Are there other ways? Yes. Do a lot of folks know them? No. Hence, would you take a risk to an alternative business approach (e.g. Zappos doesn;t make anything, just aggregates from the real manufacturers... in Asia)? Hell no.
It's much like SpaceX keeping manufacturing in the US. Surely they could go overseas, but they did find a way to keep it local.
Is it me or did Google just kick off the Internet of Things as the next big thing after social networking...with all these automation acquisitions in the last couple of months?
CES, CEBIT, NAB, IBC, TED, DAVOS, SXSW, Emerge, E3, any ski resort movie festival....
All overrated nowadays, more press motivated, more advertising vaporware, more ideas with no meat, more opinions, more show and dance to potential investors. There's no learning, discovery or real discussion of where tech [or most other popular topics in economics, business, media and 'coolness'] is taking us. They are all cliques of social groups and expensive. In some ways I think running a kickstarter is a better option. But then again, there's no BS filter in that medium.
The real problem is ricers putting HID bulbs in reflector housings. The reflector housing for a halogen is so efficient in spreading the light that it goes everywhere in the lens cone... adding a HID kit spreads the light with equal intensity... that why oncoming/in-front drivers get blinded. The driver actually gets less usable light with this setup from this!. Really!
All you need is a projector lens assembly and viola, HID kits work as designed, aka HIDs are designed for projector lenses. You can get cheap projector housings for $150 a pair nowadays for most popular cars.
So to all you 'ricers' out there, do yourself a favor so people like lumpy don't crash into a tree from your HIDs. Buy [the proper] projector housing if you change to a HID kit.
Same here, some of my linux boxes easily crash around the 2/3rd mark, especially when running fullscreen mode.
H.264 and H.265 are codecs licensed by the content creators. Not the consumer products folks. Only consumer product folks that would be interested are the personal video camera makers (e.g. GoPro), but then again, everyone wants to take consumer captured video into the pro-sumer/professional level. And that means fitting the proper workflow. Workflow is about efficiency in transfer, not the 'best codec'. You pay for the H.264 license cause everyone has an agreement to follow the spec--everything 'works'. You think Google's going to enforce anything? It's open source, so "the community" takes care of the fringe issues.... hence perpetual beta is the result.
If Google wanted to push VP9, they should be doing this at NAB, not CES. Doing it at CES just shows how much they don't know about video production, codec usage and it's just another "ad to the consumer" of the brilliant braintrust that got VP9 to stream 4K @ 1/2 the raw bitrate... considering H.265 already does that.
But the agency is not a customer of Google. Just that a free Internet is what it is.... There's a saying in the spy business: if I can see you, you can see me (intel 101).... transparency is built into all the communication protocols and the agency is just exploiting it, and with the opt-in nature of the 'net, ANY advertising company can do the same without being a Google customer. ANY. And ad companies love selling data....
Google is spinning PR that the problem is the gov't agencies and not their, nor the Internet companies, entire business model.
One does have to ask: do we blame the playas.... or the game?
Funny they, like that other two companies doing some sort of space mining, they advertise the brains of the operation vs the tech....like an old established corporation. And each site is like a resume platform--where's the concept art, approach, tech, overviews, schedule? Just cheesy high level art work.
The tech is what going to get you there, like there's competition to steal it.. yeah right. Come on it's rocket science, we know it hard to reproduce.
I just feel a bit weird (Vegas announcement, TFA sources FoxNews?), maybe more embrassed as some of those brain are from my Alma Mater, JHU-APL...
Considering SpaceX has hired a lot of ex-NASA/JPL folks and aerospace experts and that to make the custom-ground up built rockets cheap, Musk has heavily invested his own dollar bills. SpaceX is in the red currently and if they can market the heck out their rockets to Wall Street (for funding) and undercut everyone, hopefully timing will allow them to get into the black.
They do great work, but either SpaceX will survive as much as OSC did in the 90's (they did well to start subcompanies) or they will flame out hard from debt.
because the domain experts of the system now know what it should do. You're only a domain expert by experience, not by taking a class.
When you do stuff complicated by human factors (aka diverse user base, laws, regs and legacy systems) and not physics for the 1st time, it's always bound to fail on some major items. Nothing new here. Facebook had launch issues in the past, same as Google... also remember Apple Maps fail or even the days when good'ole fail-whale was incredibly frequent?
The obamacare site failed because of the deadline imposed indirectly on it... that the law require everyone sign up before Dec. The Republicans just stuck their finger in the wound to make it sound way bigger than the real problem, which Obama knew was a mistake on his part. This failure is not the tech, but the poor clarification of requirements. And guess what? Healthcare systems are piss-poor in use cases and design from the get go.
I seriously doubt Google, Amazon, a bunch of smart ass college whiz kids or the such would have done better within the same man-hours used. Of course college kids could have done better, but would have worked twice, maybe 3x as many hours to get to this point.
3 main CXX's left the company near the same time. CEO has been replaced.
LIRC, the company is still running (though in bad shape). This is proof positive: CXX's are not critical to a company, but we sure pay them like they are.
If the $2 billion offer was 75% cash and 25% options and the $5billion offer was 25% cash and 75% options, the $2bil offer may have been better. Especially if the options tank. That's the risk I guess.
Heck, $1bil is nothing to laugh at anyway. 10000x more than my salary.
Also I find grading on a curve hides the fact that it's likely a bad/ignorant professor.
I typically had lots of professors conduct lectures with either note inconsistently or with simple general case demonstrations/examples, then assigns you a poorly written text book (favor for some PhD friend?), and gives you problems that are so difficult, everyone, and I mean everyone gets it wrong: the highest score is like 33% out 100%. And then grade under a curve, so everyone gets A,B,C's and looks "fair". As an advanced Physicist, I remember 1 question final exams that took 3 hours to solve and again, the highest grade was 40/100. Throw it in a curve and viola, looks fair, but everyone ends up very frustrated and no one learns anything!
Boy, it sure builds character, but does show how bad the professor has prepare his class to tackle the problem--he didn't basically. I means I'm sure I was in a class with bright folks, but there is such thing as proper prep to be able to get 50% or more...
Heck, Facebook easily saw that "opportunity" and wrapped it in a nice exclusivity wrapper to make you feel important.
And 75% of the population eat it up. In wholesale....
I guess democratic gov't does reflect the people it governs. No news here folks.
As I have said before, information doesn't want to be free, it wants to be exploited. 'Free' (as in beer) and 'private' are just aspects of exploitation folks.
Why download a 4GB HD file and have to store, let it sit there for years when you can stream it and forget about it after 'consuming it'. As for youtube videos, no one wants to hold on to that stuff--it's short term memory videos anyway and google stores it for free....
Sure you can take that BT file and store in your cloud, but LIRC lots of cloud storage costs money (since the free account limit you at what, 5GB?).
What's killing P2P file sharing is not the offerings (though the netflix, youtube), but the content sizes and streaming. People aren't thinking about distributed backups and availability.
Yep, why ask for info: if that store has a CCTV (to see you and your parked car on their lot), stores their money in a safe or bank (can count serial #'s on bills). And keeps receipts (id-ing what you bought)...
The world of opt-in/opt-out is coming to close folks and becoming a more tactical situation. Even if you opt-out, I'll eventually have the ability to single you out and then make up a profile of you using public info...the systems are that good nowadays.
Just live in group housing, and share mail (unrealistic?)...
ruthlessly funny and keenly self-aware sendup of right-wing militarism
OK, with co-ed showers, military love triangles, a women of color running the planet, and old guys (the washed up training sergeant come private) saving the day... Now that's the kind of right wing conservatism we need compared to current attitudes. Then again the movie showed we had smarts to fly in large space ships, but still fight with cheap lead bullets and armor?
Only one good thing about the movie was the CGI... come on guys, that was pretty cutting edge at the time.
Slashdot Mirror
or it might put 'the entire health insurance industry at risk.'
haha.
Healthcare.gov sounds more like bitcoin everyday.
And bitcoin is open source?...
Why must everything be outsourced
Cause that's how they were taught in MBA school.
Are there other ways? Yes. Do a lot of folks know them? No. Hence, would you take a risk to an alternative business approach (e.g. Zappos doesn;t make anything, just aggregates from the real manufacturers... in Asia)? Hell no.
It's much like SpaceX keeping manufacturing in the US. Surely they could go overseas, but they did find a way to keep it local.
Is it me or did Google just kick off the Internet of Things as the next big thing after social networking...with all these automation acquisitions in the last couple of months?
Matching a naturally slowing moving, low agile ground system (it's a large brick) to a naturally unstable, lots of moving parts flight system.
I'm in!
(There's a reason by single bladed copters are still the best choice... they are naturally stable).
Considering they are 'people' according to law. So they (the companies) are driving the car....
FYI, as for the guns don't kill, people do argument, gun companies are, afterall, people too. Just saying...
CES, CEBIT, NAB, IBC, TED, DAVOS, SXSW, Emerge, E3, any ski resort movie festival....
All overrated nowadays, more press motivated, more advertising vaporware, more ideas with no meat, more opinions, more show and dance to potential investors. There's no learning, discovery or real discussion of where tech [or most other popular topics in economics, business, media and 'coolness'] is taking us. They are all cliques of social groups and expensive. In some ways I think running a kickstarter is a better option. But then again, there's no BS filter in that medium.
All have jumped the shark...
Also, I like the 'wildfire' play on likely the main competition, which is Sourcefire. Which really started stuff like Snort and Ethereal...
Nope. Keyword is supporting.
For instance, I know a lot of BAH employees that are Reserve troops, they don't support, but basically are contractors.
Heck in the end, it's a silicon valley company. They'll say anything to get a buck or free advertising nowadays.
The real problem is ricers putting HID bulbs in reflector housings. The reflector housing for a halogen is so efficient in spreading the light that it goes everywhere in the lens cone... adding a HID kit spreads the light with equal intensity... that why oncoming/in-front drivers get blinded. The driver actually gets less usable light with this setup from this!. Really!
All you need is a projector lens assembly and viola, HID kits work as designed, aka HIDs are designed for projector lenses. You can get cheap projector housings for $150 a pair nowadays for most popular cars.
So to all you 'ricers' out there, do yourself a favor so people like lumpy don't crash into a tree from your HIDs. Buy [the proper] projector housing if you change to a HID kit.
Great, now all we need are the robots... and hipster music and I'll be the 1st to say now get off my lawn!.
Same here, some of my linux boxes easily crash around the 2/3rd mark, especially when running fullscreen mode.
H.264 and H.265 are codecs licensed by the content creators. Not the consumer products folks. Only consumer product folks that would be interested are the personal video camera makers (e.g. GoPro), but then again, everyone wants to take consumer captured video into the pro-sumer/professional level. And that means fitting the proper workflow. Workflow is about efficiency in transfer, not the 'best codec'. You pay for the H.264 license cause everyone has an agreement to follow the spec--everything 'works'. You think Google's going to enforce anything? It's open source, so "the community" takes care of the fringe issues.... hence perpetual beta is the result.
If Google wanted to push VP9, they should be doing this at NAB, not CES. Doing it at CES just shows how much they don't know about video production, codec usage and it's just another "ad to the consumer" of the brilliant braintrust that got VP9 to stream 4K @ 1/2 the raw bitrate... considering H.265 already does that.
How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon
That's a pipe dream, especially if there's a large asteroid in a direct collision course with the Earth (hint: we will be scrambling).
you're right on the 1st part,
But the agency is not a customer of Google. Just that a free Internet is what it is.... ... transparency is built into all the communication protocols and the agency is just exploiting it, and with the opt-in nature of the 'net, ANY advertising company can do the same without being a Google customer. ANY. And ad companies love selling data....
There's a saying in the spy business: if I can see you, you can see me (intel 101).
Google is spinning PR that the problem is the gov't agencies and not their, nor the Internet companies, entire business model.
One does have to ask: do we blame the playas.... or the game?
Funny they, like that other two companies doing some sort of space mining, they advertise the brains of the operation vs the tech....like an old established corporation. And each site is like a resume platform--where's the concept art, approach, tech, overviews, schedule? Just cheesy high level art work.
The tech is what going to get you there, like there's competition to steal it.. yeah right. Come on it's rocket science, we know it hard to reproduce.
I just feel a bit weird (Vegas announcement, TFA sources FoxNews?), maybe more embrassed as some of those brain are from my Alma Mater, JHU-APL...
why it's called the Emerald City.
It's a marketing excerise.
Considering SpaceX has hired a lot of ex-NASA/JPL folks and aerospace experts and that to make the custom-ground up built rockets cheap, Musk has heavily invested his own dollar bills. SpaceX is in the red currently and if they can market the heck out their rockets to Wall Street (for funding) and undercut everyone, hopefully timing will allow them to get into the black.
They do great work, but either SpaceX will survive as much as OSC did in the 90's (they did well to start subcompanies) or they will flame out hard from debt.
And note both use Oracle RDBMS,11g AS and OID....
"recently only works so much better because..."
because the domain experts of the system now know what it should do. You're only a domain expert by experience, not by taking a class.
When you do stuff complicated by human factors (aka diverse user base, laws, regs and legacy systems) and not physics for the 1st time, it's always bound to fail on some major items. Nothing new here. Facebook had launch issues in the past, same as Google... also remember Apple Maps fail or even the days when good'ole fail-whale was incredibly frequent?
The obamacare site failed because of the deadline imposed indirectly on it... that the law require everyone sign up before Dec. The Republicans just stuck their finger in the wound to make it sound way bigger than the real problem, which Obama knew was a mistake on his part. This failure is not the tech, but the poor clarification of requirements. And guess what? Healthcare systems are piss-poor in use cases and design from the get go.
I seriously doubt Google, Amazon, a bunch of smart ass college whiz kids or the such would have done better within the same man-hours used. Of course college kids could have done better, but would have worked twice, maybe 3x as many hours to get to this point.
3 main CXX's left the company near the same time. CEO has been replaced.
LIRC, the company is still running (though in bad shape). This is proof positive: CXX's are not critical to a company, but we sure pay them like they are.
If the $2 billion offer was 75% cash and 25% options and the $5billion offer was 25% cash and 75% options, the $2bil offer may have been better. Especially if the options tank. That's the risk I guess.
Heck, $1bil is nothing to laugh at anyway. 10000x more than my salary.
Also I find grading on a curve hides the fact that it's likely a bad/ignorant professor.
I typically had lots of professors conduct lectures with either note inconsistently or with simple general case demonstrations/examples, then assigns you a poorly written text book (favor for some PhD friend?), and gives you problems that are so difficult, everyone, and I mean everyone gets it wrong: the highest score is like 33% out 100%. And then grade under a curve, so everyone gets A,B,C's and looks "fair". As an advanced Physicist, I remember 1 question final exams that took 3 hours to solve and again, the highest grade was 40/100. Throw it in a curve and viola, looks fair, but everyone ends up very frustrated and no one learns anything!
Boy, it sure builds character, but does show how bad the professor has prepare his class to tackle the problem--he didn't basically. I means I'm sure I was in a class with bright folks, but there is such thing as proper prep to be able to get 50% or more...
Heck, Facebook easily saw that "opportunity" and wrapped it in a nice exclusivity wrapper to make you feel important.
And 75% of the population eat it up. In wholesale....
I guess democratic gov't does reflect the people it governs. No news here folks.
As I have said before, information doesn't want to be free, it wants to be exploited. 'Free' (as in beer) and 'private' are just aspects of exploitation folks.
Why download a 4GB HD file and have to store, let it sit there for years when you can stream it and forget about it after 'consuming it'. As for youtube videos, no one wants to hold on to that stuff--it's short term memory videos anyway and google stores it for free....
Sure you can take that BT file and store in your cloud, but LIRC lots of cloud storage costs money (since the free account limit you at what, 5GB?).
What's killing P2P file sharing is not the offerings (though the netflix, youtube), but the content sizes and streaming. People aren't thinking about distributed backups and availability.
Yep, why ask for info: if that store has a CCTV (to see you and your parked car on their lot), stores their money in a safe or bank (can count serial #'s on bills). And keeps receipts (id-ing what you bought)...
The world of opt-in/opt-out is coming to close folks and becoming a more tactical situation. Even if you opt-out, I'll eventually have the ability to single you out and then make up a profile of you using public info...the systems are that good nowadays.
Just live in group housing, and share mail (unrealistic?)...
ruthlessly funny and keenly self-aware sendup of right-wing militarism
OK, with co-ed showers, military love triangles, a women of color running the planet, and old guys (the washed up training sergeant come private) saving the day... Now that's the kind of right wing conservatism we need compared to current attitudes. Then again the movie showed we had smarts to fly in large space ships, but still fight with cheap lead bullets and armor?
Only one good thing about the movie was the CGI... come on guys, that was pretty cutting edge at the time.