The goal of H.264 and JPEG isn't minimum file size at all costs. It's also not encryption. Your premise is wrong, and even old tech can compress this stuff further than it may already be.
True, but that's obvious to you and me - which does reinforce the point that the article & Dropbox "innovation" is pretty stupid.
Not to mention JPEG and H.264 are old news - if you want to compare "new" development JPEG2000 and H.265 are the benchmarks...
Except unless standard DECODERS can handle them it's fairly useless in practice.
From what I can tell from the source & description posted it does NOT conform to H.264, so what's the point? SOMETHING has to decode it, and it's clearly not going to be standard hardware decoders. So it's useless as CDN storage. Same applies to PNGs for most usage.
And besides, H.265 implements everything they did and MUCH more. And if you want even further lossless compression that humans can't notice there are proprietary solutions like Beamr that can get you even better compression.
If you are living in a very rural town, maybe (in which case, the town should deal with it, but it's SO far from a global problem - either a totally isolated issue or, in the Bay Area, likely an utter 1% first world problem). If you are saying horse manure is a problem in SF, well, I call horseshit on that...
That's like charging a "speeding tax" to everyone on the road and then letting people drive as fast as they want.
It's a minority of the dog owners in most towns that don't pick up after their dogs. Charging everyone for a few shitheads violating the law is bad policy, no matter what the offense is.
If you are working "so many hours", you better be getting something significant for it. Because all of those developers you can't find clearly are, or you'd be hiring them. So if you are not happy with your job or hours and think you are worth more - stop whining, the jobs are out there!
Also: if you work at a startup, have tons of money in the bank and you can't hire, either the work is horrible or you just aren't offering enough. I hear this all the time: "all of the good candidates are going somewhere else!" Well, if you got outbid, no shit they took a better offer. Try harder next time. And if the company/job sucks, you have to pay even MORE to get someone to do it.
If you have 3 times the open positions as employees, how about paying everyone 50% more? Then the current employees and the new hires will both be happy. Unless you don't think you or your coworkers are worth it?
Yup, it's a basic matter of a tiny indie game company that inexplicably had $1B of unexpected revenue dropped in their lap all of a sudden.
They did what many companies, game dev or not would do, and tried to expand as fast as possible. The difference is game companies (with maybe Blizzard/WoW as an exception) can rarely sustain that revenue to the next year without another massive hit. And I'm sure as you know, there are very few left (maybe Rockstar and Bethesda?) who have managed to create that string of massive hits to justify hiring without even having a semi-guaranteed new hit in place...
I bet some big publisher offered them a giant pile of money in the last few years and they rejected it. And I bet they are now kicking themselves (as compared to Notch, who now owns the most expensive house in Beverly Hills...)
Maybe he respects his wife, and maybe he doesn't. One cannot determine if he does or does not respect his wife based on the currently available information. It is however clear that he does not respect himself.
Did you RTFA? The information was there.
he doesn’t regret the affair he had via AshleyMadison; his only regret is not finding a way to keep his home address out of his records on the site.
It's clearly the OPPOSITE of what you said. Maybe he respects himself, maybe he doesn't. But he clearly doesn't respect his wife because he (despite your earlier supposition) actually states he doesn't even feel guilt over the affair.
You seem to have missed that it was an isolated incident in this case rather than a pattern.
How do you know that? Because he anonymously told someone in an interview? So he's perfectly capable of cheating and lying to the person he married and promised to be faithful to, but not some random guy he doesn't know?
And the respect for self vs spouse is absurd. If he promises someone and then broke the promise, he hasn't respected the promise to her. Whether he respects himself or not is irrelevant, it clearly means he did not respect their relationship at the time. And obviously he knows that, and knows that she would interpret it that way, or he wouldn't be so worried about her finding out.
Also: the Ice Cream Sundae analogy is very flawed. It's not like he randomly met a person in a bar and was tempted. He signed up for a paid service - using his real name and a credit card - with the express purpose of finding someone to cheat on his wife with. And then he did it. That's like the difference between manslaughter and premeditated murder.
You're not a special snowflake who gets to pick and choose the work you'd like to do.
Actually, despite the bullshit hype about disposable engineers, many of us ARE.
Programmers who can bang out code are, more than ever in society, a dime a dozen. Engineers who can take responsibility for the whole lifecycle are something more. Which are you?
The latter, which is why I get actually do get to pick and choose the work I'd like to do...
It's not that ANY engineers are incapable of being polite. It's that - no way in fucking hell you miserable piece of shit excuse for a slashdot poster - you'll never get ALL engineers to be polite...
I don't disagree that a reasonable, well adjusted person should do exactly what you said. But that's not the description of many software engineers, and reality is this sort of report is exactly the same thing that would happen internally in a lot of projects - and in fact it effects the project exactly ZERO to be this succinct; the only real issue is customer perception.
If you want politeness, make all public bug reports go through company representatives. That's in fact what nearly ALL large software companies already do. Stream has tried to model their development/bug reporting more along the lines of Mozilla, or, in the ultimate example the Linux kernel - have you ever read LKML? If this post made you butt-hurt the LKML will rip you a new hole...
This is a great example of how not to close a bug report. [github.com]
Merely stating that the feature "is no longer supported" and closing the bug report without giving any further explanation is the wrong way of handling the situation.
True it totally lacked any tact for a customer facing interaction. Though you could also argue it's the end result of actually having a public bug reporting system where engineers interact directly with customers. at some point people have to choose: to you want a direct interface to the engineers or do you want to want to be handheld? Because face it, you aren't getting both.
Yeah, I get the idea that the OP is arguing from zero topical knowledge. All of this is SUCH a smaller problem than actually separating the salt from the water as cost effectively as possible.
Money (and by extension R&D and other resources) WILL solve this problem if necessary. And clearly waste salt is one of the simplest ones to solve.
Drano, maybe not. CLR (or similar) why not? Most of the ingredients are non-toxic, and it wouldn't take that much effort to formulate something completely non-toxic.
You do understand that water mains FROM this desal plant are not the size of your toilet pipe, right? o why should the brine exhaust pipes be any different? I remember seeing the mains they buried to run water from Lake Michigan to the Chicago suburbs in the late 80's. You could stand in one any barely touch the top. That's a LOT of buildup before they need maintenance...
To me worth (to the economy) is how much your net to contribution to the economy will be in the future. Not how much money you have now
That's one (reasonable, but personal) definition. Another is "net worth", which is purely a financial definition of assets - liabilities.
I don't really disagree with your sentiment, except that "net worth" is in no way arbitrary, in fact it's the least arbitrary of any definition since it involves no judgement of future "value" or moral imperative.
The currently most accepted one "surprisingly" favors the wealthy
Words can have more than one meaning, you know. There is no "accepted" meaning of "worth" or many thousands of other words, there is just context.
In most parts of the California coast the Ocean depth drops off to 300-500m+ after a few km. Running a few km of pipeline to the ocean floor would be one of the most trivial expenses of the project. Doesn't even have to be done well or monitored that closely. Unlike oil or gas pipelines, a few leaks makes no difference.
Income certainly doesn't reflect a person's worth.
ObVIOUSLY, depending on the definition of "worth", it does. Especially the financial definition when discussing paying for a desalinization plant.
Then again, one person worth several billion dollars could pay for a plant, provide permanent water for 100,000 people, and then still have several billion minus one dollars left. (In fact, that's pretty much how Saudi Arabia gets its water. And all those people had to sacrifice was most of their basic freedoms...)
And even in that case, with slander you have to prove the point of the comment was to defame, not to satirize or make a joke.
Given that the forum was Twitter and the comment was a trite, two word reply to a silly topic, proving the intent was to spread a lie about someone instead of make fun of them (or make fun of the question) would be pretty difficult unless the author of the comment admitted it.
You can buy an AK-47 for $300-400 (and that's probably a giant markup on a new one - there are so many of them our there, in Africa you can get one for $20). I think buying a weapon designed specifically for the military for that price is SERIOUSLY inexpensive.
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The goal of H.264 and JPEG isn't minimum file size at all costs. It's also not encryption. Your premise is wrong, and even old tech can compress this stuff further than it may already be.
True, but that's obvious to you and me - which does reinforce the point that the article & Dropbox "innovation" is pretty stupid.
Not to mention JPEG and H.264 are old news - if you want to compare "new" development JPEG2000 and H.265 are the benchmarks...
Except unless standard DECODERS can handle them it's fairly useless in practice.
From what I can tell from the source & description posted it does NOT conform to H.264, so what's the point? SOMETHING has to decode it, and it's clearly not going to be standard hardware decoders. So it's useless as CDN storage. Same applies to PNGs for most usage.
And besides, H.265 implements everything they did and MUCH more. And if you want even further lossless compression that humans can't notice there are proprietary solutions like Beamr that can get you even better compression.
If you are living in a very rural town, maybe (in which case, the town should deal with it, but it's SO far from a global problem - either a totally isolated issue or, in the Bay Area, likely an utter 1% first world problem). If you are saying horse manure is a problem in SF, well, I call horseshit on that...
"humanly" euthanize? So, like kill it in the most twisted, brutal, bizarre way possible?
It's a hell of a lot cheaper to the government if they then fine the owner $500 to pay for it all. Plus, it creates another half dozen city jobs!
Not exactly related, but I'm already thinking about the TV show pitches related to this... "CSI: Dogshit".
That's like charging a "speeding tax" to everyone on the road and then letting people drive as fast as they want.
It's a minority of the dog owners in most towns that don't pick up after their dogs. Charging everyone for a few shitheads violating the law is bad policy, no matter what the offense is.
If you are working "so many hours", you better be getting something significant for it. Because all of those developers you can't find clearly are, or you'd be hiring them. So if you are not happy with your job or hours and think you are worth more - stop whining, the jobs are out there!
Also: if you work at a startup, have tons of money in the bank and you can't hire, either the work is horrible or you just aren't offering enough. I hear this all the time: "all of the good candidates are going somewhere else!" Well, if you got outbid, no shit they took a better offer. Try harder next time. And if the company/job sucks, you have to pay even MORE to get someone to do it.
If you have 3 times the open positions as employees, how about paying everyone 50% more? Then the current employees and the new hires will both be happy. Unless you don't think you or your coworkers are worth it?
Yup, it's a basic matter of a tiny indie game company that inexplicably had $1B of unexpected revenue dropped in their lap all of a sudden.
They did what many companies, game dev or not would do, and tried to expand as fast as possible. The difference is game companies (with maybe Blizzard/WoW as an exception) can rarely sustain that revenue to the next year without another massive hit. And I'm sure as you know, there are very few left (maybe Rockstar and Bethesda?) who have managed to create that string of massive hits to justify hiring without even having a semi-guaranteed new hit in place...
I bet some big publisher offered them a giant pile of money in the last few years and they rejected it. And I bet they are now kicking themselves (as compared to Notch, who now owns the most expensive house in Beverly Hills...)
Ad hominem: the last, desperate argument of someone who has nothing useful left to say.
Maybe he respects his wife, and maybe he doesn't. One cannot determine if he does or does not respect his wife based on the currently available information. It is however clear that he does not respect himself.
Did you RTFA? The information was there.
he doesn’t regret the affair he had via AshleyMadison; his only regret is not finding a way to keep his home address out of his records on the site.
It's clearly the OPPOSITE of what you said. Maybe he respects himself, maybe he doesn't. But he clearly doesn't respect his wife because he (despite your earlier supposition) actually states he doesn't even feel guilt over the affair.
You seem to have missed that it was an isolated incident in this case rather than a pattern.
How do you know that? Because he anonymously told someone in an interview? So he's perfectly capable of cheating and lying to the person he married and promised to be faithful to, but not some random guy he doesn't know?
And the respect for self vs spouse is absurd. If he promises someone and then broke the promise, he hasn't respected the promise to her. Whether he respects himself or not is irrelevant, it clearly means he did not respect their relationship at the time. And obviously he knows that, and knows that she would interpret it that way, or he wouldn't be so worried about her finding out.
Also: the Ice Cream Sundae analogy is very flawed. It's not like he randomly met a person in a bar and was tempted. He signed up for a paid service - using his real name and a credit card - with the express purpose of finding someone to cheat on his wife with. And then he did it. That's like the difference between manslaughter and premeditated murder.
Unless it can hover, has a sawblade and a blowtorch - and a humor emitter, what's the point? The Future is NOW!
You're not a special snowflake who gets to pick and choose the work you'd like to do.
Actually, despite the bullshit hype about disposable engineers, many of us ARE.
Programmers who can bang out code are, more than ever in society, a dime a dozen. Engineers who can take responsibility for the whole lifecycle are something more. Which are you?
The latter, which is why I get actually do get to pick and choose the work I'd like to do...
It's not that ANY engineers are incapable of being polite. It's that - no way in fucking hell you miserable piece of shit excuse for a slashdot poster - you'll never get ALL engineers to be polite...
I don't disagree that a reasonable, well adjusted person should do exactly what you said. But that's not the description of many software engineers, and reality is this sort of report is exactly the same thing that would happen internally in a lot of projects - and in fact it effects the project exactly ZERO to be this succinct; the only real issue is customer perception.
If you want politeness, make all public bug reports go through company representatives. That's in fact what nearly ALL large software companies already do. Stream has tried to model their development/bug reporting more along the lines of Mozilla, or, in the ultimate example the Linux kernel - have you ever read LKML? If this post made you butt-hurt the LKML will rip you a new hole...
This is a great example of how not to close a bug report. [github.com]
Merely stating that the feature "is no longer supported" and closing the bug report without giving any further explanation is the wrong way of handling the situation.
True it totally lacked any tact for a customer facing interaction. Though you could also argue it's the end result of actually having a public bug reporting system where engineers interact directly with customers. at some point people have to choose: to you want a direct interface to the engineers or do you want to want to be handheld? Because face it, you aren't getting both.
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Yeah, I get the idea that the OP is arguing from zero topical knowledge. All of this is SUCH a smaller problem than actually separating the salt from the water as cost effectively as possible.
Money (and by extension R&D and other resources) WILL solve this problem if necessary. And clearly waste salt is one of the simplest ones to solve.
Drano, maybe not. CLR (or similar) why not? Most of the ingredients are non-toxic, and it wouldn't take that much effort to formulate something completely non-toxic.
You do understand that water mains FROM this desal plant are not the size of your toilet pipe, right? o why should the brine exhaust pipes be any different? I remember seeing the mains they buried to run water from Lake Michigan to the Chicago suburbs in the late 80's. You could stand in one any barely touch the top. That's a LOT of buildup before they need maintenance...
To me worth (to the economy) is how much your net to contribution to the economy will be in the future. Not how much money you have now
That's one (reasonable, but personal) definition. Another is "net worth", which is purely a financial definition of assets - liabilities.
I don't really disagree with your sentiment, except that "net worth" is in no way arbitrary, in fact it's the least arbitrary of any definition since it involves no judgement of future "value" or moral imperative.
The currently most accepted one "surprisingly" favors the wealthy
Words can have more than one meaning, you know. There is no "accepted" meaning of "worth" or many thousands of other words, there is just context.
In most parts of the California coast the Ocean depth drops off to 300-500m+ after a few km. Running a few km of pipeline to the ocean floor would be one of the most trivial expenses of the project. Doesn't even have to be done well or monitored that closely. Unlike oil or gas pipelines, a few leaks makes no difference.
Income certainly doesn't reflect a person's worth.
ObVIOUSLY, depending on the definition of "worth", it does. Especially the financial definition when discussing paying for a desalinization plant.
Then again, one person worth several billion dollars could pay for a plant, provide permanent water for 100,000 people, and then still have several billion minus one dollars left. (In fact, that's pretty much how Saudi Arabia gets its water. And all those people had to sacrifice was most of their basic freedoms...)
Wait, what proof do you have that he has a brain (or at least a functioning one)?
It was completely obvious to me what the AC meant.
Which is the same argument that could be used for the teenager's post in the first place that the AC claimed was a felony.
"It was completely obvious to me it was satire and not defamation"...
And even in that case, with slander you have to prove the point of the comment was to defame, not to satirize or make a joke.
Given that the forum was Twitter and the comment was a trite, two word reply to a silly topic, proving the intent was to spread a lie about someone instead of make fun of them (or make fun of the question) would be pretty difficult unless the author of the comment admitted it.
"assault rifles" are not inexpensive.
You can buy an AK-47 for $300-400 (and that's probably a giant markup on a new one - there are so many of them our there, in Africa you can get one for $20). I think buying a weapon designed specifically for the military for that price is SERIOUSLY inexpensive.