Re: Implications
It doesn't even touch its arsehair.
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Uh, oh! The random downvoter strokes again but doesn't stop to give an answer.
Okay, then
Profile: Aereo’s Chet Kanojia Is Bringing Live TV to the Cloud
Aereo’s approach is simple: Pick up free television signals over the airwaves and send them to a cloud-based DVR that can store video and stream it to computers, phones, and tablets—for a fee. The signals are picked up by tiny, tunable copper antennas—each about the size of a postage stamp—which are slotted by the thousands into modular racks. Customers can rent one of those antennas for US $8 a month.
So who is getting shafted?
Because each customer rents his or her own antenna, the company argues, the process does not conflict with laws that regulate rebroadcasting (and which ensure that broadcast networks get hefty fees from cable companies for the right to transmit network programs to cable subscribers).
So it's about bypassing cable companies.
Is Kanojia afraid he’ll be branded as the man who killed the Disney Channel, or other cable- and satellite-only channels? Perhaps not Disney, he says, but “the man who killed the bundle? Sure, I hope.
If that is stealing, I want more of it.
Citation by Broadcaster: "This injunction will prohibit Aereo from stealing our broadcast signal in Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Montana."
Well, I hope they get it back.
Seriously though, isn't Aereo just providing a service to their punters like renting out an antenna?
Wil those punters now have to pay the broadcasters?
For a writeup of the discussion of "Mathematics by computer!! MY GOODNESS, WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO", see Peter Woit blogpost and pointers therein.
Trevor: It's a quirk of mine, especially when it comes to science.
I know the feel.
In furtherance of which, an oldish paper (i.e. 2004) explaining the role of neutrinos in core collapse.
"Know that for a fact, do you? You know more than any physicist out there then. I believe, however..."
I don't know what to believe anymore.
"Eleventy squillion neutrinos passing through matter that is just this side of violating the pauli exclusion principle will heat the matter in question."
Handwaving does not physics make. I also don't see how the PXP applies here. These neutrinos would definitely all have different states...
"When Cas A went supernova, the internal temperature of the star rocketed as it began to collapse, while contained in the cooler outer shell of the reaction. As the compressed neutrinos were formed in the heart of the celestial body they heated the surrounding matter"
Hold on, I think a few things are wrong here.
0) "while contained in the cooler outer shell of the reaction" sounds like english at a first glance, but on second sight turns out to be a nasty pan-galactic dialect most often associated with never-do-wells and chestbusters from Zeta Reticuli. Beware!
1) Neutrinos aren't compressible.
2) They do not tend to heat surrounding matter either.
Anyway, anyone remember Cassiopeia from "Battlestar Galactica", the original series? She was some hot bitch. Rewatching this series makes me realize that she's actually a clueless kid. What's wrong with ME? Oh my god.
According to Brand Finance's Global 500 list, Apple's brand value in 2014 is $104bn, up 20 per cent from $87bn in 2013. Samsung, meanwhile, was judged to be worth $79bn, up from just $20bn last year.
But what is a brand value? Does the above mean that if I wanted to buy "Apple" off Apple, USD 79'000'000'000 would be regarded as a "fair price"?
I still think that "Big Data" is a thing for large scientific projects with appropriate funding and the appropriate time & brainpower levels.
Nothing for consultancy firms, pointy-haired ones sniffing out the "next big one" and fly-by-nights looking for a big/quick buck.
So what happens? Random bit errors (hopefully caught by ECC memory, though the designer may have thrown it out for performance in the first place)? Random bus initializations? Random threads dying because of "bus errors"?
And where are the reliability numbers?
Thank you.
No!!
That Brutish Empire thing with all its gay trappings was dead around the time Keynes wrote "The Economic Consequences of the Peace".
It just took until Maggie to actually make everyone aware that the empire had been resting for some time and was now pining for the fjords with all the smells that go with this. Understandably, she was blamed for it.
Get over it! Adopt metric units now!! [Revolutionary Music swells]
"But the move has stirred up criticism among high-ranking EC officials, who question the planned soft treatment of a multinational that commands up to 90 per cent of the search market in Europe."
This is a problem how and why does it need to be "solved"?
The solution would be for some Euroweasel to come up with a good competitor. NOPE! CAN'T DO! That would be real work!
"The Germans may have tried to conquer Europe and murder my ancestors, but god damn, do they ever make awesome hardware."
Listen mate. British Empire could have stayed out of Belgium back in '14 and continued to exploit India and China for fun and profit, while Wilhelm would have bled out against the French and Russia or managed to build a railway from Paris to St. Petersburg, innit? Messed it all up, did ya?
... your App will be righteously REJECTED by the selected guardians of UTTER ORIGINALITY and GLORIOUS INNOVATION sitting in deep ZEN MEDITATION in the HIGH CASTLE of the FRUITY DO-NAUGHT!
But isssuing "Flappy Jobs at Flapple" will cause a free visit by a LEGAL GOON SQUAD.
Flap on, peasant, and be grateful! (Jobs 25:17)
Actually built in KZ Buchenwald, no less.
Not at all. Darth was just the emperor's "dirty jobs" man, sent out to choke the military aristocrats into line, kick some ass on orbital construction sites, supervise planetary bombardment and maybe torture a princess in the dungeon.
He was never at the source of major decisions.
It's like a Presidential Election where quite a few "people" are spazzing out as the next Big Honcho is acceding to the Throne of Pretense whereby He is supposed to Make Everything Better, then makes is consistently worse.
In other words, no.
> I was 15 and up until 3am nearly every night for months on end.
My parents would have kicked me down the kerb for not doing my allotted homework and practicing unethical workhours.
I was destined for a staid state employee career, with social benefits, high salary, unfireability and with guaranteed pension scheme, all paid for by unnamed proletarian masses.
Sadly, their design to make me accede to the New Aristocracy went astray...
As someone who has always been hopeless at arithmetic, I found on a computer numbers made much more sense & I finally got to grips with algebra ... the thing I was most proud of was writing a program that displayed a 3D globe (just line drawing) that I could rotate & change the perspective of.
High five, good sir!
That was when I finally discovered what that "matrix arithmetic" our high school prof was dishing out was actually good for (up to that moment I just seemed like a pretext to make one write down overly large parentheses). The 2nd edition (pink colored) ""Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics" by Newman/Sproull was of invaluable help in this.
Did this on a Z80-equipped Sony Hit Bit though. It was SLOW.
Right, you keep telling yourself that. Maybe you wanna ask the Yanks?
Either the guys being fired are shit, or they will find other gainful employment. That's the way the cookie crumbles.
People who assume there is some magic entitlement to "lifelong job protection" are just fscking confused about the whole thing works. They generally are also union members and believers in the nanny state.