Obsoleted is the wrong word. Supplanted is more like it... CoreAVC is a decidedly superior product from everything I've heard about it. Considering that Microsoft could have just made their stuff the default and not gone to extra work and made it more difficult for 3rd parties to change it, this smacks of them abusing their market control.
Don't underestimate the value of the original. Sony or MS would sell a "Wii", but they couldn't call it a Wii due to trademarks, and they wouldn't be able to do a lot of the same design things, due to copyright (which is way too long as it is, but still a useful concept if done right). They could have a knock-off that does the same things, but they couldn't ever have a Wii. And people wouldn't want the knock-off by and large, they'd want the original, which is guaranteed to be compatible, and is the only one that'll get the game and system updates from Nintendo.
And if the neck is braced against the strong legs of the dinosaur (think a suspension bridge), how is that any different? Seriously... it's not that hard to imagine looking at a dinosaur skeleton
Television is ubiquitous enough that it serves as a broadcast emergency communications system, along with radio. That is why OTA television isn't "optional"
So why are birds able to hold their wings out for hours or days on end? It is in no way comparable to your arm, because you arm and ligaments aren't built that way. It's entirely possible that the tissues of the sauropods supported their necks relatively effortlessly (what about a cow's massive head, held out horizontally?)
Then you have a better laid-out keyboard than the ones I've used. Or your fingers are more coordinated. I'll end up just barely hitting it, catching the corner of it when I hit the left shift and it'll lock on, which is quite annoying.
And if you aren't a serious data entry user and usually type up emails and documents, it just gets in the way. Did it ever occur to you that other people use computers differently than you do? I disable capslock on every keyboard I own (and my business machine) because that's what's most useful to me. Especially on a virtual keyboard for a mobile device... there's almost no case where CapsLock would be a good idea.
You can only make a single horse so big. Eventually you'll need a team of horses to pull a wagon quickly. It's that the P4's pipeline and memory access pattern is highly tuned for streaming data like your REDOne (I'm assuming 4K? Or 3K? You don't really specify). Your quad-core 2.2GHz box could easily do it if you had a competent decoder that properly multi-threaded. I can decode 1080p on CPU with maybe 60% total CPU usage on a 2.4GHz dual-core AMD chip with a multi-threaded H.264 decoder.
You don't have many friends, do you? Sure, you can discourage people from borrowing things like that. Hope you never need a ride from them when your car breaks down or anything, though.
Sysadmin time isn't the only cost of extra hardware. Don't forget the extra cooling and extra power draw, plus space in the data center that could be used otherwise. Consolidating even 5 lightly-used servers will save a significant amount of cooling and electricity energy. As long as the functionality doesn't change, you're saving a fair bit of money there even with the same number of admins.
It's actually a little more complicated than that. The mathematics of GPS needs more than the theoretical stuff you do in high school, it needs error correction for atmospheric delays, and spherical intersection math (not just triangular).
Poor receiver, heavier traffic has smog which may make it harder to get the radio signal, maybe you just drove through the heavy traffic areas on cloudy days... who knows. All kinds of things can interrupt it.
The way GPS works is that the satellites constantly transmit info about where they are, and a time code and the receiver you have picks that up and uses the time delay between the different sats as well as the location of the satellite to triangulate where you are. It's rather interesting.
Tell you what... I'll set up a site with a Winamp skin installer called "Media Win G-Playa xT 3.0 Enterprise Edition", you tell your manger you need it, and I'll split the profits with you 50/50. Deal?
Ok. So you read the claim... it seems exactly like what someone "skilled in the arts" would do when presented with a document having a plurality of metacodes. There's nothing "novel" about what they're doing.
"I happen to work at a small(ish) rural newspaper that has an online edition"
And what you provide is valuable to your local users. Stuff they can't get elsewhere, so they are willing to pay for it. You create value, your customers pay for it... sounds like good business to me. Now... why should you pay your local newspaper for a straight copy of information you can get directly from the source on the Internet? If you don't add value, what exactly is compelling people to pay? Figure out how to add value, give people something that they can't get elsewhere, and you profit. News on local government actions is highly relevant. News on local happenings, reviews of local restaurants, things people want. Remember... your customers are your advertisers, NOT the people reading. They are your product. The news is simply your means of keeping a quality product (lots of relevant eyeballs) to sell to your customers (advertisers).
Stop trying to keep things the same as they are. The thing you need to find is value that you can provide that nobody else can do, or do it better than the other guy. Craigslist works because it has local sections. It's a product that's relevant to people. What can your news organization do to provide a product that's relevant to your local subscribers? Locally here, The Onion is making pretty decent money from advertisers because people love reading the content, and they sell advertising to local businesses that are relevant to their subscriber base. More tattoo shops than gardening centers, and so on. You need to figure out what your value is, and how to monetize it. You are no longer the only source for world news for your subscribers, or for advertising. You now have competition for time and eyeballs. How you get their attention is your problem, and your business plan.
So we let everyone have access to the raw footage, and then report on it as they like. Maybe via websites like "blogs", and the more coherent and informative and interesting "bloggers" will get more people reading their sites, thereby being able to sell advertising and so on.
The change in info flow is that the people who were previously sources for the info have their own access to information dispersal tools, rather than having to connect with a reporter to get the story out. Everyone is a journalist in an age where everyone can communicate to everyone else. We no longer need newspapers as the intermediaries filtering what news we get and broadcasting it.
It depends on what you're selling. The trick is to not try to sell something (relatively) infinite without adding value to it. You can't sell oxygen. You can sell it if you add value by compressing it and put it in cylinders, or if you perfume it and convince people it's the popular thing to do. You use the infinite thing (information transfer) to sell the scarce good (your time, expertise, advertising eyeballs, whatever).
Why are bloggers not journalists? How many newspapers just reprint AP feeds? That's as much "journalism" as any blogger you complain about. And on top of that, there are many times where the blogger is the source of the story for newspapers.
Oh, and as for Watergate... those reporters just happened to be the recipients of big news. The FBI should get more credit for it. On top of that, it's not like you really get quality reporting from newspapers.
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Obsoleted is the wrong word. Supplanted is more like it... CoreAVC is a decidedly superior product from everything I've heard about it. Considering that Microsoft could have just made their stuff the default and not gone to extra work and made it more difficult for 3rd parties to change it, this smacks of them abusing their market control.
You don't play with many "gamers" then. It's the people who identify themselves as "hardcore" that dislike the Wii, or find reasons to dislike it.
Don't underestimate the value of the original. Sony or MS would sell a "Wii", but they couldn't call it a Wii due to trademarks, and they wouldn't be able to do a lot of the same design things, due to copyright (which is way too long as it is, but still a useful concept if done right). They could have a knock-off that does the same things, but they couldn't ever have a Wii. And people wouldn't want the knock-off by and large, they'd want the original, which is guaranteed to be compatible, and is the only one that'll get the game and system updates from Nintendo.
And if the neck is braced against the strong legs of the dinosaur (think a suspension bridge), how is that any different? Seriously... it's not that hard to imagine looking at a dinosaur skeleton
Television is ubiquitous enough that it serves as a broadcast emergency communications system, along with radio. That is why OTA television isn't "optional"
So why are birds able to hold their wings out for hours or days on end? It is in no way comparable to your arm, because you arm and ligaments aren't built that way. It's entirely possible that the tissues of the sauropods supported their necks relatively effortlessly (what about a cow's massive head, held out horizontally?)
Then you have a better laid-out keyboard than the ones I've used. Or your fingers are more coordinated. I'll end up just barely hitting it, catching the corner of it when I hit the left shift and it'll lock on, which is quite annoying.
And if you aren't a serious data entry user and usually type up emails and documents, it just gets in the way. Did it ever occur to you that other people use computers differently than you do? I disable capslock on every keyboard I own (and my business machine) because that's what's most useful to me. Especially on a virtual keyboard for a mobile device... there's almost no case where CapsLock would be a good idea.
You can only make a single horse so big. Eventually you'll need a team of horses to pull a wagon quickly. It's that the P4's pipeline and memory access pattern is highly tuned for streaming data like your REDOne (I'm assuming 4K? Or 3K? You don't really specify). Your quad-core 2.2GHz box could easily do it if you had a competent decoder that properly multi-threaded. I can decode 1080p on CPU with maybe 60% total CPU usage on a 2.4GHz dual-core AMD chip with a multi-threaded H.264 decoder.
So, she's just more used to Dvorak, and he's more used to Qwerty. Doesn't really matter... dvorak isn't really superior.
You don't have many friends, do you? Sure, you can discourage people from borrowing things like that. Hope you never need a ride from them when your car breaks down or anything, though.
Sysadmin time isn't the only cost of extra hardware. Don't forget the extra cooling and extra power draw, plus space in the data center that could be used otherwise. Consolidating even 5 lightly-used servers will save a significant amount of cooling and electricity energy. As long as the functionality doesn't change, you're saving a fair bit of money there even with the same number of admins.
It's actually a little more complicated than that. The mathematics of GPS needs more than the theoretical stuff you do in high school, it needs error correction for atmospheric delays, and spherical intersection math (not just triangular).
I certainly hope that driver didn't work a single day driving buses after that. Did you press child endangerment charges? Tell the school?
Poor receiver, heavier traffic has smog which may make it harder to get the radio signal, maybe you just drove through the heavy traffic areas on cloudy days... who knows. All kinds of things can interrupt it.
The way GPS works is that the satellites constantly transmit info about where they are, and a time code and the receiver you have picks that up and uses the time delay between the different sats as well as the location of the satellite to triangulate where you are. It's rather interesting.
Tell you what... I'll set up a site with a Winamp skin installer called "Media Win G-Playa xT 3.0 Enterprise Edition", you tell your manger you need it, and I'll split the profits with you 50/50. Deal?
Ok. So you read the claim... it seems exactly like what someone "skilled in the arts" would do when presented with a document having a plurality of metacodes. There's nothing "novel" about what they're doing.
You say that like there isn't already a BIOS in video cards.
And what you provide is valuable to your local users. Stuff they can't get elsewhere, so they are willing to pay for it. You create value, your customers pay for it... sounds like good business to me. Now... why should you pay your local newspaper for a straight copy of information you can get directly from the source on the Internet? If you don't add value, what exactly is compelling people to pay? Figure out how to add value, give people something that they can't get elsewhere, and you profit. News on local government actions is highly relevant. News on local happenings, reviews of local restaurants, things people want. Remember... your customers are your advertisers, NOT the people reading. They are your product. The news is simply your means of keeping a quality product (lots of relevant eyeballs) to sell to your customers (advertisers).
Last I heard the Huffington Post was a blog... seems as if they're doing alright.
Stop trying to keep things the same as they are. The thing you need to find is value that you can provide that nobody else can do, or do it better than the other guy. Craigslist works because it has local sections. It's a product that's relevant to people. What can your news organization do to provide a product that's relevant to your local subscribers? Locally here, The Onion is making pretty decent money from advertisers because people love reading the content, and they sell advertising to local businesses that are relevant to their subscriber base. More tattoo shops than gardening centers, and so on. You need to figure out what your value is, and how to monetize it. You are no longer the only source for world news for your subscribers, or for advertising. You now have competition for time and eyeballs. How you get their attention is your problem, and your business plan.
So we let everyone have access to the raw footage, and then report on it as they like. Maybe via websites like "blogs", and the more coherent and informative and interesting "bloggers" will get more people reading their sites, thereby being able to sell advertising and so on.
The change in info flow is that the people who were previously sources for the info have their own access to information dispersal tools, rather than having to connect with a reporter to get the story out. Everyone is a journalist in an age where everyone can communicate to everyone else. We no longer need newspapers as the intermediaries filtering what news we get and broadcasting it.
It depends on what you're selling. The trick is to not try to sell something (relatively) infinite without adding value to it. You can't sell oxygen. You can sell it if you add value by compressing it and put it in cylinders, or if you perfume it and convince people it's the popular thing to do. You use the infinite thing (information transfer) to sell the scarce good (your time, expertise, advertising eyeballs, whatever).
Why are bloggers not journalists? How many newspapers just reprint AP feeds? That's as much "journalism" as any blogger you complain about. And on top of that, there are many times where the blogger is the source of the story for newspapers.
Oh, and as for Watergate... those reporters just happened to be the recipients of big news. The FBI should get more credit for it. On top of that, it's not like you really get quality reporting from newspapers.