I've been working with digital images for a long time and I can tell you this: this is too good to be true
You can't get professional results even when trying to interpolate 5% extra data, and even though I guess this is not oriented to professional quality images, it will just make crappy images good enough to recognize the points of interest, it will be acceptable to that point but then there's the Obama sample, I have seen the printed image (in the dead tree version of the mag) and it certanly looks faked, there's some detail that couldn't have beeen retrieved, not with the current algorithms, actually as some have pointed out, the lapel pin data is not present at all so how could you recreate that, sounds to me like something more from the realm of magic than math, hence fake!

Google slogan : "Don't be evil"

Google slogan in 5 years : "Don't be soooo evil"

Google slogan in 10 years : "Just don't be as evil as Satan himself"

Google slogan in 20 years : "All your arses are belong to us"

It's OK Mr Burns... but some people actually can.

This would greatly affect all 3 users of this Zune thing.

If Dell / HP tech support is crappy, and those are well established companies, imagine how this will be.
Even with TechCrunch behind it and at $200 the stuff seemed dubious, now without, with all this litigation and at $500... I think I'm gonna pass.

You're right, should've RTFA first.
But in my country, there's vendors who are advertising (heavily) the fact that they sell their phones unlocked, they're trying to capture as much users as possible, others offer unlimited access but with hidden fees and stuff, but others advertise (again, heavily) they have real unlimited access, that's competition.
Someone said in another comment that this is like going back to y2k, he must have not read the article either, but on the other hand the current state of cellular networks is somewhat comparable to landline access in those days, the difference is that phone access came after everybody was accustomed and expected unlimited access, Vendors offered it and then they couldn't handle it, hence this announcement.
I think the trend is going to be the same: technology will allow faster transfers and competition will do the rest.

It's a business opportunity for other ISPs to offer unlimited access and compete with these greedy assholes.

GOOFUS objectively observes that there's not enough data to support that climate change actually exists that i'ts unnatural or that humans have something to do with it.
GALLANT claims the world is warming as a direct result of human activity, because his associates can profit from paranoia and could use some "dog wagging" from the environmental crimes their companies commit.


There. Fixed that for you.

Well... melting? receeeding? even that is doubtful, remember there's ice caps in the artic but also in the antarctic, those have been pretty big this year.

There's a lot of misinformation (most of it, probably caused by this CRU guys) on this subject , one of the problems that leads to confusion is that it's being treated as a single issue, first you have to separate the topics (or the queastions for that matter):

• Is there a real global warming
• Is it abnormal / unnatural
• Is it caused by human activity
• Is it caused by CO2?
• Should this be a top environmental priority for humanity?

The problem with all this misinformation is that the focus on the real environmental problems and it's causes is being shifted to things that can be economically exploited and really bad stuff that is real, confirmed, and its causes known to be of human origin, is being overlooked

Yeah, If the US just invested half the money they put in weapon manufacturing and development in helping (really helping) other countries, they'd probably dont need to be all paranoid worrying about attacks. Just don't make enemies, make friends. And they would even have the other half to fix things like their healthcare system for example.

Aw but I forgot, that's not profitable.

...or upheld by Intel.

A longevity vaccine would prevent longevity, there's no need to develop that one, you could use a gun against your head for that purpose, you mean an Aging vaccine.

There's always been a form of adaptation to the user, call it difficulty levels, increasingly difficult stages or bosses, etc, it also depends on the game and it's structure, but it's implicit that you will get better as you play, so I guess the question is how to do it efficiently so you could keep balance to not dissuade the user with a too difficult game or bore him to death with a too easy one

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 22, @03:20PM

'Intel has got a very good [SSD] product

Yeah right