My boss have been asking this question quite few time :
“What will you do when you bump into a Big..BiG..BIG hole ?”
and the answer would … as it was been prescribed before:
“Took few step back and move fast forward again.. or jump over the HOLE..”
hmm..sound great..
what if.. with the limited resource .. and limited everything..
is that an excuse to NOT produce something excellent ? what if someone else can make much more better with exactly the same limitation ?
well.. someone else have proved it ..
, we can..!
Enjoy this video :
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p/s : it is not the making excuse that will make us proud in later time..
but “Quality work”.. will sure have something ..
it is completely either “Yes” or “No..” .. no ifs, no maybes..no perhaps..
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“Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up.”
George Burns couldn’t probably imagine that his quote would eventually also be applied Google’s main page.
Play with the elements and try searching whenever you get tired of it.
Technology:
javascript, box2d-js
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Unfortunately ..Google Chrome only available for windows platform at the moment..
However you still can experience it on Firefox and Sea Monkey though.. but a bit slow..
We think JavaScript is awesome. We also think browsers are awesome. Indeed, when we talk about them, we say they are the cat’s meow – which is an American expression meaning AWESOME.
In light of these deeply held beliefs, we created this site to showcase cool experiments for both JavaScript and web browsers.
These experiments were created by designers and programmers from around the world. Their work is making the web faster, more fun, and more open – the same spirit in which we built Google Chrome.
Naturally, if you’ve made something fun and fast with JavaScript, please send it in. We can’t post everything, but we’d love to see it.
Automatic Twitter update via bash script and cron..
hehe.. tweet..=~ twitter.com
create a shell script (go_tweet) with following content..
date=`date`;
msg="$1 as of $date"
curl --basic --user "username:password" \
--data-ascii "status=`perl -MURI::Escape -e \
"print uri_escape('$msg');"`" \
http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json
Replace the username:password with your tweet account ..
It is recommended to register a new one for this purpose only if security is your major concern.
put somewhere is /usr/local/bin/ or somewhere that you remember..
chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/go_tweet
then.. to update.. just need to run..
/usr/local/bin/go_tweet "your message here.."
<code>
for auto update every hour ..
<code>
crontab -e
add a line to post uptime output each time..
5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/go_tweet `uptime`
else you can modify it to suit whatever message that you might want to post..
if want to lock twitter to be followed / seen by approved personal only ..
go to home Twitter -> Settings.
tick the Protect update.
and each user that want to follow your update will have to request.. and to be approved you before they can see the update.
p/s : might be useful during content filtering of “Silly Season” soon.. fetching needed RSS / news update only..
my twitter is now feeding live example of weather forecast for every 12 hour.. http://twitter.com/klweather .. any other ideas to be added ?
In good or bad customer service situations, being transparent will almost always please the customer to some degree. Sugar-coating or hiding the problem will only cause contempt when your customer realizes (or suspects) what is going on behind the scenes.
Need a good example of what I mean? Here’s one.
Last weekend, I went to Buffalo Wild Wings in Live Oak, TX in a group of four on a Sunday afternoon. While the food there is always quite good (how can fried stuff be bad?), the service is variable. Our waiter slowly walked up and he was a little slow to speak. It wasn’t because he was apprehensive – the guy genuinely looked worn out.
He asked us how we were and what we’d like to drink. Once we ordered it, he repeated everything back and then paused. “I just thought I’d let y’all know”, he says, “that last night was my birthday, and I had too much to drink. I’m moving slowly today, but I’m going to take care of y’all.”
As a customer, I could take this two ways:
* This is irresponsible! How could he come to work like this. All of my food will come out wrong.
* I’ve been in this guy’s shoes, and I can imagine how bad his head hurts. I’ll give him a little leeway.
I’ve been in his shoes before and I’ve had to work very early the next day. We all chose the second option and gave him the benefit of the doubt. Throughout the meal, our waiter did not make one error. In fact, I’d venture to say that it was the second best customer service experience we’d had at that restaurant. He made a good sized tip, and we all wished him a belated Happy Birthday.
Some may say that he was a bit too transparent. I might even agree with those people. However, he did a few things that made him successful:
* He saw we were young, and he took a gamble that we could relate to his situation (and we could)
* He worked hard and made sure everything was done right
* He brought us extra ranch dressing (had to throw that in there)
The next time you’re in a situation with a customer, try to keep transparency in mind when you explain the details to them. Even if the news is bad, they’ll appreciate the intricacy of the problem if you let them in on something that some would consider to be a secret.
RazakSAT is planned to orbit the earth in NEqO orbit at a nominal altitude of 685 km and 9 degrees (targeted) inclination. RazakSAT provides a high number ... White Paper on RazakSAT[pdf]
Long awaited moment finally come ..
Well, it just started the sequence to transport it to Launch Site.
KOTA KINABALU: Malaysia will send into space the world's first remote sensing satellite to orbit the equator on April 21, providing high resolution images of Malaysia that can be used to provide information on land management, forestry and security.
The 190kg satellite, RazakSAT, which will orbit the equator every 100 minutes, will also be used to gather photographic data on resource development, conservation and fish migration.
Named after Malaysia's second prime minister Tun Abdul Razak, the satellite was developed by the Aeronautical Engineering Sdn Bhd (ATSB), a company under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. It will be launched using a US rocket named Falcon-1.
RazakSAT will orbit at an altitude of 685km after it takes off from its launch pad at Kwajalein Island in the Marshall Islands.
ATSB chief executive officer Datuk Dr Ahmad Sabirin Arshad said the satellite could be used to provide important information on Malaysia.
"The orbit for satellites is usually north to south, and this is known as the polar orbit.
"Malaysia is at the equator, so we should be able to see the benefits of a satellite (that orbits the equator). It will provide important details for analysis," he said yesterday.
The satellite which left the Royal Malaysian Air Force base in Subang at 10.15am on a C-130H military aircraft, touched down at the international airport here at 1.50pm for re-fuelling, before continuing a 7-hour journey to Guam.
RMAF Lt-Col Raja Mohar Raja Rahman is the captain of the flight, which will then make its final 5-hour journey to Kwajalein Island.
Earlier, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovations Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili said RazakSAT was a testimony of the talent and capability of local scientists in space technology.
He was speaking at the Subang Air Base before sending off the satellite on board a RMAF aircraft.
RazakSat is equipped with a medium-sized aperture camera (MAC) to capture high resolution images of the Earth along the near equatorial orbit and can be useful especially to the ministry's Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency, which conducts research in satellite applications in agriculture, natural disasters, fish migration, security as well as land and forest management.
Dr Ongkili said the MAC onboard RazakSAT had a better focusing capability compared to the previous satellite, the experimental TiungSAT.
Two small satellites would also be launched together with RazakSAT from Kwajalein for educational purposes.
One of them CubeSAT was developed by ATSB, while the other, InnoSAT, was developed by Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Perlis, both of which were funded by the ministry.
The prime minister and cabinet members are expected to follow the launch from the National Space Centre in Kg Sg Lang, Banting.
What to expect ?
Shall be about the same level as this one..
this is the 5m resolution .
more less 2m resolution will be twice the quality of the above image ?
let's wait .. if I recalled correctly... the first image of RazakSAT will be featured in "FrontPage" of every newspaper in Malaysia..
wait until 21st April 2009..
HawkEYE is not a derivative of any the above satellite though.. .. 8-)
p/s : how much is the cost for GeoEYE and what will the RazakSAT total cost ?
might also one to consider the following into the account :
-- lifetime of a satellite.
-- total payload.
-- the purpose.
Medium-sized aperture camera for earth observation
Kim, Eugene D.; Choi, Young-Wan; Kang, Myung-Seok; Kim, Ee-Eul; Yang, Ho-Soon; Rasheed, Ad. Aziz Ad.; Arshad, Ahmad Sabirin
In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Space Optics (ICSO 2004), 30 March - 2 April 2004, Toulouse, France. Ed.: B. Warmbein. ESA SP-554, Noordwijk, Netherlands: ESA Publications Division, ISBN 92-9092-865-4, 2004, p. 137 - 140
Satrec Initiative and ATSB have been developing a medium-sized aperture camera (MAC) for an earth observation payload on a small satellite. Developed as a push-broom type high-resolution camera, the camera has one panchromatic and four multispectral channels. The panchromatic channel has 2.5m, and multispectral channels have 5m of ground sampling distances at a nominal altitude of 685km. The 300mm-aperture Cassegrain telescope contains two aspheric mirrors and two spherical correction lenses. With a philosophy of building a simple and cost-effective camera, the mirrors incorporate no light-weighting, and the linear CCDs are mounted on a single PCB with no beam splitters. MAC is the main payload of RazakSAT to be launched in 2005. RazakSAT is a 180kg satellite including MAC, designed to provide high-resolution imagery of 20km swath width on a near equatorial orbit (NEqO). The mission objective is to demonstrate the capability of a high-resolution remote sensing satellite system on a near equatorial orbit. This paper describes the overview of the MAC and RarakSAT programmes, and presents the current development status of MAC focusing on key optical aspects of Qualification Model.
Available online 17 November 2004.
Abstract
SaTReCi and ATSB are developing medium-sized aperture camera (MAC) system for earth observation. Following the first model, the development of the engineering model (EM) was completed. The optical subsystem incorporates a conventional approach of using low-expansion optical and structural materials. It is a 300-mm on-axis system with two aspheric mirrors and two field correction lenses. It has five linear detectors aligned on its focal plane together with proximity electronics. The electronics subsystem consists of five modules; two for management and control in cold redundancy, two for image data storage and one for power supply. EM was developed to have a storage capacity of 16 Gbits, which can be easily increased to 32 Gbits by adding memory packs for following models. EM weighs about 41.9 kg and consumes about 45.4 W of peak power.
Characteristics and Capabilities
Spatial characteristics:
2.5m for panchromatic and 5.0m for multi-spectral with swath width of 2.0km. This allows for mapping scales of 1:25000 and 1:50000.
Spectral characteristic:
Spectral range covers visible to near infrared. Main features of the Earth can be identified and classified with advanced processing.im1
Radiometric resolution:
8-bit. This enables Earth features to be represented in 256 digital levels.
Temporal resolution:
Up to 14 times of imaging opportunities per day over tropical area in ±9° latitude from the equator. Tilting is possible for further deviations of up to ±30°.
Did you ever wonder .. how many time did you really look and read at the pdf file or ebooks that had been downloaded into your pc?
Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols for the purpose of deriving meaning (reading comprehension) and/or constructing meaning. …
Now seem with Google Reader.. it become a lot more useful… such as :
From your 33 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 31 items, starred 1 items, shared 1 items, and emailed 0 items.
seem like been busy doing something else and neglecting myself ?
hahahaha.. being paranoid at some point of time and at reckless at the very same moment.. 8-)
“It wouldn’t be that exciting anymore if your next move can be predicted ..!”
-Knight Rider 2009
being derailed off the track for a while is sometime putting the thing in life more meaningful.. compared to
a ‘perfect’ and ‘dull’ daily operation … hehehe
The brain is the center of the nervous system in animals. All vertebrates, and the majority of invertebrates, have a brain. Some “primitive” animals such as jellyfishes and starfishes have a decentralized nervous system without a brain, while sponges lack any nervous system at all. …
# that which is responsible for one’s thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; “his mind wandered”; “I couldn’t get his words out …
# be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by; “I don’t mind your behavior”
# recall or remembrance; “it came to mind”
# be concerned with or about something or somebody
# judgment: an opinion formed by judging something; “he was reluctant to make his judgment known”; “she changed her mind”
# take care: be in charge of or deal with; “She takes care of all the necessary arrangements”
# thinker: an important intellectual; “the great minds of the 17th century”
# heed: pay close attention to; give heed to; “Heed the advice of the old men”
# attention; “don’t pay him any mind”
# beware: be on one’s guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to; “Beware of telephone salesmen”
# your intention; what you intend to do; “he had in mind to see his old teacher”; “the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces”
# keep in mind
# knowledge and intellectual ability; “he reads to improve his mind”; “he has a keen intellect”
When stacking layers in an image editing program, it is necessary to specify how transparent you want each part of the image to be. Rather than have to do this by hand, image editing software lets you do this by providing a second greyscale image that specifies how transparent each part should be. White parts of the layer mask make the corresponding part of that layer opaque, so they show up on the finished image, and black parts make that part transparent so the lower layers show up. A couple of clever tricks in the software let you generate the layer mask from the original in a few clicks, rather than laboriously paint the entire layer mask by hand. — Step 2 of HDR-photos-with-the-GIMP