I can't confirm this, but apparently they dynamically link:
Furthermore the FFMPEG library was not modified in any way to work with Zentu nor is it compiled as part of the Zentu executable
I'm not defending their previous actions in any way, but I find this to be the kind of this that the LGPL was designed for; use it, but don't abuse it. In addition, they claim to have licensed the MPEG 4 patent.
Now that they openly say how they use an opensource product in an, as far as I can tell, legitimate way, what's there to beef about? Do we still need to screem and holler and hoot?
This vaguely reminds me of when linksys was using GPL'ed software on their routers and not releasing the source. Everything just blew over once they started using the GPL correctly.
From what I can tell, Zentu isn't so much about a propriety codec as it is about a transcoding solution for easier deployment. They happen to use FFMPEG for the gruntwork, but if the rest is legitimately their code, no harm no foul.
The magical thing about America is that you can have it both ways.
I am pro-science, anti-god, some people are pro-science, pro-god, some are anti-science, pro-god, and even some (particulary insane ones) are anti-science, anti-god.
America, as a whole, can be considered none of the above. There's roughly 250,000,000 people in the US. Even if 95% of them absolutely hated science, that'd leave millions left to fight for reason.
Mormans have it worse, their new testament was based in America, maybe they don't even know about the Israel/Palistine area....
Just to clarify, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (you know, the Mormons?) don't commonly refer to the "Book of Mormon" as "their new testament," but rather as a new testament. Also, the story (yes, it has a plot) starts out in Israel, then goes to the Americas, then has a flash-back to the Tower of Babel, then to back to Americas with a final war-to-end-all-wars.
Israel, and much of the bible, old and new, is referenced hundreds of times throughout the book.
That all said, the Mormons around here (ie. Provo, UT) have a seriously hard time thinking that a world exists outside of the valley.
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Unfortunately I know that there exists no language (it might be possible in some scripting languages) that has such a feature. Perhaps when I get around to finishing MODL2 (my own damn language, the second) I'll add in not just operator overloading, but operation definition.
Example custom operators that would be useful:
Scope resolution (:: ) for runtime polymorphism
Member of ( . and -> ) for runtime polymorphism
Function ( () ) for arbitrary argument order and named arguments
Comma ( , ) for tuples
Test ( ? : ) for whole object testing
All of these things can either be built into the language, or just worked around (since I have no idea why anyone would actually want to throw formal syntax to the wind), but as an academic exercise, these could be rather useful things to have in a compiled language.
Another, rather odd, and probably too hard to define, idea would be overloading the return value. It would require strict casting, but would mean that you could use a simple if statement to determine if an object (eg. if(mConnection) ) was valid instead of using a method (eg. if(mConnection.isConnected()). You could also create a garbage collector that would get around the accidental copying of pointers by completely preventing it (eg. someFunc(garbageCollectedObjectPointer) would work the same as someFunc(*garbageCollectedObjectPointer)).
Alright, I should stop dreaming and get back to coding.
What is the 3ms for? Black to white? White to black? Gray to gray?
~6ms for black to white.
the 3ms is for gray to gray
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Honestly, I would never buy an lcd (or just about anything else) without first reading a Tom's Hardware review since they actually review the item.
For me personally, it'd be cheaper to get another fat crt and get a deeper desk than to replace my existing crt with a smaller, thinner lcd that has usable. resolution and color reproduction. If I was looking for something comperable, I'd have to buy one that was 21", 8bpp color (not 6bpp), non-existent
The only advantage I can see is the fact that an lcd base takes 4" on the desk, while a crt takes 14"+. As long as I'm not stuck in a cubicle (an all too harrowing memory) I will most likely never switch to lcd because of their price versus performance. At work it's easier to ask for a new desk than to ask for an expensive lcd. At home it's easier to swallow the price for a desk than an expensive lcd.
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Asbestos was however used into the 1980 as a cheap and fire resistant material.
You seem to be under the impression that we have stopped using asbestos (and asbestos related minerals) as a fire resistant material. You see those shingles on your roof? Asbestos. You see those ceiling tiles in your office? Asbestos.
My friend works for an asbestos testing lab. On a trip to home depot he pointed out dozens of building materials with a "Warning: This contains xxxxxxx" where xxxxxxx is some mineral that has the exact same properties as asbestos, and sometimes is just asbestos, but with a confusing name.
So why do we still use it if we know of the dangers? It's because it works. One of the easiest ways to test for asbestos fibers in a sample is to burn it at a very high temperature and see if anything is left. Asbestos and related minerals are almost impervious to fire. Manufacturers have gotten around various bans by using it in small quantities and with other, non-banned, minerals that have the exact same properties, bad and good.
My grandfather is/was a chemical engineer (pot ash stuff). He's been axed at least a dozen times, and quit another half dozen times from various jobs in the industry. He's been officially in retirement for ten years, but companies all over the world keep hiring him as a consultant. He now earns more yearly (inflation adjusted) then he did in his prime. He may be "old and slow", hard of hearing, partially blind, etc, but they still need his knowledge base. If they (the general pot ash industry) had a program to turn him into a teacher before his retirement they could have gained from his knowledge for far less the expense.
The pot ash industry, afaik, is pretty small. They may not have been able to turn him into a high school teacher to increase their ranks, but maybe he could have started teaching younger employees earlier, and they could know how to teach the new hires instead of having to use him.
As far as I can tell, this is run exactly like the ACM annual contest. You go in, solve a few problems, and go out. From what I can tell, the ACM is better because it only allows college students to enter, you go in teams, not as individuals, and it's sponsered by IBM, not Microsoft.
If every vehicle in the US increased their fuel efficiency by 7%, fossil fuels would last an extra 150 years. Since that ain't gonna happen, a certain percentage of the people must refrain from using cars. I use public transportation every once in a while, but I even refrain from that where possible.
Unless you feed the gas into a fuel cell, you aren't going to get much above 30% efficiency...
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Fuel cells are only batteries. The theoritical best is getting back what you put in them. Even assumming a 99% efficiency you'll still be running off how efficient the original power source was.
Although hydrogen is essentially everywhere, you can't just dig it out of the ground. I can think of two ways (I'm sure there are more) to get usable hydrogen, electricity (split the atom off from an existing molecule), and heat (burn the atom off an existing molecule, or seperate it from a compound). Since about 75% of the country's electricity is fossil fuels, and heat is usually generated with fossil fuels or electricity using hydrogen doesn't solve anything.
I'm truly ashamed for people who think that hydrogen fuel cells will solve all of the world's fossil fuel problems. Sure, hydrogen fuel cells will make for extremely low exhaust cars, longer laptop battery life, etc, but they won't solve the fossil fuel crisis.
If you think that modern automobiles are getting close to their efficiency limit, then you've been looking the other way when people talk about TDI and hybrid cars. TDI increases fuel efficiency by redifining how diesil engines work (turbo charged, fuel injected, etc). Hybrid cars increase fuel efficiency by having a (almost always more efficient than ICE) electric motor do the actual driving, and using braking power to regenerate their batteries.
Using a hydrogen fuel cell car is almost exactly like using a hybrid motor. The only differnce being in the type of battery, and where the battery gets its energy reserve from.
People (especially in America) tout hydrogen as the best way to "rid ourselves of foreign oil," when it really just puts us in a stranglehold for the next 10+ years. Sure, 10 years from now, when fuel cell cars roam the highways, there's a possibility that we won't be using any foreign oil, but I doubt it. We will likely be using a large amount of oil to create hydrogen and even more to power massive ICE generators (just like we do today). If you really want to "rid yourself of foreign oil" go Nuclear. It's technology that, in 5 years time, could power 100% of any countries electrical needs. How? It only takes that long to build 1 reactor, 2 reactors, or more. The fuel for nuclear reactors, though not highly abbundant, is available in large enough quantities to suffice any demand.
Ten years from now I don't want to be seeing a world where 10% of the automobiles run on fuel cells, 15% are hybrids, and 75% are SUVs that are exempt from fuel efficiency standars. Stop the madness now.
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I'm not defending their previous actions in any way, but I find this to be the kind of this that the LGPL was designed for; use it, but don't abuse it. In addition, they claim to have licensed the MPEG 4 patent.
Now that they openly say how they use an opensource product in an, as far as I can tell, legitimate way, what's there to beef about? Do we still need to screem and holler and hoot?
This vaguely reminds me of when linksys was using GPL'ed software on their routers and not releasing the source. Everything just blew over once they started using the GPL correctly.
From what I can tell, Zentu isn't so much about a propriety codec as it is about a transcoding solution for easier deployment. They happen to use FFMPEG for the gruntwork, but if the rest is legitimately their code, no harm no foul.
All of these are very applicable in the real world. Even if you work on a team, and do just one part of the whole, you still learn a lot.
I am pro-science, anti-god, some people are pro-science, pro-god, some are anti-science, pro-god, and even some (particulary insane ones) are anti-science, anti-god.
America, as a whole, can be considered none of the above. There's roughly 250,000,000 people in the US. Even if 95% of them absolutely hated science, that'd leave millions left to fight for reason.
Just to clarify, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (you know, the Mormons?) don't commonly refer to the "Book of Mormon" as "their new testament," but rather as a new testament. Also, the story (yes, it has a plot) starts out in Israel, then goes to the Americas, then has a flash-back to the Tower of Babel, then to back to Americas with a final war-to-end-all-wars.
Israel, and much of the bible, old and new, is referenced hundreds of times throughout the book.
That all said, the Mormons around here (ie. Provo, UT) have a seriously hard time thinking that a world exists outside of the valley.
He provided the test data here and here
That list is, not surprisingly, missing the most underrated, unkown game of all time; Destiny of an Emperor.
Unfortunately I know that there exists no language (it might be possible in some scripting languages) that has such a feature. Perhaps when I get around to finishing MODL2 (my own damn language, the second) I'll add in not just operator overloading, but operation definition.
Example custom operators that would be useful:
All of these things can either be built into the language, or just worked around (since I have no idea why anyone would actually want to throw formal syntax to the wind), but as an academic exercise, these could be rather useful things to have in a compiled language.
Another, rather odd, and probably too hard to define, idea would be overloading the return value. It would require strict casting, but would mean that you could use a simple if statement to determine if an object (eg. if(mConnection) ) was valid instead of using a method (eg. if(mConnection.isConnected()). You could also create a garbage collector that would get around the accidental copying of pointers by completely preventing it (eg. someFunc(garbageCollectedObjectPointer) would work the same as someFunc(*garbageCollectedObjectPointer)).
Alright, I should stop dreaming and get back to coding.
Without the pretty graphs how will I know what's going on?!
Well, that link is a little better. I recommend this one instead, since it has a coherent summary and has numerous comments from industry analysts.
the 3ms is for gray to gray
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Honestly, I would never buy an lcd (or just about anything else) without first reading a Tom's Hardware review since they actually review the item.
For me personally, it'd be cheaper to get another fat crt and get a deeper desk than to replace my existing crt with a smaller, thinner lcd that has usable. resolution and color reproduction. If I was looking for something comperable, I'd have to buy one that was 21", 8bpp color (not 6bpp), non-existent The only advantage I can see is the fact that an lcd base takes 4" on the desk, while a crt takes 14"+. As long as I'm not stuck in a cubicle (an all too harrowing memory) I will most likely never switch to lcd because of their price versus performance. At work it's easier to ask for a new desk than to ask for an expensive lcd. At home it's easier to swallow the price for a desk than an expensive lcd.
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40 hours for $350 w/ Tivo.
300 hours for $500 w/ Tivo.
My setup:
300+ hours for < $300 w/ Windows
How? Had almost all of the hardware already.
Also, if I need more space, just slap in more hard drives. No "modding" required.
...as long as it's easier than MythTV to set up and cheaper than Tivo over 5-10 years, I'll do it.
Felt tip marker anyone?
The object in the mirror is an eyeball, not the moon.
You seem to be under the impression that we have stopped using asbestos (and asbestos related minerals) as a fire resistant material. You see those shingles on your roof? Asbestos. You see those ceiling tiles in your office? Asbestos.
My friend works for an asbestos testing lab. On a trip to home depot he pointed out dozens of building materials with a "Warning: This contains xxxxxxx" where xxxxxxx is some mineral that has the exact same properties as asbestos, and sometimes is just asbestos, but with a confusing name.
So why do we still use it if we know of the dangers? It's because it works. One of the easiest ways to test for asbestos fibers in a sample is to burn it at a very high temperature and see if anything is left. Asbestos and related minerals are almost impervious to fire. Manufacturers have gotten around various bans by using it in small quantities and with other, non-banned, minerals that have the exact same properties, bad and good.
That's what lets me, in my comfortable easy chair, forget about the bad things I can't do anything about.
If people were constantly stuck in oh-my-god-the-world-is-a-bad-place mode, would the world be a better place? Not likely.
To keep the Japanese, Koreans, Canadians, French, Finnish, and Chinese out.
The pot ash industry, afaik, is pretty small. They may not have been able to turn him into a high school teacher to increase their ranks, but maybe he could have started teaching younger employees earlier, and they could know how to teach the new hires instead of having to use him.
What you want is a computer that is immune to moisture, or a really good dehumidifier.
Whye shood we lern tiping wen most of us cant even spel?
As far as I can tell, this is run exactly like the ACM annual contest. You go in, solve a few problems, and go out. From what I can tell, the ACM is better because it only allows college students to enter, you go in teams, not as individuals, and it's sponsered by IBM, not Microsoft.
I've also been hit by cars twice while walking and once on my bike. Quite the dangerous mile.
If every vehicle in the US increased their fuel efficiency by 7%, fossil fuels would last an extra 150 years. Since that ain't gonna happen, a certain percentage of the people must refrain from using cars. I use public transportation every once in a while, but I even refrain from that where possible.
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Fuel cells are only batteries. The theoritical best is getting back what you put in them. Even assumming a 99% efficiency you'll still be running off how efficient the original power source was.
Although hydrogen is essentially everywhere, you can't just dig it out of the ground. I can think of two ways (I'm sure there are more) to get usable hydrogen, electricity (split the atom off from an existing molecule), and heat (burn the atom off an existing molecule, or seperate it from a compound). Since about 75% of the country's electricity is fossil fuels, and heat is usually generated with fossil fuels or electricity using hydrogen doesn't solve anything.
I'm truly ashamed for people who think that hydrogen fuel cells will solve all of the world's fossil fuel problems. Sure, hydrogen fuel cells will make for extremely low exhaust cars, longer laptop battery life, etc, but they won't solve the fossil fuel crisis.
If you think that modern automobiles are getting close to their efficiency limit, then you've been looking the other way when people talk about TDI and hybrid cars. TDI increases fuel efficiency by redifining how diesil engines work (turbo charged, fuel injected, etc). Hybrid cars increase fuel efficiency by having a (almost always more efficient than ICE) electric motor do the actual driving, and using braking power to regenerate their batteries.
Using a hydrogen fuel cell car is almost exactly like using a hybrid motor. The only differnce being in the type of battery, and where the battery gets its energy reserve from.
People (especially in America) tout hydrogen as the best way to "rid ourselves of foreign oil," when it really just puts us in a stranglehold for the next 10+ years. Sure, 10 years from now, when fuel cell cars roam the highways, there's a possibility that we won't be using any foreign oil, but I doubt it. We will likely be using a large amount of oil to create hydrogen and even more to power massive ICE generators (just like we do today). If you really want to "rid yourself of foreign oil" go Nuclear. It's technology that, in 5 years time, could power 100% of any countries electrical needs. How? It only takes that long to build 1 reactor, 2 reactors, or more. The fuel for nuclear reactors, though not highly abbundant, is available in large enough quantities to suffice any demand.
Ten years from now I don't want to be seeing a world where 10% of the automobiles run on fuel cells, 15% are hybrids, and 75% are SUVs that are exempt from fuel efficiency standars. Stop the madness now.
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