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I have pseudocode for this:
- If article subject = AV_scare then scan article for study author.
"Host-based intrusion prevention firm Carbon Black" - Check
- If author in interested parties then salt=salt+10000
Hmmmm... salty.
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Given the number of dizzy bird icons I see when I access twitter from a desktop browser (i.e. quite a lot, and I'm not even a heavy twitter user), I'd say they've been exceeding the capacity of their servers for quite some time.
It doesn't even seem to depend on time of day. I've even seen "dizzy bird" at 9am GMT, a time which is usually good for the internet as the Americans are asleep.
Maybe they should try to target the politician loving twitter-bot hoards a little better?
That's very similar to the US open container law... Even your passengers can't have a drink when you're driving.
Hopefully that stupidity won't make it over this side of the pond... Then again, there are those trying to ban people smoking in their cars to protect child passengers (which is fine and understandable) except they're trying to get smoking in cars banned for everyone, even if you don't have children, let alone passengers!
Whilst every inventor has the right to defend their work, that is not what we are seeing here.
Apple haven't really invented anything. Touch screen devices existed long before the iPhone. Some of them had icons, and some of those were even rectangular with rounded corners. All Apple did was take ideas from various sources and then refine them. I admit they did a nice job (eventually once they fixed all the short-falls of the IPhone 1).
Rounding the corners off of things, so they are not sharp, is not innovation. It's common place. Real physical items have been manufactured like this for centuries. Even Mr Chippendale (C 18th) was known to rub a bit of sandpaper on his furniture. It is more pleasing on the eye. Applying this to a virtual object is so obvious it's not even funny.
It might not be supported, but it certainly works.
They just have a "not available" filter set for it in the market, sorry play room/store/site.
I just side loaded it from my Gingerbread mobile along with BBC iplayer. Sorted.
So my first app when I got the Nexus was AppSend on my mobile :-)
Throw away instead of charging... Not very green is it!
And at that price, not what I'd call disposable.
I'm sure given the silicone construction, it wouldn't be long before someone cuts it open and finds a way to power it externally.
Now the other problem I see is the layout. I can't imagine it's too nice to type on spaced like that, and it also limits the user base... If the gap is for a smartphone, a Nexus 7 won't fit. If it's 7" tablet sized a bigger one won't fit, and phones will look a bit lost in the middle.
Surely a better design would be to have a standard keyboard layout and have the NFC part unroll to the top? (and a way of charging it of course).
I think I'll stick with the Nexus 7, OTG cable and mini USB keyboard all the same. Somewhat cheaper and not like typing on dead flesh!
It does indeed.
Hitting someone up the arse is almost always the fault of the person behind.
You might have a hope of arguing it was the car in front which caused it if their brake lights didn't work, but given you'll have just converted their rear lamps into the world's most impossible jigsaw, you might have problem proving it.
It could very well be genuine, but the blatant promoting of the travel book shop makes me suspicious.
In the picture on Flickr the guy is even wearing one of their T-shirts!
The picture isn't as casual as it looks either, there appears to be a fill or reflector to the front right of the T-shirt guy too.
"Externally Acer could have been a little more adventurous with the design. As it is the A510 looks very similar to the Tegra 2-based A500"
They probably decided to stick with that design as it is tried and tested... Any chance could risk in a letter from Apple informing them that they've accidentally used a corner curve with a patented radius or something!
Note to the author...
When posting stuff on the intarweb with an international audience, it would be nice if times where given a timezone, not just left floating. Preferably a timezone that the whole planet can relate to such at GMT or UTC...
Not giving a time zone, or using one which is obscure or meaningful only to one nation is a tad insular.
Even worse when I'm reading this on a .co.uk website, and the times were obviously not from a time zone you would assume for a .uk domain.
/end rant.
Given that this was an automated landing, those Macs wouldn't have been doing anything more than consuming a datafeed and displaying it. Something which could be done of pretty much any hardware.
It's not like they're actually going to trust the piloting job to a commercial laptop, although I wouldn't have minded having a go, I used to be good at Lander back in the 80s... Although the latency might make this version a bit more challenging.
When I saw the Horizon program last week I gave up trying to count the number of ways this could go wrong, so well done to them for getting Curiosity onto the surface intact and the right way up!
As for a manned landing, I'd love to be a fly on the wall when they tell the boffins they need to learn to abseil! :o)
Low levels of illumination in a scene will certainly show noise more than higher levels across all ISOs. It's down to bits per pixel decreasing with each stop of underexposure. Which is why it's important to try to expose properly. To my eye there really isn't anything special about that ISO200 shot. I've just looked at a few of my raw files also shot at native ISO 200 (I do a lot of night shots) and there really is no difference noise wise - as it should be. I don't do any noise reduction on camera, I save that all for post.
The real balls of a sensor shows when the ISO gets higher, and although those ISO 3200 and 6400 shots are good, they don't look as good as the article lead me to expect. I remember the D3S's shots being more impressive.
Now I've got to go find some good side by side ones to compare!
I wouldn't expect any noise at ISO 200 from either the D4 or your 5D MkII or my more modest D300 either. That's native ISO. There should be no amplification to cause the noise. If you do have noise at native ISO either someone has lied about the native ISO of the sensor, or you've got a fault.
To be honest I was looking at the 3200 and 6400 ISO shots (dark regions) and I wasn't as impressed as I thought I would be. I'm sure I've seen far better from the D3S, then again, they might have had some PP.
I wouldn't be disappointed in a free gadget, even if it had some flaws.
From the article it looks like Jason Miller resolved his complaints by changing the firmware, in which case the hardware looks like it is fine and a change of software makes it a usable box (sorry, ball).
Then again, given Jason has the moniker "Hacker" it's not exactly a shock he'd change the firmware and mess about with it. Maybe a normal consumer customer would have been very happy with it as delivered?
Anyway, I look forward to seeing Ball 2, the sequel. The existing one didn't really grab me as a "must have" device, which is why I didn't order one, and why I'm not about to receive a free one. D'oh!
I've just checked with a reliable source, and they have confirmed rumours that the media will print any rumour that contains the word Apple.
I would have hoped somewhere outside of the tabloids might be a little less prone to hype and rumour, but it appears not.
Can anyone recommend a true facts only tech site, or should I start writing my own meta-site?
I personally like page 5... The original Samsung iPhone.
This whole saga really is a bit sad and repetitive. There's really nothing new or innovative about rounding off the corners of an icon. That's nothing more than basic ergonomics as seen on scrabble tiles.
As for the phone design, there are only so many shapes which can be held in the hand, fit in the pocket and line up with ear and mouth.
The USPO gets paid per patent they issue. So they grant pretty much anything.
If that's the way they are going to be paid then fine, but they also have to suffer a bigger fine for every patent they issue which is subsequently thrown out of court as obvious, no invention or prior art exists.