I recently visited the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences. It's a new facility with impressive technology (and cost).
However the presentation was all animation, moral harangues, and celebrity voiceover, with little content and no interesting astrophysics science. The whole concept seemed like a watered-down ripoff of the powers of ten video I saw in middle school. Remember that? I would much rather have watched that again.
Google hosted a lot of Obama campaign content on YouTube.
One of Google's founders gave a talk to leaders of the New Media team at Obama campaign headquarters.
A key engineer from the Chrome team left to advise Obama's internet operations (and thus Obama team people knew about the Google browser back when it was just a rumor).
First amendment rights have been curtailed in this area--see the decision in Thomas v. Chicago Park District.
The Supreme Court of the United States decided that park police can require permits for public gatherings or photography/videorecordings on publicly owned property.
Interestingly, this came into play in a recent O'Reily Media interview of DHH in Wicker Park (it's on YouTube). A Chicago park policeman made them turn off their camera, cutting the interview short by fifteen minutes.
Think about what you just said. As long as Congress is willing to fund the FDIC, might as well take 3.5% interest on your deposit at a questionably solvent bank.
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Wow you're stupid.
The first pillar of Basel II already addresses your issue regarding the risk of sovereign debt.
AIG was killed by ridiculous exposure to credit default swaps, not CMOs on their books. It was predefined how they were to pay out in response to mortgage defaults (which they failed to model accurately).
With regard to banks, it's ridiculous to say that they got "screwed" as they were using the value of overpriced assets to overleverage during the credit boom. That rule works to their "benefit" in boom and forces them to stay solvent (or close) in bust.
Frankly the problem isn't that MTM rules are being used too strictly, rather they are being applied too loosely--and we have walking dead banks that NEED TO GET CLOSED soaking up capital from the Fed and refusing to lend. The Japanese had this problem and are warning us not to repeat it.
My favorite Perl book is Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices. Conway teaches how to modularize and make readable your Perl programs. The techniques are general to other languages as well.
Along the way Conway informs readers of a ton of great modules that I wouldn't have heard of otherwise.
Also the jokes are much better than the Camel book.
Otherwise, no manufacturer in their right minds would go through all the hassle and expense of buying batteries from an American plant, shipping them to China to be assembled into a product, then shipping them back to the U.S. for consumption...
That's how a lot of US turkey is produced--shipped to Asia for processing then returned for sale. Of course the difference is that turkeys are labor intensive to process and consumers would avoid foreign-raised meat.
Jobs founded Next which created much of the technology underlying OS X.
The success of OS X has a lot to do with the fact that the core technologies were incubated for eight years. You can go on YouTube and see Jobs' keynote presentations from when he was at Next (someone posted them in comments on/. yesterday)./p.
In response to those who tagged this story 'mechanicalhound', let me note that in modern Britain, people no longer hunt foxes, dogs hunt people: British foxhunting ban leads to human quarry
As they pet the hounds, allowing the animals to memorise their scent, the master huntsman Clive Richardson offers a few words of encouragement. "Don't worry," he says. "When a limb's torn from you, it really doesn't bleed that much."
I wish I had a scanner so I could post the print photo. It's a runner in modern gear sprinting across a field of cut straw being chased by four hounds and two dozen mounted men wearing traditional suits.
First of all, the housing bubble was primarily fueled by errors on Wall Street, not Washington.
I think it is extremely telling that the mortgage agencies had a thundering herd of lobbyists.
Also, if Greenspan hadn't keep interest rates so low (negative in real terms) we wouldn't have seen such a dramatic boom and bust in the credit markets.
As I learned recently by reading slashdot, the "fire in a crowded theatre" line originated in a US Supreme Court case that ended in blocking someone from distributing anti-draft pamphlets. Wouldn't we consider that legitimate political speech today?
Silverlight is being used on these video sites to allow you to stream WMV-encoded video with Digital Rights Management (it also has Flash-like features)
Given a certain bitrate, you can get streaming video of the same quality as WMV with more open video formats (like H.264, a variant of MPEG-4 video that Apple is pushing. You can debate how open H.264 but it's an improvement.)
Microsoft wants everyone to download Silverlight so they can force consumers to use their stupid DRM system. Then they plan to use that market position to make a lot of money from paranoid network execs. I don't know how close the NBC-MSFT relationship is (anyone remember MS-NBC? admittedly that relationship crumbled) but I would not be surprised to see Hulu.com go Silverlight only in the next couple of years.
I really think the DNC shouldn't have gone with a DRM platform. We know their voter base supports DRM. Consumers always get screwed over with DRM. The harm to consumers will become apparent when Silverlight gets more widespread adoption. Already you can't watch these events if you aren't on one of the two 'approved' platforms. Of course the cynics will say that the real DNC 'base' is the content industry and corporate America. There's probably some truth in that. Regardless they should want people to use open platforms, because there's no reason to block people from recording or disseminating captured video of their politicians' speeches online.
The Olympics made Silverlight look like a miracle product. In reality it is nothing special. It's a lot easier to scale live video dissemination than video on demand (and the Olympics happened to be the first exposure to Silverlight and the first use of online live video most of my friends have experienced). The great video performance came simply because NBC's contractors used new approaches to stream high-bandwidth video streams in a more scaleable way (quotation from/. on 15 August):
"Limelight has partnered with over 800 broadband Internet providers worldwide... so that the content is either co-located in the same facility as your ISP's main communications infrastructure, or it leases a dedicated Optical Carrier line so that it actually appears as
part of your ISP's internal network. In most cases, you're never even leaving your Tier 1 provider to get the video."
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Wow, perfect grammar in a /. story summary! I can't recall seeing such an exquisite exposition of the proper usage of nested quotation marks.
It's almost as if /. found a professional editor!
Oh wait...
However the presentation was all animation, moral harangues, and celebrity voiceover, with little content and no interesting astrophysics science. The whole concept seemed like a watered-down ripoff of the powers of ten video I saw in middle school. Remember that? I would much rather have watched that again.
Guess you've never heard of Wells Fargo or Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
I have the same qualms about deploying Wordpress, which requires MySQL. Not to mention that the MySQL commercial license costs $600.
Same reason.
One of Google's founders gave a talk to leaders of the New Media team at Obama campaign headquarters.
A key engineer from the Chrome team left to advise Obama's internet operations (and thus Obama team people knew about the Google browser back when it was just a rumor).
Sorry, I assumed "wife's brother."
Your sister-in-law's brother--wouldn't that be your brother-in-law?
Nice job. I realized that as I posted, but I didn't want facts to get in the way of a good post.
I totally agree with you on the naked shorts fraud, the crappy banks, and the very poor regulation.
First amendment rights have been curtailed in this area--see the decision in Thomas v. Chicago Park District.
The Supreme Court of the United States decided that park police can require permits for public gatherings or photography/videorecordings on publicly owned property.
Interestingly, this came into play in a recent O'Reily Media interview of DHH in Wicker Park (it's on YouTube). A Chicago park policeman made them turn off their camera, cutting the interview short by fifteen minutes.
You only need $10M to get in on the TALF offerings starting in Feb.
Think about what you just said. As long as Congress is willing to fund the FDIC, might as well take 3.5% interest on your deposit at a questionably solvent bank.
The first pillar of Basel II already addresses your issue regarding the risk of sovereign debt.
AIG was killed by ridiculous exposure to credit default swaps, not CMOs on their books. It was predefined how they were to pay out in response to mortgage defaults (which they failed to model accurately).
With regard to banks, it's ridiculous to say that they got "screwed" as they were using the value of overpriced assets to overleverage during the credit boom. That rule works to their "benefit" in boom and forces them to stay solvent (or close) in bust.
Frankly the problem isn't that MTM rules are being used too strictly, rather they are being applied too loosely--and we have walking dead banks that NEED TO GET CLOSED soaking up capital from the Fed and refusing to lend. The Japanese had this problem and are warning us not to repeat it.
Along the way Conway informs readers of a ton of great modules that I wouldn't have heard of otherwise.
Also the jokes are much better than the Camel book.
That's how a lot of US turkey is produced--shipped to Asia for processing then returned for sale. Of course the difference is that turkeys are labor intensive to process and consumers would avoid foreign-raised meat.
Jobs founded Next which created much of the technology underlying OS X.
The success of OS X has a lot to do with the fact that the core technologies were incubated for eight years. You can go on YouTube and see Jobs' keynote presentations from when he was at Next (someone posted them in comments on /. yesterday)./p.
I wish I had a scanner so I could post the print photo. It's a runner in modern gear sprinting across a field of cut straw being chased by four hounds and two dozen mounted men wearing traditional suits.
You might be surprised to know that the US is about equal with China in terms of value added by manufacturing. I couldn't find the article I was thinking about, but here is another chart: http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2007/01/28/top-10-manufacturing-countries/
I think it is extremely telling that the mortgage agencies had a thundering herd of lobbyists.
Also, if Greenspan hadn't keep interest rates so low (negative in real terms) we wouldn't have seen such a dramatic boom and bust in the credit markets.
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I think there is some danger in letting Lieberman decide what is legitimate speech. Maybe you trust him?
This would make sense if OLED screens had higher resolutions, making 1920x1080 obsolete
Given a certain bitrate, you can get streaming video of the same quality as WMV with more open video formats (like H.264, a variant of MPEG-4 video that Apple is pushing. You can debate how open H.264 but it's an improvement.)
Microsoft wants everyone to download Silverlight so they can force consumers to use their stupid DRM system. Then they plan to use that market position to make a lot of money from paranoid network execs. I don't know how close the NBC-MSFT relationship is (anyone remember MS-NBC? admittedly that relationship crumbled) but I would not be surprised to see Hulu.com go Silverlight only in the next couple of years.
I really think the DNC shouldn't have gone with a DRM platform. We know their voter base supports DRM. Consumers always get screwed over with DRM. The harm to consumers will become apparent when Silverlight gets more widespread adoption. Already you can't watch these events if you aren't on one of the two 'approved' platforms. Of course the cynics will say that the real DNC 'base' is the content industry and corporate America. There's probably some truth in that. Regardless they should want people to use open platforms, because there's no reason to block people from recording or disseminating captured video of their politicians' speeches online.
The Olympics made Silverlight look like a miracle product. In reality it is nothing special. It's a lot easier to scale live video dissemination than video on demand (and the Olympics happened to be the first exposure to Silverlight and the first use of online live video most of my friends have experienced). The great video performance came simply because NBC's contractors used new approaches to stream high-bandwidth video streams in a more scaleable way (quotation from /. on 15 August):
"Limelight has partnered with over 800 broadband Internet providers worldwide... so that the content is either co-located in the same facility as your ISP's main communications infrastructure, or it leases a dedicated Optical Carrier line so that it actually appears as part of your ISP's internal network. In most cases, you're never even leaving your Tier 1 provider to get the video."
Funny, I thought they were called core dumps.
As u38cg noted, "Google Zeitgeist is going to be raising a few eyebrows next month."