The hardware based transcoding is not necessarily better (see: the dire state of BBC's terrestrial HD broadcasts compared to the earlier 'test' HD broadcasts, and their stonewalling whenever people call them out on it and explain how to improve it). Hardware transcoders are used
1) Because they're guaranteed real-time, so you can pipe video through and just factor in a set time delay
2) Designed to be robust, so you don't need to worry about overheating, or the encoder choking on a certain bit of video
If you're not working on real-time video, you're always going to get better results with x.264 (and competence) than with a hardware box, or a hardware solution like QuickSync or the like. Hell, if you turn the quality settings down so the x.264 output looks as bad as QuickSync, the two work at roughly the same speed anyway.
Because Dropbox was a totally innovative startup, and nobody, NOBODY ever thought of some sort of way of remotely storing files before, no siree! And certainly noone ever had even the slightest idea that synchronising files between different machines could be a useful idea.
Yep. It's not a hologram, it's not 3D (volumetric or multi-plane), it's not even stereoscopic! It's a 2D cylindrical display that tracks the viewer's head location (i.e. only one viewer at a time) to simulate a moving perspective, along with a depth-camera (e.g. kinect) derived model of the target.
its reality that MS's video system is still better and their win media player (sigh) is still the best 'free' solution for judder and jitter free playback
Have you tried MPC-HC? With the addition of MadVR for video rendering (processing at 16bit then downsampling/dithering for a surprisingly significant reduction in gradient banding) and Reclock for audio synchronisation, it's probably the best video playback you can get, from a PC or otherwise, before you start investing in expensive dedicated postprocessing hardware.
Occasionally, but more often the footage and audio are just sped up, at least for the video and DVD eras. No longer an occurrence with Blu-Ray, except in cases of egregiously bad mastering.
This would be an incredible disincentive for me to buy your single-player game. I do not want a bunch of extraneous shit that requires me to buy your other shit in order to unlock parts of the game, I just want to buy the damn game. If I enjoy the game, I will retain it to play again. If the game is no good, it gets sold.
The trick to preventing single-player game resales is to make good games.
Well, it is the Daily Fail. It may have taken them over a century to report on the concept of the Ion Thruster, but at least a few of the facts in their story are actually correct (which is probably a new record for them).
The mini-plants (can we please start calling them Shipstones?) are designed to be 'fuelled for life', similar to submarines, and remain sealed throughout usage and during transport to/from their site.
At midnight on the twelfth of August^h^h^h^h^h^h March, a huge mass of
luminous gas erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth.
Across two hundred million miles of void, invisibly hurtling
towards us, came the first of the missiles that were to
bring so much calamity to Earth.
Remember that next time you enter a large building with a sign in/out register, and refuse to put your name in it. Those are there for a reason: so that if the building catches fire/has a gas leak/some other reason for evacuation, they have some idea who still needs to be rescued. But notice employees don't have to sign it: that's because they have those swanky ID cards to swipe in with, which do the same job.
This system is the same, except the swanky ID card is sewn into the uniform.
"Your original memory will never by fully restored, there might be residual simulation; we don't have the technology yet to handle simex erasures. I'm sorry."
There's a reason why VLC [videolan.org] can play basically anything, on any system, far better and more reliably then anything else on the planet.
More reliably, maybe, but better? Hell no! VLC still chokes on properly deinterlacing DVDs, let alone proper audio timing, display filtering (macroblocks ahoy!), etc. VLC can play most things, often even acceptably, but it rarely does it very well.
Too many bad codecs included with every random software application that all register themselves to try and be the first priority codec for every format for the entire system.
I've never had a CODEC installed that I didn't install myself. Of course, if you have problems keeping unwanted CODECs out then you're almost certainly already infested with various malware causing all sorts of problems.
Maybe. There are plenty of Blu Ray editions that look worse than an unscaled copy of the DVD (mainly due to deciding that upscaling is not enough, we need to turn every knob and slider labelled 'DVNR' or 'sharpness' up to the endstop). This is more to do with massive incompetence on the part of whoever produced the BD than any inherent issues with the format.
Yet when someone starts using a company/government laptop for personal web browsing and installing personal software, and this results in release of confidential data, people are in uproar as to how this could be allowed to happen. It was allowed to happen because dipshit here decided "fuck the Data Protection rules, I gotta play farmville!". The work device is for work, the personal device is for personal stuff. And never the twain shall meet
It basically sounds like Perfect Dark, but with manual initial per-finding and weaker security (if you always have the same web of friends, you can likely be tracked by this web).
Those are generally called Rotavators, Bolos or Skyhooks (depending on the tip velocity relative to the ground, tip altitude, or period of rotation). They can be a lot smaller, but the forces on them are still pretty big, big enough that you either need the same sort of tensile strength as in a full-on elevator, or you need a hypersonic vehicle to get to the moving lower tip (and dock, load/unload, and detach all at hypersonic speeds in a short time period).
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All we've got are Mini-Coopers with regular old bricks in 'em.
The hardware based transcoding is not necessarily better (see: the dire state of BBC's terrestrial HD broadcasts compared to the earlier 'test' HD broadcasts, and their stonewalling whenever people call them out on it and explain how to improve it). Hardware transcoders are used
1) Because they're guaranteed real-time, so you can pipe video through and just factor in a set time delay
2) Designed to be robust, so you don't need to worry about overheating, or the encoder choking on a certain bit of video
If you're not working on real-time video, you're always going to get better results with x.264 (and competence) than with a hardware box, or a hardware solution like QuickSync or the like. Hell, if you turn the quality settings down so the x.264 output looks as bad as QuickSync, the two work at roughly the same speed anyway.
Because Dropbox was a totally innovative startup, and nobody, NOBODY ever thought of some sort of way of remotely storing files before, no siree! And certainly noone ever had even the slightest idea that synchronising files between different machines could be a useful idea.
Yep. It's not a hologram, it's not 3D (volumetric or multi-plane), it's not even stereoscopic! It's a 2D cylindrical display that tracks the viewer's head location (i.e. only one viewer at a time) to simulate a moving perspective, along with a depth-camera (e.g. kinect) derived model of the target.
its reality that MS's video system is still better and their win media player (sigh) is still the best 'free' solution for judder and jitter free playback
Have you tried MPC-HC? With the addition of MadVR for video rendering (processing at 16bit then downsampling/dithering for a surprisingly significant reduction in gradient banding) and Reclock for audio synchronisation, it's probably the best video playback you can get, from a PC or otherwise, before you start investing in expensive dedicated postprocessing hardware.
very little gain in quality
Not when your screen is several meters high. Gradient banding becomes VERY evident there (4:2:0? Hell no!), among other things.
1 frame is added every second for PAL.
Occasionally, but more often the footage and audio are just sped up, at least for the video and DVD eras. No longer an occurrence with Blu-Ray, except in cases of egregiously bad mastering.
This would be an incredible disincentive for me to buy your single-player game. I do not want a bunch of extraneous shit that requires me to buy your other shit in order to unlock parts of the game, I just want to buy the damn game. If I enjoy the game, I will retain it to play again. If the game is no good, it gets sold.
The trick to preventing single-player game resales is to make good games.
Except we did use it. To go to the moon. Over a decade ago.
Well, it is the Daily Fail. It may have taken them over a century to report on the concept of the Ion Thruster, but at least a few of the facts in their story are actually correct (which is probably a new record for them).
Only if you have a Really Awesome Tape Robot.
The mini-plants (can we please start calling them Shipstones?) are designed to be 'fuelled for life', similar to submarines, and remain sealed throughout usage and during transport to/from their site.
At midnight on the twelfth of August^h^h^h^h^h^h March, a huge mass of luminous gas erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth. Across two hundred million miles of void, invisibly hurtling towards us, came the first of the missiles that were to bring so much calamity to Earth.
People are not assets, and should not be tracked.
Remember that next time you enter a large building with a sign in/out register, and refuse to put your name in it. Those are there for a reason: so that if the building catches fire/has a gas leak/some other reason for evacuation, they have some idea who still needs to be rescued. But notice employees don't have to sign it: that's because they have those swanky ID cards to swipe in with, which do the same job.
This system is the same, except the swanky ID card is sewn into the uniform.
"Your original memory will never by fully restored, there might be residual simulation; we don't have the technology yet to handle simex erasures. I'm sorry."
There's a reason why VLC [videolan.org] can play basically anything, on any system, far better and more reliably then anything else on the planet.
More reliably, maybe, but better? Hell no! VLC still chokes on properly deinterlacing DVDs, let alone proper audio timing, display filtering (macroblocks ahoy!), etc. VLC can play most things, often even acceptably, but it rarely does it very well.
Too many bad codecs included with every random software application that all register themselves to try and be the first priority codec for every format for the entire system.
I've never had a CODEC installed that I didn't install myself. Of course, if you have problems keeping unwanted CODECs out then you're almost certainly already infested with various malware causing all sorts of problems.
Maybe. There are plenty of Blu Ray editions that look worse than an unscaled copy of the DVD (mainly due to deciding that upscaling is not enough, we need to turn every knob and slider labelled 'DVNR' or 'sharpness' up to the endstop). This is more to do with massive incompetence on the part of whoever produced the BD than any inherent issues with the format.
Yet when someone starts using a company/government laptop for personal web browsing and installing personal software, and this results in release of confidential data, people are in uproar as to how this could be allowed to happen. It was allowed to happen because dipshit here decided "fuck the Data Protection rules, I gotta play farmville!".
The work device is for work, the personal device is for personal stuff. And never the twain shall meet
It basically sounds like Perfect Dark, but with manual initial per-finding and weaker security (if you always have the same web of friends, you can likely be tracked by this web).
Palemoon. Both LTS versions of 3.6.x, and newer versions with the crap stripped out and the old UI restored.
There are also lesser cases of this, like agreeing to arbitrage by certain courts (for example sharia courts in UK)
Only if you fall into the insane alternate universe inhabited by the Daily Fail or similar nonsense-rags.
Proposal to rename North Korea to Cagliostro. All in favour?
Therefore, I can't use Marketplace again to update my phone.
Then don't use marketplace to update your phone. Download the update elsewhere (i.e. manufacturer's website) and install it that way. Easy.
You need a license for live streaming from iplayer. If you solely watch recorded shows, then you do not need a TV license.
Those are generally called Rotavators, Bolos or Skyhooks (depending on the tip velocity relative to the ground, tip altitude, or period of rotation). They can be a lot smaller, but the forces on them are still pretty big, big enough that you either need the same sort of tensile strength as in a full-on elevator, or you need a hypersonic vehicle to get to the moving lower tip (and dock, load/unload, and detach all at hypersonic speeds in a short time period).