The US and UK have something similar. Automation and biometrics have been going on for years at our country's borders. For island nations it's basically impossible for most people to enter/exit the country anonymously. I'm not sure what the critics are whinging about in this case because they do seem a little late to or detached from the game.
WebM isn't a codec. There are ways to get Safari to decode VP8/9 via a plugin, but they don't have hardware support unlike H.264/5. HEVC has better quality at 4K and better tools than VP9 anyway.
So many macbook owners have been waiting 5-6 years screaming for new tech and apple is failing to deliver.
Should have bought a MacBook Pro;) I've got a 17in MBP that's over five years old, and it's still an awesome machine. I do all my Lightroom work in it for instance. I've also got an old MBP that turns nine next month - it's still good for email, browsing and playing music, but I'm beginning to think an SSD would have been a good upgrade a couple of years ago!. These Macs can last for a long time, which is why 16GB seems way too little for a new machine.
There's already high speed operated by Thalys from Brussels to Paris, so maybe already enough capacity? Or perhaps it's the same problem faced by DB when it comes to running trains from Cologne to London: too many different national rail standards and requirements. It seems to me that the EU hasn't done too good a job of extending the single market to rail (yet), although this becomes prohibitively expensive where there are differences in things like loading gauge.
COM came with cross language ABI compatibility; separation of interface and implementation. From this perspective it was a very practical and useful technology. It got pretty damn complicated with ATL and I worked somewhere that created lots of custom objects defined in C++ rather than IDL derived from Microsoft ActiveX controls, but that's a different story. It remains a useful technology on Windows that sometimes makes integration of components from different places easy, especially if you've only got a legacy 32-bit library and want to use it in a 64-bit app.
It seems like a lot of countries have an opt-in system when it comes to organ donation. Surely it would help eleviate shortages if the state decided that everybody is an organ donor unless they've explicitly opted out.
Sounds great for games, especially if you don't mind wearing headphones, or a headset that knows which way you're looking. For things like movie content, that's a hell of a lot of manual work in production and post-production to take full advantage of it - they'll probably just use templates, so really it'll be an incremental update to existing multichannel, perhaps with more control over what's mixed in or not. I've gone from having a full home theatre setup to a minimalistic TV approach (no surround speakers, no A/V receiver, no BD or DVD player, etc), and I can't say I miss the previous setup, so this really does just look like a gimic that will simply add to all transaction costs.
Is this just some advertising for Dolby? They're a nightmare to deal with from a licensing and certification perspective. Give your money and time to DTS and Fraunhofer and stop supporting this monster.
I lived there in 2008 and had an amazing time too. Did you ever read Peter Hessler's "River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze"? Pretty much captured my experience and daily frustrations until I started figuring it out.
I've lived in Shanghai and the most eye opening part about it is was how spectacularly wrong my American colleagues were about China. Before I left to live there, I was told how Communist it was, how dangerous it was, how there was no freedom. What I found was a country that is way more capitalist than the US and people pretty much leading the life they wanted. There are so many things that squash your freedom in the West but you don't notice it because you've known no better,
Sounds like overkill. Currently I have it to set to 'While Using', but if this changes to 'Always' -- which is really annoying -- then I will disable location services for the app and enable it only when needed. Given that I use Uber infrequently, this is fine. Incidentally I already do this with Waze, which makes perfect sense to me because I don't have a car so my location info doesn't help other users.
How often do people walk away from their computers whilst it's updating and they're in an environment where somebody will come and physically compromise their machine? It's sounds like a failrly remote possibility. Somebody might just as likely take a look inside your wallet if you leave that on your desk at work whilst you grab a coffee and use the information they find for identity theft. Yes there's a possibility of a serious exploit, but honestly, what's the liklihood of it being exploited? There are many other situations everyday unrelated to computing that paranoid people could get worked up about but life goes on.
It's 2011, not 2009. Photography is a serious hobby of mine and as somebody who does all their Lightroom work on an early 2011 17" MBP, I'm not impressed. It's still a really decent machine, and LR doesn't perform noticeably better on my 1 year old work 15" Retina MBP, and in fact quite the opposite due to the screen size. These older Macs are certainly not obsolete from this user's perspective.
BTW, I'm typing this on a late 2007 15" MBP, which is also a good machine, although I wouldn't run LR on it anymore unless I had to.
Despite the efforts of the EU, the UK hasn't moved to the metric system either. Distances and speeds are still using Imperial units if you're driving.
That said, you're right to be irritated by this article. Given that the car is Chinese, the speeds would have been measured in KPH. The quoted MPH numbers in this summary are not just jarring, they include a rounding error. Why not just say the actual correct values, which are 200 and 300 kph for instance?
Give it time. It does depend on the content. 4K60 BT.2020 with possibly HDR will be noticeably different. Lack of displays is the biggest problem I see because production abilities and beginning to fall in to place for this.
I have 10-bit HEVC decoding in MS Edge on my MBP from last year (booted to Win10 in Boot Camp.). Neither Kaby nor Skylake required. I doubt it can do 4K60, which I haven't tried, but less demanding streams work.
It's possible that you might be wrong on this. Edge is the only browser at the moment that can natively play HEVC. Chrome for instance requires you to install a plugin. HEVC decoding by Windows 10 is only available if the hardware supported. On my Macbook Pro running Win 10 in a Boot Camp (not a VM under OS X), I can play 10-bit DASH-265 (HEVC) using the DASH-IF reference player v2.30 (http://dashif.org/reference/players/javascript/index.html) in MS Edge.
No doubt about that. But it is faintly ridiculous to claim that the RN will be so fangless as to be dependent upon the USN.
Everybody seems to be worried about the Russians and getting their panties in a twist about their fleet that sailed through to the Med recently.... but their carrier is so decrepit that it's accompanied by a tug because it breaks down so much.
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The US and UK have something similar. Automation and biometrics have been going on for years at our country's borders. For island nations it's basically impossible for most people to enter/exit the country anonymously. I'm not sure what the critics are whinging about in this case because they do seem a little late to or detached from the game.
More like a case of STDs after a night with a skanky prostitute.
That's not a technicality; it's basic maths.
Wrong:
x + 20% != y - 20%
Right:
x*1.2 == y / 1.2
WebM isn't a codec. There are ways to get Safari to decode VP8/9 via a plugin, but they don't have hardware support unlike H.264/5. HEVC has better quality at 4K and better tools than VP9 anyway.
It just makes me laugh when people talk about 4K encoding from a phone. Why bother? The quality is shit.
Should have bought a MacBook Pro ;) I've got a 17in MBP that's over five years old, and it's still an awesome machine. I do all my Lightroom work in it for instance. I've also got an old MBP that turns nine next month - it's still good for email, browsing and playing music, but I'm beginning to think an SSD would have been a good upgrade a couple of years ago!. These Macs can last for a long time, which is why 16GB seems way too little for a new machine.
There's already high speed operated by Thalys from Brussels to Paris, so maybe already enough capacity? Or perhaps it's the same problem faced by DB when it comes to running trains from Cologne to London: too many different national rail standards and requirements. It seems to me that the EU hasn't done too good a job of extending the single market to rail (yet), although this becomes prohibitively expensive where there are differences in things like loading gauge.
That's not true: peruse through this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
How's the hardware accelerated iQSV HEVC encoding at 4K on that Sandy Bridge system? Oh yeah: it's not possible.
COM came with cross language ABI compatibility; separation of interface and implementation. From this perspective it was a very practical and useful technology. It got pretty damn complicated with ATL and I worked somewhere that created lots of custom objects defined in C++ rather than IDL derived from Microsoft ActiveX controls, but that's a different story. It remains a useful technology on Windows that sometimes makes integration of components from different places easy, especially if you've only got a legacy 32-bit library and want to use it in a 64-bit app.
It seems like a lot of countries have an opt-in system when it comes to organ donation. Surely it would help eleviate shortages if the state decided that everybody is an organ donor unless they've explicitly opted out.
Sounds great for games, especially if you don't mind wearing headphones, or a headset that knows which way you're looking. For things like movie content, that's a hell of a lot of manual work in production and post-production to take full advantage of it - they'll probably just use templates, so really it'll be an incremental update to existing multichannel, perhaps with more control over what's mixed in or not. I've gone from having a full home theatre setup to a minimalistic TV approach (no surround speakers, no A/V receiver, no BD or DVD player, etc), and I can't say I miss the previous setup, so this really does just look like a gimic that will simply add to all transaction costs.
Is this just some advertising for Dolby? They're a nightmare to deal with from a licensing and certification perspective. Give your money and time to DTS and Fraunhofer and stop supporting this monster.
I lived there in 2008 and had an amazing time too. Did you ever read Peter Hessler's "River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze"? Pretty much captured my experience and daily frustrations until I started figuring it out.
I've lived in Shanghai and the most eye opening part about it is was how spectacularly wrong my American colleagues were about China. Before I left to live there, I was told how Communist it was, how dangerous it was, how there was no freedom. What I found was a country that is way more capitalist than the US and people pretty much leading the life they wanted. There are so many things that squash your freedom in the West but you don't notice it because you've known no better,
Sounds like overkill. Currently I have it to set to 'While Using', but if this changes to 'Always' -- which is really annoying -- then I will disable location services for the app and enable it only when needed. Given that I use Uber infrequently, this is fine. Incidentally I already do this with Waze, which makes perfect sense to me because I don't have a car so my location info doesn't help other users.
Seems to default to whatever the last service type I used
How often do people walk away from their computers whilst it's updating and they're in an environment where somebody will come and physically compromise their machine? It's sounds like a failrly remote possibility. Somebody might just as likely take a look inside your wallet if you leave that on your desk at work whilst you grab a coffee and use the information they find for identity theft. Yes there's a possibility of a serious exploit, but honestly, what's the liklihood of it being exploited? There are many other situations everyday unrelated to computing that paranoid people could get worked up about but life goes on.
It's 2011, not 2009. Photography is a serious hobby of mine and as somebody who does all their Lightroom work on an early 2011 17" MBP, I'm not impressed. It's still a really decent machine, and LR doesn't perform noticeably better on my 1 year old work 15" Retina MBP, and in fact quite the opposite due to the screen size. These older Macs are certainly not obsolete from this user's perspective.
BTW, I'm typing this on a late 2007 15" MBP, which is also a good machine, although I wouldn't run LR on it anymore unless I had to.
Despite the efforts of the EU, the UK hasn't moved to the metric system either. Distances and speeds are still using Imperial units if you're driving.
That said, you're right to be irritated by this article. Given that the car is Chinese, the speeds would have been measured in KPH. The quoted MPH numbers in this summary are not just jarring, they include a rounding error. Why not just say the actual correct values, which are 200 and 300 kph for instance?
Give it time. It does depend on the content. 4K60 BT.2020 with possibly HDR will be noticeably different. Lack of displays is the biggest problem I see because production abilities and beginning to fall in to place for this.
I have 10-bit HEVC decoding in MS Edge on my MBP from last year (booted to Win10 in Boot Camp.). Neither Kaby nor Skylake required. I doubt it can do 4K60, which I haven't tried, but less demanding streams work.
It's possible that you might be wrong on this. Edge is the only browser at the moment that can natively play HEVC. Chrome for instance requires you to install a plugin. HEVC decoding by Windows 10 is only available if the hardware supported. On my Macbook Pro running Win 10 in a Boot Camp (not a VM under OS X), I can play 10-bit DASH-265 (HEVC) using the DASH-IF reference player v2.30 (http://dashif.org/reference/players/javascript/index.html) in MS Edge.
That's the way it must appear to some users of Windows 10!
No doubt about that. But it is faintly ridiculous to claim that the RN will be so fangless as to be dependent upon the USN.
Everybody seems to be worried about the Russians and getting their panties in a twist about their fleet that sailed through to the Med recently.... but their carrier is so decrepit that it's accompanied by a tug because it breaks down so much.