I want it because because DiVX was a good format but it's becoming obsolete. If it were possible to convert those files while preserving as much as possible of the data , e.g. B & I frames, the quality of the image might be better than completely re-encoding it. It would also be quicker to convert them, possibly even allowing the likes of Nero Home to transcode them on the fly. That is why I wondered aloud if you could produce a mostly lossless conversion.
divx is MPEG-4 no? There are plenty of codec libraries which can handle that, its hardly going to go the way of the dodo. MPEG-1 is still around, and playable after all and thats from the VCD era; around the early 1990s.
When you transcode from one lossy format, into another there is no way that the quality of the image will be improved whatsoever. data is thrown away, data that can not be recovered or magically made to appear out of thin air so that the image quality can be better. It would be better to re-encode from the original source where there is more data available for the codec to work on. Some perform better then others after all and may be able to compress more of the data then divx could without throwing some away.
If you want as little data to be lost as possible when transcoding, then re-encode it into a format that is lossless (huffyuv?) or even to straight avi frames. The tradeoff is that the files become much much larger, and you will not gain any more quality then was in the original divx'd version.
The google cookies expire much much sooner then 2038, they will expire after 2 years now for those who do not visit the page again for it to be renewed.
See this for the announcement
It could simply be that - even although there is a huge range available; many are disabled as an anti-fraud measure. This update would simply enable a little bit more from the range.
rtfa. Google is asking that microsoft provide a way for the user to disable it, so that other competing desktop search programs dont battle each other for system resources and ultimately both slow the computer down. They arent asking for it to be removed outright
tell that to Rogers in canada. They're throttling all encrypted traffic, just incase that its used to bypass the traffic throttling they imposed. see http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1859/125/ for details
If these ( publically documented ) APIs exist in the express products, then isnt tacit permission being given for other developers to use them in products that implement the API?
Its like having a door on a building, then saying "you cant go through this" in a eula.
If you dont want people to use it, dont implement it in the first place.
not necessarily. It would be reasonable to assume microsoft has a log of which xboxes were hacked, and xbox live is a client-server based system no? All they have to do is block them on the server instead of telling the console to block themselves and the hackers are at step 0 again.
Not all database types are fit for all purposes.
Relational databases for instance are bad for data mining/warehousing due to poor query performance but good for data entry due to high transactional performance
great opportunities to abuse it. One council was forced to apologise for its 'litter wardens' lately after they fined a woman £80 for her son dropping *two* crisps onto the pavement - despite the mother picking the packet up. ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/6665641. stm )
Cameras on heads is a daft idea which will similarly be abused by an already overbearing, orwellian government.
Yeah, its a common practise in the UK for a corporation who wants to squeeze a little more off their customers. It sure doesnt go down well but there is very little option at times.
Customers of this ISP may want to check to see if they can take action against them under the data protection act. in particular, the sections: "Personal data should be securely kept, and not transferred to any other country without adequate protection." and "Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data."
someone posts a link to a perfectly innocent thing; the host for which later either changes the image maliciously or as a result of a security breach into something forbidden. Would they hold the person who posted the link at fault then?
ever heard of gksudo?
it may simply be the case they are both referred to as sudo since they both do the same thing ultimately and its shorter to type.
- EU says Wolfowitz should go;
Of course they do. If you study the issue, you'll find that the whole thing is a reaction to his anti-corruption stance and trying to weed out the garbage than anything else. It's interesting how this would be a non-issue if a European was running the joint, and the subordinate was actually within the sphere of influence.
Its somewhat hipocritical to rail against corruption, and then to give your partner an abnormally large pay increase wouldnt you say?
- UN says Bagdad surge not working;
Of course it does. Count the decrease in the number of US deaths and how most of the violence is sectarian instead of insurgents. And how there isn't much UN there, anyway. They have a pointed interest in not being wrong about Iraq, anyway.
They dont need to worry any more about being wrong, its quite conclusive that they were right from the outset, and that the US was in the wrong.
- House passes War-funding with timetable;
Which will get vetoed.
which means no additional funding
So, yesterday/today is news-dense. The impeachment resolution had to compete.
A non-issue competing with others.
An impeachment bill is hardly a non-issue. It may not pass the senate but that hardly means that its irrelevent.
besides, its not the first rts which has appeared on a console you know, i remember playing red alert 1 on my ps1 at one point. Not sure if that was the first, but its certainly possible ( if rather annoying ) to play them on gamepad
The pwn-2-own contest got off to a slow start on Thursday. The rules originally mandated an exploit that required no action on the part of the user. The reward for a successful hack was the machine that had been compromised. Conference attendees were underwhelmed, reasoning a Mac exploit that required no end-user interaction could be sold for upwards of $20,000. Things changed significantly on Day 2.
That's when Tipping Point upped the ante with its promise of a $10,000 bounty. Contest organizers also relaxed the rules so exploits could include malicious websites that attacked Safari.
Then google just bought a competitor of adwords and benefitted anyway. It was a win-win situation, buy it and you increase your market share - lose it, and you bump up the price to a level that microsoft and yahoo have to shell out far more then they planned to had google not entered bidding.
iirc, the kelvin scale is identical in steps to that of celcius, the only difference is the starting zero point. With kelvin it is at absolute zero, the point where atoms stop vibrating. With celcius it is at the freezing point of water
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Im suddenly reminded of this, where linux gpl'd code found its way into BSD via a wireless driver.
Those in glass houses shouldnt throw stones
Tomcat?
Resin?
etc?
divx is MPEG-4 no?I want it because because DiVX was a good format but it's becoming obsolete. If it were possible to convert those files while preserving as much as possible of the data , e.g. B & I frames, the quality of the image might be better than completely re-encoding it. It would also be quicker to convert them, possibly even allowing the likes of Nero Home to transcode them on the fly. That is why I wondered aloud if you could produce a mostly lossless conversion.
There are plenty of codec libraries which can handle that, its hardly going to go the way of the dodo. MPEG-1 is still around, and playable after all and thats from the VCD era; around the early 1990s.
When you transcode from one lossy format, into another there is no way that the quality of the image will be improved whatsoever.
data is thrown away, data that can not be recovered or magically made to appear out of thin air so that the image quality can be better. It would be better to re-encode from the original source where there is more data available for the codec to work on. Some perform better then others after all and may be able to compress more of the data then divx could without throwing some away.
If you want as little data to be lost as possible when transcoding, then re-encode it into a format that is lossless (huffyuv?) or even to straight avi frames. The tradeoff is that the files become much much larger, and you will not gain any more quality then was in the original divx'd version.
The google cookies expire much much sooner then 2038, they will expire after 2 years now for those who do not visit the page again for it to be renewed.
See this for the announcement
I'd be more worried about the "Big Wookie" while its losing...
It could simply be that - even although there is a huge range available; many are disabled as an anti-fraud measure.
This update would simply enable a little bit more from the range.
What happened to A and B?
Did they elope together and disappear into the mountains - and now C is their lovechild?
rtfa.
Google is asking that microsoft provide a way for the user to disable it, so that other competing desktop search programs dont battle each other for system resources and ultimately both slow the computer down.
They arent asking for it to be removed outright
tell that to Rogers in canada.
They're throttling all encrypted traffic, just incase that its used to bypass the traffic throttling they imposed.
see http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1859/125/ for details
If these ( publically documented ) APIs exist in the express products, then isnt tacit permission being given for other developers to use them in products that implement the API? Its like having a door on a building, then saying "you cant go through this" in a eula. If you dont want people to use it, dont implement it in the first place.
not necessarily. It would be reasonable to assume microsoft has a log of which xboxes were hacked, and xbox live is a client-server based system no?
All they have to do is block them on the server instead of telling the console to block themselves and the hackers are at step 0 again.
Not all database types are fit for all purposes. Relational databases for instance are bad for data mining/warehousing due to poor query performance but good for data entry due to high transactional performance
great opportunities to abuse it.. stm )
One council was forced to apologise for its 'litter wardens' lately after they fined a woman £80 for her son dropping *two* crisps onto the pavement - despite the mother picking the packet up.
( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/6665641
Cameras on heads is a daft idea which will similarly be abused by an already overbearing, orwellian government.
Yeah, its a common practise in the UK for a corporation who wants to squeeze a little more off their customers.
It sure doesnt go down well but there is very little option at times.
Customers of this ISP may want to check to see if they can take action against them under the data protection act.
in particular, the sections:
"Personal data should be securely kept, and not transferred to any other country without adequate protection."
and
"Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data."
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act )
someone posts a link to a perfectly innocent thing; the host for which later either changes the image maliciously or as a result of a security breach into something forbidden.
Would they hold the person who posted the link at fault then?
dont worry, that khaaant happen :)
ever heard of gksudo? it may simply be the case they are both referred to as sudo since they both do the same thing ultimately and its shorter to type.
Its somewhat hipocritical to rail against corruption, and then to give your partner an abnormally large pay increase wouldnt you say? - UN says Bagdad surge not working; Of course it does. Count the decrease in the number of US deaths and how most of the violence is sectarian instead of insurgents. And how there isn't much UN there, anyway. They have a pointed interest in not being wrong about Iraq, anyway.
They dont need to worry any more about being wrong, its quite conclusive that they were right from the outset, and that the US was in the wrong. - House passes War-funding with timetable; Which will get vetoed.
which means no additional funding So, yesterday/today is news-dense. The impeachment resolution had to compete. A non-issue competing with others.
An impeachment bill is hardly a non-issue. It may not pass the senate but that hardly means that its irrelevent.
with difficulty.
besides, its not the first rts which has appeared on a console you know, i remember playing red alert 1 on my ps1 at one point. Not sure if that was the first, but its certainly possible ( if rather annoying ) to play them on gamepad
Then google just bought a competitor of adwords and benefitted anyway.
It was a win-win situation, buy it and you increase your market share - lose it, and you bump up the price to a level that microsoft and yahoo have to shell out far more then they planned to had google not entered bidding.
iirc, the kelvin scale is identical in steps to that of celcius, the only difference is the starting zero point.
With kelvin it is at absolute zero, the point where atoms stop vibrating. With celcius it is at the freezing point of water
Oh, they already are in youtubes shoes :D4 &tid=95
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/20/15822
they areo rps_newtube/
Viacom bought ifilm, and other studios are working on their own version
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/22/nbc_newsc