Actually, yes. Not any time soon, but gradually, over the next decade or so. Almost all new programs are made in HD, and even many of those SD channels are just duplicates of an HD channel maintained for compatibility.
Which just means that even if he is successful in his aim, it just means the government would need to extend gun control restrictions to also cover some other part of the gun. Something either too fiddley to print (the bolt, trigger assembly) or exposed to pressures and temperatures higher than a printed part could take (the barrel). It's a doomed aim, unless he can come up with a design made entirely from 3d printed parts and general-purpose plumbing and construction supplies.
They probably do, but they don't get notice. An accident in nuclear weapons development doesn't result in a nuclear boom - not even if the cause is sabotage. Just some scientists or workers getting their face burned off or a lethal dose of radiation. Easily covered up.
Virgin in the UK, when I signed up, but that was a special case: Introductory half-price offer on the bundle. Once the offer period runs out (6 months, IIRC) the price doubles.
The former, really. The videos are some mixture of ogv, webm, and one mp4 there somewhere. It's long been on my to-do list to get them all available as both webm and mp4, encoded to decent quality. I've just not gotten around to it. The Chevrolet one in particular has some nasty artifacts.
Interlacing is good if you need to use analog electronics. But that 'annoying' goes beyond just annoying: It over-complicates everything. The compression benefits are more than offset by the reduced efficiency of the more modern encoding, plus almost every stage in the process - every filter, as well as the encoder and decoder - need to be interlacing-aware. It's an awkward, obsolete technology and I eagerly await the day it is no longer to be found outside of historical video.
The link looks very interesting indeed. I've done a few restorations before, but you can't see any of them other than http://birds-are-nice.me/video/restorations.shtml - all the rest are of various copyrighted videos. I did one of Steamboat Willie to test some filters that was the most popular version on youtube for a time, until Disney DMCAed it.
There are tricks to that h264 encoding to squeeze a bit more. You can improve the motion estimation by just throwing power at it, though the gains are asymptotic. Or increase the frame reference limit - that does great thing on animation, if you don't mind losing profile compliance. Things like that. Changing the source is also often of great benefit - if it's a noisy image, a bit of noise-removal filtering before compression can not just improve subjective quality but also allow for much more efficient compression. Interlaced footage can be converted to progressive, bad frame rate conversions undone - progressive video just compresses better. It's something of a hobby of mine.
It's a matter of where. The extra resources are required on the server - even if the content is dynamic, it's quite possible that power and processor time will be cheap there. The corresponding savings are achieved on the clients, which includes smartphones - where connection quality ranges from 'none' to 'crap,' and the user will begrudge every last joule you need to display the page. It's worth throwing a lot of resources away on the server if it can save even a much smaller amount on the more-constrained client.
Wrong field. For general-purpose compression formats, rar is already far more capable than this, and 7z is better still. But neither of these are suitable for webbrowsers to transparently decompress - there, gzip and DEFLATE still reigns supreme. Zopfil is backwards-compatible: Browsers that support gzip/DEFLATE will work with it, no updates required.
Personally I think Google should have worked on increasing the number of decompressors browsers support - bzip would be nice, at least. The Accept-Encoding negotiation is already there, very easy to extend. But this will have to do.
Game-playing, but a government can play a lot of games that your household budget cannot. They can outright issue currency, if they need to. They can take out loans secured on the potential to issue currency, making them zero-risk and thus permitting a very low interest rate. The debt keeps mounting, but it's a debt that can mount indefinitely. It's worked, up until now.
He isn't going to get murdered. As a national security risk, he has been held in solitary confinement continually. With the sheer boredom for such a prolonged time, by the time he gets to trial he probably won't be coherent enough to testify in his own defense.
I find it unlikely he expected to get away with this. He just felt so strongly that the crimes he found needed to be exposed that he was willing to sacrifice his own freedom for what he saw as a greater good.
That kind of extreme devotion to a cause isn't always a good thing - it's basically the same psychology that drives suicide bombers - but he must have known what he was getting into.
It would be more accurate to say the pentagon claims that as a result of the leak people were injured or killed, but they can't reveal exactly who. They have experts who will testify during the trial, but for reasons of national security their testimony will be classified.
That's because the wording of the second amendment is sufficiently awkward that it's meaning could be argued over indefinitely. Just look at it:
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Now see how many points of contention there are: 1. Well-regulated. Does that mean the government can require whatever standards and permits legislators see fit? 2. Militia. A militia is a defensive force against attack by an organised party - another country or, at the time of writing, the natives. The amendment specifies a militia, do does that mean the right belongs to individuals too, or only a government-run militia intended for national defense? 3. The People. Does that mean individuals all have the right to bear their own arms? Or does it mean the collective people of a state, saying only that states have the right to their own militia rather than being dependent upon and vulnerable to the federal government? 4. Arms. What arms? Weapons have changed now. Obviously it would be silly to give citizens the right to own their own nuclear bomb, but that means a line must be drawn somewhere. Semi-automatic pistols? Automatic rifles? Sniper weapons? How about a few claymores - those are of value in defending one's property, certainly. A booby-trap on an outbuilding will stop any thief trying to get in. How about a few pipebombs, or an RPG?
People have been debating this for so long because the words, as they are written in the constitution, could be interpreted in many different and equally valid ways.
720K disks. Not that they were up to date even then, but I had a cubic meter of them. Quite literally. An old Atati ST collector gave them to me: A box one meter on each side, filled to the brim with 720k floppies. So many I could just give them away. So I did. Loaded with (via spanned ZIPs) mostly pokemon stuff. Website rips, roms, emulator, whole episodes in realvideo format. It was the in thing back then.
That was at school. Now I'm in employment, and it still goes on. The technicians exchange 1TB drives. I also have it from a very reliable source - a friend who works for some Big Media Company they can't name, but to judge by their knowledge of chroma key algorithms they know enough to plausibly hold the position - that among the rank-and-file tech staff of the place, piracy runs rampant too. Though he also says that if Management ever found out, heads would roll.
The solution to that is obvious. If you can route traffic *to* the suspect IP into the inspection box, you can route traffic *from* it there too! If it's heading for the customer, it's still got to traverse the ISPs network.
It's not actually a DPI system, though your close: It's a transparent HTTP proxy. The packet filter just directs traffic to port 80 on blacklisted hosts to the transparent proxy box, and the transparent proxy then filters on specific URLs. If it were a true DPI system, requests would still appear to originate from the correct IP address and we wouldn't have seen the wikipedia incident happen. Transparent proxying changes the source IP, which can be very disruptive to anti-vandal/troll systems and really mess with log analysis.
Or possibly sneakernet. You can get 1TB external USB drives cheap now, and can fit a lot of piracy on one of those. Every school, college and workplace will have a Knock-Off Nigel ready to swap drives.
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Actually, yes. Not any time soon, but gradually, over the next decade or so. Almost all new programs are made in HD, and even many of those SD channels are just duplicates of an HD channel maintained for compatibility.
Which just means that even if he is successful in his aim, it just means the government would need to extend gun control restrictions to also cover some other part of the gun. Something either too fiddley to print (the bolt, trigger assembly) or exposed to pressures and temperatures higher than a printed part could take (the barrel). It's a doomed aim, unless he can come up with a design made entirely from 3d printed parts and general-purpose plumbing and construction supplies.
They probably do, but they don't get notice. An accident in nuclear weapons development doesn't result in a nuclear boom - not even if the cause is sabotage. Just some scientists or workers getting their face burned off or a lethal dose of radiation. Easily covered up.
Virgin in the UK, when I signed up, but that was a special case: Introductory half-price offer on the bundle. Once the offer period runs out (6 months, IIRC) the price doubles.
The former, really. The videos are some mixture of ogv, webm, and one mp4 there somewhere. It's long been on my to-do list to get them all available as both webm and mp4, encoded to decent quality. I've just not gotten around to it. The Chevrolet one in particular has some nasty artifacts.
Not for much longer. It's on the decline.
Interlacing is good if you need to use analog electronics. But that 'annoying' goes beyond just annoying: It over-complicates everything. The compression benefits are more than offset by the reduced efficiency of the more modern encoding, plus almost every stage in the process - every filter, as well as the encoder and decoder - need to be interlacing-aware. It's an awkward, obsolete technology and I eagerly await the day it is no longer to be found outside of historical video.
The link looks very interesting indeed. I've done a few restorations before, but you can't see any of them other than http://birds-are-nice.me/video/restorations.shtml - all the rest are of various copyrighted videos. I did one of Steamboat Willie to test some filters that was the most popular version on youtube for a time, until Disney DMCAed it.
There are tricks to that h264 encoding to squeeze a bit more. You can improve the motion estimation by just throwing power at it, though the gains are asymptotic. Or increase the frame reference limit - that does great thing on animation, if you don't mind losing profile compliance. Things like that. Changing the source is also often of great benefit - if it's a noisy image, a bit of noise-removal filtering before compression can not just improve subjective quality but also allow for much more efficient compression. Interlaced footage can be converted to progressive, bad frame rate conversions undone - progressive video just compresses better. It's something of a hobby of mine.
I wrote a guide on the subject: http://birds-are-nice.me/publications/Optimising%20x264%20encodes.htm
You're right about Zopfli though. Regarding h264, it changes nothing.
It's a matter of where. The extra resources are required on the server - even if the content is dynamic, it's quite possible that power and processor time will be cheap there. The corresponding savings are achieved on the clients, which includes smartphones - where connection quality ranges from 'none' to 'crap,' and the user will begrudge every last joule you need to display the page. It's worth throwing a lot of resources away on the server if it can save even a much smaller amount on the more-constrained client.
Wrong field. For general-purpose compression formats, rar is already far more capable than this, and 7z is better still. But neither of these are suitable for webbrowsers to transparently decompress - there, gzip and DEFLATE still reigns supreme. Zopfil is backwards-compatible: Browsers that support gzip/DEFLATE will work with it, no updates required.
Personally I think Google should have worked on increasing the number of decompressors browsers support - bzip would be nice, at least. The Accept-Encoding negotiation is already there, very easy to extend. But this will have to do.
Game-playing, but a government can play a lot of games that your household budget cannot. They can outright issue currency, if they need to. They can take out loans secured on the potential to issue currency, making them zero-risk and thus permitting a very low interest rate. The debt keeps mounting, but it's a debt that can mount indefinitely. It's worked, up until now.
But then you'll just find budgets effectively shrinking year-on-year, even if the dollar amount stays the same. Inflation does that.
Accurate simulation means solving lots of nasty soft-body physics calculations. Humans are squishy inside. Doable, but also quite challenging.
He isn't going to get murdered. As a national security risk, he has been held in solitary confinement continually. With the sheer boredom for such a prolonged time, by the time he gets to trial he probably won't be coherent enough to testify in his own defense.
I find it unlikely he expected to get away with this. He just felt so strongly that the crimes he found needed to be exposed that he was willing to sacrifice his own freedom for what he saw as a greater good.
That kind of extreme devotion to a cause isn't always a good thing - it's basically the same psychology that drives suicide bombers - but he must have known what he was getting into.
It would be more accurate to say the pentagon claims that as a result of the leak people were injured or killed, but they can't reveal exactly who. They have experts who will testify during the trial, but for reasons of national security their testimony will be classified.
That's because the wording of the second amendment is sufficiently awkward that it's meaning could be argued over indefinitely. Just look at it:
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Now see how many points of contention there are:
1. Well-regulated. Does that mean the government can require whatever standards and permits legislators see fit?
2. Militia. A militia is a defensive force against attack by an organised party - another country or, at the time of writing, the natives. The amendment specifies a militia, do does that mean the right belongs to individuals too, or only a government-run militia intended for national defense?
3. The People. Does that mean individuals all have the right to bear their own arms? Or does it mean the collective people of a state, saying only that states have the right to their own militia rather than being dependent upon and vulnerable to the federal government?
4. Arms. What arms? Weapons have changed now. Obviously it would be silly to give citizens the right to own their own nuclear bomb, but that means a line must be drawn somewhere. Semi-automatic pistols? Automatic rifles? Sniper weapons? How about a few claymores - those are of value in defending one's property, certainly. A booby-trap on an outbuilding will stop any thief trying to get in. How about a few pipebombs, or an RPG?
People have been debating this for so long because the words, as they are written in the constitution, could be interpreted in many different and equally valid ways.
Well, I know what's going to be duct-taped to a bunch of li-ions and sitting in my bag at a future furmeet.
720K disks. Not that they were up to date even then, but I had a cubic meter of them. Quite literally. An old Atati ST collector gave them to me: A box one meter on each side, filled to the brim with 720k floppies. So many I could just give them away. So I did. Loaded with (via spanned ZIPs) mostly pokemon stuff. Website rips, roms, emulator, whole episodes in realvideo format. It was the in thing back then.
That was at school. Now I'm in employment, and it still goes on. The technicians exchange 1TB drives. I also have it from a very reliable source - a friend who works for some Big Media Company they can't name, but to judge by their knowledge of chroma key algorithms they know enough to plausibly hold the position - that among the rank-and-file tech staff of the place, piracy runs rampant too. Though he also says that if Management ever found out, heads would roll.
The solution to that is obvious. If you can route traffic *to* the suspect IP into the inspection box, you can route traffic *from* it there too! If it's heading for the customer, it's still got to traverse the ISPs network.
Reluctantly, in this case. It took a court order.
I think the only reason hollywood listened was because the piracy forced their hand. Without piracy, there would be no netflix or hulu.
It's not actually a DPI system, though your close: It's a transparent HTTP proxy. The packet filter just directs traffic to port 80 on blacklisted hosts to the transparent proxy box, and the transparent proxy then filters on specific URLs. If it were a true DPI system, requests would still appear to originate from the correct IP address and we wouldn't have seen the wikipedia incident happen. Transparent proxying changes the source IP, which can be very disruptive to anti-vandal/troll systems and really mess with log analysis.
Or possibly sneakernet. You can get 1TB external USB drives cheap now, and can fit a lot of piracy on one of those. Every school, college and workplace will have a Knock-Off Nigel ready to swap drives.
If you want to see some serious annoyance, ask an electrical engineer about 'broadband.'