If you look at it as them charging you the $20 that they didn't get from the other company, the monetary aspect is less offensive. That assumes that they are getting $20 for installing it.
You say you are acquiring ~1.5 * 30 = 45 hours of video a month (on the low end). If you aren't consuming it now (which you don't give any information either way), when the heck are you going to consume it in the future? How many times do you need to watch each of the 360 movies that you claim to be acquiring per year? Once? Twice? Ten times?
I would think that they could extend the technique to process 4 or 5 sets of data in order to eliminate things like shadows and fast moving objects (so cars, people, construction, etc). Probably not cost effective, but I don't think you would need to worry about capturing identical shadows, I think you could make sure that you captured different shadows and then process them out.
I'm not very organized. To control the number of bookmarks that I have, I use big categories that I go through and delete stuff out of once and a while. Longer term stuff gets posted to delicious, at which point it usually gets some tags, which are only sort of organization.
It's more in the name of making them more useful than it is in the name of organization. The organization that I do end up doing is fighting a constant battle against the organization that I don't end up doing.
Amazon's Kindle is basically exactly the opposite of the argument being made in the article. The service is rolled into the purchase price of the device.
A low voltage core solo uses about 5 watts. At that point, the screen and other devices are going to factor much more heavily into battery consumption. The lower power core duos are around 15 watts, which still isn't going to destroy battery life.
So get a core solo and don't worry about the 4 watts that they might be able to save by gutting performance.
I'm pretty sure that anybody who has *anything* they would rather do with their money should be following your strategy. And I mean stuff like "Buy 45 year supply of non perishable food", "Get that pony you've always wanted" and other such nonsense.
I'm glad somebody is buying cutting edge computer systems and driving the technology forward, but not as glad as I am that it isn't me.
You are dramatically overstating the consequences of this going undetected. Some hacker could have chanced upon it, triggering a safety shutdown and causing them to diagnose and correct the issue. That doesn't mean that there are no other problems, but this problem was handled safely, merely at a greater cost than it should have been handled.
Addressing your comment though, it probably isn't a bad thing for more people to interact with computers using the highly structured interface that is a programming language. That sort of interaction doesn't need to be called programming, but much of the time, adapting a tool or composing tools is a lot better than using a gui or working to find exactly the right preprogrammed tool.
Well, I guess it isn't. My answer tends to be, but the question doesn't require an either-or answer.
I really don't think Cheney is a grand wizard of competence though, which was more or less the point. He gets by, but if he were truly scary, we would like him...
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If I were the manager of the bakery, I would start selling better coffee.
I'm normally all for the tiresome parsing of other people's statements in ways that they clearly did not intend, but you are really pushing it here.
If you look at it as them charging you the $20 that they didn't get from the other company, the monetary aspect is less offensive. That assumes that they are getting $20 for installing it.
The fact that it is crap still stinks.
With a password, they need me to cooperate once.
With a fingerprint, they need my finger.
Despite the "if that's the situation you're already screwed", I'd prefer having the opportunity to cooperate.
How close are they sitting to the screen?
To what end?
You say you are acquiring ~1.5 * 30 = 45 hours of video a month (on the low end). If you aren't consuming it now (which you don't give any information either way), when the heck are you going to consume it in the future? How many times do you need to watch each of the 360 movies that you claim to be acquiring per year? Once? Twice? Ten times?
I would think that they could extend the technique to process 4 or 5 sets of data in order to eliminate things like shadows and fast moving objects (so cars, people, construction, etc). Probably not cost effective, but I don't think you would need to worry about capturing identical shadows, I think you could make sure that you captured different shadows and then process them out.
I'm not very organized. To control the number of bookmarks that I have, I use big categories that I go through and delete stuff out of once and a while. Longer term stuff gets posted to delicious, at which point it usually gets some tags, which are only sort of organization.
It's more in the name of making them more useful than it is in the name of organization. The organization that I do end up doing is fighting a constant battle against the organization that I don't end up doing.
At what point do they go from being bookmarks to a list of webpages that you have visited?
If you can't find the bookmark that you are thinking of, it probably isn't saving you any time...
Ctrl+H is shorter than Ctrl+Shift+H, and it opens the history in the sidebar on FF3 here. Of course, I don't remember what FF2 did.
You know what I hate, I hate people that eat cabbage.
Except when it is broccoli.
Check the history on that. Some crazy thought that aluminium sounded better, so the guy who first refined it didn't get to name it.
There is one purpose of running a free or open source system?
I generally use open source and free software because it fills a need I have and doesn't cost any money. Is that why you use it?
Amazon's Kindle is basically exactly the opposite of the argument being made in the article. The service is rolled into the purchase price of the device.
A low voltage core solo uses about 5 watts. At that point, the screen and other devices are going to factor much more heavily into battery consumption. The lower power core duos are around 15 watts, which still isn't going to destroy battery life.
So get a core solo and don't worry about the 4 watts that they might be able to save by gutting performance.
I'm pretty sure that anybody who has *anything* they would rather do with their money should be following your strategy. And I mean stuff like "Buy 45 year supply of non perishable food", "Get that pony you've always wanted" and other such nonsense.
I'm glad somebody is buying cutting edge computer systems and driving the technology forward, but not as glad as I am that it isn't me.
What about extreme moderation?
Atlanta, timed to coincide with the anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
Cutting power would be a big deal there, but not as big if it wasn't air conditioning season.
So why not stow the buckle before going through the detector, or get a different belt?
Those are pretty obvious ideas, so you must have some reason not to execute one of them...
You are dramatically overstating the consequences of this going undetected. Some hacker could have chanced upon it, triggering a safety shutdown and causing them to diagnose and correct the issue. That doesn't mean that there are no other problems, but this problem was handled safely, merely at a greater cost than it should have been handled.
It's since been disconnected.
Well, except for the embrace step. And the extending.
Come to think of it, I think Apple extinguished pre-Intel Macs all on their own.
He probably meant the masses of Java programmers.
Addressing your comment though, it probably isn't a bad thing for more people to interact with computers using the highly structured interface that is a programming language. That sort of interaction doesn't need to be called programming, but much of the time, adapting a tool or composing tools is a lot better than using a gui or working to find exactly the right preprogrammed tool.
Well, I guess it isn't. My answer tends to be, but the question doesn't require an either-or answer.
I really don't think Cheney is a grand wizard of competence though, which was more or less the point. He gets by, but if he were truly scary, we would like him...
Bound with the hair of an albino Zebra by exploited children!