Maybe I'm nitpicking, but why are you comparing the price of a processor made at 90nm (Windsor - AMD gives codenames to all of the cores of each cpu they produce) with one at 65nm (Brisbane)? There is more to a processor than just clocked speed. It's a lot harder to make a higher density chip, so a 65nm chip clocked at 4400+ is going to cost more than a 90nm one at 4600+.
As far as I can tell there isn't even a Brisbane 4600+, but for a drop in "200" mhz, you'll be consuming a less power to run the Brisbane 4400+. Less power means less heat, which means longer life at those clocked speeds.
I just wanted to point this out, as a lot of people seem to have the misconception that the only part of a processor that matters is the clock speed. There is a lot more that goes into it. The same concept was around back in the day when the Barton core processors were released. While clocked at the same speeds of the Thoroughbred core, the Barton core has more cache and a higher front-side bus speed, giving it a significant performance increase.
For once, we leave raising children to the responsibility of the parents rather than the government. Think the same thing will happen with videogames? Or will we still have those insisting that violent games are to blame for children who commit crimes, not bad parenting?
Punk died before it was ever "born". The way punk has always been defined, and still is defined by most is as an anti-establishment movement. But, once you form an "establishment" (essentially) to fight THE "establishment", aren't you defeating your own purpose?
Remember kids, you're different, just like everyone else.
If that trend continues, we'll end up with phones that you can't actually use with a plan...because they don't actually do anything except make cool noises (i.e. you can't communicate to other people with 'em). Like boost mobile?
Because VLC handles codecs internally. It has all of the common decoders built into it so you don't have to hassle with installing a ton of different AVI codecs. Everything I have thrown at VLC plays, and I haven't had to mess with any installations other than the one to install VLC. The AVI file format frustrates me, too, and I got tired of installing codec packages bloated with spyware and proprietary codecs that nobody uses. So, I use VLC.
The same things happens today when I try to open a.avi file and find out I need the latest and greatest codec from Windows Media Player in order to view it.
It's things like this that made me drop Windows Media Player altogether and switch my main media player to VLC.
With as much wireless technology as there is at our disposal, wouldn't it be possible to create a program that would automatically generate authenticity verification files as soon as a camera was hooked up to the computer (and sent to a server)? Better yet, a version of photoshop for people in the news industry that has manipulative tools locked. Wouldn't something like that be more feasible?
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The thing about Pandora is that it becomes more effective at finding music that you really like the more often you use it. It takes a while, but eventually you start to hear music that more closely matches your tastes - from bands that you've never heard before. The Music Genome Project (http://pandora.com/mgp.shtml) is a fascinating idea to me and is what appeals to me more than a site like last.fm.
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I would pay for something like Pandora if it worked on a portable music device. I love using Pandora but having to listen to it through a web browser is the only thing I hate about it. It'll be nice to see what happens with it in the future.
To a lot of people, water cooling isn't only about the possible performance increase, it's also about the sound (or lack thereof). Personally, I haven't tried water cooling yet, but I would definitely like to get the sound of a buzzsaw out of my PC.
As far as performance goes, I recently upgraded from RAM that had a CAS latency of 3 (Corsair XMS) to some that had more aggressive timings (OCZ performance ram) with a CAS latency of only 2. They were running at the same speeds (DDR 400 / PC3200), but at the faster timings the improvement was vastly greater than I had expected. After reading up on it some, a difference of 1ns can mean a lot when you're talking in terms of tens of millions of data cycles.
I think I understand now, I was getting [film->video] confused with actual video.
Does that mean a film moving at 50/60 progressive frames would appear to be moving at the same rate as a video source moving 50/60 fields per second? Or would it prove to have a completely different effect? (obvious image quality aside)
Correct.
The reason PAL runs at 50hz and NTSC runs at 60hz is because that is the standard frequency of electricity in European countries and in the US, respectively. When television was first crafted, they used this frequency to time the frames - but at the time they could only transfer enough data through radio waves to draw half a frame.
Yes, it's drawing 50/60 half images a second, but every two of those images is half of the same image. Thus, you still only get a real movement of 25/30 frames per second. This is why I tend to make the distinguishment betwen 50/60hz and 35/30fps.
Still, film runs at 24 full, complete frames per second. I'm not sure what the standard framerate of 1080p is, but I'd assume that it's probably close to this - not because we couldn't create anything that moves faster, but that because anything faster would probably look unnatural. I only say this because we've spent so long seeing 24fps films and calling that format "cinema" to be able to go back and change that.
Personally, I hope we keep making films in 24 frames.
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Maybe I'm nitpicking, but why are you comparing the price of a processor made at 90nm (Windsor - AMD gives codenames to all of the cores of each cpu they produce) with one at 65nm (Brisbane)? There is more to a processor than just clocked speed. It's a lot harder to make a higher density chip, so a 65nm chip clocked at 4400+ is going to cost more than a 90nm one at 4600+.
As far as I can tell there isn't even a Brisbane 4600+, but for a drop in "200" mhz, you'll be consuming a less power to run the Brisbane 4400+. Less power means less heat, which means longer life at those clocked speeds.
I just wanted to point this out, as a lot of people seem to have the misconception that the only part of a processor that matters is the clock speed. There is a lot more that goes into it. The same concept was around back in the day when the Barton core processors were released. While clocked at the same speeds of the Thoroughbred core, the Barton core has more cache and a higher front-side bus speed, giving it a significant performance increase.
For once, we leave raising children to the responsibility of the parents rather than the government. Think the same thing will happen with videogames? Or will we still have those insisting that violent games are to blame for children who commit crimes, not bad parenting?
Punk died before it was ever "born".
The way punk has always been defined, and still is defined by most is as an anti-establishment movement.
But, once you form an "establishment" (essentially) to fight THE "establishment", aren't you defeating your own purpose?
Remember kids, you're different, just like everyone else.
Because VLC handles codecs internally. It has all of the common decoders built into it so you don't have to hassle with installing a ton of different AVI codecs. Everything I have thrown at VLC plays, and I haven't had to mess with any installations other than the one to install VLC. The AVI file format frustrates me, too, and I got tired of installing codec packages bloated with spyware and proprietary codecs that nobody uses. So, I use VLC.
It's things like this that made me drop Windows Media Player altogether and switch my main media player to VLC.
With as much wireless technology as there is at our disposal, wouldn't it be possible to create a program that would automatically generate authenticity verification files as soon as a camera was hooked up to the computer (and sent to a server)? Better yet, a version of photoshop for people in the news industry that has manipulative tools locked. Wouldn't something like that be more feasible?
The thing about Pandora is that it becomes more effective at finding music that you really like the more often you use it. It takes a while, but eventually you start to hear music that more closely matches your tastes - from bands that you've never heard before. The Music Genome Project (http://pandora.com/mgp.shtml) is a fascinating idea to me and is what appeals to me more than a site like last.fm.
I would pay for something like Pandora if it worked on a portable music device. I love using Pandora but having to listen to it through a web browser is the only thing I hate about it. It'll be nice to see what happens with it in the future.
To a lot of people, water cooling isn't only about the possible performance increase, it's also about the sound (or lack thereof). Personally, I haven't tried water cooling yet, but I would definitely like to get the sound of a buzzsaw out of my PC.
As far as performance goes, I recently upgraded from RAM that had a CAS latency of 3 (Corsair XMS) to some that had more aggressive timings (OCZ performance ram) with a CAS latency of only 2. They were running at the same speeds (DDR 400 / PC3200), but at the faster timings the improvement was vastly greater than I had expected. After reading up on it some, a difference of 1ns can mean a lot when you're talking in terms of tens of millions of data cycles.
I think I understand now, I was getting [film->video] confused with actual video.
Does that mean a film moving at 50/60 progressive frames would appear to be moving at the same rate as a video source moving 50/60 fields per second? Or would it prove to have a completely different effect? (obvious image quality aside)
Correct.
The reason PAL runs at 50hz and NTSC runs at 60hz is because that is the standard frequency of electricity in European countries and in the US, respectively. When television was first crafted, they used this frequency to time the frames - but at the time they could only transfer enough data through radio waves to draw half a frame.
Yes, it's drawing 50/60 half images a second, but every two of those images is half of the same image. Thus, you still only get a real movement of 25/30 frames per second. This is why I tend to make the distinguishment betwen 50/60hz and 35/30fps.
Still, film runs at 24 full, complete frames per second. I'm not sure what the standard framerate of 1080p is, but I'd assume that it's probably close to this - not because we couldn't create anything that moves faster, but that because anything faster would probably look unnatural. I only say this because we've spent so long seeing 24fps films and calling that format "cinema" to be able to go back and change that.
Personally, I hope we keep making films in 24 frames.