What credit card do you have that is chip+pin as mine are the stupid chip+sign ones? This is a serious question as I haven't heard of any card issuer in the US doing chip+pin.
If wanting to store private info on your phone I would consider something like OpenKeychain. While not a nice as VeraCrypt as OpenKeychain will leak info since it encrypts and decrypts to and from a file it is still better than nothing. Unfortunately I haven't found anything like VeraCrypt for android that will create an encrypted file that can be mounted as a file system. If anyone knows of one I am sure others would like to know about it.
A lot of it is poor life choices but not how you are portraying it. Take 3 of my wife's cousins who are all siblings. One is an artist, one is a fitness trainer and does self help books/programs, and the other is a motivational speaker. On the surface one would expect that the fitness trainer would be doing reasonably well, the motivational speaker exceptionally well (why else would you hire them), and the artist eating ramen for 89 meals each month. This is just with the knowledge of their chosen professions. Add in that the artist does not have a college degree while the other 2 do in something that was related to their professions and it really seems like that should be the case.
However the one that is successful in that group is the one who is the artist. Up until a couple of years ago the artist exclusively supported them self by painting, that is until purchasing (outright bought with money saved from painting) a building and turning it into a gallery to sell their works as well as others and is now doing very well. The other 2 cousins are living in section 8 housing and on as much assistance as they can get to survive. The biggest difference is that the artist actually works hard and will always put in at least a 40 hour work week unlike the other 2 who are lucky to crack 10. Even on vacation the artist works, just not as much and what is created is mostly studies to be used for creating finished pieces when vacation is done. Also the other 2 have bounced between things and half assed it each time thinking it would be a path to easy riches and not putting in the hard work.
Not really. A quantum computer isn't one that makes NP problems as easy as P problems even if it does offer a massive speedup as they are not believed to be non-deterministic Turing machines. For example the cracking of private key crypto systems a quantum computer does offer a massive speedup but it doesn't move the difficulty from NP to P. So instead of the runtime being O(2^n) on a classical computer the runtime is O(2^(n/2)) on a quantum computer. Now while this is an impressive speed gain, we move from stellar mass energy levels to total annual energy consumption of large powerful nation states, it doesn't mean that it breaks symmetric key crypto, only that we should double the key space to push things back up to stellar mass energy levels.
Then you need to figure out how they felt so threatened they turned rabid in the first place, and fix that.
That will be the hard part for Democrats and the media. Through years of effort they managed to create the perfect environment for someone like Trump. They vilify any republican as a a Nazi or Klansman. They vilify republican voters, anyone remember the bitter clingers or the basket of deplorables. The Dems then offer no hope to a large portion of those same voters who worked in mining or manufacturing all while seemingly giving everyone else a leg up. The media however goes after republicans ruthlessly while treating the Dems with kid gloves. So after all of that here comes a republican who doesn't give a fuck, goes after the media, tells those disaffected workers he will make things better instead of saying those jobs are gone and not coming back. Then add in that the Dems ran the worst candidate possible, yes Hillary was the worst candidate possible as she managed to lose to Trump who was the second worst, and it becomes clear why we have Trump.
About the only "consumers" I can see being interested in this would be gamers.
Or people who run tasks that benefit from a huge number of cores. I have a i7 3770 and I can get that thing so it pegs all 8 logical cores for an hour with ease. This is doing things like manipulations on large GIS data sets or combining many very high scans of film (a good lens with good film in a good SLR means you can get some phenomenal resolution bested only by the best digitals). For big jobs I will start it before bed or work and then hours later I can go back it to and see the results. There are some things that are so stupidly parallel that chips like these make sense. Granted for some of these tasks a GPU is faster still but then I would need a GPU with at least 24 GB RAM otherwise they just crap themselves and I get a GPU out of memory error.
Personally when I need to replace my existing machine in a couple of years these huge core count chips will provide a lot of benefit as will being able to shove 128-256GB ram in a box that isn't stupid expensive.
Basic land nav really is becoming a lost skill. I have a cousin who was a weekend warrior for a while and he even lacks navigation skills without a GPS and detailed map. A few years back he shot a deer and it ran about 2 miles from where his stand was. Once we found it he wanted to drag it back out the way we came insisting that we weren't on the other side of the hill from my stand. I tried to convince him that my stand was only about 100 yards east and if we just walked that direction a short way we would hit the clear trail but he didn't believe we were that far south.
I got the Motorola Moto G4 plus (made by lenovo) and it isn't filled with the crapware you find on so many damn phones. There are 2 Motorola apps, and their camera app. the moto apps are small and you can turn them both off and not affect functionality unless you really want to use Motorola's gimmick gestures. Other than that it is a clean android install. I dropped open camera on it as well and disabled the stock camera as the options and modes in open camera are better.
On the few DoA items I have gotten from them, hey it happens, it has always been super easy to get it exchanged. Just bring it up to the returns/service counter the look up to see that I purchased it the day before or a few hours ago and they go and get me a new one. But like I said before that is what I like is that there isn't a hassle with doing the exchange. I never have gotten a replacement plan as my experience with electronics seems to be they are DoA, die in a couple of week, or die after like 7+ years of use. The in store returns/exchanges take care of the first 2 cases and for the 3rd by then most consumer electronics are so horribly out of date and the warranty never lasts that long that it wouldn't have mattered any way.
You're right it makes the Tesla numbers look worse. Fair would be comparing starting pay to starting pay, and then compare pay at 5 years and eventually 10 years.
I might have to try these options at my lake property, or maybe I should forget about this unless it is an emergency and enjoy not being able to be contacted.
That is why I am thankful that I have a Micro Center near by. They may be marginally more expensive (I think I paid like $5 to $10 more the last time I built a computer) than amazon or new egg but the fact that if something is DOA I can bring it back and get a new one without any hassle is worth it. It doesn't seem to happen often but when it does stopping by on my way home from work is super easy (the back entrance is right at the top of the ramp to get on/off the freeway), or I can drive there if I need it now. Then add in the order online pickup in 18 minutes and it is worth shopping there as by the time I get there my order is ready.
For cell phones those appear to be about as good as they get which is why I chose the Apple and Google devices. The Motorola is the midrange phone I that I have so I included it as a reference point that I am familiar with and was surprised that to see how well it did compared to the other 2. The nice thing about the 3 test images is that the first one is a standard test that is meant to punishing but conducted under ideal circumstances. The other 2 are meant to be more representative of the real world in good and poor lighting conditions. Granted in all cases the camera is held in a mount so it is steady but that seems fair given that the purpose of the tests are to verify the resolving power of the camera.
I am not impressed with the Motorola's camera and as stated elsewhere I would prefer using my 9 year old son's 11 year old DSLR with cheap kit lens over the phone as that DSLR (8 megapixels APS-C sensor) takes noticeably better pictures. I still use my film camera and have been spoiled by having some very good lenses for it. Add in that you can't get bad film now (only the really good professional stuff is available) and I have a benchmark that is very hard to match by digital. That isn't to say you can't get that quality with digital but it requires buying the top of the line camera chassis and lenses.
That is exactly why those tests are great and valid as they show how much actual information can be captured by that camera, not how much software can make shit up. Additional software to supplement is just that, additional software.
The great thing about software is that you can feed any image into it and it should work. Anyone should be able to feed images into apple's photo software and have it do post processing to enhance that image, same thing with what ever google's software is. That post processing doesn't change the underlying objective attributes of image quality only the subjective ones. Things like real HDR, DRO, bracketed images, super resolution, various masks and filters, etc. are all post processing options and have no bearing on initial image quality. Unless you are doing super resolution your software isn't going to magically make more data appear in you image and even with super resolution you start off with more information that you get out.
When talking dynamic range a DSLR will blow any cell phone camera out of the water. If you really want impressive dynamic range use film. I have a few pictures with some deep shadows and the mid-day sun in them (yes I mean that giant ball of fusion is actually in the picture) and don't have huge areas of nothing but black or a completely washed out sky. It doesn't hurt that my camera is all manual so I don't fight with it doing something it wants instead of what I want. Add in that I have been using that camera for over 20 years and understand it, the films I use, and their limitations so I know how to get the picture I want.
As I have stated numerous times for most people a cell phone camera is more than good enough and with how automated they are they make it so that people take substantially fewer shitty pictures. That said, when looking at objective measures of image quality cell phone cameras suck. Dynamic range, vertical line resolution, horizontal line resolution, noise, moiré, color accuracy, etc. are all measurable when using that chart. As noted elsewhere by GSMArena that chart is deliberately punishing and real world results will likely be better as it is meant as a way to test the limits of the camera's image capture ability, not its ability to do post processing.
I didn't see those but that would have been a gas had I. I think in all the years I have been into photography I have taken 1 image that I would consider National Geographic quality and that is out of probably 25,000 photos. Even now most of the images are technically extremely good to perfect (I still do screw the pooch every now an then), and I do get the composition quite good but there has only been one image that I really just nailed it on all levels.
Most of my paid photography is from quilters, my wife is one and she knows and is friends with a bunch of big name quilters, who want extremely high quality images for publication in books or on their website. As I just like taking pictures and am just a very dedicated amateur I don't make much money off of it but it does offset the cost of my hobby some.
I would take the DSLR that my 9 year old son got for his birthday (an 11 year old Cannon EOS 30D with the cheap kit lens) over any cell phone camera. That 8 megapixel APS-C sensor even with that cheap 17-80mm kit lens (approximately 28-135mm 35mm equivalent) produces better images than any cell phone camera I have seen.
The camera he got was one of my wife's cousins who is into digital photography and they had long since upgraded so that camera was just collecting dust on the shelf. My 9 year old has been really into photography and wanted a better camera than my wife's point and shoot that he had been using some times and I didn't want him to learn on my film SLR as now that would be an expensive exercise in failure. When he starts getting really good with what he has (when the equipment is the limiting factor) I will likely get him a better lens and maybe a telephoto converter or extension tube set for it next.
Isn't that is the truth. When 99.99% of all pictures people take are going to be seen on a cellphone screen and/or posted to facebook and the remaining few printed as 5"x7"s just about any cell phone that isn't a $50 one work just as well.
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What credit card do you have that is chip+pin as mine are the stupid chip+sign ones?
This is a serious question as I haven't heard of any card issuer in the US doing chip+pin.
You may want to look into structural insulated panels if you haven't. While not quite what you were thinking they are closer.
If wanting to store private info on your phone I would consider something like OpenKeychain. While not a nice as VeraCrypt as OpenKeychain will leak info since it encrypts and decrypts to and from a file it is still better than nothing. Unfortunately I haven't found anything like VeraCrypt for android that will create an encrypted file that can be mounted as a file system. If anyone knows of one I am sure others would like to know about it.
We are going to be waiting an awfully long time then.
Maybe spire3661 is looking for a way to cashin on a life insurance policy by making it not look like a suicide.
A lot of it is poor life choices but not how you are portraying it. Take 3 of my wife's cousins who are all siblings. One is an artist, one is a fitness trainer and does self help books/programs, and the other is a motivational speaker. On the surface one would expect that the fitness trainer would be doing reasonably well, the motivational speaker exceptionally well (why else would you hire them), and the artist eating ramen for 89 meals each month. This is just with the knowledge of their chosen professions. Add in that the artist does not have a college degree while the other 2 do in something that was related to their professions and it really seems like that should be the case.
However the one that is successful in that group is the one who is the artist. Up until a couple of years ago the artist exclusively supported them self by painting, that is until purchasing (outright bought with money saved from painting) a building and turning it into a gallery to sell their works as well as others and is now doing very well. The other 2 cousins are living in section 8 housing and on as much assistance as they can get to survive. The biggest difference is that the artist actually works hard and will always put in at least a 40 hour work week unlike the other 2 who are lucky to crack 10. Even on vacation the artist works, just not as much and what is created is mostly studies to be used for creating finished pieces when vacation is done. Also the other 2 have bounced between things and half assed it each time thinking it would be a path to easy riches and not putting in the hard work.
Not really. A quantum computer isn't one that makes NP problems as easy as P problems even if it does offer a massive speedup as they are not believed to be non-deterministic Turing machines. For example the cracking of private key crypto systems a quantum computer does offer a massive speedup but it doesn't move the difficulty from NP to P. So instead of the runtime being O(2^n) on a classical computer the runtime is O(2^(n/2)) on a quantum computer. Now while this is an impressive speed gain, we move from stellar mass energy levels to total annual energy consumption of large powerful nation states, it doesn't mean that it breaks symmetric key crypto, only that we should double the key space to push things back up to stellar mass energy levels.
Then you need to figure out how they felt so threatened they turned rabid in the first place, and fix that.
That will be the hard part for Democrats and the media. Through years of effort they managed to create the perfect environment for someone like Trump. They vilify any republican as a a Nazi or Klansman. They vilify republican voters, anyone remember the bitter clingers or the basket of deplorables. The Dems then offer no hope to a large portion of those same voters who worked in mining or manufacturing all while seemingly giving everyone else a leg up. The media however goes after republicans ruthlessly while treating the Dems with kid gloves. So after all of that here comes a republican who doesn't give a fuck, goes after the media, tells those disaffected workers he will make things better instead of saying those jobs are gone and not coming back. Then add in that the Dems ran the worst candidate possible, yes Hillary was the worst candidate possible as she managed to lose to Trump who was the second worst, and it becomes clear why we have Trump.
About the only "consumers" I can see being interested in this would be gamers.
Or people who run tasks that benefit from a huge number of cores. I have a i7 3770 and I can get that thing so it pegs all 8 logical cores for an hour with ease. This is doing things like manipulations on large GIS data sets or combining many very high scans of film (a good lens with good film in a good SLR means you can get some phenomenal resolution bested only by the best digitals). For big jobs I will start it before bed or work and then hours later I can go back it to and see the results. There are some things that are so stupidly parallel that chips like these make sense. Granted for some of these tasks a GPU is faster still but then I would need a GPU with at least 24 GB RAM otherwise they just crap themselves and I get a GPU out of memory error.
Personally when I need to replace my existing machine in a couple of years these huge core count chips will provide a lot of benefit as will being able to shove 128-256GB ram in a box that isn't stupid expensive.
Will that code pass the Dieharder tests? That was not meant to be snarky but was meant to be something for consideration.
That is like 1.8 degrees more than Kevin Bacon.
Basic land nav really is becoming a lost skill. I have a cousin who was a weekend warrior for a while and he even lacks navigation skills without a GPS and detailed map. A few years back he shot a deer and it ran about 2 miles from where his stand was. Once we found it he wanted to drag it back out the way we came insisting that we weren't on the other side of the hill from my stand. I tried to convince him that my stand was only about 100 yards east and if we just walked that direction a short way we would hit the clear trail but he didn't believe we were that far south.
Topping off with distilled water every now and then isn't difficult.
Now Motorola is a Lenovo company. I have the Moto G4 plus and it came with stock android.
I got the Motorola Moto G4 plus (made by lenovo) and it isn't filled with the crapware you find on so many damn phones. There are 2 Motorola apps, and their camera app. the moto apps are small and you can turn them both off and not affect functionality unless you really want to use Motorola's gimmick gestures. Other than that it is a clean android install. I dropped open camera on it as well and disabled the stock camera as the options and modes in open camera are better.
On the few DoA items I have gotten from them, hey it happens, it has always been super easy to get it exchanged. Just bring it up to the returns/service counter the look up to see that I purchased it the day before or a few hours ago and they go and get me a new one. But like I said before that is what I like is that there isn't a hassle with doing the exchange. I never have gotten a replacement plan as my experience with electronics seems to be they are DoA, die in a couple of week, or die after like 7+ years of use. The in store returns/exchanges take care of the first 2 cases and for the 3rd by then most consumer electronics are so horribly out of date and the warranty never lasts that long that it wouldn't have mattered any way.
Sounds like the employers need to up their offer to attract better candidates.
You're right it makes the Tesla numbers look worse. Fair would be comparing starting pay to starting pay, and then compare pay at 5 years and eventually 10 years.
I might have to try these options at my lake property, or maybe I should forget about this unless it is an emergency and enjoy not being able to be contacted.
That is why I am thankful that I have a Micro Center near by. They may be marginally more expensive (I think I paid like $5 to $10 more the last time I built a computer) than amazon or new egg but the fact that if something is DOA I can bring it back and get a new one without any hassle is worth it. It doesn't seem to happen often but when it does stopping by on my way home from work is super easy (the back entrance is right at the top of the ramp to get on/off the freeway), or I can drive there if I need it now. Then add in the order online pickup in 18 minutes and it is worth shopping there as by the time I get there my order is ready.
For cell phones those appear to be about as good as they get which is why I chose the Apple and Google devices. The Motorola is the midrange phone I that I have so I included it as a reference point that I am familiar with and was surprised that to see how well it did compared to the other 2. The nice thing about the 3 test images is that the first one is a standard test that is meant to punishing but conducted under ideal circumstances. The other 2 are meant to be more representative of the real world in good and poor lighting conditions. Granted in all cases the camera is held in a mount so it is steady but that seems fair given that the purpose of the tests are to verify the resolving power of the camera.
I am not impressed with the Motorola's camera and as stated elsewhere I would prefer using my 9 year old son's 11 year old DSLR with cheap kit lens over the phone as that DSLR (8 megapixels APS-C sensor) takes noticeably better pictures. I still use my film camera and have been spoiled by having some very good lenses for it. Add in that you can't get bad film now (only the really good professional stuff is available) and I have a benchmark that is very hard to match by digital. That isn't to say you can't get that quality with digital but it requires buying the top of the line camera chassis and lenses.
That is exactly why those tests are great and valid as they show how much actual information can be captured by that camera, not how much software can make shit up. Additional software to supplement is just that, additional software.
The great thing about software is that you can feed any image into it and it should work. Anyone should be able to feed images into apple's photo software and have it do post processing to enhance that image, same thing with what ever google's software is. That post processing doesn't change the underlying objective attributes of image quality only the subjective ones. Things like real HDR, DRO, bracketed images, super resolution, various masks and filters, etc. are all post processing options and have no bearing on initial image quality. Unless you are doing super resolution your software isn't going to magically make more data appear in you image and even with super resolution you start off with more information that you get out.
When talking dynamic range a DSLR will blow any cell phone camera out of the water. If you really want impressive dynamic range use film. I have a few pictures with some deep shadows and the mid-day sun in them (yes I mean that giant ball of fusion is actually in the picture) and don't have huge areas of nothing but black or a completely washed out sky. It doesn't hurt that my camera is all manual so I don't fight with it doing something it wants instead of what I want. Add in that I have been using that camera for over 20 years and understand it, the films I use, and their limitations so I know how to get the picture I want.
As I have stated numerous times for most people a cell phone camera is more than good enough and with how automated they are they make it so that people take substantially fewer shitty pictures. That said, when looking at objective measures of image quality cell phone cameras suck. Dynamic range, vertical line resolution, horizontal line resolution, noise, moiré, color accuracy, etc. are all measurable when using that chart. As noted elsewhere by GSMArena that chart is deliberately punishing and real world results will likely be better as it is meant as a way to test the limits of the camera's image capture ability, not its ability to do post processing.
I didn't see those but that would have been a gas had I. I think in all the years I have been into photography I have taken 1 image that I would consider National Geographic quality and that is out of probably 25,000 photos. Even now most of the images are technically extremely good to perfect (I still do screw the pooch every now an then), and I do get the composition quite good but there has only been one image that I really just nailed it on all levels.
Most of my paid photography is from quilters, my wife is one and she knows and is friends with a bunch of big name quilters, who want extremely high quality images for publication in books or on their website. As I just like taking pictures and am just a very dedicated amateur I don't make much money off of it but it does offset the cost of my hobby some.
I would take the DSLR that my 9 year old son got for his birthday (an 11 year old Cannon EOS 30D with the cheap kit lens) over any cell phone camera. That 8 megapixel APS-C sensor even with that cheap 17-80mm kit lens (approximately 28-135mm 35mm equivalent) produces better images than any cell phone camera I have seen.
The camera he got was one of my wife's cousins who is into digital photography and they had long since upgraded so that camera was just collecting dust on the shelf. My 9 year old has been really into photography and wanted a better camera than my wife's point and shoot that he had been using some times and I didn't want him to learn on my film SLR as now that would be an expensive exercise in failure. When he starts getting really good with what he has (when the equipment is the limiting factor) I will likely get him a better lens and maybe a telephoto converter or extension tube set for it next.
Isn't that is the truth. When 99.99% of all pictures people take are going to be seen on a cellphone screen and/or posted to facebook and the remaining few printed as 5"x7"s just about any cell phone that isn't a $50 one work just as well.