The third link has a good explanation of why h264 isn't really free. First thing to be noted is that any deal they offer today can be withdrawn in five years anyway. The free bit is only that they will not bill the end user. the encoding is not free the streaming is not free and the decoding is absolutely not free. The last one means any browser wishing to offer this functionality has to pay for it and unfortunatly it can't pass on the patent protection granted by paying for this so there is no way for firefox to offer this.
So really we should say no to h264 and hope google doesn't get creamed in its patent battles.
You are complaining that free lessons are not in your preferred format?
Do you really need help to Google transcode flash video? You can always play flash video in a virtual machine if you really don't trust the source. which also implies that you don't trust the guy who's offering you free lessons.
Do you even consider how you are presenting yourself here?
flash gordon will play flash by converting it to javascript. presumably you could create your own page feed in the flash object of interest and be able to play the flash video without flash, of course the details are left as an exercise for the reader. alternatively you can use the adobe's flash player or use the gpl version.
seriously get over it, flash may not be open but its free enough to work on most systems where allowed. It's only Apple really that has an issue with flash on the iPhone. Not that flash couldn't run on the iPhone Apple will not allow it. I believe with android you are good to go.
Flash is available for most platforms, the only problems with it are in your head.
Anchor baby you say not including the USA, until recently if you were born in Ireland you automatically got citizenship. It is less of a big deal now since European Union citizens can settle and work within other European member states and if your husband / wife is a European citizen you get to play too.
The law in Ireland had to be changed with so many pregnant african women flying into the countries airports.
Now wouldn't you like to hear a condensed version of what the fuss is about.
For several years Jeffrey Morris has been setting up email marketing businesses around the Leeds area and taking advantage of both employees and customers. Is it coincidence that he has changed the company name five times since the it all began...
The original techdirt story seems to have been about a peer to peer email scheme meant to protect you from spam but the company next door so to speak are a spam marketing company run by pretty much the same people. The history is a bit convoluted but essentially it seems Jeffrey Morris renames and restarts his companies on a regular basis some might say when they stink just a bit too much. Its a wonderful thread spanning 6 years of jeff morris and his internet based "marketing" companies.
The thread has been spammed with biblical quotes and tom jones lyrics, i guess they are left in to avoid techdirt appearing to endorse the thread comments. occasionally there are testimonials by possible customers or employee's saying how wonderful jeffs email promotions company is others saying that his services under deliver and others that he rips off his staff too.
some noted posters include a nick griffin and Mr adolf hitler. Largely adding a little humour to the proceedings.
I believe one problem mr morris has with this thread is that if you google his current ventures then you find this thread with all the old names included. They just won't give him a break, seems that possible ex-employee's sometimes possible current (at the time) employees keep joining the dots which tends to lead potential customers to run away from mr morris's advances (well his companies any way).
If you generally read slashdots comments you should enjoy reading the thread at techdirt and see if you can follow the story.
The thing about the mosque which I think has been a clever move by somebody, is how much of an effect the concept of having a mosque 2 blocks from ground zero has had its got people thinking and talking sometimes both at the same time. Yet there is no substantive funding for the project, I'm not sure if it ever will get funded.
you really have to be rational about this if 2 blocks is too near how far away should it be 10, 50, blocks away? The real problem is that Americans are blaming other Americans for something they had nothing to do with. Who exactly is being terrorised here? If I was an American Muslim I really wouldn't choose to go that Mosque the chances of some "patriot" deciding to shoot me on my way to church or blowing the place up really would be quite unsettling.
However the concept of the Mosque is very powerful since it asks Americans to think and that is a good thing.
If you take a situation closer to home for me the division of people into Catholic or Protestant its easy to see that you shouldn't blame everyday Catholics and Protestants for the actions of militants.
dividing a community against itself is very powerful and destructive and this is something 9/11 achieved and its about time Americans began to heal that divide.
It would have made an interesting project with a lot of critical and insightful thinking. The outrage is perhaps more interesting than the original idea. Over 200 australians have been killed by terrorists in total.
hows that compare with car deaths or murders per year in australia.
Terrorism doesn't do a great deal towards advancing political aims and probably achieves the opposite effect.
The personal tragedy is huge of course and surprisingly far reaching one of the students was related to someone killed by terrorism.
An obvious case where you can uncover an insight has to be the new mosque in new york. Gut reaction it is a bad idea. Considered reaction you are associating an innocent group of americans with a bunch of terrorists who killed 3,000 people. Thats not right they had nothing to do with 9/11. So why are people acting like they did and just who is being terrorised now?
To deny religious freedom to segregate certain groups of americans is wrong which is why the mosque should be allowed.
The idea of the mosque was to provide a place to heal the wounds of 9/11 and the first thing that needs to be recognised is that it wasn't american muslims that carried out 9/11.
you make it sound like something new. usually dialects and accents tend to be mostly confined to geographic area's rather than social groups but its always existed. It is part of a cultural identity and often is intended to keep outsiders out. Classic case cockney rhyming slang.
It is kind of a verbal encryption used in place of plain text, and most of us should be familiar with using some encryption in computer systems and why.
Most of us can fully understand regular English just some choose not to speak it unless it suits them.
I can speak Polish as a second language and most people wouldn't understand what I was saying. Thats not a problem If I want you to comprehend I will choose language and words you understand.
I had a typical tall fridge freezer , runs for about 5 minutes an hour consumes 100 watts while its running with the lamp inside consuming an extra 10 watts when the door was open cost me about £85 second hand new it was double that a Becko A rated fridge freezer. I metered it myself just for my own interest.
Granted this was in the UK but i'm sure there must be similar standards and fridge freezers in the USA.
Rats are a little more industrious than you might think theres 2 big plastic trash bins outside the commercial premises type here and both have holes in the bottom chewed out by rats.
Standard operating procedure here was to give the bin a good kick so if there was a rat inside he would dive for cover not come jumping out at you when you open the lid.
not had that problem now there's no food in there for them to scavenge
One person usually wouldn't have enough food waste for a dog but families usually throw away loads of food. if you have a neighbour with a dog they probably will take scraps for their dog from you.
Dogs also give you exercise and help keep your weight down, your less likely to over eat and clear your plate (rather than see food go to waste). Also you can stop eating those bits you need to use up because the dog will have them.
Keeps rats away too , if theres no food in your bins then you don't get problems with vermin and other animals raiding your bins.
You don't need to keep a dog yourself if someone nearby has a dog who can eat your scraps. Anything we would throw away will usually be better quality than dog food.
Dogs are always pleased to see you and won't wreck your head like women can. He even gives you an excuse to escape the house for a while.
Between dogs , bottle and can banks and a wood burning stove , you don't really need to be throwing much in the trash at all. Even coffee grounds can go on the fire.
You needn't have food waste if you get a dog or know someone with a dog. Commercial dog food is lousy, a dog will eat it if he is hungry enough but last nights pizza half a pork chop thats gone in seconds.
failing that you can compost too. or even chuck it on the fire.
Can Google buy Oracle extract the IP they want and later spin Oracle of again minus the bits its becoming apparent it would have been better Oracle hadn't got hold of in the first place?
Google is bigger and richer and they wouldn't be losing money taking over a profitable company, would they?
The medically recommended limits for alcohol are 21 units a week for a man and 14 units for a man.
now the real question is what is a unit and how is it calculated.
well if you take a beer at 4.8% alcohol 1 litre would contain 4.8 units and a litre of 40% vodka would be 40 units.
depending on your pint size american or english a pint is roughly half a litre. so that 4.8% beer you drank has mostly used up your days beer ration. Now one thing most people are interested in is how long it takes alcohol to leave your system and its roughly 1 unit an hour so that pint you had will take nearly 2.5 hours to leave your body.
now your units in the USA might be different but thats how its calculated in europe.
I would guess it will show who actually uses the default install on an OEM machine.
some people might install windows , or another distro or a cleaner release. I would hope a good percentage actually run the ubuntu distro that comes with the pc, but having some figures to back that up could obviously help in negotiations.
I'll let it run at least initially, I am curious as to how many people run ubuntu and where (to at least the country level). If ordinary users can access that information I will be happy enough to run it on my systems.
your stats are all over the place literally, your opera 50% share crawls along the bottom of the graph where your showing IE as gaining. Thou did you notice the blue line was higher at the start of the graph than where it is now. The graph doesn't actually say where the stats cover I assume it is worldwide or maybe just microsofts website. we just don't know do we.
ok so browser share is pretty much static and perhaps there is some more interest in chrome.
I wasn't going to post but maybe this is the reason for the tribal comments. There is no value in measuring contributions by various sections of the linux community commercial or others.
Red hat makes valuable contributions so does Cannonical, so do many other companies other than SCO i think we can agree on that. I have a bias towards ubuntu it works on my systems and i am familiar with it. However i don't think the sun shines out of cannonicals arse , that now belongs to oracle.
but seriously measuring contributions made by other people is divisive and unnecessary. I've contributed in a few area's and just helping newbies is a contribution that most can make. The size of the contribution doesn't matter. Redhat is commercially successful and turns a profit mark shuttleworth pumps money into Linux via ubuntu and the parent seems to say that isn't good enough do more.
really size of contribution is up to the contributer and assigning value to each contribution is just divisive linux is being used more by more people and there are more people contributing thats all we need to know.
getting partisan and making digs only makes for trouble.
Ok it's rather silly to try and get more out of say a 640 x 480 picture, if that is the resolution of the image.
Although years ago i used a hand scanner to scan a scratched photo initially the scan was black or white pixels and you could see patterns at that level and continue them into the scratched area's and restore the picture. Before the scanner software took the black and white pixels and converted to gray scale.
Ocr can work quite well figuring out what the scanned text is it has a limited number of possible letters and numbers plus generally these are grouped into words which helps produce a successful guess.
sometimes you can filter out dust and other noise which helps enhance the detail by removing the distractions.
Now lets examine 35mm film it can contain far more detail than you would normally see on a typical print. The information is in the image but it is too small to be seen at the resolution that is being viewed at. It is there and it was captured.
With digital photography modern camera's are capturing at 4000x3000 pixels and we can be viewing at 400x300 which makes each visible pixel an average of 10 x 10 around it. However zooming in will reveal detail which is normally lost. I have a projector which currently gives a 2.5 meter wide picture. connected to my netbook i can see detail that I wasn't aware of when I took the picture and I can zoom and pan about just like in blade runner.
Video capture is more limited since the resolution is down to 640*480 on my camera but digital movie cameras are capturing at 4000x3000 which will have a lot of information lost to the general public. Presumably the film studio can still view the tiny details. I can't since the information has been lost in the dvd or blueray copy.
The other trouble with digital is the camera generally compresses the images meaning the data which was captured has already been thrown out.
This is one good reason to keep shooting 35mm or larger film formats because there really can be details which can be enhanced. It's a little more expensive than digital per picture but its never been cheaper to shoot with an SLR. You don't have to buy prints and you can scan your own negatives or positives and bring out detail that you wouldn't have from a digital camera.
Worth considering getting your own darkroom equipment too. Hopefully there will be enough people to keep some of the film and paper companies producing because film is still better than digital when it comes to image quality.
Some problems with facebook which I am sure most people have is the inability to separate contacts into at least 3 categories friends family and workmates is the very least that most people want to some degree.
Another issue is more control over friends of friends. If I want to keep privacy to our shared friends only then that should be possible. I shouldn't be getting updates of friends, friends.
Streamline the games Farmville is quite like the sims but with no AI sure your friends can play your neighbors but why not select a number of plots and choose a crop to sow. sure offer automatic harvesting at stupid o'clock when the crop is ready people might be willing to pay for that.
so with that plus the option of bring all your facebook friends with you. maybe even share stuff from facespace or whatever you call it and paste it to your old facebook account. Selectively bring in notifications from facebook , ie no game updates for example.
make it a smooth transition and people may barely notice they left.
Actually 20% is the subset of smart phone android users that would buy a Google branded smart phone with android. As most phones running android are not from Google that suggests that if the current minority rises to twenty percent a larger percentage would be running android but not on a Google branded phone. 40+ % android and and 22% iPhone leaving 38% for anything else windows mobile, blackberry ect.
However the survey isn't credible as you can pull the figures anyway you want them.
windows mobile is pants its slow and buggy and Microsofts latest version won't let you install what you want. thats why I won't go for windows mobile. iPhone Os-4 at last introduces multitasking but also has its antenna issue. There is also a lack of flash. iPhone with OS-5 and redesigned hardware might change that. I could possibly go for the touch or an ipad.
Android seems to be the best option I can choose who i want to use for my carrier. I also can cut back on the number of plans I am using probably tethering works i believe The software isn't as limited as on the iPhone and it multitasks. Proper usb support. opening up a host of possibilitys a wide range of hardware giving a range of features.
Android has the edge for me, but for non geeks iPhone seems to be it, (so did razrs a few years ago being trendy doesn't last).
Quite often I hear people moan but Linux doesn't support Lexmark printers , the link i've given says nothing about Linux drivers it's purely about the merits of buying a Dell printer which are Lexmark manufactured.
The printers are sold cheaply but are expensive for ink and toner so are not recommended for windows!
To be honest a mono Lazer printer is fast and economical and generally gives years of service. Its probably worth paying for professional color printing when it's really needed.
sudo is not really any different from any other password system. Ok the dialog box asking isn't quite the same as on Windows Vista, or 7 or OSX but the principle is the same. raising privileges to perform an administrative task.
Things really are that simple in most cases, plug in my new kodak camera recognized pretty much its a mass storage device. If I use picassa I can import and post the photo's on the net. Printers and scanners just plug and play (if they are not lexmark).
It's a shame that Dell are choosing to hide away its 100% Linux compatible hardware.
A good compromise would be to supply with Windows 7 restricted edition and mention in the technical specifications compatible with ubuntu version x upwards. Thats enough for me to know if a Dell is suitable for my needs. After all why not take the free windows 7 license and dual boot or virtualise Windows 7
The fact Dell is choosing to hide its Linux capable hardware speaks volumes.
I never said people were not blocking ads by default, I said you can choose to allow ads on certain sites and build your own white list and sites like doubleclick can be blocked on one site but not on another.
You probably can go to the effort of building a minimal blacklist and expand it over time but who really wants to spend time stripping ads from web pages.
Do you see anyone wanting to use an adblocker which doesn't block by default? You can edit the filter list if you want this.
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The third link has a good explanation of why h264 isn't really free.
First thing to be noted is that any deal they offer today can be withdrawn in five years anyway.
The free bit is only that they will not bill the end user.
the encoding is not free
the streaming is not free
and the decoding is absolutely not free.
The last one means any browser wishing to offer this functionality has to pay for it and unfortunatly it can't pass on the patent protection granted by paying for this so there is no way for firefox to offer this.
So really we should say no to h264 and hope google doesn't get creamed in its patent battles.
You are complaining that free lessons are not in your preferred format?
Do you really need help to Google transcode flash video?
You can always play flash video in a virtual machine if you really don't trust the source.
which also implies that you don't trust the guy who's offering you free lessons.
Do you even consider how you are presenting yourself here?
flash gordon will play flash by converting it to javascript.
presumably you could create your own page feed in the flash object of interest and be able to play the flash video without flash, of course the details are left as an exercise for the reader.
alternatively you can use the adobe's flash player or use the gpl version.
seriously get over it, flash may not be open but its free enough to work on most systems where allowed. It's only Apple really that has an issue with flash on the iPhone. Not that flash couldn't run on the iPhone Apple will not allow it. I believe with android you are good to go.
Flash is available for most platforms, the only problems with it are in your head.
Anchor baby you say not including the USA, until recently if you were born in Ireland you automatically got citizenship. It is less of a big deal now since European Union citizens can settle and work within other European member states and if your husband / wife is a European citizen you get to play too.
The law in Ireland had to be changed with so many pregnant african women flying into the countries airports.
Now wouldn't you like to hear a condensed version of what the fuss is about.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20041001/0941211.shtml
this is the thread techdirt were threatened about, it seems strangely familiar so it might have been the subject of a slashdot story before.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=113128438710254&ref=search this is a current facebook group
For several years Jeffrey Morris has been setting up email marketing businesses around the Leeds area and taking advantage of both employees and customers. Is it coincidence that he has changed the company name five times since the it all began...
The original techdirt story seems to have been about a peer to peer email scheme meant to protect you from spam but the company next door so to speak are a spam marketing company run by pretty much the same people. The history is a bit convoluted but essentially it seems Jeffrey Morris renames and restarts his companies on a regular basis some might say when they stink just a bit too much.
Its a wonderful thread spanning 6 years of jeff morris and his internet based "marketing" companies.
The thread has been spammed with biblical quotes and tom jones lyrics, i guess they are left in to avoid techdirt appearing to endorse the thread comments. occasionally there are testimonials by possible customers or employee's saying how wonderful jeffs email promotions company is others saying that his services under deliver and others that he rips off his staff too.
some noted posters include a nick griffin and Mr adolf hitler. Largely adding a little humour to the proceedings.
I believe one problem mr morris has with this thread is that if you google his current ventures then you find this thread with all the old names included. They just won't give him a break, seems that possible ex-employee's sometimes possible current (at the time) employees keep joining the dots which tends to lead potential customers to run away from mr morris's advances (well his companies any way).
If you generally read slashdots comments you should enjoy reading the thread at techdirt and see if you can follow the story.
One of the first things declared in the constitution of the United States is all men are created equal and have freedom of religion.
By tearing away at these fundamental rights, you tear away at the foundation on which America is built.
Terrorists are not destroying America , misguided patriotic Americans are.
The thing about the mosque which I think has been a clever move by somebody, is how much of an effect the concept of having a mosque 2 blocks from ground zero has had its got people thinking and talking sometimes both at the same time. Yet there is no substantive funding for the project, I'm not sure if it ever will get funded.
you really have to be rational about this if 2 blocks is too near how far away should it be 10, 50, blocks away?
The real problem is that Americans are blaming other Americans for something they had nothing to do with. Who exactly is being terrorised here? If I was an American Muslim I really wouldn't choose to go that Mosque the chances of some "patriot" deciding to shoot me on my way to church or blowing the place up really would be quite unsettling.
However the concept of the Mosque is very powerful since it asks Americans to think and that is a good thing.
If you take a situation closer to home for me the division of people into Catholic or Protestant its easy to see that you shouldn't blame everyday Catholics and Protestants for the actions of militants.
dividing a community against itself is very powerful and destructive and this is something 9/11 achieved and its about time Americans began to heal that divide.
It would have made an interesting project with a lot of critical and insightful thinking. The outrage is perhaps more interesting than the original idea. Over 200 australians have been killed by terrorists in total.
hows that compare with car deaths or murders per year in australia.
Terrorism doesn't do a great deal towards advancing political aims and probably achieves the opposite effect.
The personal tragedy is huge of course and surprisingly far reaching one of the students was related to someone killed by terrorism.
An obvious case where you can uncover an insight has to be the new mosque in new york. Gut reaction it is a bad idea. Considered reaction you are associating an innocent group of americans with a bunch of terrorists who killed 3,000 people. Thats not right they had nothing to do with 9/11. So why are people acting like they did and just who is being terrorised now?
To deny religious freedom to segregate certain groups of americans is wrong which is why the mosque should be allowed.
The idea of the mosque was to provide a place to heal the wounds of 9/11 and the first thing that needs to be recognised is that it wasn't american muslims that carried out 9/11.
you make it sound like something new.
usually dialects and accents tend to be mostly confined to geographic area's rather than social groups but its always existed. It is part of a cultural identity and often is intended to keep outsiders out. Classic case cockney rhyming slang.
It is kind of a verbal encryption used in place of plain text, and most of us should be familiar with using some encryption in computer systems and why.
Most of us can fully understand regular English just some choose not to speak it unless it suits them.
I can speak Polish as a second language and most people wouldn't understand what I was saying. Thats not a problem If I want you to comprehend I will choose language and words you understand.
I had a typical tall fridge freezer , runs for about 5 minutes an hour consumes 100 watts while its running with the lamp inside consuming an extra 10 watts when the door was open cost me about £85 second hand new it was double that a Becko A rated fridge freezer. I metered it myself just for my own interest.
Granted this was in the UK but i'm sure there must be similar standards and fridge freezers in the USA.
here is a typical cheap example
http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/4857730/Trail/searchtext%3EBECKO+FRIDGE+FREEZER.htm
* Energy consumption: 283kWh per year based on standard test results for 24 hours.
thats 0.775 Kw a day (/365) or rounded up 33 watts an hour.
Rats are a little more industrious than you might think theres 2 big plastic trash bins outside the commercial premises type here and both have holes in the bottom chewed out by rats.
Standard operating procedure here was to give the bin a good kick so if there was a rat inside he would dive for cover not come jumping out at you when you open the lid.
not had that problem now there's no food in there for them to scavenge
One person usually wouldn't have enough food waste for a dog but families usually throw away loads of food.
if you have a neighbour with a dog they probably will take scraps for their dog from you.
Dogs also give you exercise and help keep your weight down, your less likely to over eat and clear your plate (rather than see food go to waste). Also you can stop eating those bits you need to use up because the dog will have them.
Keeps rats away too , if theres no food in your bins then you don't get problems with vermin and other animals raiding your bins.
You don't need to keep a dog yourself if someone nearby has a dog who can eat your scraps. Anything we would throw away will usually be better quality than dog food.
Dogs are always pleased to see you and won't wreck your head like women can. He even gives you an excuse to escape the house for a while.
Between dogs , bottle and can banks and a wood burning stove , you don't really need to be throwing much in the trash at all. Even coffee grounds can go on the fire.
You needn't have food waste if you get a dog or know someone with a dog.
Commercial dog food is lousy, a dog will eat it if he is hungry enough but last nights pizza half a pork chop thats gone in seconds.
failing that you can compost too. or even chuck it on the fire.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316
Swedish authorities have cancelled the rape warrant.
looks like the parent is right.
Can Google buy Oracle extract the IP they want and later spin Oracle of again minus the bits its becoming apparent it would have been better Oracle hadn't got hold of in the first place?
Google is bigger and richer and they wouldn't be losing money taking over a profitable company, would they?
depends on what your units are defined as
The medically recommended limits for alcohol are 21 units a week for a man and 14 units for a man.
now the real question is what is a unit and how is it calculated.
well if you take a beer at 4.8% alcohol 1 litre would contain 4.8 units and a litre of 40% vodka would be 40 units.
depending on your pint size american or english a pint is roughly half a litre. so that 4.8% beer you drank has mostly used up your days beer ration.
Now one thing most people are interested in is how long it takes alcohol to leave your system and its roughly 1 unit an hour so that pint you had will take nearly 2.5 hours to leave your body.
now your units in the USA might be different but thats how its calculated in europe.
I would guess it will show who actually uses the default install on an OEM machine.
some people might install windows , or another distro or a cleaner release.
I would hope a good percentage actually run the ubuntu distro that comes with the pc, but having some figures to back that up could obviously help in negotiations.
I'll let it run at least initially, I am curious as to how many people run ubuntu and where (to at least the country level). If ordinary users can access that information I will be happy enough to run it on my systems.
If that access isn't available then I won't.
your stats are all over the place literally, your opera 50% share crawls along the bottom of the graph where your showing IE as gaining. Thou did you notice the blue line was higher at the start of the graph than where it is now. The graph doesn't actually say where the stats cover I assume it is worldwide or maybe just microsofts website.
we just don't know do we.
ok so browser share is pretty much static and perhaps there is some more interest in chrome.
pretty much expected don't you think
I wasn't going to post but maybe this is the reason for the tribal comments.
There is no value in measuring contributions by various sections of the linux community commercial or others.
Red hat makes valuable contributions so does Cannonical, so do many other companies other than SCO i think we can agree on that. I have a bias towards ubuntu it works on my systems and i am familiar with it. However i don't think the sun shines out of cannonicals arse , that now belongs to oracle.
but seriously measuring contributions made by other people is divisive and unnecessary. I've contributed in a few area's and just helping newbies is a contribution that most can make. The size of the contribution doesn't matter. Redhat is commercially successful and turns a profit mark shuttleworth pumps money into Linux via ubuntu and the parent seems to say that isn't good enough do more.
really size of contribution is up to the contributer and assigning value to each contribution is just divisive
linux is being used more by more people and there are more people contributing thats all we need to know.
getting partisan and making digs only makes for trouble.
all contributions have some value
Ok it's rather silly to try and get more out of say a 640 x 480 picture, if that is the resolution of the image.
Although years ago i used a hand scanner to scan a scratched photo initially the scan was black or white pixels and you could see patterns at that level and continue them into the scratched area's and restore the picture. Before the scanner software took the black and white pixels and converted to gray scale.
Ocr can work quite well figuring out what the scanned text is it has a limited number of possible letters and numbers plus generally these are grouped into words which helps produce a successful guess.
sometimes you can filter out dust and other noise which helps enhance the detail by removing the distractions.
Now lets examine 35mm film it can contain far more detail than you would normally see on a typical print. The information is in the image but it is too small to be seen at the resolution that is being viewed at. It is there and it was captured.
With digital photography modern camera's are capturing at 4000x3000 pixels and we can be viewing at 400x300 which makes each visible pixel an average of 10 x 10 around it. However zooming in will reveal detail which is normally lost. I have a projector which currently gives a 2.5 meter wide picture. connected to my netbook i can see detail that I wasn't aware of when I took the picture and I can zoom and pan about just like in blade runner.
Video capture is more limited since the resolution is down to 640*480 on my camera but digital movie cameras are capturing at 4000x3000 which will have a lot of information lost to the general public. Presumably the film studio can still view the tiny details. I can't since the information has been lost in the dvd or blueray copy.
The other trouble with digital is the camera generally compresses the images meaning the data which was captured has already been thrown out.
This is one good reason to keep shooting 35mm or larger film formats because there really can be details which can be enhanced. It's a little more expensive than digital per picture but its never been cheaper to shoot with an SLR. You don't have to buy prints and you can scan your own negatives or positives and bring out detail that you wouldn't have from a digital camera.
Worth considering getting your own darkroom equipment too. Hopefully there will be enough people to keep some of the film and paper companies producing because film is still better than digital when it comes to image quality.
Some problems with facebook which I am sure most people have is the inability to separate contacts into at least 3 categories friends family and workmates is the very least that most people want to some degree.
Another issue is more control over friends of friends. If I want to keep privacy to our shared friends only then that should be possible. I shouldn't be getting updates of friends, friends.
Streamline the games Farmville is quite like the sims but with no AI sure your friends can play your neighbors but why not select a number of plots and choose a crop to sow. sure offer automatic harvesting at stupid o'clock when the crop is ready people might be willing to pay for that.
so with that plus the option of bring all your facebook friends with you.
maybe even share stuff from facespace or whatever you call it and paste it to your old facebook account. Selectively bring in notifications from facebook , ie no game updates for example.
make it a smooth transition and people may barely notice they left.
Actually 20% is the subset of smart phone android users that would buy a Google branded smart phone with android. As most phones running android are not from Google that suggests that if the current minority rises to twenty percent a larger percentage would be running android but not on a Google branded phone.
40+ % android and and 22% iPhone leaving 38% for anything else windows mobile, blackberry ect.
However the survey isn't credible as you can pull the figures anyway you want them.
windows mobile is pants its slow and buggy and Microsofts latest version won't let you install what you want.
thats why I won't go for windows mobile.
iPhone Os-4 at last introduces multitasking but also has its antenna issue. There is also a lack of flash.
iPhone with OS-5 and redesigned hardware might change that. I could possibly go for the touch or an ipad.
Android seems to be the best option
I can choose who i want to use for my carrier.
I also can cut back on the number of plans I am using probably
tethering works i believe
The software isn't as limited as on the iPhone and it multitasks.
Proper usb support. opening up a host of possibilitys
a wide range of hardware giving a range of features.
Android has the edge for me, but for non geeks iPhone seems to be it, (so did razrs a few years ago being trendy doesn't last).
I wasn't , thanks for being so informative.
http://www.pacificink.com/link.php?pg=dell-faqs
Quite often I hear people moan but Linux doesn't support Lexmark printers , the link i've given says nothing about Linux drivers it's purely about the merits of buying a Dell printer which are Lexmark manufactured.
The printers are sold cheaply but are expensive for ink and toner so are not recommended for windows!
To be honest a mono Lazer printer is fast and economical and generally gives years of service. Its probably worth paying for professional color printing when it's really needed.
sudo is not really any different from any other password system. Ok the dialog box asking isn't quite the same as on Windows Vista, or 7 or OSX but the principle is the same.
raising privileges to perform an administrative task.
Things really are that simple in most cases, plug in my new kodak camera recognized pretty much its a mass storage device. If I use picassa I can import and post the photo's on the net. Printers and scanners just plug and play (if they are not lexmark).
It's a shame that Dell are choosing to hide away its 100% Linux compatible hardware.
A good compromise would be to supply with Windows 7 restricted edition and mention in the technical specifications compatible with ubuntu version x upwards.
Thats enough for me to know if a Dell is suitable for my needs. After all why not take the free windows 7 license and dual boot or virtualise Windows 7
The fact Dell is choosing to hide its Linux capable hardware speaks volumes.
I never said people were not blocking ads by default, I said you can choose to allow ads on certain sites and build your own white list and sites like doubleclick can be blocked on one site but not on another.
You probably can go to the effort of building a minimal blacklist and expand it over time but who really wants to spend time stripping ads from web pages.
Do you see anyone wanting to use an adblocker which doesn't block by default? You can edit the filter list if you want this.