Data on movie selections are not particularly sensitive, but this release of supposedly anonymized data could set a precedent for our health insurance companies to start having open source competitions.
You can keep the movie data on your drive up to 14 days without re-downloading it.
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Plays after that period will cost the same as the initial download, although the movie data isn't necessarily deleted.
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You can think of the difference between Big Data and Fast Data as the difference between downloading a movie from an online store (and having to wait until the entire movie downloads in order to watch it) and streaming the same movie (where you can start watching it instantly).
If you stream a standard resolution video you will consume, on average, 1.0 GB of data every hour, and if you stream an HD movie, you will use about 3 GB per hour.
Microsoft helped out with the data structures and search needs for making a computer-intensive movie.
The data also showed that 20% of the tweets about the movie were negative, while 19% were neutral.
The lawsuit called attention to academic research that suggests that Netflix indirectly exposed the movie preferences of its users by publishing anonymized customer data.
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The NYT points out that, if the suit continues to make its way through the court system, IMDb will be forced to reveal the tricks of its data-mining and exactly how it gathers information about the movie-magic-making people in its database.
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Now with Android releasing its own app for movie rentals, this could alter usage and spur more data consumption.
Heinrich said the techniques used to make the movie are similar to what IBM is doing to make data storage smaller.
The technique, adapted from Wall Street risk management strategies, uses data from thousands of films to predict the outcome of any given movie, taking into account budget, stars, release date and genre.
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Each movie occupies approximately 40-50GB of storage space, due to data rates up to 3x that of conventional HD of the future-proof DCI Color format defined by Hollywood for professional cinemas.
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Unlike the data we use to surf the Internet and check our e-mails, which can be slowed down and not affect the results, streaming video services need to be able to stream at a certain data rate and while some dropped packets can be tolerated, at some point the movie becomes jerky on the screen, and sometimes entire sections drop out.
Using the smallest object available for engineering data storage devices - single atoms - the same team of IBM researchers who made this movie also recently created the world's smallest magnetic bit.
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Any experienced businessperson has seen this movie before with earlier technologies ranging from the World Wide Web to CRM to Enterprise Data Warehouses.
Fellow iReporter Joe Machos, a data processor at an insurance company at the time (not unlike one of the computer programs in the movie), saw the movie on opening day, July 9, 1982.
This includes strong prohibitions against widespread music and movie piracy, as well as creating strong protections for emerging industries such as a 12-year data protection period for biologic medicines.
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