Presumably you feel the same way about CNN, BBC, Reuters, the API, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, the NYT, Scientific American, and pretty much every single "news" blog connected to the internet? No? Then you're a big ol' hypocrite.
Oh no. Yep, they all have issues and nope, Fox comes to school on a very, very short bus.
But we aren't at 'war' (except for drugs and cancer). Maybe Michelle Bachman constitutes a National Emergency but I'm not sure that's what the framers of law had in mind.
The US budget for 2012 military spending is well over a trillion dollars. 7.5 billion might be a lot in total dollars, but it's 0.075 percent of the total budget. Not a particularly high rate of fraud in that context.
OTOH, setting up a US based fab, even if expensive by COTS standards, would be a rounding error in the DOD's budget.
So you take an iPad (or a Android tablet) take the picture, store it away, take the continuity shot and check it. Hell, you could even write custom software to keep track of the metadata that typically got scribbled on the back.
The iPad, at least, has decent color fidelity. Better than an old Polaroid, especially under wonky lighting conditions.
I think your workflow would be much easier today than in years past.
As for 14 MP, that seems ridiculously high for a camera that can't have optics to support even a fraction of that. Spend more on the lens and less on the MP count, and I might just buy one for a couple of relatives.
Yeah, where did that decision come from? For a 3 x 4 inch print at 300 dpi that comes out to around a 1 MB file. The print quality was described as 'not so good' so it's unlikely that they are printing at some insane resolution.
Kodak sold off it's sensor business to raise operating capital. Doesn't look to good for the dinos.
Oh, printers are useful in medicine. The problem (for Polaroid) is that everybody has color printers (a stupid decision in and of itself, but I digress). I take pictures of medical stuff all the time - documenting the size of laceration repairs, extent of an infection, etc. I just email them to my hospital address and print it on the ward.
Surgery has a camera with a wireless link that prints automagically.
So even in institutions stuck with paper charts, there are a bunch of ways of printing a digital file.
(And before anyone goes all HIPAA on me, they're sent without any patient identifying info).
You don't outsource when you can't control quality. Especially in important things like aircraft and weapon systems.
Boeing tried that approach with the 787 - took them 5 years to recover. Up front cost for a lot of these things is only a small portion of the total investment. Yes, China can make things at very high quality levels. The issue is can you be comfortable that they are doing that (and not ripping off your IP which is another issue).
One thing I would have liked to know is exactly WHAT counterfeit items were found? Bad bolts? Counterfeit components? Whole boards?
It's awfully hard to get a computer to mix the developer correctly. So we gave up a while ago and decided that we would just use digital simulacrums on the net.
Of course, if we discovered the asteroid that was going to hit us was shaped like a giant phallus or something equally embarrasing we'd be more motivated to deflect it than if it was simply a dot on a RADAR screen.
No, but it would certainly be proof that God has a sense of humor.
If you are breathing supplemental oxygen for medical purposes you aren't breathing pure oxygen. Lifetime smoker types who need a bit more oxygen than available in garden variety air (aprox 20% O2) are given nasal cannula (prongs) that add 4 - 8% more oxygen for a whopping total of less than 30%. Plenty of room for CO2 to be 'blended in' by room air.
There are conditions where even relatively low concentrations of added oxygen are problematic, that's what your link talks about it. It isn't true of everyone, basically people with smoking induced lung damage.
Just pulling out citations from the literature without understanding them doesn't get you far.
But then, when you live in an insane world and you yourself are sane, it means you are insane, if the working (as opposed to dictionary) definition "sane" is "the status quo"
That's crazy talk, man.
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. Does anyone think China would want a military confrontation with any of its largest customers? Do people really think Russia is likely to rise again?
The Pentagon would like to believe that. And to a certain point, that's what they are supposed to do. Historically, the US has been behind the curve when dealing with threats. Over the past couple of decades we've outspent the rest of the world many times over in term of military capabilities. That has given us overwhelming superiority for major conflicts (dealing with complicated political / military issues in stone age countries not so much). Somebody has to step in and determine when enough is enough. I don't think anybody in power has the cojones to do that.
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Back to/b/ with you, little boy.
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Russia is building the PAK FA 5th-gen fighter.
For India and anyone who will buy the thing. It's really an export item. Russia doesn't have enough money to develop a credible air threat these days.
And the Chinese 'stealth' fighter really isn't all that leading edge. So everyone else is still playing catchup to the US. of course we need to continue pushing the envelope but we could easily modernize the F-16 and 18 and keep up with the Jonsai for another generation.
Hell, the backbone of the bomber fleet is as old as I am. That's damned scary. I can hardly get out of bed some days much less plaster some country two continents away with tons of high explosive.
Do you know that the average Chinese farm contains more mercury than a rectal thermometer? Would you EAT a rectal thermometer? Well I would. Ah, mercury, sweetest of the transition metals.
Would you (could you possibly) eat and entire Chinese farm? Would you be hungry and hour later?
This may have more to do with the second 'lost' iPhone which was handled very poorly by all reports.
You don't impersonate police officers, by omission or commission. You don't pretend it is an episode of CSI or a rerun of 'Enemy of the State". Apple has never been forthcoming about what happened (if anything). Sounds like a screw up from the folks running the show.
Siri is about 70% successful in practice when you can't use the full interface (mainly, while driving).
Compared to nearly 100% for basic voice control (call this person, etc). Not so good. Siri is rather random in terms of getting things correct. If I can't see the screen, it's hard to know what the stupid thing is doing. The repeat back function gets past that, but is slow and clunky.
Perhaps if you are stuck driving and working it may be a useful tool - wouldn't know, but if your job is such that you can both drive and discharge your duties simultaneously then Siri II is likely to be able to replace you entirely in the near future.
Siri is an incredible joke and is going to bite Apple in the butt.
It's not reliable. You need a complex back end to keep the brains on, something Apple is now 0 for 3 on.
It's not really any more useful than basic voice control - come on, how many people breathlessly spout text messages / appointments / reminders while running?
It's not consistent. It is really annoying to have Siri get something modestly complex right one time, then wrong the next three times. The keyboard works all the time.
The advertising push makes expectations quite high and when you can't make those expectations, you're going to get some serious bad feedback. Calling a 'beta' service isn't going to work anymore. Google killed that one a while back.
Between Siri and the iCloud, I think Apple has managed to jump the shark. We may well be seeing the high point of Appleism. And that is a good thing. A somewhat humbled Apple might actually think a bit harder about what to do next.
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Presumably you feel the same way about CNN, BBC, Reuters, the API, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, the NYT, Scientific American, and pretty much every single "news" blog connected to the internet? No? Then you're a big ol' hypocrite.
Oh no. Yep, they all have issues and nope, Fox comes to school on a very, very short bus.
But we aren't at 'war' (except for drugs and cancer). Maybe Michelle Bachman constitutes a National Emergency but I'm not sure that's what the framers of law had in mind.
The US budget for 2012 military spending is well over a trillion dollars. 7.5 billion might be a lot in total dollars, but it's 0.075 percent of the total budget. Not a particularly high rate of fraud in that context.
OTOH, setting up a US based fab, even if expensive by COTS standards, would be a rounding error in the DOD's budget.
So you take an iPad (or a Android tablet) take the picture, store it away, take the continuity shot and check it. Hell, you could even write custom software to keep track of the metadata that typically got scribbled on the back.
The iPad, at least, has decent color fidelity. Better than an old Polaroid, especially under wonky lighting conditions.
I think your workflow would be much easier today than in years past.
As for 14 MP, that seems ridiculously high for a camera that can't have optics to support even a fraction of that. Spend more on the lens and less on the MP count, and I might just buy one for a couple of relatives.
Yeah, where did that decision come from? For a 3 x 4 inch print at 300 dpi that comes out to around a 1 MB file. The print quality was described as 'not so good' so it's unlikely that they are printing at some insane resolution.
Kodak sold off it's sensor business to raise operating capital. Doesn't look to good for the dinos.
Oh, printers are useful in medicine. The problem (for Polaroid) is that everybody has color printers (a stupid decision in and of itself, but I digress). I take pictures of medical stuff all the time - documenting the size of laceration repairs, extent of an infection, etc. I just email them to my hospital address and print it on the ward.
Surgery has a camera with a wireless link that prints automagically.
So even in institutions stuck with paper charts, there are a bunch of ways of printing a digital file.
(And before anyone goes all HIPAA on me, they're sent without any patient identifying info).
You don't outsource when you can't control quality. Especially in important things like aircraft and weapon systems.
Boeing tried that approach with the 787 - took them 5 years to recover. Up front cost for a lot of these things is only a small portion of the total investment. Yes, China can make things at very high quality levels. The issue is can you be comfortable that they are doing that (and not ripping off your IP which is another issue).
One thing I would have liked to know is exactly WHAT counterfeit items were found? Bad bolts? Counterfeit components? Whole boards?
So...it's not a photo after all.
It's awfully hard to get a computer to mix the developer correctly. So we gave up a while ago and decided that we would just use digital simulacrums on the net.
Of course, if we discovered the asteroid that was going to hit us was shaped like a giant phallus or something equally embarrasing we'd be more motivated to deflect it than if it was simply a dot on a RADAR screen.
No, but it would certainly be proof that God has a sense of humor.
Remember, Murphy was an optimist.
Of course, since 1998 was the hottest year on record,
Try to keep up with the rest of us here. The data keeps coming in, you might want to include it in your deliberations.
It might even change your mind.
If you are breathing supplemental oxygen for medical purposes you aren't breathing pure oxygen. Lifetime smoker types who need a bit more oxygen than available in garden variety air (aprox 20% O2) are given nasal cannula (prongs) that add 4 - 8% more oxygen for a whopping total of less than 30%. Plenty of room for CO2 to be 'blended in' by room air.
There are conditions where even relatively low concentrations of added oxygen are problematic, that's what your link talks about it. It isn't true of everyone, basically people with smoking induced lung damage.
Just pulling out citations from the literature without understanding them doesn't get you far.
Does this mean an iPad will be elected president?
But then, when you live in an insane world and you yourself are sane, it means you are insane, if the working (as opposed to dictionary) definition "sane" is "the status quo"
That's crazy talk, man.
. Does anyone think China would want a military confrontation with any of its largest customers? Do people really think Russia is likely to rise again?
The Pentagon would like to believe that. And to a certain point, that's what they are supposed to do. Historically, the US has been behind the curve when dealing with threats. Over the past couple of decades we've outspent the rest of the world many times over in term of military capabilities. That has given us overwhelming superiority for major conflicts (dealing with complicated political / military issues in stone age countries not so much). Somebody has to step in and determine when enough is enough. I don't think anybody in power has the cojones to do that.
Back to /b/ with you, little boy.
Russia is building the PAK FA 5th-gen fighter.
For India and anyone who will buy the thing. It's really an export item. Russia doesn't have enough money to develop a credible air threat these days.
And the Chinese 'stealth' fighter really isn't all that leading edge. So everyone else is still playing catchup to the US. of course we need to continue pushing the envelope but we could easily modernize the F-16 and 18 and keep up with the Jonsai for another generation.
Hell, the backbone of the bomber fleet is as old as I am. That's damned scary. I can hardly get out of bed some days much less plaster some country two continents away with tons of high explosive.
Do you know that the average Chinese farm contains more mercury than a rectal thermometer? Would you EAT a rectal thermometer? Well I would. Ah, mercury, sweetest of the transition metals.
Would you (could you possibly) eat and entire Chinese farm? Would you be hungry and hour later?
The Department of Homeland Security is willing to spend $180 million to save a single life (as per the Federal Air Marshall's estimates).
Fine. I'll take 1/2 of that and DHS can just bank the rest. If I'm blown up by a terrorist then it's on my head.
We could balance the budget on this concept alone!
I submit:
Schutzstaffel!
No, it sounds like a pastry.
And now I'm all hungry...,
This may have more to do with the second 'lost' iPhone which was handled very poorly by all reports.
You don't impersonate police officers, by omission or commission. You don't pretend it is an episode of CSI or a rerun of 'Enemy of the State". Apple has never been forthcoming about what happened (if anything). Sounds like a screw up from the folks running the show.
Huh? I pay $140 a month for two iPhones and two regular phones (AT&T, 500 minutes, no texting).
That's actually not a bad deal....
Siri is about 70% successful in practice when you can't use the full interface (mainly, while driving).
Compared to nearly 100% for basic voice control (call this person, etc). Not so good. Siri is rather random in terms of getting things correct. If I can't see the screen, it's hard to know what the stupid thing is doing. The repeat back function gets past that, but is slow and clunky.
Perhaps if you are stuck driving and working it may be a useful tool - wouldn't know, but if your job is such that you can both drive and discharge your duties simultaneously then Siri II is likely to be able to replace you entirely in the near future.
Siri is an incredible joke and is going to bite Apple in the butt.
It's not reliable. You need a complex back end to keep the brains on, something Apple is now 0 for 3 on.
It's not really any more useful than basic voice control - come on, how many people breathlessly spout text messages / appointments / reminders while running?
It's not consistent. It is really annoying to have Siri get something modestly complex right one time, then wrong the next three times. The keyboard works all the time.
The advertising push makes expectations quite high and when you can't make those expectations, you're going to get some serious bad feedback. Calling a 'beta' service isn't going to work anymore. Google killed that one a while back.
Between Siri and the iCloud, I think Apple has managed to jump the shark. We may well be seeing the high point of Appleism. And that is a good thing. A somewhat humbled Apple might actually think a bit harder about what to do next.
Biannual. Once in the southern hemisphere, once in the north.
Not all of us migrate.