All maps are distorted. The earth is round(ish) and maps are flat, and you can not represent a curved surface using a flat surface without distorting it. For a demonstration of this concept, try flattening an orange peel without squishing/stretching it.
however, different map projections can minimize distortion at different locations. What Google could (and maybe should) do is dynamically change the map projection used depending on the location currently being viewed to minimize distortion at that location.
If any Google HR reps are watching, I'd be glad to help with this. Make me an offer!:)
Intel: "Sure our current product isn't as good as the competition, but real soon now we're going to release a new super-duper processor. It'll be waaay better than the competition. Really."
That 'debunking' suffers the same blind spot that almost all the other commentators are suffering: they all assume that Apple is in the driver's seat. Everyone thinks Apple is dumping IBM, but I think it's the other way around - IBM is giving Apple the shove-off.
I think IBM has found that the R&D expense of the PowerPC doesn't make a sufficient return on the measly 1 million processors per quarter that Apple sells. They expect they can make much better money from the Cell, whether Apple comes along for the ride or not, so they told Apple to pay up or get lost. Apple chose to get lost, and has nowhere else to go but x86.
AO - DVD is a novel technique of encoding data on the surface of a DVD by using reflective nano-structures to encode data
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the limiting technology in optical storage was the laser, not the media.
Isn't the hard part making a laser beam narrow enough to read the smaller reflectors? And making the reflectors smaller is the easy part?
And another thing, Troi sure was hot, but God, I hated the way she abused Worf. "A Klingon does NOT [do X]!" "Well, I'm not a Klingon, but I know I would feel [feeling Y] if I were confronted with [situation Z] [and I think you damn well better change your behavior and act more like me by doing X even though I'm not a Klingon, or I will make a recommendation to Capt. Picard to include this "deficiency" in your officer's fitness report]." Which invariably concludes with Worf changing his behaviour to be more like a human-betazoid hybrid than the Klingon he is.
Replace "Klingon" with "man", and "human-betazoid hybrid" with "woman" in the above statement, and you've got a stereotypical heterosexual relationship.
I hate when that happens. I remember something incorrectly, then when I go to fact-check my memory on Google, I get false corroboration from others who made the same mistake. D'oh!
Wired has published over 700 stories by Delio since 2000
That's more than a story every three days, including weekends, for over 5 years. And that's just for Wired - it doesn't include articles written for other publications!
Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but it seems there should have been the suspicion that someone who can discover, investigate and report on a newsworthy phenomenon every 2.5 days for 5 years straight might be cutting corners somewhere.
I recently learned (by accident) that if you have multiple RFID chips next to each other in your wallet, none of them can be read.
The subway here in DC uses RFID cards, and my employer just swithced to them as well for building access, so I'm now the proud owner of two RFID cards. If I keep them next to each other in my wallet, I can neither get on the subway nor get into my office. I'm guessing that the multiple signal responses become garbled together resulting in none of them being readable.
That won't work because the single camera will be pointing at a different place when the second shot is taken. but in the Cartosat setup, the cameras are angled such that Camera 2 is pointing at the same place that Camera 1 was pointing x seconds ago, x being the time between the two cameras firing.
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All maps are distorted. The earth is round(ish) and maps are flat, and you can not represent a curved surface using a flat surface without distorting it. For a demonstration of this concept, try flattening an orange peel without squishing/stretching it.
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however, different map projections can minimize distortion at different locations. What Google could (and maybe should) do is dynamically change the map projection used depending on the location currently being viewed to minimize distortion at that location.
If any Google HR reps are watching, I'd be glad to help with this. Make me an offer!
Isn't this the very definition of FUD?
I think IBM has found that the R&D expense of the PowerPC doesn't make a sufficient return on the measly 1 million processors per quarter that Apple sells. They expect they can make much better money from the Cell, whether Apple comes along for the ride or not, so they told Apple to pay up or get lost. Apple chose to get lost, and has nowhere else to go but x86.
I bet you can't understand why you need a monkey with four asses either! Some people just don't get it!
So you don't have to stick a lighter up your ass to detonate it?
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the limiting technology in optical storage was the laser, not the media.
Isn't the hard part making a laser beam narrow enough to read the smaller reflectors? And making the reflectors smaller is the easy part?
For some reason all my keys are fine except for the W, A, S, and D keys. Those ones are blank. go figure.
Or put aluminum siding on the house?
If we're lucky.
If I wanted to pay a monthly fee for PVR service, I wouldn't have built a MythTV box - I would have bought a Tivo.
Notice they didn't say current-generation movie-quality images. The Last Starfighter was a movie, after all.
It would appear that putting perfection in the microwave is also a bad idea.
Nah. The people with the cat's coordination/eyes/claws will have no problem killing off the baseline-anatomy troublemakers.
Replace "Klingon" with "man", and "human-betazoid hybrid" with "woman" in the above statement, and you've got a stereotypical heterosexual relationship.
Man, that is flagrant false advertising!!
I hate when that happens. I remember something incorrectly, then when I go to fact-check my memory on Google, I get false corroboration from others who made the same mistake. D'oh!
"Man what a jip, false advertising!"
I thought this story was about internet wine sales finally being legalized!
That's more than a story every three days, including weekends, for over 5 years. And that's just for Wired - it doesn't include articles written for other publications!
Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but it seems there should have been the suspicion that someone who can discover, investigate and report on a newsworthy phenomenon every 2.5 days for 5 years straight might be cutting corners somewhere.
2. Give it a name that starts with nano-
3. Jack up the selling price.
4. Profit!!!
The subway here in DC uses RFID cards, and my employer just swithced to them as well for building access, so I'm now the proud owner of two RFID cards. If I keep them next to each other in my wallet, I can neither get on the subway nor get into my office. I'm guessing that the multiple signal responses become garbled together resulting in none of them being readable.
You know you're going to see it.
I sure wouldn't want to be the person sitting in front of you.
1 - Buy as many non-compliant tuner cards as possible before June 30.
2 - Start selling said cards on ebay on July 2.
3 - Profit!!!
Guess it's back to "natural enhancement" spamming for me. (kidding - please don't firebomb my house!)
Inflation?
No. :)
That won't work because the single camera will be pointing at a different place when the second shot is taken. but in the Cartosat setup, the cameras are angled such that Camera 2 is pointing at the same place that Camera 1 was pointing x seconds ago, x being the time between the two cameras firing.
I heard that Gluon was one of the rejected names for Intel's new kludgy dual core processor. They decided it was a little too close to home..