But when they say "soap opera effect" that tells me that they aren't against motion interpolation, they are against high frame rates in general. This is analogous analogous to saying that 640x480 is the *best* resolution, and going higher makes things worse. I notice the article doesn't even mention the term frame rate. So this isn't a technical discussion, this is an aesthetic one.
Decades of watching movies has trained us to accept 24fps as "cinematic" motion, but in reality it just looks bad.
Yeah, I don't get it either.
The "problem" with soap operas (as I recall, haven't seen one in ages) was that they actually looked smooth and vivid, like you really had a window into a real scene instead of just grainy film "magic".
I noticed the difference long ago and even associated it with soap operas which were filmed on video instead of film for lower cost but there are two changes at play:
1. Three-two pull down converts 24fps film to 30/60 frame/field video leading to jitter in motion. Some televisions can reverse this to recover the original film frames and this can be done when transcoding old video. This jitter is very apparent in films which have space scenes like 2010 or Star Trek - TMP.
2. Film frames are not just recorded by sampling the light at one instant. Instead, the shutter is deliberately left open during the frame time to integrate the image and produce motion blur. This will not work if shutter time is used to control exposure.
16mm film is good enough for old TV, 35 mm film is better than 1080p/i, 70mm is even better than 4K. It runs at 24 FPS though a host of existing processing and editing equipment.
The thing about 70mm is that most 70mm films were distributed in 70mm but shot in 35mm. The reason for using 70mm in distribution was the 6 track magnetic sound track.
The problem is that you don't have some sort of special organ in your body for lying, or some sort of hardware lie blocker in your brain that requires you to set a hardware flag before lying.
Large brain size may have evolved in part for exactly the purposes of deceiving and detecting deception in a social species. And like many brain functions, they use specialized structures and require training.
Intels biggest problem is that their vertical integration has really constrained them.
Based on things Bob Colwell has said in his book and other places I think Intel's problem is management which was turning toxic before he left. What I have read about the failure of Larrabee and the i960 indicates the same thing.
Intel does not need effective management while the x86 train was paying the bills but when that train slows down, I expect a panic that the older Intel under Andy Grove which moved from memory to microprocessors could have handled.
I'll believe Intel can build a discrete GPU worth buying when I see it. Every attempt so far has been flawed (Real3D i740 starved for texture bandwidth), weak (Silicon Image GMA950 with terrible performance and even worse drivers on Windows), or vapourware (Larrabee). There's no indication that it'll be different this time.
Larrabee was not vaporware exactly but it is worth considering why it did (or did not) fail. I suspect the development of ISPC detailed below may point to what Intel has in mind.
It IS about build quality. And tariffs. And weird loopholes in American law that allow massive SUVs and pickups to be really cheap because they are classified as trucks, not cars which meant Detroit could get away with building low-quality, unsafe, fuel-guzzling vehicles that were cheap to design and build.
It is almost as if the laws encouraged the things which politicians said the laws were meant to prevent. Who could imagine such an unintended consequence?
The real life example I have in my garage is a 2002 GMC Sonoma. GMC discontinued the Sonoma after 2003 and replaced it with an identical truck which is slightly *heavier* to meet additional restrictions imposed by law. The law made the lighter and more fuel efficient vehicle illegal.
There is no fundamental reason why a VPN connection cannot be made to look exactly like TLS.
Then the tunnel would be over TCP. It works but is subject to RST attacks and TCP over TCP has performance problems. Tunneling over UDP or some other stateless protocol is preferred.
Does anyone know if OpenVPN offers a specific option for TLS masquerading?
OpenVPN supports TLS for the control channel but I do not think it does for the data channel. DTLS (TLS for UDP) could work but that is not TLS.
Even with an all TLS VPN, HTTPS traffic can be distinguished from VPN traffic apparently.
It has been a while since I messed with this stuff.
How does patently stupid shit like this get modded up? The economy is not a “pie.” Someone having more does not mean you automatically have less.
-Econ 101
It does not mean it automatically but it often does. When the return on investment for lobbying for rents is an order of magnitude greater than the return on investment for research and development or capitol, that is exactly the situation.
Continuous loud noise makes people uncomfortable so they won't linger after finishing their meal which results in faster turnover and more customers seated.
That would not surprise me at all. Setting the thermostat to a lower than comfortable temperature is used that way.
Newer fast food restaurants and doctor's waiting rooms often have a large screen TV or several blaring out typical TV tripe. I need to get one of those universal remotes which shuts off almost all TVs.
Besides soft and irregular surfaces, there are more subtle things which can be done like walls which are slightly out of parallel and terraced ceilings. The later are common in auditoriums.
Airborne invasions indeed have some poor records, but Crete still succeeded. A politically desperate Xi might still try it, hope it works for him. And it would still trash TSMC production.
An airborne invasion would not be required to isolate Taiwan. Sea based denial would be difficult because of the US navy but conventional air and land launched precision munitions would be sufficient.
Not really surprising, if you let the cops break down doors at random in violation of the 4th amendment they'd probably find a lot of guilty people too. In retrospect you can always claim the times you were right were justified and the times you were wrong were honest mistakes.
Cops have learned how to handle that situation; they do not document the times they were wrong so they are always right and you cannot prove otherwise.
As far as I can tell from the original PNAS article, they found evidence of two sets of mtDNA (parental and maternal), but no recombination in a single mitochondrium.
That makes sense based on why paternal mtDNA is not generally passed on.
Sperm jettison their mitochondria before fusing with the ovum but if this is incomplete, paternal mitochondria will be included but why are steps taken to preserve only one set of mitochondria?
In species where the two gametes both contribute their mitochondria, the mitochondria duke it out for who gets passed on and this process is naturally rather disruptive to the new cell so it is better to discard one set in favor of the other. Since the female made a larger contribution with a larger egg and perhaps other greater investments, it makes sense that she would win this war anyway.
It's kind of sad they need to use the argument poorer people without bank accounts are left out, a perfectly valid and important concern.
It is even sadder because government laws often restrict the poor from accessing bank services. When this lead to an increase in the use of check cashing and payday loan services, the proposal to fix this was to restrict these services to force people to go back to using banks which they were already restricted from using.
A customer came in who bought one of those pre-paid credit cards. He wanted to put more money on it. Thing is, we have no way of doing it. He said he doesn't have online access. And he needed money on the card because the hotel he went to required a card. Even though he had cash to pay a deposit. The only thing we could do is sell him another one which cost him a $4.95 surcharge.
Imagine if you were homeless and had to pay $5 every time you needed to get a new card. In my area that's enough to get a container of instant coffee/tea, a loaf of bread, and two cans of vegetables.
The last time I checked, all of the cards available in my area also had transaction and monthly fees which slowly deplete the balance anyway. So you are charged for the card, you are charged for possessing the card, you are charged for using the card, and you are charged for not using the card.
One reason for this is state laws which require "abandoned" funds to be turned over to the state. With a monthly fee, there will never be any abandoned funds and the card issuer gets to keep the money instead of turning it over to the state.
So instead of banning cashless restaurants, how about the city help the people to get cashless up and running? Instead of tearing down, let's build. Get them an ID and registered to vote at the same time. The effects will show at the next election, you can count on it.
That only works if the same people who cannot afford to go cashless can afford to pay the fees to register and get ID.
Anyone know how operating a cashless business is legal by refusing Legal Tender?
Isn't the entire point to have a common / ubiquitous currency that is available to ALL citizens?
Legal tender applies to debts. So if the restaurant served you food first which you ate so you owe them money, they *must* accept cash because you owe a debt. If the restaurant charged you before serving your food, then they can do whatever they want because no debt is involved.
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But when they say "soap opera effect" that tells me that they aren't against motion interpolation, they are against high frame rates in general. This is analogous analogous to saying that 640x480 is the *best* resolution, and going higher makes things worse. I notice the article doesn't even mention the term frame rate. So this isn't a technical discussion, this is an aesthetic one.
Decades of watching movies has trained us to accept 24fps as "cinematic" motion, but in reality it just looks bad.
Yeah, I don't get it either.
The "problem" with soap operas (as I recall, haven't seen one in ages) was that they actually looked smooth and vivid, like you really had a window into a real scene instead of just grainy film "magic".
I noticed the difference long ago and even associated it with soap operas which were filmed on video instead of film for lower cost but there are two changes at play:
1. Three-two pull down converts 24fps film to 30/60 frame/field video leading to jitter in motion. Some televisions can reverse this to recover the original film frames and this can be done when transcoding old video. This jitter is very apparent in films which have space scenes like 2010 or Star Trek - TMP.
2. Film frames are not just recorded by sampling the light at one instant. Instead, the shutter is deliberately left open during the frame time to integrate the image and produce motion blur. This will not work if shutter time is used to control exposure.
16mm film is good enough for old TV, 35 mm film is better than 1080p/i, 70mm is even better than 4K. It runs at 24 FPS though a host of existing processing and editing equipment.
The thing about 70mm is that most 70mm films were distributed in 70mm but shot in 35mm. The reason for using 70mm in distribution was the 6 track magnetic sound track.
Since the point of using a burner phone is not to let people know, how would anyone credibly be able to assess the widespread use of burner phones?
By asking them? This isn't a physics experiment, it's an employee saying, "A bunch of coworkers told me they do this."
First, assume a spherical burner phone.
Exactly, if you can 'prove' someone is lying with my black box of pseudoscience in a court of law then that gives you a lot of leverage.
It works for drug sniffing dogs and the courts and legislatures do not care.
An ocean of false positives is not efficient - you're stuck with figuring out which one is the truth, so you're back to square one.
False results are efficient if they are irrelevant because torture is about something more important.
The problem is that you don't have some sort of special organ in your body for lying, or some sort of hardware lie blocker in your brain that requires you to set a hardware flag before lying.
Large brain size may have evolved in part for exactly the purposes of deceiving and detecting deception in a social species. And like many brain functions, they use specialized structures and require training.
1) What idiot would work for a day for negative money? Yes there remains tons of Lyft and Uber drivers.
If the cost of not working is even more negative money, then it may be acceptable for a time.
Intels biggest problem is that their vertical integration has really constrained them.
Based on things Bob Colwell has said in his book and other places I think Intel's problem is management which was turning toxic before he left. What I have read about the failure of Larrabee and the i960 indicates the same thing.
Intel does not need effective management while the x86 train was paying the bills but when that train slows down, I expect a panic that the older Intel under Andy Grove which moved from memory to microprocessors could have handled.
Having to rely on Microsoft does not help.
I'll believe Intel can build a discrete GPU worth buying when I see it. Every attempt so far has been flawed (Real3D i740 starved for texture bandwidth), weak (Silicon Image GMA950 with terrible performance and even worse drivers on Windows), or vapourware (Larrabee). There's no indication that it'll be different this time.
Larrabee was not vaporware exactly but it is worth considering why it did (or did not) fail. I suspect the development of ISPC detailed below may point to what Intel has in mind.
https://pharr.org/matt/blog/20...
http://tomforsyth1000.github.i...
It IS about build quality. And tariffs. And weird loopholes in American law that allow massive SUVs and pickups to be really cheap because they are classified as trucks, not cars which meant Detroit could get away with building low-quality, unsafe, fuel-guzzling vehicles that were cheap to design and build.
It is almost as if the laws encouraged the things which politicians said the laws were meant to prevent. Who could imagine such an unintended consequence?
The real life example I have in my garage is a 2002 GMC Sonoma. GMC discontinued the Sonoma after 2003 and replaced it with an identical truck which is slightly *heavier* to meet additional restrictions imposed by law. The law made the lighter and more fuel efficient vehicle illegal.
There is no fundamental reason why a VPN connection cannot be made to look exactly like TLS.
Then the tunnel would be over TCP. It works but is subject to RST attacks and TCP over TCP has performance problems. Tunneling over UDP or some other stateless protocol is preferred.
Does anyone know if OpenVPN offers a specific option for TLS masquerading?
OpenVPN supports TLS for the control channel but I do not think it does for the data channel. DTLS (TLS for UDP) could work but that is not TLS.
Even with an all TLS VPN, HTTPS traffic can be distinguished from VPN traffic apparently.
It has been a while since I messed with this stuff.
If the PC is all-in-one, then why is it modular?
How does patently stupid shit like this get modded up? The economy is not a “pie.” Someone having more does not mean you automatically have less.
-Econ 101
It does not mean it automatically but it often does. When the return on investment for lobbying for rents is an order of magnitude greater than the return on investment for research and development or capitol, that is exactly the situation.
Continuous loud noise makes people uncomfortable so they won't linger after finishing their meal which results in faster turnover and more customers seated.
That would not surprise me at all. Setting the thermostat to a lower than comfortable temperature is used that way.
Newer fast food restaurants and doctor's waiting rooms often have a large screen TV or several blaring out typical TV tripe. I need to get one of those universal remotes which shuts off almost all TVs.
Besides soft and irregular surfaces, there are more subtle things which can be done like walls which are slightly out of parallel and terraced ceilings. The later are common in auditoriums.
Airborne invasions indeed have some poor records, but Crete still succeeded. A politically desperate Xi might still try it, hope it works for him. And it would still trash TSMC production.
An airborne invasion would not be required to isolate Taiwan. Sea based denial would be difficult because of the US navy but conventional air and land launched precision munitions would be sufficient.
....a scramble suit handy?
Any other way you can think of to block this?
Yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
have to be offset by planting trees or by burying them underground.
How does burying trees underground help reduce emissions?
Because then you have to wait 350 million years before you can harvest the coal.
Not really surprising, if you let the cops break down doors at random in violation of the 4th amendment they'd probably find a lot of guilty people too. In retrospect you can always claim the times you were right were justified and the times you were wrong were honest mistakes.
Cops have learned how to handle that situation; they do not document the times they were wrong so they are always right and you cannot prove otherwise.
As far as I can tell from the original PNAS article, they found evidence of two sets of mtDNA (parental and maternal), but no recombination in a single mitochondrium.
That makes sense based on why paternal mtDNA is not generally passed on.
Sperm jettison their mitochondria before fusing with the ovum but if this is incomplete, paternal mitochondria will be included but why are steps taken to preserve only one set of mitochondria?
In species where the two gametes both contribute their mitochondria, the mitochondria duke it out for who gets passed on and this process is naturally rather disruptive to the new cell so it is better to discard one set in favor of the other. Since the female made a larger contribution with a larger egg and perhaps other greater investments, it makes sense that she would win this war anyway.
It's kind of sad they need to use the argument poorer people without bank accounts are left out, a perfectly valid and important concern.
It is even sadder because government laws often restrict the poor from accessing bank services. When this lead to an increase in the use of check cashing and payday loan services, the proposal to fix this was to restrict these services to force people to go back to using banks which they were already restricted from using.
A customer came in who bought one of those pre-paid credit cards. He wanted to put more money on it. Thing is, we have no way of doing it. He said he doesn't have online access. And he needed money on the card because the hotel he went to required a card. Even though he had cash to pay a deposit. The only thing we could do is sell him another one which cost him a $4.95 surcharge.
Imagine if you were homeless and had to pay $5 every time you needed to get a new card. In my area that's enough to get a container of instant coffee/tea, a loaf of bread, and two cans of vegetables.
The last time I checked, all of the cards available in my area also had transaction and monthly fees which slowly deplete the balance anyway. So you are charged for the card, you are charged for possessing the card, you are charged for using the card, and you are charged for not using the card.
One reason for this is state laws which require "abandoned" funds to be turned over to the state. With a monthly fee, there will never be any abandoned funds and the card issuer gets to keep the money instead of turning it over to the state.
So instead of banning cashless restaurants, how about the city help the people to get cashless up and running? Instead of tearing down, let's build. Get them an ID and registered to vote at the same time. The effects will show at the next election, you can count on it.
That only works if the same people who cannot afford to go cashless can afford to pay the fees to register and get ID.
Anyone know how operating a cashless business is legal by refusing Legal Tender?
Isn't the entire point to have a common / ubiquitous currency that is available to ALL citizens?
Legal tender applies to debts. So if the restaurant served you food first which you ate so you owe them money, they *must* accept cash because you owe a debt. If the restaurant charged you before serving your food, then they can do whatever they want because no debt is involved.