I agree. I can imagine an equation with 3 varibles
A) Available road surface area (choke points also fit in here somehow, like accidents and lane closures) B) Number of cars C) Speed D) Driver reaction time, i.e. how much bungie cord effect is there between cars
The speed is dictated by the number of cars, the surface area.
Reaction time can be left out. It is pretty much contant in all cities and it is > 0 seconds. If reaction time were 0 seconds then traffic would resemble a train with 100% efficiency and the other 3 factors would not matter as much (there could still be limits of road space vs. number of cars).
It's not about tailgating, its about braking. You can following closely without braking. It's people who needlessly accellerate then decellerate over and over again when the cars around them are moving at a constant speed. If they would just regulate their speed it would reduce stop and go.
I see a pattern with brake lights. Sometimes people tap the brake when they dont have to. This causes people behind them to tap their brake out of habbit, i.e. people automatically press their brake when they see red brake lights ahead regardless of the need to slowdown. A better method is to regulate speed by downshifting or letting off the gas rather than braking. Then people behind will not see brake lights and will be less likely to needlessly tap their brakes.
Be an inductor, resist change in speed as much as possible. Be a slower to speed up and not so eager to brake.
Say there are 2.5 millions users with 160 points left over ($2.00). That 5 million for Microsoft. Plus having some extra unspendable cash in someones account makes then more likely to add a few bucks to buy something else. Then they have change left over again, rinse, repeat.
The government is not the only benificiary. Casinos have intrest in this law too. The government gets taxes and the casinos gets protection from outside competition.
The sound clip is 14 seconds long. Winamp and VLC refused to play it however it worked in Windows Media Player. There is something wrong/non-standard with mp3 file, I suggest another player.
These 2 sentances seem to contradict each other. What do you mean?
A) "To this day, I still can't see much difference between HD and regular TV on my 50" LCD"
B) "I must say one thing has impressed me, though: Over the Air HD broadcasts"
First you said that you can't tell a difference between HD and regular TV. Then you say you were impressed with HD and regular TV sucks.
Maybe you are refering to ketoacidosis?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ketoacidosis
"Ketoacidosis should not be confused with ketosis, which is one of the body's normal processes for the metabolism of body fat."
If someone doesnt think its fair then dont buy it, its only a video game.
It might also be related to purchasing power parity (see wikipedia) where the value of money is relative to factors in a local market. e.g. an icecream cone cost 3$ in the US and 3Pounds in the UK, because even though the exchange rate is 2:1 (dollars to pounds) the pound is not worth as much in UK.
I am pretty sure your internet access is already taxed as a sales tax in your local state (unless you live in Alaska, Delware, Montana, New Hampshire or Oregon but your local city could still have sales tax). This law will ban taxes by on goods and services bought over the internet and between states.
I think the parent was refering to HD-DVD and Blu-ray rips. A full 2 hour movie on HD-DVD or Blu-Ray is 20GB to 30GB. Those are 1080P, higher bitrate and better quality than Apple's.
Divx and Xvid require MPEG4-ASP (Advanced Simple Profile). This update only includes Mpeg4-SP (Simple profile). Therefore this dash update does not add Divx/Xvid compatiblity.
There is a possibility that Microsoft cannot claim "MPEG4-ASP" because they do not support GMC and QPEL however nobody cares about those features of ASP and 99.9% of the divx/xvid videos dont use them. This leaves open the possiblity that Microsoft may still support Xvid and Divx, just not the full suite of MPEG4-ASP features. Im not holding my breath.
I see quite the opposite happening. J6P will know what HD-DVD is, its better DVD. They will not know what Blu-Ray is, the name is not familiar in anyway.
Current DVDs do play in all Blu-ray and HD-DVD players. Backwards compatibility is not an issue.
Why not trade temporal resolution by using 1080p@30fps (vs. 720p@60), 1080i60 is a mistake and should be replaced with 1080p30? 1080p30 has the same pixel rate as 1080i60 and 1080p30 will probably compress better resulting is lower bandwidth.
"If you believe that, then there should be a tax against the manufactures of the appliances, not the consumers. After all, it is not the fault of the consumer that the manufacturer decided to create their devices so they are never really off. "
Get real, when taxes are raised on manufactures (make that any cost added to the manufactures) it will always be passed to the consumer via higher prices for the product. The only case it could work is if another manufacturer comes along and makes a more efficient thing for cheaper. But since it is usually more expensive to make something more efficient that will probably not happen.
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A lot of good anonymous voting does. It hasnt prevented canidates from buying the election.
Annonymous voting allows for 2 problem. An election can be bought and the results can be manipulated.
Accounted voting has 1 problem. People can buy your votes but atleast we can audit the results. Thats a better solution.
Damn. What must they think of my 92" projection screen? :p
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That makes you under class, maybe working-poor.
I agree. I can imagine an equation with 3 varibles
A) Available road surface area (choke points also fit in here somehow, like accidents and lane closures)
B) Number of cars
C) Speed
D) Driver reaction time, i.e. how much bungie cord effect is there between cars
The speed is dictated by the number of cars, the surface area.
Reaction time can be left out. It is pretty much contant in all cities and it is > 0 seconds. If reaction time were 0 seconds then traffic would resemble a train with 100% efficiency and the other 3 factors would not matter as much (there could still be limits of road space vs. number of cars).
It's not about tailgating, its about braking. You can following closely without braking. It's people who needlessly accellerate then decellerate over and over again when the cars around them are moving at a constant speed. If they would just regulate their speed it would reduce stop and go.
I see a pattern with brake lights. Sometimes people tap the brake when they dont have to. This causes people behind them to tap their brake out of habbit, i.e. people automatically press their brake when they see red brake lights ahead regardless of the need to slowdown. A better method is to regulate speed by downshifting or letting off the gas rather than braking. Then people behind will not see brake lights and will be less likely to needlessly tap their brakes.
Be an inductor, resist change in speed as much as possible. Be a slower to speed up and not so eager to brake.
Use a charging station at the airport. You take the battery out of the laptop and insert it into the slot. The charging station could handle all that.
Say there are 2.5 millions users with 160 points left over ($2.00). That 5 million for Microsoft. Plus having some extra unspendable cash in someones account makes then more likely to add a few bucks to buy something else. Then they have change left over again, rinse, repeat.
Hopefully this will help reduce trash music, apparently increasing the quality of music available.
The government is not the only benificiary. Casinos have intrest in this law too. The government gets taxes and the casinos gets protection from outside competition.
The sound clip is 14 seconds long. Winamp and VLC refused to play it however it worked in Windows Media Player. There is something wrong/non-standard with mp3 file, I suggest another player.
These 2 sentances seem to contradict each other. What do you mean? A) "To this day, I still can't see much difference between HD and regular TV on my 50" LCD" B) "I must say one thing has impressed me, though: Over the Air HD broadcasts" First you said that you can't tell a difference between HD and regular TV. Then you say you were impressed with HD and regular TV sucks.
Maybe you are refering to ketoacidosis? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ketoacidosis "Ketoacidosis should not be confused with ketosis, which is one of the body's normal processes for the metabolism of body fat."
If someone doesnt think its fair then dont buy it, its only a video game. It might also be related to purchasing power parity (see wikipedia) where the value of money is relative to factors in a local market. e.g. an icecream cone cost 3$ in the US and 3Pounds in the UK, because even though the exchange rate is 2:1 (dollars to pounds) the pound is not worth as much in UK.
I am pretty sure your internet access is already taxed as a sales tax in your local state (unless you live in Alaska, Delware, Montana, New Hampshire or Oregon but your local city could still have sales tax). This law will ban taxes by on goods and services bought over the internet and between states.
I think the parent was refering to HD-DVD and Blu-ray rips. A full 2 hour movie on HD-DVD or Blu-Ray is 20GB to 30GB. Those are 1080P, higher bitrate and better quality than Apple's.
500MB is not enough data for decent quality HD but for DVD, yes. HD 720p quality @1hr would require ~2GB minumum for decent quality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_a_sucker_born _every_minute
P.T. Barnum is not the source of that quote.
True. I remember doing chores in 5th grade so my mom would buy me the Doom episode 1 demo diskette for $4.99.
Divx and Xvid require MPEG4-ASP (Advanced Simple Profile). This update only includes Mpeg4-SP (Simple profile). Therefore this dash update does not add Divx/Xvid compatiblity.
There is a possibility that Microsoft cannot claim "MPEG4-ASP" because they do not support GMC and QPEL however nobody cares about those features of ASP and 99.9% of the divx/xvid videos dont use them. This leaves open the possiblity that Microsoft may still support Xvid and Divx, just not the full suite of MPEG4-ASP features. Im not holding my breath.
I see quite the opposite happening. J6P will know what HD-DVD is, its better DVD. They will not know what Blu-Ray is, the name is not familiar in anyway.
Current DVDs do play in all Blu-ray and HD-DVD players. Backwards compatibility is not an issue.
Ditto
I am not sure what that file is but The Fifth Element was never released on HD-DVD.
RTFA. The question is not "Can is down scale?", it already is down scaling to 480p and that is the problem.
Why not trade temporal resolution by using 1080p@30fps (vs. 720p@60), 1080i60 is a mistake and should be replaced with 1080p30? 1080p30 has the same pixel rate as 1080i60 and 1080p30 will probably compress better resulting is lower bandwidth.
No, 1080i has greater horizontal resolution than 540p (1920 vs 960)
"If you believe that, then there should be a tax against the manufactures of the appliances, not the consumers. After all, it is not the fault of the consumer that the manufacturer decided to create their devices so they are never really off. "
Get real, when taxes are raised on manufactures (make that any cost added to the manufactures) it will always be passed to the consumer via higher prices for the product. The only case it could work is if another manufacturer comes along and makes a more efficient thing for cheaper. But since it is usually more expensive to make something more efficient that will probably not happen.