Wait, you mean a commercial enterprise that pays a fee to host programming is purposely trying to make it difficult on free riders. Oh the shock, oh the outrage.
How can we possibly allow that to happen.
Seriously though, Hulu is working on adding device support to their service, I believe Roku is on the list, but they still have to pay their fees to use the media, and any service that zaps the ads isn't going to be considered for partnership.
I'm not really sure how people can be shocked or outraged about that. Hulu can only be free as long as the copyright owners allow their media to be used. And that requires some sort of payment, either a fee or watching the ads. And really, it only comes out to about a minute and a half per half hour, it's really not that much.
Who suffers: local access, religious channels and basically everything that barely got watched anyway. But they can move to a cheaper online broadcast for their current audiences anyway, or be part of the à la carte.
Actually, a lot of those channels do better online than they did on TV. The costs of production are mostly the same, but they then just need to come up with the cost of bandwidth, which while expensive is just related to the bandwidth needed. Whereas on TV they needed to bid against more popular programming whether or not people watched.
And they can also do crazy things like distribute programming via torrents and include time shifting right out of the box.
I definitely could be wrong, but isn't the RAM one of the places where dirty power ends up being revealed. I know from experience that HDD will be fail much more quickly when you're not using a clean power source, either via dirty house power or an overloaded PS.
I don't know how it is in your state, but here in WA you're not allowed to block the intersection. If you enter the intersection without being able to clear it for pretty much any reason, you're at fault. It doesn't matter whether your stopped or moving. Well, I guess it does, either you're blocking the intersection or you're cited for running a red light.
And the cameras here are quite popular, while some forms of accidents are up somewhat, the T Bones which we were trying to eliminate have gone down significantly.
As for Mississippi, perhaps they should leave these matters up to the cities involved, the residents of the rest of the state shouldn't get a say in this sort of internal matter.
I'm pretty sure that this isn't within the realm of fair use. It damages the value of the test which is subject to copyright protections. Any use that damages the underlying work is much, much less likely to be granted fair use exemptions.
Really though, the right thing to do is take it down, then consult an attorney. This is reasonable enough on the face of it to require doing so. It can always go back up if it's not reasonable.
I'd be surprised if it got to that point. More likely it'll fail before it gets rolled out. I'm guessing vaporware.
But as far as that goes, I doubt that it's going to take that much more bandwidth than realtime HD streaming. Or in other words, depending upon how much gaming you do it may or may not be an issue.
In the US we only have 348576384746876 conflicting standards, yes it's better, but not that much better. I was actually thinking the other day that we really ought to work things out to be a bit more standardized.
Sure it sucks in the show room, but few people have more than one tv per corner of their house and for everybody else it would be really helpful.
That being said, I've used my PDA's infrared port as a controller at points and apart from the bit where it's touchscreen only, it does a decent job at relatively short distances and can be programmed to handle just about any device.
I take it you've never been on a jury. Do you have any idea how dull jury duty is? I was on a month long trial last summer and it was tedious and awkward. We all had very little in common and the one thing we did have in common was off limits for conversation.
It's difficult enough to get people to ditch work for a tiny stipend, imagine knowing that over the period of the trial that one's going to be bored out of ones mind during the many points where the jury isn't needed.
And where exactly do I find the "terrifying but expected" mod point?
That wouldn't surprise me at all, determining obviousness is really quite a bit more difficult than it might seem. Often times things are far more obvious once you've seen them in work than they were before hand. Prior art isn't necessarily that much better if it was used in an obscure product or never patented previously.
Sort of like tension sheets if you think about it.
That might have to do with the fact that UT 2004 has been available for some time from gog.com. I'm sure there were places where one could get it more or less continuously.
that the excuse for not providing the facilities is that nobody is using it on those OSes. Seems odd to me that they'd expect for a substantial number of people to buy their products without including the ability to actually use the product.
But then again, developers seem to be spoiled badly enough that they expect people to plunk down their cash even before they can use it on their preferred OS. Often times sending cease and desist letters in place of actual support.
That's really not true. The CCD is definitely still a very serious issue. That's where the noise comes from, that's where the color problems start, that's where the issues of limited dynamic range start. MP has always been dependent upon the CCD to handle noise far more than just about any other factor, and that's not changed.
What has changed is that we don't need to bump the mp any further because even 12mp is more than what most people actually use.
Really, the best thing would be for people to realize a few things. The first being that mp is not a measurement of resolution and that mp isn't the end all and be all of image quality. It's a relatively minor consideration once you get over about 6mp or so.
Indeed, at 21mp, there isn't any inherent reason why most people would need even half that. 6mp is more than enough for good results up to about 8x10".
The much more significant issue is getting good performance in low light low contrast settings as well as in high contrast settings. And the tendency of a sensor to blow out whichever color is being used to represent the highlight details.
And of course noise reduction. But this has all been the case for years, it's just now that designers can ignore the MP question.
No, the misunderstanding is on your part. Tax evasion is criminal activity in many parts of the world. Refusing to cooperate in investigations is sufficient cause to black list whole financial systems. The Swiss people don't have to hand over the records, they could opt to not allow Americans to hold accounts or tolerate the black listing.
ID requirements aren't particularly meaningful. What good would it have been to know that Al Capone had 300m in a bank if all that was available to the investigators was that he had an account? In a hypothetical scenario like that, there's no way that he could be prosecuted. That's the issue and it's why the Swiss banks would have been black listed as co-conspirators.
As I said before if the Swiss people don't like it, there's no reason why they have to offer accounts to American nationals. There's a fair number of nations which we've opted to black list ourselves.
There's that, but there's also the fact that people were promised a decent job if they were willing to work and get a degree. Right now I've got a degree and I work my butt off for a fraction of the salary that I thought I'd be making.
I always find it somewhat ironic that the generation that was the original me first generation can possibly even consider talking down to the new graduates. Back 30 years ago, one could reasonably expect some correlation between effort and compensation. Productivity went up and so did compensation. Right now it seems cruel to expect a realistic view considering how bleak it's been.
I'm not sure how old the writer is, but it's pretty spoiled rotten and unappreciative to talk about the people that are going to be paying for his retirement in that fashion.
That sounds good until you think about the fact that the City of Seattle is getting basically squat and a half out of the stimulus. In other words, rather than fixing traffic in one of the most congested areas in the country, they've decided to cave to Republican pressure and build the overpass.
It's a bit unfortunate that change doesn't seem to be including major cities like Seattle or LA. Perhaps if the rural voters get lucky we won't have any cities at all in the near future.
Things like fixing the electrical grid, fixing the infrastructure in areas which make top 10 lists ought to be higher than stupid minor fixes like that.
FYI, the roads here outright suck, this was a decision they made to ensure that the stupid Seattlites wouldn't get their fair share of the stimulus dollars. I happen to know of at least 3 fairly substantial projects which would have been a better choice than this bridge.
And that leaves out options like fixing our streets or our aging electrical grid. Or perhaps fixing the streetlight out front of my parents' house which has been broken for the last 2 decades. And no I'm not exaggerating, it's been broken since sometime in the mid 80s, or at least that's when I first remember it, probably was broken before that.
It's worth pointing out that these niche fields are used as a reason to disregard the incredible regression in the numbers of degrees handed out to men every year. Right now roughly twice as many are handed out to women as men. And there's still a culture of focusing on fixing the academic achievement gap so that women perform on a par in niche specialties.
It wouldn't be such a problem if the solutions were better aimed at gaining parity, but we're going to have serious problems in 30 years if this isn't remedied. Continuing to skew things in favor of women doesn't make sense when they're already out performing.
And that's really why the question "so what?" comes up. Why exactly should we care that women are choosing not to go into these fields when there's a much larger disparity going on. And really why exactly should we allow these bullshit statistics like that 72% wage figure to cloud our judgment.
Ultimately quoting these things without actually addressing the full question is pretty meaningless. With the wage figure, cash wages are only 1 facet of compensation and don't even begin to factor in for personal preferences. Sure it's not good, but it's really anybody's guess as to how much so. As well as to what extent personal choices are to blame. Forcing women to achieve things at the same rate and in the same way as men strikes me as more than a little misogynistic.
As far as your point goes, if we don't fix the aforementioned problems we're not even going to have the options you're suggesting. It does no good to fix paternity leave if there's not enough men out there with qualifications.
The Presidents initiative for women and girls would be possibly effective if it weren't so anti-man. Women have complained for years that men don't spend enough time at home helping out, which really makes one wonder under what definition is it that men don't need help balancing work and family.
And don't forget the fact that they went to unlimited views because only a small number of people were using the feature at all. It would be somewhat understandable if the feature was more widely used and they had a much larger selection available via instant view.
But that being said, I just started playing a movie and there's no slow down compared to usual. Definitely better than last time, but only by the amount of bandwidth added to my own connection. Definitely not anything to support the idea of a cap.
You are right, well mostly. This cell supposedly charges in 10 seconds, but I doubt that they'd hook it up in such a way that you needed a 9 megawatt outlet. More likely they'd design for a 4 hour charge, which would be a much more reasonable figure.
For most people, they'd probably set it up so that you only had to charge it for an hour and were limited to only 25 miles, which would be fine for most people, especially since they'd have the ability to leave it charge all night and get the full range.
Or even still more likely the author threw that in to make it look more useful than it really is. Useful for handhelds and things with lesser power needs, probably, but not for high drain devices like cars.
It sounds to me like a variant on capacitors, but the question as you put it is, has this really been achieved, or is this still vaporware. People have been working on this for quite a while, and nobody's been able to do it. I'm sure they will some day, but right now there needs to be a proper citation.
And for a car, it would likely take a huge number of cells and a huge amount of juice to work.
That's not apples to apples. The difference is that if you forget the lock, the chimp will check at some point, and then immediately leave the cage.
But in this case it was a plan based upon the prediction of future emotional states, which is quite a bit different. It had been seen before, but not in a way that was clearly based upon planning and foresight.
I had to reread that a few times, but it seems like a compelling argument for COW filesystems with a backend scrubber to fix any suboptimal file placements. I'm sure it isn't quite as fast, but unless the disk is constantly accessed it's probably not going to make much of a negative impact.
And depending upon the type of files most handled one could probably optimize where the default placements are made.
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Wait, you mean a commercial enterprise that pays a fee to host programming is purposely trying to make it difficult on free riders. Oh the shock, oh the outrage.
How can we possibly allow that to happen.
Seriously though, Hulu is working on adding device support to their service, I believe Roku is on the list, but they still have to pay their fees to use the media, and any service that zaps the ads isn't going to be considered for partnership.
I'm not really sure how people can be shocked or outraged about that. Hulu can only be free as long as the copyright owners allow their media to be used. And that requires some sort of payment, either a fee or watching the ads. And really, it only comes out to about a minute and a half per half hour, it's really not that much.
Who suffers: local access, religious channels and basically everything that barely got watched anyway. But they can move to a cheaper online broadcast for their current audiences anyway, or be part of the à la carte.
Actually, a lot of those channels do better online than they did on TV. The costs of production are mostly the same, but they then just need to come up with the cost of bandwidth, which while expensive is just related to the bandwidth needed. Whereas on TV they needed to bid against more popular programming whether or not people watched.
And they can also do crazy things like distribute programming via torrents and include time shifting right out of the box.
I definitely could be wrong, but isn't the RAM one of the places where dirty power ends up being revealed. I know from experience that HDD will be fail much more quickly when you're not using a clean power source, either via dirty house power or an overloaded PS.
I don't know how it is in your state, but here in WA you're not allowed to block the intersection. If you enter the intersection without being able to clear it for pretty much any reason, you're at fault. It doesn't matter whether your stopped or moving. Well, I guess it does, either you're blocking the intersection or you're cited for running a red light.
And the cameras here are quite popular, while some forms of accidents are up somewhat, the T Bones which we were trying to eliminate have gone down significantly.
As for Mississippi, perhaps they should leave these matters up to the cities involved, the residents of the rest of the state shouldn't get a say in this sort of internal matter.
I'm pretty sure that this isn't within the realm of fair use. It damages the value of the test which is subject to copyright protections. Any use that damages the underlying work is much, much less likely to be granted fair use exemptions.
Really though, the right thing to do is take it down, then consult an attorney. This is reasonable enough on the face of it to require doing so. It can always go back up if it's not reasonable.
I'd be surprised if it got to that point. More likely it'll fail before it gets rolled out. I'm guessing vaporware.
But as far as that goes, I doubt that it's going to take that much more bandwidth than realtime HD streaming. Or in other words, depending upon how much gaming you do it may or may not be an issue.
In the US we only have 348576384746876 conflicting standards, yes it's better, but not that much better. I was actually thinking the other day that we really ought to work things out to be a bit more standardized.
Sure it sucks in the show room, but few people have more than one tv per corner of their house and for everybody else it would be really helpful.
That being said, I've used my PDA's infrared port as a controller at points and apart from the bit where it's touchscreen only, it does a decent job at relatively short distances and can be programmed to handle just about any device.
I take it you've never been on a jury. Do you have any idea how dull jury duty is? I was on a month long trial last summer and it was tedious and awkward. We all had very little in common and the one thing we did have in common was off limits for conversation.
It's difficult enough to get people to ditch work for a tiny stipend, imagine knowing that over the period of the trial that one's going to be bored out of ones mind during the many points where the jury isn't needed.
And where exactly do I find the "terrifying but expected" mod point?
That wouldn't surprise me at all, determining obviousness is really quite a bit more difficult than it might seem. Often times things are far more obvious once you've seen them in work than they were before hand. Prior art isn't necessarily that much better if it was used in an obscure product or never patented previously.
Sort of like tension sheets if you think about it.
That might have to do with the fact that UT 2004 has been available for some time from gog.com. I'm sure there were places where one could get it more or less continuously.
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that the excuse for not providing the facilities is that nobody is using it on those OSes. Seems odd to me that they'd expect for a substantial number of people to buy their products without including the ability to actually use the product.
But then again, developers seem to be spoiled badly enough that they expect people to plunk down their cash even before they can use it on their preferred OS. Often times sending cease and desist letters in place of actual support.
Any Australians fined yet for coming here?
That's really not true. The CCD is definitely still a very serious issue. That's where the noise comes from, that's where the color problems start, that's where the issues of limited dynamic range start. MP has always been dependent upon the CCD to handle noise far more than just about any other factor, and that's not changed.
What has changed is that we don't need to bump the mp any further because even 12mp is more than what most people actually use.
Really, the best thing would be for people to realize a few things. The first being that mp is not a measurement of resolution and that mp isn't the end all and be all of image quality. It's a relatively minor consideration once you get over about 6mp or so.
Indeed, at 21mp, there isn't any inherent reason why most people would need even half that. 6mp is more than enough for good results up to about 8x10".
The much more significant issue is getting good performance in low light low contrast settings as well as in high contrast settings. And the tendency of a sensor to blow out whichever color is being used to represent the highlight details.
And of course noise reduction. But this has all been the case for years, it's just now that designers can ignore the MP question.
No, the misunderstanding is on your part. Tax evasion is criminal activity in many parts of the world. Refusing to cooperate in investigations is sufficient cause to black list whole financial systems. The Swiss people don't have to hand over the records, they could opt to not allow Americans to hold accounts or tolerate the black listing.
ID requirements aren't particularly meaningful. What good would it have been to know that Al Capone had 300m in a bank if all that was available to the investigators was that he had an account? In a hypothetical scenario like that, there's no way that he could be prosecuted. That's the issue and it's why the Swiss banks would have been black listed as co-conspirators.
As I said before if the Swiss people don't like it, there's no reason why they have to offer accounts to American nationals. There's a fair number of nations which we've opted to black list ourselves.
There's that, but there's also the fact that people were promised a decent job if they were willing to work and get a degree. Right now I've got a degree and I work my butt off for a fraction of the salary that I thought I'd be making.
I always find it somewhat ironic that the generation that was the original me first generation can possibly even consider talking down to the new graduates. Back 30 years ago, one could reasonably expect some correlation between effort and compensation. Productivity went up and so did compensation. Right now it seems cruel to expect a realistic view considering how bleak it's been.
I'm not sure how old the writer is, but it's pretty spoiled rotten and unappreciative to talk about the people that are going to be paying for his retirement in that fashion.
That sounds good until you think about the fact that the City of Seattle is getting basically squat and a half out of the stimulus. In other words, rather than fixing traffic in one of the most congested areas in the country, they've decided to cave to Republican pressure and build the overpass.
It's a bit unfortunate that change doesn't seem to be including major cities like Seattle or LA. Perhaps if the rural voters get lucky we won't have any cities at all in the near future.
Things like fixing the electrical grid, fixing the infrastructure in areas which make top 10 lists ought to be higher than stupid minor fixes like that.
FYI, the roads here outright suck, this was a decision they made to ensure that the stupid Seattlites wouldn't get their fair share of the stimulus dollars. I happen to know of at least 3 fairly substantial projects which would have been a better choice than this bridge.
And that leaves out options like fixing our streets or our aging electrical grid. Or perhaps fixing the streetlight out front of my parents' house which has been broken for the last 2 decades. And no I'm not exaggerating, it's been broken since sometime in the mid 80s, or at least that's when I first remember it, probably was broken before that.
It's worth pointing out that these niche fields are used as a reason to disregard the incredible regression in the numbers of degrees handed out to men every year. Right now roughly twice as many are handed out to women as men. And there's still a culture of focusing on fixing the academic achievement gap so that women perform on a par in niche specialties.
It wouldn't be such a problem if the solutions were better aimed at gaining parity, but we're going to have serious problems in 30 years if this isn't remedied. Continuing to skew things in favor of women doesn't make sense when they're already out performing.
And that's really why the question "so what?" comes up. Why exactly should we care that women are choosing not to go into these fields when there's a much larger disparity going on. And really why exactly should we allow these bullshit statistics like that 72% wage figure to cloud our judgment.
Ultimately quoting these things without actually addressing the full question is pretty meaningless. With the wage figure, cash wages are only 1 facet of compensation and don't even begin to factor in for personal preferences. Sure it's not good, but it's really anybody's guess as to how much so. As well as to what extent personal choices are to blame. Forcing women to achieve things at the same rate and in the same way as men strikes me as more than a little misogynistic.
As far as your point goes, if we don't fix the aforementioned problems we're not even going to have the options you're suggesting. It does no good to fix paternity leave if there's not enough men out there with qualifications.
The Presidents initiative for women and girls would be possibly effective if it weren't so anti-man. Women have complained for years that men don't spend enough time at home helping out, which really makes one wonder under what definition is it that men don't need help balancing work and family.
And don't forget the fact that they went to unlimited views because only a small number of people were using the feature at all. It would be somewhat understandable if the feature was more widely used and they had a much larger selection available via instant view.
But that being said, I just started playing a movie and there's no slow down compared to usual. Definitely better than last time, but only by the amount of bandwidth added to my own connection. Definitely not anything to support the idea of a cap.
You are right, well mostly. This cell supposedly charges in 10 seconds, but I doubt that they'd hook it up in such a way that you needed a 9 megawatt outlet. More likely they'd design for a 4 hour charge, which would be a much more reasonable figure.
For most people, they'd probably set it up so that you only had to charge it for an hour and were limited to only 25 miles, which would be fine for most people, especially since they'd have the ability to leave it charge all night and get the full range.
Or even still more likely the author threw that in to make it look more useful than it really is. Useful for handhelds and things with lesser power needs, probably, but not for high drain devices like cars.
It sounds to me like a variant on capacitors, but the question as you put it is, has this really been achieved, or is this still vaporware. People have been working on this for quite a while, and nobody's been able to do it. I'm sure they will some day, but right now there needs to be a proper citation.
And for a car, it would likely take a huge number of cells and a huge amount of juice to work.
That's not apples to apples. The difference is that if you forget the lock, the chimp will check at some point, and then immediately leave the cage.
But in this case it was a plan based upon the prediction of future emotional states, which is quite a bit different. It had been seen before, but not in a way that was clearly based upon planning and foresight.
I had to reread that a few times, but it seems like a compelling argument for COW filesystems with a backend scrubber to fix any suboptimal file placements. I'm sure it isn't quite as fast, but unless the disk is constantly accessed it's probably not going to make much of a negative impact.
And depending upon the type of files most handled one could probably optimize where the default placements are made.