Google tried in the past to allow tweets and Facebook content searchable by their engine - Facebook wouldn't allow it, the Twitter deal fell through too.
Facebook has tried their hardest to set up a walled garden, and it just bit them in the ass. boo-hoo.
Yeah, the site seems to have some issues. I was unable to sign the petition no matter what I did from my browser at home. No problems here.
DISCLAIMER: To my knowledge, despite sharing the same surname, I am NOT related to Chris Dodd in any way. I am proud of this fact. If there is any familial relationship, it is a very distant one.
The USA has been bullying other countries into passing similar legislation, effectively saying, "If you can't get such legislation passed, we'll consider you a bad country and take you off of our trade lists."
Imagine the "egg on their face" effect when the country pressuring others to pass such legislation or be a "bad country" in regards to trade laws isn't able to pass such legislation themselves.
SOPA/PIPA affect the entire planet, whether directly (due to control of com/net/etc domains) or indirectly (harder to pressure other countries to pass similar laws when they can't even get through domestically).
The larger it is, the more FAA (and foreign equivalents...) paperwork you have to deal with.
Paperwork and certifications are a large part of the cost of large aircraft - in many cases the technical challenges aren't great, it's proving to the bureaucracy that your technical solution won't become a flaming fireball in a schoolyard somewhere.
I find it hard to believe the ratios are that bad - even when in this case the enemy is notorious for using human shields. (Unless the ratio is including victims of terror attacks)
1080p decode is useful for two things: 1) Decoding 1080p media and scaling it down to the display in real time, eliminating the need for a reencode. It's inefficient and a waste of space, but still - in some use case it's better than reencoding before loading to the device 2) HDMI output
Yeah, they have Samsung Apps - but almost no one uses it and few people care about it.
Samsung doesn't have the content ecosystem Amazon does. Without a content ecosystem for apps and other content, you're dead in the mobile market.
Amazon has their own ecosystem that is VERY robust. Barnes and Noble had one that was reasonable. I'm not sure if it's robust enough to survive - Nook Color did well because hackers that customized it evangelized the device. Nook Tablet's locked bootloader and 1GB user content restriction are likely to kill it, especially when going up against the Fire. Samsung has almost nothing, and what they do have is ridiculously crippled. Media Hub not working in concert with the MHL port has led to most people not giving a shit about Media Hub. If you have no content ecosystem of your own, you can use Googles with fairly minimal restrictions. But if Samsung tries to exert pressure on Google they will fail - especially since one of the big reasons for their high market share is that TouchWiz is the least intrusive/bloated of the manufacturer skins. People don't like manufacturer customizations, and the Galaxy S ICS fiasco due to TouchWiz is going to hurt Samsung if they think they can go it alone.
http://www.ti.com/product/am3359 - Note the 20MB TRM that is the third PDF linked on this page. This is the sort of documentation TI provides for their products. This is the sort of documentation you need when hardware hacking.
Kernel source code is not sufficient documentation - especially given Broadcom's tendency to put no useful comments into their code, making it impossible to answer questions such as "why the fuck is my CPU getting a 1 Hz wakeup interrupt from this stupid BCM4330's undocumented "BT-AMP" function?"
Good luck using anything like I2C, SPI, etc. then if they aren't implemented in the kernel.
On most CPUs like this, GPIO vs. SPI vs. something else for a pin needs to be configured using a pinmux tool - the pinmux for this device will be fully undocumented.
The EasyShare cameras are a classic example of why Kodak is toast. In an era where PCs were including SD card readers and many people were buying laptops instead of desktops - the dock was pointless and in fact became a hindrance. It took only slightly longer to pull out the SD and put it into a reader than use the dock - IF the dock was even connected. If you were on the road with a laptop, you probably didn't even have the dock, and then all you had was a crappy point-and-shoot that would fall apart if you looked at it the wrong way.
They've figured out how to profitably carve out a niche as a smaller company - Kodak didn't.
Also, Ilford makes a lot of products for "final print" type products (photographic print paper, etc) - This market is also getting smaller, but it isn't getting hit as badly as the film market. Almost no one is using film, but people still want to make prints from their digital photos on occasion.
Yeah... The problem is that Kodak in the past few years has become associated with "cheap" in the wrong way. Not "cheap" as in inexpensive, but "cheap" as in consumer-grade gimmicky crap. Look at their stupid EasyShare dock - it was worthless if the camera took crappy pictures (garbage in garbage out) and fell apart if you looked at it the wrong way.
Meanwhile, Canon and Nikon were making nice solidly-build P&S cameras, and as more computers came with built in SD card readers, people didn't mind spending the 5 seconds to pop the card out and put it into the PC to transfer - it was a lot better than carrying that stupid dock around.
This is more similar to a BeagleBone prototype cape - except with the Gertboard don't expect to be able to use any features in the chip that aren't put into the kernel by Eben and Gert. Unlike the CPU in the Arduino (ATMegaXX8) and the CPU in the BeagleBone (TI AM335x), the technical reference manual for the Broadcom chip in the Pi is completely unavailable. If support for anything is left out of the kernel, whether intentionally or simply due to lack of time, you will not be able to implement it yourself. If support for anything is broken in the kernel, you will have to live with it due to lack of documentation and the fact that Broadcom never comments their damn kernel code for anything. (Look at the BCM4330 driver for mobile devices as an example - if it misbehaves, you're screwed.)
One thing that may have helped - It sounds like while the front end of the car took a BIG hit in the initial impact, the initial impact was not a 108-0 event - it sounds like the car hit an object, and then began flipping/rolling.
In some ways, it's a miracle he didn't get injured here due to lack of seatbelt - seatbelts are a MAJOR benefit in a roll incident. My dad once rolled a vehicle (swerving to avoid deer + sand patch + curb = rolled car on its side) - he walked away without a scratch thanks to the seatbelt.
As you mentioned (but summary didn't - classical sensationalism), the records indicated 75 mph (fast and speeding - but not overly so and in fact consistent with "matching traffic flow" in many places) up until immediately before impact, indicating the driver likely fell asleep and unintentionally put pressure on the gas pedal then.
Phase detect in Nikon 1 - I find it highly unlikely this is true phase detect. Anyway, with a 1-inch sensor, the AF system's job is easymode, depth of field is deep so it's hard NOT to get the focus right. Let's see it achieve good results with an f/2.8 lens on a crop sensor.
Phase detect in the NEX - You just reinforced my point, by talking about an adapter that converts the already expensive NEX into a DSLR with horrific ergonomics, an adapter which costs as much as an entry-level DSLR body. (Translucent-mirror DSLRs are still DSLRs).
Similarly - I have yet to see a picture of an aircraft in a high-speed pass at an airshow taken with a CDAF-based camera that was anything but a lucky shot.
Even my old K10 could nail focus 90% of the time at airshows.
I've had no problems with subject tracking in a hockey game with a Pentax K20D (the K-5 has VASTLY improved AF but the K20D was more than good enough), even with a slow superzoom.
Fundamentally, it is simply impossible for contrast detect autofocus to catch up to phase detect. Yeah the best CD systems might have caught up to the worst PD systems - but not being able to know whether you are already locked or not is a fundamental limitation of CD that can't be fixed. No matter what, the lens HAS to be moved to confirm focus.
Because unlike corporate lobbyists, whose power stems from monetary campaign contributions, companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc have power that comes directly from their users.
Viacom, etc. could shutter operations for a week and people might just get slightly annoyed.
Google, Facebook, Twitter, if they coordinated efforts as discussed, could incite massive rage from the populace with only a 12-hour shutdown - and while some of that rage might go towards the people doing the shutdown, most of it would be directed at the politicians. Name a few direct SOPA supporters in your shutdown page and you've almost guaranteed they won't get reelected. I don't think any other organization on the planet has the power to completely destroy a United States politician's career in a matter of hours based SOLELY on what legislation they support (e.g. no dirt/scandals).
Obviously, that particular tactic can't be used often - but even if used once it will permanently alter the perceptions of many politicians.
Continuing the "nuclear" comparison - look at the effect nuclear weapons have had on global politics for decades, even though they have only been used twice as an offensive weapon in their entire history of existence.
Politicians have not been respecting the likes of Google because Google hasn't been a major player in the domestic political game. Use a weapon like this just once and that all changes - Google gets respect and power as long as they use it responsibly. (If they don't, that provides an opportunity for a competitor.)
Note that not a single one of his example shots has a moving subject, hiding one of the major disadvantages of P&S and MILC cameras (fundamentally slow autofocus.)
The best MILC's contrast detect AF might be able to match the weakest DSLR phase detect implementation - but if you have any intention on focusing on a moving subject (or even a fidgety impatient one), you want the autofocus performance of a DSLR, and phase detect systems will never be matched in terms of speed by CD systems.
Yes, CD systems can have some nifty "tricks" not available to PD systems - but any modern DSLR can focus using both methods anyway. No MILC will ever have a phase detect system.
Yup. MILCs are a fad... They offer some of the image quality of a DSLR at a slightly smaller package, however:
With a telephoto lens, the size improvements of the body are less significant. In fact, you may actually be finding yourself wishing the camera body were larger due to balance issues! I know a lot of people with Pentax DSLRs and higher-end (longer/heavier) lenses keep the battery grip on at all times because of the superior balance and ergonomics.
MILCs have the same disadvantages as P&S cameras in terms of autofocus performance - like P&S cameras, they are fundamentally limited to contrast detection autofocus, which is MUCH slower than the phase detect systems in DSLRs. 90% of the time when you see someone complain about "shutter lag" in a P&S, the lag is actually the autotofocus system reconfirming focus. (A contrast detect system must "wiggle" the focus to confirm that it is correct, even if starting at perfect focus. A phase-detect system knows when it's at optimal focus immediately.)
Last but not least - MILC systems are FAR more expensive than entry-level DSLR kits.
Also, the MILC industry is too early to see where things go as far as accessories and lenses. Most systems only have 2-3 lenses available to them, and there's no guarantee you'll see more.
There's nothing saying you can't use a DSLR in a basic "program" mode - but you won't unlock its full potential. The same goes for a MILC though.
A DSLR will give you far more potential for growth as you learn the system, a MILC will quickly deadend on you.
The Lumix LX series are well built, but I was soured by the awful noise performance of the LX1 - in fact, its poor noise performance drove me to purchase my first DSLR.
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Google tried in the past to allow tweets and Facebook content searchable by their engine - Facebook wouldn't allow it, the Twitter deal fell through too.
Facebook has tried their hardest to set up a walled garden, and it just bit them in the ass. boo-hoo.
Yeah, the site seems to have some issues. I was unable to sign the petition no matter what I did from my browser at home. No problems here.
DISCLAIMER: To my knowledge, despite sharing the same surname, I am NOT related to Chris Dodd in any way. I am proud of this fact. If there is any familial relationship, it is a very distant one.
No, a few clicks through of inconvenience won't convince users just how bad the situation is.
They need to be given a "taste" of post-SOPA life to truly understand it.
The USA has been bullying other countries into passing similar legislation, effectively saying, "If you can't get such legislation passed, we'll consider you a bad country and take you off of our trade lists."
Imagine the "egg on their face" effect when the country pressuring others to pass such legislation or be a "bad country" in regards to trade laws isn't able to pass such legislation themselves.
SOPA/PIPA affect the entire planet, whether directly (due to control of com/net/etc domains) or indirectly (harder to pressure other countries to pass similar laws when they can't even get through domestically).
The larger it is, the more FAA (and foreign equivalents...) paperwork you have to deal with.
Paperwork and certifications are a large part of the cost of large aircraft - in many cases the technical challenges aren't great, it's proving to the bureaucracy that your technical solution won't become a flaming fireball in a schoolyard somewhere.
I find it hard to believe the ratios are that bad - even when in this case the enemy is notorious for using human shields. (Unless the ratio is including victims of terror attacks)
1080p decode is useful for two things:
1) Decoding 1080p media and scaling it down to the display in real time, eliminating the need for a reencode. It's inefficient and a waste of space, but still - in some use case it's better than reencoding before loading to the device
2) HDMI output
Yeah, they have Samsung Apps - but almost no one uses it and few people care about it.
Samsung doesn't have the content ecosystem Amazon does. Without a content ecosystem for apps and other content, you're dead in the mobile market.
Amazon has their own ecosystem that is VERY robust.
Barnes and Noble had one that was reasonable. I'm not sure if it's robust enough to survive - Nook Color did well because hackers that customized it evangelized the device. Nook Tablet's locked bootloader and 1GB user content restriction are likely to kill it, especially when going up against the Fire.
Samsung has almost nothing, and what they do have is ridiculously crippled. Media Hub not working in concert with the MHL port has led to most people not giving a shit about Media Hub.
If you have no content ecosystem of your own, you can use Googles with fairly minimal restrictions. But if Samsung tries to exert pressure on Google they will fail - especially since one of the big reasons for their high market share is that TouchWiz is the least intrusive/bloated of the manufacturer skins. People don't like manufacturer customizations, and the Galaxy S ICS fiasco due to TouchWiz is going to hurt Samsung if they think they can go it alone.
Tizen is going to replace Bada, not Android.
http://www.ti.com/product/am3359 - Note the 20MB TRM that is the third PDF linked on this page. This is the sort of documentation TI provides for their products. This is the sort of documentation you need when hardware hacking.
Compare to:
http://www.broadcom.com/products/BCM2835 - nothing but a marketing blurb
Kernel source code is not sufficient documentation - especially given Broadcom's tendency to put no useful comments into their code, making it impossible to answer questions such as "why the fuck is my CPU getting a 1 Hz wakeup interrupt from this stupid BCM4330's undocumented "BT-AMP" function?"
That's just the CPU core documentation - it doesn't document any of the peripherals on a complete SoC, such as the register maps for I/O devices.
And you, sir, are a moron if you think bitbanging 12+ MHz SPI is a good idea.
When did I ever say GPU?
GPU being undocumented and binary-only is basically a given these days.
However, a CPU being undocumented is a whole different story.
Good luck using anything like I2C, SPI, etc. then if they aren't implemented in the kernel.
On most CPUs like this, GPIO vs. SPI vs. something else for a pin needs to be configured using a pinmux tool - the pinmux for this device will be fully undocumented.
The EasyShare cameras are a classic example of why Kodak is toast. In an era where PCs were including SD card readers and many people were buying laptops instead of desktops - the dock was pointless and in fact became a hindrance. It took only slightly longer to pull out the SD and put it into a reader than use the dock - IF the dock was even connected. If you were on the road with a laptop, you probably didn't even have the dock, and then all you had was a crappy point-and-shoot that would fall apart if you looked at it the wrong way.
They've figured out how to profitably carve out a niche as a smaller company - Kodak didn't.
Also, Ilford makes a lot of products for "final print" type products (photographic print paper, etc) - This market is also getting smaller, but it isn't getting hit as badly as the film market. Almost no one is using film, but people still want to make prints from their digital photos on occasion.
Yeah... The problem is that Kodak in the past few years has become associated with "cheap" in the wrong way. Not "cheap" as in inexpensive, but "cheap" as in consumer-grade gimmicky crap. Look at their stupid EasyShare dock - it was worthless if the camera took crappy pictures (garbage in garbage out) and fell apart if you looked at it the wrong way.
Meanwhile, Canon and Nikon were making nice solidly-build P&S cameras, and as more computers came with built in SD card readers, people didn't mind spending the 5 seconds to pop the card out and put it into the PC to transfer - it was a lot better than carrying that stupid dock around.
Arduino doesn't run Linux.
This is more similar to a BeagleBone prototype cape - except with the Gertboard don't expect to be able to use any features in the chip that aren't put into the kernel by Eben and Gert. Unlike the CPU in the Arduino (ATMegaXX8) and the CPU in the BeagleBone (TI AM335x), the technical reference manual for the Broadcom chip in the Pi is completely unavailable. If support for anything is left out of the kernel, whether intentionally or simply due to lack of time, you will not be able to implement it yourself. If support for anything is broken in the kernel, you will have to live with it due to lack of documentation and the fact that Broadcom never comments their damn kernel code for anything. (Look at the BCM4330 driver for mobile devices as an example - if it misbehaves, you're screwed.)
One thing that may have helped - It sounds like while the front end of the car took a BIG hit in the initial impact, the initial impact was not a 108-0 event - it sounds like the car hit an object, and then began flipping/rolling.
In some ways, it's a miracle he didn't get injured here due to lack of seatbelt - seatbelts are a MAJOR benefit in a roll incident. My dad once rolled a vehicle (swerving to avoid deer + sand patch + curb = rolled car on its side) - he walked away without a scratch thanks to the seatbelt.
As you mentioned (but summary didn't - classical sensationalism), the records indicated 75 mph (fast and speeding - but not overly so and in fact consistent with "matching traffic flow" in many places) up until immediately before impact, indicating the driver likely fell asleep and unintentionally put pressure on the gas pedal then.
Phase detect in Nikon 1 - I find it highly unlikely this is true phase detect. Anyway, with a 1-inch sensor, the AF system's job is easymode, depth of field is deep so it's hard NOT to get the focus right. Let's see it achieve good results with an f/2.8 lens on a crop sensor.
Phase detect in the NEX - You just reinforced my point, by talking about an adapter that converts the already expensive NEX into a DSLR with horrific ergonomics, an adapter which costs as much as an entry-level DSLR body. (Translucent-mirror DSLRs are still DSLRs).
Similarly - I have yet to see a picture of an aircraft in a high-speed pass at an airshow taken with a CDAF-based camera that was anything but a lucky shot.
Even my old K10 could nail focus 90% of the time at airshows.
I've had no problems with subject tracking in a hockey game with a Pentax K20D (the K-5 has VASTLY improved AF but the K20D was more than good enough), even with a slow superzoom.
Fundamentally, it is simply impossible for contrast detect autofocus to catch up to phase detect. Yeah the best CD systems might have caught up to the worst PD systems - but not being able to know whether you are already locked or not is a fundamental limitation of CD that can't be fixed. No matter what, the lens HAS to be moved to confirm focus.
Because unlike corporate lobbyists, whose power stems from monetary campaign contributions, companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc have power that comes directly from their users.
Viacom, etc. could shutter operations for a week and people might just get slightly annoyed.
Google, Facebook, Twitter, if they coordinated efforts as discussed, could incite massive rage from the populace with only a 12-hour shutdown - and while some of that rage might go towards the people doing the shutdown, most of it would be directed at the politicians. Name a few direct SOPA supporters in your shutdown page and you've almost guaranteed they won't get reelected. I don't think any other organization on the planet has the power to completely destroy a United States politician's career in a matter of hours based SOLELY on what legislation they support (e.g. no dirt/scandals).
Obviously, that particular tactic can't be used often - but even if used once it will permanently alter the perceptions of many politicians.
Continuing the "nuclear" comparison - look at the effect nuclear weapons have had on global politics for decades, even though they have only been used twice as an offensive weapon in their entire history of existence.
Politicians have not been respecting the likes of Google because Google hasn't been a major player in the domestic political game. Use a weapon like this just once and that all changes - Google gets respect and power as long as they use it responsibly. (If they don't, that provides an opportunity for a competitor.)
Note that not a single one of his example shots has a moving subject, hiding one of the major disadvantages of P&S and MILC cameras (fundamentally slow autofocus.)
The best MILC's contrast detect AF might be able to match the weakest DSLR phase detect implementation - but if you have any intention on focusing on a moving subject (or even a fidgety impatient one), you want the autofocus performance of a DSLR, and phase detect systems will never be matched in terms of speed by CD systems.
Yes, CD systems can have some nifty "tricks" not available to PD systems - but any modern DSLR can focus using both methods anyway. No MILC will ever have a phase detect system.
Yup. MILCs are a fad... They offer some of the image quality of a DSLR at a slightly smaller package, however:
With a telephoto lens, the size improvements of the body are less significant. In fact, you may actually be finding yourself wishing the camera body were larger due to balance issues! I know a lot of people with Pentax DSLRs and higher-end (longer/heavier) lenses keep the battery grip on at all times because of the superior balance and ergonomics.
MILCs have the same disadvantages as P&S cameras in terms of autofocus performance - like P&S cameras, they are fundamentally limited to contrast detection autofocus, which is MUCH slower than the phase detect systems in DSLRs. 90% of the time when you see someone complain about "shutter lag" in a P&S, the lag is actually the autotofocus system reconfirming focus. (A contrast detect system must "wiggle" the focus to confirm that it is correct, even if starting at perfect focus. A phase-detect system knows when it's at optimal focus immediately.)
Last but not least - MILC systems are FAR more expensive than entry-level DSLR kits.
Also, the MILC industry is too early to see where things go as far as accessories and lenses. Most systems only have 2-3 lenses available to them, and there's no guarantee you'll see more.
There's nothing saying you can't use a DSLR in a basic "program" mode - but you won't unlock its full potential. The same goes for a MILC though.
A DSLR will give you far more potential for growth as you learn the system, a MILC will quickly deadend on you.
The Canon G-series is also an excellent choice.
The Lumix LX series are well built, but I was soured by the awful noise performance of the LX1 - in fact, its poor noise performance drove me to purchase my first DSLR.