Sure you can just crop off bad edges on glass. But then your glass is much larger than it needs to be, your lens is heavier than it needs to be, and larger than it needs to be.

"Math" alone cannot fix blurred edges. It can fix things like CA or barrel distortion, but not really outright blurring, at least not to a degree that it can equal the results form a good lens.

Good point about the REAL consumer cameras (like an iPhone) not be blurry across the lens, if that was in answer to my post I should have qualified that as consumer standalone cameras.

It doesn't matter how good the sensor, camera, or lens are really - because the entire non-smartphone camera market is shrinking rapidly.

How can Samsung hope to make back the R&D costs of making even a great sensor, camera, and series of lenses? Where will the customers come from? It will take YEARS to pry even marginally serious photographers away from the systems they are already invested in.

It's like having an ocean shrink to a small pool, seeing a writhing mass of sharks within, then putting on a shark costume and yelling "I'm a shark too!" jumping in the pool.

Consumer grade lenses are already blurry at the corners. I'm talking about higher-end DSLR lenses, in those lenses center sharpness is pretty much assumed, the bigger deal is sharpness across the whole frame. That's what you are paying money for in high end lenses, not the easily achieved center sharpness but really great sharpness everywhere.

Also there was no mention of how the bokeh was... that's the element that brings people back to certain lens makers like Zeiss.

But I agree, their lenses aren't as good as Canon's right now BUT if Samsung sold their sensors to 3rd parties like Sony...

I'm sure Samsung will sell some sensors to someone, after all, they sell parts to other companies so it's only natural.

However I can't see Samsung selling sensors to Sony, it would be like selling ice to an eskimo - Sony is the company that makes sensors for many other camera makers and I sure don't see Sony not using their own sensors in cameras.

The whole reason to pay a premium price for a lens is that you get better sharpness across the frame.

I'm sure Samsung's lenses are pretty good, but I'm dubious about them until I see more photographic testing over this spec fest which doesn't tell you a lot about a lens.

I have to say Samsung has some serious balls pushing so hard to enter a shrinking market against giants like Nikon and Canon...

Because very few users of rooted phones use rooted apps in exclusivity.

I still don't understand - neither to jailbrake owners, you can still use the Apple App Store.

If you have the full set of jailbrake + normal apps, the world of apps is not limited.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you need an Apple account to use an iPhone, right?

No. It's useful because they provide free backup and other things, but you can use the iPhone without an AppleID.

You do need an AppleID to use the App Store. But that login is independent from the rest of the system, and is only used by the App Store app.

You can create an AppleID just for the purposes of using the App Store (and for enabling device backup), it doesn't have to have a credit card tied to it until you need to purchase something.

there's an app that doesn't run on IOS that I know he would like to have access to

So the real question is, what is that app and are you SURE there's nothing like it on IOS?

There are a LOT of tablet specific apps, and many of them integrate well with iOS accessibility.

Frankly that "After Dentist" kid is exactly how I feel about five minutes into any president's State Of the Union speech...

It would be great to see the wigged out kid and the biting baby / sibling behind the president as he gave the speech though. I can hear the young britsih accent now, faintly from the back... "Charlie, that man is really boring".

Different apps. I haven't been in Cydia recently, but I'd wager that the variety of apps that leverage the "rootedness" of an Android phone outnumber what's on an iPhone. Similarly, there are a number of apps (Rocketdial, GoSMS, etc.) that require a jailbreak on iOS

I'm not sure that's the case... besides there are more app options for things that do not require jailbreaking (like custom keyboards for example).

As for the example of apps that require jailbreaking... since the basic assumption is rooted/jailbroken system, why is that an issue? You get to use them if you like either way then.

Well, at initial setup, there's not much that Google can ascertain - your Gmail address, your cell number, your phone carrier, and your location...

Whereas with an Apple tablet all it's going to get is your IP during activation (it asks on first run if you are OK with it collecting location info).

Because if you're rooting, and more specifically installing a custom ROM, carrier updates become irrelevant.

I'm not talking about carrier updates, I'm talking about installing new Google releases, which may have some new collection mechanisms you have not yet blocked or otherwise break your privacy software.

tl;dr: Android sucks, except for all the alternatives.

For out of the box privacy (esp. for the non-technical user) iOS is 1000x better than Android.

For jailbroken privacy for a very technical user, iOS is a tad better. But again it's a matter than the OS is not going to care that it's not collecting your data to transmit back.

The study shows people not making hiring decisions in a technical job. A lab technician in a biolab IS a technical job.

Not in the sense were are talking about on Slashdot, and as others have noted it's a pretty flawed study (including the interesting fact that women supposedly had the same bias, which means it's not men you should be worried about).

At this point you're engaging in outright denialism.

Basing your entire worldview on a single flawed study seems to be way more in denial to me, you simply don't want to admit the real world works differently than preconceptions you hold dearly.

However, your ORIGINAL claim is that people are rational.

*Technical workers*, and yes they are - outside silicon valley.

If you want to convince me, show me some evidence that people are in fact rational.

Get a job and see for yourself.

His example was a female student who couldn't work in group which was otherwise all males.

That is sexism, she is sexist. I had a female CS major in my class, she was pretty much the only female is most of the classes. She didn't care if some of the men were "awkward", she had no trouble in the class or the major for that matter.

I myself have been in groups at work (and at school) where I was the only male. I was able to work just fine, because I don't have any trouble with women and treat them professional as they do me.

Beware anyone who claims to have trouble if they are the only one of some self-identified group and uses that as an excuse for not being able to work.

drone operators would only need to glue razorblades on the tips of the rotors

Which would Only affect the entry aerodynamic stability of the craft, making it just as likely it would slit the operators throat on launch as it would be to slice through anything, or be controllable at all...

Step 1) Doesn't want Google observing them.
Step 2) buys Android tablet, wholly controlled by Google.

If you were going to root it anyway why not buy an iPad and jailbreak it? Nothing preinstalled even talks to Google without you setting it up, so you're already off to a better start.

Every Android update is going to fight to collect information about you. I don't see why you would buy into a system that by default will do exactly what you do not want.

The U.S. may have had an embargo with Cuba, the rest of the world did not. Consider just Canada alone, from which Cuba could have had any technology they wished.

So what do people imagine will change with the U.S. embargo lifted? Change has to come from Cuban leadership, if at all..

What is very telling is that the cuban community in Florida is really, really angry we are lifting the embargo - because all it does is empower the people that made Cuba what it is today.

That seems like a really good idea, sorry I have no mode points to promote.