You're an idiot if you think that the USA would be allowed to just carpet nuke North Korea. China would not permit that.
If the USA were to be overtly attacked by a North Korean ICBM it would be anybody's guess as to what the response wold be, but certainly it would not be to turn NK into a "glowing wasteland." In any event, NK would probably attack in secret using covert delivery means, and get away with it as well, if they wanted to nuke the USA.
And, please tell me the names of the GM execs and major shareholders who admit to being in the CIA. If you can't, then your statement is not credible, as Huawei is actually headed by current ChiCom military.
Actually, you're the same AC, who is actually also just the guy who got his ass team-raped for being a dumbass and defending a PLA backed telecom venture.
I am an amateur radio operator and have been programming computers and building electronics since the mid 1980s. Fuck you. There's more geek in one of my fingernail clippings than there is in your entire family. I do not keep up on all the marketing terms used by handheld gaming system / gossip machine makers' marketdroids, but this just enhances my geek cred. Leave the task of marketing to sorority girls and frat boys, I have important shit to do.
Bluetooth will not be supplanted in the marketplace by some half-baked solution that has a more limited range anyway.
I am a real photographer dumbass. I have been doing commercial photography for fifteen years. I use copy stands all the time. A good one will have several lights attached at the factory.
Anyway, depth of *field* is important to consider, but combining the fact that webcams have tiny sensors, with the fact that the system will be able to use longer exposures, makes the lens / camera system of secondary importance to the choice of stand, which will make all the difference. The teeny weeny sensors in webcams have very deep DOF, so this can be neglected at the outset. Sounds like the guy wants the cheapest thing he can bang together. Not a really good system.
Now that you know where to find a real photographer, I can correct some other terminology errors you have in your vocabulary. We do not use the term astigmatism, as it is vague in the photographic sense. Instead use barrel or pincushion distortion. Also,, an ideal stand will have the lens axis perfectly perpendicular to the axis of e material being imaged, so in that sense "perfectly flat" is an acceptable term to use when speaking to laymen such as yourself.
"The Communications Liberty & Innovation Project" is actually part of the CEI, a "right wing" (in actuality it favors any government activity that will make its sponsors money) think tank. Representing major TV networks is one of their jobs.
The reality is that people won't buy Netflix enabled TVs if they don't care about Netflix.
That's OK, I haven't ever heard that acronym before! I guess, after googling, that it is a on-Bluetooth Bluetooth? Wat the fuck is the point of yet another short-range communications standard? Is that nickel royalty payment going to hurt the device manufacturer that much?
The down side of lacking NFC is that you can't say that you can bump your phone into random strangers' phones until they "squirt" files at each other.
The camera makes little difference for still program material. Color balance is typically handled automatically, but can always be adjusted.
I would say that you are focusing on the wrong aspect of your system - coming up with a good stand is probably going to affect usability much ore an the camera. I would suggest starting with a nice copy stand and maybe going from there.
You have no idea if there is code hidden in Chinese telecom gear. Neither does Australia or India - this is why they don't trust it.
Saying there is no threat is impossible. Just because a threat has not been identified, or publicly disclosed, does not mean there is no threat. The threat could be on the die itself - the Chinese have been busted implementing on die mystery functions on seemingly otherwise normal hardware before.
How about this - I won't believe that Huawei, essentially a PLA front, will ever produce anything that I would be comfortable with, ever.
Google beat them to it with GoogleTap, but the water is lukewarm and it only works about half the time. Even when it works, the water comes out slowly and jerkily.
Are you seriously suggesting that the PLA wouldn't hide secret functions in its gear?
Seriously?
This is primarily a security decision, and if there is nationalism or protectionism at play AT ALL it is secondary to the real actual threat.
You've posted similar fairy tales before, handwaving away legitimate security concern as racism. You realize that it's ridiculous to assert this, don't you?
Are you shitting me? Microsoft, through a campaign of relentless Pharisaic marketing and subversion, has managed to get MANY universities to convert to Windows on the backend. Sure, it sucks, but at this point your average Uni IT department is filled to the brim with CTO types and diversity hires, not actual geeks. These shills in training know which side of the bread their butter is on.
Because many of these departments simply waste all their money, the new hipness is to offer some half-assed cloud solution so the school can function while IT subjects selected lab monkeys (departments) to ever stranger IT setups.
Sure, it's fun to slag off for a few days, fly to some tourist-infested "destination" and sit around mentally masturbating with other geeks for a while, but at a Usenix event? Pfffffffft, don't make me puke.
These days any such event is merely presentation natter presentation of marketing jazz Fromm one or another of the event sponsors. Sadly almost every conference is turning out to be this way, but hey, gotta make a sheckel right?
Instead of running around with your hair on fire, just stop and think about this for a minute: OS X is finished. It's done. The only thing left to do now is to slowly prune away the shit, refine things a hair, and so forth. Sure, there are things to do, UI scaling being among them, but unlike with Gnome and Windows, we will not see OS X just throw itself out off a cliff and get totally redesigned just for kicks. It will pretty much look the same as it does now, 5 versions up.
And I would counter our claim that OS X is becoming iOS. The full screen option is there for people with small laptops. You don't have to use it, as with Launchpad.
I'd be more worried about Gnome and other "free" desktop environments slowly being subverted and turned into monetization vectors, and Windows spying on you, and Android's relentless reporting back to the mother ship, than I would be about OS X.
You idiot, I never said that. I was merely mocking somebody who glibly equates bananas to hot particles or sustained exposure to low grade radiation.
In any event, it's clear that your version of science knowledge is limited to partially digesting nuclear industry propaganda and Japanese government "all clear" reports.
Remember, if you smile, the radiation can't affect you.
We keep hearing doom stories about how OS X is on the "slow-kill" list and is slated to merge with iOS, but this doesn't make any sense at all. Many of the people who buy OS X boxes buy them because it's the first really good Unix-based desktop OS (maybe the only one!) and these same sorts are often scientists, engineers, and other alpha-geeks.
When you have to actually lie and say that Apple outlined a long-term plan to leave the desktop market completely, we all know you're full of shit with the rest of the crap you spewed.
BlackThorne_DK said that bananas are scary, clearly trying to imply that gordona was hyping up the fear. Gordona was correct in saying that continued exposure to low-dose radiation is a bad thing, which is what BlackThorne_DK was moronically mocking.
My question is, what are YOU playing here? You appear to have missed the point of both of the parent posts above mine. You weird sicko.
"You made the claim that Android could not control a media player connected to a TV."
Where? I never made such a claim and it's telling that you need to insist that I did.
"Either way, it is no harder to have Android control a TV connected device than an iPod and few people buy their mp3 player/PDA for the purpose of hooking it to a TV anyway."
Again, I never said that people buy an iPod Touch or an iPad in order to hook them to the TV. I said they use them to control iTunes, which is an extremely handy and painless endeavor.
"iTunes is the desktop computer interface app for working with iDevices. Not the other way around."
One uses iTunes to put media on the portable Apple devices, but you can also use those same portable devices to control iTunes. It's pretty handy and all very slick and easy.
"You are falling into the classic Apple fanboy trap. Someone says that an alternative is just as good. You declare that the alternatives can't do some feature that the iDevice does. When it is pointed out that the feature is available, you go into defensive mode."
No, no. I never said (again) that you can't use your Droid to control a given media player solution. Never did I say that. You're falling into the classic Fandroid trap of declaring that a collection of non-integrated devices can be cobbled together into a partially-working "solution" and comparing it with a solution that is integrated from the get-go, and further, asserting that the cobbled together "solution" is just as nice and easy, which it isn't.
"You pretend like the person insulted Apple and it is your duty to defend Apple's honor."
I don't care about Apple's honor and duly criticize them for many of their failings. However, iTunes / iOS device integration and remote control facility is certainly not one of those failings, as it works like a charm.
"I do happen to think that Android is better,"
Noooooooo, really?
"but no where in my post do I state, or even imply superiority of the Android platform. I listed it as an alternative to an iPod, which it is."
No, it's not. It's its own thing, which can be used in a similar manner to an iPod, but for most average users it is not an alternative of any kind.
Tight integration and ease of use is the cornerstone of Apple's strategy. This is why a lot of folks are willing to simply buy a couple pieces of Apple kit - they know that they'll be able to figure out how to use them. Take Apple's audio jacks on their Airport devices - you can simply put one near the stereo and run a line between them, and an no more than 5 minutes you can be sitting in your living room listening to the iTunes library that already manages your music served from your office upstairs, controlled with an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. Nothing comparable is offered in the way of integration by any other manufacturer. Sure, it is possible to cobble together a system that performs a similar function, but it will (as you admit) be deficient in some feature or another.
I like Apple's system because it reduces the amount of time I spend uselessly fucking with my various systems. I used to run Linux and then FreeBSD as my main home OSs but OS X has made their applications all but obsolete in my particular use case.
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You're an idiot if you think that the USA would be allowed to just carpet nuke North Korea. China would not permit that.
If the USA were to be overtly attacked by a North Korean ICBM it would be anybody's guess as to what the response wold be, but certainly it would not be to turn NK into a "glowing wasteland." In any event, NK would probably attack in secret using covert delivery means, and get away with it as well, if they wanted to nuke the USA.
Not gonna happen. Pairing a Bluetooth device is no incredible burden as it stands now.
"Even though no one has officially claimed responsibility everyone knows who was behind it."
Bullshit. Israeli military officers have even admitted in their domestic media that it was their doing,
You said "you," and decided to make this about my preferences. It just shows that you are desperate to deflect the issue at hand.
Who says I trust Cisco or Alcatel gear?
And, please tell me the names of the GM execs and major shareholders who admit to being in the CIA. If you can't, then your statement is not credible, as Huawei is actually headed by current ChiCom military.
Actually, you're the same AC, who is actually also just the guy who got his ass team-raped for being a dumbass and defending a PLA backed telecom venture.
"Turn in your geek card."
I am an amateur radio operator and have been programming computers and building electronics since the mid 1980s. Fuck you. There's more geek in one of my fingernail clippings than there is in your entire family. I do not keep up on all the marketing terms used by handheld gaming system / gossip machine makers' marketdroids, but this just enhances my geek cred. Leave the task of marketing to sorority girls and frat boys, I have important shit to do.
Bluetooth will not be supplanted in the marketplace by some half-baked solution that has a more limited range anyway.
I am a real photographer dumbass. I have been doing commercial photography for fifteen years. I use copy stands all the time. A good one will have several lights attached at the factory.
Anyway, depth of *field* is important to consider, but combining the fact that webcams have tiny sensors, with the fact that the system will be able to use longer exposures, makes the lens / camera system of secondary importance to the choice of stand, which will make all the difference. The teeny weeny sensors in webcams have very deep DOF, so this can be neglected at the outset. Sounds like the guy wants the cheapest thing he can bang together. Not a really good system.
Now that you know where to find a real photographer, I can correct some other terminology errors you have in your vocabulary. We do not use the term astigmatism, as it is vague in the photographic sense. Instead use barrel or pincushion distortion. Also,, an ideal stand will have the lens axis perfectly perpendicular to the axis of e material being imaged, so in that sense "perfectly flat" is an acceptable term to use when speaking to laymen such as yourself.
"The Communications Liberty & Innovation Project" is actually part of the CEI, a "right wing" (in actuality it favors any government activity that will make its sponsors money) think tank. Representing major TV networks is one of their jobs.
The reality is that people won't buy Netflix enabled TVs if they don't care about Netflix.
That's OK, I haven't ever heard that acronym before! I guess, after googling, that it is a on-Bluetooth Bluetooth? Wat the fuck is the point of yet another short-range communications standard? Is that nickel royalty payment going to hurt the device manufacturer that much?
The down side of lacking NFC is that you can't say that you can bump your phone into random strangers' phones until they "squirt" files at each other.
Ah the "economist". No thanks, I don't like their brand of propaganda at all.
Huawei is a spook shop run by Chinese spies, and this is common knowledge.
The camera makes little difference for still program material. Color balance is typically handled automatically, but can always be adjusted.
I would say that you are focusing on the wrong aspect of your system - coming up with a good stand is probably going to affect usability much ore an the camera. I would suggest starting with a nice copy stand and maybe going from there.
You have no idea if there is code hidden in Chinese telecom gear. Neither does Australia or India - this is why they don't trust it.
Saying there is no threat is impossible. Just because a threat has not been identified, or publicly disclosed, does not mean there is no threat. The threat could be on the die itself - the Chinese have been busted implementing on die mystery functions on seemingly otherwise normal hardware before.
How about this - I won't believe that Huawei, essentially a PLA front, will ever produce anything that I would be comfortable with, ever.
Google beat them to it with GoogleTap, but the water is lukewarm and it only works about half the time. Even when it works, the water comes out slowly and jerkily.
Are you seriously suggesting that the PLA wouldn't hide secret functions in its gear?
Seriously?
This is primarily a security decision, and if there is nationalism or protectionism at play AT ALL it is secondary to the real actual threat.
You've posted similar fairy tales before, handwaving away legitimate security concern as racism. You realize that it's ridiculous to assert this, don't you?
I am an ardent fan of free software. I pay good money for good hardware!
Yeah I get all my "quality hardware" Linux tablets for freeeeeeeeee! Freeeeeee software, freeeeeeeeeeeee hardware!
Are you shitting me? Microsoft, through a campaign of relentless Pharisaic marketing and subversion, has managed to get MANY universities to convert to Windows on the backend. Sure, it sucks, but at this point your average Uni IT department is filled to the brim with CTO types and diversity hires, not actual geeks. These shills in training know which side of the bread their butter is on.
Because many of these departments simply waste all their money, the new hipness is to offer some half-assed cloud solution so the school can function while IT subjects selected lab monkeys (departments) to ever stranger IT setups.
The university is dead as far as It goes.
Sure, it's fun to slag off for a few days, fly to some tourist-infested "destination" and sit around mentally masturbating with other geeks for a while, but at a Usenix event? Pfffffffft, don't make me puke.
These days any such event is merely presentation natter presentation of marketing jazz Fromm one or another of the event sponsors. Sadly almost every conference is turning out to be this way, but hey, gotta make a sheckel right?
Instead of running around with your hair on fire, just stop and think about this for a minute: OS X is finished. It's done. The only thing left to do now is to slowly prune away the shit, refine things a hair, and so forth. Sure, there are things to do, UI scaling being among them, but unlike with Gnome and Windows, we will not see OS X just throw itself out off a cliff and get totally redesigned just for kicks. It will pretty much look the same as it does now, 5 versions up.
And I would counter our claim that OS X is becoming iOS. The full screen option is there for people with small laptops. You don't have to use it, as with Launchpad.
I'd be more worried about Gnome and other "free" desktop environments slowly being subverted and turned into monetization vectors, and Windows spying on you, and Android's relentless reporting back to the mother ship, than I would be about OS X.
You idiot, I never said that. I was merely mocking somebody who glibly equates bananas to hot particles or sustained exposure to low grade radiation.
In any event, it's clear that your version of science knowledge is limited to partially digesting nuclear industry propaganda and Japanese government "all clear" reports.
Remember, if you smile, the radiation can't affect you.
We keep hearing doom stories about how OS X is on the "slow-kill" list and is slated to merge with iOS, but this doesn't make any sense at all. Many of the people who buy OS X boxes buy them because it's the first really good Unix-based desktop OS (maybe the only one!) and these same sorts are often scientists, engineers, and other alpha-geeks.
When you have to actually lie and say that Apple outlined a long-term plan to leave the desktop market completely, we all know you're full of shit with the rest of the crap you spewed.
BlackThorne_DK said that bananas are scary, clearly trying to imply that gordona was hyping up the fear. Gordona was correct in saying that continued exposure to low-dose radiation is a bad thing, which is what BlackThorne_DK was moronically mocking.
My question is, what are YOU playing here? You appear to have missed the point of both of the parent posts above mine. You weird sicko.
Are you really implying that low-grade radiation from bananas is the same as inhaling hot particles from a power station that blew up?
Don't be a moron, with statements like yours people correctly assume that shysters are the ones telling them not to be afraid.
You may think you are being cute but your attitude is part of the problem.
"You made the claim that Android could not control a media player connected to a TV."
Where? I never made such a claim and it's telling that you need to insist that I did.
"Either way, it is no harder to have Android control a TV connected device than an iPod and few people buy their mp3 player/PDA for the purpose of hooking it to a TV anyway."
Again, I never said that people buy an iPod Touch or an iPad in order to hook them to the TV. I said they use them to control iTunes, which is an extremely handy and painless endeavor.
"iTunes is the desktop computer interface app for working with iDevices. Not the other way around."
One uses iTunes to put media on the portable Apple devices, but you can also use those same portable devices to control iTunes. It's pretty handy and all very slick and easy.
"You are falling into the classic Apple fanboy trap. Someone says that an alternative is just as good. You declare that the alternatives can't do some feature that the iDevice does. When it is pointed out that the feature is available, you go into defensive mode."
No, no. I never said (again) that you can't use your Droid to control a given media player solution. Never did I say that. You're falling into the classic Fandroid trap of declaring that a collection of non-integrated devices can be cobbled together into a partially-working "solution" and comparing it with a solution that is integrated from the get-go, and further, asserting that the cobbled together "solution" is just as nice and easy, which it isn't.
"You pretend like the person insulted Apple and it is your duty to defend Apple's honor."
I don't care about Apple's honor and duly criticize them for many of their failings. However, iTunes / iOS device integration and remote control facility is certainly not one of those failings, as it works like a charm.
"I do happen to think that Android is better,"
Noooooooo, really?
"but no where in my post do I state, or even imply superiority of the Android platform. I listed it as an alternative to an iPod, which it is."
No, it's not. It's its own thing, which can be used in a similar manner to an iPod, but for most average users it is not an alternative of any kind.
Tight integration and ease of use is the cornerstone of Apple's strategy. This is why a lot of folks are willing to simply buy a couple pieces of Apple kit - they know that they'll be able to figure out how to use them. Take Apple's audio jacks on their Airport devices - you can simply put one near the stereo and run a line between them, and an no more than 5 minutes you can be sitting in your living room listening to the iTunes library that already manages your music served from your office upstairs, controlled with an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. Nothing comparable is offered in the way of integration by any other manufacturer. Sure, it is possible to cobble together a system that performs a similar function, but it will (as you admit) be deficient in some feature or another.
I like Apple's system because it reduces the amount of time I spend uselessly fucking with my various systems. I used to run Linux and then FreeBSD as my main home OSs but OS X has made their applications all but obsolete in my particular use case.