I grabbed some huge satellite photos from the tsunami devastated areas and had 300,000 visitors in a couple of weeks using blogspot. I used bittorrent to host the media files but that much traffic would have killed most other hosts regardless. I'm now on my own server using Wordpress because blogger.com did start to get frustratingly slow but if I got hit with another traffic spike I'd be toast.
First of all, 50% is a conservative estimate. I've even seen Time Warner cable guys screw up the aspect ratio because they're not familiar with every TV's menu system.
Most "HDTVs" have a resolution of 1024x768 or lower. The two common HD specs (720p and 1080i) have resolutions of 1280x720 and 1920x1080. I took some photos of my Dell 2405FPW which has component inputs and a resolution of 1920x1200.
If you really want a good picture stick to the tube based HDTVs. Sony has a good 34 incher. The LCDs are high resolution but they're not great with lots of motion. I have a tube based HDTV in the living room for sports and freaks people out.
I've heard the rumors of organ snatchers where you wake up in a bathtub with stitches and one kidney. Should we incredibly good looking people fear knife weilding hoardes of uglypeople hell bent on revenge?
So people won't buy a song they like because it's under priced? The reason movie ticket prices are the same is mainly because it COSTS the same to stick on a reel of film regardless of the name of the movie. Fewer people would see Lord of the Rings if ticket prices were $3 each? Really?
This is either a revolution in economic theory or a complete load of crap. It's sure trendy to hate people making money but this is way off the mark.
The good news is that they can use this technology to bypass the FCC and rich, campaign contributing religious folk who don't know how to use their V-Chips. Thousands are already downloading TV shows with Bittorrent and RSS listings services/apps but the shows are still limited because they're tainted by the fear of big brother. This could change that.
Most of us associate P2P with a lack of DRM. But they use our bandwidth to distribute movies thereby saving them money while using the same old crappy DRM and we're supposed to be happy?
Getting Sony's rootkit via a P2P network doesn't make you any less infected.
Jeeeze that's a big power supply. I can see it now... the next Xbox will be a white external DVD drive connected to a 3x3' cabinet equipped with a diesel generator and painted black to make it seem inconspicuous. This is really not a big deal but I imagine it's going to be expensive if they have to do another power supply recall.
These open source startups don't need venture capital like they used to. Servers are nearly free on Ebay, most of the software they're using is open source and free as in beer. That leaves investors standing around with their cash in their hands, not knowing what to do. There's even talk of some giving the money back to investors. This is a supply and demand issue. Too much money chasing too few ideas.
The only money to be made in open source is in hosting and consulting which really doesn't have a heck of a lot to do with the open source idea anyway. By that I mean you can apply the open source philosophy to a business that has nothing to do with software.
Yes but highly intelligent people are more likely to figure out things on their own without wisdom which is arguably more valuable than cramming something in your head for a test.
That said, I wouldn't hire the kid for a serious job until he was at least 18.
Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run.NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. Sponsored by Novell, the Mono open source project has an active and enthusiastic contributing community and is positioned to become the leading choice for development of Linux applications.
That directly contradicts what you just wrote. You know there are probably patents on the design of the keyboard people type the open source code with, that's note really pure open source in your opinion?
If it's Windows only I could see how the anti-MS types would lose respect but if it's cross platform then intentionally preventing it from running on Windows would seem to be missing the point of openness.
Globalstar has low earth orbit satellites that handle satellite phone calls. The ping times are much better than geostationary satellites but bandwidth is low (10Kbits/s) right now. Expect that to change if the guys with "pipes" start blocking VOIP. In fact, maybe Google's NASA partnership has something to do with this. Worldwide free WIFI would probably be a good thing considering the fact that the internet is restricted by most dictators in countries synonymous with terrorism.
Ahh, sorta like in the 1800s when we couldn't breed fast enough to fulfill the promise of manifest destiny so we "imported cheap foreign labor" which turned into our ancestors. We're sucking the life out of foreign countries as their best and brightest head to America. I heard a senator call that unethical.
If the job is lost either, I'd rather have that person living in America, paying taxes and buying stuff from my store. It looks like automation and productivity are outstripping our ability to create new jobs. The stock market is doing just fine even though consumer sentiment sucks. I'm not pro big government but at some point we're going to need to feed the under-employed. Some people look at a life of unemployment supported by the rich as a utopian dream, others see that as humiliating. If it's inevitable then we might as well lose the attitude and enjoy retirement. Or you could always learn new skill and try to compete.
If you're opposed to H1Bs ask yourself a question... Are you using anything that wasn't made in America? Think of all the American jobs lost because you weren't checking for "Made in the USA". So why is it that cheap foreign labor is just fine when it makes your shoes and electronics cheap but "immoral" if it happens to affect the industry that employs you?
The American car industry tried that in the early 80s and it backfired. Import tarrifs were needed to keep prices equal with the Japanese which raised prices for CONSUMERS un-naturally. Nobody wanted to pay the inflated prices so sales tanked costing 50,000 jobs. Sure, Americans working at the Honda dealership lost their jobs but at least the Japanese couldn't embarass us with their amazing productivity right?
I do not want to pay more for my stuff because you can't compete with foreigners. The alternative is that we just offshore the work in which case they don't spend money in America which is even "worse" for the economy. Please read Bastiat's famous plea to ban sunlight for the benefit of candlemakers if you disagree. They were making fun of this type of logic in the 1800s.
Maybe they'll fracture into smaller consulting firms, small is the new big, etc. and become part of the new longtail of innovation which will be good for any business that needs a database, which is most of 'em.
If Oracle decided to support MySQL it'd be hastening its own demise - Microsoft is avoiding the OpenDocument standard for similar reasons. Aside from acknowledging the capabilities of the competition Oracle would potentially turn MySQL's quirks into a defacto standard which could possibly turn into a real standard. If open source or at least open standards are inevitable as the software industry matures it seem like these big mega-corps that live off of proprietary software licensing will simply turn into coagulations of smart people without revenue worried about outsourcing. Maybe they'll fracture into smaller consulting firms, small is the new big, etc. and become part of the new which will be good for any business that needs a database, which is most of 'em.
Here's a question for you:
If you pay the government 70% of your income as taxes which is then used to subsidize the cost of phone, tv, internet, etc. is it really cheap? Is a cell phone really free if you're required to sign a two year contract? No, but evil corporate advertisers and the leaders of socialist governments appear to have a lot in common.
How is it that most Slashdot readers are left leaning, anti-corporate, pro big-government types when it's totally at odds with the thing they're using to read Slashdot? I too think Bush is a doofus and that teaching creationism in schools is bad(it'll never happen) but at some point the luster of Socialism will fade when our online experience is regulated into oblivion.
Is it hypocritical to complain about corporate greed when you're making a ton of money on Ebay?
I really hate how supermarkets close at night, we should create the Bureaucracy of Consumer Annoyances which will employ thousands of well paid experts to make sure lines aren't too long or fast food places never run out of diet coke.
I can see it now, businesses will cower in fear as the regulators roll through businesses looking for anything that might cause consumer disgust.
Nobody is dumb enough to actually try to enforce this which is why it died on the vine in California. France actually passes laws like this which is why they have 10% unemployment.
Lets say the government decides to build a $300,000,000 attack blimp. They open up competition to all of the local businesses which will of course bring sorely needed jobs to the local economy. Everybody votes for it, nobody asks if it's necessary. So I guess you're right, my beef is with necessity but it's good to know there are rules in place to prevent cronyism.
Mod parent up, couldn't have said it better. Contests like this are the antithesis of no-bid contracts, plus it's fun to watch the winners celebrating.
I'll save you all some time. Bush has been pushing the Star Wars space weaponry system to defeat eco-satellites which would prove global warming true so Haliburton can continue gouging consumers and funneling the money to the skull and bones society which then funds the new world order... and aliens and stuff. Is that about right?
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I grabbed some huge satellite photos from the tsunami devastated areas and had 300,000 visitors in a couple of weeks using blogspot. I used bittorrent to host the media files but that much traffic would have killed most other hosts regardless. I'm now on my own server using Wordpress because blogger.com did start to get frustratingly slow but if I got hit with another traffic spike I'd be toast.
I figured out a way to beat Google while enriching the little guy. Patent Pending. Give me five years.
First of all, 50% is a conservative estimate. I've even seen Time Warner cable guys screw up the aspect ratio because they're not familiar with every TV's menu system.
Most "HDTVs" have a resolution of 1024x768 or lower. The two common HD specs (720p and 1080i) have resolutions of 1280x720 and 1920x1080. I took some photos of my Dell 2405FPW which has component inputs and a resolution of 1920x1200.
This is what HD is supposed to look like. Here is another, check out the detail on his jacket zipper.
If you really want a good picture stick to the tube based HDTVs. Sony has a good 34 incher. The LCDs are high resolution but they're not great with lots of motion. I have a tube based HDTV in the living room for sports and freaks people out.
I've heard the rumors of organ snatchers where you wake up in a bathtub with stitches and one kidney. Should we incredibly good looking people fear knife weilding hoardes of uglypeople hell bent on revenge?
I was thinking "Longtail Media" with homer in the Safety Salamander costume as the logo.
So people won't buy a song they like because it's under priced? The reason movie ticket prices are the same is mainly because it COSTS the same to stick on a reel of film regardless of the name of the movie. Fewer people would see Lord of the Rings if ticket prices were $3 each? Really?
This is either a revolution in economic theory or a complete load of crap. It's sure trendy to hate people making money but this is way off the mark.
The good news is that they can use this technology to bypass the FCC and rich, campaign contributing religious folk who don't know how to use their V-Chips. Thousands are already downloading TV shows with Bittorrent and RSS listings services/apps but the shows are still limited because they're tainted by the fear of big brother. This could change that.
Most of us associate P2P with a lack of DRM. But they use our bandwidth to distribute movies thereby saving them money while using the same old crappy DRM and we're supposed to be happy?
Getting Sony's rootkit via a P2P network doesn't make you any less infected.
Jeeeze that's a big power supply. I can see it now... the next Xbox will be a white external DVD drive connected to a 3x3' cabinet equipped with a diesel generator and painted black to make it seem inconspicuous. This is really not a big deal but I imagine it's going to be expensive if they have to do another power supply recall.
Buy CD
Rip MP3s (maybe ogg if your adventurous)
Uninstall illegal rootkit included with CD
Rinse and repeat.
These open source startups don't need venture capital like they used to. Servers are nearly free on Ebay, most of the software they're using is open source and free as in beer. That leaves investors standing around with their cash in their hands, not knowing what to do. There's even talk of some giving the money back to investors. This is a supply and demand issue. Too much money chasing too few ideas.
The only money to be made in open source is in hosting and consulting which really doesn't have a heck of a lot to do with the open source idea anyway. By that I mean you can apply the open source philosophy to a business that has nothing to do with software.
Yes but highly intelligent people are more likely to figure out things on their own without wisdom which is arguably more valuable than cramming something in your head for a test.
That said, I wouldn't hire the kid for a serious job until he was at least 18.
If it's Windows only I could see how the anti-MS types would lose respect but if it's cross platform then intentionally preventing it from running on Windows would seem to be missing the point of openness.
Globalstar has low earth orbit satellites that handle satellite phone calls. The ping times are much better than geostationary satellites but bandwidth is low (10Kbits/s) right now. Expect that to change if the guys with "pipes" start blocking VOIP. In fact, maybe Google's NASA partnership has something to do with this. Worldwide free WIFI would probably be a good thing considering the fact that the internet is restricted by most dictators in countries synonymous with terrorism.
Ahh, sorta like in the 1800s when we couldn't breed fast enough to fulfill the promise of manifest destiny so we "imported cheap foreign labor" which turned into our ancestors. We're sucking the life out of foreign countries as their best and brightest head to America. I heard a senator call that unethical.
If the job is lost either, I'd rather have that person living in America, paying taxes and buying stuff from my store. It looks like automation and productivity are outstripping our ability to create new jobs. The stock market is doing just fine even though consumer sentiment sucks. I'm not pro big government but at some point we're going to need to feed the under-employed. Some people look at a life of unemployment supported by the rich as a utopian dream, others see that as humiliating. If it's inevitable then we might as well lose the attitude and enjoy retirement. Or you could always learn new skill and try to compete.
If you're opposed to H1Bs ask yourself a question... Are you using anything that wasn't made in America? Think of all the American jobs lost because you weren't checking for "Made in the USA". So why is it that cheap foreign labor is just fine when it makes your shoes and electronics cheap but "immoral" if it happens to affect the industry that employs you? The American car industry tried that in the early 80s and it backfired. Import tarrifs were needed to keep prices equal with the Japanese which raised prices for CONSUMERS un-naturally. Nobody wanted to pay the inflated prices so sales tanked costing 50,000 jobs. Sure, Americans working at the Honda dealership lost their jobs but at least the Japanese couldn't embarass us with their amazing productivity right?
I do not want to pay more for my stuff because you can't compete with foreigners. The alternative is that we just offshore the work in which case they don't spend money in America which is even "worse" for the economy. Please read Bastiat's famous plea to ban sunlight for the benefit of candlemakers if you disagree. They were making fun of this type of logic in the 1800s.
Here's that last part
Maybe they'll fracture into smaller consulting firms, small is the new big, etc. and become part of the new longtail of innovation which will be good for any business that needs a database, which is most of 'em.
If Oracle decided to support MySQL it'd be hastening its own demise - Microsoft is avoiding the OpenDocument standard for similar reasons. Aside from acknowledging the capabilities of the competition Oracle would potentially turn MySQL's quirks into a defacto standard which could possibly turn into a real standard. If open source or at least open standards are inevitable as the software industry matures it seem like these big mega-corps that live off of proprietary software licensing will simply turn into coagulations of smart people without revenue worried about outsourcing. Maybe they'll fracture into smaller consulting firms, small is the new big, etc. and become part of the new which will be good for any business that needs a database, which is most of 'em.
Here's a question for you:
If you pay the government 70% of your income as taxes which is then used to subsidize the cost of phone, tv, internet, etc. is it really cheap? Is a cell phone really free if you're required to sign a two year contract? No, but evil corporate advertisers and the leaders of socialist governments appear to have a lot in common.
How is it that most Slashdot readers are left leaning, anti-corporate, pro big-government types when it's totally at odds with the thing they're using to read Slashdot? I too think Bush is a doofus and that teaching creationism in schools is bad(it'll never happen) but at some point the luster of Socialism will fade when our online experience is regulated into oblivion.
Is it hypocritical to complain about corporate greed when you're making a ton of money on Ebay?
I really hate how supermarkets close at night, we should create the Bureaucracy of Consumer Annoyances which will employ thousands of well paid experts to make sure lines aren't too long or fast food places never run out of diet coke.
I can see it now, businesses will cower in fear as the regulators roll through businesses looking for anything that might cause consumer disgust.
Nobody is dumb enough to actually try to enforce this which is why it died on the vine in California. France actually passes laws like this which is why they have 10% unemployment.
Lets say the government decides to build a $300,000,000 attack blimp. They open up competition to all of the local businesses which will of course bring sorely needed jobs to the local economy. Everybody votes for it, nobody asks if it's necessary. So I guess you're right, my beef is with necessity but it's good to know there are rules in place to prevent cronyism.
Mod parent up, couldn't have said it better. Contests like this are the antithesis of no-bid contracts, plus it's fun to watch the winners celebrating.
I'll save you all some time. Bush has been pushing the Star Wars space weaponry system to defeat eco-satellites which would prove global warming true so Haliburton can continue gouging consumers and funneling the money to the skull and bones society which then funds the new world order... and aliens and stuff. Is that about right?