You know, the third with the legs and bit fat arses on it. The other two thirds probably have other opinions.
Measuring proportion of body mass here, of course...legs aren't a lot of volume, and USians are famous for being big around the waist.
...but there are *three* thirds. Best to be explicit about which third, don't you think?
Yes, I'm curious too.
perhaps they were also given regular photos of people - that's what I presumed by 'match faces'.
Images taken with the Lytro camera can be re-focused... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytro
Not possible with a Nokia 808 (or at least using it's h/w) - for $350 USD?
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313&_nkw=nokia+808&_sacat=0&_from=R40
The Nokia 808 could produce images with almost 42MPixels :
"Nokia 808 has a 41.3-megapixel CMOS FSI image sensor, 1/1.2-inch image sensor format with 7728 x 5368 pixels. Depending on the aspect ratio chosen by the user, it will use 7728 x 4354 pixels (33.6 Mpx) for 16:9 images, or 7152 x 5368 pixels (38.2 Mpx) for 4:3 images when using the default camera software. The commercial app CameraPro[12] can use the whole sensor size for capturing full 7728 x 5368 pixels (41.48 Megapixel) pictures with more than 30 Megabytes each"
That usage works both ways though, right?
On the other hand, "sitting on your ass" means quite different things, I think. In English, it just means "sitting down on your donkey-thing", but in American English, it means "just sitting down".
Does 'arse' have *any* meaning in American English?
including England...because it's English, not (just) British (or European, or Earthean).
Hrm, is there a name for something that comes from Earth?
I wonder if English will stop being called "British English" and return to just being called "English", when/if the Scots choose to become independent...or will USeans then call the English language "Northern Irish, Welsh, and English, English"?
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Of course, there are people who share the opinion of said "fanboys" (or whatever you call them) to some degree or other, but for rational reasons. I wonder if even the majority of "fanboys" actually do have good reasons, but their failing is that they can't easily put those accumulated experiences into words...perhaps they've come to that opinion over several years of (mostly) poor experiences and it is more of an "impression" than something they can justify coherantly.
Perhaps, indeed, it is less rational still to label someone who you disagree with as a 'fanboy'...is there a word for such behaviour? Use of the word does seem to be a trend these days.
> The traffic is like none North Americans have ever seen as well; Six rings of highways in Beijing, every road completely jammed with cars at all hours of the day.
That's where I stopped reading. Utter nonsense/hyperbole.
> and definitely have no idea why somebody would rather drop off a broken computer at a store then spend the entire goddamned weekend figuring out which driver update screwed up their system.
I don't recall any such problem on my Ubuntu system. I'm sure I have had such problems in the past, but so long ago that I can't recall them.
On the other had, my wife's iPad won't back up to my wife's MacBook Air (need to do it in order to upgrade) due to some ID problem, so now I have to take both to some Apple store to get some "Genius" to sort them out. TBH, I doubt they will be able to, but we'll see. I've been before to attempt to sort out the crappy battery life on the AIr, which they tested and said it was 'as expected' - but the experience involved much waiting in a crouded noisey shop and not something I really want to repeat, if I can avoid it - which I can't because Apple seem to want to 'think different' (as well as 'spell different').
But, yes, the New Mac Pro does *look* great, at least - and it's been many a year since I thought that about an Apple product. IIRC, even the Apple logo is not "in your face" nearly as much as on their other products.
Good point, though I think it would be better because the invertor would only need to power the monitor, not the computer internals and so still be more efficient and even last longer or require a smaller battery than the equivalent external model.
In any case, the reason for having them internal would be the standardise them, somewhat like with laptops, and so people don't expect their computer to 'just stop suddenly'. If you do want the full 'laptop experience' - ie being able to use them for more useful periods of time, then perhaps the paradigm might be extended to supply DC to an external monitor too; and there's still the use-case for computers with built-in monitors.
Well, yes, but, as I say, that is a different use-case - I'm considering the unattended case primarily. Anyway, if we're essentially inventing something new here, there's no reason we can't add a socket to the UPS on the back of the machine, something that some machines of old have had - actually, *some* machines had the monitor already built in (that's not unheard of, even today).
Well, ok, but I might have thought there would be a standard that would incorporate a UPS and even might fit the same hole (though with less capability, I suppose.
I think the connecting the monitor too bit is a bit off-topic for what I was suggesting - sure some use a UPS so that they can keep using the computer when the power goes out, but the primary reason is to allow the computer to shut down gracefully...that's more the use-case I was suggesting.
Of course, there's no telling how long a computer *needs* to shut down gracefully, but that's true with the current external UPSes too.
Anyway, I tend to think it's something all computers should have, even if there needs to be a 'new standard sized hole', or whatever, but then I've formed that opinion while working in China where the power is a little less reliable than in some places (though, to be fair, it has been much more reliable over the past several years).
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