I've always felt this would be THE "Killer App" for iPhone. (It wouldn't surprise me that Android can already do it, not looking to get into that argument.)
An option to record all calls or only calls involving certain people, etc. Just set it and forget it.
The legality could easily be solved using GPS. For instance Texas is a one-party-consent state so recording could be enabled without that worry. Travel to a two-party-consent state and the phone disables recording or beeps every 10 seconds or something to alert everyone on the call.
I was shocked, but when my wife's iPhone was stolen at Walmart we got it back the same night.
Find My iPhone tracked it to an address and after about an hour wait Houston PD sent an officer to meet me down the street. Based on the Find My iPhone map viewed on our iPad, he was confident enough that it really was in that house to go knock on the door at midnight.
About 20 minute later we had the iPhone back and all the information on the thief (Walmart employee). We went to the store the next day and she bought us another Otterbox case to replace the one she threw away. (I had a nice chat with her store manager right afterwards.)
Not true in my experience. I can plug my Thunderbolt hard drive into my MacBook Pro and Time Machine is done in just a few minutes; even when I've got about 30 GB of new photos on the laptop and haven't run the backup in over a week. It is very fast
Last year I upgraded from a WRT54GL with original Tomato to an Asus RT-N16 running Toastman's build. Got 365 days of rock solid stability before upgrading to a newer build with VLANs and Multi-SSD.
In my mind the RT-N16 has replaced the WRT54GL as the standard open source router for new installs.
Major League Baseball and some of the NFL franchises assert ownership of anything documented at their games.
Not true, I'm a sports photographer and MLB/NFL does not own the copyright of images I take at their games. Now they do restrict usage as part of the credential agreement, but that doesn't give them ownership or any rights to use the images themselves.
Professional testing has shown that the cameras I currently use (Canon EOS 1D Mark IV) top out around 66 MB/s when writing to the fastest CF cards.
But in-camera speed is only half of what matters. As a photojournalist and sports photographer who works on tight deadlines most days, I also have to consider how fast I can download the images off the CF cards onto my computer for editing. With the right card reader you can download at up to 97 MB/s.
This is why I always use the fastest cards I can, currently Sandisk Extreme Pro 90 MB/s, because even though the camera can't take advantage of that extra speed it will definitely save me time when it comes to editing.
For people not on a time crunch or those who always download to their computer by plugging their camera in with a USB cord it is probably wise to save money and not buy the fastest cards out there.
I did this with Comcast just this week actually. They dropped my bill (for "triple play" cable/phone/internet) by $60 per month. It is still too expensive, but more reasonable now and I'm not quite ready to drop TV completely. (Haven't convinced the wife yet and don't have time to setup a media server/sick beard/etc.)
I used the online chat and I wish I would have done it sooner, was pretty simple.
The racial makeup of the city was 90.09% White, 2.70% African American, 0.40% Native American, 2.39% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 2.79% from other races, and 1.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.79% of the population.
Although seriously, ignoring this current story, Friendswood is a really nice city with good schools and I'd happily live there if I could afford it. (I live nearby.)
Well they did drop the price by $100 and you can get the external superdrive for $79 so it is still cheaper than the model it replaces for a much more powerful machine.
The removal of the optical drive also provides room for a discreet graphics card (AMD Radeon HD 6630M).
Walmart has carried CR123A batteries for well over 10 years. You should also easily be able to find them at Target, Radio Shack, Best Buy, etc. Heck all the grocery stores around here (Houston) carry them as well.
I'm actually going to disagree with you here. I'm a news photographer in a large metroplex and deal with police and crime scenes fairly frequently. Every single "crime scene investigator" I've ever met carries a gun. They are all commissioned police officers and are armed while out collecting evidence and documenting scenes.
Now we may have a slight sticking point between "technician" and "investigator" but in the real world, the folks out at the scene have guns and several of them I know actually out-rank detectives.
He can still purchase the episodes or seasons but will have to do so from iTunes on his computer and then stream the purchases locally to the AppleTV. This may add an extra step he used to be able to do directly from the ATV?
With normal internet usage (web/email/IM/MP3s) my power draw hovers around 210-215 Watts. Same activity with Seti@Home running, processing 8 work units, and power draw hovers around 250-255 Watts so I'm not seeing that much of an increase.
(For reference I have a 2009 Mac Pro, 2.26 GHz 8 core with 8 GB of RAM)
your average laptop has considerably more computing power than the first shuttles had, and while the electronics have been updated, the engineering behind the overall superstructure, propulsion, etc are equally dated.
We were interviewing Buzz Aldrin on Friday and he brought up the fact that everyone mentions how his cell phone has more processing power than the computer they had on Apollo 11. He said something to the effect that he'd still take that Apollo computer over a newer off-the-shelf computer because it was built specifically for the job and they knew every little thing about it. (I was taking photos not conducting the interview so that isn't exact but is pretty close.)
I bought Half-Life "Game of the Year Edition" on sale at CompUSA for $9.99 in the spring of 1999. It has spoiled me. When I think of all the fun I've gotten out of that $10 over the past nine years (I still play CS and DoD) it is just staggering. I'll venture out on a limb and say that was the best $10 I have ever spent.
I've blown up portraits taken with my 4MP EOS 1D to 16x20 and they looks great. If you nail the shot (exposure, lighting) when taken and know how to handle digital files you can achieve great results with digital.
NixLover said, "The single place that I've not seen a digital come close to my T90 or F1 canons is in FPS.. I can crank 4.5 frames a second through either of those machines, while an 8MP camera is still downloading third image it recorded."
My Canon EOS 1D Mark II (8 MP) will shoot at 8 FPS. With a fast enough CF card (Sandisk Extreme III) I can keep shooting at that rate long past when you've had to stop to change film.
If I had mod points...I totally agree with your post. I've seen it over and over again, longtime AOL users are totally lost when put on an internet connected computer without AOL.
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I've always felt this would be THE "Killer App" for iPhone. (It wouldn't surprise me that Android can already do it, not looking to get into that argument.)
An option to record all calls or only calls involving certain people, etc. Just set it and forget it.
The legality could easily be solved using GPS. For instance Texas is a one-party-consent state so recording could be enabled without that worry. Travel to a two-party-consent state and the phone disables recording or beeps every 10 seconds or something to alert everyone on the call.
I was shocked, but when my wife's iPhone was stolen at Walmart we got it back the same night.
Find My iPhone tracked it to an address and after about an hour wait Houston PD sent an officer to meet me down the street. Based on the Find My iPhone map viewed on our iPad, he was confident enough that it really was in that house to go knock on the door at midnight.
About 20 minute later we had the iPhone back and all the information on the thief (Walmart employee). We went to the store the next day and she bought us another Otterbox case to replace the one she threw away. (I had a nice chat with her store manager right afterwards.)
Not true in my experience. I can plug my Thunderbolt hard drive into my MacBook Pro and Time Machine is done in just a few minutes; even when I've got about 30 GB of new photos on the laptop and haven't run the backup in over a week. It is very fast
Here is the main place to go for all Tomato development, all current developers are active here:
http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?forums/tomato-firmware.33/
Last year I upgraded from a WRT54GL with original Tomato to an Asus RT-N16 running Toastman's build. Got 365 days of rock solid stability before upgrading to a newer build with VLANs and Multi-SSD.
In my mind the RT-N16 has replaced the WRT54GL as the standard open source router for new installs.
I am only disputing the statement, "...assert ownership of anything documented at their games..." "Anything" is very broad and not true.
However even your quote doesn't contain any language that attempts to assert copyright or ownership of fan photography/video.
Major League Baseball and some of the NFL franchises assert ownership of anything documented at their games.
Not true, I'm a sports photographer and MLB/NFL does not own the copyright of images I take at their games. Now they do restrict usage as part of the credential agreement, but that doesn't give them ownership or any rights to use the images themselves.
Professional testing has shown that the cameras I currently use (Canon EOS 1D Mark IV) top out around 66 MB/s when writing to the fastest CF cards.
But in-camera speed is only half of what matters. As a photojournalist and sports photographer who works on tight deadlines most days, I also have to consider how fast I can download the images off the CF cards onto my computer for editing. With the right card reader you can download at up to 97 MB/s.
This is why I always use the fastest cards I can, currently Sandisk Extreme Pro 90 MB/s, because even though the camera can't take advantage of that extra speed it will definitely save me time when it comes to editing.
For people not on a time crunch or those who always download to their computer by plugging their camera in with a USB cord it is probably wise to save money and not buy the fastest cards out there.
I did this with Comcast just this week actually. They dropped my bill (for "triple play" cable/phone/internet) by $60 per month. It is still too expensive, but more reasonable now and I'm not quite ready to drop TV completely. (Haven't convinced the wife yet and don't have time to setup a media server/sick beard/etc.)
I used the online chat and I wish I would have done it sooner, was pretty simple.
If I'm black or Muslim in Friendswood, Texas...
If you were black or Muslim you wouldn't be in Friendswood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendswood,_Texas
The racial makeup of the city was 90.09% White, 2.70% African American, 0.40% Native American, 2.39% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 2.79% from other races, and 1.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.79% of the population.
Although seriously, ignoring this current story, Friendswood is a really nice city with good schools and I'd happily live there if I could afford it. (I live nearby.)
Well they did drop the price by $100 and you can get the external superdrive for $79 so it is still cheaper than the model it replaces for a much more powerful machine.
The removal of the optical drive also provides room for a discreet graphics card (AMD Radeon HD 6630M).
Walmart has carried CR123A batteries for well over 10 years. You should also easily be able to find them at Target, Radio Shack, Best Buy, etc. Heck all the grocery stores around here (Houston) carry them as well.
From what I've seen the CR123a actually seems to be a pretty standard battery for use in flashlights. I think all of the Surefire flashlights use them: http://www.surefire.com/ Tactical gun lights by Streamlight use them as well: http://www.streamlight.com/product/class.aspx?cid=10
I'm actually going to disagree with you here. I'm a news photographer in a large metroplex and deal with police and crime scenes fairly frequently. Every single "crime scene investigator" I've ever met carries a gun. They are all commissioned police officers and are armed while out collecting evidence and documenting scenes.
Now we may have a slight sticking point between "technician" and "investigator" but in the real world, the folks out at the scene have guns and several of them I know actually out-rank detectives.
He can still purchase the episodes or seasons but will have to do so from iTunes on his computer and then stream the purchases locally to the AppleTV. This may add an extra step he used to be able to do directly from the ATV?
This seems like a timely post: Banned for Life from the Miami-Dade Metrorail http://stretchphotography.com/blog/2010.07.01/banned-from-metro/
My experience isn't quite so dramatic.
With normal internet usage (web/email/IM/MP3s) my power draw hovers around 210-215 Watts. Same activity with Seti@Home running, processing 8 work units, and power draw hovers around 250-255 Watts so I'm not seeing that much of an increase.
(For reference I have a 2009 Mac Pro, 2.26 GHz 8 core with 8 GB of RAM)
it's not like they're playing Crysis up there or anything (that I know of anyway).
Crysis! They can't even watch DVDs up there, remember?
We were interviewing Buzz Aldrin on Friday and he brought up the fact that everyone mentions how his cell phone has more processing power than the computer they had on Apollo 11. He said something to the effect that he'd still take that Apollo computer over a newer off-the-shelf computer because it was built specifically for the job and they knew every little thing about it. (I was taking photos not conducting the interview so that isn't exact but is pretty close.)
I bought Half-Life "Game of the Year Edition" on sale at CompUSA for $9.99 in the spring of 1999. It has spoiled me. When I think of all the fun I've gotten out of that $10 over the past nine years (I still play CS and DoD) it is just staggering. I'll venture out on a limb and say that was the best $10 I have ever spent.
Nope, not a fake. You can see the originals right here on NASA's site:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/217427main_iss016e032312_hires.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/217432main_iss016e032313_hires.jpg
Man this DL is running slow. Where is the torrent?
Am I wrong to think that a program like WASTE (http://waste.sourceforge.net) is the easy fix if they started sniffing the local traffic?
I've blown up portraits taken with my 4MP EOS 1D to 16x20 and they looks great. If you nail the shot (exposure, lighting) when taken and know how to handle digital files you can achieve great results with digital.
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NixLover said, "The single place that I've not seen a digital come close to my T90 or F1 canons is in FPS.. I can crank 4.5 frames a second through either of those machines, while an 8MP camera is still downloading third image it recorded."
My Canon EOS 1D Mark II (8 MP) will shoot at 8 FPS. With a fast enough CF card (Sandisk Extreme III) I can keep shooting at that rate long past when you've had to stop to change film.
Here is a good article about a professional photographer who dumped film for digital:
Joey Terrill: from Hasselblad film to Canon digital
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?c
If I had mod points...I totally agree with your post. I've seen it over and over again, longtime AOL users are totally lost when put on an internet connected computer without AOL.
I realize that you said "approximately" but currently only 5 of our 12 aircraft carriers are away from their homeport: http://www.navy.mil/palib/news/.www/status.html
No kidding. I've had a pair of 250GB IDE Raid Edition drives for over a year now.