for organizations that have large storage requirements you can't get any cheaper than tape
Are you so sure? Quantum claims that their DLT-V4 tape offers the lowest media cost/GB in its class at just $0.12. That's not including the drive, and they are not free. So it's $120/TB just for the media, which is about 30% more than a hard drive. And 1 TB isn't one tape, it's half a dozen of them, so that's fun.
Now, you could argue it's not fair to consumer hard drives to "enterprise" tape, but that's kind of the point. Tape is a niche product, so it might be a bad deal simply because the economies of scale aren't as good.
Reliability? Hard to say. Tape and HDDs are both magnetic media, but HDD platters are sealed off from the environment with a micron-level filter. Tapes aren't sealed as well.
Oh yeah. Assuming 400 MB per album (FLAC), a 35 TB tape will hold 87,500 of them. So, a million tracks, give or take. That should be fun to hunt through with nothing but FF and RW buttons!
I would guess not, since finding a "good" solution to TSP isn't hard at all, and nature usually doesn't bother expending 100x the resources to find the single "optimal" solution (which is practically meaningless anyways since the natural world is so dynamic. Has nature evolved the "optimal" human? If so, who is it?)
You do realize that the people in the film were real live filmed people that your brain didn't have to dwell on, right?
No, I didn't realize it. I looked and looked during the movie, trying to decide if the people were real or filmed, because they looked exactly as real, no more and no less, than the aliens. They even appeared side-by-side in some scenes, and it didn't look wrong. For me, Jar Jar and Gollum didn't pull that off.
I'd guess more, since Yao Ming is a worldwide superstar and renowned throughout China. (Check out Year of the Yao sometime.)
The difference is, Yao Ming never became commonplace because there's only one of him. "Uncanny" robots could be manufactured by the millions and hence become commonplace, if there is ever a reason to do so.
My guess is lots of companies will make robots that creep everybody out. Then eventually Apple will release something that's weird but in a cool way, and people will start dressing up like it at halloween.
The reason you didnt feel the uncanny valley was because it wasnt real. It was so far from real that your brain didnt find the twisted smurf creatures disturbing.
There were plenty of humans in the film too, so that point is moot. However, the blue people were definitely more lifelike than gollum in my eyes.
I do consider Avatar a breakthrough. I don't know whether it really was in huge step in any particular technical aspect, or whether the whole just surpassed some threshold, but the realism of everything combined with (and especially) 3d made it a breakthrough experience for me.
The people that tend to get all vitriolic about the Osprey are generally the people who don't like any spending on military hardware ever.
To be fair, it has a body count of 30 people in 3 separate incidents, even before it reached operational status. Very few defense programs must own up to that kind of numbers.
That said, I now see them flying around most days of the week and they are sure cool!
But the aircraft weighs about the same anywhere in this altitude range. To maintain altitude, you must apply enough force to the air to equal the pull of gravity on your aircraft. So the product of airmass and downward airspeed remains constant (f=ma). So if the downward airmass is less, the downward airspeed must be greater, which would increases heat transfer to some degree. Greater downward airspeed would also increase the volume and thus the total downward airmass, so the difference in downward airmass must be less than the difference in air density.
Hmmph, let's just start flying up and see what happens to the temperature gauge!
There is no scandal in an earthquake. The reason you need professionals digging for stories is because there are issues where the people involved firsthand would rather keep them buried. Those are the ones we have to worry about.
Naturally this impairs the market for real money, like the Liberty dollar, by confusing it with the far less valuable "legal tender".
I will take the USD or Euro over precious metals any day. The value of any single commodity, including gold and silver, fluctuates wildly against any reasonable index of inflation. Meanwhile the dollar is reasonably stable. Granted, it does deflate steadily and doesn't hold value over a century, so keep it in a bank instead of a mattress. But I wouldn't hazard a guess how much gold it might take to buy a dinner, or a home, even one year from now.
But it's not even out of theaters in China; they're still running the 3d version on 900 screens. I think what China is defending is national pride, trying to artificially level out the success of foreign vs. domestic films, and preserving the traditional Chinese identity.
As for Cuba, I guess it's the same thing on our part. Our pride can't tolerate Cuba's defiance. Look at Vietnam, and how long that dragged on even though the outcome was more or less certain, because each President knew the American people would hate a "loser" President. Quite a few people consider national pride alone enough of a reason to keep sending people to their deaths, rationalizing that weakness invites aggression.
I'm no expert, but what definitely looks wrong to me there is the use of the word "Dollar." If I sell you a lump of silver for $20, fine. But if I sell you something that says "$20 dollars" on it, with the explicit (or clearly implied) promise that it will always be worth $20 USD, that is not fine. That is forgery, because it implies the faith & credit of the US govt for my made-up currency.
It just depends on when you suspect the alleged snooping is most likely to occur. Protecting clients (google webmail clients in this case) does protect the end-user credentials. In cases where the sender and receiver happen to both be on gmail, all you have left to worry about is whether google itself is snooping - which they are, openly and on a massive scale. But they have an awful lot of users who don't seem to mind, and so far it's hard to identify any sort of damages from it, whereas the benefit in spam filtering is easy to appreciate.
Well, what are the supposed consequences? There is a rather glaring lack of horror stories about people with big problems that would have been prevented by using encryption. Partly because the stuff that most needs to be, already is (ssl/https). And with gmail now using https by default a huge swath of email is now encrypted on the wire.
For me, Avatar bridged the uncanny valley. Ignore the Alien scenes entirely; there were many humans in the picture too. And they looked incredibly good. Real enough to appear next to live-filmed humans, probably not, but not "creepy" either.
Didn't you get the memo? Most of your fellow gw deniers have retreated from debating whether glaciers and icecaps are melting and sea level is rising, to whether it is caused by people. (The reason for this is the ice is melting and sealevel is rising. It's not just a prediction.)
Now, unfortunately, there is a strong probability that the rich people living on beaches will sucker the poorer people in the rest of the country into paying to rebuild their mansions when they wash away. So, I suppose it might still be a good investment.
We could simply ignore the problem as a race. Every time something bad happens to a group of people, they usually figure out how to adapt and prosper... If you live in the US, look at your paycheck every month to see just how much it's costing us to solve other people's problems.
What do I care about your high taxes? I'm sure you'll figure out a way to adapt and prosper.
No, there is nothing wrong with $5 SPDIF cables. Maybe, MAYBE, if you spent a long time and tried really hard, you could get an SPDIF connection to mostly work but with a significant bit error rate, by wrapping it around sharp corners, or putting dirt on the ends or something. In practice, I've never seen it not work.
But your Receiver/PrePro/Amplifiers are very good, and you don't want to just replace them just to get ones with HDMI built in. But luckily they can take 5.1 or 7.1 analog inputs from a player with good quality outputs. This is exactly why I like the Oppo BluRay player.
How old are we talking? You don't need HDMI for sound, just SPDIF or digital coax. Any 10 year old receiver has those.
I have a PS2, which I always and only play with my son in split screen mode (Star Wars, Burnout). For splitscreen, it really would be nice to upgrade to 1080p. Splitting NTSC gives you 240i which isn't really satisfactory.
Maybe that's why I perceived Avatar as a breakthrough; with the combination of 3d and how they composited things, the humans looked very real, in an unreal yet very convincing setting, and it didn't feel weird (as opposed to, say, the Polar Express).
It's not just Sony; most companies do this. I've noticed Apple will swear up and down that there's no reason not to buy their current products until the day they unveil the new one. Even if the "new Wii" were announced 11 months from now, is there anything definite enough (like specific dates) in the Fils-Aime's statement that he could be called a liar? No, of course not. Of course not.
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Are you so sure? Quantum claims that their DLT-V4 tape offers the lowest media cost/GB in its class at just $0.12. That's not including the drive, and they are not free. So it's $120/TB just for the media, which is about 30% more than a hard drive. And 1 TB isn't one tape, it's half a dozen of them, so that's fun.
Now, you could argue it's not fair to consumer hard drives to "enterprise" tape, but that's kind of the point. Tape is a niche product, so it might be a bad deal simply because the economies of scale aren't as good.
Reliability? Hard to say. Tape and HDDs are both magnetic media, but HDD platters are sealed off from the environment with a micron-level filter. Tapes aren't sealed as well.
Oh yeah. Assuming 400 MB per album (FLAC), a 35 TB tape will hold 87,500 of them. So, a million tracks, give or take. That should be fun to hunt through with nothing but FF and RW buttons!
I would guess not, since finding a "good" solution to TSP isn't hard at all, and nature usually doesn't bother expending 100x the resources to find the single "optimal" solution (which is practically meaningless anyways since the natural world is so dynamic. Has nature evolved the "optimal" human? If so, who is it?)
No, I didn't realize it. I looked and looked during the movie, trying to decide if the people were real or filmed, because they looked exactly as real, no more and no less, than the aliens. They even appeared side-by-side in some scenes, and it didn't look wrong. For me, Jar Jar and Gollum didn't pull that off.
The difference is, Yao Ming never became commonplace because there's only one of him. "Uncanny" robots could be manufactured by the millions and hence become commonplace, if there is ever a reason to do so.
My guess is lots of companies will make robots that creep everybody out. Then eventually Apple will release something that's weird but in a cool way, and people will start dressing up like it at halloween.
There were plenty of humans in the film too, so that point is moot. However, the blue people were definitely more lifelike than gollum in my eyes.
I do consider Avatar a breakthrough. I don't know whether it really was in huge step in any particular technical aspect, or whether the whole just surpassed some threshold, but the realism of everything combined with (and especially) 3d made it a breakthrough experience for me.
To be fair, it has a body count of 30 people in 3 separate incidents, even before it reached operational status. Very few defense programs must own up to that kind of numbers.
That said, I now see them flying around most days of the week and they are sure cool!
That Osprey crash is pretty horrendous, but it was also 20 years ago.
Hmmph, let's just start flying up and see what happens to the temperature gauge!
There is no scandal in an earthquake. The reason you need professionals digging for stories is because there are issues where the people involved firsthand would rather keep them buried. Those are the ones we have to worry about.
We can be pretty sure it wasn't widely exploited, otherwise somebody somewhere would have noticed.
I will take the USD or Euro over precious metals any day. The value of any single commodity, including gold and silver, fluctuates wildly against any reasonable index of inflation. Meanwhile the dollar is reasonably stable. Granted, it does deflate steadily and doesn't hold value over a century, so keep it in a bank instead of a mattress. But I wouldn't hazard a guess how much gold it might take to buy a dinner, or a home, even one year from now.
As for Cuba, I guess it's the same thing on our part. Our pride can't tolerate Cuba's defiance. Look at Vietnam, and how long that dragged on even though the outcome was more or less certain, because each President knew the American people would hate a "loser" President. Quite a few people consider national pride alone enough of a reason to keep sending people to their deaths, rationalizing that weakness invites aggression.
I'm no expert, but what definitely looks wrong to me there is the use of the word "Dollar." If I sell you a lump of silver for $20, fine. But if I sell you something that says "$20 dollars" on it, with the explicit (or clearly implied) promise that it will always be worth $20 USD, that is not fine. That is forgery, because it implies the faith & credit of the US govt for my made-up currency.
It just depends on when you suspect the alleged snooping is most likely to occur. Protecting clients (google webmail clients in this case) does protect the end-user credentials. In cases where the sender and receiver happen to both be on gmail, all you have left to worry about is whether google itself is snooping - which they are, openly and on a massive scale. But they have an awful lot of users who don't seem to mind, and so far it's hard to identify any sort of damages from it, whereas the benefit in spam filtering is easy to appreciate.
Well, what are the supposed consequences? There is a rather glaring lack of horror stories about people with big problems that would have been prevented by using encryption. Partly because the stuff that most needs to be, already is (ssl/https). And with gmail now using https by default a huge swath of email is now encrypted on the wire.
For me, Avatar bridged the uncanny valley. Ignore the Alien scenes entirely; there were many humans in the picture too. And they looked incredibly good. Real enough to appear next to live-filmed humans, probably not, but not "creepy" either.
Now, unfortunately, there is a strong probability that the rich people living on beaches will sucker the poorer people in the rest of the country into paying to rebuild their mansions when they wash away. So, I suppose it might still be a good investment.
What do I care about your high taxes? I'm sure you'll figure out a way to adapt and prosper.
No, there is nothing wrong with $5 SPDIF cables. Maybe, MAYBE, if you spent a long time and tried really hard, you could get an SPDIF connection to mostly work but with a significant bit error rate, by wrapping it around sharp corners, or putting dirt on the ends or something. In practice, I've never seen it not work.
How old are we talking? You don't need HDMI for sound, just SPDIF or digital coax. Any 10 year old receiver has those.
Outsourcing whatever we can just frees up Americans to do more productive and high-paying jobs, such as, you know, really cool jobs and stuff.
I have a PS2, which I always and only play with my son in split screen mode (Star Wars, Burnout). For splitscreen, it really would be nice to upgrade to 1080p. Splitting NTSC gives you 240i which isn't really satisfactory.
I think the uncanny valley has been bridged.
It's not just Sony; most companies do this. I've noticed Apple will swear up and down that there's no reason not to buy their current products until the day they unveil the new one. Even if the "new Wii" were announced 11 months from now, is there anything definite enough (like specific dates) in the Fils-Aime's statement that he could be called a liar? No, of course not. Of course not.