Well I don't know about the US, but here in Oz I pay $1 a month for 150mb of data over 3g - so assuming an AMR codec with a bitrate at 20kbps (2.5kb/s) (which is what fring uses, I don't know about skype) - that gives me around 1000 minutes of talk per dollar!
I don't know if any voice only plans can match that.
I hear some of the other low bandwidth AMR codecs are capable of 6.5kbps - which would double that result.
Of course - if you want to call someone who doesn't have sip - you need to pay a voip provider for the dial-out service. But as far as I've experienced - it always turns out cheaper.
Ignoring the inherent dangers of crowdsourcing - why are we supposed to believe that this site is more reliable, and has less bias than your average twitter channel?
I always find myself suspicious when people claim that they have some sort of uncontested claim on truth - politicians who start sentences with the words "believe me" spring to mind.
You won't need a separable flash. I'm willing to bet any money that they'll be using arrays of movable micro-electromechanical (MEMS) mirrors and micro-lenses in the in the camera to aim the flash automatically for you. MEMS mirrors are tiny, cheap to make now that we know how to make them, and are easily able to do this kind of application.
I'm also not sure if a camera sized computer can do 3D maps at a reasonable speed yet - but a hardware chip which has instructions purely to implement that sort of algorithm definitely could fit on a camera or phone, and again would be tiny and cheap to add in once you were mass producing it.
Hell - if you are not allowed to think like that, then how do you even write the next season of 24?
The assignment would have covered such a large range of critical and creative thinking skills - it really seems to me like a good idea. I can't ever remember seeing a school project or assignment that would exercise such a large range of skills in one go.
And for the people who find thinking about it "extremely offensive" - all I can say is: harden up - terrorism in one form or another has existed throughout history, and it won't go away just because you choose to ignore it.
Well why wouldn't you? When apple releases their version in 5 or 6 years time it will be ground-breaking new hardware in a form factor that no-one has ever imagined before...
Definitely yes!
I have mine set up to play a tone through the stereo whenever someone walks up my front entranceway - but that isn't via X10 - it's via a perl script running on my HTPC, and it is more for alerting me, rather than freaking out thieves.
You've missed my point.
The 'Where To?' app wouldn't infringe this patent if it was granted, apple is not patenting the operation of apps in the app store in the way the article reports.
This is a patent for a type of service that apps like the 'Where To?' app could use if they wanted to, and the image in question is just held up as an example of this.
This patent couldn't be used as a defensive patent for the 'Where To?' app like you sarcastically suggest, because it is patenting a different thing entirely.
I'll agree with you that the US software patent system is evil, but the fact is, it exists, and large corporations can't afford to ignore it.
but if you look closely at the figures in one of the patents, you can see that it's a copy of the third-party Where To? application
Yes, and if you read those pesky words that are floating around all the pretty pictures, you'll realise that the patent is for a data aggregation service that applications like "Where To?" will be able to use.
Apple seems to be looking at common applications in the app store, and figuring out what infrastructure services might make them better. This isn't evil, it isn't even particularly sneaky - anyone with an itunes account can browse apps and patent the same sort of ideas.
Don't get me wrong - I still think Apple is evil - this just isn't an example of their evil behaviour.
the only problem with using it for home security is if the burglars steal
your server when they break in...
Seriously though, I use zoneminder, it has a really slick web interface,
easy to configure, any camera supported by v4l2 is supported, there's also
a nice plugin for mythtv - so if you use myth as your htpc - you can view
your security recordings, or your live camera feeds on your tv.
Just make sure you have an offsite backup - otherwise burglars will steal
your recordings of them
Video surveillance isn't really a deterrent though - a rather useful
deterrent for nerds (which is actually more successful than it should be)
- is to use a home automation system (like X10) to turn on house lights/tv
etc, on a schedule - so if you aren't home in the evening, it will look
like someone is to anyone who is scoping your place out for a burglary.
Clearly that part of the sky is where the aliens are.
Time for the seti guys to try to break the compression algorithm - so that we can get communicating.
Sad reality: if the robot-body technology WAS developed within our lifetimes, the vast majority of us couldn't afford it.
Oh I'm sure that banks will be willing to give you a loan to purchase (or better still - rent) your immortal robot-body, after all - you are going to have hundreds of years to pay it off.
I know some executives who would salivate at the idea of having an indentured workforce like that.
But you're a mac user - so price/performance means nothing to you, since you are already paying an extra few hundred dollars for your hardware (when compared to a no-name equivalent). For those of us who would rather not give that money to Steve Jobs, and keep it to spend on our own beer and wenches, it does become important.
Except I wasn't modded insightful, I was modded informative. TFA had misinformation in it which I corrected.
Whilst both you and I may think that it is common knowledge that 6 or 7 relatively unknown sites couldn't have caused billions of dollars worth of losses to the US economy, apparently that knowledge isn't common enough to reach the rarefied heights that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York inhabits.
I considered it an important point to correct because I'm certain that these imaginary billions of dollars were used to justify what was a major operation involving no less than 13(!) government agencies:
The ICE did not work alone; it was joined by a number of U.S. law-enforcement and other agencies: U.S. Customs and Border Protection; the FBI; the Department of Commerce; the Food and Drug Administration; the Postal Inspection Service; the General Services Administration, Office of the Inspector General; the Naval Criminal Investigative Service; the Defense Criminal Investigative Service; the Army Criminal Investigative Division's Major Procurement Fraud Unit; and the Government of Mexico Tax Administrative Service.
The piracy "reportedly resulted in billions of dollars in losses to the U.S. economy," Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement.
that they were going to use child pornography to justify having to do this. I guess the polls must of shown that terrorism was still the hottest button topic.
I have to disagree. For the last 3 months I have been using a netbook which I dock at both work and at home. Yes, the current crop of netbooks are now powerful enough for me to do CAD on. If I have to do something more cpu-intensive, like 3d FDTD optical simulation, I farm it off to a server.
The 2Ghz snapdragon chips are coming out towards the end of this year, and if you combine that speed with a decent hand-held distribution that can run x - such as maemo or angstrom - then I can see myself in a couple of years time not even using a netbook - just taking my phone and hooking into whatever monitor, keyboard, & mouse are available, and going for it.
Surely no-one here is naive enough to think that the entire iphone/ipod/ipad/itunes/app store ecosystem happened by accident?
Whether or not you like the vendor lock-in (if you're a shareholder you do, if you're a customer you shouldn't), a lot of work has gone into designing this system so that each piece hangs together well, and there is more value in the sum of the parts than in each component. Definitely apple has succeeded in their intent.
The pseudo-scientists, news reporters, and pundits purport to offer truth when they offer interpretation. And after a while, the average person doesn't know what to believe any more.
That's right, one news site published stories stating strong correlation, weak correlation, and no correlation when examining the same data over one 24 hour period. The newspaper which the website is sister to has the largest daily circulation of all papers in the state of Victoria, Australia, yet it is as consistent as some hormonally-charged teenager's blog.
And why not use computers? Lintott says they can only identify what they are programmed to look for, and might miss the unusual.
"Computers don't make discoveries," he says. "They don't point at the thing in the corner and ask the question: What's that?"
Computers can however, identify what they are programmed to look for, and then indicate any areas which have features which they do not recognise. At the very least he should write a filter to parse out the completely typical images before getting the general public to do his work for him.
This guy is either too lazy or cheap to write some image analysis software, or a luddite who doesn't trust computers.
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Well I don't know about the US, but here in Oz I pay $1 a month for 150mb of data over 3g - so assuming an AMR codec with a bitrate at 20kbps (2.5kb/s) (which is what fring uses, I don't know about skype) - that gives me around 1000 minutes of talk per dollar!
I don't know if any voice only plans can match that.
I hear some of the other low bandwidth AMR codecs are capable of 6.5kbps - which would double that result.
Of course - if you want to call someone who doesn't have sip - you need to pay a voip provider for the dial-out service. But as far as I've experienced - it always turns out cheaper.
Ignoring the inherent dangers of crowdsourcing - why are we supposed to believe that this site is more reliable, and has less bias than your average twitter channel?
I always find myself suspicious when people claim that they have some sort of uncontested claim on truth - politicians who start sentences with the words "believe me" spring to mind.
Yep- we were talking about bouncing.
:-)
Getting a bright enough flash is pretty easy - being able able to use it more than once with a smartphone battery - there's the real trick
You won't need a separable flash. I'm willing to bet any money that they'll be using arrays of movable micro-electromechanical (MEMS) mirrors and micro-lenses in the in the camera to aim the flash automatically for you.
MEMS mirrors are tiny, cheap to make now that we know how to make them, and are easily able to do this kind of application.
I'm also not sure if a camera sized computer can do 3D maps at a reasonable speed yet - but a hardware chip which has instructions purely to implement that sort of algorithm definitely could fit on a camera or phone, and again would be tiny and cheap to add in once you were mass producing it.
The key word is *recording*. Shoot 1080p on your phone - stream it to the nearest hd projector or tv.
Also, I'm not sure I agree with this assertion:
While in theory Flash video might be a competitive advantage for Android users,
You can do a lot more with flash than just watch video. The competitive advantage is just having flash at all.
Hell - if you are not allowed to think like that, then how do you even write the next season of 24?
The assignment would have covered such a large range of critical and creative thinking skills - it really seems to me like a good idea. I can't ever remember seeing a school project or assignment that would exercise such a large range of skills in one go.
And for the people who find thinking about it "extremely offensive" - all I can say is: harden up - terrorism in one form or another has existed throughout history, and it won't go away just because you choose to ignore it.
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Well why wouldn't you? When apple releases their version in 5 or 6 years time it will be ground-breaking new hardware in a form factor that no-one has ever imagined before...
Definitely yes!
I have mine set up to play a tone through the stereo whenever someone walks up my front entranceway - but that isn't via X10 - it's via a perl script running on my HTPC, and it is more for alerting me, rather than freaking out thieves.
What you say is definitely possible though.
You've missed my point.
The 'Where To?' app wouldn't infringe this patent if it was granted, apple is not patenting the operation of apps in the app store in the way the article reports.
This is a patent for a type of service that apps like the 'Where To?' app could use if they wanted to, and the image in question is just held up as an example of this.
This patent couldn't be used as a defensive patent for the 'Where To?' app like you sarcastically suggest, because it is patenting a different thing entirely.
I'll agree with you that the US software patent system is evil, but the fact is, it exists, and large corporations can't afford to ignore it.
but if you look closely at the figures in one of the patents, you can see that it's a copy of the third-party Where To? application
Yes, and if you read those pesky words that are floating around all the pretty pictures, you'll realise that the patent is for a data aggregation service that applications like "Where To?" will be able to use.
Apple seems to be looking at common applications in the app store, and figuring out what infrastructure services might make them better. This isn't evil, it isn't even particularly sneaky - anyone with an itunes account can browse apps and patent the same sort of ideas.
Don't get me wrong - I still think Apple is evil - this just isn't an example of their evil behaviour.
Stable too.
the only problem with using it for home security is if the burglars steal your server when they break in...
Seriously though, I use zoneminder, it has a really slick web interface, easy to configure, any camera supported by v4l2 is supported, there's also a nice plugin for mythtv - so if you use myth as your htpc - you can view your security recordings, or your live camera feeds on your tv.
Just make sure you have an offsite backup - otherwise burglars will steal your recordings of them
Video surveillance isn't really a deterrent though - a rather useful deterrent for nerds (which is actually more successful than it should be) - is to use a home automation system (like X10) to turn on house lights/tv etc, on a schedule - so if you aren't home in the evening, it will look like someone is to anyone who is scoping your place out for a burglary.
Clearly that part of the sky is where the aliens are.
Time for the seti guys to try to break the compression algorithm - so that we can get communicating.
Sad reality: if the robot-body technology WAS developed within our lifetimes, the vast majority of us couldn't afford it.
Oh I'm sure that banks will be willing to give you a loan to purchase (or better still - rent) your immortal robot-body, after all - you are going to have hundreds of years to pay it off.
I know some executives who would salivate at the idea of having an indentured workforce like that.
But you're a mac user - so price/performance means nothing to you, since you are already paying an extra few hundred dollars for your hardware (when compared to a no-name equivalent).
For those of us who would rather not give that money to Steve Jobs, and keep it to spend on our own beer and wenches, it does become important.
Whilst both you and I may think that it is common knowledge that 6 or 7 relatively unknown sites couldn't have caused billions of dollars worth of losses to the US economy, apparently that knowledge isn't common enough to reach the rarefied heights that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York inhabits.
I considered it an important point to correct because I'm certain that these imaginary billions of dollars were used to justify what was a major operation involving no less than 13(!) government agencies:
The ICE did not work alone; it was joined by a number of U.S. law-enforcement and other agencies: U.S. Customs and Border Protection; the FBI; the Department of Commerce; the Food and Drug Administration; the Postal Inspection Service; the General Services Administration, Office of the Inspector General; the Naval Criminal Investigative Service; the Defense Criminal Investigative Service; the Army Criminal Investigative Division's Major Procurement Fraud Unit; and the Government of Mexico Tax Administrative Service.
The piracy "reportedly resulted in billions of dollars in losses to the U.S. economy," Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement.
No. It didn't.
Except that he is an Australian citizen, and so treason doesn't apply - he owes no allegiance whatsoever to the USA.
that they were going to use child pornography to justify having to do this. I guess the polls must of shown that terrorism was still the hottest button topic.
I have to disagree. For the last 3 months I have been using a netbook which I dock at both work and at home. Yes, the current crop of netbooks are now powerful enough for me to do CAD on.
If I have to do something more cpu-intensive, like 3d FDTD optical simulation, I farm it off to a server.
The 2Ghz snapdragon chips are coming out towards the end of this year, and if you combine that speed with a decent hand-held distribution that can run x - such as maemo or angstrom - then I can see myself in a couple of years time not even using a netbook - just taking my phone and hooking into whatever monitor, keyboard, & mouse are available, and going for it.
Surely no-one here is naive enough to think that the entire iphone/ipod/ipad/itunes/app store ecosystem happened by accident?
Whether or not you like the vendor lock-in (if you're a shareholder you do, if you're a customer you shouldn't), a lot of work has gone into designing this system so that each piece hangs together well, and there is more value in the sum of the parts than in each component. Definitely apple has succeeded in their intent.
The pseudo-scientists, news reporters, and pundits purport to offer truth when they offer interpretation. And after a while, the average person doesn't know what to believe any more.
Man, I could not agree with you more - a couple of weeks back some data was published regarding a study of mobile phones and cancer. Over the course of the same day, The Age news web site released three stories from two authors analyzing the study - the headlines of which were:
Mobile phones linked to brain cancer risk,
Study unable to rule out link between mobile phones and brain cancer risk,
and:
Cancer study finds no clear link to mobile phone use.
That's right, one news site published stories stating strong correlation, weak correlation, and no correlation when examining the same data over one 24 hour period.
The newspaper which the website is sister to has the largest daily circulation of all papers in the state of Victoria, Australia, yet it is as consistent as some hormonally-charged teenager's blog.
No wonder the general public is confused.
is the restaurant chain with the largest market cap, but it doesn't mean I'd eat there...
And why not use computers? Lintott says they can only identify what they are programmed to look for, and might miss the unusual. "Computers don't make discoveries," he says. "They don't point at the thing in the corner and ask the question: What's that?"
Computers can however, identify what they are programmed to look for, and then indicate any areas which have features which they do not recognise. At the very least he should write a filter to parse out the completely typical images before getting the general public to do his work for him.
This guy is either too lazy or cheap to write some image analysis software, or a luddite who doesn't trust computers.