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oldpainless posted:Do dryer balls really make a difference in any appreciable way? Having worked in white goods testing for a number of years, yes, in controlled tests they shorten the time required to dry and leave fluffier clothes, provided the dryer is not overloaded. I use 6 at all times at home, the energy savings from shorter dying times pays for them quickly.
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Why, on both major operating systems, moving the cursor up and left ends in it touching the edge of the screen, and moving it down and right ends with it going past the edge?
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Sep 22, 2014 18:46
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ANIME MONSTROSITY posted:Why, on both major operating systems, moving the cursor up and left ends in it touching the edge of the screen, and moving it down and right ends with it going past the edge? It doesn't. Unless you've confused about the point of a typical mouse cursor being the selection area. That stays on the screen to the bottom right but the rest of the cursor goes off screen because that's the only way you'd be able to select that portion of the screen.
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Sep 22, 2014 18:51
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Huh, I never thought of it that way.  Thanks.
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Sep 22, 2014 18:54
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ANIME MONSTROSITY posted:Why, on both major operating systems, moving the cursor up and left ends in it touching the edge of the screen, and moving it down and right ends with it going past the edge? From the system's view, the cursor only exists right at the tip of the arrow/finger. The body is just a bit of graphical flourish, and if it was prevented from leaving the right and bottom edges, you wouldn't be able to select anything on those edges that are closer to the edge than the dimensions of the graphic.
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Sep 22, 2014 18:57
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My dad is trying to copy old videos from old video cameras which were analog, but he digitized them a while back (to .mpeg), and now he's trying to edit them. He basically wants to cut them up, remove unnecessary parts, and turn a 5 hour video composed of random bits and pieces from birthdays, vacations, and whatever, into shorter videos that he can upload and share with friends and family. He's been working with Windows Movie Maker and some Medion piece of software that came with an old computer, and he can't get it to work to his liking. It's all too bulky and impractical, doesn't cut where he wants it to, stuff like that. Basically, it's too confusing. Is there a good, free and easy to use video editing program that he could use to do this?
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Sep 22, 2014 20:33
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Taeke posted:My dad is trying to copy old videos from old video cameras which were analog, but he digitized them a while back (to .mpeg), and now he's trying to edit them. He basically wants to cut them up, remove unnecessary parts, and turn a 5 hour video composed of random bits and pieces from birthdays, vacations, and whatever, into shorter videos that he can upload and share with friends and family. On Windows? I struggled to find a program like this for years. Adobe Premiere is pretty good, but it's very advanced and expensive, and in my experience involved a ton of faffing around with codecs and poo poo. iMovie is exactly the kind of program that he wants, but he'd need a Mac do use it. Many libraries have a sort of "MakerSpace" these days and they may have Macs there with iMovie on them (and people who love helping users learn). People bring their material in and are free to edit it how they see fit. That would satisfy the free, good, and easy to use requirements but it's not going to be convenient.
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Windows Movie Maker will do it. You are trying to edit a compressed movie, which is bad news. Use MPEG Streamclip (Squared5) to convert it to something uncompressed (avi), edit it, then compress the finished product back to MPEG4.
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Sep 22, 2014 23:40
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For $20, Womble MPEG-VCR will let you frame accurately cut up mpeg 1 or 2 video and recombine it into a new file without re-encoding. e. use the 30 day trial, I haven't tried this in years and the website says there are some problems on Win 7 and plus. Flipperwaldt fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Sep 22, 2014 |
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photomikey posted:Windows Movie Maker will do it. You are trying to edit a compressed movie, which is bad news. Use MPEG Streamclip (Squared5) to convert it to something uncompressed (avi), edit it, then compress the finished product back to MPEG4. That might do the trick, thanks. We'll try that tomorrow and I'll let you know if it worked.
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Sep 23, 2014 00:22
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Did Scrooge McDuck start out as a racial stereotype of penny-pinching Scots? I just heard about the negative stereotype recently with people talking about the Scottish referendum, and I just went  at the realization.It wouldn't surprise me given Disney's shady history of racial commentary, just want to confirm.
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I've got quite a strange question. Around 10 years ago a prank phone number was passed around my group of friends. Kind of like one of those numbers you get someone to dial and theres a pre-recorded person at the other end accusing them of something, but this number was far better than any of those. A Lady would answer and respond to common names ("Mrs Green", "Mrs Smith" etc), she would respond to absolutely anything you said and play along for a while before getting weird and normally offensive. At the time I thought it was a computer with voice recognition and text to speech but I realise now that it was way to advanced to have been that, and more likely an actual person at the other end. What was even stranger about it was, it was on a normal UK Orange mobile number and not premium rate. The number was active for probably 2 years or so. Outside of my group of friends at the time and people we pranked with the number, I've never met anybody else who came across it. The number is inactive now, I've tried googling the number but got 0 results. I'd absolutely love to find something like this again, or even just find somebody else who knew about it. Fake edit: Didn't there used to be a thread for finding uh.. "things"? I think it was called something along the lines of "Lost stuff from before the internet"?
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Sep 23, 2014 16:15
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photomikey posted:Try De-Interlacing. This fixed all my problems - thank you. I've ripped other DVDs before and never had a problem. Is this due to the way this particular DVD was encoded or the way they filmed it? I thought anything on a DVD was progressive scan and not interlaced.
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Sep 23, 2014 17:36
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McKracken posted:This fixed all my problems - thank you.
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Sep 23, 2014 19:58
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photomikey posted:I believe you are backwards - everything on a DVD is interlaced. Virtually all movies are shot progressive and mastered to DVD de-interlaced (both fields the same). There may have been some reason this film was encoded interlaced, but more likely the guy who was doing the mastering didn't know the difference or just got a setting mixed up. DVDs have been able to be encoded with progressive scan for a long time now.
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How long does it take for data to travel around the world? Like, if I sent someone on the exact opposite side of the world a 1mb file, how long would it take for the transfer to complete? This is probably unanswerable, but I imagine that you can assume a 25mb/s down connection on either end. If that matters.
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The time for each bit to get to the other end of the world averages about half a second, maybe as low as 0.2 seconds or as high as 2 depending on where exactly and how many stops it needs to make. Think ping in video games, which is measured in milliseconds. However, transfer rates for files are going to mostly be limited by the senders upload speed, with physical distance making almost no difference at all.
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tuyop posted:How long does it take for data to travel around the world? Like, if I sent someone on the exact opposite side of the world a 1mb file, how long would it take for the transfer to complete? The time of the download is equal to the latency plus transfer time. The latency of electrons through copper is about equal to the speed of light. A bit less, but speed-of-light works pretty well in calculations. The circumference of the earth is 40,000 km, so your max distance is 20,000 km, asssuming that you've got a straight wire from your computer to theirs, following the curvature of the earth. (This is a poor assumption.) The speed of light is 300,000 km/s, so latency is (20000 km) / (300,000 km/s) = 66 milliseconds. Transfer time is size of file divided by bandwidth. For some goddamned reason, file sizes are measured in Bytes, and bandwidth is measured in bits per second. This means that your transfer time is (1 MB) * (8 b/B) / (25 Mb/s) = 320 milliseconds. Your ideal transfer time is 480 milliseconds. In the real world, your 1 MB file is split up into packets, which are transferred to your friend's computer over 8 or 10 "hops" - travelling from one router to another. Each router introduces a bit of latency as it reads a packet, stores bits of it in memory, and makes a decision about where to forward that packet to. Packets get dropped, and have to be re-sent, and the TCP protocol introduces delays, as your computer expects an "OK, I got it!" message back for every packet it sends. (At the very least, this doubles the latency of a message.) Gut-feeling: 3-5 seconds is probably reasonable; this is 6-10 times our "ideal" estimate, but weird things happen inside the real-life internet.
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If you're in an area with no light pollution (http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/) and one area is 7500 ft high and the other is at sea level, does it affect the clarity of seeing the stars?
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tuyop posted:How long does it take for data to travel around the world? Like, if I sent someone on the exact opposite side of the world a 1mb file, how long would it take for the transfer to complete? You could always try the experiment yourself: download something from the other side of the world and see how fast it goes. The exact other side of the world from you is very likely to be in the middle of an ocean, but you can get fairly close. I'm in the US, and I just tried a couple of servers in Australia that are mirroring a Linux distro. The files were coming in at roughly a couple of megabytes per second, which is getting pretty close to the maximum my cable modem can handle. Your mileage may vary; it'll depend on the undersea cables that link the continents and also on what the network is like on either end. There's likely a lot more bandwidth available from New York to Sydney than there is from Tierra del Fuego to Kazakhstan, even though the distances are about the same. Just remember that throughput and latency are very different things. To reuse an old half-joke, a station wagon full of backup tapes has pretty terrible latency (it has a "ping time" of an hour to go between datacenters) but excellent throughput (it moves hundreds of terabytes in one hour-long trip, much faster than the regular network connection). The latency to a server on the other side of the world will be a bit longer than it would be to something on the same continent as you -- a quarter of a second, let's say. You can't really get around that due to things like the speed of light and the increased number of network hops. But the total throughput is just a function of how big the undersea cables are.
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I think that's really cool and thanks for the router hopping image. I knew it couldn't be as straightforward as running a 20 000km CAT5 cable to the French Southern & Antarctic Lands, but:Gravity Pike posted:The latency of electrons through copper is about equal to the speed of light. So what's the advantage of fiber optic cable then? Is it just diminishing returns since, I guess, using light is marginally faster than using copper? Greater throughput?
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tuyop posted:I think that's really cool and thanks for the router hopping image. I knew it couldn't be as straightforward as running a 20 000km CAT5 cable to the French Southern & Antarctic Lands, but: Greater throughput and less signal noise. Fiber optics can carry more data farther with less degradation than copper.
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Busy Bee posted:If you're in an area with no light pollution (http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/) and one area is 7500 ft high and the other is at sea level, does it affect the clarity of seeing the stars? I think this is one of those "technically yes, practically no" type of answers. Yes, being higher up does make stars clearer, but I don't think 7500 feet is enough to notice a difference with the naked eye.
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Busy Bee posted:If you're in an area with no light pollution (http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/) and one area is 7500 ft high and the other is at sea level, does it affect the clarity of seeing the stars? If you're dying to know I'm betting the people in the amateur astronomy megathread would know for sure.
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Sep 24, 2014 18:56
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What happened to the Xbone shark tank thread? There's 180 posts I haven't Was it deleted outright?
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Sep 24, 2014 21:52
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I just registered to SA, wonderful community. Here's my question: Any way to add an avatar to my account? Or do I have to purchase an upgrade? (I'm not talking about a title but about the Image)
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You buy one from clicking "New Avatar" in the purchase bar at the top.NyxBiker posted:I just registered to SA, wonderful community. 
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Sep 24, 2014 22:54
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NyxBiker posted:I just registered to SA, wonderful community. Leave, while you still can.
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NyxBiker posted:I just registered to SA, wonderful community. Post a thread in GBS with the subject "requesting new avatar!" and make SURE to use one of these two tags:  
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Sep 24, 2014 23:11
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What's the go-to simple and free IRC app these days?
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I wouldn't call it the "go-to" app since I'm not sure how many use it, but KVIrc works fine for simple use.
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NyxBiker posted:I just registered to SA, wonderful community. Tell me you're going to try to J4G without reading the first two posts of the EVE thread...  To answer your question, there's a "New Avatar" link at the top of the page. It will allow you to: - change your avatar image - change your name - change/add custom text; it allows colour and size changes as well. - add "gang tags" in the area reserved for text Avatar pics can be a maximum of 150x150 @ 100kb. Hope this helps. 
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Liam Emsa posted:What's the go-to simple and free IRC app these days?
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Is it safe to buy from agreetao.com? Googling isn't too helpful, unless I'm doing it wrong. I just want to buy 11$ worth of musical instruments, but I don't want my credit card stolen. No loss if the buck stops at 11$ or even 20$. Are there any... umm... credit card condoms or something?
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No Gravitas posted:Is it safe to buy from agreetao.com? Googling isn't too helpful, unless I'm doing it wrong. Who is your card through? They may offer something like this. https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/accounts-cards/shopsafe.go
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Bovril Delight posted:Who is your card through? They may offer something like this. Not offered by my bank, sadly.
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No Gravitas posted:Are there any... umm... credit card condoms or something? If that doesn't work there are a bunch of ways to get prepaid debit cards like the Walmart MoneyCard.
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Mister Macys posted:What happened to the Xbone shark tank thread? Moved to the Mod forum, juuuust before it could get to 1080p(ages).
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I just moved into a new condo and got a letter (from the IRS) for what I assume is a previous tenant; what do I do with that kind of stuff?
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