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The tile of this post seems like a non-sequiter. Why would a company not do that? If you trying to project your own ideas, a part of that process is killing competing ideas

If you study the design of a windows app on any platform, such as windows, linux or OSX, the basic design context you have to follow is start with a menu and draw the user deeper i…

Goa (India) ONSITE We're developing an enterprise developer tool for the Mac. We have a small house to work out of in Dona Paula, an outskirt of Panjim, located in a quiet neighbor…

Goa (India) ONSITE We're developing an enterprise developer tool for the Mac. We have a small house to work out of in Dona Paula, an outskirt of Panjim, located in a quiet neighbor…

Goa (India) ONSITE We're developing an enterprise developer tool for the Mac. We have a small house to work out of in Dona Paula, an outskirt of Panjim, located in a quiet neighbor…

Absolutely. Paint is by a long shot, Microsoft's best product. It's easy to build since it's codebase is pretty small and they haven't changed it much since it was introduced. So i…

Open source is associated with philanthropy and with being really smart. If you're a really smart coder, out to change thw world, you'll obviously build a library or framework to h…

Right. Early PC apps were developed by developers mostly for the developer community and PCs were used mostly by developers themselves as a cheap replacement for workstations. When…

This is a great question. The PC has been around for a long time now. For the most part, users/developers have been sitting around, twiddling their thumbs and waiting for the tool …

Exercise. Cooking. Sketching. Paying attention to grooming. Practicing ignoring people as much as possbile in public. Reducing the amount of information I process outside of progra…

Well, mental health has always been and will continue to be an issue that needs to be addressed in the workplace. This is because the workplace now is at least half composed of pro…

I would state that in a much stronger way -- A programmer should only think of their programming as a tool and concentrate first and foremost on what they are building. Good habits…

Yes, and in addition, this is a good way to choose projects. We need to "reinvent the wheel"" a lot more rather than just building on top of frameworks that we have inherited from …

Hi. I'm writing a browser that provides a completely mouse-free user interface. In other words, all control is done through the keyboard. Soliciting top of the head thoughts on how…

Re: b) For video, the encoder contains a model of the decoder, including the amount of buffering available to the decoder. The bit-rate controller at the encoder uses this model to…

Digital cinema uses a resolution that is much higher than H.265's targeted sweet spot. Their quality needs are also a lot higher. Motion compensated video cannot give them the desi…

They started along that direction with MPEG-4. But it didn't go very far then.

That's a good research topic. Considering the time-frame involved -- 20 years you could infer that attempts at finding alternative strategies have been half hearted The way the ISO…

These are all refinements. The broad strokes of the algo haven't changed

Well, you could. But the way current schemes are structured, the motion compensation is done on a 16x16 macroblock basis Using an 8x8 DCT to clean up the 4 quadrants within a macro…

Try the FAQ for comp.compression

The problem with Wavelet based compression was since wavelet transforms were applied globally to the whole frame at a time, while they were suitable for still image compression the…

Don't know, but it was associated with the ITU as opposed to the ISO before they decided to merge their efforts

It's interesting to note that the architecture of the first ISO codec MPEG (1) is almost identical to the one we have today H.265 That codec was standardised in the late 90s So thi…

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