Critics claim that today, we see a much 'gentler' side of Microsoft and Ballmer seems to have received an "A" in Wall Street's eyes."
And yet, where is the stock price in comparison to five years ago? Sure the bubble broke, but MS is sitting at less than half of the price it was back when he took over. How is this an "A"?
School is not the place to endorse idiotic beliefs. Church is.
The parent's last comment should be labled flamebait.
I was in full agreement until he had to go and add that last sentence. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't make it right for you to go slaming other peoples beliefs. I'm no church-goer, but I respect peoples rights to believe in what they want...as long as they'll respect mine, and not call me (or others) an idiot.
If you need to take 4 or more back-to-back shots before writing them to flash, you need enough RAM (not flash) to hold them uncompressed. That could be 18 MB * 4 = 72 MB of RAM.
Plus, processing time should directly impact battery usage. If the processor goes into a low power mode while idle, doubling processing time will approximately halve battery life. Not a good thing when batteries run out as quickly as they do.
Why are you assuming that it's not written to flash immediately, just uncompressed? Save them to flash in.jpg, then compress them later. Was I unclear with that in my original post??? Don't know about your camera, but my 4M-pixel Cannon G2's batteries last a nice long time. And, you could still process between shots...just not quick back-to-back type, as long as the camera was on.
If you only snap one picture per minute, this is not such a big problem, but even I like to take the 4 picture series that my camera allows and later keep the best one of the bunch. Especially action shots are very hard to take at the right moment.
You missed my point. You don't need to compress them immediately. Do it when the camera isn't busy (either a manual operation, or automated but interruptable so that it won't affect quick back to back shots).
I didn't RTFA, but just wanted to comment on this conspiracy to "hold back service".
I live in northern VA...very high tech area for those unfamiliar. For years Verizon promised us DSL (since at least '97), and has still not delivered. When I moved into my home in '02, Cox cable couldn't get to us for another eight months, so no chance for a cable modem either. A dish was my only option for broadband. Do you suppose that they were all trying to "hold back service"? Sure these companies are trying to maximize profits (as any well run business should), and maybe the case in Louisiana is a conspiracy...but I doubt it.
It would still probably be useless for digital cameras though as it would probably be impossible to implement the compression in hardware/firmware such that it could compress a 6+ megapixel image within the requisit 1-2 seconds.
Why must we have it in 1-2 seconds? You could implement this a couple of ways without impacting the need for quick back to back shots. 1.) A compression button (menu option, or some such), allowing the owner to do a manual compress when running low on space. 2.) Do it automatically, but if the owner snaps another photo, then interrupt the compress until later...sort of a background compression.
Can someone please explain to me why corporations are afforded constitutional rights? Was that really the intention of the framers? I was under the impression that rights were for individuals, not companies. Obviously, IANAL, so please correct me if I'm misguided.
Grandparent: Unless you've been in the industry itself, you have no clue what you're talking about when it comes to the amount of oversight involved.
Parent: That's silly.
Why? Do you you suppose that the govt. is going to make public this kind of information on a classified project? Doing so gives insight into the scope of a project, and that's just not gonna happen.
I offered specific examples in my post. You've offered nothing but invective and credentials that betray your conflict with the truth. More to the point, you're arguing without backup against the exact points detailed in TFA. Congratulations! You're 100% consistent - and wrong. Since you work in Defense, you should give yourself a raise. Don't worry - no one will notice.
Your "examples" are nothing but conjecture with no backup. Which only makes sense because you are on the outside without any real knowledge of how things work. Again, you've proven your lack of knowledge regarding how the system works by suggesting that I'm able to give myself a raise. Go ahead and have the final word...I'm sure you won't be able to help yourself.
Having spent your career working for precisely the deepest hole in which truth, justice and the American Way disappear, where these uncontrolled secret projects fester the most, which kills the most people and wastes the most billions of dollars, of course you are spewing denial and bullshit when challenged. Thanks for taking the trouble to make me a "Foe" - now I don't have to waste any time identifying you as a "Freak". Enjoy your secret death machine while you can - it will get you, too, eventually. As a taxpayer, of course it already has.
And what credentials do you bring to the table to make such claims? You've yet to significantly challenge me, as you've presented nothing of substance.
If you want to talk about me personally, I've served my country in the military, and taken nothing as a contractor (over 23 yrs now) but a normal paycheck. Oh, and I happen to be a taxpayer as well.
Unless you've been in the industry itself, you have no clue what you're talking about when it comes to the amount of oversight involved. I do!
As for making you a Foe, I did that a long time ago, as I do with anyone who consistantly post nothing but uninformed opinion.
Just because you aren't in on these well-known programs doesn't mean they don't exist. Sure, they boggle the mind for a while, but they're so numerous, and so precedented, that after a while, the boggle frequency just feels like nausea. Do a little research before you try to spread the denial that grips you to others. Like maybe RTFA before posting a nasty, uninformed denial without anything to back it up.
Having spent all of my adult life working in the DoD, or as a contractor, I've worked on some of the projects mentioned. Maybe you should consider that someone else might already have a clue before speaking out of your ass.
One central problem in our American government is the pursuit of necessarily secret projects, while our government is controlled by a system of oversight for accountability.
And these projects do get oversight from Congress.
It's now an open secret that the Federal Government is collapsing under its own weight, along fault lines of abuse huge enough to be seen from space for generations.
*boggle*...HUH? Okay, Social Security is a mess, and both parties (and the AARP) are to blame. But what the hell are you talking about..."open secret"?...collapsing?...BULLSHIT!
This "We don't need spy satalites in the current climate so we shouldn't develop them" is EXACTLY the kind of "get what we need for right now" thinking that got us in trouble with 9/11 in the first place.
Bravo! Agree
We got burned on 9/11 because our entire system was still moving from being extremely focused on fighting the cold war to being extremely focused on being able to fight two regional conflicts. So we got hit where we were vulnerable - global terrorist conflict.
We got burned not because of that old focus, but because of the intelligence budget slashing that took place at the end of the cold war. Remember the "Peace Dividend"? Well, it hit the intel community hard, and we've got nobody to blame but Congress for that.
There is nothing else we could throw at an incoming asteroid. The simple reality is that if we humans spotted a big rock coming at us, even with a month or two to prepare for it, all we could really do is dig a shelter, store food away, and pray that it comes down on the OTHER side of the planet.
Wouldn't something like the National Missile Defense program be able to put a large enough warhead on the target to help out? Maybe 100 mile above the earth, or 15,000 mph, or 120lb warhead isn't enough...but hopefully with some bubblegum and bailing wire we could save humanity.
I also grew up listening to Polish jokes...mostly relating to them being stupid, or having no sense of color coordination. I don't recall them ever being told in any spiteful way, just as an attempt at ethnic humor. Frequently, I'd here the best ones from my Polish aunt, and later a Polish roommate. As I got older, and travelled more, I discovered that I heard many of the same jokes being told about other groups...Newfies (sp?) in Canada for example, or more recently hearing them told as "dumb blonde" jokes. Interestingly, I don't recall the last time that I heard anyone tell a Polish joke...times have certainly changed.
What I was implying is that there's zero chance of any computer attaining the computational capability of the human brain within 30 yrs. Your comments about the number of neurons, and how many TeraOps we're capable of, make for a simplistic comparison. Sure, we could match the raw number of TeraOps (assuming that we have a valid notion of what that number is), but you managed to connect the dots to my point that the configuration, and software do matter. I'm not trying to argue that it won't happen, just that it won't happen in our lifetime.
But there is no inherent reason why computing power can't someday reach the level of the human brain. If Moore's law continues, this is supposed to take under 30 years.
Please read this statement, and mod parent appropriately. Insightful?!? Hardly!
Now, this is a sad story, and I can only hope that this guy has a *really* bad time in prison, but how has the idea that the internet is an evil entity with malevolent intent managed to flourish? Chat rooms are as dangerous as warm fluffy socks. If he chatted her up in the local park no-one would have suggested the park was to blame. I'm off to register theinternetisnotababysitter.com
As the father of a 13 yr old girl, I would suggest to you that they no longer have babysitters at that age, but are still very naive. Mine was just recently granted IM privileges, but only with specific people that we know. Sure, I check up on my kids activities, but there's no way that any parent is going to be able to monitor all of their childs online (or offline for that matter) activity without giving them serious restrictions. No, I don't blame the internet (I met my wife online back in the 90s!), it's just a tool, but a tool that we should restrict access to from those who've shown that they'll abuse it. Regarding the need to do things like timecards, or VOIP...there are plenty of situations where limited restrictions are placed on convicted individuals...for example, only allowing a person to drive to and from work after a DWI. So, why not similar internet restrictions? "fluffy socks"??...surely you jest?!?...how many kids have been stalked by fluffy socks?
Actually, you can't build up to 5000 ft because you'd be entering controlled airspace...that would make us private pilots very unhappy. The the areas near airports are lower. Your real estate teacher obviously didn't understand the rules...just like you don't necessarily own mineral rights when you buy land (I've been listening to my mother who's been a real estate broker for 25 years). See the FAA's page at: http://www.faa.gov/ATpubs/AIM/Chap3/aim0302.html
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Critics claim that today, we see a much 'gentler' side of Microsoft and Ballmer seems to have received an "A" in Wall Street's eyes."
And yet, where is the stock price in comparison to five years ago? Sure the bubble broke, but MS is sitting at less than half of the price it was back when he took over. How is this an "A"?
School is not the place to endorse idiotic beliefs. Church is.
The parent's last comment should be labled flamebait.
I was in full agreement until he had to go and add that last sentence. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't make it right for you to go slaming other peoples beliefs. I'm no church-goer, but I respect peoples rights to believe in what they want...as long as they'll respect mine, and not call me (or others) an idiot.
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Thank you for that educational commentary. None of the responses have made a reasonable explaination as to why my suggestion would not work.
No, I think he addressed your point.
.jpg, then compress them later. Was I unclear with that in my original post??? Don't know about your camera, but my 4M-pixel Cannon G2's batteries last a nice long time. And, you could still process between shots...just not quick back-to-back type, as long as the camera was on.
If you need to take 4 or more back-to-back shots before writing them to flash, you need enough RAM (not flash) to hold them uncompressed. That could be 18 MB * 4 = 72 MB of RAM.
Plus, processing time should directly impact battery usage. If the processor goes into a low power mode while idle, doubling processing time will approximately halve battery life. Not a good thing when batteries run out as quickly as they do.
Why are you assuming that it's not written to flash immediately, just uncompressed? Save them to flash in
So, what am I missing here???
If you only snap one picture per minute, this is not such a big problem, but even I like to take the 4 picture series that my camera allows and later keep the best one of the bunch. Especially action shots are very hard to take at the right moment.
You missed my point. You don't need to compress them immediately. Do it when the camera isn't busy (either a manual operation, or automated but interruptable so that it won't affect quick back to back shots).
I didn't RTFA, but just wanted to comment on this conspiracy to "hold back service".
I live in northern VA...very high tech area for those unfamiliar. For years Verizon promised us DSL (since at least '97), and has still not delivered. When I moved into my home in '02, Cox cable couldn't get to us for another eight months, so no chance for a cable modem either. A dish was my only option for broadband. Do you suppose that they were all trying to "hold back service"? Sure these companies are trying to maximize profits (as any well run business should), and maybe the case in Louisiana is a conspiracy...but I doubt it.
It would still probably be useless for digital cameras though as it would probably be impossible to implement the compression in hardware/firmware such that it could compress a 6+ megapixel image within the requisit 1-2 seconds.
Why must we have it in 1-2 seconds? You could implement this a couple of ways without impacting the need for quick back to back shots. 1.) A compression button (menu option, or some such), allowing the owner to do a manual compress when running low on space. 2.) Do it automatically, but if the owner snaps another photo, then interrupt the compress until later...sort of a background compression.
Several "linksys", a couple with family names, and one called "The Castle"
In many ways, this makes sense--can you imagine if you individually had a right to free speech, but the New York Times did NOT?
Well, yes I can, because that's covered separately under the "freedom of the press" provision...right?
Can someone please explain to me why corporations are afforded constitutional rights? Was that really the intention of the framers? I was under the impression that rights were for individuals, not companies. Obviously, IANAL, so please correct me if I'm misguided.
Grandparent:
Unless you've been in the industry itself, you have no clue what you're talking about when it comes to the amount of oversight involved.
Parent:
That's silly.
Why? Do you you suppose that the govt. is going to make public this kind of information on a classified project? Doing so gives insight into the scope of a project, and that's just not gonna happen.
I offered specific examples in my post. You've offered nothing but invective and credentials that betray your conflict with the truth. More to the point, you're arguing without backup against the exact points detailed in TFA. Congratulations! You're 100% consistent - and wrong. Since you work in Defense, you should give yourself a raise. Don't worry - no one will notice.
Your "examples" are nothing but conjecture with no backup. Which only makes sense because you are on the outside without any real knowledge of how things work. Again, you've proven your lack of knowledge regarding how the system works by suggesting that I'm able to give myself a raise. Go ahead and have the final word...I'm sure you won't be able to help yourself.
Having spent your career working for precisely the deepest hole in which truth, justice and the American Way disappear, where these uncontrolled secret projects fester the most, which kills the most people and wastes the most billions of dollars, of course you are spewing denial and bullshit when challenged. Thanks for taking the trouble to make me a "Foe" - now I don't have to waste any time identifying you as a "Freak". Enjoy your secret death machine while you can - it will get you, too, eventually. As a taxpayer, of course it already has.
And what credentials do you bring to the table to make such claims? You've yet to significantly challenge me, as you've presented nothing of substance.
If you want to talk about me personally, I've served my country in the military, and taken nothing as a contractor (over 23 yrs now) but a normal paycheck. Oh, and I happen to be a taxpayer as well.
Unless you've been in the industry itself, you have no clue what you're talking about when it comes to the amount of oversight involved. I do!
As for making you a Foe, I did that a long time ago, as I do with anyone who consistantly post nothing but uninformed opinion.
Just because you aren't in on these well-known programs doesn't mean they don't exist. Sure, they boggle the mind for a while, but they're so numerous, and so precedented, that after a while, the boggle frequency just feels like nausea. Do a little research before you try to spread the denial that grips you to others. Like maybe RTFA before posting a nasty, uninformed denial without anything to back it up.
Having spent all of my adult life working in the DoD, or as a contractor, I've worked on some of the projects mentioned. Maybe you should consider that someone else might already have a clue before speaking out of your ass.
One central problem in our American government is the pursuit of necessarily secret projects, while our government is controlled by a system of oversight for accountability.
And these projects do get oversight from Congress.
It's now an open secret that the Federal Government is collapsing under its own weight, along fault lines of abuse huge enough to be seen from space for generations.
*boggle*...HUH? Okay, Social Security is a mess, and both parties (and the AARP) are to blame. But what the hell are you talking about..."open secret"?...collapsing?...BULLSHIT!
I'm going to agree and disagree with you...
This "We don't need spy satalites in the current climate so we shouldn't develop them" is EXACTLY the kind of "get what we need for right now" thinking that got us in trouble with 9/11 in the first place.
Bravo! Agree
We got burned on 9/11 because our entire system was still moving from being extremely focused on fighting the cold war to being extremely focused on being able to fight two regional conflicts. So we got hit where we were vulnerable - global terrorist conflict.
We got burned not because of that old focus, but because of the intelligence budget slashing that took place at the end of the cold war. Remember the "Peace Dividend"? Well, it hit the intel community hard, and we've got nobody to blame but Congress for that.
There is nothing else we could throw at an incoming asteroid. The simple reality is that if we humans spotted a big rock coming at us, even with a month or two to prepare for it, all we could really do is dig a shelter, store food away, and pray that it comes down on the OTHER side of the planet.
Wouldn't something like the National Missile Defense program be able to put a large enough warhead on the target to help out? Maybe 100 mile above the earth, or 15,000 mph, or 120lb warhead isn't enough...but hopefully with some bubblegum and bailing wire we could save humanity.
I also grew up listening to Polish jokes...mostly relating to them being stupid, or having no sense of color coordination. I don't recall them ever being told in any spiteful way, just as an attempt at ethnic humor. Frequently, I'd here the best ones from my Polish aunt, and later a Polish roommate. As I got older, and travelled more, I discovered that I heard many of the same jokes being told about other groups...Newfies (sp?) in Canada for example, or more recently hearing them told as "dumb blonde" jokes. Interestingly, I don't recall the last time that I heard anyone tell a Polish joke...times have certainly changed.
What I was implying is that there's zero chance of any computer attaining the computational capability of the human brain within 30 yrs. Your comments about the number of neurons, and how many TeraOps we're capable of, make for a simplistic comparison. Sure, we could match the raw number of TeraOps (assuming that we have a valid notion of what that number is), but you managed to connect the dots to my point that the configuration, and software do matter. I'm not trying to argue that it won't happen, just that it won't happen in our lifetime.
But there is no inherent reason why computing power can't someday reach the level of the human brain. If Moore's law continues, this is supposed to take under 30 years.
Please read this statement, and mod parent appropriately. Insightful?!? Hardly!
$10/hr?
you're getting screwed, buddy. I pay my maid more than that!
wow...
Hell, my 13 yr. old daughter gets that much for babysitting!
Now, this is a sad story, and I can only hope that this guy has a *really* bad time in prison, but how has the idea that the internet is an evil entity with malevolent intent managed to flourish? Chat rooms are as dangerous as warm fluffy socks. If he chatted her up in the local park no-one would have suggested the park was to blame. I'm off to register theinternetisnotababysitter.com
As the father of a 13 yr old girl, I would suggest to you that they no longer have babysitters at that age, but are still very naive. Mine was just recently granted IM privileges, but only with specific people that we know. Sure, I check up on my kids activities, but there's no way that any parent is going to be able to monitor all of their childs online (or offline for that matter) activity without giving them serious restrictions. No, I don't blame the internet (I met my wife online back in the 90s!), it's just a tool, but a tool that we should restrict access to from those who've shown that they'll abuse it. Regarding the need to do things like timecards, or VOIP...there are plenty of situations where limited restrictions are placed on convicted individuals...for example, only allowing a person to drive to and from work after a DWI. So, why not similar internet restrictions? "fluffy socks"??...surely you jest?!?...how many kids have been stalked by fluffy socks?
The airspace above FL600 is controlled class E airspace.
DOH...please don't tell me you're a pilot!?! Back to the books with you. Look at the drawing on this FAA website, and read section 3-2-6
http://www.faa.gov/ATpubs/AIM/Chap3/aim0302.html
Actually, you can't build up to 5000 ft because you'd be entering controlled airspace...that would make us private pilots very unhappy. The the areas near airports are lower. Your real estate teacher obviously didn't understand the rules...just like you don't necessarily own mineral rights when you buy land (I've been listening to my mother who's been a real estate broker for 25 years). See the FAA's page at: http://www.faa.gov/ATpubs/AIM/Chap3/aim0302.html