Where I live, a "small" drink at the movies is roughly equivalent to two or three cans of pop. A large looks like about two litres. I can understand the need for a bathroom break after draining one of these, but a refill?
More like the company throwing rocks through the windows where the rocks have "Call Acme Window Repair to have our new ShatterProof(tm) windows installed." painted on them.
My current job is supporting a website that uses pop-ups to display menus, etc. I didn't design it. I have no say in how to improve it. I just have to sit on the phone and tell people to disable their pop-up blockers.
The difference here is who is initiating the communication. When the producer initiates, he has no choice but to bombard everyone with advertising in the hopes of finding someone who actually needs his product. When the consumer initiates, they go to a directory, and see the ads that specifically apply to their needs.
At least on TV you can change channels during the commercials...
That hasn't been effective for a while. Most networks broadcast have their commercial breaks at the same time. Switching from one channel to the other merely switches you from one set of commercials to another.
I don't have a burner, and I am unlikely to get one. They are too small nowadays. A 120G hard drive costs about as much as a burner + 120G worth of media and would give me online access to my entire collection, not to mention the space savings. Why switch?
Ah, I missed that part (that's what I get for not reading the article, I guess). Presumably, then, it would work like the speedpass system that is used at gas stations. You have a RFID tag of your own on your keychain, or built into your watch. I'm guessing there would be a special lane for "speedpass" people.
There is an attendant monitoring the self checkout stations. Each station works like a bank machine, so, it will charge the groceries to whatever card you feed into the machine.
They built fudge factors in for this. I read through some of the methods they used. For their internet figures, for example, they sampled 9800 websites of the supposed 61 million URLS compiled by the Internet Archive (enough to get a 95% confidence level), wget/mirrored them to thier own servers (dropping links to other domains), and then analyzed the files for creation date, size, and uniqueness. For television We estimate about 1/4 of the programs are "original,". For CDs, they estimate that 1 in 20 gets trashed. Presumably, these figures are statistically based.
The US can't say "No one anywhere can export Linux to Syria," because they don't have jurisdiction. The US can say "No one in America can export Linux to Syria,"
We had some of the FreeSwan people at our Linux users group a while ago. According to them, the US can say "No American, regardless of where they are in the world, can export Linux to Syria"
The incredibly long thin strip of plastic with the tiny holes running along the edges is the media. The sequence of pictures is the data. What they did was figure out how big of an mpeg-2 file file would be needed to encode the movie. A lot of what this study is, is not so much how much data was generated, but how much new data storage capacity was generated. For example, if the industry produced 1 million blank cds, the study would show 700 million megabytes of new data.
I wonder how much of that was duplicate data. How many copies of the Matrix are floating around online? Did they count FTP mirror sites as separate data?
For that matter, how much of the data is real, and how much is virtual? If two sites point to the same download, is that data counted twice, or once?
Ever wonder why Wrath of Khan was all sublight speed?
The battles in Wrath of Khan had nothing to do with not being able to fire weapons at warp speed. Khan disabled the Enterprise while it had its shields down. Kirk hacked into the Reliant's computer and had it lower its shields. He was able to cripple the Reliant at that point. From then on, the battle was between two heavily damaged ships, neither one of which could attain warp drive.
They may run on ethanol as it stands for a short time, however, since the engine computers are configured for gasoline, and the combustion temperatures, fuel/air mixture, and exhaust components for ethanol are different than those of gasoline, your engine computer is going to be trying to compensate for something it can't compensate for. The end result will be excessive engine wear, and premature component failure.
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Where I live, a "small" drink at the movies is roughly equivalent to two or three cans of pop. A large looks like about two litres. I can understand the need for a bathroom break after draining one of these, but a refill?
"Fortunately" the company is discontinuing the product line, and with it my employment.
More like the company throwing rocks through the windows where the rocks have "Call Acme Window Repair to have our new ShatterProof(tm) windows installed." painted on them.
Is COBOL dead yet?
My current job is supporting a website that uses pop-ups to display menus, etc. I didn't design it. I have no say in how to improve it. I just have to sit on the phone and tell people to disable their pop-up blockers.
Well, you don't expect me to play solitaire with actual cards, do you?
The difference here is who is initiating the communication. When the producer initiates, he has no choice but to bombard everyone with advertising in the hopes of finding someone who actually needs his product. When the consumer initiates, they go to a directory, and see the ads that specifically apply to their needs.
At least on TV you can change channels during the commercials...
That hasn't been effective for a while. Most networks broadcast have their commercial breaks at the same time. Switching from one channel to the other merely switches you from one set of commercials to another.
Wow! You have a CD drive for your PDA? :-)
I don't have a burner, and I am unlikely to get one. They are too small nowadays. A 120G hard drive costs about as much as a burner + 120G worth of media and would give me online access to my entire collection, not to mention the space savings. Why switch?
Jar Jar Binks. Is that you?
Ah, I missed that part (that's what I get for not reading the article, I guess). Presumably, then, it would work like the speedpass system that is used at gas stations. You have a RFID tag of your own on your keychain, or built into your watch. I'm guessing there would be a special lane for "speedpass" people.
There is an attendant monitoring the self checkout stations. Each station works like a bank machine, so, it will charge the groceries to whatever card you feed into the machine.
They built fudge factors in for this. I read through some of the methods they used. For their internet figures, for example, they sampled 9800 websites of the supposed 61 million URLS compiled by the Internet Archive (enough to get a 95% confidence level), wget/mirrored them to thier own servers (dropping links to other domains), and then analyzed the files for creation date, size, and uniqueness. For television We estimate about 1/4 of the programs are "original,". For CDs, they estimate that 1 in 20 gets trashed. Presumably, these figures are statistically based.
The US can't say "No one anywhere can export Linux to Syria," because they don't have jurisdiction. The US can say "No one in America can export Linux to Syria,"
We had some of the FreeSwan people at our Linux users group a while ago. According to them, the US can say "No American, regardless of where they are in the world, can export Linux to Syria"
The incredibly long thin strip of plastic with the tiny holes running along the edges is the media. The sequence of pictures is the data. What they did was figure out how big of an mpeg-2 file file would be needed to encode the movie. A lot of what this study is, is not so much how much data was generated, but how much new data storage capacity was generated. For example, if the industry produced 1 million blank cds, the study would show 700 million megabytes of new data.
That's about 7 billion CDs, or more than one for each of the 6.3 billion people on the planet.
Ah! So it's AOL's fault.
I wonder how much of that was duplicate data. How many copies of the Matrix are floating around online? Did they count FTP mirror sites as separate data?
For that matter, how much of the data is real, and how much is virtual? If two sites point to the same download, is that data counted twice, or once?
Ever wonder why Wrath of Khan was all sublight speed?
The battles in Wrath of Khan had nothing to do with not being able to fire weapons at warp speed. Khan disabled the Enterprise while it had its shields down. Kirk hacked into the Reliant's computer and had it lower its shields. He was able to cripple the Reliant at that point. From then on, the battle was between two heavily damaged ships, neither one of which could attain warp drive.
Forget the drugs. What I want is a scanner that tells me which squares to scratch on my lotto ticket.
You're complaining about bloggers by posting to a blog?
And our cars can run on ethanol as it stands.
They may run on ethanol as it stands for a short time, however, since the engine computers are configured for gasoline, and the combustion temperatures, fuel/air mixture, and exhaust components for ethanol are different than those of gasoline, your engine computer is going to be trying to compensate for something it can't compensate for. The end result will be excessive engine wear, and premature component failure.
Maybe, but it works out to $40/volume. so he's still ahead.
That very episode was on last nigh... Oops, does watching Simpsons count as wasting time?