Just one of them is sufficient.

At least it's not the size of a manuscript anymore, so you don't need a guy with a handcuffed briefcase on one hand and a SMG on the other.

Instead of an end product coder, hire a unit tester. Hand him the specs that you send out, and have him code unit tests for all input categories of the different modules, and check results and fail modes. Hell, have him send out these tests as he finishes, so that the contractors can use them, too.

If the unit tests are correct and the software is failing, don't send out paychecks until it passes. Getting the test suite running may take a week or two once the code is delivered, so you might be a little later than you usually are. But you contracted for working code, and the easiest way to verify it's correct is to pass a test suite. Once it passes that, you'll know that it passed YOUR specs. At this point, if there are bugs despite meeting the specs, it's your fault.

Most can't even solve a triangle

Dang. Triangles are a problem?

I'm calling Orkin.

DNFTT

You have the right to be free from that annoyance. Any drones that flew over your house would have to be over 500 feet (depending on area, might be more) in public airspace, or be a very temporary disturbance.

Hovering for long periods below 500 feet or above but impinging on your right to enjoy your property is illegal.

"Drones", or UAVs, or UASs, better known as "Radio control planes" have been quite legal for decades. He's trying to make a big deal of it only because it's going to be legal for commercial entities instead of just hobbyists to use. Your neighbor already can hover over your house, so there's no impending emergency to enact legislation as he is implying.

Google Glass is a far worse threat, and I fear he may be making a "Look over there!" argument to distract from the horrible invasions of privacy that will be happening in a few years due to Eric Schmidt himself.

Someone named Serdar came up with a way to cut spam?

Someone named Foss submitted a closed algorithm?

Is it still April 1?!

To make rot13 stronger, just encrypt it twice.

Regarding antialiasing, foveon does promise to avoid color antialiasing which is generally required for bayer filters.

This new sensor "filter" splits colors into a pattern, which will have a similar effect as a bayer filter. Thus, it will need the colors antialiased to prevent bizarre moire color effects.

Sharpness is reduced by demosaicing and color antialiasing, thus Foveon kind of does promise sharper images because it needs neither of those. If their sensor tech had kept up with the quickly emerging tech of Canon or Nikon, they would be in the running. A 24Mpx Foveon sensor that actually worked in light extremes would really rock.

But with this new filter allowing a decent SNR and a ton of light to be gathered accurately (two big weaknesses for Foveon), I believe it will be the end for that struggling sensor.

Foveon has 3 photodiodes per pixel, and theoretically should have the most accurate colors and sharpness by avoiding moire and interpolation issues with bayer filters. In practice, though, a lot of light is lost by the time it reaches the 3rd photodiode.

There is indeed white light because not every pixel has a filter over it. Many pixels pass the light through a hole to the pixel, while a neighbor pixel funnels red light (e.g.) to it. Thus, you get white + 1/2 the neighbor's red. You also get half the neighbor's red on the other side, resulting in white + red for the three pixels in a line.

Cyan is part of the color spectrum as a "subtractive color". What remains under each neighbor pixel when you strip away the red, is the cyan.

From what I can tell, this will not get rid of the need for the anti-aliasing.

Antibiotics are properly used for prevention all the time. There's a tradeoff of damage a new infection can cause if it takes hold or gets worse while treating something else, and lung infections are a fine example: http://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/technical/hps/treatment.html

Antibiotics are used improperly for prevention all the time, but that doesn't mean it's wrong to use them in all cases. If doctors waited for a diagnosis of infection on someone with hantavirus, that person would have a higher chance of simply dying.

While antibiotics won't stop a viral infection, one thing they can help with when infected is to prevent other infections. For instance, a bad viral lung infection might be treated with antibiotics to prevent an opportunistic bacterium like pneumonia from attacking.

And yeah, pharmacies used to carry placebos. When I worked in a pharmacy long ago, I did indeed dispense them. It was labelled with the chemical name (sucrose, lactose 50mg, etc), but may have been given unlabelled as a unit dose.

What is this Placeb operating system?

Windows 8.

Heh. Your response made sense, except that it was probably a typo of "viral infection".