No. They campaign pretty hard to stop solar power from being installed in the Mojave desert. All that land being taken up by collectors is destroying the ecosystem.
Why bother? Tell people in multiple languages to stay clear of the area, as you are doing nuclear weapon testing. Have ships and aircraft in the area to intercept anyone trying to breach the blockade and make sure they get the message. Have you any idea how much damage that nuclear weapon would suffer if they let it detonate with Greenpeace in the area?
Each overflight will only turn up a subset of the positions, and in the subsequent duration after an overflight, that information will go stale and some may be wrong. Repeated overflights will turn up new ones, refresh old ones, and potentially show some no longer exist, giving a number of locations that can be targetted by missile attack before sending in SEAD aircraft, as well as a general idea of AA concentration to allow more efficient deployment of SEAD aircraft. Just because the information is not 100% accurate does not mean it is not worthwhile.
Chances are that 500HP V10 will last a lot longer than a 500HP I4/H4. Boosting something to hell and back tends to have a negative effect on reliability.
Speaking of living in the past, the Arabs have been fighting among each other for a thousand years with no signs of relent. Somehow, Turkey managed to divest itself of that and join the modern world. The only time they other Arab states manage to unite is when they decide to get whipped up on by Israel.
Which is why you keep having to send subsequent missions in and re-map them. There is such a thing as an ideal site for radar, and you can't just pack these things up and go at a moment's notice. You have to shut down, pack up, move, unpack, realign their systems, perform a baseline scan of the environment to compare with, and link back into the rest of the network. They do this in staggered pattern over several weeks, so as to not leave any gaps in the coverage. If you have everyone move the moment the drone leaves, they could send in a strike and you would be completely undefended.
To be fair, the 'miniaturized stealth submarines' are every bit as cutting edge as something you might find post-Civil War. Most of them aren't even submarines, but rather have a sealed top that sits a foot or so above the surface. Those that are fully submersible operate on snorkels, with no air-independent propulsion. They are 'stealth' merely by the fact that they are so flat against the surface waves, meaning it gets lost among the noise on RADAR and active SONAR.
Far more people die every year from idiots that are driving while sober, yet they still make cars that allow them to turn the key. Hypocrisy at it's finest.
Fixed that for you. Speeding doesn't kill people. Driving stupid kills people. That can be done both above and below the speed limit.
In theory, yes. All he's done is removed the static polarizing filter from the display, and placed it in his glasses. As such, he needs to be precisely aligned to get proper color reproduction, Anyone else similarly aligned can see exactly what he sees. Alternatively, for a good time, take LSD and spin the monitor.
Yes. While that 800MB of compressed flat file text database (about 3.5GB uncompressed) might be nice for non-profit research purposes, it's simply not practical for use with any sort of end user application. Besides which, it only offers text, no graphics, so its really of little use to gussy up applications like XBMC. Chances are if XBMC did make the IMDb database their primary source of information, resulting in hundreds of thousands of users all needlessly pulling new copies each week to ensure they had the most recent data, IMDb would shut down that very quickly.
They decide not to cater to our needs, so we take our load elsewhere. It's that simple. So yes, screw pulling data from IMDb.
For future reference, the only thing multi-pass encoding gets your is accurate quantizer scaling to precisely hit a target filesize. If you don't have any filesize constraints (because you're storing this crap on a disk several hundred times larger than the file), just set a static quantizer or quality target and forget about it. The codec is much better at deciding just how much data is needed than you are.
Sure, people with small volumes of data to backup. Anything more than a couple becomes clumsy without a robotic loader. The same can be said for hard drive and tape backups, but with obviously higher per-unit volume.
No they aren't. They are compressed to meet a certain quality point. Most Bluray disks don't even top 40GB, and the feature content is generally only 20-30GB. Disks are (were) cheap, and asymmetric compression is expensive and lossy. Better to just store the original data, and only bother transcoding if you need to meet the requirements of some specific device.
It's less about updating the DRM technique (since CSS is statically defined) and more about making a non-compliant or broken DVD in such a manner that most DVD players don't notice or care, but stricter PC ROMs choke on trying to recover what it thinks are damaged sections of disc.
You are mistaken. The law IS a shade of grey. Circumvention of DRM for personal use was made illegal in writ by the Legislative branch with the DMCA, but will not be illegal in fact until it passes muster with the Judicial branch in court. An end user is going to actually have to be brought up on charges, criminal or civil, and lose, before the law has any merit.
Companies and programmers have been brought up on charges for distributing tools to circumvent DRM, users have been brought up on charges for subsequent distribution of previously DRMd content, but in its 13 years of existence, not one individual has gotten so much as a threat for breaching it for personal use. Until that happens, and is upheld in court, the law is just as likely some text on paper in violation of your Constitutional right to personal property.
Also, broadcast television is variable framerate? For some reason I thought that it is always 50 fields per second (60 in some other countries).
Sure. Some channels will always be 50 fields per second (25 frames per second), others will be 50 frames per second, and others will flip between progressive and interlaced modes at different resolutions. This only pertains to digital television (DVB). Analog (PAL) is always 50 fields per second, interlaced.
Chicken pox is fun because once you get the actual disease, you have it for life. You fight off its effects, and you manage to keep the virus in check, but it sticks around in your tissues indefinitely. Most people get lifetime immunity because the persistent virus means they are continually producing antibodies. It's like they get continual booster shots of the vaccine. Conversely, the immunity from the vaccine will eventually wear off as your body no longer has to defend against it. Should your body falter and stop producing antibodies, the active virus remaining in your tissues will flare up again, in the form of Shingles.
No. We shouldn't need any additional equipment to do that, because there shouldn't be any DRM in place to require it in the first place. The DRM exists to control the legitimate user, and prevent them from using their own purchased content how they choose. If the average consumer knew that, there would have been a huge public outcry, and the DMCA would never have been passed in the first place. However, internet piracy, and street corner and back alley piracy before it, give a convenient smoke screen to allow them to shovel this crap down our throats under the guise of preventing theft.
So back to the original statement, the complacent attitude about piracy is why the rest of us can't have nice things.
AVI does not support variable framerate or variable aspect ratio content, so it cannot be used to record broadcast television, nor can it support such changes in recording from a DV cam.
AVI does not support storage of aspect ratio, meaning it cannot be used for things such as anamorphic encoding.
AVI does not support B frames, back-referencing P frames only. That means no MPEG4, no XviD, no DivX, no H264, and no other halfway modern codecs.
AVI does not support variable bitrate audio.
AVI does not support timecodes, so streaming is not a possibility. It must be a complete file with header and footer, meaning any player requires direct file access.
Now sure, you can hack on all sorts of additional functionality that lies outside the AVI spec, but then you're not using AVI. You're using some abortive abomination of a file, with no guarantee of compatibility with other players. Why continue using it when there are better alternatives available?
Because AVI is a garbage container, that doesn't actually support even a quarter of the codecs and capabilities that have been shoehorned into it over the years.
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No. They campaign pretty hard to stop solar power from being installed in the Mojave desert. All that land being taken up by collectors is destroying the ecosystem.
And if they'd gotten shot doing this, would they be saying how mean the French are?
The French government has no need to underscore how mean they can be to Greenpeace.
Why bother? Tell people in multiple languages to stay clear of the area, as you are doing nuclear weapon testing. Have ships and aircraft in the area to intercept anyone trying to breach the blockade and make sure they get the message. Have you any idea how much damage that nuclear weapon would suffer if they let it detonate with Greenpeace in the area?
Each overflight will only turn up a subset of the positions, and in the subsequent duration after an overflight, that information will go stale and some may be wrong. Repeated overflights will turn up new ones, refresh old ones, and potentially show some no longer exist, giving a number of locations that can be targetted by missile attack before sending in SEAD aircraft, as well as a general idea of AA concentration to allow more efficient deployment of SEAD aircraft. Just because the information is not 100% accurate does not mean it is not worthwhile.
Chances are that 500HP V10 will last a lot longer than a 500HP I4/H4. Boosting something to hell and back tends to have a negative effect on reliability.
Well, it all depends on how powerful of computers they had access to. It might have required hours, but it's more likely it took weeks to months.
Speaking of living in the past, the Arabs have been fighting among each other for a thousand years with no signs of relent. Somehow, Turkey managed to divest itself of that and join the modern world. The only time they other Arab states manage to unite is when they decide to get whipped up on by Israel.
Which is why you keep having to send subsequent missions in and re-map them. There is such a thing as an ideal site for radar, and you can't just pack these things up and go at a moment's notice. You have to shut down, pack up, move, unpack, realign their systems, perform a baseline scan of the environment to compare with, and link back into the rest of the network. They do this in staggered pattern over several weeks, so as to not leave any gaps in the coverage. If you have everyone move the moment the drone leaves, they could send in a strike and you would be completely undefended.
To be fair, the 'miniaturized stealth submarines' are every bit as cutting edge as something you might find post-Civil War. Most of them aren't even submarines, but rather have a sealed top that sits a foot or so above the surface. Those that are fully submersible operate on snorkels, with no air-independent propulsion. They are 'stealth' merely by the fact that they are so flat against the surface waves, meaning it gets lost among the noise on RADAR and active SONAR.
Far more people die every year from idiots that are driving while sober, yet they still make cars that allow them to turn the key. Hypocrisy at it's finest.
Fixed that for you. Speeding doesn't kill people. Driving stupid kills people. That can be done both above and below the speed limit.
In theory, yes. All he's done is removed the static polarizing filter from the display, and placed it in his glasses. As such, he needs to be precisely aligned to get proper color reproduction, Anyone else similarly aligned can see exactly what he sees. Alternatively, for a good time, take LSD and spin the monitor.
Yes. While that 800MB of compressed flat file text database (about 3.5GB uncompressed) might be nice for non-profit research purposes, it's simply not practical for use with any sort of end user application. Besides which, it only offers text, no graphics, so its really of little use to gussy up applications like XBMC. Chances are if XBMC did make the IMDb database their primary source of information, resulting in hundreds of thousands of users all needlessly pulling new copies each week to ensure they had the most recent data, IMDb would shut down that very quickly.
They decide not to cater to our needs, so we take our load elsewhere. It's that simple. So yes, screw pulling data from IMDb.
1080P 6Gb-target-size h.264 two-pass re-encode
For future reference, the only thing multi-pass encoding gets your is accurate quantizer scaling to precisely hit a target filesize. If you don't have any filesize constraints (because you're storing this crap on a disk several hundred times larger than the file), just set a static quantizer or quality target and forget about it. The codec is much better at deciding just how much data is needed than you are.
Sure, people with small volumes of data to backup. Anything more than a couple becomes clumsy without a robotic loader. The same can be said for hard drive and tape backups, but with obviously higher per-unit volume.
Your math appears to be wrong. 800 discs at 60min/disc is just over one month. It looks like you screwed up and calculated 60hrs/disc.
What you rip isn't portable. It can't be taken "out of the system".
Well to be fair, that's the way it has to be if you want to retain a DVD CCA license and sell product in a country with DMCA-like laws.
Still Windows only, but it will work in a virtual machine on a Linux host.
No they aren't. They are compressed to meet a certain quality point. Most Bluray disks don't even top 40GB, and the feature content is generally only 20-30GB. Disks are (were) cheap, and asymmetric compression is expensive and lossy. Better to just store the original data, and only bother transcoding if you need to meet the requirements of some specific device.
It's less about updating the DRM technique (since CSS is statically defined) and more about making a non-compliant or broken DVD in such a manner that most DVD players don't notice or care, but stricter PC ROMs choke on trying to recover what it thinks are damaged sections of disc.
You are mistaken. The law IS a shade of grey. Circumvention of DRM for personal use was made illegal in writ by the Legislative branch with the DMCA, but will not be illegal in fact until it passes muster with the Judicial branch in court. An end user is going to actually have to be brought up on charges, criminal or civil, and lose, before the law has any merit.
Companies and programmers have been brought up on charges for distributing tools to circumvent DRM, users have been brought up on charges for subsequent distribution of previously DRMd content, but in its 13 years of existence, not one individual has gotten so much as a threat for breaching it for personal use. Until that happens, and is upheld in court, the law is just as likely some text on paper in violation of your Constitutional right to personal property.
Screw IMDb. They don't want us there. They make an effort to keep us out of there. TheTVDb and TheMovieDb have much better artwork anyway.
Also, broadcast television is variable framerate? For some reason I thought that it is always 50 fields per second (60 in some other countries).
Sure. Some channels will always be 50 fields per second (25 frames per second), others will be 50 frames per second, and others will flip between progressive and interlaced modes at different resolutions. This only pertains to digital television (DVB). Analog (PAL) is always 50 fields per second, interlaced.
Chicken pox is fun because once you get the actual disease, you have it for life. You fight off its effects, and you manage to keep the virus in check, but it sticks around in your tissues indefinitely. Most people get lifetime immunity because the persistent virus means they are continually producing antibodies. It's like they get continual booster shots of the vaccine. Conversely, the immunity from the vaccine will eventually wear off as your body no longer has to defend against it. Should your body falter and stop producing antibodies, the active virus remaining in your tissues will flare up again, in the form of Shingles.
No. We shouldn't need any additional equipment to do that, because there shouldn't be any DRM in place to require it in the first place. The DRM exists to control the legitimate user, and prevent them from using their own purchased content how they choose. If the average consumer knew that, there would have been a huge public outcry, and the DMCA would never have been passed in the first place. However, internet piracy, and street corner and back alley piracy before it, give a convenient smoke screen to allow them to shovel this crap down our throats under the guise of preventing theft.
So back to the original statement, the complacent attitude about piracy is why the rest of us can't have nice things.
AVI does not support variable framerate or variable aspect ratio content, so it cannot be used to record broadcast television, nor can it support such changes in recording from a DV cam.
AVI does not support storage of aspect ratio, meaning it cannot be used for things such as anamorphic encoding.
AVI does not support B frames, back-referencing P frames only. That means no MPEG4, no XviD, no DivX, no H264, and no other halfway modern codecs.
AVI does not support variable bitrate audio.
AVI does not support timecodes, so streaming is not a possibility. It must be a complete file with header and footer, meaning any player requires direct file access.
Now sure, you can hack on all sorts of additional functionality that lies outside the AVI spec, but then you're not using AVI. You're using some abortive abomination of a file, with no guarantee of compatibility with other players. Why continue using it when there are better alternatives available?
Because AVI is a garbage container, that doesn't actually support even a quarter of the codecs and capabilities that have been shoehorned into it over the years.