they dont.
720p rips run on a pentium m 1.3ghz with coreavc. it depends on your decoder.
and things mostly tend to go wrong if a bad/inefficient h264 decoder is being used.
on modern pcs, even the lowest mainstream desktop processor today is able to do 1080p easily. so its not an issue anymore
seriously, what next? any application that does more than one thing can be said to be bundling and anticompetitive? is wordpad, ms paint, and and ms calculator anti competitive? mac widgets and much of the software that comes with mac is anticompetitive? including things like cd players in cars instead of letting consumers add their own later is anti competitive? this is ridiculous. unless microsoft prevents you from installing a replacement then giving the consumer bundled features is not something you should fine a company for, it is patently absurd. it shows a fundamental lack of understanding of tech, and is frankly patronizing attitude to users. you might as well claim that bundling a gui is anti competitive if you want to get silly about this.
bingo, mkv is the defacto standard for webrip videos.
it has filled a gap quickly for hd rips.
it is not like the previous situation where no codecs were easily available for mpeg4 rips. people had to rely on hacked ms codecs for a while which was not good, and divx made it easier. but this time its unnecessary. devices simply need to support h264 and mkv, no divx middle man required.
some already do, like the western digital player.
its nothing like last time divx came out.
in the bad old days of mpeg4's early days people had trouble encoding videos.
there was a dearth of choices for encoding stuff, people had to rely on hacked ms codec. then the xvid alternative was still in development, and divx stepped in and filled the gap.
there is no such need this time. h264/mkv is easily done by grey market standards and support for playback is also everywhere in the community.
further more, this statement reveals this judge as a total and complete moron.
you might as well claim that because wily coyote keeps surviving falls off cliffs and being blown up by the road runner that watching cartoons causes a 17 year old not to realize that shooting your freakin mom is freakin permanent.
Judge James Burge
remember his name
for he is an idiot.
lets break out the nazis, this is the internets after all.
the nazis were fascinated by art. they went through europe on the biggest art looting expedition ever seen. hitler himself was an art lover and failed painter. so whats the correlation to draw?;) how many school shooters would it take to match 6 million dead jews? never mind the rest. when it comes to past times and violence, if you want to really look at it, this one thing skews it away from video games about as far as one can get;) hehehe
violence has no effect? they turned hl2 into tag? isn't that abstract representational violence of some kind? catching and eliminating your opponent? much in the war chess represents strategic war? i dunno, i don't think they really tested non violent game mechanics at all. if turning fps shooter games into tag doesn't turn them into something hideously boring i'm not sure whats going on with this study. you'd think fps mods would be full of "tag" mods if it were true.
like it or not, homosexuality is not skin color, it is not a benign superficial trait. it is in fact an abnormality. that being said, unlike other abnormalities like pedophilia it is relatively benign. its not entirely benign as it is fundamentally against a species to propagate itself, luckily its not contagious so theres no reason to fear it. that being said, its nothing like race at all. civil unions were enough and they should have left it at that. trying to redefine marriage which is clearly a heterosexual union was a mistake.
and don't' get into the separate isn't equal thing. it is, or else women shouldn't have separate bathrooms:P
you need a pilots license and a whole buncha radio etc certifications..so its just plane rules. james may ones listed all the requirements of the pilot/driver...its a lot of stuff.
your comparison might be stronger if the jews spent their time killing german civilians with every means possible.
but i guess you don't want to acknowledge the truth that your palestinian friends really aren't oppressed victims at all but monsters that have created their own suffering.
some context..
in the last decade...5 million dead in the congo.
yes, 5 million. 45,000 month death rate even just months ago, who knows what it is now. rape continues on an epic scale. dirty secret is our tech uses minerals from this area.
fraction of bile spewed at parties in the congo vs israel?.0000001%
32,000 dead kurdish civilians over the last decade by the turkish army while they occupy kurdish land like the iranians and iraqis.
what happens? turkey considered for EU membership.
sudan? still in a total hell hole.
and on and on...
somethings warped with the international community, their "concern" for civilians really doesn't have any substance to it.
bingo, if they pull this back they are really bending over backwards for people that really can't be helped by anyone. seriously, the efforts made have been more than reasonable, anyone who watches tv knows about this program already. even my elderly neighbors figured it out.
fundamentally it is a flawed program.
and YES you achieve prosperity by raising your children with the basics, the basics at a very HIGH standard. you don't get computer scientists when you slap laptops into childrens hands, you get computer technicians. you don't need a pc at all to learn the math and logic necessary to access higher level degrees in any science. Steve Wozniac designed his first computer on paper, yes he thought it out after reading manuals and books. he was driven by a love of electronics logic and math. the jobs of technicians are easily outsourced, that is no ones future. the basics are not basic at all, higher level math and science is what gives one access to all the rest and is far more useful to far more professions that bring a country out of poverty than trying to assume that everyone would benefit from being a mediocre code monkey.
no, what was elitist was the entire concept.
money that could have been spent on teachers, reducing classroom sizes, improved school infrastructure was being asked to be diverted into gadgets for children when it has NOT been proven that putting gadgets in the hands of children in first world countries has been a magical solution at all. far from it, every attempt to add computers into classrooms in the us has been a botched failure based on fear and ignorance. millions of wasted tax payer money funding children playing oregon trail, playing ridiculous math games and such on expensive hardware. teaching children amount "guis and mice" and how to type when such skills are easily picked up by the new generation without such classes, the fears were totally unfounded. it is not a cost effective way to spend education budgets in the first world, never mind the developing world. now basically every child has access to a computer in the western world, whether at home or the library/school lab. are all these children coding genius's because this access? lol, what actually happens when you get tech into childrens hands is that it becomes a communications toy. myspace, facebook, youtube whatever. now these things are fine, but asking for developing countries governments to fund universal access to such stuff is ridiculous.
millions of people can figure out these controls. i somehow doubt these folks are somehow smarter than the rest. many of the folks who can't handle it just really aren't interested in gaming in a way that would matter. these are folks that buy a wii and after the 15 minute novelty session toss in in the corner to collect dust. controls are complicated because it lets you do more. people spend dozens if not hundreds of hours playing a good game. its not a matter of just "jumping in", its a matter of making the controls good enough to handle such a depth of game play that will last a long time, not just enough to let the n00bs in for 15 minutes of tossing around a bit. basically he's asking to dumb things down. the creator of the wire had it right when he said that he didn't give a sh*t about casual viewers. he wrote stories with long season arks that rewarded those who stuck with the series. who wants a casual viewer? his response was correct, the question people have is wrong. why is it better to cater to people who don't give a squat or can't be bothered. perhaps its better to just ignore them and do your own thing as well as it can be done. leave them to decide whether it is worth it.
look at the past efforts.
politicians were very afraid past children would fall behind on computers. so typing classes and "how to use your apple 2" classes were created. other programs basically amounted to silly math games and oregon trail being "taught" in class.
now they want to cram a specialized skill down every childs throat? like it or not it is totally unnecessary. teaching critical thinking is more important when not going for a degree in cs. the idea that all the jobs of the future to replace our lost manufacturing jobs are in "IT" has already been proven a lie. outsourcing is hitting everything that doesn't require labor/physical presence. does a nurse really need to know computer science? not really. but its easier to get a good paying job as a nurse than it is in many tech fields at the moment.
our school/state budgets are already broken. the last thing we need is another fancy prestige program that takes away resources from the core basics of education. whats more important after all, cs or math, english, and history? if your students don't have the math foundation their ability to do cs is very very limited. already colleges have to deal with a large number of students who have to take remedial courses in these core subjects. without this foundation of knowledge/skill any cs knowledge is meaningless.
hopefully obama sees this. else we will have yet another bullsh*t computers are educational magic program wasting educational budgets all around the country. these types of proposals are always based on fantasy and unfounded fears.
bingo.
and they aren't allowed to speak out.
this nationalism is incredibly dangerous.
right now its just national pride. but if times get bad or if the leaders decide to lead the country into war, you might see this flock of blind sheep become something rather frightening and uncontrollable.
any portable solar unit that charges a small lithium ion battery or device powered by such would probably expose the battery to heat. this shortens battery life span, further reducing the greenness of the panel:P
peoople abusing lithium ion batts is why many ipods and such don't last. leaving em in cars baking etc.
anyways, it showed what good the whole "vote for obama and be loved" thing was. we had clinton. and during this love fest 20 men were training to massacre our people by flying planes into buildings.
thats what love bought us.
and the french were busy stabbing us in the back the whole time.
thats love.
remember...the words of the "world" are cheap.
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they dont. 720p rips run on a pentium m 1.3ghz with coreavc. it depends on your decoder. and things mostly tend to go wrong if a bad/inefficient h264 decoder is being used. on modern pcs, even the lowest mainstream desktop processor today is able to do 1080p easily. so its not an issue anymore
indeed, f**k the eu, boycott!
seriously, what next? any application that does more than one thing can be said to be bundling and anticompetitive? is wordpad, ms paint, and and ms calculator anti competitive? mac widgets and much of the software that comes with mac is anticompetitive? including things like cd players in cars instead of letting consumers add their own later is anti competitive? this is ridiculous. unless microsoft prevents you from installing a replacement then giving the consumer bundled features is not something you should fine a company for, it is patently absurd. it shows a fundamental lack of understanding of tech, and is frankly patronizing attitude to users. you might as well claim that bundling a gui is anti competitive if you want to get silly about this.
why more women don't enter tech.... lol:)
bingo, mkv is the defacto standard for webrip videos. it has filled a gap quickly for hd rips. it is not like the previous situation where no codecs were easily available for mpeg4 rips. people had to rely on hacked ms codecs for a while which was not good, and divx made it easier. but this time its unnecessary. devices simply need to support h264 and mkv, no divx middle man required. some already do, like the western digital player.
unless the replacement is built in the us theres really no point in sending the money over seas.
its nothing like last time divx came out. in the bad old days of mpeg4's early days people had trouble encoding videos. there was a dearth of choices for encoding stuff, people had to rely on hacked ms codec. then the xvid alternative was still in development, and divx stepped in and filled the gap. there is no such need this time. h264/mkv is easily done by grey market standards and support for playback is also everywhere in the community.
further more, this statement reveals this judge as a total and complete moron. you might as well claim that because wily coyote keeps surviving falls off cliffs and being blown up by the road runner that watching cartoons causes a 17 year old not to realize that shooting your freakin mom is freakin permanent. Judge James Burge remember his name for he is an idiot.
lets break out the nazis, this is the internets after all. the nazis were fascinated by art. they went through europe on the biggest art looting expedition ever seen. hitler himself was an art lover and failed painter. so whats the correlation to draw?;) how many school shooters would it take to match 6 million dead jews? never mind the rest. when it comes to past times and violence, if you want to really look at it, this one thing skews it away from video games about as far as one can get;) hehehe
violence has no effect? they turned hl2 into tag? isn't that abstract representational violence of some kind? catching and eliminating your opponent? much in the war chess represents strategic war? i dunno, i don't think they really tested non violent game mechanics at all. if turning fps shooter games into tag doesn't turn them into something hideously boring i'm not sure whats going on with this study. you'd think fps mods would be full of "tag" mods if it were true.
like it or not, homosexuality is not skin color, it is not a benign superficial trait. it is in fact an abnormality. that being said, unlike other abnormalities like pedophilia it is relatively benign. its not entirely benign as it is fundamentally against a species to propagate itself, luckily its not contagious so theres no reason to fear it. that being said, its nothing like race at all. civil unions were enough and they should have left it at that. trying to redefine marriage which is clearly a heterosexual union was a mistake. and don't' get into the separate isn't equal thing. it is, or else women shouldn't have separate bathrooms:P
even bush wasn't stupid enough to censor the internet. the uk, australia...germany..all lining up for censorship...wtf is going on:(
yea their choice to use a pointless time wasting flash slide show really destroyed their credibility.
you need a pilots license and a whole buncha radio etc certifications..so its just plane rules. james may ones listed all the requirements of the pilot/driver...its a lot of stuff.
your comparison might be stronger if the jews spent their time killing german civilians with every means possible. but i guess you don't want to acknowledge the truth that your palestinian friends really aren't oppressed victims at all but monsters that have created their own suffering.
some context.. in the last decade...5 million dead in the congo. yes, 5 million. 45,000 month death rate even just months ago, who knows what it is now. rape continues on an epic scale. dirty secret is our tech uses minerals from this area. fraction of bile spewed at parties in the congo vs israel? .0000001%
32,000 dead kurdish civilians over the last decade by the turkish army while they occupy kurdish land like the iranians and iraqis.
what happens? turkey considered for EU membership.
sudan? still in a total hell hole.
and on and on...
somethings warped with the international community, their "concern" for civilians really doesn't have any substance to it.
bingo, if they pull this back they are really bending over backwards for people that really can't be helped by anyone. seriously, the efforts made have been more than reasonable, anyone who watches tv knows about this program already. even my elderly neighbors figured it out.
fundamentally it is a flawed program. and YES you achieve prosperity by raising your children with the basics, the basics at a very HIGH standard. you don't get computer scientists when you slap laptops into childrens hands, you get computer technicians. you don't need a pc at all to learn the math and logic necessary to access higher level degrees in any science. Steve Wozniac designed his first computer on paper, yes he thought it out after reading manuals and books. he was driven by a love of electronics logic and math. the jobs of technicians are easily outsourced, that is no ones future. the basics are not basic at all, higher level math and science is what gives one access to all the rest and is far more useful to far more professions that bring a country out of poverty than trying to assume that everyone would benefit from being a mediocre code monkey.
no, what was elitist was the entire concept. money that could have been spent on teachers, reducing classroom sizes, improved school infrastructure was being asked to be diverted into gadgets for children when it has NOT been proven that putting gadgets in the hands of children in first world countries has been a magical solution at all. far from it, every attempt to add computers into classrooms in the us has been a botched failure based on fear and ignorance. millions of wasted tax payer money funding children playing oregon trail, playing ridiculous math games and such on expensive hardware. teaching children amount "guis and mice" and how to type when such skills are easily picked up by the new generation without such classes, the fears were totally unfounded. it is not a cost effective way to spend education budgets in the first world, never mind the developing world. now basically every child has access to a computer in the western world, whether at home or the library/school lab. are all these children coding genius's because this access? lol, what actually happens when you get tech into childrens hands is that it becomes a communications toy. myspace, facebook, youtube whatever. now these things are fine, but asking for developing countries governments to fund universal access to such stuff is ridiculous.
millions of people can figure out these controls. i somehow doubt these folks are somehow smarter than the rest. many of the folks who can't handle it just really aren't interested in gaming in a way that would matter. these are folks that buy a wii and after the 15 minute novelty session toss in in the corner to collect dust. controls are complicated because it lets you do more. people spend dozens if not hundreds of hours playing a good game. its not a matter of just "jumping in", its a matter of making the controls good enough to handle such a depth of game play that will last a long time, not just enough to let the n00bs in for 15 minutes of tossing around a bit. basically he's asking to dumb things down. the creator of the wire had it right when he said that he didn't give a sh*t about casual viewers. he wrote stories with long season arks that rewarded those who stuck with the series. who wants a casual viewer? his response was correct, the question people have is wrong. why is it better to cater to people who don't give a squat or can't be bothered. perhaps its better to just ignore them and do your own thing as well as it can be done. leave them to decide whether it is worth it.
http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/12/27/led-street-lighting-not-as-good-as-you-think/ this is greenwash. the numbers dont work. add the cost of upgrading and its just tax payer money funneled to a special interest
look at the past efforts. politicians were very afraid past children would fall behind on computers. so typing classes and "how to use your apple 2" classes were created. other programs basically amounted to silly math games and oregon trail being "taught" in class. now they want to cram a specialized skill down every childs throat? like it or not it is totally unnecessary. teaching critical thinking is more important when not going for a degree in cs. the idea that all the jobs of the future to replace our lost manufacturing jobs are in "IT" has already been proven a lie. outsourcing is hitting everything that doesn't require labor/physical presence. does a nurse really need to know computer science? not really. but its easier to get a good paying job as a nurse than it is in many tech fields at the moment. our school/state budgets are already broken. the last thing we need is another fancy prestige program that takes away resources from the core basics of education. whats more important after all, cs or math, english, and history? if your students don't have the math foundation their ability to do cs is very very limited. already colleges have to deal with a large number of students who have to take remedial courses in these core subjects. without this foundation of knowledge/skill any cs knowledge is meaningless. hopefully obama sees this. else we will have yet another bullsh*t computers are educational magic program wasting educational budgets all around the country. these types of proposals are always based on fantasy and unfounded fears.
bingo. and they aren't allowed to speak out. this nationalism is incredibly dangerous. right now its just national pride. but if times get bad or if the leaders decide to lead the country into war, you might see this flock of blind sheep become something rather frightening and uncontrollable.
any portable solar unit that charges a small lithium ion battery or device powered by such would probably expose the battery to heat. this shortens battery life span, further reducing the greenness of the panel:P peoople abusing lithium ion batts is why many ipods and such don't last. leaving em in cars baking etc.
anyways, it showed what good the whole "vote for obama and be loved" thing was. we had clinton. and during this love fest 20 men were training to massacre our people by flying planes into buildings. thats what love bought us. and the french were busy stabbing us in the back the whole time. thats love. remember...the words of the "world" are cheap.