The point is that most people are just fine looking at pictures in this range. People have photo albums full of them, and they are fine for browsing on the web, too.
But whatever, if you really think you're going to need to blow up pictures from family trips and print them out, then by all means keep piling up the crap.
It's difficult for me to accept that a few Arabs in the middle eastern desert who like to blow themselves up in cafe's in their own country for a religious cause are more of a national security risk to America
Flying commercial jetliners into skyscrapers and government buildings was not "blow themselves up in cafe's in their own country".
than a Mexican drug cartel right next door, that is fucking beheading people and leaving them in the public view / destroying entire towns in gunfights and all-out wars
But it's next door, and it's not like they're destroying the town as much as controlling it. Also, the violence really started when Mexico starting using their military to crack down on the cartels. All they did was escalate the problem.
Theoretically it's possible to detect the bullets, since light moves at about 300,000 km/s. If a fight is occurring at about 100 m distance, you have a quarter of a second to respond to it using 400 m/s as the bullet speed.
For deflection, you definitely would not be using anything remotely like the technology used for this ping pong robot. Instead of moving an arm, you'd likely be firing a counter-bullet, but you'd need the mechanism to be extremely fast to aim, some kind of bullet launcher built into the body, or perhaps an array of them.
The real trick would be detecting all these bullets all the time. Current high speed camera setups are expensive and extravagant affairs, as far as I know, and not something you can just stick on a robot and let it run indefinitely, or even for several minutes.
Question: Where does their money come from? Would you say they have a "reliable income stream"? If you would, you probably dont know very much about them at all, since 90% of their income comes from search engine deals with one or two companies.
It's reliable in that it has been recurring for several years and growing. Also, given the competition between Google and Microsoft, if Google decided to stop the revenue Microsoft would pick it up in a heartbeat.
And seriously, im not sure where youre going with this. Is this some "fight the man" thing? You can always vote with your wallet, by not paying for their free browser, I guess.
I think his point is that Mozilla is sitting on a pile of money that should be used to fix long-standing crash issues. Sounds like a valid point to me. Mozilla became successful under the auspices of a non-profit working to make the best browser for the Internet at large.
My guess is that for every picture, using the default compression that gets you in the 100k-200k range will give you all the detail you're ever going to use/want/need in practice. The behavior of keeping all the extra crud "just in case" reminds me of packrats who can't stand to throw anything out.
But whatever, this is all in my opinion. I'm just throwing it out there. Most people don't even realize all the wasted space they're using by default.
Scale matters. The technology to detects bullets and deflect them is going to be drastically different than ping pong balls. You're going to need high-speed cameras and a mechanism fast enough to deflect it.
A robot arm that mimics a human one enough to play ping pong is not even close to the right solution. It's so wrong that you're just wasting time by even trying to solve that problem if what you really wanted to do was stop bullets.
I don't know why Mozilla doesn't just skip the next few decimals and just match Chrome's version number with their next release since that's clearly what they are trying to do.
Ah, version wars. Mozilla goes to Chrome+1, and then the fun ensues.
It is, until your competition overruns you and you end up with sites that say "Best viewed in IE," circa late 1990s. Microsoft would love to be back in that position again.
That reasoning is pathetic. What do you think most users want as the default: to be tracked, don't care, or not be tracked? Mozilla just went with the status quo instead of making an informed decision by either doing a survey or using some common sense.
Not that I think it matters outside of principle, because I don't expect Do Not Track to be honored unless it's enforced by law.
When I get back from a trip somewhere and have 4GB or so of photographs to copy to the gallery on my website/server
At 100k per photo, that's 40,000 photos you are uploading to get 4GB. Instead, it sounds like you're uploading uncompressed photos in native format, which is silly. Convert them to jpeg first at reasonable sizes.
I stick with Debian because in general they are a true, volunteer-based organization that doesn't try to extract money from their users in underhanded ways and stick fairly closely to the ideals of open source.
Maybe he's amortizing the cost over the years a person would own the computer? I did a quick check to see what the OEM costs for Windows 7, and found some prices from a Newegg story from a couple of years ago:
Things start at just $99.99 (after a $10 discount) for a full version of Windows 7 Home Premium (compared to $199 retail), and move up to $134.99 for the OEM Professional edition, and $174.99 for the Ultimate edition (also after a pre-order discount that's good until October 20th).
But these prices are probably not the same that somebody like Dell is paying per computer. Even so, if you figure somebody will use a computer for 3 years, his "$30-40/year" estimate is reasonable.
surely the employee would win hands down, but I can't also see how it would be beneficial in the long run. Srely if you took your employer to court like this (and assuming you won) and went back to work - surely the culture there after that must be very antagonistic.
If the stock options are worth millions in the long run, then surely it is worth it.
The employees in IT have surely learned to carry at least a voice recording device at all times already, no?
Unless you're talking about getting permission in advance to record conversations, which I doubt you are, that would be illegal in many states. A quick Google search shows this to be the case for California, where Zynga is located:
"The general rule is that it is a crime in California to intercept or eavesdrop upon any confidential communication, including a telephone call or wire communication, without the consent of all parties. (California Penal Code 631, 632). A conversation is not limited to just two or three people. For example, an audience member listening to a speaker is a party. If the information is confidential or you are not a party, you cannot secretly record.The amount of consent required depends on your state."
No, mon ami, it is almost all US. In fact, about 25% of world greenhouse emissions, more than any other nation, even if weighted by economic activity.
The map you linked to was data from 2002, with some data from 2004. Go ahead, download the linked data and look for yourself.
In the meantime, China has been growing economically at an incredible clip, and lots of their energy comes from coal. They have surpassed the United States, and with a billion+ people moving from agriculture to Western lifestyle, are going to dwarf whatever the United States does in the future.
Beware of any statistics presented in English, for the publishers have an obvious incentive to skew the output for political reasons.
Beware of your own biases. English is the world's de-facto common language between countries. It's not like you're going to get unbiased data from China government newspapers.
The US is still needs to change first before any major CO2 emissions reduction will happen.
The US isn't going to change if its going to lose out economically to China and still not solve the problem.
Supposedly china is at least working on more sustainable nuclear power.
It's easy to say you are working on it, but are they willing to commit to flattening or reducing their levels? I just don't see the world taking this seriously with concrete plans that are actually adhered to.
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But then what's the point, really?
The point is that most people are just fine looking at pictures in this range. People have photo albums full of them, and they are fine for browsing on the web, too.
But whatever, if you really think you're going to need to blow up pictures from family trips and print them out, then by all means keep piling up the crap.
It's difficult for me to accept that a few Arabs in the middle eastern desert who like to blow themselves up in cafe's in their own country for a religious cause are more of a national security risk to America
Flying commercial jetliners into skyscrapers and government buildings was not "blow themselves up in cafe's in their own country".
than a Mexican drug cartel right next door, that is fucking beheading people and leaving them in the public view / destroying entire towns in gunfights and all-out wars
But it's next door, and it's not like they're destroying the town as much as controlling it. Also, the violence really started when Mexico starting using their military to crack down on the cartels. All they did was escalate the problem.
If they had made a surgical strike when the drug cartel was small, they could have avoided all this.
They did that. The big cartels fragmented into smaller, more violent cartels. The Zetas themselves are ex-military.
Yes, in my opinion.
Theoretically it's possible to detect the bullets, since light moves at about 300,000 km/s. If a fight is occurring at about 100 m distance, you have a quarter of a second to respond to it using 400 m/s as the bullet speed.
For deflection, you definitely would not be using anything remotely like the technology used for this ping pong robot. Instead of moving an arm, you'd likely be firing a counter-bullet, but you'd need the mechanism to be extremely fast to aim, some kind of bullet launcher built into the body, or perhaps an array of them.
The real trick would be detecting all these bullets all the time. Current high speed camera setups are expensive and extravagant affairs, as far as I know, and not something you can just stick on a robot and let it run indefinitely, or even for several minutes.
Question: Where does their money come from? Would you say they have a "reliable income stream"? If you would, you probably dont know very much about them at all, since 90% of their income comes from search engine deals with one or two companies.
It's reliable in that it has been recurring for several years and growing. Also, given the competition between Google and Microsoft, if Google decided to stop the revenue Microsoft would pick it up in a heartbeat.
And seriously, im not sure where youre going with this. Is this some "fight the man" thing? You can always vote with your wallet, by not paying for their free browser, I guess.
I think his point is that Mozilla is sitting on a pile of money that should be used to fix long-standing crash issues. Sounds like a valid point to me. Mozilla became successful under the auspices of a non-profit working to make the best browser for the Internet at large.
Yeah, those crash statistics are really cool, and it shows that they're at least taking the crashes somewhat seriously.
My guess is that for every picture, using the default compression that gets you in the 100k-200k range will give you all the detail you're ever going to use/want/need in practice. The behavior of keeping all the extra crud "just in case" reminds me of packrats who can't stand to throw anything out.
But whatever, this is all in my opinion. I'm just throwing it out there. Most people don't even realize all the wasted space they're using by default.
What I really love is that Mozilla wants to hide the version number from the end user.
They backed off on that, thankfully.
100k-200k is plenty for the vast majority of pictures. 4.5MB is just gratuitous, especially if you're talking about vacation and family pictures.
Scale matters. The technology to detects bullets and deflect them is going to be drastically different than ping pong balls. You're going to need high-speed cameras and a mechanism fast enough to deflect it.
A robot arm that mimics a human one enough to play ping pong is not even close to the right solution. It's so wrong that you're just wasting time by even trying to solve that problem if what you really wanted to do was stop bullets.
I don't know why Mozilla doesn't just skip the next few decimals and just match Chrome's version number with their next release since that's clearly what they are trying to do.
Ah, version wars. Mozilla goes to Chrome+1, and then the fun ensues.
Healthy competition is a good thing!
It is, until your competition overruns you and you end up with sites that say "Best viewed in IE," circa late 1990s. Microsoft would love to be back in that position again.
See http://blog.mozilla.com/privacy/2011/11/09/dnt-cannot-be-default/
That reasoning is pathetic. What do you think most users want as the default: to be tracked, don't care, or not be tracked? Mozilla just went with the status quo instead of making an informed decision by either doing a survey or using some common sense.
Not that I think it matters outside of principle, because I don't expect Do Not Track to be honored unless it's enforced by law.
When I get back from a trip somewhere and have 4GB or so of photographs to copy to the gallery on my website/server
At 100k per photo, that's 40,000 photos you are uploading to get 4GB. Instead, it sounds like you're uploading uncompressed photos in native format, which is silly. Convert them to jpeg first at reasonable sizes.
If wars were fought with ping pong balls, sure. I don't see how it helps against bullets and missiles.
Need to find a new distro... Again.
I stick with Debian because in general they are a true, volunteer-based organization that doesn't try to extract money from their users in underhanded ways and stick fairly closely to the ideals of open source.
Meta key with two or even one letter - and I have app running.
Big deal. The apps I use frequently are a click away, and the menu items give me discoverability for the apps I don't.
All apps running fullscreen
I have a widescreen monitor. Why on earth would I want every app running fullscreen?
That makes me even more tempted to buy it...
If you want an excuse not to:
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/28/0211243/Bethesdas-Scrolls-Lawsuit-Going-Ahead
Maybe he's amortizing the cost over the years a person would own the computer? I did a quick check to see what the OEM costs for Windows 7, and found some prices from a Newegg story from a couple of years ago:
Things start at just $99.99 (after a $10 discount) for a full version of Windows 7 Home Premium (compared to $199 retail), and move up to $134.99 for the OEM Professional edition, and $174.99 for the Ultimate edition (also after a pre-order discount that's good until October 20th).
But these prices are probably not the same that somebody like Dell is paying per computer. Even so, if you figure somebody will use a computer for 3 years, his "$30-40/year" estimate is reasonable.
surely the employee would win hands down, but I can't also see how it would be beneficial in the long run. Srely if you took your employer to court like this (and assuming you won) and went back to work - surely the culture there after that must be very antagonistic.
If the stock options are worth millions in the long run, then surely it is worth it.
And stop calling me Shirley.
The employees in IT have surely learned to carry at least a voice recording device at all times already, no?
Unless you're talking about getting permission in advance to record conversations, which I doubt you are, that would be illegal in many states. A quick Google search shows this to be the case for California, where Zynga is located:
http://www.newmediarights.org/page/field_guide_audio_and_video_recordings#Audio
"The general rule is that it is a crime in California to intercept or eavesdrop upon any confidential communication, including a telephone call or wire communication, without the consent of all parties. (California Penal Code 631, 632). A conversation is not limited to just two or three people. For example, an audience member listening to a speaker is a party. If the information is confidential or you are not a party, you cannot secretly record.The amount of consent required depends on your state."
My grandparents on my father's side lived through World War 2. They met in Germany after being captured and sent to a forced labor camp.
It's nice to keep things in perspective.
No, mon ami, it is almost all US. In fact, about 25% of world greenhouse emissions, more than any other nation, even if weighted by economic activity.
The map you linked to was data from 2002, with some data from 2004. Go ahead, download the linked data and look for yourself.
In the meantime, China has been growing economically at an incredible clip, and lots of their energy comes from coal. They have surpassed the United States, and with a billion+ people moving from agriculture to Western lifestyle, are going to dwarf whatever the United States does in the future.
Beware of any statistics presented in English, for the publishers have an obvious incentive to skew the output for political reasons.
Beware of your own biases. English is the world's de-facto common language between countries. It's not like you're going to get unbiased data from China government newspapers.
The US is still needs to change first before any major CO2 emissions reduction will happen.
The US isn't going to change if its going to lose out economically to China and still not solve the problem.
Supposedly china is at least working on more sustainable nuclear power.
It's easy to say you are working on it, but are they willing to commit to flattening or reducing their levels? I just don't see the world taking this seriously with concrete plans that are actually adhered to.