What's environmental impact of more people repairing their stuff on their own? Everybody can now buy parts directly from sources that have unknown environmental policies and unknown reliability. What are we going to do about more people throwing away used parts with the trash instead of recycling them?
Yes, the upside to all this is that we now can disconnect from the current network, until now this had to be done by disabling wifi entirely. Now it will auto reconnect when you go somewhere else.
For me this actually reflects the way I always used that button: to disconnect from a wifi network and get a faster connection through cellular, only to forget to switch it back on when better wifi is available.
In the future we there might be no need to disconnect from bad wifi any more thanks to multipath TCP. Since Apple has enabled the mpTCP API for developers it may become an iOS 12 feature.
Apple's OSes also don't properly handle the Matroska container by default. Matroska is used a lot in modern multimedia (including a limited subset of the Matroska container used for years in WebM). I think that Apple's choices help render Apple's OSes as also-rans and I wouldn't be surprised if this is based in Apple's preference for patent-encumbered stuff to which Apple is a licensee or beneficiary.
You are right: MP4, also called ISO Base Media File Format, is an ISO/IEC standard. Its patents can thus be licensed under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms (FRAND) from its inventors... Apple (and Panasonic to a minor extent). In practice, everybody seems to be using it for free, so I don't think Apple and Panasonic are big beneficiaries here.
The reason why they won't adopt competing technologies (matroska) is because of the effort they put in developing the QuickTime File Format (.mov) and then getting it standardised as MP4.
This. I'm sure you could cram more stuff than ever in some kind of 2016 MBP addon without making it bigger than a 2011 one: http://imgur.com/a/M5tjb
And with USB-C, suddenly a week-long surfing, or a day long of Final Cut editing on battery becomes a possibility.
So I end up running my battery down to 1% far too many times
You shouldn't keep it at 1% for a month or so. But a week at 1% will do no harm at all because the battery has plenty of "hidden" capacity left in it. That is why your MacBook may be in a low-battery state after a month. It may then require 20 minutes of charging before you can use it.
Last thing those fuckwits need is another fuckwit supplying them names of future targets. You think they don't read forums?
Yes, they must be reading forums. But, would they really read slashdot to find out which trackers are out there? Don't you think the RIAA did some googling? Or maybe they even read the forums of the trackers they are trying to sue?
My point was: the more hunting by the Industries, the more the torrent sites become distibuted, wether it's done by technological features, or by the simple fact that we are getting more of those sites that are interoperating and harder to get to by the Industries' agents. It's simple underground economics.
But even if Torrentspy, Isohunt, Torrentbox, Niteshadow and Bthub will be down. We will still have mininova, torrentskickass, demonoid, and lots of others.
You could say that the trackers have become quite distributed so to speak.
Sooo... a leader of the Catholic Church favors the teachings of the Bible over science?
Almost correct. Actually, instead of the bible, a Catholic favors *the teachings of God* above all. Which come to them through the apostolic tradition, the bible and the heritage of faith.
The part about the creation is very revealing. I explains a lot of theories that differ from it's faith: Pantheism, Dualism, Manicheism, Gnosticism, Deism, Materialism.
My favorite part:
With creation, God does not abandon his creatures to themselves. He not only gives them being and existence, but also, and at every moment, upholds and sustains them in being, enables them to act and brings them to their final end.
That's why a Catholic leaves the theories about the beginning of the world to the scientists, because in the end everything (thus also the creation of the universe) is given existence by God.
DivX 6 is not an MPEG-4 codec anymore
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DivX 5 was an MPEG-4 codec. As are XviD, 3ivx, ffmpeg's MPEG-4, QuickTime's MPEG-4, and lots of other codecs. They are all interoperable (if you don't enable extravagant mpeg features).
Divx 6 turns out to be just another proprietary video codec that nobody needs. I'm sure it will do better than h.264 since it doesn't comply to any spec. And they where able to look at lots of perfectly working "sample code".
More recent efforts, such as SSE2, are somewhat better. SSE2 provides eight registers, which are not shared with the floating point unit. SSE2 does have 64-bit floating point types, which is a plus. However, AltiVec's selection of instructions is more complete, and most of them work from two registers into a third, letting the processor perform moderately complicated vector operations entirely in registers, without touching memory until the final data is ready to come out. This, and the larger pool of registers, favors deeply pipelined operations that can come close to saturating the processor's multiple execution units. AltiVec still wins.
It may be the best decision for Apple, but I still think that it would have been better if they'd been able to reach a deal with IBM to develop the PPC further. I would much rather have seen multicore PPC's.
The PowerMac G5 line will be replaced by Intel CPUs at the end of the transition period, that's in 2 years. I doubt that apple has no "deal with IBM to develop the PPC further". And let's not forget the XServes.
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This really scares me off. From now on I will only watch safe movies that don't destroy my equipment. Furthermore these movies are cheaper, use modern distribution methods and don't come with uninterruptible ads and copyright notices that treat you as a criminal.
MPEG compression artifacts are nothing compared to analog film artifacts.
I don't want to see analog movies any more after the biggest cinemas in our country started with digital projectors. I was blown away the first time I went to see The Matrix Revolutions in digital (but only by the quality.) The image was considerably sharper and more colorfull than analog cinema. But the most striking for me was the perfectly steady image without any scratches or 'inkdrops'.
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I agree with the analogy but giving more money to the French government is like overdosing an underage heroin addict.
What's environmental impact of more people repairing their stuff on their own? Everybody can now buy parts directly from sources that have unknown environmental policies and unknown reliability. What are we going to do about more people throwing away used parts with the trash instead of recycling them?
It’s typewritten and all formulas are handwritten. Check it out on one of the mirrors below.
Yes, the upside to all this is that we now can disconnect from the current network, until now this had to be done by disabling wifi entirely. Now it will auto reconnect when you go somewhere else.
For me this actually reflects the way I always used that button: to disconnect from a wifi network and get a faster connection through cellular, only to forget to switch it back on when better wifi is available.
In the future we there might be no need to disconnect from bad wifi any more thanks to multipath TCP. Since Apple has enabled the mpTCP API for developers it may become an iOS 12 feature.
Apple's OSes also don't properly handle the Matroska container by default. Matroska is used a lot in modern multimedia (including a limited subset of the Matroska container used for years in WebM). I think that Apple's choices help render Apple's OSes as also-rans and I wouldn't be surprised if this is based in Apple's preference for patent-encumbered stuff to which Apple is a licensee or beneficiary.
You are right: MP4, also called ISO Base Media File Format, is an ISO/IEC standard. Its patents can thus be licensed under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms (FRAND) from its inventors ... Apple (and Panasonic to a minor extent). In practice, everybody seems to be using it for free, so I don't think Apple and Panasonic are big beneficiaries here.
The reason why they won't adopt competing technologies (matroska) is because of the effort they put in developing the QuickTime File Format (.mov) and then getting it standardised as MP4.
This. I'm sure you could cram more stuff than ever in some kind of 2016 MBP addon without making it bigger than a 2011 one: http://imgur.com/a/M5tjb And with USB-C, suddenly a week-long surfing, or a day long of Final Cut editing on battery becomes a possibility.
So I end up running my battery down to 1% far too many times
You shouldn't keep it at 1% for a month or so. But a week at 1% will do no harm at all because the battery has plenty of "hidden" capacity left in it. That is why your MacBook may be in a low-battery state after a month. It may then require 20 minutes of charging before you can use it.
Finally. Unless you have a really ugly roof, sticking solar panels on top of it makes it worse. And for new buildings it's just a waste of materials.
if the child is on the road, then hit the child.
What? Ever heard of the Driver’s Duty of Care? I hope you don't drive.
My point was: the more hunting by the Industries, the more the torrent sites become distibuted, wether it's done by technological features, or by the simple fact that we are getting more of those sites that are interoperating and harder to get to by the Industries' agents. It's simple underground economics.
But even if Torrentspy, Isohunt, Torrentbox, Niteshadow and Bthub will be down. We will still have mininova, torrentskickass, demonoid, and lots of others.
You could say that the trackers have become quite distributed so to speak.
All of this is summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church
The part about the creation is very revealing. I explains a lot of theories that differ from it's faith: Pantheism, Dualism, Manicheism, Gnosticism, Deism, Materialism.
My favorite part: With creation, God does not abandon his creatures to themselves. He not only gives them being and existence, but also, and at every moment, upholds and sustains them in being, enables them to act and brings them to their final end.
That's why a Catholic leaves the theories about the beginning of the world to the scientists, because in the end everything (thus also the creation of the universe) is given existence by God.
DivX 5 was an MPEG-4 codec. As are XviD, 3ivx, ffmpeg's MPEG-4, QuickTime's MPEG-4, and lots of other codecs. They are all interoperable (if you don't enable extravagant mpeg features).
Divx 6 turns out to be just another proprietary video codec that nobody needs. I'm sure it will do better than h.264 since it doesn't comply to any spec. And they where able to look at lots of perfectly working "sample code".
More recent efforts, such as SSE2, are somewhat better. SSE2 provides eight registers, which are not shared with the floating point unit. SSE2 does have 64-bit floating point types, which is a plus. However, AltiVec's selection of instructions is more complete, and most of them work from two registers into a third, letting the processor perform moderately complicated vector operations entirely in registers, without touching memory until the final data is ready to come out. This, and the larger pool of registers, favors deeply pipelined operations that can come close to saturating the processor's multiple execution units. AltiVec still wins.
Nowadays the war has moved a little further from us and and we are bored with life, therefore the solution to our problems is death.
We should know better.
It's the Motorola E790.
I think he was trying to say something about "smart folders".
From the Spotlight page:
And what about a cheap keyboard or mouse?
You're supposed to buy it somewhere else.
Will we also see a specification for the new audio and video formats on the old DVD discs?
That seems to be the meaning that apple gives to the term "HD DVD". Which is why I never liked the brand HD-DVD for a new otical format.
MPEG compression artifacts are nothing compared to analog film artifacts.
I don't want to see analog movies any more after the biggest cinemas in our country started with digital projectors. I was blown away the first time I went to see The Matrix Revolutions in digital (but only by the quality.) The image was considerably sharper and more colorfull than analog cinema. But the most striking for me was the perfectly steady image without any scratches or 'inkdrops'.
Consumer: You mean FinalCut Pro is on a BD-ROM? Wow this thing must come with even more GBs of templates and professional looking footage goodness.
Wouldn't that be better than:
Consumer: You mean FinalCut Pro is on a HD-DVD-ROM? I wonder how much extra HD footage they can get on a DVD.
HD-DVD is a confusing name. It makes the inappropriate association of a possible content on the optical format.
What about S/MIME?
I'm a Belgian citizen. I've been signing and encrypting email using a free S/MIME certificate since it was possible on OS X.
I hope this card will enable more people to do this with more ease of use and more security. But I doubt it, given our gov's tradition with Microsoft.