The summary doesn't make clear that this is a way to correct for motion blur, when the camera moved during the exposure. It won't deal with poorly focused images. For that something like the GIMP's Refocus plugin can help.
It's a pity that the motion of the camera needs to be recorded - it can't be inferred from the blur of the photograph. So this software would only help once manufacturers include motion sensors in their camera and a way to record the information in the image file. (Though, as noted, many mobile phones do include such sensors.)
Quite. So the guy has worked for Monsanto in the past as well as other biotech companies. Wouldn't you expect that a researcher into plant genetics might sometimes be employed by companies who want to undertake research? If you exclude (ad hominem) all arguments from anyone who has worked in the field, then who is left?
On the other side we have the Slashdot contributor 'blackbeak', who has studied genetics for many years, published his PhD on the subject, and is knowledgeable about the science involved. What's that you say? It's just some Internet loudmouth? Clearly, then, we should listen to blackbeak's carefully reasoned arguments and ignore the shilling from the evil Monsanto puppet author of the BBC opinion piece, who clearly doesn't have any idea what he is talking about.
That guy they quote in the article hits the nail on the head:
Everything depends, he points out, on why I decided to tell you about the Tuesday-birthday-boy. If I specifically selected him because he was a boy born on Tuesday (and if I would have kept quiet had neither of my children qualified), then the 13/27 probability is correct. But if I randomly chose one of my two children to describe and then reported the child’s sex and birthday, and he just happened to be a boy born on Tuesday, then intuition prevails: The probability that the other child will be a boy will indeed be 1/2.
This is similar to the confusion generated by the Monty Hall question. Why does he show you an empty door? If he would always show you the door immediately to the right of the one you chose, for example, and it just happened in this case to contain a goat, then there is no reason to switch. On the other hand, if he on purpose always shows an empty door to every contestant, then the usual reasoning applies and you should switch. (And if you imagine an 'evil' Monty Hall who shows a goat to a contestant if and only if that contestant originally chose the correct door, well then you should never switch.) It all depends on why you are being told this information, and what the general rule is about whether you are told or not.
It's known that Life is Turing-complete, so it must be able to host a Turing machine or emulate itself. Making these patterns is an impressive engineering feat, but we already knew they were possible.
The existence of a self-replicating pattern had been conjectured but not proven until now, I believe.
You mean the screen that is only about 15% higher dpi than what you get on a stock android device these days?
Hmm, perhaps I am out of date. But it does seem quite a bit better: 960x640, compared to 800x480 for the Droid Incredible, Evo 4G, or Nexus One. That's 60% more pixels. However, it is slightly smaller (3.5 inch diagonal versus 4.3 inches for the Evo 4G or 3.7 inches for the other two).
The ideal would be an IPad that makes phone calls, of course; I wonder if Android will be ported to that and able to use the cellular phone network on models that have it.
You're probably right that other devices will soon catch up with equally high-resolution screens.
gcc (or any compiler) has several stages; as a minimum a front-end and a back-end. It's quite possible that people hacking on the back-end, generating optimized machine code for particular processors, know nothing of C++ or Ada or Fortran or the other languages for which gcc has a front-end.
If you read what Sanger wrote, he says that if you come across this material online, you are *required* to report it to the FBI, or risk being arrested yourself. Do you believe that this is not true?
The 'Northern Ireland parties they are allied with' - the UUP - did not win any seats. They could form an alliance with the DUP or one independent unionist.
If true, this would mean you can run Linux most of the time and occasionally start up an OS X virtual machine when you need it. Sweet! I might even have a reason to buy a Mac now.
Some LCD panels can rotate by 90 degrees. I used to work with two Dell 1600x1200 displays, both turned on their side. You can have a nice tall Emacs window in one and a web browser or mail client in the other.
A bit of historical context for those who think that hard disk manufacturers somehow changed the way they count bytes in the mid-1990s to swindle customers out of a few extra bytes:
The first hard disk in the 1950s had a capacity of five million characters - not 5 * 2^20 but 5 * 10^6. (However, I think that one 'character' on this system was not the same as the octet which we nowadays know as a 'byte'.)
The classic IBM 'Winchester' disk introduced in 1973 had a capacity of 35 or 70 megabytes. Again, a megabyte is quite simply a million bytes.
You might say that floppy disks use binary sizes, and that is true for '360 kilobyte' formatted disks for example, but the '1.44 megabyte' floppy uses a odd mix of conventions: it holds 1.44 * 1024 * 1000 bytes.
You can't assume it was their life experiences; many personality traits are likely to be genetic. In which case, they made their decisions based on genetic information...
WD's RMA process is the easiest? Others must be unspeakably bad. The process itself is straightforward in principle, but trying to contact anyone through their online help system ('=== please enter your reply between these lines ===') is highly frustrating. Messages can go unanswered for months, or get a standard form response that answers none of the questions you asked.
(This is in Britain using their European service centre; other countries might do better.)
Since we're on anecdotes, I have had a Raptor 150GByte fail twice (that is, be replaced, and the replacement failed). It's still within the five year warranty period so I'm about to send it back again.
Any story or statement beginning 'conservatives are X' or 'conservatives think that Y' is a bit pointless since it devolves into an argument about who the true conservatives are. In addition, it tends to obscure the detail of who, exactly, did what: it's only a small step away from the classic weasel-word formula 'Some people think that...'. If you mean Republicans, say that; membership of a political party is a question of fact and doesn't provoke argument.
This doesn't apply in countries where 'Conservative' is the name of a well-known political party, or to 'conservative bloggers' if treated as an amorphous mass. But the opinions of a mass of self-defined 'conservative' loudmouths don't make a news story; only named people or particular events do.
Potentially access the interner via a Goggle ISP, accessing Google DNS, using Google search, communicating via Google email, using Goole chat and Google Buzz with my friends.
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360x480 is pretty old hat these days. When are they going to launch something with comparable screen resolution to the iPhone 4?
The summary doesn't make clear that this is a way to correct for motion blur, when the camera moved during the exposure. It won't deal with poorly focused images. For that something like the GIMP's Refocus plugin can help. It's a pity that the motion of the camera needs to be recorded - it can't be inferred from the blur of the photograph. So this software would only help once manufacturers include motion sensors in their camera and a way to record the information in the image file. (Though, as noted, many mobile phones do include such sensors.)
Quite. So the guy has worked for Monsanto in the past as well as other biotech companies. Wouldn't you expect that a researcher into plant genetics might sometimes be employed by companies who want to undertake research? If you exclude (ad hominem) all arguments from anyone who has worked in the field, then who is left? On the other side we have the Slashdot contributor 'blackbeak', who has studied genetics for many years, published his PhD on the subject, and is knowledgeable about the science involved. What's that you say? It's just some Internet loudmouth? Clearly, then, we should listen to blackbeak's carefully reasoned arguments and ignore the shilling from the evil Monsanto puppet author of the BBC opinion piece, who clearly doesn't have any idea what he is talking about.
This is similar to the confusion generated by the Monty Hall question. Why does he show you an empty door? If he would always show you the door immediately to the right of the one you chose, for example, and it just happened in this case to contain a goat, then there is no reason to switch. On the other hand, if he on purpose always shows an empty door to every contestant, then the usual reasoning applies and you should switch. (And if you imagine an 'evil' Monty Hall who shows a goat to a contestant if and only if that contestant originally chose the correct door, well then you should never switch.) It all depends on why you are being told this information, and what the general rule is about whether you are told or not.
It's because in the future, all domains and hostnames will be sequences of three repeated characters, for example www.ppp.xxx.
The map for Civ 6 is going to be based on Penrose tiles.
It's known that Life is Turing-complete, so it must be able to host a Turing machine or emulate itself. Making these patterns is an impressive engineering feat, but we already knew they were possible. The existence of a self-replicating pattern had been conjectured but not proven until now, I believe.
Does Chrome Frame run inside IE Tab in Firefox?
Hmm, perhaps I am out of date. But it does seem quite a bit better: 960x640, compared to 800x480 for the Droid Incredible, Evo 4G, or Nexus One. That's 60% more pixels. However, it is slightly smaller (3.5 inch diagonal versus 4.3 inches for the Evo 4G or 3.7 inches for the other two).
The ideal would be an IPad that makes phone calls, of course; I wonder if Android will be ported to that and able to use the cellular phone network on models that have it.
You're probably right that other devices will soon catch up with equally high-resolution screens.
Because the Iphone looks so much cooler; but more than that, I'm particularly attracted to the new high-resolution screen.
I wonder how long it will take to port Android to the iPhone mark 4? If it works well, I might even buy one.
gcc (or any compiler) has several stages; as a minimum a front-end and a back-end. It's quite possible that people hacking on the back-end, generating optimized machine code for particular processors, know nothing of C++ or Ada or Fortran or the other languages for which gcc has a front-end.
If you read what Sanger wrote, he says that if you come across this material online, you are *required* to report it to the FBI, or risk being arrested yourself. Do you believe that this is not true?
The 'Northern Ireland parties they are allied with' - the UUP - did not win any seats. They could form an alliance with the DUP or one independent unionist.
If true, this would mean you can run Linux most of the time and occasionally start up an OS X virtual machine when you need it. Sweet! I might even have a reason to buy a Mac now.
Some LCD panels can rotate by 90 degrees. I used to work with two Dell 1600x1200 displays, both turned on their side. You can have a nice tall Emacs window in one and a web browser or mail client in the other.
A bit of historical context for those who think that hard disk manufacturers somehow changed the way they count bytes in the mid-1990s to swindle customers out of a few extra bytes: The first hard disk in the 1950s had a capacity of five million characters - not 5 * 2^20 but 5 * 10^6. (However, I think that one 'character' on this system was not the same as the octet which we nowadays know as a 'byte'.) The classic IBM 'Winchester' disk introduced in 1973 had a capacity of 35 or 70 megabytes. Again, a megabyte is quite simply a million bytes. You might say that floppy disks use binary sizes, and that is true for '360 kilobyte' formatted disks for example, but the '1.44 megabyte' floppy uses a odd mix of conventions: it holds 1.44 * 1024 * 1000 bytes.
It's okay, they're checking the calculations with pencil and paper afterwards.
Isn't that what quantum computing does?
You can't assume it was their life experiences; many personality traits are likely to be genetic. In which case, they made their decisions based on genetic information...
WD's RMA process is the easiest? Others must be unspeakably bad. The process itself is straightforward in principle, but trying to contact anyone through their online help system ('=== please enter your reply between these lines ===') is highly frustrating. Messages can go unanswered for months, or get a standard form response that answers none of the questions you asked. (This is in Britain using their European service centre; other countries might do better.)
Since we're on anecdotes, I have had a Raptor 150GByte fail twice (that is, be replaced, and the replacement failed). It's still within the five year warranty period so I'm about to send it back again.
Any story or statement beginning 'conservatives are X' or 'conservatives think that Y' is a bit pointless since it devolves into an argument about who the true conservatives are. In addition, it tends to obscure the detail of who, exactly, did what: it's only a small step away from the classic weasel-word formula 'Some people think that...'. If you mean Republicans, say that; membership of a political party is a question of fact and doesn't provoke argument. This doesn't apply in countries where 'Conservative' is the name of a well-known political party, or to 'conservative bloggers' if treated as an amorphous mass. But the opinions of a mass of self-defined 'conservative' loudmouths don't make a news story; only named people or particular events do.
...however, there is the verb 'to meter' as well as 'to mete'.
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