Posts by Russell Brown
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If Hawk-Eye *is* actually radar-based -- i.e. the graphically rendered trajectory based on a quantitative measurement -- then it deserves reference. Cricket is such a 'particular' game that it deserves that degree of accuracy and precision, IMHO . . . Gilchrist's catch was controversal, but radar showing Vettori's ball being plumb is pretty clear-cut . . .
Hawkeye comes from this company (warning: tedious Flash-based website):
http://www.hawkeyeinnovations.co.uk/
Which is owned by this company:
Which is owned by Siemens. It uses motion analysis and tracking technology - visual rather than radar-based - that I'm fairly sure was originally created for military applications.
Another use for motion-tracking is digital signage on TV coverage, where the sign has to sit "behind" the players - I think the patents there were developed by an Israeli company, again with a military application originally in mind.
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It's more the piles of books and newspapers on every surface (you can't actually dine off the dining room table)
I regard that as as a form of high-availability file storage.
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Um, yes... Sadly, I can't attend (for the non-partisan reason that the better half and I are off to Australia next week, and I've got to make the house fit for human habitation before the housesitter arrives) ...
Tee hee. That's like the omigod I have to clean the entire house because some people are coming for lunch thing that seizes women. To which the inevitable answer is "Darling, most of them are heterosexual men - they won't notice."
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Obviously you are trying to be confrontational to suggest invading all Islamic countries.
Trouble is, there's a lot of chatter at the moment that suggests the White House is gearing up for a crack at both Syria and Iran.
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As for them out breeding us in the west, you seem to think that either Islam is a biological phenomenum, like a race, or that their ideas are so obviously more attreactive than ours that Muslims who have been in the west for long enough to become the majority will still find Sharia law attractive. I think that's pretty strange myself. Doesn't seem like you are a much of a fan of western values
This is what strikes me about the Islamophobes: they don't have much faith in the knowledge and values that have got us this far. It's not hard to find some clown declaring that Europe will be under sharia law in 15 years, even though many (most?) of the Muslims they so eagerly count in the EU are from central and east European countries with completely different traditions.
I have more confidence in modernism than some people seem to.
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I have yet to hear a good argument about how to deal with the Islamic threat from the Left, or don't they think it exists?
How about starting by not making things worse? What do you think has become of women's rights in Iraq since 2003? How many suicide bombings were there in Iraq before 2003? (Clue: less than one) Was Iraq a training ground for Islamist terrorists before 2003? Was it a cause celebre for such people?
How did Islamists gain a foothold in the less governable parts of Pakistan? By providing education through madrasses where there was none available. How many minds might have the trillion dollars Iraq will eventually cost have swayed if the money had gone into liberal education and local business development?
The invasion of Iraq was a consequence of a political cult (The Project for a New American Century) naively believing it could quell a religious cult through the simple application of power; power being the ultimate object of respect in conservative ideology. It didn't work out.
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The TVNZ induction video is quite funny.
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According to Wikipedia, he's in it for the last three episodes.
Wikipedia knows the __future?__Woah.
But seriously, I get the impression that Doctor Who production knowledge is a distinctly tradeable commodity.
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You might not feel able to comment James, but I seem to recall tell of it getting pushed around a bit before production by TV executives who thought it should be more ... conventional.
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Courtesy fidelityboy, who says: "This is the induction video that new TVNZ staff are shown. Remember: everyone's really nice and don't be scared of the famous people."
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