They are running a filter on the video footage that reduces to video equivalent of line art so that details such as facial features, distinguishing marks, license plates, etc. are no longer visible. Audio continues to be a problem but they are exploring various solutions. Pretty clever solution actually. I assume for evidentiary footage an unmanipulated version is being kept as well. This is very similar to a video library where a "preview" copy is rendered at a low resolution to save space/bandwidth and access is granted to everyone and the high quality copy is kept in reserve and can be requested upon demand.
Slashdot needs to change it's subheading to be a bit more inclusive. News for nerds, pedantry, advertisements, occasionally stuff that matters... in that order.
Real quick, how is nursing/healthcare not a STEM related field? Is biology not a science discipline? If it isn't, the curriculum has vastly changed since last I referenced it.
That may be a comprehension error on my part, I thought the conversation started with the amount of electricity consumed per household. I agree the ultimate definition is your carbon footprint but if the first gentleman's house is heated with electricity and the German's primarily use gas then of course I would expect there to be a large delta between the two. I don't know what Germans typically use for home heating.
In the Pacific Northwest our climate is generally mild and my heating expenses are VERY low. Many of us just use windows to regulate indoor temperature except in the coldest months of the year so heating and cooling for me is a small percentage of my household consumption. I think my major appliances like the dryer, dishwaher, refrigerator and freezer are what drives my electricity bill.
Mod this up. This doesn't have to do (necessarily) with Americans being wasteful but has a lot to do culture. Germans (and much of mainland Europe) have a phobia of refrigeration. No ice in drinks, no air conditioning, no blowing air via a fan or open window! This isn't universally true but refrigeration is a primary energy consumer after heating a home. You don't need a big fridge if you aren't chilling half the stuff we do like drinks and eggs. This is also apples and oranges because unless you are both heating your homes the same way the numbers are irrelevant. I don't use much electricity at all but that is because my stove, furnace and water heater are gas.
The biggest factor of course is the price of electricity. There are market forces at work here. In the Pacific Northwest I pay about $.08/kw. I have barely any (financial) incentive to conserve. Add to that 90% of our power comes from hydro and I have very little guilt as well. Compare that with Germany where it is nearly $.40/kw. I'd probably be a lot more conservative if my electricity was 5x more expensive.
I think this version by The Credibility Gap is far more apropos. Who's on first except with the Who, Guess Who, Yes and The Band. Harry Shearer is a genius. Credibility Gap
They will also only correct account issues for the last 6 billing periods. If you've been paying for a year, they only will credit you for the last 6 months.
I'm a gamer with a wife and two kids. My wife doesn't game at all. I didn't need to be asked to put the PC elsewhere because I also don't want a loud ass, ugly machine ruining the living room either. So I put together a machine that looked like a piece of A/V equipment, there are lots of great cases now that are unobtrusive, and I purchased components that made low noise the priority. It pulls double duty as a media center and I made sure the cabling ran all within the walls, with as few wires as possible and bound them nicely so as not to attract dust bunnies.
I'm not sure what there is about being a man that means I have to be gross and loud. It's not like I don't appreciate a clean, aesthetically pleasing place to live as well. Ultimately I ended up moving the machine to another room running the cables through the floor to the basement because I didn't want to see anything at all. That was my choice.
Seriously - bring a package of cookies for the flight crew.
This. My cousin is a flight attendant and said to me if you want to make fast friends just hook your flight attendant up with a little package of M&Ms or something simple like that. It isn't bribery, it's just a kindness, the same I do for my mailman and garbage collector from time to time. The world would be a much better place if we could all just be human to one another once in a while.
You must be new here, don't be so god damned sensible. My favorite part is how we generalize what is good enough for everyone. I have a 64GB iPhone and I don't need the space, I just don't want to think about it. I shoot a lot of video and while I have a $4000 camera I often shoot B roll on my phone because I want to. And since no one bought my phone for me I'm confused why anyone would care what I do with it.
Take heed everyone and be thankful we are blessed to be a in a place and time where not only do these things exist but that many of us on this forum can afford them. It is an embarrassment of riches.
That is fine and dandy for in person B&M transactions but the vast majority of my purchases are online. I think your ringing those death bells a little too early on that industry. It won't look the same in 10 years but the phone isn't the answer for everything. Frankly good riddance. The less crap I have to carry on me the better.
I think the idea is they will be exclusive to the xbox marketplace/video service thing they have. One of the programs is the documentary on unearthing the Atari E.T. cartridges.
"The first round of Xbox Originals will contain a healthy variety of shows, from the futuristic teen drama about robots "Humans," to the steampunk Western "Deadlands" (based on the tabletop role-playing game of the same name), to the street soccer documentary "Every Street United." Other programs included "Winterworld," "Gun Machine," "Extraordinary Believers" and "Food Show."
The process of dubbing in audio, which we know happens frequently, is the problem. It's always a lie.
Audio/Video editor speaking here. Lies, I believe, have to be conscious. Tweaks often happen in post production because there is an issue with the original footage such that the original audio track has to be recreated. This is frequently done in film and is called "looping." On set you record pre and post roll audio to capture the room noise just so you can match this looped audio with the original environment. This is just one example.
I can easily see the editor in his booth working with the assets he was given thinking that the audio from live shot lacked engine noise for whatever reason. Unfamiliar with the Tesla, he didn't realize an electric only makes road noise. Just ask yourself this, what is the advantage of adding engine noise? I know the editor thought it would make the footage more dynamic and LIKELY thought there was a problem with the sound track. There is no great conspiracy here.
The issue is that your choice is not in isolation. I'd love for you to have the choice to wear a helmet or not but the reality is post-accident resources will be on your survival and additional insurance liabilities related to your death. That is a cost the rest of us have to bear. Obviously this is not unique to helmets, we see this same conversation in the healthcare space with regards to smoking and obesity as well. The question being "why should society cover the added costs of high risk individuals?" I fall on the side of individual choice but to assume your actions (and mine as well) don't have an impact on everyone else is ignorant at best. I believe the statistics have spoken and you are at greater risk of injury without a helmet though I don't have a citation to back that up.
While on the surface I agree with you, sadly there is a game called cookie clicker in which all you do is click and not on anything in particular. You can check out the original javascript game here if you aren't partial to iOS.
You SHOULD read it because it is extremely well written and regardless of what your interests are, there really is something everyone can identify with in this book. You should read it because why are we here if not to enjoy ourselves from time to time?
Troll seems a little harsh for this comment. I am a die hard Amazon Prime user but you will find that the identical item that ships without prime is often $3-4 cheaper before shipping and about the same with. The difference though is that Prime is 2 day and the alternative is UPS ground or worse. So no, it isn't free, it is premium shipping discounted but that hardly reads as well on the advert. It also doesn't scale with size. All Prime items ship at a flat rate where UPS ground has variables like weight, size and distance.
The discover card comment is a bit troll-ish but it is probably the least used of the 4 big names out there. However, because I am a cheapskate I know that people on deal websites love discover for the 5% cash back which I think is the best in the industry. Also Costco used to only accept Discover (now AMEX). I'm no shill, i don't even have a discover card.
I asked bruce about this when I had an opportunity to meet him. He said his voice wasn't what it used to be and he has to mix up their set list each night and can only do one or two songs that really push his range. I saw them on the on last incarnation of the 7th son tour and he avoided "only the good die young" in order to do "moonchild" but apparently that changes in each town.
I know when i think of powerful lyrics, my first thoughts go to "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter"
Bite the pillow, make no sound
If there's some living to be done
Before your life becomes your tomb
You'd better know I'm the one
Unchain your back door, invite me around
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FYI, I know that the Ewoks at least spoke Tagalog (Filipino), so it is entirely possible that the other species were speaking other obscure languages.
And thus the beginning of the downhill slide.
The franchise has included prominent and strong female characters, like Princess Leia
And...? You make it sound like that's just the start of a long list, so let's hear the rest of it.
How about Boushh the bounty hunter?
They are running a filter on the video footage that reduces to video equivalent of line art so that details such as facial features, distinguishing marks, license plates, etc. are no longer visible. Audio continues to be a problem but they are exploring various solutions. Pretty clever solution actually. I assume for evidentiary footage an unmanipulated version is being kept as well. This is very similar to a video library where a "preview" copy is rendered at a low resolution to save space/bandwidth and access is granted to everyone and the high quality copy is kept in reserve and can be requested upon demand.
Slashdot needs to change it's subheading to be a bit more inclusive. News for nerds, pedantry, advertisements, occasionally stuff that matters... in that order.
Real quick, how is nursing/healthcare not a STEM related field? Is biology not a science discipline? If it isn't, the curriculum has vastly changed since last I referenced it.
That may be a comprehension error on my part, I thought the conversation started with the amount of electricity consumed per household. I agree the ultimate definition is your carbon footprint but if the first gentleman's house is heated with electricity and the German's primarily use gas then of course I would expect there to be a large delta between the two. I don't know what Germans typically use for home heating.
In the Pacific Northwest our climate is generally mild and my heating expenses are VERY low. Many of us just use windows to regulate indoor temperature except in the coldest months of the year so heating and cooling for me is a small percentage of my household consumption. I think my major appliances like the dryer, dishwaher, refrigerator and freezer are what drives my electricity bill.
Mod this up. This doesn't have to do (necessarily) with Americans being wasteful but has a lot to do culture. Germans (and much of mainland Europe) have a phobia of refrigeration. No ice in drinks, no air conditioning, no blowing air via a fan or open window! This isn't universally true but refrigeration is a primary energy consumer after heating a home. You don't need a big fridge if you aren't chilling half the stuff we do like drinks and eggs. This is also apples and oranges because unless you are both heating your homes the same way the numbers are irrelevant. I don't use much electricity at all but that is because my stove, furnace and water heater are gas.
The biggest factor of course is the price of electricity. There are market forces at work here. In the Pacific Northwest I pay about $.08/kw. I have barely any (financial) incentive to conserve. Add to that 90% of our power comes from hydro and I have very little guilt as well. Compare that with Germany where it is nearly $.40/kw. I'd probably be a lot more conservative if my electricity was 5x more expensive.
I think this version by The Credibility Gap is far more apropos. Who's on first except with the Who, Guess Who, Yes and The Band. Harry Shearer is a genius. Credibility Gap
They will also only correct account issues for the last 6 billing periods. If you've been paying for a year, they only will credit you for the last 6 months.
I'm a gamer with a wife and two kids. My wife doesn't game at all. I didn't need to be asked to put the PC elsewhere because I also don't want a loud ass, ugly machine ruining the living room either. So I put together a machine that looked like a piece of A/V equipment, there are lots of great cases now that are unobtrusive, and I purchased components that made low noise the priority. It pulls double duty as a media center and I made sure the cabling ran all within the walls, with as few wires as possible and bound them nicely so as not to attract dust bunnies.
For example this.
And wiring like this.
I'm not sure what there is about being a man that means I have to be gross and loud. It's not like I don't appreciate a clean, aesthetically pleasing place to live as well. Ultimately I ended up moving the machine to another room running the cables through the floor to the basement because I didn't want to see anything at all. That was my choice.
Potassium Benzoate but the joke still works. Of course, the Simpsons did it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Seriously - bring a package of cookies for the flight crew.
This. My cousin is a flight attendant and said to me if you want to make fast friends just hook your flight attendant up with a little package of M&Ms or something simple like that. It isn't bribery, it's just a kindness, the same I do for my mailman and garbage collector from time to time. The world would be a much better place if we could all just be human to one another once in a while.
And what would happen if Apple did decide to go double clock speed and quad core...?
My guess is it would catch fire if the battery lasted longer than 10 min, and this from a stalwart iOS user.
You must be new here, don't be so god damned sensible. My favorite part is how we generalize what is good enough for everyone. I have a 64GB iPhone and I don't need the space, I just don't want to think about it. I shoot a lot of video and while I have a $4000 camera I often shoot B roll on my phone because I want to. And since no one bought my phone for me I'm confused why anyone would care what I do with it.
Take heed everyone and be thankful we are blessed to be a in a place and time where not only do these things exist but that many of us on this forum can afford them. It is an embarrassment of riches.
Amazon does sell cars. Well, car. The Nissan Versa Note. http://www.amazon.com/gp/featu...
That is fine and dandy for in person B&M transactions but the vast majority of my purchases are online. I think your ringing those death bells a little too early on that industry. It won't look the same in 10 years but the phone isn't the answer for everything. Frankly good riddance. The less crap I have to carry on me the better.
I think the idea is they will be exclusive to the xbox marketplace/video service thing they have. One of the programs is the documentary on unearthing the Atari E.T. cartridges.
"The first round of Xbox Originals will contain a healthy variety of shows, from the futuristic teen drama about robots "Humans," to the steampunk Western "Deadlands" (based on the tabletop role-playing game of the same name), to the street soccer documentary "Every Street United." Other programs included "Winterworld," "Gun Machine," "Extraordinary Believers" and "Food Show."
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/or...
The process of dubbing in audio, which we know happens frequently, is the problem. It's always a lie.
Audio/Video editor speaking here. Lies, I believe, have to be conscious. Tweaks often happen in post production because there is an issue with the original footage such that the original audio track has to be recreated. This is frequently done in film and is called "looping." On set you record pre and post roll audio to capture the room noise just so you can match this looped audio with the original environment. This is just one example.
I can easily see the editor in his booth working with the assets he was given thinking that the audio from live shot lacked engine noise for whatever reason. Unfamiliar with the Tesla, he didn't realize an electric only makes road noise. Just ask yourself this, what is the advantage of adding engine noise? I know the editor thought it would make the footage more dynamic and LIKELY thought there was a problem with the sound track. There is no great conspiracy here.
The issue is that your choice is not in isolation. I'd love for you to have the choice to wear a helmet or not but the reality is post-accident resources will be on your survival and additional insurance liabilities related to your death. That is a cost the rest of us have to bear. Obviously this is not unique to helmets, we see this same conversation in the healthcare space with regards to smoking and obesity as well. The question being "why should society cover the added costs of high risk individuals?" I fall on the side of individual choice but to assume your actions (and mine as well) don't have an impact on everyone else is ignorant at best. I believe the statistics have spoken and you are at greater risk of injury without a helmet though I don't have a citation to back that up.
While on the surface I agree with you, sadly there is a game called cookie clicker in which all you do is click and not on anything in particular. You can check out the original javascript game here if you aren't partial to iOS.
Well not the electron itself but as of last year we do have a picture of the orbit.
Sorry for being a pedant. :)
You SHOULD read it because it is extremely well written and regardless of what your interests are, there really is something everyone can identify with in this book. You should read it because why are we here if not to enjoy ourselves from time to time?
Troll seems a little harsh for this comment. I am a die hard Amazon Prime user but you will find that the identical item that ships without prime is often $3-4 cheaper before shipping and about the same with. The difference though is that Prime is 2 day and the alternative is UPS ground or worse. So no, it isn't free, it is premium shipping discounted but that hardly reads as well on the advert. It also doesn't scale with size. All Prime items ship at a flat rate where UPS ground has variables like weight, size and distance.
The discover card comment is a bit troll-ish but it is probably the least used of the 4 big names out there. However, because I am a cheapskate I know that people on deal websites love discover for the 5% cash back which I think is the best in the industry. Also Costco used to only accept Discover (now AMEX). I'm no shill, i don't even have a discover card.
I asked bruce about this when I had an opportunity to meet him. He said his voice wasn't what it used to be and he has to mix up their set list each night and can only do one or two songs that really push his range. I saw them on the on last incarnation of the 7th son tour and he avoided "only the good die young" in order to do "moonchild" but apparently that changes in each town.
I know when i think of powerful lyrics, my first thoughts go to "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter"
Bite the pillow, make no sound
If there's some living to be done
Before your life becomes your tomb
You'd better know I'm the one
Unchain your back door, invite me around
That is some quality writing right there