I'd like to see someone do a controlled experiment to find whether the iPhone 4 is any worse than others. So you get several phones of different models that use the same network and carrier. For each, try several calls in a given area at a given time and measure quality WITHOUT looking at the display, since the signal bars mean nothing. Measure voice quality, etc. Do this for all phone models. Do this for several locations and times of day/week. Compare measurements. Tell us whether any phones are noticeably worse. Stop giving these "phone loses connection if I do this, but I have no idea what another phone would do in the same situation" or "phone shows N bars" useless information.
If they excuse some useless teachers, they had better excuse some useless students and pass them regardless of what they do. After all, it's a life lesson for the teacher and other students, right? Right???
As it stands now, "identity theft victims" are held accountable for EVERYONE's mistakes. It's just not fair.
Actually, the victims of identity impersonation aren't even held accountable, which is why it keeps going on. The victims of course are the banks, who mistook someone else for you and gave out some of their money. They say it was you who are at fault, so they don't give a shit.
What part of "Wikipedia article lacks a coherent summary of what it is and how it works" and "Bitcoin's site was Slashdotted at the time of posting" don't you understand? Indeed, now that I've been able to read their FAQ, I see they have addressed the inflation issue in an interesting way that has some inflation in the beginning, to encourage early adoption (since coins will increase in value), but a limit, so that once it's established, it becomes a stable store of value.
And specialization is what allows the best use of the available resources, even if it's a grim situation. If you're dealing with humans, you need a currency to have specialization work in practice. Gold is the best currency for that purpose. You don't consume it in the end, but it's an essential part of the machine that produces what you do consume.
There's nothing wrong if a ship full of gold sinks. It increases the value of gold. The problem is massive inflation, as all fiat currencies have or will experience. Gold mining is a tiny fraction of the current amount of gold held by people, so it doesn't have any noticeable effect.
I love how the Wikipedia article just assumes you know what the hell this is or how it would serve as money. Unless this currency is like gold or silver where the quantity in existence is essentially fixed, I'm not interested, since it'll be subject to inflation, and thus price inflation. We already have tons of currencies to choose from if we want monetary inflation.
Just imagine trying to share tips on finding things with someone. "Well, it helps if you're a male Atheist, otherwise I'm not sure how to find things related to this." Again, smart search engines are worse than dumb ones, because you can't predict how a smart one will respond to your query. Either it gets it right, or it gets it wrong and there's little insight you can have into why. Give me a dumb tool that does what I tell it and whose behavior I can predict and thus adjust to.
You're right; here in the USA, we know about all censorship that occurs. Of course, we have lots of crazy conspiracy-types who make lots of silly claims, but we know not to listen to them since they're crazy, duh.
Isn't it obvious? I have a computer constantly copying bits of data day and night. I figure that by now I should be able to get trillions of dollars for all the wealth it's created. I still want to let it accumulate a but more before I cash in. I can't wait.
that is a bit tricky for NES pads due to the weird wire they use.
Tell me about it. It's like a coiled copper ribbon around some string, a real bitch to solder because it's so damn delicate. I guess it makes the cable more flexible, but it's hell to deal with.
Never mind Window, I heard Linucks has released its source codes to all governments worldwide, so that they know all the backdoors and exploits. So much for Linucks being a secured operatings system!!1
No gum is allowed during an exam: chewing could disguise a student's speaking into a hands-free cellphone to an accomplice outside
I guess one can't pretend to be chewing gum either. If I were in college, I would be there to learn, and I wouldn't give a shit what anyone else thought. If they did something like this, I'd come in pretending to be chewing gum. When they said to spit it out, I'd pretend to do so. But since I was chewing pretend gum, I would still have it in my mouth, so I'd continue to pretend chewing.
Why the hell do teachers care whether their students are cheating, as long as they aren't disrupting students who are there to learn? Let a student waste his time there just to get a grade if he wants. It's like the MAFIAA putting all that crap into movies legitimately purchased, making it annoying for those who bought the movie and simply wanted to enjoy watching it. This only makes it worse for the students who are there to learn, making them not only anxious about doing well on the test, but anxious about not being accused of cheating. Fuck that.
Just to elaborate on this, you need to distinguish between a square sampling grid, and a square (box) reconstruction filter. An image is really just a set of samples, the color at a grid of points in the image, not a grid of the average color over a square area (not usually, at least). It's very similar to a PCM sound file, where it's a recording of the instantaneous amplitude at each point, not the average over the sampling period. If you reconstruct the sound wave with a box filter, you get a crappy result. The same with images; a gaussian reconstruction filter is usually better than a box filter. LCDs are actually a step backwards in this regard, at least for images, since they have much more boxy elements than a CRT.
Forget the exercise argument: imagine the fricking maintenance costs!
Oh, it's OK, as I won't have to pay for it. We can just have everyone chip in, then it won't cost them very much. While we're at it, can everyone chip in to buy me a wall-mounted flat-screen TV (and a pony)? Thanks.
You should have explained the real solution: use smaller pixels. You can do that by adjusting the resolution in the Image Size dialog. Let's say she was at 100 dpi, she could change it to 200 dpi and have pixels one quarter the area of the originals. For every original pixel, she now has four. If she needs more, up it to 300 or more dpi.
How could anyone gripe about having a square image sampling grid? I think at one point, they were going to make HDTV non-square. Thank FSM's appendages that we got a square grid.
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We already have something that allows this: the trackpad.
The name of the publication is Consumer Reports, not Consumer Report.
I'd like to see someone do a controlled experiment to find whether the iPhone 4 is any worse than others. So you get several phones of different models that use the same network and carrier. For each, try several calls in a given area at a given time and measure quality WITHOUT looking at the display, since the signal bars mean nothing. Measure voice quality, etc. Do this for all phone models. Do this for several locations and times of day/week. Compare measurements. Tell us whether any phones are noticeably worse. Stop giving these "phone loses connection if I do this, but I have no idea what another phone would do in the same situation" or "phone shows N bars" useless information.
If they excuse some useless teachers, they had better excuse some useless students and pass them regardless of what they do. After all, it's a life lesson for the teacher and other students, right? Right???
Actually, the victims of identity impersonation aren't even held accountable, which is why it keeps going on. The victims of course are the banks, who mistook someone else for you and gave out some of their money. They say it was you who are at fault, so they don't give a shit.
What part of "Wikipedia article lacks a coherent summary of what it is and how it works" and "Bitcoin's site was Slashdotted at the time of posting" don't you understand? Indeed, now that I've been able to read their FAQ, I see they have addressed the inflation issue in an interesting way that has some inflation in the beginning, to encourage early adoption (since coins will increase in value), but a limit, so that once it's established, it becomes a stable store of value.
And specialization is what allows the best use of the available resources, even if it's a grim situation. If you're dealing with humans, you need a currency to have specialization work in practice. Gold is the best currency for that purpose. You don't consume it in the end, but it's an essential part of the machine that produces what you do consume.
There's nothing wrong if a ship full of gold sinks. It increases the value of gold. The problem is massive inflation, as all fiat currencies have or will experience. Gold mining is a tiny fraction of the current amount of gold held by people, so it doesn't have any noticeable effect.
And you can finally literally eat your hat!
I love how the Wikipedia article just assumes you know what the hell this is or how it would serve as money. Unless this currency is like gold or silver where the quantity in existence is essentially fixed, I'm not interested, since it'll be subject to inflation, and thus price inflation. We already have tons of currencies to choose from if we want monetary inflation.
Just imagine trying to share tips on finding things with someone. "Well, it helps if you're a male Atheist, otherwise I'm not sure how to find things related to this." Again, smart search engines are worse than dumb ones, because you can't predict how a smart one will respond to your query. Either it gets it right, or it gets it wrong and there's little insight you can have into why. Give me a dumb tool that does what I tell it and whose behavior I can predict and thus adjust to.
I don't get it either. To me they're like people who send email with subjects like "yo", "tomorrow", and the like.
You're right; here in the USA, we know about all censorship that occurs. Of course, we have lots of crazy conspiracy-types who make lots of silly claims, but we know not to listen to them since they're crazy, duh.
Isn't it obvious? I have a computer constantly copying bits of data day and night. I figure that by now I should be able to get trillions of dollars for all the wealth it's created. I still want to let it accumulate a but more before I cash in. I can't wait.
Why all the insults?
Tell me about it. It's like a coiled copper ribbon around some string, a real bitch to solder because it's so damn delicate. I guess it makes the cable more flexible, but it's hell to deal with.
Never mind Window, I heard Linucks has released its source codes to all governments worldwide, so that they know all the backdoors and exploits. So much for Linucks being a secured operatings system!!1
Could it have been induced by a low-frequency hum? It'd be interesting whether a strong magnet or DC electromagnet caused the same thing.
I guess one can't pretend to be chewing gum either. If I were in college, I would be there to learn, and I wouldn't give a shit what anyone else thought. If they did something like this, I'd come in pretending to be chewing gum. When they said to spit it out, I'd pretend to do so. But since I was chewing pretend gum, I would still have it in my mouth, so I'd continue to pretend chewing.
Why the hell do teachers care whether their students are cheating, as long as they aren't disrupting students who are there to learn? Let a student waste his time there just to get a grade if he wants. It's like the MAFIAA putting all that crap into movies legitimately purchased, making it annoying for those who bought the movie and simply wanted to enjoy watching it. This only makes it worse for the students who are there to learn, making them not only anxious about doing well on the test, but anxious about not being accused of cheating. Fuck that.
The good news: We discovered a new species of fish. The bad news: They are now extinct.
Just to elaborate on this, you need to distinguish between a square sampling grid, and a square (box) reconstruction filter. An image is really just a set of samples, the color at a grid of points in the image, not a grid of the average color over a square area (not usually, at least). It's very similar to a PCM sound file, where it's a recording of the instantaneous amplitude at each point, not the average over the sampling period. If you reconstruct the sound wave with a box filter, you get a crappy result. The same with images; a gaussian reconstruction filter is usually better than a box filter. LCDs are actually a step backwards in this regard, at least for images, since they have much more boxy elements than a CRT.
Oh, it's OK, as I won't have to pay for it. We can just have everyone chip in, then it won't cost them very much. While we're at it, can everyone chip in to buy me a wall-mounted flat-screen TV (and a pony)? Thanks.
You should have explained the real solution: use smaller pixels. You can do that by adjusting the resolution in the Image Size dialog. Let's say she was at 100 dpi, she could change it to 200 dpi and have pixels one quarter the area of the originals. For every original pixel, she now has four. If she needs more, up it to 300 or more dpi.
How could anyone gripe about having a square image sampling grid? I think at one point, they were going to make HDTV non-square. Thank FSM's appendages that we got a square grid.
Obligatory paper on the subject of pixels: A Pixel Is Not A Little Square, A Pixel Is Not A Little Square, A Pixel Is Not A Little Square! (And a Voxel is Not a Little Cube).