Besides from that some companies choose to optimize for AMD and Nvidia is left to catch up. Two fairly recent games come to mind Watchdogs and Tomb Raider.
I define professional content as content made by someone who was paid to make it. Yes some professional content can suck* generally though when it does the person who made it ceases to be a professional after a short while. Of course there are exceptions to this some people just have terrible tastes in content and keep paying people for making terrible content. The latter happens fairly often on the internet. *and some non-professional content can be very good.
I don't know about that I think people want professionally made content on the internet. I certainly do even if the vast majority of it is crap. Flattr was supposed to be a solution to make micro-payments easier to bad it never took off.
What really annoys me is the absolute limit of what I can do to these bastards is not give them money. There needs to be a way to take money away from companies that deliver exceptionally bad products.
That's not entirely true you can whine about it on the internet too which is effectively taking money away form them. Case in point I don't use Origin because 1. I tried it and hated it and 2. Other people (on the internet) apparently hate it too. Sorry Crisis 3 Devs.
I bought a Mac Mini back in 2005 (I think) I used the thing as a personal server from home for about 7 years until I replaced it with a Raspberry Pi last year. Sure the Mac Mini is no power house but as a personal server with only a few simple services it's a pretty good solution. It's much more simple to set up as a server than a Linux/Windows solution. I spent hours trying to figure out how to configure the Pi how I wanted. I know it's almost a cliche but the mac mini just worked. The hardware is rock solid I kept mine in a terribly ventilated cabinet throughout most of its life (and during several month long x264 encodes) and the thing still works.
Check out this really awesome TEDtalk. Instead of recording your long segments of your life he suggest doing one second everyday. Then that one second will evoke the memory of the rest of that day. It's a good TEDtalk and worth a watch even if you're not into this kind of thing.
Libertarian Logic: I have chronic pain in my knee. Time to get out the bone saw and cut off my leg!
That's a pretty good metaphor for Libertarian Logic. Cutting off a knee that's giving you a lot of trouble is a good solution if there is a better alternative. We're probably only a decade or so away from prosthetics that are as good or better than the real thing. When that happens I wouldn't be surprised if doctors recommend amputation as a treatment for chronic knee pain depending on severity of the pain lifestyle and age. Actually technology as a replacement for what government once did is one of the reasons I lean toward libertarianism in some cases.
Think that if you violate a TOS you should land in jail it only makes sense. -- Note: by reading this comment you agree to pay me a fee of $1,000,000 if the fee is refused I reserve the right to throw you in jail.
I don't think that most people enjoys working 60-80 hours a week, knowing that they can't afford to retire... meaning they will work until they drop dead.
I don't mean to be pedantic but in the U.S. if you work hourly you can only get up to 40 hours a week. If you go over they have to pay you overtime.
So are they saying there is 100,000,000,001 total planets?
Yeah why do you think Obama is planning to build that Death Star he and a lot of other people want there to be a perfect 100,000,000,000 planets in our Galaxy. I can't say I blame them sometimes this fact keeps me up at night.
Well I guess if they could do more with the new one that could be okay. Still there is much we don't know about the universe I'm sure there are other projects that could be more helpful to our understanding to it (or hell a dozen cheaper projects). We could probably build an interstellar space probe with that kind of money or send a human to mars or map the deepest reaches of the ocean or fund a shit load of research in any given field* the list could goes on. *medicine, neural networks, quantum computing probably all of them and more.
Not only that but another multi-billion dollar project that humanity already has 2 of? Isn't there something else that would benefit the scientific community in a new and different way?
Really? Are we talking about the same VLC here? I've used VLC for 7 years almost everyday across multiple operating systems and versions (mostly Mac and Windows some Linux). I've probably seen it crash somewhere in the single digits usually because I was trying to make it do something it was meant to do.
It would probably be more helpful than hurtful if all bills had a 2 year waiting period before they can be passed. Sure some bad stuff would happen when we occasionally need something to be done quickly but it would give the people ample time to react to any bad bills like SOPA or The Patriot Act.
If you scale up text and graphics to the same size it was before, all the retinal stuff does it smooth out fonts more, and if you could never see the jaggies in the fonts in the first place it's pretty much pointless.
Obviously it's pointless for text we can read text fine on current generation displays the point is more detail.
Plus it's stuck on an absurdly small phone screen or on the laptop.
I really don't think you've seen one of these displays in person. You can actually see the difference when there's higher PPI the size of the screen is irrelevant.
Really? I never thought I see the day where (non-troll) people on/. would fail to appreciate the value of a higher resolution display. I understand the "retina" marketing gimmick is bullshit but at least someone is pushing resolution beyond 1080p. I certainly hope we don't keep our current screen resolution as a standard for the web indefinitely. Some people are going to have to start adopting higher resolutions at some point.
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Sorry I meant Sleeping Dogs Watchdogs isn't out yet.
Besides from that some companies choose to optimize for AMD and Nvidia is left to catch up. Two fairly recent games come to mind Watchdogs and Tomb Raider.
I define professional content as content made by someone who was paid to make it. Yes some professional content can suck* generally though when it does the person who made it ceases to be a professional after a short while. Of course there are exceptions to this some people just have terrible tastes in content and keep paying people for making terrible content. The latter happens fairly often on the internet.
*and some non-professional content can be very good.
I don't know about that I think people want professionally made content on the internet. I certainly do even if the vast majority of it is crap. Flattr was supposed to be a solution to make micro-payments easier to bad it never took off.
What really annoys me is the absolute limit of what I can do to these bastards is not give them money. There needs to be a way to take money away from companies that deliver exceptionally bad products.
That's not entirely true you can whine about it on the internet too which is effectively taking money away form them. Case in point I don't use Origin because 1. I tried it and hated it and 2. Other people (on the internet) apparently hate it too. Sorry Crisis 3 Devs.
I bought a Mac Mini back in 2005 (I think) I used the thing as a personal server from home for about 7 years until I replaced it with a Raspberry Pi last year. Sure the Mac Mini is no power house but as a personal server with only a few simple services it's a pretty good solution. It's much more simple to set up as a server than a Linux/Windows solution. I spent hours trying to figure out how to configure the Pi how I wanted. I know it's almost a cliche but the mac mini just worked. The hardware is rock solid I kept mine in a terribly ventilated cabinet throughout most of its life (and during several month long x264 encodes) and the thing still works.
Check out this really awesome TEDtalk. Instead of recording your long segments of your life he suggest doing one second everyday. Then that one second will evoke the memory of the rest of that day. It's a good TEDtalk and worth a watch even if you're not into this kind of thing.
Makes sense don't piss off the guy who likes you piss off the guy who already loathes you.
Libertarian Logic: I have chronic pain in my knee. Time to get out the bone saw and cut off my leg!
That's a pretty good metaphor for Libertarian Logic. Cutting off a knee that's giving you a lot of trouble is a good solution if there is a better alternative. We're probably only a decade or so away from prosthetics that are as good or better than the real thing. When that happens I wouldn't be surprised if doctors recommend amputation as a treatment for chronic knee pain depending on severity of the pain lifestyle and age. Actually technology as a replacement for what government once did is one of the reasons I lean toward libertarianism in some cases.
FLAC does compress it just uses lossless compression.
Think that if you violate a TOS you should land in jail it only makes sense.
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Note: by reading this comment you agree to pay me a fee of $1,000,000 if the fee is refused I reserve the right to throw you in jail.
I don't think that most people enjoys working 60-80 hours a week, knowing that they can't afford to retire... meaning they will work until they drop dead.
I don't mean to be pedantic but in the U.S. if you work hourly you can only get up to 40 hours a week. If you go over they have to pay you overtime.
So are they saying there is 100,000,000,001 total planets?
Yeah why do you think Obama is planning to build that Death Star he and a lot of other people want there to be a perfect 100,000,000,000 planets in our Galaxy. I can't say I blame them sometimes this fact keeps me up at night.
Not to mention the fact that most of the time it stays out of the way unlike most other DRM.
So you're saying Psychosis causes marijuana to grow? This is going to do wonders for the grow op I have in my basement.
Well I guess if they could do more with the new one that could be okay. Still there is much we don't know about the universe I'm sure there are other projects that could be more helpful to our understanding to it (or hell a dozen cheaper projects). We could probably build an interstellar space probe with that kind of money or send a human to mars or map the deepest reaches of the ocean or fund a shit load of research in any given field* the list could goes on.
*medicine, neural networks, quantum computing probably all of them and more.
Not only that but another multi-billion dollar project that humanity already has 2 of? Isn't there something else that would benefit the scientific community in a new and different way?
Why can't we just agree that the universe is ruled by some kind of pasta and coexist peacefully.
Really? Are we talking about the same VLC here? I've used VLC for 7 years almost everyday across multiple operating systems and versions (mostly Mac and Windows some Linux). I've probably seen it crash somewhere in the single digits usually because I was trying to make it do something it was meant to do.
Perhaps to get the cost of manufacturing the chips down.
It would probably be more helpful than hurtful if all bills had a 2 year waiting period before they can be passed. Sure some bad stuff would happen when we occasionally need something to be done quickly but it would give the people ample time to react to any bad bills like SOPA or The Patriot Act.
Take it easy on him at least he's suggesting that some of us may be having sex. I for one am flattered.
If you scale up text and graphics to the same size it was before, all the retinal stuff does it smooth out fonts more, and if you could never see the jaggies in the fonts in the first place it's pretty much pointless.
Obviously it's pointless for text we can read text fine on current generation displays the point is more detail.
Plus it's stuck on an absurdly small phone screen or on the laptop.
I really don't think you've seen one of these displays in person. You can actually see the difference when there's higher PPI the size of the screen is irrelevant.
Really? I never thought I see the day where (non-troll) people on /. would fail to appreciate the value of a higher resolution display. I understand the "retina" marketing gimmick is bullshit but at least someone is pushing resolution beyond 1080p. I certainly hope we don't keep our current screen resolution as a standard for the web indefinitely. Some people are going to have to start adopting higher resolutions at some point.
The only people who should find this surprising are people who grew up somewhere away from all human contact,.
Sounds like the perfect story for most of us /.ers.