this looks to be targeting a different market than the 25c 4x6 prints from walmart (which are essentially just high end inkjet prints on hp photo paper).
Yes, it is targeting $15 4x4 prints with fat white borders. The target market is clearly Instagram users, people who think that filtering the crap out of their digital photos to make them look "vintage" is cool.
Aside: I think you'll find that the Walmart printers are dye-sub, not inkjet.
After posting this, there's certainly a number of additional crimes in Belize (including a variety of frauds and acts of bribery that would seem to fall squarely within the scope of the extradition treaty) for which he has provided evidence -- in the form of a public admission -- against himself.
Doesn't evidence have to be credible to be accepted in a US court? Even for extradition hearings. The only body of credible evidence I see being built up on McAfee's blog is evidence for an insanity plea in any future charges he may face.
I do question cashier's ability to cope, though. Even today, if I'm buying an item that is $7.83 and I present $8 and say "keep the pennies" the cashier becomes VERY confused. S/he's very used to counting out all the change, and leaving change in her drawer is puzzling to them. I guess once there are no pennies in there, the problem will go away.
This is because the cashier is required to balance their till at the end of the day, and a discrepancy of more than a tiny threshold in either direction will have them standing before their boss being accused of either stealing from the till or failing to ring up items with the forgotten intention of stealing from the till later. And there is no way they are going to resolve this problem by putting those pennies in their pocket in front of all the security cameras that are watching them. Once the bosses realise they can no longer rely on the till balancing properly, the tills will be modified to do the rounding when totalling the bill. Actually, they probably don't need modifying, as enough countries have already been down this path that there should already be a configuration setting for this.
When NZ did this in the 1990's, they also made it law that stores that did not post a clear notice of their rounding policy at the cashier had to round everything down in favour of the customer. Most larger chains ended up doing the 1c & 2c round down, 3c and 4c round up, so that became the standard for a while until the 5c was also retired. If you let stores have any policy they like without making it public, you could end up with discriminatory practices, or in larger stores, cashiers skimming the pennies by always rounding up when the store's official policy is to round down.
It says it uses the Android kernel and drivers to be compatible with the hardware, so will OEM(s) shipping devices with this OSes fall foul of Google's anti-fork rules[1] for Android? Or does that apply only to the Android SDK/Dalvik VM?
Google's relationship with the Free Software community is awkward as it is, without trying to encumber third party GPL2 software with extra contractual restrictions which are clearly not compliant with the GPL. Google's anti-fork rules can only apply to the Android/Dalvik portions which they developed/bought themselves, and which are under a license that permits being evil.
Read the legislation. Electronic signatures are not digital signatures, but simple bitmaps added to PDF and Word documents to make them look like ink signatures, but without any of the security of requiring actual pen-ink rather than a copy.
No one seems to use decimeter, which sounds too much like decameter, particularly with all the interesting dialects in the US that would just be a mess.
You're welcome to mangle the spelling like you've done with the rest of the English language (including metre and litre), and spell them desimeter and dekameter respectively if you think it will help.
Which isn't what the GP said. He said there are 640 (acre sections) per
square mile. Which if you work it out means they can't be square to start with, or they wouldn't fit exactly. I'm not quite sure how this world falls apart when you switch to metric though. It's not like the government is going to go around snatching land from farmers to make their sections into a metric acre. Just that next time they get their local council tax bill, it might state the land area as 4047 square meters or 0.4 hectares instead of 1 acre.
As a metric "native" I can tell you that metric units are not based on real-world criteria.
I've yet to meet someone with a foot long foot. I have however met many people for whom a single pace at normal walking speed is approximately a metre, and for whom the length of their arm is likewise approximately 1m.
A US pint doesn't weigh exactly 1lb either, since unlike the British system, the units for weight and volume are not defined in relation to each other using water at room temperature as a reference.
Are you, then, unable to remember the value for "normal" human body temperature in Celsius? It is not only non-zero, but also, usually, includes a decimal point (36.5 or so)?
There's so much variation in normal, that the decimal point is redundant. As long as my body temperature is around 36-37 degrees, I'm healthy. Above 38, time to take some Panadol and rest for a bit.
Aside from the fact that you are talking about the nut/bolt head size, not the socket wrench drive head size that the OP was, the common sizes for metric bolts are 8mm, 10mm and 13mm. It always annoys me when I see spanner or socket sets that have only even sizes and I have to go hunting for a 13mm separately.
It was the change over to metric, then after the adjustment that people were getting less and paying more.
I can see that happening if you were using British units, and having pints rounded to 500ml (12% less). For almost everything else, the sensible roundings give you slightly more after metric conversion: 1 pound -> 500g (10% more), 1 US pint -> 500ml (6% more, similarly for quart -> litre and gallon -> 4l).
And plus, there's 10 oz in a pound... what self-respecting geek would not love to use hex!
If it was always hex, it would be OK. It's the switching to base 14 when you want to scale up to the next set of units, or combining base 16 with base 12 when you want to do calculations involving weight and distance that really messes things up.
70cm, on the other hand, implies precision to a small fraction of an inch - perhaps too small.
If I see a measurement stated as 70cm, without any tolerance specified, I'm going to expect it to be somewhere between 65 and 75cm. With some context (other related measurements being obviously stated to the cm), I might expect it to be in the range 69.5 - 70.5. I'm certainly not seeing any implication of precision to a small fraction of an inch.
The one remaining patent covering VFAT is about to expire, and is easy to work around. The real problem keeping manufacturers away from SD cards is the inclusion of exFAT in the SDXC standard for the latest generation of SD cards.
It doesn't remain to be seen, it has been seen already. The travel times aren't the only things that get slashed in half when you ride high speed rail in China.
Because if they are allowed to continue to occupy themselves with games, they won't have time to reoffend and our prisons will start to empty out, causing prison guards to lose their jobs. And that is not good for the economy.
I think people have a different expectation of Kickstarter, because it is different than VC. While VC is high risk, high reward, Kickstarter is mostly high risk, low reward. The investors don't have visibility on the risk, so their expecations are set based on the reward.
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Yes, it is targeting $15 4x4 prints with fat white borders. The target market is clearly Instagram users, people who think that filtering the crap out of their digital photos to make them look "vintage" is cool.
Aside: I think you'll find that the Walmart printers are dye-sub, not inkjet.
Doesn't evidence have to be credible to be accepted in a US court? Even for extradition hearings. The only body of credible evidence I see being built up on McAfee's blog is evidence for an insanity plea in any future charges he may face.
This is because the cashier is required to balance their till at the end of the day, and a discrepancy of more than a tiny threshold in either direction will have them standing before their boss being accused of either stealing from the till or failing to ring up items with the forgotten intention of stealing from the till later. And there is no way they are going to resolve this problem by putting those pennies in their pocket in front of all the security cameras that are watching them. Once the bosses realise they can no longer rely on the till balancing properly, the tills will be modified to do the rounding when totalling the bill. Actually, they probably don't need modifying, as enough countries have already been down this path that there should already be a configuration setting for this.
When NZ did this in the 1990's, they also made it law that stores that did not post a clear notice of their rounding policy at the cashier had to round everything down in favour of the customer. Most larger chains ended up doing the 1c & 2c round down, 3c and 4c round up, so that became the standard for a while until the 5c was also retired. If you let stores have any policy they like without making it public, you could end up with discriminatory practices, or in larger stores, cashiers skimming the pennies by always rounding up when the store's official policy is to round down.
The removal happened in 4.2 (which is also confusing called Jelly Bean).
Google's relationship with the Free Software community is awkward as it is, without trying to encumber third party GPL2 software with extra contractual restrictions which are clearly not compliant with the GPL. Google's anti-fork rules can only apply to the Android/Dalvik portions which they developed/bought themselves, and which are under a license that permits being evil.
Read the legislation. Electronic signatures are not digital signatures, but simple bitmaps added to PDF and Word documents to make them look like ink signatures, but without any of the security of requiring actual pen-ink rather than a copy.
You're welcome to mangle the spelling like you've done with the rest of the English language (including metre and litre), and spell them desimeter and dekameter respectively if you think it will help.
Which isn't what the GP said. He said there are 640 (acre sections) per
square mile. Which if you work it out means they can't be square to start with, or they wouldn't fit exactly. I'm not quite sure how this world falls apart when you switch to metric though. It's not like the government is going to go around snatching land from farmers to make their sections into a metric acre. Just that next time they get their local council tax bill, it might state the land area as 4047 square meters or 0.4 hectares instead of 1 acre.
I've yet to meet someone with a foot long foot. I have however met many people for whom a single pace at normal walking speed is approximately a metre, and for whom the length of their arm is likewise approximately 1m.
You couldn't find 50x100?
A US pint doesn't weigh exactly 1lb either, since unlike the British system, the units for weight and volume are not defined in relation to each other using water at room temperature as a reference.
There's so much variation in normal, that the decimal point is redundant. As long as my body temperature is around 36-37 degrees, I'm healthy. Above 38, time to take some Panadol and rest for a bit.
Aside from the fact that you are talking about the nut/bolt head size, not the socket wrench drive head size that the OP was, the common sizes for metric bolts are 8mm, 10mm and 13mm. It always annoys me when I see spanner or socket sets that have only even sizes and I have to go hunting for a 13mm separately.
I can see that happening if you were using British units, and having pints rounded to 500ml (12% less). For almost everything else, the sensible roundings give you slightly more after metric conversion: 1 pound -> 500g (10% more), 1 US pint -> 500ml (6% more, similarly for quart -> litre and gallon -> 4l).
If it was always hex, it would be OK. It's the switching to base 14 when you want to scale up to the next set of units, or combining base 16 with base 12 when you want to do calculations involving weight and distance that really messes things up.
If I see a measurement stated as 70cm, without any tolerance specified, I'm going to expect it to be somewhere between 65 and 75cm. With some context (other related measurements being obviously stated to the cm), I might expect it to be in the range 69.5 - 70.5. I'm certainly not seeing any implication of precision to a small fraction of an inch.
Apparently, according to Anonymous Coward's definition, metric is anything that falls outside the US measurement system.
The one remaining patent covering VFAT is about to expire, and is easy to work around. The real problem keeping manufacturers away from SD cards is the inclusion of exFAT in the SDXC standard for the latest generation of SD cards.
Except many class 2 SD cards perform better than class 10 cards for phone use cases.
Unless the UN imposes sanctions on bulldozer imports to the West Bank.
It doesn't remain to be seen, it has been seen already. The travel times aren't the only things that get slashed in half when you ride high speed rail in China.
Because if they are allowed to continue to occupy themselves with games, they won't have time to reoffend and our prisons will start to empty out, causing prison guards to lose their jobs. And that is not good for the economy.
I think people have a different expectation of Kickstarter, because it is different than VC. While VC is high risk, high reward, Kickstarter is mostly high risk, low reward. The investors don't have visibility on the risk, so their expecations are set based on the reward.