If you RTFA you find that the 10.11% figure they are reporting is for hits Google has had from web browsers using IPv6. What's more, the article only compares a small number of countries. If you add Japan into the mix it pushes USA to 5th place.
If you look at some of the other charts, you can see that USA is top with the most IPv6 alive prefixes, announced prefixes, allocated prefixes and web servers.
So this is about household adoption of IPv6, not overall adoption. Without businesses providing services from servers via IPv6 the end user adoption would be pretty pointless.
Even the article points out that using another statistics gathering method, employed by Cisco, you get different results (still showing a similar ordering of adoption in different countries, but adoption percentages are completely different). So I'd be a bit wary of trusting the statistics here.
It is interesting to see from the charts that there's been a big push in Switzerland in the last month and how much ISPs pushing IPv6 can therefore help adoption... and that should be message to all the other ISPs out there, get on with pushing IPv6 to your customers.
Yes, I've seen one of the Philips sets a couple of years ago. It worked quite well and could be viewed from a variety of angles. You still get the 3D effect even if you're not in the sweet spots, however there is a tearing down the middle of the screen where two stereoscopic images get mixed up. Moving slightly (a few cm's) to one side fixes that though.
One problem I did find was that I started getting a headache after about 15 mins, I'm guessing this is to do with the images being a fixed focal length (the screen) while objects in the images appeared to be at different distances. Maybe it's something you'll just get used to if you keep watching.
The other problem with this sort of set is that it doesn't work for everyone. I know several people that could not see the 3D due to slight defects in their vision (e.g. slightly cross-eyed, lazy eye, etc.). Their vision defects were enough to stop the stereoscopic effect working.
UK digital TV uses the ETSI DVB specifications (ETSI EN 300 468). Part of that specification covers carriage of schedule information in the Event Information Table. This is what (nearly all*) the digital set top boxes use for their programme guides. In the UK most broadcasters provide the next 8 days of schedules in the EIT. As far as I know this same system is used in most of the rest of Europe (means box manufacturers don't need different products for different countries).
* Some old boxes used to get the guide from one of interactive channels (4text I think), this was before EIT schedules were introduced.
...code that SCO can now claim they own the rights to. Do you think I should buy SCO stock now before investors realise SCO is talking even more sh*t for their pump and dump scheme?;-)
Personally I'd go and buy one right now, if only the handsets weren't so chunky. I want the features, but I'm not prepared to walk around with a brick in my pocket. The smallest one they offer is the NEC e606 which is 109x53x32mm... too big.
What happens when you try and use it at a fancy dress party?
"Phone locked, user not recognised"?
What happens if you have an accident and your face gets messed up, but you need to call for help?... it'll never work with just image recognition, they'd have to have some way of overriding it.
Now, they then charge full price and have items that they overstocked pull up higher in searches with edited customer reviews to make them appear better than they are. True fact. They started editing reviews back when I was there.
This can't be true, they don't mention anything about editting in their patent on discussing an item.
This is a very simplified version of what goes on in even MPEG2 compression.
Full frames are stored as a compressed gray scale image in 8x8 blocks, losing certain pixel change frequencies to compress the image.
Then there are delta frames which just store the changes in the image. This could be new background scenery or movement of the original frames pixels, ie for an object moving. By being able to say that a chunk of the picture has simply moved (even by fractions of a pixel) the amount of information for the picture can be drastically reduced.
The third type of frame is a predicted frame. A prediction of what intermediate frames between full frames and a delta frames would look like is used. Any corrections to this predicted frame are stored (ie, slight block movement changes or small corrections to the background).
Of course to produce a media stream with this data, the frames need to be sent slightly out of order. So say for instance we wish to send 1 full frame every second and 25 frames a second and we're going to use 3 predicted frames. Frames 1, 26, 51, etc. would be full frames. 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 30, 34, etc. would be delta frames and the rest would be predicted. The stream would then need to be encoded with the full frame first, followed by the delta followed by the predicted frames and then another delta. So the frame sequence would then go 1(F), 5(D), 2(P), 3(P), 4(P), 9(D), 6(P), 7(P), 8(P), 13(D), 10(P),..., 20(P), 25(D), 22(P), 23(P), 24(P), 26(F), 30(D), 27(P), 28(P), 29(P),... (F) = full frame (D) = delta (changes) frame (P) = predicted frame
This is the scheme used by MPEG2, MPEG4 introduces objects into the coding which can be defined once and placed into any frame. AFAIK MPEG7 goes one step further and allows 3D models of objects to be encoded and placed into a frame this allows the viewer to set any camera angle.
Most of this is from memory so the details may be a little fuzzy.
When using a microsoft voting system, you'll push a button to vote for person A and it'll say "I think you want to vote for person B, I'll just do that for you now. Thankyou for your vote."
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If you RTFA you find that the 10.11% figure they are reporting is for hits Google has had from web browsers using IPv6. What's more, the article only compares a small number of countries. If you add Japan into the mix it pushes USA to 5th place.
If you look at some of the other charts, you can see that USA is top with the most IPv6 alive prefixes, announced prefixes, allocated prefixes and web servers.
So this is about household adoption of IPv6, not overall adoption. Without businesses providing services from servers via IPv6 the end user adoption would be pretty pointless.
Even the article points out that using another statistics gathering method, employed by Cisco, you get different results (still showing a similar ordering of adoption in different countries, but adoption percentages are completely different). So I'd be a bit wary of trusting the statistics here.
It is interesting to see from the charts that there's been a big push in Switzerland in the last month and how much ISPs pushing IPv6 can therefore help adoption... and that should be message to all the other ISPs out there, get on with pushing IPv6 to your customers.
Yes, I've seen one of the Philips sets a couple of years ago. It worked quite well and could be viewed from a variety of angles. You still get the 3D effect even if you're not in the sweet spots, however there is a tearing down the middle of the screen where two stereoscopic images get mixed up. Moving slightly (a few cm's) to one side fixes that though.
One problem I did find was that I started getting a headache after about 15 mins, I'm guessing this is to do with the images being a fixed focal length (the screen) while objects in the images appeared to be at different distances. Maybe it's something you'll just get used to if you keep watching.
The other problem with this sort of set is that it doesn't work for everyone. I know several people that could not see the 3D due to slight defects in their vision (e.g. slightly cross-eyed, lazy eye, etc.). Their vision defects were enough to stop the stereoscopic effect working.
Actually, I read it as an italicised '101' made from the 0's
UK digital TV uses the ETSI DVB specifications (ETSI EN 300 468). Part of that specification covers carriage of schedule information in the Event Information Table. This is what (nearly all*) the digital set top boxes use for their programme guides. In the UK most broadcasters provide the next 8 days of schedules in the EIT. As far as I know this same system is used in most of the rest of Europe (means box manufacturers don't need different products for different countries).
* Some old boxes used to get the guide from one of interactive channels (4text I think), this was before EIT schedules were introduced.
They could then have had the marketing slogan "ADMIT IT, it's better!"
2. The film of the DaVinci Code is coming out soon.
Doesn't this strike anyone as a publicity stunt for the film?
..."Wile E. Coyote" spring to mind?
Translation: "We know we're going to be talking bullshit, but we don't want it to be pointed out to everyone else on our own website."
...code that SCO can now claim they own the rights to. Do you think I should buy SCO stock now before investors realise SCO is talking even more sh*t for their pump and dump scheme? ;-)
That's the last thing we need, 2 million more politicians.
Personally I'd go and buy one right now, if only the handsets weren't so chunky. I want the features, but I'm not prepared to walk around with a brick in my pocket. The smallest one they offer is the NEC e606 which is 109x53x32mm... too big.
What happens when you try and use it at a fancy dress party?
... it'll never work with just image recognition, they'd have to have some way of overriding it.
"Phone locked, user not recognised"?
What happens if you have an accident and your face gets messed up, but you need to call for help?
Now, they then charge full price and have items that they overstocked pull up higher in searches with edited customer reviews to make them appear better than they are. True fact. They started editing reviews back when I was there.
;-)
This can't be true, they don't mention anything about editting in their patent on discussing an item.
This is a very simplified version of what goes on in even MPEG2 compression.
..., 20(P), 25(D), 22(P), 23(P), 24(P), 26(F), 30(D), 27(P), 28(P), 29(P), ...
Full frames are stored as a compressed gray scale image in 8x8 blocks, losing certain pixel change frequencies to compress the image.
Then there are delta frames which just store the changes in the image. This could be new background scenery or movement of the original frames pixels, ie for an object moving. By being able to say that a chunk of the picture has simply moved (even by fractions of a pixel) the amount of information for the picture can be drastically reduced.
The third type of frame is a predicted frame. A prediction of what intermediate frames between full frames and a delta frames would look like is used. Any corrections to this predicted frame are stored (ie, slight block movement changes or small corrections to the background).
Of course to produce a media stream with this data, the frames need to be sent slightly out of order. So say for instance we wish to send 1 full frame every second and 25 frames a second and we're going to use 3 predicted frames. Frames 1, 26, 51, etc. would be full frames. 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 30, 34, etc. would be delta frames and the rest would be predicted. The stream would then need to be encoded with the full frame first, followed by the delta followed by the predicted frames and then another delta. So the frame sequence would then go 1(F), 5(D), 2(P), 3(P), 4(P), 9(D), 6(P), 7(P), 8(P), 13(D), 10(P),
(F) = full frame
(D) = delta (changes) frame
(P) = predicted frame
This is the scheme used by MPEG2, MPEG4 introduces objects into the coding which can be defined once and placed into any frame. AFAIK MPEG7 goes one step further and allows 3D models of objects to be encoded and placed into a frame this allows the viewer to set any camera angle.
Most of this is from memory so the details may be a little fuzzy.
When using a microsoft voting system, you'll push a button to vote for person A and it'll say "I think you want to vote for person B, I'll just do that for you now. Thankyou for your vote."