Just because they don't have infrastructure doesn't mean that they don't need and buy things. Advertising isn't always evil... note how one of the sides says "Wash your hands"? Just because the soap maker wants you to wash your hands doesn't mean that it's a bad idea.
Is there somewhere we can see that official press release? It claims it's between June 25th (today) and July 11th, and Windows 7 shows nothing special on Amazon and I can't even find it on Best Buy's site. Something smells fishy about the info.
I've seen pretty much the same thing with my Windows 7 install. Sad thing is that Ubuntu's unstable with the SATA drivers on the same machine (keeps disconnecting drives under heavy load), so I'm seriously considering switching the machine to 100% Windows:(
How expensive is it when you take a bad shot? Do you get instant feedback? Can it fit in your pocket? What about when it's dark? You said there are no batteries, so you can't have a flash. Unless you use a magnesium flash of some sort?
Besides, you'll have a harder and more expensive time finding film now that Kodachrome is being discontinued.
Olympus shipped a MicroSD->xD adapter with my new Stylus Tough 6000, and my older Fuji pro-sumer style camera has both a CF and an xD slot. They may have a proprietary memory format, but they actually want to give their consumers a decent experience.
He's paying verizon for service. They can't provide it. Why in the hell should he pay MORE to allow them to use an Internet connection that he's ALSO paying for, as well as the electricity to run it? Seriously... he should CHARGE them to let them have that femtocell in his house, and provide local service. They pay churches and other places rent in order to use their location for towers... why should a femtocell be different? Why in the fuck should you give anything to the company?
...really? "Irradiated"? You get more radiation from FM radio or TV transmissions than from these things. And either way, it's this nice thing called "non-ionizing" radiation, so it really doesn't affect anything. There has never been a double-blind study where people can reliably "detect" cell phone/wifi fields, or have ill effects shown from exposure. It's the same as with the Autism-vaccine bullshit link... it's idiots who don't know anything getting all sky-falling-y.
0-100 are temperatures you will commonly encounter in Fahrenheit. You don't commonly encounter 100C, and it regularly gets below 0C outside. You have a "useful" Celsius range of about -15 to 40. Fahrenheit, that is 0-100. I'd wager that most people would prefer dealing with mostly positive numbers. And Fahrenheit has more gradations over the same range, giving more precision when talking about whole numbers.
Fahrenheit is nice because all commonly encountered temperatures are positive numbers. You know that when it's below zero it's really fucking cold, rather than below zero being just a little nippy and you should probably put on pants instead of shorts.
The license to the MS code (basically only the various library code) you get with Visual Studio is one that you can use it anywhere, I believe. Something like BSD code. If you link into MS's libraries you don't need the source, so there's no GPL problem there. An SDK like that for the Wii DOES need the source, though. And if you can't distribute that source, you can't use it with GPL software.
Look into Android (G1 only in the US currently, soon to include the MyTouch AKA HTC Magic as well). You can install apps without any restrictions, jailbreaking is required only if the apps require functionality the OS doesn't normally provide. You can get the SDK free, which allows you to install apps that aren't in the market, and the market is much more "open" than Apple's.
AVI and MOV are just containers. They have no bearing on the codecs used, which is what actually differentiates quality of encoding. AVI can contain MPEG, MPEG-2, DivX, MJPEG, H.264... whatever. Saying you have an AVI means almost nothing.
The point I was making is that having a RAID is not backup. The fact that it's not the same machine is what makes it a backup, rather than a failure-tolerance scheme.
They actually do remove privacy you had before, because it costs much less to do the monitoring. You can monitor a lot more with fewer resources, which makes it more likely that you'll be caught doing something someone doesn't like. Hope you never accidentally drop a piece of paper getting your phone out of your pocket in front of a camera... that's littering. Don't cross in the crosswalk? Jaywalking. Maybe you were standing too close to a store entrance while smoking your cigarette... that's illegal in many places. Drive following a little too close? Didn't put your turn indicator on early enough? Hope you have a lawyer. The point is that you almost certainly do things that are illegal just to get through the day, and that shouldn't expose you to someone who has a grudge against you and access to cameras. Why would you willingly want it easier for the government to harass people? It comes down to a slippery slope argument... you give up your rights and privacy bit by bit, and one day you wake up and find you have none left, and no way to get it back.
You still have a much higher chance of dying in a car than in a plane. Your "pull over to the side" comment is exactly what I was referencing in my original post... you still fear flying more than driving, but when you look at it statistically, flying is much less dangerous.
If you want your dead-tree copy, hit the "print" button on the site. What is that you say, it costs too much to keep printing things like that? That's what the newspapers are finding out, too.
So, the whole "if you don't have anything to hide, you have nothing to fear" defense. What's your credit card number? Do you have curtains or blinds in your house/apartment? Let me check through your computer files, too. Gotta make sure you don't have any child porn on that machine. You don't have anything to hide, right?
Driving in traffic requires people to be predictable. It's a team sport where everyone plays by the same rules so everyone can get where they're going faster. In your ideal world, everyone would follow at a safe distance. In the real world, that would mean that there would be constant gridlock in many large cities. During rush hour here I have to sit through 2-3 light cycles sometimes just to get through the intersection. By following closer than you can safely stop, you can get many more people through an intersection at a time, which reduces congestion. I'd have to sit through 5-6 cycles if everyone went a "safe" distance, and the turn lanes would back up into the normal traffic lane. If people behave predictably, following closely is not a problem. When you introduce red light cameras, you get people panic-stopping at times when they should not be, and acting erratically due to fear of being ticketed. This will make traffic worse, and much more dangerous.
Except not. The longer yellow light existed because it's safer. You only have so much reaction time when traveling at a given speed, and jamming on your brakes is not always the best decision, especially when your vehicle may be extra heavy or other people may be following you closely. What happened in many of those cases was that the yellow light time was dropped to way below safe levels.
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Just because they don't have infrastructure doesn't mean that they don't need and buy things. Advertising isn't always evil... note how one of the sides says "Wash your hands"? Just because the soap maker wants you to wash your hands doesn't mean that it's a bad idea.
Is there somewhere we can see that official press release? It claims it's between June 25th (today) and July 11th, and Windows 7 shows nothing special on Amazon and I can't even find it on Best Buy's site. Something smells fishy about the info.
I've seen pretty much the same thing with my Windows 7 install. Sad thing is that Ubuntu's unstable with the SATA drivers on the same machine (keeps disconnecting drives under heavy load), so I'm seriously considering switching the machine to 100% Windows :(
Great link and info, thanks. Seems about what I was thinking with the system... not really something I'd want.
How expensive is it when you take a bad shot? Do you get instant feedback? Can it fit in your pocket? What about when it's dark? You said there are no batteries, so you can't have a flash. Unless you use a magnesium flash of some sort?
Besides, you'll have a harder and more expensive time finding film now that Kodachrome is being discontinued.
Olympus shipped a MicroSD->xD adapter with my new Stylus Tough 6000, and my older Fuji pro-sumer style camera has both a CF and an xD slot. They may have a proprietary memory format, but they actually want to give their consumers a decent experience.
He's paying verizon for service. They can't provide it. Why in the hell should he pay MORE to allow them to use an Internet connection that he's ALSO paying for, as well as the electricity to run it? Seriously... he should CHARGE them to let them have that femtocell in his house, and provide local service. They pay churches and other places rent in order to use their location for towers... why should a femtocell be different? Why in the fuck should you give anything to the company?
...really? "Irradiated"? You get more radiation from FM radio or TV transmissions than from these things. And either way, it's this nice thing called "non-ionizing" radiation, so it really doesn't affect anything. There has never been a double-blind study where people can reliably "detect" cell phone/wifi fields, or have ill effects shown from exposure. It's the same as with the Autism-vaccine bullshit link... it's idiots who don't know anything getting all sky-falling-y.
Take your pseudo-science fearmongering elsewhere.
And that's only for the 2L bottles. Cans are all sold as 12oz, most "Big Gulps" and other fountain drinks are also ounce based measures.
0-100 are temperatures you will commonly encounter in Fahrenheit. You don't commonly encounter 100C, and it regularly gets below 0C outside. You have a "useful" Celsius range of about -15 to 40. Fahrenheit, that is 0-100. I'd wager that most people would prefer dealing with mostly positive numbers. And Fahrenheit has more gradations over the same range, giving more precision when talking about whole numbers.
Fahrenheit is nice because all commonly encountered temperatures are positive numbers. You know that when it's below zero it's really fucking cold, rather than below zero being just a little nippy and you should probably put on pants instead of shorts.
The license to the MS code (basically only the various library code) you get with Visual Studio is one that you can use it anywhere, I believe. Something like BSD code. If you link into MS's libraries you don't need the source, so there's no GPL problem there. An SDK like that for the Wii DOES need the source, though. And if you can't distribute that source, you can't use it with GPL software.
What kind of resistance and losses do you get with that kind of system, though?
Look into Android (G1 only in the US currently, soon to include the MyTouch AKA HTC Magic as well). You can install apps without any restrictions, jailbreaking is required only if the apps require functionality the OS doesn't normally provide. You can get the SDK free, which allows you to install apps that aren't in the market, and the market is much more "open" than Apple's.
AVI and MOV are just containers. They have no bearing on the codecs used, which is what actually differentiates quality of encoding. AVI can contain MPEG, MPEG-2, DivX, MJPEG, H.264... whatever. Saying you have an AVI means almost nothing.
The 40D MSRP is $1100. The S5 is $350. Your camera is nowhere near a step up from a 40D.
The point I was making is that having a RAID is not backup. The fact that it's not the same machine is what makes it a backup, rather than a failure-tolerance scheme.
Actually, you're completely backwards when you look at an actual study instead of your intuition.
The RAID itself is not backup, though. The backup server is the backup. How it stores the data is immaterial.
They actually do remove privacy you had before, because it costs much less to do the monitoring. You can monitor a lot more with fewer resources, which makes it more likely that you'll be caught doing something someone doesn't like. Hope you never accidentally drop a piece of paper getting your phone out of your pocket in front of a camera... that's littering. Don't cross in the crosswalk? Jaywalking. Maybe you were standing too close to a store entrance while smoking your cigarette... that's illegal in many places. Drive following a little too close? Didn't put your turn indicator on early enough? Hope you have a lawyer. The point is that you almost certainly do things that are illegal just to get through the day, and that shouldn't expose you to someone who has a grudge against you and access to cameras. Why would you willingly want it easier for the government to harass people? It comes down to a slippery slope argument... you give up your rights and privacy bit by bit, and one day you wake up and find you have none left, and no way to get it back.
You still have a much higher chance of dying in a car than in a plane. Your "pull over to the side" comment is exactly what I was referencing in my original post... you still fear flying more than driving, but when you look at it statistically, flying is much less dangerous.
If you want your dead-tree copy, hit the "print" button on the site. What is that you say, it costs too much to keep printing things like that? That's what the newspapers are finding out, too.
So, the whole "if you don't have anything to hide, you have nothing to fear" defense. What's your credit card number? Do you have curtains or blinds in your house/apartment? Let me check through your computer files, too. Gotta make sure you don't have any child porn on that machine. You don't have anything to hide, right?
Driving in traffic requires people to be predictable. It's a team sport where everyone plays by the same rules so everyone can get where they're going faster. In your ideal world, everyone would follow at a safe distance. In the real world, that would mean that there would be constant gridlock in many large cities. During rush hour here I have to sit through 2-3 light cycles sometimes just to get through the intersection. By following closer than you can safely stop, you can get many more people through an intersection at a time, which reduces congestion. I'd have to sit through 5-6 cycles if everyone went a "safe" distance, and the turn lanes would back up into the normal traffic lane. If people behave predictably, following closely is not a problem. When you introduce red light cameras, you get people panic-stopping at times when they should not be, and acting erratically due to fear of being ticketed. This will make traffic worse, and much more dangerous.
Except not. The longer yellow light existed because it's safer. You only have so much reaction time when traveling at a given speed, and jamming on your brakes is not always the best decision, especially when your vehicle may be extra heavy or other people may be following you closely. What happened in many of those cases was that the yellow light time was dropped to way below safe levels.