That is odd. Maybe they dont have more than one database for the base data, and they dont want to split them up, nor do they want those ultra-hires images out available for anyone to pull up via Google Maps or Earth.
Yea, but I dont think I'm smart enough to work at google. My IQ is only 130. I figure you probably need to be a member of MENSA to work there... at least, not in a janitorial capacity.
Although if I did work there, they would have an identify tool.
Its actually pretty addictive for a GIS geek like myself. Plus it was neat to have it help me plan my camping trip this weekend.
It totally blows away any geographical user interface ESRI or Autodesk or anyone else has. They should be embarrassed with their current ArcIMS and MapGuide products - such rudimentary interfaces and poor performance.
Whats even more interesting is the Google Earth Enterprise suite. Being able to load my own satellite data and GIS data into this would be interesting. But like I've said before in other posts about google maps, the biggest problem for GIS groups would be the lack of an "Identify" tool (perhaps its there but I havent seen it in any of the screenshots). And still no scale bar at the bottom either, though they do have a north arrow.
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You also forgot the MASSIVE egos of the people who run these places. Look at shows like Futurama, Family Guy, Firefly, etc. These were done as more or less "independent" projects. Not a lot of intervention on behalf of those running the studio (the execs). They want to justify their existance by saying "look, we help these shows get better, etc". When a show comes along and it is a total hit on its own without any help from the higher-ups, it makes them worry... "If they can make good shows without my help, why am I here?". So they constantly insert themselves into the process, in order to try and make themselves look needed. And sometimes that includes killing off really good shows they have no hand in to prevent the perception problem and to reinforce how much Fox or NBC needs them around.
Basically what this does is make it so Hollywood can sue you and/or your company into the ground if it is capable of infringement based on this ruling. It doesnt matter what the legit use is, Hollywood has reasonable grounds to sue you and tie up your product in endless legal battles and force you to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers before you can even sell your product. Goodbye two-guys-in-a-garage innovation, its now fenced off to those who can afford lots of lawyers.
Fox knew they had another Family Guy on their hands. So they made sure they kept ALL the rights to the show. Whedon cant take the show to another network without Fox's permission (which isnt likely now since most of the sets were destroyed and the actors are going, trying to do other TV projects - movies are easier coz they can shoot most of them during the spring/summer when TV shows aren't being filmed). They get a cut of the DVDs, they get a cut of everything. For doing what? Putting it on a friday night and making sure that it wouldnt get good ratings just like UPN did with Enterprise (just because its targeted to geeks doesn't necessarily mean we're home on friday nights). Yes, you too can get a pissload of money for being a TV executive and writing up ultra-binding contracts.
Because CALL USA is limited to a small area if you're a homeowner. Unless you have a contractors license, its just limited to your yard or whatever. A terrorist wont be able to do much with one yard (99.9% of the time, all the critical infrasturcture is not in your front yard). However if they new where pumping plants and storage facilities are, thats much more of an issue.
Like I said in another post, there is the Call Before You Dig service in the USA. You call a phone number and utilities will come out and mark their lines on your property.
Wow, you've never heard of Call Before You Dig? See, there is a phone number you call. 1-800-CALL-USA. All the utilities will come out and mark their lines on your property. Its not that hard.
I dont mind seeing parcel & associated information available as public information but I really would rather not disclose information on things like water and gas pipelines, other critical below-ground infrastructure (above ground probably shouldnt be given out either, but is not that hard to reverse engineer that data, just drive around).
Day 3: Apple annouces their spreadsheet and database app and complete iWork, their office replacement, and charge 1/2 of what Mac MS Office costs. Day 4: Admins rejoice as they can now replace most of thier paperpusher's PCs with Macs and worry a hell of a lot less about security.
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Glass, concrete, etc. Everything is made better in space.
I swear its the killer app of the late 2000's (as in from 2005-2009). Being able to rent movies over broadband is a killer app. Imagine Netflix's library available on demand. Fucking outstanding.
See, you can buy cheap hardware and run linux. OSX wont replace linux for those who are conscious about what money they have and what the hardware will cost.
MS should be worried shitless that, one day, Apple will release OSX for all x86 desktops and put a big dent in MS's marketshare. Unless Apple signed some no-OS-compete agreement forever with MS, they have a lot more to worry about in the long run (think 10+ years).
How the fuck did that get moderated up. It makes no fucking sense and is completely inaccurate (and yes, IAACompEng).
Athlons have higher IPC (instructions per clock) than a P4. Why? The length of the pipeline. Athlon 64s have a SINGLE pipeline, with a length of about 15 (aka "a 15 stage pipeline"). A P4-prescott (90nm version) has a 31 stage pipeline. The P4 northwood had a 20 stage pipeline (note that those are for integer instructions, floating point operations have more stages through the FPU). A64s do not have 9 pipelines, nigh the P4 have 6. And neither get anywhere near the ops/clock you claim. They do have parallel execution units however, and maybe thats where you get your numbers from, but even then they're still not right.
So it takes an integer operation 15 or so cycles to be complete in an Athlon, and 30 cycles in a P4. Thus the higher IPC. Other things also influence performance are cache hit ratio, branch prediction. And thats the reason why the prescott didnt fall on its face-more cache as well as better Branch Prediction Unit (BPU). A lot of improvements went into the 90nm prescott to keep IPC close to what the P4-northwood had. There were some articles at Anandtech when it first came out, comparing it to the northwood.
To parent: Go read some Ars Technica articles about how CPUs are organized before you talk out of your ass about stuff you dont know.
QFT. You have to download enough bits to have the file. Parity wont decrease the number, it only helps if you're missing pieces. HOWEVER, there are practical scenarios, especially dealing with users on slow links in the very beginning, or maybe just mayst a not very popular, torrent. Its more noticable when someone has a very large difference in up and down speeds.
Example: 5 peers, 1 seed. After the seed has sent out enough data that there is another complete copy of the file amongst the five peers. If one or more of the peers is very slow upstream, their blocks would be the hardest to get (and if the seed disconnects, you're SOL), and it might help to have some general purpose parity files spread out on all the peers, so that the fastest upstream links can provide these pairty blocks to "fill in" gaps where some blocks are not evenly distributed and are on slow links.
If they're including their spyware into pirated software, why doesnt the BSA go after these guys and shut them down? Its seams like they're very low-hanging fruit on the tree of software piracy (since its easier to follow money and corporations than individuals and IP address from foreign countries).
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That is odd. Maybe they dont have more than one database for the base data, and they dont want to split them up, nor do they want those ultra-hires images out available for anyone to pull up via Google Maps or Earth.
Yea, but I dont think I'm smart enough to work at google. My IQ is only 130. I figure you probably need to be a member of MENSA to work there... at least, not in a janitorial capacity.
Although if I did work there, they would have an identify tool.
Its actually pretty addictive for a GIS geek like myself. Plus it was neat to have it help me plan my camping trip this weekend.
It totally blows away any geographical user interface ESRI or Autodesk or anyone else has. They should be embarrassed with their current ArcIMS and MapGuide products - such rudimentary interfaces and poor performance.
Whats even more interesting is the Google Earth Enterprise suite. Being able to load my own satellite data and GIS data into this would be interesting. But like I've said before in other posts about google maps, the biggest problem for GIS groups would be the lack of an "Identify" tool (perhaps its there but I havent seen it in any of the screenshots). And still no scale bar at the bottom either, though they do have a north arrow.
You also forgot the MASSIVE egos of the people who run these places. Look at shows like Futurama, Family Guy, Firefly, etc. These were done as more or less "independent" projects. Not a lot of intervention on behalf of those running the studio (the execs). They want to justify their existance by saying "look, we help these shows get better, etc". When a show comes along and it is a total hit on its own without any help from the higher-ups, it makes them worry... "If they can make good shows without my help, why am I here?". So they constantly insert themselves into the process, in order to try and make themselves look needed. And sometimes that includes killing off really good shows they have no hand in to prevent the perception problem and to reinforce how much Fox or NBC needs them around.
Basically what this does is make it so Hollywood can sue you and/or your company into the ground if it is capable of infringement based on this ruling. It doesnt matter what the legit use is, Hollywood has reasonable grounds to sue you and tie up your product in endless legal battles and force you to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers before you can even sell your product. Goodbye two-guys-in-a-garage innovation, its now fenced off to those who can afford lots of lawyers.
Thats what I worry most about.
Fox knew they had another Family Guy on their hands. So they made sure they kept ALL the rights to the show. Whedon cant take the show to another network without Fox's permission (which isnt likely now since most of the sets were destroyed and the actors are going, trying to do other TV projects - movies are easier coz they can shoot most of them during the spring/summer when TV shows aren't being filmed). They get a cut of the DVDs, they get a cut of everything. For doing what? Putting it on a friday night and making sure that it wouldnt get good ratings just like UPN did with Enterprise (just because its targeted to geeks doesn't necessarily mean we're home on friday nights). Yes, you too can get a pissload of money for being a TV executive and writing up ultra-binding contracts.
"if other cost cutting mechanisms could achieve the same effect without cutting so may jobs.'"
You mean cut CEO's millions of dollars in bonuses? I've only seen those increase, not decrease.
Yea I had that in my mind for a second, but I realized there is probably no way IBM would have put out the 970MP this quick.
Because CALL USA is limited to a small area if you're a homeowner. Unless you have a contractors license, its just limited to your yard or whatever. A terrorist wont be able to do much with one yard (99.9% of the time, all the critical infrasturcture is not in your front yard). However if they new where pumping plants and storage facilities are, thats much more of an issue.
The dont have to necessarily destroy the infrastructure. Sometimes giving them access to it is bad enough.
Like I said in another post, there is the Call Before You Dig service in the USA. You call a phone number and utilities will come out and mark their lines on your property.
Wow, you've never heard of Call Before You Dig? See, there is a phone number you call. 1-800-CALL-USA. All the utilities will come out and mark their lines on your property. Its not that hard.
I dont mind seeing parcel & associated information available as public information but I really would rather not disclose information on things like water and gas pipelines, other critical below-ground infrastructure (above ground probably shouldnt be given out either, but is not that hard to reverse engineer that data, just drive around).
with his head so far up his ass. Who listens to what he has to say and takes it seriously?
Yea but this is slashdot.
Day 3: Apple annouces their spreadsheet and database app and complete iWork, their office replacement, and charge 1/2 of what Mac MS Office costs.
Day 4: Admins rejoice as they can now replace most of thier paperpusher's PCs with Macs and worry a hell of a lot less about security.
Glass, concrete, etc. Everything is made better in space.
I swear its the killer app of the late 2000's (as in from 2005-2009). Being able to rent movies over broadband is a killer app. Imagine Netflix's library available on demand. Fucking outstanding.
You mean like WINE or that other one that starts with cy... (I forgot the name, and no I dont mean cygwin, there is another WINE-like software).
you can also have that many instructions in the pipeline at once.
No shit sherlock, thats the definition of a pipeline.
See, you can buy cheap hardware and run linux. OSX wont replace linux for those who are conscious about what money they have and what the hardware will cost.
MS should be worried shitless that, one day, Apple will release OSX for all x86 desktops and put a big dent in MS's marketshare. Unless Apple signed some no-OS-compete agreement forever with MS, they have a lot more to worry about in the long run (think 10+ years).
How the fuck did that get moderated up. It makes no fucking sense and is completely inaccurate (and yes, IAACompEng).
Athlons have higher IPC (instructions per clock) than a P4. Why? The length of the pipeline. Athlon 64s have a SINGLE pipeline, with a length of about 15 (aka "a 15 stage pipeline"). A P4-prescott (90nm version) has a 31 stage pipeline. The P4 northwood had a 20 stage pipeline (note that those are for integer instructions, floating point operations have more stages through the FPU). A64s do not have 9 pipelines, nigh the P4 have 6. And neither get anywhere near the ops/clock you claim. They do have parallel execution units however, and maybe thats where you get your numbers from, but even then they're still not right.
So it takes an integer operation 15 or so cycles to be complete in an Athlon, and 30 cycles in a P4. Thus the higher IPC. Other things also influence performance are cache hit ratio, branch prediction. And thats the reason why the prescott didnt fall on its face-more cache as well as better Branch Prediction Unit (BPU). A lot of improvements went into the 90nm prescott to keep IPC close to what the P4-northwood had. There were some articles at Anandtech when it first came out, comparing it to the northwood.
To parent: Go read some Ars Technica articles about how CPUs are organized before you talk out of your ass about stuff you dont know.
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QFT. You have to download enough bits to have the file. Parity wont decrease the number, it only helps if you're missing pieces. HOWEVER, there are practical scenarios, especially dealing with users on slow links in the very beginning, or maybe just mayst a not very popular, torrent. Its more noticable when someone has a very large difference in up and down speeds.
Example: 5 peers, 1 seed. After the seed has sent out enough data that there is another complete copy of the file amongst the five peers. If one or more of the peers is very slow upstream, their blocks would be the hardest to get (and if the seed disconnects, you're SOL), and it might help to have some general purpose parity files spread out on all the peers, so that the fastest upstream links can provide these pairty blocks to "fill in" gaps where some blocks are not evenly distributed and are on slow links.
If they're including their spyware into pirated software, why doesnt the BSA go after these guys and shut them down? Its seams like they're very low-hanging fruit on the tree of software piracy (since its easier to follow money and corporations than individuals and IP address from foreign countries).
Apparently /. feels the same way Adaptec and Intel do.