The specific issue with the Lytro Illum is that it uses a ~40 megapixel traditional sensor to create an 0.4 megapixel "live" image - so even in the future if we were to get a camera that produced a more usable 8 megapixel live image it would need an 800 megapixels sensor to capture that 'live' data. Now, bear in mind the size of the lytro files would then be the size of the 800 megapixel image.
But it was a bit of a sham. Their '40 megaray' camera had an actual still image equivalent resolution of 0.4 megapixels (which they went to great lengths to hide) - so it was always a toy rather than a serious tool.
I have to say that as a tablet it completely and utterly sucks. Windows simply does not translate to a tablet environment and, other than emergency use, I never use it without the keyboard.
However, with the keyboard and as a lightweight touchscreen laptop for travel, is is excellent. I use Mac for my desktop environment, but Apple have decided for what seems to be purely religious reasons not to put touch-screens into their laptop line, which for me is a dealbreaker. Using the mouse for 99% of the UI, but the finger on the screen to scroll and pinch-zoom when appropriate works really well for me, and when I'm doing presentations from my Surface Pro onto a projector being able to draw onto the screen with the pen is a major advantage.
I know for many of you a touchscreen in a laptop seems stupid, and you're perfectly entitled to that opinion. For me, it works, and it works better than the alternative (which is why my MacBook Pro is now hardly ever used.)
Perhaps before approving a story with a youtube link someone could actually check to make sure the video is available in a reasonable % of the world outside the USA?
This is unfortunately inevitable - newer OSs will cease supporting older hardware, forcing people to use old, insecure OSs because the newer versions simply can't work on it.
But this is still better (forcing obsolescence) than a world full of old, insecure devices. And these devices will still be useable, just not on a network.
Perhaps all OSs should have a kill date embedded after which they will fail to operate. Maybe nothing as drastic as the machine failing to start, but perhaps for example booting into the equivalent of safe mode with no networking, so that it's possible to move your data from the system but isn't really practical to use it.
Why? Because such a kill date would actually force people to think about upgrading rather just keeping running because they know they can.
It could be as simple to override as putting the clock back for those who want to play with older OSs on old hardware for fun, but that wouldn't be a practical solution for most of the lazy businesses who continue to use obsolete systems and not just put themselves at risk but, by becoming vectors for attacking others, affect us all.
And for at least a year before the kill date is activated the system wallpaper would be replaced with a timer counting down to the time the system needs to be replaced.
Just they wait until I release my Adblocker blocker blocker app. Then you'll be able to see the site again. At least until they deploy an Adblocker blocker blocker blocker which I guess will be inevitable.. However I have an idea about how to deal with that...
The scanning speed is one thing, the processing speed of the scanned files is another. I haven't tried this new system (obviously) but the Fujitsu is certainly pretty slow.
There are a lot of things that simply aren't available on ebooks. And if I purchased the book and I'm using the pdf for my own use then it's not piracy. At least it's not morally wrong to me, and that's the only thing that matters as far as I am concerned.
I've had one of these for quite some time now, and it looks pretty much the same except more expensive and without the foot pedal option (great idea!)
The important thing is the software rather than the hardware which is meant to be able to detect the curvature of the pages on a bound book and adjust for it. It sort of works most of the time on the SV600 but it's not especially fast and neither is it entirely reliable.
I gave up on it mostly because the software for the Mac was pretty unreliable. I do note they release updates for it very regularly so maybe I should try it again as I haven't touched it in over half a year.
There are in Canada about 11 suicides per 100,000 people per year. The Ashley Madison list contains 33 million names. So, on an average year with 33 million random people there are over 3,600 suicides, equating to 10 per day (based on Canadian stats)
So these 2 are well within normal expected rates of suicide for this size of a group. Unless I've bollocked up my stats somewhere in which case please tell me.
So, you put a video online that someone else made, onto a service that someone else pays the bandwidth fees for and you're bitching because you aren't getting any money from it?
What exactly do you think your ten minutes of time in downloading the video from one place and uploading it to another are worth?
This reminds me of a question I had about securing a linux server.
We all know it's quite good practice to move the SSH connection from port 22 to some arbitrary high port. But of course if attacker finds nothing on port 22 he's just going to start port scanning until he gets it.
Way better would be for port 22 to respond as a valid SSH server but to reject ALL username and password combinations EVEN THE CORRECT ONES.
Only drawback I can see is when I forget I moved the SSH port and get confused when my password doesn't work. But apart from that...
This seems so obvious that I am sure something already exists to do this. Sadly my primitive google-fu didn't find it.
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Guess I'd have to take the body out first.
Yes, I'm sure there's a public wifi just in reach called "NotMI5Honest" that he could use.
Perhaps it's time for Ecuador to start charging him rent.
The specific issue with the Lytro Illum is that it uses a ~40 megapixel traditional sensor to create an 0.4 megapixel "live" image - so even in the future if we were to get a camera that produced a more usable 8 megapixel live image it would need an 800 megapixels sensor to capture that 'live' data. Now, bear in mind the size of the lytro files would then be the size of the 800 megapixel image.
But it was a bit of a sham. Their '40 megaray' camera had an actual still image equivalent resolution of 0.4 megapixels (which they went to great lengths to hide) - so it was always a toy rather than a serious tool.
See: http://www.everyothershot.com/...
that's all!
That is true, but having both, I can assure you it's not the same.
And as for the smudges - strangely enough this happens on the iPad and iPhone and hasn't killed those products :)
I have to say that as a tablet it completely and utterly sucks. Windows simply does not translate to a tablet environment and, other than emergency use, I never use it without the keyboard.
However, with the keyboard and as a lightweight touchscreen laptop for travel, is is excellent. I use Mac for my desktop environment, but Apple have decided for what seems to be purely religious reasons not to put touch-screens into their laptop line, which for me is a dealbreaker. Using the mouse for 99% of the UI, but the finger on the screen to scroll and pinch-zoom when appropriate works really well for me, and when I'm doing presentations from my Surface Pro onto a projector being able to draw onto the screen with the pen is a major advantage.
I know for many of you a touchscreen in a laptop seems stupid, and you're perfectly entitled to that opinion. For me, it works, and it works better than the alternative (which is why my MacBook Pro is now hardly ever used.)
Perhaps before approving a story with a youtube link someone could actually check to make sure the video is available in a reasonable % of the world outside the USA?
This is unfortunately inevitable - newer OSs will cease supporting older hardware, forcing people to use old, insecure OSs because the newer versions simply can't work on it.
But this is still better (forcing obsolescence) than a world full of old, insecure devices. And these devices will still be useable, just not on a network.
Perhaps all OSs should have a kill date embedded after which they will fail to operate. Maybe nothing as drastic as the machine failing to start, but perhaps for example booting into the equivalent of safe mode with no networking, so that it's possible to move your data from the system but isn't really practical to use it.
Why? Because such a kill date would actually force people to think about upgrading rather just keeping running because they know they can.
It could be as simple to override as putting the clock back for those who want to play with older OSs on old hardware for fun, but that wouldn't be a practical solution for most of the lazy businesses who continue to use obsolete systems and not just put themselves at risk but, by becoming vectors for attacking others, affect us all.
And for at least a year before the kill date is activated the system wallpaper would be replaced with a timer counting down to the time the system needs to be replaced.
Citation:
jolyonr (2017) https://slashdot.org/comments....
There is only one reason that bitcoin is so high in value right now, ransomware
And this is why people who travel a lot use local simcards and do all their communication on WhatsApp these days.,
Last time I needed a simcard when in a foreign country it cost me $5, gave me 1GB of data and lasted two weeks.
Surprised no-one mentioned this:
http://appleinsider.com/articl...
Just they wait until I release my Adblocker blocker blocker app. Then you'll be able to see the site again. At least until they deploy an Adblocker blocker blocker blocker which I guess will be inevitable.. However I have an idea about how to deal with that...
The scanning speed is one thing, the processing speed of the scanned files is another. I haven't tried this new system (obviously) but the Fujitsu is certainly pretty slow.
There are a lot of things that simply aren't available on ebooks. And if I purchased the book and I'm using the pdf for my own use then it's not piracy. At least it's not morally wrong to me, and that's the only thing that matters as far as I am concerned.
I've had one of these for quite some time now, and it looks pretty much the same except more expensive and without the foot pedal option (great idea!)
The important thing is the software rather than the hardware which is meant to be able to detect the curvature of the pages on a bound book and adjust for it. It sort of works most of the time on the SV600 but it's not especially fast and neither is it entirely reliable.
I gave up on it mostly because the software for the Mac was pretty unreliable. I do note they release updates for it very regularly so maybe I should try it again as I haven't touched it in over half a year.
Jolyon
Nicely played Mr/Ms Harpoon Lampshade.... nicely played
I did some basic stats on this.
There are in Canada about 11 suicides per 100,000 people per year. The Ashley Madison list contains 33 million names. So, on an average year with 33 million random people there are over 3,600 suicides, equating to 10 per day (based on Canadian stats)
So these 2 are well within normal expected rates of suicide for this size of a group. Unless I've bollocked up my stats somewhere in which case please tell me.
So, you put a video online that someone else made, onto a service that someone else pays the bandwidth fees for and you're bitching because you aren't getting any money from it?
What exactly do you think your ten minutes of time in downloading the video from one place and uploading it to another are worth?
Such as "shooting in portrait"
Well.. sorry to say this but this particular advanced and complex technique has been used by every idiot with a smartphone recording videos for years.
Also... 6k video scaled up isn't 8k. it's 6k video with some random pixels thrown in for marketing reasons.
If they start doing this they better beware, there's never been a better reason for Google/Apple etc to get into the carrier business themselves.
This reminds me of a question I had about securing a linux server.
We all know it's quite good practice to move the SSH connection from port 22 to some arbitrary high port. But of course if attacker finds nothing on port 22 he's just going to start port scanning until he gets it.
Way better would be for port 22 to respond as a valid SSH server but to reject ALL username and password combinations EVEN THE CORRECT ONES.
Only drawback I can see is when I forget I moved the SSH port and get confused when my password doesn't work. But apart from that...
This seems so obvious that I am sure something already exists to do this. Sadly my primitive google-fu didn't find it.
Jolyon
Firefox's market share has been dropping ever since the new UI was introduced.
Actually, Firefox's market share has been dropping ever since the Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquake.