No. Bookies use what people are betting on to calculate odds. That's why they are constantly changing. If some rich guy puts 100 grand on a team, the lines will shift to accommodate his bet (to encourage people to bet on the other team). In places where sports betting is legal (like Mexico and Vegas) the second half betting lines sometimes move very rapidly during half time, right before they shut down because everyone is betting one team. This is really common (and a good bet!) when a team that is obviously better but had a bad first half. For example, Alabama played the razorbacks back in October. They were down 7 at the half and the second half spread was 7 points. Pretty safe to assume that Bama was going to win that game and cover the second half spread. Which they did. I managed to get in my bet seconds before the bookie closed the lines on that half because everyone was doing the same thing.
A bookie wants the betting to always be even for both teams because then he is hedged and can't lose money. He just takes his 10% or whatever off the top (well really out of the middle). If the bookie is unable to drum up enough betting for one team he will simply close the lines.
That was my thought. If the NIC is the limiting factor (likely if you are streaming video) then there is no need for faster, hotter, less efficient hard drives (which is very similar to the Cobra vs Camry comparison:).
Of course, people like to have the bad ass hardware, myself included, and it is hard to ask for a six figure salary when you are managing $10k worth of equipment...
True. I'm not an expert in how the HD cameras transfer the data to the storage but I'd imagine its done somewhat cheaply with COTS equipment. Streaming raw HD video is heavy duty but I'd be surprised if those cameras don't put it in a much more efficient format.
1080p H.264 only needs a 20mbit pipe to stream right?
I think a decent RAID card and gigabit NICs should be able to handle several of those streams at once...
Hehe yeah I knows. Just trolling I guess and was waiting for a system to image. I do think wikileaks is a good thing for freedom/democracy/human rights and it was done for the right reasons. I don't know if that means it deserves the prize but I guess thats why I don't have a vote; but I do think Assange deserves it more than Obama did.:)
Interesting. A friend of mine works with some ex-M$ employees and they all rave about it. Of course none of them worked there past 2005. I wonder what M$ can do to fix the problem...
I was in Kindergarten and the teacher actually brought a TV into the classroom to watch the launch so we were all crowded around watching. When it happened, some kids cried, some (like me) made jokes but had a sick feeling in our guts, other kids seemed oblivious. After school that day, the teacher stood out in the parking lot and told the parents picking up the kids what happened.
Other than the explosion on the TV, I remember her crying in the parking lot more than anything else. I don't know if it was from a parent laying into her for showing us the launch or guilt over what we witnessed that got her going, but it was a sad day. Only thing I've seen on TV that was worse was 9/11.
Does anyone else see the corollaries between the crash of '08 and WWI. I mean, a lot of people in the trenches were taken out but none of the big shots were made to suffer. Apparently nobody learned anything from it. And we are bound to repeat the cycle.
It's pretty striking to me... And scary of what might happen in the second round.
Obviously the pukes on Wall Street will learn nothing from this crash because they weren't made to suffer for it (unlike in the 1930s). I expect the cycle will repeat itself in the next 20 years, and perhaps the banks will be nationalized the second time around...
Remember that Keller is the definition of an elitist. While he may sound like a man of the people and a proud American with democratic ideals in that article, it is certainly in his best interest to keep fucked up things as they are. Assange represents an end to what Keller does. Big media (like Keller's paper), big government (like the last 15 white house administrations), and corporatism are all necessary to Keller's worldview and livelyhood. Hell, that article would be 2 pages long if it wasn't for the obtrusive ads but Keller and his paper have to make their money. The NYT is a public company after all...
This "story" is about selling advertising and keeping the status quo. Pointing out all of Assange's vulnerabilities is part of that goal and the man's notoriety will make people read. Keller does a great job defending his position of the neutral arbitrator trying to serve his country and the American people. I'd expect arguably the top editor in the free world to be able to eloquently defend his position.
Just remember that everyone has an angle, even if they don't realize it. By his nature, Bob Keller is probably writing things that fuck you over (unless you are rich) in an abstract way.
Personally, I will take a imperfect freedom fighter on the lam over an elitist editor any day.
My roommate recently bought a fancy Panasonic Plasma with the netflix app built in (among others). I linked it to his account in 5 minutes and we up and were streaming HD movies.
I was surprised at the quality, its actually better than Uverse's HD (which is pretty bad). I investigated a little further with Uverse's real time tool, a very neat utility btw, and discovered while streaming a movie on netflix we are pulling 7-8mbps down our Uverse dsl pipe. This is a little more than uverse uses for a single HD stream (around 6 mbps). I think we are actually going to trim back our Uverse channel lineup now because netflix is so nice. Here's to hoping netflix streaming keeps on keepin on.:)
Obama was conceived in Africa, then born in Hawaii correct?
That is kind of an unusual and perhaps unsettling, to the average American, many of whom live in the same small town they were born and conceived in. I think labeling people who question Obama's birthplace (like my Dad who has never been outside the USA) as "nutters" and/or "racists" is more close minded and judgmental than those you are criticizing.
Perhaps dropping your own paradigm, and accepting that some people want leaders who share a similar background to themselves. I voted for BO, but I also don't care where he was born. Nor do I care if his Mom jumped on a plane to HI when she was 9 month pregnant to make sure he got his US citizenship. I would have done the same thing for my kid...
Doesn't the Patriot Act go against what both parties supposedly stand for?
If anything, I'd think the general dogma of the Republican party (smaller, less intrusive government) would be more Anti-Patriot Act than the Dems position. Granted, the Patriot Act appears to be taken up as a Republican cause. Of course we all should know by now that its about power and money, not which party you are in or bothersome things like values or the Constitution.
I'm so apathetic nowadays I don't even know what party to belong too anyway. Every time there is an election, its a choice between a giant douche or a turd sandwich.
I have never worked somewhere that officially supported Apple products on their network. And yet, I've always known a few engineers that brought in their Macbooks and got them working. Same goes for non-blackberry smart phones. You can't expect IT to support every piece of hardware and OS on the planet, but you can expect to get some help with server names etc. if you want to do the grunt work on your own hardware.
Depending which cycle you believe, 2010 was also predicted (I dont' think official numbers are out yet) to be a peak year in solar activity for not only this decade, but for the last 80 years. No matter which model you believe, the sun runs on an 11 year cycle, and we are at the peak of the current cycle right now. As I recall, that was a motivating factor for getting some of the more recent satellites up into orbit that have been monitoring the sun's activity the last few years.
I've been saying it for 2 years, ans I'll say it again. Move to Mexico and work remotely. Its beautiful down there and the people are very friendly. The drug cartels don't hassle ex-pats..
Thanks for depressing me even more. I'm more an advocate of getting the hell out... Sure nationalism gives me warm and fuzzies but it's not worth my life, or my freedom.
Yeah sure there are drug cartels, but the Mafia used to control the major cities in the USA a hundred years ago. I know some beautiful spots down there. With satellite connectivity, its possible to work remotely for a lot of tech jobs...
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No. Bookies use what people are betting on to calculate odds. That's why they are constantly changing. If some rich guy puts 100 grand on a team, the lines will shift to accommodate his bet (to encourage people to bet on the other team). In places where sports betting is legal (like Mexico and Vegas) the second half betting lines sometimes move very rapidly during half time, right before they shut down because everyone is betting one team. This is really common (and a good bet!) when a team that is obviously better but had a bad first half. For example, Alabama played the razorbacks back in October. They were down 7 at the half and the second half spread was 7 points. Pretty safe to assume that Bama was going to win that game and cover the second half spread. Which they did. I managed to get in my bet seconds before the bookie closed the lines on that half because everyone was doing the same thing.
A bookie wants the betting to always be even for both teams because then he is hedged and can't lose money. He just takes his 10% or whatever off the top (well really out of the middle). If the bookie is unable to drum up enough betting for one team he will simply close the lines.
I love it when you call me Sparky. :)
That was my thought. If the NIC is the limiting factor (likely if you are streaming video) then there is no need for faster, hotter, less efficient hard drives (which is very similar to the Cobra vs Camry comparison:).
Of course, people like to have the bad ass hardware, myself included, and it is hard to ask for a six figure salary when you are managing $10k worth of equipment...
True. I'm not an expert in how the HD cameras transfer the data to the storage but I'd imagine its done somewhat cheaply with COTS equipment. Streaming raw HD video is heavy duty but I'd be surprised if those cameras don't put it in a much more efficient format.
1080p H.264 only needs a 20mbit pipe to stream right?
I think a decent RAID card and gigabit NICs should be able to handle several of those streams at once...
2TB drives are $100
$100 x 50 = $5,000 worth of storage. $10k if you include the cost of the file servers. Not very impressive.
My friend just put together a 8TB NAS for ~$1000...
Hehe yeah I knows. Just trolling I guess and was waiting for a system to image. I do think wikileaks is a good thing for freedom/democracy/human rights and it was done for the right reasons. I don't know if that means it deserves the prize but I guess thats why I don't have a vote; but I do think Assange deserves it more than Obama did. :)
So nominating Wikileaks for the Nobel Peace Prize is the equivalent of shooting your dog?
Interesting. A friend of mine works with some ex-M$ employees and they all rave about it. Of course none of them worked there past 2005. I wonder what M$ can do to fix the problem...
Nothingness. No more stars or galaxies. A vacuum.
We will be the ones right on the outside of cool. Almost, but not quite. You know what, I like it out here.
Me too. It gives perspective. :)
Long post. Short answer: Darwin's finches.
I was in Kindergarten and the teacher actually brought a TV into the classroom to watch the launch so we were all crowded around watching. When it happened, some kids cried, some (like me) made jokes but had a sick feeling in our guts, other kids seemed oblivious. After school that day, the teacher stood out in the parking lot and told the parents picking up the kids what happened.
Other than the explosion on the TV, I remember her crying in the parking lot more than anything else. I don't know if it was from a parent laying into her for showing us the launch or guilt over what we witnessed that got her going, but it was a sad day. Only thing I've seen on TV that was worse was 9/11.
Does anyone else see the corollaries between the crash of '08 and WWI. I mean, a lot of people in the trenches were taken out but none of the big shots were made to suffer. Apparently nobody learned anything from it. And we are bound to repeat the cycle.
It's pretty striking to me... And scary of what might happen in the second round.
Obviously the pukes on Wall Street will learn nothing from this crash because they weren't made to suffer for it (unlike in the 1930s). I expect the cycle will repeat itself in the next 20 years, and perhaps the banks will be nationalized the second time around...
Waging war doesn't require malice.
Remember that Keller is the definition of an elitist. While he may sound like a man of the people and a proud American with democratic ideals in that article, it is certainly in his best interest to keep fucked up things as they are. Assange represents an end to what Keller does. Big media (like Keller's paper), big government (like the last 15 white house administrations), and corporatism are all necessary to Keller's worldview and livelyhood. Hell, that article would be 2 pages long if it wasn't for the obtrusive ads but Keller and his paper have to make their money. The NYT is a public company after all...
This "story" is about selling advertising and keeping the status quo. Pointing out all of Assange's vulnerabilities is part of that goal and the man's notoriety will make people read. Keller does a great job defending his position of the neutral arbitrator trying to serve his country and the American people. I'd expect arguably the top editor in the free world to be able to eloquently defend his position.
Just remember that everyone has an angle, even if they don't realize it. By his nature, Bob Keller is probably writing things that fuck you over (unless you are rich) in an abstract way.
Personally, I will take a imperfect freedom fighter on the lam over an elitist editor any day.
Specially when mispronounced by pretty much everyone.
Not in Southern California. But yeah, stupid name.
My roommate recently bought a fancy Panasonic Plasma with the netflix app built in (among others). I linked it to his account in 5 minutes and we up and were streaming HD movies.
:)
I was surprised at the quality, its actually better than Uverse's HD (which is pretty bad). I investigated a little further with Uverse's real time tool, a very neat utility btw, and discovered while streaming a movie on netflix we are pulling 7-8mbps down our Uverse dsl pipe. This is a little more than uverse uses for a single HD stream (around 6 mbps). I think we are actually going to trim back our Uverse channel lineup now because netflix is so nice. Here's to hoping netflix streaming keeps on keepin on.
Obama was conceived in Africa, then born in Hawaii correct?
That is kind of an unusual and perhaps unsettling, to the average American, many of whom live in the same small town they were born and conceived in. I think labeling people who question Obama's birthplace (like my Dad who has never been outside the USA) as "nutters" and/or "racists" is more close minded and judgmental than those you are criticizing.
Perhaps dropping your own paradigm, and accepting that some people want leaders who share a similar background to themselves. I voted for BO, but I also don't care where he was born. Nor do I care if his Mom jumped on a plane to HI when she was 9 month pregnant to make sure he got his US citizenship. I would have done the same thing for my kid...
Doesn't the Patriot Act go against what both parties supposedly stand for?
If anything, I'd think the general dogma of the Republican party (smaller, less intrusive government) would be more Anti-Patriot Act than the Dems position. Granted, the Patriot Act appears to be taken up as a Republican cause. Of course we all should know by now that its about power and money, not which party you are in or bothersome things like values or the Constitution.
I'm so apathetic nowadays I don't even know what party to belong too anyway. Every time there is an election, its a choice between a giant douche or a turd sandwich.
I have never worked somewhere that officially supported Apple products on their network. And yet, I've always known a few engineers that brought in their Macbooks and got them working. Same goes for non-blackberry smart phones. You can't expect IT to support every piece of hardware and OS on the planet, but you can expect to get some help with server names etc. if you want to do the grunt work on your own hardware.
Depending which cycle you believe, 2010 was also predicted (I dont' think official numbers are out yet) to be a peak year in solar activity for not only this decade, but for the last 80 years. No matter which model you believe, the sun runs on an 11 year cycle, and we are at the peak of the current cycle right now. As I recall, that was a motivating factor for getting some of the more recent satellites up into orbit that have been monitoring the sun's activity the last few years.
Pretty cool insight into Solar Variation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation
I've been saying it for 2 years, ans I'll say it again. Move to Mexico and work remotely. Its beautiful down there and the people are very friendly. The drug cartels don't hassle ex-pats..
Thanks for depressing me even more. I'm more an advocate of getting the hell out... Sure nationalism gives me warm and fuzzies but it's not worth my life, or my freedom.
Yeah sure there are drug cartels, but the Mafia used to control the major cities in the USA a hundred years ago. I know some beautiful spots down there. With satellite connectivity, its possible to work remotely for a lot of tech jobs...