Yes - in the full version of the last image (Queen Mary 2 boat), I zoomed 200% and looked at the black line on the red background in the upper right corner. The JPEG in this case is much clearer. However, the rest of the image I looked at was pretty much very close. Given that the WebP version is only 1/3 the size of the JPEG version, I do think there is something promising here.
Based on content, one may perform better than the other in different areas of the picture. The thing here is for all these comparisons, the average quality of both are about the same, and the WebP versions are smaller in size.
However, if you look back at the history of the numbers, it is converging to 100% at infinity. You may be beating the odds now, but the longer you live, the more likely you are to die.
This is the stupidest idea ever to suggest to the content providers. So what, now they will lower the video quality the most on the most popular channels/shows? I guess there's also no longer a need to wait for Star Wars or LOTR: Extended Editions on Blu-ray now.
Also, FTA, "A representative for Google said she did not know of any other community using Google Earth as it has been used in Riverhead." Pierce county must have used Bing?
I touch up and meticulously make print-ready most of my kidnap victim photos. The contrast has to be 'just right' to show their fear. There were a couple I didn't retouch, however, so I've let those kids go now.
Also positively applicable for rapists, to wipe their victim's memory. Or doctors who wish to rape their patients coming in for memory-erasure procedure. Either way, the following applies:
Guy: I thought you said you were a virgin!
Girl: I am!
Guy: Then how did you give me crabs, herpes, and the clap?!
Also check out http://www.thecoffeecritic.com/ and read about thier 'Brewing Secrets.' I like to get my coffee from them. They roast it and ship it the day it is ordered, and by UPS ground its 2 days from them to me. You can also buy green beans from them if you get your own roaster.
The important thing is to consume it right away, like within a week - in an airtight container, they say 14 days, but in my opinion its a little less.
And never freeze your coffee, like I've heard some people say. I've read that it is the release of carbon dioxide and other minerals that makes coffee go stale and lose its sweet taste. Freezing does delay this, however, freezing causes the air moisture, along with impurities in the air, to freeze on the coffee, and when thawed, leaves unpleasant flavors and aromas in the coffee. So don't freeze it unless the air in your freezer and between the coffee beans inside the container is completely free of impurities of any kind. The coffee will also more readily pick up any smells present when frozen.
I agree. On a 42" TV, HDMI vs Component may not be noticeable at all. But I sure as heck could tell the difference on my 1080p projector on a 90" image. Feeding a 1080p signal over VGA vs DVI->HDMI did have a big difference, not only in sharpness but there were artifacts in the VGA as well. It was a 6 ft normal VGA cable. So, you can buy an expensive $100 monster VGA cable or component cable, or use digital (HDMI) and use a cheap cable for the same clarity.
Another thing I've been wondering about . . . the rumors say this Elite version uses a new scaling chip. Does this new chip also offer better scaling overall, on component and HDMI? Its been said that the XBox 360 has crappy standard def DVD upscaling.
Maybe this new chip offers far superior image quality on SD material.
I remember when I was in grade school back in the mid-80's, a form of tag that we played was banned because it was dangerous (even though we played on a grass field). We would play it EVERY recess, until one day the playground supervisor told us that the school said we couldn't play anymore. The next recess, we'd start playing again, but would be quickly stopped. After a day or 2, we would start playing again. We would play for a couple weeks, and then be told we couldn't play anymore. Then wait a day or two, and we'd play for another couple weeks.
How do the schools plan on enforcing this? For us determined youngsters, we would play and continue to play unless we were made to stop every single time, even though we were told, 'you can never play this again, so don't.'
I think its important to note that there are bacteria all around us all the time. Its not the amount of bacteria that matters, but rather how infectious it is. Think about it - how does all that bacteria get to your keyboard in the first place? It is likely transfered there by something else you touched or something you sneezed out. Its stuff you've probably already been exposed to. Unless you use a public keyboard, but when you do that, you should get those thin paper sheets to cover it while you type. How often during the day does your bum collect bacteria to spread to toilet seats? Of course the toilet seats are so clean, and they probably always have been.
I read an article in the paper a few years back that was discussing the most infectious items. It claimed it was the inbound doorknob/handle to the bathroom. That's the place that has the most bacteria spread - its the longest (most) people go until the next time they wash their hands, and they put all of their keyboard bacteria on it. It was listed as the item that you are mostly likely to catch someone's sickness just by touching it.
There is lots more to coding standards than just comments and style. Where I work, portability and maintainence are of high concern too. Certain rules, like no hard-coded values such as 563, allow for much better code maintainence. Other rules, like in C/C++ never using an int for any value other than 0-127, and never using a char for anything other than text characters, allow for code portability. These are just some of the rules. If your product is designed for one environment, you may have different coding standards. In the past, we have gotten together as a software team and reviewed other standards found online and combined the likes and the like-nots to create our own, tailored for our industry and requirements.
Style is good for readability and also for consistency. Requiring spaces before and after operators like = and + help in reading complex lines. Parens () help also. Setting requirements for function bracing (or what goes on a line, depending on the language), and tabbing help multiple programmers understand and easily see the program flow of others.
Anyone who protests that they like their own style better because they can read it eaiser (while everyone else can't) shouldn't be working for you. Team players are needed. We've resolved many such arguments satisfactorily in the past by simply putting it to a vote. And those team players gracefully accepted the majority.
Tracking within a non-overseas company can be hard enough at times! I work for a non-security software company, and when multiple people spend time debugging an issue, and then one person takes all that information and code and itegrates it, is it the integrator responsible for the code, or the person who actually wrote the piece of code? Sometimes there are cases when the actual author is not tracked reliably. It then becomes a fight to see who can point their fingers harder when it comes time for someone to be disciplined.
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Yes - in the full version of the last image (Queen Mary 2 boat), I zoomed 200% and looked at the black line on the red background in the upper right corner. The JPEG in this case is much clearer. However, the rest of the image I looked at was pretty much very close. Given that the WebP version is only 1/3 the size of the JPEG version, I do think there is something promising here.
Based on content, one may perform better than the other in different areas of the picture. The thing here is for all these comparisons, the average quality of both are about the same, and the WebP versions are smaller in size.
However, if you look back at the history of the numbers, it is converging to 100% at infinity. You may be beating the odds now, but the longer you live, the more likely you are to die.
This is the stupidest idea ever to suggest to the content providers. So what, now they will lower the video quality the most on the most popular channels/shows? I guess there's also no longer a need to wait for Star Wars or LOTR: Extended Editions on Blu-ray now.
And, in fact, a county has already done the same thing to collect fines for sheds, garages, etc: http://www.king5.com/news/local/Eye-in-sky-finds-illegal-Pierce-County-buildings-92779144.html
Also, FTA, "A representative for Google said she did not know of any other community using Google Earth as it has been used in Riverhead." Pierce county must have used Bing?
My guess is it was probably the MPAA.
As easy to recycle as typing 'clear' ?
I touch up and meticulously make print-ready most of my kidnap victim photos. The contrast has to be 'just right' to show their fear. There were a couple I didn't retouch, however, so I've let those kids go now.
Also positively applicable for rapists, to wipe their victim's memory. Or doctors who wish to rape their patients coming in for memory-erasure procedure. Either way, the following applies:
Guy: I thought you said you were a virgin!
Girl: I am!
Guy: Then how did you give me crabs, herpes, and the clap?!
Also check out http://www.thecoffeecritic.com/ and read about thier 'Brewing Secrets.' I like to get my coffee from them. They roast it and ship it the day it is ordered, and by UPS ground its 2 days from them to me. You can also buy green beans from them if you get your own roaster.
The important thing is to consume it right away, like within a week - in an airtight container, they say 14 days, but in my opinion its a little less.
And never freeze your coffee, like I've heard some people say. I've read that it is the release of carbon dioxide and other minerals that makes coffee go stale and lose its sweet taste. Freezing does delay this, however, freezing causes the air moisture, along with impurities in the air, to freeze on the coffee, and when thawed, leaves unpleasant flavors and aromas in the coffee. So don't freeze it unless the air in your freezer and between the coffee beans inside the container is completely free of impurities of any kind. The coffee will also more readily pick up any smells present when frozen.
I agree. On a 42" TV, HDMI vs Component may not be noticeable at all. But I sure as heck could tell the difference on my 1080p projector on a 90" image. Feeding a 1080p signal over VGA vs DVI->HDMI did have a big difference, not only in sharpness but there were artifacts in the VGA as well. It was a 6 ft normal VGA cable. So, you can buy an expensive $100 monster VGA cable or component cable, or use digital (HDMI) and use a cheap cable for the same clarity.
Another thing I've been wondering about . . . the rumors say this Elite version uses a new scaling chip. Does this new chip also offer better scaling overall, on component and HDMI? Its been said that the XBox 360 has crappy standard def DVD upscaling.
Maybe this new chip offers far superior image quality on SD material.This is how those no-flush urinals work, except it's not cooking oil:
http://www.waterless.com/ecotrap.php
I remember when I was in grade school back in the mid-80's, a form of tag that we played was banned because it was dangerous (even though we played on a grass field). We would play it EVERY recess, until one day the playground supervisor told us that the school said we couldn't play anymore. The next recess, we'd start playing again, but would be quickly stopped. After a day or 2, we would start playing again. We would play for a couple weeks, and then be told we couldn't play anymore. Then wait a day or two, and we'd play for another couple weeks. How do the schools plan on enforcing this? For us determined youngsters, we would play and continue to play unless we were made to stop every single time, even though we were told, 'you can never play this again, so don't.'
I think its important to note that there are bacteria all around us all the time. Its not the amount of bacteria that matters, but rather how infectious it is. Think about it - how does all that bacteria get to your keyboard in the first place? It is likely transfered there by something else you touched or something you sneezed out. Its stuff you've probably already been exposed to. Unless you use a public keyboard, but when you do that, you should get those thin paper sheets to cover it while you type. How often during the day does your bum collect bacteria to spread to toilet seats? Of course the toilet seats are so clean, and they probably always have been.
I read an article in the paper a few years back that was discussing the most infectious items. It claimed it was the inbound doorknob/handle to the bathroom. That's the place that has the most bacteria spread - its the longest (most) people go until the next time they wash their hands, and they put all of their keyboard bacteria on it. It was listed as the item that you are mostly likely to catch someone's sickness just by touching it.
What about an encrypted tunnel to a proxy server in the US, or anywhere for that matter?
There is lots more to coding standards than just comments and style. Where I work, portability and maintainence are of high concern too. Certain rules, like no hard-coded values such as 563, allow for much better code maintainence. Other rules, like in C/C++ never using an int for any value other than 0-127, and never using a char for anything other than text characters, allow for code portability. These are just some of the rules. If your product is designed for one environment, you may have different coding standards. In the past, we have gotten together as a software team and reviewed other standards found online and combined the likes and the like-nots to create our own, tailored for our industry and requirements.
Style is good for readability and also for consistency. Requiring spaces before and after operators like = and + help in reading complex lines. Parens () help also. Setting requirements for function bracing (or what goes on a line, depending on the language), and tabbing help multiple programmers understand and easily see the program flow of others.
Anyone who protests that they like their own style better because they can read it eaiser (while everyone else can't) shouldn't be working for you. Team players are needed. We've resolved many such arguments satisfactorily in the past by simply putting it to a vote. And those team players gracefully accepted the majority.
Tracking within a non-overseas company can be hard enough at times! I work for a non-security software company, and when multiple people spend time debugging an issue, and then one person takes all that information and code and itegrates it, is it the integrator responsible for the code, or the person who actually wrote the piece of code? Sometimes there are cases when the actual author is not tracked reliably. It then becomes a fight to see who can point their fingers harder when it comes time for someone to be disciplined.