I'm pretty sure the OP meant uncompressed audio (or "HiRes" 24/96 audiophile quackery.)
My view on the respective compression efficiency: Once you're pushing 24/96 recordings, a single track is just plain big. A few kiB one way or another is a pointless distinction.
All new iPhones will have to deal bluetooth compression anyway. Maybe I am simply ignorant
You're simply ignorant;)
The (included) headphone dongle moved the DAC and amplifier outside of the phone case - but it's still there (and necessary). So you can still get uncompressed audio that way.
You can also connect the phone via USB to most DAC devices and play the raw bitstream directly. I do that in both of my cars, and have something similar for my HiFi system at home.
Which video format is both standard and royalty-free? If the answer is "none", how does it benefit the public for the answer to remain "none"?
The landscape is already littered with single-party "open standards" that never saw widespread adoption.
Which is why I watch AV1 with interest; it has many members in its consortium, and the support spans the industry from content delivery, to encoder and OS, to hardware-level support.
It has an uphill battle to fight against HEVC, having lost the race to be first to market, but it has the potential to win in the end.
I'm pretty sure TFA isn't saying the users accounts are being suspended; just that his account is blocking tweets from users sending abuse his way -- just like any other Twitter user.
I'll go out on a limb here and say that a reporter desperate for clickbait is reporting on a few people who appear to have failed their civics course in high school.
It's not a partisan issue at all - I've met a number of people like this on the street or train. They're not powerful, wealthy, or have celebrity - they're just an average Joe that has no more sway on the POTUS than the other 321 million of us; yet they are so full of themselves they think they should have the President's ear
DVD Menus aren't a terribly useful feature in my particular use case, but I'm definitely not the only use case that matters.
You can download the source code, compile your own version (with whatever you want) with Xcode, and upload it to your personal device. (You can do the same thing with Kodi, for example).
I've never bothered with a DVD backup in its native MPEG-2 Video; I always transcode to h.264 and put the disc into a box for storage.
That's been my standard way of handling DVD's for over a decade at this point... size matters less these days, but double the movies for the size still counts - especially when my kids are streaming their shows from a portable media server while on a road trip. (Both in terms of absolute storage, and bandwidth).
I disagree; while you can't embed <video> - and have the video play in a useless postage-stamp-sized video in the web browser, you can have the web browser open an external app to play the media full screen -- which is exactly what happens for YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, and VLC.
I really don't see the applicability when it's the same behavior that you see for <video> tags on any other OS/browser.
The bottom line is that HEVC (h.265) is the ISO standard, and is one of the lowest common denominator formats. I can walk into an electronics store and buy a video camera that records in HEVC. New broadcasting equipment supports HEVC.
I'm sick of Company X promoting their product as a "standard", when in reality, they control the format (and its future) completely, in spite of the format being "open".
Xiph did it with Theora; Microsoft did it with Windows Media/VC-1; the BBC did it with Dirac/VC-2; Google did VP8/VP9; Cisco is promoting NETVC. I'm done with that BS.
AV1 shows promise, but until I see third-party set top boxes (Roku, Sony, Panasonic), or standalone cameras that uses the codec directly, I don't get excited about it.
Forgive me if I'm being dense, but isn't having the web browser render the video internally (without an external program/plugin) the entire point of the video tag?
I certainly haven't seen that ability for the various browsers on Windows, MacOS, Linux. I don't see why iOS should be different.
Ongoing is another word for "not finished" as far as standardization goes.
Moreover, there are many kinds of RFC, including "informational publications" which are not part of the standards track.
RFC6386 is an informational publication, and is not on the standards track.
In contrast, the Opus codec is on the standards track, and there are several standards track RFC's for Opus - from the codec, to the bitstream, to the encapsulation in an ogg container.
So when we see VP8/9 become standards track, it might be interesting.
I suspect AV1 stands a good chance of being standardized first.
VLC has no problem st all downloading (or streaming) using SMB, FTP, Plex, and DNLA. If you want, you can even go the slow route and download them using a USB cable. I connect VLC to my MythTV box all the time, transfer files, and play them for my kids on a road trip. VLC even lets me adjust the audio synchronization to account for the delay from Bluetooth and my car's audio system.
VP9 contains patented technology (much like HEVC).
Unlike HEVC, in order to use VP9, Apple would have to grant Google free use of its patents (VP9 has a whole patent reciprocity agreement - much like the GPLv3). So if you have no patents of your own, VP9 sounds like a great deal.
That makes VP9 a non-starter for a lot of organizations, and it seems that Apple is among them.
VP9 has a big user base because it's promoted by an industry giant, but it is not an international standard, but a format controlled by a corporate entity. The exact same thing could be said of Windows Media a decade ago.
Apple's long tendency is to stick with ISO formats, and I'm not going to complain. I'm tired of proprietary and single-company defined "standards" like VP9.
As for AV1... well... among other things, it's not finished: AV1's bitstream isn't even frozen yet (and isn't expected to be until later 2017).
So until AV1 is finished, and has zero patent problems for Apple (money ain't a problem; mandatory cross-licensing is), I doubt we'll see much from Apple.
Once its founders left, SGI's technical choices became downright backward ~20 years ago. nVidia, Keyhole (Google Maps), and others litter the landscape of great technology SGI could have sold, but its backwards leadership told the engineers who developed the technology to go fork themselves -- and they did.
By all accounts, the DNC, and the Democratic sitting President were very willing to let the FBI investigate, and it was widely published that the FBI did get access to the servers. (Which are not the same thing as the Clinton's private server, which is I think where your confusion lies).
The dose of reality is that the FBI does not release evidence in any open investigation - or to closed investigations they didn't prosecute.
The FBI loves to collect evidence of all kinds -- even if it's not used. When dealing with organized crime, or foreign interference, non-actionable evidence can still be quite useful for other investigations, even if it is years down the road.
But the facts we know:
* There has been no evidence that's been published. * At this point, we have are some anonymous tips - which doesn't make the accusation true or false. * We also have well-published behavior in the white house that smacks to seasoned reporters as "doth protest too much, methinks".
Reporters are naturally cynical, and rightfully so - the best known method to know a politician is lying is if his lips are moving. Given the choice between believing a source (that the reporter knows, though we do not), versus a politician making a scene far larger than is typical... the press isn't going to favor the politician.
* Tobacco is a healthy activity everybody can enjoy * Tobacco is not addictive at all, how dare you suggest it is? * OK, maybe Tobacco is addictive, but it's not harmful * OK, maybe Tobacco is harmful, but it's not hurting others * So we were caught adding additional nicotine to make it as addictive as possible -- how does that make us the bad guys? We haven't done anything wrong
* tetraethyl lead (leaded gasoline) is not harmful, and it makes our cars run great * Maybe the safety standards were not ideal at the factory, but leaded gas really poses no danger to anyone else * Just because we detect significant amounts of lead in children's bloodstream does not mean we're at fault - kids must be eating paint chips! * What do you mean lead paint was banned, and levels of lead in the blood are still rising? That mountain of research over several decades means NOTHING! We're the victim here! Why should everybody suffer poor automotive performance? * Just because you got one car - which you've spent trillions of dollars to create - run great without tetraethyl lead does not mean banning it is a solution!
At the end of the day, there are always going to be a lot of folks that will try to discredit any sort of new knowledge, especially if it makes their interests look bad.
It's the shit-for-brains managrrs who wouldn't let the engineers put in redundant power supplies
WHY are you assuming that the data center even uses power supplies. Most of the better datacenters I've worked with are all 12VDC -- the racks & nodes have no power supplies at all.
The power supply for a data center rack lasts 5-10 seconds. It's good for accidental cord bumps, but that's about it.
And that is making the huge assumption the nodes actually have power supplies - many data centers are straight DC power these days, which means they don't need a power supply.
Generally there's one large UPS to power the entire data center (or building). I'm used to seeing several circuit panels filled with large breakers that are all after power has flowed from the UPS.
The machines themselves are typically plugged into normal power sockets -- the power is already conditioned by the UPS. There might be a PDU to convert from 240V 3-phase down to 120V single phase; but they are little more than wire and switches (usually manual).
Alternatively, the UPS puts straight 12VDC to every rack, with no PDU, and no PSU.
So yeah, a guy that didn't know what he was doing could easily shut down the breaker for the whole datacenter, panicked, switched power back on, and boom.
Because some yahoos think that there is an analog outside of computers: Many believe a court can compel you to hand over the keys (or combination) to a safe.
That's not strictly true.
What a court can do is take possession of the safe, and then hire somebody to open it for them. Competent locksmiths are generally able to defeat a keyed lock in minutes, and many of the better locksmiths can open a combination safe in a few hours. Worst case, there's always the direct approach: drills, grinders, pry bars, and time.
Cracking a phone isn't as straightforward as a safe.
Prosecutors don't like that they can't force their way into a person's phone the way they could with a safe or file cabinet, and in our adversarial legal system, they're incompetent if they don't try to compel a password disclosure. (It's supposed to be the defense that objects, and the Judge is supposed to decide who gets their way -- the problem being that the precedent hasn't reached the Supreme Court, so judges currently have a lot of leeway to do as they like.)
Voting for a particular candidate has never meant an endorsement of everything they say...
Even if it were, there were more ballots cast for Hillary than Trump; it's definitely not the first time the electoral college voted differently than the popular vote and it won't be the last.
A very simple google search shows that percentage of Americans who feel American is a great country ranges from 60-80% as of 2017. There's no standard by which it doesn't qualify as "most".
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I'm pretty sure the OP meant uncompressed audio (or "HiRes" 24/96 audiophile quackery.)
My view on the respective compression efficiency: Once you're pushing 24/96 recordings, a single track is just plain big. A few kiB one way or another is a pointless distinction.
All new iPhones will have to deal bluetooth compression anyway. Maybe I am simply ignorant
You're simply ignorant ;)
The (included) headphone dongle moved the DAC and amplifier outside of the phone case - but it's still there (and necessary). So you can still get uncompressed audio that way.
You can also connect the phone via USB to most DAC devices and play the raw bitstream directly. I do that in both of my cars, and have something similar for my HiFi system at home.
Which video format is both standard and royalty-free? If the answer is "none", how does it benefit the public for the answer to remain "none"?
The landscape is already littered with single-party "open standards" that never saw widespread adoption.
Which is why I watch AV1 with interest; it has many members in its consortium, and the support spans the industry from content delivery, to encoder and OS, to hardware-level support.
It has an uphill battle to fight against HEVC, having lost the race to be first to market, but it has the potential to win in the end.
I'm pretty sure TFA isn't saying the users accounts are being suspended; just that his account is blocking tweets from users sending abuse his way -- just like any other Twitter user.
I'll go out on a limb here and say that a reporter desperate for clickbait is reporting on a few people who appear to have failed their civics course in high school.
It's not a partisan issue at all - I've met a number of people like this on the street or train. They're not powerful, wealthy, or have celebrity - they're just an average Joe that has no more sway on the POTUS than the other 321 million of us; yet they are so full of themselves they think they should have the President's ear
DVD Menus aren't a terribly useful feature in my particular use case, but I'm definitely not the only use case that matters.
You can download the source code, compile your own version (with whatever you want) with Xcode, and upload it to your personal device. (You can do the same thing with Kodi, for example).
I've never bothered with a DVD backup in its native MPEG-2 Video; I always transcode to h.264 and put the disc into a box for storage.
That's been my standard way of handling DVD's for over a decade at this point... size matters less these days, but double the movies for the size still counts - especially when my kids are streaming their shows from a portable media server while on a road trip. (Both in terms of absolute storage, and bandwidth).
I disagree; while you can't embed <video> - and have the video play in a useless postage-stamp-sized video in the web browser, you can have the web browser open an external app to play the media full screen -- which is exactly what happens for YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, and VLC.
I really don't see the applicability when it's the same behavior that you see for <video> tags on any other OS/browser.
The bottom line is that HEVC (h.265) is the ISO standard, and is one of the lowest common denominator formats. I can walk into an electronics store and buy a video camera that records in HEVC. New broadcasting equipment supports HEVC.
I'm sick of Company X promoting their product as a "standard", when in reality, they control the format (and its future) completely, in spite of the format being "open".
Xiph did it with Theora; Microsoft did it with Windows Media/VC-1; the BBC did it with Dirac/VC-2; Google did VP8/VP9; Cisco is promoting NETVC. I'm done with that BS.
AV1 shows promise, but until I see third-party set top boxes (Roku, Sony, Panasonic), or standalone cameras that uses the codec directly, I don't get excited about it.
Forgive me if I'm being dense, but isn't having the web browser render the video internally (without an external program/plugin) the entire point of the video tag?
I certainly haven't seen that ability for the various browsers on Windows, MacOS, Linux. I don't see why iOS should be different.
Ongoing is another word for "not finished" as far as standardization goes.
Moreover, there are many kinds of RFC, including "informational publications" which are not part of the standards track.
RFC6386 is an informational publication, and is not on the standards track.
In contrast, the Opus codec is on the standards track, and there are several standards track RFC's for Opus - from the codec, to the bitstream, to the encapsulation in an ogg container.
So when we see VP8/9 become standards track, it might be interesting.
I suspect AV1 stands a good chance of being standardized first.
Are you serious?
VLC has no problem st all downloading (or streaming) using SMB, FTP, Plex, and DNLA. If you want, you can even go the slow route and download them using a USB cable. I connect VLC to my MythTV box all the time, transfer files, and play them for my kids on a road trip. VLC even lets me adjust the audio synchronization to account for the delay from Bluetooth and my car's audio system.
It's a total non-issue.
h.265 is HEVC... x265 is just an open-source implementation of h.265...
Because VLC on iOS isn't a thing?
And why did JPEG2000 support never took off?
JPEG2000's failing is that while it was "better", it wasn't enough of an improvement to be worth the effort to migrate.
Roughly the same thing happened with WebP - Google's equivalent of HEIF, based on VP8.
WebP doens't have any patent issues (unlike HEIF/JPEG2000), yet seven years later, we still don't see websites adopting it.
VP9 contains patented technology (much like HEVC).
Unlike HEVC, in order to use VP9, Apple would have to grant Google free use of its patents (VP9 has a whole patent reciprocity agreement - much like the GPLv3). So if you have no patents of your own, VP9 sounds like a great deal.
That makes VP9 a non-starter for a lot of organizations, and it seems that Apple is among them.
VP9 has a big user base because it's promoted by an industry giant, but it is not an international standard, but a format controlled by a corporate entity. The exact same thing could be said of Windows Media a decade ago.
Apple's long tendency is to stick with ISO formats, and I'm not going to complain. I'm tired of proprietary and single-company defined "standards" like VP9.
As for AV1... well... among other things, it's not finished: AV1's bitstream isn't even frozen yet (and isn't expected to be until later 2017).
So until AV1 is finished, and has zero patent problems for Apple (money ain't a problem; mandatory cross-licensing is), I doubt we'll see much from Apple.
hardware designers at Silicon Graphics
Once its founders left, SGI's technical choices became downright backward ~20 years ago. nVidia, Keyhole (Google Maps), and others litter the landscape of great technology SGI could have sold, but its backwards leadership told the engineers who developed the technology to go fork themselves -- and they did.
By all accounts, the DNC, and the Democratic sitting President were very willing to let the FBI investigate, and it was widely published that the FBI did get access to the servers. (Which are not the same thing as the Clinton's private server, which is I think where your confusion lies).
The dose of reality is that the FBI does not release evidence in any open investigation - or to closed investigations they didn't prosecute.
The FBI loves to collect evidence of all kinds -- even if it's not used. When dealing with organized crime, or foreign interference, non-actionable evidence can still be quite useful for other investigations, even if it is years down the road.
But the facts we know:
* There has been no evidence that's been published.
* At this point, we have are some anonymous tips - which doesn't make the accusation true or false.
* We also have well-published behavior in the white house that smacks to seasoned reporters as "doth protest too much, methinks".
Reporters are naturally cynical, and rightfully so - the best known method to know a politician is lying is if his lips are moving. Given the choice between believing a source (that the reporter knows, though we do not), versus a politician making a scene far larger than is typical... the press isn't going to favor the politician.
Let's not forget the oldies but goodies:
* Tobacco is a healthy activity everybody can enjoy
* Tobacco is not addictive at all, how dare you suggest it is?
* OK, maybe Tobacco is addictive, but it's not harmful
* OK, maybe Tobacco is harmful, but it's not hurting others
* So we were caught adding additional nicotine to make it as addictive as possible -- how does that make us the bad guys? We haven't done anything wrong
* tetraethyl lead (leaded gasoline) is not harmful, and it makes our cars run great
* Maybe the safety standards were not ideal at the factory, but leaded gas really poses no danger to anyone else
* Just because we detect significant amounts of lead in children's bloodstream does not mean we're at fault - kids must be eating paint chips!
* What do you mean lead paint was banned, and levels of lead in the blood are still rising? That mountain of research over several decades means NOTHING! We're the victim here! Why should everybody suffer poor automotive performance?
* Just because you got one car - which you've spent trillions of dollars to create - run great without tetraethyl lead does not mean banning it is a solution!
At the end of the day, there are always going to be a lot of folks that will try to discredit any sort of new knowledge, especially if it makes their interests look bad.
It's the shit-for-brains managrrs who wouldn't let the engineers put in redundant power supplies
WHY are you assuming that the data center even uses power supplies. Most of the better datacenters I've worked with are all 12VDC -- the racks & nodes have no power supplies at all.
The power supply for a data center rack lasts 5-10 seconds. It's good for accidental cord bumps, but that's about it.
And that is making the huge assumption the nodes actually have power supplies - many data centers are straight DC power these days, which means they don't need a power supply.
Generally there's one large UPS to power the entire data center (or building). I'm used to seeing several circuit panels filled with large breakers that are all after power has flowed from the UPS.
The machines themselves are typically plugged into normal power sockets -- the power is already conditioned by the UPS. There might be a PDU to convert from 240V 3-phase down to 120V single phase; but they are little more than wire and switches (usually manual).
Alternatively, the UPS puts straight 12VDC to every rack, with no PDU, and no PSU.
So yeah, a guy that didn't know what he was doing could easily shut down the breaker for the whole datacenter, panicked, switched power back on, and boom.
Because some yahoos think that there is an analog outside of computers: Many believe a court can compel you to hand over the keys (or combination) to a safe.
That's not strictly true.
What a court can do is take possession of the safe, and then hire somebody to open it for them. Competent locksmiths are generally able to defeat a keyed lock in minutes, and many of the better locksmiths can open a combination safe in a few hours. Worst case, there's always the direct approach: drills, grinders, pry bars, and time.
Cracking a phone isn't as straightforward as a safe.
Prosecutors don't like that they can't force their way into a person's phone the way they could with a safe or file cabinet, and in our adversarial legal system, they're incompetent if they don't try to compel a password disclosure. (It's supposed to be the defense that objects, and the Judge is supposed to decide who gets their way -- the problem being that the precedent hasn't reached the Supreme Court, so judges currently have a lot of leeway to do as they like.)
Voting for a particular candidate has never meant an endorsement of everything they say...
Even if it were, there were more ballots cast for Hillary than Trump; it's definitely not the first time the electoral college voted differently than the popular vote and it won't be the last.
A very simple google search shows that percentage of Americans who feel American is a great country ranges from 60-80% as of 2017. There's no standard by which it doesn't qualify as "most".
?!? That is a false equivalence if there ever was one.
There's a world of difference between saying "America has problems" an "America isn't a great country anymore"
There will always be problems; that doesn't mean America isn't a great country.
The problem with MAGA is that it implies that America stopped being great -- which isn't something most Americans believe.
The parent to your original comment, however did use "cores" as a metric.
I agree with you - entirely different designs from 2013 is no way to gauge the state of the art.
It seemed most logical to add it after your comment pointing out the age of the chips in the list.
Sorry for any confusion.
Or users who do FRAPS, a video encode, play a game, and streaming it all to twitch...
Apparently, you're not an "enthusiast" anymore if you're just playing the game.
But selling 18-core CPU to enthusiasts is just insane. Those people who will buy it are not "enthusiasts". They're just rich idiots.
There are enthusiasts which have setups with four and six screens, and run multiple instances of a multi-core game simultaneously.
Eve Online comes to mind, where it's pretty normal to run two (or more) accounts simultaneously. They even have multi-account subscription specials.