Ahhh, see? Everyone keeps complaining about how rounded corners should not be patentable, but now it turns out it's not that straightforward after all, is it?
I don't know how much effective focus/resolution is lost due to the phone's vibration
It stops vibrating to take a picture, then starts vibrating again to rotate further
Panoramic 360 degree lenses cram all the image data into one photo, plus there's all the distortion that'll knock things down further. Something like this would let you use the entire sensor to take each photo for stitching.
There's still plenty of distortion though, certainly for objects close to the camera.
Except for that fact that at such short distances there will be a fair amount of distortion with the images not lining up, warping straight lines a bit like the bridges on Apple Maps. And people will move during the time in between shots, no matter how hard they try to remain still, resulting in extra, missing or at the very least warped body parts. But that happens with any other stitching panorama method too.
Actually, it does require extra hardware. Except on really incredibly smooth surfaces perhaps, most iPhone 5s will just vibrate without rotating. A tutorial explains that in order to get better results, you should stick a small bit of tape onto the bottom between the microphone and the lightning connector. So yes, it does require hardware: a bit of tape.
In other news for nerds, Paris Hilton has a new outfit! And check back later to find out which star is ditching her boyfriend for a pizza delivery boy!
Counting at least half a billion people like me who are officially catholic (baptised as a baby, and later went through most other rituals to please family and/or to get presents) but don't really believe and would find it hilarious for the pope to be considered their "leader".
Just make it legal to unlock phones that were not made in South-Korea, and keep it illegal to unlock South-Korean ones. There, problem solved, everybody happy.
That's not what he was saying at all. He does not approve, quite the opposite. He was just pointing out that, instead of "eliminating stereotypes", they would in reality just pick and choose which stereotypes they liked and which they didn't. This hypocrisy is exactly what he was criticising.
Ask someone making a movie about Muslims (arrested for a "parole violation", o really?), or pretty much any public figure saying something that could be understood as politically incorrect (forced to apologise profusely, often fired or forced to resign), or someone making a joke about women in the workplace (sexual harassment, so fired on the spot), etcetera.
Sure, those are example we hear about in the media precisely because they are fairly infrequent, and most Americans are probably much more open-minded, but I just meant the US is not "far ahead of every country on earth". Many european countries actually have more freedom, including freedom of speech.
Your two examples of the UK and Germany do make sense, but the US is getting more and more libel cases as well, while this is very infrequent in Belgium, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and others. Libel cases usually don't even make it to court, and when they do and the plaintiff somehow manages to win, it's usually just a couple of thousand euros. Not the riciculous amounts common in the US.
The problem is that a large fraction of them will be shot out of the sky. That's why both the Russians and the US have so many, to make sure at least a few can get through.
The US, for all its faults, is a representative democracy with the strongest free-speech protections on the planet (the one area, IMHO, in which the USA is far, far ahead of every other country on earth)
Except for European countries like, say, the Netherlands, where prostitutes pay taxes, terminally ill can just ask their doctor to end their life, and leaders of racist parties are allowed to have their say in government (while being criticised, but allowed to speak). Oh, wait a minute, no, what a god-forsaken country, we don't want that kind of freedom, we meant "free" as in "as long as it does not conflict with our moral values which are far, far ahead of every country on earth"!
That's what you really meant, right?
Really, you should visit Europe some time. Talk to the people there. Ask them what they think about freedom of speech and other freedoms, and whether they think the US is so far ahead.
Sure, it's not bad, and countries like North Korea and Iran are obviously uncomparable, but "far ahead of every other country on earth" is certainly pushing it.
And what's the fix for your gravity pulling it away from a collision, but your exhaust pushing it into a collision course?
The solution is to have the exhaust *not* pushing it into a collision course. Isn't that obvious?
What he meant was: you place the tug on one side to bend the trajectory of the asteroid that way, but in order to keep the tug away from the asteroid, it has to fire its engines towards it. The exhaust will hit the asteroid and exert a force in exactly the opposite direction from what you are trying to achieve with the gravitational pull. If the entire exhaust hits the asteroid, the net trajectory change will be precisely zero. The only solution for that is to fire thrusters diagonally from a far enough distance so that the exhausts will miss the asteroid. But this will obviously reduce the amount of tugging you're going to achieve.
You don't understand how bureaucracy works in France . Sure, "the government" has plenty of money. But which department? Who will authorize it? Using which rule in the rule book? Who will blow his budget on this rather than pass it on to some other guy who is just as unwilling? I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing stalled and then time ran out so both twins walked.
I wouldn't be surprised if they would let them both walk. It's not a matter of one person deciding "shall we spend a million euros to find out who it is"? It's a matter of figuring out who should pay, then finding the right rules in "the book" that would allow such amount to be spent, using what budget, etcetera. Sure, France can afford to spend a million euros on something like that, but can the local police department? Can they get the money from some other department? Will they find someone willing to approve it? (Not meaning "someone who thinks it's a good idea" but "someone who will take the personal risk of allowing rules to be bent"). Don't underestimate bureaucracy, especially in France.
And I wouldn't blame a few individual bankers, I think this was coordinated a bit higher up. American banks had been selling way too many loans, and when they saw this was becoming a huge problem that might bring down the entire American economy, they made the brilliant move of packaging these loans in nice AAA investment vehicles and selling them to the rest of the world. Now it became a global crisis instead of an American one.
Not a very moral or honest thing to do, but it sure was ingenious.
O, now I get it! I was wondering how they could use DNA from someone separated by 20 generations to "prove" the identity, but now the pieces of the puzzle fall into place. This is not about the old king at all.
Someone left a "Richard the Third" (the slang version) in a parking lot, DNA testing was used to find the perpetrator, and then some prankster decided to write a cleverly worded press release which was predictably misinterpreted and spread by all the news outlets. Those Brits haven't lost their sense of humour...
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Ahhh, see? Everyone keeps complaining about how rounded corners should not be patentable, but now it turns out it's not that straightforward after all, is it?
So is posting on Slashdot about people wasting their time.
I don't know how much effective focus/resolution is lost due to the phone's vibration
It stops vibrating to take a picture, then starts vibrating again to rotate further
Panoramic 360 degree lenses cram all the image data into one photo, plus there's all the distortion that'll knock things down further. Something like this would let you use the entire sensor to take each photo for stitching.
There's still plenty of distortion though, certainly for objects close to the camera.
Except for that fact that at such short distances there will be a fair amount of distortion with the images not lining up, warping straight lines a bit like the bridges on Apple Maps. And people will move during the time in between shots, no matter how hard they try to remain still, resulting in extra, missing or at the very least warped body parts. But that happens with any other stitching panorama method too.
Actually, it does require extra hardware. Except on really incredibly smooth surfaces perhaps, most iPhone 5s will just vibrate without rotating. A tutorial explains that in order to get better results, you should stick a small bit of tape onto the bottom between the microphone and the lightning connector. So yes, it does require hardware: a bit of tape.
This is just the first step. The next particle they find will be called the "evolution particle".
In other news for nerds, Paris Hilton has a new outfit! And check back later to find out which star is ditching her boyfriend for a pizza delivery boy!
Counting at least half a billion people like me who are officially catholic (baptised as a baby, and later went through most other rituals to please family and/or to get presents) but don't really believe and would find it hilarious for the pope to be considered their "leader".
D'oh, why is Apple still using components from Samsung?
Just make it legal to unlock phones that were not made in South-Korea, and keep it illegal to unlock South-Korean ones. There, problem solved, everybody happy.
So if someone decides that people should not be allowed to say those words, you're OK with that?
I wish I had mod points to mod you funny!
That's not what he was saying at all. He does not approve, quite the opposite. He was just pointing out that, instead of "eliminating stereotypes", they would in reality just pick and choose which stereotypes they liked and which they didn't. This hypocrisy is exactly what he was criticising.
Ask someone making a movie about Muslims (arrested for a "parole violation", o really?), or pretty much any public figure saying something that could be understood as politically incorrect (forced to apologise profusely, often fired or forced to resign), or someone making a joke about women in the workplace (sexual harassment, so fired on the spot), etcetera.
Sure, those are example we hear about in the media precisely because they are fairly infrequent, and most Americans are probably much more open-minded, but I just meant the US is not "far ahead of every country on earth". Many european countries actually have more freedom, including freedom of speech.
Your two examples of the UK and Germany do make sense, but the US is getting more and more libel cases as well, while this is very infrequent in Belgium, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and others. Libel cases usually don't even make it to court, and when they do and the plaintiff somehow manages to win, it's usually just a couple of thousand euros. Not the riciculous amounts common in the US.
The problem is that a large fraction of them will be shot out of the sky. That's why both the Russians and the US have so many, to make sure at least a few can get through.
The US, for all its faults, is a representative democracy with the strongest free-speech protections on the planet (the one area, IMHO, in which the USA is far, far ahead of every other country on earth)
Except for European countries like, say, the Netherlands, where prostitutes pay taxes, terminally ill can just ask their doctor to end their life, and leaders of racist parties are allowed to have their say in government (while being criticised, but allowed to speak). Oh, wait a minute, no, what a god-forsaken country, we don't want that kind of freedom, we meant "free" as in "as long as it does not conflict with our moral values which are far, far ahead of every country on earth"!
That's what you really meant, right?
Really, you should visit Europe some time. Talk to the people there. Ask them what they think about freedom of speech and other freedoms, and whether they think the US is so far ahead.
Sure, it's not bad, and countries like North Korea and Iran are obviously uncomparable, but "far ahead of every other country on earth" is certainly pushing it.
That's slightly ambiguous, but I agree with what you most likely intended: Americans are indeed fucking stupid.
And what's the fix for your gravity pulling it away from a collision, but your exhaust pushing it into a collision course?
The solution is to have the exhaust *not* pushing it into a collision course. Isn't that obvious?
What he meant was: you place the tug on one side to bend the trajectory of the asteroid that way, but in order to keep the tug away from the asteroid, it has to fire its engines towards it. The exhaust will hit the asteroid and exert a force in exactly the opposite direction from what you are trying to achieve with the gravitational pull. If the entire exhaust hits the asteroid, the net trajectory change will be precisely zero. The only solution for that is to fire thrusters diagonally from a far enough distance so that the exhausts will miss the asteroid. But this will obviously reduce the amount of tugging you're going to achieve.
#@$%MFklsfdl;aksdf#$%@$? That's amazing, I've got the same combination on my luggage!
I bet it killed itself after causing the world's first stock market crash.
You don't understand how bureaucracy works in France . Sure, "the government" has plenty of money. But which department? Who will authorize it? Using which rule in the rule book? Who will blow his budget on this rather than pass it on to some other guy who is just as unwilling? I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing stalled and then time ran out so both twins walked.
I wouldn't be surprised if they would let them both walk. It's not a matter of one person deciding "shall we spend a million euros to find out who it is"? It's a matter of figuring out who should pay, then finding the right rules in "the book" that would allow such amount to be spent, using what budget, etcetera. Sure, France can afford to spend a million euros on something like that, but can the local police department? Can they get the money from some other department? Will they find someone willing to approve it? (Not meaning "someone who thinks it's a good idea" but "someone who will take the personal risk of allowing rules to be bent"). Don't underestimate bureaucracy, especially in France.
Why perjury? He told the truth: he did not do it, his brother did.
And I wouldn't blame a few individual bankers, I think this was coordinated a bit higher up. American banks had been selling way too many loans, and when they saw this was becoming a huge problem that might bring down the entire American economy, they made the brilliant move of packaging these loans in nice AAA investment vehicles and selling them to the rest of the world. Now it became a global crisis instead of an American one.
Not a very moral or honest thing to do, but it sure was ingenious.
O, now I get it! I was wondering how they could use DNA from someone separated by 20 generations to "prove" the identity, but now the pieces of the puzzle fall into place. This is not about the old king at all.
Someone left a "Richard the Third" (the slang version) in a parking lot, DNA testing was used to find the perpetrator, and then some prankster decided to write a cleverly worded press release which was predictably misinterpreted and spread by all the news outlets. Those Brits haven't lost their sense of humour...