1. Normally, when you have service, it's attached to the SIM, not the phone. With this new embedded SIM model, this goes away. Your service is attached to the phone. Bad.
It's not even for phones - maybe some day, but not yet.
Decimal: 1 [decimal digit] can be one of 10 different values, so five times more information is present in a single [decimal digit].
Just because it can represent five times more states, doesn't make it five times more information. It's about 3.322 times more information (as measured in bits).
1 bit can be one of 2 states. 3 bits can take one of 8 states - four times as many states, but only three times the number of bits.
Binary: 1 bit can be 2 values, and contains that absolute minimal amount of information possible
That's the last correct statement in your post.
Decimal: 1 bit can be one of 10 different values, so five times more information is present in a single bit.
You mean one digit. "Bit" has no other definition than the one you've given above.
So information is sent and computer far faster.
No, this simply isn't true. The bit is the fundamental unit of information. You can't transmit data faster simply by declaring it to be decimal/hexadecimal/analogue. All of those things are still, fundamentally, measured in bits. You might as well argue that since you can lift a package that weighs 1kg, you could just as easily lift a package that weighs 1000kg because it's still just one package.
Analogue: 1 bit can be an infinite amount of values
There is no such thing as an "analogue bit" and even if there were, it could not take one of an infinite amount of values. In fact, once you get right down to the physics of it, it probably can't actually take one determinable value at all...
So information is sent and computed far far faster.
Another important aspect is that the pictures don't even have to be all from the same camera, taken in one session.
I know they can be, but that's not the case with these demos. They've gone to great lengths to give Photosynth great input - but by doing so they're entirely failing to demonstrate Photosynth's true strengths (which, in another inversion, won't give you results as good as the demos).
The Photosynth demos look nice, but surely there's a point where it becomes simpler just to shoot an HD video of your "walk" (or "spin") rather than having to reconstruct all those intermediate frames?
Photosynth may be useful if you didn't think of that beforehand, but since those demo images were presumably taken specifically to demonstrate Photosynth, it seems a bit of a waste of time - like demonstrating your colourisation program on a black and white version of a colour movie.
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1. Normally, when you have service, it's attached to the SIM, not the phone. With this new embedded SIM model, this goes away. Your service is attached to the phone. Bad.
It's not even for phones - maybe some day, but not yet.
What this seems to do is take control away from the user, who could swap SIM cards, and give it to some carrier.
When you say "seems to," do you really mean "could possibly some day"?
This looks like something where you beg and plead with your old carrier to let you switch your device to a new carrier.
That sounds more like something you're inferring than something being implied by the article.
There's nothing in the article to suggest it's going to make it's way into consumer devices just yet. It might one day, but not yet.
The GSMA has published the technical description of a SIM card designed specifically for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication
Despite the convenience of over-the-air management, the GSMA says the embedded design is not meant to replace conventional SIM cards
No, it's not.
Exactly.
Ooh ooh, found another mistake (sorry).
Decimal: 1 [decimal digit] can be one of 10 different values, so five times more information is present in a single [decimal digit].
Just because it can represent five times more states, doesn't make it five times more information. It's about 3.322 times more information (as measured in bits).
1 bit can be one of 2 states.
3 bits can take one of 8 states - four times as many states, but only three times the number of bits.
You did not give me the correct alternative because one does not really exist, as far as I know.
I think I found it - it's called a ban.
Federal Bitcoin Industries.
I, for one, have no idea what you mean.
Handheld digital cameras make a shutter noise, mandated by law, last I heard.
If you record video, does it have to play the sound of 8mm film clacking through a noisy gate?
And if non binary computers started to be more popular I would not be surprised if the definition of bit expanded to include them.
It won't, because they won't.
Binary: 1 bit can be 2 values, and contains that absolute minimal amount of information possible
That's the last correct statement in your post.
Decimal: 1 bit can be one of 10 different values, so five times more information is present in a single bit.
You mean one digit. "Bit" has no other definition than the one you've given above.
So information is sent and computer far faster.
No, this simply isn't true. The bit is the fundamental unit of information. You can't transmit data faster simply by declaring it to be decimal/hexadecimal/analogue. All of those things are still, fundamentally, measured in bits. You might as well argue that since you can lift a package that weighs 1kg, you could just as easily lift a package that weighs 1000kg because it's still just one package.
Analogue: 1 bit can be an infinite amount of values
There is no such thing as an "analogue bit" and even if there were, it could not take one of an infinite amount of values. In fact, once you get right down to the physics of it, it probably can't actually take one determinable value at all...
So information is sent and computed far far faster.
Again, this does not follow. At all.
As long as you never need to decrypt your data ever again, you can make it 100% safe from prying eyes.
but up to four meters have been successfully tested
Were they all the same size?
At First Sight
I do not see why they needed to modify their instruction set to realize such gains.
It was just a generic example to give the casual reader a basic grasp of the idea, not a specific scenario they'll be applying their process to.
Since in an Analogue computer every bit now contains an infinite amount of information, instead of just one, I imagine it would be incredibly fast.
What is this I don't even.
You don't mean to suggest that the media are putting their own slant on this in order to make it a more interesting story than it would otherwise be?
Eat poop.
ELDO KIM accessed TOR
I know what TOR stands for, but what does ELDO KIM mean?
^joke
I thought the sensible thing was
"Sensible" here being used in a wholly relative sense, I assume.
You are your own grandpa.
Another important aspect is that the pictures don't even have to be all from the same camera, taken in one session.
I know they can be, but that's not the case with these demos. They've gone to great lengths to give Photosynth great input - but by doing so they're entirely failing to demonstrate Photosynth's true strengths (which, in another inversion, won't give you results as good as the demos).
The Photosynth demos look nice, but surely there's a point where it becomes simpler just to shoot an HD video of your "walk" (or "spin") rather than having to reconstruct all those intermediate frames?
Photosynth may be useful if you didn't think of that beforehand, but since those demo images were presumably taken specifically to demonstrate Photosynth, it seems a bit of a waste of time - like demonstrating your colourisation program on a black and white version of a colour movie.
Also things like "has the screen got high enough contrast that I can tell a tumour from a not-a-tumour?"
(not that I'd expect these to be primary diagnostic devices, but still)
Well, it is and it isn't.