My consortium would like to buy 100,000 Canadian dollars from you. We are willing to pay up to $90,000 US-- $5000 over and above your quoted price. Please contact me at your earliest convenience.
Wouldn't it be nice if game companies just created a user for themselves? Make one, easily monitored call to create the user, and then get the hell out of superuser mode. If they break their install, they break their install--but not the computer itself.
HD MPEG-2 content at 1920x1080 traditionally runs at 12-20 Mbps, while H.264 can deliver 1920x1080 content at 7-8 Mbps at the same or better quality. H.264 provides DVD quality at about half the data rate of MPEG-2.
so a 1 MB/s 720p is probably pushing it. That's fine if you just want to watch the show-- but hd-dvd and bluray were both designed around the fantasy that a nearly perfect, artifact free movie was desirable.
I'm probably not quite in the target market-- a 27 inch HDTV only occupies so much of my angle of view. But one of the local channels aggressively compresses its 1080i feed. It stands out as muddy, blocky, and in the end, non-HD. So I'm quite skeptical of overly aggressive H.264 schemes.
I like to become absorbed in what I'm watching. If an actress's face looks like it's been smeared with pancake makeup, it takes me out of the film. The presentation may be good enough to give me the gist of the film-- the plot, the jokes, some of the special effects, etc, but it's not as enjoyable as when the sound and picture are top notch.
To give you a silly example, "Dead Alive", when viewed on a flickering CRT looks like a waste of time-- gross out sophomoric humor. Hook up a decent sound system, and a well calibrated monitor and you can almost lose yourself in the karo syrup smeared ballet.
For most of my friends and family, simple SD-DVD upconverted to 1080i is enough to make them happy. HD was really designed around big televisions-- big enough to occupy 30 degrees of arc. Any smaller, and the limitations of 20/20 vision rear their ugly head.
Upsampling can help get rid of jaggies, and maybe even make things look sharper but it's not going to generate new pores on a actors face, nor will it recreate the original film grain, or make the actor's sweat glisten in the hot sun.
Considering that a lawyer may (conceivably during my lifetime) be privy to my secrets (attorney client privilege), control my finances (trust funds),, act as a representative for my interests in negotiations, or be called upon to explain or negotiate contracts, I'd want someone who could keep a secret. could refrain from embezzlement, and keep his or her cllient's interests at the forefront.
Amazon's real secret? When you purchase something on Amazon, their delivery commitment is vague enough that you can be at the "back of the line" and still get your goods when promised.
It's difficult to estimate precise delivery times. The book may not be in the nearest warehouse, for instance. They may not have the staff at a particular facility to package all the items in a timely fashion. If they over estimate the time it takes to package and deliver an item to an address, the customer may decide that he can't wait that long. If they underestimate, the customer may get frustrated by the "delay." The patent includes algorithms for optimizing the delivery estimate.
One of HD-DVD's marketig slogan's is The look and sound of perfect. Not only does HD-DVD offer a spectacular 1080p image, it also offers lossless Dolby TrueHD soundtracks that sound as good as a CD-- except that they're multichannel.
Now, let's consider the XBox 360. According to people who have it, it's loud, and it downs samples all the TrueHD soundtracks into ordinary dts or dolby digital. It may look and sound just fine to you, but it's not for the perfectionist-- the person who wants to listen to the sounds of silence, not to the sounds of a fan and disk drive.
The XBox360 doesn't have a tuner. Oh yeah, Microsoft could offer a QAM/ATSC module, but this doesn't solve the problems of people who have Switched Digital Video. It doesn't support DirectTV or Dish, or C-band, so let's add those too. And since a thousand dollars worth of equipment isn't served well by a failing power supply, a redesign may be in order. Better add expansion bays too, because the next big thing in digital video may require a new set of chips. And on and on it goes.
What's needed is a standardized control interface for all of these gadgets. A person should be able to hook up a new device with a single cable, and not have to mess around with a new interface. New Bluray player? Just plug it in, and have the computers negotiate which settings are needed, which audio and video resolutions to use, the mappings for the remote control etc. etc.
Best place to centralize all that negotiation? The receiver/pre-pro.
Pogue's review is wrong on so many counts it isn't even funny.
This isn't a goddamned comedy club. We don't reward people for being funny. We reward people for being Insightful and Informative. So don't be shy about posting a methodological review of Pogue's reviews. Don't skimp on the details. And, please, if you have a conflict of interest, please inform us in the body of your reply.
The original BMI categories were themselves derived from deviation about the average. Underweight was defined as -2z, overweight as +2z, and obese as +3z, IIRC. The cutoffs were different: Normal was 20--27, rather than 18.5--25 as it is under the WHO guidelines,
The cutoffs were, for a time, useful for analyzing cardiovascular disease risks, and were rearranged to help in this analysis.
i also read somewhere - and never was able to find it again - that death rates decreased in general the closer one's body mass got to 55kg. man, if i can find that link i'll post it.
Most people are too tall to feel comfortable at 55 kilos.
Or, you could shop for what you need that day. There's no need to drive past the markets to get to a [i]super[/i]market. Use the urban setting to your advantage.
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In a properly designed operating system, the install script would error out because it didn't have the correct permissions.
Wouldn't it be nice if game companies just created a user for themselves? Make one, easily monitored call to create the user, and then get the hell out of superuser mode. If they break their install, they break their install--but not the computer itself.
Wouldn't a more modern operating system support filenames that didn't collide?
so a 1 MB/s 720p is probably pushing it. That's fine if you just want to watch the show-- but hd-dvd and bluray were both designed around the fantasy that a nearly perfect, artifact free movie was desirable.
I'm probably not quite in the target market-- a 27 inch HDTV only occupies so much of my angle of view. But one of the local channels aggressively compresses its 1080i feed. It stands out as muddy, blocky, and in the end, non-HD. So I'm quite skeptical of overly aggressive H.264 schemes.
I like to become absorbed in what I'm watching. If an actress's face looks like it's been smeared with pancake makeup, it takes me out of the film. The presentation may be good enough to give me the gist of the film-- the plot, the jokes, some of the special effects, etc, but it's not as enjoyable as when the sound and picture are top notch.
To give you a silly example, "Dead Alive", when viewed on a flickering CRT looks like a waste of time-- gross out sophomoric humor. Hook up a decent sound system, and a well calibrated monitor and you can almost lose yourself in the karo syrup smeared ballet.
In other words, no where near high def, either in sound, or in video.
Upsampling can help get rid of jaggies, and maybe even make things look sharper but it's not going to generate new pores on a actors face, nor will it recreate the original film grain, or make the actor's sweat glisten in the hot sun.
Do you know how hard it is to find Nigerian patents?
Considering that a lawyer may (conceivably during my lifetime) be privy to my secrets (attorney client privilege), control my finances (trust funds),, act as a representative for my interests in negotiations, or be called upon to explain or negotiate contracts, I'd want someone who could keep a secret. could refrain from embezzlement, and keep his or her cllient's interests at the forefront.
Ticker symbols?
Is this some super-libertarian way of looking at the world? "If it hasn't gone public, it doesn't exist"?
Imagine yourself in the year 1984. Would you know how to use that second mouse button?
It's difficult to estimate precise delivery times. The book may not be in the nearest warehouse, for instance. They may not have the staff at a particular facility to package all the items in a timely fashion. If they over estimate the time it takes to package and deliver an item to an address, the customer may decide that he can't wait that long. If they underestimate, the customer may get frustrated by the "delay." The patent includes algorithms for optimizing the delivery estimate.
One of HD-DVD's marketig slogan's is The look and sound of perfect. Not only does HD-DVD offer a spectacular 1080p image, it also offers lossless Dolby TrueHD soundtracks that sound as good as a CD-- except that they're multichannel.
Now, let's consider the XBox 360. According to people who have it, it's loud, and it downs samples all the TrueHD soundtracks into ordinary dts or dolby digital. It may look and sound just fine to you, but it's not for the perfectionist-- the person who wants to listen to the sounds of silence, not to the sounds of a fan and disk drive.
The XBox360 doesn't have a tuner. Oh yeah, Microsoft could offer a QAM/ATSC module, but this doesn't solve the problems of people who have Switched Digital Video. It doesn't support DirectTV or Dish, or C-band, so let's add those too. And since a thousand dollars worth of equipment isn't served well by a failing power supply, a redesign may be in order. Better add expansion bays too, because the next big thing in digital video may require a new set of chips. And on and on it goes.
What's needed is a standardized control interface for all of these gadgets. A person should be able to hook up a new device with a single cable, and not have to mess around with a new interface. New Bluray player? Just plug it in, and have the computers negotiate which settings are needed, which audio and video resolutions to use, the mappings for the remote control etc. etc.
Best place to centralize all that negotiation? The receiver/pre-pro.
How To Use Video Games To Keep Fit The device in question is briefly mentioned towards the end of this amusing video.
Why would 97,000 Canadians vote for Ron Paul?
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5'7" @165 lbs results in a BMI of 25.8, which, under WHO guidelines, is marginally overweight. All of the figures I gave were marginal...
5'2 @165 lbs yields a BMI of 30.2-- marginally obese.
BMI really has little to do with physical attractiveness, the 5'2 @165 has her mass arranged attractively
The original BMI categories were themselves derived from deviation about the average. Underweight was defined as -2z, overweight as +2z, and obese as +3z, IIRC. The cutoffs were different: Normal was 20--27, rather than 18.5--25 as it is under the WHO guidelines,
The cutoffs were, for a time, useful for analyzing cardiovascular disease risks, and were rearranged to help in this analysis.
erm. 17 inches. yeah. Damned duodecimalists.
You, my friend, need to lose 4 kilos.
Let us imagine that you weigh 165 lbs.
At 6'7" you're underweight.
At 5'7" you're overweight
At 5'2" you're obese
It's a 15 inch spread, for crying out loud. Not a few inches.
(As for myself, I could lose two pounds, and be underweight, but I'd have to gain 76 lbs to be considered obese)
Cripes. Most of those indices would describe you as "underweight." For the record, I'm 1.7m, and 54 kg.
Most people are too tall to feel comfortable at 55 kilos.
You could read a newspaper, or switch to ITV, or Channel 4. In Russia, the "competitors" are also owned by the state.
Or, you could shop for what you need that day. There's no need to drive past the markets to get to a [i]super[/i]market. Use the urban setting to your advantage.