Yellow is the closest to luma, and most data encoded into most video or images encode the luma most heavily, red and blue are shown in reduced resolution because chroma is less significant than luma. Most one-chip cameras also have two green color cells with a single blue and red color cell because green is closest of the three to encoding luma information. I can see future chips using yellow, red, green and blue to provide better information to the encoder.
Optical discs cost almost nothing to make, but the consumer has never seen the benefit.
I don't think that was true. N64 cartridges costed $10 more per game than optical game discs for other new platforms at the time. N64 games were a lot more limited than the optical platforms of the time too, silicon storage at the time was very expensive per bit, stamping a disc got you a lot of room to play with.
A memory card that's the size of a postage stamp is a far cry from something like an NES cartridge.
But when a memory card can hold dozens, if not hundreds of games, the idea of having a piece of media that holds just one title is really the part that should be going out the door.
The critical missing piece in your comment is, who is going to pay the lawyer? In SCO v. IBM, IBM was being attacked, not open source (directly), but IBM paid the lawyers even if they had input from the open source community. Is the OSS crowd going to financially support a legal team to protect Theora devs from MPEG-LA, Apple, etc., if they come calling?
The Gizmodo stories of provenance don't add up. Here's just one example: we're told that the finder didn't know whose phone it was, but then several days later, it's posted along with pictures of the Apple employee's Facebook page, among other things. The phone was said to be bricked before Gizmodo received it. So how did Gizmodo learn who owned it?
Also, we're told the finder tried to call Apple to report a recovered phone, but the finder didn't even bother reporting it to the bartender.
I'm not sure what you would gain with that. There is a poster that mentioned putting old film lenses on a new camera, say an Olympus E-P1. People seem to be making lens adapters for just about any kind of lens mount. Your experience with old lenses may vary a lot, some of them were and still are excellent, others just don't hold up.
My attitude is getting to be more like, if the airlines didn't have insurance for this sort of thing, then the most they should get is a loan with interest with a repayment deadline and a stipulation to buy insurance for any kind of issue so it doesn't come up again.
Actually, what I've done is said I didn't like the screen. This was with a TV I bought at Best Buy. Not too high-end with the computer monitors but not Wal-Mart either.
Wouldn't it be best to find a seller with a good return policy? My experience is that bad pixels are almost always bad on delivery. I haven't had bad pixels form later on.
I'm amused that the Michigan Press Association used an address in Missouri for their correspondence.
I don't think the cost of that information is about the quantity, it's about having to collect information from 3140 county clerk offices and transcribing them reliably into digital format, or if they are in digital format, converting possibly numerous digital formats into one harmonized format can cost a lot of money.
I've filed for a couple DBAs with the county and an LLC with the state, there wasn't any requirement on my part to publish that information that I've seen, if they are posted somewhere by the respective clerk's offices, then I haven't seen or heard of it.
I know there's a lot of sarcasm there, but Apple has had a kill switch from the very beginning of the app store. So far, they haven't used it that I've heard, I think it would blow up like when Amazon yanked an unauthorized version of 1984 from the Kindle.
That's the problem though, there is this misguided belief that telling teens not to have sex is effective sex education. Last I read, at most, it leads to on average, about a six month delay of sex activity, and engaging in riskier behaviors because they're not taught about any measures of protection.
It seems you usually have to dial back a designer's work about 50% in order to get something practical. This is true of car designs too, the stuff they show at auto shows usually aren't practical, the one you get off the assembly line has had a lot of changes.
If there's any sense left in them, they'll be flying to beyond low earth orbit.
The problem is a lack of mission, and a lack of budget, and they need to sell both to Congress and the general public.
People seem to think NASA has a huge budget, in some ways they do, but the budget doesn't really allow for manned space exploration beyond LEO. In real dollars, it's down a lot from the Apollo-era budget and that was just what was needed to cover a few jaunts to the moon. In order for NASA to do something beyond Apollo, they need to have a plan and a stable long-term budget to carry out the plan.
For most people, the psychology of pricing probably isn't conscious.
I'm not sure what the prices should be, but I don't think the low-ball pricing advocated by some in this thread is necessarily going to yield sales volumes that offset the lost per-unit profit, I'm not sure it's necessarily sustainable.
I have an uncle that embeds aluminum cuttings into hockey puck-sized epoxy castings, it's supposed to "purify the air" of cell and wifi radiation by placing one of these at each corner of the property. It's total BS, though I don't know if my uncle knows this. Supposedly he's educated, but then, he was trained a vet. Should I forward my uncle's information to him?
I don't think he was saying that better graphics and sound makes a worse or bad game.
It's not just a matter of hardware though, I see AI and game play elements not constrained by hardware, but constrained by developer time. If they have to make a different kind of engine to take advantage of the latest hardware, that can take away budget from improving AI and game play.
That's about as information-free as one can get. I'd ask why, but then, I don't understand why I would have to, just saying "no" is void of context and explanation.
Hard drives have long been marketed as base-10 and it seems like people generally understood it as that, even if computers don't operate that way. Computers reporting based on base-2 made hard drives seem smaller, even if the hard drive can hold 1TB (or 1000GB) of data, computers reported it as around 931 GiB. Different notations are going to get different numbers.
I'm not sure why people complain about the differences aside from misunderstanding what's going on. It's rare to need to know the size of a file or hard drive to the last byte or anything even approaching that precision, whether it's 1000GB or 931 GiB, it's still representing the same amount of capacity.
The Japanese happen to use roughly half the energy per capita as the US. The same with Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and several other developed, high tech societies all use maybe 40-50% less energy per person as the US. How you can honestly say there's not much that can be done is baffling.
An electronic audit trail/change control system seems to be something that can be done, but maybe the currently available systems are too complicated to use.
Computers can be backed up for relatively easy restoration. A company that can't reimage a computer or restore it from a backup probably has deeper issues. Actual data files should be on a server as much as possible, and those servers should be backed up too.
It's such an expensive technology too, $1600 for a 10" saw. A basic table saw is not going to fall apart on you is $300.
I'll have to look up the details of this case some time. I expect that most of the time, power tool injuries stem from user errors, not operating or using the tool properly. For a table saw, that means keeping all the guards in place, having a sturdy stand, keep the surroundings uncluttered, not standing in front of the blade path, and so on. Shortcuts tend to compromise safety, that and people that think they're special enough to not need to read and follow instructions.
Has anyone had a hard answer as to why he turned down the prizes and medals? The author of "Perfect Rigor" seemed to think that Perelman thought the Fields Medal was beneath him. I don't think hiding away from society did him any good, especially if he's expecting other people to defend him when he seems not willing to do so himself.
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Yellow is the closest to luma, and most data encoded into most video or images encode the luma most heavily, red and blue are shown in reduced resolution because chroma is less significant than luma. Most one-chip cameras also have two green color cells with a single blue and red color cell because green is closest of the three to encoding luma information. I can see future chips using yellow, red, green and blue to provide better information to the encoder.
Optical discs cost almost nothing to make, but the consumer has never seen the benefit.
I don't think that was true. N64 cartridges costed $10 more per game than optical game discs for other new platforms at the time. N64 games were a lot more limited than the optical platforms of the time too, silicon storage at the time was very expensive per bit, stamping a disc got you a lot of room to play with.
A memory card that's the size of a postage stamp is a far cry from something like an NES cartridge.
But when a memory card can hold dozens, if not hundreds of games, the idea of having a piece of media that holds just one title is really the part that should be going out the door.
The critical missing piece in your comment is, who is going to pay the lawyer? In SCO v. IBM, IBM was being attacked, not open source (directly), but IBM paid the lawyers even if they had input from the open source community. Is the OSS crowd going to financially support a legal team to protect Theora devs from MPEG-LA, Apple, etc., if they come calling?
The Gizmodo stories of provenance don't add up. Here's just one example: we're told that the finder didn't know whose phone it was, but then several days later, it's posted along with pictures of the Apple employee's Facebook page, among other things. The phone was said to be bricked before Gizmodo received it. So how did Gizmodo learn who owned it?
Also, we're told the finder tried to call Apple to report a recovered phone, but the finder didn't even bother reporting it to the bartender.
I'm not sure what you would gain with that. There is a poster that mentioned putting old film lenses on a new camera, say an Olympus E-P1. People seem to be making lens adapters for just about any kind of lens mount. Your experience with old lenses may vary a lot, some of them were and still are excellent, others just don't hold up.
Nice to see some pictures.
My attitude is getting to be more like, if the airlines didn't have insurance for this sort of thing, then the most they should get is a loan with interest with a repayment deadline and a stipulation to buy insurance for any kind of issue so it doesn't come up again.
All while using the wrong homonym too, hoards means something very different from hordes.
Actually, what I've done is said I didn't like the screen. This was with a TV I bought at Best Buy. Not too high-end with the computer monitors but not Wal-Mart either.
Wouldn't it be best to find a seller with a good return policy? My experience is that bad pixels are almost always bad on delivery. I haven't had bad pixels form later on.
I think it cuts both ways though, if I have to upgrade most of the computer just to upgrade one part, I'll just put it off.
I'm amused that the Michigan Press Association used an address in Missouri for their correspondence.
I don't think the cost of that information is about the quantity, it's about having to collect information from 3140 county clerk offices and transcribing them reliably into digital format, or if they are in digital format, converting possibly numerous digital formats into one harmonized format can cost a lot of money.
I've filed for a couple DBAs with the county and an LLC with the state, there wasn't any requirement on my part to publish that information that I've seen, if they are posted somewhere by the respective clerk's offices, then I haven't seen or heard of it.
I know there's a lot of sarcasm there, but Apple has had a kill switch from the very beginning of the app store. So far, they haven't used it that I've heard, I think it would blow up like when Amazon yanked an unauthorized version of 1984 from the Kindle.
That's the problem though, there is this misguided belief that telling teens not to have sex is effective sex education. Last I read, at most, it leads to on average, about a six month delay of sex activity, and engaging in riskier behaviors because they're not taught about any measures of protection.
It seems you usually have to dial back a designer's work about 50% in order to get something practical. This is true of car designs too, the stuff they show at auto shows usually aren't practical, the one you get off the assembly line has had a lot of changes.
If there's any sense left in them, they'll be flying to beyond low earth orbit.
The problem is a lack of mission, and a lack of budget, and they need to sell both to Congress and the general public.
People seem to think NASA has a huge budget, in some ways they do, but the budget doesn't really allow for manned space exploration beyond LEO. In real dollars, it's down a lot from the Apollo-era budget and that was just what was needed to cover a few jaunts to the moon. In order for NASA to do something beyond Apollo, they need to have a plan and a stable long-term budget to carry out the plan.
The psychology of pricing is pretty weird.
Science Friday interviewed someone that wrote a book on pricing "Priceless":
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201001015
For most people, the psychology of pricing probably isn't conscious.
I'm not sure what the prices should be, but I don't think the low-ball pricing advocated by some in this thread is necessarily going to yield sales volumes that offset the lost per-unit profit, I'm not sure it's necessarily sustainable.
I have an uncle that embeds aluminum cuttings into hockey puck-sized epoxy castings, it's supposed to "purify the air" of cell and wifi radiation by placing one of these at each corner of the property. It's total BS, though I don't know if my uncle knows this. Supposedly he's educated, but then, he was trained a vet. Should I forward my uncle's information to him?
I don't think he was saying that better graphics and sound makes a worse or bad game.
It's not just a matter of hardware though, I see AI and game play elements not constrained by hardware, but constrained by developer time. If they have to make a different kind of engine to take advantage of the latest hardware, that can take away budget from improving AI and game play.
No, just no.
That's about as information-free as one can get. I'd ask why, but then, I don't understand why I would have to, just saying "no" is void of context and explanation.
Hard drives have long been marketed as base-10 and it seems like people generally understood it as that, even if computers don't operate that way. Computers reporting based on base-2 made hard drives seem smaller, even if the hard drive can hold 1TB (or 1000GB) of data, computers reported it as around 931 GiB. Different notations are going to get different numbers.
I'm not sure why people complain about the differences aside from misunderstanding what's going on. It's rare to need to know the size of a file or hard drive to the last byte or anything even approaching that precision, whether it's 1000GB or 931 GiB, it's still representing the same amount of capacity.
The Japanese happen to use roughly half the energy per capita as the US. The same with Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and several other developed, high tech societies all use maybe 40-50% less energy per person as the US. How you can honestly say there's not much that can be done is baffling.
An electronic audit trail/change control system seems to be something that can be done, but maybe the currently available systems are too complicated to use.
Computers can be backed up for relatively easy restoration. A company that can't reimage a computer or restore it from a backup probably has deeper issues. Actual data files should be on a server as much as possible, and those servers should be backed up too.
It's such an expensive technology too, $1600 for a 10" saw. A basic table saw is not going to fall apart on you is $300.
I'll have to look up the details of this case some time. I expect that most of the time, power tool injuries stem from user errors, not operating or using the tool properly. For a table saw, that means keeping all the guards in place, having a sturdy stand, keep the surroundings uncluttered, not standing in front of the blade path, and so on. Shortcuts tend to compromise safety, that and people that think they're special enough to not need to read and follow instructions.
Has anyone had a hard answer as to why he turned down the prizes and medals? The author of "Perfect Rigor" seemed to think that Perelman thought the Fields Medal was beneath him. I don't think hiding away from society did him any good, especially if he's expecting other people to defend him when he seems not willing to do so himself.