Think of this as an IQ test of a potential employer. If one brings it up, point out to them, in detail, how easy it would have been to determine this wasn't you, then walk out of the interview and be thankful you've dodged a bullet.
Unfortunately, in reality, if any employers do see this as an issue, they'll never bring it up. They'll just refuse to interview you in the first place, or fail to make you an offer after your interview.
If you ask, you'll get a vague response like "We don't think you're a good fit".
Most employers will never give you specific reasons for turning down your application, largely as a CYA move.
One of the clips toward the beginning of the video actually suggested one of the more realistic applications to me. It looked like someone sorted all the blocks showing sky in the background into one pile, and everything else into another.
Sorting audio, video, and image files is one of the more tedious tasks in computing. Sorting physical objects is something we tend to be a bit better at. Like, pulling all the quarters out of your change jar. You're able to interact with a large number of objects rapidly. Meanwhile, a mouse gives you the ability to interact with one object at a time.
Say you've just pulled a few thousand images off of the 4 GB SD card in your digital camera. It seems to me, it'd be a lot easier to sort them (by when/where they were taken, who's in them, whatever) if you could see some of them on the table in front of you on a few dozen of these "blocks", sort them into piles in a second or two, and then somehow trigger a "give me the next batch to sort" command, and start again.
However, there's a somewhat simpler (and probably cheaper) way to make an interface like this work. A pair of VR goggles, a webcam, a handful of objects (card, blocks, whatever) with unique shapes printed them (which you could manufacture for a few cents each) and some simple image detection/overlay software.
The blocks in TFA will always be at least a couple of bucks each, meaning it's expensive to have more than a few of them to interact with; additionally, they need to be recharged, and they're expensive to break/lose. With the webcam/goggles/image overlay technique, you can interact with as many objects as you want for no additional cost, they don't need batteries, and the replacement cost is trivial. It's a bit more cumbersome (VR goggles), and they don't stack as well, though.
For example, if we take your example of trying to slow down a truck on a long grade, the batteries would need to be huge to absorb all that power.
That's the trick with your average diesel locomotive -- they're "hybrids" in that they use a diesel generator to power electric motors, but they have no batteries to speak of. They brake in the same way that a hybrid does, but instead of recapturing the energy, they bleed it off as heat via resistance.
Apparently there are some locomotives out there with large banks of batteries on board to capture the power, but they're all new models.
I'm just waiting for one of those things to crash through some suburban American family's house.
Rocks the size of these satellites enter earth's atmosphere all the time. Fortunately, we have an atmosphere that does a pretty good job of destroying most smaller objects that enter it. And humans only inhabit a tiny fraction of the earth's surface, so whatever does make it through the atmosphere usually lands in the ocean, or uninhabited areas.
The Matrix Online gave every character a AOL IM handle. yourchar@thematrixonline.com or something like that. The game had an integrated IM client, so you could IM other characters, or anyone with an AIM handle, and anyone with an AIM handle could IM you, IIRC.
Of course, AIM's protocol is proprietary. But why not use XMPP? XMPP has a huge advantage over this product: there are already a ton of clients out there -- no one has to install anything special to be able to talk to your users.
I was really looking forward to charging my electric SUV via USB. Now my hopes are dashed!
If it takes 32 hours to charge a tesla with a 15 amp, 110 volt current, I'd hate to see the charging time with the 1.5 amps, 5 volts maximum USB 3 provides...
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Writing a few lines of a data markup language does not make you a programmer , you have not "developed" anything and hence what you have written is not an "application". At best its a description of functionality but it is NOT the implementation of it which is what the word "develop" in the programming sense means. FBJS may well be a programing language (albeit a noddy one) but FBML is not and I get a teensy bit tired of idiots people pretending they're some amazing app developer because they can grasp how to use *ML. Lets get this straight - a friggin chimp could code in a markup language given 2 hours training.
You don't honestly think writing a facebook app is just an issue of slapping together a couple of static pages of FBML, do you?
Just about every facebook application is backed by some a sort of web service powered by a server-side language like PHP and a database. FBML is only the presentation language.
What you've done is akin to criticising Google because all google.com does is spit out HTML, and any idiot can write HTML.
Do you have any idea what the fuck you're talking about?
We're currently using the Zend PHP port of Lucene. It was nice, because we were able to use all our existing code for loading our PHP objects from the database for indexing. It worked fine, as long as are indexes stayed small.
Now we have several indexes weighing in at around 300+ megabytes, and Zend Lucene has proven to be absolute crap. It takes seconds of CPU time, and hundreds of megs of ram to process simple queries against these indexes. When tested in Luke, the same queries against the same indexes finish in milliseconds with minimal memory usage. Either the Zend port, or PHP itself is clearly unsuitable for production use on large indexes.
Either way, we're going to switch it out for Solr ASAP, and we anticipate the development overhead should be minimal -- we'll keep using the same code to load our objects, and pass them to Solr via JSON.
So far, the best method I've managed to use is bunches of PostIt-notes stuck to the screen of an out-of-commission 32" TV (glossy, non-matte screen, of course!).
Well, I can do a little better than that (if not much). I keep a folder full of bookmarks to the URLs of reports I've filed in external trackers.
And of course, most trackers send you email when things change.
This has worked for me, but I only track a half dozen bugs at a time, a far cry from the 200 mentioned in TFS.
This post neatly explains the math behind Tesla charging.
If you do the math, a 10 gallon tank of gas holds about 360 kWh of energy. It'd take 9 days to suck that much power through a 110 volt, 15 amp circuit.
Fortunately, electric cars are more efficient at converting the energy in their batteries to kinetic energy than gasoline engines are -- they require fewer kWh per mile than gasoline cars, which in turn means you need to "refuel" and store less energy than a gasoline automobile does.
And using electricity means that everyone has a fuel source right at home, ready to go. No new infrastructure. No hazardous or explosive alternative fuels (like hydrogen or LP gas). No special equipment or training. Plug it in... Done.
That's definitely a great advantage, but in the interest of fairness, there are a few disadvantages:
1) "Refueling time" is much higher. An energy transfer you could do in a minute or two with gasoline takes hours with electricity
2) Energy density is much worse. A pound of battery holds a fraction of the energy a pound of gasoline does.
3) Vehicle "fuel" storage is much more expensive. Gas tanks are cheap.
Advantages: 1) Simplified powertrain. It's even possible to eliminate the transmission entirely, which is a pretty large source of energy loss in cars
2) As you mentioned, infrastructure exists... up to the curb. Fast charging will require upgrades at charging sites themselves. The Tesla Roadster comes with a special 220 volt, 70 amp charging system, which requires some decent electrical work to install (in that it's not just an issue of plugging it in to the wall). The advantage, however, is you can charge a Tesla to its full 220 mile capacity in just 3.5 hours. On a standard, 110 volt, 15 amp circuit, it takes 32 hours to fully charge.
This isn't so much a limitation of the Tesla's batteries as it's a limitation of just how little energy 15 amps at 110 volts is. It takes a long time to get a gas tank's worth of electricity at that rate.
PHP has been applied to many large scale development projects, demonstrating that you are incorrect.
Well, no.
"X has been used for Y" does not demonstrate that "X is suitable for Y".
Three of the world's top 10 websites are PHP-based. Wikipedia, and facebook, along with vast chunks of yahoo.
I'm gonna go ahead and argue that "X has been successfully used for Y by 3 of the top 10 organizations in the Y industry" is pretty solid evidence that "X is fairly suitable for Y". In fact, I think you'd be hard pressed to demonstrate that "X is unsuitable for Y", given the level of success these sites continue to achieve.
WP, Facebook, and Yahoo all have their business problems, but PHP is the least of them.
I can't see a situation where 64Gb of fast storage is worth that amount of money + time + hassle + 64Gb of RAM + potential firmware problems + interface cabling +... The bottlenecks in anything serious are going to be elsewhere.
If you think this is pricey, you should see what the guys who run EVE online paid for the RAMSAN units they have backing their databases -- over $150 per gig. CCP claims a 4000% percent performance increase, as a result of the upgrade, however.
There are definitely plenty of IO-bottlenecked servers out there that could benefit dramatically from a good SSD solution. But yeah, if you're just gaming and posting to slashdot, a $600 consumer-grade SSD isn't really going to make much of a difference in your desktop rig.
I am already so tired of hearing "black this" and "Afro-American that" and he just became President
I tend to agree. But then again, I'm among those born well after the civil rights movement -- and I'm willing to guess you are too. I think it's hard for the under-40 crowd to really understand what race really meant in this country in the pre-civil-rights-movement era.
a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath
So, yes, the fact that Obama is part Kenyan doesn't really matter to many of us. But it is extremely remarkable that he's been elected to our nations highest office in a country where segregation ended less than a century ago.
For what it's worth, there's even a legit reason for selling FOSS software: not everyone has easy access to high-bandwidth connections. Sometimes, it's a lot easier to just pay someone $5 to burn you a CD/DVD and ship it to you. Ubuntu is one of the few FOSS applications you can get a free copy of on disk straight from the source -- and even then, it can take weeks or months to get a copy.
If you want any other FOSS project on a disk, delivered in a timely manner, you've either gotta burn it yourself, have a friend do it, or find a 3rd party retailer like OSDisc. And for some people, the first two options aren't available.
there is no reason to park your control station anywhere near the battlefield. The USA is very capable of controlling their UAVs from the continental US, where no opponent outside Russia could likely strike.
When it comes to communications latency, the time required for a signal to reach an orbiting satellite and return, even at the speed of light, is not trivial.
Geostationary orbit is 35,786,000 meters out. A laser beamed from the earth's surface takes over 100 ms to reach that altitude, and another 100+ ms to reach its destination. Right off the bat, you're looking at a 400+ ms ping time, which is significantly slower than human reaction time. And it only gets worse if you're going around the globe.
Using satelites in low earth orbit brings this time down, but not all that much when it comes to getting a signal to the other end of the planet.
Even in the theoretical absolute best case -- a direct fiber optic cable connection operating at the speed of light (actual fiberoptics operate at a fraction of that speed) on the earths' surface (the lowest "orbit" altitude possible), any given point on the earth's surface may be up to 20,000 km away (1/2 the earth's circumference), meaning a 66 millisecond travel time one-way, or a 132 millisecond round-trip ping. Of course, in reality, this is completely impossible -- a real round-the-globe trip will be well over 20,000 km, and take place at a fraction of the speed of light.
So, in short, you'll never do better than 132 ms round trip when it comes to getting a signal half way around the earth and back. As a result, there will pretty much always be a significant latency benefit to be had in having your transmitter near your receiver. You can afford to put yourself hundreds of miles from your drone, sure. But you can't expect to fly a drone in China with from a base in Wyoming and hope to have exceptional reaction times.
Do you even need AI if you can do low-latency remote control?
You do if your opponent has some sort of communications jamming technology.
One hell of a jamming technology to block the laser to satellite communication of a high-altitude plane.
I'd imagine you'd jam that system just like you jam radio: by sending a stronger signal -- in this case, by shining brighter lasers on the receivers on both ends (the satellite and the UAV).
a felony punishable by a fine up to $5000 or up to 5 years in prison
Who the fuck thought that shit was a reasonable punishment for such a minor fucking transgression? Lemme get this fucking straight -- you can drive 100 miles an hour down the god damn freeway, potentially putting fucking lives at risk, and probably get off with no more than a few days in jail, at worst, but if you fucking swear in the process, you're looking at five fucking years?
What the fuck?
It is unlawful for a person in a public forum or place of public accommodation wilfully and knowingly to publish orally or in writing, exhibit, or otherwise make available material containing words, language, or actions of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious, or indecent nature.
Well, at least they had the foresight to clearly define a standard for determining what is and isn't profanity. And clearly outlined the ways in which this wouldn't constitute a violation of the first amendment.</sarcasm>
I tend to believe that sometime in the past you ordered something from Best Buy and perhaps gave them more information at that time. Perhaps you even had a home delivery of a bulky item.
That's probably it. Apple does the same thing. I have my debit card tied to my iTunes account. When I go into the apple store and use that same debit card, they pull up all the info on that iTunes account, and use it to send receipts via email, etc.
The first time I ran into that was... interesting. I picked up OS X 10.5, handed over my debit card, and they pulled up my email address and offered the option of an email-based receipt. I accepted, and received the email on my phone a couple of minutes after I walked out.
I remember talking about what life would be like if the internet became mainstream back in the mid 90's. Now that it's here, it's a bit jarring.
So Wii Sports isn't helping to sell Wiis? The Wii would sell just as well if it had a knitting game instead?
Sure, the Wii Sports bundle may help move a few more Wiis, but that's beside the point -- calling "Wii Sports" the "best selling game of all time" is an unfair comparison, and terribly misleading.
As to whether the Wii would sell without Wii Sports, the Xbox 360 has been selling unbundled for most of its life. The only game bundled with the unit I purchased was "Hexic", a minimally featured downloadable bejewelled clone. So, yeah, unbundled consoles can sell themselves just fine.
Of course Wii Sports is "selling" well: everyone's FORCED to take a copy when they buy a Wii console!
If you don't count bundled sales, however, the game's sales numbers are pathetic.
Don't get me wrong, it's a decent game, but if they'd bundled "Mario's Extreme Knitting Challenge" instead, it'd "sell" just as well. And all these "journalists" who keep pointing to Wii Sports as a massive success for the motion-based sports gaming genre would probably be calling knitting games the wave of the future.
Well thats a relief, I'd hate to know (in these economic times) that some information could not be retrieved because of inability to pay the transfer fees, and not, in my opinion, the more important cost of storage size.
Try telling the guys running youtube that bandwidth costs don't matter.
Last I heard, their bandwidth costs are in the millions of dollars per month. I'm fairly confident they don't have a matching outlay for storage.
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Unfortunately, in reality, if any employers do see this as an issue, they'll never bring it up. They'll just refuse to interview you in the first place, or fail to make you an offer after your interview.
If you ask, you'll get a vague response like "We don't think you're a good fit".
Most employers will never give you specific reasons for turning down your application, largely as a CYA move.
One of the clips toward the beginning of the video actually suggested one of the more realistic applications to me. It looked like someone sorted all the blocks showing sky in the background into one pile, and everything else into another.
Sorting audio, video, and image files is one of the more tedious tasks in computing.
Sorting physical objects is something we tend to be a bit better at. Like, pulling all the quarters out of your change jar. You're able to interact with a large number of objects rapidly. Meanwhile, a mouse gives you the ability to interact with one object at a time.
Say you've just pulled a few thousand images off of the 4 GB SD card in your digital camera. It seems to me, it'd be a lot easier to sort them (by when/where they were taken, who's in them, whatever) if you could see some of them on the table in front of you on a few dozen of these "blocks", sort them into piles in a second or two, and then somehow trigger a "give me the next batch to sort" command, and start again.
However, there's a somewhat simpler (and probably cheaper) way to make an interface like this work. A pair of VR goggles, a webcam, a handful of objects (card, blocks, whatever) with unique shapes printed them (which you could manufacture for a few cents each) and some simple image detection/overlay software.
The blocks in TFA will always be at least a couple of bucks each, meaning it's expensive to have more than a few of them to interact with; additionally, they need to be recharged, and they're expensive to break/lose. With the webcam/goggles/image overlay technique, you can interact with as many objects as you want for no additional cost, they don't need batteries, and the replacement cost is trivial. It's a bit more cumbersome (VR goggles), and they don't stack as well, though.
It's arguably less inhumane than the glue traps they're using now.
That's the trick with your average diesel locomotive -- they're "hybrids" in that they use a diesel generator to power electric motors, but they have no batteries to speak of. They brake in the same way that a hybrid does, but instead of recapturing the energy, they bleed it off as heat via resistance.
Apparently there are some locomotives out there with large banks of batteries on board to capture the power, but they're all new models.
Rocks the size of these satellites enter earth's atmosphere all the time. Fortunately, we have an atmosphere that does a pretty good job of destroying most smaller objects that enter it. And humans only inhabit a tiny fraction of the earth's surface, so whatever does make it through the atmosphere usually lands in the ocean, or uninhabited areas.
The Matrix Online gave every character a AOL IM handle. yourchar@thematrixonline.com or something like that. The game had an integrated IM client, so you could IM other characters, or anyone with an AIM handle, and anyone with an AIM handle could IM you, IIRC.
Of course, AIM's protocol is proprietary. But why not use XMPP? XMPP has a huge advantage over this product: there are already a ton of clients out there -- no one has to install anything special to be able to talk to your users.
If it takes 32 hours to charge a tesla with a 15 amp, 110 volt current, I'd hate to see the charging time with the 1.5 amps, 5 volts maximum USB 3 provides...
You don't honestly think writing a facebook app is just an issue of slapping together a couple of static pages of FBML, do you?
Just about every facebook application is backed by some a sort of web service powered by a server-side language like PHP and a database. FBML is only the presentation language.
What you've done is akin to criticising Google because all google.com does is spit out HTML, and any idiot can write HTML.
Do you have any idea what the fuck you're talking about?
We're currently using the Zend PHP port of Lucene. It was nice, because we were able to use all our existing code for loading our PHP objects from the database for indexing. It worked fine, as long as are indexes stayed small.
Now we have several indexes weighing in at around 300+ megabytes, and Zend Lucene has proven to be absolute crap. It takes seconds of CPU time, and hundreds of megs of ram to process simple queries against these indexes. When tested in Luke, the same queries against the same indexes finish in milliseconds with minimal memory usage. Either the Zend port, or PHP itself is clearly unsuitable for production use on large indexes.
Either way, we're going to switch it out for Solr ASAP, and we anticipate the development overhead should be minimal -- we'll keep using the same code to load our objects, and pass them to Solr via JSON.
Having those pop up on every billboard you walk past could really trash someone's already-fragile body image...
Well, I can do a little better than that (if not much). I keep a folder full of bookmarks to the URLs of reports I've filed in external trackers.
And of course, most trackers send you email when things change.
This has worked for me, but I only track a half dozen bugs at a time, a far cry from the 200 mentioned in TFS.
This post neatly explains the math behind Tesla charging.
If you do the math, a 10 gallon tank of gas holds about 360 kWh of energy. It'd take 9 days to suck that much power through a 110 volt, 15 amp circuit.
Fortunately, electric cars are more efficient at converting the energy in their batteries to kinetic energy than gasoline engines are -- they require fewer kWh per mile than gasoline cars, which in turn means you need to "refuel" and store less energy than a gasoline automobile does.
That's definitely a great advantage, but in the interest of fairness, there are a few disadvantages:
1) "Refueling time" is much higher. An energy transfer you could do in a minute or two with gasoline takes hours with electricity
2) Energy density is much worse. A pound of battery holds a fraction of the energy a pound of gasoline does.
3) Vehicle "fuel" storage is much more expensive. Gas tanks are cheap.
Advantages:
1) Simplified powertrain. It's even possible to eliminate the transmission entirely, which is a pretty large source of energy loss in cars
2) As you mentioned, infrastructure exists... up to the curb. Fast charging will require upgrades at charging sites themselves. The Tesla Roadster comes with a special 220 volt, 70 amp charging system, which requires some decent electrical work to install (in that it's not just an issue of plugging it in to the wall). The advantage, however, is you can charge a Tesla to its full 220 mile capacity in just 3.5 hours. On a standard, 110 volt, 15 amp circuit, it takes 32 hours to fully charge.
This isn't so much a limitation of the Tesla's batteries as it's a limitation of just how little energy 15 amps at 110 volts is. It takes a long time to get a gas tank's worth of electricity at that rate.
Three of the world's top 10 websites are PHP-based. Wikipedia, and facebook, along with vast chunks of yahoo.
I'm gonna go ahead and argue that "X has been successfully used for Y by 3 of the top 10 organizations in the Y industry" is pretty solid evidence that "X is fairly suitable for Y". In fact, I think you'd be hard pressed to demonstrate that "X is unsuitable for Y", given the level of success these sites continue to achieve.
WP, Facebook, and Yahoo all have their business problems, but PHP is the least of them.
If you think this is pricey, you should see what the guys who run EVE online paid for the RAMSAN units they have backing their databases -- over $150 per gig. CCP claims a 4000% percent performance increase, as a result of the upgrade, however.
There are definitely plenty of IO-bottlenecked servers out there that could benefit dramatically from a good SSD solution. But yeah, if you're just gaming and posting to slashdot, a $600 consumer-grade SSD isn't really going to make much of a difference in your desktop rig.
I tend to agree. But then again, I'm among those born well after the civil rights movement -- and I'm willing to guess you are too. I think it's hard for the under-40 crowd to really understand what race really meant in this country in the pre-civil-rights-movement era.
In Obama's own words, from today's address:
So, yes, the fact that Obama is part Kenyan doesn't really matter to many of us. But it is extremely remarkable that he's been elected to our nations highest office in a country where segregation ended less than a century ago.
For what it's worth, there's even a legit reason for selling FOSS software: not everyone has easy access to high-bandwidth connections. Sometimes, it's a lot easier to just pay someone $5 to burn you a CD/DVD and ship it to you. Ubuntu is one of the few FOSS applications you can get a free copy of on disk straight from the source -- and even then, it can take weeks or months to get a copy.
If you want any other FOSS project on a disk, delivered in a timely manner, you've either gotta burn it yourself, have a friend do it, or find a 3rd party retailer like OSDisc. And for some people, the first two options aren't available.
When it comes to communications latency, the time required for a signal to reach an orbiting satellite and return, even at the speed of light, is not trivial.
Geostationary orbit is 35,786,000 meters out. A laser beamed from the earth's surface takes over 100 ms to reach that altitude, and another 100+ ms to reach its destination. Right off the bat, you're looking at a 400+ ms ping time, which is significantly slower than human reaction time. And it only gets worse if you're going around the globe.
Using satelites in low earth orbit brings this time down, but not all that much when it comes to getting a signal to the other end of the planet.
Even in the theoretical absolute best case -- a direct fiber optic cable connection operating at the speed of light (actual fiberoptics operate at a fraction of that speed) on the earths' surface (the lowest "orbit" altitude possible), any given point on the earth's surface may be up to 20,000 km away (1/2 the earth's circumference), meaning a 66 millisecond travel time one-way, or a 132 millisecond round-trip ping. Of course, in reality, this is completely impossible -- a real round-the-globe trip will be well over 20,000 km, and take place at a fraction of the speed of light.
So, in short, you'll never do better than 132 ms round trip when it comes to getting a signal half way around the earth and back. As a result, there will pretty much always be a significant latency benefit to be had in having your transmitter near your receiver. You can afford to put yourself hundreds of miles from your drone, sure. But you can't expect to fly a drone in China with from a base in Wyoming and hope to have exceptional reaction times.
I'd imagine you'd jam that system just like you jam radio: by sending a stronger signal -- in this case, by shining brighter lasers on the receivers on both ends (the satellite and the UAV).
Or by simply interrupting line-of-sight.
Who the fuck thought that shit was a reasonable punishment for such a minor fucking transgression? Lemme get this fucking straight -- you can drive 100 miles an hour down the god damn freeway, potentially putting fucking lives at risk, and probably get off with no more than a few days in jail, at worst, but if you fucking swear in the process, you're looking at five fucking years?
What the fuck?
Well, at least they had the foresight to clearly define a standard for determining what is and isn't profanity. And clearly outlined the ways in which this wouldn't constitute a violation of the first amendment.</sarcasm>
That's probably it. Apple does the same thing. I have my debit card tied to my iTunes account. When I go into the apple store and use that same debit card, they pull up all the info on that iTunes account, and use it to send receipts via email, etc.
The first time I ran into that was... interesting. I picked up OS X 10.5, handed over my debit card, and they pulled up my email address and offered the option of an email-based receipt. I accepted, and received the email on my phone a couple of minutes after I walked out.
I remember talking about what life would be like if the internet became mainstream back in the mid 90's. Now that it's here, it's a bit jarring.
Almost. But Jobs' compensation package isn't limited to his salary.
Sure, the Wii Sports bundle may help move a few more Wiis, but that's beside the point -- calling "Wii Sports" the "best selling game of all time" is an unfair comparison, and terribly misleading.
As to whether the Wii would sell without Wii Sports, the Xbox 360 has been selling unbundled for most of its life. The only game bundled with the unit I purchased was "Hexic", a minimally featured downloadable bejewelled clone. So, yeah, unbundled consoles can sell themselves just fine.
Of course Wii Sports is "selling" well: everyone's FORCED to take a copy when they buy a Wii console!
If you don't count bundled sales, however, the game's sales numbers are pathetic.
Don't get me wrong, it's a decent game, but if they'd bundled "Mario's Extreme Knitting Challenge" instead, it'd "sell" just as well. And all these "journalists" who keep pointing to Wii Sports as a massive success for the motion-based sports gaming genre would probably be calling knitting games the wave of the future.
Try telling the guys running youtube that bandwidth costs don't matter.
Last I heard, their bandwidth costs are in the millions of dollars per month. I'm fairly confident they don't have a matching outlay for storage.