Yes,.264 is that big. It's embedded into just about every consumer electronics device that plays video. All the smartphones have hardware accelerated.264, all the settop boxes have.264, etc. It's not that these things couldn't get WebM support, its that it took 6 years of arguing in committees and standards boards to get everyone to agree on h.264 and then another 3 years or so for a significant number of products to end up on store shelves and then another couple of years before those devices became a major percentage of devices. Basically you're looking at around 10 years to go from codec to ubiquity.
BP has a corporate culture of not paying enough attention to detail or properly maintaining equipment, its squeeze every penny out this quarter (like so many short sighted businesses). Texas city wasn't some freak accident and neither was deep water horizon, they are endemic to the BP corporate culture and things weren't going to change until something expensive enough got their attention.
No, because the previous stock price was a reflection of expected future value based significantly on the fact that BP was the biggest deep water driller in the world. Such drilling almost anywhere in the developed world now carries a significantly higher cost because of increased regulation and higher insurance costs (externalities are now actually incorporated in those costs) the stock is unlikely to recover to previous levels. The non-national oil companies are being sqeezed by the socialization of most of the major fields so increased costs in the available fields in the developed world is a significant change.
Well, the MMS was f'd up beyond all belief and one simple rule that the Canadians require would have made the response take weeks instead of months, require the relief well be drilled in parallel with the main bore. That simple regulation would have meant a small portable rig would have been all that was needed to finish off the kill shot. If you think that ANY company will take safety more seriously than the cost of f'ing up then I have news for you, that's not how capitalism works which is why we need strong regulations despite what crazy folks want.
Yeah and the test mules that were released into the real world were in a 3GS plastic case keeping the testers hands off the antennae. It was a classic case of Apple's need for secrecy keeping them from getting good testing data.
As AT&T found when they looked at usage, the vast majority of people rarely crack the 100MB barrier on their iPhones. Unlimited is a bit of a niche market.
Except for the fact that study after study has shown that people will pay more for the blanket of unlimited even when it's not in their economic interest to do so. It's better to soft cap the top.5% and jack the price up by $5/month than to offer the scaled down plan and piss people off the once every couple years they go over the ceiling.
If you can live with Sprint's network their Virgin Mobile division offers unlimited data and text and 300 voice minutes a month for $25 including taxes and fees. Of course they only have one of the crappier Android phones and a low end Blackberry on offer and no BYOD =(
Uh, clusters keep a random reboot from being a problem, if it's a high enough priority it WILL be clustered, if it's not high enough priority to be clustered then it's a minor mistake. Companies talk with their wallet, anything they aren't willing to spend money on isn't really that important to them.
Uh, the dude got a Rhodes scholarship to go study political science and economics at Oxford. That puts him in the top.000001% of all college students, which most people would consider genius level. Amazingly his wife is possibly even smarter. You might not like their politics but to question their intelligence just shows your own ignorance.
And that's assuming the LHC works on schedule, which so far it has failed to do. Also being able to recreate results (that are within the energy envelope on the Tevatron) with a different set of instruments is important to the scientific method.
Except the DB is unlikely to be on a RAID1, is going to be encrypted if you are PCI-DSS compliant, and won't contain full card numbers anyways (again if you are PCI-DSS compliant).
We're a midsized enterprise and we have a QA department that handles quarterly audits, an internal audit department that does semi-anual audits over IT in addition to their quarterly financial audits and an outside auditor that does annual audits. This is thanks to SOX.
There are some fairly rigorous standards with outside auditing in IT, if you are a public company there's SOX, if you're in healthcare there's HIPAA, and if you deal with credit cards there's PCI-DSS. If you don't fall into one of those three areas its fairly unlikely that you have the staff or budget for more rigorous controls anyways.
I've seen places that use a management system where the commands to be executed are entered into a package which works its way through dev then test then QA and finally prod with each move requiring the ok of a change management committee. Those same places usually have a rotating root key that has to be checked out with justification given and a supervisor's ok to actually release the key. I personally have zero desire to work in such an environment but that's about as close as you will get with COTS OS's.
With the standard transmission, not with the auto (though it's closer than the current Subaru's). My wife can't drive standard and gets flustered enough at times driving an auto I can't imagine what she'd do with a stick.
SUV driving American stereotype (which in most areas of the US outside Beverly Hills is complete BS.) MPG is beginning to sell cars more than horsepower does.
Uh, what? A couple years ago 51% of vehicles sold were SUV's and light trucks, it's a stereotype for a reason. Of course not all SUV's are made alike, the Nissan Juke gets 28MPG combined with AWD, significantly better than any AWD car.
The reduction in impaired driving is a significant factor, NHTSA's stats won't pull up for me but MADD's quoting of NHTSA stats say there were 17k alcohol related fatalities in 2002 and less than 11k last year which means per mile/driver/vehicle numbers plummeted even more dramatically
1989 was the year airbags or auto belts became mandatory so yes standard safety system upgrades in cars has been lowering the death toll for quite some time (the other major factor being the reduction in impaired driving).
The old CRX didn't have that much power (the most powerful engine ever available was the 1.6 VTEC at a whopping 160HP and 106lb-ft), it was just light (1900-2100 lbs). The problem with the new one is it has about the same HP but weighs 600lbs more.
The marginal cost of peaking power production is several orders of magnitude more expensive than baseline generation capacity so it only makes sense the there should be a disincentive to drive up peak demand. One interesting side effect for warm climate is that solar has peak production right at peak demand period so a pricing model that increases peak cost also incentivises the use of the more sustainable renewable power source.
Dude, that was just the most egregious example from an 18 month string of fail. I have nothing against the concept of unions but the uaw 6-7 years ago really were so protectionist that they were killing themselves and their hosts.
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Yes, .264 is that big. It's embedded into just about every consumer electronics device that plays video. All the smartphones have hardware accelerated .264, all the settop boxes have .264, etc. It's not that these things couldn't get WebM support, its that it took 6 years of arguing in committees and standards boards to get everyone to agree on h.264 and then another 3 years or so for a significant number of products to end up on store shelves and then another couple of years before those devices became a major percentage of devices. Basically you're looking at around 10 years to go from codec to ubiquity.
Satellite radio and internet streaming replaced the indie stations at significantly reduce capital and personnel cost.
We give our guys the raw logs and security dumps, kind of hard to hide anything.
BP has a corporate culture of not paying enough attention to detail or properly maintaining equipment, its squeeze every penny out this quarter (like so many short sighted businesses). Texas city wasn't some freak accident and neither was deep water horizon, they are endemic to the BP corporate culture and things weren't going to change until something expensive enough got their attention.
No, because the previous stock price was a reflection of expected future value based significantly on the fact that BP was the biggest deep water driller in the world. Such drilling almost anywhere in the developed world now carries a significantly higher cost because of increased regulation and higher insurance costs (externalities are now actually incorporated in those costs) the stock is unlikely to recover to previous levels. The non-national oil companies are being sqeezed by the socialization of most of the major fields so increased costs in the available fields in the developed world is a significant change.
Well, the MMS was f'd up beyond all belief and one simple rule that the Canadians require would have made the response take weeks instead of months, require the relief well be drilled in parallel with the main bore. That simple regulation would have meant a small portable rig would have been all that was needed to finish off the kill shot. If you think that ANY company will take safety more seriously than the cost of f'ing up then I have news for you, that's not how capitalism works which is why we need strong regulations despite what crazy folks want.
Yeah and the test mules that were released into the real world were in a 3GS plastic case keeping the testers hands off the antennae. It was a classic case of Apple's need for secrecy keeping them from getting good testing data.
Dude, this iphone will spend most of it's time talking to a GSM radio, aka LTE not to the EVDO CDMA network.
As AT&T found when they looked at usage, the vast majority of people rarely crack the 100MB barrier on their iPhones. Unlimited is a bit of a niche market.
.5% and jack the price up by $5/month than to offer the scaled down plan and piss people off the once every couple years they go over the ceiling.
Except for the fact that study after study has shown that people will pay more for the blanket of unlimited even when it's not in their economic interest to do so. It's better to soft cap the top
If you can live with Sprint's network their Virgin Mobile division offers unlimited data and text and 300 voice minutes a month for $25 including taxes and fees. Of course they only have one of the crappier Android phones and a low end Blackberry on offer and no BYOD =(
It was confirmed when Apple ordered millions of CDMA chipsets, it's been the worst kept secret in Apple's history.
Uh, clusters keep a random reboot from being a problem, if it's a high enough priority it WILL be clustered, if it's not high enough priority to be clustered then it's a minor mistake. Companies talk with their wallet, anything they aren't willing to spend money on isn't really that important to them.
Uh, the dude got a Rhodes scholarship to go study political science and economics at Oxford. That puts him in the top .000001% of all college students, which most people would consider genius level. Amazingly his wife is possibly even smarter. You might not like their politics but to question their intelligence just shows your own ignorance.
And that's assuming the LHC works on schedule, which so far it has failed to do. Also being able to recreate results (that are within the energy envelope on the Tevatron) with a different set of instruments is important to the scientific method.
Except the DB is unlikely to be on a RAID1, is going to be encrypted if you are PCI-DSS compliant, and won't contain full card numbers anyways (again if you are PCI-DSS compliant).
We're a midsized enterprise and we have a QA department that handles quarterly audits, an internal audit department that does semi-anual audits over IT in addition to their quarterly financial audits and an outside auditor that does annual audits. This is thanks to SOX.
There are some fairly rigorous standards with outside auditing in IT, if you are a public company there's SOX, if you're in healthcare there's HIPAA, and if you deal with credit cards there's PCI-DSS. If you don't fall into one of those three areas its fairly unlikely that you have the staff or budget for more rigorous controls anyways.
I've seen places that use a management system where the commands to be executed are entered into a package which works its way through dev then test then QA and finally prod with each move requiring the ok of a change management committee. Those same places usually have a rotating root key that has to be checked out with justification given and a supervisor's ok to actually release the key. I personally have zero desire to work in such an environment but that's about as close as you will get with COTS OS's.
With the standard transmission, not with the auto (though it's closer than the current Subaru's). My wife can't drive standard and gets flustered enough at times driving an auto I can't imagine what she'd do with a stick.
SUV driving American stereotype (which in most areas of the US outside Beverly Hills is complete BS.) MPG is beginning to sell cars more than horsepower does.
Uh, what? A couple years ago 51% of vehicles sold were SUV's and light trucks, it's a stereotype for a reason. Of course not all SUV's are made alike, the Nissan Juke gets 28MPG combined with AWD, significantly better than any AWD car.
The reduction in impaired driving is a significant factor, NHTSA's stats won't pull up for me but MADD's quoting of NHTSA stats say there were 17k alcohol related fatalities in 2002 and less than 11k last year which means per mile/driver/vehicle numbers plummeted even more dramatically
1989 was the year airbags or auto belts became mandatory so yes standard safety system upgrades in cars has been lowering the death toll for quite some time (the other major factor being the reduction in impaired driving).
The old CRX didn't have that much power (the most powerful engine ever available was the 1.6 VTEC at a whopping 160HP and 106lb-ft), it was just light (1900-2100 lbs). The problem with the new one is it has about the same HP but weighs 600lbs more.
The marginal cost of peaking power production is several orders of magnitude more expensive than baseline generation capacity so it only makes sense the there should be a disincentive to drive up peak demand. One interesting side effect for warm climate is that solar has peak production right at peak demand period so a pricing model that increases peak cost also incentivises the use of the more sustainable renewable power source.
Dude, that was just the most egregious example from an 18 month string of fail. I have nothing against the concept of unions but the uaw 6-7 years ago really were so protectionist that they were killing themselves and their hosts.