I would think an increase in the percentage of checks going to individuals would be a good thing. That's a lower percentage of checks going to military contractors. This is the government focusing more on helping people instead of killing them.
Seriously, try this yourself. Take a digital camera RAW and encode it with JPEG at reasonable settings (80 quality or so) and then compress it with truecolor PNG. Compare the file sizes. Now take a script that puts them up side by side and choose the better image. It should be the PNG right, because JPEG is lossy? I'd bet you would be hard pressed to beat random chance.
Now that's not to say you should use JPEG absolutely everywhere. Stuff like computer generated images with 1 pixel lines or text look awful with JPEG and compress awesomely with PNG--lots of big flat color spaces are very nice to a PNG encoder. For photographic images however, JPEG is the way to go. You get effectively the same quality and save a lot of bits. It's all about choosing the right tool for the job.
Because truecolor PNG images are much larger (usually at least twice as large, often closer to 4 times larger) than a properly encoded JPG counterpart, and you can't see the difference with your naked eye.
They're treating it like someone stole WOW Gold. This is actually good for Bitcoin Libertarians, because if the government actually stepped in to fix the problem, the next step would be regulations to prevent something like this from happening again. The fact that this can and does happen is a feature of Bitcoin, it's pure liberty. I'm sure someone got rich off of Mt. Gox, and he's living the dream.
Either that or they've been trying to get their money out for weeks and discovered that they're one of the bottom men on the pyramid and get to hold the bag.
Here I was thinking they were going to shove it in there all half baked and kind of broken like most of the other things Gnome 3 has replaced. I hope this isn't because Wayland is that bad, but rather because the Gnome team has learned some lessons about removing the stuff that works and putting in stuff that is not ready for prime time yet.
The proposed operating license changes would place no limit on the number of 20 year extensions, so perhaps a few reactors will end up in operation for a full century (if there's anyone left who can remember how to operate them then).
You are allowed to train people how to operate machines even when the machine is old. I'm pretty sure people will still understand buttons and knobs even in a future where everything else is touchscreens and direct neural interfaces or whatever.
It's an American problem. If you speak any language but English, then you have an easy pick for second language. If English is your first language then you have to take a gamble. Do you go for Spanish so you can talk with Mexicans? Or maybe French so you can talk with some Canadians? Or maybe something more exotic that you'll probably never use? Maybe Chinese so you'll be prepared for the eventual world takeover, just like all of those people who studied Japanese back in the 80s. Or you could study Japanese because you love anime but hate reading subtitles. Learning a language takes so long that by the time you're good at it, who knows what your life situation will be like.
It got close a few years ago. They had a vote to secede, but it didn't pass.
The French speakers in Canada have been paranoid about their language for a long time now. I remember back in the 90s when I lived in Alberta this was a big issue. They see themselves as a small island of culture literally surrounded by English speakers (or frozen arctic wastes) and if they don't jealously guard their language they'll lose it. They're probably right too, because maintaining two languages on everything is a hassle and many people would naturally stop bothering with the French stuff if they were given the option.
Yep, and it's impossible to open new mines to meet demand too. I see these kinds of projections all the time: At current demand growth levels we will run out in just a couple of years!!! But then suppliers ramp up to meet demand just like you would expect them to and the crisis never happens.
Yep, and since everybody knows it is impossible to manufacture more batteries to meet demand, this will be a disaster. It's just the laws of nature man, you can't manufacture enough batteries to last until 2016, elementary chaos theory.
I've never heard of Slickdeals, but your post makes it sound like the website equivalent of that friend who always has some scheme that's totally going to work this time and he's found a way to beat the system. But he's always broke and angry because his last sure-fire scheme didn't work out. Or worse, he's happy because he yelled at some poor CSR for an hour and got some token "go away" prize that was worth marginally more than his initial investment.
The DC Metro is designed to get commuters into and out of the city. It's absolutely not designed for people who live in the city and want to get around using trains. That's not likely to change anytime soon either, since it was like pulling teeth to get service out to the hundreds of thousands of commuters in northern Fairfax county. And of course it looks like it's going to be a year late as well--I guess it's better than the Big Dig.
YouTube doesn't block videos in the US containing copyrighted music
LOLWAT? Youtube takes down thousands of videos per day from automated music recognition bots run by the cartels. Hint: If you post a video of your kid doing something, make sure there is no radio playing in the background.
DC has a reasonable light rail system, it's expensive but rather clean as far as metros go. Boston also has some, although it is not as extensive as it should be.
AOL is still around. Companies can linger for a long time after they stop being relevant, especially ones that have a ton of cash on hand. Granted, I don't know how many more 18 billion dollar purchases Zuckerburg can make before they start having cashflow problems, but they don't appear to be hurting at the moment.
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I would think an increase in the percentage of checks going to individuals would be a good thing. That's a lower percentage of checks going to military contractors. This is the government focusing more on helping people instead of killing them.
There seems to be some rather big assumptions being made here, like the nature of dark matter.
Seriously, try this yourself. Take a digital camera RAW and encode it with JPEG at reasonable settings (80 quality or so) and then compress it with truecolor PNG. Compare the file sizes. Now take a script that puts them up side by side and choose the better image. It should be the PNG right, because JPEG is lossy? I'd bet you would be hard pressed to beat random chance.
Now that's not to say you should use JPEG absolutely everywhere. Stuff like computer generated images with 1 pixel lines or text look awful with JPEG and compress awesomely with PNG--lots of big flat color spaces are very nice to a PNG encoder. For photographic images however, JPEG is the way to go. You get effectively the same quality and save a lot of bits. It's all about choosing the right tool for the job.
That's just a EULA, it's only designed to protect the company. Consumer interests are not a part of it.
Because truecolor PNG images are much larger (usually at least twice as large, often closer to 4 times larger) than a properly encoded JPG counterpart, and you can't see the difference with your naked eye.
This is a company that implemented their SSL encryption by hand in PHP. "Best Practices" are a word that never crossed their mind.
If someone got Mt. Gox to sign a contract on the bitcoins they were holding, they would have a case they could bring before the government.
They're treating it like someone stole WOW Gold. This is actually good for Bitcoin Libertarians, because if the government actually stepped in to fix the problem, the next step would be regulations to prevent something like this from happening again. The fact that this can and does happen is a feature of Bitcoin, it's pure liberty. I'm sure someone got rich off of Mt. Gox, and he's living the dream.
Either that or they've been trying to get their money out for weeks and discovered that they're one of the bottom men on the pyramid and get to hold the bag.
Here I was thinking they were going to shove it in there all half baked and kind of broken like most of the other things Gnome 3 has replaced. I hope this isn't because Wayland is that bad, but rather because the Gnome team has learned some lessons about removing the stuff that works and putting in stuff that is not ready for prime time yet.
You are allowed to train people how to operate machines even when the machine is old. I'm pretty sure people will still understand buttons and knobs even in a future where everything else is touchscreens and direct neural interfaces or whatever.
It's an American problem. If you speak any language but English, then you have an easy pick for second language. If English is your first language then you have to take a gamble. Do you go for Spanish so you can talk with Mexicans? Or maybe French so you can talk with some Canadians? Or maybe something more exotic that you'll probably never use? Maybe Chinese so you'll be prepared for the eventual world takeover, just like all of those people who studied Japanese back in the 80s. Or you could study Japanese because you love anime but hate reading subtitles. Learning a language takes so long that by the time you're good at it, who knows what your life situation will be like.
It got close a few years ago. They had a vote to secede, but it didn't pass.
The French speakers in Canada have been paranoid about their language for a long time now. I remember back in the 90s when I lived in Alberta this was a big issue. They see themselves as a small island of culture literally surrounded by English speakers (or frozen arctic wastes) and if they don't jealously guard their language they'll lose it. They're probably right too, because maintaining two languages on everything is a hassle and many people would naturally stop bothering with the French stuff if they were given the option.
Yep, and it's impossible to open new mines to meet demand too. I see these kinds of projections all the time: At current demand growth levels we will run out in just a couple of years!!! But then suppliers ramp up to meet demand just like you would expect them to and the crisis never happens.
Wal*Mart, Target, etc...
I hope the petafactory is powered by small animals and naked minor celebrities.
Yep, and since everybody knows it is impossible to manufacture more batteries to meet demand, this will be a disaster. It's just the laws of nature man, you can't manufacture enough batteries to last until 2016, elementary chaos theory.
I've never heard of Slickdeals, but your post makes it sound like the website equivalent of that friend who always has some scheme that's totally going to work this time and he's found a way to beat the system. But he's always broke and angry because his last sure-fire scheme didn't work out. Or worse, he's happy because he yelled at some poor CSR for an hour and got some token "go away" prize that was worth marginally more than his initial investment.
The DC Metro is designed to get commuters into and out of the city. It's absolutely not designed for people who live in the city and want to get around using trains. That's not likely to change anytime soon either, since it was like pulling teeth to get service out to the hundreds of thousands of commuters in northern Fairfax county. And of course it looks like it's going to be a year late as well--I guess it's better than the Big Dig.
Because they have a monopoly on the distribution channels. Unless you want to be a no-name internet band forever, you gotta play the game.
LOLWAT? Youtube takes down thousands of videos per day from automated music recognition bots run by the cartels. Hint: If you post a video of your kid doing something, make sure there is no radio playing in the background.
So the message should read: "This video has been removed due to containing music that GEMA will not license." ?
And you can bet that if a company did that they would be vilified for gentrifying the "historic neighborhood".
DC has a reasonable light rail system, it's expensive but rather clean as far as metros go. Boston also has some, although it is not as extensive as it should be.
AOL is still around. Companies can linger for a long time after they stop being relevant, especially ones that have a ton of cash on hand. Granted, I don't know how many more 18 billion dollar purchases Zuckerburg can make before they start having cashflow problems, but they don't appear to be hurting at the moment.