Actually the real purpose of the facemask is to avoid spreading your germs on others. It's usefulness at protecting the wearer from others is questionable at best.
It makes perfect political sense. While both of your parties are pro-corporate and anti-citizen, one of these parties is far more pro-corporate and anti-citizen. So I'm not seeing the problem in demonstrating this particular difference it in such an obvious matter, especially when most of the differences between them are in no-issues personal life stuff like gay marriage or abortion, things that many people likely think shouldn't even be something for government to decide on but to the person(s) involved.
So, your argument is that professional encoders know this. Surely then, there is some document or article where such encoders talk about this that you can link?
Then perhaps you have some actual evidence to back your claims? You seem to have a really weird way of arguing your point, by listing evidence to contrary, and saying "this is wrong".
If that made sense, murder trials would be awesomely simple.
"Yes, they police found me crouching over her dead body with a murder weapon in my hands, and yes everyone saw me walk in there with clean clothes on and walk out all covered in blood consistent with standing in front of the victim as you slit her throat open. But they are all wrong!" "Oh, good to know. Clearly you're innocent!".
From what I understood, the German PP tries to advocate the original direct democracy over the current representative democracy by utilizing social networking as a forum for collecting votes on each issue within the party. The problem with system itself originally was scaling, it simply didn't scale well beyond small city-state sized community and only now do we have realistic technological means to try to make it actually work on larger scale.
There are some issues with this approach, but it's certainly far more democratic then various representative democratic systems we currently have in the West.
Media lives on copyright and money infusions from its owners. Corrupt politicians live on media support. Extremely rich own the media.
Politicians extent copyright granting media unprecedented ability to control information through legal means. Media pays back by not reporting on major issues that are harmful to political system that births such politicians (aka voluntary self-sensorship such as lack of coverage of occupy protests in USA causing a historic collapse on the reporters without borders media freedom chart).
And with extremely rich controlling both politicians and media they can ensure that laws that transfer wealth from poor and middle class to them are written and enacted while media keeps telling you that it's fair to have such laws.
Why yes, I'm totally advocating invading Japan, switching on their power plants, connecting them to subsonic communication devices all to tell Godzilla to walk toward Seattle instead of Tokyo.
Didn't you read the parent? It's all spelled out there once you inject yourself with sufficient amount of hard drugs.
The coast would have still been fucked up to hell and back by that little tsunami, that you know did all the minor damage that killed over 30.000 people, left hundreds of thousands homeless and a whole lot of other bad things.
But let's whine about Fukushima instead. Because radiation is scarier then big ass waves and earthquakes, since we can see big ass waves and earthquakes. Actual lethality and damage potential is irrelevant when faced with illogical feeling of fear of something we cannot see!
Why would you want to stay in a country that is fairly hostile to the way you look, has a very different culture and set of basic values and generally tends to villify your culture and homeland?
US used to be a place where migrants could actually feel welcome but those times are firmly in the past.
I will readily admit that I am in fact not a video encoding nerd, and unlikely to ever become one. That said, either whatever thought you were expressing was too complicated for me to understand, or you just linked a document that expressly disagrees with your argument and agrees with the one you seem to be opposing. Direct quote:
So why does a AVC/H.264 10-bit encoder perform better than 8-bit? When encoding with the 10-bit tool, the compression process is performed with at least 10-bit accuracy compared to only 8-bit otherwise. So there is less truncation errors, especially in the motion compensation stage, increasing the efficiency of compression tools. As a consequence, there is less need to quantize to achieve a given bit-rate. The net result is a better quality for the same bit-rate or conversely less bit-rate for the same quality: between 5% and 20% on typical sources.
The paper doesn't say a word about being somehow able to save end result as a standard high profile file while keeping the savings. It only talks about source being in standard high profile.
Considering that anime encoder nerds are also the people who do a lot of work optimizing various freeware encoders and decoders, I would be inclined to trust them over random person on slashdot that end result does indeed have to be in hi10p to get the size savings. Especially considering the sheer amount of bitching around that particular community when the move was being pushed through with people begging, pleading and threatening to get encoders to stay with standard h.264 high profile output.
It's not the colour space that is enhanced, but picture precision.
In general, going from high profile to hi10p (high profile 10 bit precision) allows you to compress a bit more while getting the same quality. Anime folks like it because it lets then shave around 10-20% of their not-so-small 720p and 1080p filesizes. Problem is that decoding hi10p takes more calculating power and there's not hardware decoding support for hi10p worth talking about while the typically used high profile (which uses 8 bit precision) is supported pretty much everywhere.
By the same measure, much bigger majority of people aren't child abusers as compared to just parents. Yet another rather nasty piece of reality for you.
Also, yes, it is. Every government, by definition must oppress to some extent. The only non-oppressing form of governing is anarchy. Every other form is oppressive to varying extent, because to exert control is to oppress freedom to not be controlled.
We have a very good example of how that works in Somalia. Power vacuum left by government will simply be filled in other ways, typically far more oppressive. They just won't be called "government". That's the reality of the libertarian dream, and why libertarian dream is in fact a pipe dream as proven by history of humanity thousands of times over. Like communism, it would work very if people were beings naturally inclined to think of greater good over short term personal benefit.
Agnosticism is the proper scientific view of religion within existing scientific framework. It argues that since we have absolutely no proof whatsoever of existence of entity that is God, it's pointless to believe in one without any evidence. Being an agnostic theist is a bit of a oxymoron because of this. Theists typically argues that his/her belief is proof enough (purely objective and therefore unscientific) while atheist argues that his lack of belief and lack of scientific evidence to contrary is enough.
So you can be an agnostic atheist, i.e. subscribe to idea that since we have no proof that God exists, God does not exist. On the other hand, arguing that since we have no proof that God exists, God exists is in fact an oxymoron. Believers generally accept such double-think (denying and accepting the same thing) as it is present throughout many religions, which is why idea of "agnostic theist" doesn't sound like an obvious oxymoron to someone used to such double think thought model.
That is of course, until opium in your veins runs out and you return to wonderful reality where today's children face far bigger threat from their parents' and relatives' abuse then from pretty much all other factors, unless they live in a third world country.
A subject that's very unsexy to talk about in libertrarian pipe dreams, I know.
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I get one for an equivalent of a tenner. It comes as an extra with my fixed 24/1 ADSL landline.
Of course, I'm from a different continent.
Actually the real purpose of the facemask is to avoid spreading your germs on others. It's usefulness at protecting the wearer from others is questionable at best.
Note that I spoke nothing of good, evil, or even the direction and field of advancement.
With children.
Indeed. Many forget that is often takes fanatical dedication to advance.
Another issue with incandescent is recycling them after they burn out.
It makes perfect political sense. While both of your parties are pro-corporate and anti-citizen, one of these parties is far more pro-corporate and anti-citizen. So I'm not seeing the problem in demonstrating this particular difference it in such an obvious matter, especially when most of the differences between them are in no-issues personal life stuff like gay marriage or abortion, things that many people likely think shouldn't even be something for government to decide on but to the person(s) involved.
Google analytics can be easily blocked, as/and it doesn't live in your system as an effective trojan.
It's not a good thing, but that's why you simply block it. Ghostery does this just fine for example.
So, your argument is that professional encoders know this. Surely then, there is some document or article where such encoders talk about this that you can link?
Then perhaps you have some actual evidence to back your claims? You seem to have a really weird way of arguing your point, by listing evidence to contrary, and saying "this is wrong".
If that made sense, murder trials would be awesomely simple.
"Yes, they police found me crouching over her dead body with a murder weapon in my hands, and yes everyone saw me walk in there with clean clothes on and walk out all covered in blood consistent with standing in front of the victim as you slit her throat open. But they are all wrong!"
"Oh, good to know. Clearly you're innocent!".
From what I understood, the German PP tries to advocate the original direct democracy over the current representative democracy by utilizing social networking as a forum for collecting votes on each issue within the party. The problem with system itself originally was scaling, it simply didn't scale well beyond small city-state sized community and only now do we have realistic technological means to try to make it actually work on larger scale.
There are some issues with this approach, but it's certainly far more democratic then various representative democratic systems we currently have in the West.
Specific links:
Media lives on copyright and money infusions from its owners.
Corrupt politicians live on media support.
Extremely rich own the media.
Politicians extent copyright granting media unprecedented ability to control information through legal means. Media pays back by not reporting on major issues that are harmful to political system that births such politicians (aka voluntary self-sensorship such as lack of coverage of occupy protests in USA causing a historic collapse on the reporters without borders media freedom chart).
And with extremely rich controlling both politicians and media they can ensure that laws that transfer wealth from poor and middle class to them are written and enacted while media keeps telling you that it's fair to have such laws.
Why yes, I'm totally advocating invading Japan, switching on their power plants, connecting them to subsonic communication devices all to tell Godzilla to walk toward Seattle instead of Tokyo.
Didn't you read the parent? It's all spelled out there once you inject yourself with sufficient amount of hard drugs.
Pretty much entire rest of the world is "too far left" by your definition.
The coast would have still been fucked up to hell and back by that little tsunami, that you know did all the minor damage that killed over 30.000 people, left hundreds of thousands homeless and a whole lot of other bad things.
But let's whine about Fukushima instead. Because radiation is scarier then big ass waves and earthquakes, since we can see big ass waves and earthquakes. Actual lethality and damage potential is irrelevant when faced with illogical feeling of fear of something we cannot see!
Why would you want to stay in a country that is fairly hostile to the way you look, has a very different culture and set of basic values and generally tends to villify your culture and homeland?
US used to be a place where migrants could actually feel welcome but those times are firmly in the past.
Nokia got to where it was by being #1 everywhere but in a single region (+unconquerable Japan). That region was North America.
If you think that they were mostly selling cheap phones in Europe with their >50% smartphone marketshare, I have land on the moon to sell you.
I will readily admit that I am in fact not a video encoding nerd, and unlikely to ever become one. That said, either whatever thought you were expressing was too complicated for me to understand, or you just linked a document that expressly disagrees with your argument and agrees with the one you seem to be opposing. Direct quote:
So why does a AVC/H.264 10-bit encoder perform better than 8-bit?
When encoding with the 10-bit tool, the compression process is performed with at least 10-bit accuracy compared to only 8-bit otherwise. So there is less truncation errors, especially in the motion compensation stage, increasing the efficiency of compression tools. As a consequence, there is less need to quantize to achieve a given bit-rate.
The net result is a better quality for the same bit-rate or conversely less bit-rate for the same quality: between 5% and 20% on typical sources.
The paper doesn't say a word about being somehow able to save end result as a standard high profile file while keeping the savings. It only talks about source being in standard high profile.
Considering that anime encoder nerds are also the people who do a lot of work optimizing various freeware encoders and decoders, I would be inclined to trust them over random person on slashdot that end result does indeed have to be in hi10p to get the size savings. Especially considering the sheer amount of bitching around that particular community when the move was being pushed through with people begging, pleading and threatening to get encoders to stay with standard h.264 high profile output.
It's not the colour space that is enhanced, but picture precision.
In general, going from high profile to hi10p (high profile 10 bit precision) allows you to compress a bit more while getting the same quality. Anime folks like it because it lets then shave around 10-20% of their not-so-small 720p and 1080p filesizes. Problem is that decoding hi10p takes more calculating power and there's not hardware decoding support for hi10p worth talking about while the typically used high profile (which uses 8 bit precision) is supported pretty much everywhere.
By the same measure, much bigger majority of people aren't child abusers as compared to just parents. Yet another rather nasty piece of reality for you.
Also, yes, it is. Every government, by definition must oppress to some extent. The only non-oppressing form of governing is anarchy. Every other form is oppressive to varying extent, because to exert control is to oppress freedom to not be controlled.
We have a very good example of how that works in Somalia. Power vacuum left by government will simply be filled in other ways, typically far more oppressive. They just won't be called "government". That's the reality of the libertarian dream, and why libertarian dream is in fact a pipe dream as proven by history of humanity thousands of times over. Like communism, it would work very if people were beings naturally inclined to think of greater good over short term personal benefit.
Alas...
Strawmen don't do opiate smoking. Existential hazard with all the dry straw.
Why do you think the talk is focused on less then 10% of total child abuse that is sourced from outside family rather then 90% that is inside family?
One wins votes of concerned parents. Other pisses both guilty and innocent parents off.
Agnosticism is the proper scientific view of religion within existing scientific framework. It argues that since we have absolutely no proof whatsoever of existence of entity that is God, it's pointless to believe in one without any evidence. Being an agnostic theist is a bit of a oxymoron because of this. Theists typically argues that his/her belief is proof enough (purely objective and therefore unscientific) while atheist argues that his lack of belief and lack of scientific evidence to contrary is enough.
So you can be an agnostic atheist, i.e. subscribe to idea that since we have no proof that God exists, God does not exist. On the other hand, arguing that since we have no proof that God exists, God exists is in fact an oxymoron. Believers generally accept such double-think (denying and accepting the same thing) as it is present throughout many religions, which is why idea of "agnostic theist" doesn't sound like an obvious oxymoron to someone used to such double think thought model.
Not if you follow what fundamentalists tell their children they're not.
It's the wok of the stork jesus. Or cabbage jesus. Or something among these lines.
That is of course, until opium in your veins runs out and you return to wonderful reality where today's children face far bigger threat from their parents' and relatives' abuse then from pretty much all other factors, unless they live in a third world country.
A subject that's very unsexy to talk about in libertrarian pipe dreams, I know.