CODEC Comparison

VIDEO FORMAT

ADVANTAGES

LIMITATIONS

MPEG-1
MPEG-1 is a standard for lossy compression of video and audio.

This is advantageous for applications like teleconferencing, studio editing, etc.

Causes quantization artifacts, due to transient sounds like percussive events and other high-frequency events that spread over a larger window.

MPEG-2 (DVD)
The DVD-Video standard uses MPEG-2 video, but imposes some restrictions

Excellent image quality

-Very few people are [...]

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Operating Systems

MS Windows XP
 
Windows XP is a very widespread used operating system that most people are familiar with. The top ten advantages of this system is: Hardware support, Games, Security, Office 2007, Wireless networking, Software availability, Availability of community help, Actually being able to buy a computer, and Guaranteed availability. Windows XP uses NTFS (Windows NT File System) as [...]

Internet Privacy Concerns

Google Latitude is a new feature for Google Maps for and on your mobile device. Officials say users can take advantage of the service privacy settings to limit who can see them, and can determine when to turn the service on and off.  You can see the approximate location of your friends and loved ones who have decided [...]

Calculating Binary

Binary Numbers are Base 2 systems to represent a value using 0’s and 1’s. This uses two digits. Also Base 10 numbers are the numbers that we use every day. This uses 10 digits from 0 to 9. Using base two means it uses the exponent increases from 0 and on. Using base ten is [...]

Barack Obama’s Way

Obama’s success of winning the 2008 American Presidential Election marked a new history of The First African-American President of US. Some say that this win was an expected win, however, on the lection day; even though Obama won by a landslide, during the election, it was tight. Obama, in fact used a lot of Computational [...]

3 Technology Stories from www.digg.com

School breach left personnel files exposed - from timesunion.com -
For this story of a 15 year old student breaking into the school district’s faculty information, I feel very shocked. Since the student who is about an year younger than me, could break into a system where he or she learned how to use computers. I personally think [...]

3rd Part of History of Computer

Find 5 pieces of technology that you think will revolutionize technology. Why do these pieces of technology impress you?
Cell phones, portable media players, home media centers etc…
 
 
5. My fifth technology is Free Energy. Having free energy means geothermal energy, Hydropower energy and solar power. Obviously they are available today as well; however, in the future [...]

2nd Part of History of Computer

Turing Machine- What is it? Explain the concept.
Apple Computer – What was their first product? Who built it? How successful was it? Where did it start?
Who were the next followers?
What was Bill Gates’ first product? What made him money? How did he begin to make money? How did his company influence the computer business?
What are [...]

Geekbrief Product: NETGEAR Powerline

                The Powerline from NETGEAR is a really helpful product in many ways. Its main objective is to not let long cables around homes and it reduces the cables that we have to buy. Powerline provides with a wireless range extender in an easy to connect wall-plugged form factor. It’s plug-and-play installation means it is [...]