They have massive pixels for good low light performance, but if the camera is moving when you take a shot it can't really unblur the image.
OiS is popular for a reason.
Agree 100%. I have a Sony Alpha with an APS sensor. This is about 20 times the size of sensor found in most mobile phones and even it sucks in low light with no OIS. You need an expensive lens with OIS and/or and expensive flash to get great pics in low light.
How the fuck is that possible? "Everyone"? Really? I am not a native English speaker - in fact, I have a Hungarian accent, and yet my phone understands nearly every single thing I tell it.
Maybe Hungarian accents are its easier to decode? I have an Australian accent and one of the many fun arguments I have with my teenage Apple fan-kids is which is better Android or Apple (since I prefer the former and they the latter). The running joke between us is that Google Voice or Siri are both equally shit. You can get them to work if you speak unnaturally slowly, but the error rate is so high it is unusable.
.. I am at a lack of words. Unless you're full of shit. Are you? Because that would be the simplest explanation.
I would've thought that the simplest explanation is that accents are so vast and varied that machine deciphering of every single nuance of every single accent is extremely difficult, hence it gets it wrong quite often.
Same here. I've never ever seen anyone use this is day to situations. At work, home on the bus or train, at McDonalds, even in the Apple Store, not once.
I just asked my teenage kids and got the same response. I'm not sure who thinks this is such a great idea, but I've seen zero demand in the real world. And since finger input is physiologically faster and more accurate than voice, I can't see the point.
For example, a utility is a necessity if the state subsidizes its provision, whether at the federal or several-states level...
Wibble wibble... You choose to have water, electricity, heating, a garage, a car, a TV, a bank account, and most people choose to have a cell phone because they think the benefit is worth the cost. The argument that banks shouldn't offer more convenient services via a mobile channel because the government hasn't deemed mobile networks a critical public service is a bit moronic.
You can live in your cave, but some of us enjoy the benefits of new technology.
Ah, no? Use the function you need (transfer the money), pass on any extras that are not needed and that cost extra money?
You might be happy to wait until the next day for your money, then hope the money arrives, but some transactions need it now (eg paying for a taxi), and some people like the extra fraud protection that Credit Card services offer (mine even gives me free travel insurance). This convenience, like every other convenience comes with a fee and most people are happy to accept this.
A few weeks ago, when all the Apple Haters were excoriating Apple for removing the 3.5 mm Jack in the iPhone 7, I predicted right here that this would happen within a year after the iPhone 7 came out.
You predicted that someone on the internet would speculate that maybe Samsung might do something similar possibly but is only guessing?
Awesome skills bro...
You mean like how how I have to pay for the privilege of running water and electricity?
Your cave might not have these things, but I assure you the rest of us are happy to pay for such luxuries...
I had to fax pay stubs to my home state when I applied for health insurance. I guess courts are more familiar with signing a document and then faxing it than with using PGP or S/MIME to sign an email.
As I said, dark ages. Where I live almost everything is electronic. In the rare case that a signature is required, then only a real in-person signature in ink will suffice. A fax of a signature is not a valid signature.
Card Not Present (CNP) transactions ( ie online or over the phone) use the CVC/CVV to allow the merchant some level of validation that the card is a real card. But if you steal a card and use it before the owner cancels it, it is still a valid card as far as the merchant is concerned.
Under this new system, the CVC/CVV changes every hour, and is not kept on the card, so if you steal a card and happen to know the CVC/CVV, then after 60 minutes it is useless to the thief.
Where recurring payments are different is that the CVC/CVV is only used the first time in order to validate the card. So if I have an existing recurring payment where the CVC/CVV has already been checked, and then my card is stolen, the only fraudulent transactions will be within the first 60 minutes, after that the card is still usable, hence any recurring payments will be valid.
The stolen card is only useless to the crook. To anyone with the number and a valid CVC/CVV is it still usable, so recurring payments will still work (since after the first payment, they only use card number and expiry, not the CVC/CVV).
whats app has over 1 billion users, that is 1 billion sets of eyes for ad and revenue targeting. You can make your own version of WhatsApp but you can't get a billion users in a timeframe that would make you competitive.
You can if you have 1.2Billion people in your country and you control the borders. Maybe not India because it's a democracy, but China did just that with WeChat. Zero to 1 billion users in under 5 years.
Whatsapp allows you to message worldwide with other whats app users, as well as calling without cost as long as you are on wifi. It has a been a boon to those of us with family and friends in other countries. It allows for communication across different networks.
You know there's a thousand of other messaging apps out there with the same features? Hangouts, Skype, Kik, Wechat, Telegram, Viber etc all do it without needing a FB tie-in.
The entire nation is essentially bankrupt and living on printed money and debt to places like China.
This is the typical stupid shit Trump supporters say that make no sense.
Firstly the economy isn't great, but is hardly in the bin.
Debt is a shade over GDP, or about 1.1 debt to income ratio. To put that in perspective, my mortgage is 5 times my income and I'm doing fine.
So yeah, Hillary might not make things better, but they're also unlikely to get much worse either. Trump however is almost guaranteed to fail. That is your choice.
Voting or defending Trump has nothing to do with Trump, really, and all to do with a desire for profound change.
Which is pretty dumb to think that any change must be good. Change, especially unplanned and unprepared is usually worse than no change.
You are surprised of intelligent people defending Trump...and try to keep the discussion there (the person), instead of on the politics.
Because Trump has no coherent policy. It's not like he has all these detailed plans of how he intends to improve anything. The few details he has provided have been blown apart (tax cuts for the the rich is going to be a $5Trillion disaster).
The whole campaign has been "Hillary is shit, I'm awesome". So yeah it is surprising that intelligent people buy into that message.
If you have a political argument for Trump, I'm all ears, but "Making America Great Again" isn't a policy.
Yes, yes...I'm sure Mr. Trump wants nuclear war...
I'm sure he didn't want to go bankrupt either, but after 6 bankruptcies maybe you want to be a little cautious about what Trump wants and what we end up with.
One cannot record billion dollar loss without having a billion dollars worth of assets at one time.
Of course you can. You acquire a business under huge debt for a song, then use those losses to offset your profits. This is tax avoidance 101 which the 1%ers use all the time to avoid paying for your local schools and hospitals. Wake up.
Bruce Schneier pointed out the real solution years ago. If your card has some processing power and a display (which this solution has), just add a keypad (similar to a calculator in credit-card size)....
...Since we're switching to smart cards, I don't know why we simply haven't switched to the final solution.
This seems pretty cave man to me, since we already have such a device called a cell phone in our pockets which does all this, and guess what, my bank already has apps that do all this right now today.
So yeah, catch up would ya!
Yes, in the US we can have multiple accounts under the same customer. Savings, and Checking are the primary. The later can be exposed with limited funds at risk to third parties and the former can actually hold your monies that aren't invested somewhere. You can choose to have both or just one. And your written checks (most government services or equivalent do not accept C/DC without fees) come out of checking.
I don't understand why this is considered the "dark ages".
Ok where I live, we just have electronic accounts and 99% of transactions (the other 1% are drugs/prostitute related) are electronic with appropriate digital technology as safeguards. The whole idea of a paper check is so dark ages it's laughable. It's the equivalent of a fax, or a telegram.
Do you also use a fax machine instead of email?
But in any case, credit card transaction processing is a multistep process, and an authentication step is performed every time a new transaction is posted.
Here in Australia the authentication step is purely to validate the card for CNP transactions. This only happens once the first time for recurring payments so is not needed for following payments between the same merchant and payer.
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They have massive pixels for good low light performance, but if the camera is moving when you take a shot it can't really unblur the image.
OiS is popular for a reason.
Agree 100%. I have a Sony Alpha with an APS sensor. This is about 20 times the size of sensor found in most mobile phones and even it sucks in low light with no OIS. You need an expensive lens with OIS and/or and expensive flash to get great pics in low light.
For that price most people will choose the iPhone and get a faster phone to boot (1 year old iPhone 6S even beats the Note 7)
Because the first thing people look for when choosing a phone is how fast it boots...
How the fuck is that possible? "Everyone"? Really? I am not a native English speaker - in fact, I have a Hungarian accent, and yet my phone understands nearly every single thing I tell it.
Maybe Hungarian accents are its easier to decode? I have an Australian accent and one of the many fun arguments I have with my teenage Apple fan-kids is which is better Android or Apple (since I prefer the former and they the latter). The running joke between us is that Google Voice or Siri are both equally shit. You can get them to work if you speak unnaturally slowly, but the error rate is so high it is unusable.
.. I am at a lack of words. Unless you're full of shit. Are you? Because that would be the simplest explanation.
I would've thought that the simplest explanation is that accents are so vast and varied that machine deciphering of every single nuance of every single accent is extremely difficult, hence it gets it wrong quite often.
Same here. I've never ever seen anyone use this is day to situations. At work, home on the bus or train, at McDonalds, even in the Apple Store, not once.
I just asked my teenage kids and got the same response. I'm not sure who thinks this is such a great idea, but I've seen zero demand in the real world. And since finger input is physiologically faster and more accurate than voice, I can't see the point.
For example, a utility is a necessity if the state subsidizes its provision, whether at the federal or several-states level...
Wibble wibble... You choose to have water, electricity, heating, a garage, a car, a TV, a bank account, and most people choose to have a cell phone because they think the benefit is worth the cost. The argument that banks shouldn't offer more convenient services via a mobile channel because the government hasn't deemed mobile networks a critical public service is a bit moronic.
You can live in your cave, but some of us enjoy the benefits of new technology.
Ah, no? Use the function you need (transfer the money), pass on any extras that are not needed and that cost extra money?
You might be happy to wait until the next day for your money, then hope the money arrives, but some transactions need it now (eg paying for a taxi), and some people like the extra fraud protection that Credit Card services offer (mine even gives me free travel insurance). This convenience, like every other convenience comes with a fee and most people are happy to accept this.
A few weeks ago, when all the Apple Haters were excoriating Apple for removing the 3.5 mm Jack in the iPhone 7, I predicted right here that this would happen within a year after the iPhone 7 came out.
You predicted that someone on the internet would speculate that maybe Samsung might do something similar possibly but is only guessing?
Awesome skills bro...
When you take into account that a bank transfer costs next to nothing, and all other forms of payment cost more, I do not think you have a point.
Cost more, because it does more. That is pretty much how the world works yeah?
You mean like how how I have to pay for the privilege of running water and electricity?
Your cave might not have these things, but I assure you the rest of us are happy to pay for such luxuries...
Do you also use a fax machine instead of email?
I had to fax pay stubs to my home state when I applied for health insurance. I guess courts are more familiar with signing a document and then faxing it than with using PGP or S/MIME to sign an email.
As I said, dark ages. Where I live almost everything is electronic. In the rare case that a signature is required, then only a real in-person signature in ink will suffice. A fax of a signature is not a valid signature.
Why don't you enlighten us then?
Card Not Present (CNP) transactions ( ie online or over the phone) use the CVC/CVV to allow the merchant some level of validation that the card is a real card. But if you steal a card and use it before the owner cancels it, it is still a valid card as far as the merchant is concerned.
Under this new system, the CVC/CVV changes every hour, and is not kept on the card, so if you steal a card and happen to know the CVC/CVV, then after 60 minutes it is useless to the thief.
Where recurring payments are different is that the CVC/CVV is only used the first time in order to validate the card. So if I have an existing recurring payment where the CVC/CVV has already been checked, and then my card is stolen, the only fraudulent transactions will be within the first 60 minutes, after that the card is still usable, hence any recurring payments will be valid.
The stolen card is only useless to the crook. To anyone with the number and a valid CVC/CVV is it still usable, so recurring payments will still work (since after the first payment, they only use card number and expiry, not the CVC/CVV).
whats app has over 1 billion users, that is 1 billion sets of eyes for ad and revenue targeting. You can make your own version of WhatsApp but you can't get a billion users in a timeframe that would make you competitive.
You can if you have 1.2Billion people in your country and you control the borders. Maybe not India because it's a democracy, but China did just that with WeChat. Zero to 1 billion users in under 5 years.
Whatsapp allows you to message worldwide with other whats app users, as well as calling without cost as long as you are on wifi. It has a been a boon to those of us with family and friends in other countries. It allows for communication across different networks.
You know there's a thousand of other messaging apps out there with the same features? Hangouts, Skype, Kik, Wechat, Telegram, Viber etc all do it without needing a FB tie-in.
The entire nation is essentially bankrupt and living on printed money and debt to places like China.
This is the typical stupid shit Trump supporters say that make no sense.
Firstly the economy isn't great, but is hardly in the bin.
Debt is a shade over GDP, or about 1.1 debt to income ratio. To put that in perspective, my mortgage is 5 times my income and I'm doing fine.
So yeah, Hillary might not make things better, but they're also unlikely to get much worse either. Trump however is almost guaranteed to fail. That is your choice.
Voting or defending Trump has nothing to do with Trump, really, and all to do with a desire for profound change.
Which is pretty dumb to think that any change must be good. Change, especially unplanned and unprepared is usually worse than no change.
You are surprised of intelligent people defending Trump...and try to keep the discussion there (the person), instead of on the politics.
Because Trump has no coherent policy. It's not like he has all these detailed plans of how he intends to improve anything. The few details he has provided have been blown apart (tax cuts for the the rich is going to be a $5Trillion disaster).
The whole campaign has been "Hillary is shit, I'm awesome". So yeah it is surprising that intelligent people buy into that message.
If you have a political argument for Trump, I'm all ears, but "Making America Great Again" isn't a policy.
Yes, yes...I'm sure Mr. Trump wants nuclear war...
I'm sure he didn't want to go bankrupt either, but after 6 bankruptcies maybe you want to be a little cautious about what Trump wants and what we end up with.
.. and I don't feel like I am being made to "pay for everything", nor do I feel like I'm being fucked over in any way.
Maybe ask someone who used to be middle class and now isn't, just because that isn't you or me doesn't mean they don't exist
The top 1% income earners pay 50% of all of the federal income taxes."
Except Trump who pays zero. So what happens to your country if the other 1%ers follow his lead?
It is so obviously one sided that you should immediately see which side the media is favoring.
The one that pays tax?
This proves Trump was a billionaire in 1995.
It does no such thing.
One cannot record billion dollar loss without having a billion dollars worth of assets at one time.
Of course you can. You acquire a business under huge debt for a song, then use those losses to offset your profits. This is tax avoidance 101 which the 1%ers use all the time to avoid paying for your local schools and hospitals. Wake up.
Only if you don't know how recurring card payments work, which clearly you don't.
Bruce Schneier pointed out the real solution years ago. If your card has some processing power and a display (which this solution has), just add a keypad (similar to a calculator in credit-card size)....
...Since we're switching to smart cards, I don't know why we simply haven't switched to the final solution.
This seems pretty cave man to me, since we already have such a device called a cell phone in our pockets which does all this, and guess what, my bank already has apps that do all this right now today.
So yeah, catch up would ya!
Yes, in the US we can have multiple accounts under the same customer. Savings, and Checking are the primary. The later can be exposed with limited funds at risk to third parties and the former can actually hold your monies that aren't invested somewhere. You can choose to have both or just one. And your written checks (most government services or equivalent do not accept C/DC without fees) come out of checking.
I don't understand why this is considered the "dark ages".
Ok where I live, we just have electronic accounts and 99% of transactions (the other 1% are drugs/prostitute related) are electronic with appropriate digital technology as safeguards. The whole idea of a paper check is so dark ages it's laughable. It's the equivalent of a fax, or a telegram.
Do you also use a fax machine instead of email?
But in any case, credit card transaction processing is a multistep process, and an authentication step is performed every time a new transaction is posted.
Here in Australia the authentication step is purely to validate the card for CNP transactions. This only happens once the first time for recurring payments so is not needed for following payments between the same merchant and payer.
No. First, in Europe, these are _not_ done via credit-card, but via interbank-transfer. Not everybody is stuck in the banking dark-ages like the US.
Interbank transfers for simple billing seems pretty dark-ages too. You Americans and Europeans need to both catch up.
cloning the magnetic strip doesn't get you the PIN number,
The PIN is not stored on the card with either Stripe or Chip.