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  1. Re:Crop + correction makes this pointless on Samsung's Advanced Chips Give Its Cameras a Big Boost · · Score: 1

    There are limits to what you can correct in software. Correcting chromatic aberration greater than 2 pixels is futile. Correcting barrel or pincushion distortion reduces resolution. Sharpening images makes noise worse and introduces artifacts such as ringing. (Trying to reduce noise diminishes textures.) Software helps, but great software with a mediocre lens is inferior to mediocre software with a great lens.

  2. Re: Technically DSLR doesn't specify a mirror or n on Samsung's Advanced Chips Give Its Cameras a Big Boost · · Score: 1

    Some camera manufacturers used leaf shutters in or behind the lens, in front of the mirror, on some models. They included Topcon, Kowa, Kodak, Hasselblad, Bronica and Rollei.

  3. Re: Technically DSLR doesn't specify a mirror or n on Samsung's Advanced Chips Give Its Cameras a Big Boost · · Score: 1

    It takes a mirror to be a reflex camera, and it is only related to the shutter in that the mirror has to not block the light to the sensor/film when a picture is taken. Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) cameras use a fixed mirror, unrelated to the shutter. Beam splitter Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras like the Canon Pellix and Canon EOS RT use a fixed mirror unrelated to the shutter. Conventional SLRs use a flip-up mirror that moves before the shutter opens and flops down after the shutter closes.

    Reflex refers to the optical path to the viewfinder, involving a reflection.

  4. Re:The Dangers of the World on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    Wrong. The parent would probably be murdered by the government before his children were taken away.

  5. Re:The Dangers of the World on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    When did sense have anything to do with law?

  6. Re:Design failure on Lost Beagle2 Probe Found 'Intact' On Mars · · Score: 1

    1 cu. in. should not be a problem for reasonable efficiency; there are good techniques for transferring heat to radiators, etc.

  7. Re:design flaw with placement of antenna on Lost Beagle2 Probe Found 'Intact' On Mars · · Score: 1

    They have images of the probe.

    Take a look at those images. They're trying to deduce a whole lot out of perhaps 10 pixels. If they has dropped a Vespa on the surface from 1 km up, it might look the same.

  8. Re:The whine of the flyback transformer on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    CRTs run up against fundamental laws of physics. One is focusing, bright screens require a lot of electrons per unit time and electrons repel each other. Getting them into a small place (sharp focus) is difficult at best. Another is atmospheric pressure, at 1 ton per square foot big screens need thick glass if they're curved and VERY thick glass if they're flat.

    With CRT phosphors, there's always some compromise between ghosting and flicker, and one can't be completely eliminated without worsening the other. There's some possible improvement available with high refresh rates, but before long a high refresh rate multiplied by the number of pixels on the screen results in an unacceptable rate for modulating an electron stream. (This can be reduced with multiple electron guns, but that introduces alignment problems and huge costs.)

    All in all, something like a 40" 4k CRT would be enormously expensive, heavy, and a maintenance nightmare.

  9. Re:Related - the clack of wheels on the tracks on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Rails are heavy, and the pressures involved in lifting up a rail due to thermal expansion would cause elastic deformation. If the rail were constrained to not move horizontally, a pressure of about 500 psi would correspond to 1 inch per mile. Not only is that not enough to lift rail weighing 30 lb/ft (about 8.5 sq. in. cross section), it wouldn't support the rail if it were first lifted and then relied upon pressure to keep it up.

  10. Re:The longer you live...Cancer could be your rewa on Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120' · · Score: 1

    There's more to cancer than mutations resulting in fast-reproducing cells, there's also the failure of the immune system to recognize and kill the bad cells. Reducing that failure is one of the techniques/goals of cancer research and life extension in general.

  11. Re: $1 million? on Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120' · · Score: 1

    Why, in any discussion of life extension, must someone mention this foolish idea that extending the decrepit years will be the result? Death is not far away when the repair mechanisms have already failed, and that's when the obvious symptoms of aging are apparent. Useful life extension comes from keeping the body healthy and strong for a long time.

  12. Re:"cut and paste"? on Authors Alarmed As Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops Nature Words · · Score: 1

    ^X ^V (cut and paste) is a common operation sequence for moving things from one place to another, particularly in text editing.

  13. Re:It's never been a "real" dictionary on Authors Alarmed As Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops Nature Words · · Score: 1

    It's common practice to provide drawings for many of the more basic nouns, and acorn is a prime example.

    To establish a language in a logical manner, something has to be tied to reality. An effort to make a language out of words solely defined by other words is circular, baseless, and futile. Some things must be identified by pointing (illustration) and acorn is a good place for a root.

  14. Re:Age group? on Authors Alarmed As Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops Nature Words · · Score: 1

    Essential qualities in a definition are identifying the category to which the word belongs, and the distinguishing characteristic(s) that separate the word from other words in the category. In most contexts, a minnow is a "small fish".

    You might not even notice if you ate a single minnow. Scoop 'em up and fry them in hot oil by the bucketful.

  15. Re:modern kids vocabulary on Authors Alarmed As Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops Nature Words · · Score: 1

    The latter is the more honest way of doing it

    Such as redefining "liberal" to mean "gun-toting thief who insists that every be disarmed"?

  16. Re:Literally on Authors Alarmed As Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops Nature Words · · Score: 1

    Conforming or restricted to the exact, stated meaning; not figurative or inferred. (Funk and Wagnalls)

  17. Re:Literally on Authors Alarmed As Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops Nature Words · · Score: 1

    One big problem is in law, where fluid words (or especially words with a legal meaning that differs from the common meaning) can cause a person jail time or a lot of lost money.

  18. Re:Literally on Authors Alarmed As Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops Nature Words · · Score: 1

    Seriously?

  19. Re: "Acorns, and Blackberries, and Minnows, oh my! on Authors Alarmed As Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops Nature Words · · Score: 1

    Your 7 examples, except perhaps Velcro, are all now well established as generic names. "Duck tape" is not; most people recognize "duct tape" as the correct phrase.

  20. It's not a system-on-chip until the whole thing is on a single chip: CPU, I/O, display driver, keyboard input (from keys, not an already encoded keyboard), PSU.

  21. Re:Hire the best person on Intel Pledges $300 Million To Improve Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    The minorities called "Asians" and "Jews" have an intelligence advantage of up to one standard deviation over the rest of us. Without any other information, a high-tech company like Intel should find them the most qualified.

  22. Re:Produce More Qualified Workers to Not Hire on Intel Pledges $300 Million To Improve Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    How many of those resumes with women's names cited membership on the football team?

  23. Re:Waste of money on Intel Pledges $300 Million To Improve Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    Thirty greatest mathematicians of all time, in descending order:

    Isaac Newton, Archimedes, Carl F. Gauss, Leonhard Euler, Bernhard Riemann, Henri Poincaré, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Euclid of Alexandria, David Hilbert, Gottfried W. Leibniz, Alexandre Grothendieck, Pierre de Fermat, Évariste Galois, John von Neumann, Niels Abel, Karl W. T. Weierstrass, René Descartes, Brahmagupta, Peter G. L. Dirichlet, Augustin Cauchy, Carl G. J. Jacobi, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Georg Cantor, Hermann K. H. Weyl, Arthur Cayley, Emma Noether, Pythagoras of Samos, Leonardo `Fibonacci', William R. Hamilton, Muhammed al-Khowârizmi.

    One woman, and she comes in at number 26.

    The list goes on, well past 100, and that's the only woman in the top 100. http://fabpedigree.com/james/mathmen.htm

  24. Re:Waste of money on Intel Pledges $300 Million To Improve Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    Right out of school is when women are most likely to get pregnant and quit work, after their employer has spent perhaps $10,000 getting them up to speed in the company environment.

    It's been more than 40 years since the AAUW could be considered an honest organization.

  25. Re:From the "fake lady 'itself'"? on Intel Pledges $300 Million To Improve Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    When you say the same obnoxious thing more than once, you've moved from troll to flaming asshole.