Kythyria

2887 pts ยท January 8, 2013


And the creation/playback of that stream... you can quantify the limitations in the same numbers as analogue formats.

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Nope. Unless sufficiently scratched/dirty, the stream you get off the disc is exactly what was put on it.

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h264 and such didn't get common until later.

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Codec quality. MPEG-2 couldn't do that.

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Like, an insufficiently good algorithm will tend to go to fine tools too quickly.

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I'll bet automatic tools aren't always terribly smart about things like that.

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Interesting, I hadn't heard of those.

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But yes, there are better methods than FPTP.

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My estimation of IRV went right down when I realised that one of the steps is basically "disqualify a candidate then recount"

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Agenda aside, costs more money and there's a demand for instant results.

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Not much more time if you *hire more people*. FPTP is hilariously parallelisable.

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Here in britain we just write a big X

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Probably using a chorded keyboard of some sort.

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You can always be hit for several million regardless of turnover.

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Gotta love people who disappear up their own metafiction.

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You'd think that'd be more important *before* legalisation. Unless they think way more people will get high now.

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Really? IME whenever adblock fails that's the result. It'd be very nice if designers actually reserved space for ads properly.

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Wouldn't this be even worse, given that it can't even be unlocked from the outside with a key?

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As the EU demonstrates, it mostly leads to wall-to-wall warning labels.

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Or are you going for "it should be illegal to collect any data at all, on anyone"? Have fun actually making that kind of law work as meant.

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A "proof of age" mechanism would almost certainly be a source of unique identifiers, aiding in tracking.

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Here's a HTTP request. What's the age of the user?

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Bitch, they can't even figure out what country I'm in *despite knowing where I live*.

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Lots of people who think Google can instantly figure out the user's age based on, um, no data at all.

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NM government probably believes that a) everyone except google is honest, and b) Google reliably figure out everyone's ages anyway.

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How do they figure that out though?

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That would be sold to the customer as two lines, though.

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Nonsensical ones set by managers as petty as this teacher or which make sense but the manager doesn't deign to explain the logic.

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As opposed to using your gmail account for business.

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You'd probably need a specialised dither algorithm to mimic a human artist.

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