Trolls are always a problem for anything you do, but at least here's a long list of companies that are providing royalty-free licensing of their video patents for AV1. It's no guarantee, but it sure beats any other free video codec effort.
It's not so much that the numbering changed. What really changed was the development methodology and the numbering just reflects that. Going from 2.4 to 2.6 took forever because there were too many changes, some not so well tested and because it was taking forever to stabilize, more changes would come in because otherwise it would take years before they could come in. So progress was (relatively) slow and new features had to be shipped through custom patches rather than mainline. There's been a general realization (not just for the kernel) that that kind of development cycle just couldn't work anymore. That's why the kernel has moved to a shorter development cycle. It means there's less pressure to put new features "as soon as possible because otherwise it will be delayed by years", so much fewer things to debug in each release and overall, everything's better. The only drawback is for people who don't want to upgrade as often and that's why there are a few special "stable" releases once in a while (and Firefox has ESRs). If Linus had kept the old development model, I suspect the current "stable" kernel would still be a 2.6.x and there would be a 2.7.392 development kernel that still wouldn't be ready to ship.
What you're saying has been historically true. Jobs have moved from farming to manufacturing. Then from manufacturing to services. The problem is that for now we have nothing after services. Sure, there's R&D, but unless something radical happens, it's not a sector where you can reasonably expect a huge number of service workers to move to. So unless we find a "new sector" real soon, we're heading into uncharted territory (not necessarily bad, but we don't know).
The problem is not so much any sort of addiction as it's a time sink. Sites like YouTube are designed so that you keep clicking on more videos until hours have passed and no homework were done. If it weren't mobile devices, it'd be TV or something else, but mobile devices is what we have to worry about recently. When they're teens you can't just look over their shoulders, so the best I've come up with is openwrt (LEDE) DNS blocking.
It's the first time we try this. We'll look at the quality of the data we get (yes, noise quality!) and if it's sufficiently good/useful, then we'll also make it available. It might take some time to sort out the useful samples from the ones that aren't since some already have noise suppression applied by the OS or browser.
(I'm the author of the article) You may not be aware, but around 10 years ago, browsers started including audio technology. This now includes WebRTC which lets you do videoconferencing in the browser (without Flash). As surprising as it may sound, some people like doing VoIP/videoconference. And those who use WebRTC tend to prefer when their audio doesn't have too much noise. And that is why RNNoise is useful.
Capsule loses pressure integrity? Masks from the ceiling time.
Actually, that one's a little more complicated than just masks from the ceiling. You can do that in an airplane because there's still enough air pressure outside. If you're operating in a vacuum, then you have the same problem as astronauts and U2 pilots: your blood will start boiling unless you have a full pressure suit. That's the Armstrong limit: below 6 kPa, the boiling temperature of water goes below 37C.
Despite the official spec being defined as code, there's nothing that prevents what you're talking about. As far as I know, the FFMpeg "native" decoder is actually an independent implementation of the standard and although they chose the LGPL as license, they could have used something "public-domain-like". Note that compliance itself isn't based on the decoder code, but on testvectors. Anything that decodes testvectors to something "good enough" (with a well-defined tolerance) is considered compliant with the specification.
Nah, passengers are perfectly safe as long as they're properly loaded into the cargo hold. That would then make it safe to have all the laptops and other bags in the main cabin.
Anyone with better physics knowledge can comment here? Why would you use lasers to measure differences between matter and anti-matter? As far as I know, the only difference between the two is supposed to involve the weak force rather than the electromagnetic force (on which light is based). Considering that these guys aren't idiots, I must be missing something. How are the lasers useful?
A site like Wikipedia will also need a bunch of lawyers to fight all sorts of trolls, from copyright trolls, to people who don't like what articles say about them.
Well tell the devs to ensure that anytime a web site initiates any kind of WebRTC traffic, the user is asked to okay this (with an option to remember).
This is exactly what's *already* supposed to happen. Otherwise any website could spy on anyone.
But maybe we should just stop trying to make a web browser do everything and be its own OS.
Browsers will keep doing more stuff because people want them to do more. The choice we have is between proprietary binary plugins or actual standards. I'd rather have html5 than flash.
Except that WebRTC is very useful, and (at least in principle) much more secure than most proprietary conferencing services. For example, it has (and mandates) end-to-end encryption, with perfect forward secrecy.
The situation you're describing could still have happened if a few people in Wisconsin/Michigan/Pennsylvania cities had bothered to vote. The main reason why the electoral college might not be such a bad idea in general is what happens in case of a recount. Recounting Florida is already not fun, but recounting the entire country would be *really* annoying.
I'd guess that the main reason life is based on carbon rather than silicon is CO2 vs SiO2. It's a lot easier to breath in (plants) or out (animals) a gas (CO2) than a solid (SiO2). CO2 is also highly soluble in water, unlike (AFAIK) SiO2.
What do you think are the odds of voting illegally and getting away with it? Considering there's only a handful of cases that get detected for any particular election, and that you need a couple hundred thousand illegal votes to reliably rig an election, it would mean a party would have to devise a way to get people to vote illegally with only one chance in 100,000 of getting caught. And on top of that, you have to make it impossible to trace the fraud back to the party. That's just insanely hard. It's much easier to influence the results instead. Just hack a few servers and you're good.
The problem with Collateral Murder isn't that Manning leaked documents to Wikileaks that then embarrassed the USG. The problem is that the U.S. military murdered a bunch of civilians, then murdered people who tried to help the victims.
The public indeed needed to know about these civilians being killed. However, the public did *not* need to know what ambassador is calling what head of state an asshole. The idea was supposed to be WikiLeaks giving the data to journalists who then decide what to publish. That is exactly what happened to the Snowden documents, but WIkiLeaks fucked up and put it all out there.
The problem with Wikileaks publishing Podesta's emails isn't the violation of his privacy (funny how Dems suddenly give a shit about privacy after years of defending Obama's warrantless surveillance programs), it's that Podesta was part of a corrupt organization of elitist assholes bent on rigging the general election as well as their primary.
Again, if only a few bad emails (like biasing against Bernie Sanders) were made public then there would have been nothing to say here. What's bad was making public everything, including the stuff that had no public interest. In some way, it was even counter-productive from the PoV of hurting Clinton since there was so much information that anything really bad just just buried.
Again, the way to do leaking is to have a *filter*. You publish the relevant/bad/incriminating stuff and you leave alone the boring stuff or the stuff that can cause harm to other people without being public interest. Just imagine if Snowden had sent his stuff to WikiLeaks and it had all gone public. The public would have known *less* (the story would have died more quickly) and the US national security would actually have been hurt (rather than just its image as happened).
Concorde lost in large part because if you count all the airport crap and the flight schedules, you can get across the ocean much faster (and much more comfortable) by renting a private jet than by booking on the Concorde.
Yeah, if only we could stop all these climate scientists who are making billions worth of profit by pretending we're about to completely mess up the climate.
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Trolls are always a problem for anything you do, but at least here's a long list of companies that are providing royalty-free licensing of their video patents for AV1. It's no guarantee, but it sure beats any other free video codec effort.
It's not so much that the numbering changed. What really changed was the development methodology and the numbering just reflects that. Going from 2.4 to 2.6 took forever because there were too many changes, some not so well tested and because it was taking forever to stabilize, more changes would come in because otherwise it would take years before they could come in. So progress was (relatively) slow and new features had to be shipped through custom patches rather than mainline. There's been a general realization (not just for the kernel) that that kind of development cycle just couldn't work anymore. That's why the kernel has moved to a shorter development cycle. It means there's less pressure to put new features "as soon as possible because otherwise it will be delayed by years", so much fewer things to debug in each release and overall, everything's better. The only drawback is for people who don't want to upgrade as often and that's why there are a few special "stable" releases once in a while (and Firefox has ESRs). If Linus had kept the old development model, I suspect the current "stable" kernel would still be a 2.6.x and there would be a 2.7.392 development kernel that still wouldn't be ready to ship.
What you're saying has been historically true. Jobs have moved from farming to manufacturing. Then from manufacturing to services. The problem is that for now we have nothing after services. Sure, there's R&D, but unless something radical happens, it's not a sector where you can reasonably expect a huge number of service workers to move to. So unless we find a "new sector" real soon, we're heading into uncharted territory (not necessarily bad, but we don't know).
The problem is not so much any sort of addiction as it's a time sink. Sites like YouTube are designed so that you keep clicking on more videos until hours have passed and no homework were done. If it weren't mobile devices, it'd be TV or something else, but mobile devices is what we have to worry about recently. When they're teens you can't just look over their shoulders, so the best I've come up with is openwrt (LEDE) DNS blocking.
I suspect they were also trying to cover NTSC's 29.97 Hz and maybe even 44.1/48 kHz audio.
Now, training is a little trickier because I cannot share the data.
I cannot share the current data I'm using because it's copyrighted. Hence asking for people for help getting data that I can redistribute.
So weâ(TM)re supposed to just give jmv a bunch of data with no way to know how he is using it?
Yes, because I have such a track record for keeping things private.
It's the first time we try this. We'll look at the quality of the data we get (yes, noise quality!) and if it's sufficiently good/useful, then we'll also make it available. It might take some time to sort out the useful samples from the ones that aren't since some already have noise suppression applied by the OS or browser.
Some browsers/OS, already have some noise suppression running. That may be why you're not hearing anything on playback?
(I'm the author of the article)
You may not be aware, but around 10 years ago, browsers started including audio technology. This now includes WebRTC which lets you do videoconferencing in the browser (without Flash). As surprising as it may sound, some people like doing VoIP/videoconference. And those who use WebRTC tend to prefer when their audio doesn't have too much noise. And that is why RNNoise is useful.
Capsule loses pressure integrity? Masks from the ceiling time.
Actually, that one's a little more complicated than just masks from the ceiling. You can do that in an airplane because there's still enough air pressure outside. If you're operating in a vacuum, then you have the same problem as astronauts and U2 pilots: your blood will start boiling unless you have a full pressure suit. That's the Armstrong limit: below 6 kPa, the boiling temperature of water goes below 37C.
Don't worry, they're already working on the next model that will remove the screen entirely and just do whatever you should want to do.
Despite the official spec being defined as code, there's nothing that prevents what you're talking about. As far as I know, the FFMpeg "native" decoder is actually an independent implementation of the standard and although they chose the LGPL as license, they could have used something "public-domain-like". Note that compliance itself isn't based on the decoder code, but on testvectors. Anything that decodes testvectors to something "good enough" (with a well-defined tolerance) is considered compliant with the specification.
I put it the other way: the more people use god-awful earbuds in noisy coffee shops the more we can reduce the bitrate without anybody noticing :-)
Nah, passengers are perfectly safe as long as they're properly loaded into the cargo hold. That would then make it safe to have all the laptops and other bags in the main cabin.
Given there's no such thing as an antiphoton
Of course there is, and it's called a photon. The photon is its own anti-particle. Just line the other force carriers.
Anyone with better physics knowledge can comment here? Why would you use lasers to measure differences between matter and anti-matter? As far as I know, the only difference between the two is supposed to involve the weak force rather than the electromagnetic force (on which light is based). Considering that these guys aren't idiots, I must be missing something. How are the lasers useful?
A site like Wikipedia will also need a bunch of lawyers to fight all sorts of trolls, from copyright trolls, to people who don't like what articles say about them.
Well tell the devs to ensure that anytime a web site initiates any kind of WebRTC traffic, the user is asked to okay this (with an option to remember).
This is exactly what's *already* supposed to happen. Otherwise any website could spy on anyone.
But maybe we should just stop trying to make a web browser do everything and be its own OS.
Browsers will keep doing more stuff because people want them to do more. The choice we have is between proprietary binary plugins or actual standards. I'd rather have html5 than flash.
Except that WebRTC is very useful, and (at least in principle) much more secure than most proprietary conferencing services. For example, it has (and mandates) end-to-end encryption, with perfect forward secrecy.
(disclaimer: I work for Mozilla)
The situation you're describing could still have happened if a few people in Wisconsin/Michigan/Pennsylvania cities had bothered to vote. The main reason why the electoral college might not be such a bad idea in general is what happens in case of a recount. Recounting Florida is already not fun, but recounting the entire country would be *really* annoying.
I'd guess that the main reason life is based on carbon rather than silicon is CO2 vs SiO2. It's a lot easier to breath in (plants) or out (animals) a gas (CO2) than a solid (SiO2). CO2 is also highly soluble in water, unlike (AFAIK) SiO2.
What do you think are the odds of voting illegally and getting away with it? Considering there's only a handful of cases that get detected for any particular election, and that you need a couple hundred thousand illegal votes to reliably rig an election, it would mean a party would have to devise a way to get people to vote illegally with only one chance in 100,000 of getting caught. And on top of that, you have to make it impossible to trace the fraud back to the party. That's just insanely hard. It's much easier to influence the results instead. Just hack a few servers and you're good.
It doesn't have to be all wrong or all right.
The problem with Collateral Murder isn't that Manning leaked documents to Wikileaks that then embarrassed the USG. The problem is that the U.S. military murdered a bunch of civilians, then murdered people who tried to help the victims.
The public indeed needed to know about these civilians being killed. However, the public did *not* need to know what ambassador is calling what head of state an asshole. The idea was supposed to be WikiLeaks giving the data to journalists who then decide what to publish. That is exactly what happened to the Snowden documents, but WIkiLeaks fucked up and put it all out there.
The problem with Wikileaks publishing Podesta's emails isn't the violation of his privacy (funny how Dems suddenly give a shit about privacy after years of defending Obama's warrantless surveillance programs), it's that Podesta was part of a corrupt organization of elitist assholes bent on rigging the general election as well as their primary.
Again, if only a few bad emails (like biasing against Bernie Sanders) were made public then there would have been nothing to say here. What's bad was making public everything, including the stuff that had no public interest. In some way, it was even counter-productive from the PoV of hurting Clinton since there was so much information that anything really bad just just buried.
Again, the way to do leaking is to have a *filter*. You publish the relevant/bad/incriminating stuff and you leave alone the boring stuff or the stuff that can cause harm to other people without being public interest. Just imagine if Snowden had sent his stuff to WikiLeaks and it had all gone public. The public would have known *less* (the story would have died more quickly) and the US national security would actually have been hurt (rather than just its image as happened).
Concorde lost in large part because if you count all the airport crap and the flight schedules, you can get across the ocean much faster (and much more comfortable) by renting a private jet than by booking on the Concorde.
Yeah, if only we could stop all these climate scientists who are making billions worth of profit by pretending we're about to completely mess up the climate.