Sony doesn't care how many people it is, they care how many dollars it is. And in dollar term it costs them next to nothing to turn this feature off. In terms of lost sales it's absolutely nothing. Supporting it, on the other hand, did cost significant cash.
Contrast that process of government to the way Obama and the Democrats have governed since Obama came to power. Now we have legislative bills 2000 pages long published for 3 days before they are voted on, and the 3 days is a compromise because Obama and the Democrats wanted the bills voted on before anyone even wrote them. They act as if the three day time period is a generous privilege granted because of their great desire for transparency, but it is nothing more than the destruction of our form of representative government, as no one can fully understand a 2000 page bill in 3 days, let alone have intelligent debate about what is actually in it.
That's really funny, because most, if not all of that bill was available weeks before the vote. It's not like republicans needed to read it, because they had decided to vote against it regardless of what it contained. Of course this is after it got piles of crap added in an attempt to appease Republicans.
And that 3 days is generous compared to what the republicans did in ramming the Patriot Act down the country's throat. The bill was released to Congress late in the day on October 23. The house democrats were given two copies. The vote was held the next day.
In other words, the republicans in congress are whiny bitches who will lie and cheat and steal, whether they're on top or not. And they'll bitch about everything that doesn't go their way. They hire a brute squad, and when the brute squad starts throwing bricks through windows they'll talk about how it's the windows' fault.
And we can complain about it. And if you come here, you can complain about it... Right in front of the White House. Try going to Tienanmen Square with a bunch of your friends to complain about the policies of the Chinese government. Really.. Try... I'll buy the ticket.
A river isn't one really landmark, it's a series of landmarks that could be used to determine the projection and scale, unless it's really linear or has changed significantly. It's not great, because there are large parts of the map that don't have landmarks.
At any rate what you've really got is two maps with different projections. The hard part will be deciding where the boundary line between the maps is. So you'd deproject each map separately into a larger map of the projection you want. You're also going to need a date in order to determine the magnetic variation when the map was created. There's going to be some missing data in the overlap region, and there's going to be some parts of the map that should be duplicated, but probably aren't.
I'm pretty sure they do the 3D on the remote side and send highly compressed display data which is decoded locally. I don't know if they are doing full frame video compression (ex. H.262/3/4 codecs), or just sending portions of the display that have been updated (ex. VNC or RDP).
Just a guess... The target audience is people who spent too much money on a Mac and then realized it can't play most of the games that are out there. So now for $15 a month, Apple will let you PC play games running on a remote PC.
What I don't get is why is there a Windows version?
We deal with old data with weird and sometimes unidentified projections fairly often. You will need at least some landmarks, though. The larger the scale, the more you will need. The more complex the projection, the more landmarks you'll need. With really old maps that are hand drawn and don't match a distance scale (pre-17th century) you're probably out of luck even if it's a local street map.
Astronomical software to deal with converting between projections is typically open source, but the learning curve is steep. Don't even think about using commercial image editing software. Even if you think it might be doing things right, you'll never be sure unless you're writing your own plugins.
It'll get done in a year. That still doesn't change the fact that a flight of the Falcon 9 heavy is an entirely different thing than an Falcon 9 flight even if they share the same parts. If you strap three 747s together, what you get won't fly like a 747. What you get is an entirely new thing. If you don't keep that in mind you'll end up with an Arianne 5 first-flight repeat.
For scientific purposes you are correct. When used for scientific purposes, CCDs are linear detectors, and you want to do normal linear math on them, because you are interested in the number, not how the picture looks However, human perceptions aren't linear with color or intensity, nor do human brains tend to interpolate each of the color channels across discontinuities. Our brains expect an edge to be sharp. When we see a boundary between red and blue, our brains don't perceive a blurry purple edge.
I see this as a problem of working in the wrong coordinates. Rather than working in RGB space and doing interpolations there (which would be valid for scientific purposed) imaging software for photo-reproduction purpose should be operating in a perceived luminance vs color space. The gamma approximation is one way to get close to what an out of focus eye would see.
I see it as confirmation that Blogging and the "Blogosphere" is an empty and thoughtless echo chamber.
Looking at the love poems posted at blogspot in response, I think you hit that one on the head. Where are the "You sold out any values you may have had long before you started posting lies under a pseudonym for cash." responses?
We live in a culture where as long as you say "I'm a journalist/blogger/commentator" you are allowed to say anything no matter how false without suffering any consequences. Sources you expect to have some level of truth to them are now equivalent to Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Lies are how money is made, so lies are what we get.
The competitive Falcon 9 heavy (which will be one of the (if not the) biggest rockets outside the super-heavy stuff if/when it gets done) is still in development.
Note, for the record, that the Falcon 9 Heavy consists of a Falcon 9 plus two extra Falcon 9 first stages in parallel.
In other words, about 99% of Falcon 9 Heavy will be tested when the first Falcon 9 flies - all that'll be left is software and the physical disconnects between the three Falcon 9 first stages.
Not that software is necessarily a small thing....
Not that the hardware is a small thing either. To quote Han Solo, strapping three rockets together ain't exactly like dusting crops. It'll be several dozen man years of engineering to do that.
Not that myself or my organization was opposed to licensing legally. However when you have a small, no fee, in house product being distributed within your organization and they are looking for 100$ US or more per instance for licensing fees, it rather makes it a hard pill to swallow.
If it's only used internally why would you need a license? GPL only applies if you intend to distribute an application. Maybe your organization would have saved a lot of money if they had spent a couple hundred buck to talk with a lawyer for an hour.
There are already plenty of entropy sources on a typical PC, and the need for cryptographic strength randomness is rare enough that we can accumulate entropy without adding more hardware. We've already got timer chips, real time clocks, CPU cycle and instruction counters, mouse positions, graphics memory, audio inputs, accelerometers, rotation rate sensors on fans, temperature sensors on CPUs, motherboards, and disk drives, all the SMART data on the drives, packet checksums, and we currently aren't even using most of those. If you want to add entropy accumulators, use the ones we already have first. If they're not enough, it's fairly easy to add a white noise generator to your audio input. Plug in a radio tuned to static. Or even tuned to a station. It doesn't matter. Either has plenty of entropy. The sensors chip on my motherboard generates about 31 bits of entropy per read (probably due to spikes and sags on the power supply voltages) when read at 1 Hz. A drive's SMART data is probably good for a couple bits per second.
And how exactly is a metastable multivibrator a new thing anyway?
Before I had an iPhone (which At&t does not offer insurance for [about.com]), I had insurance on each smartphone I bought. It was ~$5 a month and a $50 deductible, and they only replaced it with new or refurbished model of the exact phone I broke, so if I broke a phone after a year that means I paid $60 + $50 deductible = $110 for a refurbished smartphone. They were coming out way ahead, so I don't understand all the crying by insurance companies.
The refurbished smartphone is probably worth more than $110. A year ago I "paid" $175 for my current smartphone with a two year phone+data contract. Without the contract, the phone was $625. Since then, the price for a new phone has dropped to about $475. A refurb goes for about $300. So if my phone dies today, I've paid $60+$50 deductible=$110 for a $300 phone. Given that the past two phone models I owned both died during year 2, I will probably keep the insurance through most (but not all) of year 2 of the contract.
It also appears the insurance is either $4 or $5 depending upon which phone you own, so I think the more expensive your phone is, the better off you are buying insurance. I'm happy to let the people with cheap phones subsidize my smartphone habit.
It's somewhat odd that the insurance company allows upgrades. The insurance my carrier lets me buy replaces the phone with the identical model, usually a refurb rather than a new own. Wouldn't such a practice solve the problem quickly. I prefer that solution to higher insurance rates.
Which is far more appropriate analogy. But you go ahead and play the role of the blind following the blind - who needs training and experience in a specialized field of science when a pithy remark will do instead?
What makes you think I don't have training and experience in a specialized field of science. A Ph.D. doesn't preclude pithy remarks. I think you may have mistaken which side of this argument I'm on.
95% confidence is an arbitrary level. The chances that there was warming in the last decade are greater than 80%, but less than 95%. That's not the same as there being no warming. Even if there wasn't, cooling on timescales that short would not disprove AGW.
Markets seek equilibrium. Pure and simple. The free market system is not some magical belief, it is simply the way things work in the absence of outside interference.
And your evidence for these beliefs is???? Sounds pretty magical to me. It's pretty clear that the natural equilibrium that unregulated markets seek is all capital being held by a single person.
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Sony doesn't care how many people it is, they care how many dollars it is. And in dollar term it costs them next to nothing to turn this feature off. In terms of lost sales it's absolutely nothing. Supporting it, on the other hand, did cost significant cash.
Contrast that process of government to the way Obama and the Democrats have governed since Obama came to power. Now we have legislative bills 2000 pages long published for 3 days before they are voted on, and the 3 days is a compromise because Obama and the Democrats wanted the bills voted on before anyone even wrote them. They act as if the three day time period is a generous privilege granted because of their great desire for transparency, but it is nothing more than the destruction of our form of representative government, as no one can fully understand a 2000 page bill in 3 days, let alone have intelligent debate about what is actually in it.
That's really funny, because most, if not all of that bill was available weeks before the vote. It's not like republicans needed to read it, because they had decided to vote against it regardless of what it contained. Of course this is after it got piles of crap added in an attempt to appease Republicans.
And that 3 days is generous compared to what the republicans did in ramming the Patriot Act down the country's throat. The bill was released to Congress late in the day on October 23. The house democrats were given two copies. The vote was held the next day.
In other words, the republicans in congress are whiny bitches who will lie and cheat and steal, whether they're on top or not. And they'll bitch about everything that doesn't go their way. They hire a brute squad, and when the brute squad starts throwing bricks through windows they'll talk about how it's the windows' fault.
And we can complain about it. And if you come here, you can complain about it... Right in front of the White House. Try going to Tienanmen Square with a bunch of your friends to complain about the policies of the Chinese government. Really.. Try... I'll buy the ticket.
A river isn't one really landmark, it's a series of landmarks that could be used to determine the projection and scale, unless it's really linear or has changed significantly. It's not great, because there are large parts of the map that don't have landmarks.
At any rate what you've really got is two maps with different projections. The hard part will be deciding where the boundary line between the maps is. So you'd deproject each map separately into a larger map of the projection you want. You're also going to need a date in order to determine the magnetic variation when the map was created. There's going to be some missing data in the overlap region, and there's going to be some parts of the map that should be duplicated, but probably aren't.
I'm pretty sure they do the 3D on the remote side and send highly compressed display data which is decoded locally. I don't know if they are doing full frame video compression (ex. H.262/3/4 codecs), or just sending portions of the display that have been updated (ex. VNC or RDP).
Just a guess... The target audience is people who spent too much money on a Mac and then realized it can't play most of the games that are out there. So now for $15 a month, Apple will let you PC play games running on a remote PC. What I don't get is why is there a Windows version?
We deal with old data with weird and sometimes unidentified projections fairly often. You will need at least some landmarks, though. The larger the scale, the more you will need. The more complex the projection, the more landmarks you'll need. With really old maps that are hand drawn and don't match a distance scale (pre-17th century) you're probably out of luck even if it's a local street map.
Astronomical software to deal with converting between projections is typically open source, but the learning curve is steep. Don't even think about using commercial image editing software. Even if you think it might be doing things right, you'll never be sure unless you're writing your own plugins.
It'll get done in a year. That still doesn't change the fact that a flight of the Falcon 9 heavy is an entirely different thing than an Falcon 9 flight even if they share the same parts. If you strap three 747s together, what you get won't fly like a 747. What you get is an entirely new thing. If you don't keep that in mind you'll end up with an Arianne 5 first-flight repeat.
For scientific purposes you are correct. When used for scientific purposes, CCDs are linear detectors, and you want to do normal linear math on them, because you are interested in the number, not how the picture looks However, human perceptions aren't linear with color or intensity, nor do human brains tend to interpolate each of the color channels across discontinuities. Our brains expect an edge to be sharp. When we see a boundary between red and blue, our brains don't perceive a blurry purple edge.
I see this as a problem of working in the wrong coordinates. Rather than working in RGB space and doing interpolations there (which would be valid for scientific purposed) imaging software for photo-reproduction purpose should be operating in a perceived luminance vs color space. The gamma approximation is one way to get close to what an out of focus eye would see.
I see it as confirmation that Blogging and the "Blogosphere" is an empty and thoughtless echo chamber.
Looking at the love poems posted at blogspot in response, I think you hit that one on the head. Where are the "You sold out any values you may have had long before you started posting lies under a pseudonym for cash." responses?
We live in a culture where as long as you say "I'm a journalist/blogger/commentator" you are allowed to say anything no matter how false without suffering any consequences. Sources you expect to have some level of truth to them are now equivalent to Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Lies are how money is made, so lies are what we get.
Note, for the record, that the Falcon 9 Heavy consists of a Falcon 9 plus two extra Falcon 9 first stages in parallel.
In other words, about 99% of Falcon 9 Heavy will be tested when the first Falcon 9 flies - all that'll be left is software and the physical disconnects between the three Falcon 9 first stages.
Not that software is necessarily a small thing....
Not that the hardware is a small thing either. To quote Han Solo, strapping three rockets together ain't exactly like dusting crops. It'll be several dozen man years of engineering to do that.
Not that myself or my organization was opposed to licensing legally. However when you have a small, no fee, in house product being distributed within your organization and they are looking for 100$ US or more per instance for licensing fees, it rather makes it a hard pill to swallow.
If it's only used internally why would you need a license? GPL only applies if you intend to distribute an application. Maybe your organization would have saved a lot of money if they had spent a couple hundred buck to talk with a lawyer for an hour.
There are already plenty of entropy sources on a typical PC, and the need for cryptographic strength randomness is rare enough that we can accumulate entropy without adding more hardware. We've already got timer chips, real time clocks, CPU cycle and instruction counters, mouse positions, graphics memory, audio inputs, accelerometers, rotation rate sensors on fans, temperature sensors on CPUs, motherboards, and disk drives, all the SMART data on the drives, packet checksums, and we currently aren't even using most of those. If you want to add entropy accumulators, use the ones we already have first. If they're not enough, it's fairly easy to add a white noise generator to your audio input. Plug in a radio tuned to static. Or even tuned to a station. It doesn't matter. Either has plenty of entropy. The sensors chip on my motherboard generates about 31 bits of entropy per read (probably due to spikes and sags on the power supply voltages) when read at 1 Hz. A drive's SMART data is probably good for a couple bits per second.
And how exactly is a metastable multivibrator a new thing anyway?
Really? I don't seem to recall people saying that a massive depression was starting in 2001.
Before I had an iPhone (which At&t does not offer insurance for [about.com]), I had insurance on each smartphone I bought. It was ~$5 a month and a $50 deductible, and they only replaced it with new or refurbished model of the exact phone I broke, so if I broke a phone after a year that means I paid $60 + $50 deductible = $110 for a refurbished smartphone. They were coming out way ahead, so I don't understand all the crying by insurance companies.
The refurbished smartphone is probably worth more than $110. A year ago I "paid" $175 for my current smartphone with a two year phone+data contract. Without the contract, the phone was $625. Since then, the price for a new phone has dropped to about $475. A refurb goes for about $300. So if my phone dies today, I've paid $60+$50 deductible=$110 for a $300 phone. Given that the past two phone models I owned both died during year 2, I will probably keep the insurance through most (but not all) of year 2 of the contract.
It also appears the insurance is either $4 or $5 depending upon which phone you own, so I think the more expensive your phone is, the better off you are buying insurance. I'm happy to let the people with cheap phones subsidize my smartphone habit.
It's somewhat odd that the insurance company allows upgrades. The insurance my carrier lets me buy replaces the phone with the identical model, usually a refurb rather than a new own. Wouldn't such a practice solve the problem quickly. I prefer that solution to higher insurance rates.
Primarily due to a economic crisis created by the former administration. Your point?
I'm sure the mods meant "funny" rather than informative, since everything in the parent post was untrue.
I also fully support sending everyone in Utah to the Moon or Mars.
Yeah, satellite measurements seem really different from ground based ones... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Satellite_Temperatures.png
Which is far more appropriate analogy. But you go ahead and play the role of the blind following the blind - who needs training and experience in a specialized field of science when a pithy remark will do instead?
What makes you think I don't have training and experience in a specialized field of science. A Ph.D. doesn't preclude pithy remarks. I think you may have mistaken which side of this argument I'm on.
95% confidence is an arbitrary level. The chances that there was warming in the last decade are greater than 80%, but less than 95%. That's not the same as there being no warming. Even if there wasn't, cooling on timescales that short would not disprove AGW.
Yeah, the register and "globalwarminghoax.com" are unbiased sources.
People have died before without being shot, so isn't it most likely that the body on the floor with the bullet wound died of natural causes?
Markets seek equilibrium. Pure and simple. The free market system is not some magical belief, it is simply the way things work in the absence of outside interference.
And your evidence for these beliefs is???? Sounds pretty magical to me. It's pretty clear that the natural equilibrium that unregulated markets seek is all capital being held by a single person.