So am I missing something? Why would news publishers have issues with a site sending millions of hits per month at the news publisher's sites, generating far more money then if Google News didn't exist
Rule of Humanity #1: Most people are horribly, horribly stupid.
(Because the Earth isn't at the center, that most distant point might be farther in one direction than in another.)
A better way to look at it is that every point can be considered the center of the universe. No matter where you are, the egdes of the "big bang sphere border" will be equidistant from your location.
There's a big difference between visualizing the space containing a billion elements and visualizing the elements themselves.
That's a very good point. I use the millimeter=1000 technique to try to get some kind of grip on large numbers of items and large distances.
I've used it to try to grasp the large distances of space. It's still very difficult but I can get to Mars (and sometimes Jupiter) before my brain craps out. Once I was able to comprehend the size of the solar system out to Pluto but that only lasted a fraction of a second. (T'was really cool, though.)
A true-to-the-books version of "Lord of the Rings"? The epic "Why the New George Lucas sucks compared to the Young George Lucas"? Biographies of everyone who writes an overly-whiney blog (myself included)? A musical version of the Windows source code?
Okay, so I'll (probably) never need that much space but effects layers eat up a buttload of space, too. The final output is actually a small part of all the space used (assuming you don't have a super shot ratio and aren't just doing basic cuts).
Still... better to be safe than "what they hell were they thinking when they made this spec??".
It means that when I please the gods and win the lottery I can work with 72mm-film-resolution uncompressed video files so my crap will be just that much more crisper! Woo!
No, nobody can really visualize a billion (seriously, try!)
Okay!
Lesse, lets define a millimeter as 1000. That means a million is one meter and a billion is one kilometer. I, for one, can visualize a little over half a mile quite easily.
Oh crap, now my site is timing out./. effect? If so, it figures it would happen while I still have that ugly temp page up front. (I'm such a slacker... my real page has been almost finished for months now.)
Slashdot Mirror
(hundreds in your local area)
No there aren't. I'm in Montana. There's like... 4? Maybe 5 now?
So am I missing something? Why would news publishers have issues with a site sending millions of hits per month at the news publisher's sites, generating far more money then if Google News didn't exist
Rule of Humanity #1: Most people are horribly, horribly stupid.
The nasa "video" is just a CG animation of the asteroid's rotation.
The semantic web is just data. Your warnings about a monoculture apply to the semantic web about as much as they apply to text files.
Remember when you couldn't get a virus just by reading an e-mail? That's Microsoft for you... making the impossible possible!
(Because the Earth isn't at the center, that most distant point might be farther in one direction than in another.)
A better way to look at it is that every point can be considered the center of the universe. No matter where you are, the egdes of the "big bang sphere border" will be equidistant from your location.
*raises hand* ... yeah, I know, I'm lame...
Crap. You win.
*bows*
Wait... I don't have to commit nerd ritual suicide now, do I?
*prepares to FLEE*
Counter examples: those pebbles outside, the water in my drinking cup.
Counterexamples: magma, ice.
These days I can do it sober!
Because up until your post, I didn't know what a micron was, exactly. Just that it was really small.
But now I know! Cool!
*stomp* *stomp* *stomp*
ARGH! millimeter=1000! millimeter=1000!
*explodes in a shower of confetti*
Hey, wait! What about hi-def 3D holographic voxel video? I bet that'd eat through a ton of drive space!
Ah, but I started with a millimeter representing 1000! Always check your axioms. :)
I prefer to get integer, thank you very much.
There's a big difference between visualizing the space containing a billion elements and visualizing the elements themselves.
That's a very good point. I use the millimeter=1000 technique to try to get some kind of grip on large numbers of items and large distances.
I've used it to try to grasp the large distances of space. It's still very difficult but I can get to Mars (and sometimes Jupiter) before my brain craps out. Once I was able to comprehend the size of the solar system out to Pluto but that only lasted a fraction of a second. (T'was really cool, though.)
I'm measuring length, not area nor volume. Otherwise you'd be absolutely correct.
I've still got a machine running DOS, fer cryin' out loud.
(We use it for music composition. Voyetra Sequencer Gold, bay-bee!)
A true-to-the-books version of "Lord of the Rings"? The epic "Why the New George Lucas sucks compared to the Young George Lucas"? Biographies of everyone who writes an overly-whiney blog (myself included)? A musical version of the Windows source code?
Okay, so I'll (probably) never need that much space but effects layers eat up a buttload of space, too. The final output is actually a small part of all the space used (assuming you don't have a super shot ratio and aren't just doing basic cuts).
Still... better to be safe than "what they hell were they thinking when they made this spec??".
It means that when I please the gods and win the lottery I can work with 72mm-film-resolution uncompressed video files so my crap will be just that much more crisper! Woo!
No, nobody can really visualize a billion (seriously, try!)
Okay!
Lesse, lets define a millimeter as 1000. That means a million is one meter and a billion is one kilometer. I, for one, can visualize a little over half a mile quite easily.
Oh crap, now my site is timing out. /. effect? If so, it figures it would happen while I still have that ugly temp page up front. (I'm such a slacker... my real page has been almost finished for months now.)
Heh.
Too bad I'm not very good at it.
Yet.
You don't do much video editing, do you? ;)
Believe that if you like. Doesn't change the fact that what they did was very underhanded.
Care to come out of the AC closet?