MPC + CoreAVC gave decent picture quality on a 720p TV, but some audio synch issues and slight cyclic speeding up/slowing down of playback.
You may try increasing the input buffer on the Haali media splitter. This made a big difference for me as I play over wireless, and a lot of action for 10 seconds would bump up the bandwidth and drain the buffer. But with a 100MB buffer, it's not an issue.
Lately I've been mucking around with the FreeCiv beta...
I played with it last night and this morning, and I'm pretty disappointed with the pathing algorithms. For anything not involving roads/rails, it seemed to take an inefficient path for anything over 2 squares in a diagonal. At one point I told a Trireme to take a long path (which it chose inefficiently, but I was lazy) and it just stopped halfway through.
If I wanted to move something 10 spaces up and 10 spaces to the right, the most efficient route would be diagonally 10 spaces. But the pathing seems to pick something like 9 up, diagonal 1, then 9 right.
And no I can't use say XBMC for example because I need the TV functionality as well.
By "TV functionality" do you mean recording TV shows? If so, you might want to investigate separate front-end and back-end systems. The back-end system sits in the basement or closet somewhere and just records TV. The front-end system is much smaller and just plays the recorded media over the network.
I go to a local community college, and I know that at the very least academic dishonest will result in an F for the class. On the first day of class each professor makes this clear. Getting kicked out of the school seems like the next logical step. I don't see the problem with this (and everyone loves bonfires).
Wheels, propellers, jet engines, are a way to beat nature, because evolution isn't very good at those things. But four-legged travel has been optimized by nature (and slightly reoptimized by human breeding to carry burdens)
This was my thought. Adding wheels to a flexible "leg" system would be far more energy efficient, stable, and simple than trying to make a full on 4 legged vehicle. I've seen off road vehicles that will go over just about anything using extremely variable hydraulic suspension systems for the wheels. Trying the same things with mechanical legs would have resulted in a painful death for the operators.
I don't know how common they are, but I have seen compression systems on bumpers for well over a decade. What makes metal foam better than every other impact compression system out there?
They don't talk about it, but while the metal foam compresses better, it would also bend easier. You can't simply replace the studs for the bumpers with metal foam, or you risk the bumper folding under the car on impact, which greatly increases the chances of rolling the car. You would have to encase it, to ensure the bumper slid in the right direction. But at that point, why not fill it with compressed gas (with a limited release valve), or whatever else?
I'm thinking the cameras recording you screwing with the bands might make for some trouble. And for that much exposure in the nursery, you'd need to be a nursery employee, which means there are easier ways to get a kid.
Although, I don't know what you're going on about. I was just pointing out that they were in use in at least one hospital. I can confirm that they caught a number of employee thefts in at least one casino, so they verifiably have some positive level of effectiveness. (Fun fact, the casino in question didn't really care about the employee theft as it was such a small drop in the bucket.)
The alerts also showed up if a transmitter didn't check in at its scheduled time, so simply swiping a kid or covering the emitter would alert people.
Of course, if you're willing to cut off an infant's hand, you might as well whack the person in the security room, or set off a bomb outside of the security room.
It's not meant to be a catch all, just a more casual deterrent. Sort of like the simple metal detectors in the airports a decade ago that would remind people to stow guns and knives in the check in luggage. (My brother has a funny story about going on a plane trip as a boy scout where one of the scouts in his group had a large knife confiscated off of his person. When they got to their destination the boy pulled out an identical large knife from his jacket. When asked by his friends why he didn't hand that one over when they took the first one, he innocently responded that they hadn't asked for it.)
The opposite of this has actually been used with casinos and hospitals for tracking things in rooms. Employees and/or patients wear IR transmitting badges or wristbands that transmit a burst every so often, which are picked up by receivers in every room. It's a simple method for tracking people's movements over time. It's a good way to find out about employee theft in a casino. Also, for example, they would place wristband transmitters around an infant's wrist. If someone tried to cut off the band (so as to kidnap the infant) it would immediately begin transmitting at max power, alerting the staff.
Of course this was probably 15 years ago that I can confirm it being used, so I don't know that it's still being used. It's not a bad idea either at the transmitters/receivers are easily room specific, so it's probably much simpler than trying to triangulate with signal strength.
I do know that I've seen WSUS updates for Server 2003 have the 32-bit, x64, and Itanium versions. I haven't paid attention though to see if there is always a separate update for it.
The problem is that you are comparing risks of two different scales. One which is purchased outright with disposable income, the other is large that it can only be purchased with debt. In either case there is risk associated with the investment, and the values may very well tank afterward. But with the small item you are only out disposable income. With the larger value you add dept to yourself.
A more realistic comparison would be a movie prop that you purchase for $200k using a loan, versus a new condo you purchase for $200k using a loan. In both instances you've seen the resale of these types of items grow steadily over the past several years. So you expect to be able to sell them a year later for a substantial profit, and pay off the loan in the process. However, the market for these items collapse, meaning that no matter what you do with the items, you will still owe a substantial debt.
In the end, it was taking the risk of using debt to purchase that screwed you.
The one difference though is that the money for the high dollar prop probably went to a wealthy person who is not likely to increase spending in any way, which has effectively pulled money out of the economy (bad). While the money to the home builder went to purchasing materials to build new homes, keeping money circulating in the economy (good). In both cases you and the loaner are screwed (and both should have known better), but at least the money is still circulating in the economy from the purchased home.
So, once the values are equalized, I would postulate that it would still be better for the economy to have invested in the home rather than a movie prop.
If you had spent your money on some TV show props instead of wasting it on overvalued real estate
I don't think so. Purchasing items that are being produced helps companies pay employees to produce more stuff, which is part of a healthy economy. Purchasing an old TV prop, that may very well be worthless in a decade, that is being sold by people with lots of money that probably won't spend any more because of the sell, isn't likely to do anything positive to the economy.
x64 IE doesn't support 32-bit plugins, which is normal for x64 browsers. The reason Windows Update doesn't work in it is that Microsoft hasn't gotten around to making an x64 version of the Windows Update Plugin. There are almost no x64 plugins (e.g. Flash) so x64 IE isn't terribly useful.
Still, the OP had an excellent question, and someone should check it out (assuming the test doesn't require a plugin).
Because whatever we buy will be in service well into the 2030s and 2040s, and who knows what UAV technology will look like by then... However, if you're using Predator drones as bomb trucks, maybe all you need is a bunch of F-22s to establish air superiority.
It's probably not unreasonable to guess that air to air UAVs will be more than practical in 10 years. In light of that it would make a lot of sense to be focusing on designing a vehicle to carry the not-yet-designed computer/software that would control it. Without all of the hardware required to house, interface with, and protect a human, a new dogfight vehicle could be much lighter, maneuverable, etc.
Of course, you are correct though that canceling the F-35 project now would financially screw over a lot of people.
A lot of the advertising that I've seen actually seems to say that they look better, which is silly. I'm guessing a lot of the people out there don't know what conflict diamonds are, or don't care. When your audience doesn't know enough to make an informed decision, it's easier for the marketing department to just make stuff up.
You should have bought a diamond simulant. Most people can't tell the difference for a cheap one, and nice ones are even harder. I once took a nice one with a real diamond in to a jeweler, and he couldn't tell which one was real without magnification.
Cheaper, practically identical visually, always conflict free, almost as hard, easier to replace, and much cheaper. What isn't to love?
I didn't mean legally joining, I meant aligning themselves with the overall philosophy and methods. I particularly like how the Canadians have their "Polar Ice Certification" to ensure that you get a real Canadian diamond, and not one of those crappy ones from somewhere else...
I think that social media would be considered media where the object is to express social conventions. Slashdot exists to discuss technical news items, and while social aspects can sometimes arise, that is not the focus.
I think part of the secret is they did some smoothing of the real characters to make them look less out of place with the aliens. If you see the movie surrogate, the "surrogates" all have their skin heavily smoothed to remove the appearance of imperfections while people were presented as normal.
There were plenty of humans in the film too, so that point is moot.
You do realize that the people in the film were real live filmed people that your brain didn't have to dwell on, right? It was specifically the smurfs that were far enough from people to not be an issue.
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MPC + CoreAVC gave decent picture quality on a 720p TV, but some audio synch issues and slight cyclic speeding up/slowing down of playback.
You may try increasing the input buffer on the Haali media splitter. This made a big difference for me as I play over wireless, and a lot of action for 10 seconds would bump up the bandwidth and drain the buffer. But with a 100MB buffer, it's not an issue.
Lately I've been mucking around with the FreeCiv beta...
I played with it last night and this morning, and I'm pretty disappointed with the pathing algorithms. For anything not involving roads/rails, it seemed to take an inefficient path for anything over 2 squares in a diagonal. At one point I told a Trireme to take a long path (which it chose inefficiently, but I was lazy) and it just stopped halfway through.
If I wanted to move something 10 spaces up and 10 spaces to the right, the most efficient route would be diagonally 10 spaces. But the pathing seems to pick something like 9 up, diagonal 1, then 9 right.
And no I can't use say XBMC for example because I need the TV functionality as well.
By "TV functionality" do you mean recording TV shows? If so, you might want to investigate separate front-end and back-end systems. The back-end system sits in the basement or closet somewhere and just records TV. The front-end system is much smaller and just plays the recorded media over the network.
I go to a local community college, and I know that at the very least academic dishonest will result in an F for the class. On the first day of class each professor makes this clear. Getting kicked out of the school seems like the next logical step. I don't see the problem with this (and everyone loves bonfires).
Wheels, propellers, jet engines, are a way to beat nature, because evolution isn't very good at those things. But four-legged travel has been optimized by nature (and slightly reoptimized by human breeding to carry burdens)
This was my thought. Adding wheels to a flexible "leg" system would be far more energy efficient, stable, and simple than trying to make a full on 4 legged vehicle. I've seen off road vehicles that will go over just about anything using extremely variable hydraulic suspension systems for the wheels. Trying the same things with mechanical legs would have resulted in a painful death for the operators.
I don't know how common they are, but I have seen compression systems on bumpers for well over a decade. What makes metal foam better than every other impact compression system out there?
They don't talk about it, but while the metal foam compresses better, it would also bend easier. You can't simply replace the studs for the bumpers with metal foam, or you risk the bumper folding under the car on impact, which greatly increases the chances of rolling the car. You would have to encase it, to ensure the bumper slid in the right direction. But at that point, why not fill it with compressed gas (with a limited release valve), or whatever else?
I'm thinking the cameras recording you screwing with the bands might make for some trouble. And for that much exposure in the nursery, you'd need to be a nursery employee, which means there are easier ways to get a kid.
Although, I don't know what you're going on about. I was just pointing out that they were in use in at least one hospital. I can confirm that they caught a number of employee thefts in at least one casino, so they verifiably have some positive level of effectiveness. (Fun fact, the casino in question didn't really care about the employee theft as it was such a small drop in the bucket.)
The alerts also showed up if a transmitter didn't check in at its scheduled time, so simply swiping a kid or covering the emitter would alert people.
Of course, if you're willing to cut off an infant's hand, you might as well whack the person in the security room, or set off a bomb outside of the security room.
It's not meant to be a catch all, just a more casual deterrent. Sort of like the simple metal detectors in the airports a decade ago that would remind people to stow guns and knives in the check in luggage. (My brother has a funny story about going on a plane trip as a boy scout where one of the scouts in his group had a large knife confiscated off of his person. When they got to their destination the boy pulled out an identical large knife from his jacket. When asked by his friends why he didn't hand that one over when they took the first one, he innocently responded that they hadn't asked for it.)
The opposite of this has actually been used with casinos and hospitals for tracking things in rooms. Employees and/or patients wear IR transmitting badges or wristbands that transmit a burst every so often, which are picked up by receivers in every room. It's a simple method for tracking people's movements over time. It's a good way to find out about employee theft in a casino. Also, for example, they would place wristband transmitters around an infant's wrist. If someone tried to cut off the band (so as to kidnap the infant) it would immediately begin transmitting at max power, alerting the staff.
Of course this was probably 15 years ago that I can confirm it being used, so I don't know that it's still being used. It's not a bad idea either at the transmitters/receivers are easily room specific, so it's probably much simpler than trying to triangulate with signal strength.
I do know that I've seen WSUS updates for Server 2003 have the 32-bit, x64, and Itanium versions. I haven't paid attention though to see if there is always a separate update for it.
The problem is that you are comparing risks of two different scales. One which is purchased outright with disposable income, the other is large that it can only be purchased with debt. In either case there is risk associated with the investment, and the values may very well tank afterward. But with the small item you are only out disposable income. With the larger value you add dept to yourself.
A more realistic comparison would be a movie prop that you purchase for $200k using a loan, versus a new condo you purchase for $200k using a loan. In both instances you've seen the resale of these types of items grow steadily over the past several years. So you expect to be able to sell them a year later for a substantial profit, and pay off the loan in the process. However, the market for these items collapse, meaning that no matter what you do with the items, you will still owe a substantial debt.
In the end, it was taking the risk of using debt to purchase that screwed you.
The one difference though is that the money for the high dollar prop probably went to a wealthy person who is not likely to increase spending in any way, which has effectively pulled money out of the economy (bad). While the money to the home builder went to purchasing materials to build new homes, keeping money circulating in the economy (good). In both cases you and the loaner are screwed (and both should have known better), but at least the money is still circulating in the economy from the purchased home.
So, once the values are equalized, I would postulate that it would still be better for the economy to have invested in the home rather than a movie prop.
If you had spent your money on some TV show props instead of wasting it on overvalued real estate
I don't think so. Purchasing items that are being produced helps companies pay employees to produce more stuff, which is part of a healthy economy. Purchasing an old TV prop, that may very well be worthless in a decade, that is being sold by people with lots of money that probably won't spend any more because of the sell, isn't likely to do anything positive to the economy.
Agreed. Although I am curious how users of Server 2003 Itanium update their systems.
x64 IE doesn't support 32-bit plugins, which is normal for x64 browsers. The reason Windows Update doesn't work in it is that Microsoft hasn't gotten around to making an x64 version of the Windows Update Plugin. There are almost no x64 plugins (e.g. Flash) so x64 IE isn't terribly useful.
Still, the OP had an excellent question, and someone should check it out (assuming the test doesn't require a plugin).
Enabling NTLM in Firefox is URI specific. I haven't seen any issues with it though.
What benefit is there to upgrading to IE7 over IE8? Did that much stuff really break between the two?
Because whatever we buy will be in service well into the 2030s and 2040s, and who knows what UAV technology will look like by then... However, if you're using Predator drones as bomb trucks, maybe all you need is a bunch of F-22s to establish air superiority.
It's probably not unreasonable to guess that air to air UAVs will be more than practical in 10 years. In light of that it would make a lot of sense to be focusing on designing a vehicle to carry the not-yet-designed computer/software that would control it. Without all of the hardware required to house, interface with, and protect a human, a new dogfight vehicle could be much lighter, maneuverable, etc.
Of course, you are correct though that canceling the F-35 project now would financially screw over a lot of people.
A lot of the advertising that I've seen actually seems to say that they look better, which is silly. I'm guessing a lot of the people out there don't know what conflict diamonds are, or don't care. When your audience doesn't know enough to make an informed decision, it's easier for the marketing department to just make stuff up.
You should have bought a diamond simulant. Most people can't tell the difference for a cheap one, and nice ones are even harder. I once took a nice one with a real diamond in to a jeweler, and he couldn't tell which one was real without magnification.
Cheaper, practically identical visually, always conflict free, almost as hard, easier to replace, and much cheaper. What isn't to love?
I didn't mean legally joining, I meant aligning themselves with the overall philosophy and methods. I particularly like how the Canadians have their "Polar Ice Certification" to ensure that you get a real Canadian diamond, and not one of those crappy ones from somewhere else...
http://www.polaricediamonds.com/
That and Canadian and Russian production that basically broke the cartel.
It might be more accurate to say they joined with the cartel to ensure that profits stay high through artificial scarcity.
I think that social media would be considered media where the object is to express social conventions. Slashdot exists to discuss technical news items, and while social aspects can sometimes arise, that is not the focus.
I think part of the secret is they did some smoothing of the real characters to make them look less out of place with the aliens. If you see the movie surrogate, the "surrogates" all have their skin heavily smoothed to remove the appearance of imperfections while people were presented as normal.
There were plenty of humans in the film too, so that point is moot.
You do realize that the people in the film were real live filmed people that your brain didn't have to dwell on, right? It was specifically the smurfs that were far enough from people to not be an issue.
At least one Asimov robot wasn't humaniform. The short story "Sally" had vehicles outfitted with positronic brains.
And is was down right creepy.