Mark Fox's WeblogA Canadian's perspective on interesting technology, political and international news.(Untitled)- April 20, 2004 Please see my new site at www.markfox.ca. Now with comments and trackback!http://radio.weblogs.com/0102240/2004/04/20.html#a1665 (Untitled)- April 18, 2004 The New York Times looks at the work of John Lowry of Lowry Digital to produce ultra-high resolution digital copies of nine James Bond films for MGM. Using sophisticated digital scanners that scan each negative of a film 4,000 times a digital master with a resolution of 4,000 horizontal lines of data is created which is considered to fully capture the detail of 35mm film. The digital master than can be downsampled to the 480 line DVD quality standard or the high definition TV standard of 720 or.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102240/2004/04/18.html#a1664 (Untitled)- April 17, 2004 MSNBC&146;s Michael Moran has received numerous letters from soldiers and their families in response to his column critical of the use of unamoured US Army Humvees in Iraq. Like Moran they are highly critical of the use of these unamoured vehicles on patrol. He notes that a 1997 study in response to loss of 18 U.S. troops in Mogadishu, Somalia stated that the reliance on soft-skinned Humvees "needlessly put their troops in harms way without the proper equipment to successfully complete the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102240/2004/04/17.html#a1663 (Untitled)- April 16, 2004 Paul Boutin of Slate.com has reviewed a beta verison of Google&146;s Gmail web mail service and finds its content based ad model perferable to existing services. He states: Gmail isn't an invasion of privacy, and its ads are preferable to the giant blinking banners for diets and dating services that are splashed across my other Web mail accounts. Presumably this include&146;s Hotmail which is owned by Microsoft, Slate&146;s parent company. Like other Google pages Gmail will insert ads to the.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102240/2004/04/16.html#a1662 (Untitled)- April 15, 2004 After two years of playing second-fiddle to ATI, NVIDIA regains the performance title in the graphics card market with the introduction of the NV40 GPU which will power the GeForce 6800 Ultra and other cards. The 400MHz 16 pipeline chip provides complete DirectX9 Support including Shader Model 3.0 and is designed to do various forms of image enhancement including 4X Native Multi-sampling FSAA with rotated grid sampling. It uses a 256-bit DDRGDDR-2GDDR-3 memory interface and contains 222...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102240/2004/04/14.html#a1661 (Untitled)- April 15, 2004 While meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Sharon, American President George W. Bush stated the United States' reaction to Sharon&146;s proposed withdrawal of Jewish settlers and most military units from the Gaza Strip. He hails the proposals as helping to lead to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and gives acceptance of certain Israeli territorial rights to the West Bank in light of new "realities on the ground". Even more importantly he stated that a Palestinian "right...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102240/2004/04/14.html#a1660 (Untitled)- April 15, 2004 Aren&146;t you glad President Bush did not use the phrase, "The sky is falling" during his press conference last nighthttp://radio.weblogs.com/0102240/2004/04/14.html#a1659 (Untitled)- April 14, 2004 If people wish to debunk Dan Brown&146;s novel The Da Vinci Code they could start by giving away copies of his earlier work, Digital Fortress: A Thriller. His completely inaccurate description of encryption methods and code breaking, unbelievably lax security measures at a top secret computing facility, and an ending that relied on incorrect information concerning the "Fat Man" atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan make one wonder if the author did any research whatsoever. This leads to the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102240/2004/04/13.html#a1658 (Untitled)- April 10, 2004 The 2003 Hugo Award Nominees for best science fiction and fantasy have been announced. They are nominated by voting members of Noreascon Four, The 62nd World Science Fiction Convention this year in Boston, Massachusetts, September 2&150;6, 2004. I have not read the other nominees but Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold is a much better book than Humans by Robert Sawyer. While I don&146;t plan to attend since I attended last year&146;s Torcon 3 I am baffled that Noreascon Four never...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102240/2004/04/10.html#a1657 |