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That's agreed. But even the FourCC is not reported. You're just stuck.
Extra sadism is provided by the "Web Help" button that drives you into a dead-endish FAQ. (Instead of kindly telling you what the FourCC is, together with a list of OpenSource, freeware and commercial codecs that support it. Dreaming is free.)
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On fourcc.org[^] there are a few programs that probably can find out what you need to know.
They also have an extensive list of almost all codecs on that site.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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As I said on purpose, when you cannot download the media as files, this is of no use.
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Happy New Year, Yves,
You may wish to clarify your first post to make sure people understand you are talking about viewing a video-stream on the web, not downloading a file.
I suspect many of the readers/responders here, like me, did not quite "get" that.
yrs, Bill
"So long as … social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates divine destiny, with human fatality … so long as three problems of the age: degradation of man by poverty; ruin of women by starvation; dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night: are not solved: so long as social asphyxia shall be possible … so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless." Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables," 1862
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Happy New Year, Bill.
I mean that the file is accessible from an hyperlink that launches a viewer, that gives you the uniformative error message and that's it. Getting the downloaded file instead is not that straightforward.
I am not so much after a solution, I am just nagging: why on earth when you click on the link you don't get a simple message with these bl**dy four letters that would allow you to go forward?
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I have just had to explain to someone what standard deviation is.
This person claims to have an A-Level in maths but was never taught it.
I don't disbelieve them, I am just amazed that Stats are not taught as part of the A-Level syllabus any more.
A sign you are getting old is when you are amazed at how little kids learn in school.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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I took Statistics in college and I still don't really understand what standard deviation is... I can do all the calculations and such for all the various distributions, but as far as actually grasping the concepts, Statistics eludes me... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Is in context with your pay. Your happiness is not correlated with how much you earn but how many standard deviations away from the norm you are in the positive direction. For example, if you earn more than 99% of your peers at 85k you are a lot happier than if you make 250k but you peers earn 300k.
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It's a measure of how variable a collection of data is. Roughly speaking it's the distance from the mean in which a decent majority of the data points/probability distribution lie (for a pure normal distribution which is what it's most valid for it is ~60% if I remember right).
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68%
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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If they did pure maths, they may not have done stats. However, I did it at a O level.
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Statistics was my least favorite math(s) class in college. Most math seemed to make perfect sense, but statistics seemed so arbitrary. I mean, why not 96% instead of 95% confidence?
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This was exactly my thought as well. I didn't see a huge practical use to a lot of the stuff we learned. Calculus, on the other hand, you can relate to physics, so it made perfect sense to me (most of the time...  ).
Linear algebra was pretty straight-forward most of the time as well, until it got to Singular Value Decomposition. That took a little while to be able to really grasp.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Understood statistics (then) but had a bear of a time with calculus.
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djj55 wrote: had a bear of a time with calculus.
 Me too! I had to take it twice just to keep it from destroying my GPA. The second go-round was much better. I still have an awesome study guide (paperback) that really made the difference for me. I actually enjoyed it once I got my head around it. (or accepted that it just worked, whether or not it actually made sense!) I would have loved to have the resources that students today enjoy...a global library at your fingertips!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Because 95.45% of the values lie within 2 standard deviations of the mean.
That rounds down to 95, not up to 96.
Or did I misunderstand your question now?
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Why not 3 standard deviations?
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That would require a larger sample.
Statistics is all about finding out an approximate "truth" within an acceptable error margin to the lowest possible cost.
XKCD[^] has a fitting joke about it, as expected.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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I was told by an MBA to remove Standard Deviation from a web page because it was too techy. When I defined the number he said, well, "Change Standard Deviation to Variance it sounds less technical" but he wanted me to keep the standard deviation as the number displayed *rolls eyes*, I changed the field to Variance and the number to Variance, he never noticed.
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You could have used the word "Variation" and kept the standard deviation computation.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I once had to explain to an English Major what a "Unreliable Narrator" was. Why this was important in understanding many fantasy, science fiction works both printed and dramatic, and even in modern political discourse.
My wife didn't speak to me for the rest of the day.
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kmg365 wrote: My wife didn't speak to me for the rest of the day.
Sounds familiar. My wife has an M.A. in English.
She absolutely hates it when I correct her spelling or grammar.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Funnily I once had the opposite experience, an ex-GF English BA who was a brilliant writer in terms of vocabulary and imagination, but bad in grammar and punctuation, who positively welcomed my feedback on her output.
Her version of "Once more unto the breach..." paraphrased in the style of Bukowski got her an A, even though they were really asking for an analysis of the original text, because (as the lecturer said) it illustrated a deep understanding of both writers. Remains one of the bluest and entertaining bits of prose I've ever read.
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My wife is great in the ideas department, but her mechanics were dreadful. For example, my favorite of her essays was entitled "Horror Fiction: The Most Useful Art Form". It had the thesis that horror fiction was the most valuable form of literature, because it taught the reader survival skills for unusual situations. She got an A, despite the fact that the professor hated genre fiction of all kinds, and horror fiction in particular.
I typed most of her undergraduate papers, and all of them for her master's. At least 0.5 of her GPA is attributable to my editing.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yes, although her favorite authors are Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I missed the Stats bit on my Degree and avoided the catch up lectures as I was too bothered I didn't understand Fourier stuff well enough. That being said I did meet the principle at GCSE! Too much of Maths is badly taught so the chances are the Person knew the princple but not the way it was asked, it's Friday afternoon after all!
Glenn
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I did Pure and Applied maths A-Levels 23 years ago.
No standard deviations mentioned...
I did an extra Stats course in Uni to rectify that.
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My software displays ZScore graphs for variable values based on the underlying selection - I am often asked to explain ZScores - my explanations rarely get beyond "ooh, look at the pretty graphs"
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Just tell them the concept was originated by Guinness.
Yes, I know that's the t-statistic, but the z-score is related...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Was it? That should get me off the hook, thanks 
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Imagine that. Interesting statistics and great grog.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I got 98% for a mock stats exam in uni, and aced the real thing in less than a third of the available time.
I wouldn't know my sigma from my epsilon now, though. How soon useless crap is forgotten...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: How soon useless crap is forgotten...
The part of my brain used for the 36+ credit hours of math I took in college (calculus, differential equations, matrix algebra, numerical methods) is now used to store old movie lines.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Standard deviation is the difference between the lowest and highest beer count after which 68% of the male population will fall under the table.
Divided by two.
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Isn't that 'staaahhd deevshun'?
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Statistics wasn't required at my college, but I chose to take it -- partly because I could rely on my father to help me as needed (he taught it at another college).
I still recall the time during my co-op job when I was asked to rewite a report that was supposed to present the standard deviation -- all it was doing to dividing the average (arithmetic mean) by the size of the population  . I have no idea who wrote it originally, but I fixed it good*.
* I chose this wording due to the grammar discussion.
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Anyone have any good ideas on compromises between private offices and open office layouts? Private offices are apparently too expensive, and open layouts suck. So I'm looking for some ideas in between that work, or ways to desuckify open office layouts. Note that there will be no agile, XP, pair programming, or any other hippie crap going on.
Thanks
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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Compartmentalise.
And no, that does not mean cubicles.
Break areas into groups so that there are 3 or 4 people in a block so that they can interact with social discourse, but not so open as it looks like a boiler room.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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I agree with this one. In my old company we used to be fully open planned (all departments could see and hear each other).
We moved offices and split into different departments, this meant we could talk more openly and helped create functional, solid teams. It also stopped other departments getting annoyed with our technical debates over x and y.
It also helped us talk in private when necessary about issues. An example being that we had a bunch of redundancies after the office move and it wasn't appropriate to talk about them in a public area. You'll be surprised how talking about it actually helps in morale, as it gives a mentality of "we are all in it together".
I was working at an established SMB with about 40 employees.
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I agree with what I think Dave's writing.
The best solutions I've seen are those with a few developers on a team sharing a common area. Encourages teamwork and the turn around, "hey Bob, I'm hung up on this." sort of interaction.
Keep in mind that there needs to be some private area too; meeting rooms or the like, so when someone needs to have a discussion, they can go in there without interrupting the other members of the team.
However, if possible, these groups should not just be thrown out in the middle of an open area.
Where I'm currently working we went from a setup of all the developers in one end of the building in a mostly shared area to a cube farm sort of setup, where the cubes are aligned linearly and right outside the kitchen.
< rant >
So, in addition to moving to s****y call-center-worker sized cubes which encourage separation, we get all the noise of people getting their coffee, lunch, having their social time in the kitchen. Of course, a wall/divider to block some of the noise has been talked about since June. Needless to say, management isn't that effective. Maybe for the first anniversary of the move.
< / rant >
Anyway, don't do that.
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What sucks about an open office? We have one and it's great, much more sociable than being hidden behind cube walls. An open plan office with some breakout rooms and a little discipline in how loudly you talk in the main office is a nice place to work.
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That's exactly as what we have.
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I have my own office.
I worked hard for it and I deserve it!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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I had my own office for years, I hated it
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And the rest of the staff refused to have you in with them?
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"Sociable" meaning distracted and getting nothing done. No thanks.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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Seems that we are encountering the difference between extroverts and introverts.
I loathe open offices. Don't like cubicle farms much either, but they are infinitely better. My best office was a private office with a north facing window with a view of the local mountains (they set the thermostat very low, but a space heater fixed that.)
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Because in an open plan office with lots of people talking and phones going and people walking around, it takes much longer to get into "the zone", it's much easier to be distracted out of it, and it takes longer to get back into it again.
If you are doing a job which doesn't require much thought open plan is fine, but for a programmer I would say being able to cut yourself off when necessary is essential.
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