The point is that it's much easier to "get" the numbers when the scale behaves linearly. Because it's not about shuffling with units, it's about changing the way they are used.
I don't think you should expect much from it; Apple probably patents lots of stuff for the sake of patenting it?
BTW, reminds me about another Apple patent somehow related to the discussion (accidentally...this specific idea was had by me quite some time ago; though I'm sure even then it was nothing new, despite Apple patenting it now) - hiding camera (or a cooperating group of them, specifically) in the screen; microlenses between pixels, essentialy. That could have changed videoconferencing a bit - false hints of avoiding eye contact are one of major problems; and we are damn good at noticing them, even on such small devices as mobile phones. "Screen camera" might eliminate the problem. Oh well, but Apple chose not to do it (well, chose to add videoconferencing when the above solution is not yet possible, to be more precise), and so even more people will likely be put off by videoconferencing. Not that it would make much of a difference, probably.
But I think I will still play with the idea in the form of stationary scenario - using, roughly, the optical setup of teleprompter.
IC, so you came to conlusion that I have no sense of humor in failing to notice your effort at it, while at the same time you missed inherently non-serious tone in the direct response; one about bsods, kernel panics and X crashes.
Sure, Amiga wasn't perfect (MorphOS is quite a bit more stable though, supposedly); still was probably the best thing for a long time, at least when looking at machines of reasonable cost. And the faults didn't seem to stop it from being used for reasonably serious stuff - kickstarting consumer video editing, image editing, CGI; even NASA utilised them for some Shuttle telemetry. If some people value the overall characteristics of its software, so be it...
BTW, if you still have some warm place for Forth, you might check out Jupiter Ace.
Getting approval for one microcell operating on those frequencies, just good enough to certainly cover a stage, should be quite easy; especially for Apple.
With how much people attending those events want to be online, the easiest would be probably enabling BT networking. But I have a feeling Apple doesn't want to do that - if the method would leak out, they could be "forced" to enable it on all iPhone devices; and that's something Apple definatelly wants to avoid... (iPod Touch + cheap "feature phone" would suddenly become just barely worse from iPhone, but significantly cheaper)
Of course yes. Those who get it think so, apparently OS & OS-level apps is the part they care about here (though MorphOS can be run on, say, zombie A1200 with PPC accelerator), and why would you say they're wrong or why would you even care?
#1 that's not preciselly how radio waves work...only one end being highly directional and giving (in the cone) greatly amplified power might do the trick; remember that it doesn't enhance only transmission from the hotspot, also reception. And might totally overhelm the signals coming from the audience.
#2 iPhone hardware supports worldiwe GSM/UMTS standards, also those that are rarely (never?) used in the US.
Of course it does; when camera uses more physical pixels of the sensor for each pixel of the output image, that's equaivalent to using a sensor with larger physical pixels (not quite to the same degree as "native" sensor of such density would do, but reasonably close)
That's why "night mode" of many consumer digicams shots in greatly reduced resolution of output image.
Not quote. When increasing sensor size you have to increase the lens size proportionally if you merely want them to remain just as good (disregarding separate gains from bigger sensor); the lens quality matters more
They're pretty much at the size limit anyway, at least if they don't want to increase the thickness of the device (and I'm pretty sure that's not what Apple is willing to do...)
Too bad those cameras outputting M-JPEG result in a bit..."grainy" output, in comparison. H.264 ones give definetely more visual information per frame (even if that's not encoded as individual frames - so what, one can use intermediate codec during editing)
Throw in the issue with open M-JPEG and patent encumbered H.264 and...meh, what a mess:/ Oh well, not that much different from the eternal Canon vs. Nikon holy war raging already, I guess;) But it doesn't make the choice easy, considering that my currently preffered setup (a good quality compact digicam, at least as far as they go; it does give impressive 720p though) won't be enough for much longer.
Which isn't that big of a deal, considering how "neutral" ("flat") output you can get out of them, so you have room to play with later; quite high bitrates for H.264; and possibility of using intermediate codec during editing.
I don't know - one quite low end smartphone from 4 years ago that I had, Nokia E50, had 240x320 with 2.1 inch screen (and such screen is common in many of their "feature phones", too); that ends up to be around 195ppi already / I would expect there to be around 50% bump by now (considering that LCDs basically could, at the least, follow the same density gains as semiconductors; essentially being ones)
I am intrigued by your idea of a ghetto HMD; though it would probably still end up with something awkward and headache-inducing:/ Oh well, maybe LED & laser projectors are the way forward...
If you had for a long time only 3 major players, and suddenly you have 6 (throw in some high visibility places which knew only 2 anyway, specifically, and were denied many affordable options, generally) - in a healthy market there's really nowhere else to go for longtime players but down, towards new ratios. I kind prefer it from the situation on the dekstop... Most of them are growing in units happily anyway, and will continue to do so (for the example of Symbian, it's still less than 20% of devices which Nokia sells; and while Symbian has half of smartphone sales, Nokia as a whole has "only" 37% of mobile phone sales - in the long run they can't have more than the second percentage after all...)
Seeing how iPhones how too often problems maintaining a stable connection while many other mobile phones (when in the same area & the same network at the same time) work fine - that doesn't answer the question.
This would require additional equipment and planning and would have been very tough with a handheld device like a phone.
...or few sharpshooters aiming the antennas from the side of the scene.
Generally, yeah, poor planning; and wouldn't require any acrobatics to resolve, really - for example Apple/AT&T could perhaps get temporary license (like singular events often do) to operate separate, local, low power basestation on frequencies which aren't used in the US normally (or at least aren't likely to be used at Apple event, with most people there probably using standard AT&T frequencies). Hell, just enable in the iPhone connecting to the net via Bluetooth - not only it shouldn't be clogged, vast majority of the audience would be beyond the range anyway. And 1Mbit/s is better from what they do now. Assuming they actually don't want it.
And that's why I said "close" - because showing your surroundings using back camera, with preview, ends up essentially the same (and I is a more one-way deal, as far attention goes, anyway; so you're more likely to focus on the preview / the scenery "behind phone")
In 1995, the rate of species extinctions was conservatively estimated at 100 times the background extinction rate (the average between mass extinction events). ... A few biologists believe that we are at this moment at the beginning of an accelerated anthropogenic extinction.[4] E.O. Wilson of Harvard, in The Future of Life (2002), estimates that at current rates of human disruption of the biosphere, one-half of all species of life will be extinct by 2100. ... the vast majority of biologists believe that we are in the midst of an anthropogenic extinction. Numerous scientific studies since thensuch as a 2004 report from Nature,[5] and those by the 10,000 scientists who contribute to the IUCN's annual Red List of threatened specieshave only strengthened this consensus. "We have driven the rate of biological extinction, the permanent loss of species, up several hundred times beyond its historical levels, and are threatened with the loss of a majority of all species by the end of the 21st century."
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The point is that it's much easier to "get" the numbers when the scale behaves linearly. Because it's not about shuffling with units, it's about changing the way they are used.
If it's offered by manufacturers as an option (at least for fleet vehicles), then the technical accomodations would often seem to be already there...
I don't think you should expect much from it; Apple probably patents lots of stuff for the sake of patenting it?
BTW, reminds me about another Apple patent somehow related to the discussion (accidentally...this specific idea was had by me quite some time ago; though I'm sure even then it was nothing new, despite Apple patenting it now) - hiding camera (or a cooperating group of them, specifically) in the screen; microlenses between pixels, essentialy. That could have changed videoconferencing a bit - false hints of avoiding eye contact are one of major problems; and we are damn good at noticing them, even on such small devices as mobile phones. "Screen camera" might eliminate the problem.
Oh well, but Apple chose not to do it (well, chose to add videoconferencing when the above solution is not yet possible, to be more precise), and so even more people will likely be put off by videoconferencing. Not that it would make much of a difference, probably.
But I think I will still play with the idea in the form of stationary scenario - using, roughly, the optical setup of teleprompter.
IC, so you came to conlusion that I have no sense of humor in failing to notice your effort at it, while at the same time you missed inherently non-serious tone in the direct response; one about bsods, kernel panics and X crashes.
Sure, Amiga wasn't perfect (MorphOS is quite a bit more stable though, supposedly); still was probably the best thing for a long time, at least when looking at machines of reasonable cost. And the faults didn't seem to stop it from being used for reasonably serious stuff - kickstarting consumer video editing, image editing, CGI; even NASA utilised them for some Shuttle telemetry. If some people value the overall characteristics of its software, so be it...
BTW, if you still have some warm place for Forth, you might check out Jupiter Ace.
Getting approval for one microcell operating on those frequencies, just good enough to certainly cover a stage, should be quite easy; especially for Apple.
With how much people attending those events want to be online, the easiest would be probably enabling BT networking. But I have a feeling Apple doesn't want to do that - if the method would leak out, they could be "forced" to enable it on all iPhone devices; and that's something Apple definatelly wants to avoid... (iPod Touch + cheap "feature phone" would suddenly become just barely worse from iPhone, but significantly cheaper)
Of course yes. Those who get it think so, apparently OS & OS-level apps is the part they care about here (though MorphOS can be run on, say, zombie A1200 with PPC accelerator), and why would you say they're wrong or why would you even care?
#1 that's not preciselly how radio waves work...only one end being highly directional and giving (in the cone) greatly amplified power might do the trick; remember that it doesn't enhance only transmission from the hotspot, also reception. And might totally overhelm the signals coming from the audience.
#2 iPhone hardware supports worldiwe GSM/UMTS standards, also those that are rarely (never?) used in the US.
Of course it does; when camera uses more physical pixels of the sensor for each pixel of the output image, that's equaivalent to using a sensor with larger physical pixels (not quite to the same degree as "native" sensor of such density would do, but reasonably close)
That's why "night mode" of many consumer digicams shots in greatly reduced resolution of output image.
I'm starting to hate how Jobs using the term will end up in talk of "photons! photons!" everywhere...
But - not only camera sensor size per se, also largely aperture of the lenses; they just usually go hand in hand anyway.
Hundreds of millions of other devices already use an open standard.
Not quote. When increasing sensor size you have to increase the lens size proportionally if you merely want them to remain just as good (disregarding separate gains from bigger sensor); the lens quality matters more
They're pretty much at the size limit anyway, at least if they don't want to increase the thickness of the device (and I'm pretty sure that's not what Apple is willing to do...)
Too bad those cameras outputting M-JPEG result in a bit..."grainy" output, in comparison. H.264 ones give definetely more visual information per frame (even if that's not encoded as individual frames - so what, one can use intermediate codec during editing)
Throw in the issue with open M-JPEG and patent encumbered H.264 and...meh, what a mess :/ ;)
Oh well, not that much different from the eternal Canon vs. Nikon holy war raging already, I guess
But it doesn't make the choice easy, considering that my currently preffered setup (a good quality compact digicam, at least as far as they go; it does give impressive 720p though) won't be enough for much longer.
Which isn't that big of a deal, considering how "neutral" ("flat") output you can get out of them, so you have room to play with later; quite high bitrates for H.264; and possibility of using intermediate codec during editing.
I don't know - one quite low end smartphone from 4 years ago that I had, Nokia E50, had 240x320 with 2.1 inch screen (and such screen is common in many of their "feature phones", too); that ends up to be around 195ppi already / I would expect there to be around 50% bump by now (considering that LCDs basically could, at the least, follow the same density gains as semiconductors; essentially being ones)
I am intrigued by your idea of a ghetto HMD; though it would probably still end up with something awkward and headache-inducing :/
Oh well, maybe LED & laser projectors are the way forward...
C? I kinda liked that Open Firmware is Forth (and if that would be the reason for EFI...ehh)
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^a correction; happy? ;)
It is what it says it is.
If you had for a long time only 3 major players, and suddenly you have 6 (throw in some high visibility places which knew only 2 anyway, specifically, and were denied many affordable options, generally) - in a healthy market there's really nowhere else to go for longtime players but down, towards new ratios. I kind prefer it from the situation on the dekstop...
Most of them are growing in units happily anyway, and will continue to do so (for the example of Symbian, it's still less than 20% of devices which Nokia sells; and while Symbian has half of smartphone sales, Nokia as a whole has "only" 37% of mobile phone sales - in the long run they can't have more than the second percentage after all...)
Seeing how iPhones how too often problems maintaining a stable connection while many other mobile phones (when in the same area & the same network at the same time) work fine - that doesn't answer the question.
This would require additional equipment and planning and would have been very tough with a handheld device like a phone.
...or few sharpshooters aiming the antennas from the side of the scene.
Generally, yeah, poor planning; and wouldn't require any acrobatics to resolve, really - for example Apple/AT&T could perhaps get temporary license (like singular events often do) to operate separate, local, low power basestation on frequencies which aren't used in the US normally (or at least aren't likely to be used at Apple event, with most people there probably using standard AT&T frequencies). Hell, just enable in the iPhone connecting to the net via Bluetooth - not only it shouldn't be clogged, vast majority of the audience would be beyond the range anyway. And 1Mbit/s is better from what they do now.
Assuming they actually don't want it.
Well, no, it's when you get the Real Thing(tm); that's the point.
I got you what you mean...
And that's why I said "close" - because showing your surroundings using back camera, with preview, ends up essentially the same (and I is a more one-way deal, as far attention goes, anyway; so you're more likely to focus on the preview / the scenery "behind phone")
You're sure?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
In 1995, the rate of species extinctions was conservatively estimated at 100 times the background extinction rate (the average between mass extinction events).
...
A few biologists believe that we are at this moment at the beginning of an accelerated anthropogenic extinction.[4] E.O. Wilson of Harvard, in The Future of Life (2002), estimates that at current rates of human disruption of the biosphere, one-half of all species of life will be extinct by 2100.
...
the vast majority of biologists believe that we are in the midst of an anthropogenic extinction. Numerous scientific studies since thensuch as a 2004 report from Nature,[5] and those by the 10,000 scientists who contribute to the IUCN's annual Red List of threatened specieshave only strengthened this consensus.
"We have driven the rate of biological extinction, the permanent loss of species, up several hundred times beyond its historical levels, and are threatened with the loss of a majority of all species by the end of the 21st century."
Well, bluescreens or kernel panics & X crashes might shatter the illusion...