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  1. Re:Mostly... on Netflix Finds x265 20% More Efficient Than VP9 (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Converting is not free.

    Neither is replacing all of the decoders out there that can't decode the new format yet. Some of these decoders may be embedded in devices that consumers have no intention of replacing.

    Dumping a real standard on a whim is a bit of a bitch.

  2. Re:Also significant is CPU burden on Netflix Finds x265 20% More Efficient Than VP9 (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    > Of course you did. Nearly all CPUs and GPU support accelerating x264, but not x265.

    Even without GPU decoding, most CPUs have gotten powerful enough to decode h264 without any special help.

    h264 just got OLD, much like mpeg2 did.

    Now we have the new shiny shiny that's almost gauranteed to choke general purpose processors just like it's predecessors used to.

  3. Re:Also significant is CPU burden on Netflix Finds x265 20% More Efficient Than VP9 (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    GPU video decoding support has been available for Linux for quite a long time now. That includes x265 too.

    Some vendors are better than others of course, but even the worst sand baggers have finally managed Linux support.

    Optimizing the software decoder like anything else will depend on motivation. Although the ffmpeg guys seem to be highly motivated and pretty much everyone depends on them (including Windows users).

  4. Re:Bye Bye Adobe on Adobe Resurrects Flash Player On Linux (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Clearly Adobe needed to squeeze more blood from all of their turnips or otherwise they would not have instigated this.

  5. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    You've just described the average suburban housewife that grew up in the suburbs. It's not just the trailer trash that buy the stupid trinkets. It's nearly all of them. If you are frugal, then you're the freak. Don't out yourself, you might get burned at the stake by the 'danes.

  6. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    You're an idiot trying to push an agenda. He's not stereotyping anyone except perhaps the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE.

    Nearly everyone does the same stupid shit. It's just that when you have less, there's no margin to speak of. There's nothing extra to waste.

  7. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    > You need a mobile with data plan to be in job search now.

    No you don't. This is just moronic nonsense from the entitlement generation. Head hunters will leave messages and send email.

    Perhaps you need to wade out of the shallow end of the talent pool if that's the kind of thing you're actually experiencing.

    With "poor" people, these kinds of expectations are even more insane. This sounds like rich sheltered idiots just trying to imagine what it's like to be poor.

  8. Re:HDMI is from the world of USB 2.0 and 1080i. on New HDMI Mode Will Allow USB-C Connections (techhive.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure why you would want to really. You gain exactly zilch there.

    The 80s called, they want to talk to you about daisy chaining and how stupid and annoying it was.

  9. Re:Trump is winning on Creators Call Out YouTube For Demonetizing Videos (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Austin is too much like California. You will end up with the same restrictions.

  10. Re:An error in the write up. on Creators Call Out YouTube For Demonetizing Videos (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    This would be more like editorial review where your an employer of someone like Reuters and they don't like it when you submit something that doesn't fit their narrative.

    It's still censorship.

    They sold themselves on one thing and now they've violated that.

  11. Re:Isn't that all the videos that are worth watchi on Creators Call Out YouTube For Demonetizing Videos (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Youtube is NOTHING like a broadcast TV antenna.

    Yet there is still plenty of sex and violence that makes it's way onto TV. The the evening news alone would be scandalous to old school censors. Let's not even get into what more uptight types might find questionable.

    Better matching advertisers to content and viewers is one thing.

    "Curating" content is something else entirely.

  12. Re:Could not recall briefings because of concusion on FBI Releases Hillary Clinton Email Report (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Ressurecting the old "You're pinko commies. NO, you're fascists." for the win!

    Ex-Soviets were comparing Bernie to Breshnev.

  13. Re:"could not recall" on FBI Releases Hillary Clinton Email Report (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    We're a Constitutional Republic with not too much power invested in the Executive and a notion of checks-and-balances. As long as that hasn't be perverted too much by previous administrations, it should all be good.

    I would worry more about the Republicans in the House and Senate. Not that I want the Dems to have a rubber stamp either.

  14. Re: "could not recall" on FBI Releases Hillary Clinton Email Report (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The dude in Shitsville, Wyoming probably has a pot to piss in which is probably more than we can say for the likes of you.

    Escape from New York is itself the deranged ramblings of a very intolerant liberal who couldn't handle the fact that there are people that don't drink his particular brand of Kool-Aid.

    My suggestion to you would be to not by such a hysterical ninny. It might help this Brexit thing from being less of a disaster.

    Stay Calm and Carry On and all that nonsense.

  15. Re:Incriminating documents on The Unsettling Relationship Between Russia and Wikileaks (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Calling it "rape" is giving it entirely too much credit. The actual charges are nothing remotely like what the rest of the world would call rape.

    Even calling it sexual assault is a far stretch.

    It's more like breach of contract, but that's not salacious enough.

  16. Re: It's Hillary time! on The Unsettling Relationship Between Russia and Wikileaks (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    When Americans "agree", we're dangerous like the Minbari.

  17. Re:It's Hillary time! on The Unsettling Relationship Between Russia and Wikileaks (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    They were certainly a grand distraction and did do a lot of the dying. However, they were being propped up by the US and even Russians will admit that.

    There's nothing like a Russian winter to destroy conquerors.

  18. Are you kidding? The ATF are pansies compared to the SEC.

  19. Re:Pay taxes? Seriously? But...we're leftists! on Apple CEO Tim Cook on EU Apple Tax Case: 'Total Political Crap' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    So in what country are the "liberals" not into heavy taxation and the re-distribution of wealth? It may be a relative term but I am not sure there's anywhere it doesn't fit.

    He's fine benefiting from the Democrat agenda when it suits him and a shameless 19th century style robber baron otherwise.

  20. Re:Apple's Industrial Design Group⦠ahe on HP Builds One Desktop PC Around a Speaker, Another Modular PC In Slices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Computing is much less about computation than it is the interesting stuff that you accumulate and create.

    The cloud isn't magically piping in MIPS to your local terminal and that's a very important distinction.

  21. Re:Stop with the hysteria on Revived Lawsuit Says Twitter DMs Are Like Handing ISIS a Satellite Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Most of those 1,125 were perps.

    Your 35K number is pure fiction.

  22. Re:It is clear who are the children on FBI Director Says Prolific Default Encryption Hurting Government Spying Efforts (go.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If that's the best you've got, then you've got nothing.

    The Feds got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. They instigated all of this. They have no standing to whine about it.

    Part of being "grown up" is owning your mistakes.

  23. The political stuff is the worst. Every wingnut in your feed wants to spread their particular gospel. It's even worse than the blatantly religious stuff. The problem is probably what some people consider "news". Plus you've got idiots that start foaming at the mouth because they stumble onto something that feeds into their favorite narrative. It doesn't occur to them that it's an obvious satire site. It's sad, hilarious, and annoying all at once.

    All memes are bullshit.

    Someone may have a valid observation but they quickly run off the rails and jump the shark with extreme and absurd sh*t.

    I could understand how a telepath might go nuts and would just want it all to shut off.

  24. Re:We have these on Companies Are Developing More Apps With Fewer Developers (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Office doesn't annotate well enough for law. Given the context nature of the problem, I would be shocked if SharePoint does either. There are special purpose tools for this (in the legal field).

    I really have my doubts about the SharePoint groupie.

  25. It was all foretold. on Companies Are Developing More Apps With Fewer Developers (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    What? A disconnect between IT and the users.

    That's what the two Bobs get for firing the requirements guy.

    Of course in the old days, the SMEs just bit the bullet and changed the world anyways.