I would imagine it would be the FAI definition of 100km being the recognized boundary of the atmosphere and space, even though the atmosphere doesn't truly end until past 10,000km.
Those limits are voluntary and vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, and many devices ignore those artificial limitations. Even if the restrictions are honored by a given device, the firmware can often be modified to remove those restrictions, and it is still perfectly legal for domestic use; it just can't be exported without an export permit since it is then regarded as munitions (much like high-grade encryption back in the day). Lastly, the export restriction applies only to devices to devices when speed AND altitude limitations are exceeded, since the export restrictions are intended to prevent use on an ICBM.
You do not have to spend money on software to be productive in Windows (well, beyond paying for Windows itself). There is plenty of F/OSS and free-as-in-beer proprietary software to make you very productive. Some of the commercial software can't be matched by any F/OSS or free-as-in-beer options though, such as Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. If you shoot a lot, Lightroom will save you TONS of time compared to DPP or even RawTherapee, and Photoshop plays better with Lightroom and of course with Lightroom and Photoshop plugins than Gimp ever will.
Paypal's fees are higher than the typical merchant account.
A merchant account's base rate is about 2.5% (it varies but some sites get bad deals, upward of 15% for pornographers and other niche markets with high chargeback rates, and AmEx is usually a little higher, sometimes 3.5%, debit cards are a bit lower, but corporate Visa/MC are usually significantly higher than AmEx) plus anywhere from 10 to 25 per transaction, which is a killer for a $1.00 item with less than 30% markup but still quite profitable for products with a higher margin. What they should do if they didn't from the start is have a $1.50 minimum so they're guaranteed to at least not lose money from the transaction. Merchant accounts generally forbid minimum purchase amount policies (so if your favorite coffee shop has a $10.00 minimum purchase for credit/debit cards, call Visa/MC to complain about the vendor - and I don't understand why coffee shops with a 90% gross profit margin have that policy) but having your lowest selling price for all payment methods at $1.50 gets around that rule.
This will make things LOOK pretty. It won't make missing data suddenly appear. At best it will make something ugly LOOK a little better. But that's just a computer-generated illusion, not a reflection of reality.
That's not true; the data is there. This is not for OOF (out of focus) photos due to focus error (so if you have a "bad copy" of a lens, or you didn't micro-adjust your lens, or if your lens is decentered, or you simply blew it on the shot it won't help), but for motion blur. All of the data is there but exposed multiple times as the subject moves. Topaz Labs has had a plugin for this a while and it works pretty well.
In the case of focus errors, you're right; the data isn't really there in a way to help this algorithm work.
The real aristocracy does everything by proxy, by funding, by corporations, and by front organizations. The single most effective thing they ever did was to replace real state-issued money with bank-issued monetized debt. That's how you grab a nation by the balls without ever using physical force.
Replacing real money with debt notes and the Federal Reserve comprise only one part of the problem (what backs our money - wealth? No, the "full faith and credit of The united States of America"). Another bigger part is that we keep reelecting career politicians who perpetuate this ponzi scheme into office. The only politician I know of who has been voting consistently against such egregious decisions and has been speaking openly about the core issues is Ron Paul, but unfortunately he is unlikely to be elected to the Presidency.
As long as we keep voting foolishly, continue to demand services from the government that it is actually not permitted to provide under the Constitution, and we continue to send jobs overseas, we are setting ourselves for our monetary system to completely collapse. As it is our credit has been downgraded.
Almost every PDA since the 1990's has had iPod-like connectors, since before USB.
Pre-iPhone/iPod PDA connectors support data transfers/mass storage, expansion (peripherals), charging, composite video, component video, HDMI/DVI, and S/PDIF amount other features? Sure, if you include CF slots and PCMCIA slots, possibly, but that's not what you're referring to.
Palm and Windows PDAs and phones have had most of the other things Apple-fans associated with the iPhone, including the launch screen, MP3 players, finger keyboards, cameras, etc.
Honestly, Palm was a joke until the PocketPC gained market share. I was a diehard PocketPC user and bought a lot of software for mine, as well as accessories such as GPS receivers. However, they are inferior to the iPhone even despite the presence of PCMCIA, CF, and MMC/SDIO slots in the PocketPCs.
The problem is the companies have already been paid for it - to the tune of approximately $300 billion, or 1/3 trillion dollars - and they did nothing but pocket that money.
Yes, you are. Forcing someone to offer you a good or service (and you can bet good money BTW that they'll be forced to offer it well below cost!) is a subsidy. It's morally equivalent to forcing you to move to another "home" as to force a large business to provide a clearly profitless service.
It's already been subsidized by the miscellaneous "FCC fees" that you paid for many, many years. Those fees were supposed to be allocated specifically for expansion of broadband to every address but instead was pocketed by the providers. What needs to be happen is the providers need to be FORCED to deliver what they were already paid to - or their assets (the infrastructure) siezed and then auctioned off.
The providers should be compelled to run those cables because they collected hundreds of billions in "FCC fees" which were supposed to be allocated specifically for that purpose, but the providers decided to pocket instead.
It is time to make them deliver what they have already been paid to deliver.
Loyalty to your employer? Are you kidding? They would fire your ass in a heartbeat as soon as the numbers exhibit a downturn. Our parents' generation could rely on employers to consider loyalty a two-way street; you don't job surf and they give you all kinds of benefits including pensions, profit sharing, and so on. Now, decision makers don't think twice about firing thousands of workers when the numbers take a temporary dip, just so they can show shareholders a temporary spike in profits to get their bonuses.
Besides, do you live to work, or do you work to live?
Fuck loyalty to your employer. Take the better offer.
Adding to that - I'll believe it when I see it. We haven't even achieved a sustainable, practical Hydrogen to helium reaction, and we're expected to believe a hydrogen+nickel fusion reactor is going online this month?
If it works, awesome! It will mean the "energy crisis" is solved, and fuel prices will plummet. In reality, I think the chance of this being real is every bit as high as the chance that the Moller Skycar will go into full production this year.
This would be awesome; nickel and hydrogen are both extremely plentiful, and if copper is a byproduct, this would become a very inexpensive source of pure copper, which can eliminate at least some environment-damaging copper mines.
Screw that. I already filed patent apps for "Rossi-device-in-a-computing-device" (which is innovative prior art upon which your "Rossi-device-on-the-internet" infringes, and very likely your "Rossi-device-with-an-LCD-digital-clock" because I already patented the "Rossi-device-with-an-electronic-display" in addition to the aforementioned "Rossi-device-in-a-computing-device" which covers clocks) and "Rossie-Device-in-a-portable-wireless-communications-device," oh, and a "Rossi-device-powered-wheeled-vehicle." Those innovations are non-obvious and my intellectual party. Now, excuse me while I next file patents for "Rossi-device-powered-hairdryer, " a "Rossi-device-powered-toaster-oven" and of course a "Portable-Rossi-Device" for household power generation.
Westboro will picket his funeral.He[sic] had a huge platform; gave God no glory & taught sin. MT @AP: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died at 56."
Oh - and how did Steve Jobs "teach sin?" Do Macintoshes turn you into a sociopathic pedophile? Do iPhones make you start a cult where you start judging people and proclaiming them to be in the lake of fire (or in the case of pastafarians, the lake of spaghetti sauce)? What does Ms. Phelps have to say to justify her condemning of people despite the bible she purports to follow warning her not to? Has she EVER gotten anyone "saved" through spreading her family cult's message of venemous hatred? I doubt they have one even a single person over to Christianity - and I bet that the Westboro Baptist Cult's antics have pushed tens of thousands of people from ever considering reading the bible, even to value it as a literary work.
Great job, Margie. You're as good of an evangelist as George W. Bush was a diplomat.
Phelps and his crowd is nothing but a bunch of pinheads who haven't bothered to pick up the bible. If you bother to read it, how is the gospel to be spread? By showing love for your neighbor, for your enemies, and generally not being a douchebag. Even further, the whole thing about "judge not lest ye be judged" - that is not referring to not saying to your friend "Hey. you know, you really ought to not cheat on your wife" but judging one's eternal destination. On their web site, they have this posted: "Matthew Shepard has been in hell for 4742 days" - it seems to me that Phelps is claiming to be God and is condemning Matthew Shepard -- NOT their job and they are expressly FORBIDDEN from making such proclamations. On top of that, their domain "godhatesfags.com" is blasphemous, because the bible says that God does not want anyone to suffer, but all to come to redemption. While Jesus did speak of hell quite a lot, he let people who refused to believe not believe. And, for those in "sin" (hookers. corrupt politicians, etc) was his message of condemnation? No; it was of repentance. The ones he saved venom for were those who were speaking and practicing blasphemy (from the point of view of the Tenach)
Now, whether or not the bible is a fairy tale, half truths, true, or the greatest hoax in history, everything Westboro Baptist cult does is in direct contrast to how Christians are instructed to behave, and how Christians are instructed to spread the GOOD news.
Having said all of that, why is this story being run on slashdot? By carrying this story, you are only giving the media whores at westboro baptist cult the attention they want.
Why doesn't everyone try to live by this rule: "let's not be douchebags to one another, whether or not there is a god, or flying spagheitti monster, or little green men." Being nice to one another is something one should do because it takes less energy than being an asshole, and it is self-serving to do so anyhow because it makes life easier for you.
Not necessarily. Even if the lens is an f/2.8 or f/2.2, the depth of field is really, really deep on a tiny sensor and in a vehicle the sharp focus point would have to be really close to the camera - less than a foot given some windshield designs and how some people mount their transponders. A photo of a driverless cockpit in front of the camera would be hilarious - even better would be erotic photos, or maybe flash cards featuring 1984 references.
If all it offered was a larger screen and more storage (64GB or 128GB) I'd be upgrading on Oct 14. Unfortunately, just the larger 64GB capacity isn't enough to convince me to upgrade.
Dual core? I don't use the iPhone for 3D gaming since the ui is cumbersome. I like 2D games on it (Angry Birds, World of Goo, and so on) so the upgraded graphics chipset and CPU don't impress me much. For GPS navigation, looking things up in Safari, and so on, it's plenty fast with the single core processor. If I am not multitasking, leaving it on standby/sleep mode brings the charge down only 20% over the course of a full day, so battery life is fine for a phone. And of course, the single core processor is fine for actually using the phone as (gasp) a phone. As far as the 8MP camera goes? It has a tiny lens, so small snapshots are fine - and f/2.8? On a 1/4" sensor, the depth of field is still immense, so it still produces images that look like a camera phone or very low-end P&S camera image. If I need high resolution photos, I'll use my DSLR instead. My iPhone 4 does pretty much everything the 4S will do, albeit slightly slower - well, except for Siri, which is a cute feature but not a "must have." Heck, even my old 3GS did most of what I need.
I'm sure some Apple worshippers who already have the iPhone 4 will upgrade to the latest golden calf. I'll wait for the larger screen, unless my iPhone irreparably breaks in the meantime.
Mr. Shatner, as we all know, you've been typecast due to the campy acting on Star Trek, TOS. I've read that you trained a classical shakespearean actor, and having seen some of your earlier work (including the somewhat campy Twilight Zone episodes you starred in) it is obvious you are a competent actor. As a casual Trek fan I enjoy your work - even, as, campy as, you had to play, your role as, Kirk.;)
My question is this: Was it a struggle for you to be typcast in that manner and being the brunt of jokes, and as result did you struggle then begrudgingly take on roles which parody the acting style on ST:TOS, or did you immediately see it as an opportunity to capitalize on - and expanding upon your answer, do you ever regret having done so, and if so in hindsight, what would you have done differently?
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I would imagine it would be the FAI definition of 100km being the recognized boundary of the atmosphere and space, even though the atmosphere doesn't truly end until past 10,000km.
It's suborbital, not orbital, and it never leaves US airspace, so no.
Those limits are voluntary and vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, and many devices ignore those artificial limitations. Even if the restrictions are honored by a given device, the firmware can often be modified to remove those restrictions, and it is still perfectly legal for domestic use; it just can't be exported without an export permit since it is then regarded as munitions (much like high-grade encryption back in the day). Lastly, the export restriction applies only to devices to devices when speed AND altitude limitations are exceeded, since the export restrictions are intended to prevent use on an ICBM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Restrictions_on_civilian_use
http://www.groupsrv.com/science/about460860.html
You do not have to spend money on software to be productive in Windows (well, beyond paying for Windows itself). There is plenty of F/OSS and free-as-in-beer proprietary software to make you very productive. Some of the commercial software can't be matched by any F/OSS or free-as-in-beer options though, such as Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. If you shoot a lot, Lightroom will save you TONS of time compared to DPP or even RawTherapee, and Photoshop plays better with Lightroom and of course with Lightroom and Photoshop plugins than Gimp ever will.
You keep misspelling feeBay. ;)
Paypal's fees are higher than the typical merchant account.
A merchant account's base rate is about 2.5% (it varies but some sites get bad deals, upward of 15% for pornographers and other niche markets with high chargeback rates, and AmEx is usually a little higher, sometimes 3.5%, debit cards are a bit lower, but corporate Visa/MC are usually significantly higher than AmEx) plus anywhere from 10 to 25 per transaction, which is a killer for a $1.00 item with less than 30% markup but still quite profitable for products with a higher margin. What they should do if they didn't from the start is have a $1.50 minimum so they're guaranteed to at least not lose money from the transaction. Merchant accounts generally forbid minimum purchase amount policies (so if your favorite coffee shop has a $10.00 minimum purchase for credit/debit cards, call Visa/MC to complain about the vendor - and I don't understand why coffee shops with a 90% gross profit margin have that policy) but having your lowest selling price for all payment methods at $1.50 gets around that rule.
That's not true; the data is there. This is not for OOF (out of focus) photos due to focus error (so if you have a "bad copy" of a lens, or you didn't micro-adjust your lens, or if your lens is decentered, or you simply blew it on the shot it won't help), but for motion blur. All of the data is there but exposed multiple times as the subject moves. Topaz Labs has had a plugin for this a while and it works pretty well.
In the case of focus errors, you're right; the data isn't really there in a way to help this algorithm work.
Replacing real money with debt notes and the Federal Reserve comprise only one part of the problem (what backs our money - wealth? No, the "full faith and credit of The united States of America"). Another bigger part is that we keep reelecting career politicians who perpetuate this ponzi scheme into office. The only politician I know of who has been voting consistently against such egregious decisions and has been speaking openly about the core issues is Ron Paul, but unfortunately he is unlikely to be elected to the Presidency.
As long as we keep voting foolishly, continue to demand services from the government that it is actually not permitted to provide under the Constitution, and we continue to send jobs overseas, we are setting ourselves for our monetary system to completely collapse. As it is our credit has been downgraded.
Pre-iPhone/iPod PDA connectors support data transfers/mass storage, expansion (peripherals), charging, composite video, component video, HDMI/DVI, and S/PDIF amount other features? Sure, if you include CF slots and PCMCIA slots, possibly, but that's not what you're referring to.
Honestly, Palm was a joke until the PocketPC gained market share. I was a diehard PocketPC user and bought a lot of software for mine, as well as accessories such as GPS receivers. However, they are inferior to the iPhone even despite the presence of PCMCIA, CF, and MMC/SDIO slots in the PocketPCs.
The problem is the companies have already been paid for it - to the tune of approximately $300 billion, or 1/3 trillion dollars - and they did nothing but pocket that money.
It's already been subsidized by the miscellaneous "FCC fees" that you paid for many, many years. Those fees were supposed to be allocated specifically for expansion of broadband to every address but instead was pocketed by the providers. What needs to be happen is the providers need to be FORCED to deliver what they were already paid to - or their assets (the infrastructure) siezed and then auctioned off.
The providers should be compelled to run those cables because they collected hundreds of billions in "FCC fees" which were supposed to be allocated specifically for that purpose, but the providers decided to pocket instead.
It is time to make them deliver what they have already been paid to deliver.
Loyalty to your employer? Are you kidding? They would fire your ass in a heartbeat as soon as the numbers exhibit a downturn. Our parents' generation could rely on employers to consider loyalty a two-way street; you don't job surf and they give you all kinds of benefits including pensions, profit sharing, and so on. Now, decision makers don't think twice about firing thousands of workers when the numbers take a temporary dip, just so they can show shareholders a temporary spike in profits to get their bonuses.
Besides, do you live to work, or do you work to live?
Fuck loyalty to your employer. Take the better offer.
Just rent a large degaussing coil.
Adding to that - I'll believe it when I see it. We haven't even achieved a sustainable, practical Hydrogen to helium reaction, and we're expected to believe a hydrogen+nickel fusion reactor is going online this month?
If it works, awesome! It will mean the "energy crisis" is solved, and fuel prices will plummet. In reality, I think the chance of this being real is every bit as high as the chance that the Moller Skycar will go into full production this year.
Well, oxygen and copper.
This would be awesome; nickel and hydrogen are both extremely plentiful, and if copper is a byproduct, this would become a very inexpensive source of pure copper, which can eliminate at least some environment-damaging copper mines.
Screw that. I already filed patent apps for "Rossi-device-in-a-computing-device" (which is innovative prior art upon which your "Rossi-device-on-the-internet" infringes, and very likely your "Rossi-device-with-an-LCD-digital-clock" because I already patented the "Rossi-device-with-an-electronic-display" in addition to the aforementioned "Rossi-device-in-a-computing-device" which covers clocks) and "Rossie-Device-in-a-portable-wireless-communications-device," oh, and a "Rossi-device-powered-wheeled-vehicle." Those innovations are non-obvious and my intellectual party. Now, excuse me while I next file patents for "Rossi-device-powered-hairdryer, " a "Rossi-device-powered-toaster-oven" and of course a "Portable-Rossi-Device" for household power generation.
ack! /s/one/won/
Oh - and how did Steve Jobs "teach sin?" Do Macintoshes turn you into a sociopathic pedophile? Do iPhones make you start a cult where you start judging people and proclaiming them to be in the lake of fire (or in the case of pastafarians, the lake of spaghetti sauce)? What does Ms. Phelps have to say to justify her condemning of people despite the bible she purports to follow warning her not to? Has she EVER gotten anyone "saved" through spreading her family cult's message of venemous hatred? I doubt they have one even a single person over to Christianity - and I bet that the Westboro Baptist Cult's antics have pushed tens of thousands of people from ever considering reading the bible, even to value it as a literary work.
Great job, Margie. You're as good of an evangelist as George W. Bush was a diplomat.
Phelps and his crowd is nothing but a bunch of pinheads who haven't bothered to pick up the bible. If you bother to read it, how is the gospel to be spread? By showing love for your neighbor, for your enemies, and generally not being a douchebag. Even further, the whole thing about "judge not lest ye be judged" - that is not referring to not saying to your friend "Hey. you know, you really ought to not cheat on your wife" but judging one's eternal destination. On their web site, they have this posted: "Matthew Shepard has been in hell for 4742 days" - it seems to me that Phelps is claiming to be God and is condemning Matthew Shepard -- NOT their job and they are expressly FORBIDDEN from making such proclamations. On top of that, their domain "godhatesfags.com" is blasphemous, because the bible says that God does not want anyone to suffer, but all to come to redemption. While Jesus did speak of hell quite a lot, he let people who refused to believe not believe. And, for those in "sin" (hookers. corrupt politicians, etc) was his message of condemnation? No; it was of repentance. The ones he saved venom for were those who were speaking and practicing blasphemy (from the point of view of the Tenach)
Now, whether or not the bible is a fairy tale, half truths, true, or the greatest hoax in history, everything Westboro Baptist cult does is in direct contrast to how Christians are instructed to behave, and how Christians are instructed to spread the GOOD news.
Having said all of that, why is this story being run on slashdot? By carrying this story, you are only giving the media whores at westboro baptist cult the attention they want.
Why doesn't everyone try to live by this rule: "let's not be douchebags to one another, whether or not there is a god, or flying spagheitti monster, or little green men." Being nice to one another is something one should do because it takes less energy than being an asshole, and it is self-serving to do so anyhow because it makes life easier for you.
In any event, fuck Fred Phelps and his cult.
Not necessarily. Even if the lens is an f/2.8 or f/2.2, the depth of field is really, really deep on a tiny sensor and in a vehicle the sharp focus point would have to be really close to the camera - less than a foot given some windshield designs and how some people mount their transponders. A photo of a driverless cockpit in front of the camera would be hilarious - even better would be erotic photos, or maybe flash cards featuring 1984 references.
If all it offered was a larger screen and more storage (64GB or 128GB) I'd be upgrading on Oct 14. Unfortunately, just the larger 64GB capacity isn't enough to convince me to upgrade.
Dual core? I don't use the iPhone for 3D gaming since the ui is cumbersome. I like 2D games on it (Angry Birds, World of Goo, and so on) so the upgraded graphics chipset and CPU don't impress me much. For GPS navigation, looking things up in Safari, and so on, it's plenty fast with the single core processor. If I am not multitasking, leaving it on standby/sleep mode brings the charge down only 20% over the course of a full day, so battery life is fine for a phone. And of course, the single core processor is fine for actually using the phone as (gasp) a phone. As far as the 8MP camera goes? It has a tiny lens, so small snapshots are fine - and f/2.8? On a 1/4" sensor, the depth of field is still immense, so it still produces images that look like a camera phone or very low-end P&S camera image. If I need high resolution photos, I'll use my DSLR instead. My iPhone 4 does pretty much everything the 4S will do, albeit slightly slower - well, except for Siri, which is a cute feature but not a "must have." Heck, even my old 3GS did most of what I need.
I'm sure some Apple worshippers who already have the iPhone 4 will upgrade to the latest golden calf. I'll wait for the larger screen, unless my iPhone irreparably breaks in the meantime.
Mr. Shatner, as we all know, you've been typecast due to the campy acting on Star Trek, TOS. I've read that you trained a classical shakespearean actor, and having seen some of your earlier work (including the somewhat campy Twilight Zone episodes you starred in) it is obvious you are a competent actor. As a casual Trek fan I enjoy your work - even, as, campy as, you had to play, your role as, Kirk. ;)
My question is this: Was it a struggle for you to be typcast in that manner and being the brunt of jokes, and as result did you struggle then begrudgingly take on roles which parody the acting style on ST:TOS, or did you immediately see it as an opportunity to capitalize on - and expanding upon your answer, do you ever regret having done so, and if so in hindsight, what would you have done differently?
Well he could, but he does have to pretend to posess some shame.
Just don't go pointing it near Uranus.