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  1. Re:Dumb on Latest TVs Are Ready for Their Close-Ups (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if you have a lens capable of resolving 160 lp/mm (unlikely), you'll have trouble achieving and maintaining focus, And that resolution is only going to be available at the center of the image, even on hideously expensive lenses. https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2017/07/experiments-for-ultra-high-resolution-camera-sensors/ The bigger the image, the bigger the lens has to be and the more difficult it is to design and build a lens that can achieve a given level of resolution. Lens cost goes up roughly in proportion to the volume of the lens.

  2. Re:Dumb on Latest TVs Are Ready for Their Close-Ups (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    As technology advances it ought to be possible to create the missing date for higher resolution images. Edges can be sharpened and interpolated/extrapolated to the added lines.Textures can be refined once by an artist, then the computer takes over rendering the details in subsequent frames. Experts review the results and give the system hints for fixing bad spots.

    This means years of software development, but still not as expensive as paying some loopy actors to do the scenes over again.

  3. Re:Old TVs didn't have pixels on Latest TVs Are Ready for Their Close-Ups (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The subcarrier phase was shifted by 180 degrees between scans...

    That sounds like PAL. I don't think NTSC did that.

  4. There are situations where you want to have human takeover. For instance: a farmer has just opened a field for parking, the rest of the year it's used for crops. For instance: most off-road driving.

  5. Re:I'm shocked! Shocked I say! on Google Accused of Racketeering. Lawsuit Claims 'Pattern' Of Trade Secret Thefts (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Throwing their weight around on Google Accused of Racketeering. Lawsuit Claims 'Pattern' Of Trade Secret Thefts (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Theaters often hold over popular movies if they think it will sell better than the replacement. It isn't necessarily the studio's choice.

  7. Re:When will people finally realize on Google Accused of Racketeering. Lawsuit Claims 'Pattern' Of Trade Secret Thefts (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    There are many internet radio sites that won't play without at least temporarily allowing Google Analytics.

  8. Re:When will people finally realize on Google Accused of Racketeering. Lawsuit Claims 'Pattern' Of Trade Secret Thefts (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, I'm saying Marx didn't correctly identify the problem. You can never truthfully make your claim again.

  9. Re: When will people finally realize on Google Accused of Racketeering. Lawsuit Claims 'Pattern' Of Trade Secret Thefts (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2015-update/. Other sources provide similar results. You cold have found the results yourself, but you're too lazy, and that's why you'll never be that rich.

  10. Re:When will people finally realize on Google Accused of Racketeering. Lawsuit Claims 'Pattern' Of Trade Secret Thefts (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 0

    Translation from Fool to English
    The problem is that freedom is pretty great so long as people are free, but otherwise it's indistinguishable from slavery.

  11. Re:here's the correct link for Space Data V. Loon on Google Accused of Racketeering. Lawsuit Claims 'Pattern' Of Trade Secret Thefts (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Prior art searches are not a big deal, particularly if you limit yourself to searching existing patents. It often takes about a day to find if someone has already done what you're trying to do, and that frequently helps you avoid dead-ends in your own design and gives you clues on how to design without infringing the existing patent.

  12. Re: When will people finally realize on Google Accused of Racketeering. Lawsuit Claims 'Pattern' Of Trade Secret Thefts (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    A court case decided that their implementation of disk compression was essentially a copy of Stacker's. It's not just the compression algorithm, it's also code details and user interface.

    Any undocumented API call in a closed source OS is secret. They are commonplace, often just because they're experimental features, but in Microsoft's case it was to gain a competitive advantage.

    Here's an example of how this might be done. Let's say that the OS has a documented call to put one character on the screen, which takes 1 microsecond, and an undocumented call to put up to 10,000 characters on the screen, which takes up to 50 microseconds. A program written by someone aware of the undocumented call can put 10,000 characters on the screen in 50 microseconds, but for anyone else putting 10,000 characters on the screen it's going to take 10,000 microseconds. That's a competitive advantage made possible by a secret API call.

  13. Re:It's time to consider god's plan on 100K Lose Power As America Faces Its Third Hurricane In Three Weeks (go.com) · · Score: 2

    Where I live, numerous private organizations act to protect the environment: buying property to prevent development, buying conservation easements, and taking other actions. It doesn't have to be government doing everythig.

  14. Re:Lost Power on 100K Lose Power As America Faces Its Third Hurricane In Three Weeks (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Neighborhoods can have their power lines underground if they're willing to pay for it. It doesn't have to be the government.

  15. Re:Still no global warming on 100K Lose Power As America Faces Its Third Hurricane In Three Weeks (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Atlantic hurricane season (wikipedia): It was originally the time frame when the tropics were monitored routinely for tropical cyclone activity, and was originally defined as from June 15 through October 31.[7] Over the years, the beginning date was shifted back to June 1, while the end date was shifted to November 15,[5] before settling at November 30 by 1965.

    We're >2/3 of the way through hurricane season and 4 weeks beyond the historical peak (Sept. 10).

  16. Re:YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT! on 100K Lose Power As America Faces Its Third Hurricane In Three Weeks (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Animals eat food, which is used to generate energy inefficiently. That raises their temperature above their surroundings. What makes an animal warm blooded is that it has a temperature regulating mechanism which causes even more energy to be used to maintain a relatively constant temperature.

  17. Re:A capitalist class shell game on Is Amazon Lowering The Global Rate of Inflation? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    A savings account is one way a bank borrows money from its customers. When a bank can borrow huge amounts of money from the Fed at below 1%, why should it go through all the nuisance of dealing with a great many savings accounts and pay substantial interest on those accounts? This is entirely the government's fault.

    The rising prices of housing, education, and health care are all the government's fault.

    You yourself identify politics/government as a problem in (6), (7), and (8). If a problem is caused by government, it's not caused by capitalism.

    With respect to gays, attacks on them have been declining for decades - so much so that not only do they feel free to display their sexual preferences in public, they feel free to be assholes about it.

  18. Re:Low inflation is bogus; only electronics droppi on Is Amazon Lowering The Global Rate of Inflation? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The price rise from $4,000 to $20,000 over 43 years is below 4%/year, and you're getting a somewhat better car. The focus is available in a rage of prices, from $13650 to $36995.

    4% a year is not outrageously high, although it is excessive: should be zero.

  19. Re:Remember kids, there is no inflation on Is Amazon Lowering The Global Rate of Inflation? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, can go to a store and buy the additional square footage you need, as long as you don't live in it. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Handy-Home-Products-Majestic-8-ft-x-12-ft-Wood-Storage-Shed-18631-8/202205311

  20. Re:Depends on what factors you use on Is Amazon Lowering The Global Rate of Inflation? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Inflation is not increased prices; Increased prices are frequently the result of inflation. Inflation is increase of the money supply, sometimes called "watering the currency".

  21. Re: The classic monopoly approach on Is Amazon Lowering The Global Rate of Inflation? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    GP is referring to pre-internet Walmart.

  22. Re:SlashDEAD is the new name! on Is Amazon Lowering The Global Rate of Inflation? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon puts people out of work. Automation is now to the point that it has put people out of work. People are therefore worthless

    That's one of the nastiest things I've ever read on slashdot. No, I'm not new here.

  23. Re: Is This the Forbes Web Site? on Is Amazon Lowering The Global Rate of Inflation? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    How about you not posting an easily disproved lie? Some conservative legislators have already said they're open to forbidding hardware that makes semi-auto firearms fire as rapidly as an automatic firearm.

  24. Re:Technology? on Why Is There No Nobel Prize In Technology? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The study of knowledge is epistemology.

  25. Re:Decentralized generation on Elon Musk Says Tesla Could Rebuild Puerto Rico's Power Grid With Batteries, Solar (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Have the wires actually disappeared? Unless they've been stolen by looters (not unlikely) it's the poles and towers that have snapped. The long lead item would be transformers, they might also have been looted if their windings are copper.