I bought an LG / Google Nexus 4 a while back. They're less than half the price of other top-end smartphones, unlocked and with no contract. I put a Platinumtel SIM in it with the $10 for 60 days GSM plan, and set it to restrict background data. The network is T-Mobile. After a month I'm still on the first $10, having of course made extensive use of wifi.

As far as I can tell, I have all of the smartphone benefits without much of the cost.

Actually, if you look at Fox over the past few weeks, they've run a series of anti-solar articles. I guess somebody wants to sell more oil.

I'd want single-eye correction. The uncorrected eye will see spectra that are filtered by this lens.

By the way, I've been told by doctors for at least 20 years that a magenta tint sometimes helps. This isn't really new art.

If I understand it correctly, the defective sensor is sensitive at a spectral peak that is different from the value in normal individuals. It is through mutations to this sensor that color vision evolves. Theoretically, some rare women have four operative spectral bands rather than three.

Well, the only implementation so far is floating-point. I suspect the fixed-point performance would be a lot better if we ever get that written. It can keep up with real-time on a Raspberry Pi or an old Atom laptop.

Correct me if I am wrong, but the technology we are talking about here is merely splicing some reconstucted sequences into existing human cells.

You don't have to synthesize the entire cell. Only the nuclear and mitochondrial chromosomes matter. If you can replace the ones in a normal cell, what you have after division is the primitive cell reborn. You have to do this to a lot of cells, and grow them for a while, to get one without significant damage.

There is more than one Microsoft, and of course Microsoft's decisions may change over time. Remember that this is the company behind the overly-patented filesystem on SDXC cards.

It is because I have been working on Codec2, a perceptual compression project, for some years now. To say that we throw away data would be an understatement.

Yes. I am out of the habit of thinking of lossless as "real" compression, but I seem to be in the minority.

WebRTC has Opus, the Open Source audio codec that can outperform MP3 and pretty much any audio codec*. It does seem that the proprietary OS industry will do anything they can to stop open codecs from being net standards.

* Anything but FLAC and Codec2 (because FLAC doesn't compress and Codec2 is voice-only and ultra-low-bandwidth).

No one location is safe from natural or human disasters. So, I'd rather hear that they were going to a more distributed architecture and that they'd be able to sustain a complete loss of one data center.

Is this a laptop camera on the desk? Whose idea was it to shoot up the poor woman's nose?

I went to Usenix conferences in 1981 when they were really the only conferences about this technology. These days there are many conferences covering that sort of system, and many of them have a better focus.

We can definitely see SSB on our waterfall. And it interferes with us somewhat. This isn't like the ultra-narrow slow digital modes like WSPR or PSK31 where you might not have to care about another station on the frequency. So, I think our operators would generally avoid it.