1080 HD and 5.1 audio are more than adequate for immersive viewing experiences. Most don't need or want more and even if they did they're certainly now willing to pay for it.
Couldn't happen to a nice industry. From their overpriced content to their monopolistic channel bundling requirements imposed on cable providers, the sooner the media companies die the better for all of us. And then maybe our cable bills will stop going up at 4x the rate of inflation.
If only other manufacturers would learn that stepping in front of an issue is always better than being run over by it, both for total cost and, more importantly, reputation.
Generally such theses are well founded in reason and logic but it's very difficult to make money from them, in this case by shorting the power companies, because not only does the basic premise need to be correct but so does the secondary and tertiary effects of that premise. In other words, these theses have to get multiple predictions correct, some of which are nearly impossible to do so considering all the permutations of possible outcomes.
Two scores would be useful, one for compression_time:size and decompression_time:size, since for many applications the latter is more important in compress-once consume-many applications.
Hey, you put your illegal spying program in my torture organization. No, you put your torture organization into my my illegal spying program. Wait...what? Oh, this is delicious!
The difference is business, and private security don't have the power of the state behind them, meaning the power to detain, arrest, and jail citizens at will, and otherwise ruin their lives.
Much more cost effective, especially since they don't need to be designed to support the limitations of human pilots (like g-force limits). And with a much lower cost we can build a lot more of them.
"Every time you're exposed to advertising in America, you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution and marketing of bullshit. High quality, grade-A, prime-cut pure American bullshit."
Does anyone really think Blackberry has any chance of long-term survival in its current form? A true turnaround can't occur if your revenues are in death spiral and businesses avoid you like a leper.
You mean vegetables and fruits sprayed with pesticides and meat injected with antibiotics and intentionally under-tested for bovine spongiform encephalopath?
One way would be turn on the phone's front camera when driving speeds are detected and use facial recognition algorithms to detect when the person is driving...for example one way would be to require the person to stare at the phone for a minimum amount of time...and also keep looking at the phone.
Another method would be to require two-handed dexterity tests that can't be done while driving.
I realize all of these might actually increase the risk from die-hard driving texters since it would distract them even more.
I never thought I would be a person to advocate a law to restrict personal freedoms but I think it's time to require smartphone vendors to disable texting when driving speeds are detected. This is not about protecting people from themselves but about protecting other people [on the road]. Texting while driving is unbelievably dangerous. I'm sure someone can come up with way to differentiate a driver from a passenger so that passengers can still be permitted to text. If not then so be it.
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According to this article: http://blog.ipspace.net/2009/0...
I suppose it depends on how one defines "gone". If living in hospice is considered living then I guess they're surviving.
The liquidator in 18 months when it comes time sell the remaining furniture and copy machines.
1080 HD and 5.1 audio are more than adequate for immersive viewing experiences. Most don't need or want more and even if they did they're certainly now willing to pay for it.
Couldn't happen to a nice industry. From their overpriced content to their monopolistic channel bundling requirements imposed on cable providers, the sooner the media companies die the better for all of us. And then maybe our cable bills will stop going up at 4x the rate of inflation.
If only other manufacturers would learn that stepping in front of an issue is always better than being run over by it, both for total cost and, more importantly, reputation.
Generally such theses are well founded in reason and logic but it's very difficult to make money from them, in this case by shorting the power companies, because not only does the basic premise need to be correct but so does the secondary and tertiary effects of that premise. In other words, these theses have to get multiple predictions correct, some of which are nearly impossible to do so considering all the permutations of possible outcomes.
Two scores would be useful, one for compression_time:size and decompression_time:size, since for many applications the latter is more important in compress-once consume-many applications.
Hey, you put your illegal spying program in my torture organization. No, you put your torture organization into my my illegal spying program. Wait...what? Oh, this is delicious!
For those too young: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Anybody else they layoff is just gravy after that.
Source of endless facepalms.
And then everyone dies.
The difference is business, and private security don't have the power of the state behind them, meaning the power to detain, arrest, and jail citizens at will, and otherwise ruin their lives.
Much more cost effective, especially since they don't need to be designed to support the limitations of human pilots (like g-force limits). And with a much lower cost we can build a lot more of them.
"Every time you're exposed to advertising in America, you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution and marketing of bullshit. High quality, grade-A, prime-cut pure American bullshit."
Does anyone really think Blackberry has any chance of long-term survival in its current form? A true turnaround can't occur if your revenues are in death spiral and businesses avoid you like a leper.
Dedicated FPGA HFT cards are ridiculously expensive. I wonder how integrated the FPGA will be in terms of interconnects with PCIE and the Xeon caches.
Is it a smartphone or a boat flare?
You mean vegetables and fruits sprayed with pesticides and meat injected with antibiotics and intentionally under-tested for bovine spongiform encephalopath?
And toothpaste. Sadly it's getting harder and harder to avoid buying food that has at least some ingredients from China.
And likely life termination as well. What a complete and utter moron.
And "How to Write a KILLER LinkedIn Profile... And 18 Mistakes to Avoid", both by Brenda Bernstein.
Huh?
One way would be turn on the phone's front camera when driving speeds are detected and use facial recognition algorithms to detect when the person is driving...for example one way would be to require the person to stare at the phone for a minimum amount of time...and also keep looking at the phone. Another method would be to require two-handed dexterity tests that can't be done while driving. I realize all of these might actually increase the risk from die-hard driving texters since it would distract them even more.
I never thought I would be a person to advocate a law to restrict personal freedoms but I think it's time to require smartphone vendors to disable texting when driving speeds are detected. This is not about protecting people from themselves but about protecting other people [on the road]. Texting while driving is unbelievably dangerous. I'm sure someone can come up with way to differentiate a driver from a passenger so that passengers can still be permitted to text. If not then so be it.