If you take a subsidy on your phone, you should expect to be bound by a contract for a period of time. You can always get out of the contract by paying the ETF, which in the US often doesn't seem to even cover the cost of the phone. No subsidy, no contract.
I used to take the subsidy phone (in Canada) because the ETF was approximately equal to the value of the subsidy. Then the ETFs went way up and the phones started being locked. Now I buy outright and have no contract. With the new rules I might consider the subsidy again, because you don't get any kind of discount bringing your own phone in Canada - the opposite in fact, your choice of plans is massively restricted.
I don't see why the price would go up. Because the company has to unlock your phone? If you switch they still get to recover their subsidy through the early termination fee. Because they can't rip you off with the ETF anymore? That one will go over well.
These regulations seem to curb a few of the worst practices of the abusively profitable mobile telecom business in Canada. That's it.
You're assuming that the US science fair system is well organized. It's not.
The International Science and Engineering Fair (which is actually kind of the US national fair, but with some international invitees) doesn't organize state, county or local fairs. They make rules about what a fair must do to be eligible to send contestants, but they don't organize the lower level fairs. Possibly the state fair should have been more careful about its out of state contestants, but the real blame lies with the school. The teacher interviewed specifically said that they send the kids to two fairs so they get two chances - one chance more than anyone else. There's no reason why this kid, who did not qualify at his first fair, should get to go in place of someone else just because he squeaked through on his bonus try. A bonus try that nobody else gets.
It's not selective enforcement. It's a situation that apparently hasn't happened before, combined with organizers who failed to consider all the what-ifs.
And yes, I've been to an ISEF, as a nominee from the Canadian national fair. Due to the timing of the two fairs, being nominated at the Canadian fair meant you went to the ISEF the next year, and were not eligible that year for the Canadian fairs, so you had to choose. Despite the big money prizes at the ISEF, most of us decided that we enjoyed the Canadian fair more, and so declined future nominations.
I'm curious, what exactly did I say that you were replying to? I specifically said that green square wouldn't get the same results as a camera with a competent photographer, but it would be better than a camera phone.
As others have replied, the 5D does certainly have a full auto mode. The D4 doesn't seem to (I shoot Canon, so I've never carefully examined the $5000 Nikon. It DOES have a P mode though, which is pretty close to full auto except that it lets you change things if you want. So long as you don't screw with it too much, you're essentially shooting on automatic. Even a writer should be able to handle that.
You won't get as good pictures as from someone who knows how to use the camera, but pointing and shooting an SLR in auto or P mode will get you better pictures than a camera phone.
"You'll get much better shots from an iPhone than you will if you hand over a D4 or a MkIII to a non-photographer."
No, actually, you won't. DSLRs still have "green square mode" which puts the things in automatic. You won't get the results you'd get from the same camera with a decent photographer behind it, but you'll get better results than a camera phone provides.
It was not enforced in the past because nobody doing the state fair jumping had qualified for the ISEF before. It's in the article.
The US science fair system is poorly organized, which is why things like this happen. It's disappointing for the kid but he did not qualify at his own state fair anyway.
Displayport or thundebolt is on every Mac and is available from every major manufacturer. If you want one, you can get one. They're a lot more widely deployed than 4k monitors.
If you're buying a $5000 4k monitor, upgrading your video card to something that has a decent interconnect isn't going to bother you too much. Your point seems to be along the lines of "4k monitors are impractical because my POS video with HDMI out can't drive one!" So what? 4k monitors are obviously in early adopter territory currently, but display port and thunderbolt are already widely deployed, just on a platform you have some kind of emotional dislike of. You can buy Wintels with display port as well, of course. And if 4k catches on even your econobox will have one.
Whoops, you're correct. It was the Iranian people overthrowing the US puppet thirty years ago. I have coffee now.
The Shah wasn't a dictator any more than Queen Elizabeth II is a dictator. Iran was a constitutional monarchy (just like Canada and the UK), ruled by an elected parliament. Your own link says that the Shah fled the country during the coup because he was afraid the public would take a dim view of his actions, and only came back after the CIA had mopped up, and an American general had been dispatched to convince him to be dictator of Iran.
That incident, which was inspired by oil of course, gave Iran, the rest of the countries in the middle east, and really all other third world countries with oil, good reason to distrust the US.
Forget the recent invasions of other countries, the US destabilized a democratic government and installed their own puppet dictator in Iran just over thirty years ago.
You did notice I said the only disadvantage right? I'm willing to stipulate even that might not be a problem in many cases, such as with proprietary freeware. So, with that stipulation you have no objections to what I said?
The passage you quoted was mine. I wrote it. Yes, I read it too. Your response didn't really make any sense, so I had to try and assume what you meant. Perhaps you'd like to make yourself clearer than a one word question ("why?") and a throwaway rhetorical sentence?
It's a phone with a light sensor and maybe an accelerometer that can turn itself on when you pull it out of your pocket. Woo hoo. All the current mainstream smartphones could do that if they wanted to but most people don't seem to want their phones deciding when to turn themselves on.
It's a website and code written in a scripting language. If you don't like the way it's working, go ahead and change it, or just swap out the whole thing for your own. The user is in complete control. There isn't any loss, or gain, of "freedom."
By the way, "free" and "proprietary" aren't proper nouns.
It's not a matter of humane or not. Without robots, waging war requires putting your own people in danger. There's a barrier to waging war. With robots, not so much. We're seeing this now. US soldiers getting killed in Iraq or Afghanistan, or Vietnam is unpopular. You have to have (or at least make up) a good reason for it. Drones? Meh, who cares.
Most of the planet is water, and most of the land is un- or light inhabited. A few air bursts and a lot of pretty meteors is better than one big one landing... almost anywhere. A big asteroid might well do MORE damage if it hits the ocean because the resulting tsunami could take out multiple, widely spaced, coastal areas whereas little explosions over the ocean don't do much damage.
Besides which, the idea is to divert the impactor in the first place. If you explode a nuke on one side, all of the mass is going to move in the opposite direction regardless of whether it says glued together or not.
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You know Koodoo is the alias Telus set up so people they'd screwed over under the Telus name would still do business with them, right?
If you take a subsidy on your phone, you should expect to be bound by a contract for a period of time. You can always get out of the contract by paying the ETF, which in the US often doesn't seem to even cover the cost of the phone. No subsidy, no contract.
I used to take the subsidy phone (in Canada) because the ETF was approximately equal to the value of the subsidy. Then the ETFs went way up and the phones started being locked. Now I buy outright and have no contract. With the new rules I might consider the subsidy again, because you don't get any kind of discount bringing your own phone in Canada - the opposite in fact, your choice of plans is massively restricted.
I don't see why the price would go up. Because the company has to unlock your phone? If you switch they still get to recover their subsidy through the early termination fee. Because they can't rip you off with the ETF anymore? That one will go over well.
These regulations seem to curb a few of the worst practices of the abusively profitable mobile telecom business in Canada. That's it.
It's also easier to interface (and power) a Pi with low level hardware, as opposed to a notebook.
The Raspberry Pi was never meant as a computer to run spreadsheets on. It's a hacker toy.
You're assuming that the US science fair system is well organized. It's not.
The International Science and Engineering Fair (which is actually kind of the US national fair, but with some international invitees) doesn't organize state, county or local fairs. They make rules about what a fair must do to be eligible to send contestants, but they don't organize the lower level fairs. Possibly the state fair should have been more careful about its out of state contestants, but the real blame lies with the school. The teacher interviewed specifically said that they send the kids to two fairs so they get two chances - one chance more than anyone else. There's no reason why this kid, who did not qualify at his first fair, should get to go in place of someone else just because he squeaked through on his bonus try. A bonus try that nobody else gets.
It's not selective enforcement. It's a situation that apparently hasn't happened before, combined with organizers who failed to consider all the what-ifs.
And yes, I've been to an ISEF, as a nominee from the Canadian national fair. Due to the timing of the two fairs, being nominated at the Canadian fair meant you went to the ISEF the next year, and were not eligible that year for the Canadian fairs, so you had to choose. Despite the big money prizes at the ISEF, most of us decided that we enjoyed the Canadian fair more, and so declined future nominations.
Neither can a camera phone.
I'm curious, what exactly did I say that you were replying to? I specifically said that green square wouldn't get the same results as a camera with a competent photographer, but it would be better than a camera phone.
As others have replied, the 5D does certainly have a full auto mode. The D4 doesn't seem to (I shoot Canon, so I've never carefully examined the $5000 Nikon. It DOES have a P mode though, which is pretty close to full auto except that it lets you change things if you want. So long as you don't screw with it too much, you're essentially shooting on automatic. Even a writer should be able to handle that.
You won't get as good pictures as from someone who knows how to use the camera, but pointing and shooting an SLR in auto or P mode will get you better pictures than a camera phone.
It's "eh?" not "ah!".
"You'll get much better shots from an iPhone than you will if you hand over a D4 or a MkIII to a non-photographer."
No, actually, you won't. DSLRs still have "green square mode" which puts the things in automatic. You won't get the results you'd get from the same camera with a decent photographer behind it, but you'll get better results than a camera phone provides.
It was not enforced in the past because nobody doing the state fair jumping had qualified for the ISEF before. It's in the article.
The US science fair system is poorly organized, which is why things like this happen. It's disappointing for the kid but he did not qualify at his own state fair anyway.
Displayport or thundebolt is on every Mac and is available from every major manufacturer. If you want one, you can get one. They're a lot more widely deployed than 4k monitors.
If you're buying a $5000 4k monitor, upgrading your video card to something that has a decent interconnect isn't going to bother you too much. Your point seems to be along the lines of "4k monitors are impractical because my POS video with HDMI out can't drive one!" So what? 4k monitors are obviously in early adopter territory currently, but display port and thunderbolt are already widely deployed, just on a platform you have some kind of emotional dislike of. You can buy Wintels with display port as well, of course. And if 4k catches on even your econobox will have one.
http://www.shell.com/global/environment-society/ecomarathon/events/americas/results.html
You know that "statistically significant" and "measurable" are usually essentially the same thing, right?
You can make gasoline synthetically, it's just not competitive with pumping it out of the ground yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_to_liquids
Whoops, you're correct. It was the Iranian people overthrowing the US puppet thirty years ago. I have coffee now.
The Shah wasn't a dictator any more than Queen Elizabeth II is a dictator. Iran was a constitutional monarchy (just like Canada and the UK), ruled by an elected parliament. Your own link says that the Shah fled the country during the coup because he was afraid the public would take a dim view of his actions, and only came back after the CIA had mopped up, and an American general had been dispatched to convince him to be dictator of Iran.
That incident, which was inspired by oil of course, gave Iran, the rest of the countries in the middle east, and really all other third world countries with oil, good reason to distrust the US.
Forget the recent invasions of other countries, the US destabilized a democratic government and installed their own puppet dictator in Iran just over thirty years ago.
One in which Google is running things. First their phones are sentient, now convincing them you're you is a superpower, but requires you tag yourself.
You did notice I said the only disadvantage right? I'm willing to stipulate even that might not be a problem in many cases, such as with proprietary freeware. So, with that stipulation you have no objections to what I said?
The passage you quoted was mine. I wrote it. Yes, I read it too. Your response didn't really make any sense, so I had to try and assume what you meant. Perhaps you'd like to make yourself clearer than a one word question ("why?") and a throwaway rhetorical sentence?
Then you're fooling yourself.
It's a phone with a light sensor and maybe an accelerometer that can turn itself on when you pull it out of your pocket. Woo hoo. All the current mainstream smartphones could do that if they wanted to but most people don't seem to want their phones deciding when to turn themselves on.
It's a website and code written in a scripting language. If you don't like the way it's working, go ahead and change it, or just swap out the whole thing for your own. The user is in complete control. There isn't any loss, or gain, of "freedom."
By the way, "free" and "proprietary" aren't proper nouns.
It's not a matter of humane or not. Without robots, waging war requires putting your own people in danger. There's a barrier to waging war. With robots, not so much. We're seeing this now. US soldiers getting killed in Iraq or Afghanistan, or Vietnam is unpopular. You have to have (or at least make up) a good reason for it. Drones? Meh, who cares.
Most of the planet is water, and most of the land is un- or light inhabited. A few air bursts and a lot of pretty meteors is better than one big one landing... almost anywhere. A big asteroid might well do MORE damage if it hits the ocean because the resulting tsunami could take out multiple, widely spaced, coastal areas whereas little explosions over the ocean don't do much damage.
Besides which, the idea is to divert the impactor in the first place. If you explode a nuke on one side, all of the mass is going to move in the opposite direction regardless of whether it says glued together or not.