But the cables are inter-changeable between devices, right? So perhaps the charging method is irrelevant... or, as I asked, any idea if the agreement includes the charging method?
Is this different to what they've already been doing in Australia? I got a text a when I was there warning of the danger of fires. This was on potentially very dangerous day a few weeks after the devastating bush fires of Feb 2009. I think they sent messages to about 4 million people in the state of Victoria.
Of course, this whole thing will be rendered pointless and as more spam if they start using it the way they issue these warnings on TV in the US. It seems like messages would come up on the TV if there was the chance of encountering a puddle or spot of sunshine or anything else fairly likely. Total waste of time.
So the EU plan: does it standardise the plug, or does it also standardise the charging method so that that everything is truly interchangable? If it is a standardised plug, does it even matter how the device charges if the cable and plugs are standard USB?
Top processes by CPU time on my XP laptop: * System Idle - 07:06:27 * Firefox.exe - 01:17:39 * plugin-container - 00:52:01 * svchost.exe - 00:17:52 * System - 00:17:42 * explorer.exe - 00:15:30
I use FlashBlock and AdBlock to minimise Flash usage, but the plugin container (essentially Flash) has still managed to use three times as much CPU as busiest system processes in this session. The fan is kicking in all the time, and the laptop is hot all of the time. It's flipping annoying.
Adobe are just shit at programming. I can't watch the BBC iPlayer (TV catch-up) natively on my Mac as the Flash implementation cannot seem to handle the h.264 based video. I can fire up Windows in VMWare Fusion in the same OS X login session and play it fine from there. Therefore I imagine that Adobe's implementation is even crapper on OS X than it is on Windows. And yes, my MacBook Pro is also always hot with the fan kicking in if I have allowed anything Flash-based to run.
No wonder Steve Jobs is able to make excuses to block Flash on the iPhone.
Maybe the US government could learn to abide by your sentiments instead of butting in to every other country's affairs and telling them how to do things. Deal with it, otherwise you're a hypocrit.
Evidence might give you a reason to go to divorce court or fight harder, but the jurisdictions I've lived in don't consider why a marriage has broken down when consider the terms of settlement. Some places even have a simple formula that just considers factors like length of marriage, income difference and whose looking after any children.
Do you have the VMWare Tools installed? I've seen no problems with scrolling under VMWare Fusion on my three year old MacBook Pro, nor on the VMWare Player on my three year old Dell Precison laptop at work. And yes, consistent with TFA, I've used Photoshop CS4 & 5 this way.
And there was me thinking that the best way to avoid RSI is to 1) sit properly and organise your work environment correctly, and 2) go out and get some exercise.
I really like the ribbon. It's an improvement over the combination of toolbars and menus. I can seem to be able to find things more quickly. OpenOffice on the other hand looks and feels like Word for Windows 2, with all its problems.
Where's here? Everywhere I've lived, it's possible to hook up to the grid illicitly. For example, when I lived in Canada, a lot of the pot grow houses were discovered by unusually high power consumption in an area. Clearly in N. America, it can be possible to get steal electricity too.
That resolution on a 15" screen is unusable. I've had one of those before, and I was forced to run it at something like 1280x720. 17" laptops are just about usable at that resolution without too much eye strain.
Skype is awesome. I used it every day at work (colleagues in China, Germany, UK and USA). I use it several times a week to stay in touch with family and friends around the country and world. It works on my Mac at home, my work PC, my iPhone and now apparently on my partner's Android-based Samsung phone. When I travel, I can be sure to find anywhere in the world it's available, without having to take a computer or phone with me. It's one of the cheapest ways to make international phone calls, or send international SMS messages. The sound quality from Skype-to-Skype is way better than the phone. The way it handles latency and packet loss is better than any other protocol I've tried, even calling UK or US phones from China. The Skype-out credits seem to last for ages. The video features are also awesome, but I just wish they could be used in conf calls.
The AC is right: please re-read more carefully. The article mentioned first class fares. Y54 isn't first class, the Y64 fare is. Not particularly more expensive compared with how fare classes scale here in the UK.
Yes, you're absolutely right. I was translating for occidental type people, and trying to avoid the dumb jokes some people on this website come out with
A first-class train ticket to travel between the two cities is estimated to cost more than 100 yuan ($14.90), which is twice the existing fare, Jiefang Daily reported.
I've done this journey a lot of times, the last time being three weeks ago. The current high speed trains (hitting about 170kph) cost Y54 (2nd class) or Y64 (1st class). More than double the price of the existing first class would be in excess of Y130, which is bordering on exageration. The trains are always full, and there are a lot of rich Chinese and Western businessmen on this route, so I doubt they will have trouble filling seats.
Travellers believe that the high-speed train between Shanghai and Hangzhou make take longer than the two-hour drive on road if the train stops at all the nine stations along the route, seven of which are newly built in suburban districts of Shanghai and some cities of Zhejiang.
What bullshit. The current high speed trains stop maybe once or twice between Shanghai and Hangzhou - why would this one stop more than that? It'd blow the average speed, and anyway, there are already slower regional trains. Trying to claim it's a two drive to Hangzhou is again exageration... especially trying to get in to Hangzhou with its absolutely abysmal traffic problems.
I wonder though, what has happened to the maglev link between the two cities that they were building. I saw an elevating track by the highway a few weeks ago which was either the maglev line, or maybe something else.
BD+ represents moving goalposts, so on the BD front, this represents a way to rip titles sooner. For those people who want their zero day thing.
But you're right. This basically renders any existing content protection schemes moot. It doesn't matter how the content is encrypted or protected as at some point it will go over HDMI to the display. Anything is now rippable.
Blu-ray supports 720p at 59.94 fps. That's a greater amount of data than 1080p at 24 fps. 720p59.94 is also one of the Blu-ray 3D supported resolutions (i.e. doubling the differences with 1080p24 further).
Interesting geography: Shanghai (and the Yangtze) are on the southern border of he red zone. Shanghai is eastern, not north eastern. That would be cities like Qingdao, known for its clean air. Beijing's in the middle of that zone, with it's infamous pollution problems, and sand storms from the nearby deserts. I've just got back from Shanghai after a two year absence... the sky was much bluer than I remember it, and hazy days very much less frequent.
My experience of AVC encoders is that doubling the number of cores does not halve the encode time. There seems to be a limit on the effectiveness of the number of cores. AVC encoding isn't something that can be just subdivided, for example, the buffer level information is required and used from frame to frame going through the length of the encode (the bitrate can spike above the theoretical maximum of a format like BD for short periods so long as it is lower for a further period so that the buffer can recover and maintain the an average that the laser can keep up with, but that's also a multiplexing problem).
Ultimately encode time is important based on the business' needs. Some places have to turn things around as fast as possible. But slow times are an issue if you're working on an encode interactively, such as re-encoding segments to improve localised encode issues such as excessive quantisation or a need to increase the bitrate to improve quality (does x264 support segment based re-encoding?)
Hollywood post production houses pay a lot of money for a good AVC encoder. The best software ones have only just in the last year or two reached realtime speeds now that Intel CPUs have caught up. Otherwise dedicated hardware encoding has been required. AVC MVC (3D) is doubling (or more) encodes times again. I'd be impressed if x264 could come close in quality, speed, and bitrate.
You've got a *realtime**high quality* 1080p AVC encoder, running on the same system as a multichannel audio encoder? Nice. You could make a lot of money with that.
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But the cables are inter-changeable between devices, right? So perhaps the charging method is irrelevant... or, as I asked, any idea if the agreement includes the charging method?
Is this different to what they've already been doing in Australia? I got a text a when I was there warning of the danger of fires. This was on potentially very dangerous day a few weeks after the devastating bush fires of Feb 2009. I think they sent messages to about 4 million people in the state of Victoria.
Of course, this whole thing will be rendered pointless and as more spam if they start using it the way they issue these warnings on TV in the US. It seems like messages would come up on the TV if there was the chance of encountering a puddle or spot of sunshine or anything else fairly likely. Total waste of time.
Or was it one of their competitors trying to stir the pot?
So the EU plan: does it standardise the plug, or does it also standardise the charging method so that that everything is truly interchangable? If it is a standardised plug, does it even matter how the device charges if the cable and plugs are standard USB?
Lame response! Why were you modded up?
Top processes by CPU time on my XP laptop:
* System Idle - 07:06:27
* Firefox.exe - 01:17:39
* plugin-container - 00:52:01
* svchost.exe - 00:17:52
* System - 00:17:42
* explorer.exe - 00:15:30
I use FlashBlock and AdBlock to minimise Flash usage, but the plugin container (essentially Flash) has still managed to use three times as much CPU as busiest system processes in this session. The fan is kicking in all the time, and the laptop is hot all of the time. It's flipping annoying.
Adobe are just shit at programming. I can't watch the BBC iPlayer (TV catch-up) natively on my Mac as the Flash implementation cannot seem to handle the h.264 based video. I can fire up Windows in VMWare Fusion in the same OS X login session and play it fine from there. Therefore I imagine that Adobe's implementation is even crapper on OS X than it is on Windows. And yes, my MacBook Pro is also always hot with the fan kicking in if I have allowed anything Flash-based to run.
No wonder Steve Jobs is able to make excuses to block Flash on the iPhone.
Maybe the US government could learn to abide by your sentiments instead of butting in to every other country's affairs and telling them how to do things. Deal with it, otherwise you're a hypocrit.
Evidence might give you a reason to go to divorce court or fight harder, but the jurisdictions I've lived in don't consider why a marriage has broken down when consider the terms of settlement. Some places even have a simple formula that just considers factors like length of marriage, income difference and whose looking after any children.
Call me "old fashioned, but they don't sound much like lovers to me!
Do you have the VMWare Tools installed? I've seen no problems with scrolling under VMWare Fusion on my three year old MacBook Pro, nor on the VMWare Player on my three year old Dell Precison laptop at work. And yes, consistent with TFA, I've used Photoshop CS4 & 5 this way.
And there was me thinking that the best way to avoid RSI is to 1) sit properly and organise your work environment correctly, and 2) go out and get some exercise.
I really like the ribbon. It's an improvement over the combination of toolbars and menus. I can seem to be able to find things more quickly. OpenOffice on the other hand looks and feels like Word for Windows 2, with all its problems.
Where's here? Everywhere I've lived, it's possible to hook up to the grid illicitly. For example, when I lived in Canada, a lot of the pot grow houses were discovered by unusually high power consumption in an area. Clearly in N. America, it can be possible to get steal electricity too.
That resolution on a 15" screen is unusable. I've had one of those before, and I was forced to run it at something like 1280x720. 17" laptops are just about usable at that resolution without too much eye strain.
Skype is awesome. I used it every day at work (colleagues in China, Germany, UK and USA). I use it several times a week to stay in touch with family and friends around the country and world. It works on my Mac at home, my work PC, my iPhone and now apparently on my partner's Android-based Samsung phone. When I travel, I can be sure to find anywhere in the world it's available, without having to take a computer or phone with me. It's one of the cheapest ways to make international phone calls, or send international SMS messages. The sound quality from Skype-to-Skype is way better than the phone. The way it handles latency and packet loss is better than any other protocol I've tried, even calling UK or US phones from China. The Skype-out credits seem to last for ages. The video features are also awesome, but I just wish they could be used in conf calls.
What's your problem with it exactly?
The AC is right: please re-read more carefully. The article mentioned first class fares. Y54 isn't first class, the Y64 fare is. Not particularly more expensive compared with how fare classes scale here in the UK.
Yes, you're absolutely right. I was translating for occidental type people, and trying to avoid the dumb jokes some people on this website come out with
The article's full of errors:
I've done this journey a lot of times, the last time being three weeks ago. The current high speed trains (hitting about 170kph) cost Y54 (2nd class) or Y64 (1st class). More than double the price of the existing first class would be in excess of Y130, which is bordering on exageration. The trains are always full, and there are a lot of rich Chinese and Western businessmen on this route, so I doubt they will have trouble filling seats.
What bullshit. The current high speed trains stop maybe once or twice between Shanghai and Hangzhou - why would this one stop more than that? It'd blow the average speed, and anyway, there are already slower regional trains. Trying to claim it's a two drive to Hangzhou is again exageration... especially trying to get in to Hangzhou with its absolutely abysmal traffic problems.
I wonder though, what has happened to the maglev link between the two cities that they were building. I saw an elevating track by the highway a few weeks ago which was either the maglev line, or maybe something else.
BD+ represents moving goalposts, so on the BD front, this represents a way to rip titles sooner. For those people who want their zero day thing.
But you're right. This basically renders any existing content protection schemes moot. It doesn't matter how the content is encrypted or protected as at some point it will go over HDMI to the display. Anything is now rippable.
Blu-ray supports 720p at 59.94 fps. That's a greater amount of data than 1080p at 24 fps. 720p59.94 is also one of the Blu-ray 3D supported resolutions (i.e. doubling the differences with 1080p24 further).
Interesting geography: Shanghai (and the Yangtze) are on the southern border of he red zone. Shanghai is eastern, not north eastern. That would be cities like Qingdao, known for its clean air. Beijing's in the middle of that zone, with it's infamous pollution problems, and sand storms from the nearby deserts. I've just got back from Shanghai after a two year absence... the sky was much bluer than I remember it, and hazy days very much less frequent.
... blame the parents. The media just reflects what is acceptable to society.
I've always wondered though why Americans get so upset about bad language and sex, but violence on TV is ok for children to watch.
My experience of AVC encoders is that doubling the number of cores does not halve the encode time. There seems to be a limit on the effectiveness of the number of cores. AVC encoding isn't something that can be just subdivided, for example, the buffer level information is required and used from frame to frame going through the length of the encode (the bitrate can spike above the theoretical maximum of a format like BD for short periods so long as it is lower for a further period so that the buffer can recover and maintain the an average that the laser can keep up with, but that's also a multiplexing problem).
Ultimately encode time is important based on the business' needs. Some places have to turn things around as fast as possible. But slow times are an issue if you're working on an encode interactively, such as re-encoding segments to improve localised encode issues such as excessive quantisation or a need to increase the bitrate to improve quality (does x264 support segment based re-encoding?)
Hollywood post production houses pay a lot of money for a good AVC encoder. The best software ones have only just in the last year or two reached realtime speeds now that Intel CPUs have caught up. Otherwise dedicated hardware encoding has been required. AVC MVC (3D) is doubling (or more) encodes times again. I'd be impressed if x264 could come close in quality, speed, and bitrate.
You've got a *realtime* *high quality* 1080p AVC encoder, running on the same system as a multichannel audio encoder? Nice. You could make a lot of money with that.
The next distribution method after shiney discs, DECE, will save you the concerns about needing backups.