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joefrat said: I never believed they are harboring some grudge. I am sure they believe what they publish. What bothers me is the way they (along with many media outlets) dramatize their findings. It appears they are trying to drum up intere…
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Yes, it will be interpolated... that's the "upsampling" comment I added with an edit, which you may not have seen before you replied. As you say, you may get better results by not zooming, and doing it after the fact in a program like Photoshop as…
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Quote: Originally Posted by muppetry The iPhone has a fixed focal length lens. Zooming is just cropping. That's ok... by doing it in-camera you move the bright object closer to the optical axis, which seems to reduce the pr…
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I experimented a little with this on my iPhone5, and I found a couple ways to reduce or eliminate the purple flare: 1) Zoom in a bit (you can keep the bright object in the scene) the purple shows up at wider angle settings. You'll notice that in th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][ [...] I don't believe that any public officials should be allowed to receive gifts or favors from any company, as it is highly improper, it's a conflict of interests and it verges on bribery. It's actually …
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Quote: Originally Posted by z3r0 QNX is a nice clean and proven microkernel minus the baggage found in darwin. QNX also has some nice distributed OS features and security to boot (EAL4 vs Mac OS X EAL3). [...] Mac OS X's XNU kernel is a hyb…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Blah64 There are inexpensive apps that do exactly what you're talking about. (Maybe even free ones, but not something I'm personally interested in, so I'm not following that closely). So go buy your iPhone! The ke…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 That is actually a very good article on how Apple locates your position so well in WiFi-only iPads... Something I always assumed was just done through Skyhook, but it's Apple's own location database that is …
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Quote: Originally Posted by magicj If you take a look at the link nvidea2008 provided, http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/ you'll see they're saying the file does track your location. It's not tracking cell towers and the granularity they…
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So it seems like she should just file a police report and get her phone back...!?
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Quote: Originally Posted by franksargent Apple's only true desktop is the Mac Mini (and that's a big stretch), the AIO is not a desktop in the traditional sense of the word (headless computer). The Mac Pro is certainly not a desktop. The …
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Quote: Originally Posted by franksargent Asus Core 2 Duo Laptops (26 models to choose from, $999 < 13 Models < $1299) My favorite? The N51 series. ASUS N51 Series N51Vn-X1A P8700(2.53GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory 320GB HDD 7200rpm NVIDIA Ge…
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Quote: Originally Posted by franksargent How old are you? I was very likely doing 64-bit programming on a Cray supercomputer before you were even born. 25 years ago, to be exact. As to my current laptop 8GB, 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo, 500GB 7…
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According to this: http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/hep_c.../101306_c.html "For men, median post-transplant survival was 18 years, compared with 27 for the general population" so a loss of 9 years of life. That's for patients that made it pas…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacTripper It might be too late now I read somewhere else that rabbits treated with this method had 100% cure of cancer. Somebody tell Steve. http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_articl...?storyid=67742 According …
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM [...] That page was a pain though. It crashes Safari repeatedly, Opera wouldn't show the flash elements and Firefox won't play the entire clips. Odd, it does take some time to load, but I didn't see any cra…
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Quote: Originally Posted by irobot2004 I don't know Cramer or what he's done, but my impression from this thread is that he was in the hedge fund business for some time, and reasonably successful at it. Also, again just from skimming this thread,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by beelzebob Well, apparently you only watched the first 25 seconds or you would know that what you are saying is wrong. Cramer describes two kinds of trades - one that he explicitly describes as legal, and one that he c…
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> Ok, finally after 3 hours of my life spent restarting, unplugging and googling for solutions, > my AEB and Airport Express are working again after making the unfortunate decision to > upgrade my firmware. [...] Ok, my bad... I ju…
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Quote: Originally Posted by irobot2004 Ok, great I updated the firmware on my AEB n and Express n, now I can't extend my AEB wireless network with the Express... Will try unplugging and restarting everything... Well, that didn't fix it. Any…