people claiming it flakes off non-stick cookware and causes a whole litany of health problems
Well...it does flake off of non-stick cookware. Eating it is relatively harmless, though.
It also vaporizes under high cooking heat - and that is at least known to kill birds. It's only a literal canary in the proverbial coal mine, but it's a hint that it may not be good for people either.
Netflix still lords over everyone as far as revenue goes.
Yeah, paying massive license fees to media companies all over the world will require you to do that. It doesn't mean it's particularly impressive or profitable - most of it is not their money.
Contrast that to Facebook, their costs are mostly internal. While not all their revenue is profit either, a much larger portion is spread around their own operation.
While you're right on the U.S. - fake map data is not copyrightable - but in other countries it serves as proof that the collection was copied rather than individual facts.
On the case you mentioned, cite your source on where they had fake listings. I couldn't find anything on that.
Facts can't be copyrighted. Fake data can. Inject some fake data and then sue for copyright infringement. This is how mapmakers have always done it - add fake streets to nowhere and then sue when it shows up on another map.
All true. With Vsync turned on, you still get tearing, because you're actually between refreshes. Down the road, I expect there to be a port with double-buffering where you can sync the most recently *finished* frame to the screen, but it's still a compromise on latency. Snes9x won't vsync properly either - it just has uneven animation because the emulator is likely doing double-buffering and snapping to the nearest screen refresh. Pick one or the other, but they are both trade-offs.
Adaptive displays are actually not a bad thing anyway - I watch a lot of British TV. And 50Hz does not convert well to 60Hz - nor does 25p to 30p. And Brits and Americans alike have trouble with 24Hz.
For some of this, it was solved with a least common multiple - this was the real reason for 120Hz TVs. It divides evenly into 24p, 60Hz, and 30p. Short of a 600Hz refresh rate, you won't see an LCM that handles 50, 60, and 75Hz.
With all of that said, the NES runs at 60.1Hz. Adaptive sync is going to be a lot easier than a true 600Hz refresh rate anyway.
Yeah, Higan is obsessive, and only recently renamed from bsnes. It's been around for a while, but I also started toying with emulsion all the way back in the 90's.
It'll be nice when Pi-sized computers are up to the job, but I honestly hate seeing all this promotion of inferior options - it makes emulation itself look like a toy instead of a preservation project and a long-term source of fun.
You can't buy a $500 Dell laptop that already has SSD. They make you buy a more expensive computer to even have the option, or offer you a "hybrid drive" with only 32GB of flash. And even when your laptop does come with an SSD, you have no idea what the specs are on it or who made it.
Yes - and you can actually have accurate emulation.
I use Higan for NES and SNES, Gambatte for Gameboy, Mupen64Plus for N64 running at 1080p, Fusion for Genesis, and Mednafen for Playstation. My next build will hopefully be powerful enough to run Wii games, but I currently have those games on a hard drive connected to my Wii U so I don't have to deal with discs anymore.
I can also do Dosbox for DOS or Win3.1/95 games. I can enter/exit most games using the IR remote. With Steam in-home streaming, I can remotely run modern Windows games on my Linux HTPC fairly well too.
While I have a bluetooth PS3 controller available, I actually use two dualshock-style Logitech wireless controllers most of the time. This is the perfect setup for PSX, SNES, Genesis, and Gameboy alike. I hate both the NES and N64 controller layouts, so this is an acceptable substitute.
Only if you don't care about accuracy. I don't think Higan will even run on the Pi because it's too slow. This is the most accurate NES emulator I know of.
If you want accurate emulation, use higan (f.k.a. bsnes) on a decent computer. The Pi can't handle accurate SNES emulation. RetroPie just uses Snes9x. While it was more accurate than Zsnes, it's not great by today's standards (Higan is cycle-accurate).
Both are better than Zsnes - it has horribly inaccurate sound and can't even run some of the levels in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island at all (of the games I played).
All commercials use heavy range compression to boost the relative loudness. Just detect that, a quality a real voice would never have, and then advertisers would have to at least make the ad quieter to bypass it.
It's priced fairly. Watch the whole season for under $10 - and get access to a whole lot of content during that month. People don't pirate Netflix much because they don't feel the need to cheat.
Little of both. The new host feels more like a Joel, mostly because Mike Nelson was head writer even before hosting. Mike is not involved in this project. I was more a Mike fan on the old series, but Jonah is really good. The riffs are much better than the filler bits, but that was always true in the Joel era for me.
Rifftrax is a focus directly on commentary and has a whole new style (but familiar voices) and it's great that there are two entries in the genre, but this new show is firmly MST3K. Give both a shot if you haven't.
Netflix typically signs up for global distribution rights when they do a "Netflix Original" like this. Maybe they got an offer somewhere that they couldn't refuse, but it wouldn't be typical.
They already went through an entire cast change through the original series. And it mostly went pretty well. They were close to doing it again, but their "big" name actors were worse than the rest of the new cast.
Felicia Day was terrible in her role. Patton Oswalt started out sounding as bad as if he was just doing a table read and finally got into the role by the end of the first episode. I haven't watched past the first episode yet. Mary Jo Pehl was great in the original series, and truly underappreciated.
Oh, yes. It's much easier to reboot every time I want to move a set of files. And yes, that's sarcasm.
Repairing Windows is much better from a Linux live boot (or a Windows ISO Live boot), because MS is just as likely to break the bootloader as leave it intact when things go wrong.
That's easy enough for doing with two separate windows at any size you want. If you want them 50/50 full screen, drag each window to either side edge of the screen (Aero Snap - stupid name, nice UI move).
Intel's 7th generation cpu's and motherboards aren't even going to let you run Windows 2000 or XP either.
Yes, they are. You may have VGA-only graphics and have to add hardware for things like Ethernet and USB, but they will work. Motherboard already has BIOS emulation and IDE mode for SATA. Less work is needed to make the hardware run Windows 7 for that matter (except for the artificial block).
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fiasco like High Efficiency Washing Machines that used so little water they couldn't get soap out of the clothing
You're using way too much soap. HE machines don't need nearly as much to get the job done.
people claiming it flakes off non-stick cookware and causes a whole litany of health problems
Well...it does flake off of non-stick cookware. Eating it is relatively harmless, though.
It also vaporizes under high cooking heat - and that is at least known to kill birds. It's only a literal canary in the proverbial coal mine, but it's a hint that it may not be good for people either.
Netflix still lords over everyone as far as revenue goes.
Yeah, paying massive license fees to media companies all over the world will require you to do that. It doesn't mean it's particularly impressive or profitable - most of it is not their money.
Contrast that to Facebook, their costs are mostly internal. While not all their revenue is profit either, a much larger portion is spread around their own operation.
While you're right on the U.S. - fake map data is not copyrightable - but in other countries it serves as proof that the collection was copied rather than individual facts.
On the case you mentioned, cite your source on where they had fake listings. I couldn't find anything on that.
Facts can't be copyrighted. Fake data can. Inject some fake data and then sue for copyright infringement. This is how mapmakers have always done it - add fake streets to nowhere and then sue when it shows up on another map.
All true. With Vsync turned on, you still get tearing, because you're actually between refreshes. Down the road, I expect there to be a port with double-buffering where you can sync the most recently *finished* frame to the screen, but it's still a compromise on latency. Snes9x won't vsync properly either - it just has uneven animation because the emulator is likely doing double-buffering and snapping to the nearest screen refresh. Pick one or the other, but they are both trade-offs.
Adaptive displays are actually not a bad thing anyway - I watch a lot of British TV. And 50Hz does not convert well to 60Hz - nor does 25p to 30p. And Brits and Americans alike have trouble with 24Hz.
For some of this, it was solved with a least common multiple - this was the real reason for 120Hz TVs. It divides evenly into 24p, 60Hz, and 30p. Short of a 600Hz refresh rate, you won't see an LCM that handles 50, 60, and 75Hz.
With all of that said, the NES runs at 60.1Hz. Adaptive sync is going to be a lot easier than a true 600Hz refresh rate anyway.
Yeah, Higan is obsessive, and only recently renamed from bsnes. It's been around for a while, but I also started toying with emulsion all the way back in the 90's.
It'll be nice when Pi-sized computers are up to the job, but I honestly hate seeing all this promotion of inferior options - it makes emulation itself look like a toy instead of a preservation project and a long-term source of fun.
There is or there isn't? I can't quite parse that first sentence.
Higan is basically cycle-accurate to the real hardware, so since I have a real computer, I will use that anyway.
You can't buy a $500 Dell laptop that already has SSD. They make you buy a more expensive computer to even have the option, or offer you a "hybrid drive" with only 32GB of flash. And even when your laptop does come with an SSD, you have no idea what the specs are on it or who made it.
Yes - and you can actually have accurate emulation.
I use Higan for NES and SNES, Gambatte for Gameboy, Mupen64Plus for N64 running at 1080p, Fusion for Genesis, and Mednafen for Playstation. My next build will hopefully be powerful enough to run Wii games, but I currently have those games on a hard drive connected to my Wii U so I don't have to deal with discs anymore.
I can also do Dosbox for DOS or Win3.1/95 games. I can enter/exit most games using the IR remote. With Steam in-home streaming, I can remotely run modern Windows games on my Linux HTPC fairly well too.
While I have a bluetooth PS3 controller available, I actually use two dualshock-style Logitech wireless controllers most of the time. This is the perfect setup for PSX, SNES, Genesis, and Gameboy alike. I hate both the NES and N64 controller layouts, so this is an acceptable substitute.
Pi 3 is kind of overkill for doing NES
Only if you don't care about accuracy. I don't think Higan will even run on the Pi because it's too slow. This is the most accurate NES emulator I know of.
If you want accurate emulation, use higan (f.k.a. bsnes) on a decent computer. The Pi can't handle accurate SNES emulation. RetroPie just uses Snes9x. While it was more accurate than Zsnes, it's not great by today's standards (Higan is cycle-accurate).
Both are better than Zsnes - it has horribly inaccurate sound and can't even run some of the levels in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island at all (of the games I played).
All commercials use heavy range compression to boost the relative loudness. Just detect that, a quality a real voice would never have, and then advertisers would have to at least make the ad quieter to bypass it.
It's priced fairly. Watch the whole season for under $10 - and get access to a whole lot of content during that month. People don't pirate Netflix much because they don't feel the need to cheat.
Little of both. The new host feels more like a Joel, mostly because Mike Nelson was head writer even before hosting. Mike is not involved in this project. I was more a Mike fan on the old series, but Jonah is really good. The riffs are much better than the filler bits, but that was always true in the Joel era for me.
Rifftrax is a focus directly on commentary and has a whole new style (but familiar voices) and it's great that there are two entries in the genre, but this new show is firmly MST3K. Give both a shot if you haven't.
Netflix typically signs up for global distribution rights when they do a "Netflix Original" like this. Maybe they got an offer somewhere that they couldn't refuse, but it wouldn't be typical.
They already went through an entire cast change through the original series. And it mostly went pretty well. They were close to doing it again, but their "big" name actors were worse than the rest of the new cast.
Felicia Day was terrible in her role. Patton Oswalt started out sounding as bad as if he was just doing a table read and finally got into the role by the end of the first episode. I haven't watched past the first episode yet. Mary Jo Pehl was great in the original series, and truly underappreciated.
Domain-specific knowledge, you moron.
Oh, yes. It's much easier to reboot every time I want to move a set of files. And yes, that's sarcasm.
Repairing Windows is much better from a Linux live boot (or a Windows ISO Live boot), because MS is just as likely to break the bootloader as leave it intact when things go wrong.
Scratching your own itch is a good start toward making good software. They have a fair shot - they do seem to hire an awful lot of people.
That's easy enough for doing with two separate windows at any size you want. If you want them 50/50 full screen, drag each window to either side edge of the screen (Aero Snap - stupid name, nice UI move).
VGA as the driver, not the physical plug - as in, using vga.sys to drive the display. There would be no native drivers for the graphics chip.
Intel's 7th generation cpu's and motherboards aren't even going to let you run Windows 2000 or XP either.
Yes, they are. You may have VGA-only graphics and have to add hardware for things like Ethernet and USB, but they will work. Motherboard already has BIOS emulation and IDE mode for SATA. Less work is needed to make the hardware run Windows 7 for that matter (except for the artificial block).
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