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So I guess everybody forgot about the MS Courier concept introduced in 2009 (Video is from 2010 but Gizmodo broke the Courier story in September 2009, posting leaked pictures of what the device might look like and how it might work):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And in typical MS fashion, a project that would have beat Apple at their own game and create a new device/market was killed in it's prime because it threatened Windows.
http://gizmodo.com/5855260/the...
So the question now is whether it's still novel enough and whether they will still force it to run some kind of Windows instead of the GUI that the Courier was meant to run. Knowing MS culture and history, I wouldn't play those odds.

here's what happened when Airbus built a fully automated airliner (with no human inside) and have it land itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This was not an automated flight, and was not unmanned: there were 136 passengers on board. Three people were killed, and 34 required hospitalization. The cause was pilot error, and the flight crew was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for pulling a stupid stunt with a loaded plane.

They're late. Moller has been at it for 50 years. I'm really late, but why not? I promise to release my flying car prototype next year too. I plan to take a different approach.

here's what happened when Airbus built a fully automated airliner (with no human inside) and have it land itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I went there in a $20,000 dollar car. I came home on a $300,000 bus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And, former treatments that cost next-to-nothing are, mainly, relegated to the pages of history... that very few read... like HCl (hydrochloric acid) therapy.

It blew my mind, the things that some people will think will work and end up performing better than they ever thought. Case histories, here:

http://www.townsendletter.com/...

I also saw that high-doses of vitamin C brought a man back from the brink of death --he was in a coma and it woke him almost immediately after the first dose was administered, IIRC. From 60 Minutes, New Zealand edition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Many accounts of this non-toxic vitamin can be found regarding it curing almost any ailment or disease... it's amazing to think, now that I know from some research, that the US RDA for vitamin C is just enough to keep the average person at a pre-scurvy state of health.

Happens all the time.

Nope. If it happened all the time, then no trains, highways, or airplanes would be used at all.

Reality, of course, is that while people can be wrong, they are fallible human beings after all, they aren't always, and they do think about what they're doing.

I think the current story is such an example.

You can think a lot of things, but often enough, they aren't true. Not when you dig down.

We also have the "bridges to nowhere", many which were constructed by precisely the lack of competence and judgment you seem to think doesn't exist.

On the other hand, which were constructed with thought and consideration. I'd add more, but my sentence was getting awkward.

You seem to not realize that you are arguing against a priority in transportation based on nothing more than offering a handy catchphrase, when in reality, the bridge which you so blithely dismiss, did go somewhere, and did have a purpose. In fact, it even had a planning document which you could review, and see that it was not simply, as many people seem to think, and as its destractors certainly want to portray, a bridge being built for no purpose at all. It's one thing if you disagreed with the priority, but again, that would require reviewing the actual documents involved, and making an evidence based decision. Not simply standing at a podium and ranting.

Like a certain senator, it simply became a political tool, but reality, well, may be different.

That's right, if you dare to go to the people impacted by the decision, and they'll resent you for using them as a pawn in a bunch of grandstanding.

At least give them the courtesy of some effort towards thoughtful consideration, rather than whatever popular slogan grabs your attention. Reserve that for after school television programs. Let's get the next ten words. Ante up, poindexter.

Here's the Board Meeting Schedule. Let me know which one you want to attend.

mpv allows the user to supply GLSL scripts using the --opengl-shaders=filename option, and it can save single screenshots to files after those shaders have been applied (Ctrl-S), and mpv is scriptable (in Lua or C), so all you need to do is write a script that single-steps through the video, then writes such a post-processed screenshot to a pipe which you can use as input to "ffmpeg".

Doesn't mpv support direct output to a series of PNGs? MPlayer does it simply with -vo png.

Incidendally, I'm working on something related to the original question. I use shaders for math art demos, and I already have the option of using image files as the input (shameless example). It would be trivial to accept a new file for each frame, so it could process video from a series of images. The speed would only be a couple of FPS due to I/O bottleneck, but it won't be realtime anyway. The reason I haven't done this so far is that my focus is on the math of iterated shaders, not processing some existing video. Still, it would be fun to do some day, and of course I'm looking at ways to do it in realtime (the GPU is fast enough, but I/O is harder).

Lastly, you could use a screen recording software instead of the clunky series-of-screenshots idea. I did this for putting my first few demos on Youtube, but the quality is awful, so I much prefer taking the PNGs and encoding separately.

..."by equipping librarians with the knowledge and skills to cultivate computational thinking and coding skills in our youth."...

Do librarians really have the appropriate innate skill set, and desires, to teach kids how to code? This sounds like Google was looking around for someone to do the teaching, and someone at the meeting said, "librarians!," to which everyone agreed (in typical meeting style).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That's funny given that it was primarily designed with servers in mind.

Not sure that's true. It was inspired by launchd from Apple (specifically this video). Personally I think launchd is cleaner, but that's partly because Apple has full control of the ecosystem.

No, that would be North Vegas... Downtown Vegas is the real Vegas. The Strip is, well... the Strip, which can be blown up and rebuilt fast than you can say *World Trade Center*

"I was gonna keep our clients' data secure . . . but then I got high . . ." -- Afroman, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

NASA's trips to the planets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ukraine & Honduras. Hillary even bragged in her own book about how she helped the 'orderly transfer' of the elected president of Honduras out of power, while recognizing the junta as the legitimate government. And it was her assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland that bragged on video about spending $5 billion to influence Ukraine - and then motherfucking Democrats whine about Russia trying to interfere with our elections. Same Nuland that had her phone call tapped where she talked shop with the US ambassador to Ukraine, where they were picking leaders for when the coup was completed.

Any more questions?

Ukraine & Honduras. Hillary even bragged in her own book about how she helped the 'orderly transfer' of the elected president of Honduras out of power, while recognizing the junta as the legitimate government. And it was her assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland that bragged on video about spending $5 billion to influence Ukraine - and then motherfucking Democrats whine about Russia trying to interfere with our elections. Same Nuland that had her phone call tapped where she talked shop with the US ambassador to Ukraine, where they were picking leaders for when the coup was completed.

Any more questions?

Blender has video editing built in I've heard. It probably also supports shaders. note: I'm only guessing as I have barely used Blender

video editing in blender

So you see nothing wrong with blobs of callback after callback with making your own threading and scheduling from scratch?

JavaScript has been accused of many things, but "threading" isn't one of them.

I don't mind blobs of callback in principle. Continuation-passing style doesn't scare me at all (especially in a language like Scheme or Haskell). But I agree with you. The more I used Node.JS, the more I realised I really wanted Erlang.

Yeah man. Erlang is the real rockstar language

YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE DEBIAN.

I will say that ZFS on Root, out of the box, is quite nice with FreeBSD.

Simpsons - Monorail Song

When China wants a bullet train, they Just Fucking Build It. We sing the monorail song as our way of warding off progress.

Simpsons - Monorail Song

Sadly, I believe that Trump and many of the people he has placed in key positions in his cabinet are surveillance state supporters. This is sadly a bi-partisan issue.

I agree, that's the most likely outcome.

Still, the fact that Trump keeps picking fights with the intelligence services and has said that he wants to scale them back offers a glimmer of hope.

And the post-election professions of nearly unconditional love of Democrats for the intelligence services and the surveillance state means their mask has slipped, and they hopefully can't put it back on again in the age of YouTube. I think being able to view Hillary's repeated liying online contributed a great deal to her defeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 9/11 Suspects: Rudy Giuliani [corbettreport]

Video proof, in fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3qZThdcZMo

Real Housewives of ISIS

If Amazon was serious about their centralized transaction and distribution model, their commitment to moving products from manufacture to seller over ever increasing distances, their commitment to deep processing power, with its necessity for an energy-rich future...

They would get behind Thorium and LFTR.
And let other silly, deluded corporate hobbyists fund the low-yield weather-intermittent countless points of failure crap.
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"DID SOMEONE SAY THORIUM?" TIME ONCE AGAIN FOR
CONFESSIONS OF A SLASHDOT ENERGY AND LFTR FANBOI
Updated for 2017! All original unless noted! Browse! Engage! Plagiarize!

This letter of mine has been in Donald Trump's possession since May 2, 2016 . If you read it you may discover why I considered Trump the only candidate worthy of such a message. In his pronouncement to pursue energy self-sufficiency in general and consider nuclear an essential part of the mix, there is hope. The others offer nothing but more years of bad road and an obscenely stupid fixation on base load irredeemables (wind and solar). Trump is literally the only one with the courage to stand up to the tripe.

In 2013 I reached out to Senator Inhofe to propose an energy path for Oklahoma and the country.

Also in 2013 I reached out directly to Halliburton Corporate with a very specific idea that just might have laid groundwork for their secure long-term future. At the time their stock was climbing towards $70 and they probably thought they didn't have a care in the world. Not so good now. Not a glimmer from this one either. I had high hopes for it.

Mentioned in these letters is Faulkner's 2005 paper on Electric (HVDC) pipelines, and the two hour Thorium Remix 2011 video presentation (time index below).

It's fun to discuss nuclear energy on Slashdot ... It's time for Elmo to Grow Up!... A brief history of nuclear energy fear in these United States... You should fear everything besides nuclear energy... Solar drives California towards cannibalism, or your money back... There's a fire, and people pushing intermittent sources are blocking the exits... Hiding wonders of the modern world from the kids...Some energy priorities... 2016: The Year in energy... Meet the folks of TBA, a city willing to store spent nuclear fuel... Nothing is as patriotic as mining... A move to LFTR may be the only way to preserve modern society in the face of disaster (volcanism, Maunder minimum)... Can the grid 'black-start' after a disaster?... Sometimes you just have to point things

It's a tough issue for sure. I defer again to Milton Friedman, who did a brilliant treatment on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The problem is the untold suffering that happens for 30 of those 50 years. That's what a safety net is for.

We got the New Deal because the socialists were gaining support rapidly. It was New Deal or a Socialist revolution.

There will need to be another New Deal or there will be a revolution well before that 50 year mark.

The people calling for a safety net and other changes are basically asking "Couldn't we try learning from history this time around?".

I used to be more liberal and appalled studying history on this. However, economist Milton Friedman was asked this question and you can youtube it in "Free to choose here.

Average incomes WENT UP during the industrial revolution.

The middle class was created. Sure there were crafters who were lower middle class that got hit. But conditions in famine strict Ireland, Poland, Italy, and Eastern Europe on farms WERE DEPLORABLE. Likewise poor farmers in China today are willing to work 16 hours a day for several months at a time and take money home to get ahead. Yes, it is a depressing life for us outsiders. But overall, the industrial revolution created wealth and increased the standards of living of many poor folks.

Pre industrial revolution you were upper class who owned land or a peasant starving. The middle was quite tiny.

I just got done saying something (not really explaining) that education is lousy in general at this YouTube discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We've already seen the Trump golden shower video.

Nobody cared.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You're here all week?

This is fascism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . Hillary and the dems fit.

Zombies, Say Hello to my 'little' combine...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Bring it! :)

What is the Mean Opinion Score(MOS) for the quality of the sound at 700Bps.

It needs to be better than Edison's first recording.

To be fair, letting corporations run everything is technically "smaller government". Republicans might be stupid, but they are consistent.

It's not!

There is a huge difference between Corporations and local governments.
Who are both responsible to? Shareholders somewhere or people actually you know from local City Council meetings.
What is their underlying objective? Increase return of investment to shareholders or run a municipality most efficient serving the people living there.

You can see how municipalities are fought for their independence by state governments occupied by people dependent on campaign contributions when municipalities trying to become independent from Corporations in electrical, zoning (fracking) and now internet. There are actual cases where a state government sues municipalities in those instances.

Looking how this works can be clearly seen how senators vote against normal people so they can be bilked by Corporations in drug sales:
http://www.senate.gov/legislat...

They are busy returning favors for funds received and their voters behaving just right lulled and sleeping soundly watching TV ....

You really need to open your eyes and use your grey matter for a change.

Donald Rumpelstiltskin has no clue and is probably only concerned about covering his dick's history, trying to make things "great" again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

> The sound quality of a halfway decent cassette tape is as good as a CD.

Nope. The best tape can only achieve the equivalent of about 9 bits of resolution; even studio real tape used for mixing could do 13 bits.

See Monty's Digital Show and Tell (10:45)

Since the appendix has little to nothing to do with anything that would cause that kind of trouble, I'd look into other sources of your troubles. Did you have anti-biotics? That can cause huge issues if you don't repopulate your GI. Are you one of those unfortunate folks that through diet and genetics are predisposed to growing a bad combination of flora in your gut (a la likely sources of Crohns and IBS)? It's quite possible that a short duration of correcting diet and providing some probiotics to alter your GI biology will fix you right up. If you had, say your gall bladder removed, that's a whole other story that requires quantity moderation of fats in short periods of time. Finally, make sure you don't eat any of that artificial fat like olestra, because that, combined with any of the above, will result in a Kenny episode.

You apparently missed the teaser, featuring only teenagers and 20-somethings.

People have no idea how badly they're been screwed

First of all we need to talk about California in particular to get some kind of an intuition for this.
The 2016 results for California are the fifth largest win, ever, for a poplar vote win in California.

In elections that California has had a large popular vote win, it has always been the case that the country as a whole was very partisan towars a particular candidate, or indeed against a particular candidate or mandate:

I cite these for reference, starting with the election of 1928 - the closest comparison of popular vote share in Californian history . ie.e ie in 1928, the Republican party won California by 31% of popular vote. In 2016, the Democrats won it by 29%.

But, the thing is, in 1928 it was an overall landslide
Electoral vote Hoover (Rep.) 444 Smith (Dem.) 87 Popular vote 21,427,123 15,015,464

Hoover kiled Smith, and California was just another symptomatic piece of that.

And not just that election, in every election where there has been a massive popular vote win in California, there has been a massive electoral college and popular vote win nationwide:

1920: Cox Harding (Rep.) 404 Cox (Dem.) 127 Popular vote 16,144,093 9,139,661

1936: Roosevelt (Dem.) 523 Landon (Rep.) 8 Popular vote 27,747,636 16,679,543

1904: T. Roosevelt (Rep.) Parker (Dem.) Popular vote 7,630,457 5,083,880

So, hopefully I've managed to convince you that it's very peculiar that California would in 2016 have a massive popular vote win and that somehow this was not reflected in the overall results. Something's got to give. Either there were irregularities with California, or there were irregularities with the rest of country and not Califonia. I beleive there were regularities across the county but just much worse in California.

You may not like the following source if you're a liberal - Fox - but I cite it:

Voter fraud California

It's just an example and not proof of widespread voter fraud, but where there's smoke there tends to be fire.

The billionaire, George Soros predicted Trump would win the popular vote by a landslide and lose the electoral college.
He was heavily vested in the election (to the tune of $1 billion) so I'm going to assume hea meant what he said.

And it's not just California:

Massive Non-Citizen Voting Uncovered in Maryland

Colorado Voter Fraud Runs Rampant

3.7 percent of voters in Burlington’s last big election not on rolls

Multi-state voting

Extensive voter fraud from DNC covered by Project Veritas:

Detroit irregularities

Here's another example.

> Some folk take this site seriously

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Just because this is the only system you know, don't assume it's the only system that works. Before the 80's when boomers became determined to bleed every possible drop of profit out of the economy, hospitals were run by charities and the worlds most famous doctors worked at university teaching hospitals. Even today the majority of medical breakthroughs happen in universities with government grant money, not pharmaceutical giants.

There is credible evidence that in the unregulated free market once a company achieves market dominance all innovation becomes simple incremental upgrades as research money is transferred to investors. Just look at Apple for a perfect example.

For the people who keep saying regulations keep competition low... yeah, most people are perfectly happy with regulations that require companies to actually prove their devices work, they're well funded and their investors aren't gangsters.. so horrible that the people who invented Shake Weights might not be able to bring us their amazing magnet powered pacemakers I'm sure they were working on.

Yeah, it's completely hilarious to see people falling for this one.

I just wonder if they're actually going to fall for the next one?

With as many so-called "nerd virgins" as they employ, you'd think they'd be more careful about going on MSNBC to complain about "childless single men who masturbate to anime."

No you won't -- VHS tapes are awful. You need to obtain the VHS audiophile TUBE system to actually enjoy the entire experience.

D-VHS was the first way to get high definition prerecorded videos for playback at home, predating Bluray and HD-DVD.

The problem is nothing to do with media and everything to do with the marketing collapse of drunken drugged up minstrels. That old bullshit with the minstrels all cool rebel hero who suffers for their music is dying and with it goes the money. So now they are trying another route to hype up music to keep the billions in profits going with all the awful autotune lipsinking scam artists https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., of course they are nobodies without the publishers and the bjs in limos. So the industry is dying a slow grim death as the marketing dies. So they are simply trying to invent new hype to pump up publishers profits (no wonder US corporations hate RT).

That's especially funny.

Because I believe I explained how this kind of nonsense works in my comment from just under a week ago, quoted in relevant part:

I have secret evidence that your secret evidence is completely bogus. This same secret evidence also indicates that you secretly wet the bed last night. And 20 organizations have signed off on it.

People who watch the "news" are like 50 shades behind everything going on. You guys have no idea how hilarious this is while waiting for you to catch up. But the real joke here is that there are people who actually think that CNN & BuzzFeed's "raw intelligence" of Trump pissing on Obama's bed is real. Corroborating evidence? We have a video of someone who gave Trump a golden shower in 2011! (quasi-SFW, despite what you might think)

Just don't read this guy's explanation of how it was sourced from nonsense they fabricated based on this old TIL on Reddit (amazing how history repeats itself...). But yes, someone can then feel free to link me to BuzzFeed & others "debunking" that one on the basis that the 4chan post laughing about their first victim is newer than the document they wrote during the primaries.

And then we can laugh at how they don't totally "debunk" the dossier based on the fact that they can't corroborate anything worth a damn in it, save maybe that it was created by someone doing an opposition report on Trump who got paid more the longer it was. That way we can all ignore all the more mundane items in the report that were proven to be nonsense. Anyhow, there are far more interesting things to research while everyone else is still wading through the "leaks" and yellow journalism. Feel free to keep wading through the stream, hoping to uncover nuggets of truth. I don't know about you, but after that sort of filth, I need a shower.

YouTube version or the original Flash version. Pick your poison.

You should have tried it with "My White Bicycle" by Tomorrow.

The name is click bait. It's not at all what you think it is.

Secure phone - here!.

And to fix the battery pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And send all the refunds in the form of checks from a company with a really suggestive offensive name and see if anyone dares cash it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

(might not be appropriate for workplace viewing - clip from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)