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Just a few years ago, it was names that were just fun like yahoo, amazon and google.
Then there was the era of the meaningful synthetic name like Compaq, Lexus, etc.
Before that was what I think of as the tech era, where everything sounds like computech, microsoft and so forth. Everything that micro something or compu something or something tech.
And before then that were the three letter acronym years where you took very boring words and made them cool so Digital Equipment Corporation was DEC, then there was IBM, NCR, CDC, etc.
Then there was the era of faceless companies like General Motors, General Electric, American Telephone & Telegraph, US Steel and so forth.
Finally, you have the era of the & Sons era, where you had people's names like J.P. Morgan Bank, Carnegie Steel or Ford Motor Company.
In the venture business, everything seems to sound like a tree (Sequoia, Oak, Evergreen, Madrona) or it sounds like a TLA (MDV, KPCB, TCV) or it sounds like
]]>Right after my fall I eleveted and iced my leg. This was the right thing to do. I should have done it a lot more unfortunately I was taking my mom to the baseball game for Mother's day so I got up to take a shower. While in the shower I ran hot water on the leg and massaged the injured part of the leg. This was the wrong thing to do. While it felt great at the time it was accelerating the bleeding for which I would pay later.
Sitting at the baseball game also was a problem because my leg wasn't elevated and I was slightly pinching off the circulation in my leg. After about 5 innings of baseball the leg was swollen stiff and very sore. It was difficult to walk up the stairs and drive home.
That night the leg was very painfull. I kept it elevated and on ice as much as I could but by then the damage was done and I would just have to wait for the injury to heal and the internal bleeding to stop.
I continued to ice my leg for several days until I was told I could apply some heat. For heat I chose to use our hot tub. This is not the type of heat you should use. The heat should have been local and not general like you get in a hot tube. While I was in the hot tub I would rub the sore part of the leg which wasn't a good thing to do.
After over three weeks I am finally able to walk normally and get back on a bike for short rides. I am stil icing my leg each night and keeping it elevated. I don't know how much I exacerbated by injury by applying heat and massage too early but I sure learned the hard way not to do that for future injuries.
]]>moved the "Blur & NR" setting up as far as possible it is time to configure it. Enable this setting by checking the box next to it. You have two preferred methods of removing noise from your DVD picture. The first is to use Gradual denoise. You can use this option by selecting the check mark next to it. I typically set mine to 25. The method I currently use is denoise3d, which is located at the bottom. Try setting the dnoise3d luma to .5, the chroma to .5, the time to 5 and check the HQ box. Again use this as a reference and then once you get everything working play with the settings on your own to find what you feel looks best.
"Resize & aspect". Do the same as you did with "Blur & NR" and use the arrows on the left of this setting to move it up just below "Blur & NR". Resize does basically what it sounds like, it resizes the video to the size you specify. Typically you want to keep the resize setting at double DVD resolution (1440×960) or your desktop resolution whichever is greater.</blockquote
HTPCnews.com: The Media Center Resource - ffdshow DVD Guide (2004)
Under "Resize & aspect" you will see a settings area for resize. This is the main area where the sharpening of the image is done. You will notice a drop down box here with many selectable items in it. These are all the available resize algorithms. Typically I tend to use Lanczos as this gives the best quality image on my display. You will have to change the Luma and Chroma Sharpen settings to your taste but for now you can start out with the settings I use which is 1.5 for each. as for parameter you can try many options here or leave it at default. For now I will put it at 10.</blockquote]]>
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Apple about to announce wireless video iPod? - Engadget Supposedly they're preparing to announce the device in the very near future, which we've been told is both wireless and widescreen (both features we've been waiting for the iPod to take on, since, well, forever)]]>
a bad list of sites from timeSequoia was among YouTube’s first funders, providing $11.5 million in two rounds. When $25 million more was rumored to have come from parties unknown this April, Michael Arrington wrote that Sequoia likely did whatever it could to maintain it’s equity share in the company. He estimated that share was between 25% and 30%.
These numbers beg comparison with Sequoia’s investment in Google. According to Bill Burnham’s respected analysis last summer of Sequoia’s take from the Google IPO the fund turned a $12.5 million investment in 1999 for 10% equity into roughly $4.7 billion.]]>
Fox is in a very unique position vis-à-vis this deal. News Corp chief operating officer Peter Chernin recently told investors that 60-70% of YouTube traffic comes from MySpace. While direct integration with Google could certainly make up for part of this traffic were MySpace to shut off YouTube access, it would still be a huge blow. And Fox is also the owner of much of the copyrighted material contained on YouTube.</blockquote]]>
Sequoia is going to make a mint from its total $11M investment in it. Youtube by the way had only 67 employees.
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