The linked site was not a Google URL, the login page was a Google page with proper SSL certificate (and yes I did check to see if any of the obvious fake SSL cert techniques had been used)
No Palladium grew out of a simple customer request, be able to load an image over the LAN and be sure it wasn't tampered with while in transit so we can get rid of these expensive and failure prone local disks in our servers and workstations. Later was added, when we do have a local disk we want to be able to ensure that we can encrypt the disk without leaving any holes for an attacker who has physical access to the machine. If you don't see these as obvious goals in IT you are an idiot or so blinded by your own fear of big media that you will give up obvious benefits because the same technologies might be used by the DRM monster.
And they can continue to stream H.264 to other clients without Flash like Blackberry, iPhone, and even FF on Linux (if you know how to access/rewrite the URL's). Not 100% of content is available this way currently, but that could be fixed and would make the HTML5 simple icing on the cake.
Amazon really needs to hire more developers and QA people, the Kindle Blackberry app has been coming "real soon now" for over 6 months and now they are saying it will take 6 months to add a large font and to tie the existing text to speech engine into the navigation UI? Seriously?
The extra cost is broken into three areas, the expensive freaking projectors that have to be bought for each 3D screen, the loss rate on the glasses, and some additional profit to pay for the higher production costs.
Only HDMI 1.4 allows for enough bandwidth to do 1080p120 and that spec wasn't finalized till May 2009 so I can see why most sets on the market today don't support it.
Box office mojo and other site's don't break it down by version of the film but both UP and Avater totally dominate that at $293M and $440M and there are 9 total 3D movies with revenues over $100M.
Yes, in the context of an enterprise computer Palladium is EXACTLY what I want, Bitlocker and secure boot from LAN were what Palladium was aiming for, not some uber DRM for the content producers.
Yes, and the 3 year cost for a single Google datacenter is probably $300M so once they pay their adword partners they are probably losing significant money on that revenue.
No, I mean it's possible for it to cost more to keep the lights on then they can possibly get in ad revenue, ie the cost of a transaction is more than the income that transaction brings in. Anti-internet bubble thinking says having a bigger piece of a money losing pie just means you are losing more money. I'm not saying it's necessarily true, as Google doesn't break things down to nearly a granular enough level in their 10Q filing to figure out what the infrastructure cost of their equation is, only that they had costs of ~9.2B on revenues of 22B last quarter, just that it's possible.
The day someone starts blowing up a significant chunk of the ~30 GPS satellites or ~30 GLONASS satellites is the day that GPS accuracy no longer matters because modern society is ending. Attacking GPS is attacking the US military, attacking GLONASS is attacking Russia AND India. It's seriously NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Again if neither system is being maintained it means 3 of the worlds top economies can no longer afford to maintain a major component of their transportation network, aka the end of civilization.
Huh? Thanks to India GLONASS will back to full coverage by the end of this year and some time this decade Galileo should be operational so it's not like the US has any kind of monopoly on positioning.
GLONASS has 16 operational satellites currently with 2 new birds coming online and one in the process of being decommissioned, they need 24 for full coverage. There are (expensive) commercial units with support for both GPS and GLONASS primarily targeted at surveyors because having the additional signals available makes very accurate (sub-meter) locks significantly faster. There are also commercial providers of GLONASS only units (Septentrio, Topcon, JAVAD, Magellan Navigation, Novatel, Leica Geosystems and Trimble Inc according to wikipedia) if you wanted them. The only reason the constellation will be back to full coverage is that the Indians pitched in a bunch of money to fly a bunch of the new birds. As of 2007 it has been official that the signals can be used for free by consumers in any country free of charge (not that they could stop you before since most devices don't need the L1 key to get accurate positioning, it just speeds things up).
And 200m is no better than GPS with SA on! In fact with differential techniques or something like WAAS you can still get ~10m accuracy which is why we don't turn it on any more.
Even with an unbelievable return on average equity of 80% per year that's still 25GB/$ and since most people pay around $30-$50/month for broadband that comes out to about 750GB-1.25TB per month. ISP's claiming that they must impose ridiculous caps like 25GB/month due to "high transatlantic costs" are being seriously disingenuous.
I don't buy that, an OC-768 module doesn't cost that much and the $300M cost for the 5 pair "Unity" cable shows a capital cost of about 1.5M per gbps of transpacific bandwidth or about 100GB/$ over a 5 year cable life and that's the most expensive backhaul bandwidth out there.
I wonder if the Google ad model works when your target audience has at best 1/4 the per capita GDP (one recent report put Beijing at $10K (much more than China as a whole but perhaps representative of Chineese internet users) as compared to $40k for the US)? In other words if ad revenue scales with GDP can Google still make money powering and maintaining servers if their revenue is 1/4 as much? And does ad revenue really scale with GDP? I would think not as necessarily less of that is available for non-essential purchases which is the majority of the market for advertisers.
WHAT are you going on about? I regularly run engines in my snowblower, chainsaw, weed whacker, etc on gas that has been sitting for a year or more. As long as it is in a sealed container where it won't get additional moisture gasoline is perfectly stable as it comes from every gas station in the country. I really wonder where people get these ideas, I guess the marketing folks at STP have earned their pay....
What are the G-force loads for a 45mph offset crash in that thing? I'm not saying it would be impossible to build a light, cheap, safe car, it's just a hard problem. They make big claims but I'll believe it when I see IIHS raw data.
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The linked site was not a Google URL, the login page was a Google page with proper SSL certificate (and yes I did check to see if any of the obvious fake SSL cert techniques had been used)
No Palladium grew out of a simple customer request, be able to load an image over the LAN and be sure it wasn't tampered with while in transit so we can get rid of these expensive and failure prone local disks in our servers and workstations. Later was added, when we do have a local disk we want to be able to ensure that we can encrypt the disk without leaving any holes for an attacker who has physical access to the machine. If you don't see these as obvious goals in IT you are an idiot or so blinded by your own fear of big media that you will give up obvious benefits because the same technologies might be used by the DRM monster.
And they can continue to stream H.264 to other clients without Flash like Blackberry, iPhone, and even FF on Linux (if you know how to access/rewrite the URL's). Not 100% of content is available this way currently, but that could be fixed and would make the HTML5 simple icing on the cake.
Amazon really needs to hire more developers and QA people, the Kindle Blackberry app has been coming "real soon now" for over 6 months and now they are saying it will take 6 months to add a large font and to tie the existing text to speech engine into the navigation UI? Seriously?
Probably has to do with cost and size of the active repeaters needed every so many kilometers as well as the power budget for said repeaters.
The extra cost is broken into three areas, the expensive freaking projectors that have to be bought for each 3D screen, the loss rate on the glasses, and some additional profit to pay for the higher production costs.
I assume reshoots and editing in 3D are more expensive.
Only HDMI 1.4 allows for enough bandwidth to do 1080p120 and that spec wasn't finalized till May 2009 so I can see why most sets on the market today don't support it.
Oh and those are domestic numbers, Avater is at $1.37B world box office!
Box office mojo and other site's don't break it down by version of the film but both UP and Avater totally dominate that at $293M and $440M and there are 9 total 3D movies with revenues over $100M.
SP2 is faster than SP0 on most machines, it was SP3 that tanked performance which is why I've never bothered to install it.
Sucks to be you, our SVP of IT installed Win7 on his laptop by himself and knows for a fact it's stable =)
Yes, in the context of an enterprise computer Palladium is EXACTLY what I want, Bitlocker and secure boot from LAN were what Palladium was aiming for, not some uber DRM for the content producers.
Yes, and the 3 year cost for a single Google datacenter is probably $300M so once they pay their adword partners they are probably losing significant money on that revenue.
I believe those were purchasing power GDP numbers, not dollar valued ones.
No, I mean it's possible for it to cost more to keep the lights on then they can possibly get in ad revenue, ie the cost of a transaction is more than the income that transaction brings in. Anti-internet bubble thinking says having a bigger piece of a money losing pie just means you are losing more money. I'm not saying it's necessarily true, as Google doesn't break things down to nearly a granular enough level in their 10Q filing to figure out what the infrastructure cost of their equation is, only that they had costs of ~9.2B on revenues of 22B last quarter, just that it's possible.
The day someone starts blowing up a significant chunk of the ~30 GPS satellites or ~30 GLONASS satellites is the day that GPS accuracy no longer matters because modern society is ending. Attacking GPS is attacking the US military, attacking GLONASS is attacking Russia AND India. It's seriously NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Again if neither system is being maintained it means 3 of the worlds top economies can no longer afford to maintain a major component of their transportation network, aka the end of civilization.
Huh? Thanks to India GLONASS will back to full coverage by the end of this year and some time this decade Galileo should be operational so it's not like the US has any kind of monopoly on positioning.
GLONASS has 16 operational satellites currently with 2 new birds coming online and one in the process of being decommissioned, they need 24 for full coverage. There are (expensive) commercial units with support for both GPS and GLONASS primarily targeted at surveyors because having the additional signals available makes very accurate (sub-meter) locks significantly faster. There are also commercial providers of GLONASS only units (Septentrio, Topcon, JAVAD, Magellan Navigation, Novatel, Leica Geosystems and Trimble Inc according to wikipedia) if you wanted them. The only reason the constellation will be back to full coverage is that the Indians pitched in a bunch of money to fly a bunch of the new birds. As of 2007 it has been official that the signals can be used for free by consumers in any country free of charge (not that they could stop you before since most devices don't need the L1 key to get accurate positioning, it just speeds things up).
And 200m is no better than GPS with SA on! In fact with differential techniques or something like WAAS you can still get ~10m accuracy which is why we don't turn it on any more.
Even with an unbelievable return on average equity of 80% per year that's still 25GB/$ and since most people pay around $30-$50/month for broadband that comes out to about 750GB-1.25TB per month. ISP's claiming that they must impose ridiculous caps like 25GB/month due to "high transatlantic costs" are being seriously disingenuous.
I don't buy that, an OC-768 module doesn't cost that much and the $300M cost for the 5 pair "Unity" cable shows a capital cost of about 1.5M per gbps of transpacific bandwidth or about 100GB/$ over a 5 year cable life and that's the most expensive backhaul bandwidth out there.
I wonder if the Google ad model works when your target audience has at best 1/4 the per capita GDP (one recent report put Beijing at $10K (much more than China as a whole but perhaps representative of Chineese internet users) as compared to $40k for the US)? In other words if ad revenue scales with GDP can Google still make money powering and maintaining servers if their revenue is 1/4 as much? And does ad revenue really scale with GDP? I would think not as necessarily less of that is available for non-essential purchases which is the majority of the market for advertisers.
WHAT are you going on about? I regularly run engines in my snowblower, chainsaw, weed whacker, etc on gas that has been sitting for a year or more. As long as it is in a sealed container where it won't get additional moisture gasoline is perfectly stable as it comes from every gas station in the country. I really wonder where people get these ideas, I guess the marketing folks at STP have earned their pay....
What are the G-force loads for a 45mph offset crash in that thing? I'm not saying it would be impossible to build a light, cheap, safe car, it's just a hard problem. They make big claims but I'll believe it when I see IIHS raw data.