Yes, it's excessive. Now, in addition to wasting people's money and time thru spamming, he's going to cost taxpayers about 3 million to keep him in jail. Society would be better off if he was cheaply executed, and spend the 3 million on something useful.
I work at a hotel and put Saflok locks in ~350 rooms. ~$100 per lock, nothing super secure, but cheap, and you can have keys that open whichever locks you specify, and you can see which key(s) opened which locks and when.
Of course, with a $10 tool, you can open the locks, but I bet the same could be said with your current locks.
I've bought a bit from the apple store; the average bitrate for their sd content is ~1500kb/second. So assuming your modem kicks ass and you average 50kb/second, it'll take 30 hours to download an hour show, or more realistically, 20 hours to download an hour show that's actually 40 minutes minus the commercials. So your download power on a modem is about one show per day.
I doubt there are many dialup Itunes video users, but who knows?
True... but iPods do currently make up something like 75%-80% of the market all by themselves. Thus AAC is one of the predominant portable digital music player formats even if relatively few other players support AAC.
Just because Ipods have good marketshare doesn't mean AAC does. I've owned 3 ipod's, and less than 1% of my music is AAC.
That said, 1st to market with a lot of music that's {popular, DRM free, and legal} is HUGE. Maybe huge enough to get more marketshare than mp3.
Ditto; using Astaro here for ~100 machines. Works pretty good; isn't free. It needs some horsepower if you're using a lot of the antispam features. Ours needs ~2GB of ram.
On some other networks I'm pretty happy with ipcop (free).
I can't believe EMI gave into Jobs; this is the first smart thing big music has done in a decade. I just bought my 1st album from ITunes this morning, and will be spending a LOT more.
I'm probably not the average consumer but they just won me. I don't like CD's because I don't like going to the store, or waiting on Amazon; I haven't paid anything for music in a loong time. The ITunes store isn't perfect, but for me it's easier than P2P, and I can afford to compensate the artists. Cheers to Apple/EMI.
Ethanol's intake temperature benefits are not new knowledge. Direct injection isn't required for a benefit; I suppose it's possible they're found something new but I doubt it; probably just an ethanol hyping professor.
I'd perk up if he had any amazing efficiency or hp/cubic inch numbers to back up his claims.
So you need 50W of power (maybe at multiple locations). Do you want to do it green, or get a job done?
A (I'm generalizing) small, light, reliable, and cost effective way to go about it is with mass produced fuel burning products (like small generators).
I like green, but solar cells in an emergency are not the most cost efficient way to power something, especially considering transport / setup / weather.
I run IT for a 350 room hotel (Perdido Beach Resort). We use Visual One. It's feature rich, point of sale is intergrated... but they add too many features all the time and it's buggy... updates are a pain because they break things. I'm also pretty familiar with Springer Miller; we upgraded systems ~4 years ago from an old AS/400 system... Our #1 choice was Visual one, #2 was Springer Miller.
Good luck!
I imagine you're mostly correct (Big papers hate google, little ones love them)...
Out of curiosity I googled a bit and the Lobbyist group is funded by The newspaper assn of america which has a bunch of big and small members, one of which is the New York Times... interesting robots.txt on their site:
"What, exactly takes 100mb about a background shown at 72ppi and 800x600?"
Gaah sorry for the rant but I get so irritated when people care about ppi/dpi when they're talking about digital images. I've wasted at least 8 hours talking with marketing people about images, and they insist on saying things like "I need a 600dpi image"... gaah!
I should just send them all one pixel images with a 'size' specified as 1/600in x 1/600in.
Point taken... but I think there's a current market for DVD players which will give you control over your media; I imagine they aren't made because they're forced to do some things to get a CSS license... like enforce region encoding, and not allow the user to bypass enforced content.
As a video/media format Blue-ray offers a much more dynamic and useful menu system.
Drat!
Basically DVD menuing (and HD-DVD menuing) amounts to
10 play video
20 check for button press
30 goto 10
More like:
10 force user to watch dolby logo
20 force user to watch commercial
30 force user to watch fbi warning
40 Display nonstandard menu
I'd much rather have dvd's autoplay, and let me pull up a simple text based menu for extras... the menu system (as implemented with the players I've tried) is too easily abused by the content creators... I prefer to reencode movies (and the occasion 'extras') and watch them how I like, not how the menu creator preferrs.
More complexity/flexibility will lead to a poorer product IMO.
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Yes, it's excessive. Now, in addition to wasting people's money and time thru spamming, he's going to cost taxpayers about 3 million to keep him in jail. Society would be better off if he was cheaply executed, and spend the 3 million on something useful.
Can someone translate this to english?
Brain is useful in most any job. The best mechanic I know is damn smart.
Of course, with a $10 tool, you can open the locks, but I bet the same could be said with your current locks.
Doh! Been so long sincer I was on dialup I forgot it was bytes. My bad :)
I've bought a bit from the apple store; the average bitrate for their sd content is ~1500kb/second. So assuming your modem kicks ass and you average 50kb/second, it'll take 30 hours to download an hour show, or more realistically, 20 hours to download an hour show that's actually 40 minutes minus the commercials. So your download power on a modem is about one show per day.
I doubt there are many dialup Itunes video users, but who knows?
If it's that big of a deal to you, and your company disagrees with letting you keep the 2nd, buy your own, label it, and use it.
How much hassle is $150 worth?
Just because Ipods have good marketshare doesn't mean AAC does. I've owned 3 ipod's, and less than 1% of my music is AAC.
That said, 1st to market with a lot of music that's {popular, DRM free, and legal} is HUGE. Maybe huge enough to get more marketshare than mp3.
Ditto; using Astaro here for ~100 machines. Works pretty good; isn't free. It needs some horsepower if you're using a lot of the antispam features. Ours needs ~2GB of ram.
On some other networks I'm pretty happy with ipcop (free).
I can't believe EMI gave into Jobs; this is the first smart thing big music has done in a decade. I just bought my 1st album from ITunes this morning, and will be spending a LOT more.
I'm probably not the average consumer but they just won me. I don't like CD's because I don't like going to the store, or waiting on Amazon; I haven't paid anything for music in a loong time. The ITunes store isn't perfect, but for me it's easier than P2P, and I can afford to compensate the artists. Cheers to Apple/EMI.
Ethanol's intake temperature benefits are not new knowledge. Direct injection isn't required for a benefit; I suppose it's possible they're found something new but I doubt it; probably just an ethanol hyping professor. I'd perk up if he had any amazing efficiency or hp/cubic inch numbers to back up his claims.
That won't play on my macbook pro. Claims I need to ugrade to quicktime 5 when I'm running quicktime 7.
If we all boycott browser apps, they'll be forced to change; no more /. for you and me; no ebay, no amazon, no google. Good riddance!
Kidding aside, klunky web apps are a cheap easy way to make services accessible to MANY people. AJAX helps with the clunkiness on occasion.
So you need 50W of power (maybe at multiple locations). Do you want to do it green, or get a job done?
A (I'm generalizing) small, light, reliable, and cost effective way to go about it is with mass produced fuel burning products (like small generators).
I like green, but solar cells in an emergency are not the most cost efficient way to power something, especially considering transport / setup / weather.
There are; evinrude's e-tec is clean. I don't know why similar designs aren't more popular; maybe it's a patent issue.
That's one of my favorite features... I went thru 3 power supplies on previous laptop from tripping over the power cable...
I run IT for a 350 room hotel (Perdido Beach Resort). We use Visual One. It's feature rich, point of sale is intergrated... but they add too many features all the time and it's buggy... updates are a pain because they break things. I'm also pretty familiar with Springer Miller; we upgraded systems ~4 years ago from an old AS/400 system... Our #1 choice was Visual one, #2 was Springer Miller. Good luck!
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I really don't understand the move back to 32 bit processors. Intel must be giving them away for next to nothing, and promising cheap 64bit soon.
Out of curiosity I googled a bit and the Lobbyist group is funded by The newspaper assn of america which has a bunch of big and small members, one of which is the New York Times... interesting robots.txt on their site:
# robots.txt, www.nytimes.com 3/24/2005 /pages/college/ /college/ /library/ /learning/ /aponline/ /reuters/ /cnet/ /partners/ /archives/ /indexes/ /thestreet/ /nytimes-partners/ /financialtimes/ /pages/ /2003/ /2004/ /2005/ /top/ /ref/ /services/xml/
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Gaah sorry for the rant but I get so irritated when people care about ppi/dpi when they're talking about digital images. I've wasted at least 8 hours talking with marketing people about images, and they insist on saying things like "I need a 600dpi image"... gaah!
I should just send them all one pixel images with a 'size' specified as 1/600in x 1/600in.
Point taken... but I think there's a current market for DVD players which will give you control over your media; I imagine they aren't made because they're forced to do some things to get a CSS license... like enforce region encoding, and not allow the user to bypass enforced content.
Hopefully that'll change with Blu-Ray.
Drat!
Basically DVD menuing (and HD-DVD menuing) amounts to
10 play video
20 check for button press
30 goto 10
More like:
10 force user to watch dolby logo
20 force user to watch commercial
30 force user to watch fbi warning
40 Display nonstandard menu
I'd much rather have dvd's autoplay, and let me pull up a simple text based menu for extras... the menu system (as implemented with the players I've tried) is too easily abused by the content creators... I prefer to reencode movies (and the occasion 'extras') and watch them how I like, not how the menu creator preferrs.
More complexity/flexibility will lead to a poorer product IMO.
HD-DVD mandates a copy be allowed, but the price of that copy is up to the content owner.
BLU-RAY leaves it to the content owner to decide whether or not copying will be allowed (and at what price).
Sounds the same to me ($1k per copy is about the same as no copying allowed)
Sure... lots more area to cover, though
France 2004 gdp: ~1.7T
USA 2004 gdp: ~11T
France sq miles: 211k
USA sq miles: 3537k
France gdp/sq mi: $8M
USA gdp/sq mi: $3M