My thoughts exactly, in D2 I played hardcore exclusively after the first year and only played with a fairly large group of friends who were into legit gaming, the SOJ and ZOD hacking never affected me because I simply never traded with anyone outside my group, I'm sure I'll do the same with D3 and so the real money auction house will never affect me.
What AWD vehicle you you drive that gets 28MPG combined? In the US the current best fuel economy for an AWD is the Chevy Equinox and that's only 27MPG combined in AWD trim.
The Fiesta is selling at a clip of close to 100k units a year, in this economy that is a fantastic result. I don't think the manufacturers are going to have to worry too much about selling smaller, lighter, and more fuel efficient cars.
99HP isn't bad at all for a small or midsized vehicle, the problem is that most of the 99HP engines in small cars in the US have like 70lb/ft of torque which blows. Modern direct injected (on sometimes turbo charged) designs are starting to solve that problem for gasoline engines (it's never been a problem in Europe where they use more diesels in small cars). The Ford Ecoboost 1.6 produces 150HP but 240lb/ft and so it doesn't feel at all like an underpowered engine.
Why not? Diesel only contains ~11% more BTUs per gallon so if you want to do a "fair" comparison reduce the diesel vehicle rating by 11%, they will still generally crush similar class vehicles with a gas engine.
I take it you don't live where there's salt on the roads, aluminum rusts much faster than steel around here to the point where a variety of manufacturers have had to recall vehicles because they used aluminum for rear seat hvac applications and the salt would corrode the pipes and cause a loss of coolant.
Depends on what you consider a coder, we do almost zero inhouse software development so we don't have any traditional coders. If you include business report writers and unit assembly and glue logic writing coding then again it's about half of those positions.
Huh, you've obviously not seen HDR which captures significantly MORE color information than any film could. You can also capture more *accurate* color than you could with film (each type of film distorted the color information in their own way with some people preferring the vibrant (exaggerated) color of Fuji film and others preferring more subdued films. I know that I'm sometimes disappointed by lack of punch in the sky in pictures taken on a cloudy or hazy day but that was reality and if I want to exaggerate it I can with a simple blue push in post processing without changing my raw photo, try that with film!
Your work was probably instrumental in making the $2 chip behind the tiny lens capable of taking pictures as good as a 35mm point and shoot and making a $500 DSLR take *better* pictures than any 35mm film camera.
No, I built a $1000 Onkyo and Infinity Primus 5.1 system that sounded quite good. I added a pair of $2000 list (paid $1100 for lightly used) Vandersteen 2CE Sig II's to the front, dropped the crappy center channel and went phantom center and now it sounds incredible.
Vandersteen 2CE Sig II's, $2000 list, can be had on Audiogon used for ~$1k. They sound incredible, one of the most transparent speakers I have ever heard (in the listening room if you were sitting in the sweet spot they seemed to completely disappear, unfortunately my living room is not a listening room and so I only get WOW instead of OMG). I have mine paired with a $500 Onkyo receiver which I feed from my HTPC. $1500 to me was chump change for a system that will probably last me decades (people ask Richard Vandersteen about repairing 20-30 year old speakers all the time).
Phono jacks have about several orders of magnitude worse THD than Toslink to an internal DAC a few inches from the preamp even if you don't have a DAC that's eating interference inside a PC case (ie with good discrete components). I got incredibly tired with all the interference issues with PC sound cards until I finally got a motherboard with onboard Toslink and since then my HTPC has been my only audio source because digital to a chip in the receiver is just fundamentally the cleanest way to get sound to the speakers.
My employer for one, two out of three directors are women and nearly half the IT staff are women as well. My group (infrastructure) is the odd man out with no females currently but that's mostly because we are a small group and our lone female employee left a few years ago and her replacement happened to be male.
I agree 110%. I went to the dealership to check out a pair of low end HiFi speakers ($2200/pair list) and he showed them off with a variety of amps and inputs, the older equipment using RCA sounded way worse to me than the CD player using digital inputs and forget about the popping and other artifacts on the record player!
What of that did I say? I said that there is probably a market for physical storage media with a large amount of storage and that someone saying there is not because they think 500GB/month is an extravagant amount is probably wrong about there being no market.
Glad you're the arbitrator of what is the correct way to use the internet.....
On a more specific note, 1080P video can be up to ~14.4GB/hour for current standards so that's just over 1 hours of video a day, hardly an extravagant usage.
500GB is 2x the highest capped home data plan in the US right now. Unless something radical happens to open up the last mile in the next few years (which is VERY doubtful given current economic and political realities) I don't think this kind of technology is without a market.
And while Google has quite a few strategically placed datacenters around the world it's hard to get closer to the user than Akamai which has servers in probably 85% of the worlds large POP's.
Zurich is a large reinsurer as well as a large scale insurer. A former company did a lot of work for them doing forensic accounting on companies claiming business losses after Katrina, Zurich was not the holder of those policies but rather was insuring the basket of policies that were being claimed against.
It's mostly because of the shift in market focus to quarterly profits, in the history of Sony and even PSN the costs are fairly trivial but if they all come in two or three quarters instead of the monthly insurance premium it upsets the street.
You must have been doing it wrong since Cisco used/uses (I was there 2000-2004) Clearcase to maintain IOS across dozens and dozens of sites around the world. It is a resource pig though, for a hundred developers we had an almost fully loaded Sun Enterprise 4500.
No, the ADVERTISERS are the customer and WE are the product. The fact that Google allows us to find a website is just an interesting side effect from a business perspective.
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My thoughts exactly, in D2 I played hardcore exclusively after the first year and only played with a fairly large group of friends who were into legit gaming, the SOJ and ZOD hacking never affected me because I simply never traded with anyone outside my group, I'm sure I'll do the same with D3 and so the real money auction house will never affect me.
Over the last 5 years we've seen an AFR of ~1.5% across our datacenter with interesting nonlinear points for infant mortality and sibling death.
What AWD vehicle you you drive that gets 28MPG combined? In the US the current best fuel economy for an AWD is the Chevy Equinox and that's only 27MPG combined in AWD trim.
The Fiesta is selling at a clip of close to 100k units a year, in this economy that is a fantastic result. I don't think the manufacturers are going to have to worry too much about selling smaller, lighter, and more fuel efficient cars.
99HP isn't bad at all for a small or midsized vehicle, the problem is that most of the 99HP engines in small cars in the US have like 70lb/ft of torque which blows. Modern direct injected (on sometimes turbo charged) designs are starting to solve that problem for gasoline engines (it's never been a problem in Europe where they use more diesels in small cars). The Ford Ecoboost 1.6 produces 150HP but 240lb/ft and so it doesn't feel at all like an underpowered engine.
Why not? Diesel only contains ~11% more BTUs per gallon so if you want to do a "fair" comparison reduce the diesel vehicle rating by 11%, they will still generally crush similar class vehicles with a gas engine.
I take it you don't live where there's salt on the roads, aluminum rusts much faster than steel around here to the point where a variety of manufacturers have had to recall vehicles because they used aluminum for rear seat hvac applications and the salt would corrode the pipes and cause a loss of coolant.
Depends on what you consider a coder, we do almost zero inhouse software development so we don't have any traditional coders. If you include business report writers and unit assembly and glue logic writing coding then again it's about half of those positions.
Huh, you've obviously not seen HDR which captures significantly MORE color information than any film could. You can also capture more *accurate* color than you could with film (each type of film distorted the color information in their own way with some people preferring the vibrant (exaggerated) color of Fuji film and others preferring more subdued films. I know that I'm sometimes disappointed by lack of punch in the sky in pictures taken on a cloudy or hazy day but that was reality and if I want to exaggerate it I can with a simple blue push in post processing without changing my raw photo, try that with film!
Your work was probably instrumental in making the $2 chip behind the tiny lens capable of taking pictures as good as a 35mm point and shoot and making a $500 DSLR take *better* pictures than any 35mm film camera.
No, I built a $1000 Onkyo and Infinity Primus 5.1 system that sounded quite good. I added a pair of $2000 list (paid $1100 for lightly used) Vandersteen 2CE Sig II's to the front, dropped the crappy center channel and went phantom center and now it sounds incredible.
Vandersteen 2CE Sig II's, $2000 list, can be had on Audiogon used for ~$1k. They sound incredible, one of the most transparent speakers I have ever heard (in the listening room if you were sitting in the sweet spot they seemed to completely disappear, unfortunately my living room is not a listening room and so I only get WOW instead of OMG). I have mine paired with a $500 Onkyo receiver which I feed from my HTPC. $1500 to me was chump change for a system that will probably last me decades (people ask Richard Vandersteen about repairing 20-30 year old speakers all the time).
Phono jacks have about several orders of magnitude worse THD than Toslink to an internal DAC a few inches from the preamp even if you don't have a DAC that's eating interference inside a PC case (ie with good discrete components). I got incredibly tired with all the interference issues with PC sound cards until I finally got a motherboard with onboard Toslink and since then my HTPC has been my only audio source because digital to a chip in the receiver is just fundamentally the cleanest way to get sound to the speakers.
My employer for one, two out of three directors are women and nearly half the IT staff are women as well. My group (infrastructure) is the odd man out with no females currently but that's mostly because we are a small group and our lone female employee left a few years ago and her replacement happened to be male.
I agree 110%. I went to the dealership to check out a pair of low end HiFi speakers ($2200/pair list) and he showed them off with a variety of amps and inputs, the older equipment using RCA sounded way worse to me than the CD player using digital inputs and forget about the popping and other artifacts on the record player!
What of that did I say? I said that there is probably a market for physical storage media with a large amount of storage and that someone saying there is not because they think 500GB/month is an extravagant amount is probably wrong about there being no market.
Glad you're the arbitrator of what is the correct way to use the internet.....
On a more specific note, 1080P video can be up to ~14.4GB/hour for current standards so that's just over 1 hours of video a day, hardly an extravagant usage.
500GB is 2x the highest capped home data plan in the US right now. Unless something radical happens to open up the last mile in the next few years (which is VERY doubtful given current economic and political realities) I don't think this kind of technology is without a market.
And while Google has quite a few strategically placed datacenters around the world it's hard to get closer to the user than Akamai which has servers in probably 85% of the worlds large POP's.
Zurich is a large reinsurer as well as a large scale insurer. A former company did a lot of work for them doing forensic accounting on companies claiming business losses after Katrina, Zurich was not the holder of those policies but rather was insuring the basket of policies that were being claimed against.
It's mostly because of the shift in market focus to quarterly profits, in the history of Sony and even PSN the costs are fairly trivial but if they all come in two or three quarters instead of the monthly insurance premium it upsets the street.
SpaceX will be there before 2020!
You must have been doing it wrong since Cisco used/uses (I was there 2000-2004) Clearcase to maintain IOS across dozens and dozens of sites around the world. It is a resource pig though, for a hundred developers we had an almost fully loaded Sun Enterprise 4500.
Huh, Wii has sold 80M units worldwide, XBOX 360 55M, and PS3 50M. How is MS #1?
No, the ADVERTISERS are the customer and WE are the product. The fact that Google allows us to find a website is just an interesting side effect from a business perspective.