Mac did the concurrent-version with the switch to OSX - Classic appeared for years alongside OSX while applications migrated across. Who is to say Microsoft couldn't pull off something similar?
This is true, but talking between all of these language groups, the fallback languages are English and Hindi (or the bastard love-child, 'hinglish') - and depending on the customer, English may even prevail. The main purpose of learning an Indian language other than Hindi would be to be able to use it outside of the office.
In either case, I think it unlikely that a US-based citizen would go to India for work at any kind of with-the-troops level, unless they were willing to sacrifice pay and quality of life for the experience. Learning any of the Indian languages would primarily be an 'extra', letting you get on with clients or outsource providers beyond the limit of work.
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Calculate your own conversion to attempt-by-the-French-to-regain-relevance-on-the-world-stage units.
Gee, if metric is an attempt by France to regain relevance, they've succeeded everywhere bar America. Continuing use of imperial units must be attempt-by-the-Americans-to-deny-progress-and-sanity.
...Countries like Indonesia, India and other middle east countries, where sun light is available in abundance, will benefit most. As opposed to Europe and the US, where sunlight isn't available in abundance?
To me, the big issue is not efficiency but cost per watt. Read the bloody summary even!
could theoretically lead to a maximum output of 44%, with the added benefit of reducing manufacturing costs So if the summary is to be believed, you're increasing output nearly threefold, and reducing cost of manufacture. The cost-per-watt ratio moves the right way on both sides.
(a) RTFA:
Sabir was arrested on May 14 after the document was found by a university staff member on an administrator's computer A staff member - could have been anybody, could've been a cleaner - who was obviously unaware of Sabir's topic of research, has reported the printout to the police. You can't blame the university.
(b) what is a university supposed to stand for, in this context? Universities are institutions of learning, but I don't see what it has to do with this case.
He was a student. He probably just let his student visa expire. No biggie, and no reason to put him on a fast track deportation schedule. RTFA:
Sabir was arrested on May 14 after the document was found by a university staff member on an administrator's computer. The administrator, Hisham Yezza, an acquaintance of Sabir, had been asked by the student to print the 1,500-page document because Sabir could not afford the printing fees.... They were released uncharged six days later but Yezza, who is Algerian, was immediately rearrested on unrelated immigration charges and now faces deportation. Yezza, the administrator, has been re-arrested. The student, Sabir, was let go after charges were dropped. Sabir is presumably a British citizen, otherwise he would have been on a boat out too.
The difference being that Sony has a movie picture arm that has the content to supply this, while Microsoft has to work with industry partners. Sure, you might not get all of the movies out there until they get agreements with all the studios, but you'll get something at least:)
How is that relevant in any way, shape or form to the purchase of Gracenote?
I'm no Sony apologist, but whenever Sony appears here, people point out that Sony always push for proprietary formats. If and when Sony is launching a new consumer product which uses a proprietary format, I can see the validity of raising the formats. However, in this case, the burden of proof is on the people raising it. Gracenote CDDB has an entrenched market position - Sony can't exactly introduce a new proprietary format here.
Other questions, such as the ongoing independence of the Gracenote system, would be entirely relevant to ask here, but they have something to do with the topic, so I guess my expectations are too high.
So I ask: why are proprietary formats relevant to the discussion of this purchase?
0.5% of revenue won't make these companies struggle to stay in business by any means. It's small enough (50c per $100, or $5000 per million) that it'll be distributed through the customer base or suppliers (where applicable) will be pushed to cut costs if price rises aren't palatable.
The greater fear should be that they pay up to avoid the hassle of court and costs of lawyers and encourage more of these trolls.
The Cell (PS3's processor) has 8 cores, and a 'scheduler' core to assign threads, so it goes some way to addressing the intelligent core assignment. On the other hand, it does have to dedicate 1 core to a scheduler/controller - which is only efficient when you've got enough cores (such as the Cell's 9). Now all we need is programmers who know how to code for many-multi-core (i.e. threading and keeping intra-process communication tidy). Not just at the consumer-facing application level, but at the compiler and OS level too.
The technology is on the way, just not down to the consumer level yet.
>You use one gallon of gasoline or diesel to run a tractor to grow and harvest corn (and to produce fertiliser), and get 1,24 gallons >of ethanol-based gasoline out, it is totally irrelevant how much energy you had to put into the production of the gallon of >mineral-oil based gasoline you used.
Why does this it not matter how much is needed to produce mineral oil? The output requires input. I'm not saying ethanol is more efficient in any way, but that crude is not cost-free.
> Without having a citeable source to back this statement up, I am disputing your interpretation of the "24% efficiency"
Don't shoot the messenger - I'm just citing the summary.
> If you (or rather the farmers and refiners) would need four gallons of crude oil (or gasoline or diesel) to produce one gallon of > ethanol, ethanol-based gasoline would have to either cost $8 per gallon at the pump, or be subsidized at $5 per gallon to sell at > $3 at the pump.
My interpretation is that 24% efficiency relates to an absolute measure of return on input - this may be an invalid interpretation, but I can just as easily imagine that the subsidy is greater than that, currently. Patriotism and pork-barrelling means a lot of money. When you consider farmers in the US growing for food are getting subsidised to compete against food imports, what price competing against oil imports?
I know for sure there's huge subsidies in Australia for ethanol production, and the output is blended (typically 10%) to reduce the cost of petrol at the pump by a few cents a litre. Pure ethanol-based fuel would probably cost more. This also leaves out the question of bio-diesel, which by the prices (subsidised though they may be) is cheaper at the pump.
There's a tacit assumption there that producing oil itself doesn't consume oil. Discovering the oil fields, digging up the oil, transporting the oil, refining the oil, transporting the resulting petroleum, all takes up oil, too.
And as others have pointed out, the article clearly addreses this - Corn returns 1 part oil for 4 parts invested (24%), while Switchgrass apparently returns 11 parts for every 2 parts invested (540%, approx). That's a net gain of 9 parts - so why not use switchgrass?
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Mac did the concurrent-version with the switch to OSX - Classic appeared for years alongside OSX while applications migrated across. Who is to say Microsoft couldn't pull off something similar?
This is true, but talking between all of these language groups, the fallback languages are English and Hindi (or the bastard love-child, 'hinglish') - and depending on the customer, English may even prevail. The main purpose of learning an Indian language other than Hindi would be to be able to use it outside of the office.
In either case, I think it unlikely that a US-based citizen would go to India for work at any kind of with-the-troops level, unless they were willing to sacrifice pay and quality of life for the experience. Learning any of the Indian languages would primarily be an 'extra', letting you get on with clients or outsource providers beyond the limit of work.
Calculate your own conversion to attempt-by-the-French-to-regain-relevance-on-the-world-stage units.
Gee, if metric is an attempt by France to regain relevance, they've succeeded everywhere bar America. Continuing use of imperial units must be attempt-by-the-Americans-to-deny-progress-and-sanity.Metric is the global standard. Get over it.
...Countries like Indonesia, India and other middle east countries, where sun light is available in abundance, will benefit most. As opposed to Europe and the US, where sunlight isn't available in abundance?Colour me confused.
(b) what is a university supposed to stand for, in this context? Universities are institutions of learning, but I don't see what it has to do with this case.
PSP-PS3 integration is already there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Play
I guess it's just a matter of extending it for allowing offline access...
I "forgot" Trinitron because TVs aren't exactly something you can have a proprietary format for, or at least not if you want to sell any.
The difference being that Sony has a movie picture arm that has the content to supply this, while Microsoft has to work with industry partners. Sure, you might not get all of the movies out there until they get agreements with all the studios, but you'll get something at least :)
How is that relevant in any way, shape or form to the purchase of Gracenote?
I'm no Sony apologist, but whenever Sony appears here, people point out that Sony always push for proprietary formats. If and when Sony is launching a new consumer product which uses a proprietary format, I can see the validity of raising the formats. However, in this case, the burden of proof is on the people raising it. Gracenote CDDB has an entrenched market position - Sony can't exactly introduce a new proprietary format here.
Other questions, such as the ongoing independence of the Gracenote system, would be entirely relevant to ask here, but they have something to do with the topic, so I guess my expectations are too high.
So I ask: why are proprietary formats relevant to the discussion of this purchase?
Walkman. Discman. Arguably both Sony's most successful consumer electronics products.
http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=vp&pvid=nav10mac
Safer than sorry, right? Credit to 'em for being able to detect even that.
0.5% of revenue won't make these companies struggle to stay in business by any means. It's small enough (50c per $100, or $5000 per million) that it'll be distributed through the customer base or suppliers (where applicable) will be pushed to cut costs if price rises aren't palatable. The greater fear should be that they pay up to avoid the hassle of court and costs of lawyers and encourage more of these trolls.
I hear the Compact Disc (Sony-Phillips collab) did alright.
*sigh* internet humour fails.
Interpol includes the Frenchies. Wouldn't want to bother with a translation, now.
Nelson Mandela might be able to tell you why.
The Cell (PS3's processor) has 8 cores, and a 'scheduler' core to assign threads, so it goes some way to addressing the intelligent core assignment. On the other hand, it does have to dedicate 1 core to a scheduler/controller - which is only efficient when you've got enough cores (such as the Cell's 9). Now all we need is programmers who know how to code for many-multi-core (i.e. threading and keeping intra-process communication tidy). Not just at the consumer-facing application level, but at the compiler and OS level too.
The technology is on the way, just not down to the consumer level yet.
The 3rd millenium officially started 2001, but no-one wants to be a partypooper.
>You use one gallon of gasoline or diesel to run a tractor to grow and harvest corn (and to produce fertiliser), and get 1,24 gallons
>of ethanol-based gasoline out, it is totally irrelevant how much energy you had to put into the production of the gallon of
>mineral-oil based gasoline you used.
Why does this it not matter how much is needed to produce mineral oil? The output requires input. I'm not saying ethanol is more efficient in any way, but that crude is not cost-free.
> Without having a citeable source to back this statement up, I am disputing your interpretation of the "24% efficiency"
Don't shoot the messenger - I'm just citing the summary.
> If you (or rather the farmers and refiners) would need four gallons of crude oil (or gasoline or diesel) to produce one gallon of
> ethanol, ethanol-based gasoline would have to either cost $8 per gallon at the pump, or be subsidized at $5 per gallon to sell at
> $3 at the pump.
My interpretation is that 24% efficiency relates to an absolute measure of return on input - this may be an invalid interpretation, but I can just as easily imagine that the subsidy is greater than that, currently. Patriotism and pork-barrelling means a lot of money. When you consider farmers in the US growing for food are getting subsidised to compete against food imports, what price competing against oil imports?
I know for sure there's huge subsidies in Australia for ethanol production, and the output is blended (typically 10%) to reduce the cost of petrol at the pump by a few cents a litre. Pure ethanol-based fuel would probably cost more. This also leaves out the question of bio-diesel, which by the prices (subsidised though they may be) is cheaper at the pump.
There's a tacit assumption there that producing oil itself doesn't consume oil. Discovering the oil fields, digging up the oil, transporting the oil, refining the oil, transporting the resulting petroleum, all takes up oil, too. And as others have pointed out, the article clearly addreses this - Corn returns 1 part oil for 4 parts invested (24%), while Switchgrass apparently returns 11 parts for every 2 parts invested (540%, approx). That's a net gain of 9 parts - so why not use switchgrass?
That means nothing to me! How many Libraries of Congress, please - a relevant unit of measure if there ever was one.