The core problem is that you record a video in 1080x1920 which is then scaled down to 608x1080 to fit into a horizontal player, thus you lose information. The trivial fix would be to simply not squish vertical video into a horizontal player, instead play it in a vertical player, thus preserving all the image detail.
I stopped working on Ubuntu because decisions were increasingly being made internally rather than anywhere that volunteer contributors could influence them. The "Click here to instantly break your mouse" thing was just the final straw. There's a component to the story that involves beer and a hilarious reply vs. reply all error on an iPhone, but I don't remember it being about anyone siding with Scott - there's a picture somewhere of me deactivating my Ubuntu membership a few minutes after sending https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-February/025141.html , which hardly gave them time to.
http://www.elementarymatters.com/2012/05/learning-math-facts-with-cuisenaire.html
I had these in the early 1960s (JFK presidency) at the http://www.lesleyellis.org/about/who-we-are/history which at the time was off concord street in Cambridge
Not our fault your office is located in South Africa.
I have many offices. Some have 100mbit connections coming out their ears (Tokyo, HK, Singapore, Washington). Others struggle to get 10 (Kabul, Nairobi)
Beiruit is probably the only office which can't get 10mbit connection. The average is far higher.
10 Mb/s upstream is not that unusual these days. And many botnets are way bigger than 10000 bots. Even if each bot has just 2 Mb/s upstream, you only need 50000 Bots. And botnets are not limited to infecting computers on home user connections. Infecting 100 servers on 1 Gbit/s connections is also enough.
Certainly isn't, I've got that in my office in South Africa, which as far as the internet goes is about as backwater as you can get in a G20.
This might as well be how Blackberry, Nokia, and Palm blew it. And I'm probably leaving off a few companies.
IMO it all comes down to arrogance about your own platform. In Nokia's case that was Symbian.
Eduard Snowden wasn't employed by the NSA, but by Booz Allen Hamilton, which belongs to the Carlyle Group. Think about the opportunities insider information offers to these kinds of investors.
A non-US competitor to VISA would be even more important.
Of course people soon became tired of lugging tons of batteries around with them - and having to stand in line to get them charged up at the end of every work-day. Also, measuring the amount of charge transferred between your battery and that of the supermarket when buying a pound of carrots was always a matter of some dispute. Hence there came to be standard batteries with numerical displays on them to show how much charge remained. Places called banques sprang up where you could leave your batteries and read out their charge remotely. Exchanges allowed you to discharge your batteries *here* and to use an exactly equal amount of energy to charge up those of someone on the other side of the planet who wished to provide you with some physical goods. The inconvenience of physically storing all of that electricity made it more efficient for the banques to supply it to people who needed it, in exchange for electricity in return in the future. Over time, nobody was ever sure that the amount of electricity held in the banque was as much as the banque claimed to have stored - or owed to it.
Pretty soon, a shorthand word for "total amount of electricity" was needed - and that quirky unused '$' symbol on everyone's keyboard came to stand for some arbitrary amount of the stuff.
I realize a while ago that it had been a very long time since I last used a dollar bill or a coin - so I looked back through my banking records to see when I last used an ATM (which is a reasonable approximation for the date when I last needed cash for anything). I was surprised to see that it was almost two years ago. I also looked back at my checkbook...same deal. Haven't used that in two years either.
For me at least - electronic money is already here.
-- Steve
You totally missed the part about not within our current technical ability.
No, not within the laws of physics.
There's nothing stopping us running a tube through the earth from one side to another, removing the air, and using a laser to cut down on latency.
We'd have to disprove relativity to use quantum entanglement as a means of communication
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=612 et. al
Thanks to university where I had to switch between terminals using US keyboard layout and PCs using UK I learned pretty quickly that @ and " switched places. \ was a pain, but not as bad as ~ or `.
My current laptop has US keyboard set because it has US keycaps (and Cyrillic for some reason) but every other device in the house with a keyboard (8 and counting) is UK. Doesn't bother me at all.
I don't mind the fact that US keyboards are wrong (:p), it's the fact the only way to enter \ on this type of setup is to hit the Alt-numeric keypad
Light moves at that speed in a vacuum. Light in a fiberoptic cable moves at a different speed. But I doubt it's different enough to matter in this scenario. (Just for yuks, has anyone got the speed measurement for light in fiber?)
About 2/3c
Well, if we're speaking in theory, they could know instantly if they have a quantum entangled radio. (also not within our current technical ability) In practice, the rate set at exacly 1400 would not be known to them for another 7ms. Thus: "Insider Trading at the Speed of Light"
You can't use quantum entanglement to transmit data faster than the speed of light.
Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to work.
