To me, just looking at the Lena image before looking at the comparisons, my immediate thought was "this has been photoshoped to death" - sure it looks better than JPEG but it still looks like crap. The real issue is that for the future size will not matter but other issues will be more important. I'd rather see "4D" support (Lytro camera by Ren Ng) than any improvement on low end graphics.
I have to agree, even as a big fan of smaller. BPG arguably does create better images at small sizes but it's not much better than JPEG. It trades JPEG's pixelation for removal of details/changing colours/etc.
GFWL functionality was recently patched out of dozens of games from multiple publishers. Patches could not be prevented without going to offline mode, however, that only works for a max of 6 months and you're effectively blocked from most of Steam for that period to preserve the functionality. The odd game you could unpatch from a pirated version but many couldn't.
As shit as GFWL is, when you bought the games for the Xbox achievements it's rather useless when that feature is stripped out. If the developer released the patch and we had a choice of accepting it, or be limited in use without applying it, that'd be a different issue. The issue is Steam making them mandatory and not providing a realistic way to stop them from being applied.
So, public communication can only occur between non-peers? And only in publicly-owned places? So I guess that means the that guy standing on a soap box preaching to an assembled crowd at the mall isn't engaged in public communication, nor are presidential candidates debating on national TV. So what exactly would fall into your hypothetical public communication pigeonhole?
I would see a communication to the public as one that is single source and indiscriminately communicated. ie: a sign is a public communication, or your guy on a soap box, or a TV program. A communication based on contacting an individual listed in a directory is not a public communication. ie: you look up someone's phone number and call them, the call isn't a communication to the public even if the directory is. A swarm is just a form of directory.
Meh its being replaced with streaming video from Bumfuckistan where "nobody cares about your steenkin treaties man!"
When it comes to piracy as with anything else easy trumps all and "click and watch" don't get any easier. Sure you don't find things like games but Steam has pretty much made gaming so cheap why would anybody bother? this also royally screws the *.A.A as how you gonna bust people for watching video on the Internet?
Bumfuckistan's of the world are easily bought/corrupted/bullied into shutting down such sites. It's happened dozens of times already. It's also less of a grey area because streaming is a broadcast not a communication between peers. They may not bust individuals for watching but they'll have no trouble shutting down those sites.
The problem is one of access and choice. Steam is great but there's no guarantee of access to specific content through the service of your choice. There's also no equivalent competition for Steam on PC so their policies rule the day. If you disagree you lose your content. I've lost content even while agreeing (I bought games with specific functionality which was later patched out making the game pointless for my purposes to which Steam effectively replied "so sue us").
3 more pop up. "TPB" can die, but what TPB did will never die
They aren't popping up though, especially not ones of any quality. The law is catching up but as usual it's being used as a club and with a complete misunderstanding of what technology is doing. Take the Voltage case in Canada - the legislation and interpretation by the courts to this point is that P2P constitutes a public communication. This ignores the fact that peer to peer by it's very name is a communication between peers, it ignores that it takes place entirely on private networks (there is no "public internet"), it ignores the hearsay nature of swarms, privacy of communications, etc. Until reasonable, predictable law is in place that protects all parties there will be fewer people willing to take the legal risk of starting a torrent site, let alone having the technical expertise. imo there's more need now for TPB than ever.
Unfortunately it's going to cost serious money, effort, and time to regain the civil rights we've lost under these insane treaties like WIPO, Berne, Rome Convention, and soon to be TPP. There are just too many areas where the law has been corrupted in favour of corporate/government rights over civil rights. Heck, in my province the default "civil rights" are those from 1792 England - I'm not even sure anyone knows what those were anymore.
what is raw footage and accounting doing on the same system?
Who says both were on the same system?
For what reason does accounting need access to video production or vice versa? They are, or ought to be, separate internal systems that do not interact. Unless you're suggesting multiple intrusion points
Raw footage is massive, that's understandable - but what is raw footage and accounting doing on the same system? I can't answer that either way... time will tell the story.
If you want to frame it that way, the less people donate the less the executive should be paid. The full compensation package for Yahoo!'s executive director, including stock, was $23.4mil/year for 5 years - or $0.0052% of revenue
Again, it depends on how you look at it. Salary can range from $1 (Google) to $23.4 million (Yahoo).
Looking at it in that manner is also highly misleading. Yahoo as an example has revenue of $4.5 billion and 12k+ employees. Wiki has revenue of $48 million and only 208 employees.
And how does that compare to for-profit companies of the same size?
Depends on what you mean by size, but I'm not sure what the US data is for that exact question. Overall nationally the total pay is $39,567 - $151,304. Median of $96,056 for San Francisco. 90% of executive director pay in San Francisco is below $150,000.
Government incentive plan paid above market rates to encourage development. We got in at the highest incentive rate - payback is on track for 7 years without the trackers - we figured 10-12 years with them which was too long. It sounds like it would have cost a lot more in the long run.
I know of a major project that is doing quite well along the same lines, again no trackers. (Featured on Dragon's Den around the 10:30 mark - http://www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/e... )
Winter = 8 hours of sunlight Summer = 18 hours of sunlight
Not only is the amount of time the Sun is shining much higher during the summer, the tilt for the panel is only 58 degrees so your average roof angle would do nicely during the summer. In the winter though things change radically, the optimal tilt angle goes down to 10 degrees and the insulating factor goes way up... nearly 14x less light penetrating during December than in July. You would do well to have a 2 part system that you can move around manually - during March to Sept: first part facing WSW and the second part ESE at 34-58 degree tilt. Come September, change the configuration so both parts are facing due south at a 10 degree tilt.
Where I am (44N) it's 10h/16h, 22-70 degree tilt, and only a 5x insulating factor difference. We just set it around a 40 degree tilt (or less? can't remember exactly) to maximize winter time collection - some is lost in the summer as a result but there are more producing days in winter (due to summer storms) and we found that, since we're in a field, the reflection from the snow would actually increase production. The snow covered field effectively acts like a giant reflector so it generates even on overcast days.
I think that's understood for the purposes of the conversation. Every situation is unique, true, but what is the optimal outside of that? ie: flat field, no shadows, etc. Even in the article (2nd link) they say you're looking at a 10-20% loss pointing west but you'll get more during the peak afternoon usage period.
Except excluding maintenance costs on what, a dozen or more motors means that's not a good estimate.
Not to mention it's absolutely impossible to even estimate payback period with any accuracy unless you know the exact cost of the installation, the homeowner's usage, the policies of the utility company and/or government organization that manages the utilities, etc.
In our area it's a fixed rate, fixed installation, 100% goes into the grid (we get paid more than we pay thanks to an early adopter's incentive). You can do a ballpark estimate based on the capacity of the panels and then the payback estimate gets more accurate the longer you have the panels. Our estimates were 6-7 years without motors and 10-12 with. Between the excavation, foundations, aluminum bases ($1500 a piece * 16 - this part alone was more than the cost of the building), electronics, motors, labour, etc the price ballooned quickly. It makes sense in larger installations where you're going to have an employee doing maintenance for hundreds of panels but not for a 64 panel setup.
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I'd still rather Lytro support.
To me, just looking at the Lena image before looking at the comparisons, my immediate thought was "this has been photoshoped to death" - sure it looks better than JPEG but it still looks like crap. The real issue is that for the future size will not matter but other issues will be more important. I'd rather see "4D" support (Lytro camera by Ren Ng) than any improvement on low end graphics.
I have to agree, even as a big fan of smaller. BPG arguably does create better images at small sizes but it's not much better than JPEG. It trades JPEG's pixelation for removal of details/changing colours/etc.
GFWL functionality was recently patched out of dozens of games from multiple publishers. Patches could not be prevented without going to offline mode, however, that only works for a max of 6 months and you're effectively blocked from most of Steam for that period to preserve the functionality. The odd game you could unpatch from a pirated version but many couldn't.
As shit as GFWL is, when you bought the games for the Xbox achievements it's rather useless when that feature is stripped out. If the developer released the patch and we had a choice of accepting it, or be limited in use without applying it, that'd be a different issue. The issue is Steam making them mandatory and not providing a realistic way to stop them from being applied.
So, public communication can only occur between non-peers? And only in publicly-owned places? So I guess that means the that guy standing on a soap box preaching to an assembled crowd at the mall isn't engaged in public communication, nor are presidential candidates debating on national TV. So what exactly would fall into your hypothetical public communication pigeonhole?
I would see a communication to the public as one that is single source and indiscriminately communicated. ie: a sign is a public communication, or your guy on a soap box, or a TV program. A communication based on contacting an individual listed in a directory is not a public communication. ie: you look up someone's phone number and call them, the call isn't a communication to the public even if the directory is. A swarm is just a form of directory.
Meh its being replaced with streaming video from Bumfuckistan where "nobody cares about your steenkin treaties man!"
When it comes to piracy as with anything else easy trumps all and "click and watch" don't get any easier. Sure you don't find things like games but Steam has pretty much made gaming so cheap why would anybody bother? this also royally screws the *.A.A as how you gonna bust people for watching video on the Internet?
Bumfuckistan's of the world are easily bought/corrupted/bullied into shutting down such sites. It's happened dozens of times already. It's also less of a grey area because streaming is a broadcast not a communication between peers. They may not bust individuals for watching but they'll have no trouble shutting down those sites.
The problem is one of access and choice. Steam is great but there's no guarantee of access to specific content through the service of your choice. There's also no equivalent competition for Steam on PC so their policies rule the day. If you disagree you lose your content. I've lost content even while agreeing (I bought games with specific functionality which was later patched out making the game pointless for my purposes to which Steam effectively replied "so sue us").
3 more pop up. "TPB" can die, but what TPB did will never die
They aren't popping up though, especially not ones of any quality. The law is catching up but as usual it's being used as a club and with a complete misunderstanding of what technology is doing. Take the Voltage case in Canada - the legislation and interpretation by the courts to this point is that P2P constitutes a public communication. This ignores the fact that peer to peer by it's very name is a communication between peers, it ignores that it takes place entirely on private networks (there is no "public internet"), it ignores the hearsay nature of swarms, privacy of communications, etc. Until reasonable, predictable law is in place that protects all parties there will be fewer people willing to take the legal risk of starting a torrent site, let alone having the technical expertise. imo there's more need now for TPB than ever.
Unfortunately it's going to cost serious money, effort, and time to regain the civil rights we've lost under these insane treaties like WIPO, Berne, Rome Convention, and soon to be TPP. There are just too many areas where the law has been corrupted in favour of corporate/government rights over civil rights. Heck, in my province the default "civil rights" are those from 1792 England - I'm not even sure anyone knows what those were anymore.
In my experience - the backup gets checked every single time. I guess the standards at a small law firm are better than at a major corporation.
what is raw footage and accounting doing on the same system?
Who says both were on the same system?
For what reason does accounting need access to video production or vice versa? They are, or ought to be, separate internal systems that do not interact. Unless you're suggesting multiple intrusion points
That wouldn't matter. If someone is able to re-direct the backups, they could change those settings as well.
And a competent IT team wouldn't notice major settings changes or the change in backup size?
And our ability to secure information & monitor data flow on networks remained stagnant in that time?
Raw footage is massive, that's understandable - but what is raw footage and accounting doing on the same system? I can't answer that either way... time will tell the story.
You do unencrypted backups?
It would cost ~$3,500 retail for 100TB - easily accomplished by 1 individual.
The big question is, how did they not notice that much data going out regardless of time frame.
If you want to frame it that way, the less people donate the less the executive should be paid. The full compensation package for Yahoo!'s executive director, including stock, was $23.4mil/year for 5 years - or $0.0052% of revenue
Again, it depends on how you look at it. Salary can range from $1 (Google) to $23.4 million (Yahoo).
Looking at it in that manner is also highly misleading. Yahoo as an example has revenue of $4.5 billion and 12k+ employees. Wiki has revenue of $48 million and only 208 employees.
And how does that compare to for-profit companies of the same size?
Depends on what you mean by size, but I'm not sure what the US data is for that exact question. Overall nationally the total pay is $39,567 - $151,304. Median of $96,056 for San Francisco. 90% of executive director pay in San Francisco is below $150,000.
Government incentive plan paid above market rates to encourage development. We got in at the highest incentive rate - payback is on track for 7 years without the trackers - we figured 10-12 years with them which was too long. It sounds like it would have cost a lot more in the long run.
I know of a major project that is doing quite well along the same lines, again no trackers. (Featured on Dragon's Den around the 10:30 mark - http://www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/e... )
56 degrees north is another beast entirely. Here's a Sun chart for København, Denmark - http://www.gaisma.com/en/sunpa...
Winter = 8 hours of sunlight
Summer = 18 hours of sunlight
Not only is the amount of time the Sun is shining much higher during the summer, the tilt for the panel is only 58 degrees so your average roof angle would do nicely during the summer. In the winter though things change radically, the optimal tilt angle goes down to 10 degrees and the insulating factor goes way up... nearly 14x less light penetrating during December than in July. You would do well to have a 2 part system that you can move around manually - during March to Sept: first part facing WSW and the second part ESE at 34-58 degree tilt. Come September, change the configuration so both parts are facing due south at a 10 degree tilt.
Where I am (44N) it's 10h/16h, 22-70 degree tilt, and only a 5x insulating factor difference. We just set it around a 40 degree tilt (or less? can't remember exactly) to maximize winter time collection - some is lost in the summer as a result but there are more producing days in winter (due to summer storms) and we found that, since we're in a field, the reflection from the snow would actually increase production. The snow covered field effectively acts like a giant reflector so it generates even on overcast days.
Scaling out is not without its challenges at that scale.
I think that's understood for the purposes of the conversation. Every situation is unique, true, but what is the optimal outside of that? ie: flat field, no shadows, etc. Even in the article (2nd link) they say you're looking at a 10-20% loss pointing west but you'll get more during the peak afternoon usage period.
Except excluding maintenance costs on what, a dozen or more motors means that's not a good estimate.
Not to mention it's absolutely impossible to even estimate payback period with any accuracy unless you know the exact cost of the installation, the homeowner's usage, the policies of the utility company and/or government organization that manages the utilities, etc.
In our area it's a fixed rate, fixed installation, 100% goes into the grid (we get paid more than we pay thanks to an early adopter's incentive). You can do a ballpark estimate based on the capacity of the panels and then the payback estimate gets more accurate the longer you have the panels. Our estimates were 6-7 years without motors and 10-12 with. Between the excavation, foundations, aluminum bases ($1500 a piece * 16 - this part alone was more than the cost of the building), electronics, motors, labour, etc the price ballooned quickly. It makes sense in larger installations where you're going to have an employee doing maintenance for hundreds of panels but not for a 64 panel setup.
Agreed on adding more panels. The battery component made the payback period too long to justify.
Our install: //freaking amazing, +4C even with bad glass in it
Solar barn: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/...
Solar hot air: https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/...
Solar hot water: https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/...
Yup, something like Wikipedia needs cutting edge IT rockstars because, uh....
...it's one of the most heavily trafficked sites in the world with a heavy database component?