Comment Re:Is it really true? (Score 1) 118
Sounds like this guy's plan was a bit too large in scale.
Sounds like this guy's plan was a bit too large in scale.
Are you really saying there should be one day of the week where this applies (the day being irrelevant), or can you give an argument why Sunday should be special -- an argument has nothing to do with religion?
"Motion picture subtitles (as they are distributed on disc) are not text-based"
Do you actually do any ripping with hardware/media made this decade?
They dropped the images crap from DVD and went to time-coded text files with a chosen system font to display. Smaller, more efficient.
Uh, no they didn't.
Doom9: How to deal with Blu-Ray subtitles.
They still appear to be PGS (subpicture) based.
"Then there are Subtitled and Closed caption versions."
Except those are separate TEXT FILES moron.
Motion picture subtitles (as they are distributed on disc) are not text-based. They are a subpicture that is overlayed on the original video.
Yes, they wouldn't take up a lot of room, given the majority of the picture is the designated mask (clear) "color" and the limits on the number of other colors used, but they are not text files.
How does an app with no functionality get through the approval process to start with? This isn't a case of the app having a secret feature of calling home or installing malware. I mean, if it doesn't do anything how could anyone have reviewed the app to begin with?
the customer is an average male and the cashier is a lovely lady with a large bust.
A pizza with all whole-milk cheese toppings?
Ah, I think you really need to review the definition of subconcious again.
Point here is even you won't know how dumb the idea really is...until it works.
Wouldn't the idea working prove that it's not a dumb idea?
Historical records in many countries are written in cursive, and not just English wring ones. Only a complete idiot would want to sever children from their past.
Or a government wanting more control over information.
There's a pretty big history of the printing press and literacy fueling social change.
Not sure what kind of PC you have going on, but if it looks like this your wife it right.
Don't have a dedicated living room "gaming PC". Build a new system -- build an HTPC that has gaming-capable hardware.
- Make sure the case fits in with a living room setting. Preferably a horizontal or cube-shape. Not a tower. Look at Silverstone's stuff.
- You can have a large case if you need it -- as long as you can get it to fit with with existing home entertainment components.
- Reduce the size if possible MiniITX or MicroATX at the largest.
- ONE graphics card. No SLI/Crossfire. Time to let that go. The shorter the length the better, for helping control the overall system size.
- NO LED FANS.
- Get a case that is large enough for you needs, but as small as possible and still fit the components.
- Don't buy a large case because you have multiple hard drives for content. Move that shit to a NAS somewhere else in the house.
I have placed it in another room and run HDMI and USB cables, but the propagation delay caused horrible tearing and lag when playing games
Eh? This sounds more like crappy cables, than anything else.
I especially like the part right after where he asks about replacing the cables with wireless to solve this.
I like how it's been less than 10 days and already the editors did not think to link to the Barbie: Computer Engineer story, where she only thinks up a design and then has to go to the boys to get the coding done.
Ironic the fictional land of Barbie, with a supposedly positive message for girls about careers in tech, is more misogynistic than the reality it seeks to change.
I know you're making that out like it's a bad thing, but I actually think it's a good strategy to hold out as long as you can, because the more time passes, the more likely technology will catch up and make clean up slightly less difficult.
That is a huge ass assumption.
You realize thinking like this is exactly why we have the environmental issues we do today? No one wanting to make the tough choices (back when the problems were first discovered), let's keep going as we are and in the future I'm sure we'll come up with a solution. ("of course, if we haven't I'll be pushing up daisies anyway," they were thinking back then).
Back in the '60s folks through by the turn of the millennium we'd all be driving flying cars and living on other planets. That didn't happen, not even close. A hopeful dream by futurists and sci-fi writers. Staking the future of the environment on things that haven't been developed isn't any better. The companies that run the plants could have been putting money away, into a trust fund-like arrangement to pay the plant's decommissioning and demolition costs, but that would cut into the profits every quarter. Better to leave it all for "the next management team" to deal with. Bonus points if you can make it a God-awful mess and force the federal government to come in and take over the whole thing! Then the tax payers get to pay for the cleanup while we keep all the profits from over the decades!
MP4 isn't made to carry nearly as large a variety of audio formats, most notably modem HD audio formats. Or subpicture-based subtitle formats, or subtitles that use styling/typefaces. I'm also not sure if 10-bit h264 is supported as a video format.
Keep in mind that just because you've seen a file of type.mp4 playing with x features doesn't mean that container format actually supports it.
They have eight new reactors being built that are set to be completed all within the next two years. Probably plans for more on the way. It's a very aggressive strategy, and I'd imagine after the new ones are online the old ones are going to be decommissioned.
Maybe, maybe not. The problem with nuclear reactors is they're like eating at a fancy restaurant. Lots of merriness until you decide the meal's over. Then the bill comes. Not shutting down the old reactors means not having to deal with the humungous costs to decommissioning them, dismantling the plant, paying for long-term storage of some highly radioactive parts that are no longer generating revenue, etc.
There's a reason you keep reading about the NRC granting license extensions to 50+ year old reactors in the U.S. The corporate heads of those power companies all want to cruise into retirement without having to deal with the clean-up cost fallout.
*golfclap*
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