The specific issue with the Lytro Illum is that it uses a ~40 megapixel traditional sensor to create an 0.4 megapixel "live" image - so even in the future if we were to get a camera that produced a more usable 8 megapixel live image it would need an 800 megapixels sensor to capture that 'live' data. Now, bear in mind the size of the lytro files would then be the size of the 800 megapixel image.

But it was a bit of a sham. Their '40 megaray' camera had an actual still image equivalent resolution of 0.4 megapixels (which they went to great lengths to hide) - so it was always a toy rather than a serious tool.

See: http://www.everyothershot.com/...

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That is true, but having both, I can assure you it's not the same.

And as for the smudges - strangely enough this happens on the iPad and iPhone and hasn't killed those products :)

I have to say that as a tablet it completely and utterly sucks. Windows simply does not translate to a tablet environment and, other than emergency use, I never use it without the keyboard.

However, with the keyboard and as a lightweight touchscreen laptop for travel, is is excellent. I use Mac for my desktop environment, but Apple have decided for what seems to be purely religious reasons not to put touch-screens into their laptop line, which for me is a dealbreaker. Using the mouse for 99% of the UI, but the finger on the screen to scroll and pinch-zoom when appropriate works really well for me, and when I'm doing presentations from my Surface Pro onto a projector being able to draw onto the screen with the pen is a major advantage.

I know for many of you a touchscreen in a laptop seems stupid, and you're perfectly entitled to that opinion. For me, it works, and it works better than the alternative (which is why my MacBook Pro is now hardly ever used.)

Perhaps before approving a story with a youtube link someone could actually check to make sure the video is available in a reasonable % of the world outside the USA?

This is unfortunately inevitable - newer OSs will cease supporting older hardware, forcing people to use old, insecure OSs because the newer versions simply can't work on it.

But this is still better (forcing obsolescence) than a world full of old, insecure devices. And these devices will still be useable, just not on a network.

Perhaps all OSs should have a kill date embedded after which they will fail to operate. Maybe nothing as drastic as the machine failing to start, but perhaps for example booting into the equivalent of safe mode with no networking, so that it's possible to move your data from the system but isn't really practical to use it.

Why? Because such a kill date would actually force people to think about upgrading rather just keeping running because they know they can.

It could be as simple to override as putting the clock back for those who want to play with older OSs on old hardware for fun, but that wouldn't be a practical solution for most of the lazy businesses who continue to use obsolete systems and not just put themselves at risk but, by becoming vectors for attacking others, affect us all.

And for at least a year before the kill date is activated the system wallpaper would be replaced with a timer counting down to the time the system needs to be replaced.

I work for a medium-sized software company and their work-life balance claims are also bogus. I handed in my resignation last week after nearly a year of trying to work out a 4-day work week. Ever since my wife started a fulltime job, we're running ragged and not even seeing the kids. Since her longterm earning potential dwarfs mine, I figured I'd cut back. But nope -

The company says they need me so much that they're willing to let me go rather than let me work less than fulltime. My manager(s) (I've been talking about this since before a recent reorganization) sound sympathetic enough, but if they agree to my request they've lost part of a headcount which they can't replace.

So yeah, I can underline the fact that "work life balance" is just another empty phrase. But this guy's situation puts mine into some perspective...

Citation:

jolyonr (2017) https://slashdot.org/comments....

There is only one reason that bitcoin is so high in value right now, ransomware

And this is why people who travel a lot use local simcards and do all their communication on WhatsApp these days.,

Last time I needed a simcard when in a foreign country it cost me $5, gave me 1GB of data and lasted two weeks.

Giuliani is the obvious choice for cybersecurity - we all know that fundamentally, computers operate on a series of 9s and 11s.

Have to wonder if a focused microwave emitter like that could also fry a home router if directed horizontally... or, heat up your sandwich?

I've been using Millenata MODISC for backing up my wife's tens of thousands of pics of the kids. Outside of our normal backup processes, about once a year I get a box of discs (not cheap but affordable) and pull off all of the past year's photos, then I tuck them into a fireproof safe and leave it under our deck. (I'm trying to protect against fire and theft more than anything else)

I also spot-check older discs and the ones from 4 years ago, when I started, are still readable. The discs are said to last 1000 years and I'll be happy with 2% of that...