> What the hell does the number of bedrooms and bathrooms have to do with anything? Both of those have neligable impact on the enviroment.
you do realize where all that stuff comes from, right? everything that wasn't grown was mined, all that mining takes energy, so does importing that black forrest lumber... I would go as far as to say the amount of money you spend is directly proportional to the amount of resources used up in acquiring it. Also I contend the more a resource is used the worse shape (in general) it is.
but none of that goes to my logic in selecting these things. a true environmental activist would likely define their prioritys into helping the environment. If you were given several million dollars, would you go buy up louisana land, and return it to the swamp forever, or would you do like me, and spend it on clearing and building a house their, with a garage and airport for my toys.
>is almost completely irrelevant in the grand scheme of how much energy a house costs to run, and energy used to run it is just as completly irrelevant to the impact the house makes on the environment, or what it says about what the owners true priorities are.
I am sure many would argue, well I didn't build the house, it would be their regardless. Well if you gave up that house for a much less impactfull residence, it would be used by someone down the line, that wouldn't have to build a new house had yours not been taken off the market by you.
> 60MPG Honda Insight instead of a 30MPG Hyundai Accent. well you wouldn't fail my test (granted I just made it up today.)
Obviously if you have money, and you truly try to not make a impact, it would be easier. Now your Insight would be more friendly to the local environment, but overall impact difference would likely be negligible, or even negative at this point for the Insight. I only bring that up, because we are not well informed about all the environmental impact of things. Probably a necessity because of problems like burning trash. If a few people burn their trash, the impact is better than adding to a landfill, if everyone burns their trash the impact is much worse than the landfill. So what would the correct reaction of a environmentalist?
I recall a story about a new car in a traffic jam, that the exhaust is cleaner than the intake. So a well running new car may be better for the local environment than a hybrid (it's not running in the worst smog, no chance to clean the other junk.) but if everyone was running a hybrid, vs a new car. (ignoring the smug factor, if you can catch that Southpark epsiode, pure genius.)
> barcode so it's visible has made a difference in shipping / receiving times
I have the same theory. I played around with different PO drop box's on my route to work (different Postal districts) and discovered on a basis of less than 6 returns that orientation seams more important. I think it was 2 out of 6 got back the next day when oriented incorrectly. more like 3 out of 4 if correctly oriented. If this were truly the case, since they re-use the cotton sleve, why they dont print the barcode in all 4 orientations, or at least encourage people to orient. randomly it would only be 1 in 8 dvd's to get the window correctly set. if they printed 4 on one side it would be 50/50 if it were both sides you could get 100%
since they allow you to return multiple dvd's in a single envelope, the importance of the barcode may not be so great to them.
> an environmentalist will not purchase such items unless they have a legitimate need. well put, thanks.
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> green in politics ya, the true conservitive in me that says government shouldn't be in industry, makes me wonder if we were to stop subsidizing everything that envolves energy, what private industry should go to.
By everything, I mean no federal subsidy to Roads, RailRoads, PowerLines, Airplanes, Harbors, etc. I think solar (wind/panels) going to batterys might be much cheaper all around than maintaing the powerlines, but we don't directly pay that cost. We wouldn't have to worry about terrorist taking out all power to Californa, or the East coast. It may be more efficient to fly heliocopters everywhere, instead of the money spent on roads, etc. I don't know, but I do wonder how to figure out the true cost of some things.
Then again, everyone might be bunching up at the rivers again, and god forbid we have to live with our families, to co exist...
> environmentalists I think the term was used loosely here, IMHO. these were animal lovers, and not in my backyard, very wealthy people. In my book, if you got a swimming pool, more bedrooms, and bathrooms than people living in the house, and own a vehicle that ways over 3000#'s you are not a environmentalist.
now don't interperit that as saying I find anything wrong with living that way, I do what I can to get thier myself. But I realize thats I am not good for the environment, and try not to claim to be able to tell others their not entitled to do anyhting less damaging than I do myself. (well I would if it were land I owened, but if you want to do it on land you plan to own/buy.)
>it isn't possible to build a MythTV HD-DVR without getting Un-encrypted HD signals via COAX
It is possible to get HD content into myth-TV if you have the DirectTV Tivo. I have done this by hand, with a hacked tivo, and the usb-Eithernet adapter, then used mencoder to put it into a divx format and mythTV to re-stream it.
I have seen plugins designed to automate Tivo -> mythTV, but since my PC wasn't doing a very strong job of sending HD content reliably through mythTV, mythTV is shelved at my house, until I have more time to waste on it anyway.
> The lack of HDTV support was, in simple terms, a deal-breaker. > Maybe that new Series3 will change things. When is it shipping again?:-/
I have had a HD TIVO for about 6 months now, it is a pretty nice unit. I would bet the blame for lack of a standalone HDTV TiVo goes to the cable industry. They probably aren't standardized enough to make a box to allow the design of a single unit you could move from company to compnay, house to house.
MY HD TiVo does record all the Over The Air HD content that is available as well as the DirectTV stuff, a huge advancement over the regular definition Direct Tivo.
DRM also refers to: There are technical measures that could be used not to restrict use or access, such as to monitor use in order to record rights of a content consumer
so DRM should be used by theaters, radio stations, and re-broadcasters of all sorts to track the exact counts back to the rights holder, and eliminate the guess work now done to pay out royalties.
So I completly support the development, and implementation within the music/video world of DRM. However I agree with most of slashdot, the DRM needs to disapear completly once it has reached the end user.
>My point is that people equate digital=HiDef I did get that from your first post, just adding the info because they were pretty sparse on HD channels when they first started to sell the HD recievers.
>HiDef=digital but not the other way around. actualy I have heard that Japan is all analog broadcast Hi-Definition, did that a few years ago. But for all practical purposes here, your correct (of course not required to be digital to the TV/CRT even here.)
> ditigal signal from DirecTV are hardly Hi Def 1) DirecTV is constantly expanding their HiDef channels, and for $5 a month it's actually not a bad deal, currently. Definitly the widescreen content is the major plus. Even though my vision isn't really good enough to truly see all the difference (except with my glasses, which I don't wear watching TV.) I do notice it seams much brighter, and thus more comfortable watching, the HD content. 2) the regular definition channels do carry the 5.1 surround, which is the bigger deal to me. BTW that is the biggest plus of the digital broadcasts, for myself.
>I think it should be completely illegal to leave a child on their own in the back seat. absolutly, you should get a pickup and throw them in the bed at least while driving over 50 they won't be distracting you. At least in AZ, and 20 some other states thats ok. http://www.iihs.org/laws/state_laws/cargo_laws.htm l
>What I do have a problem with is that these arms are going to somehow be useful against the US government. For example, when the US government comes knocking on your door with a valid warrent,
ignoring the amendments. I think it is about what the population feals most comfortable with, that they can defend what the hold dear. I personally feal reasonably comfortable that I could always wage a decent protest with a sufficient armament (which I havent aquired, yet but think I have the abilty to acquire.) Where as a person who works in a law office, and has never seen a real gun may feel more comfortable waging a protest if no-one had a gun, and had to fight a paper battle.
clearly the people in Iraq with the explosives, and automatic rifles have had more say so than the dualy elected officials. And clearly the opposite is true in the majority of the rest of the countrys.
to me, it comes down to, do you prepare for the worst case (Government overthrough.) Or do you forget about that, and think you can prevent that from ever happen working within the current system.
I sit in the middle, try my best to keep the papers shuffled in a manor that I can acquire the defense in a timely enough fashion.
>And don't get me started about the quote..." make it advisable "to throw the computer away" if you want to be sure you got rid of the rootkit" I think it is advisable under mant circumstances, and decent advice at that for the non slashdot type of crowds, with a average desktop. (I mean dont throw out that, 2.7 Ghz quad Xenon server running a raid 5 TerraByte array, and all the data on it because IE got hosed, when someone mistyped wondowsupdate, or something.)
Their has been malware for years that will damage hardware, eventually. And now with a dell PC with a 19" flat panel system for under $400. I would not advise for many companys, that depend on their PC's to be somewhat secure and reliable (why have one otherwise) to even mess with a PC, unless they know (or need to know) exactly what has happened, and what is wrong. It could be minor malware plus a dieing power supply, dont let your best IT guy spend a entire day re-building, and flashing BIOS to recover a 1Ghz celeron that may crap in a month anyway.
Now, I would let (or even make) that new IT guy take it home, and brush up on what can be done...
seams he was convicted of Gross Sexual Imposition. what allegedly lead to this was groping.
And I don't buy it, he would have had to do much more to be arrested.
show me where he was convicted of some groping law, and your close.
as a note, I think within the legal system, your use is incorrect. Generally you could not go to a cival trial against the same person and claim as fact his conviction (unless they plead guilty.) Unless you were a direct witness, you could only say he allegedly did the action, and only use the conviction to impune the victims reputation if it was a unrelated civil suit.
>accepting only cashiers checks when doing business over the internet. how are those viagra sales doing?
seriously I don't trust followup issues from merchants with a good rating if they limit to a non-disputable pay. You really must have a perfect 0 complaints or really undersale your potential customer base.
>No parent will buy a cellphone to their kid unless the feature is disabled.
Same as prepaid charge card, paypal damage is limited to the credit backing it. (link it to your bank account, bad, link it to the same charge cards they already carry, no change.)
as others have said, your recourse may be a bit more questionable through paypal. (but have you read your credit cards policy? most have in home state, and extreme time limits, and a mulit page dispute form that must be mailed within a short period of time after the charge. none is true of any Credit card I will hold. but even getting their dispute policy is painful.)
>once someone has been found guilty in a court of law, saying that they allegedly did something is no longer appropriate language. >allegedly groped was good information to me, since I doubt he was arrested for a single incident, it was good to add the most pertant non legal description. When you boil it down to that, it should have some disclaimer, alleged works for me. > They are convicted of the crime, not alleged to have perpetrated the crime. bah, I plead guilty to a traffic violations I didn't commit (my ticket was along with tings I was guilty of though) because it wasn't worth the cost to fight, I know it happens to plea to a lower offense all the time.
Any conviction that wasn't fully defended (lawyer with time to prepare a case) would remain alleged regardless of legal conviction status, to me.
> as the "integrity" of their product. I would assume that helps with product verification/activation. Without it would be simpler to mimic much of windows update with a localhost sever, and point back to your PC. With this in, you would probably need a second PC, and a external non microsoft based dns server.
I would more quiclkly give msft credit for protecting profit, than protecting from malware.
> If you really look at what's happened since 9/11, it's quite clear that the terrorists have won.
1) I think it's safe to assume this bugging, and secret office existed before 2001. 2) just because the terorrist attack allowed our government to try and legitimize everything that they were doing before, it actually allows us to note this and fight the long battle to undo it.
>The proper reaction would have been to immediately hunt down and destroy everyone who participated in the 9/11 attack killing is just to feel good, should have done whats necessary to kill their power. Then rather taken the $250 billion we have spent in Iraq, and just built a trade center building in every state, basically say, try and get them all (WTC cost 1.5 billion to build in 1966).
>>It's how we're wired to see the world, in terms of percentage differences.
>Yes and no, generally speaking human senses work on a logorithmic scale.
your saying the same thing.
I hope you click on the wiki Weber-Fechner law of the other reply to understand that measuring perception that is a percentage change, requires a log scale to measure it, really the best explained math I have read in a while. (he didn't point out you were saying the same thing as the parent.)
I do agree with the intent of your post, but always is a long time.
>Unless people want to put a SLR up to their head to talk Cameraphones will always stink at photo's. I think you forget cameras don't require/haven't always had lenses. I can see with HDTV that they are using fixed lenses, and everything is in focus. Eventually the tech will be their (cheaper anyway) to tell what direction light is coming from without a bulky lense directing it. and a 30 MP flatsurface is all you will need to have everything in front of the camera in focus, and perfectly captured. I mean you could do this today with a multiple CCD pads, and polarizing filters, with some really high end post processing. of course great lighting would be required with current technology.
Those bulky lenses, and properly ballanced cameras do give a steady platform, that is TODAY a great advantage over cameraphones. but quick enough digitizer, and fast enough processor, and moving around would have no effect, except in the size of the end picture (lose the edges of the photos while moving.)
> More than half of the pictures I take are at 640x480 shots to post on the web.
I noticed with digital cameras I have used. A photo taken by a 0.5 MP camera at 640x480 produces a lower quality, and smaller file size than the photos taken at 640x480 on a 5 MP camera. The smaller size comes from the jpeg compression on a photo with more info in it. My theory is, a 5MP (with proper software, and a CPU to do the work) has much more information to truly get a average of what every individual pixel color truly should be. Where as the less dense CCD, has a greater chance of missing what the average color should be, by what photons it misses.
>camera phone is some level of zoom and the image quality posted by parent. this is where the high MP can help, if your willing to spend the time at the PC. take the picture, don't worry about framing, direction... crop and zoom at the PC before posting. Of course it's quicker to spend 3 seconds with the camera zoom at that time, than 2 minutes at the PC (assuming it's not a action shot, nude beach,upskirt,strip club, or spy type photo where 5 seconds framing the shot gets you busted.)
as the other posters have said, nothing makes up for some image stablization and a quality lighting/flash. Camera weight/balance does help in my experience, and 2 hand holds, square sides to lean against a pole/rock do also. All contrary to the goal of a good phone, which I would want rounded (no snags in pocket) single hand, and light weight.
> No more so than it's child's play to decrypt SSH packets when given access to the OpenSSH source code, I would imagine. not sure if you entended to prove them GP right, or wrong.
It is trivial to decrypt SSH packets, that is the reason for it's success. You need the key to do that, and once you got the data across, you are free to do whatever with the results with no way to know SSH was ever involved.
So ya opensource DRM would work if the goal is to allow the consumer to make sure they got the files from the provider in-tact, and that the files were not damaged... That has little to do with RIAA/etc goal of making you re-buy all your content every-time a new DRM device/format comes out.
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> What the hell does the number of bedrooms and bathrooms have to do with anything? Both of those have neligable impact on the enviroment.
you do realize where all that stuff comes from, right? everything that wasn't grown was mined, all that mining takes energy, so does importing that black forrest lumber... I would go as far as to say the amount of money you spend is directly proportional to the amount of resources used up in acquiring it. Also I contend the more a resource is used the worse shape (in general) it is.
but none of that goes to my logic in selecting these things. a true environmental activist would likely define their prioritys into helping the environment. If you were given several million dollars, would you go buy up louisana land, and return it to the swamp forever, or would you do like me, and spend it on clearing and building a house their, with a garage and airport for my toys.
>is almost completely irrelevant in the grand scheme of how much energy a house costs to run,
and energy used to run it is just as completly irrelevant to the impact the house makes on the environment, or what it says about what the owners true priorities are.
I am sure many would argue, well I didn't build the house, it would be their regardless. Well if you gave up that house for a much less impactfull residence, it would be used by someone down the line, that wouldn't have to build a new house had yours not been taken off the market by you.
> 60MPG Honda Insight instead of a 30MPG Hyundai Accent.
well you wouldn't fail my test (granted I just made it up today.)
Obviously if you have money, and you truly try to not make a impact, it would be easier. Now your Insight would be more friendly to the local environment, but overall impact difference would likely be negligible, or even negative at this point for the Insight. I only bring that up, because we are not well informed about all the environmental impact of things. Probably a necessity because of problems like burning trash. If a few people burn their trash, the impact is better than adding to a landfill, if everyone burns their trash the impact is much worse than the landfill. So what would the correct reaction of a environmentalist?
I recall a story about a new car in a traffic jam, that the exhaust is cleaner than the intake. So a well running new car may be better for the local environment than a hybrid (it's not running in the worst smog, no chance to clean the other junk.) but if everyone was running a hybrid, vs a new car.
(ignoring the smug factor, if you can catch that Southpark epsiode, pure genius.)
> barcode so it's visible has made a difference in shipping / receiving times
I have the same theory. I played around with different PO drop box's on my route to work (different Postal districts) and discovered on a basis of less than 6 returns that orientation seams more important. I think it was 2 out of 6 got back the next day when oriented incorrectly. more like 3 out of 4 if correctly oriented.
If this were truly the case, since they re-use the cotton sleve, why they dont print the barcode in all 4 orientations, or at least encourage people to orient. randomly it would only be 1 in 8 dvd's to get the window correctly set. if they printed 4 on one side it would be 50/50 if it were both sides you could get 100%
since they allow you to return multiple dvd's in a single envelope, the importance of the barcode may not be so great to them.
> an environmentalist will not purchase such items unless they have a legitimate need.
well put,
thanks.
> green in politics
ya, the true conservitive in me that says government shouldn't be in industry, makes me wonder if we were to stop subsidizing everything that envolves energy, what private industry should go to.
By everything, I mean no federal subsidy to Roads, RailRoads, PowerLines, Airplanes, Harbors, etc.
I think solar (wind/panels) going to batterys might be much cheaper all around than maintaing the powerlines, but we don't directly pay that cost. We wouldn't have to worry about terrorist taking out all power to Californa, or the East coast. It may be more efficient to fly heliocopters everywhere, instead of the money spent on roads, etc. I don't know, but I do wonder how to figure out the true cost of some things.
Then again, everyone might be bunching up at the rivers again, and god forbid we have to live with our families, to co exist...
> environmentalists
I think the term was used loosely here, IMHO. these were animal lovers, and not in my backyard, very wealthy people.
In my book, if you got a swimming pool, more bedrooms, and bathrooms than people living in the house, and own a vehicle that ways over 3000#'s you are not a environmentalist.
now don't interperit that as saying I find anything wrong with living that way, I do what I can to get thier myself. But I realize thats I am not good for the environment, and try not to claim to be able to tell others their not entitled to do anyhting less damaging than I do myself. (well I would if it were land I owened, but if you want to do it on land you plan to own/buy.)
>it isn't possible to build a MythTV HD-DVR without getting Un-encrypted HD signals via COAX
It is possible to get HD content into myth-TV if you have the DirectTV Tivo. I have done this by hand, with a hacked tivo, and the usb-Eithernet adapter, then used mencoder to put it into a divx format and mythTV to re-stream it.
I have seen plugins designed to automate Tivo -> mythTV, but since my PC wasn't doing a very strong job of sending HD content reliably through mythTV, mythTV is shelved at my house, until I have more time to waste on it anyway.
> The lack of HDTV support was, in simple terms, a deal-breaker. :-/
> Maybe that new Series3 will change things. When is it shipping again?
I have had a HD TIVO for about 6 months now, it is a pretty nice unit.
I would bet the blame for lack of a standalone HDTV TiVo goes to the cable industry. They probably aren't standardized enough to make a box to allow the design of a single unit you could move from company to compnay, house to house.
MY HD TiVo does record all the Over The Air HD content that is available as well as the DirectTV stuff, a huge advancement over the regular definition Direct Tivo.
DRM also refers to:
There are technical measures that could be used not to restrict use or access, such as to monitor use in order to record rights of a content consumer
so DRM should be used by theaters, radio stations, and re-broadcasters of all sorts to track the exact counts back to the rights holder, and eliminate the guess work now done to pay out royalties.
So I completly support the development, and implementation within the music/video world of DRM. However I agree with most of slashdot, the DRM needs to disapear completly once it has reached the end user.
>My point is that people equate digital=HiDef
I did get that from your first post, just adding the info because they were pretty sparse on HD channels when they first started to sell the HD recievers.
>HiDef=digital but not the other way around.
actualy I have heard that Japan is all analog broadcast Hi-Definition, did that a few years ago. But for all practical purposes here, your correct (of course not required to be digital to the TV/CRT even here.)
> ditigal signal from DirecTV are hardly Hi Def
1) DirecTV is constantly expanding their HiDef channels, and for $5 a month it's actually not a bad deal, currently.
Definitly the widescreen content is the major plus. Even though my vision isn't really good enough to truly see all the difference (except with my glasses, which I don't wear watching TV.) I do notice it seams much brighter, and thus more comfortable watching, the HD content.
2) the regular definition channels do carry the 5.1 surround, which is the bigger deal to me. BTW that is the biggest plus of the digital broadcasts, for myself.
>I think it should be completely illegal to leave a child on their own in the back seat.m l
absolutly, you should get a pickup and throw them in the bed at least while driving over 50 they won't be distracting you.
At least in AZ, and 20 some other states thats ok.
http://www.iihs.org/laws/state_laws/cargo_laws.ht
>What I do have a problem with is that these arms are going to somehow be useful against the US government. For example, when the US government comes knocking on your door with a valid warrent,
ignoring the amendments. I think it is about what the population feals most comfortable with, that they can defend what the hold dear. I personally feal reasonably comfortable that I could always wage a decent protest with a sufficient armament (which I havent aquired, yet but think I have the abilty to acquire.) Where as a person who works in a law office, and has never seen a real gun may feel more comfortable waging a protest if no-one had a gun, and had to fight a paper battle.
clearly the people in Iraq with the explosives, and automatic rifles have had more say so than the dualy elected officials. And clearly the opposite is true in the majority of the rest of the countrys.
to me, it comes down to, do you prepare for the worst case (Government overthrough.) Or do you forget about that, and think you can prevent that from ever happen working within the current system.
I sit in the middle, try my best to keep the papers shuffled in a manor that I can acquire the defense in a timely enough fashion.
>And don't get me started about the quote..." make it advisable "to throw the computer away" if you want to be sure you got rid of the rootkit"
I think it is advisable under mant circumstances, and decent advice at that for the non slashdot type of crowds, with a average desktop. (I mean dont throw out that, 2.7 Ghz quad Xenon server running a raid 5 TerraByte array, and all the data on it because IE got hosed, when someone mistyped wondowsupdate, or something.)
Their has been malware for years that will damage hardware, eventually. And now with a dell PC with a 19" flat panel system for under $400. I would not advise for many companys, that depend on their PC's to be somewhat secure and reliable (why have one otherwise) to even mess with a PC, unless they know (or need to know) exactly what has happened, and what is wrong. It could be minor malware plus a dieing power supply, dont let your best IT guy spend a entire day re-building, and flashing BIOS to recover a 1Ghz celeron that may crap in a month anyway.
Now, I would let (or even make) that new IT guy take it home, and brush up on what can be done...
seams he was convicted of Gross Sexual Imposition.
what allegedly lead to this was groping.
And I don't buy it, he would have had to do much more to be arrested.
show me where he was convicted of some groping law, and your close.
as a note, I think within the legal system, your use is incorrect. Generally you could not go to a cival trial against the same person and claim as fact his conviction (unless they plead guilty.) Unless you were a direct witness, you could only say he allegedly did the action, and only use the conviction to impune the victims reputation if it was a unrelated civil suit.
>accepting only cashiers checks when doing business over the internet.
how are those viagra sales doing?
seriously I don't trust followup issues from merchants with a good rating if they limit to a non-disputable pay. You really must have a perfect 0 complaints or really undersale your potential customer base.
>No parent will buy a cellphone to their kid unless the feature is disabled.
Same as prepaid charge card, paypal damage is limited to the credit backing it. (link it to your bank account, bad, link it to the same charge cards they already carry, no change.)
as others have said, your recourse may be a bit more questionable through paypal. (but have you read your credit cards policy? most have in home state, and extreme time limits, and a mulit page dispute form that must be mailed within a short period of time after the charge. none is true of any Credit card I will hold. but even getting their dispute policy is painful.)
>once someone has been found guilty in a court of law, saying that they allegedly did something is no longer appropriate language.
>allegedly groped
was good information to me, since I doubt he was arrested for a single incident, it was good to add the most pertant non legal description. When you boil it down to that, it should have some disclaimer, alleged works for me.
> They are convicted of the crime, not alleged to have perpetrated the crime.
bah, I plead guilty to a traffic violations I didn't commit (my ticket was along with tings I was guilty of though) because it wasn't worth the cost to fight, I know it happens to plea to a lower offense all the time.
Any conviction that wasn't fully defended (lawyer with time to prepare a case) would remain alleged regardless of legal conviction status, to me.
> as the "integrity" of their product.
I would assume that helps with product verification/activation. Without it would be simpler to mimic much of windows update with a localhost sever, and point back to your PC. With this in, you would probably need a second PC, and a external non microsoft based dns server.
I would more quiclkly give msft credit for protecting profit, than protecting from malware.
> If you really look at what's happened since 9/11, it's quite clear that the terrorists have won.
1) I think it's safe to assume this bugging, and secret office existed before 2001.
2) just because the terorrist attack allowed our government to try and legitimize everything that they were doing before, it actually allows us to note this and fight the long battle to undo it.
>The proper reaction would have been to immediately hunt down and destroy everyone who participated in the 9/11 attack
killing is just to feel good, should have done whats necessary to kill their power. Then rather taken the $250 billion we have spent in Iraq, and just built a trade center building in every state, basically say, try and get them all (WTC cost 1.5 billion to build in 1966).
> Barring developments in magic lens-free cameras,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_camera
next?
>>It's how we're wired to see the world, in terms of percentage differences.
>Yes and no, generally speaking human senses work on a logorithmic scale.
your saying the same thing.
I hope you click on the wiki Weber-Fechner law of the other reply to understand that measuring perception that is a percentage change, requires a log scale to measure it, really the best explained math I have read in a while. (he didn't point out you were saying the same thing as the parent.)
I do agree with the intent of your post, but always is a long time.
>Unless people want to put a SLR up to their head to talk Cameraphones will always stink at photo's.
I think you forget cameras don't require/haven't always had lenses. I can see with HDTV that they are using fixed lenses, and everything is in focus. Eventually the tech will be their (cheaper anyway) to tell what direction light is coming from without a bulky lense directing it. and a 30 MP flatsurface is all you will need to have everything in front of the camera in focus, and perfectly captured.
I mean you could do this today with a multiple CCD pads, and polarizing filters, with some really high end post processing. of course great lighting would be required with current technology.
Those bulky lenses, and properly ballanced cameras do give a steady platform, that is TODAY a great advantage over cameraphones. but quick enough digitizer, and fast enough processor, and moving around would have no effect, except in the size of the end picture (lose the edges of the photos while moving.)
> More than half of the pictures I take are at 640x480 shots to post on the web.
I noticed with digital cameras I have used. A photo taken by a 0.5 MP camera at 640x480 produces a lower quality, and smaller file size than the photos taken at 640x480 on a 5 MP camera. The smaller size comes from the jpeg compression on a photo with more info in it. My theory is, a 5MP (with proper software, and a CPU to do the work) has much more information to truly get a average of what every individual pixel color truly should be. Where as the less dense CCD, has a greater chance of missing what the average color should be, by what photons it misses.
>camera phone is some level of zoom and the image quality posted by parent.
this is where the high MP can help, if your willing to spend the time at the PC. take the picture, don't worry about framing, direction... crop and zoom at the PC before posting. Of course it's quicker to spend 3 seconds with the camera zoom at that time, than 2 minutes at the PC (assuming it's not a action shot, nude beach,upskirt,strip club, or spy type photo where 5 seconds framing the shot gets you busted.)
as the other posters have said, nothing makes up for some image stablization and a quality lighting/flash. Camera weight/balance does help in my experience, and 2 hand holds, square sides to lean against a pole/rock do also. All contrary to the goal of a good phone, which I would want rounded (no snags in pocket) single hand, and light weight.
> No more so than it's child's play to decrypt SSH packets when given access to the OpenSSH source code, I would imagine.
not sure if you entended to prove them GP right, or wrong.
It is trivial to decrypt SSH packets, that is the reason for it's success. You need the key to do that, and once you got the data across, you are free to do whatever with the results with no way to know SSH was ever involved.
So ya opensource DRM would work if the goal is to allow the consumer to make sure they got the files from the provider in-tact, and that the files were not damaged...
That has little to do with RIAA/etc goal of making you re-buy all your content every-time a new DRM device/format comes out.