Doesn't name the constellations. In fact it's difficult to even see the constellations on it.
According to that chart it was right next to the Pleiades. If you can't find it based on that a constellation chart won't help you since you probably never looked into the night sky.
But yes you're on point. Without a telescope, good binoculars or a camera to boost the contrast a bit along with a dark sky you're not going to see anything.
Puulleeese Pacific Northwest. You amateurs, where I live I'm lucky to see the full moon through the light pollution.
Though seriously I'm thinking of pulling out the telescope (which I haven't used since I moved here), stacking every light pollution filter I have into the eyepiece and giving it a go. Though I suspect after an hour or so of setup to also get rained on.
No you missed my point. You quipped about the possibility that the backup strategy was not sufficient with your "You make regular back ups, right?" comment.
However that is completely irrelevant. These companies are now in a position where they need to dedicate resources to make use of those backups. Damage however mitigated has been done regardless, and just because you have backups doesn't mean your business couldn't go under.
Maersk also had backups and lost no data, yet the 2017 malware was registered as a $300million extraordinary loss on their balance sheet regardless.
If you're upset about what Youtube said were the most popular videos of the year, then you really need to get a fucking life. It's just stupid fucking entertainment.
Indeed that is the perspective of the users, but that is not why this is "news". This is news because it shows that a platform fundamentally has no idea what makes its community tick. Remember this is "we know everything about everyone" Google showing that they don't have the slightest clue about people.
The kids complaining need to get a life, but Google,... oh there is some real meat in the fact that this is the news today.
the most-disliked video in the history of the website
Dismissing a movement that made a professionally prepared video the most disliked video in the history of the second most popular service on the internet as "a bunch of kids" is precisely the brain-dead response that causes this mismatch between creators and consumers in the first place. You realise that this represents a fundamental disconnect between a platform and their viewers right?
A dose of perspective would be healthy.
That's my line.
Do you by any chance work in marketing? I mean we've had a killer year for marketing. Blizz.con's Diablo Immortal Announcement. The NVIDIA RTX release debacle. and now a celebration of Youtube being the most disliked video in history.
Great stuff produced by people who desperately lack perspective, specifically that of their user base.
Hardly surprising that Youtube wasn't interested in showcasing them.
So when celebrating creators a bit of "controversy" suddenly becomes the reason why you don't feature your single biggest (for the most of the year anyway) creator?
There's nothing interesting about this at all. In fact the summary mentions everything you need to know about the situation: People disagree with Youtube and the video became the most disliked video as a result showing clearly that the controversy was irrelevant.
Since when did activists ever have to "get some perspective"? Does Anitfa have to "get some perspective"? How about SJWs? Should they "get some perspective"?
Errr yes. Hyperbole an extremism is the reason those idiots don't get taken seriously.
But they don't currently, so people don't like them. Do we not all want these cars to act human and therefore come close to being as safe as one?
I agree. They should implement a random number generator so half of the time the indicators aren't used, 10% of the time they change lanes suddenly with a little swerve, 5% of the time they don't yield at giveway signs, and 1% of the time they run the red light to save a few seconds from their trip.
If the people at Google don't treat regular Americans with respect
Did Google point a gun at you? Or are you saying a you volunteering some anonymised data is the equivalent of actual harassment requiring police intervention here. Get some perspective.
but you're going to have criminals targeting unmanned vehicles to steal them and/or their cargo.
You're going to have criminals targeting vehicles which are not emotional and therefore can't be threatened into turning something over all the while pointing 360degree cameras in every direction and recording in realtime?
Good. I hope more stupid criminals target these vehicles. We could do with less criminals on the road.
What a waste of time and resources this is, its a pure cash grab by some attorneys.
Actually I think it's karma given how Apple used to shout from the rooftops that the higher resolution Samsung Galaxy wasn't actually higher resolution due to employing the exact same tricks used here.
Normally I'd be quite shitty, but now... I'm okay with this. I hope those attorneys bathe in champagne.
Getting "blasted" by non-ionising radiation repeatedly in the same spot still makes it non-ioning radiation and still has no effect on your DNA.
But given you're worried about ABS emissions maybe you should put the tinfoil hat away and go checkin to a hotel where the staff have white coats and the walls are made of pillows.
One of the other sources for this news gave a quote by police who said the man with the gun pointed out that an Uber has recently killed a person. The quote along with that was quite funny: "It's like complaining to the CEO of Google when your iPhone doesn't work."
of labeling companies with a single arbitrary label we instead list the things they are involved in to help get a clearer picture of what companies are and aren't.
Calling Facebook a technology company instead of an advertisement provider is silly. Calling Facebook an advertisement provider instead of a social network is silly. Calling Facebook a social network instead of an open source software developer is silly. Calling Facebook an open source software developer instead of a VR company is silly.
Image quality is not determined by sharpness. This idea is the reason why those horrible TVs apply a post process sharpness increase to content (the first thing you should turn off when you buy a TV).
Quality covers a large number of metrics including artifacting, posterisation, loss of colour fidelity, and loss of contrast ratio to name a few.
There's already a metric that basically defines video sharpness: bitrate.
Sorry but that is just plain wrong. Even within an identical decoder the same bitrate can produce wildly different results in terms of perceived image quality depending on the many hundreds of settings available, including sharpness. On top of that perceived sharpness can be faked by applying a local contrast increase right at the point of the change in brightness.
There's virtually no incentive for streaming companies to deliver lower resolutions at higher bitrates.
Actually there is. Improving image quality costs time, or hardware which directly translates into actual money. e.g. I could live capture video in RAW and then compress it to H.265 using Handbrake at a certain bitrate with certain encoder settings and achieve a great result. Or I could live capture video straight to RAW in realtime using either my CPU with the encoder settings set at a highly speed optimised way at the same bitrate and achieve garbage. Or I could offload it to the hardware encoder in my GPU which has excellent speed but is not optimised for video quality providing a happy medium between the two options all at the same time using half the power (a relevant metric if I was doing it 24/7).
Bitrate is meaningless when comparing across different encoder settings, or in the case of different producers: Different encoders themselves.
Firstly immediate termination is not the norm. Secondly you can lawyer up Thirdly when making up some bullshit reason why you won't lawyer up you changed from termination to resignation and completely changed the dynamics of who is doing what.
Take your ADHD medication before posting next time.
We haven't been trying. The funding for nuclear fusion has been absolutely laughable. In all of 2018 the united states has spent less on fusion than Total has spent on their garden variety supercomputer to help speed up the processing of depth sounding for searching for oil.
They have spent less money on fusion research in 2018 than a single highway lane expansion project that we have running locally to add a single lane each way for a 10km stretch of road.
We're not trying. We're not even really giving the illusion of trying.
Hopefully the Europeans can get it to work, but they're already spending the money, so why does the US have to?
Because there's more than one aspect of fusion research, there are multiple proposed ways of achieving it, and letting someone else do something in the off chance that they get it working first go is making a losing bet, if they lose we're no better off, if they win, we'll spend a lot of money paying them for their knowledge.
That's assuming flying supersonic isn't reserved for rich fucks who get to fast-track the whole process of course...
I'm just wondering what kind of a rich fuck you need to be these days. Every idiot who uses a plane more than twice a year is a priority passenger. Business class seats aren't very expensive. And if you really want the "fancy" treatment, check with your local airport. I mean for $130 / year I get priority check in, priority security, priority boarding, the use of a very nice lounge, priority baggage, valet parking, and iris based passport clearance with no line at my local airport.
I actually make a point of it to dress like a homeless bum when I use the airport now, especially if I fly business class. Some snotty shit will say "excuse me, this is the business class line" and then will be utterly shocked when I say "I know"
Slashdot Mirror
The popular press seems to write up astronomy things that make good copy but are very hard to see, particularly for people who live in cities.
You just described the art in one sentence :-(
Doesn't name the constellations. In fact it's difficult to even see the constellations on it.
According to that chart it was right next to the Pleiades. If you can't find it based on that a constellation chart won't help you since you probably never looked into the night sky.
But yes you're on point. Without a telescope, good binoculars or a camera to boost the contrast a bit along with a dark sky you're not going to see anything.
Puulleeese Pacific Northwest. You amateurs, where I live I'm lucky to see the full moon through the light pollution.
Though seriously I'm thinking of pulling out the telescope (which I haven't used since I moved here), stacking every light pollution filter I have into the eyepiece and giving it a go. Though I suspect after an hour or so of setup to also get rained on.
No you missed my point. You quipped about the possibility that the backup strategy was not sufficient with your "You make regular back ups, right?" comment.
However that is completely irrelevant. These companies are now in a position where they need to dedicate resources to make use of those backups. Damage however mitigated has been done regardless, and just because you have backups doesn't mean your business couldn't go under.
Maersk also had backups and lost no data, yet the 2017 malware was registered as a $300million extraordinary loss on their balance sheet regardless.
Oh, sorry, I didn't know that you need a movement now to dislike something that's garbage.
Oh sorry. I didn't know saying something is a movements implies that you need a movement. You must be speaking a different kind of English than I am.
If you're upset about what Youtube said were the most popular videos of the year, then you really need to get a fucking life. It's just stupid fucking entertainment.
Indeed that is the perspective of the users, but that is not why this is "news". This is news because it shows that a platform fundamentally has no idea what makes its community tick. Remember this is "we know everything about everyone" Google showing that they don't have the slightest clue about people.
The kids complaining need to get a life, but Google, ... oh there is some real meat in the fact that this is the news today.
like a big tone-deaf misstep on the part of YouTube
Youtube saw the Diablo Immortal announcement and wanted to get in on that "being booed by their users" action.
A bunch of kids
the most-disliked video in the history of the website
Dismissing a movement that made a professionally prepared video the most disliked video in the history of the second most popular service on the internet as "a bunch of kids" is precisely the brain-dead response that causes this mismatch between creators and consumers in the first place. You realise that this represents a fundamental disconnect between a platform and their viewers right?
A dose of perspective would be healthy.
That's my line.
Do you by any chance work in marketing? I mean we've had a killer year for marketing.
Blizz.con's Diablo Immortal Announcement.
The NVIDIA RTX release debacle.
and now a celebration of Youtube being the most disliked video in history.
Great stuff produced by people who desperately lack perspective, specifically that of their user base.
Hardly surprising that Youtube wasn't interested in showcasing them.
So when celebrating creators a bit of "controversy" suddenly becomes the reason why you don't feature your single biggest (for the most of the year anyway) creator?
There's nothing interesting about this at all. In fact the summary mentions everything you need to know about the situation: People disagree with Youtube and the video became the most disliked video as a result showing clearly that the controversy was irrelevant.
Since when did activists ever have to "get some perspective"? Does Anitfa have to "get some perspective"? How about SJWs? Should they "get some perspective"?
Errr yes. Hyperbole an extremism is the reason those idiots don't get taken seriously.
Not relevant. Just because you have backups doesn't mean the outage can't cost you your business.
Shamoon hit BeauHD's computer.
But they don't currently, so people don't like them. Do we not all want these cars to act human and therefore come close to being as safe as one?
I agree. They should implement a random number generator so half of the time the indicators aren't used, 10% of the time they change lanes suddenly with a little swerve, 5% of the time they don't yield at giveway signs, and 1% of the time they run the red light to save a few seconds from their trip.
Humans are sooooo much better.
If the people at Google don't treat regular Americans with respect
Did Google point a gun at you? Or are you saying a you volunteering some anonymised data is the equivalent of actual harassment requiring police intervention here. Get some perspective.
but you're going to have criminals targeting unmanned vehicles to steal them and/or their cargo.
You're going to have criminals targeting vehicles which are not emotional and therefore can't be threatened into turning something over all the while pointing 360degree cameras in every direction and recording in realtime?
Good. I hope more stupid criminals target these vehicles. We could do with less criminals on the road.
What a waste of time and resources this is, its a pure cash grab by some attorneys.
Actually I think it's karma given how Apple used to shout from the rooftops that the higher resolution Samsung Galaxy wasn't actually higher resolution due to employing the exact same tricks used here.
Normally I'd be quite shitty, but now ... I'm okay with this. I hope those attorneys bathe in champagne.
Getting "blasted" by non-ionising radiation repeatedly in the same spot still makes it non-ioning radiation and still has no effect on your DNA.
But given you're worried about ABS emissions maybe you should put the tinfoil hat away and go checkin to a hotel where the staff have white coats and the walls are made of pillows.
One of the other sources for this news gave a quote by police who said the man with the gun pointed out that an Uber has recently killed a person. The quote along with that was quite funny: "It's like complaining to the CEO of Google when your iPhone doesn't work."
of labeling companies with a single arbitrary label we instead list the things they are involved in to help get a clearer picture of what companies are and aren't.
Calling Facebook a technology company instead of an advertisement provider is silly.
Calling Facebook an advertisement provider instead of a social network is silly.
Calling Facebook a social network instead of an open source software developer is silly.
Calling Facebook an open source software developer instead of a VR company is silly.
Image quality is not determined by sharpness. This idea is the reason why those horrible TVs apply a post process sharpness increase to content (the first thing you should turn off when you buy a TV).
Quality covers a large number of metrics including artifacting, posterisation, loss of colour fidelity, and loss of contrast ratio to name a few.
There's already a metric that basically defines video sharpness: bitrate.
Sorry but that is just plain wrong. Even within an identical decoder the same bitrate can produce wildly different results in terms of perceived image quality depending on the many hundreds of settings available, including sharpness. On top of that perceived sharpness can be faked by applying a local contrast increase right at the point of the change in brightness.
There's virtually no incentive for streaming companies to deliver lower resolutions at higher bitrates.
Actually there is. Improving image quality costs time, or hardware which directly translates into actual money. e.g. I could live capture video in RAW and then compress it to H.265 using Handbrake at a certain bitrate with certain encoder settings and achieve a great result. Or I could live capture video straight to RAW in realtime using either my CPU with the encoder settings set at a highly speed optimised way at the same bitrate and achieve garbage. Or I could offload it to the hardware encoder in my GPU which has excellent speed but is not optimised for video quality providing a happy medium between the two options all at the same time using half the power (a relevant metric if I was doing it 24/7).
Bitrate is meaningless when comparing across different encoder settings, or in the case of different producers: Different encoders themselves.
debugging efforts
If running grep to find some swear words is your definition of "effort" then you have no business commenting on how someone manages code.
Your entire post is complete nonsense.
Firstly immediate termination is not the norm.
Secondly you can lawyer up
Thirdly when making up some bullshit reason why you won't lawyer up you changed from termination to resignation and completely changed the dynamics of who is doing what.
Take your ADHD medication before posting next time.
Know how long they have been trying?
We haven't been trying. The funding for nuclear fusion has been absolutely laughable. In all of 2018 the united states has spent less on fusion than Total has spent on their garden variety supercomputer to help speed up the processing of depth sounding for searching for oil.
They have spent less money on fusion research in 2018 than a single highway lane expansion project that we have running locally to add a single lane each way for a 10km stretch of road.
We're not trying. We're not even really giving the illusion of trying.
Hopefully the Europeans can get it to work, but they're already spending the money, so why does the US have to?
Because there's more than one aspect of fusion research, there are multiple proposed ways of achieving it, and letting someone else do something in the off chance that they get it working first go is making a losing bet, if they lose we're no better off, if they win, we'll spend a lot of money paying them for their knowledge.
That's assuming flying supersonic isn't reserved for rich fucks who get to fast-track the whole process of course...
I'm just wondering what kind of a rich fuck you need to be these days. Every idiot who uses a plane more than twice a year is a priority passenger. Business class seats aren't very expensive. And if you really want the "fancy" treatment, check with your local airport. I mean for $130 / year I get priority check in, priority security, priority boarding, the use of a very nice lounge, priority baggage, valet parking, and iris based passport clearance with no line at my local airport.
I actually make a point of it to dress like a homeless bum when I use the airport now, especially if I fly business class. Some snotty shit will say "excuse me, this is the business class line" and then will be utterly shocked when I say "I know"