots without seeing air. Many of the pipes hook directly up to an automatic lawn watering system except that the flow is barely a trickle. In the case of shrubs and trees special basket weave cannisters are inserted into the ground within the root system and extend down as far as 36". This encourages the roots to stay deep and not creep up to the surface looking for water.

In larger, commercial fields subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) uses either permanently or temporarily-buried dripperline around the plant roots. Fertilizer is added directly to this feed line so that the nutrients go right to the plant and aren't leeched out into the acquifer.

For domestic purposes drip irrigation is also becoming popular bringing huge savings to homeowners and the environment.

20 Questions addressing the spirit of Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus
(No God Can Stop The Hungry) leavened, as it is, by the curse of
living in "interesting times." Dave Furlotte, Paul Kimball, Brittany
Babakioff, Greg Bishop, and Alfred Lehmberg cast conversational runes
on roiling decks as intrepid Captain Errol Bruce-Knapp deftly navigates the
dangerous straights of Ufologia on the razor's edge. The hyperbole circuit
breaker only got warm reader. No apologies here. That's the way it feels.

1. What makes living in our present times so damned "interesting"?
Is the "thing" interesting itself or is it interesting because our
interest is interesting? Do we generally conceive our interesting
times as a curse leveled upon us by angry gods, of needs?

2. Does the "new ease of communication" we enjoy as a function of
these interesting times qualify as curse or blessing? The Internet:
curse or blessing?

3. What is the "Big Lie," and how is it supported by the internet?
How is it combated by the internet? How does UFO UpDates provide
this "support" or perform this "combat"?

4. What are the "Big Lies" in 21st Century Ufology?

5. How do all "Big Lies" maintain their endurance given the huge
amount of proof and evidence obverting them?

6. Will a ufological "believer" buy into any hoax or fabrication
only because a personal worldview is supported?

7. Can something be too good to believe? Can something be too
horrible to believe?

8. What is a skeptic? What is skepticism? What defines "without a
doubt"? Whose doubt? When? Why?

9. How does UFO UpDates avoid or obviate corporal punishment on your
deceased equine?

10. How much money did "The Alien Autopsy Film" make and how was
that not money made as a result of a fraud? Jonathon Reed? The
Fox Network? Faked Moon Landings?

11. How reliable is Snopes.com in unmasking "Big Lies," Urban
Legends, and Ufological hoaxes?

12. Does "chain E-mail" satisfy a psychological need or purposefully
clog internet bandwidth?

13. The woods are full of kookoos, kookoos... kookoos? The woods
are full of Koo-koos... ...but my heart is full of love?

14. Is there little truth to the rumor that Paul Kimball has
forsaken his ancestral Canada for the United States decidedly Left
Coast?

15. When Paul Kimball leaves Canada for film forays south of the
border, is he seen off by angry mobs with torches and pitchforks
demanding he not return?

16. UFO Retro Con III was a "cool reminder" of United States
cultural history but serves what purpose for a ufological world
history?

17. What was the "Integratron," really? Who was George Van Tassel
and did he have a strong connection to George Adamski?

18. How is Paul Kimball a leader in the "modern contactee speaker
movement"?

19. What is a "Jacques Vallee kind of UFO case"?

20. Why is a "Tin Foil Hat Contest" contest hosted by RetroCon III
at once a delight and an outrage?

Zound's Zot! Seventy-three minutes remain of a charmingly ebullient
Paul Kimball waxing on UFO Retro Con III. Additionally, Brittany
Babakioff provides some hope for a continuing progressive
civilization plus a place for upcoming generations in the hoary, if
thankfully unhallowed, halls of ufology.

Greg Bishop shows a brave expanse of wide intellectual horizon to his
ufological observations and provides some demonstration how we are
the better for them, too. Mac Tonnies gets a mention as does come an
effusive praise for John Greenwald of blackvault.com! Yea and
verily, good reader, do we not preview what's in view for cogent
review? Ahead lies all manner of weirdness, reader, where we just
may discover that it was the "noise" that was the "signal," all
along?

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NAB 2008 yielded strange results. Although no stand from AVID, the reseller event at the Hard Rock Hotel showed that AVID are certainly not down for the count.

MOJO DX: Great rev of the Mojo SDI. Whilst still available the Mojo SDI will shift backwards and make way for the new DX version.

- HDSDI and HDMI
- Multithreading between RAM, CPU and GPU
- An on off button (if you had a previous mojo its a big deal)

http://www.avid.com/products/Media-Composer-Mojo-DX/features.asp

Nitris DX: Finally AVID have seen the light...PCIe!!!! So throw away your Pyro cards and FW400 ports and feel the speed of PCIe.

- 6+ Streams of DNxHD
- PCIe Card means faster bus speed
- No More rosetta stones as we have full RS422
- Uncompressed 10bit HD
- Multithreading between RAM, CPU and GPU

http://www.avid.com/products/1099.htm

Vista and Leopard compatibility is a final touch that was important. Not so much the Vista but the Leopard 10.5 is a godsend.

More details to come as we close into the final release date

Check it all out at http://www.avid.com/

Compression and recording images electronically seem to go hand-in-hand these days. KDDI is one of the companies that had some impressive displays at NAB this year. One was their real time HD software based MPEG to H.264/AVC transcoding software.

More challenging was their software based real-time 4K encoding that employed a commercial PC to bring it down to a bit-rate of 25Mbps. The target of this technology is to deliver high quality 4K images to next generation 4K receivers. While the encoding seemed to be a snap using a commercial PC to decode the stream back to a 4K signal, KDDI had to employ a CRAY computer.

HaiVision 1000

HaiVision’s new MPEG-4 AVC H.264 core called the hai1000 delivers high resolution HD or SD video and super wideband audio across IP networks at bandwidths anywhere ranging from 256 kbps to 10 Mbps.

Below an interview with HaiVision President Francois Gariepy on Telepresence and HaiVision's products.

FastVDO's SmartCapture®

FastVDO's SmartCapture® is the world’s first and smallest USB based capture and H.264/AAC encoder hardware. It takes analogue video inputs and allows one to stream the signal immediately across the Internet.

Blackmagic Design's Video Recorder

Blackmagic’s Video Recorder family starts as a product similar to FastVDO's SmartCapture®. However the more advanced version allows for conversion of SDI signals directly to H.264 signals. Below is a video of the new NAB 2008 products by BlackMagic Design.

Codex Digital

For those who wanted to record straight 2K or 4K imagery without compression, Codex Digital has been the company with the technology. This year they introduced their Codex Portable unit which is a fully-mobile digital cinematography recorder.

Parece totalmente futurista. Este es el prototpo AMOLED de Samsung. Teclado táctil y con pantalla Samsung SDI de 12,1 pulgadas y 1.280x768 de resolución con contraste infinito.

Lo más impactante es que creerás que no lo verás en el mercado hasta dentro de bastante tiempo, pero no es así. Samsung ha planificado ya el lanzamiento de portátiles OLED para el 2009.

Via Engadget

Antara lain kita mengenal peristiwa Batavia dikepungan digempur oleh Sultan Agung (1613-1645), Perang Makassar (1633-1669), Perang Trunojoyo dan Karaeng Dalesong (1675-1680), Perang Palembang (1818-1821), Perang Paderi (1821-1832), Perang Diponegoro (1825-1830), Perang Banjar (1854-1864), Perang Aceh (1875-1903), serta banyak lagi perlawanan dan pemberontakkan kecil yang tidak disebutkan sejarah. Dalam bermacam peperangan ini telah tertawan dan gugur sebagai pahlawan bangsa serta syuhada karena jihad fi sabilillah, tokoh-tokoh seperti Sultan Hasa nuddin, Trunojoyo, Karaeng Galesong, Untung Suropati, Pangeran Antasari, Pangeran Hidayatullah, Tuanku Imam Bonjol, Tuanku Nan Renceh, Panglima Polem, Pangeran Diponegoro, Teuku Cik Di Tiro, Teuku Umar, Cut Nyak Dien, dan ribuan pengikut-pengikutnya yang tidak bisa disebut satu per satu.

Setelah berbagai perlawanan rakyat dipadamkan, maka pada giliran berikutnya pemerintah kolonial Belanda berusaha memojokkan peranan Islam di bidang politik untuk mencegah perlawanan rakyat..
Pada Perang Aceh (1875-1903), kas Hindia Belanda nyaris bangkrut. Penyelesaian Perang Aceh yang berlarut-larut adalah penyebabnya. Perang itu pun merupakan beban yang cukup berat bagi pemerintah kolonial Belanda. Oleh karena itu, pemerintah kolonial Belanda meminta penasehat militernya, Snouck Hurgronje, untuk memberikan masukan agar Perang Aceh segera diselesaikan. Sebagaimana ditulis Siti Soemandari Soeroto (dalam Kartini Sebuah Biografi), "Menurut keyakinan Snouck, golongan yang paling prinsipil menentang penjajahan Belanda ialah golongan Islam , teristimewa golongan santri. Maka dalam konsepsinya menyelesaikan Perang Aceh ia juga menyarankan supaya pemimpin-pemimpin golongan Islam dikejar-kejar terus, jangan diberi ampun. Sebaliknya, golongan adat atau feodal, kaum teuku supaya di beri hati dan dirangkul. Konsepsi itu tidak hanya untuk Aceh, melainkan untuk seluruh Hindia Belanda, juga untuk Jawa."

Pemerintah kolonial Belanda yang memang menjajah Indonesia untuk tujuan menguras habis kekayaan Indonesia, demi kepentingan kemakmuran bangsanya, teramat sadar bahwa pola penindasan dan penghisapan terhadap pribumi Indonesia mendapatkan perlawanan sengit dari kalangan Islam, karena itu pemerintah kolonial Belanda menempatkan Islam sebagai musuh nomor satu. Tidak ada kekuatan yang paling ditakuti pemerintah kolonial Belanda di Indonesia ini kecuali kebangkitan Islam yang didukung oleh rakyat. Ahli-ahli orientalis Belanda sudah lama tahu bahwa kebangkitan Islam berarti bangkitnya kesadaran rakyat untuk membebaskan diri dari penindasan, ini berarti perlawanan terhadap penjajahan. Pemerintah kolonial Belanda dari pengalamannya sadar bahwa tidak bisa memisahkan antara militansi perlawanan rakyat pribumi dengan Islam. Islam dan rakyat Indonesia seperti ruh dengan badan. Islam dan rakyat Indonesia merupakan suatu hal yang tidak bisa dipisahkan.

Kebangkitan Pribumi

Apabila pergerakan Boedi Oetomo yang didirikan pada tahun 1908, hanya berpengaruh di kalangan kaum intelektual Jawa, dan hanya mempunyai cabang-cabang di pulau Jawa saja, maka Sarekat Islam adalah berbeda karena mempunyai anggota dari bermacam suku bangsa di Indonesia, dan sekaligus mempunyai pengaruh dan cabang-cabang di seluruh Nusantara. Sarekat Islam yang dipimpin HOS Cokroaminoto adalah merupakan kelanjutan daripada Sarekat Dagang Islam yang didirikan Haji Samanhudi pada tahun 1905. Kemenangan orang Asia atas orang kulit putih ini telah membangkitkan semangat nasionalisme di seluruh Asia. Sarekat Dagang Islam didirikan dengan maksud menghimpun kekuatan ekonomi pribumi untuk melawan dominasi ekonomi Cina yang dipakai pemerintah kolonial Belanda sebagai alat ekonomi menengah (middenstand) untuk memeras pribumi. Dan mengingat perjuangan ekonomi ini tidak bisa dimenangkan tanpa "membunuh biangnya" yaitu sistem kolonial Belanda, maka Sarekat Islam dibentuk untuk memperjuangkan cita-cita perjuangan politik kaum pribumi. Karena itulah melanjutkan perjuangan Sarekat Dagang Islam, pada tahun 1911 Sarekat Islam dibentuk.

Bahwa Islam benar-benar merupakan mayoritas sejati di Indonesia, terbukti pada kongres Central Sarekat Islam di Bandung yang berlangsung dari tanggal 17-24 Juni 1916. Kongres dihadiri oleh 16.000 orang, yang terbagi dalam 80 utusan dari seluruh Nusantara. Baru pertama kali dalam sejarah Pergerakan Nasional Rakyat Indonesia, bangsa Indonesia dari seluruh penjuru tanah air berkumpul di suatu tempat. Ini hanya dimungkinkan oleh Sarekat Islam yang mempunyai pendukung di seluruh penjuru tanah air, yang terdiri dari berbagai kota seperti: Tegal, Tuban, Doko, Guluk-guluk, Petaruk, Banyuwangi, Rembang, Malang, Majalenka, Tasik malaya, Purworejo, Klampak, Brebes, Pekalongan, Situbondo, Bangkalan, Wlingi, Temanggung, Cilacap, Lasem, Gombong, Labuan, Wonosobo, Ciamis, Purwokerto, Surabaya, Kebumen, Kalisat, Blitar. Jember, Yogyakarta, Banjarnegara, Manonjaya, Mr.Cornelis, Sokaraja, Randublatung, Tulungagung, Krasakan, Solo, Losarang, Delanggu, Surakarta, Buitenzorg, Cianjur, Tebingtinggi, Berai, Semendo, Kutaraja, Telukbetung, Baros, Sibolga, Padangsidempuan, Singkel, Sinabang, Padang, Alabiu, Balikpapan, Tenggarong, Amuntai, Samarinda, Kotawaringin, Tabalong, Kandangan, Harujan, Nagara, Sampit, Donggala, Jembrana dan Pelambang (76 cabang) dan beberapa lagi yang datang kemudian sehingga berjumlah 80 cabang.
Drs. Masyhur Amin dalam "Saham HOS Tjokroaminoto dalam Kebangunan Islam dan Nasionalisme di Indonesia" antara lain menuliskan :"Pada Kongres Central Sarekat Islam di Bandung tahun 1916 itu Pahlawan Nasional HOS Tjokroaminoto berpidato dengan bahasa Melayu (Indonesia) yang tekanannya pada kesadaran dan kebebasan negeri ini secara politis dan penjajahan asing, antara lain ia berkata :'Kita cinta bangsa sendiri dan dengan kekuatan ajaran agama kita, agama Islam, kita berusaha untuk mempersatukan seluruh bangsa kita atau sebagian besar dari bangsa kita." Dari melihat sepak terjang para pemimpin Islam pada permulaan abad ke-20 itu nampak jelas sikap perjuangan mereka. Tidak ada golongan sentris dalam perjuangan mereka, dengan keyakinan Islam mereka berjuang untuk kebebasan seluruh bangsa.
Adalah wajar apabila Belanda, orang asing dan penjajah mencurigai islam, tetapi adalah suatu penyakit yang berbahaya apabila ada Indonesia pribumi mencurigai Islam. Padahal kekuatan Islam merupakan kekuatan moral yg dahsyat dari rakyat pribumi dan telah terbukti sejak berabad-abad yang lalu. Sangat beralasan untuk mengatakan bahwa Islam dan ummat Islam adalah the real people's power. Inilah yang dikhawatirkan Amerika dan kroni-kroninya, dengan dalih demokrasi dan HAM mereka berusaha mati-matian melumpuhkan negara-negara Islam, terutama sekali yang memiliki sumber minyak yang melimpah dan yang senantiasa berusaha menegakkan syariat Islam.
Diambil dari tulisan Erizeli Bandaro

One day, after sending off over 35 subject alerts I decided to see whether I could start making the process more automatised. If this post had been around, I would have been galvanised... At any rate, Inspiration numero uno was the realisation that I could automatically post from the Bloglines reader to the Bloglines blog, with very little hassle. In the two seconds it took me to try this feature, visions of tagging the posts and then setting up RSS feeds based on tag filters which were sent automatically to patrons filled my head. So I was a little crushed when I realised, very quickly that part 1b of the cunning plan wouldn't work as Bloglines had no tag feature in the blog. Yes, I did a double take too; I felt betrayed... Could I look Bloglines in the eye again? Needless to say my addiction to RSS is so strong that I jumped straight back into its arms. However, things has changed between us. I secretly started investigating other RSS readers...

This post examines Bloglines vs Google Reader. Most of his arguments didn't persuade me one way or another- the River of News feed isn't that relevant for my needs- but then I saw the Share This feature. (Though no mention of tags?) This could be what I was looking for. The things is that I'm not the world's biggest fan of Google. In fact I had managed to stay away from any type of Google account till my favourite mailing list migrated. So now Larry and Sergey have my data. And I'm not too happy about it. I decided that even if Google Reader had great features I would try and look for another solution to my problem.

I started looking up ways to hack Bloglines. Maybe I would be the one to make it change... This post spurred me on. Sadly as I don't have a TV, the TIVO hack wasn't much use, nor am I addicted to a Blackberry. However, the hack to use the email to send feeds to blog software was interesting, as was the hack to post direct to del.icio.us.  Hmmm... The brain started whirring.

Ultimately, though I didn't find a complete solution. Though my enthusiasm has waxed again after reading about ScribeFire; maybe that could hold another piece of the puzzle.

[Update: I'm now using the del.icio.us hack instead of the clippings section of Bloglines for my personal use. (see right hand menu) The words nail and coffin are springing to mind...]

To be continued...

1. Is noted Physicist Stephen Hawking an unqualified Emperor
without any clothes?

2. Does Don Ledger know more about Hot Black Holes than Steven
Hawking knows about UFOs?

3. Why does any card-carrying Cartesian-ist feel duty bound to
pronounce so stridently upon that which they are largely
uninformed?

4. Does the card-carrying Cartesian-ist have the same
responsibility to "get it right" he demands from other
disciplines?

5. Just who needs to have a nice hot steaming cup of shut-the-
f__k-up?

6. Apart from perceiving same, is it possible that the SETI
crowd might be entirely incapable of even recognizing a bona
fide alien signal given equipment limitations, manpower/funding
limitations, and more appalling limitations regarding the
aggregate imagination or even competence of the persons
involved?

7. What does Humanity think it has that it is remotely in a
position to expect alien beings to account for themselves?

8. Does "assume" making an 'ASS' of 'U' and 'ME' occur often
enough for one to be guarded regarding any assumption?

9. Is Humanity smart enough and advanced enough to grok the
sense of an alien 'other' given the appalling record achieved
with disparate members of its own species on its own planet?

10. Is SETI set up to perceive smoke signals sent between
galactic civilizations?

11. Do the broadcast evidences of human civilization put aliens
on a war-footing with humanity?

12. Would a kind of quarantine be observed with regard to
humanity based on what we ourselves communicate to ourselves,
directly from and between our own lines regarding ourselves?

13. Is strawberry ice-cream and government cheese enough to
overcome the revulsion aliens may feel for humanity?

14. Are we right-thinking... thinking we would know what aliens
are thinking?

15. Does Real Canadian back-bacon from a red-headed Canadian
taste like pork, or chicken?

16. What do the trinket's and trash from alien beings
disembarking from a galactic Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
consist of, exactly?

17. Who 'deals' with aliens and what's the 'deal'?

18. Who can you trust, and has humanity remotely earned the
benefit of a doubt for same?

19. Is there any doubt that UFOs are an aspect of intelligence
decidedly apart from lay humanity?

20. Does the Brookings Report reflect the sensibilities of
individuals, or the does it reflect the sensibilities of
cultures and governments -jealous of threatened catbird
seats- abusing those individuals? Wow. How could we have
missed _that?_

Zounds with carbon straps and JATO bottles! 67 minutes and a big
chunk'a change await the listener, so make sure the belts are
snug and review button's in easy reach! You'll want this stuff
to go deep if you wanna survive the concrescence!

Remaining is a similar fusillade of aural micro-mini mind
missiles... High explosive point detonations and deeply
penetrating delayed detonators that'll have ya goin' "Wow!" well
into the nether reaches... what'cha pay for eh? Moreover,
Stuart Miller reports what gives him the multi-levular heebie-
jeebies. Mike Wallace shows how much UFOs scare him personally,
though, the clear eyed and undaunted courage of Donald Keyhoe is
exemplified.

'Somethin's happenin' here; what it is ain't exactly clear...'

Ufological sensibilities empowered are the listener's own!
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www.AlienView.net
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In this way our users are in control of the information they receive and can filter out, at a broad level, those posts that are of no interest to them.

We have our categories listed in the sidebar on our site. The wp_list_categories template tag has the ability to output a link to the RSS feed for a category but the output didn't fit in our layout. With this in mind I needed to come up with a different way of displaying the information.

Rather than create a plugin I decided to use the a custom page template instead. In this way I could construct a page that I could edit the text of the page using the standard tools, and I could also create a list of RSS feeds dynamically, without the need to go through creating a plugin.

I created a custom page template, basically a copy of the standard page template, and then added the following code into the appropriate place.

[sourcecode language="php"]

< ?php
// Get the list of categories
$categories = get_categories('type=post&hide_empty=0&orderby=id');
$site_url = get_option('siteurl');

// Output the list
print '

';

foreach($categories as $category) {
  print '

•   print 'title="Direct link to the RSS feed">';
    print $category->name . '';
    print '   print 'title="Direct link to the RSS feed" style="text-decoration: none">';
    print '

' . "\n";
}

print '';
?>

[/sourcecode]

Users can select from the generated list, the URLs to the RSS feeds that are of interest to them.

]]> http://whatispastismerelyprologue.wordpress.com/?p=12 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:54:57 +0000 Linda Book http://whatispastismerelyprologue.wordpress.com/?p=12 My library has recently started talking about implementing new subject guides pages. Stop, Stop! Don't they realise that I've only just started this blog?! I had envisaged that with usual library dalliance I would at least have time to get my thoughts on the matter clear here before weighing in with balanced arguments. Looks like I'm going to be busy for the next few days reading up on all those articles that I had meant to read ages ago...

In fact, I've been trying to read round 2 e-content problems that we are experiencing, and that I decided to try and resolve (because they're quite cool!)

• We run an SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information Service) where basically I have subscribed to as many RSS feeds that I can find and every time I see something useful I send it to the patrons who have registered their profiles in the Outlook distribution lists. Complicated, yes. Efficient, no. I've been trying to work my way round this to make it far far more automatic, as although we have received some good comments, we have a long way to go. It's kind of web 0.5 with a jus de 2.0. It hasn't won a Michelin star yet.
• We have a bunch of internet resources and a bunch of subject guides that I update on dreamweaver. They are in three languages and are very unwieldy. They need to be updated. The Head of Reference is obsessed by blogs. I'm not so sure they're the best idea. I just found out that the Head of the Library scheduled a meeting tomorrow about subject guides with one of the area groups of the place of work of joy. Ekk. I just invited myself to that meeting...

So these are my e-content problems that I am trying to resolve. As my time seems to be a little less limited the blog may not quite be so orderly as I hoped now as I try and jot down random scribblings in an attempt to clear my mind. But hopefully this won't matter overly...

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