6 bit (per component) LCDs have for at least 10 years and probably much longer used dithering techniques to produce effective 16.2M colors (compared to a true 8 bit panel with 16.7M colors). This works very well for almost all use cases and provides smooth gradients but have the disadvantage that some image patters can produce flashing due to interference with the dithering algorithm.
Dithering isn't about adding noise either BTW.
Interpolation is about adding noise by attempting to recreate / create data that was lost / never in the original signal. You CANNOT assure that the data is correct. It is therefore not signal. It is therefore noise, however much you try to make it subjectively look like it isn't, it mathematically is noise.
Dithering is all about adding noise that looks like noise to various degrees (random dithering, ordered dithering) to achieve a subjective aesthetic, often to achieve a smoothing effect to mask limited resolution (dithering in a 255-color GIF, for example) or to add a noisy effect to mask noise in the original signal (digital film grain effects, for example).
Both interpolation and dithering are adding noise, by definition. Whether or not you find them acceptable is your personal problem.
You have no idea what X is. You think 4 looks nice, but it could be anything.
The panel doesn't know what the right answer is. The display controller might see it in the signal, but it can't send that information to the panel if it's processing 6 bpp.
For 6-bit panels, you simply can't do anything to recover the signal in any correct way. Interpolation doesn't do anything but make everything look worse. Temporal interpolation is fucking terrible, and no, it's not "way faster than the human eye can tell". Most panels have a hard enough time with ghosting and motion blur already, even when adding timed strobing to the mix.
I don't think gamers are the ones who are concerned with color accuracy - gamers tend to buy the TN or other trash panels that absolutely fuck color in favor of speed. As for sub millisecond color changes? Please show me an LCD panel with a true response time under 1 ms. As for 1.5% color changes, that's a huge difference for anyone with normal color vision. A good panel will show this difference quite readily. http://i.imgur.com/w8qQ7Kg.gif for an example. If you can't see it flashing, get a better monitor or get your eyes checked.
Even cheap TN monitors use FRC to interpolate to 8-bit, which is better than nothing. IPS monitors can be had for $120, with an 8-bit color panel. Several gaming monitors use native 8-bit with FRC to 10-bit for less than $800, and a few even use native 10-bit.
What? Interpolation is WORSE than nothing. you're discarding signal then adding noise in the hopes that it matches up with what should've been there kinda okay.
The government doing anything unconstitutional automatically grants every citizen the right to sue. In fact, every citizen has the right to sue the government for anything, unconstitutional or not. Hell, every citizen has the right to sue the government for nothing.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
A lawsuit is nothing more than a legal petition for a redress of grievances.
The court will determine the validity and extent of such grievances in a trial. The court absolutely cannot reject a case by presupposing the facts of the matter (are the grievances real, what were they, who was affected, and to what extent) that can only be determined if a case is tried.
They stopped marketing RLS drugs because they don't work.
At least, I haven't seen the ads on TV in a couple of years. Perhaps they still market directly to doctors. Non-24 replaced RLS.
Pseudo-bulbar affect (PBA) is the new marketing push being ramped up as Non-24 is phased out.
It's all very simple. Follow the money. Look at the effectiveness of the drugs. There's a whole class of diseases and corresponding drugs / treatments that are nothing but pure marketing.
I don't care if fools convince themselves they have itchy tooth syndrome after seeing a commercial. I don't care if they waste tons of money buying drugs for it. I don't care if they lose all their teeth as a side effect. What does bother is the fact that all that effort and mind share (from researchers to doctors to patients) should be spent on real diseases instead.
Supposedly, quantum entanglement can't be used for communications but I've never understood why.
Because when you separate entangled particles you can't add information to them later.
You have a coin that has a heads side and a tails side. You flip it in location A. Without looking, you cover the top of the coin. While it lies flat on the table, you cut it in half, separating the two faces. You leave the top half in location A, never looking at it. You carry the bottom half to location B 1 light year away. You flip the bottom half over to look at it. You learn that heads was on the bottom. You immediately learn that tails was on the top. But that information didn't travel faster than the speed of light. You carried it with you at subluminal speed. No one at location A can change the outcome of the coin flip after you reach location B.
All indicators show that programming is becoming less professional, not more so. At best, you'll get some sort of liability clauses built into big military / government contracts that will be ultimately toothless when shit goes wrong.
First thing I noticed. Even if you get full power for more hours out of the day, I doubt 1 day of microwave beaming will outstrip 1 day of solar in a decent solar location. It could make sense in places that suck for solar, I guess.
Volume goes as the cube of distance so your risk of infection at 2 meters from someone who sneezes is 8 times less than at 1 meter from that person. Snot spray falls. You're looking at square of distance at best. it's much worse when you consider that people often touch the same surfaces (desks, counters, water coolers, door handles, copier buttons, etc.)
Two of the six vaccinated ferrets fell ill and died, compared with a 100% mortality rate for the unvaccinated ferrets. None of the monkeys died, but those that were vaccinated had significantly lower fevers than their nonvaccinated companions.
Failed 2/6 times in ferrets. Didn't save the lives of any monkeys. Didn't actually prevent the flu in any subject, just increased survivability / reduced symptoms to a completely statistically insignificant degree.
I'd much rather we test this on 1000 willing humans than 10 other animals, if for no other reason than to get statistically valid data that applies to the target species. n=6 is a JOKE.
Within a given manufacturer (nVidia / AMD), a higher number within the same generation is better.
The 970 is better than the 950. A lot better. The 980 is better than the 970. The 980 Ti is better than the 980. The 123 Ti SC or SSC or FTW or whatever shit different vendors sell are all 123 Tis, but with varying stock clocks, PCB designs, and cooling designs. The key difference between these variants are overclocking ability, noise/power levels, aesthetics, and manufacturer warranties / free games / trade-in programs. Read reviews to compare these.
Both AMD and nVidia change up what their "flagship" moniker (x800, x900, x80, x90, x970, Titan, Fury, etc.) is and what the modifiers (GT, GTX, Ultra, X, Z, Pro, XT, etc.) are and how they rank.
Sometimes you get a case where a later card is released that is better than the flagship in the same generation, or a much better value. Consider nVidia's 8800 GT vs the 8800 GTX or 8800 Ultra. The GT came later and was really fucking cheap while giving comparable performance. Too bad they were all defective (bumpgate). The 980 Ti is basically the same as the new Titan but for a fraction of the cost. It often outperforms the full Titan, and the non-reference designs that vendors put out overclock like crazy and blow the Titan away.
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"The word 'genius' gets misused an awful lot,".
Yes, it does. Most recently by you.
Interpolation isn't about adding noise.
6 bit (per component) LCDs have for at least 10 years and probably much longer used dithering techniques to produce effective 16.2M colors (compared to a true 8 bit panel with 16.7M colors). This works very well for almost all use cases and provides smooth gradients but have the disadvantage that some image patters can produce flashing due to interference with the dithering algorithm.
Dithering isn't about adding noise either BTW.
Interpolation is about adding noise by attempting to recreate / create data that was lost / never in the original signal.
You CANNOT assure that the data is correct. It is therefore not signal. It is therefore noise, however much you try to make it subjectively look like it isn't, it mathematically is noise.
Dithering is all about adding noise that looks like noise to various degrees (random dithering, ordered dithering) to achieve a subjective aesthetic, often to achieve a smoothing effect to mask limited resolution (dithering in a 255-color GIF, for example) or to add a noisy effect to mask noise in the original signal (digital film grain effects, for example).
Both interpolation and dithering are adding noise, by definition. Whether or not you find them acceptable is your personal problem.
You have no idea what X is. You think 4 looks nice, but it could be anything.
The panel doesn't know what the right answer is. The display controller might see it in the signal, but it can't send that information to the panel if it's processing 6 bpp.
For 6-bit panels, you simply can't do anything to recover the signal in any correct way. Interpolation doesn't do anything but make everything look worse. Temporal interpolation is fucking terrible, and no, it's not "way faster than the human eye can tell". Most panels have a hard enough time with ghosting and motion blur already, even when adding timed strobing to the mix.
I don't think gamers are the ones who are concerned with color accuracy - gamers tend to buy the TN or other trash panels that absolutely fuck color in favor of speed. As for sub millisecond color changes? Please show me an LCD panel with a true response time under 1 ms. As for 1.5% color changes, that's a huge difference for anyone with normal color vision. A good panel will show this difference quite readily. http://i.imgur.com/w8qQ7Kg.gif for an example. If you can't see it flashing, get a better monitor or get your eyes checked.
Even cheap TN monitors use FRC to interpolate to 8-bit, which is better than nothing. IPS monitors can be had for $120, with an 8-bit color panel. Several gaming monitors use native 8-bit with FRC to 10-bit for less than $800, and a few even use native 10-bit.
What? Interpolation is WORSE than nothing. you're discarding signal then adding noise in the hopes that it matches up with what should've been there kinda okay.
Browsers are not for cows. It is not cows all the way down. There is no need to moo.
Seems about as solid as the reveal of Satoshi Nakamoto.
The government doing anything unconstitutional automatically grants every citizen the right to sue.
In fact, every citizen has the right to sue the government for anything, unconstitutional or not.
Hell, every citizen has the right to sue the government for nothing.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
A lawsuit is nothing more than a legal petition for a redress of grievances.
The court will determine the validity and extent of such grievances in a trial.
The court absolutely cannot reject a case by presupposing the facts of the matter (are the grievances real, what were they, who was affected, and to what extent) that can only be determined if a case is tried.
They stopped marketing RLS drugs because they don't work.
At least, I haven't seen the ads on TV in a couple of years. Perhaps they still market directly to doctors.
Non-24 replaced RLS.
Pseudo-bulbar affect (PBA) is the new marketing push being ramped up as Non-24 is phased out.
It's all very simple. Follow the money. Look at the effectiveness of the drugs. There's a whole class of diseases and corresponding drugs / treatments that are nothing but pure marketing.
I don't care if fools convince themselves they have itchy tooth syndrome after seeing a commercial. I don't care if they waste tons of money buying drugs for it. I don't care if they lose all their teeth as a side effect. What does bother is the fact that all that effort and mind share (from researchers to doctors to patients) should be spent on real diseases instead.
Supposedly, quantum entanglement can't be used for communications but I've never understood why.
Because when you separate entangled particles you can't add information to them later.
You have a coin that has a heads side and a tails side.
You flip it in location A.
Without looking, you cover the top of the coin.
While it lies flat on the table, you cut it in half, separating the two faces.
You leave the top half in location A, never looking at it.
You carry the bottom half to location B 1 light year away.
You flip the bottom half over to look at it.
You learn that heads was on the bottom.
You immediately learn that tails was on the top.
But that information didn't travel faster than the speed of light. You carried it with you at subluminal speed. No one at location A can change the outcome of the coin flip after you reach location B.
Like what?
Restless leg syndrome?
Non-24?
SAD?
PBA?
ADD?
All a bunch of bullshit invented to sell drugs that don't even WORK.
All indicators show that programming is becoming less professional, not more so.
At best, you'll get some sort of liability clauses built into big military / government contracts that will be ultimately toothless when shit goes wrong.
All you need is a bit of clearance between the fan and the desk. Put a small bit of wood under each corner.
Buy rectangular case.
Rotate 90 degrees so the front faces upward.
???
Profit.
Yes, it's called starvation.
The principal in play here is eat less, lose weight.
And they take 6 months to a year to return to normal.
Won't work.
As has been reported, MS has several hard-coded IPs in Windows 10.
You have to block at your router.
Theon Greyjoy deserved it.
Everything is vintage when you're abusing the word to refer to things unrelated to wine.
First thing I noticed.
Even if you get full power for more hours out of the day, I doubt 1 day of microwave beaming will outstrip 1 day of solar in a decent solar location.
It could make sense in places that suck for solar, I guess.
According to my translation table "30 years from now" is never.
Call me when it will "be out next year," then there's a chance I'll see it in my lifetime.
"30 years" is code for "I'll be out the door before the bill comes due.".
Volume goes as the cube of distance so your risk of infection at 2 meters from someone who sneezes is 8 times less than at 1 meter from that person.
Snot spray falls. You're looking at square of distance at best. it's much worse when you consider that people often touch the same surfaces (desks, counters, water coolers, door handles, copier buttons, etc.)
Two of the six vaccinated ferrets fell ill and died, compared with a 100% mortality rate for the unvaccinated ferrets. None of the monkeys died, but those that were vaccinated had significantly lower fevers than their nonvaccinated companions.
Failed 2/6 times in ferrets.
Didn't save the lives of any monkeys.
Didn't actually prevent the flu in any subject, just increased survivability / reduced symptoms to a completely statistically insignificant degree.
I'd much rather we test this on 1000 willing humans than 10 other animals, if for no other reason than to get statistically valid data that applies to the target species. n=6 is a JOKE.
And you only get a singled wired port!
$200 and you get ONE gigabit port!
The suggestion is to eat less.
I dare you to watch an episode of Naked and Afraid and point out the fatty at the end of 21 days.
Within a given manufacturer (nVidia / AMD), a higher number within the same generation is better.
The 970 is better than the 950. A lot better.
The 980 is better than the 970. The 980 Ti is better than the 980. The 123 Ti SC or SSC or FTW or whatever shit different vendors sell are all 123 Tis, but with varying stock clocks, PCB designs, and cooling designs. The key difference between these variants are overclocking ability, noise/power levels, aesthetics, and manufacturer warranties / free games / trade-in programs. Read reviews to compare these.
Both AMD and nVidia change up what their "flagship" moniker (x800, x900, x80, x90, x970, Titan, Fury, etc.) is and what the modifiers (GT, GTX, Ultra, X, Z, Pro, XT, etc.) are and how they rank.
Sometimes you get a case where a later card is released that is better than the flagship in the same generation, or a much better value. Consider nVidia's 8800 GT vs the 8800 GTX or 8800 Ultra. The GT came later and was really fucking cheap while giving comparable performance. Too bad they were all defective (bumpgate). The 980 Ti is basically the same as the new Titan but for a fraction of the cost. It often outperforms the full Titan, and the non-reference designs that vendors put out overclock like crazy and blow the Titan away.