$1 million won't get you anywhere. I've seen startups run through hundreds of those and still not deliver actual value. No, better just let them hedge bets fearing each other. If my memory serves well usually betrayed outfits tend to support FOSS. That actually is progress.
Who would have thought in 1980 that people would actually pay money for computer software? "Computer software is what you do with your computer, not a commodity!" -- DRI exec 1979 Microsoft, actually, was lucky.
IMO Intele never wanted to actually enter the comercial high end 3D world. They do quite a lot of resears but as I see it their interests always reside in creating the know how to scale CPUs horizontally in massive dimensions (10k cores etc.) because they correctly see that this is going to happen. IMHO the graphics series are just a way to monetize their RnD a bit earlier instead of just dumping billions on eggheads for a payday somewhere in the next decade.
Still I'm in full support of what they actually do. The only HW i had hassle free installs on on the graphics side were Intel chips.
No, it is the Internet equivalent of "dumpster looking", since you aren't physically there and the original objects remain untouched.
Also to reply to the GP who started the no door metaphor: That one is inaccurate and deceiving. A correct metaphor would be: Leaving you front door unhinged while also having wallpapered your entry hall with classified documents, with a banner outside saying "Classified documents. Do not look!"
I don't think they have any real grasp against services like savetu.be. As long as it's retreiveable by the user I can rip it. Note, savetu.be is only for videos, since I believe that actively wanting to rip the audio of a youtube video is sadistic mazochism.
As the result of YouTube mp3 rips is either 128kbps cbr mp3 or 112kbps aac I'd say that everybody is pretty much better of without those pests. Seriously, only a person that thinks a juke box is an app would be ok with that kind of sound.
Completely right. On the subtitles I'd go even one better: either do without them or without 3D. It's not an elitist type of stance actually if you think that most 3D films come from the USA in English and that most people should know to at least understand English in this day and age.
To be truthfull you also have to concede the fact that every 3d movie is, technically, photographed wrong. Ray focusing photography (the one all buyable cameras use) doesn't actually work if you want to capture depth. What you end up with is a sharp focal plane and trashed by the depth of field effect (Bokeh) volume information. The only way to actually shoot correct 3D (as in natural to the human eye) is either to go 100% CG with non cinematographic camera renders that will output a completely sharp output field or use light field capture tech which doesn't even exist yet.
Also even if someone actually managed to capture correct and natural 3D no one would want to work with it because the base of artistic cinematography (as is entertainment) is control of the picture. No one would find a use for such a thing except for scientiffic visualisation.
So yes: Current 3D is about as much of an unnatural gimmick as you can get and people have the right to not want their eyes and brains raped in order to watch a movie. On the other hand if your mind is already too numbed down to actually be capable of reacting to something this unnatural then you probably are good.
Still this makes apple the prime evangelist of the throwaway culture all electronics companies want to introduce, or debatably already have introduced. No arguing most of apple's products feature the least compromise amongst their fields but the ideology the company headlines makes me seriously skeptical.
but instead they lost interest in building anything great, preferred to watch stupid reality TV (but live), and society collapsed.
How much this has been on my mind the past years can't be described. If anything can come out if this is that modern SciFi authors aren't shaping modern society but the other way round, public ignorance and the aversion the establishment expresses to evolution very well influences writer's visions. (If only that was the serious problem here....)
The diff between AWS (amazon's web services) and Akamai is that AWS provides processing substrates integrated with CDN functionality. Akamai mostly does CDN. This means that AWS has access both to the bits and the "metadata" (DBs, mappers, reducers, binaries) its clients manage and Akamai only accesses the generated bits. AWS is a much more vertical integration than Akamai, comparable - with a bit of imagination - to Apple vs Microsoft.
Being up all night hunting down an obscure bug means sometimes you don't clean things out the way you should
True. And inevitable. If you write enough code under pressure you are bound to overlook something, no matter how much of a genius you are. Sadly competitive marketplace and clueless HR/MBA drones and accountants that are given free reign are the norm, so more and more work gets done like a race in stead of like a real development. What's next? Equipping the shareholders' kids with SCRUM and letting them loose on the devs?
You don't need to include all images in order to track views, that job is usually done by an independent asset and things you follow have their external assets allowed usually. If your newsletter is of the spamy type, aka people don't expect to hear from you prior to it's arrival then you probably would like to add the images as attachments since it is unlikely people will see them otherwise but spam was never a use case on my projects. Email attachments had their uses, now they are pretty much obsolete. Also if part of your email's content is encapsulated in the images and the images are not the reason for the email you are doing it wrong.
HTML emails aka "emails with graphical content done right" have their uses, namely prettyfication of the plain text version of the email.
Hmm... I don't really recall this. I remember when I signed up for a yahoo mail - I think it was 1999ish - they gave out 25MB or something in that area. Then a year later they bumped that to 250 and 2G. Then gmail came out and offered that annoying KB counter (it was like revisiting 1992) that had started somewhere in the MB range. I don't recall the details from then on because at that moment I stopped following the trends but I think all providers switched to unmetered capacity at that point.
I always kept a pretty lean mailbox and even now after more than a decade of kept emails I am barely over 2k mails which with a pretty optimistic calculation (most emails are text only) that amounts to about 1G. So even if the mail providers where frozen in the 2GB era I still would be unaffected.
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$1 million won't get you anywhere. I've seen startups run through hundreds of those and still not deliver actual value.
No, better just let them hedge bets fearing each other. If my memory serves well usually betrayed outfits tend to support FOSS.
That actually is progress.
Who would have thought in 1980 that people would actually pay money for computer software?
"Computer software is what you do with your computer, not a commodity!" -- DRI exec 1979
Microsoft, actually, was lucky.
That's why you should always use RBN not RBS for your "Transactions"
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IMO Intele never wanted to actually enter the comercial high end 3D world. They do quite a lot of resears but as I see it their interests always reside in creating the know how to scale CPUs horizontally in massive dimensions (10k cores etc.) because they correctly see that this is going to happen. IMHO the graphics series are just a way to monetize their RnD a bit earlier instead of just dumping billions on eggheads for a payday somewhere in the next decade.
Still I'm in full support of what they actually do. The only HW i had hassle free installs on on the graphics side were Intel chips.
Should try arch, they have even written up a wiki article on how to automatically reinstall fglrx when needed.
No, it is the Internet equivalent of "dumpster looking", since you aren't physically there and the original objects remain untouched.
Also to reply to the GP who started the no door metaphor: That one is inaccurate and deceiving. A correct metaphor would be: Leaving you front door unhinged while also having wallpapered your entry hall with classified documents, with a banner outside saying "Classified documents. Do not look!"
Research?! On teh Internetz?! You crazy, crazy man!
I don't think they have any real grasp against services like savetu.be. As long as it's retreiveable by the user I can rip it.
Note, savetu.be is only for videos, since I believe that actively wanting to rip the audio of a youtube video is sadistic mazochism.
I know butterflies!
As the result of YouTube mp3 rips is either 128kbps cbr mp3 or 112kbps aac I'd say that everybody is pretty much better of without those pests.
Seriously, only a person that thinks a juke box is an app would be ok with that kind of sound.
I've seen worse though in Belgium where the movie was subtitled in all three official languages: French, Dutch & German.
That's like 8-bit art right? Its better because you fantasy completes the image!
OMG, what did you just remind me off?!?!?!
Completely right. On the subtitles I'd go even one better: either do without them or without 3D. It's not an elitist type of stance actually if you think that most 3D films come from the USA in English and that most people should know to at least understand English in this day and age.
Well...
To be truthfull you also have to concede the fact that every 3d movie is, technically, photographed wrong. Ray focusing photography (the one all buyable cameras use) doesn't actually work if you want to capture depth. What you end up with is a sharp focal plane and trashed by the depth of field effect (Bokeh) volume information. The only way to actually shoot correct 3D (as in natural to the human eye) is either to go 100% CG with non cinematographic camera renders that will output a completely sharp output field or use light field capture tech which doesn't even exist yet.
Also even if someone actually managed to capture correct and natural 3D no one would want to work with it because the base of artistic cinematography (as is entertainment) is control of the picture. No one would find a use for such a thing except for scientiffic visualisation.
So yes: Current 3D is about as much of an unnatural gimmick as you can get and people have the right to not want their eyes and brains raped in order to watch a movie. On the other hand if your mind is already too numbed down to actually be capable of reacting to something this unnatural then you probably are good.
Yep.
Still this makes apple the prime evangelist of the throwaway culture all electronics companies want to introduce, or debatably already have introduced. No arguing most of apple's products feature the least compromise amongst their fields but the ideology the company headlines makes me seriously skeptical.
but instead they lost interest in building anything great, preferred to watch stupid reality TV (but live), and society collapsed.
How much this has been on my mind the past years can't be described. If anything can come out if this is that modern SciFi authors aren't shaping modern society but the other way round, public ignorance and the aversion the establishment expresses to evolution very well influences writer's visions. (If only that was the serious problem here....)
Don't forget that porn sites use CDNs and clouds--some of them may use the amazon cloud as well...
Amazon Elastic Porn & Stalk?
Well, Google most definitely is scary, so I would go with Yes!
The diff between AWS (amazon's web services) and Akamai is that AWS provides processing substrates integrated with CDN functionality.
Akamai mostly does CDN. This means that AWS has access both to the bits and the "metadata" (DBs, mappers, reducers, binaries) its clients manage and Akamai only accesses the generated bits.
AWS is a much more vertical integration than Akamai, comparable - with a bit of imagination - to Apple vs Microsoft.
Being up all night hunting down an obscure bug means sometimes you don't clean things out the way you should
True. And inevitable. If you write enough code under pressure you are bound to overlook something, no matter how much of a genius you are.
Sadly competitive marketplace and clueless HR/MBA drones and accountants that are given free reign are the norm, so more and more work gets done like a race in stead of like a real development. What's next? Equipping the shareholders' kids with SCRUM and letting them loose on the devs?
Hmmm.... I stand corrected. Memory thy are a heartless damsel...
You don't need to include all images in order to track views, that job is usually done by an independent asset and things you follow have their external assets allowed usually. If your newsletter is of the spamy type, aka people don't expect to hear from you prior to it's arrival then you probably would like to add the images as attachments since it is unlikely people will see them otherwise but spam was never a use case on my projects.
Email attachments had their uses, now they are pretty much obsolete. Also if part of your email's content is encapsulated in the images and the images are not the reason for the email you are doing it wrong.
HTML emails aka "emails with graphical content done right" have their uses, namely prettyfication of the plain text version of the email.
Hmm... I don't really recall this. I remember when I signed up for a yahoo mail - I think it was 1999ish - they gave out 25MB or something in that area. Then a year later they bumped that to 250 and 2G. Then gmail came out and offered that annoying KB counter (it was like revisiting 1992) that had started somewhere in the MB range. I don't recall the details from then on because at that moment I stopped following the trends but I think all providers switched to unmetered capacity at that point.
I always kept a pretty lean mailbox and even now after more than a decade of kept emails I am barely over 2k mails which with a pretty optimistic calculation (most emails are text only) that amounts to about 1G. So even if the mail providers where frozen in the 2GB era I still would be unaffected.
Ohh, there are enough """web developers""" out there that just throw them in there as attachments...
Welcome to the modern world! You are a criminal here but we won't accuse you of it in the face or let you prove otherwise!
teach you subtly = teach you in a subtle way
teach you subtlety = teach you the ways of being subtle
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