The job description of the person that compresses audio or video to remove redundancies in digital data to reduce the amount that must be stored. Lossless compression removes only enough redundancy so that the original data can be recreated exactly as it was. Lossy compression sacrifices additional data to achieve greater compression.
Ah...so like you're claiming to be a video-compression/encoding specialist? Cool beans..
Do any of you know how an instance could survive a power outage? Surely every operation is written out to disk before it's performed..so how did they design it?
Bad Addendum: many people think that a meteorite, after it hits the ground, is very hot and glows red. Actually, meteorites found shortly after impact tend to be warm, but not hot at all! It turns out that it certainly is hot enough to glow while it is in the part of the atmosphere that decelerates it the strongest, but any part that actually melts will be blown off ("ablated") by the wind of its passage. That leaves only the warm part. Even more, the meteor is slowed down so strongly as it moves through the atmosphere that the impact speed is typically only a few hundred kilometers an hour at most. Only the very large (and we're talking meters across) meteors are still moving at thousands of kilometers an hour or more when they impact. Small ones aren't moving that fast at all. Not to say you'd want to be under one: a car in New York was struck by a small meteorite and had a hole punched through it, and the whole back end crushed in. Ouch!
Javascript is much closer to Ruby than it is Java (but the built in objects aren't generally as rich, and people scream and whine about the prototype based object system).
I'm going to have to call you on this, because last time I checked, I recall JavaScript being closer to some other languages (of the functional paradigm, IIRC).
JavaScript is a scripting language used to enable programmatic access to objects within other applications. It is primarily used in the form of client-side JavaScript for the development of dynamic websites. JavaScript is a dialect of the ECMAScript standard and is characterized as a dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based language with first-class functions. JavaScript was influenced by many languages and was designed to look like Java, but to be easier for non-programmers to work with.
JavaScript, despite the name, is essentially unrelated to the Java programming language even though the two do have superficial similarities. Both languages use syntaxes influenced by that of C syntax, and JavaScript copies many Java names and naming conventions. The language's name is the result of a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun, in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime with their then-dominant browser. The key design principles within JavaScript are inherited from the Self and Scheme programming languages.
(Emphasis mine, added for clarity/ease of reading)
And for the record, I dislike wikipedia as much as the next guy, but the core fact remains:
The real roots of JavaScript are from the Self and Scheme programming languages!
Benevolent dictatorship > * in forms of leadership as has been proven every time it's occurred in history.
"When the people find they can vote themselves money,
that will herald the end of the republic."
-Benjamin Franklin
This quote falls exactly in line with obama being elected from the things I've read/seen online, as well as talking to people during the campaign who said that obama is gonna take the money from everyone who makes more than them and give it to them cause they don't make as much.
Interesting idea. We'll have to wait and see what happens.
The GAO's report draws attention to problems that the Air Force has had in working with contractors to build and launch GPS satellites within cost and schedule goals. Some of the problems stem from government acquisition methods that didn't provide for enough oversight, and added requirements that resulted in cost and schedule overruns.
Sounds like a software/project management issue to me. I didn't finish reading the article, but I hope one of their proposed solutions was to fire the incompetent people who can't deliver on-time or within budget.
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I like your analogy. Forcing people with no wheels to invent a car. Clearly, concisely, and accurately depicts the nature of the problem-- Thank You!
In the article I got the impression that they booted things back up and their apps started running again~ my bad if I mis-read.
Thanks everyone for the good information! I should have realized that the solution was simpler - and probability of my error greater.
cheers.
Not what I was asking about...at all. Thanks anyways..
Compressionist (as defined by the link yielded by googling define: compressionist):
Ah...so like you're claiming to be a video-compression/encoding specialist? Cool beans..
I just found this program 2 days ago and I feel compelled to chime in that it is AMAZING! Cheers..
Great sig- you just made my night, thanks!
**typo** should be: is NOT written out
Sorry about that.
Do any of you know how an instance could survive a power outage? Surely every operation is written out to disk before it's performed..so how did they design it?
That "Anonymouse Cowardon" is just a little devil, isn't he!
Aren't we forgetting the unknowable quantity of people who were struck and killed by a meteorite, and never found?
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mod parent up! thanks for the information!ve
Yep, he is a flaming pair shaped ham of a porker. Oink oink, alain! O I N K !
a 600 dollar retainer? get real man, it is not reasonable for students to carry that kind of cash..generally speaking..
(obviously I didn't know about the actual similarities with Java)
Thanks for clearing that up!
Javascript is much closer to Ruby than it is Java (but the built in objects aren't generally as rich, and people scream and whine about the prototype based object system).
I'm going to have to call you on this, because last time I checked, I recall JavaScript being closer to some other languages (of the functional paradigm, IIRC).
From the Wikishidia article on JavaScript:
(Emphasis mine, added for clarity/ease of reading)
And for the record, I dislike wikipedia as much as the next guy, but the core fact remains:
The real roots of JavaScript are from the Self and Scheme programming languages!
.. So you'd need 73% more ethanol fuel to get the same mileage as from a unit of gasoline. ..
Okay, you seem confused. Ethanol has 73% of the energy content per mass that gasoline has.
Benevolent dictatorship > * in forms of leadership as has been proven every time it's occurred in history. "When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin This quote falls exactly in line with obama being elected from the things I've read/seen online, as well as talking to people during the campaign who said that obama is gonna take the money from everyone who makes more than them and give it to them cause they don't make as much.
Interesting idea. We'll have to wait and see what happens.
I interviewed there. Interesting company...it was very disorganized though.
search?q=2+players+1+computer
Woah! You almost had me fooled and made me click on that link!
hah nice one anon...freud at work i s'pose.
It would seem as though he did not perform a google search prior to writing in?
Sounds like a software/project management issue to me. I didn't finish reading the article, but I hope one of their proposed solutions was to fire the incompetent people who can't deliver on-time or within budget.
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The above looks okay to me, but I'm not an English major.
whereabouts do you reside?