Re:5 Megapixel camera?!? Why this thing again?
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Agreed. Not only that, but increasing the megapixels while having the same sensor size leads to more noise. I think 3MP is a good sweet spot for phone cameras. Just work on the optics and you could have something usable!
Especially with "Snappy" for the iPhone (in Cydia) you can bring up the camera app ready to take pictures in under a second.
That is a bit of a strawman argument if I ever saw one.
When in your life have you seen mileage rated in distance per mass?
It is distance per volume (since the volume is fixed in your tank, not the mass).
Diesel is around 7% higher in energy released for the same volume of fuel burned. That is a free gimme there for good mileage. Most of the rest come from thus (wikipedia):
"They burn less fuel than a petrol engine performing the same work, due to the engine's higher temperature of combustion and greater expansion ratio.Gasoline engines are typically 25% efficient while diesel engines can convert over 30% of the fuel energy into mechanical energy"
Why would a ship 'up to no good' be broadcasting AIS ? And wake detection to see if someone is up to no good doesn't seem any good either since anything under a certain size isn't even required to transmit AIS in the first place.
I'm actually curious how you combine the speeds from multiple devices which use the same gateway to get a single faster connection. Doesn't this thing normally require seperate gateways per connection?
The other way to get around this is to have 2 routers working for you doing basically the same thing, but the speedup is only between those two routers. To get faster internet speeds I'm pretty sure separate gateways are needed. Do they get around this ?
<li>Toothpaste. Now was that Crest Tartar Control plus Whitening, or Crest Whitening plus Tartar Control? And did you want that in paste or gel? I swear, we need meta-toothpaste, where it's formulated on the spot. You have a big board with all sorts of shit like "mint," "sparkly" (for the child or man-child in your household), "tartar control," and buzzword of the year, "whitening." Then you push a whole bunch and hit the <b>MIX</b> button, and get a toothpaste tube with all that shit custom-made. It'd be like ordering an HP server; it'd even warn you about compatibility issues! But I digress.</li></quote>
That is actually a great idea. Some machine in Walmart, big Crest logo. Pick your flavour, features, gel/paste, etc. Give it a name and it mixes it, puts it into a tube, prints your name on there, and you're done! You should probably patent the idea, I'm pretty sure it's marketable.
The gist of it is that he is reproducing someone else's text who has the spelling error in it. He is showing he knows its wrong and that it is the other guy's mistake not his.
Of course, if TFA doesn't say who's in the wrong context then he's just being a smartass.
I use Adblock+ for chrome and it works well, but keep in mind it does not actually block anything. It still downloads all the ads and then hides them upon render. Probably little to no speed benefit but sure is easy on the eyes.
It isn't their fault though, apparently this functionality has not been coded into Chrome yet.
A device which can serve no other function than to be a door stop, and cannot be repaired without total disassembly or being sent to the manufacturer is said to be bricked.
Does the PS1 have any other useful abilities once the disk drive is dead? If not, this fits handily into the proper use of the word 'Bricked'.
Unlike the common usage out there today 'Does not work until I hit a 'Restore' button or plug it into a computer'
Replying to AC so you may not see this, but I have seen a lot of avocation for trying this (habinero or cayenne pepper powder mixed with bottom paint).
The results seem very mixed, but with a slight positive slant. IE, it probably helps but the results are not conclusive.
It is a constant battle against marine life which wants to live on any part of the hull in the water.
The main antifouling up to now which has been very effective is hard bottom paints containing Tributyltin. wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tributyltin
This has unfortunately been proven to be fairly toxic to marine life and has consequently been banned worldwide for all craft under a certain length. Not sure of the length but large shipping vessels and somewhat the navy etc are still using it as it really is the only proven way to do a good job keeping that bottom clean.
All modern antifoulings for pleasure yachts are now based one of two things. One is a copper (copper oxide) mixed with various biocides. This is a hard type paint, often merely ground copper mixed with epoxy. This will give you a very smooth finish, and it depends on the copper (which most marine life doesn't like) and the biocides to keep the hull fairly clean. You have to dive under once in a while and scrub the hull down. Small price to pay for sailing around paradise!
The other type used is called an 'ablative' paint which may or may not contain copper/biocides but is meant to flake off itself as the marine life grows on it. This does not work for boats that live more at marinas with little sailing time, and requires bottom-jobs on the boat more often. The upside is that it is much easier to apply and does not require as much hull cleaning.
It all comes down to..if they could invent something that did not require frequent haulouts and kept your hull clean and smooth, they could easily charge $500 per gallon of the stuff and people would be lining up to pay for it.
The joy of anecdotal evidence. I have had an iPhone since the 3G came out, and despite dropping it causing me to have to do an RMA (shh), it has never forced me to reboot it due to a lockup.
Apps? OH yeah, lots of crashes. The OS on the other hand, never.
While this does suck the GP is right. Tethering was enabled by forcing your computer to accept carrier bundle files that people hacked to make tethering work. All apple did was close the 'hole' of the custom carrier files. They did not specifically disable tethering or anything else, just only allowed carrier bundles from the carriers, as they intended in the first place.
With the 3GS, the images are signed by apple at time of download. Unless you have saved a 3.0 or 3.0.1 ipsw that you downloaded yourself, you will NOT be able to restore below 3.1 ever again.
It is actually worse than this for 3.0 lovers. Apple is refusing to sign any more firmware images pre-3.1. This means if you have a problem and need to restore, you WILL be upgraded to 3.1, even if you just want to restore your 3.0. There is (as of yet, and speaking to the dev team maybe forever) no solution around this problem. You only hope would be to have grabbed your signing keys prior to the 3.1 release(or just keeping a 3.0 image around downloaded within itunes), which is something beyond most of the population.
Unfortunately, the 3.1 update also removes any ability of an unlock because they upgrade the baseband as well. I use the term upgrade loosely because they removed most of the minicom commands the baseband will accept to limit their exposure to exploits.
That being said I'm happy with my iPhone because I'm in the small minority of people who jailbreak their phones and don't hit update until a dev team member has a solution for me to upgrade without losing the functionality I've come to enjoy.
What I'm more curious about is any of the hardware there for it. Multiple antennas for MIMO? Any 5GHz hardware? The biggest advantage to wireless-N IMO is it moves the wireless out of the stupidly crowded 2.4GHz ISM band. The 5GHz band is (at least for now) far less crowded and this unlicensed band has quite a few more channels to spread the devices out a bit more spectrum wise.
The chip is one thing but without any other supporting hardware, it doesn't make much difference. The chip could have been chosen for better power characteristics or a few other reasons. Time will tell if apple enables any N style features but I am not holding my breath.
Speaking of Wikileaks..they really should have something like distributed storage of their content with parity data mixed in.
I bet a LOT of people would let the client run in the background, allowing Wikileaks to spread their info over a huge area which is essentially impossible to shutdown or censor.
Seems like using code from the bittorrent protocol and having several servers in central countries running the 'tracker' so to speak, any of them able to serve up the full database pulling from the distributed net.
Price fixing is when several competitors agree to keep a certain product at the same price. That is not what is happening here.
Here the manufacturer is setting the MSRP of a certain game, and many resellers follow this. They don't have to, they aren't being forced to. They are just getting the game at a certain price and selling it at the MSRP for maximum profit.
Also, to think supply and demand is the only thing that governs prices on really anything but commodities (and even then other things interfere) is to not look very deeply into why things are priced the way they are.
Essentially..digital distribution, in theory the 'supply' is infinite. But the reality is, an average number of people will buy this game depending on price. At 60$ this might be x, at 30 this might be 1.5x. So they are making less profits selling the game at $30 than $60.
Sometimes the opposite is true though and they do mess up. People selling on steam have found that when selling for $60 they got x, and selling for $30 they got 8x or better. They realized that for some titles or in some circumstance, cheaper is the better way to go.
A ton factors into this. For some products, very little will be sold if the price is too LOW due to the fact that the perceived value will be low. The same product at a higher price will sell more AND make more profit. This may or may not happen with software titles, but its just something to make you think that supply and demand are no where near the only thing determining pricing.
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Agreed. Not only that, but increasing the megapixels while having the same sensor size leads to more noise. I think 3MP is a good sweet spot for phone cameras. Just work on the optics and you could have something usable!
Especially with "Snappy" for the iPhone (in Cydia) you can bring up the camera app ready to take pictures in under a second.
You can also download other browsers in the app store (Though they all pretty much suck).
That is a bit of a strawman argument if I ever saw one.
When in your life have you seen mileage rated in distance per mass?
It is distance per volume (since the volume is fixed in your tank, not the mass).
Diesel is around 7% higher in energy released for the same volume of fuel burned. That is a free gimme there for good mileage. Most of the rest come from thus (wikipedia):
"They burn less fuel than a petrol engine performing the same work, due to the engine's higher temperature of combustion and greater expansion ratio.Gasoline engines are typically 25% efficient while diesel engines can convert over 30% of the fuel energy into mechanical energy"
Why would a ship 'up to no good' be broadcasting AIS ? And wake detection to see if someone is up to no good doesn't seem any good either since anything under a certain size isn't even required to transmit AIS in the first place.
It doesn't get much more plain and functional than this google one. Plus, you just click the dropdown to get a nice language translator.
http://www.google.ca/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&hl=en&q=functional
I'm actually curious how you combine the speeds from multiple devices which use the same gateway to get a single faster connection. Doesn't this thing normally require seperate gateways per connection?
The other way to get around this is to have 2 routers working for you doing basically the same thing, but the speedup is only between those two routers. To get faster internet speeds I'm pretty sure separate gateways are needed. Do they get around this ?
http://lartc.org/lartc.html#LARTC.LOADSHARE
Bad quote sorry.
<li>Toothpaste. Now was that Crest Tartar Control plus Whitening, or Crest Whitening plus Tartar Control? And did you want that in paste or gel? I swear, we need meta-toothpaste, where it's formulated on the spot. You have a big board with all sorts of shit like "mint," "sparkly" (for the child or man-child in your household), "tartar control," and buzzword of the year, "whitening." Then you push a whole bunch and hit the <b>MIX</b> button, and get a toothpaste tube with all that shit custom-made. It'd be like ordering an HP server; it'd even warn you about compatibility issues! But I digress.</li></quote>
That is actually a great idea. Some machine in Walmart, big Crest logo. Pick your flavour, features, gel/paste, etc. Give it a name and it mixes it, puts it into a tube, prints your name on there, and you're done! You should probably patent the idea, I'm pretty sure it's marketable.
I take it you don't know what 'sic' means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic
The gist of it is that he is reproducing someone else's text who has the spelling error in it. He is showing he knows its wrong and that it is the other guy's mistake not his.
Of course, if TFA doesn't say who's in the wrong context then he's just being a smartass.
I use Adblock+ for chrome and it works well, but keep in mind it does not actually block anything. It still downloads all the ads and then hides them upon render. Probably little to no speed benefit but sure is easy on the eyes.
It isn't their fault though, apparently this functionality has not been coded into Chrome yet.
Oops forgot to log in, above comment is me.
Actually if you're candian you have quite a bit more oil than they do :D
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves
Canada #2
Iraq #4.
If we stopped exporting the stuff we'd have enough for ourselves for a longgg time.
A device which can serve no other function than to be a door stop, and cannot be repaired without total disassembly or being sent to the manufacturer is said to be bricked.
Does the PS1 have any other useful abilities once the disk drive is dead? If not, this fits handily into the proper use of the word 'Bricked'.
Unlike the common usage out there today 'Does not work until I hit a 'Restore' button or plug it into a computer'
Replying to AC so you may not see this, but I have seen a lot of avocation for trying this (habinero or cayenne pepper powder mixed with bottom paint).
The results seem very mixed, but with a slight positive slant. IE, it probably helps but the results are not conclusive.
For pleasure yacht sailors this is a big topic.
It is a constant battle against marine life which wants to live on any part of the hull in the water.
The main antifouling up to now which has been very effective is hard bottom paints containing Tributyltin. wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tributyltin
This has unfortunately been proven to be fairly toxic to marine life and has consequently been banned worldwide for all craft under a certain length. Not sure of the length but large shipping vessels and somewhat the navy etc are still using it as it really is the only proven way to do a good job keeping that bottom clean.
All modern antifoulings for pleasure yachts are now based one of two things. One is a copper (copper oxide) mixed with various biocides. This is a hard type paint, often merely ground copper mixed with epoxy. This will give you a very smooth finish, and it depends on the copper (which most marine life doesn't like) and the biocides to keep the hull fairly clean. You have to dive under once in a while and scrub the hull down. Small price to pay for sailing around paradise!
The other type used is called an 'ablative' paint which may or may not contain copper/biocides but is meant to flake off itself as the marine life grows on it. This does not work for boats that live more at marinas with little sailing time, and requires bottom-jobs on the boat more often. The upside is that it is much easier to apply and does not require as much hull cleaning.
It all comes down to..if they could invent something that did not require frequent haulouts and kept your hull clean and smooth, they could easily charge $500 per gallon of the stuff and people would be lining up to pay for it.
The joy of anecdotal evidence. I have had an iPhone since the 3G came out, and despite dropping it causing me to have to do an RMA (shh), it has never forced me to reboot it due to a lockup.
Apps? OH yeah, lots of crashes. The OS on the other hand, never.
I'm late so no one is likely to see this, but if you only needed email there are other VERY cheap or almost free options, initial equipment aside.
If you dont mind paying and do not want to take a HAM radio operators exam, there is something called Sailmail: http://www.sailmail.com/
You install a single side band radio and pactor modem and you get email coverage anywhere on earth for about $250 a year.
If you don't mind the amateur radio exam, you can just use Winlink: http://www.winlink.org/
This is free, only having to pay the initial costs of the SSB/Pactor.
Lots of info on both sites as far as setup etc, and the coverage is global.
While this does suck the GP is right. Tethering was enabled by forcing your computer to accept carrier bundle files that people hacked to make tethering work. All apple did was close the 'hole' of the custom carrier files. They did not specifically disable tethering or anything else, just only allowed carrier bundles from the carriers, as they intended in the first place.
You cannot, that is what I'm talking about.
With the 3GS, the images are signed by apple at time of download. Unless you have saved a 3.0 or 3.0.1 ipsw that you downloaded yourself, you will NOT be able to restore below 3.1 ever again.
Ah crap, sorry to reply to my own commend, but I forgot to mention this signing issue only applies to the 3GS. 3G firmware images are unsigned.
The only thing you lose if you upgrade the 3G without pwnagetool is losing the ability to unlock (again, possibly forever).
It is actually worse than this for 3.0 lovers. Apple is refusing to sign any more firmware images pre-3.1. This means if you have a problem and need to restore, you WILL be upgraded to 3.1, even if you just want to restore your 3.0. There is (as of yet, and speaking to the dev team maybe forever) no solution around this problem. You only hope would be to have grabbed your signing keys prior to the 3.1 release(or just keeping a 3.0 image around downloaded within itunes), which is something beyond most of the population.
Unfortunately, the 3.1 update also removes any ability of an unlock because they upgrade the baseband as well. I use the term upgrade loosely because they removed most of the minicom commands the baseband will accept to limit their exposure to exploits.
That being said I'm happy with my iPhone because I'm in the small minority of people who jailbreak their phones and don't hit update until a dev team member has a solution for me to upgrade without losing the functionality I've come to enjoy.
The thing is, I just don't think any 5GHz hardware (antennas, etc) was found.
What I'm more curious about is any of the hardware there for it. Multiple antennas for MIMO? Any 5GHz hardware? The biggest advantage to wireless-N IMO is it moves the wireless out of the stupidly crowded 2.4GHz ISM band. The 5GHz band is (at least for now) far less crowded and this unlicensed band has quite a few more channels to spread the devices out a bit more spectrum wise.
The chip is one thing but without any other supporting hardware, it doesn't make much difference. The chip could have been chosen for better power characteristics or a few other reasons. Time will tell if apple enables any N style features but I am not holding my breath.
Speaking of Wikileaks..they really should have something like distributed storage of their content with parity data mixed in.
I bet a LOT of people would let the client run in the background, allowing Wikileaks to spread their info over a huge area which is essentially impossible to shutdown or censor.
Seems like using code from the bittorrent protocol and having several servers in central countries running the 'tracker' so to speak, any of them able to serve up the full database pulling from the distributed net.
Price fixing is when several competitors agree to keep a certain product at the same price. That is not what is happening here.
Here the manufacturer is setting the MSRP of a certain game, and many resellers follow this. They don't have to, they aren't being forced to. They are just getting the game at a certain price and selling it at the MSRP for maximum profit.
Also, to think supply and demand is the only thing that governs prices on really anything but commodities (and even then other things interfere) is to not look very deeply into why things are priced the way they are.
Essentially..digital distribution, in theory the 'supply' is infinite. But the reality is, an average number of people will buy this game depending on price. At 60$ this might be x, at 30 this might be 1.5x. So they are making less profits selling the game at $30 than $60.
Sometimes the opposite is true though and they do mess up. People selling on steam have found that when selling for $60 they got x, and selling for $30 they got 8x or better. They realized that for some titles or in some circumstance, cheaper is the better way to go.
A ton factors into this. For some products, very little will be sold if the price is too LOW due to the fact that the perceived value will be low. The same product at a higher price will sell more AND make more profit. This may or may not happen with software titles, but its just something to make you think that supply and demand are no where near the only thing determining pricing.