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Re:Finally
> console gamers are some of the most demanding 60 fps even when it doesn't make sense
Frankly, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
1. Dark Souls dipped down to a shitty 12 FPS on last gen consoles before it got remastered and got frame locked to 60 FPS on current gen consoles.
12 FPS is a SHIT experience. PERIOD.
It ALWAYS makes sense for 60 FPS **minimum.** If you can't hit 60 FPS then YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. I say that as a ex console developer, graphics and UI expert.
2. Many consoles games run at a CRAPPY 30 FPS. Many crappy console ports are framed locked to either 30 or 60 FPS _even_ when ported to PC and are completely broken when run at 120 or 144 FPS.
3. It is NOT _just_ console gamers, nor just PC gamers demanding 60 FPS. Sega's arcade Daytona USA ran at a silky smooth 60 fps back in 1994!! Because frame rate **matters** -- especially for racing games.
Why?
30 FPS = 1000 ms/30 f/s = 33.33 ms input lag
60 FPS = 1000 ms/60 f/s = 16.66 ms input lag.Next gen phones and tablets are now targeting 120 FPS *precisely* to minimize input lag.
Professional drummers can detect as little as 1 ms input lag I'm told !!
Gamers bitched for years about micro-stuttering: when a game runs at mostly 60 fps and dips for 1 frame down to 30 FPS. (I'm one of the people who can detect this -- and no I'm not special, many others can too.) Benchmarks now show the 99% percentile so we can see when games do this as a result of us demanding GPU manufacturers look into this issue.
SHMUPS are another genre where 60 FPS matters.
Fighting games have traditionally run at 60 FPS such as Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast. Because 30 FPS is shit for competitive play.
4. 60 FPS games do NOT sell any better then 30 FPS. Devs know this and fucking lazy. The majority of gamers don't know, don't care, or can't tell the difference between 30 and 60.
5. Some of us demand 60 FPS because there is a HUGE difference between 120 FPS, 60 FPS, and a crappy 30 FPS. The hardest hits are pans.
* http://red.cachefly.net/learn/...
* http://red.cachefly.net/learn/...
5. Just because YOU can't tell the difference between a shity 24 FPS and 60 FPS doesn't imply no one else can.
6. Your final clue stick would be to ask Hmm, WHY are the VR guys targeting 90 FPS??
Because people get motion sickness at lesser frame rates!
Next time instead of spouting bullshit try RESEARCHING the topic.
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The holy trinity of graphics:* 120 FPS
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Re:Finally
> console gamers are some of the most demanding 60 fps even when it doesn't make sense
Frankly, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
1. Dark Souls dipped down to a shitty 12 FPS on last gen consoles before it got remastered and got frame locked to 60 FPS on current gen consoles.
12 FPS is a SHIT experience. PERIOD.
It ALWAYS makes sense for 60 FPS **minimum.** If you can't hit 60 FPS then YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. I say that as a ex console developer, graphics and UI expert.
2. Many consoles games run at a CRAPPY 30 FPS. Many crappy console ports are framed locked to either 30 or 60 FPS _even_ when ported to PC and are completely broken when run at 120 or 144 FPS.
3. It is NOT _just_ console gamers, nor just PC gamers demanding 60 FPS. Sega's arcade Daytona USA ran at a silky smooth 60 fps back in 1994!! Because frame rate **matters** -- especially for racing games.
Why?
30 FPS = 1000 ms/30 f/s = 33.33 ms input lag
60 FPS = 1000 ms/60 f/s = 16.66 ms input lag.Next gen phones and tablets are now targeting 120 FPS *precisely* to minimize input lag.
Professional drummers can detect as little as 1 ms input lag I'm told !!
Gamers bitched for years about micro-stuttering: when a game runs at mostly 60 fps and dips for 1 frame down to 30 FPS. (I'm one of the people who can detect this -- and no I'm not special, many others can too.) Benchmarks now show the 99% percentile so we can see when games do this as a result of us demanding GPU manufacturers look into this issue.
SHMUPS are another genre where 60 FPS matters.
Fighting games have traditionally run at 60 FPS such as Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast. Because 30 FPS is shit for competitive play.
4. 60 FPS games do NOT sell any better then 30 FPS. Devs know this and fucking lazy. The majority of gamers don't know, don't care, or can't tell the difference between 30 and 60.
5. Some of us demand 60 FPS because there is a HUGE difference between 120 FPS, 60 FPS, and a crappy 30 FPS. The hardest hits are pans.
* http://red.cachefly.net/learn/...
* http://red.cachefly.net/learn/...
5. Just because YOU can't tell the difference between a shity 24 FPS and 60 FPS doesn't imply no one else can.
6. Your final clue stick would be to ask Hmm, WHY are the VR guys targeting 90 FPS??
Because people get motion sickness at lesser frame rates!
Next time instead of spouting bullshit try RESEARCHING the topic.
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Re:Translation: market penetration of 4K too low
That's not really a better example. It doesn't show the difference between 60 fps and 120 fps.
For the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps, RED, the maker of high end cameras, has these two clips:
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Re:Translation: market penetration of 4K too low
That's not really a better example. It doesn't show the difference between 60 fps and 120 fps.
For the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps, RED, the maker of high end cameras, has these two clips:
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Re:how does ANYONE benefit from a PS5?
> So no interest in 4k, 8k or any fps higher than 30.
Hope you are enjoying that shitty 12 fps in Dark Souls, because the rest of us sure aren't put up with those shenangins.
Just because _you_ can't tell the difference between 24 fps (which looks like shit) and 60 fps doesn't imply that no one else can either -- because we most certainly tell if there is micro-stuttering below 60 fps for even as little as on frame.
If you actually had a 120 Hz monitor you might even be able to visually visually see the difference between 30, 60, and 120 fps like some of us. You might even learn that VR looks like crap if runs at less then 90 Hz.
Fighting games have, thankfully, LONG been running at 60 FPS -- at least since the Soul Calibur 1 days on Dreamcast, in spite of people like you not knowing or not caring about the difference. Thankfully, Soul Calibur 6 is also running at 60 fps.
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Re:how does ANYONE benefit from a PS5?
> So no interest in 4k, 8k or any fps higher than 30.
Hope you are enjoying that shitty 12 fps in Dark Souls, because the rest of us sure aren't put up with those shenangins.
Just because _you_ can't tell the difference between 24 fps (which looks like shit) and 60 fps doesn't imply that no one else can either -- because we most certainly tell if there is micro-stuttering below 60 fps for even as little as on frame.
If you actually had a 120 Hz monitor you might even be able to visually visually see the difference between 30, 60, and 120 fps like some of us. You might even learn that VR looks like crap if runs at less then 90 Hz.
Fighting games have, thankfully, LONG been running at 60 FPS -- at least since the Soul Calibur 1 days on Dreamcast, in spite of people like you not knowing or not caring about the difference. Thankfully, Soul Calibur 6 is also running at 60 fps.
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Re:Do video card upgrades even matter anymore
> Do video card upgrades even matter anymore?
Yes.
* VR requires 90 Hz minimum (Thank god!)
* 4K Gaming at 120 Hz requires beefy hardware.
* ENB modsIf you can't even tell the difference between 24 Hz and 60 Hz
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Re:Do video card upgrades even matter anymore
> Do video card upgrades even matter anymore?
Yes.
* VR requires 90 Hz minimum (Thank god!)
* 4K Gaming at 120 Hz requires beefy hardware.
* ENB modsIf you can't even tell the difference between 24 Hz and 60 Hz
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Re:Slashdotters
> I love that Slashdotters are all about VR,
You don't speak for all of
The movie industry still doesn't have a clue between 24 fps and 60 fps
* OWE my eyes @ 24 fps !
http://red.cachefly.net/learn/...* Not bad @ 60 fps !
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Re:Slashdotters
> I love that Slashdotters are all about VR,
You don't speak for all of
The movie industry still doesn't have a clue between 24 fps and 60 fps
* OWE my eyes @ 24 fps !
http://red.cachefly.net/learn/...* Not bad @ 60 fps !
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Re:Really bad game to use for this comparison.
> Can anyone really tell much above 30 fps?
Oh please. There is a MAJOR difference between gaming at 30 Hz, 60 Hz, and 120 Hz. I play most of my games at 60 Hz and can tell _instantly_ when a game drops to 30 Hz.
This is NOT limited to games.
If you don't have a 120 Hz monitor and haven't tried LightBoost then you really don't even know what the hell you are talking about saying "30 fps is 'good enough'."
Some game devs are completely ignorant of the importance of 60 Hz.
* http://kotaku.com/5393106/inso...Thankfully some game devs DO understand the importance of 60 Hz.
* http://www.gamespot.com/articl...Please go read up on Temporal Anti-Aliasing if you don't understand why movies can get away with built in Motion Blur.
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Re:Really bad game to use for this comparison.
> Can anyone really tell much above 30 fps?
Oh please. There is a MAJOR difference between gaming at 30 Hz, 60 Hz, and 120 Hz. I play most of my games at 60 Hz and can tell _instantly_ when a game drops to 30 Hz.
This is NOT limited to games.
If you don't have a 120 Hz monitor and haven't tried LightBoost then you really don't even know what the hell you are talking about saying "30 fps is 'good enough'."
Some game devs are completely ignorant of the importance of 60 Hz.
* http://kotaku.com/5393106/inso...Thankfully some game devs DO understand the importance of 60 Hz.
* http://www.gamespot.com/articl...Please go read up on Temporal Anti-Aliasing if you don't understand why movies can get away with built in Motion Blur.
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Re:Why bother?
grr, fixed the 24 fps link
http://red.cachefly.net/learn/...
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Re:Why bother?
Total nonsense
OWE my eyes @ 24 fps !
âhttp://red.cachefly.net/learn/panning-24fps-180.mp4ââSilky smooth @ 60 fps !â
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Re:Quick...
Funny how you hold onto falsified anti-fracking propaganda, yes it was falsified and the people who did that are facing charges for doing so. So you support falsified "science" as long as it matches up with your political views then?
This link is complete garbage. The journalist Phelim McAleer asks the filmmaker Josh Fox about a segment of Gasland which shows a Colorado resident light his tap water on fire. He asks why Gasland didn't mention that there was a 1976 report of naturally occurring methane in the water in Colorado. Fox replies that one can distinguish biogenic vs thermogenic gas, and those residents said they were not able to light their water on fire before fracking. McAleer then goes on about that report, then Fox says so what, there were also people in NY lighting their water on fire in 1936, but that has nothing to do with fracking in Colorado. Then McAleer is like ZOMG, so this dates back to 1936, why doesn't the movie say that? Fox says because it's irrelevant, then the video cuts trying to make it look like Fox just admitted to a big cover-up. Crap journalism at its worst.
Fox posted this reply to the pseudo-debunking of his film by the gas industry shills.
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Re:Done right, fracking is harmless
You seem to know what you're talking about. I'm just an armchair muckraker, so I'll defer to your numbers. I'm curious to hear your response to this question: why is it that places like Marcellus are only being drilled now? If we've had the technology to do it for so long, why didn't we start drilling there during the Reagan push for energy independence, for example?
The argument from the anti-shale-drilling folks, the ones I tend to be more sympathetic towards, is that there have been new developments "that unlocks gas that was previously not considered recoverable". I pulled that from a rebuttal to the rebuttal of Gasland by the film's creators. A lengthier quote from the same document reads,
On Chesapeake Energy's Hydraulic Fracturing "fact" site, this contradiction is evident: "Hydraulic
fracturing, commonly referred to as fracing, is a proven technological advancement which allows
natural gas producers to safely recover natural gas from deep shale formations. This discovery has
the potential to.... [emphasis added].” Later in the same passage we get the same refrain: "Hydraulic
fracturing has been used by the oil and gas industry since the 1940s..."Since you seem to have substantially more knowledge of the industry than I do, I'd like to hear your take on that. The whole document is an interesting read, and one that seems pretty convincing to me, but again, I am very much a layman when it comes to this stuff. In any case, I appreciate your previous informed responses. I suspect that I will remain biased against shale drilling, but I do my damnedest to remain open to new information.
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Re:it's an arms race
Debunking of the debunking:
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Re:To say nothing of their own reputation
You don't really know what you are talking about. Ask any nuke-rated pipe welder or fitter what sizes they work with.
Note the vessel thickness, which isn't hard to breach for someone who doesn't mind dying. An RPG will go through much thicker armor, or a thermit package could be attached and ignited. Don't be so impressed by metal.
The Fukushima vessel is listed as four inches thick. Note the PERSONNEL DOOR in the drawing. Open THAT and the thickness of the REST of the vessel doesn't matter!
http://nei.cachefly.net/static/images/BWR_illustration.jpg
http://www.cbi.com/markets/project-profiles/georgia-power-nuclear/
Vessels are in concrete structure, but not "potted" directly, for they and their piping must be inspected. That means they must be accessed.
See the nice building. Note that once you enter it, it's defensible after you kill the workers. The same concrete that protects the reactor by from the gentle caress of incoming aircraft makes a fine bunker and covers your door breach operation.
An RPG can penetrate about ten inches of steel armor once you are inside.
EFPs can punch armor from a distance. Ignore the delivery system but note the small size of the munition on the Fire Ant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syuu_g7svoE
A shaped charge is plenty capable. Note the listed effects of this smallish one:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/bullets2-shaped-charge.htm
"The Charge, Demolition, Shaped, 150mm is designed to make holes of considerable depth and breadth in a variety of materials. It consists of a 150mm diameter conical steel liner with three removable legs which provide a standoff of 145mm. The Charge, Demolition, Shaped, 150mm contains 3.1 kg of HE and its total mass is 4.9 kg.
"Target Material Depth of Hole (mm)
Armour Plate 178
Mild Steel 250
Hard Rock (Granite) 380
Reinforced concrete 760
Soft rock (Sandstone) 910"Any questions? None of this info on reactors or metal cutting or explosives is obscure. Metal is cut and explosives are used to demolish industrial structure all over the world every day!
Terrorists could smuggle the illegal bits the same way drug smugglers get tons of weed and coke and illegal immigrants across borders. A roll of demolition cord could sit in the open among coils of wire. Semtex can be poured into all sorts of innocent containers like drink coolers. Detonators and blasting caps can be neatly fitted into consumer appliances and pass even x-ray inspection.
The gear and the perps can't get into action if they are killed before they enter the premises, so killing them is what to do.
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Re:Nothing but respect...
Sorry, This is posted here so everyone sees it. Posted AC, so as not to be a karma whore.
This is a link to the most accurate and technical information available to the public.
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Re:I'd be open to it, but good luck with everyoneSolandri wrote:
Supposedly some of these spent fuel rods in building #4 caught fire
First off, the fuel pellets in these boiling water reactors are made of uranium dioxide -- a ceramic which has a melting point of 2,865 degrees Celsius and the zircaloy cladding melts somewhere in the range of 1,850 to 1,975 degrees Celsius (depends on which alloy they are using). I could not even find a combustion temperature for either material. That doesn't matter, though, because the temperature of the spent fuel in the pool would be somewhere around 200 degrees Celsius, depending on how long it had been taken out of the reactor.
So it is unreasonable to speculate that the fuel rods have `caught fire`.
Secondly, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said that an oil leak in a cooling water pump at Unit 4 was the cause of the fire the media keeps talking about.
I would strongly suggest anybody interested in following this event watch that web page and/or this one for accurate, knowledgeable, non-scaremongering reporting. I've heard too many news reports totally screw the facts up. (Like when they reported there was a 3rd explosion when really it was the 2nd explosion that happened in the #3 reactor building.)
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Re:So everything about JFK & Marylin Monroe de
Who wants to bet Kissinger will die laughing as he is pulled into the earth by thousands of filthy sore-ridden hands on December 31st in a whirling cloud of shrieking flaming gnats, bilious yellow smoke and obese demon farts?
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Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago?
Like AvitarX, I want to explain to the learned idiots at Slate -- always wrong about everything -- that Woz loves the tablet, and lined up overnight at the Apple Store to get one. Here's a live interview: http://twit.cachefly.net/video/specials/specials0015/specials0015_h264b_864x480_500.mp4 An interesting point he makes is that he wanted all the expansion cards on the Apple computer, where Jobs wanted to drop them. Maybe Jobs went too far, but eventually, Jobs was in favor of expansion, just through dedicated ports for printers and so on. So, who sells a computer today with printer expansion slots?
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Re:We're adapted to a hunter-gatherer society
Dang that thagomizer, skewing the statistics down.
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Re:We're adapted to a hunter-gatherer society
Dang that thagomizer, skewing the statistics down.
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Re:Wow....
If you were in Manhattan and saw a low-flying commercial airliner tailed by two F-16s, you wouldn't blink an eyelash?
I wouldn't see it to begin with, I never look at planes, I'm too scared of eventually making eye contact with that plane.
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CSS
The facial expression I see in Slashdot's CSS makeover looks kind of like a Picasso.
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Re:25% of my society is sweedish
No, I'm pretty sure the box said Swedish.
In a related story, researchers have discovered that the Google Translator translates "whooooosh" as "Ljudet av ett skÃmt som flyger Ãver huvudet".
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Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here...
What is wrong with me?! Dude, what is wrong with you! Just look at a pony. Here. Now tell me you don't want to fuck that pony's "flutter valley" till it bleeds, while Ariel the little mermaid is riding it, and her father, King Triton, and her six sisters watch with a smile of approval? Next you'll say you never dreamed of doing Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer... Retard!
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Re:What about lenses resolution?
Read the article before you comment. The 261 mpixel model is a large format back which will use custom large format lenses, not plain 35MM SLR lenses. It's also 186mm x 56mm, RED has a nice comparison shot of the various sensor sizes at http://red.cachefly.net/13/page12.jpg
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Re:That's it!
As will this Greek statue from about 300 BC and this young boy with the small penis that Michaelangelo Bonoratti carved about a thousand years ago (it's been thirty years since my art classes and I've slept since then and can't be arsed to look it up).
I haven't seen the 2 girls 1 cup, is that new?
If I rewrite my journals so instead of hookers the girls are teenagers, are the UK police going to come across the pond after me? Or is it only illustrations? Text can tittilate also, you know.
Tami (link NSFW) is only about four foot eight, if I draw her (only flat chested instead of those big fat boobies) would I be breaking the law in England? How about if I draw "Bighead", the hooker with the smallest boobs I've ever seen?
I't nice to know that politicians in other countries are as fucktardedly brain dead as ours. There's hope for my country after all! -
Re:"Counterfeit" not an issue...
From what I understand, the counterfeit routers are made in the same factories by the same people who make the real routers; they just keep the assembly line running past the hours that Cisco is paying them for.
I keep hearing this. But look at the images of the hardware side by side -
Re:Magnets BENDING light beam?!?!
http://atsmedia.cachefly.net/uploads/titor10.jpg
I guess you are right. Google is useful.
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Link for above re: the "I will not submit" shirt
the link was supposed to be on this word in parent: shirt
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Re:Lost. But than I'm stupid.Perhaps in this instance it's overkill, but the practice of breaking up a program into separate components increases security and maintainability.
Dan Bernstein is a proponent of this approach, as can be seen by looking at the approach taken in his programs such as Qmail.
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If only
All they had to do was merge the 'search' and the 'search dns' inputs and it would be great.
as it is there are two inputs, one called 'search' that umm searches, and one called go that umm... searches in a different way.
One 50Char box that searches unless you type in a domain name, or news:// etc.. or two 20 char boxes, the choice isn't yours.
Take a look
Wow, just notices the extra shopping, searches in a different way box, good thing it's bigger than the other two on a consumer product.
