The US has data caps, they just don't tell you what it is and kick you off once you hit it.
I'm currently on a 1TB plan that cost me $30/month here in Australia.
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You're wrong about: -textures take up more space than models. Models are simply a list of 3 points. -animations will often take up less space than models depending on the model/animation system. Most are now bone/etc based, so an animation isn't multiple copies of the same model, it's instructions applied to the base model. -code is very small, but a lot more than 5MB
Technology to make it work at X speed and Y voltage didn't exist at the time, and for something like a memory module you don't design it to take a range of voltages or speeds.
Would you prefer if your price of petrol/gas was doubled and kept that way for 2 years, rather than changing week by week depending on your exchange rate to source oil companies and the going price of oil?
You keep your tax invoices and enter their total into a web site quarterly. There is no "this applies, this doesn't." If you are GST registered, and you paid GST on ANY ITEM, you can claim that GST as an input.
Just because you have an example of someone who shouldn't buy this car doesn't mean that no one should, and that it's a bad idea to even try making and selling them. Everyone in the universe should not day 1 go out and buy a new technology car, and no one is saying they should.
This is the first generation of a true electric mode capable (out of the factory) pluggable consumer priced hybrid.
That means people with extra cash lying around and who have a short-ish commute buy them.
Next generation costs 5-10k less and lasts for 60 miles, and moves to a better generator engine.
Third generation comes down in price again and lasts for 100 miles with an even better generator based on some new energy reclaiming tech someone discovers.
In 10 years, when your sister's car finally dies and she MUST buy a new one, there will be a nice car under 20k with a 60-100 mile range. Gas will be $9 a gallon. She will get all the way to work on electric, and hopefully get a nice charging place that charges her $3 for the day to use. If not, she uses petrol on the way home for 1/2 the trip, still saving money overall.
The actual "nightly news" shows on fox are quite balanced and well reported.
The issue is having a channel called "Fox News" which has 95% unbalanced editorial content on it. Rename the channel to "Fox Talkback" or "Fox Politics" and eliminate any "fair and balanced" claims on the channel I'd be happy. They have a right to say what they want, but shouldn't call it news if it's not.
The question is not "why make an 8-bit cpu and run stuff on it". The question is "why load linux on an 8-bit cpu where it's unusable?".
There are tons of embedded 8 bit processors, and all can run very complex software written in c/c++/etc.
I think this is cool, but the answer is simply "as a challenge." The microcontroller problem, and making it either powerful or easy to use, has been solved for years and is evolving. Running linux on them was never what was holding them back.
My 4G LTE dongle begs to differ. We do have 4G in capital cities, and the limitation of the iPad is that it does not work with most 4G frequencies, only a small select few.
2. The pub has likenesses FROM THE MOVIE. "It features characters from Tolkien's stories on its signs, has "Frodo" and "Gandalf" cocktails on the menu, and the face of Lord of the Rings film star Elijah Wood on its loyalty card."
"When you have 8 servers each with 2 PCI-E Quad E1 Digium Cards, handling a total of 248 inbound calls on toll free numbers,"
This one is tricky if you're trunking with the local telco correctly. Your telco should offer a redunancy and rerouting service if you actually have 64 E1s with them.
"When you have analog CCTV cameras running into 4 servers each with 16 channels of video, well, how do you cluster that?"
That one's easy. Splitter before the capture card.
If you care about it, it's capable of being made redundant.
For instance, there are endless TV ads describing a list of symptoms and instructing the viewers to diagnose themselves with a disorder X and ask their doctor for a prescription for treatment Y
Fortunately that's illegal in most countries apart from the USA.
So you'd lose the ability to play all of your past game catalog and make developers port to your platform simply to knock $30-50 off of the up front price?
Here is one the UTC/DST problems in a nutshell, and why it's not as simple as you think: Assumptions: -Me and my user are in UTC +10 -DST puts us into UTC +11 -DST runs from 1 October until 1 April
I am writing a "family reminders" application for mobile phones. A user enters two reminders. BOTH reminders are activated for the user and his wife, reminding them to take some medication. One is for 10 March 2010 at 1130AM and the other is for 10 April 2010 at 1130AM.
How do I store these date? I am a SMART programmer, and I store them as 2012-03-10_0030 and 2012-04-10_0130. I was clever. I looked at the user's timezone setting, projected into the dates they were setting to appropriately modify the UTC time depending on DST or not.
Two things happen: 1. The user's wife flies to the west coast on 9 march, 3 hours earlier. On 10 march, do we alarm her at 8:30, per UTC? Or do we look at her new current time zone vs when it really was set and alarm her at 11:30 local time?
2. The "making summer longer" act is passed, extending DST to 15 April. Do we alarm them at 11:30am, or at 12:30pm? Why?
The solution to both of these is to give the users a bunch of checkboxes they don't quite understand, or to make assumptions that might wind up incorrect. Either way there's no "win win".
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The US has data caps, they just don't tell you what it is and kick you off once you hit it.
I'm currently on a 1TB plan that cost me $30/month here in Australia.
You're wrong about:
-textures take up more space than models. Models are simply a list of 3 points.
-animations will often take up less space than models depending on the model/animation system. Most are now bone/etc based, so an animation isn't multiple copies of the same model, it's instructions applied to the base model.
-code is very small, but a lot more than 5MB
Technology to make it work at X speed and Y voltage didn't exist at the time, and for something like a memory module you don't design it to take a range of voltages or speeds.
Your part of the woods is wrong then:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.csharp.aspx
Official microsoft namespaces for the underlying compiler are "microsoft.csharp".
You can pronounce c++ as "see tee tee" but you look like an idiot doing so.
I'm in Australia, so:
-DVD of whole season: $10-25
-Blu Ray of whole season: $20-40
-ONE iTunes Episode: $5
Download it now, buy the blu rays or dvds when available.
Legal? No. Moral? Yes, in my mind.
Would you prefer if your price of petrol/gas was doubled and kept that way for 2 years, rather than changing week by week depending on your exchange rate to source oil companies and the going price of oil?
-It's a serial key download. There is NO distribution cost apart from bandwidth costs.
-There is no local support. It's a local number which redirects you to india, just like every other american tech company provides.
Any other thoughts?
What's hard about it?
You keep your tax invoices and enter their total into a web site quarterly. There is no "this applies, this doesn't." If you are GST registered, and you paid GST on ANY ITEM, you can claim that GST as an input.
It could not be simpler.
Just because you have an example of someone who shouldn't buy this car doesn't mean that no one should, and that it's a bad idea to even try making and selling them. Everyone in the universe should not day 1 go out and buy a new technology car, and no one is saying they should.
This is the first generation of a true electric mode capable (out of the factory) pluggable consumer priced hybrid.
That means people with extra cash lying around and who have a short-ish commute buy them.
Next generation costs 5-10k less and lasts for 60 miles, and moves to a better generator engine.
Third generation comes down in price again and lasts for 100 miles with an even better generator based on some new energy reclaiming tech someone discovers.
In 10 years, when your sister's car finally dies and she MUST buy a new one, there will be a nice car under 20k with a 60-100 mile range. Gas will be $9 a gallon. She will get all the way to work on electric, and hopefully get a nice charging place that charges her $3 for the day to use. If not, she uses petrol on the way home for 1/2 the trip, still saving money overall.
The actual "nightly news" shows on fox are quite balanced and well reported.
The issue is having a channel called "Fox News" which has 95% unbalanced editorial content on it. Rename the channel to "Fox Talkback" or "Fox Politics" and eliminate any "fair and balanced" claims on the channel I'd be happy. They have a right to say what they want, but shouldn't call it news if it's not.
You're forgetting about 486 DX4 75mhz. Clock trippled baby.
The question is not "why make an 8-bit cpu and run stuff on it". The question is "why load linux on an 8-bit cpu where it's unusable?".
There are tons of embedded 8 bit processors, and all can run very complex software written in c/c++/etc.
I think this is cool, but the answer is simply "as a challenge." The microcontroller problem, and making it either powerful or easy to use, has been solved for years and is evolving. Running linux on them was never what was holding them back.
By the rest of the world do you mean "The USA" or by the rest of the world do you mean "The rest of the world" ?
Because in Europe, Australia, and Asia 1800 is the standard frequency, with 2600 and 800 being also considered.
In the USA it's 700 and 1700/1900.
My 4G LTE dongle begs to differ. We do have 4G in capital cities, and the limitation of the iPad is that it does not work with most 4G frequencies, only a small select few.
1. I agree this is petty bullshit.
That said...
2. The pub has likenesses FROM THE MOVIE. "It features characters from Tolkien's stories on its signs, has "Frodo" and "Gandalf" cocktails on the menu, and the face of Lord of the Rings film star Elijah Wood on its loyalty card."
The name "hobbit" is only about 1% of the issue.
There is one, and only one, reason that I use the nvidia propriatary driver:
VDPAU.
"When you have 8 servers each with 2 PCI-E Quad E1 Digium Cards, handling a total of 248 inbound calls on toll free numbers,"
This one is tricky if you're trunking with the local telco correctly. Your telco should offer a redunancy and rerouting service if you actually have 64 E1s with them.
"When you have analog CCTV cameras running into 4 servers each with 16 channels of video, well, how do you cluster that?"
That one's easy. Splitter before the capture card.
If you care about it, it's capable of being made redundant.
Fortunately that's illegal in most countries apart from the USA.
So you'd lose the ability to play all of your past game catalog and make developers port to your platform simply to knock $30-50 off of the up front price?
Here is one the UTC/DST problems in a nutshell, and why it's not as simple as you think:
Assumptions:
-Me and my user are in UTC +10
-DST puts us into UTC +11
-DST runs from 1 October until 1 April
I am writing a "family reminders" application for mobile phones. A user enters two reminders. BOTH reminders are activated for the user and his wife, reminding them to take some medication. One is for 10 March 2010 at 1130AM and the other is for 10 April 2010 at 1130AM.
How do I store these date? I am a SMART programmer, and I store them as 2012-03-10_0030 and 2012-04-10_0130.
I was clever. I looked at the user's timezone setting, projected into the dates they were setting to appropriately modify the UTC time depending on DST or not.
Two things happen:
1. The user's wife flies to the west coast on 9 march, 3 hours earlier. On 10 march, do we alarm her at 8:30, per UTC? Or do we look at her new current time zone vs when it really was set and alarm her at 11:30 local time?
2. The "making summer longer" act is passed, extending DST to 15 April. Do we alarm them at 11:30am, or at 12:30pm? Why?
The solution to both of these is to give the users a bunch of checkboxes they don't quite understand, or to make assumptions that might wind up incorrect. Either way there's no "win win".
In australia prostitution is licensed and legal, so there's nothing "extra legal" about a customer of sex workers.
They even have a union!
The point is that you rewrite the UI per platform, but the core business logic is "write once".
Do your parents know you're on the internet past your bed time?