Any operation that is not applied equally to every piece of the image.
This draws a line between white balance or levels adjustment, which I think should be OK, and actual "editing" with an airbrush, clone tool, liquify/warp tool, etc.
Obviously it needs a lot more qualifiers, but you see where I am going here.
Your second sentence does not follow from the article. Massachusetts is [possibly] mandating that vehicles sold in Massachusetts follow certain specs. They have no control over vehicles built and sold in other states.
That's odd. I have two different heart rate meters sitting in front of me, one from omron and one with no labelling. Both have tracking and historical data functions. Maybe you just haven't seen enough meters?
The insurance claim adjuster doesn't have to snoop. If the data is stored, it will eventually be leaked. Once it is leaked, it can't be unleaked. I would rather no one have the information in the first place.
Where I live (GA), that's only binding if the court does the mailing. If you personally mail the subpoena, with any sort of confirmation/tracking you can name, you've got no proof of receipt. That's the way it should be, in the same way as evidentiary chain of custody. If anyone involved in the process isn't "part of the system" and legally trusted then the process is suspect.
A 21.1MegaPixel (that is, 63.3 million sensor elements) sensor puts out 63.3MegaByte raw files (plus a very tiny bit of overhead). This is easy math to do. Unless you, as you seem to, start to defend the notion that 1MB is not one million bytes, in which case a 21.1MegaPixel sensor puts out 61.37MegaByte(!?!) raw files, which is utterly nonsensical. You can't use two different definitions of "Mega" in the same sentence and expect anyone to take your argument seriously.
The same logic applies to discussing audio sample rates. If I sample at 16bit depth at 1kHz, I expect to be getting 2kB of data per second, not 1.95kB(!?!) of data per second.
Interesting. I have only skimmed the standards required by that section of the CFR, but I am relatively sure they dictate communications unencumbered by DRM. I shall have to investigate further.
Can you provide a citation? I am aware of the requirement for a working firewire port (47 CFR 76.640(b)(4)), but not for them to provide a [anything else that accomodates cable/PC interaction].
Yes, but it's not a $200 device. That's like saying a Porsche would do very well in the car market as a $15k car. Sure it would, but whoever was subsidizing it would be getting SOMETHING out of the deal.
AT&T believes that over the course of 2 years they can wring an extra $400 out of you via a contract. How do I know this? Because they are a business, and if they didn't think it made profitable sense to give you a $400 discount on the phone then they wouldn't do it.
Marketing and brand recognition in the Smartphone *OS* market. A few manufacturers also market their own OS (Apple, RIM) but there is no comparison between Android and Nokia/Motorola because they are not competitors or even in the same market. The other players in Android's field are Symbian, Maemo, etc, and those aren't household names either.
What does it being a Nokia or Motorola have to do with anything we are discussing? There is nothing that all Nokia phones have in common (except the logo). Ditto Motorola.
I do not exaggerate. I really do know multiple people from different suburbs of Atlanta (you have to realize that Atlanta, like many other big cities, has suburbs that stretch 60+ miles in almost every direction) who drive that far to get to a Kroger, Publix, or WalMart for groceries, because of the savings over their nearby options.
I find it amusing that you consider $10/gal gas to be "my idea". It's going to happen. It is not an "idea", it's a fact of economics. We are using up a non-renewable resource. Most oil-producing countries are producing less today than they were five years ago. As oil gets rarer*, the price will go up. If that concept bothers you, start planning ahead.
* - as the price goes up the feasibility of accessing more difficult deposits, such as shale oil and deep sea oil, increases, which helps smooth out the curve.
There are plenty of other phone software platforms that no one knows by name. How many of your friends could tell you if their phone runs Symbian or J2ME apps?
I think that Android WOULD be more successful if google put their name behind it for real, letting/requiring carriers to brand it as "The T-Mobile G1, by Google" or whatever.
Probably because no one calls them "Android Phones". There are 5 phones on the market in the US right now that run Android, made by 2 different manufacturers. There are a half dozen more phones coming out by the end of the year, made by 3 more manufacturers, and that's soon enough that people have seen advertising and may be considering them for purchase. Can you name more than 2 of the phones? Conversely, would you know they were Android phones if a friend talked about getting one?
Have you used a good implementation of mobile Opera? Hands down better than Safari on the iPhone, in almost every way. Add multitouch if you desperately need it, but I don't.
Compare the "must have" features on the 3GS to the original iPhone and there are massive amounts of things missing. I'll chalk your misinformation up to poor long term memory, as it would be rude of me to call you an Apple fanboy.
There IS a generic standard. You can buy any unlocked quad-band GSM phone and use it on pretty much any GSM network. The problem is, people don't want to pay full price for the hardware. Is the iPhone worth $600+ to you? It sure as hell is not a $200 device, by a long stretch, but that's what people want to pay for it, and they are willing to take provider lockin for the discount.
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My first draft of where to draw the line:
Any operation that is not applied equally to every piece of the image.
This draws a line between white balance or levels adjustment, which I think should be OK, and actual "editing" with an airbrush, clone tool, liquify/warp tool, etc.
Obviously it needs a lot more qualifiers, but you see where I am going here.
Why would you think the sponsor gets the prize money?
Prohibitively expensive? You just ship the cars sans-ECU, and ship ECUs to dealerships on a per-state basis. Adds maybe $10 in labor cost to each car.
Your second sentence does not follow from the article. Massachusetts is [possibly] mandating that vehicles sold in Massachusetts follow certain specs. They have no control over vehicles built and sold in other states.
That's odd. I have two different heart rate meters sitting in front of me, one from omron and one with no labelling. Both have tracking and historical data functions. Maybe you just haven't seen enough meters?
The insurance claim adjuster doesn't have to snoop. If the data is stored, it will eventually be leaked. Once it is leaked, it can't be unleaked. I would rather no one have the information in the first place.
There is no computer saving the data when I check my pulse with my finger.
Insurance is a scam. To anyone who disagrees, I would love to sell you some anti-rolling-snake-eyes insurance. Just come visit me in Vegas.
Where I live (GA), that's only binding if the court does the mailing. If you personally mail the subpoena, with any sort of confirmation/tracking you can name, you've got no proof of receipt. That's the way it should be, in the same way as evidentiary chain of custody. If anyone involved in the process isn't "part of the system" and legally trusted then the process is suspect.
It's still binding on who for what? You have proof that you mailed something to me. You have no proof that you mailed the document in question.
Err, registered mail and traced faxes prove that you sent SOMETHING. They say nothing about the contents.
See people mailing bricks and then showing USPS shipping receipts to PayPal.
A 21.1MegaPixel (that is, 63.3 million sensor elements) sensor puts out 63.3MegaByte raw files (plus a very tiny bit of overhead). This is easy math to do. Unless you, as you seem to, start to defend the notion that 1MB is not one million bytes, in which case a 21.1MegaPixel sensor puts out 61.37MegaByte(!?!) raw files, which is utterly nonsensical. You can't use two different definitions of "Mega" in the same sentence and expect anyone to take your argument seriously.
The same logic applies to discussing audio sample rates. If I sample at 16bit depth at 1kHz, I expect to be getting 2kB of data per second, not 1.95kB(!?!) of data per second.
Interesting. I have only skimmed the standards required by that section of the CFR, but I am relatively sure they dictate communications unencumbered by DRM. I shall have to investigate further.
Can you provide a citation? I am aware of the requirement for a working firewire port (47 CFR 76.640(b)(4)), but not for them to provide a [anything else that accomodates cable/PC interaction].
Yes, but it's not a $200 device. That's like saying a Porsche would do very well in the car market as a $15k car. Sure it would, but whoever was subsidizing it would be getting SOMETHING out of the deal.
AT&T believes that over the course of 2 years they can wring an extra $400 out of you via a contract. How do I know this? Because they are a business, and if they didn't think it made profitable sense to give you a $400 discount on the phone then they wouldn't do it.
Marketing and brand recognition in the Smartphone *OS* market. A few manufacturers also market their own OS (Apple, RIM) but there is no comparison between Android and Nokia/Motorola because they are not competitors or even in the same market. The other players in Android's field are Symbian, Maemo, etc, and those aren't household names either.
What does it being a Nokia or Motorola have to do with anything we are discussing? There is nothing that all Nokia phones have in common (except the logo). Ditto Motorola.
I do not exaggerate. I really do know multiple people from different suburbs of Atlanta (you have to realize that Atlanta, like many other big cities, has suburbs that stretch 60+ miles in almost every direction) who drive that far to get to a Kroger, Publix, or WalMart for groceries, because of the savings over their nearby options.
I find it amusing that you consider $10/gal gas to be "my idea". It's going to happen. It is not an "idea", it's a fact of economics. We are using up a non-renewable resource. Most oil-producing countries are producing less today than they were five years ago. As oil gets rarer*, the price will go up. If that concept bothers you, start planning ahead.
* - as the price goes up the feasibility of accessing more difficult deposits, such as shale oil and deep sea oil, increases, which helps smooth out the curve.
There are plenty of other phone software platforms that no one knows by name. How many of your friends could tell you if their phone runs Symbian or J2ME apps?
I think that Android WOULD be more successful if google put their name behind it for real, letting/requiring carriers to brand it as "The T-Mobile G1, by Google" or whatever.
And what if I want to add a stopwatch or countdown timer mode to it? Or make it count in an alternate base or time system?
And you would say that the Model T had -everything- usable, polished?
Probably because no one calls them "Android Phones". There are 5 phones on the market in the US right now that run Android, made by 2 different manufacturers. There are a half dozen more phones coming out by the end of the year, made by 3 more manufacturers, and that's soon enough that people have seen advertising and may be considering them for purchase. Can you name more than 2 of the phones? Conversely, would you know they were Android phones if a friend talked about getting one?
Have you used a good implementation of mobile Opera? Hands down better than Safari on the iPhone, in almost every way. Add multitouch if you desperately need it, but I don't.
Compare the "must have" features on the 3GS to the original iPhone and there are massive amounts of things missing. I'll chalk your misinformation up to poor long term memory, as it would be rude of me to call you an Apple fanboy.
There IS a generic standard. You can buy any unlocked quad-band GSM phone and use it on pretty much any GSM network. The problem is, people don't want to pay full price for the hardware. Is the iPhone worth $600+ to you? It sure as hell is not a $200 device, by a long stretch, but that's what people want to pay for it, and they are willing to take provider lockin for the discount.