You'd have to keep the CR low enough to not overcome the pressure wave of the ringless design. That means you'd lose efficiency in the engine. Reducing friction is a great concept but I'd still like to see the math involved as to how they'd get the efficiency out of the engine vs. a traditional design and how they'd keep the crankcase temps down and the oil clean. Most of that black/brown gunk in your oil at an oil change is blow-by, products of the combustion process. Even with piston rings you get a certain percentage of this and it raises the temps of the engine not just with friction but with hot gasses escaping into the crankcase. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see internal combustion go beyond what we have today but it seems that there are already advances in direct injection and forced induction that are making smaller more efficient designs more powerful. If you want an internal combustion engine without rings (or wipers in a Wankel) then why not a turbine engine? It was tried before but I guess people were worried about melting the asphalt with the exhaust gas temps.
Well I have to agree with that but if you look at the presentation from Google I/O from last May and you'll see that VP9 uses less bandwidth for a given quality based on the demonstrations. That's the main reason for switching to it, plus it does deliver some great video. So if VP9 does play out that means less bandwidth than competitive codecs. Unfortunately VP9 to me at least is half baked because I've been watching the project since first seeing the I/O presentation and I have to say that it encodes very slowly, from full raw sources only using their app and the code is still buggy as hell. The FFMPEG integration isn't much better but hopefully Google will throw some more support around it and we'll see better speed and reliability. I also wonder what's going to happen with VP8?
It's a government project. Eventually the contractors involved will screw the project up and they'll have to announce it in a secret meeting on the black budget. They'll then ask for billions more to develop a solution to a so-called quantum computer gap that exists with the Chinese and Russians. The Cold War with the Soviets may be over but we're in a new Cold War with BRIC and the stakes are more along the lines of economic vs. military.
Butters complaining about "Floppy Penises" and "Where's the Dragons?!?" when talking about Game of Thrones. Of course Martin didn't order the pizzas and said that they would be coming and be the best! Oh and there would be five of them! An analogy of the dragons in GoT. Best three South Park Episodes ever!
Record the conversation and they play it into Dragon, it works but you need a good quality audio feed. I've also tinkered with Julius and although it takes a bit of set up it works in most cases but you have to tweak it a bit more than Dragon at least in terms of what I was dealing with.
For a guy doing this in his copious spare time this is a funny vid. It's not something Safeway wants on YouTube for sure, so I'm sure they're sending a letter to Google now to remove it.
It's not stupid, the people in Washington DC are stupid. They're the lowest common denominators elected by a public that's too busy lusting after their "hot cousin."
The document is not flawed nor are the principles it outlines. What's flawed is people who are too inattentive to become informed on the issues and actually hold their elected representatives accountable. These elected officials no longer fear the electorate because over 70% of them are re-elected. That allows corruption and other presumed perks of seniority to corrupt our land and to create pieces of shit legislation that allows these practices to continue. I've said it before, we need to return to the Stocks where we can lock these retards up for a couple of days and allow people to throw rotten tomatoes at them.
You can only vote for the POTUS/VPOTUS, House of Rep and Two Senators. That gives you four choices in control of your representation at the Federal level. That however is counter-balanced by the millions of folks who believe in Santa, the Tooth Fairy, Twitter Feeds and that the Federal Government is this beneficent thing. It's not. It's a large eating machine that feeds other eating machines and fucks with you on so many levels it's astonishing. On important matters it's the slowest mechanism to deliver change but on other matters it's the quickest to jump to conclusions and write poor legislation like the Patriot Act that enabled this shit in the first place. We're supposed to have three branches of government that balance each other out but more often then not they sing from the same choir book especially where them Terrorists are concerned because Terrorism is bad and we must fight it by declaring war on it, never mind the fact that the enemy is in a bunch of caves that a few tactical nukes could handle. And because we've created these new "tools" for the beneficent and powerful government, now we have prosecutors labeling gang members as Terrorists so how much longer before a common speeding ticket gets labeled as such? Future news headline: "Today a Speeding vehicle terrorized other motorists. The Feds have stepped in to charge the man under the special provisions of the Patriot Act."
So sing with me from page 666 of your hymnal... for at least the next three years "We're all fucked.."
I came close to that this year with Amazon but with other Vendors. No missing items, no late deliveries. I think we all expect too much when the holiday season hits and we all expect things to be there by Christmas. The rule says, plan ahead and I think that needs to apply to everybody otherwise just shop locally and handle delivery chores yourself. Dallas did have some weather delays but so did most of the Eastern hubs as well due to the Winter storm. I was flying back from Europe on Monday and had about two hours in delays because of it.
They're of no benefit to consumers in terms of price. There are reasons for having them like language preferences etc. and torrents are a delivery mechanism that avoids these things. My point is that more often than not these types of things are to ensure market prices are higher, not lower in given markets where the producer can get more for their wares.
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You'd have to keep the CR low enough to not overcome the pressure wave of the ringless design. That means you'd lose efficiency in the engine. Reducing friction is a great concept but I'd still like to see the math involved as to how they'd get the efficiency out of the engine vs. a traditional design and how they'd keep the crankcase temps down and the oil clean. Most of that black/brown gunk in your oil at an oil change is blow-by, products of the combustion process. Even with piston rings you get a certain percentage of this and it raises the temps of the engine not just with friction but with hot gasses escaping into the crankcase. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see internal combustion go beyond what we have today but it seems that there are already advances in direct injection and forced induction that are making smaller more efficient designs more powerful. If you want an internal combustion engine without rings (or wipers in a Wankel) then why not a turbine engine? It was tried before but I guess people were worried about melting the asphalt with the exhaust gas temps.
It's an imperfect system but it's still a system.
Agreed, we had a polar snap in Nevada back in 1990 on XMAS eve. It didn't get much above zero for over a week after it hit.
It must taste like chicken.
Isn't that the point of a Beta release? To obtain feedback and to fix what isn't right with something?
Well I have to agree with that but if you look at the presentation from Google I/O from last May and you'll see that VP9 uses less bandwidth for a given quality based on the demonstrations. That's the main reason for switching to it, plus it does deliver some great video. So if VP9 does play out that means less bandwidth than competitive codecs. Unfortunately VP9 to me at least is half baked because I've been watching the project since first seeing the I/O presentation and I have to say that it encodes very slowly, from full raw sources only using their app and the code is still buggy as hell. The FFMPEG integration isn't much better but hopefully Google will throw some more support around it and we'll see better speed and reliability. I also wonder what's going to happen with VP8?
LOL, Cronyism at its best!
You have that wrong, it'll be an ex-congressman on the board not a family member.
It's a government project. Eventually the contractors involved will screw the project up and they'll have to announce it in a secret meeting on the black budget. They'll then ask for billions more to develop a solution to a so-called quantum computer gap that exists with the Chinese and Russians. The Cold War with the Soviets may be over but we're in a new Cold War with BRIC and the stakes are more along the lines of economic vs. military.
This is where the IPCC chairman and his bobbleheads need to be. Is there any way to fly them and leave them on the abandoned ship? I realize that Climate Change is a reality however these guys are not the experts we're looking for.
He's buried here..
You can go and hire Ms. Cleo and do a seance and complain to him since he sponsored the legislation.
Sure, lots of services out there but it's better to implement a tactile level of security regardless of provider.
Butters complaining about "Floppy Penises" and "Where's the Dragons?!?" when talking about Game of Thrones. Of course Martin didn't order the pizzas and said that they would be coming and be the best! Oh and there would be five of them! An analogy of the dragons in GoT. Best three South Park Episodes ever!
Kaspersky or if *ix Clam
EncFS or BoxCryptor are your friend.
Record the conversation and they play it into Dragon, it works but you need a good quality audio feed. I've also tinkered with Julius and although it takes a bit of set up it works in most cases but you have to tweak it a bit more than Dragon at least in terms of what I was dealing with.
For a guy doing this in his copious spare time this is a funny vid. It's not something Safeway wants on YouTube for sure, so I'm sure they're sending a letter to Google now to remove it.
"Red Alert! Red Alert!"
"You crossed my line of death! "
"You haven't dismantled your MX stockpile!"
"Pakistan is threatening my border!"
"Nuke Em! Get them before they get you!"
Ahh when I think of RoboCop... That movie had so many things right..
It's not stupid, the people in Washington DC are stupid. They're the lowest common denominators elected by a public that's too busy lusting after their "hot cousin."
The document is not flawed nor are the principles it outlines. What's flawed is people who are too inattentive to become informed on the issues and actually hold their elected representatives accountable. These elected officials no longer fear the electorate because over 70% of them are re-elected. That allows corruption and other presumed perks of seniority to corrupt our land and to create pieces of shit legislation that allows these practices to continue. I've said it before, we need to return to the Stocks where we can lock these retards up for a couple of days and allow people to throw rotten tomatoes at them.
You can only vote for the POTUS/VPOTUS, House of Rep and Two Senators. That gives you four choices in control of your representation at the Federal level. That however is counter-balanced by the millions of folks who believe in Santa, the Tooth Fairy, Twitter Feeds and that the Federal Government is this beneficent thing. It's not. It's a large eating machine that feeds other eating machines and fucks with you on so many levels it's astonishing. On important matters it's the slowest mechanism to deliver change but on other matters it's the quickest to jump to conclusions and write poor legislation like the Patriot Act that enabled this shit in the first place. We're supposed to have three branches of government that balance each other out but more often then not they sing from the same choir book especially where them Terrorists are concerned because Terrorism is bad and we must fight it by declaring war on it, never mind the fact that the enemy is in a bunch of caves that a few tactical nukes could handle. And because we've created these new "tools" for the beneficent and powerful government, now we have prosecutors labeling gang members as Terrorists so how much longer before a common speeding ticket gets labeled as such? Future news headline: "Today a Speeding vehicle terrorized other motorists. The Feds have stepped in to charge the man under the special provisions of the Patriot Act."
So sing with me from page 666 of your hymnal... for at least the next three years "We're all fucked.."
It's a Jersey Thing.
Give Putin about 5 minutes and he'll have a law ready to sign banning the game and promoting his new health and fitness photos.
Why would you want to? With the recent spate of news stories on pollution problems in China it reminds me of New Jersey.
I came close to that this year with Amazon but with other Vendors. No missing items, no late deliveries. I think we all expect too much when the holiday season hits and we all expect things to be there by Christmas. The rule says, plan ahead and I think that needs to apply to everybody otherwise just shop locally and handle delivery chores yourself. Dallas did have some weather delays but so did most of the Eastern hubs as well due to the Winter storm. I was flying back from Europe on Monday and had about two hours in delays because of it.
They're of no benefit to consumers in terms of price. There are reasons for having them like language preferences etc. and torrents are a delivery mechanism that avoids these things. My point is that more often than not these types of things are to ensure market prices are higher, not lower in given markets where the producer can get more for their wares.