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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Thank you, you are correct. I've assumed that the video settings of the server is what they were delivering, but there must be a down-sample on the way to the transmitter. (Cablelabs is the other large distribution format that we encounter
902.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
> and certainly everything in HDTV, Blu-ray, and DVD. The HD broadcasts are 4:2:2, more often than not. There are a few stations that have their video servers down at 4:2:0, but many of those are scheduled to upgrade over the next 2
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
None of the broadcasts are 4:4:4, nor are the DVDs. Hell, some of those HD broadcasts are 4:2:0 in order to reduce bandwidth.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> are probably higher bandwidth It's hard to compare. Yes they are higher bandwidth (15.6 Mbps or so OTA) but they are mpeg2-encoded. Many of the stat-mux cable boxes are mpg4 at a lower rate. So which is better? Depends entirely
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Ugh, this. Comcast re-compresses some of their video streams so much that it almost looks like YouTube. All the cable providers are using the same set of transmission boxes from the same vendors. Usually, they are employing statisti
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Relevant: Viewers are awful too. Study: 18% of people can't tell if they're watching true HDTV content or not http://techcrunch.com/2008/11/24/study-18-of-people-cant-tel...
907.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Truthfully, why does anyone buy any particular asset expecting to do better than the market? The portfolio managers do not. They want a basket of assets, ideally with an expectation value and standard deviation. Read up on Modern P
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> 10 year returns across the Nasdaq Composite and S&P500 were garbage during that time. It's not just VCs. Everything is correlated. That's the problem: They are not supposed to be, or certainly not a coefficient of 1. So the p
909.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
Forget the exits. The bigger problem is that the VCs were not earning their keep: (2010) http://hbr.org/2010/07/the-vc-shakeout/ar/1 10-year IRRs are negative during the period that Google went public! The customers of the VCs (primari
910.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
An automated update of the decoy would be a good addition to such software.
911.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Seems like the "fork" would be a boolean value in a default config file. The message is much louder than the output of diff.
912.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
Friends of friends mainly. English majors are never very far from professional circles, and several have found that contract tech editing is a way to pay bills while working on items closer to their core.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> like copy-editing and tech review Fair enough, and I'd go further to say: Several of us have access to higher-quality editors and (certainly) tech folks for review than most of the publishers I've dealt with.
914.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
Thank you for the post. This stuck out at me: > but I have moved into self-publishing. As near as I can tell, publishers have one and only one purpose in the modern world: Publicity. They might as well change the name of the biz to
915.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
> and more importantly: ease of use. I'll take "Business Risk" for $200, Alex.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I fully expect to see a response project of ACTUAL TCP/IP implementations via lego trains. Here's hoping that they also work their way up the OSI stack. I'm looking forward to seeing what "418 I'm a teapot" looks like from the LEGO
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I think we have some problems with causation here. Hell, there's even a problem with correlation here. We've all seen plenty of crap that is mocked and misunderstood that sank to the bottom of the sea without fanfare.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Here, let me help: 1. pg-bot technology for responding on holidays to posts about funding. The bot should have sufficient business sense for pointing young entrepreneurs in the right direction, but should also contain semantic sense for r
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Whether 37,000 is a big number or not: Kudos to the community for making themselves heard. However, godaddy is a pimple on the economy. Somehow, someway, this kind of activity needs to be multiplied 1000x.
920.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
> While it does demonstrate that we, [...] can have P&L impact as consumers in the B2B world, the real and massive culprits have been B2C companies. Influence on the P&L is great. Influence at the voting booth is one better,
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Musk seems to be ignoring the fact that getting there is the easy part. I saw a talk given by a NASA program manager in DC. She said that whenever this topic comes up, there's always somebody who starts seriously considering one-way
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
I don't think it's off-topic at all. What you are describing is how the topic is "framed", and is why companies pay large sums to lobbyists and PR firms.
923.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
Don't the padmapper/etc housing crawlers do this? Those are incredibly useful too, it is much easier to see those things on a map.
924.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
The part that spoke the loudest to me: I never viewed money as being "my money" I always saw it as "The money" It's a resource. if it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system. Many of you know exactly what
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> but sadly "top" and "bottom" won. Bottom was found before top iirc, this led to a rash of publications on topless quark theories.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> An easier way is to water down the educational system to a lower standard and then peg the university income to the number of students accepted while reducing the funding per head. In that way universities are given the happy choice
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Now let me remind you that Facebook is valued 85 (!) times more. They aced the swimsuit competition in the Keynesian beauty contest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest#Overvi... ... until the next babe comes a
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> it would be nice for HP to return to being the kind of company Steve Wozniak wanted to work for The soul of that company became Agilent when HP/Agilent split a decade ago.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> What are they doing that <insert name of successful web company here> isn't? Managing cash apparently. There have been questions about their accounting since the S-1 was filed, which now seem to be even more justified.
930.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
Sir, you are mistaken: We are in the market for a Desingineerketertesteraccountant. (Is this how German got started?)

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