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Comment Re:So You're The One (Score 1) 132

Also, you might want to upgrade beyond the iPhone 4, the camera's are quite amazing these days. Or try a Samsung camera and have your mind blown.

You should try to use a dedicated camera for a change - photo shops will often rent you some equipment so you can test before you buy. Here are some things that a dedicated camera (with the right lenses and a competent user) will always do better:

  • - larger image sensor, with larger pixels, so less electronic noise. That means the camera does not need to do the aggressive noise filtering that phones have to do and you'll get more detail. The difference is less visible if you have a LOT of light in the scene and quite obvious as subject lighting decreases
  • - larger aperture. This again means more light getting in, so better detail, especially in low light. Also, see the next point
  • - bokeh. You can kinda-sorta try to emulate it with software, but you should try and compare with what a dedicated camera can do, especially on that big TV.

Phone cameras have gotten a lot better, but you somehow seem to think that dedicated camera have stagnated. They have not.

Comment Works? (Score 2) 69

to evaluate the agency's facial recognition program to determine whether it's resulted in a meaningful reduction in passenger delays, assess whether it's prevented anyone on no-fly lists from boarding a plane, and identify how frequently it results in identity verification errors.

Oh, and tracking of the population in a panopticon, by the state.

Comment Re:It's like going back to 1950! (Score 1) 81

As this is the cause, Congress could reverse back out of it by refusing to guarantee loans to universities that increase tuition by more than 2%. Slow, easy unwinding.

But that's not the goal. The goal is to collapse of the system, followed by Congress picking up the pieces, AKA takeover.

Comment Re:It's like going back to 1950! (Score 0) 81

Pols 30 years ago: Let's help students with easy loans! We'll guarantee the loans!

Banks and universities: Ok!

30 years of nickle dime increases later: Hey, why is it so expensive?

Universities: We don't know, but it's certainly not supra-inflation increases because we can get away with adding a few dollars to your monthly payments, much easier to swallow.

Comment Re:Not having enough of something (Score 1, Funny) 43

To meet the basic demand of your civilization is a shortage.

Looking at the very basic demands of civilization not being met and saying that's okay because shrug that's capitalism shrug is what we call end stage capitalism or techno feudalism.

That's all well and good but I do so wish you wouldn't talk about it as if it's a) inevitable and b) not something that's going to affect you.

Old Luke, just a year younger than old Obi-Wan in the first movie, looks over and says, "Amazing. Every word you said there is wrong."

Comment Re:As a resident of Washington state (Score 5, Interesting) 55

There has to be a reason to not reference it as Mt. St. Helen's eruption, probably the most famous in the US since then, or long before.

My two favorite Mt. St. Helen's stories are Harry S Truman, an old man who refused to leave his mountainside house. He's under gigatons of rock now.

And in 1980, "Drive 55" was still in force. Some were pushing for regulators on cars to limit their max speed. But after the eruption, one guy said he sped down the mountain at 110 mph, zooming past a guy who was "only" doing 70. He lived. Mr. 70 died. And that was that for regulators.

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