Unfortunately, I'd say Trump has more experience with the practical aspects of global economics and supply chains than most politicians. He offshores his own products, he knows why this happens. He probably also knows how these things work at the 'coalface', rather than in theory or by law.
The man is a weird combination of cray-cray and genius (said as a solid lefty progressive)
I'm guessing it just takes a picture each time you close the door, it's not a streaming webcam (I doubt much stuff in your fridge moves about that much). So the energy used should be minimal and a function of how often you close the door.
With financial firms, you'll find that much of their business uses a 'follow the sun' model, where the business (FX say) will run 24/6 by transferring between regional desks as the day progresses. Singapore to London to New York etc.
Each region will generally have a number of local data centers (depending on the size of the firm etc). With virtuals, there's a potential that you could 'simply' migrate the high-load servers around the world to follow the sun as well. We do much of this already when we failover between data centers..
The HP microserver is relatively cheap, quiet and looks nice enough to sit in my (minimalist) home. It has one SSD for the OS, and two redundant large high capacity disks. The server is on 24/7 and serves all my media (plex etc) and services to wherever I am in the world. All my devices backup their data to it regularly. A subset of this data (things I wouldn't want to loose in a fire) is then sync'd up to my google drive.
Nice and simple, and just works without fuss. Most of my friends use their datacenter as an excuse to geek out, and enjoy the complexity (and the subsequent instability), but I'm most interested in it as a functional/reliable item that I setup once, and use everyday.
What if Picasa/Facebook etc suddenly started automatically recognising your face in other peoples' photos? I'd probably get tagged at least a few times a month in others tourist photos (central London), and I'd probably be surprised at the compromising situations that would put me in (walking into in interview, walking around town when I called in sick etc).
Though I think face recognition wouldn't (currently) work very well at all with such a large set of potential matches (though would find it cool if it could help me find my doppleganger)
I mostly use facebook to send and receive messages to/from my friends, its largely replaced my personal emails. How about a similar system where you can only receive messages from people on your white list (who have been authenticated)?
I didnt download the client, but use the web interface, and this seems the norm amongst everyone I know. I was curious if there's a web based P2P video streaming solution? This would surely help alleviate some of the bandwidth issues to the BBC servers, though I dont know how effective P2P would be for realtime video streams? (Joost works because everyone is in sync)
I also hear the BBC is thinking of inserting cache servers on the ISPs local network, though they're still not happy...
My last project for the FX desk (front office trading application) at a top American InvBank, was written by me in under 6 months using C#. It executes easy $500m+ a day in business across multiple exchanges. It integrates with custom keyboards (USB HID), contains plenty custom controls, is built using a pluginable/configurable architecture, deployed across the world, etc etc blah blah.. It was an absolute pleasure to write, it is extremely stable, and the development tools are excellent. I came from a long embedded C/C++/MFC background, and I would never turn back. I have a job to do, traders to keep happy and I consider C++ GUI dev to be completely outclassed by C# (I've even written non-trivial server side C# windows services which are currently performing perfectly).
Someone please tell me why they should still profit from work they did 40 years ago, especially seeing they're multi-multi-millionares already. Their work should be freely available in the public domain by now.
They're a band, nothing more. They represent everything thats wrong with the music industry today. Aging musicians clinging on to work they did 40 years ago to pay for their divorce settlements/alimony/coke habits.
The one thing I was dissapointed by, was the direct downloading. I would imagine this took a fair chunk of profit away from Trent, and caused some agro with fans getting timeouts.
The full albums eventually appeared as torrents on PirateBay, and (most)people ended up paying on the nin site, then using bittorent instead to get the album.
Really would be cool if Piratebay could come up with some way to allow payment directly through their site. Sort of a one stop shop for artists wanting to cheaply and easily release their works? Even if they simply list the paypal account to pay to and rely on fans being honest. I would have actually paid more than $5 for the plain download..
I wanted to contact the pirate bay guys and see if they'd be interested to setup paypal (or similar) accounts
for artists which we could contribute to. Ofcourse we need to trust this money is indeed making its way directly to the artists, but thats not hard to do..
Perhaps it could become the default distribution channel for artists wanting to get their music out (instead of custom sites like Radiohead and Saul Williams used)
Theres an advert for the new Audi A6 in the UK http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/br/article/ 597521/audi-campaign-compares-a6-evolution-space-r ace/
They say that NASA has only filed 6,5K patents ever whilst Audi filed 9,6K patents just developing the
A6.. When I saw that it actually made me angry, how can there be that many available ways to patent something in a car? And if they _have_ developed something truly ingenious, like a way to make the engine more efficient, why is it beneficial for Audi to keep it to themselves? Shows what the patent system is being used for these days...
I'd be interested to see what sort of system backs up all this data and how they store it and how long for! Whenever I see footage of UK serveillance cameras I'm always amazed at how poor quality the picture is (1 frame a sec etc), but then you realise that they have to archive 1000s of cameras. You think they only keep the last 24hours in full def and then compress everything else as much as possible?
How does the UK system compare to say someone like YouTube when it comes to storage?
No one is mentioning how they left DivX out? The iPod was succesful because it supported mp3s *and* their DRM AACS, and they slowly introduced people to the concept of buying from their store instead.. But now with video they're restricting you to what you've purchased from them (ok fine, it plays normal movs but who has their collection in that format?).
With a whole bunch of stuff now that records video as mpeg4 simple profile, I'm pretty impressed with this.
Does this mean that H.264 will become the codec of choice for torrents/ED2Ks?
Technically if I took an mp3 at 128kps and decompressed it to a wav
file, then mp3'd that wav file (so the same kbs, using the same compressor), the first and last mp3 should be identical right?
Compressing the original sound, or a wav file with the 'unheard' frequencies stripped should result in the exact same output.
Or am I wrong (ie there's some randomness in there)?
(Yes I know its pointless to do that, but I'm curious)
You're all haggling about speed and reliability..
But how much less power would a solid state disk use compared
to a mechanical disc? And what percentage of my laptop power
is being consumed by my hdd (say watching a divx)..
Though I realise this is a hybrid disc only storing OS boot files,
so cant imagine it would give me a longer lasting battery when
watching said divx etc..
The quote from John Reid is
'This is largely driven by a rise in the numbers of young people carrying expensive goods' and
'Whilst that is the reason, it is not an excuse'
Sounds like/. is submitting articles from the Sun/Daily mirror?
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Unfortunately, I'd say Trump has more experience with the practical aspects of global economics and supply chains than most politicians. He offshores his own products, he knows why this happens. He probably also knows how these things work at the 'coalface', rather than in theory or by law.
The man is a weird combination of cray-cray and genius (said as a solid lefty progressive)
I'm guessing it just takes a picture each time you close the door, it's not a streaming webcam (I doubt much stuff in your fridge moves about that much). So the energy used should be minimal and a function of how often you close the door.
With financial firms, you'll find that much of their business uses a 'follow the sun' model, where the business (FX say) will run 24/6 by transferring between regional desks as the day progresses. Singapore to London to New York etc.
Each region will generally have a number of local data centers (depending on the size of the firm etc). With virtuals, there's a potential that you could 'simply' migrate the high-load servers around the world to follow the sun as well. We do much of this already when we failover between data centers..
The HP microserver is relatively cheap, quiet and looks nice enough to sit in my (minimalist) home. It has one SSD for the OS, and two redundant large high capacity disks. The server is on 24/7 and serves all my media (plex etc) and services to wherever I am in the world. All my devices backup their data to it regularly. A subset of this data (things I wouldn't want to loose in a fire) is then sync'd up to my google drive.
Nice and simple, and just works without fuss. Most of my friends use their datacenter as an excuse to geek out, and enjoy the complexity (and the subsequent instability), but I'm most interested in it as a functional/reliable item that I setup once, and use everyday.
What if Picasa/Facebook etc suddenly started automatically recognising your face in other peoples' photos? I'd probably get tagged at least a few times a month in others tourist photos (central London), and I'd probably be surprised at the compromising situations that would put me in (walking into in interview, walking around town when I called in sick etc).
Though I think face recognition wouldn't (currently) work very well at all with such a large set of potential matches (though would find it cool if it could help me find my doppleganger)
I mostly use facebook to send and receive messages to/from my friends, its largely replaced my personal emails. How about a similar system where you can only receive messages from people on your white list (who have been authenticated)?
You can buy an A2DP dongle for your iPhone. I have an IO-Play kit [http://www.my-io.com/Products/iOPLAY.aspx] and it works pretty well in my car.
I didnt download the client, but use the web interface, and this
seems the norm amongst everyone I know. I was curious if there's
a web based P2P video streaming solution? This would surely help
alleviate some of the bandwidth issues to the BBC servers, though
I dont know how effective P2P would be for realtime video streams?
(Joost works because everyone is in sync)
I also hear the BBC is thinking of inserting cache servers on the
ISPs local network, though they're still not happy...
My last project for the FX desk (front office trading application) at a top American InvBank, was written by me in under 6 months using C#. It executes easy $500m+ a day in business across multiple exchanges. It integrates with custom keyboards (USB HID), contains plenty custom controls, is built using a pluginable/configurable architecture, deployed across the world, etc etc blah blah.. It was an absolute pleasure to write, it is extremely stable, and the development tools are excellent. I came from a long embedded C/C++/MFC background, and I would never turn back. I have a job to do, traders to keep happy and I consider C++ GUI dev to be completely outclassed by C# (I've even written non-trivial server side C# windows services which are currently performing perfectly).
I agree,
Someone please tell me why they should still profit from work they did 40 years ago, especially seeing they're multi-multi-millionares already. Their work should be freely available in the public domain by now.
They're a band, nothing more. They represent everything thats wrong with the music industry today. Aging musicians clinging on to work they did 40 years ago to pay for their divorce settlements/alimony/coke habits.
The one thing I was dissapointed by, was the direct downloading. I would imagine this took a fair chunk of profit away from Trent, and caused some agro with fans getting timeouts.
The full albums eventually appeared as torrents on PirateBay, and (most)people ended up paying on the nin site, then using bittorent instead to get the album.
Really would be cool if Piratebay could come up with some way to allow payment directly through their site. Sort of a one stop shop for artists wanting to cheaply and easily release their works? Even if they simply list the paypal account to pay to and rely on fans being honest. I would have actually paid more than $5 for the plain download..
I wanted to contact the pirate bay guys and see if they'd be interested to setup paypal (or similar) accounts for artists which we could contribute to. Ofcourse we need to trust this money is indeed making its way directly to the artists, but thats not hard to do.. Perhaps it could become the default distribution channel for artists wanting to get their music out (instead of custom sites like Radiohead and Saul Williams used)
Theres an advert for the new Audi A6 in the UK http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/br/article/ 597521/audi-campaign-compares-a6-evolution-space-r ace/
They say that NASA has only filed 6,5K patents ever whilst Audi filed 9,6K patents just developing the
A6.. When I saw that it actually made me angry, how can there be that many available ways to patent something in a car? And if they _have_ developed something truly ingenious, like a way to make the engine more efficient, why is it beneficial for Audi to keep it to themselves? Shows what the patent system is being used for these days...
If they go bust the license server gets taken down and you lose the right to watch the movies you paid for..?
I'd be interested to see what sort of system backs up all this data and how they store it and
how long for!
Whenever I see footage of UK serveillance cameras I'm always amazed at how poor quality the picture
is (1 frame a sec etc), but then you realise that they have to archive 1000s of cameras. You think
they only keep the last 24hours in full def and then compress everything else as much as possible?
How does the UK system compare to say someone like YouTube when it comes to storage?
Ughh, I'd _spend_ the money :P
I'd been the money on booze, drugs and women..... The rest I'd just waste..
No one is mentioning how they left DivX out? The iPod was succesful because it supported mp3s *and* their DRM AACS, and they slowly introduced people to the concept of buying from their store instead.. But now with video they're restricting you to what you've purchased from them (ok fine, it plays normal movs but who has their collection in that format?). With a whole bunch of stuff now that records video as mpeg4 simple profile, I'm pretty impressed with this. Does this mean that H.264 will become the codec of choice for torrents/ED2Ks?
Can it GPS tag the pics I take on the thing? Assuming it has a camera..
Technically if I took an mp3 at 128kps and decompressed it to a wav file, then mp3'd that wav file (so the same kbs, using the same compressor), the first and last mp3 should be identical right? Compressing the original sound, or a wav file with the 'unheard' frequencies stripped should result in the exact same output. Or am I wrong (ie there's some randomness in there)? (Yes I know its pointless to do that, but I'm curious)
... of IE be written as an AJAX app?
You're all haggling about speed and reliability.. But how much less power would a solid state disk use compared to a mechanical disc? And what percentage of my laptop power is being consumed by my hdd (say watching a divx).. Though I realise this is a hybrid disc only storing OS boot files, so cant imagine it would give me a longer lasting battery when watching said divx etc..
I wonder if the aliens have any pressure groups against human abduction and anal probing? Sure hope they do!!
The quote from John Reid is 'This is largely driven by a rise in the numbers of young people carrying expensive goods' and 'Whilst that is the reason, it is not an excuse' Sounds like /. is submitting articles from the Sun/Daily mirror?
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