Except it's $75 per year. It's far cheaper to pay it once when you're having a fire at even double or triple that rate. But $75 should be added to everyone's property taxes, and the county should administer paying this outside service. If the county is too poor to have their own, that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be organized at all.
Well that's the fault of the county. They didn't administer this themselves like they should. It's certainly not something a neighboring city or county should have to pay the bill for. Now I agree that if 911 was called and they are the ones dispatched, they shouldn't be checking a list. But that's a personal responsibility and not a responsibility of they county. They should charge a pretty large bill for this service.
And they could still use IPv4 for basic web browsing if there was a proxy server built into new routers to deal with it. The router could make up a pool of IPv4 addresses to return on DNS requests, and handle all the translation.
I think it's more the combination of it being an improvement AND their claim that it has no patent encumbrances. Otherwise they'd never get Firefox on board.
seizure-inducing, perhaps, if you're susceptible to that sort of thing. Not sure how that would cause any interruptions on the flow of blood to the brain.
The perception of loudness is created by range compression. The feature on TV's that tries to undo that by over-compressing EVERYTHING including the shows is called dynamic range compression.
Even if it's normalized, tv shows usually have occasional peaks with a broad dynamic range. Commercials are within 1-2dB of peak the entire time (by heavy use of compressors). They can even be the same "volume" but the commercial is louder.
It causes a hit to audio quality. Most new TV's have it, and it's usually called something like Dynamic Range Compression. It runs all the audio through a compressor with the compressor ratio set dynamically by the last couple seconds of waveform. During a show, it causes audible dips and rises in volume at times (can make voices sound muffled at times). It makes the commercials relatively quiet, but at the expense of quality on the main program.
An audiophile would care about fidelity on Digital anyway. Most primetime TV is broadcast with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. Compression on the show is not a problem - that's the desired effect. DRC tries to over-compress the TV shows until they are as flatly loud and obnoxious as the ads, and then you can turn down your volume.
It's not something a consumer would bs using in their playback chain
Yeah it's not for audiophiles, but a lot of consumers have a feature called "Dynamic Range Compression" on their TV's that do most of that. They compress relatively softer content more than louder audio to attempt to give everything the same relative loudness. The result is wildly varying audio all throughout a show. It's annoying and stupid, and often enabled by default.
Well I'm not sure how you'd expect to skip commercials with non-recorded content being broadcast in real-time. What should it do during a commercial? Change to another show and jump back when it thinks the commercials are over? Or warp space-time and get you on with your show?
I have and love MythTV and it works well - until you get a show with dark scenes that are below the threshold to be considered "blank." On all-digital broadcasts, perhaps you can set it to be more specific. Also, MythTV looks for network ident bugs at the corners of the screen.
How does 24fps sound? I think we're not far off from being able to use motion footage as the multiple vantage points to extrapolate 3D data to go back and apply to the original 2D frames. As long as the scene has motion or at least a tiny bit of camera shake, you get something to extrapolate from.
I do take advantage of the different power settings - which is also not a dial. I'm also a hybrid cooker. I'll heat the inside of a frozen burrito in a microwave, and then I'll put it in a toaster oven for a few minutes for a crispy shell.
Precision is for the things that take very little time - like melting shredded cheese on top of something. Even at 50%, there's a noticeable difference between 15 and 20 seconds.
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Except it's $75 per year. It's far cheaper to pay it once when you're having a fire at even double or triple that rate. But $75 should be added to everyone's property taxes, and the county should administer paying this outside service. If the county is too poor to have their own, that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be organized at all.
Well that's the fault of the county. They didn't administer this themselves like they should. It's certainly not something a neighboring city or county should have to pay the bill for. Now I agree that if 911 was called and they are the ones dispatched, they shouldn't be checking a list. But that's a personal responsibility and not a responsibility of they county. They should charge a pretty large bill for this service.
And they could still use IPv4 for basic web browsing if there was a proxy server built into new routers to deal with it. The router could make up a pool of IPv4 addresses to return on DNS requests, and handle all the translation.
Yeah - poor kid lasts only 3 weeks until he gets to the air port, only to have the "bomb" ripped off his belt loop.
Why would a company that makes parts for fireplaces get into the heart business? Do fireplaces really have that many valves?
They're making fun of the US National Debt?
Well done. I was actually quite surprised to find out that this particular domain permutation wasn't already registered. Maybe I should buy it.
And because Vodafone has a 50% stake in Verizon Wireless, where they have zero ownership of Verizon.
Sure, but it would stop working by the end of two years.
Verizon mathematicians don't know the difference between dollars and cents.
I know that dynamic range is a separate term in it's own right, but with dynamic range compression it's the compression ratio that is dynamic.
Wrong modifier. It's the compression that's dynamic. It constantly adjusts the compression ratio to attempt to produce a constant perceived volume.
I think it's more the combination of it being an improvement AND their claim that it has no patent encumbrances. Otherwise they'd never get Firefox on board.
seizure-inducing, perhaps, if you're susceptible to that sort of thing. Not sure how that would cause any interruptions on the flow of blood to the brain.
The perception of loudness is created by range compression. The feature on TV's that tries to undo that by over-compressing EVERYTHING including the shows is called dynamic range compression.
You must mean SyFy - they are the worst offender that I know of. Literally half the screen - with ANIMATION!
Even if it's normalized, tv shows usually have occasional peaks with a broad dynamic range. Commercials are within 1-2dB of peak the entire time (by heavy use of compressors). They can even be the same "volume" but the commercial is louder.
It causes a hit to audio quality. Most new TV's have it, and it's usually called something like Dynamic Range Compression. It runs all the audio through a compressor with the compressor ratio set dynamically by the last couple seconds of waveform. During a show, it causes audible dips and rises in volume at times (can make voices sound muffled at times). It makes the commercials relatively quiet, but at the expense of quality on the main program.
An audiophile would care about fidelity on Digital anyway. Most primetime TV is broadcast with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. Compression on the show is not a problem - that's the desired effect. DRC tries to over-compress the TV shows until they are as flatly loud and obnoxious as the ads, and then you can turn down your volume.
It's not something a consumer would bs using in their playback chain
Yeah it's not for audiophiles, but a lot of consumers have a feature called "Dynamic Range Compression" on their TV's that do most of that. They compress relatively softer content more than louder audio to attempt to give everything the same relative loudness. The result is wildly varying audio all throughout a show. It's annoying and stupid, and often enabled by default.
Well I'm not sure how you'd expect to skip commercials with non-recorded content being broadcast in real-time. What should it do during a commercial? Change to another show and jump back when it thinks the commercials are over? Or warp space-time and get you on with your show?
I have and love MythTV and it works well - until you get a show with dark scenes that are below the threshold to be considered "blank." On all-digital broadcasts, perhaps you can set it to be more specific. Also, MythTV looks for network ident bugs at the corners of the screen.
How does 24fps sound? I think we're not far off from being able to use motion footage as the multiple vantage points to extrapolate 3D data to go back and apply to the original 2D frames. As long as the scene has motion or at least a tiny bit of camera shake, you get something to extrapolate from.
You're giving them too much credit. I'm sure they'd really be typing it into a Yahoo web search box. What's a command prompt?
And if you were short on cash, you'd lower the speed limit to bring in more ticket revenue.
I do take advantage of the different power settings - which is also not a dial. I'm also a hybrid cooker. I'll heat the inside of a frozen burrito in a microwave, and then I'll put it in a toaster oven for a few minutes for a crispy shell.
Precision is for the things that take very little time - like melting shredded cheese on top of something. Even at 50%, there's a noticeable difference between 15 and 20 seconds.