Maybe 1-2 channels but most cable systems are loaded with sd channels and old mpeg2 HD boxes.
But there are only 1-2 cable channels that people are actually willing to pay for: namely ESPN. Football will look FANTASTIC on a 60" 4K screen. That alone will seal the deal, given that a 60" 4K screen probably costs very little more to manufacture than a 1080 screen; just as with camera sensors, the size drives the cost much more than the resolution, and 60" 1080 TVs are under $1000 now (wow).
Nobody will bat an eye at losing 3 other random channels to get their football fix in full glory.
To put numbers on that, a 1920x1080 screen already has 6 times as many pixels as a 720x480 DVD, whereas 4k is only a 4x increase from 1080.
Another 4x increase is almost nothing compared to the leap made from sound to video - when youtube launched in 2005 it was considered to really be pushing the envelope with its crappy little 320x240 video. (So recent!)
Actually I disagree. One huge issue that was effectively resolved was entitlement reform. Romney brought on Ryan who had made a big name for himself in that area. The outcome was, it was an unpopular stance and Romney ended up trying to run to the left of Obama on Medicare. Which is another way of saying, the American People have spoken, and we are still not ready to cry "uncle" on healthcare expenses. Not yet.
they don't have nearly the same budgets for this kind of bespoke IT work and corporation-sized infrastructure, so are having trouble figuring out how to adapt any lessons from it.
Well there you go. From the title I thought this would be a story about Obama's IT team starting an actual startup to provide similar services to other marketing or political campaigns. Work for Obama one week, the NRA the next. No point starting from scratch every time.
Nokia isn't "in the middle," they are the endpoint you are accessing. If that is compromised all bets are off. (Just like how https won't guard against a key logger installed in your keyboard).
A predictive analytics course at Northwestern is a different thing - that's trying to cash in on wall street traders and so forth, i.e. people who already have money. Top business schools can charge quite a bit to go teach courses at companies. "Cyber security" is the same way - if you can put together computer security and enterprise/national security in the right way you can charge a lot for a seminar or class.
A thousand banks all intertwined together are no different than just a few big banks. It wasn't one or two banks that failed. It was the whole system that failed.
I tried to do this recently on a 128 GB SD card, thinking it would be sweet to keep my whole operating environment (data and a Win7 VM with MS Office, Project, Matlab, gimp, DeLorme Topo...) all with me on a TrueCrypt volume. Capacity wasn't so much the issue for me, but speed was (I saw at best 40 MB/s read with the Lexar 400x, and 30 MB/s with the Sandisk Extreme 45MB/s - and less for writing). They were fine for storing most data, but too slow for suspending and resuming the VM. The promised specs for these new thumb drives sounds great, and makes me wonder if thumb drives don't have much more advanced onboard controllers than SD Cards do. (My PowerBook Pro has no USB3, and there is no Thuderbolt to USB3 adapter, so there is no practical way to plug a fast thumb drive into it).
Not really. While I agree that C is a bad language, it has no competition in low-level coding.
The enduring popularity and success of C is a strong argument that there aren't any really bad languages - that language design just doesn't matter very much. That designing new languages is largely a waste of time. The only real requirement for a language is that it gives you enough control to do whatever you want; from there you can get anywhere, and you can also write progressively higher levels of APIs to make programming tolerable. Thus the more advanced a language is, the more likely to exclude itself from a given application, since the more likely it is to "take care of something" in a way other than what you wanted.
At least C dominates assembler as the lingua franca - so compiling, in itself, is of value. But C is about the most primitive compiled language that could be devised, and here it still is, after all these years, and hundreds of almost infinitely more advanced languages have come and gone. Imagine if today's automobiles didn't offer enough advantages over the Model T to brush it aside.
Am I totally misunderstanding you? Microsoft is not exhibiting at CES this year. FTA: "Microsoft, one of the mainstays of CES for many years is not in Las Vegas this week, deciding last year that it would take a year out from giving the keynote address by its head man - formerly Bill Gates, lately the Marmite-like Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft also went down the route of holding it's own one-off launch event for the Surface tablet, showing once again that CES is not the place to show off your next big thing."
I was kind of surprised the upgrade will cost "only" 40 million. That is less than 1/2 of 1% of the $9 BN program cost. In other words their expenditures must be down a lot this year during the upgrade.
They had a picture of the car on the news last night and it still has a big lidar sticking out the top and is clearly a research vehicle in many other respects. Even though Toyota is exhibiting the car at CES, it is years ahead of what they are actually marketing.
Intel is a big, rich company, so why place all their bets on Core or Atom exclusively instead of stacking the deck with both?
Remember when the Netburst (P4) architecture turned out not to have the legs that they hoped, and AMD was beating up on them, it was Intel's mobile architecture (Pentium M, developed somewhat independently in Israel following on P3 rather than Netburst) that became the basis for the Core architecture, which brought Intel back into the lead on desktops. Secondly, consider Itanium - what if they had completely committed to that and burned their bridges on x86? If I were in the corner office at Intel I would allow Atom and Core to compete until and unless one has no advantages over the other.
Even writing a substantive email (or I guess facebook update these days) would be painful without a keyboard.
I would be interested in firsthand feedback on how good the bluetooth keyboards are. I had a folding keyboard for my palm pilot 10 years ago, it was semi-ok, but not great. Personally I don't like the compromised layouts that come with mini-keyboards.
This article is nothing but storytelling, which is effective in stirring the pot but not informative. An actual study on career stress would be so much more interesting. Even following a simple protocol, such as randomly querying a large selection of people throughout the day, could generate interesting data. Or you could randomly take saliva swabs and measure cortisol concentration. Or you could continuously measure heart rate, and sample blood pressure.
It just bothers me to see people spinning up myths and expending so much energy in debate that is so fact-free.
You're looking for consistency in whether someone's actions might benefit you, and not finding it. Instead see if there is not consistency in the person's set of abilities, and willingness to take actions in their own self interest.
65 years ago there were no African Americans playing pro Baseball or Basketball. Culture can dominate and manipulate market signals for very long periods of time.
Of course, getting those equal grades and test scores when you had subpar educational opportunities is the hard part. (And don't try to pretend those inner-city schools are actually equal).
If I were recruiting for a running team, I might pick the guy who came in second, if I found out he was forced to start late due to no fault of his own.
Would you happen to know why they filmed the Hobbit at 5K when most theaters are 2K (are they still?), and (more to the point) the better theaters project 4K? It seems like 5K dowscaled to 4K would be worse quality than just shooting 4K in the first place.
It would be kind of strange if HFR doubles the data requirement, since the frame-to-frame correlation is even stronger than at the lower FPS (less change between frames). (Then again maybe the editing codecs don't do interframe compression so it's easier to jump anywhere with single-frame accuracy?)
No, the fact that even people who want nothing to do with the arms race are still dragged into it is exactly the problem. You think they're glad they have to waste money on armed guards? Or enjoy being threatened?
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This "contradiction" is vexing to people who also say things like:
"If people think taxes should be higher, they can go ahead and make a donation to the IRS, but don't speak for me!"
"If people are so worried about air pollution, let them go ahead and drive a Prius, but don't make me use that anti-smog crap!"
The common factor in each case is that the individual CANNOT solve the problem simply by taking a personal stand - doing so simply places the individual at a disadvantage while not solving the problem. Some problems simply require collective solutions. Some terms for related ideas include arms race, tragedy of the commons, and race to the bottom.
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But there are only 1-2 cable channels that people are actually willing to pay for: namely ESPN. Football will look FANTASTIC on a 60" 4K screen. That alone will seal the deal, given that a 60" 4K screen probably costs very little more to manufacture than a 1080 screen; just as with camera sensors, the size drives the cost much more than the resolution, and 60" 1080 TVs are under $1000 now (wow). Nobody will bat an eye at losing 3 other random channels to get their football fix in full glory.
Another 4x increase is almost nothing compared to the leap made from sound to video - when youtube launched in 2005 it was considered to really be pushing the envelope with its crappy little 320x240 video. (So recent!)
Actually I disagree. One huge issue that was effectively resolved was entitlement reform. Romney brought on Ryan who had made a big name for himself in that area. The outcome was, it was an unpopular stance and Romney ended up trying to run to the left of Obama on Medicare. Which is another way of saying, the American People have spoken, and we are still not ready to cry "uncle" on healthcare expenses. Not yet.
Well there you go. From the title I thought this would be a story about Obama's IT team starting an actual startup to provide similar services to other marketing or political campaigns. Work for Obama one week, the NRA the next. No point starting from scratch every time.
Nokia isn't "in the middle," they are the endpoint you are accessing. If that is compromised all bets are off. (Just like how https won't guard against a key logger installed in your keyboard).
Making an example of the offenders is exactly what they ARE trying to do. The specific content of the tweet, nobody will care or even remember.
A predictive analytics course at Northwestern is a different thing - that's trying to cash in on wall street traders and so forth, i.e. people who already have money. Top business schools can charge quite a bit to go teach courses at companies. "Cyber security" is the same way - if you can put together computer security and enterprise/national security in the right way you can charge a lot for a seminar or class.
A thousand banks all intertwined together are no different than just a few big banks. It wasn't one or two banks that failed. It was the whole system that failed.
I agree it's a design flaw, but is it something that could happen during-flight?
I tried to do this recently on a 128 GB SD card, thinking it would be sweet to keep my whole operating environment (data and a Win7 VM with MS Office, Project, Matlab, gimp, DeLorme Topo...) all with me on a TrueCrypt volume. Capacity wasn't so much the issue for me, but speed was (I saw at best 40 MB/s read with the Lexar 400x, and 30 MB/s with the Sandisk Extreme 45MB/s - and less for writing). They were fine for storing most data, but too slow for suspending and resuming the VM. The promised specs for these new thumb drives sounds great, and makes me wonder if thumb drives don't have much more advanced onboard controllers than SD Cards do. (My PowerBook Pro has no USB3, and there is no Thuderbolt to USB3 adapter, so there is no practical way to plug a fast thumb drive into it).
The enduring popularity and success of C is a strong argument that there aren't any really bad languages - that language design just doesn't matter very much. That designing new languages is largely a waste of time. The only real requirement for a language is that it gives you enough control to do whatever you want; from there you can get anywhere, and you can also write progressively higher levels of APIs to make programming tolerable. Thus the more advanced a language is, the more likely to exclude itself from a given application, since the more likely it is to "take care of something" in a way other than what you wanted.
At least C dominates assembler as the lingua franca - so compiling, in itself, is of value. But C is about the most primitive compiled language that could be devised, and here it still is, after all these years, and hundreds of almost infinitely more advanced languages have come and gone. Imagine if today's automobiles didn't offer enough advantages over the Model T to brush it aside.
Microsoft also went down the route of holding it's own one-off launch event for the Surface tablet, showing once again that CES is not the place to show off your next big thing."
I was kind of surprised the upgrade will cost "only" 40 million. That is less than 1/2 of 1% of the $9 BN program cost. In other words their expenditures must be down a lot this year during the upgrade.
They had a picture of the car on the news last night and it still has a big lidar sticking out the top and is clearly a research vehicle in many other respects. Even though Toyota is exhibiting the car at CES, it is years ahead of what they are actually marketing.
Remember when the Netburst (P4) architecture turned out not to have the legs that they hoped, and AMD was beating up on them, it was Intel's mobile architecture (Pentium M, developed somewhat independently in Israel following on P3 rather than Netburst) that became the basis for the Core architecture, which brought Intel back into the lead on desktops. Secondly, consider Itanium - what if they had completely committed to that and burned their bridges on x86? If I were in the corner office at Intel I would allow Atom and Core to compete until and unless one has no advantages over the other.
I would be interested in firsthand feedback on how good the bluetooth keyboards are. I had a folding keyboard for my palm pilot 10 years ago, it was semi-ok, but not great. Personally I don't like the compromised layouts that come with mini-keyboards.
It just bothers me to see people spinning up myths and expending so much energy in debate that is so fact-free.
You're looking for consistency in whether someone's actions might benefit you, and not finding it. Instead see if there is not consistency in the person's set of abilities, and willingness to take actions in their own self interest.
65 years ago there were no African Americans playing pro Baseball or Basketball. Culture can dominate and manipulate market signals for very long periods of time.
If I were recruiting for a running team, I might pick the guy who came in second, if I found out he was forced to start late due to no fault of his own.
Would you happen to know why they filmed the Hobbit at 5K when most theaters are 2K (are they still?), and (more to the point) the better theaters project 4K? It seems like 5K dowscaled to 4K would be worse quality than just shooting 4K in the first place.
It would be kind of strange if HFR doubles the data requirement, since the frame-to-frame correlation is even stronger than at the lower FPS (less change between frames). (Then again maybe the editing codecs don't do interframe compression so it's easier to jump anywhere with single-frame accuracy?)
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This "contradiction" is vexing to people who also say things like:
"If people think taxes should be higher, they can go ahead and make a donation to the IRS, but don't speak for me!" "If people are so worried about air pollution, let them go ahead and drive a Prius, but don't make me use that anti-smog crap!"
The common factor in each case is that the individual CANNOT solve the problem simply by taking a personal stand - doing so simply places the individual at a disadvantage while not solving the problem. Some problems simply require collective solutions. Some terms for related ideas include arms race, tragedy of the commons, and race to the bottom.
It's a simple arms race. There's nothing ironic or hypocritical about favoring mutual disarmament while not be willing to disarm unilaterally.
I might be confused, but I thought you had bought a sports package for a bar or something, and I was curious how much they charged you.