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> If they buy up another promising game and then shut it down

I assume you are talking about the intriguing Project Offset ?

I never did understand Intel's logic in that. They aren't a game dev studio nor publisher. Were they hoping to showcase Intel's CPU and/or Larrabee performance "advantage" and then when that completely FAILED (compared to regular discrete GPUs) they canceled it?

Or were they hoping to leverage buying Havok (Game Physic Engine) in 2007 when they bought Project Offset in 2008 ?

It looks like there is a plasma physics aspect to quantization that Arp did not realize. Active galactic nuclei have been compared by some plasma physicists to plasma focus devices. If that is true, the inherent redshift component could represent matter of a lower mass (perhaps it is electron deficient). Then, as the ejection moves away from the active center, it would go through a sequence of regions with different densities. Electrons might rapidly rush in. His suggestion in the theory section of his Intrinsic Redshift video is that the preferred redshift values result from the quasar interacting with these different environments (the galactic "hierarchy").

Or, a person could even reason their way to quantum effects happening at very large scales. Either way, it is important to learn what the plasma focus device is. Once you witness the resultant complexity of this simple plasma device, you should start to witness the risk that astrophysicists take when they completely ignore laboratory plasma observations. A person cannot just reason their way to the behavior of the plasma focus, yet it's not a very complex device:

The Big Bang Never Happened
Eric Lerner

"My conflict with conventional physics started when I was an undergraduate at Columbia in the mid-sixties. Physics itself interested me, learning why things happen as they do -- mathematics was merely a tool to understand and test the underlying physical concepts. That was not the way physics was taught; instead, mathematical techniques were emphasized. This is almost exclusively what students are still tested on, and obviously what they study the most.

I went on to graduate work in physics at the University of Maryland, intending to get a doctorate. But after a year, I left. I couldn't reconcile myself with the mathematical approach, which seemed sterile and abstract -- especially in particle physics, in which I had considered specializing. After leaving school in 1970 I began to work as a science writer -- first for Collier's Encyclopedia and then freelance, writing technical reports and magazine articles. This kept me in touch with the latest developments in astrophysics, controlled fusion, and particle physics, among other things; my work was an opportunity to complete my education in physics. I especially learned about plasma physics, which had not been touched on at Columbia or Maryland.

The seventies were the heyday of the Big Bang cosmology, but I was skeptical of it and the associated developments in high-energy physics. I knew from my Columbia days that there were fundamental contradictions in particle theory which had been swept under the rug (see Chapter Eight). The Big Bang's universe, wound up in the beginning and steadily running down, seemed wildly unscientific and I knew that its theorists had never resolved the fundamental problem of the initial source of energy. It seemed far more likely to me that the universe had always existed, its evolution accelerating over the aeons.

I thought a great deal about problems that interested me in physics and cosmology, but I was busy earning a living. So it was not until 1981 that I actually began serious scientific research. The origin of that first project dated back to 1974, when I met Winston Bostick while we worked with a group advocating greater funds for controlled-fusion research.

Bostick's research centered on a fusion device called the plasma focus. It was the inspiration for my first astrophysical theories. The focus -- invented independently in the early sixties by a Soviet, N. V. Filippov, and an American, Joseph Mather -- is extremely simple, in contrast to the huge and complex tokamak, a large magnetic device that has long dominated fusion research. The focus consisted of two conducting copper cylinders, several centimeters across, nested inside each other (Fig. 6.12). When a large current is discharged across the cylinder, a remarkable sequence of events ens

Re: "I'm not putting you on the spot to defend yourself, but I've read many of your electric universe posts and the main thing missing from all of them is any indication that your theory explains any observations better than the conventional scientific approach that gravity dominates the large-scale structure of the universe."

Let's review the situation then:

NASA: Plasma, Plasma, Everywhere

Plasma often behaves like a gas, except that it conducts electricity and is affected by magnetic fields. On an astronomical scale, plasma is common. The Sun is composed of plasma, fire is plasma, fluorescent and neon lights contain plasma.

"99.9 percent of the Universe is made up of plasma," says Dr. Dennis Gallagher, a plasma physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. "Very little material in space is made of rock like the Earth."

Such acknowledgements are common enough that we can list out all of the references.

Big Bang proponents have left the mistaken impression that the only way to explain microwaves coming at us from all directions - the "cosmic microwave background" - is with a Big Bang. In fact, this is totally incorrect:

"High-power microwave generation on earth belongs exclusively to devices using relativistic electron beams ... A relativistic electron beam that does not produce microwave radiation is unknown. These same basic mechanisms are likely to have their natural analogs in cosmic plasmas."

Then there is the problem with the CMB temperature predictions:

[Eric Lerner] First of all, the temperature of the microwave background - basically the amount of energy - was not what the Big Bang supporters had predicted. They had predicted a much higher temperature.

[Anthony Peratt] So, it was 50 degrees Kelvin that was being compared against the 2-5 degrees Kelvin from the steady state universe. This may not sound like much, but energy density - where we measure the absolute differences - the difference is four orders of magnitude: 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 difference. So, there is an enormous difference between 50 degrees Kelvin - a rather poor indicator of what is happening in the universe - and 3 degrees Kelvin.

A universe dominated by plasmas must be a filamentary universe. This claim was originally stated by Hannes Alfven in 1963 in a text titled "Cosmical Electrodynamics". He is referring here to cosmic plasmas:

"medium-density plasma (and perhaps also low-density plasmas) seem very often to be strongly inhomogeneous, exhibiting a filamentary structure which often may be parallel to the magnetic field."

Peratt noted:

"The suggestion that the universe be filamentary and cellular was generally disregarded until the 1980s, when a series of unexpected observations showed filamentary structure on the Galactic, intergalactic, and supergalactic scale."

Alfven predicted it, and anybody who has taken the time to learn the plasma-based model can see that without lots of filamentation at interstellar and intergalactic scales, there can be no plasma universe. That's because plasmas tend to form into filaments when they are conducting electric currents.

Like many of Alfven's successful predictions, it was ignored:

"According to some scientists and philosophers of science, a theory is or should be judged by its ability to ma

I'll take the "offtopic" hit, but whenever I see a post about starlight, I believe this should be posted.

https://youtu.be/FhKJgqxNDD8

DJ Khaled getting busted for cryptocurrency is one of those stories that we'll look back on someday and laugh. I mean, it's probably not a laughing matter for DJ Khaled, but it's pretty funny and really a slice of life in 2018.

But Ludacris' verse on that DJ Khaled song is fire. It's one for the ages.

Ludacris goin' in on the verse
Cause I never been defeated and I won't stop now
Keep your hands up get 'em in the sky for the homies
That didn't make it and the folks locked down
I never went no where
But they saying Luda's back
Blame it on that Conjure
The hood call it Luda-Yac
And I'm on this foolish track, so I spit my foolish flow
My hands go up and down like strippers booty's go
My verses still be serving, tight like a million virgins
Last time on a Khaled remix, now I'm on the original version
Can't never count me out
Y'all better count me in
Got twenty bank accounts, accountants count me in
Make millions every year, the south's champion
Cause all I do, all I, all I, all I
All I do is

https://youtu.be/GGXzlRoNtHU

When even Weird Al parodies you then I guess you know you are popular. =P

What about when the annotations are pop-up facts?

I've put almost 100 into this video. I'll be sad to see them go.

That said, I'm yet to find what YouTube's one good show is...

It's the show where the plumber shows you how to unclog drains. That guy is a hoot.

Better still, check out Scotty Kilmer's channel. He's an old-school mechanic who fixes up old cars. This guys tips have helped me out more than once. Plus, he's lit up like he just drank a couple of quarts of espresso.

https://youtu.be/9PUTfxrPIfA

The closest you got to a vagina is when you were born, Chris...

Fox put the entire thing live on youtube well before CNN. You can
still watch.

Too bad you didn't actually watch the video about protecting yourself from wildfire smoke. The Camp Fire was 180 miles away from the San Francisco Bay Area. The air quality there and throughout the state was worse than China and India.

This reminds me that the radio stations started playing Christmas music today and it just makes me sick that they consider "My Favorite Things" a Christmas song. It's not and I wish they'd knock it the fuck off.

In fact, I wish they'd knock the entire Christmas music thing off until like maybe 2-3 days before Christmas. Don't nobody need to hear those fucking songs again, especially the shitty versions.

But if you absolutely must hear a Xmas song, here's one for you that won't make you puke:

https://youtu.be/UqZ1O0YhY5Q

OK, you guys can go back to talking about Chess or whatever you're on about. I mean, Chess has been around since about the 7th century. Did you really think it was gonna go away all of a sudden just because of the internet? I mean, it outlasted the middle ages and the industrial revolution. It can probably handle the fucking internet.

Are grown people supposed to talk about cartoon movies?

Indeed. Currently, no laws against that. Perhaps a brief refresher is in order ....
Avatar 1 and 2
Half the footage of most Star Wars movies.
Heavy Metal
Fantasia
Wizards
Toy Story 2
Another Bakshi producion, Fritz the Cat
Yellow Submarine
Ghost in the Shell
And my list can't be complete without a couple from Nick Park & Aardman Animations, Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers

I'm obviously leaving off a few Disney epics and some Japanese cult classics. But yes, grownups can talk about animation.

Are grown people supposed to talk about cartoon movies?

Indeed. Currently, no laws against that. Perhaps a brief refresher is in order ....
Avatar 1 and 2
Half the footage of most Star Wars movies.
Heavy Metal
Fantasia
Wizards
Toy Story 2
Another Bakshi producion, Fritz the Cat
Yellow Submarine
Ghost in the Shell
And my list can't be complete without a couple from Nick Park & Aardman Animations, Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers

I'm obviously leaving off a few Disney epics and some Japanese cult classics. But yes, grownups can talk about animation.

Why spend time on privacy when he's so busy smoking meat! https://youtu.be/eBxTEoseZak

I'm looking forward to a ton more. Apparently it takes 3 minutes for some injected sugar to be distributed from your leg into your bladder. Too bad this tech won't be used for sex research (because such research is nearly non-existent compared to other fields).

Here's the two article videos so you don't have to enable a bunch of scripts to get at them:
Glucose metabolism
Delivery and distribution of a radiolabeled sugar
Main image
(Not a goatse link)

I'm looking forward to a ton more. Apparently it takes 3 minutes for some injected sugar to be distributed from your leg into your bladder. Too bad this tech won't be used for sex research (because such research is nearly non-existent compared to other fields).

Here's the two article videos so you don't have to enable a bunch of scripts to get at them:
Glucose metabolism
Delivery and distribution of a radiolabeled sugar
Main image
(Not a goatse link)

OTOH, the Note 9 is by far the best phone I've ever had. The curved edges are a harmless gimmick and can be fully protected with a flip case if you really have to.

The reason it has two cameras is that you can't actually make a single good one fit in a phone. The regular phone camera is fixed at what, 30mm equivalent focal length? That's fine and I'm as big of a fan of prime lenses as the next guy, but there are things that you just can't do well with that focal length, like shoot a portrait or capture action further away.

With an SLR (or one of those fancy new mirrorless things) you just change the lens to a more appropriate one, but with a phone you're stuck of course with what's built-in. You could try one of those snap-on teleconverters but they're garbage of course, and a theoretical 100mp sensor might have enough details to crop in, but such a thing doesn't exist (and wouldn't help with other aspects). So unless somebody manages to fit a zoom lens in a phone, multiple cameras is the only way to increase the versatility.

Now whether or not they'll actually have 6 cameras I don't know, that certainly seems excessive, but some Chinese phones already do have 3 cameras in the back.

But can they pick them up directly from the source while it's actively trying to get away?

Let's see, your blood type is probably on your drivers license and your doctor at least has it.

Here's a drone that can find and kill you. No, really.

And if you're dead, you're not moving, and the ambulance cam come pick you up. At least we're not doing this.

But can they pick them up directly from the source while it's actively trying to get away?

Let's see, your blood type is probably on your drivers license and your doctor at least has it.

Here's a drone that can find and kill you. No, really.

And if you're dead, you're not moving, and the ambulance cam come pick you up. At least we're not doing this.

"It's not reasonable because it's so cold. And there is hardly any water. There's absolutely no food, and the big thing, I just remind these guys, there's nothing to breathe."

This sounds like a job for space botanists. Mars will fear their botany poweres.

If you want to see a good film noir on YouTube right now, check out THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946), starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin and a 24 year old, smoking hot Lizabeth Scott. It's good nasty fun and there are no commercials. It was directed by the great Lewis Milestone.

Here's a link. Don't ever say I ain't done nothing for you.

https://youtu.be/wHVGP8S984c

It wonâ(TM)t be in my lifetime, but I hope that - some day - we really do have an honest-to-goodness deep space network.

Maybe I'm just a depressing old fogie. With that intro, nope. It's just too hard to get out of the gravity well.

Oh, we can DO it, but just barely. We've had the combustion engine moving things around horizontally for a century. We've had air-flight for "nearly" as long, and "Space Flight" (well, there ain't no air, so it's space!) for half that. We've visited the moon in person, and other planets by proxy. We've even sent two crafts into interplanetary space, outside Sol's gravity well. WHEEE!

Going vertically is just much harder than horizontally, both equipment-wise, energy-wise, and intelligence-wise. (Any idiot can drive a car now-a-days, but back at the beginning, you had to know how to start it and crank it by hand, how to light the lights (candles!), and the correct fuel to add.) I'd be curious to see how many square feet -- meters, if you're drinking tea -- in livable space we've sent to the moon, and then just around Earth orbit. The moon/Mars isn't going to be a tourist destination anytime in the next 200 years without an energy breakthrough. Yeah, we can ship a few people someplace far away AKA Captain Cook (or was that Captain Bligh?) but for having people living in Tombstone, Arizona, Mars is unbelievable, never mind having a McD, WalM, or Micky there to visit when you're bored.

We can maybe go get Asteroids (I loved that game when it first came out) for minerals and metal, but we're still trading energy for it. Until we can solve the energy problem (remember in the '50s when All Electric Medallion Homes were the rage? Power was going to be "Too cheap to meter" -- a prediction for a fission utopia. It'll be here Any Day Now.)

Back in the 70s I was ready to go, excited about the moon landings and wanted us to go further. But further is a LOOONG way away, and that's just the nearest planets. We're better off Mars-forming our children's bodies instead of trying to Terraform Mars.

Don't get me wrong -- I'd love to see us try. I'd love all of the accidental scientific and technology fallouts that occur while producing all of that. I'd like my tax money to go TOWARDS that. But unless you're a large handful of specialists, you're not going to make it out of the atmosphere, never mind our local well. Who knows, though, maybe Andy Griffith can save us.

Oh, I'm sure we'll eventually have "an honest-to-goodness deep space network" but it'll always be machines on the far end.

Sorry for being so negative. Maybe the younger kids, standing on the shoulders of giants, can see better. Link Or, maybe not.

The title of this article reminded me Life of Brian's solidarity, brother.

A silicone molding works on TouchID and I assume other capacitive scanners. It might also be possible to lift a print off a shiny surface with a bit more luck/skill/equipment too: https://youtu.be/2u4ZLGsw1zo?t...

https://youtu.be/3xf45nHi4xQ

So is this the impact that caused the Caroline Bays?

You're correct on all counts.

I'm surprised this is even a question any more. We've had generative art for decades, and the work is only getting more interesting and mature. For example, musician Brian Eno released procedural music last year as an iOS app (his 4th). If something so simple can be considered art, then certainly art produced by AI can be as well.

If you want to hear what it sounds like:

https://youtu.be/Dwo-tvmEKhk

They really should have launched Wednesday"...

FedEx... Time to bring back ICBM numbers in our .sig's :)

> 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.

--
The holy trinity of graphics:

* 120 FPS
* 12-bit / channel HDR
* 300 DPI

2016 was the watershed year when the mainstream media finally dropped the mask and came out as full-throated political partisans. They openly supported the most corrupt candidate for President in American history. Their treatment of Trump was unprecedented in its hostility. The media live in an echo chamber where they think that they are loved and adored by the population. They believe they are the final authority on truth and that we, their grateful audience, should believe everything they tell us.

"The Times completely missed the story, and misled its readers in the process." Source: New York Times.

Wikileaks detailing how the Democrats are coordinating with the media. Organization after organization, CNN, McClatchy, Time, WSJ, the list goes on and on. How do any of these people still have jobs after being exposed like this?

Look at all these respected journalists express surprise, dismay, and a total lack of understanding that Hillary lost. They even admit it: "I genuinely do not understand America."

CBS's John Dickerson: Donald Trump Didn't Ruin the Press's Reputation, We Did That Ourselves

High frequency traders at big banks merely locate their data center / computing presence in close physical proximity to the point where the trades occur.

Not only in close physical proximity (eg Paternoster Square in London) but also for direct line-of-sight via microwave link. Eg the HFT microwave links in Aurora Illinois. Those will always be faster than a round-trip via satellite.

If it's Kizuna AI, I don't care, I'm watching it.

Is it too late to apologize?

So what. (The link goes to the relevant part, but if you don't know the video, watch it all.)

Supposedly the phone was in a case to obscure the pre-production model design. Maybe that's BS and it's really as thick as a brick of course. We'll see soon enough.

I'm sure joining two phones together would have a few use cases but frankly I think that would be more pointless than this. On the other hand, plenty of people use flip covers with their phones and this would could essentially work the same way if the tech is good enough. Normally the screen would be protected by the back of the flexible display, and you'd open it the same way you open a flip case to access the screen. Everything would stay on one half of the display until you fully extend it. The only limitation really is that you can't flip the cover 360 degrees behind the phone or store credit cards inside.

"If me tell someone me idea, 'ow does I know they ain't gonna nick it?"

"Um, that's tough, they usually do."

"'cause, like, when the Playstation 1 came out, me was tellin' me Julie; what would be wicked would be if they brought out something that was better than this! And then 2 years later what come out? Playstation 2! 'ow does you think they got the idea from me?"

"Maybe Julie told them, I don't know..."

-- Ali G

Well, You know the rest.....

Yep. Just goes to show ya, you can be smart (or lucky) about some things and downright dumb about other things. "A mans got to know his limitations"

Ah-ha, that skit! Thanks!

I *really* wish we could ban all ads. Getting rid of the visual pollution alone would make it worth it.

As in Bill Hicks the fantastic comedian? ?

What's the reference?

Nice one. Wish I had some mod points.

For the youngins: https://youtu.be/lbruOe6Yii0?t=104

Modern astronomy is endlessly disproving its own predictions:

      Black Holes Behaving Badly

At what point does your collection of counterexamples force you to admit that your theory is WRONG?

Folks, it's insane to think that the large-scale structure of this Universe is governed almost completely by one, solely attractive, extremely weak force called "gravity". There has got to be more to it than that, and I submit that the unexplored idea is astronomical electromagnetism, particularly as it pertains to plasma physics; this universe is electric.

Modern astronomy is endlessly disproving its own predictions:

      Black Holes Behaving Badly

At what point does your collection of counterexamples force you to admit that your theory is WRONG?

Folks, it's insane to think that the large-scale structure of this Universe is governed almost completely by one, solely attractive, extremely weak force called "gravity". There has got to be more to it than that, and I submit that the unexplored idea is astronomical electromagnetism, particularly as it pertains to plasma physics; this universe is electric.

Modern astronomy is endlessly disproving its own predictions:

      Black Holes Behaving Badly

At what point does your collection of counterexamples force you to admit that your theory is WRONG?

Folks, it's insane to think that the large-scale structure of this Universe is governed almost completely by one, solely attractive, extremely weak force called "gravity". There has got to be more to it than that, and I submit that the unexplored idea is astronomical electromagnetism, particularly as it pertains to plasma physics; this universe is electric.

Modern astronomy is endlessly disproving its own predictions:

        * Black Holes Behaving Badly

At what point does your collection of counterexamples force you to admit that your theory is WRONG?

Folks, it's insane to think that the large-scale structure of this Universe is governed almost completely by one, solely attractive, extremely weak force called "gravity". There has got to be more to it than that, and I submit that the unexplored idea is astronomical electromagnetism, particularly as it pertains to plasma physics; this universe is electric.

Modern astronomy is endlessly disproving its own predictions:

        * Black Holes Behaving Badly

At what point does your collection of counterexamples force you to admit that your theory is WRONG?

Folks, it's insane to think that the large-scale structure of this Universe is governed almost completely by one, solely attractive, extremely weak force called "gravity". There has got to be more to it than that, and I submit that the unexplored idea is astronomical electromagnetism, particularly as it pertains to plasma physics; this universe is electric.

Modern astronomy is endlessly disproving its own predictions:

        * Black Holes Behaving Badly

At what point does your collection of counterexamples force you to admit that your theory is WRONG?

Folks, it's insane to think that the large-scale structure of this Universe is governed almost completely by one, solely attractive, extremely weak force called "gravity". There has got to be more to it than that, and I submit that the unexplored idea is astronomical electromagnetism, particularly as it pertains to plasma physics; this universe is electric.

Modern astronomy is endlessly disproving its own predictions:

        * Black Holes Behaving Badly [youtu.be]

At what point does your collection of counterexamples force you to admit that your theory is WRONG?

Folks, it's insane to think that the large-scale structure of this Universe is governed almost completely by one, solely attractive, extremely weak force called "gravity". There has got to be more to it than that, and I submit that the unexplored idea is astronomical electromagnetism, particularly as it pertains to plasma physics; this universe is electric.

Modern astronomy is endlessly disproving its own predictions:

        * Black Holes Behaving Badly

At what point does your collection of counterexamples force you to admit that your theory is WRONG?

Folks, it's insane to think that this Universe is governed almost solely by one, solely attractive, extremely weak force called "gravity". There has got to be more to it than that.

Hey don't you have a story you tell every time someone mentions mac mini??

That would be Friday's video and a followup to my iPhone XR video from two weeks ago. Make sure you are subscribed and clicked on the notification bell. ;)