The marketing which claimed that VP8 was better than x264 used a two year old build of x264, and optimized VP8 for PSNR, while x264 was not optimized for that. Also, note that even in the mobile calender test, x264 was still ahead.
Both H.264 and VP8 use the pretty much the same exact approximation of DCT. They should be identically good at reproducing each others errors. The better performance in the mobile calender test is probably more representative of either a coincidence or the fact that the encoder has especially been optimized for certain standard test sequences.
Also, I'm glad that the people doing this comparison tested for SSIM rather than PNSR. It's a metric which, while not perfect, has a much better correlation with "looks good" than psnr.
I have a rooted G1 and use Cyanogenmod: it provides several enhancements, such as root, which allows for Wifi/bluetooth based tethering. It is also somewhat more responsive and quicker than the official firmware. It does have less battery life, and can be less stable then the official version however.
While it is true that Android is open source, Android without many of the base apps such as Gmail/Google maps is not particularly useful. Still though, this won't prevent me, and other users from using this mod. And since I paid for the phone, and by extension, the applications that came with the phone, I should be able to transfer them to a new operating system on the same phone.
No, this isn't magic. Plastics are made from hydrocarbons which are drilled for. This is merely an innovative method of recycling, and while it saves fuel, the volumes won't be high enough to be a real energy solution in the end.
And in other news, a new law was finally passed making it legal to beat fraudsters to death with copies of their SEC filings.
RTFA:
This company has already built a facility, and has already landed a contract for the fuel. They are using a well known technology, just with a slightly different take (IR instead of chemical catalysts).
This doesn't exactly look like vaporware to me.
This isn't exactly something new, pyrolysis is a perfectly viable way of generating fuel. If you heat plastic enough - it decomposes into base hydrocarbons.
I was a freshman intern at a very small engineering company this past summer, 4000+ per month for a full time (40 hours/wk) intern is the norm. I'm also electrical engineering rather than CS, which pays more.
I'd recommend asking your boss for a raise.
An average of salaries should show a slightly higher mean wage for women since as a higher percentage of the population they have a slightly higher probability of being in very high paying positions.
Think about this for a second.
Second issue is this - women are generally considered the primary caretakers of children, and at the same time, are more likely to take time off, or prefer to work less hours. This is probably a good reason why they make less.
One major issue with RoboCars is that any effective implementation of them will require substantial changes to our current infrastructure. GPS based navigation is helpful - but - RFID markers on roads is much more effective.
Cars can locate other cars, as shown in the Grand Challenge, using LIDAR, but this is very, very expensive and sometimes unreliable. (The DARPA 08' cars used 70,000 dollar LIDAR systems, and i'm not too sure how long one would last)
To effectively know the location of other cars, all cars would need a transponder, echoing its location and other data (speed, intentions, plans to change lane, etc)
I'm not quite sure how long it will be before we can implement these systems. To get autonomous cars cheap, and in a reasonable amount of time, we'd have to start mandating transponders right about now.
Verification of the producer is essential here - and this is perhaps the moment where outsourcing will bite us in the ass.
While you can only buy american made cisco routers, there is no doubt some chipsets made in it are manafactured overseas.
Nope - in my initial email, I asked them if the key was encrypted by the password - and also what algorithm was used to generate the key.
The key isn't encrypted - it's stored in a special section of the harddrive, and the chip only allows access to that section if the correct password is given.
This is better then Hitachi's BDE technology then - they store the key on the harddrive itself, where it can be theoretically recovered.
Hello proudfoot
I will try to answer this to the best of my knowledge on the Bulk Data
Encryption drives.
The drive uses the password as a key to open the drive to the user of the
password. The drive is always encrypted, the password simply is the final
key to allow access to the drive. If the password is changed then that key
will follow the new password. If there is no password the drives believes
the password is still there, but it is enter automatically.
The encryption key is set when the drive has a password set for the first
time. The key can be changed by a HDDErase (version 3.2)
(http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml) This will change the
encryption key when the program is run. There is no physical way to access
the encryption key and view it to find out what the sequence is. I am
unable to provide you with the algorithm of the encryption. The encryption
is set to 128-bit encryption.
We have sent our hard drives with bulk data encryption to Data recovery
companies with a password we set on it and did not provide it to them. They
all tried an none of them were able to retrieve the information off the
drive.
The next version of Kubuntu/Ubuntu would have been an LTS, which means that it would be aimed at those who expected a long life out of an operating system, such as enterprise users.
KDE 4.0, in its current, and rather buggy state, does not fit the bill.
While it's debatable whether this challenge has much of a legal chance - from what the lawyer the lawyer types I've spoken to told me, it's not much of a challenge - the simple fact that this defense sets a rather important precedent - that schools shouldn't bend over without fighting it out first.
People have been talking about the smellovision for years. Well I now propose the sensavision. This will be used to inject drugs into people while they're watching depending on what the viewer wants to evoke in a scene. Want the audience to feel sad? In goes some depressants. Want them to feel the adrenaline the protagonist feels in a car chase? In goes an injection of adrenaline. It will also be used for Olympic events to duplicate the drugs the Chinese swimmers are taking as well.
Now in a death scene...
This is definitely something scary. Many employers might require you to hand over your prints to the FBI - but at the same time, you don't exactly want government to have everything on you if haven't committed a crime.
Wasn't their a bill which was designed to prohibit enforceable gathering of biometric data by employers?
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The marketing which claimed that VP8 was better than x264 used a two year old build of x264, and optimized VP8 for PSNR, while x264 was not optimized for that. Also, note that even in the mobile calender test, x264 was still ahead.
Both H.264 and VP8 use the pretty much the same exact approximation of DCT. They should be identically good at reproducing each others errors. The better performance in the mobile calender test is probably more representative of either a coincidence or the fact that the encoder has especially been optimized for certain standard test sequences. Also, I'm glad that the people doing this comparison tested for SSIM rather than PNSR. It's a metric which, while not perfect, has a much better correlation with "looks good" than psnr.
I have a rooted G1 and use Cyanogenmod: it provides several enhancements, such as root, which allows for Wifi/bluetooth based tethering. It is also somewhat more responsive and quicker than the official firmware. It does have less battery life, and can be less stable then the official version however. While it is true that Android is open source, Android without many of the base apps such as Gmail/Google maps is not particularly useful. Still though, this won't prevent me, and other users from using this mod. And since I paid for the phone, and by extension, the applications that came with the phone, I should be able to transfer them to a new operating system on the same phone.
No, this isn't magic. Plastics are made from hydrocarbons which are drilled for. This is merely an innovative method of recycling, and while it saves fuel, the volumes won't be high enough to be a real energy solution in the end.
And in other news, a new law was finally passed making it legal to beat fraudsters to death with copies of their SEC filings.
RTFA: This company has already built a facility, and has already landed a contract for the fuel. They are using a well known technology, just with a slightly different take (IR instead of chemical catalysts). This doesn't exactly look like vaporware to me.
This isn't exactly something new, pyrolysis is a perfectly viable way of generating fuel. If you heat plastic enough - it decomposes into base hydrocarbons.
I was a freshman intern at a very small engineering company this past summer, 4000+ per month for a full time (40 hours/wk) intern is the norm. I'm also electrical engineering rather than CS, which pays more. I'd recommend asking your boss for a raise.
Isn't it kind of easy to shoot down blimps? Can't anything a blimp does be better done with a satellite or a loitering drone?
There's more than just GPS.
Here's a listing of all current/proposed global systems. Regional only systems such as IRNSS or Beidou1 are not listed.
GPS - United States - Fully Operation
Galileo - EU/China/Israel/South Korea/Norway/Etc - 2013
Beidou2/Compass - China - 2012?
GLONASS/ - Russia/India - Complete in 2010
You really don't know what a mean is do you?
An average of salaries should show a slightly higher mean wage for women since as a higher percentage of the population they have a slightly higher probability of being in very high paying positions.
Think about this for a second. Second issue is this - women are generally considered the primary caretakers of children, and at the same time, are more likely to take time off, or prefer to work less hours. This is probably a good reason why they make less.
One major issue with RoboCars is that any effective implementation of them will require substantial changes to our current infrastructure. GPS based navigation is helpful - but - RFID markers on roads is much more effective. Cars can locate other cars, as shown in the Grand Challenge, using LIDAR, but this is very, very expensive and sometimes unreliable. (The DARPA 08' cars used 70,000 dollar LIDAR systems, and i'm not too sure how long one would last) To effectively know the location of other cars, all cars would need a transponder, echoing its location and other data (speed, intentions, plans to change lane, etc) I'm not quite sure how long it will be before we can implement these systems. To get autonomous cars cheap, and in a reasonable amount of time, we'd have to start mandating transponders right about now.
Verification of the producer is essential here - and this is perhaps the moment where outsourcing will bite us in the ass. While you can only buy american made cisco routers, there is no doubt some chipsets made in it are manafactured overseas.
It doesn't work like that. It works similar to 7-zip - the crytographic key is generated from the provided password. It is regenerated at startup.
Nope - in my initial email, I asked them if the key was encrypted by the password - and also what algorithm was used to generate the key. The key isn't encrypted - it's stored in a special section of the harddrive, and the chip only allows access to that section if the correct password is given.
I will try to answer this to the best of my knowledge on the Bulk Data Encryption drives.
The drive uses the password as a key to open the drive to the user of the password. The drive is always encrypted, the password simply is the final key to allow access to the drive. If the password is changed then that key will follow the new password. If there is no password the drives believes the password is still there, but it is enter automatically.
The encryption key is set when the drive has a password set for the first time. The key can be changed by a HDDErase (version 3.2) (http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml) This will change the encryption key when the program is run. There is no physical way to access the encryption key and view it to find out what the sequence is. I am unable to provide you with the algorithm of the encryption. The encryption is set to 128-bit encryption.
We have sent our hard drives with bulk data encryption to Data recovery companies with a password we set on it and did not provide it to them. They all tried an none of them were able to retrieve the information off the drive.
You can visit: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/bulk_faqs.htm if you have anymore questions.
Regards,
Kyle B.
I hear it's been rescheduled for 2009 now.
Isn't wikipedia designed to cover the things that a normal encyclopedia may be unable to cover?
The next version of Kubuntu/Ubuntu would have been an LTS, which means that it would be aimed at those who expected a long life out of an operating system, such as enterprise users.
KDE 4.0, in its current, and rather buggy state, does not fit the bill.
While it's debatable whether this challenge has much of a legal chance - from what the lawyer the lawyer types I've spoken to told me, it's not much of a challenge - the simple fact that this defense sets a rather important precedent - that schools shouldn't bend over without fighting it out first.
http://xkcd.com/277/
Oh really. Tell me, what do you know about traffic?
Now in a death scene...
640k is enough for anyone.
You can build an effective autopilot without the need to simulate neurons.
Most schools with legal departments seem to have simply backed down. The RIAA still gets much of their purpose accomplished.
This is definitely something scary. Many employers might require you to hand over your prints to the FBI - but at the same time, you don't exactly want government to have everything on you if haven't committed a crime. Wasn't their a bill which was designed to prohibit enforceable gathering of biometric data by employers?