I don't believe you. I think you would just have bigger TVs, extra car, maybe some sort of boat or recreational vehicle. Or would have gone on an extra vacation to a nice sunny beach in the Caribbean.
Are you sure about that? At least according to wiki they have two formats and OTA is still mpeg2. The fact they may be doing both raises some other questions like whether OTA is seeing this as well. Cutting back on the OTA bitrate makes zero sense, so maybe this is only talking about their sat/cable distribution?
The article talks about bitrate, which implies not a change in codec, so it remains mpeg-2. I'm assuming the BBC is available OTA, so unless they want everyone with a HD ready TV to have to get a new receiver box they can't just change to x264, etc.
So in this context, the answer is no, using the same codec at a reduced bitrate can't produce better than the source. However, that assumes you are comparing to the original source. Take for example a standard DVD player which has a mpeg2 uncompressed file at 480i. The resulting image on a very large 60+" HD TV may appear blocky in some situations. A good DVD player will be able to interpolate and massage things around so that the resulting 1080i image on your screen indeed does look better on your screen. Although the image itself may be quite a bit different than the original pure source. So you have a perceived better frame image, although it may be quite a bit changed from the source.
By simply doing what this guy obviously did. Rented Independence Day. While entertaining, it was far from original. And I call BS on the $300 budget. He surely isn't factoring in all of the crap he's been accumulating over the last few years in order to put this all together. The $300 maybe would have covered what it cost to pay that lady off to let her kid roll away in the stroller.
Nice editing. It's 30M, not 300M. Not that it's not a pretty penny, but at some point you guess should have a little bit of pride in your site and at least put an effort into making it worth reading.
Seriously, read it. It makes it sound like the scene from the James Bond movie that has Madonna in it. What part of this smells profit? None. It's nothing but a bunch of rich people throwing money around to impress each other. Eventually you run out of rich people willing to subsidize. And that will happen pretty quickly after the first 2 go up and it loses its appeal. Spending gobs of money to be the 30+ person to use it quickly loses its luster.
Because that's what conglomerates do. They diversify. And there seems to be some confusion. GE already owned an 80% stake in NBC. In layman's terms they actually have to buy the remaining 20%, then sell 51% to Comcast.
Really I would think its up to the mall to be responsible for the safety in its own place. Malls are hurting pretty bad right now and any excuse to pack it full of people is good for them, safe or not. If you can't support a venue then you shouldn't have it. It's not like he just walked in off the street and decided to this.
This part is rather important, yet amazingly was left out of the summary.
During the time that a subscriber's traffic is assigned the lower priority status, such
traffic will not be delayed so long as the network segment is not actually congested.
If, however, the network segment becomes congested, such traffic could be delayed.
So what they are really doing is lowering your priority. If there is no real congestion then you notice no difference. If things get saturated then your packets are delayed before other peoples.
Of which a functioning laptop may want to be used inside of. That's the neat thing about laptops, you can take them where you go. That being said I worded poorly, although I do believe in the initial days of assembly the entire station may have reduced pressure.
NASA requires you to use the thinkpads. Not that they are anything special other than they have gone through a battery of tests and have a few mods to help with cooling and power requirements. Offer them all you want for free and they'll say no. The main reason for so many are that each one more than likely is dedicated to a single use. If you have 60 experiments, then you have 60 laptops. It's quite a bit of effort and paperwork to certify that any application you need to run on a laptop plays nicely with everything else. Even if your program is a whopping 100kb controller for some piece of equipment. This is done because you typically don't have a whole lot of overlap between who is supplying the experiments so cross testing is difficult. The last thing you want to do is try to fire up an experiment, not have it work and then have to waste everyones time figuring out what isn't playing nice with what. It's just easier to dedicate a whole laptop.
None of these machines are radiation hardened in any way. For the most part they are indeed off the shelf with the exception of adding some extra cooling fans to accommodate the lower pressure that the station maintains during EVAs, along with a DC-DC adapter to match the stations 28V power. When you consider a 40mz RAD6000 PPC goes for about $300k just for the cpu the cost of specialty hardening a laptop would be way too cost prohibitive. None of these run or control critical systems so it's not a big deal
There are tons of versions and companies that have their own. Popcorn Hour is just the name of the biggest selling company, like Coke for soda. Mine, the IO-100HD from Dragon Tech Corp is completely fanless and runs cool and quiet. Not a single crash. The actual term to search for is Network Media Tank and you'll find tons of reviews for many different brands. Some have had heat issues. I bought mine to do exactly as you want, to replace the xbox 360 and it's worked beautiful. Plays full 1080P mp4 from a network share no problem.
Or other network media tank? I love my IO-100 and it plays everything I have ever thrown at it. Low wattage, runs linux, excellent audio/video connectivity and is I think 300mhz mips.
If that were the case they'd be popping up all over. This place will never operate in the black. Not saying it isn't a starting point and shouldn't be done, but lets not sell it for something it isn't.
The sheeva is great, I get about 10Mb/s transfers to it as a file server. The only thing you do need to realize going into it is that there is no fpu on it, resulting in like a 20x hit if you try to run anything that wants floating point math.
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This is revealed in the extended edition of Sneakers.
I've seen sharks that are big enough that they can jump up and take down a 747.
Seems to work in the real world when you want to attract talent.
I don't believe you. I think you would just have bigger TVs, extra car, maybe some sort of boat or recreational vehicle. Or would have gone on an extra vacation to a nice sunny beach in the Caribbean.
Bingo. So much for the argument that the energy is non-ionizing thus cell phones are safe. Assuming this study is factual.
Why not get a popcorn hour or other comparable media tank? They are cheap, can be fanless, and I've not run into anything it wouldn't play.
Are you sure about that? At least according to wiki they have two formats and OTA is still mpeg2. The fact they may be doing both raises some other questions like whether OTA is seeing this as well. Cutting back on the OTA bitrate makes zero sense, so maybe this is only talking about their sat/cable distribution?
The article talks about bitrate, which implies not a change in codec, so it remains mpeg-2. I'm assuming the BBC is available OTA, so unless they want everyone with a HD ready TV to have to get a new receiver box they can't just change to x264, etc. So in this context, the answer is no, using the same codec at a reduced bitrate can't produce better than the source. However, that assumes you are comparing to the original source. Take for example a standard DVD player which has a mpeg2 uncompressed file at 480i. The resulting image on a very large 60+" HD TV may appear blocky in some situations. A good DVD player will be able to interpolate and massage things around so that the resulting 1080i image on your screen indeed does look better on your screen. Although the image itself may be quite a bit different than the original pure source. So you have a perceived better frame image, although it may be quite a bit changed from the source.
South Africa was already occupied.
What? Other than FX, which hollywood is pretty good at, what exactly does this film show?
By simply doing what this guy obviously did. Rented Independence Day. While entertaining, it was far from original. And I call BS on the $300 budget. He surely isn't factoring in all of the crap he's been accumulating over the last few years in order to put this all together. The $300 maybe would have covered what it cost to pay that lady off to let her kid roll away in the stroller.
Nice editing. It's 30M, not 300M. Not that it's not a pretty penny, but at some point you guess should have a little bit of pride in your site and at least put an effort into making it worth reading.
Seriously, read it. It makes it sound like the scene from the James Bond movie that has Madonna in it. What part of this smells profit? None. It's nothing but a bunch of rich people throwing money around to impress each other. Eventually you run out of rich people willing to subsidize. And that will happen pretty quickly after the first 2 go up and it loses its appeal. Spending gobs of money to be the 30+ person to use it quickly loses its luster.
Because that's what conglomerates do. They diversify. And there seems to be some confusion. GE already owned an 80% stake in NBC. In layman's terms they actually have to buy the remaining 20%, then sell 51% to Comcast.
This is what is happening, without government intervention. GE is 5 times the size of Comcast revenue wise. NBC is a drop in the bucket for them.
Really I would think its up to the mall to be responsible for the safety in its own place. Malls are hurting pretty bad right now and any excuse to pack it full of people is good for them, safe or not. If you can't support a venue then you shouldn't have it. It's not like he just walked in off the street and decided to this.
During the time that a subscriber's traffic is assigned the lower priority status, such traffic will not be delayed so long as the network segment is not actually congested. If, however, the network segment becomes congested, such traffic could be delayed.
So what they are really doing is lowering your priority. If there is no real congestion then you notice no difference. If things get saturated then your packets are delayed before other peoples.
Of which a functioning laptop may want to be used inside of. That's the neat thing about laptops, you can take them where you go. That being said I worded poorly, although I do believe in the initial days of assembly the entire station may have reduced pressure.
NASA requires you to use the thinkpads. Not that they are anything special other than they have gone through a battery of tests and have a few mods to help with cooling and power requirements. Offer them all you want for free and they'll say no. The main reason for so many are that each one more than likely is dedicated to a single use. If you have 60 experiments, then you have 60 laptops. It's quite a bit of effort and paperwork to certify that any application you need to run on a laptop plays nicely with everything else. Even if your program is a whopping 100kb controller for some piece of equipment. This is done because you typically don't have a whole lot of overlap between who is supplying the experiments so cross testing is difficult. The last thing you want to do is try to fire up an experiment, not have it work and then have to waste everyones time figuring out what isn't playing nice with what. It's just easier to dedicate a whole laptop.
None of these machines are radiation hardened in any way. For the most part they are indeed off the shelf with the exception of adding some extra cooling fans to accommodate the lower pressure that the station maintains during EVAs, along with a DC-DC adapter to match the stations 28V power. When you consider a 40mz RAD6000 PPC goes for about $300k just for the cpu the cost of specialty hardening a laptop would be way too cost prohibitive. None of these run or control critical systems so it's not a big deal
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There are tons of versions and companies that have their own. Popcorn Hour is just the name of the biggest selling company, like Coke for soda. Mine, the IO-100HD from Dragon Tech Corp is completely fanless and runs cool and quiet. Not a single crash. The actual term to search for is Network Media Tank and you'll find tons of reviews for many different brands. Some have had heat issues. I bought mine to do exactly as you want, to replace the xbox 360 and it's worked beautiful. Plays full 1080P mp4 from a network share no problem.
Or other network media tank? I love my IO-100 and it plays everything I have ever thrown at it. Low wattage, runs linux, excellent audio/video connectivity and is I think 300mhz mips.
If that were the case they'd be popping up all over. This place will never operate in the black. Not saying it isn't a starting point and shouldn't be done, but lets not sell it for something it isn't.
The sheeva is great, I get about 10Mb/s transfers to it as a file server. The only thing you do need to realize going into it is that there is no fpu on it, resulting in like a 20x hit if you try to run anything that wants floating point math.