Nokia, if I was you, I'd be making sure I had working Android ROM's for all those Lumia phones (and new faceplate designs) as it looks like the Surface Phone is turning out to be true....Microsoft doesn't have your back (when has MS ever been satisfied with just a little bit of a market).
Camera review site (known for not being slanted in their reviews) to the iPhone 5 for an initial review (longer one comparing to other phones will come later) and dedicated a whole page analyzing the flare issue.
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/6867454450/quick-review-apple-iphone-5-camera
Here's their analysis of the flare issue:
"Really, our advice is not to worry. Just do what you should do anyway, and avoid putting bright lights near the edge of the frame when shooting."
Their final conclusion on the 5's camera:
"The iPhone 5 is a fine mobile device, with an excellent camera. In qualititative terms it's not the best camera out there, and nor is it the best camera on a smartphone (the Nokia 808 has that honor, for now) but it offers satisfying image quality, some neat functions like auto panorama and HDR mode, and - crucially - it is supremely easy to use. It isn't much better than the iPhone 4S, as far as its photographic performance is concerned, but it isn't any worse (notwithstanding a somewhat more noticeable propensity towards lens flare). When manufacturers employ pixel-binning to achieve higher ISO settings we don't normally celebrate the fact, but in the case of the iPhone 5, it gives you greater flexibility in poor light (i.e., you might actually get a picture now, where you just wouldn't with the iPhone 4S) and the drop in quality is unnoticeable when the images are used for sharing/web display."
While the Apple update doesn't fix the v7 vulnerability, it shouldn't as the Apple Java is v6 which supposedly doesn't have it (or some part of it). So this seems to make sense.
To get v7 on a Mac you have to go out of your way and download v7 from Oracle separately.
Just for reference, I believe the 22 percent of tablet sales includes all Kindle sales (i.e. the Kindle e-readers). Because of Amazon's lack of transparency for details you have to parse their announcements aggressively.
Well, the idea of a hypersonic airliner sounds enticing, but drag increases at a square of the speed (if memory serves) - this is why you don't see supersonic airliners (they'd just burn too much fuel to be able to make a profit with) and hypersonic would be way, way more inefficient.
As to the Russians doing this, it'd be cool to see them do it, but they could just use their ICBM's and get the bomb there faster... JMHO...
Unless he's using radiation hardened electronics and design the satellite will be fried very quickly. But heh, if this is what this guy wants to do and spend all that money to launch this little personal satellite....more power to him.
I'd add "Regeneration" and "Future Tense" in there for Enterprise episodes, although Regeneration after they watched "Star Trek First Contact" the movie...
Wow, thanks for that link. I had no idea how small an area Kepler is looking at (its a very small cone with a relatively short length). Finding more than a couple means there will be alot of potential candidates throughout the galaxy - and it sounds like they are going to find more than a couple. Another point in this is that it relies on the orbits of the candidate planets to transit their star in relation to our view which many could easily not be doing (and not visible) if their orbits weren't in line with us.
The customer, whose employees ran the plant during the demonstration today, purchased the plant after it demonstrated a continuos output of 470Mw during its operation.
Something future changing may have just happened in Italy today.
I have a brand new (got it last week from AT&T) 2Wire gateway that is open to the vulnerability, its internal firmware update facility shows "no update available", no firmware updates available from AT&T support or 2Wire support. So it looks like AT&T's statement was misinformed or deliberately misleading - not a surprise I suppose.
Although it hasn't been publicised greatly, Comcast throttles alot more than bit torrent. Lotus Notes gets throttled as do iChat (640x480 video conference) sessions (making them unusable after about a minute). You have to set iChat to restrict itself to 3x dial up speed to work. Comcast is probably throttling alot more than this in reality. VPN is about the only way around their throttles.
What good are their "High" speeds (how they justify their more expensive prices compared to DSL) when you can't use them? BTW they've denied they've been doing this the whole time.
They're definitely the perfect poster child for Net Neutrality. Comcast customers, its time to take your money elsewhere.
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Nokia, if I was you, I'd be making sure I had working Android ROM's for all those Lumia phones (and new faceplate designs) as it looks like the Surface Phone is turning out to be true....Microsoft doesn't have your back (when has MS ever been satisfied with just a little bit of a market).
Camera review site (known for not being slanted in their reviews) to the iPhone 5 for an initial review (longer one comparing to other phones will come later) and dedicated a whole page analyzing the flare issue. http://www.dpreview.com/articles/6867454450/quick-review-apple-iphone-5-camera Here's their analysis of the flare issue: "Really, our advice is not to worry. Just do what you should do anyway, and avoid putting bright lights near the edge of the frame when shooting." Their final conclusion on the 5's camera: "The iPhone 5 is a fine mobile device, with an excellent camera. In qualititative terms it's not the best camera out there, and nor is it the best camera on a smartphone (the Nokia 808 has that honor, for now) but it offers satisfying image quality, some neat functions like auto panorama and HDR mode, and - crucially - it is supremely easy to use. It isn't much better than the iPhone 4S, as far as its photographic performance is concerned, but it isn't any worse (notwithstanding a somewhat more noticeable propensity towards lens flare). When manufacturers employ pixel-binning to achieve higher ISO settings we don't normally celebrate the fact, but in the case of the iPhone 5, it gives you greater flexibility in poor light (i.e., you might actually get a picture now, where you just wouldn't with the iPhone 4S) and the drop in quality is unnoticeable when the images are used for sharing/web display."
I wonder if Google will do this to Amazon who is pursuing a similiar (build another platform from Android) strategy.
While the Apple update doesn't fix the v7 vulnerability, it shouldn't as the Apple Java is v6 which supposedly doesn't have it (or some part of it). So this seems to make sense. To get v7 on a Mac you have to go out of your way and download v7 from Oracle separately.
Just for reference, I believe the 22 percent of tablet sales includes all Kindle sales (i.e. the Kindle e-readers). Because of Amazon's lack of transparency for details you have to parse their announcements aggressively.
Well, the idea of a hypersonic airliner sounds enticing, but drag increases at a square of the speed (if memory serves) - this is why you don't see supersonic airliners (they'd just burn too much fuel to be able to make a profit with) and hypersonic would be way, way more inefficient. As to the Russians doing this, it'd be cool to see them do it, but they could just use their ICBM's and get the bomb there faster... JMHO...
Unless he's using radiation hardened electronics and design the satellite will be fried very quickly. But heh, if this is what this guy wants to do and spend all that money to launch this little personal satellite....more power to him.
I'd add "Regeneration" and "Future Tense" in there for Enterprise episodes, although Regeneration after they watched "Star Trek First Contact" the movie...
Wow, thanks for that link. I had no idea how small an area Kepler is looking at (its a very small cone with a relatively short length). Finding more than a couple means there will be alot of potential candidates throughout the galaxy - and it sounds like they are going to find more than a couple. Another point in this is that it relies on the orbits of the candidate planets to transit their star in relation to our view which many could easily not be doing (and not visible) if their orbits weren't in line with us.
The customer, whose employees ran the plant during the demonstration today, purchased the plant after it demonstrated a continuos output of 470Mw during its operation. Something future changing may have just happened in Italy today.
Whoa, good news so far. Can't help but hope on this, based on the news above, it would change the world.
Lobbying by Merc has paid off again - shares should be up on this.
I have a brand new (got it last week from AT&T) 2Wire gateway that is open to the vulnerability, its internal firmware update facility shows "no update available", no firmware updates available from AT&T support or 2Wire support. So it looks like AT&T's statement was misinformed or deliberately misleading - not a surprise I suppose.
Although it hasn't been publicised greatly, Comcast throttles alot more than bit torrent. Lotus Notes gets throttled as do iChat (640x480 video conference) sessions (making them unusable after about a minute). You have to set iChat to restrict itself to 3x dial up speed to work. Comcast is probably throttling alot more than this in reality. VPN is about the only way around their throttles. What good are their "High" speeds (how they justify their more expensive prices compared to DSL) when you can't use them? BTW they've denied they've been doing this the whole time. They're definitely the perfect poster child for Net Neutrality. Comcast customers, its time to take your money elsewhere.