IIRC the British monarchy brings in more revenue than it costs. Those most critical of the monarchy put the annual cost of maintaining it at 400 million GBP (more conservative figures peg that as much lower), but the royal family generates 500 million GBP / year in tourism revenue. I'm sure one can poke holes in this argument, but based on these two figures alone, it sounds like the monarchy is worth it.
My point was that Bing was *not* doing the same thing, as the AC was claiming. Mentioning her in an obscurely hidden side-link is very different than featuring her prominently where everyone will see.
* credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches
You left out the story of why it's called debugging! From Wikipedia:
While she was working on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system.
Ooh! I found it! If you mouse over the difference engine, there's a box on the left that, when you mouse over it, says that today is the birthday of... shoot--I have to click the link.
Yes, that wildfire model is indeed a toy model. He could have just as easily used the Bak–Tang–Wiesenfeld sandpile model, which has proven to be just as (in)accurate in modeling the system it's supposed to represent.
It's been known for a while that the distribution of forest fire and earthquake severities exhibits "scale invariant" properties, and it is thought that both are due to some sort of self-organized criticality phenomenon.
However, the problem with SOC is that a lot of things that are called "scale free" aren't, in fact, and they just *look* that way because it's easy to make things look linear on a log-log plot. Will consult some graduate class notes and respond to this comment with citations to back this up.
But, in general, my point is that it's not new or revolutionary to find structural similarities between earthquakes and forest fires, and it's not surprising that a model could be built from the same principles. But that doesn't mean at all that this model explains the mechanisms behind earthquakes.
Google Music Android app has a setting for "Mobile networks stream quality" that lets you choose from "Low," "Normal" and "High." Doesn't say what the bitrates are, though.
Yes, you need a data-enabled device to stream music away from Wi-Fi (or you need to cache your playlist ahead of time--which you can do with a single click in GMusic--note that this is not something that, last I checked, you could do with Pandora/Spotify). But I, for one, already have one, and streaming music doesn't seem to take up a significant portion of my (5GB/mo from T-Mobile) data cap.
But even without my smart phone, just the fact that I have access to my entire music library from my home *and* my work machines is revolutionary for me.
Also curious: how is this "problem" not something that streaming services have as well? Streaming from music you own vs. streaming from music you "rent"... it's all streaming.
Exactly. This is why I've never signed up for any streaming music service and why I buy DVDs of shows that are available on Netflix (I do usually wait for bargains/used copies, though). The advantage of streaming services was the "play-anywhere" ability, meaning you didn't need to worry about having a (backed up) iPod with you all the time, but Google Music (and to a lesser extent the Apple and Amazon competitors) has made that issue moot.
Interesting. What about the predominant metal (or material) of an actual server, since those are going to (probably?) provide quite a bit more shielding than the actual housing.
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But then that's not breaking the app. That's doing what was intended. "Breaking the app" to me means losing core functionality.
> it could break some of the apps policed by it.
Is that not the entire point?
If the entire point is to break the app, then why not just uninstall it and be done with it?
Why wouldn't you just uninstall those apps? Unless you're talking, like, Samsung bloatware, in which case, fair point.
You're right. No one in the US ever pays to tour homes of famous people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_revolution
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Majority share is still >50%.
IIRC the British monarchy brings in more revenue than it costs. Those most critical of the monarchy put the annual cost of maintaining it at 400 million GBP (more conservative figures peg that as much lower), but the royal family generates 500 million GBP / year in tourism revenue. I'm sure one can poke holes in this argument, but based on these two figures alone, it sounds like the monarchy is worth it.
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More than anyone else is not a majority--it's a plurality. Unless the queen owns 50% of the world plus one iota, then it's not a majority.
My point was that Bing was *not* doing the same thing, as the AC was claiming. Mentioning her in an obscurely hidden side-link is very different than featuring her prominently where everyone will see.
* credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches
You left out the story of why it's called debugging! From Wikipedia:
While she was working on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system.
Hmmm... when I go to bing.com today I see an 1800s difference engine. No mention of Admiral Hopper.
Ooh! I found it! If you mouse over the difference engine, there's a box on the left that, when you mouse over it, says that today is the birthday of... shoot--I have to click the link.
More on this, I was taught that a lot of the principles behind MPI and other distributed memory parallel programming come from how calculation work was distributed among the women "computers" working at Los Alamos during the time of the Manhattan project.
My version of Chrome now shows the doodle on the "New Tab" page. I'm glad. I always hated missing them.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2516
Just hope they work out the overheating issues.
Yes, that wildfire model is indeed a toy model. He could have just as easily used the Bak–Tang–Wiesenfeld sandpile model, which has proven to be just as (in)accurate in modeling the system it's supposed to represent.
It's been known for a while that the distribution of forest fire and earthquake severities exhibits "scale invariant" properties, and it is thought that both are due to some sort of self-organized criticality phenomenon.
However, the problem with SOC is that a lot of things that are called "scale free" aren't, in fact, and they just *look* that way because it's easy to make things look linear on a log-log plot. Will consult some graduate class notes and respond to this comment with citations to back this up.
But, in general, my point is that it's not new or revolutionary to find structural similarities between earthquakes and forest fires, and it's not surprising that a model could be built from the same principles. But that doesn't mean at all that this model explains the mechanisms behind earthquakes.
Google Music Android app has a setting for "Mobile networks stream quality" that lets you choose from "Low," "Normal" and "High." Doesn't say what the bitrates are, though.
Again. How is this a problem for services like Google Music where you own your music and NOT for services like Pandora and Spotify?
Yes, you need a data-enabled device to stream music away from Wi-Fi (or you need to cache your playlist ahead of time--which you can do with a single click in GMusic--note that this is not something that, last I checked, you could do with Pandora/Spotify). But I, for one, already have one, and streaming music doesn't seem to take up a significant portion of my (5GB/mo from T-Mobile) data cap.
But even without my smart phone, just the fact that I have access to my entire music library from my home *and* my work machines is revolutionary for me.
Also curious: how is this "problem" not something that streaming services have as well? Streaming from music you own vs. streaming from music you "rent"... it's all streaming.
Exactly. This is why I've never signed up for any streaming music service and why I buy DVDs of shows that are available on Netflix (I do usually wait for bargains/used copies, though). The advantage of streaming services was the "play-anywhere" ability, meaning you didn't need to worry about having a (backed up) iPod with you all the time, but Google Music (and to a lesser extent the Apple and Amazon competitors) has made that issue moot.
They'd probably prefer to outlaw CDs and tapes and go back to the days when music was released on vinyl records which weren't easily duplicated.
Seriously. I'm convinced it's all a scam to get us to go out and buy new chargers and adapters.
Been reading about this for years.
Interesting. What about the predominant metal (or material) of an actual server, since those are going to (probably?) provide quite a bit more shielding than the actual housing.