Presumably, since these multiple sensor cameras are currently used in telescopes, they've either worked out how to deal with sensor edges or it isn't important. There need not necessarily be a gap at the edge of a sensor anyway. Just because it technically came off a different wafer doesn't mean you couldn't line the things up closely enough that it wouldn't matter.
Denser pixels are going to get less surface area... provided the surface area of your sensor doesn't change. Astronomical cameras don't exactly use 4/3 sized sensors. But you point out an excellent reason why single-slab-of-silicon cameras are doomed to top out in resolution - there is a fundamental limit to how many detectors you can put on a given size piece of silicon, and some very compelling reasons why you can't just scale up the size of a silicon wafer.
Mozilla is suggesting that Firefox should essentially be the OS for smart phones. If that came to pass, all the apps on your phone could be, at best, as stable as Firefox. Which makes the stability of Firefox definitely on topic, in addition to the speed.
There is a 111 MP single sensor camera that just got installed on a telescope. There's not a whole lot of point though. It's easier, cheaper and more reliable to create a multichip camera like the 1.4 GP camera installed on one of the telescopes in Hawaii. It's still one camera though, and takes the whole 1.4 GP in one shot.
The only place I can think of where a web app seems to have made significant progress where a regular app is available is in e-mail, and much of that can be attributed to most webmail accounts being free.
My first thought too. Hey, web apps are just fine! You won't even be able to tell the difference!
Yeah right.
Besides, Mozilla doesn't have the fastest javascript renderer on the desktop, why would their first foray into the mobile world be better than everything else?
Exactly. The things are basically made of carbon to start with (explaining why you'd observe carbon on the moon). They've also been found to contain actual organic compounds, even complex ones like amino acids, which would also explain the presence of those compounds on the moon.
PS: I should have said meteoroids. It's the first day of vacation.
The US uses UAVs in Afghanistan to keep track of who is coming and going from a particular place. If someone you want to kill goes into a house and you know there aren't any people you don't want to kill in that house (because you've been watching it constantly for the last week), then you can put a missile into it. Otherwise you probably won't.
If the other guy knows when you're watching a particular house, he might be a little more careful to a) not have meetings with his important buddies there or b) make sure to invite Joe from down the road's teenage daughter.
It's even worse. The discovery seems to be a mass spec observation of carbon. Either the article or the ISRO suggests that it's possible some actual organic compounds of some sort might have been deposited by meteors. The summary then mentions life.
The performance of a standard cluster, or even a SIMD machine will vary tremendously depending on your application as well. The only reasonable way is to pick a problem and compare performance on that problem.
They just forgot a phrase at the end of that statement: "it was slightly faster than the university's 512-core supercomputer... in this application."
Or just do what a government is supposed to do - build things like infrastructure, which are too big and expensive to be undertaken efficiently by multiple competing private interests.
Indeed. That's usually seen as a step towards corporatism, which is the economic wing of fascism, which is usually considered as far right, the opposite of socialism, which is on the left. Or in the middle, if the term "socialism" is being used in the context of American politics.
Yeah, what a silly statement. Does any other OS ship with built in support for the only open standard for GPGPU computing (OpenCL)? There's also OpenGL and CoreVideo, if Adobe prefers, which have been part of OS X for years.
Apple has open sourced GCD. If you can't use it on your platform of choice, you should talk to whoever writes/sells that platform. GCD in particular really needs to be implemented as part of the OS.
I mean seriously, Windows doesn't implement an open source system API and so you're blaming Apple?
Oh, and PS, Flash 10.1 (a beta of which is available) includes GPU acceleration.
I suspect they looked at tissue from a bunch of melanomas and have generated data showing where they differ from normal samples.
But 30,000 errors in the DNA doesn't mean those cells were exposed to 30,000 mutating events (the 1 for every 15 cigarettes or whatever). Generally what happens is that a cell gets mutations in a few critical locations and then subsequent issues during cell division do dramatic damage to the genome.
Assuming "here" is the US, there's no way I'd walk into the country with dark skin, a picture of someone burning the US flag and a bunch of stickers about how Jesus was gay and Washington was a traitor.
Some things aren't particularly bright no matter where you do them.
THAT's the roughest border crossing you've ever made?
An average flight to the US for me involves having everything x-rayed and bomb sniffed once and hand searched at least twice, my person metal detected (and soon terahertz scanned) and patted down. Then there's the border guard with his questions and usually an hour wait or so while someone disappears with my passport to call Ottawa and confirm that I'm not the guy by the same very common name who is on the no fly list.
I'd expect no less from somewhere that actually gets attacked on a regular basis, at a border crossing with a moderately recently hostile nation.
It's a tragedy to lose your vacation photos, or that clever bit of code you wrote on the plane, but she said (and you quoted it) that she had EVERYTHING on that notebook, including client case notes and testimony.
Perhaps Israel has noticed that the countries around it kept attacking with the stated intention of destroying Israel. Ever since they lost every war and lost some territory, those state-level attacks have stopped.
I hope the Palestinian territories Israel is currently occupying can be made into an independent Palestinian nation, but Israel is not occupying those territories as the result of wars in which they were the aggressor.
Bravo. Particularly the last line. I expect the list of arab countries represented in her passport, along with the material she was carrying, would have drawn a bit of extra interest at a US border crossing too.
"And the attitude that any person who dislikes Israel should be treated like a criminal and denied basic rights does far more damage than any misguided kid's political views."
I didn't realize the right to carry your laptop computer across an international border had been declared a basic right.
Let's compare the situation to entering the US. US border guards can confiscate your computer and keep it more or less indefinitely. You might get it back, eventually. maybe. The last few times I did that I got several nice searches. I wouldn't be at all surprised, if I had a "Fuck the USA" sticker on my laptop, some pictures of flag burnings, and lots of stamps from countries the US doesn't like, that I might be spending some extra special time with a border guard. And maybe lose my notebook.
Sure the Israelis shot up her notebook. And then apparently paid for it! She basically got a free lesson in why making backups is a good idea. And why you want to take some reasonable care not to piss off the locals when visiting a foreign country.
"Wrong. Occam's Razor says that, faced with alternate theories both explaining satisfactorily the same phenomena, you must assume as correct that which requires the least assumptions."
Wow. That's a more mangled Occam's razor than usual.
Occam's razor is usually literally stated as "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" which is generally interpreted as, given two equally good explanations of a set of observations, the simplest is more likely to be correct.
There's nothing about "must assume." Occam's razor is a general guideline, not a law of nature.
Hm? You can explain why the speed of light in a vacuum is as fast as you can go to a ten year old in a couple of hours.
Climate is a lot more complicated, but the big reason you can't explain it simply is because nobody understands it. Still, even without actually understanding it you can identify trends.
The global warming crowd does have a bad habit of rather overstating the certainty in things, but that's probably due to how politicized the issue has become.
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Presumably, since these multiple sensor cameras are currently used in telescopes, they've either worked out how to deal with sensor edges or it isn't important. There need not necessarily be a gap at the edge of a sensor anyway. Just because it technically came off a different wafer doesn't mean you couldn't line the things up closely enough that it wouldn't matter.
Denser pixels are going to get less surface area... provided the surface area of your sensor doesn't change. Astronomical cameras don't exactly use 4/3 sized sensors. But you point out an excellent reason why single-slab-of-silicon cameras are doomed to top out in resolution - there is a fundamental limit to how many detectors you can put on a given size piece of silicon, and some very compelling reasons why you can't just scale up the size of a silicon wafer.
Mozilla is suggesting that Firefox should essentially be the OS for smart phones. If that came to pass, all the apps on your phone could be, at best, as stable as Firefox. Which makes the stability of Firefox definitely on topic, in addition to the speed.
There is a 111 MP single sensor camera that just got installed on a telescope. There's not a whole lot of point though. It's easier, cheaper and more reliable to create a multichip camera like the 1.4 GP camera installed on one of the telescopes in Hawaii. It's still one camera though, and takes the whole 1.4 GP in one shot.
Where has the web won?
The only place I can think of where a web app seems to have made significant progress where a regular app is available is in e-mail, and much of that can be attributed to most webmail accounts being free.
My first thought too. Hey, web apps are just fine! You won't even be able to tell the difference!
Yeah right.
Besides, Mozilla doesn't have the fastest javascript renderer on the desktop, why would their first foray into the mobile world be better than everything else?
Exactly. The things are basically made of carbon to start with (explaining why you'd observe carbon on the moon). They've also been found to contain actual organic compounds, even complex ones like amino acids, which would also explain the presence of those compounds on the moon.
PS: I should have said meteoroids. It's the first day of vacation.
The US uses UAVs in Afghanistan to keep track of who is coming and going from a particular place. If someone you want to kill goes into a house and you know there aren't any people you don't want to kill in that house (because you've been watching it constantly for the last week), then you can put a missile into it. Otherwise you probably won't.
If the other guy knows when you're watching a particular house, he might be a little more careful to a) not have meetings with his important buddies there or b) make sure to invite Joe from down the road's teenage daughter.
It's even worse. The discovery seems to be a mass spec observation of carbon. Either the article or the ISRO suggests that it's possible some actual organic compounds of some sort might have been deposited by meteors. The summary then mentions life.
The performance of a standard cluster, or even a SIMD machine will vary tremendously depending on your application as well. The only reasonable way is to pick a problem and compare performance on that problem.
They just forgot a phrase at the end of that statement: "it was slightly faster than the university's 512-core supercomputer... in this application."
Or just do what a government is supposed to do - build things like infrastructure, which are too big and expensive to be undertaken efficiently by multiple competing private interests.
Indeed. That's usually seen as a step towards corporatism, which is the economic wing of fascism, which is usually considered as far right, the opposite of socialism, which is on the left. Or in the middle, if the term "socialism" is being used in the context of American politics.
Yeah, what a silly statement. Does any other OS ship with built in support for the only open standard for GPGPU computing (OpenCL)? There's also OpenGL and CoreVideo, if Adobe prefers, which have been part of OS X for years.
Apple has open sourced GCD. If you can't use it on your platform of choice, you should talk to whoever writes/sells that platform. GCD in particular really needs to be implemented as part of the OS.
I mean seriously, Windows doesn't implement an open source system API and so you're blaming Apple?
Oh, and PS, Flash 10.1 (a beta of which is available) includes GPU acceleration.
I suspect they looked at tissue from a bunch of melanomas and have generated data showing where they differ from normal samples.
But 30,000 errors in the DNA doesn't mean those cells were exposed to 30,000 mutating events (the 1 for every 15 cigarettes or whatever). Generally what happens is that a cell gets mutations in a few critical locations and then subsequent issues during cell division do dramatic damage to the genome.
Assuming "here" is the US, there's no way I'd walk into the country with dark skin, a picture of someone burning the US flag and a bunch of stickers about how Jesus was gay and Washington was a traitor.
Some things aren't particularly bright no matter where you do them.
THAT's the roughest border crossing you've ever made?
An average flight to the US for me involves having everything x-rayed and bomb sniffed once and hand searched at least twice, my person metal detected (and soon terahertz scanned) and patted down. Then there's the border guard with his questions and usually an hour wait or so while someone disappears with my passport to call Ottawa and confirm that I'm not the guy by the same very common name who is on the no fly list.
I'd expect no less from somewhere that actually gets attacked on a regular basis, at a border crossing with a moderately recently hostile nation.
Because all the descriptions (particularly the ones with lots of capital letters) are 100% accurate on EBay and never exaggerate at all.
Sounds similar to an inner city US high school. Except for the M16.
I don't think she was traveling for years.
It's a tragedy to lose your vacation photos, or that clever bit of code you wrote on the plane, but she said (and you quoted it) that she had EVERYTHING on that notebook, including client case notes and testimony.
Perhaps Israel has noticed that the countries around it kept attacking with the stated intention of destroying Israel. Ever since they lost every war and lost some territory, those state-level attacks have stopped.
I hope the Palestinian territories Israel is currently occupying can be made into an independent Palestinian nation, but Israel is not occupying those territories as the result of wars in which they were the aggressor.
After a reasonably nasty rebellion, and occupation of the land of those who did not wish to be rebels.
Bravo. Particularly the last line. I expect the list of arab countries represented in her passport, along with the material she was carrying, would have drawn a bit of extra interest at a US border crossing too.
"And the attitude that any person who dislikes Israel should be treated like a criminal and denied basic rights does far more damage than any misguided kid's political views."
I didn't realize the right to carry your laptop computer across an international border had been declared a basic right.
Let's compare the situation to entering the US. US border guards can confiscate your computer and keep it more or less indefinitely. You might get it back, eventually. maybe. The last few times I did that I got several nice searches. I wouldn't be at all surprised, if I had a "Fuck the USA" sticker on my laptop, some pictures of flag burnings, and lots of stamps from countries the US doesn't like, that I might be spending some extra special time with a border guard. And maybe lose my notebook.
Sure the Israelis shot up her notebook. And then apparently paid for it! She basically got a free lesson in why making backups is a good idea. And why you want to take some reasonable care not to piss off the locals when visiting a foreign country.
"Wrong. Occam's Razor says that, faced with alternate theories both explaining satisfactorily the same phenomena, you must assume as correct that which requires the least assumptions."
Wow. That's a more mangled Occam's razor than usual.
Occam's razor is usually literally stated as "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" which is generally interpreted as, given two equally good explanations of a set of observations, the simplest is more likely to be correct.
There's nothing about "must assume." Occam's razor is a general guideline, not a law of nature.
Hm? You can explain why the speed of light in a vacuum is as fast as you can go to a ten year old in a couple of hours.
Climate is a lot more complicated, but the big reason you can't explain it simply is because nobody understands it. Still, even without actually understanding it you can identify trends.
The global warming crowd does have a bad habit of rather overstating the certainty in things, but that's probably due to how politicized the issue has become.