960 x 720 = 691200 pixels

I'm guessing this must be the front cam spec, and the article reported it incorrectly.

Also, it's surprising that the base model will have 8GB of RAM. That's actually a downgrade from the previous version.

Season 8, 18th episode, to be precise.

My issue wasn't that anybody is entitled to be successful, only an individual can shape one's future. But the post I was replying to made the implication than, in an ideal world, wealthy people shouldn't be able to purchase expensive education for their children.

Many mediocre people with wealthy parent's have gone on to live much better lives then mediocre people with poor parents. It isn't fair, but a fair system isn't what works nor has it even been proven to be possible. A working system gives incentive for people to be productive, and few things are a more powerful motivational force than the desire to protect/promote one's children.

Again, competitive school grants SHOULD exist because the loss of an exceptional mind due to social factors is abhorrent and antiproducive. But, just as we should help those less fortunate, we should continue to reward those who, by the standards of capitalism, have become successful.

Meteors hit the earth pretty regularly as well. That doesn't mean we should start mining asteroids by crashing them into coastal wetlands.

It sounds like you are interested in something more along the lines of batches of data and not a realtime API.

Banks / Credit Unions / FIs do this now to send transactions between their own networks. I'm not aware of a consumer-oriented version of this, but that's not to say it shouldn't exist. PayPal is starting to move that direction with their x.com API. But you are going to be hit with more charges routing through PayPal than you would otherwise.

My own subjective tests for H.264 match that comparison. With tons of quality settings enabled, 256kbit H.264 seems to roughly match 640kbit theora for perceived quality.

But with all those settings turned on, I just barely get 30fps encoding on a 3.5ghz Phenom II X4.

Anything you create yourself you can put under what ever license you want. Blender itself is just a tool - just as using Open Office doesn't make your office documents GPLed; using GIMP doesn't make your photos and paintings GPLed, similarly using Blender has no impact on what license the content you create is licensed under. If you use someone elses content (ie assets from Durian) then you have to abide by their licensing terms to avoid copyright infringement.

The reason for that is not what you seem to imply. It is a question of know how. You pay for what you don't know. The security issue is something else. If you are stupid enough to change setup in the car the company is not liable for it since it can be easily proven that you are the guilty one. Most well designed cars will not allow you to do any change without proper security. You need the right codes and passwords. We have to keep coming up with cleaver ways to keep morons from screwing things up.

The reason for the high price of devices like those of Intrepid, Actia, Dearborn or Vector are that those device allow you to similate engines, ABS or transmission messages easily. If you can't do certain things common sense is that you need to pay someone who knows. Knowledge is money. If that was a larger market the prices would be much lower.
I use some of those expensive devices to test our cluster software or other devices that hooks up to the CAN (J1939, GMLAN or Ford) as well as J1850 or J1587. The price varies between $800 and $4000. When you pay $4000, about half of it is for the software.

If all you want to do is monitor things and perhaps add your own gauges or gadgets you should not attempt to go into diagnostic too often and have no need for such expensive devices. A $200 or $100 device would be sufficient, you could even create your own for cheap. Look at some STM32 with CAN or the AT32UC3C, they are quite cheap, the Atmel processor has 2 CAN.

J1850 is a pain but with most CAN protocol you can monitor faults and most information thru CAN if you know the messages. Ford, GM and Chrysler information is easily available if you know someone, it is not hidden but they don't like that data to go to Joe Blow, you have to have a legitimate reason to want the data. If you are building a device like the ones on the market you will have no problem getting them as long as you pay for them. We had to pay close to $100 for GM and it took a while while we got it free from Ford thru one of our customers. You can get the SAE specs for J1939 and J1850, it must be well over $1000 a year for a subscription.

Don't bother asking people who have those data since we are not allowed to pass those on. You want this you must pay for it.

For those who cannot afford the price of the documentation or hardware for these you have to rely on information that is published on the net and hope that it is correct or monitor the CAN for yourself and do some reverse engineering. GM, Ford and Chrysler have their own protocol in standard CAN at 500k. You must make sure that you do not create bus off conditions and that if you do, you recover quickly. Do not attempt to hook up anything on a moving vehicle unless you know for sure that the hardware is designed correctly. J1850 is still available on some vehicle but both Ford and GM have phased them out. J1850 is very tricky as it is very easy to crash the engine or transmission if you broadcast physical message when someone is broadcasting physical messages. With J1850 you must request all messages. This is not true for GMLAN or Ford which have messages that are sent on a regular basis. The GM transmission has a bug that if you try to communicate with a message that is not supported the transmission communication will crash. Do not mess with J1850 on GM engines unless you know exactly what you are doing.

For non Ford or GM trucks or RV there is J1939 (CAN 250k) and J1587 (RS485 9600 baud). J1587 is still available on all recent Allison Transmission and Wabco or Bendix ABS. It is available on most engines even though it is meant to be obsoleted. It will be around for many years because the military still use it for diagnostic. Normally when J1939 is available we use that. Allison has now J2012 for diagnostic on J1939, this is rather new, it has codes similar to OBD. Cummins and CAT are likely to follow the trend with their engine in a few years, I think that Cummins will have them in 2013 or 2014. All data is in metric on J1939 and english in J1587.

Did you mean "no other carrier serving the United States has it"?

Since the satellite runs in 'bent pipe' mode, amplifying wide bands of RF that are beamed up to it

Hunh... did you say that the frontend of this crashed bird will blindly amplify and rebroadcast any signal that hits it? What did you say its coordinates are again?

A week or two ago, I walked into Best Buy, and saw some iPads on display as well. One was available, and I wanted to toy around with it, but the greasy, oily fingerprints all over it made me want to vomit. I gazed at it wistfully and forlornly for a few moments, and then left.

I'm not sure the iPad is for OCD types like me. :(

Instant-on! Apply directly to the instant!

No.. they were all sold units.

Try looking at it in a slightly different way.. The inconvenient not believing PR releases way.

Apple said 1 million units sold. And I'm sure they were telling the truth. As far as it goes.

They didn't really emphasise very strongly that they were "sold" to retailers and Apple stores. And the iFanboys took it from there. Just like the "Apple biggest phone maker in US" story a few days ago, or "iPad killing netbooks" story yesterday.

Which means all the iPads you saw on display, and the many more in the warehouse were all counted by Apple, as sold. Even though anybody could go in and buy them from Best Buy.

So more accurately... 1 million units shipped to retail outlets.

Not 1 million purchased by members of the public. Six months from now, the same units in that million could still be sitting on a shelf in some store.

Running out of stock from Apple's end is easily done. Ship any surplus units to some low performing out of the way Apple store, delay the worldwide launch, or announce it too early, and not have a a hope of meeting it. And get more PR. Easy. Zero sales lost due to underestimating demand. Plenty of stock to go around shipped from Apple stores to the various outlets.. Job done.

Microsoft quotes shipped figures as sold to retail licenses too, when it includes every copy in every shop, every bulk buy from OEMs. Every free upgrades from Vista, every shipped by default copy that gets erased and replaced with the company image. And naturally.. All the copies that get sent to volume license customers that are still using XP, and will for a year or two more.

It's an old trick that keeps getting swallowed by the fanboys, and regurgitated over and over.

Sliding-out qwerty keyboard isn't that popular where key Nokia markets are.

Well, and you know...on Nokia you can actually install different browsers, relying on different (and local) engine. Plus I could certainly install apps to memory card in my S60v3 phone, are you sure you can't on yours?...

Cos, y'know... what's the point in buying one if you've already got one?