- Thrift Shop (the #1 song) has been played on Aussie radio for 3 months and was #1 in the ARIA charts a few weeks ago - Little Talks was #7 and is still #14 now - Sweet Nothing peaked at #2 - I Love it peaked at #3 - Feel the Love peaked at #3
And Same Love is the current #1 single, so make that at least 6 songs!
So at least 30% have been Top 10 songs and you haven't heard any of them???
On a city-by-city basis JJJ is typically #3 across the key demographics of 18-39 ie eliminating the AM talk stuff... as a single national station, its national audience is larger than any individual single-city station.
compression gets better to give the ILLUSION of better quality, but lossless is lossless
What a stupid comment... of course, better compression algorithms can give better quality (than an inferior algorithm) for a given size - its not an illusion
How should make a free implementation? And how do they do that when they have to pay royalties? Who is $BIGCO? And who do they pay a license fee to? MPEG-LA?
Are you saying companies so be allowed royalty free use of patents if the resultant software is free? Quite different than requiring free implementation
Of course the AC missed the point and goes the easy troll...
Australia is a western country by most measures - linguistic, cultural, political, economic - if not geographic... hence why the OP did not say western hemisphere.
In the early AM hours of North America and Europe, Australia is one of the few western country with a significant online population... so yes on a 24hr forum/site, you will get Australian stories when Australia is one for few nation that are awake!
Also there is a larger proportion on the weekend for some reason - one could guess that perhaps there is a cultural difference where some countries like to use Slashdot on their employer time but not their own - whereas Australian nerds are nerds all week long.
This surprises me with the number of people saying the same... and assuming most are US-based.
Just looking at the top 10: Mackelmore was #1 Billboard Hot 100 Of Monster and Men hit #25 ( and #1 on the alternative charts) Mumford & Sons have been all over the charts / awards Tame Impala won Rolling Stone album of the year Frank Ocean has 6 Grammy nominations on the go
Then there are other 'mainstream' artists: - Calvin Harris - The Black Keys - Skrillex
I suspect it is less about age and more about: - American music being dominated by a limited subset of artists - Australian music being a "broadly equal" fusion of US artists, European artists and local artists - Triple J being an alternative music station
Nope - it's like saying someone spoiled American Idol or Eurovision by crunching social media data.
Difference here is that the social media implementation was designed to share votes with Facebook friends only and the analysis involved 'hacking' the URLs...
Take the n900, make it thiner and lighter, with longer battery life, a faster processor, and a better screen.
Gee... is that all... faster and better screen but also better battery life... and the battery can't be bigger because it has to be thinner and lighter ???
Upgrade the camera too but keep the nice keyboard.
While still making it thinner and lighter?
How about they offer that phone with a choice of Windows or Maemo?
Ok now I think the whole post was just sarcasm ???
You are suggesting a struggling company piles on the R&D to get a more feature packed phone with better battery life while staying smaller and supporting 2 different operating systems... Sounds reasonable
If the earth were oriented favorably such that only some of the landmasses were facing, rather than parts of all of them, that would be helpful, yes.
OK - I give up after much staring at a globe...
I can get the Pacific Rim on one side... so Asia, Australia and North America but can not for the life of me see how you would extinct Europe and particularly Great Britain.
Or I can center Sri Lanka and wipe out Australia, Africa, Asia and possibly Europe... but not a hope of impacting the Americas.
Or center the Antarctic and EurAsia is safe.
Or center Northern Europe, I get everything except SE Asia... Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, etc
etc... etc
How would you orient the earth so you had parts of all land masses facing in the same direction?
I think this is probably closest to a real explanation.
There are many scenarios that would explain this:
Option 1. - the 65M order in Q1 would be Q1/Q2 sales of the existing iPhone 5 prior to introduction of the new model - the new model is being rolled out earlier than previous expected or perhaps earlier than planned for (ie over-order in case of delays)
Option 2. - the 65M order was for the current and next phone model... with low expectation of changing screens from 5 to 5S/6 - new model has a different screen spec now
Option 3. - introduction of a new supply chain due to cost, delivery performance or component performance... I recall issues with the touch screen functions of the new iPhone 5 screen ???
Wow... I stand corrected... there are now a bucket-load of 1366x768 sets at the cheap end of the market where I thought they all but disappeared in about 2009.
I agree... what a stupid regressive outcome that is... I'd find it hard to believe people are actually buying 32" LCD TV as WXGA computer displays ???
Ever thought the unusual resolution was just because of lead-time on panel development and a lot of the lower cost manufacturers just got caught off-caught with HDTV and churns out PC resolution panels as a stop gap measure.
Or that 1080i naturally looks better 720p on some content anyway - even ignoring rescaling.
Not sure how true that is, but 2 things are immediately obvious:
- not a lot of hardware would implementing that latest and greatest, so something like a standard cable STB will indeed see a substantial reduction...particularly for those still using old school MPEG-2 and would be seeing closer to 4x the efficiency and 4x the resolution (well, technically 4x the pixels not resolution) - H.265 HEVC is just a baseline implementation and while many MPEG2/MPEG4 optimisations still apply, I don't think are included in the reference models and there will be additional HEVC specific optimisations over the next 5 years
Yes dramatically higher - but manageable by, for example, todays smart phones so not really all that onerous. You'll just be up at 100% of a weak CPU rather than 10%- fine for a STB !
Every SI measure will cascade down the 'second' definition: - second define meter - second & meter define kilogram - second, meter & kilogram define Kelvin - etc etc
So we are seriously screwed if we ever decide time is not constant (at least with reference to caesium-133 at rest and 0 K)
Yikes - you got modded insightful for that ?!?! Funny perhaps but not insightful
The term is accretion disc and galaxies do not have them - an accretion disc forms around stellar and quasi-stellar objects ie stars, black holes, quasers, etc.. by their very nature these dwarf galaxies appear to orbit M31 but are not accreted
Assuming you meant galactic halo, the dwarf galaxies do not form part of the M31 galactic halo either - they are there own entities so that logic does have to hold.
I also wondered the same... particularly given the choice between 5K/48fps and 4K/60fps... t would seem the latter is a more natural choice given 4K and 60 fps favored as future standards.
The only possible reason i came up with was the aspect ratio... it is 5K widescreen at a 2.35:1 ratio (ie 5120 x 2134) and 2134 is more or less the 4K vertical height of 2160... so trimming the widescreen in the future brings it back to basically 4K format
So in this case, I guess 5K Widescreen is really a widescreen version of 4K !! Starts to make more sense that way.
In baseball, you don't measure how well a player bunts or takes a few pitches or leads off base for a steal... how does not matter - it is only the outcome.
Same for football - don't care what a QB does pre-snap or how he receives the snap, or how a WR runs a route...
instead it is a simple question - does the team score more points with or without the player on the field and typically this comes down to whether the team has more yards (or opposition less yards for defensive assessment) with the player on the field.
Key is don't focus on score - that works for baseball and basketball but not for football.
Make the assumption that "yards = wins" and each play is a discrete event with yardage outcome - suddenly you have 1000s of events per year.
And the switching out of players may actually be the key to evaluating performance of the bulk of the players ie the offensive and defense lines... It becomes much easier to determine offensive yardage with Player X on the field is "0.1 yard per play" better than with Player Y on the field instead.
Over enough plays most of the situation specific factors get averaged out...
Slashdot Mirror
What?
- Thrift Shop (the #1 song) has been played on Aussie radio for 3 months and was #1 in the ARIA charts a few weeks ago
- Little Talks was #7 and is still #14 now
- Sweet Nothing peaked at #2
- I Love it peaked at #3
- Feel the Love peaked at #3
And Same Love is the current #1 single, so make that at least 6 songs!
So at least 30% have been Top 10 songs and you haven't heard any of them???
Not what the OP said ...
On a city-by-city basis JJJ is typically #3 across the key demographics of 18-39 ie eliminating the AM talk stuff ... as a single national station, its national audience is larger than any individual single-city station.
WTF? What list are you reading?
Not a song contest which is a vote on a small number of contestants ... It is a music poll based on music released on the last 12 months.
Eurovision and every TV talent contest would have more votes - but that is not what is being discussed.
As soon as 1 or 2 mainstream players support it ... my bet would be mid-to-late 2013
compression gets better to give the ILLUSION of better quality, but lossless is lossless
What a stupid comment ... of course, better compression algorithms can give better quality (than an inferior algorithm) for a given size - its not an illusion
What does that actually mean in English?
How should make a free implementation? And how do they do that when they have to pay royalties?
Who is $BIGCO? And who do they pay a license fee to? MPEG-LA?
Are you saying companies so be allowed royalty free use of patents if the resultant software is free? Quite different than requiring free implementation
Of course the AC missed the point and goes the easy troll ...
Australia is a western country by most measures - linguistic, cultural, political, economic - if not geographic ... hence why the OP did not say western hemisphere.
In the early AM hours of North America and Europe, Australia is one of the few western country with a significant online population ... so yes on a 24hr forum/site, you will get Australian stories when Australia is one for few nation that are awake!
Also there is a larger proportion on the weekend for some reason - one could guess that perhaps there is a cultural difference where some countries like to use Slashdot on their employer time but not their own - whereas Australian nerds are nerds all week long.
This surprises me with the number of people saying the same ... and assuming most are US-based.
Just looking at the top 10:
Mackelmore was #1 Billboard Hot 100
Of Monster and Men hit #25 ( and #1 on the alternative charts)
Mumford & Sons have been all over the charts / awards
Tame Impala won Rolling Stone album of the year
Frank Ocean has 6 Grammy nominations on the go
Then there are other 'mainstream' artists:
- Calvin Harris
- The Black Keys
- Skrillex
I suspect it is less about age and more about:
- American music being dominated by a limited subset of artists
- Australian music being a "broadly equal" fusion of US artists, European artists and local artists
- Triple J being an alternative music station
Nope - it's like saying someone spoiled American Idol or Eurovision by crunching social media data.
Difference here is that the social media implementation was designed to share votes with Facebook friends only and the analysis involved 'hacking' the URLs ...
Take the n900, make it thiner and lighter, with longer battery life, a faster processor, and a better screen.
Gee ... is that all ... faster and better screen but also better battery life ... and the battery can't be bigger because it has to be thinner and lighter ???
Upgrade the camera too but keep the nice keyboard.
While still making it thinner and lighter?
How about they offer that phone with a choice of Windows or Maemo?
Ok now I think the whole post was just sarcasm ???
You are suggesting a struggling company piles on the R&D to get a more feature packed phone with better battery life while staying smaller and supporting 2 different operating systems ... Sounds reasonable
If the earth were oriented favorably such that only some of the landmasses were facing, rather than parts of all of them, that would be helpful, yes.
OK - I give up after much staring at a globe ...
I can get the Pacific Rim on one side ... so Asia, Australia and North America but can not for the life of me see how you would extinct Europe and particularly Great Britain.
Or I can center Sri Lanka and wipe out Australia, Africa, Asia and possibly Europe ... but not a hope of impacting the Americas.
Or center the Antarctic and EurAsia is safe.
Or center Northern Europe, I get everything except SE Asia ... Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, etc
etc ... etc
How would you orient the earth so you had parts of all land masses facing in the same direction?
I think this is probably closest to a real explanation.
There are many scenarios that would explain this:
Option 1.
- the 65M order in Q1 would be Q1/Q2 sales of the existing iPhone 5 prior to introduction of the new model
- the new model is being rolled out earlier than previous expected or perhaps earlier than planned for (ie over-order in case of delays)
Option 2. ... with low expectation of changing screens from 5 to 5S/6
- the 65M order was for the current and next phone model
- new model has a different screen spec now
Option 3. ... I recall issues with the touch screen functions of the new iPhone 5 screen ???
- introduction of a new supply chain due to cost, delivery performance or component performance
etc etc
Wow ... I stand corrected ... there are now a bucket-load of 1366x768 sets at the cheap end of the market where I thought they all but disappeared in about 2009.
I agree ... what a stupid regressive outcome that is ... I'd find it hard to believe people are actually buying 32" LCD TV as WXGA computer displays ???
a move to ala-carte purchasing might eliminate a lot of crap no one watches and free up more bandwidth
How so?
Satellite and cable broadcasts the same to everyone ... if only 1 person is watching it then it needs to be broadcast
A-la-carte suggests an on-demand model - that is WAY more bandwidth because everyone is now watching something different !
Cool story, bro !
Ever thought the unusual resolution was just because of lead-time on panel development and a lot of the lower cost manufacturers just got caught off-caught with HDTV and churns out PC resolution panels as a stop gap measure.
Or that 1080i naturally looks better 720p on some content anyway - even ignoring rescaling.
Not a chance ....
Commercially it makes more sense to have 200 highly compressed channels than 20 high bit rate channels - that will never change !
Not sure how true that is, but 2 things are immediately obvious:
- not a lot of hardware would implementing that latest and greatest, so something like a standard cable STB will indeed see a substantial reduction .. .particularly for those still using old school MPEG-2 and would be seeing closer to 4x the efficiency and 4x the resolution (well, technically 4x the pixels not resolution)
- H.265 HEVC is just a baseline implementation and while many MPEG2/MPEG4 optimisations still apply, I don't think are included in the reference models and there will be additional HEVC specific optimisations over the next 5 years
Yes dramatically higher - but manageable by, for example, todays smart phones so not really all that onerous. You'll just be up at 100% of a weak CPU rather than 10%- fine for a STB !
Every SI measure will cascade down the 'second' definition:
- second define meter
- second & meter define kilogram
- second, meter & kilogram define Kelvin
- etc etc
So we are seriously screwed if we ever decide time is not constant (at least with reference to caesium-133 at rest and 0 K)
I think the kilogram should be adjusted upwards every holiday season ...
Nothing like a bit of seasonal normalisation on the scales to justify festive binges.
Yikes - you got modded insightful for that ?!?! Funny perhaps but not insightful
The term is accretion disc and galaxies do not have them - an accretion disc forms around stellar and quasi-stellar objects ie stars, black holes, quasers, etc .. by their very nature these dwarf galaxies appear to orbit M31 but are not accreted
Assuming you meant galactic halo, the dwarf galaxies do not form part of the M31 galactic halo either - they are there own entities so that logic does have to hold.
Mindblowing - no ... interesting - yes
I also wondered the same ... particularly given the choice between 5K/48fps and 4K/60fps ... t would seem the latter is a more natural choice given 4K and 60 fps favored as future standards.
The only possible reason i came up with was the aspect ratio ... it is 5K widescreen at a 2.35:1 ratio (ie 5120 x 2134) and 2134 is more or less the 4K vertical height of 2160 ... so trimming the widescreen in the future brings it back to basically 4K format
So in this case, I guess 5K Widescreen is really a widescreen version of 4K !! Starts to make more sense that way.
Over-thinking it ...
In baseball, you don't measure how well a player bunts or takes a few pitches or leads off base for a steal ... how does not matter - it is only the outcome.
Same for football - don't care what a QB does pre-snap or how he receives the snap, or how a WR runs a route ...
instead it is a simple question - does the team score more points with or without the player on the field and typically this comes down to whether the team has more yards (or opposition less yards for defensive assessment) with the player on the field.
Key is don't focus on score - that works for baseball and basketball but not for football.
Make the assumption that "yards = wins" and each play is a discrete event with yardage outcome - suddenly you have 1000s of events per year.
And the switching out of players may actually be the key to evaluating performance of the bulk of the players ie the offensive and defense lines ... It becomes much easier to determine offensive yardage with Player X on the field is "0.1 yard per play" better than with Player Y on the field instead.
Over enough plays most of the situation specific factors get averaged out ...