The first things that come to my mind when I hear those symptoms are reactions to artificial colours and preservatives used in foods. I'd be looking closely at what's on the shelves in the school's tuck shop/canteen.
Apple is the poster child for tech innovation;... I challenge you to name another tech company that innovates like Apple... These [other] companies constantly acquire startups and take advantage of their own size and distribution channels to scale up the innovations they have purchased.
Apple is extremely good at pretty product package and slick marketing. They're not what I'd call innovators, especially considering that in the last 22 years they've bought 29 companies to use their technologies in Apple products.
A lot of these vehicle status broadcast systems they're proposing rely on accurate location data for the vehicles, and quite often the term "GPS" is used to infer that's what they'll be using as a source.
Anyone who's driven a car inside a tunnel or inside a building/carpark knows that GPS is shit and doesn't work unless you're out in the open. Locations in tunnels could probably be taken care of with low-power FM beacons sending their lat/long/AMSL at regular intervals through the tunnel (additional infrastructure installed and maintained by the appropriate transport authority) assuming GPS(-style) receivers also have the capability to detect these signals and interpolate between the two strongest signals. But could the similar systems be used in carparks and such? Could government force their installation, or even install and maintain them themselves?
.sqlite files are used for all the user profile-related stuff, including search index files.
Unfortunately Mork is still used in the message stores themselves - the.msf files are Mork DB files (currently v1.4) used to index individual message folders. Users who keep thousands of messages in one folder (especially the Inbox) will be performance impacted more than users who file stuff away into separate folders.
I use TB 3.1.1 with three Gmail IMAP accounts, one of them huge with messages sorted into over 100 folders and I don't experience the issues TFA rants about.
My bugbear is that the Message Synchronization feature *doesn't* work, even though it's enabled and every single folder has Download ticked - regularly I'll change into a folder for a given task and have to wait for TB to download messages that I dragged into it hours, days or weeks earlier.
Playing Nintendo with it is just a technology demonstration - they haven't modded the Nintendo itself they've just created a new input controller for it.
This same technology could be used by quadriplegics, for example, to control an electric wheelchair and give them some mobility.
I know people who've had great success with the AstroTrac TT320X-AG mount. I've always wanted to try one myself, but at US$550.00 I think it's about three times the price it should be:
Stacking 10 images simply improves the image quality by removing hot pixels.
Where'd you get that idea from? Hot pixels are removed by taking dark frames at the same temperature as your exposures and subtracting them from your exposures before processing.
In my experience I found the Newton handwriting recognition to be pretty accurate, although I'm a leftie, and what lag there was could have been made up with a little more processing power. The thing that killed the Newton for me was battery life, especially when you put a wireless card in it.
I for one was looking forward to the Microsoft Courier materialising out of the vapourware stage and getting my hands on one to try it.
Today's games are only 10,000 times bigger because of the higher-fidelity audio and higher-resolution graphics. The games themselves are not 10,000 times more complex, otherwise they'd be unplayable by humans, so they have no excuse to be any more unstable than their older counterparts.
Sorry, I agree with the GP... patchable console games make for shittier games because publishers are more inclined to say "she'll be right, we can patch it after release."
After reading TFA I feel I need to poke one's eyes out...
One does realize, doesn't one, that Activision is interested in units sold, regardless of one's platform? The more platforms one can compile one's game engine and downsize their artwork for, the more likelyhood one has of selling a game to another one.
Studios are well-known for using temporary music in upcoming movie trailers, sometimes from sources they don't control.
The day will come when some big-movie trailer comes along and gets uploaded to YouTube by a studio, only to play to resounding silence. Then it'll be, "Dear Google, please remove this feature."
The VP8 developers comment in the report: 'We've been following the MSU tests since they began and respect the group's work. One issue we noticed in the test is that most input sequences were previously compressed using other codecs. These sequences have an inherent bias against VP8 in recompression tests.
I'm sorry, but what do you expect from a report that's all about transcoding performance? From TFR:
The main task of the comparison is to analyze different H.264 encoders for the task of transcoding video—e.g., compressing video for personal use. Speed requirements are given for a sufficiently fast PC; fast presets are analogous to real-time encoding for a typical home-use PC.
If the copyright only lasted to his death, which may be any time from 0 to 10 years, given average age of expiry, do you really think that's really an incentive for creating works?
Yes. He's gotta pay his bills like the rest of us. And occasionally he might like to take a holiday.
What could Blizzard big-wigs be thinking by this move? Could you imagine the outcry of "not fair" and "privacy" complaints by Blizzard employees if they were sent the following letter...
Dear Blizzard Employee,
In response to Blizzard's policy of publishing all users full names in their Battle.net forums, we here at the IRS are pleased to announce that we are changing our privacy policy. As of now, we will be publishing the full name, date of birth, social security number, residential and postal address, taxable income and phone number of every Blizzard employee and their relatives on our web site's front page.
We don't consider this will impact your lives in any way, and no amount of complaining about it will change our minds.
Thank you and kind regards,
DG IRS
Sorry, I don't have a car analogy. And no, I'm not a Blizzard user.
BTW; obvious but, nobody should "defrag" a SSD drive.
That's not necessarily the case and it also depends on the defragmenter strategy.
With SSD typically having 128kb or 512kb erase blocks and their client file systems typically having 4kb-64kb clusters it can actually make sense to defragment a TRIM-enabled SSD every now and again. Gathering all of the directory/file blocks together allows the file system to TRIM as many blocks as possible and improve performance - otherwise you'll have all these partially-filled erase blocks hanging around that may only contain one or two file system clusters and can never be TRIMmed as a result, along with the read-modify-erase-write performance penalty you get when updating them.
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The first things that come to my mind when I hear those symptoms are reactions to artificial colours and preservatives used in foods. I'd be looking closely at what's on the shelves in the school's tuck shop/canteen.
Apple is the poster child for tech innovation; ... I challenge you to name another tech company that innovates like Apple ... These [other] companies constantly acquire startups and take advantage of their own size and distribution channels to scale up the innovations they have purchased.
Apple is extremely good at pretty product package and slick marketing. They're not what I'd call innovators, especially considering that in the last 22 years they've bought 29 companies to use their technologies in Apple products.
A lot of these vehicle status broadcast systems they're proposing rely on accurate location data for the vehicles, and quite often the term "GPS" is used to infer that's what they'll be using as a source.
Anyone who's driven a car inside a tunnel or inside a building/carpark knows that GPS is shit and doesn't work unless you're out in the open. Locations in tunnels could probably be taken care of with low-power FM beacons sending their lat/long/AMSL at regular intervals through the tunnel (additional infrastructure installed and maintained by the appropriate transport authority) assuming GPS(-style) receivers also have the capability to detect these signals and interpolate between the two strongest signals. But could the similar systems be used in carparks and such? Could government force their installation, or even install and maintain them themselves?
.sqlite files are used for all the user profile-related stuff, including search index files.
Unfortunately Mork is still used in the message stores themselves - the .msf files are Mork DB files (currently v1.4) used to index individual message folders. Users who keep thousands of messages in one folder (especially the Inbox) will be performance impacted more than users who file stuff away into separate folders.
I'm a C and it doesn't affect me.
I use TB 3.1.1 with three Gmail IMAP accounts, one of them huge with messages sorted into over 100 folders and I don't experience the issues TFA rants about.
My bugbear is that the Message Synchronization feature *doesn't* work, even though it's enabled and every single folder has Download ticked - regularly I'll change into a folder for a given task and have to wait for TB to download messages that I dragged into it hours, days or weeks earlier.
Playing Nintendo with it is just a technology demonstration - they haven't modded the Nintendo itself they've just created a new input controller for it.
This same technology could be used by quadriplegics, for example, to control an electric wheelchair and give them some mobility.
Actually it's the Modular Prosthetic Limb (MPL) - the Luke arm comes from a competitor Deka, which is owned and run by Segway inventor Dean Kamen.
I know people who've had great success with the AstroTrac TT320X-AG mount. I've always wanted to try one myself, but at US$550.00 I think it's about three times the price it should be:
http://www.astrotrac.com/Default.aspx?p=tt320x-ag
Stacking 10 images simply improves the image quality by removing hot pixels.
Where'd you get that idea from? Hot pixels are removed by taking dark frames at the same temperature as your exposures and subtracting them from your exposures before processing.
Can you say Newton? "Eat up Martha?"
Rosetta! Rosetta! Rosetta!
In my experience I found the Newton handwriting recognition to be pretty accurate, although I'm a leftie, and what lag there was could have been made up with a little more processing power. The thing that killed the Newton for me was battery life, especially when you put a wireless card in it.
I for one was looking forward to the Microsoft Courier materialising out of the vapourware stage and getting my hands on one to try it.
The mere fact that the device can be used for a non-infringing purpose is not a defence.
Some real world counter examples:
[In case you missed it, the second photo was taken in 2007]
They even took the same photo from the same spot...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7895611/Photos-show-dramatic-shrinking-of-Mount-Everest-glaciers.html
Ask and ye shall receive... http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123506502/articletext?DOI=10.1002%2Fange.201000679
...I can keep it running smoothly without having to pull over and stop every time I fill up the tank...
That's quite a feat! Are you siphoning fuel out of gas tankers on the move? :P
Today's games are 10000 times bigger.
Today's games are only 10,000 times bigger because of the higher-fidelity audio and higher-resolution graphics. The games themselves are not 10,000 times more complex, otherwise they'd be unplayable by humans, so they have no excuse to be any more unstable than their older counterparts.
Sorry, I agree with the GP... patchable console games make for shittier games because publishers are more inclined to say "she'll be right, we can patch it after release."
After reading TFA I feel I need to poke one's eyes out...
One does realize, doesn't one, that Activision is interested in units sold, regardless of one's platform? The more platforms one can compile one's game engine and downsize their artwork for, the more likelyhood one has of selling a game to another one.
PS: Where did one learn to write?
Studios are well-known for using temporary music in upcoming movie trailers, sometimes from sources they don't control.
The day will come when some big-movie trailer comes along and gets uploaded to YouTube by a studio, only to play to resounding silence. Then it'll be, "Dear Google, please remove this feature."
The VP8 developers comment in the report: 'We've been following the MSU tests since they began and respect the group's work. One issue we noticed in the test is that most input sequences were previously compressed using other codecs. These sequences have an inherent bias against VP8 in recompression tests.
I'm sorry, but what do you expect from a report that's all about transcoding performance? From TFR:
The main task of the comparison is to analyze different H.264 encoders for the task of transcoding video—e.g., compressing video for personal use. Speed requirements are given for a sufficiently fast PC; fast presets are analogous to real-time encoding for a typical home-use PC.
Since we're picking nits 'n' all... for the exact quote given:
But who's to say?
If the copyright only lasted to his death, which may be any time from 0 to 10 years, given average age of expiry, do you really think that's really an incentive for creating works?
Yes. He's gotta pay his bills like the rest of us. And occasionally he might like to take a holiday.
Ah, replying to my own comment 'n' all...
The case was decided July 2009 (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/30/2640727.htm), they've only just determined compensation now.
It should be:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/06/2945781.htm
Plus, this news did the rounds in Australia months ago - don't know why ABC is reporting it just now.
Dear Blizzard Employee,
In response to Blizzard's policy of publishing all users full names in their Battle.net forums, we here at the IRS are pleased to announce that we are changing our privacy policy. As of now, we will be publishing the full name, date of birth, social security number, residential and postal address, taxable income and phone number of every Blizzard employee and their relatives on our web site's front page.
We don't consider this will impact your lives in any way, and no amount of complaining about it will change our minds.
Thank you and kind regards,
DG IRS
Sorry, I don't have a car analogy. And no, I'm not a Blizzard user.
BTW; obvious but, nobody should "defrag" a SSD drive.
That's not necessarily the case and it also depends on the defragmenter strategy.
With SSD typically having 128kb or 512kb erase blocks and their client file systems typically having 4kb-64kb clusters it can actually make sense to defragment a TRIM-enabled SSD every now and again. Gathering all of the directory/file blocks together allows the file system to TRIM as many blocks as possible and improve performance - otherwise you'll have all these partially-filled erase blocks hanging around that may only contain one or two file system clusters and can never be TRIMmed as a result, along with the read-modify-erase-write performance penalty you get when updating them.