1 piracy doesn't even come close to 1 lost sale, but it absolutely means lost revenue to someone. imagine if piracy wasn't possible and didn't exist. all of the millions of people playing pirated games, listening to pirated music, watching pirated movies, would have to do something: buy a game, buy a movie, buy a cd, buy a book, buy a pen and paper to write novel. even if they did supposedly free things such as watch broadcast tv or walk in the park they are still consuming rather than stealing. (using a tv, using sneakers/food/calories) the point is they are not because they have stolen. people who think piracy doesn't mean lost sales are ignorant, sure they may not mean lost sales to the pirated app, but they sure as hell are lost sales to someone.
I was left wondering about the scan pattern shown in the animation "Planck scanning the sky". I have no idea if it matches what the satellite actually does, but if it does then it seems they would gain a much better image at 'the center of the galaxy' by altering the axis of the scan pattern so the 'poles' of the scan point to it. In the animation the scanning 'poles' are currently aimed at the the section in the galaxy with the least information (the very top and bottom of the light survey image), and it seems to me that the poles are where the satellite would have the best resolution (because it passes over the poles during its scan many times and then you could calculate a very high resolution scan from all of these passes for the circular section of overlap).
Therefor wouldn't it be better to alter the scan axis by 90 degrees so the poles of the scan point toward the center of the galaxy? Perhaps this doesn't matter as they are going to do passes until the end of time and refine the resolution, but the poles would still have many times the resolution of the rest of the scans.
It sounds good, but I just don't see how it would be better than panels.
1) you can't change the pitch of your roof to align to the sun 2) you must use expensive roofing for your entire roof now that interlock with the solar roof tiles 3) if there is a problem with one of the solar tiles I'm sure its more expensive to have it repaired than if they were solar panels not integrated with the roof 4) you're moving almost all of the interconnection work from a cheap factory labor to an expensive, nonspecializing, contracted roofing laborer who will probably mess it up
The expensive part of solar panels isn't the roof or the panel infrastructure, its the solar cells. And you will be much more cost effective by maximizing your solar cell usage when putting them on panels that can be pointed in an optimal direction, or even able to rotate a small amount.
More than likely no one will ever know of anything we did if humans are extinct. If you read up on time capsules, data retention, and info on what would happen to the earth if mankind disappeared it is an sobering realization that after only 50,000 years most traces of humanity will be gone. And after only a few million years, which is minuscule on a galactic time frame, every trace will have vanished, even our weapons grade plutonium will have decayed to its normal state, and all of this long before the sun will obliterate our solar system.
FTA "Many users do not turn their video game console off. A game console that is left on 24/7 will use approximately 10 times more annual energy than one that is turned off after use. Due to the absence of any studies, we based our calculations on the assumption that 50 percent of users leave their device on when they are finished playing a game or watching a movie."
Here are my study results, consoles create 100MW of power. (1)
(1) Many users mod their console to include solar panels and wind turbines. A modded game console will generate approximately 10KW of annual energy. Due to the absence of any studies, we based our calculations on the assumption that 50 percent of users have modded consoles that generate excess power.
There is a reason all chemistry beakers, bottles, and flasks are made from glass, its the only cheap inert material that doesn't on some level mix with what you are containing. Metal and plastic eventually leech out.
Rather than going overboard with the results I would follow some common sense guidelines: 1) If you are a baby or preggers then use glass containers. 2) Use glass containers for heating things in the microwave or for long term liquid storage.
Given that the vast majority of everything we drink and eat these days is either stored in plastic or touches plastic at some point I think its almost impossible to go plastic free, and I doubt it matters much.
Why the hell are SSDs so slow? I've never understood this, its not like in an HD where you can't add more read heads because there isn't enough physical space to do so, or because they can't move fast enough with the additional weight. In an SSD you should be able to put as many chips in parallel to make your read and write speeds whatever the hell you want, 1TBps, no problem. You would think SSDs should be able to saturate a SATA/Fibre/PCIE bus instantly? What gives?
"because getting on a [simulated] track with a full field of other drivers and racing against them safely involves as much commitment and time investment as if you went to racing school"
So you truley believe that:
buying a $50 USB steering wheel paying $10/month for your racing game racing from the comfort of your home in your underwear the biggest fear of dying is malnutrition
Equates to:
renting a $200,000 racecar or using your own car flying or driving to a racetrack and renting it for $50-$1000 suiting up with flameretardant clothes, full face helmet, full body restraints feeling G forces, pure adrenaline, and the fear of bursting into flames at any moment
Is there a biometric or chemical means of testing someones age? Or we can verify their parent via DNA, then is there a test for the mother to verify when she last gave birth?
Your analogy is worthless due to one simple fact: You can't copy a car instantly for free! If you could, trust me, your car would have more security features than you list and 100 more.
Not to mention the ego boosting attention a real pilot gets and the thrill of actually flying, but then there is the risk of dying and the thousands of hours of training. I guess flying a drone is somewhere in between MS Flight Sim and the real thing.
We don't have to understand how the global climate works to realize humans are adding gases to the atmosphere and chemicals to the water that wouldn't be there otherwise. There is no point in tring to reverse what is happening, I don't think that is even possible, and warming may not even be due to us. But trying to work toward a lifestyle which does as little as possible to the environment should be on everyones mind.
Hopefully they offer both, compress the movies and textures enough to fit the entire game on one disc. Then include as many other discs as necessary with the full quality content to be copied to the HD if you want to, then if its there the game uses it rather than the lower quality stuff. Very simple, and would decrease load times a bunch.
I rarely find anything on EBay cheaper than at a normal etailer, addin the worry of dealing with a shady seller and there is little motivation in buying anything _NEW_ on EBay. EBay needs to focus on what its good for, USED, CLOSEOUT, or RARE items. I have saved thousands of dollars getting great deals on close-out or nearly new items, of course they are hard to find due to all the new item listings.
If you are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees then you have no business being on EBay. You should open your own website, even if your sales significantly decrease you will still make more profit, and your job will be easier with lower volume.
With IOps an order of magnitude higher than standard disks, SSDs are primed to take the DB and file server markets by storm. Especially since performance usually trumps cost there. When it costs you $500/hour to optimize your DB or millions for downtime, spending $3 per gigabyte is a no brainer.
I understand your point but I think you underestimate how prevalent home theaters are, even ones with screens larger than 100". Anyone with such a setup would benefit from bluray, even average people would see the difference, and I assure you anyone spending the money on a theater would care, a lot. There is a multibillion dollar market for home movie projectors, there is definately a market for bluray.
"No. The only people who really care whether they are watching an up-converted DVD or a blu-ray are are videophile snobs looking to justify the expense, who pause the movie to point at some intricate pattern in the corner of the screen and gloat."
No. I guarantee you everyone is able to see the difference if they were sitting at the THX recommended distance from their screen. For a 42" screen that is 4.7 feet, well within the 5.5 feet required for visual acuity of 1920 x 1080. Of course sitting that close to a 42" screen is usually impractical, and its easier to see and understand on a larger screen, such as my 120" with a 1080p projector.
Since I don't buy media, I rent it, why wouldn't I want the best recording possible, renting a bluray disc is the same price as renting a DVD.
If you want a cinema experience in your home as the director intended, bluray is the only way to go. It does make a difference that anyone can see and resolve all 1080 lines and more if you are doing a valid test. Of course no one is going to see the difference 10 feet away from a 36" tv.
For someone who came from virtual obscurity to where he is today, he has a shot at making it in 2012. Younger people who supported him will be 4 years older and have more influence. Others who didn't support him or know of him may remember his name which will be very beneficial.
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1 piracy doesn't even come close to 1 lost sale, but it absolutely means lost revenue to someone. imagine if piracy wasn't possible and didn't exist. all of the millions of people playing pirated games, listening to pirated music, watching pirated movies, would have to do something: buy a game, buy a movie, buy a cd, buy a book, buy a pen and paper to write novel. even if they did supposedly free things such as watch broadcast tv or walk in the park they are still consuming rather than stealing. (using a tv, using sneakers/food/calories) the point is they are not because they have stolen. people who think piracy doesn't mean lost sales are ignorant, sure they may not mean lost sales to the pirated app, but they sure as hell are lost sales to someone.
I was left wondering about the scan pattern shown in the animation "Planck scanning the sky". I have no idea if it matches what the satellite actually does, but if it does then it seems they would gain a much better image at 'the center of the galaxy' by altering the axis of the scan pattern so the 'poles' of the scan point to it. In the animation the scanning 'poles' are currently aimed at the the section in the galaxy with the least information (the very top and bottom of the light survey image), and it seems to me that the poles are where the satellite would have the best resolution (because it passes over the poles during its scan many times and then you could calculate a very high resolution scan from all of these passes for the circular section of overlap).
Therefor wouldn't it be better to alter the scan axis by 90 degrees so the poles of the scan point toward the center of the galaxy? Perhaps this doesn't matter as they are going to do passes until the end of time and refine the resolution, but the poles would still have many times the resolution of the rest of the scans.
It sounds good, but I just don't see how it would be better than panels.
1) you can't change the pitch of your roof to align to the sun
2) you must use expensive roofing for your entire roof now that interlock with the solar roof tiles
3) if there is a problem with one of the solar tiles I'm sure its more expensive to have it repaired than if they were solar panels not integrated with the roof
4) you're moving almost all of the interconnection work from a cheap factory labor to an expensive, nonspecializing, contracted roofing laborer who will probably mess it up
The expensive part of solar panels isn't the roof or the panel infrastructure, its the solar cells. And you will be much more cost effective by maximizing your solar cell usage when putting them on panels that can be pointed in an optimal direction, or even able to rotate a small amount.
And yet somehow miraculously we are all still alive. The sky is not falling!
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/02/100_linux_wallwart_launches.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
http://dailydiy.com/2009/02/24/100-linux-wall-wart-launches/
More than likely no one will ever know of anything we did if humans are extinct. If you read up on time capsules, data retention, and info on what would happen to the earth if mankind disappeared it is an sobering realization that after only 50,000 years most traces of humanity will be gone. And after only a few million years, which is minuscule on a galactic time frame, every trace will have vanished, even our weapons grade plutonium will have decayed to its normal state, and all of this long before the sun will obliterate our solar system.
http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,351113,00.jpg
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/player.html?channel=1797&category=5487&title=05068_00
if you run out of coffee, you can brew up some TPS reports!
The airlines could care less about noise, comfort, and environmental impact. If it saves them some gas then it may fly.
FTA "Many users do not turn their video game console off. A game console that is left on 24/7 will use approximately 10 times more annual energy than one that is turned off after use. Due to the absence of any studies, we based our calculations on the assumption that 50 percent of users leave their device on when they are finished playing a game or watching a movie."
Here are my study results, consoles create 100MW of power. (1)
(1) Many users mod their console to include solar panels and wind turbines. A modded game console will generate approximately 10KW of annual energy. Due to the absence of any studies, we based our calculations on the assumption that 50 percent of users have modded consoles that generate excess power.
There is a reason all chemistry beakers, bottles, and flasks are made from glass, its the only cheap inert material that doesn't on some level mix with what you are containing. Metal and plastic eventually leech out.
Rather than going overboard with the results I would follow some common sense guidelines:
1) If you are a baby or preggers then use glass containers.
2) Use glass containers for heating things in the microwave or for long term liquid storage.
Given that the vast majority of everything we drink and eat these days is either stored in plastic or touches plastic at some point I think its almost impossible to go plastic free, and I doubt it matters much.
Why the hell are SSDs so slow? I've never understood this, its not like in an HD where you can't add more read heads because there isn't enough physical space to do so, or because they can't move fast enough with the additional weight. In an SSD you should be able to put as many chips in parallel to make your read and write speeds whatever the hell you want, 1TBps, no problem. You would think SSDs should be able to saturate a SATA/Fibre/PCIE bus instantly? What gives?
"because getting on a [simulated] track with a full field of other drivers and racing against them safely involves as much commitment and time investment as if you went to racing school"
So you truley believe that:
buying a $50 USB steering wheel
paying $10/month for your racing game
racing from the comfort of your home in your underwear
the biggest fear of dying is malnutrition
Equates to:
renting a $200,000 racecar or using your own car
flying or driving to a racetrack and renting it for $50-$1000
suiting up with flameretardant clothes, full face helmet, full body restraints
feeling G forces, pure adrenaline, and the fear of bursting into flames at any moment
Of course, why didn't I see it!
Is there a biometric or chemical means of testing someones age? Or we can verify their parent via DNA, then is there a test for the mother to verify when she last gave birth?
Your analogy is worthless due to one simple fact: You can't copy a car instantly for free! If you could, trust me, your car would have more security features than you list and 100 more.
Not to mention the ego boosting attention a real pilot gets and the thrill of actually flying, but then there is the risk of dying and the thousands of hours of training. I guess flying a drone is somewhere in between MS Flight Sim and the real thing.
Copy app and release as freeware, call it "I Am Smart"
We don't have to understand how the global climate works to realize humans are adding gases to the atmosphere and chemicals to the water that wouldn't be there otherwise. There is no point in tring to reverse what is happening, I don't think that is even possible, and warming may not even be due to us. But trying to work toward a lifestyle which does as little as possible to the environment should be on everyones mind.
Hopefully they offer both, compress the movies and textures enough to fit the entire game on one disc. Then include as many other discs as necessary with the full quality content to be copied to the HD if you want to, then if its there the game uses it rather than the lower quality stuff. Very simple, and would decrease load times a bunch.
I rarely find anything on EBay cheaper than at a normal etailer, addin the worry of dealing with a shady seller and there is little motivation in buying anything _NEW_ on EBay. EBay needs to focus on what its good for, USED, CLOSEOUT, or RARE items. I have saved thousands of dollars getting great deals on close-out or nearly new items, of course they are hard to find due to all the new item listings.
If you are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees then you have no business being on EBay. You should open your own website, even if your sales significantly decrease you will still make more profit, and your job will be easier with lower volume.
With IOps an order of magnitude higher than standard disks, SSDs are primed to take the DB and file server markets by storm. Especially since performance usually trumps cost there. When it costs you $500/hour to optimize your DB or millions for downtime, spending $3 per gigabyte is a no brainer.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-memoright,1926-11.html
I understand your point but I think you underestimate how prevalent home theaters are, even ones with screens larger than 100". Anyone with such a setup would benefit from bluray, even average people would see the difference, and I assure you anyone spending the money on a theater would care, a lot. There is a multibillion dollar market for home movie projectors, there is definately a market for bluray.
"No. The only people who really care whether they are watching an up-converted DVD or a blu-ray are are videophile snobs looking to justify the expense, who pause the movie to point at some intricate pattern in the corner of the screen and gloat."
No. I guarantee you everyone is able to see the difference if they were sitting at the THX recommended distance from their screen. For a 42" screen that is 4.7 feet, well within the 5.5 feet required for visual acuity of 1920 x 1080. Of course sitting that close to a 42" screen is usually impractical, and its easier to see and understand on a larger screen, such as my 120" with a 1080p projector.
Since I don't buy media, I rent it, why wouldn't I want the best recording possible, renting a bluray disc is the same price as renting a DVD.
If you want a cinema experience in your home as the director intended, bluray is the only way to go. It does make a difference that anyone can see and resolve all 1080 lines and more if you are doing a valid test. Of course no one is going to see the difference 10 feet away from a 36" tv.
http://myhometheater.homestead.com/viewingdistancecalculator.html
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/researchers-develop-a-360-degree-holographic-display/
And yet most of the movies released this year fall in those categories.
For someone who came from virtual obscurity to where he is today, he has a shot at making it in 2012. Younger people who supported him will be 4 years older and have more influence. Others who didn't support him or know of him may remember his name which will be very beneficial.