Anywhere in Australia can be dangerous if you get stranded, because it's hot and dry.
... and animals that are trying to eat you everywhere, as far as I've heard.
Do you actually know what the most dangerous animal in Australia is, i.e., the one that kills the most humans? One that killed around 100 people in one year alone? You may be surprised.
Has the current Slashdot readership really become so retarded than unfunny jokes like this, repeated for the n-millionth time, are still getting modded up to +5?
How the mighty are fallen.
Are you suggesting that many of the slashdot moderators use similar criteria to judging novelty and inventiveness as....?
It could be, except that the level of cycling dropped massively after the helmet laws were introduced.
(For further references on that, see comments from others elsewhere in this article.)
That could also be due to (a) the initial cost at the time and that the only thing, IIRC, that was available was that 'ultra attractive' stack hat (b) the fact that people are just generally lazy and couldn't be bothered.
I'm fairly indifferent myself however there's no denying that they are inconvenient, uncomfortable, reduce vision and make head movement for all round vision more difficult. T
"uncomfortable and reduce vision"? WTF are you wearing? (I trust that it's not because your eyes placed somewhere strange;-) )
"Four Seasons in One Day" country? No. (I shudder to think about riding near tram lines!) I have lived on the east coast though. Frankly, I think cycle helmets are essential to save you being attacked by the Australian magpies!
Plenty of European cyclists use the road for some or all of their journeys, yet helmets are not mandatory (except for children, in some countries).
Australia has mandatory helmets, and very low levels of cycling to go with it.
Could that be more due to the relative costs of fuel in Europe and Australia, the slightly increased relative distances and perhaps that car parking is probably easier? (On the other hand, Australian weather is probably far better, so would offset that somewhat)
This is a mistake. Where does it say the road belongs to cars?
It seems to be etched into the brains of some of the car and, worse, truck drivers around here. One on-coming driver even thought it'd be amusing to veer over to my side of the road to give me a surprise. nice.
What? Yes, the initial tweet was bullshit. But you know what? An athlete earns money by people caring about them, positively or negatively. And then this clown, with a HUGE audience. calls the 17 year old jerk an "idiot"?
FYI, because I strongly doubt you follow UK sport, the "athlete" in question is also a teenager and, to my knowledge, has never worked in a circus. Frankly, IMHO, the poster of the initial tweet is an insensitive idiot.
I'm convinced a car that costs much more to own and operate than traditional vehicles is going to change the world.
Cars cost more than horses. Cars replaced horses.
You are seeing the world through the proverbial rose tinted glasses and are not accounting for the cost of the infrastructure needed to support horses, i.e. thousands of shovels to clean up their exhaust.
In 1894, the Times of London estimated that by 1950 every street in the city would be buried nine feet deep in horse manure. One New York prognosticator of the 1890s concluded that by 1930 the horse droppings would rise to Manhattan’s third-story windows.
It reminds me of that movie Groundhog Day. Every day its the same old shit. But at least in the fiction of the movie, things got better, and the Bill Murray eventually got laid.
No, he eventually became a good person. His character actually got laid before that ("[she] makes noises like a chipmunk when she gets *real* excited") but he still hadn't learned his lesson by that stage. The question is whether the Murdochs are planning a trip to Punxsutawney.
All they have to say is "We believe this file is encrypted using stenography, give us the password"
Yeah, it's those stenographers and their suspicious-looking keyboards. They're bound to be up to no good. It seems like they've infiltrated every court in the land, too.
Snigger. It's a bit like (IIRC) the WW2 civil servants who, when quietly looking for staff for Bletchley Park, recruited some people who were experts in cryptogams:-)
I was thinking that the boast about encoding in 720p at 30fps already puts it behind the curve of present-day Apple mobile chips, let alone what will be available later this year with the next iteration of the iPhone.
I was about to say that didn't sound right but I see from wikipedia that I was thinking about the iPhone 4 (which only supports up to 720p). Apple's clearly beefed up their video encode hardware in the A5.
the camera screens have smaller resolutions than the photo so you will need an algorithm to downgrade the image, that part is patentable. icloud does something similar where the photo stream images are lesser resolutions than the original. so i guess apple could have ripped them off if they used the same algorithm
Sigh... Most smart phones have a 3D graphics processor and those will all support MIP mapping where, to prevent hideous aliasing of textures, the graphics system keeps multiple copies of each texture at different levels of scaling. This concept has been around for decades.
I've never liked Brain Teasers. Every time I try one I keep thinking about how I would write a program to solve it.
I typically ask a couple of brain teasers in the interviews I conduct. Explaining how to write a program to solve one would be a more than acceptable answer for me.
From the article thet seem to be targeting both lossy and lossless:
WebP was proposed as an alternative to JPEG, with 25–34% better compression compared to JPEG images at equivalent SSIM index.
and
Our main focus for lossless mode has been in compression density and simplicity in decoding. On average, we get a 45% reduction in size when starting with PNGs found on the web, and a 28% reduction in size compared to PNGs that are re-compressed with pngcrush and pngout. Smaller images on the page mean faster page loads
So their aim is to reduce bandwidth, which is admirable, yet the video side of Google is choosing to avoid H.264 which, AFAIU, has been shown to be better "bang for the bit" than VP8, and surely video is a far bigger consumer of bandwidth these days. (I'm not sure the unencumbered argument would stand up to close scrutiny).
I prefer "too damn busy to park my ass in front of the tv at a fixed time" or "You're not reshowing that episode for 4 months? Fuck you I'm downloading it." over "pirate".
Or "perhaps too cheap to buy a DVR?";-) (or a TV card for the PC?)
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We just need to have our eyes bio-engineered to see infra-red. Efficiency problem solved :-)
Anywhere in Australia can be dangerous if you get stranded, because it's hot and dry.
... and animals that are trying to eat you everywhere, as far as I've heard.
Do you actually know what the most dangerous animal in Australia is, i.e., the one that kills the most humans? One that killed around 100 people in one year alone? You may be surprised.
Has the current Slashdot readership really become so retarded than unfunny jokes like this, repeated for the n-millionth time, are still getting modded up to +5?
How the mighty are fallen.
Are you suggesting that many of the slashdot moderators use similar criteria to judging novelty and inventiveness as ....?
The mathematics avoids number throaty??
What the frack does that even mean?
It means that the mathematics isn't too deep. 8P
It could be, except that the level of cycling dropped massively after the helmet laws were introduced.
(For further references on that, see comments from others elsewhere in this article.)
That could also be due to (a) the initial cost at the time and that the only thing, IIRC, that was available was that 'ultra attractive' stack hat (b) the fact that people are just generally lazy and couldn't be bothered.
I'm fairly indifferent myself however there's no denying that they are inconvenient, uncomfortable, reduce vision and make head movement for all round vision more difficult. T
"uncomfortable and reduce vision"? WTF are you wearing? (I trust that it's not because your eyes placed somewhere strange ;-) )
You haven't lived in Melbourne, have you?
"Four Seasons in One Day" country? No. (I shudder to think about riding near tram lines!) I have lived on the east coast though. Frankly, I think cycle helmets are essential to save you being attacked by the Australian magpies!
You don't know what you're writing about.
Plenty of European cyclists use the road for some or all of their journeys, yet helmets are not mandatory (except for children, in some countries).
Australia has mandatory helmets, and very low levels of cycling to go with it.
Could that be more due to the relative costs of fuel in Europe and Australia, the slightly increased relative distances and perhaps that car parking is probably easier? (On the other hand, Australian weather is probably far better, so would offset that somewhat)
"car's part of the road" ???
This is a mistake. Where does it say the road belongs to cars?
It seems to be etched into the brains of some of the car and, worse, truck drivers around here. One on-coming driver even thought it'd be amusing to veer over to my side of the road to give me a surprise. nice.
For those of you unfamiliar with Shakesphere:
And for ACs unfamiliar with the spelling of the Bard's name, it should have "ea" where you put "he".
Try spelling it as "Shakespeare", next time.
"Shakesphere", might have been his nickname after moving to "the globe".
True that. Nothing more stylish than waiting for your C64 to spool the tape...
Speaking of the devil, I saw this on the BBC re the C64 turning 30. :-)
The video shows the tape failing to load
"I will beat you with this... herring."
Did that sound menacing?
Depends.. Pacific or Araucanian herring?
What? Yes, the initial tweet was bullshit. But you know what? An athlete earns money by people caring about them, positively or negatively. And then this clown, with a HUGE audience. calls the 17 year old jerk an "idiot"?
FYI, because I strongly doubt you follow UK sport, the "athlete" in question is also a teenager and, to my knowledge, has never worked in a circus. Frankly, IMHO, the poster of the initial tweet is an insensitive idiot.
Unfortunately, their hardware has the unfortunate side-effect of flipping all bits upside-down.
This is actually to the benefit of their sales department because you always have to buy them in pairs. :D
I thought "biogas" referred to bovine flatulence.
A bit pedantic, but cows mostly belch gas rather than fart - so do make sure you connect the pipe to the right end.
I'm convinced a car that costs much more to own and operate than traditional vehicles is going to change the world.
Cars cost more than horses. Cars replaced horses.
You are seeing the world through the proverbial rose tinted glasses and are not accounting for the cost of the infrastructure needed to support horses, i.e. thousands of shovels to clean up their exhaust.
In 1894, the Times of London estimated
that by 1950 every street in the city would be buried nine feet deep in
horse manure. One New York prognosticator of the 1890s concluded
that by 1930 the horse droppings would rise to Manhattan’s third-story
windows.
It reminds me of that movie Groundhog Day. Every day its the same old shit. But at least in the fiction of the movie, things got better, and the Bill Murray eventually got laid.
No, he eventually became a good person. His character actually got laid before that ("[she] makes noises like a chipmunk when she gets *real* excited") but he still hadn't learned his lesson by that stage.
The question is whether the Murdochs are planning a trip to Punxsutawney.
All they have to say is "We believe this file is encrypted using stenography, give us the password"
Yeah, it's those stenographers and their suspicious-looking keyboards. They're bound to be up to no good. It seems like they've infiltrated every court in the land, too.
Snigger. It's a bit like (IIRC) the WW2 civil servants who, when quietly looking for staff for Bletchley Park, recruited some people who were experts in cryptogams :-)
I'm going to have to find ways to use it ...
Use it?
I think I've been there - it's a town in Wales.
Surely that must be the shortened form of the name! Is it anywhere near the bio-research centre of Deoxyribonucleicgogoch?
I was thinking that the boast about encoding in 720p at 30fps already puts it behind the curve of present-day Apple mobile chips, let alone what will be available later this year with the next iteration of the iPhone.
I was about to say that didn't sound right but I see from wikipedia that I was thinking about the iPhone 4 (which only supports up to 720p). Apple's clearly beefed up their video encode hardware in the A5.
the camera screens have smaller resolutions than the photo so you will need an algorithm to downgrade the image, that part is patentable. icloud does something similar where the photo stream images are lesser resolutions than the original. so i guess apple could have ripped them off if they used the same algorithm
Sigh...
Most smart phones have a 3D graphics processor and those will all support MIP mapping where, to prevent hideous aliasing of textures, the graphics system keeps multiple copies of each texture at different levels of scaling. This concept has been around for decades.
anyone else use linked lists on a regular basis?
Regularly? No. On occasions, certainly.
I've never liked Brain Teasers. Every time I try one I keep thinking about how I would write a program to solve it.
I typically ask a couple of brain teasers in the interviews I conduct. Explaining how to write a program to solve one would be a more than acceptable answer for me.
From the article thet seem to be targeting both lossy and lossless:
WebP was proposed as an alternative to JPEG, with 25–34% better compression compared to JPEG images at equivalent SSIM index.
and
Our main focus for lossless mode has been in compression density and simplicity in decoding. On average, we get a 45% reduction in size when starting with PNGs found on the web, and a 28% reduction in size compared to PNGs that are re-compressed with pngcrush and pngout. Smaller images on the page mean faster page loads
So their aim is to reduce bandwidth, which is admirable, yet the video side of Google is choosing to avoid H.264 which, AFAIU, has been shown to be better "bang for the bit" than VP8, and surely video is a far bigger consumer of bandwidth these days. (I'm not sure the unencumbered argument would stand up to close scrutiny).
I prefer "too damn busy to park my ass in front of the tv at a fixed time" or "You're not reshowing that episode for 4 months? Fuck you I'm downloading it." over "pirate".
Or "perhaps too cheap to buy a DVR?" ;-) (or a TV card for the PC?)