Why isn't anyone asking this?

Really? You couldn't just write multiple frames simultaneously on an alternating phase?

I should expect with digital someone's already done this.

For 1/96th exposure you'd have two phases that do the same thing:
- Collect the light.
- Write to prior frame and save.
- Store for current frame.

Increase the number of frames simultaneously written to increase exposure.

BMW is seriously committed to FOSS as an Infortainment platform in their cars - they are not the only ones. They have set up something called the GenIVI Alliance which is an automotive industry consortium which is working together on this type of software: http://genivi.org/ Many other companies have joined as well, like GM, Nokia, Navteq, Intel, Freescale, Nissan, Monta Vista, Pugeot, and Texas Instruments.

Here's a good book on social and business networking (even for the shy): "Power Schmoozing" by Terri Mandell.

An excerpt:

1. Experience: self-educate in an emerging technology in your chosen field. You have the advantage of being unbiased to legacy practices. With an emerging technology, no one has experience. In today's world of cheap hardware and open-source software, it has never been easier for motivated people to find a way to contribute. Treat the learning process as an extended interview, including your project emails and contributions.

2. People: you're already at the bottom, nowhere to go but up. Don't further handicap yourself with low expectations, reality will be happy to reduce your expectations for you. Aim as high as you can imagine and work down as necessary. Rank the top ten companies or organizations (globally) with people who are experts in your chosen field. Identify some of these people by name and learn about their career path and current projects. Find a way to contribute to similar projects. Work backwards from their social network to your social network and try to have F2F conversations with local contacts who are best-of-breed.

3. Budgets: use your F2F contacts to obtain intelligence on budgets. In a poor economy with layoffs, the remaining people often have too much work to handle. Creative volunteering and compensation ideas can get you involved in real-world projects where the experience is worth 10X the dollar value comp. It all starts and ends with people, be they HR, managers or customers. So focus on being useful and building relationships with people. The most valuable information is often very transient (e.g. time sensitive hiring opportunities) and communicated only by word of mouth.

4. Recession: some of the best engineering creations have come from highly constrained environments. If you can be successful in an environment of fiscal discipline, you will only be more successful when boom times return. The same cannot be said for those who begin careers in boom times and are shocked by their first major downturn. There is no better time to start working than now. It doesn't mean you'll find a job quickly, but you will learn much more than by staying in school (which also costs money, even if deferred).

10 years from now, business schools will have course material dedicated to the lessons of these unprecedented economic times. New grads have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to experience the kind of business environment where fortunes will be lost and won, as economic hierarchies adjust. Don't miss the excitement by hiding in school!

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Final Fantasy XI is rooted in the same pattern you illustrate outright. A couple key differences might just interest you, however.

First, it requires teamwork. There are few quests or story advancing missions one can complete on their own. A player can hardly acquire experience on their own (with the exception of one or two specific jobs). One must work with others at a nominal level to even survive to 75 (our max). A group of players that work well together will be highly rewarded. Teams that don't work together as well will still advance, but not as quickly.

Second, there's stories. Lots of stories. Sure starting out you'll see your share of "Kill X enemies," "retrieve X items," or "ferry this item" missions. It'll seem very familiar at first. Stick it out, though, and missions start drawing you into the lives of the NPCs, the politics of our nations, the history of our lands, and the traditions of your very own job.

These are some high quality stories as well. Here's a script of the cutscenes belonging to just one of our hundred-plus missions. If you don't mind reading spoilers, you can see I've dropped you at an interesting turning point in the story. Every character name you see in there has a back story, that you've discovered by now. They have their own motivations, and you're the thread that briefly weaves their fates together.

Once you're out of the lower level quests you might just find yourself pursuing quests with very poor rewards JUST to see what a particular NPC's story is, or simply because you believe it will be entertaining.

We've comedy, we've tragedy. When it comes to story lines, I'd say FFXI players are a pretty spoiled lot.

I'd love to go over the team-work oriented battle-system, but I'd really rather get back to playing.

Over here on the other side of the Atlantic in Scandinavia, not only the hardware companies but also the telcos plug BT connections very hard as part fof their marketing. In other words it comes as no surprise that a Nokia E61 (or Sony Ericsson P990i, etc) can be used as a BT modem with the 3G network out of the box, giving excellent speeds. I do it daily travelling on business across Europe from OS X/XP/Linux laptops. The Nokia E61 (et al) also matches (and/or surpasses) the feature set of the Blackberry, including push mail, mobile Exchange sync, etc, etc. There is one thing with data speeds though that must always be remembered. Most operators still have a priority for voice built into the network. This means that every GPRS connection searches for "gaps" in the voice traffic (in Swedish they are called the direct translation of "time gaps", don't know the exact English term) to and from the particular mast you are connectiong to. And depending on how many are available at the time, your connection will be alloted X such "gaps" and the number of them determine the speed of your connection. So, if you're in a urban area at, say, lunch time there might be fewer gaps available for data, compared to a rurally situated mast at the same time. Or, later in the afternoon or if you just move a couple of blocks, getting you connected to another mast. Usually, it's even easier. If you find yourself with a less than ideal connection, you just disconnect and connect again and most of the times you then get a better allotment. A bit like getting a "better line" in the old land line voice world. And this restriction on data traffic will probably not go away until the operators see that they actually have more data then voice in their books.

...didn't Dvork-ak predict Mac was moving to M$ OSes because of parallels ? I guess this confirms it, eh ? :-P

Stop running M$ on your macbook - you're feeding the Windoze zealots with misleading statistics !

As an aside, I do occasionaly need to use IE for cr@ppily encoded sites - maybe this stat can be interpreted as an increase in cr@ppy websites is driving macbook users to use parallels/IE for browsing ...

There's a sucker [%s/sucker/stat/g] born every minute ...

Ubuntu COMES with Gnome and Kubuntu COMES with kde, instead of the Ubuntu team providing multiple CD's like most distros.

Ah, why provide multiple CDs when you can provide multiple distros?