That would make more sense in terms of transmission rates too. 26 terabytes over a year works out to about 900 kilobytes per second, which sounds pretty high. 26 terabits would just be ~112 kilobytes per second.
Say the $138k prize would drop the guy into a 28% tax bracket (for argument's sake). Then the total value the company has to give him to cover taxes is $138k/(1-.28) = $192k. Minus the value of the actual trip, the company writes him a check for $54k, and that will cover the taxes on the trip and the check.
This reminds me of the two grammar nazi's who argued whether to phrase past possession as 'had' or 'had had'.
Those are two separate verb tenses. A single 'had' is used when the state of possession is in the past, but the particular time at which this was true is not important'. A sequence of 'had had' is used to relate a state in the past to another event in the past timewise.
I wouldn't write two applications, only one, but support both communications methods with an abstraction layer. As to why support both methods, I would do so only if one of the two was much more efficient (e.g. in communication or parsing costs), but not available everywhere that I needed to run.
And may I remind you that the whole basis of AJAX - XMLHttpRequest - is NOT a standard. Don't you want your site to work on all the new cell phones coming out that a lot of people will soon be using to browse the web and read email? How about hand-held devices?
For a particular implementation, perhaps. But it's been possible to do asynchronous server communication for quite a while without using XMLHttpRequest, just by using hidden frames to manage the transactions. Our development group used that for years, and it works quite well. A good AJAX implementation could use that as a fallback, if XMLHttpRequest is not available.
The studios make a lot of money in an absolute sense, but not relative to the US gross national product, which is in the trillions. According to one source (see below), total revenue for the major studios was about $46 billion in 2004.
A quote from a Slate article (http://slate.msn.com/id/2124078/): Last year, the six major studios--Disney, Fox, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, Sony, and their subsidiaries--had total revenues of $7.4 billion from world box-office sales, $20.9 billion from world video sales, and $17.7 billion from world television licensing. Revenues, however, are what companies record, not what they earn. And, in the case of Hollywood, the revenues from movies, DVDs, and TV yield very different earnings.
Look at it this way. A small group of companies, representing a small percentage of the economic output of this country, want specific legislation passed to support their particular business model and choice of technology. Why should they get to prevent the technology companies from coming up with different models for distributing and protecting content, and prevent consumers from choosing those technologies and models that they are willing to accept?
Yes, they have copyrights, and those should be respected. But if the movie companies don't feel that current distribution methods allow their copyrights to be respected, then they don't have to distribute them. Of course, they'll lose a lot of money if they refuse to distribute. But rather than doing the hard work of researching alternate models, and compromising with technology companies and consumers, they want to be able to dictate to everyone else. Why should they be allowed to have this power?
Almost 20 miles per hour on unpaved roads with an autonomous vehicle? That's not the same as driving on paved roads in the city or on the highway. I think that's pretty good, actually.
I had 3 or 4 old hard drives around, from 2GB to 30GB in capacity. I just put them in a contractor's bag one at a time, and hammered them down into pieces. Someone would have to want the data pretty bad to get it back after that.
Sorry for ranting, but I can't stand it when people take these kinds of "common wisdoms" and then display a complete lack of understanding of the actual issues behind them...
Only if you view the issue in the most naive sense. There are a number of reasons to avoid early optimization, and code maintainability is only one of them. The issue I was referring to is attempting to optimize before you know what conditions to optimize for. Early assumptions (e.g. a general case, "what kind of sort should I use here?") can often make performance worse instead of better.
Agreed. I have Firefox installed as well, but I find Mozilla to be faster for certain behaviors. In particular, I use ctrl-click to open links in new tabs (in the background), and Mozilla does it very quickly with no loss of response. Firefox seems to pause, waiting for some sort of website response before the gui starts responding in the original window again.
With Itanium, Intel attempted to tackle a set of issues that isn't new, and other companies have tried (and failed at) before.
It's hard to shift almost all of the burden of optimization, because it's a case of "early optimization" (the root of all evil). Optimization by the processor at run-time allows one to deal with data-dependent issues, and base decisions on statistics gathered by modern processors (such as branch history, caching behavior, etc).
Intel made a good try at it, but ended up making a very power-hungry processor that exposed a lot of complexity to the programmer, and whose advantages compared to other processors on the market were not very clear.
If this policy is unacceptable to you, and you are a customer of Orbitz, let them know about it! I just sent an email to their customer support and corporate communications addresses, requesting that they remove all registration information and close my account, because of their changes to their TOS regarding deep linking.
I agree, that's a nice camera. I like Canon's products.
The only problem there is that I think they use an older video format, since they can only get a maximum of 9 or 12 minutes (depending on compression) on a 1GB CF card. That really limits its use as a replacement for a camcorder.
It's not as bad as you make it out to be, the description listed video capture at 720x480 30fps. Also note that it has an optical 10x zoom with image stabilization, usually not cheap items to implement.
I agree about the low resolution on video capture, and wish that they had chosen CompactFlash Type 2 for the external storage, since then you could use a microdrive with several gigabytes of storage.
I campaigned for one for months in '79, and actually received it (albeit used) for Christmas that year. Best Christmas present (and investment by my parents) ever!
There needs to be a project initiative similar to what Samba has done for SMB, namely reverse-engineering the protocol used between Outlook and Exchange. That way, full integration without additional drivers would be possible.
Although there is the MAPI protocol for communication with Exchange, it appears that you generally need a connector on the client side for non-Outlook clients. That's convenient for the user and administrator, and a strike against third-party email clients currently.
Imperfective and perfective verb forms have to do with whether an action occurs at a certain point in time and can be considered to be completed (perfective), or is actually an ongoing process (imperfective).
Some languages (such as Bulgarian) have separate verbs for imperfective and perfective forms. In English you can approximate it in other ways, such as "I laughed at him, then he hit me" vs. "I was laughing at him when he hit me". In one case, the action (laughing) is a point in time, in the other an ongoing activity/state.
I started using Silicon Graphics workstations in 1986. At that point, their 3d graphics library GL (not OpenGL) was already well defined, and provided tools to easily manipulate transforms between different coordinate spaces. The contents of this patent seem to be covered by the functionality of that library, as far as I can tell.
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That would make more sense in terms of transmission rates too. 26 terabytes over a year works out to about 900 kilobytes per second, which sounds pretty high. 26 terabits would just be ~112 kilobytes per second.
Say the $138k prize would drop the guy into a 28% tax bracket (for argument's sake). Then the total value the company has to give him to cover taxes is $138k/(1-.28) = $192k. Minus the value of the actual trip, the company writes him a check for $54k, and that will cover the taxes on the trip and the check.
Those are two separate verb tenses. A single 'had' is used when the state of possession is in the past, but the particular time at which this was true is not important'. A sequence of 'had had' is used to relate a state in the past to another event in the past timewise.
Whether the base 'char' type is signed or unsigned in C is implementation dependent, which makes it a little more interesting.
I wouldn't write two applications, only one, but support both communications methods with an abstraction layer. As to why support both methods, I would do so only if one of the two was much more efficient (e.g. in communication or parsing costs), but not available everywhere that I needed to run.
For a particular implementation, perhaps. But it's been possible to do asynchronous server communication for quite a while without using XMLHttpRequest, just by using hidden frames to manage the transactions. Our development group used that for years, and it works quite well. A good AJAX implementation could use that as a fallback, if XMLHttpRequest is not available.
A quote from a Slate article (http://slate.msn.com/id/2124078/):
Last year, the six major studios--Disney, Fox, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, Sony, and their subsidiaries--had total revenues of $7.4 billion from world box-office sales, $20.9 billion from world video sales, and $17.7 billion from world television licensing. Revenues, however, are what companies record, not what they earn. And, in the case of Hollywood, the revenues from movies, DVDs, and TV yield very different earnings.
Yes, they have copyrights, and those should be respected. But if the movie companies don't feel that current distribution methods allow their copyrights to be respected, then they don't have to distribute them. Of course, they'll lose a lot of money if they refuse to distribute. But rather than doing the hard work of researching alternate models, and compromising with technology companies and consumers, they want to be able to dictate to everyone else. Why should they be allowed to have this power?
Almost 20 miles per hour on unpaved roads with an autonomous vehicle? That's not the same as driving on paved roads in the city or on the highway. I think that's pretty good, actually.
I had 3 or 4 old hard drives around, from 2GB to 30GB in capacity. I just put them in a contractor's bag one at a time, and hammered them down into pieces. Someone would have to want the data pretty bad to get it back after that.
Only if you view the issue in the most naive sense. There are a number of reasons to avoid early optimization, and code maintainability is only one of them. The issue I was referring to is attempting to optimize before you know what conditions to optimize for. Early assumptions (e.g. a general case, "what kind of sort should I use here?") can often make performance worse instead of better.
Agreed. I have Firefox installed as well, but I find Mozilla to be faster for certain behaviors. In particular, I use ctrl-click to open links in new tabs (in the background), and Mozilla does it very quickly with no loss of response. Firefox seems to pause, waiting for some sort of website response before the gui starts responding in the original window again.
With Itanium, Intel attempted to tackle a set of issues that isn't new, and other companies have tried (and failed at) before. It's hard to shift almost all of the burden of optimization, because it's a case of "early optimization" (the root of all evil). Optimization by the processor at run-time allows one to deal with data-dependent issues, and base decisions on statistics gathered by modern processors (such as branch history, caching behavior, etc). Intel made a good try at it, but ended up making a very power-hungry processor that exposed a lot of complexity to the programmer, and whose advantages compared to other processors on the market were not very clear.
If this policy is unacceptable to you, and you are a customer of Orbitz, let them know about it! I just sent an email to their customer support and corporate communications addresses, requesting that they remove all registration information and close my account, because of their changes to their TOS regarding deep linking.
The only problem there is that I think they use an older video format, since they can only get a maximum of 9 or 12 minutes (depending on compression) on a 1GB CF card. That really limits its use as a replacement for a camcorder.
I agree about the low resolution on video capture, and wish that they had chosen CompactFlash Type 2 for the external storage, since then you could use a microdrive with several gigabytes of storage.
I take it that user-defined style elements override site-defined styles?
Actually, are there any plugins already in existence that modify the appearance of a link based on a regexp match?
I campaigned for one for months in '79, and actually received it (albeit used) for Christmas that year. Best Christmas present (and investment by my parents) ever!
Although there is the MAPI protocol for communication with Exchange, it appears that you generally need a connector on the client side for non-Outlook clients. That's convenient for the user and administrator, and a strike against third-party email clients currently.
Yeah, I noticed that, and corrected myself already. Oops.
LaCie's 1.6TB drive lists for $2199, their older 1TB drive is $999.
LaCie has an external FireWire800/USB2 external drive available for about $1000, see here.
Some languages (such as Bulgarian) have separate verbs for imperfective and perfective forms. In English you can approximate it in other ways, such as "I laughed at him, then he hit me" vs. "I was laughing at him when he hit me". In one case, the action (laughing) is a point in time, in the other an ongoing activity/state.
I started using Silicon Graphics workstations in 1986. At that point, their 3d graphics library GL (not OpenGL) was already well defined, and provided tools to easily manipulate transforms between different coordinate spaces. The contents of this patent seem to be covered by the functionality of that library, as far as I can tell.