Assuming half of that is a restore image, it's still 20GB.
How? It's an embededed OS! It only needs to support the hardware of exactly one platform, plus common USB devices. No backwards compatibility, no legacy support, and the only bundled application is an office suite without a decent email client. Twenty gigabytes for that?! I know Microsoft has a reputation for sloppy, bloated code, but... this is why. With the limited features of Windows RT, a better development team should be able to fit it all in a few hundred meg. A couple of gig at most.
And what would you do about it? Blowing the government up would be easy, but then you have a flood of refugees as the country implodes - local warlords rise to power, starvation, and a general humanitarian disaster. Or you could invade but - as Iraq and Afganistan show - the locals won't be happy. There's a cult of personality at play, and invaders are never welcomed even if they are trying to act in the best interests of the invaded. So then you have a simmering conflict that goes on for years, costing trillions of dollars, and additionally earning you serious diplomatic troubles - because you can't very well do business with all the other oppressive governments in the world if they all worry they'll be next on the list.
There is no quick solution for North Korea. The best you can do is ignore it, occasionally intervene to make sure they don't get nuclear weapons, and hope that given enough time some leader will come to power who desires to break the isolation.
Is there any high-quality software? All MS software is riddled with bugs and blatant stupidity, but so is linux and OSX. The argument isn't really about which software is the best, but which sucks least. Software is a tool - if it was perfect, you wouldn't even notice it.
If you want a pizza-and-drinks game... Munchkin. Doesn't take up as much space as a board game, as it's nothing but cards and dice, and it's a lot of fun.
Doesn't happen so much any more. Journalists are under far greater time pressure than they once were - editors expect them to write more in less time, to satisfy our new 24-hour news culture. Investigative journalism is a very time-consuming process and can take weeks or months to produce a story. So it has been largely abandoned in favor of a form of 'production line' news which focuses on just collecting quotes and getting them broadcast as quickly as possible.
He mentioned flying bots. That's weight-critical - ideally a single-chip solution. That means either arduino or (even smaller, but harder to program and more limited) PIC.
It's not just about the stickers. It's about the OEM volume deals that come with the stickers. Lose the sticker, and the per-unit licensing cost shoots up by a hundred dollars or so, in an industry where the margin is less than that. As it's not practical to mass-market a machine running anything other than Windows (Imagine the return rate by uneducated users - most of them don't even know what an operating system is), that means that when MS demands something the OEMs have no option but to comply.
Multi-pass encoding actually went out of fashion in favor of quality-based encoding - crf on x264. It's as good as multipass (I know, I've tested it) with the one downside of not actually knowing how big your file will be until it's done.
I've been working for a long time on an extensive guide to getting the absolute best out of x264. It's a long way from done yet. In particular I've yet to run extensive experimental encodes on the subq parameter - common wisdom says higher is better, but I want to know more than that about it.
Anyone else noticed that movies are getting smaller? From 4.4GB for all 720p movies, 3GB-ish files are now increasingly common. Games too are abandoning the relic of the pile-o-rars in favor of more space-efficient schemes. It's the pressure of bandwidth quotas and the need to get back underground: Pirates are investing more time in compression.
Freenet is safe from that: It's got no connectivity outside the network, so anyone able to connect to your node has to be familiar enough with the network not to make such an easy mistake. Tor exit nodes are the really risky things to run.
In theory you could solve most of that problem by just releasing the source under a 'no modification' license. It'd render any form of restriction or DRM trivial to bypass, but... it already is. For that to happen though you'd first need to convince everyone involved that DRM is utterly futile and that they should just abandon all hope of ever getting it to be more than a curb-high deterrant, whch isn't going to be easy.
The heat island effect has always been taken into account for purposes of observation - when some of your data points are located in cities, you need to either discard them or compensate in some manner. This study shows that the effect covers a far wider area than previously thought. A few minor revisions to the models are needed. That doesn't mean previous predictions are suddenly all wrong - just that they are not as accurate as they will be once these revisions are implimented.
Someone at youtube looks at the notice, laughs, and throws it in the bin.
This does mean youtube becomes potentially liable, but for someone like Fox - a very popular and successful corporate giant, willing to supply the best lawyers money can buy to defend against any legal action - that is a justified risk.
I'm not sure it even means that. A poster above raised the question of translation, claiming that Chinese company names often include abstract concepts that don't translate well. The word given as 'faith' might really mean something different, but that cannot be concisely rendered any other way. Only a fluent Chinese speaker can answer this question, and I am not one.
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I'd guess that the developers tested it boots Windows correctly and assumed that would be good enough.
I did the calculation correctly. 64 - 23 = 41.
I transposed two digits when writing the post.
I actually did the math right: 64 - 23 = 41. My mistake was typographical, not mathematical.
64 - 32 = 41GB.
Assuming half of that is a restore image, it's still 20GB.
How? It's an embededed OS! It only needs to support the hardware of exactly one platform, plus common USB devices. No backwards compatibility, no legacy support, and the only bundled application is an office suite without a decent email client. Twenty gigabytes for that?! I know Microsoft has a reputation for sloppy, bloated code, but... this is why. With the limited features of Windows RT, a better development team should be able to fit it all in a few hundred meg. A couple of gig at most.
And what would you do about it? Blowing the government up would be easy, but then you have a flood of refugees as the country implodes - local warlords rise to power, starvation, and a general humanitarian disaster. Or you could invade but - as Iraq and Afganistan show - the locals won't be happy. There's a cult of personality at play, and invaders are never welcomed even if they are trying to act in the best interests of the invaded. So then you have a simmering conflict that goes on for years, costing trillions of dollars, and additionally earning you serious diplomatic troubles - because you can't very well do business with all the other oppressive governments in the world if they all worry they'll be next on the list.
There is no quick solution for North Korea. The best you can do is ignore it, occasionally intervene to make sure they don't get nuclear weapons, and hope that given enough time some leader will come to power who desires to break the isolation.
I gather there is one church that sends up balloons from south korea, each carrying a bible, designed to deflate and land in the north.
Is there any high-quality software? All MS software is riddled with bugs and blatant stupidity, but so is linux and OSX. The argument isn't really about which software is the best, but which sucks least. Software is a tool - if it was perfect, you wouldn't even notice it.
Just get the pirate version.
If you want a pizza-and-drinks game... Munchkin. Doesn't take up as much space as a board game, as it's nothing but cards and dice, and it's a lot of fun.
Explosives or thermite are out of the question - you don't want this thing starting fires in storage or soldiers' pockets.
Doesn't happen so much any more. Journalists are under far greater time pressure than they once were - editors expect them to write more in less time, to satisfy our new 24-hour news culture. Investigative journalism is a very time-consuming process and can take weeks or months to produce a story. So it has been largely abandoned in favor of a form of 'production line' news which focuses on just collecting quotes and getting them broadcast as quickly as possible.
He mentioned flying bots. That's weight-critical - ideally a single-chip solution. That means either arduino or (even smaller, but harder to program and more limited) PIC.
The EU already chewed Microsoft up over antitrust once.
It's not just about the stickers. It's about the OEM volume deals that come with the stickers. Lose the sticker, and the per-unit licensing cost shoots up by a hundred dollars or so, in an industry where the margin is less than that. As it's not practical to mass-market a machine running anything other than Windows (Imagine the return rate by uneducated users - most of them don't even know what an operating system is), that means that when MS demands something the OEMs have no option but to comply.
Multi-pass encoding actually went out of fashion in favor of quality-based encoding - crf on x264. It's as good as multipass (I know, I've tested it) with the one downside of not actually knowing how big your file will be until it's done.
I've been working for a long time on an extensive guide to getting the absolute best out of x264. It's a long way from done yet. In particular I've yet to run extensive experimental encodes on the subq parameter - common wisdom says higher is better, but I want to know more than that about it.
Anyone else noticed that movies are getting smaller? From 4.4GB for all 720p movies, 3GB-ish files are now increasingly common. Games too are abandoning the relic of the pile-o-rars in favor of more space-efficient schemes. It's the pressure of bandwidth quotas and the need to get back underground: Pirates are investing more time in compression.
No conviction needed. These cases are civil actions, not criminal. There is no need to show the 'beyond reasonable doubt' level of proof.
Freenet is safe from that: It's got no connectivity outside the network, so anyone able to connect to your node has to be familiar enough with the network not to make such an easy mistake. Tor exit nodes are the really risky things to run.
In theory you could solve most of that problem by just releasing the source under a 'no modification' license. It'd render any form of restriction or DRM trivial to bypass, but... it already is. For that to happen though you'd first need to convince everyone involved that DRM is utterly futile and that they should just abandon all hope of ever getting it to be more than a curb-high deterrant, whch isn't going to be easy.
The heat island effect has always been taken into account for purposes of observation - when some of your data points are located in cities, you need to either discard them or compensate in some manner. This study shows that the effect covers a far wider area than previously thought. A few minor revisions to the models are needed. That doesn't mean previous predictions are suddenly all wrong - just that they are not as accurate as they will be once these revisions are implimented.
True, but you can at least keep the error distribution centered on zero.
He doesn't need to. He wrote it. It's the moment of publicity that turned him from obscure bedroom-musician to internet celebrity.
Someone at youtube looks at the notice, laughs, and throws it in the bin.
This does mean youtube becomes potentially liable, but for someone like Fox - a very popular and successful corporate giant, willing to supply the best lawyers money can buy to defend against any legal action - that is a justified risk.
I'm not sure it even means that. A poster above raised the question of translation, claiming that Chinese company names often include abstract concepts that don't translate well. The word given as 'faith' might really mean something different, but that cannot be concisely rendered any other way. Only a fluent Chinese speaker can answer this question, and I am not one.
You just need to find a supplier that believes their document forging procedure is foolproof.
If it actually is foolproof, you can always tip Apple off about it.