I am currently enrolled in that program. The program is great (I still don't believe it is so cheap). But it is not because of Udacity. It is great thanks to Piazza, professors, TAs, remote office hours, projects, students, Canvas, Slack groups, OMSCS subreddit, GaTech HPC clusters, remote labs, software licenses, student perks, and various other internal GaTech services. Udacity is just a small tool there to present a list of videos. Not a lot of professors use it for anything else. Hell, on Piazza for most courses you can even find a YouTube playlist because the Udacity web and mobile apps are incredibly bad compared to plain YouTube.
Do we really want everything locked down and centralised or do we want a portfolio of tools, marketplaces and such adding up to an educational platform.
Sure. I think the point though is that the education provided through MOOCs like Udacity, etc. is a small part of what's needed for an educational program in most cases. After all, we've had recorded lectures for decades. For certain types of course material such as programming assignments, computer grading systems are useful as well. However, for the most part, online courses aren't really all that different from Great Courses DVDs or YouTube videos. Which is to say nice resources but not very transformative.
Being able to use the Internet to learn things is pretty transformative in aggregate of which MOOCs is a small piece. (Although, arguably, it hasn't really been transformative in the sense of the educational certifications required for most jobs, whether at the university level or specific established IT training certs.)
Judging by the tone used in that press release, they are in deep trouble. It does not even matter that £60.7 million is a small portion of their business. It could be the opposite of what happened to ARM when Apple decided to put their chips into Newton.
Their 2016 annual report notes £120.0m revenue (90 from IP/royalties) and £136.5m in operating expenses with an operating loss of £87.0m. Their new CEO mentions refocusing the company on IP and royalty income. Now Apple, which pays 60% of that income, is ducking out. Ouch.
In the same report, they mention "There are no parties with whom the Group has contractual or other arrangements which are essential to the business of the Group except the contract with Apple Inc." All your eggs in one basket...
What's funny is in their financial risk assessment they focus on bullshit like investment shifts and outside IP threats, but gloss over the whole "what if that huge contract our company depends on happens to fall apart?"
The discussion between Apple and these guys must've really gone south for a nasty and desperate press release like this
UK regulations on stock markets are quite tough, publicly listed companies must share information that could impact the company as soon as they can. Public opinion is pretty susceptible to this too due to events in recent years.
I call this good old fashioned and fair to shareholders. Not tough. Wall Street is basically where you get the worst , and unfair treatment as a shareholder.
>> What's funny is in their financial risk assessment they focus on bullshit like investment shifts and outside IP threats, but gloss over the whole "what if that huge contract our company depends on happens to fall apart?"
Perhaps thats why they've refocused on IP, projects that are actually profitable.
Fax machines are still present pretty much everywhere, especially in corporations and government facilities. When I've been working in the UK 5 years ago in a large research institution, I had a fax machine next to my desk.
(The only thing it did though was activating once a day and printing out some ads, mostly car dealerships or insurances, AFAIR.)
I used to help my dad identify senders of spam faxes so we could get a court to issue summary judgment. I think the fine can be tripled if the violation is willful.
Even with faxes from a whole bunch of his clients... as many as I could trace back to the sender, and then of course collecting the judgment isn't easy. So after all that, it was barely enough to pay me. I guess that is why you don't see folks going after the spammers as much.
I don't know. But the first time I saw it happening I went and shown it to my boss; she reacted like most people react to on-line ads. "Yeah, it does that."
I think there is an option for screen recording from a real device in QuickTime. It is mostly used by developers to create promotional videos for an App Store page.
I thought NASA bought X-Plane (a flight simulator from Laminar Research) to revitalize it as Lockheed Martin did something like that with Microsoft Flight Simulator. Oh well...
I have never used GPUImage on iOS. Are we limited in resolution to the Metal/OpenGL ES texture size limit of a device with it? Can it work with extra large images?
Depends on your definition of extra large, I suppose. I've gone as big as about 10 megapixels in my implementations with it and it's held up.
The big problem with iOS image handling has always been the pitiful amount of RAM on the devices. It wasn't until relatively recently (iPad 4) that the iPads even had enough to reliably handle images in the 10-15 megapixel range without being killed by the memory watchdog.
Core Image on iOS is supposed to handling tiling of larger images automatically. This is one of the reasons I'm planning on porting my iOS video effects app from GPUImage to Core Image, although GPUImage has served me very well.
