BitTorrent was so successful because it was an open system: an open standard with a public domain reference implementation. Anybody could use it, anybody could write a client for it.
BitTorrent Live failed because it was a closed system: a proprietary standard, a super clunky closed-source client, and a closed system that only allows a very small amount of curated content.
If BitTorrent Live had been as open as the original protocol, or at least free and open for non-commercial use, it could have been revolutionary, and put the power of video streaming back in the hands of individual users. BitTorrent (the company) could then have earned revenue by producing their own client or licensing the technology for commercial use. Instead, it's a flop that was dead-on-arrival.
Billions of dollars in membership fees are not a drop in the bucket: the entirety of Costco's multi-billion profit comes from their membership fees, which allows the rest of the business to basically operate at-cost.
By both revenue and market cap, Costco is roughly 70-80x the size of the golf company. Costco's net income alone is higher than both Acushnet's revenue and their market cap. Costco has essentially unlimited resources available to fight any litigation, meaning this case will be decided on the merits if Costco wants it to be.
Costco's products tend to be cheap because they have policies on limiting markup (Kirkland products have a 15% markup, third party products are 8-10%). They can afford to do this because their membership fees cover their corporate overhead.
Those are codeshared flights that are not operated by United or Delta. If you actually click on the "Check Your Flight" link next to United or Delta, you're taken to a page that does not include either airline in the dropdown.
For example, while you can buy a ticket from United to fly from New York to Dubai, you'll be flying on a Swiss Air aircraft from Zurich to Dubai, or a Lufthansa aircraft from Frankfurt, etc. Do a search for flights to Dubai on United's website and you'll get a whole bunch of flights, and not one of them is operated by United.
I don't know if it's true of all the impacted airports, but I believe that in most of the cases (it's certainly true of Istanbul and Dubai), there aren't any American passenger airlines that fly to them.
Except most t-mobile plans include unlimited Canadian roaming, and the plans that don't only cost $0.59 per minute... so no, you don't pay $2 for ten seconds of accidental roaming.
There appears to be collateral damage, in that these bans are impacting countries other than the US (and by extension the UK). Royal Jordanian has announced that flights between Jordan and Canada are also subject to the ban. It appears to be because those direct Jordan-Canada flights then do a hop to the US afterwards.
Except that the proposed product is an ARM device, so while you can run Linux on it, you're not going to be using WINE. I will admit that I didn't realize that the summary was talking about two different devices, though: the latter is the one I was referring to, while the former doesn't run Android by default, so far as I can tell.
Atom has changed substantially from the early days, and considering that the CPU alone has an MSRP in 1000-unit lots of $107, I'm going to call bullshit on your claim that you can get a tablet using the Celeron N3450 for $100.
It must not be about costs, because you can buy a half decent notebook with a 1080p IPS display for a hundred dollars less than this "netbook" (see Anandtech's recent review of the Chuwi Lapbook 14.1, which has its flaws, but is an impressive value). My assumption then is that the attraction is purely the form factor. I would have thought that some sort of low-end android tablet or phone with a keyboard case of some kind would make this proposed product redundant.
Their grid storage solutions don't use powerwall, they use powerpack, which are shipped pre-populated on palettes. You're not going to gain much efficiency by building them directly into the shipping container. By the time you need to install the powerpacks, they stick them on the slab, bolt them down, and plug them in. There's a lot more that goes into building the facility than just sticking the powerpacks in.
In terms of it being doable, they built an 80 MWh installation in Los Angeles in 90 days, so building a 100 MWh installation in 100 days doesn't sound unreasonable.
That and there is work to be done for such an installation before they could actually put the powerpacks in place. Prepare the land, build the slabs, put all the supporting infrastructure in place. Actually placing and plugging in the batteries is probably one of the quickest parts, and I'd bet they can do that towards the end of the project.
It sounds like they've basically just written a better psychovisual engine for driving variable bitrate encoding. Since their work was done in concert with some universities, it's possible that we could see it make its way into x264 and x265 in the future, if they publish their work.
Every single store listed on whereismypizero is either out of stock or broken (CanaKIT returns a 404 if you try to add to cart), and some of those stores are overseas anyhow. Also, whereismypizero is a broken site that just shows "Checking" for everything.
You're basically just reinforcing his point: the Pi Zero is nearly impossible to actually buy.
The Ottawa Citizen wrote a great article about where the problem lies, and came to the conclusion that Shared Services was doomed to fail before the project even started:
Basically, it was given a lofty mandate but was then starved of both the resources and authority required to actually accomplish what they were supposed to.
Apple lets you install any signed app that didn't come from the app store, and bypassing the signed-app requirement simply requires you to hold down the "control" button the first time you launch it. The Mac app store has been kind of dying off.
The cheapest EC2 node has one CPU at a reserve pricing as low as $0.003 for a t2.nano instance. The exact math I used is:
(6500 * 365 * 24) * 0.003 = $170,820
I realize that a nano instances don't really have much CPU power available (they're intended to be used for bursty tasks), but Google didn't define what a "CPU hour" was, so neither did I.
Assuming Amazon has sufficient capacity, it could be completed in an arbitrarily short amount of time by spinning up enough instances. Amazon bills by aggregate time, so the cost of one node for two days is the same as the cost of two nodes for one day.
My point was more to show that it's potentially achievable without Google or NSA sized budgets, and that the cost would only shrink from there over time.
Well, what exactly a time unit of CPU computation means isn't defined (it's like saying "This item cost me 500 monetary units", there's no context), but if we just take it to mean a literal amount of time on any random CPU...
6,500 years of CPU time potentially costs as little as ~$171k USD at Amazon, and compute costs are continuously falling.
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BitTorrent was so successful because it was an open system: an open standard with a public domain reference implementation. Anybody could use it, anybody could write a client for it.
BitTorrent Live failed because it was a closed system: a proprietary standard, a super clunky closed-source client, and a closed system that only allows a very small amount of curated content.
If BitTorrent Live had been as open as the original protocol, or at least free and open for non-commercial use, it could have been revolutionary, and put the power of video streaming back in the hands of individual users. BitTorrent (the company) could then have earned revenue by producing their own client or licensing the technology for commercial use. Instead, it's a flop that was dead-on-arrival.
Billions of dollars in membership fees are not a drop in the bucket: the entirety of Costco's multi-billion profit comes from their membership fees, which allows the rest of the business to basically operate at-cost.
By both revenue and market cap, Costco is roughly 70-80x the size of the golf company. Costco's net income alone is higher than both Acushnet's revenue and their market cap. Costco has essentially unlimited resources available to fight any litigation, meaning this case will be decided on the merits if Costco wants it to be.
Costco's products tend to be cheap because they have policies on limiting markup (Kirkland products have a 15% markup, third party products are 8-10%). They can afford to do this because their membership fees cover their corporate overhead.
Those are codeshared flights that are not operated by United or Delta. If you actually click on the "Check Your Flight" link next to United or Delta, you're taken to a page that does not include either airline in the dropdown.
For example, while you can buy a ticket from United to fly from New York to Dubai, you'll be flying on a Swiss Air aircraft from Zurich to Dubai, or a Lufthansa aircraft from Frankfurt, etc. Do a search for flights to Dubai on United's website and you'll get a whole bunch of flights, and not one of them is operated by United.
I don't know if it's true of all the impacted airports, but I believe that in most of the cases (it's certainly true of Istanbul and Dubai), there aren't any American passenger airlines that fly to them.
Except most t-mobile plans include unlimited Canadian roaming, and the plans that don't only cost $0.59 per minute... so no, you don't pay $2 for ten seconds of accidental roaming.
Errm, there is no search option in the context menu, so why would people be clicking print in the context menu when they want to search?
There appears to be collateral damage, in that these bans are impacting countries other than the US (and by extension the UK). Royal Jordanian has announced that flights between Jordan and Canada are also subject to the ban. It appears to be because those direct Jordan-Canada flights then do a hop to the US afterwards.
Except that the proposed product is an ARM device, so while you can run Linux on it, you're not going to be using WINE. I will admit that I didn't realize that the summary was talking about two different devices, though: the latter is the one I was referring to, while the former doesn't run Android by default, so far as I can tell.
Atom has changed substantially from the early days, and considering that the CPU alone has an MSRP in 1000-unit lots of $107, I'm going to call bullshit on your claim that you can get a tablet using the Celeron N3450 for $100.
It must not be about costs, because you can buy a half decent notebook with a 1080p IPS display for a hundred dollars less than this "netbook" (see Anandtech's recent review of the Chuwi Lapbook 14.1, which has its flaws, but is an impressive value). My assumption then is that the attraction is purely the form factor. I would have thought that some sort of low-end android tablet or phone with a keyboard case of some kind would make this proposed product redundant.
Their grid storage solutions don't use powerwall, they use powerpack, which are shipped pre-populated on palettes. You're not going to gain much efficiency by building them directly into the shipping container. By the time you need to install the powerpacks, they stick them on the slab, bolt them down, and plug them in. There's a lot more that goes into building the facility than just sticking the powerpacks in.
There are likely certain aspects that can be scaled up in parallel such that installing a higher capacity takes more workers rather than more time.
In terms of it being doable, they built an 80 MWh installation in Los Angeles in 90 days, so building a 100 MWh installation in 100 days doesn't sound unreasonable.
That and there is work to be done for such an installation before they could actually put the powerpacks in place. Prepare the land, build the slabs, put all the supporting infrastructure in place. Actually placing and plugging in the batteries is probably one of the quickest parts, and I'd bet they can do that towards the end of the project.
It sounds like they've basically just written a better psychovisual engine for driving variable bitrate encoding. Since their work was done in concert with some universities, it's possible that we could see it make its way into x264 and x265 in the future, if they publish their work.
Tuesday the following year, if you're buying from eBay. Cheap electronics parts on eBay all ship from China by boat.
Every single store listed on whereismypizero is either out of stock or broken (CanaKIT returns a 404 if you try to add to cart), and some of those stores are overseas anyhow. Also, whereismypizero is a broken site that just shows "Checking" for everything.
You're basically just reinforcing his point: the Pi Zero is nearly impossible to actually buy.
Several of those items would make me stop buying them.
The Ottawa Citizen wrote a great article about where the problem lies, and came to the conclusion that Shared Services was doomed to fail before the project even started:
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/...
Basically, it was given a lofty mandate but was then starved of both the resources and authority required to actually accomplish what they were supposed to.
Apple lets you install any signed app that didn't come from the app store, and bypassing the signed-app requirement simply requires you to hold down the "control" button the first time you launch it. The Mac app store has been kind of dying off.
The cheapest EC2 node has one CPU at a reserve pricing as low as $0.003 for a t2.nano instance. The exact math I used is:
(6500 * 365 * 24) * 0.003 = $170,820
I realize that a nano instances don't really have much CPU power available (they're intended to be used for bursty tasks), but Google didn't define what a "CPU hour" was, so neither did I.
Assuming Amazon has sufficient capacity, it could be completed in an arbitrarily short amount of time by spinning up enough instances. Amazon bills by aggregate time, so the cost of one node for two days is the same as the cost of two nodes for one day.
My point was more to show that it's potentially achievable without Google or NSA sized budgets, and that the cost would only shrink from there over time.
Well, what exactly a time unit of CPU computation means isn't defined (it's like saying "This item cost me 500 monetary units", there's no context), but if we just take it to mean a literal amount of time on any random CPU...
6,500 years of CPU time potentially costs as little as ~$171k USD at Amazon, and compute costs are continuously falling.