Yeah, but if you're streaming something wouldn't it be better just to have like a big buffer? If your connection dies, you keep grabbing data out of the buffer, and in the meantime, the connection is re-established on a working network. You could easily store 5 minutes of audio in memory incase your connection drops.
Phone calls with a five minute lag can be fun, but are not what most people want.
In any case I don't think the accidental payment issue is a major one. There have been incidents of it happening but only because the payment machines have had too much range. Once the banks get on top of that an make sure the machines only work up to about 10mm it will be fine.
That won't do - a malicious scanner will not abide by the standards. It's the device's
job to enforce distance limits. And I don't see that working without a proximity sensor:
A better antenna on the scanner improves both sending and receiving range.
Unfortunately, with mandatory proximity sensing, the usecase of "keep device in the
bag and just wave past the scanner" is out. Passive devices are out too (make sure
to wrap your "proximity pay"-enabled cards in metal).
So maybe that's the use case for a pay watch. I wouldn't bet on it though.
How can he physically produce the "Baa" sound when his bottom lip is tucked behind his teeth?
He can't...
Isn't the "Baa" sound impossible to make without the lips pressing together? Isn't the "Faa" sound impossible to make without blowing on the lip-teeth connection with the top and bottom lips separate?
...that's why it's the same sound dubbed over different videos.
Oh, one more aside, many tuning systems do not even allow for notes of that different in tone to even be played (such as a piano, harp, trumpet, clarinet, flute, sax, etc., etc.,).
That's mostly untrue for wind instruments. I can modulate a note on the
trumpet more than a halftone up and down easily. There's - mostly modern - music
for winds that notates quarter tones, and it's played with standard instruments.
Flutes seem to be especially easy to modulate, but I know many people capable of
doing this, playing all kinds of winds.
Very well known example: The opening of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue...
After googling for the McGurk Effect and watching a bunch of videos I have concluded that I can't really sense this effect at all. I'll take their word that most people can.
Doesn't work for me either, not even a bit. "Ba" all the way.
I have made an observation that is semi-related to this though:
Watching a subtitled movie where the spoken language is totally opaque
to me, fast-paced dialogue can be tricky to follow. In this case, turning the sound up helps me read the subtitles.
So no, unless your car is in the minority with the ability to brake automatically to maintain an upper threshold on cruise control speed, then you don't have a speed limiter. You have cruise control. And I sincerely hope you're aware of that fact.
He is, that's why his list is so specific. The cruise control functionality in the cars on his
list does indeed include a "speed limiter" mode, with a user-selectable top speed.
It is quite useful.
It is also true that few owners of cars with that capability are aware of that mode.
You might even be one of them, check the manual.
However, only some of those systems use the brakes to stay under this set limit on slopes.
Those that do are usually in the higher-end of the market - Mercedes e.g. has a fully
automatic assistant that respects a user-set top speed while also keeping a safe distance
from the car in front, up to stopping completely. With this assistant, the only thing not
yet automated is the steering, even in stop-and-go traffic.
There's a very high probability that there exists no such proposal.
"EU proposes/legislates/forces $obviously_stupid_thing" is a
very popular headline in UK newspapers, and in the vast majority
of cases it's based on an at least highly misleading reading of some
rule, or even an entirely made up one.
The fact that I haven't been able to find any mention of this proposal in the
press of multiple other EU countries (in their respective native language),
and that there is absolutely no source for the claim in either TFA or any
of the other British articles I found, makes me believe that this one falls into
the "made up" category.
The only person quoted is the UK's conservative transport
secretary, most likely just reacting to a question by the press.
Additionally, she had made a last minute change to the color scheme of the recently revamped Yahoo Mail which necessitated significant man hours at the 11th hour to implement and was detrimental to team morale and cohesion that had been painstakingly developed since her arrival.
If changes to a color scheme of... well... anything on the web require "significant man hours"
to implement there's something very very wrong with the development process of the web thing
being color schemed.
How do you forget to clip on? Even after a decade working in the job how could you possibly forget? It's like forgetting to wait for the cross signal and just walking out into traffic.
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Federal Reserve Notes haven't been issued since 1971, the year Bernanke turned 18.
So no.
You can activate "play and exit" in the playlist settings, which does exactly what you want.
Alternatively, putting "vlc://quit" as the last item in a playlist will also quit VLC after it is done playing.
I don't know why VLC developers hate frame-by-frame.
They don't.
If I want to read something on a piece of paper in a video let's say, I can't just advance one frame at a time.
You can. Try pressing "E"...
Recent Russian Nobel prize winners in physics:
Andre Geim, 2010
University of Manchester
Konstantin Novoselov, 2010
University of Manchester
Alexei A. Abrikosov, 2003
Argonne National Laboratory
Vitaly Ginzburg, 2003
P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute
(OK, this one you can keep. He's dead though...)
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, 2000
Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg
Two out of five.
None out of three for "still working in their field" though (Alferov is 83 and a politician).
I'm not even saying that you don't have a point. But you haven't made it so far.
For leap seconds I just let NNTP correct it, so it has never been an issue in the first place.
Impressive. How did you solve the problem of time dilation due to flame wars?
Yeah, but if you're streaming something wouldn't it be better just to have like a big buffer? If your connection dies, you keep grabbing data out of the buffer, and in the meantime, the connection is re-established on a working network. You could easily store 5 minutes of audio in memory incase your connection drops.
Phone calls with a five minute lag can be fun, but are not what most people want.
In any case I don't think the accidental payment issue is a major one. There have been incidents of it happening but only because the payment machines have had too much range. Once the banks get on top of that an make sure the machines only work up to about 10mm it will be fine.
That won't do - a malicious scanner will not abide by the standards. It's the device's
job to enforce distance limits. And I don't see that working without a proximity sensor:
A better antenna on the scanner improves both sending and receiving range.
Unfortunately, with mandatory proximity sensing, the usecase of "keep device in the
bag and just wave past the scanner" is out. Passive devices are out too (make sure
to wrap your "proximity pay"-enabled cards in metal).
So maybe that's the use case for a pay watch. I wouldn't bet on it though.
What's a news item like this without video?
Here is one: L0 going 500 km/h
(views from inside the train earlier in the video)
How can he physically produce the "Baa" sound when his bottom lip is tucked behind his teeth?
He can't...
Isn't the "Baa" sound impossible to make without the lips pressing together? Isn't the "Faa" sound impossible to make without blowing on the lip-teeth connection with the top and bottom lips separate?
Oh, one more aside, many tuning systems do not even allow for notes of that different in tone to even be played (such as a piano, harp, trumpet, clarinet, flute, sax, etc., etc.,).
That's mostly untrue for wind instruments. I can modulate a note on the
trumpet more than a halftone up and down easily. There's - mostly modern - music
for winds that notates quarter tones, and it's played with standard instruments.
Flutes seem to be especially easy to modulate, but I know many people capable of
doing this, playing all kinds of winds.
Very well known example: The opening of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue...
After googling for the McGurk Effect and watching a bunch of videos I have concluded that I can't really sense this effect at all. I'll take their word that most people can.
Doesn't work for me either, not even a bit. "Ba" all the way.
I have made an observation that is semi-related to this though:
Watching a subtitled movie where the spoken language is totally opaque
to me, fast-paced dialogue can be tricky to follow. In this case, turning the
sound up helps me read the subtitles.
Brains are really weird.
Elon Musk hasn't had anything to do with PayPal for over a decade.
So no, unless your car is in the minority with the ability to brake automatically to maintain an upper threshold on cruise control speed, then you don't have a speed limiter. You have cruise control. And I sincerely hope you're aware of that fact.
He is, that's why his list is so specific. The cruise control functionality in the cars on his
list does indeed include a "speed limiter" mode, with a user-selectable top speed.
It is quite useful.
It is also true that few owners of cars with that capability are aware of that mode.
You might even be one of them, check the manual.
However, only some of those systems use the brakes to stay under this set limit on slopes.
Those that do are usually in the higher-end of the market - Mercedes e.g. has a fully
automatic assistant that respects a user-set top speed while also keeping a safe distance
from the car in front, up to stopping completely. With this assistant, the only thing not
yet automated is the steering, even in stop-and-go traffic.
There's a very high probability that there exists no such proposal.
"EU proposes/legislates/forces $obviously_stupid_thing" is a
very popular headline in UK newspapers, and in the vast majority
of cases it's based on an at least highly misleading reading of some
rule, or even an entirely made up one.
The fact that I haven't been able to find any mention of this proposal in the
press of multiple other EU countries (in their respective native language),
and that there is absolutely no source for the claim in either TFA or any
of the other British articles I found, makes me believe that this one falls into
the "made up" category.
The only person quoted is the UK's conservative transport
secretary, most likely just reacting to a question by the press.
Welcome to Silly Season.
Well... Virtual Eye "...provides real-time 3D graphics of Cricket, Golf, Formula 1 and Sailing for broadcasters"
While this is neat and takes lots of sensors as well, they create 100% CGI views by virtual cameras.
This article however is about real-time augmented reality overlays on live video
shot from boats and helicopters. That's a lot more impressive.
Good thing we're not talking about Apple here then...
Additionally, she had made a last minute change to the color scheme of the recently revamped Yahoo Mail which necessitated significant man hours at the 11th hour to implement and was detrimental to team morale and cohesion that had been painstakingly developed since her arrival.
If changes to a color scheme of... well... anything on the web require "significant man hours"
to implement there's something very very wrong with the development process of the web thing
being color schemed.
We have machines that can sort trash on a conveyor belt with air jets at amazing speeds.
But everything on this conveyor belt is already classified as trash.
Would you trust a computer to make the "trash vs. non-trash decision" while
cleaning your living room? Your desk? Your garage?
And the photograph of this great, revolutionary globe
depicting the New World is centered on... Europe.
Great job, National Post, fantastic reporting, that's what we
need good journalists for.
(Second link has a better picture)
How do you forget to clip on? Even after a decade working in the job how could you possibly forget? It's like forgetting to wait for the cross signal and just walking out into traffic.
Apparently, it is accepted not to clip on at all.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
It's more a guideline than a law - exceptions exist, but are rare.
I would say that the law applies in 90% of the cases.
So it's a special case of Sturgeon's law? Neat.
There is certainly not an excess of capacity in Germany - they import most of their electricity.
No they don't.
The problem for Germany is that they import 2/3 of their electricity
Of their energy, yes. Of their electricity, no.
In fact, Germany is a net electricity exporter.
Last year, the surplus was 22,8 TWh(German)
Except that year != month. You should at least read the whole summary.
Damn: petrol products, not police farts.
Read it twice before submitting and it still got through. Gnah.