For those of us who were kids in the 1970s and 1980s, the brouhaha about piracy over the Internet was act 2. We got to experience act 1 when the recording industry went after cassette tapes as facilitating piracy because they enabled you to record songs off the radio, or make your own mix tapes which you could then hand out to friends. My sister's stereo specifically had the ability to record radio broadcasts to tape disabled because of their nonsense.
Their paranoia and lack of forward thinking killed off DATs (digital audio tapes) through an early form of DRM. That helped launch the popularity of CDs (initially there were no such things as CD-Rs). And their greed led them to pick the worst, most bloated format possible for audio on CDs (basically completely uncompressed audio) to limit its capacity to about 1 hour of music, about the same as a double-sided LP. Of course they ended up hoisted by their own petard because this raw audio format was trivial to rip and convert into MP3.
In most countries the government is in charge of health care and they have a VERY easy way to regulate price gouging such as this. In any single payer system the national health service basically sets the price they are willing to pay and that's what it costs. End of story. We only run into this problem because we have a portion of our population who breaks out in hives anytime they hear the words "socialized medicine".
That is all good in theory. If you assume that there is no corruption in government.
The people who don't want a single payer system don't fear socialized whatever. That's just a condescending description of their position made up by people who oppose them. They fear too much government control. If a fiasco like this Epi-pen price gouging happens, you have legal recourse, you have government recourse, hell if you work for a pharmaceutical company you could even lobby your own company to start producing a competitor. There are things the everyday person can do to try to get it fixed. But if a fiasco like this were to happen with a government-controlled single-payer system, there is nothing the everyday person can do to fix it.
Politics would go a lot more smoothly if people actually tried to understand the position and concerns of those with differing views, and came up with creative ways to address those concerns. Instead of coming up with creative ways to distort and misstate their position to insult those people and make them appear ignorant. As nice as it is to theorize how great life would be with a benevolent government, most people know that's not a valid assumption. If you want to sell the idea to people opposed to socialized health care, you have to start taking them seriously and implement measures to allay their concerns. Add a system where the everyday person can protest certain policies or prices. A system of checks and balances within the system which allows it to circumvent any roadblocks set up by an unelected bureaucrat, an internal monitoring and appraising system which detects corruption and bans any corrupt government worker from ever working in government again for life, etc.
As for the "it works in other countries" argument, yes it does, at the cost of a slowed rate of technological progress. This is a disadvantage of non-market systems which is normally invisible because you cannot see the future that might have been, Although occasionally the differences can be seen. e.g. GSM was the de facto government-approved world standard for cell phone service. The U.S. decided not to go along with it, and to allow competition instead. GSM was based on TDMA - each phone takes turns communicating with the tower. This wastes a lot of bandwidth as each phone gets a slice of bandwidth even when it doesn't need it. Not a big problem with voice, but a huge disadvantage when it comes to data service. The competitor which sprang up in the U.S. was CDMA - all phones can transmit at the same time, the tower just tells the transmissions from individual phones apart using orthogonal codes. This results in all bandwidth being divided evenly between all phones who are transmitting at that time (transmissions from other phones raise the noise floor, reducing the signal to noise ratio for any individual phone). CDMA demolished GSM when it came to data speeds, and within a year the GSM specification was updated to allow CDMA for data. Most implementations of 3G data on GSM networks (UMTS, HSPA+, HSDPA, etc) used wideband CDMA. That's why you could talk and use data at the same time on GSM phones - they had a TDMA radio for voice, and a separate CDMA radio for data. If the U.S. had just gone along with GSM and prohibited competition, our data speeds today would probably be down around 1 Mbps, and LTE (most implementations are OFDMA - same thing as CDMA but using orthogonal frequencies) would probably still be several years in the future.
Tour guide: "If you've brought along a GoPro, start recording when we hit this section of the rapids tomorrow. It's a wild ride and you want to be sure to get it on video."
Next day just as they're about to start their raft trip: "WTF? Why is my GoPro saying the memory card is full and the battery is almost dead?"
Lena is the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy. One of the earlier researchers in image processing and compression was trying to find a good test image - glossy photo, large dynamic range, fine detail, and a human face with its fine color gradients. Someone walked in with an issue of Playboy, and they quickly scanned the top third of of the centerfold picture (the non-nude part). It has since become ingrained in the image compression/processing community as an archetype test sample since so many algorithms have been tested against that particular image.
The reason we need this hack is because Android essentially stops any application that is not on the foreground (if memory pressure becomes an issue, the application is killed instead)
That's how iOS used to work until recently (when real multitasking was added). Any time you started a new app, the previous one's state was saved and it was killed. "Switching" to the previous app meant saving the state of the current app and killing it, then restoring the saved state of the previous app. This gave the illusion of multitasking, but there was no multitasking going on.
Android has always supported multitasking (it's based on the Linux kernel), and apps not in the foreground continue to run until memory is exhausted, at which point the oldest/least used has its state saved and is killed to free up memory. Android utilities (like backup utilities), Google Play app updates, music playing apps, etc. run just fine in the background (formerly, iOS needed a kludge to get music to play in the "background"). Video not playing in the background is a choice made by the video app designer - a pretty good choice too in most cases. No point decoding and rendering the video if it can't be viewed. And it's a reasonable assumption that if someone watching a video switches to a different app, like text messaging or to take a phone call, that they want the video paused until they can switch back to it.
The problem was a lot of innocent people in a potentially dangerous area. The market didn't fix that.
Yes it did fix it, at least until Uber disabled surge pricing.
Let's say Uber left the price the same. There were x Uber drivers plying the roads when the bomb went off. They are able to give x people rides out of the affected area.
Now let's say Uber had stuck with surge pricing. Uber raises the prices. This does not affect the Uber drivers who are already out there and able to give rides. So x people still get rides out of the affected area. However, other Uber drivers who are not giving rides notice the higher price, and y of them decide to take advantage of it and get into their car to give people rides. So under this scenario, x+y people are able to get rides out of the affected area.
(x+y) > x
Therefore the market was fixing the problem, until Uber did the "socially responsible" thing and disabled surge pricing, thereby stranding y people in the affected area who would've been able to get a ride out had they left surge pricing in place.
Quid pro quo. The bulk of Wikileaks' files on the U.S. came from Manning. In fact it could be argued that Wikileaks and Assange got most of their fame because of Manning. Snowden has been releasing the files he has via other press outlets.
Nice strawman. The AC you quoted didn't mention treason. Very few people have been convicted under the Treason clause of the U.S. Constitution, namely because the Founding Fathers made it so damned difficult to prove it.
Manning and Snowden were charged under the Espionage Act of 1917. It reads as almost a textbook definition of "traitor". (Personally I think Snowden could be pardoned for acting as a whistleblower, since he's been careful to release only documents relating to questionable government programs. His only complication would be that some/most of those documents are ones he shouldn't have had access to. Manning OTOH did an indiscriminate wholesale data dump of both questionable and legal activity, which IMHO voids any whistleblower defense.)
As a long time, fairly hard-core, Emacs user (since the '80s) have have to ask: Seriously, why?
Because the Emacs ethos is: Why not?
(I was a long-time, fairly hard-core Emacs user too. Some habits don't die. The way I'd browse YouTube is windows key, chr, enter, ctrl-L, youtube.com. Although newer versions of browsers have made the ctrl-L superfluous for the initial URL. Waste time by moving my right hand to the mouse? Ridiculous!)
Because using open source means you yourself are accountable. If Oregon had done this project with an open source database and it had failed, the government would be the one bearing the blame. Hiring a big-name company to do it means if something goes wrong, the government's butts are covered. They hired a well-known company to do it for them. If the company couldn't do it, then obviously it must be the company's fault!
(I use "the government" here only because it's specific to this case and lets me avoid confusing pronouns. The same thing happens when companies choose Oracle or Microsoft or IBM or any other big name without really doing a serious analysis.)
Canon also came up with an optical remaining ink-sensing system for their inkjet printers, meaning their ink cartridges are transparent so you can actually see how much ink they contain and how much is left. None of this BS of selling you a huge black plastic cube which is only 1/4 full.
You started out just stalling, misleading people a little until you could figure out how to make it all legit.
In this case, "misleading people" meant putting their health at risk - either from lack of necessary treatment, or causing them to get unnecessary treatment. That right there overrides any right you have to stall. Protecting people's lives is the top priority - the whole reason the company even existed was because it promised to help prolong people's lives.
Come clean, explain that the test results aren't coming back as accurate as in early trials, and ask/beg for more time to figure out why the difference and to try to correct it. A slight delay is acceptable because you need time for the statistics to solidify enough for a 95% or 99% confidence interval (idiots who claim they "knew all along" notwithstanding - there are always a few of these people holding every possible position, so some of them are always "right" just by pure chance, not because they actually knew anything). But once your collected stats reach that confidence interval, you need to act to protect lives, even if it means admitting your product doesn't seem to work and that the investors may have wasted their money.
Research almost always results in failure. Edison tested over 6000 materials as a filament for a light bulb, and every one of them failed before he stumbled upon one that worked for an acceptably long period of time. But for some reason popular culture sees failure as something shameful, rather than an inevitable and necessary part of the learning process. It's resulted in a government populated by professional liars who (almost) never admit their failures - because we tend to vote for the people who claim they've never failed, when all they are is better at hiding their past failures (usually by pushing the blame onto others). Eliminate the negative stigma associated with failure, and something like Theranos becomes a non-story of an un-notable startup which failed early, instead of a multi-billion dollar scandal putting over a million lives at risk.
That suspect was holding his rifle and actively searching all around him for any threats. The robot positioned the explosives out of sight, behind a brick wall. Technically the robot wasn't needed - a person could've done it. But the Dallas Police decided to sacrifice the robot rather than risk sending a person in there to plant the explosives.
If you read TFA, in this case the suspect was lying prone on his stomach, with the rifle at his feet. The police distracted him by yelling at him over megaphones and buzzing him with a helicopter, while the robot took the rifle.
The problem is cultural. We do not champion the production of things that enrich society in general, especially if they have no, or little, profit attached.
Price (and indirectly, profit) is precisely an indicator of what society overall has decided enriches it. If people want it, they are willing to pay more for it.
If you feel society is not championing the things which would enrich it, that is an indication that your idea of "enrichment" deviates substantially from society's. Not that society is wrong.
The submitter suffers from the same problem. After a house and car, tech devices (phone, TV, computer, camera, stereo system, etc.) are some of the most expensive a typical person will buy. That indicates that in most people's opinion, techies are doing a tremendous job improving the world. Just that the submitter's opinion of "improving" deviates substantially from most people's.
I disagree with most people's idea of what's important, either. But it takes incredible hubris and arrogance to unilaterally decide that the majority must be wrong because you think you are right. I have my opinion, they have theirs, and we are free to buy things as we individually see fit.
LEO (Low Earth Orbit) requires a velocity of 7.8 km/s. The surface of the Earth (at the equator) rotates at a bit under 0.5 km/s. So the relative difference in speed is 7.3 km/s.
At that speed, the time dilation effect due to relativity is sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2) = 0.99999999970353434
So an atomic clock in LEO will run slower than one on the ground, losing 1 second every 3373072286 seconds, or 1 second every 106.96 years. You can compensate for that with a math correction which takes into account relativity. But that kinda defeats the purpose of building an "accurate" atomic clock, no?
I had the same problem. I ended up getting a Roku. CBS, ABC, and BBC have pretty good free global news channels. And there's a channel called NewsON which gives you access to local news feeds. (The app used to be really flaky and crashed a lot, which is why its rating on Roku isn't very high. But an update this summer greatly improved reliability and usability.)
And I would get a Roku 2 instead of a Roku 3. The button layout on the 3 remote is brain-dead. The select (OK) button is below the navigation buttons, instead of in the center. And the voice search button is right next to select. If you accidentally hit voice search instead of OK, when you cancel it it dumps you back to the home screen and you have to start your navigation all over again. And this annoying voice search button has replaced the extraordinarily useful instant replay button entirely (to replay the last few seconds you just missed). The two Roku boxes themselves are identical - I paired the Roku 3 remote to my Roku 2 before returning the 3, and all the Roku 3-exclusive functions still worked.
If you really want voice search, you can get the Roku app on your phone - it has voice search, the search and navigation doesn't interrupt what the Roku is currently playing, and it will automatically control your Roku when you've picked a selection. The main thing you lose is the RF control on the Roku 3 remote (don't need to point it at the Roku box). The Roku 2's remote is IR, and not very good IR. It's the only remote I have which doesn't work when bounced off walls. I ended up getting a Logitech Harmony Companion. It's also a RF remote and controls the Roku over wifi. And since I run my A/V through a receiver, it's handy for turning on/off both my TV and receiver at the same time. It's expensive though - more than the Roku. The RF control is well worth it IMHO, but be aware that it means you can't just drop the remote on the sofa. If you accidentally sit or roll onto it, the buttons still work even though there's no line of sight. You have to be careful to place the remote on the armrest or table.
The critical stage in their life cycle is cat feces. I've been saying for over a decade now that cats should have the same outdoor restrictions we impose onto dogs - need to be leashed when outdoors, and owner has to pick up and bag all feces.
Heck, Sony even managed to develop a capacitive touchscreen which works when wet (though not when immersed). If Apple didn't bother testing to make sure that their new virtual Home button worked with common glove finger pads and pens (e.g. hot dog on a stick), that's a pretty huge design failure.
Some of us go out to sea on a boat. Having a barometer always on your person is handy, even if it's just for redundancy.
Just because you don't find it useful doesn't mean everyone else doesn't as well. If it doesn't detract from the phone aside from the few cents it costs to add, why not add it? 99% of people never run Linux on their PC, but I'm sure most people here would cry foul if Intel used that as an excuse to do something to make their processors incompatible with Linux.
Don't assume competence on Verizon's part. Almost a decade ago a friend of mine got an offer to save a few bucks if she would combine her Verizon cell phone bill with her Verizon DSL bill. She signed up for it, got the first combined bill, and paid it. A few weeks later she got a notice from Verizon Wireless that she hadn't paid her bill. She called to find out what was going on and got the run-around. After enough calls she got someone at Verizon (DSL) to investigate it. They insisted they'd fixed the problem so she figured it was resolved. Next month she got another past due notice from Verizon Wireless, with a warning that they would discontinue service if her past two months weren't paid. In a panic she called Verizon Wireless to explain she had a combined bill. No luck - Verizon Wireless claimed they had no way to check the payment status of a combined bill, and refused to call the number for the Verizon DSL rep who offered to help her clear it up. No amount of talking would get them to actually do something to fix the problem. In their minds, they made no mistakes and the only aceptable fix was for her to pay her "bill".
Long story short, they cancelled her cell phone plan, gave her phone number to another customer, and screwed up her credit report.
It is not a free upgrade. It is a zero-money down trade-in upgrade that increases your bill by $27/mo for 24 months (for the 32GB model). That is, if you do the upgrade it will cost you a total of $648 + residual value of your iPhone 6, compared to just keeping your (fully paid) iPhone 6.
As Apple's retail price for the iPhone 7 is $649, you're essentially selling the carrier your iPhone 6 for $1 and locking yourself in for 2 years in exchange for no down payment, no interest to buy a new iPhone 7. If you figure the residual value of your iPhone 6 is $324 (50% the purchase price a year ago), that's equivalent to paying 1.689% in interest every month, or 22.3% annually (minus $1). A pretty tidy profit for the carrier considering most loan interest rates are down around 3%-5% right now..
One of the reasons Chrome uses more power (and more memory) is because it forks a separate process for each tab you have open. That is, each tab is a separate complete instance of Chrome running in its own memory. This makes it tougher for a browser exploit on one site to access memory info on another site you have open in another tab. And it means if one site freezes or crashes, it doesn't take down all the other tabs you have open. It also dramatically increases the memory footprint and power consumption. (This is also the reason I switched from Firefox to Chrome - I got tired of losing my other tabs when one tab hug or crashed.)
Does Edge offer the same protection? Or are we comparing apples to oranges?
That's only a problem when you're trying to rush out a new phone with completely new features. In this case, the name is what most needs to be replaced. So they could simply remove the new S8 features they're working on that don't quite work yet, and replace them with the same parts in the S7, and release it as the S8. Essentially it'd be a S7.5, just that it'd be named the S8.
The lens has a certain unchanging point spread function (how a point of light is spread into a blur) which scales linearly with distance away from (and closer than) the focal plane. You estimate the size of the blur, then apply an inverse of this PSF. The process is similar to tomography used in CT scans (Computer-assisted Tomography) and MRIs. Likewise, camera shake simply adds a linear smear component to this PSF. Heck, technically you don't even need a lens. The light shining through a window which falls as a smear on a piece of paper (or sensor) is just the Fourier transform of the scene visible through the window. FTs are symmetric (reversible), so if you run a FT of what that sensor records, you get back the image out the window. The catch being that you need to record both intensity and phase data. That's what a hologram does. You shine a laser at a scene, and the scattered laser light (FT'ed) falls onto the holographic film which records the light interference pattern (phase and intensity data). Shining the same laser light through the film (another FT) recreates an image of the original scene. This is also how light field cameras work, and why they're able to change focus after the "photo" has been taken. They're capturing the light field (intensity and phase), and are able to completely reconstruct the scene.
Gaussian blurs are harder to undo because they're random. "Gaussian" means you're applying a random blur which falls within a statistical normal curve. i.e. Each time you run a Gaussian blur on the same photo, the end result is slightly different. But in blurred video, you've got multiple sequential Gaussian blurs of the same subject. Time-averaging those causes the normal curve to narrow into a sharp peak, at which point the statistical randomness is close to nil and you can (theoretically) reverse the blur.
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For those of us who were kids in the 1970s and 1980s, the brouhaha about piracy over the Internet was act 2. We got to experience act 1 when the recording industry went after cassette tapes as facilitating piracy because they enabled you to record songs off the radio, or make your own mix tapes which you could then hand out to friends. My sister's stereo specifically had the ability to record radio broadcasts to tape disabled because of their nonsense.
Their paranoia and lack of forward thinking killed off DATs (digital audio tapes) through an early form of DRM. That helped launch the popularity of CDs (initially there were no such things as CD-Rs). And their greed led them to pick the worst, most bloated format possible for audio on CDs (basically completely uncompressed audio) to limit its capacity to about 1 hour of music, about the same as a double-sided LP. Of course they ended up hoisted by their own petard because this raw audio format was trivial to rip and convert into MP3.
That is all good in theory. If you assume that there is no corruption in government.
The people who don't want a single payer system don't fear socialized whatever. That's just a condescending description of their position made up by people who oppose them. They fear too much government control. If a fiasco like this Epi-pen price gouging happens, you have legal recourse, you have government recourse, hell if you work for a pharmaceutical company you could even lobby your own company to start producing a competitor. There are things the everyday person can do to try to get it fixed. But if a fiasco like this were to happen with a government-controlled single-payer system, there is nothing the everyday person can do to fix it.
Politics would go a lot more smoothly if people actually tried to understand the position and concerns of those with differing views, and came up with creative ways to address those concerns. Instead of coming up with creative ways to distort and misstate their position to insult those people and make them appear ignorant. As nice as it is to theorize how great life would be with a benevolent government, most people know that's not a valid assumption. If you want to sell the idea to people opposed to socialized health care, you have to start taking them seriously and implement measures to allay their concerns. Add a system where the everyday person can protest certain policies or prices. A system of checks and balances within the system which allows it to circumvent any roadblocks set up by an unelected bureaucrat, an internal monitoring and appraising system which detects corruption and bans any corrupt government worker from ever working in government again for life, etc.
As for the "it works in other countries" argument, yes it does, at the cost of a slowed rate of technological progress. This is a disadvantage of non-market systems which is normally invisible because you cannot see the future that might have been, Although occasionally the differences can be seen. e.g. GSM was the de facto government-approved world standard for cell phone service. The U.S. decided not to go along with it, and to allow competition instead. GSM was based on TDMA - each phone takes turns communicating with the tower. This wastes a lot of bandwidth as each phone gets a slice of bandwidth even when it doesn't need it. Not a big problem with voice, but a huge disadvantage when it comes to data service. The competitor which sprang up in the U.S. was CDMA - all phones can transmit at the same time, the tower just tells the transmissions from individual phones apart using orthogonal codes. This results in all bandwidth being divided evenly between all phones who are transmitting at that time (transmissions from other phones raise the noise floor, reducing the signal to noise ratio for any individual phone). CDMA demolished GSM when it came to data speeds, and within a year the GSM specification was updated to allow CDMA for data. Most implementations of 3G data on GSM networks (UMTS, HSPA+, HSDPA, etc) used wideband CDMA. That's why you could talk and use data at the same time on GSM phones - they had a TDMA radio for voice, and a separate CDMA radio for data. If the U.S. had just gone along with GSM and prohibited competition, our data speeds today would probably be down around 1 Mbps, and LTE (most implementations are OFDMA - same thing as CDMA but using orthogonal frequencies) would probably still be several years in the future.
Tour guide: "If you've brought along a GoPro, start recording when we hit this section of the rapids tomorrow. It's a wild ride and you want to be sure to get it on video."
Next day just as they're about to start their raft trip: "WTF? Why is my GoPro saying the memory card is full and the battery is almost dead?"
Lena is the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy. One of the earlier researchers in image processing and compression was trying to find a good test image - glossy photo, large dynamic range, fine detail, and a human face with its fine color gradients. Someone walked in with an issue of Playboy, and they quickly scanned the top third of of the centerfold picture (the non-nude part). It has since become ingrained in the image compression/processing community as an archetype test sample since so many algorithms have been tested against that particular image.
That's how iOS used to work until recently (when real multitasking was added). Any time you started a new app, the previous one's state was saved and it was killed. "Switching" to the previous app meant saving the state of the current app and killing it, then restoring the saved state of the previous app. This gave the illusion of multitasking, but there was no multitasking going on.
Android has always supported multitasking (it's based on the Linux kernel), and apps not in the foreground continue to run until memory is exhausted, at which point the oldest/least used has its state saved and is killed to free up memory. Android utilities (like backup utilities), Google Play app updates, music playing apps, etc. run just fine in the background (formerly, iOS needed a kludge to get music to play in the "background"). Video not playing in the background is a choice made by the video app designer - a pretty good choice too in most cases. No point decoding and rendering the video if it can't be viewed. And it's a reasonable assumption that if someone watching a video switches to a different app, like text messaging or to take a phone call, that they want the video paused until they can switch back to it.
Yes it did fix it, at least until Uber disabled surge pricing.
Let's say Uber left the price the same. There were x Uber drivers plying the roads when the bomb went off. They are able to give x people rides out of the affected area.
Now let's say Uber had stuck with surge pricing. Uber raises the prices. This does not affect the Uber drivers who are already out there and able to give rides. So x people still get rides out of the affected area. However, other Uber drivers who are not giving rides notice the higher price, and y of them decide to take advantage of it and get into their car to give people rides. So under this scenario, x+y people are able to get rides out of the affected area.
(x+y) > x
Therefore the market was fixing the problem, until Uber did the "socially responsible" thing and disabled surge pricing, thereby stranding y people in the affected area who would've been able to get a ride out had they left surge pricing in place.
This whole thing reminds me of the filters people have come up with to modify digital photos to simulate different types of film
Quid pro quo. The bulk of Wikileaks' files on the U.S. came from Manning. In fact it could be argued that Wikileaks and Assange got most of their fame because of Manning. Snowden has been releasing the files he has via other press outlets.
Nice strawman. The AC you quoted didn't mention treason. Very few people have been convicted under the Treason clause of the U.S. Constitution, namely because the Founding Fathers made it so damned difficult to prove it.
Manning and Snowden were charged under the Espionage Act of 1917. It reads as almost a textbook definition of "traitor". (Personally I think Snowden could be pardoned for acting as a whistleblower, since he's been careful to release only documents relating to questionable government programs. His only complication would be that some/most of those documents are ones he shouldn't have had access to. Manning OTOH did an indiscriminate wholesale data dump of both questionable and legal activity, which IMHO voids any whistleblower defense.)
Because the Emacs ethos is: Why not?
(I was a long-time, fairly hard-core Emacs user too. Some habits don't die. The way I'd browse YouTube is windows key, chr, enter, ctrl-L, youtube.com. Although newer versions of browsers have made the ctrl-L superfluous for the initial URL. Waste time by moving my right hand to the mouse? Ridiculous!)
Because using open source means you yourself are accountable. If Oregon had done this project with an open source database and it had failed, the government would be the one bearing the blame. Hiring a big-name company to do it means if something goes wrong, the government's butts are covered. They hired a well-known company to do it for them. If the company couldn't do it, then obviously it must be the company's fault!
(I use "the government" here only because it's specific to this case and lets me avoid confusing pronouns. The same thing happens when companies choose Oracle or Microsoft or IBM or any other big name without really doing a serious analysis.)
Canon also came up with an optical remaining ink-sensing system for their inkjet printers, meaning their ink cartridges are transparent so you can actually see how much ink they contain and how much is left. None of this BS of selling you a huge black plastic cube which is only 1/4 full.
In this case, "misleading people" meant putting their health at risk - either from lack of necessary treatment, or causing them to get unnecessary treatment. That right there overrides any right you have to stall. Protecting people's lives is the top priority - the whole reason the company even existed was because it promised to help prolong people's lives.
Come clean, explain that the test results aren't coming back as accurate as in early trials, and ask/beg for more time to figure out why the difference and to try to correct it. A slight delay is acceptable because you need time for the statistics to solidify enough for a 95% or 99% confidence interval (idiots who claim they "knew all along" notwithstanding - there are always a few of these people holding every possible position, so some of them are always "right" just by pure chance, not because they actually knew anything). But once your collected stats reach that confidence interval, you need to act to protect lives, even if it means admitting your product doesn't seem to work and that the investors may have wasted their money.
Research almost always results in failure. Edison tested over 6000 materials as a filament for a light bulb, and every one of them failed before he stumbled upon one that worked for an acceptably long period of time. But for some reason popular culture sees failure as something shameful, rather than an inevitable and necessary part of the learning process. It's resulted in a government populated by professional liars who (almost) never admit their failures - because we tend to vote for the people who claim they've never failed, when all they are is better at hiding their past failures (usually by pushing the blame onto others). Eliminate the negative stigma associated with failure, and something like Theranos becomes a non-story of an un-notable startup which failed early, instead of a multi-billion dollar scandal putting over a million lives at risk.
That suspect was holding his rifle and actively searching all around him for any threats. The robot positioned the explosives out of sight, behind a brick wall. Technically the robot wasn't needed - a person could've done it. But the Dallas Police decided to sacrifice the robot rather than risk sending a person in there to plant the explosives.
If you read TFA, in this case the suspect was lying prone on his stomach, with the rifle at his feet. The police distracted him by yelling at him over megaphones and buzzing him with a helicopter, while the robot took the rifle.
Price (and indirectly, profit) is precisely an indicator of what society overall has decided enriches it. If people want it, they are willing to pay more for it.
If you feel society is not championing the things which would enrich it, that is an indication that your idea of "enrichment" deviates substantially from society's. Not that society is wrong.
The submitter suffers from the same problem. After a house and car, tech devices (phone, TV, computer, camera, stereo system, etc.) are some of the most expensive a typical person will buy. That indicates that in most people's opinion, techies are doing a tremendous job improving the world. Just that the submitter's opinion of "improving" deviates substantially from most people's.
I disagree with most people's idea of what's important, either. But it takes incredible hubris and arrogance to unilaterally decide that the majority must be wrong because you think you are right. I have my opinion, they have theirs, and we are free to buy things as we individually see fit.
LEO (Low Earth Orbit) requires a velocity of 7.8 km/s. The surface of the Earth (at the equator) rotates at a bit under 0.5 km/s. So the relative difference in speed is 7.3 km/s.
At that speed, the time dilation effect due to relativity is sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2) = 0.99999999970353434
So an atomic clock in LEO will run slower than one on the ground, losing 1 second every 3373072286 seconds, or 1 second every 106.96 years. You can compensate for that with a math correction which takes into account relativity. But that kinda defeats the purpose of building an "accurate" atomic clock, no?
I had the same problem. I ended up getting a Roku. CBS, ABC, and BBC have pretty good free global news channels. And there's a channel called NewsON which gives you access to local news feeds. (The app used to be really flaky and crashed a lot, which is why its rating on Roku isn't very high. But an update this summer greatly improved reliability and usability.)
And I would get a Roku 2 instead of a Roku 3. The button layout on the 3 remote is brain-dead. The select (OK) button is below the navigation buttons, instead of in the center. And the voice search button is right next to select. If you accidentally hit voice search instead of OK, when you cancel it it dumps you back to the home screen and you have to start your navigation all over again. And this annoying voice search button has replaced the extraordinarily useful instant replay button entirely (to replay the last few seconds you just missed). The two Roku boxes themselves are identical - I paired the Roku 3 remote to my Roku 2 before returning the 3, and all the Roku 3-exclusive functions still worked.
If you really want voice search, you can get the Roku app on your phone - it has voice search, the search and navigation doesn't interrupt what the Roku is currently playing, and it will automatically control your Roku when you've picked a selection. The main thing you lose is the RF control on the Roku 3 remote (don't need to point it at the Roku box). The Roku 2's remote is IR, and not very good IR. It's the only remote I have which doesn't work when bounced off walls. I ended up getting a Logitech Harmony Companion. It's also a RF remote and controls the Roku over wifi. And since I run my A/V through a receiver, it's handy for turning on/off both my TV and receiver at the same time. It's expensive though - more than the Roku. The RF control is well worth it IMHO, but be aware that it means you can't just drop the remote on the sofa. If you accidentally sit or roll onto it, the buttons still work even though there's no line of sight. You have to be careful to place the remote on the armrest or table.
The critical stage in their life cycle is cat feces. I've been saying for over a decade now that cats should have the same outdoor restrictions we impose onto dogs - need to be leashed when outdoors, and owner has to pick up and bag all feces.
Heck, Sony even managed to develop a capacitive touchscreen which works when wet (though not when immersed). If Apple didn't bother testing to make sure that their new virtual Home button worked with common glove finger pads and pens (e.g. hot dog on a stick), that's a pretty huge design failure.
Some of us go out to sea on a boat. Having a barometer always on your person is handy, even if it's just for redundancy.
Just because you don't find it useful doesn't mean everyone else doesn't as well. If it doesn't detract from the phone aside from the few cents it costs to add, why not add it? 99% of people never run Linux on their PC, but I'm sure most people here would cry foul if Intel used that as an excuse to do something to make their processors incompatible with Linux.
Don't assume competence on Verizon's part. Almost a decade ago a friend of mine got an offer to save a few bucks if she would combine her Verizon cell phone bill with her Verizon DSL bill. She signed up for it, got the first combined bill, and paid it. A few weeks later she got a notice from Verizon Wireless that she hadn't paid her bill. She called to find out what was going on and got the run-around. After enough calls she got someone at Verizon (DSL) to investigate it. They insisted they'd fixed the problem so she figured it was resolved. Next month she got another past due notice from Verizon Wireless, with a warning that they would discontinue service if her past two months weren't paid. In a panic she called Verizon Wireless to explain she had a combined bill. No luck - Verizon Wireless claimed they had no way to check the payment status of a combined bill, and refused to call the number for the Verizon DSL rep who offered to help her clear it up. No amount of talking would get them to actually do something to fix the problem. In their minds, they made no mistakes and the only aceptable fix was for her to pay her "bill".
Long story short, they cancelled her cell phone plan, gave her phone number to another customer, and screwed up her credit report.
It is not a free upgrade. It is a zero-money down trade-in upgrade that increases your bill by $27/mo for 24 months (for the 32GB model). That is, if you do the upgrade it will cost you a total of $648 + residual value of your iPhone 6, compared to just keeping your (fully paid) iPhone 6.
As Apple's retail price for the iPhone 7 is $649, you're essentially selling the carrier your iPhone 6 for $1 and locking yourself in for 2 years in exchange for no down payment, no interest to buy a new iPhone 7. If you figure the residual value of your iPhone 6 is $324 (50% the purchase price a year ago), that's equivalent to paying 1.689% in interest every month, or 22.3% annually (minus $1). A pretty tidy profit for the carrier considering most loan interest rates are down around 3%-5% right now..
One of the reasons Chrome uses more power (and more memory) is because it forks a separate process for each tab you have open. That is, each tab is a separate complete instance of Chrome running in its own memory. This makes it tougher for a browser exploit on one site to access memory info on another site you have open in another tab. And it means if one site freezes or crashes, it doesn't take down all the other tabs you have open. It also dramatically increases the memory footprint and power consumption. (This is also the reason I switched from Firefox to Chrome - I got tired of losing my other tabs when one tab hug or crashed.)
Does Edge offer the same protection? Or are we comparing apples to oranges?
That's only a problem when you're trying to rush out a new phone with completely new features. In this case, the name is what most needs to be replaced. So they could simply remove the new S8 features they're working on that don't quite work yet, and replace them with the same parts in the S7, and release it as the S8. Essentially it'd be a S7.5, just that it'd be named the S8.
The lens has a certain unchanging point spread function (how a point of light is spread into a blur) which scales linearly with distance away from (and closer than) the focal plane. You estimate the size of the blur, then apply an inverse of this PSF. The process is similar to tomography used in CT scans (Computer-assisted Tomography) and MRIs. Likewise, camera shake simply adds a linear smear component to this PSF. Heck, technically you don't even need a lens. The light shining through a window which falls as a smear on a piece of paper (or sensor) is just the Fourier transform of the scene visible through the window. FTs are symmetric (reversible), so if you run a FT of what that sensor records, you get back the image out the window. The catch being that you need to record both intensity and phase data. That's what a hologram does. You shine a laser at a scene, and the scattered laser light (FT'ed) falls onto the holographic film which records the light interference pattern (phase and intensity data). Shining the same laser light through the film (another FT) recreates an image of the original scene. This is also how light field cameras work, and why they're able to change focus after the "photo" has been taken. They're capturing the light field (intensity and phase), and are able to completely reconstruct the scene.
Gaussian blurs are harder to undo because they're random. "Gaussian" means you're applying a random blur which falls within a statistical normal curve. i.e. Each time you run a Gaussian blur on the same photo, the end result is slightly different. But in blurred video, you've got multiple sequential Gaussian blurs of the same subject. Time-averaging those causes the normal curve to narrow into a sharp peak, at which point the statistical randomness is close to nil and you can (theoretically) reverse the blur.