The last time I changed a headlight bulb was more than 10 years ago.
In fact, in all the cars I had in my 25 years of driving (we're talking about 11 or 12 cars) I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I had to change a bulb, any bulb.
The thing that makes it not a gimmick is (beyond the fact it's in a phone that will be used by hundreds of millions more people) the fundamental and always on by default nature of the thing, combined with widespread support for different viewing and image integration.
So it's more like what I have on my Casio EX-FH100 digital camera (dating back to 2010). The camera is constantly taking shots at high speed in it's buffer, and when you press the shutter is keeps some frames from before the shutter was pressed and some from after.
I used it a couple of times and again it's not worth the hassle (to choose the best frame) and the cost in storage space (suddenly all your pictures take 8 times more space). It's usefull for sport photography or capturing a child smile, but always on means tons of wasted space (but maybe they use some intelligent compression and keep only a key frame and store the difference between frames, a little like video compression?)
I could be wrong (I have been more times than I can remember) but I still bet that in a year or 2 nobody will talk about lives photos and it will be ignored like a lot of innovations that looked cool at first but ultimately where not very useful.
There is a physical limit as to what a lens can resolve, and going to insane pixel count on the sensor cannot overcome this physical resolution from the lens itself...
The only other way to increase resolution is to have a bigger sensor, like in medium format cameras.
There's no way (appart from rewriting the laws of optics) to attach a humongous telephoto lens to a phone camera and expect to have the same resolution as in a full frame DSLR or medium format camera (which are in the 50 to 80 megapixels as we speak).
Sure some software tricks will give an image clean enough for Joe Public to print some 8x10" but I can't see any pro using a phone for serious photography.
And Live Photos? It's a gimmick already available on Nokia Lumia phones since 2012 with the Cinemagraph app, I had it on my Nokia 920. It's fun for a day or two but it quickly becomes boring.
The answer to this problem is not running a red light, it's installing a light for bikes only. Just like there are lights for pedestrians, these specific intersections should have a green light for bikes, turned on before the regular green light for the cars, and after the pedestrians crossing. Then everyone can get safely on the other side.
Oh, not another "but humans in space are a waste, send robots!"
Robots are cool, and they are useful. But if we sent humans to Mars instead of rovers, they would have done all the exploration and experiments in a matter of days, not months and years.
You guys are really depressing. Why bother to explore, to travel, to even get out of your house? You can visit almost any street of any big cities in the world with Google Street view, you can do a video conference for free with anyone on earth, you can work from home... So why waste fuel by transporting humans?
The real waste is not the money spent on the ISS, it's the trillions of $ spent on the defense budget. Adress that problem and you'll have enough money to send robots AND humans in space every day of the year.
Just for fun, browse this same day on Slashdot but 10 years ago. You'll see multiple stories with 600 to 800 comments on the same page! Browse almost any day over 3 years ago and you'll find that boring stories had 100 comments, and almost any story worth reading was 300+ comments.
I had a Windows phone, a Nokia Lumia 920. For 2 years.
I loved the operating system, and the phone itself was great (very good camera for macro shots!)
But I had a problem with it... about once a week it would start to overheat seriously (like almost too hot to touch) and the battery would drain 10% every 5 minutes. I never found what caused it, and even after several updates the problem is still there. I agree with you that when this overheating problem was not going on, the battery life was great. But it was completely unpredictable, and I often found myself with a dead phone and no way to charge it.
Here, have phone reading this thread about the same problem I had, going on for more than 2 years: http://answers.microsoft.com/e...
I replaced that phone with a Moto G LTE, a great little phone. Does everything I need without any fuss, and the battery is good for almost 2 days. Crappy camera tough.
there's a growing group of millenials who do not have a driver's license and have no intention of getting one. Granted, they're generally limited to areas with good public transit
You're talking about those fucking kids who boast that they don't need a car, then everytime they need to haul something big or get out of the city to see some family they come knocking on your door begging for a ride?
but there will always be certain limits to our knowledge, and beyond those limits, faith will still hold sway.
Why? Why do I need faith for the things beyond the limit of my knowledge? I don't "need" anything, I just need to say "I don't know what happens when I die" and that's it.
There is a public key exchange between the terminal and the card. These keys aren't public, and when we inject keys into a terminal it's done in a closed room supervised by security officers.
So I think it must be quite a challenge to do a MITM attack. Also, there is a cryptographic part to the message (the transaction) which is calculated by the chip using an algorithm and a key known only to the chip and to the card emitter. When receiving the transaction, and before aproving it, the emitter does the same calculation and compare the cryptographic result. It's like a checksum, but encrypted. If the amount, card number, or many other fields have been tampered with the transaction is denied.
There is already a ton of logic on the chip card. It's a working computer with apps installed on it.
The chip and the reader actually negociate and exchange keys to validate each other, and the app on the card can refuse to do a transaction if the keys don't work.
Now the problem is that we still have to put magnetic stripes on our (canadian) cards because the Americans are 20 years late in implementing chip cards. The rest of the world did it, what are they waiting for?
I'm in my forties, and I never had need for one. Nor does any member of my extended family, counting tens of cousins, uncles, all the way to grand parents. I've been working fo 20 years and I never heard any discussion about needind a firearm from any of my past and present coworkers.
In fact none of the hundred of persons I met and discussed with in all my life ever made even a comment about needing a firearm to protect themselves.
What's really neat with not fault is that my insurance pays for my damages even if I'm not at fault (they still determine who is at fault to decide if they increase your premiums). Not your fault? You don't pay a dime and have no increase.
I don't have to find out the other bozo doesn't have insurance and having to bring him to court (I hear that it's common in the USA).
If it's really a fucked up accident costing my insurance a ton, they can sue the other guy's insurance company, but I don't have to know anything about that and I don't care.
And it's still quite cheap, I pay only 800$ a year to insure both my brand new SUV and my almost brand new motorcycle... and I have full coverage (comprehensive coverage I think it's called in the US) with a 250$ deductible per incident only if I'm at fault.
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The last time I changed a headlight bulb was more than 10 years ago.
In fact, in all the cars I had in my 25 years of driving (we're talking about 11 or 12 cars) I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I had to change a bulb, any bulb.
The thing that makes it not a gimmick is (beyond the fact it's in a phone that will be used by hundreds of millions more people) the fundamental and always on by default nature of the thing, combined with widespread support for different viewing and image integration.
So it's more like what I have on my Casio EX-FH100 digital camera (dating back to 2010). The camera is constantly taking shots at high speed in it's buffer, and when you press the shutter is keeps some frames from before the shutter was pressed and some from after.
I used it a couple of times and again it's not worth the hassle (to choose the best frame) and the cost in storage space (suddenly all your pictures take 8 times more space). It's usefull for sport photography or capturing a child smile, but always on means tons of wasted space (but maybe they use some intelligent compression and keep only a key frame and store the difference between frames, a little like video compression?)
I could be wrong (I have been more times than I can remember) but I still bet that in a year or 2 nobody will talk about lives photos and it will be ignored like a lot of innovations that looked cool at first but ultimately where not very useful.
Live photos, you mean like Cinemagraph that was available since 2012 on Nokia Lumia phones?
I had it, and while fun for a while it's not very useful... you play with it and then forget about it like most gimmicks.
But now that Apple "invented" it, it's revolutionnary and it will change forever the world of photography /sarcasm
There is a physical limit as to what a lens can resolve, and going to insane pixel count on the sensor cannot overcome this physical resolution from the lens itself...
The only other way to increase resolution is to have a bigger sensor, like in medium format cameras.
There's no way (appart from rewriting the laws of optics) to attach a humongous telephoto lens to a phone camera and expect to have the same resolution as in a full frame DSLR or medium format camera (which are in the 50 to 80 megapixels as we speak).
Sure some software tricks will give an image clean enough for Joe Public to print some 8x10" but I can't see any pro using a phone for serious photography.
And Live Photos? It's a gimmick already available on Nokia Lumia phones since 2012 with the Cinemagraph app, I had it on my Nokia 920. It's fun for a day or two but it quickly becomes boring.
it won't make a difference since the iPhone users will still stupidly shoot vertical video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
What's the use of a higher res camera sensor with this itsy bitsy small lens with a microscopic apperture?
The only DIY paper computer! Turing complete*
*with an infinite strip of paper, not included
The answer to this problem is not running a red light, it's installing a light for bikes only. Just like there are lights for pedestrians, these specific intersections should have a green light for bikes, turned on before the regular green light for the cars, and after the pedestrians crossing. Then everyone can get safely on the other side.
Procedures, tickets, endless approval steps...
Means that you really only code 10% of the time, and the rest is lost time dealing with all of those pesky things.
Maybe we should arrange a meet between Poettering and Terry A. Davis (TempleOS!)
every single task is some level of boring, all of the time, and that boredom is extremely uncomfortable
Congratulation, you've just described the human condition.
Oh, not another "but humans in space are a waste, send robots!"
Robots are cool, and they are useful. But if we sent humans to Mars instead of rovers, they would have done all the exploration and experiments in a matter of days, not months and years.
You guys are really depressing. Why bother to explore, to travel, to even get out of your house? You can visit almost any street of any big cities in the world with Google Street view, you can do a video conference for free with anyone on earth, you can work from home... So why waste fuel by transporting humans?
The real waste is not the money spent on the ISS, it's the trillions of $ spent on the defense budget. Adress that problem and you'll have enough money to send robots AND humans in space every day of the year.
I wanted to buy a macbook, but sadly for us french canadians Apple with their great wisdom have chosen the completely retarded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#Canadian_Multilingual_Standard/
At least on Windows laptops they still use the old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#Quebec_French/ layout. Like I have on my desktop at work, and everywhere else...
I've been typing with this layout for the last 25 years, I don't want to change...
Now get off my lawn!!
I know.
Just for fun, browse this same day on Slashdot but 10 years ago. You'll see multiple stories with 600 to 800 comments on the same page! Browse almost any day over 3 years ago and you'll find that boring stories had 100 comments, and almost any story worth reading was 300+ comments.
Here are some examples...
http://slashdot.org/?issue=200...
http://slashdot.org/?issue=200...
http://slashdot.org/?issue=200...
I had a Windows phone, a Nokia Lumia 920. For 2 years.
I loved the operating system, and the phone itself was great (very good camera for macro shots!)
But I had a problem with it... about once a week it would start to overheat seriously (like almost too hot to touch) and the battery would drain 10% every 5 minutes. I never found what caused it, and even after several updates the problem is still there. I agree with you that when this overheating problem was not going on, the battery life was great. But it was completely unpredictable, and I often found myself with a dead phone and no way to charge it.
Here, have phone reading this thread about the same problem I had, going on for more than 2 years: http://answers.microsoft.com/e...
I replaced that phone with a Moto G LTE, a great little phone. Does everything I need without any fuss, and the battery is good for almost 2 days. Crappy camera tough.
Bravo!
there's a growing group of millenials who do not have a driver's license and have no intention of getting one. Granted, they're generally limited to areas with good public transit
You're talking about those fucking kids who boast that they don't need a car, then everytime they need to haul something big or get out of the city to see some family they come knocking on your door begging for a ride?
Well fuck them.
And get off my lawn (and car seat)!
The concept of ownership is archaic. I look forward to the offloading all the associated penalty costs of ownership in favour of a service model.
FTFY
but there will always be certain limits to our knowledge, and beyond those limits, faith will still hold sway.
Why? Why do I need faith for the things beyond the limit of my knowledge? I don't "need" anything, I just need to say "I don't know what happens when I die" and that's it.
There is a public key exchange between the terminal and the card. These keys aren't public, and when we inject keys into a terminal it's done in a closed room supervised by security officers.
So I think it must be quite a challenge to do a MITM attack. Also, there is a cryptographic part to the message (the transaction) which is calculated by the chip using an algorithm and a key known only to the chip and to the card emitter. When receiving the transaction, and before aproving it, the emitter does the same calculation and compare the cryptographic result. It's like a checksum, but encrypted. If the amount, card number, or many other fields have been tampered with the transaction is denied.
There is already a ton of logic on the chip card. It's a working computer with apps installed on it.
The chip and the reader actually negociate and exchange keys to validate each other, and the app on the card can refuse to do a transaction if the keys don't work.
Now the problem is that we still have to put magnetic stripes on our (canadian) cards because the Americans are 20 years late in implementing chip cards. The rest of the world did it, what are they waiting for?
They'll die someday, you just have to be patient (but Slashdot has to survive until then)
CPU: MOS 6510 1.023Mhz
Motherboard; Rev. B
Video card: MOS 6567 (VIC II)
Memory: 64KB
Storage: Commodore 1541 floppy drive, 5.25", 170KB
Display: Commodore 1081 CRT
Peripherals: SD2IEC SD card reader
And why do you carry a firearm?
I'm in my forties, and I never had need for one. Nor does any member of my extended family, counting tens of cousins, uncles, all the way to grand parents. I've been working fo 20 years and I never heard any discussion about needind a firearm from any of my past and present coworkers.
In fact none of the hundred of persons I met and discussed with in all my life ever made even a comment about needing a firearm to protect themselves.
Seriously, is living in the USA so dangerous?
What's really neat with not fault is that my insurance pays for my damages even if I'm not at fault (they still determine who is at fault to decide if they increase your premiums). Not your fault? You don't pay a dime and have no increase.
I don't have to find out the other bozo doesn't have insurance and having to bring him to court (I hear that it's common in the USA).
If it's really a fucked up accident costing my insurance a ton, they can sue the other guy's insurance company, but I don't have to know anything about that and I don't care.
And it's still quite cheap, I pay only 800$ a year to insure both my brand new SUV and my almost brand new motorcycle... and I have full coverage (comprehensive coverage I think it's called in the US) with a 250$ deductible per incident only if I'm at fault.