That's the amount of the federal loan the company got. Add to that Google's $168m, and add other investments, but they won't say what the projected actual cost is. And the effective generation rate of the ISEGS is about 15%, which takes into account darkness, cloudy days, etc. They say the output is 392MW, but you need to discount that to get the effective delivered capacity of 60MW. So if the cost is $1.5B then the cost per kW is about $25,000, which is way high. Nuclear plants are up to about $10,000/kW.
"We ban scrapers like this regularly here simply for not adhering to the rules spelled out in robots.txt."
Hah! robots.txt doesn't stop any decent crawler
Southwest and American sell their tickets only at their own websites because they don't want to pay out commissions. If this is the trend, then where does ITA fit? Even if Google could search those sites through their APIs (if they have them), those airlines won't pay Google for referrals or "conversions" - so how does Google make money?
The game data that you submit can be analyzed by the machine leaning algorithms that will provide programming for the unmanned autonomous submarines, but the data can also be used by the submarines' captains, to help identify interesting pursuit scenarios that they might not have seen before. I suspect submarines will eventually have autonomous systems "helping" captains make decisions. Also they should probably offer to pay high performing game players to collect really good data, and could be done cheaply if third-worlders get on board.
It's the engineers who design and build useful things often using theories developed by scientists. Engineers need to understand the basic science on which "things" are built. As an EE/ECE I took a year of solid state physics so I know how transistors work at the quantum level, and Yes some people do understand enough of basic science to make practical use of it.
Employee clicks a phishing link in an email - that site is not filtered by their firewall
The site requests and the employee allows downloads of executables - improper employee training and exes not filtered by firewall
Employee allows exes to run - no exe blocking installed in the employee's PC
Uploads of clear email lists - stored lists should be encrypted, and also no firewall monitoring/blocking of file transfers
I had an 8mm video camera in 1996 that could also take still photos with a resolution of about 400k pixels, but the resolution of the viewfinder was about 100k pixels. This seems to be prior art? (The patent seems to be about previewing at a low res, but capturing at a high res.)
I skimmed the patent 6292218 that was filed in 1997 and it might not be applicable to current cameras. It describes a camera with "a removable memory card", which many devices like iphone and ipad don't have. It also describes two separate processors, one for previews and one for the captured picture, and also a multiplexer that the display uses to select which image to display. I suspect current cameras don't have true separate "processors", rather just a flag in firmware to decide what to do. However, in 1997 this kind of processing probably needed to be done separately. The patent was issued in 2001, so I'm not sure why Kodak waited 10 years on this.
Although they are a 501c3, a "non-profit" like mGive are allowed to pay their staff and directors huge salaries, fees, and expenses. The non-profit entity itself does not "make money". And the mGive Exec. Director is shrewd: "..we then pass 100 percent of the money raised to our nonprofit partners". But he doesn't say: and then we immediately send the "partner" an invoice for our expenses.
It seem Google is just following IBM's path of patent anything/everything - just in case. In one very narrow band of technology that I'm familiar with, IBM files about 5 patent apps a year, and each one that I've read is simply common knowledge and widely implemented by the other 100 or so people in the world also familiar with this technology/engineering.
Modest electric cars need about 10 kW per hour. So that means if you want to charge your battery in 10 minutes, you'll need a 60 kW pump. At 220 volts that's about 300 amps. With four way parallel charging that's about 75 amps each, which requires heavy-duty cables and connectors but it's doable.
Netflix is simply positioning itself to be acquired by somebody like Comcast (ie Kabletown). By proving they are capable of making these kinds of deals, they suddenly become a bigger player. (The Netflix team has worked pretty hard these last few years and they are ready to retire in big luxury.)
Amazon, Comcast, Fios charge big bucks for video on demand recent movies - there's no way Netflix can provide their unlimited streaming on current titles for just $10-$15/month.
But maybe Netflix and studios can get creative, like Netflix buys a fixed number of streamable recent movies, and you just add a request to your streaming queue like for DVDs, and when a streamable movie becomes available then you get to watch it within the next 12 hours. (Wait, this sounds patentable)
As an FYI, there was US government classified work done for about 20 years at SRI, starting in the 1970s, with evidence of "remote viewing" published in Proceeding of the IEEE and Nature, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Targ
The KinectBot will count the number of people watching a movie on a TV, and then that will be used to charge the appropriate per-viewer based fees. And you can earn credits for staying in the room during any TV commercials before/after the movie. And of course, there's no credits given for only partially watching a crappy movie. But if more people enter the room during the movie, the fee will go up...
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I'm sure there are ways for sites to be in compliance with the no-tracking feature, but they will still track you.
That's the amount of the federal loan the company got. Add to that Google's $168m, and add other investments, but they won't say what the projected actual cost is. And the effective generation rate of the ISEGS is about 15%, which takes into account darkness, cloudy days, etc. They say the output is 392MW, but you need to discount that to get the effective delivered capacity of 60MW. So if the cost is $1.5B then the cost per kW is about $25,000, which is way high. Nuclear plants are up to about $10,000/kW.
I don't think there can be such a "ban" - if humans can browse a website, then crawlers can crawl.
"We ban scrapers like this regularly here simply for not adhering to the rules spelled out in robots.txt." Hah! robots.txt doesn't stop any decent crawler
Southwest and American sell their tickets only at their own websites because they don't want to pay out commissions. If this is the trend, then where does ITA fit? Even if Google could search those sites through their APIs (if they have them), those airlines won't pay Google for referrals or "conversions" - so how does Google make money?
The game data that you submit can be analyzed by the machine leaning algorithms that will provide programming for the unmanned autonomous submarines, but the data can also be used by the submarines' captains, to help identify interesting pursuit scenarios that they might not have seen before. I suspect submarines will eventually have autonomous systems "helping" captains make decisions. Also they should probably offer to pay high performing game players to collect really good data, and could be done cheaply if third-worlders get on board.
It's the engineers who design and build useful things often using theories developed by scientists. Engineers need to understand the basic science on which "things" are built. As an EE/ECE I took a year of solid state physics so I know how transistors work at the quantum level, and Yes some people do understand enough of basic science to make practical use of it.
Employee clicks a phishing link in an email - that site is not filtered by their firewall
The site requests and the employee allows downloads of executables - improper employee training and exes not filtered by firewall
Employee allows exes to run - no exe blocking installed in the employee's PC
Uploads of clear email lists - stored lists should be encrypted, and also no firewall monitoring/blocking of file transfers
How can anyone live on $79k?
I had an 8mm video camera in 1996 that could also take still photos with a resolution of about 400k pixels, but the resolution of the viewfinder was about 100k pixels. This seems to be prior art? (The patent seems to be about previewing at a low res, but capturing at a high res.)
I skimmed the patent 6292218 that was filed in 1997 and it might not be applicable to current cameras. It describes a camera with "a removable memory card", which many devices like iphone and ipad don't have. It also describes two separate processors, one for previews and one for the captured picture, and also a multiplexer that the display uses to select which image to display. I suspect current cameras don't have true separate "processors", rather just a flag in firmware to decide what to do. However, in 1997 this kind of processing probably needed to be done separately. The patent was issued in 2001, so I'm not sure why Kodak waited 10 years on this.
Although they are a 501c3, a "non-profit" like mGive are allowed to pay their staff and directors huge salaries, fees, and expenses. The non-profit entity itself does not "make money". And the mGive Exec. Director is shrewd: "..we then pass 100 percent of the money raised to our nonprofit partners". But he doesn't say: and then we immediately send the "partner" an invoice for our expenses.
It seem Google is just following IBM's path of patent anything/everything - just in case. In one very narrow band of technology that I'm familiar with, IBM files about 5 patent apps a year, and each one that I've read is simply common knowledge and widely implemented by the other 100 or so people in the world also familiar with this technology/engineering.
Modest electric cars need about 10 kW per hour. So that means if you want to charge your battery in 10 minutes, you'll need a 60 kW pump. At 220 volts that's about 300 amps. With four way parallel charging that's about 75 amps each, which requires heavy-duty cables and connectors but it's doable.
Netflix is simply positioning itself to be acquired by somebody like Comcast (ie Kabletown). By proving they are capable of making these kinds of deals, they suddenly become a bigger player. (The Netflix team has worked pretty hard these last few years and they are ready to retire in big luxury.)
Amazon, Comcast, Fios charge big bucks for video on demand recent movies - there's no way Netflix can provide their unlimited streaming on current titles for just $10-$15/month. But maybe Netflix and studios can get creative, like Netflix buys a fixed number of streamable recent movies, and you just add a request to your streaming queue like for DVDs, and when a streamable movie becomes available then you get to watch it within the next 12 hours. (Wait, this sounds patentable)
but what did I see? I saw the sea."
As an FYI, there was US government classified work done for about 20 years at SRI, starting in the 1970s, with evidence of "remote viewing" published in Proceeding of the IEEE and Nature, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Targ
My wife will be thrilled...
Ballmer's photo on Wikipedia would probably indicate "incapable of thought".
Oh never mind, they already have cell service, I suppose that had been a big market for sat phones
The KinectBot will count the number of people watching a movie on a TV, and then that will be used to charge the appropriate per-viewer based fees. And you can earn credits for staying in the room during any TV commercials before/after the movie. And of course, there's no credits given for only partially watching a crappy movie. But if more people enter the room during the movie, the fee will go up...
...as a remote agent, and actually controlled the craft for a few days.
"Google is testing a Web-based service within Gmail that will allow users to place phone calls from their in-boxes."
And they wondered why he had all those shoe boxes