Yes, but as an animation method it far predates the world of Toy Story. Which method is more fit to call itself the one of the "Internet Age", the one that requires computer rendering, or the one that I fondly remember for the California Raisins and other Claymation specials of my childhood (back before the commercial internet even existed)?
because frankly i haven't seen a damned thing wrong with either avi OR mp4, they play anywhere and "just work" which is more than I can say for MKV which is rarely hardware accelerated and frankly uses around 30-40% more resources, at least in my own tests.
It's not the container that decides how much processing resources a file requires or if it can be hardware accelerated, that depends on the actual video inside it. You seem to be under some impression AVI, MP4, and MKV are all video formats.
Why does MKV take 30-40% more resources than AVI? Because you're most likely playing h264 video instead of XviD, which has more complicated compression algorithms giving you better quality per kilobyte. Why do some MKVs get hardware acceleration and some not? Because they aren't all using the same video format, some may have XviD video inside, like your AVI files, some are h264, and even of those only certain types of h264 get hardware acceleration. Also, you need a video playback app on a PC to be set up in a specific way for hardware acceleration to happen or some files wont use it.
Getting a playback device to use hardware acceleration means following some very specific rules when the content is encoded, also what you're playing them back on matters, as not all consumer electronics devices support the same formats.
Your ignorance of all this shows you're a person who watches a lot of pirated content you grab randomly off TPB and don't encode any of your own, or even stick to specific encoders who have a methodology in what they do. You're subjected to a large number of files that behave differently on your devices, but only have a few file extensions that you base your judgements on -- causing all these flawed ideas about AVI vs MKV. This is because those files are all being encoded by different people and while some may be making them to play well on "stand alone players" (like those DVD players that support DIVX, or a Roku, Popcorn Hour, etc), many are aiming for highest quality compared to the source for the filesize, a goal that will generally put you at odds with playback on anything but a full-fledged computer.
Btw, if your want a player that can handle MKV better look for the "DIVX HD" ones, as that format uses MKV for container instead of AVI like the old "DIVX" DVD players. But then again, nowadays you can get BluRay players that support all sorts of computer file formats.
So unless you can name another container that works with nearly every accelerator out there, doesn't put in a ton of overhead, isn't badly designed (ala Vorbis) and "just works" on everything I'm afraid we'll have to disagree.
Container: MP4 Video: H264 codec: Main Profile, L4.1 or less. Limit B-frames to two. (might be other requirements for acceleration, but this is a good place to start) Resolution: 720p or less (maybe 480p depending on device) Audio: AAC-LC or MP3 audio stream, no vbr encoding (may have to limit bitrate to 128 kbps or lower, too depending on playback device).
I believe this will work on any modern playback device that's not a PC.
Toy Story was released in 1995. Wasn't the internet age already underway at that point?
What's ironic about the comment is it suggests Toy Story is old-hat or using some outdated technology when this new short film is done in stop motion and Toy Story is computer animated.
Is there any reason Apple has to choose one brand or the other? They can use the same technology for both and just adapt the user interface to suit the type of user. Apple can keep plugging along with Yahoo's Search and Mail as they've been running the whole time and still do a separate tier of those services for their Macintosh/i-device customer base. Plus, having control of the Yahoo properties gets Apple access to new ways of reaching potential customers (without buying ad space from someone else). Apple has Photostream in their iCloud service, but I think a lot of those iPhone/iPod Touch users also have Flickr accounts. Integration of the two would be a great value-adding service for iCloud users.
As an iTools/.Mac/MobileMe user for years I'd love for my email to show a reliability more on par with what I get from my free Yahoo Mail account.
Why? When they can just lock their user base into an iSearch, iJobs, iGroups? The interface will look even better and the search results will essentially be the same anyway.
Okay, I think you're missing the point here. There is no iSearch, iJobs, or iGroups. Apple doesn't have spiders crawling the Net or a big index of results already built up. The grandparent poster is suggesting Apple buy Yahoo and rebrand all their properties as you suggest rather than having to build them from scratch. There's no reason Apple couldn't redo the interfaces and give them hooks into OSX/iOS while keeping the valuable back end.
Exactly. If the guy was giving away copies of MS Office or Windows 7 or (insert popular game here), these people wouldn't be calling it "religious", but since it's OSS somehow it's different.
Well, there is the small difference that giving away Office or Windows 7 or a popular commercial game actually is a gift since he had to part with money to get them. At the moment, I'd be thrilled to find a Windows 7 Professional disc under the tree since I want to upgrade out of XP, and lots of people are going to be getting Skyrim for Christmas
Open Source software is free, and most people don't care about OSS politics. If someone cared about this sort of stuff they'd undoubtedly already be technically savvy enough to go online and get it themselves. Except for the USB drives this isn't much of a gift, and hey, I saw a deal on newegg last night for 8 GB ones for under $8 -- free shipping. Pretty cheap gift if he's not giving them 16 or 32 GB ones, and most people don't need that much space at once for day-to-day usage.
-People that more vocally discuss negative aspects of the Chinese government. -Government employees talking about anything related to work (unclassified). -Military members.
Why would these people care?
-If I'm not in China, why would I care if the Chinese government hears me disparage them? Or are we now supposed to live our lives according to another country's censorship standards? -If it's a risk to have the Chinese listening to Government employees discuss unclassified work, that work should be classified. -Military members shouldn't be discussing information that might be sensitive on unsecured public communications networks. And since we're not at war with China, I'm curious what military members would say regarding China that would fit that profile to start with.
That one "$2.48 for new" price you're latching on to doesn't include the $5 in shipping. View those offers taking that into account (most other sellers are free shipping) and you get $7.48, the real "street value" online.
You aren't reading the chart right. It's not chronologically the same for all handsets. The time frame is specifically three years after handset release, not the same three year period measured in time itself. So the author is saying the original iPhone got updates for three years after its release, 2007-2010, not that it's still getting updates today in late 2011.
TEPCO and MHI were and are very slow to respond to emergencies and care more for their "face saving" than resolving problems. Perhaps I am just an American judging them by American standards and ideals. But I have to say I believe resolving the problems and learning important lessons would come first with me and it doesn't seem to come first with them.
Isn't that the opposite of the American business way? From my understanding of the two cultures, a Japanese business would work on resolving the immediate crisis and then work out who was responsible for it later. Whereas a Western company would focus on who was responsible first, and then what to do about it after that.
A superior Coca Cola made with sugar instead of corn syrup on average costs $0.75 a glass bottle from the stores I went to when I was in Mexico City for 2 months, one small store had them for 9 pesos instead of the common 10 peso price I was seeing. When I was there 10 pesos was about $0.75US
In china I have heard it's even cheaper but in the smaller cool cans.
You don't have to go to Mexico. I drink it right now. I've actually stopped drinking the American one (for regular Coke at least). There are at least three local supermarkets (two part of regional chains) that sell Mexcian Coca-cola for $0.95-$1.00 a glass bottle where I am in Kansas. One doesn't even keep them segregated with the "Hispanic Foods," but has the bottles slotted with the other 20 oz plastic bottles in the drink cooler. So I can go pick up a cold ready-to-drink bottle just like I can any other HFCS soda.
I know you're asking about Football, but I wanted to mention something.
I work for a cable company, and the reason for blackouts at baseball games is quite often not broadcasting rights arguments but the games being blacked out by the MLB itself to increase attendance of the game, or the team, because if attendance is low they don't want the empty stands shown on television.
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Yes, but as an animation method it far predates the world of Toy Story. Which method is more fit to call itself the one of the "Internet Age", the one that requires computer rendering, or the one that I fondly remember for the California Raisins and other Claymation specials of my childhood (back before the commercial internet even existed)?
because frankly i haven't seen a damned thing wrong with either avi OR mp4, they play anywhere and "just work" which is more than I can say for MKV which is rarely hardware accelerated and frankly uses around 30-40% more resources, at least in my own tests.
It's not the container that decides how much processing resources a file requires or if it can be hardware accelerated, that depends on the actual video inside it. You seem to be under some impression AVI, MP4, and MKV are all video formats.
Why does MKV take 30-40% more resources than AVI? Because you're most likely playing h264 video instead of XviD, which has more complicated compression algorithms giving you better quality per kilobyte. Why do some MKVs get hardware acceleration and some not? Because they aren't all using the same video format, some may have XviD video inside, like your AVI files, some are h264, and even of those only certain types of h264 get hardware acceleration. Also, you need a video playback app on a PC to be set up in a specific way for hardware acceleration to happen or some files wont use it.
Getting a playback device to use hardware acceleration means following some very specific rules when the content is encoded, also what you're playing them back on matters, as not all consumer electronics devices support the same formats.
Your ignorance of all this shows you're a person who watches a lot of pirated content you grab randomly off TPB and don't encode any of your own, or even stick to specific encoders who have a methodology in what they do. You're subjected to a large number of files that behave differently on your devices, but only have a few file extensions that you base your judgements on -- causing all these flawed ideas about AVI vs MKV. This is because those files are all being encoded by different people and while some may be making them to play well on "stand alone players" (like those DVD players that support DIVX, or a Roku, Popcorn Hour, etc), many are aiming for highest quality compared to the source for the filesize, a goal that will generally put you at odds with playback on anything but a full-fledged computer.
Btw, if your want a player that can handle MKV better look for the "DIVX HD" ones, as that format uses MKV for container instead of AVI like the old "DIVX" DVD players. But then again, nowadays you can get BluRay players that support all sorts of computer file formats.
So unless you can name another container that works with nearly every accelerator out there, doesn't put in a ton of overhead, isn't badly designed (ala Vorbis) and "just works" on everything I'm afraid we'll have to disagree.
Container: MP4
Video: H264 codec: Main Profile, L4.1 or less. Limit B-frames to two. (might be other requirements for acceleration, but this is a good place to start)
Resolution: 720p or less (maybe 480p depending on device)
Audio: AAC-LC or MP3 audio stream, no vbr encoding (may have to limit bitrate to 128 kbps or lower, too depending on playback device).
I believe this will work on any modern playback device that's not a PC.
Toy Story was released in 1995. Wasn't the internet age already underway at that point?
What's ironic about the comment is it suggests Toy Story is old-hat or using some outdated technology when this new short film is done in stop motion and Toy Story is computer animated.
Is there any reason Apple has to choose one brand or the other? They can use the same technology for both and just adapt the user interface to suit the type of user. Apple can keep plugging along with Yahoo's Search and Mail as they've been running the whole time and still do a separate tier of those services for their Macintosh/i-device customer base. Plus, having control of the Yahoo properties gets Apple access to new ways of reaching potential customers (without buying ad space from someone else). Apple has Photostream in their iCloud service, but I think a lot of those iPhone/iPod Touch users also have Flickr accounts. Integration of the two would be a great value-adding service for iCloud users.
As an iTools/.Mac/MobileMe user for years I'd love for my email to show a reliability more on par with what I get from my free Yahoo Mail account.
Why? When they can just lock their user base into an iSearch, iJobs, iGroups? The interface will look even better and the search results will essentially be the same anyway.
Okay, I think you're missing the point here. There is no iSearch, iJobs, or iGroups. Apple doesn't have spiders crawling the Net or a big index of results already built up. The grandparent poster is suggesting Apple buy Yahoo and rebrand all their properties as you suggest rather than having to build them from scratch. There's no reason Apple couldn't redo the interfaces and give them hooks into OSX/iOS while keeping the valuable back end.
How about leaving gum on the floor to get caught in the robot's wheels/treads while they're doing their rounds?
Exactly. If the guy was giving away copies of MS Office or Windows 7 or (insert popular game here), these people wouldn't be calling it "religious", but since it's OSS somehow it's different.
Well, there is the small difference that giving away Office or Windows 7 or a popular commercial game actually is a gift since he had to part with money to get them. At the moment, I'd be thrilled to find a Windows 7 Professional disc under the tree since I want to upgrade out of XP, and lots of people are going to be getting Skyrim for Christmas
Open Source software is free, and most people don't care about OSS politics. If someone cared about this sort of stuff they'd undoubtedly already be technically savvy enough to go online and get it themselves. Except for the USB drives this isn't much of a gift, and hey, I saw a deal on newegg last night for 8 GB ones for under $8 -- free shipping. Pretty cheap gift if he's not giving them 16 or 32 GB ones, and most people don't need that much space at once for day-to-day usage.
Good God man! Haven't you heard the pen is mightier than the sword!
We can't have children carrying an item more deadly than a claymore.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of robot snakes on a plane!
Nope, that's why the carriers love it, too. Every time you use Siri you're drawing KBs on your (mostly likely) not-unlimited data plan.
Apple doesn't design the motherboards in their computers?
Was it in the vicinity of Uranus?
[okay, okay, someone had to say it]
Who cares?
-People that more vocally discuss negative aspects of the Chinese government.
-Government employees talking about anything related to work (unclassified).
-Military members.
Why would these people care?
-If I'm not in China, why would I care if the Chinese government hears me disparage them? Or are we now supposed to live our lives according to another country's censorship standards?
-If it's a risk to have the Chinese listening to Government employees discuss unclassified work, that work should be classified.
-Military members shouldn't be discussing information that might be sensitive on unsecured public communications networks. And since we're not at war with China, I'm curious what military members would say regarding China that would fit that profile to start with.
In your defense, maybe you couldn't reach any local news outlets online because of a DNS problem.
It's even more amusing when the correct form was used two lines higher in the summary.
That one "$2.48 for new" price you're latching on to doesn't include the $5 in shipping. View those offers taking that into account (most other sellers are free shipping) and you get $7.48, the real "street value" online.
Would you believe 'a very tanned white guy with bottle opener'?
I don't think people feel intimidated when faced with The Most Interesting Man in the World.
You aren't reading the chart right. It's not chronologically the same for all handsets. The time frame is specifically three years after handset release, not the same three year period measured in time itself. So the author is saying the original iPhone got updates for three years after its release, 2007-2010, not that it's still getting updates today in late 2011.
TEPCO and MHI were and are very slow to respond to emergencies and care more for their "face saving" than resolving problems. Perhaps I am just an American judging them by American standards and ideals. But I have to say I believe resolving the problems and learning important lessons would come first with me and it doesn't seem to come first with them.
Isn't that the opposite of the American business way? From my understanding of the two cultures, a Japanese business would work on resolving the immediate crisis and then work out who was responsible for it later. Whereas a Western company would focus on who was responsible first, and then what to do about it after that.
Obviously the killer bees are lying in wait, to ambush the semis as they come around the corner on the highway in an effort to free their cousins.
A superior Coca Cola made with sugar instead of corn syrup on average costs $0.75 a glass bottle from the stores I went to when I was in Mexico City for 2 months, one small store had them for 9 pesos instead of the common 10 peso price I was seeing. When I was there 10 pesos was about $0.75US
In china I have heard it's even cheaper but in the smaller cool cans.
You don't have to go to Mexico. I drink it right now. I've actually stopped drinking the American one (for regular Coke at least). There are at least three local supermarkets (two part of regional chains) that sell Mexcian Coca-cola for $0.95-$1.00 a glass bottle where I am in Kansas. One doesn't even keep them segregated with the "Hispanic Foods," but has the bottles slotted with the other 20 oz plastic bottles in the drink cooler. So I can go pick up a cold ready-to-drink bottle just like I can any other HFCS soda.
I know you're asking about Football, but I wanted to mention something.
I work for a cable company, and the reason for blackouts at baseball games is quite often not broadcasting rights arguments but the games being blacked out by the MLB itself to increase attendance of the game, or the team, because if attendance is low they don't want the empty stands shown on television.
simply because the iPhone is such a loved device the court wont want to halt its sale for fear of angry mobs.
on Start Trek
That was that sci-fi series about Windows 95, right?
You could have it play ice cream truck music, and troll kids as you drive though residential areas!