12 petabytes in 22,292 seconds gives a transmission speed of 540.5 GB/s.
The time divisor should include the media prep and read times -- burning 2.5M DVDs and delivering them to the 747, then carrying them to the destination and reading them -- increases the 22k seconds in-the-air transmission time greatly.
Note we don't include the time it takes to construct the 747 or the DVD burners and readers, just like we don't include the time it takes to lay cable or install wireless cards.
As tactile, hi-rez, analog and relatively inexpensive, books resist wide scale piracy. Blockbuster content will always be shared: photocopied, scanned, loaned, resold. But blockbuster revenue powers publication of low run books. Piracy of blockbuster titles limits the profits with which low run books can be published.
I worry more about the near-death of small, independent book stores, at the hands of large chains (Borders, B&N, Chapters) and the retail giants (WalMart, Costco). So I buy books from small independent booksellers when possible.
I recently saw AotC in the San Jose IMAX, and was quite disappointed -- high action scenes were so large as to be blurred, the frame rate did not appear to be high enough, so fast moving objects appeared to jump across the screen.
Made-for-IMAX films hold camera position and focus much longer than normal hollywood flicks, allowing you the viewer to wander around the scene, drinking in the detail. By contrast, my neck felt exercised leaving the AotC screening, from tracking light sabres flicking hither and yon across the expanse of IMAX screen.
Also, the contrast appeared to be lower at the IMAX than at the digital display of AotC I'd been lucky enough to see (twice...), but that might simply be my jaded eyes...
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In noting the "churn" difference between Microsoft and UNIX developers, Coyote-san echos Reynolds' (the article's author) complaint about how features slide in and out of products: if a good feature implementation isn't wrapped in a successful product, it's likely never to be discovered, never to be copied. Good feature implementations in past products are not seen by the young programmers -- they're too young to remember the solutions past product used, and too busy to research it, so they just invent their own way of doing things.
Treo: Great toy features
- hardware keyboard (Treo 180) OR grafitti (Treo 180g) but no sense of which is cheaper.
- 8 hour battery life: This seems short for either a cell phone OR a pda.
- only GSM network -- great everywhere but US, where it can be called "OK" at best.
It's not really there yet: only 16MB of RAM, not upgradeable, and no plans for a springboard module for EITHER additional RAM OR an MP3 player. Too bad: That would be useful integration!
Resist a cashless society!
Using Credit or Debit is good, when you're tracking your expenses for budget purposes. It's handy receiving a monthly statement detailing your purchases.
Every now and again you might want to buy something without The Bank, The Credit Company, Your Boss, whomever, finding out. So you use cash for its anonymity.
Every now and again you might find yourself in a foreign country, where using credit or debit is either impossible (electricity? access to the 'net?) or expensive. Cash is required, and it's good to know how to recognize correct change. So you use cash for it's expediency.
The brain-exercise of calculating change quickly and correctly may even keep aging brains active, alert and alive.
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12 petabytes in 22,292 seconds gives a transmission speed of 540.5 GB/s.
The time divisor should include the media prep and read times -- burning 2.5M DVDs and delivering them to the 747, then carrying them to the destination and reading them -- increases the 22k seconds in-the-air transmission time greatly.
Note we don't include the time it takes to construct the 747 or the DVD burners and readers, just like we don't include the time it takes to lay cable or install wireless cards.
I worry more about the near-death of small, independent book stores, at the hands of large chains (Borders, B&N, Chapters) and the retail giants (WalMart, Costco). So I buy books from small independent booksellers when possible.
I recently saw AotC in the San Jose IMAX, and was quite disappointed -- high action scenes were so large as to be blurred, the frame rate did not appear to be high enough, so fast moving objects appeared to jump across the screen.
Made-for-IMAX films hold camera position and focus much longer than normal hollywood flicks, allowing you the viewer to wander around the scene, drinking in the detail. By contrast, my neck felt exercised leaving the AotC screening, from tracking light sabres flicking hither and yon across the expanse of IMAX screen.
Also, the contrast appeared to be lower at the IMAX than at the digital display of AotC I'd been lucky enough to see (twice...), but that might simply be my jaded eyes...
In noting the "churn" difference between Microsoft and UNIX developers, Coyote-san echos Reynolds' (the article's author) complaint about how features slide in and out of products: if a good feature implementation isn't wrapped in a successful product, it's likely never to be discovered, never to be copied. Good feature implementations in past products are not seen by the young programmers -- they're too young to remember the solutions past product used, and too busy to research it, so they just invent their own way of doing things.
Treo: Great toy features
- hardware keyboard (Treo 180) OR grafitti (Treo 180g) but no sense of which is cheaper.
- 8 hour battery life: This seems short for either a cell phone OR a pda.
- only GSM network -- great everywhere but US, where it can be called "OK" at best.
It's not really there yet: only 16MB of RAM, not upgradeable, and no plans for a springboard module for EITHER additional RAM OR an MP3 player. Too bad: That would be useful integration!
Resist a cashless society!
Using Credit or Debit is good, when you're tracking your expenses for budget purposes. It's handy receiving a monthly statement detailing your purchases.
Every now and again you might want to buy something without The Bank, The Credit Company, Your Boss, whomever, finding out. So you use cash for its anonymity.
Every now and again you might find yourself in a foreign country, where using credit or debit is either impossible (electricity? access to the 'net?) or expensive. Cash is required, and it's good to know how to recognize correct change. So you use cash for it's expediency.
The brain-exercise of calculating change quickly and correctly may even keep aging brains active, alert and alive.