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video compression 4 u tube
heres what i found:
We use H.264 Quicktime compression, .mov extension, high setting, 480x360 (4:3), keyframes every 210, limit data rate to 1500k, optimized for streaming (size saver!), AAC sound at 96kbitsorwhatever.
We hardly go over 50 MB in file size, which means you upload much faster and the qualit is awesome! H.264 is very slow to process, ( Read more... ) -
no sex with aliens : evolution like a wind-tunnel
If life has multiple points of origin across the universe, it is likely that there will be, at the very least, subtle differences in the biological molecules employed by alien lifeforms. Even assuming they use similar polymer-based mechanisms for encoding genetic information, it’s unlikely they’ll use deoxyribose sugars or the specific purine/ ( Read more... ) -
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it is all about the story - old fashioned stories! about invention and some sort of 19th century progressive darwinist model of how ideas out-idea but build from each other and eventually we will walk on the moon!
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things almost lost from my typemachine on the bus
I'm like crosses the seperation between what is said and felt, and what is expressed and understood. I'm like is usually not what's said, but when he's like, that's the meaning, in the context of the story, of what he said ( Read more... ) -
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In effect we've had an "information economy" ever since we invented money. But we still haven't learned to digest copper. -
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Polydrug abuse is common among substance abusers, but few empirical or theoretical methods accurately characterize this phenomenon. This chapter describes a simulation paradigm that was developed to apply a behavioral economic analysis to understanding polydrug abuse. Heroin abusers 'purchased' drugs as the price of drugs or income varied. In ( Read more... ) -
facts
where people do differ is on the facts (46). This point was well documented prior to the last elections in a report entitled ‘Separate Realities of Bush and Kerry Supporters’ from the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland. PIPA’s study found that Bush supporters had a significantly distorted view of the ( Read more... )
