Even within Apple's walled garden, app developers must write for an increasing array of different screen sizes, and to take advantage of optional hardware like Touch ID when available.
What I have in mind is an industry-developed standard that would enforce its branding on all advertisers. Ad blockers would have a Settings checkbox for accepting ads that comply with the standard. You would be motivated to use the checkbox as an alternative to having to disable your ad blocker for every single news site you encounter in a search.
A "bad actor breaking ranks" would be subject by the standard consortium to the same set of weapons-grade legal attacks that apply to content piracy. More importantly, the consortium would remove it from the compliant ad set, and their ads would be blocked.
Sure, let's add to the list of hopeful assumptions:... 2. Magic batteries will be developed, holding utility-scale amounts of power. This might involve Trump annexing Bolivia, but if it benefits wind, Greenpeace will be okay with that. 3. We will never run out of natural gas.
And since fluctuating wind cannot be a baseload power source, we will have to pin our hopes on the "deniers" being right about the effects of carbon. Good luck with that.
But a larger sensor, with glass that has more light-gathering power, always beats a smaller sensor. You can take passable closeups with a phone, and it's the camera you always have with you, but DSLRs still own the macro field.
Advertisers could have saved themselves by agreeing to a non-offending standard (no popups, no autoplay videos, etc.) for advertising that would then be accepted by ad blockers. But no - now their business model is vanishing.
What is fraudy about it? Everyone who held BTC in a private wallet now has BTC and BCC in the same amount. It's like getting free money! How is that fraud?
Because the value in trade of BTC is the fixed amount of mineable currency. Suddenly, the money supply has doubled, making BTC investors instant Venezuelans.
No, the face is in focus in both lenses. The Portrait Mode software takes the wide-angle image, selects and deletes the face, which though in focus would be distorted by the wide angle, and drops in the ore natural looking face from the image in the long lens
It's a stitching of two real images, rather than a synthesis: long lens portraiture, which gives appealing proportions to a face, combined with the blurred background of a short prime used wide open. If you shoot the whole portrait with a short lens, in innately looks unappealing because the nose comes out too big.
Photographers use depth of field to selectively isolate the parts of an image that are intended to catch your attention, which the human mind does by instinct when you look at something. Macro photographers in particular used haul out the tripod and the big lights for shooting at nothing less than f/22 to 'keep everything in focus' for every image. Today there is an assortment of macro lenses available that will open up to f/2 or faster. This enables you to isolate, by available light, a fast-loving little spider against a picturesquely blurred background.
If you care about photography you buy a camera. Full fucking stop. It's about the lenses and no iPhone has a lens that gets close to what a DSLR for a resonable price offers.
I care enough about photography to use both. It takes a DSLR to do justice to outdoor grandeur, to macro shots of insects at close range, to high-quality portraits, shooting a lighthouse backed up by the summer Milky Way, or to catching the architecture and reflections in big cities. Different situations take different lenses, and light-gathering power always helps.
But in social situations, as soon as you pull out a 'real camera' you put up a wall of separation between yourself and people right in your vicinity. You are no longer part of the scene but become an outside observer Taking A Picture. Phones, on the other hand, are so ubiquitous today that nobody notices them. You can use them in restaurants (not for food, like the amateurs, but for the people), at parties, in offices, on crowded sidewalks, and in places like casinos, where the sight of a 'real camera' causes security staff to come running.
If Cartier-Bresson were alive today, he would be carrying an iPhone 7+.
It's not even about good cameras. It's about a software feature to emulate a defect in large aperture lenses even though the phone has a tiny lens that isn't susceptable to that defect. Nevermind that Google was emulating this same defect with a single lens since 2014 (the feature is only available on iPhones with dual lens cameras).
The iPhone 7 camera is not synthesizing bokeh in software. Portrait mode combines the sharp image of a face taken with the long lens with the blurred background taken by the short lens.
The Treaty prevents Earthly countries from dividing up space for themselves or from weaponizing it, which was the big fear as it became apparent that the US would be first to place astronauts on the Moon. It does not prevent private companies from exploiting space resources.
In iOS 11, Apple is implementing Do Not Disturb For Driving, in which your iPhone will stop sending and receiving texts if you are in your car and it's moving.
I propose Do Not Disturb For Pedestrians, in which your GPS location while in urban areas is continually checked against Apple Maps. When you're in a street, your display is replaced by a big red LOOK UP banner.
We'r talking about Adobe here, and herein lies the solution. Add Flash to the array of popular Adobe products that are now eyedroppered out to users on a monthly rental basis only under its Creative Cloud. Make Flash CC cost $10 a month, and everyone will finally stop using it.
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There was also the proposal to build the Suez Canal with nuclear detonations. Crazy times for even crazier people.
But in 1867 they didn't know where to get enough pitchblende.
Even within Apple's walled garden, app developers must write for an increasing array of different screen sizes, and to take advantage of optional hardware like Touch ID when available.
What I have in mind is an industry-developed standard that would enforce its branding on all advertisers. Ad blockers would have a Settings checkbox for accepting ads that comply with the standard. You would be motivated to use the checkbox as an alternative to having to disable your ad blocker for every single news site you encounter in a search.
A "bad actor breaking ranks" would be subject by the standard consortium to the same set of weapons-grade legal attacks that apply to content piracy. More importantly, the consortium would remove it from the compliant ad set, and their ads would be blocked.
Sure, let's add to the list of hopeful assumptions: ...
2. Magic batteries will be developed, holding utility-scale amounts of power. This might involve Trump annexing Bolivia, but if it benefits wind, Greenpeace will be okay with that.
3. We will never run out of natural gas.
Any AI that can search for unacceptable values of extremism, however defined, in political discourse is one that would be qualified to run for office.
And since fluctuating wind cannot be a baseload power source, we will have to pin our hopes on the "deniers" being right about the effects of carbon. Good luck with that.
But a larger sensor, with glass that has more light-gathering power, always beats a smaller sensor. You can take passable closeups with a phone, and it's the camera you always have with you, but DSLRs still own the macro field.
At last, a high-paying tech job for that cousin with the transgender theory degree who didn't manage to pass her LSAT.
Advertisers could have saved themselves by agreeing to a non-offending standard (no popups, no autoplay videos, etc.) for advertising that would then be accepted by ad blockers. But no - now their business model is vanishing.
What is fraudy about it? Everyone who held BTC in a private wallet now has BTC and BCC in the same amount. It's like getting free money! How is that fraud?
Because the value in trade of BTC is the fixed amount of mineable currency. Suddenly, the money supply has doubled, making BTC investors instant Venezuelans.
Current NYC maxes out at 7 transactions per second. Visa, MasterCard, etc do thousands of transactions per second.
Just when they were on the point of selling out the first field of black tulips!
The depth information is used to figure out which parts of the image are sharpest, hence 'wanted'.
No, the face is in focus in both lenses. The Portrait Mode software takes the wide-angle image, selects and deletes the face, which though in focus would be distorted by the wide angle, and drops in the ore natural looking face from the image in the long lens
It's a stitching of two real images, rather than a synthesis: long lens portraiture, which gives appealing proportions to a face, combined with the blurred background of a short prime used wide open. If you shoot the whole portrait with a short lens, in innately looks unappealing because the nose comes out too big.
Photographers use depth of field to selectively isolate the parts of an image that are intended to catch your attention, which the human mind does by instinct when you look at something. Macro photographers in particular used haul out the tripod and the big lights for shooting at nothing less than f/22 to 'keep everything in focus' for every image. Today there is an assortment of macro lenses available that will open up to f/2 or faster. This enables you to isolate, by available light, a fast-loving little spider against a picturesquely blurred background.
If you care about photography you buy a camera. Full fucking stop. It's about the lenses and no iPhone has a lens that gets close to what a DSLR for a resonable price offers.
I care enough about photography to use both. It takes a DSLR to do justice to outdoor grandeur, to macro shots of insects at close range, to high-quality portraits, shooting a lighthouse backed up by the summer Milky Way, or to catching the architecture and reflections in big cities. Different situations take different lenses, and light-gathering power always helps.
But in social situations, as soon as you pull out a 'real camera' you put up a wall of separation between yourself and people right in your vicinity. You are no longer part of the scene but become an outside observer Taking A Picture. Phones, on the other hand, are so ubiquitous today that nobody notices them. You can use them in restaurants (not for food, like the amateurs, but for the people), at parties, in offices, on crowded sidewalks, and in places like casinos, where the sight of a 'real camera' causes security staff to come running.
If Cartier-Bresson were alive today, he would be carrying an iPhone 7+.
Nobody else at Olive Garden is going to care if the young people sitting next to you are taking pictures of their food.
It's not even about good cameras. It's about a software feature to emulate a defect in large aperture lenses even though the phone has a tiny lens that isn't susceptable to that defect. Nevermind that Google was emulating this same defect with a single lens since 2014 (the feature is only available on iPhones with dual lens cameras).
The iPhone 7 camera is not synthesizing bokeh in software. Portrait mode combines the sharp image of a face taken with the long lens with the blurred background taken by the short lens.
It's microstock for animated GIFs, apparently. Mmmm-kay.
Does this mean that the next Hollywood heist will contain the line "Bite my shiny metal ass!"?
The Treaty prevents Earthly countries from dividing up space for themselves or from weaponizing it, which was the big fear as it became apparent that the US would be first to place astronauts on the Moon. It does not prevent private companies from exploiting space resources.
In iOS 11, Apple is implementing Do Not Disturb For Driving, in which your iPhone will stop sending and receiving texts if you are in your car and it's moving.
I propose Do Not Disturb For Pedestrians, in which your GPS location while in urban areas is continually checked against Apple Maps. When you're in a street, your display is replaced by a big red LOOK UP banner.
We'r talking about Adobe here, and herein lies the solution. Add Flash to the array of popular Adobe products that are now eyedroppered out to users on a monthly rental basis only under its Creative Cloud. Make Flash CC cost $10 a month, and everyone will finally stop using it.
" It's not die-cast idiot. It's sintered. "
Sintered idiots are provably tougher. Jeff Sessions is an example.
Ads on the Internet make me less likely to buy a company's products.
The ads I'm seeing online are mainly for products I have already bought.