I think the first place I saw this technique used was in EmuDX, which had swapped-out graphics for Pac-Man, Ms. Pac Man, Galaxian, Frogger, and Donkey Kong. This was around 1999 or 2000. Its site no longer exists, but here's a mirror: http://www.arcadeathome.com/emudx.phtml.
I was always sad it never really caught on, I think it's a great way to revitalize old games while preserving gameplay.
Well a calorie is the amount of energy to raise a gram of water by one degree Celsius, so if you're drinking 2 litres of water a day and it's 0 degrees vs 20 degrees, you'll burn around 20,000 calories a day from the difference.
Note though that that's calories, and not kilocalories, which is what we generally talk about for dietary purposes. So ~20kcal a day, which would represent about a 1% change for the average person. Not a huge gain.
The issue is that they'd need an agreement with these stations. They don't need one with, say, NBC, because NBC is broadcasting their content over the air, and Aereo's arrays of tiny antennas are all receiving them. To do a similar thing for a cable station you'd need one cable subscription per user, which is pretty likely to wreck their business model. Third-tier stations looking for more viewers are more likely to license their stuff cheaply.
Basically, the problem is you are creating a conflict of interest by appending the affiliate bit. It's hard to take your advice as being unbiased when you stand to profit from it.
Nauru is (or was) trying to do this. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/253/t... is where I heard about it, but this story aired almost a decade ago so I don't know what's happened since. I assume it didn't pan out. Nauru is kind of hard to get information on, because of its obscurity and isolation.
Google claims an average-case 25-34% decrease in file sizes from JPEG and PNG, so I guess if you have more than ~100K worth of images to serve it would be worth your while, bandwidth-wise (though of course rendering time on the client would go way up).
l is ignored, so you can remove it (and the part where you pass it in from the engine). This code still works because s has global scope, but that looks like an accident.
I guess the "right" thing to do would be to rename s to l here, but when you're trying to fit stuff into 4K that's not the main concern :)
Cool program by the way, I'm impressed with how clear the code remained.
This is good advice to give to specific individuals, but it's unrelated to the systemic debt problem. Your strategy can't apply to the broad population, or the universities wouldn't have any money with which to pay your way.
Do you have a source for LinkedIn's popularity being greater than Amazon or eBay? compete.com (not always the most reliable source, I'll admit) lists both sites as being more than 3 times as popular.