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by derf_ 11y ago
This isn't innovation. AC-3 is almost 20 years old, and wasn't very good even for the time (it was designed for high-bandwidth optical discs). Dolby Digital Plus is an extension whose primary purpose is to extend their patent lice
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by derf_ 11y ago
This is also essentially what we do in Daala, as proposed here back in 2012: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-terriberry-codingtools-02#... The only difference is we don't use rANS (which didn't exist when w
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by derf_ 11y ago
You're confusing strategy with the objective that strategy was intended to achieve. The real reason for Firefox OS was because a) everything is moving to mobile, and b) every mobile OS ships its own browser which is not Firefox. We kno
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by derf_ 11y ago
The battery on Firefox OS phones is already phenomenal (e.g., a week or more between recharges). Of course, the trick is not screwing that up when you add the other things.
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Mozilla overhauls Firefox smartphone plan to focus on quality, not cost(cnet.com)
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by derf_ 11y ago
I thought Classic had finally been removed for good? When I went to get directions a few weeks back and they told me that a) I couldn't use Classic anymore, and b) the new UI only had a drop-down for arrival time with half-hour increme
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by derf_ 11y ago
> only 5 out of 180 FISA orders were authorized by 215 If you have a statute that you believe allows you to surveil the entire population, how many orders does that require? As opposed to ones that require some standard of suspicion fo
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by derf_ 11y ago
These and many other pitfalls are all discussed in detail in the C++ FQA Lite: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/exceptions.html#fqa-17.1 http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ctors.html#fqa-10.17 http://yos
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by derf_ 11y ago
Would this be the same population polled in 2010 when 41% of them could not name the vice president of the United States in an open-ended (not multiple choice) question? [0] Or last September when 64% of them could not name the three branch
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by derf_ 11y ago
> but information is one of the only things that is free to transport over planets The marginal cost in terms of power may be very small (compared to a rocket), but the infrastructure costs are enormous, and as a result you're sev
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by derf_ 11y ago
This is definitely a problem. I don't think it's a sign of dim intelligence, or even not paying attention. It may be a sign of nervousness, or simply of being an introvert (like myself). They may still be very good people. Part yo
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by derf_ 11y ago
I don't think the point is to make them tell you what awesome things they have already accomplished. Maybe they've accomplished nothing. But they've probably got some experience on their resume, or you wouldn't be talk
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by derf_ 11y ago
> there's nothing the management can do On the contrary. Walmart's policy to date has been to simply close the store: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0210-13.htm They got in trouble for that one,
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by derf_ 11y ago
This might be a reasonable argument if there was any direct evidence that all of the billions spent on "collecting it all" had lead to the actual discovery of any plots that would not have been found by other means. But, as with &
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by derf_ 11y ago
Greasemonkey script to restore direct links: https://gist.github.com/astanin/3782408 It was worth it to me to install Greasemonkey for this script alone.
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by derf_ 11y ago
> How is the money wasted given the large production and downward price pressure on energy? The latter is exactly what causes the former to be wasted. If demand drops (or even merely does not rise as quickly as expected), then the pric
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by derf_ 11y ago
> It makes your culture a horrible place to be, but it doesn't keep humans from breeding successfully. I remember a Maori exhibit at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. The gist was, they had these never-ending violence cycles based
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by derf_ 11y ago
We could call it the "Defensive Patent License", if it's not already taken [0]. [0] http://www.defensivepatentlicense.org/
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by derf_ 11y ago
> nonexclusive, nontransferable, nonassignable (including by operation of law or otherwise), nonsublicensable That does no one any good except the seller. For any seller, this kind of thing is table-stakes (no one wants to sell som
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by derf_ 11y ago
Not a class of searches, but a feature: DDG does not have an equivalent of Google's time-based searches (e.g., last 24 hours, last week, etc.).
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by derf_ 11y ago
I found it more stressful. The biggest place where delays are caused at an airport is at security, so when I arrive at an airport, this is the first thing I want to take care of, and cannot relax until I've passed through it. To be tol
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by derf_ 12y ago
Because they're already done. Windows: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=922314 Android: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=986381 Linux supports HW decoding via gstreamer, if you
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by derf_ 12y ago
> and encoding speed Table VI. Encoding Run Times for Equal PSNR_{YUV}, HEVC vs. VP9 (in %): 735.2 I.e., HM is over 7x slower than VP9's slowest settings. VP9 speeds have improved dramatically since then, and it is now being used
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by derf_ 12y ago
> With that said, I have to ask why these groups are interested in 10-bit when I'm essentially certain they cannot view in 10-bit. The H.264 prediction loop includes some inherent rounding biases and noise injection. Using 10-bit
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by derf_ 12y ago
See also http://iphome.hhi.de/marpe/download/Performance_HEVC_VP9_X26... Both of those are much older encoders, of course (nearly 2 years old in the case of the PCS paper), and some of the settings they used were
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by derf_ 12y ago
> At worst someone on a blog publishes a rant about how you're ignoring it At worst the federal government decides the line the advertising industry has been feeding them about being able to regulate themselves is just that, a lin
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by derf_ 12y ago
Well, one has to be careful here. In a static portion of a scene, a consistent error likely to look much better than an error that flips between being too large and too small in alternate frames, since the latter will show up as noise or fl
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by derf_ 12y ago
Wikipedia (6th largest website in the world) serves only unencumbered formats. Apple's Siri uses Speex. As does Flash. This stuff shows up in more places than you think, precisely because it allows innovation without asking permission.
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by derf_ 12y ago
Well, there are other ways to tell them that this interoperability is important: https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-internet-explorer-... (no registration required to vote).
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by derf_ 12y ago
> I'm not sure if Opus was proposed as mandatory for the audio tag (I think it should). https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18932 It was CLOSED WONTFIX.

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