Anyone can register a case for pretty much anything in India. If the police actually arrested the guy, or if he was convicted of blasphemy, it would be worth talking about. Right now, it's just a bunch of nutcases filing a case, not the government. Let's not fall for hyperbole.
What has worked out really well for me is a simple Python script that uses QT to generate movies from individual frames. I've used it for time-lapses, but it could probably be used for stop-motion movies too. Of course, you don't get all the composing features of these tools, but it's free and works exceedingly well.
Android encourages hackers? I'm not sure what phone you are talking about. If it's the Nexus One, then yes. If it's an Android phone from any of the other makers, what you get is a phone that's just as locked down as an iPhone. Parts of it may be open source, but don't fool yourself. If you are going to hack it anyway, what's the difference between that and jailbreaking an iPhone?
Cool demos are great, but Google has a product that is used by many millions of people at the same time. They need something that is scalable and usable over realistic internet connections. I'm sure that a company like Google could create a mind blowing demo like that quite easily, (and they might have something like that internally), but I doubt if they will make a released product out of it until it's a practical idea.
It's easy to overlook costs - the main cost will not be for actually making the website, but for maintaining it. By maintaining it, I mean, actually having useful data in the website. The whole trillion dollar stimulus will generate humongous amounts of data which will have to be processed so that we can make sense of it. Collecting it from all the various agencies around the country, processing it and then putting it up on the website will require a lot of employees and that's where the $18 million tag for 5 years comes from. Don't underestimate the cost of data collection.
I could code up a website that looks like Google Maps pretty easily, but it would take a lot of money and time to get all the data that actually makes it useful.
Why is the parent modded informative? Maybe he intended it as a joke. (or maybe he had a typo)*
Anyway, if you google '16 in hex', you get 0x10, not 0x01.
*he = he/she/it.
They did support the standard. The standard is OpenID 2.0 which was created by openid itself. Yes, it's not compatible with OpenID 1.0, so what? It's not Google's job to make protocol 2.0 compatible with protocol 1.0 - it's up to the protocol creators.
How does the service provider make money from ads on random websites? The website provider makes money, the ad distributor makes money - the service provider does not come into the picture at all. For example, if I visit slashdot using my iPhone on the AT&T network and I click an ad, Slashdot makes money, but neither Apple nor AT&T make a dime off it. Conversely, if I block ads, Slashdot will potentially lose some income, but that wouldn't be a concern to Apple or AT&T.
There are more errors. $1 is the price of the panel, but the cost of a complete system that uses that $1 panel will be more than that (You have to package the panel and add additional circuitry and a decent profit margin for whoever does that). According to the NYTimes, the system would cost somewhere near $2 (and for comparison, that story states that coal costs $2.1/watt.) Again, keep in mind that the cost of coal is related to, but is not an exact indicator of how much coal energy costs. The price of coal required to generate a watt of electricity is not same as the cost of coal energy - you have to add the costs of building and maintaining a plant and related facilities for the same.
Go ahead. Tell me why it's illigal to get the bits that I rightly own from someone else--even when all the discs are the same, and the key is what makes it. Go'wan. Tell me. I dare you--I double dog dare you. The illegal part is for distributing it. You don't own the copyright for the software, nor do you have a license to distribute it, so you don't get to distribute it. If someone were to distribute it, and you applied your license key (legally bought) to it, I doubt if Microsoft would come after you.
"Also, iPhoto 6 doesn't have all the capabilities for workflow stuff. But, it's a pretty good alternative for non=professionals."
That's true, considering that iPhoto6 is free, but even non-professionals can have tens of gigabytes of pictures (I do) and iPhoto crawls when it has even a few thousand pictures. The scrolling gets jerky, thumbnails do not update fast enough and the worst part is that it doesn't have the simple feature of being able to monitor folders. That is inexcusable since I'm sure there are many folks lik e me who like to keep their pictures on an external drive instead of putting it all on the computer that's being used for editing. Picasa does a great job of this, and Lightroom supports this too, but iPhoto insists on importing every picture to the local hard drive.
Also, adding tags and captions to pictures is not easy with iPhoto. I like how in Picasa you can start typing below the picture and everything gets stored with the picture itself (instead of being in the iPhoto database), so that everything is portable.
No, no no... you both misread it... apparently they found the lakes under 'Antarctic Ice Using' Space Lasers... i.e. Space Lasers that use Antarctic Ice.
"T-Mobile and Cingular are both GSM so all their phones will work with the new service"
Only if your T-mobile phone is a quadband phone. T-Mobile and Cingular do not generally use the same frequency bands for GSM.
For a whole year I used a Point&Shoot (The Canon S410) and only last year did I dare to venture into the realm of the DSLR (I own a 350D). I have pictures from both eras for comparison (Point&Shoot and Mostly DSLR) The point I have to make is this:
1. A great picture does not require an SLR. A great picture is mostly about composition, and very little about the actual quality of the image. If nothing, a P&S will teach you to put composition over lens wizardry, and when you actually graduate to an SLR, you'll be the master of both.
2. A P&S has one great advantage over a DSLR -> Size! I lug my SLR around on lots of occasions, but most of the time it's a planned thing. When I used my P&S, it used to be in my pocket the whole time, and I got a lot more spontaneous and interesting shots. Photography is not just for those trips you make.. it's for the times you see a great shot while walking down the street, in the mall.. in the classroom... everywhere... the P&S will make you start framing shots in your head every time you step out of your house.
3. DSLRs have bigger sensors and generally much better image quality, but the Canon P&S cameras I've used have a great picture quality that's virtually indistinguishable from an SLR unless you zoom in too much. (A 10MP picture is really worthless unless you are actually gonna blow up the image to that size.. most of the time you'll be posting them at 1024px or smaller.
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Anyone can register a case for pretty much anything in India. If the police actually arrested the guy, or if he was convicted of blasphemy, it would be worth talking about. Right now, it's just a bunch of nutcases filing a case, not the government. Let's not fall for hyperbole.
What has worked out really well for me is a simple Python script that uses QT to generate movies from individual frames. I've used it for time-lapses, but it could probably be used for stop-motion movies too. Of course, you don't get all the composing features of these tools, but it's free and works exceedingly well.
http://www.ecogito.net/anil/2010/09/howto-create-a-time-lapse-movie-from-a-sequence-of-images/
Android encourages hackers? I'm not sure what phone you are talking about. If it's the Nexus One, then yes. If it's an Android phone from any of the other makers, what you get is a phone that's just as locked down as an iPhone. Parts of it may be open source, but don't fool yourself. If you are going to hack it anyway, what's the difference between that and jailbreaking an iPhone?
Microsoft loves to do demos. Apple and Google love to release products that can be used now.
Cool demos are great, but Google has a product that is used by many millions of people at the same time. They need something that is scalable and usable over realistic internet connections. I'm sure that a company like Google could create a mind blowing demo like that quite easily, (and they might have something like that internally), but I doubt if they will make a released product out of it until it's a practical idea.
It's easy to overlook costs - the main cost will not be for actually making the website, but for maintaining it. By maintaining it, I mean, actually having useful data in the website. The whole trillion dollar stimulus will generate humongous amounts of data which will have to be processed so that we can make sense of it. Collecting it from all the various agencies around the country, processing it and then putting it up on the website will require a lot of employees and that's where the $18 million tag for 5 years comes from. Don't underestimate the cost of data collection.
I could code up a website that looks like Google Maps pretty easily, but it would take a lot of money and time to get all the data that actually makes it useful.
Are they simply licensing the brand and making completely different vehicles to Military Specs?
Why is the parent modded informative? Maybe he intended it as a joke. (or maybe he had a typo)* Anyway, if you google '16 in hex', you get 0x10, not 0x01. *he = he/she/it.
How are sheep more annoying?
Why is everyone talking about the video capabilities of the 40D? As far as I know, it's the 5D Mark II that has those capabilities, not the 40D.
Agreed, but you can see why - it's great as far as usability goes. Simply use your gmail id.
They did support the standard. The standard is OpenID 2.0 which was created by openid itself. Yes, it's not compatible with OpenID 1.0, so what? It's not Google's job to make protocol 2.0 compatible with protocol 1.0 - it's up to the protocol creators.
How does the service provider make money from ads on random websites? The website provider makes money, the ad distributor makes money - the service provider does not come into the picture at all. For example, if I visit slashdot using my iPhone on the AT&T network and I click an ad, Slashdot makes money, but neither Apple nor AT&T make a dime off it. Conversely, if I block ads, Slashdot will potentially lose some income, but that wouldn't be a concern to Apple or AT&T.
There are more errors. $1 is the price of the panel, but the cost of a complete system that uses that $1 panel will be more than that (You have to package the panel and add additional circuitry and a decent profit margin for whoever does that). According to the NYTimes, the system would cost somewhere near $2 (and for comparison, that story states that coal costs $2.1/watt.) Again, keep in mind that the cost of coal is related to, but is not an exact indicator of how much coal energy costs. The price of coal required to generate a watt of electricity is not same as the cost of coal energy - you have to add the costs of building and maintaining a plant and related facilities for the same.
Using Thunderbird, without having to rely on 'pulling' it from Gmail. http://www.ecogito.net/anil/2005/04/howto-archive-your-old-email-in-gmail.html
The CDMA version of the 8800 is the 8830 (Sprint/Verizon) and they support 1xEVDO which is 3G.
There is a layer that can provide satellite orbits
n teresting_satellit.html
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/12/i
"Also, iPhoto 6 doesn't have all the capabilities for workflow stuff. But, it's a pretty good alternative for non=professionals."
That's true, considering that iPhoto6 is free, but even non-professionals can have tens of gigabytes of pictures (I do) and iPhoto crawls when it has even a few thousand pictures. The scrolling gets jerky, thumbnails do not update fast enough and the worst part is that it doesn't have the simple feature of being able to monitor folders. That is inexcusable since I'm sure there are many folks lik e me who like to keep their pictures on an external drive instead of putting it all on the computer that's being used for editing. Picasa does a great job of this, and Lightroom supports this too, but iPhoto insists on importing every picture to the local hard drive.
Also, adding tags and captions to pictures is not easy with iPhoto. I like how in Picasa you can start typing below the picture and everything gets stored with the picture itself (instead of being in the iPhoto database), so that everything is portable.
No, no no... you both misread it... apparently they found the lakes under 'Antarctic Ice Using' Space Lasers... i.e. Space Lasers that use Antarctic Ice.
You are right.
"T-Mobile and Cingular are both GSM so all their phones will work with the new service"
Only if your T-mobile phone is a quadband phone. T-Mobile and Cingular do not generally use the same frequency bands for GSM.
For a whole year I used a Point&Shoot (The Canon S410) and only last year did I dare to venture into the realm of the DSLR (I own a 350D). I have pictures from both eras for comparison (Point&Shoot and Mostly DSLR) The point I have to make is this:
1. A great picture does not require an SLR. A great picture is mostly about composition, and very little about the actual quality of the image. If nothing, a P&S will teach you to put composition over lens wizardry, and when you actually graduate to an SLR, you'll be the master of both.
2. A P&S has one great advantage over a DSLR -> Size! I lug my SLR around on lots of occasions, but most of the time it's a planned thing. When I used my P&S, it used to be in my pocket the whole time, and I got a lot more spontaneous and interesting shots. Photography is not just for those trips you make.. it's for the times you see a great shot while walking down the street, in the mall.. in the classroom... everywhere... the P&S will make you start framing shots in your head every time you step out of your house.
3. DSLRs have bigger sensors and generally much better image quality, but the Canon P&S cameras I've used have a great picture quality that's virtually indistinguishable from an SLR unless you zoom in too much. (A 10MP picture is really worthless unless you are actually gonna blow up the image to that size.. most of the time you'll be posting them at 1024px or smaller.
Sanjay is from Sri Lanka.
You, sir are a genius.. get into advertising when you still have time!