That's because the "massive CCTV system" is largely a sprawl of private cameras owned and run by businesses to benefit themselves, rather than (even nominally) the public. Publicly owned and run CCTV systems are on a much smaller scale than you might expect.
Depending on your distance from the tower and the access point, it could be quite a lot less. I've certainly had situations where I've had a very poor cell signal and strong wi-fi, and thus the wi-fi has been more reliable and more power-thrifty.
What part of the summary, never mind the article, suggests that simply finding geothermal activity was the research goal here? I mean, here's your first sentence:
Researchers have uncovered the largest geothermal hot spot in the eastern United States.
Did you seriously stop after reading title? And then criticise the researchers for not noticing things?
If nothing else he's a little bit obsessed. Not every motion picture about WWII is about the Holocaust. That doesn't make those movies crashing rhetorical failures, it just means they had a different subject.
They had designed their phones such that there was a shortcut button to their web portal. Users without a data plan, taken to that portal, were charged for the data at the usual ridiculous out-of-plan rates. They could have the portal blocked but this just meant they were charged for the data used in retrieving the "this portal is blocked" page instead. So there's an interesting bit of background detail going on here. Maybe $2 per customer isn't much to the customer, but it's a tidy bit of extra revenue to Verizon.
I think it's safe to assume that it's an aesthetically pleasing bit of random binary to symbolically carry the message that he's in with technology, in much the same way one might tattoo some bitching runes onto one's arm to convey how one is incredibly down with the druids.
About 2007, Lucas started demoing 3D-ised versions of A New Hope to people in the industry. That's a good lead time for tweaking. I think it's safe to say that the upconversion won't be as bad as CotT's six-week botch job. (That's not to say it's not staggeringly pointless.)
Funnily enough, post-Avatar, the "3D share" of movies showing in both formats has been declining. People aren't idiots, they took the opportunity to check out 3D in its supposedly-optimal setting and don't seem especially fussed with it as a value-add.
It's a great success in the same sense that Colgate is a great success. Everyone pays for it, everyone sticks with it, nobody gives much of a shit about it unless it's causing problems.
Sure, but nobody actually gives a crap about what version of Windows they're running in the real world. Witness the media coverage: nominal interest in the fact that there's a new version of Windows, and the only other coverage is how they've managed to screw it up. It's like the space program, nobody bothers writing about it unless something goes wrong. By contrast, Apple and Google's activities are an active source of curiosity for the average newspaper-scanning city-dweller.
"Auto" sounds likely, given Apple's design style. They seemingly added the HDR feature so that iPhone users wouldn't need* to properly set the metering their pictures, for instance.
*Of course you get better results if you do set a metering "target" manually, but HDR's certainly reduced the number of photos that are ruined if you don't bother.
That company has a testimonials page. A company which writes fake testimonials has a testimonials page. Incredible. Here's what one author had to say:
when one dots the final 'tea' and crosses the last 'eye' or two upon a long-labored-over book, no satisfaction comes more welcome (to the author) than does a commendation from a discerning and exacting professional.
If you like the idea of a thorough derivation of modern physics via all the relevant mathematics, try "The Road to Reality", which is currently mocking me from my bookshelf. I ground to a halt after about 2 weeks because I wouldn't let myself continue without doing at least the lowest-level maths problems.
The original article is discussing Surface's touch panel and display, which are currently a weird hodge-podge of tech, being shrunk down into a single panel which is as thin as a sheet of glass. Nothing the engineer says suggests that the whole device will be that size. Furthermore the "three year" comments are about Surface's possible consumer launch, and nothing to do with the new panel at all. PC Pro's blog dump is completely dire, read the second link.
Assuming that they're discussing the touchscreen, as their engineer discusses, and not the entire device as the article interpolates, then this is neither particularly unlikely nor extraordinarily novel. Building sensing systems directly into LCDs seems to be a popular idea these days, although Surface's generality will probably present a challenge.
This is the slashdot echo chamber, your assumption that those who comment have read the subject of the summary and are going to engage with it intellectually is wildly incorrect.
A subpopulation having the same rate as the whole population is not an anomaly. It is the very definition of "not an anomaly". What I think you're suggesting is that the subpopulation that works in the factory is not representative of the whole population, and is in fact skewed in a way that would be expected to lower their suicide rate, but that this has not occurred.For example, that working-age individuals in cities have lower suicide rates than average. That would require some elaboration and justification on your part. (Equivalently, that the subpopulation that works in the factory needs to be compared to a matched control group, and not just the population average.)
If a movie has failed to pick up a distributor in a given region, then a DVD release will immediately remove any possibility of the studio managing to find one. Correspondingly for small studios or indies, who aren't owned by a distribution conglomerate, getting into cinemas is contingent on staggered DVD releases. Similarly TV etc.
That's one scenario. There are plenty of inexplicable staggered releases, but there are plenty of justified ones also.
For an example, look at Doctor Who. It's hardly rolling in special effects or big-name talent and is produced by a state-owned company with a serious focus on economy, but even it costs the best part of a million dollars per episode these days.
Bear in mind that if you're called upon to be at a hearing, you better be there, even if the case is in Washington and you're in Texas. You could rack up well over $2500 in airfare, or $2500 in fines for failing to turn up, before you even submit your reply to the case. And then there's the interminable Discovery phase, where you can be legally obligated to assemble and hand over evidence to the plaintiffs. You'd be lucky to make it out having spent less than $10K if you win.
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That's because the "massive CCTV system" is largely a sprawl of private cameras owned and run by businesses to benefit themselves, rather than (even nominally) the public. Publicly owned and run CCTV systems are on a much smaller scale than you might expect.
This part is funnier:
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Depending on your distance from the tower and the access point, it could be quite a lot less. I've certainly had situations where I've had a very poor cell signal and strong wi-fi, and thus the wi-fi has been more reliable and more power-thrifty.
What part of the summary, never mind the article, suggests that simply finding geothermal activity was the research goal here? I mean, here's your first sentence:
Researchers have uncovered the largest geothermal hot spot in the eastern United States.
Did you seriously stop after reading title? And then criticise the researchers for not noticing things?
If nothing else he's a little bit obsessed. Not every motion picture about WWII is about the Holocaust. That doesn't make those movies crashing rhetorical failures, it just means they had a different subject.
They had designed their phones such that there was a shortcut button to their web portal. Users without a data plan, taken to that portal, were charged for the data at the usual ridiculous out-of-plan rates. They could have the portal blocked but this just meant they were charged for the data used in retrieving the "this portal is blocked" page instead. So there's an interesting bit of background detail going on here. Maybe $2 per customer isn't much to the customer, but it's a tidy bit of extra revenue to Verizon.
CRYMPH is Welsh, surely?
I think it's safe to assume that it's an aesthetically pleasing bit of random binary to symbolically carry the message that he's in with technology, in much the same way one might tattoo some bitching runes onto one's arm to convey how one is incredibly down with the druids.
It's a severely degraded VHS dupe of one of the Sydney recordings. There's no archive copy to refer to.
Why should IMDB carry podcasts? They don't carry radio shows at all.
About 2007, Lucas started demoing 3D-ised versions of A New Hope to people in the industry. That's a good lead time for tweaking. I think it's safe to say that the upconversion won't be as bad as CotT's six-week botch job. (That's not to say it's not staggeringly pointless.)
Funnily enough, post-Avatar, the "3D share" of movies showing in both formats has been declining. People aren't idiots, they took the opportunity to check out 3D in its supposedly-optimal setting and don't seem especially fussed with it as a value-add.
Does it matter? People have been building computers and Turing machines in sim games pretty much forever.
It's a great success in the same sense that Colgate is a great success. Everyone pays for it, everyone sticks with it, nobody gives much of a shit about it unless it's causing problems.
Sure, but nobody actually gives a crap about what version of Windows they're running in the real world. Witness the media coverage: nominal interest in the fact that there's a new version of Windows, and the only other coverage is how they've managed to screw it up. It's like the space program, nobody bothers writing about it unless something goes wrong. By contrast, Apple and Google's activities are an active source of curiosity for the average newspaper-scanning city-dweller.
"Auto" sounds likely, given Apple's design style. They seemingly added the HDR feature so that iPhone users wouldn't need* to properly set the metering their pictures, for instance.
*Of course you get better results if you do set a metering "target" manually, but HDR's certainly reduced the number of photos that are ruined if you don't bother.
That company has a testimonials page. A company which writes fake testimonials has a testimonials page. Incredible. Here's what one author had to say:
when one dots the final 'tea' and crosses the last 'eye' or two upon a long-labored-over book, no satisfaction comes more welcome (to the author) than does a commendation from a discerning and exacting professional.
Ha ha ha.
If you like the idea of a thorough derivation of modern physics via all the relevant mathematics, try "The Road to Reality", which is currently mocking me from my bookshelf. I ground to a halt after about 2 weeks because I wouldn't let myself continue without doing at least the lowest-level maths problems.
The original article is discussing Surface's touch panel and display, which are currently a weird hodge-podge of tech, being shrunk down into a single panel which is as thin as a sheet of glass. Nothing the engineer says suggests that the whole device will be that size. Furthermore the "three year" comments are about Surface's possible consumer launch, and nothing to do with the new panel at all. PC Pro's blog dump is completely dire, read the second link.
Assuming that they're discussing the touchscreen, as their engineer discusses, and not the entire device as the article interpolates, then this is neither particularly unlikely nor extraordinarily novel. Building sensing systems directly into LCDs seems to be a popular idea these days, although Surface's generality will probably present a challenge.
This is the slashdot echo chamber, your assumption that those who comment have read the subject of the summary and are going to engage with it intellectually is wildly incorrect.
A subpopulation having the same rate as the whole population is not an anomaly. It is the very definition of "not an anomaly". What I think you're suggesting is that the subpopulation that works in the factory is not representative of the whole population, and is in fact skewed in a way that would be expected to lower their suicide rate, but that this has not occurred.For example, that working-age individuals in cities have lower suicide rates than average. That would require some elaboration and justification on your part. (Equivalently, that the subpopulation that works in the factory needs to be compared to a matched control group, and not just the population average.)
If a movie has failed to pick up a distributor in a given region, then a DVD release will immediately remove any possibility of the studio managing to find one. Correspondingly for small studios or indies, who aren't owned by a distribution conglomerate, getting into cinemas is contingent on staggered DVD releases. Similarly TV etc.
That's one scenario. There are plenty of inexplicable staggered releases, but there are plenty of justified ones also.
For an example, look at Doctor Who. It's hardly rolling in special effects or big-name talent and is produced by a state-owned company with a serious focus on economy, but even it costs the best part of a million dollars per episode these days.
Bear in mind that if you're called upon to be at a hearing, you better be there, even if the case is in Washington and you're in Texas. You could rack up well over $2500 in airfare, or $2500 in fines for failing to turn up, before you even submit your reply to the case. And then there's the interminable Discovery phase, where you can be legally obligated to assemble and hand over evidence to the plaintiffs. You'd be lucky to make it out having spent less than $10K if you win.