Clearly the fault lie to the unsafe design of this nightclub. Exit hallway should be wider. The nightclub administrator were greedy and let in too many customers in for the capacity this building allowed. Overcrowd nightclub is common.
There were 4 exits, each capable of evacuating 250 people in a minute (for example). There were 900 people in the club, but everyone just chose the same exit.
Figures made up, but the point persists. Unless you design your building so everyone can exit quickly via the same exit you're screwed. That means tends of thousands leaving an stadium through one turnstyle.
That right there is the future of the human race. A self obsessed, attention seeking, ignorant person who thinks she can drive with a HUD. Maybe she can, but until she has trained in the army to use HUD's whilst driving, take the bloody thing off, for once, think of other people!
This single woman has basically enabled the world to drive with google glass. All those future accidents, waiting to happen, are on you Cecilia.
Forget 10,000 spoons, if she was killed by a glasshole driving a car there would have to be a song!
Averaged across my family, we send about 10 SMS/day each. So the total US would send around 3 BILLION per day, and the rest-of-the-world using customary multipliers 6+ BILLION.
Either the NSA has 2% filters (scary) or is incompetent. Or [likely] both!
I've sent 6 SMS messages this year, so extrapolated to the U.S. population that's about 110 MILLION per day
Interesting how you think that the U.S. accounts for half the SMS traffic in the world?
do you know of anybody that builds their media library to have their 1080p files be lower quality than their 720p?
I do not know anybody who does this intentionally, but most people I know do not encode their own videos. If they get their videos from many different sources that have different standards of quality, it is likely that they will have some videos that are both higher resolution and lower bitrate than other videos in their collection.
Furthermore, you are assuming that all these files are encoded with the same compression algorithm. Some compression algorithms have better performance. It is very possible for a 1080p video that is encoded with an efficient algorithm (e.g. h264) to be both better quality and lower bitrate than that same video encoded at 720p with a lower performing algorithm (e.g. cinepak)
The point is that the the ability to stream a video is directly dependent on the bitrate of the video. The fact that higher resolution videos tend to have a higher bitrate is just a correlation.
Absolutely.
I do encode my own videos (well my colleagues videos), professionally. they are watched by literally millions of people literally every day. I aim for a constant quality, not a constant bitrate. Most items I encode at a given subjective quality will add about 50% to encode at 1440x1080 25i over 576x768 25i, however I've encoded some low light stuff in SD that's hit a peak bitrate of 45mbit for a given quality on a given h264 video stream. The 3 minute piece came in at an average 25mbit.
That was originally off a DV25 piece.
Recently, 5 minutes of glorious looking pictures of floods, with a lot of running water, waving reeds, etc; rather than a typical 4-8mbit over 3-4 minutes depending on the clip, this stuff came in at 18mbit. It was well lit, but had a lot of detail and a lot of motion. The piece is a brilliant test, far better than people skipping through a forest.
Now encoding something simple like south park will use a lot less bits for a given quality.
So for the same subjective quality and same resolution you can have a bitrate varying by an order of magnitude at the same resolution. Even if bitrate scaled linearly with resolution you'd still have a minute of some SD material taking more bits to encode than a minute of other HD material.
I haven't run any tests, but my gut would tell me that something cartoonish like southpark at 1080p60 will use a lot fewer bits per second than encoding Blue Planet at 480i or 576i -- for starters I think southpark is only 15fps, so you're only really encoding 1080p15 (given the inter-frame changes on each frame will be zero).
because my router sucks, and with more walls between me and the router, by bandwidth drops severely.
You talking about a video router? Blackmagiv do perfectly serviceable ones for about £1500 that do 3G let alone 1080i.
That's the only place i can see resolution being an issue for routers.
Now if you're complaining about latency, jitter and bandwidth in an file based up world, then you'll be looking at the video bandwidth being the issue, as file system and client buffeting will cope with pretty much any amount of jitter.
That's funny. As long as my network conditions are good I've never had a problem like this with SMB, and I've had a setup for years.
SMB used to (not sure if it still does) have issues with high latency. I think you could only get something like 256kbit per round trip time, so a 10ms latency would limit you to 25mbit.
SMB streams 1080P stuff fine across my network, as long as I'm close to the router. 720P is damn good anywhere in the house. Been doing it for a long time, most lately on my Nexus 7 and my GBox MX2.
Why would the resolution make any difference to how well it streams? A 2mbit 1080p stream will work fine, a 270mbit 576i stream wont
when i was in south africa, i was told that in central johannesburg people sometimes get robbed of their cars. stop at the red light, two cars come. one stops in front of you, one behind you, a couple of guys with guns throw you out of your car. "traffic accidents" would not be enough:)
If you're lucky. A guy in our building in Joburg was carjacked at the lights, but the guy fired the pistol having failed to remove the keys.
Fortunatly it jammed, and the would-be jacker took his time clearing the gun why the chap escaped. When Group 4 arrived 10 minutes later they found both the misfired bullet with a dent in the back, a few spent casings, and a bullet hole in the back of the car.
Lucky escape, I'd rather drive in gaza than joburg.
Calling First Contact "great" is stretching the truth a bit. It was watchable, mostly.
The whole system is a bit broken to be honest, and feels like shoehorning answers.
On rewatch now, I find that Generations and Insurrection aren't too bad, aside from making Worf the butt-of-jokes. I find TSFS ok too, aside from the campy hair cuts. And I actually accepted the reboot, at least it was an original story.
This last travesty I hated, but it would have been so easy to fix. Just call Cumberbach "Harrison" all the way through, don't make any reference to Khan or eugenics. Remove the stupid "KHAAANNN" shout, remove the galaxy-spanning transporter, and think of a better fix than the super-blood.
The opening scene on the red planet was great, I accepted Pegg hanging a lantern on hiding the ship underwater, fine with the volcano solution (despite the term "cold fusion"
It all went downhill when they brought Khan in, crashing out below TMP and Nemesis.
It did inspire me to start reading the books though.
This version of Windows is guaranteed to be great. Windows has been going back and forth between one crap version and one great version for over a decade.
It is kind of like some IQ test pattern matching questions: Win 95 - crap Win 98 - great Win ME - crap Win XP - great Vista - crap Win 7 - great Win 8 - crap Win 9 - (see the pattern?)
Yes
Now Star Trek 1 TMP - crap Star Trek 2 TWOK - great Star Trek 3 TSFS - crap Star Trek 4 TVH - great Star Trek 5 TFF - crap Star Trek 6 TUC - great Star Trek 7 Generations - crap Star Trek 8 First Contact - great Star Trek 9 Insurrection - crap Star Trek 10 Nemesis - gre.... oh bugger the system fell apart
I fear you're right but hope you're wrong. My laptop is about 5 years old and I've used it heavily (I wrote Nobots on it, see my sig if you're curious) and have been shopping for a replacement. But all the new ones are either Chrome, W8, or Apple. Apple would be acceptable if they weren't so expensive, but I don't trust Google any more and W8 is an unusable clusterfuck.
And the guy at the store said installing Linux on one (he had Chrome and Windows) would void the warrantee. Screw that, if it has a factory hardware defect that isn't readily apparent I'm screwed.
So I really hope you're wrong and Microsoft pulls its head out of its ass. I do NOT want a phone' interface on my computer and I don't want a computer interface on my phone.
It kind of bums me out a little.
You're right, laptops today suck. I'm on my second T410s -- I destroyed the first one.
As I was born in the 80s I'm not scared about putting whatever software I want on. I want a laptop with a * Trackpoint * Matte Screen * Proper keyboard, not chiclets * Seperate page up/page down/home/end/insert/delete/function/print screen keys
They just don't exist anymore, even the thinkpad has fallen with the T430.
Meanwhile getting drunk, driving a car and actually killing 4 people doing that gets no jail time at all. US law needs justice like a fish needs a bycicle.
This goes with pretty much every other aspect of life in america, I don't see why you're shocked.
As long as they have emergency lights on the vehicle it should be OK.
Speeding without indication to other drivers would be to cause unnecessary danger, and it will of course cause someone to cut them off just because as well as some cops stopping them instead.
As long as they have emergency lights on the vehicle it should be OK.
Speeding without indication to other drivers would be to cause unnecessary danger, and it will of course cause someone to cut them off just because as well as some cops stopping them instead.
Unmarked police cars often speed without lights on. At least they used to 15 years ago when there was a police presence on the motorway.
The ones that cause danger are the cars doing 40mph on the motorways you have a stream of traffic trying to merge doing 60, they encounter an idiot going dangerously slow in the inside lane, and a wall of lorries overtaking said idiot at 56mph.
Ui motorwys need a minimum speed, with the death penalty for those going slower.
You mean utilize quantum entanglement? Maybe by the time someone is actually ready to go to Mars, they'll have developed the idea far enough to actually do it. Until then: Lasers.
Yes, a laser so powerful it will punch a hole through the sun.
It's very easy to create unique passwords that are hard to guess, and completely trivial to remember. My method is this:
- I have a 4 "stems" that are the first letters of 4 lines of poetry I remember from school. one stem is used for "very personal" things (ssh private key passwords for instance), another for login on "trusted" machines (my servers), and a third to use on various websites I trust moderately, and a fourth is a "junk" stem to use on shite websites (hotmail and the likes).
- To each stems, I append 2 digits (always the same)
- I prefix each stem with the first 3 letters of my username, and I append the 3 first letters of the machine's name, or website name I'm logging onto, after the digits.
- Finally, I append the number of letters in the machine name or website name (sans www. or.com).
The passwords that I create that way are reasonably secure, usually unique, and all I have to remember is a poem, my username for a particular machine/website (those I can store somewhere in plain text just in case) and the method to derive the corresponding password.
I have kajillions of passwords, and zero trouble remembering them. How hard can it be? I've never felt the need for a password storage solution of any kind.
I have a similar system. It breaks down occasionally. One website I had to use insisted on between 6 and 10 characters, no symbols, no upper case, but had to have numbers. WTF?!
Several email you the password, which means they store it in plain text. Yes, your system will hopefully categorise these into the "junk" group, but it's still a problem.
Tattoo your safe deposit bank number (the bank of which required your biometric identity to get into the vault) on your arm. Maybe you should also tattoo the name of the bank (and address?) there, I seem to remember that he had problems remembering he had a safe deposit box there.
Make sure the biometrics isn't fingerprins from the same arm, otherwise someone may chop your arm off and get both the bank name and the fingerprints in one go. People will do anything to get to your funny kitty pics on instagram.
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If the best models are worthless and have not made any good predictions, should we really "go with them" just because they are the best?
Just because Einstein came along doesn't mean Newton was wrong
Clearly the fault lie to the unsafe design of this nightclub. Exit hallway should be wider. The nightclub administrator were greedy and let in too many customers in for the capacity this building allowed. Overcrowd nightclub is common.
There were 4 exits, each capable of evacuating 250 people in a minute (for example). There were 900 people in the club, but everyone just chose the same exit.
Figures made up, but the point persists. Unless you design your building so everyone can exit quickly via the same exit you're screwed. That means tends of thousands leaving an stadium through one turnstyle.
A glasshole demonstrates that there is some substance behind the term. I hope they take the device away from her.
You realise that google can take over any google-glass device, and either submit subliminal messages, or simply electrocute the wearer.
There was a doctor who episode about it. Turns out it was the cybermen all along.
Just look at this page:
https://plus.google.com/+CeciliaAbadie/posts
That right there is the future of the human race.
A self obsessed, attention seeking, ignorant person who thinks she can drive with a HUD. Maybe she can, but until she has trained in the army to use HUD's whilst driving, take the bloody thing off, for once, think of other people!
This single woman has basically enabled the world to drive with google glass. All those future accidents, waiting to happen, are on you Cecilia.
Forget 10,000 spoons, if she was killed by a glasshole driving a car there would have to be a song!
"What's the word for chicken in chinese?"
"Stray Cat"
At least that's what my local takeaway say
the NSA is recording everything we all do. now let me know when there's a news story about what we can do about it.
Lets see, if only you had a constitution that knuckleheads think protect them against the state.
Averaged across my family, we send about 10 SMS/day each. So the total US would send around 3 BILLION per day, and the rest-of-the-world using customary multipliers 6+ BILLION.
Either the NSA has 2% filters (scary) or is incompetent. Or [likely] both!
I've sent 6 SMS messages this year, so extrapolated to the U.S. population that's about 110 MILLION per day
Interesting how you think that the U.S. accounts for half the SMS traffic in the world?
Why would someone pay $700 for a phone? An unlocked off-contract Nexus 5 costs only half that much.
A dollar a day for a device you spend an hour a day on?
I can't believe people spend $5 a day on Starbucks.
I never said it required a higher bitrate
You literally said:
higher resolution requires a higher bitrate
do you know of anybody that builds their media library to have their 1080p files be lower quality than their 720p?
I do not know anybody who does this intentionally, but most people I know do not encode their own videos. If they get their videos from many different sources that have different standards of quality, it is likely that they will have some videos that are both higher resolution and lower bitrate than other videos in their collection.
Furthermore, you are assuming that all these files are encoded with the same compression algorithm. Some compression algorithms have better performance. It is very possible for a 1080p video that is encoded with an efficient algorithm (e.g. h264) to be both better quality and lower bitrate than that same video encoded at 720p with a lower performing algorithm (e.g. cinepak)
The point is that the the ability to stream a video is directly dependent on the bitrate of the video. The fact that higher resolution videos tend to have a higher bitrate is just a correlation.
Absolutely.
I do encode my own videos (well my colleagues videos), professionally. they are watched by literally millions of people literally every day. I aim for a constant quality, not a constant bitrate. Most items I encode at a given subjective quality will add about 50% to encode at 1440x1080 25i over 576x768 25i, however I've encoded some low light stuff in SD that's hit a peak bitrate of 45mbit for a given quality on a given h264 video stream. The 3 minute piece came in at an average 25mbit.
That was originally off a DV25 piece.
Recently, 5 minutes of glorious looking pictures of floods, with a lot of running water, waving reeds, etc; rather than a typical 4-8mbit over 3-4 minutes depending on the clip, this stuff came in at 18mbit. It was well lit, but had a lot of detail and a lot of motion. The piece is a brilliant test, far better than people skipping through a forest.
Now encoding something simple like south park will use a lot less bits for a given quality.
So for the same subjective quality and same resolution you can have a bitrate varying by an order of magnitude at the same resolution. Even if bitrate scaled linearly with resolution you'd still have a minute of some SD material taking more bits to encode than a minute of other HD material.
I haven't run any tests, but my gut would tell me that something cartoonish like southpark at 1080p60 will use a lot fewer bits per second than encoding Blue Planet at 480i or 576i -- for starters I think southpark is only 15fps, so you're only really encoding 1080p15 (given the inter-frame changes on each frame will be zero).
because my router sucks, and with more walls between me and the router, by bandwidth drops severely.
You talking about a video router? Blackmagiv do perfectly serviceable ones for about £1500 that do 3G let alone 1080i.
That's the only place i can see resolution being an issue for routers.
Now if you're complaining about latency, jitter and bandwidth in an file based up world, then you'll be looking at the video bandwidth being the issue, as file system and client buffeting will cope with pretty much any amount of jitter.
Someone has a new hammer and every problem is looking like nail...
I tried using my pi as a nail. It was about as good as using it as leaving it as a remote box I can ssh off.
That's funny. As long as my network conditions are good I've never had a problem like this with SMB, and I've had a setup for years.
SMB used to (not sure if it still does) have issues with high latency. I think you could only get something like 256kbit per round trip time, so a 10ms latency would limit you to 25mbit.
I assume that it's been fixed now.
SMB streams 1080P stuff fine across my network, as long as I'm close to the router. 720P is damn good anywhere in the house. Been doing it for a long time, most lately on my Nexus 7 and my GBox MX2.
Why would the resolution make any difference to how well it streams? A 2mbit 1080p stream will work fine, a 270mbit 576i stream wont
when i was in south africa, i was told that in central johannesburg people sometimes get robbed of their cars. stop at the red light, two cars come. one stops in front of you, one behind you, a couple of guys with guns throw you out of your car. :)
"traffic accidents" would not be enough
If you're lucky. A guy in our building in Joburg was carjacked at the lights, but the guy fired the pistol having failed to remove the keys.
Fortunatly it jammed, and the would-be jacker took his time clearing the gun why the chap escaped. When Group 4 arrived 10 minutes later they found both the misfired bullet with a dent in the back, a few spent casings, and a bullet hole in the back of the car.
Lucky escape, I'd rather drive in gaza than joburg.
If you were irish and sober...
Why not ask if he's a leprechaun - it's more likely!
Calling First Contact "great" is stretching the truth a bit. It was watchable, mostly.
The whole system is a bit broken to be honest, and feels like shoehorning answers.
On rewatch now, I find that Generations and Insurrection aren't too bad, aside from making Worf the butt-of-jokes. I find TSFS ok too, aside from the campy hair cuts. And I actually accepted the reboot, at least it was an original story.
This last travesty I hated, but it would have been so easy to fix. Just call Cumberbach "Harrison" all the way through, don't make any reference to Khan or eugenics. Remove the stupid "KHAAANNN" shout, remove the galaxy-spanning transporter, and think of a better fix than the super-blood.
The opening scene on the red planet was great, I accepted Pegg hanging a lantern on hiding the ship underwater, fine with the volcano solution (despite the term "cold fusion"
It all went downhill when they brought Khan in, crashing out below TMP and Nemesis.
It did inspire me to start reading the books though.
This version of Windows is guaranteed to be great. Windows has been going back and forth between one crap version and one great version for over a decade.
It is kind of like some IQ test pattern matching questions:
Win 95 - crap
Win 98 - great
Win ME - crap
Win XP - great
Vista - crap
Win 7 - great
Win 8 - crap
Win 9 - (see the pattern?)
Yes
Now
Star Trek 1 TMP - crap
Star Trek 2 TWOK - great
Star Trek 3 TSFS - crap
Star Trek 4 TVH - great
Star Trek 5 TFF - crap
Star Trek 6 TUC - great
Star Trek 7 Generations - crap
Star Trek 8 First Contact - great
Star Trek 9 Insurrection - crap
Star Trek 10 Nemesis - gre.... oh bugger the system fell apart
Systems only exist until they are broken.
I fear you're right but hope you're wrong. My laptop is about 5 years old and I've used it heavily (I wrote Nobots on it, see my sig if you're curious) and have been shopping for a replacement. But all the new ones are either Chrome, W8, or Apple. Apple would be acceptable if they weren't so expensive, but I don't trust Google any more and W8 is an unusable clusterfuck.
And the guy at the store said installing Linux on one (he had Chrome and Windows) would void the warrantee. Screw that, if it has a factory hardware defect that isn't readily apparent I'm screwed.
So I really hope you're wrong and Microsoft pulls its head out of its ass. I do NOT want a phone' interface on my computer and I don't want a computer interface on my phone.
It kind of bums me out a little.
You're right, laptops today suck. I'm on my second T410s -- I destroyed the first one.
As I was born in the 80s I'm not scared about putting whatever software I want on. I want a laptop with a
* Trackpoint
* Matte Screen
* Proper keyboard, not chiclets
* Seperate page up/page down/home/end/insert/delete/function/print screen keys
They just don't exist anymore, even the thinkpad has fallen with the T430.
Meanwhile getting drunk, driving a car and actually killing 4 people doing that gets no jail time at all. US law needs justice like a fish needs a bycicle.
This goes with pretty much every other aspect of life in america, I don't see why you're shocked.
As long as they have emergency lights on the vehicle it should be OK.
Speeding without indication to other drivers would be to cause unnecessary danger, and it will of course cause someone to cut them off just because as well as some cops stopping them instead.
As long as they have emergency lights on the vehicle it should be OK.
Speeding without indication to other drivers would be to cause unnecessary danger, and it will of course cause someone to cut them off just because as well as some cops stopping them instead.
Unmarked police cars often speed without lights on. At least they used to 15 years ago when there was a police presence on the motorway.
The ones that cause danger are the cars doing 40mph on the motorways you have a stream of traffic trying to merge doing 60, they encounter an idiot going dangerously slow in the inside lane, and a wall of lorries overtaking said idiot at 56mph.
Ui motorwys need a minimum speed, with the death penalty for those going slower.
You mean utilize quantum entanglement? Maybe by the time someone is actually ready to go to Mars, they'll have developed the idea far enough to actually do it. Until then: Lasers.
Yes, a laser so powerful it will punch a hole through the sun.
Maybe readers of the article
LOL
You must be new here
Or just write your passwords down and put them in your sock drawer.
It's not safe there. You're forgetting rule 34. There's a whole load of sock fetishists in the world ;-)
Either that or your socks turn into a sentient lifeform again and hack your accounts
It's very easy to create unique passwords that are hard to guess, and completely trivial to remember. My method is this:
- I have a 4 "stems" that are the first letters of 4 lines of poetry I remember from school. one stem is used for "very personal" things (ssh private key passwords for instance), another for login on "trusted" machines (my servers), and a third to use on various websites I trust moderately, and a fourth is a "junk" stem to use on shite websites (hotmail and the likes).
- To each stems, I append 2 digits (always the same)
- I prefix each stem with the first 3 letters of my username, and I append the 3 first letters of the machine's name, or website name I'm logging onto, after the digits.
- Finally, I append the number of letters in the machine name or website name (sans www. or .com).
The passwords that I create that way are reasonably secure, usually unique, and all I have to remember is a poem, my username for a particular machine/website (those I can store somewhere in plain text just in case) and the method to derive the corresponding password.
I have kajillions of passwords, and zero trouble remembering them. How hard can it be? I've never felt the need for a password storage solution of any kind.
I have a similar system. It breaks down occasionally. One website I had to use insisted on between 6 and 10 characters, no symbols, no upper case, but had to have numbers. WTF?!
Several email you the password, which means they store it in plain text. Yes, your system will hopefully categorise these into the "junk" group, but it's still a problem.
Tattoo your safe deposit bank number (the bank of which required your biometric identity to get into the vault) on your arm. Maybe you should also tattoo the name of the bank (and address?) there, I seem to remember that he had problems remembering he had a safe deposit box there.
Make sure the biometrics isn't fingerprins from the same arm, otherwise someone may chop your arm off and get both the bank name and the fingerprints in one go. People will do anything to get to your funny kitty pics on instagram.