Ewww, MJPEG looks like crap compared to just about any other video format at the same bandwidth. It's computationally easy, but it's certainly not what you'd hope for in a production standard.
No, like every other country there are limits to free speech (ie in the US you can't yell fire in a crowded theater, direct people to actively fight against the government, and "fighting words" may limit the punishment of your attacker in an assault case).
Because they offer services to German citizens and have German operations (ie twitter.de). If a company doesn't want to follow the laws of a country it's quite simple, don't do trade in that country.
Exactly, first-party apps didn't help NT on Alpha or Windows 2000/2003 on Itanium very much (hell on Alpha they even had FX!32 to allow third-party Win32 apps to run). If it doesn't run native x86 Win32 apps flawlessly and seamlessly then most businesses won't be all that interested as the native app ecosystem of both ipad and Android are going to be vastly superior.
There's been no pricing announcement yet for Pro but it'll be $1k+ based on the pricing for the RT based Surface and it won't be available until at least late Q1 13.
NetBSD is used by Apple for a large portion of the user-space commands and tools in their Darwin project, and Darwin is the UNIX-based core used by Mac OS X. NetBSD source tends to pay attention to issues of portability and correctness, and is virtually all BSD licenced, which avoids commercial problems with the GNU General Public Licence. At least one of the Apple developers has access to the NetBSD source tree and has fed back some useful changes
Not having an informed electorate will harm a democracy in the long run! Even with mandatory education we still have a significant portion of the population that is (at least seemingly) deliberately ignorant of basic science principals and so we can't have an informed discussion about a variety of subjects. The reason we have publicly funded education has nothing to do with preparing kids for a job, it's about having every citizen having enough of a foundation of knowledge that they can use to make an informed opinion about important topics of the day.
No, it's not true. All the privacy bit will do is tell a compliant recording device that it can't record (or can record for local playback only, or can record for a single local playback, there's more than one bit).
If you want reliable guide data you can pay Schedules Direct $25/year for an XML feed that you can use with whatever program you want. It's how I get guide data for my media portal based HTPC.
The solution to the ads problem is a PC based DVR, HDHomeRun Prime does CableCard, then you run the recorded shows through comskip and voila, ad free tv. I'm actually running a standard HDHomeRun because my cable company doesn't suck and instead of encrypting the heck out of everything they went the opposite direction and got permission from their content partners to put the SD content on the wire unencrypted and they pass the ATSC HD signal from the broadcast channels on without encryption as well (and without re-encoding them!). It would be wonderful if Wide Open West was available as an alternative everywhere because then there would be some real competition in the cable market.
Actually Windows RT has a significant disadvantage compared to the ipad for businesses, today there is a fairly significant ecosystem of tools and technologies around supporting the ipad as a mobile platform, other than Activesync support none of that exists for Windows RT.
The IBM Thinkpad keyboard has a 2.5mm stroke length and is perfectly usable (superior to most other non buckling-spring designs). In fact the X1 has a 2mm stroke and is still usable, if a bit less familiar feeling.
That's because Houston's Network Vision upgrade won't be completed until Feb/Mar 2013, they concentrated on the city core first as that's where the most congestion and backhaul usage is. Once the upgrade is completed you should get pretty good service everywhere you have a strong signal. The network upgrade is also happening across the country with various markets on various schedules, a good site for network vision and LTE rollout updates is s4gru.
Sprint now owns three of their MVNO's and earns a significant chunk of their revenue through them so I doubt they'll be abandoning the model anytime soon.
No, the Four Two is NOT safe, if you want to see for youself check out this IIHS crash test, paper ratings for a static barrier test does not make a car safe in the real world.
Meh, he's almost correct. The highway legal Vespa's have a 21HP motor and weigh 148kg, unless this thing weighs under ~220kg it's going to have a worse power:weight ratio than a scooter which would probably prove unsafe on the highway.
Since I was responding to someone shooting off about how a tv station "is part of a government enforced oligopoly" I think it's perfectly valid to shoot back that licensing of the EM spectrum is a necessary function of government (even if I did do it in an obtuse manner).
The floor for the presidential/VP debates is 15% in a few national polls, if you can't reach that threshold by the time the debates roll around you have a 0% chance of winning a national election no matter which voting system is employed.
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Ewww, MJPEG looks like crap compared to just about any other video format at the same bandwidth. It's computationally easy, but it's certainly not what you'd hope for in a production standard.
No, like every other country there are limits to free speech (ie in the US you can't yell fire in a crowded theater, direct people to actively fight against the government, and "fighting words" may limit the punishment of your attacker in an assault case).
Because they offer services to German citizens and have German operations (ie twitter.de). If a company doesn't want to follow the laws of a country it's quite simple, don't do trade in that country.
That's a nice rant since Google is obviously a typo by the submitter given that they're talking about Twitter which is NOT owned by Google....
Oh, and Twitter is just following the law in Germany, being a neo-nazi or espousing neo-nazi ideas is illegal in Germany.
Exactly, first-party apps didn't help NT on Alpha or Windows 2000/2003 on Itanium very much (hell on Alpha they even had FX!32 to allow third-party Win32 apps to run). If it doesn't run native x86 Win32 apps flawlessly and seamlessly then most businesses won't be all that interested as the native app ecosystem of both ipad and Android are going to be vastly superior.
There's been no pricing announcement yet for Pro but it'll be $1k+ based on the pricing for the RT based Surface and it won't be available until at least late Q1 13.
Check it out, from the horses mouth.
NetBSD is used by Apple for a large portion of the user-space commands and tools in their Darwin project, and Darwin is the UNIX-based core used by Mac OS X. NetBSD source tends to pay attention to issues of portability and correctness, and is virtually all BSD licenced, which avoids commercial problems with the GNU General Public Licence. At least one of the Apple developers has access to the NetBSD source tree and has fed back some useful changes
No, Surface runs WinRT, the ARM version of Windows 8 which will only Metro apps which don't take advantage of native x86 code.
Darwin (the Unix heart of OSX) is a NetBSD derivative. Parts of QNX (a popular commercial embedded OS) are also based on NetBSD.
I don't leave steam running you insensitive clod.
Not having an informed electorate will harm a democracy in the long run! Even with mandatory education we still have a significant portion of the population that is (at least seemingly) deliberately ignorant of basic science principals and so we can't have an informed discussion about a variety of subjects. The reason we have publicly funded education has nothing to do with preparing kids for a job, it's about having every citizen having enough of a foundation of knowledge that they can use to make an informed opinion about important topics of the day.
It's easier to click on the desktop link then it is to launch steam, go to library, find your game, right click and do launch.
No, it's not true. All the privacy bit will do is tell a compliant recording device that it can't record (or can record for local playback only, or can record for a single local playback, there's more than one bit).
If you want reliable guide data you can pay Schedules Direct $25/year for an XML feed that you can use with whatever program you want. It's how I get guide data for my media portal based HTPC.
The solution to the ads problem is a PC based DVR, HDHomeRun Prime does CableCard, then you run the recorded shows through comskip and voila, ad free tv. I'm actually running a standard HDHomeRun because my cable company doesn't suck and instead of encrypting the heck out of everything they went the opposite direction and got permission from their content partners to put the SD content on the wire unencrypted and they pass the ATSC HD signal from the broadcast channels on without encryption as well (and without re-encoding them!). It would be wonderful if Wide Open West was available as an alternative everywhere because then there would be some real competition in the cable market.
I was referring to the mechanical cover the GP mentioned, it doesn't have to be very thick to provide a reasonable typing experience.
Actually Windows RT has a significant disadvantage compared to the ipad for businesses, today there is a fairly significant ecosystem of tools and technologies around supporting the ipad as a mobile platform, other than Activesync support none of that exists for Windows RT.
The IBM Thinkpad keyboard has a 2.5mm stroke length and is perfectly usable (superior to most other non buckling-spring designs). In fact the X1 has a 2mm stroke and is still usable, if a bit less familiar feeling.
That's because Houston's Network Vision upgrade won't be completed until Feb/Mar 2013, they concentrated on the city core first as that's where the most congestion and backhaul usage is. Once the upgrade is completed you should get pretty good service everywhere you have a strong signal. The network upgrade is also happening across the country with various markets on various schedules, a good site for network vision and LTE rollout updates is s4gru.
Sprint now owns three of their MVNO's and earns a significant chunk of their revenue through them so I doubt they'll be abandoning the model anytime soon.
No, the Four Two is NOT safe, if you want to see for youself check out this IIHS crash test, paper ratings for a static barrier test does not make a car safe in the real world.
Meh, he's almost correct. The highway legal Vespa's have a 21HP motor and weigh 148kg, unless this thing weighs under ~220kg it's going to have a worse power:weight ratio than a scooter which would probably prove unsafe on the highway.
That's almost exactly how the spectrum IS broken up with the exception that many older licenses were granted instead of purchased.
Since I was responding to someone shooting off about how a tv station "is part of a government enforced oligopoly" I think it's perfectly valid to shoot back that licensing of the EM spectrum is a necessary function of government (even if I did do it in an obtuse manner).
The floor for the presidential/VP debates is 15% in a few national polls, if you can't reach that threshold by the time the debates roll around you have a 0% chance of winning a national election no matter which voting system is employed.