That undercuts the existing deals in the Movie division, which is why it won't happen. People spend a lot of movie to get media a few weeks before other competitors, you can't just have the company create a competitor and then give them preferential access. There is a huge complex web of relationships with every release. If this were an easy problem every studio would already have their own version of Netflix for their own releases, but such a service would necessarily be slower, more expensive, and more DRM encumbered than the existing channels to avoid undercutting their existing partners. The middlemen demand their cut.
The big problem is that Sony has a built-in conflict of interest from its Movie division, and will never be able to offer a service as good as Netflix. There will always be internal pressure to not have other studios in there or to put onerous DRM in place.
That was my thought. This just seems like poor coding to me. Batch up more of the draw calls so you're not pounding the crap out of the API and taking a zillion context switches every second.
Part of the problem is that some of the systems intended to help the probe land properly aren't working, like the thruster on top.
Some of it seems like just poor planning though. How hard would it have been to install a bright LED on the top that Rosetta could see from a few km away? LEDs don't weigh much and you only have to run it while Rosetta is taking the picture so the power budget would be nominal. It seems better than not being able to find the lander because it is in shadow.
Anybody think the Senate is going to entertain environmental legislation anytime in the next two years? And I don't mean deregulation. This was an easy deal for Obama to make because the Congress will just defund anything he tries to do via executive order. It's basically a non-legislation.
Do you have some reason to believe that you're going to be accused of cheating? Going so far as to already retain a lawyer seems to be jumping the gun a bit. Is there some sort of witch hunt going on there or something?
That makes it impossible to fly over large parts of the Middle East, Africa, Balkans, etc... It's really depressing how much of the world is at war at any given time. Flying over Crimea should have been reasonably safe too--the rebels didn't have access to the kind of SAMs that can shoot down an airliner at cruising altitude, and only a madman would give it to them.
More importantly, using one form of navigation does not preclude you from using other forms as well. In fact knowing how to use multiple forms of navigation is great for doing sanity checks and for having backup in case something unexpected happens. Buying a GPS unit doesn't mean you have to throw away your compass and maps.
The stock market is really its own thing. Its connection to the economy as a whole has gotten pretty tenuous over the years. Now it's just a big game people play with your money to see how much they can pretend to make while skimming off the real value.
Being the most productive in history doesn't change the fact that they were a do-nothing congress full of people who want to ruin the country. And that's the truth(iness).
So they'll be able to push through nominations? Republicans generally don't have much trouble with nominations short of the Supreme Court (Yes, I remember Clarance Thomas--who went on to be the worst justice in modern history...).
Don't worry, they have a law that says when the districts are redrawn they have to be approved by a court...wait, that's only if the legislatiure agrees? The ones in power thanks to the gerrymandering? Oh, and if it does miraculously come up, the courts say they don't have to pay attention to it anyway because it would be embarssing? Ok, well, carry on then.
Typically on Linux you will have a far more usable log (Error: Unable to open 'foo': Permission denied), and SELinux does come with auditd which gives you a specific log whenever it blocks something. Some distros even come with a GUI that will pop up and tell you what was rejected and why. It's still a pain in the ass, but it's not the hopeless nightmare you get on a hardened Windows box.
Seriously, Windows Developers, we really really don't need the "this API call worked normally" messages spamming the logs like crazy. Or at least if you're going to do that, make sure you also log API failures and TELL ME WHAT FAILED. "Error: an error occurred" is a useless message. Give me something I can stick into Google at least, even if it is some stupid number.
Monday->Wednesday is 2 days... And you better believe that the bank will process withdraws before deposits on Wednesday.
I never actually had this pain because I've been using Credit Unions all my life, but it was the bane of my wife's existence before I switched her over to my credit union account.
Text files don't get corrupted unless you're trying to edit them with a malfunctioning tool. The idea that per-config ACL is considered a good thing is also quite dubious to me. I've seen what happens when people harden Windows systems. Windows permissions are way too complex for their own good. SELinux is almost as bad, except that it at least will tell you when it is blocking something and sometimes even suggest what you need to do to fix it, unlike the silent failures that are common in Windowsland.
A common occurrence on a hardened Windows box: You sit down and double click an application to start it. The application immediately exits and maybe puts up a box that says "Error", but has no useful diagnostic information whatsoever. So you go to check the windows event viewer, before you remember that no useful information is ever allowed to touch the Windows event log. If you're lucky there will be an entry in the log for your application, but it will just say "Error: An unspecified error has occurred".
Turns out an inherited permission on a registry key was blocking a write to value the application was trying to do to keep track of launches.
Your ledger isn't the one that matters. It is the Bank's ledger that matters. So you deposit $1000 in your account on Monday and write a check for $1000 on Wednesday, you'll get clobbered by overdraft fees because the Bank doesn't credit deposits to your account for 3 days (although it will show in the balance), while they take deductions instantly.
You either leave enough float in your bank account to not have to worry about ever running out or you play the timing game constantly with your bank, who engineered the system for those delicious overdraft fees.
Connecting to a device and forwarding packets through it are two different things. It's sensible to have a policy that disallows most users from attempting to ssh to the router's management interface. Often they're on completely different VLANs. It can cause a problem however when the managed connection between the VLANs has an issue and people need to get in there to modify the router settings.
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That undercuts the existing deals in the Movie division, which is why it won't happen. People spend a lot of movie to get media a few weeks before other competitors, you can't just have the company create a competitor and then give them preferential access. There is a huge complex web of relationships with every release. If this were an easy problem every studio would already have their own version of Netflix for their own releases, but such a service would necessarily be slower, more expensive, and more DRM encumbered than the existing channels to avoid undercutting their existing partners. The middlemen demand their cut.
Only if the Rosetta spacecraft has a camera tuned to that frequency. Lower frequencies add more uncertainty to the measurements too.
The article read like "The window washing robots we tried sucked, the problem must be impossible!"
Have you seen Netflix lately? They've got more TV shows on there than movies. Their original content is all episodic series too.
The big problem is that Sony has a built-in conflict of interest from its Movie division, and will never be able to offer a service as good as Netflix. There will always be internal pressure to not have other studios in there or to put onerous DRM in place.
That was my thought. This just seems like poor coding to me. Batch up more of the draw calls so you're not pounding the crap out of the API and taking a zillion context switches every second.
Part of the problem is that some of the systems intended to help the probe land properly aren't working, like the thruster on top.
Some of it seems like just poor planning though. How hard would it have been to install a bright LED on the top that Rosetta could see from a few km away? LEDs don't weigh much and you only have to run it while Rosetta is taking the picture so the power budget would be nominal. It seems better than not being able to find the lander because it is in shadow.
Anybody think the Senate is going to entertain environmental legislation anytime in the next two years? And I don't mean deregulation. This was an easy deal for Obama to make because the Congress will just defund anything he tries to do via executive order. It's basically a non-legislation.
Do you have some reason to believe that you're going to be accused of cheating? Going so far as to already retain a lawyer seems to be jumping the gun a bit. Is there some sort of witch hunt going on there or something?
That makes it impossible to fly over large parts of the Middle East, Africa, Balkans, etc... It's really depressing how much of the world is at war at any given time. Flying over Crimea should have been reasonably safe too--the rebels didn't have access to the kind of SAMs that can shoot down an airliner at cruising altitude, and only a madman would give it to them.
What the hell are you talking about?
More importantly, using one form of navigation does not preclude you from using other forms as well. In fact knowing how to use multiple forms of navigation is great for doing sanity checks and for having backup in case something unexpected happens. Buying a GPS unit doesn't mean you have to throw away your compass and maps.
The stock market is really its own thing. Its connection to the economy as a whole has gotten pretty tenuous over the years. Now it's just a big game people play with your money to see how much they can pretend to make while skimming off the real value.
Being the most productive in history doesn't change the fact that they were a do-nothing congress full of people who want to ruin the country. And that's the truth(iness).
So they'll be able to push through nominations? Republicans generally don't have much trouble with nominations short of the Supreme Court (Yes, I remember Clarance Thomas--who went on to be the worst justice in modern history...).
Tea Party is just "Republican" these days. The moderates were expunged over the last few election cycles.
Don't worry, they have a law that says when the districts are redrawn they have to be approved by a court...wait, that's only if the legislatiure agrees? The ones in power thanks to the gerrymandering? Oh, and if it does miraculously come up, the courts say they don't have to pay attention to it anyway because it would be embarssing? Ok, well, carry on then.
I thought that was because absentee and provisionary ballots tend to favor Democrats, and they are only counted when the race is close.
Typically on Linux you will have a far more usable log (Error: Unable to open 'foo': Permission denied), and SELinux does come with auditd which gives you a specific log whenever it blocks something. Some distros even come with a GUI that will pop up and tell you what was rejected and why. It's still a pain in the ass, but it's not the hopeless nightmare you get on a hardened Windows box.
Seriously, Windows Developers, we really really don't need the "this API call worked normally" messages spamming the logs like crazy. Or at least if you're going to do that, make sure you also log API failures and TELL ME WHAT FAILED. "Error: an error occurred" is a useless message. Give me something I can stick into Google at least, even if it is some stupid number.
Monday->Wednesday is 2 days... And you better believe that the bank will process withdraws before deposits on Wednesday.
I never actually had this pain because I've been using Credit Unions all my life, but it was the bane of my wife's existence before I switched her over to my credit union account.
Text files don't get corrupted unless you're trying to edit them with a malfunctioning tool. The idea that per-config ACL is considered a good thing is also quite dubious to me. I've seen what happens when people harden Windows systems. Windows permissions are way too complex for their own good. SELinux is almost as bad, except that it at least will tell you when it is blocking something and sometimes even suggest what you need to do to fix it, unlike the silent failures that are common in Windowsland.
A common occurrence on a hardened Windows box: You sit down and double click an application to start it. The application immediately exits and maybe puts up a box that says "Error", but has no useful diagnostic information whatsoever. So you go to check the windows event viewer, before you remember that no useful information is ever allowed to touch the Windows event log. If you're lucky there will be an entry in the log for your application, but it will just say "Error: An unspecified error has occurred".
Turns out an inherited permission on a registry key was blocking a write to value the application was trying to do to keep track of launches.
Yeah, and try to get your bank to reverse a fraudulent ACH charge.
Your ledger isn't the one that matters. It is the Bank's ledger that matters. So you deposit $1000 in your account on Monday and write a check for $1000 on Wednesday, you'll get clobbered by overdraft fees because the Bank doesn't credit deposits to your account for 3 days (although it will show in the balance), while they take deductions instantly.
You either leave enough float in your bank account to not have to worry about ever running out or you play the timing game constantly with your bank, who engineered the system for those delicious overdraft fees.
You mean a world where Orange and Banana trees are dying in droves because they are giant monocultures that are getting wiped out by a single disease?
Connecting to a device and forwarding packets through it are two different things. It's sensible to have a policy that disallows most users from attempting to ssh to the router's management interface. Often they're on completely different VLANs. It can cause a problem however when the managed connection between the VLANs has an issue and people need to get in there to modify the router settings.