"Accuracy" was never the goal. Scenery looks great at 8K, because it's not fake, and some filmmakers love their vistas. 720p on a big screen does not look good, so CGI effects etc are rendered at 4/8K. Anything "juddery" on film is a mistake in filming. Motion blur makes moving objects look right, even if it looks bad when paused.
None of this is arbitrary these days. Studios spend millions figuring out what looks best to viewers. That, as much as render time, is why Marvel movies look photo-realistic, while games don't (though there is a lot of render time).
So hundreds of millions of dollars is to cheap? No, you're missing the point. Costumes are always going to look like costumes because people don't really dress that way. Even when the costumes, of the whole frame, is entirely CGI like most Marvel movies, at a high frame rate it looks fake no matter how good it looks.
There is something "magical". The threshold might not be 24 FPS exactly, but it's something low. There is a real psychological effect at work here, for film. Sports and documentaries are different, because realistic is the goal, but film in general isn't realistic, it's costumes and set dressing, and just looks like crap if it doesn't trigger the brain to suspend disbelief at some low level.
One thing worth pointing out: something vaguely like this was studied for post h.264 compression. It sounds like the way to go, right? Include time in the compression scheme, don't just look at each frame in isolation. Turns out temporal compression artifacts are quite jarring, and the whole thing had to be abandoned.
So what you're suggesting sounds like something useful for games and other video generated locally and never compressed, but I don't think it would work for recordings.
The relationship between CCD elements and pixels is a whole nother rant. Even in 2d, pixels in an image format never should have been "little squares". It's a really suboptimal way to represent image data (especially since we don't have really displays with little squares that can display any color).
It's not a technological limit. It's a psychological trick. 24 FPS is slow enough that it tricks your brain into ignoring problems with costumes, set dressing, and so on. Even really high-budget films look like high school productions at 48 FPS.
It's different for sports or documentaries. Shoot those at 60 or even 120 FPS, no reason not to. But keep that HFR garbage away form film.
Apparently the 24 FPS rate chosen for movies is an important psychological trick. It somehow tells the brain "this is fake", which makes the viewer fine with sets and costumes that would be cringeworthy when seen live. At 48 FPS, you lose that all-important filter, and everything is cringeworthy.
Yes, that was exactly the point. Energy is the thing with gravity, inertia, and so on. Mass is a specific kind of energy (though even that gets a bit fuzzy, as most of the mass of familiar matter is the binding energy of the strong force in hadrons).
Maybe when the "Big Bang" occurred, the universe began to coalesce into bubbles of space-time and matter, which then eventually began merging. Maybe the "missing" matter resides in these separate space-time bubbles that have yet to merge with ours and which we have no means to see or detect from within our own bubble.
The first part of that is very similar to inflation theories, but different space-time bubbles "not yet merged" wouldn't affect our own in any way (unless you just mean black holes).
That's a detector, not an observatory, despite the jumped-up name. To measure the CNBR, we'd need to be able to measure a large sample of neutrinos coming from an arbitrary direction with a controlled aperture. What we can measure now is the light cone of Cherenkov radiation from the decay products of neutrinos interacting with stuff, and the knowledge that neutrinos passing through the Earth behave slightly differently than those that don't.
It's the difference between a telescope, and measuring the current from a solar panel on your roof. Calling the latter "an observatory" is a bit of a reach, don't you think?
Occam's razor suggests that it's better to expect an explanation for metric expansion of space in future improved versions of existing theories.
"inflation" theories have been all the rage for a decade (strange overlap between cosmology and QM). A big percentage of dark energy theories are just new versions of inflation theories. But "inflation" is not much better understood than dark energy, so I'm not sure that helps much. The cosmology of the first tiny fraction of a second of the universe is going to be stuck without evidence until someone invents a neutrino observatory.
Heck, it's not even certain dark energy is a change in the metric (though it's pretty likely), all we know for sure is that distances are increasing, at a possibly accelerating rate. Dark energy as a sort of negative pressure (tension) in space is I think the leading idea, but that's not really explaining anything interesting, just restating the problem in terms of general relativity.
Is it just me or has the physics community been grasping at straws lately?
Certainly TFS is, or string theory for that matter. Dark matter and dark energy are a bit different: they're observed phenomena that we can't explain. Gotta call them something. It's only been a few years since is was confirmed that dark matter was even "mater" (not modified gravity or somesuch), and it's still just guesswork that dark energy is "energy" in te way we currently understand it.
Minor quibble, but I cringe when stories talk about energy having mass. While you can express that mathematically and be fine, it doesn't match the meaning of those words in common usage. It's better to say that mass is a particular kind of energy than to say that e.g. a magnetic field "has mass" or that a spring has more mass when compressed. Being cryptic for the sake of being cryptic doesn't belong in science.
I also think we've reached a point where a thousand bucks is more than people want to spend on their "cell phone," regardless of how cool it is.
I bought a fairly expensive LG (hey, it had a headphone jack, premium luxury feature right there). For all the touted processing power, the key build-in apps are very slow. You'd think that if they're selling a high-end phone, the actual phone dialing app could launch in under 5 seconds!
Maybe I'm an outlier, using a phone to actually make phone calls, but there really doesn't seem to be much of a difference anymore between the $300 phone and the $900.
If the economy was doing that well, companies would be falling over themselves trying to retain workers by increasing compensation packages. That has not happened yet.
You're looking at a trailing indicator. Labor now has "pricing power". Clearly these contractors feel they might succeed in their demands for a raise (and I have a lot of sympathy for them - Google invented this shitty classist system that goes far beyond how the other tech giants use contractors).
The usual business cycle from the bottom is:
1. Consumers stop being so scared, start fixing problems they've been living with. 2. Businesses stop being so scared, start hiring again, and strategic acquisitions. 3. Workers stop being so scared, start asking for the rasies they didn't get during the downturn. 4. Hiring going full bore, workers getting raises, consumers spend on credit like the good times will last forever, businesses overextend like the good times will last forever. 5. "Natural" inflation (unrelated to govt spending) becomes meaningful, cost of borrowing goes up. 6. Everyone is over-leveraged and over-extended when the downturn starts. 7. Kaboom! Everyone is scared, consumers stop spending, businesses stop spending.
We're at 3. Lots of run left in this business cycle. 2000-2013 were like the mid-60s through the 70s: a business cycle without a real upturn, but that's not usual.
The fight you started with "my general impression is that the right is more likely to support modification via breeding over modification via DNA engineering, typically by killing off, sterilizing, or banning entry of "races" they deem to be inferior"?
Democrats: the party of slavery, the party of Jim Crow, the party of lynchings, the party of the KKK, the party of Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood as a eugenics program, the party of anti-Antisemitism dressed up as "BDS", the party of Identity Politics.
Not Under My Back Yard? That's taking it to an extreme only possible in California. But then Cali invented Not Over My Back Yard when people protested orbital power satellites (PG&E's last desperate gasp at building a new power plant in NIMBYfornia).
Oh sure, dealing with cash certainly has that risk, a risk that credit cards do not have (at least not in the same way), I just don't buy that credit cards are less of a hassle.
There's a lot associated with having a cash drawer. You have to audit the cashier every day. You have to drop the day's receipts at the bank every night, and have a safe to store the money you need at the start of each day.
There's hassle with either payment mode, but clearly less if you just pick 1. Not very customer focused, though.
Just strikes me as a horrible thought process, and show how everyone these days is trying to make every fucking thing about RACE.
Poverty knows no skin color.
This guy is the racist for even daring to make such a horrible statement.
It's how you have to argue things in the modern world. And he could be right: if the poor people in the area the law would apply to are predominately of one race, and the middle class another.
Personally, I think most restaurants just don't want the hassle and occasional robbery that comes with cash, but there could certainly be some that want to keep undesirables away from their establishment (the definition of which may not be what one expects).
Long working hours, stress due to stupid societal expectations, bullying via social media, poor health care unless you have a cush job
Except for social media, none of these are new. I'm sure social media bullying has increase suicide rates, but I doubt its by much.
Not being able to get a job is worse for most people than long working hours. That has been tied to the opioid epidemic by some studies. As automation continues to push people out of the low-end economic jobs, people who simply can't do anything else, suicide rates and opioid addiction will only increase. I'm not sure what the solutions is, but it's more than money: most people need to feel they're doing something useful.
That's why people like DJT are so blatantly obvious in their machinations; unlike the majority of his party, who've been some sort of professionally trained whitecollar (even bloody MBAs get those classes) he's clearly never taken anything even resembling it, and finds himself incapable of even using the typical vagueries expected of politics and corporates.
That's why his supporters like him. At least he's an honest politician. That's why the establishment hates him: "shit, the voters might realize how we all play this game!"
Professional ethics are taught in many schools, but seldom practiced. Enough money will entice people willing to take it.
What percentage of the team working on this do you think works for the Chinese government? Far higher than the average at Google I expect. I'd imaging the typical government agent working undercover in a foreign nation has fierce loyalty and a strong sense of ethics - just not an ethical code I'd agree with.
And of course corporate executives are selected on the basis of sociopathy (it sure isn't competence), so you can't expect anything good there. Though I guess technically "the world can burn, I got mine" is an ethical code.
Surely Slashdot can do something to stop this ASCII art spam from being posted.
Slashcode already has a fairly aggressive anti-ASCII art filter. The trolls just have plenty of time to game the system. Hey, at least it's a change from GNAA posts and ASCII art goatse.
Who else remembers page-widening trolls? Ah, the good old days.
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"Accuracy" was never the goal. Scenery looks great at 8K, because it's not fake, and some filmmakers love their vistas. 720p on a big screen does not look good, so CGI effects etc are rendered at 4/8K. Anything "juddery" on film is a mistake in filming. Motion blur makes moving objects look right, even if it looks bad when paused.
None of this is arbitrary these days. Studios spend millions figuring out what looks best to viewers. That, as much as render time, is why Marvel movies look photo-realistic, while games don't (though there is a lot of render time).
So hundreds of millions of dollars is to cheap? No, you're missing the point. Costumes are always going to look like costumes because people don't really dress that way. Even when the costumes, of the whole frame, is entirely CGI like most Marvel movies, at a high frame rate it looks fake no matter how good it looks.
There is something "magical". The threshold might not be 24 FPS exactly, but it's something low. There is a real psychological effect at work here, for film. Sports and documentaries are different, because realistic is the goal, but film in general isn't realistic, it's costumes and set dressing, and just looks like crap if it doesn't trigger the brain to suspend disbelief at some low level.
One thing worth pointing out: something vaguely like this was studied for post h.264 compression. It sounds like the way to go, right? Include time in the compression scheme, don't just look at each frame in isolation. Turns out temporal compression artifacts are quite jarring, and the whole thing had to be abandoned.
So what you're suggesting sounds like something useful for games and other video generated locally and never compressed, but I don't think it would work for recordings.
The relationship between CCD elements and pixels is a whole nother rant. Even in 2d, pixels in an image format never should have been "little squares". It's a really suboptimal way to represent image data (especially since we don't have really displays with little squares that can display any color).
Why it was chosen in the first place is different from why it is good. The reason film has stayed at 24 FPS for a century isn't technical.
It's not a technological limit. It's a psychological trick. 24 FPS is slow enough that it tricks your brain into ignoring problems with costumes, set dressing, and so on. Even really high-budget films look like high school productions at 48 FPS.
It's different for sports or documentaries. Shoot those at 60 or even 120 FPS, no reason not to. But keep that HFR garbage away form film.
Apparently the 24 FPS rate chosen for movies is an important psychological trick. It somehow tells the brain "this is fake", which makes the viewer fine with sets and costumes that would be cringeworthy when seen live. At 48 FPS, you lose that all-important filter, and everything is cringeworthy.
That was my original point, right? We're stuck until we get a neutrino observatory (and that may be a while).
Yes, that was exactly the point. Energy is the thing with gravity, inertia, and so on. Mass is a specific kind of energy (though even that gets a bit fuzzy, as most of the mass of familiar matter is the binding energy of the strong force in hadrons).
Maybe when the "Big Bang" occurred, the universe began to coalesce into bubbles of space-time and matter, which then eventually began merging. Maybe the "missing" matter resides in these separate space-time bubbles that have yet to merge with ours and which we have no means to see or detect from within our own bubble.
The first part of that is very similar to inflation theories, but different space-time bubbles "not yet merged" wouldn't affect our own in any way (unless you just mean black holes).
That's a detector, not an observatory, despite the jumped-up name. To measure the CNBR, we'd need to be able to measure a large sample of neutrinos coming from an arbitrary direction with a controlled aperture. What we can measure now is the light cone of Cherenkov radiation from the decay products of neutrinos interacting with stuff, and the knowledge that neutrinos passing through the Earth behave slightly differently than those that don't.
It's the difference between a telescope, and measuring the current from a solar panel on your roof. Calling the latter "an observatory" is a bit of a reach, don't you think?
Occam's razor suggests that it's better to expect an explanation for metric expansion of space in future improved versions of existing theories.
"inflation" theories have been all the rage for a decade (strange overlap between cosmology and QM). A big percentage of dark energy theories are just new versions of inflation theories. But "inflation" is not much better understood than dark energy, so I'm not sure that helps much. The cosmology of the first tiny fraction of a second of the universe is going to be stuck without evidence until someone invents a neutrino observatory.
Heck, it's not even certain dark energy is a change in the metric (though it's pretty likely), all we know for sure is that distances are increasing, at a possibly accelerating rate. Dark energy as a sort of negative pressure (tension) in space is I think the leading idea, but that's not really explaining anything interesting, just restating the problem in terms of general relativity.
Is it just me or has the physics community been grasping at straws lately?
Certainly TFS is, or string theory for that matter. Dark matter and dark energy are a bit different: they're observed phenomena that we can't explain. Gotta call them something. It's only been a few years since is was confirmed that dark matter was even "mater" (not modified gravity or somesuch), and it's still just guesswork that dark energy is "energy" in te way we currently understand it.
Minor quibble, but I cringe when stories talk about energy having mass. While you can express that mathematically and be fine, it doesn't match the meaning of those words in common usage. It's better to say that mass is a particular kind of energy than to say that e.g. a magnetic field "has mass" or that a spring has more mass when compressed. Being cryptic for the sake of being cryptic doesn't belong in science.
I also think we've reached a point where a thousand bucks is more than people want to spend on their "cell phone," regardless of how cool it is.
I bought a fairly expensive LG (hey, it had a headphone jack, premium luxury feature right there). For all the touted processing power, the key build-in apps are very slow. You'd think that if they're selling a high-end phone, the actual phone dialing app could launch in under 5 seconds!
Maybe I'm an outlier, using a phone to actually make phone calls, but there really doesn't seem to be much of a difference anymore between the $300 phone and the $900.
If the economy was doing that well, companies would be falling over themselves trying to retain workers by increasing compensation packages. That has not happened yet.
You're looking at a trailing indicator. Labor now has "pricing power". Clearly these contractors feel they might succeed in their demands for a raise (and I have a lot of sympathy for them - Google invented this shitty classist system that goes far beyond how the other tech giants use contractors).
The usual business cycle from the bottom is:
1. Consumers stop being so scared, start fixing problems they've been living with.
2. Businesses stop being so scared, start hiring again, and strategic acquisitions.
3. Workers stop being so scared, start asking for the rasies they didn't get during the downturn.
4. Hiring going full bore, workers getting raises, consumers spend on credit like the good times will last forever, businesses overextend like the good times will last forever.
5. "Natural" inflation (unrelated to govt spending) becomes meaningful, cost of borrowing goes up.
6. Everyone is over-leveraged and over-extended when the downturn starts.
7. Kaboom! Everyone is scared, consumers stop spending, businesses stop spending.
We're at 3. Lots of run left in this business cycle. 2000-2013 were like the mid-60s through the 70s: a business cycle without a real upturn, but that's not usual.
The fight you started with "my general impression is that the right is more likely to support modification via breeding over modification via DNA engineering, typically by killing off, sterilizing, or banning entry of "races" they deem to be inferior"?
Democrats: the party of slavery, the party of Jim Crow, the party of lynchings, the party of the KKK, the party of Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood as a eugenics program, the party of anti-Antisemitism dressed up as "BDS", the party of Identity Politics.
"I heard Musk was arrested!"
"What for?"
"SpaceX launched a boat into orbit as a stunt."
"And?"
"He was arrested for shiplofting."
Not Under My Back Yard? That's taking it to an extreme only possible in California. But then Cali invented Not Over My Back Yard when people protested orbital power satellites (PG&E's last desperate gasp at building a new power plant in NIMBYfornia).
Oh sure, dealing with cash certainly has that risk, a risk that credit cards do not have (at least not in the same way), I just don't buy that credit cards are less of a hassle.
There's a lot associated with having a cash drawer. You have to audit the cashier every day. You have to drop the day's receipts at the bank every night, and have a safe to store the money you need at the start of each day.
There's hassle with either payment mode, but clearly less if you just pick 1. Not very customer focused, though.
Just strikes me as a horrible thought process, and show how everyone these days is trying to make every fucking thing about RACE.
Poverty knows no skin color.
This guy is the racist for even daring to make such a horrible statement.
It's how you have to argue things in the modern world. And he could be right: if the poor people in the area the law would apply to are predominately of one race, and the middle class another.
Personally, I think most restaurants just don't want the hassle and occasional robbery that comes with cash, but there could certainly be some that want to keep undesirables away from their establishment (the definition of which may not be what one expects).
Long working hours, stress due to stupid societal expectations, bullying via social media, poor health care unless you have a cush job
Except for social media, none of these are new. I'm sure social media bullying has increase suicide rates, but I doubt its by much.
Not being able to get a job is worse for most people than long working hours. That has been tied to the opioid epidemic by some studies. As automation continues to push people out of the low-end economic jobs, people who simply can't do anything else, suicide rates and opioid addiction will only increase. I'm not sure what the solutions is, but it's more than money: most people need to feel they're doing something useful.
The silly bit is, there is no way in hell the government of China will trust Google, simply out of the question
Nah, you have to figure most of the engineers on this also work for the Chinese government.
That's why people like DJT are so blatantly obvious in their machinations; unlike the majority of his party, who've been some sort of professionally trained whitecollar (even bloody MBAs get those classes) he's clearly never taken anything even resembling it, and finds himself incapable of even using the typical vagueries expected of politics and corporates.
That's why his supporters like him. At least he's an honest politician. That's why the establishment hates him: "shit, the voters might realize how we all play this game!"
Professional ethics are taught in many schools, but seldom practiced. Enough money will entice people willing to take it.
What percentage of the team working on this do you think works for the Chinese government? Far higher than the average at Google I expect. I'd imaging the typical government agent working undercover in a foreign nation has fierce loyalty and a strong sense of ethics - just not an ethical code I'd agree with.
And of course corporate executives are selected on the basis of sociopathy (it sure isn't competence), so you can't expect anything good there. Though I guess technically "the world can burn, I got mine" is an ethical code.
Surely Slashdot can do something to stop this ASCII art spam from being posted.
Slashcode already has a fairly aggressive anti-ASCII art filter. The trolls just have plenty of time to game the system. Hey, at least it's a change from GNAA posts and ASCII art goatse.
Who else remembers page-widening trolls? Ah, the good old days.