I disagree. My suspicion is that most people would rather put up with the slightly slower service and the customers who feel that this will impact their experience will add another disc to their plan. Chances are it's a minority of Netflix customers who watch more than one or two discs per week. The one-per-week customers will not have a real impact to their experience.
Even amongst audiophiles, how many people really get anything out of having lossless on portable music devices? I know there is a hardy subset who travels with professional grade headsets and headphone amps, but do any of them use iDevices? From the last time I peaked into the audiophile world, pretty much ALL portable devices were scorned...
When PMP's have up to 64GB of storage, the issue is more about convenience than quality. I'd rather be able to drag&drop my flac files than have to convert from flac to another codec or maintain two libraries of music.
The rise of mobile devices with less DRAM in them is more likely to blame: less people are buying new PCs and Laptops when their phones and/or tablets can do everything they need.
The more likely theory is that computers continue to live longer and have reached the point of "good enough" that end users do not feel compelled to replace a working, 6 year old computer.
I'll grant you the notion that the pretense for this software is immaterial, largely because the lessee does not have any way of knowing when the software is being used (e.g. if the defendent has an employee who is using said software maliciously.) However, your first point is invalid for the following reasoning:
Cameras can take pictures of the person using the computer. Those pictures can be provided to law enforcement, who should be able to compare said pictures to photographs in their records (e.g. DMV, prison systems, government employee databases, etc.)
Makes sense to me. Unlike Facebook, G+ allows anyone with an account to follow Linus's public posts without him having to accept them as his "friends".
It's perfect for this type of announcement. It's Twitter for those who felt constrained by the character limit.
Automated cars will give me 2 more hours a day to do productive things (1 hour each way on what feels like the straightest road in the world.) Ultimately, I would love it if these 2 hours mean I finish my work earlier and can enjoy more of my life with friends & family.
Largely because you may not have enough cash to wait it out. Many fund managers were shorting companies like Pets.com back during '98-00, but had to take substantial losses because they didn't have enough collateral to wait until the share prices reversed and headed toward $0.
Nokia has been working on this since at least 2009, just search for their Kamppi trial. I know that it's fashionable to knock Nokia on many things, but they do (or is it did?) work on some very fore-front things.
There was no hint in the announcement made by Jack Lew, director of the Office of Management and Budget, that Kundra's exit was prompted by a shift in the White House's view on IT.
Nowhere in the article you provided did I see that tone. Instead, the tone was simply stating that certain types of jobs are now obsolete (or their demand has dramatically reduced) due to technology. Similar to the decline of buggy and whip makers.
Obama:
"There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM, you don't go to a bank teller, or you go to the airport and you're using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate. All these things have created changes in the economy, and what we have to do... is identifying where the jobs for the future are going to be."
When somebody has Alzheimer's disease, their brain essentially rots. The brain shrinks & shrivels and 'holes' develop; it shrinks enough and these 'holes' grow enough that they affect the core areas in the brain responsible for keeping the person alive.
While the technical 'cause of death' isn't Alzheimer's, per se, Alzheimer's kills. To say that it doesn't is tantamount to saying that Parkinson's doesn't kill.
HP's revenue was about $32.2 billion, and Apple's was about $24.67 billion...if you subtract out printers...HP would have brought in only $16.42 billion net in that same quarter.
So what you're saying is, HP did indeed bring in far more revenue than Apple, but if you just start subtracting arbitrary line items from HP's revenue, Apple "wins"?
Stop being so stupid.
So counting the revenue HP makes as a bank, fixing their broken products and selling printer ink isn't stupid in a discussion about semiconductors?
It doesn't make sense backing out those divisions when you're still including the revenues Apple makes from their iTunes and App stores.
The slashdot crowd of course is going to lambast this decision. But if you take time to think about it rather than reply with a knee-jerk reaction, it really isn't that unreasonable.
Really? Let's break it down:
What is required to host thousands of emails online?
- A web server. Presumably they have one of these, but is it just a simple website at some hosting company and not very easy to configure or mass-upload to, and perhaps with a limited storage quota? Is it their same server they had in the late 90's that might choke on 24,000 files in one directory?
Sort the files by date, file type, &c. instead of one folder. Even the most basic web servers can list a thousand rows of text in a single web page.
- How do you convert the emails to individual files which can be hosted? Convert to PDF perhaps? File -> Save As? Either way, it is going to be very labor intensive. Perhaps the email system is old enough that it is even more difficult and time consuming?
Run a script to convert to PDF or postscript. Less labor-intensive than having somebody man the printers
- How long do you have to store the online files? Every day they store the files on the server costs them extra $. And every person who downloads the files costs them extra $.
Paper costs money to store. It also costs less to send 24k files over the internet than to print them out. If $ is an issue, charge the person $5 to access the archive.
- What type of technical knowledge is required to put all of the pieces together? To a slashdotter it might seem trivial, but a town of 30,000 reachable only by water and air is not the type of place who will employ public servants with the technical expertise of a slashdotter. Their IT staff might consist of a guy who knows how to replace a monitor and reformat Windows XP. They may outsource all of the rest of their IT functions at an hourly cost to the state. All of these email requests are probably going to some poor secretary who has a hard time opening her own email.
Hire a contractor. They're a government, they know how to get hold of contractors. The amount of time they pay the contractor for will still cost less than having somebody man the printers for each press agency.
- Who should have access? IANAL, but this is a foia request so I presume anybody in America, but is Alaska required to make government documents readily available to the governments of North Korea and Iran? If not, who is going to setup the security to prevent unauthorized access?
Remember, this is a foia request which Alaska has to respond to, but they have no incentive to make it easy at their own taxpayer's expense. It is far cheaper and easier for a small town government office to tell people to come and get the information than it is for them to make it easily accessible over the internet.
The same people who have access to federal documents released under the FOIA
Or is too lazy/doesn't bother to keep track of which transactions were online w/ sales tax withholding, online w/out sales tax withholding, and offline. For the calendar year. For each unique tax ID.
If the natural arc is to go from dominance to hasbeen, how do you explain IBM? Have they found some type of middle ground of the IT landscape that makes them immune to bubbles and fluctuations in the market? They seem to be doing well for themselves, and have been for a long time.
IBM in the 90's was certainly a 'hasbeen' compared to what it was in the 40's-60's
There's still plenty of life in the PS3. Hell, I'm only aware of one game that actually taxes the PS3; everything else seems to run just fine. What Sony needs to invest in at the moment is quality games. The fact that it took Polyphony Digital so long to release GT5 is pathetic.
1. Bill Gates is Chairman of the Board of Directors
2. Bill Gates is Microsoft's largest shareholder
3. Steve Ballmer was Best Man at Bill Gates' wedding
Unless Steve Ballmer gets hit by a bus, he isn't going anywhere.
Here's a better list of "Need to Know" information:
Bill Gates owns 6.7% of MSFT Steve Ballmer owns 4.0% of MSFT
the next 4 largest owners of MSFT are: Capital Research Global Investors (3.6%) Vanguard Group (3.4%) State Street Corporation (3.4%) BlackRock Institutional Trust Company (2.2%)
All remaining shareholders own less than 2% individually and represent 76.7% of MSFT.
Considering that Bill and Steve only own 10.6% of MSFT, they have to make sure Steve doesn't piss off 39.4% of shareholders. So the question is: does Steve think that he and Bill have influence over 39.5% of his boss?
The thing is that the "Morality" page is like a whack-a-mole. If Facebook enforces a takedown, the organization will start up another page and do the exact same thing.
Houston is a major hub for several shipping companies and there are other large companies based in Texas. If they were to prevent air travel that would undermine the economic recovery they Feds have been chasing.
My understanding is that the ban would only be applicable to retail flights. Private flights (commercial, recreational) should be completely independent of whatever the FAA does to US Airways, Delta, and whoever else is left
The last apartment I was at had 20Mb/s downstream DSL. I was runnining the modem over a 25' telephone cable though, so my speed was downgraded to 18Mb/s. My new place measures around 10Mb/s, which is slower than Comcast's advertised 12Mb/s, but faster than their fine-print sustained rate of 6Mb/s
I'm really tempted to get a Lenovo on the sole basis that they look like they have competent 12" machines (Thinkpad's X series.) The fact that my 7 year old desktop and my fiancé's 12" Powerbook are acting up is pushing me closer to pulling the trigger....
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OTOH, Did you ever think it was possible that you could answer 'yes' to the question 'Does that car run Linux?'.
That was one of the goals with meego
I disagree. My suspicion is that most people would rather put up with the slightly slower service and the customers who feel that this will impact their experience will add another disc to their plan. Chances are it's a minority of Netflix customers who watch more than one or two discs per week. The one-per-week customers will not have a real impact to their experience.
Even amongst audiophiles, how many people really get anything out of having lossless on portable music devices? I know there is a hardy subset who travels with professional grade headsets and headphone amps, but do any of them use iDevices? From the last time I peaked into the audiophile world, pretty much ALL portable devices were scorned...
When PMP's have up to 64GB of storage, the issue is more about convenience than quality. I'd rather be able to drag&drop my flac files than have to convert from flac to another codec or maintain two libraries of music.
There are plenty of ways to track people that are on the server side instead of the client side, so noscript can't prevent everything
The rise of mobile devices with less DRAM in them is more likely to blame: less people are buying new PCs and Laptops when their phones and/or tablets can do everything they need.
The more likely theory is that computers continue to live longer and have reached the point of "good enough" that end users do not feel compelled to replace a working, 6 year old computer.
I'll grant you the notion that the pretense for this software is immaterial, largely because the lessee does not have any way of knowing when the software is being used (e.g. if the defendent has an employee who is using said software maliciously.) However, your first point is invalid for the following reasoning:
Cameras can take pictures of the person using the computer. Those pictures can be provided to law enforcement, who should be able to compare said pictures to photographs in their records (e.g. DMV, prison systems, government employee databases, etc.)
Makes sense to me. Unlike Facebook, G+ allows anyone with an account to follow Linus's public posts without him having to accept them as his "friends".
It's perfect for this type of announcement. It's Twitter for those who felt constrained by the character limit.
What happened to mailing lists?
Automated cars will give me 2 more hours a day to do productive things (1 hour each way on what feels like the straightest road in the world.) Ultimately, I would love it if these 2 hours mean I finish my work earlier and can enjoy more of my life with friends & family.
Never bet against human stupidity.
Largely because you may not have enough cash to wait it out. Many fund managers were shorting companies like Pets.com back during '98-00, but had to take substantial losses because they didn't have enough collateral to wait until the share prices reversed and headed toward $0.
Nokia has been working on this since at least 2009, just search for their Kamppi trial. I know that it's fashionable to knock Nokia on many things, but they do (or is it did?) work on some very fore-front things.
Somebody else created a similar application for his Nokia phones:
http://www.techalps.com/nokia/any-minnesota-readers-please-give-this-mall-of-america-app-a-try.html
Not to mention, pet "contraband" will be sold in other store.
Dude, the leash and collar were for my wife I swear!
It's San Francisco - you can still purchase leashes and collars for your significant other without considering it "contraband"
There was no hint in the announcement made by Jack Lew, director of the Office of Management and Budget, that Kundra's exit was prompted by a shift in the White House's view on IT.
You mean how greedy businesses have caused job-killing structural changes in the economy by implementing efficiencies like ATM machines and airport kiosks that hurt workers?
Nowhere in the article you provided did I see that tone. Instead, the tone was simply stating that certain types of jobs are now obsolete (or their demand has dramatically reduced) due to technology. Similar to the decline of buggy and whip makers.
Obama:
"There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM, you don't go to a bank teller, or you go to the airport and you're using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate. All these things have created changes in the economy, and what we have to do ... is identifying where the jobs for the future are going to be."
When somebody has Alzheimer's disease, their brain essentially rots. The brain shrinks & shrivels and 'holes' develop; it shrinks enough and these 'holes' grow enough that they affect the core areas in the brain responsible for keeping the person alive.
Feel free to read http://www.ahaf.org/alzheimers/about/understanding/brain-nerve-cells.html for more details
While the technical 'cause of death' isn't Alzheimer's, per se, Alzheimer's kills. To say that it doesn't is tantamount to saying that Parkinson's doesn't kill.
Quick question: where are the lines drawn between NASA's and NOAA's responsibilities?
So what you're saying is, HP did indeed bring in far more revenue than Apple, but if you just start subtracting arbitrary line items from HP's revenue, Apple "wins"?
Stop being so stupid.
So counting the revenue HP makes as a bank, fixing their broken products and selling printer ink isn't stupid in a discussion about semiconductors?
It doesn't make sense backing out those divisions when you're still including the revenues Apple makes from their iTunes and App stores.
The slashdot crowd of course is going to lambast this decision. But if you take time to think about it rather than reply with a knee-jerk reaction, it really isn't that unreasonable.
Really? Let's break it down:
What is required to host thousands of emails online?
- A web server. Presumably they have one of these, but is it just a simple website at some hosting company and not very easy to configure or mass-upload to, and perhaps with a limited storage quota? Is it their same server they had in the late 90's that might choke on 24,000 files in one directory?
Sort the files by date, file type, &c. instead of one folder. Even the most basic web servers can list a thousand rows of text in a single web page.
- How do you convert the emails to individual files which can be hosted? Convert to PDF perhaps? File -> Save As? Either way, it is going to be very labor intensive. Perhaps the email system is old enough that it is even more difficult and time consuming?
Run a script to convert to PDF or postscript. Less labor-intensive than having somebody man the printers
- How long do you have to store the online files? Every day they store the files on the server costs them extra $. And every person who downloads the files costs them extra $.
Paper costs money to store. It also costs less to send 24k files over the internet than to print them out. If $ is an issue, charge the person $5 to access the archive.
- What type of technical knowledge is required to put all of the pieces together? To a slashdotter it might seem trivial, but a town of 30,000 reachable only by water and air is not the type of place who will employ public servants with the technical expertise of a slashdotter. Their IT staff might consist of a guy who knows how to replace a monitor and reformat Windows XP. They may outsource all of the rest of their IT functions at an hourly cost to the state. All of these email requests are probably going to some poor secretary who has a hard time opening her own email.
Hire a contractor. They're a government, they know how to get hold of contractors. The amount of time they pay the contractor for will still cost less than having somebody man the printers for each press agency.
- Who should have access? IANAL, but this is a foia request so I presume anybody in America, but is Alaska required to make government documents readily available to the governments of North Korea and Iran? If not, who is going to setup the security to prevent unauthorized access?
Remember, this is a foia request which Alaska has to respond to, but they have no incentive to make it easy at their own taxpayer's expense. It is far cheaper and easier for a small town government office to tell people to come and get the information than it is for them to make it easily accessible over the internet.
The same people who have access to federal documents released under the FOIA
Or is too lazy/doesn't bother to keep track of which transactions were online w/ sales tax withholding, online w/out sales tax withholding, and offline. For the calendar year. For each unique tax ID.
If the natural arc is to go from dominance to hasbeen, how do you explain IBM? Have they found some type of middle ground of the IT landscape that makes them immune to bubbles and fluctuations in the market? They seem to be doing well for themselves, and have been for a long time.
IBM in the 90's was certainly a 'hasbeen' compared to what it was in the 40's-60's
There's still plenty of life in the PS3. Hell, I'm only aware of one game that actually taxes the PS3; everything else seems to run just fine. What Sony needs to invest in at the moment is quality games. The fact that it took Polyphony Digital so long to release GT5 is pathetic.
1. Bill Gates is Chairman of the Board of Directors
2. Bill Gates is Microsoft's largest shareholder
3. Steve Ballmer was Best Man at Bill Gates' wedding
Unless Steve Ballmer gets hit by a bus, he isn't going anywhere.
Here's a better list of "Need to Know" information:
Bill Gates owns 6.7% of MSFT
Steve Ballmer owns 4.0% of MSFT
the next 4 largest owners of MSFT are:
Capital Research Global Investors (3.6%)
Vanguard Group (3.4%)
State Street Corporation (3.4%)
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company (2.2%)
All remaining shareholders own less than 2% individually and represent 76.7% of MSFT.
Considering that Bill and Steve only own 10.6% of MSFT, they have to make sure Steve doesn't piss off 39.4% of shareholders. So the question is: does Steve think that he and Bill have influence over 39.5% of his boss?
The thing is that the "Morality" page is like a whack-a-mole. If Facebook enforces a takedown, the organization will start up another page and do the exact same thing.
Houston is a major hub for several shipping companies and there are other large companies based in Texas. If they were to prevent air travel that would undermine the economic recovery they Feds have been chasing.
My understanding is that the ban would only be applicable to retail flights. Private flights (commercial, recreational) should be completely independent of whatever the FAA does to US Airways, Delta, and whoever else is left
I still don't know why dye sub hasn't caught on enough for mass production after 20 years for 8.5"x11"
Because it's cheaper to have photos printed out at a store (e.g. CVS, Walgreens, etc) than buy the dye sub printer and the paper that goes with it.
The last apartment I was at had 20Mb/s downstream DSL. I was runnining the modem over a 25' telephone cable though, so my speed was downgraded to 18Mb/s. My new place measures around 10Mb/s, which is slower than Comcast's advertised 12Mb/s, but faster than their fine-print sustained rate of 6Mb/s
I'm really tempted to get a Lenovo on the sole basis that they look like they have competent 12" machines (Thinkpad's X series.) The fact that my 7 year old desktop and my fiancé's 12" Powerbook are acting up is pushing me closer to pulling the trigger....