Because in much of the country it is incredibly rare to have a package stolen off of a porch. For example I have never had a package stolen nor do I know of a person who has had a package stolen off of their porch.
The person sending the package can choose if the package is left at the door or if it requires a signature. Amazon and others like them have decided that the increased convenience is worth the occasional cost of reshooting a package.
Mikrotik suffer from a gross amount of "Not invented here" reinventing existing open source protocols such as OpenVPN, a custom sshd and web server, and it shows with their amount of issues (how many years has it taken to add UDP to their OpenVPN server?). In some ways I think their no better then UBNT in some ways.
Tell you what. I used to have a Mikrotik CRS125 switch in my home office, and by default if you have a set of ports where one has no VLAN assigned, and the others have untagged VLAN assignmnets, any broadcast traffic on the untagged port(s) without a VLAN leaks to the ports with an untagged VLAN. This isn't well documented in the manual, and to fix it you either disable "Invalid VLAN Forwarding" (I think) and/or move said ports without a VLAN to a VLAN.
My CRS issue suggests otherwise (could just be CRS), but ignoring OpenVPN I haven't had many issues with RouterOS. It's good to have the option though.
Who said they're trying to hide it? I didn't. When I wrote my comment, there were 50 upvotes and 0 comments, which suggested to me that most people were ignoring how meaningless a benchmark usually is when it's intended to promote a product.
What has happened since those previous discussions is that HEIF is begining to get traction. Apple has adopted HEIF for it's latest OSes (iOS 11 or macOS High Sierra)[0] and Android P is adding support for it.
HEIF is a standards based based MPEG image format that like BPG is based on HEVC. Due to HEIF being an MPEG standard and the traction it is getting in the marketplace it looks like we might finally have a true next gen format to replace JPEG.
None of this takes away anything from BPG. I just thought is was curious that given HEIF is the obvious elephant in the room, the linked page didn't mention HEIF and indeed until now, no other comment has mentioned it.
>Due to HEIF being an MPEG standard and the traction it is getting in the marketplace it looks like we might finally have a true next gen format to replace JPEG.
My opinion is that HEIF (using HEVC) is dead in the water as a widely used jpeg replacement, since there's pretty much zero chance of it being adopted on the internet due to it's patent/royalty situation.
I don't see sites (nor FOSS browsers like Firefox) agreeing to pay royalties to show/support images.
A more likely contender would be 'AVIF' based upon AV1:
Windows 10 added support for HEIF in 1803 as well.
Another one to keep an eye on in the near future is AVIF which is AV1 in a HEIF container as standardized by the AOMedia. With so many big players being behind AV1 it'll be interesting to see if it can gain user traction faster than HEIF.
In less than one year from introduction, about a half billion iOS 11 users† are using it as their default photo format. Not bad for traction.
Of course it wasn't their decision, it just sort of happened.
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† I must confess I made up this number. >80% of iOS users are using iOS 11, last year there were 700M iPhones, there are some iPads too, and some Macs, though not all iOS hardware can do HEIF. Let's just say I'm probably within a factor two.
And every time my technically-challenged colleagues want to get photos from their iPhone onto a computer or web service, they can't do it, and don't know why their iPhone's camera is broken and why they feel so stupid with all of this technology.
Conversion to JPEG for destinations that don’t support HEIF is automatic unless opted-out, like this screenshot I just took and uploaded from my iPhone:
Does BPG support burst mode photos? If so does it use I/P/B frames for the other frames? This is an important consideration. Another consideration is if it can store audio - essentially every photo on iPhone is a short video with audio.
Hopefully the HEVC patent holders are reasonable and license under liberal terms - the market and opportunity is much much larger than just videos and HEIF has decent chance of killing jpeg.
> But what if we relax the second requirement to only apply to intentional resignations, forfeitures, and fouls? What if we had a game where both sides were trying their absolute hardest to make the other side win?
The article address that. You still have to follow the rules of the game.
No, you see, the article author is playing a supergame which is won by finding a play-to-lose version of a game. The parent commenter is simply playing the play-to-lose version of that supergame.
It is way more complicated than that. The body autonomously regulates the amount of calories that you eat. For example when you exercise more studies show people will eat almost exactly an extra amount of food equalent to the calories exercised.
The average person gains an extra 1 to 2 pounds a year. It takes 6,000 calories to gains 2 pounds. This is about ~16.5 calories a day. About a fifth of a slice of bread.
This is an imbalance of energy, on a 2000 calorie diet, of less than 1%.
> It is way more complicated than that. The body autonomously regulates the amount of calories that you eat. For example when you exercise more studies show people will eat almost exactly an extra amount of food equalent to the calories exercised.
The whole point of something like calorie counting is so that this is no longer some automated, subconscious process.
Google actually does ask, it is called robots.txt [0]. Robots.txt is the technical equivalent of asking nicely. If the publishers don't want Google using snippets of their articles or otherwise indexing their articles all publishers need to do is tell Google not to using robots.txt, no law needed [1].
This law won't hurt Google, they have the necessary lawyers and resources to deal with the ramifications. What this will hurt are the smaller search engines that don't have the same resources as Google. This law, if enacted, will end up giving more power to Google not less. For example, with the German law, Google was given a free license [2], but was DuckDuckGo given a license? As far as I can tell no. So all that changed is that Google has a license and its competitors don't. I can't see how this is a good thing for anybody but Google. It hurts consumers, reduces market choice and will end up hurting publishers.
Great find. It is unfortunate that the moonrise image most used as the example image from this project is missing from that archive. It is FRAME_1101_H2, and is not there. This is ironic as this image is the example image the grandparent used for their example for the images being moved.
Forgive me I am not from this area, New York and New Jersey's elected governments are both predominantly from the Democratic Party. What do the Republicans have to do with the tunnel?
Republican governor of New Jersey Chris Christie canceled the ARC tunnel project in 2010 after work has just started. I think because he was dumb enough to think that he could use the money to reward political allies. Instead about half the money ended up applied to the California High Speed Rail project.
In 2016 when Trump came into office he canceled the replacement Gateway tunnel project. Why did Trump do that? Probably just as a fuck you to New York, no other reason.
The person sending the package can choose if the package is left at the door or if it requires a signature. Amazon and others like them have decided that the increased convenience is worth the occasional cost of reshooting a package.