Let's see, that means the equivalent of 2000 gigabit connections, which is about 2 million megabit connetions. Given that a decent voice stream will require, say, 128kb, that's about 15 million concurrent VOIP streams simultaneously. Not bad!
I simply never thought of black holes and wormholes that way. Going to another universe/dimension/time/etc - gosh that's something that I don't think even science fiction has considered. I always thought they were just kind of, um, holes or something.
This is the second time I've seen a Japanese person miserably fail to give the bird in the correct way. I was telling my wife, who is Japanese, that when you give the bird, you look at the target in the eyes and put the bird in his face. You don't surreptitiously wave it around behind your podium. Argh, so many cultural gaps we need to bridge, so little time.
I find that with C#, the language is just the tip of the iceberg. You should make an effort to study the.NET CLR in depth, and I know of a great book by Jeffrey Richter called "CLR via C#."
It's probably going to be pretty hard to get far in C# without understanding some fundamental (but non-obvious) things about assemblies, garbage collection, code access security, etc.
It took something like 12 launches of the Atlas rocket program to get to success. This was SpaceX's second launch, and the fact is, until the final roll / oscillation problems, the performance was flawless. I have no doubt that the third launch will not just hit orbit and deliver its payload (it won't be a test launch), but that they'll have created an incredibly reliable rocket that will reduce orbit insertion costs by an order of magnitude.
After this, I really can't wait to see how their Falcon 9 will fare. It supposedly will be more reliable than the Falcon 1 due to redundancy of 9 engines. It will also be incredibly cool to see them launch Bigelow's Nautilus modules into space in 2010. Yesterday's launch gives us every indication that it's achievable.
Real bummer, but they already achieved an amazing thing. It was absolutely incredible to watch this privately funded rocket blast its way to orbital heights. Absolutely thrilling and SpaceX deserves a huge round of applause.
The feed cut out, but so far it looks like the Falcon 1 has gotten into space! Dunno about orbit, yet, but the when the feed cut out, it was right after one of the crew reported that things were nominal. Oh man, this is history in the making!
Watched the webcast. I was really excited, but apparently something went wrong right before liftoff. The rocket appeared to abort during ignition. The good news is that it never left the ground, so maybe they'll be able to retry soon. I'd hate to see them have to spend another year building another rocket.
I'd much rather see a launch scrub with a week delay than a complete failure that resulted from a cascade effect from a seemingly minor glitch. I think Musk's OCD-like control over launch parameters and procedures is exactly what the private space industry needs to win the confidence of organizations who have millions riding on each launch.
Should Nokia and Motorola be in the business of selling naked smartphones? Should Apple and Creative start selling naked media players?
The PC is just a device that a company like Dell and HP designs and manufactures to certain specifications. What you do with it afterwards is your business, but to ask them to one-off something just for you is like asking Apple to ship you an iPod without the stock media. Not a big deal technically, but a real time and resource waster from a corporate efficiency perspective.
The fact that a PC is able to run other OS's is a useful feature for the customer, but not one that the manufacturer is obligated to support, in my opinion. However, I'll bet that as soon as it is actually economical for the big 5 to sell naked PC's, they would. In general, they don't actually answer to Microsoft any more than they answer to Intel.
BTW, as an exercise, how about asking Dell to ship you a PC without memory or hard drive?
"Google doesnt have technology to magically scan pixel patterns and match them up to CBS tv shows when someone uploads a video"
There are ways of fingerprinting video content in a reliable way.
http://www.business-sites.philips.com/contentident ification/about/article-15207.html
So, yes, Google *can* magically scan pixel patterns and match them up. They've got billions of dollars, a huge supply of PhD's and coders, and immense amounts of hardware. They even have a "don't be evil" mantra, which never seems to specify a "to".
Right, exactly. Moderation would reduce the infractions down to manageable levels for copyright holders and avoid this whole mess. But I suspect that Google is afraid of having its $1.6B investment turned into a tremendously overpriced ebaumsworld.com.
"Their real problem is that the public at large do not respect copyright as Viacom and others would like to define it."
A lot of people do not respect regulations as the SEC would like to define it, but that doesn't make those people right.
I think it's silly to argue that Viacom is wrong because people want to change copyright laws so they can get free stuff.
The silliest arguments I have been reading are things like "Viacom benefits from YouTube, therefore Google isn't doing anything wrong" and "the copyright holders can request to have the stuff removed, so what's the big deal?"
It's not Google's right to index/distribute/host copyrighted content without consent. They want an opt-out model for copyright holders rather than opt-in, which is pretty shady.
BTW, I don't buy for 1 second that a company with that much brainpower, cash, and tech prowess can't prevent copyrighted videos from entering their system. They should ask CNET how they prevent pirated software from entering Download.com.
It makes sense to me if I make some basic assumptions about TCO. If TCO includes training cost, then it is understandable that Windows would trump Linux. Most people getting hired into an organization already understand how to use Windows, so there is a lot less training, hence less money spent.
Googletube could prevent copyrighted material from entering their system if they really wanted to. They have billions and billions of dollars and incredible minds and technology. The fact is, the only reason they won't do anything about it is that no one would use YouTube anymore. Googletube is building wealth on other people's hard work, simple as that.
Google's new Taxly product now opens all the shady accounting practices to everyone this tax season, and the beta will be free for the next 4 years. This is freedom baby!
I'm just purely musing on this and have absolutely no scientific basis to even seriously wonder... but I can't help but wonder if this has anything to do with the Moon. If it was violently ripped from Earth via a collision with another body, would that leave some kind of geographic feature like this?
You know, porn, which takes up a huge amount of bandwidth, is highly highly repetitive. I'll bet you there's a great porn compression algorithm out there that can reduce the whole hour of pumping to a few megabytes.
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Let's see, that means the equivalent of 2000 gigabit connections, which is about 2 million megabit connetions. Given that a decent voice stream will require, say, 128kb, that's about 15 million concurrent VOIP streams simultaneously. Not bad!
I simply never thought of black holes and wormholes that way. Going to another universe/dimension/time/etc - gosh that's something that I don't think even science fiction has considered. I always thought they were just kind of, um, holes or something.
Hey, on Slashdot, 50% of stories must praise Linux or OSS. What's the big deal?
"Supporters of the new tax say the spaceport will bring thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in space tourism revenue to the area.
But critics of the tax plan say the money could be better spent on existing county problems. "
Who are these critics, and do they RTFA? Do they mean existing problems like high unemployment and lack of revenue?
This is the second time I've seen a Japanese person miserably fail to give the bird in the correct way. I was telling my wife, who is Japanese, that when you give the bird, you look at the target in the eyes and put the bird in his face. You don't surreptitiously wave it around behind your podium. Argh, so many cultural gaps we need to bridge, so little time.
I find that with C#, the language is just the tip of the iceberg. You should make an effort to study the .NET CLR in depth, and I know of a great book by Jeffrey Richter called "CLR via C#."
It's probably going to be pretty hard to get far in C# without understanding some fundamental (but non-obvious) things about assemblies, garbage collection, code access security, etc.
It took something like 12 launches of the Atlas rocket program to get to success. This was SpaceX's second launch, and the fact is, until the final roll / oscillation problems, the performance was flawless. I have no doubt that the third launch will not just hit orbit and deliver its payload (it won't be a test launch), but that they'll have created an incredibly reliable rocket that will reduce orbit insertion costs by an order of magnitude. After this, I really can't wait to see how their Falcon 9 will fare. It supposedly will be more reliable than the Falcon 1 due to redundancy of 9 engines. It will also be incredibly cool to see them launch Bigelow's Nautilus modules into space in 2010. Yesterday's launch gives us every indication that it's achievable.
Yeah, seriously. 1000 shares now, plz. Do you think it would burn up in reentry?
Real bummer, but they already achieved an amazing thing. It was absolutely incredible to watch this privately funded rocket blast its way to orbital heights. Absolutely thrilling and SpaceX deserves a huge round of applause.
The feed cut out, but so far it looks like the Falcon 1 has gotten into space! Dunno about orbit, yet, but the when the feed cut out, it was right after one of the crew reported that things were nominal. Oh man, this is history in the making!
Wow, this launch really has me biting my nails. I can only imagine what it must be like for Mr. Musk. T-11 minutes and counting.
Watched the webcast. I was really excited, but apparently something went wrong right before liftoff. The rocket appeared to abort during ignition. The good news is that it never left the ground, so maybe they'll be able to retry soon. I'd hate to see them have to spend another year building another rocket.
I'd much rather see a launch scrub with a week delay than a complete failure that resulted from a cascade effect from a seemingly minor glitch. I think Musk's OCD-like control over launch parameters and procedures is exactly what the private space industry needs to win the confidence of organizations who have millions riding on each launch.
Should Nokia and Motorola be in the business of selling naked smartphones? Should Apple and Creative start selling naked media players? The PC is just a device that a company like Dell and HP designs and manufactures to certain specifications. What you do with it afterwards is your business, but to ask them to one-off something just for you is like asking Apple to ship you an iPod without the stock media. Not a big deal technically, but a real time and resource waster from a corporate efficiency perspective. The fact that a PC is able to run other OS's is a useful feature for the customer, but not one that the manufacturer is obligated to support, in my opinion. However, I'll bet that as soon as it is actually economical for the big 5 to sell naked PC's, they would. In general, they don't actually answer to Microsoft any more than they answer to Intel. BTW, as an exercise, how about asking Dell to ship you a PC without memory or hard drive?
"Google doesnt have technology to magically scan pixel patterns and match them up to CBS tv shows when someone uploads a video" There are ways of fingerprinting video content in a reliable way. http://www.business-sites.philips.com/contentident ification/about/article-15207.html
So, yes, Google *can* magically scan pixel patterns and match them up. They've got billions of dollars, a huge supply of PhD's and coders, and immense amounts of hardware. They even have a "don't be evil" mantra, which never seems to specify a "to".
Right, exactly. Moderation would reduce the infractions down to manageable levels for copyright holders and avoid this whole mess. But I suspect that Google is afraid of having its $1.6B investment turned into a tremendously overpriced ebaumsworld.com.
"Their real problem is that the public at large do not respect copyright as Viacom and others would like to define it." A lot of people do not respect regulations as the SEC would like to define it, but that doesn't make those people right. I think it's silly to argue that Viacom is wrong because people want to change copyright laws so they can get free stuff.
The silliest arguments I have been reading are things like "Viacom benefits from YouTube, therefore Google isn't doing anything wrong" and "the copyright holders can request to have the stuff removed, so what's the big deal?"
It's not Google's right to index/distribute/host copyrighted content without consent. They want an opt-out model for copyright holders rather than opt-in, which is pretty shady.
BTW, I don't buy for 1 second that a company with that much brainpower, cash, and tech prowess can't prevent copyrighted videos from entering their system. They should ask CNET how they prevent pirated software from entering Download.com.
It makes sense to me if I make some basic assumptions about TCO. If TCO includes training cost, then it is understandable that Windows would trump Linux. Most people getting hired into an organization already understand how to use Windows, so there is a lot less training, hence less money spent.
Googletube could prevent copyrighted material from entering their system if they really wanted to. They have billions and billions of dollars and incredible minds and technology. The fact is, the only reason they won't do anything about it is that no one would use YouTube anymore. Googletube is building wealth on other people's hard work, simple as that.
Google's new Taxly product now opens all the shady accounting practices to everyone this tax season, and the beta will be free for the next 4 years. This is freedom baby!
Yep, I didn't RTFA, I'm just fascinated with the origins of the moon and that was a kneejerk post.
I'm just purely musing on this and have absolutely no scientific basis to even seriously wonder... but I can't help but wonder if this has anything to do with the Moon. If it was violently ripped from Earth via a collision with another body, would that leave some kind of geographic feature like this?
I wonder how many more exploits would be found if Google Desktop ended up on 90% of desktop computers?
You know, porn, which takes up a huge amount of bandwidth, is highly highly repetitive. I'll bet you there's a great porn compression algorithm out there that can reduce the whole hour of pumping to a few megabytes.