I'm in the woods of eastern Kentucky but we just have bins that we roll to the the of our driveway. At businesses and apartment complexes in town they usually have one large communal dumpster at the end of the parking lot, paid for by the business owner or landlord, and Rumpke (our local trash service) comes by on their day and just back the truck up to it and dump it. On some roads that have residences all along them they have these little forks that lift and dump the wheelie bins folks put out so they just drive down the road and don't even have to get out of the truck.
In downtown NYC though if there are no parking lots, no alleyways, etc., I guess folks will just have to get creative. They could probably have a single dumpster per block or something instead of having one for every single customer on that street.
That sounds like a really good way to attract vermin of all sorts; bags will leak, break open or just otherwise be easily accessible by any critter that happens to roam by. If Ninja Turtles are anything to go by, I'm not sure I'd want those rats getting into my bags, 😛
It would be cool if GIMP's new format could remember the undo history. I sometimes save edited images as XCF projects so I can quickly make a tweak and re-export it if I need to, but if you do something like crop, color grade, etc., and then save it, you can't undo that later when you reopen the project file because the original, unmodified image data has been lost. You can work around this somewhat by saving unmodified versions of something to its own disabled/invisible layer, but it would make things easier if there was some kind of undo history preservation so you could open a project and sift thru the history of operations performed on the image.
Not a NYC dweller here, but what in the world constitutes a "modern" trash bin? Isn't a bin a bin? Do the bins drive around picking up trash autonomously? Did NYC just not have them at all or something?
Salter's ville already has the highest gas prices around because once you leave Lexington there isn't a whole lot on the parkway for about 100 miles until you reach us. The fast chargers probably won't be much different.
Wow, that's some really invasive stuff. If a gym ever asked for my account and routing number I would just go somewhere else, but I understand not everybody has that option.
This is why I use a privacy.com card for just about everything. Anybody gets hacked or tries to pull some shady shit I can just turn off the card and it doesn't affect anybody but them.
It'll bounce back once they see all the money those government contracts generate. We had KBR driving shuttle buses and Taco Bell being ran out of trailers on the FOBs in 2008 Iraq.
That looks like something that won't last very long. I could be wrong, but my guess is that, being in the handles themselves, those screens are gonna get busted and they won't have made nearly enough from ad revenue to warrant replacing them on a regular basis. Here in the US we've got them built into the pumps so when you start pumping you get some loud ass commercials.
VGA was originally a proprietary technology developed by IBM, though it was later built upon by VESA and is now publicly documented, so while it wasn't developed by VESA as an open standard from the get-go, it is now considered an open standard that doesn't require any licensing fees to implement. DVI was developed by the "Digital Display Working Group" and also does not require any licensing fees, though there are licensing terms you may have to abide by and there may be some costs associated with testing and validation to ensure you meet those terms and the spec.
H.265 is not a royalty free standard like AV1, VP9, Theora, etc. It's covered by proprietary patents held by groups like MPEG LA so in order for manufacturers to build hardware level support for it into their devices they have to pay whatever the then current royalty fees are to those patent holders.
That's reasonable, people deserve to get paid for their labor. In this situation however, the difference between them is that DisplayPort is a royalty free VESA standard. So while manufacturers have to pay for the materials and such to include it in their devices, they don't have to pay any additional fees to license the standard. HDMI on the other-hand is a "brand" of proprietary connector/interface (kind of like how "Velcro" isn't the actual name of a product, it's a "brand" of hook and pile tape), so not only do manufacturers have to pay for the materials and labor related to physically acquiring and installing the connectors, but they have to pay both per-device and annual licensing fees for rights to use the HDMI product.
"Direct playing" just means the source file is entirely compatible with the client device and doesn't require any transcoding/re-encoding by the server, it doesn't really tell you whether the client is using software or hardware decoding to play it. I'm guessing it's probable that a Jellyfin server could still report "direct playing" even if the client is using software decoding to play it. However, if the client device is something like a smart TV or something with a more locked down OS, and the maintainer/manufacturer removes support for a codec from that device, you may show more transcoding action on your server for things that previously just direct played because smart devices like that may not have support for software decoding, or may not have the horsepower to try even if they still have the codecs installed.
I just set it to downmix to mono in Handbrake and it's been alright. I'll definitely do some reading/comparing to see what this setting is all about though.
It's kinda like MTG resigning and turning against Trump. Sure, I'm glad we finally see eye to eye on something, but it's kinda hard to feel sorry for them when they helped create the very thing they're only just realizing is a problem.
H.265 (HEVC) is not a free (as in freedom) codec, so yes. You as an individual consumer can use things like Handbrake to encode H.265 video for your personal use, probably using the free x265 software encoder, but in order for a device like your phone, camera, TV, laptop, etc. to have hardware accelerated encoding or decoding, the manufacturer has to pay a licensing fee.
This is true of lots of proprietary technologies. HDMI is another one. In order for a device to ship with an HDMI port (as opposed to Displayport), the manufacturer has to pay a per-device licensing fee.
I'm in the woods of eastern Kentucky but we just have bins that we roll to the the of our driveway. At businesses and apartment complexes in town they usually have one large communal dumpster at the end of the parking lot, paid for by the business owner or landlord, and Rumpke (our local trash service) comes by on their day and just back the truck up to it and dump it. On some roads that have residences all along them they have these little forks that lift and dump the wheelie bins folks put out so they just drive down the road and don't even have to get out of the truck.
In downtown NYC though if there are no parking lots, no alleyways, etc., I guess folks will just have to get creative. They could probably have a single dumpster per block or something instead of having one for every single customer on that street.
That sounds like a really good way to attract vermin of all sorts; bags will leak, break open or just otherwise be easily accessible by any critter that happens to roam by. If Ninja Turtles are anything to go by, I'm not sure I'd want those rats getting into my bags, 😛
It would be cool if GIMP's new format could remember the undo history. I sometimes save edited images as XCF projects so I can quickly make a tweak and re-export it if I need to, but if you do something like crop, color grade, etc., and then save it, you can't undo that later when you reopen the project file because the original, unmodified image data has been lost. You can work around this somewhat by saving unmodified versions of something to its own disabled/invisible layer, but it would make things easier if there was some kind of undo history preservation so you could open a project and sift thru the history of operations performed on the image.
Not a NYC dweller here, but what in the world constitutes a "modern" trash bin? Isn't a bin a bin? Do the bins drive around picking up trash autonomously? Did NYC just not have them at all or something?
Salter's ville already has the highest gas prices around because once you leave Lexington there isn't a whole lot on the parkway for about 100 miles until you reach us. The fast chargers probably won't be much different.
The liquid cheese you get at Mexican restaurants is amazing.
Wow, that's some really invasive stuff. If a gym ever asked for my account and routing number I would just go somewhere else, but I understand not everybody has that option.
Then I just turn off my regular/real debit card and I'm no worse off than I would have been in the first place.
This is why I use a privacy.com card for just about everything. Anybody gets hacked or tries to pull some shady shit I can just turn off the card and it doesn't affect anybody but them.
It'll bounce back once they see all the money those government contracts generate. We had KBR driving shuttle buses and Taco Bell being ran out of trailers on the FOBs in 2008 Iraq.
That looks like something that won't last very long. I could be wrong, but my guess is that, being in the handles themselves, those screens are gonna get busted and they won't have made nearly enough from ad revenue to warrant replacing them on a regular basis. Here in the US we've got them built into the pumps so when you start pumping you get some loud ass commercials.
But that means the original, "real" you died and the person that comes out the other side is essentially a clone with a copy of your memories.
VGA was originally a proprietary technology developed by IBM, though it was later built upon by VESA and is now publicly documented, so while it wasn't developed by VESA as an open standard from the get-go, it is now considered an open standard that doesn't require any licensing fees to implement. DVI was developed by the "Digital Display Working Group" and also does not require any licensing fees, though there are licensing terms you may have to abide by and there may be some costs associated with testing and validation to ensure you meet those terms and the spec.
H.265 is not a royalty free standard like AV1, VP9, Theora, etc. It's covered by proprietary patents held by groups like MPEG LA so in order for manufacturers to build hardware level support for it into their devices they have to pay whatever the then current royalty fees are to those patent holders.
That's reasonable, people deserve to get paid for their labor. In this situation however, the difference between them is that DisplayPort is a royalty free VESA standard. So while manufacturers have to pay for the materials and such to include it in their devices, they don't have to pay any additional fees to license the standard. HDMI on the other-hand is a "brand" of proprietary connector/interface (kind of like how "Velcro" isn't the actual name of a product, it's a "brand" of hook and pile tape), so not only do manufacturers have to pay for the materials and labor related to physically acquiring and installing the connectors, but they have to pay both per-device and annual licensing fees for rights to use the HDMI product.
"Direct playing" just means the source file is entirely compatible with the client device and doesn't require any transcoding/re-encoding by the server, it doesn't really tell you whether the client is using software or hardware decoding to play it. I'm guessing it's probable that a Jellyfin server could still report "direct playing" even if the client is using software decoding to play it. However, if the client device is something like a smart TV or something with a more locked down OS, and the maintainer/manufacturer removes support for a codec from that device, you may show more transcoding action on your server for things that previously just direct played because smart devices like that may not have support for software decoding, or may not have the horsepower to try even if they still have the codecs installed.
I just set it to downmix to mono in Handbrake and it's been alright. I'll definitely do some reading/comparing to see what this setting is all about though.
It's kinda like MTG resigning and turning against Trump. Sure, I'm glad we finally see eye to eye on something, but it's kinda hard to feel sorry for them when they helped create the very thing they're only just realizing is a problem.
H.265 (HEVC) is not a free (as in freedom) codec, so yes. You as an individual consumer can use things like Handbrake to encode H.265 video for your personal use, probably using the free x265 software encoder, but in order for a device like your phone, camera, TV, laptop, etc. to have hardware accelerated encoding or decoding, the manufacturer has to pay a licensing fee.
This is true of lots of proprietary technologies. HDMI is another one. In order for a device to ship with an HDMI port (as opposed to Displayport), the manufacturer has to pay a per-device licensing fee.
Kinda makes me even more glad I've been migrating all my stuff over to AV1/OPUS.