It definitely is as authoritative as *I* thought, since the source I cited is quite simply *the only authoritative source* of this information.
I was already aware of the EPEAT rating process, but *all* of the products with EPEAT ratings are rated in the manner described. Apple is not unique in rating their own products, as ArsTechnica seems to imply.
The point I was making is that contrary to what The MacObserver claimed, the Retina display MacBook Pro is listed on the EPEAT website as having a gold rating. Whether or not the rating is deserved, and whether or not the glue is a recycling problem as claimed by some–those are issues that are yet to be determined.
Minimum standards are designed to bring the worst of the worst up to the lowest acceptable standard (sort of like "No Child Left Behind.") But they also have a way of dragging down the best of the best.
EPEAT is more than "long in the tooth," it's downright archaic by Apple standards. In recycling (even before they had a transparent recycling program) Apple has been way ahead of other computing device companies (and Greenpeace) for at least a decade. Their design decisions in packaging and product energy efficiency alone put them far ahead of everyone else long before anyone mentioned the term "CO2 footprint."
No.
Apparently Woz actually *could* have cared less, but on considering it, he decided that he cared so little that actually caring less would have been more trouble than it was worth.
Later he determined that he cared enough to remember the incident and that it had definite value after all (That's so "him.")
"Thermite is rather hard to ignite. Explosives are much easier."
[Relatively] "hard to ignite" is a feature, not a bug (especially so for manned aircraft.)
I heard it reported that the software was the most sensitive part of the drone and that it was remotely destroyed on landing. Surprises me, as I would imagine the hardware was a pretty big deal too. In any case the US doesn't seem to concerned.
++
At least *someone* has heard of a design patent (and you've only been rated a 2!)
I don't know why I bother reading Slashdot any more—definitely not anything to do with patents anyway. Any patent related post is alway smothered by morons who haven't even bothered to learn the basic principles governing patents.
While Apples design suggestions are extreme, and probably not all that helpful to Samsung (but then Samsung should pay for their own industrial design efforts,) their basic point is correct. Apple has not patented the rectangle, or rounded rectangles, or flat screens, or colors, etc. They have protected their industrial design, brand, trade dress, etc. These design patents are part of that effort, and are very reasonable. Apple basically just wants to stop Samsung's wholesale counterfeiting of Apple's packaging, design, styling, etc. Samsung's knockoffs, if you will.
I mean, come on!: http://www.reddit.com/tb/kr14a
Amazing what one can get used to. About 25 years ago I had to endure 2 heroic root canals. Each one tooth required about 5 or 6 45 minute sessions a few days apart. Each session involving Novocain, dental dam and various combinations of gum surgery, drilling, filing, sealing, filling, etc. By the 6th session I was falling asleep in the chair, much to the annoyance of the endodontist.
The lion's share of medical expenses lay in Pharmaceuticals. Unsurprisingly the lions share of made in medicine go to the pharmaceutical companies (although insurance companies do well also.) This is largely a result of concentrating their energy on unethical and usurious schemes involving pharmaceuticals designed to maximize profits rather than concentrating on creating pharmaceuticals that are effective for sick people.
Yes.
It's surprising that he seems to gloss over this fact (and the physical evidence of many earlier major earthquakes in the area.) I assume the article does not present his argument well.
As a geology grad and Illinoian who has experienced tremors in southern Illinois first hand, I will not be one to dismiss the dangers of the New Madrid fault anytime soon. Just two years ago I had pots in my kitchen cabinets rattle from a tremor in the area, and I live 350 miles away, near Chicago. I think his view (as presented) is definitely in the minority among seismologists.
Robert M, I admire that you have put your thoughts out there and gone to the effort of showing your work. Thanks.
But, honestly. There is simply no comparison between what the MS de-blurr does and what a simple sharpening filter can do. And looking by looking at the images it's totally obvious (at least to anyone who has a threshold level of photography or image processing experience.) The MS de-blurr technique is a starting point for improving the original image capture intent, not an end point. The MS de-blurr technique enhances the amount of information captured instead of degrading poorly captured information. It can be processed further by *proper* post processing image enhancement techniques and get to a much better result than what you have done with a simple Sharpen filter.
In other words, run those sharpen filters on the MS de-blurred images to see a better comparison (although the filters you used are actually not a good choice to enhance the image.)
Don't think of this technique as a replacement for a tripod or proper image capture. Rather think of it as an additional free improvement to all the other techniques.
The really cool thing about the MS de-blurr technique is that it can use onboard hardware "for free" (at least for many smart phones) to improve image capture with little effort. It could be used to great effect with any camera (with adaptation, depending on additional hardware used) DSLR, point and shoots, etc., especially if it can be run on the raw data before processing into JPEG or TIFF. If the process is computationally too intensive, it can still be used very effectively in post processing if the image is captured RAW.
Sign me up.
As I learned it, it was,
"Shave his belly with a rusty razor . . . "
Regarding the G5 though, just load Leopard on it. My old G4 running Leopard works quite well as a sit down computer. Admittedly though, recycling it and getting a new one is probably the best solution when you consider performance and energy use. I'll probably do that in the next year or so myself.
"If you believe there's an iPhone 6 in that testing chamber under a black cloak, then Gizmodo has a phone they want to sell you."
And if you believe there isn't, I've a bridge I'd to sell you (and we all know from court documents etc. who is more likely to possess such items!)
Oh, I like em!
When I saw the CU article I immediately sold 100 shares of AAPL in my ROTH for 257.62. Yesterday I bought them back for 47.95. Today its back up over 253.
It makes me cry when the big boys FUD Apple, all the way to the bank.
It is after all a "support site," not a "chat site."
It looks like there are lots of thoughtful discussions about the antenna issue, just no whining, which Apple has always deleted. Whining does not advance the support/trouble shooting goal of thew site.
Also CU does not let you see their full results unless you pay them (since they do not take advertising to remove any direct conflict of interest.)
Does this control of access to their site mean CU is "censoring" their site? I don't think so. Neither is Apple.
To Forward P/E, I would add PEG Ratio.
PEG Ratio indicates AAPL is undervalued for its growth, while MSFT is overvalued.
And SETIguy, MSFT pays dividends because their stock has bee flat for 10 years! Its become a stodgy utility and is no longer a growing tech stock.
But by all means, ride it down!
"The iPod Touch I could understand since it doesn’t necessarily have an internet connection, but the iPhone has its own dedicated connection..."
Actually both the iPad and iPodtouch have Wifi (and Bluetooth) I assume that is what you mean by"internet connection." The 3G version of the iPad will not be shipping for another week or so.
As far as why?
In normal use, when docked, theses devices have access to iTunes for syncing content, metadata, etc., and they can recharge their batteries. That goes for an update too, but in addition its easier if the OS does not have to run and there is the extra security of a direct power supply—no running out of power in the middle of the update.
Slashdot Mirror
It definitely is as authoritative as *I* thought, since the source I cited is quite simply *the only authoritative source* of this information.
I was already aware of the EPEAT rating process, but *all* of the products with EPEAT ratings are rated in the manner described. Apple is not unique in rating their own products, as ArsTechnica seems to imply.
The point I was making is that contrary to what The MacObserver claimed, the Retina display MacBook Pro is listed on the EPEAT website as having a gold rating. Whether or not the rating is deserved, and whether or not the glue is a recycling problem as claimed by some–those are issues that are yet to be determined.
Here's a more authoritative source: http://ww2.epeat.net/ProductDisplay.aspx?return=pm&action=view&search=true&productid=8667&ProductType=3&epeatcountryid=1
Minimum standards are designed to bring the worst of the worst up to the lowest acceptable standard (sort of like "No Child Left Behind.") But they also have a way of dragging down the best of the best. EPEAT is more than "long in the tooth," it's downright archaic by Apple standards. In recycling (even before they had a transparent recycling program) Apple has been way ahead of other computing device companies (and Greenpeace) for at least a decade. Their design decisions in packaging and product energy efficiency alone put them far ahead of everyone else long before anyone mentioned the term "CO2 footprint."
I think you mean he COULDN'T have cared less.
No.
Apparently Woz actually *could* have cared less, but on considering it, he decided that he cared so little that actually caring less would have been more trouble than it was worth.
Later he determined that he cared enough to remember the incident and that it had definite value after all (That's so "him.")
"Thermite is rather hard to ignite. Explosives are much easier." [Relatively] "hard to ignite" is a feature, not a bug (especially so for manned aircraft.)
I guess I missed that physics class.
I heard it reported that the software was the most sensitive part of the drone and that it was remotely destroyed on landing. Surprises me, as I would imagine the hardware was a pretty big deal too. In any case the US doesn't seem to concerned.
++ At least *someone* has heard of a design patent (and you've only been rated a 2!)
I don't know why I bother reading Slashdot any more—definitely not anything to do with patents anyway. Any patent related post is alway smothered by morons who haven't even bothered to learn the basic principles governing patents.
While Apples design suggestions are extreme, and probably not all that helpful to Samsung (but then Samsung should pay for their own industrial design efforts,) their basic point is correct. Apple has not patented the rectangle, or rounded rectangles, or flat screens, or colors, etc. They have protected their industrial design, brand, trade dress, etc. These design patents are part of that effort, and are very reasonable. Apple basically just wants to stop Samsung's wholesale counterfeiting of Apple's packaging, design, styling, etc. Samsung's knockoffs, if you will.
I mean, come on!:
http://www.reddit.com/tb/kr14a
Amazing what one can get used to. About 25 years ago I had to endure 2 heroic root canals. Each one tooth required about 5 or 6 45 minute sessions a few days apart. Each session involving Novocain, dental dam and various combinations of gum surgery, drilling, filing, sealing, filling, etc. By the 6th session I was falling asleep in the chair, much to the annoyance of the endodontist.
The lion's share of medical expenses lay in Pharmaceuticals. Unsurprisingly the lions share of made in medicine go to the pharmaceutical companies (although insurance companies do well also.) This is largely a result of concentrating their energy on unethical and usurious schemes involving pharmaceuticals designed to maximize profits rather than concentrating on creating pharmaceuticals that are effective for sick people.
My case is:
I don't enable flash on my devices. That makes it a pretty fracking lame platform for getting me to use anything you have developed.
I immediately thought of The Ambiguously Gay Duo. No offense to the Steves. It just seemed to have comic potential.
Yes. It's surprising that he seems to gloss over this fact (and the physical evidence of many earlier major earthquakes in the area.) I assume the article does not present his argument well. As a geology grad and Illinoian who has experienced tremors in southern Illinois first hand, I will not be one to dismiss the dangers of the New Madrid fault anytime soon. Just two years ago I had pots in my kitchen cabinets rattle from a tremor in the area, and I live 350 miles away, near Chicago. I think his view (as presented) is definitely in the minority among seismologists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/technology/21cookie.html?
Good old Flash!
Robert M, I admire that you have put your thoughts out there and gone to the effort of showing your work. Thanks.
But, honestly. There is simply no comparison between what the MS de-blurr does and what a simple sharpening filter can do. And looking by looking at the images it's totally obvious (at least to anyone who has a threshold level of photography or image processing experience.) The MS de-blurr technique is a starting point for improving the original image capture intent, not an end point. The MS de-blurr technique enhances the amount of information captured instead of degrading poorly captured information. It can be processed further by *proper* post processing image enhancement techniques and get to a much better result than what you have done with a simple Sharpen filter.
In other words, run those sharpen filters on the MS de-blurred images to see a better comparison (although the filters you used are actually not a good choice to enhance the image.)
Don't think of this technique as a replacement for a tripod or proper image capture. Rather think of it as an additional free improvement to all the other techniques.
The really cool thing about the MS de-blurr technique is that it can use onboard hardware "for free" (at least for many smart phones) to improve image capture with little effort. It could be used to great effect with any camera (with adaptation, depending on additional hardware used) DSLR, point and shoots, etc., especially if it can be run on the raw data before processing into JPEG or TIFF. If the process is computationally too intensive, it can still be used very effectively in post processing if the image is captured RAW.
Sign me up.
As I learned it, it was,
"Shave his belly with a rusty razor . . . "
Regarding the G5 though, just load Leopard on it. My old G4 running Leopard works quite well as a sit down computer. Admittedly though, recycling it and getting a new one is probably the best solution when you consider performance and energy use. I'll probably do that in the next year or so myself.
"If you believe there's an iPhone 6 in that testing chamber under a black cloak, then Gizmodo has a phone they want to sell you."
And if you believe there isn't, I've a bridge I'd to sell you (and we all know from court documents etc. who is more likely to possess such items!)
Thanks, but the cash is enough for me.
(that's 247.95)
Oh, I like em! When I saw the CU article I immediately sold 100 shares of AAPL in my ROTH for 257.62. Yesterday I bought them back for 47.95. Today its back up over 253.
It makes me cry when the big boys FUD Apple, all the way to the bank.
It is after all a "support site," not a "chat site."
It looks like there are lots of thoughtful discussions about the antenna issue, just no whining, which Apple has always deleted. Whining does not advance the support/trouble shooting goal of thew site.
Also CU does not let you see their full results unless you pay them (since they do not take advertising to remove any direct conflict of interest.)
Does this control of access to their site mean CU is "censoring" their site? I don't think so. Neither is Apple.
To Forward P/E, I would add PEG Ratio.
PEG Ratio indicates AAPL is undervalued for its growth, while MSFT is overvalued.
And SETIguy, MSFT pays dividends because their stock has bee flat for 10 years! Its become a stodgy utility and is no longer a growing tech stock.
But by all means, ride it down!
You allow your users to send and receive e-mail?
"The iPod Touch I could understand since it doesn’t necessarily have an internet connection, but the iPhone has its own dedicated connection..."
Actually both the iPad and iPodtouch have Wifi (and Bluetooth) I assume that is what you mean by"internet connection." The 3G version of the iPad will not be shipping for another week or so.
As far as why?
In normal use, when docked, theses devices have access to iTunes for syncing content, metadata, etc., and they can recharge their batteries. That goes for an update too, but in addition its easier if the OS does not have to run and there is the extra security of a direct power supply—no running out of power in the middle of the update.
"BTW, Adobe has Open Sourced their Flex framework and who knows, might even do the same with Flash player at some point."
Yeah, and who knows gold coins might fly out your ass too!
Who cares if Flash goes Open Source? No thanks, Flash is "a bag of hurt."