What lawyer do you know that works 40 hours/week while litigating (I personally know none).
Also, where does the average person make $48/hour, as that's over 90k/year?
I'm not saying lawyers charge a reasonable amount (they don't), but if the case was pursued vigorously for 6 months 100k/month is not high for the trade at all.
You figure there were likely 2 lawyers (they leave law school with the equivalent of a mortgage often, my friend finished Penn with of 6 figures of debt over 30 years at higher than mortgage interest rate), 2 or 3 paralegals, and a secretary working 20-80 hours a week each depending on the point of the case they were at.
I get billing average of $255/hour each for 20 hour weeks. Of course they probably hired experts our of that money for 100-500/hour. The experts probably analyzed the files produced, looking for emails, photos etc. Also may have analyzed the software. And then produced a report.
I would suspect that the 185,000 was 2/3 of the winnings (with the law form getting 92k). The other 350k being costs, including experts, who were likely the real winners, and didn't take any risk (except for the fact that law firms are notoriously slow pay).
I think it's fair to say they did not have a full team even looking at this case part time in the end.
This could actually work for Windows Phone 7 though, with the Live integration.
As soon as I got my G1, I knew unless it was terrible compared to the competition I was going to stick with it (and I would say 1.6 is where it became more or less on par, with soft keyboard, and navigation built in, I like a hardware keyboard, but given a choice between hardware with no soft, or software with no hard, I'd take the software one, and tapping out messages in portrait mode with one hand is a killer feature).
The reason was it automatically had all of my contacts, and if I lost my phone, I could easily look up a phone number in my google account from someone else's phone, as all numbers would get stored there. Yes, other companies do similar, but my google account was already where I went for these things, and as such it was great that my phone did too.
Were I a hotmail user (or Xbox maybe), I would probably be eager for the Windows Phone 7 for the same reason. Though at this point I probably would have switched to Apple mail, or Gmail due to whatever phone I purchased.
It's not even that I'm that locked in, I am sure I could export and import somewhere else, and gmail makes forwarding mail easy enough, but I like it, and am therefore unlikely to use something other than Android, simply because if I am using gmail, that's what makes sense.
Yes because things like: like the man hours spent patching software to avoid a nasty infection spreading quickly would go away if there was no piracy.
I would actually argue the maintenance costs are down for things people pirate, as admins with real world experience or even just familiarity from dicking around at home, are easier to find.
I just tried it and couldn't post here it was so aweful.
Font and/or font rendering was aweful (had to be much larger than either dolphin or default to be readable)
Double tap did not zoom enough (about 85 characters, I think it's keeping the pixel count true, but when I zoom I expect my characters to have at least one pixel between them, and many don't).
This makes a 2 GB of a data plan worth 4800 minutes. Considering "unlimited" runs $25-$50 and includes 5GB (memory and from what I've seen), I would say you can comfortably save money using it to talk.
On t-mobile, I generally use 2-3 GB, giving me plenty of breathing space to use lots and lots of data for voice (though I have unlimited minutes, so withing the US, I don't really care).
Note, I've seen other lower estimates of data use too.
Not according to the poster that this thread is hanging off of.
The electricity comes from a hydroelectric source, which heats my home. Which beats my local natural gas furnace or wood stove in terms of efficiency, emissions, and saves me from cutting down any hardwoods on my property.
An isolated situation. The comparison was not coal electric heat vs farmed trees, it was cutting down personal hardwood trees vs hydro electric heating (though with energy trading perhaps it is a false distinction, and all energy essentially comes from the energy networks inputs no matter what is produced locally).
I am not against trees as fuel, and neither was the person using lightbulbs to heat their cabin. It is just a statement of where the CO2 from his specific wood burning stove comes from.
Also cfl's are not particularly good in bathrooms. Short on/off cycles kill their lifetime, and slow turn on mean a midnight piss will likely never lead to full output.
Also. For those who gussy themselves in the morning the Fuller spectrum of a good incandescent is better.
Slashdot Mirror
Also interesting:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:D9Ljl7vMvE8J:www.patentgenius.com/patent/7558428.html+%22General+Purpose+Graphics+Hardware+for+Accelerating+Motion+Estimation%22&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Interesting theory.
Not motion compensation, but
http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/demo/dwtgpu/dwtgpu.html
Brook GPU speculates about possibility when released in '04 too
nVidia does it in '04 with the 6xxx series, but it was a dedicated chip, which is different.
Not smart enough to know what it means, but this, published in '04
http://www.mee.tcd.ie/~sigmedia/pmwiki/uploads/Main.Publications/kelly04a.pdf
is titled "Graphics Hardware for Gradient Based Motion Estimation"
and this (from '03) is titled General Purpose Graphics Hardware for Accelerating Motion Estimation
http://www.mee.tcd.ie/~sigmedia/Publications?action=upload&upname=kelly.pdf
source:
http://www.mee.tcd.ie/~sigmedia/Publications
What lawyer do you know that works 40 hours/week while litigating (I personally know none).
Also, where does the average person make $48/hour, as that's over 90k/year?
I'm not saying lawyers charge a reasonable amount (they don't), but if the case was pursued vigorously for 6 months 100k/month is not high for the trade at all.
You figure there were likely 2 lawyers (they leave law school with the equivalent of a mortgage often, my friend finished Penn with of 6 figures of debt over 30 years at higher than mortgage interest rate), 2 or 3 paralegals, and a secretary working 20-80 hours a week each depending on the point of the case they were at.
I get billing average of $255/hour each for 20 hour weeks. Of course they probably hired experts our of that money for 100-500/hour. The experts probably analyzed the files produced, looking for emails, photos etc. Also may have analyzed the software. And then produced a report.
I would suspect that the 185,000 was 2/3 of the winnings (with the law form getting 92k). The other 350k being costs, including experts, who were likely the real winners, and didn't take any risk (except for the fact that law firms are notoriously slow pay).
I think it's fair to say they did not have a full team even looking at this case part time in the end.
I actually find this very interesting.
It probably "learned" this because she is a politician.
Actually looking at it I am wrong, as searching female senators I come up with correct or not specified genders.
Though the evidence does appear to be politics related.
My point was it was Firefox, not /. that interfered.
I posted my OP on default browser (though it said I pasted it), as firefox was unusable.
I find /. OK with the default browser, except that for some reason the comment text area lags by about 5 seconds. I cannot fathom why.
I actually find the comment threading works pretty well.
Lock-in.
This could actually work for Windows Phone 7 though, with the Live integration.
As soon as I got my G1, I knew unless it was terrible compared to the competition I was going to stick with it (and I would say 1.6 is where it became more or less on par, with soft keyboard, and navigation built in, I like a hardware keyboard, but given a choice between hardware with no soft, or software with no hard, I'd take the software one, and tapping out messages in portrait mode with one hand is a killer feature).
The reason was it automatically had all of my contacts, and if I lost my phone, I could easily look up a phone number in my google account from someone else's phone, as all numbers would get stored there. Yes, other companies do similar, but my google account was already where I went for these things, and as such it was great that my phone did too.
Were I a hotmail user (or Xbox maybe), I would probably be eager for the Windows Phone 7 for the same reason. Though at this point I probably would have switched to Apple mail, or Gmail due to whatever phone I purchased.
It's not even that I'm that locked in, I am sure I could export and import somewhere else, and gmail makes forwarding mail easy enough, but I like it, and am therefore unlikely to use something other than Android, simply because if I am using gmail, that's what makes sense.
Yes because things like:
like the man hours spent patching software to avoid a nasty infection spreading quickly would go away if there was no piracy.
I would actually argue the maintenance costs are down for things people pirate, as admins with real world experience or even just familiarity from dicking around at home, are easier to find.
90% could be enough to surpass human drivers though. The system doesn't need to be perfect to reduce delays, and increase safety.
We have set a low bar for what standard needs to be met.
considering I pasted it from my phone using the default browser I disagree.
I just tried it and couldn't post here it was so aweful.
Font and/or font rendering was aweful (had to be much larger than either dolphin or default to be readable)
Double tap did not zoom enough (about 85 characters, I think it's keeping the pixel count true, but when I zoom I expect my characters to have at least one pixel between them, and many don't).
Slow, but I expected that as it's a beta.
The start page looks nice.
ah crap, ate my markup ...something like p­ncbank.com looking like pncbank.com. ...
Fair enough.
Just prevent visitors from going to a URL with one.
I assume that;s the problem, something like pncbank.com looking like pncbank.com.
Simply throw up a big big warning (like that ever works) that says you are not visiting site "pncbank.com" you are visiting "p-ncbank.com".
Or simply just block them, I see no purpose of the character in a URL.
But we actually have fracturing not unification happening in the US.
T-mobile and AT&T used to have compatible networks, now though, to get 3G on T-mobile it needs to be a T-mobile phone.
This page:
http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=62535
estimates 40hours/GB.
This makes a 2 GB of a data plan worth 4800 minutes. Considering "unlimited" runs $25-$50 and includes 5GB (memory and from what I've seen), I would say you can comfortably save money using it to talk.
On t-mobile, I generally use 2-3 GB, giving me plenty of breathing space to use lots and lots of data for voice (though I have unlimited minutes, so withing the US, I don't really care).
Note, I've seen other lower estimates of data use too.
If you don't want to be using 2.5 year old versions of applications in two years, I would recommend not missing a version.
They may get LTS to LTS upgrades working, but now it is either upgrade with version numbers or reinstall periodically.
I would probably wait until November to upgrade though.
With nine million people, reduced delays from that marginal increase in safety could easily be more than 27 million over 8 years.
Considering android with Google is not free I doubt it's an issue.
Guess I didn't rtfa
Funny,
The first thing I thought was how remarkably sharper the WebP looked. Especially on the football player.
I wonder if the artifacts along defined lines are making them stand out better for you.
Anyway, what's an image comparison test doing without Lenna?
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/
Probably, but also things like names in credits is covered too (though likely being met).
Well, Bruce Willis' head in a jar at least.
Not according to the poster that this thread is hanging off of.
The electricity comes from a hydroelectric source, which heats my home. Which beats my local natural gas furnace or wood stove in terms of efficiency, emissions, and saves me from cutting down any hardwoods on my property.
An isolated situation. The comparison was not coal electric heat vs farmed trees, it was cutting down personal hardwood trees vs hydro electric heating (though with energy trading perhaps it is a false distinction, and all energy essentially comes from the energy networks inputs no matter what is produced locally).
I am not against trees as fuel, and neither was the person using lightbulbs to heat their cabin. It is just a statement of where the CO2 from his specific wood burning stove comes from.
Also cfl's are not particularly good in bathrooms. Short on/off cycles kill their lifetime, and slow turn on mean a midnight piss will likely never lead to full output.
Also. For those who gussy themselves in the morning the Fuller spectrum of a good incandescent is better.
questionable is a friend saying WTF: though.
Trusted source, something someone may regularly do. As far as dubious links go it is quite well formed.
The hardwoods that could otherwise be left uncut?