Workaround: write a program which generates random data using a small amount of harvested data as a guideline. If the boss is too lazy to generate the data he's meant to be generating, then he's probably going to be too lazy to check that the data you're "harvesting" is actually accurate.
I don't think you are, actually. Harvesting somebody's data and presenting it as your own (which I'm sure is what you're planning to do), presumably expensive data like stock prices, research data, or whatever, is still plagiarism, and would probably not be looked upon well in court. They could argue, for example, that you're counterfeiting their "product". Or it could be seen as a form of industrial espionage, I guess. You're not terribly likely to get caught, mind you. At least you weren't until you posted this on Slashdot and told the internet "O HAI, if we, your competitor, mysteriously publishes terabytes of useful data in a week, we probably nicked it from your website."
It's not quite that simple. Performance in Java and media encoding was almost halved in the two newest versus the older versions of the OS. It's hard to imagine why that would be the case unless "more features" in Heron and Ibex are using up half the CPU time (and based on the other benchmarks, they ain't). I'd suspect test methodology rather than some oddity of OS performance but it's still something that needs to be addressed.
A few minor quibbles: there are no error bars (at just 3-5 runs for "most" benchmarks and 1 for the remainder, I have to wonder how significant the results are), the beta benchmark app was used for some reason, and the benchmark application automatically downloads any needed dependencies for each test, so I have to wonder if the methodology became inconsistent somewhere. On that last point, the most striking and inexplicable performance hits were for Java and media encoding, so I'd be more satisfied with the results if they could reassure me that they'd used a comparable virtual machine and encoder on each OS.
Indeed, it is common knowledge amoungst Real Programmers that you can run an arbitrarily large number of instructions per clock, allowing you to introduce entirely new functionality with zero performance hit. You just need to write everything in asssembler and have the right enchanted oils to annoint the heat sinks. By such a scheme CowboyNeal famously calculated the highest possible prime and now lives forever in a magic castle full of unicorns which shit rainbows.
(Hey, he used an absolute, I'm entitled to extrapolate it to its logical implications.)
Yes, it's almost certainly a licencing issue IMO. I imagine licence costs also provoked the switch from MP3 to AAC. If people are still complaining about the hideous space limits after next year's update (and I expect they will be) then I could see Nintendo ponying up for SDHC support. Maybe as a paid-for update as a way of recovering the licencing cost (see also Apple's 802.11n).
Oh, yes, that's exactly what I would hope they would do. A hacking team that had Sony's PSP fixes continuosly outfoxed ahead of time would completely change the game and perhaps encourage manufacturers to let us tinker.
As a remorseless pedant I feel obliged to observe that by outsmarting the manufacturer after the new firmware comes out, the hackers are surely one or more steps behind the big companies. When the homebrew community anticipates upcoming fixes and pre-emptively beats them, then I'll concede that they are indeed one step ahead.
The worst offenders are surely ADSL providers, because in my experience, they barely provide anything that could be called a service below the download limit to begin with.
Well, the government body which oversees communication (including broadcasting and advertising), known as OFCOM, hasn't weighed in yet. The ASA is a self-regulatory group run by advertising agencies. If there's enough pressure for change, OFCOM may step in and lay down the law.
They don't "pull" ads exactly. It's important to bear in mind that the ASA is not a government body and has no official power whatsoever, its decisions being "advice" to the advertisers. The government body, OFCOM, has comparatively lax requirements. However the ASA does have de facto power in that it will advise its members, which control most of the advertising space in the UK, against working with advertisers which ignore its decisions. So it's the advertisers that "pull" the ads, due to self-regulatory pressure.
I'd like to make the obvious observation here that the ASA's adjudications (looked it up) are somewhat subjective, and therefore very prone to being revised if the advertiser argues that they've made incorrect assumptions, in this case assumptions about what the viewer is likely to conclude. This survey is the sort of thing that might force the ASA to make such a reassessment.
Their adjudicat... ajudic... their decisions are based on what the public might "reasonably" conclude from the advert, while using their brain. So if while the ad shows the word "unlimited" it says at the bottom "fair use limit 10GB", then it's considered reasonable, because the reader will infer from the contradiction that they are about to be ripped off, and therefore no deception has occurred.
More seriously, if the service is "unlimited" but the fine print makes it clear that traffic management occurs above a preset limit, then the message as a whole is considered to be reasonable and not deceptive. Likewise in the Apple case it was considered that by using "the whole internet" as a selling point, the viewer might assume that the iPhone could do this (the viewer knows that other phones cannot use web plugins), and therefore while the ad was not deceptive in itself, it would nonetheless mislead the viewer.
To misremember the words of some journalist covering the Thrust SSC: while getting to the sound barrier in a vehicle with wheels is easy, doing so without inadvertently turning your car into a new kind of aircraft or tunneling machine is rather more difficult.
Goodwill is an accounting term used to reflect the portion of the book value of a business entity not directly attributable to its assets and liabilities; it normally arises only in case of an acquisition. It reflects the ability of the entity to make a higher profit than would be derived from selling the tangible assets. Goodwill is also known as an intangible asset. [...] The difference between the purchase price and the sum of the fair value of the net assets is by definition the value of the "goodwill" of the purchased company.
(Quoting Wikipedia so of course the true meaning might be something like "a giant catfish from Pluto named Horace, who likes to eat acorns", although this tallies well with other sources.) Anyway, it can imply that the company's reputation etc. increases its value above its "paper" value, but it generally means any nonspecific, hard-to-transfer value in the company which is not directly quantifiable (i.e. not intellectual property).
I assume it was the mean, and not the far more representitive median. People forget that quoting the "average" of something is like quoting the "quickness" of a car. It's a meaningless term if it's unqualified.
Your better OS = more expensive rationale does not include the elusive "throw money down a hole" factor of marketing. Gates-meets-Seinfed and I'm-a-PC combined cost $300m, fully 3% of that entire budget.
"free under the wikipedia.org domain" isn't compatible with the GFDL licence of the text, though. Anything on the project has to be licenced in such a way as to allow free redistribution (on other sites, as texts, as CDs, etc. by groups other than Wikimedia). Your user image didn't need to be spread to millions of people, and you forbade them to do so, so obviously it had to leave.
I believe because the whole project is licenced identically, from article space to the minuitae of deletion discussions in people's user page archives. It's odd, but that's how it works.
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Workaround: write a program which generates random data using a small amount of harvested data as a guideline. If the boss is too lazy to generate the data he's meant to be generating, then he's probably going to be too lazy to check that the data you're "harvesting" is actually accurate.
I don't think you are, actually. Harvesting somebody's data and presenting it as your own (which I'm sure is what you're planning to do), presumably expensive data like stock prices, research data, or whatever, is still plagiarism, and would probably not be looked upon well in court. They could argue, for example, that you're counterfeiting their "product". Or it could be seen as a form of industrial espionage, I guess. You're not terribly likely to get caught, mind you. At least you weren't until you posted this on Slashdot and told the internet "O HAI, if we, your competitor, mysteriously publishes terabytes of useful data in a week, we probably nicked it from your website."
It's not quite that simple. Performance in Java and media encoding was almost halved in the two newest versus the older versions of the OS. It's hard to imagine why that would be the case unless "more features" in Heron and Ibex are using up half the CPU time (and based on the other benchmarks, they ain't). I'd suspect test methodology rather than some oddity of OS performance but it's still something that needs to be addressed.
A few minor quibbles: there are no error bars (at just 3-5 runs for "most" benchmarks and 1 for the remainder, I have to wonder how significant the results are), the beta benchmark app was used for some reason, and the benchmark application automatically downloads any needed dependencies for each test, so I have to wonder if the methodology became inconsistent somewhere. On that last point, the most striking and inexplicable performance hits were for Java and media encoding, so I'd be more satisfied with the results if they could reassure me that they'd used a comparable virtual machine and encoder on each OS.
Indeed, it is common knowledge amoungst Real Programmers that you can run an arbitrarily large number of instructions per clock, allowing you to introduce entirely new functionality with zero performance hit. You just need to write everything in asssembler and have the right enchanted oils to annoint the heat sinks. By such a scheme CowboyNeal famously calculated the highest possible prime and now lives forever in a magic castle full of unicorns which shit rainbows.
(Hey, he used an absolute, I'm entitled to extrapolate it to its logical implications.)
Nope, I'm still pretty sure it's a licencing issue.
Yes, it's almost certainly a licencing issue IMO. I imagine licence costs also provoked the switch from MP3 to AAC. If people are still complaining about the hideous space limits after next year's update (and I expect they will be) then I could see Nintendo ponying up for SDHC support. Maybe as a paid-for update as a way of recovering the licencing cost (see also Apple's 802.11n).
I wasn't being sarcastic, I do mean it's marvellous. It's the most expandable console since the Xbox. Wonderful.
That certainly explains a lot about the marvellous state of the PSP homebrew scene.
Actually, hang on, isn't that the plot of MGS4?
Oh, yes, that's exactly what I would hope they would do. A hacking team that had Sony's PSP fixes continuosly outfoxed ahead of time would completely change the game and perhaps encourage manufacturers to let us tinker.
As a remorseless pedant I feel obliged to observe that by outsmarting the manufacturer after the new firmware comes out, the hackers are surely one or more steps behind the big companies. When the homebrew community anticipates upcoming fixes and pre-emptively beats them, then I'll concede that they are indeed one step ahead.
The worst offenders are surely ADSL providers, because in my experience, they barely provide anything that could be called a service below the download limit to begin with.
Well, the government body which oversees communication (including broadcasting and advertising), known as OFCOM, hasn't weighed in yet. The ASA is a self-regulatory group run by advertising agencies. If there's enough pressure for change, OFCOM may step in and lay down the law.
They don't "pull" ads exactly. It's important to bear in mind that the ASA is not a government body and has no official power whatsoever, its decisions being "advice" to the advertisers. The government body, OFCOM, has comparatively lax requirements. However the ASA does have de facto power in that it will advise its members, which control most of the advertising space in the UK, against working with advertisers which ignore its decisions. So it's the advertisers that "pull" the ads, due to self-regulatory pressure.
I'd like to make the obvious observation here that the ASA's adjudications (looked it up) are somewhat subjective, and therefore very prone to being revised if the advertiser argues that they've made incorrect assumptions, in this case assumptions about what the viewer is likely to conclude. This survey is the sort of thing that might force the ASA to make such a reassessment.
Their adjudicat... ajudic... their decisions are based on what the public might "reasonably" conclude from the advert, while using their brain. So if while the ad shows the word "unlimited" it says at the bottom "fair use limit 10GB", then it's considered reasonable, because the reader will infer from the contradiction that they are about to be ripped off, and therefore no deception has occurred.
More seriously, if the service is "unlimited" but the fine print makes it clear that traffic management occurs above a preset limit, then the message as a whole is considered to be reasonable and not deceptive. Likewise in the Apple case it was considered that by using "the whole internet" as a selling point, the viewer might assume that the iPhone could do this (the viewer knows that other phones cannot use web plugins), and therefore while the ad was not deceptive in itself, it would nonetheless mislead the viewer.
IIRC in order to qualify for the record, it must be able to turn corners, but not at its maximum speed. It just has to be steerable in principle.
To misremember the words of some journalist covering the Thrust SSC: while getting to the sound barrier in a vehicle with wheels is easy, doing so without inadvertently turning your car into a new kind of aircraft or tunneling machine is rather more difficult.
Goodwill is an accounting term used to reflect the portion of the book value of a business entity not directly attributable to its assets and liabilities; it normally arises only in case of an acquisition. It reflects the ability of the entity to make a higher profit than would be derived from selling the tangible assets. Goodwill is also known as an intangible asset. [...] The difference between the purchase price and the sum of the fair value of the net assets is by definition the value of the "goodwill" of the purchased company.
(Quoting Wikipedia so of course the true meaning might be something like "a giant catfish from Pluto named Horace, who likes to eat acorns", although this tallies well with other sources.) Anyway, it can imply that the company's reputation etc. increases its value above its "paper" value, but it generally means any nonspecific, hard-to-transfer value in the company which is not directly quantifiable (i.e. not intellectual property).
I assume it was the mean, and not the far more representitive median. People forget that quoting the "average" of something is like quoting the "quickness" of a car. It's a meaningless term if it's unqualified.
Hold on, that makes no sense in this context.
Your better OS = more expensive rationale does not include the elusive "throw money down a hole" factor of marketing. Gates-meets-Seinfed and I'm-a-PC combined cost $300m, fully 3% of that entire budget.
"free under the wikipedia.org domain" isn't compatible with the GFDL licence of the text, though. Anything on the project has to be licenced in such a way as to allow free redistribution (on other sites, as texts, as CDs, etc. by groups other than Wikimedia). Your user image didn't need to be spread to millions of people, and you forbade them to do so, so obviously it had to leave.
I believe because the whole project is licenced identically, from article space to the minuitae of deletion discussions in people's user page archives. It's odd, but that's how it works.