I am looking forward to make a 360 degree virtual tour photography of my locality. Could you please suggest the basic specifications of the camera that would be required to do so? What software can I use?
I am currently working to design a flash virtual tour, but I know little about how the photographs are taken.  Ideally I'd like to be able to take a set of 6 shots from a single focal point, and be able to align them seamlessly into a cube form. The other solution is to take a special fisheye image, and stretch it dynamically in flash.  I've seen examples of both as virtual tours, and ones formatted as a rotating cube are more responsive and have a higher image quality. The airbus and Cruden Homes are definitely in the cube format, I'm not entirely certain which format the New York VT uses:        I have a set of questions, the first is the most important, the others may become separate questions if I don't get an answer here:   How are those photos taken? Is there a specific mount that can be used? How long does it take to set up? How much post-processing is necessary on the images?
Why does Ubuntu not allow the GUI users to login as root at the time of system start up like administrator in Windows?  Why they are restricting us to login only through the terminal? Based on this question: , LVS may be the right solution for my problem.   But when I went to its homepage , I found that LVS has been updated since Nov, 2008. The world's moving fast, and I don't know if LVS was obsolete or not.  Is LVS standing still, or there're some better solutions to replace it?  Thank you so much. broadcast receiver for missed call in android I have a folder on my desktop which is named ".." (which itself contains subfolders with an empty name). The folder can't be deleted the usual ways, even not when using the CLI. Does anyone know how I can remove this folder on Windows Vista 64-bit?  Renaming does not work, either (obviously).  This is what "dir /x" echoes:  09.10.2009  15:04    &lt;DIR&gt;                       . 09.10.2009  15:04    &lt;DIR&gt;                       .. 08.03.2007  11:18    &lt;DIR&gt;                       cgi-bin                0 Datei(en),              0 Bytes                3 Verzeichnis(se), 45.866.037.248 Bytes frei Subgroups of $U(n)$ isomorphic to a direct sum of cyclic groups Let $U(n)$ to be the set of all positive integers less then $n$ and relatively prime to $n$. Then $U(n)$ is a group under multiplication modulo $n$.  A. Find integer $n$ such that $U(n)$ contains subgroup isomorphic to $Z_5\oplus Z_5$.  B. Show that there is an $U(n)$ containing a subgroup isomorphic to $Z_3 \oplus  Z_3$, but not isomorphic to $Z_4 \oplus  Z_4$. In Episode III,  explains to Anakin the power of the Dark Side to save people from death. He mentions  - the Sith who discovered this. Sidious then claims he died, which seems odd, given that kind of power.   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At the moment, this works well for citations of single works -- e.g. (assuming the authoryear style), one may write in the source  The reference work is \textcite{knuth:ct:a}.   which will be typeset as     The reference work is Knuth (1984).   Citing multiple works, on the other hand, is somewhat tedious. If one simply writes (1):  Important works are \textcite{knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b,markey}.   the output is rather a list than a correct sentence (2):     Important works are Knuth (1984); Knuth (1986); Markey (2005).   One has to write (3):  Important works are \textcite{knuth:ct:a}, \textcite{knuth:ct:b}, and \textcite{markey}.   to get (4):     Important works are Knuth (1984), Knuth (1986), and Markey (2005).   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I am looking for information on Heinrich Märte (my grandfather) and his family. He was born on July 1, 1912 in Sipplingen and died On April 19, 1944 when the military plane crashed in Geierswalde because its engine failed.  I am not sure if his family knows that he fathered my dad. I am hoping someone knows of him or his family. I would love to know how he met my grandmother or any further information on him.   We have always had two photo's of him, but never knew his name. We have only just found out about him and it has opened so many more questions.  How can I determine Heinrich's parents and siblings, and then locate any living family members? How to find out what's accessing a particular hard drive on Windows? Possible Duplicate:          My HDD on a dock just started making noises like it's being accessed but I don't see any program accessing it.  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It seems the system is looking at my lowest cross-network rep when applying this rule rather than highest rep? What is the point of this very conservative approach? It would seem there is very little chance that a user with high rep on ANY site is likely to spam or abuse the lower-rep sites. And obviously this discourages participation across the network.  Furthermore, an improvement at least would be to warn the user ASAP so they aren't stuck with a nicely worded question in their browser window only which could be forgotten, lost, etc. As it is you only get the warning when you click [Post Your Question]. Multiple AES Key Derivation from a master key What EXACTLY happens when I ask to delete my account? I have a motherboard with a PCIexpress x16 slot.  I want to purchase a card called AMD Radeon HD 7770, which uses PCIe version 3.0.  Is that backwards compatible? Proper way to handle multiple forms on one page in Django Simple Smart Phone detection