I'm almost sure it was taken at the Grand Palais.
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This estimate seems to be based on views for all of PSY's channel, i.e. 1.3 billion views. That works out as a $0.7 eCPM, which seems more credible than the $8 floated below in this thread.
http://web.archive.org/web/20110519014210/http://www.dni.gov...
Surprisingly, the direct link no longer works, so I had to go through archive.org
Even better (or worse, depending on your perspective): the absolute minimum is a volume of 20 cubic meters [1].
Therefore in cities like Paris where flats with high ceilings abound, you find owners of big, old apartments with 3m high ceilings breaking them up in 7 sq meters (75 sq feet) "studios"...
250 sq feet is aplenty.
[1] http://www.adil75.org/pdf/av12.pdf (in French)
It's amazing how quite advanced technologies (for a civilization that thrived from 5000 to 3000 years ago) were mastered only to be lost later over the course of history.
A mind-blowing example closer to us is the Antikythera mechanism [1]. Found in a Mediterranean wreck in 1900, the artifact was not analyzed until the 1950s, when it was found to be "a mechanical computer designed to calculate astronomical positions" - except it was made in the first century BC.
Wikipedia notes that "Technological artifacts of similar complexity and workmanship did not reappear until the 14th century, when mechanical astronomical clocks were built in Europe."
It is the oldest known mechanical computer - and to my knowledge no comparable device was to be manufactured until the 17th century and the invention of the Pascaline [2]. That's 18 centuries of gap, right there.
The precision of the clockwork and the exactitude of the astronomical calculations made by the Antikythera mechanism only goes to show how much knowledge was lost in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Progress does not always follow a straight arrow.
Probably the best quote from the post. Soon the only way of making a living from a creative endeavour might be to be funded by patrons, then releasing your content for free. A generalized Louis CK model if you will.
Funny how that would bring us back to pre-18th century days where patronage was the only business model in town for creative types, with all the constraints that came with artists-patrons relationships.
Except in this world everybody would get to play Medicis or Louis XIV. I certainly hope that "crowd-patronage" will mitigate the limitations of artistic freedom that often came with traditional patronage.
Of course, this is true of any compiled language that can produce self-contained binaries, but Go has the added benefit of being well adapted to web app development.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Back to that two page function. Yes, I know, it's just a simple function to display a window, but it has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I'll tell you why: those are bug fixes. One of them fixes that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the thing on a computer that didn't have Internet Explorer. Another one fixes that bug that occurs in low memory conditions. Another one fixes that bug that occurred when the file is on a floppy disk and the user yanks out the disk in the middle. That LoadLibrary call is ugly but it makes the code work on old versions of Windows 95.
Social policies such as benefits for families with two or more kids and low-cost, widely available day-care centers for children under 3 that allow women to work and have kids sound far more important to me than any "residual Catholic natalism".
However, it is not so obvious that 6 is the highest score. While it was the case in Switzerland (where Einstein was studying at that age), it was the exact contrary in Germany at that time - 1 being the best score and 6 the lowest.
As pointed out in the Stack Exchange's answers, this discrepancy in scoring systems may also have contributed to the myth of Einstein's poor performance at school.
http://www.scienceblogs.de/frischer-wind/einsteins-zeugnis.j...
Long story short, he obtained the best score (6) in the three mathematical topics (algebra, geometry and descriptive geometry) and in physics.
I guess one of the reasons the myth has endured so long may be that it makes for such a great story. A sort of intellectual rags-to-riches, so to speak.
Edit: corrected the physics score.
Though far from the level of difficulty presented by jacquesm, the same thing happened to me with an end-of-term project a few years back.
We had to make a small piece of software in Java. Most of my mates were going for boring stuff, such as sudoku solvers or small neural networks to play the likes of Connect four.
I wanted to make a Gameboy emulator.
"You can't do this", said my professor. "At least not in two weeks' time."
Well I don't remember much besides coding during those two weeks, but guess what - after 14 days, my program could boot Tetris. No sound, granted, but it was playable.
My professor was quite the sore loser though - he considered the program incomplete since it only booted a few roms, didn't have sound and could crash randomly. I ended up turning in a gameboy rom dissassembler instead, complete with GUI and breakpoints setting.
Still, never believe that "you can't do that".
Though the more recent developments would seem to point out that Quake + tsunami >> 1 minor radiation dose.
Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak was the President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. [1]
History unfolding live indeed.
Bicycles can hardly be considered an old technology. While Da Vinci had already sketched some designs in the late 15th century [1], the first prototypes could not be built before the early 19th century.
The first recognizable version of the current chain-driven models was only produced in 1885. [2]
The chain-driven bicycle is not as simple as it looks.
[1] http://www.ltolman.org/davinci.htm [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycles
That one day, it will be remembered as a precious community, surprising in the quality of its members and the stability of its standards. A sort of modest, modern day digital Athens if you wish.
So let's enjoy it to the fullest while it lasts, and thank you Jacques, for all the invaluable contributions you brought to the community.
She does have a blog [1] and promotes herself quite heavily through social networks, but she's never had the support of a big publishing house that Konrath had.
She's far from being an overnight success though - in an interview with the Huffington Post [2], she explains how she's been writing fiction constantly from the earliest age, attending every possible writing courses along the way.
1: http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/ 2: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tonya-plank/meet-mega-bestsell...
That question would have made more sense for an engine in C, building your own fixed-point sqrt() for example.
I had initially set it up to code small ruby scripts remotely that help me with my day job (mostly to scrape websites with the excellent Scrapi gem). Since IT would not let anyone install anything on their computers, but still left port 443 wide open, I gave it a try.
The added benefit is that working on a linux box through Putty forces you to learn a real terminal text editor - in my case Emacs. I guess I can thank IT now ;)
Actually, the technology alone is highly impressive, but that an SDK is available to anyone for $299 is nothing short of mind-boggling.
Thank you again for posting these numbers every month.
http://nocash.emubase.de/gbatek.htm
The CPU instruction sets can be obtained from the original manufacturers (ARM9/ARM7 for DS, ARM7 for GBA and Z80 for the original Gameboy - and the Color version).
A three-dimensional display system provides a projection screen having a predetermined angularly-responsive reflective surface function. Three-dimensional images are respectively modulated in coordination with the predetermined angularly-responsive reflective surface function to define a programmable mirror with a programmable deflection angle.
It can be found here: