So... Uh... Google currently outstrips all other tech companies in PAC contributions (money raised from employees for the purposes of lobbying). I suspect they've been in the "big boy leagues" for a while now.
So you rotate the kinect completely out of position, invalidating the audio calibration (which measures the audio reflection characteristics of your room), and then complain that the echo cancellation doesn't work perfectly? Did you even read the text that said you need to rerun calibration if you move the kinect or your speakers?
Most kinds I believe. I don't know if he uses DVS or not.
My wife enjoys most kinds of movies (except "chick flicks" and those stupid "40 year old virgin" style comedies). The matrix did not impress her, with it's incomprehensible script and relying on a lot of visual information. She went through the whole of "Cowboys and aliens" thinking the lead character was Harrison Ford (and asked me afterwards who played the "old guy"). Unless it's a silent movie, you can get a whole bunch of information out of the audio and it can still be entertaining.
We don't watch subtitled movies, for obvious reasons.
What's the point of watching a movies like planet of the apes? You don't even know if it's real. It's easy to make computer generated apes without having real apes.
If it's good enough that you can't tell the difference, then the "reality" of it is irrelevant. Heck, if "real" were a requirement, the porn industry would have died years ago.
Just because something is not your kink does not rule it out as a kink.
My wife cannot read her phone screen without magnification, cannot read normal text without magnification, uses her Kindle DX at it's largest font setting (the size smaller is too small for her to read unaided) and uses her 24" monitor at 800x600 with large fonts. Legal blindness is defined as anything worse than 20/200 when corrected (the detail a normal person can see at 200 feet, the blind person needs to be 20 feet away to see the same detail). My wife is 20/400. She still watches movies.
I have a friend who is completely blind. He, too, also watches movies.
There is no reason that the person named in the suit could not have been responsible for the download. (I'm not saying he was, but blindness does not rule him out.)
Take define, or movies, or calculator, for example. What a surprise, Bing offers instant answers for pretty much all the queries google does, and more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing#Instant_answers Since that's the case, the numbers of those searches most likely cancel out, and the usage of clickthrough can still be a reasonable metric.
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Our solution will be to drop the DVD and blu-ray addon. Despite the fact that due to our lazyness, they only had to send us a few DVDs a month, which made us extremely profitable customers for them, now they lose that extra cash, and possibly even the streaming revenue, since without the discs to supplement, the streaming is a lot less useful.
If Amazon instant streaming worked on my Tivo or XBox, I'd dump Netflix right now.
I wasn't explaining how a cash infusiuon of $150 million saved apple, I was explaining how their cash on hand was not a good indicator of the overall health of the company. In fact, with cash on hand higher than shareholder equity, there were probably a few sharks circling in the water. It would have made them a juicy takeover target.
You mean the same company that had a net loss of $800 million in 1996 and $1 billion in 1997, and their ~1.5 billion in cash was offset by current liabilities in excess $1.8 billion?
Having cash doesn't really mean anything when it belongs to someone else.
I do a similar thing, I pay for all my monthly goods with a credit card, and then pay the card off each month. If you take a snapshot of my bank account though, it looks like I have huge amounts of cash, when in reality, it's not really mine.
Looking at their financials, it looked like apple was pretty close to bankruptcy. Their shareholder equity was lower than their cash on hand, and about equal to their net loss for 1997. One more year at that rate and their equity would have been negative.
It does use slightly more power showing a page than it does with the screensaver on. It's the same amount of power for the screen (none) but they query the hardware for keystate changes when showing a page. The CPU is kept in a slightly different power saving mode when "live" as opposed to asleep.
Aah, and even that differs. The CPU usage involved in laying out only a few words (at the largest font sized) is much less than laying out a lot of words (at the smallest) so you have to specify pages turns at font size X. Also, a complex book will take more CPU to lay out, so now you have to specify the complexity of the book too.
And even more than that, you'll get different numbers of pages turned if you turn 1 page a minute (let's say you're an average to slow reader) or 1 page a second (reeeally fast reader).
And the clincher, all these numbers are with the Wifi off. Who does that all the time? Especially on the Kindle, where if you leave the Wifi off, and it reboots for any reason, it is unable to set the current time and all the books you're reading go to the end of the read list (the were last opened sometime in 1980...) I make sure to turn my wifi on every so often to get updates and new books, and then I forget to turn it off and (it feels like) 20 minutes later I have to charge the Kindle.
Unemployment? Well, that's insurance more or less. You pay an unemployment tax, and then if you later become unemployed you can collect. If the government didn't have a monopoly on that, too, I'd probably pay a private insurer for the same thing.
Oh.. indeed. Except you _don't_ pay an unemployment tax. The company you're working for does. And it's an insurance premium, since the cost to them is proportional to how many claims were made because of them.
The Kin had a web browser, arguably better than the blackberry, and a fully functional music and video player equivalent to the Zune HD.
Phone features were not what killed the Kin, marketing missteps (aiming a phone at people not normally willing to pay $30 a month for data), not including texting in the base cost, for a texting based phone, and reviewers comparing it to the iPhone, which it was not intended to compete with, killed it.
Actually, no. Dark Silicon is not about having too many cores to effectively use them all at the same time. It's about maintaining a power envelope when your number of transistors is going up.
Currently we lower the voltage when we increase the number of transistors, which keeps power usage and heat generation in check. But we're at the limit of what voltage will work, especially since electron leakage becomes more of a problem the smaller your transistor. So dark silicon will be necessary to ensure reasonable power usage and heat reduction. Nothing to do with the code running on the core.
I'm kinda confused about the whole complaint, myself. LG is a member of the BD patent pool. Sony is a licensee of the Patent Pool (As well as founding member). Did LG not enter some of their BD patents into the pool?
I agree, living in Washington, I've always paid sales tax on Amazon.com. In this particular case, Amazon tried to game the system by incorporating their distribution center in a subsidiary company that had no sales. They're essentially using a loophole to get out of the "physical presence" requirement. I'm with Texas on this one. They gamed, they lost.
Wow... amazing the lengths some people will go to to villianise companies they don't like.
Person A searches for item X. (Search engine is irrelevant) Person A then clicks on site Y. Person A has explicitly given Microsoft permission to use their browsing behaviour to improve searches. The data X -> Y is sent to Microsoft and used as one datum in the relevance algorithm.
There is no copying. There is no farming. In fact, if your default search engine is Bing then OMG! They're farming themselves!!! What microsoft has done is acknowledged that users themselves are the best at determining search relevance, and incorporated that thinking into their algorithm. If google hasn't done this yet they will very quickly start falling behind in relevance calculation.
That's the basis for science fiction's (And NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Project's) Warp Drive. The theory is sound, but it may be a long time, if ever, before we are able to engineer something that does this. Generating some form of negative energy is the tricky part, at the moment it's only a term in the abstractions that are quantum equations.
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You mean something like the start screen?
So... Uh... Google currently outstrips all other tech companies in PAC contributions (money raised from employees for the purposes of lobbying). I suspect they've been in the "big boy leagues" for a while now.
So you rotate the kinect completely out of position, invalidating the audio calibration (which measures the audio reflection characteristics of your room), and then complain that the echo cancellation doesn't work perfectly? Did you even read the text that said you need to rerun calibration if you move the kinect or your speakers?
Microsoft doesn't want you as a customer. A customer is only useful if you can make money from them :)
Most kinds I believe. I don't know if he uses DVS or not.
My wife enjoys most kinds of movies (except "chick flicks" and those stupid "40 year old virgin" style comedies). The matrix did not impress her, with it's incomprehensible script and relying on a lot of visual information. She went through the whole of "Cowboys and aliens" thinking the lead character was Harrison Ford (and asked me afterwards who played the "old guy"). Unless it's a silent movie, you can get a whole bunch of information out of the audio and it can still be entertaining.
We don't watch subtitled movies, for obvious reasons.
What's the point of watching a movies like planet of the apes? You don't even know if it's real. It's easy to make computer generated apes without having real apes.
If it's good enough that you can't tell the difference, then the "reality" of it is irrelevant. Heck, if "real" were a requirement, the porn industry would have died years ago.
Just because something is not your kink does not rule it out as a kink.
My wife cannot read her phone screen without magnification, cannot read normal text without magnification, uses her Kindle DX at it's largest font setting (the size smaller is too small for her to read unaided) and uses her 24" monitor at 800x600 with large fonts. Legal blindness is defined as anything worse than 20/200 when corrected (the detail a normal person can see at 200 feet, the blind person needs to be 20 feet away to see the same detail). My wife is 20/400. She still watches movies.
I have a friend who is completely blind. He, too, also watches movies.
There is no reason that the person named in the suit could not have been responsible for the download. (I'm not saying he was, but blindness does not rule him out.)
Take define, or movies, or calculator, for example. What a surprise, Bing offers instant answers for pretty much all the queries google does, and more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing#Instant_answers
Since that's the case, the numbers of those searches most likely cancel out, and the usage of clickthrough can still be a reasonable metric.
The money is currently tied up in Escrow after the PRINCE died, and we need your help to LIBERATE it. For your efforts, WE will pay you THE SUM OF $250000 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS).
Send your Name, Address, Social Security Number, a recent photo, and your Bank account info to:
MICROSOFT RUSTOCK INFO
C/O MR SIPHO DLAMINI
512 MAIN STREET
ABUJA, NIGERIA
Also, we will send you a free sample of our new herbal PEN?IS ENLARGEMENT system.
This. Exactly.
Our solution will be to drop the DVD and blu-ray addon. Despite the fact that due to our lazyness, they only had to send us a few DVDs a month, which made us extremely profitable customers for them, now they lose that extra cash, and possibly even the streaming revenue, since without the discs to supplement, the streaming is a lot less useful.
If Amazon instant streaming worked on my Tivo or XBox, I'd dump Netflix right now.
I wasn't explaining how a cash infusiuon of $150 million saved apple, I was explaining how their cash on hand was not a good indicator of the overall health of the company. In fact, with cash on hand higher than shareholder equity, there were probably a few sharks circling in the water. It would have made them a juicy takeover target.
You mean the same company that had a net loss of $800 million in 1996 and $1 billion in 1997, and their ~1.5 billion in cash was offset by current liabilities in excess $1.8 billion?
Having cash doesn't really mean anything when it belongs to someone else.
I do a similar thing, I pay for all my monthly goods with a credit card, and then pay the card off each month. If you take a snapshot of my bank account though, it looks like I have huge amounts of cash, when in reality, it's not really mine.
Looking at their financials, it looked like apple was pretty close to bankruptcy. Their shareholder equity was lower than their cash on hand, and about equal to their net loss for 1997. One more year at that rate and their equity would have been negative.
I believe robbing a bank is automatically federal jurisdiction, but that may just be watching too many movies.
You also get the Microphone streams, and the echo cancelled mic streams, two things that until now have not been available in any homebrew.
I assume you've been using and raving about your DOSShell or DesqView like single app at a time iPad for the last year, right?
It does use slightly more power showing a page than it does with the screensaver on. It's the same amount of power for the screen (none) but they query the hardware for keystate changes when showing a page. The CPU is kept in a slightly different power saving mode when "live" as opposed to asleep.
Aah, and even that differs. The CPU usage involved in laying out only a few words (at the largest font sized) is much less than laying out a lot of words (at the smallest) so you have to specify pages turns at font size X. Also, a complex book will take more CPU to lay out, so now you have to specify the complexity of the book too.
And even more than that, you'll get different numbers of pages turned if you turn 1 page a minute (let's say you're an average to slow reader) or 1 page a second (reeeally fast reader).
And the clincher, all these numbers are with the Wifi off. Who does that all the time? Especially on the Kindle, where if you leave the Wifi off, and it reboots for any reason, it is unable to set the current time and all the books you're reading go to the end of the read list (the were last opened sometime in 1980...) I make sure to turn my wifi on every so often to get updates and new books, and then I forget to turn it off and (it feels like) 20 minutes later I have to charge the Kindle.
Unemployment? Well, that's insurance more or less. You pay an unemployment tax, and then if you later become unemployed you can collect. If the government didn't have a monopoly on that, too, I'd probably pay a private insurer for the same thing.
Oh.. indeed. Except you _don't_ pay an unemployment tax. The company you're working for does. And it's an insurance premium, since the cost to them is proportional to how many claims were made because of them.
Wait... what?
The Kin had a web browser, arguably better than the blackberry, and a fully functional music and video player equivalent to the Zune HD.
Phone features were not what killed the Kin, marketing missteps (aiming a phone at people not normally willing to pay $30 a month for data), not including texting in the base cost, for a texting based phone, and reviewers comparing it to the iPhone, which it was not intended to compete with, killed it.
Actually, no. Dark Silicon is not about having too many cores to effectively use them all at the same time. It's about maintaining a power envelope when your number of transistors is going up.
Currently we lower the voltage when we increase the number of transistors, which keeps power usage and heat generation in check. But we're at the limit of what voltage will work, especially since electron leakage becomes more of a problem the smaller your transistor. So dark silicon will be necessary to ensure reasonable power usage and heat reduction. Nothing to do with the code running on the core.
I fail to see why we can't interbreed with chimps, which are 98% the same as us.
Sometimes that 2% can be significant.
I'm kinda confused about the whole complaint, myself. LG is a member of the BD patent pool. Sony is a licensee of the Patent Pool (As well as founding member). Did LG not enter some of their BD patents into the pool?
I agree, living in Washington, I've always paid sales tax on Amazon.com.
In this particular case, Amazon tried to game the system by incorporating their distribution center in a subsidiary company that had no sales. They're essentially using a loophole to get out of the "physical presence" requirement. I'm with Texas on this one. They gamed, they lost.
Wow... amazing the lengths some people will go to to villianise companies they don't like.
Person A searches for item X. (Search engine is irrelevant)
Person A then clicks on site Y.
Person A has explicitly given Microsoft permission to use their browsing behaviour to improve searches.
The data X -> Y is sent to Microsoft and used as one datum in the relevance algorithm.
There is no copying. There is no farming. In fact, if your default search engine is Bing then OMG! They're farming themselves!!!
What microsoft has done is acknowledged that users themselves are the best at determining search relevance, and incorporated that thinking into their algorithm. If google hasn't done this yet they will very quickly start falling behind in relevance calculation.
That's the basis for science fiction's (And NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Project's) Warp Drive. The theory is sound, but it may be a long time, if ever, before we are able to engineer something that does this. Generating some form of negative energy is the tricky part, at the moment it's only a term in the abstractions that are quantum equations.