There is no reason to make a rectifier that can handle higher amperage that it really needs, since that adds cost.
Except for one little thing. If the industry could standardize on one type of switchable charger with enough amperage to charge just about any device you care to plug into it, then you _wouldn't need to bundle chargers with each device_. That would reduce the cost, not add to it. Even if the standardized charger cost twice as much as the specialized ones, the consumer would end up spending less after buying three devices.
The question of how much money electronics manufacturers make by screwing their customers on the cost of proprietary chargers is still left open, but you'll have to excuse me if I can't work up too much sympathy for them.
All cleverly designed to make leaving Google and working at any other company the single most painful experience ever, especially for someone who was hired straight out of University.
The whole thing is the perfect cover for a James Bond style villain and his army of disposable henchmen. When the Googleplex moves to the inside of a dormant volcano with Sergei's face carved on the side and the Orbital Mind Control Rays are deployed, you'll know that I was right.
I had heard that Google had some pretty comprehensive benefits, designed to ease the transition from Mom's basement to corporate life, but this is just silly.
According to their benefits page, Google offers not only free lunches, massages and car washes, but also "AD&D insurance".
Because when your eleventh level cleric gets killed by a lich, you really need that coverage to help you deal with the loss.
Actually it's CACert who could help this situation by working with Mozilla to have their CA included by default. That story has been dragging on for years with no end in sight.
...that some of the gymnasts were confused by the registration process and misprinted their ages on the registration form. Fortunately this minor error was corrected when their official passports were issued.
Short of sawing a few athletes in two and counting the rings, that's probably the best you're going to get.
Oh well, we can only hope that some time the fat cats at Ubuntu Corporation will pay attention to something other than all the money they are making selling their broken, unsupported, un-upgradable operating system and start to really care about the users for a change.
No matter how stably, smoothly, efficiently, and correctly Linux runs on a machine, the public will continue to view it as second-rate if Flash keeps crashing.
I have the same problem with Flash on Windows. What does that mean to the public?
It's not as if they took away the older ones when they added the new ones.
You're right. It's not as if there was some kind of mystical "High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection" system added which would screw up the picture quality if it detected that you hadn't paid enough money for your HDTV. That would be ridiculous.
You may be right about that. Why don't you take a few photos of the public security checkpoints in your local US of A airport, or perhaps the public front door of a hotel where the Vice President of the US of A happens to be staying and let us all know how that goes.
I, on the other hand, consider sudden, dramatic, and completely unexplained changes to the operation of systems under my control to be a reason to worry.
Ah, of course. They're more of the sex, violence, and horror style of games. You can do you violence and sex without the horror, and we can do you violence and horror without the sex, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But you can't have sex and horror without the violence.
This is described in their SIGGRAPH paper, which was prominently linked from the article.
It's a bit dense and involves some cross references, but here's a part which may answer some of your questions. For more detail you oculd always read the paper yourself.
We use our previously developed structure from motion system to
recover the camera parameters for each photograph along with a
sparse point cloud [Snavely et al. 2006]. The system detects
SIFT features in each of the input photos [Lowe 2004], matches
features between all pairs of photos, and finally uses the matches to
recover the camera positions, orientations, and focal lengths, along
with a sparse set of 3D points. For efficiency, we run this system on
a subset of the photos for each collection, then use pose estimation
techniques to register the remainder of the photos. A more prin-
cipled approach to reconstructing large image sets is described in
[Snavely et al. 2008].
I believe that the United States Air Force may disagree with you.
They may also disagree that the USAF needs its own planes, cars, missiles, submarines, space program, paper clip assembly plants, and surprisingly profitable second hand ballpoint business.
Similar programs exist elsewhere in the civilized world. STFW and you'll probably find somewhere nearby that will be happy to take your junk off of your hands.
What they will do with it is anybody's guess, but at least it won't be sitting around your house any more.
That's brilliant. I'm sure that no hacker in the world has ever even heard of 'l33t speak', let alone considered that you might be using it in a password.
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Except for one little thing. If the industry could standardize on one type of switchable charger with enough amperage to charge just about any device you care to plug into it, then you _wouldn't need to bundle chargers with each device_. That would reduce the cost, not add to it. Even if the standardized charger cost twice as much as the specialized ones, the consumer would end up spending less after buying three devices.
The question of how much money electronics manufacturers make by screwing their customers on the cost of proprietary chargers is still left open, but you'll have to excuse me if I can't work up too much sympathy for them.
I think you meant to say that the threat level is Bert for everything else but Ernie for all flights.
This is government work so it is very important to use the correct terminology.
All cleverly designed to make leaving Google and working at any other company the single most painful experience ever, especially for someone who was hired straight out of University.
The whole thing is the perfect cover for a James Bond style villain and his army of disposable henchmen. When the Googleplex moves to the inside of a dormant volcano with Sergei's face carved on the side and the Orbital Mind Control Rays are deployed, you'll know that I was right.
I had heard that Google had some pretty comprehensive benefits, designed to ease the transition from Mom's basement to corporate life, but this is just silly.
According to their benefits page, Google offers not only free lunches, massages and car washes, but also "AD&D insurance".
Because when your eleventh level cleric gets killed by a lich, you really need that coverage to help you deal with the loss.
There you go, confusing the Mafia with the Moonies again.
Actually it's CACert who could help this situation by working with Mozilla to have their CA included by default. That story has been dragging on for years with no end in sight.
...that some of the gymnasts were confused by the registration process and misprinted their ages on the registration form. Fortunately this minor error was corrected when their official passports were issued.
Short of sawing a few athletes in two and counting the rings, that's probably the best you're going to get.
Yeah, if only Ubuntu would commit itself to some kind of Long Term Support for their operating systems, or maybe a way to upgrade to new releases as they come out then that wouldn't be such a problem.
Oh well, we can only hope that some time the fat cats at Ubuntu Corporation will pay attention to something other than all the money they are making selling their broken, unsupported, un-upgradable operating system and start to really care about the users for a change.
I have the same problem with Flash on Windows. What does that mean to the public?
You're right. It's not as if there was some kind of mystical "High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection" system added which would screw up the picture quality if it detected that you hadn't paid enough money for your HDTV. That would be ridiculous.
But the readers who don't read aren't a problem?
Or, in other words, "You always have rights except when you don't. And there's always a convenient excuse for why you don't, so get used to it."
Indeed. There are some things that you just have to do for your self.
You may be right about that. Why don't you take a few photos of the public security checkpoints in your local US of A airport, or perhaps the public front door of a hotel where the Vice President of the US of A happens to be staying and let us all know how that goes.
I, on the other hand, consider sudden, dramatic, and completely unexplained changes to the operation of systems under my control to be a reason to worry.
I'm just funny that way.
Ah, of course. They're more of the sex, violence, and horror style of games. You can do you violence and sex without the horror, and we can do you violence and horror without the sex, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But you can't have sex and horror without the violence.
This will be quite a change from the very non-violent and family friendly Wii games like "Resident Evil 4", "Alone in the Dark" and "Bully".
How could such a thing happen?
Wait... Colbert is pregnant?
Whoah.
It's a bit dense and involves some cross references, but here's a part which may answer some of your questions. For more detail you oculd always read the paper yourself.
Hey, be careful how you talk about the Commander in Chief.
I believe that the United States Air Force may disagree with you.
They may also disagree that the USAF needs its own planes, cars, missiles, submarines, space program, paper clip assembly plants, and surprisingly profitable second hand ballpoint business.
Based on the available evidence, I'm going to have to say "No".
Have you considered recycling it?
Similar programs exist elsewhere in the civilized world. STFW and you'll probably find somewhere nearby that will be happy to take your junk off of your hands.
What they will do with it is anybody's guess, but at least it won't be sitting around your house any more.
I'm pretty sure that John Carpenter made a movie about just such a city back in 1981. Kurt Russell and Isaac Hayes were in it.
That's brilliant. I'm sure that no hacker in the world has ever even heard of 'l33t speak', let alone considered that you might be using it in a password.