Please define "full array local dimming". Hint - it's got a set number of "zones", often in the dozens, rarely in the low hundreds. FALD should be EACH backlight being individually dimmable (and truly, one backlight per pixel). I haven't seen any TV advertising FALD where this was actually true unless you define the "full array" as the set of zones they program onto the board of LEDs that act as the backlight, making the distinction (FALD vs LD) completely pointless.
"Deep Learning" is a buzzword. It's a search algorithm or a trained neural net (that is implementing a search algorithm). How do I know? Because it's effective at playing Go. Go is an incredibly simple game with a massive search space. And it was absolutely programmed with the rules of the game, the win/loss conditions, etc., or at least explicitly trained on them in its bootstrapping phase.
If you can't take AlphaGo and teach it to play Parcheesi in an hour without adjusting its code, is it really (or even artificially) "intelligent"? (No, it is not.)
SC2 is a joke. Small map? Zerg rush kekeke. AI with insane APM to micro will always win that. Medium to large map? Protoss Stalker ball (again, with micro) to Void Rays.
The reason the SC2 competitive scene hasn't taken off is the game is fundamentally shitty. It's a rock-paper-scissors game 90% of the time, and Blizzard balances it not for fairness but for a desired outcome (equal win/loss rates across all races at higher levels of play). This was a HUGE problem during the initial release because all Blizzard ever did was nerf Terran. Players were better with Terran because the first campaign was Terran. When HotS came out, they nerfed Zerg a bit (but also nerfed Terran). Now that LotV is out, they've nerfed Protoss a bit (but again, fuck Terran).
Overall game design was geared toward fast ("exciting") 1v1 ("competitive") matches. And compared to BW no one gives a shit. Because it's boring as fuck, they can't balance it fairly, people want to play in teams and the game simply doesn't work beyond 2v2 (which itself is a crapshoot). My friends and I used to play as 4 vs. others and we never lost a single game. One friend quit the game over it because it was so fucking broken. Instead, Blizzard is focusing on HotS (the MOBA, not the SC2 expo) and Overwatch.
While they've got these games set up properly for team play, which is what people want instead of the boring, stale, simplistic 1v1 trash that is the SC2 "competitive scene", they still can't balance anything worth shit. Why is McCree sniping with a revolver? Why is Symmetra's shield generator completely OP? Why do they release broken heroes like Samuro? Because they want to tweak player numbers for each of those characters in Overwatch to reach some sort of diversity goal or some shit. For HotS, they sell new heroes for money (or in game currency, if you've been hoarding it), so they typically release them in an overpowered as fuck state, then tweak them to achieve the desired win/loss ratio.
It all results in the abortion that is "Blizzard Balance". You may remember it from such films as "Nerf Terran, Buff Zerg" and "There is no Matchmaking Algorithm".
The trick here is that the PROPAGANDA is the claim that the FAKE NEWS epidemic is the fault of the Russians / Trump / Conservatives / Alt Right / whatever boogeyman the liberals dream up.
Referring to Washington Post's bullshit as "fake news" is using their own slur against them. It works because they're peddling fake news about fake news.
So you were modded "-1, the Facts Make Me Uncomfortable" by some FOSStard?
Protip: Compaq didn't make a "clean room" implementation of BIOS, either. Pretty much this entire industry is built off of the work of others, whether people (or corporations) admit to it or not.
At thepiratebay.org of course! As long as you have a decent connection (no need for something amazing), your download of the BRRip will finish long before the thing officially goes on sale.
Most major releases are ripped and released by "the scene" a few days to a few weeks ahead of the street date. Shortly after the scene releases it, someone uploads it on thepiratebay.org . You can also find other releases, such as encodes to various file sizes and formats, 720p encodes if you're a sadist, x265 encodes if you're a storage miser, rips with only the main movie and main audio track, etc.
Smaller films are often on TPB months or a year before being released in theaters or releasing on TPB. These films usually debut at a film festival or some such, and the "master" is a BR with just the film on it. The BR leaks shortly thereafter. If some studio decides to buy the film and handle theatrical/home video/streaming/etc. releases, it can take months or more than a year. If the independents who made it try to do this on their own it takes years, typically with a handful of theaters in major cities playing it then it going on sale on BR via their website, with some extra features and a menu added in. Very rarely will these films be re-edited or have audio remastered in the interim.
For the handful of movies I want to watch, I usually wait until they're available on BluRay and hit the Redbox. I typically have a few free rental codes laying around (I just pay the 40 cent or whatever upcharge to go from DVD to BR). I watch the main title and return the thing. If I could pay a few dollars and have it earlier (or even on the BR street date, as Redbox is often delayed artificially from the street date by 2 weeks due to agreements), I'd go for that. If for whatever reason a movie never hits Redbox, I wait for Netflix / Amazon to have it.
I only go to a theater about 2 or 3 times a year. And most of those times it's at a drive-in because it's about a third of the cost, has more comfortable seating, I can bring my own snacks, don't have to deal with other people, etc. The last thing I cared about going to a real theater for was Gravity (which is still the only film I've ever seen where 3D made sense).
I'm willing to pay for movies (beyond the cost included in my Netflix / Amazon / HBO / etc. subscriptions), but I'm also willing to wait if the price is too high or the convenience is too low. These are the problems they need to solve, not piracy. Piracy is a 6/10 on convenience and an 11/10 on cost (bonus 1 for sticking it to "the man"). Studios could easily release on Netflix and others, or on their own platforms, and score a 9/10 or 10/10 on convenience. They'd just need to be willing to do it at a cost that makes them beat out both piracy and waiting.
I'm afraid they're learning how to beat out waiting. People don't rush out to see the latest blockbusters like they used to. Revenues have been huge in recent years, but actual ticket sales have been steadily falling for a long time. We also have a few outliers to thank for recent big revenues (Star Wars, Jurassic World, etc.). Simply put, people can wait for the BR or for Netflix to have the film. But studios are cranking out sequels and reboots faster and faster, and they're intermingling shit (Star Wars has the side stories, Marvel has the interconnected universe shit, DC is trying that and failing, etc.). If Star Wars Side Story B is coming out soon, you better have seen Star Wars 8. Even if you plan on waiting to see Star Wars Side Story B, Star Wars will be in the media and people will be talking about it, so you'll feel left out, you might have it spoiled, etc.
This rapid-fire schedule is patterned after what studios have seen with cable dramas. People would watch the latest episode of Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones or whatever else within a week in order to keep up with the series and with people talking about the series. This behavior is further bolstered by the ability to "binge" on a series via a streaming se
In my apartment it would take cutting an extra hole in the drywall to route the cable around the fireblock, if it's even possible. If it's not possible, I'd have to drill through the fireblock or sacrifice some other cable (coax, in use, electrical, not legal) to complete the run. Then I've got to patch the drywall back up.
I used to run wireless from the second floor to the first floor but it was ass. So I got me some Zyxel powerline networking adapters. These things were ok but didn't get great speed. After a few months they started to instantly overheat. After buying the necessary screwdrivers to open one up, I found it had leaky capacitors. They were the cheapest, jankiest eloctrolytics money could buy. On both sides of the board. The board itself was permanently fixed to the back half of the casing. It seems like the casing was formed with the power prongs in place, and those were welded to the board with about 2 mountains of shit my cheapo soldering iron couldn't get through. So I couldn't remove the board to get to the caps on the back side (or make doing the ones on the front easy by removing the board and putting it on a work surface). I couldn't repair it, and they were out of warranty (and I already replaced one due to overheating and coil whine only for it to do the same damned thing).
So fuck it, into the trash they went, and I ran a long cat 5e cable tacked to the wall. It's ugly, but it works and it would have saved me about a decade of hassle with shitty connections had I just done it on day one.
Works just fine on my i7-2600k system because I've got an AMD video card that handles it way better than Intel's Quick Sync or whatever they call it ever did or will in the foreseeable future.
Typical Tesla horseshit. I regularly watch 3 cars ahead. Not so I can avoid crashing, but so I can get better mileage. I avoid crashing by not following too closely, thus giving myself room to stop if need be.
The fact that the Tesla even sounded the alert and activated the braking features just means the fucking driver wasn't paying attention. It's just like the fucking lane monitor and collision avoidance features on other cars. All the commercials show distracted, young, hip fucksticks driving and daydreaming, only to be shaken back to reality when their car starts beeping and driving for them to avoid running over an old WWII vet in the middle of the road. Everyone's happy because this great safety feature saved the day! The young, hip fuckstick then goes on their way, driving along without a care in the world.
How the FUCK is this advertised as a good thing? This is unacceptable behavior that gets people killed and we've got happy, upbeat music going on behind it, just before the leasing options are announced. You might as well advertise a car that can sort of help you when you drive drunk.
AOSP is NOT Android. If you don't understand the distinction, you don't know what you're talking about.
ANYONE can take AOSP and mess with it and do whatever they want with it.
Only people who sign their soul away to Google get the latest Android source. These are major OEMs (HTC, Samsung, LG, etc.) and if you want the latest and greatest, you must agree to launch a flagship device with it, advertise the device as coming with the new hot version of Android, bundle the Google apps in, etc. Last I heard, you can buy into access for 2 versions ahead. If Android is on 7.x, the top bidder can get exclusive access to the nascent Android 9.0 (or whatever they end up calling it if they end up merging it with Chrome OS), giving them time to get it up and running on their device in progress, skin it, create support documentation and training manuals and scripts for customer support dweebs, create promotional materials and distribute them to channel partners and carrier stores, etc.
the latest Nexus devices are still being supported like they always were,
They aren't. The day the Pixel was officially unveiled was the day Google officially shat on Nexus owners.
They don't get the new features, as they are Pixel exclusive (and not because of a hardware limitation. They Nexus devices didn't even get the official builds of the latest (7.1) Android version in a timely manner. Usually, Google would post these builds and people could flash them as soon as the new Android version was available on whatever new device just launched. Some people would take those builds and create a fake OTA update for a given ROM that could be loaded up just like a real OTA update (no need to wipe, reroot, etc.). This time around, Google sat on their ass and didn't release the official builds for the 6P and 5X until much later. Google is also dragging their damned feet on the security updates too.
So we have features being locked to Pixel for no reason, Android system (feature) updates being delayed for no reason, and Android security updates being delayed for no reason. Google's message is "Buy a Pixel or get fucked.".
The first movie was intentionally campy and self aware, and it had a genuine charm to it (along with great music and musical cameos). The second movie lost all of that and doubled down on the crude humor. I enjoy the crude humor, but it can't carry the whole film unless you're 12 years old. I felt the third movie was the funniest, largely in part due to Nigel Powers and the relationship between Austin, Dr. Evil, and Nigel. It got some of the charm back as well.
The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is hilarious. If you can't see past the surface to find the satire, the problem lies with you. It's not as good as Austin Powers, however.
I think Goldmember is the funniest of the three, though International Man of Mystery (the original) is my favorite. The Spy Who Shagged Me had none of the campy charm of the original and was mostly a cruder rehash. The third was very meta, and you may or may not appreciate that. I for one found the mock intro with tons of cameos (from Tom Cruise to Danny DeVito), the scene with Nathan Lane, everything with Nigel Powers, etc. absolutely hilarious.
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If I were a display manufacturer I would secretly have my panels display colors that attract bees but that humans can't see.
Everyone will wonder what the buzz is all about.
Can't wait to be rendered blind by some director's "vision".
Please define "full array local dimming". Hint - it's got a set number of "zones", often in the dozens, rarely in the low hundreds. FALD should be EACH backlight being individually dimmable (and truly, one backlight per pixel). I haven't seen any TV advertising FALD where this was actually true unless you define the "full array" as the set of zones they program onto the board of LEDs that act as the backlight, making the distinction (FALD vs LD) completely pointless.
"Deep Learning" is a buzzword. It's a search algorithm or a trained neural net (that is implementing a search algorithm). How do I know? Because it's effective at playing Go. Go is an incredibly simple game with a massive search space. And it was absolutely programmed with the rules of the game, the win/loss conditions, etc., or at least explicitly trained on them in its bootstrapping phase.
If you can't take AlphaGo and teach it to play Parcheesi in an hour without adjusting its code, is it really (or even artificially) "intelligent"? (No, it is not.)
SC2 is a joke. Small map? Zerg rush kekeke. AI with insane APM to micro will always win that. Medium to large map? Protoss Stalker ball (again, with micro) to Void Rays.
The reason the SC2 competitive scene hasn't taken off is the game is fundamentally shitty. It's a rock-paper-scissors game 90% of the time, and Blizzard balances it not for fairness but for a desired outcome (equal win/loss rates across all races at higher levels of play). This was a HUGE problem during the initial release because all Blizzard ever did was nerf Terran. Players were better with Terran because the first campaign was Terran. When HotS came out, they nerfed Zerg a bit (but also nerfed Terran). Now that LotV is out, they've nerfed Protoss a bit (but again, fuck Terran).
Overall game design was geared toward fast ("exciting") 1v1 ("competitive") matches. And compared to BW no one gives a shit. Because it's boring as fuck, they can't balance it fairly, people want to play in teams and the game simply doesn't work beyond 2v2 (which itself is a crapshoot). My friends and I used to play as 4 vs. others and we never lost a single game. One friend quit the game over it because it was so fucking broken. Instead, Blizzard is focusing on HotS (the MOBA, not the SC2 expo) and Overwatch.
While they've got these games set up properly for team play, which is what people want instead of the boring, stale, simplistic 1v1 trash that is the SC2 "competitive scene", they still can't balance anything worth shit. Why is McCree sniping with a revolver? Why is Symmetra's shield generator completely OP? Why do they release broken heroes like Samuro? Because they want to tweak player numbers for each of those characters in Overwatch to reach some sort of diversity goal or some shit. For HotS, they sell new heroes for money (or in game currency, if you've been hoarding it), so they typically release them in an overpowered as fuck state, then tweak them to achieve the desired win/loss ratio.
It all results in the abortion that is "Blizzard Balance". You may remember it from such films as "Nerf Terran, Buff Zerg" and "There is no Matchmaking Algorithm".
Writing an AI for many games is very, very hard if you make it fair.
It should only know the game state to the same extent as a human player would.
Even with infinite APM and math skills, it's no easy task.
The trick here is that the PROPAGANDA is the claim that the FAKE NEWS epidemic is the fault of the Russians / Trump / Conservatives / Alt Right / whatever boogeyman the liberals dream up.
Referring to Washington Post's bullshit as "fake news" is using their own slur against them. It works because they're peddling fake news about fake news.
AlphaGo is a parallel search algorithm, not an AI.
So you were modded "-1, the Facts Make Me Uncomfortable" by some FOSStard?
Protip: Compaq didn't make a "clean room" implementation of BIOS, either. Pretty much this entire industry is built off of the work of others, whether people (or corporations) admit to it or not.
Are you telling me Slashdot is posting FAKE NEWS in TFS?!?!?
At thepiratebay.org of course! As long as you have a decent connection (no need for something amazing), your download of the BRRip will finish long before the thing officially goes on sale.
Most major releases are ripped and released by "the scene" a few days to a few weeks ahead of the street date. Shortly after the scene releases it, someone uploads it on thepiratebay.org . You can also find other releases, such as encodes to various file sizes and formats, 720p encodes if you're a sadist, x265 encodes if you're a storage miser, rips with only the main movie and main audio track, etc.
Smaller films are often on TPB months or a year before being released in theaters or releasing on TPB. These films usually debut at a film festival or some such, and the "master" is a BR with just the film on it. The BR leaks shortly thereafter. If some studio decides to buy the film and handle theatrical/home video/streaming/etc. releases, it can take months or more than a year. If the independents who made it try to do this on their own it takes years, typically with a handful of theaters in major cities playing it then it going on sale on BR via their website, with some extra features and a menu added in. Very rarely will these films be re-edited or have audio remastered in the interim.
For the handful of movies I want to watch, I usually wait until they're available on BluRay and hit the Redbox. I typically have a few free rental codes laying around (I just pay the 40 cent or whatever upcharge to go from DVD to BR). I watch the main title and return the thing. If I could pay a few dollars and have it earlier (or even on the BR street date, as Redbox is often delayed artificially from the street date by 2 weeks due to agreements), I'd go for that. If for whatever reason a movie never hits Redbox, I wait for Netflix / Amazon to have it.
I only go to a theater about 2 or 3 times a year. And most of those times it's at a drive-in because it's about a third of the cost, has more comfortable seating, I can bring my own snacks, don't have to deal with other people, etc. The last thing I cared about going to a real theater for was Gravity (which is still the only film I've ever seen where 3D made sense).
I'm willing to pay for movies (beyond the cost included in my Netflix / Amazon / HBO / etc. subscriptions), but I'm also willing to wait if the price is too high or the convenience is too low. These are the problems they need to solve, not piracy. Piracy is a 6/10 on convenience and an 11/10 on cost (bonus 1 for sticking it to "the man"). Studios could easily release on Netflix and others, or on their own platforms, and score a 9/10 or 10/10 on convenience. They'd just need to be willing to do it at a cost that makes them beat out both piracy and waiting.
I'm afraid they're learning how to beat out waiting. People don't rush out to see the latest blockbusters like they used to. Revenues have been huge in recent years, but actual ticket sales have been steadily falling for a long time. We also have a few outliers to thank for recent big revenues (Star Wars, Jurassic World, etc.). Simply put, people can wait for the BR or for Netflix to have the film. But studios are cranking out sequels and reboots faster and faster, and they're intermingling shit (Star Wars has the side stories, Marvel has the interconnected universe shit, DC is trying that and failing, etc.). If Star Wars Side Story B is coming out soon, you better have seen Star Wars 8. Even if you plan on waiting to see Star Wars Side Story B, Star Wars will be in the media and people will be talking about it, so you'll feel left out, you might have it spoiled, etc.
This rapid-fire schedule is patterned after what studios have seen with cable dramas. People would watch the latest episode of Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones or whatever else within a week in order to keep up with the series and with people talking about the series. This behavior is further bolstered by the ability to "binge" on a series via a streaming se
It's all already covered under the ridiculous CFAA.
Tucker Max?
it's a piece of silicon that does math problems
Really, it's just an expensive clock.
In my apartment it would take cutting an extra hole in the drywall to route the cable around the fireblock, if it's even possible. If it's not possible, I'd have to drill through the fireblock or sacrifice some other cable (coax, in use, electrical, not legal) to complete the run. Then I've got to patch the drywall back up.
I used to run wireless from the second floor to the first floor but it was ass. So I got me some Zyxel powerline networking adapters. These things were ok but didn't get great speed. After a few months they started to instantly overheat. After buying the necessary screwdrivers to open one up, I found it had leaky capacitors. They were the cheapest, jankiest eloctrolytics money could buy. On both sides of the board. The board itself was permanently fixed to the back half of the casing. It seems like the casing was formed with the power prongs in place, and those were welded to the board with about 2 mountains of shit my cheapo soldering iron couldn't get through. So I couldn't remove the board to get to the caps on the back side (or make doing the ones on the front easy by removing the board and putting it on a work surface). I couldn't repair it, and they were out of warranty (and I already replaced one due to overheating and coil whine only for it to do the same damned thing).
So fuck it, into the trash they went, and I ran a long cat 5e cable tacked to the wall. It's ugly, but it works and it would have saved me about a decade of hassle with shitty connections had I just done it on day one.
Fuck wireless. Fuck Zyxel.
Works just fine on my i7-2600k system because I've got an AMD video card that handles it way better than Intel's Quick Sync or whatever they call it ever did or will in the foreseeable future.
You're deliberately inciting World War III by spreading this bullshit.
Carly Fiorina's legacy.
Typical Tesla horseshit. I regularly watch 3 cars ahead. Not so I can avoid crashing, but so I can get better mileage.
I avoid crashing by not following too closely, thus giving myself room to stop if need be.
The fact that the Tesla even sounded the alert and activated the braking features just means the fucking driver wasn't paying attention. It's just like the fucking lane monitor and collision avoidance features on other cars. All the commercials show distracted, young, hip fucksticks driving and daydreaming, only to be shaken back to reality when their car starts beeping and driving for them to avoid running over an old WWII vet in the middle of the road. Everyone's happy because this great safety feature saved the day! The young, hip fuckstick then goes on their way, driving along without a care in the world.
How the FUCK is this advertised as a good thing? This is unacceptable behavior that gets people killed and we've got happy, upbeat music going on behind it, just before the leasing options are announced. You might as well advertise a car that can sort of help you when you drive drunk.
AOSP is NOT Android. If you don't understand the distinction, you don't know what you're talking about.
ANYONE can take AOSP and mess with it and do whatever they want with it.
Only people who sign their soul away to Google get the latest Android source. These are major OEMs (HTC, Samsung, LG, etc.) and if you want the latest and greatest, you must agree to launch a flagship device with it, advertise the device as coming with the new hot version of Android, bundle the Google apps in, etc. Last I heard, you can buy into access for 2 versions ahead. If Android is on 7.x, the top bidder can get exclusive access to the nascent Android 9.0 (or whatever they end up calling it if they end up merging it with Chrome OS), giving them time to get it up and running on their device in progress, skin it, create support documentation and training manuals and scripts for customer support dweebs, create promotional materials and distribute them to channel partners and carrier stores, etc.
the latest Nexus devices are still being supported like they always were,
They aren't. The day the Pixel was officially unveiled was the day Google officially shat on Nexus owners.
They don't get the new features, as they are Pixel exclusive (and not because of a hardware limitation.
They Nexus devices didn't even get the official builds of the latest (7.1) Android version in a timely manner. Usually, Google would post these builds and people could flash them as soon as the new Android version was available on whatever new device just launched. Some people would take those builds and create a fake OTA update for a given ROM that could be loaded up just like a real OTA update (no need to wipe, reroot, etc.). This time around, Google sat on their ass and didn't release the official builds for the 6P and 5X until much later.
Google is also dragging their damned feet on the security updates too.
So we have features being locked to Pixel for no reason, Android system (feature) updates being delayed for no reason, and Android security updates being delayed for no reason. Google's message is "Buy a Pixel or get fucked.".
Charm, originality, satire, etc.
The first movie was intentionally campy and self aware, and it had a genuine charm to it (along with great music and musical cameos). The second movie lost all of that and doubled down on the crude humor. I enjoy the crude humor, but it can't carry the whole film unless you're 12 years old. I felt the third movie was the funniest, largely in part due to Nigel Powers and the relationship between Austin, Dr. Evil, and Nigel. It got some of the charm back as well.
Don't worry - there's an infinite supply of drone from the 3 scripted puppets on the show.
For those wondering: TGT is awful and forced. Yes, TG was scripted to hell, but TGT is scripted and pathetic.
The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is hilarious. If you can't see past the surface to find the satire, the problem lies with you. It's not as good as Austin Powers, however.
I think Goldmember is the funniest of the three, though International Man of Mystery (the original) is my favorite.
The Spy Who Shagged Me had none of the campy charm of the original and was mostly a cruder rehash.
The third was very meta, and you may or may not appreciate that. I for one found the mock intro with tons of cameos (from Tom Cruise to Danny DeVito), the scene with Nathan Lane, everything with Nigel Powers, etc. absolutely hilarious.