Consider this: 1.4gigs for 2 hour movie (suprnova). 12*1.4 for 24 hours worth of movies---that's 16.8gigs per day. With a 400Gig HD, you should be able to fit: 400/16.8 = 23.8 days worth of near-dvd quality video/sound. If you use 700MB per 2 hour-movie compression scheme (as many divx do), then you can get twice as much... ie: ~47 days worth of better than VHS (not quite dvd) quality video....assuming you can get some hardware to do the compression...
I'd imagine they'd start with `identification' of the sort of "average color on the moving blob/person", then (in a few years) move to female/male recognition (to better target ads), then to possibly scanning various chips embeded in your teeth for a positive match of who you are, and how often you pass by that ad.
...go back to good old-fashioned paper gift certificates
Like cash. If you want to give someone $20, just give them $20. It amazes me that people buy these gift cards---especially when they force someone to use that same store (ie: it's a win-win situation for the business... unless they give you a 10% discount on the gift cards, I don't see any point in getting one).
(with a discount, you could get yourself a gift card, and then turn around and purchase anything with it... saving 10% of anything you buy----so I doubt they do that).
I think what the parent meant is that you use MS Access as the GUI front end to SQL Server---you gain rapid development of Access, with all the power of SQL Server. I've done these projects myself, and they're really easy to setup, and scale very well (given that all users have Access on their desktops).
As a plus, you can also have VB (and other) apps connecting to the SQL Server, which have nothing to do with Access.
Having been a professor for 4 years, it still amazes me to the length that students will go to, and the time they will waste in trying to get out of having to do the work assigned to them!
It amazes me that people bother paying for such education in the first place! I mean, if you're not here to learn, why bother coming?
I also teach, and my solution to cheating is to allow students to bring in 1 sheet of notes to tests. Write anything you want on it. I've noticed that many students spend a lot of time preparing that sheet than actually studying---but while preparing the sheet, they tend to read through the material, etc., and during the exam, tend not to use that sheet ('cause I'd never ask questions that just require a simple right-out-of-the-book answer).
Oh well let them charge via subscriptions, thats the best way for them to dig their own graves.
Yes. Just like subscriptions are burrying AOL, TimeWarner, a bunch of other ISPs and cable companies... Oh, and don't forget your telephone companies... yeah, they sure are suffering due to lack of... money(?).
Although we like to think that just because millions of people are doing it, it somehow makes the action not quite as wrong, stealing music isn't legal.
Hmm... by that logic, congress can pass a law that would make it illegal to vote. Who cares if the majority of the population complains... they can't be right... since it's against the law.
It seems to me that if Copywright law, made by Congress, is being used to violate political speech, that that pesky little Amendment 1 ought to void out such laws in such circumstances.
In my opinion, the article is a bit misleading. From my down to earth view (of having contact with literaly hundreds of IT folks) there are more jobs now than there were in the last few years...
The jobs are different though. Most are doing fairly boring things, and salaries are in the $30-40k range. (very few are in the $50k range). There are obviously exceptions (one of my friends makes $85k), but the average is still ~$35k.
Then again, that's better than being unemployed... And there are cently more jobs there now than there were a year or two ago. But they're crappy jobs.
Those salaries seem misleading. Very few people I know make that... Most are in the $30-40k range. (working on all these cool thingies---yes, even Linux)
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I wonder if anyone noticed how i,robot robots are similar to the robots in Animatrix. The `body' seems to be nearly identical.
Also, human form isn't nessasarily something that's bad. It had millions of years of evolution acting upon it, and it managed to evolve into something we have today. Maybe it's not as bad as `versatile' tasks that robots may perform...
ie: if you want a robot that works like a human in all terrains and environments; maybe the human shape is ideal... But if the robot is doing only 1 task then I'm sure it can be specifically optimized to that task and look nothing like a human.
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Kill two birds with one stone ...and then cremate them!
Consider this: 1.4gigs for 2 hour movie (suprnova). 12*1.4 for 24 hours worth of movies---that's 16.8gigs per day. With a 400Gig HD, you should be able to fit: 400/16.8 = 23.8 days worth of near-dvd quality video/sound. If you use 700MB per 2 hour-movie compression scheme (as many divx do), then you can get twice as much... ie: ~47 days worth of better than VHS (not quite dvd) quality video. ...assuming you can get some hardware to do the compression...
Or, maybe they can make it run on corpses...
The ultimate `human powered' concept...
I'd imagine they'd start with `identification' of the sort of "average color on the moving blob/person", then (in a few years) move to female/male recognition (to better target ads), then to possibly scanning various chips embeded in your teeth for a positive match of who you are, and how often you pass by that ad.
...go back to good old-fashioned paper gift certificates
Like cash. If you want to give someone $20, just give them $20. It amazes me that people buy these gift cards---especially when they force someone to use that same store (ie: it's a win-win situation for the business... unless they give you a 10% discount on the gift cards, I don't see any point in getting one).
(with a discount, you could get yourself a gift card, and then turn around and purchase anything with it... saving 10% of anything you buy----so I doubt they do that).
What is it then? Because if it doesn't game, do graphics or do Motion, then a $299 walmart box can do nearly everything it can do. Plus it runs Linux.
Yes, but nobody gets envious because of a $299 walmart box...
Not to mention that whole artistic/gay thing.
Last time I checked, XDoclet generated _some_ forms... with validation, etc. Never actually used'em though.
I think what the parent meant is that you use MS Access as the GUI front end to SQL Server---you gain rapid development of Access, with all the power of SQL Server. I've done these projects myself, and they're really easy to setup, and scale very well (given that all users have Access on their desktops).
As a plus, you can also have VB (and other) apps connecting to the SQL Server, which have nothing to do with Access.
Having been a professor for 4 years, it still amazes me to the length that students will go to, and the time they will waste in trying to get out of having to do the work assigned to them!
It amazes me that people bother paying for such education in the first place! I mean, if you're not here to learn, why bother coming?
I also teach, and my solution to cheating is to allow students to bring in 1 sheet of notes to tests. Write anything you want on it. I've noticed that many students spend a lot of time preparing that sheet than actually studying---but while preparing the sheet, they tend to read through the material, etc., and during the exam, tend not to use that sheet ('cause I'd never ask questions that just require a simple right-out-of-the-book answer).
or... you could be downloading foreign films.
Oh well let them charge via subscriptions, thats the best way for them to dig their own graves.
... money(?).
Yes. Just like subscriptions are burrying AOL, TimeWarner, a bunch of other ISPs and cable companies... Oh, and don't forget your telephone companies... yeah, they sure are suffering due to lack of
Although we like to think that just because millions of people are doing it, it somehow makes the action not quite as wrong, stealing music isn't legal.
Hmm... by that logic, congress can pass a law that would make it illegal to vote. Who cares if the majority of the population complains... they can't be right... since it's against the law.
I wish I had mod points. I'm with you on that white space issue... I looked at Python, and that white space thing totally turned me off...
oh, and my primary language of choice is Perl; and about 5 or so years ago, my language of choice was Java.
Anyone who thinks Python is cool, should really look at Perl.
It seems to me that if Copywright law, made by Congress, is being used to violate political speech, that that pesky little Amendment 1 ought to void out such laws in such circumstances.
Or they can just amend the amendment.
You vote for a third party. Really, people, it's not that hard.
Hahaha. Go ahead, throw away your vote! Hahaha. ---Kang.
---Where would you want to go today?
Well, madness of course!
This is not a response to you, but to everyone who thinks 30fps is enough: http://www.audiovideo101.com/learn/articles/hdtv/h dtv08.asp
Beh, I cannot believe I misspelled OSS! ...then again, maybe I meant Object Oriented Something...
Perhaps OOS folks should replace the G with a T in WGF...
In my opinion, the article is a bit misleading. From my down to earth view (of having contact with literaly hundreds of IT folks) there are more jobs now than there were in the last few years...
The jobs are different though. Most are doing fairly boring things, and salaries are in the $30-40k range. (very few are in the $50k range). There are obviously exceptions (one of my friends makes $85k), but the average is still ~$35k.
Then again, that's better than being unemployed... And there are cently more jobs there now than there were a year or two ago. But they're crappy jobs.
Those salaries seem misleading. Very few people I know make that... Most are in the $30-40k range. (working on all these cool thingies---yes, even Linux)
Coders may not _make_ $135,000, but they do _cost_ that much to employ.
:-)
Wouldn't that mean that coders _make_ more than $135k for the company? (otherwise why would a company employ them in the first place?)
So value wise, Perl coders could be making millions
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You forget: A state system has a higher chance of being `administered' by $12/h college interns :-)
I wonder if anyone noticed how i,robot robots are similar to the robots in Animatrix. The `body' seems to be nearly identical.
Also, human form isn't nessasarily something that's bad. It had millions of years of evolution acting upon it, and it managed to evolve into something we have today. Maybe it's not as bad as `versatile' tasks that robots may perform...
ie: if you want a robot that works like a human in all terrains and environments; maybe the human shape is ideal... But if the robot is doing only 1 task then I'm sure it can be specifically optimized to that task and look nothing like a human.