If you were going off to college and could only have one device,
Let's turn that around:
If you were home, which device would be the first to pick?
If you were at the beach, which device would you pick?
If you were on a train which device would you pick?
It is kind of obvious that PC is for work and tablet is for fun. No clear winner here.
Yes, HTML5 works wonderfully for video made of pixels
Not really. Working with major video publishers, we have learned that HTML5 means iPad. Noone cares about webm or ogg, we are asked to create MP4 for VOD and/or MPEG-TS for live streams and that is it. They are very happy with RTMP and FLV video for browsers and for now they only care about iPad when it comes to tablets
As a developer I find HTML5 a pain in the butt because video players behave differently on different devices and browsers. iPads do not allow more than one video play at the same time (note that I have long accepted HTML5 video=iPad). So not only does it put a limitation on the application you are designing, you also need to to maintain browser compatibility in your code.
You may say "well flash sucks, you need developers, build environments, maintenance, etc.", and you would be right. But we have already done those, they are in place, they are well known and well documented. And guess what, they work great.
If you are to propose a replacement for Flash video I think you need to make a really good case first.
It seems to me like you are creating hypothetical scenarios of total failure. Most of the practical failure scenarios can be handled gracefully when you have facebook's resources under your command. After all they are not sending men to Mars. We have studied and now well understand distributed database problems for more than 30 years. There is pretty much nothing technologically interesting about Facebook (and Twitter for that matter).
The sad part is someone writes his ramblings and puts a flow chart or two and it becomes a story on/.
...was going to be boring at some point. Apparently that point is now.
On the bright side something good may come out of this "dumb-down-the-product" approach made popular (and commercially perfected) by Apple. It worked great for them so since MS is trying to re-invent themselves, why not follow the same paradigm.
On the other hand, the pro users (a slight super set of the little crowd here at/.) think that the old one worked just fine, why mess with it, rightly so
I think noone is really wrong or right here. Only time will tell if MS can pull this off.
Cluster GPU Quadruple Extra Large Instance
22 GB of memory
33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem” architecture)
2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs
1690 GB of instance storage
Personal experience: Disk IO: not dependable, network IO excellent.
4000 British pounds sterling = 6302.8000 US dollars
Assuming for each "experiment" you run 20 instances in parallel for 15 minutes (partial hours count as full hours, so remember to round up even if you use for a minute), you spend 40$ per session.
You get to make 160 experiments, and you are over budget.
Or if you adjust everything optimally, e.g., end the experiment at 59 minute mark, and assuming your "parallelization" uses 5 instances, then you get to make 640 experiments. But real life is far from optimal, especially with those pesky grad students.
I don't agree with the before/after images. Advances in technology and reduction in tech and hardware prices will be major factor in those designs. Do you really think Samsung made 1 inch tablets because they thought it would look nice? Once you move to touchscreens, guess what, you dont need arrow buttons on the device anymore.
the 16-year-olds of today who might become officers in the future have already been exposed.
and
Of the people surveyed, 85 per cent had their photos uploaded on to the internet by another person.
Combine that with the problem of data retention, then this is really an issue.
But you win some you lose some. I did not hear the police complaining when they were allowed access to private profiles of people on facebook. Now it is the other way around, and the criminals dont even have to break law doing it.
Aren't they afraid of looting? I am afraid as soon as the locals learn these are not manned, they will start noticing the helicopters and loot the trucks once they are deployed.
WebM does not infringe on any of the legit video patents out there.
A company with the caliber of On2 to hold patents that do not infringe on h264 and still claim to reach h264 quality is hard to believe.
That any patent WebM does infringe on is one that can be showed to be invalid via prior art.
Video compression is a mature area and you have to fight teeth and nails get your IP in the standard (I attended the VCEG/MPEG standardization meetings for h264, I witnessed the blood first hand). The IP holders are huge companies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA, and they have very decent research labs.These guys are not fucking around, they do their patent research before fighting to push their IP in.
That anyone who has a valid patent, Google has a more damaging counter patent(s) and thus they'll have to back down.
That sounds like pure fantasy.
I also find it easy to believe that MPEG-LA is grasping at straws, particularly given how long it has taken and the lack of specifics.
MPEG-LA does not seem to know what to do with h264 either. They keep pushing the "end of free license" period. We are safe until 2016 for now I believe. That is about when h265 should be finalized.
I don't really understand why owning 27% of the search market is being shown as a failure. It may be below expectations, but it is still considerable. The search results are more decent then ever and at least google felt threatened enough to honeypot it. BTW I still use Google.
Interestingly it seems/. agrees that a company that made wolfenstein, doom, doom, quake, quake, quake, wolfenstein, doom, quake should not be the one to comment about FPS creativity.
Thanks for the technology, but their gaming experience is still where it was 15 years ago. To top it off, visuals have come a long way since Q1 that it is really hard to sell a game purely based on "pretty" gfx.
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Zuckerberg could just be funneling company money to friends?
+Adam D'Angelo
Put them in an aluminium card case, and they won't read.
This is not something people typically do. You cant get the majority to store their cards in faraday cages just because of this.
Move more than about 5 cm away from the card and it won't read.
People typically carry their wallets in their back pockets and purses, both of which a hacker can get arbitrarily close to. 5cm is way too much.
Put two of these cards next to eachother, and they won't read.
Care to point to some resources? Because that would mean the fixed readers at warehouses are pretty much useless.
If you were going off to college and could only have one device,
Let's turn that around:
If you were home, which device would be the first to pick?
If you were at the beach, which device would you pick?
If you were on a train which device would you pick?
It is kind of obvious that PC is for work and tablet is for fun. No clear winner here.
Same thing was said for a book seller and cloud services.
Regarding this story though, first thing that came to my mind was occupying the space that will soon to be created by Blackberry's downfall.
a.k.a. game theory
ron pearlman was cool guy
Impossible, we all know by now that apple only innovates and never imitates. I think apple will go for 6.9" or 7.1".
Read
Another case of CS guys now knowing about existing EE research.
Because you are new to games, and don't know what to play, and everybody seems to play this thing called "angry birds".
Because it is the cool crowd who plays it.
Because it is like that popular tv show (enter name) that everyone seems to like, so you have to seem to like it to blend in
Because you just finished Demon's Souls and you need to play something "light"
Because he plays it (if you are a girl)
This should cover 500mil people.
Yes, you mean like the time when google also started showing full size background images like bing.
Or the right side summary bar.
I think Google takes Bing more seriously than people think. I dont blame them since Bing is the only potential competitor.
Yes, HTML5 works wonderfully for video made of pixels
Not really. Working with major video publishers, we have learned that HTML5 means iPad. Noone cares about webm or ogg, we are asked to create MP4 for VOD and/or MPEG-TS for live streams and that is it. They are very happy with RTMP and FLV video for browsers and for now they only care about iPad when it comes to tablets
As a developer I find HTML5 a pain in the butt because video players behave differently on different devices and browsers. iPads do not allow more than one video play at the same time (note that I have long accepted HTML5 video=iPad). So not only does it put a limitation on the application you are designing, you also need to to maintain browser compatibility in your code.
You may say "well flash sucks, you need developers, build environments, maintenance, etc.", and you would be right. But we have already done those, they are in place, they are well known and well documented. And guess what, they work great.
If you are to propose a replacement for Flash video I think you need to make a really good case first.
It seems to me like you are creating hypothetical scenarios of total failure. Most of the practical failure scenarios can be handled gracefully when you have facebook's resources under your command. After all they are not sending men to Mars. We have studied and now well understand distributed database problems for more than 30 years. There is pretty much nothing technologically interesting about Facebook (and Twitter for that matter).
/.
The sad part is someone writes his ramblings and puts a flow chart or two and it becomes a story on
...was going to be boring at some point. Apparently that point is now.
/.) think that the old one worked just fine, why mess with it, rightly so
On the bright side something good may come out of this "dumb-down-the-product" approach made popular (and commercially perfected) by Apple. It worked great for them so since MS is trying to re-invent themselves, why not follow the same paradigm.
On the other hand, the pro users (a slight super set of the little crowd here at
I think noone is really wrong or right here. Only time will tell if MS can pull this off.
On Wednesday, a deeply regretful Helleso spoke to local radio
Regretful because he was caught. If he wasn't caught, probably he would have been quite happy.
Cluster GPU Quadruple Extra Large Instance
22 GB of memory
33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem” architecture)
2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs
1690 GB of instance storage
Personal experience: Disk IO: not dependable, network IO excellent.
4000 British pounds sterling = 6302.8000 US dollars
Assuming for each "experiment" you run 20 instances in parallel for 15 minutes (partial hours count as full hours, so remember to round up even if you use for a minute), you spend 40$ per session.
You get to make 160 experiments, and you are over budget.
Or if you adjust everything optimally, e.g., end the experiment at 59 minute mark, and assuming your "parallelization" uses 5 instances, then you get to make 640 experiments. But real life is far from optimal, especially with those pesky grad students.
If she weren't that ugly I could have watched that.
I don't agree with the before/after images. Advances in technology and reduction in tech and hardware prices will be major factor in those designs. Do you really think Samsung made 1 inch tablets because they thought it would look nice? Once you move to touchscreens, guess what, you dont need arrow buttons on the device anymore.
and I dont even have to read the article!
the 16-year-olds of today who might become officers in the future have already been exposed.
and
Of the people surveyed, 85 per cent had their photos uploaded on to the internet by another person.
Combine that with the problem of data retention, then this is really an issue.
But you win some you lose some. I did not hear the police complaining when they were allowed access to private profiles of people on facebook. Now it is the other way around, and the criminals dont even have to break law doing it.
Aren't they afraid of looting? I am afraid as soon as the locals learn these are not manned, they will start noticing the helicopters and loot the trucks once they are deployed.
I was thinking the same thing. Looks like an overkill for a problem that already has a pretty good solution that one can reach intuitively.
WebM does not infringe on any of the legit video patents out there.
A company with the caliber of On2 to hold patents that do not infringe on h264 and still claim to reach h264 quality is hard to believe.
That any patent WebM does infringe on is one that can be showed to be invalid via prior art.
Video compression is a mature area and you have to fight teeth and nails get your IP in the standard (I attended the VCEG/MPEG standardization meetings for h264, I witnessed the blood first hand). The IP holders are huge companies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA, and they have very decent research labs.These guys are not fucking around, they do their patent research before fighting to push their IP in.
That anyone who has a valid patent, Google has a more damaging counter patent(s) and thus they'll have to back down.
That sounds like pure fantasy.
I also find it easy to believe that MPEG-LA is grasping at straws, particularly given how long it has taken and the lack of specifics.
MPEG-LA does not seem to know what to do with h264 either. They keep pushing the "end of free license" period. We are safe until 2016 for now I believe. That is about when h265 should be finalized.
I don't really understand why owning 27% of the search market is being shown as a failure. It may be below expectations, but it is still considerable. The search results are more decent then ever and at least google felt threatened enough to honeypot it. BTW I still use Google.
Interestingly it seems /. agrees that a company that made wolfenstein, doom, doom, quake, quake, quake, wolfenstein, doom, quake should not be the one to comment about FPS creativity.
Thanks for the technology, but their gaming experience is still where it was 15 years ago. To top it off, visuals have come a long way since Q1 that it is really hard to sell a game purely based on "pretty" gfx.
You missed the part where he layers sand and makes 3D objects.