Yes. Calls to cell phones cost much more than calls to land lines. I'm not sure if it could be classified as insane, but it's usually about 10 times higher (roughtly 20 cents per minute instead of 2). The reason is simply that in Europe mobile phone users don't pay for incoming calls.
At least that is network neutrality. Would it really be better if they waived the bandwidth charge when using their movie service but made customers pay extra when using competing services (e.g. Netflix)?
Just think about what you're complaining about, and what it really means. The only problem is that the data caps are low and the overage charges are high -- and that is exactly what one should expect given the competitiveness of wireless service in the USA.
Maybe slavery isn't quite the right word for it, because that includes the connotation of a person being property. Although, to the one forced to toil, the social construct in which they are viewed doesn't seem very relevant. Nonetheless, I should probably call it what it is, involuntary forced labor. Keep in mind that, likewise, slavery isn't actually the right word for the forced labor camps used in some totalitarian regimes. I don't find one to be especially less repugnant than the other. Maybe the word slavery pricks ears better.
What is the inherent difference between a political prisoner and a thief being sentenced to forced labor? A cynical part of me observes that they are the same, except one is a Jew and the other a Negro.
What truly defies common sense is for their to be a prison population so large that the cost of it is a significant drain to the society. It is like taking painkillers for a toothache instead of seeing the dentist.
Streaming video over UDP sucks because video codecs (e.g. h.264-avc) are not able to gracefully handle any packet loss/corruption. Voice audio codecs are generally very resilient to packet loss because that's what they are designed for. h.264-svc should fix the packet loss sensitivity, but good luck finding that anywhere.
That's totally ignoring the NAT bullshit, which can be solved with interleaving RTP streams into the RTSP TCP socket. But many RTSP clients (I'm looking at you Android), don't support that.
It's telling that in Android 3.0, they added HLS instead of a reliable TCP transport to RTSP. RTSP on the open internet is dying, and only makes sense to use if the underlying UDP streams are being multicast.
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Indeed, it should be his nom nom nom de plume.
It's not like that at all, don't be ridiculous.
Bad link. It just takes you to a twitter sign-up form.
More details please. Do you have a reason for not naming the company and managers involved?
Why don't you try installing a FLAC decoder on it and then get back to us with your results?
I think you should have worded that as a Yo Mamma So Fat joke.
milli per bit seconds.
1. Search on Google
2. Find this thread
3. Download VLC
4. Configure VLC
5. There is no profit.
For the same reason, you can't really consider Android (HoneyComb) to be Open Source until they release the code.
You should finish reading the comment before replying...
RMS didn't do his development in the open. The Cathedral and the Bazaar was about this.
Yes. Calls to cell phones cost much more than calls to land lines. I'm not sure if it could be classified as insane, but it's usually about 10 times higher (roughtly 20 cents per minute instead of 2). The reason is simply that in Europe mobile phone users don't pay for incoming calls.
At least that is network neutrality. Would it really be better if they waived the bandwidth charge when using their movie service but made customers pay extra when using competing services (e.g. Netflix)?
Just think about what you're complaining about, and what it really means. The only problem is that the data caps are low and the overage charges are high -- and that is exactly what one should expect given the competitiveness of wireless service in the USA.
It's a cute idea, but not founded in evidence. Destitution doesn't really lead to less babies but to higher mortality.
The thing that leads to less babies is female education. Many people conflate that with prosperity, because they're so highly correlated.
Because the chance of you dying in a car crash is so high.
Or cadavers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
Maybe slavery isn't quite the right word for it, because that includes the connotation of a person being property. Although, to the one forced to toil, the social construct in which they are viewed doesn't seem very relevant. Nonetheless, I should probably call it what it is, involuntary forced labor. Keep in mind that, likewise, slavery isn't actually the right word for the forced labor camps used in some totalitarian regimes. I don't find one to be especially less repugnant than the other. Maybe the word slavery pricks ears better.
What is the inherent difference between a political prisoner and a thief being sentenced to forced labor? A cynical part of me observes that they are the same, except one is a Jew and the other a Negro.
What truly defies common sense is for their to be a prison population so large that the cost of it is a significant drain to the society. It is like taking painkillers for a toothache instead of seeing the dentist.
Inmates cost society a lot of money, why not make them earn their living like the rest of us?
Because that is slavery.
That only excludes ~$90k of foreign income. The rest is double taxed. I think it only applies to US citizens and not green card holders.
Faster equals more unreliable.
Streaming video over UDP sucks because video codecs (e.g. h.264-avc) are not able to gracefully handle any packet loss/corruption. Voice audio codecs are generally very resilient to packet loss because that's what they are designed for. h.264-svc should fix the packet loss sensitivity, but good luck finding that anywhere.
That's totally ignoring the NAT bullshit, which can be solved with interleaving RTP streams into the RTSP TCP socket. But many RTSP clients (I'm looking at you Android), don't support that.
It's telling that in Android 3.0, they added HLS instead of a reliable TCP transport to RTSP. RTSP on the open internet is dying, and only makes sense to use if the underlying UDP streams are being multicast.
Yes, we must remember all the silicon miners who died in that recent, tragic, solar power mishap.
Roofing is a very dangerous job, but I guess it's not headline news.
Gee wonder why cancer rates are up and oddities in health are on the rise?
Longer life spans due to improvements in sanitation and health care?
There was no error to be corrected. Part of the lifetime of the star is in the future.
That sounds very interesting, where are the numbers?
Maybe you should hook up electricity where you live.
I have 100% proof that you are stupid.
Citation: parent post.