So, the shows themselves are in ~480p, and the uploader thinks it looks better if converted over to HD?
No, he's saying that he now uploads in HD, as opposed to when he used to upload at 480p. The shoes he's talking about were shot in HD, so it's probable he found an HD version and didn't just downsample it. Of course, downsampling is a long, complex process, but changing the wrapper file for a 1080p show isn't, so it should be easier/faster to upload at a higher framerate (bandwidth aside)
It used to be that some states had 18 and some had 21 as the drinking age. Shockingly, there was a lot of drunk driving one the borders between those states. So, they raised the 18 states to 21 to prevent all the DUIs.
Why didn't they force the 21 states to lower it to 18? Because the federal government cannot really force states to make stuff legal, but can to make things illegal.
It prevents bars from using mandatory ID checks to build databases of customers... which most "bar code verifier" stations do when bouncers check ID. That level of access control is an objectively good thing.
There are many other problems (for instance, this app probably uses that to record how many times you go to bars, and syncs your phone to real name in a way that is sold to FB) that are added. But, you know, one step forward, four steps back.
Probably a coincidence. ARPAnet made a triangular ring, and then had one more node off that. That's enough to test routing, etc. (A connects to B,C; B connects to A,C; C connects to A,B,D). Therefore, they can make sure A->B doesn't get confused and go A->C->A (repeat) ->B and A->D can make the hops. So,. useful for testing.
This quantum nodes were connected in a ring, all four nodes connected each of the three others. The limit seems to be based on the fact that they had 12 multiplexed channels. I notice that 12 connections (if unidirectional) is the number needed to connect all 4 nodes to each other. (2 connections -> 2 nodes, 6 connections -> 3 nodes, 12 connections -> 4 nodes)
If all the major news outlets had run stories about "big yellow talking bird discovered", it would be news that it was just a guy in a costume. Russian Government TV claimed it was a robot filmed at some big robot showcase.
You can't negotiate with mega companies on your own unless you're one of the top 1% of math geniuses.
I don't know why that would help you negotiate. Negotiation involves understanding your value and having the confidence to ask for it. Confidence is a personal trait unconnected to math ability. And knowing your value is hard for almost everyone.
I don't think a lawyer can just sue on behalf of the government. Cause it's the government that got screwed over, not the farmers. Or rather, the farmers got screwed, but they only violated the contract with the government.
She's accused of violating the old, global sanctions against Iran. You know, the ones the EU, Russia, etc. agreed to. Heck, I think even China agreed to them.
Dangerous for sure. Does that make it crazy... I dunno. I would say it's too risky to do, but that doesn't make it irrational.
has someone thought out the likely reactions and steps the Other Side is likely to take?
Seems extremely unlikely. It's not likely Trump is keeping the people who's job it is to think about stuff like that informed, and even if they have, there doesn't seem to be any evidence he listens to their advice.
What's to stop other countries from following suit?
Probably a desire to avoid an escalating tit-for-tat. Absorbing this loss this one time is worth keeping the global world order (probably).
Traditional diplomacy rested on a sort of 'gentleman's agreement'.
This is true. And those norms are mostly not written down. Diplomacy is boring, because it's trying to prevent all the exciting things (wars - trade or regular, etc.)
Or am I just overthinking this?
Not in general. But, everyone's ignoring the fact that she might really be guilty.
Given that Russia is working hard on developing proxies in the Middle East, and given those proxies dislike both Israel and Turkey, it's possible that this was an easy (and deniable) way of publishing information to those proxies.
Long distance power transmission by superconductor would making going 100% solar a very realistic choice. It may not be needed, but it's exciting.
You are right there are numerous other uses, but, frankly, while I can appreciate and respond to them, I cannot think of them. Hence, the low hanging fruit I (and others) focus on. That's why that's what the thread is talking about.
Please correct this by going on about cool new stuff, instead of saying what we know about is boring!!
There is no conceivable way anything practical can done with this line of research, unless it ultimately reveals knowledge that allows to design some other material that can do the same trick without 6 times the detonation pressure of HMX.
And we're okay with just anyone being able to buy something with that much stored energy.
Chemists have found a material that can display superconducting behavior at a temperature warmer than it currently is at the North Pole
For future generations, this was posed in 2018. At that point, the North Pole was still considered really cold.
Fun race, which progresses faster, room-temp. superconductors or temp. at the North Pole. Looking forward to the new headline in 3 years - "North Pole warms up, no longer able to cool superconductors anymore."
. This way the effect of net neutrality legislation in certain states could be compared to states that do not have it yet, this allows us to see what works best.
I don't know if it technically can be left to the states. Also, frankly, there's no need to test it. NN is better for 99% of people, and bad for owners of Comcast/Verizion/etc.
Internet service is a little bit too expensive as it is and I would not want to pay more because someone with 4 netflix streams going 24/7 at once of HD video,
NN has nothing to do with that. You want the person using more bandwidth to pay more. Well, first, it's likely those savings go to the stockholders, not you. Secondly, that's not what NN does. NN is that Netflix's check didn't arrive, so that person cannot stream from Netflix that much... So they do so from Amazon prime, whose check did clear.
Netflix is already paying to use more data than a static website for their pipes. The users are already paying more for their pipes. This is literally just a cash-grab.
It seems like there's a chance of a government shutdown almost every year because they put in a stop-gap measure instead of finding a longer term solution.
That's actually a constitutional requirement, that spending laws cannot last 2 years or more. It's precisely because the chance of a government shutdown is part of the balance of powers. Specifically, it's a powerful weapon for the US House. Which is reset every two years. So if the government starts doing X, and the US population doesn't like it, they can elect a new House, which will not fund it.
The current system is broken and tossing out one half of the players but keeping the other half and the same rules isn't going to fix anything.
That's only true if both sets of players are to blame. If you set up a game of chess (cause it's simple), between the world champion chess player and someone who literally refuses to make moves, the game will never finish and is broken, etc. However, replacing the guy who literally refuses to make moves makes the whole system work well.
TL;DR you're assuming both sides are equally at fault in response to someone making a case only one side is, and using that to justify your conclusions. Assuming you won an argument without making it is not valid.
A great first start is to create independent panels that set the voting boundaries like we have in Canada... The only purpose in creating the districts is to try and equalize the populations in them.
There are panels in some states that do that. I'll point out that there are valid reasons to move boundaries that are not just "equalize the populations." For instance, making lines align with each other, so neighbors aren't in 12 different districts - that is so people in the same school district are in the same state senate district are in the same US Rep. district are in the same...
So cute that US politics always thinks that there are only two sides in political issues.
There are many sides of a political issue. However, because of our electoral system, we slowly whittle it down to two sides. Kinda like most tournaments in sports. Sure, there was also side 3, but people argued and decided that side 2 was better than side 3, moving on, side 3 is eliminated.
Except that Democrats are overwhelmingly in favor of Net Neutrality, while republicans are 99% opposed.
Hmm it's almost like there is a clear difference between the parties an a critical issue at impacts all of us.
If it passed the Senate, which the summary says it did, then it had at least two Republican Senators to support it
So, your sick burn is that it's not 99% of Republicans, but 96%?
Also, please understand that the Senate voting records are pretty noisy, because of the small sample size. The House commonly has the same number (or fewer) dissenters with a larger pool of voters.
Also, in fairness, it was 94%. Three Republicans voted for it. And the Democrats were 100% in favor of it. If you cannot tell the difference between Party D, 100% in support, and Party R, 6% in support, I cannot help you.
If you don't think Activision/Blizzard was big enough, I'm not sure your sense of scale. And, frankly, I'm not sure what would qualify. AOL/TimeWarner wasn't two tech companies. Maybe Verizion/Yahoo? I mean, Google/DoubleClick were two huge companies at the time, although both are much smaller than what Alphabet is now.
Wait, are you saying that Microsoft was paying Comcast to make Bing load faster before the final year of the Obama administration, when NN was enacted?
NN was NOT enacted the last year of the Obama administration. The last year of the Obama administration Verizon sued the FTC (in the Supreme Court, the lawsuit had been happening for a while.) The SC ruled that the FTC's NN rules were not allowed, because the FCC had jurisdiction and needed to pass them. So they did instead.
What you described has nothing to do with net neutrality. NN is what keeps Microsoft from paying Comcast so that Bing loads faster than Google. It's horrible for start ups, as it puts a giant cost in the way of using their service. Plus, who wants Comcast deciding which sites they get to use at regular speeds, and which get arbitrarily slowed down.
Any time I try to toggle off data collection in that "My Account" area, the settings miraculously revert as soon as I leave.
Meanwhile, I've never had that problem on iOS. Heck, I'm not sure what other services I've had that issue with (I'm sure FB would be included, except for my lack of interactions with them.) I've heard rumors about Win10, but again...
Mergers of larger tech-related companies seem to always fail. Can anyone name a success in the last 2 decades?
Well, if we exclude the content consolidation driven by the desire to own the streaming market, e..g Disney/Fox, as "non-tech-related", we are still left with of choices:
Slashdot Mirror
They're not going to make more classics (for a few more years), to drive people to the Switch and Switch Cloud Games.
It used to be that some states had 18 and some had 21 as the drinking age. Shockingly, there was a lot of drunk driving one the borders between those states. So, they raised the 18 states to 21 to prevent all the DUIs.
Why didn't they force the 21 states to lower it to 18? Because the federal government cannot really force states to make stuff legal, but can to make things illegal.
It prevents bars from using mandatory ID checks to build databases of customers... which most "bar code verifier" stations do when bouncers check ID. That level of access control is an objectively good thing.
There are many other problems (for instance, this app probably uses that to record how many times you go to bars, and syncs your phone to real name in a way that is sold to FB) that are added. But, you know, one step forward, four steps back.
Probably a coincidence. ARPAnet made a triangular ring, and then had one more node off that. That's enough to test routing, etc. (A connects to B,C; B connects to A,C; C connects to A,B,D). Therefore, they can make sure A->B doesn't get confused and go A->C->A (repeat) ->B and A->D can make the hops. So,. useful for testing.
This quantum nodes were connected in a ring, all four nodes connected each of the three others. The limit seems to be based on the fact that they had 12 multiplexed channels. I notice that 12 connections (if unidirectional) is the number needed to connect all 4 nodes to each other. (2 connections -> 2 nodes, 6 connections -> 3 nodes, 12 connections -> 4 nodes)
If all the major news outlets had run stories about "big yellow talking bird discovered", it would be news that it was just a guy in a costume. Russian Government TV claimed it was a robot filmed at some big robot showcase.
For what it's worth, the robot showcase was real.
I don't know why that would help you negotiate. Negotiation involves understanding your value and having the confidence to ask for it. Confidence is a personal trait unconnected to math ability. And knowing your value is hard for almost everyone.
I don't think a lawyer can just sue on behalf of the government. Cause it's the government that got screwed over, not the farmers. Or rather, the farmers got screwed, but they only violated the contract with the government.
She's accused of violating the old, global sanctions against Iran. You know, the ones the EU, Russia, etc. agreed to. Heck, I think even China agreed to them.
Dangerous for sure. Does that make it crazy... I dunno. I would say it's too risky to do, but that doesn't make it irrational.
Seems extremely unlikely. It's not likely Trump is keeping the people who's job it is to think about stuff like that informed, and even if they have, there doesn't seem to be any evidence he listens to their advice.
Probably a desire to avoid an escalating tit-for-tat. Absorbing this loss this one time is worth keeping the global world order (probably).
This is true. And those norms are mostly not written down. Diplomacy is boring, because it's trying to prevent all the exciting things (wars - trade or regular, etc.)
Not in general. But, everyone's ignoring the fact that she might really be guilty.
Secret from whom?
Given that Russia is working hard on developing proxies in the Middle East, and given those proxies dislike both Israel and Turkey, it's possible that this was an easy (and deniable) way of publishing information to those proxies.
Long distance power transmission by superconductor would making going 100% solar a very realistic choice. It may not be needed, but it's exciting.
You are right there are numerous other uses, but, frankly, while I can appreciate and respond to them, I cannot think of them. Hence, the low hanging fruit I (and others) focus on. That's why that's what the thread is talking about.
Please correct this by going on about cool new stuff, instead of saying what we know about is boring!!
And we're okay with just anyone being able to buy something with that much stored energy.
Oh no, he has a detenator on his computer. RUN!
You left out the invariably occurring ruptures of such a vessel, and the issues that result from turning your computer into shrapnel.
For future generations, this was posed in 2018. At that point, the North Pole was still considered really cold.
Fun race, which progresses faster, room-temp. superconductors or temp. at the North Pole. Looking forward to the new headline in 3 years - "North Pole warms up, no longer able to cool superconductors anymore."
I don't know if it technically can be left to the states. Also, frankly, there's no need to test it. NN is better for 99% of people, and bad for owners of Comcast/Verizion/etc.
NN has nothing to do with that. You want the person using more bandwidth to pay more. Well, first, it's likely those savings go to the stockholders, not you. Secondly, that's not what NN does. NN is that Netflix's check didn't arrive, so that person cannot stream from Netflix that much... So they do so from Amazon prime, whose check did clear.
Netflix is already paying to use more data than a static website for their pipes. The users are already paying more for their pipes. This is literally just a cash-grab.
That's actually a constitutional requirement, that spending laws cannot last 2 years or more. It's precisely because the chance of a government shutdown is part of the balance of powers. Specifically, it's a powerful weapon for the US House. Which is reset every two years. So if the government starts doing X, and the US population doesn't like it, they can elect a new House, which will not fund it.
That's only true if both sets of players are to blame. If you set up a game of chess (cause it's simple), between the world champion chess player and someone who literally refuses to make moves, the game will never finish and is broken, etc. However, replacing the guy who literally refuses to make moves makes the whole system work well.
TL;DR you're assuming both sides are equally at fault in response to someone making a case only one side is, and using that to justify your conclusions. Assuming you won an argument without making it is not valid.
There are panels in some states that do that. I'll point out that there are valid reasons to move boundaries that are not just "equalize the populations." For instance, making lines align with each other, so neighbors aren't in 12 different districts - that is so people in the same school district are in the same state senate district are in the same US Rep. district are in the same...
There are many sides of a political issue. However, because of our electoral system, we slowly whittle it down to two sides. Kinda like most tournaments in sports. Sure, there was also side 3, but people argued and decided that side 2 was better than side 3, moving on, side 3 is eliminated.
So, your sick burn is that it's not 99% of Republicans, but 96%?
Also, please understand that the Senate voting records are pretty noisy, because of the small sample size. The House commonly has the same number (or fewer) dissenters with a larger pool of voters.
Also, in fairness, it was 94%. Three Republicans voted for it. And the Democrats were 100% in favor of it. If you cannot tell the difference between Party D, 100% in support, and Party R, 6% in support, I cannot help you.
If you don't think Activision/Blizzard was big enough, I'm not sure your sense of scale. And, frankly, I'm not sure what would qualify. AOL/TimeWarner wasn't two tech companies. Maybe Verizion/Yahoo? I mean, Google/DoubleClick were two huge companies at the time, although both are much smaller than what Alphabet is now.
NN was NOT enacted the last year of the Obama administration. The last year of the Obama administration Verizon sued the FTC (in the Supreme Court, the lawsuit had been happening for a while.) The SC ruled that the FTC's NN rules were not allowed, because the FCC had jurisdiction and needed to pass them. So they did instead.
What you described has nothing to do with net neutrality. NN is what keeps Microsoft from paying Comcast so that Bing loads faster than Google. It's horrible for start ups, as it puts a giant cost in the way of using their service. Plus, who wants Comcast deciding which sites they get to use at regular speeds, and which get arbitrarily slowed down.
Any time I try to toggle off data collection in that "My Account" area, the settings miraculously revert as soon as I leave.
Meanwhile, I've never had that problem on iOS. Heck, I'm not sure what other services I've had that issue with (I'm sure FB would be included, except for my lack of interactions with them.) I've heard rumors about Win10, but again...
Well, if we exclude the content consolidation driven by the desire to own the streaming market, e..g Disney/Fox, as "non-tech-related", we are still left with of choices:
I know some people who thought it was a great idea and they were right. Of course, they owned AOL stock at the time...