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.

The Samsung camera uses an inverted sensor, which loses less light in the silicon, so it can get lower noise with smaller pixels. It isn't a direct result of a smaller process size.

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.

Ah nope. The metro interface will be part of a new smart display. If you have a touch screen and if some other conditions are met you will see metro. Otherwise you will see the standard desktop.

Basically a convertible tablet laptop will/should change between metro and standard desktop depending on orientation of the display.

Logic (at least up to first-order logic), set theory (some is covered, but not its connection to logic), game theory (essential to so many things, not covered at school at all), and graph theory (the basis for pretty much anything involving computers) would be at the top of my list. Anything where proofs dominate, rather than rote application of rules (we have machines for that now!) would be nice to see. Probability is already well covered in the UK, not sure about the USA. Statistics would be helpful to pretty much anyone.

Don't drop the calculus, but you can teach people to understand calculus in a couple of months. Having them spend a couple of years going from being a thousand times slower than a computer at solving differential equations to being 500 times slower isn't worth it. It's not like simple arithmetic, where getting a calculator out and typing the problem in can be a bottleneck.

They just released the first sub-$100 Windows Phone, so it seems that someone agrees with you. Surface is aimed more at the corporate market, so the price doesn't matter as much. Spending $1000 on a computer that lasts a couple of years and makes an employee more productive is usually a good investment.

Huh? DLLs are shared libraries. They've been shared between all applications that use them since 16-bit versions of Windows. The only time that wasn't the case was when you couldn't locate them at the same virtual address (win32 dlls are not position-independent code, because PIC is slower, so are statically relocated for a particular address), but in 64-bit apps DLLs are PIC and so that's not an issue.

FTA: "Restricting the FCC's Section 706 powers could also interfere with the commission's plans for preempting state laws that prevent cities and towns from building broadband networks." http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

So their masters were worried about cities building their own fiber network.

...of Comcast in their mouth. Nice.

Apparently you are no familiar with Google's petition to the FCC says Title II would help them gain access to utilities poles to roll out fiber.

Which is where local government can step in and provide without fear of lawsuits from big telecom that prevents such rollouts.