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Hi desk, my problem is that I have a Snapchat (yes I know don't mock me) and it plays videos fine from most people but two people specifically send videos that result in an error message saying "Sorry, this video cannot be played". I've deduced that I think it is the format of the video they are sending that my Android phone (Kyocera Rise) is unable to play, which is why the problem only happens with these two people. Is it possible to install the Android equivalent of a driver or some new default video player that would allow them to play? I'm understanding that it's loosely like if a friend sent me an .flv file and my default player was Windows Media or something, and then I installed VLC and was able to play it. But that might be totally incorrect. Googling the error message doesn't provide too much insight. Thanks everyone! NIRVANA2764 ( talk) 04:33, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Has anyone attempted to go the "other direction" in researching NLP- that is by constructing languages that a computer could "understand" and communicate in, with the goal that they are as like as possible to natural languages? In other words, not trying to solve NLP, but to make a working approximation; it seems like this would be both informative and possible, the trick would seem to be balancing freedom in sentence form -vs- rules that limit ambiguous formations. Thank you for any help:-) Phoenixia1177 ( talk) 06:33, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for the responses:-) I'm not so much looking for programming languages, but intermediate languages that computers can converse in- limited, and more structured, artificial languages should be easier for a machine to understand, and at the same time, should also be intelligible to a person. In such a context, various NLP related problems might be solvable (again, in a limited context), I think those cases could shed illumination on the more general problem. Phoenixia1177 ( talk) 06:59, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Given an M x N array, each entry 0 or 1- representing if what tiles can be stepped on in a square tile map- when checking what adjacent squares can be moved to (have a 1) is it faster to:
In the second case, as long as you were on a viable map tile, you'd never get the okay to move out of bounds, so there's no issue with that. Also, I realize that in general, the difference will be slight, but it involves multiple entities doing the checks regularly as part of an already intensive process, so I want to remove all the overhead I can- the small hit in memory isn't an issue by itself. Finally, you can assume that M and N will never exceed 128. (In general, how does enlarging an array increase the time it takes to fetch an entry out of it?) Phoenixia1177 ( talk) 07:17, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
if (x<1 || x>M || y<1 || y>N) {
/* error handler */
}; else {
/* retrieve and process the array element */
};
Yesterday I brought a switcher, internet stopped to work and so I called my isp and they told me how to configure and then it didnt worked and they said the problem was at my side.
Tested with the pc connected to modem without a switcher and it worked so I brought a new switcher.
Test the new switcher and it didnt worked, send it to store and they tested and it worked there. They said if could be my modem settings. But I configured according to many tutorials on net and followed their steps, yet it didnt worked.
I am missing something? How I did:
1-Modem is tp-link td 8816 adsl+
2-Conection type is pppoe/pppoa
3-Username and password are configured according to my isp stuff
4- Same about VPI and VCI
5-Conection type is pppoe llc
6-DHCP is enabled
201.78.190.108 (
talk) 12:14, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
The problem was with the modem thanks.
201.78.223.139 (
talk) 11:30, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Could we link them all? All geographical articles could be connected to a country or ocean, all authors could be connected within a field somehow. But could we link all of them (without meaningless linking, of course), if they are not already all linked. OsmanRF34 ( talk) 15:25, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
I'm using CrashPlan (free version) to back my computer up to a drive in my mum's (mom's) computer. If I pause the process, wait a minute and start it again, my connection speed will be 40-60 Mb/s. Over the course of the next minute or so, it will go steadily down to about 800 Kb/s where it stabilises. Could this be my ISP (TalkTalk) deliberately throttling my connection? I know that some ISPs might do this to certain types of traffic (like illegal p2p filesharing (I'm aware that it's not necessarily illegal so no need to point that out)). Could my ISP be mistaking my traffic for filesharing and then throttling my connection? Anyway to get around it? I've got large volumes of data to transfer and my mum/mom doesn't like having her computer on when she's not using it. I can't sit and pause/unpause it every couple of minutes! -- 2.97.26.56 ( talk) 20:39, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
How does one force a refresh given that there appears to be no Ctrl key? Kittybrewster ☎ 21:37, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
When I set windows 8.1 to search everywhere and not just apps from the apps view, the search bar in the start screens apps view disappears. Why does this happen? Clover345 ( talk) 23:29, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives |
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Hi desk, my problem is that I have a Snapchat (yes I know don't mock me) and it plays videos fine from most people but two people specifically send videos that result in an error message saying "Sorry, this video cannot be played". I've deduced that I think it is the format of the video they are sending that my Android phone (Kyocera Rise) is unable to play, which is why the problem only happens with these two people. Is it possible to install the Android equivalent of a driver or some new default video player that would allow them to play? I'm understanding that it's loosely like if a friend sent me an .flv file and my default player was Windows Media or something, and then I installed VLC and was able to play it. But that might be totally incorrect. Googling the error message doesn't provide too much insight. Thanks everyone! NIRVANA2764 ( talk) 04:33, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Has anyone attempted to go the "other direction" in researching NLP- that is by constructing languages that a computer could "understand" and communicate in, with the goal that they are as like as possible to natural languages? In other words, not trying to solve NLP, but to make a working approximation; it seems like this would be both informative and possible, the trick would seem to be balancing freedom in sentence form -vs- rules that limit ambiguous formations. Thank you for any help:-) Phoenixia1177 ( talk) 06:33, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for the responses:-) I'm not so much looking for programming languages, but intermediate languages that computers can converse in- limited, and more structured, artificial languages should be easier for a machine to understand, and at the same time, should also be intelligible to a person. In such a context, various NLP related problems might be solvable (again, in a limited context), I think those cases could shed illumination on the more general problem. Phoenixia1177 ( talk) 06:59, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Given an M x N array, each entry 0 or 1- representing if what tiles can be stepped on in a square tile map- when checking what adjacent squares can be moved to (have a 1) is it faster to:
In the second case, as long as you were on a viable map tile, you'd never get the okay to move out of bounds, so there's no issue with that. Also, I realize that in general, the difference will be slight, but it involves multiple entities doing the checks regularly as part of an already intensive process, so I want to remove all the overhead I can- the small hit in memory isn't an issue by itself. Finally, you can assume that M and N will never exceed 128. (In general, how does enlarging an array increase the time it takes to fetch an entry out of it?) Phoenixia1177 ( talk) 07:17, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
if (x<1 || x>M || y<1 || y>N) {
/* error handler */
}; else {
/* retrieve and process the array element */
};
Yesterday I brought a switcher, internet stopped to work and so I called my isp and they told me how to configure and then it didnt worked and they said the problem was at my side.
Tested with the pc connected to modem without a switcher and it worked so I brought a new switcher.
Test the new switcher and it didnt worked, send it to store and they tested and it worked there. They said if could be my modem settings. But I configured according to many tutorials on net and followed their steps, yet it didnt worked.
I am missing something? How I did:
1-Modem is tp-link td 8816 adsl+
2-Conection type is pppoe/pppoa
3-Username and password are configured according to my isp stuff
4- Same about VPI and VCI
5-Conection type is pppoe llc
6-DHCP is enabled
201.78.190.108 (
talk) 12:14, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
The problem was with the modem thanks.
201.78.223.139 (
talk) 11:30, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Could we link them all? All geographical articles could be connected to a country or ocean, all authors could be connected within a field somehow. But could we link all of them (without meaningless linking, of course), if they are not already all linked. OsmanRF34 ( talk) 15:25, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
I'm using CrashPlan (free version) to back my computer up to a drive in my mum's (mom's) computer. If I pause the process, wait a minute and start it again, my connection speed will be 40-60 Mb/s. Over the course of the next minute or so, it will go steadily down to about 800 Kb/s where it stabilises. Could this be my ISP (TalkTalk) deliberately throttling my connection? I know that some ISPs might do this to certain types of traffic (like illegal p2p filesharing (I'm aware that it's not necessarily illegal so no need to point that out)). Could my ISP be mistaking my traffic for filesharing and then throttling my connection? Anyway to get around it? I've got large volumes of data to transfer and my mum/mom doesn't like having her computer on when she's not using it. I can't sit and pause/unpause it every couple of minutes! -- 2.97.26.56 ( talk) 20:39, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
How does one force a refresh given that there appears to be no Ctrl key? Kittybrewster ☎ 21:37, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
When I set windows 8.1 to search everywhere and not just apps from the apps view, the search bar in the start screens apps view disappears. Why does this happen? Clover345 ( talk) 23:29, 17 October 2013 (UTC)