This is Slashdot, where the uninformed gather to demonstrate their superiority by scoffing at every scientific advance. The ones they don't understand they just dismiss as impossible.
but if there aren't any (a part of the picture is a white wall, for example), the extra information to encode and compress simply isn't there
But for all those blank areas that don't require many more bits, won't there be plenty of other parts of the image which now do require more bits because there's more detail in them compared to a smaller version of the same scene?
To put it another way, how is encoding one of these 8K HD videos that much different to encoding 16 separate HD videos, each being a crop of the whole?
I'm having trouble visualising the point you're trying to make. When you say:
you don't have to possess a physical dollar bill to spend a dollar.
I assume you're talking about dollars in bank accounts, charged on credit cards, etc. If so, then isn't it different with bitcoins because bitcoins are already virtual?
I've always had a bit of a blind spot with money, to be honest - the fact that it's just a convenient fiction that the vast majority of people buy into makes it hard for me to grasp.
Using metal detectors without... a degree in archaeology is illegal here in Ireland
Seriously? I can sort of understand the rest of it, but there are other uses for metal detectors besides digging up treasure. Or did you just mean to imply "Using metal detectors to find loot"?
Yeah, and that's my point. TFA is going with the popular easy-to-understand way of explaining things, rather than the technically-correct-but-not-how-people-think-of-it way.
Namely, that not all open relays are used by spammers. In fact, it could be the case that the vast majority of open relays are perfectly harmless and have a legitimate reason for existing.
Technically speaking yes, but casually speaking an image that's 10"x10" is generally regarded as being the "twice the size" of 5"x5", so it's that kind of thinking they're going with.
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The storefront lets people find and install web applications delivered via the browser
So... it's the internet? No?
Four.
...the guy who designed the battery now used in hybrid cars has died. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20004190
Yes, he did, but I think his point why should we fine the phone company for routing a call if they have no idea it's from a robot?
Large fines to the telephone company that passed on the robocall.
What is this, the 1940s? The robots don't call up the girls at the exchange and asked to be put through.
This is Slashdot, where the uninformed gather to demonstrate their superiority by scoffing at every scientific advance. The ones they don't understand they just dismiss as impossible.
Excuse me while I register a domain name...
Damn, already taken.
"Sleep" really doesn't work like that as a verb.
Nuggets the size of your fist! Don't tell anyone!
If your nuggets are the size of your fist, you should probably tell your doctor.
Not only is that silly sounding, but it doesn't even follow along the kind of names they have been using.
What, "[adjective] [animal]"? Seems to fit just fine.
Sentence fragment.
Could you spell that for me? Three times ought to do .
The company's new service, called Alto, isn't a new email client.
Alto, which is in limited release starting today, is designed to be an intelligent aggregator of the email accounts you already have.
Sure as hell sounds like an email client to me.
but if there aren't any (a part of the picture is a white wall, for example), the extra information to encode and compress simply isn't there
But for all those blank areas that don't require many more bits, won't there be plenty of other parts of the image which now do require more bits because there's more detail in them compared to a smaller version of the same scene?
To put it another way, how is encoding one of these 8K HD videos that much different to encoding 16 separate HD videos, each being a crop of the whole?
Well, as a back-of-the-envelope calculation, they kinda do.
BINGO!
You could at least tell us what that one stands for.
Then they came for the lawyers, and went home in the knowledge of a job well done.
you don't have to possess a physical dollar bill to spend a dollar.
I assume you're talking about dollars in bank accounts, charged on credit cards, etc. If so, then isn't it different with bitcoins because bitcoins are already virtual?
I've always had a bit of a blind spot with money, to be honest - the fact that it's just a convenient fiction that the vast majority of people buy into makes it hard for me to grasp.
(I'm thinking about you, Lucy Koh)
Here comes a restraining order...
Using metal detectors without ... a degree in archaeology is illegal here in Ireland
Seriously? I can sort of understand the rest of it, but there are other uses for metal detectors besides digging up treasure. Or did you just mean to imply "Using metal detectors to find loot"?
Which is what, exactly?
- the size of whatever hit us.
Yeah, and that's my point. TFA is going with the popular easy-to-understand way of explaining things, rather than the technically-correct-but-not-how-people-think-of-it way.
Namely, that not all open relays are used by spammers. In fact, it could be the case that the vast majority of open relays are perfectly harmless and have a legitimate reason for existing.
I'm trying to think of one...
Technically speaking yes, but casually speaking an image that's 10"x10" is generally regarded as being the "twice the size" of 5"x5", so it's that kind of thinking they're going with.