Or we could stick tubes up Cow's asses to harvest methane.
I know you're being facetious, but the vast majority of a cow's methane comes from it belching. We thus only need to fit them with masks (which has to be a lot less messy:-) )
The question is, is h.264 good enough to fork over a shitload of royalties for?
You only have to pay if you are charging for your h.264 content.
Irrespective of that, if h.264 is, say, X% dearer than another codec, but uses Y% less bandwidth, there will be a point where it will be cheaper simply because content suppliers and/or customers will be saving money.
In this case I have both halogen spots and LED replacements in the fittings and they seem to be about equivalent. What I will have to do, to be more thorough, is to remove all bar one 50W halogen and one 7W LED, point both at a wall, and take a photo to compare the brightness and area of the spots .
FWIW, I also had some older (single LED) 3W LEDs and they aren't a patch on these newer ones, so maybe the tech has moved on.
A 4W LED will produce approx the same amount of light as a 4.5 - 5W CFL bulb or a 15 - 20W incandescent bulb, in other words, enough to stop you tripping over things when you go to the bathroom at night, but not really any use for anything more than that.
I recently purchased some 7W LEDs GU10 Halogen replacements and was told, over the phone, that the conversion factor you should use is 8x. Now they are installed, I'd say that seems a reasonable rule of thumb.
But with what formats? See you really have to watch out for what I call "Intel speak" and I'll give an example: For years their chips could play high def MPG 1-2, but any other format would peg the CPU at 100% and bog the living hell out of the system.
Well, if Anandtech is correct, then it's got dedicated HW decode support for at least most of the standards (MPEG2 & 4, H.264, DivX, VC1) to HD resolution. At least, that's what the slide says.
Personally I'll wait until some come out with the AMD Neo, as it pairs an actual AMD CPU, which means out of order dual cores with virtualization and x64 support as well as DEP, with a nice Radeon GPU so the videos will all be unskippy and smooth.
Playing with Atom based netbooks here at the shop it always amazes me people buy these things
It hardly sounds like playing videos will be a problem - following a couple of links from TFA and you can find:
The system-on-chip will deliver four times better graphics compared to its predecessors, according to the document. Intel's Moorestown graphics core is capable of encoding video at 720p and decoding video at a 1080p resolution.
[...]. Aluminium stores roughly 83 MJ/L. You wouldn't be scared to have a ton of aluminium lying around behind your house, but that block could store enough energy to run your house for a year.
How would you extract power from a ton of aluminum? (honest question:)
The ability to transmit VHF (TV) into the hinterlands had as much to do with multi-kilowatt signals as it did with frequency. Pump 60 Kw into a 2.4 GHz wifi transmitter with a good directional antenna placed on a high tower and I'll bet the punters in the outback can find a working hotspot -- probably one in China at that power.
and plenty of food around the tower, precooked too. such as birds and kangaroos.
Last time I checked Adobe reader had built-in OCR and text-to-speech even in the free Acrobat Reader. The IT director was just plain lazy, or there's some lobbying.
Built-in OCR? I can see the "read out loud" option in version 8.2.5 but I'll be damned if I can see anything like OCR.
The only "free" (note quotes) OCR package I've ever got to work reliably is the one that is built-in to Microsoft's "Document Imaging" (.mdi) application.
[disclaimer]It's "free" if you already have access to Microsoft Office. I don't think it's widely known that there is built-in OCR functionality. Now if only there was a free mdi to pdf converter that keeps the ocr information. (sigh) [/disclaimer]
The Court noted the minimal cautionary language displayed to the user, and noted the lack of accessible disclaimers. A disclaimer, which warns the user that each situation requires a unique approach
I wonder if the USCG uniquely handcrafted the letters for each of their 'situations'?
"visage" means *ace (sorry, *acebook now owns that word)
"volume" means book (unless Amazon owns that word, oh wait, doesn't Brazil own the word Amazon? Or was that the ancient Greeks? I'm getting confused)
Or we could use "CountenanceCodex"
I was just thinking that if someone made a copy of all the very first pages of the publications in the world, and then stuck them all in the one volume, that would then be a "preface book", which clearly must be "pre facebook".
Understatement of the year -- this guy _invented_ Perlin noise.
Agreed. There were two papers published in SIGGRAPH 1985 that really introduced "Solid texturing" to the computer graphics community. One of those was Perlin's An Image Synthesizer which has since formed the basis for numerous procedural texturing systems, especially those in ray tracing systems.
Nope. That's not it. g and p are always "public". And it doesn't help if an attacker were to chose them.
What I should have said (and only realised after I posted) was that something has to be 'secret' to avoid a MITM attack. It's either got to be some certificates to verify that Alice is really talking to Bob and vice versa or keep g and possibly p a shared secret, but that rather defeats some of the purpose of DH. (shrug)
Thus this protocol being known for almost 35 years allows easy encryption with a key that a eavesdropper cannot easily snoop..
Actually, in "Applied Cryptography", (p516), Schneier says that Diffie-Hellman is vunerable to a man-in-the-middle attack.
It doesn't go into details, but I guess the problem might be if g and p aren't pre-agreed between Alice and Bob and then Mallory substitutes Alice's selection of g and p for his own before sending those on to Bob.
The duration of patents here in the USA changed a few years ago too (how it changed I do not remember).
IIRC, it changed from "17 years from date of grant" to "20 years from date of filing" (which then matches most other countries' patent law). Also, (again IIRC), the patent application now automatically becomes published 18 months after filing (assuming, I guess, it isn't withdrawn prior to that). I presume these changes were introduced to stop the "submarining" that occurred in USPTO.
tractor != sports car...do I have to spell it out for you, you stupid idiot?
What a polite gentleman you are.
FWIW there's some cross-pollination between tractors and performance cars. IIRC, Maserati made (make?) tractors and JCB hold the land speed record for a diesel vehicle.
Usability is so important. Put you time and effort in to that - the "open data" is already there thanks to OSM.
I just use a TomTom One with a decent bicycle mount. It's easy to use and with USB charging, I can easily power it with a standard battery to USB charger and it cost £100 (much less than an iPhone would have cost). Okay, it doesn't cover bridleways, but you can never be sure what the conditions are going to be like on bridleways. Muddy tracks suitable for horses aren't always suitable for a road bike.
Errr... my TomTom One took me (in my non 4wd car) along what I could describe as a muddy bridleway a few days ago when I tried to avoid a jammed road, so I'm not sure that you would really miss out on the mud. To be fair, the detour did work but it was worrying for a while!
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Or we could stick tubes up Cow's asses to harvest methane.
I know you're being facetious, but the vast majority of a cow's methane comes from it belching. We thus only need to fit them with masks (which has to be a lot less messy :-) )
The question is, is h.264 good enough to fork over a shitload of royalties for?
You only have to pay if you are charging for your h.264 content.
Irrespective of that, if h.264 is, say, X% dearer than another codec, but uses Y% less bandwidth, there will be a point where it will be cheaper simply because content suppliers and/or customers will be saving money.
It's actually quite difficult to snipe from a moving ship.
But, judging from several of the replies, sniping is apparently quite easy from a keyboard on slashdot. :-)
(Disclaimer: I didn't want to imply that the parent post was a "malicious, underhand remark or attack" )
Or maybe your older LED bulbs have faded with age, which is something that happens to them.
No, they were always disappointing :-)
In this case I have both halogen spots and LED replacements in the fittings and they seem to be about equivalent. What I will have to do, to be more thorough, is to remove all bar one 50W halogen and one 7W LED, point both at a wall, and take a photo to compare the brightness and area of the spots .
FWIW, I also had some older (single LED) 3W LEDs and they aren't a patch on these newer ones, so maybe the tech has moved on.
A 4W LED will produce approx the same amount of light as a 4.5 - 5W CFL bulb or a 15 - 20W incandescent bulb, in other words, enough to stop you tripping over things when you go to the bathroom at night, but not really any use for anything more than that.
I recently purchased some 7W LEDs GU10 Halogen replacements and was told, over the phone, that the conversion factor you should use is 8x. Now they are installed, I'd say that seems a reasonable rule of thumb.
Quite honestly, I'm surprised this didn't cause some sort of panic...
Well, if it had been done with this RC plane, I think it certainly would have!
Well done. Yes, safety regulation is about finding the proper balance between risk and inconvenience.
"Well done" :-), you completely missed the historical reference and hence the joke.
But with what formats? See you really have to watch out for what I call "Intel speak" and I'll give an example: For years their chips could play high def MPG 1-2, but any other format would peg the CPU at 100% and bog the living hell out of the system.
Well, if Anandtech is correct, then it's got dedicated HW decode support for at least most of the standards (MPEG2 & 4, H.264, DivX, VC1) to HD resolution. At least, that's what the slide says.
It doesn't sound like it'll be a problem.
Personally I'll wait until some come out with the AMD Neo, as it pairs an actual AMD CPU, which means out of order dual cores with virtualization and x64 support as well as DEP, with a nice Radeon GPU so the videos will all be unskippy and smooth.
Playing with Atom based netbooks here at the shop it always amazes me people buy these things
It hardly sounds like playing videos will be a problem - following a couple of links from TFA and you can find:
The system-on-chip will deliver four times better graphics compared to its predecessors, according to the document. Intel's Moorestown graphics core is capable of encoding video at 720p and decoding video at a 1080p resolution.
[...]. Aluminium stores roughly 83 MJ/L. You wouldn't be scared to have a ton of aluminium lying around behind your house, but that block could store enough energy to run your house for a year.
How would you extract power from a ton of aluminum? (honest question :)
Thermite is sometimes used for welding.
chaise-lounge
It's chaise longue, bozo -- as in long chair.
Your argument is about two hundred years too late, English speakers haven't said long chair in a long time. It is lounge as in lazy.
Au contraire:
The ability to transmit VHF (TV) into the hinterlands had as much to do with multi-kilowatt signals as it did with frequency. Pump 60 Kw into a 2.4 GHz wifi transmitter with a good directional antenna placed on a high tower and I'll bet the punters in the outback can find a working hotspot -- probably one in China at that power.
and plenty of food around the tower, precooked too. such as birds and kangaroos.
That would have to be one bloody tall kangaroo.
It works just fine, as long as everyone views the same web page at the same time.
Or maybe someone could do an optimized bit torrent client :)
Last time I checked Adobe reader had built-in OCR and text-to-speech even in the free Acrobat Reader. The IT director was just plain lazy, or there's some lobbying.
Built-in OCR? I can see the "read out loud" option in version 8.2.5 but I'll be damned if I can see anything like OCR.
The only "free" (note quotes) OCR package I've ever got to work reliably is the one that is built-in to Microsoft's "Document Imaging" (.mdi) application.
[disclaimer]It's "free" if you already have access to Microsoft Office. I don't think it's widely known that there is built-in OCR functionality. Now if only there was a free mdi to pdf converter that keeps the ocr information. (sigh) [/disclaimer]
I'll just leave this here.
Nice... I especially liked
The Court noted the minimal cautionary language displayed to the user, and noted the lack of accessible disclaimers. A disclaimer, which warns the user that each situation requires a unique approach
I wonder if the USCG uniquely handcrafted the letters for each of their 'situations'?
VisageVolume
"visage" means *ace (sorry, *acebook now owns that word)
"volume" means book (unless Amazon owns that word, oh wait, doesn't Brazil own the word Amazon? Or was that the ancient Greeks? I'm getting confused)
Or we could use "CountenanceCodex"
I was just thinking that if someone made a copy of all the very first pages of the publications in the world, and then stuck them all in the one volume, that would then be a "preface book", which clearly must be "pre facebook".
Oh, so now I've got to buy the White Album *again*?
Well, looking on the bright side, if you already have 8 copies this one would be "Number Nine, Number Nine, Number...."
> A Computer science professor called Ken Perlin
Understatement of the year -- this guy _invented_ Perlin noise.
Agreed. There were two papers published in SIGGRAPH 1985 that really introduced "Solid texturing" to the computer graphics community. One of those was Perlin's An Image Synthesizer which has since formed the basis for numerous procedural texturing systems, especially those in ray tracing systems.
Nope. That's not it. g and p are always "public". And it doesn't help if an attacker were to chose them.
What I should have said (and only realised after I posted) was that something has to be 'secret' to avoid a MITM attack. It's either got to be some certificates to verify that Alice is really talking to Bob and vice versa or keep g and possibly p a shared secret, but that rather defeats some of the purpose of DH. (shrug)
Thus this protocol being known for almost 35 years allows easy encryption with a key that a eavesdropper cannot easily snoop..
Actually, in "Applied Cryptography", (p516), Schneier says that Diffie-Hellman is vunerable to a man-in-the-middle attack.
It doesn't go into details, but I guess the problem might be if g and p aren't pre-agreed between Alice and Bob and then Mallory substitutes Alice's selection of g and p for his own before sending those on to Bob.
The duration of patents here in the USA changed a few years ago too (how it changed I do not remember).
IIRC, it changed from "17 years from date of grant" to "20 years from date of filing" (which then matches most other countries' patent law). Also, (again IIRC), the patent application now automatically becomes published 18 months after filing (assuming, I guess, it isn't withdrawn prior to that). I presume these changes were introduced to stop the "submarining" that occurred in USPTO.
The manufacturer of the turbines in this car is Bladon Jets.
From your link, I just noticed the pencil shown next to the turbine. OMG that is small! Presumably that's not what's in the car though... is it?
tractor != sports car ...do I have to spell it out for you, you stupid idiot?
What a polite gentleman you are.
FWIW there's some cross-pollination between tractors and performance cars. IIRC, Maserati made (make?) tractors and JCB hold the land speed record for a diesel vehicle.
Usability is so important. Put you time and effort in to that - the "open data" is already there thanks to OSM.
I just use a TomTom One with a decent bicycle mount. It's easy to use and with USB charging, I can easily power it with a standard battery to USB charger and it cost £100 (much less than an iPhone would have cost). Okay, it doesn't cover bridleways, but you can never be sure what the conditions are going to be like on bridleways. Muddy tracks suitable for horses aren't always suitable for a road bike.
Errr... my TomTom One took me (in my non 4wd car) along what I could describe as a muddy bridleway a few days ago when I tried to avoid a jammed road, so I'm not sure that you would really miss out on the mud. To be fair, the detour did work but it was worrying for a while!