Pfft can't do anything via HDMI without HDCP to keep movie studios happy.
Yeah... just hoping this is the last round, DVDs were a huge upgrade over VHS but they hated that CSS was broken, BluRay was their chance for a do-over but AACS, BD+, Cinavia and HDCP 1.x all failed them in the end. This time they've added all the bells and whistles, the resolution is on par with DCI 4K - natively 4096x2160, but they never use all the pixels as they crop for 1.85:1 or 2.39:1 so at most they'll use 8.6k pixels versus 8.3k for UHD, wider gamut than cinemas (DCI P3 is 72% of Rec.2020), 10 bit color - okay DCI gets 12, high frame rates (up to 60 fps, cinemas only do 48), 32 channel audio - double the 16 tracks cinemas get, hdr and so on.
What I hope this means is that if you break it a third time after it's firmly established it's three strikes, you're out. An almost 100GB HEVC encoded movie is probably so close to the master that trying to make a better-than-4k format would be nonsense. If they "have to" sell their best version in a DRM-broken way maybe they'll stop the madness and become more user-friendly. And if you say "when hell freezes over" it did happen with music, which seemed equally unlikely at the time.
I think it is more important to have a good archival process in place. To the OP, the error you made was leaving all the data you want on old floppies and IDE drives, etc.. You should have moved that data off to more current media as your processing moved to more current media.
And this part you can get professional help with. You encrypt it, they deal with redundancy, backups, integrity checking, media rotation. keeping it in multiple geographical locations and whatnot. Yes, you can do it yourself but if you put it on say Amazon Glacier you can be pretty sure it's there (unless an evil hacker gets access to your console and deletes all your archives, I guess... but not due to media deterioration)
Good luck with that. "I saw you swerving back there, license and registration please." "You seem nervous and what's that smell?" "So you don't consent to a search? Let me just get a narcotics dog" "Why he barked, what a surprise." "Is that your stack of cash?" "Oh I'm seizing it." "Well you drive a car and lots of cash, drug dealers drive cars and have lots of cash so you're probably a drug dealer. Oh, and the dog barked" "Sure you can get it back if you get a lawyer and fight it a few years in court" "Thieves? No, just doing a public service. Now are you going to calm down or do I need to call in a SWAT team? They'd love to test their new paramilitary gear."
It's more than taxes, for example here in Norway I have 100% sick leave pay from day 1. As self-employed you get 0% for days 1-14 and 65% of some average of past income for day 15-365, if you want more you need expensive insurance. You have to pay your own pension fund. The rule of thumb is usually that that an employee COSTs almost 2x salary all in all.
So, they've logged fewer operating miles than accumulate in the US in a single day? Impressive. And how many of those miles have been in a typical Pacific Northwest blinding rainstorm? Or after a snow storm such as the Northeast experienced last week? (Etc... etc...) Or to put it another way, the numbers logged as only impressive to the easily impressionable.
Even under perfect conditions you run into every kind of moron driving if you do it long enough. And 700k miles is more than the average American license holder drives in 50 years, sure it's a one-trick pony but I'd rather have it do what it does right and say "it's raining, I'm not driving" than doing it half-assed.
Your information is a quite outdated, AMD has been making CPUs at TSMC since 2011 because GloFo couldn't deliver. It's possible AMD paid something to get out of that deal, but it's long ago now.
I expect that the camera-equipped smartphone is decimating the market for cameras that can only do what smartphone cameras can already do. I also expect that it is decimating the market for that slightly-better cameras that people would have bought if it wasn't included "free" in the phone they already own.
That's something of an understatement, smartphones has all but wiped out the point-n-shoot camera market that used to be huge. Granted, you can't make miracles but I remember when they only really worked outdoors and anything indoors was total shit. Now they actually make okay consumer quality photos under all normal conditions.
Sure they're no match for a pro DSLR but unless you got the camera on hand and time to fiddle with all those control rings, swap lenses, set white balance and whatnot he who catches the moment before it passes wins, even if it's just spray-and-pray photography. It's different if you're a doing portrait shots or sports journalism or wedding photography and either setting the stage or just waiting for the right moment, pro cameras will always have the advantage there. But that's a very, very small part of what people use cameras for.
I'm fairly sure AMD has pretty much quit making new designs and is exiting the market, same as Bulldozer. The APU sales are tanking, they did a $57 million inventory write-down on top of a $56 million operating loss on $662 million revenue in the "Computing and Graphics" segment last quarter and is forecasting another 15% decline in revenue. Corrizo is probably coming but I expect only incremental improvements, they're diversifying into so many other things there can't possibly be any money left for the R&D they'd need to create a new architecture.
Sure they can do die shrinks, that's not so hard but a premium process costs premium money and AMD can't afford it, they need a value process to sell value chips. And it all depends on Samsung, Apple and TSMC - ARM can create the design but they still need to succeed with the production process. Intel struggled, maybe that's just Intel or it'll be tough for everybody. In AMDs position they certainly don't want to jump the gun and suffer delays or and immature process with bad yields. I expect they'll og 20nm once Apple has moved to 14/16nm and not before.
Only if you got one of those new 5-6" "phones" that don't fit in your pocket, otherwise you usually have an ample supply of body heat that far exceeds what the phone will provide. And Scandinavia is not ridiculously cold, it's been colder in the lower 48 (Montana) than anywhere here, it's not Alaska or Siberia. You might have heard that Norway is a big country for Tesla? We wouldn't be if the batteries kept freezing to death.
And if you want to spend battery, launch Skype. I swear that even with no chatting it cuts the stand-by time of my phone in half. I don't know exactly what it's doing, but it's by far the worst application I got on my phone. It's the first thing to go if I need to conserve battery, text me if you need me.
And jury nullification is supposed to be for juries to nullify illegal laws (i.e. unconstitutional ones), not laws they might have a personal disagreement with.
And who's to stop them? This is why the legal system hates jury nullification, you can rule not just on the facts and the law but on who the accused and the victim are. Slutty drunk girl? Rape charges dismissed. White guy on trial killing a black guy? Murder charges dismissed. You can find several people in this thread who'd give him a free pass to break any law he wants because he's some sort of "hero" to them.
If the legislative and/or judicial branch of the government is broken then trying to fix it with jury nullification is like putting a band aid on a man that has jumped on a grenade, the rules will keep changing until the rule of law is restored. It's random as one man is convicted today and another is let go tomorrow for the same crime depending on who's on jury duty. Take a look at your average jury, do you really think it would be used most for the right or wrong reasons? Even smart people here are more than willing to abuse it, now imagine the dumb ones.
A lot of the more remote areas of the world are islands, if you want a truly global Internet this is a good thing. Nigeria is in the middle of Africa, they can reach all of Europe and Asia without long haul ocean cables. Unless you're looking for straight lines to do HFT, but that's more of a white man's scam. This is more for crossing the Atlantic, Pacific, to Australia and so on.
Tough shit: if those companies hadn't tried to ruin the internet in years past with popups, popunders, flashing banner ads, and all kinds of other obscenity, users would never have bothered resorting to adblockers.
Oh please when did you last see a ripped TV show with the ads even though there's no malware, no tracking, no pop-up/unders just an entirely harmless video stream? A lot of people want to block ads just because they're ads and not content, they don't have to be obnoxious or dangerous ads. Then people go nuts when they instead use product placement and such were you can't slice and dice the content to only take the interesting bits and not the ones that pay the bills.
And "those companies" who were scum are in general still scum and finding new ways to circumvent blockers, often by embedding them in such ways that you won't get the real content until after you've seen or clicked the ad by creating invisible layers. It's generally the companies that always were "acceptable" that find they've now have to pay extortion money because consumers turned off all the ads, naughty or nice.
Information wants to be free. Creators want to get paid. On an average day at work all I do is manipulate bits and bytes, fortunately for me it can't be copied from anywhere. But what about when the mass market wants something, but it only has a few dollars of value to each? Haven't we had enough stories about Kickstarter where they don't deliver or are plain scams or it's shit and you can't complain because you gave the money away long ago for fluffy promises?
There's advantages to the traditional way where an investor is the one making the commitment, takes the risk, keeping the schedule and consumers just buy the end product when it's done - assuming they like it and the price is right. But then you need to be able to sell it piece-wise, if you have a journalist working a story for ages and the first person to read the article can just give it to everyone for free then you'll only get rehashed press releases and click-bait. A lot of the content out there is crap because they don't have incentive to make real content anymore.
Only a subset of movies show up on Netflix, and they typically take a while to get there.
What killed my interest in Netflix here in Norway at least is that using the PC as my media platform very, very many of the movies were no longer in HD. The "Using a PC? Fuck you." message got through so I went somewhere I'm welcome.
Some might argue that this is a serious problem-- that the music industry is in a shambles and it's not clear this is all sustainable. Others might argue that this is evidence of where the problem was all along-- that piracy is the result of high prices and poor service, and when people are provided a cheap and convenient product, they're often willing to pay for it in some way. Either way, I don't see much of a reason to pirate music anymore unless it's somehow unavailable through legal channels.
The music industry has oddly enough somewhat come full circle with Spotify becoming the new middleman. Here in Norway after a dip in revenue from 2009 when it was 15% digital it's now slightly higher (601 vs 592 million NOK) in 2014 with 86% digital, of which 11% is downloads and 75% streaming. During the same period the piracy rate among people under 30 dropped from 70% to 4% of the population.
Why do I say it's become full circle? Because once again either you accept the terms of Spotify or nobody going to hear about you. And because many people just use it as background noise for popular music creating superstars is still big business, the "long tail" doesn't get anything extra for writing music people care about so a lot of marginal artists are complaining that where they could make money selling CDs to a small but loyal following before Spotify pays them peanuts.
I guess Spotify lowered the bar on getting your music published, since they don't run out of shelf space or air time. But I don't think it has increased the number of artists who are able to play professionally, though I'm not sure that matters. It's a bit like comparing YouTube with cable TV, maybe a whole lot of well... something beats a couple hundred channels of "professional" TV. But when I've heard friends say "Either you're on Spotify or you don't exist" somebody's holding too much power.
But assuming you have a known number of worker threads you could predistribute tasks in a round-robin fashion so that when thread #3 asks for a tasks it gets nextTask[3], off you go and we'll repopulate nextTask lazily once we've got lock on the main queue again, I assume if it's acceptable to pick from a range any one task will finish within an acceptable delay so that next task still gets done in time too. I wouldn't want to put a call to rand() anywhere in there.
What we would ideally need to achieve elimination of cellular aging is the ability to sequence a person's entire DNA when they are young. And later digitally replicate an exact copy of the originals and print new undifferentiated cells to replace old ones, so the telomeres are longer, and also.... there are no mutations.
I was under the impression you could get a whole genome sequencing for <$2000 these days, they're aiming to get it under $1000 but if they could do something useful with it throughout your whole life it's $25/year over an 80 year lifespan. And if you do this over a sample, aren't most the cells in my body likely to be damaged in different places, so a vote of simple majority would get it right?
However, so far I've heard of very little genetic theraphy or other tangible ways to do something with this information. And you can't just pour new cells in my body, if you want to clean out the faulty cell you'd have to make garbagemen to find and eliminate damaged cells. Unless you could make new, "young" organs to transplant in but I'm thinking that's a lot more complicated than it sounds.
"Would you like to watch me play a video game?" "No." "Why?" "That's boring." "Now you know how I feel about watching someone I don't know play a game on a field."
Wow talk about false equivalence, I guess you don't know that watching eSports is a huge thing and PewDiePie is now YouTube's biggest hit? They just don't want to see a doofus like you play. People are interested in other people who can do exceptional things, whether it's an athlete or playing chess. It's not like that does anything important either.
What I can't understand are the people who get so caught up in "their" team even though they just happen to be born in the same region and these days with buying and selling it's not really a local team anyway it's the mercenaries who're current representing the brand. Next year they can be in a different club representing a different brand, same with the coaches and most everybody else. The only loyalists are the fans.
What's craziest is that if you think of it as an entertainment product they've instilled the attitude that the worse a product they deliver the more important is it that you stand by your team and show you support them. Imagine anyone else saying we're delivering crap and losing to the competition all the time, now's the time to buy our product to help make it better? They'd be committed to a mental asylum. I can understand the appeal of sharing highs and lows with other people and how that can bond fans together with team as a rally flag, but it's still collective insanity.
For us here in Norway PSTN/ISDN was our bad time, when the one monopolist could charge pretty much everything they wanted. When we got DSL, the market was deregulated and lots of offers showed up. In the US, far more people get Internet via cable, which obviously has far more reason to protect their traditional business. As for recent fiber roll-outs it's really the power companies that got the ball rolling there, eyeing an opportunity to break into a new market by running fiber optics as well as power lines. Obviously the incumbents couldn't sit around and watch that and it became a race to lay down fiber first, since it's rarely profitable to come second. So it's a very nice three-way race to roll it out, though the prices are fairly steep.
Even if the mean time between failures for consumer drives was 6 months, the odds of 'popping' two more spares in the month after the first failure would be less than 3%. If the MTBF is 1 year the probability drops to 0.7%.
Except if you got a bad batch where some kind of material or production defect will cause many disks to fail near simultaneously. The overall MTBF might be true for all the disks they produce, but unless you make a real effort to source them from different batches over time you can't assume that's going to be your MTBF.
95% of 250 coders. That means that out of a million programmers they will misidentify 200000.
You know it's not a contest to come up with the worst bullshit. If you're left with one person 95% of the time when you have 249 possible wrong answers, it's like being left with 4000 people when you have 999999 wrong answers. If all those are too close to tell apart you'll misidentify >99.9%.
Imagine for example that you wanted to find people by height and weight, as measured to nearest cm and kilo. It might work decently on a small group, but if you scale it up to a million people there'll be a lot of duplicates and then you're just guessing, double the population and you halve the chance of being right.
It doesn't bode well for Linux that it is also not the year of the Windows Desktop or Apple Desktop. It is the year of the smart phone. The year of the desktop may never return. Desktops are better suited for developers and smart phones are better suited to consumers.
Developers and a ton of other professionals. If Linux/FLOSS could replace Windows, Office, Outlook/Exchange, Sharepoint and SQL Server that's probably 15 of Microsoft's $26 billion dollar revenue. Open source has not managed to commodify basic business and collaboration tasks, despite so many years of trying. It's not all about smartphones and tablets.
That is 24%. That means your device could be 20% cheaper and they would STILL make more money then anybody else in percentage per product in the electronics world. So instead of 500USD for the Ipad2, you could be paying 400USD and they would still make money. And some people don't think Apple is overpriced.
Don't worry, you can buy a $500 phone from my non-profit, $400 will be my for salary and $100 for a junk Android phone. Profit is an indication that you're delivering more value relative to cost than the competition, after all sales price is just a number you decide. They're not competing against some imaginary non-profit, the day Google, Microsoft etc. deliver a competing product forcing them to lower prices they will. Until then, keep blaming the one delivering what people want and not the ones who don't.
...less than any other ISP? No. Just like Google funded Mozilla this is more of a long term effort to push more people and more services online, where Google can get a piece of it. The "old media" advertising budgets are still pretty huge and people willingly sign up to Google's services so there's no need to get shady. In fact their roll-out is extremely slow if they were seriously intending to become a major ISP, they're really just trying to shame the rest of the country into demanding they get the same kind of service from their incumbents. Who needs cable TV when you got gigabit service and can watch any show, any time over streaming without hitting any caps? That's what Google is selling, of course it's out of self-interest but for tech geeks I think they're on our side in this case.
Thats pretty much irrelevant. GPU ram isn't used that way at all. Its used to hold the 3D geometry, bitmaps, bump maps etc of assets and other processing data which is largely if not completely independent of screen resolution/no.of screens.
For real-time rendering of a simulated environment - that is, gaming - textures are generally stored as mipmaps so the more pixels it's going to take up on the screen, the more detailed version of the texture is used and thus the memory use rises accordingly through the entire pipeline. It's pretty easy to see if you keep resolution or texture quality constant and vary the other. If you're doing some other kind of simulation that might not hold, but for gaming what you said is pretty much false.
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Pfft can't do anything via HDMI without HDCP to keep movie studios happy.
Yeah... just hoping this is the last round, DVDs were a huge upgrade over VHS but they hated that CSS was broken, BluRay was their chance for a do-over but AACS, BD+, Cinavia and HDCP 1.x all failed them in the end. This time they've added all the bells and whistles, the resolution is on par with DCI 4K - natively 4096x2160, but they never use all the pixels as they crop for 1.85:1 or 2.39:1 so at most they'll use 8.6k pixels versus 8.3k for UHD, wider gamut than cinemas (DCI P3 is 72% of Rec.2020), 10 bit color - okay DCI gets 12, high frame rates (up to 60 fps, cinemas only do 48), 32 channel audio - double the 16 tracks cinemas get, hdr and so on.
What I hope this means is that if you break it a third time after it's firmly established it's three strikes, you're out. An almost 100GB HEVC encoded movie is probably so close to the master that trying to make a better-than-4k format would be nonsense. If they "have to" sell their best version in a DRM-broken way maybe they'll stop the madness and become more user-friendly. And if you say "when hell freezes over" it did happen with music, which seemed equally unlikely at the time.
I think it is more important to have a good archival process in place. To the OP, the error you made was leaving all the data you want on old floppies and IDE drives, etc.. You should have moved that data off to more current media as your processing moved to more current media.
And this part you can get professional help with. You encrypt it, they deal with redundancy, backups, integrity checking, media rotation. keeping it in multiple geographical locations and whatnot. Yes, you can do it yourself but if you put it on say Amazon Glacier you can be pretty sure it's there (unless an evil hacker gets access to your console and deletes all your archives, I guess... but not due to media deterioration)
Good luck with that. "I saw you swerving back there, license and registration please." "You seem nervous and what's that smell?" "So you don't consent to a search? Let me just get a narcotics dog" "Why he barked, what a surprise." "Is that your stack of cash?" "Oh I'm seizing it." "Well you drive a car and lots of cash, drug dealers drive cars and have lots of cash so you're probably a drug dealer. Oh, and the dog barked" "Sure you can get it back if you get a lawyer and fight it a few years in court" "Thieves? No, just doing a public service. Now are you going to calm down or do I need to call in a SWAT team? They'd love to test their new paramilitary gear."
It's more than taxes, for example here in Norway I have 100% sick leave pay from day 1. As self-employed you get 0% for days 1-14 and 65% of some average of past income for day 15-365, if you want more you need expensive insurance. You have to pay your own pension fund. The rule of thumb is usually that that an employee COSTs almost 2x salary all in all.
So, they've logged fewer operating miles than accumulate in the US in a single day? Impressive. And how many of those miles have been in a typical Pacific Northwest blinding rainstorm? Or after a snow storm such as the Northeast experienced last week? (Etc... etc...) Or to put it another way, the numbers logged as only impressive to the easily impressionable.
Even under perfect conditions you run into every kind of moron driving if you do it long enough. And 700k miles is more than the average American license holder drives in 50 years, sure it's a one-trick pony but I'd rather have it do what it does right and say "it's raining, I'm not driving" than doing it half-assed.
Your information is a quite outdated, AMD has been making CPUs at TSMC since 2011 because GloFo couldn't deliver. It's possible AMD paid something to get out of that deal, but it's long ago now.
I expect that the camera-equipped smartphone is decimating the market for cameras that can only do what smartphone cameras can already do. I also expect that it is decimating the market for that slightly-better cameras that people would have bought if it wasn't included "free" in the phone they already own.
That's something of an understatement, smartphones has all but wiped out the point-n-shoot camera market that used to be huge. Granted, you can't make miracles but I remember when they only really worked outdoors and anything indoors was total shit. Now they actually make okay consumer quality photos under all normal conditions.
Sure they're no match for a pro DSLR but unless you got the camera on hand and time to fiddle with all those control rings, swap lenses, set white balance and whatnot he who catches the moment before it passes wins, even if it's just spray-and-pray photography. It's different if you're a doing portrait shots or sports journalism or wedding photography and either setting the stage or just waiting for the right moment, pro cameras will always have the advantage there. But that's a very, very small part of what people use cameras for.
I'm fairly sure AMD has pretty much quit making new designs and is exiting the market, same as Bulldozer. The APU sales are tanking, they did a $57 million inventory write-down on top of a $56 million operating loss on $662 million revenue in the "Computing and Graphics" segment last quarter and is forecasting another 15% decline in revenue. Corrizo is probably coming but I expect only incremental improvements, they're diversifying into so many other things there can't possibly be any money left for the R&D they'd need to create a new architecture.
Sure they can do die shrinks, that's not so hard but a premium process costs premium money and AMD can't afford it, they need a value process to sell value chips. And it all depends on Samsung, Apple and TSMC - ARM can create the design but they still need to succeed with the production process. Intel struggled, maybe that's just Intel or it'll be tough for everybody. In AMDs position they certainly don't want to jump the gun and suffer delays or and immature process with bad yields. I expect they'll og 20nm once Apple has moved to 14/16nm and not before.
Only if you got one of those new 5-6" "phones" that don't fit in your pocket, otherwise you usually have an ample supply of body heat that far exceeds what the phone will provide. And Scandinavia is not ridiculously cold, it's been colder in the lower 48 (Montana) than anywhere here, it's not Alaska or Siberia. You might have heard that Norway is a big country for Tesla? We wouldn't be if the batteries kept freezing to death.
And if you want to spend battery, launch Skype. I swear that even with no chatting it cuts the stand-by time of my phone in half. I don't know exactly what it's doing, but it's by far the worst application I got on my phone. It's the first thing to go if I need to conserve battery, text me if you need me.
And jury nullification is supposed to be for juries to nullify illegal laws (i.e. unconstitutional ones), not laws they might have a personal disagreement with.
And who's to stop them? This is why the legal system hates jury nullification, you can rule not just on the facts and the law but on who the accused and the victim are. Slutty drunk girl? Rape charges dismissed. White guy on trial killing a black guy? Murder charges dismissed. You can find several people in this thread who'd give him a free pass to break any law he wants because he's some sort of "hero" to them.
If the legislative and/or judicial branch of the government is broken then trying to fix it with jury nullification is like putting a band aid on a man that has jumped on a grenade, the rules will keep changing until the rule of law is restored. It's random as one man is convicted today and another is let go tomorrow for the same crime depending on who's on jury duty. Take a look at your average jury, do you really think it would be used most for the right or wrong reasons? Even smart people here are more than willing to abuse it, now imagine the dumb ones.
A lot of the more remote areas of the world are islands, if you want a truly global Internet this is a good thing. Nigeria is in the middle of Africa, they can reach all of Europe and Asia without long haul ocean cables. Unless you're looking for straight lines to do HFT, but that's more of a white man's scam. This is more for crossing the Atlantic, Pacific, to Australia and so on.
....but I didn't know I live in hell. No flying pigs or raining frogs though, so maybe we're good.
Tough shit: if those companies hadn't tried to ruin the internet in years past with popups, popunders, flashing banner ads, and all kinds of other obscenity, users would never have bothered resorting to adblockers.
Oh please when did you last see a ripped TV show with the ads even though there's no malware, no tracking, no pop-up/unders just an entirely harmless video stream? A lot of people want to block ads just because they're ads and not content, they don't have to be obnoxious or dangerous ads. Then people go nuts when they instead use product placement and such were you can't slice and dice the content to only take the interesting bits and not the ones that pay the bills.
And "those companies" who were scum are in general still scum and finding new ways to circumvent blockers, often by embedding them in such ways that you won't get the real content until after you've seen or clicked the ad by creating invisible layers. It's generally the companies that always were "acceptable" that find they've now have to pay extortion money because consumers turned off all the ads, naughty or nice.
Information wants to be free. Creators want to get paid. On an average day at work all I do is manipulate bits and bytes, fortunately for me it can't be copied from anywhere. But what about when the mass market wants something, but it only has a few dollars of value to each? Haven't we had enough stories about Kickstarter where they don't deliver or are plain scams or it's shit and you can't complain because you gave the money away long ago for fluffy promises?
There's advantages to the traditional way where an investor is the one making the commitment, takes the risk, keeping the schedule and consumers just buy the end product when it's done - assuming they like it and the price is right. But then you need to be able to sell it piece-wise, if you have a journalist working a story for ages and the first person to read the article can just give it to everyone for free then you'll only get rehashed press releases and click-bait. A lot of the content out there is crap because they don't have incentive to make real content anymore.
Only a subset of movies show up on Netflix, and they typically take a while to get there.
What killed my interest in Netflix here in Norway at least is that using the PC as my media platform very, very many of the movies were no longer in HD. The "Using a PC? Fuck you." message got through so I went somewhere I'm welcome.
Some might argue that this is a serious problem-- that the music industry is in a shambles and it's not clear this is all sustainable. Others might argue that this is evidence of where the problem was all along-- that piracy is the result of high prices and poor service, and when people are provided a cheap and convenient product, they're often willing to pay for it in some way. Either way, I don't see much of a reason to pirate music anymore unless it's somehow unavailable through legal channels.
The music industry has oddly enough somewhat come full circle with Spotify becoming the new middleman. Here in Norway after a dip in revenue from 2009 when it was 15% digital it's now slightly higher (601 vs 592 million NOK) in 2014 with 86% digital, of which 11% is downloads and 75% streaming. During the same period the piracy rate among people under 30 dropped from 70% to 4% of the population.
Why do I say it's become full circle? Because once again either you accept the terms of Spotify or nobody going to hear about you. And because many people just use it as background noise for popular music creating superstars is still big business, the "long tail" doesn't get anything extra for writing music people care about so a lot of marginal artists are complaining that where they could make money selling CDs to a small but loyal following before Spotify pays them peanuts.
I guess Spotify lowered the bar on getting your music published, since they don't run out of shelf space or air time. But I don't think it has increased the number of artists who are able to play professionally, though I'm not sure that matters. It's a bit like comparing YouTube with cable TV, maybe a whole lot of well... something beats a couple hundred channels of "professional" TV. But when I've heard friends say "Either you're on Spotify or you don't exist" somebody's holding too much power.
But assuming you have a known number of worker threads you could predistribute tasks in a round-robin fashion so that when thread #3 asks for a tasks it gets nextTask[3], off you go and we'll repopulate nextTask lazily once we've got lock on the main queue again, I assume if it's acceptable to pick from a range any one task will finish within an acceptable delay so that next task still gets done in time too. I wouldn't want to put a call to rand() anywhere in there.
What we would ideally need to achieve elimination of cellular aging is the ability to sequence a person's entire DNA when they are young. And later digitally replicate an exact copy of the originals and print new undifferentiated cells to replace old ones, so the telomeres are longer, and also.... there are no mutations.
I was under the impression you could get a whole genome sequencing for <$2000 these days, they're aiming to get it under $1000 but if they could do something useful with it throughout your whole life it's $25/year over an 80 year lifespan. And if you do this over a sample, aren't most the cells in my body likely to be damaged in different places, so a vote of simple majority would get it right?
However, so far I've heard of very little genetic theraphy or other tangible ways to do something with this information. And you can't just pour new cells in my body, if you want to clean out the faulty cell you'd have to make garbagemen to find and eliminate damaged cells. Unless you could make new, "young" organs to transplant in but I'm thinking that's a lot more complicated than it sounds.
"Would you like to watch me play a video game?"
"No."
"Why?"
"That's boring."
"Now you know how I feel about watching someone I don't know play a game on a field."
Wow talk about false equivalence, I guess you don't know that watching eSports is a huge thing and PewDiePie is now YouTube's biggest hit? They just don't want to see a doofus like you play. People are interested in other people who can do exceptional things, whether it's an athlete or playing chess. It's not like that does anything important either.
What I can't understand are the people who get so caught up in "their" team even though they just happen to be born in the same region and these days with buying and selling it's not really a local team anyway it's the mercenaries who're current representing the brand. Next year they can be in a different club representing a different brand, same with the coaches and most everybody else. The only loyalists are the fans.
What's craziest is that if you think of it as an entertainment product they've instilled the attitude that the worse a product they deliver the more important is it that you stand by your team and show you support them. Imagine anyone else saying we're delivering crap and losing to the competition all the time, now's the time to buy our product to help make it better? They'd be committed to a mental asylum. I can understand the appeal of sharing highs and lows with other people and how that can bond fans together with team as a rally flag, but it's still collective insanity.
For us here in Norway PSTN/ISDN was our bad time, when the one monopolist could charge pretty much everything they wanted. When we got DSL, the market was deregulated and lots of offers showed up. In the US, far more people get Internet via cable, which obviously has far more reason to protect their traditional business. As for recent fiber roll-outs it's really the power companies that got the ball rolling there, eyeing an opportunity to break into a new market by running fiber optics as well as power lines. Obviously the incumbents couldn't sit around and watch that and it became a race to lay down fiber first, since it's rarely profitable to come second. So it's a very nice three-way race to roll it out, though the prices are fairly steep.
Even if the mean time between failures for consumer drives was 6 months, the odds of 'popping' two more spares in the month after the first failure would be less than 3%. If the MTBF is 1 year the probability drops to 0.7%.
Except if you got a bad batch where some kind of material or production defect will cause many disks to fail near simultaneously. The overall MTBF might be true for all the disks they produce, but unless you make a real effort to source them from different batches over time you can't assume that's going to be your MTBF.
What complete and utter bullshit.
95% of 250 coders. That means that out of a million programmers they will misidentify 200000.
You know it's not a contest to come up with the worst bullshit. If you're left with one person 95% of the time when you have 249 possible wrong answers, it's like being left with 4000 people when you have 999999 wrong answers. If all those are too close to tell apart you'll misidentify >99.9%.
Imagine for example that you wanted to find people by height and weight, as measured to nearest cm and kilo. It might work decently on a small group, but if you scale it up to a million people there'll be a lot of duplicates and then you're just guessing, double the population and you halve the chance of being right.
It doesn't bode well for Linux that it is also not the year of the Windows Desktop or Apple Desktop. It is the year of the smart phone. The year of the desktop may never return. Desktops are better suited for developers and smart phones are better suited to consumers.
Developers and a ton of other professionals. If Linux/FLOSS could replace Windows, Office, Outlook/Exchange, Sharepoint and SQL Server that's probably 15 of Microsoft's $26 billion dollar revenue. Open source has not managed to commodify basic business and collaboration tasks, despite so many years of trying. It's not all about smartphones and tablets.
That is 24%. That means your device could be 20% cheaper and they would STILL make more money then anybody else in percentage per product in the electronics world. So instead of 500USD for the Ipad2, you could be paying 400USD and they would still make money. And some people don't think Apple is overpriced.
Don't worry, you can buy a $500 phone from my non-profit, $400 will be my for salary and $100 for a junk Android phone. Profit is an indication that you're delivering more value relative to cost than the competition, after all sales price is just a number you decide. They're not competing against some imaginary non-profit, the day Google, Microsoft etc. deliver a competing product forcing them to lower prices they will. Until then, keep blaming the one delivering what people want and not the ones who don't.
Do you trust them?
...less than any other ISP? No. Just like Google funded Mozilla this is more of a long term effort to push more people and more services online, where Google can get a piece of it. The "old media" advertising budgets are still pretty huge and people willingly sign up to Google's services so there's no need to get shady. In fact their roll-out is extremely slow if they were seriously intending to become a major ISP, they're really just trying to shame the rest of the country into demanding they get the same kind of service from their incumbents. Who needs cable TV when you got gigabit service and can watch any show, any time over streaming without hitting any caps? That's what Google is selling, of course it's out of self-interest but for tech geeks I think they're on our side in this case.
Thats pretty much irrelevant. GPU ram isn't used that way at all. Its used to hold the 3D geometry, bitmaps, bump maps etc of assets and other processing data which is largely if not completely independent of screen resolution/no.of screens.
For real-time rendering of a simulated environment - that is, gaming - textures are generally stored as mipmaps so the more pixels it's going to take up on the screen, the more detailed version of the texture is used and thus the memory use rises accordingly through the entire pipeline. It's pretty easy to see if you keep resolution or texture quality constant and vary the other. If you're doing some other kind of simulation that might not hold, but for gaming what you said is pretty much false.