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One of the primary causes of this situation is the sheer atrociousness of most commercial video compression solutions.

Here's a little comparison I did a while back:

http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/qual... (full details at http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=102)

Now consider the fact that the majority of websites are still using VP6 or Flash Media Encoder FLV, both of which are significantly worse than Xvid on the chart...

Of course, given that money doesn't grow on trees, many of the top players have switched--Youtube and Facebook are now using x264 almost exclusively, for example.

I would be entirely unsurprised if Akamai ended up being suckered by a company providing inferior solutions. Of course, they don't lose anything by providing worse compression, since their customers pay them for the bandwidth.
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It gets good about half-way down, what-would-have-been if the Viking 2 Mars lander found water-ice on Mars in 1976. edit: deleted. found a better article.
Curing old age is not scalable. It's also not cost efficient. It'll get harder and harder to improve the longevity of the body. However, growing new bodies is a much more scalable solution. You can keep growing new bodies and then transfer your memories and what not into the new body. That can scale your life to infinity.

Then you can stock up on cheap commodity bodies instead of trying to make one body faster, more powerful, and younger looking (which will cost more and more for less increments in lifespan).
For those not familiar with Akamai's current product lineup, the new features they've introduced here are:

1) HTTP delivery of live flash content (avoids royalty fees normally paid to Adobe for FMS, so ideally Akamai could lower their prices)

2) Improved analytics (current EdgeControl interface is tricky to use for individual videos)

The rest of the features listed are just current features wrapped up into a nice looking press release. In other words... move along, nothing to see here.
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.. or Beavis and Butthead do Semiotic Analysis. The article could have done without the juvenile, mocking undertones.
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well we could always start a "sharetextbookanswers.com" website and let people (students or not) contribute.

If people just put up the answers they do work out somewhere, this would help others. This is happening with SICP for example.
Can someone explain why this was downvoted? People are staying ion 1.8.6, not 1.8.7 (though some are moving there).

1.8.7 is being developed; 1.8.6 is in maintenance mode by way of EngineYard.

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/

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I actually think it would be interesting if there was a standard interface between the renderer and the browser ui.

This would allow renderers to compete on their own merits with their real customers (developers), instead of being shackled to the success or failure of their attached UI.

OTOH, one potentially bad outcome would be that there would be increased stickiness of content. Once content is authored targeting one renderer, there is little reason for authors to update it since they can always target the old renderer.
Judging physical attractiveness on dating sites isn't even a partially solved problem - I invite you to name the sites that you have found that are close, as a counterexample.

How does one go about making an EDUCATED guess with NO knowledge?

To put it plainly - statistical information assimilated from meaningless data is also meaningless. I don't know what my perfect mate looks like - and no one does. If you accept that premise, you are then forced to accept that any data gathered from some person A about what their perfect mate P is like is MEANINGLESS. So statistical algorithms from any such information yield meaningless data as well; ergo okcupid cannot do what it hopes to do. QED
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Careful - a kid recently crashed into oncoming traffic here in Sydney because his car locked the steering wheel when he turned the key. (He was trying to save fuel by coasting.) I know my car does the same thing.
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One of the biggest problems we've run into doing h264 streaming is that there are a huge number of users that don't have powerful enough computers to decode and view h264 in a flash player when it's delivered at 720p. You need a pretty fast system to watch 720p video at even 3 Mbps in the Flash player.

And h264 over HTTP is just a download of the HTTP file starting from a specific marker unless I'm mistaken. Not exactly rocket science. It's HTTP after all...you can't control much of anything on the QOS side. The JW player has the capability to do that out of the box for most of the major CDN networks out there already.
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Sure, but the picture is a classic! :)
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The Flash player has a horrifically inefficient H264 decoder. One is almost led to wonder, at times, if it's interpreted. (This would explain a lot.)

HTTP pseudostreaming is, indeed, just a plain HTTP GET with a URL parameter (or an extra header) to indicate what byte position to start at, based on a seek index at the front of the file. It's incredibly "dumb", but trivial to implement even on a shared web host. (You can write the server-side component in a few dozen lines of PHP, for instance.)
" ... I'd feel a little awkward/discouraged."

Why? Seriously.

Because you're a dude? Have you been to mostly-women gatherings before?

I believe that if people go to an event expecting to be treated as an outsider, they will behave in a way that will discourage people from welcoming them.

It's true that some number of guys have treated some women as lesser beings at tech conferences, but it's also true that some number of guys have treated other guys as lesser beings at tech conferences. Geeks are competitive and cliquish. It may be that way with people into crocheting, too; I would almost expect it. But my experience has been that most people are pretty accepting if you show some persistence and genuine interest.
I think that you're assigning more meaning to the words "like" and "get along with" than the authors intend. Pretty much everywhere they use one of those phrases it should be qualified like "X _say they_ like Y". But that gets tedious, and I think the authors are also making the assumption that you were paying attention when they explained where these numbers come from.

Note that the end of the article is leading directly into the objections that people keep making along the lines of "this doesn't mean that these people really get along in real life", and the conflict between what people say they are looking for and the choices they actually make about who to contact and respond to.
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Well ... that was pointless.
You don't need to spell anything out. People disagree with you.

First, there's no realistic world in which all of a sudden everyone is using different plugins. Almost nobody in the world has the kind of distribution that Google does. Very few people could pull this off, and I doubt even Google can.

Second, if there were a way to get users to install plugins 99% of the time, then we wouldn't have half the issues we currently do. You act like it would be a bad thing to test for the availability of plugins which enabled new features. It wouldn't be. It would actually be quite awesome.

Third, Chrome Frame is exactly the same as Chrome, so, at least in theory, there is NO NEED to test for anything knew. Even if every browser did this, there would be NO NEW browsers. There may be some implementation gotchas, but I don't see the same kind of doomsday scenario you do.

Anyway, I think it's highly unlikely Chrome Frame goes anywhere at all.
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1. We are working on video, but it's not there, yet. We're not really Mint-like though.

2. 500 error, working on that, but you should be able to login with your email & password anyway.

3. Not using https is just temporary issue, we're just pushing a preview version, definitely https is going to be in place.

Thanks!
The Flash player has a horrifically inefficient H264 decoder. One is almost led to wonder, at times, if it's interpreted. (This would explain a lot.)

The reason it's slow is that the compositing engine requires that the YV12 -> RGB conversion be done in software rather than in a hardware overlay. This is probably exacerbated by the fact that many sites still seem to turn off the hardware accelerated display out. Note that as far as I know, all current implementations of HTML 5 video have a similar problem (compositing engine requires RGB input).

It's based on Mainconcept's decoder, which while not incredibly fast, isn't particularly slow either. Though I wouldn't be surprised if Adobe stripped out some of the assembly to try to make it smaller (or compiled it with -Os).

My advice for performance would be to disable CABAC; that can probably save 15-25% decoding time right off the bat at the cost of 10-25% compression.
Going to have to disagree with you here. I appreciate your pragmatism on the matter and do wish there were more women in technology BUT I think principles are worth "getting huffy about", and any sort of discrimination based on a genetic roll of the die is fundamentally wrong. Always and forever. In every case. It's stupid, it's Wrong (writ large).

Let's just not do it.
Putting aside any ethical qualms that people might have regarding growing humans for the purpose of extending one's own life, a rather more immediate issue springs to mind (although I will concede I may just be putting my ignorance of the subject on public display). Specifically, regarding the idea of

and then transfer your memories and what not into the new body.

Is any actual research into this being done? And, although I might be showing my Singularity-skeptical colours by asking this, has any actual research into this produced useful results?
Well, no, actually, I'm pretty sure they don't.

You'd be surprised at how many people still use Yahoo for search.
I have nothing against short and witty comments but I too have found that when a person takes the time to write a long comment, he or she usually has something intelligent or interesting to say. It seems unlikely that an unintelligent individual will write a very long comment because he or she wont posses the knowledge to captivate the audience or have the ability to think of something long and interesting to say. Nevertheless, I occasionally get surprised by some of the long comments I see.
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Without the juvenile, mocking undertones, I don't think there would have been an article.
I'm sure it is, and I would probably be fine. It's still intimidating stepping into unknown territory like that.
Whenever I write a long comment here I just know most of the people lose interest after the first paragraph. And it's because that's what I do when I try to tackle a long comment.

I have the feeling that they think I am a jackass, or douchebag, writing a bunch of mangled together crap of a response/rant because it's usually the most controversial comments that provoke such a response from me. And the response usually doesn't make much sense or have a point when I read it over. It just ends up being long, repetitive, and I forget what I was talking about by the end of it.

As great as long comments are, I always get the feeling no one reads them. maybe HN could implement an "I read this commment" button.

Hey if you read this please reply.
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So, I'd never heard of you or whatever it is you're selling until I saw this post.

The impressions I get of you from the article and this thread are, roughly in order:

1. Hm, why not ask them about this in case there's a simple explanation? That's the standard practice when you're accusing someone of doing something nasty.

2. Oh look, the top comment on the article (and in the HN thread) provides the simple explanation.

3. So, basically this dude's pushing a non-story to try to sell his product? That's kinda sketchy.
Usually long well written comments on HN are the ones to generate high 2-3 digit karma scores.

http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

edit: there are some one liners
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The big problem I see here is that longer comments are much more likely to include quotes and other contextual information that makes them seem 'better' compared to shorter comments. The author mentions this, but underestimates its importance.

For example, using HN karma as an approximate value, I left a one-line comment [1] that seems uninteresting by itself, but added significant information to the discussion, compared to another comment [2] that is very long. The thing is, it's just a gigantic quote. I think that these two cases are the norm, not outliers.

On the other hand, I think it would be very interesting (and more accurate) to compare comment length and karma value on HN.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830887

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814591
Well there are comments that are long and interesting and comments that are just long. And from my experience I've seen about equal amounts of both. However to be honest it's the short and witty comments that are always fun to read or funny.
engine shouldn't get damaged if you put it in neutral, it'll just bounce off the rev limiter repeatedly.
Did they reimburse you for the lost time? If not, you should sue them. That being to only thing companies care about.
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In your post you wondered why. That's not binary.

The reason is that Typepad, which hosts their blog, does this on all their hosted blogs.

You could have found this out by asking 37signals, or doing some basic research. Instead you chose to fling feces their way and get some attention for your product.

Classy.
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At the very least we could try brain/head transplants. So clone your body and then transplant your old head to the new body. You'll have a nasty looking neck scar but you can just wear a turtle neck.

Of course the ideal approach would be to just transplant the memory and physical state of the brain.
Please don't make it intuitive, I know everybody says it should be but that assumes that all software is made to please the casual user. The best software is made to please the expert user, and makes them many times more powerful that the average user.
Why can't powerful features be done in an intuitive fashion? Smart UI design will allow for that. The more typical argument is one of simplicity versus functionality. But if you choose functionality, why not put in the effort to make the features as easy to use as possible?
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The flash demo jerked and jumped around in bandwidth a lot.

The SilverLight demo worked better, but the picture was worse than the Flash version.

BitGravity works wonderfully though. Also, we've been using Panther/CDNetworks without a hitch. They even support HTTP pseudo streaming.
Favorite line of the article: "If religion is a minefield, then race is a field that’s just one giant mine"

The article was not quite as statistically sound as it could be, but at least they aren't trying to pass it off as statistical data.
Whenever I write a long comment here I just know most of the people lose interest after the first paragraph.

Don't right for readers, write to get something off your chest and feel lighter.
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you are correct. i was stuck in racecar land. my car doesn't have a rev limiter by way of ECU tune and the fuel pump is upgraded so the engine will just redline until (valves) something breaks!

that being said, bouncing off the limiter is fine for a minute so you can pull over and turn off the car.
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Presumably you have a problem with all the other "women-in-technology" events that occur across the industry? Because you're tilting at windmills, and not even particularly good ones.
... and it turns out Toyota modified their O's, and what they wound up with is actually Helvetica with Arial-like O's.
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Microsoft is still in control. What's their market share for Windows machines? 90+%?
* Basically Stallman wants them to feel dirty getting that paycheck.*

No he doesn't. He wants them to feel dirty for not contributing and for restricting the freedom of users whenever they work on proprietary stuff.
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Pseudo streaming h264 is a bit trickier than a dozen lines of PHP, although that works for FLV files (I'm assuming you've got your h264 in a .MOV-like container here, since that's what's recommended). You'll need to create an updated file header with new offsets to samples, which is a bit more work than "add a FLV header and cat the rest of the file".

See e.g. http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki/WikiStart
Agh. On all key type ignition switches there is a position between run and lock. On most non-US products that's where the "accessory" position is. (US brands tend to put accessory past lock the other direction).

On automatic transmission automobiles the ignition switch is also required (US federal law, I believe) to not lock if the transmission is in a gear other than park.
The good thing is that it's Been Done for most servers (mod_h264_streaming modules exist for practically everything under the sun), so one rarely has to reinvent the wheel.
Interestingly that's actually the only reason why I write long comment responses. It's just that after the fact, presumably no one considered the comment and that I got through to no one.
Almost every market worth being in has two winners

Treacy and Wiersema in "The Discipline of Market Leaders" claim there are often three winners in every market. The price leader, the feature leader and the intimacy leader.
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If there is something you really want, don't get sucked in to that "quality of life" thing, because people mistakenly take it to mean having a life full of material goods, including a good car while working at a job you hate.

What really brings you quality of life is doing what you love to do, and if that means not going to college then that is the route you should take.

But it is entirely beside the point: It sounds like your parents are scared about your future and don't want a "failure to launch" scenario, understandable but annoying given your situation, so you might want to talk to them about what you are going to do when you are not going to college (when they seem apprehensive, and they will, just tell them that if it doesn't work out you can always go to college "later").
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If you are spending most of your time in instant-on mode, wouldn't it be more cost-effective to just buy a netbook instead?

The instant-on mode feature does not seem significantly different than Dell MediaDirect. The inductive charging, on the other hand, is something I would love to see in all of my devices.
> I don't know what my perfect mate looks like - and no one does.

While I agree that one's guess at a perfect partner might not be 100% accurate, are you sure you have no information on this at all? Here are some OkCupid questions. Would you be equally willing to date someone regardless of how they answered these questions?

-Is homosexuality a sin?

-How important is religion/God in your life?

-Are you happy with your life?

-Is interracial marriage a bad idea?
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Did they suggest those in a particular order?

I would consider reversing the order of those from a desirability standpoint, particlularly if the throttle is forced wide open (as opposed to partially). Most of the time the rev limiter will prevent any damage (and who cares if it doesn't, even a $3000 engine is less than a night at the hospital). IMO the car isn't even a thing to consider saving.

If it fails to switch into neutral while the engine is loaded, turning the key one click in the off direction will unload the tension in the driveline and possibly give it what it needs to shift to neutral (electric shifting transmissions might only benefit from the first few milliseconds after reapplying power). Then you can turn the key back on.

The "dig at it with your toes" solution is worth a shot if you have the time, or if it's only revving slightly above the desired level. I would be afraid that it would take concentration away from the primary objective (keeping the car pointed away from cars and fixed objects).
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I wonder how many people were labeled as crazy, "got their license at sears"
or drunk before this was taken seriously? (note how it goes back to 2004)
Scalr has been around for quite a while.

I'm not sure why to use it when there's now load-balancing/scaling of instances built into ec2 itself. Maybe the monitoring and the database stuff.
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