I've seen a few places like the Fry's Electronics store near me that had 2 identical Sony 1080p displays next to each other, playing the same HD movie, one in HD-DVD and the other in Blu-Ray, both stand-alone players. The HD-DVD version always had MUCH less compression noise and blockiness than the BR one. Then again I'm a real pixelophile and am far more offended about such things than the average person (I think that the visual quality of both suck dung and aren't worth the money; don't get me started on digital cable vs analog;) ). I haven't seen BR movies on the PS3, but I suspect it'll have the same or worse quality than a standalone player.
> What I'd really like to see are two things:
Wow, have you never used a modern editor like Eclipse or the recent Visual Studios? These are basic non-issue features nowadays, with folding, auto-formatting/reflow, and syntax highlighting. I'm sure even emacs does all the above and more, though I don't use it for source code. External tools can do pretty printing to printers, or export structured, colored HTML pages from source code.
(Sorry if your post was meant to be sarcastic, I couldn't tell)
If source code was stored in AST-like structures which also preserved comments, and the _editors_ maintained a textual representation to the programmers, then it simply wouldn't matter. Each programmer could have his own indentation, brace placement, etc, styles. Version control also wouldn't care, because that presentation stuff doesn't affect the AST at all. This sort of design should also make compilers a bit faster since they don't need to bother with text parsing rules, and the file sizes could be smaller. Plus, if language standards provided a full AST library, it would make the creation of intelligent IDEs much easier; it would be the expectation instead of a high-end feature.
Besides, why can a secretary drop images into her Word documents, but the software engineers WHO CREATED IT can't add diagrams to their own source code?!? We seriously need to drop the text file. But no, the ruling overlord of evil and destruction, known in our tongue as "Status Quo", decrees that stream-of-text-bytes is how it's always been done so that way it shall remain. >:-(
Most display systems cannot handle 100Hz, and most humans cannot tell the difference above 25-30 Hz. It's only games where slow displays lead to slow calculated frames that this will cause a problem. That and arrogant SOB's who claim they can tell the difference without FRAPS.
*sigh* Where do people come up with this garbage? Look at some evidence already instead of making stuff up:
Okay, we've all seen the pics of the T Rex with thighs that look like a speed skater's, and being told that at that scale, it wouldn't be able to hold itself up. Now we have a dino-chicken in similar scale with those little spindly things? I think not.
You have the same old hat of cameras, MP3s, contacts syncing with Outlook, etc, just with bigger resolutions and more storage. I did find the "rattle the phone to go to the next track" features of the W910i a nice innovation (not sure if it's been done before) but other than that, no news for nerds, just news for teenagers. Wake me up when there's thought recognition for dialing and receiving.:)
Here in the USA, we pay more for less bandwidth than most other 1st world countries. Sure, if you mean that the rest of the 1st world needs to raise their rates, then you may have a point. But the US internet infrastructure is just plain screwed, and raising rates is feeding a dead horse.
This is like the reverse of the sharpie solution. They pre-sharpie the disk and you have to do magic electronic stuff to temporarily get it off in order to read the disk. So is this just a coating that can be buffed off, or is it all the way down the plastic?
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Reasonable power consumption? The thing draws 177W at idle!
http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-356-1.h tm
I've seen a few places like the Fry's Electronics store near me that had 2 identical Sony 1080p displays next to each other, playing the same HD movie, one in HD-DVD and the other in Blu-Ray, both stand-alone players. The HD-DVD version always had MUCH less compression noise and blockiness than the BR one. Then again I'm a real pixelophile and am far more offended about such things than the average person (I think that the visual quality of both suck dung and aren't worth the money; don't get me started on digital cable vs analog ;) ). I haven't seen BR movies on the PS3, but I suspect it'll have the same or worse quality than a standalone player.
> What I'd really like to see are two things: Wow, have you never used a modern editor like Eclipse or the recent Visual Studios? These are basic non-issue features nowadays, with folding, auto-formatting/reflow, and syntax highlighting. I'm sure even emacs does all the above and more, though I don't use it for source code. External tools can do pretty printing to printers, or export structured, colored HTML pages from source code. (Sorry if your post was meant to be sarcastic, I couldn't tell)
If source code was stored in AST-like structures which also preserved comments, and the _editors_ maintained a textual representation to the programmers, then it simply wouldn't matter. Each programmer could have his own indentation, brace placement, etc, styles. Version control also wouldn't care, because that presentation stuff doesn't affect the AST at all. This sort of design should also make compilers a bit faster since they don't need to bother with text parsing rules, and the file sizes could be smaller. Plus, if language standards provided a full AST library, it would make the creation of intelligent IDEs much easier; it would be the expectation instead of a high-end feature.
Besides, why can a secretary drop images into her Word documents, but the software engineers WHO CREATED IT can't add diagrams to their own source code?!? We seriously need to drop the text file. But no, the ruling overlord of evil and destruction, known in our tongue as "Status Quo", decrees that stream-of-text-bytes is how it's always been done so that way it shall remain. >:-(
sounds a little too religious for me...
*sigh* Where do people come up with this garbage? Look at some evidence already instead of making stuff up:
http://mckack.diinoweb.com/files/kimpix-video/
When will one of these new formats support my $300 1536p CRT?
Okay, we've all seen the pics of the T Rex with thighs that look like a speed skater's, and being told that at that scale, it wouldn't be able to hold itself up. Now we have a dino-chicken in similar scale with those little spindly things? I think not.
You have the same old hat of cameras, MP3s, contacts syncing with Outlook, etc, just with bigger resolutions and more storage. I did find the "rattle the phone to go to the next track" features of the W910i a nice innovation (not sure if it's been done before) but other than that, no news for nerds, just news for teenagers. Wake me up when there's thought recognition for dialing and receiving. :)
Here in the USA, we pay more for less bandwidth than most other 1st world countries. Sure, if you mean that the rest of the 1st world needs to raise their rates, then you may have a point. But the US internet infrastructure is just plain screwed, and raising rates is feeding a dead horse.
Bandwidth costs less.
This is like the reverse of the sharpie solution. They pre-sharpie the disk and you have to do magic electronic stuff to temporarily get it off in order to read the disk. So is this just a coating that can be buffed off, or is it all the way down the plastic?
Maybe it's "Undefeatable" now, but just give the good guys some time =:cP
"Good guys"?that this won't actually improve my Minesweeper times.