I'm an aussie and even I don't think this story deserves to be here. Combined with the prominent slashtervizing and other poor quality stories this place is slowly becoming a news ghetto (and apologies to all who live in ghettos)
I'm not from down under, but I do agree that this is not a Slashdot story. Although the comments are entertaining.
I think the 99% is just a moniker. What the Occupy movement really seems to be about* is income and opportunity inequality and the political influence of money.
Their goals are more income equality and democracy. Those usually benefit the ones at the bottom the most, so the Occupy is a good thing for those $4000/year workers you are defending. It's the low income people in the Western World and elsewhere who buy the products from those sweatshops, millionaires wear designer and tailor made clothing. Even if they're just black turtle necks. If the low income people have more to spend, the people in the sweatshops have more to earn.
* (I don't live in the US, so I only have a distant view of the matter)
How often does Apple screw consumers with upgrades? Old apps cease working in newer versions of their OS's and very quickly new apps come along that wont run in older versions of the same OS. And from what I've seen people have generally encountered decreased performance by upgrading iOS.
This isn't true, as the article notes, only this month were developers to drop support for iOS 3.1.3 and thus the original iPhone. iOS 4.2.1 is the new minimum version since this month so you can still get up-to-date apps for the iPhone 3G. I think almost 4.5 years of app support for a smartphone is pretty good.
My guess is that the bees are needed in different states during the season as different plants need to be pollinated. When a certain crop or fruit tree blooms will will depend a lot on location.
I've had the opposite problem. On an older Dell everything used to work with Ubuntu 10.04, but never versions break things, like dual monitor setup, sound, docking station.
One of the main problems with Windows laptops, is the custom hardware, and the lack of continued support once the manufacturer no longer sells the model.
The thing you mention for Linux on laptops is also true, upgrades to the OS often break essential functionality.
I've converted to Macbook Pro, just because they get supported properly, especially if you buy the (cheap) OS upgrades. I've used many Windows and some Linux laptops (on Lattitude and Thinkpad), and the pain just never ends. On the Apple I've only ever had problems with some weird WiFi config, other than that my 4.5 year old Macbook Pro just works.
I think one of the things that make Steve Jobs special, is his rock star status. The only other nerd/geek type person who achieved that I can think of is Einstein.
Even Bill Gates never really got out of the Nerd-corner.
There are many great pioneers of modern science and technology, but very few of the general public could name them.
I think a lot of the hatred is because a lot of people here are very socially awkward themselves, but secretly are jealous about someone with a tech backgroud escaping the nerd-corner.
I think it's the difference between invention and innovation.
What Apple under Steve Jobs excelled at, was to get brilliant engineers make an appliance instead of just a piece of technology, sometimes of their own invention, often by combining existing inventions in a new way.
The other thing is a complete believe in your own ideas and willing to bet big on them in advertising and production.
I think the real talent of Steve Jobs was in getting brilliant engineers like the Woz together, and having them create a product my grandmother can use, instead of the usual stuff engineers come up with.
Steve Jobs was all about the polish that the engineers in this world look at, and then shrug their shoulders and dismiss as irrelevant.
His strength was in combining brilliant engineering with all aspects of design to turn technology into appliances.
Sometimes his brilliant engineers indeed invented something, often they took other's ideas (in most cases licensed or bought), and combined and molded them in innovative ways.
He was an innovator, not an inventor. He's more Boeing 747 than Wright Flyer.
From this side of the Pond, that seems to be true for most of the US political system.
The most important problem I see in US politics is the regional/district system with first-past-the-pole. It highly favours incumbents, thus making change though the system almost impossible. Thus you get weird things like the Tea Party being both a separate movement and part of the Republican party. In a democracy with proportional representation, there is much more room for the new to replace the old.
No, I think this is exactly the way to go for the USA. Speed limits would then be in Nevadas/Reno for example. Or even better, you could sell it to the highest bidder for sponsoring. So then your car would go 60 Googles/KFC.
It would be awesome, people would have to buy new cars every time the rights are leased for a new term, as their speedometers would show values no longer valid.
If you can't pay for it, but still want it, find something else to want.
Sounds easy, but might be hard to do.
Nowadays communities often span the globe, but copyright is limited by borders. To watch or listen to the same things as your friends, copyright sometimes needs to be bent or broken. Unless you suggest you suggest that I should find new friends, only from my local area?
And even then, some of my friends have moved to the USA, Sweden, Portugal, India, Japan and New Zealand. Nowadays with Skype and such, it's easy to keep in touch. I don't think that limiting myself and the rest of my friends to the cross section of those things available in all those countries is really feasible unless we become hermits from popular culture.
Your solution might work if you have no friends, all of them are local, or you're shunting yourself from large parts of today's culture, but otherwise it's not a real option for a lot of us.
Copyright needs a way to become global in a way that the internet has. The only other solution will be a lot of Great Firewalls of China doing heavy handed DPI and disallowing encrypted traffic across borders. but I don't think the finance industry and banks would be happy about that.
To all media companies out there: give us what we want (not broken with DRM) and when we want it (not 9 months to 3 years later), and you'll see piracy decline significantly.
I think you missed one. I would phrase it like this: Give us what we want, when we want it, and where we want it.
The last one is important too, I basically mean format shifting should be allowed and trivial. I have no use for the latest DVD on my smartphone.
They are not getting the right effect. Articles with titles like "X is dying", usually have a self-fulfilling value to them it they get enough traction.
My main problem with OpenOffice dying, and continued development on LibreOffice, is that it took years to get the name of OpenOffice recognized and somewhat widely used. With LibreOffice you throw that brand recognition away, which will make it a much more niche product.
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Yup. It's nice to see that iOS 5 support will include my aging iPhone 3GS. The HTC Hero my colleague got around the same time has already not been supported for a while.
I've found that already with Apple desktop/laptop hardware, because it's so easy and cheap to upgrade OSX, the machines stay relevant a long time. My 4 year old Macbook Pro is still doing fine, with OSX 10.6 instead of the 10.4 it came with. The pricy but high end hardware specs when new also help of course.
So if your ships can readily navigate without GPS , then you can be pretty sure that all other military vessels will be able to do the same.
So this is not a military exercise in the normal sense, this exercise is obviously targeted at military actions against civilian populations, where GPS jamming comes into play,
I've got a friend in the navy, and he tells me that navigating without GPS is becoming somewhat rare, and something that has to be specifically practiced during excercise to keep enough routine to be confident. Especially when on a minesweeper, like he is.
Civilians, on the other hand have no critical dependency on GPS. Its largely a toy for the day to day user and a convenient (but non critical) aid for the traveler.
I've encountered a lot of people that nowadays are completely lost without GPS. Literally. They don't have maps or anything similar in the car, even touring bus drivers, taxi drivers, lorry/truck drivers and such. A couple of years ago I was on a bus on holidays, and the road that the driver was programmed into the TomTom for the driver was blocked. We were in a country where nobody spoke the language and not near any habited areas anyway. Basically the driver had no clue how to proceed or even where he was. He didn't know how to operate the TomTom either, beyond selecting the next preprogrammed way point from headquarters. And with a bus you don't want to start taking random roads, as you might get stuck. In the end we stopped one of the passing cars and fortunately they spoke a bit of English. (I do speak quite a few languages abroad, but Hungarian wasn't one of them).
No around 1998-2003 AMD had a lead on Intel. For example the AMD K7 Thunderbird was the first to break the GHz barrier (and by a margin, it was running at up to 1.4 GHz, when Intel was in the 700-800 MHz range). It was at that point by far the fastest x86 CPU around. It did have some heat issues, but mine is still running 10 years later. Their K6, Opteron and Athlon were also very good, not to mention they were the first to do 64bit with AMD64, while the Pentiums were 32bit for years after that because Inter was betting on Itanium.
Yes. As far as I know the process is called deconvolution.
What is I think new about the thing that Adobe shows here, is that it doesn't just compensate for out of focus or other instrumental effects, but for camera motion. (yes I watched the video). It determines the likely motion the camera made during the exposure. and then uses that as some kind of matrix for deconvolution.
What makes that tricky compared to a classical point spread function that only includes instrumental effects, is that it's probably not uniform across the image. There's not just x,y,z movement, but also yaw, pitch and roll. The video is very poor, but that seems to be what this algorithm is able to detect and then correct for. As such it goes beyond what we've been able to do since before the Hubble telescope needed glasses. Hogbom clean algorithm and such are from the 70's. This goes beyond that.
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I'm an aussie and even I don't think this story deserves to be here. Combined with the prominent slashtervizing and other poor quality stories this place is slowly becoming a news ghetto (and apologies to all who live in ghettos)
I'm not from down under, but I do agree that this is not a Slashdot story.
Although the comments are entertaining.
I suppose we should start with firing you and advertising your job at half your pay?
I'm not denying that Qantas has a problem, and the unions aren't helping to solve it. I don't think your solution is the answer though.
And usually if the unemployment rate in a country is 5% or lower, it's actually quite hard to find qualified personnel.
I think the 99% is just a moniker. What the Occupy movement really seems to be about* is income and opportunity inequality and the political influence of money.
Their goals are more income equality and democracy. Those usually benefit the ones at the bottom the most, so the Occupy is a good thing for those $4000/year workers you are defending.
It's the low income people in the Western World and elsewhere who buy the products from those sweatshops, millionaires wear designer and tailor made clothing. Even if they're just black turtle necks. If the low income people have more to spend, the people in the sweatshops have more to earn.
* (I don't live in the US, so I only have a distant view of the matter)
How often does Apple screw consumers with upgrades? Old apps cease working in newer versions of their OS's and very quickly new apps come along that wont run in older versions of the same OS. And from what I've seen people have generally encountered decreased performance by upgrading iOS.
This isn't true, as the article notes, only this month were developers to drop support for iOS 3.1.3 and thus the original iPhone. iOS 4.2.1 is the new minimum version since this month so you can still get up-to-date apps for the iPhone 3G. I think almost 4.5 years of app support for a smartphone is pretty good.
Nah, if you let the programmers at it, you get Emacs and vi.
Then the bosses order them to do shiny.
But neither bosses or programmers have a clue about how to make shiny work, unless they involve a usability expert.
Please read the article.
It doesn't say what you think it does. It looks at the phone models for the first three years after their release.
If you'd read the text you would know that he also tracks minor updates, this is indicated by the dashed line.
My guess is that the bees are needed in different states during the season as different plants need to be pollinated. When a certain crop or fruit tree blooms will will depend a lot on location.
I've had the opposite problem. On an older Dell everything used to work with Ubuntu 10.04, but never versions break things, like dual monitor setup, sound, docking station.
How about dual monitor setups? I've had nothing but trouble with Ubuntu 11.04/10 and dual monitor setups. Used to work on 10.04, but not any more.
One of the main problems with Windows laptops, is the custom hardware, and the lack of continued support once the manufacturer no longer sells the model.
The thing you mention for Linux on laptops is also true, upgrades to the OS often break essential functionality.
I've converted to Macbook Pro, just because they get supported properly, especially if you buy the (cheap) OS upgrades. I've used many Windows and some Linux laptops (on Lattitude and Thinkpad), and the pain just never ends. On the Apple I've only ever had problems with some weird WiFi config, other than that my 4.5 year old Macbook Pro just works.
I think one of the things that make Steve Jobs special, is his rock star status. The only other nerd/geek type person who achieved that I can think of is Einstein.
Even Bill Gates never really got out of the Nerd-corner.
There are many great pioneers of modern science and technology, but very few of the general public could name them.
I think a lot of the hatred is because a lot of people here are very socially awkward themselves, but secretly are jealous about someone with a tech backgroud escaping the nerd-corner.
I think it's the difference between invention and innovation.
What Apple under Steve Jobs excelled at, was to get brilliant engineers make an appliance instead of just a piece of technology, sometimes of their own invention, often by combining existing inventions in a new way.
The other thing is a complete believe in your own ideas and willing to bet big on them in advertising and production.
I think the real talent of Steve Jobs was in getting brilliant engineers like the Woz together, and having them create a product my grandmother can use, instead of the usual stuff engineers come up with.
Steve Jobs was all about the polish that the engineers in this world look at, and then shrug their shoulders and dismiss as irrelevant.
His strength was in combining brilliant engineering with all aspects of design to turn technology into appliances.
Sometimes his brilliant engineers indeed invented something, often they took other's ideas (in most cases licensed or bought), and combined and molded them in innovative ways.
He was an innovator, not an inventor. He's more Boeing 747 than Wright Flyer.
From this side of the Pond, that seems to be true for most of the US political system.
The most important problem I see in US politics is the regional/district system with first-past-the-pole. It highly favours incumbents, thus making change though the system almost impossible. Thus you get weird things like the Tea Party being both a separate movement and part of the Republican party. In a democracy with proportional representation, there is much more room for the new to replace the old.
No, I think this is exactly the way to go for the USA. Speed limits would then be in Nevadas/Reno for example. Or even better, you could sell it to the highest bidder for sponsoring. So then your car would go 60 Googles/KFC.
It would be awesome, people would have to buy new cars every time the rights are leased for a new term, as their speedometers would show values no longer valid.
Sounds exactly like the American Way.
If you can't pay for it, but still want it, find something else to want.
Sounds easy, but might be hard to do.
Nowadays communities often span the globe, but copyright is limited by borders. To watch or listen to the same things as your friends, copyright sometimes needs to be bent or broken. Unless you suggest you suggest that I should find new friends, only from my local area?
And even then, some of my friends have moved to the USA, Sweden, Portugal, India, Japan and New Zealand. Nowadays with Skype and such, it's easy to keep in touch. I don't think that limiting myself and the rest of my friends to the cross section of those things available in all those countries is really feasible unless we become hermits from popular culture.
Your solution might work if you have no friends, all of them are local, or you're shunting yourself from large parts of today's culture, but otherwise it's not a real option for a lot of us.
Copyright needs a way to become global in a way that the internet has. The only other solution will be a lot of Great Firewalls of China doing heavy handed DPI and disallowing encrypted traffic across borders. but I don't think the finance industry and banks would be happy about that.
This might be the case for music, although I don't think it's as black&white as you paint it, but for video and games this is not the case.
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To all media companies out there: give us what we want (not broken with DRM) and when we want it (not 9 months to 3 years later), and you'll see piracy decline significantly.
I think you missed one. I would phrase it like this: Give us what we want, when we want it, and where we want it.
The last one is important too, I basically mean format shifting should be allowed and trivial. I have no use for the latest DVD on my smartphone.
They are not getting the right effect. Articles with titles like "X is dying", usually have a self-fulfilling value to them it they get enough traction.
My main problem with OpenOffice dying, and continued development on LibreOffice, is that it took years to get the name of OpenOffice recognized and somewhat widely used. With LibreOffice you throw that brand recognition away, which will make it a much more niche product.
Yup. It's nice to see that iOS 5 support will include my aging iPhone 3GS. The HTC Hero my colleague got around the same time has already not been supported for a while.
I've found that already with Apple desktop/laptop hardware, because it's so easy and cheap to upgrade OSX, the machines stay relevant a long time. My 4 year old Macbook Pro is still doing fine, with OSX 10.6 instead of the 10.4 it came with. The pricy but high end hardware specs when new also help of course.
So if your ships can readily navigate without GPS , then you can be pretty sure that all other military vessels will be able to do the same.
So this is not a military exercise in the normal sense, this exercise is obviously targeted at military actions against civilian populations, where GPS jamming comes into play,
I've got a friend in the navy, and he tells me that navigating without GPS is becoming somewhat rare, and something that has to be specifically practiced during excercise to keep enough routine to be confident. Especially when on a minesweeper, like he is.
Civilians, on the other hand have no critical dependency on GPS. Its largely a toy for the day to day user and a convenient (but non critical) aid for the traveler.
I've encountered a lot of people that nowadays are completely lost without GPS. Literally. They don't have maps or anything similar in the car, even touring bus drivers, taxi drivers, lorry/truck drivers and such.
A couple of years ago I was on a bus on holidays, and the road that the driver was programmed into the TomTom for the driver was blocked. We were in a country where nobody spoke the language and not near any habited areas anyway. Basically the driver had no clue how to proceed or even where he was. He didn't know how to operate the TomTom either, beyond selecting the next preprogrammed way point from headquarters. And with a bus you don't want to start taking random roads, as you might get stuck. In the end we stopped one of the passing cars and fortunately they spoke a bit of English. (I do speak quite a few languages abroad, but Hungarian wasn't one of them).
No around 1998-2003 AMD had a lead on Intel. For example the AMD K7 Thunderbird was the first to break the GHz barrier (and by a margin, it was running at up to 1.4 GHz, when Intel was in the 700-800 MHz range). It was at that point by far the fastest x86 CPU around. It did have some heat issues, but mine is still running 10 years later. Their K6, Opteron and Athlon were also very good, not to mention they were the first to do 64bit with AMD64, while the Pentiums were 32bit for years after that because Inter was betting on Itanium.
Yes. As far as I know the process is called deconvolution.
What is I think new about the thing that Adobe shows here, is that it doesn't just compensate for out of focus or other instrumental effects, but for camera motion. (yes I watched the video). It determines the likely motion the camera made during the exposure. and then uses that as some kind of matrix for deconvolution.
What makes that tricky compared to a classical point spread function that only includes instrumental effects, is that it's probably not uniform across the image. There's not just x,y,z movement, but also yaw, pitch and roll. The video is very poor, but that seems to be what this algorithm is able to detect and then correct for. As such it goes beyond what we've been able to do since before the Hubble telescope needed glasses. Hogbom clean algorithm and such are from the 70's. This goes beyond that.