In Disclosure, the lead actually uses a 3d filing cabinet system to access some files that he needs (if I remember correctly, the premise was that the virtual system, setup as a demo, let him bypass some physical security).
They don't care. SciFi was a brand. They think they can build a better one. Given that relatively mediocre fantasy programming is still pretty expensive to produce, they can probably make more money while they are doing it.
TNN alienated their core audience and changed their name to something stupid. I don't have the numbers, but I bet Spike is making more money than TNN did.
Comcast buying TechTv was similar, they wanted the distribution contracts to use to put crappy programming in front of 20 something tards (the key being many more 20 something tards than were watching TechTv)..
You can zoom in a digital photo and then improvements are very clear.
Whether the ability to zoom is necessary is certainly a reasonable discussion, but there are real, quantitative improvements that are well with in human perceptual ranges being discussed, not better flow of electricity through speaker cables.
There is plenty of room for better and better cameras, but most people aren't going to want to pay for them (I consider even 10 megapixels overkill for the pictures that I take).
Mass storage devices don't really violate physics (but you knew that).
It will be interesting to see if the new engineered metamaterials that have negative indexes of refraction end up in consumer devices (I don't know enough about optics to understand the implications for something like a digicam).
300 * 8 Megapixel pictures is 7.5 gigabytes of data (interpolation and such means that the camera might be capturing less than that, but it still has to either put it somewhere or compress it inside of that second).
It is getting less and less ludicrous to expect such a feature, but it isn't going to happen tomorrow, or next week.
Good luck on getting them to change the filename standards (the arguments about what is correct could go on forever). Exiftool makes it straightforward to rename a bunch of pictures based on time and date and so forth (but probably not easy):
It has a headset jack, the distinction is pretty narrow. I suppose it is easier to restrict 'special' audio equipment than it is to trust all iPhone owners though.
If you are using a machine to do tens of thousands of dollars of business, 'scary' is going to be a bigger consideration than $1,000 for a license. Open source needs to focus on the other side of the equation: "look, we are higher quality" (there isn't some magic rule that open source software is high quality, but successful open source software is nearly universally so, or at least higher quality).
Population density is the wrong measure. Customers per infrastructure dollar is probably a lot closer to being correct. If the rural population of a relatively small country is limited, the country will appear to have a low population density, but most of the infrastructure will serve people living at high densities. The U.S. happens to have a significant number of people living at a low population density, so there are lots of areas where there is a lot of infrastructure per customer.
Still, the lightly regulated pseudo-monopoly carriers that don't invest in areas that are expensive to serve are a much bigger problem than geography (and under that regulation, they are supposed to work to serve everyone, not just the customers that give the highest returns...).
(The way I see it, buying what you like still usually makes sense, as you will convince yourself they are good, whereas if you buy something you don't like, you will convince yourself they are crap)
One of the big red flags for Madoff was that he was acting as his own holding company (i.e., not using a bank). I don't understand how that stuff works well enough to know if he was still moving large amounts of cash through normal banks (obviously it was coming from normal banks, but were there other transactions, and so forth...).
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It is fairly likely to happen when cheap smartphones start shipping with 64 GB of flash and decent peripheral support.
The whole point of patents is that they become public knowledge.
You inverted Microsoft and Intel (Microsoft is the $140 billion company).
Intel basically drives investment in fab technology, I wouldn't harsh on them too much.
You are obviously used to small paper. Allow me be the first to recommend big paper (now in even bigger sizes).
In Disclosure, the lead actually uses a 3d filing cabinet system to access some files that he needs (if I remember correctly, the premise was that the virtual system, setup as a demo, let him bypass some physical security).
The answer is 7. SciFi is a brand, not a promise.
They don't care. SciFi was a brand. They think they can build a better one. Given that relatively mediocre fantasy programming is still pretty expensive to produce, they can probably make more money while they are doing it.
NBC Universal also owns USA network (and the network has been under that umbrella through various changes in name and ownership to the parent).
TNN alienated their core audience and changed their name to something stupid. I don't have the numbers, but I bet Spike is making more money than TNN did.
Comcast buying TechTv was similar, they wanted the distribution contracts to use to put crappy programming in front of 20 something tards (the key being many more 20 something tards than were watching TechTv)..
You can zoom in a digital photo and then improvements are very clear.
Whether the ability to zoom is necessary is certainly a reasonable discussion, but there are real, quantitative improvements that are well with in human perceptual ranges being discussed, not better flow of electricity through speaker cables.
It isn't always the case that a flash will do anything (like, in a big room where the subject is far away).
There is plenty of room for better and better cameras, but most people aren't going to want to pay for them (I consider even 10 megapixels overkill for the pictures that I take).
Mass storage devices don't really violate physics (but you knew that).
It will be interesting to see if the new engineered metamaterials that have negative indexes of refraction end up in consumer devices (I don't know enough about optics to understand the implications for something like a digicam).
300 * 8 Megapixel pictures is 7.5 gigabytes of data (interpolation and such means that the camera might be capturing less than that, but it still has to either put it somewhere or compress it inside of that second).
It is getting less and less ludicrous to expect such a feature, but it isn't going to happen tomorrow, or next week.
If the image quality is sufficient, Nikon point and shoot cameras offer about 2/3 of what you are asking for (quiet, AA batteries):
http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Digital-Camera/index.page
Good luck on getting them to change the filename standards (the arguments about what is correct could go on forever). Exiftool makes it straightforward to rename a bunch of pictures based on time and date and so forth (but probably not easy):
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
I would think that the S/N ratio of the sensor would be a lot more important than the megapixels in determining the amount of noise in the image.
Stealthy?
Worry more about bed bugs. They have hit the first world again, and they are spreading.
It has a headset jack, the distinction is pretty narrow. I suppose it is easier to restrict 'special' audio equipment than it is to trust all iPhone owners though.
You need to try to imagine more mosquitoes. A hell of a lot more.
If you are using a machine to do tens of thousands of dollars of business, 'scary' is going to be a bigger consideration than $1,000 for a license. Open source needs to focus on the other side of the equation: "look, we are higher quality" (there isn't some magic rule that open source software is high quality, but successful open source software is nearly universally so, or at least higher quality).
What are you, a vampire?
Ah, the sun, the sun, it is irradiating me!
Population density is the wrong measure. Customers per infrastructure dollar is probably a lot closer to being correct. If the rural population of a relatively small country is limited, the country will appear to have a low population density, but most of the infrastructure will serve people living at high densities. The U.S. happens to have a significant number of people living at a low population density, so there are lots of areas where there is a lot of infrastructure per customer.
Still, the lightly regulated pseudo-monopoly carriers that don't invest in areas that are expensive to serve are a much bigger problem than geography (and under that regulation, they are supposed to work to serve everyone, not just the customers that give the highest returns...).
How much of your testing was blind?
(The way I see it, buying what you like still usually makes sense, as you will convince yourself they are good, whereas if you buy something you don't like, you will convince yourself they are crap)
Dearth doesn't really fit with what you said:
http://www.answers.com/dearth
One of the big red flags for Madoff was that he was acting as his own holding company (i.e., not using a bank). I don't understand how that stuff works well enough to know if he was still moving large amounts of cash through normal banks (obviously it was coming from normal banks, but were there other transactions, and so forth...).