The problem with this as it relates to the market is that a vanishingly small percentage of the population would even know what cd means, much less make. These markets serve people that want to get stuff done (email, phone, text, post to websites/blogs/etc...) and are not remotely interested in using the device to geek out on it. They use the devices that allow them to do what they want while staying out of the way. My principle complaint of the Android devices when I had one was that a simple OS update meant reinstalling all of my apps! Why in the world would someone allow that to be shipped? I swore off Android at that point, but may look at it again some time in the future.
For now, iOS lets me do what I need to do without getting in the way or making me find the right libraries or compile anything. When I spend time compiling software for the iOS, I want it to do something new and perhaps make some money while doing it.
As to OS resources, many would argue that how the OS behaves in multi-core environments is indeed relevant to the GPU. Witness Grand Central Dispatch and Open CL.
Dunno... I am typing this on a system with 12 cores and 24 virtual cores. And the GPU has somewhere around 1600 cores... Other systems I've worked with have hundreds to thousands of cores so I think we are pretty close...
Seriously though, these issues have been known for a while but will have to trickle down to desktop OSs to deal with caching and shared memory.
Both the 70-200 and the 100-400 have focal plane switches so that if you are trying to restrict the focal plane to far objects only or include the entire focal range. The other trick you might want to do is use a single focus point. The 350D and 500D may not have the fastest focus processing, but there should be no problem using those lenses.
I gotta say that I've had no problems with autofocus on Canon cameras going back to the 20d I use to use.
Canon does makes some great glass and I shoot exclusively with Canon glass. However, Nikon, Zeiss and Leica among others also produce some pretty sweet lenses. Eventually, everybody is going to have to deal with issues related to the optics being able to actually resolve the imaging sites. At some point (and we are close), the glass will not be able to resolve anything more than the sensor can read out and you'd have wasted pixels. Kinda like the issue with Apple's Retina Display on the iPhone 4 that I wrote about here. Any more pixels would be wasted given the resolving power of the human eye.
Canon had better come up with some sharper lenses with a sensor like this. I shoot shoot with APS-H sensors on the Canon 1D and many of the lenses that Canon, Nikon and Sigma among others make are not nearly sharp enough to deal with many more pixels than are on say... the Canon 1Ds. Zeiss makes some sharp glass, but with the pixel density Canon is talking about with this new sensor, I'd worry about noise in low light conditions like those on my last embed on the USS Toledo (world's first embed in a strategic nuclear submarine). Any sort of low light, high ISO images will be truly challenging environments for such small pixel imaging sites.
It might be a great technology demonstrator or even a specific use CMOS chip for longer exposures, but I doubt it will have any applications in consumer or professional cameras unless some additional technology (or physics) comes into play.
Also, one would have to come up with some new strategies for moving all of that data around. As it is, on the latest Canon 1D Mk IV, they are pushing 16.1 MP around at about 10 fps. With this new sensor, just the readout would prevent this sensor from being used in any but the most specialized of applications.
No, it is not simply like charging him to buy the lock that had been missing. If you entered someone's home uninvited and deliberately or accidentally caused substantial cost and damage to the homeowner, you should be liable for your actions. This could be reduced to simply holding someone responsible for their actions. People have a choice in what they do and Mr. McKinnon knowingly engaged in his actions.
Migration to UAVs is an obligate journey. My last visit to Creech AFB showed just how inevitable this is, yet I wonder if the move towards autonomous vehicles will really expand beyond a limited niche. Autonomous vehicles have a definite role, but one that is limited to very specialized circumstances akin to interplanetary probes. Platforms that gather data on say climate change or sea conditions are appropriate. However, in the absence of a complete revolution in the way data is gathered through sensors, large event surveillance, crowd and traffic control and hostage situations or crimes (or military applications) will almost always have to have at least a semi-autonomous component to them. I will say that efforts are already underway in certain combat situations to provide for single pilot control over multiple UAV platforms through semi-automated solutions, but those solutions still have an operator actively monitoring the platform.
The Air Force Museum in Dayton has been on my list of places to visit for a few years now. I need to figure out how to get out there... possibly worth a plane ticket and a couple nights lodging just to see the museum. Although, there may be some new photographic requests coming in the new year and Wright Patterson may be in the mix...
I am not sure, but think the acronym POTUS was first used back in the 70s, possibly the 60s by the Secret Service and military circles. Certainly by the 1980s, it was in regular use by mainstream media or so I thought...
I suppose your comment is from the "Hey! You kids... Get off my lawn!" category. Especially seeing as how you have invoked "douche" in your last couple of posts. Is that your word of the day?:-)
Seriously though, POTUS is an accurate description I suppose given that you can replace 9 syllables with 2 when one is talking. It also saves space and effort when typing.
It is actually surprising how much is involved in transporting the POTUS. Last time the POTUS was in town there was a considerable presence that travelled around with him and Air Force One is only a small part of that traveling circus. While the current VC-25 are starting to show their age, one does wonder just what sort of requirements creep are involved. It used to be that simple transport would be acceptable and in actuality, the 737 makes for a wonderful government transport in the C-40 and in fact the current 747 design (though modified since) has been in place since just 1990. In some ways the 747-8 does simplify some systems, making maintenance easier and cheaper as well as possessing more efficient engines, but just playing an opposing advocate, do we really need a 747-8 or an A380? My bias would be yes for a number of reasons, but I also think it is reasonable to ask some harder questions about what is actually required.
Ah, fair enough. Measures of intelligence and "personality" likely should be separate, even though there are some compelling arguments for correlation at at least "lower" organisms.
Cephus died of old age thankfully and I will say that she exhibited many of the same qualities, including a sense of humor or ability to get people to pay attention to her as she would shoot water out of the tank if she wanted attention. She also snuck out of the tank on more than one occasion to steal fish out of the feeder tank across the table from her own aquarium (which necessitated a large, heavy pot to be placed on top of the tank to prevent that sort of behavior.
I'd refer you to the very rich literature on octopus behavior. Octopus have been estimated to be about as smart as dogs with surprisingly adept skills at problems solving and recognition.
If you'd say that dogs have no personality, I'd say you've never spent *any* time around animals.
......... Actually octopus have relatively short lifespans. The first one was several months old when I got her from a lab that was doing behavioral research and the fact that he lived almost a year after that was pretty good. The second octopus was a bit of a stowaway when I found her on my SCUBA tank at a gas stop about 100 miles away from the ocean. She was tiny then and lived for almost two years which is pretty long lived for an octopus.
Actually, I'd have to disagree with the assessment of no personality in octopuses. I had a common octopus (octopus vulgaris) as a pet (her name was Cephus, short for cephalopod) for almost two years and she most absolutely displayed a personality completely different from another octopus that I had as a pet for about a year.
Educated people don't illegally immigrate, poor people do.
But it i the educated people coming back to China that are returning at higher rates according to the Chinese government official I talked with.
I'm one of a handful of people in China who publishes his own English magazine,
*Which* magazine? Link? Reference?
and I've moron journalists like yourself come and go.
I'll relay your feelings to National Geographic and Wired...;-)
You've already got your China story written before you get off the plane, and all you want is a quote to support your position.
Actually, I came to China initially exclusively to attend a scientific meeting and had no intention of writing a story or taking photographs for anything despite a couple of requests from a specific magazine. My story for the press was to be told on my return journey in S. Korea.
That is also true. A visa for a US citizen is much more expensive to obtain than a visa for a non-US citizen. I paid somewhere in the region of $90 US whereas one of my colleagues from Hungary paid ~$15. Most favored nation trading status my ass....
China doesn't need foreigners to come spend money on its soil, its making a fortune exporting good abroad anyway.
On one hand you are correct. On the other, I was shocked at how desperate seeming China is to show the world what they are capable of. We were welcomed most graciously by a whole host of people who really, really wanted to share with us what they have been doing. It is impressive.
As for the US, it's another ballgame: the country's attitude toward visas oscillates between the "keeping these filthy underpaid workers from taking american jobs out" attitude in peace time, to full-blown paranoid "the terrorists are coming!" when national security is threatened.
Dude, you have no idea how correct you are. For instance, we have a graduate student who is in the middle of her dissertation research. She travelled to China with us to present at a meeting and now the US is dragging its feet on her visa. She cannot get back into the country until her visa is approved and she has a husband and child back here! Academia and business is rife with stories like this even from countries that have been long time friends of the US, like the UK.
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The problem with this as it relates to the market is that a vanishingly small percentage of the population would even know what cd means, much less make. These markets serve people that want to get stuff done (email, phone, text, post to websites/blogs/etc...) and are not remotely interested in using the device to geek out on it. They use the devices that allow them to do what they want while staying out of the way. My principle complaint of the Android devices when I had one was that a simple OS update meant reinstalling all of my apps! Why in the world would someone allow that to be shipped? I swore off Android at that point, but may look at it again some time in the future.
For now, iOS lets me do what I need to do without getting in the way or making me find the right libraries or compile anything. When I spend time compiling software for the iOS, I want it to do something new and perhaps make some money while doing it.
Efficient use of said cores is the issue, no doubt. See comment above on Grand Central Dispatch and Open CL.
It (the GPU) does according to the specs.
As to OS resources, many would argue that how the OS behaves in multi-core environments is indeed relevant to the GPU. Witness Grand Central Dispatch and Open CL.
Dunno... I am typing this on a system with 12 cores and 24 virtual cores. And the GPU has somewhere around 1600 cores... Other systems I've worked with have hundreds to thousands of cores so I think we are pretty close...
Seriously though, these issues have been known for a while but will have to trickle down to desktop OSs to deal with caching and shared memory.
Among other interesting remote sensing applications, I am sure.
Thanks. I've got one of Canon's new lenses in the 100mm macro f/2.8 L and it is wicked sharp.
I missed Bonneville this year, but am planning on going to World of Speed in September. Hope to see you there. If you go, look me up beforehand.
Both the 70-200 and the 100-400 have focal plane switches so that if you are trying to restrict the focal plane to far objects only or include the entire focal range. The other trick you might want to do is use a single focus point. The 350D and 500D may not have the fastest focus processing, but there should be no problem using those lenses.
I gotta say that I've had no problems with autofocus on Canon cameras going back to the 20d I use to use.
Canon does makes some great glass and I shoot exclusively with Canon glass. However, Nikon, Zeiss and Leica among others also produce some pretty sweet lenses. Eventually, everybody is going to have to deal with issues related to the optics being able to actually resolve the imaging sites. At some point (and we are close), the glass will not be able to resolve anything more than the sensor can read out and you'd have wasted pixels. Kinda like the issue with Apple's Retina Display on the iPhone 4 that I wrote about here. Any more pixels would be wasted given the resolving power of the human eye.
Canon had better come up with some sharper lenses with a sensor like this. I shoot shoot with APS-H sensors on the Canon 1D and many of the lenses that Canon, Nikon and Sigma among others make are not nearly sharp enough to deal with many more pixels than are on say... the Canon 1Ds. Zeiss makes some sharp glass, but with the pixel density Canon is talking about with this new sensor, I'd worry about noise in low light conditions like those on my last embed on the USS Toledo (world's first embed in a strategic nuclear submarine). Any sort of low light, high ISO images will be truly challenging environments for such small pixel imaging sites.
It might be a great technology demonstrator or even a specific use CMOS chip for longer exposures, but I doubt it will have any applications in consumer or professional cameras unless some additional technology (or physics) comes into play.
Also, one would have to come up with some new strategies for moving all of that data around. As it is, on the latest Canon 1D Mk IV, they are pushing 16.1 MP around at about 10 fps. With this new sensor, just the readout would prevent this sensor from being used in any but the most specialized of applications.
I talked about some of the reasons behind the push for a desire to fly in commercial airspace after my visit to Creech AFB a couple of years ago. Also some discussion on why there might be a higher accident rate in the drones (pilots want haptic feedback, and they do not have it with current platforms).
No, it is not simply like charging him to buy the lock that had been missing. If you entered someone's home uninvited and deliberately or accidentally caused substantial cost and damage to the homeowner, you should be liable for your actions. This could be reduced to simply holding someone responsible for their actions. People have a choice in what they do and Mr. McKinnon knowingly engaged in his actions.
Migration to UAVs is an obligate journey. My last visit to Creech AFB showed just how inevitable this is, yet I wonder if the move towards autonomous vehicles will really expand beyond a limited niche. Autonomous vehicles have a definite role, but one that is limited to very specialized circumstances akin to interplanetary probes. Platforms that gather data on say climate change or sea conditions are appropriate. However, in the absence of a complete revolution in the way data is gathered through sensors, large event surveillance, crowd and traffic control and hostage situations or crimes (or military applications) will almost always have to have at least a semi-autonomous component to them. I will say that efforts are already underway in certain combat situations to provide for single pilot control over multiple UAV platforms through semi-automated solutions, but those solutions still have an operator actively monitoring the platform.
The Air Force Museum in Dayton has been on my list of places to visit for a few years now. I need to figure out how to get out there... possibly worth a plane ticket and a couple nights lodging just to see the museum. Although, there may be some new photographic requests coming in the new year and Wright Patterson may be in the mix...
I am not sure, but think the acronym POTUS was first used back in the 70s, possibly the 60s by the Secret Service and military circles. Certainly by the 1980s, it was in regular use by mainstream media or so I thought...
I suppose your comment is from the "Hey! You kids... Get off my lawn!" category. Especially seeing as how you have invoked "douche" in your last couple of posts. Is that your word of the day? :-)
Seriously though, POTUS is an accurate description I suppose given that you can replace 9 syllables with 2 when one is talking. It also saves space and effort when typing.
It is actually surprising how much is involved in transporting the POTUS. Last time the POTUS was in town there was a considerable presence that travelled around with him and Air Force One is only a small part of that traveling circus. While the current VC-25 are starting to show their age, one does wonder just what sort of requirements creep are involved. It used to be that simple transport would be acceptable and in actuality, the 737 makes for a wonderful government transport in the C-40 and in fact the current 747 design (though modified since) has been in place since just 1990. In some ways the 747-8 does simplify some systems, making maintenance easier and cheaper as well as possessing more efficient engines, but just playing an opposing advocate, do we really need a 747-8 or an A380? My bias would be yes for a number of reasons, but I also think it is reasonable to ask some harder questions about what is actually required.
Ah, fair enough. Measures of intelligence and "personality" likely should be separate, even though there are some compelling arguments for correlation at at least "lower" organisms.
Thanks for the story.
Cephus died of old age thankfully and I will say that she exhibited many of the same qualities, including a sense of humor or ability to get people to pay attention to her as she would shoot water out of the tank if she wanted attention. She also snuck out of the tank on more than one occasion to steal fish out of the feeder tank across the table from her own aquarium (which necessitated a large, heavy pot to be placed on top of the tank to prevent that sort of behavior.
I'd refer you to the very rich literature on octopus behavior. Octopus have been estimated to be about as smart as dogs with surprisingly adept skills at problems solving and recognition.
If you'd say that dogs have no personality, I'd say you've never spent *any* time around animals.
Would it help to say that IAANS (I am a neuroscientist)?
......... Actually octopus have relatively short lifespans. The first one was several months old when I got her from a lab that was doing behavioral research and the fact that he lived almost a year after that was pretty good. The second octopus was a bit of a stowaway when I found her on my SCUBA tank at a gas stop about 100 miles away from the ocean. She was tiny then and lived for almost two years which is pretty long lived for an octopus.
Actually, I'd have to disagree with the assessment of no personality in octopuses. I had a common octopus (octopus vulgaris) as a pet (her name was Cephus, short for cephalopod) for almost two years and she most absolutely displayed a personality completely different from another octopus that I had as a pet for about a year.
Educated people don't illegally immigrate, poor people do.
But it i the educated people coming back to China that are returning at higher rates according to the Chinese government official I talked with.
I'm one of a handful of people in China who publishes his own English magazine,
*Which* magazine? Link? Reference?
and I've moron journalists like yourself come and go.
I'll relay your feelings to National Geographic and Wired... ;-)
You've already got your China story written before you get off the plane, and all you want is a quote to support your position.
Actually, I came to China initially exclusively to attend a scientific meeting and had no intention of writing a story or taking photographs for anything despite a couple of requests from a specific magazine. My story for the press was to be told on my return journey in S. Korea.
That is also true. A visa for a US citizen is much more expensive to obtain than a visa for a non-US citizen. I paid somewhere in the region of $90 US whereas one of my colleagues from Hungary paid ~$15. Most favored nation trading status my ass....
China doesn't need foreigners to come spend money on its soil, its making a fortune exporting good abroad anyway.
On one hand you are correct. On the other, I was shocked at how desperate seeming China is to show the world what they are capable of. We were welcomed most graciously by a whole host of people who really, really wanted to share with us what they have been doing. It is impressive.
As for the US, it's another ballgame: the country's attitude toward visas oscillates between the "keeping these filthy underpaid workers from taking american jobs out" attitude in peace time, to full-blown paranoid "the terrorists are coming!" when national security is threatened.
Dude, you have no idea how correct you are. For instance, we have a graduate student who is in the middle of her dissertation research. She travelled to China with us to present at a meeting and now the US is dragging its feet on her visa. She cannot get back into the country until her visa is approved and she has a husband and child back here! Academia and business is rife with stories like this even from countries that have been long time friends of the US, like the UK.