MPEG standards (like h.264/AVC and now h.265/HEVC) are the best. Isn't it easier for the "alliance" to pay MPEG to open their standards rather than make inferior alternatives that may not even be completely patent-free?
This is only for video. For audio, free codecs are actually really good, except maybe for multichannel. But considering how much lower audio bandwidth is compared to video, it doesn't matter as much. For stereo music, you can reach transparency with a well-encoded 256Mbps MP3 and maybe down to 128Mbps with state-of-the-art codecs. In fact the trend seem to go towards lossless audio, where the codec matters even less.
Wireless laser connection is actually old news. A friend of mine live in a campus that used a laser over a valley for its internet connection. It was 15 years ago. Worked well, except in foggy weather.
Get a better power supply : better energy efficiency, cooler, less noisy, and more stable. That's probably the best way to save power without sacrificing any performance. Ah, and around 500W is enough for all but the most demanding setups (multi-GPU...). So better look for a good power supply with a reasonable wattage, (see 80+ rating) rather than something overpowered that double as a space heater. Of course the noname crap that typically come with noname cases is to be avoided at all costs if you respect your hardware.
India is known to host click farms. Where people are paid to spend their days liking pages and clicking ads. And it seems that they found that Google prefers to get paid for ads rather than allowing said click farms to artificially boost search results.
The most ridiculous is this part:
It also states that sponsored links shown in search results are dependent on the amount of advertising funds Google receives from its clients.
Isn't it the whole point of sponsored links, aka ads?
He can, in fact, write his name. The debate is on more complex matters like : is it a different character or a combination, should we create codepoints or let the renderer use rules do display the text correctly, etc... Even native speakers don't seem to agree ( https://news.ycombinator.com/i... ).
Things like Emoji or Klingon, while arguably futile, don't have such problems. You can debate on whether or no they should be included but the "how" is very straightforward.
What eludes us is the interpretation. Or in other words, we didn't find a way to fit this theory in our limited human minds. But the theory works, and it explains things, with maths. The interpretation is important, but only because it makes working with the theory more intuitive and therefore allow us to progress faster. However, the true essence of any theory in modern physics lie in its mathematical description and how well it matches reality.
Probably. However, considering how overfunded the project is, it actually has a chance to deliver. The initial goal of $60k seems too optimistic to me, but if they manage to reach the million, they should be able to make it to mass production.
First thing I tried too, but I was a bit less gentle than you;) I jammed it backwards hard enough so that I had to use my pocket knife to take it out but there is no damage, no weird behavior and no loosening. The only problem when you force it down all the way is that it is a bit difficult to get enough of a grip to pull it out. And I tried it several times in both orientations.
And in case you are interested : when inserted backward, the S-Pen is considered "out". The sensor is contactless and triggers when the base of the S-Pen lines up with the entrance hole, whatever the orientation.
The pen never fell out of my Note2, Note4, DSLite and 3DS-XL despite all these devices being simple slot based with no eject mechanism. Eject mechanisms are actually worse for mobile devices : they are too easy to trigger unwillingly and once the stylus is out, it doesn't naturally come back in, making it easier to lose it or break it.
Supermarkets are full of these kinds of tricks : - candies right by the cash register, ready for you to pick up when you are waiting in line - goods you will most likely buy arranged in a way to make you "tour" the shop - a small selection of high margin related items conviniently sprinkled everywhere. For example, you will find small packs of the most expensive brand of batteries next to toys - "on sale" items placed in a way that obstruct passage : make seem like there is a crowd around these
Free, a french ISP known to be highly disruptive to its competitors did this with its routers. The hotspot is completely separated from the home network (different IP), on a lower priority, so it won't affect you. This hotspot is only available to Free customers that didn't chose to opt out. For me, that's fair. Note that due to the way traffic is prioritized, the public hotspot becomes slow to the point of being unusable if the subscriber uses his connection intensively.
The thing is : the 1% want the best. To take the musician example, they will take the most talented and provide them with the best instruments. Of course these musicians and instruments are rare and sought after and therefore expensive. But that's fine for the 1% : they have money, the point is to use it, right. As a result, these musicians and people making these instruments will end up quite wealthy, they will become our 5%. Note that artists and luthiers may not be the ones who pocket all these benefits, but the idea is that all this money is going somewhere. But these 5% will want entertainment too, so they will hire second class artists and musicians. Themselves will pay for more modest entertainers. It will form a pyramid, like always, except it will be driven more by pleasure than necessities.
And it doesn't stop at artists and musicians. They are also ready to pay huge amounts of money for their health and maybe a few crazy thing like space tourism. All these give work to researchers and the high-tech industry.
The petitions only require the government to provide an answer to the question. Nowere it is stated that they must change their plans in any way. In other words "fuck you" is a totally valid answer.
The thief was caught. So they actually did something. In fact, the news broke after the police caught the thief and was asked how they did it. In other words, you can argue that it was a violation of privacy but you can't argue that it was ineffective.
They don't really want to make people stop pirating Windows. Especially now that there are free, non-geek alternatives like ChromeOS. They are, however interested it tracking pirates. Many pirates are simply people unsatisfied with the legal offering and potential customers.
Programming may not be a necessary skill but I think it is great at teaching you logical thinking. A bit like maths. Proportionality is perhaps the highest level of maths that most people actually need. Yet kids still learn things like equations and trigonometry.
If they didn't do it, that would make your game too easy. If you look in imdb, even big budget movies with people paid full time to make sure continuity is maintained manage to have a dozen of mistakes.
Oh, that sucks... A big selling point for high speed train is usually that it gets you right in the middle of the city. This may be helped by making high speed trains compatible with regular railways (although at a reduced speed). For example, in France, Marseille-Paris is a bit over 3 hours by high speed train. But because both stations are downtown, it may actually be faster than the plane. Despite a flight time of slightly more than an hour.
And that's for France. In Japan, the railway system is another order of magnitude better (although expensive), with an extensive network and legendary punctuality. For Tokyo-Osaka, if you have the money (or a JR pass), the Shinkansen is the obvious choice.
Except i imagine when e-mail was designed it wasn't with the knowledge that the US government and its subsidiaries have full, unfettered access to the inbox of every single person on the planet, whether legally or illegally.
ARPANET, the precursor of the internet and perhaps the first global network to support e-mail was a US military government initiative. So of course they had the knowledge they could read anyone's mail as they pass through their network. Like everyone else who studied the question. They didn't access everyone inbox. They were probably cleaned regularly anyways considering the storage costs. However, security didn't matter that much back then. The internet was considered public. The need for security started much later, with the rise of commercial activities. And the need for online privacy is even more recent : back then, people didn't put their whole life on the internet.
I don't know, an hour commute from LA to SF via hyper loop is less than the time a lot of people spend commuting today, and you don't have to pay attention to the road.
In fact a big problem with hyperloop as it is planned is that the station would be well outside the city, requiring another form of transportation for the last miles. It may be enough to negate the benefits of going really fast. It is the same problem as with airports. IMHO, nothing beats rail for commutes.
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MPEG standards (like h.264/AVC and now h.265/HEVC) are the best.
Isn't it easier for the "alliance" to pay MPEG to open their standards rather than make inferior alternatives that may not even be completely patent-free?
This is only for video. For audio, free codecs are actually really good, except maybe for multichannel. But considering how much lower audio bandwidth is compared to video, it doesn't matter as much. For stereo music, you can reach transparency with a well-encoded 256Mbps MP3 and maybe down to 128Mbps with state-of-the-art codecs. In fact the trend seem to go towards lossless audio, where the codec matters even less.
Wireless laser connection is actually old news. A friend of mine live in a campus that used a laser over a valley for its internet connection. It was 15 years ago.
Worked well, except in foggy weather.
Get a better power supply : better energy efficiency, cooler, less noisy, and more stable.
That's probably the best way to save power without sacrificing any performance. Ah, and around 500W is enough for all but the most demanding setups (multi-GPU...). So better look for a good power supply with a reasonable wattage, (see 80+ rating) rather than something overpowered that double as a space heater. Of course the noname crap that typically come with noname cases is to be avoided at all costs if you respect your hardware.
India is known to host click farms. Where people are paid to spend their days liking pages and clicking ads.
And it seems that they found that Google prefers to get paid for ads rather than allowing said click farms to artificially boost search results.
The most ridiculous is this part :
It also states that sponsored links shown in search results are dependent on the amount of advertising funds Google receives from its clients.
Isn't it the whole point of sponsored links, aka ads?
More than the name actually.
Japanese cell phones companies already had emojis in Unicode private code pages before it was standard.
He can, in fact, write his name.
The debate is on more complex matters like : is it a different character or a combination, should we create codepoints or let the renderer use rules do display the text correctly, etc... Even native speakers don't seem to agree ( https://news.ycombinator.com/i... ).
Things like Emoji or Klingon, while arguably futile, don't have such problems. You can debate on whether or no they should be included but the "how" is very straightforward.
Extensions are not plugins.
Plugins are native executables and work at the OS level. Extensions work at the browser level and are easier to contain.
All well known ad blockers are extensions rather than plugins.
Robin Des Toits, an organization that campaigns for "sufferers" of this malady, was pleased.
But not probably as much as their lawyers.
What eludes us is the interpretation. Or in other words, we didn't find a way to fit this theory in our limited human minds. But the theory works, and it explains things, with maths.
The interpretation is important, but only because it makes working with the theory more intuitive and therefore allow us to progress faster. However, the true essence of any theory in modern physics lie in its mathematical description and how well it matches reality.
Probably.
However, considering how overfunded the project is, it actually has a chance to deliver. The initial goal of $60k seems too optimistic to me, but if they manage to reach the million, they should be able to make it to mass production.
First thing I tried too, but I was a bit less gentle than you ;)
I jammed it backwards hard enough so that I had to use my pocket knife to take it out but there is no damage, no weird behavior and no loosening. The only problem when you force it down all the way is that it is a bit difficult to get enough of a grip to pull it out. And I tried it several times in both orientations.
And in case you are interested : when inserted backward, the S-Pen is considered "out". The sensor is contactless and triggers when the base of the S-Pen lines up with the entrance hole, whatever the orientation.
The pen never fell out of my Note2, Note4, DSLite and 3DS-XL despite all these devices being simple slot based with no eject mechanism.
Eject mechanisms are actually worse for mobile devices : they are too easy to trigger unwillingly and once the stylus is out, it doesn't naturally come back in, making it easier to lose it or break it.
Supermarkets are full of these kinds of tricks :
- candies right by the cash register, ready for you to pick up when you are waiting in line
- goods you will most likely buy arranged in a way to make you "tour" the shop
- a small selection of high margin related items conviniently sprinkled everywhere. For example, you will find small packs of the most expensive brand of batteries next to toys
- "on sale" items placed in a way that obstruct passage : make seem like there is a crowd around these
Basically, nothing is left to chance.
Free, a french ISP known to be highly disruptive to its competitors did this with its routers.
The hotspot is completely separated from the home network (different IP), on a lower priority, so it won't affect you. This hotspot is only available to Free customers that didn't chose to opt out. For me, that's fair.
Note that due to the way traffic is prioritized, the public hotspot becomes slow to the point of being unusable if the subscriber uses his connection intensively.
The thing is : the 1% want the best. To take the musician example, they will take the most talented and provide them with the best instruments.
Of course these musicians and instruments are rare and sought after and therefore expensive. But that's fine for the 1% : they have money, the point is to use it, right.
As a result, these musicians and people making these instruments will end up quite wealthy, they will become our 5%. Note that artists and luthiers may not be the ones who pocket all these benefits, but the idea is that all this money is going somewhere.
But these 5% will want entertainment too, so they will hire second class artists and musicians. Themselves will pay for more modest entertainers. It will form a pyramid, like always, except it will be driven more by pleasure than necessities.
And it doesn't stop at artists and musicians. They are also ready to pay huge amounts of money for their health and maybe a few crazy thing like space tourism. All these give work to researchers and the high-tech industry.
They will never pay that half billion. A least, 500k CAD is an amount they can pay.
The petitions only require the government to provide an answer to the question. Nowere it is stated that they must change their plans in any way.
In other words "fuck you" is a totally valid answer.
The thief was caught. So they actually did something.
In fact, the news broke after the police caught the thief and was asked how they did it. In other words, you can argue that it was a violation of privacy but you can't argue that it was ineffective.
They don't really want to make people stop pirating Windows. Especially now that there are free, non-geek alternatives like ChromeOS.
They are, however interested it tracking pirates. Many pirates are simply people unsatisfied with the legal offering and potential customers.
Programming may not be a necessary skill but I think it is great at teaching you logical thinking. A bit like maths. Proportionality is perhaps the highest level of maths that most people actually need. Yet kids still learn things like equations and trigonometry.
If they didn't do it, that would make your game too easy.
If you look in imdb, even big budget movies with people paid full time to make sure continuity is maintained manage to have a dozen of mistakes.
Oh, that sucks...
A big selling point for high speed train is usually that it gets you right in the middle of the city. This may be helped by making high speed trains compatible with regular railways (although at a reduced speed).
For example, in France, Marseille-Paris is a bit over 3 hours by high speed train. But because both stations are downtown, it may actually be faster than the plane. Despite a flight time of slightly more than an hour.
And that's for France. In Japan, the railway system is another order of magnitude better (although expensive), with an extensive network and legendary punctuality. For Tokyo-Osaka, if you have the money (or a JR pass), the Shinkansen is the obvious choice.
Except i imagine when e-mail was designed it wasn't with the knowledge that the US government and its subsidiaries have full, unfettered access to the inbox of every single person on the planet, whether legally or illegally.
ARPANET, the precursor of the internet and perhaps the first global network to support e-mail was a US military government initiative. So of course they had the knowledge they could read anyone's mail as they pass through their network. Like everyone else who studied the question.
They didn't access everyone inbox. They were probably cleaned regularly anyways considering the storage costs. However, security didn't matter that much back then. The internet was considered public. The need for security started much later, with the rise of commercial activities. And the need for online privacy is even more recent : back then, people didn't put their whole life on the internet.
It may also be considered derived work and in violation of the last meal Chef's copyright.
I don't know, an hour commute from LA to SF via hyper loop is less than the time a lot of people spend commuting today, and you don't have to pay attention to the road.
In fact a big problem with hyperloop as it is planned is that the station would be well outside the city, requiring another form of transportation for the last miles. It may be enough to negate the benefits of going really fast. It is the same problem as with airports.
IMHO, nothing beats rail for commutes.