Know what the biggest difference is between generic amateur snapshots and wow photos? Depth of field. The awesome photos are almost never the ones with everything in focus. But if you really want that, the cheaper your camera the more likely it is to achieve it.
I don't think the average consumer is interested in creating great images, just useable ones. I think the
vast majority of digital photography is done as an supplement to memory.
This is why the cheap camera prioritizes focus, its doing what people (generally) most want it to do.
...that's going to change the way consumers think about pictures.
You're overestimating the average consumer: You believe they think prior to taking a picture.
I think your sampling is a little biased, I think you'd see a different patten of photos if you were to
compare cameraphones and cameras so, I'll be a little more generous to the average consumer
What they think is 'I want a photo of that' and what they want is the photo to look like what they saw,
and that means no blurred bits. The eye auto-focuses on whatever its looking so people perceive the world
with an near infinite depth of field. Creating an image that does not look like what was seen is art, I'd hazard most people
are looking for a record and can't be bothered to post process.
They certainly had enough room to make cuts, when I was last in Kyoto every hotel room
had SuperKettles running in every room
and heated toilet seats... ironic given the location
It's also a way political correctness may be enforced in future. Never say anything offensive or contriversial to or about anyone anywhere under your real name or anything that can be linked to your real name... ten years down the line a potential employer might find it while googling you, judge you a potential liability or source of workplace discord and throw your application in the bin.
Hmm gets worse than that.... in 10 years time whats "politically correct" may have shifted and all those 'Gingers have no soul'
posts may come back to roost.
You mean you question the logic of doing shit just for DOING IT?! OK! Hand in your geek license!
*also demoscene*
I think it unusual for someone who is just, DOING IT, to be free from ulterior motive.... An artist no matter how insecure and introverted
still wants to show off their work.
Well the first thing I thought of is set up a RAID 5 or 6 of micro SD cards ensuring that no complete file is no any single SD card. Micro SD cards are small enough that they can be hidden inside a lot of innocuous items including inside the body itself.
Then I thought, why bother, If the data is that sensitive or incriminating, I'll just store it on a server and access it over the internet. Even Dropbox holds a few GB for free, if it's sensitive data why not pay them or hire a server and some storage and DIY.
Smuggling data is not like smuggling drugs, why endanger your person going through customs when you can bypass the entire thing.
But then I though 'Frist World Problems'. If you smuggling sensitive data chances are that
that its into or out of somewhere repressive where the internet is slow, locked down or even non existent...
Satellite internet is an option but a bit on the slow side and worse but you have smuggle the modem into the country.
I think you were right the first time, RAID6 on microSD (though I'd also encrypt the files:-)
It would be easy enough to heat the polymer to 85C using solar, geothermal or waste heat from a power station... subsequent compression and
sequestration is still an issue though.
So the difficulty is to arrange those strips to reproduce the original DNA sequence. It is a NP-hard problem, no wonder Moore's law doesn't outrun that!
What does that even mean? The length of a human genome is for all practical purposes fixed, so scaling is utterly irrelevant..
Who says were just (re)sequencing the Human genome? There are plenty of Model Organisms
in the pipeline. Then there are the things like the Human microbiome project
At my Uni I can get ~80Mbps download 40Mbps upload speed. One high throughput sequencer can generate ~700GB/day (1)
so it would take 1.6 days to upload 1 days worth of data. For a small lab it may just be possible in improve the upload speed
enough to get by on. But with little to no margin of downtime.
(1) this data can be discarded after analysis but needs to be retained for at least 2-3 months in case a reanalysis is needed
It can be hard to break into (but well worth it) alas I can only provide a UK perspective but I suspect its valid elsewhere
The main problem is finding people to game with options include
finding a (physical) games shop and seeing it it has a players wanted board
googling for phrases like 'games day' 'games fest' 'games convention' 'games club|soc|society'
if there is a local university, collage or similar see if they have a games soc.
one really radical solution is to start your own games day!! I go to one that was started by a guy who wanted to play games
but didn't have any so he advertised a games day. For the first few meets you need somewhere free but with luck you have an entry fee
and hire a hall.
The main thing to remember is that you may need to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your perfect group.
There are a lot of styles of play from the hyper stimulationist where they endlessly discuss agrarian economics and the effects that low level magic usage would have on it, to group that likes to hang out and crack poor quality jokes
try reading GM of the Rings and Darths and Droids to get a idea of different play styles
(I'd give my eye teeth to be in the Darths and Droids group!!!)
"Oh Dad I'm still playing it and if you pull the plug I'll lose all the virtual toys that I've built up"
I would be very surprised if cancelling an account deleted all progress. In every MMO I've ever played you can cancel your account and go back years later and pick up right where you left off. This is a big marketing tool for bringing players back, if you had to start from scratch every time then once players cancelled there would be pretty much no chance of getting them to resubscribe.
Its not much better...
"So Son thanks to MrAngryForNoReason, You can keep your toys, but there locked up in that cupboard over there. If you want to play with them you will have to pay a week and a half's pocket money to get at them and you must give the key back after a month."
As a parent the subscription shouted "MMO money sink avoid". I'd guess my son would play furiously in the first month,
heavily in second, then sporadically after that. It was the final phase that worried me. "Oh Dad I'm still playing it
and if you pull the plug I'll lose all the virtual toys that I've built up". I think he has a point he has worked for it(1) why can't he keep it? Basically it would become a White elephant in the purest sense...
Much better to buy him one of the excellent LEGO <Movie Title>: The Video Game series, which can be kept and played more or less indefinitely.
(1) in some way shape or form at the very least the investment of time.
You have some time though, so I'd suggest you get a hobby in the field you're going into. Help out some open source rocketry projects. Surely they exist. Launch some things up really high. Rig up some cameras and get pictures. Write some code. etc. etc.
This advice is widely applicable, Begin able to talk about your home automation/IT project, your latest Make or other cool project
in CV and interview can really set you apart from the competition. as it portrays you as an enthusiastic, self starter who does the work because they like it rather than a jaded code wrangler who does it 9-5 for the money.
True but vaccines train the body to recognise markers so one presumes that a strain of malaria may arise without the markers that are recognised.
Possibly, the big achievement is find anything to target. malarias coat proteins are highly polymorphic to better avoid the immune system and all the stable stuff is hidden under the coat protein.
If a resistant strain does become prevalent it should be possible to create a vaccine against that
True but vaccines train the body to recognise markers so one presumes that a strain of malaria may arise without the markers that are recognised.
Possibly, the big achievement is find anything to target. malarias coat proteins are highly polymorphic to better avoid the immune system and all the stable stuff is hidden under the coat protein.
If a resistant strain does become prevalent it should be possible to create a vaccine against that targeting the same protein.
So they can call for help if they have problems getting home. Very useful in more rural areas. My local primary school is about 200 meters away, so perhaps not so useful in a large town.
This. Our boy has had one since he was 10 but didn't use it much till he went to secondary school.
Has locked himself out twice (second time he phoned to ask where the spare key was hidden:-). He hasn't missed the school bus yet but its only a matter of time, Coming back from school trips to say when he's actually getting back as a pose to when he's scheduled to get back. If we get separated (deliberately on not) in town its useful to reorganize a meet-up point.
This is not helicopter parenting, its just maintaining a basic level of communication. Its the simple things like
being able to call ahead and say were going to be late that make it worth every penny.
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good job T$R are out of the picture :-)
Know what the biggest difference is between generic amateur snapshots and wow photos?
Depth of field.
The awesome photos are almost never the ones with everything in focus. But if you really want that, the cheaper your camera the more likely it is to achieve it.
I don't think the average consumer is interested in creating great images, just useable ones. I think the vast majority of digital photography is done as an supplement to memory.
This is why the cheap camera prioritizes focus, its doing what people (generally) most want it to do.
...that's going to change the way consumers think about pictures.
You're overestimating the average consumer: You believe they think prior to taking a picture.
I think your sampling is a little biased, I think you'd see a different patten of photos if you were to compare cameraphones and cameras so, I'll be a little more generous to the average consumer
What they think is 'I want a photo of that' and what they want is the photo to look like what they saw, and that means no blurred bits. The eye auto-focuses on whatever its looking so people perceive the world with an near infinite depth of field. Creating an image that does not look like what was seen is art, I'd hazard most people are looking for a record and can't be bothered to post process.
They certainly had enough room to make cuts, when I was last in Kyoto every hotel room had SuperKettles running in every room and heated toilet seats ... ironic given the location
These days, there are actually cheap made-in-China ARM tablets with more capable hardware.
link?
It was already imagined. It is called a "Bramble".
Interesting, I've contemplated building a cluster as a dev system
It's also a way political correctness may be enforced in future. Never say anything offensive or contriversial to or about anyone anywhere under your real name or anything that can be linked to your real name... ten years down the line a potential employer might find it while googling you, judge you a potential liability or source of workplace discord and throw your application in the bin.
Hmm gets worse than that.... in 10 years time whats "politically correct" may have shifted and all those 'Gingers have no soul' posts may come back to roost.
You mean you question the logic of doing shit just for DOING IT?! OK! Hand in your geek license!
*also demoscene*
I think it unusual for someone who is just, DOING IT, to be free from ulterior motive.... An artist no matter how insecure and introverted still wants to show off their work.
Sir, your ideas intrigue me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter
Agreed. But why to care about being "green" once you are out of the Earth atmosphere?
There assembled in the Earth's atmosphere and every so often a satellite falls out of the sky.
Well the first thing I thought of is set up a RAID 5 or 6 of micro SD cards ensuring that no complete file is no any single SD card. Micro SD cards are small enough that they can be hidden inside a lot of innocuous items including inside the body itself.
Then I thought, why bother, If the data is that sensitive or incriminating, I'll just store it on a server and access it over the internet. Even Dropbox holds a few GB for free, if it's sensitive data why not pay them or hire a server and some storage and DIY.
Smuggling data is not like smuggling drugs, why endanger your person going through customs when you can bypass the entire thing.
I was just about to agree with you and quote http://xkcd.com/538/....
But then I though 'Frist World Problems'. If you smuggling sensitive data chances are that that its into or out of somewhere repressive where the internet is slow, locked down or even non existent ...
Satellite internet is an option but a bit on the slow side and worse but you have smuggle the modem into the country.
I think you were right the first time, RAID6 on microSD (though I'd also encrypt the files:-)
It would be easy enough to heat the polymer to 85C using solar, geothermal or waste heat from a power station... subsequent compression and sequestration is still an issue though.
I've wondered if would be possible to create an app that would tell you which squares to colour in so it redirects a QIR somewhere else
So the difficulty is to arrange those strips to reproduce the original DNA sequence. It is a NP-hard problem, no wonder Moore's law doesn't outrun that!
What does that even mean? The length of a human genome is for all practical purposes fixed, so scaling is utterly irrelevant. .
Who says were just (re)sequencing the Human genome? There are plenty of Model Organisms in the pipeline. Then there are the things like the Human microbiome project
The internet needs to catch up first.
At my Uni I can get ~80Mbps download 40Mbps upload speed. One high throughput sequencer can generate ~700GB/day (1) so it would take 1.6 days to upload 1 days worth of data. For a small lab it may just be possible in improve the upload speed enough to get by on. But with little to no margin of downtime.
(1) this data can be discarded after analysis but needs to be retained for at least 2-3 months in case a reanalysis is needed
It can be hard to break into (but well worth it) alas I can only provide a UK perspective but I suspect its valid elsewhere
The main problem is finding people to game with options include
one really radical solution is to start your own games day!! I go to one that was started by a guy who wanted to play games but didn't have any so he advertised a games day. For the first few meets you need somewhere free but with luck you have an entry fee and hire a hall.
The main thing to remember is that you may need to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your perfect group. There are a lot of styles of play from the hyper stimulationist where they endlessly discuss agrarian economics and the effects that low level magic usage would have on it, to group that likes to hang out and crack poor quality jokes
try reading GM of the Rings and Darths and Droids to get a idea of different play styles (I'd give my eye teeth to be in the Darths and Droids group!!!)
I would be very surprised if cancelling an account deleted all progress. In every MMO I've ever played you can cancel your account and go back years later and pick up right where you left off. This is a big marketing tool for bringing players back, if you had to start from scratch every time then once players cancelled there would be pretty much no chance of getting them to resubscribe.
Its not much better...
"So Son thanks to MrAngryForNoReason, You can keep your toys, but there locked up in that cupboard over there. If you want to play with them you will have to pay a week and a half's pocket money to get at them and you must give the key back after a month."
That's not true. I don't browse Gizmodo.
I don't browse Gizmodo any more:-(, they keep redirecting me to the UK site which gets perhaps 10% the comments that the US site gets.
As a parent the subscription shouted "MMO money sink avoid". I'd guess my son would play furiously in the first month, heavily in second, then sporadically after that. It was the final phase that worried me. "Oh Dad I'm still playing it and if you pull the plug I'll lose all the virtual toys that I've built up". I think he has a point he has worked for it(1) why can't he keep it? Basically it would become a White elephant in the purest sense...
Much better to buy him one of the excellent LEGO <Movie Title>: The Video Game series, which can be kept and played more or less indefinitely.
(1) in some way shape or form at the very least the investment of time.
this is why I go on a 600 mile road trip spelling out I know your watching
You have some time though, so I'd suggest you get a hobby in the field you're going into. Help out some open source rocketry projects. Surely they exist. Launch some things up really high. Rig up some cameras and get pictures. Write some code. etc. etc.
This advice is widely applicable, Begin able to talk about your home automation/IT project, your latest Make or other cool project in CV and interview can really set you apart from the competition. as it portrays you as an enthusiastic, self starter who does the work because they like it rather than a jaded code wrangler who does it 9-5 for the money.
True but vaccines train the body to recognise markers so one presumes that a strain of malaria may arise without the markers that are recognised.
Possibly, the big achievement is find anything to target. malarias coat proteins are highly polymorphic to better avoid the immune system and all the stable stuff is hidden under the coat protein.
If a resistant strain does become prevalent it should be possible to create a vaccine against that
True but vaccines train the body to recognise markers so one presumes that a strain of malaria may arise without the markers that are recognised.
Possibly, the big achievement is find anything to target. malarias coat proteins are highly polymorphic to better avoid the immune system and all the stable stuff is hidden under the coat protein.
If a resistant strain does become prevalent it should be possible to create a vaccine against that targeting the same protein.
So they can call for help if they have problems getting home. Very useful in more rural areas. My local primary school is about 200 meters away, so perhaps not so useful in a large town.
This. Our boy has had one since he was 10 but didn't use it much till he went to secondary school.
Has locked himself out twice (second time he phoned to ask where the spare key was hidden:-). He hasn't missed the school bus yet but its only a matter of time, Coming back from school trips to say when he's actually getting back as a pose to when he's scheduled to get back. If we get separated (deliberately on not) in town its useful to reorganize a meet-up point.
This is not helicopter parenting, its just maintaining a basic level of communication. Its the simple things like being able to call ahead and say were going to be late that make it worth every penny.