We're headed for a third-world nation banana-republic where the military has everything and the citizens live in mud huts.
Score -1: uncomfortable truth
However as is always the case in america, 45% of the country will blame the republicans and their supporters, 45% will blame the democrats and their supporters.
In China, people don't commonly use eBay, Facebook, or Twitter, and they also rarely use email (even elderly people would typically use QQ instead).
No shit. that's because they're blocked (well not ebay)
The great firewall of china is brilliant -- it blocks facebook and twitter, but lets slashdot through.
$200,000 is not that much anymore, and the price will likely come down,keep in mind a 100+ day around the world cruise on a nice cruise ship like the QM2 already runs around $30,000 - $70,000 per person depending on cabin catagory, and they seem to have no problem selling tickets.
Quite. A return ticket on a plane New York to London costs $20k
I would be happy if BT could give me the off peak speed I can get during the night of 73Mb/s during peak times where it drops to 8 - 10 Mb/s.
Well as your copper from your house to the cabinet can do 73mbit, increasing bandwidth on the second-to-last mile from cabinet to linx is the only solution.
Fortunately thats exactly what this technology promises.
If the best models are worthless and have not made any good predictions, should we really "go with them" just because they are the best?
Just because Einstein came along doesn't mean Newton was wrong
Clearly the fault lie to the unsafe design of this nightclub. Exit hallway should be wider. The nightclub administrator were greedy and let in too many customers in for the capacity this building allowed. Overcrowd nightclub is common.
There were 4 exits, each capable of evacuating 250 people in a minute (for example). There were 900 people in the club, but everyone just chose the same exit.
Figures made up, but the point persists. Unless you design your building so everyone can exit quickly via the same exit you're screwed. That means tends of thousands leaving an stadium through one turnstyle.
A glasshole demonstrates that there is some substance behind the term. I hope they take the device away from her.
You realise that google can take over any google-glass device, and either submit subliminal messages, or simply electrocute the wearer.
There was a doctor who episode about it. Turns out it was the cybermen all along.
Just look at this page:
https://plus.google.com/+CeciliaAbadie/posts
That right there is the future of the human race.
A self obsessed, attention seeking, ignorant person who thinks she can drive with a HUD. Maybe she can, but until she has trained in the army to use HUD's whilst driving, take the bloody thing off, for once, think of other people!
This single woman has basically enabled the world to drive with google glass. All those future accidents, waiting to happen, are on you Cecilia.
Forget 10,000 spoons, if she was killed by a glasshole driving a car there would have to be a song!
"What's the word for chicken in chinese?"
"Stray Cat"
At least that's what my local takeaway say
the NSA is recording everything we all do. now let me know when there's a news story about what we can do about it.
Lets see, if only you had a constitution that knuckleheads think protect them against the state.
Averaged across my family, we send about 10 SMS/day each. So the total US would send around 3 BILLION per day, and the rest-of-the-world using customary multipliers 6+ BILLION.
Either the NSA has 2% filters (scary) or is incompetent. Or [likely] both!
I've sent 6 SMS messages this year, so extrapolated to the U.S. population that's about 110 MILLION per day
Interesting how you think that the U.S. accounts for half the SMS traffic in the world?
Why would someone pay $700 for a phone? An unlocked off-contract Nexus 5 costs only half that much.
A dollar a day for a device you spend an hour a day on?
I can't believe people spend $5 a day on Starbucks.
I never said it required a higher bitrate
You literally said:
higher resolution requires a higher bitrate
do you know of anybody that builds their media library to have their 1080p files be lower quality than their 720p?
I do not know anybody who does this intentionally, but most people I know do not encode their own videos. If they get their videos from many different sources that have different standards of quality, it is likely that they will have some videos that are both higher resolution and lower bitrate than other videos in their collection.
Furthermore, you are assuming that all these files are encoded with the same compression algorithm. Some compression algorithms have better performance. It is very possible for a 1080p video that is encoded with an efficient algorithm (e.g. h264) to be both better quality and lower bitrate than that same video encoded at 720p with a lower performing algorithm (e.g. cinepak)
The point is that the the ability to stream a video is directly dependent on the bitrate of the video. The fact that higher resolution videos tend to have a higher bitrate is just a correlation.
Absolutely.
I do encode my own videos (well my colleagues videos), professionally. they are watched by literally millions of people literally every day. I aim for a constant quality, not a constant bitrate. Most items I encode at a given subjective quality will add about 50% to encode at 1440x1080 25i over 576x768 25i, however I've encoded some low light stuff in SD that's hit a peak bitrate of 45mbit for a given quality on a given h264 video stream. The 3 minute piece came in at an average 25mbit.
That was originally off a DV25 piece.
Recently, 5 minutes of glorious looking pictures of floods, with a lot of running water, waving reeds, etc; rather than a typical 4-8mbit over 3-4 minutes depending on the clip, this stuff came in at 18mbit. It was well lit, but had a lot of detail and a lot of motion. The piece is a brilliant test, far better than people skipping through a forest.
Now encoding something simple like south park will use a lot less bits for a given quality.
So for the same subjective quality and same resolution you can have a bitrate varying by an order of magnitude at the same resolution. Even if bitrate scaled linearly with resolution you'd still have a minute of some SD material taking more bits to encode than a minute of other HD material.
I haven't run any tests, but my gut would tell me that something cartoonish like southpark at 1080p60 will use a lot fewer bits per second than encoding Blue Planet at 480i or 576i -- for starters I think southpark is only 15fps, so you're only really encoding 1080p15 (given the inter-frame changes on each frame will be zero).
because my router sucks, and with more walls between me and the router, by bandwidth drops severely.
You talking about a video router? Blackmagiv do perfectly serviceable ones for about £1500 that do 3G let alone 1080i.
That's the only place i can see resolution being an issue for routers.
Now if you're complaining about latency, jitter and bandwidth in an file based up world, then you'll be looking at the video bandwidth being the issue, as file system and client buffeting will cope with pretty much any amount of jitter.
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
