If an efficient algorithm is found to handle one atom of the text then that benefit only grows as you write more text.
Linear search is the most efficient search method when you have exactly one item on your list. However you shouldn't assume that it will remain efficient as the list size grows.
"It's a very fast algorithm, it just doesn't scale well"
Actually both sides need each other: ISPs wouldn't have any customers if content providers didn't exist. Companies like comcast lie about the services they provide "up to xxx amount", like you said, their customers are using more of what is promised to them. I cannot see what is wrong with that.
The ISPs have an unfair advantage on their side. Say comcast starts charging for "throttling" packets from content providers. Say google gets pissed off at this and stops serving comcasts IP block. I have two choices: either I use something other than google or I switch ISPs. Switching ISPs is impossible (or at least hard) in most areas so I will have to stop using google.
If net neutrality is removed ISPs can charge content providers obscene amount of money...
I seriously doubt I judge in the US would block a website from showing such a video. Can any of our stupid celebrities do anything about the paparazzi?
I was at the beach, I had my camera on, they had sex in front of me, I filmed them. The tape belongs to me, the copyright of the recording belongs to me. And if the camera was visible and in plain view I don't even have to blur their faces.
Moral of the story: don't do things in public you don't want the public to see.
Its the devlopers free speech right to make the game, and thankfully its slamdances right to choose to axe it... and my right to choose to think slamdance did the right thing.
Cool. It seems like you understand where your rights end. Some people take another step and try to stop me from playing it.
Sadly Columbine is a taboo subject in our society. Banning something should really be whats taboo. We need to shame this contest not for allowing a game like this but for NOT allowing it.
I agree it is tasteless, but this kind of thinking is what causes things to eventually be banned. It is never OK to ban creativity because you think that it is "just sick".
I wonder how long it is going to take Clinton to come out and say something about this game?
MP3 compression is intesting as it does not work like other digital compression algorithms (i.e image compression, jpeg). The human ear is very sensitive compared to the eye and can detect jpeg style compression very easily. What MP3 does is remove information you cannot hear. Say at a given instance there are two tones playing. Also say one tone is more dominant than the other: most humans can't hear the second tone. Throwing information about the second tone out from the file makes no difference to most humans.
So I will go ahead and say compressing the an MP3 over and over will not create additional data loss, as long as no outside noise is added to the PCM output.
If the ice in the north pole melts how much will the average temperature of earths water mass increase?.1 , 1, 10, 100 degrees C? Is this affect going to be dramatic compared to the increase/decrease caused by earths rotation around the sun?
If what you said was true large portions of the earth should be underwater every summer.
YouTube provides a service: it allows you to share videos you created. It does not let you share videos you have no right to share. They tell you not to do it and they remove videos you upload.
Doesn't this go back to the betamax case? Just because a tool can be used illegally doesn't mean the use of the tool is illegal. Is Xerox liable if you photocopy pages off a book in violation of copyright laws?
Wrong. Any person on the senate who switches side every once and a while becomes "the powerful person in the senate". No senate vote is guaranteed (otherwise why vote?). Lieberman is a great example for this, even though he was a "democrat" how many times did he vote in line with the republican majority?
In my opinion its better for people to show their true colors. If he is gray, he should be gray not blue.
I'm a US citizen; I sponsored my wife who is a Turkish. At the time we got married she was legally in the US as a student. She got her travel and work permit in three months. She got her green card in 6 months. She will apply for her citizenship soon, 2.5 years after she got her green card. We expect that she will become a US citizen soon after she passes her 3rd year mark as a permanent resident.
An interesting note about immigrating to Turkey: you have to change your name to the Turkish phonetic spelling. For example if your name is Nancy you would have to change your name to Nensi, Jonathan would become Cantn, etc.
I'm not sure I believe that Apple should necessarily be responsible for a chinese manufacturer's choice of operating system for their production line.
Apple has a responsiblity to make products with NO viruses in them. If they cannot test every single ipod they must ensure that the process is in place so that employees of the manufacturar cannot mess with the product. If this requires that the manufacturar change operating systems, well the manufacturar will have to change operating systems.
I'm sure Apple is either going to change the manufacturar now or change the process. They are going to fix the problem, however the problem shouldn't have existed in the first place.
Apple should not blame anyone about this but themselves.
Apple prides itself of making quality products, this however is a blunder even Microsoft couldn't get away with.
Actually in this case the civilians were just following Israeli military orders.
From the NY Times:
"A Lebanese civilian convoy was hit near the coastal town of Tyre after fleeing the border village of Marwaheen, resulting in 16 deaths. The Israeli military said the area was a target because Hezbollah had used it to launch missiles, and regretted any civilian casualties. It was the deadliest single attack in the past four days of fighting.
The villagers left after the Israeli military told them to evacuate over a loudspeaker, Reuters reported."
I had a similar incident with Cablevision. I called to turn on HBO, the guy on the phone insisted strongly that I also get OptimumVoice. I hold him I have Vonage and like their service... He just went on and on, "if you want to throw away your money just go right ahead, I can save you this much money blah blah blah"
Didn't switch obviously, I seriously considered cancelling my account with them. The incident was very annoying.
It's actually the other way around:
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_06.php#00472 0
It says you cannot sue someone for entering your website unless you protect it with a password or some other authentication method.
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If an efficient algorithm is found to handle one atom of the text then that benefit only grows as you write more text.
Linear search is the most efficient search method when you have exactly one item on your list. However you shouldn't assume that it will remain efficient as the list size grows.
"It's a very fast algorithm, it just doesn't scale well"
Actually both sides need each other: ISPs wouldn't have any customers if content providers didn't exist. Companies like comcast lie about the services they provide "up to xxx amount", like you said, their customers are using more of what is promised to them. I cannot see what is wrong with that.
The ISPs have an unfair advantage on their side. Say comcast starts charging for "throttling" packets from content providers. Say google gets pissed off at this and stops serving comcasts IP block. I have two choices: either I use something other than google or I switch ISPs. Switching ISPs is impossible (or at least hard) in most areas so I will have to stop using google.
If net neutrality is removed ISPs can charge content providers obscene amount of money...
Oh, they spend 2mil/quarter? OK, 50 employees sounds right.
Lets see 2 million / 50 = 40K. Where are you from? India? Probibly closer to 20 employees.
I seriously doubt I judge in the US would block a website from showing such a video. Can any of our stupid celebrities do anything about the paparazzi? I was at the beach, I had my camera on, they had sex in front of me, I filmed them. The tape belongs to me, the copyright of the recording belongs to me. And if the camera was visible and in plain view I don't even have to blur their faces. Moral of the story: don't do things in public you don't want the public to see.
Its the devlopers free speech right to make the game, and thankfully its slamdances right to choose to axe it... and my right to choose to think slamdance did the right thing.
Cool. It seems like you understand where your rights end. Some people take another step and try to stop me from playing it.
What if I wanted to make a Hitler RPG, would that be freedom of speech?
Yes. There are tons of content (movies, songs, etc) that feature Hitler. Some even don't portray him as a monster
Sadly Columbine is a taboo subject in our society. Banning something should really be whats taboo. We need to shame this contest not for allowing a game like this but for NOT allowing it.
I wonder how long it is going to take Clinton to come out and say something about this game?
So I will go ahead and say compressing the an MP3 over and over will not create additional data loss, as long as no outside noise is added to the PCM output.
If what you said was true large portions of the earth should be underwater every summer.
You sure you didn't just make up that 98% number?
F-ing? You don't need a government to censor you, you do it yourself.
YouTube provides a service: it allows you to share videos you created. It does not let you share videos you have no right to share. They tell you not to do it and they remove videos you upload.
Doesn't this go back to the betamax case? Just because a tool can be used illegally doesn't mean the use of the tool is illegal. Is Xerox liable if you photocopy pages off a book in violation of copyright laws?
Wrong. Any person on the senate who switches side every once and a while becomes "the powerful person in the senate". No senate vote is guaranteed (otherwise why vote?). Lieberman is a great example for this, even though he was a "democrat" how many times did he vote in line with the republican majority?
In my opinion its better for people to show their true colors. If he is gray, he should be gray not blue.
I think constantly about how Mexicans are treated back in the US
Turks in Holland are treated the same way Mexicans are treated in the US, if not worse.
I'm sure mexican IT people have an easier time moving to the US compared to unskilled mexican workers.
I'm a US citizen; I sponsored my wife who is a Turkish. At the time we got married she was legally in the US as a student. She got her travel and work permit in three months. She got her green card in 6 months. She will apply for her citizenship soon, 2.5 years after she got her green card. We expect that she will become a US citizen soon after she passes her 3rd year mark as a permanent resident. An interesting note about immigrating to Turkey: you have to change your name to the Turkish phonetic spelling. For example if your name is Nancy you would have to change your name to Nensi, Jonathan would become Cantn, etc.
I'm not sure I believe that Apple should necessarily be responsible for a chinese manufacturer's choice of operating system for their production line.
Apple has a responsiblity to make products with NO viruses in them. If they cannot test every single ipod they must ensure that the process is in place so that employees of the manufacturar cannot mess with the product. If this requires that the manufacturar change operating systems, well the manufacturar will have to change operating systems.
I'm sure Apple is either going to change the manufacturar now or change the process. They are going to fix the problem, however the problem shouldn't have existed in the first place.
Apple should not blame anyone about this but themselves.
Apple prides itself of making quality products, this however is a blunder even Microsoft couldn't get away with.
This seems like a great way someone to cause my computer to crash. When will the patch come out for this denial of service attack?
"... instead of a warrant telling the application provider to hand over the data"
Warrant? No, must likely a subpoena would do.
Actually in this case the civilians were just following Israeli military orders. From the NY Times: "A Lebanese civilian convoy was hit near the coastal town of Tyre after fleeing the border village of Marwaheen, resulting in 16 deaths. The Israeli military said the area was a target because Hezbollah had used it to launch missiles, and regretted any civilian casualties. It was the deadliest single attack in the past four days of fighting. The villagers left after the Israeli military told them to evacuate over a loudspeaker, Reuters reported."
The cover of Sunday's New York Times had a picture of 16 dead Lebanese, which were mostly children. Business as usual?
I had a similar incident with Cablevision. I called to turn on HBO, the guy on the phone insisted strongly that I also get OptimumVoice. I hold him I have Vonage and like their service... He just went on and on, "if you want to throw away your money just go right ahead, I can save you this much money blah blah blah" Didn't switch obviously, I seriously considered cancelling my account with them. The incident was very annoying.
Wait a minute. If they are receiving my waves aren't they stealing my property? Those bastards!
It's actually the other way around: http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_06.php#00472 0
It says you cannot sue someone for entering your website unless you protect it with a password or some other authentication method.