I've watched full episodes of South Park off the official site over WIFI and was pleasantly surprised by the performance.
Exercise for the interested reader: Can you see any problems with judging video playback quality using a source material that's animated at around 3fps?
You don't buy iStuff because it lacks Flash support? Is that on general principles, or because you have a pressing need for Flash on your phone? NB. Serious question, I'm curious.
Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.
World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!
I particularly liked his "The patent titles don't sound novel to me, therefore they must be invalid" argument. If you're going to pretend to 'legal analysis', you have to at least skim the patents themselves, not just the titles.
"'Adobe has spent a lot of time optimizing Flash, and I'd wager it'd take some time to get HTML 5 video as awesome."
As if every browser team is going to write a set of codecs from scratch. Everyone's going to use either the platform-native media layer or ffmpeg, all of which beat the Flash decoders into a bloody pulp.
No, it's a valid comparison - the category is smartphone OS market share
It's 6-month sales not market-share, but yep, it is indeed a valid category.
Of course you get different answers when you look at other valid categories like 6 month device sales by OS, 6 month device sales by vendor, 6 month smartphone sales by vendor, smartphone market-share by vendor, smartphone market-share by OS and so on. The fact that Nokia does very well in many of these is instructive.
TFA variously refers to 1 trillion records and 1Tb of data. So each record is 1 byte? Doesn't seem like that requires any real computation - you just go through the data maintaining a count of each of the 256 possible values (an embarassingly parallel problem), then write it back out with 256 memsets (likewise trivially parallelisable).
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Why will Windows Phone 7 succeed when Kin failed?
Because it is a better platform with better carrier support and (one would hope) better marketing?
Common sense says that heavier objects fall faster.
At human-scale and in human environments, they generally do.
Also: Woohoo!
A democratic institution representing the desires and best interests of it's electorate?
What gives?
Another analogy would be popup books, although that one worked out a bit differently.
If Sony can pour millions into telling everyone that 3D is the bee's knees then I can take 2 minutes to voice my opinion that no, it ain't.
I've watched full episodes of South Park off the official site over WIFI and was pleasantly surprised by the performance.
Exercise for the interested reader: Can you see any problems with judging video playback quality using a source material that's animated at around 3fps?
You don't buy iStuff because it lacks Flash support?
Is that on general principles, or because you have a pressing need for Flash on your phone?
NB. Serious question, I'm curious.
From his manifesto:
Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.
We must never forget the Squirrels.
World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!
And made so eloquently too.
Yes, a number of years ago.
Just shy of 9 years ago by my count.
...do journalists need special bonus rights over and above the standard package?
What is the problem to which this is the solution?
Actually, 'Mahara' and 'Moodle' are the names of the dinosaurs from the Uzbek version of Bubble Bobble.
My paradigm shifted and cut off the circulation to my legs. Should've used Mahara!
"Say honey, I'm famished; would you buy me some STEAMED BUNS AND FISH SAUSAGES please?"
The patents are so broad and ill defined that if they uphold there are not many processes that do not violate them.
I read one at random and it was about memory-requirement analysis of bytecode class-files. So no, not really.
Perhaps you meant to say "software patents are evil"?
Second.
I particularly liked his "The patent titles don't sound novel to me, therefore they must be invalid" argument.
If you're going to pretend to 'legal analysis', you have to at least skim the patents themselves, not just the titles.
That junk is worth $7bn?
"'Adobe has spent a lot of time optimizing Flash, and I'd wager it'd take some time to get HTML 5 video as awesome."
As if every browser team is going to write a set of codecs from scratch. Everyone's going to use either the platform-native media layer or ffmpeg, all of which beat the Flash decoders into a bloody pulp.
Hopefully next time he will bettered posted checked done more carefully.
No, it's a valid comparison - the category is smartphone OS market share
It's 6-month sales not market-share, but yep, it is indeed a valid category.
Of course you get different answers when you look at other valid categories like 6 month device sales by OS, 6 month device sales by vendor, 6 month smartphone sales by vendor, smartphone market-share by vendor, smartphone market-share by OS and so on. The fact that Nokia does very well in many of these is instructive.
Anyway, yay competition and all that.
Ah, my mistake - the "trillion data records" refers to a different benchmark. In the 1TB benchmark, records are 100 bytes long.
TFA variously refers to 1 trillion records and 1Tb of data. So each record is 1 byte?
Doesn't seem like that requires any real computation - you just go through the data maintaining a count of each of the 256 possible values (an embarassingly parallel problem), then write it back out with 256 memsets (likewise trivially parallelisable).
First they ignore you.
Then they ridicule you.
Then they fight you.
Then they kill you.
Then you're dead.
Should've taken the hint.
The thing about compassion is that it's given freely, not demanded as a right nor extorted under threat of bad publicity.