Because if the WebP can indeed offer a better compression ratio to current format, Google will be very happy to save bandwidth (e.g. from Picassa) and move a small cost onto you, the consumer (more CPU cycles?). While it is not going to hurt you very much, it can save Google some large pile of money.
Last, replace in the above Google with "raster-image content provider" and the above still stand true.
Raise the point with them and be prepared to negotiate in good faith...
If they agree with the idea, expect that they may require you to drop from the current "contractor" rate or some other advantages you currently have or take over some new responsibilities; it would be only fair, since it is you that switched your mind in regards with a previous agreement and choose now to "bet" on the future of the company - so, what are you prepared to "pay" for it? Note: yes, you "paying" now somehow for the options IS fair - the guys involved in startup took (and continue to take) the risks inherent to a startup until crossing the chasm.
As in any negotiation, the success depends on many factors - I can't say more on this track (other than "stay opened to understand their point of view")... but in any case, the negotiation may succeed (a win-win solution, hopefully) or it may fail. What are you prepared to do if it fails? (hint: twisting their arms is barely an ethical or long-term-prospects choice).
If you wanted to correct him and say some other person said that and then give a citation, go for it.
I only asked for info (maybe in the name of an exaggerated precision... this is why is called pedantic mode, you know?). I googled the phrase, couldn't decide the origin, took my chances and asked: maybe somebody actually knows for sure.
Following you on the "straw man" slope: why are you so inclined to take a question as a covert action of casting doubt on the message or poster? Can't questions be just that: questions and nothing more? (how does it feel to have words put in your mouth?)
Wow, you really don't know much, do you?
A space elevator here would allow us to have daily launches to Mars, the asteroids, and beyond, using basically no fuel (using the Earth's angular momentum).
Climbing up a rope still require energy (for the time being, that's mainly fuel). Also, to keep that rope straight up, you'll need to compensate for the gain in angular momentum as the carriage advances upper (the rope is far from rigid, you know?)
Tho I agree about burning the Bible, the US flag and US constitution, Alabama and Texas state flags.
There, FTFY. Personally, I do not like it, but as a rhetorical argument seems good enough - but how do you like it? Isn't any other way of reaching a point of "living together" other than by acts of destructions?
What I do hate is when one group, any group, thinks they are more important and more special than all the others, when they think even those who are not members of their group should conform to their group. Right now, that's US americans.
FTFY once again. Want arguments? Continue reading.
Conditioning and taming, you say? Like in Pavlov experiments, but with humans instead of dogs, yes?
Well, that's already happening, except that the shit fed down to our (and your) throat is made of:
1. the war on terror/DHS/body-scanners,
2. Guantanamo/AbuGhraib and "collateral murder"
3. high-ranked politicians promoting assassinations on national broadcasts
4. MAFIAA/software-patents/domain-name-seizes and 3-strike-laws and list-of-infamous-nations-not-accepting-Nazi-copyright-laws (with Canada on 3r or whatever position), etc - those are the main "cultural exports" from US for the last decade and it's not something I like.
I'm totally disgusted - not hateful, just disgusted. For the sake of understanding between people, can't US find better cultural values and ways of promoting them?
The anarchist in me cringes... take two problems and just make it one really big problem? No. Corporations tend to be inherently corrupt, yes. But governments also tend to be inherently corrupt. I'd rather have two inherently corrupt beasts butting heads with each other over which one will receive control over me than a single beast taking the control over me however it sees fit. At least with the two butting heads with each other, there's potential for me to escape without significant enough notice as the two busy themselves with each other.
Wishful thinking in the near future. Maybe it was so about 20 years ago, times did change (for worse).
The better solution is to get rid of them both and ditch the internet... oh shit. *clicks Post Anonymously*... I'm sorry Slashdot...
Can we, please, stop after getting rid of them and keep the internet?
So, can someone explain to me how this is different from a small personal CNC mill? With the obvious exception that this is plastic goo, instead of a block of alloy to start with.
Try to do something like this with a CNC mill.
The image was linked from the shapeways.com site and used only as an example (I'm not endorsing or promoting their services - just been impressed of some 3D printed models I found there).
What are they using to rectify the signal to convert to DC? The antenna is neat - but not at all surprising, its size should just scale with wavelength. You could make a 125nm long antenna that would resonate with visible light (well withing the resolution of existing lithography). The problem is how to convert the 100THz signal you get to a DC signal. You need a fantastically fast diode.
If they have managed this, that would be an impressive achievement.
What a silly question... so that you can still work on Linux on a tablet running ChromeOS (the things you can't do are quite annoying... here's the solution)
Except the "dangers" of cell phone radiation aren't unknown. Acording to the largest, longest, and most methodologically sound study on the matter, there is no elevated risk of cancer due to cell phone radiation.
Looking back over the years, I find that, for big projects, no language has given me less trouble than C. Once you get it running, it runs forever.
It is not with running that I have issues, it is actually with the results the run has. Pray, try compiling a code from 20 years ago on a 64 bits platform, code that that convert between an int and a pointer, and tell us how it went.
Especially considering the natural tendency to discard information that is in contradiction to ones personal views on the world. If the actual inputs are then skewed to support that view, then it just gets even more extreme as a person tends to discard the more moderate views in favor of more extreme ones.
This brings a new meaning to the "bubble burst" expression (i.e. how long one can keep an extreme positions?)
The 'big boys' have a symbiotic relationship with big government, which gives them the laws that keep competitors out of the market, funnel huge government contracts their way and bail them out when they're going bankrupt.
Eliminate big government and parasitic big business goes with it. Only actual useful big business would continue to exist.
Yes, I can imagine how nice Facebook will play with your personal data in the absence of any regulation about privacy (...and don't tell me Facebook is useful).
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Last, replace in the above Google with "raster-image content provider" and the above still stand true.
If they agree with the idea, expect that they may require you to drop from the current "contractor" rate or some other advantages you currently have or take over some new responsibilities; it would be only fair, since it is you that switched your mind in regards with a previous agreement and choose now to "bet" on the future of the company - so, what are you prepared to "pay" for it?
Note: yes, you "paying" now somehow for the options IS fair - the guys involved in startup took (and continue to take) the risks inherent to a startup until crossing the chasm.
As in any negotiation, the success depends on many factors - I can't say more on this track (other than "stay opened to understand their point of view")... but in any case, the negotiation may succeed (a win-win solution, hopefully) or it may fail. What are you prepared to do if it fails? (hint: twisting their arms is barely an ethical or long-term-prospects choice).
If you wanted to correct him and say some other person said that and then give a citation, go for it.
I only asked for info (maybe in the name of an exaggerated precision... this is why is called pedantic mode, you know?).
I googled the phrase, couldn't decide the origin, took my chances and asked: maybe somebody actually knows for sure.
Following you on the "straw man" slope: why are you so inclined to take a question as a covert action of casting doubt on the message or poster? Can't questions be just that: questions and nothing more?
(how does it feel to have words put in your mouth?)
"If God wanted us to go around naked, we'd be born that way" - Oscar Wilde.
Pedantic mode on: can you please provide a proper citation? Like what interview, article, book, etc.
(are you sure is Oscar Wilde?)
and will I need a battery pack as well?
Nope, but you'll need to recharge you CC... on the grid... you know? Super-capacitors made of graphene.
Wow, you really don't know much, do you? A space elevator here would allow us to have daily launches to Mars, the asteroids, and beyond, using basically no fuel (using the Earth's angular momentum).
Climbing up a rope still require energy (for the time being, that's mainly fuel). Also, to keep that rope straight up, you'll need to compensate for the gain in angular momentum as the carriage advances upper (the rope is far from rigid, you know?)
Tho I agree about burning the Bible, the US flag and US constitution, Alabama and Texas state flags.
There, FTFY. Personally, I do not like it, but as a rhetorical argument seems good enough - but how do you like it?
Isn't any other way of reaching a point of "living together" other than by acts of destructions?
What I do hate is when one group, any group, thinks they are more important and more special than all the others, when they think even those who are not members of their group should conform to their group. Right now, that's US americans.
FTFY once again. Want arguments? Continue reading.
What they need is some systematic desensitization.
Conditioning and taming, you say? Like in Pavlov experiments, but with humans instead of dogs, yes?
Well, that's already happening, except that the shit fed down to our (and your) throat is made of:
1. the war on terror/DHS/body-scanners,
2. Guantanamo/AbuGhraib and "collateral murder"
3. high-ranked politicians promoting assassinations on national broadcasts
4. MAFIAA/software-patents/domain-name-seizes and 3-strike-laws and list-of-infamous-nations-not-accepting-Nazi-copyright-laws (with Canada on 3r or whatever position), etc - those are the main "cultural exports" from US for the last decade and it's not something I like.
I'm totally disgusted - not hateful, just disgusted. For the sake of understanding between people, can't US find better cultural values and ways of promoting them?
The anarchist in me cringes... take two problems and just make it one really big problem? No. Corporations tend to be inherently corrupt, yes. But governments also tend to be inherently corrupt. I'd rather have two inherently corrupt beasts butting heads with each other over which one will receive control over me than a single beast taking the control over me however it sees fit. At least with the two butting heads with each other, there's potential for me to escape without significant enough notice as the two busy themselves with each other.
Wishful thinking in the near future. Maybe it was so about 20 years ago, times did change (for worse).
The better solution is to get rid of them both and ditch the internet... oh shit. *clicks Post Anonymously* ... I'm sorry Slashdot...
Can we, please, stop after getting rid of them and keep the internet?
Unfortunately, the citizenry is half asleep on their couches watching cop shows.
Having to pay mortgage at a 7.8% rate is tiresome.
They will widen ASIO's ability to work with and on behalf of the overseas agencies in collecting what is known as ''foreign intelligence''.
Collecting data about Australian citizen's on behalf of overseas agencies?
And nothing of value was lost
So, can someone explain to me how this is different from a small personal CNC mill? With the obvious exception that this is plastic goo, instead of a block of alloy to start with.
Try to do something like this with a CNC mill.
The image was linked from the shapeways.com site and used only as an example (I'm not endorsing or promoting their services - just been impressed of some 3D printed models I found there).
What are they using to rectify the signal to convert to DC? The antenna is neat - but not at all surprising, its size should just scale with wavelength. You could make a 125nm long antenna that would resonate with visible light (well withing the resolution of existing lithography). The problem is how to convert the 100THz signal you get to a DC signal. You need a fantastically fast diode.
If they have managed this, that would be an impressive achievement.
The PDF mentions (on page 2):
One possible embodiment is metalinsulator-insulator-metal (MIIM) tunneling-diodes.
Is it possible? Does it make sense?
Cool, then they can go do something that creates cultural value or wealth, rather than fiddling around with its transfer.
Too late. Go where? No country accepts now refugees on economic basis (as for the skilled migration... spare me, will ye?)
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Either that, or the Hisss' bogon will be discovered.
FTFY. The next one to be discovered: herrr's bogon.
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If you went to China or Japan or France and still only sought out American-style food, you would likely be outcast. It's the same in America...
:) One can only wish that seeking American-style food while in America will make an outcast from you :)
Sounds like its working just as designed.
Not very good, though... they are still searching for anything related on how those cables got uploaded to Wikileaks (i.e. there's still hope).
Lets ban everything we can't prove it's harmless just in case. Like... I don't know... most food... drinks... gases... and surely politicians!
Please add lawyers to the list... and, well, just in case, statisticians, they found way too many correlations.
Except the "dangers" of cell phone radiation aren't unknown. Acording to the largest, longest, and most methodologically sound study on the matter, there is no elevated risk of cancer due to cell phone radiation.
http://www.rfcom.ca/programs/interphone.shtml
perhaps they haven't read the report.
They read it all right and discarded it... doesn't match with their set of beliefs.
Students generally can opt-out of sports. They can't opt-out of being bombarded by EM radiation.
Tin-foil hats are already proven to work.
Looking back over the years, I find that, for big projects, no language has given me less trouble than C. Once you get it running, it runs forever.
It is not with running that I have issues, it is actually with the results the run has. Pray, try compiling a code from 20 years ago on a 64 bits platform, code that that convert between an int and a pointer, and tell us how it went.
Especially considering the natural tendency to discard information that is in contradiction to ones personal views on the world. If the actual inputs are then skewed to support that view, then it just gets even more extreme as a person tends to discard the more moderate views in favor of more extreme ones.
This brings a new meaning to the "bubble burst" expression (i.e. how long one can keep an extreme positions?)
once your car finds out it can get free pr0n on the internet, we're all screwed!
The situation you describe leads to an exponential proliferation of free pr0n on the internet.
The 'big boys' have a symbiotic relationship with big government, which gives them the laws that keep competitors out of the market, funnel huge government contracts their way and bail them out when they're going bankrupt.
Eliminate big government and parasitic big business goes with it. Only actual useful big business would continue to exist.
Yes, I can imagine how nice Facebook will play with your personal data in the absence of any regulation about privacy (...and don't tell me Facebook is useful).