How does offering the same price to two of your distributors discourage you from lowering prices? The publisher will lower prices for a variety of reasons, such as to increase sales or generate publicity, but none of those reasons would seem to be contingent on lowering prices with one distributor and not others.
Generally entangled particles are created at the same place. For example, certain decay processes will fire off two complementary particles in opposite directions, at the same speed, in order to conserve momentum. If you measure the location of one of those particles, you know that the other must be the same distance from the origin point, in the opposite direction, so you know it's position as well.
"That he left it with such a weak password is beside the point. The routers I've worked with will not allow administration level access over the outside port or wireless connection unless explicitly allowed by the admin, so Verizon being able to do just that should raise a few questions."
You must have worked with a very specific subset of routers. NONE of the consumer-grade ones I've set up for people (and there have been quite a few) block admin access over wifi, and only a couple blocked it over the WAN connection.
It's handy for setting the things up when you don't have an ethernet cable.
I was setting up a router for a friend one time, in a large apartment building. I was lazy and didn't want to find an ethernet cable so I just did the whole thing over the wireless connection. I connected to the router, set the password and then it wanted to reboot. Except the stupid thing always seemed to come back up with the same default password. After about six tries I set the SSID first (reboot), THEN the password. That worked, no problem. Then I realized that setting the had password worked just fine, it's just that there were a dozen routers in the building called "dlink", each using the default password. Except that now half of them weren't using the default password anymore.;)
Nope. Except for the basics, deblurring algorithms are usually highly application specific. The one you link to only handles motion blur caused by the camera moving and requires six axis motion tracking.
Before Hubble was repaired, a different, more general deblurring algorithm was used to help correct the distortion from the bad lens.
Although, many of the atmospheric distortion correction methods require a guide star. If no guide star is available one is created by shining a powerful laser up into the atmosphere. Such a laser might be handy to have on a cell phone.
You've described blind deconvolution. It does work, but guided deconvolution, a version of which they're doing here, usually works better because you're providing more information. The search space is very large and you have to make assumptions anyway (just how does the computer assess the "sharpness" of an image?) so anything you can do to narrow it down usually improves your results.
Deconvolution, particularly the fancier kinds, is pretty processor intensive. It's quite possible taking a photo on your smart phone and processing it this way would have a significant hit on your battery (as in, you only take a few of these before needing a recharge) and might take long enough that you don't bother taking more than one photo for the evening.
If you're using a high shutter speed then you don't need camera shake deblurring. Most recent SLRs are perfectly capable of using an electronic shutter to capture multiple images while the mechanical shutter is open. That's how they shoot video, among other things. Some DSLRs always use an electronic shutter, which allows them to use very high flash sync speeds.
The stacking method requires that the camera be able to take pictures quickly enough. Other than that requirement, the stacking method should work better because the deconvolution method will almost always have some data that cannot be recovered. It can be estimated, but not calculated.
If you look closely at most iterative deconvolution methods, they do all, most or some of their work in the Fourier domain. Even if they don't, all deconvolution can be described as Fourier division and trying to guess what's obscured in the noisy parts of the spectrum.
In this case it appears they do the deconvolution entirely in the image domain but the process, and any problems that may occur, can still be described usefully in the frequency domain. As the poster you replied to points out, if the kernel has zeros in the frequency domain it is impossible to recover the original image - you can only guess at what it might be.
Whenever I end up using a computer with a mouse I wish I had the trackpad on my MBP. Tap to click, two finger tap for a right click, swipe to go backward or forward in a browser.... and dragging two fingers is way better than a scroll wheel.
I suppose if you were going to work all day on an iPad you might want a mouse or trackpad.
You're making that up. There is nothing, certainly not in the modern usage, in the term socialism that indicates it must be applied to EVERYTHING. Modern economies are always (at least I can't think of an exception, and that includes the US) a mixture of socialist and capitalist economic models with some economies incorporating more socialism and others more capitalism.
Americans do have an awfully warped idea of what socialism is, and do their very best to deny that there's even a possibility they could have any taint of it's evil in their country.
Socialism is an economic policy. It is not a form of government. I liked to the Wikipedia article. Read it. No, Fox news doesn't know what socialism is either.
Sorry. You seem to be mistaking socialism for the economic side of communism. Socialism is simply the idea that the public, either in the form of the government or directly in the form of a group of citizens, should own things, provide services, etc. Publicly owned transportation, water and firefighting infrastructure are all examples of socialism. Not "solid principles of government" whatever that is.
He shouldn't have to do anything if socialism is unworkable - eventually the society that provided all those things will either collapse or realize on it's own that socialism is unworkable.
People have tried most USB keyboards and they work. A mouse doesn't really make sense, but if you wanted to write the driver there shouldn't be anything stopping you. People have also tested a bunch of USB microphones and most work.
I've plugged in a USB stick and it's no problem - gets mounted just like on any other UNIX. Apparently the USB port doesn't put out enough juice to run most hard drives, but they should work just fine if you give them external power.
At the moment MobileTerminal doesn't work on the iPad (it's open source, you can fix it yourself if you want) but iSSH works well and also gives you a nice SSH and VNC app for a reasonable price. Last I checked nobody had upgraded gcc to work on the iPad yet (it works fine on the iPhone) but that's probably just a matter of time. I've got Python on mine, but I also saw a ruby interpreter in passing.
In addition to the usual surfing the web and e-mail on the couch, I use mine for reading. I've read several novels on it so far, I've got a bunch of technical books and I'm slowly transferring my library of scientific papers to it from my notebook. It's fantastic for reading a paper in my hammock, on the bus to the lab, or having it beside my computer for reference while I'm working on something.
I also took it on a week long sailing trip last week. It takes up less space than most novels but I had several books as well as notes for a radio certification course on it and when we had cell coverage I could check the weather, get e-mail or even make a Skype call if I wanted to. And the batteries easily lasted the week.
I saw one at the park the other day. She had her iPad out and she and her grandkids were playing educational games on it. Way more practical than a notebook for what she was using it for.
I think it was. The pictures looked pretty, with a lot of promise, but when you actually got down to what it was going to do it looked more like a Palm device from the late nineties with better screens.
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You can change ringtones to your heart's content on the iPhone. Apple even provides tools with every Mac to make your own ringtones.
There are lots of jailbroken iPhones available on eBay.
How does offering the same price to two of your distributors discourage you from lowering prices? The publisher will lower prices for a variety of reasons, such as to increase sales or generate publicity, but none of those reasons would seem to be contingent on lowering prices with one distributor and not others.
Generally entangled particles are created at the same place. For example, certain decay processes will fire off two complementary particles in opposite directions, at the same speed, in order to conserve momentum. If you measure the location of one of those particles, you know that the other must be the same distance from the origin point, in the opposite direction, so you know it's position as well.
"That he left it with such a weak password is beside the point. The routers I've worked with will not allow administration level access over the outside port or wireless connection unless explicitly allowed by the admin, so Verizon being able to do just that should raise a few questions."
You must have worked with a very specific subset of routers. NONE of the consumer-grade ones I've set up for people (and there have been quite a few) block admin access over wifi, and only a couple blocked it over the WAN connection.
It's handy for setting the things up when you don't have an ethernet cable.
I was setting up a router for a friend one time, in a large apartment building. I was lazy and didn't want to find an ethernet cable so I just did the whole thing over the wireless connection. I connected to the router, set the password and then it wanted to reboot. Except the stupid thing always seemed to come back up with the same default password. After about six tries I set the SSID first (reboot), THEN the password. That worked, no problem. Then I realized that setting the had password worked just fine, it's just that there were a dozen routers in the building called "dlink", each using the default password. Except that now half of them weren't using the default password anymore. ;)
Nope. Except for the basics, deblurring algorithms are usually highly application specific. The one you link to only handles motion blur caused by the camera moving and requires six axis motion tracking.
Before Hubble was repaired, a different, more general deblurring algorithm was used to help correct the distortion from the bad lens.
Although, many of the atmospheric distortion correction methods require a guide star. If no guide star is available one is created by shining a powerful laser up into the atmosphere. Such a laser might be handy to have on a cell phone.
If your space telescope is experiencing significant camera shake then you've got bigger problems.
You've described blind deconvolution. It does work, but guided deconvolution, a version of which they're doing here, usually works better because you're providing more information. The search space is very large and you have to make assumptions anyway (just how does the computer assess the "sharpness" of an image?) so anything you can do to narrow it down usually improves your results.
Deconvolution, particularly the fancier kinds, is pretty processor intensive. It's quite possible taking a photo on your smart phone and processing it this way would have a significant hit on your battery (as in, you only take a few of these before needing a recharge) and might take long enough that you don't bother taking more than one photo for the evening.
If you're using a high shutter speed then you don't need camera shake deblurring. Most recent SLRs are perfectly capable of using an electronic shutter to capture multiple images while the mechanical shutter is open. That's how they shoot video, among other things. Some DSLRs always use an electronic shutter, which allows them to use very high flash sync speeds.
The stacking method requires that the camera be able to take pictures quickly enough. Other than that requirement, the stacking method should work better because the deconvolution method will almost always have some data that cannot be recovered. It can be estimated, but not calculated.
If you look closely at most iterative deconvolution methods, they do all, most or some of their work in the Fourier domain. Even if they don't, all deconvolution can be described as Fourier division and trying to guess what's obscured in the noisy parts of the spectrum.
In this case it appears they do the deconvolution entirely in the image domain but the process, and any problems that may occur, can still be described usefully in the frequency domain. As the poster you replied to points out, if the kernel has zeros in the frequency domain it is impossible to recover the original image - you can only guess at what it might be.
Whenever I end up using a computer with a mouse I wish I had the trackpad on my MBP. Tap to click, two finger tap for a right click, swipe to go backward or forward in a browser.... and dragging two fingers is way better than a scroll wheel.
I suppose if you were going to work all day on an iPad you might want a mouse or trackpad.
You're making that up. There is nothing, certainly not in the modern usage, in the term socialism that indicates it must be applied to EVERYTHING. Modern economies are always (at least I can't think of an exception, and that includes the US) a mixture of socialist and capitalist economic models with some economies incorporating more socialism and others more capitalism.
Americans do have an awfully warped idea of what socialism is, and do their very best to deny that there's even a possibility they could have any taint of it's evil in their country.
Socialism is an economic policy. It is not a form of government. I liked to the Wikipedia article. Read it. No, Fox news doesn't know what socialism is either.
Sorry. You seem to be mistaking socialism for the economic side of communism. Socialism is simply the idea that the public, either in the form of the government or directly in the form of a group of citizens, should own things, provide services, etc. Publicly owned transportation, water and firefighting infrastructure are all examples of socialism. Not "solid principles of government" whatever that is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
He shouldn't have to do anything if socialism is unworkable - eventually the society that provided all those things will either collapse or realize on it's own that socialism is unworkable.
Somebody with mod points mark this troll please.
People have tried most USB keyboards and they work. A mouse doesn't really make sense, but if you wanted to write the driver there shouldn't be anything stopping you. People have also tested a bunch of USB microphones and most work.
I've plugged in a USB stick and it's no problem - gets mounted just like on any other UNIX. Apparently the USB port doesn't put out enough juice to run most hard drives, but they should work just fine if you give them external power.
At the moment MobileTerminal doesn't work on the iPad (it's open source, you can fix it yourself if you want) but iSSH works well and also gives you a nice SSH and VNC app for a reasonable price. Last I checked nobody had upgraded gcc to work on the iPad yet (it works fine on the iPhone) but that's probably just a matter of time. I've got Python on mine, but I also saw a ruby interpreter in passing.
In addition to the usual surfing the web and e-mail on the couch, I use mine for reading. I've read several novels on it so far, I've got a bunch of technical books and I'm slowly transferring my library of scientific papers to it from my notebook. It's fantastic for reading a paper in my hammock, on the bus to the lab, or having it beside my computer for reference while I'm working on something.
I also took it on a week long sailing trip last week. It takes up less space than most novels but I had several books as well as notes for a radio certification course on it and when we had cell coverage I could check the weather, get e-mail or even make a Skype call if I wanted to. And the batteries easily lasted the week.
I saw one at the park the other day. She had her iPad out and she and her grandkids were playing educational games on it. Way more practical than a notebook for what she was using it for.
I think it was. The pictures looked pretty, with a lot of promise, but when you actually got down to what it was going to do it looked more like a Palm device from the late nineties with better screens.
Except that Apple isn't a small player and has their own wildly popular distribution channel down to and including both online and retail stores.
They were. And they screwed it up. Over and over again.
Now they can go out and buy one of the actual devices to copy. They'll still screw it up, but they think it's worth at least one more try.