The decoding libs have this straight, I never have a problem playing back MPEG2 or H.264. But there sure is a problem editing them.
There's now a library effort aimed at centralizing this "hard work" among the video editing suites, so the editors can focus on the front-end work.
No doubt this is over-simplifying, but re-inventing these wheels should hopefully soon be a solved problem in open source. (unless corporations decide they're good enough to crush at that point).
Yes, many people are involved in growing your food, which takes considerable land resources to accomplish.
Still more people live in local metro areas that lack the shopping grandeur of the bigbox sprawl-fest that is 75 miles away. It's easy to make that trip once a month if the volume beats ordering via UPS.
repair costs are an order of magnitude higher for aluminum or carbon fiber based vehicles in non-totalling accidents because of the difficulty or impossibility of repairing damage rather than replacing
The materials value of auto parts doesn't seem to have an impact on their retail price. I can see advantages to a full unibody carbon-fiber car, but why can't they be modularized like steel? (granted they'd have to be somewhat larger and somewhat weaker).
We need regulation. We need trade agreements that not only enforce IP, but make sure that the companies are not using methods or materials banned in the US.
And yet despite nearly a century of this kind of thought, Wal*Mart is selling bracelets with cadmium.
Just how much more evidence do you need that government regulation doesn't work? Just one more law or ruling will finally get it right? No, that's been the prevailing attitude among socialists for the past half century, and their arrogance is killing our children.
Only independent validation and consumer regulation can work, precisely because it leverages economies of scale governments can never bring to bear.
This stuff is absolutely something that needs regulation to control it.
It already is. It failed miserably.
People should refuse to buy cheap jewelry that doesn't have a 3rd-party testing stamp attached to it. Even $1 jewelry wouldn't need to increase in price more than 5% or so.
Then all you have to do is educate, which is much easier than trying to perfectly regulate because you create millions of micro-regulators you can't otherwise afford.
-- Home theater gear from Best Buy is low grade dog food.
No it's not, low-grade dog food is inexpensive!
I just walked into one the other day, knowing their gear was overpriced, and ran away in terror when I found the 25' S-Video cable I needed at $90. Subsequently ordered for $13.
That doesn't make things worse, and even if you'd like to see them all shut down you'll have to agree that 10 new and modern ones are a whole lot better than 10 old and leaky ones.
We can't simply shut them down and walk away - we have a whole bunch of waste we're responsible for and burying our heads in the Nevada sand isn't a viable long-term strategy.
There are three ways to deal with that waste responsibly: 1) shoot it into space. Expensive and potentially risky. 2) spread it evenly over the Earth. Expensive and unpopular. 3) burn it down by 99% and power the planet for the next century with it. Then perhaps 1) or 2), but at 1% of the scale. We know how to do this, but the project to do it was killed by the very same people now poised to profit handsomely from "Cap & Trade".
We have a government problem here, not an energy problem, and not a technical problem.
Or do you mean the PR images over overweight middle-aged people with the private parts obscured by overexposure blooms? Clearly those must be representative and average, the government used them in press releases!
but it's a better guide of private conduct than public policy.
Public policy cannot run against the deep-seated beliefs of its population. Being ashamed of nakedness is so ingrained it's covered in the first chapter of the Bible. Call it taboo, common law, unreasonable search, whatever, it's not acceptable to most people. And the others already make pretty good money at it in the San Franando Valley, so they're unlikely to turn to a life of suicide bombings over it.
Won't happen until the first Girls Gone Wild: Airport Style hits the shelves. Then, the s**t's going to hit the fan.
When I posted the TSA scan of the slender gal with the full bust and visible nipples, that's exactly what my female friends said, roughly "the hell with that, I'm driving." (sadly, they cared less about the DNA damage)
Funny how most of the TSA PR pictures have over-exposure blooms on the 'private' areas, ain't it? (go look again)
Now if you'll excuse me, I am going to install a new clutch in my 1996 "B4" VW Passat TDi wagon
Get ready, somebody is going to post, "and I'm going to go in my Prius to see a movie since I don't have to spend all my free time patching up an old Passat"...
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This article might be interesting if you are, say, 15.
Most of us just skip uninteresting articles.
"But space is a hologram! Scientists said so!"
Yeah, but one of the department heads at Fermilab is on about this, and that's not really 'New-Age' science.
The decoding libs have this straight, I never have a problem playing back MPEG2 or H.264. But there sure is a problem editing them.
There's now a library effort aimed at centralizing this "hard work" among the video editing suites, so the editors can focus on the front-end work.
No doubt this is over-simplifying, but re-inventing these wheels should hopefully soon be a solved problem in open source. (unless corporations decide they're good enough to crush at that point).
Now get off my lawn!
And yet people would still pay for that experience. :(
I think this article uses >$1000 to mean "high end" because it assumes the people buying them are not insane or status-whores.
Yeah, because $1000/yr would be insane for a business tool that offers a competitive edge.
It looks like you forgot that he also did the Star Wars Christmas special...
Do you really expect that to be taken seriously?
How about watching DVDs? How long will it last then? -_-
you care about better battery life and you insist on spinning bits of plastic through the air to achieve it?
I suspect you really care about watching movies.
Please do not 'reboot' Firefly!
Don't take it seriously, the editors just added that to guarantee an additional 12,000 page views.
God love JMS, and B5 1-4 were the best TV ever, but, man Season 5 stunk of rotten fish eggs. And flower children. And Commander Supermodels.
At least he sobered up* for Crusade.
* high on brilliance and success, not drugs, necessarily.
Yeah, and with Christian Bale in the father's role, 'cause no-one does dark better than Christian Bale!
Oooh, he can use the angry-Howl voice at the ants. Oh, um, I mean the Batman voice.
OTOH, there are plenty of books out there just crying out to be made into long-running TV series.
It's hard to sell a TV series to a network that can't be joined by a viewer mid-way through a season at a random episode.
Fortunately for art, TV networks will soon be extinct.
Do people really do that?
Yes, many people are involved in growing your food, which takes considerable land resources to accomplish.
Still more people live in local metro areas that lack the shopping grandeur of the bigbox sprawl-fest that is 75 miles away. It's easy to make that trip once a month if the volume beats ordering via UPS.
repair costs are an order of magnitude higher for aluminum or carbon fiber based vehicles in non-totalling accidents because of the difficulty or impossibility of repairing damage rather than replacing
The materials value of auto parts doesn't seem to have an impact on their retail price. I can see advantages to a full unibody carbon-fiber car, but why can't they be modularized like steel? (granted they'd have to be somewhat larger and somewhat weaker).
I can make you a 3000hp car that is slower than a Geo Metro.
The Shuttle Crawler is about 5000hp, and does about 2MPH.
Set everything to public on your own page,
Even the pictures of him having gay sex with Scott McNeely to celebrate the end of privacy?
We need regulation. We need trade agreements that not only enforce IP, but make sure that the companies are not using methods or materials banned in the US.
And yet despite nearly a century of this kind of thought, Wal*Mart is selling bracelets with cadmium.
Just how much more evidence do you need that government regulation doesn't work? Just one more law or ruling will finally get it right? No, that's been the prevailing attitude among socialists for the past half century, and their arrogance is killing our children.
Only independent validation and consumer regulation can work, precisely because it leverages economies of scale governments can never bring to bear.
This stuff is absolutely something that needs regulation to control it.
It already is. It failed miserably.
People should refuse to buy cheap jewelry that doesn't have a 3rd-party testing stamp attached to it. Even $1 jewelry wouldn't need to increase in price more than 5% or so.
Then all you have to do is educate, which is much easier than trying to perfectly regulate because you create millions of micro-regulators you can't otherwise afford.
-- Home theater gear from Best Buy is low grade dog food.
No it's not, low-grade dog food is inexpensive!
I just walked into one the other day, knowing their gear was overpriced, and ran away in terror when I found the 25' S-Video cable I needed at $90. Subsequently ordered for $13.
Give the whole lot a refreshment.
Cash for Nukes!
That doesn't make things worse, and even if you'd like to see them all shut down you'll have to agree that 10 new and modern ones are a whole lot better than 10 old and leaky ones.
We can't simply shut them down and walk away - we have a whole bunch of waste we're responsible for and burying our heads in the Nevada sand isn't a viable long-term strategy.
There are three ways to deal with that waste responsibly:
1) shoot it into space. Expensive and potentially risky.
2) spread it evenly over the Earth. Expensive and unpopular.
3) burn it down by 99% and power the planet for the next century with it. Then perhaps 1) or 2), but at 1% of the scale. We know how to do this, but the project to do it was killed by the very same people now poised to profit handsomely from "Cap & Trade".
We have a government problem here, not an energy problem, and not a technical problem.
These images are not sexually explicit.
Oh, really?
Or do you mean the PR images over overweight middle-aged people with the private parts obscured by overexposure blooms? Clearly those must be representative and average, the government used them in press releases!
but it's a better guide of private conduct than public policy.
Public policy cannot run against the deep-seated beliefs of its population. Being ashamed of nakedness is so ingrained it's covered in the first chapter of the Bible. Call it taboo, common law, unreasonable search, whatever, it's not acceptable to most people. And the others already make pretty good money at it in the San Franando Valley, so they're unlikely to turn to a life of suicide bombings over it.
Actually, this would be a great application for that Van Eck idea.
Yeah, but who's got $2000 to fund that website. I mean, err, um... hey, whatever happened to eckbox?
Won't happen until the first Girls Gone Wild: Airport Style hits the shelves. Then, the s**t's going to hit the fan.
When I posted the TSA scan of the slender gal with the full bust and visible nipples, that's exactly what my female friends said, roughly "the hell with that, I'm driving." (sadly, they cared less about the DNA damage)
Funny how most of the TSA PR pictures have over-exposure blooms on the 'private' areas, ain't it? (go look again)
Now if you'll excuse me, I am going to install a new clutch in my 1996 "B4" VW Passat TDi wagon
Get ready, somebody is going to post, "and I'm going to go in my Prius to see a movie since I don't have to spend all my free time patching up an old Passat"...
Why wouldn't vehicle value be a fair proxy for this without all the privacy problems?